Wild Times: Wildlife Education - Insane Rare and Massive Shark Caught - The Wild Times Ep. 123

Episode Date: July 24, 2023

This week we discuss Shark Week teasers, a massive Goblin shark that was pulled up from the deep ocean, and a shark themed bracket! Subscribe to The Wild Times Podcast on YouTube ▶▶ https://www.youtube.com/@WildTimesPod Get YouTube Membership Perks ▶▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVl7fHhUOpFK8Mpv-6DdoOg/join Get Up To 4 Bonus Podcasts Per Month ▶▶ https://www.patreon.com/wildtimespod Watch More Episodes Here ▶▶ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP... Visit https://thewildtimespodcast.com/ now! Join The Wild Times Discord Server: https://discord.gg/ytzKBbC9Db Get your Wild Times Podcast merch: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/merch Leave a review on iTunes Apple Podcast: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/itune... Follow The Wild Times Podcast on socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildtimespod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wildtimespod Twitter: https://twitter.com/WildTimesPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildtimespod/ Listen to The Wild Times Podcast on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2cbFBzf... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/wildtimespod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildTimesPod Enjoy, brosteners! TWT 123 - The Breakdown 00:14 - Intro 03:47 - Shark Week Teaser Talk 16:18 - An Alien 18:05 - Shark Rewilding 21:23 - Tongue Twisters 24:00 - Massive Goblin Shark Pulled Up From The Depths 29:50 - Fixer Karaoke 32:40 - Shark Bracket 58:50 - Wrapping Up Jingles made by: www.soundcloud.com/mimmkey https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/fat-tire/ #wildtimespod #podcast

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There's some amazing moments in there. My favorite is not finding the rarest shark, not finding the broad-nosed seven-gills we were looking for. But instead, wild times. Whoa. Here we go. It's the wild times. It's shark week. It's episode number 123.

Peter, I hope that's fat tire in your cup. It's my errant taff shirt I have on. though. Fat tire backwards. We get it. We get it. Here we are. Welcome back to the Wild Times podcast. The greatest show on the air. This is going to be a very special episode because it's Shark Week, baby. It's a big week. I got a couple shows. Patrick has a show. Peter doesn't own a TV, so he doesn't have a show, but there is lots going on. I'm your host, Forrest Galante, the Browologist, joining me another Shark Week producer. Sarah on the right of my screen, Mr. Papa P himself. How are you, Patrick?

I'm good, man. I'm excited. It's going to be a fun week. I've loved Shark Week since I was a wee tot. Yep. It's one of the reasons I wanted to move to L.A. was because I wanted to do that kind of stuff. And then the three of us and Kyle are all going to the zoo this weekend. So I'm pretty excited about that. How nice is that? It's going to be delightful. And Mr. Peter, PhD, podcasting. How are you, Retepp? Yeah, about the zoo, I mean, it'll be fun, but I'm like, they're going to be unbearable at the same time. Wait, why will it be unbearable? Dude, it's a zoo on the weekend with three families, all who have small children. Like, I mean, Forrest, I know that you don't have to do anything in your relationship or, you know, with your kid, which is incredible.

And I'm very jealous, but I intend to meet him one of these days. walking into the bear cage or something. But no, it'll be great. Love it. Love you guys. Very excited about shark week. What are you most excited to see at the zoo? Just real quickly. Just rapid fire. What are you most excited for? The elephants, man. Okay. Yeah, sure. Penguins for me.

Unfortunately, there are no elephants at the Santa Barbara Zoo any longer. Oh, shit. Just to add to your... I'm out. Yeah. But the good news is you guys will have to actually look after four children, because I will also be running around like a small child from enclosure to enclosure. But the thing is, I don't care if you get hurt. That's fair. Yeah, that's fair.

Well, guys, it's Shark Week, which is very exciting. And producer Edwin put together a fantastic show doc all about Shark Week. He wanted us to point out that tonight is a second night of Shark Week. I have a show tomorrow night. Patrick, in his sexy voice, has a show. And then on Thursday night, we have another show. So we are dominating the shark week scene. That's crazy.

What is your show tomorrow night? What are the two shows? I know very little about what you did this year. Wait, no. So you have a show on Monday, Pat has a show Tuesday, and then you have another show Thursday, right, Forrest? Affirmative, yep. And so tonight I will have the reboot of a longstanding franchise.

Drum roll, please. Alien Sharks, Strange New Worlds, which is going to be pretty pretty much. Cool, because it's a show that we rebooted this franchise, this Alien Sharks franchise, which is basically a clip show of cool, weird sharks, and we gave it the typical, like, Forrest Galante adventure spin and go and see a whole bunch of different weird sharks. So it's going to be fun. Nice.

I'm excited about that one. Obviously, you can't spoil it because it's coming out tonight, right? Yep. Six hours or so. Yeah. Oh, did you see any? Did you find any aliens or sharks? No, it's very boring.

We didn't see anything. It's just empty blue water for an hour straight. No, we did. We got some really cool alien sharks. You know, I think at this point, because I've done the press junket and everything, I could talk about it. So fuck it. There's some amazing moments in there.

My favorite is not finding the rarest shark, not finding the broad-nosed seven gills we were looking for. But instead, it is turning on a bunch of sharks and creating a shark orgy, which is a real thing that happens in the show tonight. Oh, wow. What did you do? Give them ecstasy or something? Yeah, gave him a little, give him a little dittle, a little two-finger dittle. Yeah.

Nice. It was a, it's really funny, actually. And it's actually, I'm not joking, my favorite part of the whole show. There are, so we hop in the water to film at the spot that's known for striped pajama sharks. Kyle, if you don't mind pulling up a picture. And, uh, and as we get in the water, they're a pack hunting shark, right? So they usually roll around in packs. And they're just, just finishing off a crayfish.

So by some coincidence, they've just started ripping apart this crayfish. And there's like six of them tearing it to shreds, right? And it's awesome. We're filming it. And they're all fired up because there's six of them tearing this crayfish to pieces. And all of a sudden, they're like bumping into me, right? And so I grab one and I start rubbing its ampulae on its nose and stimulating it, putting it into tonic.

And I'm like rubbing this one and turning it. And there's like another one in my neck and like another one in my armpit. And I'm like, hold on. I'll get to you in a minute, right? Because these sharks are like, they're like so. emotional and cuddly they're like puppy dogs i swear to god they like wanted to play and what i what i thought is they just wanted to play what i didn't know is that i was basically a uh uh what do you call those massage parlors a happy tug or uh happy ending happy ending over there you're a sex doll for them

straight up so i'm rubbing off all these sharks and uh a few minutes later jq my cameraman goes forest these two sharks are fighting and i look over and this male comes up and hammers the female on the neck bites her, starts rolling her up, and, uh, and they go into full mating. And for the first time, I think in history, we capture pajama sharks in full mating for like three minutes. And we filmed the whole sequence, like literally him putting his claspers into her cloaca, they're falling to the bottom, laying on the bottom and then then breaking off apart after a couple minutes and going on their way. So yeah, I think, I think I literally like turned on a bunch of sharks and then they had a little shark horse thing. Nice. That's pretty cool.

Good going. Good on you. Promoting extantness. Good job. Yeah. Yeah. No, we're rewilding in a whole different way. But you should have a new show called rewilding. Patrick, you got monsters of the Bermuda Triangle coming out. Tell us about that. I don't know. Well, so I did not produce the show as an associate of mine did. He's a good producer. And he said, oh, hey, man, I'd love to borrow your voice to do the voiceover. So that is the extended by involvement is that I recorded the voiceover for it. It sounds like a fun,

a fun romp through the remuda triangle. A little, little mystery unfolding. Any, any, any, any, any good sort of non-spoilers that you can give us, any good pieces of bait or tidbit that we can chew on? Jeez, I don't sort of, I don't know what I'm allowed to say, because I've had so little involvement. I will just say that there's, you know, A bit of a mystery with some tagged sharks that were killed. And they're trying to figure out what might have happened. Got it. I will say just reading the voiceover copy, I'm like, I'll probably watch it.

It feels interesting to me. I like that. I like that a whole lot. I wasn't involved in Shark Week, but I'm really involved in the Bermuda Triangle mystery. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. There was a recent quote unquote whistleblower who came out anonymously.

You're such an idiot. I love it. I love. I love the stupid things you say. He claims anonymously, so no credibility. But it was a very well-written prose on the fact that there seems to be some sort of alien base in Bermuda Triangle. And all of the flying saucers and different craft that we see. that we see are set from this base.

So this is where the UFOs are coming from. They construct them there. Some of them are drones that are unmanned. Some of them have AI biological slash AI pilots in them. But this, Pat, is where all of the aliens and the UFO crafts come from is the Bermuda Triangle. So that's my addition. Yeah. Well, I mean, I was saying.

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And I think when you look at a couple of the incidents, like the Flight 19 incident, which is one of the most famous ones, where five Navy bombers were doing a training exercise, they took off from the base and just were just gone. Just nobody. ever found a piece of wreckage, didn't know what happened to them. Totally, totally fine weather.

Five pilots, none of them made it back, never found a piece of wreckage. They then launched, you know, a big search and rescue plane that went out with like, I think, like 15 or 16 more guys on board. That just vanished into thin air. You know, there's some interesting things that have happened there that are, that are certainly anomalous that have not been solved to this day. So I think that's why people are so interested. Well, I mean, solved now, but yeah, haven't been solved up until that recent 4chan post.

Got it. I was like, it's the aliens. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. What's your second shock week one about? Well, I talked a little bit on our show on the Wild Times about rubbing the sea snake venom in my eye or thinking that I had. That's the second show. So the second show has been announced now. It is Shark versus Snake, Battle of the Bites, the corneous.

Shark versus Snake, good title. Battle of the Bites, very amazing. Did you team up with Caveman Rob and Adam for this one? Yeah, that's about how preposterous the title is. I did not, however. But no, this one's just me. And we're in Western Australia investigating why these seemingly perfect tiger sharks have been washing up dead on the beaches.

And I had a hypothesis that these tiger sharks may be getting bitten by sea snakes, which leave no trace. As I mentioned with the eye incident, you just sort of get lethargic and die. And if you're lethargic as a tiger shark, you can no longer pump water over your gills. So you can't breathe and then you just die. And my hypothesis is that sea snakes are the culprits. And so we go there and we have to get sea snake venom. We have to get tiger shark tissue and we have to run them together and see what the result. are in a lab and it's a lot of fun. It's also in probably the coolest place in the world in

Western Australia, which I mentioned is just unbelievable ocean life. Like, harsh barren above the surface, like worse than Baja and just incredible underwater. Is that where the, uh, the coral reef is? Like the, uh, the biggest one that everybody. So, uh, everyone goes to Australia for the great barrier reef. This is on the great barrier reef. This is on the great barrier reef. Yeah. This is on the other side of the country, which has another massive barrier reef called the Ningaloo Reef that's 160 miles long. And yeah, they're good shows. I mean, I can't speak for Patrick's show, but I'll say this. If you're a Brosner, you probably like our stuff.

So check them all out, please, all three of them. I think you'll like them. First one, Alien Sharks is out tonight. Peter, I did put an alien in the show, by the way. True story. Oh, that's fantastic. I hope it's a classic gray. Do you want to see it?

Do you want to see what it is? Yes. Let me say Kyle's internet is back. I will say I'm very excited about these episodes. One's about the Bermuda Triangle. The other ones has aliens in the title. It's right up my alley. I should be getting paid for this for some reason.

I love how like literally two out of the three people on this podcast are on Shark Week. Like it's just ludicrous. The Super Bowl of Cable Television. The Super Bowl of cable television. That's right. Who'd they get this year to do the ridiculous. promotion, Vin Diesel or some shit. The rock.

Do you have the rock? Take another, take another guess. Take one more guess. Do you know? Merrill Streep. Do you know, Patrick? Oh, you know. It's Jason Mamoa, real life.

Of course. Of course. It makes perfect sense. So, uh, they, uh, they pull up the other day I'm being interviewed by this guy. He's super funny. And, uh, he's like from Charleston or something. And he's like, all right, man. So you tell me, you got.

You got Jason Mamoa right there in front of you, and you're pitching him to go on a shark week shoot with you. What do you say to him? And I'm like, all right, listen, Jason, the real life Aquaman's right here. I'm going to take you into the field and teach you how to actually swim with sharks to improve your movies because they're terrible. And he's like, whoa. And the guy's like, you got balls. And I'm like, yeah, I'd say that to him. I don't care.

Those movies suck. Dude. Oh, my God. I remember we were, Aquaman had just come out and someone was like streaming a pirate version while it was still in the theaters in the U.S. when we were all in the Galapagos. And we were sitting there like at this outdoor table, the whole crew

from Extincter Alive. And we're kind of like looking. It was like on this big screen while we're like eating, you know, shrimp or something like that. We're like kind of looking at Aquaman. And it was so uninteresting that we ended up just watching two kittens on the roof fighting. Correct. Correct. Like it was that bad.

Aquaman couldn't hold our attention for more. Like the CG in Ociman. Aquaman is, it's, it's crazy bad. Yeah. And so is Aquaman just like a male mermaid, right? Yes. Yeah. He's a merman.

He's a merman. But he's like a jacked merman with cool tattoos, except he's swimming around in like Gatorade blue freeze water with a bunch of CGI fish. It's a mess, dude. Um, dude, I, years ago, I'll tell you. So years and years and years ago, I was back when I was doing more scripted stuff writing, like when I was in my 20s. I was brought in to give a take on rewriting a script that was set up to be a big, like, studio feature.

And it was a, it was such a funny, fucking hilarious script starring Zach Gelfinakis was attached to play the merman. And it was about a merman who gets captured and is kept in like a seaworld type zoo. And he can talk to all the other animals and they plan to, they make this plot to escape. Obviously, the movie never got made. and I didn't get the job. But it sounds great. I was like, yeah,

I've always thought like this would have been a fucking amazing movie. Also, like, fat Zach Alfanakis as a mermaid is like my favorite mental image that I've conjured in a long time. I was just saying perfect casting,

like perfect casting right there. I know. Just picture it. Yeah. Very funny. All right. So before we move on, I did want to show you one thing,

Peter, a little sneak peek. You're getting a premium if you're watching this before it airs on Shark Week, which I may get in trouble for, but I'll take it. I told you, Peter,

that if I ever found an alien, I'd put it in the show. Kyle, can you pull it up? You did. Let's see what Peter thinks. Oh, yeah. There it is. Obvious alien.

By the way, if I didn't know what an octopus was, I would definitely be like, yeah, that thing doesn't live on the, what? There's no chance. What is this thing? Is this just a cuddlyfish?

It's a cuddlyfish? It's a cuddly fish. It's a cuddly fish. It's a cuddly fish. It's much. These are just frame grabs that I did quickly because I wanted to show you. But you'll see it in the show. He's all changing color.

I think, Kyle, do you have another picture where he's gone to the different color profile? He's like changing color. I'm tickling him. Did I only send two? My best. Oh, there you go. Is that him? Same animal.

Change texture, change color, blending in, everything. Awesome. It's so cool, dude. It looks just like a seashell. Just bonkers. Bonkers, bro. Pretty cool, huh? Bonkers, bro.

Was that your first time seeing a cuttlefish diving? No, I've seen them before. I actually speared one in Papua New Guinea and we grilled it up and ate it. They're a son of a bitch. Yeah, but they taste good. So, you know, but no, I've seen them before. Do they taste like octopus? Yeah, they do, which is also delicious.

But I, no, that was the first time I'd like really interacted with one though. And I'll definitely never spear another one because it just like sort of let me play with it, like sat on my hands. I'm over to the reef. back and I was like, all right, never kill another one. You're fucking savage. You're worse than those rhino poachers, bro, in my opinion now. That's me. That's me. That's like playing with

Pat's cat and then just spearing it and having it for dinner. Sorry to put that in your head, Pat. All right. You know what? I want to do what's in the news. I want to do a special Yeah, baby! Sharky! What's in the news?

So, I saw something very cool that just came out this week. The world's first major science-back shark rewilding was a success, which is really cool. So for those that don't know, rewilding is where you take a species that's been expatriated from its habitat and you put it back in, you fix the environment by putting that creature back. And the re-shark project has released captive-bred zebra sharks, which I say zebra, but I didn't want to get made fun of, zebra sharks, which also are called leopard sharks in Australia. which are featured very heavily in my shark versus snake show.

And they reintroduce them into this incredible piece. Yeah, you got to see it. It's beautiful. That's it. Oh, that's it right there? That's it. It almost looks like an eel of some sort. Well, that's a baby.

So, Kyle, like, yeah, so you see them here. And this is in Indonesia. They read them. They're planning on releasing 500 of them. Kyle, type in zebra shark and just pull up like a, what's, really cool. Fuck off. What's really cool is...

I knew what he was laughing at too. Yeah. So look at the baby there. Go like the center second row. So this is what's so confusing. Second row down, center picture, the stripy one. Yeah. So that's the baby where the name Zebrose shark comes from. And then go to the picture immediately to the right, Kyle.

And then this is the adult where the Australian nickname leopard shark comes from. I was going to say there's the leopard shark. Yeah. They change a lot. a lot. But yeah, this is just so cool. I love the idea of rewilding sharks, you know, like captive breeding him, giving them a good head start program and bringing him back to a place where we've hammered him down. It's epic. You know that every time you give Kyle a direction to go to the left or the right when we're looking at Google images, he's probably, I think he has to think for a second.

I don't think he understands his left and rights. If he's not wearing the watch, he doesn't know which one. He has to look at the wrist. Yeah. Well, considering your hat says tack, and my shirt says irrit taff, I think it might be like, reverse. But by the way, dude, it's pretty, it's fascinating how much they change from the juvenile to the big shark. I mean,

was that just discovered in recent times when they like had one in captivity? Because how would they even know it's the same fucking thing? I don't know what it was discovered. I think it was known for a while because they're kind of like that part of the world's version of like a nurse shark like they're a sort of they rest on the bottom they lie down they're bent thick they're not like moving around all the time but i guarantee you i guarantee i'm going to get ripped to fucking shreds on the internet when my show comes out on thursday because i called them a leopard shark which is the australian colloquialism for them right

they call them leopard sharks there and the rest of the world calls them zebra sharks but once again i didn't want to get made fun of so i just called them leopard sharks on screen and uh i guarantee you everybody's going to watch it and go, that's not a leopard shark. This guy doesn't know anything about biology. This guy knows nothing. I can't believe you just use the word colloquialism. Colloquialism. Nope.

What did colloquia, colloquia come from that word? No, no, cloaca. Okay. They're pretty close. Try one more time to say it correctly. Honestly try. What's the word? Say it.

So I can hear it. Colloquialism. Say it three times fast so I can know. Nope. Colloquialism. Why are you putting extra L's in there? Colloquialism. Yep, that's it.

You got it. Pretty close. Yeah. All right. Real quick. I know this is stupid, but Pat, just say red leather, yellow leather three times quickly. Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather, red leather, red leather, yellow leather. He's drunk.

All right. That was pretty good. I sounded drunk as shit there. Jesus. Dude, it's so hard. How about you for us? Let's hear it. Red leather, yellow leather, red, fuck.

Nope. You kind of got to give it a rhythm. He's a TV presenter. leather. You should be able to do this, man. You should be one more time. One more try. Red leather, yellow leather. Fuck, that's hard. That's hard. That's hard. Red yellow leather. Both times. You didn't even make it to the third one.

Bro, just give it a try. You can make yourself laugh. Is this a thing that most people can't do? It's like the hardest tongue twister that I feel like I've ever had to do. Here, let's bring Kyle on screen real quick. Yeah. All right, Kyle, try it. Go. Red yellow leather. I didn't even get to one. Red, red, red,

red, yellow leather, red yellow, let's see. I mean, three times. Usually these things take 10 times to fuck up.

And nobody can, how is that so hard? I'm close. That's crazy. Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather,

red leather, red leather, yellow leather, red leather, red leather, you gotta have to be. There's a rhythm. Why do you want to have a rhythm? I want to know why extra L's are sneaking in there.

Not for you, just in general. Like red leather, leather, leather, brother. It's just like L's just coming out of nowhere. There's something about the tongue and what it has to do to go from L to Y. Dude, imagine trying to learn language as a baby.

What a nightmare. Like just like recreating sounds, man. I'm watching my kid. He's like, he's like, da. I'm like, dog, g, he can't make a G. Oh, I mean, my, my daughter referred to socks as cocks for like six months. And then she finally got the S because S is her hard, right? Yes.

It's a little bit of a harder thing. So every time she, because she's obsessed with socks, so she'd be like, my cocks, my cocks. And I was like, s, sock. And then she finally got it. Okay. Something else in the news that I was fascinated by, porous. I'd like to get your take here. Tell me.

Sadly, trawlers in Taiwan who are, who are, you know, trawling the ocean for fish indiscriminately. pulled up a goblin shark. Okay. And here's what's so stunning about this to me. Because we've all seen photos of goblin sharks at this point. They're fascinating looking creatures. Indeed. It was 1760 pounds.

Holy smokes. I thought goblin sharks were like three feet long. I didn't know they got that big. I mean, I knew they were big. Like I thought, you know, a six foot shark. I didn't know they got 1700 pounds big. Holy crap. insane.

Pregnant had six pups. First of all, that's so fucked because we know nothing about them and what their population is doing. But secondly, just look at that thing. I mean, if you were an old-timey ocean person and you pulled that up, you'd be like, okay, you know what? I'm a land guy now. Like, I'm done. I'm not being on the ocean anymore. No shit.

That's a sea monster. 15.4 feet long, by the way. Holy shit. I had no idea they got that big. 15 feet. The picture doesn't even do it justice. Are there any more pictures of that? Kyle, are there anything more in that link?

I mean, that's insane. I had no idea they got 15 feet long. Yeah. So the fishermen that brought it up had a deal to sell it to a restaurant that was going to serve it up as food so you could get in there and eat some very rare shark. Listen.

A museum decided to purchase the carcass. Listen, can I tell a story? Can I tell a little story? No, it's your, you have your own podcast for this purpose, but no. Unacceptable. Thanks. Thanks, grumpy, Pat. No, Mr. Sarcastic Pants over there.

So when we're in Taiwan, first of all, I don't care who you are. I don't care who this offends. Taiwan has the worst food known to human beings. I would rather, it's unbelievably gross. I would rather eat more diarrhea, Madagascar street food than I would eat Taiwanese. food. Double offensive to two whole different populations. I don't care. I don't care. That's fine. That's fine. Both of our listeners from Taiwan can no longer listen. It's fine. And I'll tell you why. I've told you guys a story about the jellyfish salad. Like we're staying at the like disgusting.

Like the W like the nicest hotel in Taipei and breakfast on the buffet is jellyfish salad, which was horrific. But the, uh, sounds so bad. But the, uh, so all the food that we had in Taiwan, honestly was horrific. But the thing for me that was the funniest is we wrapped the shoot and our fixer, Honest Jeff goes, we're going to take, that's his name. Honest Jeff goes, I'm going to take you to the best chicken place in Taiwan. And we're like, fuck yeah, let's go. Like we've had such garbage food for 10 days.

Let's go to, let's go to Honest Jeff's chicken spot. And we rock up to the chicken place. And it's me and Mitch and JQ and a couple other guys and we're sitting around. and Donis Jeff has to translate because everything's in Taiwanese and he comes up and he goes, okay guys, okay, what would you like? And where this is all like together,

we're saying this like in perfect harmony. He's like, chicken feet, nope, chicken beak, nope. And everybody's just literally going, nope, at the same time. Chicken waddle, nope. And the list goes on chicken livers, nope, chicken gizzards, nope, chicken head, nope, chicken neck, nope.

And literally, we're like nine things in. I'm like, Jeff, where's the chicken part of the chicken? Like, I just want a fucking drumstick or a breast or a thigh. Like, stop saying all this gross shit. And he's like, and he like goes to the back kitchen and asks them specially if they'll give us the breast or the thigh and comes back out and says, okay, they can do that. And he was just flabbergasted that we didn't want any of the garbage parts of the chicken to eat. And that's so weird. Dude, I'm like, where's the chicken in the chicken?

they do. Were they just discarding the breast and thighs? I think it was going to like cat food or something because they just wanted to eat chicken heads and eyeballs and beaks and feet and all of the most disgusting parts of the chicken. And listen, like, I'm an animal lover. I love eating weird food. Like, I like

I eat chicken all the time. I eat all kinds of weird food. There's nothing good about chewing on a chicken foot. It's literally just cartilage and bone that has walked around in chicken feces its entire life. Like, getting ring worm and shit. It's fucking disgusting. man, it's so gross.

On one side of it, I'm happy that they eat all the extra parts, but on the other side, I'm a bit disappointed that they like, what the hell? I bet the other's saving like the breast and the thigh and everything for their families for dinner. We didn't know who was a joke or not. Like maybe honest Jeff was full in a fast. Maybe he was dishonest Jeff. And yeah.

And anyway, I mean, so my whole point being, they will eat some pretty gross stuff in Taiwan, jellyfish salad, chicken eyeballs, you name it. And I promise you that that gelatinous piss-filled carcass of a shark does not taste good. Like sharks already don't taste good because they're, as we know, they pee through their muscles and skin. And then a deep sea animal is literally just jelly. It doesn't even have enough muscle rigidity to stay whole in those photos. It looks like a flattened blob. It doesn't taste good.

It's just for like the saying you've eaten rare shark. That is not a delicacy. Did you take honest Jeff to, did you guys go karaokeing with him? No, he really pushed it, but we were so gassed. We never made it to karaoke. Really? He really wanted to karaoke. It's like a national sport there.

Yeah. Peter, there's a sort of an aged tradition where when you have an honest Jeff or whoever your fixer is when you go to these foreign countries that you must take them karaokeing and sign them up for a Ricky Martin song. That's right. And it usually ends with hilarious results. But I'm disappointed to hear you didn't go. Yeah, you guys, this was a story in TWT number one, I believe. I literally laugh out loud about it once a week when Jeffo,

when Jeffo busted out Ricky Martin in Galapagos. I agree with that. It was very good. It was fun. But nothing. And I mean nothing. Not even finding the frickin tortoise holds a candle. The listening to Pat sing a,

what's what's rich girl Rick Astley Rick Astley I never give you up I mean it is it's not like a dead ringer it's like if Rick Astley was 10% better than Rick Astorley

that's Patrick doing it Well you know what It'd be horrible pod If you did not just give us a little A little bit now Well it's one of those things where You know we're sitting in a big group I know all these guys

Somehow like some of our younger camera guys had like found this group of German tourist, young ladies that were sitting with us. And you just kind of stand up in your booth and sing. Yeah. And so I don't think anybody was expecting me to sound exactly like Rick Astley doing, never going to give you up. No. And it brought the house down.

It was great. How to go? You know what? I'm going to open a new fat tire to that. Like those pipes were just, they were, they were fantastic. Cheers. They were so good. Cheers to the fat tire.

Yeah, buddy. Well, hold on. I mean, I'm trying to get out of it, obviously. No, I mean, Pat, it would be a horrible radio for you to not just sing at least like the part where he goes, Never gonna give you up. I can't. I'm not doing it. Oh, dude. People are gonna be.

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Do you just take a bad sip? Did that go down the wrong way? Yeah, it was quite nasty. Okay. Went down the wrong pipe. Okay. Edwin has put together a Shark Week themed ultimate shark march madness bracket. Here we go.

People clamoring for brackets. They love them. So we're not going to do 64. We're going to do 32 here. Right. So we've already gotten through the first round. Now, this is not a battle royale of just who would win in a fight because that's easy. It's obvious.

It's, yeah. Right. It's going to win. Because they're sharks. Yeah. Yeah. This is coolest shark. Oh, okay.

Just the coolest one to see, the one that you would just love to be snorkeling or scuba diving and it swims up. Love it. You rub its ampullet of Lorenzini. Give it a nice pet. Give it a nice hand job. Bring it up, Kyle. Let's start the bracket. This is going to cause a lot of controversy in the comments.

So please comment and get into a fight with other brosters below on these. All right. So again, the scene is you're scuba diving, you're snorkeling. the shark swims up to you. You have a bit of a scare, maybe. You put it into tonic immobility and you swim back to your boat and tell your friends about it.

It's not who would win in a fight. Sure. Let's start Great White versus a sawfish, forest. See, this is just a no-brainer. This huge upset straight out of the gate. And I know what's going to happen. All the shark fanatics are, oh, my God, Great White Shark.

I always want to die for the Great White Shark. Fuck off. Sawfish is Sawfish is the coolest shark in the world. It might be my favorite animal. Big upset out of the gate, number 32 for my vote. There you go.

Wow. All right. Next one. So how about this? We'll just do, we'll just rotate. Wait, no,

don't we all three have to vote? Yeah, I thought that was how we did it. Okay. All right. I'm going great white because I've never seen one. I want the story when I get back on the boat that a great white swam up to me.

I'm going size here, Great White. This one is, is real hard from a layman perspective because Great Whites are obviously like the Fonzie of the ocean, like the coolest leather jacket, jukebox hitting fish of the sea. But the sawfish is number 32 on the list, which is insane. So I got to give it to sawfish because it should at least be like number 15 or something. It's got a saw for a nose for Christ.

All right. So we got a big upset. We got a big upset. Sawfish. number the 32 seed. Love it. Next up, the 1617 matchup. These are always good.

The Pondishari shark or the one we just talked about, the zebra shark. And Pondicherry, take that into the factor that that is a believed to be extinct shark. So that should weigh in which one you should see. So for me, it's an easy vote. Pondicherry. I've only ever seen a dead one, which is the one that Jessica actually found while we were filming for Extincter alive. And so for me, it's Pondicherry. You know what?

Uh, don't care that it's extinct. The zebra sharks way cooler. Go in zebra. I will break the tie only because Forrest and I did a shark week about the pond of cherry. It's advancing. Nice. Nice. Okay.

Next one, two sharks I've never heard of. The eight seed big eye sand tiger shark or the 25 seed chain cat shark for rust. See, I'm, uh, I really like the small guy. So this big-eyed sand tiger is a very rare shark. There's one place in the world that potentially you can go diving with them. But, but, but the little cat shark's more beautiful. It's weird looking. I love the patterning.

I like the little guys. I'm taking the cat shark. As the layman, I'm definitely going to go with the shark that looks like a snake. So we're going with the, with the chain cat shark. Nice. Nice. Where's the one place where you can potentially find a big eye sand tiger shark? Mel Pelo Island.

in Columbia. Interesting. Oh, wow. For some reason, they seem to come up shallower there. Well, there was a second big upset there on the bracket. Next up, the powerhouse, the four seed of the flap-nose hound shark, taking on the underdog 29-seed, Big Eye, Thresher Shark. So I've held a slap-nose hound shark in my hand on another show,

Land of the Lost sharks that we produced together, and it is a very cool shark. What was the other seed in it? Oh, the big eye thresher. Yeah, so because I've already held a flat nose, I'm going to go for the thresher. Always really wanted to dive with big eyes and see them do damage. I've seen them in a distance and got some footage,

but not really interacted. So big eye thresher. I got to go with the flat nose here. The flap nose? The flap nose. Any reason? Well, excuse me, Jesus Christ. I had to get that out.

You know, leave that in. I had a friend once back in the day who he did a, he used to snort a lot of like Ritalin and other pill infetamines and his nose just turned into a big flap. So shout out to you, Kit. All right. I'm going to break the tie. The big eye thresher pulls off the upset. There we go.

Next up, number nine cookie cutter shark versus the number 24 seed. the leopard appellate shark. I'm just going to quickly weigh in here. Sure. Cookie cutter could have been the one seed because this shark hangs out in the depths. They bomb up to take bites out of shit. I mean, if you had an interaction that I described where you were snorkeling or scuba diving and one of these came bombing in on you and you got away without a bite, that would be the

coolest moment of your life. Cookie cutters got to take this. Two for cookie cutter. I've dove with leopard epaulettes, did our show on them last year, definitely taking the cookie cutter. Leopard epaulette. Okay. Just for the record. Yep.

Okay. All right. Moving on. The number 13 seed, Goblin shark, which we just learned can grow to 15 feet or the 20 seed, the basking shark forest. You got to put yourself in the confines of the game.

You're scuba diving. This is so tough for me because the basking shark is literally my number one bucket list shark to dive. with. It is. And I know I can go to Scotland and do them. I told you guys about my buddy Austin Derry, who got to swim with one here in California, and I fucking hate him for it. It's got to be the goblin shark, though.

Even though that's my number one, the goblin shark's like unrealistic. That's why the, yeah, it's got to be the goblin. Now you're saying the goblin's unrealistic because it's so deep sea? Correct. Yeah. I don't know anybody that's ever dope with one. Never heard of it. The goblin shark, when it's not all inflated,

from going up near the surface, there looks like a, like a dinosaur. But the, what's the name of the other one with the big mouth? Basking. The basking shark is just,

I could fit my whole head into that weird cavity. So I'm going. No, no, no, sir. You could fit your whole body into that cavity, not your head. That's, that's a 30 foot long shark you're looking at.

All right. So what do we got? Tiebreaker. Goblin. Okay. Like it. It's too cool. It's too crazy looking.

It's an alien. All right. Oh, another good. Number five. These are good matchups. These are good matchups. Yeah. Some thought into this.

Five seed, the pelagic, oceanic white tip shark. They are often fingered and blamed as the culprit in the USS Indianapolis disaster, mass shark attack. The oceanic white tip number five versus the 28 seed, the winghead shark. Winghead's a smaller, oh man, it's got to be the winghead for me. Oceanic white tips, I know I'll do it. it at some point in my life. I saw one from the boat once, even though I've never dove with him. But look at this winghead. I mean, how fucking weird is that thing? Wow, that is bizarre. Bizarre. Forest, what are you going? Winghead. Peter. Yeah, without question, got to agree with that.

Winghead. All right. Unified advances. Pretty obvious. The winghead will take on. Oh, go ahead. Oh, I was just going to say the 28 seed upset over the number five seed. That's a big deal. Well, five again is that thing back to, because of it. it's such like a cool. It's like Fonzie's little brother shark, right? Yep, I like that. Moving on. Will the winghead take on the 12 seed frilled shark or the 21 seed megamouth shark?

This is a cool matchup. Yeah. This is a cool matchup. Wow, look at this thing. This frilled shark. Wow, dude. That is a crazy looking shark that frilled shark. You know what's funny is I know what all these animals look like,

but until I see the pictures, I'm not making. making my decision because like they're they're helping reinvigorate the thing I want to actually be in the water with which for me in this case is a frilled shark damn I want to disagree but I'm going with the frilled shark we already have a big mouse shark let's go there you go frilled unanimous well right that is going to be a tough pick though that next round too well yeah so now we're on to the two seed bull shark classic stout powerful terrifying versus the 31, the bramble shark. For us, that's a bramble shark.

It's bramble shark, for sure. Yeah. Bull sharks, yeah. I mean, look, it's a very weird looking shark. It's a bit like the seven gill or some of those other dorsal fin lacking sharks. And I dove with bull sharks a ton. I made sure Andrew Eucles didn't end up chow for one of them. Can I take a quick look at that bull shark again?

I just want to make a, I don't want to make a rash decision. here. Forrest has dove with many, many bull sharks, both in day and night. Yeah, unfortunately. So I haven't. I'm going to go with the bull shark here because we need some more coolness factor in this bracket.

I'm going bull shark. Pat, you're going to have to tie break. I am going to go bramble shark because I've never seen one. God, you're such a kiss ass. No, just a quick side note, though. It's the one, I think I've maybe told the story,

but it is the one time I've ever seen Forrest. A little bit scared. A little scared of the bull shark. I was scared. It's true. I was scared. Yeah, we were filming. We were off Jupiter ledge. We had brought in, God, how many were there at the peak? Like 50 Bull sharks? 50 Bull sharks probably.

Chowing, going nuts. You jumped in? Well, they were in the water during the day, all day with them. And then we just needed something to happen at night. And Forrest was off camera for this show. But I needed someone to place this boot. buoy at night and Forrest is looking at me. He's like, you got to be, he's like, pitch black. There's 50 bull sharks that are wrapped up. He's like, I don't know, man.

Literally spent like six hours chumming 50 super aggressive bull sharks exactly in the same spot. And then Patrick's like, hey, you got to take the dummy, uh, buoy down the, like, we got to go plant it down there, but we don't have moved the boat. And I was like, all right, I guess I'll do it. And literally the worst time you can get in the water is after you've been feeding. feeding, super fired up, highest testosterone sharks in the world at dusk, which is when they're most actively feeding and I was fucking scared. That's crazy. But he did it. He did it. Got the shot. Let's move on. Rambles shark advances. Next up. Let's go bramblin man. Blunt nose six gill or the leopard shark? Blunt nose six gill. It's big, it's gnarly looking. They get huge.

They're the ones that clean up all the whale carcasses in the deep sea. They're super, super cool sharks. Very similar to Sevengill. Take that guy. They're talking about California leopard shark, that guy. Yep. Yeah, I mean, I'm going leopard shark here. It's way cooler looking.

We can make that happen any day. You let me know, Peter. I will. There are thousands. When you come up for the zoo on Saturday, you want to go snorkel with those, I'll take you. Yep. Leopard sharks very common. Blunt knows six gill advances.

All right. Now we've got a 726 matchup, the Longfin Mako or the Puff Adder, Shy Shark. All right. Let's have a look at this. The long fin here. Looks a bit like a sardine to me. Much bigger. Very shiny. Oh, wow. Yeah, this puff adder is. Oh, yeah, Forrest. What do you think? Those are the ones that are in my Alien Shark Show and they're stunning. And I, uh, I, I don't feel strongly about this because I've dove with both of them a lot. So I'm going to take,

I'm going to take the Mako, more badass. Peter. Wow. I'm going puff at her because it's just way cooler looking. They're beautiful, one of the most beautiful sharks. Again, and this is not just me kissing Forrest's ass. I've never seen a Mako in person.

They're terrifying. You hear about them all the time. As a kid, I want to see a longfinn maco. All right. There you go. That's good. Two sharks I've never heard. heard of in the next matchup, the kite fin shark or the zebra bullhead shark. Oh, wow. Look at the eye on this thing on this kite fin shark. Yeah, it's a type of lantern shark. So they have these huge, huge eyes, deep sea shark. Let me see the other one, Kyle. Oh, yeah. It's the horn shark relative.

I forgot about them. Yeah, this guy, the horn shark relative for sure. They're a Japanese shark. Yeah, I mean, this thing is so cool. I'm also going with the zebra bullhead. All right. Next up, the three seed, the fearsome trash can of the sea, the tiger shark, or the 30 seed, the tasseled Wabi gong. Wabi gong, just for the name. So, yeah, we all know what both of these look like. I've spent way too much time with tiger sharks. And I've now spent a fair amount of time with Wobbygongs. Check out alien sharks.

Sorry, not alien sharks. What's the other show I just did? Shark versus snake. We have a really good interaction with one. I'll take. Nope, I'll take the tiger shark. Still really fun. Never gets old.

Take the tiger shark. Dude, that tiger shark looks vicious, but oh my God. I'm going to go with the Wabi gong here just because I've seen habituated tiger sharks at Tiger Beach in the Bahamas. They're basically like Labrador retrievers. Wabi gong it is, baby. Wabi gong. Let's go. Wobby it up.

Wobby it up. All right. The Broad Nose 7gill versus a whale shark. Hmm. Easy. Whale shark. Whale shark. Well, shark.

Well shark. They're just too cool. Biggest fish in the world. I mean, so cool. It's a no-brainer. Literally hot. Most of my alien shark show is on the Broad No. 7gill, and I still would pick the whale shark.

It's the greatest shark. It's pretty incredible. Unanimous whale shark advances. How many more matchups we have here, Kyle? Last two to fill out the first round. The salmon shark or the 27 seed, the angular rough shark. shark.

Salmon shark, huh? This was featured in one of our shark weeks a couple years ago. Jaws of the Arctic. Jaws of Alaska. Jaws of Alaska. Yep. Cool looking shark. Pretty typical shark face.

Look at that thing. Ah, yeah. I mean, look, it looks like it's got like a hippo nose. Whoa. Who actually got that? Yeah, it's definitely the angular rough shark. I think that's the, that is the dupiest shark in existence. And I would go crazy to it.

Where are they from? It looks like a battle royale creation. Yeah. It does. It does. Where are they from? What's their range? Oh, the Atlantic, huh?

I see it there in the top. The little map up there, Eastern Atlantic. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I definitely picking that guy. Yeah, I concur. Yep, unanimous. Final matchup of round one, the white spotted wedge fish or the Pacific Sleeper, Forest.

Well, it's got to be the white spot in the water. Yeah, I've got to be the wedge fish. I've done the Pacific Sleeper. Alaska. I'm actually shocked our picture isn't coming out for that. And I have caught a white spotted wedge fish, but not dove with one. Got to be the wedge fish. Uh, yeah. I mean, that white spotted wedge fish, it's cool looking and my simple brain only can make decisions based on the way things look. So white spotted wedge fish. Love it. Is a sleeper shark dangerous? Uh, no, no, they're super. I mean, they do eat seals and things. They've found bear.

in their stomach. So they do eat some weird stuff. But they, uh, they just slow and lethargic. I don't, I don't see them as dangerous. All right. Here we go. Second round. Round two. Fire here. We've talked about each shark. Everyone undivided attention. Let's get through this. Yep. Sorry. You got to find out who's going to win. All right. Uh, softish. You huge. I saw, softish for me is the whole way. It's going all the way. So softish for me. Yeah. I mean, I picked it before. I'm picking it again. I'm going sawfish. It's probably going to win the whole thing.

Yes. It does for me. It's my number one, I think. I will say this. I don't think it's going to win this next round. The chain. Yeah, I don't think it is because we've got the cookie cutter shark and the chain cat shark in a head-bed-head matchup. One vote.

Cookie-cutter. Cookie-cutter. Cookie-cutter. Who doesn't want to dive with that weird little death noodle? Yeah. Derry. Number 29, huge upset in the first round. the big eye thresher shark versus the goblin shark forest goblin no brainer big eye going big

eye here wow wow goblin easy yes into round three let's go let's go let's go let's go winghead shark versus the frilled shark oh this is tough this is tough this is tough this is tough winghead shark I got to go frilled shark here I'm not sad either right I'm not disappointed either both both Greekish, both clearly aliens from other planets out of space. Frild shark advances. Nice. Okay. You know, I won't be mad at that one.

The frilled? Okay. I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled. Bramble for me, it's Bramble versus Bluntnose Sixth skill. I'm going to take it the bramble. I want it. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and agree with the bramble, the brambling man, shark.

Okay. The 31 seat advances around three. Edwin is, is rolling over. in his grave as we speak. He's alive. Oh, he is. Longfin, Mako, or zebra bullhead? You just saw the zebra bullhead.

It's a weird, freakish little thing. Zebra Bullhead. Yep. Yep. Go on zebra bullhead there. All right. Next up, the tasseled wabi gong versus the biggest fish in the world,

the whale shark. Whale shark. See, I've done so much, though, but I still love it. Yeah, whale shark, well shark. Yeah, I mean, the whale shark is just incredible. I've never done it and it has a huge mouth. I've threatened to take Patrick to do it in Baja many times.

I will one day force him to do it. When all of our children are like six and eight and ten years old, we will do it. A whale shark would slurp up his noodily meager body in no time. They may mistake him for plankton. He is so small. If anyone from the Atlanta Aquarium is listening and they want to have the wild times there to dive in the tank with them, we'll do it. All right. Final matchup of round two.

Angular rough shark, white spotted wedge fish. Angular rough shark, because I've seen a white spot of wedge fish in person, taking the angular rough shark. I'm sorry. Kyle, can I just see the white spotted real quick again?

Buddy. Yeah, that's what I thought. White spotted wedge fish. Okay. Okay. Angular rough shark. We just looked at it. It's a hippo and a fish together.

It's got to advance. All right. Here we go. Semifinals. We're down to eight. We're down to eight. Down to eight. Let's go, Kyle.

The elite eight, sawfish or cookie cutter shark. I'm going to step in and go first. Okay. If you are honest with yourselves and you think about what I said, you're scuba diving, it comes up to you, you put it to sleep, you go back to the boat and tell the story. It's got to be the cookie cutter shark. How big a sawfish are we talking?

Am we going full 14 foot long sawfish here? Yeah, full sized. Sawfish for me. It's what I want, what I want. Yeah, I mean, dude, I think sawfish might take this whole game. I'm going soft fish. It's got a saw for a nose. Come on.

I definitely thought you were going to upset me there. Okay. All right. No. If the brosters agree with me, please post it in the comments. Wow. How do we get here? Goblin versus Frilled, Deep Sea Battle of the Ages.

This is amazing that we're here. What are you doing? 17 foot goblin shark for me. had to think about it. I'm going to go ahead and pick the goblin shark as well. Unanimous, goblin shark advances to the final four. All right, now we got a bramble and a zebra bullhead. What's that?

Describe the bramble physically again. What's unique about it? It's the big seven gill looking shark but has spots in it. That guy. Oh, yeah, dude. And then do you remember what the zebra bullhead looks like? mostly okay

probably a lot like a zebra yeah that guy okay okay okay I got it bramble bramble for me bramble bramble bramble bramble bramble bramble bramble bramble bramble

bramble it's just such a funky cool interesting oddity got to be a bramble all right it's good and in the final four it will take on

either the angular rough shark or the whale shark see now now now this is where it flips for me I've said whale shark all along angular ruff shark all along

Angular Rough Shark for sure. Two votes. I'm gonna go whale shark. Two votes angular Rough shark. It's advancing. All right. It's too cool. And I'd never heard of it before this.

Yeah, it's a very odd animal. It really is. Okay. So we're on to the final four. I'm going to start with the bottom part of the bracket. Because we're going to have some hot debate. Yeah. There's a lot going on here.

Advancing to the finals will either be the angular rough shark or the bramble shark. Peter, what are you going to do? I'm sorry. Can I see the angular rough shark one more time? I think I've looked at it three times now. It's the hippo face. Yeah, the hippo face. Okay.

All right. Okay. We can go back. I remember what the bramble looks like. This is tough. Yeah. I'm going to stick with the bramble. It's just such an odd looking, interesting creature.

Almost alien-esque. Well, I'm fighting you because I want that angular rough shark. So Patrick is the tiebreaker here. Easy. easy for me. Angular rough shark. It's one of the weirdest looking things I've ever seen. It's very, very heinous.

I love it. Now we go up to the top. 15 foot goblin shark or 14 foot sawfish. Coming up to you. Which one do you want? Got to be the goblin shark. I've always said sawfish is going to take it for me, but the opportunity to dive with a goblin shark comes once in a lifetime.

A sawfish, maybe we'll get another crack at it in my life. I can go to South Florida, poke around. Goblin sharks a once in a lifetime. I got to go for it. Well, we all know what Pat's picking, but I'm still going to say sawfish. F you. I mean, it's a tough call, but it's it's Goblin Shark. They're too crazy looking, too weird.

It's going to the finals. A saw for a nose for Christ's sake. I mean, look, I don't think any of us thought that this would have been the finals. But it's all about matchups, you know? Definitely not. You can never predict something like this, can you? It's all about matchups, folks. Big stuff here.

In our championship round, it is the goblin shark versus the East Atlantic's angular rough shark. We went two very different directions here. One big, weird, deep sea, like crazy jawed, scary shark and one duffecy small, like Japanese girl in a purse cuddly shark. Like we went to very, very different directions here. and for me, the goblin takes it. I think, you know, I said the sawfish was number one, but I think that if I ever got the opportunity,

see a 15-foot goblin shark in the water, that's got to be it. What's the other option again? The Angular Roughshod? Yep, you said it. I'm going with the Angular roughshod. Okay. Just to disagree. That's good TV right there, buddy.

I was hoping you to do that. I think we all know that the winner of, the ultimate shark bracket is in fact the goblin shark there we go let's go let's go let's go look at that thing though yeah it's i mean come on yeah beautiful beautiful yeah very attractive fish you thought you're just out for a cocktail and a snorkel and it's not a lovely creature i'll give you that but if you're if you get to dive with one of those and see it swim around i'm guessing it's it's one of those very slow like do do do do do do do do kind of sharks and you're like you know you know where i'm going with that and uh i'm i'm with it i'm with it all the way love it love every minute of it

well this year's shark week winners the goblin shark forest good luck with your show tonight and and the one and to you sir um No, it's big stuff. Shark Week. It's exciting. Peter's here. He's part of our lives. So he's sort of part of Shark Week by association. And he's got slightly less grim throughout the podcast until his picks didn't win in the bracket. Nah, I'm good. I'm not. I'm not grim. I know what I'm stoked about is all the extra podcasts we do every month. We do six total. And if you want to get them all, add free with video included. Go to the Spotify and subscribe. Uh, six podcasts months. What else can I say? Uh, for all the links to everything, go to wild times dot club forward slash info. And that will give you links to the Patreon as well, where you get the, uh, extra four bonus pods.

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We don't know what time yet. Or come see us, come see us live. Have a cocktail at AnimalCon. We're going to be totally unprepared. It's going to be ludicrous. There might be shouting matches amongst, me and Pat. I know you all love to see it.

Yeah. Come see us live at AnimalCon. September 11th and 16th, baby. Woo! AnimalCon baby. All right. All right. All right.

I love you guys. Good day, everybody. It's not nighttime yet. Good day. Good day, sir. Good day. Good day. Right.

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