Wild Times: Wildlife Education - The Wild Times #104 -Oscar The Cat Accurately Predicts 25 Deaths

Episode Date: October 24, 2022

The Wild Times talk about Oscar the cat and his ability to accurately predicts 25 deaths, the recent viral event of a man fighting a bear on the side of a mountain while rock climbing, and we show our age by not understanding how NFTs work.   Leave a review on iTunes Apple Podcast: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/itune...   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildtimespod/   Official Website: https://wildtimes.club/   Info: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/info   Merch: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/merch   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wildtimespod   Enjoy, brosteners!

Wild Times. Here we go. Wild Times. Episode number 100 and something. I don't know how many. Four. Four, 104. Wow, Peter, you were ready.

In our private chat, Peter had 104 written out, knowing that I was going to blunder the number. And he hit enter before I had even finished explaining what number we were. Amazing. Here we are. It's the Wild Times. I am back home from Baja. We did a really cool.

cool, pretty in-depth Baja behind-the-scenes podcast on the Patreon. If you want to listen to that, go and check it out on the Patreon. Otherwise, I'm your host, Forrest Galante, wildlife biologist, bro-ologist. Joining me is the most handsome, the most

pale, the most lovely Mr. Peter Fitzer P.S.E.M. Man, I was hoping you were going to say Pat with that pale remark. No, you really are looking pastier than usual. I have been outside in over four months. So not once.

It's good for your health. It's a problem. Tell us a little bit about your day. What's going on, Peter? I got a cat. You see him back there? It's hard to notice him. He looks like a stuffed animal.

He's perfectly still. Perfectly still. My office is his new place. He cycles areas of the house. You get this with your cat, Pat? Cycles areas of the house. Same three spots every day. Nice.

I'm doing good, though. It's the middle of the day. That last bonus podcast that we did that you just mentioned is, fantastic. It was evening. We did an evening pod. We were drinking. A drinking pod. And now it's the next day and it's like the middle of work. And I'm just like, okay, this is just not that, but I'll be happy. And this is great. Love you guys. Well, in addition to that, we have the one and only the producer himself who also talked to Mexico because he went on a vacation to Mexico City while I was in a different part of Mexico. Patrick,

what's going on with you? You know, middle of the day, it's weird. I was going to ask you for us. What are you, I know that you're working on something. Yep. I'm sure you're developing something. Yep. Doing research on something weird. What are you research? What are you, what weird thing are you researching for work today? Just what weird topic have you Googled and read about today? Today, my weird topic of choice, I was trying to see if any of the books were out still. I think I put them away. Oh, here they are. Right here. Mammals of the Ice Age of North America. There you go.

Okay. Yep. Yep. Fresh book, fresh out of Amazon. Haven't even cracked into this one yet. But bizarre critters of the North American Pleistocene epoch is my today's research. How about yours? I mean, you could have just called me and I could have filled you in.

I know. You're a cat, short-faced bear, woolly mammoth. But you're obsessed, which is different. Like, I actually, like, you know it all. I need to, like, get onto your level if I'm going to put together this show. Dude, the short-faced bear is my favorite. That's the one where I'm like, It's a tough call because it's like if you could bring one of those animals back from the Ice Age,

which one would it be? You know, Wully mammoths are really cool. They're big. Sabretooth cat, same thing. They look crazy. The short-faced bear would be my pick. But that's what Colossal's doing. They're bringing back all these crazy.

I think they're starting with a mammoth. I believe there's been rumors of other things from North America. I don't know what, but that's what they're doing, which is, can we just, I know we've discussed in depth, but what the fuck? What time period are we living in where we're just like, let's de-extinct a bunch of critters? I mean, that's nuts that that's like a real thing now.

It's the future, man. This is it. We're living in it. This is it. We need flying cars. That's it. And then we're there officially. That's coming. Kyle, Kyle, pull this up. I just saw this like two days ago. They are auto, good luck finding this. Autopilot, private, flying

cars. They're like drone cars. They just unveiled them in Dubai. like four days ago. I just saw it online. It's like a real thing and they're going to start doing free orders. Flying course are like a few months away. Not doing it. No way. No way. I don't trust the fucking Tesla auto drive thing. Not that I have a Tesla, but I'm not doing that. If I got in a Tesla, I wouldn't do it. I'd be too scared. I heard that they, they really parted it down after a bunch of accidents and now it's like you must keep your hand. What is that? That looks like a hologram. Is that that's not the one I

Maybe that is the one I saw Listen, it's cool either way You got this picture of this flying car It's Forbes.com So you know it's legit But they put out a real video I think I saw it on Like now this on their Instagram

Don't worry about it Kyle You don't have to scour it But it was literally like They're like the unveiling of the first Flying cars in Dubai And they had four of them And these guys were getting in them And the cars would get up

And like fly a big circle and land and they're just like, this is the future. And what are you doing? Is it like a copter? Is it like, you know, drones more like a, so you're just like sitting in the drone? Yeah, they're little two-man giant drones. Man, so this is a different thing that I asked Kyle to pull up.

This is, but this plane was marketed as like, it's like, it's basically like driving a jet ski. It looks like it. Yeah. And then, uh, and then people started crashing them left and right and dying. Of course. just like real jet skis on the wall.

I found it, Kyle. Type in drone car. It comes up very quickly. Drone car. I'm not sitting in a drone car. I'm not sitting in a drone car either. It's the, yeah, it's the first thing on the Forbes web. Yeah, type in drone car and you'll see a Forbes link.

Go to all. The Jets and one. This is the thing I saw the other day. There it is. Ridiculous. There it is. Scroll down. There is an actual video.

There it is. Oh, God. And this is a real thing. You get in. Wow. This one is not the automated one, but they also unveiled an automated one. But yep, there it is. We just, we, we have flying cars now.

Wow. That is crazy, dangerous. That's all I'll say. I mean, so think about how many times you've witnessed a drone crash yourself in your life. I know. I know about actually being in one. Well, if you've met Mitchell, you've witnessed a lot of drone crashes. because for a guy who pride himself on being a fantastic drone pilot,

we seem to lose one per shoot. I mean, the Jetsons was set in 262, so we still have 40 years. That's true. Sure. They might have just like perfectly predicted what it's going to be like in 262. We have to raise all of our dwellings on top of poles because we can't live on the earth anymore.

Yeah, exactly. That's pretty much what's happening in L.A. anyway. True. All right. Enough of that. Forest. Should we do it? Should we do? What's in the news? What's in the news?

What's in the news? What's in the news, man? What's going on? There is some good stuff in the news. But before we get into the nitty-gritty of wildlife news, guy, rock climber fights off bear. This is in the news. Joe Rogan's posted about it this morning. Have you guys seen this video yet? I have not. Okay. I've seen it a little bit of it. It's banana. You need to go check this out on YouTube.

I will give you a play-by-play. There's a guy rock climbing. Okay, I don't know where he is. I didn't actually read the article, but I just watched this video. Hit Play Kyle. He's got a GoPro on his head, right? He's doing a crevice climb.

All of a sudden, black bear right over the top, comes right for his head. But watch this. It keeps coming back. It's not like, oh, my God, he spooked it. It went over him. Look at how it just keeps coming back. And if the audio were on, you'd hear.

He's like, ah, yeah, yeah. And he's just like screaming at this bear. and the bear keeps coming for it. And the guy has to punch it in the head and kick it in the head like three or four times. Terrify. It's wild. Terrify.

It's insane, dude. And why a black bears don't attack like that? What's it doing? Obviously startled. So I would say, I mean, I need to read the article. I probably shouldn't be doing what's in the news on this before knowing. But I'm guessing there's a den up there somewhere. Bear is startled.

Comes out in like a defensive attack and the climber, you know, and instinctually the bear is not just, going to flee. It's going to be like, get away from my den, especially if it has cubs or anything like that, especially this time of year. They're getting ready to go into hibernation for the, for the season, you know? And so they're like, this is my territory. Don't be up in my space. And, you know, that bear doesn't want to eat the guy or anything like that. It's just startled. It comes right at him. And yeah, he manages to evade it off. It really goes to show you, though, how important the higher ground is, right? Yeah, I know. Even the bear couldn't overcome it.

No, once that bear goes down below him, that's it. Like the climber, as ridiculous as the sounds, has basically won at that point, which is insane because man versus bear is not, you know, bear wins. Well, based on the topography of what you just saw, don't Google it, where do you think this happened? Forrest, as I see you Googling it. No, no, I'm not. I'm not, I'm not. I was looking at the vegetation when that was happening, trying to figure it out. It looks, it looks tropical.

It looks very green. So, uh, the, man, maybe like the, yeah, maybe the Ozarks. Okay.

That's a good guess. What do you think, Peter? I'm going to go just like, uh, somewhere in middle California. Uh, both wrong.

It was in Mount Futago in Japan. Oh, in Japan. Oh, interesting. Oh, interesting. So much more tropical.

Okay. I didn't realize it wasn't the U.S. I thought it was a domestic thing. Um, dude, that guy, though, like,

Because he's still got, he's still free climbing a rock. Yeah. So you got to hang on to the rock, not fall off a rock and fight a bear at the same time. There's a lot going on. There is a lot going on. He's a freaking, ballsy superhero, man. He's crazy. Spider-Man.

So that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's in the news. People are talking about it. Here's another thing people are talking about. Patagonia. Heard of it. Yeah, the, heard of the place? Heard of the clothing company. Yeah.

The company, sorry, the clothing company. people call it Pataguchi because it's what everybody in the tech industry in San Francisco wears, even though they've literally never been outside. Founder of Patagonia, which is right down the road for me in Ventura, by the way, Yvonne Shonard or something, some French name like that, has given away the company to ensure profits will be used for fighting climate change instead of leaving it to what I imagine are his incredibly disgruntled children. Um, wow.

Your thoughts. I'm glad I'm not one of his kids. Yeah, me too. And then I've got a funny anecdote to tell you about Patagonia. But, um, what are your thoughts on giving away one of the largest companies, clothing companies in the world? Do you think it's just a like a PR play and he's going to retract it later? Do you think he's actually going to go through with it? No, I think he's definitely going to do it.

And the guy stands for, I mean, they put out film. They do anti-climate change stuff. You know, that's like a big thing with Patagonia. But, and here's my anecdote, which is why I have a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth. I, man, this is a while ago now. This must have been like, I wish I could find the email. Maybe I'll look for the email in a minute. So I got introduced to somebody high up at the marketing or PR department at Patagonia, probably like six years ago, right?

And they're like, hey, this is Forrest Galante. He's like perfect for Patagonia and Paddock Films. like he does all this stuff he's found these extinct animals like this is like an important sort of person for you guys to know and so i wrote them like a very nice like little proposal and i was like hey here's what we could do together you know no we don't have to do any steps right now but it would be nice to meet you and i got back the most snarky like woke uptight email i think i've ever received i'm gonna see if i can find it um and the gist of it was like it and and Look, I'm all for diversity. I think it's wonderful and all of that when you include everybody. But literally, there's a sentence in the email. I'll see if I can find it that basically just says, you're a white middle-aged guy, so we're not interested.

And it's like almost verbatim where they're just like, we're not interested in like white middle-aged men. And they're like, we need you to be something else if you want to be considered as like a Patagonia person. But I can't be. And it's just like the way it was written though. It wasn't like, there could have just been. been a like respectful, you know, declining or like anything, really.

But it was like this like, swear to God, this sounds ridiculous. It's almost like whoever read your email was like annoyed by it. Oh, unbelievably. Another white guy. Totally. And it was like this almost like racial attack. It was insane. And I was just like, what is what does that have to do with like being somebody who also

wants to save the planet? You know what I mean? And it's just like my whole, my whole thing was I'm aligned with Patagonia because we both want to save the planet and fight climate change and all those things. And they're just like, ew, no. Like you're, you're like a hairy middle-aged white guy grows. And I was like, no, I added that in for dramatic effect.

But he is hairy. But I am. Look at the pier. Yeah. So anyway, I got really annoyed by like their whole, like, their whole image is like this. Like, we care about everything and everybody. We want to save the planet. And we're like, we're very like open.

And then it's like, oh, no, no, no. We're not open to people like you. And I was like, oh, cool. That's sweet. We don't like Africans. Yeah. Well, no, I think it's awesome. And so Yvonne Schwinnard, however he pronounced his name.

I mean, he's an interesting guy. Like, he was a, he was a famous rock climber and alpineist. Yep. As well as like a falconer. He's like known for being a falconer. He kept falcons. Wow. And a surfer and kayaker, like just super outdoorsy, bro.

Yeah. And started this company. I mean, look, it's amazing, good for him, that's fantastic. I love it. And as far as his disgruntled kids, the guy's worth well over a billion dollars. So I think they're going to be just fine.

Yeah. You know what's funny? They're probably like, oh, what a relief. We don't have to run a company now. Now we can just spend the cash. So a lot of these big outdoor clothing guys come from awesome backgrounds and stories. So one of my buddies, guy named Kevin, is the founder of K-U-H-L, the clothing brand. And I've been, you know, a brand ambassador for them for many, many years.

Kevin loves telling the story about how he remembers when I first sent them an email begging for a free pair of pants because I was working at the Channel Islands and I needed durable pants. And he still, yeah, and he still remembers that email, which is really funny because I mean, that's how long back my interest in their clothing goes. By the way, if you're listening to this, they're the best. Cool, fuck Patagonia. Fuck everybody else. Cool makes the best stuff. but anyway. Not if you ask Mitch. Yeah, that's right. No, he's a prana man.

But anyway, Kevin, who's super interesting, he dropped out of high school. I'm probably going to get some of this wrong. So if you're listening, Kevin, I'm sorry. But he dropped out of high school and wanted to be a ski bum, but couldn't afford it because ski lifts are expensive and living in ski towns are expensive. So he climbed a mountain. I forget where it was in Switzerland and set up for an entire ski season in a cave on that mountain and he would hang out, live in that mountain, and board or ski down, get on the snow

lifts because he was in, you know what I mean? He was like in the resort or in the ski lift at that point and ski all season. And halfway through the ski season when he was freezing his ass off, he started knitting wool caps. And he made one for himself and some guys were like, man, that's a really warm looking cap. Like, can I get one? He's like, yeah, sure. So he's living in a cave on a ski mountain, knitting wool caps and start selling them for a couple bucks a cap. And that's how he founded the largest privately held outdoor clothing company in the world from living on a mountain in a cave in the Switzerland over the ski season. It's pretty amazing backstory.

I'll say that. Yeah. And he's a super cool, interesting guy. And he was just like, yeah, I just wanted to ski all the time. So I moved into the cave. I'm like, that's insane. Wow. It is.

It's crazy. So just in a little. bit of what's in the news, just what's going on here. So I'm pointing at the house across the street. It was like an old house. What's going on here in my neighborhood is that the single story houses like I live in are getting bought and demolished and they're building these like two story houses that all look the same, right? So I knew it was inevitable. They bought somebody bought the house across the street and they demolished it. Dude, that thing was gone in two fucking days. I mean, they were done.

House gone. All the shit removed. Now it's just a big fenced in empty lot. I don't know when they're going to build something on it. At some point they will. Guess who's living in the empty lot right now? Guess who's taken inhabitants? A family of raccoons?

Close. And now, not. Not homeless people. Skunks. A pack of coyotes. Oh, no way. That's cool. Yeah.

They're fully living in this lot. So now they're roaming the street. every night, everyone's all up in arms because people walk around with their chihuahua's and shit. Yeah. But they're, dude, like every night, because, you know, I like to watch TV in the garage late at night with the door open. They'll just cruise up and down. Sometimes you'll see two. Sometimes you'll see three. Yeah. Sweet. What's the, what's that like forum-me website that everybody goes on in the neighborhoods? Oh, yeah. Neighbors. There's a couple of them. Yeah. There's, um, but everyone here has ring doorbells.

So you get, you can do the same thing on the ring app. And so. it's every night five things. The coyotes are out. People are pissed. Yeah. Yeah, that's hilarious. Has Luca seen him? I don't know because she barks at anything and everything.

So I'm not, I don't even know when she's barking at what. Yep. But it's kind of interesting, but you hear him sometimes calling too, which is cool. I love when they start yowling and howling. I think it's amazing. Yeah, it is. Peter, I saw another news thing that I think you would get very excited about. Did you see the rover that found organic matter, aka life on Mars?

I see that every week. Is there a new one today? Fair enough. Well, did you see this was in an actual news source and not like a Reddit forum? I honestly literally don't know. Are you calling CNN actual news? Yeah. Let's see.

Pull it, pull it up, Kyle. I'm seeing Is that the actual fucking rover? I think so That's incredible That's CG Oh it is

Okay I was like That's crazy I think Look I think that's it This is definitely footage From it Oh yeah Dude oh man

Look at that picture That is fucking crazy By the way That looks exactly like Baja Right Kyle Kyle Kyle just join me For those that

Haven't listened To the Patreon Kyle just join me in Baja Where we made a little film And hung out Kyle does that not look exactly like the like three hours north of Bahia when you're driving down.

That's a yes from Cal. He's shaking his head, yes. I can see him. Okay, very good. He won't come on because of his haircut. It is. Oof. Woof.

Just kidding. But anyway, yeah. So here you go. Organic signs of life on Mars. Dude, I love looking at pictures of shit like that. Well, not this guy. But of like Mars, dude, that are so high-res. It's like incredible.

It's wild. I know. It's just like it makes you just think about how fucking, there's a whole fucking world over there. That's a dot in the sky from us. And we have no idea what's happening there. And it looks just like that could be Earth somewhere. Yep. You know?

Yep. And it's just fucking wild. But dude, I mean, the fact that there was water on Mars so long ago factually, have they found water on Mars? I thought they found it like frozen under under I don't think so. I don't think they so but this where they found this organic material is a crater called Gisero crater which used to be a lake. Okay. It used to be a water lake.

Right. So now it's like, whoa, this is. So they're saying that they think it had, uh, you know, habitable environments three and a half billion years ago, which is kind of interesting because the first single solid organisms on earth. right around three and a half billion years dates back right around the same thing. So it's like, did they, did they have to move? Did they move? That's, dude, there's a, there's a unclassified CIA document that, uh, so they did experiments with people who could like do out of body

experiences and support they wanted, they were literally the CIA was testing. Yeah. It's like the men who stare at goats, that whole thing. Yeah. So, uh, if they could like, travel and so in time and location like using their mind and so one of the stories if you read the actual the actual unclassified CIA document which is on the CIA library website is talking about how one of the guys was saying he was back on mars like three billion years ago and that mars was like going down it was like the apocalypse and people were there was and he was whole the person he was like in or whatever watching this through was in a cave and that they sent people out like off the planet to survive whatever was happening on Mars and I was and like I was like this is

this is a CIA document that fucking is is on there and I didn't believe it at first but I read the actual PDF and they were doing experiments and so it's like a it's kind of like one of those theory is that has a little bit of legitimacy to it that humans came from Mars. You know what I mean? Interesting. We came from Mars. Fact. Ali, I mean, octopus definitely came from Mars.

The whole reason I brought this up was to see how long it would take you to connect to octopus, by the way. I swear to God. I didn't start a timer because I was like, oh, wow, he didn't go straight to octopus. And then I just sort of lost interest. But I was like, I'm going to bring this up and see quietly how long it takes him to connect this to an octopus. And that was longer than I expected.

Yeah, you know, I was, here, check this out, though, real quick. I want to show you something. Speaking of Octopi, look at this, dude. Yeah, cracking. Dude, this is a piece of AI art. They have this now. I typed in Alien Octopus, and this is what I got. What is this AI?

Actually, this is a good, hold on. I want to hear more about this. But I've been seeing this lately, okay? I listened to the Joe Rogan where he interviewed Mr. Beast. and how Mr. Beast did his whole, like, crazy YouTube and how he got it started. And it was really interesting. Sure.

Since listening to it, unrelated, never, never even seen a Mr. Beast thing before that, Joe Rogan. Now I get Mr. Beast videos popping up on everything because everything's listening. Yeah, because YouTube has the worst algorithm ever. You watch one thing and it's just like inundating you. And so I watched a video, which was a mistake, of Mr. Beast telling AI to do stuff. What is this new thing? Like, you tell AI to generate, like, what?

So, okay. Yeah. So AI art, artificial intelligence generated art is becoming like a huge thing because it's, it's actually gotten really good. What is it? What is it? Explain it. You literally will, you can type in a phrase of whatever.

Like, oh, Kyle's going to pull it up to show us. Oh, let's do it. This is fun. Yeah. It is fun, dude. I spent literally like 45 minutes making them. Okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

All right. Hold on. Hold on. I still want you to explain it. But before we start throwing things at college. This is Our battle Toyout

Do you know what time It is? Oh, good idea. Bachelor Royal For what? Okay. All right, I don't know how.

We just got to create the most badass fucking thing I would win. I know what it is. Okay. You have to do classic Battle Royal head, body appendages.

Great. Okay. And we just watched the video of the bear attack. where the guy's fighting on the side of a cliff. Right. So create the ultimate creature that all three creatures are going to battle while clinging to the side of a cliff.

Perfect. Oh, boy. And Kyle is going to, on the YouTube, use his AI art program to generate these creatures. So you're listening, you're going to need to tune in on YouTube for this one. This is going to be huge. So, okay, I think I get it. Can you zoom in on that a bit, Kyle? So it's like bigger on the page?

There you go. I think I get it. Peter, you tell this website to build something and it. It's very simple concept. Here it is. We'll see it. As the expert, would you like to get started? Would you like to do your Battle Royal?

Yeah, that's fine. Let me pick. I wanted to be, here, scroll down and let me see the art styles. They have a ton of them. Oh, interesting. So I think I'm going to do keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. They have tons of them. All right, go back up.

I'm going to just pick one at the top. There you go. I'm going to do a cartoonist as my art style with this AI art. Okay. And my prompt is going to be, I need a head of body. I want head of a... So you can just type in anything? Yeah, yeah.

Character max. Yeah, so head of bear, say head of bear, comma, or whatever. Body of... God, what do I want for a body? body of a beaver fuck it sure

and then I'm going appendages of a mountain goat so I can run away okay okay let's see it's smart it's not but let's see what it creates

well you never know let's see creating wow it's fast okay there's your barehead there's my bear head getting drawn up oh I just did a bare head well that's lame

just type in bear beaver mountain goat yes correct correct there you go let's see what comes up with that that's how i was gonna why the beaver body it's a very good question i don't know i was just thinking about beavers like you know oh no that's not bad that's not bad okay that's a disaster animal okay that's all right that's my animal i i i i final answer screenshot it cool well i like the mountain goat appendages that's that's going to be helpful on the cliff side. Barehead, very scary. I'm gonna go next here for us.

Go for it. I got mine in my head already. If you don't steal it, I will be very happy. I want the legs. I want the legs of a fucking daddy long lines. Oh, come on. What were the odds of that? I swear to God, what were the odds of that?

I was like, I know what mine is. You guys have a telepathic connection. That's why I was like he's never going to get it. Let him go. That's so frustrating. Go ahead. Daddy long legs, legs,

which will scale up to my body. Right, right. I'm not going to just go for size here. I'm not going to be a size queen here. I'm going to go for, I'm going to go for the body of a, I'm going to go for the sort of thick, stocky body of a jaguar. I like their,

I like their sort of midsection. And I'm going to give it the head of a, I'm going to real, I'm a real ferocious head. I'm going to give it the head of a Wolverine. Wow. Let's see what it comes up with. Let's take a look at this art.

Kyle cannot spell Wolverine. N-E. I-N-E. No, I-N-E. Nope, I-N-E. There we go. Great. All right.

And let's put it into analog, please. Nice. Let's see what, let's see what. Now, do we own this art? Do we own this NFT? It's a good question. I believe so. See, yeah.

Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. What happened? Oh, come on. God damn. We have to watch him try to type Wolverine again. This is how we have to do every battle rail from now on.

That was super cool. I hope that comes back. Me too. That was fucking sweet. Facking sweet, man. Dude, I'm getting more and more baffled by this NFT shit every day. Yeah, I don't get it. I don't get it.

That's even better, to be honest. That's great, dude. Look at that. This is cool. Well, Dave Sunshine, who was never paid, is now out of a job because we have this thing. All right, mine's going to be real simple. You ready, Kyle? Here we go.

Just type in bat, crocodile hyena. That's it. go down, scroll down. Oh, you're giving it wings to fly. Yep. So it's going to, uh, keep going, keep going. I saw, whatever Ghalibi is over there. No, the, yeah, Ghalibi.

Let's go Glebe over there. This is that. Bat, croc, so head of a crocodile. Head of a crocodile, body of a hyena, like sort of big and rounded. And with bat, bat wings is what I was hoping for. Okay. This is starting to look scary. Oh, that's a disaster.

Okay, wait. Maybe we need a different art form, I think. The AI. Hang on, I got one here. I got one for us on the AI thing over here. Check this out. Oh, there you go. Peter did a different thing. Is this mine?

This is yours. Great. There we go. I love it. I'll take number four. This one? Yeah, terrifying. Why is it of human teeth?

I don't know. Well, that's kind of fun. That's a different way to do a battle royale. We've never done it that way before. Yeah. Rosner's way in, have a vote. If you're listening, I'm sorry, because this was a very visual

experiment. A very visual experiment. That was so visual. Do I use an F? It was very visual. I'm just a slurry guy. Anyway, weigh in, let us know who won.

I was definitely thinking head of a crock, body of a hyena, wings of a bat. And then we have the others that you saw. way in and we'll move on from Battle Royal today. It was a bit of a disaster. Just real quick while we're on the NFT thing, man. So I've been doing some research into the sneaker industry.

Said nobody ever, but okay. Yeah, it's the whole thing. This street artist, he's like a 16-year-old kid, real eccentric. He's like somehow become famous. But he released a limited, like limited edition, NFT sneaker design. Okay. And it's and sold $3.2 million worth of NFTs in 11 minutes of his just a little gif of his

sneaker design. Is this saying we can see? I don't know. It doesn't even exist for us in reality. That's what I mean. I don't get it. Like is this something we can see or is this like an idea that somehow got sold? Like I don't.

No, he, I don't get it. He actually did it. And people went in and. bought the NFTs of his sneakers to the tune of over $3 million. How does that happen? Like what what what compels somebody to pay? Like I just don't. I'm just too old, to be honest.

I think you got to. Yeah, I mean, I think you just like, you have to have, you know, a big following. And if you're an artist and then people are really hyped up. Like you guys remember that website, the oatmeal? Just like the little pieces. You don't remember that from back in the day? It was like a funny comic style website. And people just really into the guy who created it.

Okay. And it was like, so he ended up just making a shitload of money by selling his little comics and stuff. The NFT, I think, is just you actually own like a piece of art. But I don't understand how you raise 3.2 million. Was that from selling a bunch of it or just selling one? Kyle, Kyle's got it here. No, no, no. No, 3.4 million, and they sold in seven minutes.

Sorry, my facts were wrong of these little sneaker NFTs. Oh, and so that one's 10,000 each? Yep. Yeah, there's three. Okay. But what do you do with it now? This is what I don't understand. What do I do with this, this 3D image of a shoot?

I don't know. You can't do anything with it because you can't wear it on your foot. That's what I'm saying. What does it tell you? dare at it on your phone? I'm so confused. I know. I don't.

10,000 dollars to spend on this. Like, anybody who has 10,000 dollars to spend on this, you would think to have 10,000 to spend like this. You're like a smart, you're like a smart person. You're like a person who had to earn this money. True. It's earning $10,000 isn't that easy. No, exactly.

I wouldn't spend 10 cents on that. I don't even like shoes, period. But if somebody was like, hey, do you want this? internet picture for 10 cents before like the word NFT was a thing. I'd be like no I'll just Google sneaker and get a free one like I'm not spending right fence on that are you are you insane right it'd be like it'd be like buying like a porn blu-ray exactly no I don't need to spend any money on that pull up Kyle pull up the artist that made these his name is fowcious for wocious so this is he's very cool okay he's very cool we're not this cool well let me ask you this for us how old do you

think he is? Well, you said he was 16. Well, I don't know. I'm making that up based on the photo. Well, now based on the photo, I'm going to go, I'm going to go 14. Yeah, I'll say 15. Do you have $3.4 million? No. Because he does. He made it in seven minutes. Right. Yeah. No, I know how much we're dating and aging ourselves by saying how much we don't understand this. And like, the fact that our median listener is like 17, they're like, oh, these fucking dads, they don't get it. They don't get it. They don't get it. that's how that's how the conversation's going on the other end and and yeah that's awful like i i'm beyond cool age any longer there's nothing i can do to be you're just not into tech bro you're not a tech bro i think a lot of our listeners actually don't know what nfts are either because they spend time outside

they spend time outside what are you going to do if roads like like for his like 10th birthday is like dad i just really want this nfts of this like little this little like pony creature that It's $800 bucks. Yeah. I'm going to say, all right, here's how we do it. We go outside, we make it. You build it with your hands, take a picture, put it on the internet. Then you got it.

That's how we do it, son. You go outside, you get some wood, you get some chisels, we get some paint, we'll make your little pony creature. Dad, that's not how NFTs work, you fucking geezer. That's out working in my world, boy. You don't know anything. You're an idiot. Yeah.

I foresee that conversation taking place very soon in my life. but that's okay. Well, here's the thing. We're missing out because we need to make NFTs because... No, we need to make $3.4 million. That's what we need to make. We don't need to make NFTs. We just need to figure out how to do seven seconds of work for $3.4 million.

It seems it's really easy. I think NFTs are the way to get there. Seven seconds. Cool sneakers, though, man. Just not worth 10 Gs, I wouldn't say, not a picture of them. A picture. They're not sneakers. It's one thing to spend 10 grand on the greatest pair of sneakers you're ever going to have.

It's another thing. to spend 10 grand on a picture of them. I bet Yeezy's furious, dude, with this kid. She's just like, I've been, I've been working my ass off with a production facility. All these fucking designs. All right, here you go. My sneakers only sell for a hundred. I'm going to do a Pat's map.

All right. As God is my witness. I can't wait to correct all the map. That is Pat. We're divided instead of multiply. It's pass. Okay. Sloths, familiar with sloths.

Also, this is Pat's Matt. Pats math. Fat's math. Sloths. Yeah, love them. Familiar with them? Everybody loves them.

They're adorable. They're cuddly. They need around 100 calories per day to survive. Okay? Wow. Without knowing how many calories are in a Big Mac,

but you can guess, I can tell you how many, but that'll be. No, don't tell us. No, I won't. How many Big Macs per year do you think it would take a sloth to survive? Wow.

70. Okay, hang on. So that's, you have to guess how many, without Googling, how many calories are in a big guy? I'm not Googling, I'm thinking, I'm thinking.

I'm going to go, I'm going to go 30, 35, 35. So there are 580 calories in a big mac. Oh, shit. Okay. Which means that it would take about 62 Big Macs per year to make a sloth survive. Okay. Okay. It's interesting.

That's a fun number. I like that one. It's easy. It's on my level, not like pets, which are- Do you think that the sloth would survive even if it had diarrhea for a full year? I think it would die if it ate one Big Mac. I really do. I mean, for an animal that's gut biome is entirely based on eating vegetation, I think if you force-fed a sloth, a Big Mac, it would die within three hours. Would it eat it?

Would it eat it? No. You'd have to like blend it into a syringe and force it. force feed it and then it would probably just sounds terrible. Yeah. Speaking of your Ice Age animals, and I don't know if these were Ice Age.

Yeah, they were. Okay, cool. The giant sloth. Have you ever seen a giant ground sloth skeleton? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's absolutely incredible. That's very high on my list.

Yeah, that's real cool. Manipaguri is one word for it. The other one is the best one I'm actually trying to find in the book. So there's a whole bunch of them. I've got it in the book here. We had, and they were all over North America, too. Story time. Look at this.

Wow. Holy shit. Yeah, they were, is that one with the tusks? Wait, let's see. Okay, Forest has got one up too. Let's pull this over. Hang on.

Wow, dude. There's on the back of the book. Look at that. Yeah. It looks like a giant rat. There's the artist rendering. And here's the, here's the bones of it. Yeah.

Dude, that is incredible, man. Could you imagine if those were just walking around like California? I know. Megalonics, that's the word I was looking for. The megalonics were the North American ones. Megalonics was the genus of giant ground sloth. We had like three or four species in North America. Sounds like a good band name.

There's a place called Grand Canyon Caverns. Okay. in close to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It's like, you know, maybe 15, 20 miles from there. But it's just like a little motel, but they have all these really dope caverns that are way down. Like you take an elevator down like 300 feet. And then they built a hotel room in the caverns.

So you can actually stay down there for a night. That's super cool. But I became buddies with the owner shooting something at the hotel. And when I went to the Grand Canyon, I went there. and he took me and my ex-girlfriend down there. And we were just pounding booze down in the cavern because nobody was staying in the room that night. But it's cool.

But sorry, long way of saying there's inside where the hotel room is, there's a giant sloth skeleton that just, I guess, fell through a shoot or fell down a hole and died in the cave. But it's pretty cool. It's like, you know, fully intact, more or less. That's really cool. I got a question for you guys. Okay.

Go ahead. So there's this cat, right? I sent you guys a text. I don't know if you saw it. But this cat. Oh, yeah, I did see this. Basically, so this cat basically was able to, it was like a comfort cat, like that they'll have in like a hospital or a nursing home to comfort, you know, people like they do with dogs. They do it with cats too.

Yeah, therapy cat. And this cat predicted. Also, when you say this cat, it sounds like you're just talking about somebody really cool. or that you're talking about the cat that's right over your shoulder that appears to not be alive. This cat, the one in the article, has successfully and accurately predicted the deaths of 25 people. Okay? So it went to their bedside, curled with them, and then they subsequently died out of all the people that were there. So they started when the cat would do that, basically calling in the,

the priest and calling the family and notifying them that this person was on their way out. So come and see them. So the cat, in effect, basically is able with 100% accuracy to predict death. How the fuck is that possible?

I'm wondering, is it predicting the death or is it causing the death? It is a cat. It's a cat. Well, I mean, you know, maybe it's like, you know, laying on their oxygen wire. Oh, I thought you were implying like mystical power.

Or that, or that. We have to explore all possibilities with this cat. This cat, we have a picture of them up here on the YouTube, looks, uh, I mean, it doesn't look, it looks otherworldly. Look at the eyes. The next one over, the smug photo of the cat, that photo right there. Yeah, he looks like a cat that murders people. But also, what if you're in this facility and the cat comes up and curls up next to you?

I'd be like, get the fuck away from you. Totally. Like, I'd feel fine. Yeah. I'd be very upset if that cat curl. came and curled up with me knowing what I know. But what is this? How the fuck can they tell?

What's out there that we don't know about? I'll dig into those for a second on a more serious note. So I believe, and I always have believed that a lot of animals have a much greater spiritual understanding than we do. And you know I'm not very spiritual as a person. I don't practice any religion. I don't believe in any of that stuff, right? Like, what's the stuff?

I can't even think of the words. Pocus pocus. No, but I mean, like, I don't believe in, like, fortune telling and, and not psychopaths. What's the word telepaths and, you know, all that stuff? I don't believe in any of that. And, but I do believe that animals have a much greater understanding of sort of well-being and spirituality than we give them credit for it or that we will ever understand. And I think a part of that is having a less evolved brain for thought.

for conscious thought, which gives them a larger section of their brain available for understanding and feeling these things. And I'll give you some examples. If there is a hurricane coming, all the animals leave. Not all, right? But like you see big bird migrations. Now that can be attributed to pressure changes and things like that. Or it can be attributed to the fact that these animals understand that death is coming, right? And we don't know why or how they're reading into that. If I'm getting sick, sure there's smells and there's there's signs and all that thing my dog will not leave my side if i'm getting sick my dog knows that i'm sick or that i'm getting sick and my dog will not leave my side he just knows he wants to be there he comes and licks my face all the things that you really don't want when you're feeling sick my dog will do that i think that animals like this cat and like many cats for that matter actually do have some sort of sense now maybe they're sensing by lying on you that your heart is slowing down. Maybe it's a smell. Maybe it's something that we just don't even know.

You guys have heard about that, what is it, like the 0.008 grams or whatever that leads when you die. Yeah, yeah. You know, maybe they can say. 47 grams or something. I don't know. Yeah, there's a whole movie on it. But yeah, like maybe there's something to do with that. I don't think we know, but I don't think that it's something that we should snark at or discredit immediately. like, oh, that's ridiculous or, oh, that's a coincidence or whatever. I think that there are, I firmly believe that there is something that dogs and cats and other animals that have a close relationship with human beings can sense and understand about humans' well-being that we as humans do not sense and understand. Yeah.

I mean, that's appealing. And I totally, yeah, the earthquake and hurricane thing. Like, that's really interesting. I mean, another possibility not to be a pessimist, but like, I have to. to imagine that the staff of the facility's behavior probably is a little different around the people that are imminently dying and maybe the cat's picking up on that pattern. Absolutely. Or the smell thing, right?

Because aren't there certain chemicals you release as you're like starting to die? That's what I mean. But it's something that we don't even understand. Right. Because we're not making the connection as to why that cat is making the connection, right? And so I'm totally agreeing with you. There's probably an explanation. I just don't know.

We just as humans don't know what that connection is. Do you think that the staff of this facility when they have the conversation with the family about taking people off life support reference the cat? I doubt it. It's not looking great. Yeah, Mittens has been laying on her lap for a couple days. Like the next to following,

we cat predicted another death. I just think it's weird that like if this cat comes and snuggles you, the next thing that happens is you die. It is very weird because cats want to die alone, yet they want to, like, comfort you. So that's like a little weird thing. When they're dying, they go, like, hide and you can't find them. Do they? Yeah, like they think that a human wants comfort, you know what I mean?

Yeah, we had a cat when I was growing up, Ishmael, that was an outdoor cat. And she just wouldn't come out from under the bed. And we were like, uh, something's wrong and took her in. They're like, yeah, her kidneys have completely shut down. So yeah, and she'd obviously that was not something she'd ever done before. Right. Right. Right. There is something of what Forrest is saying, though, I think the fact that our left brain is so big and active constantly that there's no room for the other side to like to, you know, there's always like a stream of thought talking in your head to like obfuscate any things that are so minute that you could pick up on them and sense them by the right side of your brain or whatever.

And, you know, if we could just shut off our minds for a little bit, meditate, relax. Maybe we'll be able to tell when each other can die. No, that's all not. See, and then again, going back to me not believing any of spirituality bullshit. Like meditation, yoga, all that crap, like intrinsic understanding. Fuck off with all that. That's all nonsense, you know, just get out of here with that, the quiet and blah, blah, blah. And finding yourself.

If I hear another pretty girl talk about finding themselves or whatever, get the fuck out of here with that. That's nonsense. You know why? It's just because you're a middle-aged white. I know, I know. You want to find yourself. Go look in the goddamn mirror. There you are.

This is why Pagtognia hates you. Who? What? Pagtonia. Oh, Patagonia. I didn't know. Patagonia. Pagtonia.

You're not that. Pat, take that smirk off your face. Are you? But you've heard of Patagonia, the region in South America, right? Peter? No, of course not. I only knew about the. No, no.

Why would I know about that over the clothes? brand are you out of your mind i i actually can't tell if he's even remotely serious or joking right now i have no idea i am not joking this is 100% um all right real quick guys let's play let's play one more game before we sign off here okay okay okay it's called top three in dFL Number two Mike Dead fucking lost It is

The hell is today's date I don't know Sometime in October 1020 Halloween is right around the corner We've done We've done Halloween Battle Royals

We've done candy themed things We've done costume I've got a new one A new fresh take Okay Unique for 2022 Halloween Yep Frank Let's go

Top three And DFL Costumes for this year that are relevant to this year. Oh, interesting. So it can't just be like a werewolf. It's like, yeah. You know, it's got to be something that was like in a movie or a cultural touchstone or something, something that happened this year.

I can go first. You want me to go first? Wow. Thank you. Yes, please. No problem. I don't have to give it a ton of thought. Dead last because everybody's going to do it and they're all going to say everybody's already doing it.

It pisses me off. Maverick from Top Gun. Everybody's going to have a mustache. I mean, Top Gun's a great movie. I love the new Top Gun movie. Loved it. But the whole, like, I'm going to wear like a dope leather jacket and wear aviators and have a mustache and be a top gun fighter pilot. Come on.

You know, that's just like such, that's such just a generic, like, I want to be a hot guy attempt at a costume. Like, get out of you. Like, I like creativity. So that's going to be my dead last. And I have a feeling we're going to see it everywhere. It's going to be everywhere. And also, people have been dressing up as Mavericks since the first Top Gun. Exactly.

Exactly, exactly. Never went away. Never went away. So I hate that. I know it's coming and I hate it. Okay. All right, here we go. Three to one of my top three that are going to be relevant to this year.

I think you're going to see the new Creed movie is coming out, Creed 3, which is, you know, it's the new Rockies, basically. I think you're going to see a lot of boxers walking around. And I kind of like that. I think so. I think so. And I like that because here's why I like that. You're asking for a fight if you think that you're tough enough to dress up as a professional boxer. And I hope that, that, you know, guys in their late teens, early 20s are getting

in a lot of punchups because they're dressed up like idiots. Also, if you're like, if you, you know, if you're one of those dudes who like is not part of impeccable workout plan, but like actually has shredded abs, great call for you. It is. It is. Number two, I know what my number one is. Let me go. Number two, I think we're going to see it this year. What's been a big hit movie this year? Oh, you know what? We're going to see a lot of the, what's that animated movie that was big? The Spanish-y one.

We don't talk about Bruno. Your kids aren't old enough yet, but this is a thing that's coming up. I think you're going to see a lot of kids in the Enkanto costume theme. Okay, Enkanto. And that movie was super cool. If you haven't seen it, it's super sweet. It's really fun.

I think it's the best Disney movie I've seen in a while. I think you're going to see a lot of Enkanto costumes, and I'm with it. Number one, and I'm picking this solely based on my own physical appearance at this moment, dressing up as liver king. I think you're going to see it a lot. I think you're going to see it a lot. He's so big on social media right now.

The beard thing, you can buy a fake beard for like four bucks on Amazon and all you have to do. The fake ripped chest and fake suit. And I just think dressing up is liver king and like yelling and just being very generic liver king is hilarious. I think we're going to see a lot of it. And I'm with it. I like it.

I like it. Baby, with it. Yep. I like it. Um, okay. I'll give you my top three so that Peter can think a little bit more. Oh, I got mine. I'm locked. You're locked in? Okay. Top top, top three. Uh, the Pam and Tommy movie came out this year. Mm-hmm. Uh, or the Pam and Tommy TV show about Pamela Anderson and Tommy.

Yep. I think that's going to be a popular couple's costume. It's easy, right? That's why it's in the top three. Just the leather jacket and the white shirt for the guy. The woman stuffs her, her bra. It's going to be, that's going to be very popular. Easy. Another one that I think is going to be very popular this year with the series about Elizabeth Holmes. I think a lot of women are going to dress up as Elizabeth Holmes this year. She's been in the news.

You guys know who this is, right? Yes, but I know who it is, but I don't know why she's popular. Same. I haven't seen, well, no, I know why she's popular. I just haven't seen the series. Well, yeah, so there was a scripted series that was a big hit. Her trial was this year. Yeah.

It's an easy costume. You do the black turtleneck and the red lipstick. Yeah, she's like a female Steve Jobs wannabe. Yeah, and I think. Yeah, exactly. And I think she should be lampooned and made fun of. So I like the people who are going to be dressing up as that. Number three, I'm going to go, I'm going to kick it back to the old school.

And it's still relevant. It's always relevant. Poke a couple holes in a sheet. Drape it over the head. Ghost. just goes a good classic ghost. That's a good. Very relevant.

Every time. Always relevant. Yeah. Well, it's relevant. They're still ghosts. They didn't go away. And then DFL, and I think we're going to see this a lot, especially here in California. People are going to be dressing.

They're going to put an FBI jacket on and carry a banker's box that says Mar-a-Lago. Oh, interesting. They're going to be recreating the raid of Mar-a-Lago, Trump's compound. I think that's kind of funny, though. You don't like that? It is. I just think the people who do it are doing it to be snarky and funny and like, right? I hate Trump too.

Yeah. It's like, come on. Yes. Right. This is old news. Yeah. Don't make a political statement out of your costume. Well, I mean, you might not get candy at every house if you do so.

Yeah. For sure. So I'm going. I'm going number three is akin to what Pat's last one is playing off that. Well, not playing off it because I thought of it originally. first, but it's Donald Trump in prison garb. This is going to be huge. I guarantee you.

Just like the, yeah, the monopoly guy when he goes to jail is going to be in the stripe, black and white suit, you know. You're right. Good call. Yep. And then, number two, a COVID particle costume. That's still a classic. What did you Google to come up with these great ideas?

Because these are great ideas. No, I swear to God, these are off the top of my head. Okay. COVID particle costume. It's been done the past two years. And I think the kids are going to continue. You know what that looks like, right? Just the ball with the little spikes on it.

Of course. The kids get it. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. They used to think it's a big joke because they didn't get it. Only adults got it. Ha ha.

So they dressed up like it. And number one is Kanye in a straight jacket. That's what I'm going as. Conier. Well, no, I can't do that. I just. had a long conversation about how insane he is with jq and johnny and baha last and kyle last week he's he's nuts he's nuts he's not he's not he's buying parlor because he got suspended from twitter like it's

bananas have you ever seen the thing where he's on jo rogan sorry i do want to hear your dFL but have you ever seen on the thing on joe rogan where he goes how much does it cost to buy to earth and joe rogan's like what and he's like yeah like i want to be king of earth how much does it cost to buy to earth and he calling Earth, no TH, F. And Joe Rogan's like, why are you so crazy? He's like, I just want to know how much it costs to buy to Earth. And I'm just like,

what is he saying? Like, it's insane. Anyway, everybody should go see that. It's hilarious. I don't think you can. I don't think it's for sure. Of course. And Joe Rogan's just like, why are you so crazy? Like, who says things like? Like, who would you buy it from? Jupiter? It's so funny. Buy it from the sun? The sun. Yeah. All right. All right. The NFL. My DFL and,

a lot of people are going to get offended by this from my reasoning behind it. But don't dress up as Queen Elizabeth. I mean, come on. She's, I'm with you. You know, you may as well dress up like a skeleton. Well, no, it's not because it's respect. It's because the whole royalty thing is nonsense. The fact that there's a monarchy in the year 2022 is absurd.

Oh, I like it. And that she was celebrated like a celebrity for several years. I'm glad she lived a long time. She was a good woman. But please just don't dress up like her. It's gross. Can I add one more DFL that I just thought of? Yes.

Anything fucking Marvel. Grow up. You don't need a Thor cost. And not if you're a little kid. If you're a little kid and you're super into the Thor thing or the Spider-Man thing, that's rad. If you're a teenager or above, don't dress up as a fucking Marvel character. Okay. Like, come on.

Get with the program. Like, Marvel was really cool up until the Thanos thing. Like, that was where it died. Now it's awful. I don't know if you guys have seen the new Thor movie, Love and Thunder. it's probably the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. Wait, worse than Aquaman? Bro, it's on par with Aquaman.

Well, yeah, they're both heinous, but just don't dress up to anything more. Yeah, that upsets me. Oh, shit. Well, on that note, go to, we've got a new website, wild times. Dot club forward slash info for all the links to everywhere, including the new link I'm going to put on there to buy your Marvel costume.

We'll get 10% if you buy a Marvel costume through us. And I'm just kidding. So wild times. Club forward slash info, though, right? Oh, because you could get four extra podcasts a month. That's right. Sign up. Hold on.

I'm still on the info link. I didn't go to the Patreon yet. That's why everybody signs off at the end. Go to go to patreon.com forward slash wild times pod to get those four. extra Patreon podcast a month. That's once a week. We've been really good about doing that.

People love them. They're uncensored. Forrest takes his shirt off. It's disgusting. Only occasionally. And in fact, on the last one, I pulled my pants down, which is different to taking my truck off. You did.

And it was a horrific. So that's patreon.com forward slash wild times pod at wild times pod on all socials. We have a new forum, which is bromunity. Dot wild times. dot club go there where there's a forum BTG's on there Forrest claims he's going to get on there There's a post making fun of him there

You can hop on there make fun of him I saw it for the first time yesterday I didn't know it was a real thing I didn't think dot club was a real thing I thought you were joking with me So bromunity dot wild times dot club It's weird but hey join the club We love you

Stay safe up there guys