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This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. We got a boldest take of the day, right, Chris Cody? What do we got here, man? Oh, I love the boldest take.
The audience, Dan likes to criticize it, but I think they brought it strong all year. It's the boldest, it's the Boost Mobile boldest take presented by Boost Mobile, the newest 5G network in the country.

Hey, this is Jake. Calling for my cell phone.
And my hot take is if you've played pinball on one machine, you've played pinball on every machine. Thanks.
This little dude on a mobile. my hot take is that the NFL should move the PAT

back to the three yard line

and require the player

scoring the touchdown to make the attempt. I'll hang up and listen.
Hey, everybody. This is Joe on one of those Army field phones.
I just wanted to say I wish bakeries sold bread by the slice. Like, I just want a couple sandwiches right now.
I don't need nor want a full loaf. Thank you.
Hey, Zach, calling on the rotary. Nooks and crannies.
I've heard of a nook, but does anybody ever have a cranny? I'll hang up and listen. Hey guys, Travis from Fort Myers, calling from a rotary phone.
First time, good time. Hey, I've got a strictly soft floor to take for you.
Tyreek Hill is the Jimmy Butler

of the NFL. I'll hang up and listen.

Hi, this is Zach on

the Telegraph Machine, and I got a

Weebo's Mindbender for you.

Would you rather embark

on the Oregon Trail

or travel across the

Atlantic on the Mayflower?

Thanks. Hey, the whales.

Say the teachers.

At what age do you start

Thank you. Atlantic on the Mayflower.
Thanks. Pay the whales.
Pay the teachers. At what age do you start to enjoy playing pinball? Because I remember when I would go to the arcade, like my father would go right to the pin.
That's a dad's game, pinball. I want to play the video games.
But then you get to a certain age, you know what? Pinball is pretty fun. I used to think there was like this crazy special skill to pinball.
And I'm just like, man, if I start working this machine, am I going to embarrass myself? And every time like the ball went or I lost a turn or whatever, I kind of look around and be like, anybody noticed that? Because that was embarrassing. There are people that are much better at it.
Of course. You know, it's got to be a skill, but there are times where it just goes right down the middle.
And you're like, what am I supposed to do about this? It doesn't, the laws of physics do not apply. That's when I need somebody else there to confirm that they saw, did you see that? I couldn't do anything about that.
Don't call me a loser. I don't think I've played a pinball machine since I was like eight.
Really? Not for me. What's the ultimate dad arcade game?

Pac-Man.

Pac-Man.

Miss Pac-Man. Miss Pac-Man.

Miss Pac-Man.

For me, it's Pac-Man.

Golden Tee's up there.

Golden Tee.

Love it.

On Miss Pac-Man, every time you go up a level and you get that little thing that they do,

the little song and dance, you got to wait.

You got to kind of lean to the side and play it really cool and be like, you see this?

You guys see this?

I just made the next level. I think I got you guys beat.
I think the ultimate dad arcade game is Galaga. Granddad.
It makes sense because my dad has a Ms. Pac-Man half and then Galaga machine.
That's the machine my dad has. Those are the two games.
Yeah. Right.
Maybe Skee-Ball. Which one's Galaga? Is that the one where you shoot the little spaceship as they come closer and closer to you? Yeah, but when you get double Galaga, you are unstoppable.
You want to get captured. That's a veteran move.
You know, if you're playing Galaga for the first time and your son is next, you show him, watch this. And then he's like, whoa, why are you letting their laser beam come and suck you up? No, no, no, son.
This is the move. I'm getting captured on purpose, and now I'm going to get the double shooter.
Yeah, but then you're more vulnerable because you're wider, so it's easier to get. No, but once you get the double shooter, no, I mean, you're unstoppable for a good 15 seconds.
I have Galaga. I know this game.
It's the only way to win is to have the double shooter. What about that Centipede game? It's fairly similar, but is it better than Galaga? You don't know which one? What about Dig Dug? Oh, Dig Dig Dug Classic.
That might be a little older, though, and I don't think it's arcade. I think that's more Nintendo or at home, maybe even Atari.
How is Donkey Kong not in this discussion? This is different. That's like, we're talking arcades.
No, Donkey Kong was absolutely in the arcade. Donkey Kong is N64.
Like, maybe you guys. What? Donkey Kong 64.
Yeah, like, that's where I think of Donkey Kong 64. Donkey Kong 64 is another N.
As soon as you start putting numbers on the station, on the things you're playing on, next generation. I don't think I've ever played Donkey Kong at an arcade.
I'm not saying it wrong. Donkey Kong introduced the world to Super Mario.
That's right. Like, I know, Jeremy, you're saying that this is like a very old person conversation.
It is. But I'm going to sound really old when I say this, too.
This generation, you have no idea how great going to the arcade was. Oh, so good.
It was the greatest activity you could do on the weekend with your friends is go to the arcade. I went to the arcade.
I understand how great it is. There's still a thing.
I could still exist. It's a Saturday night, like dinner, and then an arcade with my kid.

That's like a thing.

I think the Galaga is really what he's saying is like the Facebook of the conversation.

No, the Donkey Kong not being on 64.

Like saying that 64, Nintendo 64 is too old or too young for you.

Atari, Nintendo, Sega

Genesis, Playstation.

Texas Instruments. You're done.

You had that Texas Instrument? I had a calculator

that was Texas Instruments. I had that Texas

Instrument. A graphing calculator.

So Billy, what is going on with

Shohei Otani?

Dude, that's the question.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

I'm getting the impression

I'm getting the impression, I want you to explain this to me

but I'm getting the impression

I'm not a impression. That's why he asked it, I mean.
I'm getting the impression. I want you to explain this to me, but I'm getting the impression Shohei Otani might be a troublemaker.
Either that or he has a terrible vetting system. Can we at least agree on that? No.
At the very least. He just kind of, oh, you got a business idea? I like it.
I'm in. So Shohei is now being sued.
Shohei and a partner of his is being sued for, quote unquote, sabotaging a real estate deal in Hawaii. And they're being sued for $250 million.
Or I think it was a $250 million sabotage that they accused him of. We're a year removed from the Ipe situation where it was not Shohei's fault.
Fall guy. It was Ipe's fault.
That's the partner's name, Fall guy. Now we have another situation here with Shohei and I'm starting to kind of wonder what's going on with this Shohei.
You know what I don't understand? $700 million seems like enough money to not be involved in these shenanigans. Well, but he doesn't have the $700, remember? Base salary, it's like a million dollars.
No, no, but it's not. It's like a million dollars from the Dodgers.
He's struggling right now, Billy. It's like $60 million in endorsement deals that he's making.
So he's still making a ton of money. Why is he doing this stuff? So he's being accused of...
Sabotage. But why would he sabotage? Why would he want to sabotage a deal that he willingly entered into? Because he's Shohei Ohtani.
He's just a bad boy. He's an international bad boy.
He just likes to go around doing bad boy things. He's a fall guy.
But he's not going to light his own money on fire. What's the allegation of what he did in a hole? The allegation is that Shohei and his agent got two real estate investors fired from a $240 million luxury housing development in Hawaii.
And their coveted Hapuna Coast that they brought him in to endorse. According to the lawsuit filed in Hawaii circuit court on Friday, Otani's agent increasingly demanded concessions from developer, and they're both their names, before demanding that their business partner drop them from the deal.
It says that the lawsuit alleges Otani and his agent, quote, exploited their celebrity leverage to destabilize and ultimately dismantle the plaintiff's role in the project for no reason other than their own financial self-interest. That seems like a dick move, I would say.
It seems very one-sided, as a lawsuit would be being filed by somebody else. It's just odd that Shohei Otani is in the news cycle the second he becomes a Dodger because he was so quiet around this guy.
He's been in the majors for a very long time, and it's been like a weird 16 months for Shohei Otani. Like, are we going to learn he's like a kingpin? No, it also sounds like if you look at the suit, it's his agent that they're really, you think Ohtani is sitting there saying, no, no, no, if we're going to do this real estate deal, we need this and this and this.
Here we go again. It's very convenient for Ohtani though.
It's never him. It's always everyone around him.
It does seem like he's a mark and he's being taken advantage of by people around him. You're the mark if you believe that.
He's the one that you're telling you guys, no, it's not me. Everyone's just poor old me, Shohei Otani.
Everyone's taking advantage of me. Watch me pitch two innings.
Watch me hit home runs. Watch me not steal bases this season.
I feel like all these things happening to Shohei, what would happen to me if I had $700 million? Again, only one million base salary. Like gambling scandal.
This is like what would happen to me. What would happen to you? So, the Powerball last night was five.
I like, oh, you got an idea? I'm in. $500 million.
What would you have done if you won the $500 million? Gambled a ton. Because it seems like I would have stressed getting it.
Like, do I have to go to Tallahassee? Who am I going to tell? I would just start stressing. Do you take the lump sum or do you take it over? Oh, you've got to go lump sum.
You have to. I agree.
Why is this even a discussion? But I do like kind of the idea of the Bobby Bonilla type. Every year I get X like $17 million.
That's a nice little yearly contract. I've got Shohei Otani like signing this contract for whatever it was, billion dollars, and then moving to Los Angeles and having all these new friends and him being like, man, this country is awesome.
Everybody's so nice here. As soon as I move to Los Angeles, everybody wants to be my friend.
Stugatz, you win the $500 million Powerball. You making this drive? No.
If I don't do the lump sum, does my family get it if something happens to me forever? Because I might not do the lump sum. If it's just something I can guarantee my family will get $27 million a year.
That's a good question. For the next.
I think it's until you die. I think you have one person that you can like bequeath it to.
You know what? Bequeath. Then I might not do it, actually.
I might go the slow burn. It also depends on how you go.
Keep in mind, like if you're doing something that is expressly against your contract. Yeah, I don't do anything.
No bungee jumping for me. You're not going to have a contract with the state lottery.
No, no, no. You're right.
I'm sorry. I thought I was doing the Otani thing.
My bad. I think that I read one time, if you win like $10,000, like the lottery for life or whatever, one of those where it's like $10,000 a week for the rest of your life, I think that it's like the rest of your life or 30 years or something.
And if you die before 30 years, someone else will get it for the 30 years. But if you live longer than the 30 years, you can keep getting it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, like a family member.
Who will I assign a young person that you think will live 30 years? Jeremy, you got it. You would give it to Jeremy.
Really? Who do you think would waste the money worse, Jeremy or Chris? I think we know that question. Well, I mean, but Jeremy would waste it on charity.
You would waste it on fun stuff. That's right.
That's right. I would waste it.
It's so much fun. Does anybody else always keep an unchecked lottery ticket in their car just to have the hope of, hey, I might be riding on a million bucks right now.
Don't know it. Probably not.
But if I check it, it's going to be amazing.

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You know Florida allows it. We're not one

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in prison. Yeah, what are you going to do with all that?

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Don Levitard! Can I tell you something? I don't know, maybe like a month ago and I decided to watch Pitch Clock and I told Jeremy, Stugatz. This is a good show you're doing.
This is the Don Levitard show with the Stugatz. Does everyone here play lottery every now and then? No, it's got to be like 500 million.
I play it all the time. I never play lottery.
I love a good scratch. I don't believe in it.
It's never going to win. I have to like see it in the news of how big it is.
Now, man, my dad has influenced me in the weirdest ways. Whenever I drive long distances.
You have major daddy issues. Probably.
Stugatz, I think you would follow me on this. Whenever I see some hole-in-the-wall gas station in some town called Odella Bankster.
You feel like that's where the winning tickets are. I will absolutely buy it.
I like that a lot. You've got to search around.
Listen, they're not in Parkland. I can tell you that.
But you get to pick your numbers. No, no.
That's not how it works. This guy doesn't get it.
He doesn't play. He doesn't know what he's talking about.
There have been a few in that Los Angeles area recently, but I like driving through a town and you're thinking, this sounds like a lottery winner town. That's the dream.
That's the dream is you go and you buy a ticket abroad somewhere, like in a different state or whatever, and that's where you win. And then no one down here in South Florida is like, oh, someone won in South Carolina.
It's like, well, I don't know anyone in South Carolina. And boom.
That's why I don't play. I don't know anyone that's ever won lottery.
No, but when you're driving through South Carolina, you buy the winning ticket there. Right.
You go, you claim it there. No one here in South Florida assumes you bought a ticket in South Carolina.
It's the perfect crime. No one's going to know that you won.
And if you keep the unchecked ticket in your car the entire time, right? And then you hear on the news,

oh, there's an unacclaimed $10 million prize in South Carolina. You're like,

that could be me.

And then you check your ticket and you're a millionaire.

But then do you have to go back to

the state?

Is that like a hassle for the $10 million?

Do you not want to do that? You can leave it.

I'm going to go back to South Carolina for $10 million.

I'm going to go back to Columbia, South Carolina. They have something going on.
$500 million. I'll never sell it in Columbia.
What if you win the lotto, Izzy, and you have like a million dollar ticket? Not like the main prize, but you win like one of those, like, oh, you got all the numbers but the Powerball. You have like a million dollar ticket that you just haven't checked, and eventually you tossed it out or like expired after 90 days or whatever.
Like, how know you never toss it out i have this dream right they expire do they yeah i think you only have a certain amount of time to claim it of course yeah okay well i gotta check that date so i will put expiration dates i'll put alerts on my calendar but i have a dream do you know the little the little checked things right where you can just boop do the little barcode and it tells you what you won? Well, I don't think those things are set up to say, you've just won $1 million. I think it'll say C cashier.
And so every time that I get one and it's just kind of messed up and it says C cashier, I'm just like, is this the one? Is this the one? And it's just like, no, there's nothing there. Powerball and Mega Millions usually give you 180 days to a year, depending on the state that you're in.
Most state lotteries give you between 90 days and one year. Hold on a second.
How could they give you up to a year if sometimes you have to split it with other people? I don't know how that works. That's your business.
Hang on. No, it's not your business because you have to split the total.
No, but the lottery knows how many winners there are, and they know how they have to split it up. Oh, okay.
So the person who won doesn't bring the ticket back, just doesn't get their money. So they still have to split it per how many winners there are.
Correct. It's just a matter of whether you're going to claim your...
Which is a scam. If you did win the lottery and have to share it, check in a year later.
Hey, did those other folks claim their prize? Because if not, it's got to come to me. What are you doing with the rest of that loot? Can't just go to waste.
I love Izzy always thinking he has a chance. I mean, that's what life is, right? You always want to have hope.
Just keep it in your car. Don't check it.
I know it's like state run, but somebody in the lotto, they play the lotto, right? If they win it, then they don't have to give any money out. What? Follow me here.
I don't know. There might be rules.
I don't think if you work for the lottery, you could play the lottery. I don't think so.
Let's say I'm house. And it's like, okay, if you win the lottery, I have to pay it up.
I think they made a movie about that. I think this is why you haven't met any lottery winners, because it's only the people who work in lottery.
That's what I'm saying. And they don't actually share the money with anybody else.
I'm just, I'm on to you, Lotto. So, yesterday, this is a true story, all right? I'm surprised it's taking me this long to bring it up.
I ordered Uber Eats yesterday, and I got a little bit of a

problem. Thai? For yourself

or for the family? Were you doing that on Free Will?

Just for myself. It was one of those nights.
Well, I don't know

if you heard about my son. He dipped last night.

He went on his own and went to the Taco Bell

drive-thru, alright? What did you get? Upon running

away. Thai food!

I don't order Thai

food through Uber Eats.

You order straight from the place. Alright? But I ordered Uber Eats last night.
Chipotle. All right, ordered Chipotle.
Was this because your son went to a Taco Bell and you're like, I want a more upscale concept? One-upped him. No, this was before that.
Did you get that Adobe Ranch for a dog? This was earlier in the night. Do you consider that running away from home? Like, if you relive this story in five years, you say, remember that time you ran away from home? No, he went to his friend's house to play poker.
Like, he didn't run away from home. Wow.
Who is this kid? Gambling, too. Jeez Louise.
This kid seems awesome. Anyway, so I ordered.
So much cooler than dad. I ordered Uber Eats last night from Chipotle.
Got myself, like, the crux of my order. I got a quesadilla, all right? And in the way that they deliver the quesadilla to you, it's like a, it's, what's it, not a tray, but.
The thing with like the three things in it? Yes. You ordered this for you and not for a six-year-old.
What are you eating? Okay. Anyway, not the point.
It's steak and chicken, that's a good meal. What's the matter with you? You go bowl or burrito.
It comes with that honey vinaigrette though, right?

Okay, can you just listen to the story?

My God.

So it's in the packaging, whatever, you know, and Jeremy's right where it's got the quesadilla

and then there's like these three slots for sides.

Oh, I love that part.

I go rice.

I go queso.

And that third one's a wild card.

Sometimes I go pico.

Sometimes I go sour cream.

We had rice and I had cheese and I go sour cream. We had rice, and I had

cheese, and I had

sour cream. Those were the three sides.

Okay, it's great. That's fire,

right? Except the order comes,

I open up the

package,

there's no quesadilla.

Oh my god.

The sour cream is there.

The rice is there. The sides are there.
There's no quesadilla. Hmm.
It's not there. Right.
How long was it at your door? Are you on Atkins? I got it immediately. I don't know.
Maybe your kid went and ate your dinner, and then he put it back. And this kid's running rampant in your house.
Who knows? There's no quesadilla. So what'd you do? Well, here's the problem.
There's no, like, phone number you call for Uber Eats. You go on the app and it's like, they got all these questions, you know, and it's like, what's the problem with your order? And then they have, like, a list of things.
Okay, so obviously I click on, you know, missing items, and again, there's no one you could speak to. And so they click on missing items, quesadilla, nowhere to be found.
And I didn't order sour cream for dinner. And you eventually get a message back.
Not even long later. It only took like 20 minutes.
Get a message. Sorry for this inconvenience.
The food's cold already. I mean, they gave me, well, I don't know if the food's cold.
That's the point, Stu Godson. This This has happened a lot to me and my wife's great at this.
She gets something in that app and all of a sudden we get like 28 bucks back. So I get the credit.
They give me back $2. Oh my God.
I've been there. How often have you complained about Uber Eats? Because that also plays into their algo.
I have complained, but it's been a long time. Sometimes that plays into their algo.
That's why I said dangerous game. Is this an account that cries wolf potentially? That is BS, though.
Sometimes what they'll do. And I can't call anyone.
One of the worst things that they do is, okay, we'll give you a refund for the missing quesadilla, but we're still going to charge you for the sour cream. As if I just want to eat the sour cream still, I need the quesadilla to justify the sour cream purchase.
And it doesn't help. Like, you get that credit back.
I mean, $2 stinks. $2? Even if you get $20 back, you're like, I'm still not happy.
Wait, they refunded you plus $2? They gave me back $2. Just $2.
How much did it cost? It was probably like $16. So did you say, hey, we're short here.
That's the point. Where'd you go next? There's nowhere to call.
Well, hit them up, whoever you spoke to before. No, that's the end of it.
There's nothing else. There is no call.
First of all, hit me up offline. I've got a number for you.
Uber One, a little trick you don't know about. You actually speak to human beings and they do everything for you right away.
But here's the worst possible situation. You got Uber Eats delivery.
I did Uber Eats pickup, okay? And I go there. Why? Well, I was driving home.
You just want to pay idiot fees is what you're doing. Just call the restaurant.
I've done it before. That's a good idea.
You guys are, oh boy. I was driving home and I was just going to scoop in and pick it up, okay? And so I ordered some things and it's a place I go all the time.
In fact, a few people there, if they see me, they go, hey, how you doing? Book a flight on Expedia, too? I don't check the bag if it's a pickup order, if it's a place I trust.

I just go home with my stuff.

Well, normally they have the sticker, too, on the bag.

Yeah, the sticker's supposed to tell you what's in there, right?

So I get home.

I got a chicken Caesar salad.

No chicken!

They forgot to put the chicken on the side.

But it's a pickup order, Zaz.

I can't just go in there and say, oh, missing item.

They're like, you picked it up. You're supposed to check yourself.
And so I write them a little note and says, we'll get back to you. They never got back to me.
I just checked. My wallet's still empty.
It's a scam. A good restaurant will go through the boxes for you.
Flanagan's, every single time I go to a Flanagan's, they make sure. And they show me, Mike knows this, all my food is there.
It's a lot of pipe and circumstance. And also, I'm like, you don't have don't release the heat.
No, I don't want to check. I trust you guys.
Stugatz, quick conclusion of the story. I mean, the Uber driver ate my quesadilla, right? Yeah.
Just the tortilla? Like there's no way that Chipotle packed it without the quesadilla. That seems impossible.
What was he? Eight? Yeah, I don't... I think they just screwed up.
What'd you do? Do you order again? You got two dollars back now like a sad microwave grilled cheese or something or mac and cheese hey it's mike ryan those sprinklers are starting to slowly come up on the football field time that we have with summer is dwindling i'm sure you're already doing that thing where you're going through your photo album flipping flipping through the photos that you've taken this summer, already reminiscing about the good times that you have. I know I did.
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The elephant went into a 7-Eleven and bought a pack of cigarettes. But my question to Ron is this.
Stugatz. That joke didn't really land the way you wanted it to, did it? We all just stared at you.
It didn't land at all. This is the Don Lebertard Show with the Stugatz.
Let's bring aboard Ron McGill here. Ron, how you doing? Have you ever had issues with your Uber Eats order like that? I have never done an Uber Eats order in my life.
What? Wow. Were you a DoorDash guy? What's the deal? No, I got a wife who cooks so amazingly well.
I have amazing food all the time. What is that like? Old school.
What is that like? That's living the dream, brother. Trust me.
No, I got a wife who cooks so amazingly well and has amazing food all the time. What is that like?

Old school.

What is that like?

That's living the dream, brother. So the Uber Eats app is not even on your phone.
You don't even have a section of your phone for food delivery. Nothing for food delivery at all.
You've never done takeout? Rhonda cooks. You know, the takeout that I've done is we've got this, you know, little truck restaurant

who does this incredible...

A food truck.

Food truck, yeah, yeah.

But does this incredible churrasco and picanha steak.

Oh, my God.

So every now and then I'll say this and I'll go get it.

But she'll cook like, you know, the incredible side dishes and stuff and I'll go get the steak.

Why did we settle for food truck as a way to describe it?

It should be a truck restaurant.

Also, her name is Rita.

Ron, why didn't you correct him?

Why'd you let him do that?

Listen, I'm just, I'm old and old school, you know, so I, but I do use Uber all the time when I travel.

Uber comfort. Uber comfort.
Don't talk to me, and I want it cool. That.
But I do use Uber all the time when I travel. Uber comfort.

Uber comfort.

Don't talk to me, and I want it cool.

That's all I ask for.

Ron, one of the guys that works here, Ethan, brought his dog to work last week,

and the dog was limping around, and we all felt terrible.

And Ethan was kind of a deadbeat dog owner, and he didn't do anything about it

until God knows when.

He took the dog to the vet. The dog tore its ACL.
All right. Turned out that look, you can see in the video now, dog is limping, not putting any pressure on its back, left leg, tore its ACL earlier in the day.
It's not putting any weight on it. Yeah.
Go to the vet. So what, like, what is the, what happens to a dog with a torn ACL? Is it like a cast? Is it an operation? What do you do? Yeah, there is an operation for it.
I mean, it's an orthopedic surgery, just like you would do on a human being. It's very costly.
And the recovery is a bigger challenge, of course, because you can't tell the dog, listen, you can't do this, you can't do that. So they come up with different types of braces or casts or whatever necessary to isolate that for proper healing.

Now, this is the second consecutive dog that Ethan has had who's torn his or her ACL. Is there something that the owner is doing for this pattern of injury?

I think it's time to file a report with, you know, Doggy Services to find out what's going on there because I've never had a

dog and I've had dogs all my life tearing ACL. I don't know what he's doing with these dogs.

If you're the vet and you see someone bring in the dog that's in incredible pain, torn ACL,

and you have to choose, do I euthanize the dog or do I euthanize the human, which would you choose?

Real Sophie's choice.

Billy, please.

It's a good question. It's easy, right? Really, Stugatz? Really? Repeat offender.
I don't euthanize either one of them. I treat it and I try to heal the dog.
Nailed it. Ron, I got a video for you here.
All right. This video, there's a crab.
All right. And apparently this crab is going to amputate its own claw.
I'm afraid of crabs. I don't go near crabs.
But take a look at this and tell me what's going on here. All right.
So it's, yeah, look at that. It's like going to chomp up.
Whoa! No! Whoa! Just straight up ripped off its arm. Why would it do that? As if it were a fake limb.
You know, now, I know that crabs have the ability, of course, to regenerate their claws. And listen, I don't profess to be a crab expert here, but maybe I'm speculating that it saw a potential predator heading its way.
And he said, listen, I'm going to leave you a bone. Leave me alone.
You know, lizards do that with their tails. If they get threatened, they can actually shed their tail.
The tail stays there and the animal goes after the tail and eats the tail and the lizard gets away. The crab may have looked at this as a way to, you focus of a predator and focus it on the claw and he can get away.
That's brilliant. So you just have snacks in your pockets while you're running away from predators.
Here, here's a snack. That's a heady play.
That's a great analogy. That's a great analogy.
What you're doing is you're setting bait to deter the attention off of a fatal attack. Man, I feel like the crab there, it's almost like he holds up his, is it an arm or a leg, Ron? What should I call it? It's a claw.
Okay, neither. He holds up his claw.
It's almost like he shows like, hey, look what I got over here, guys. And then he snaps it off.
Man, we're giving this dumb crab a lot of credit. Right.
Well, it appeared that way.

But listen, you know, there are things that are associated with intelligence and there are things that are associated with instinct. And that might simply just be an instinct for survival.
All right. I got another video for you here, Ron.
Show me this. So there's an animal sanctuary worker and an alligator.
And it leads this alligator on a chase to show what happens when a gator gets used to being fed by humans.

All right.

Now, let's take a look at this here.

All right.

So there you got the gator.

You got the person.

They're only like a few feet away.

I thought Ron was the one

who was supposed to do the program.

All right.

Take it away, Ron.

Go ahead.

What's up?

Yeah, that's exactly what he's doing here.

This is an alligator

that's obviously been accustomed

to being fed by this person. Guy's got a little stick in his hand.
This is probably the way, or it's a girl actually, who actually feeds him all the time this way. And that's what he's doing.
He's just responding to the feeding. And then she throws the food.
So she just reinforces it for God's sake. So I don't know what they're trying to prove here.
This is that Gator Boys thing, which a lot know, a lot of times just can be a little extreme sometimes. You know, this this is videos for clicks.
This is what I call videos for clicks. Ron, I was at a rental house in Orlando that had, you know, that sort of manmade body of water behind it.
And there was an alligator, a crocodile. I couldn't tell the difference in the water.
And there's neighbors of these rental houses going toward the water with their children to check it out and point at it. Everybody at our house stayed inside.
Ron, should you ever go out and hey, look at the alligators if you're not from Florida. This is a message for everybody not from Florida.
Go ahead, Ron. You muted yourself.
I'm going to pretend I know what you're saying. But the bottom line is I got the point.
You should not go up to the shoreline where there's an alligator. You can observe an alligator from a distance, 25, 30 feet.
If you keep that distance, you should be OK. An alligator is not going to come out of the water after you if you stay 25 to 30 feet away from the water's edge.
Like Israel, I can never tell the difference. I know crocodile, alligator, one's pointy and the other one's flat.
But can you give me like a way that I will remember? Like, is there a wording that I'll always, so I'll never forget? Can you tell me? Just color, basically color. Crocodiles tend to be an olive green, alligators are black.
So, you know, that's a giveaway right away. Also, a crocodile's eyes will tend to be that kind of a light green color.
Alligator eyes tend to be dark brown to black. You know, the shape of the snout is U-shaped alligator, V-shaped crocodile.
I don't know what kind of association you use there, but I just color, color. Okay, but hold on a second.
What if I don't see color? And you're screwed. Okay, but hold on a second.
Like Israel, okay, Ron is saying that a crocodile will be green, alligator will be more black. Florida Gators, like, the mascot is green.
Yeah, that's a misnomer. Yeah.
Yeah, that is a misnomer. So the mascot for the Gators should be black? Yeah.
I feel like we should talk to the president of the U.S. Wow.
That's a croc. Wow.
Actually, it should be. And I'm a proud Florida gator, but yes, to have an alligator green is a total misnomer.
Crocodiles are green. I got to be honest with you.
It's kind of a shock. Florida crocs.
Learn something new every day on this wonderful podcast. Got another one for you here, Ron.
All right. So here's a leopard, and it's going to catch a crocodile.
All right. A leopard is going to...
Let Ron do it. I'm sure that this is a jaguar catching a caiman.
Yes, that's what this is. This is a jaguar catching a caiman.
I actually saw this happen in Brazil in the Pantanal. I'm not going to say it's a common occurrence, but it's not terribly rare.
These jaguars have learned how to catch caiman, and they do so. You can see a string of these videos.
You'll actually see the video of the actual catch. You'll see them jumping in the water, lunging, going underwater, and pulling this thing out of the water.
It's pretty incredible. Is that crocodile still alive in that moment? Yes, that caiman is still alive in that moment.
Jaguars have one of the most powerful bites of any of the big cats, especially for ratio to their weight. And what they do is they instinctively would bite the back of the neck and they'll sever the spinal cord so the animal can no longer fight.
Why are jaguars so good at that? Like how they're just born being able to do that? They have adapted living. You know, they're one of the few cats that like the water.
They jump in the water. They swim all the time.
I've got, you know, images of these jaguars swimming across the rivers there in the Pantanal. And they will hunt fish.
They will hunt caiman and incredibly adapt swimmers. They enjoy the water and they're very well structured for living that water life.
Ron, which animal has the most powerful bite? I believe it's a crocodile. I believe it's a saltwater crocodile has the most powerful bite.
I know in the mammal world, I think it's a hyena. A hyena is the only predator that has the power and the tooth structure to actually break through elephant bone to eat the marrow.
So I believe that's a hyena. But, you know, don't hold me to that.
That's just what I believe. I think it's the hyena, mammal, crocodile overall.
You know, it's a thousand pounds of pressure per square inch. What about the hippo chomp? The hippo is also very powerful.
I'm not sure exactly what the ratio is, but it's very powerful. I have seen a hippo, you know, tear a crocodile up.
So it is a very powerful bite. But I think per square inch, the actual force, I think the crocodile is the most powerful.
Ron, we have a video of a crab eating a grape, and maybe we can put that up while I'm asking you this question, but my favorite videos, perhaps on all of the internet, is a raccoon being friends with a human and then being fed little tiny foods. Now, the best part about it is they do a voiceover on the raccoon.
That always slaps, but I'm curious, should i be friends with a raccoon because i've been scared of them my entire life uh and you know why does he stay scared of them because raccoons thank you change in a heartbeat those things are like they can be out of their minds people look at raccoons they have a cute face but uh they can turn into the little devils and i mean that wholeheartedly people even if they're eating grapes even if they're eating and that's crab they're so adorable and they're eating and they are adorable and you'll see them you know they take their food and they put it in the water and they rub their hands together very tactile they look like little robbers little noises you know little cute little noises they make to do not befriend raccoons so do i do i need a sage intervention because my father-in-law has like a pack a family of of raccoons that come up to the back patio door and he feeds them. Of course he feeds them.
Of course he does. That's why they come back.
Yeah, he's been doing this for over a year now. Mike, at night, if they're there and he opens the door, is it just a bunch of eyeballs? I hate it because I have a dog that occasionally spends the night over there and you never know what's back there.
I hate it. Listen, Mike, go online, and you'll see these raccoons.
This woman who started feeding two raccoons in her yard, and in one week, she's got 30 raccoons at her back door. I don't like it.
I don't like it. So they're talking to each other, and they're like, hey, I got to send.
Well, they do. They communicate.
They say, hey, listen, the buffet's over here, okay? And they can become real problems. Now, first of all, raccoons are one of the major carriers of rabies.
When you have that many animals in one place, they're a spreader of disease, whether it be external parasites, fleas and ticks, whether it be the internal parasites, worms, things like that, that they pass through their feces. The bottom line is that many animals in one place is not healthy for anybody.
So don't feed these wild animals, please. Ron, are possums in the same category? Because I saw a possum a couple nights ago in my yard.
The lights were off, my dogs were outside running around. Is it a possum or an opossum? It's both.
It's both. It's confusing, right, Stugatz? Yes.
Opossum, though. It's lazy.
People don't oh, possum. It just saves you time.
But the possum is a much more solitary animal. You won't find possums congregating.
The only time you see possums together is a mother with a bunch of her, you know, siblings coming out of the pouch or on her back. But they're much more solitary and they don't they don't respond like raccoons do to being fed.
But is it the same fear like rabies and stuff? Because what happened was the dog was going outside at the night. And then I opened the door to let the dog in and I see a possum or an opossum.
The irony is this, Billy. The possums, believe it or not, though it's not impossible, it's very improbable that they can catch rabies.
Why? Because their body temperature is higher than most other mammals. And that body temperature does not allow for rabies to thrive.
There you go. There's a picture of people feeding their freaking raccoons in New York.
You have to sell this house. Ron, what's a dead giveaway for an animal that has rabies? You know, there really is no dead giveaway.
We've heard the, you know, the common narrative, oh, that's when it's salivating. It comes running after you.
That's not true. Well, it can be that.
What if it's an animal that looks kind of drunk? It's just kind of wandering around with his head bobbing and kind of falling to the side. It looks, you know, terribly inebriated.
So don't think that just because this animal is not being aggressive, not snarling or not drooling, that it doesn have rabies I think my dad has rabies I look totally nervous at my old home in my neighborhood I was walking my dog and to my left there was a raccoon that was out during the daytime displaying these characteristics and I did call animal control there's another big red flag if this nocturnal creature is out during the day looking like that. Call animal control? Yeah, call animal control.
Absolutely. Ron, excellent job.
Tell us all the good things you got going on here. Well, we got the zoo camp just finished up because school starts now on Thursday, which is, you know, going to be another headache.
But we've got, you know, a lot of construction going on here.

Pretty soon we're going to be introducing a couple of new animals, new species for the zoo.

I'm not going to really reveal it yet.

I'll let you know when that happens.

But listen, there's always stuff happening.

We've got several animals that are pregnant that are going to be hopefully giving birth sometime soon.

We've got some newly hatched birds going out in the aviary.

I mean, it's all kinds of stuff happening.

The zoo is never the same thing on every day.

Give us a hint on the new animals. Like, make a noise.
Make a noise of the animals. Yeah.
We'll try again. Dan.
Whales. You got a whale? No.
But I can understand why you might think of it, but it's not a whale. Let me hear it again.
Yeah, do it one more time. Oh, jeez.
Email.

Baby whale.

That was my email.

Sorry about that.

Good job, Ron.

Once again, I forgot.

It's my bad.

We should have welcomed you in with a happy world lion day two days ago.

Yeah.

No worries, man.

But I appreciate it, Izzy.

It makes me know that you care.

Do the sound again.

One more time.

Oh, my God. Guys, there it is.
Another email. You're really good at that.
See you, Ron. Hey, it's Mike Ryan.
Those sprinklers are starting to slowly come up on the football field. Time that we have with summer is dwindling.
I'm sure you're already doing that thing where you're going through your photo album, flipping through the photos that

you've taken this summer, already reminiscing about the good times that you have. I know I did.

And in many of the pictures that I went back to reminisce over, I had a beautiful white can of

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Thank you. Miller time.
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