The Legend of Gustave, The Killer Crocodile
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to a wonderful day inside of the wonderful podcast Tooth and Claw. And we have our wonderful wildlife biologist, Wes Larson with us. How are you doing today, Wes?
I'm good. I'm good. It's late June. Things are wonderful.
That's wonderful. And I'm Wes's little brother, Jeff, and I've been doing good too. And we got Mike Smith with us. I saw Disclosure Day yesterday. Oh, what'd you think? They disclosed, spoiler, they disclosed some information at the end. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Who did?
The actors.
Several people.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, don't spoil it, actually. Yeah. That was close. Mike, you saw Masters of the Universe? I sure did. I sure did. How was that?
It was exactly what I thought it was going to be. Mike was saying it needed to be a little longer. Holy cow. Why was that movie like three hours long? That didn't need to be the case.
Yeah, that's too long for that movie.
The jokes landed at about a 5% rate. Yeah, that is about what I'd expect. It wasn't super great, but at a certain point, you just have to realize that a movie maybe isn't made for you quite.
What was that movie a while ago where there was someone online that said there wasn't a single joke in the movie, and it was a really serious movie? Yeah.
and that was their big complaint i feel like it was like the batman or schindler's list or something yeah and they're like oh this movie sucked there wasn't a single joke schindler's list like if you put a joke in that movie it could really hit you know like you could put a good joke that's a high risk high reward kind of joke My main thing with Disclosure Day is like Steven Spielberg is maybe the best example of a director using visual effects to their benefit and just creating works of art with T-Rex, sharks, all that, you know? It's like his AI animals suck.
Yeah, that killed me. Just the trailer, seeing the deer, I was like, I can't.
I don't think I'm going to like this. Every single hair is perfect, and it's lit up all weird. I don't know. You're supposed to be good at this, dude. Did he use AI, or was it CG? Yeah.
He used AI?
Yeah.
Or I don't know what the difference of AI and CG is. AI is like an artist doesn't make it, a computer makes it. CG, like CG artist creates it. Spielberg's been using AI since forever ago. That Haley Joel Osment.
Yeah.
He might be my goat. I've been thinking about it lately. I think it's either Spielberg or Ridley Scott, but I think it's Spielberg. Jeff is more of a Tony Scott than a Ridley guy. I was going to ask you guys that, actually, because I started watching Deja Vu the other night, and I was like, you know, Tony Scott has some movies that have some juice. He's got some good movies. True Romance, Crimson Tide, Top Gun. My question for you was going to be, And it sounds like Jeff, I don't even have to add the extra. I don't know if Mike's serious about that or not. I'm not sure if I am either. I was going to say, if you could take either all of Ridley Scott's movies or Tony Scott's movies and Quentin Tarantino's movies, who would you pick?
ridley by a mile me too very comfortably and easily for me yeah yeah i think i'd take tony and quentin quentin yeah all right good question les thanks wow when'd you come up with that one uh because you know they both did true romance together and then sure it just made me think like wow tony scott and ridley scott are so different But Tony Scott has some bangers. It's a fact. Unstoppable. Unstoppable is a good film.
He's dead, right? He did. He jumped from off of a bridge due to, well, who I don't want to psychoanalyze, but that's a really interesting medical sordid history. like uh misprescribed drugs and uh dosages i thought you're talking about jumping off the bridge not a complicated diagnosis there but um not to make light of it but right yeah but we did we lost a legend a living legend you know well speaking of legends mike you did our episode today
Yes, sir.
Legend. Oh, man, that was such an appropriate segue, Jeff, in so many ways. Because I assume that the legend you're referring to wasn't me.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:12–27:44
2
What historical context set the stage for Gustave the killer crocodile in Burundi?
27:44–49:23
3
When did reports of a giant man-eating crocodile first surface along Lake Tanganyika?
49:23–56:37
4
What eyewitness details led Patrice Fay to investigate the crocodile known as Gustave?
56:37–1:11:43
5
How did witnesses describe Gustave's unusual killing behavior of leaving victims uneaten?
1:11:43–1:32:24
Speakers
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