Wild Times: Wildlife Education - How Beavers Are Illegally Saving Europe’s Ecosystems

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

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Wild times, here we are. Studio Day. How are we doing, everybody? Fucking, every boy. He fucking great. I've been sick for three years. You're going to. I never, the illness never goes away at this age.

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Forrest doesn't pay attention to his surroundings at all unless he's in nature. I got a good story. Yeah, let's go. I actually have two, but I'm going to start with one. Okay. Well, this is the Wild Times podcast. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

This is the Wild Times podcast. I'm your host, Forrest Galante. I am the broologist joining me drinking light strike on my race. The bro-ducer, alcoholic mix drink. Yeah. Nice,

electrolytes, good for you. Yeah. On the end, we've got the sick, probably sick because he's still boozing light strike. Peter Fitzer, the Brofessor, PhD in podcasting.

This is an animal comedy podcast. We talk about nonsense, but sometimes animals. Let's get into it. I ran into some brosters in Savannah, Georgia. True? True story.

It was at the best time impossible. Yes. Because, uh, so I was there. Both my kids were there. My wife was there. And so they were back because one of the kids had a nap. So they're like stuck at the hotel. And I'm like, I'm going to just like run out to CVS right quick. Yep. And, uh, literally ran into them on the street fans of the podcast. No way. Shounded me out. Love it. And we went into a bar. Yes. And drank for two hours. Yes. It was awesome. And like I told my wife, I was like, ran into some, you know, ran into some part of the club or whatever.

She doesn't know what a brokner is. No, she'd also never touch my pain again. But yeah, we drank for two hours in this like sports bar. It was great. That's awesome. Yeah. How many were there? It was two couples.

Both of the guys avidly watched and listen to the show. And neither of the girls could fucking have cared less. What were their names? Brian? One of them's name was Brian. I can't remember the other one. Dude, I saw a comment. I saw a comment on social media.

I think it was yesterday. Jeremy and Brian. Nice. Just yesterday. Somebody's like hating on the podcast. They're like, these guys used to talk about animals. Now they just like make silly jokes. And the one guy writes back, and they think they're comedians.

And the one guy writes back in the comments. And he goes, Patrick DeLuca is one of the funniest people I have ever seen in my life. And he's not even a comedian. he's a producer. And I was like, well, somebody's standing up for Pat over there. Nice. I appreciate that. Very rare.

Thanks for standing up for me. Demeter. And then real quick before we get into news. Oh, yeah. Because this just happened. So I was in Savannah, same hotel room where I ran for my wife and drank with fans. And I dropped my phone and I didn't have a case.

And the phone screen fucking shattered. Oh, boy. And like this black line went up through it that was taking up like a third of the phone. I know the black line. Yeah. Yeah. And so, but it was still slightly operable. Okay.

The only way I could read text was I had to screenshot them, go into the screenshots and blow them up and scroll across. Considering how poor you at, are you are at responding to text to begin with. Can you imagine? That's the end. That's the end. Yeah. So the other day, uh, I'm, it's literally like Tuesday of this week or last week.

I start, I open the phone and it's really not working. Yeah. And then it starts. doing something that I found out later is called ghosting, where it's thinking that I'm tapping all these buttons. So it's responding to fake stuff. Oh, interesting. And so I'm just watching the phone go mental.

And it opens Instagram. I swear to God, I'm just watching this happen. It starts scrolling and just liking photos. Oh, boy. It's just liking photos. That's no good. And I'm like, oh my God. Like, bro, I don't know that, like, I don't know what photos it like.

I'm surprised you to think. slam dunk your phone on the ground. Like, if you were in high school, that could ruin your entire life. Absolutely. 100%. Yeah, it was an absolute. Like, I don't know what it liked. I don't know.

Probably wasn't good. Like, ex-girlfriends. Like, one of my wife's friends might have posted a bikini pic. Oh, man. Well, that's the end. If you like that, that's the end. Yeah, exactly. And then you're, then at least you had the evidence that your wife knew that, like,

you'd be like, look, no, look. I look at. It's not making up. There's no, I told her instantly. From that. Yeah, no,

I told my wife instantly what happened so that she would know. Yeah, that's smart. Yeah. But which is now giving you autonomy

to go and like and purvey like a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Which I don't know if you thought of that, but you could get, you could go real ham for the next couple days. So do you have a new phone now or?

So I go to the Verizon store. They don't have any in stock because it was just Christmas. So I fucking pay the $1,100 bucks for the new phone. Outrageous. Then, like, four hours later, that happened. Yeah.

And I'm like, I can't live like this for a week. So I just went and got the screen replaced. Oh, there you go. Which was like 200 bucks. Yeah. And now I just have a new phone sitting in a box that I'll probably never hook up. Yep, that sounds right. Yeah.

It's too much. Wow. Yeah. I gave Jessica a new cell phone for Christmas. She, I'm fairly certain lost it already. Oh, my God. I just noticed every day I've noticed her on her old phone and I'm like, I should say something.

I should say something. I haven't. When are you known to not say something? I know, but I'm just curious to see how long. Like, will June come and she'll still be on her old phone? I think you should set a date to where if she hasn't hooked it up yet and transferred the date over where you unbox it in front of her and then just smash it with a hammer. That's not a bad idea.

Yeah. Like just make her watch and just say nothing like a dinner. That's not psycho at all. That was not crazy. All right, Kyle. Do it in front of your kids too. Do it. What's in the news?

Here we go. What is in the news? Anything catch your attention? Come across your leather bound desk? Yeah, I did wrap it in patent leather. That's nice. Genuine. I thought this was interesting. Okay.

So we know the Greenland shark lives very, very long. Indeed. Well, like 500 years, 600 years. That's right. 500 years, I believe. It doesn't have babies until what? Like 100 years? 200, I think.

So crazy. That's crazy. You ever think about this, though? As someone who just when I turned 40, I can't drive at night anymore. Like someone just flipped a switch and my eyes don't work so good. What about their eyes? Well, their eyes... Their eyes get infested with deep sea copepods.

Destroy their eyesight. Oh, really? Pretty early on, I believe. Like when they're like 60 or 100 years old. Well... So they're basically blind for most of their life? Greenland sharks? Yeah, I think so. Kyle, type in Greenland shark copepod in the eyes and don't misspell it.

Yeah. Yeah, see, there's a little copepod right there. What is it? That looks like a bad eye. No, but like see that little like tear drop looking thing? That's a parasite burrowing into its eye making it blind. Oh, you son of a bitch. So it's, how about you just burrow into my arm? Yeah, I know.

But that's only like a certain percentage of them. No, no, no. That's all of them. Really? All of them. Yeah. Like look, every picture they'll have them. But I want to hear what. Well, researchers. must not know about these copepods.

Okay. Say more. Because they... Okay. So new research anyway, as of early January, shows that Greenland sharks are not blind despite the eye parasites in extreme darkness and can actively track light and movement with their eyes. Right. Interesting. How so?

And so they're like, oh, this is interesting. Like, let's do some Greenland shark eye research. Wow. And they found that the retinas contain an active rhodopsis that's tuned to blue light, which allows the vision in the extremely low Arctic light conditions. Okay.

But basically, it's a mechanism that just constantly repairs the retina as these copepods and other things damage it. Okay. And so they're saying that they could use these findings to help gain a better understanding and combat human aging and vision. Of course.

Imagine if you could isolate that gene and figure out how to put it into human, eyeballs and humans had perfect vision until the day they die. Or just like use the rhodopsin and do like some experiments to fix like macular degeneration and glaucoma and things like that's awesome. That's also shocking because I've had not Greenland sharks but Pacific Sleeper Sharks up next to the boat that I've pulled in for surveys and stuff and like they look miserable. They've got these copepods sticking out of the center of their eye. You know, it's basically a deep sea leech that has decided to borrow into their eye and you think that like it's all cloudy and stuff and you're like no no they are

blind as a bat. That's what you think looking at it. So I to me this is like I wonder if the researchers were like wait is something like I wonder if there's a reason that this has only been done now for the first time because just by looking at it you're like obviously they're blind. Like you just look at it on face value. You're like this is miserable. This animal's clearly very blind. Well, it does say that they're well adapted to low light, like low light adaptation. So to begin with, but then they have these parasites on top of it. But maybe like the, the way that their eyeballs actually look, you know, because we're not adapted like that. Maybe their eyes just look different, but they're still okay. Like they look bad to us. Like if our eyes look like that, yeah, like your eyes are

messed up when you're walking around here in the world and the light and everything. Sure. But maybe down there, like, that's not a real bad thing to have kind of that cloudy, weird. What are you doing over there? Look. Making a little magic mind cocktail. I don't do a magic mind myself. I like it. Get some sharp focus.

Oh, natural adoral. That is the ad. I'm just, yeah, I'm pretty interested. So, by the way, I was kind of curious, like, how do you think they did this study? How do you? I have to imagine they dissected. They grabbed an eyeball and looked at the rods and cones. They went fishing for Greenland sharks.

I don't like that. They were in Greenland. Okay. Your favorite. They long-lined, got some Greenland sharks, pulled the eyeballs out, dissected a bunch of two, 300-year-old eyeballs. Do we think that's worth it? If it saves all of human eyesight, yeah.

But it's not. It hasn't. Not yet, but step one. Now we just have to harvest all of the eyeballs from all the Greenland sharks, which we should do right away. This might just be like a marketing push here, this article, to be like, yeah, look, we did get something out of this. Yeah. But really there's nothing going on.

Because, I mean, come on. You're taking like a 200-year-old animal. I'm with you. I hate it. I hate especially those large, slow-growing, slow-to-reproduce animals. It takes so little to, like, knock their population down to nothing. Yeah. But, you know, it is an interesting piece of science.

And if it leads to, if this rhodopsin, which is that protein in their eyes, leads to helping human vision, I think it's a good thing. Yeah. So what's the status on Greenland shark? Are there a lot of them? No one knows. Whatever it says, I'm sure whatever the IUCN ranks is bullshit. Yeah.

Because how would you know? They cover classified as vulnerable, but they live in, you know, 6,000 feet or more. Yeah. And they cover the entirety of the Arctic. How would you know what that population is? How the hell do they catch you? You said long line. Yeah, long lines.

I mean, I've been fishing in Greenland and it's, you literally, it's, you drop the line. Yeah. We weren't fishing for sharks. Yeah. You drop the line and just watch the reel go for like 10 minutes. Yeah. And then you just wait and eventually you feel something and you just reel it up. Wow.

So just like regular fishing just much. Except you're not holding the pole. That's not out of a long line for these though. They drop a line that's weighted down to the seafloor in like thousands of feet on a big mechanical reel. Yeah. And it's like a mile long with a couple hundred hooks on it. Okay. And then they'll leave it overnight or a day or two and then they'll come back and the mechanical thing will pull that back up.

and then one every 10 hooks will have something on it. Something like that. Have you ever caught, like, have you ever done that where you fish like super deep? Oh yeah. Deep, I have the electric reels and everything in my house. Okay, gotcha. It's super fun. It's crazy though when the fish comes up, their eyeballs have exploded.

Everything. Their tongue pops out, their swim bladder pops out, their eyeballs pop out. It's terrible. It's not kind of bad. But then you eat them and they're delicious. That's right, yeah. So what fish would you be talking about right there that would come up like that and then you'd eat it? Rockfish, hake, if you know what a hake is.

And they're still good? good. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's funny, I bought one of those, um, those big electric deep drop reels and got the rod and everything and took it down to Mexico because I didn't know anybody who had fished for like the deep trenches in the Sea of Cortez, which is extremely deep because of the bathymetry that, you know, like the underwater topography. Yeah. And I was like, I don't think anybody's ever done this. And I went and fished and I caught a bunch of stuff that the Mexican bongeros just catch hand cranking. Like they literally will just like drop a line down for 10. And 10 minutes and then they'll get a bite and they'll just reel like manually.

And I was like, oh, I didn't think anyone could do that. Yeah. That's what I did in Greenland. Just crank and crank and crank and it was mounted to the side of the boat, but it wasn't, it wasn't electric. Oh, you just hand cranked forever. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaking of fishing. What else you got? Did you see the new world record? I did. Bluefin. Yes. I was shocked. $3 million.

$3.2 million for a single fish. What was the? At the Tokyo auction. Unbelievable. That's got a. That's got to be it. What was the weight of that bluefin? What does it say up there?

$500. Kyle, can you divide $3.2 million by 535 pounds or 535, please? I'm curious what the price per pound is. Because a big part of this is something about the quality of the fish, right? Yeah. And so what are they looking? They want it to be as dark as possible.

No, not dark. Dark is usually blood. It's almost the opposite. It's as marbled with fat as possible. Okay. So the fat in the tuna is what makes it so valuable. So this fish was $6,000 a pound. That is crazy.

I mean, how do you make your money paid? How do you, how does that? How many pieces of sushi could you make? A lot. But still. Out of a pound. All right. So let me explain it all.

So Kyle, first of all, pull up the cuts of a bluefin. Because it's really interesting. You can bluefin tuna cuts. Like, all right, yeah, go to that first one. So you have all these various sushi. she cuts in a bluefin. Oh, wow. I know the name.

It's not, yeah, and it's not like one type of meat. Yeah. And this is what makes the bluefin so valuable. So the belly, which you see is called O-Taro. See that there? Yep.

The O-Tar-E-E-Tuna. Yeah, that is the highest, most expensive one. And it's because the belly typically marbles with the meat the best. Okay. And then varying like the, like basically the shoulder is like the worst cut, because that's just the leanest meat.

But what happens is... What about the note in the top of the head? That doesn't sound like it'd be very good. I don't know anything about that, to be honest. Nobody's ever eaten it. I've broken down. Lowest quality, it says Sashimo, which is down near the tail. Yeah, because that gets really stringy

because that's where all the tendons are to pull the tail. It's where all the... So if you just like... Matter is also. If you get like bluefin at just like a hole in the wall in Van Nuys, you're probably getting Sishimo. Yes. No.

So Sashimo is what they would use for like spicy tuna. Oh, wow. When they mince it up and they add, add stuff that because it's too stringy to cut into nice, clean pieces. What you're probably getting is like that midbody, like the Sakami or the Senaka. Okay. That's like your standard. And then your expensive stuff is down by the belly.

Got fatty tuna. Exactly. But yeah, then the tail pieces are at the tail pieces, the stuff on the ribs, things like that are what they use for spicy tuna. But what they do in order to figure out the quality of the tuna is they take this long, cylindrical probe and they punch it into the fish and then they pull it out. Kyle might even be able to find a video of this and they pull it out and then they eject what looks like paste, but it's tuna flesh out of the tuna. And that tells you the quality. So an expert then comes and looks at it and says this is perfectly marbled, low in oxidation, low in whatever the stress

hormone responses when it's caught, you know, all these various factors. And that's what makes it so delicious. It's like a waggube beef. The more marbled it is, the better it is there. See the little noodles? That's what I'm talking about. But it's $6,000 a pound. Per pound. How many pieces of shishimi could you get out of a pound, do you think? 16 ounces? Yeah, I mean, a pound, you'd probably get 15 to 20 pieces. You know what I mean? You're talking about a sliver this big. So are there restaurants in Tokyo where someone's paying $300 for a single bite? Absolutely. And here in L.A. and in Santa Bar, 300 for a single bite.

You'll pay 300 bucks and you'll get two pieces. Two little nigeri pieces, little piece of rice, little pieces of tune on time. That is insanity. There's one in Santa Barbara called sushi bar. And it's, yeah, I think. Is that the one that's known for the uni where they have like the uni club? I don't know about the uni club. Have you ever had that?

Uni? No, have you ever had like one of that quality? No, no. I've been to, there's a place. The Rosewood is the fancy. resort in Santa Barbara, the Rosewood Miramar. Yeah. And they have a sushi restaurant that you, you, I got taken there by Doc from back to the future.

Nice. Was that after you helped him catch a weasel or something? A rattlesnake out of his garden. Yeah. So he offered to take me to sushi. Nice. And we went there and had sushi. And he paid for it, obviously.

And it was, what do you call it where you just pay for the tasting menu? Omikaze. Omicasse. Yeah. And it was like 700 bucks a person. And that was the best quality, you know, sushi. ever had. No, okay.

Wow. Kyle just delivered Retep his tea with honey. Hand delivered. Thank you, Kyle. Did you get it with extra honey, Kyle? There is extra honey. Oh, there's extra honey. You put his own ex.

Kyle, you're a doll. You're a gem. Okay, sorry. So, sorry, yeah, go ahead. Because I, we should address the elephant in the room at some point. What's that? I'm not being funny. And this is not, I'm not.

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Yeah, I know. He's been so sulky. Here's what I think. I think that you're slammed with other stuff and you're thinking about how much shit you have to do. You know what I think it is?

Oh, so go ahead. I was going to say that's every day, but that's not. different to any other day. I think it's the fact that he got to the studio at 11 a.m. yesterday. No, you didn't. What time did you actually get here yesterday? What day is it?

Friday? I got here at 11 p.m. Wednesday. No. Yeah, you got here at 11. Why? Wednesday. Thursday yesterday I went to Forest House. He came to my house to help me with a YouTube shoot.

Oh, wow. And then he came back. Here Wednesday. Why didn't you just sleep at Forest? Yeah, Kyle. Why didn't you just sleep at Forest? We wrapped up at like noon. I had work to do, and he has young children that are...

Yeah, you don't want to be around that. I've offered so many times. My wife is convinced Kyle hates us. She's like, we have a lovely spare bedroom. It is. I've stayed in it. It's great. You have stayed in it?

I have. One time and never again. Many times, I'm like, I have a spare bedroom that's 15 minutes from the studio. I've never offered. I don't really want you to come. It's an inconvenience for everyone. Sure. Yeah, of course.

It's worse for you. Yeah. It's harder to spend. bank. Well, he has this very own studio here to come in. It's perfect. I would love to come here at his age. So, Kyle, tell us what happened last night with the janitors.

Last, last. About eight o'clock, the janitors come by and clean all the, the offices in the building. And I was in here working. And they just walk right in as I'm sitting here working. Headphones on. Headphones on. Yeah.

Under or backstress? No, no, fully close. I just turned my back toward the door and we just kind of lock eye contact for like two seconds and they just shut the door and walk away. We'll never see them again. We'll never see them again.

This place is going to turn into a festering dump. Everyone in this building, so just to let you behind the curtain in case you're interested, we are in like an office, a commercial office building that just randomly had this cool room that we were like,

this is perfect for a podcast. And it sure is. We've been here. We've been here for a while now. Seven years, I think. How many calendar years? Four. And...

Useless years. Most of the people who work in this building, it's like insurance companies and what else? It's like a hospice place. Yeah, it's like lawyers. Professionals who are doing real work and they're dressed up for work. Yeah. There's an insurance office over there and a lawyer's office.

Yeah, there's a chiropractic thing below us. Yeah. And they're very confused by this. room. Yes, for sure. Because they know that like once a week, four people come in for about two hours, eat pokey bowls and scream. And yell at each other.

Yeah. In otherwise a very calm, peaceful area. Yeah. You don't hear a peep. There's like a little lake river thing in the air there. It's very nice and quiet. But there's always the friendly bathroom guy. Yeah, I love that guy.

Yeah, you guys know what I'm talking about. You guys podcasting in there? I'm like, oh, dude, yeah. How do you know? Well, he goes, you with Forest? I was like, why do you, what is going on? Forrest, what do you do here when no one's around? You're like glad handing everybody?

I mean, that's why I send Kyle here two days early. This is what Forrest does. He like makes friends with everybody so then he can, everybody knows him and that's what happened. That's true. His backup plan. He's like, if it all goes bad with YouTube and TV in India, I can just get a job at the chiropractors.

That's right. I got a lot of friends in the office park, baby. The mortuary. What came across your, you just, bought a new, like, very modern plastic desk, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember those glass desks that were big about 10 years ago? That, but plastic.

Okay, because it's better for the environment that way. Yeah. I did just read a thing that microplastics are worse in glass containers than they are in plastic containers. Really? How messed up is that, though? Is that, can that be true? It's true.

It's a legit study that they did. I don't see how they could mess that up unless it's completely fake. Yeah. It was a real study, though. I got a piece of news coming across my plexiglass and plastic. Yeah. Your microplastic desk. Here's the headline.

And before I even tell you the story, I want you to try and figure out what's going on. Yeah. Scroll off it so that Peter doesn't read it. The rise of beaver bombing rampant across Europe. This has to do with feminist running around naked and dropping their dunk-a-dunks on people's heads. That would be worth going to see. They go, Beaver Bomb! Beaver Bomb.

Wearing pink hats. Beaver bombing. Bombing spelled like B-O-M-B. Yes. Like the word bomb. Were you thinking, bomb? I think I might know what this is. Say more.

I think YouTubers are putting quarter sticks of dynamite inside beaver dens. Oh, no. Because it's enclosed and then filming them exploding. Makes sense. It would be a terrible thing to do. I'm glad it's not that, though. I can tell by his reaction. The two things I wish it was Peter's more.

than that. Okay. I'd rather feminists run around like making snail trail. Absolutely. Oh boy. Can't cancel? Yeah. Can I not say that? I don't know. No, it's not true. It's just a bodily thing. I don't know. All right. It says recent beaver sightings

in parts of the UK are part of a wider European trend known as beaver bombing where animals are illegally released without official approval. So over the past 25 years fresh, for us. Try again. I'm going to try war. Try again.

Over the past 25 years, frustration with what some see as slow or expensive or overly bureaucratic reintroductions of these animals, because they are supposed to be there, have sparked, and I want to get into a bigger conversation about this, have sparked people being like, fuck the laws, I'm going to do this because I think it's the ethical thing to do and just start dropping beavers off. Wow. Yeah. So bevers can be super destructive, though, if they're not putting the right place.

Yes. But beavers are the archetype of environmental engineers. Like they are the creatures that make ecosystems healthy. I did a whole thing in North Dakota on this, South Dakota. Which Dakota did I go to? South Dakota. Thank you. South Dakota.

I did a whole thing in South Dakota on this, on these whole areas where you're like, wow, it's so beautiful and perfect here. But it's not because all the streams just flow through and none of the water stays in the valleys it's supposed to because they killed all the beavers out. And when the beavers come in and they make their dams, it floods the valleys, it creates all the soil and this water. It makes the trout happier, makes the birds, everything. Like, beavers are environmental engineers that make the ecosystem so much healthier.

And so the UK, being the UK, it's even more bureaucratic than the U.S. They've been like, well, there's a proper way to do this. Yeah, let's have a meeting to discuss the meeting about the meetings of meetings. And so obviously nothing's happened for 25 years. So a bunch of people have just said, fuck it, and started bringing in beavers from Europe and just introducing them into their own farmlands and things like that to try and repair the ecosystem. So a good thing? It's debatable because the problem is you can bring in disease, you can bring in harm, it can disrupt ecosystems if it's done too rapidly because everything else is now accustomed to how things are, not how they were, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah.

They're accustomed to the stream and not the dam. Yes. And so, and this is why I said, I think I've mentioned this before, the book that I'm publishing later this year that I've been working on for the last three years, it's all about people doing renegade biology like this. And going against the law, but with the ethics of biology and conservation. And it's just people have become so fed up. Conservation, like many things, like politics and everything else, has become so bureaucratic

that everybody just argues about everything. And this sort of like guerrilla rewilding. movement is now taking place, which it shouldn't be something that conservationists are fighting against. Everybody should be working together to go, okay, we all want beavers back, we all want lynxes back, we all want whatever, let's work

together, and instead it just becomes this like bullshit system of I didn't think of it, I wasn't the first scientist to do it. Sure, yeah. You shouldn't be doing it. Not getting credit for it. Yeah, I'm going to blame you for this disease, which was probably coming anyway. It's like, it's just become such a mess. But it was kind of

the similar thing that happened when you guys found a fern. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You know, there was this whole bureaucratic thing. I was thinking it. I wasn't going to say it, though. That's okay.

But, I mean, dude, it's interesting because, like, you don't really think of, like, we don't really use beaver pelt or beaver fur anymore. Not anymore. But, like, beaver fur was the most sought after

commodity for a long time. Like, so much of the exploration of what's now the U.S. Yep. was beaver trappers. Settlements, cities, towns. And before that... All for beaver trappers.

People from Russia coming into Alaska to find beavers. And dude, before that, it was eggs. And before that, it was feathers. And before that, it was whale oil. Like, we forget that the whole planet was colonized, basically, because of our lust and love of something bizarre in the animal kingdom. Like, we powered every light in the world based on the fat of whales. Yeah, that's crazy.

a significant portion of human history. Dude, can you Google, Kyle? How many how many beavers used to be in America? It's kind of wild, too. You're talking about the beaver being like the ecosystem engineers. And it's like even we were controlled by the beavers. The human beings were coming and migrating and moving. To get beavers.

Yeah, to get the beavers. So even like in the micro level, they're doing everything with the damning and that for the environment. But at the macro, because humans wanted to come over and get the pelts and everything, they're coming in now and changing the entire landscape, obviously, and making the United States. What do we just find out on population? Play a little guessing game. So estimated that there are 10 to 15 million beavers in North America.

Wow. Today. Today. You would never think that. I don't see enough beavers. Oh, I got charged by one. Meager beaver. How many do you think there used to be?

There's 10 to 15 million today. I would say... In 1700. I would guess we're at a third to a quarter of the population. So I would say there used to be 60 million beavers. Yeah, I mean, I'd have to go... Maybe even... Maybe in 100 million beavers.

400. Oh, my gosh. Holy shit. So we really have knocked him way back. Yeah. That's crazy. But also, by the way, like, we were overrun with angry beavers. Of course, yeah.

It's unacceptable. that's that's the size of the human population in the united states right now right so what does it say about this beaver bombing as far as like what's happening so it says conservationists are divided which i just gave my viewpoints they always are they are never not go figure some view these releases is restoring lost biodiversity i'm in that camp while others warn they risk spreading disease disrupting ecosystems or reintroducing species to areas where they may have never been native those are the guys who are like, man, I really wish I could get the credit for the beaver bombing. I agree. That's what I think. And yeah, here's the thing, though, too, if you're reintroducing beavers to an era where they

may have never been native, guess what the beavers are going to do? They're going to die. Beavours aren't invasive species that come in and wipe out an ecosystem. Do you know what I mean? Like, they're not. They're just going to move on if there's no trees. Yeah, they're thinkers. They're not going to adapt. They're not for their thinking. That's why we hunted them. The author. We just wanted ideas. The authors argue that illegal releases must be openly discussed in debates about which species belong in the UK and who should have been authority to make those decisions. Yeah. Well, that's really that last part, the authority part.

Yeah. Who should have the authority? That's what it's all about. That is what it's all about. Hey, speaking of a beaver bombing. Wait, wait. So at the end of the day, I know you're going to do a great segue there, but. Oh, I was.

It was really good. You can still do it. Okay. You go. What's the verdict on this? Good or bad? He says good. He likes it.

I like when people ignore a bullshit law or process in order to help the ecosystem based on their ethics, as long as they're well-versed enough to know what they're doing. In other words,

if it's illegal for me, Forrest Galante, to release a beaver in my home in Santa Barbara, and this is just a bad example, but I know that beavers were traditionally there and that it would fix

a dried-out wetland area at my home, I would go and release that beaver and say, fuck you to the man. Because I think that's what should be done. Right. Because the alternative, and there's no beavers in Santa Barbara,

but the alternative is to wait around and beg and bother and pray that somebody one day in 20 years decides that it's worthwhile to put a beaver in my backyard. It's just funny to put a beaver in your backyard. It is. You have one in your bed. Speaking of beaver bombing, how about possum launching? I don't like it. I have an idea of what this could be.

Is this YouTuber? Do you know about this? No. Oh. What is it? Do you know about this, Peter? No, no. Kyle told me about it earlier today.

So there was a famous YouTuber. Kyle, do we have his name? Ross Creation. Ross Creations who launched a possum into the air in Sarasota, Florida, I presume. With a homemade catapult. I have not seen this. Kyle told me about it when I walked into the studio. And he said this guy's coming under a lot of fire, which he probably should be.

So let's see. It's terrible. All right. So hold on. Hold on here, Kyle. Let's set this up. So we're, I guess we're looking at the guy. No, this is Christina the activist. This is the guy's video. So she's showing it. She's reposting his video. She's a journalist or whatever. Gotcha. Okay. And so this guy is doing a prank on a possum that's been breaking into his house. Is that what's going on, Kyle? Something along those lines. All right. Let's see it. So we have a possum. He's crawling over a fence here.

Oh, boy. That is quite a contraption. He's, whoa. How high did that thing go? Pretty high. Oh, man. I'm assuming that killed it, right? That killed it. Oh, no, it walks away. Not healthily, I imagine. Oh, man.

Yeah, there's reports that it kind of like limped off into the trees and later. All right. Let's see it one more time here. So, okay, so this guy has a possum problem. He wants to make content out of his possum problem. So he builds this pretty outrageous catapult. Yeah, it's pretty. And it does launch the possum very high into the air.

It worked exactly as intended. So I have like a mixed, a weirdly mixed feeling. I don't like it. I also don't like it, but here's the thing that's weird about it. If you go to a hunting channel on YouTube and you see a guy blasting possums, there's not going to be one person who's like, how dare you? Do you know what I mean? I do.

But I think the thing that probably causes a lot of people to be upset about this is because, you know, you're not killing it. You might have just maimed it and it slowly died. And I agree with you. and I think it's terrible because it's torturing an animal. I do. I want to be clear about that. But do you think that this guy is just coming under fire

because people are globbing onto it because it's not a fishing or hunting or whatever channel and then it's self-perpetuating? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's like it's the wrong audience. It's a stunt. Yeah. I also think it is different, like cruel and unusual punishment.

It is. Like if someone just said, hey, in Florida, it's legal to kill possums if they're in their yard. I'll show you, you know, how I kill the possums in my yard. And then just like went out and shot possums, you'd be like, yeah, he's showing people how to kill possums. Uh-huh. Versus a Mr. Beast type stunt.

Right. That's just designed. And it is torturous to the possum to be clear. And I got to imagine like, and I don't know, but I got to imagine he's being pretty defiant about it and he probably was like defending himself. So then, of course, it gets bigger and spreads. Can you see what this guy looks like? Is that him?

That's got to be. him. That's him. That's got to be here. Okay. I mean, I'm with you guys, obviously. I don't like torturing an animal, but it does. It is, it. It's weird that this creates so much outrage, but just killing something doesn't to me. That's the problem. Like, it's like the, there's something amiss with that. I think it's the visual. Like, you know, like you see it limping away. Right. You know, a lot people are super visual. So if the possum died on impact. I still think that would be bad, maybe not as bad. Although because then you see the death right there. But that's no different. That's what I'm saying. That's no different from a hunting channel,

more or less. Well, it is. Okay. So think about this. If they said, hey, there was, you know, two gangs broke out into a gun fight, you know, in this gang infested area, wherever in the U.S. Yeah. And four people are dead, right? That probably makes headlines in that city. Sure. if they find four dead women in their beds with satanic symbols carved into their bodies all going up the I-5 it's a worldwide story about a serial killer. Yeah.

So it's like the mechanism of it is important psychologically. It's the stunt. Right. It's the stunt of it. And I agree, by the way, I don't like this for very obvious reasons. But it's just, it's like, shouldn't we just care about protecting animals in general and you know what I mean? No, I get what you're saying. I don't even know how to articulate what I'm trying to say,

but it's just like, this is wrong. Don't torture animals for views, obviously, obviously. But you're saying where, like, where's the line in the sand? It's like, I guess he didn't kill the animal. And I get what, what Patrick's saying as well, but it's just like, I don't know. Why is he going to so much worse? Let's just not kill animals on social media. Like, I'm a hypocrite because I go and kill fish and put on social media.

You know what I mean? Like, I go fishing and show the fish off. So I know I'm a self- I'm a hypocrite here, but like, I don't know. It's just like there's there's something amiss about getting super upset about this, but not upset about somebody else killing a possum a different one. I mean, oh, go ahead. I was just going to say you got to look at the world and the way it is with social media.

That there's, you put anything out there and there's going to be a certain set of people think this way and a certain set of people who think this way. And it's just whatever garners attraction and explodes becomes a thing now where you're basically forced to have an opinion on it. I will say this. As someone, like, obviously you're focusing a lot of your career right now on, besides doing the TV, you're building your YouTube and putting a ton of content out. Yep. If you were a piece of shit like this guy and we're just doing stunts to fuck with animals, you'd be really good at it.

I would. I would. Because I understand animals. Yeah, absolutely. But I never would. Some of the craziest shit. I would. You're not wrong.

You would have a frog in space. I would probably make this with a net to harmlessly catch the possum. You know what I mean? And then take it to a rescue center and be like, ha-ha. Bro, you got your next video idea right there. I'm not doing that because I don't want to torture the possum. Listen. But like I would.

He's right. I could come up with some hilarious shenanigans. I know. Like just you're the guys that did the meat tree, right? That's how your brain works. Yep. This is true. All right.

Meat tree was the best. Meetree was the best. I wish I could be back in that hotel room, drinking Tusker. Oh, such good times. Tusker is the local beer, just so you know. Any good? Really good.

Like all local beers, phenomenal there. If you were to drink it here, you'd spit it on there. Dude, if you go to an Ethiopian rep... Jesus. What's going on here? This is a table come from?

It's never been here before. Dude, if you go to an Ethiopian restaurant, a lot of them have Tusker? Yeah. It's completely holds up. It's delicious. I'm going to have to give it a try. Does America have the world?

worst local beer? Shut up, Kyle. No, that's shenan. Have you ever had a Budweiser? It's phenomenal. Right? A Coors Banquet or a Bud Heavy? I like Coors Banquet.

Dude, Bud Heavy is the best beer ever created. I think Kyle's thinking light beers. Light beers are all bad. Light beers are revolting. And I drank them exclusively in my teens and 20s. Same. And then I went to Minnesota with a buddy. We were going there to watch UFC.

We go to meet a bunch of his Minnesota friends and they're all drinking Bud Heavy. Yeah. I was like, let me try it. I was like, oh, yeah. But now we're drinking light strike, which has electrolytes as well as booze. So I just guzzled my first time. Patrick introduced me to Bud Heavy.

And I know that's a weird statement to say. But I don't think I'd ever had a traditional Budweiser. I had not either. Eight, nine years ago when I met Patrick and he's like, oh, we don't have any. Then I looked in the fridge and there was no cores light or bud light. And I was like, what's this? A bud heavy? Yeah.

A real Budweiser? And I drank it. I was like, oh my God. Delicious. Fantastic. He's a sponsor. Yeah. Do you ever go for the bloodlight platinum's back in the day?

Did, yeah. They were like 6%. Yeah, yeah. In college, yeah. Don't remember them. Get way more drunk. Right, exactly. But it tasted like beer with like a tiny like splash of vodka.

It was pretty disgusting. Such a good way to describe it. Yeah. It was as if you mixed a beer with tonic water. Yeah. So gross. Pat. When we did our old podcast, if you'll recall, we did a power,

an hour of power. Called a power hour, not an hour of power. I did. I'll call it whatever the hell I want. What do you fucking know? You've never done one. He has not. I've never done an hour of power. This is available.

With Bud Light Platinum. With Budlight Platinum. And I was so drunk by the end of the podcast. And it was live. No editing that, well, first of all, by the end of it, our one buddy ended up throwing up in your bathroom. Nice. We did this on Cinco.

DeMio, which people go nuts for in L.A. Yeah. And Cinco did drinko. Yeah, they go out to get hammed. Yeah. And so we recorded on Cinco de Mayo, which happened to fall on a weekend on this year, did 60 minutes. So it's the equivalent of drinking about six, 60 ounces. No, you drink, you drink 90 ounces.

An ounce and a half, that's right. Which is what? Six beers? Seven and a half beers? Seven beers? Like a 40 ounce or times two plus 10 ounces. So, yeah. Do you just type in how many beers is a power hour?

Seven and a half. Oh, there you go. Seven and a half. Power of power. In an hour. I could never. At 11. Yeah, that's,

and then my ex-girlfriend was bartending at a bar that was having a huge Cinco de Mayo party and didn't charge any of us for anything. Fantastic. So then we go straight into

the Cadillac margaritas and by like 1.30, the day was ruined. Done. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Falling. Yeah.

Crying. Crying. I remember the crying. Fighting. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Hey, Kyle. You want to DJ a game?

for us over there, big guy? Sure. What do you got? Here we go. I got the weird animal laws game. Oh, I always like that one. Give us a jingle. Tell us how it works.

I'm thinking about what time it is. Nope. Not that. Not that. Oh, God, he's panicking. He's fat-fing. I think it was angry. Weird animal laws.

That's nice. I like that. It was real good. I'm going to read you guys a sentence here. This is either a real law somewhere in the world or something that Edwin just made up. Okay. You're going to tell me whether it's a real art.

Before we start, let's say we're going to do five. Okay. How many flubs of words will Kyle have? I'm going to set the over under at two and a half. Two and a half. I'm going under. I think he's getting better. He's getting smarter.

It's funny because I was going to say five, one percent. Now he's going to try to enunciate really. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. First up, in Quitman, Georgia, a municipal ordinance for. There's one.

That's one. You know what? It says forbids, but because it's an animal game, I thought it was supposed to say four birds. But either way. Let me start over. In Quentin, Georgia, a municipal ordinance forbids domestic foul from roaming freely. Domestic foul. There's no way in Georgia they give a shit about this.

So I'm going to say no. I didn't even think they had loss in Georgia. Not in Quintman. I'm going to call BS, no chance. I'm going to say it's real. And I'll tell you why. I think that people used to let their chickens just roam free. around Quitman.

Somebody got fed up, decided to run them over with their car, and now there's an ordinance. What did you say, Peter? I said false also. So, the majority loses,

yeah, Forrest is correct. Fuck off. Real ordinance. It says things like chickens, ducks, and geese are not allowed to be loose in the streets

or on other people's property. It's a good law. The purpose is to present domestic foul from being a nuisance. Prevent. Sure. Did you say present?

He did. That's two flubs. All right. You guys didn't know I was an expert on Quitman law. No. All right. Next, in Uruguay, tortoises cannot be transported

in vehicle glove compartments due to temperature fluctuation risks. First of all, tell me about Uruguay. I've never been, but always wanted to go. Where is it? What's the temperature life?

Do you know where it is? No. Do you actually not? I swear I don't. Continent. Take a stab. Yeah. A real guess?

No. You're joking. Try again. Eastern Europe? Yep. Yep. That's where Uruguay is. It's in Eastern Europe.

Is it South America? Yes, it is. Ah, got it. I'll be honest. I don't know where in South America. Okay. Next to Argentina. Oh, it's okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Right? It's Iguessu Falls. It's south of Brazil and north of Argentina. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Well, I learned something. They do have tortoises. It is quite hot for the most part. It looks beautiful. I'd love to go. I've seen it from Iguessu Falls, but never been there. And what are the laws?

Is it lawless there or not? I'd say... That honey's really helping. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I would say it is more lawless than Argentina. Okay. I'm going to say that... He's like, that didn't help.

This is false also. I don't think they think about this, nor do they care. I'd say false. I know that you can have small tortoises that could easily fit in a glove box, but I just, this is no. Yeah, three for false. Nobody's, nobody's, you could say don't transport it in a vehicle, but not in the glove box. Too specific. Yeah.

It is false. So he just made that up? Made it up. Based on nothing. Based on absolutely nothing. That's why Edwin's a good producer. Yeah. He hallucinated it.

Next, in Slovenia, you may not walk more than four dogs at a time unless you carry a leash license. This is interesting. The shenanigans. This is easy. I actually know this. Do you really do? No. I'm super confident.

Go ahead. It's true. Oh, okay. Yeah. You have to be a licensed dog walker to walk more than four dogs. I don't think that's true. I don't think they have dog walking laws in Slovenia. So I'm saying it's false.

My sister runs a dog walking business in Slovenia. So, and I know she's never got a license. So I'm going to say false. False. Nice. Thanks, sis. Shit. Yep.

Not true. Pulling a head. You know what it should be. He was so confident. All right. Next, in Japan, Deer and Nara are legally considered sacred and harming one can result in jail time.

Anybody know about Nara? Quite a bit, actually. Was there twice last year? Really? No. I'm going to go true. Yeah, it's easy, true. I'm going to go against the grain here

and say false. It is fuck off. You're out of here, does. Deer and Nara are legally protected as

national treasures and the messengers of the gods. Real quick, before we go to the next question, pull up a video of,

I guess it's Nara, but try Deer Island Japan or Deer Village Japan. Have you guys seen this? No. Looks incredible. Yeah, look at this.

It's, what was the one we watched a few pods ago where it was an island full of... Raccoons. Yeah, in Miami.

Yeah. So now we got the deer version of that. Kyle was going to show a great video and then just abandon it. But there's this beautiful place in Japan with these temples. And they're like relatively modern temples. You can see it in the second picture there. And the deer just are super friendly and walking around and everywhere.

It's like this all over the place. Yeah, look at that. Just cute little spotted deer everywhere. And they're like domesticated a bit. Yeah, they're like, look at it. Crossing the street, hanging out, snoozing under the trees. They're not skittish at all. Not at all.

Deere are crazy skittish in the U.S. Apparently they're quite aggressive at some points if you don't feed them. Oh, really? Yeah, they're coming after you. I like that. I like that a lot. I don't know. It looks awesome.

There's a few of these in Japan. There's a city overrun by cats. Do you know about Cat City, Japan? No. Check out Cat Island. A Cat Island, Japan. Look at this. So it's this island.

Patrick would be in heaven. Oh, no. He thinks it's gross. It smells like you're out of mouth. It has to. But yeah, some old fishing ladies. brought cats to this island and then the cats just overran the island. Oh my god.

That's wild. I believe this was the inspiration for the Isle of Dogs movie. Oh, really? No way. I think so. Oh, interesting. Cat Island. Tell me about the Isle of Dogs movie. It was just a Wes Anderson animated film. It's fantastic. Oh, is it good? I have not watched it. Oh, it's fantastic. It's so good. Really? It's so good.

Okay. And then last one is, well, I guess the snow macaques. And then, yeah, but there's like a whole bunch of weird animal islands. So there's snow macaques, too? Yeah, in another part of Japan. where you go sit in the hot tub with the macaques? Well, I got to see this. I mean, Oh,

you don't know about this? The original planet Earth featured this quite a bit. Yeah. This is amazing. But you can do it with them. Like Japan monkey hot tub. Type that in, Kyle, like with monkeys or something.

Isn't it dangerous? Will they rip your balls off? Dude, I was super close to going and doing this when I went to Japan for Shark Week. And Jess was going to fly in and Rhodes was like one year old. And you can buy,

you can not buy, rent a villa or a house with an onsen, which is a natural Japanese hot pool. And you just sit in the onsen and the monkeys just come and sit with you. And you can just sit there with these macaques bathing in a hot tub.

That is awesome, dude. And it's like two hours from Tokyo. It's like up Mount Fuji. I literally, like this is out of everything we've ever talked about on the pod, like I want to do this more than anything. Kyle, type in hot tub with monkeys, Japan. It says here that's not allowed.

I promise you it is. I will send you the link. You can't bait them. I read all about it. You cannot bait them and all this. But if they choose to enter the onsen when you're sitting there, you can absolutely do it. And it happens daily. Wow.

Well, I mean, look at macaque's tea. I mean, if a macaque got pissed off at you. Oh, it would suck. It would fuck you up. Yeah, look, hot tub monkey. Yeah. Go back. Go back.

Right there. Look at that. I don't know if that's real, but it looks awesome. Well, you don't think the monkey was actually saying first time to the guy. All right. Who do you think fight till death, you versus a really angry macaque that. wanted to kill you. Macac. Wow. It is stronger, more nimble, more agile, has a huge, huge razor sharp teeth.

Oh, puncture your throat. What about the claws? Does it have claws? Not really, just fingers. Let me see the macaque's teeth, Kyle. Look at it. But specifically the snow, the snow macaques are particularly like big-toothed, by the way. Really? Yeah. Big tooth. Oh, man. I mean, it's basically human teeth. Look at that. And then you add two shark teeth. Yeah. He'd destroy your war. world. Go to the one that's clearly AI, the snub nose monkey. Oh my god. Is that a real photo? I think it is. Dude, where are snub nose monkeys? What the hell is that nostril? Wait, that's a real picture. Yeah, yeah. That's a real animal. Holy shit. It looks like one of those evil. It looks like one of

those like Snapchat filters. Yeah, it really does. Like someone who's had too much plastic surgery. And their nose is Michael Jackson. That's Michael Jackson. No, that's not real. That is Michael Jackson. filter. That is real. No, it's not. It's not. It is not. Look at the lip filler on that sucker. That's Janet. That is real.

My God. What are they? They're Borneo? Is that right, Kyle? Dude, I am an expert. I have this hilarious AI image fails book. I have been studying. And look, that one is in here, bro.

Yeah. China. That one's in here, bro. It's not. That is a real animal. He's like, have you been to China? Never.

Me neither. And like, I have an Apple TV and like if you don't press a button for a while you leave it on it just goes to these awesome aerials of just nature and they added this feature

thank God because so many times I would be frustrated on the old Apple TV that you just don't know where it is and you just have to guess but now you can press it down and it tells you where it is oh interesting and like half of the incredibly stunning aerials are China

yeah yeah there's so many massive just like landscapes. And I've heard it's like super clean in all the cities now and immaculate. Like things really change. That's what I've been hearing. Yeah. Looks pretty sweet. Dude,

the Sky Islands place, that place, that place, the towers, whatever it's called? Yeah, I'd love to go there. Dude,

crazy little dog leg story. My kids were watching TV two nights ago. They had YouTube or something on. I just hear, and I run over. I'm like, what did you just do? TV's black.

Oh. The TV exploded. What? they were mid-watching it. Yeah, literally it was just made a bunch of sounds and colors and then just went black. Oh, man. So it was busted? Yeah, yeah, tossed it out.

That's annoying. Family currently all watching an iPad while we go buy a new TV. Oh, I thought for sure you were going to say, like, Rhodes just like smashed it with a hammer. No, nothing. It just fried mid-watch. I don't buy it. I've never heard of this happening. I swear to God.

Somebody hit it with the remote that was thrown. No, dude. You know how big my house is. I was like 15 feet away in the kitchen and Jessica was in the kids room. It just made weird sounds and died. Yeah, I just saw this video of the mom is filming clearly behind the camera, filming two little kids. And like the seven-year-old, the five-year-old is crouched down in a catcher's position in the living room.

Okay. The seven-year-old's about to throw him a fastball. And she's filming it. And then like the husband walks in and you can hear his voice. He's like, no, no, no, what are you doing? And the kid just fires it into the TV. Oh, my God. And it just cracks it and makes this giant black spot.

That's boys, though. is it? Yeah. Yeah. And watch, watch the kid's reaction. He thinks it's funny. Hang on.

Put the audio on, Kyle. What? Oh, this is a commentary of the original. Yeah, but yeah. That's boys, the kid's just like, whoops,

and then starts dying laughing. Oh. And he thinks it's great. Oh, man. Dude, it's like, that's just little boys, dude. They're insane.

They are insane, bro. It's crazy. but like whoops it's really funny and then he's stoked it's like dude

okay now I've got a fucking figure out how this mount works pinch my finger oh yeah get this thing down $1,200

oh bro you just like things get broken constantly they just flail about and are aggressive and dude boys are insane

they really are they just knock shit over like I will say it's a nice relief that I no longer care about anything in the house Yeah, you have to give up Because it all gets broken, ruined, juice spilled on it Oh yeah

Yeah, yeah I'm giving you your chicken nuggets With ketchup, if you're going to eat it on the couch You cannot spill the ketchup Okay, dad, it's face down Yeah And you just give up and it is actually nice Because you just go, it's just who cares

Yeah, I don't care about having nice things anymore. Yeah. Yeah. You're just like, hey, destroy the couch. Go for it.

That's a good moment in your life. Kyle, do number five because I, Forest owns a boat in California and I want, I want to see what happens here.

And I've been much closer than 100 yards. I'll tell you that. In California, it is illegal to get closer than 100 yards to a whale by boat. I believe this is a law. Here's why.

California has more than twice as many laws as any other state. That's why. Yeah. So yes, this is, I think, a fact. I do not think this is a law because I don't believe that California can have laws that are enacted on the ocean. So I'm going to say no. Well, Kyle is going to ping me for saying this, but this is not a law.

It's very close. And that's how I know. Because the law is you cannot approach a whale up to within a hundred yards by boat. If the whale comes to you or you put your boat in a certain place, and the whale swims right by you at 10 feet, that is perfectly legal. That's what I mean, yes. That's what the law is.

If a whale surfaces to get a little breath. Yeah. And within 20 yards, it's not going to be like, whooop. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah.

So what this law is designed to do, and this is a law, is to keep people from like whale watching boats and things to motoring directly at whales at full speed and scaring them and moving them. And what myself and every other whale watching operation and every private boat owner that's like, likes looking at whales does.

is you see the whales and you see, oh, they're going that way. And then you drive your boat much more than 100 yards, because they swim too fast, like 300 yards up and shut your boat off and wait. And then guess what? The whale comes up and goes, yeah. And then it comes up 20 feet away from you if you've timed it right and breathes right next to you and keeps going. Yeah. You're like, that was awesome. And you don't disturb the whale at all. Right. But the law is, and this is not Kyle's going to ding me again, but the law is not it's illegal to get closer than 100 yards. The law is it's illegal to a approach within 100 yards. If they come to you, it's fine.

So I'm saying that this is not a law. And you're saying this is not a law? Yeah, but he's going to ding me for it because this is written as though it is a law. I agree with everything for us said. It's that you can't approach. Yeah. It's written here as fact,

but Forrest is correct. Okay. Yeah. So what are we? Who gets points. I don't care about any. I think that's points for everyone. Points all around.

Yay. Everybody wins. Yep. Let's do number six. One last one. Last one. This one's worth 17 points. 17 points on the table.

Get ready? Yep. The British royal family technically technically owns all the white swans in open waters across England and Wales. This is such nonsense. Technically owns. It's false. It seriously can't be real. It's so ridiculous.

I think it's because of what Peter just said, it's real. Yeah. The British what is it? Monarchy? Yeah. I don't understand how it still works. How does it work? They get money. They get money from the taxpayers? Yeah, but they don't do anything because they're not parliament. Right.

So I have no idea how it works either. But I'm going to say that this is in fact a law. I got to go against that. I'm going to say it is not a law. That's crazy. No law. No law. No law? It is a law.

Yeah, it says they technically own all unmarked swans, which is a swan that does not bear a special nick or mark on its beak in open waters of England and Wales. So if I paintball my swan, is it then my swan? Or does the prince still own it? It says that it comes from medieval times when swans were luxury food. Ugh. Yuck. A delicious.

A delicious swan. I'm going to have a swan sandwich. This might be a first. Forrest got every question right. No way. Let's go. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 22 points.

It's a record. Wild times. Dot club forward slash info for all the pods. Hey, we do four extra pods a month. If you want them, do what Peter just said. Wildtimes.

That club. Do it on Spotify, too. Subscribe. Info. Subscribe. Apple, iTunes. Mark your swans. The royal family will take them.

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