Wild Times: Wildlife Education - Huge Snake Bites Man's Testicles While on Toilet - TWT 156

Episode Date: September 16, 2024

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Wild Times. Oh, yeah. Wild Times, baby. Oh, I'm going to do the intro today. My name is Peter. You all know me. I am the podcast PhD guy. Over there is Forrest. You all know who that guy is from Extincter Alive, host of the Wild Times podcast. And then there's Pat. Yeah. Rapid fire our titles with the word bro. Go. Rapid fire. Go. Prologist, professor and producer. See, it's harder than you think. Nicely done. You struggled. for a hair. We're in uniform today. Did you know that? New shirts.

We have our new Wild Times shirts. I may or may not have worn this on a little podcast called Pardon My Take Barstool. Not supposed to talk about it yet. Big deal. This is how you act around your house with your wife, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, yeah. She likes it.

I may or may not have just done a huge podcast. Just no big deal. I don't care. Change the diaper. Exactly. Yeah, right. Yeah, I can't do that. Got to get back to the office.

You never change a diaper in your life. I've done a couple. I mean, look, energy is at a fever pitch here because we've got stories about a man who got his testicles bitten by a python. He's giving away my exciting thing. But look, real quick, I've got a lion living in my neighborhood. Fact. Wow. Should we get into that first?

It's not in what's in the news, but it's in my news. It's in your news. It's in your world. Suburb of L.A. that I live in, pictures have been going around of an uncollared mountain lion walking on my neighbor's fence, in my neighbor's tree. No way. Uncollared mountain line, full grown, man. It looks like a big healthy sucker. So that's just a straight up wild-ass mountain line, right?

I think you should go... It's uncolored. They don't know who it is. I think you should go full neighborhood Rambo. Like, I'll give you some face paint, some decoys, some collars. I'll give you a trank rifle. I think you just start walking around your neighborhood, playing injured deer sounds.

Just see what happens. What does an injured dare sound like? I like that. Exactly. That's your friend. is going to kill you. Oh my God. Take that, Chad.

That's for your earhalls. Chad from New Louisville, Kentucky. That's it. So, yeah, I don't have any dogs or cats that roam outside at night, but I mean, what should I be doing here? Besides your Rambo idea, which I'm not going to do. He's already giving you the advice.

I thought it was a good idea. What should you be doing? Nothing. I think you're doing everything right. Here's the thing that a lot of people don't realize. There are Mountain Lions in all of your neighborhoods. You just don't all have ring cameras and trail cameras. They've always been there.

They will always be there. There's nothing to worry about. It's fine. No, I'm not particularly worried. Don't jog after dark. That would be my one. Really? Yeah, I do.

I do. You go after dark? It's 103 during the day. It's true. I got a special jogging headlamp because I kept tripping over cracks. Sure. I like that. That's the most baddish thing I've ever heard you say.

You should see how I'm dressed. Yeah. It's unbelievable. Short, short, shorts. How many inches on the inseam? Well, I'm in a five and a half. Okay. Five and a half is great.

That's the chubbies. Here's the other thing, because I don't, I have a dad bod. When I go at night, feel, feel free and loose to run shirtless. No. Do you really? Yeah. With the headlamp?

The headlamp, the no shirt. Bro, other cars have headlights that see you clear as day. Tell me, this is an important distinction. Where do your socks come up to? I wear an ankle sock. Okay, that's okay. As long as it's not up to me. I don't know if it is.

Kyle, way in is our youngest member here. I feel like ankle socks are. out. No, I saw this on Instagram. They are out. I only wear like, you know, thigh high, not thigh high, but... Tie high! Thigh! Like a stocking. Yeah. Kyle wears panties. It's, it's the mid-calf now, right? That's the only sock I've ever worn. Well, yeah, but you're from the valley. I was going to say, Kyle is one of the characters on Real Bros. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. How's your truck, Kyle? Wait, but, but correct me if I'm wrong and Brosner's way in on this. The, what's the generation

below us? A Z? The Gen Zers, it's like out to wear like a no show or an ankle sock. Are you guys familiar with this? It's very out. It's out for a while. Especially in California. Well, I'm just getting caught out.

I'm still a no show kind of guy. See, I'm ankle and or I'm going show. I'm showing. That's smart. Like make a thing out of your socks. Yeah. Make a thing out of your socks. It's smart.

Trying to fit in. We don't want to, our listeners are in their 20s. Listen to listen to a bunch of dorks. We're trying to not age out here. I got a bit of news. Can I, personal news that's not in one. what's in the news. Can I pivot there? Please. You guys remember the whole thing where my neighbor stole my fruit picker and they wouldn't cut

the tree down? No. No, we didn't talk about it for like 12 or 15. It was a saga. There's a whole thing. So the other day, a couple, a nice couple comes up to my door and I see them at the camera at the camera. And I'm obviously like, they ring the door. I'm like, the fuck is this. I'm not answering this. And my wife happened to be like going out of the garage. So she had to like talk to them. And she's out there like, blah, blah, I'm trying to hear. I can't hear anything. She comes in and she says, guess what? She says, that couple bought the house behind us with the tree and they wanted to know if we're okay with them cutting it down. First order of business moving in. So what that means, ding dong, the witch is dead because the old lady's dead. You just killed Kyle with comedy.

Dude, literally. He loves it. Look at him. The first. The first time I talked to the daughter who lives in New York, who's the one that reached out to me, she basically just insinuated that they're waiting for the crazy mother to die. Like, they're just waiting for her to die so they could sell the house. The house probably made them. We looked it up last time it was sold. It was like 125. They sold it for like 850. Oh, boy.

And the new neighbors told us that they were assholes and they wouldn't give them any money to do the tree removal. But it made me feel really good that it was a point of contention. them selling that house. But let me understand. The tree is on their property, not yours. It just hangs over the wall and the roots push up our shared wall. So you do want it gone. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's going to feel like, but it's a beautiful orange tree filled with delicious fruits. No, no, no, no. The orange tree's on my side. This is the, this was the biggest tree in my entire neighborhood. And finally what had happened, if you remember, they, they were forced to trim it because things were falling in my yard and hitting my baby on the head. And they, and they stole my

fucking fruit picker like in the middle of the night. I remember this now. I was mixing up that tree with the orange tree. The witch is dead. Ding dong. The witch is dead. You don't usually celebrate deaths. I mean, I'm just saying.

Unless it's a witch. No, exactly. Listen, the kids are the horrible ones, literally just waiting for her to die so they can profit off of her house. That's what happened. That's what happens a lot. What's in the news? I've been so excited for this story.

I'm glad snakes and testicles. Because I don't know where to start. For four days since this came out, I've been like anxiously awaiting talking about the fact that a man's balls were bitten while sitting on the toilet by a python. It's the classic fear. Now, do Python have tiny little teeth? No, no, no, no, sir.

They have quite large, horrendous fangs. Oh, God! Is that an actual picture of the snake? It's an actual picture of the reticulated python that bit the guy on the testes. So, for those who were just listening, Describe how big this python is. Well, first of all, let's paint a picture here. I want to know about the mouth. If you're just listening, you're thinking,

oh, they must be out in the wild in some remote village. No, no. This is in a lovely tiled bathroom with quite a nice looking toilet. And half the python is sticking out of the toilet and a bunch of blood is all over the floor, toilet seat, and interior of the toilet. Oh, my God. As you can see.

I can't even do. this is my worst nightmare. This is when you run up the stairs in fear of a monster when you're a child. This is the fear I have like when I'm at a campground that a snake's didn't come out

and bite my fucking balls. So this was in this guy, Thonaut, who's a Thai man's house. He went to his quite nice toilet in his quite lovely bathroom. I assume in the night, I don't know the details. Yeah.

I'm imagining. As with all men over 27, he went to have a sit-down pee because that's what you do. In your own house? At night. At night, not during the day, that's horrendous. But at nighttime, you're going to have a sit-down.

I do it in the day, too. Yeah. We all do. We just don't admit it. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. But at night, when you're tired, you go for the old sit-down pee.

You do. If you're like me, you don't turn the light on because you don't want to mess up your circadium rhythm. You want to go back to sleep immediately after having. Maybe your phone flashlight just in front of you. If you need it. Yeah. If you need it.

So, Thonat, was that his name? Thonot. Am I making that up? Thanat. So Thonat sat down on the potty. went for his nighttime seated pee all of a sudden he felt a sharp pain striking his

testicles as he quickly jetted up from the toilet along with his now extended scrotum came a 12 12 12 12 foot long python out of the toilet latched on

to his nut sack taller than a basketball hoop by two feet can you believe that let me ask you this that's bad that's that's That's horrific. Horrifying. Is there a specific type of python that's known for actually eating and digesting full human beings? It would be the reticulated python. Oh, so you wouldn't want that to be in your toilet.

I wouldn't want it to be attached to my nut sack. It was a lot of it. It was a reticulated python 12 feet. It's attached to his crow. And he then grabs the toilet brush, which is not the weapon I would go for. On the scroll. Who else got in the toilet? doesn't know. It's not like he's got a knife sit in there. So he grabs the toilet brush and then what?

Starts whacking at it and it releases. Gross. And, uh, terrible. I mean, by the way, imagine, imagine just, just, just stay with me for a second here. Imagine popping up. And you get, and you look and then just feet of this thing come out of your toilet. You're running from the toilet at this point. Your balls are just extending the sack. Your balls are pulling. This thing's getting longer and long. It's like a fucking black. noodle is coming out of this toilet attached to your scrote, you grab the soft spongy toilet brush and start bopping your own testicles on the head.

Can you imagine the dance that took place? I mean, God, Lord. No, I mean, you know, this is, the fact that it was 12 feet too, it's like, it's not like it's coming out gracefully. I love, I love that he goes on to say that he is now thoroughly traumatized and checks his toilet before he pees. I'm going to check my toilet before I peeves him. Every listener right now will from now on be checking the toilet before they sit down.

I'm just picturing his wife. She hears the scream. Bathrooms over here. She kind of rolls over, pulls her eye mask down, sees the snake attached to his nuts and just puts the mask back up and goes right back to sleep. Yeah, she's like, this is not for me. She's like, I can't do the single thing. What would she? Yeah, exactly.

What would she even do? What I just say? She would pull out a machete and just whip right. next to the nuts. She might have cut us whole thing on it. I don't assume she was sleeping with a machete, but I just, the whole,

it's very comical. And there is a lot of blood in and around that toilet. It is. The pictures here are what really make this story come to life, aside from your beautiful illustration painted.

But dude, there's literally blood. There's the, I see the toilet handle right there, I think, yeah. It's a game changer. Let me ask you this. It must have something,

maybe poop. It's got blood on it. Blood. Let me ask you this. Okay, we're all, we're all gentlemen who've had two children. We're all done with that for now.

Yeah. You have two choices in life. One is to go and get a vasectomy the old-fashioned way. You're thinking about it. You're getting nervous. There's anticipation. Months worth. You don't want to do it. Let's be honest. No, I don't. The option number two is sometime in your life, a snake will jump out of the toilet and bite you in the nuts, just perfectly severing that little cord that your semen comes out. I'd rather kill myself. Which one? about if I had to fear the snake thing coming, if I knew that was factually going to happen at some point.

You use a toilet two to three times a day. Yes, I would kill myself. It's just going to happen at some point. No, I would die. I think I'd take the snake to the nuts. That's crazy. You just don't think about it. Then it's over done.

Besides a, besides like a sterile surgeon who gives you some nice numbing nuts down there and some maybe a little gas. It's a mental game. The guy had to get a tetan shot in the nuts afterwards plus stitches. No. So I don't think. Are you serious? Yeah. Tetan's shot in the nuts.

Dude, can I tell you a Tetan story real quick? Sure. Kyle was with me for this. So we were in Illinois last week. Ooh. Yeah, I told you, we texted a bunch of us there. It was fun. And we went to do the flying carp.

You know how the carp jump out of the river and stuff. And we came up with as many creative ways as we could to catch these carp out of the air. We were shooting them with bows. We were going on an intertube with nets. And one of the ways that genius boy, Kyle over here came up with. He's laughing real hard. Well, because he knows what I'm in it. I'm blaming him for this, and I forever will.

He's like, let's glue a ton of thumbtacks to gloves. No. And then you catch them out of the air. Oh, my God. Right? And I'm like, that's a great idea. That's not a meat tree idea, but it's... So we do this.

So Kyle goes at midnight to the hardware store and buys heavy-duty gloves and thumb-tacks and super glues, superglues these weaponized looking gloves to our hands, the whole thing. Okay. And we're out on the boat, and it's kind of working. We're like catching some, but we're slipping through. This one lands in the boat. I miss it. And as it hits the boat, I dive at it to go for it into the water. Yeah.

But as I do that, my hat comes off my head. So as any rational human being in history, I go, shit, my hat. And I go with two hands with like 15 razor sharp rusty fish slime cover subtext straight into my head. Thank you, Kyle. And I still got the fish. I still got the fish. It's all on tape. Kyle was filming the whole thing.

And I come to the beach. And I'm like, yeah, I got the fish. And I felt that I'd spike my head, but I didn't realize. My whole face is covered in blood. And the whole boat's just silent like, are you okay? This is crazy. Dude, by the way, like speaking of tetanus, literal fish gut tacks in your fucking forehead. Oh, yeah. That's heinous. These are the invasive car. Correct. So it's good to kill them. It's good to kill. Why are they jumping out? Is there electrical fence or something that's making them jump? No, it's a defense mechanism. So they hear the rumble of the ocean. And this is the guy we went with Captain Nate Willicki.

He's a treat. And yeah, so they hear the rumble of the engine and they just jump out of the water to evade you. It's a defense mechanism. But they make up something like 75% of the biomass in the river. Like there's way too many of them. It's like I think by some metrics, the most destructive invasive species in the U.S. I think so. Yeah.

So you want to get rid of them as much as humanly possible. It doesn't mean you need to wear a dino costume on an intertube. But it also doesn't mean you don't need. So for those not watching, we're watching a video of somebody's doing this on a boat, the captain and his family, in fact. Yep. So he's basically trying to come up with all kinds of weird and creative ways to catch these carp on the river. To catch carp.

That's it. Wow, that is. It's a treat. That sounds real fun. Well, because it's such a big problem. It's a good idea to like make a fun thing out of it. Exactly right. This is a good like viral meme thing.

100%. Do it because it's, look, I'm not like pro killing anything that's never been my. thing, but it's so much fun. You don't feel bad because you're helping. Yeah. And you're just coming up with the most silly ways. This is what we're doing. Look, those are the spike gloves.

You can actually see them on his hands. Oh, my God. So we ripped off this idea. Thanks, Kyle. And yeah, we're trying to catch them with these spike gloves that I hit myself in the head with. Dude, I can't believe he's sure footed right here, not just falling right in. Oh, that was a good. Yeah, there's a good fall right in.

Hey, back to old snake toilet, because that's not something we should move on. Snoil it. Snowil it. let's play real quick Kyle, Kyle put this in the in the group doc here top three DFL

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All right. So here's the game. It's midnight. You go for a nice sit-down. P. Top three animals you'd like to find in your toilet in the DFL. You can have any justification for it you like. But you can't have a reticulated Python.

That's already taken as a D-O-F. That's gone. What? Okay. All right. No snakes in the toilet. We're just going no snakes in the toilet. This is tough.

So have I already peed on it? It's up to you. This is your world. We're just living in it. I'm just trying to think of any animal that doesn't have a mouth. I can go first. Okay, go ahead. All right.

I want to, I mean, look, if there's, if, if, if I want to find it, it's got to be cute and it's, it's got to not be a danger to my scrote. Sure. Yeah, no danger to the scrode. But a lot of the cutest things would be a danger. Imagine a ferret in the toilet. Dude, a cat. There's nothing. You've scared me off of all mustilids.

All right. Number one, or number three that I want to find in my toilet is a Channel Island fox. So adorable. I'm willing to take the risk of a nip because they're so cute. I think it would befriend my dog and cat. Look at the one where it's yawning. Like, you don't feel scared of that. Are you thinking that maybe like a little nibble could feel maybe a little pleasurable?

An erotic nip? I don't think so. I think there's some pretty. I just think it's a really weird animal to pick. Considering sharp teeth. Look at that. Come on. I like it.

That's number three. It's a good number. Take it right out of the toilet straight into bed. Yeah, like that. I had one of those in my top three, by the way. Number two, I want to find a gerbola. Gerboa, okay. What's a gerboa?

Another adorable critter. Yeah, I'm going cute here. Yep. God, this would be creep me out, bro. Now, at this point, I'm going to enjoy the cuteness. I'm going to show it to my kids. Have a little show and tell them. I'm going to unleash it.

And whatever happens with the cat and the gerboa is up to them. Smart. Smart. I like that. You know what I mean? It doesn't belong there. No. I can't be in charge of this.

Yeah, fair enough. Versus the fox, which I'm interested in. And then number one, and Jerboa might be number one. But, okay, number one, just a really skinny. It's not malnourished to the point where I can't bring it back, but it needs my help. Just a little kitten that got a band out. That's insane. Dude, him and house cats.

Like, he just wants to find all the kittens. Just picture like a tiny kitten that just needs a bottle of milk. and you just peed on it. But if I could say a baby animal and include the fact that it's a baby, there's a million animals I'd pick. But he wants a cat. It's okay. All right.

A cot. What's your D.FL? What's the word? Cot? A ca'at. A ca'a. A cot. What are we still doing the cot?

He wants a ca'at. Number one. And it's not a danger to me. But I don't think you'd ever recover. And the PTSD, you'd never be able to use a toilet again. Okay. Go on. An eye.

Oh, could you imagine? You look down and those eyes are looking up. you with the finger. You're literally peeing. You got your phone. You're maybe looking at your fantasy line up. Yeah, you just get a finger in the barry eyes. And then you just feel a big finger in the butt.

It's a tap. Just a deliberate little tap on your scroll. Somebody's knocking at the door. I think we found a little secret out of our buddy Pat here. He likes a little digit in the old cabo. No, it's my DFL, pal. Wait, Kyle, don't click away because, oh, you son of a bitch. Whatever that dog is in the bottom right center, that's my deal.

F. Let me go next because I have a bad memory and I'm not thinking about it. So number three, I'm going to go with an octopus because they're intelligent. They wouldn't. You want this in your toilet? Number three. Number three. I mean, you know, they would be curious and they would probably just give my balls a nice

pleasurable little sucking. Sure. And maybe like, you know. So you are going for pleasure. Well, I mean, I'd rather that than pay. Sorry, what was that hand movement? The little, well, it's got eight tentacles. So maybe, you know, I don't know.

So I just want everybody to be aware for. one second. This is the podcast where we talk about octopus jacking us off while peeing in the night. That's the podcast that we're doing. It's all hypothetical. I just want people to know, this is what I got a degree in wildlife science for. We have real jobs, by the way. Number two, since Pat could pick a like specify a kitten, a baby animal, I'm going to go with an animal with its mouth sewn shut. Can you be more specific? I'm going to go with a mouse with its mouth sewn shut. Okay. It's very odd.

Just because, you know, a computer mouse. Yes, that's right. A computer mouse. That's right. A living one. Now, they're extinct. They really are. But number one, it would be a C cucumber because, you know, a C cucumber, it's not going to do any damage. It's like there's a cucumber in the toilet. Then you just flush it and it's like a turd goes away. Exactly. It mimics a turd. Can I poke a hole in that? Yeah, yeah. Because you would look down, see the C cucumber and think.

Two things. One, you would think that you shit without feeling it and knowing it and be really worried. I'd think I have a superpower. Then you would see what it looked like and you'd immediately run screaming and call an ambulance. I think he's right, though. You would be so terrified. Imagine if you looked down and that was in the toilet. That's a spiky secret. But imagine you thought that that came out of your body. I'm talking about one of the cucumbers that looks like an actual cucumber. Come on. Still, I don't know, man. He makes a good point. The terror that would ensue from thinking the you would just poop that out. But I'd make it through it.

I wouldn't get any pleasure out of it. What's your DFL? DFL, got to say it. It's herpes. If I looked down and there was herpes in my toilet, I would, for the rest of my life, think I had herpes. You haven't picked it in a while, too. So it's good.

I'm glad that came back around. Okay. Number three thing to find in the toilet for me would be a penguin. It's like a very Mr. Popper's penguins. Remember that? they were just like everywhere. They're in the bath shop. Look at that sharp beak.

Yeah, but it's kind of like cute and it's looking out. It's like, eh, you know, and you're like, oh, okay. Like I open the toilet seat. That thing pops out of. It's kind of like a jack in the box. Yeah. I then, I then have a penit. That's a small beak.

No, I'm going to, I'm going full grown. I'll tell you why. You're going full beak? I'll tell you why. He's playing in the toilet. He's obviously swum from the Arctic up the sewer. Up the sewer. Yeah.

All the way to the toilet. I now have a penguin overnight that I get to play with before taking him to the zoo the next day. You might have urinated on him already. That's okay. I mean, wash them off. A lot of them have a little yellow, you know. That's true.

You wouldn't even know. I wouldn't even know. That beak, though, is dangerous where your butt holes in your back. It could tear my scrote for sure. Yeah. Your perennium. All right, that's number three. Number two for me to find in the toilet.

Oh, man. I like, can I just steal the cuteness thing? Is that okay? Whatever you want. Okay. Then I think number two for me would be just a really cute turt. Just a little baby turtle. Swimming around.

I'm thinking water animals. It's a little cute. Not a sea turtle, you idiot. A snapping turtle. Like a, oh, no. That might be my DFL actually. Good call on that. That's all I picture.

Taking that as DFL. No, just like an adorable little painted turtle. Type in painted turtle. They all kind of bite, though, don't they? Not really. Little beak they have. Imagine fine. Look at the guy in the hand down there.

Imagine finding one of those guys swimming around your toilet. And you're like, wow, that's cute and it's colorful. Absolutely fucking not. I don't know who put that there, but I'm taking it, putting in my fish tank. It's absurd. Okay. I like it.

It's a hard challenge. I'll give you that. Number one. No pun. Top three DFL. Number one thing I would love to find in my toilet. Can I paint a little picture for this one? Please do.

I'm in Germany. Okay. The three of us are there together. Even Kyle's there. Let's call it four. Wonderful. We're having a delightful time. We're sampling all of the best beer imaginable.

Brought worst. I head downstairs to have a nice sit-down pee. It's late at night. I start peeing. I look down. There's something on the, side of the toilet. Is that a little bit of poop? No, it's not. I'll tell you what it is. It's the previously thought to be extinct German beer slug, real animal.

I remember these guys. Remember we talked about this? Yep, that's genius. And this guys in the toilet, not only have we gone on a phenomenal drinking trip to Germany, but we found the previously believed to be extinct German beer slug in the basement of a brewery. This is a winner. What a treat. Yeah. What a treat for everybody. He talked about, like, if Extincter Alive got to season four, we would have had the leverage to push through the episode. And we had outlined a really different kind of episode of Extincter Live where it was me, you and Mitch and Johnny, just drinking beers at a bunch of old,

like the oldest breweries in Germany, and then going down into the tap rooms and looking for the beer slough. Yeah, lifting some up, no, not there. Cheers, you know, that's it. Dude, have you seen this? Nope. Okay, what's on tap? Yeah.

Listen, let's put this together for your YouTube channel for us. Oh, I'm down. I'm not even kidding. We've been talking about doing our own little mini version of an extinct or alive type episode. This is it. It's the most iconic one for the three of us to do. Look at this beautiful creature. It's not that.

Here's the thing. AnimalConn's happening. That's a trip. You got a lot of work trips. It's hard to get away from the families, but this would be work. Right. Now, what would be the odds? Let's say what cost us maybe what?

10 grand to go do this. Sounds about right. Yeah. In your budget. Yeah. What would be the odds of finding one? Kyle, look up where it was found. I think pretty high.

I think you just go back to that same seller, right? But last, or at least let's make it look like we went there last. Beer slug that was thought to be extinct 80 years ago, make surprise return in Hamburg's in Hamburg's Red Light District. So we're going to the Red Light District, just for those that don't know.

I'm pretty sure that's the prostitute area. Don't tell the wives. Yes, so we're going to tell the wives. Let's see where it was fine. It was usually found in moist basements where beer was brewed. Yeah. I think we just figure out specifically which basement in Hamburg in the Red Light District.

We interview many prostitutes. Yeah. And then we go drinking and look for some smagma on the, on the walls. I had an almost mind-blowing revelation last week. All right, it's Monday. Tonight, Eagles Falcons, pretty excited for that. You're an Eagles fan. You want to come watching my garage with me?

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a slug could potentially be what a snail turns into if it comes out of its shell. Now hold on. That was the mind-blowing thing. And then obviously I read that that's not the case. But what I did find out is that a slug did evolve from the snail. And B, there is a creature in between the slug and the snail that has a somewhat of a translucent shell. and soft that exist and then see a snail actually has some type of shell inside of its body that's a very, it's like the shell when inside got small and turned squishy and it, and it lives inside

of a slug's body. Wait, say the last one again, I'm confused. Sorry, sorry. So the shell that the slug, like, evolved out of, it actually still has like a, a Remnant. Remnant shell appendage inside of its body. Just like we have tail bones and things like that. I got you.

That's interesting. I didn't know that. But I was certain that a slug was just a thing outside of the snail's body. You thought a slug was just an old snail? And I was just dropped the shell off. And I was like, this is mind blowing. Peter, can turtles leave their shell yes or no? No.

Impossible. No. A lot. I mean, that's like when we were kids, I remember thinking they could. Because in every cartoon, they take their shell off and go have like a nice shower with their little turtle bottom and then go back into their shell. It's actually part of their body, right? It's their furtive. It's their backbone.

Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. It is their actual backbone. They have no ability to leave it. Dude. Okay. I mean, this slug thing, I thought about it for a while. I'm in.

If we ever want to do that trip, I'm not even kidding. Yeah. It wouldn't be that big of a discovery seeing as they've already refound it. But we drink a lot of beer and we have a good time. It would be about the chemistry and us. what we do. Here's what we do. We'd go on this trip. We'd collect two of these slugs and bring it back for our little vivarium that we're going to build in the studio. And then we'd create an insurance colony of German beer slugs right here at home. Dude, it is genius. And we've got to get this vaverium set up. Yes. Yes. We're going to do it. Okay. Because you've been around sort of the academic wildlife science community where people write proposals and they get funding to do. things, right? Same as the octopus jerking us off in the toilet room.

Exactly. So, here's my question. Clearly the same thing. Because I saw this in the news. There's a group of scientists that are proposing an ambitious plan. Uh-huh. To shoot a bunch of endangered animal samples of tissue to the moon.

I've seen it. I know what you're talking about. Why endangered animals tissues? And not just regular. Can you explain? Yes, I can. Okay. So there's this thing allegedly being built called the lunar storage facility, which will preserve anything. Because anything that goes into space gets cryogenically frozen.

There's no atmosphere. There's no decomposition. And so the idea, which, by the way, I think it's preposterous. And I'll explain why shortly is that samples would be cryopreserved in regions near to the moon's poles where the temperatures remain like negative 200 degrees Celsius. Okay. So it's just like a permanent fridge and freezer, basically. Gotcha.

And so by taking these samples into outer space, see I said outer and not out of? I know. Into outer space and putting them on the moon into these storage facilities, they stay massively frozen. There's no... Ooh, that's a good call. Don't interrupt your story.

I want a magic mind. It's time. Yeah, and the facility would be independent of human intervention and power sources. so it reduces risks associated with, you know, earth-based issues. Right. Like in Antarctica, we have the seed storage. The seed bank. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like the ultimate freezer. So nothing could ever happen to these cryogenically frozen extinct animal tissues. Yep. They'd store fibroblast cells,

animal skins, all kinds of little samples so that when something goes wrong, we can go and get them off the moon. But I think it's genius. Why not? Why not this forest? Because if we get into a point where civilization has collapsed so much that we're not even capable of taking something out of a freezer at here on planet Earth, I don't think our first priority is going to be like, hey, let's hand to the moon and grab these samples. We really need to work on this. How do we get a rocket up there? Yeah, I just think it's like, it's, it's, it's very stunty and cool and I like the idea and the headline, but it's just why. You know what I mean? Like the Antarctic Seed Bank makes sense to me. It's free of human intervention.

it's freezing. Seeds obviously last a lot longer than animal tissues because seeds can go dormant. But that makes sense to me. It's like build something at a pole where it's naturally regulated. Like the temperature is natural. We have access to it.

We have access to it if you ever need it. Even if the world goes to shit and we need these lost seeds, go there and grab seeds. Like, you're not going to get to the moon to go grab. One of the animals they wanted to put in, I saw this in the article somewhere,

is a gobi. Do you know what a goby is? It's a fish. It's a fish about this big. Okay. Don't get me wrong. Beautiful. Very cool fish. Don't think we need to put it on the moon. You know what I mean? Like, just put it in an aquarium and breed a few of them.

Like, and if shit goes wrong, start another aquarium. I don't know. It just sort of seems silly. I'm still a fan of the Noah's Ark plan. I think if if shit goes a ride, we just build a big wooden boat and put two of every animal on there. That's an idea. No, there's no question. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is it's an impressive feat to get a sample, a sample sent to the moon and stuck into. a facility, right? Like, that's got all be done, I'm sure, with, like, robots and shit like that. Yeah, we struggled to get to the moon

with anything currently. So you think this is, like, a bro, just like, you know, they're like, hey, man, this sounds real fun. I think it was just like, hey, like, if we can get this approved, like, this will keep us employed for like 10 years. That's exactly what it is. Massive funding, great splashy headlines, like,

hey, let's do, it's the same thing. This is what's happening in the sciences a lot, is you do this, make these outlandish headlines, and I so that masses of things get funded. I haven't read up on this, but I bet you if you look into it, they're now getting tens of millions of dollars to go and collect samples and to do a lot of actual good things.

But by saying, we're going to put tissue samples on the moon, it's created enough buzz and hype for them to actually get funded for 10 years to do good things. As Patrick said, they may never make it to the moon, but there's going to be a lot of good stuff that comes out of this ridiculous over the top headline. It's very interesting. and, you know, it probably works. And that's great. You know, I'm happy for it.

I just think the whole idea that's pretty silly. Well, I mean, since we're on the topic of the moon, I do have a little alien update. If we can talk about that right now. Let's. I don't know. So I just did a magic mind. So I'm very...

It's crazy how much sharper you get, like, immediately. I don't know if it's placebo or not, but I'm like, yeah, let's talk about all the things. No, so on a previous podcast, some jerk commenter, he got real pissed that, we were, that I had not explained the, the mummy, the alien mummy thing correctly. And that I had talked about Lou Elizondo's book, which was only pre-released at that moment. Is that the Mexican guy who was disproven? No, no, no, no, no. Different. Lou Elizondo worked for, uh, basically the

Department of Defense on a program that, uh, researched UAPs, including like the Tick-Tac. Yeah, he, I just saw that he was on Rogan, I think this like last week or two weeks ago. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm very interested. Dude, it's really good. And I read his book now that it's not on pre-release. And I never said I read it the last time. So F you. But anyways, my point is that seriously, legitimately, this guy's credentials are all backed up.

He headed a department that basically studied all of the military reported incidents of these insane things flying around that they have 4K footage of. So we're not talking about like aliens and everything else. All we're talking about is these UAPs that are flying missions inside of our restricted airspace. That's what his job was. And so he wrote a book and he's, he essentially just says 100% unequivocally. This is not a human phenomenon. What did I get that unequivocally wrong? You did get it wrong.

That's okay. Both times. We got you. Unequivocally. So he wrote this book. He's out there now on Joe Rogan on the. media circuit and I advise everybody to go look into this. He's the one that got the video of the Tic Tac, the GoFast released and admitted to by the Pentagon, the Department of Defense.

He's the guy that pushed for that and actually got that unclassified. If you read his book, he talks about how he did it and everything else. And it's crazy to just see the evolution from that, which was 2017, the beginning of this disclosure that we're going through now. all the way up to now where you now have members of Congress who are acknowledging the fact that this exists and that the bottom line is that there are literal non-human intelligences out there. Speaking of this, you know, I'm not that up to speed on the alien stuff, but I did see this posted yesterday morning.

Have you seen this unidentified thing in Palmdale? You guys seen this? I did see it, yeah. What are your thoughts? Ma, you see this? Yeah, I heard the... The commentary. It's funny. It's like a kid being like, mom, are you seeing this? And it's just like this light bar.

Look at that. It's interesting. I saw it. And I really was, you know, I was like, what the hell is that? And then obviously I was in the comments on Reddit and some people. Dron? Yeah. It's a drone. There's these drones that have like, you know, they basically have the copters on those five or six, whatever, where those lights are. Well, you can buy those kind of light up things and stick them to a drone, right? Okay. I wanted to get your. your take. I definitely at first when I first saw it, I was like, what the hell is that? Dude, and this is part of the thing. It's like, dude, we, like there's so many of these

drones flying around and these things now that you don't, you can't, it's so hard to discern as like just a person on the ground. You can just build a thing. So, Kyle, see if you can find this quickly. Look up the bird drone. Have you guys seen this yet? Nah, these are like cheap plastic. Yeah, there you go. Look at the first one there. I want to get one

of these. So this guy, these scientists are making drones from taxidermied birds. Oh my, that's an actual taxidermied bird. That's a real taxid bird. And then they're putting all the feathers and stuff into a drone to fly it around to study other birds, which I think is phenomenal. Yeah. But, you know, my point being, if you can make these, oh, go to that first one. If you can make these bird drones, because this is a 3D printed bird drone, you can absolutely make a flying saucer drone and pull some pretty big hoaxes. Yeah, I think it's getting really hard to trust any of the amateur videos that are coming out. But, you know, that's why I think with the Lou Elizando stuff coming out, they're trying to release actual footage. They have 4K footage of these, you know,

these craft flying around doing insane and possible things according to our physics. Yep, fair enough. You got a game, Pat? Well, here's my, here's my thing. You guys have been called into the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon. We seem like their first choice. Well, especially me. Thank you for coming because we're just fans of the podcast. Unfortunately, Patrick wasn't able to make it. We wanted him here too.

That's unfortunate. Thank you, Forrest, and Peter. Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. We're glad we're here. Yeah. We held hands on the way. So I'm just going to come out with it.

A 500-foot-long, 300-foot-in-di-sized-sized-sized-crap-shaped craft is currently hovering over the Gobi Desert. You see how he puts on it. narrator voice, it gets like three octaves deeper. Yeah, it's so nice. I like it. It's because I have a sore throat. It's hovering over the gobi desert right now. Right up in the cloud layer.

Wow. But a lot of countries are on it. We're figuring out defenses and exactly what we're going to do. But we're trying to figure out some other questions. Yeah. So they're here. They're here. Dave arrived.

Okay. Good. Shocking. Glad to hear it. Forrest, I'd love to get your input. We're round tabling it. Yep. what is the creature inside going to look like, most likely?

Good question. I think that based on the fact that we know these are highly intelligent beings capable of building, you know, intergalactic travel devices, I think that we're going to have very advanced humanoid-looking things. In fact, I know I always go back to this, but if you look at the future evolution of man into the gamer version where they get the humped back, Kyle, pull up the picture, you know what I'm talking about.

Yeah. They get the hump back and the balding head and the fat belly. They turn into a literal gray alien. Yeah. We do. This is what alien. Meet Michael here, a lifelike representation of a future gamer by 2040. Now evolve this by several thousand more years.

The belly gets slightly more potted. The hair gets slightly thinner. Oh, I thought you were saying we were going to actually see this come out of this. This is what I'm saying. Like, evolve this a step further. Give it a gray complexion because it never sees the sun. the dent bigger in the head and the hump thicker on the back. I think that's what our aliens are.

They're advanced humanoid, and unfortunately, this is the way our evolution is going. Yeah. Peter, do you agree? No, I would say this. I think that these, first of all, are... They're biological, but they're controlled by a species above them that actually doesn't want to be seen or found, which is a reptilian species. That's way smarter than us came from the dinosaurs.

But so I'll start with that. And then these, so it is possible that these AI kind of controlled consciousness or whatever are, they might be, like Forrest says, an evolved version of humans or a humanoid to, uh, to look like us to make us comfortable with them and interact with them. So we can actually have some type of diplomatic relationship with them. So in a way, I do agree with you. but I say that they're just kind of robots that are that are under the control of like in men in black when he opens the face and the little guys remember that maybe or they're even like still out in space controlling them with the consciousness but yes something like that and they look exactly like him with the t-shirt and everything okay that's that's helpful to know um second question then we'll you guys can fuck off back to california oh thank god um why do you think they came Peter why don't you go first What do they want? Our resident alien. Okay, I'll go.

I'll go. As our non-resident alien expert, while Earth is imperiled, we are still a wealth of resources. Water being the foundation of life, I believe, anywhere in the galaxy. I think that they've come for our water. Salt.

No, freshwater. All water, though, because salt water can be turned into freshwater. Our technology is not very good at it, but all water. I think water is the most valuable resource in the galaxy, that water. Shockingly, and I'm going to go a little bit deeper.

I agree with you 100%. Wow. I was not expecting that. Almost all of the military incursions that they found by these UAPs involve two things. One of them is water. So they're almost always over a body of water. The other one is nuclear power or nukes of some sort, including submarines or other other boats and but the point is is that they could be using this water as a type of refueling

station so they come here and get the the water because where else do you see a planet so abundant and easily accessible water I mean none in our solar system exactly so that would be my guess I like that I like it so speaking of nukes can we move on from aliens I think we should so I as the producer. Sometimes I come across things working on lots of different types of shows and doing lots of research. I just thought you guys might think this is interesting. Do you remember the movie? I think it was like maybe John Travolta and Christian Slater called Broken Arrow. Oh yeah. I remember Broken Arrow. Yeah. So Broken Arrow is actually the U.S. government's term for a nuke that goes missing or unaccounted for. Stolen missing unaccounted for. I just came across this story that's super

fascinating, that there is literally a nuclear bomb, a fat boy, same bomb that we dropped on Nagasaki. Wow. 5,000 pounds of explosives enriched uranium core, right? Right. Missing in the mountains, either in Alaska or right on the border of Alaska and the, like where the Keenai Peninsula is. So, Alaska and Canada. Alaska and Canada there. No way that's true. What happened? They dropped a dud? It is true. No, so they were doing a training mission in the 50s that was, they were going to take off from Fairbanks, Alaska. They were going to cruise down to some like rendezvous point over Montana and then fly over San Francisco. Okay. Simulating what a nuclear strike would be if we had to do a nuclear strike on a Russian city.

Okay. Interesting. Okay. So they're like, just do the mission without the bomb. They're like, no, no, we need it. Okay. What? The bomb or it won't be legit.

But without the warhead on it, right? without the actual nuke on the tip of it. We're talking 5,000 pounds of explosives plus uranium, right? Wow. So they load it up, takes off out of Fairbanks, it's cruising down, getting ready to kind of swoop down,

and it, they hit, it's super fucking cold where the elevation they're flying, and they start having problems with the mechanics on the plane. Okay. And so they're like, oh, fuck. Dude, oh, fuck is like an understanding.

Yeah, no kidding. We're about to end. to North American humanity. So they got a bail out of this plane. The pilot's got a bail. So they bail out of the plane. Some of them die, but I think like 13 of the 20 survive.

Parachute. That's insane. That's nuts. The plane's just out wild now. Well, the plane, they said what happened. They found the survivors and they're like, we dropped the payload into the ocean.

And then we bailed out and the plane cruised out like probably 200 miles into the ocean and fell into the sea. Okay. Well, lo and behold, doesn't not what happened. Quite out of because they find the plane inland. So basically you have the Kenai Peninsula there and then it becomes Canada. I can't think of the mountain range, but it basically crashes into the top of a mountain,

the plane and they find the wreckage. Wow. But they can't get to it. It's like super crazy, rugged mountain. Eventually, they get up there and they get a service. a team to the wreckage. But I can't remember what it's called, but there's whatever part of the,

part of the plane holds the bomb, they can tell from even though it's crashed that it hadn't really been released. Oh, no. So it's probably frozen, closed or something. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. So, you know,

it may have fallen into the ocean, but it's also very possible that somewhere in that rugged wilderness is 5,000 pounds of, uh, atomic bomb. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No way. That's wild. Dude, it's a great story. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I was like, this is, how is this not like taught to you in school? Seriously. And how's there not several TV shows about finding this bomb? Well, it's going to be an episode of one. Oh, well, there you go. Sorry. Sorry about that, but it's really cool. We might not find the Sala, but we might find the bomb. That's pretty cool. It's pretty insane when you think about just how close we are to destruction. I mean, I know. It's like we're this from. Always. Always. It's one button push away. You can't think about it. It's just like, why think about it? It's pointless to think about it. Head in the sand, baby. Totally. Head in the sand.

Speaking of heads in the sand. Ostrich. Ostriches. What else? Tigers. Leopards. Yeah. Rattlesnakes.

What are you doing? What's going on? Photo contest, baby. Yeah, baby. So sitting right here is our winner. I'm not going to show anybody. It's our winner. I know what it is.

I see it. I see it. I voted. Yep. We had hundreds and hundreds of incredible. How many? submissions, Kyle. Almost 400. Nice.

400 submissions for our photo contest, our SummerSlam. We are going to run down our top three and finally unveil the winner. So let's get into it. Kyle, let's see number three. I lost on this one, to be clear. This was my number two pick. It is a stunning fodder. It's a nice furter. It's a Frankfurter. By Homi Sahana submitted this.

And it's a Tigris and her two cubs coming out of the waterhole after a nice cool down. So let's take a moment here. If you're just listening, you're going to want to come and check this out on the YouTube. What do you guys like about it? Why didn't it go all the way for you? I mean, it's awesome. You can see the water droplets coming off, the mama tiger dripping off, shooting off the tail. She's flicking it around.

The cubs are adorable. The nice patch of green back there. Is that a mere cat? What is that, a bird on the background? What's a bird? It's just a beautiful photo. Yeah. I mean, for me and nobody else has seen the other.

ones yet, but for me, this one just hit me right away because it like brought me back to being, minus the tiger. The background for me is like, oh, that's so like peaceful and beautiful. And then you look at the tiger. Why are you laughing, Kyle? Well, because the first thing you brought up is the back. No, it's true because that's the first thing that I noticed. And then I noticed like there's a tiger down there in the corner. And then I noticed that the cubs are there. So it's like, you know, this all happened within the span of one second, but it just like hit me. And I was like, oh, look at this beautiful lake. And then I was like, oh, there's this tiger. And now even Pat just saying, oh, the drips coming off the tiger. I didn't even notice that. She's licking her chops. It's just, it's a really nice

picture. But the other two are, well, we'll talk about those. I'll give you my take on it. And this is something that as a wildlife filmmaker, I think a lot of people, especially amateur wildlife photographer and film enthusiasts don't often realize when they're making it. I want, and I'll never forget, I went to the super boring, like 12-minute long wildlife premiere show at UCSB when I was still there with our buddy Mark Romanov, and we sat there and watched it. It was just 12 minutes of animals not doing anything. If you want to be a good wildlife filmmaker, photographer, you need to capture a behavior. Just a nice picture of an animal doesn't do anything. I get it. There's an animal in an environment or, you know, it's sitting in its natural environment. That's beautiful.

It can be very well composed. It can have a nice sunset. But behavior is what's interesting about it. It's what's the animal doing. And in this photo that homie captured here, and I mean that, seriously, that's his name. You're seeing these cubs learning from mom. You're seeing cub tiger kittens in the water, which is incredible. You know, it's like there's behavior. You can, you can visualize a story in your head of these two baby tigers playing in the water, mom keeping an eye out, showing them how to swim. You're learning from this photo. It's not just a nice photo of a tiger's head where you go, ooh, pretty.

Like there's something to this. And so I loved it. It was a very, very close tie for second for me. But I got out voted to end up in third place. Let's see number two. Thank you, homie. Thanks, homie. Chris McGinnis.

Chris McGinnis, long time, brosner. Wow. What are we looking at here? I love this one. Chris is a homie of the pod. That's for sure, unlike homie. No, he's kidding. Chris is a big homie, the pod. Everybody loves Chris. He's a fantastic photographer. He said, aside from octopuses, mantids are some of the most alien-looking creatures on Earth. I love watching them and seeing how they react to me. This big girl took up residence in my

garden and let me capture this badass portrait. And it is indeed a fantastic portrait. It's probably shot on a probe lens, I would think. I was thinking it's a probe lens for sure. So for those who aren't photographers, a probe lens basically looks like a skinny tube instead of a traditional camera lens. And it's a way of capturing what we call macros, which is extreme detail of very small things. Yeah. Which you really get in this. A crazy macro shot of a praying mantis's face staring right at you.

Dude, the translucent color. Like I can't even tell if it's reflecting its body green or if that's the actual color. you can see literal dent foreheads in its forehead. Look at the scratches on its eyeballs. I mean, the detail is unbelievable. The little hairs on the mandible. Uh-huh. Just like, you look at this and you're like, this is from Earth.

Yeah. No one thinks that. Good job. Good job, Chris. Beautiful photo. Really good. Loved it. Across our three votes, this was our number two.

Before we get to one, can I say something? Please. Number one was both mine and Forrest's vote for number one. and it's not necessarily the photo that I want to that I want to like make a huge framed picture of and put on my wall because of the beauty of it. Agreed. But something about the moment and the story.

Agreed. It transported me to that place. I could smell it. Yep. And I just, I don't know, something about it captivated my senses. It's a captivating picture. I'm going to say more once we look at it here. I have it in my hand.

Can I get a drum roll? Three, two, two. Winner of our SummerSlam photo contest. Marcus Raman, Rerman? Rairman. Ranger Marcus. Ranger Marcus. It's an eastern diamond back rattlesnake crossed into a prescribed burn in Georgia.

Wow. During mop-up, the snake crossed our fireline into the burn unit, most likely for warmth. The rattler ended up posing perfectly so you could see smoke from the log burning in the background. This was from February in Georgia. Yeah. I love it. The story. I love the juxtaposition of life and death, the burn in the background, the snake in the foreground, the re-inhabitance of an area that's been devastated, like ravaged by fire, this animal using that destruction and death for its own needs as a cold-blooded reptile, using it for the warmth.

I just think the whole thing, it's so cool. It's not behavior, which is like contrary to my first. Well, it is behavior because of what I just said, but it's not like you're seeing this animal doing something insane. just the whole juxtaposition of what it means for like all of this death and then to have this vibrant piece of life in it. I love it. It's almost more like the animal is sitting there taking in the same thing that we're taking in. And that's like how you relate to this picture because I mean, and to be honest, like I didn't even again notice it really because it's like camouflaged in there. Yeah. So it just goes to show you like you don't have to have the most

beautiful photography, the most beautiful lens, the most beautiful whatever, you can really create a story with a picture like Marcus did here. If I'm not mistaken, take it on an iPhone. Oh, was it really? Good for him. Good for him. What do you think? Pat, any thoughts on it? That might be iPhone, yeah. Kind of looks like it. Kyle sounds like he dug into the metadata. Any thoughts on the photo itself? Yeah, I just feel like I'm there. I was in the Everglades last year filming and we were looking for this location and we got there and it had just been, it had just gone through a prescribed burn. Yeah. And we'd been filming for two weeks to get to this spot. And we got there. Control burned down. Control burned. But yeah, it just kind of brought me there.

The smell. I don't know. You can smell the photo. You can smell the smoke in the air. It's a scratch and sniff. I like it. Good job, Marcus. Thank you for everybody that, that put photos in. There were many others that got votes. There was a sheep one that I loved. There was one of a leopard and a tree that was incredible. Oh, yeah, that one was amazing. There was so many good photos. It was really hard to whittle it down to three. But thank you, everybody, that participated.

Let us know in the comments if you want to do this again. If you want to do more photo contests or video contests or anything like that. Story contests. It's fun. It's really fun to read what you guys are up to. So there you go, guys. We absolutely love this photo. Put it out. I'm going to put it up right now.

There we go. By the way, if you guys enjoyed the photo contest, let us know. we'll do another one. It was super fun for us to see. It's also validating to see how much talent there is in the people who watch and listen to this silly show. Absolutely. Pretty amazing. So many talented photographers in the audience.

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