Wild Times: Wildlife Education - TWT #74 - Birds Takeover The World, Insects Fighting Eachother, & Louse Tongue

Episode Date: September 8, 2021

Lyrebirds are liars, Cockatoos will kill us all with sharp tools, an insect battle royale and much MUCH more! Find crazy stuff we can't put on Youtube @ https://patreon.com/wildtimespod All the links @ https://thewildtimespodcast.com/info We love you!

Ugh. What the fuck? What are you? Wild time. This is a much better noise. Woo! It's the Wild Times. We're beatboxing with fart sounds over here.

It's episode number 74 of the greatest show on the air. The biggest show in the world. The number one podcast in the greater Santa Barbara area. Probably not. But, ah, smart. I like what you did there. Forrest, I got an update for you, bro. Okay.

We are the 77th ranked comedy podcast on iTunes in Sweden. Oh, take that Sweden. Ready for this? We're the number four comedy podcast in Algeria. These are real stats. And we're number 16 in the island of Mauritius. Yes. Unfortunately, fans out there.

Gentlemen, unfortunately, I happen to know for fact that there are only 77 comedy podcasts in Sweden. Period. That's okay. We'll take it. Hey, there's more than 16, though, in Mauritius. And so we'll take that. That's a fact. All right.

Well, if you're listening for this first time, this is the Wild Times podcast, clearly we're a comedy-ish-like show where you talk about wildlife adventure, what's in the news, play games, have lots of fun. I am one of your three hosts, Forrest Galante, the broologist. The extinct animal finder guy, the guy that's written a book recently, hangs out with these two nerds. These two nerds happen to be the broducer and the brofessor. What's up, Mr. Broughfessor, Retep? Hey, how's it going? It's a double holiday for me today because I'm dating a Jewish woman. So, uh, Shalat Shalom.

Shabbat Shalom, I believe. Shabbat, I believe. Shabbat. It's not a, it's not an onion for a holiday. Yeah, it doesn't grow in the ground. And tastes delicious. Very good. Shabbat Shalom, everybody.

Cheers to that. Cheers to that. Cheers, gentlemen. Happy here. And Mr. Papa P. Patrick DeLuca, the Grosur himself.

What do you've been up to, Pat? I've been thinking about how I'm going to answer a question that I got from a Brosner, and I want to throw it right to you guys. This was on, uh, this was on DM on the Instagram. Okay. Is it? Dick meat or? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know exactly for sure. I think it's dick meat. So. And I'll go first since I had a minute to think about it. So he wants to know what you're making a Wild Times movie. Yep. Give me the one sentence pitch about what the plot is and which, who you want to be cast to play each of the three of you.

Oh, what a great question. That's a great question. Peter, you go first. I need some thinking power. I'll go. I've got my actors here. Okay. I haven't thought about my plot.

Okay. Can I guess I know who you're going to pick for yourself? I already know it. I'll say it at the same time. You say it. Okay, I'll count it down. So I think the one sentence plot would be that we go out to look for an extinct animal. That's it.

So you have. That's two sentences. No, and. And Oxford comma? Okay. And Forest gets abducted by the local, like a local tribe. And so then the two idiots, Peter and Patrick, have to not only save Forrest, but also save the extinct species. Um, Forrest is going to be played by Hugh Jackman because their beard matches.

Yeah, their beards are very close. They both are fairly haresuit individuals. It's true. I think Hugh could, Hugh could kind of play off your like lovable cockiness in a good way. Yeah. Yep. I like that a lot.

So it's going to be Hugh Jackman. Great. For myself, ready? Wait. Three. Yep. Two. One.

Bobby Flake. Ryan Gussley. Bradley Cooper. Oh. Oh, no, damn it. Definitely thought you were going Bradley Cooper. I'm going Ryan Gosling just because everyone thinks that I look just like him, especially when I take off my shirt.

Gossling's going to play me. Okay. You also has like a ridiculous dad-bod or what? Yeah, exactly. And then Peter is going to be played by, actor can be living or dead. Peter's going to be played by one of my favorite comedic actors, very lovable goofball, John Candy.

They look alike. He's from Chicago. Yeah, he's from Chicago. Exactly. They both love Deep Dish. There's my movie. I'd be honored, by the way, if John Candy came back from the grave to play me. That'd be a real thing.

All right, I'll go second. I'm writing these down for a future pitch, by the way, when I strike it big. These are hilarious. Well. Okay, go ahead. Peter. Go ahead. So it's the wild times, right?

Yep. Things are wild. And we, I mean, it's got to be, it's going to be a little bit more than one sentence. We are fucking getting crazy. We're going back to college in Zimbabwe, right? Oh boy. Oh, boy. Have you ever seen Porkies?

It's going to be like porkies, but with the three of us, okay? Love it. We're getting crazy. I fucking love this. You can't be canceled in Zimbabwe like you can out here. So that's what we're going to be. That's what we're going to be doing. playing um playing forest coming back from the grave will be uh

Steve Irwin no wait crocodile Dundee who played him there you go uh Paul Hogan he's still very much alive yep Paul Hogan national treasure in Australia that's right national treasure it's a fun thing playing me is obviously going to be Jeff Bridges oh that's a good pick that's a good pick that's way better than what I had written down And playing Pat is going to be, I don't know the actor's actual name, but the person who played Pee We Herman. He got masturbating in a theater. Paul Rubens. He's meager.

He literally looks like you. It's, yeah, it's a good pick. That's, you just formed one of the, like, most cohesive paragraphs that I've ever heard you form on this podcast. That worked tough to poverty. Double holiday, baby. Double holiday. It's really good. It's really good.

Wow. These are both really fun movies. All right, the Wild Times podcast, or the Wild Times movie, rather, is three idiot friends that are on spring break, sort of similar to Rete's going back to college. We're a younger version of ourselves. We're hanging out. We each have our own sort of skill set. Patrick's the ladies man. Retep's the lovable goofball.

Forrest is the handsome nerd. And here we are back in college. We're not back in college. On spring break, everything goes tits up. It's without a paddle situation where we end up washed down the river. and we have to figure out a way to make our way back through zany, wacky adventures. It involves all kinds of weird animals that I'm nerding out about and get us lost and up a tree and all over the place with. Patrick being the cool suave ladies man is like wandering into cabins and getting some Harold and Kumar like weird wife action.

Retep being the goofy dork is just kind of fumbling his way along and tripping over things and just being the comic relief. Yep, yep, that's it. So that was one sentence, accurate. Yep, one sentence. The pitch for the movie is supposed to be shorter than just watching the whole movie. Playing Pat. All right, no, so playing myself, Chris Pratt, because chubberer Chris Pratt and I actually look kind of similar.

Yeah, he's got a goofy. He was funnier when he was chubber. He's got that sort of lovable arrogance, like Patrick said, that I think is adorable. So you think you're adorable? I do, I do. See, love little arrogance. Yeah, it's true. Playing you, Peter, is Zach Gallifanakis, you know.

Oh, good pick. It's not bad. Yeah. He lost a lot of weight. A lot of weight. No, it's not a fat thing. It's a beard and hair and goofy thing. All right.

And playing Patrick is Kevin Hart. Oh, yeah. I like that. Yeah. Nice. He's short because apparently I'm five foot two. According to Peter. Yeah.

Dude, by the way, so I just. I just muted and screamed because Alexa started reading me facts about John Candy. Shit, he's going to do again. I said the name. Dude, I'm so glad you clarified that because I thought you were screaming at your girlfriend. No, that would never be such a thing.

And I'm sure the Brozner's also thought that. That's a great game. I want to see all three of these movies. Yep. Yep. If you want to see them, let us know. Start tweeting big movie directors and producers in all that. Start tweeting them.

Yep. Hey, these three guys from this tiny podcast I listen to want to make a movie. Not in Algeria, mate. We are not tiny there. We're number four. That's true. That's a good point. Out of three or out of five total podcasts in Algeria.

Whatever. It's going to make that same joke, pal. Yeah, come on. Let it go. Just twice. But also, I mean, we're obviously doing the podcast. Too too many. All right, all right.

Let's go. Let's go. What are we got next anymore? Any more DMs? Yeah, anything else fun on your guys? Patreon. I haven't checked the. DMs. I'm not lying. So I'm not going to just say

I have them. So you guys got any other DMs? Yeah. I like this one here. This is a guy who says, hang on, hang on. Oh, this was a Patreon. Tell me what you think of this forest. Okay. The guy says, I found a hammerhead worm today. This is from Aaron Martin. I found a hammerhead

worm today in the Northeast. How toxic are they? And what are their impacts on the local earthworm population. I have never heard of an hammerhead worm. Have you? Yeah, they're a type of slug. The name kind of explains what they look like.

They're these big slithering things with this hammerhead shape. They are predatory. I have no idea what their impacts are in the local earthworms. And cool find. Are they toxic? I don't know, to be honest. I don't know if they're toxic. Peter, your thoughts.

Yeah, I mean, this is a big problem. mostly because I don't know what an earthworm is, so I can't answer that. They're not toxic to humans or animals. Here's a good one from another picture on Alex Ross. I have a question for you guys, which I think he means for us on this one. There's a movie called Deep Blue Sea

where there's like this lab and they made these massive under, they made these massive Mako sharks. They bred them. He said there's a scene where the diver is holding on to the dorsal fin of the shark as it swims. Is this possible, I need to know. Love the show.

It is. Oh, wow. It is, it is possible. And back, and I'll say something here that, you know, it's kind of controversial. Back before we were so, like, concerned about upsetting everything, people used to do it a lot, myself included. Like 14-year-old Forest Galante used to go and swim with sharks and grab onto their dorsal fin and ride it, you know, until they get kind of annoyed and shake you off, and then they just lazily keep swimming.

And this is the movie, by the way. No, I'm just being honest. I used to do it and so did a lot of other people. People like Ocean Ramsey who are, you know, at the top of the sort of shark conservation poster child world. Everybody used to do it. And then it became like, you know, oh, don't do that. The sharks don't like it. Understandable.

And so now people don't do it. But the short answer, yes, it's absolutely possible to ride a shark by the dorsal fin. That's fucking wild, dude. Yeah. I thought that was just like a movie trope. Nope. Done it. Is it, do you think it's fun for the sharks?

No, I don't think it's fun and I don't, you know, if you did it on a two foot long shark, it would like stop it, right? And it would be annoying. Sure. I don't think it's fun. I also, to be quite honest, don't think it's like negative like people think it is. I think it's just sort of like an annoyance to them where they're like, okay, this thing's grabbing on to me.

All right, it let me go. Right. You know what I mean? It's not like, it's not like you're riding it until it reaches the point of exhaustion or anything like that because typically you're holding your breath or free diving or whatever. So it's like you hang on for 10 seconds and let go. And again, I haven't done this in years and years and years. I used to do it when I was a teenager. But it was a, I always thought it was kind of fun. It was a cool way to interact with the shark. And then you sort of think about it and you're like, yeah,

I'd be pretty annoyed if some guy just walked up to me and grabbed me by the belt and hung on with a skateboard while I was like walking down the street. You know, so it's like, I get it. Like, yeah, it's not the greatest. Speaking of annoying, doing annoying things to fish, Peter, I know you don't want to screen share a lot, but pull up the fifth Patreon message from Mark Durbart. All right. At Mark Durbar sent us a DM. He said, I see this a lot and I want to know. If I ever catch a fish with this little fucker inside its mouth, is it still edible?

Or would it survive in my belly and eat my tongue? These are good questions. He's talking about a tongue-eating isopod, those parasitic crustaceaeaeus. that are, it's a lice, it's a type of lice that eats the entire tongue and actually replaces. Bro, can I just tell you something? Yes. I'm looking at the picture that Peter's about to pull up. My whole body's itching.

It's fucking with me, dude. I haven't seen the picture, but I know exactly what he's talking about because I've caught Snapper with that in their mouths. It's gnarly, huh? Dude, it is so gross. It's on the show doc, Peter. Oh, you said it was on the Patriot. No, it's the fifth brosner DM.

It is huge. typically when you describe like a louse or something like that, I think of it as being kind of microscopic. This thing's like the size of like a mouse. Yep. It's pretty gross. So how do they work? Yes.

So they work. They're swimming around in the ocean, right, as a larval stage or sometimes on reefs and coral reefs. And they crawl into the mouth of the fish, usually tiny, tiny, tiny. And sometimes they can come from riding the backs of other fish, the snapper. So that's a mangrove snapper has preyed on. And then they grip onto the tongue, and they slowly eat and dissolve the way the tongue of the fish and replace it with the growth of their own body. So that fish has no tongue left. Its entire tongue is just that isopod that's eaten away its tongue.

And it's a touch. And I'm sure it doesn't feel good. Oh, yeah. No, it's like borrowed in and showing down on the fish's flesh. Can we get rid of these? Can we get rid of these? I know we're not supposed to get rid of everything. There's a butterfly effect, right?

Can we just get rid of these, man? I don't see a reason that we couldn't, to be honest. I don't know what they do for the world, but it's nothing good. Yeah. So if you call a snapper like that. Oh, go ahead. Okay. No, I was just going to tell you something.

Interesting fact, when we were putting together Extincter Alive episodes, I want to say it's the stellar sea cow. I think it is. But there was a marine mammal that we were looking at, and I'm pretty sure it was a stellar sea cow that had a vaginal lice, similar to that, vaginal crabs, but huge, right? I'm talking like the size of a small king crab, like, like bigger than a shoebox. But it was endemic.

This, this, listen, listen, this is interesting. The crab, like, think as like crabs, like humans get crabs, right? That kind of crabs. Like, the STD crab that the stellar sea cow had was an endemic species to the stellar sea cow. It could exist on nothing else but the stellar sea cow, and it was symbiotic with them. So when the stellar sea cow was driven to extinction, as was this giant parasitic herpy crab. So if you were to find one, if you were to find a stellar se cow, it would actually be a two-for-one rediscovery because the odds are they'd still have these parasitic giant perpy crabs. Yeah.

Maybe an extinct or alive special, dude, a two-for. A twofer, yeah. So you find the marine mammal and you also find its STD, which is a living thing that only lives on that. So I don't know. I always thought that was kind of interesting. Dude, so I was just reading a story about fucking ticks the other day because apparently it's like it's crazy everywhere. Yeah, they're bad. Yeah, they're bad.

And they give you fucking, they can give you line disease, which is essentially like you have a, terrible, you get depressed, you get anxiety, you get all kinds of weird, you can't get out of bed. All kinds of things. So Adam, Adam Shevitt's friend of the pod, literally today is probably the first day he's getting over his Lyme's disease. Just bought a house in Connecticut, Redding, Connecticut, was playing outside with his wife and daughter.

I think he might have been mushroom hunting in their yard kind of thing. Came back in, pulled a couple ticks off him. Two days later, started feeling absolutely queased and gnarly case of Lyme's disease. Dude, yeah, and this can fucking go on for years in some cases. I read about this and I'm like, how can this tiny little fucker parasite just can ruin your life? Everybody, be aware of ticks. Practice tick safety. Well, you know, I don't know if you guys have heard this, but there's a big outbreak of deer tick on the beaches in L.A.

in the sand. I read about that, which doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Fucking crazy, man. But so for us to answer our bro's question, if you caught a snapper that had that parasitic louse instead of a tongue, would you still eat the fish? 100% have done a bunch of times. Nice. Wow.

Yeah, it doesn't affect the meat whatsoever. Still tasty. Would you eat the louse? No, that's yuck. I want to save the rest of our Patreon messages for a special podcast where we'll just, we'll go through all those on Patreon. But, Forrest. Yes, sir. I do have to just ask you this one question.

This one's really good. All right, one more question from our Patreon bros. Skull, Haiti, or Hottie. He's got a cool first name, Skull. S-K-O-A-L, like the Choo. No, S-K-O-L. Skull? Okay.

Maybe he's from Norland. So he said there's story. Stories of bears or bear with long tails throughout many different cultures, like very long tails on bear. He said, is there any reason sort of evolutionarily that you could think about to think that bears may have used to have longer tails than they do now? I thought that's kind of cool. That's very interesting. So, yes, I can think of an answer to that. So think of red pandas or tree kangaroos, right?

So these are animals that are similar to bears that are semi-arboreal, right? Meaning they live in the trees part of the time and on the ground part of the time. And having a big tail actually helps a ton with balance. So if bears sort of evolve from being mostly primarily tree-dwelling creatures, and as we know, they still go up trees all the time, smaller bears in particular, right? Black bears spend a lot more time in the trees than brown bears. if over time they sort of left the trees and moved lower and lower onto the ground, it would make sense that their tail would get shorter and shorter.

Because a lot of the time, those big tails are used for agility and balance in tree climbing. Now, I'm basing this on absolutely nothing. This could be completely wrong. Bears could have evolved from mice. I don't know. But if they came from being more tree-dwelling animals over generational time, it would make sense to me that they could have devolved a tail. I mean, because when you look at like a grizzly bear or whatever, and you see that tail, I mean, it's like a little hot dog sticking off the back of its ass.

I mean, we have about as much of a tail as a bear does. It's adorable. You ever fall on your tailbone and hurt it real bad? Oh, yes. One time that was unbelievable. I broke mine. Like maybe you broke your tailbone? How did you die?

It's like 10 years ago. Pat comes into, we were working on whale wars, he's on a, he's got to carry a fucking blow up donut around. No way. This is when I still hated him. It was fantastic. I didn't use a donut. Okay, what, what, how did you break your tailbone? I was, uh, in a bar fight.

What? I need to make some sad music here. It's not true. No, it's, it's, it's quite literally true. Uh, there was a melee at a bar in a laguna beach. Okay. And I, a guy was like punching at my friend and I kind of tackled him and we went on to a table. And then he rolled, he rolled me over.

So he was on top of me. And both of our full weight fell like about, you know, I don't know, maybe three and a half, four feet. Oh, wow. His full weight on top of me. And I landed right on my ass. And everything got broken up. It was fine. And then, and I felt okay.

Like whatever. I didn't realize something terrible had happened. And then the next. morning when I woke up, I couldn't move. And a broken tailbone is a humbling experience. You can't drive. You can't sit. Laying down

feels like shit. Don't even try to have sex with your lady friend. You are out of commission for like two full months. It is really I'm sure is a lot of fun. Walking like an old man. Yeah. Don't break your tailbone kids.

Unfortunately, the humbleness wears off about 30 days after the whole experience. We have that today. For us, what's in the news this week, bud? Oh, what's in the news? Peter, jingle, jingle. Do it.

I know. I know. Come on. You guys, come on. What's in the news? Sir, news from the underground. I love that. What's in the news?

What's in the news? I love that guy who made it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, there's a couple fun things floating around the news. One of my favorites is there's an animal called a liar bird. Okay?

And a liar bird. bird is an Australian bird that can mimic almost any sound, right? Everybody thinks of parrots as being sound mimicking birds. Well, these lyre birds are incredible. They do car alarms. They do camera shutters clicking, all kinds of things to trick people. And we don't really know why. But what we did find out this week is that a liar bird at a zoo in Australia has found a new trick. It's been recreating a baby crying perfectly to try and piss off mothers with their children, which I think is just phenomenal. Can you imagine you're like at the zoo?

Everybody, everybody who has a kid is just like, oh my God, the only thing I don't want my kid to do is cry in public. It's so embarrassing. It's awful. I then have to deal with it. And then, you know, you're pushing your stroller around. All of a sudden you hear, wha! And you're like, oh, fuck, it's my kid.

You know, what have I done now? Yeah, it's ruined. And it's just, you can't figure it out. It's a bird overhead and a tree just pissing you off for the fun of it. But I think it's hilarious. Listen, let me just say, fucking crows do this shit all the time. And so do pigeons. Pigeons literally will sit.

This happened to me in Chicago on like a tall building right above doorways and try and shit on people intentionally as they're coming out. Birds are fucking genius and they do this shit on purpose. You think so, huh? Absolutely, 100%. It's where we call them bird brains because they do some sneaky shit. So you're saying that this bird is a liar. Liar. It intentionally needles people.

And it's sneaky. Correct. Sounds like Peter's ex-wife. Oh, Zing. Listen, I will say this. There are, this, now, Forest, is there a potential that it's doing this for some sort of advantage, evolutionarily speaking, like getting attention from humans so that they'll give it food or throw food at it to shut it up or anything like that.

Sure. I mean, Shut up, Bird. I'm going to throw bread at you. That's all you got. I mean, maybe. I don't know why.

I haven't read the full report because I just saw the headline and was like, oh, that's really funny. I don't know what the bird is trying to get out of it. I also know for a fact that birds enjoy entertainment, right? I mean, if you've ever been to one of those places where they have a bunch of parrots, they all have little jingly things with the mirrors and the, you know, Birds like entertainment. And I think this liar bird is probably sitting there laughing to itself hysterically as it is pissing off young mothers. I think that's really funny.

I think that's the whole reason he's doing it. Dude, I mean, I swear to God, like Pat said, I don't know why we call them bird brains. They got to be some of the smartest fucking animals out there, honestly. Well, speaking of them being smart, there's two birds in the news this week that I found to be fascinating. Double holiday for a tap. Double birds for forests. Yeah, double bird a day for me. In Indonesia, for the first time ever, scientists have observed wild cockatoos using tools.

Now, this is the first time that we've seen a non-primate actually using a tool. And it's pretty advanced. It's amazing. So what these cockatoos are doing is they're eating these fruits called sea mangoes, which is it's toxic to humans, but it's something that birds. can eat, right? And these cockatoos have been observed taking the pit of the sea mango, sharpening it, and using it like a knife to cut open the covering of the pit. Another bird was filmed taking that knife and wedging it into a crack in the pit to sort of force it to widen

so they could get inside of it. And then another bird would craft a spoon-shaped tool to dig out the pulp and eat it. So, I mean, not just like, you know, monkey hits. rock kind of thing. I mean, this is like pretty advanced, like making spoons and knives and stuff. It's fascinating. And, and not only that, I mean, the thought that goes into sharpening something, knowing that you can sharpen something to a point and use it as a tool like that, and then having, you know, cooperation from your bird buddies. It's amazing. It's unbelievable. That's actually shocking. Because you're right, that's not just like bashing something with a rock, which is obviously cool to see, like, the octopus, like, you know, open the nuts that way.

But, like, the thought process that has to happen, because you would think the bird would just go, I can't eat this. End of story. Right. Instead of going. But wait a minute, there might be a better way. I know. If I had something sharp, but I don't, I'll make it.

How do I? There's, like, ten points of logic that have to be strung together for that to work. It's amazing. It shows amazing. amazing intelligence. It's interesting too because do you think it's like, because it knows that it can open shit with like a sharp beak

and it's like trying to mimic that with a tool, being like, oh, this hurts my beak. I'm going to fucking make a tool. I'm going to sharpen a mango nut. Yeah, man. I think they're just, they're more intelligent than we give them credit for.

They look, it's problem solving, right? That's what it ends up. That's ultimately what it is, right? There's a problem and these birds are figuring out a way around the problem. And I think that this, They're just looking, you know, who knows if that's like, who knows if the cognition of being like my beak is sharp, I need to make something else sharp is there?

Or if it's sort of just generations of trial and error, right? Tried the rock, that didn't work. Tried the, you know, I don't know what else. X other things. That didn't work. Oh, found something kind of sharp. That works. And sort of that slow evolution of figuring out what tools do and don't work.

Who knows? I just think it's freaking awesome and shows how smart they are. here's a cool piece of trivia about birds being smart. Don't Google it. Let's play a little game. You guys both guess. Price is right rules. Okay.

Okay. You can't go over. You can't. How many... So the Guinness Book of World Records for the bird that had the most English vocabulary words. Okay. I'm going to tell you right now, it was a parakeet known in the UK as a budgie.

It was a parakeet that set the record in 1995 as the bird with the large, vocabulary. How many English words did the parakeet know? I'm going to go with 3,995, Bob. Thank you for calling me Bob. I'll hold my mic like this now.

I'm going to go 94. Unfortunately, Peter, Forrest wins because the price is right rules. But you guys basically split the difference. The answer is 1,728. Wow. Think of that. No.

Let me tell you something. You guys, you guys, this is fucking crazy. I'm calling it right now. You know how people are scared that eventually AI is going to take over the world? And we need to like be careful and we can't weaponize it. Yep. I'm calling it right now. Fucking birds are going to take over the world.

Next hundred years. They're not even real, dude. Next hundred. Six hundred years. One bird, dude, grows to the size of a human. and we are fucked. Well, do you know, Forrest, like, how does, what is, what is, like, my dad had a bird that knew a few words, but he would just, well, he knew two, he would go, hello, asshole.

Are you serious? Yeah, that's all I can say, Charlie the bird, but it was a parakeet. But what, uh, what are they actually doing? Like, because they're not, I don't know, they're not like reading books. Like, how do they, what the fuck is the bird doing? And it's also not like they have human vocal cords. They're like... Well, so that you're wrong.

I mean, you're not wrong. But they do have... So the reason that we... So human beings have incredibly advanced vocal cords, right? It's a reason we're able to make such a wide diversity of sounds. And that's why we form so many different languages, among other things. Right. Birds, certainly parrot species in particular, also have a very wide range.

within their vocal cords. So you're right, they don't have human vocal cords, but they have the closest ability. It's one of the reasons like Alexander Mortonson, I think is her name, Morton, whatever it is, who wrote listening to whales, she talks about whale intelligence, right? We'll never be able to communicate with them. They don't have vocal cords the way that birds do. So no matter how intelligent a whale might be, there's really no way for it to show us its intelligence because there's no, you know, the level of communication is impossible.

Anyway, I'm digressing, but my point is just that it's pretty interesting because of all the creatures across the planet, all the different primates, everything, birds of all things are the ones that are closest to being able to actually talk to us. And as Patrick said, some of them can say a thousand plus words, which is amazing. Yeah. Why? I think it's just that they can, really. I don't, you know, I really don't know. I've never had a pet bird that hasn't been an annoying peacock or a chicken. And so I really don't know, like, I've never spent a lot of time with, like, a domestic parrot and sort of got to understand why they like to speak and squawk and all of that.

I mean, I think it's interesting. So let's recap. You've got an animal that can, has a vocabulary of over a thousand words, it can speak human language. It can create sharp tools. And it mimics human babies to draw the attention and distract. humans and they have a good time waiting and shitting on humans as they exit buildings. You're telling me that these things, first of all, aren't robots and second of all, aren't going to take over the world in the next hundred years.

That robot thing is so ridiculous. The whole like birds aren't real thing. Did we talk about that on the pod? I don't know if we did we or did we just talk about it ourselves? I don't know. We probably just talked about it ourselves. I think so. Why don't you talk about it for a second?

And because people don't know. Well, I'm no expert on it. All I know. No, me either. But yeah. All I know is I've seen literal like handwritten posters on telephone polls around Santa Barbara and Los Angeles that say things like birds aren't real. Furn.

Pigeons are government drones. And when I was seeing this, I was like, all right, you, you sir have my attention. And I Googled it. And it's like a real thing. It's like it's sort of like a flat earther kind of thing where there's like a legitimate group of people that are are behind it that are trying. to prove that like birds or drones and yeah i'm so so it's a it's a it's it's it's the newest the hottest craze and conspiracy theories people are saying that uh pigeons i've read specifically

are basically spying on people and they're they're surveilling the people and by the way if they're not they definitely are now that's what you've done with this movement you conspiracy looms It's a great idea. Why wouldn't they do it? It's a great idea. It's genius. It's very easy to execute, too. But stop talking about it because they're going to use it.

They really are. It's ridiculous. Yeah. All right. What else you got? What else I got? Oh, I saw one. So there's a couple more stories I want to talk about, but there's one that I found.

So your skin crawled when you saw the sea louse in that Snapper's mouth, right? Very much so. I'm not a tattoo guy Don't have any of them Not against them Just not not interested Right Patrick and I once made a pack

That if Extincter Alive did six seasons I get an Extincter Alive tattoo That's why I called and canceled the show But a little tip it Our camera guy Mitch Has a tattoo for every episode Of Extincter Alive For every expedition

Wow Wrapping around his arm He's got the animal It's dope It's super cool But there's a tattoo artist In L.A. I believe who has started doing hyper-realistic spider tattoos.

And now, I appreciate what they are for the art, but they are yuck. One, because I don't particularly like spiders. And two, because who the hell gets this kind of tattoo, specifically in the ear ones? You'll see, there's like three or four ear ones. And it is just... Oh, no. Like, it's crawling out of the ear kind of thing? Yeah, Peter, you're going to help us out here?

I'm helping, baby. I'm helping. That's nasty. You'll see. You know who gets that? A guy named Brandon, but he goes by snake. Wow, that looks super real. That is 3D is shit too, man.

Isn't it? He does like the whole, go to the next one, Peter. Yeah, start getting these newer ones. Look at that. It's horrific. Oh, my God. Go to the next one, Peter. Every one I actually had to look at for a few minutes.

Look at that one. That one, tell me that isn't a real spider crawling into this guy's year. Yeah, that's crazy. Isn't that nuts? If you saw that guy on the subway, you would jump. Well, here's what I was thinking. Dude, I kind of want one of these.

But please, please, Peter, I will pay for it. I'll pay every single second. I swear to God. If you get this, I will pay for it. I swear to God. Does it have to be on my ear? Can I get it on my ass? You can get it anywhere you like crawling towards your house.

Yeah. Please, dude, please. Look at this one, dude. But, okay, time out for one second. So this guy. This guy or gal with the shaved head here has the roses and stuff, if I saw this on a subway, I would run over with a newspaper and bop this person on the head instantly and think that I was doing them a favor. Because that spider looks so freaking real. I mean, it's amazing.

It's wild. It's wild. But so, I mean, here's the problem. Once that fades, that's brand new. These are all brand new. Once those fade a bit, it's not going to look as real. and then you're just going to have a shitty weird Fated tattoo on your head

Baby boy Do all tattoos fade? Do all tattoos fade? Yeah, I got a terrible one On me that's faded. Peter's got a big tattoo No, you don't wear. Yeah, it's on my back, yo.

Really? Upper back. I've never seen that ever. It's pretty big. It's like the size of a football. I mean, so when I was 17, everybody, all 17-year-old

males are fucking idiots. I wanted to get it... Dude, I paid $250 to get a tattoo that took four hours to do on my upper middle back. You want to know what it is? It's a picture I thought was cool from a book I never read.

No way. I swear to God, it's my dragon tears. Did you do this to impress one specific girl, probably? My mom, yeah. No, but seriously. But I had to ask permission for my mom, It was like a whole thing.

Why? What is wrong with the male brain? Have you read the book today? I've tried to read it. It's not readable. It's unpalatable for my brain. What are you going to do with that? I didn't even know you had that.

Granted, I don't think I've ever seen you with your shirt off. But what, are you going to get it touched up? You're going to do the biggest mistake of all and get an enormous cover up that's four times the size of the original tattoo? It never looks very good. No, I mean, here's the thing about getting a tattoo on your upper back. You never fucking see it or think about it. It's true. It served its purpose.

But, I mean, every girl I've ever fucking dated or whatever has made fun of me and, you know. All right. If this podcast, if a thousand people share this podcast with a friend, Peter will get a realistic spider tattoo on his belly. Yes. Ass, crawling out of your belly button or... Will you get it? And we'll pay for it.

The patrons will pay for it. it. I love them. For us. We'll pay for, I mean, the patrons, the patrons will pay for it. I'm not kidding. I will personally pay for you to get that spider crawling in or out of your butt hole, your belly button, your cheek towards mouth, whatever you want.

Listen, I'll, I'll do it, but I'll need one Bitcoin from both of you. Nope. One Bitcoin each. So, one, one Bitcoin. Speaking about being 17 and doing stupid shit, so you missed the last, you missed the last Patreon bonus episode that we did. For those of you who are not Patreon's yet, we do four extra podcasts every

month. They're a lot of fun. We do stuff we can't do on YouTube because we'd get kicked off. But Forrest and I did a game where we basically did our top five lists. Probably the one that had us both laughing our fucking asses off the most was five most unfortunate

things about middle school. So it's not like, you know, not like a specific incident, but just things like you're 13. You get a lot of owners. You can't control. You know, acne, things like that. What was, since you weren't there, Peter,

what's your number one most unfortunate thing about the embarrassment of middle school? Dude, I don't know if I've told this story before. Here we go. When I was in fourth grade, I liked a girl. Her name, yeah, it is. Oh, it's not. I mean, my whole first way. It's all right.

Tell the story. Yeah. Yeah. Stop fucking splitting hairs, dude. Fuck off. All right. So I was in fourth grade and I liked this girl. Her name was Katie.

And when I was in fourth grade, I fucking would do the weirdest shit. Like try and mimic her movements from across. We were being church. It was a Catholic school. Mimic like what she was doing. Like their timings for standing, kneeling and shit. It was so weird and fucking creepy. But one time in class.

It sounds like it. Yes. It is weird and creepy. Yeah. I mean, you're real dumb like when you're in fourth grade. It's true. It's true. One time in class, I wrote her name in like fucking marker on my arm, huge, like K-A-A-T. It was a whole arm, right?

And my teacher caught me doing it. She saw me fucking doing something on my arm. And she's like, Peter, you want to share with the class what you're doing there? And she didn't know, I don't think. She makes me come up to the front of the class. And then I was like very defiant, even at that stage of my life. And I was like, I don't care. It says Katie.

And I love her or some bullshit. Some ridiculous fucking shit. And I literally, like, I just, it was, it's to this day. I don't think I can do the podcast now anymore after telling that story. What if she's a listener and she comes up? She's like, wait, this is, this is my Peter? I've thought about this gesture for the last 30 years. I realized, I realized later in life, actually recently, because I,

obviously still, these things come to you at night. Oh, they give you the sweats, boy. Yeah. I mean, I have the sweats right now just from telling it. I realized that I must have fucking just creeped her out for the eight years that we went to that school. And I'm like, God, man, that is fucked up, dude. And I didn't even know I was doing it at the time. She didn't go to the same high school as you for a reason.

Yeah, exactly. So speaking of getting the sweat, so today, so I'm going out on a fishing, trip tomorrow with a couple of my buddies, right? We're going to go offshore, look for tuna and Dorado. Get a real job for us tomorrow. I will not. I don't. Tomorrow's a Tuesday, I know. So I'm going out fishing

with my buddies, and my one buddy in Santa Barbara, he's, I text him and I'm like, hey, I'm going to go on my boat, you should go on your boat and we'll buddy boat and we'll cover more ground that way, blah, blah, he's like, I'm down. And he texts me this morning at like 8 a.m. And he's like, hey, what are you doing at lunchtime? I'm like, I don't know. I just got a bunch of work to do. He's like, do you want to go look for fish from the

plane. And I'm like, you have a plane? And he's like, yeah. I was like, oh, something I didn't know about you? And I'm like, yeah, sure, sounds good. I'll meet you. There's a small airport in San Barrow. I was like, I'll meet you at the airport. He's like, yeah, be there at noon. So I show up at noon. Go walk out on the, on the tarmac. It's like, you know, the little like where the private planes are kept around the side. There's no security or anything. And my buddy Parker's waiting there. Parker's like, come on, man, let's jump in. Let's go look. I'm like, sweet. Parker's are, you know, my age. He's 30, he's a little younger. He's probably 30 years old. Right? we hop in the plane and he kind of like does the old knuckle pop and kind of looks at everything and goes

Okay, and he starts like flipping switches and turn it on and I look and he's like pretty sweaty and like yeah It's hot in the plane but like he's pretty sweaty and I'm like Parker Everything okay? He's yeah, yeah everything's good and I'm like all right and then I noticed like he's like Try that nope nope that's not right and he's like starting to kind of fiddle fill around for us come on you got out of the plane right then no listen It gets worse, man. Oh, my God. So I'm like, I'm like, I'm the guy who never buckles his seatbelt in the plane. I'm like, ugh, it's so stupid.

It's a plane. So I'm seeing him fidgeting, and I'm like, all right, so he sees me buckling my seatbelt. And like, it takes him a lot longer to get things started than any plane I've ever been in before. And I'm like, Parker, do, you have your pilot's license? And he's like, yeah, no, I do. I do. It's just been a minute. And I'm like, okay, he's 30 years old.

I'm like, when did you get your pilot's license? He's like, oh, when I was 18? I'm like, nice, man. That's not bad. So you've been flying a long time. He's like, well, sort of. The last time I flew was when I got my pilot's license. He's 30 years old.

He hasn't flown a plane since he was 18. And we're now going to go, we're now going to go, you know, 100 plus miles offshore to look for kelpatties with this guy. And he's trying to figure out how to turn the fucking planet. And I'm like, I was just like, I was like, all right, sounds good. And just buckled in. And the takeoff was fine.

the flying was awesome and the landing was very, very rough, but we made it. Oh my God. That's the hard part is the landing bit. Also very important, sir. Yeah, sure it was. Why did you go with him? Explain yourself. I don't know. He said, he said we'd be fine.

We were fine. This is got to be probably one of the dumbest things that you've ever done. I mean, you made it out. We're good. Dude, are you kidding me? Let me tell you a story. What did you watch a fucking YouTube video

before you guys got in the plane? No, I told you. He had his pilot slice and it's just been about... It's been a minute. I took fucking geometry 18 years ago, too. I still don't know how to fucking, you know... Yeah, exactly. No shit, dude.

I looked at my nephew's fucking SAT questions. I was like, Isosceles. What is this shit? I used to know it. Let me tell you a story. You ever watch the show, the original Press Your Luck, the no whammy, no whammy? Yeah, I remember that.

Okay. No whammy, no whammy. There was a wonderful TV host. Just like you. He was on TV. His name was Peter Tamarkin. He brought joy to many lives. Okay.

One day, an experienced pilot, he was. He takes off in his beachcraft aircraft in 2006, takes off from Santa Monica Airport, and to an entire beach full of horrified onlookers crashes into the ocean, killing everyone on board. Oh, my God. Yeah. This is an experience.

This guy was flying that plane four days a week. Yeah. Bad things can. happen to people you're aware. No, I am aware of that. There's so many factors, bro. And you're not even famous enough. You'd probably make TMZ.

No one would know. TMZ wouldn't give it. They'd be like, Forrest, who? Here's the most terrifying part. I'm pretty sure that as a pilot of small planes, you got to know how to fucking do, like,

the maintenance checklist on the plane before you take it up. It's huge. It's got to be like a hundred items. Did he even have a list that he checked things off on? I bet he didn't. I was like, no. I don't know. I got there a little late, so maybe you did it before. I don't know.

Was he wearing shorts? And flip-flops, but he was a good. It was a good flip-flop pilot. You got to have a captain's suit on, God damn it. No, he was a good flip-flop. Dude, if I got onto a Boeing 767 to fly out of LAX to Lan and JFK and the fucking pilots wearing board shorts and flip-flops,

I'm off the plane. down the fucking tube going back to the bar. Good God. Needless to say, I was pretty sweaty on that end of that flight. I was like, who, okay, we're back. All right. Dude. Fucking ridiculous.

Well, I got a special surprise for all the Brosner's here before Peter has to go to his Rosh Hashanah meal. Can we get the jingle? Because it's time for a double dose. Double dose. I think I know what time it is. Do you know what time? Is it?

Time. What? What do you got, Pat? Brosner David Moore submitted one that I like quite a bit. This is going to be a motherfucking insect battle, y'all. We each pick three insects to fight against the other guy's team of three insects. But here's the twist. The insects are human size.

So each one is six feet long, six feet tall, however you want to say it. So they're all the same size, but they obviously have the. powers and abilities scaled up to be six feet long. Love it. So it's an insect, full-on battle. Forest, why don't you go first? Sure. And please don't take my best one.

Okay, I won't. I'll go first. Something that I've literally had nightmares about would be if the most voracious, vicious animal that I can think of, the most terrifying creature were to get six foot tall would be the praying mantis. to have a six-foot-tall praying, just those slicing and dicing arms and like sitting up there, oh my God,

it would be so gnarly, just ripping your head off and sucking your juices out, six-foot-tall praying mantis. Well, I was sucking my juices out. I could be into that. But I will say, I feel like that many a movie monster is, the base of it is the praying mantis.

100%. The way they move right. Yeah, and aliens and shit. All right, I'll go next. I'm going to go with one of my favorites. I'm going to go with the African assassin bug. Oh, very nice. It has a venom.

It's small, right? It's an insect. Scale this bitch up to six feet tall, right? Yep. Yep. It's venom is ten times more potent than a cobra's. This thing is a badass. It is venomous, and I want a big one.

I want that power on my team of three. Does the venom, it just comes out via bite? is that right? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Well, my first insect won't be anywhere near your insect because I will be picking

the Bombardier Beetle which can... A favorite of the Wild Times podcast. Yeah, it sure is. I was going to pick it and I was like I picked it literally two days ago, not doing it. If you don't know about the Bombardier beetle,

it, when threatened, it will spray you with boiling liquid that it produces from a chemical heat reaction in its body. So it will basically tar you. It will spit fucking boiling, juicy, sticky liquid on you. And at six feet, friends, that's a lot of fucking liquid. Here's the twist. It doesn't spit it on you.

It shoots us out of its asshole. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's a butt hole. Even better. Even better. All right, you're up for another, Piter. Oh, I'm up for number two. This is great.

Glad I fucking went last. Because I am going to pick the rhinoceros beetle, which can lift up to 850 times its body weight. Good Google reading. A six foot giant beetle. I got to imagine it's pretty obese, probably the size of John Candy. So we're going to say 300 pounds times 850. We're going, I mean, this thing can lift. Let's see, 300 times 80.

Yeah, yeah. 255,000 pounds. It's like, it's the strongest animal in the world. Sure, sure, sure. That's a good pick. Fucked. So the Renaissance is a strong beetle. But it's nowhere near the strongest.

The horned dung beetle will be the second member of my team. It's much stronger. It's capable of lifting 1140 times its body weight. So I've got a much, much stronger beetle. So that's just yours is dead. Quick, quick question. Let me just ask a question. How is your beetle at lifting weights when it's covered in boiling hot, sticky liquid?

Really good. It's got a nice exoskeleton. Is there a study on that? All right. Forrest, you're up for two. Sure. You guys both just have the same two picks of just, Patrick's are both just one step above yours.

All right. I have a six-foot-tall-tall-paying mantis. This animal, my neck. pick is a creature that it's not as toxic, it's not as terrifying, it's not as vicious, it's literally just going to terrify, it's just going to horrify anybody that looks at this thing. There's an insect called a scorpion fly. If you Google image this thing, it'll blow your mind. It's a real, it's a scorpion with wings, with this head that is just disgusting. They infest human corpses and break down tissue.

They're really gross. But a six foot one of these things flying around would be unbelievably terrifying. So scorpion fly. So you have your whole team just consists of things that look scary. No. No. Praying mantis is gnarly. It doesn't just look scary.

I mean, I didn't hear any abilities that it has. You just said it's scary looking. That's not at all true. I said it was going to slice you with its arms and suck out your insides. Okay. Yeah. All right. You're right. You did say that. Well, friends, hang on. Forrest has another pick.

Nope. No, shit. I thought I had one. Done it. 70. For a while. 74. 74. And 10 or a little bonus spots. All right. All right. All right. Let's see. Something else. So what I don't have while praying man. No. That's good. He wasn't even ready.

That's true. I wasn't. I was trying to come up. Yeah. I'm sticking with this nightmarish theme that I've got going on and I'm enjoying it. So my next pick, my last and final pick, another. that I think will just make everybody's skin crawl, a six-foot-long giant Amazonian centipede. It is toxic. They are gross. Their venom is not strong enough to kill a human.

It is strong enough to kill birds, lizards, rodents, etc. But at six-foot-tall, it's going to be terrifying. Its venom is going to be enough at that point to kill people. And, yeah, giant centipede. That's a good pick. I feel really confident in my team because I've got the venom, and I've got the strength. Okay.

But I like the element of surprise, too, right? A surprise attack. That's why we won the Revolutionary War. They were marching in red coats. We surprised them. I'm going to disarm your teams with the cute, cuttleiness of my six-foot-tall-venuelan poodle moth. A poodle moth, wow, what's all.

It is covered. It literally is a giant moth that looks like a poodle. It's covered in white fur. They're adorable. Adorable. Yeah, I mean, this is a fucking battle. What the hell are you talking about? Surprise.

So this is ridiculous. Pat has just intentionally, I think, thrown this game. But my final pick, and I'm very surprised nobody picked any of these insects. I'm going with a bark spider, okay? Interesting. That's an arachnid, not an insect. But next. Pat, shut your fucking mouth.

It has the strongest webs out of all insects, or arachnance, as Pat has pointed out. And it's 25, this web is 25 times stronger than steel. So, Pat, your cute, stupid moth will be first webbed, then shot with boiling water out of an insect's ass, and then destroyed by the strength of 10 million men. So fuck off. And all of your other animals. will be destroyed by the exact same combo. Very good. Fatality.

Well, let's let the Brosners decide. I'm realizing now that my Halloween strategy might not have been the best one, but I'll stick with it. A lot of confidence here with my six-foot-tall praying mantis, a giant scorpion fly, and a giant centipede. That's the yuckiest team. No questions asked.

Patrick's springing to the table an assassin bug with incredible venom, a horn dung beetle with amazing strength, and a cute poodle. moth. I'm not going to lie, if there was a six-foot poodle moth, I'd be the Joe exotic of poodle moths. I'd be breeding them. I'd have dozens of them, wanted to be in

my house. I'd find someone's husband and murder him or whatever Carol Baskins did. I'd be all about it. Peter Baskins. Peter is bringing to the table a bombardier beetle six foot tall. That's a lot hot poopy water.

The strength of a rhino beetle and the web of a bark spider. The web is a good It's definitely not... It's a good addition. It's not within the... Nobody's asking for your commentary. Just read the fucking abilities.

I've read them. I've read them. Why not take a tiger? I mean, it's not an insect. And so it's disqualified. You have two... Pat, are you ever going to get a new hat? Okay, go on.

All right. Peter, do you have to get to dinner? We got time for something else. I do, but Pat, Pat promised two battle royals, which I thought was stupid, because we discussed me playing a game with you guys that involves... No, let's do that instead.

Yeah, we'll save your good one for next time for us. Yeah, anytime. So look forward to that, but this is going to be a fun game. And I did at least three and a half minutes of prep for it, so we're playing it. Okay. All right. So the game is I read you guys a news headline, and you try and tell me what the story is for the news headline. Got it.

All right. So the first one, female octopuses throw shells at men. males annoying them. So why would they do this or everything? You know, what do you think about this? Oh, like what are the details of the news piece? Yeah, what are you guessing? What do you think?

Got it. Okay. Females. I'm guessing that males come into their dens and try and take something and females get irritated and just chuck a shell at them and be like, hey, get out of here. Okay. Okay. I'm guessing it's more like.

the male goes out and eats like male octopus goes out eats some like fermented fruit that fell in off a tree. So he's drunk. Okay. Comes back drunk and they're just like, I'm going to fucking pepper you with shells. It's just domestic violence. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, got it. I liked where Pat was going with that.

He's almost there. The only part that's missing is he tries to mate with said female, right? So that's what's going on here in this news article. They're trying to mate, and if the female doesn't want it, they throw shit at them. Got it. I find that hilarious. That's great. No means no.

That's a good news story. Very good. Love the octopus. Love the octopus. Okay. Next one. U.S. Copyright Office says this monkey picture can't be copyrighted. Whoa.

Okay. I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. So there's a very popular, it's curious George. It's Curious George. He's the artistic. That's someone's IP. You know, it's like a monkey.

Here's the thing. It's a real monkey. It's like a chimpanzee in a Curious George outfit. But it can't be copyrighted because that's IP that belongs to the guy that created Curious George. And it's a whole blowup because the guy who dressed up his chimp is Curious George just thought it was funny. And now we're all upset about it. Okay. That's your guess.

Or do you know that? Okay. I'm going to say that it's. I'm going to say that there's a very famous photo of Jane Goodall with a gorilla, sorry, an ape. Same thing, right? Yeah, guerrilla is an ape. Not a mind.

And someone cropped her out and it's become a meme and they wanted to copyright it, but they can't. Very close. But both wrong. Nobody gets a point. Actually, back in 2011, a macaw grabbed a famous wildlife photographer. for his camera as he was David Slater. You do that every time. McCaus a bird.

Thank you. Macack. And took a selfie of itself. So the macaque took a picture of itself. And the guy later found the picture on Wikimedia, which is a place where people put public domain photos that anybody can use. And he sued them. And it got thrown out.

And the judge said, no, a monkey selfie cannot be. Copyright. Can I just point out if you just did like a guess the like two truths and a lie of those three stories, you wouldn't know which one was the most ridiculous because they're all absolutely absurd. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so and then what actually happened, Slater was, he tried to come up with a defense against that later saying, claiming that the monkey was actually his assistant. Oh my God. Swear to God. Swear to God. No joke. That's a bold play. That's a bold play. That's a bold play. Yeah. Okay.

This is a good one. You got another one? These are fun. Yeah. One more, at least one more, quick one. An endangered amphibian with a controversial nickname, known for its saggy folds of excess skin, goes on display at UK Zoo. It's a long one, but it's an interesting. No, no, no, I got it.

I got it. Okay. Forrest, you got to go first on this one. Sure. So the horny toad, which is a colloquial. Is now being displayed in a British museum, but that's triggering those people who are asexual and don't believe that being horny is good, is my guess. That's kind of out there. Give me the headline one more time.

An endangered amphibian with a controversial nickname, known for its saggy folds of excess skin, goes on display at UK Zoo. God, Forrest, I think you might have just gotten it. It's not bad, right? It's not bad because horny toad. That's like a colloquialism. It's a nickname. Name for its excess skin. I think, I think that there is an amphibian known as the,

known as the fatty pig lizard. That's a reptile. Shit. It's a fatty pig frog. Yeah, the fatty pig frog. and they think it's going to, people are going to be offended by that that are overweight. Okay. Very, very good guesses.

There's really not much to say. It's called a scrotum frog. That's its nickname. Oh my God. Again, if you did two truths in a line, nobody would guess. Yep. The frog's formal name is Telmatobius Kuleas, but earned its unfortunate nickname because of the saggy folds of excess skin, which it uses to absorb oxygen from the water.

the bottom lake titicaca that borders Bolivia and Peru. So it's also endangered, but I also just think it's great that the scrotum frog lives in Lake Tidicaca. This is like a 12-year-old's dream scenario, by the way. Yeah, exactly. All right. I do got to get going now. Well, happy Russia Shana, everyone. Enjoy your meal, Peter.

Your meal of food. We love y'all's. New bonuses going on. on the Patreon. Yes. And we are, we just locked in our date for back in the studio. We are going to do a full tasting of the entire Taco Bell menu, one of every item. One of every item.

That's going to be insane. Oh, man. Good thing. The studio has a restroom is all I will say. Vote for me in Battle Royale. Want to do a quick shout out. There's a new Wild Times meme account on Instagram, which is for. fucking hilarious. Oh my God. It's my new favorite thing on

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