Wild Times: Wildlife Education - Los Angeles is Overrun with Coyotes - The Wild Times Ep. 114 ft. BTG

Episode Date: March 20, 2023

Everyone's favorite Brofessional is back! Bradley Trevor Grieve (BTG) joins us to discuss koala chlamydia in the face, Coyotes in Los Angeles, and a big announcement at the end of the show! Visit https://thewildtimespodcast.com/ now! Get your Wild Times Podcast merch: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/merch Leave a review on iTunes Apple Podcast: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/itune... Get Up To 4 Bonus Podcasts Per Month ▶▶ https://www.patreon.com/wildtimespod Subscribe to The Wild Times Podcast on YouTube ▶▶ https://www.youtube.com/@WildTimesPod Watch More Episodes Here ▶▶ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP... 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 114 - The Breakdown 00:00 - Intro 02:20 - Koala Chlamydia To The Face 05:53 - Coyote Central 13:35 - Flown-In Pizza Delivery 17:30 - Insane Earth Worms 22:10 - Zebra Attack in Ohio 26:40 - Cheetah Talk 32:05 - New Most Popular Dog in USA 34:40 - BTG's Tips for Forrest in WA 43:37 - Worst Animal Bite You've Gotten 51:30 - TWT Parenting School 55:30 - Semi-Indestructible Announcement 1:00:25 - Outro https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/fat-tire/#podcast #wildtimespod

What I did then is I drank a lot of coffee over the next few days. And then every time I had to go to the bathroom, I peed on the walls. I peed around every wall. Really? Yeah. And they just let it know that I was eating a lot of meat, letting you know a really big carnivore is here. I can't tell him he's serious or not right now.

He is serious. And it's completely an excuse. Like his wife was like, Bradley, you've been eating nothing but cheese for three days. I got to smell up that fence. Yes. Hello. BTG.

Hello. What's up, buddy? Gentlemen, gentlemen, it's been far too long. I've been... Cheers. You know, I'm going to suck on this, this, this... Yeah, what is that? Ibuprofen?

It is. It is. I'm going to lay off the booze for today. I've torn the meniscus in my right knee. And, no, it was actually a good thing because I... I'm sure, it was an agony. But then I went in to see the ortho, and they, you know, they did the MRI and the... the x-rays and he said Tony Miniscus.

And I was thrilled because I didn't think I had any meniscus left. No, no, that's your peniscus. Yes. Ah, nice. Well, for those of you who are new, welcome to episode 114 of the Wild Times. I'm Papa Pee, the Spiceman, the producer. Yeah? Along with me is the professor.

Oh, hey. Mr. Peter Fitzer. How are you? Listen, it's the middle of the day. I have this cocktail, which is a, a vodka soda with a splash of tangerine juice. Nice. But I also have to support our sponsor, Fat Tire.

And I'm like, well, I had already poured this. I'm like, fuck it. I'll just drink both and then go back to work after. Cheers. That wasn't curdling your belly like old paint. And my asshole already hurts. Nice.

A separate issue. Forest is somewhere in Australia, I believe, by now. Filming a shark week. Filling in everyone's favorite. guest, BTG, Bradley Trevor Greve, the Tasmanian Grizzly. How are you, man?

A.k.a. The professional. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, I've got some travel tips for forests. We can get to later. If he's over in Test in Australia, I hear. I've been great. As I said, I bugged my knee, and I got the good news that after seven knee surgeries, I actually have ministers left. And I was off air. I was telling Retep, you know, aka the Polish sausage with a.mone. mouthful of pubic hair, aka... I know I was Polish. The penis tip that looks like crying Gary Boosy.

And I said to him that it reminded me of the time that I caught chlamydia from a koala that urinated in my face. And I'm a Polish penis tip. Because at the time, I was reluctantly single and, you know, romantically dislocated and therefore involuntarily celibate. And my eye just looked horrendous and it spread to the other eye. And it just looked like I just had some hideous disease. disease. And when I finally got a report back from the

thermologist said, you've got chlamydia. I remember my actual response was, oh, I wish. And he was shocked. And I had to explain that it couldn't be because I've had zero sexual encounters in the recent era. And then we tracked it down. We found out it was a particular baby koala at a zoological facility that had peed in my face. And I had to call them, the calls of shame. Oh, by the way, I'm sure they're like, Yeah, yeah, that's how you got.

Sure, yeah. We're going to treat it for chlamydia, no problem. And the good, I mean, I saved their life. As you know, the chlamydia is not a big deal. You know, Fitz has been leaving with it forever. What? A lot of times. So, but in a koala, it's often fatal.

And so I let them know that they test them. All the koalas apparently had it, which is not surprising. They're social enough. They're all in the same couple of trees, and they're able to treat them. But, yeah. Interesting. That's how I saved the koala's life. You're welcome.

Wait, so you got, I mean, you said you got peed on by a koala, but you fucked one with your face, right? During intercourse, I receive urine in my eyes. That's right. It's a classic, you know, novice era. No, it was just, it was interesting. I was reaching up to pat it and it just peed straight down. And I peed straight down in my eye. And of course, the diet of pure euclidus leaves meant that the concentrated eucliphyst oil in the urine, was incredibly painful. And everybody laughed, as you would. And I was trying to keep cool. So I just kind of walked over to a, it was a drinking fountain on the other side of the property, and I just splashed my face, cleaned it up,

and I blinked a little bit, and got on with it. And because I was taking some VIPs around that we're going to give money to the conservation program. And I just wanted to be cool about it. And I didn't think much of it. I mean, you know, we were in a business where we get urine in our eyes and fecal and other matters in our eyes from time to time. I've told the stories of the bat semen in my ears.

This is not the worst thing that's happened to me. And then it just started to turn. For the time I got back to the hotel, it was pink. And then the next day, it was a virulent red. It looked like a snooker ball covered in mayonnaise. And it just got worse from there. But the funny thing is I had a whole bunch of appointments. And so I had to fly from city to city.

And it wasn't until I got actually where forest is now, Western Australia, that I could see an ophthalmologist who found out what the problem is. So by then, several days passed, and it was really impressive. What was funny is during a couple of media events that I did at that time, including a fundraiser for painted dogs, no one ever asked me about it. Everyone just assumed that I was drunk slash stone slash dying, and they were cool with it.

It's a real cool thing, by the way. So I was talking to Bradley about something else last couple days. ago actually. So I just moved into this new house. It is fucking coyote central man. There's coyotes everywhere. And we showed on the podcast, maybe a few podcasts ago, that clip of that coyote grabbing the kid. Oh yeah. The little girl. And then the dad kind of scares it off. So that's like right up the street, right? It's the neighborhood I live in now. Yeah. BTG was saying he's got a major coyote situation in his yard going on. Yeah, we do. Really? It's terrifying because I have two little kids, as you know, a baby and a toddler and we have six foot wall around the backyard and it's fully fenced off so in

some places it's even taller than that and you know it's covered in plants and vines and these roses are quite spiky so you kind of feel fairly secure when you're in your ensconced within it you go i mean sure the secret garden but it has a certain sense of you know isolation and privacy and then not that long ago um we uh i was you know where i am now in my study doing my writing my books and I get this friend at Cole from our little one's nanny and I come rushing downstairs and coyote just jumped the fence and it's just chilling in a yard and I didn't mind the fact that he was trying to dig up some some gophers which were trashing my lawn I thought yeah have at it but no terrifying because these are potential child killers and certainly child maulers

you couldn't take a dog that size couldn't take a baby over the fence, but they could certainly kill it and maim it. And so, you know, I did what anyone would do. You know, I grabbed my hatchet. I had no idea, dude. I had no idea. Because I've always thought that a six-foot fence, which is what I have. Yeah. Look at this. No problem. Goodness. Easy. That looks pretty close to six feet too, doesn't it? Yeah. It's on the roof. Yeah, like a cat. Dude, like a cat. And these things that just opportunistic hunters, now, now this is equally bad. So the angle of the sun there tells you that it's sort of later in the day there.

But the point is, it's still in broad daylight. And in my experience, whenever you see a predator of any kind in broad daylight, it's usually desperate. So, you know, coyotes generally crepuscular hunters. They

get out early light mostly just around sunset and a little bit later. But when you get them out like this, they're a bit desperate. And so, yeah, we managed to chase it off and bounce away. But now we don't let the kids out with that they're supervised. We have some neighbors. We have a sort of a religious property thing,

and it's not very well regulated, and they're not pretty good with the trash. And I see the coyotes going into there around sunset. We live next to the Angeles National Forest. And, you know, there are just an infinite number of coyotes in this area. Yeah. And they are moving down to try to get easy meals. One came out.

I was going for a walk one evening, and it was, you know, about an hour or two after sunset. And one killed a cat within 20 feet of me, just came out, crushed its skull. And before I even had time to say, you know, hey, coyote, don't kill that cat. Let's talk about that. That's how I talked to them.

It just came out, killed a cat, and bug it off. It was just shocking. Right in front of me. Did it take the cat with it to eat? No, it dropped the cat, and we sort of chased. And the cat was looking pretty ordinary. One eyeball would popped out. It was still barely alive.

And the owner came out screaming and screaming. And then she wanted help. And I said, you know, there's not a lot of repair. This cat head is, you know, pretty much unserviceable. And then her neighbor came out to help. And he started beating its skull with a giant maglight flashlight. Put it out of its misery? Yeah.

Wow. I'm like, there's probably a better way to do this just quietly. Oh, my. So, yeah, we, this is a nightmare. Finished it off, put it in a trash can. And she said she was too upset to look at it. And she just abandoned a pet to the bin. you know, I don't know.

What a happy story. Yeah. And that's why I love Los Angeles. What if she had just kind of like come out and was like, what happened? Oh, it was fluffy. I fucking hated that cat. I prayed for this. I prayed for this.

Anyway, one of the things you can look for if you're not sure is go outside your house around twilight and listen. And if you hear the yipping start to bill, that's called a pet talk. A lot of wild dogs do that. Coyotes are not usually pack hunters, but in desperate times they'll get together and they'll both try to maximize the killing power, but they'll also be looking to steal snacks off some other dog that gets there first. And so, yeah, I put the bins out on the weekend and you hear the yipping build up and they're getting psyched up for a hunt or they've just scored something. And I remember coming in saying to my wife, go, kids are not playing outside after dark ever again or at something. It is totally. It is game on.

It is game on. They're so, I saw a video of a winter kill bison, right? So, you know, a big, you know, thousand pounds of meat that had fallen from the winter that had just unfrozen. Bear gets to it first. Big, big grizzly bear in Yellowstone. Bears picking at it. Group of wolves come in, five or six wolves. They come in, get the bear off it.

They start eating it. Like 15 coyotes. comes in and gets the wolves off of it, and the coyotes end up with the feast. They're smart. Badasses. Not a lot of size difference between a big coyote and a small wolf, too. Right.

I mean, they vary from place to place, but not a huge, we're not talking to Chihuahua and an Alsatian here. Yeah, even that big one that you showed in the video was a decent-sized coyote. Pliny a dog. Funny a dog. What would happen if a pretty ferocious guard dog

German Shepherd and a coyote went at it, you think? You know, someone's pet. I think, no, well,

it all depends on the temperament of a dog, but a large, you know, very defensive, very robust breed would definitely,

I think, would prevail over a coyote in terms of a straight up fight, but the coyote would be too smart to go toe to toe. Sure.

So that's probably not going to happen. You'd have to corner it. And, And then I think the reality is, it doesn't matter how big or strong or tough you are, you're going to come away the worst for where. You're not going to walk away from that, you know, without part of you left on the floor, I would have thought. Okay.

So BTG, you run into your, you hear your wife scream. There's a coyote in the backyard. You run back there, right? You go to the fence. I know. Totally. Yeah. Well, I immediately realized that we had a problem.

My concern is, it's not that I live for killing coyotes or anything, really, but my concern is, is once you have a, I didn't know why it was in the yard. Yeah. And I just thought, I didn't know initially if the nanny was outside with our baby. And so I was very concerned. But the larger issue was you never want to see a predator get habituated to a space where you are vulnerable. You never want to say, oh yeah, it's totally fine that you come and hang out here. That's the kind of habituated wildlife that ends up killing people.

Like Grizzly Man. That's like what Grizzly Man was, the movie with that guy. It's a little bit the reverse of that. It's what we have in, so for example, in Angoon, where DeLuca and I film Fear Island. Is that on Cinemax late night? Yeah, for sure. Definitely softcore porn.

Yeah, it is. It's got a great soundtrack. A lot of Hammond organ. Bow, chicken, bow, bow, wow. In Angoon, there was an issue, and they still haven't fully fenced off the garbage dump. There's only two miles a road on the entire island. And it goes basically from the village to the ferry port, and then the garbage dumps roughly halfway along.

There's always a number of sick, young orphan bears and whatever that make their way into the garbage dump looking for snacks. And remember, people do a lot of hunting of deer there. They do a lot of fishing. So there's usually a fair bit of protein waste. that said it'd be eaten. What happens is the bears become habituated to it. They eat a lot of other crap that they shouldn't. And... Dominos leftovers and Cheetos and stuff like that, right?

From our production. Yeah, exactly. I remember we're in the middle of it. We had like one day off. And I got to say, half the village was down with this super flu, which I had. I went down and I forget who was it Justin had a really nice bottle of scotch. I went down and got a coffee mug full of whiskey and some antibiotic from the medic. It went back to... bed. I come back and Pat has flown in dominoes from the mainland. That's right, baby. It was the best best meal I'd tasted in weeks. Got to keep morale up. That's his job. It was 10 consecutive days of salmon downpour. So, you know, 13, 14 hour days in just downpour rain and then salmon eating salmon every night. Every night. For the off day, we flew them in. Dude, it was like 30 bucks, the delivery fee.

like I didn't get in a plane. Maybe it was 50. It was... It's still not bad. No, it's cheaper than L.A. But it was cheaper than Uber Eats. It was almost a magical thing. I mean, I'm not like a super religious guy,

but I could imagine, you know, the sermon on the mount and the loaves and fishes, not quite measuring up to the experience I had with that dominoes off a seaplane. I just, it was a beautiful moment. So good. God, your asshole must have been hurting. You had dominoes, whiskey with coffee,

and a super flu. Yeah, it was, I was good to go the next day. It cured me. It was like the water of lords, you know, I was just ready to go. So what happens is these bears get obituated. And then, of course, you know, the fishing, the hunting season end, and there's not much in there. And then they go and they start looking for something to eat.

And now they're used to people, and that's when dogs and kids get taken. And that's the situation we have with the coyote. I didn't want to become from the yard. So I went out there to sort of part its head from its shoulders, under style. It just made me look stupid. It was over the fence and gone. Yeah. And there's just a headset man breathing at a wall. Holding an axe. Exactly. You got to chase it off though, man. I mean, immediately I would chase off. Well, what I did

then is I drank a lot of coffee over the next few days. And then every time I had to go to the bathroom, I peed on the walls. I peed around every wall. Really? Yeah. And they just let it know I was eating a lot of meat, letting you know a really big carnival is here. I can't tell him be serious or no. He is serious and it's completely an excuse. Like his wife was like, Bradley,

you've been eating nothing but cheese for three days. I got to smell up that fence. Yeah. And I'm not saying that's the only reason why they haven't come back or indeed any other wildlife ever. But I actually have worn off because the raccoons have come back to steal our drain covers again. I don't know what they do with them.

it's some sort of bizarre conspiracy. It's kind of like a constant battle between you and the animals out there, isn't it? It's crazy, man. Just the difference from here to my last neighborhood. It's just a ton of gophers. Like, really? Coyotes running down the middle of the street.

I heard there's a big earthworm problem out near you. Unbelievable. What? What's going to? It rains and there's like thousands of earthworms all over everywhere. Well, they're drowning. They're drowning. They've got to come out. That's why the roads are going crazy.

These birds are so. So fat and happy right now. That's just true. I can't even get off the ground. There's just crows. I'm like, am I in a fucking movie? It's like insane and scary because it's gray out and never is here. And there's tons of crows.

I'm like, where are all these crows coming from? Dude, the other night, so it was raining and sitting there, got the TV on, getting ready to go to bed, I see an earthworm come in to the house from this tiny little gap that, you know, lived here for two weeks. I didn't know was there, this tiny little gap in the door. Then another one starts coming in. Oh. What is going on?

So I go out with the flashlight. They're hoarding in. It looks like, you know, when you get on the chairlift and people are coming from all directions, they're trying to come into the house. That's from invasion, mate. Dude, and so, you know, at this point, I'm like, I don't know what, they're not coming in the house. I don't have any cock available. He got his gun out.

I started shooting him. You did something even more definitely. You could fry them up. You could, they taste it. Well, I salted them up. Did you? You leave them in a dish of fresh water, just like snails. You leave them in fresh water for a day or so.

Don't drown them because of course they breathe in part through their skin and they'll die, which is why they're coming to the surface. But just a little bit, and they'll excrete all the gunk that's in their gut. And then they're perfectly reasonable protein at that point once they've excreted all the crap. Did you guys hear about these? So that's what you would have done? You would have eaten them? No.

I'm just saying, but I've never had. that many trying to come into my house. I'm just saying you were an exceptional... A battalion. You were in an exceptional circumstance where you had a protein-rich environment at your door. That's unusual. Yeah. Hey guys, if you're enjoying... Whoops. One more time. Guys, if you like The Wild Times, check us out on Patreon. We put out four extra podcasts per month. That's one commute a week that you're just going to be laughing and learning the whole time in the car. Let me do something else. This is the late night content, stuff that we can't show on. on YouTube because they'll kick us off YouTube.

It's the Cinemax of podcasts. Uncensored, raw dog. It's the Cinemax of podcasts. Check it out. Link right here. Kyle just dropped a interesting note in the private chat here. This is terrifying. Evidently, there's an extremely active jumping,

extremely active jumping worms that can leap a foot into the air and they're raising alarms in California. Kyle's got, oh my God, there's a video. Let's see this. All right. So we got a video here of some, some crazy methed out earthworms. He's just thrashing around.

Yeah, that's not, that's nothing. Hold on. Let's see what it does here. Yeah, the Amnithis. By the way, is that it? Are you kidding me? They're just thrashing around.

This is what it looked like outside my house. Now, that's fucked up. That is scary because there's, like, those are snakes. Those are snakes. Those aren't worms. I'm going to say, like, one earthworm is not scary, but when you see a hundred in the same place,

it's all of a sudden so gross. Probably four or five hundred. I went through two tubes of salt. What is a tube of salt? So you were going to, you're just going to salt them up. It was late. I wanted to go to bed. It was raining.

I mean, I get it. I mean, if you had the taller time in the world, I mean, earthworms are so important to keep the soil healthy. Yeah. And if you had the time and the energy, and we all have kids and young kids and none of us do, you just shovel them into a bowl and put some dirt on and leave them because you need them back in the garden the next day.

The difference between a shit garden and a great garden is a really healthy earthworm population. But yeah, I mean, it's cold and wet and, you know, I get it. We've had a lot of them coming up here, but the birds, I just can't get over how voracious they are. They're on the ground and they are so fat. They're just, it's just, you know, like you said, back in the 70s and the 60s and 70s,

and they had that space training for primates, and they're just putting their mouth on a food tube. And it's like that. They just put their lips on the ground. Well, bird lips, they're big. And worms are just fighting their way down their gullet. You know, I reckon we could harvest all these sparrows and bluebirds and get some sort of farguire out of them

because their livers must be enormous. Yeah, it's been heaven for them because it's done nothing but rain for a month in California. But what are you talking about the coyotes, right? right, and the habituated coyotes and it get dangerous. Did you guys see the story that went around this week of the man, the farmer in Ohio, who got his armpit off? No.

No, by a coyote. Was it? Kyle's going to pull up the animal that did it. This very specimen right here. We've got a video going. Oh, the zebra. Yes, I did see this. I'm not surprised at all.

Where did the zebra come from? I mean, it's obviously not native. It was a farm. And they had seven zebras on the property. And the guy was clearing some brush. And he said he turned around and the zebra was charging him. And it bit his arm off. Yeah.

That's fucking, I mean, I didn't even know a horse mouth was that large or a zebra mouth, I should say, or zebra. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you a horse bite story. I was, I was in hospital. I was, I was racing dirt bikes, these big desert races. and I had a new bike and had crashed it and put my arm through my hand and it had all been rebuilt and it was a mess. It was a mess.

And then because I was an idiot, I went to a conservation program that I was supporting out in the country and they had these baby wombats. It was a little big wombat. I picked it up and it pulled the pins out of place. Oh, God, dude. And the problem, that was painful,

but the problem was that it got an infection. Of course it did. And I got golden staff in my, broken wrist hand thing. God, damn. And I had to go back to hospital for a whole bunch of surgeries and then it opened it up

and it looked like a horrible. How did it smell? So I mean, it smelled sweet and rotten at the same time. You know, it just, it was just a horrible, horrible smell. Anyway, so I'm doing hand rehab

with this guy and you know when they make a lot of movies in Australia at the Fox Studios lot, it's particularly good for all the green screen movies and, you know, your Matrix and whatever was the first big movie to be made there and a whole bunch ever since. This guy comes in and the whole front of his hand is missing and it's all been reattached and it looked like someone

had just cut it off with a blunt chain so it was a really ugly thing. And he had the same hand surgeon and the same tendon surgeon that I'd had. That's how we were together. And we did hand rehab together every day, which is not as sexual as that sound. No, it definitely does. But you know, it's a lot of stupid, a lot of stupid exercises moving squash balls over your finger and, and again, you know, give us like a big jar of buttons and they'd be like all blue buttons and one red button. You have to use your fingers to get the red button. It was, it was not very, you didn't feel great about it. Anyway, I asked him what happened.

And it turns out that he is a horse trainer and he works at the studios and he does all the horses for these movies. And they had a stallion, which you never see on a movie normally, an actual full stallion. It's almost always a mayor or a gelding. And he worked with it for years. We had this big stall. and he was just brushing its muzzle, keeping it calm, waiting for the shot to go, or action, turns his head to look at the director, and as he does, it just boom and bit off thumb and index finger, middle finger, ring finger.

Anyway, he was definitely recovering function because they got into the hospital. Luckily the hospital was 15 minutes away from the studio, and they're able to start repairing the nerve straight away. But I'm just saying it's got to be, and obviously you're now in the business, I've seen a lot of bad animal bites. That was by far the worst I had. saying according

according to equine gelfth com the uh the jaw strength of a of a horse is more than twice the bite force

of a pit bull more than double they got flat teeth though isn't that I mean they have yeah they're chewing all day long that's like that makes

yeah they're grazing and it's like getting it's like getting attacked with a butter knife as opposed to yeah exactly exactly

it's a horrible blunt chisel. So it's a pressure tear rather than a cut tear. Yeah. Just crushing, crushing power. Oh, my God. Yeah, horrendous. And remember that they're very smart and they're a little bit, you know, twitchy because they're still I find it to be very twitchy. Nervous.

Yeah, well, they're still a prey animal. So they know they've got a, they're smart enough to be malevolent and they're twitchy by virtue of their genealogy. So they're going to go, oh, I've got to get out of here. But they can really dish up the pain. and you never know it's going to happen. I'll tell you a funny story about a friend of mine who got his ass torn apart. It's not his ass cheeks.

It doesn't matter who did it. No, it was not. It was in jail. His name's John Lemon, and he is the president of Painted Dog Conservation Inc. So, you know, like Cas Pickedus, you know, the K-Pinding dogs of Africa, okay, the painted dogs.

And at that time, he was the head of the species survival plan for Cheetah. And the cheetah are the smallest of the big cats, but people always think of them as being not a big deal because they look quite slight and wiring and timid compared to, you know, big leopards and certainly lions and all the rest of it. That's a mistake. There's plenty of don't argue when you're cheetah. I don't know if you've got close to a cheater,

but it's a lot of cat. I'm afraid of a house cat. Like, I would go. I have seen a number of people get up next to a fence with a full-grown male cheater and it hiss at them. And it sounds like someone just knocked the top off a fire extinguished with a hammer. I mean, it's just, it's so loud, like a jet engine, and that just blows them off their feet. So anyway, it's about the size of a greyhound, give or take. There's plenty of, plenty of

cat. And so, anyway, he got to know these cheater and they had a pretty good relationship. Remember, cheetah are not classified necessarily as cats. For a long time, they have the feet of a dog and they were just pets by the pharaohs. Yeah, they're not, you're not your classic cat at all. I didn't know that. Back in the day, the pharaohs would keep them, in Egypt, would keep them like greyhounds, you know, to go coursing to catch rabbits and all the rest of it. And people still do in some places. The point is that he got to know them, had a good relationship, and he would clean out their habitat, his big open-range habitat,

were then in the area, which was a bit balsy. Now, John is a chunky man. He's chunky, you know? I don't mean like, I don't mean like Retech, you know, that's basically a shrink rack, you know, Bangkok knock-off version of the dude. What I mean is he was the champion, champion powerlifter

when he was a young man in Australia. So he's not super tall, but yeah, really thick, muscular guy. Sure, like me. Yeah, yeah, something like that, but the opposite. And he, and so he's a big chunky ass cheeks. I want you to visualize the striations in these glutes

from looking these huge amounts of weight. I'm picturing it, baby. Rippling. Rippling. He turns his back, this cheetah comes in, gets a hold of him in the glute area, and just rips it open. Oh! Like, rips it open.

And as I said, big, strong, tough guy. He manages to whack it off with a broom. I probably came out wrong, but he gets out. And so you never know what's going to happen. So then a couple of years later, I'm in a facility, which I won't name a private wildlife facility that's highly regarded. And I was there for a couple of months. And he said, I go, BD, we've got these new education cheaters.

We'd like to test our program with you. I said, oh, okay, that'd be fun. And I get down there. And I said, have you done this before? And they said, no, we haven't. But we figured, you know, if it goes wrong, it doesn't, I mean, it's you. It doesn't matter if it all goes wrong. I'm like, oh, it probably matters a little bit.

Anyway. 140 pound cat, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so there's two of them sitting on this table and they're wearing these harnesses, but no muzzles. And I'm doing the exercise with them and listening to the presentation. I'm patting them when they tell me to pat them. We call it stooging.

When you're an expert pretending to be a novice in order for the teacher. is to go through their exercises. Anyway, and all of a sudden, this moth, and it was daytime, got disturbed, a big, fat, fluffy moth, comes flying over, wandering around, and that she did, you know, I mean, they're so highly attuned, they just spotted it.

They weren't too upset, and they watched it and watched it, and all of a sudden it went up, and there was this giant, you know, these big-ass ceiling fans, like that's the actual name of the big-ass ceiling fans, you have been aircraft hangers, and they see this thing above them

in this outdoor gazebo thing and they just went nuts. Wow. And that was it. I mean, we were all sort of getting clear and, you know, it was just like... Were they tied down? I know they had harnesses on, but were they like... No, no, they were just holding these leashes.

And they went crazy. And so it was just all hands on deck. And there was no... We couldn't get them in the crate. We had to drag them and push them into the front seat of a truck. And... My very professional... Very professional.

The point is, you just don't know. You think you know an animal, and you just don't know when it's all going to go wrong. Sure. And anything, it's like boxing. Once you get to, you know, 150 pounds, you can knock out anybody. And it's the same in the animal kingdom.

You don't have to be that big to do a lot of damage. And a lot of these animals, whether it's coyote or a cheetah, it may not go, oh, that's not a grizzly bear. That's not a lion. They can put you to the sword very quickly if it will go. Oh, my God. dude that's why i stay inside most of the time yeah i'm getting to know my my new neighbor's dog a little bit because we share this fence and the two dogs bark at each other and so they met for the first time it's a

big strong doberman um but he's they're cool he's cool with dogs but he gets twitchy around people so i'm trying oh that's great yeah exactly so he's fine with your dog but not with your baby exactly no it hates two-year-olds but i did see this in the the news this was this week um labrador retrievers right they've been the number one dog in america for i think it's a seven something it's like an insane amount of years uh wow let's see 31 straight years labrador retrievers been the number one dog breed they're generally generally a very nice dog generally love them well they've they've been overtaken oh there's a new number one dog i heard this it's it's the it's the loaf of bread with a face yeah that's right no the pug dog no french bulldog is

is now the number one dog in the U.S. It wasn't even in the top 100 just 20 years ago. It is taken off. Well, I see so many. Here's the deal. It's like 21-year-old influencer chicks out here in L.A.

Every single one of them has this dog. It's a good-looking dog. It's good for an apartment. It's basically, it's basically you want to have a cat, but you still have some self-respect. You get... They're so great.

You get a French dog. I mean, they're a beautiful-looking, thing. They're athletic enough to have a laugh, but not to force you to do a lot. Oh, my God. Mr. T. Chains. Actually, literally two chains. But so what, I've never, I've never spent time with one.

I mean, it's more athletic than a pug, right? It's more athletic than a pug. They're, you know, stockier. They're, for the way they look, they're insanely fast. But they're, they're lap dogs, right? They want to sleep in bed with you. Nice. Get under the covers.

They're cute. They're good friends. they are they're on the dumber side for dogs so when you say dumber you mean you can't train them to do much or they definitely can't train them to do much and they're very very stubborn um oh like you could have a perfectly trained french bulldog that'll just if it wants to it'll just take a piss on the rug because that's just what it wants to do perfect that's the kind of dog i want i can't believe it overtook uh fucking what is that yeah what does that say about america that a less energetic, less intelligent dog is now the more popular choice.

I just told you. Maybe people have less time. Nah, it's people have, it's the influencers, man. It's the younger generation's dog. So basically our listeners today. No, no. I mean, these are people who are outdoorsy people. These are people, I guarantee you, if we took a poll of our listeners,

this French bulldog or English bulldog, most of our listeners. Most of our listeners have like pet owls. That's what I'm saying. Really? I like that. That's how people. I love that. I love that.

I just, BTG. I got a question. You said earlier in the podcast that you were, you had some tips for Forrest who's missing. I feel like we should at least mention his name, even though I don't really like him that much. I just,

what are your Western Australia? Western Australia. He's out there. Look, I had a variety of experiences in Western Australia, some good, some bad. I remember. riding a camel with a sunburned ass, and that was bad. Sounds terrible.

That was up in Broom, which it was a very interesting place for a lot of dark history reasons, but the Pearl Coast. But look, what I would say is I believe that forest is in the west-southwest around the Xmouth region, which is fabulous. People go there, primarily in Ninguloo Reef, is the famous reef there. It's a very famous area for whale shark migration. I don't know if he's going to see any this time of year. I'll have to check March.

Yeah, March is a good time to see Whel Sharks, actually. But then you have Ningler Reef, a lot of Elkhorn coral. It's quite beautiful. But I was going to say the other place there, some of the largest golf ball coral I've ever seen. I'm talking 12, 20 feet, golf ball coral. It looks like, you know, the giant sphere at Disney World? Yeah.

I forget, it's a little bit like that. But anyway, amazing golf ball coral. Oh, there's one. Kyle just pulled up. Okay. I mean, that's just pathetic. I didn't even know what it looked like at all, so this is good for me. So imagine that, but enormous, like as big as a, not a house, but say, a shed or something like that. You can swim right around it, and it's quite beautiful. A place called the Merion Islands, it's only a couple of hours by boat off the coast.

But one of the best diving sites that I've ever been to in the world, period, is, there in X-Mouth. And what happened was there was supposed to be the secret submarine base where back in the day there was political tension about nuclear submarines coming to Australia. And so they were going to dock them and refuel them or do something in X-Mouth. That was the story. They built this giant jetty that goes out into the ocean there. Then there was a massive cyclone and it just absolutely destroyed it with these huge waves and it just fell to the bottom of the sea. And the Navy's like, well, there's no point trying to salvage this, let's just build over the top. And so they did. And because it's a military

facility, even though it's inactive, you just can't go there. And so what's happened is, over many decades, it's become this artificial reef and no one gets to fish it, spearfish it or lion fish it. And so you get these enormous, perfect specimens of various species there. And I remember getting permission to dive there. And look, crushed infrastructure and naval pier is not particularly attractive thing as far as a fake reef is concerned. But, I mean, big, fat, vibrant neuterbranks, which you generally only see when the water is really clean. Just huge examples of various fish, both in size and color.

And it was just one of the most magical things. So we talk about this in the show from time to time, how it doesn't have to be a perfect habitat to be perfect for certain species. And this is one of those examples. whereby you go, oh, the military has ruined it. But in actual fact, in a strange way, it's become this little bubble of perfection. And I would highly recommend it. There you go, X-Mouth Navy Pier.

Oh, wow. Look at the size of that group. We would call it, yeah, call it potato crust. But, I mean, just incredible fish because no one's ruined it. Oh, my God. Look at the size of that thing. Yeah, they get pretty big. That's amazing.

Anyway. So how do you go about getting, you said you had to get permission? is so you have to get permission? Well, I don't know how it is now. It's been a while since I, I wrote my motorbike over there. What are you laughing at, Pat? Shut your trap.

You said that you have to get permission. So do you have to get permission? I like to repeat myself. So in those days, yeah, you would just fill in a simple bit of paperwork and within a very, and you'd do it through, I didn't have my own dive gear with me,

so I rented it from a diving company. And they filed for you and got the answer back fairly smartly. The next week I went diving. I'm sure it's easier now online. I don't know. Maybe it's open now. But I think the big thing was the artificial reef worked

and the fact that no one, it was just a little sanctuary thanks to the military. And I've seen this in the military before. Don't get me wrong, we destroy a lot of environments with dropping bombs in the ocean. It'll do a lot. But, you know, the area that isn't bomb within the bombing range is usually a haven for species because no one wants to walk. I remember people would wake up and there'd be a bomb under there.

under their sleeping bag is a lot of stuff doesn't go off, you know? Yeah. I think Forest is in maybe Ningaloo. Yeah, Ningaloo is the main reef off the coast. Exmouth is where you fly into. It looks amazing. It is amazing.

And lots of, lots of blue sharks there. I remember that. And as I said, if you're lucky and get the whale sharks coming through, and I had to say that I'd miss them twice, I had never seen a whale shark in the water. But if he's lucky, he'll get to see an amazing number of them.

if the timing is right. Nice. Good looking animal, that whale shark. You know, I've never actually, Kyle will just, we put a video up where Kyle was down with them when they were doing whale sharking. Oh, yes. Really cool. I saw a clip, you know, at the aquarium in Atlanta that you can like pay some inordinate

amount of money and actually dive in the whale shark tank in the aquarium. I thought that looked, that looked like more of my. speed. That would be crazy. I mean, I'd love to, yeah, I'd love to do it. And they're probably pretty stimulating for that guy too. You think so? You think he likes it? I think something different. Yeah. I mean, I don't understand all the roots to know about how shock brains work. They're pretty ancient. One would assume they're pretty much hardwired. But I know, yeah, you can do that in Atlanta. You can also do that in Tokyo. But yeah, yeah, that corridor from Western Australia around through the Philippines is, that's Alashok Alley.

Dude, so we get a fair, you mentioned the nudie brinks there in Ninguloo. They're so cool looking. One of our pros, because people suggest battle royals to us. And somebody was like, you should do a battle royal, battle royale of everyone picks their

three favorite nudie brinks. I was like, I thought it was one thing. I was supposed to know lots of different ones. Well, the only problem with that is it very quickly becomes a newty Dupank, you know, drag race. Because really, yeah, some of them are toxic and some of them do have a separate species attached them that forms a stinger.

But in most cases, they're just incredibly beautiful and some weird projections on them. And, you know, it's just, they basically look like, you know, party drugs made of jelly. Yeah, Kyle just pulled one up. And I've seen, I've seen them. I never knew what they were called. that blue one. In the wild? No, no, not in the wild, of course. I mean, I've just seen them either on TV or in a saltwater fish tank at a restaurant.

I was just with a guy in Florida last week who's an adventure outdoorsman guy, and he was spearfishing in, I believe, in the Bahamas. And he had shot at a fish, and he thought he hit it, but he didn't get a clean hit, and it went into this hole. And he reached into the hole, something clamped down to him. bad, like bit, bit him. He's like, oh, shit, and he's trying to pull his arm out, and he got, fucking got attached by a moray eel.

Oh. That's the first person I've ever met who got bit by an eel. Did it fuck him up? Yeah, he had to get back on the boat. They were filming for a TV show. He had to get back on the boats. They had stopped down. He had to go get stitched up.

I mean, well, you know, the big issue there is that they had that second set of jaws. So it's like, hey, and, you know, the little thing comes out. out of its mouth. It's just like that. So it locks you in. And it's a very simple jaw structure that just kind of works like a snake mouth. It just kind of works on itself like that. So it's just kind of like a tractor beam of teeth pulling you inside the main jaw. Like that you can easy lose a lot of flesh. I mean, I've seen little fish, you know, sliced in half and it's just almost too fast to see. And it's just gone, you know. He's lucky to lose something. We did a, we did a list of like the most scary animals. And I'm pretty sure the more A yield was like, no,

three on it because of it's gonna look at that fang-fank tooth moray the top left oh my peter i'm to start with you what's the uh worst animal bite you've ever gotten uh that would be by my dog by my dog charlie really he bit my hand uh really emotional uh lots of emotions went through me at the same time because i wanted to euthanize him right there just snap his neck I mean, he's 12 pounds. And I'm like, I'm like, what do you think you're doing? I feed you every day. Like, all I did too was put my hand on the couch near his fucking paw when he was in a bad mood.

And like he thought I was doing something to, to aggravate him or something on purpose, I guess. And out of nowhere, he just bites my fucking hand. And, you know, I had to have eight stitches. And I, you know. I don't think I knew about this. Let's just, you know what, let's just make this the worst dog bites, because otherwise this could go on for a while. No, no, no.

No, you have to pick one, and it's the worst bite of any species, bite or sting. Yeah, I've never had a bad one. I've been lucky. I mean, I remember breaking up a fight with two grain days, great deans. It's a good idea. And they're really chill dogs normally, but they were going at it, and one was really hurting the other one, and ended up cracking the skull, actually.

And no one deliberately bit me, but it got me. And it just opened up my hand like a hot knife through butter, you know, straight up the back of my thumb around my wrist. And I was just so impressed. And you look at the teeth and you go, they're not that bad. But the pressure and they're designed to do one thing and they did it. I was very impressed. And that's the thing with animal lights,

then you've got to leave it largely open because you can't stitch it completely up or it's going to get infected and rot off. So you've got to just tack it with the sutures rather than fully do it up. It's always a mess, like coral injuries. I think I mentioned this in the show before, but the worst one I've ever had wasn't a bite.

It was a pinch, and it was a coconut crab, and it was my fault. Oh, my God. Dude, that's one of my favorite statistics about wildlife is the pressure that a coconut crab, I'm surprised you still have the appendage. Well, I didn't, unlike Fitz, my urge was not to insert any part of my person into the coconut crab's person.

But now, the one I had was nowhere, near as big as that one at the top. It was bigger than the one the bottom right. And it was quite dark. And we were sort of joking, referred to it as this kind of boogeyman, because it comes out after dark. We referred it as the black hand. And it's kind of this joke. I'm not sure if I had a few beers. And I just said, I want to see how hard it really is. But I wasn't dumb enough. It was. And it was stupid. And I didn't put a finger in it or anything I wasn't prepared to lose. and so I actually was going to videotape it, so I shaved a little piece of my furry arm

and pinched a bit of skin and put it in there. And it clamped down with such extreme intensity, it compressed, you know how they make the armour for fighting vehicles, a super compressed aluminium? And they start with like two feet of aluminium and they compress it down to about two inches. It was that. It just turned a little bit of skin and flesh and fat

to thinner than paper. and there was this sudden molecular sense of urgency, I've got to get this off me. And I had a screwdriver, and I started to stick it in between, to try to open it, and it had no effect. None. So in the end, and I'm not proud of this, I started to taunt its cloaca with the tip of the screwdriver,

and it turned around to get rid of this unwanted interest in its sense. in the service entrance, and I was able to pry it off. And it just, the skin just died like a sunburn, you know, like a super duper sunburn or, you know, it just, it just kind of rotted off and a little pale kind of circular scar there. But it was just, it was just, I've had plenty of bites, obviously, and plenty of things, you know, from giant centipedes to whatever. And this one was quite extraordinary, just how instantly it went from not a big deal to this is now a big deal.

Yeah, I mean, the pressure is insane. Like, we were just talking, we're talking about how a horse has a lot of bite force, right? We're talking 500 PSI. Coconut crab, we're talking 750. Damn. That's, that's, that's, that's more than a lion's bite. I mean, that's, it was just.

They can lift a six, they can lift a 60 pound item up. Like, they're incredibly strong. Yeah, there are some huge ones, too. Like four inches long, too. How big is a coconut crab? It's huge It's huge They are?

It's well they can be They The one that I'm talking about Was a body about so big Pinch's about so big A decent size You know But they can get

You know Four times that big easily And right I've seen them Hanging on to a I've seen them hanging on to a garbage can Oh they are huge When it wrapped around the whole trash can

And just pulling it over And there you go There's one right there Look at the Dude I can't fucking believe you let one of these things pinch you you are you know what i didn't want to die not knowing uh but that i didn't want to and now i know it's not overhyped because like you know people talk about people talk about turtles and stuff like that and you and you know you put a

pencil uh into a snapping turtle's mouth and and and 90% of the time they can't break it and you go okay that's overhyped and i can tell you now don't do that p s don't do that listeners yeah don't do it But I'm just saying, you know, and don't get me wrong, you get a big alligator, snapping turtle, it'll break the pencil, it'll break a... Yeah, I've seen a snapping turtle break a fucking broomstick. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just saying a lot of it's overhyped. And we come from a business where there is a certain stratum of wildlife show,

and we're all part of it at certain times, where we overhipe some of these capabilities. But I can tell you, from personal experience, that the coconut crab's crushing power is legit. Imagine the scenario. You're excited. You went to the store. You've laid out a nice charcuttery.

You decide you're going to take the family. They can be hungry. Yeah, you're going to take the family for a lovely picnic. You have a nice bottle of, you know, white wine, chilled. Yeah, chardonnay. Yeah. And then this happens. This is what happens.

A group of coconut crabs. Let's call it 25 of them, each the size of a medium-sized dog, crashes the picnic. I mean, how is this even possible? So Kyle's brought up evidently. Is this Australia or somewhere in the... Yeah, brilliant. A full story of somebody's picnic being crashed by these coconut crabs.

And they're really just... They just came? Did you see that one where it snaps the guy's golf club? Yeah. Yeah. It's... So how fast do these things move? Not fast, but he was trying to push it away and it got a hole. And once it got a hole, that's it.

And he had those beautiful, you know, carbure. and fiber shafts on his driver. And that's a, I mean, I haven't bought golf clubs for a long time. But I'm going to say it's at least a couple hundred bucks. And it just, no. And that's it. It's gone. And now he's got no driver.

Good. I don't know how he's going to get home. And the problem you have with these giant coconut crabs, it's like the stingray problem. What do you grab onto? I mean, there is a way to do it. But when they're everywhere, it's just not an easy thing to get a grip of because there's about 10% of the surface area where it can't get you.

and 90% where you're probably going to get got. So it's not an easy thing to deal with. It's the ultimate hot potato. That's what Forrest always says about trying to handle a musterid. He's like, it's just they're impossible to handle because they can get you no matter where you're holding it. It's like a baby. It's like an eight-month-old boy.

Impossible to handle it. You cannot keep them still. They will never sit still. I know my daughter was fairly easy to change. My son, it's like trying to give rap of Wolverine. It's, you know, I just like, it can't, it can't be done.

It can't. He's just like, he's just like, nope, like you're trying all these different strategies. All I'm saying is, and I know nobody gives a shit about our babies, but they're fucking animals. Baby boys are literally fucking, just like any wild animal you encounter in the wild. We would have met this off air, and I was just saying there should be various, you know,

preparation courses for parenting that we just don't have. They have these stupid touchy-feely books in videos. Here's a tip. If there's a video instruction and someone's playing music over it, it's not true. It's not going to help you. You should come to the... That's what we did. We just watched...

It was like, we paid like 20 bucks and you get like six 20-minute videos of just someone. And then we were like, okay, we got it. We know what to do now. We should start up. We should start like a special forces, new parent school. and the Wild Times parenting school. And the first lesson is you've got to be like a kiddie pool full of liquid feces.

And you do. You have to somehow wrap a ferret in plastic wrap. And if you don't succeed, you've got to stay in that pool of liquid feces until you've wrapped that ferret. And then it's like, okay, you can put a diaper on a baby. And then you've got to push, I don't know, a gallon of pulpy fruit into the into like the mouth of a shrew.

Yeah. And not spill any. And by the way, you have to be playing like a baby screaming over a loud speaker while doing that. And you don't stop this until three days of no sleep. That's when you, that's when it's stopped. That's just a warm-up. It sounds worse than the SEALs training, by the way. It's how we arrested Manuel Noriega.

Literally, they just blasted Guns and Roses songs on repeat. for speakers until he came out. It's the same with the baby crying. That was how they did. I didn't they, oh, Nariaga, I was, you know, I was thinking of Escobar. They killed him. I just thought,

how they killed him with guns and roses. But no, Escobah, yeah, Nicaragua. Yeah, he was holed up inside a church. And they just put giant speakers out and used audio torture. And he came out. He was like, all, enough, turn it off, please. And that was, that was when Axel Rose was really, you know. He was chiseled God.

And now, he's a beautiful specimen. I will say I saw him like seven years ago when they played at Dodger Stadium, still got the pipes. Still hits all the notes, boys. You got to respect that. I'm always impressed, but you know, you know there's like bands, like Mumford and Sons is one, for example, or like there's bands where you know when this person turns like 45 or 50, there's no way they can sing.

Like Mariah Care, there's no way she's going to be able to sing like that as she gets older, you know. And then that Guns and Roses is definitely that he's that guy. And yet he's like 55 obese and can still sing that way. He can still breathe that way. Ozzy Osbourne, meatloaf until rest of his soul. But, you know, people who've got to, but they maintain their instrument, you got to respect that. Definitely.

You know, I would like to think that we will continue to flourish with the kind of, you know, Technicolor inanity. I mean, people listen to this show, and it's just logic and insight just disappears up its own asshole. And it's like, that's the beauty of it. Well, I think people love the show. They should. I love the show. The 10 people that have contacted me about it.

And kind of have an announcement. Let's tee it up. Let's tee it up. Big announcer. We should have teed it up at the beginning of the podcast if we were any kind of fucking people who know what they were doing. This is the first. This is the first announcement. There will probably be another one.

So if you've listened. And like Forrest always says to this point in the podcast. Big announcement. We've got a new podcast coming out on the Wild Times Network. You'll be able to find it right here on this YouTube. It's going to have its own, right? It's going to have its own audio channel, right, Peter? Yeah, it's going to be its own.

Well, yeah, we'll get it. We'll get it for them. A new podcast called Semi Indestructible with Bradley Trevor Greve. That's right. That's right. He's been working on this thing. We asked him three years ago. He's been on it for three years.

I think we're finally going to get an episode rolling. I will say he's put more work into prepping his first four episodes than we have in our 114. So what are you going to do? What's it going to be? What's the format going to be? Well, you know, it is definitely going to be part of the Wild Times family. So if you like this show, then you'll enjoy what we're going to do in Semby Undistructed. Well, basically, it's a recipe for adventure gluttony.

It's going to be a series of stories and adventures and stuff that I love. I'm going to give some advice on how to do some of the things that have almost killed me. I love that. And share some of the people who I find inspiring. And also just introduce you to the kind of inanity, the kind of glorious strangeness, the sense of injurious wonder. that is the wild world that is, you know, I've been addicted to since, you know, I got my first.

The chlamydia in your eyes stories. Yeah. I mean, that's a ticket. That's the cost of entry. If you don't get some sort of urinary slash eye infection from listening to this show, that I'm not doing my job. Yeah, I love it. And I think that's something that people are really going to like is like the,

here's how you can go do this stuff, right? Because it's one thing just to be like, here's a crazy story about a time I was in the Amazon or training to be an astronaut in Russia. Right. But here's how you can do it, which I think is going to be people are going to love. Yeah. Think of me as basically your own personal liability slash mentor who can explain to you. Look, I've been around.

It's seen a lot of stuff, done a lot of things, got the x-rays to prove it. I'd like to share with you the things that I have loved the most about my my life and death so far, the things that I hope to do, how I plan to do them. But one of the things that I've learned is that there's a very simple life choice to be made. First of all, you've got to embrace death. That's just a given. If you can get over that, anything's impossible. If you start to love the unknown, not only become someone who's open to science, but you're showing my wife loves out. Yeah, she loves it. She loves it, especially when I'm coaching my now four-year-old. I just like, sweetheart, you got to embrace death. And then we can really ride this scooter.

that. And you know, I'm quoting Asicles. I'm like, don't worry about it. You know, you and death kind of exist in the same moment. Just go down the hill. And so, you know, there's embracing death. But I guess I've tried to have a certain degree of introspection, which for, you know, an adult white male is not easy. It's not how we got here. And I would say the big thing I've learned is more and different. If you approach life looking to do more than most people and things different from most people, you'll end up having an extraordinary life adventure and you'll be able to get the best out of yourself and share that with

a lot of people. And I think about my journey from the killing fields to here and just so grateful not to be dead like many of my brothers and embracing that responsibility to share that. So it's not going to be over self-serious. You won't come out a better person, but you'll have some fun. You'll learn some things. And I'll give you the tickets to the afterlife. Yeah, stay tuned. We will, we're going to get a few in the bank. Yeah. And we will be all the information about new release dates and all that. We'll come maybe next on the next podcast.

Yeah, absolutely. I'd like to come on and we'll promote it. Obviously, I feel entitled to get some of that sweet, sweet fat tire nectar in order to get psyched for this jump. Absolutely. And yeah, I got to... They'll send you two palettes worth, mate. And, you know, if anyone deserves a fat tire, it's the guy who couldn't catch a coyote in his

back yard. Fact. I got to stop saying fact. It's ridiculous. We're excited. I think it's going to be, I think the listeners are going to love it. A little extra content. Different perspectives.

Yeah. It's going to be great. And if you like extra content, you should also check out our Patreon where we have four extra podcast a month. That's one a week. Check it out on Patreon. Actually, Spotify has both the video and the audio as well. So check it out there too.

if that's easier for you. Go there, get your Wild Times content in. If you think we don't release enough podcasts, you're wrong. This is our life. We release six a month, and you only see two of them. Now go.

Wow. I love it. Good. Hold on. I was trying to think of the website. Patreon.com. Are you wearing colored contacts? No, man.

That's just my eyes. Although I did spill, I did spill oil or something on my shirt. and my armpits smell so bad right now. Go to patreon.com forward slash wild times pod. Both of you shut up.

I'm talking to you, Patrick, and BTG. Go to wild times. Dot club for, shut up. Go to wild times. Dot club forward slash info for all the links to everything else.

I feel like that stain on your shirt was more informative than what you just said. Wild times. dot club, not dot com. Wild times. dot club forward slash you I'm sorry this is such a mess

pack keep sending private messages it's like teaching a rock to speak let me let me start over go to the Patreon go to the Patreon patreon dot com forward slash wild times club to get links to all of our other assets are all the audio

places and the YouTube and everything else go to wild times dot club forward slash info BTG's new podcast coming our way jents I love you it's Friday that's right that means it Patrick's Cheers, everybody. Great to be back, and I look forward to coming on soon.

Wait, when you said love you now, is that to the boroughs? Of course. You do. Never to you. Well, maybe BTG. It's like, if you can imagine, if you ever seen a dog fart and its mouth, its anus kind of opens and he's like, it's going to say something. That's how I feel looking at you. Erit.

There's a word forming here. Get your erit tafts at the store, everybody. Fat tire. Good night. Good night.