Wild Times: Wildlife Education - New Tasmanian Tiger Photos Revealed - TWT 151

Episode Date: July 22, 2024

Enter the photo contest: https://forms.gle/YAzzKquv5P2yHbfWA We discuss new Tasmanian Tiger photos that have been revealed, a new disease threatening birds in Hawaii, and why people are scared of reptiles. Rocket Money: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions https://rocketmoney.com/wildtimes Eight Sleep: Use code WILDTIMES to get $350 off Pod 4 Ultra https://eightsleep.com/wildtimes Visit https://www.colorado.com/ Win a trip to Animal Con: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wildtimespod/subscribe https://www.patreon.com/wildtimespod More Wild Times: Instagram: http://instagram.com/wildtimespod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wildtimespodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildtimespod/ X: https://x.com/wildtimespod Discord: https://discord.gg/ytzKBbC9Db Website: https://wildtimes.club/ Merch: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/merch Battle Royale Card Game: https://wildtimesmedia.thrivecart.com/battle-royale/ Our Favorite Products: https://www.amazon.com/shop/thewildtimespodcast Music/Jingles by: www.soundcloud.com/mimmkey TWT 151 Chapters: 00:00 - Start 01:02 - Kyle is angry + AnimalCon 04:33 - New Photos of Thylacine 07:57 - TJ Zebra 10:48 - Forrest has No Amygdala 14:56 - Unconventional Weddings 20:03 - Avian Malaria in Threatened Birds in HI 26:27 - Photo Contest 35:49 - BAOTW 41:49 - Chameleons + Why People Are Scared of Reptiles 43:20 - What is Your Animal Ick? 50:37 - Top 3 DFL - Summer Night Activities This video may contain paid promotion. #ad #sponsored #forrestgalante #extinctoralive #podcast

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Feeling summery? It's so good. It's hot out. It is hot as in southern. I think all over the U.S. But I mean, like 100 plus. It's gruesome, dude. Yeah, it's tough.

It's not pleasant, to be honest. I like how we all showed up in tank tops and shorts without coordinating. With the magic mind in hands. It's simply too hot. It's simply too hot. Yeah. So I'm going to exacerbate what's already going on because Kyle's feverishly highlighting something. And I'm going to skip it for a second.

Okay. Something is going on with Kyle. He's, he's very cranky and he's acting very annoyed with, at least with me. Really? Yeah. Why are you upset, Kyle? What happened? I didn't feel that.

No. Why did you feel that? It seems like you're just annoyed today. Did something happen last night? I haven't sensed at all. Are you frustrated with our lack of professionalism? No, you know what it is? We have a lot to go over.

Yeah. Yeah, it's just there's a lot of things on the table. He's a busy man. He's a busy man. So you're feeling a little stressed? Yeah. Yeah, I just want to get through everything. Make sure that we're hitting all the, uh, hitting all the check boxes. I understand.

Let me tell you something, Kyle. When we first started this podcast, I was you, all right? And I was on air as well trying to make jokes. This is true. All right? So settle down. in there. I'm good. You got it good, man. You got it good. I'm good. I wish I was wearing a tank top like you guys. Just take your shirt off. Just pop that shirt off, baby. Guy in the green room over there.

This is a podcast about animals. Let's do it. Do the thing Kyle wants you to do. He highlighted it for you. Oh my God, Peter. Jesus. Yes, I must mention the Animal Con give away. Obviously, this is amazing. Come to Animal Con with us. That's the first week. October 3rd, I believe it is. We're giving away a free trip to AnimalCon, Hotel Flight. Orlando, Florida, baby. Paid for, you come up there, you stay for a couple days for the weekend. All you got to do is be signed up to our Patreon and our Spotify. Or, that's right, not both.

Peter, let me ask you this. At AnimalCon, is there or is there not a water slide? There's a water slide, sir. Patrick, let me ask you this. Will we or will we not be having drinks in the pool? We will be having dozens of drinks in the pool. And will we be hanging out with this person on the water slide slash in the pool with drinks? That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. We hung out with everyone who came last time. It was awesome. I liked every one of the Wild Times crew that came last time. Yep. Which was, and they were all weird in their own ways. Yeah, just like me.

Yeah, exactly. But it was fun. It was a blast. Retep literally. Missed his fight. Roy raged and kicked Corbyn maxi out of the pool because he did stunk at the beach ball game. This is true. This is true.

Forrest shut the water slide down. I just was telling the story because, so my fantasy draft this year, we're all going to a resort in Scottsdale. Nice. Nice. And I was telling the story of how you ruined the water slide, how I was next in line. And all I wanted to do was go down this fun tube slide and Forrest. You were punching people in the nuts as they came down. No, I just drove head first.

That was why they shut it down. and other stuff. You were slapping people as they were coming off. I was trying to fire them up. The mom yelled at you because her teenage sons couldn't go anymore. This is true. Everybody got very upset. He ruined it for everybody, but eventually they opened it back up, but we had a gay old time. We did indeed.

Anyway. Oh, and Forrest will probably ask you to take a shot of tequila in your eye. Oh, my God. Yeah, tequila suicides all around. Andy Gabs, post, feel free to tag us in that video story. No, it looks like we're doing drugs. Don't do that. Tequila in the eyeball.

right. What we got today? There's something going on. Cal, can you give us a little? Yeah. So this is interesting. This just came out last week. Unseen photos of the Tasmanian tiger. Oh, I saw this. Yeah. Oh, like historical photos? Are they? Yes, they are. Okay. Rare photos have surfaced showing Tasmanian tigers in more delicate light, including an image of two lounging together that were taken at the Beaumaris Zoo in 1918. I have no idea what the Bo Maris Zoo. Where's Beaumaris? Can we look that up real quick, Kyle? I don't know where that is either.

It's got to be in Tasmania, right? Right, right. I was going to say, it's not in the U.S. Beaumaris. In Wales. In Wales. Interesting. Wait, the UK?

Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, because the, there was. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. There's a Beaumaris, Victoria. Okay.

Yeah, that's got to be the one. How do these photos keep surfacing? This is cool. Because, uh, look at that. Look at those two little loungers. Oh, man. They're having a snuggle. They're so adorable.

Well, that's the, that's sort of the hook here with these new photos is it's shedding new light on thylacine as Tasmanian tigers. Here's the other one, too. Because there's so many photos of them looking somewhat menacing. That one's missing a part of its leg. Oh, yeah. Interesting. Yep. Probably been amputated.

And so, so we're now, we're, damn, they're cute and they're fox-like. That's the thing. When their eyes are closed, they almost have a cat-likeness to their eyes. They're adorable. They're very cute. And that's the problem is, is they have traditionally been seen and very vilified, right? Yeah. Really?

Oh, you know this. I mean, that's why they were hunted out. They were killing livestock left in the white. Yeah, because they thought they were killing all the sheep and this, that, and the other thing. And, you know, they were the only real predator on Tasmania. Yeah. You know, they've just always been seen as like a pretty scary, mean animal, right? They get called two things, a Tasmanian tiger and the Tasmanian wolf, like those are their names.

So they've been vilified. And these photos really shed a little light on their social dynamic. and them being just kind of adorable. Like a fox, like you said. I mean, it's a predator, but it's not saying you want to be scared of. Kyle, can you actually go back down? I want to see those colorized photos of the Tasmania. They made those videos that came out a while ago.

Somebody colorized these, man. Yeah, I colored it, I believe. Those look so, is it? Like, that's what it really looked like, right? Yep, that's it. Holy cow. Beautiful, beautiful animal. Yeah, I mean, I think it's, it's, there's a reason why every time thylacine's in the news

or you post a video about it. that it just gets a lot of clicks. Because you can't look at this thing and be anything but like, God, I wish I would have gotten to see one of my life. Totally. Like it's one of those ones that stands out as like, man, I wish I could see one of these.

I'm with you. You guys know, I was just looking at the stripes on the hindquarters of the Tasmanian tiger there. And did you know why they think that zebras or zebras as Forrest would say have black stripes? Yeah, because we've covered it on the podcast before. Oh, whatever. is it? I think it's to keep flies away. Yeah, insect bites. Okay, well, there was a study that came out

recently. Oh, new information. Where they actually did a, uh, they, I forget what they did, uh, who they painted. They painted, uh, stripes on some animal, I think, cow. Is it a cow? Okay. And then, uh, they actually tested how many flies landed and it was something like 50 to 70% less flies landed on the cow. Which I don't under. The painted cow is hilarious. Which I don't understand at all. By the way,

have we ever talked about the Tijuana Zebra? No. Have we not? No, but I'd love to. Hold on. Before we do, stand by, don't, don't, don't. Do not hit enter, Kyle. I'm not looking.

I will beat you with a stick. Oh, I saw it. No, no, that's the old article. Take a guess. Let's see. Kyle go last, because I've been with you through Tijuana. What do you think the Tijuana zebra may be?

Okay. Is it in the animal kingdom? Uh-huh. Tijuana zebra. I think it's a horse that someone painted with zebra stripes and is doing a roadside attraction to try and get people to come take photos. I'm going to go. It's a jackass that was painted. I mean, you're both right.

So the Tijuana Zeper, Kyle, go ahead and put it in. These guys stand on the roadside in Tijuana with a donkey or jackass, if you will, painted in stripes. and they put a sombrero on it. Yeah, go down to that one second over. Now that I see this. I've seen this. And then they paraded around as a zebra as a roadside attraction.

You basically both got it right. This is in the public sphere. I feel like I've seen this in bits and pieces over the years. It's hilarious, dude. And by the way, this is not animal cruelty. This is not anything bad. You are an idiot if you think there are zebra and Tijuana.

That headline was amazing. The genius wrote it. It said, Tijuana Animal Rights, lawyers win one for the zonkies. The zonky shit. So zebras are from your native Africa originally, right? Zonkies are not.

Zonkis are from Tijuana only. Dude, so what do you, I mean, what do you think the flies, what's it doing? It's confusing them because of the way their eyes work or something? I don't know. I don't know the answer. It's a good question. Here's the thing. We don't know. Maybe we do. But we don't.

We don't currently know. We do not know. But like it's interesting that nature figured it out. Yeah. Right. Does it say, Colin, the article, why, if it's like a camouflage thing or thermoregulation? It could. Maybe it just bothers them. Maybe they don't want to get on like black stripes for some reason.

Because they, like, you know, mosquitoes are attracted to white. Like if you're wearing a white shirt, they'll come all over you. You're wearing a black shirt. They kind of leave you alone. What? What's happening? They do come all over you. Why are you guys laughing at me, like, kitsy little girls under their breath?

Because you just said they're going to come all over you. Oh, my God. Keep it down. This is a public podcast. Go to the bonus pod for this type of talk. It just says they have trouble detecting you. I guess like a tiger in the grass. As long as they're not coming all over me, I don't really care.

Quiet over there. I love your shirt. It's like, hey. It's OG shirt. What does that say? Oh, yeah. I have no amygdala, man. It's an OG shirt.

Yeah. Bro, I remember when it was just so funny when we first. determined you had no amygdala. After you told us the story about how you got bit by a poisonous steak and drove your motorcycle to a witch doctor who poured like seltzer on it. Close.

Pretty much would happen. You almost died. Pretty dumb. Yeah. So I wonder if, like, should we start a side business unrelated to the pod where we make full body zebra striped jumpsuits

and market them as like cool summer mosquito repellent? And just wear them in Florida. Absolutely. If you're going somewhere where there's a lot of skaters, pop your zebra jumpsuit on. It's not a bad idea. Listen, throw a comment in the comments if you want one of these suits. Would you buy one? I bought a fun thing yesterday. Should I tell you guys about this? No, no, don't tell us. Okay. All right, tell us now.

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Our buddy is getting married next Friday in a very non-traditional wedding on the beach in Santa Barbara. Kind of similar to yours. Graber? Yeah, yeah. No, not Graber. Graber's never getting married. Are you crazy? God no.

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Exactly. Yeah, literally the same as Peters. And one of those groups was our rugby group chat, like a smaller group within the rugby group chat. Why is he inviting those assholes? So me and five guys. guys picked these up for the wedding. Oh, nice. Yep.

Oh, dude, is that a tuxedo speedo? Tuxedo speedo, baby. That's genius. So we have a whole plan. Of course you did. Yeah, we have a whole plan. Here's what we're going to do. This is real. There's no way Connor listens to the pod, so we're safe.

We are going to, Kyle, just type in Santa Barbara Pier quickly on Google. Is this where the wedding is? Yeah, so it's on the sand spits. I'll show you guys quickly. So go to maps. Okay, we're getting there. His wedding is go to satellite. We're getting out onto the ocean here.

So his wedding is on that little beach. See that little beach right there? The standalone beach. Yeah. So we're all going to jog out to the end of the pier, straight across from there. Okay. At the, the, the procession?

What's the word I'm looking for? Procession, I think, yeah. That's it. Procession? I don't know. Profession? The ceremony begins at 3 p.m. So at exactly 3 p.m.,

me and five guys wearing those tuxedo speedos are going to jump in off the end of the end the pier with a white claw in each speedo and swim across the channel and emerge out of the ocean as his wedding is taking place on the sandpit. So is he going to think you're not coming? Yeah, he's going to think none of us showed up from that chat group and then we're all going to come out of the ocean together. How far is that swim? Yeah, that's probably quarter mile. Okay. That's that that's very far. Well, yeah. I mean, for fat people like me, but I will say, though, like, if that was me, I'm wondering, Pat, like, would you be happy or no?

I'll tell you what when you did such an informal thing for your wedding where it was like three days before you're like hey if you're free Saturday swing by it was very casually announced it was nine days before we asked okay nine days before remember I asked you if you wanted me to bring that wooden flute

and play music and you were like no definitely don't do it and I was like why would I think he would want me to do that but like in my head because it was so casual it just seemed like yeah let's all do wacky shit and make a joke out of it yeah no well my first wedding you got really mad at me because you claim that i didn't invite you that's correct and uh i i was thinking about this recently man and you know i'm sorry i really i think i did send you a facebook message but i i think it's as i get older it's it's really fucked up like it's really fucked up

that i didn't like invite you maybe i don't know i just didn't think about it invite you maybe I didn't care. The guy never cares. The girls are supposed to do everything, right? For the wedding? And you're divorced. Nah, she loves me. We did an easy beach wedding.

Did I ever tell you the full wedding that my wife and I planned that was canceled because of COVID and then she got pregnant? No, but I remember you beginning to plan a wedding. I was excited for it. We went down for four days to Cabo, planned the entire thing. It was great. Oh, that would have been. Dude, it was like going to be set up for a lot of fun. Yeah.

First day whenever in got that. there. We were going to have this awesome dude. It was just everyone we met while we were there. We were like, oh, come do a thing. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. He was going to bring a bunch. He's a tequila sommelier.

Oh, so he was going to meet everyone. That's a dream for me. Dude, he was going to meet every one at the hotel pool and do a mescal tasting was like the welcome event. Yep. And then that night, we found this random biker bar like super, it looks like, what's that vampire movie with Quintan, Tarantino? Oh, dude.

Yeah. Dust till dawn. till dawn. It looked like a dusk till dawn type place and they had this huge outdoor. And then at another bar we met a 80s rock cover band. No way. Dude, you guys had the time of your lives out there. So they were going to come play on the stage. We're going to have like a big party there.

Wow. And then we found this awesome farm. There was like this beautiful lush farm. And then like the whole wedding thing was going to be. It was just going to be fun. Dude, it's not too late. No. I think you should have it.

I want to come to all of those. Again, here's Forrest who, for some reason, never asked to deal with his kids saying like, yeah, you should just take, go to the ocean. Take him. He's jumping the ocean. Go to the ocean. Take your two-year-old jump in the ocean. Who cares about rip ties? Even though you'll have no fun.

Put on this $90,000 party so that I can get drunk in my speedos. That's exactly what I'm suggesting. Good times, man. All right. So back into the news. Some animal shit. Let me ask you guys this. Have you heard of avian malaria?

Wait, indie, what did you say? Avian malaria. It's a special malaria that birds get? A bird malaria? Exactly what it is. So there is a special malaria, avian malaria, as like all malaria, transmitted through mosquitoes, that only targets birds.

Yeah. Right? So this has been threatening honey creeper birds in Hawaii. Now, we all know Hawaii's bird population is in big trouble, has been for a long time. Yeah, because we brought in rats, and then we brought in mongoose, and then we developed everything, and, you know,

Hawaii's bats. Yeah, I mean, we just, Hawaii's just nailed their birth. Interesting. Right. So, Hawaii is now trying to combat this avian malaria. How would you think they're doing that? Well, I mean, so they have to be releasing genetically modified mosquitoes. That's my guess.

Pretty much. Yeah. Oh, I got it. Hawaii is combating avian malaria by releasing millions of male mosquitoes infected with bacterium. Oh, shit. as birth control for the female mosquitoes. So that's different than what they're doing in California because we're just releasing sterilized. Correct. This actually has this whatever bacterium is, but they've been infected with it,

and it acts as a birth control for the female mosquitoes. We introduced the avian malaria, by the way. I think I forgot to bring that in. Oh, really? Of course we did, right? But yeah. Wait, wait, wait, how did we do that? We brought mosquitoes over one way or another on a ship or something, you know, in water, whatever, in a tree, in a plant, anything. that then have been affecting these, the birds. But yeah, now we're going to introduce these infected male mosquitoes, millions of them,

to mate with the females to act as birth control. I mean, I know last time I was talking about the sterile mosquitoes, CRISPR, they'd made some advances or whatever. You said to me, oh, that won't fuck anything up. Do you think this will fuck anything up? Probably. Yeah. Everything's a chain reaction when you do this.

Yeah, of course. Will this fuck anything up? On surface level, I'm like, that's great. It sounds like a good thing to do. You get them out there and then they reproduce and blah, blah, blah. Less mosquitoes. Yeah, that sounds great. But there's always a chain reaction.

There's always these unseen consequences anytime you mess with anything like that. But I will say this. This is us in response to something that we've already destroyed. And it's in a contained area like an island. So it's better than like to me, the dumping millions of mosquitoes in California, that's not contained. Right. The whole continental United States for things to go.

go wrong and for them to spread and everything else. But again, that's combating and I don't know. It's just like, every time we do that to alter a system that hasn't been altered, it has a very bad trickle-down chain reaction. When we do it to try and repair something, it's different. Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. No, that totally makes sense.

I mean, that's kind of like what colossal is doing with bringing back certain animals. It sounds like it feels like. That's repairing, right? That compared to, hey, let's bring in cantoe. to Australia so they eat the cane beetles. It's like, okay, that had monumental trickle-down effects. The cane toad is like the one thing

I always think about anytime humans try to fix something that that is a nuisance. Like, how are they gonna, how are they gonna, is there any news on what they're doing with the hippos that were in Mexico?

Did they end up moving a bunch of them? In Colombia? I don't know, to be honest. I think last I heard they were actually going to helicopter some of them out Oh yeah, they caught some, they moved some to zoos, but there's like 170 on them now. Oh, my God. So the honey creeper, which is this really cool bright red bird.

Beautiful, yeah. And the Kauai Honey Creeper, I guess, is a subspecies. But there was 450 in the wild five years ago, and it's down to one known bird in the wild right now. So, yeah. So when I was in Kauai, one thing I noticed is that the resorts at night you have to put your windows, the shades down. I remember you saying that. birds don't fly into the windows or something. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So that, yeah, because the birds are so, like, endangered there. Yeah, I, I guess I didn't realize that it was like a massive problem in Hawaii.

Well, I mean, dude, like the cats have to be fucking shit up, right? Like, cats are the number one. Everything. Everything. Everything. Hawaii is just one of those case studies where we've just sort of done everything wrong. Right. It's like Florida, except in the islands. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, we hope this episode inspires you to seek an exciting trip of your own the summer, perhaps one that immerses you in the wonders of Colorado, from culinary delights and outdoor adventures to unforgettable entertainment in scenic outdoor venues, do it all in the state that has it all.

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I think I messed mine up. I did send him a photo. Did you send him a dick pick? But it's of you? It's of me with an animal. Was that the goal or not? No, no. He says, eh.

That's good. Oh, can I send it different one? No. Okay. It's locked in. Don't worry. I didn't read it very closely. But he said it was for, I'm dying.

He said it was for a game that he was putting together. So we don't, I sent you the pick. Did you do it? Yeah, I sent a pick. All right. What is going on here, Ka? Yeah. So I just, I want to hear, you know, we have a lot of photographers out there in the Brosner community.

Of course. They want to see, you know, they love, it's summer. People are getting outside, making pictures. I just want to see, and I'm sure they would want to see, the favorite photos that you guys have taken yourselves. Okay. In force case of himself. No, I'm not, I'm sending a new photo. I can start.

You go. I'm sending a new photo. So mine, it was not about the beauty of the photo because it was taken on an old-ass iPhone. Mm-hmm. But it's the memory and the story. That's cool. completely out of focus too because I was probably zoomed in like an idiot. But it's your favorite.

Yeah. It's very beautiful. So you're on a paddleboard. Yeah. And where are you? Well, no, I'm taking this of my buddy. Oh, okay. So this is in a place called sackack, which is an island.

Yeah. An island. And green, uh, off the, uh, west coast of Greenland. That water is incredible. And so our camp where we camp for two and a half weeks was where I'm standing. Mm-hmm. That's a glacial lake. and beautiful.

There's a reflection of this awesome glacier and that glacier up to the left basically if you paddleboarded across the lake which took us like six days to realize this. Yeah. Because we had like four or five inflatable paddle boards. You could cut about an hour hour and a half of like hiking over these boulders.

Yeah, yeah. To get over toward the glacier where we were going up and down that glacier working for over a week there. Nice. And then all the way to the right, about three quarters, of the way over, you can see another

indication of a glacier there. Yeah, yeah. So that was a glacier that some of the guys wanted to go to, but that's fucking like miles to get over there. Right. And so our safety guys were like,

yeah, it's just too dangerous for the crew. And I was still going to do it. And then he pulled me aside this British guy and he goes, uh, he goes, just so you know, he's like, I'm telling you it's too dangerous. That's my opinion. If someone died,

gets hurt, you went against what I advised and like you will be named in the wrong for death lawsuit. And I was like, okay. So we decided that only the cat, only a few members of the cast would go. So you still did it. The guy let three or four of the cast go, but not my team. Okay. So they go. We rigged them with cameras, give them handheld cameras. They go on this hero's journey to this glacier that they were sure was going to be what they were looking for. Yeah, yeah. And they're looking for gold, right? And so they get their rock. It's hours. They come back. They're, you know, they've done this crazy trek. They went up this gnarly glacier back down, crazy trek on the way back. And there's a eight foot wide little river that you have to cross that we just threw stones in to build a little

bridge. And one of the guys, he's crossing back over after this like 12 hour journey. And he slips and and goes down onto his hands and knees in this two and a half three feet of water. Cold water. But he's got 40 pounds of rock samples in the flap of his pack. Oh no. Which walks onto the top of his head.

And now he's, the water's running. He's trying to get his head up. Everyone's laughing. And he's being pinned under. And he's literally dying because, and he like rolls out of it, comes back over.

He's all, you know, discombobulated. Everybody's laughing at him still. Yeah. But this is just a place that I spent almost three weeks and loved every second of it. It's back sack, Greenland? Sacack. Sacack. Backsack.

Backsack. The only way in and out is helicopters. It's a really nice picture. It's just a shame you sent it to Kyle in 10 pixels or less. It's really low-rads. All right, Peter, you're up. Okay, I'll go next. Kyle pull mine up.

Oh, God, look at this. He literally leaned over his desk when Kyle asked for this. Well, trust me right here. I went into my. Google photos and just typed in animal. And there was about, there was like pictures of my cat and my dog, a lizard, a Western fence lizard, and an iguana, and then my hermit crab. And I thought, I'll, I'm going to give this hermit crab picture because why I saved this guy's life. You did. You did. I nursed him back. The gift that keeps on giving. And look at how

fucking cool this thing looks, dude. It looks like it's in its natural environment. It's eating a beautiful carrot. You could see its eyes. I love how your kid has no idea this thing even exists. This is your pet. But he comes into in there. I taught him. You know what I named him? What? Thurman. Thurman. That's right. So I told, I told, uh, I told my, Thurmet. Thurmond. No, Thurman and he's supposed to have a partner named Merman. I haven't gotten him yet. So it'll be Thurman. You ordered another crab? No, I'm going to adopt one, but I'm still trying to suss it out. I have to get bigger. I have to get bigger space for him. I think he's a little bit.

He's bummed on the 10 gallon. He needs like 20 or something. Get him a 100 gallon 10. Just take up most of your house with Hermit Crabtaghan. You know, and it's just so cool looking when he finally came out of his shell. This was from the first time I saw him after he was buried for a month. And, you know, it looks like a natural habitat. This is wildlife.

And he's looking right at you. Dude, he came out and he comes out every night and he eats some carrots. You know, I don't get out much. He's getting emotional. much. Hey, the eyes are the gateway to the soul and he's looking at you. Right at you. All right, Kyle, which one did you pick? I sent you two of my faves. Okay. Here we go. This is one of my favorite photos I've ever taken. Explain what's happening. I will indeed. So I was in India with my mom, whatever that was, a year and a half ago. And we were going on this lovely safari. It's so excited to

see Indian rhinoceros. And this is the first one that we saw. And we saw them in the bushes over to the right. And we like slowed down the view. And we were like slowed down the view. And we were is in a national park. You can't walk or anything. We slow down the vehicle and out comes this beautiful, majestic rhino. And I get my camera and I'm like so excited. I start popping off stills, bam, bam, bam. And he starts to slow down right as he gets to the dirt road and stop. I'm like, wishing you could be there live for the big game, soaking up the atmosphere of the crowd.

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A couple of long-sized chits coming out of there. 15 feet in front of us right here. And it was the first look. at an Indian rhino. Kyle, can you zoom in on the anus? Action shot. Wow. Prolapse Danish.

Look at those. So are rhinos herbivores? Patrick will not look. He will not. Are rhinos? They are. Yeah. They're grazers.

How do you get a shit that big with just salad every day? You eat a lot of salad, my boy. Yeah. So that's my very, should we do the other one just because it's great? Yeah, do it. Okay. This is my other favorite one I've ever taken.

Another animal ass. This is, well, this one was so. majestic because we were in Namibia driving around. We saw this herd of Wildebeest and I was like, oh, cool, Wildebeest, pulled out my camera, took one and only photo and realized that he was just giving himself a little auto-analingis over there. Yeah, sure was. Is that just a tiny wildebeest? Like a baby? Just far away, zoomed in. Oh, so that's a, that's an adult-sized wildebeest? Uh-huh. What's up with the sack that's under the crack of the butt? Is that belly? That's his belly. Oh, okay. Yeah. He's just been, he's been eating salad. He's jerking. He's just got a big beer belly.

He's jerking off. I just like hysterically gross photos. That's a good photo, though. Like, it's framed very well, and it was taken with a real camera or like an iPhone? The hippo one, or sorry, the rhino one was taken with a real camera. The other one was taken with a phone. Where is the photo going to go in the studio, Kyle? Probably right behind you.

Well, so. On the main wall? No, no, no. On the desk. The desk back there. What do we do? What photo are you talking about, Pat? We're going to do a little contest here, right?

Sure. Yeah. We want to see. your wildlife photos. Or just outdoor scenics. Outdoor scenics. Your best photo. Just like what we did here and we're going to pick

a winner and we're going to get it printed out and framed and put it in our studio. This is our summer photo contest. You submit your favorite outdoor wildlife photo. Yeah. It doesn't have to, well, outdoor or wildlife photo. Yeah. Send it to us. All you have to do is submit it at the link in our bio.

There's a form. Winner gets their photo printed and displayed in our studio. Yeah. And even if you're not a winner, we still are going to look at these photos and post them on our Instagram stories and show other people. That's it. We just want to see some cool photos. Because our photos sucked. Well, mine didn't. Mine's pretty sweet. When yours first came up, Peter, I thought you were doing a joke. And I thought it was like a really exotic, like, piece of sushi that you've got. The hermit crab, Herman. I thought it was like a food dish. Dude, so I just, just real quick aside right here. I've been using a chat. GTPT on my new phone because you can use it like your assistant.

And I demanded that she only refer to my hermit crab as Thurman moving forward. And so like even... How often are you typing in your hermit crab into chat GPT? Well, I was, I was actually monitoring his diet and talking a lot with food with her and things I can feed him. Are you, are you someone who you think would be open to having a virtual wife? after this next divorce yeah i guess i'll get a virtual wife sure okay no i love my wife i love i love her physical being good good he's like moving on yeah no it's just curious all right guys want to play game thurman we haven't played a game yet

Kyle let's do it do a yingle what is it a yingle oh oh how bizarre how bizarre I feel like that jingle change did that jingle change no I think it was just felt better in the earphones. Bizarre animal of the week. That's what we're playing. Here's how the game works. I give you clues. You try and guess what our bizarre animal of the week is. Okay. Are you ready? I am so ready. I was born ready. All right. Clue number one, this bizarre animal is diurnal, meaning it's most active during the day. Well, that could be any animal ever. Narrows it down to nothing. That could be any animal ever. Zanzibar leopard. Nope. I'm going to go with

African tiger. Our diurnal creature primarily inhabits woodland areas and savannas preferring a mix between trees and open spaces. Wow. Squirrel. It's a good guess. I mean, based on the shitty clues

you've had so far, it's a pretty good guess. Need another clue. Yeah. It's an opportunistic, wait for it, predator. Feeding on a variety of prey, including insects, small reptiles, and even mammals. Okay, so we're talking about something kind of small. Yeah.

Tasmanian devil. Good guess. I like it. No. Are they Diana? No, they're nocturnal. Ant eater. Nope.

Also a good guess, though. I like where this is going. It's a slendered bodied animal with long limbs, which allows it to move swiftly in both the ground and the trees. On the ground or in the ground? Yeah, whatever. No, sorry, not whatever. On the ground.

On the ground. Slender body with long limbs. In the trees. Dinernal predator smallish. In the trees. is, I feel like, our best hint. Oh, man. What goes?

I just don't know any animals. An African servile. That's a good guess, but no. Okay. No, no. I'll go with a Midwestern raccoon. That's a terrible guess.

What if I told you that our diurnal slender creature that lives in savannahs and in trees has excellent camouflage and lives in areas of Australia and New Guinea. Ooh. Can I...

I'm just going to off the mic real quick. Savannah is like an open grassland. Okay. It's native to Australian New Guinea. Yep. Trees.

Camouflaging, long limb. Have I heard of this animal? I think so. I believe so. If I knew more animals, this would be on the tip of my tongue. That is correct. That counts.

All right. Give me more. Okay. Your next clue is that this week's bizarre animal. is well-featured in the rescuers down-under. Remember that cartoon? Chipmunk.

No, I never saw it down-un. Really? I remember the rescuers, yeah. Chipmunk? No. I don't remember if chipmunks were in the rescuers down under. Is that what it's called? Google it quickly, Kyle.

Rescuers down under? That is it, right? Was it Chippendale's Rescue Rangers? Yeah, yeah. Rescures down under. There we go. Can I see what animals were involved there? Is it a mouse? There is a, the rescuers are a mouse, but no, it's not a mouse.

Is it a lizard of some sort? It may be. Okay. Okay, there you go. Thanks. All right. So let's run through our clues here. It's diurnal, lives in savannas, lives in trees, has a slender body with long limbs. It's an opportunistic predator eating pretty much everything it can.

It lives in Australian New Guinea. Has a unique feature that sets it apart from others in its species. Okay. Ready for the big clue? Yeah. Has a frill around its neck. Yeah, it's a lizard. Oh, what's that one?

The frilled lizard. That's it. You got it. Really? Yep. Ding, ding, ding, ding. He said frilled. It's a frilled lizard. Boom.

I've seen a million pictures of this thing. I figured you guys knew what it was called a frilled lizard. Oh, Retep got the bizarre animal. Hey, is that the first time? Cheers. It likely is. I think that's the first time you got the BOTW. Cheers.

So it's, that frill is like to almost make it seem like its jaws are that big. Yeah, so when threatened, that's its threat display. So it will puff out that thing to make it look bigger and more intimidating. You ever see these at like reptile shows? Are these, are these in part of the pet trade? I never have. Kyle, Google frilled lizard for sale. Let's see.

I wonder if you're allowed to own one. Dude, that thing is incredible looking. It looks like the Velociraptor from Jurassic Park that like skits. Backwater reptiles. That's a legit site. I've been on it many times looking at what they have. You can buy a baby frilled dragon for 350. That's not too bad, actually.

It's not great. But it's hard to like, how do you keep these things? I mean, even with the hermit crab, it's like, How do you keep these things alive, man? You just got to do all the husbandry. You got to do your research. It's great. It's a great hobby.

By the way, like, people who are anti-keeping animals and captivity and stuff, you shouldn't have a tiger in your New York City apartment. Right. No one's going to argue that. Should you have a frilled lizard with good husbandry? Sure. Why not? Who cares?

And husbandry just means like taking care of the animal? Yes. Okay. I feel like you're getting dumber somehow. A husband tree is such a weird word for that. It is. Why is that that? It is a weird word.

I don't know. I just, I don't know. What was the lizard at the reptile show that we went to that the guy claimed someone offered him $100,000 for? Oh, it was, it was a gecko of sorts, wasn't it? Wasn't it a leopard gecko? What was it? I remember you guys talked about this. Was it a crested gecko?

Yeah, it was. $100,000. Let's see crested geckos. Pull us up. When we went to the reptile super show, which by the way was this past Saturday and Sunday. Ah, we should have gone again. There was a guy there who said he had someone offer him $100,000 for one. one of his crested geckos.

So what's up with that? Why are these so special? It was like, it had some crazy pattern on it. Yeah. He had like bred into it. Gotcha. It was the one morph. One in the world of its type of morph.

Interesting. Interesting. Who's this guy? I just saw this amazing. This guy's going to get some good, good coverage here. Kyle, look on Instagram at Jurassic Exotics. I just saw this guy's Instagram pop up actually this morning. look at his chameleons.

Let's see these guys. I don't know how he gets them so colorful. Oh, my goodness. He spray paints them. That's what it looks like, right? It's unbelievable. See, the one that has that like Tudy-frutti down in the bottom middle there,

I feel like that is a classic picture that I have seen. Of a panther chameleon? Yeah, totally. That's the one. Yeah, they're pretty amazing. These are incredible. Holy crap.

So he's breeding this like crazy blue color into them? I guess so. I mean, you could see it's, not, like, painted or whatever, because he's holding them in his hands. Like, they look insane. Yeah, that's wild, dude. I gotta say, I'm not a huge lizard. Like, I don't like lizards crawling on me. Yeah. Or, like, running over my foot. Sure. I don't pick up lizards that I find the way that Forrest does. I do do that. Something about a chameleon that feels very, I really trust, I really trust them. I don't find them skittery. No, they're very chill. Remember we had that

chameleon in Madagascar that would always hang out by where we ate lunch? Yeah, I do. Big old Parsons chameleon. So they're like when they're chill. I mean, I think that a lot of, uh, the fear that comes from people with like reptiles is that skittery thing. A hundred percent. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. A hundred percent. Dude, I love now when I find, uh, spiders in my house. What's your one group of animals that you just don't like? What, what animals are you just like, don't care, don't like them? Like if there's anything, like they creep me out. Just it can be whatever you interpret it to be. Like, I don't, I'll start. I've got two. I've got two. I don't like people. Like, people are super into. Yeah, people are terrible. I don't like people either.

People are super into like centipedes and millipedes, right? There's a whole trade where you can keep them. Interesting. People go out and find them. It's like they're gross. It does nothing for me. I never want to keep one. If I see one, I'm indifferent to it. I don't want to pick it up. I don't want to learn about it. You don't like the creepy crawly factor, the legs? It just does nothing for me. It's just kind of a gross bug that doesn't interest me. And I know, I know that people that are watching this are going to be upset, but it's like, it's my one, like, I'd rather see a spider. I'd rather see a beetle. You just, just centipedes and millipedes do nothing for me. There's a definite creepiness to, especially centipede. If I had that on my arm, dude, I would like, oh, yeah, that's mine.

I just don't, it means nothing to me. Birds. What? What? I know. I know. I'm just like, you know me, like, you can show me any picture of fish. I'll tell you what kind of fish it is, any reptile, any mammal. Interesting. Birds, I'm just like, eh, the bird. That's wild. I like birds, too. I think I'm going to get into birding in like 20 years.

That thing, I'm never going to be that guy. And you want to know what's really funny? Talk about the world being a bizarre place. My son, it's the only animals he really cares about. Birds? I could show him a million different fish pictures. We can study fish, everything, reptiles, everything. He's like, oh, that might be that or that might be that.

Show him one little fucking LBJ, little brown jaw bird that you have no idea what it is. He's like, dad, that's a red-nested orbular. Good for him. And I'm like, how the fuck do you know that in year four? And he can identify every bird. Well, he goes to a zoo school. Yeah, but he's just super into birds. That's like his passion.

It's great, dude. I went on a little hike just last weekend, and I brought my binoculars. They do right onto the belt. I've never done it before. They make that sound. Yeah. And I was like, I spotted a bunch of just kind of hawks flying around. And you're just like,

there's something about just like tracking them, following them, and then watching them sit there where they sit. You're like, these birds, man, they're just chilling. Bro, do we talk about the binoculars that have the AI that identify? Yeah. Did we talk about that on the pod? Yeah. Very cool.

We need those guys. Get yourself some Swarovsky. Binoculars that tell you what the bird is. I don't know. I feel like that's, no, no, I would want that. I would want it. I would want it because I'm so bad at my birds. So what's yours?

Oh, leeches. Leeches. Yeah, great. Good call. People love leeches. They're revolting. You can buy leeches as a pet. Sure.

True story. I could see that being... They are invalting. Look at these pictures. These are pulled up. Yuck. Yeah. Oh, people who let them suck their blood, right?

If you buy them as a pet, that's how you feed them. You take them out of the jar and stick it on your leg and let them suck blood and then put them back. Yeah, I just, they... Nope. I found them very off-putting. That's heinous. Yeah, it's pretty pre-grossess. You feed them with your blood?

In the markets in Istanbul, because they sell them as, medicinal things. You walk down like the street markets and they have jars of them. It's like, it's like a fair with goldfish. I don't think they even do that anymore. But remember when we were kids, you buy the goldfish at the fair? Did you, did you guys know that they have bloodletting, getting rid of, if you, I read a study that said when you donate, they did a study when you donate plasma or whatever or blood a certain amount of times per year. They found that it reduces the amount of heavy metal, toxic heavy metals in your blood. So bloodletting might have been an actual thing

that was helping people. Don't like the sound of that. Interesting. Keep my blood in my body. But it makes sense. You're getting rid of blood that's got stuff in it and your body's creating fresh new blood. Fresh new blood. But I think you'd have to keep doing it forever. Right. I mean, I don't think, I don't think it's like the end all be all. But it is interesting to know that that is actually like kind of a healthy thing that they might, that they were doing. Peter, what's your animal lick? I just love all animal. Oh, no, I got one.

Animal ick. God damn. I mean, it's so, so mundane. But, but dude, I will kill every fucking fly that I ever see. No, that's valid. They're just, they eat. Have you purchased a bug assault yet? Is it the racket that electrocutes them?

It's the gun that shoots the salt. The gun that shoots salt like a shotgun. Do you have one, Patrick? No, I mean, you've almost talked me into getting one because you love yours so much. Neither of you buy them. I swear to God, for your birthdays, which I don't know when either of your birthdays are. I will buy you both. Mine's coming up,

baby. August, let's do it. I want to bug a salt. Kyle, go on Amazon and with our company credit card,

please buy a pair present for me to beater. Come on with flies, man. They literally, like, my dog takes a shit outside,

outside the back door. And it sits there. It's covered in, in 20 flies that are now just flying around my backyard. Dude, you get yourself,

sitting on me. You get yourself a bug assault. You're going to be waiting for the dog to poo. Yeah. Yeah. It becomes a game. It's a treat. I just got a sponsor, by the way.

Oh, nice, dude. I would love to watch flies get tortured. I set it up in my kitchen. Apparently, they, uh, and there, yeah, it's a bunch of them. I have one of those, too. You got one? Yep. Same exact one. Has it caught any flies? No, but my son puts flies in them.

The problem is, I don't know if you know this. Once they close, they eat a fly. Yeah. That arm dies. Oh, really? Yeah. So if you have a four-year-old who's like, oh, I want to feed it a fly. I want to feed it a fly.

I want to feed it a fly. your plant dies pretty quick. That's crazy. Wait, so they die when they eat a fly? Not the whole plant. So see how it closes up that stoma? No, what's the stem? Yeah, it's not the stem.

It's something else. That arm will then die. So it digests that and the energy it uses to digest the fly in that arm. The whole thing dies. That's fascinating. How does that help the plant? I don't know.

Don't know the answer to that. It's got to give it the energy. I mean, so. But you can't just go shoving flies in each one of those or the whole plant. You got to let them catch them naturally. Yeah. Yeah.

Because they secrete something that's supposed to attract the flies, right? There's some kind of little scent to them. I haven't seen any of them close yet. And I've got quite a few flies. Kyle, what's your animal lick? Spiders. Yeah, you hate spiders. It's got to be the most.

Spiders and snakes have to be the two most common. Yeah. That's like the proverbial scared since the Garden of Eden. You guys seen the 1980s movie arachnophobia? Of course. I used to love it. That was filmed at my high school. Really?

Yeah. It's Santa Barbara? No, Coast Union High School in Cambria, California. Wow, dude. Not while I was there, obviously, but that was like, it's the only claim to fame that it has. What year did this come out, Araknafosia? It got to be 84? 84?

90. 90. 90? That makes sense. Yeah. Filmed at my high school. I had a little crush on this girl at the time where Aachnophobia was coming out and people were talking about it.

rent it. You know, you rent the VHS too. Oh, yeah. Head down. Blockbuster. And she kept calling it Neratnophobia. You broke up with her over it, I presume. I mean, we weren't dating. I don't even think I knew what it meant that I had a crush on her. I just liked her. Yeah. She kept saying neuratnophobia.

And I was like, ratnophobia. I think she was actually trying to insult you, bro. Like under, you know, subtly. Like low key. Naratnophobia. All right. We got a game. Another game. All right. Why not? Yeah. Let's do top three dead. Number two.

Number three. Top three DFL. That's it. How's this work? So we come up with something and then we just talk about our top three things that fall into that category and the one thing that we just really don't like. The dead fucking last. The dead fucking last. You mentioned one earlier.

What do you want to do? I think it's fun. It's summer. We're in the throes of it. We're all wearing shorts. And tank tops. How about top three? Warm summer.

night activities. Ooh, I love that. For a nice, if you're on the East Coast or in the south, a hot, humid night. If you're here in California or in Vegas, we have some listeners. Yeah. Just a dry hot night where it feels like a blow dryer. A blow dryer. I love that.

I love all of that. Top three summer night activities could be to do today. Could be from childhood. Yep. I'm going to go. I'm going to go number one. Go ahead. Go.

Go. Listen. I loved doing this and I can't do it anymore for some reason. These insects do not exist out here. Fireflies going into a field and watching the fireflies catching them when I was... Big Midwestern thing. Dude, just like in synchronosity, lighting up. An incredible, incredible feed of nature.

That's your number one or your number three? Number three. Okay. Can't wait to hear two. Oh, I got to go all three. Same way it's always worked. All right. For four plus years.

Stop it. I thought it was a snake job. You two little glad-handing A-holes always fucking patting each other on the ass. All right. Number two. Oh, my God. It's funny. I think about what I did in summer nights in high school.

It was like hanging out outside of somebody's garage drinking beer. So I'm going to go bonfire. Oh, bonfire. That took such a pivot. Yeah, but bonfire. Are we going to go bonfire just hanging out with friends, man? Good, good, good. It's warm.

You're a little bit away from the fire. You're chatting. Maybe somebody's got a guitar. Oh, yeah. The vibes are phenomenal. You're picking good. big good picks, really good picks. Don't blow it. Number one, dude, I mean,

I'm going to go just straight up camping. Camping out, beautiful in the woods, out, Wisconsin, out in you smoking some reefer? Yeah, okay. Back in the day. It's good. Sure. That's good. Nothing wrong with anything you're saying. And you know, dude, just again, I mean, that includes having a bonfire and relaxing, maybe take a little

bit of shrooms. And you know what else you're doing out there? What's that? When everybody's lights out at 10, they don't want any more fires and the lights. You're looking at stars, baby. Yeah, that's nice. Stargazing. All right. DFL.

Oh, God. DFL. Just riding around in your friend's car, smoking weed. Feels like every product claims real protein these days. But real doesn't start on a label. It starts at the source. Like real California milk from California farm families, it's real dairy delivering high quality complete protein.

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Yeah, please do. Because I feel like yours are not going to have, they're not going to be in common with mine. That's fine. You go right ahead. Good. All right. Number three, there was an REM song that went,

Night swimming. Just swimming in a pool at night. A warm pool. The lights are glowing. Love that. You're hot. You get out of the pool. You go, you know what?

I just got warm again. Whatever. Get back in the pool. Get back in. You get out. Someone dries off real quick. Goes in. Gets two more beers out of the fridge.

There's two of us in this scenario. That's good. Yeah. Of course there is. Yeah. More than one. Swimming. I love that.

That's great. That's a really good. These are all really fun things. I'm getting excited. I wish I didn't have a job. I'd like to do all these things. you guys. All right.

So that's number three. Number two. Okay. The drive-in movie theater. Wow. I've only done it a few times in my entire life, but it sounds and looks incredible in movies. Fantastic.

We're out of the pickup truck. Where I grew up in Oswego, New York, we had a drive-in. The best part about the drive-in, three movies. I thought he was going to go. The best part about the driving, three figures. Two in the pink, wanted to stink. That's what I thought he was going with that. It was always a triple-fing.

feature. So you got the whole night, you got your little mosquito ring, you thing called a pick, you light that up, you get out, you got your speaker, some french fries, that little speaker, that never works. Yeah, exactly. Can't hear anything. Doesn't matter. Because you're talking over it. You're just chilling anyways. Yeah, you're not there for that. You're there for the making out. Exactly. So that's, that's going to be, that's going to be number two. Number one for me is rat hunting in forest backyard. Interesting. Really? That is fun. We do. We do. It's really fun. It's a fun. It's a fun summer activity is his backyard's overrun with rats in the trees and just go out,

have some cocktails. Yep. With a 22 and just blast some rats. Stay up until 1 a.m. shooting rats out of the trees. What about crabbing in the ocean? Remember? That's a good. I always did that during the day.

Oh, you did? Yeah. I thought it was night crabbing. Anyways, go ahead for us. No. DFL. DFL. Those are good.

Oh, yeah. DFL. What's dead fucking last, I mean, it's hard to pick something that sucks. Yeah, I know. Because you don't really do anything that sucks on a hot summer night.

Okay. I know what it is. All right. What are you going to? It's going back to high school. It's probably happened four or five times. Is when the high school summer night bonfire party gets broken up and you have to run from the cops. Oh, I love that.

You hated that? I got arrested sometimes. Oh, the adrenaline. Dude, I miss that so much. The cops busting in. You're, let's go! And you're like full speed, the smile. Oh, I love that.

That's forest number one. Dude, it's pretty close. I used to love running from the cops in high school. 2 a.m. through the woods, you feel like somebody's on your tail. Trying to keep your beer, put a few beers in your pocket. So good. Shubbing them into your cargo pants. And it's always, it's always for you guys in high school out there listening.

I don't know if people even do this anymore. It's your time to be a hero. The cops bust in. It's every man for them. yourself, not you. No, you're grabbing the cutest girl. You're grabbing the Natasha Zelo, cutest girl at my school. Come with me right now, Natasha. And she looks at you and she just nods her head and runs wherever you run. And you're a hero. She is slowing your ass down. She can't hop a fence. Who cares? Who cares? Oh, we're going to get caught by the cops here.

No, it's not what it's about. It's about getting lost in the woods with the cute girl that you grabbed at the party. All right. I like what you're getting lost intentionally. Yeah, of course. Okay. I knew my way back. What's your top three? Top three, coming in at number three, road cruising. So you're cruising, looking for snakes on the roads at night. They're only coming out at night. Especially in California.

Well, Florida, too, whatever, cools down at night. So the snakes come onto the roads to warm up. Ooh, interesting. Windows down, little country music playing. Friends, you may or may not have a couple sippers in the car. Sure. You're on back roads. You're on the highway.

Come on. You said may not. Yeah, I said may not. And you're road cruising. You're just cruising around. You're looking for cool snakes on the roads. Okay. You're doing it. Yeah. Sounds lovely. I know it's not for everybody. But it's definitely a three out of out of the three. That's the third. What's number two? Yep. Number two is a night dive. Similar to Pat's like a night swim. But I've talked about it looking for lobster going out at night diving. That doesn't happen until October. But a night dive in the summer, you get that clear water. The only thing you see is where your flashlight's looking. There's so much life. The water's warm. Oh, it's tremendous. A lot of life come out at night. Oh, yeah.

All the stuff you don't see during the day. Yeah. Night dive is fantastic. All right. Got a little night dive and catch it some lobster. Number one, hands down, fishing on the docks. Oh, yeah. Not something you can do in California much.

In Florida, Marco Island, hanging out with the buddies. You're sitting on the docks. You've got the music playing. That is good fun. That is good fun. Yeah, you got the headlights, cutting some bait. You're reeling in some fish. You're bow fishing.

sometimes, you're out till the sun comes up. It feels like it's 10 minutes. You're having fun, you're chatting, you get into deep conversations with your friends, which I never do. And then you don't, and then you don't, you don't get into those, you just do nonsense. It's just the best. You get hot, you jump in the water. Nobody cares whether you're catching things or not.

It's nice. It's nice. I forgot about that. That's also a great lakehouse activity. Oh, totally. Go down to the dock at night after the wives and girlfriends go to bed. Yeah. Or like just on a nice, on a nice, very, very,

calm, small kind of pond lake where there's a bright-ass full moon. All of it. Oh, God, just get on a little, little canoe boat fucking float in the lake. And what's your DFL? A hot bar. Oh, that's such a good pick. Hot bar. Hot like you're going there.

That's a really good pick. It's summertime. It's too hot. It's too hot. It's too hot. Everybody's too hot. The bar smells like sweat. It's terrible. Everybody wants to be at the one spot, but it's unpleasant for everyone. Trying to get a drink at the bar. There's 30 people there. somebody rubs against you, they're all sweaty.

You're like, I don't want to, it's too hot. It's hot for a bar. Sweaty, man grundles all packed in. Ew. And gruddles are the underside of your ball sack. Everything we just said. That's a good bar on a summer night.

By the way, this is an animal podcast, and I feel like your DFL was the most animalistic DFL there is. Do we have a, am I having a stroke or do we have a candle burning in here? I keep smelling this like, Brown sugar smell. That might be my delicious oat milk.

Oh, that's what it is. What you're smelling is my breath. You're welcome. Oh, man, I was worried. I thought you were having an aneurysm. Something was going on. He's very sensitive to light and scent. Yes, he is.

I like that we all wore shorts and tank tops. No planning involved. This has been fun. Real fun. I think we should try to get together and do one of these night activities. I'm up for any of them. Any of them.

I'm down. I'm down for any of them. I'm up and he's down. So together, we're right in the middle. That's why we're so perfect together. Let's pick one. Maybe we'll get chased by the cops. Oh, please, please.

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