Wild Times: Wildlife Education - The Last of Us in Real Life - The Wild Times Ep. 116

Episode Date: April 18, 2023

This week we discuss what animals to be aggressive with, the new deadly fungus, and sea otters carrying a rare, dangerous parasite. 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 116 - The Breakdown 00:00 - Intro 05:00 - Top 3 & DFL 11:04 - Brostners in South Africa 15:11 - Patrick's Casino Story 16:55 - The Get The F Away From Me Game with Wildlife Biologist Forrest Galante 29:25 - Toxoplasma gondii in Sea Otters 35:15 - New Deadly Fungus 39:26 - Battle Royale 52:43 - By-the-Wind Sailor in California 58:15 - Forrest Upcoming Trips 1:01:54 - Outro https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/fat-tire/ #podcast #wildtimespod

Wild Times. It's Wild Times. Hey, buddy. Episode number 116 had to look at Kyle to get the right number there. Welcome back, everybody. We are in our beautiful studio of Peter's Living Room. I am your host, Forrest Galante. The broologist, joining me is the Broducer.

And on the far left, we have Fat Tire's new Michelin Man spokesperson. You call me Michelin Man because I'm fat? No, because they're all white. I don't believe you. It's because I have the roles. What's going on, Peter? How are you? What's that?

I like this look. I figured I would dress in fat tire attire because they sent it to us. And they're a great sponsor of the podcast. And I'm drinking their beer at 10 a.m. So. I know. It is early for beer. This is the fun part about doing them in person is the drinking of the beers.

But I do like what you did. And they did send us a very nice swag box. Like we have some really cool. I'm not wearing any of it, but we do have some very cool fat. And it's all. carbon neutral. So the gear? The clothing?

Yeah, everything. No, I don't know that that's true. I think the beer is. I know the beer is. I'm okay with it, though. I'm okay with it. Are you drunk? No, I was just trying to plug our spot. Well, we're going to fix that by the end of this.

Yes, we are. Kyle's sitting over there with his head in his hands. I like that corduroy hat, though. Yeah, it's real nice. I look a little, I don't know, with the hair. It looks like I have a mullet. You should do a ponytail. Yeah.

I really think you should embrace the sort of C-Cat. Captain thing you got going on. All right. I'm going to do the sea captain thing because I have a hair tie ready to go. Of course I have a hair. Look at this. You think I can just, I can't even eat if I don't have a hair tie. All right. Well, we're back. We're 16. What are you, what's going on with you? What's going on with you? What's the new adventure? I'm going to Hawaii on Monday. Hawaii. Are you ever in town ever? Nope. What's going on in Hawaii? Hawaii? It'll be the first time I've been to Hawaii in my adult life. Oh wow. Oh, really? I was there. I was 18 years old. Okay, so you're entitled to this trip.

That's why. Is it a vacation? Everyone gets one Hawaii trip. So I have a deal with Costa sunglasses, which are, you know, like really good polarized sunglasses. And after three years of doing stuff with them, they were finally like, hey, can you actually do something for us? No.

Like, yes, of course. What would you like? So they're filming a commercial in Hawaii, in Oahu where I've never been. Wow. That's either right. Free trip? Yeah. Oh, my God.

Flying me out to Oahu. We're filming adventure stuff for a day, and I fly back the next day. What a life of you live? What kind of adventures are you doing? They're still lining it up. We're either doing some overlanding that I'm going to guide, like off-roading, or we're going to get a helicopter and, like, jump out of a helicopter and do a waterfall. I'm not sure which one yet.

Sounds awful. One sounds much easier than the other. Yes, definitely. And I'm pushing hard for the helicopter. For the airport. Of course. But yeah, that'll be cool. I'm looking forward to it.

What about you guys? What's going on? Patrick? I'm just in fucking deep pest control. control mode, man. Yeah. After the house flooded? Yeah, just dealing with a lot of

Argentinian ants, a lot of gopher action. Yeah, that's, I'm deep into it right now. Honestly, like, there's always problems and, like, unknown expenses when you move,

but you've had an earthworm invasion, a flood into the garage, and then a burst pipe that is crap. Underneath the fucking, the house. Yeah. So, I mean, like,

are you ready to kill yourself? regret it? No. Do you regret the decision? These things happen. Yeah, they do. We're going to move through it. It's all good.

I know how to cheer you up. What's that? I brought some loquots from my home tree. I have been eyeing those. Would you look there? Loquot? Peter Loquot. Have you had a loquot before, Peter?

Are we sponsored by Loquots too? We are. Kyle, would you care for a loquot? Oh, man. I just got it all over me. Look at that. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's just a delightful.

Yeah, I got to describe it. Describe it. If you've never had a loquot, we did this before. I think it was on a bonus, though. If you've never had a loquot, describe it for the viewers. Describe it. It's like a juicy. Yeah, it's a cross between a peach and a piece of citrus.

Yeah. It's very accurate. We've got it all over me now. I despise. It's absolutely fantastic. I despise peaches. Did you know that? What?

Why? I'm not a huge peach guy. The flavor of a peach delightful. Delicious. I could have it as a milkshake. I could have it in a pie. I can have it fresh. Peach milkshake.

Yeah, something they did at, uh, what's the chicken place everybody loves? Chick-fil-A. They did a peach milkshake? That actually sounds real nice. But the skin? Yeah, I want that. If that peach velvet touches my skin, I literally, it's the most I want to punch somebody. So it's like a nails on chalkboard for you?

Oh, it's like 10 times worse. There's nothing. It's interesting. It doesn't bother me. It is the thing I hate the most is that feel. All right. Making me actually feel a little bit queasy right now. Quick, quick, uh, top three in DFL. Nails on a chalkboard things.

That's a good one. All right. Well, my number one hands down is... The peach skin. It's peach skin and then also the... What do you call that? Not velvet. There's another...

Velcro. No, no, no. It's like velvet. It's like one of those touch things. I can't think of it. It doesn't matter. I'll go. I'll go.

Okay. If he doesn't like silk, dude, he's a monster. No, I love silk. All right, my number one... These are the things that we hate the most, correct? Yeah, yeah. Like nails on a chalkboard. Okay.

Number three. for me is a car seatbelt beeping. That's bad. That's a good one. Driving and the passenger has no idea that it's taking place. Psychologically created to annoy. And while that's happening, I'm like, I'm going to push this person out my car. And usually they're like in conversation and you're like, I don't care. Stop talking.

I'm going to push you out of the car. It's very irritating. That's number three. And now they get louder and louder and louder. Talking over it. Yeah. Number two, very controversial. most people love it. Yeah, look at me funny because it is. White noise.

I hate white noise. Dude, get out of my house now. I hate fans. I hate white noise machines. Dude, I got two box fans in my office right now. I'm not kidding. I need you to go in there and we're going to do some desensitation. If I take a road trip, if I, if there's too much luggage and I can't fit a box fan in the car, I'll cancel the trip. Hate it. And then if the lighting in the car is one iota of an overhead. If there's an air conditioner on in my room, I hear it 15 times in a night. That's wild.

I love that. Freakish. By the way, we took a poll about Patrick's light. Oh, what do we find out? It was about 6040. Okay. In favor of the overhead. In favor of the overhead.

So they like the fluorescent lighting. But it was crazy, 40% like the orange. The yellow, the green light. I'm getting it sort of. I'm getting it sort of. No, no, you're working on. It's that peach fuzz. Peach fuzz in your mouth.

It literally, I have a violent reaction. Like, I want to physically hurt something. If I bite that, it's like, I'm just going to punch somebody. What sound or noise makes you just really, really elated and happy? What's your top noise? Baby's crying. That's a good one, though. Okay, then, yeah, so then the number one thing that's the opposite of all of that would be,

what's really? Bird sounds. Just bird sounds. Yeah, bird sounds are nice. Nice. song in the garden. Yep, I like that. I like that.

All right. I'll go very quickly. Most of mine are related to flying. Number three, the nails on a chalkboard makes me sick, makes me want to cry. Rushing to the airport. Rushing to the airport. Rushing to make a flight.

He hates that so much. I will not go. He will go to an airport five hours before a domestic flight. Sure, why not? That sounds great. They usually have like a Chili's. Yeah. Yeah. Number two is someone

someone farting on a plane. It fills me with... It fills me with a... I can't understand why you think it's okay to impart this smell. On everybody. Hold it in, get up, go to the bathroom.

It's mental. Like, it's such a flagrant, fragrant way of just fucking... That's terrible. Being like, I don't care about society. I do not care about other humans. I bring fart spray on a plane just to clear out the well. Just the guy with the bottle of the table.

Clear out the row. I spray the seats next to me. And then number one is the smell of nail polish remover. You like it or you hate it. No, no, that's my number one fucking worst thing. Oh, you hate it. Oh, I like it. Weird. The smell of nail polish? I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it adds up. That makes it 10 sense. Peter, I like the smell as well. And then my top joy, my like DFL, the thing I just love, it's the opposite. Yeah. You pop the top off. There's a little metal. Thing, you got to go, a can of tennis balls.

Fresh can of tennis balls. Huff that in. Oh, yeah, they do not let the air get a hold of it. You got to sniff it in with one nostrils. It's like as much as you can put it in your system. Dude, what I might start doing is just pop the top of little, stick a straw in. Just mainline it.

Yeah, that's smart. And nostril. That's really smart. Yeah, it's delightful. Peter, what do you got? I'll just go quick. Number one is like on a vent when you go, like my kid does it all the time.

You hate that? Yeah, it's very, very, very irritating. Very bizarre. Number two is whenever I have to host this podcast at my house, because there's a lot of setup. There's a lot of judging of me happening, and, you know, I work with assholes. Number one, and this is the only reason I wanted to do the top,

top three DFL is because I wanted to mention that when you rub the ceiling of a car, dude, the, like, Oh, that texture? That noise, dude. It's just like... This noise? No, it's different on a car. It's like more foamy. You're so specific. I know, it's weird. That's why I wanted to hear your guys is.

And my favorite thing in the world is when you guys leave. That's fair. By the way, so this is the universal way of calling in a house cat, right? Of course. You get a little scratch on the couch. A house cat will come from two doors down. Yep. And I was just thinking, like, I've never seen a mountain line

in the wild. I think I'm going to hike up up into the mountains behind my house, the Santa Monica Mountains. Just bring a couch cushion. A pillow. You might have a problem, though. Let me tell you because if you do that in front of my dog, Charlie, I'm not even joking. He will attack your hand viciously and try to bite you hard. Everything you do in front of Charlie, he will attack. That's true. He's an attack. Especially this. All right. I got a story for you guys before I forget. And then we'll get

on to some wildlife stuff because this is essentially a wild-up podcast. I think he included the cat thing. I think that's good for the pod. We've mentioned cat twice. Yeah. And dog. When we went to South Africa to film our newest shark show, we had basically a down day between the first location,

second location, and the crew that went with me for the first half of the shoot was just me, Mitch, and JQ, just three of us, nobody else. A super small crew to go and knock out one thing if we were to succeed, and if we didn't, it wouldn't make the show. So you'll find out whether or not that happened. In between the two, Kyle, look this up. It's kind of fun. We went to a place that I went to as a kid, which is sort of like, I realize now much more so for adults than children, called Sun City in South Africa.

Never heard of it. Have you ever seen the movie Blended? Yes. It's that place. Oh, really? That resort? It's a casino resort. It's like very in the, it's like a South African Disneyland, like with the animals and things. It's this. Oh, okay. It looks awfully fun. It's very fun. So we spent one night there in between locations because it was perfectly en route and we're like, I was like, screw it, let's go. There's only three of us. Everything in South Africa costs 85 cents. So it was like, it was literally like a hundred bucks per person per room. It was nothing to go there. And so we're there and we have one night off, one night with nothing to do. And there's a casino. Naturally, we go to the, go to a nice steak dinner. And then we go to the casino. We rock up at the casino. It's me, Mitch and JQ. So there's

three of us plus our two fixers, five people. Casino is like pretty busy. And I, I walk up to the pit boss and like, hey, if we take up a whole blackjack table, you open a new blackjack table. They're like, yeah, sure, no problem. And the hands were a dollar a hand because of the currency rate. So we each bought in like 50 bucks, which was like a mountain of money in South Africa. Sure, yeah. And we just were having a blast. The whole casino is like quiet and polite and South African.

And we are just having so much fun, betting $10 hands, you know, which is nothing. but in Vegas they don't even exist, right? Right, exactly. Betting $10 hands and winning mountains of coins and having so much fun. And these guys come over. There's two young guys are probably in their mid-20s and they just sort of sit down at our table and we look over and like, yeah, whatever. And I'm in the middle. And the one guy sits down next to Mitch and they're just watching, they're socializing and being very polite. They start betting. Six, seven rounds in, the guy leans over to Mitch and goes, has anybody ever told you your buddy looks a lot like Forrest Galante? Oh, really? And he's like,

name dropping on the park. I've never heard that. Yeah. And so we keep playing. We keep clan. And then I said something and the guy stands up and goes, I knew it. It is Farras Galante.

And the reason... Is he a South African guy? South African guy? Okay. The reason I tell you this, him and his buddy were huge fans had never seen my show. Entirely podcast fans.

Oh. Entirely Wild Times fans. They're big fans of Kyle and Peter. Yeah, they were all podcast. The podcast is already bigger than any show you've ever been on. TV is going down, man. It's all about YouTube. Yeah.

TV, exactly. Kids under 30. Our kids won't even know what TV is. Black box that people have hanging on the wall. Why not just watch it on your phone? That's fun. No, that's incredible, though, man. So they, they, so what I love about people who know the podcast is that they always have

inside, like, jokes and information. Yes. Like, they know us more intimately than our wives know. 100%. It's crazy. But yeah, anyway. So we ended up having. super fun. They hung out for like three more hours. We betted we bought them hands because they

came in with like 10 bucks each and lost it very quickly and hung out all evening and they were two brosners from South Africa. Hey guys if you're enjoying it. 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. Amazing. Dude, that's great. I have just a quick casino story because I was just in Vegas. And so me and my buddy just like,

we're like, all right, let's just pop into this casino for a half hour. It was like five minutes from the Airbnb. net. I was like, I'm not really going to gamble. I had like 20 bucks. I'll throw it in a slot machine. Yep. This guy comes up to me and he's like pretty degenerate creep, like maybe mid-50s. And he's like, hey, he starts into some spiel about how he had been playing a machine and it's built up and the bonus is about to hit. And I should just come over and play that machine. And he's in the middle of his thing. I just, I just don't want him near me. He's breathing on me. Right. And so I just turn and look. I just go, get the fuck away from me. And he just kind of, okay, and he just walks away, right?

And I see him go over to my buddy and like they're engaging in this conversation. Same conversation. Yeah, same conversation. Yeah, same thing. He's like two fucking rows over. And then I hear the guy say to my friend. He goes, well, fuck you, man, to my friend. Yeah.

And I'm like, what the fuck did he say? Because I was really. You were really, yeah. But I didn't want the guy breathing on me. Yeah, yeah, I got you. And so I go over to my buddy. I'm like, what did you say to piss him off? He's like, oh, he had this story about.

going to play some progressive thing that's about to hit. And I was just like, no, I'm not, I'm just, I want to stay at this machine. That's it. Yeah. And the guy, I've ripped on him. Yeah. Because he wasn't mean enough. What a nut.

Was this guy, was he drunk? Yeah, tweaker. No, I'm not sure. But I think I just, it was one of those things where like, you know, the niceness with he was going to pounce on that. Yep. Versus being just like, get the fuck away from me. In other words, if you're aggressive to him, he backs down.

Yeah. If not, he's going to be the, like, well, what, Right. So this brings me to a little new game I want to play. Oh, wow. Didn't see that coming. The Get the Fuck Away from Me game. Oh, Peter's going to love this.

Wildlife biologist, Forrest Galante. I want you to tell me the three species of wildlife that you may encounter North America. Yeah. Where you're better off pulling the get the fuck away from me than the slow, non-aggressive avoid eye contact. So the be aggressive as opposed to retreat. Right. Exactly. Got it. That's a good one. That's a very good one. Okay. Here we go.

Putting you on the spot here. You are, and I like it. So coming in at number one, tiger sharks. Got it. Okay. So if you're in the water, you're in the Caribbean, let's say we're in Florida. There's tiger sharks all in the Gulf and everything else, right? If you see a shark, tiger shark in specific, but this really applies to most shark species, and you go, whoa, if you act like prey, they're going to treat you like prey. Okay, so if you start backpedaling, splashing, you know, even just slinking, that's a sign that you're a prey animal. Well, basically like this guy at the casino day. Basically, I think that's where this comes from. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Now, if you see that shark, and he's, even if he's advancing towards you pretty aggressively, and you put your head down and swim right at him, maintain eye contact and go bring it on, that shark is not going to engage with you.

It's going to turn and pull out. Yeah. Because they are not animals that are willing to sustain damage. in order for food. Got it. So if you go fuck off in your body language and the way that you present yourself,

those sharks are going to turn and take off, whereas if you go, whoa, I'm scared or I'm going to retreat, you're in for some trouble. Definitely easier said than done. Much. Yeah. It takes a big switch in your brain to go,

and it's even happened to me. I showed that thing where we're sub-winging. Yeah, yeah. And I started panicking. I think that was on a, was that on a bonus? No. Yeah. We'll kind of a shark was that.

That was the tiger shark. But I saw it, and for those that don't know what we're talking about, check it out on the Patreon. I showed an exclusive clip from where a tiger shark chased me recently in Australia. So nonchalantly dropped, but it is insane. Yeah. And I panicked there for 10 seconds and started doing the like, fuck, fuck, fuck, you know. And then I had to make that switch in my brain go, hold on.

That's the wrong way to handle this. Sure. So that's number one. Okay. Number two, a good fuck-off animal. mountain line. I was hoping you'd go there, yeah. Yeah, it's a mountain line for sure.

Super common around these parts. It's sort of the same exact thing I just said with the tiger shark, right? Like, if you are running on a trail, it's looking at you licking its lips like, oh, here goes something that's running by. But if you see a cat and you get a great, and loud, in this case, you have to be loud and assertive and aggressive. Sort of like that kid was, remember who we had on the podcast? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And he threw the rocks at it and stuff. I think he kept retreating, but he, this guy, you know, he's like being pretty aggressive. He's throwing rocks. He's coming towards it. Now, he did the right thing because he didn't actually engage. You know, he didn't run at it. But he kept eye contact. He was loud.

He was throwing rocks. I think he literally told it to fuck off a whole lot. Yeah. Yeah. And that resulted in nothing going wrong. But by the way, like this video, the cat is not back and down, but he's wary. Well, the problem, I remember here, the problem was that every time the kid crouched down. to get a rock in advance because he's getting smaller.

But I've seen videos. There's a good one online where a guy comes across a mountain line on a trail and the guy's obviously scared and he he's doing the right thing and maintaining eye contact. Yeah. But he's talking like this. He's being very nice and sweet to it. And he's like, just stay there, a little mountain lion, just stay there.

And talking in this kind of high voice. That's not it. And he's scared. And it's like you really need, you should scream obscenities. Right. And the angriest voice. Right, it's going to read that. Yep.

Mike, I mean, you look at any cat, they're very attuned to your tone of voice. Totally. Totally. Yep. So stay their little mountain lines, not as good as get the fuck away. And being assertive. Yeah. And if he had turned and run in that situation, by the way, it would have pounced him.

No question. No, would have taken his back. Could you fend off a mountain line? Not you, but could someone fend off a mountain line? Not you, but someone who's physical? Yeah. Could they fend off a mountain line if it's straight up attacked? No, really.

It's funny because people will argue this guaranteed in the comments. Yeah. And there have been one or two instances. I think there was a guy who like choked out a mountain lion or something like that. There was something like that. I think it was attacking his buddy. Yeah. And he like came up and he choked it out.

I think it was a cub too. It was like a young mountain lion. Whatever. People will argue this. The short answer is no. There's not a single person. I don't care how trained you are in MMA or whatever the fuck people are going to say in the comments. Yeah.

They can beat up a mountain lion by themselves. I almost said beat off again like the last. Like I did, yeah. Yeah, it says it was less than a year old 80-pound. Yeah, an 80-pound juvenile one that a guy chipped out. I think if you had your knife, you know, you had a buckknife or, you know, your frontiersman knife on your belt. And it was on you, I think, if you got one stab in. Yeah, of course.

Put it in the neck, anything. How big is an adult mountain line? Wait. 200-ish pounds? Yeah, that is big boy. Yeah, you're not winning. Maybe it's 160. And do they go right for like the neck and the jugular?

know what they do. You see, that's, it's the agility and the athleticism. Like, think of your house cat and what it can do to get, you know, on a roof or whatever. Yeah. You know, and the size of it. Yeah. Like, by the way, for anybody listening to this, try and bat and then tell me you can beat up a mountain line. Just bathe your cat. That's it. That's all you have to do. Bare handed, go bathe your cat. Bare handed. Yeah. Then tell me you can beat up a mountain line. It's a really good point. You could not bat with no shirt on and come away with any less than like 15 bloody scratches. Correct. Yeah. And that's your house cat. That loves you. Yeah. By the way. No shit. Let us know in the comments if you can beat a mountain lion's ass.

Oh, they will. Because we'll have a lot of people who are like, I could beat up a mountain lion. But it's a great analogy. You're right. Like the athleticism that these cats have, you don't even think about that because you're looking at it. You're looking at the teeth and the claws. Right. And it's got these big muscles and shit. Yeah. But, you know, imagine just boxing someone, whether you think you're a tough dude or not, right, who's just, you know, I'm 40, a 20-year-old who's incredibly athletic that maybe knows less about boxing is still going to kick the shit out of me. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you've sold me. I wouldn't, I won't fight one, I promise. Don't fight one. All right. So we got Tiger Shark, aggressive. You got to be aggressive with it. Mountain Lion. What else?

Good one. I'm going to say the next one is one that flies on. under the radar a lot. People don't think of this. Wild boar. That's another animal that when they do attack, they attack like in a way that's instinctual. Now keep in mind, a wild boar is a prey animal. It's not at the top of the food chain. So if you rush at a boar, it's going to back down. Whereas 99% of the time, people get mulled by a boar or whatever, they're running away from it. Right. And that's because instantly that bore feels as though, yeah, so look at the scenario, right? These bore, well, this is all different situations, but this bore is coming at these people and they're basically rushing away. The best thing you can do at that bore is try and grab onto the front of it. Grab onto

the tusks. Meet it head on. Don't run away from it. It's going to gore you. It's going to gore you. It's going to gore. Dude, and they are, they are hefty. Yeah. Like, you're fucked if a wild boar is charging you. Yeah. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's, not good. It's not good. But they are going to flee. They're not going to keep taking you on if you're, if you're advancing. Like, this is a perfect scenario. Like, these, well, that was a really big bore, but this guy is one of the biggest ones I've ever seen. This is a good scenario because the guy's hanging out in the tree. But really, you know, this is really more about the dogs attacking the boar. But regardless, meet the boar head on. That's, that those are the three. Those are the three I'm going up with. A tiger shark and a mountain lion. You meet a, you meet a bear head on. You lose. Now who is in a fight between the boarhead on? Between the ball. That's not. That's the three. The bear's not. You're going to. the three of them. Who wins out of those three? That's a difficult scenario. Depends I guess if it's on land or in the ocean. Yeah. I don't say Mountain Line

wins that one. Yeah, sure. They probably, well, there's no boars around here. What do Mountain Lion? Here's the thing. If you think you can beat up a mountain lion what's that? If you think you can beat up a mountain lion, watch a video of a wild boar attacking a human. Correct. And decide if you could also beat up the bore.

Right. Because the mountain lion will eat the shit out of that boar. I think I think there's something about the, being gored that is like more scary, even though it's just because you, you would only see the teeth and the claws of the mountain line in a certain circumstance. You see like the, you know, the, the hog or the boar's fucking gore thing. Well, let me tell you this. This is quite interesting.

So when I went to Samoa and played rugby in Samoa a little bit, the way that the guys there hunt the boar is they go in with a big machete, a big knife, and they get the bore to attack them and they do exactly what I said where they meet them head on and then they cut their throat. Yikes. And it sounded pretty cool. It just wasn't something I wanted to do because I'm not into the murdering of, you know, anything really. But I remember I was over there and they were like, let's go for a hike, let's go get a pig, blah, blah, blah. And yeah, they go in, they get the board to attack them and they shank it or they cut its throat as it, as they meet it. But you turn around and run away and that's just your legs are gone. You know, it just sweeps you out.

Good God. Yeah, that's the way to do that. Now what's one where you, you're where you should run away. Everything else. No, there's certain things like, you know, like you should never run away. That doesn't like, there's like no wind scenario. You can creep away or, you know, hide or water. Well, that's actually good advice. I didn't know that.

I thought that there was somewhere you should just take off. It's sort of just like depends where the switch gets turned, right? Yeah. Because like, it's like with a rhino or something. It's like always stand your ground until you're beyond that, in which case you're just got to like panic and get out of there. So it's just, it's really hard. It's like until you can read the body language, you don't really know. But, you know, like, where should you turn and run away? A rattlesnake. You don't need to run. You can just step away. But like, don't go

meet a rattlesnake head on because it's just going to bite you. Yeah. Whereas if you just decide to back away, as fast as you like, it's going to, it's going to show no interest. Yeah, but like even with a bear, it's like you have a zero percent chance of out running or out maneuvering it. So even if it gets within a footer or two, like you're basically supposed to just stand there. Right. Play dead. Bears can even climb trees, can't they? They sure can. Sure can. It'll be a nightmare. Yeah, bears are scary. Contrary to like the comments in our, uh, in our March Madness bracket, where people were like, I can't believe you picked the bear. Didn't the bear win in the end of the bear one? Brown bear won, yeah. People were very upset. There was a, there was a healthy debate in the

comments of people going back and forth between Brown Bear and Polar Bear. Right. Right. And some people were very angry that Polar Bear didn't. win. And then there are other people who were posting good arguments that a brown bear could take out a polar bear. So that's the good thing. It's a forum for debate. This is a lively conversation. Yeah. That last March Madness podcast that we did was, I've never seen more controversy except for the short where Forrest had his shirt off. There was controversy over that? Yeah. People are just like, where's a shirt, put a shirt on. Oh, nice. I like that. It was just a short, you know, a short one.

So it got sent out to like tens of million of people. Giggling over there. So obviously he read all the comments. There was something funny. I gave up on comments many, many years ago. You popped into the last or into a recent pod that we were doing with no shirt on just from the get-go. And I don't think we mentioned it. And I was talking to my wife about it later.

I was like, I think it's just weird now because he just was a guy with no shirt on. And we didn't even say like, hey, where's your shirt or anything? If it's hot out and I'm podcasting from home, I'm probably not wearing a shirt. I don't have AC in my office. You pop your shirt off. Hey, and there's no network to give you notes.

Like, hey, could we like have Forrest wear a shirt? No, I think it's good. I think that causes a lot of... Should we do some... Do a segment? I think we should do what's in the news. What's in the news? So this is interesting.

There's a common parasite that's been killing sea otters off the coast of California. That's not good. No, I love sounds bad. But fortunately, so far, it's only four sea otters that they've found. but what's interesting is it is, I have to say it right, toxoplasma gondy, which is,

it's a very common parasite. I think like one out of eight or one out of ten humans in America have it. It's the one that your house cat carries. Yeah. Yeah. They tell pregnant women

not to clean the litter box because they can get the toxoplasmosis. Yeah. Which is, but it's pretty interesting that it's, you know, makes me think of the Last of Us,

which I don't know, have you guys, have you guys, yeah, yeah, really, really good. Watch the Last of Us.

And, you know, sort of what we're seeing in other words is that this common parasite is making an inner species jump, right? Yeah. Going from hats. Caps to people. Now people to sea otters, whether sea otters were resistant to it in the past or maybe they just hadn't been exposed or there wasn't enough density of it.

I don't really know. But it's anytime you see a virus or a parasite jump to a new species, it's reason for concern. And that's the foundation of the last of us, by the way. That's why I brought that up. Right. It's just sort of evidence that these little things that you can't see are fucking crafty. Yeah. Yeah.

Because we're always thinking, well, how that affects us. Right. Of course. We love sea otters and we don't want them to be dying from cat shit disease. Of course. But, you know, we're like, oh, shit. Well, does that mean like the sea otters have some weird thing that can, like, jump to us? So what the article said was that the seawters have been exposed to it,

particularly with sea otters that live near shore. which is most seawaters, but near shore in runoff areas, and the toxoplasmosis or the, what is it, Gondi, the eggs of that parasite are washing out with all the rains we've been having in California. Interesting. And just, you know, it has to be a perfect set of situations, but these seawters are getting exposed to it. The problem is, if this parasite becomes rampant enough in the seater population that every time two sea otters are getting together that somehow it's transferring, this can have a major effect on, you know, all seotters. face. Right, yeah, which would be horrible because sea otters might be the cutest animal. Well, and I don't know if you know this, but, and this is really, this is really, really significant. Sea otters almost got hunted to extinction, which almost completely collapsed California's offshore ecosystem.

Really? You know about this? No. Okay. This is a big, I got to paint a big picture for you here, but it's interesting. So Native Americans used to hunt sea otters, okay? And they kept them in a very nice population balance because they couldn't kill a lot of them. them because they didn't have the tools and technology. And sea otters eat sea urchins and other crustaceans.

Well, those sea urchins and things eat the kelp. Okay? So there was a nice balance, right? There weren't too many otters. There weren't too few otters which controlled the sea urchin population, which controlled the kelp. Now, when Western settlers came to America, they were like, wow, it's really cold in San Francisco all the fucking time.

Yeah. What's going to warm us up? Only the densest fur in the world, sea otter. pelts. So they went out, murdered all the sea otters they could get their hands on. And I'll tell you where they found them again, which is right by me, which is really cool. And they thought that sea otters were basically extinct. Well, a few years later, after all the sea otters had been removed, what we saw was this massive spike in purple sea urchin. And as we had this massive spike in purple sea urchin, the sea urchin were eating the kelp. The kelp. Yeah. And now all of a sudden,

the California kelp forest began to disappear. Well, if those, if the kelp disappears, that's the foundation for our entire offshore ecosystem here in California. That's where all the fish reproduce. That's where the white sea bass hang out. That's where everything happens. And so all these, you'd have a giant kelp bed like the La Hoya kelp beds. It was like five miles long would disappear in like three months. And that was because there were no sea urchin left.

Or sorry, because there were no sea urchin left to regulate the sea urchin population. Well, fortunately, and I don't know all the timelines, but fortunately, after many, many years of thinking sea otters were completely gone, You know, a protection was put in place. There was a law pass that you couldn't kill sea otters. They found them on San Miguel Island, which is the island that's out by me in California, in Santa Barbara. Right. It's the roughest channel island.

So very few boats ever went out there because it's the weather so shitty and it's so rough. I've only been there once in 20 years ago, going to the islands. And they found a small population, brought that population back, started breeding them, reintroducing them, doing a head start program. And only now some 50 plus years later is that. balance beginning to come back into a proper play. And now the kelp forest is seeing regrowth and stuff, but it's also dealing with changing sea surface temperatures and now it's just like us being Westerners hunting out those sea otters put this massive, massive

pressure to the point that like our iconic golden kelp forest of California, the thing that people travel around the planet to dive at Catalina was almost gone. Yeah, I mean humans again. Just like You got to kill the cutest animal just because you need And it's not that cold in San Francisco. Come on! Fucking bullshit, man. Well, a lot of that shit, I'm sure,

was getting shipped back to the East Coast, you know, much like the beaver pelts and all that. Yep. Yeah, interesting. Well, they're very interesting. So it sounds like the reins was the big, the big sort of X factor here. For the parasite.

Yeah. Yes, it definitely. It does sound like that. That's what moved it. The question is, will those parasites then spread to the rest of the person? population. If so, will they be able to sustain? Now, while we're on the topic, because it is interesting, you guys have seen The Last of Us. You both nodded, right? Have you seen it, Kyle?

It's very good. I haven't seen it. The premise of The Last of Us for anybody that's not watching this. Don't spoil anything. I'm not going to is the cortisept mushrooms, which are the mushrooms that take over, we talked about it on the pod many times, take over your brain, Kyle pull it up cordisept mushrooms, take over insects brains and things that control their behavior, basically make a species jump from insects and arachnids to mammals and human beings, right? That's the premise of The Last of Us. So you get these crazy funguses growing out of insects and stuff. And in The Last of Us, you basically see this in humans.

Now, the reason I bring this up, just two days ago. No, no, no, no, no, just wait. I just want everybody to be very scared. Kyle, Google this. Great. There's a new fungus that has just entered into human beings, bloodstreams, and systems. Oh, wow. And it's the first time, I believe, that this style of fungus, which is basically a mushroom, has ever been documented in mammals.

So it's almost like the exact foundation for what happened in The Last of Us. I'm sure Kyle will find... Do you know where they found this? They found it in hospitals, actually. People were coming in feeling sick. I heard about this. You hear about this? Yes, I did. And it was from this fungal infection. Yeah. Uh-oh. That's right. And it's in hospitals mostly. I think so. Yeah, I think that's what I was doing. I haven't heard about it. So does that mean that they're not particularly alarmed?

I think so. I mean, I think it's not lethal. Here you go. Dangerous fungal infections are on the rise in the U.S. hospitals. Here's what you need to know. Don't go to the hospital. Rapidly spread fungus called Candida. What is it, Kyle? Oris. Candida oris. It's causing infections and deaths among hospital patients across the country. Oh, good. It's resistant to antifungal drugs. That's right. Of course. That's perfect. Just like in The Last of Us. That's good stuff. Um, yeah. Single cell fungus that can affect humans and moderately resisted to antifungal.

Yeah, I mean, it's, it's definitely, uh, scary. It's not one of those things you think about often that like a fungus, you know, it's not a bacteria. It's not a virus. It's a fungus that's like invading your bloodstream, like mushroom spores. Just inside of your bloodstream. Yep. Doing whatever kind of damage they're going to do.

Yeah. The reason The Last of Us was so brilliant in the setup is that they picked the weirdest one, right? And that corticeps sort of actively takes over the brain and changes the behavior of the animal until it kills it. A genius, like premise, honestly. I didn't know that that's what it's about. Everybody's been talking about it. And now I'm like really, really intrigued because- It's an adaptation of a video game.

Yeah, really? Exactly. Yep. Oh, it's an adaptation. Oh, that video game. Yeah, the last of us. Yeah, the last of us was the game I was telling you. My nephew was playing one year when it had just come out.

This is a long time ago. And I just sat and watched him play for like three hours. Oh, really? It was like watching a movie. Yeah. Oh, I'm wrong. I was thinking Among Us, that new one that came out. That's not this.

I don't know what that is. But yeah, anyway, just something else to be worried about. Just fungus taking over our brains. I mean, you know, only if you're at the hospital. Don't worry about it. I so desperately want to talk about succession, but it's too fucked up to give any spoilers. I haven't started it yet.

Really good. You haven't started the series yet? Nope. Oh. I'm way behind. He'll never finish it. I just started White Lotus like four days ago. It's a good one.

Very good so far. It's good fun. Yeah. Getting caught out of me. It's not like the, it's not like Succession, though. White Lotus is good. I mean, succession is like.

Really good. Yeah. Well, what are you guys? Way up there. What are you guys working on? Any of these types of shows these types of shows, these days or? Loads.

Yeah? I think I'm done with TV. I'm sick of it. I'm a podcast. I'm so sick of it. I don't know if you've heard of it. It's called the Wild Times. Never heard of it.

Huge in South Africa, apparently. It's getting big in South Africa. There's at least two brosters there. It's huge there and at the reptile show in Anaheim. That's right. It was that we went. It's one of our top performing videos on the Chan. Oh, really?

Should we? Should we? Do a battle royal? know what time it is? Definitely. I'll play the jingle. For what? The battle.

Don't do that on a plane. What do you got? All right. This is a fucking great one. All right. I don't know. Is this submitted by a Brostner? I'm not sure.

You are going to build. We're going to do a snake draft. Okay. Peter will tell you how that works later. You are going to build. And we're not going to do head-body legs. It's any characteristics from three animals. Okay, I like that. To build your

ultimate party animal. What I mean by this is like you're going to go to like a super sweet house part. You're going to bounce around. You're going to go to like a bar, then a house party, then an after hours. Yeah, yeah, it's full gamut. Yeah, you're like having a big night. Yep. You've been, you haven't drank in two months. You're like ready to go. Okay. And this is your buddy that you want to party with. I love that. Yeah. All right. Who's leading it off? It's got to be me or Peter

based on the. Well, we can't go until, Forrest talks into his mic. Every time. Every time. I even kicked it away because it was annoying me. Let's let Peter start here. Let's let Peter start. So I go with, what I got one here?

One animal? One animal. And a characteristic. Don't just say the word animal. Animal. Moving on. Okay. So I'm going to, I need a party animal, right?

I don't want to just pick like, you know, the standard primates, even though I really do. Yeah, I was going to say maybe we go. maybe we go no primates. I'm trying to make it a little more creative than that. No primates. There was a show on Nickelodeon back when I was a kid called Clarissa Explains It All. I remember it. I was trying to remember that.

That name just really rang a bell. She had a pet alligator in a pool in her room and it had sunglasses and a hat. Didn't really do much moving around, but it looked. This was a real alligator? Yeah, it looked real. in a little baby kitty pool. Okay. Looked real cool.

You could do that in the 90s. Yeah. Yeah. You shouldn't do that now. No. I just, I just, you know, I want to, I want to, is it parts? Is it the characteristics of an alligator? It's terrible.

Yes, anything you want from the alligator. But I mean, so are we building, okay, so it's just parts. I'm going to give it, I'm going to give it the alligator's snapping jaw. Okay. Very cool. Moving on. Because it could like open beer bottles for you or? I'm not even going to

Okay. Answer that question. You're up. We'll put you in the middle. No problem. Here. Let me want to party with. Okay, are we taking all primates off the table? I think we should.

All right, that's fair. All right. You know, when I think of a party animal, I think of somebody you want life of the party. You want to go with them. They're going to draw attention. They're going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, I just want a kangaroo.

Yeah. If you lead Australian, like you're ready to live life of the party, like you don't even need it to be. you could just be an Australian and you're like, welcome at the party. So I'm just going to take like the general physique of a kangaroo. Is it going to be one of the sort of jacked ones or more of like a... No, more approachable, like just a mediocre kangaroo. Yeah, like a three and a half four foot tall kangaroo.

Yeah, the legs, the tail, like the whole kitten caboodle at this point. You know, and once he gets drunk, he's going to start, people are going to be like, show me the jump. Exactly. He's got a jump every... I like that a lot. He's got a catch line, which is like, good I might. Take a river dragon.

All right. So I'm going to go out partying. I need an animal that really wants to party and have a lot of drinks. Certainly. Because that's going to be part of it. We don't party with drugs here at the Wild Times. Right. We party with fat tire.

Many fat tires. So I'm going to go with the love of alcohol of an African elephant, an African elephant. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to take a lot of booze. are fun. Yeah, that is fun. See how many shots it can do.

Oh, boy. But I'm not taking the body of it. I'm just taking its love of booze, as we know they, they're prone to get drunk off rotted fruit. Yep. Or a fermented fruit, I should say. Yep, yep, yeah. Marula fruit, right?

Yeah, very good, very good. Okay. They love the booze. So that's my one. I'm up for a second pick. You are. Now it's a booze-loven animal, and I want it to be,

it's going to be there for the party, but I want it to be very like cuddly in an unexpected way. Okay. So I'm going to go with the body and physique of a massive codyack brown bear. Wow. Okay. Because what would be more fun than partying with, you know, it's standing on its hind legs? Yeah.

10 feet tall. Sure. Huge claws, but it's not going to use them. It's the lovable loaf. Okay. I like that. And it's getting hammed. So you're taking this a very different direction for me and I'll tell you why.

So I already have just this general physique of a kangaroo. But I'm going to add to that the fully cracked out nature. Like I'm thinking hard party, like lives in Vegas kind of guy. Okay. Yeah. Like the fully spastic cracked out nature of a brown lemur. Okay. Okay.

So now we're built. Is that a primate? I'll give it to. But I figure that doesn't count. Like that's why I asked multiple times. Yeah, I think we can give you that. Like just Kyle, pull up any, any video of a brown. lemur. Like, you remember when we went to that little island?

Oh, yeah. They're just super spastic and, like, very tweaky. Like, you're fairly certain they're on, like, a lot of coke all the time. Um, and, uh, yeah, so I'm going to give my kangaroo just this guy's head, but also general demeanor and spasticness. Like, look at him. Like, tell me that he's not just a little bit tweaky. So you kind of want your party animal to be like, the, the guy who's, like, by the third venue, everyone's like, he's been really fun, but we're kind of ready for him to go. Yeah, but he, until, until that tipping point, his life of the party, everybody likes him,

girls are coming over to talk to him, he's bouncing off the walls. He's sourcing things that you didn't know we're even going to be at this party. You know the guy I'm talking about. Yeah, okay. I get it. I get it. All right, Peter, you're up for two. Yeah, round it out.

So, um, I just want to clarify my first pick, the alligator, uh, that's the quality of being chill and cool with the sunglad and hasses. Oh, that's fair. I'm glad you actually... Sun... Sun... It's just cool.

He's chill. Hat glasses? I don't know. He likes to just kind of sunbathe and be cool. Okay. Opposite of your meth party? Is this more of like a meth limer? No, there's alcohol, there's weed.

I mean, he's got the jaw so he can like consume a beer bong and a lot of booze at once. Got it. Okay, got it. Um, well, I mean, what do I got two here? God, this is hard. I don't even know. but I'm going to go with I'm just going to go with the like

pedability of a tiger right so it's very pedible it's very soft it's beautifully beautiful pattern on it and it's chill so it's a very chill with sunglasses and hat tiger and people can just like come over

it'll be smoking a joint or whatever right because you picked an alligator which they're known for being very chill yeah it's chill Well, I told you, this is a specific alligator from Chromersie explains it all from Nicolodeon. I'm curious what this animal looks like that you're just a standard alligator with a hat and sunglasses, you know, that kind of scene around.

So it's got the body and face of an alligator as well as it's their chill demeanor. No, this is, I mean, I thought we were just doing qualities. I don't know we needed anything physical. It's got to look like something. It's got to look. It can't just be air. It's not air. Well, it's going to look like me.

Oh, boy. We said no primates. All right. And finally, you know, just. God, the life of the party, man. What happens at a party? That's like an orgy, right? Herpes.

I'm going herpes. I knew it. It's been so long. It's been a long time. And herpes, I mean, when herpes is around, you know that a good time has been had. I can't argue with your logic. Yeah, I was basically about to say the same thing. All right.

So it's going to basically be in a petri dish. So sorry, I just want to, I just want to, was it pedability of a tiger? Was that the word you used? The pedability, yeah. So you've just got a regular gator with sunglasses and a hat. No, no, no, the demeanor of the gator. It's like the demeanor of a sunglasses and a hat. It's a very chilled out alligator.

But it looks like a tiger. No, it looks like herpes, I thought. No, no, no, it looks like me. It looks like him. It's just got the virility. Verality. It has a virus. So it's very infectious.

Yeah, like a viral video. Like, you know, good time. I still don't know what it looks like, to be honest. Apparently. It looks like me. How's the tiger come into play? It's got my, like, I have. the tiger fur and the stripes.

Good luck creating that, whoever is building that one up. So you, Peter, are partying along with this animal that looks exactly like you, except it as fur and herpes and is wearing sunglasses. Again, it has the, it has the aura of herpes. It doesn't have herpes. It's, like I said,

when herpes is around, you know a good time has been had. The idea of herpes is there. Yeah, like whatever had transpired before the herpes. Yeah. Do you want, dude, invite Steve to the party. He's got herpes. It's the most fun. You want him there, dude. I mean, people with herpes and they're careful. I've got this sort of methed out kangaroo with a brown lemur head.

And, you know, I think he's pretty close to being the perfect physical specimen, except because he's a bit of a tweaker, he's going to Irish at any time. Yeah. So, so I'm going to give him the loyalty of a golden retriever. Got it. He won't leave me hanging. He's going to be there for me. What does he look like again? Kangaroo with a lemur head.

kangaroo with a lemur head up there. That's smart because the animal that you had built up to that point was going to bail as soon as the promise of a good time somewhere else came up. Without a doubt. But I hate that. If you go to a party, especially if you don't know anybody else and then your buddy Irish is, it's the worst.

And this guy is the kind of guy. He knows where the party is. He knows everybody. I don't know anybody there. But he's got the loyalty of a golden retriever. Like, we're hanging out all night. He can go be a spashead. I know he's coming back.

Like it adds up. Yep. No, that's smart. Yeah, really adds up. I had that happen. Okay, herpes gator. Yeah. I'm just, yeah.

I thought you were just saying it's sarcastic. Somehow Peter will end up winning this. He will. He always does. It makes no sense. Yeah. Wait, what? Nothing. Oh, yeah, I've already won.

All right. So nothing's better at the end of a big party. I'll tell you what, nothing's worse at the end of a big party night than when you're like, you know you're going to pass out in an hour and you're like, man, if we just like stop by the pizza place and just brought home like two, oily-ass slices. And the people you're with are like, no, let's just go home. You're like, fuck you. Yeah. It's like, I'll reach you there. I'm going to have to make a peanut butter sandwich. Yeah. You could be having melted cheese. Are you kidding me? I can't wait to hear

what you got to say here. So I want to give, so I've got a full bear. Everything about it looks like a brown bear from Alaska. It's got the booze loving nature of African elephants. Yep. And I want to give it the appetite and love of food of a hippo. As we learned, they can poop up to 400 pounds a day. Yeah. You don't poop 400 pounds by just eating a little bit. No, you got to really want to eat. You're eating at all times.

This is a buffet guy. Yeah. Very hungry, very thirsty for booze. And then just like a really fun, like everyone's going to want to picture with him. He's a big social guy. Like this is like, let's all go out to eat. Let's all go out to drink. He's an Epicurean.

He wants to just shove things in his mouth at all the time. Just like me. Yeah. Also, I mean, seeing. is how he eats 400 pounds of food a day. He's got to go somewhere, right? What do hippos do? They spin their tail and shit all over the room. Good call, Pat.

But I didn't give him that characteristic. What's he going to do? Where's that food going to go? You can't not give him the characteristics. He's going to go use the toilet. He might blow up a couple bathrooms. He might blow up a couple bathrooms. I feel like the bar owners will be like, it's fine that he ruined all the toilets. Because we just had a fully trained booze bear.

Yeah, I just spent $80,000. on alcohol to get drunk to be. You barely ate all of the bottles of booze and the glass. It's everywhere. All right. I like that. I'll like that a lot. I'll give you it.

It's good. Peter won. I like, Peter is parting himself. A reality of herpes virus. It was like, well, everybody likes to vote for that because it's very dumb.

No, no, that's not true. I explain my reasoning. It's because, once again, a good time has been had, anybody who has herpes as care

free. This is wild. Let us know in the comments who, who, whose animal you want to party with. Yeah, that's a real ticket here. Do you want to party with Retep?

Pick my animal. With gator. But with the personality of a gator. I'm moving on from this. It's a ass. Of course, it's so angry. Keep saying herpes.

I went, I went to the beach with my son the other day, about three days, four days ago. That's a good activity. Saw something I haven't seen on California shores for a while. No, this wasn't... Clean sand?

Starfish? Oh, this wasn't the little virus eggs that we were talking about or parasite eggs. Good, good, good. It was By the Wind Sailors. You know what that is? No. They're very cool. Now, Cowell will pull up a picture here.

Just type, just pull up a single picture, Kyle, of a By the Wind Sailor. What in the f? So it's a very cool type of jellyfish that has a sail on its head. And it's this little blue stingerless jelly that has a... sail on its head and it uses the wind, hence the name by the wind sailor. So it just cruises along the surface. Yeah. Sits on the surface and but here's the thing. When they wash up, they wash up in the millions. Oh wow. Because the wind pushes all of them. All of them together. Interesting. So yeah, we were walking down the beach and I saw two or three and then I looked up ahead

sort of around this point by our house and the beach was blue with the island sailors. Yeah. So I don't know, Kyle, if you can find. Oh, wow. That's so. of them. But yeah, that's how they work. So they just, and, you know, obviously the wind just pushes them around. Not that. That's a man of war. But. And they're stingerless? How do they defend themselves? Well, it's a good question. I don't know if they're stingerless, but they certainly can't sting a person because my kid and I were throwing dead ones at each other. So got it. Yeah, but pretty cool to see. And the last time I'd seen him was in Cayucas, California over 15 years ago. So, um, was there some like weather event that caused this? I don't know.

be honest. It's been a very long time. But yeah, look at like, go back real quick, Kyle. Look at some of those pictures. Like, yeah, there you go. You know, they, they wash up in mass where you can have, that's sort of what it looked like where we were. We can have thousands of them. Are those guys all dead? Yeah. So once they wash up on shore, they're done. Okay. But yeah, pretty cool. My son thought they were really neat. He was running around shirtless, as he usually does. Sure. And as the first time I've seen a three-year-old make a jellyfish to nipple pasties. Nice.

Yeah, he put two on his nipples and thought it was very funny. It is pretty funny. Yeah, it was pretty funny. Kyle pulled up, accidentally pulled up a Portuguese man of war there. Have you ever gotten tagged by one of those? I had when I was a kid.

It was awful. Yeah, you never got hit by one? No. I was at the beat, we did like a big family trip and I was like 10 and my aunt got hit by one

on Gulf Shores, Alabama. Yeah. And she was reacting as if she had been like shot by. a 22. Excruciating. It's that bad. Excruciating. Wow. They're really common too, right? Very. Yeah. And I think there's different levels because I know,

look at that by the Wooden Sailor picture. I know that literally just now when we were in Australia filming a few weeks ago, there was like a warning put out for the area because some girl had swum into one and was in the hospital like not getting released. Really? Yeah, it was bad.

And when I got stung, I was also probably about 10 or 12 years old. and I got stung on the leg. And I just remember, you know, basically my only memory was my mom pulled me out of the ocean and I was bawling. Yeah, yeah.

And it was on my leg and they like scraped it off with a stick and then a few hours later I was okay. Don't they say, does pee help or is that? I know if that's a thing or not. No, no, pee is for jellyfish. Okay. Well, the idea is like the urea

and the warmth neutralizes it a little bit, but it's kind of bullshit. I think people just want to pee on each other. I think it might just be an excuse for like, surfers to like just pull their dick out. That adds up. You know what I mean? Wow, this one has got a lot of seeds.

Yeah, but yeah, no, they're pretty, they're pretty terrible. They're not something. And, you know, they have like a neurological sting. It like goes into your pain receptors. Oh, God. Dude, built. This article is talking about the El Nino in 2014. I think that's the last time I saw them.

It says billions of them by the wind sailors washed ashore from California all the way up to Washington. Billions. That would be it. The last time I saw them was about 2014, 2015. In Cayucas, yeah. It's just, it's kind of crazy to think that, you know, billions. How long are they alive until they get to like the size of the ones that you saw?

Did by the wind sailors? Yeah, the wind sailors, sorry. Oh, I don't really know. I mean, like their lifespan. I don't know. Well, I mean, like, yeah, I was just wondering because it's, there's so many. They must reproduce like very quickly. I think so.

yeah and like you know they're in mass and what's interesting to think is like way offshore somewhere there's a colony of a billion of like sitting together on the sea surface um yeah that's so yeah i don't know i've seen them a couple times it was cool to see them again i'm not sure why they're back in california now obviously something to do with the winds and the weather but we're in for a crazy year it's like i said i know dude it's going to be really weird yeah with the amount of rain just how strange the weather's been it's going to be a very strange year tons of water where we haven't had water in over a decade. I mean, wildlife everywhere.

I've shown you guys those pictures of the snakes we caught the other day. I mean, it's just, it's going to be a great summer. It's going to be so full of life out here. Great summer for animal enthusiasts. The weather is out of whack, though, on the planet. Yeah, everywhere. There's nowhere that's all. A lot of silly shit going on.

It's crazy. Yeah. Climate change. Stay tuned for more on climate change. No. What else do I have coming up? I'm going to New York. So I go straight.

How's this for a pain in the ass? Oh, I know. You're meeting what the rats are? Yeah, yeah. We're taking on the rat problem finally. They watch the pod and they're like, why didn't we think of that? Cats.

Yeah, cats. But how's this for a pain in the ass? I'm going from here to Hawaii for a two-day tropical shoot, directly to New York for a black tie event. How fun is that to pack for? From Hawaii? It's like, like what?

That's like 12 hours of a trip. 12 hours of traveling. Makes. Hawaii to New York is awful. Is it, is there a layover? Is it, it's got a layover? Yeah, in Phoenix, I think. It's miserable.

That's a poop stink. It's awful. Family going? Huh? Family going or just you? No. What is this black tie event? Who invited you to a, in New York?

Manhattan. Why are you upset by this? I was inviting you to a black tie event. Uh, I, I recently became a fellow of the Explorers Club. So the Explorers Club in New York, which is like an old stuffy white guy adventure club. It's not just white guys anymore, but I think that's South Park does a hilarious thing on it. That's where I get that from.

They offered me a fellow or invited me to be a fellow, the Explorers Club, a lifetime fellowship, which is pretty cool. I accepted. And then they have this thing called the E-CAD, which is the Explorers Club annual dinner, which is a black tie event where, like, Elon Musk goes and blah, blah, blah, blah, and all these people. And so I was invited. It's a big deal to be part of the Explorers Club. It's a very, you know, a lot of archaeologists. Yeah, astronauts.

Basically, all the astronauts, all the big adventure people are in the Explorers Club. Yeah, they don't just take any Tom Dick and Harry. You'd be hobnobbing with like the likes of Elon Musk and all the... I think so. I think he'll be there. I don't really know. I mean... Is this part of their new social media influencer extension program?

Of course. No, I don't know about it. that. But, no, basically the way they're, so I'm in the Explorers Club now, but I'm sitting at the table with Colossal, because Colossil has a table there. Got it. Got it. You know, they're pioneers of exploring de-extinction. So, yeah. Yeah,

I'll be at the colossal table, but that'll be cool. I, uh, I had to rent a tuxedo because I looked at my I, I managed to barely squeeze into my high school prom tuxedo, which when I put it on and looked in the mirror, I was like, this is not it.

This is not it? Is that just because it was too tight or because it was like so out of style? Dude, the lapels like this big. I mean, it was snug. Don't get me wrong. It was fucking snug. But like the difference is I was basically

the same height and everything in high school. I was just much more muscular and skinnier. Sure. So it still fits just in the wrong way. In the wrong ways. Yeah, bad fit will destroy it. But yeah, the lapels like this wide and the pants are like this wide.

It's just very outdated. And when you get in, when you're in an ill-fitting tucks, which I've ended up in, multiple wedding parties where like it's just set you go to the men's warehouse or whatever because they want to make it easy for everybody and you just you put it on and it fits like shit you just feel like an armpits and like the pants are so uncomfortable you feel like an door-to-door encyclopedia salesman yeah it's no good yeah you got to get a nice nice fitting suit no got myself a nice one it arrived

rented it from an online thing it arrived yesterday nice pretty good and get a little spray tan no i'm going to hawaii i don't need spray tan oh yeah that's He's already red. I'm bright red. Nice. Yeah, true. Well, sweet. Pod 116.

It's been a lot of fun. It's in the can. In the can. Excited to drink more of these fat ters. Yeah. I got a lot of the fat tires. I don't know. I will say that battle royale was embarrassing.

Still thinking about it. For you two. But I have had quite a few fat tires. I need to eat because I will, like I'm just, I don't know what's happening. You mentioned? I mentioned tacos when I walked in the door this morning. Literally I walked down.

I was like, hi Peter, you're like, tacos. Well, that's not what happened at all, but, uh, yeah, I'm into tacos. Let's do that. Peter, do the thing. Let's wrap it up. Yeah. Go to, uh, wild times. dot club forward slash info for all the links to all the places you can watch the pod.

And you know, we do six podcasts a month. That's six podcasts a month that we do. Let's do it again. Let's start over. Yeah, I don't know. Do you want someone else to do it? No, no. Are you too drunk to handle this?

No, I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. Okay. Don't leave that. No edit. Leave it in. Just do it again.

Just fix it. Yeah. It's been fun, gentlemen. Thank you. Wild Times. Club forward slash info to get access to all of the podcast that we do, all the audio, all the video. And you know what? Check out the Patreon or the Spotify subscription where we do for extra

podcast a month. So one a week. We put a lot of time and work into it. And, you know, it's tough hanging out with these guys. It really is. It's the best part of your life. They rag on me. And then I get drunk. And now here we are, wild times. Dot club forward slash info. Love you. If you made it all the way through that comment, Peter's Herps. Peter's Herps. That's it. That sounds good. I just want to see how many people made it through the rant. Yeah. Yep. Herps. Herps. H-E-R-P-E-E-S? or just as. I would say if it's Herps, you're H-E-R-P-S.

Yeah. Herpes. Peter's Herps. Animal people think he's talking reptiles. Everybody else will know it's about his herpes problem. Herpetologist. All right. Good night.

Good night. Good night. No problems here. God damn it. You've got it twice now. Early bird gets the worm.