Wild Times: Wildlife Education - The "Thylacine of Birds" Found in Australia - TWT 159

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

This week we discuss an extinct bird, that is the equivalent of finding the Thylacine to birders, was found in Australia, a woman was trapped by a Python in her home for 2 hours, and why parrots in Los Angeles are getting louder. Enjoy! Prize Picks: Use code WILD to get $50 instantly after you play your first $5 lineup! https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/WILD Mando: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with Mando and get $5 off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code WILD at https://shopmando.com/ #mandopod Chubbies: Your summer wardrobe awaits! Get 20% off  @Chubbies  with the code WILD20 at https://www.chubbiesshorts.com/wild20 #chubbiespod DUER: Get 20% off your order when you visit http://shopduer.com/wild Get More Wild Times Podcast Episodes: 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 159 Breakdown 00:00:00 Start 00:01:44 - Halloween As An Adult 00:06:48 - What's In The News? 00:07:12 - Woman Trapped by Python for 2 Hours 00:21:43 - Extinct Bird Rediscovered in Australia 00:26:03 - Why Parrots in LA Are Getting Louder 00:34:22 - Top 3 & DFL 00:46:53 - Bizarre Animal of the Week This video may contain paid promotion. #ad #sponsored #forrestgalante #extinctoralive #podcast

A 13-foot python attacked this poor woman named Aram while she was washing dishes in her home. Our large, formidable, five-foot-long 110-pound creature is revered and feared by the locals because they believe it is possessed by evil spirits. The hunt for Australia's most elusive bird has taken an explosive twist. So you guys understand, this is the equivalent of the thylacine for birders. This is a big deal. Wild Times. Oh, God.

Yeah. Woo! Wild Times. It's festive in here. Everybody's wearing some nice, nice colors. Countdown to Halloween has started. That's right. Peter's already dressed up.

I do. I wear, I dress for Halloween all year long. Peter's dressed as a witch force is dressed as my math teacher in middle school. Peter, did you notice that Peter brought special? headphones so he could wear his hat. Yeah, 50 bucks. I paid for him out of my own pocket. Just so he could wear the hat. That's right. We're going to need to change the lighting, get some light on your eyes. Can you, can you curl the brim up? Does the brim curl up? Yes, I think that's the way. No, that's the look. See, I can't, I don't know how I look right now, so I can't do this. I can be a whole pod doing this.

No, you have to. Because otherwise your face shaded. Here's the thing. So a couple of my friends who watch the pod from back home, old, old friends, they think it's really funny when I wear the five and a half finch fucking chubbies. You've heard about it? Yeah. They're like, what's with the short shorts? I'm just like,

I've got great legs. Yeah, because they're from Chicago, right? Yeah, the Midwest. Right. So they're still in cargo shorts from the 90s. Sure, of course. Tell me, I'm wrong.

Tell me I'm wrong. They're still wearing big leg cargo shorts. You're right. They're not fashion forward. I wish that I was allowed to wear those as well still. But I can't. No way. I'll be shamed in Southern California.

But so now I was like, all right, I'm going to wear the hat with the short shorts shorts. I'm going to keep accessorizing and seeing what I can get to. And then, you know, I've got until Halloween and then I have to go back to normal. We didn't do intros. We're too far in. We're way too far. I'm good. I'm good. I like that. Your forest. I am. Patrick, what about you? You got any plans for, uh, for Halloween? Oh, I mean, should see my house fully decked out. It has been for almost two months. My wife's doing loves Halloween. Uh, yeah, doing some trick or treating with a group of

three and a half year olds. Oh, that'll be a treat. And I think, you know, the dads are talking about having some thermases with us. Of course. You got to. Do you have a drink of choice? Well, okay. For trick or treating.

It's going to be probably two hours of walking around. Yep. And one thermos. Right. So. Wine? Yeah, maybe. Wine?

Interesting. Well, I wouldn't do it. Well, what would you do? Here's the thing, because we did. So last year for Halloween, we walked around with Jess's friends and the dads did margaritas, but they were so, it was, first of all, it was like a hundred and four out last Halloween. It was so hot. I don't know if you guys remember that, but it was like boiling hot last Halloween. And the margaritas were those syrupy sweet ones like pre-made. So it was just like

your mouth was sticky the whole time. And then your kids shoving candy at you too. Oh yeah. So you're like sticky, like tacky, like cheap margarita mix plus like sugar candies. And it's just, it was awful. It was a really bad combination. Are you dressing up? Yeah, always. Okay. Is it a group, a family group theme? No, never. That's shenanigans.

My son's Spider-Man. I wear a shark costume. The little, the baby, we're shaving the back and sides of his head so he has a Viking thing going on. Nice. Yeah, it's a mess. I have no idea what Jess is doing. That sounds awesome. What are your kids going to be dressed in?

Well, it's all decided for me. Of course. So I just say, don't, just whatever you decide, I'll do it. Yeah. So we're all going to be characters from the movie sing. I've never seen it. It's great. Sing and Sing 2. Incredible.

I've seen the ad for it. So what are these characters? Two years ago, I was the monkey. Ah, nice. And then this year, I'm going to be the chameleon. Okay. I haven't seen it yet either. Is that the chameleon on the right?

Yeah, Miss Crawley. So that's me. My kids being Buster Moon, the koala bear in the blue suit. And then I can't remember what my wife's going to be. Is sing a musical? It looks like it. Not completely. There's a lot of dialogue.

but it's all like current music. Okay. Like pop music. It's great. Oh, okay. I'm literally going to watch it with my son tonight. Oh, they're my favorite two movies that like kids watch. Oh, no kidding.

Sing two. Sing two is better. Interesting. No, I've never seen it. I've been looking for something to watch with Rhodes. He just only wants to watch is Transformers right now. Yeah.

Which is fine. You asked me to pirate it for you, the one that's in theaters. No, he wants the real ones though, like the Megan Fox ones, which the first four times I I watched it. I was like, nice. Sure he does. Yeah. And now I'm like, all right, buddy.

Like, this is very fun. Dude, it's like when I was in grade school, me and my buddy would always go at the school library and check out like dragons magazine or something. And it was only because it had like hot, I don't know if they were like CGI, but like basically like women in like weird like hot dragon clothes. Okay. And at a certain point, the librarian just was like, hey, no, she was like, she was like, she was like. like, I need to ask you boys a question. Are you actually reading this magazine when you're pulling it out? And we're like, yes, of course.

Like, you know, like when you're a kid, you're so embarrassed. Like, they, you don't think that anybody has any idea of your dumb bullshit that you're doing. And she, like, obviously knew we were going home and got to this fucking magazine. Not together. What are you dressing up as Halloween? No, I'm going to be a hot dragon woman. A hot dragon lady? No, I'm going to be the cowboy from Red Dead Redemption.

Can you pull that up, Colin? I want to see what that looks like. I want to see if he has the same hat. All right, let's see. Red Dead Redemption. It's not really what I'm going to be, though. No, it is pretty much the same hat, though. There it is.

I'm like a dark cowboy guy. But no, for real. You do know that your hat is like an old lady brimmed hat, not like a cowboy hat. Well, yeah, it's from Nordstrom. Okay. Listen, this hat was given as a gift, first of all, sir. But, no, I'm going as a pig from the three little pigs because I'm going to be a pig. My wife's going to be a pig.

and my little daughter, Noah, is going to be a pig. And then my son's going to be the big bad wolf. And he's really excited about it. I like that. Because it's the one time in your life that you'll be able to say, ah, you're such a pig. Even to my daughter. Yeah.

No, like, dude, three little pigs. I have to read it to him sometimes four times before bed. Like we have two versions of it. Three little pigs. He knows every word. He's two. It's great. And it's just like, he's like, do you want to be the big bed?

the big bad wolf. He's like, no, bad. But like, my wife is like, he's being the big bad wolf. Like, that's the whole thing. And so he had to, like, convince him to want to be the big bad wolf. And now he's, like, happy being the bad guy. So I think I've kind of pushed a trait into him to be the bad guy. Good thematics coming out of you, too. Yeah, that's nice. Uh, Kyle, what's in the news? What's in the news? He's fast now. He knows which button to press. Sir, news from the underground. Oh, yeah. Lead us off.

Peter, tell us some news that intrigued you this week. Wow. What came across your lovely press board desk? There was a woman trapped in python coils for two hours. She survived? What? Out in Pakistan. Yeah, she survived.

No, definitely not. She didn't. I can't be doing this. This is what I do on the podcast. Pakistan. Where did you even get that? Oh, it says Sam, Sam it, packin, pracking. I think we might just start that over.

Yeah, I got to start over. I can't be the one that does that without any preparation. Leave it in. Oh, that's pretty funny. Let's kick her over here. Edit. No, no edit. Leave it.

It's too funny. Still doing it over there. I'll do the news because Skinny Pete's calorie deficit brain is not able. It's not what I do on this show. All right. So there was a woman who was trapped in Python coils for two hours. Not in Pakistan. Her name was Samut-Prakhan.

That's important. She was in Thailand. It was a 64-year-old woman. No, no. You fucked it up, too. I did? She was in the town of Samet-Prakhan. Oh, wow.

Her name is Arom. Wow, no one can do the news today. No, this is tough. It's written poorly. I'll say that. Whoever wrote this is written perfectly fine. 13-foot python attacked her while she was washing home. Wow.

Should we start over? No, this is good. Leave it all. A 13-foot python. Python attacked this poor woman named Aram while she was washing dishes in her home. Jesus. Being that this is in Thailand, this had to be a reticulated python, which we've talked about before a couple times, super aggressive as far as pythons go.

But still, for a 13-foot python to attack her is pretty impressive. Yeah. Like that's like an 18, 20-foot python thing to do, not a 13-foot python thing to do. Like a 13-foot python's not that big. They're probably only like that big around. I was like, I'm trying to imagine this. and it's just like she's at the sink doing dishes and turns around and the snake has like come in through the door

and is now behind her. I envision it like it's a pretty like open air sort of house like they are in Thailand and it came in through the window by where she's doing the dishes or was like hanging by the window. And my guess would be, we should look further into this, but my guess would be it had been hunting like rats or bats by the kitchen.

Yeah. And it, you know, saw her arm or hand or something and thought it was a rat or a bat not attacking the woman to eat her. Sure. If that makes sense. Here's a video of authorities trying to free her. It's got her arm pinned down.

Wow. And this is nightmare fuel. Yeah. She's, sorry, go ahead. She's going to say, yeah, she was screaming for help, but nobody heard her until two hours. And then authorities got there and it took them 30 minutes to get the snake off her. It's honestly amazing that she wasn't able, I guess because of her age. But it shouldn't be that hard to get that snake off in that situation.

She's literally sitting in the kitchen, so I know there's knives around, you know? Like, it shouldn't be that hard. No, I got to say. If your arms are, if your arms are constrained, you're screwed. But dude, even if you're, it's a mental thing. This is like a mindset thing. Like for you, you're like, oh, yeah, no problem. I would just grab a knife and do this, do that.

Like, if I was wrapped up by this thing, like, maybe after 10 minutes, I would be like, like, knife. Like, I can't sit here. But like, if my wife or something, like, I don't, I think you got to like, you got to have the balls to be able to do it. Okay. So if you passed up. drunk and came to and you were wrapped up in that position, one of your arms pinned down.

Yeah. How do you get a 13-foot python off you? Oh, my God. Well, the first, I mean, if you're in that situation where you cannot reach for anything and it's just wrapped up on you, you reach for the head and you squeeze into the eyeballs until you pop the brain. Okay. Okay. So if assuming, like, if you go back to that video of where she is, she can get her hand to the snake's head, if I'm not mistaken. So what she could do is take her, her index finger and thumb and squeeze into the eyes of the snake. Oh, wow.

Most animals, especially reptilians, reptiles, and actually sharks, if you start attacking the eyes, they're going to release because it is not worth the damage to them of losing eyes, which is their entire modality of eating for a meal. Like you can injure them, you can stab them, whatever. They're probably not going to release. But the eyes, you know, it's like they need them to survive. And they know that. They're aware of that.

So, yeah, I think, yeah, look, her left arm's free. Yeah. She, I think, you know, in that situation, I think there's a lot you could have done. But, you know, given the idea that you can't get to a knife or anything like that, the other thing you could do is her legs are free. Go to water. If you get the things head underwater, it will let go after a little while. Okay.

Because they can hold their breath and all that for 10, 15 minutes. But if you're submerging it in water for long enough, at some point it's going to release to go breathe. That's like legit, very good advice because, like, you know, these reticulated pythons, don't they run rampant in Florida as well? There are some retics in Florida now. And there was another, I actually found this really interesting. Look this up, Kyle. I think it's Dominican Republic.

One of these, like Caribbean islands, it might be DR, has reticulated python problem. Like, it's paralleling what's happening with the Burmese pythons in Florida. Oh, the Burmese pythons in Florida. I stand corrected, yeah. Yeah, I forget which island it is. One of these islands, it's obviously not Dominican Republic. some Caribbean island is getting a whole ton of reticulated pythons. The weirdest part of this story in Thailand is that it took a half hour to free her and then

the snake escaped and they said the police said they couldn't catch it. Oh way. I feel like, no, it's obviously everybody was scared of the snake. Yeah, yeah. The police, the woman, everybody was like panicking and not handling this situation very well. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like they don't really have experience with like animals or this type of animal. The bite, I mean, go to the skull of a reticulated python.

on Kyle so you can see what it looks like. The bite will be bad. Where the panic comes in, if that was an 18 or 20 foot snake and it got around your torso, it would crush your rib cage and kill you. But at 13 feet, it didn't have the strength to do that, I presume, especially with having one arm in it, I feel like there are a lot of scenarios in which she could have got out of it. I'll tell you this, though. Even if it couldn't crush your innards and your rib cage and everything, just even at half that strength, a snake wrapped around you, like constricting your like breathing and like that's an instant panic attack like it's scary i don't know what i would do i would

freak out thinking i'm dead like that's what i would think and i wouldn't i wouldn't be able to get away the fact that the snake got away though is pretty damn interesting well i like i say i think that just means that everybody was terrified of it right it it does they freed it and then everyone oh exactly i'm wondering does it say how they actually ended up getting the snake off uh i don't know does it say that no but it does say that 12,000 people are treated each year for venomous snake bites, though. Those two things are sort of unrelated. Yeah. Now, the reticulated, the ones that are in Florida, which you just said in the Burmese. The Burmese pythons, would a Burmese python do this? No, no. They're just,

much more docile? I don't know if I'd say that. They're just not, reticulated pythons just notoriously aggressive. I think we've talked about how that IAida tribe in the Philippines which are much smaller people. Like, they're not a large group of people. But they have like multiple incursions a year where a python eats somebody. And it's always reticulated pythons. Burmese pythons live pretty much in the same general,

like geographical area. And you never hear people getting eaten by berms. It's just like... Interesting. And I think this is a big part of it, right? Ritculated pythons will eat like whole deer and like just big animals. And the berms, like they will,

but it's more like a berm's going to eat a monitor list. or a rabbit or, you know what I mean? It's like it's not on the menu. It's kind of like, it's sort of the same thing with like alligators and crocodiles. Like you look at the two and you're like, wow, they're the same thing. They're both scary. But you can go swimming in a pond with alligators and basically nothing happens. Yeah.

Go five feet within the water from a crocodile and you get eaten. You know, it's like their diets are different. It's crazy though, like for me as the layman on the podcast, I still learn like things like that. I mean, like the just a fact of knowing the difference between a crocodile and an alligator, you know, it's like an alligator is not going to kill you. I always thought an alligator basically was the same thing as a crocodile and would kill you. So far apart, it's crazy. An alligator absolutely would kill you though. An alligator can kill you.

Right. You can and I have hundreds of times get in the water with a 9, 10, 12 foot alligator. It won't do anything. If you were going to get attacked by an alligator, eyes again? Yeah, eyes are good for an alligator. their bite force down is extremely strong and their ability to open their jaws extremely weak. So if you can get in any situation

where one's attacking you and it's snapping and close its jaws with your hands, you've got it at that point. The only way it can hurt you is with its jaws. So if an alligator's coming at you in any way, in fact, there's a great video of Manny Pueig, if you know who he is. He was on Wild Boys and Jackass.

And he has this gator kind of swimming at him with his jaws open and he just gently like puts his hands out. and just closes its jaws. And a lot of people don't know this, but the underside of the alligator jaws, it's basically just skin and bone. So you can take your thumbs or your hands and hook them under the under kind of like the jawbone. Yeah.

Because there's no fat or tissue there. And you can hold the alligator's mouth closed extremely easily. I mean like two fingers, you can hold it closed. Is that the same with a crock? It's the same as far as the bite force, but you never would be able to. You couldn't have it. It's just too wild. This little twitch is too fast.

The way they attack is too quick. Alligators will swim up to you kind of slowly and just bite. A crocodile is like, it's like lightning. Yeah, because I've seen, yeah. I feel like I've seen like the crock attacks. You know, they'll show like in Africa, wherever it is. Like there'll be a water, an animal like drinking water. And the crocodile will come out of nowhere and basically like grab it on the side of its whole mouth.

Yeah, and the speed and everything else. Exactly. Exactly. That's wild. No, very, very different in that regard. So you're saying I should hang out with alligators and just try and swim with them? I do. I'm going to right after AnimalCon. Wait, where are you going there?

Gatorland again? No, they're all doing Gatorland. I'm going up to Central Florida with our buddy Chris Gillette. You know, remember Chris? Oh, wow. What are you guys going to do? We're going to his new rehab. He's got a new facility there.

He gets in the water with them and stuff. Cool. You know, I don't know exactly what we're going to do. I have to chat with Chris about it. But we're just going to hang out and do some gator stuff. Hang out with some alligators. Pretty much. Create some content.

What a life you leave. What a life. Okay, there's a piece of news. I don't know why we started with the woman getting bitten, but there's a piece of news that came across my lovely mahogany desk this morning. Oh, back to the desks. Yeah. Andrew Eukles.

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Run your game. This morning from 9 News Perth. By the way, so you guys understand, this is the equivalent of the thylacine for birders. This is a big deal. The hunt for Australia's most elusive bird has taken

an explosive twist. With the largest known population discovery in Western Australia's remote Pilbara, Pilbara. Pilbara by a team of indigenous rangers and scientists, but this is the news here. The critically endangered night parrot, which was once plentiful among old growth spinnicks and the inland Australia,

blah, blah, blah, was thought to be extinct for almost 100 years after last being cited in 1912. So 1912 is the last time one of these has been recorded. Yeah. I mean, this is like the equivalent of the, uh, of our woodpecker. Yep. The ivory bill. Except they found 50 of them.

What? Holy shit. Not one or two. The team identified up to 50 individuals using acoustic. technology. So they were using like sound capture devices. Yeah. Because they can tell, you know, different individuals from their calls. And, uh, yeah, they, they found 50, up to 50 of them. So only the fourth ever photograph of the species. Oh, so they did end up, so they did end up getting the pictures and videos of them or whatever. Yeah, they got it in flight. Look at that. So they

found these guys using acoustic technology and then they, they were able to find them and, and go and photograph them and take pictures. I literally got the news 20 minutes before why. walking in the podcast. So I haven't, I haven't read it all yet. I was just thrilled to see that they had made this discovery. I don't know if they went in with acoustic monitoring and heard them and then went and found them or if they found one or two and then put out the acoustic relays to figure out how many. I don't, I, it's still crazy. Literally, I read this as I was pulling into the bar. Either way, it's just crazy. The fact that we have this technology that this animal that hasn't been seen in over a hundred years now is, we now have just current photographs and videos of it,

man. Well, what's so cool is, you know, this animal, it was thought extinct for so long. It's been absolutely decimated by the introduction of invasive species, cats, dogs, rats, everything like that. And so, you know, it's a, it's a night parrot. It's a beautiful little nocturnal bird, easily attacked by land-based predators. Sure. And so they just, it was just sort of assumed they were gone, right? Dingos are there. Rats are there. Cats are there. Super easy to catch. And then, yeah, yeah, a little population of 50 individuals thriving. This is literally like to try and put this into context. This is the same in a birder's world as finding a population of 50 thylacine. Yeah, totally. And I mean like the fact that they found 50 of them is insane. Imagine

imagine finding 50 thylacines and that just a group of them living, it would be the biggest news in the world. Well, you know what's interesting? What do you think, and we've talked about this a lot, you know, what do you think is the animal that's responsible for killing the most birds, lizards, things like that? Absolutely house cats. House cats, right? Four billion plus per year. Right. So those same house cats are the ones that directly led to the demise of this parrot, this night parrot. Sure.

But here's kind of a weird juxtaposition. Dingoes, which I think we've talked about this, not actually native to Australia. They've been there for 4,000 years. They were brought across with people, right? I didn't know that. That's crazy. Have we never talked about that? Maybe, but I forgot.

But dingoes, yeah. So dingoes were literally brought with people when they first settled, like, from the asias. They were brought with people around 4,000 years ago. That's what led to the extinction of the thylacine. They outcompeted them in mainland Australia. That's why thylacine lived on in Tasmania because dingoes never made it to Tasmania. Okay. Now, call a dingo in invasive species or don't.

That's kind of up to interpretation at this point. Well, after 4,000 years, it's like naturalized. But here's what's interesting and why I bring this up. What they've shown is where the night parrots are found, dingoes have been controlling feral cat populations. So the dingoes have been killing the cats that would be killing the parents. There you go. Isn't that interesting?

It is. Like a whole new balance. Well, now they're going to start putting dingoes all over to control populations of cats. Well, they're all over already. But anyway, that's a big deal. This is a big deal in the world of birding and lost species. Yeah. Very cool.

What a cool looking animal, too. It's like a miniature parrot kind of. It is a parrot. It is an absolute parrot. Yeah. Well, not like the annoying ones, though, that migrate through southern. California every year that wake you up in the morning. Those are some, I don't know what.

There are introduced parrots here in L.A. We don't have them in Santa Barbara. Yeah, they're a nightmare. You smug, prick. Well, I've never seen if I saw a parrot, if I saw a parrot in Santa Barbara, I'd get very excited and go try and capture it. Dude, I'm telling you, when I lived fucking down by the beach, I had no idea about this. But every year, there's these migratory parrots that come through, basically,

You can write down where I was at. What are they, Kyle? Look it up. Is it parakeets? What do we have flying through L.A.? They're parrots. It's a flock of parrot. Yeah, but there's a lot of kinds of parents.

Oh, that I don't know. Green, I think it's green parrots, I'm pretty sure. They're definitely green and they're very, very loud because they- Unbelievably loud. Literally had to go work from a coffee shop one day because it was so loud at my house. Crazy. And I was like... They just infested like five trees.

Really? Yeah. I thought these were like tropical birds. Like, I had no idea that we had these things. I believed that they were free. somebody had them originally and like 30 years ago freed like 100 parrots when their house was on fire. Oh, interesting.

Yeah. And that's how it started. So they're red crown parrots, which are an Amazonian species. I know that. Okay. Which is actually remarkable. I suppose they're probably from like the northern Amazon or something because they're obviously able to survive through winter here. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, so they're migrating, I think, from down in that area of the world. And then up through. No way. They're not coming from the Amazon. to Los Angeles. No way. No way.

It's a specific, like there's an origin to it. Yeah, yeah. And then now they've broken into like a few different, uh, where are they? See if you can find a range map in California.

I might go catch some for my son. I literally like, I'm curious now how like what their migratory pattern is and like where they're going and going to. They're really not migrating. They're just, they just, I think moving.

Oh, really? Yeah. I saw some in Malibu once. You did? Mm-hmm. Am I the only one who's never seen in L.A. Paris? Listen, dude,

this is, this is, this is groundbreaking. I had a shoot day ruined because we were trying to film in this house in Altadena and there were so many parrots that we couldn't get audio and we just had to like, we just like couldn't shoot. No way. You just called it? Like that's that. Yeah, we just like filmed a bunch of B-roll. No way. That's wild. You know, it's funny for once on the show. I'm teaching you something. What is the pop-. Look at that tree. Look at that tree. It's insane. We're going to get down a whole rabbit hole here.

But can you look up the population of them? I'm really curious how many. So for those who are listening, we're looking at a picture of a tree and there's, what would you say, 80 parrots? Yeah. About that. Yep. You can't believe when that tree is in front of your house, it literally ruins your day. There are over 3,000 of them, according to expert analyses in Los Angeles. That's crazy, man.

I thought this was one small tribe of these things that ended up outside my window. I kind of did too. I didn't realize there was this many. It's now larger than the remnant population in the wild. Holy shit. There's more in L.A. than there are in their native range. And Forrest Galante has never even known about it. No, I did know

there were some parrots in L.A. I had no clue. It was like this. So I saw a story in the L.A. Times that was I saw a headline. And I tried to decipher the very, very long story. But it said, are the parrots in L.A. getting louder?

What was the upshot? When I heard them, they were fucking obscenely loud. Well, I think, I think the up, it's an incredibly long article, but I think that it was saying that the, the flock sizes are growing over time. Well, that makes sense. So that would be one reason. Not a lot of predators, you know, not their native range. So probably flocks that are typically, you know, tens and 20s in their native range are 80s and hundreds here.

Right. Right. But one thing I thought was interesting was saying like that their peak loudness was like between 445 and 5 p.m. So what else is going on around 5 p.m.? They're competing with rush hour. They're in L.A. Oh, wow. They're competing with traffic sounds.

So in order to be heard, because they're vocal communicators. That's how parrots communicate, right? So if you can't hear me because of ambient noise, whether that's freeway noise or something else, I have to be louder because that's how I'm telling you it's time to go. It's time to eat. It's time to mate. Yeah. So I would love to release a troop of holler monkeys in L.A.

Oh, that would do some damage. Why? Have you ever heard a howler monkey? No, I mean, like it would be horrible. Oh, my God. What are you? Because I'm kind of super villain? Dude, like even just.

a non-holler monkey when they get going loud? Like, monkeys are very loud. Yeah, but howlers are on a different level. Have you heard one in person? Oh, hundreds. Yeah. It's crazy. You can be miles away and you hear them. And then if you hear one up close,

like I was sitting under a tree in Costa Rica watching them, and then one started doing a locator call to another, like, miles away. And it was, I like had to put my hands over my ears. Doesn't it like so? Oh my God. It sounds like an aviation thing. Wait till they get going. They're starting to get each other revved up here.

It's a word I'm looking at. Aviary. Oh. An aviation. That was a terrible video. They can be crazy loud. So doesn't that put them at risk of getting, like, hunted or eating or locating a predator against them? I mean, yeah, maybe, but.

They can't get up in the trees or? They're only real predators where howlers live would be harpy eagles, the occasional big snake. And Jaguars. That's pretty much it. So they're pretty high on the food chain. Yeah, they're up in the canopies and they live in troops and it's an alert call and, you know, like an alarm call and everything else. So it's, they've evolved that as an ability to use it. Dude, remember when we were on the boat in Vietnam and you heard the monkeys in the distance

on that little island? Squabbling. You're like, oh, let's go see what they're going nuts about. Yeah. And found a freaking cobra. That's right. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Is that the cobra he threw on your body? Yeah, exactly. It's the one. Was it a coincidence or did you actually think the monkey? were talking about the cobra? No, I knew that they were, you could hear there was an alarm called. So the monkeys were giving an alarm

and I wanted to go see what it was. I think we said in the show like, oh, could it be a turtle? It obviously wasn't a turtle that the monkeys were alarming about. But I wanted to see what it was, you know, and I was like,

there is something that those monkeys are sounding an alarm about because I've been around troops of monkeys many times or all of a sudden they start freaking out and you're like, oh, there's something there. There's a predator of some kind.

And this was, they were obviously freaking out about a big cobra. And then you guys, So let me get this straight. You walked over there and you picked up the cobra and threw it on Pat?

Almost, yeah. I mean, he forced paddleboarded over first. I did. I paddleboarded over. And then we brought the boat around because he didn't want to disturb whatever was going on. Smart.

So we brought the boat around the other side and then kind of like quietly hiked over. And it was a big, it was a big old cobra, like a 7, 8 foot cobra and it was spitting venom everywhere.

Jesus. I asked Patrick to give me his shirt so I could throw it over its face. Oh, yeah, that's right. It was a venom-covered shirt. And they gave him back very, very soggy venom-covered shirt. And he's like, thanks, bro.

Yeah, that's cool, though, man. I'd love to have a souvenir like that coming home. Did you keep it? No, it's garbage. What? No, I threw the shirt out. You should put it under glass, dude. Come on.

No, didn't even make it into the show. No. It was fun, though. In retrospect, we probably should have filmed a little piece to put that in the show. It would have been good, I think. Yeah. It's very entertaining for me as somebody even hearing about it. Well, what was I doing?

I covered it up because I was moving the snake, right? Is that what I did? Well, you were trying to get it. Yeah, that's right. I was trying to get it. And it was darting away. Yeah. And you kind of,

I think you just use the shirt, maybe put it over its head. Yeah. Or you're using it. It was striking the shirt. That's right. It was striking at the shirt. I don't even remember anymore.

Caught a nice big cobra though. Yeah. It's funny. When you get to that point of catching thousands of snakes, you're like, I don't know. I was trying to bite us.

I don't know. Yeah, right. Whereas it's a normal person hearing about it. You're like, what? Yeah. You fucking, you lured it in with a meat tree

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very simple yep top three and dFL candies to receive well trick or treating oh nice yo uh i'm just to put this out there right now if uh i hear fruit gushers as an answer i'll leave still the best It's a lunch. It's a lunch item. Okay? It is not a candy. All right. I'm taking it off,

even though it would have definitely been number two. Maybe number one. All right, Peter, you go first. Since you're so opinionated here. Holy shit, man. My wife has introduced me to these delicious candies

and I'm going to start with them as number one and then I'm going to go in reverse. But just because I'm so excited about them. What are they? There's these balls of candy that are in these. There are a straight up ball of chocolate. Ferreiro Rocher? No, no.

And then they'll have like caramel. caramel, caramel, in them or they'll be white chocolate or dark chocolate or whatever or they'll just be full fucking chunk of chocolate. And you don't know what their name. No, I'm about to tell you what they're called. I know what their name is. What are they?

They're lint truffles. They are lint truffles. And you've received these in, well, trick or treating, you're saying. Shut your fucking mouth. That's what I prefer to receive. Okay, all right. Jesus Christ. So a lindor, a lindor truffle?

Yes, a lindore truffle. They are very good. I'd love to receive them. They're 285 calories per. three if anyone's wondering. Oh, is three a good serving? Are you done after three? Three is what I limit myself to. You could eat a whole bag. Oh, my God. Yeah. I would and it would be. You wouldn't have. Listen, the candy calculations I've been doing lately. Like, I know how much 20, 20 grams of M&Ms is, which is one of my handful. There you go. 185. All right. So, uh, anyways, that, that's number, that's number one, but I'm going to go back to number three here. And I'm going to have to go with my. You're making this. You're making this. so confusing. No, no, that's like my, that's my top. My top.

I would love it, but you got to be in like Bel Air or fucking Beverly Hills to get this. All right. So my normal number one and will always, or number three will be always Snickers, dude. You know, care. It's great. Fun size snickers. A mini. They're getting smaller.

They're getting so tiny. I don't want the micro. I want the mini. Oh, a stickers at this point is a size of an M&M. Yeah, it is. Yeah. It is. Yeah.

If you're giving out full bars worth, uh, please come on. show, reach out. We'll have you on the show for your candy. Number two, oh my goodness. Listen, if you're giving out a pack, a full-sized starburst, oh, wow. Like a sleeve, like a sleeve of starburst?

Like, because it's more than one candy. Yeah. It's a realistic thing to get. Even the smaller starbursts where they give out two or three, I'm happy with. It also lasts the longest. It's a starburst for 35, 40 minutes. Very true. It's very true.

Yeah, it's just good. Sugar-filled. Oh, boy. I mean, DFL, there's, there's so many classic ones, but I'm going to go with any, like, if you're giving out any type of piece of fruit, like, don't give out dates, please, don't give out. Have you received a date? No, no, small boxes of raisins, though, I've said that was a classic. The little, the little, uh, California raisins, a little red box that guy. You're not, you're not cool. Like, you're not helping anybody's health. They're still terrible for your teeth. Like, do not do it. Do not do it. Do not. give out small packs of raisins. That's good life advice.

And if you do, hit up the show. Contact me. I'd still like to have you on. Okay. What about a full-size box of raisins? Oh, my goodness. Yeah, you got to be on the show. What are the chocolate-covered raisins?

You get at the movie theater? Raisinettes. Raisinets. Where does that fall for you? They're fine. I mean, I don't prefer them. They're good. Listen, but the raisin is unnecessary.

Just give me the chocolate ball. Yeah, fair enough. All right. What do you got for us? Me? Okay. Third place, always a class favorite. Rice Krispy treats.

Oh, interesting. Another lunch item, dude. You are very unhealthy. This is fucking crazy. Who is giving out rice crispy treats? You get the little mini rice crispy treats individually wrapped. So weird. They're so good.

It's just like a little. They are super good. Yeah. They're fine. I feel like I can eat hundreds of them. There could be. I would not trust a fucking rice crispy treat. I'm going rice crispy treats at number three.

No problem. Apparently I can't say fruit gushers is number two. Oh, you can. Okay. Then fruit gushers. Oh my God, fruit gushers. Are you kidding me? That's a lunch item.

Go to the picture over, Kyle. Look at that. I will say, I'm salivating looking at. Kyle gets it. Kyle gets it. Now that we've talked about... The little burst of yum yum.

Now that we've talked about the positive benefits of the starburst, I'm a little bit more sold on the gushers because it's like a multiple item package. As long as the kid eats it at lunch. Yeah. You're fine with it. And yeah, this is so shameless. But number one. Oh my God.

Workout chocolate. You gotta get out full bars of workout chocolate. Everybody go to Workoutchococcal.com and buy full bars to give out at Halloween. I won't do that. No, don't cut it out. I won't do that. But wouldn't that be a treat? I would be very happy and maybe retire.

It's actually, it's a good chocolate. Well, think about this. It's healthier for your kids. It's full of protein. It's like a reason. Oh, it is a lot of protein. It's like a reason. My kid needs a lot of protein.

He lifts a lot of weight. That's good. It's for your wife. No, okay, I won't do that. That's too corny. I would say number one I'm torn No, no

I'm torn between I've really taken a liking to 100 grand bars lately They're so good It's the best one in the multi-pack See? Everybody's getting into it now I'm telling you

There has rice Oh dude that crispy rice You basically have combined A Snickers bar With a Rice Krispies treat But I'm gonna let that That gets out competed by one thing And one thing only for me

Midnight Milky Way Never heard of it What is it? It's nonsense It's the dark chocolate. It is a dark chocolate version of Milky Way. I don't know what else is in it, but it's... Oh, it's marshmallow, I guess.

It's great. As a mini, too, oh, it's a treat. Just make a smore, mate. Nah, that's it. Oh, dead fucking last. Think hard. I didn't even thought of that. Make it good.

Yeah, that's fair. Salami could be a meat tree. I thought we had to go candy. No, it's kidding. It can be whatever you want. It's got to be reasonable. It's not someone handing out dates. Uh, okay, fine.

Just fine. The regular dumb stuff. dumb lollipops. And I'll tell you why. I'm unhappy. I'll tell you why. Because people buy those giant bags of them and then your kid comes home with 750 of them.

It's not like anything else where you're like, okay, we're going to eat through the chocolate and we're going to eat through this. You then have dumb dumbs in a drawer in your cabinet for 17 years. Is it the sticks that make you really against this? It's just the whole thing. It's like it's a cop out. It's cheap. It's cheap. They taste

like shit. I'm thinking about doing this. No, dude, come on. These are great. I love dumbdust. I don't like that you guys don't like my pick, but it's not a terrible candy to get out. My pediatrician gives them out when I leave the fucking place. There you go. That's the use of dumb dumb.

Is your dentist or pediatrician should hand them out? You should not be receiving them. You only need it at breakfast. Fuck up your teeth for breakfast. All right, Pat, you're up. 100 grand number three. Fantastic. We all agree.

Very good. Frequently found in the multi-pack. Also, almond joy. Oh, I do like an almond joy. You don't like them? You don't like them? I love the almond. Is almond joy has nuts?

Mounds don't. Correct. Is there coconut in there? Yeah. Mounds is just one without the almond. But with dark chocolate, right? But still coconut. You're right. Mounds is dark chocolate.

I like the almond joy much better. Yes. Almond joy, fantastic. I gotta tell you, I haven't had one so long, I'm going to have to try it. You should. It's really good. Right now I'm feeling really against it. But you know, you give it a shot.

It's a good time. Get one on the way home. Man, it's so tough. there's so many good ones. Number one, Kit Kat. Yeah, I like a kicket. It's so clean, easy. Doesn't even feel like you're eating something unhealthy.

I can't believe nobody got Twix in there. I can't believe nobody said a reissus. I was thinking about it. That does nothing for me. Are you guys fucking crazy? It's garbage. It's the equivalent of mint chocolate chip ice cream. Fuck off, Kyle.

Are you with us on this one, Kyle? They're garbage. They're garbage. I'll throw them out. Oh, my God. We're putting a poll of these candies on our community post on on YouTube. So go there and take the poll.

And Kyle, it better happen. Dead fucking last smarties. And it's pervasive. I got to agree. Across the decades. People do. There's some included in some of the multi-packs. And so you end up with some smarties.

Horrible. Straight into the trash bin. It is sidewalk chalk. Cut up. That's what a smarty is. 100%. A little sugar sprinkled on it. I don't even think there's sugar in it.

I think it's just sidewalk chalk. No, I, listen, I have never agreed so hard with something you've said. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I wanted to say Neko Wafers just to give the shout out, but you're like, nobody actually does that. No one really gives them out. Like dates. Yeah, exactly. Listen, Kyle, do not forget to put the pole and weigh in. This is probably the most important thing going on in animal conservation news. So make sure you weigh in in the comments. Is Halloween candy? And what is the poll? Are Hershey's good? No, well, the poll will have the options of the candies. Oh, so who's, who's top three D.

best. Oh, the very best candy. It'll be just, what's the best candy? Kyle, rapid fire yours real quick. Three, two, one. Let's see. Three is probably Snickers. Okay. Two. Plastic. Twix. Yep. Very good choice. One is, uh, I'm blanking on it. It's, uh, wait, I said Twix. Twitch was my number one. You just said Twix. Twix is number one. Number two is Kit Kat. Okay. Fair enough. DFL. Hershey's. Uh, uh, probably,

Yeah, peanut butter. Anything. Fuck off. Why? Why did you say that? That's untrue. He just said that because you said it. I don't like peanut butter.

Cut his mic, Kyle. Cut his own mic, Kyle. Cut your own mind. This is bullshit. It's a delicious candy. Just because you are allergic to peanuts doesn't mean it's not good. I'm very upset about the fucking, the Reese's peanut butter cups are good. All right.

Moving on. Okay. I like, I like that we're on Halloween theme today. I feel like it's the only thing we've been talking about. Everybody's excited. Can I do, Can I do a Halloween game?

A little... No. It's Halloween. So good. Such a good jingle. All right. So this is Bizarre Animal the Week. And because we are a Halloween theme today,

I've picked a very formidable, very ferocious looking creature. So that's your first clue, Jens. Possum. Oh, boy. Possum. That I think would be amazing for a Halloween tear-em-up kind of movie.

Barbarissa. Interesting. Both good guesses. Both wrong. All right. So here we go. Here's how the game works. I give you clues.

You try and figure out what this week's bizarre animal of the week is. How bizarre. How bizarre? Here we go. First clue is this formidable looking animal. Remember, that was your first clue. Can get up to five feet in length and weigh up to 110 pounds. Five feet.

That's not five feet. Five feet. Still not five feet. Five feet 110 pounds. It seems like a pretty Newfoundland. Meager. Kyle, where's the buzzer, dude? Oh, no, please.

I'm not going to guess. Nope. It's a guess. Listen, I'm going to go with a five-foot reticulated python. Not yet. That's good, though. We're narrowing in. We're narrowing in here.

This five-foot-long 110-pound creature is equipped with sharp, dagger-like teeth, and the teeth can grow up to an inch. Dude, an American alligator. So, like, an inch. Yeah. Son of a bitch. I like where Patrick's head at. Before you guess,

Big teeth. He said American alligator. Think in that kind of world a little bit. Nile Crocodile. Dude, it's so loud. Up to five feet. Up to five feet. But that's good.

You guys are headed in the right direction. God awful guesses. Those teeth, though, those teeth. But 110 pounds, five foot in length. What if I told you this? This creature with fearsome dagger-like teeth is a freshwater. predator.

I would say, take it back because I'll never swim in a lake again. Ooh, I have a guess. Okay. A gar. Ooh, an alligator gar. You are headed, you are tiptoeing towards it, my boy. Well, come on, don't say that because I don't know anything down that stream of think, thought. Just think big, formidable, scary water animals.

A sea otter. Wrong direction. Don't press it. Don't. Do it. Do it. Do it. No, no.

It's really loud. It's painful. It's painful. All right. Our large freshwater predator that has these dagger-like teeth has a keen sense of smell and excellent vision, which makes it a formidable hunter in extremely murky African waters. Jesus, this is so good and specific, but I'm so dumb that I don't know anything.

It could be African waters. African waters. Jesus. I don't have anything. Nothing? Have I heard of this animal? You have. Okay.

You have. I'm going to say a very large piranha. You're knocking on the door. Somebody's just got to open it and let you in. That's crazy. I thought I was going to be way off. But the only thing is there are no piranhas in Africa. Oh, fine.

Oh, boy. But there is some type of big fish. I bet you by now, Brosner's got it. Okay. Our large, formidable, five-foot-long 110-pound creature that can have inch-long teeth and has excellent vision for hunting murky river systems in Africa, this is why it's Halloween,

is revered and feared by the locals because they believe it is possessed by evil spirits. Okay. It's got to be crazy looking. It's not a barracuda. Those are ocean fish. You guys are like you're narrowing in. You really are. Jeez, man. Is there an invasive one in, did one make it to the Everglades? Probably because it's the Everglades, but not.

Not notably. Okay. Oh, I know what you're thinking of. What was I thinking of? An Arapima. Yeah, right. I'm going to go with a killer, a catfish. That's a good guess.

Do you have a fish guess? No, Aeropima was my guess. It is a fish, by the way. You guys have you singled that out by now. All right. We got two more clues for those listening at home. Our bizarre, giant, aggressive, scary animals that locals believe are possessed by evil spirits is so aggressive.

that it's been recorded eating larger animals, even crocodiles in the river systems in which it lives. Electric eel. I like the guess. Yeah. No. It's like my... I know I don't.

I know I'm not going to get it. My knowledge of animals is so much broader than this. You've really, you're just, you're not highlighting my intelligence on animals here. This is true. And that's good for me. Nothing. Nope.

All right. Final clue here. Our large, evilly spirit-possessed creature that lives in murky central African rivers. That might help. Probably not. Nope. That eats crocodiles

has even been known to attack human beings. Hence why I thought it was very Halloweeny. Are they in the water? Why are these humans around this crazy thing? Because they use the water for washing. I'll say it's a freshwater

hippopotamus. Hold on. Can I, can you take that guess back because it's obviously wrong. Okay, I'll take it back. Okay. What if I added this to your clues? Okay. I'm going to give you the whole summation. Are you ready? Yes. I'm going to add a word here that almost gives it away.

All right. Okay. This is so frustrating for the people who got it after the second. I'm okay with that. Our Goliath creature that grows up to five foot long and 110 pounds that is believed to be possessed by evil spirits that lives in freshwater of

Central. He's crocodiles, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah. I said the word. Goliath snake. Oh, you did? Yeah. Goliath. Gruber. So close.

Goliath Tiger Fish was the answer. You have heard of it. I know you have. I know you guys have seen this before. Oh my God. Look at this evil thing. It's not only is a Halloween fish. It's a evil spirit.

I mean, you're fucked if that attacks you. Oh, 100%. People have been killed by them. That's crazy. Look at these fangs on this fish. It only has like, I could count. Maybe a dozen teeth. Go to the first.

the second picture where Jeremy Wade's holding it with his mouth open. Yeah. They're very impressive. So interesting fact, see the one picture to the left of that. That is a Zambizy tigerfish of which I had the junior world record for about three months. For real fishing? No, for fishing fishing fishing, just spin fishing. Wait a minute. Are they are, are the, I have one on my wall in the tiger. These, the tiger fish, like the one that you caught, are they as like aggressive and terrible? They're just as aggressive and terrible, but they get to like 15, 20 pounds. whereas the Goliaths get to 110 pounds. That's so wild.

I've never heard of this animal, and I'm not sure I want to keep it in my memory banks. Believe it or not, people are keeping them now. Like Kyle, typing, Goliath Tiger Fish. Yeah, right there. There you go. Was that Ohio Fish Rescue? Yeah, this guy has everything.

By the way, two things here. One, number one bucket list fish for me to catch is probably Goliath Tiger Fish. That's the top of my list. Second, I don't know if you guys have heard of this guy, Ohio Fish Rescue. Just this guy in Ohio. who built a bunch of ponds and tanks

and it just rescues megafish because there's a huge aquarium trade, right, in the U.S. Everybody has fish tanks and stuff. You can buy all these awesome, awesome fish, like redtail capfish and Goli Tiger Fish and stuff when they're two inches long and they look adorable, but then they outgrow your guppy tank and then what happens, right?

So this guy, I'm desperate to go to this place. There's a Fly River Turtle, by the way, one of my favorites. This guy has just built this rescue facility because it's legal to keep all these freshwater fish if they got out in the winter, they'd all die. And he's just, this is kind of, this video's not showing off how incredible this place is. Maybe you can find a better one, but he's just built this unbelievable facility where he just rescues fish from all over the country.

So he's got Goliath tiger fish and giant knife fish and giant peacock bass and piranas and Pacu and sturgeon. He's just like, he's got it all. It's absolutely amazing. He's got to take quite the effort to keep all these fish, these, I almost said fishes, these fish from all these different places alive during the climate that goes like from it's mostly indoors he's got this giant pond indoors but even still i'm just saying like the the amount of effort that has to go in to make this pond there's a tiger fish oh no that's a

tiger that's a pariah paya paya from the amazon also known as a vampire fish well i got to say if you've never heard of this tiger fish you have to look at this thing i've never seen a fish that basically has a mammal's mouth with just big incisors all over it. Yeah. Big, very cool fish. And big shout out to that, whoever I forget his name,

but the guy who runs Ohio fish rescue. How did the tiger fish come to be like, is it, is it, oh, I was wondering like how many are there? Is it, like,

is it endangered or are there a lot of them? The really big ones are starting to become more, like less abundant because they have been targeted. Not so much for like sport fishing. but because there's big gill nets. And it's obviously, lives in a very poor area, right? They're from the Congo, Central Africa. Yeah.

Lives in a very poor area. So there's tons of, like, gill netting for food and things like that. So those really big fish, which takes a long time for them to get that big, their population is going down. But, you know, they're also an apex predator, which is insane. Like, they're at the top of their respective food chain. They even eat crocodiles. That's crazy. So they're an apex predator in their ecosystem.

And as we've talked about many times, anything that sits at the very top of its food chain is never in super high a bono. Because it can't be, right? Except for humans. Right, except for humans. Well, I'm just glad they're not in Lake Michigan or Lake Mead or Lake Big Bear up here. Give it six weeks. They'll be in the Everglades. If I were to take one of these tiger fish from Africa and pop it into the Everglades, some fresh water. Would it thrive? For sure. It would?

For sure. Everything lives in Florida. It's crazy. That's dangerous. Yep. I mean, like, there's anybody who's up to no good? out there thinking about the next kind of... Chuck a couple of these in. Dare you. Don't do it, please.

It feels like something that like a cartoon character would do. Absolutely, a villain cartoon character. I love them. They're at the top of my list. How about this? Let's do this. Before we wrap up here, what's your number one fish to catch? I know you guys aren't huge fishermen,

but you've seen a fish in your life that you're like, that would be cool to interact with it or hold it or catch it. I know I said this as my favorite to eat, but I'd also like to catch a wolffish. Yeah, that's rad. They're super cool looking, really weird. Atlantic wolffish. Big fishery for them in Norway, in the fjords.

Cold water, right? Yep, yep. Giant mouthful of teeth. Super crazy looking. Yeah. Petter? I'd love to just catch myself an oversized goldfish. That's a real thing.

A coy. Dude, what, yeah, look at these guys that fish these giant goldfish. It's like the same. 67 pounds. Remember that? We talked about this when the news story came out. There's all competition about it. It's amazing.

Yeah, dude. It's amazing. Actually, I mean, and when I say catch, I mean with my hands. If I caught that, I would put it in my pond. I would do everything in my power to keep it alive and put it in my fish pond. Imagine having a 70-pound goldfish in your fish pond. Yeah. What about you?

The Goliath tigerfish. That's why I brought it up. Yeah, that's my number one, for sure. For sure, for sure. Very good. I wouldn't mind catching a Goliath grouper. Yeah, I've done that. I wouldn't mind catching a penguin or polar bear.

Did I ever really quick story here? Did I ever tell you guys a story about how when my buddy Adam, he came on the pot in the early days? Yeah. He got a hematoma on his testicle catching a Goliath tiger fish. Oh my God. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen. It sounds horrible. Goliath Gruper.

Sorry, Goliath Gruper. So we're in Florida. We're fishing at his place in Marco Island. And I hook a Goliath grouper. And I'm like, we could tell because we're bottom dropping. And all of a sudden, this thing's just massive. And I'm like losing the rod, like losing the fight. and Adam being the cocky little shit he is, he runs over,

he's like, give me that. And he grabs the rod and sticks it into the gunnel of the boat. And then it slips and he brings the rod butt at full torque into his testicle. That's not funny. And then he's like all that. So we hand the rod back to me. I fight the fish. I landed, fight it with my buddy Jordan.

We unhook it just like that. Jumped in the water. Huge fish like that. Unhooked it. Let it go. And the whole rest of the day, Adam's whining about it's nuts. We're like, shut up, dude.

You're fine. Like shut up, shut up. We get back. And his dad's a doctor. right. We were like 19, 20 years old. Yeah. So his dad's a doctor, so he's like, Dad, can you take a look at my nuts? And we're like sitting in the room

like kind of like looking but not looking. Yeah, yeah. And then his dad's like, oh my God. You just hear that. And we're like, oh shit, what's happened? And Adam's like, I gotta show you guys this. And he turns and he's got his two nuts and then a third pitch black testicle has formed that is the size of a tennis ball. I swear to God.

This is terrible. He's got a hematoma in his nut sack. And it literally looks like a bag of apples, dude. I've never seen anything like it. That sounds, the way you're illustrating this makes you want to vomit. Yeah. It lasted for like three months, he told us. Oh my goodness. He was peeing blood for like three weeks.

I love that you're laughing. Jesus. Kyle's about to puke. It was so funny. No, that's a Halloween story for you, folks. There you go. Happy Halloween, everybody. Keep your ball safe. Keep your genital. Well, the moral of the story is don't be an arrogant jerk.

That's it. Yeah. He started playing Dick, Not or hematoma with us. He was like, guess which one? Oh my God. I love how he played into it. He did.