Wild Times: Wildlife Education - World's Biggest Catfish Caught in Italy - The Wild Times Ep. 122

Episode Date: July 10, 2023

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Jump like I did. It's way easier than the ladder. Just jump. It's like seven feet. Woo! It's the Wild Times, episode number 122. Welcome to our podcast. It is a fun podcast. We sit on Peter's couch. We drink delightful fat tire. We banter about news, wildlife, creatures. Peter.

I'm your host, Forrest Galante, the broologist, joining me on my left. Don't be sad Are you calling me a creature? Joining me on my left Papa P himself, the one and only producer. Hello, what was the game with the elbow? Buffalo. I've declared that over.

Yeah. I declared it over after. It's never supposed to end. Just drink with your left. It was declared over the middle of him explaining it. And as usual, here, handsome, rugged retep. Thanks.

I usually wear a black shirt on these podcasts because, you know, somebody called me chubby. He said, what's the chubby guy with the fruit picker? What's his problem? And I'll tell you, sir. The problem is I didn't have a black shirt on. Happy to be here. That's the only problem.

I'll tell you, sir. Don't acknowledge the hate. It doesn't help. Sometimes I like to acknowledge the hate with comedy, though, because I get mad for a split second. Then I'm like, oh, I'll search my name. There's a thousand good comments. So keep the good comments coming.

Yeah. Nice. Excellent. And then I figure out the name of the actual name of the guy who left the negative comment, and I hack his email account, and then take his socials over. Oh, that's smart. And I post a... I bet you could do that, actually. No, I couldn't.

I wish I could. Oh. Well, I'm never pissing you off because I'm scared of your computer abilities. I have your full name. And I barely know how to do email. So... What's going on for us? Yeah.

You know, not much. Going to the lake this week with the fam. Nice. Looking forward to that. We're going to go hang out and do some wakeboarding. boating. That's it. I like the thylacine shirt.

Isn't that nice? Oh, hell yeah. Thylacine T-shirt. Nice. Isn't that cool? What does that say? Extinct? 1836.

1936. That's Benjamin, the last living thylacine. That's a nicely fitted shirt, too. That's nice. It's the cool stuff. It all fits me really well. Yeah.

My buddy Mani drew it and then put it on a shirt. Dude, that's a really good drawing too. Sweet, right? Yeah, a little thylacine t-t. So you're going up to the lake with the family. family. Yep. Are you like off grid or are you? No, I'll be, I'll be, so we've rented the same house there. We did it for like four years in a row and then COVID and everything, so we stopped doing it for a while. And they used to have really, really shitty Wi-Fi, so I'm hoping it's

usable now. Well, don't you have Starlink? Musk link? Yeah, but I wasn't planning on taking it to a lake house. I was just hoping they'd upgraded there. Speaking of that, did you see that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are legitimately talking about doing a UFC style cage fight. No, shut up. That's not. Yes, it is. I love it. Yes, it is.

I'll pull it up. He's lying. No, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cage fight. No way. Wow. And it's like being Zuckerberg accepted.

No, we accepted? This is the best news I've ever seen. So Mark Zuckerberg is super into Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Wow. So he just won a couple tournaments, BJJ tournaments. He did? Yeah.

That's nerd. Wow. And Elon Musk admits that he never even works out. But he's, Yeah, but he's yoked. He's bigger. He's six two. Yeah, he's big.

And he's jacked. Yeah. Oh, no, I'm thinking of Bezos. Elon Musk isn't jacked. Musk is just a big guy. Yeah. He's six foot two, Zuckerberg's 5'7. Zuckerberg's 5'7?

Yeah. Oh, he's a weasel. Let's go. But, I mean, if he's a brown belt or a black belt and BJJ, like, what's Elon Musk going to do? Well, the other thing is, is they're not doing this for money. They must really want to do this. Oh, I went down the wormhole. I read several articles.

They really hate each other. Oh, I didn't know. I assume they were like same team. No, they can't stand each other. I've never paid for a pay-per-view UFC fight in my life. Paid for a lot of rugby games,

but never paid for a pay-per-view fight. This one? I would pay $300 for this. That's the max. That's where I draw the line. Wild times. How crazy is this? I started picturing it

and I started feeling bad. I was like, I don't want to see. But it's like between the two of them there were $300 billion. Like, why would I feel bad for a billionaire who? No. you know who volunteers for a what's going to be really shitty fight yeah yeah no i'm not feeling

bad it's going to be a terrible fight where Elon will be gassed within probably a minute what if elon just gets his ass you got your money on suck is what you're saying i in that case i'm absolutely look if they set it for six months out i will firmly believe that Elon Musk will be training for 10 hours a day yeah what else is he going to do all right so uh we've done this before for mMA fighters or versus a chimp. Elon and Zuckerberg versus what's the toughest animal that those two could take on? Like a domesticated bunny. Like it's not big.

Okay. Elon and Zuck equal fight against three raccoons. I think about as good as they could do. Wow. We saw that rabid raccoon on the pod. Raccoons are intimidating creatures. You don't think they can take the raccoons? Three of them? I don't think so.

I guess if it's a fight till death, yeah, you'd probably get in there, just take a lot of bites and scratches and break its neck. But that's it. That's the top tier. Yeah, not four. No. I want to see them fight. Not the raccoons. I want to see these two fight.

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Link right here. This summer, serve up the cookout classics. Oscar Meyer hot dogs and Heinz Mustard. Grill up a dog, add classic yellow mustard, or loaded Chicago style. We all know it's not a cookout without Oscar Meyer and Heinz. That's in the news. There's some more stuff in the news, and I really want to. What is?

Let's go. What's in the news? Let me tee this one up. I want to throw this to you. You're an avid angler. One who likes to. Is that a golf club? One who likes to fish.

Right. Okay. What do you do if you're fishing? In a river, you get something and it's pulling you, it's pulling you hard. You reel it in and it's a nine foot long catfish. Well, I would be ecstatic. That'd be like a record. So yeah, Wells Catfish.

It's like, it's funny because I have, you guys love Europe, right? You'd go to Europe anytime. Yeah. I hate Europe. I don't want to go to Europe. I swear to God, I don't like going to Europe. I don't want to go to Europe. I want to go to wild places.

Sure, sure. Europe is tame. The only reason that I would voluntarily go to Europe for a trip. Not like, oh, the family wants to go see a fucking castle or whatever. Yeah, yeah, fuck them. Is to fish for Wells Catfish.

Really? Okay. So where do you do this? So they're in Russia and they come all the way down into Italy and a couple other places, but they're these catfish. You get absolutely massive. In fact, Kyle, just quickly Google Wells Catfish Topwater. Okay? And what's so cool about fishing

for them, see if there's a video. Holy cow. What's so cool about fishing, yeah, look at this. Fishing for them is, unlike almost every other catfish, you're not just soaking bait. You can actually toss these massive topwater lures that make all this noise. Yeah. And watch as this guy reels it in. Like, you'll just holy cow. Boom. That thing is massive. Look at that. Look at the mouth. Boom! As he hits that top water. I'm surprised that thing's not nine feet long. Holy shit. Wow. Oh, look. There's a, is a, is that coyote? We're in one of my hex suits? Sure is. Yeah, sure is. That's hilarious. But, um, yeah,

No, so I think that, like, the Wells Catfish is an incredible animal, those European catfish. They get, I would say an average one's like six or seven feet, but up to that nine foot mark. Is that what you're looking for? Jesus, crazy. Dude, definitely elbow to the fate. What's the game again? Buffalo. No, Buffalo.

Don't worry about me. I figured Kyle would just cut to the shot of it. The microphone. Yeah, you're going to have to cut that mic. All right. Let's get going here. Welles catfish. Anyway, I just think they're amazing.

They're these huge things. And then, Kyle, just quickly pull up, like, just a Google image of a Wells Capfish. One of the weirdest things about them is they're just like a tapering cylinder. So look, they have this massive, massive head. You go to that very first picture, Kyle. It doesn't really do it justice. But it's got this massive head and then just the snake-like body that basically just comes to an end. See it there where the guy's holding it?

Yeah, there's one. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Go to the full image of one. It really is snakey, like an eel. How weird is that morphology? Like most, if you look at our catfish, like, Google a blue catfish, for instance, Kyle, to compare them. And we'll get to the news story here. I'm just excited because I like big fish. But like, that's what a catfish looks like, right? Go to that very first picture there, the NOAA one, right? It's the body of a fish. It's got the fins. It's got the small dorsal, the large anal.

You know, just looks like, large anal. Did you say large anal? I thought I misheard. No, large anal fin. But, you know, that's what a catfish looks like. Then go back to the wells if you can, Kyle. I'm not sure if you, yeah. It just got this weird. eel like back in the totally different. And then they pray like you saw like they'll hit top water they'll smash I mean they're just so flipping cool. So what kinds of things are

they eating on the top water that's not a lure like a bird? Ducklings turtles European pawn turtles ducklings frogs like basically anything like all catfish they'll eat anything they can stick in their mouth but are they and not to derail from the news story because I'm excited about it

and I don't know what it is but do they are they like in dangers they're so big I just feel like there can't be that many of them. I don't think they are. Can you Google that cow what their conservation status is? I mean, I think that they're pretty good. They're one of those fish that's been well managed. You know, I'm sure they were close to the... They probably reproduce like mad. Least concern. Yeah. So that's the thing about catfish too. A lot of people don't know this.

Capfish are the most diverse group of freshwater fish in the world. There's more types of catfish than there are bass, minnows, carp, anything else. There's just, there's gazillions of them, especially in the Amazon and places like that. But there's more. They're fantastically apt at reproduction. Like catfish just survive, which is amazing. So even when you see a big fish like that, least concern, which is incredible. But anyway, yeah, so this guy in Italy caught one, and maybe Kyle can find the picture that is potentially the new world record at nine feet, what is it, Kyle?

Nine feet three inches, which is a big ass catfish. Yeah. So just under a football. I think this is cool Alessandro Bioncardi who caught it. he had so fish in game came and they they measured it nine three so it's almost two inches bigger but he didn't weigh it because he didn't want to harm the fish oh good good good good for him and uh and this is it right here i think that's italian angler i'm trying to find a pick to show you guys dude that thing is

that if that's not it that's still a nine that's it yeah six so the my previous Previous record holder was also 646 pounds. Wow. Yeah. So, I mean, that's a big, big fish. How do you even manage something like that on the water? You just, as we say in the fishing game, you just put the wood to them. Wow.

You bend the rod and put your back into it and just a lot of good sexual innuendos in this news story. That thing's flopping around hard. Oh, yeah. They fight like crazy. Yeah. No, they fight hard. I mean, you saw it going after the lure. It was terrifying.

It looks like a bull shark. This is why Pat hates fishing, as we spoke about in the last podcast. I mean, if I caught a fish like that, I'd be, yeah, I'd be terrified. Dead. I wouldn't eat you. I would have no idea how to get the lure out of its mouth. Oh my God, I know. I'd love it.

It's like sticking your hand in a mystery box and you pull out like an alligator or something. So Forrest, going back to your- I'm going to put this down. I was going to find the biggest catfish I ever caught, which was a pretty cute story. I'll see if I can find it quickly. But so I'm going to call you out on your bullshit here. Okay. Thank you.

Thanks. Finally. He's like, I don't want to go to Europe. First of all. So I used to do the same thing. I was like, I want to go explore. I want to go to Hawaii and hike or go to Thailand and cruise around and see crazy shit, right? Okay.

Listening. Did my first, like, proper Europe trip. Did Amsterdam and a little bit of Germany. Yeah. I was like, I am a fucking moron for not doing this more often. It was so great. You loved Amsterdam. You texted me every day from Amsterdam.

Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. But you're not interested in, you know, maybe going, checking out the, the Tiga forest in Norway. Yeah, I mean, it's beautiful. Norway's cool. And Norway's different. A lot of people don't know this, but Norway's the largest landowner in the world. Did you know that? No. How could that, what? Norway is like this big on the map. Because they own most of the Arctic. Oh, really? Yeah. So, I mean, Norway's different. There's wolves. There's cool jungle and forests and things like that. But overall... Oh, so he's moving the goalposts now. That's what he's doing. I am moving the goalpost. But overall, the point is that Europe to me is like sit around, drink wine. And my time will come for that.

Yeah, for sure. But I'm not there yet. I'm still too immature. Kyle, stop pointing at the fucking microphone. I'll talk in the mic when I want to. So while you look for that, I've got it.

All right, just hold on, hold on. Okay. I mean, his legs are being brightly lit by this, the sunlight. He's getting roasted.

These things, these are literal toothpicks. Are you joking? With like a dry knee cap. Are you joking? These are the worst white. Are you joking? The worst pale white tooth ducs.

The light is killing me on the, on the, On the definition game here. You should shave those just to make them look better. It's the light. If it wasn't for the light, you'd see so much. You would see rippling bulging. These are rugby legs, my friend.

There's very good legs. Yeah, I'm just surprised that Forrest doesn't want to see wolves in Norway or polar bear. If he went out there more, he would want to. It's just the idea. Like I said, you're drinking wine and you're sitting having dinner. I don't want to go and sit around in Rome with a bunch of tourists and look at the fucking Vatican and stare at a painting. I get that. Drink some wine and get fat and be like,

oh, I had a great European vacation. Look at my pictures of the Parthenon. You've never seen one taking on an iPhone like this. It is mostly about eating and drinking, I will say. Look at how fat forest was. Wow, a lot of shaming. I actually wasn't. It was just my face.

I'm just kidding. I was obese as a child. That's the biggest catfish you've ever caught. It is. That's a big-ass catfish. It doesn't look. I'm 12, I think, in this picture, maybe 11. Yeah.

And we went on a houseboating trip. That's a houseboat with my dad. It was me, my sister, my dad. I'm a bunch of my dad's friends and other kids and stuff. And we were on Lake Cariba, which used to be the largest man-made lake in the world. Got tons of fish in it. Tons of Nile. Crockettiles, big, big bream, tilapia.

And then this pretty rare in Zimbabwe. Okay. This pretty rare catfish called a Vundu. Okay. And a Vundu, maybe just real quick before we pull up a picture of a Vundu. like we did. V-H-U-N-D-U. Is this on the Zambezi? Yes.

Oh, yes. The Lake Kariba is the dammed part of the Zambezi River. This is a place you'd recommend people go? Oh, yeah, it's amazing. It's best houseboating trip you could ever have. There's wildlife everywhere. And we were wild, right? Like, we'd run around.

Like, we had jet skis growing up because I lived on a farm with a dam and stuff. Yeah. And so we'd tow our jet skis to Kariba and then pull them behind the houseboat. But now, keep this in mind. That's not like going to Lake Lopez. to go jet skiing. This is a lake with so many large-nile crocodile that they can line the riverbanks. And my dad would be like, there you go, here are the keys, have fun. That is insane. Age like 11 and like my little sister would be like ripping around on the jet skis.

And anyway, so we're, you know, there's this pretty rare fish called a Vundu in the lake that very few people catch, really. It's a big catfish, but they're hard to catch. They're few and far between. Okay. And I tell my dad at the start of the trip, you know, he's a big fisherman too. And he's like, yeah, we're going to catch tiger. and bream and blah, blah, blah. And I'm stoked. I love fishing. Like, yeah, let's go and we catch a tigerfish. And then I say to him, I really want to catch a vundu. And he's like, well, you're never going to catch a vundu. He's like, you know, it's like, shut up, you stupid kid. Next thing you know, you'll be an astronaut. Yeah, exactly. Get the hell out of here. Yeah, yeah. And my dad was like that too. He's like, fuck off, you dumb kid. And so I'm like, sort of ignoring him.

And I'm like, all right, whatever. So the second night, we pull the boat into this little bay in the lake in Kariba, park up against the shore. And my dad's, barbecuing up some chicken on the boat and all the kids are there and it's like it's like you know drumsticks and thighs yeah and i take my chicken and my dad was really strict so i had to like do everything except for letting you like go into a lake full of nile crox that's not strict that's i think he was hoping we'd get eaten but um no he was super strict so i had to like sneak everything so i take my chicken i pretend i'm eating it and i shove one of the thighs into my pocket nice and i finish my plate and everything's good and i run downstairs on the boat and i take

a piece of rope, not fishing line, literal rope that ties the fenders on. And I take the biggest hook I have in my tackle box, which don't ask me why I had a hook that was like this big, but I just did. Yeah. Tie it on this rope with like a little kid knot, like literally like, you know, like probably did like the over under loop. Shul lace knot. Yeah, totally. And I tie it on, put this whole chicken breast on and literally just dangle it over the side of the boat. Go to bed, play with the other kids, hang out, whatever in the morning. All right, guys, it's to go, we're moving the boat, and I go to pull up the rope. I'm like, oh shit, I'm going to get in so much trouble. And so I go, you thought it was caught on something? Thought it was stuck.

Yeah. So I go and get my dad, and I'm like, dad, dad, the, here's what I did. I took a big hook and I put on it. He wasn't mad or anything. He was like, all right. And so he comes downstairs of the boat and he grabs the rope and he starts pulling. And he's like, we'll just break it off. I'm like, no, it's my biggest hook. I don't want to lose it. You know, he's like, all right, let me see if I can fix it. And he's like pulling at it. And all of a sudden, he goes, goes, whoof, like to the side of the rail, like pulling him over. And he's like, holy shit, there's a crocodile on here. And so he's pulling this thing and it's just splashing going everywhere. And him and the guy that was the boat captain and the cook all come running out. And the three of

them together pull in that like, you know, it's like a six foot long cap fish. Yeah. And landed on the boat. And they're just fucking shocked, just flabbergasted. And I'm like, yep. So that's a voondu. A voodoo, yeah. Look at how happy he is. I was stoked. Is it catch and release or you eat him. So they, the boat guys wanted to eat them. Everybody wanted, my dad wanted to stuff them, put them on the wall. And me being the little conservationist I was, I refused. And my dad ultimately, it's funny because I remember, my dad was really like, no, no, you're going to, you're going to mount this fish.

And I was like, almost crying. And I was like, dad, please can we let it go? And he was like, well, you caught it. It's your choice. And so we dumped it back over the side. And that's the only fucking picture I got, because this is back in the days of like film cameras. Oh, yeah.

You know, the little like, snap. Exactly. So my dad took one photo. of me kneeling. Now I'd be like, Mitch, take another one. All right, this angle, change the light, you know, take 700 photos of it. This is also like a scanned actual Kodak photograph, not like a digital. That's a photo of a photo in my mom's photo album. Yeah. Are you wearing jorts? Oh, yeah. I love that. Tight jorts on a 12 year old. Oh, yeah. That's really weird. Never mind. Good, good upper thigh. Okay, before we get to this next news story, why are you looking at me like that?

We've got to do something. There's a porthole skylight in Peter's ceiling, which no one's ever seen. I think he put it in yesterday. It looks like the second coming of Christ over here. Yeah, go put some darker pants on, please. No one's going to watch this. It's going to be too distracting. Get some dark, your darkest pair of jeans, please. Oh, it's such a bad leg.

Look at zero definition in the calf. Have you ever lifted weights with those legs? It's pretty beefy. No, it's not. I should show you mine. Come here, look at this. Oh, look at this thing right here. Oh, look at that.

It's like a cinder block. That's right. He's got a neighborhood dad calf. I was telling him. I'm got a mailman calf. God, please cover your genitalia. Thank you. So, all right.

Yeah. I also put my hand into a ponytail too just for continuity. So he's not the only one with something different. So. What a mess. I saw this in the news. What do you got? Imagine your aspiring model on Instagram.

Okay. Yeah, he is. Horace kind of is. You decide you want a new puppy for your social media influencing. So you drive, yeah, a new puppy. Okay. You want to make... No, you want one.

You're like, how am I going to up my social media game? I'm going to get a cute puppy. That's the only way. Yeah. Paris Hilton made her dogs famous. I'm going to do it. That's right. Yeah, I need a Chihuahua.

Yeah, maybe a Pomeranian. Sure. Okay. So we all know what Pomeranians look like. Yeah. A little fluffy things. Small, fluffy, cute, white. So you drive to the mechalphiote.

Mexican border. Yep. And you buy a purebred pomeranian. Uh-huh. Nice discount, pup. Yeah. Yeah.

Makes sense. You're a discount. They're expensive. Yeah. A little risky. $1,000. You go to the Mexican border. You go there for plastic surgery.

You go there for puppies. Medical care. Whatever. Heroin. Yeah. Yeah. The dog starts growing. Yeah.

It's a wolf. Oh. No. This isn't a real story. What? Yeah. This is not a real story. Nobody in history has mistaken

a Pomeranian for a wolf. Are you kidding me? Amanda Wells did. Oh, well, first of the world, she seems awful. Oh, come on. Don't say that. We don't know her. That's true. Oh, my God, that's the puppy. I thought this. Dude, that looks like a little

husky first of all. It does look like a little husky. Yeah, it's adorable, though. It's so cute. It's not a wolf, shut up. It's, dude, there's no way. Is that a wolf? It's being reported in the news that it's a wolf. Oh, dude, look it as it grows. That's turning into a wolf. Holy shit. Still

still beautiful, though. People are speculating that's probably more of a hybrid. Yeah, it's a wolf dog. Yeah, it looks like a husky to me. That is hilarious though. Yeah, a Pomeranian. What a disaster situation. Yeah, I do got to say that I'm probably going to end up at the wolf rescue.

For sure. And also, what happens when it hits 40 pounds? And you're like, Pomeranian max size was like 18 pounds. Why is it now 40? That dog already looked like it was 40. Oh, God. No, but I am going to call it out. Like, to me, that looked like husky.

Maybe it's not a wolf. But to mistake a Pomeranian. for a husky or a wolf. Can you just pull up a baby palmer, like a puppy pomeranian, please? Look at how cute those little huskies are. Oh, there's no cuter puppy. They're so cute, man.

Yeah, come on. Dude, that's ludicrous! I don't even think they make black and white Pomeranians. I don't even think that's a thing. Wow. The person who sold her that dog, too, for probably like $400.

Oh, they do. No, look, I mean, that's pretty understandable. That's that first picture there. Yep, yep. I stand corrected. Yeah, and then go to the her picture, if you would, please. Yeah, it's like, I guess you, I could see how you could possibly, uh, I get it. If you don't know anything about animals.

I don't know. I look at that thing. I'd go, cool husky, where's the Pomeranian? Yeah, 100%. True. But listen, she got a sweet dog, so good on her. Well, that's to mention. And not to mention, it's made news all over the world.

Which is, because it's just such a dumb story. It's also her ultimate goal. Exactly. Oh, hear me out now, dude. Now I'm calling bullshit, dude. The whole thing is the whole thing is just to, get her her Instagram. She's an influencer. She's trying to get PR. She says in the video, I can't believe they lied to me and promised me that it was a purebred Pomeranian. I'm with P.

Let's get her. She needs to come and produce for us. What's her name? Samantha? What did you say it was? You're on. Amanda Hamilton. Amanda, you're on the pod. Don't follow her. Unfollow. Or do. Do. But don't because. Do what you want. Just do whatever you want. Comment on all her videos with at Wild Times pod. That's going to hurt. Okay. That's fine. I hope she doesn't have a lot of followers. All right. Well, Oh,

I want to ask you this. That's incredible. Friend of the pod, Courtney Borgerson, she's never been on. Love Courtney. We could have her on sometimes. We should have her on.

She was on too extinct her alive. She's in Madagascar with her family now. My follower on social media. She posted a video of... What did I do wrong? She posted a video the other day of her daughter eating a Beobab fruit. It looked delicious.

Great. I didn't know you could eat the Beobab. Oh, yeah. Big old fleshy, like, pod and you get inside of it. So is it like cutting into a coconut? Pull up a picture, Kyle. It's like a shelled husk. And then inside of that, you get these soft.

They're very tart and chalky, but the flavor is nice. It's like this, the texture's chalky. It looks like a stuffed chicken or chicken leg. Like a pillow. In that picture for sure. But no, yeah, they're great. You can grind up the seeds and make flour out of them. Really?

So they're really dry. What you don't realize looking at it is those seeds are dry on the inside. They're not wet. So when you put in your mouth, you have this like, literally it's like the consistency of chalk, but then your saliva like wets it and it gets like soft and delicious. Almost like eating like a freeze dried like strawberry. Exactly. Exactly.

No, they're great. Beahab fruit's great. And other people don't know this. You can eat Babababab. leaves too. Beobab leaves make great bush spinach. Like young leaves of the Beobab you pick them and you boil them and you make great bush spinach out of them.

Wow. I'm annoyed that we were there and we didn't nobody was like hey should you want to try some Beobab fruit? I think we're I think it was wrong season when we were there. Oh also I was dying yeah that too. Wait is that when you had when you got quietly oh yeah I was the first few hours of my near death experience. This is Madagascar you're talking about? Yeah. Okay. That's the worst

trip we've ever been on. I was going to say shortly before Forrest succumbed to the same illness. I feel bad, but I definitely left that trip saying like two times is the max amount of times for me in Madagia. Yeah, yeah. That's great. And we saw almost everything. Yeah. We covered the country.

And then we almost got murdered in a casino. We had the full experience. We did. And both times you had to leave there. Well, not, didn't have to. You didn't leave the second time. But neither time was a good experience for you. Yeah, there was a lot of very, very sick.

Very, very sick people. I have a lot of my rock collection. From Madagascar. Yeah, I got a bunch of, like, really interesting geology there. Oh, yeah. There's certain crystals and things like that that are only found in. And those markets, like around Antana Virovo that have all the fossils and the rocks and the, yeah. That's where you illegally smuggled out those gems from, right?

The rectum gems? Some stuff, yeah. Yeah. I did, I did. But just a little bribery. That was where he got pulled a cell to. side. I don't know how illegal it was because the authorities with guns let me go.

Right, right. Because you gave them some chewing gum, right? What did you give them? I gave them 30 U.S. dollars. That's what it was. Yep. Well, could have gotten out for a lot less.

That'll do it. When you saw their reaction and they were like stoked, wide-eyed like it was their birthday present. Yeah. All right. You want to do a game? Oh, my God, yes. Do a game.

We've done a game yet. Yeah. I want to do multiple. You got one? Yeah, let's go. Factor Fiction. Ooh, we haven't done this one in a minute. Play along, keep score at home.

If you're listening on the drive, you're sitting in traffic. You know, have fun. Yeah. See how many you get right. Just do it. I'll keep track of how many each of you all get right. I know the answers to these. Factor Fiction, the Arctic turn holds the record for the longest migration of any bird,

traveling from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year. I was under the impression that the Arctic and the Antarctic are the same place. so I'm going to go Faction. Fiction. I think he is. Fiction. Did you think the Arctic

and Antarctic were the same? Well, yeah, I read it on a cereal box. They're not. No, they're on the opposite end. So you're saying, sorry, you're saying fact?

No, no, I'm going to say fiction and my reasoning was that, but obviously I'm just kidding, I know. I thought it was like

the wandering albatross that was the longest migration. Maybe that's a longest flight. I think that's the longest time in flight without landing. It might be. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

I'm always bad at birds. I'm always bad at birds. People always make fun. I mean, you're a bad bird guy. One point for Peter, if you're playing along at home. Oh, that's right. What did I say? It's a fact. Well, I did say fiction, but that's okay. Oh, he said fiction. No points for anyone. It was confusing how it happened, though. No points for anyone. Moving on. All right. What's next? What's next?

Factor fiction, Peter. Sharks are immune to all diseases, including cancer. Wow. I want this to be true so bad, so I'm going fact. I mean, they're definitely immune to cancer. I'm going to go fact two. That is incorrect. It is fiction. No points awarded still. They do not find that there is cancer in sharks, but they're, of course, not entirely immune to all diseases.

I was just guessing, yep, I probably shouldn't have known that. A little outlandish. Yeah. All right. All right. Daddy long-leg spiders are highly venomous, but their fangs are too short to bite humans. You know, I've heard this multiple times in my past, and I've always, in my head been like, is this an old wife's tale?

And but since I've heard it so many times, uh, I'm gonna say fact. Wow, are we unanimous on everything? I'm also gonna say fact also because I've heard it my whole life. Okay. It is actually fiction. Dude, they're more horrible.

This is an urban myth. Daddy long leg spiders are not been highly venomous. And their fangs are also not too short to bite humans. Wow. But they do have, they do have some. Dude, I'm sucking today. Don't worry. Both of us.

I might win. I could win this one. All right, let me give you a softball, guys. Okay, good, good, good. Peter, yeah. Bats are, in fact, flying rodents. Wow. I'm going to say fiction

because I think that there's some species of their own self. Well, I mean, they're definitely a mammal. They're closely related to rodents. Depends out this is worded, I guess. Okay, well, I'm going to go fact. Okay. Okay.

That's fiction. Bats are not rodents. They belong to the Chera Terra order. I knew it was like a new thing. Which is separately related, though. That's why I didn't know how they were doing. And he literally just wanted to split up the point. Yeah, the only flying rodent is the pigeon.

Really? Shut up. Dude, I was like, oh my God, I don't know to tell everybody. All right. Here we go. The black and white mimic octopus is capable of changing its color, shape, and behavior to imitate other animals. such as sea snakes and lionfish.

Oh my God. I want this to be real. I mean, it's a type of octopus. You love them. I know that the first two parts of it are the same. The behavior thinks the only thing I'm considering, but that means like the way that it moves. All right, I'm going, I'm going fact.

This one's a fact. Damn it. A confident. I was hoping who said fiction. Forest is correct. Okay. This one's a known one. Mimic octopus are pretty insane.

Wait, so I just said it. So they'll change how they swim or look like a sea snake. Yeah, they'll even move through the water. They'll crawl like crabs on their legs. They'll pick up a shell and put it over their back to look like a snail. And these aren't alien? These are from Earth. Are you kidding me?

Look at this. Ludicrous. That's the legs of it looking like a sea snake. Bro. They're wild. That is incredible. Yeah, they're amazing animals. Wow.

Mimic octopus. I got to log that in the brain. All right. So two to one, Peter. In Seahorses, is this fact or fiction, guys? In Seahorses, the male gives birth to the young, alive young. God, I feel like we just had something like this on the pod, and it was like, this is like a trick question.

The male, I'm going to say fiction, because I think it's some kind of trickery. This one is a fact. Full gestation, birth, child care. everything. Two to two. Sex. Wait, it's not that it goes from male

to becoming female or anything crazy like that. Not. Not. Doesn't clone itself? Uh-uh. So the female has sex with the male

and the male has the babies? Well, I'm not sure how you want to phrase the first part. They have sex together and then, yes. Well, you know what I'm saying. It's consensual. It's consensual and then the male

has the babies and character. Dude. All right. I'm learning. All right, two to two. Has contractions and everything. Yeah. How do these people know that?

How did people study the F.C. Ors says contractions. Known thing. All right. Hopefully those listening at home have gotten more than two correct, but you each have two. All right. The blue whale, factor fiction, the blue whale is the largest animal that have ever existed, even larger than any known dinosaur species.

Wow. That's a tough one. That's a good one. Because obviously I want to just say fact, because that is the largest animal now. But there can't, it can't be. But dinosaurs were big, weren't there? It can't be. Dinosaur, there had to have been bigger dinosaurs than,

even though the blue whales, blue whale's huge, but I'm going to go, fiction. This is definitely a fact. Well, we always think of all the mega fauna and think, man,

it must have been so cool to see all the big animals. Biggest animal that ever existed is right now. Holy shit. Dude, that is the, honestly, might be one of the most fascinating things I've ever learned on the pie. It is cool.

Wow. Two more. Three to two forest. Wow. The African elephant is the largest land animal in the world right now, alive currently. Another big animal. I know the African elephant has been touted as a large animal. It's good.

Good. People have been saying. Yeah. I've seen it on Reddit. I'm going to say, I'm going to say, God damn it. I'm going to say this is a, what I'm just trying to think of the other animals. Fact. I got to go fact.

Yeah, fact for sure. Yep. Nothing bigger. Nothing bigger. Both. Are we tied? Both. Correct. Nope, four to three forests.

Oh, man. Last one. Kangaroos can cover 40 feet. Forty feet. Horizontally. That's double the length of this room. Yeah. Fiction. They can jump 40 feet in one bound. No, fiction, fiction. Single bound. Big red kangaroo? Yeah, 40 feet sounds doable. About an eight foot.

Fiction. Fiction. What's the drum roll? That is a fact. That's wild. For it? So far. That's insane. How is that possible? Well, and look, like a large red. Kangaroo is probably seven, eight feet tall. Yeah.

Okay? Yeah. We're approximately six feet tall. So that would be like us jumping. I'm doing Pat's math here. Like 36 feet. 32 feet. Wait, so you did that 30.

30 feet. One of those animated videos that we just started putting out. The flea one. The flea one. So that was you can jump a tall building. A flea. 40 story building. A flea is the, the,

The highest jump. No, the highest jump. In relative to its height. 40 feet is wild. Yep. Yeah. So if it's eight, if it's eight,

that's crazy. If it's eight feet tall and it jumps 40 feet, it's five times its height. Yeah. It's still not getting close to the flea boy. No.

That's, but imagine that flea jump. I mean, a 40 story building for us. Yeah. And like that would just be fine. Like, yeah,

like does it multiple times in a row? be like, yeah. Why isn't there a superhero called the flea? There is. Or the tick. The tick. Also, what is that?

What is a tick special power? Why is there a tick? Burrows into you and annoys you and gives you Lyme disease? They made an Amazon show, the tick. I tried watching it. It's really bad. Well, it's a cartoon, right? No, they made a live action.

Yeah. Because it used to be a cartoon and I watched it. It was really good. The tick was great, the cartoon. Yeah. And I loved it as a kid. That's why I was like, oh, I'll watch the Amazon live action. That's tough.

It's brutal. The live action stuff that they make out of old cartoons and stuff, it's like one in 20 is any good. That sticks that you're like, wow, that was good. I'll tell you what was really good watching the Super Mario movie. Yeah. That was great. Oh, it's really good.

Interesting. Really, really good. They're showing that in my neighborhood. They do a movie at the park. You won't. You won't tonight. Too hot. Not tonight, no.

No, it's really good. Have you ever seen a blue whale? Oh, yeah. Plenty. Okay. So what's that like? Very dwarfing. So I've struggled, sorry, go ahead.

No, no. I've struggled to get in the water close with them. So I've been in the water with them and they've like swung by in the hazy distance, but I've never had those like incredible lunge feeding right in front of me, like those interactions, which people get, but they're rare. The lunch feeding is when it comes up and does that? Yeah, like lunges out and yeah, exactly. And people get it.

It's just, it's not something that I've been able to witness in the water. But I've been right next to them in my boat and stuff like. Where? In Santa Barbara. What? Blue whale? Yeah. Yeah.

I had no idea they ever went through Santa Barbara. Oh yeah. We got them right here right off the coast. Really? Pretty regularly, too. That's lunch feeding. So I saw one from a helicopter. And so, you know, looking down and it was up at the surface.

Yeah. It looked like a snake. Oh, how long it is? They're so long. Yeah. Even as big around as their bodies are, they're just, they're so much longer than they are. Dude, I mean, honestly, the fact that they're the largest animal ever in history is, is it like, so how long are they?

You can walk, walk inside work. You can work inside one. You can easily work inside one. Yeah, you can walk inside one of their heart arteries. What? Yeah. I said set up a desk. Set up a desk in one of their heart arteries.

Wait, in one of their artery chambers? Yeah, look that up, Kyle. I remember hearing or reading that. Crazy. Yeah, that's how big day. It's honestly almost incomprehensible without actually seeing it in person because the brain just won't go there. You're just like,

walking an artery? Yeah. Oh my God. Look at the size of the arteries. Holy crap, dude. Yeah. It looks like a lovely place to work. Honestly, like I was just,

so side tangent here, I've been taking my kid to this, one of those like gym, gymnasium things. And I was talking to my wife, I was like, look at how easy it would be to just start one of these up. You just have to make it the coolest one.

The kid gymnasium? Yeah, like you just have to have the coolest shit there. Put one of those. Those in there, not a real one, but like a model of a... Just like the one they just showed. And then like teach facts. Put it on there. Like the...

Oh, dude, that'd be a great kid play gym. Because by the way, they're good fun for adults too. They are. It's fantastic. Trampillines and all sorts of shit. But you make it so that when you go through the door that you're being swallowed by a whale. Oh, my God. The intestines are tube slides.

I'm not even... Off air conversation. The tongue is a giant trampoline pad. Off air conversation. Nifty will partner. and open this somewhere. We only need $4 million. No, dude, it's such a good investment that anybody who wants to invest, they can be in.

Wild times throw $6 each at this and we will have nearly enough money for the trampoline. If you think it's a good idea, at least comments and talk about what your gymnasium can give in a little. You can do a blowhole themed water feature. Oh, yeah. This would be a good battle. The whole thing would be a blast. I'm not even kidding. You go around a tube slide and then you go through the anus.

Shoot out. And there's chocolate pudding on the floor. Yeah, exactly. into the pudding room. This is amazing. The pudding room. Yeah. All right.

Very good. That's a good one. While we're speaking of weird, unusual, bizarre animal features, we were. We were. Patrick did a game. I want to do a game. Hey, Brusters, thank you for being loyal subscribers. We appreciate everything that you do.

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Cousin fucking Tarnation. How bizarre. Oh, you're kidding me. I haven't moved. I'm sitting here like a robot. He's like literally fidgeting and doing all these shit. His hands never leave it. It's ludicrous.

I have not moved once this. It's so in the headphones too. It's like, thump, thump, thump, thud. Oh, shut up. All right. Ugh. All right, bizarre animal of the week. All right.

I like this. I've never gotten one right. I like learning. Neither of us have ever gotten one right. I don't think so. No. They're very difficult. They are.

But the Brosters get them, or at least they say they get them. Yeah. They write it on the internet. I believe I will say this. I think we did one on a YouTube live and people were getting it. Got it early? Yeah, definitely. Right off the bat.

I believe that. I think our listeners, every time we talk to one of our brosters, like we, like, you know, meet with them or whatever. Yeah. They're all like fucking PhD students. They're like, geniuses. I know. It's embarrassing. They're way smarter than any of us.

Much more educated than we are. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, the worst for me is when they're, like, you know, reference something we said 48 podcasts ago. Yeah, yeah. And they like, remember? And I'm like, no, not even a little bit. They're literally PhDs. Like, I had a three smear enough ice is by then, pal.

They're PhDs in our lives. Yeah, you're watching 200 episodes. A preach. Yeah, we might have the most educated audience on YouTube. No, no question. That's probably true. All right, let's get into it. All right, bizarre animal of the week.

All right, so your first clue is that this animal has elongated, slender looking legs. Is it you? I think I know where it is. I'm going to guess without hearing another. Did you hear a shitty joke? That's good. I'm sorry, go ahead.

They are, they are lovely, long slender. It's funny because I heard his joke, but I was so excited to possibly ruin your whole segment by getting it right now. Yes, do it.

You just didn't. I'm just going to start with my first guest. Please. Mained Wolf. Very nice. Good guess. End of the game. No.

No, no, no, no, I'm leaving the podcast. I don't have a guess yet anymore. Okay. Long, appendages. Like legs.

It's known for its remarkable ability to remain completely motionless for long periods of time while hunting. Well, hunting. I'm going to venture, I guess, because I was watching relaxing animals on the TV with my kid, and I saw what I thought was a picture of a fox,

and it was completely still. Yep. Long slender legs. It was, yeah, very, Very long and slender, right? And then it just does the, jump? Well, no, it just moved a little,

and I was like, oh, it's not a picture. Oh. Is it a fox? Nope, not a fox. Good guess. Is it a mammal? All right. So long, slender appendages that resemble legs.

Resemble legs now. They're not true legs. They're not true legs. That's a good hint. It sits very still, very, perfectly still, waiting to ambush prey. Okay. and with its specialized unique sensory structure on its head,

its senses prey. Type fish that has leg-like things, deep sea. It's some sort of deep-sea shrimp. Okay. I'm definitely, you know, once you said that, I know about the lamp of Lulina on the top of the shark's head. So I literally didn't know what he would say. It took me a minute. I think it's a sea creature of some sort.

the lamp of Palinas. No, the lamp of Lulina. What is it? What's the real name? Ampulay of Lorenzi. Ah, it's close. Yeah, so you were right there. Very good.

Next, very good. Next, okay. It is indeed a deep sea creature that is able to withstand extreme environmental conditions. Yeah. So this is like, we're down deep. Yeah. We got some weird, like a volcanic.

Some sort of crustacean. Okay. Next. Next. It spends its life standing. upright using these log legs for balance. That sounds exhausting. But you're thinking of deep sea, you're not thinking of something standing.

No, not at all. Definitely not. We've got this weird creature that stands completely motionless in the deep, deep ocean. Yeah. That spends its whole life resting, landing dead still on these long legs. Is this one of the creatures that David Grush was talking about in his alien interview? All right. So, our bizarre animal of the week that has all of these unique things.

Features. Oh, wait. Are you going to say it right now? No, I got two more. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Get to them.

Also, feeds on tiny little organisms that pass by without moving much. Yep. Sticking with a shrimp of some sort. Okay. Peter, anything? I mean, I'm going to go with just something I don't know the name of the species of, but I'll describe it physically. It's one of those like filter feeder things that are by the whole camp.

That has a lamp of Lulini. Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah, it has a lamp of Lulini. All right. Last clue. Sounds delicious. I don't need to recap. Well, I will, because it's the last clue, and then I'll give it away.

So you've got a weird deep sea creature that stands on these bizarre leg-like appendages, stays motionless on the bottom of the ocean, eating prey that comes near to its face when it detects it with its specialized organs. And its retinas and its eyes are pointed both front and back. I don't understand this. Now, I understand why you need eyes pointing to the front. I don't need to, why do I need to see what my brain's doing? I don't know. All right.

That's just what this creature decided. Oh my God. No, it's a fish. Okay. Final guess. Listen, I have no idea, but I just think it's cool. It's that fish that has like the clear dome where you can see it's. Bubblehead fish.

Yeah. I'm going to say it's some sort of deep sea pistol shrimp. Good guesses. Yeah, right. You're both pretty close. It is a deep sea fish known as the tripod fish. The tripod fish? Take a look at this creature.

Look at this thing. It just stands there. Stands on the bottom of the ocean. Oh my God. On these weird tripod-like fin appendages. Dude, the appendages. And when it swims away, those become soft and limp. And like trail, oh, you saw it in that one picture there.

It trails behind them. So, yeah, literally just this, no other fish looks anything like this. That is crazy. And it's just a little guy. Little guy? I actually don't know how big they are because I've never seen anything. Wow. It looks very big, but you can't see any scale.

It looks tiny. Yeah, look at that. Imagine being down in a sub and seeing that. And then all of a sudden it bolts away. And those weird structures just like become like floppy noodles. It's literally just like the laziest fish in the world. Pretty much. Yep.

I mean, it's just standing on stilts. Yeah, I mean, I guess is that it's probably not very big, right? Because it's not eating a lot. Yeah, look at that when it's swimming. Oh, no, that's a dead one. Never mind. Can you look it up the size of them? I don't know.

I mean, not a lot of things in the deep deep sea are particularly big. What do you think the purpose of the eyes that look at the brain are for? 12 inches. Oh, that's pretty big. 14 inches. I mean, that's, you know. Yeah, that's a stout. It's weird how it's just completely thrown off when there's no scale on the ocean bottom.

And you never know. And all those deep sea pictures are like that too, where you just see the singular animal and nothing else. And you just never have any idea what the size of it is. Those little tripod legs are three times the body legs. So those are like three feet long. Yeah. So that fish is way bigger than I thought. That'd be the coolest fish ever to have an aquarium.

Just sitting there like that and then just swims around like land. All right. So that was fun. I can't see anything by the way. Yeah, this is a disaster. Look what I look like on the thing. Bro. I don't even look like I'm super villain.

We have to fix it. Oh my God. I got to fix this. But what are you going to do? It's a skylight on a 20 fucking foot ceiling. Dude, why does it have to be a high ceiling? I think I can get on the roof and do it. Let's go.

Let's get on the roof. How are you going to get on the roof? I mean, with the ladder. Let's go. Come on. I'll get on the roof. Do you know how many people are hospitalized in America each year because of ladder? Yeah, but I have two perfectly capable people.

I'll go on the roof. I don't care. No, you will not. Okay. You will not go on my roof. Are you being so weird? Because, let's go. Let's go fix it.

Sent to the thousand people a year die from ladder falls. Okay. I'm fine with it. I mean, I'm going to be fine. It's ridiculous. I do need to change my tight pants. And you broke the fucking dry button. Roof fix.

Roof fix break. All right. So look at this. So we're in here. We've been recording all morning and doing a little boozing. And this is where I'm sitting. Look at this nuclear square that I've just been sitting in. The whole couch is perfect except for that one zone.

Oh, my God. Look how terrible that looks. Look at it on the big screen. No, go back. Go back to the thing. Oops, sorry. Look at that. You just completely blitzed.

Yeah. All right. Now we are going to fix it. All right, we're going to try it. Let's go. We got this. So I got some excess supplies here. Just a screen screen.

I might turn into the Hulk, but let's try it. Where's your ladder? It's in the garage. If I fall off, wife, no, that. Tell my unborn child that I loved her. I will go on the reason for that one. These are actually the ones of games. Oh, yeah.

Those are the Merrill boots I gave you. They have. Not Merrill, the... Yeah, or they were married. They have... Oh, no, they're Kenna tracks. I love those. They have fantastic grip, so I'll feel safe on it.

I'm doing it in my flip flops, so you'll be fine. What's it? Dude, it's nothing. I'm just flying on a ring. I want a little... Traction? I mean, you're... Oh, look, for the LODBrosters. The old, uh, the old globe cooler from the old studio. That's right.

That's right. That's got super moldy. because our white claws exploded in there. If you do want to help you, you can grab that ladder that's right there. Sure. Wait, this is your ladder? Yeah.

Oh, now someone is gonna die. You don't have a real ladder? Well, I mean, I don't think that's a fake ladder. No, this is not a real ladder. I thought you had a real ladder. Like, an actual ladder, not a step stool. What's the one with this? Someone's ladder.

I might be the opposite of someone knowing how to handle their own. Oh. I thought we were going to have to get like a 30 foot ladder. This is nothing. Let me go up first. Peter, make sure you help them out. Give him some good support.

Thanks, Kyle. We need your help. Peter, help them out. Thank you. Give them some nice support. I like how we're making this a thing. It's meaty thighs. Yeah, those are nice. Those are some ham-hawks.

I'm like nervous. Peter, stop fumbling our producer. Here, you want this? Just toss it. Toss it. You're recording. I'm coming. up just to come up in sandals be careful do you want me to do it i'm happy to do no i'm up i'm running up

i want fireworks from my room every four what's this what is this oh solitaire i should hose these off while i'm up here that was the easiest thing ever i can't believe i'm much of your breath so he shuts up let's double it up So it's a sticker. Yeah, that's good, yeah. Oh. I don't think it is. We might need to leave your boots up here and I'll hold him down. I'm not even kidding.

I told you was windy. I did not think it was windy. Call Patrick asking for a hammer or something. I got a staple. Pat. Yo, how green is this? Does that do the trick? That one too?

Yeah, we got to get both. Here, I'll leave my football. I'll leave my football. I'll also. I'll all. Just ask them to bring up like a couple of rocks or something. Oh, whoa, there's gonna rock here. There's like two manicure.

It's fine. I found a random screw. Put my foot flops up here. Forget these. I didn't pack on their shoes. Well, I'm gonna leave with no shoes. Yeah, probably. Everybody gets solar. It's pretty great. There we go. We're done.

I think we're good. Christ, perversion. Um, yeah, I think we're good. Sweet. All right. No joking around. I don't want to fall. It would be funny if forest fell in that. Just jump? Yeah. It's easier than the ladder. Oh my, my.

Just jump like I did. It's way easier than the ladder. No. Just jump! It's like seven feet! Oh my god. Safe. I like how you guys thought. I thought it was just, I didn't even know there was like this nice walkway roof I thought we were gonna have to climb I'm not gonna help you it's like eight feet see that's what I did it's easy you guys have horrible

all right let's go back to our recording here you go thanks oh by the way thanks Patrick for all the help that was super cool he's the worst he is the worst why do we like him he's really about time look at that look at that look at the look at now so much perfect look he's gone pet is gone where did the hell do you go oh god i think he's on the roof now look now look at look now look i'm gonna say good job good hug group hug i'll just hug well no i was just gonna slick oh oh for that good job yeah look how good it looks though look now i sit in so much better dude i don't look like nuclear anymore no perfect the shoes are holding it the boots are holding it down Yeah, it's great.

That's perfect. Fill it from the inside. Film that. Look at what we did. We should open a contractor's business. We're that good. Nobody would give you insurance for us. All right.

Good job. Patrick said we sounded like a herd of bull elephant on the roof. You guys are insane. You know, they just jumped off the roof. I did not know that. It's like, why? I don't know. It's like seven feet.

It's not even tall. I'm not going to get into it, but they're, They're not old enough to understand. All right, well, job well done. I think we all earned a fresh fat tire for that. Yeah, I stayed down here and supervised. Yeah. Still got a boy.

Pig, you were in here drinking a beer while we're working our asses off to make this show a reality. That's right. That's right. Cheers, mate. Cheers. Cheers. Oh, Kyle.

Cheers. We only got two. Can't have one. Sorry. Uh, none for Kyle. He's too young anyway. All right. While you guys were up there.

I was looking at my cell phone. Of course. I got a text from a friend of mine that I need to share. Please do. So ridiculous. All right. So he's going on a, I'm not going to use names. He's talking about him, his wife, and he has two kids.

Okay. Tomorrow we're leaving on a nine-day cross-country road trip. Yikes. Sounds fun. How old are the kids? They're like eight and six. Okay. He said, not bad.

Which may be fun, but more likely a disaster. Some actual questions his wife has asked him in the last 24. four hours. One, will we be stopping for snacks on the way? Two, should I be worried that our luggage will get stolen out of the car? Three, should we have rented a U-Haul? Wow. Wow.

Four, is it still snowy around Denver this time of year? Five, when are you going to pack times 25? Right. Of course. Six, do we need our passports? Not leaving U.S. Seven, did you pack a swimsuit? I haven't started packed.

eight do we need travelers checks for anything oh my god drive around the yes yeah nine do the girls need to wear sunscreen in the car when we drive through the desert no way that was a real question i believe this i believe this 10 should i tell and he's just put obscure acquaintance that i've barely heard of that we're driving through town next week um and then he said because we're like what are you going to institute a no snack policy? What is that question about? He said, I'm actually the one who likes stopping for snacks. She's the one who likes to drive fast, like the astronaut who wore the diaper and gets very mad if we don't make good time. Yeah. That's very funny. I will say that although women, when your wife,

your girlfriend, when you're going to go on a trip with them, the anxiety in their face and eyes for the previous two weeks is palpable in the whole house. It's like sometimes, you're going to I just want to be like, I would rather not take the trip at all than deal with this two weeks of like packing. You know what's funny? It's the polar opposite in my household. Really? Swear to God. Jessica won't pack until the day we're leaving.

Her shit will be everywhere. And I'm freaking out. And granted, our trips are a little different to your average, like pack a bag of clothes. You're taking a dry bag and all that stuff you need. Yeah. So I've got all of my gear laid out in the office for three weeks ahead of time. The snake hooks, the fishing gear, the bows, the this. I've got all, you know, it's like, I'm working on like, okay, I got to put new spool on this reel.

And like, I'm working on all the gear. And she's like, we're not leaving for three weeks. And I'm like, yeah, because if I don't go through it now, then anything I need to order from Amazon or wherever doesn't arrive in time. Yeah. And she's just, granted, she only has to pack a bag of clothing. But like, I'm the one who's going through every piece of gear completely meticulously. Oh, it's totally the polar opposite because what my wife does is put things in and out of the suitcase, repeatedly like, oh, I want to wear this, then, oh, no, I don't want to. And I'm like, packing the clothes is what your experience is packing the gear. Exactly right. Yep.

I will say, it's the same for me where it's like two, three weeks, maybe up to a month of like planning and research. And I'm doing none of it. And then I'm grumpy about having to answer questions. Right. That you don't know the, you didn't even know the questions leading into it. Oh, do you think on the Thursday we're going to want to go do this? and I'm like, how would I possibly know?

But then when I get there, I've done no work and everything is planned beautifully. And it's perfect. 100%. That's also the same. Especially when you have kids, dude. I don't know if my kid would have survived had my wife not planned out everything. Oh, no, no, none of our children would have made it. There would be no diapers, no blanket.

You'd be buying it at like 7-Eleven for $40 for eight diapers? Just left for four days to go camping last week. There was no food in the kitchen. there was a laundry pile that was nearly touching the ceiling. Like, I didn't know where to get fresh towels. Kyle slept over. Kyle, confirm. He's driving down from San Francisco.

I'm like, just crash at my house. He shows up and like, I don't know where the blankets are. I don't know where the pillows are. By the way, did you tell Jess? It would be unacceptable for a wife to allow one of your friends to come over in a dirty house. I'd be in so much trouble if I told her that he slept on the couch and I didn't know how to find a blanket so he used a towel. He used a towel. Yeah.

I don't fucking know where these things are. God. Dude, I was, so I can't do anything when it comes to the kid. Like, I take care of the kid. Yeah. But for leaving the house, no chance. No, no. You're the fun parent.

I have, exactly. So when we were flying back east for Christmas, we bought coach tickets and I was getting anxious about that. So I had a few beers and upgraded us to first class. We remember. We talked about it. I did talk about it. Did talk about it.

She's like, asked me what it's a dumb question on the way to the airport. She's like, you upgraded. Gabriel's flight to first class as well, right? And I was like, yeah, yeah. And then just in my head, I was like, no, I didn't. So I upgraded us to first class and just forgot that a baby was traveling with us. So the baby's still in seat 32C by the toilet. Yeah.

So we just had to eat that ticket and just let her sit on our lap in first class. Oh, brutal. Yeah. Well, I mean, brutal, but the fact that you immediately just said, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then had time to like, plan what you were going to do. No, no, no, no, no repercussions. Oh, it must not have saved. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, men are horrible planners when it comes to this type of thing. Oh, yeah.

I am so last minute on stuff and it causes me stress, but whenever I get to where I'm going, I just buy whatever. Like, if I forgot it, right. I know that I'll be able to take care of it. When you have a kid and your wife and everybody's going, there's no like going to take care of. Like, what am I going to go to the store while they sit in the car? You also can't replace the one teddy bear that must be in the crib for them to sleeve. Exactly right. That's not happening. Well, all right. That was fun.

Yeah, I was just about to tell you guys. Oh, yeah. You guys saw the box. I've seen your box. Patrick. I want to know what's in it. You want to smash it or now? I just want to know what's inside bell.

Guy's got a bad box. Yuck, bad box. I got a mystery box. What is this? Okay, so I'll tell you. I got you guys some presents. Oh. It's fun.

But we're going to play a little. little game around the presents. Nice. Okay. I'm going to hand you a box. Oh yeah, you're both drinking in simultaneity. I'm going to hand you a box. Oh, those boxes. That's an answer one. That's good. It's a beautiful. It's a hand woodburning on it. Patrick, that's yours. No opening. No opening. Okay. Peter, this one's yours. Okay. They all have a bee on them. Yeah, for badass. Very ornate. Okay. That's like hand woodburn. By the way, if just, if the present is just this box. I know. It's a really nice box. Yeah. No, it's a pretty snazzy gift. So, I recently went to an event, okay, the Explorers Club, the E-CAD, the Explorers Club annual dinner.

And I got a lot, lot of compliments on a piece of my attire. Okay. Oh. Stand by. Don't, don't, don't, don't let me. Okay. Shoes. And that piece of my attire led to many, many conversations about the Wild Times podcast. And yeah, it did. And you'll understand why. And you'll understand why when you open the box. But before you open the box, I'm going to give you each one guess to see if you can figure out what is in this very nice wooden box. By the way, it smells. I love the smell of like fresh cut wood. Okay, so it was a piece of attire. It's small. It doesn't have a lot of weight to it. Nope. Fancy. I'm going to guess it was a very fancy tie. Good guess. Peter? I'm going to go with like a fancy pin of some sort. Good guesses. Okay.

feel free to open your boxes This is highly excited Let's do it on three One two three Oh So these as you guys Are a bow tie Are brackish bow ties

These are sustainably sourced Feathered bow ties That are made in Charleston, South Carolina Aren't these cool From different feathers Mine's made out of pheasant So these are made out of Real feathers

And sustainably sourced Feathers Yep And so I wore one that was guinea file to the Explorers Club dinner. And people, oh, and if you read your little card, it'll tell you where it's from and everything else. But I wore one to the Explorers Club dinner.

And people were coming up to me out of the woodwork and be like, oh, my God, I love your guinea fowl bow tie. And I was like, oh, I'm a wildlife biologist. And I do the show and I do this podcast. And it just got so much attention. This was the black tie or the, you had to get a tucks for this event. Yep, it was a black tie event. Oh, yeah.

I remember that. Yeah, black tie event. And so I wore one of these bow ties and matching cuffings. I got a pheasant one because I already had a black one. So I got a brown one this time. By the way, you picked the perfect one for me. I would probably never wear anything other than a black because I would not know what to wear it with or anything.

I know it's not something you're going to wear a lot, but when you do, it is going to be a centerpiece. People are going to come up out of nowhere, talk to you about your bow tie. And it's like, so us, right? It's wildlife, it's animals, it's sustainably soars. Brackish. They're beautiful. Brackish.

That's the name of the company. So mine's made of goose, pheasant and rooster feathers. What? Which animals is the pink from? Probably dyed goose. Okay. Yeah, probably died goose. So I know where I saw this.

Bill Murray was wearing, I'm a big like Chicago guy, and Bill Murray's from Chicago. I saw a picture of him with, and they were making a big deal out of his bow tie in like the news article. Oh, really? And it was this. Oh, you're kidding. It was a brackish bow tie. Okay, I'll pull that up. See if you can find that.

Bill Murray wearing a feathered, a brackish bow tie. Yeah, I thought you guys would like that. I loved mine and I was like, I'm going to get more. So I got a second one. And then I was like, I got to get you guys some. It's like The Wild Times bow tie, a feathered bow tie. Well, here's the thing. Yeah, it's great.

I've never worn a bowtie. Now I'm going to be wearing bow ties. Not even at your wedding? I was just, no, I was just asking. Oh, there you go, yeah. Bill Murray with his. Oh, look at that. That's cool.

Yeah, I knew I saw this. I knew I saw these crazy. But dude, this is, it's like pure, it's like legit feathers. So, um. Goose feathers for Peter. Where are they located in? South Carolina, Charleston. And it's sustainable.

like these are all sustainable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sustainably sourced materials designed and handcrafted in Charleston, South Carolina. Wow, are they, I mean, this box looks handmade. Are these, like, made to order? I don't know, you can go to the website. They have a whole bunch of different styles.

There's no way that this isn't handmade. This is like... Oh, they're handmade, but they're not, I don't think each one's custom, but... Very cool. Now, let me ask you this. Yeah. Did you actually...

Do you actually have to pay for these? No. No, I reached out to them and they were super cool. I told him that I was going to give them to you guys. Dude, these are sweet. Yeah. Did you get them as a sponsor or? Not yet.

Not yet. We're working our way there. But no, I just, I just, I, they're just really neat. You're welcome. My wife is going to, she already likes Forrest too much and it makes it like creeps me out. Yeah, he does do that. And now I'm not even going to tell her about it. No, you are.

I'm going to tell her about it. Now I need an event to go to this. Yes, definitely. I can wear this too. Maybe AnimalCon. Maybe he'll dress up one day. Oh, yeah. You tell me.

people. We haven't mentioned it yet. Oh yeah. This is the announcement. Big announcement. Here we go. Tell them. Tell them what we're doing. The Wild Times crew, all four of us, are going to be broadcasting live. Live, baby. For four hours a day

on a stage with some seats and everything. Yep. At AnimalConn USA for two days. That's right. Doing some interviews with some of the influencers. Some of the world's biggest wildlife and animal space influencers, YouTubers, TV show personalities, you name it, Friends of the Pod, new people, Brian Barcheck, Chris Gillette, the list goes on and on and on.

It's going to be an insane event. We're there September 15th through the 17th. It's in Orlando. You guys can come and hang out, especially on the Saturday when it's open to the public. We'll be there. We're grabbing beers. We're drinking. We're hanging out.

Might be wearing our new bow ties. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's good. And we're going to be streaming live. So that's, I'm super excited about the. live streaming and as a layman interacting with a bunch of high profile animal guys and it just sounded like a dumbass talking to live animals great stories from the field uh streaming live from

animal con so if you can't make it to orlando you can tune in yes it's going to be a blast i'm a little nervous about getting everything set up right so even if you weren't going to tune in tune in to see if we can make this live happen correctly on youtube this is in the same episode that's why we're going That's why we're going a day early. Yeah. It's true. It's true. But it's going to be fun.

It's going to be a fun. I can't wait. Challenge, I think, to four hours, two days in a row. Yeah. Live. Live. A lot of. No swearing.

No swearing. Vodka Red Bulls. Definitely. Here's what you do. Yeah. You start out with the vodka Red Bull first. Okay. Just one?

Just one. I think just one of those. Interesting. Okay. And then you switch over. It's going to be hot and humid, baby. Dark and stormy. You really got a, we really got a, you got a taper.

You got to taper your drink. Because there's a strategy. You need to. Yeah, you really need to. Well, Forrest does, and he has two beers and he's out for the day. Yeah, but I know when to drink those beers. You drink them in 15 seconds when the show starts. Yeah, it's true.

Yeah. I'm nervous. I have anxiety. You don't. It's different. It's my medicine. Machito, so vodka Red Bull, dark and stormy. Then Mahito's by the pool after?

And listen, like you guys are on, you guys are used to doing, you're used to doing things like this, especially you, but even you, Pat, you. You've done interviews. You're on your 211th episode right now. I know. This is private. This is like private. I can do whatever.

This, like being at an event, this is what you and I talked about on our podcast in 2010 when we did our first podcast. We're like live shows. That's what we've got to do. It's going to be fun. Imagine how sweaty he's going to be.

Oh my God. Oh my God. It's going to be so hot. It better have AC. That will be inside. It'll be fine. I'm going to wear no shirt with the brackish bow tie. Oh,

if we're indoors, for some reason, I'm picturing that we're like in a garden. Essentially like in a teaky house. teaky hut with people swimming in the pool. A fire in the middle. I mean, we could do that. If we're indoors, I'm definitely going to wear my new bowtie. Oh, hell yeah. Nice white short sleeve button down and a handsome bow tie.

What about a t-shirt and the bow tie for me? Yay, that could be your thing, man. Yeah. No, the people will take you very seriously. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, it is true. Like, I try not to make myself such a clown because it just comes off that way anyways. I don't want to be judged by the cover.

You know, you don't understand. But AnimalConn, the 15th, the 17th, man. AnimalConn, USA.com is their website. Yeah. Get your tickets. We will hang out. We'll be there. We'll be there.

Tune in if you can't make it. Peter, do the thing. Yeah. There'll be a link soon up on our website, wild times. combs.club forward slash info. And listen, this is a podcast. It's free. We do two a month.

We do four more podcasts every month for a total of six. You can get them all. If you go to Spotify. There's a subscribe button. Get the other four bonus pods. You go to Patreon. Get the other four bonus pods plus these. And, you know, we love doing this.

And it is, we love you. So go do that. And I think I'm done. His voice got really high. He started to talk like this as he got to just wrap up. Good job. I'm going to do that roof thing. If you made it through that, if you made it through this whole episode with the bad lighting,

the roof climb, the gifting, everything that happened, just go and leave a nice comment that says, Brackish bow tie. Why'd you go jet black for him and then pink? I love this and we'll wear, I like this more than that one. But why did you go pink for me? I just, I thought that he wouldn't wear it unless it was simple black and elegant. You're honest. And I thought that you like myself are a little bit louder, like to have a centerpiece. These are just my guesses. And then I went for one that was, you know, even not, not as colorful, but just got a lot of patterning. Kyle, who's the loudest of us three?

Definitely you. Okay, thanks for the plain black jacket. Loud in the end. It's a nice bow tie. All right, good night. Good night, everybody. Brackish bow tie. Comment.

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