Wild Times: Wildlife Education - Top 10 Most Shark Infested Beaches - TWT 150

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

We discuss the top 10 most shark-infested beaches with the most shark attacks, all things Shark Week including some behind-the-scenes of Forrest's shows, super rare piebald shark caught, and announce the winners of the Leatherman giveaway! DUER: Get 20% off your order https://shopduer.com/wild Pretty Litter: Save 20% on your first order + free cat toy https://prettylitter.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 150 Breakdown 00:00 - Start 02:40 - Shark Week 05:56 - Alien Sharks: Ghost of Japan 18:05 - Being Naked 20:04 - Piebald Shark Caught 23:44 - Sand Crabs 30:19 - Tiger Shark Eats Echidna 33:54 - Sharks of the Deadzone 41:04 - River Floating 44:08 - Top 10 Sharkiest Beaches in the World 52:58 - Leatherman Giveaway Winner 01:00:28 - Battle Royale 01:05:06 - The Thing This video may contain paid promotion. #ad #sponsored #forrestgalante #extinctoralive #podcast

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Here we go. Wow, Peter, good for you. Thank you. Here we go. Wild Times. I don't know. It's an episode. This is the greatest show on television.

We got a very special wild time today. A special edition. Special edition. One that's near De Forest. And you, you're involved now. Stop making weird sounds. That's a shark bite noise. Oh, okay.

This is the Wild Times. Shark Week special. I'm your host, Forrest Galante, the broologist. host of one Shark Week, producer of another. To the right of me, Papa P himself. Yeah, baby. The voice of Shark Week, as they call him. I talk just like this.

And Peter's here, too. I wish I was the voice of Shark Week. Did you edit any? Did you edit any Shark Week stuff? Yeah. Did you? No. I didn't think so.

Okay. I walked in today and it was just Peter. Yep. And he's just in a fucking great mood. Because I came in just a nightmare scenario. Kids sent home from preschool, second day in a row, already this morning. For what purpose? What does she do?

A sniffle. It's fucking ridiculous. A turtle. But I come in and this guy's just, you're in the best mood I've seen you in in 2024 today. Well, I'm excited about a couple things. And I don't think you even know about this, Pat, but we're giving away a trip to AnimalCon. Oh, yeah. That's right.

That'll be nice. All you got to do is be signed up for the Spotify premium or the Patreon. until the first week of October and we're just giving somebody, right? Just picking somebody, come hang out with us at AnimalCon? They're coming with. Hey, are you also excited about your weight loss

because you're looking great? Yeah. This is the tightest I've ever seen you. 15 LBs, right? 15 pounds in 45 days. Did you not eat while you're in Mexico? I did not eat while I was in Mexico because I was sick and the food was horrible.

But that's not why I've been... Dude, the entire secret to losing weight is just counting the calories. And like you gotta do it even when you fuck. Like this morning, I ate 1,200 calories of cookies, gram crackers, and milk before, like at 3 in the morning.

I still logged it. It doesn't sound like a good weight loss program. But here's the thing. I still logged it. See, this is the secret people by my weight loss. You can eat that much before bed as long as you log it and know that you can't eat anything

except for beer the rest of the day. Oh, man. So what happens during a Shark Week special podcast? I don't know. I think we're kind of making it up as we go. Okay. I know this. I know this.

I know that producer Edwin's got some sharky news. I know that we got a sharky game. Love that. I know that there's a sharky bizarre animal of the week. Ooh, a bizarre shark of the week. Was there something else? Kyle? We got anything else in there?

Something else sharky? And we're just going to talk about Shark Week. I got a couple shows. You voiced over to one. You said something very funny about it this morning when you walked in. it, but I did do the voiceover. And based on that, I have some questions for you. Because without seeing it, I have no context.

I just know the words I had to say. I know about the show, at least a little bit. Well, it's about, I think it's called Monsters of Oz. Okay. And it's about that big shark that got, where they pulled it in, it was just a head. Oh, is that what the show's about? Yeah. I pitched that twice.

Glad they bought it from someone else. So it's cool. But it takes place at some super. super deep, like, ledge near Australia? Uh, I don't know about that, but I do know this. I connected with my friend Rosie in Florida, and she said it was a very challenging program. Oh, yeah. They did not get a lot of what they were looking for.

They, there's some crazy, some crazy stuff in there, I will say. Yeah. Yeah, well, at least reading the text, I was like, this sounds nuts. Like, I'm actually going to, because I did the voice, so I'm like, I'll watch it air. Yep. Um, it sounds like there's a couple very close encounters that are kind of gnarly. Because you just, I'm excited to see that. Pack, you don't have to.

do it verbatim, but could you narrate like how you did for, let's say, like, me on a surfboard at a close encounter with a shark? I mean, I can only do one thing, and it's just this. So what, so what are you doing? I'm on a surfboard and a shark is coming near. Meanwhile,

meanwhile in Santa Barbara, Peter is on his surfboard fighting feverishly to paddle out. That's good. It's good. It's pretty good. That's all I can do. Let me try. Meanwhile, in Santa Barbara. Sounds like the movie trip. Yeah, you went really deep.

I like that. Do you do the VO for yours, right? I do. I do all my point. Let's hear it. Okay. Meanwhile, in Santa Barbara, as Peter is feverishly pattering. See, I can't even say the word that script, pattering out.

It's funny how they have like a guy who can't even speak English doing the VO for a show. Yeah, that's what happens when you make a show. Has your VO voice changed since like Extincter Live season one to now? Do you do it differently? Yeah. I just don't, like, Do you remember early on the network was like, we don't really like that he's not American?

Okay. Say all the hard days. I swear to God, I used to have to say can't and all the words that I don't say, because I say cut, right? Yeah. You're not supposed to say.

I know, but I slip it in. And yeah, so I just speak in my normal voice, you know, and just try and fix the inflection where it's needed. But I just, it's just me talking now.

Yeah, you keep it pretty conversational. A little, you're, it's, you give the energy. Yeah. Which you kind of have to, right?

Yeah, of course. And especially in the beginning, it's like, I'm Forrest Galante, and I've spent my life tracking down rare and endangered animals. You go big. And then there are moments like when you see a shark dying or whatever, and you're like kind of sad tone, you know, all that. But so, yeah, I don't know much about your show other than what Rosie told me. And you don't either.

But because it's Shark Week and because the shows are coming out this week, I can talk about mine. Yeah. I feel like it's open game now. I want to talk about the one that you are the star of first. Sure. So, what's it called? Alien sharks,

ghosts of Japan. Wow. Aliens and ghosts in the title. You got aliens and ghosts. Two things that rate. Click, click, baby.

Like one of my favorite countries. Yeah. So this one, it's interesting because this one's six years in the making for me. Wow. So I created a show called the samurai shark six years ago, which was a show, it's different,

but tracking down a rare shark in Japan, six years ago, and I've been pitching it every single year for six years. I swear to God. Yeah, yeah. And then two years ago, when I took over the franchise Alien Sharks, when the network came to me, it was like, hey, we want to do what you do, but do Alien Sharks and like revamp that franchise, I was like, yeah, I'd love to, let's do Japan. And they're like, we know what you're doing. Yeah, we've got to make it big. We got to make it bigger. It's got to have ghosts and aliens. Well, yeah, but two years ago, they said no. And so we did Alien Sharks South Africa, which I forget what we called it,

but that was two years ago. And then this year, like Alien Sharks was a huge hit last year. So they were like, all right, we want to do another one, but I had a little more leverage. So I was like,

all right, I've been saying this for six years, Japan. They were like, um, okay. And they finally let me do it. Yeah.

And it's great. It's great. It's one of our best shows ever. Nice. 17 different species of elasma brank. It's definitely a record. Did you say elasma brink? Yeah.

You copy that, what is that? What's Elasma Brink? Oh, come on, Dumbums. Hang on real quick. Kyle knew it.

Kyle, I want you to audition to do the VO. Okay. So here's the line and do it in your best VO voice. Coming up, Forest will find 17 species of a Lasma Brank.

Okay. Coming up, Forest will find 17 species of a Lasmobranch. It's not great. But he tried. I tried. He really tried.

It was really good. He's got a nice... I don't have a VO future. He's still not hit puberty, you guys remember. I mean, he's got a face for radio and not a voice for radio. It's not working out. What is it? What is an elasmab rank? A shark array. Oh, okay. It's that evolutionary branch of the chain. But in, as far as I'm aware, in 36 years of Shark Week shows, they've never had 17 species in one episode before. I mean, I'm guessing you

had to montage through a bunch of them, probably. You have to. Yeah. I mean, it's insane. And I think, I think a couple ended up getting cut, so I think we're down to like 15 or something, but it was just a lot. And that's a fun thing about alien sharks. It's a show and tell. You're on a mission. You have an adventure. In this case, we were looking for the yokey, which is Japanese for Ghost of the sea, hence the name, which is the name for the Japanese angel shark, which is a critically endangered shark, really hard to find. Their numbers are super diminished. As usual, I'm looking for something rare. You need to put a tag in one, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So we set out on this mission to look for these guys, the Japanese angel shark. And in doing so, we encounter 17 different

species of sharks and rays and do basically show and tell with all of them. Wow. Yeah. That's very cool. It's like bring your dad to a kindergarten day. Man, can I tell you guys something that. Yeah. Give us the juice baby. I'm so bummed about this. One of my favorite like jokes I've ever made, one of my favorite sequences in a show that's ever happened and it got pulled. Why? What is it? So in the opening dive, which actually happened later in the shoot, but we moved into the opening dive, I catch a Japanese horn shark. In fact, Kyle, if you just go to my Instagram quickly, don't play the video. but you'll see the thumbnail.

It's that guy right there. See him right there? Yeah. Can I predict what I think the joke is? Sure, but you're not going to get it. I think that you catch the Japanese horn shark. You come up, you surface and you go, I'm feeling horny, baby. That's pretty good, but I'm not Austin Powers.

Okay. Peter, you want to take a crack at it? I was going to say that you catch the grieving horn shark and you rub its belly and a bunch of eggs fall onto your lap. That'd be quite a joke. It's actually closer than Patrick's. So I catch this Japanese horn shark in a cave underwater, and I put them into tonic immobility like you're seeing here, which is where I put him into a trance-like state.

How do you do that? You rub his chin or something? You rub their snout, which is where they have all that ampulee of Lorenzini, those little, you know this now. The electrical? Yeah, you know this. You're up to speed. And I flip them over, and it's this big male with these two giant claspers.

And I literally go, whoa, this is a well-hung gentleman. That's all in the show. But then, I'm so totally giving away like a huge part of the show, don't care. But then there's a leech on his junk. He's got an underwater leech on his junk. And without skipping a beat, I go, just like spending the night with a lady you're not too proud of, this guy has picked up something. Or sorry, just like what I say, I said, it got cut a while ago. So I said, I said, I said, just like spending a night with a woman you wouldn't take home to meet your mother,

this guy has picked up something he's probably not too proud of let's help him out with his little problem and I pull the leech off his genitals What I like about that joke is It's like it's dad enough That they may have gone for it Almost could have gotten true

It was right there It was right there And I thought I like I had literally forgot Because you know when you're in the moment Like you don't think about it Like I just fucking talk My brain's powered down And then I see it in the cut one

And I'm like in hysterics at my own joke I'm like that's so funny I made like a prostitute STD shark dad joke all in one go. Listen, anything that gets people's minds off of politics and war. Right. And I say the more power to you, you've got to get that clip for your repertoire. It's a shark STD joke. It's hysterical.

It's good. Yeah. And sure enough, it was like the first thing to get lifted. And they were like, get this out of the show. Was it an angry note that you got from the network? It was in all caps. Dude, it's funny. I think is one of the things about Shark Week why it's so big for discovery is that it's one week

where the demographic ages back down. That's a good question. I don't know if that's the case or not. But I know, you know, I think their demo is aging up no matter what. For sure. Yeah. I think I'm 99% sure that that week they get a younger audience for that week. Yeah, that makes sense.

I believe it. And I always hear people saying that they're watching Shark Week with their kids. Like I feel like 10-year-old boys love Shark. Well, it's funny because we did a lot of very youthful stuff in this episode. Like, we used a lot of Japanese video game music. We even did some, like, meme culture stuff where, like, little thought bubbles pop up and stuff like that. Really fun, they pulled it all out. They stripped all of it out.

They're like, it's too young. Those were their words. Well, they've got to kind of strike that balance because the normal demo is still going to be there. And, like, it's just like us. You don't want to piss off the regulars. No, of course not. Kyle, let's play that video, that first video, and maybe something will come up that these guys are interesting.

of this velvet dogfish Shark Is that Jess? No, Christine. Ooh, I love this video, dude. Oh yeah, the underwater jetpack, very James Bond. Dude, that's amazing. I can't believe we haven't talked about the jetpack before.

So it's just a quick little teaser reel that we made. And yeah, I mean, there's so much stuff in here. But yeah, we got shark birth. I literally never thought I'd become a shark midwife in my life. There you go. Look at that. We got some eels. That's a hound shark orgy and the one bit me on the head. Oh, this is fun. I'll tell you guys this. This is something we did early on. So the show, the show's coming out this week. Yeah. Wait. Okay, just don't go off this video.

The show's coming out this week. And when we got there in Saruga Bay, where we filmed the majority of the show and in Chiba, both locations, at almost any given time was a stunning sunset over Mount Fuji. It's like, it's like Japan is constantly in sunset. I don't, I don't know how to explain it. But so, JQ came up with the idea our cameraman. Every time that Mount Fuji is in the show, you have to take a shot. Nice. I haven't counted it. I've intentionally not counted it, waiting for the premiere to take a shot. Are you guys going to all like watch on Zoom or something? No, I'm having a premiere party. I said you to invite. He doesn't look at the group chat. He did send the invite and I said I hope to come. When is it? It's Wednesday night. Wednesday night.

Is that June 10? In July? In July. We're in July currently. apologies. In Santa Barbara, we rented out the, uh, should I tell people this? They'll show out. No, no. We rent it out a theater. Comes back. There's like one theater in Santa Barbara. Unlimited free booze. What? Not joking. Was that on the invite? Are we going? It's, uh, brought to you by

Bells brewing. Oh, thank you. Yeah. By the way, same company. Yeah, yeah. New Belgium. God, they're getting me drunk on the rag. I know. It's crazy. Dude, uh, just on this video teaser you posted, I saw that someone mentioned me. And so of course, I went to know. what it was. It was BTG. Peter, I know we address this.

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What do you say? Strange coincidence. Look at the size of this velvet dogfish is Spiceman's best nude beach pickup line. The flaw with that joke is the thought that I would eat. even be remotely like, I don't even want to take my shirt off at a beach, let alone full nude. Well, I think he's saying like he's, he's saying that you're saying that about some other lady on the beach. I think he's saying that I'm saying that about my own genitals. Would you have the confidence to go to a nude beach and talk to a stranger?

Now? Ever. Never. No, no. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm an idiot. Never in my life.

I would go to a nude beach, but I would keep to myself. Well, you were on national television naked, so why would you care? I don't know. Just like, could you imagine just walking up to a bunch, like a crowd of people on a nude beach? Be like, hey, how's it going? You guys want to play some volleyball? Yeah. Anybody want to wrestle?

Yeah. You'd have to do some major pre-gaming before. Either you would have to have done it a bunch of times or like you've drank a bunch before you go out there. Oh, give me four drinks easily to it. Easily. Yeah, I like that. I like that.

Forrest, you know, when you were on, I mean, you were fat when you were on naked and afraid. too. Thank you. You were like obese and like your pecker must have been inverted. And I like, it's just like that image of you is in my head when you walk up to her dancing blurred cock and balls out. Not much of one. Uh, thank God it was blurred. It's like a penis only smaller. I could have done this podcast with you if it wasn't blurred. I could never look at you the same. Dude, my, my little fat baby is like that. Like his penis is basically inverted because he's so fat. It's crazy. Um, Kyle, since it's shark themed, let's try and really stick with the theme.

You don't want to talk about his fat baby's pecker? I want Kyle to play the draw. What's in the news? Louder! Sir, news from the underground. Okay, thank you for that jingle. What's in the shark news for us? What's in the shark news?

This has been very viral the last couple weeks. A guy fishing on a pier in Florida reeled in a piebald lemon shark. Kyle, pull up the video of this. Piebald. So piebald is a genetic condition in which, yeah, isn't that cool? Wow. Yeah, so look at this. So piebald is an interesting genetic condition where an animal gets a lack of melanin in the skin, right?

So you get melanistic, which is too much melanin where things get black. And you get albinism where the thing's completely white. This is like a general lack of melanism, but not complete like albinism, right? And so you get this unbelievable patterning. But that's a lemon shark. For reference, Kyle, pull up a right. picture of a lemon shark. Like, they should not look anything like that.

In fact, they're called lemon sharks because of their yellowish complexion. Oh, interesting. So that's what a lemon shark generally looks like. And then this piebald one was caught on this dock. And I mean, it's just a stunning. Honestly, people are getting upset. I even say this. It should be in an aquarium.

Like, that's an animal that should be on display somewhere because it's just so unbelievably unique. Yeah, well, normally the base color of it is yellowish gray. And this one, the base is completely white with, like, like speckled black. It's beautiful, huh? Yeah. Crazy looking.

Wow, and the face is all black like that. Yeah, and I don't think there's much more to the story, to be honest. Just it's, you know, it's a one in a million type of shark. What does it say? Oh, it says tracking day. The shark was found to be tagged when caught, showed that the shark had been caught and released again and again over several years. So that's interesting.

Okay. There had been two previously recorded instances of piebald sharks ever. One being a nurse shark observed in Honduras in 2022. So really, probably more than one in a million. but very, very small odds of seeing a shark like that. Do you think that that shark has less of a chance of mating because of its appearance? Possibly. I mean, I don't know how much like visual sexual selection there is in sharks.

But, you know, what it is is the way to understand it is being piebald, being melanistic or albinistic is likely more common of an occurrence than we realize. They just don't make it to adulthood because you stand out. If you're a bright white shark, you stand out, right? If you look like that shark, you stand out. So if you're a predator of those animals, especially when you're swimming around at seven inches long, right? Sure. You just get nailed, right? A heron finds you or a big fish seizes, you, or whatever.

You're basically a swimming lure. Yeah. But this one, obviously, like the albino giraffe that we saw many years ago on this pod, we talked about it, made it all the way to adulthood, which is just, that's the rarity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Would a tiger shark, like a big tiger shark feed on a fully grown lemon shark? Oh, absolutely. Okay. Yeah.

Now, they wouldn't, like, actively hunt them because they're slower and bigger and everything else. But if they had the opportunity

of a bright white one went swimming by in front of it and it could grab it. It absolutely would. Interesting. And you see, especially in Florida, you always get these videos

of the hammerheads chasing the spinner sharks in shallow. Have you seen that? No. Kyle, see if you can find one of those videos where you just see,

oh, you know, who had one, go to, go to Instagram quickly, and go to Cameron Kirk Connell. He's a spearfishing guy.

I saw he posted one one just yesterday. Yeah, go to his page and go to that second. Watch this. So you see this a lot. So this is a hammerhead. I think he's chasing a ray. Sorry, but you see them,

these big sharks chasing smaller sharks and rays like this. And this is a greater hammerhead chasing this eagle ray. Oh, that poor Ray. That's in Florida? I think so. Inside of the swim ropes, may I point out. Dude, I was just going to say that. That shark is like on the beach.

Right. But you know, you see the like, safe swim ropes area and you're like, oh, it's fine. We can swim here. Not in Florida. Dude, so I went to Zuma Beach Sunday. It's in Malibu. It's like, oh, I know Zuma. It's great because there's a ton of parking. Yeah, it's the only way to go. Your favorite. So there's something going on because there's probably multiple pods of dolphins, but they're cruising basically at the line where the first wave is.

Just outside of it. They're just cruising right where all these people are way deep in water. Yep. Back and forth and back. I don't know if it was the same dolphins, but back and forth all day long. We were there for a long time. All day. There's just dolphins there. And then we went up to take the kids to like, you know, go in the water a little bit.

And the entire, it's just fucking full of these tiny little see-through crabs and a million little jellyfish. In the sand. The crabs are in the sand? No, like the water is just full of all these dead little like translucent crabs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's a malt. They're not dead. Sorry, go on, I'll tell you about it.

But I was like, I wonder, I've never seen, it's just, you know, you're in shin deep water and the water's full of stuff. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Jellyfish, like I've never seen on a beach. I was like, something must be going on here. Type in California sand crab. Did you say jellyfish? So many, tiny little jelly. Were they little blue ones with a little sail?

Yes. Yeah, okay, so I'll tell you about everything. Tell you all the things here. Excellent. So these are what you were seeing, I imagine. These are sand crabs. Yes. And they do a malt.

So, you can go in the water. and dig through the sand in California in like shin deep water. And in certain pockets, there'll be millions of them. Yeah, there were literally millions of millions. And you could feel them in between your toes and everything. Yeah. So these are sand crabs and they will malt all at the same kind of time. Okay.

So because a tidal fluctuation or a temperature shift or whatever, you'll have literally millions of sand crabs all malt at once. Kind of like salmon and Alaska, there are a lot of the foundation for our intertidal food chain. So just like salmon feed the bag. and it feeds the plants when they die and they do their migration, it really holds the ecosystem together in Alaska. These crabs do a lot of that for our inshore areas in California. Now, the jellyfish, I imagine you saw, were sailor by the wind.

Sailor by the wind. That's nice. That's nice. So is this all connected? Yes. Yeah. By the wind sailors. Sorry, by the wind sailors.

Thank you. Lots of them. Yeah. So these guys will, they're interesting too. So they're a fully pelagic sailor by the wind. By the wind sailors. They're a fully pelagic jelly that have that sail. So see the little clear sail on top.

And they will form up mats of millions of individuals out in the ocean. Millions. Pallagic. Holy shit. What's that? Offsh, like out, live out in the open ocean moving around. Gotcha. But if the wind blows them in a certain way, they end up washing on shore in these big mats of these sailor by the wind.

Yeah. But yeah, that's what you can find offshore sometimes. I mean, millions of them. So do you think that the dolphins were eating these jellies? you know, it sounds stupid, but life finds life. So when there's crabs malting, there's fish eating the freshly malted crabs, and then when there's fish, there's dolphin, and when there's jellyfish decomposing, there's something that's eating them.

I don't know what's, but, you know what I mean? It's like the new happening bar in town. Everybody goes there, they meet up, they, you know, and then it dies and becomes nothing, and you go to the next place. It's just like life finds life. And by the way, this is interesting. this year is a year like none other, this spring specifically or late or I guess early summer, unlike any that I've ever seen in California.

I went out on Sunday with my family because I'd heard there were a few whales around. We saw 11 blue whales and four humpbacks in about two and a half hours. Where at? Santa Barbara. Just right off of Santa Barbara? I mean like close to the channel like three miles out from the Channel Islands where the whales typically go. My buddy runs the condor, the whale watching boat.

So he told me he's like, it's really good, dude. You should get out. Grab the family, hopped on the boat. Literally, in two and a half, three hours, we saw 11 blue whales and a bunch of humpbacks. That's insane. Plus dolphins and this, that, and the other thing. But it's just like, it's so,

such a high density of marine mammals this year. I've never seen anything. Something going on with the temperatures and the currents. Everything. Yeah. It's all aligned. Speaking of predatory things, though, there is an interesting other piece of news I'd like to bring up.

Oh, let's have it. Look at this. Tiger shark spotted regurgitating echidna in a surprising world. first. So, Peter, do you know what a kidna is? No. I didn't think so. What do you think it is? I, uh, Akitna is like, Scott, I imagine it's like a, uh, it's a deep sea version of a sand dollar, but like more, uh, it's made out of jelly, not, uh, like sand dollar stuff. I like that. That's a guess. Do you know? I do and I also just read it. Okay.

Because when I saw it, I was like, oh, I must be wrong in what I think in a kidna is. Yeah. So first of all, before we pull up the, the article here, they found this, James Coy, researchers of the James Cook University were tagging tiger sharks at this island in Australia when they witnessed this very rare event. Tiger sharks are known as the dumpsters of the sea, right? We found human parts and then we found license plates in him, tires, cocaine, you name it. I'm not joking. We found basically everything in him. But an echidna is a small, spiky marsupial that lives on land in Australia. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've seen these guys before. And yeah, sure enough, these researchers just witnessed.

I mean, I imagine it doesn't go down the throat very easily. No. Yeah. So they might go down easy, but then coming back up, it would be tough. Oh, yeah. So I imagine it was irritating the Jesus out of this Tiger Sharks digestive system and decided to send it back up.

So what do you think happened here? Did the echidna like fall out of a tree into the ocean? Probably. I mean, I imagine one died, you know, and it was floating around decomposing. Do they swim? I don't know. Can you look that up, do echinis swim? They must.

Kidness swimming. That looks tough to swim with that type of body right there. It must. Yeah, look, look, they can swim decently. They're swimming. That's adorable, by the way. I just have a message for all the echinas out there. Just stay on land, stay safe.

Oh, look how fun that looks, though. They could keep their nose up like a big, like a snorkel. Yeah, like a snorkel. I just don't know why it's swimming. I don't even. Look how fun that looks. Do you think just for fun? Absolutely.

His quills make him seem very floaty. Wow, that's a great photo. Today I learned Akidna swim. That's the title of that photo. It makes me want to jump in a cool lake right now. Oh, look at that.

So this Tiger Shark sees this echidna swimming having a lovely frolic. Goes by just fucking munches it. Gets it halfway down and goes, no, this is a nightmare.

I mean, I've literally seen Tiger Sharks eating rocks for no reason. I'm not joking. They're kind of like, you know when you get a golden retriever puppy and you're like nothing could be.

sweeter but more dumb than this creature. That's the tiger shark of, yeah, those are tigers sharks. It's like a vacuum cleaner that just goes around the ocean inhaling everything. It's insane. So, yeah, I think you either saw it swimming or dead or who knows what and was just like, food and started chewing on it and then

it hurt. Go back to that article. What do you got? What do you see? Literally, Dr. Lubits, who's referenced in the BBC article, says, I've seen videos of them eating a rock for no reason. There you go. See? I told you. They're that stupid. I'm not even kidding.

Dumb Dums. But at least they have the ability to regurgitat. Well, they can eat anything. I mean, they're literally like swimming dumpsters. Yeah. Apparently, apparently not a kidness. Kyle, why did Retep saying regurgitat make you laugh so much? It's a ridiculous thing to say.

At least somebody's laughing. I get, I got, ah. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why that. All right, so let's go back to Shark Week. Sure. So alien ghosts of Japan? Alien Sharks of Japan?

Ghosts of Japan? That's it. Okay. And then you created and produced another one. Yep. What is it? When does it air? How do I watch it?

Sharks of the Dead Zone. I'm not on camera at all for it. You do see my back driving the boat at one point. Your backside? Yeah. Okay. It's lovely. Nice.

Yeah, it's called Sharks of the Dead Zone. It's got this water ecologist, Dr. Tiara Moore. And she is investigating HABs. You know what HABs? Habs. Habs. That's what you call them. Yeah.

You know what it is? Hadbitual avatar bitches Highly something Something Kyle, take a crack What do you think a hab is? Couldn't tell you. Oh, what a loser!

It's a harmful algal bloom. Elgle bloom. Yeah, I don't know, Kyle, maybe you can pull up HABs or harmful algal bloom. So in Florida you guys probably, we've talked about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They have those big algal blooms that kill everything, these things. Gross. And, you know, The show that I created with Dr. T. And Craig was about these harmful algal blooms. And the fact that these algal blooms take place primarily in the Indian River Lagoon, which is the most important ppping grounds for bull sharks in the world.

There's nowhere where more bull sharks are birthed than the Indian River Lagoon. So where is the Indian River Galuon? Florida, right? Yeah. Flo Rida. What's a Galuon again? Yeah. So this Goulon is.

It's basically the inland waterway from like Jupiter to Stewart or maybe even further north. So all the bull sharks on the Jupiter ledge get ppped? Yeah, they all, exactly right. They all go into this lagoon to pup. And with these harmful algal blooms getting worse and worse every single summer, we had Dr. T who's a water ecologist and Craig do a little mission where they go out to the Jupiter ledge. They tag a pregnant female bull shark and follow her into the Indian River lagoon to see whether or not she gives birth. and whether or not the pup can survive because of these dead zones.

We run into a dead zone. They film it. They do water quality tests. You know, they catch a juvie bull shark and they go back out to the ledge. It's pretty cool. It's pretty exciting. And it's more importantly, even more so than like my show that I host,

it's a really critical message. And there's a really interesting discovery in there that hasn't really been publicly announced, which will come out this week. So I'll talk about it. they find in combination with Dr. Mickey McComb, I think is her last name at FAU, that the harmful algal blooms, have you heard why they may harmful algal blooms occur? I've only heard it's climate change. I'm sure it has something to do with warm water. It does. You're both right. But it's from massive excess amounts of nutrients in the water, right? Do you know where those nutrients come from?

So that's what it was believed. They came from agricultural runoff, golf course runoff, things like that. No, we found out in this show and through a bunch of science with collaborators. Yeah, yeah. It's not actually. It's partially due to that. It's primarily due to, get this, septic. Really? Human shit going into the Indian River Lagoon.

That's where all those sandbar parties are. That's where people are hanging out and drinking. They're eating fish out of there. It's literally septic systems draining into the Indian River Lagoon. And get this, this is where it gets a whole level deeper. And it's really interesting. We go into depth on it on the show. All of those things they're getting flushed are all of the pharmaceuticals that people are taking antidepressants, fucking drugs, you name it, are bioaccumulating in the animals in the food chain.

So the sharks are on fucking Vicodin and Xanax and shit. I'm not even kidding. Sounds nice. Because no, it's not nice. And they're getting like growths and deformities, all the shit. It's from human pharmaceuticals that are being concentrated through all the shit getting flushed into the waters in Florida. Yeah, I was talking to some. Some scientists that were at, we're at FAU last year, and they were studying that bioaccumulation

of like, you know, yeah, sharks and shit that are on massive amounts of Viagra. Yeah, yeah, Viagra, that's the other one. That's like a huge one. Like every shark's Viagra it up. Yeah. It's kind of fucking crazy. Sorry, but I didn't mean to interrupt you. I just, I forgot about Viagra thing.

Yeah, the Viagra thing. Is there what, I want to know more about these Viagra sharks. They're just swimming around rooting everybody left and right. Well, I mean, Viagra was made to reduce your blood pressure, so I think it could be good for the sharks. Yeah, but let's stress. Maybe, maybe. Listen, I'm not saying this is a good thing. No, of course you're not.

But imagine that you're you, imagine you're you. Yeah. And you're like, Viagra's good for blood pressure. But then we leave here, you order a burger, and that burger has 86 Viagra pills in it. That's not good. That's what's going on, right? So every fish they eat has bioaccumulated all these like Viagra amounts. trace amounts to bioaccumulate into a massive amount.

And they're like, we caught this bull shark, a bit of a spoiler, but we caught this medium-sized bull shark in the Indian River Lagoon. Not us, not FAU, nobody had ever seen anything like it, covered in growths around its genitals. Wow. No idea what they were. That's wild. Yeah.

What are we going to do about the overpopulation, man? This stuff is like, is this solvable? Do we just divert where the waste is going? Yeah, I mean, it is solvable. one is mangroves are massive filters, right? So the biggest problem is it's not even, this is going to sound like callous, but it's not even the fact that we're putting

all of our literal shit into the water. It's the fact that we've cleared out all of the mangrove systems that act as filters. Yeah, yeah. Right? Because Florida, to develop all of those awesome houses along the waterways and stuff,

have cleared out all of these mangrove systems. And mangroves are nature sponge. They're nature's like filter system for the inland waters. Yeah. That's what we need. So the resolution, yes, we should dump less shit into the ocean. Right.

But we should also like leave big swaths of undeveloped land so that the ecosystem can do what it does to repair itself and repair what we're doing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people aren't going to stop shitting. So that's not a workable solution. But definitely there's some things that can be done to, we don't have to develop all of this. There's so much land like I feel like in the middle of the country that is just undeveloped. Nobody wants to go to like Montana.

Why can't we make it nice there? It's going to be nice once the warm. Did you say no one wants to live in Montana? No, he said Montana and I said no one wants to live there. I was wrong about that. Everybody wants to live in Montana since Yellowstone. They didn't used to want to live in Montana though. What's that?

Montana is like not highly populated though. Montana, in the last five, six years, the price of real estate in Montana and like in like Bozeman and some of those sounds is now in line. with L.A. It's crazy. That's kind of a good thing because people, it shows people are moving into their, into the, because that's what, north, middle of America? Yeah, it's pretty far north. I mean, you know, Montana gets a crazy amount of snow in the corner. It is? Yeah. You drive from Montana into Canada. Well, good. It's optimistic. We should move all the shitters up there. All the shitters. If you poop, go to Montana immediately. I got some friends up in Montana.

and I mean, they just, their lifestyle is so lovely in the winter, or in the summer, I mean. I was going to say in the summer. In the winter, it's pretty brutal. Yeah, they all went for a nice river float last weekend. Sounds nice. Do they have kids?

Yeah. Okay. All right. No, it's just I, you know, that's a controlled environment. But when was the last time you did a fun river float with a bunch of booze? Dude, I haven't done anything fun since I had kids.

I'm waiting for it to crack. I did one yesterday. Where? Swear to God. Not a traditional. float like the Montana style, but the river in Santa Barbara, the San Yanez, where I take my son and stuff, took a bunch of coolers, took a bunch of floaties, went to a big chunk of the river where there's a nice bit of current, floated down there, caught catfish with my son, snorkeled

in the river. I've been comparing myself to forests a lot lately just in my head. Well, now that you've lost 15 pounds. And I'm just like, how do I get into a situation where, like, I couldn't do this? Yes, you can. I can't. Literally next, this is an open invite. I'm dead fucking serious.

Saturday, no, shut your, shut your whore mouth and listen to me. Saturday, grab your wife and your kids, come to Santa Barbara, we will go to the river, we will float, we will drink beer, we will catch fish with the kids, and we will lick our wounds when we come home and the wives drive. Oh, God, I just don't know if, if you're going to go? You bring a pop-up, so there's shade, you sit on a beach. I brought the little Weber, you know, the baby queue, the little tiny barbecue, grilled some sausages. Leot, sounds lovely. If you're in, I'm in. I'm not joking.

It was a wonderful day. Oh, it sounds amazing. It's so sunburn. Look out how fucking red I am. Yeah. Bishop, California. I went up there to go see the bristlecone pines, the old trees. Oh, yeah. And we went to a bar.

This bouncer's like, hey, it's like, me and some friends are floating the river tomorrow. We're like, oh, yeah, that sounds fun. Yeah. So you go, the gas station sell inner tubes because it's like a big thing to do there. Yeah, yeah. Make a bunch of, just get a giant Gatorade, pour like half a ball of vodka to it. Right, for the kids. Yeah, and then you float the river.

And it's like a two, three hour float. It's really fun. God, it sounds amazing. And then when you get to the bottom, there's like a sandbar at the bottom and they've got all these tree swings. Oh, man. And so you like climb up the tree and you swing out and go into the deep part of the river and people are just partying down there and barbecuing. It's fantastic. Dude, this is what I used to do with my life.

Like I used to go camping. I used to do all these things. And this is why I've been comparing myself to forest lately. He never stopped when he had kids. Correct. Just make your kids do these things. I'm telling you. My kid is eight months old.

Mine's nine months old. I made him go. Oh, my God. I'll show you. How did he survive? Because your wife is taking care of him. Yeah, and we put him in a life jacket thing. He just floats.

When he floats, he just got sits there. It was 91 out. The water was 84. It's perfect. The kid just sits there like this with a little floppy hat. You need a write a book on how to rear children so that I can read it. I'm not going to write rear children, though. Can I bring it back to the theme?

Yes, I was going to play a game. I was going to play a game too. Okay. Sorry. Do you have a game? game? I do. I do. Established by producer Edwin, we're going to play a game. Okay. All right? We are going to guess. I'm going to be your host. That's why I'm looking at my phone. And we are going to guess the 10 most dangerous places for shark attacks. Okay. Dunna-da-na-na. Now I'm going to give you

one. In the world. In the world. Not just in California. No, no. Ten most dangerous place in the world. Now I'll give you one caveat, which is really, really stupid. Because eight of the 10 are countries or states, countries or states. Two of the ten, however, are counties. Okay. I don't know why it's broken up this way, but it is. So, we're going to do it like this. So this is where you're most likely to get attacked by a shark.

Correct. So it's, you guys are each going to guess, and I'll tell you where, if anywhere, your county, state, or country ranks. Okay. And then I'll give you the details. All right. I'm going to start with Hawaii. Very good.

Good guess. Oh, that is a good guess. Hawaii comes in at number five. number of recorded attacks 159 since 1828 with 40 different species of sharks. Did you see that a surfer got killed there? It's a pretty well-known surfer got killed. He was also a lifeguard. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Yeah, pretty rough. Was that last week? Something like that. Yeah, pretty rough. Was it a tiger shark? I'm sure. That's always a tiger shark in Hawaii.

A ate him or just killed him? Probably because hungry, right? They don't attack, do they attack just for aggressiveness? No, I mean, a tiger shark will definitely eat you, but it's more a mistake. The problem is in Hawaii, there's like areas where because of the surf, there's no visibility, and the tiger sharks don't realize you're you. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay.

So number five. And also, keep in mind, in all these places, like, there are definitely places that aren't on this list that have higher potential for shark attacks. Sure. But people aren't swimming there. Yeah, this is the confluence of lots of people, lots of sharks. This makes me happy about my decision here. Australia, many people get killed by, I'm sure, by sharks. And I was trying to figure out a city or something there.

I don't know what they call them. But Queensland, there must be a lot of people there. Very good. Number four, you just won up to Pat. Queensland, Australia. Queensland, Australia. Number of recorded attacks, 199 since the 1700s, home to 166 shark species. East Coast is prone to lots of attacks because it's so densely populated.

Queensland, Australia. Interesting. A lot of surfers. Everyone surfs in Australia. Yeah. I don't think you're allowed to live there. Nah, sir. You're not.

All right. I'm going to go with the good old state, the sunshine state. Is that California or Florida? That's California. Florida is what I was trying to guess. No, Sunshine States, Florida. What are we? The Golden State.

We're like the milk state or something. Golden State. Is that like Happy Cows come from California? We were the Sunshine State. We're the Raisins State. Somebody correct us in the Carolina is my guess. As I told you, there are two broken up by county. Dade County. All right. Thank you.

Dade? No way. That's like where... I don't even know where Dade County is. Dade County. Take another crack. Take another crack in another county in Florida. Broward County. Brevard County, if that's what you meant. I don't know if that's... I don't know if those are two different counties. These are the two counties featured the most on cops. That's for sure. Brevard County, Florida, coming in at number six. Number of recorded tax, 155 since 1882. Hey, what's the city? What's the beach in Brow?

Brevard County. I'm wondering if that's like Tampa St. Pete area. What is our big city in Brevard Coquo Beach? Coco Beach, right next to the Space Center. Oh, by Melbourne. That's kind of far north. Yeah, and Vero Beach. Near Orlando, close to Orlando. Yeah. Okay. So I... Fifty-five

attacks there. I will tell you guys, there is another Florida on the list. But... Is it also a county? It's also a county. It's not one that we just give it to us. Give it to us. Okay, I've never heard of this. Volusia County. Volusia County. Volusia County, which is where New Smyrna Beach is, is number one on the list.

Oh, wow. Number of recorded attacks, 337 since 1882. More than Queensland. Dude, that's wild. Yep, yep, all right. I mean,

that's enough for me to probably not go beyond waste deep in New Smyrna. I'll tell you something. I'm going to make a guess that's going to make you even want to not go waist deep even closer to home pack

because my next guess, and I do believe it's on there. Where? Your home city of Santa Barbara. Barbara? No, but California ranks. This list is annoying. It's terrible the way it's broken up. But I don't care.

We'll run through all of them soon. So number seven is California with the number of recorded attacks being 130 since 1926. Wow. So all of California? That's the way the list is broken up. The entire coast of California is still only a third as many as that one county in Florida. Volusia County. The forest, though, like, are there a lot of shark attacks near you out there in Santa Barbara?

that's where I feel like I always hear about that. No, the, well, I mean, I shouldn't say no. They happen occasionally in my area, especially to the commercial urchin guys, like at the islands. Okay. But the red triangle, which is from the south or sorry, the north end of Golden Gate up to somewhere near Oregon and out to the Farallana Islands. Yeah. That's like the hot zone for white sharks, or at least it used to be. There you go. The red triangle right there.

But not a lot of people swimming because the water's cold up there. Yeah. So it's only surfers and stuff. Oh, it's not by Golden Gate. It's way further south. Anyway, that's sort of the hot zone for white sharks. At least it used to be. I feel like that's really shifted with climate change.

And white sharks are like the most dange. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. We got a couple other guesses. We got another Australia. We got another country.

Oh, I get, let me. Two more countries and another state. I got a country. Philippines is out. Guess another country. I'm going South Africa. Number two on the list. Yeah.

Number of recorded attacks, 259 since 1905. Dangerous fucking place. It is. It is. Yeah, I know some of the beaches there, they have people who are up on the cliffs just with binoculars. Yeah, shark watchers. Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. South Africa is gnarly. It's funny because, you know me, like not a lot of regard for safety when it comes to the ocean or anything. Yeah. Even I get like, like, sketched out when I'm like alone, free diving or swimming in South Africa. Yeah. I just feel like I'm like, uh, it doesn't feel good here. It's not right.

If you know that the animal could be around you or the thick, the most. monster if you're a child under your bed. It doesn't matter if anything's really there, dude. It gives you this. The hebees. Yeah, the hebie-G-Bs. All right, we got two more countries and one more state. Let's see if we can get them.

And then I'll run through the list. I keep snorting. Guess a country? Guess a country. A country. Not Philippines. What the fuck is another country? I don't know.

I'm trying to think where people swim a lot. Indonesia? Nope. What? Go. Oh, wait. Is Bahamas a country? Yes.

Very much so. All right. So in number 10, we have Papua New Guinea. 48 attacks since 1852. Reported. Reported. There's definitely more than that. Yeah. Interesting. Number nine is South Carolina. The number of recorded attacks 107 since 1837. Wow. That's surprising. Brazil, 107 attacks since 1931.

Yep. Number seven is California. Number six is Brevard County. Number five is Hawaii. Number four is Queensland. number three is New South Wales, Australia. Ah, that's where Sydney is. Yeah. So all the beaches that you see on TV. 267 attacks since 1700. This is a very weird way this list is broken up.

And then South Africa and then Volusia County. Interesting. Volusia County, man, that's right here in the good old U.S.A. Here's the thing, though. It's the same thing with crocodiles, and I'll explain this. I would be willing to bet a lot that there is, the number one is probably Papua New Guinea. The number

one could easily be Mozambique. It's countries where these things aren't getting reported. Sure. It's like everybody in the world is like, oh, saltwater crocs are the most dangerous crock in the world. Wrong. You're just Australians and you're hearing me if you're from Australia. Oh my God. I don't care. They're all scared of everything

in Australia. Australia's not even scary. Sorry about that, Daniel. Cool. Go to Africa. They don't get reported. These crocs killed dozens and dozens of people. It goes completely unreported. It's different. Australia is first world country that keep tabs on everything. It's totally different. I promise you more people are getting munched by Nile crocodiles in countries in Southern Africa and you just never hearing about it. I mean, it totally makes sense. I mean, if you're not, you don't have access

to some form of communication within the fucking village you're in. You live in a village. You don't have a, you don't have an iPhone. There's no documenting. You don't even know how many people live there. It gets back like three years later. Somebody travels to like, Cape, what is it? Cape Town. Cape Town. That's a place. I almost said Cape Cod, Africa. Real quick. We've got to give some money away.

Oh, yeah. We have $5,000 to throw at someone. And we should announce it. We're giving money away right now. Right now. Right now. On this app. All right.

So, yeah, go ahead. T us up. We hosted a Leatherman contest for Father's Day for Grad Week. You need it. We just kind of made it up as we went. And we said to you guys at home submit a video, something funny, something that makes us live. or something that tells us you love your leatherman, right?

Original. Original or funny. That's what it was. Yep. And we said we're going to give the one that makes us laugh the most. Yep. It's going to get $2,500, cash. And then the most original.

Yeah. It's going to get $2,500. So Kyle has weeded it down to the top three candidates. Top three out of at least 200, 300. I don't even know how many entries. It doesn't matter. Kyle, let's see the top three. We're going to review them right here, live on the pod.

and announced two winners, $2,500. These are funny already. All right, so this one is from Spencer A. Anderson. Let's take a look at this one here. Take a look. Take a look. What is happening, everyone? My name is Spencer Anderson.

And you know what I'm doing right now? I'm doing a little packet because I am going to be going to the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon rainforest for over five weeks. That is great. I'm going to be studying abroad through my school, UC San Diego. We're going to be focusing on wildlife. research and data observation. I'm going to be in the field studying these amazing animals.

Oh, my God, I'm so excited. But first, I got to pack because it's a long trip. Got to make sure I got everything. So first up, got to make sure that you got those field journals, making sure writing everything down. Don't forget it. Next up, the origin of the species by Charles Darwin. He's going to have a shark week special in two years.

Oh, my cowlbag, backpack. Why not? Let's bring my trusty snakehook. Snake hook. I have the same snake hook. Midwest talks. always bring, doesn't matter if I'm out in the field. Doesn't matter if I'm out in the backyard

helping with my old man. I always bring with me my Leatherman Wave Plus. I love the Wave Plus. The best multi-tool in the world, it is strong, it is sturdy. And you guys all know it. It is built to last. Leatherman, if you guys don't have one, what are you doing?

Pick one up. Spenser. You will not regret it. Have a good one, everybody. I just think he's going on a really cool trip and I'm jealous because Ecuador is amazing. I like how he gave some recommendations. for the snake hook and then the journals because I wouldn't know to take those things.

Okay, let's see the next one. Let's see what's number two. Sergei Kelly. Okay. Running wild Florida means you have to be self-reliant. It means you have to be in the wild with animals, getting stuff stuck in your shoe, getting stabbed by plants,

being able to know where you're going, you're out in the middle of nowhere, have to know whereabouts. This tool helps. Oh, which one's that? Wow. That's the signal. Oh, yeah, baby.

Oh, I caught a little turn. I was into about a 10 mile run. And right here, there's this fence here, barbed wire. And there's a little trail that's right out to this tree right here. No way he's going to cut the fence down. That's definitely illegal. Slow motion. Oh, man, I'm a fan of this one.

30, it's not moving anywhere. There you go. No, this is good. The sign is now readable. That I made the sign readable. After trespassing. They cut down the guy's fence and then it's like, I'm going to make this.

sign readable. This tool, the Leatherman tool, has been super helpful when out here in the Florida Wild. I'm a fan. I like that one. That one's good. Yeah. A lot of effort.

All right. What's his name? Good job. Sergee Kelly. Surgy Kelly. All right. A lot of effort into that. Yep.

Showcase the Leatherman and a lot of different real life uses. I liked it. Okay. All right. This one is. Oh, my God. We have Batman. All right.

From Michael Grutter. This man wearing a homemade cat mask, I believe. I think he's supposed to be Batman. That's a great shirt. Oh my God. What's he doing is running? He's being Batman. I'm Batman.

Or at least I used to be. Then I got old and fat. I'm fat for my utility belt. You can't wear his utility bell. He's too fat for it. I'm fat man. Fuck. Only midlife price is Batman.

That's not a problem anymore, though, because I have been your brother-man are a utility belt in one simple and simple. This guy's a genius. And Batman. You're working around the house. You're out in the field or cleaning up the city. You don't need a bad man when you got a brother man. This guy's amazing.

We should make a show with that guy. He's fat man. Can we all agree definite winner? Yes, he's a definite one. Yeah, he's a definite one. Let's do this official. All right. So thank you to everyone who submitted.

What we did was Kyle and Edwin. narrowed it down to their best, their favorite 30. We went through and ranked them all 1 to 10. These were the three with the highest score. So we're given two $2,500 prizes to Brosner's cash. Right now, let's start with

funniest. Forrest, who do you vote for? Fat man. Fat man. Well, come on. Unanimous. It's Fat man. It's fat man. Congratulations. Who's that? Michael Grunner. Michael Gruner. You just won $2,500 way to go. You blew away.

the competition. Hit us up. Hit us up. Hit Peter at the Wild Times podcast. It's the worst costume I've ever seen. It's the best, actually. I love it. You look like you could use the money. All right. Most original. To me, it's between, well, it's obvious who it's between. I'm going to vote for Sergei.

Okay. I'll tell you why. I like that Spencer is going to the Galapagos. I like that he's talking about origin of species. I like these on his university trip. Great stuff. It's all great. Yeah. But Sergei went out there. He went for a run. He cut down a fence that he shouldn't have

cut down. He cleared somebody else's private property, no trespassing sign off with his leatherman. And then he's just randomly in an abandoned building wrapping out his video. Like, I love it. It's great. I'm going to go, I'm going against that. I'm going Spencer because I liked that he gave me a few tips on what he's taken, including a journal and a snake hook. He's a young buck. That's right. Five weeks in the rainforest in Galapagos. I like what he's doing. That's right. Okay. So I guess I get the tie break. You got the tiebreaker. Oh, man. One of a. 500.

I like, I like Spencer's energy in the spirit of what he's doing. Yep. But I got to go with Sergei. Sergei! All right. Congratulations. For all the same reasons. The forest names.

The cutting down the fence illegally and clearing the side that said like you shouldn't cut down our fence. Fantastic. It's good. This is, this is, it took some effort. He took a shirt off for it. I think, I think it's, I think it's, I think you're right. Yeah.

Congratulations, Sergei and Michael Gruner. You guys hit us up. Thank you. Thank you everybody who sent videos. We're going to keep playing them on our stories for the next month or so. And let us know in the comments if you guys like these opportunities to win some cash from us because it's fun for us. We laughed a lot watching these videos. It's also very satisfying to send someone $2,500.

That's not like a small. You can take a fun-ass trip with that. Oh, yeah. You can buy a bad car with that. You can. Absolutely. That's how much my first car costs. All right.

Before we wrap out, I got a game. What is? Let's do it. You know what kind of game it is? Oh, I can tell by your time. I can know what time it is. Do you know what time it is? Time

for what. All right. What do you got? It is a Shark Week special. We're going to keep it Shark Week themed original, old school, oceanic fight to the death. Head, body, special ability of a shark. Okay. All sharks.

All sharks. Shark Week special. Must be sharks. Okay. I think you might win. Body, special ability, fight to the death. Okay. Peter, I should go last.

Scales up to the body? Scales up to the body. Does it need to be an extant shark? No megalodons. Okay, fuck. Yeah. No megalodons. All right, Peter, you're first. Well, obviously, I'm going to go with the body of a gray white shark.

It's one of the only ones I know. That's fair. It's a vicious motherfucker. Well, you're getting the body and it's the biggest shark. It's the biggest. Well, it's not actually. Well, if we're doing a snake draft, I won't be able to go. Oh, son of a bitch.

A couple bigger ones out there. All right. All right. I want a fast shark. And so I'm not going to go with just pure size. Because I want something that's really fast. Yep. I'm going to take the body of just the biggest makeo alive on Earth.

Okay. That's fine. That's good. I want to swim 45 miles an hour. That's great. Nothing wrong with that at all. Is there a faster shark? No.

Oh, the fastest. Yes. Yeah. That's very nice. All right. So I'm up next. I'm going to start in a different place. I'm going to start with the head.

I'm going to take the head of a sawfish. giant Rostrum, giant chainsaw attached to its face. Now keep in mind, it scales up to the size of the body. We're all going big, so I was going to go kind of small,

but I'm going to stay big. I'm going to take a whale shark. Sure. This would be incredible to see. Enormous. It's going to swim at you very slowly. Yep. And poke you with a semi-sharp rostrum.

It's true. It's not the fastest. It might be rusty. It could be a rusty rostrum. All right. I'm going to take the head of a tiger shark

it's good big bite force big bite force it's gonna clamp down on you swim at you real fucking fast mm-hmm good Peter you're up for two

two okay I'm gonna go with the head on the body of my great white white of a goblin shark that's right a very mean and nasty head looks like an alien

are you kidding me that at the size of a great white shark is grotesque I was gonna say that is it's scary not is it only It's scary. Yeah.

It's scary. And then I'm going to go with the speed of a, I don't know. What's a fast shark? He already did that. Did the Mako. Yeah, special ability, baby. You did your special ability? No, I did the body of a Mako.

Yeah, but I can still use special ability of a Mako or no. Of course not. That's never been how it's worked. What? You've never been able to pick the same species. Kyle, Kyle, Kyle, Kyle, weigh in. You can't pick the same species. Fuck off.

I hate it all. A different special ability. All right, then I'm going to go with the special ability. How do I know any shark special ability? I'm going to go with the bull shark can swim in fresh water and salt water. There you go. That's a good special ability. That's right.

Sorry for all the swearing. That also took away mine. So way to go. Not for the same reason, but it took away. It's fine. Get out. Good. I'm glad to feel better about that whole conversation we just had.

Okay. I'm going to have a fast shark with a scary fucking head, but guess what? You can't even see it because I'm going with the camouflaging skills of a wabi gong. Nice. I like that. What's a what's a wabi gong? How does it camo? These guys.

They just blend in like crazy. Sitting on the bottom suddenly, 45 miles an hour. Very hard to find. That explosiveness coming out of there. That's good. That's scary. That's good. I like that.

All right. So I'm up at the end here. I am going to take the special ability of a walking cat shark and epaulet shark. So I can go on land. So I can go on land and get away from you guys. I picked a giant blobice. I will chase you if you go into salt or fresh. That's true.

So I have to retreat. I'll be a giant, waddling, saw-shaped thing. You have to come into the water at some point. At some point for this fight. Thank you, everybody. This has been fun. Yeah.

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I don't know. We were Russian, but I won, I think. Yeah, wasn't good.