Ron Magill
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Der Original war der beste. Er hat den Ton gesetzt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
You don't remember Oddjob? I do remember that name. I do remember that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
When you tell me, sir, with all due respect, when you come on here and you say you have 69 denial crocodiles, do you understand what that means? Okay, that means that not only are you giving pleasure to the crocodile, but the crocodile is giving pleasure to you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
In this country, sir, that in most states is illegal. It's considered bestiality.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Well, the trunk of an elephant has over 40,000 individual muscles just in the trunk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Oh yeah, for me, by far, by far.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Sie können den Hals in so vielen verschiedenen Wegen bewegen. Der Hals eines Elefanten kann einen riesigen Baum nehmen oder einen Stein holen. Ich meine, die Desterität dieses Lehmens ist absolut unglaublich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
I know, but that's diversity. That's the dexterity of that limb. I've been picking up dime pieces since the dawn of time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
I wish I knew, Mike. They're dying off and it's something that's a big red flag and I hope they can find the cause of this because it is a protected fish. It's becoming an endangered fish and it could be an indicator of a much bigger problem.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Nein, ich habe nur gehört, dass es eine Art Toxin im Wasser gibt. Etwas in der Luft, das ein neurologisches Problem mit diesen Fischen macht. Denn es scheint ein neurologisches Problem zu sein. Aber niemand weiß, was es darstellt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
I don't think that's true. I think if you try to choke an owl, you're going to get taloned to death. Tony, what's going on with the hair? I'm sorry, I just joined on it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Oh, okay. I was just trying to figure out what that was, because it's scary.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Ich denke, Al kann wahrscheinlich getötet werden. Er hat sicher einen Nacken, und er hat sicher einen fragilen Nacken. Aber ob er sich mit diesen Talenten verteidigen kann, ob er es einfach machen kann, ist nicht die Frage. Es ist möglich. Ich kann es nicht sehen, dass es nicht möglich ist. Erinnerst du dich daran, als John Chaney in der Pressekonferenz John Calipari getötet hat?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
I wish I knew, Dan. The giraffe was found dead in the morning, first check in the 7 a.m. in the morning. It had been dead for probably several hours because rigor had already set into the animal's body. None of the other giraffes that were with that giraffe had any sign of injury or trauma.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
We didn't see any tracks of any animals like coyotes or bobcats or anything like that or dogs surrounding the area. It's obvious or apparent that something frightened that calf, that juvenile, that made it run into a fence and break its neck. I wish I had an answer to it. There's no way to sidestep it. It's a tragedy that happened. We're monitoring the herd all the time now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
I think we're considering putting cameras back there to see if there's something going on that we're not aware of. But again, the fact that none of the other ten giraffes show any signs of any trauma or any kind of injury, who knows, maybe it stepped on a scorpion or something. Something really freaked it out that individually affected just that animal. I wish I had an answer.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
It was certainly a tragic loss.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Yeah, both giraffes and giraffe. I've heard it both ways.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
No, no. That's a big misconception. Everybody's like, oh, the gorilla's out to kind of kill these people. No, the gorilla was very upset. There's no question about it. But I'm telling you, the gorilla was also frightened. It's a big male and he's basically displaying, he's using body language to threaten the people to leave. He does not want to have a physical conflict with those people.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
And those keepers were smart. They reacted perfectly. They didn't turn their back. They tried to so wie get the way out of the exhibit without causing any kind of panic. But what that gorilla is doing, what gorillas do to other gorillas in the wild, they will use this body language. They make themselves look as big as possible. They make the hair stand up on their arms. They tighten their lips.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
They arch their backs and they look very powerful like that. And that's their visual body language saying, get out of here. You do not belong here. But I'm going to tell you right now, that gorilla's heartbeat was at a very accelerated rate. He was... probably as frightened or as agitated as those keepers were. That was obviously human error.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Those keepers went in there when they thought the gorilla had been secured, when it had not been secured. By the way, that happened sometime last year. It's just that video just now came out. But I think it proves the point that these animals, they want to avoid that physical conflict whenever possible.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
And he was going through a series of steps, classic of a gorilla, showing this dominance, showing that without actually physically attacking the keepers. And to him it worked, because they eventually left the habitat as soon as they had the opportunity. Case closed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
The footage is extremely rare. I don't think the actual incident is rare though. You know, I know in South Africa, I've been to South Africa where I've watched white sharks in the water and then I've gone back when the white sharks have totally evacuated the entire bay because killer whales have taken residence there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
And it's really disturbed the South Africans because it's ruined a huge part of their economy. People pay a tremendous amount of money to go out in these shark cages to observe white sharks and now they've evacuated the bay out there in South Africa because the killer whales are there. So killer whales do effectively kill great white sharks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
They will actually cause great white sharks to evacuate areas. So it's not uncommon that it happens, but it is very uncommon to get it on film.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Ich weiß nicht, was ich dir dazu sagen soll. Orcas sind Fressen und sie können Dolphine essen. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie das regelmäßig tun, aber sie sind Fischehüter. Natürlich sind Dolphine Mammut. Ich verstehe das, bevor jeder auf meine Sachen springt. Ich weiß nicht, was der Grund dafür war. Ich weiß nicht, ob es Aggression war, ob es Spiel war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Weekend Observations + Ron Magill
Ich weiß nicht, was es war, aber es war ein tolles Video. Ich meine, ein tolles Video.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Well, just having Mike Ryan be the emcee for that prestigious event just made that award that much more prestigious for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
My Cuban friends, I cannot persuade them to watch this sport. Listen, I love the Panthers, but only in person. Watching hockey on television for me is like watching soccer on television. It just doesn't do anything for me. But when I watch it in person, my gosh. You know, the same thing with NASCAR. You go to NASCAR, watching it on television, it's just a bunch of cars going in a circle.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
You watch it in person, it is just so intense. And that's what hockey is to me. I would say hockey is probably my favorite sport of all to watch in person.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Well, you know, I think that was just a very sly move on Greg's part to promote the book. I mean, people say, hey, that's great, Cody. What's he reading? Hey, I got to read that because, you know, that's just that's just sly marketing on my part. Congrats. You did a great job.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
That's an octopus. Actually, it looks like a type of squid, to be honest with you. That's a squid.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
I don't know the specifics of that, but it certainly looks like a type of squid to me. And, you know, all of these types of animals, squids, octopus, they are incredible in their ability to camouflage themselves, to reshape themselves, to do things that people think would be impossible, but they make it possible. That's just one of the many wonders of nature, man. That's why I do what I do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
You learn something new every day.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
The dance of the mannequin bird. Watch the dance of the mannequin bird. It is such an incredibly beautiful, intense dance. The way he moves and shuffles back and forth on the branch and does this thing with his feathers. Man, it's such a piece of work, such a work of art. It's unbelievable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Yeah, understanding the language of animals, I think I would learn a lot more than just understanding all the languages of people, because I think animals know things or are able to perceive things that we are not. And we would open a whole new channel of communication there that could open a whole new world for us. Chris, what kind of question was that? I objected, by the way. I led the witness.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
The question would be to understand something, what I want to understand.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Yeah, I think I would.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
I think he understands that, Greg. He just does it anyway. That's true. You're very right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
yes but you know you can explain that jessica but the reality is nobody's promised tomorrow and he just worries about you just like somebody else would worry you know you're taking your trip somewhere god knows what could happen did you just call so i mean that's just something you know animals have very strong bonds so they they they know that anything can change at any minute ron i want to read you a headline and you tell me how this is possible
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
That's possible because these animals can live, sometimes there's a belief that they can live in excess of 200 years of age. So, you know, if they didn't have the opportunity to connect earlier, well, you know, better late than never. It doesn't mean that they're infertile.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
People look at 100 years of age and say, oh my God, a human being wouldn't be able to, you know, have a baby at 100 years of age. Well, a human being doesn't live to be 225 years either. So that's like saying, you know, a human had a baby at 50, which is not impossible. It's not, you know, it's not favored, but it certainly is not impossible. Okay. All right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Oh, tortoises. I've seen tortoises randy like, yeah, until they take their last breath, at least the males. You haven't seen it to the last breath.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Oh, geez, Dan, you want to get into technicalities now? I mean, I've seen let's say I've seen a turtle having sex and then die the next day at over 100 years old.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Nothing really. There's a cobra back there. Oh, there's Mike. Distinguished alumnus, University of Florida. Wow. Congrats.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Well, a giant squid has been found. If you Google, you'll find video that they have got video of a giant squid in the very deep. It's a fleeting video, but it is a verified, you know, true video of giant squid. So we have been able to see them. We haven't been able to, because they occur at such depths that when they finally get to the surface, they are not able to survive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
They need that pressure, I think, of the ocean at those great depths to survive. So we do see them sometimes when they wash up on the beach dead, but they have been filmed underneath alive. As far as the missing animal, gosh, I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
There's so much talk now about the ivory-billed woodpecker, an animal that was deemed extinct many, many years ago, that there have been some sightings in the swamps of Louisiana. And I know there's people that are dedicating their lives to trying to find that animal. So there's also some talk about the Tasmanian wolf. you know, in Australia, New Guinea, that they've seen that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
So I don't, there it is. See, I told you, that's the giant squid. They actually got some video of it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Yes, they're huge. They're actually one of the favorite foods of the sperm whale, which is of course a huge whale, but that whale dives like a mile deep to get it. It's unbelievable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
I don't think so. I think a lot of people speculate that they are very intelligent because they are, I think it's the cephalopod family, which is the octopus and squids, which tend to be pretty intelligent in their ability to maneuver and adapt to their environment. The giant squid is, of course, this enormous animal. I mean, like I said, the sperm whale feeds on it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
If you look at shots of sperm whales, sometimes you'll see these circular scars on their face, which are the suction pucks of the squid trying to save themselves while the sperm whale is trying to eat them. And they leave scars with these huge suction pucks on their faces, fantastic stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Shot For Your Life: Jordan or Jokic?
Very close to each other, but I guess I'm going to have to give UF a little bit of a nudge on that one. That was something that I carried a huge chip on my shoulder because I never actually graduated from the school. So for them to give me a Distinguished Alumnus Award, which I think they've only given 150 out in the history of the school, that was pretty big for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
It was rumored that David Cassidy had a little thing going with Shirley Jones on the portrait family.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Always a pleasure, guys and gals. Take care.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I have no answers for any of those questions, brother.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
What is David doing? He brought in the all-stars.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
In a temporary office situation that we have here, we had a little bit of mold and asbestos in our administration building. So they had to mitigate the situation, so to speak. So we were exiled. And thankfully, the Zoo Miami Foundation has been very generous and put me here in a corner of the building where sometimes it gets a little loud, but it's a nice alternative.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Thank you, David, for throwing me under the bus. Listen, I'm very appreciative that I at least have this room. I could have been outside on the grass under the rain, so I'm happy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Way too tall. I had a breakfast that I attended with the mayor this morning. Whoa! No, it wasn't just me and the mayor. It was me and a lot of people in the mayor. But it was just one of those breakfasts. You know, I try to be respectful when I attend those power breakfasts, so to speak. Billy Corbin there, too?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
They met in the village?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Yep, that's the official start of really winter in South Florida, and that's telling you how late it's coming. Generally speaking, it was always judged by the turkey vultures that come to the courthouse. These vultures all come down here for the winter. They're coming up from up north, they migrate down, and they look for high buildings to perch on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
There was a big issue at the courthouse for a long time because they released a lot of fecal excrement that kind of stained the windows and made the courthouse look like a snow-covered mountain there for a little while. But this is a cyclical thing that happens every year in South Florida. Originally, like I said, was the label of the start of winter in Florida is when you see all these vultures.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
You know, people who go down to, for instance, Everglades National Park, there's a huge problem. What the hell is Samson doing? Picking his teeth?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Talk about my cluttered office and you're picking crap out of your teeth in front of me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Anyway, back to the vultures. They will go down. For instance, if you go to Everglades National Park during the winter and you park your car, let's say, down at Anhinga Trail, you'll see a bunch of tarps that the National Park Service provides for you to cover your car. Please use them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Because the vultures down there will literally strip your windshield wipers off and then strip the rubber seal all around your windshield and windows on the vehicle. Nobody knows why they do it. It seems like it's part of practice for them, kind of like... stripping hard skin off of dead animals to start their feeding.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
But it's a big problem that the National Park Service has been facing now for several years. So these vultures, you know, they become quite bold. They can be a little bit destructive, though they play a very important role. Let's face the facts. They take away these decaying dead animals that can spread a lot of disease. They have a couple of gross habits.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I mean, one of the grossest habits that vultures have is to cool themselves off. They literally poop all over their legs. So then they crap on their legs and as it evaporates, it cools them off. That's part of the way to cool them off.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Another really kind of unfortunate habit that they have is if you corner them, instead of trying to peck you, what they do is they projectile vomit to you, like an exorcist type thing where it just comes out. And, you know, vomit by itself is already bad, but vomit of decaying dead animals that they have been eating, that'll make you an instant gag reflex.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
They have a lot of natural tolerance, natural resistance to all the bacteria and infective elements that are found in dead and decaying animals. But they pay a very important service to us. I mean, I don't want to go out there and have to pick up that raccoon off the road. If the vulture is going to eat it, it's a win-win.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
No, it'll never take you, David. They don't want anything to do with anybody live. They will fly away. You won't be able to even get close to them. They're up on that balcony on the top floors there because that's where they're safe from any predators on the ground, cats, dogs, or anything like that. So that's a natural instinct. Plus, also, they really don't fly well until they get the...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
You know, the thermals. Yeah, they're gliding, Ron. I see them glide. That's right. They glide. As a matter of fact, just recently something happened that is a phenomenon. It doesn't happen all the time, but it has happened in the past where they just rescued like 40 vultures out of the ocean, out of the bay, because they were flying and using the thermals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
And then there was a big temperature change. All of a sudden came in the front. The thermal disappeared and all the vultures literally plummeted to the ocean. And once they hit the water, they couldn't get out of the water again. Several of them drowned. Several of them were saved.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
But this is a phenomenon that happens rarely, but it is an incredible phenomenon when all of a sudden all these vultures just fall out of the sky.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, the fact of the matter is it's illegal to purposely feed wild animals. Well, that would not be a legal thing for you to do to bait vultures with something out there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
If a raccoon happened to die on the 36th floor of wherever you're staying and was on the ledge. Oh, heck, I think putting your camera there would be cool as heck.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Turkey vultures, there's also the black-headed vultures too. There's two species that we find down here, the black-headed vultures and the turkey vultures. Okay. Initially it was just turkey vultures, but now we're seeing a lot more of the black-headed vultures.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
And what you see the most is if you drive down the turnpike and you drive some of these landfills, the dumps, you'll see them like by the 100s. flying over the dumps looking for food.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh man, I guess, you know, people who throw out rotten food from their refrigerator, you know, that they're spoiled. That's the ultimate buffet for these vultures. The worse it smells, the more rotten it smells, the more delicious it is for them. And also, you know, understand when meat rots, it becomes much more tender, so it's easy for them to eat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Where are the olfactory... Oh, if you look at a vulture's bill, you'll see they have a very large nasal opening that actually can go all the way through. So their sense of smell is phenomenal. Having said that, they also depend on each other. Because once a vulture has pretty decent eyesight, they see a bunch of vultures circling over a certain area.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
They go, hey, hey, hey, something happened over there. We've got to get over there. So that's when you see them all start congregating and circling.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Look at those nasal openings, guys. And look at those things.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Listen, I'm going to go not with David, but what's that? Ethan?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I'm going to go with Ethan. He's got less facial hair. There's less obstruction to go through. Ethan kind of looks a little bit like a young David Cassidy. A young David Cassidy? Ron called you a young David Cassidy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I think he does. A little bit like a young David Cassidy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ron, stop. Stop.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Okay. Yeah, I figured. He's too young. That's a compliment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
David Cassidy got it done.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Come on. Excuse me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Understand, understand they're flying into windows because they don't realize the windows there. What they're seeing is a reflection of the habitat behind them. So they just think it's continuing and they think it's another bird in front of them until it gets too close where they can't stop. There's another bird here, but I'm not stopping. You know, I'm catching up to him. I'm catching up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, gee, it's over. OK.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
That is a good point. That's a good point. But the bottom line is, yeah, the window situation is because the window is reflecting the sky behind them, and they think the sky is continuing, and it's not until it's too late, and that's why they hit the windows.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
They would only do that if you tried to grab it, if you tried to bother. It's a matter of self-defense. They don't do it like, oh, this is my everyday thing. Let me just projectile vomit on your car for no reason at all. No, that's not what they do. Vultures are actually pretty clean animals, believe it or not. And the role that they play is so important, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I cannot tell you the diseases they prevent from spreading just by what they do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
It's uric acid. It's the bird's form of urine. The white is the uric acid. Birds don't produce fluid urine. Same with reptiles. You know, if you see an iguana poop, you'll see this big clump of brown, which is the fecal material, and it's surrounded by some white spots. That's the uric acid material. So that's the urine phase of things like birds and reptiles. So you're very smart in that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
So when people say I just had bird shit. I can't see Ethan's face. If you light up his face. Take your hat off, Ethan. Put it side by side.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Take the hat off. Come on, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Come on, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
And he's got the hair thing going for him, too. He could feather that hair out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Brother, let me tell you, back in his day, David Cassidy was...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
A remarkable thing. You know, I think you guys should stay away for a while. You guys are pretty good. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Alan Alda is a legend. He's a freaking legend. What was his nickname?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
You guys are killing it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Were you not going to tell anyone?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Yeah, I think so. I remember the time, you know, I remember when the Oakland A's, Raleigh Fingers, that whole team, that was a big mustache time. That was a great time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Well, some of them really, I don't think, have enough to grow a good mustache yet. Some of them are still too young. But, you know, a mustache when properly grown, properly filled in, is a remarkable trait.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
He jumped the barrier like a freaking show horse.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Oh, Lord have mercy. There's a lot of sphincter muscles that loosened up right there. Yeah, out to the parking lot. Jesus. Oh, he tossed that lady like a piece of styrofoam. Oh, my God. Yes. Oh, Lord have mercy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
You know, I don't know. I think it comes from just the old macho, you know, ranchers, the guys who went out there and, you know, had to work animals that way to work the ranch. And it became kind of an offshoot of that. And it's part of a culture, really. It's part of a culture, not necessarily that I'm all fond of. Well, I'm amazed that looking at that video, Those people didn't even move.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Did these people not see this thousand-pound bull running at them? That woman who got flipped, she never even flinched before she got flipped. Look at that video. I don't understand it. I don't understand how they didn't move.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
out of the way that's the better thing to do you always tell us to stare the animals down you tell us to stare it down don't panic don't run away that's the bear not a bull stugatz it's a bear how do we keep track of these things you know understand when you look at a bull guys what does a bullfighter do to get the bull command he waves the red thing right he's making hey hey he's going like hey bear but hey bull but this with the bull it means come get me and the bull does
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Brave. I did hear that nobody had life-threatening injuries or any long-term injuries. Just a couple of bumps and bruises. But those people are all very lucky because that bull was on a roll. How rare is the bull death?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
I think it's pretty rare, you know, unless you get severely gored every now and then. You hear the people running with the bulls in Spain. There's been a couple of deaths in history of those things. Another, you know, reflection of humanity being stupid. But, you know, it's rare that they're killed by a bull. But, you know, there have been people paralyzed. There have been people gored.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
There's some really serious injuries that can happen from them. Oh, God. Look, they just stand there like bowling pins. What is that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Yeah, that's exactly that's an animal running. Get out of my way. That's an animal running. Get out of my way is what that I'll do. And those people didn't move. I still can't believe I've looked at that video 20 times. And those three people stood there like bowling pins. Like what? You think the bull's going to run around you?
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
It's just scared. It's certainly scared, but a scared animal can be a very dangerous animal. Don't think that any time an animal comes at you that's always saying, oh, I'm macho and I'm going to take you out because I know I can. It's a reflex of a defensive action is what is happening. And that bull is doing just that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
It could be. It could be. I mean, we all know how the bullfighter wears the red cape to get that bull to come at him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Yeah, that just came out of National Geographic, and they show that they do, and this has especially been documented with mothers and their calves, that mothers make sounds that basically relate to the name of the calf. These sounds are so individualized that they're basically saying the name of the calf. And, you know, I wholeheartedly believe that.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
We've talked many times about elephants, how incredibly intelligent they are, how incredibly social they are, how they communicate with each other. It's a very social animal. So, yeah, it doesn't surprise me at all that they have names for each other and that they call them by that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Not far. The giraffe was not doing that in an aggressive way at all. The giraffe was looking for food. She put the food close to her chest and the giraffe grabbed the T-shirt by accident. And once he lifted the kid up, the giraffe just dropped the kid. The giraffe did not drop the kid because anybody hit it or anybody attacked or anybody screamed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
The giraffe realized, oh, this is a lot heavier than that, you know, whatever food I was trying to get and just dropped it. That's not an aggressive move by a giraffe. Giraffe aggression is done when they swing their head and neck like a baseball bat. They don't bite.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Let me ask you something, Chris. If somebody was, you know, roping you and riding you with a cinch around your abdomen to make you uncomfortable, and you're really working hard to get this person off because it's so uncomfortable and beyond uncomfortable, sometimes even painful, how are you going to feel towards that person? In love. Sexy. Okay, so you're one of those. Maybe. Oh, God.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
I don't think it was to eat. No, I don't. I think that was pure aggression that was experienced by that leopard, by humans either stoning it or something like that in the past. Listen, Dan, in India especially, there's so much growth, there's so much population growth. People are just you know, moving into the habitats of these animals. And these animals are kind of starting to fight back.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
So that is an unusual experience there. But I have seen the thread on social media channels, you know, showing several leopards coming at people, usually in these urban areas. And that's just because, you know, they're being pushed to the limit. So that was an attack.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
If he wanted to consume that guy, it would have grabbed him and bitten his neck and killed him right there and held on to him like it does with its normal prey. But that was just coming out and bite, scratch and get the hell out of Dodge.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
No, he's Ron. Thank you, Jessica. Ron McGill. Ironic.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Yeah, that was an aggressive attack, pure aggression. And my suspicion is that that leopard has had a negative experience with humans prior to that. There's a whole thread of those leopard attacks. You'll see one actually trying to jump through the windshield of a truck trying to get after a guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
These are animals that have been in one way or another negatively impacted by humans, whether it's people throwing sticks at them, stones at them, shooting at them, whatever it is. Listen, animals remember things. Don't think that they don't remember things and don't think that animals will not fight back. They will.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Well, you know, like you said, dolphins, all the cetaceans, all the whales, all of the cetaceans, I think, their language is so... so diverse and so meticulous. I mean, I think cetaceans probably have that, of course, elephants. And we have seen in some chimpanzee cultures certain different languages. And I don't want to say languages, I should say dialects.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Dialects, because they're kind of offshoots of the same language. But just like we have dialects of different people, you know, you hear someone speak English sounds different than, you know, London or sounds different in Sweden than speaking English in the United States. The accents or the dialects can be different within the species.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
And I think chimpanzees, a lot of those primates have those same types of varieties.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
70-year-old flamingo to lay an egg is very unusual. For there to be a 70-year-old flamingo is not tremendously unusual, though it's certainly on the very high end of their lifespan. We have flamingos here at the zoo that were here during Hurricane Andrew, which was, you know, what, 30-something years ago. So, you know, and they were adults when Hurricane Andrew came through.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
So they're in their 40s and 50s. So flamingos are long-lived birds. But having one lay an egg, now, I would be very surprised if that egg was fertile. So that would take it to another level. But for her to produce an egg in and of itself at that age is pretty extraordinary. But I highly doubt that it would be fertile.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Oh, Billy. Yeah, any bird can lay an unfertilized egg. I've never tasted a flamingo egg. I don't know what it would taste like. But, you know, I mean, ostriches, you know, they make ostrich omelets all the time in southern Africa. They have them on ostrich farms. So, all eggs have the ability to be eaten.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Some, I would imagine, taste different than others, but they all have kind of the same contents, you know, the yolk, the egg white, and they're full of protein, and people eat them no matter what. I mean, eggs are the favorite diet of so many different animals in the wild kingdom.
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Hour 1: The Return Of The Mustache
Always great, guys. Have a great week.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Yeah, I just did an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine about it.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ja und nein. Ich meine, die Antwort, die ich ihnen gegeben habe, war eine, die ich glaube, viele Leute nicht glauben. Ich habe gesagt, ja, wenn du 100 Männer in ihren Zwanzigern in guter Form hast, die unabhängig sind und ein paar zu versorgen wollen, werden sie gewinnen.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
It's gotta be 100 men at once. Yes.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich habe das. Ich habe das. Ich habe das. Ich habe das. Ich habe das. Und wer gewinnt diesen Kampf? Nun, okay, am Ende des Tages werden die hundert Männer überleben, die Guerilla nicht. Nun, bei einigen dieser hundert Männer wird es kollaterale Schmerzen geben, okay?
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Es werden Schmerzen und arteriöse Schmerzen geben, es werden gebrochene Nacken geben, es wird Schmerzen geben, es wird, weißt du, nur, weißt du, schreckliche Schmerzen geben, die zu fadalen Gehirnschmerzen führen werden. Also wird es dort Tod geben. Aber am Ende des Tages, wenn alle Männer glauben, okay, wir werden uns verletzen,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Sie werden den Gorilla zumindest ausfixieren, wenn sie sich um ihn herumschneiden, wie ein riesiger Strahlkopf, seine Fähigkeit zu verhindern, seine Arme zu öffnen, seine Arme zu strecken und anzupacken. Real gute abdominal trauma.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
I would say probably 10 to 15 are going to lose it.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Nicht zu viel, er wird ein paar auslösen. Er wird ein paar auslösen, verstehe mich nicht falsch, er wird ein paar auslösen, aber am Ende des Tages 100 Männer. Wenn du mir 20 Männer gesagt hättest, würde ich sagen, nein, die Guerilla nimmt sie. Was ist die Zahl? Ich sage, die Zahl wird wahrscheinlich um die 50 kommen. Das ist es, Leute, 50 Leute. Es wird um die 50 kommen.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Und das sind Männer, die, wiederum, mit dieser Kamikaze-Attitüde kommen, die sagt, hör mal, einige von uns werden sterben, aber das ist für das Größte gut. Ich habe das sehr klar gemacht, weil in der Realität, wie du sagst, Dan, die ersten wenigen Leute, die ihre freaken Hände zerfangen und durch den Skal zerfangen, die nächsten Leute sagen, ich bin weg, ich bin fertig.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
But if they remain committed, they will triumph.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
No, as long as, you know, it can't be 59-year-olds, but, you know, yeah, 50 guys in their 20s in reasonably good shape.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
The gorilla doesn't have much stamina, does it? Rope-a-dope.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Okay, I got 50 hawks, 10 crocs, 3 bears, 15 wolves, man with a rifle, 10,000 rats and 5 lions?
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Sind sie hungrige Rats? Ist das wichtig? Ja, wenn du in einer Routen mit 10.000 Rats bist... Nein, das ist das gleiche Szenario wie 100 Männer und ein Gorilla. Ich will keine 10.000 Rats treffen. Ja, ich kann wahrscheinlich 100, vielleicht 200 von ihnen nehmen. Aber wenn sie an mich kommen, wie ein verrücktes Seen aus dem Wald, und sie alle schmerzen und weinen, dann werde ich sterben.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, nein, nein.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ist es nur ich mit dem Bayonett?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Nein, nein, ich würde mit dem 10.000 Rats Mann mit dem Pfeil gehen. Mein zweiter Option mit dem Mann mit dem Pfeil, ohne den Mann mit dem Pfeil, wäre 5 Lions. Was ist mit den Wolfen? Die Wolfen, die zusammenarbeiten? Die Wolfen wären... Sie sind sicher ein Problem, weil sie sehr teamwork-orientiert sind und Stamina verringern können. Und es gibt 15 davon, was die Unterschiede macht.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich bin nicht besorgt über die Wölfe. Fünf Löwe nehmen 15 Wölfe weg.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ja. Ja. Oh, warte, warte, warte. Du sagst mir, dass du zwei Dinge hast, um dich gegen alles andere zu verteidigen. Das ist richtig.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
If that's the case, if you're telling me I can just pick two to defend me against all the rest, it's not if, but when you're going to die.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Dan, you're bringing in a lot of other factors here. Ich kann die Rats nicht kontrollieren. Ich nehme an, dass alles, worüber wir hier reden, in seiner Präsenz ist. Es ist das Beste, was es macht. Ich kann die Rats nicht kontrollieren. Die Rats sind nicht trainierbar. Die Rats attackieren nicht. Nein, warte einen Moment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Wenn du Tiere hast, um dich zu schützen, dann denkst du, dass sie trainierbar sind. Nichts davon. Der Kerl mit dem Pfeil wird sagen, ich bin raus.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich sage dir was, es wird ein Duddrat oder zwei in den 10.000, wenn wir ehrlich sind. Ja, aber es sind 10.000.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Sie haben nichts. Und Crocs sind nicht fast genug. Crocs sind nicht fast genug auf Land. Wir machen das auf Land, ich glaube. Ich mache das nicht im Wasser. Nein, du bist in einer Arena. Ja.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Nein, nein, nein, das Zig-Zag-Stuff ist ein anderer Mythos. Nein, nein, nein. Aber du wirst nicht von Crocs auf Land wegkommen. Das ist nicht ein Problem.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Oder in Kreuzungen. And you may get nailed then, Chris, because when you're zigzagging, instead of going, the croc is going in a straight line, it's going to catch you as you're zagging.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Es ist eine Arena. Es ist eine Arena, ja. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. Lions and the Bears. Lions gotta go, and right after that, the Bears.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich denke nicht, sie werden nur in den Attack Mode gehen. Hör auf, wir müssen diese Entscheidung unter der Überzeugung machen, dass die Tiere wissen, dass ihre Aufgabe ist, sich zu verteidigen oder zu attackieren. Ja. Okay? Also diese Rats sind trainierte Rats, die dich verteidigen werden mit allem, was sie haben.
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Hour 1: 50 Hawks, 10 Crocs, 3 Brown Bears, 15 Wolves, A Hunter with a Rifle, 7 Buffalo, 10K Rats, 5 Gorillas, and 4 Lions (feat. Ron Magill)
Die Hauks werden dich nicht töten, Billy. Nein, sie versuchen es.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
don't usually give the shots there have been some exceptions to that usually it's the veterinarians that do that but um you know i have given shots to rhinos before i've given shots to a giraffe before um i've given shots to crocodiles before Why is that one the ta-da and the other ones were downers?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
It is thick. And what we have to do is we have the crocodile in a type of chute. We put it like in a, it's like a tube. And we have an access to a hole in the tube. So the crocodile just doesn't really much have a choice. I know that sounds kind of cruel, but it's also for the safety of ourselves and the crocodile.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Exactly. And they're incredibly powerful. So generally speaking, we used to have a transport tube. We made this big, it's like an aluminum tube that has handles on the side that we get the crocodile to come through the tube, and then we hold them in the tube there, and we have access to the sides of the tube to do whatever kinds of treatment we need to do. The rhino?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
You know, we use a thinner gauge needle and a rhino, once you're giving him his carrots and giving him his hay, just jack him by the side, it just feels like a mosquito bite to him. So it's not much of a big thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Apparently Lyme disease is not found in these hot, hot climates.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
You know, it's not a... It's not a guarantee you're getting Lyme disease by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, I've been in rainforests where I've come back and the ticks are tiny when they get onto you. But when they start gorging themselves with blood is when you realize that they're there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And at the risk of giving you too much information, you don't realize until you're in the shower and you start rubbing around, you think, oh my God, what's growing here and what's growing here?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Because they tend to get in the dark crevices of your body and they expand there and then you realize, oh my God, and then you have to realize you have to be very careful to get them off because you can't pull them off and sometimes their head remains there where the body comes off and that is a portal for infection.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Yeah, I think, you know, that's, of course, when the... The spaceship there came back to Earth. Those poor astronauts are up there for eight or nine months. And I think that dolphins are both curious. They're intelligent. They're looking around. It's obviously a new thing in their area here. There's a lot of attention there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And I think it's almost like a childlike curiosity that they're checking it out. They're very curious about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
I can't give you an exact example. I can tell you how dolphins tend to navigate and how they tend to understand, you know, dolphin therapy, a lot of therapy for autistic children, nonverbal children. The way dolphins seem to be able to communicate and connect with those children to me is amazing. It's profoundly moving. I've seen that happen on several occasions.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
As a matter of fact, I've seen a child who wasn't quote unquote nonverbal actually become start verbalizing around a dolphin. And the dolphins seem to understand that there was a connection there. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And when I say speak, I don't say come out with entire sentences, but start uttering sounds where they would not do that at all before. I've seen that happen on two different occasions to where the parents just burst out in tears. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. So there's a power there. There's a connection there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And I think when you look at the size of the brain of a dolphin, I mean, really relative to its size of the rest of the body, it's very, very similar to a human being.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, you know, the octopus got a lot of big publicity with that movie that came out, the Oscar-winning movie, I think, My Friend the Octopus or something like that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
The Octopus Teacher, there you go. And they are incredibly intelligent as far as being able to navigate things the way they can change their color, the way they can camouflage, the way they can escape almost anything. I mean, you look at an octopus that's, you know, bigger than your fist, and it can get through an eighth of an inch of an opening area, and that's pretty incredible.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
So they tend to be very... I guess, opportunistic. They're very resourceful. As far as solving puzzles and thinking the way a dolphin does, I just don't think the octopus is that intelligent. I think they're very intelligent.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
I didn't say they're as intelligent. I said they're not as intelligent as a dolphin.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And I said it's not... in my personal opinion, is not as intelligent as a dolphin. Yeah, well, that's not exactly what you said. You said not that smart. No, that is exactly what I said. You stopped me when I said it's not as intelligent, okay? I didn't say the octopus is not intelligent. I didn't say that, Dan. Not that smart. Stop it. That's what you said.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
You just love this kind of controversy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, we weren't actually in the hospital and surgery. This is when I first started at the old Cranon Park Zoo. We had a chimpanzee, a male chimpanzee. His name was Colonel. And we anesthetized him. And we had to pull him out of the enclosure. And we put him on the grass next to a canal there. He was totally out. You know, they use the drug, which everybody knows about now, called ketamine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And he was out there. And Dr. Hubble, I'll never forget, the veterinarian was kneeling between his legs, leaning over. He had a suture up his arm. He had cut his arm badly. So he had a suture up the arm, but of course we had to have him anesthetized and mobilized to do that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
So I'm holding one arm, and another gentleman's holding the other arm, and Dr. Hubble's on his knees between his legs, leaning over, sewing up his arm. And then all of a sudden, Colonel just sat up, got right in front of Dr. Hubble's face, and just went...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
like that the one guy on the one arm literally jumped into the canal i froze i i panicked and just froze and i just stood there and then all of a sudden and dr hubble didn't move either he just looked at him this chip if you've never heard a chimp scream in your face it's something it's blood curdling and then all of a sudden his eyes rolled back into his head he just kind of went and fell back down so he was going through some type of hallucination hallucination because of the ketamine and i looked at dr hubble i said doc
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
He goes, that sometimes happens with this drug.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, I got to tell you what, I had to change my pants after that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
You know, I don't know if I shit my pants, but I... Certain bodily fluids escaped my body at that time. Let's leave it at that. It was a shark, Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, that was the orangutan. The orangutan. When I was digging it out of the... Yeah, that was horrible. No, but I...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, have I ever actually shit my pants?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
No, no, I was really scared when that chimp said, because a chimp can rip your arm off and then beat you with it. I mean, a chimp is a very, very dangerous animal. We've all heard about chimps attacking people. And this is one of the biggest male chimps I've ever seen in my life. He looked like a small gorilla.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
and to have him get up, you know, be fast asleep, and all of a sudden open his eyes wide, and that scream, just that, and these big canines sticking out. I mean, let me tell you something, and he's right. And I couldn't believe Hubble didn't just jump in the water. The one guy, Leroy Bennett, he jumped in the water. I sat there in fear. I was an idiot because I could have been killed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
I should have jumped in the water too. Fortunately, the thing just passed back out. And that's like, I think it was like the second week I started as a zookeeper, man. I'd never been exposed to that kind of thing. And it's just, that's blood-curdling stuff. Really, that was very frightening. One time I was working for Bill Hosto when I was working at the Miami Serpentarium, my very first job.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And I had to open up the right side of the lab. And there was one room where the king cobras were. And I remember I'd go in and I'd open the door, turn on the lights, and a king cobra had gotten out. And I opened the door, and literally, Eight feet in front of me, this King Cobra just goes right up in front of my face.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And I just backed up, closed the door, and I went, Mr. Haas, I think there's one out. And he went in there and he just went, oh, yeah, there is. Let me put it back. And I was like, oh, my God, are you kidding me?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
I'll tell you the hard thing for me. Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you. One of the first things they taught me when I went around is they were feeding condors.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
and the gentleman was feeding the condor a live rabbit now this is back 45 years ago we don't really do that anymore but i remember the condor getting the rabbit and the rabbit screaming and i just said to myself no i don't think i can do this even though it's nature this is what happens in nature i said to myself i don't think i can do this um That was very difficult for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Fortunately, we've gone past that. We don't feed live animals to animals anymore. But that was a moment that did hit me. It haunted me for several days after that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Listen, I'm not going to lie. It was a very difficult thing to watch, even though the person at the time was insisting, no, this is what gets them involved. their natural behaviors go. And in fact, we were breeding those condors and several of the condor chicks that hatched out at Crannon Park Zoo are now flying free in Colombia. They were released back into the wild.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
That was the most productive pair of condors, Andean condors in the country at the time. And it was because they were provided all these natural behaviors. So, I mean, listen, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite because the bottom line is, you know, we've got to feed these animals animals, you know, it's a circle of life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And I just think that the animals can be more humanely put down as opposed to putting them in their lives and having them fight for their life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
That's where I first started working. It was a beautiful place. As far as the zoo goes, it was really horrific, especially when you look back at some of the classic cages with the metal bars, the concrete floors, you know, maybe a tire hanging from a rope for the chimps. It was really everything that is terrible about zoos. But, you know, they didn't know better back then.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Everything back then was a different mindset. People fortunately have gone a long way and realized that this is no way to maintain animals. So there's been improvements. You know, having said that, listen, in a perfect world, and I know that's going to sound strange coming from me, we wouldn't need any zoos.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
In a perfect world, everybody would be able to go out to Africa, see the animals in the African plains, the Amazon, the Arctic, see these animals in their natural environment. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world. Most people will never be able to see that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
And I know as a kid who grew up in a small apartment in New York City, being able to go to the Bronx Zoo planted a seed in me that has enabled me to raise millions of dollars to protect animals in the wild where they belong.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
But having said that, if the zoo is the last place that these animals can safely live, then zoos have failed in what should be their number one priority, and that's to protect animals in the wild.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
I was kind of just kind of setting up an example. The reality is when chimps come at you, one of the first things they do is they try to bite off your genitals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
That's how they fight each other. They go right for the genitals. They try to bite them off.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
No, no, because we've worked very hard to have a cohesive troop of chimps. But if rival... You can almost equate it to gangs. You can see chimps in the wild when they go into. I agree with you, Dan. I'm rubbing my eyes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry. Down a bad rabbit hole here, Dan. Dan, we're learning. Grow up. You wanted to go on the information. So that's what they do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
These chimps will fight with each other. And yes, a very common battle tactic and rival chimps is to go after the genitals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Billy, are you planning to have any more kids?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
Was that all your genitals were good for? It's just reproducing? There's nothing else you use those genitals for?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
No, animals don't get vaccinated for Lyme disease, I don't believe. No, they can carry Lyme disease without showing symptoms. They can be asymptomatic, so they can be conduits to transmit Lyme disease, but they don't necessarily show symptoms, and I don't think they can be vaccinated against it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Who The F*** Is Willy? (feat. Ron Magill)
No, they just take the shot, Billy. Somebody's got to hold them, generally speaking, but they take the shot like your kid, you know?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I was born and raised in New York City. My father was Cuban. My mother from Colombian descent. My first language was Spanish and I purposely forgot Spanish. I was like, yeah, yeah, I purposely forgot it because I just thought that was that was like a bad label for me because it gave people a reason to make fun of me. Right. I never played a sport in my life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
We were never enemies. Tony and I were never enemies. We were competitors.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Well, I'm no longer playing basketball, which kind of sucks. But, you know. Listen, I wanted to stop before I ruptured an Achilles, blew out a knee, did something that would be horrible to try to recuperate from at my elderly age.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Well, I'm going back to the Galapagos in May, which is going to be a great trip. The Galapagos is always a great adventure. Then I'm taking that big expedition to Australia in June, where we're doing the documentary with WPLG, you know, Christy Krueger. And then I'm taking the family to Patagonia, Chile, Argentina, the glaciers, everything out there in October. So it's a busy year.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
birthday birth week birth month what is guys guys i prefer not to celebrate the day at all oh i know we can tell my wife put together and in hindsight i'm really glad she did because some of my closest friends were there and i didn't think all these people would travel from different corners of the place to uh to come to this wonderful get together we had and i felt very privileged that i had so many good friends there so i was a great surprise but normally i don't celebrate my birthday i don't
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I think once you get over 40, those birthday things are done.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Yeah. I missed it by half an hour, Mike. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Well, you know, then what? I'm six or five, whatever that's going to be. Not the math.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
OK, it wasn't until in high school that the coach put me out of the hallway and said, hey, Ryan, you're going to play basketball. I laughed at him. I said, have you seen me walk? I mean, come on, it's ridiculous. And we went to the tryouts, you know, you go to the tryouts and then they'll pin up the people who make the team on the list. And I go up there and then I see my name on the list.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
So, Mike, let me ask you something. What does the fact that the largest shark that has been tagged as off the coast of Florida mean anything? Has anybody proven that that largest shark has done any damage to anybody?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
You know, Mike, you look at things through such a different lens all the time. You need to take the fogging off the lens. Australia is an incredible country. It's a great country. It's got phenomenal wildlife. Yes, seven out of every ten snakes there are deadly. But how many people come across them?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I'm probably going to get out of the water.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Well, what does that reflect on? You know, I'm so sorry she lost her hands. But listen, common sense just isn't common anymore. And I don't know what's happening in this world. And I think a lot of this stuff is being driven by the stupid social media.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Don't get me started in the social media with these people putting their backs to alligators to take selfies, trying to pet a freaking bison in Yellowstone. I'm tired of stupid. You can't fix stupid. The way you fix stupid is you get rid of it. And some of the animals are doing it for us.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
This is a classic example of how social media has driven people to stupidity.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I see these guys who didn't make it. And then I'm ridiculed even more.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I do remember that. You know, I became kind of a really bad guy there for a while because back in the Chupacabra, I wish you wouldn't be phrasing things like several decades ago. It makes me sound like a fossil. But having said that, you know, when the Chupacabra craze started, It was all fun and games.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And then all of a sudden, people started having rifles on their front porch and in the front of their house. And they were ready to shoot the chupacabra. And that's when it became dangerous. Listen, we got the skunk ape. We got Bigfoot. None of these things have ever been accused of harming anything. We had the chupacabra that was now killing livestock. It was killing animals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
It was sucking the blood and sucking the organs out. People were afraid. And that was stupid. And this was all just playing on this fictional character that came up. I said, hey, listen, don't you guys find it coincidental that chupacabra is only found in Hispanic neighborhoods? Is it a racist animal? Why is it only going to the Hispanic neighborhoods? Why isn't it found anywhere else?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I got there because I was tall, you know, and... And I went to the coach and said, Coach, you're killing me. I don't even want to be on this team. It's just making things worse for me. I don't forget what he told me. He said, at the time, because I was so tall, he said, Ron, you can't coach height.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And where's the proof of this stuff? And then when I finally proved it, I said, listen, you know what? The next animal that the chupacabra kills, did you guys say, oh, look at the chupacabra did here. It sucked all its blood out, took all its organs out. I want to take that animal, live on television. We brought it on the new news live.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
We cut it open at Jackson Memorial Hospital doing an e-cropsy. And guess what? It was full of blood. It was full of its organs. And it showed that the two little bites on its neck were not a vampire, but a dog that had bitten it and strangled it and killed it that way because that's what dogs do when they become feral. All right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And then all of a sudden, all the people that were making money off of selling the bumper stickers about the Chupacabra and selling the T-shirts of the Chupacabra and the radio stations that had all the lyrics and schticks going on, all of a sudden started losing all of their little clicks and attention because the Chupacabra was proven to be false. That's a great story.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Live on the 12 o'clock news. And one of the reporters got sick, vomited when we cut open the goat and she saw the blood and the guts come out. That's great television. Great television, Ron. It was great television. It was pretty tough, but it proved to these bulls who were all caught up in this, oh, my God.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
You know, I remember when I first went out there, the police were out there, the news stations were out there, and I said, oh, no, no, this is dog. These are all dog tracks. And then, you know, una abuela, she was over there on her porch. She goes, no, no, no.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
and all the cameras went right to her because here's this you know well she's saying she's saying in spanish that the thing had giant wings and was breathing flames like yes that that probably was Ron. Yeah, well, they captioned that on that. That came on the news and they put the little captions. So they subtitled for her about, oh, my God, it had the red eyes and the big wings.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And I saw it fly away myself with my own two eyes. It exists. So who's not going to believe Grandma Abuelita? OK, instead of the goof Ron McGill from the zoo who's trying to. Put some common sense into people. But no, common sense doesn't sell bumper stickers. It doesn't sell fear. It doesn't sell T-shirts. So that's what they went with. That's the society we live in today. That's right, Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
That's right. Close your eyes and shake your head. That's the society. You probably contributed to that crap. You probably would be one of the big Chupacabras. He definitely did. I remember.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I'm going to take the time and invest in you. And that coach, he's probably the single most important person in my life outside of my immediate family.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
It would have to be something in the ocean, because we have not been able to explore the ocean. I mean, we've done some minor exploration, but when you think about the capacity, the size of the ocean, the depth of the ocean, places that we have not been able to go, I wouldn't be surprised for some mythical beast, if you want to quote-unquote face it that way. Megalodon?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
existing existing down yeah existing down that low um you know and a place that still has yet to be listen we know less about the ocean than we know about the moon guys so in the ocean i would have a much broader open-mindedness regarding you know a mythical creature that could possibly still exist there
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Horrifically tragic. I feel terrible for that person. But anyone who goes to Africa, at least any responsible tour operator, makes it very clear. You sign a waiver that says, listen, you're going in with dangerous animals. Again, guys, this is not the safari ride at Disney. You know, Dan knows that. Well, Dan's been next to me. Well, these animals come right next to us.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
If you don't act properly, if you get charged, these are things that can happen. Now, Dan's probably thinking back, hey, Ron, why didn't you tell me this could happen back then? I did tell you that could happen. Probably not going to happen. But it's a risk we take. It's a risk we take when we get in our car every day. We drive to work.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
How many people are getting killed every day on the road in car wrecks?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
The sharks biting people. They deserve it. Dan, why would you attack them? Animals are defending themselves and defending their territory.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Sharks are invading our land.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
If it had to be any animal, it would probably be one of the big cats, a tiger, a lion, because it just bites you in the neck and it's over very quickly. Is that over quickly? Listen, let's talk about something better. Hey, Mike, how about those cyclones, brother? Yeah. How about those cyclones?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I did not watch yesterday. We got a dub. We won.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Those guys were rocking. Listen, you did a great job in that draft, brother. Those guys came back. They broke it all down. The Cyclones are for real this year.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
The left turn was sports, was getting to be accepted into society. When I was a kid, there was one show, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. And there were two co-hosts in that show. There was a guy named Marlon Perkins and another guy named Jim Fowler. Jim was the guy who did the crazy stuff. I mean, Jim was jumping out of helicopters on top of caribou.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
It's fantastic to watch these guys play because finally they're playing some offense. Instead of this volley back and forth, wait for somebody to make a stupid mistake, these guys are starting to take chances. They're going in at it. I love it, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I'm going to lean towards cruelty.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
So that's cruel. It is. It got a little stress there. And any time you stress out an animal for the sake of humor, I call that animal cruelty.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
These are turkeys that are kind of going after each other as part of this whole.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
It's just, it's turkeys, turkeys do these things. That's not animal cruelty. That's actually kind of funny because that's nothing that was inspired by us.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Hey, send me that graphic, man. I like that graphic. Thanks for working on that graphic. I like it. Send it to me so I can save it for my scrapbook. Thanks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
You know, continue walking. It's not a fatal peck, probably a little startling, but I'll write a memo and address the issue and see if we can have some kind of disciplinary action against that bird.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
He was rappelling down mountains, grabbing condors with one hand. I'm like, that's what I want to do. I want to be that guy. And when you have a job, if you love doing what you do, you're really not going to work.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
That's usually what happens when these whales beach themselves. There's something wrong either physically with them or something in the environment. It's almost like it's almost like a form of suicide in a way. And, you know, it's a tragic thing. But these these beachings with whales have happened across the millennium and nobody really knows why. A charming dismount.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Thank you so much for that happy note.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And I mean, that's the reason why I've been at the zoo for over 44 years is because, dude, I, you know, when you get paid to do things that people pay to do, you know, I just got back from two weeks in Africa. I mean, I've traveled around the world.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
It's true. I was literally at the zoo, as a zookeeper, walking in the... Normal day. Normal day, and I was doing, I think, a presentation about an animal. And this guy, Don Francisco, who I don't know who... I have no clue who he is. Right. He comes up to me in this kind of a heavy accent. He goes, I would like you to be a macho. I said, okay, well, what's your show?
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
He goes, I have a show called Sabado Gigante out of Chile, and I'd like you to be on my show. I go, okay, it's in English, right? He goes, no, no, in Spanish. I go, well, I don't really speak a lot of Spanish. He goes, no, no, I teach you. And nobody in your family spoke Spanish? My father and my mother always spoke Spanish, so I heard it, but I didn't speak it.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I literally put it in the back burner. And he goes, I'll teach you. I had no idea what this show was. I got home, I told my parents, I said, listen, this guy Don Francisco, Don Francisco? Don Francisco, this guy is like the number one Hispanic television star in the world. And I'm like, what? So he invites me on the show. I don't even remember, I tried to do some research on the show.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
There was a whole lot of internet and stuff back then. And the thing comes across to me like a combination of Let's Make a Deal, The Gong Show, Oprah, Phil Donahue, and some other crap I'll put together in one, three hours. of insanity, insanity, okay?
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
There's a bunch of girls out there, they're doing the coochie-coochie dance, and there's stuff going on in the show that would never pass on American television. You got women that are really very- Scantily clad. So it was just one of those things where I'm like, oh my gosh, But that guy became the greatest mentor I've ever had when it comes to television, when it comes to the public.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And he taught me something that's so very important, and that is never take yourself too seriously. And there's so many of us, even in my profession, especially in my profession, where they get all hung up on things. You know, one of the things I've learned on Dan's show is that, man, you gotta learn to laugh at yourself, man. Because if you don't laugh at yourself, you're not enjoying life.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And Don Francisco told me that. He goes, look at me, Ron. Every Saturday I go out there and I make a total jackass out of myself. And it's true, he did, he put on these goofy hats, he do these stupid dances. He looked like an idiot, but he was making people happy. He always wanted me to kiss the models. He had the models coming, I go, no, no, no, I always show my ring. I say, no, no, man.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And that was part of the shtick. How did you, again, not speaking Spanish, go to an all-Spanish show? He would talk to me and wait for me to screw up. I would say a word, I would never say it right, and he goes, que que, que que. And that became part of the shtick of the show. Right.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
¿CÓMO ESTÁ, DON FRANCISCO? ¿CÓMO ESTÁ, RON? ASIENTO, POR FAVOR. ¿EN QUÉ PAÍS EN EL MUNDO TÚ PUEDES ENCONTRAR FLAMINGOS Y PENGUINOS EN EL MISMO LUGAR? CHILE, GALÁPAGOS Y SURÁFRICA. CHILE.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
YO QUIERO PREGUNTARTE ALGO. UN DÍA YO PUEDO VINIR A ESTE PROGRAMA Y ME HABLAS NADA MÁS DE LOS ANIMALES Y NO DEL ESPAÑOL MÍO, POR FAVOR. Yo tengo como 25 años viéndolos pelear, a ellos dos. 30 años estoy hablando. Y la historia continúa. 30 años y todavía. Tú recuerda, cuando tú me conociste, yo sabía dos palabras, sí y no. Y mira cómo lo estoy hablando ahora.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
He would tell me after I started improving my Spanish, he would literally say, don't improve it too much, I'm not inviting you back. The stick of the show is to make fun of your Spanish. And he would go afterwards, he'd go in his dressing room, he goes, I saw it. He goes, that's what we want to do. We want to have that kind of rapport back and forth.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
For me, I guess the most special place is Cuba. the homeland of my father. I went back there doing some conservation work.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
against the uh backlash of county officials who gave me all kinds of about it and i was very thankful um to a herald uh columnist who defended me fabiola santiago defended me she said he's going there for conservation conservation's you know the animals in cuba are not democrats republicans they're not political they're part of the heritage of all of us anyway to make a long story short i'll never forget i go into little havana i'm walking down the streets of little havana people are yelling my name tony from the balconies
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
People are coming down the stairs and they're coming and they're giving me food they don't have, Tony. They're offering me things that they don't have in their own house. They just want to take a picture and I go, And they go, I go, They got this whole business over there, Tony, where they had these thumb drives.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And these guys are like little blockbuster video stores, little incognito in the corners, where they have the thumb drives, where these people are like pirating the show. They get it to these guys, and then they rent out the thumb drives, and people watch Saba de Grande every Saturday, part of La Paquete. It's all over Cuba. I mean, when they say the Cubans resolve, resuelve. Resuelve. Resuelve.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Always. I mean, it's unbelievable. I look at the cars. I remember the old cars. I'm going, oh, my God, that's beautiful. Classic. What happened? Let me look at the engine. I open up the hood. It's like a lawnmower engine. Exactly. Put together with rubber bands and paper clips from all kinds of different engines. These people are so ingenious in what they do.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
It was so rewarding to me because I got to be honest with you, Tony, I've never been to Cuba. And I remember my father, who had since passed away. thinking he was New York. When I went to New York on the little Cuba, that's the way he spoke. When I went to Cuba, I realized, no, he was Cuba.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I saw my father's face in every one of those faces when they came to me and said, oye, hermano, como esta, compadre, all that stuff. These are all the terms my father used to use. I said, wow, this is where my roots are. Here, Tony, they would invite me into their little bodegas and give me food and they would not take my payment. I had to throw the money at them.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
How can you do that when I know you're starving? When you have nothing. You have nothing. You have nothing. And that makes me proud. Makes me proud of my heritage. So that's probably the most meaningful to me now. It's the most surprising recognizability of the sábado que gata show. That guy, Jim Fowler on Wild Kingdom.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And he's the one who taught me all this stuff. And of course he was a huge international star. So I asked him to go down with me to Panama to work on this Harpy Eagle project. And we had to go way into the rainforest in the Dariang, which is on the border of Panama and Colombia. It's not a very safe area, but it's an incredible forest. A lot of people. Exactly. A lot of bad people.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
So we had to take a dugout canoe for four hours down the river to get to this village of these indigenous people. I mean, these people living in the forest. No electricity, no nothing. Women, bare-breasted, stuff like that. So I got the GPS to go there and Jim's with me. After four hours, we finally get to the riverbank where the village is and the chief comes out.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Guy just in literally a loincloth. He's wearing nothing else than some beads. From a movie, just the same thing he's seen in a movie. Comes up, he looks at me and he goes, And I'm not, now I'm sure I'm being punked. Now I'm sure. Where's the camera? Where's the camera here? What's going on here? And Jim looks, oh, come on. I'm the one who's being punked here because Jim's the international star.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And I paid this guy to do this with Ron McGill and who's Jim Fallon, right? And I realized, and he goes, and I go, how do you know him? We walk with this guy into the village, and as we're walking in the village, they got a television set up there that's rigged in one way or another to a car battery with a satellite dish.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And they rig it in such a way that every Saturday, it was like movie night for the entire village, Sao do Higano. Oh my God. Tony, one of the greatest rewards I've had in my career was they couldn't believe that I was there because they see me on this show. And then I said, let's make a video, you guys. And when I got back, I showed it to Don and he put it on the show.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
And they saw their own video. And to this day, that village is the most famous village in Panama because those are the indigenous people that were on Sao do Higano. Wow. And it was just... And it was a great reflection on Don Francisco, too, because he said, this is what my show is all about. This is what my show is all about. And this shows you how we can connect.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
So for me, listen, dude, I had such a surreal life. I say this.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
I'm not saying that to blow smoke. But Tony, except for you kicking my ass in basketball. But anyway, other than that, the bottom line is, if I stepped out of here and died, No one should shed a tear for me because I have lived way beyond any dream I could have ever imagined. I've got an incredible wife, incredible kids, incredible friends. You know, I say it, I've said it on the show.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
All right, coming in to meet the legendary Tony here at the legendary Arbetters, baby. Tony, three-point Tony, man. How you doing?
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
My favorite saying in the world is that life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take. It's measured by the number of times your breath is taken away. Yeah. Breathtaking moments define the quality of your life. Thank you, man. Thank you so much. All right. Hand me a hot dog.
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Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
Did you pay for it? I spent a lot of time here, man. High school days, this was the stomping grounds. We'd come in here and we'd rag on the Columbus guys.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
Billy? I like my family. I had a nice time.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
So do you want him to sit there or just keep doing whatever he's doing?
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
So laughter is actually killing you. It's the worst medicine. Yes, when I laugh, I come as close to death as I possibly can.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
I thought you were going to lead us in, I thought you were here to... He missed the pre-show meetings.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
Oh my god. Well, there's a kangaroo that's jumping. I'm terrified of kangaroos. A kangaroo has hops. Night vision.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
Yeah, but Jeremy wouldn't stop talking, so he couldn't end the segment with that. All of you. We're trying. Except for Lucy.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
Aber was, wenn Superman und Batman am Montag nur Krimi lösen? Five days a week. I feel like, you know, we're leaving up a lot of time for crime.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
Then the criminals just take off Monday, I would think, right?
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
No, he's doing his thing. He has an Emmy. I really tried to get out of there quick. I had so much more to say. That was good. You should have just talked. No one knew that Greg was trying to talk on the audio front. No one saw his hand.
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The Big Suey: It's Greg, B****
You've got to invite him to the desk, Dan. That's part of being a musical guest. Okay, let's do this. Do me the favor.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
You know, Dan, I gotta be honest with you, I'm not sure. I don't, I'm not that familiar with ants and termites, other than that, you know, they will dominate the world eventually, that they're more, the weight of ants and termites far surpasses the weight of all human beings on the planet.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
But I don't know of ants and termites working collaboratively that way, except one protecting against the other. I'm not sure.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Ich glaube, ich würde gerne den Ekel sehen, den Ekel eines Vogels sehen. Ich meine, das ist ein Vogel, das, um es in Perspektive zu stellen, wenn du die Augen eines Egels hättest, könntest du ein Journalismus 100 Meter entfernt lesen.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Das kann so passieren. Wir können das machen. Wir können manchmal auf Lohn die gleiche Spezies der Tiere, nur um eine andere Blutlinie zu bekommen. Wir haben vielleicht einen männlichen Giraffen, der der Ausbruch unserer Herde ist und wir brauchen eine neue Blutlinie, also können wir die Memphis Zoo anrufen und sagen, wir werden unseren oder deiner männlichen Giraffen handeln, abhängig davon,
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Die Stud-Bücher sagen, wir haben Stud-Bücher. Grundsätzlich sind Stud-Bücher wie komputerisiertes Dating. Sie erzählen uns, welche Tiere mit welchen anderen Tieren geprüft werden sollen, um die heiligste Blutlinie zu behalten. Also, Züge verabschieden die gleichen Tiere wieder und wieder. Wir haben Tiere, die durch was wir Exhibitlohnen nennen, wo wir nur ein Tier aus dem Exhibit nehmen.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Es könnte ein Zufall zu einem anderen Zoo sein. But we can use it on our habitat here and be here strictly as an exhibit loan. We have breeding loans where if they come over as a breeding loan, let's say we take a male gorilla to put with a female gorilla here at the zoo. The way that works out is that we would get the first, third, fifth and so on offspring
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Das Lohn-Zoo würde das zweite, vierte und sechste Ausbruch besitzen. Du teilst die Ausbrüche so. Und dann können sie diese Ausbrüche als Kollaterale verwenden, um für andere Tiere zu handeln. Aber im Grunde genommen, die überwältigende Mehrheit aller Tiere, die du in Zoos heute siehst, sind Tiere, die in Zoos geboren wurden.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Und sie werden zurückgezahlt, um die heiligste genetische Blutlinie für diese Kaptivpopulation zu behalten.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
You know, it's not necessarily that we make that decision. That decision is sometimes made at a higher level. Again, the stud bookkeeper, who would kind of be the general manager of that species, would say, okay, you know what, this male needs to go to that zoo to be with that female, because according to their bloodlines, they're going to produce the most genetically viable offspring.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Well, yes, we do put out surplus lists. Zoos put out surplus lists on what is surplus to their collection. And we work with the AZA, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. So they have great communication between the institutions to see who needs what. And they work with the studbook keepers throughout the AZA. And all those recommendations are made collaboratively.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
So you don't get into like bidding wars with other zoos? Nein, nein, wir haben keine Bidding Wars. Was ist der schlimmste Trade? Es ist selten, dass Züge eigentlich Geld an andere Züge zahlen. Sie sind alle auf verschiedenen Arten von Lohn-Agreements gemacht. Exhibit-Lohn, Breeding-Lohn, you know, that type of thing.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Du weißt, Chris, ich kann mich nicht vorstellen, dass so etwas funktioniert hat. Wir hatten ein paar Tiere, die wir in die Hoffnung gebracht haben, um einen Nachhaltigkeitslohn zu machen. Und das Grundsatz ist, dass die Mütter, mit denen sie gepaart wurden, dieses Tier nicht lieben. Und das ist ein großer Fehler, den Menschen haben.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Sie denken, oh Gott, das sind Tiere, wir machen sie zusammen, sie machen das, was natürlich kommt. Das ist nicht der Fall. Und viele dieser Spezies, die Tiere, müssen generell zusammenkommen und einander lieben, bevor sie eine erfolgreiche Beziehung bekommen.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Das ist der größte Teil der Herausforderung, diese Tiere zu vorstellen, in einer Art und Weise, in der sie einander akzeptieren und das führt zu der Beziehung. Aber oftmals passiert das nicht.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Well, hopefully it was something that can be accounted for. You know, animals, everything that lives is going to die one day. It depends where and when it dies. You know, if the animal dies prematurely from something that could have been avoided, then, you know, we've got a responsibility. We've got to be accountable and we're going to have to answer to that.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
But generally speaking, you know, as long as we provide the documentation that the animal received the proper care, that it was being, you know, properly monitored and cared for, again, everything that lives is going to die. And just because it happens to die under your watch doesn't mean it was your fault.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Ja, Jess, die Grundlage sind die Tiere. Die einzige Zeit, in der sie die Entscheidung machen, ist, wenn wir sie vorstellen. Sie können nicht auf eine Videobeschreibung schauen und sagen, oh, ja, er ist heiß oder sie ist großartig. Nein, nein, nein, wir haben die Entscheidung erst gemacht, wir haben sie vorstellen und dann finden wir heraus, ob wir die richtige Entscheidung gemacht haben.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Ich würde sagen, zwischen 60 und 70 Prozent, irgendwo in dieser Gegend. Okay, also mehr oft als nicht. Das ist ein effizienter Offense, wenn du ein Fußballteam bist. Ja, das ist ziemlich gut. Das ist ziemlich gut, was alle Dinge betrifft.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Es depends auch auf die Spezies, Leute. Wenn Sie ein paar Pferde zusammenlegen, werden Sie Baby-Pferde gleich wegnehmen. Wenn Sie zwei Pandas zusammenlegen, ist das eine viel größere Herausforderung. Wenn Sie das in Anspruch nehmen, listen, eine Frau kann nur verheiratet werden, Drei Tage im ganzen Jahr. Was? Okay? Das ist das einzige Fenster, das sie pflegen muss. Drei Tage im ganzen Jahr. Wow.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Du musst herausfinden, wann ist die richtige Zeit, um den Mann mit ihr reinzunehmen, weil sie normalerweise solitäre Tiere sind. Sie wollen nicht mit sich zusammen sein. bis die Zeit kommt. Du musst also die Urin der Frau studieren, den Hormon-Niveau herausfinden, um herauszufinden, ob sie tatsächlich reist. Und dann kannst du sie zusammenbauen.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Und dann kann es nicht erfolgreich sein, weil sie sagen könnte, er ist nackt, ich will es nicht, ich habe nichts damit zu tun. Es ist also ein großer Herausforderung. Es hängt von der Spezies ab. Aber wenn du generell ansonsten anschaust, denke ich, dass zwischen 60 und 70 Prozent der Paarungen, die in akkreditierten Institutionen gemacht werden, erfolgreich sein können.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Du hast ganz ehrlich gesagt. Wir hatten das Problem mit einem unserer Tiger, dass wir, wenn wir endlich eine Elektro-Ejakulation gemacht haben, um die Blüten zu beurteilen, dass er eine sehr, sehr niedrige Anzahl von effektiven Schwimmern hatte. Also war der Anlass auf ihn.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Nun, ich würde gerne sagen, dass wir sehr wenige haben. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir jemals eine Überraschung haben, dass wir hier im Zoo in den letzten Jahren. Jeder einer dieser Geburtstage ist ziemlich vorsichtig geplant, um zu wissen, wo diese Nachwuchsstätten enden. Und das ist eine der großen Verantwortung. Deshalb haben wir hier ein sehr effektives Geburtstagsprogramm.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Wir haben Tiere, die entweder vasectomisiert wurden. Wir haben Tiere, die auf Geburtstags-Pillen sind. Wir haben Tiere, die auf Geburtstags-Implantaten sind, wo du das Ding implantierst und es die Hormone auslöst, um die Frau zu überzeugen, dass sie geboren ist, sodass sie nie mehr ovuliert. So these birth control programs are very clearly and carefully planned.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
And once we say, okay, you know, the St. Louis Zoo needs a new giraffe. We have a place to put a baby giraffe. Okay, put them together. Let's see if we can get lucky there. And then we know where that baby's going. But
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Das ist die Unterschiede zwischen akkreditierten Institutionen und manchmal nicht akkreditierten Institutionen, wo sie nur betreuen, um Kinder zu bekommen, weil sie kommen wollen, um Menschen zu bringen, um die Kinder zu sehen und Bilder zu nehmen und die Tür zu drehen.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Wobei wir als akkreditierte Institutionen mehr Verantwortung haben, um sicherzustellen, dass es ein guter Ort ist für jedes Kind, das geboren wird.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Ich weiß nicht, ob wir immer nur sagen, äh, aber es korreliert mit der Intelligenz des Tieres und dem meisten, was wir daran bemerken können. Ich glaube, Menschen haben keine großen Depressionen und Feierabende, wenn, sagen wir, ein Lizard oder ein Schnee stirbt. als ein Gorilla oder ein Koala, oder etwas, das die Leute mehr mit Affektion und einer Verbindung zu tun haben.
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
Natürlich gibt es auch Invertebrate. Es kommt ein Zeitpunkt, in dem wir
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tropical roaches that we have in our tropical forest that you know as they reproduce at a very rapid rate we actually use some of them as food for other animals so we're actually submitting them to become food for animals so not only are we not crying over their death but we're causing their death put it put it please as the program description electro ejaculation it is not a phrase i had heard before this episode i'm always learning
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Hour 2: The Science of Electroejaculation
That's basically taking an electric probe and putting it up there. No, we got it. No problem with understanding that whatsoever.
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Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I'll tell you, it's not good for my mental health. It's not one of the things that I supported. They asked me to make the recording. I will say that you're being a little bit extreme in that, you know, I don't say that you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I don't think that's what I said.
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Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
well yeah well anyway i think basically what we say listen please don't feed them because they have a very specific diet and by feeding them something that's not on their diet can get them pretty sick um so that's what i say and i do say it in my uh both languages even though my spanish is a little bit to be left to be desired um having said that that loop only happens when people move in front of it it's set up by a motion sensor so it's just uh it's not playing continuously around the clock that the chimps have to listen to it god forbid
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Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I don't do it. It's been put on the shelf. The only way I will ever do it is if Dan Levitard asks me to do it for something for him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
That presentation now is part of the Dan Levitard show.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
And it does on occasion happen. I will say it does on occasion, but rarely happens. It's just a wonderful adaptation, Dan. It's a matter of survival. It's a matter of growing up in an environment that you adapt to. These animals, if you looked at their hooves, their hooves are almost like pointed. So they are able to actually grasp the tiniest little ledge and they are able to survive that way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I mean, this is how they escape predators, things like leopards and other carnivores. But I will say that I have seen an occasion where they lost footing and they died.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I don't know that's possible. I do know that it does happen. But the fact that nature is a circle of life and the ones that don't succeed, they become food for something else. But again, these animals have adapted to an environment that enables them to do things that are absolutely incredible.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, I'll tell you what, Dan, I looked at, you know, when I looked at that video, it reminded me of another one, which is probably the most jaw-dropping video I've ever seen. I'm sure you guys can find it. Find a snow leopard actually going after one of those animals and getting it and both of them plummeting down well over 150 feet against the rocks and surviving. Watch that video.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
It is one of the most incredible videos I've ever seen of an animal defying everything to survive. Except it, of course, didn't because it ended up being killed by the leopard. But look at the leopard never letting go and plummeting down on these rocks hundreds of feet down a sheer cliff. Unbelievable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
okay another thing that's unbelievable look at the golden eagles grabbing grabbing chamois which is a type of antelope grabbing them babies that are twice the weight of the of the of the darn eagle now look at this watch this oh my gosh this is unbelievable now it's going to grab and and then when it grabs it they both plummet look at now watch this watch this go get away wait get him get him get him get him get him get him get him is this the one this isn't the one this isn't the real good one but why
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Now, this isn't the real good one. There's one that it's like death for sure of this snow leopard grabbing a sham. But no, that's a crappy one. There's a much better one. But look at the golden eagle.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
It was bad for the snow leopard. But here's the deal. Look at the golden eagle.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Look at a golden eagle grabbing an antelope, and then it's too big for the golden eagle just to kill the antelope. So what does it do? It grabs it. It weighs more than the eagle, flies way up in the air, and then drops it to its death so it can eat it. It's unbelievable stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Okay, this is the one right here?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Look at this. Watch this. Watch this. Don't believe me. Watch this. Goes across the cliff, grabs it, and then, look at this! Look at this, Dan!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
It's not over. It's not over. It's not over. It's not over. Watch this. It's not over, brother. Boom. Boom. Oh! Boom.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I mean, this is unbelievable. And he doesn't let it go. Come on, Dan. Come on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Watch this. Grabbing the chamois. I'm glad you guys find this stuff. And then it takes it up in the air. It flies with this thing. It flies with it. Look at this. And then it'll take it to its death.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Everything's got to eat, Dan. And you've got to think of how incredible animals are to adapt to get their food.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
You're showing me a video where the iguana didn't get away.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
It's basically stupid pet tricks. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it and to present it to someone else.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Yep. You are correct. Thank you. That dog has been trained to give whatever the owner gives it to the person, and whatever the person gives back, back to the owner. Exactly. It's not counting the change.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
No, I'm staying. Those people can wait. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I just got back i just got back from the galapagos islands on a yacht uh doing galapagos cruise this is a while after and there was a flipping gym on that yacht can you believe it is this another one of these paid for trips that you've embezzled from the endowment absolutely yeah
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I'm going back to the Galapagos in May and then to Australia in June. Nice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Professional broadcaster.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Let's go. Please again. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
He sounds so indifferent. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I hate onions, any kind of onions. Onions and pickles, totally out of my league. I won't eat them. I hate them, and they're disgusting. It's minus pickles and onions for anything I ever order. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I'm going to give a presentation right after I have the pleasure of speaking to this wonderful crew. What will you be presenting? I'll be presenting on Pride of the Lion.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Yes, I'm doing a presentation for the Broward Public Library System up in Broward County this afternoon. Do it until you're satisfied.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
This female lioness is trying to get the lion's attention. This is actually her way of getting attention. She wants to be bred, actually. See how she's raising her tail, raising herself, putting right in front of him like that? She's kind of getting his attention. She'll probably end up coming back again. But this is just basically they're kind of a little bit of a foreplay thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
And, you know, the female basically runs the show when it's that situation going on. Once she's in the total peak of her heat, they'll breed every 20 minutes for about three days.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
um the shaw is jurid it's a little rodent it looks like a gerbil does it about every 20 seconds do it till you're satisfied yeah and often but never but never satisfied but not exactly because in that 20 second interval it has to have a few seconds for recovery so it's a very quick thing i mean it's you know yeah same with me it's not something that you know maybe some of you guys are used to but
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Somebody's being stupid for a selfie. I don't know what she was doing there. She's got a sandwich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, this is a problem with people probably feeding this cassowary on this beach. And this cassowary now associates people with food and is looking for the food. And this woman's running away and the cassowary's going after her because he wants the sandwich. And they all think it's cute until somebody gets disemboweled.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, it is, but you're already at the point of no return, okay? So this is a situation where now you've either, you know, this cassowary's already been acclimated to associating people with food. Damage has already been done. Now you're in a situation where you've got to protect yourself, get the animal away from you. Ron, is that related to the ostrich? It's got to be, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
It's a type of, you know, of a... you know, a flightless large bird. I don't know if it's quite in the rat-type family like the emus and the rias are, but it's very similar, I guess, in structure.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
That is correct. The ostrich is bigger, yes. But this one is more dangerous. Oh, yes, because it can be aggressive. This one will feed on, you know, on a lot of different things, including small animals. So it has a very huge middle claw that it will kick with and will disembowel you. The ostrich is the most dangerous bird in the world to humans.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
No, the ostrich is a finely tuned eating machine. They'll eat everything from, you know, metal screws to ping pong balls. But they're not as voracious a feeder as the cassowary is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Not really, no. I mean, it may do so, you know. on a whim, but it's not the mainstay of its diet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
No, it puts almost anything into its mouth. You know, people who keep them under human care, the big challenge they have with them, there you see the claw of that cassowary. The big challenge people have keeping ostriches is, you know, keeping them from eating things that they're not supposed to eat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I mean, we've had ostriches in captivity that we have found everything, like I said, from screws to springs to coins in their bellies.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I agree with you, 100%. Yes, that's kind of like a, you know, it's modern-day Velociraptor type stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, a bull, 100%. There's no question about it. Keep in mind, a bull is not a predator that feeds on carnivorous things. The bull is just being aggressive, trying to defend itself. He's got two horns, as opposed to a whole set of teeth and ten claws, and both of those animals that are born killers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
You did, and I got to tell you, Billy, I ran across you, and I cannot believe that you produced such an absolutely gorgeous baby. That is one of the most gorgeous babies I've ever seen in my life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I'm just pretty amazed because I'm sure you guys have seen this kid. This kid, and I'm not a big, I usually think that most babies look like lizards that need to be put back for the cooking.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)
I got to tell you, Billy's little girl was one of the most precious things I've ever seen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Das hängt von dem Pferd ab. Es ist wie bei den Menschen. Manche sind Angst vor Rollercoasters, manche lieben Rollercoasters. Pferde, die gewohnt sind, wissen, dass es sicher ist. Wie ein Hund, der seine Gesichter in den Wind verwendet, durch die Luft fließt und sich von der umgekehrten Umgebung beeinflusst. Es ist positiv stimulierend für einige Pferde. Sie genießen es.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Aber ich denke, dass andere Pferde damit panikieren würden. Ich meine, es ist, wie gesagt, individuell wie Menschen. Es ist nur die Möglichkeit einer Person, ihre Pferde zu trainieren, um den Trailer zu vertrauen und zu verstehen, dass es da keine Bedrohung gibt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Well, I would say that if you went out to a herd of horses and tried to trailer them that had never been trailered before, the majority overwhelmingly would not like it. That being said, if you've got a horse that you have trained and you've gotten to trust a trailer, a horse that is moving all the time from Es ist alles individuell. Die Horsen, die man im Trailer sieht, sind sehr entspannt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Wenn ein Horsen nicht entspannt ist, weiß man es. Wenn ein Horsen entspannt ist, geht es gut.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Theoretisch nicht, denn meine Frau fliegt seit 50 Jahren und sie isst es immer noch. Sie kann es nicht und ist immer noch sehr unkomfortabel beim Fliegen. Ja, genau. Es geht um den Einzelnen. Es gibt sicher einige Pferde, die nie in einem Trailer sein wollen. Und es gibt auch andere, die es wirklich lieben.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Wenn du deinen Hund trainierst, zum Beispiel, dann benutzt du einen Sky-Kennel in deinem Haus, um deinen Hund zu trainieren. Der Hund lernt, okay, das ist mein Hauskennel, das ist, wo ich meine Sicherheit finde. Es gibt Hunde, die lieben es, in ihren Kenneln zu schlafen, als wenn sie den ganzen Rund des Hauses haben. Das ist, wo sie ihre Sicherheit finden.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Du kannst das gleiche mit einem Trailer, mit einem Pferd. Vielleicht Das macht den Pferd verstehen, das ist dein安全es Raum, du wirst gut hier sein. Und genieße die Szenerie, wie wir fahren, genieße den Wind in deinem Gesicht. Es gibt andere Pferde, die sagen, ich glaube nicht an dich, ich glaube nie an dich, ich werde total panikiert, die ganze Zeit. Und das sind Pferde, die nicht in Trailer gehen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Nun, Hüftstock... Das ist sehr wichtig, sehr populär, es ist sehr wichtig für ihre Gesundheit. Wir machen das hier im Zoo mit allem von Giraffen bis zu Elefanten. Sie bekommen Pedicures, Manicures, whatever you want to call them. So that hoof care is very, very important. Horses, you know, that's a profession. Being a good farrier, you have good farriers and you have bad farriers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
If you don't treat those feet the right way, that can lead to a type of ailment that actually can create the animal to be lame and eventually actually lead to its death. So hoof care is very, very important. Now, this guy may be dressing up for YouTube, you know, put a little polish on there, making it look a little foo-foo and this and that. But the core of the care is very important.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Listen, Branding, whether it's freezing or heat, it's a painful process. But having said that, you know, so is tattooing. And some people love that. So I don't know what to say in that matter. I mean, when people get tattoos, it's their choice. I think when you're branding an animal, it's certainly not its choice. And it doesn't understand what the branding's for. I'm not a big fan of branding.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
More than that, I prefer, you know, maybe an ear tag, which is quick and boom and there. But branding... Und ich verstehe den Grund dafür. Ich verstehe, dass es in großen Herden, in großen Plänen und so viel einfacher ist, das Land so zu identifizieren. Ich bin einfach kein Fan davon. Ich habe es gesehen, es ist passiert, ich habe es gesehen, es ist gemacht und es ist ... Es ist nicht glücklich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Groß. Es ist absolut groß. Und die Leute, die nicht denken, dass Tierärztlichkeit wichtig ist für ihre Vögel und ihre Katzen, Sie könnten die Leben Ihres Tieres jahrelang abschneiden. Dentalcare is absolutely critical to the overall general health of an animal, any animal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Whenever we immobilize everything from tigers to zebras here, the zebras will float their teeth, much like you take a file to float their teeth to make sure they're meeting properly so the animal can masticate its food properly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Tigers and carnivores, we're constantly removing the tartar from them and primates, things like that, because the same types of infections can take place in the mouths of these animals as can take place in people. Und weißt du, was mit den Leuten passiert, die ihre Zähne nicht kümmern? Das führt zu allen möglichen secondaryen Problemen, die wirklich kritisch werden können.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Das ist eine schwierige Frage. Ich glaube, dass Pferde instinktiv gegen einander laufen. Ich raffinierte nicht meine Pferde, aber ich raffinierte meine Pferde. Und wenn ich Freunde mit ihren Pferden hatte und wir auf einem großen Flugzeug fuhrten, man, als diese Pferde anfingen zu laufen, musste ich nicht... Ich habe ihn einfach weggelassen und dann ist der andere da.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Sie haben sich gegereist und es scheint so eine Herausforderung zu sein. Habe gesagt, dass Horsenreisen in und von sich selbst, weißt du, was außerhalb der geschlossenen Türen des Hofes und was sie mit diesen Horsen tun. Ich bin einfach kein Fan. Ich bin kein Fan. Ich denke einfach nur, dass wir nicht gefragt haben, ob du ein Fan bist.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Tampico ist eine kleine Stadt in Mexiko, wo seine Eltern geboren wurden. Okay. T-A-M-P-I-C-O. Okay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Ich denke nicht, dass sie verletzt werden. Leider, wie Sie sagen, gibt es einige Orte, wo sie verletzt werden können. Mein großer Wunsch mit Hörböden ist, wenn sie keine Rennen mehr gewinnen und sie keine Rennen mehr gewinnen können, was passiert mit ihnen? Und das ist etwas, was ich denke, dass viele der Die Leute, die das untersucht haben, haben Dinge gefunden, die nicht so glücklich waren.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Mein Schwesters Horses Name war Titan. Er war ein Rennhors. Und wenn meine Schwester das Hors nicht bekommen hätte, wäre er auf dem Weg zum Glutfaktor. Das ist etwas, das mich bedroht hat. Weißt du, am Ende des Tages, Greg, denke ich, das Problem ist, wie es mit so vielen Dingen ist, Geld.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Wenn dieses Pferd dir Geld verdient und es für dich produziert, dann wirst du das Geld nicht investieren lassen. Aber sobald das aufhört, was passiert mit diesem Pferd? Ich bin in Gainesville in Ocala, das ist ein Pferdegebiet hier in Florida. Ich habe Leute gesehen, die sich für retired Pferde kümmern, und das in unglaublichen Wegen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Ocala-Ranchen und Pferde sind phänomenal, wenn sie sich für ihre Pferde investieren. Ich möchte nicht mit einer breiten Brust dazwischenlaufen. Die Menge an Geld, die in diesen Rennhäusern beteiligt ist, ich würde gerne sehen, wie viel Geld in ihre Leben investiert wird. Und nicht nur, wenn sie für dich produzieren können. Das ist fair.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Oh, das LSU-Shit. Oh, sorry. Ron! Tut mir leid. Nein, bitte.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Es ist einfach so, dass ich nicht glauben konnte, dass sie das wieder gemacht haben. Ich meine, das ist wie Gott segne Amerika, weißt du. Sie haben das verabschiedet, weil sie endlich zu den Leuten gehört haben, dass sie nicht einen Tiger in einem Käse im Mittelpunkt eines Fußballplatzes mit Hunderten von Tausenden von Leuten aufbauen sollten. Es ist einfach ein horrifischer Gedanke, das zu tun.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Und sie machen das wieder. Und hör mal, ich war überrascht. Um ehrlich zu sein, war ich wirklich überrascht. Ich war wirklich überrascht, dass das wieder passiert. Und ich bin sicher, dass sie jetzt so viel Scheiße bekommen, dass sie es nicht wieder machen werden.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
This is a solitary animal that depends on elusiveness, on being able to stalk, being able to kind of be invisible, okay? And now all of a sudden you're putting it in a cage where it has no escape to get away from anything. A tiny little cage surrounded by tens of thousands of people with all these bright lights and flashes and music and screaming and all that stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Look, let me just put this in perspective, okay? Why don't you take a child? Nehmen Sie ein Kind und isolieren Sie es. Sie haben sie nie zu dieser Art ausgeschlossen. Sie haben sie in einen Käse gesetzt. Sie haben alle diese schreienden Leute, alle diese Lichter und so weiter. Und denken Sie sich an, was passieren würde. Denken Sie sich an, was passieren würde. Es ist einfach nicht natürlich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Es ist die falsche Sache, das zu tun, Mann. Ihr wisst, diese Wunsch, die wir haben, um immer mehr Likes und mehr Klicks und mehr soziale Medienreaktionen zu setzen, ist das das Zufall der lebenden Dinge. Und das sollte es nicht sein. Ihr wisst, für mich... Ich weiß, dass das einige Leute beschleunigen wird, aber Social Media ist für mich die Toilette unter der Internetseite.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Für jedes Gute, das es tut, kann ich 20 Dinge finden, die schlimmer sind, als es tut. Und es schreckt mich. Es schreckt mich wirklich, etwas zu sehen, das so majestätisch, so wunderschön wie ein Tiger ist, das zu dieser Art von Ausbeutung, dieser Ausbeutung für den Zweck von Wilds in einem Fußballspiel.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Genau, du hast es genau richtig gesagt. Dieser Tiger ist stressig, ich garantiere dir, dass er stressig ist, nur weil er nicht gegen die Bars und schreien kann. Das ist ein internalisierter Stress. Ich kann dir versichern, dass Tiger Stress auslöst, wenn er da rausgeht und all diese Stimulationen erlebt hat. Das ist einfach nicht natürlich für ein Tier wie das. Und für mich ist es inhumane.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Du sprichst von einem domestischen Tier, das geboren und geboren ist und zu einer bestimmten Situation für Transport eingeladen ist. Okay. Ihr verwendet das Tier nicht. Ihr transportiert es sicher, weil ihr es richtig trainiert habt, um von Punkt A bis Punkt B zu kommen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
Ihr nehmt kein Tier gegen seine Willen und stellt es in einen Käse und expositiert es zu allen Stimulationen, die das Tier nichts anderes als stressvoll machen. Ich kann euch garantieren, dass wenn das Pferd in den Trailer ging und verrückt war, dann hätten sie es nicht in den Trailer gesetzt und es rausgezogen, weil es sich dann töten würde. So these horses that you see trailed have been trained.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
There's a big distinction between a domestic animal and a wild animal. When you put your dog in the car, a horse is a domestic animal. It's an animal that's been domesticated over hundreds if not thousands of years. This is not the same as a tiger.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
They do. I don't know if that makes it any better for them traveling. Oh, a blanket makes everything better.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Leeman's Dad's Fish Slap
You fool. Slice of heaven, guys. Have a good week.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
I think it's kind of interesting, actually. You know, I was approached on this project a while back, a long time ago, and I would not do it because I didn't think I could do it. When they told me, well, we'll talk to Greg about it, and I said, if Greg's willing to do it, but Greg's got a lot on his plate. To make a long story short, it's a book on sex and the animals. But it's going to be more...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Es wird mehr ein Fotobuch sein. Es wird viel weniger Druck auf Greg geben, so viel zu schreiben. Er wird schreiben. Verstehe mich nicht falsch. Er wird die Narrative darstellen. Aber die Bilder werden der Faktor für dieses Buch sein. Es wird also nicht ein Buch sein, das du für deinen Kindergarten bekommst. Da ist er, anders als in The Pride of a Lion.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich gehe morgen zu Books and Books, weil ich 770 Bücher mehr verkaufen muss, die gerade verkauft wurden. Wow, das sind viele Bücher. Ich weiß.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Hey, ich will euch was sagen, Leute. Wir hatten gerade unsere silent Auction, richtig? Bei der Feast of the Beast. Das war eine der Sachen, die ich gefilmt habe, eine Fotografie von Quasi.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Nein, ich habe es gefilmt. Was für ein wunderschöner Lion. Und dann, natürlich, der Buch. Und ich wurde besonders gefragt, es mit einer besonderen Dedikation zu signen, also habe ich eine große Dedikation da drin. Okay. Wow. Weißt du, wie viel diese Leute für das Fotografium und das Buch bezahlt haben? Ich würde gerne wissen. 5.000 Dollar.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Mekos sind meistens nicht so nah am Meer. Sie sind eher ein Deepwater-Schark. Das ist ein Tiger-Schark in diesem Video. Das ist kein Meko. Das ist ein Tiger-Schark. Aber ich verstehe den Effekt, den du hier geben willst. Oh mein Gott, Scharke. Jeder wird sterben.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Und jetzt ist es etwas, worüber ich mich kümmern muss. Zuerst einmal, Mike. Aber der Fakt ist... Du bist jetzt sehr laser-fokussiert auf Scharke. Jeden Tag, wenn ein Scharkeinsatz kommt, willst du dich vorbereiten, auf dem Levitard-Show zu kommen und mich überlegen, wie Scharke das Ende der menschlichen Rasse sein werden. Und du bist so weit von der Wahrheit daran.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Du bist so negativ über ein Tier, das so nötig ist für den Ozean, was in der Tat nötig ist für unsere Lebensqualität. Und ich sage dir einfach, hör auf, stopp es, Mike, stopp es. Scharke sind weniger gefährlich als das verdammte Auto, das du zur Arbeit fährst.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, because he's being tormented. Can you see how the guy is grabbing the thing's snout and he's trying to get the thing to bite so he gets a good video, so he gets a lot of clicks on his stupid social media platform? Did you see that shark attacking anything? No.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
The shark was actually kind of laying back until the guy taps it on the snout and puts the freaking surfboard or whatever he's got there in his mouth so he can get a good video for social media. Another freaking idiot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Listen, I'm done. I'm done with these social media idiots who do whatever it takes for clicks at the expense of an animal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Nein, sie versuchen keine Drogen zu machen. Was sie tun, ist, dass sie das Ding verspüren, das die Zerkretion ist, das eine Abwechslung für Insekten verursacht und sie rütteln es auf ihre Haare, um die Moskäden von ihnen zu fressen. Okay, sie werden nicht hoch, Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Sie machen es tatsächlich, sie fressen es, weil wenn sie es fressen, das Anthropon, das Millipede, das Zerkretion, das dann als Abwechslung für Insekten verwendet werden kann. Also fressen sie es, sie essen es nicht, sie werden nicht hoch, aber wenn sie es fressen, dann rütteln sie das Millipede über ihre Haare, um die Zerkretion auf ihre Haare zu bekommen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Es ist fantastisch, wenn man sich darüber nachdenkt, wie klug dieses Tier ist, um die Biochemie eines anderen Tieres zu nutzen, um es gegen Moskädebisse zu verteidigen. Wir sollten alle so klug sein, Mann.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Nein, sie werden nicht hoch aus dieser Chemie. Wenn sie genug dieser Chemie ingestellt hätten, würde es sie wahrscheinlich töten.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, they continue to put things in their mouths. I mean, all the time. Indiscretionary diet is what I call it. You know, anybody like, I had a miniature Schnauzer. God, my God. As a matter of fact, I'm going to tell you what just happened. This is the God's honest truth. My daughter just got off the phone with me. She has a miniature Schnauzer puppy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
He's now, well, now he's now about four months old. And last night she brought him back from his walk out in Los Angeles, okay, in Studio City. And he just started... He started looking like he was sick. He started losing his balance. She was all worried. He started looking like he was going into a coma. She immediately brought him to the veterinarian. You know what happened to that dog?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
He was chewing the remains of a doobie that somebody threw out on the street. He got chewed on marijuana.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
No, he just... These freaking dogs put everything in their mouth. And he literally got high. It got to the point where my daughter thought he was going into some kind of neurological... Backlash. And the vet took it and said, no, this is... And the vet told her, we get four or five dogs coming in every week that do that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
That either lick the ash that's left from a marijuana cigarette or actually the stub itself. They chew on it and they get freaking sick and high.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Du machst mir Spaß, wenn du das Wort Doobie nennst. Sie benutzen das Wort nicht mehr?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, first of all, we learn what they eat. We learn that they prefer certain types of grasses, certain types of foods. We learn what other species they hang out with. What's the environment they hang out with? What animals might be leaders? Is it a herd reaction to things or are they individual reactions to things? Wie sie sich verteidigen, wenn ein Tier getötet wird.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Was tun sie, um sich zu verteidigen? Wir lernen über die Verhältnisse und auch über die Grenzen. Wie viel Raum braucht ein Tier, um gut zu überleben? Nicht nur überleben, sondern auch in einem natürlichen Umfeld zu wachsen. Diese Kameras bieten also viele Daten. Viele dieser Kameras haben auch Komponenten, die uns das Wetter, Temperatur, Humidität, Regen, all diese Sachen geben.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Wir wissen also, welches Umfeld diese Tiere suchen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Ah, they might have hated the music, but they were looking for the bunny, if you know what I mean. Okay, we don't know what you mean.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Das ist genau, weshalb es den Bursche-Bird genannt wird. Es nimmt das Tier und verwendet einen Spitz auf einen Kaktus oder einen Zwiebeln, um es zu töten. So kann es nicht kämpfen und es kann es immer essen, wenn es will.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, I mean all kinds of animals. I've watched leopards make a kill and they would immediately rip out the intestines and the internal organs of that prey and they bury the internal organs so they can take the prey, the rest of the prey up to the tree.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
But it's the internal organs that give off the most smell and they don't want to have to draw in hyenas and other animals that will try to steal their prey. So they do that. Now, as far as tactics for eating, like you see this butcher bird doing things, there's a vulture that loves to eat ostrich eggs, but can't get into the ostrich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
So what it will do is it will find a rock, it will fly up really, really high and it's able to literally put itself right above that ostrich egg and it drops the rock so the rock falls and breaks the ostrich egg. Come on, that's really cool stuff, man!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh yeah, there's an eagle that will take a baby chamois, a chamois, which is a type of mountain goat, and To kill it, it grabs it, flies up with this baby chamois and drops it along the mountainside so it careens along the rocks and it gets crushed that way. And then it could go down there and feed on it without any resistance. Really cool stuff. I mean, hideous, but cool.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Well, they're going to see things on the big screen there that they have either thought about doing or have done, but they didn't want to tell anybody about it because they thought it was weird or it was kinky. But in fact, it's pretty natural because you're going to see how the animals do it. Listen, guys, if you're coming here to... Be enlightened? Well, you're gonna be very humble.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
It's gonna be a very humbling evening for the guys. You're gonna see penises bigger than you've ever seen in your life. You're gonna see animals doing things that you wish you could do. Ladies, you're gonna wish you were an animal in a lot of these cases. The bottom line is, it's a very graphic... I don't use any bad language. Aber es ist eine sehr grafische Fotografie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich habe Kameras, in denen sie noch nie vorgegangen sind. Ich bin auf meinem Rücken unter dem Rhino. Nein, nein, nein, der Rhino war nicht auf meiner Seite. Ich bin auf meinem Rücken unter den zwei Rhinos, damit ich die richtige Perspektive bekomme, damit die Leute es in der richtigen Weise sehen können.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Okay, die Leute wollen diese Art von intimen Sachen sehen, auch wenn sie es nicht admitieren wollen. Du willst es sehen. Und nach dieser Nacht wirst du es niemals nicht sehen können.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Es ist nicht eine gute erste Date-Nacht, unless sie wirklich einfach ist. Aber es ist eine gute Date-Nacht. Es ist eine tolle Idee. Hör mal, du wirst lernen, wie die Zwiebel die Dinge machen kann, mit ihren Vulven, ihrer Vagina. Sie kann es literally, sie macht dieses winkende Ding, das ist unglaublich. Hör mal, ich habe meine Frau gefragt, ob sie das machen kann.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Original hat sie gesagt, es wäre unmöglich, aber sie macht Prozesse. Es ist der Art von Ding, es bringt ein ganz neues Niveau, ein ganz neues... Es ist eine tolle Erfahrung, Mann.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: "Sex and the Animals" Returns (feat. Ron Magill)
Take care, guys.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, yeah? You're going to give me a snowball? Take this! How about that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
And that's a grackle that's trying to harass it and just being annoying like many birds can be sometimes. But that's a baby copy bar, which is really cool. It's the world's largest rodent found in, you know, tropical America and actually eaten by many people because they consider it a delicacy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
A big adult, over 50 pounds. Oh.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
I think the point is, what are you doing out at 4 a.m. in New York?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
My guess is that he just doesn't sleep because I get texts from him and emails from him at 3.45 a.m. I don't know what that is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
They're called a frog mouth. You know, it's a. Yeah, it opens its mouth. The beak is actually very small. The keratin part of the beak is very small. They blend in with trees really well. That's not a good example because he's on a fence post right there. But they just will stay totally still on the top of a tree or a fence post, something like that. And they look like a piece of wood.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
They're fantastic. They feed primarily on insects. They're harmless. They can't do any harm to you. But they open their mouths when they're threatened like that. tend to make people think twice before you get much closer.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
Have you seen those in the wild? I have. I have, yeah. It's just most people don't see them because they blend in with their surroundings very well. This guy's really standing out because he's not in the best spot to use his camouflage. But like I say, they're primarily nocturnal. They're insect eaters.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
They open their mouths widely like that to catch flying insects as they're flying through the air. That looks like something that a cartoonist would draw. Well, you know, let me tell you something. You look at some of these animals. I don't know if you guys saw that video. I'm surprised you haven't pulled it up yet of that deep-sea anglerfish that they found. They videotaped it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
It was on the news. It was unbelievable. This thing looks like a drawing out of your worst nightmare, and it's a living, breathing thing on this planet. You know, normally found thousands of feet below the ocean's surface, but they got some incredible video of one that had come up to the surface and was swimming around.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
You guys need to find that and look at it and tell me if it doesn't look like something that was drawn by some kid who's having a massive nightmare.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
Aquarium? Where did that just hit? Oh.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
That's not a shark, first of all. That's not a shark. What is that? That's a find. You know, I don't know exactly what it is. These days, I can't even tell whether the stuff is AI or not. But I can tell you that's not a shark. Because a shark grabs somebody's head like that, and there'll be a lot of blood coming out. So that's not what that was.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
Looks like it might have been some type of grouper, some type of, you know... Goliath group or something like that. But I don't actually know. To be that size, yeah, it needs to be something like a Goliath grouper. And I'm just actually thinking that that's AI, guys. I don't believe that video.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
I saw the video in action, too. But Mike, man, I've seen some videos done by AI these days that are just... Even I as, quote unquote, an expert of wildlife will look at it and go, God, what is that? I mean, is that real? And then I've got someone admit to me, no, no, it's AI. We did it in AI. I go, man, this stuff is really good. So I don't know what to tell you guys anymore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
I don't know whether that's real or not. It's certainly not a shark. If it's anything, it's like a Goliath group or something like that. But I've never... Trust me, if a fish took in a woman's head like that, she would not be swimming away like she did like that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
Hate the damn things. Think they're bad. You know, Mike, you've got to stop perpetuating that myth about sharks. I just got back from the Galapagos Islands. I was swimming and was surrounded by about 20 hammerheads just circling above. Not doing anything. I was in pure awe of watching this, looking up and seeing these rays of sunlight come through these sharks as they just...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
Thank you very much. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Down The Rabbit Hole (feat. Ron Magill)
Thank you. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Manager's Surprise
That's right, it's time for... Against the Sprint!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Manager's Surprise
And it's turned in! Tammy Abraham is the Super Cup hero! From 2-0 down, Milan! And it's victory! We'll give Sergio Conte-Sau his first trophy at the club after just two games!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Denk daran, Dan. Wenn wir das mit dir auf dem Film hatten, würdest du ein Multibillionär sein. Das würde so viele Hits bekommen. Diese Leute sind jetzt berühmt, weil dieser Vogel sie berühmt hat. Dieser Vogel hat gesagt, ich werde dir helfen. Ich weiß, dass dein Vater hier filmt. Lass uns dir was filmen. Boom. Lass das viral gehen. Und jetzt sind du ein instans Celebrity.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Dein Leben ist kuschelt für den Rest davon.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Es ist sein Vater und du wirst bemerken, dass die Kamera nicht mal flinscht. Es ist ein Setup. Der Wale war drauf. Ich weiß nicht, ob es ein Setup war. Ich werde dir sagen, dass es zeigt, dass es ein Fehler war. Der Wale hat gemerkt, dass es ein Fehler war und hat gesagt, oh Gott, nein, ich will das nicht und hat ihn sofort rausgezogen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Also hat der Kerl einfach nur ein paar Sekunden im Pinocchio-Dream gelebt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich weiß von einem Tod mit einem Kajak, der viele Jahre her war, der nicht geschliffen wurde, aber das Hecht auf ihm aufbrach. Und das hat ihn leider getötet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich meine, es ist überlebensfähig. Die meisten Leute würden dir sagen, wenn ein Hecht dich in den Mund nimmt und dich ins Wasser bringt, wäre das nicht überlebensfähig. Und dieser Kerl ist noch nicht weggeflogen. Also es ist überlebensfähig, aber es wird sicherlich, ähm, du weißt, es wird ekelhaft sein.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Ja und nein. Sie sind unglaublich intelligente Tiere. Sie sind bewusst von ihren Umgebungen. Ein Vogel könnte möglicherweise weggeholt werden, weil sie manchmal in Sequenz brechen. 1, 2, 3 und sie genießen es so viel, dass sie es für irgendeinen Grund nicht merken. Oh, der dritte, da ist ein Kayaker da oder da ist ein Boot da. Wir haben das auf ein paar Ebenen gesehen. Es ist extrem selten, dass
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
It kind of is. I mean, I'm his dad first more than anything. I'll try to give you an honest opinion. I think he's a Ich denke, er ist ein geistiger Künstler. Ich denke, er kann Dinge sehr gut machen und hoffentlich hat er das auch für dich gemacht. Aber ich bin mir sicher, dass er ein bisschen nervös war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Ich meine, du weißt, wenn du rausgehst und dieses sehr momentöse Abenteuer filmst, was historisch war in einem Sinne, und du weißt, hier hast du diesen Jungen, der seinen Rookie-Shoot für das Dan Levitart-Show macht, das ist wie, weißt du, es ist wie, wenn du auf den Berg kommst und dann plötzlich verlierst du. Du willst das nicht machen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
So, we'll see what happens, but I have confidence that he could do a good job. I know what he's capable of. He's helped me win multiple awards in some of the videos that he's done for me. So hopefully he's done the same for you. But again, I'm nervous, I'm a little apprehensive. I'm hoping for the best as my son, but at the same time, he's got to come up to the plate and produce or bye-bye.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
My wife's name is Rita and it is a happy anniversary. Thank you so much. 36 years, that feels like it was just yesterday. Why are you guys laughing? What kind of cynical screw-up did you guys do back there? He called Rita Rhonda.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Actually, the entire Levitard Show did it online, which I was very flattered by and very moved by. I didn't think they would ever pay attention to anything about me, but this was a very moving thing to see the little happy anniversary from the Dan Levitard Show on Twitter, or whatever they call it now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Not very often.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Wenn du zerstörst, ist das sicher eine Möglichkeit. Ich meine, wir haben die Menschen, die das gemacht haben, kennengelernt. Denk an diese armen Fußballspieler in den Andes. Weißt du, wenn es um das Leben und die Todesgeschichte geht und der Tod Wenn du es isst, wird es nichts Negatives tun. Es könnte dein Leben sparen. Das macht einen großen Unterschied.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Es ist nicht unmöglich, dass ein Hund das tun würde, wenn er starb. Und besonders, wenn die Person schon lange tot war. Das macht es für etwas wie ein Hund palatierbarer.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Gott sei Dank, Jessica. Das erzählt mir viel über dich. Gott sei Dank.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Nein, das sind die Stanley Cup-Champions, Mann.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Did they give you the jersey, Dan?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
That false attempt at dimming your legacy is very transparent.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Kyrie Irving has torn his ACL and is not going well for the Dallas Mavericks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not comfortable with it at all.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Es war ein guter Job.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
In itself is what makes it good. If it cuts you to the bone, it makes it good. Now, on a technical aspect, there were a couple of focus issues I had there with it. But I noticed the focus issues were just on you. And I also, you know, that crap that they do zooming in and out, that seems to be a new thing with this new generation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
But it also was done with you and it seemed to show the chaos going on in your brain at the time. So from an introspective perspective, I think that's probably what he's trying to translate there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
ist, dass, wenn wir auf Dan sind, Dan ist hier verwirrt, er ist nicht konzentriert, er weiß nicht, was er darüber denkt, während die tollen Interviews mit Tony und mit Mike und mit Greg und mit Roy, das sind solide Interviews, die Kamera ist immer noch solide, sie sind sehr sicher, jedes Mal, wenn wir zu dir gehen, und das ganze Thema, du sprichst und die Make-up-Personen überall über dich, oh Gott, ich liebe das, das war sehr speziell.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
That did work out really well. And quite frankly, Dan, as a musician myself, your beating of the drums sucked.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Please, please, please go ahead. It was way off, Dan. It looked like you were having a seizure. It wasn't in rhythm. You didn't wait for them to finish saying, let's go, Panthers. They would go, let's go, Panthers. Too quick. Come on, Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Dein Rhythmus war nicht so, wie es sein sollte. Du sahst wütend an. Deine Augen waren wütend an den Panther, statt zu lachen und glücklich und glücklich, weil wir gerade da sind, um das Spiel zu gewinnen. Ich liebe das Ende des Screens, wo du die Stimme zerstörst. Das war gut. Ich mag das.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Du warst so, oh Mann, erinnere dich an das. Der zweite war wirklich schrecklich, es war off-key. Und der andere war...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
Waren't you supposed to yell, let's go Panthers, before you beat the drum first? That's what I thought the direction was that she gave you in the speakeasy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)
But at the end of the day, I gotta tell you, the video I thought was really good. I thought it was very reflective of what the show is. The guys did great interviews.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
No, I'm with Chris on that. Tomato. I'm a ketchup guy. You know, I have ketchup with everything. I have tomatoes and everything. I think tomatoes is a pretty versatile food, followed probably by the grape. Potatoes are pretty versatile.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
That's true. I just got back from the Galapagos and in two weeks I leave for Australia for them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
like you would think a makeout session. And that's not really what it is. But it is bonding and grooming. And, you know, owls are monogamous birds. They kind of mate with one mate for the breeding season. So they're pretty admirable birds, but they're not the most intelligent of the birds. I think we've discussed that before.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
They're probably one of the least intelligent of the birds because of the massive size of their eyes. It takes up so much space in their skull. There's not a whole lot of room left for the brains.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
They might come back with the same mate. There are some owls that are monogamous throughout their lives, but definitely during the breeding season.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Get a new breeding season? They may get a new mate during a breeding season, but generally speaking, a lot of these birds of prey tend to be monogamous throughout their lives. So it's a choice. It's kind of like humans. Yeah. Is there a reason for that, Ron? What they concluded is that it's beneficial for them. They get to understand each other's habits. They are being proven successful breeders.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
And that loyalty to each other helps for more successful reproduction.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
First of all, I think you're using the word incest really incorrectly. It's inbreeding. Inbreeding. They're not having these horses actually breed each other. But the inbreeding is they're using the sperm from relatives of secretariat. But my understanding is that it's really well down the line, way out on the tree there, way out on the branch.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
It's not like brother, sister, mother, son, or that kind of a close relationship. It's like 14th and 15th cousins. But they're trying to get the highlight of that bloodline that made Secretariat so great, increase the value of that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
I'm not a horse breeder, so to speak, but it tends to add credibility when they're selling the sperm for hundreds of thousands of dollars. When they can give that sperm credibility because of what it's distantly related to, it brings more money. At the end of the day, guys, it's all about money.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
do they confirm that this is oh yeah he's i'm 16 cousins with the secretary believe me oh well they they are very very careful about documenting bloodlines of horses it's even with dogs you know you'll find dogs though this dog is a you know fourth cousin of the grand champion of this particular breed so there's a lot uh to uh you know assign to that credibility and value and being uh associated with a champion are there defects though in inbreeding in the animal community
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Yes, absolutely there are. I mean, you remember a long time ago, white tigers were a big thing in zoos. Everybody wanted to see a white tiger. Well, they realized they were breeding brothers to sisters, mothers to sons just to get white tigers because it brought people in. It was a lot of money. And finally, they realized, listen, we can't do that. We're getting tigers with crossed eyes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
We're getting all kinds of, you know, different types of defects going on. And that's why you don't see white tigers in zoos anymore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
It's bonding. It's solidifying the bond between the two of them. And I guess you could associate that as courtship in a way. But, you know, the affection is... I don't know. It has to be a dog, right? You know, listen, a dog is incredibly affectionate. Cats can be affectionate, too, though they tend to be a little bit more independent. But dogs, my gosh. I meant with each other, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Yeah, I think dogs can be very expressive, emotional with each other. You know, when they greet each other as a social animal, as a pack animal, you see them, you know, licking and jumping on each other and vocalizing and tails wagging. That's all kind of a form of affection between the dogs as they kind of cement their bond with each other again.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
It's all about that, creating that bond, that relationship, because animals like that realize that they're stronger in groups than they are individually.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Dolphins are one of those animals that has been proven that they have sex strictly for fun. I mean, they have same-sex... activity all the time, which of course is not going to result in reproduction, but it demonstrates the fact that they enjoy the pleasure of each other's company in a variety of ways. So yes, they can be very quote unquote affection.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Oh, yeah. Dolphins. I mean, there's documentation on YouTube, for instance, of a dolphin trying to get a woman in a bikini sitting on a dock. And this dolphin got very amorous with her to the point it was dangerous. I remember there was a trainer working with a dolphin that I knew that was able to collect the sperm from the dolphin.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Just by going out in her bathing suit, the dolphin would come and immediately present himself. Whoa. Oh, yeah, no, and ejaculate so she could collect it, and they'd use that sperm for artificial insemination. I mean, she just had to be there in her bathing suit. I know this is kind of crossing the line, but I'm just telling you facts. I'm not telling you made-up stories.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
No, it's not feasible because of the behavior of a horse and because of the anatomy, the structure of a horse. Sustaining the weight, you couldn't put it out without putting so much stress on other muscles. It's a domino effect that the horse would just catastrophically collapse.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Dogs and horses are tremendously different animals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
That probably has something to do with it. But at the end of the day, it's just the size and the anatomy of a horse.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
They're not able to. They're not able. to be trained to use the prosthetic in a way without sacrificing other parts of the limb.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
I'll suggest it. To who? Who are you going to suggest it to? Whatever horse person has a horse that breaks a leg or whatever.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Yeah, listen. Baby birds, if you find a baby bird that's fallen out of a nest, you see the nest, you can pick that baby bird up and put it back in the nest. That whole thing, oh, if you touch the bird, the mother's going to reject it. That's a myth. That's an absolute myth. Now, you have to be able to decipher whether it's a bird that has fallen out of a nest or it's a bird that has fledged.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
You know, baby birds, once they get some feathering and they start exercising their wings, they'll fledge and they'll move. They do what we call branching. They go out on a branch and sometimes they'll end up on the ground. But the parents are still taking care of them. Do not take that bird away.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Do not take that bird to a rehabber unless it's obviously injured because the parents are still taking care of it. Again, if it's a bird that's fallen out and it obviously hasn't developed any feathering or anything like that, it's fallen out prematurely, you can pick that bird up and put it back in the nest. The parents will come and care for it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Also during this bird breeding season, I get calls almost every day now of people saying, this bird's dive bombing me. It's attacking me. I can't get it in my house. Listen, if they built a bird nest next to the entry door to your house, that's unfortunate because they think every time you go into your house, you're going to be threatening their nest. And they will dive bombing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Mockingbirds are notorious for this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
they will come down well they'll draw blood they'll peck you and they'll draw blood from your head so please keep in mind that this is breeding season birds can get aggressive as they're protecting the nesting area it's not that they're being nasty or just mean they're being protective of their nest so you might not see where the nest is but i guarantee you if they're dive bombing you when you go into your house the nest is very like i'm just gonna sit there and let that thing peck my head all right a tennis racket i'm gonna grab that thing and then just check up against the
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Chris, Chris, this is just like your analogy of, you know, doing a giraffe with a steak knife. That bird will hit you in the head before you even know it's coming. I'll f*** that bird up. Wow. That's unnecessary.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
He could do that, and that would be very, very cruel.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
My house. He's minding his business. How much did they put down in the house? Hmm. Hmm. Bird do you do you understand that the bird is simply trying to protect this nest that maybe those Chris? I tried a couple of weeks Maybe maybe two or three weeks you could give it the grace and say I understand okay, okay?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
And protect yourself put a hat on or something get in the house quickly instead of taking a tennis racket and bashing the bird and then in fact Creating orphans in a nest that are gonna die a slow miserable death because you decided to hit a bird with a tennis Let's remember this thing bombed me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
It's an invertebrate. Obviously, it's a feather star. So it's probably related to the starfish. And it's just an invertebrate. But I mean, you know, when you think of the ocean, you look at some of the stuff that's found, you know, two, three thousand feet underneath the ocean. And this stuff looks like some of your worst nightmares that you see out of some Star Trek, you know,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Look how organized they are and how well behaved they are. The guy's doing something right. The guy is obviously earning his money. You don't have any dogs running away or barking or jumping up and down. They're all listening to this guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
Oh, he left behind the Queen Elizabeth dog.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
I mean, I think another one, another one comes out. That's a straight from somebody else's dog. That's some other dog. Hey, where's the party at? I'm impressed because all of those dogs were relaxed. They were calm. They seemed to be very obedient and, you know, systematically getting in that vehicle without any type of objection. The guy's doing something right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
He's earning his money and he's making a lot of it because dog walkers get paid per dog. And he's got a good check coming in on that one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Got Chased by a Bird
The crow is a thug. That's it. Crows are thugs, but they're also one of the smartest birds in the world. As a matter of fact, they are the smartest bird in the world.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
Oh, great dog.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
You can get any dog in the States. You know, you got to be careful what kind of climate you keep that dog in. I've actually seen Irish wolfhound statues at some of the big, you know, I don't think they call them mansions in Great Britain. Yeah. Some of the, you know, some of the manners, the manners. There you go. The manners. I've seen actual wolfhound statues. I love that front door.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
It looks like a Benji on steroids is what it looks like.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
uh no the problem is that these sea lions have become incredibly habituated to people so believe it or not they don't fear people anymore uh i wouldn't be surprised if these guys are just playing games saying listen this is my beach clear the beach i don't see any aggression i don't see them opening their mouths or going after anybody i think they're almost actually enjoying the thrill of watching these foolish people run away like
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
The rangers told us, listen, if we stepped out of a vehicle, the lion would most likely just run away. And that's likely what would happen. A lot of these larger animals, believe it or not, are generally speaking, afraid of people. That's a natural human fear from generation to generation when humans hunted everything. So the bottom line is, Most animals naturally are afraid of human beings.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
Having said that, once they've been exposed to humans for a long time or people start feeding them or start basically desensitizing them to human beings, that's when they become the most dangerous.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
Well, it's not just shrimp. It's a lot of different crustaceans that have what we call carotenoids in them. And those carotenoids would give them that color. And yes, you know what, Jessica, if you ate enough carotenoids, yes, you would start getting a bit of a salmon color to your skin. Yeah. But it also might be toxic because you're eating just too many of them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
That's funny.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
That's a great-looking wolfhound, a beautiful man, a nice crown, nice hedges. Yeah. You know, I'll give you that. It's a little bit of a longer snout and kind of squished head than a lion, but the way he's sitting there, it surely looks regal like a lion. I'll give you a little pass on that one, Greg.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
It could be an immature lion that hasn't grown in his full mane yet, giving that big rounded look. There you go. Immature lions have that kind of scrawny mane that that wolfhound seems to have right there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
What is happening to humanity here? You know what this is? This is all social media crap is what this is. This is all, let's get this on video. Let's see how many likes we can get. This is just, it's stupidity, Dan. That's all I can say about it is stupidity. And these guys think they're being cool. And they are, you know, they're, I'll tell you what, they're living proof for natural selection.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
The alligator can't stick its tongue out, correct? No, it cannot stick its tongue out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
No, it was dangerous enough. I could have grabbed his hand and pulled him in the water and drowned him. No question about it, given a pretty bad wound. You know, it's not going to consume the guy, but it certainly could have inflicted a really bad injury. And trust me, if that had happened, you know what would have happened next?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
The authorities would have found that gator and euthanized it because it took out a stupid guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
All crocodilians. All crocodilians. They have a tongue, but it's fixed in the bottom jaw. So it can move up and down, but they can't stick it out of their mouth.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy
Thousands and thousands of dollars came in thanks to you and your listeners, Dan. I can't tell you how profoundly appreciative I am.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
Probably not, but I'm going to give someone watching.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
He's got a hair comb. That's nice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
Well, I was talking about animals. We had a couple of animals up there. We're also trying, I'm trying to drive this movement to get the flamingo named the state bird of Florida. You know, listen, I've got nothing against the mockingbird, but the mockingbird is the state bird of Mississippi, of Texas, of six other states.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
We have a potential here of having a bird that's iconic, that's always been associated with Florida, and it seems to be a no-brainer to me to make that the national bird of Florida, especially now since it's come back and it's staying here, which is a great reflection of great Everglades restoration, that the birds are coming back and they're staying. It's a win-win.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
Ron, how did you feel about your son's work? Well, whatever you're paying him, it's not enough, number one. But as far as Cody's work goes... There it is. Oh, look at this. What is that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I proclaim that that's for Greg because it was absolutely great.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
So, you know, I'm just trying to convince the... help convince the legislators to pass a law to make that the state bird. Are you going to win? Is it an uphill fight? It's an uphill fight, I think, for this session, but I think we got a really good chance next year for the next session. But I wanted to at least plant the seed, help plant the seed. I was working with the Zoo Miami Foundation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I took the day off. I was not up there as Ron McGill from Zoo Miami. I was up there as Ron McGill from the Zoo Miami Foundation and kind of wildlife expert and just kind of talking. You know, we collaborated with the Tallahassee Museum. They brought some animals over. They brought an owl. They brought an alligator. They brought a snake. And I talked about that as the legislatures went through.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
They were in a session yesterday, and it was day-to-day. I was on a plane with all the commissioners, the supervisor of elections, the supervisor of tax collector, the chairman of the commission. They were all on the same plane. God, if that plane had gone down, that would have been a disaster. Well, maybe not. I don't know. Ron, is there a big market?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I would be no great loss.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
No, I just said if it went down, you know, I didn't say I didn't say we probably all would have survived because, you know, we're resilient that way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
That's true. As a county employee, I'm not really permitted to lobby for anything. Oh, that's bullshit.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I shouldn't decide, but I will say, you know, there are some representatives there, Representative Mooney, who represents us, lives in the Keys. He's a big proponent. He's the guy who's helping to drive this bill. We just got to get all the other people. But everybody's got an agenda, man. You know, one of the things I realize when I go up there is that, you know, what are you going to do for me?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
There's a lot of that going on. So, listen, they're not bad people, but it's just part of the political agenda. That's why I could never run for political office. I would never survive. Are you disgusted by it? I'm not disgusted by it. I guess I shouldn't even say I'm disappointed by it because it's not shocking information. It's just I wish there was a better way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I wish there was a different culture when it comes to politics.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
Let me tell you what this is all about. This is all about kind of getting people's attention to drive money. I'm gonna be honest with you. Now that the company is gonna say, oh no, we're de-extincting this animal. First of all, they're not de-extincting because as you mentioned, Jessica, they have just basically modified, this is a modified gray wolf.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
They've taken gene therapy, they've modified some of the genes you know, maybe I think 15 of the gene sequences they've modified out of 2,000, you know, thousands of gene sequences they've modified. And they modified it to get the color of the animal, the white that was known to be for the dire wolf, and increase in size.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
But really what it is, it's nothing more than a genetically modified gray wolf. It is not a dire wolf through and through. Now, having said that, people say, well, you know, Let's assume that it is a dire wolf. Isn't this really cool? Isn't this really good? In my opinion, no. No. And let me tell you why.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
The dire wolf went extinct naturally because of Mother Nature, because of changes in the environment that evolved naturally as the planet started developing and changing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
That's very different than an animal going extinct because man is shooting it or man is exterminating it for some man-made reason, whether it be habitat destruction, whether it be pollution, whether it be hunting, whatever that is. You don't correct what mother nature does. There's a reason. Extinction occurred for millions and millions of years before mankind ever set foot on this earth.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
And there was a good reason for it. It's animals adapting and environments adapting. An animal went extinct to make room for another animal that helped create the balance that is necessary and delicate. So there's an old commercial you're too young to remember. There used to be a lady comes up, don't fool with mother nature. This is a classic example of don't fool with mother nature.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
So I'm gonna give you my personal opinion of what this company is doing. And this is not to say they're not getting some very important information that could be applied to science in the future. But this whole theory about, oh no, we're gonna do dire wolves.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
we've got them in a secret location and we're taking care of the protected and they're trying to build up all this fascination right with dire wolves why because game of thrones that was the animal game of thrones and what show had a bigger following than game of thrones so now you got oh do you want to be part of game of thrones do you want to see real dire wolves well we've got them at the secret location and they're going to keep on doing this the next thing they want to do is the woolly mammoth right
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
So let's see what happens. You want to build it up. I'm telling you what they're going to do. They want to build a little Jurassic Park, so to speak, and have a ton of money. They've already had a ton of people invest millions and millions of dollars in this company because people see the return. The return kind of like, come see these animals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
Like you used to see freaky animals in a circus, right? In a freak show. Or just like the movie Jurassic Park. How did that movie begin, right? Oh, the dinosaurs. Oh, this is beautiful. Going back in time. How did it end? Okay, this is what you're looking at. This is what you're looking at. Do not fool with Mother Nature. There's a reason why animals go extinct.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
As long as it's not some accelerated thing due to man's abuse and man's neglect. Leave it be. Do not try to change something that mother, because mother nature doesn't make mistakes. We make mistakes, but mother nature doesn't make mistakes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
And if we start thinking we're going to start bringing back these extinct animals just to pander to people's fascination for something that, you know, oh my God, I want to see it. I want to be the first because we have these fascination with these things that, you know, have so been glorified over the years through mythology and stuff. All of a sudden you're going to open Pandora's box.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
That's right. You can't introduce these wolves to the wild. But hey, what's going to happen if one escapes? Oh, like the fencing in Jurassic Park goes down, a dinosaur gets out, no longer control. Oh my God, what are we going to do now? What if? What if? Guys, do not fool with Mother Nature. Sorry, I'm banging the table, making things shake.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
uh some of the species of tiger the sumatran tiger you know um the the the adax i mean there's there's approximately 300 of them left in the wild and we're killing them off or removing that habitat um i would bring those animals back if we could have the habitat that they need to survive because that habitat is all part of this balance that we have as a planet
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
People talk about countries and political boundaries and stuff. Animals don't have political boundaries. When they migrate, they don't bring their passports and check in through immigration. All this stuff is a very important balance for the entire health of the planet. It's our own health by protecting these animals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
So when we have some of these animals that are in grave danger of extinction because of things that we've done, yeah, I would support trying to protect them with this type of knowledge, this type of science.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
Well, you know, I don't know, Tony, you know, what specimens they have. I do know that they have found entire woolly mammoth halves frozen in ice as if they died yesterday. So obviously there's been some good tissue, some good DNA preserving going on there, which would provide them with more material, I guess, to extract from. I'm not a geneticist. I can't tell you how that's done.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
But assuming they could, I still don't think it's a good idea, even though 99% of the people say, oh my God, I just want to see one alive moving. Again, this is dangerous, guys. This is dangerous. Go to a museum, look at the bones, look at things as they were, and realize there was a reason why they became extinct.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
There's many words that could be substituted to mean the same thing. It's what we call synonyms.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I'm not angry. I'm just tired. I was in Tallahassee all day yesterday and up and back in the same day. I didn't get home till, you know, 1130 or so here at work at 6 a.m. So I'm just a little tired, you know, and then, you know, I got a call to be on the show at 1020. And what time is it now? Oh, it's 1040. It's 20 minutes I've been sitting here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I don't know of an underwater T-Rex in such that a T-Rex that lived underwater. I know they have found fossil records of T-Rexes that are now submerged, but that's because when the T-Rex died, it was not necessarily land that was underwater.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
You know, as the ice age diminished, sea levels rose, and therefore you had bones that might have been on the coastline or something, and all of a sudden now are underwater. It's like the state of Florida. You know, if you walk in the state of Florida, you dig down six inches down here, you'll be in a coral rock because this was originally all underwater.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I can't believe the T-Rex could swim. And there's no such thing as an underwater T-Rex only because there's no reptile that lives underwater.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I don't think it's presently submerged. Damn. Listen, Dan, I'm going to tell you just from the fossil record. Let's look at the fossil record. Let's look at the bones of a T-Rex, which we know exist. That's not something we have to make up. That animal could not swim. That animal could walk in deep water.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
You've all probably seen the illustrations of dinosaurs in the water, grabbing things out of the water. I don't know why the T-Rex would go in the water, because it was a carnivorous reptile, unless it started feeding on... marine mammals of some sort that may have existed at the time, which I don't think they did. I don't know. I didn't live back then.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
But certainly a T-Rex could have waded into the water. It was a tall animal. It could have gone into deep water. Why is Cody laughing like that? This whole conversation is going south very quickly. Cody lived back then.
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Hour 1: Greg Cote Takes an Acting Class
I was half listening. A million years from now, there could be a race of a new species of intelligent beings after humans become extinct, and they could find human bones down under the water in the middle of the Atlantic and think, oh, look at this. There were underwater humans. It might have been the wreck of the Titanic. Who knows?
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Were you not going to tell anyone?
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Stugatz. That joke didn't really land the way you wanted it to, did it? We all just stared at you.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
My God, guys. Finally get the thing to work and then you stop?
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
We're not stopping. Stop until the producer says stop.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Don't touch anything. Let's keep on going. Yes. Greg and I wrote a great book. It's going to be a great book. And we've got signed editions coming up for Father's Day. A special edition signed by both of us for Father's Day. Pride of a lion, baby. There you go. God bless. This is working now.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Let me tell you something, brother. The $1,000 prize wasn't so ridiculous.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
I was getting a freaking blood transfusion as I was taking that photo. That's in the middle of the Pantanal in Brazil. And this came in, grabbed this fish. And this happens in a split second, man. It's just... And they cut out of the water and they try to reposition it in the air. I mean, this is like... So I'm shooting this at 20 frames a second. I'm going...
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
And then meantime, I got about 30 deer flies biting the hell out of me. I mean, blood is trickling down my face. But I want to get the shots. And then I don't see it because it's happening so fast. And then I look in my LCD and I saw that one moment where the jaw is open and the fish is suspended in midair, not touching either jaw. The deer flies are flying around. The reflection's in the water.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Man, all the stars align. And I said, man, this is a winner.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
I can tell you that split second after that photograph was taken, it was in the caiman's belly, so it did not.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
No, I photographed the circle of life, Billy. That's what I photographed, the circle of life. I got my staff members back here. I hear them in the back of the office saying they're dying. They can't believe I'm doing this on a podcast.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Yes, baby. Flamingos are coming and they're staying. And we're hoping they stay through the winter. We hope they start to nest again. Come on, the flamingos. What? What? What? What did you say? Say it again.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Yeah, this is a great thing. This is really a great thing. You know, there's an effort right now in Tallahassee. We're trying to get the flamingo to be designated the official state bird because right now the state bird is the mockingbird. How appropriate. A mockingbird for the state of Florida.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
It's getting mocked all over the freaking country right now.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Jessica, you were just rooting on the Flamingo, and now you're hammering it back. What's going on?
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Nothing's too good for us, Jessica. Nothing is too good for us.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
There's no such thing as a white-bellied rat snake.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Well, you know what? If you listen to everything Google says, you're going to have a rough time in life.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
It's most likely a black racer, which is dark slate gray, and it does have a white belly. So you immediately assume there must be a white-bellied rat snake because it has a white belly. Oh, my God. That's actually a racer. That's a black racer, just like I predicted. They are primarily lizard eaters. They're found all over Florida. They will scare you.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
I mean, if you corner one, it will strike at you, and it also, it will rattle its tail. It doesn't have rattles at the end, but it will rattle its tail in dead leaves, so it makes the rattling sound. So it's really a harmless snake, feeds on lizards, but, and if you grab it, not only will it try to bite you, but it will musk you.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
It emits, it gets rid of this musk that is so smelly, you have to wait for your skin to die off before that smell goes away.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Absolutely not. They were panicking. And that's the way I find snakes when I'm out in the wild is I listen for birds alarming because they know the snakes eat bird chicks and they eat bird eggs. We're in the middle of the breeding season right now. So there's a lot of nests with eggs and chicks in them. And snakes are a huge threat to them.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
So when they see, blue jays especially, I find when I'm looking for coach whips and things here at the zoo, I listen for the blue jays. They're alarming. They're alarming at the snake. That's how I can find the snake. That's all they're doing is just alarming to ensure that their chicks and their eggs aren't getting predated on.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Jessica, that's the way it is with any antivenin. Antivenins are made by injecting horses. with the venom because horses are so large they then build up antibodies and they use horse's blood to make that antivenin. So if you have an allergic reaction to the horse's blood, yes, you can go into anaphylactic shock and that can cause a real problem.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
So people sometimes are allergic to the antivenin itself, which can be sometimes more dangerous than the venom. This is why, you know, you guys are all too young, but way back, one of my first jobs was a place called the Miami Serpentarium.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
I worked for a guy named Bill Haas, and Bill Haas would donate his blood because he injected himself with venoms to build up these antibodies in his blood so they could use human blood for people who were allergic to the horse serum. And that was a big thing back then.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
You know, I hope so. I mean, I've already seen birds of prey eating them. I've seen snakes eating them. We just don't have enough predation on them because they reproduce at such a rapid rate and they're spreading so much. By the way, Tony, I met your sister. I didn't know you were you were related to like major politicians here in the state of Florida. Yeah, absolutely. That's big, man.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
She's a very nice lady. Very nice. Thank you.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Okay. I played until I was 63. Okay. I played until I was 63. No major injuries. Nothing like that.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
vince is a better athlete than i ever was he's in better shape than i ever was i am now getting that 65 and that's i'm done brother i don't want to be one of you know i remember when i was your age tony and i looked at guys like me and i used to say i don't want to be that guy i don't want to be that guy okay you're still in your prime you're still shooting them out the crate i'm now an old man out there that you guys can just make fun of and i'm not going to be that anymore
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
The orca could have certainly hurt him, even killed him. That's not to say that orcas effectively will go after people. I think I've told the story in this show on a previous occasion when I was actually swimming in the Galapagos Islands and photographing green sea turtles when an orca swam over me, looked at me and just kept on swimming.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
So it's not like they're gonna look at you and go, oh my God, I wanna kill. They feed on seals, sea lions. They do kill great white sharks, as we know, but they don't necessarily look at humans. However, if some dumb ass human jumps on me as a belly flop, yeah, just out of anger, might turn around and just, you know, screw them up. And that could have been what I call natural selection.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Just long enough to lay eggs, which will then hatch out into little maggots, which will then be inside of his belly. And they'll feed on different things.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. Drink a whole bottle of Tabasco sauce at one time and hope it kills them down there.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
You know, it's common, it's common, you know, I don't know how these conversations degrade on this way, but insects most commonly go into people's ears. And while people are sleeping, I mean, you can go on YouTube and you'll see videos of them taking these huge tweezers and pulling out massive roaches, like from, it seems like from inside a person's brain, they pull it out, this huge roach.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
It's horrible. Look it up, Stugatz, I know you're going to look it up, you'll find it.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
oh no he's breathing he's calling he's bellowing you see how the how the water jumps off his back he's he's he's courting them he's courting the humans he's courted yeah he's doing that this is the instinct where he's bellowing right now he's going and then he vibrates his back and the water bounces off his back into the females that's like sexy that's what they do that's part of their courtship so he's literally like hey what's up that's
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
That's exactly what he's doing.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
That's it. Well, it's kind of like, how you doing? Just hello. Go, gators. I like it, Tony. I like it.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Bears love anything sweet like that. Sugar for almost all animals becomes addictive. Oh, there you go. That's a bunny.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
This is a live shot of my... You guys thought I was joking. This is my dad's ear. You guys thought I was joking.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Watch this. Here you go. Watch this. This is in your ear. Now, get the queen. Pull my baby out. Come on. Hold on. There you go. Oh, yeah. Got it. Got it. Well, wait. Well, no. No pushing it further down. That's not working. It's going further down into my brain. Get a grip. Okay. No, no. No. A little bit more. Come on. Come on. Oh, jeez.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
You're pushing it into my head.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Just grab the leg. No, oh, there he's got it, oh yeah, oh! Oh my god. I feel much better now, thank you.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Oh, look at that, that's beautiful, huh? There you go. Oh my god. There you go, guys.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Put it in the cotton balls when you go to sleep, guys. Enough, take it off. Put it in the cotton balls.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Bears like anything sweet. Sugar. I mean, most animals get addicted to sugar just like we as humans do.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Hey, look, it's a great book, man. It's a lot of fun. Greg and I had a blast doing it. I promise you you'll like it. It is a great Father's Day because it talks about the great father that Quasi becomes. I think it's a great story.
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Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life
Drink the Tabasco, brother. You'll be okay.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Well, that's incredibly powerful, of course, but a lot of invertebrates, you know, ants are a classic example of these invertebrates that can pick up so much more than their own weight. I mean, hundreds of times, I don't know if it's 800 times like the rhino beetle, I don't have the exact stat, but ants are notorious for their ability to pick up some major, major weight.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
But the rhino beetle is, you know, it's a tank. It's a tank of an insect. It's got a huge Ein riesiger, sehr hartes Ectoskelett. Es ist also wahrscheinlich der Arnold Schwarzenegger des Insekten-Weltes.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Schaut euch Leopards an. Schaut euch an, wie ein Leopard einen Baum auf einen Baum bringen kann. Ich habe einen Leopard gesehen, der fast einen vollgegrownen, nicht, einen halbgegrownen Wilde-Biest auf einen Baum bringen kann. Etwas, das sich zweimal so viel wie ein Leopard kostet.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Er nimmt es mit seinem Nacken und kommt auf einen Baum mit seinen Beinen, hält das Ding in seinem Mund, drückt es auf den Topf des Baumes. Ich habe Leoparden gesehen, die Dinge auf den Bäumen drücken und ich sage mir, das ist unglaublich. Sie sind also ein unglaublich kraftvolles Tier.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Es ist in diesem Land so. Es hängt von den Regeln des Landes ab. Wenn man international ist, muss man sehr, sehr vorsichtig sein. Ich denke, die Länder sind unglaublich besorgt, wenn jemand ihnen sagt, was sie in ihrem eigenen Zuhause tun sollen. Das Ziel hier ist es, die Kultur zu verändern. Ich meine, Mexiko ist auf dem Weg. Es hat angefangen, Bullfighting in vielen Ländern auszulösen.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Aber es gibt immer noch diese alte traditionelle Kultur. Und leider denke ich, dass das warten muss, bis diese Generationen weggehen. Wenn du in diese Bullfights gehst, wirst du sehen, dass die Mehrheit der Menschen dort ziemlich älter sind, so weit sie nicht die jüngeren Teenager sind. Es sind viele ältere Menschen und diese Generation muss einfach, ich hasse es so zu sagen, weggehen.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ich meine, diese Mentalität muss weggehen.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ja, Elefanten knacken die Bäume, weil sie den Bauch lieben. Sie lieben den Bauch mit Holz. Sie lieben auch die Bäume zu essen. Also dieses Elefant, und ich habe es auch gesehen, hat Bäume, die größer sind als das. Wo ein großer Barsch da herunterkommt und das ganze Ding herunterknockt. Und was es tut, ist, dass es sich mit einem Buffet befindet. Sie sind unglaublich intelligente Tiere.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ich habe sie auch gesehen, die Bäume zu schälen. Du weißt, wie die Marula-Bäume. Sie haben eine Marula-Frühe drauf. Und sie gehen da hoch und schälen diese Bäume. Und alle Frühe fallen auf und es ist wundervoll.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
So, again, elephant is one of the most intelligent animals on earth, incredibly powerful animal, so they use that strength to their benefit, which in that case is to knock down a big smorgasbord.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
I couldn't give you an exact number, Dan, but I would think that the majority are going to be males that don't have the sex, because males will fight with each other to have the territory. So unless he's able to escape, do we have to keep showing this over and over? Ja, Ron. Ja, das machen wir. Das unglaublichste Teil des Elefanten-Sexes ist eigentlich der Elefanten-Penis selbst.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Es ist wie ein Feuerhose. Das Ding kommt raus und der Elefant mountet die Frau und der Penis macht all das Arbeit. Und dann schwingt es um, wie ein Feuerhose. Du ziehst es zu einem Feuerhäuser, lässt es gehen und das ist, wie es aussieht. Es ist einfach... Wenn es die Öffnung findet, dann macht es das ganze Werk selbst. Aber es ist ziemlich unglaublich zu sehen.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ich meine, das Ding ist wie ein fünfter Abenteuer. Es ist ziemlich beeindruckend. Nun, du hast mir vorher gesagt, dass die Rhinos, all das ist schmerzhaft, richtig?
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Generell gesagt, ja. V.a. Elefanten. Die Böse sind viel größer als die Kühe. Sie haben normalerweise nicht mehr als 30 Sekunden am Topf der Frau, bevor sie sein Gewicht nicht mehr beherrschen kann. Jetzt mit Rheinen ist es ein bisschen anders, denn Männer und Frauen sind sehr ähnlich in Größe.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ich habe eine Frau Rheine gesehen, die einen Mann auf ihrem Rücken für eine Stunde mit dem Mann um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße um die Füße Of course, it's got to be a female rhino. Just kind of do all the work.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
The male just stays up there and all of a sudden every like, you know, two to five minutes he does this shutter type thing. I don't think he's faking it for her. And that's when he's ejaculating and you'll see all this white. I can't believe I'm talking about this on this show.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ich denke, ich denke, es gibt viele Tiere. die Menschen lernen können. Zuerst einmal im ganzen Dating-Prozess. Viele Leute denken, mit Tieren ist es wie... Oh Gott, sie hören mich nicht an. Es ist einfach ein Quickie. Das ist nicht so. Tiere gehen durch einen sehr bestimmten Gerichtsprozess. Der Mann fragt um Verabschiedung. Die Frau macht die Wahl.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Im Animal Kingdom ist es die Frau, die das Show macht. Ich weiß, dass es so mit vielen von uns auch so ist. Aber Leute, wenn ihr merkt, dass ihr die Frau das Show machen müsst, werdet ihr viel glücklicher sein. Und der Fakt ist, dass es einen Orang-Utan gibt.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Wir haben einen Orang-Utan, hatten einen Orang-Utan, der üblicherweise oral Sex auf Frauen performt, während er seine Finger benutzt, um sie in anderen Bereichen zu stimulieren. Ich meine, dieser Kerl war ein Multitasker bis zum Max.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ich habe ihn gesehen und gesagt, Leute, ich weiß nicht, ob sie Filme im Hintergrund gesehen haben oder was da war, aber dieser Kerl war einfach ein Gott der Reproduktion. Er war unglaublich.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Ich denke, es ist absolut etwas, das gefordert werden muss. Denn am Ende des Tages tun wir es für die Menschen. Und ich weiß, dass es einige religiöse Zeugen geben wird, die sagen, oh, das ist nicht Gottes Weg.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Nein, Gott hat uns die Intelligenz gegeben, das zu lernen, um die schlechten Dinge zu korrigieren, die wir gemacht haben, die diese Spezies geschaffen haben, die in Gefahr geworden sind und in der Tat verschwunden sind, wenn wir das Prozess nicht wiederholen können. Und was wir tun, ist, dass wir im Grunde eine Säugetmutter kreieren. Wir machen das in den Menschen.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Wir machen Embryotransplantate in eine andere Person, die eine Frau nicht selbst tragen kann, um ihr Kind zu geben. Wir haben das mit vielen anderen Tieren getan. Wir haben Zebren genommen, verdammte Zebren, und sie in Embryos in Horsen gelegt, domestische Horsen, die auf eine vollgelegte verdammte Zebra geboren wurden. Wir haben das mit verdammten Typen von Antilopen und Ketten getan.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Also, um das mit Rhinos zu tun, ist es einfach so ein... Ein ikonischer Tier. Manche Extremisten sagen, dass das nicht der natürliche Weg ist, um das zu tun. Nein, wir sollten es tun, weil wir es tun müssen, um die Fehler, die wir in der Vergangenheit gemacht haben, zu korrigieren. Es ist Wissen, das wir jetzt haben, um eine gefährliche Spezies zu retten. Und ich bin dafür.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Und ich bin wirklich stolz auf die Wissenschaftler, die so viel Zeit dedikiert haben, um das möglich zu machen.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Absolutely they do. Absolutely they do. I've seen that in all kinds of animals, where they come and bring presents, you know, they bring gifts to the females to get her, you know, it's kind of like giving jewelry to your wife. I mean, I've seen it over and over. From birds to primates, these animals will court, they'll dance, romance. Listen, sometimes there's something no...
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Es ist nicht romantischer, als einen wunderschönen Tanz mit deinem Partner zu machen. Und Mensch, Tiere sind das beste Beispiel dafür. Schau dir die Tänze an, die diese Tiere machen, von Lehmern bis zu Tieren, bis zu Tieren im Paradies, bis zu diesen Manneken, all diesen Manneken-Tieren. Die Tänze, die sie machen, schau dir das auf der Internet an.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Du siehst diese Tänze, die sie machen, und sie flashen ihre Rücken, sie gehen zurück und forth, sie packen ihre Beine, sie machen ein Flamenco, sie machen all diese Sachen. Es ist fantastisch zu sehen. Das ist Romantik, Mann.
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The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Das ist ein guter Satz. Entschuldige, Stugatz. Aber ich sage es dir. Entschuldige. Vertraue mir. Wenn du Sex hast, Stugatz, ist es, weil deine Frau es ermöglicht. Sie macht dich vielleicht denken, dass du die Show runnst. Aber am Ende des Tages ist es ihr Anruf, Bruder.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Es hängt davon ab, was sie essen. Es ist wie, wenn du ein Essen siehst, das du wirklich magst, und du wirst aufgeregt, dann beginnst du zu salivieren. Diese Elefanten werden wahrscheinlich sehr aufgeregt, dass sie diese Triebe bekommen werden, die Leute, die du ihnen da gegeben hast. Also beginnt die Saliva viel mehr zu laufen. Und das macht den Mund viel schlechter. Und sie sind auch...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Elefanten können ihre Zunge nicht so weit rausziehen. Sie flüchten ein wenig, aber es ist nicht wie ein Giraffe, der 16 Inch weit rauskommt. So, wenn man die Zunge immer im Mund hat, dann scheint die Zunge mehr schmutzig zu sein. Die Zunge produziert die Zunge nicht. Sie hält sie einfach auf der Oberfläche, weil sie immer im Mund ist.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Look at that. Dan has learned. It is the Harpy Eagle. It's the most powerful bird of prey on earth. That thing can carry a small child away.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
Overrated eagle. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. Because if you want to go with the eagle that is not the brightest eagle in the world, it's not going to be the Harpy Eagle. Okay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Mining For Liquid Gold
It's a pretty impressive animal, Dan. It's an incredible bird. I mean, you can go and, you know... Das ist der Goldeneigel. Das ist der Goldeneigel mit der Schamie. Das ist der Goldeneigel mit der Schamie. Das ist der Goldeneigel mit der Schamie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Put it over your shoulders. Yeah, I'll get the back half. All right, get the back half. Put it over your shoulders. Or pick it up in front of you. Whatever you're going to do, take a little weight off of me, brother. Oh, Jesus. OK, OK. So I think I'm bringing this guy to the studio too, Mike. This is the vision I have. Yeah. I have this vision of the whole team getting together. Yeah.
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And we're wrapping the snake around the whole team for a group shot. Yeah. It'll be beautiful. Yeah. No, seriously. And look, see, they have that little tongue. Now, Mike, Mike, Mike, let me show you something. This is a male. Look at these guys right here. Oh, God. Look at that, man. That's the... No, that's not what you think it is. No, these are actually vestigial limbs, Mike.
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And what the male does is he uses that to scratch the back of the female to convince her to lift her tail.
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I'm going to bring it to the studio. I think I'm pretty convinced I want to bring this guy to the studio. And the group shot's going to be the whole team. We'll wrap it around. I did it with LeBron, with UD, and it brought a lot of luck to them. Oh.
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Yeah, yeah, no, well, you wouldn't do that with a wild snake. This is a snake that we've raised. I've got people here to help me should he decide to constrict around my neck. But you normally would not hold a snake this way, but I have to to have the shoulders because of the weight. This is a 100-pound snake, so it's, you know.
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This is the one. This is the very one. This is the very one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Coming to the studio, man. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Oh, it's, of course, a terrestrial owl. It's not a big flyer, except when it's hunting. They tend to be underground, as opposed to most other owls that are more arboreal. Owls in general, though, and I know that you're not going to want to hear this, but generally speaking, we always hear about the wise old owl. I've talked to this about before. They have very large eyes.
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Those eyes are so large, they take up so much space in the skull. There's very little space for the brain. So they're not the most intelligent bird. Actually, they're one of the least intelligent of all birds. Having said that, you know, they are nocturnal. They have incredible eyesight.
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um you know if you had the eyes of an owl you could read a newspaper 100 yards away to give you an idea of how it can't be true that can't be true how could anyone have tested that run They test the fovea of the eye. They taste the, what do they call it? The rods in the eyes. The eye people who know more than I do about eyes tell me that's the case. That's what they can focus on.
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They've tested that. They also have incredible hearing. Now, I've done this test myself at the University of Florida where we took an owl. We covered its ears so it could not hear anything. I mean, covered its eyes, rather, so it could not see anything, released a mouse in a pitch black room, and that owl flew from 30 yards away and landed right on that mouse, just from hearing the mouse.
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So it's flipping unbelievable the kind of hearing they have. Now, keep in mind, their ears are different than ours. We've got, you know, one ear on each side of our head kind of parallel to each other, but owls have one ear on the top part on the left side and on the bottom part on the right side.
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So they're able to triangulate sound better than we can, and that's how they can find their prey, using sound alone. So they're incredible birds that way. They have very specialized feathers in their wings. So when they flap their wings, they make no sound. They have silencer feathers in their wings. So when they're flying, you know, a mouse is eating on the ground.
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And all of a sudden, if you're a chicken, you flap, flap, flap, flap. The mouse is going to go incoming. I'm out of here. But with the owl, it's like the stealth bomber. They're unbelievable that way.
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It's got to be the owl. Absolutely the quietest. Oh, yeah. I've seen huge owls, big great horned owls fly across the room and I cannot hear. And I'm listening for them. You cannot hear a single thing. It's absolutely savage. Special feathers in their way.
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I'm going to get out of my seat for a second. Hold on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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A lot of wood. Did you guys see this? That's a narwhal horn? Holy shit. That's a narwhal horn.
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That's about almost six feet, maybe. That looks cool. That's really cool. Oh, look at that.
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It's hanging over the sliding doors that look outside into the yard. Anyway, so narwhals, you know, the males, they get the really long ones and they use it, they found to stun fish. They will use it to stun fish. And they use it kind of as an attraction to the females. The longer horns get more females. Who do you regard as the most- Does size matter? Size matters with narwhals.
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Wow, that's a hard one to answer. You know, narwhals are certainly interesting, but I think belugas are really fascinating. All the whales to me, all the cetaceans are very fascinating animals. You know, you gotta look at the blue whale, Jesus Christ, it's the largest animal that's ever lived, bigger than any dinosaur, than any animal has ever lived, is still living on this planet, the blue whale.
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Well, yes, you know, like a lot of whales. I'd have to go to another room to show it to you. But I mean, like whales are we called toothed whales and we have baleen whales. And I have actually baleen from a whale, which is like this huge piece of like keratin with filters on it, like hairs. And that's how they collect all the food that they eat. The biggest whales, blue whales, humpback whales.
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These are baleen whales. They don't have teeth. They don't eat. big fish like people would think. They siphon food out of the water, shrimp and different types of invertebrates and things like that. It's really kind of cool stuff. But all the whales to me are incredibly intelligent. I've said it on this show before, I don't believe that whales should ever be in captivity.
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I believe that these animals are pelagic, they're nomadic. And I don't believe you should ever take a whale out of the wild and put it in captivity, unless you're trying to save that individual animal's life.
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Oh, that's got to be the killer whales, guys. You know, we've talked about it before. You've watched these killer whales. They work like teamwork. You know, you'll see a seal on an iceberg saying, okay, I'm safe. The thing can't get to me on the iceberg. And all these killer whales get together and they get all right next to each other and they create this huge wave, like a tidal wave.
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So the tidal wave hits the iceberg, knocks the seal off, and the whale's on the other side waiting for it. Boom, they eat it. I mean, think about it.
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I've had that happen. I've had a humpback whale breached literally probably less than 30 feet, maybe closer to 20 feet next to the boat. It is one of the most exhilarating things you can ever-
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it's look at me louis because you've had that happen to you as a sentence you love to uh to utter around here and it's a good sentence i'm just trying to tell you i'm not speaking i'm not speaking from something i saw on television i'm trying to relate to you that this is something that's really it's hard to describe in words guys when something that massive comes out and there's no like there's no alert there's no saying okay he's coming up on this side now get ready get ready no all of a sudden just whoosh
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The thing comes out of the water and it's so huge. It's so amazing. It's exhilarating. I don't think that, you know, I don't feel like, for instance, oh my God, we're going to die. I never feel fear. It's one of these things where you just feel, wow, just absolute wow.
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I've seen it happen very close. It has happened. It has happened where a whale has hit a boat coming up. But it's so profound. They're profoundly rare, guys. I mean, these whales are usually generally very aware of what's above them. They know what's going on. They avoid those types of things.
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But sometimes they get so caught up in the feeding that they may get caught up, especially if you're in something like a small kayak or something like that. Certainly there's an issue there. There's a potential danger there. But it's incredibly rare. I mean, this is like, you know, forget about it. Don't even think about it. Much more likely to get struck by lightning.
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Well, I'll tell you, you know, years ago, probably 20 something years ago, we had some some of our ambassador show birds stolen out of the amphitheater. Somebody broke into the amphitheater, bypassed the alarm system and stole these birds. And, you know, the thought comes to mind right away. There's a huge black market for these animals. These were our talking parrots that did the shows.
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They were kind of our stars of the show. There's a huge black market for that. These small emperor tamarins also have a huge black market. As a matter of fact, that's one of the reasons they're threatened in the wild is because they're, you know, raped out of the jungle and sold as pets. And they do not make good pets. People don't understand that.
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look at the picture they go oh my god they're so cute these emperor tamarins have these huge long white like mustaches that come out and they are adorable to look at they're absolutely incredibly looking uh animals but they don't make good pets and you know anybody who thinks you know if it's one of these extremists oh i'm just gonna set them free because they deserve to be free well no you might have condemned it to death by letting it out dallas in 30 degree weather
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Well, that's a hard one. That really is a hard one. You know, I would go probably our first MVP is going to be the gold is, well, let's start with the bronze. The bronze is going to be Goliath, the Galapagos tortoise, because he's an animal that is the oldest animal in the zoo. He's over 100 years old.
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He's one of the animals that, you know, select guests can go in and meet him and touch him and scratch his neck. He likes his neck.
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So that makes a big impression. So he would get the bronze. I'm going with the silver.
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guess it's going to be barani barani's our male sumatran tiger and it's that first impression you know it's the first main exhibit on the right hand side that big tiger temple and when you look at barani and his massiveness and his strength that that leaves a really good first impression of coming to the zoo but i'm going to give the gold to malcolm the giraffe yeah because malcolm is the giraffe that'll come right up to that feeding platform stick out that 20 inch tongue
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wrap it around your hand take that piece of leaf from your hand or the little carrot slice and man that leaves an indelible impression baby when you see that 20 inch purple tongue come out and you're looking eye to eye at an animal that stands 17 feet tall that makes an impression he gets the gold the excitement of taking photos in the wild
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I'm a wildlife photographer. I've been very fortunate to be, you know, given the label of a Nikon ambassador for Nikon USA, which is, you know, to me, the premier photographic company in the world. But there are many, many great photographers. I'm not as much a great photographer, Dan, as I am a very lucky person to be in places where you really can't take a bad photograph. So I'm very lucky.
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I think what I see is a lot of times I can see things, you know, with a still photograph, you're picturing basically you're freezing a thousandth of a second. And that is something that sometimes you don't even get to see with your naked eye. And so I get to see certain behaviors. I see certain subtle things that these animals do in these still photographs that teach me more about them.
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And every time I take a photograph, it just preserves a moment that'll never happen exactly that way again. And quite frankly, Dan, I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm very lucky in the sense that I have a memory, a photographic memory, in that every photograph that I take, you can show me a photograph that I took 15 years ago in Africa.
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And when I see the photograph, I remember taking it. I remember where I was. I even sometimes remember what it smelled like when I took it. So this is just something that I've been very lucky to have that gift. Because like I say, I'm not smart in any other way, but it's just a lucky gift that I have. So photography just connects me to nature.
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It just lets me see things, subtle things in nature and helps preserve those moments. And it's my greatest tool when I have to try to teach people to care about nature too.
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That is in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. This was a male lion. I am leaning low in the bottom of a Toyota Land Cruiser, and it's just walking up to me. The sun is just rising, which is that great side light, and it just slowly started taking step by step by step, and it kind of saw its reflection in the face of my lens.
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So it's just looking at me and wondering whether it's looking at me and wondering whether it's looking at what it thinks is another lion. So there's that moment there of just that anticipation, a little bit of anxiety, but it's just electric. You know, there's that old saying that says, You know, life isn't measured by the number of breaths that you take.
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It's measured by the number of times your breath is taken away. And when you have a lion like that standing literally 10, 15 feet in front of you, staring right at you like that, and it's just got this incredible look. I mean, just the light and the smell of the Okavango Delta at sunrise. Man, I'll tell you, I remember that photograph very well. It really made quite an impression on me.
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I was actually, you know, one of my dreams. Dan, growing up, I used to watch the National Geographic specials, and I'll never forget watching Diane Fossey in the Virunga volcanoes with these mountain gorillas coming up to her, being able to be next to them. This is an animal that, you know, so many people have this preconceived notion that it's King Kong.
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It's this massive, you know, aggressive, dangerous animal. And yet I saw this gentle giant with Diane Fossey, and I always dreamed about seeing that myself. And this was the first time I was able to go to Rwanda into the Virunga volcanoes. And I was sitting there watching this incredible troop of mountain gorillas when one of them came right up to me.
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Now, you're supposed to keep a 15 foot distance between you and the gorillas because you don't want to have anything, you know, transmit to the animals. There's zoonotic diseases where you can give something a cold or something to the animal. You're not supposed to be on the mountain anyway if you have any kind of sickness. But anyway. you try to keep your distance.
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But if the gorilla comes to you, you do not turn and run. What you have to do is you just kind of get into the fetal position. Don't look at the gorilla. Don't make any threatening moves or sounds. There's a sound that you do make to calm the gorilla down. It kind of goes... The guides make that sound, and that's kind of a comforting sound to the gorillas.
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So I'm sitting there going, and this gorilla king sat right next to me. And all of a sudden, she leaned over to me, and with her lips, she just tugged on my earlobe. And I can feel her. She's breathing in my nose. She goes... And you feel that, and it's just such an electricity there.
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And I'm honestly telling you that I never thought for one second she was going to kill me or she was going to hurt me. I just couldn't believe I was there. And I took my camera. I had a wide-angle lens on it. I just took a blind shot, not looking at this. I can't look at the gorilla. That's a threat. You can't look at these primates that way. It's a threat. And I just took a shot.
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And I have this shot. You can't really see my face, but you can see the gorilla right next to me, this wide-angle lens. And it's just one of those moments again, Dan, where you just can't pay me enough to forget that moment of this incredible, majestic animal. sitting gently next to me and curiously just kind of investigating my earlobe with her lips. It was just phenomenal.
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You know, Dan, I don't know. I just think it's my fascination and my wonder that overrides the fear. You know, I've never... I've never, you know, the only time I was ever really frightened, and I told that story before, is when that elephant came at us in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. That was something that I knew I could really be in trouble.
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And I thought for, I really thought for a while that I was not going to live through that. But, you know, any other thing, I understand the gorillas are these gentle giants. And this was not a male that came up to me. It was a female. And females are much more inquisitive. They're much less aggressive. You know, the male might tend to be aggressive if he feels you're threatening the troop.
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But this was a female. And Dan, this is one of the rarest animals in the world. At that time, there were probably less than 500 mountain gorillas in the world. And here's one sitting next to me on this mountain that I'd watched on National Geographic, the same mountain that Dian Fossey sat on working with these gorillas. That's a magical connection.
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I mean, you know, you could look, you know, as a journalist and think, God, this is like, you know, Sitting at the desk of Edward R. Murrow and talking to these people. I mean, I don't know. It's not a good analogy, I guess. But for me, it was just so exciting to have such an incredible animal, such a majestic animal, and yet such a gentle giant next to me. I really never was afraid.
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It was an adrenaline rush. I'm not going to tell you my heart wasn't beating over 200 beats a minute, but it was not out of fear. It was just adrenaline.
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You know, when I say be careful, yes, you do not want to look up and look at the gorilla because that would be a threat. But I knew that. I knew just to keep myself in a fetal position, take the photograph, and yet I could just feel her lips gently tugging on my earlobe and feeling her just...
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blowing into my ear smelling smelling me probably thinking i stink uh whereas you know the gorilla to me wasn't the greatest smelling animal in the world but another another incident i'll give you actually happened in the masai mara in kenya and this was an elephant we were in the middle of a herd of a large herd of elephants probably about 30 40 elephants mothers with calves and all of a sudden this cab came walking closer to the vehicle and you know one of the most dangerous times to be around an elephant is a mother with her calf because they're very protective of their calves
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So this cab came walking over and you could tell the mother was looking at it. And then all of a sudden the mother came between the cab and the vehicle, but to the point where she was literally five feet from the vehicle. And I'm just standing there trying to stand perfectly still. And then the trunk comes over and it reaches over and just, you hear the trunk again.
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and kind of touches the side of the vehicle. And I could feel the whiskers. I'm not moving. I grabbed my arm on the top of the Land Cruiser and I could feel the whiskers of the trunk. And everybody's just saying, stay still, don't make any moves. That's a big adrenaline rush there too. But I think,
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I mean, this is gonna sound like a little stupid and people are gonna, oh, you know, Ron, that's ridiculous. I just really felt that that elephant knew that we were not there to harm her, that she was just kind of scoping out and there was a way that she could sense that we were not a threat. And then she continued to eat and let us photograph her calf and be close to her calf.
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And that's kind of a very special feeling when an animal accepts you into its environment without thinking of you as a threat.
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So very strange. It's not right, guys. It's not right that you guys give these animals a bad label. You ran at him with that animal and waved it in his face. I'm going to put my headphones back on. Don't worry, Greg. I'm not going to let it hurt you. It's looking right at Greg. Look at Greg! Don't move, Greg. Just stay still. I want you to look at this animal. It's beautiful.
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Ron, you ran at him with that animal. I want you to understand...
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No, it's not. It's good, it's good. Greg, listen. First of all, this is a ball python. It's a non-venomous snake. Oh, thank God. It's a non-venomous snake. I wouldn't bring a venomous snake out here. And I don't want two guys to run scared like that. I want them to understand. Once you understand an animal, you realize it's not everything you think it is. First of all, it looks slimy, right? Yeah.
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It's not. I'm going to ask Dan to touch it. I'm not going to ask Greg to touch it because he already told me no. Is it slimy, Dan? No, no. Not at all. I would touch it, just not near the small venomous snake. Did Stugatz bring security with him? He just brought Frankie with him. He brought the camera. He broke the camera and everything. He did knock over a camera running out of here.
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But more importantly, he knocked over your wonderful social media person there. I mean, he hurt her. She could sue you, Stugatz. Assault. HR.
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Franklin's going to protect you. Franklin's going to protect you. Franklin's going to protect you. Franklin's going to protect you. Frankie, you got to go in front of me.
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Half and half, half and half. Stugatz, Stugatz.
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You have your snake, I have mine. Couple snakes cutting it up. Snakes are important animals. They're... This is really, he's serious.
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Why are snakes important, Ron? You know why? Because they control vermin. They have a massive contribution to controlling rodents and other animals that pass on tremendous diseases, do tremendous damage to crops. They are totally misunderstood. I don't want you guys to have this feeling.
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Now, saying that, I don't want anybody, especially kids who are watching the show, don't think, oh, there's a snake. Ron says it's okay. Go pick it up. No, don't do that either.
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But they're safe. And to prove how safe they are, Greg's got to put it around its neck. No, you know, Greg already asked me, don't ask me to touch it. Okay. And I respect that from Greg. All right, Dan? So Greg is sitting here like a normal human being.
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I'm right here. That's why I'm right here. I'm here. Is there like a release valve? What are you talking about? I am right here. The snake is totally, as a matter of fact, see how it's calm right now? Because Dan emits body heat. And when he emits the body heat, it calms the snake down. It gets rejuvenated by the body heat. It's a little cool in the studio here. So you see the tongue flicking out?
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Listen, you don't get any cooties from the tongue. The tongue is basically, it's collecting little chemical particles in the air that go back into the mouth, and there's an organ in the roof of the mouth of all snakes called the Jacobson's organ. It's like a little computer, and it tells the snake what's around it.
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So guys, if you just understand these animals, you would have a much greater appreciation for them. They really are fascinating. So many snakes get persecuted because of people like Stoogots!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Absolutely. There are several types of constrictors, large constrictors. There are a big group of boas. There are pythons. Pliskins. These are all many species that occur in those two groups that have the capability of constricting a person. Ron, quick question. Do snakes have ears? No, that's a good question. Snakes do not have ears.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Snakes do not have external ears as we know them, so they can never hear anything. Another thing snakes don't have is they don't have eyelids, so they can't close their eyes. Okay, well, you did it. They can't close their eyes, so that's why they always look like they're awake, but they're not. They can sleep with their eyes open. Wow. So they don't have external ears.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Of course, they don't have legs, but they do have... The remnants of a pelvis. So there's actually these little spurs here. This is a female, so her spurs are small. But males have bigger spurs, and those are actually vestigial legs from when snakes actually had legs. People think snakes are so old because they don't have legs that they evolved to grow legs. No, they evolved to lose their legs.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So they're actually an advanced type of reptile.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He doesn't listen. He just has this fear. He has this fear. Animals are incredible, guys. You just need to understand them. I'm not saying be careless with them. Don't put yourself at risk. Just understand them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I don't know if it would be the most exotic or the strangest, and I don't know if most people would classify it as an animal. I do, but it was this massive beetle in the Amazonian forest that I was with a group of indigenous people, an indigenous tribe in the forest, and this was part of their diet, and they also had a massive... maggot, for lack of a better term.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's kind of a larval stage that, you know, was put into kind of a hot fryer and given to me to eat. And I ate it out of respect to the people.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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This guy here, hey, come here, Tango. Tango, look, this is Tango. Tango, Tango, Tango, Tango. Oh, Tango. Oh, peanuts! This is called a Patagonian cavey or a mara. And it's basically a big guinea pig. This guy, believe it or not, for those of you who live in South Florida, I was called by the police department. He was walking along the parking lot of the Fall Shopping Center.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And in all fairness, it was not as awful as I thought it was going to be. I really thought it was just going to be a repulsive flavor.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And the grub, especially the big larva, the big maggot, was actually, there was a little bit of almost sweetness to it that wasn't bad. It's the palatability of it, though. And the fact is, when I ate it, it was kind of still alive, so it was moving when it went in your mouth.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The key thing is, you've got to bite it and eat it right away. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The deep frying was for the big beetle. That was deep frying. They deep fried it until it almost popped like a kernel of popcorn. The maggot was not fried. It was alive. It was like right out of a husk of a tree. The incredible senses of animals. I'm talking about the sense of smell, okay? Right now, polar bear. Sense of smell is unflipping believable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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A polar bear can smell a seal five miles away. Five miles away. Now, you all look... I see you shaking your head. Oh, no, I'm well. All that stuff Tony was saying. All that stuff. Yeah, I got it. Okay, but I'm telling you, they can do it. Okay? Okay, they can do it. If you look at the nasal bones, the terminate bones in the nose of a polar bear, it looks like this... Tiny little holes everywhere.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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There's all these little funky bones. There's so much surface area that they can pick up smell. As opposed to you look at a human skull, they have hardly any terminate bones. And we think we can smell. We can't do anything compared to a polar bear, okay? The sense of touch. Think about things. How animals use their sense of touch for different things. Look at raccoons.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Raccoons use their sense of touch for food. They can feel things in holes. They can pretty much determine anything with their sense of touch. Their sense of touch is incredibly important to them. Okay? Sense of sight. We're going to go to any bird of prey.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Whether you're talking about an owl, you're talking about an eagle, you're talking about an animal that can read a newspaper 100 yards away even though Tony says it's a muela. It's not. They can do it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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or if they could read assuming they can read that you know that's a big assumption of course you're taking a stretch there but the bottom line is they can make the details out of those little letters on a newspaper from 100 yards away they have an eagle can spot a mouse from almost half a mile in the air spot a mouse in the grass come on guys it's unbelievable stuff okay now the taste i don't know about the taste i don't know what's going to have the taste type thing going on there so i
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm going to go with hearing. I'm going to go with hearing. Let's go with the bats. I mean, what bats can do with their hearing is unbelievable. Echolocation. They're making the sound and they can bounce it back. Look at the close-ups of bats. Look at the shapes and sizes of their ears. They look like aliens, man. It's unbelievable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And the way they can move back and forth, they're like big radar dishes. That is freaking unbelievable when you look at what a bat can do with its hearing. So we got hearing. We got smell. We got sight. We got touch. The fifth one. What's the fifth one?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's going to be smell and it's going to be, you know, you look at some of these dogs that can smell cancer in a person. Think about this, guys. Stop it, Chris. Why are you saying that it's not possible?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I just didn't know that. They should be doctors. There are dogs that can smell ovarian cancer in a person before it's even determined. Before it's even diagnosed medically, they can smell ovarian cancer. This is unbelievable stuff, guys. Animals can save our lives if we just give them the credit and the opportunity.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The way they teach them, the way they teach them is they teach them to alert. And the way they alert is they just sit. They would walk. Let's say you put, you know, five women in a row. One has already been diagnosed or one has the ovarian cancer. The dog will walk by all five women. When it gets to the woman who has cancer, he sits right in front of her. That's his alert saying she's got it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Somebody must have had him as a pet. The cool thing about him is he feels really soft. You can pet him, Mike. He's not going to bite you. I'm good. Mike, Mike, you can pet him. Mike, pet him. Mike, pet him. All right. Here, Mike, Mike, give him a peanut. Give him a peanut. Show him the peanut. Let him take the peanut. Look at that, Mike. You are now an animal guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, what they do is they'll take things like cancer cells. I've got to go to the stream with cancer. Okay. And they'll put it with other objects and they wait for the dog to smell and they reward the dog for smelling the cancer. So the dog's not saying, I smell cancer. You need to take care of this person. The dog is doing something because it knows it's going to get rewarded for it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's called bridging. We bridge when we teach animals to do things. When we see a behavior that we find favorable, we reward the animals. So what they'll do is they'll Put money, let's say, put money in one bag and all the other bags have nothing. When the dog goes to the money, he gets rewarded. That's called a bridge. Right away, say, okay, you're getting money, boom.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So then the dog learns, hey, when I go to the money, I get rewarded. And then you just reinforce that behavior. You keep causing different bridges to connect the animal to whatever you're trying to teach it. So the animal's not saying, I'm a specialist in smelling cancer, no, or I'm a specialist in smelling drugs, no. We teach a dog that has an incredible sense of smell Pinpoint that one thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That becomes a drug specialist dog. He's been rewarded. Like we wouldn't have a dog doing drugs and cancer at the same time because then the dog's confused. So we teach the dog, this is what your specialty is. As soon as you determine that this is that, you will get rewarded. And that's how it works.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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All right, guys. Take care. Tony, missing you on the court, brother. Likewise.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, it's not that humans don't eat it, but most people look at it as some type of weird exotic food. Alligator. Really? Ostrich. Ostrich also. Really good quality meat with no fat and high in protein. What about human food? Jesus Christmas. Who's that? Cody? Did he just say that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Can I ask you a question while I got you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Wasn't me. No, Cody. That's called cannibalism. Yeah. But do we know if it's good? Jesus Christmas.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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This is Desperate Times. Where's Levitar? Dan, I need him. In Desperate Times. In Desperate Times.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, yeah, because great white sharks are protected species.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You can occasionally show them who's boss. Maybe protection. Why are they protected? Because they're an imperative part of the food chain. They keep... populations in balance. If you don't have white sharks eating things like seals and sea lions, the seals and sea lions get out of proportion. They start eating all the fish. Fishermen are not catching any fish.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You start losing the tourism industry and fish. People are not getting enough fish in their diet. It's just a domino effect.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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i think they have been kind of a modified breed that has uh just basically used his pets but this guy should not really be a pet obviously somebody tried to keep him as a pet he got away he's in the fall shopping center now he's an ambassador here at the zoo found up in the mountains of chile up in the andes they get a nice thick coat they work really well to deal with the different kinds
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I've left, when I first get a dog, a puppy, I leave him in the kennel overnight, over eight hours. To teach him, that's how you kennel train a dog so that he knows to hold it because dogs instinctively, even as puppies, they don't want to defecate or urinate where they sleep. So he'll hold it in that kennel until you open the kennel and then you take him for a walk immediately.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And that's how you slowly but surely puppy train an animal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah. You know, he may have or he just wanted to leave early. He may have just wanted to leave early. He may just hate my segment and not want to be there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Ironically, lions will always, the male always bites the neck of the female, and you'll see that on almost all cats. So it seems kind of rough a little bit there. And remember now, the penises of lions, all cats for that matter, have these little fleshy spines that point backwards. So when he inserts it into the female, it slides in no problem.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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However, if he tries to withdraw the penis while it's still erect, those fleshy spines rape
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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the vaginal walls of the female so you'll hear cat breeding it kind of starts it kind of goes oh even the lions you hear them they kind of go and then all of a sudden you're and that's when he's withdrawing and it hurts her and she turns around she tries to slap the jeebers out of him and then 20 minutes later she's asking for it again so i don't know if she remembers how much that hurt
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You know, I feel terrible for the zebra, but I cannot blame a sheriff. These sheriffs are not really trained in this kind of wildlife. Their objective is to protect things. I saw the video. As a matter of fact, I commented on it this morning on the news that, you know, these sheriffs didn't know what to do. I can't blame them for doing that. What I do have to make people understand is this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And they said, oh, it's a zebra. It's kind of like a horse. Anybody who works with horses knows even a stallion, any stallion can be incredibly dangerous, especially when you've got mares around them that are in season. And this is a lone male zebra that had a bunch of female zebras around it. It was becoming very territorial. Anybody knows even a domestic horse can bite your arm off.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And that's exactly what this zebra did. I feel horrible that they had to shoot it. I don't blame the police officers, though, because they're in a situation. They just saw the zebra come at this guy, try to take his arm off. You've got to protect yourself.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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kinds of changing weather there all the time. Tango's one of our favorites.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yes, yes, yes. The zebra, and watching the video, they could have kept that zebra back. There was a guy there with a big stick. He kept having...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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know keeping the zebra away and the zebra kept coming back kept coming back and the officers just said listen i can't take this chance i can't take this chance i would have told them listen it's just keep yourself you're not gonna you can keep the zebra away with a big stick just keep screaming and yelling and keep the zebra away um you know it's unfortunate they didn't have somebody there who could tell them what to do they just saw a guy that had his arm holes bitten off the zebra's coming at you again you cannot blame the police for that
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Oh, that's got to go to spiders. When you look at things that spiders do, if you're going to talk to something a little bigger like a bird, look at the Oropendila bird. The Oropendila bird makes this wonderful nest. It's like a dangling nest that hangs down from the tree, and it's basically constructed that way so snakes can't get in to eat their chicks and their eggs.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's the way they've adapted to make this nest. But I've got one actually hanging in my office here. It's hanging in the back of my office that I brought back from Panama. It's just a beautiful tapestry. Weaver birds do the same thing. In Africa, the weaver birds make these wonderful hanging bulbous nests that are woven beautifully. Watch the whole process. It's amazing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Oh, they're incredibly impressive, first of all, because of their intelligence. They're amazingly intelligent animals. Their mode of communication, they have their own languages. Those languages can vary from pod to pod, where they have their own distinct languages from pod to pod. The way they can hunt cooperatively.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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This is like a combination of a kangaroo, a rabbit with short ears, and a guinea pig. All right, here we go. I got another for you. Boy, Tango's liking those peanuts. You're a big hit with him, brother. This is Goliath. He's our Galapagos tortoise. He's 500 pounds, probably about 90 years old. One of the oldest living vertebrates in the world.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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First of all, Tony, I want to say how impressed I am that you watch these shows and you're fascinated with this kind of stuff. Not only are you a great athlete, but you're obviously a good mind that's taking in good information. How's the ankle, by the way?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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enough enough all right so anyway the bottom line is you watch an orca hunt you i don't know if you guys seen those videos where a seal will go up on a plate of ice on an iceberg to get away from the orca and they get together and say okay listen this is what i'm going to do we're all going to go on one side we're going to make a wave to knock the seal off the other end of the other of the iceberg and then they're going to get them on the other side i mean what kind of intelligence does that take to say listen let's do this let's make this wave
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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knock them off the iceberg, and then let's get them on the other side. Man, that's spectacular stuff when you think about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, they're usually part of the park system within the government, which is what we are. We're part of the parks and recreation system here in Miami-Dade County. And it's not always necessary. You have, of course, government-run zoos like the Smithsonian. The National Zoo is run by the government. But the San Diego Zoo is a private zoo. There are some zoos that are half and half.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So it's not obligatory to be run by a government or run privately. To each zone depends on the market and how it evolves. But each can be very successful.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Very distressing. And you know, it's the time of year when I tell people, anybody who has a pet dog, even a pet cat, but pet dogs especially, go through tremendous stress with these fireworks. You can try to get them things like thunder jackets and things like that, but very little works during the fireworks. And I feel really badly for these animals
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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during the celebrations because people are celebrating. They don't realize the kind of stress that puts their animals through. But I can tell you, I bet you an overwhelming majority of your dog owners in your audience know the horrible stress that dogs go through.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So look at your dog. You would never think that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And to me, you know, he's a little bit on the heavy side. Very, very slow. If I was going to look at one of the guys and say, who would most be like the Galapagos tortoise? You got to go with great Cody.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Absolutely, absolutely. But you know what? At the end of the day, dependable and also quite lovable. And if you look closely at his face, that's E.T., man. Look at it. E.T., phone home. He's 90. He can live to be over 150.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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so is that the oldest tortoise that you have here at the zoo we believe he's one of the oldest we don't know because a lot of these guys actually came in as adults from the galapagos islands they're one of the only animals we have at the zoo that actually are out of the wild because they're so old because zoos don't take animals out of the wild anymore all right and goliath will be coming with you in studio we'll see yeah fits in an overhead
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, you know, but I'm working on it. I'm thinking if we can put him on Ocean Drive, it would be a good draw. It'd probably bring a lot of attention to the marathon. So I'm working on a specialized trailer. Listen, Mike, nothing's out of the question.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You know, there's over 40,000 muscles in the elephant's trunk, and they have an accuracy with things that can be really big. But if we don't give them any ammunition, we should be safe. You just never know. Again, I think adding to the excitement of it, you want to have an element of uncertainty.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm probably going to bring this guy to the studio. Very small studio.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Mike, Mike, why are you not a bird person, Mike?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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This is an eagle owl. That's the dangerous part, buddy. That's what you've got to watch out for. Mike, I want you to just touch the back. Mike, Mike, Mike. Just very softly in the back. Come on, Mike. You can do it. Come on. You're a sports guy, Mike. You're fearless. Come on, Mike. You can do it. Look at that. Look at that, Mike. It's very soft. Look at that. Right? Very soft, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But they got to do that, Mike. You know what? Because they can't move their eyes. They can't. You know, you and I can do this, right? We can look around like this. The owl can't do that. So he's got to be able to point his head directly. He likes you, buddy. He's laser focused on you there for a while.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, I really think this is going to be what I'm bringing to the studio. I think I'm going to bring him to the studio, you know, so the guys can see him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, sometimes he might fly off, but we'll get him back. He'll be okay. He can fly. You must have, like, clipped the wings or something. No, he can fly. He can fly. But I got him strapped, so he can only fly a short distance. Mike, it's really not one of these. Mike. Not Mike. We're good. We're good. We don't need to do that. All right. All right. Oh, he's going to fly. He's going to fly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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There he goes! This is where he does his bad impression.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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We're bringing this guy to the studio. He's coming to the studio. We're going to make him like Bob. Well, if the Dan Levitard Show were done by animals, there's Dan and Stugatz right there, doing their thing, brother. If it were done by animals?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But this is, again, Levitard Show animated by Saimengs. Not monkeys. They don't have a tail. They can't be a monkey. They're a lesser ape. But we talk about the apes in the studio all the time, including Mr. Ryan right here. Yeah. One of the better looking apes, I must say.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Oh, look at that baby. Who's got a tongue like that? Not me, not you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Absolutely. This is probably the top interactive experience we have where you can come up, get on a platform, and you can look at a giraffe eye to eye. Look at those eyelashes. Look at that tongue. It's a great experience we can do. You can feed the lorikeets. You can come and feed a camel. So these are great experiences. And our giraffe now have three babies out here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So it's a wonderful opportunity to come see the moms and their babies and the dad and these great eyelashes. And look at these great, I mean, tallest land mammal on earth. Pregnancy of about 13 to 15 months. And you know what? Baby falls four to six feet to the floor. Mom doesn't even lay down.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Interesting fact. We've got seven bones in our neck. How many bones do you think a giraffe has in its neck? Eight. Oh, it's close. Seven. Oh, really? Yeah, it's a trick question. Almost all mammals have seven bones in their neck. Just some of the bones are longer than others.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They swing their heads like a baseball bat against each other. They try to knock each other down. They try to knock each other at the feet, but they don't kick. They don't bite. They just use their heads as battering rams to try to knock the other one down for dominance. Here comes the rest of the herd out here now. So we're all getting good morning here at Zoo Miami.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Got to come out and enjoy this and enjoy. Oh, you want one too? I know. I know. Look at the little slobber. She's drooling. Oh, my gosh. Oh, geez. Can you believe this is my job? It's a great scam. Yeah. I work with animals. You work with animals. We know what it's like. Synergy. Synergy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You are going to be feeling like this guy. I got to tell you something. Slowest mammal in the world. You know, walk that can only do about six feet a minute. Now they swim a lot better. So they swim a little better. Totally arboreal animal. Very well known. Let me see if I can get something else for him. He's showing an interest in food here called the two-toed sloth. Here we go. Look at this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Look at that. They even eat slowly. Okay. But another wonderful animal here at the zoo. These guys were rescues. They actually were orphaned in Panama. We brought them down here. They've been here now for a few years and they're thriving. They're one of our ambassador animals. We might be bringing them. I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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they'll erect the quills and they'll back up into you real quickly and the quills at the end have little barbs on them that get stuck and can make a real nasty infection on you but this guy here prehensile tail porcupine because this tail is actually what they can use as another arm another finger and they'll hang from the trees they'll kind of stabilize themselves as they're up in the trees and as you can tell he likes to eat a lot of stuff too
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Dan Libertard, the hippo, for all the people that keep writing me and emailing me and messaging me, they want to know how Dan's doing. And we thought it'd be a great opportunity to show you. He's got a beautiful exhibit he goes out there on, but this is the barn that he sleeps in at night.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And what we wanted to do is we wanted to show the people how well Dan is doing, how nice and rotund Dan is maintaining, how he still loves to eat, though I think the real Dan, does he eat lettuce or he's more like... Not unlike the real Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But the bottom line is, listen, Dan is one of the nicest pygmy hippos I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Oh, wow. This particular one right here, the one I don't get to work with the real Dan as much as you get to work with the real Dan. So you'll have to speak on that behalf. But this Dan here, we see him here. He's become quite a crowd favorite. And he has raised a significant amount of money to help his cousins in the wild.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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which has been a great thing, something that we're proud to be associated with. You know, the endowment, the Romney Guild Conservation Endowment has already provided over $10,000 for pygmy hippo research. Thanks to Dan Levitard. Thanks to the Dan Levitard Show. Thanks to the incredible crew over there. This is just a beautiful moment for all of us. I'll get the other half of this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
And what are they?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
I didn't know to the extent of how whacked out of his mind this guy Joe Exotic is. I mean, I realized he was an oddball. I didn't agree with the things he was doing at all. I've said it many times on network television that this whole thing of keeping these animals as pets and using their cubs to make money by selling pictures with them is something I abhor.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
But having said that, this guy is so whacked beyond even that. I mean, that's the least of his totally messed up mentality with these animals. This is a series about not just wild animals and keeping them as pets in your yard, but it's about sex. It's about alleged murder. It's about all kinds of – you couldn't make this stuff up if you wrote it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
If you wrote this and put it in a book, they go, this is the dumbest book I've ever read. None of this would ever happen.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
I knew him very well. And I actually worked with him way back when, when I started 30-something years ago. You know, he taught me how to hand raise a lot of animals. I will say this about Mario. He loves animals. And he knows his stuff about working with animals. He, you know, openly admitted to me afterwards, you know, he made a lot of bad mistakes, did a lot of bad things.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
But at the end of the day, as far as his caring for animals, I think he does an incredible job doing so. Do I agree with what he does with those animals, like having a chimpanzee and taking pictures? No, absolutely not.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
And he knows that because though I respect his knowledge of animals, you know, I no longer will ever go to his facility or anything like that because I totally disagree with that philosophy.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
I knew him before he got busted, yes. And then I went through the whole process of when he did get busted. You know, I will tell you, Dan, I remember working in his warehouse because I was working with animals or learning how to work with different animals. I didn't get the opportunity to work with at the zoo.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
And I remember, you know, I remember he had a briefcase like you saw in the movie on his desk and he'd open the briefcase and you'd see all those hundred dollar bills wrapped in those briefcases. you know, perfect little, like you see in the movie. I mean, this is like a movie stuff.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
But, you know, one thing I will tell you, all the things that he did and he admitted he did, he never, ever did it in front of me. I never saw any any semblance of that other than that briefcase I remember seeing with money. I think he had to get a key out of it to give me something to get in the back room, and he opened the briefcase, and I couldn't help but see what's in the briefcase.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
I'm going, holy jeez, this is like, you know, those are the Miami Vice days, and I'm thinking, I'm living an episode of Miami Vice here.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Just the fact that we have so many people with this mentality of keeping these animals as pets, thinking they can make money out of them, exploiting them by kind of anthropomorphizing them, thinking, oh, come on, everybody wants to swim in a pool with a tiger.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Everybody wants to lay down on their belly and take a picture with a baby tiger that has been ripped away from its mother for the sole purpose of making money out of it. And then most likely when that tiger gets to be a mature adult, it is dumped somewhere, or worse than that, killed and slaughtered.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
thrown into a pit because it's no longer useful making money because you can't take pictures with it anymore. And that's what happens with a lot of these situations, okay? And I'm hoping that this series, as crazy as these people were, opens people's eyes up and they start looking at some of these things and saying, wait a minute.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Now, I got to stipulate that you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are truly some good sanctuaries that do an incredible job of caring for their animals. But what you saw in this And this series is not those sanctuaries. You know, this guy, oh, my God, my blood pressure boils when I think about what I was watching. I couldn't even lay down on the couch watching.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
I had to sit on the edge of the couch staring on the television like I wanted to jump in there and punch him. I mean, it's just unbelievable what goes on. And unfortunately, most people don't know about it because a lot of this goes on, like, in places like Oklahoma and Ohio. But here in Florida, we've got a problem with that, too, in some of these roadside attractions.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
So people need to understand. I can't tell you how many times I've done interviews on Good Morning America, CNN, every time there's been a tiger attack or some other attack in one of these places where, you know, it turns out it's one of these roadside attractions where they just don't have the right conditions to maintain these animals properly.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
You know, happy is a hard term to interpret when it comes to animals. I think many of those animals are physically healthy, yes, but I don't think it's normal. Tigers are solitary animals. It's not normal to see 10 tigers in one pen. No, it's not a kumbaya thing where they think, oh, look, we're all one happy family. We're all brothers and sisters. I love you. I love you.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
I don't think that is normal. I think at the end of the day, that puts a stress that might not be easily seen by a layperson, but the animal is stressed that way. There'll be scenes in this thing, if you haven't seen them yet, where these animals get in some pretty brutal fights. That is not acceptable. That's just not acceptable. So people need to get that out of their heads.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Again, there are some legitimate sanctuaries that are doing a good job of rescuing cats from places like this guy's place. You know, when they get confiscated and there's no place to put them, there are places that are taking them in and doing the right job and protecting them.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
But I would have to say the majority of people in this country who are keeping lions and tigers and similar types of animals in their backyards are as quote-unquote sanctuaries are not sanctuaries. They're exploiting these animals to make money.
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It could be something as large as the Stanley Cup if it weren't made out of sterling silver. I mean, if it's something that could be crushed, yeah, theoretically they could eat it. I mean, didn't you see Jaws ate some scuba tanks?
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Not really, Dan, not really. I mean, they will feed on carcasses of whales. I mean, they will, you know, vigorously feed on dead whales that are just rotting and smell like make you gag in your mouth. But they don't necessarily, you know, pick up, you know, beer cans and bottles and stuff like that. No, they're not that kind of scavenger.
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If they're eating something like that, it's something that was attached to something that they meant to eat. Garbage floating in the ocean, floating into the carcass of a whale, when they're eating the whale, they'll swallow everything that gets in their mouth, but not intentionally eating things like human trash, no.
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Um, no, I really haven't. I mean, I've, you know, I've heard of all kinds of fish parts and unfortunately sometimes some human parts, but, uh, I haven't heard anything, you know, mind blowing. I mean, I've heard of things in bellies of other animals. I mean, like ostriches, ostriches eat all kinds of drill bits and screws and pans and they are garbage.
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They'll put everything in their mouth and swallow it.
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That's certainly possible. I mean, you know, sharks are following the baitfish. So as soon as the baitfish start coming in closer, so are the sharks. They're following the baitfish. Now, I hope that people took notice of that video, for instance, of that bull shark out there on South Beach. How many people, it went right by without biting them, without attacking them.
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That's not to say it's not possible, of course, but let's let's put this in perspective. When we talk about we hear a shark attack, this horrific tragedy in Hawaii with this guy. OK, horrible, horrible. But yet people need to not paint with a broad brush to say this is why all sharks need to be destroyed.
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Look at that bull shark literally swimming within feet of dozens of people there and never bit one of them, never bit one of them. Let's please keep this in mind.
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Oh, geez. Land animal? I don't know, because none of the carnivores are going to do it. I mean, they're... They're just not going to do it. I don't see anything like it.
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It's not edible. It's not an edible thing. It's a giant thing. It's not something... Hippopotamus, maybe.
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No, no, it's not. There's no land animal that's going to eat the Stanley Cup.
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That is absolutely something that should be done. There are little types of stickers, little types of things that you can put on your window that doesn't destroy your view or anything like that, but birds can see it. See, the reason why these birds fly into windows is they're seeing reflections of the things behind them.
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If they're flying, you know, if you have a beautiful house full of windows and you're surrounded by a forest, they see that forest in the window and they fly right into it, okay? The same thing with high-rise buildings. In the high-rise building, when it's above all the other buildings, they're seeing sky. They're seeing a reflection of sky behind them, so they go into that.
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All you need to do, and the Audubon Society makes these available for free, I believe, you can just get these little stickers and put them on your sliding doors. Again, they're not these huge, obstructional types of things. They're just visible by the birds, barely visible by you, and it saves countless lives.
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I don't know how many of those records are as dependable.
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What do we think? I got to think the Lombardi trophy. It's pretty cylindrical. It's not really huge. It's not really wide. It's a swallowable trophy.
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Hey, I want to see the picture of Rodriguez's little baby girl sitting in the cup that he said he wanted to take last night. That's going to be a great shot.
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They're bouncing back as well as can be hoped for because you know what? Decades ago, there were only 20 of them left. Now there's probably a little bit over 200. So they have increased their strength. They've increased their numbers. They've increased their range. They are no longer the new team with just a bunch of neophytes.
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These panthers have expanded their population, but only to the limit of what's available to them in habitat. People don't realize that panthers, the number one killer of panthers is cars, unfortunately. They get hit by cars on the road. But what people don't understand, the number two killer of panthers is, is other panthers because they fight for territory and they're limited to their territory.
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So the males will kill each other over territory. And that's the number two killer of panthers. But, you know, this is the largest cat in the state of Florida. It is the state animal. You know, we have a state mammal, the manatee, the state bird, the mockingbird, which we hope to make the flamingo soon. You know, we have a state butterfly, the zebra wing.
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But the state animal, like the animal, the number one animal in the state is the Florida panther.
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Well, Zoo Miami is working with the foundation. We've been speaking to legislators. They have put a bill forth that kind of died in the House this last session, but they're hoping to bring it again the next session to make the flamingo the state bird. I think it's a natural.
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You know, I'm a huge sports fan, and to see the last major teams in Florida win the Stanley Cup, win the championship, you know, I've been here. I've been here for the 72-73 Dolphins. I was here for the 2006 Heat. I was here for the 96-97 Marlins. Now to be here and to see this happen here in Florida, it makes me happy because, you know, I transplanted from New York.
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New York is a big sports town. We had some great teams back then. 1969, the greatest year of my life as a sports guy. The Mets, the Jets, the Knicks, the Rangers. I mean, it was everybody winning the championship that year. So coming down here and having this team do this and to be able to say a Florida team, a Southern Florida team wins an ice hockey championship. That's just so freaking great.
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Well, you know what, Dan? Dan, you know what? They're going to need to get over it. Because, you know, if somebody cannot look at a coach and a general manager literally sobbing there on the ice last night, I started to get emotional watching that, realizing the eruption of emotion that has built up in these guys that have worked so hard for this. Now, don't get me wrong.
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I felt bad for, you know, the Jesus there, that guy, whatever. I felt bad for him. I wish he'd come out to kind of accept the trophy, even though I probably understand why he didn't. I thought it was bad that people were booing that because, you know, the stats indicated that he was the MVP, even though, God, that goalie. God, did our goalie kill it? It was amazing. He had a couple of bad games.
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I understand that. But what a job, baby. He did it.
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Take care. We'll talk soon. Bye-bye.