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The majesty of nature. The intricate social complexities of animal communities we are only just beginning to understand. And some guys crouching in the grass probably covered in 3 days worth of dirt and dung beetle poop. Such is the glamor of nature documentarians. These brave souls face peril to teach us about nature we may never get to see otherwise. And today, they brave the Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists podcast studio as they tell some of their wildest stories and show us why the nature documentarian life called to them. So slap on your khakis, your largest zoom lens, and a safari hat and listen in!
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2:10 Speaker 06 Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists. This week, rar, ka-chow, uh, bear sound. It's nature documentaries.
2:21 Speaker 05 The favorite thing for that people put on when they just want to watch something go on and on and on and on. Nature documentaries show a side of Earth that we rarely get to capture because animals act different when people are there.
2:35 Speaker 03 But what does it take to actually shoot this wildlife? These people spend months and months and months doing one thing only, shooting these beautiful animals. Watching today as we discuss how to take that shot of that bird, how to capture that lion, and how to kiss the lens while you're asleep.
2:59 Speaker 03 Let's listen in.
3:04 Speaker 07 My god, look at us.
3:06 Speaker 06 I mean, this is just a wonderful group. This is a wonderful group.
3:13 Speaker 08 It's nice to be here with y'all. It's nice to be anywhere after what we experienced on our Siberia leg.
3:19 Speaker 05 Yeah, you talk about Siberia. You say in Siberia?
3:22 Speaker 08 Yeah.
3:23 Speaker 05 Yeah, I keep thinking about Siberia. I keep thinking about Siberia every single day. Every time I close my eyes, I think about Siberia.
3:28 Speaker 03 It was like massive, bro. It was like fucking crazy, man. It was like fucking there. Like, we were there and it was fucking all of it, you know?
3:37 Speaker 06 God, I mean, to be somewhere with four wolves, I'm so excited.
3:41 Speaker 03 What was that saying?
3:43 Speaker 06 I'm saying, it's just nice to be somewhere with four wolves. Four wolves!
3:48 Speaker 08 Four walls and zero wolves.
3:51 Speaker 06 Four walls, no wolves.
3:53 Speaker 05 I think mainly for me it was the wolves, right? I think the problem for me was the wolves. It wasn't that we were outdoors. I can do that every day.
3:59 Speaker 06 You didn't like the wolves much, did you?
4:00 Speaker 05 Personally, I don't like when a wolf has been hunting me for days. No, that's personally for me.
4:05 Speaker 06 I didn't mind the wolves.
4:06 Speaker 05 You didn't mind that. You're hard like that.
4:08 Speaker 06 You just kind of look at them a little bit.
4:10 Speaker 07 God, is this good? This is so good to get the team together on mic.
4:14 Speaker 06 Oh!
4:14 Speaker 07 We're gonna say some secrets. We're gonna say some stuff that might just blow your mind if you're a big nature documentary person. I like, I don't even know where to begin, but I just want to warn you, this might, this might ruin a little bit of the magic.
4:27 Speaker 05 Hey, if you're a nature doc guy, what's it like in that big comfy chair? What's it like eating that popcorn? You like it? You like what we're doing for you?
4:35 Speaker 06 You like smoking weed, do ya? Bet you do. Hey, um, why don't we go around and introduce ourselves?
4:42 Speaker 03 Look, that sounds great.
4:43 Speaker 06 I'm having fun. I'm having fun, guys. Um, listen, my name is Greg Tiger. That's a little stage name I started since I started to switch to, uh, nature. Got my start in rock and roll and then, uh, kinda pivoted to nature documentary location scout. So I'm in the woods by myself, looking at these locations before all these guys come in. Looking to make sure, oh, there's where the birds are gonna be, there's where the bears are gonna be. And I should make sure and see if it's a good spot for some good animal drama to take place.
5:23 Speaker 07 I think the other day, the other day, in my sleep, my wife said, I went, Tiger, do we have this area permitted? In my sleep, I said that.
5:31 Speaker 06 In your sleep, you're asking me these logistical questions. I love you bringing work on with you.
5:37 Speaker 08 I believe it. I believe it. I've, I've done everything in my sleep after these shoots. We don't sleep while we're out there. We don't sleep while we're out there.
5:46 Speaker 07 So you're kinda bringing home with you a little bit. And I, I'll say best locations manager and rep in the biz.
5:52 Speaker 05 Well, when he doesn't bring his guitar, when he doesn't bring his guitar.
5:54 Speaker 06 Oh, piss posh, you love my music.
5:56 Speaker 05 You played that guitar right when that bird of paradise was about to do his mating call? Flew right away, just so you could hit a G chord.
6:05 Speaker 08 Rarest thing. It's not, it is not.
6:08 Speaker 03 To capture a plant, like a bird of paradise, to do a mating call.
6:13 Speaker 08 We were right there.
6:14 Speaker 06 You never get, I'm sorry. Look, I'm, I, I was feeling the mood. I like to lighten the mood. We do a lot of nothing. We do a lot of waiting, you can admit.
6:25 Speaker 08 And then Tiger's defense.
6:26 Speaker 06 Schedule. So it's nice to pass the time and I think the animals quite like it. I believe, I still maintain, we got those geckos to come our way because they were interested in my original cover.
6:38 Speaker 03 And I really don't think that's what it was.
6:40 Speaker 05 And I don't think it's an original cover if it's a cover.
6:42 Speaker 06 No, it's an original cover that nobody's ever done before.
6:45 Speaker 05 It was row, row, row your boat.
6:47 Speaker 06 It was row, row, row your boat. It was an original cover. It's original because I was the first one to cover it exactly in the way that I had. So I
6:56 Speaker 07 We should separate you two.
6:58 Speaker 06 I can tell already this is gonna be a problem. I'm not the one with a problem, though.
7:03 Speaker 03 Hello. Oi. My name is Adrian. I'm from South Africa, Cape Town, and I have gotten into nature documentaries because it's right, the right thing for me. You know, I lived a life to the edge. I like kart boarding. I like kart surfing. I like kart flying.
7:24 Speaker 03 Whatever it can do.
7:25 Speaker 05 You love kites, yeah.
7:26 Speaker 03 And now I'm into drones. So I get the drone up in the air and I find the animal and I'll shoot it. So so fun. So great.
7:33 Speaker 07 I mean, it's crazy, the industry these days where you you are not a crew of documentary of animal filmmakers unless you got a drone guy. And these drone guys, I mean, you are all so different, but you're all kind of the same.
7:49 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. When there's a meetup, it's it's nonstop.
7:53 Speaker 07 The drone guys meetups?
7:54 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's kind of like this.
7:55 Speaker 06 Do your drones come when you do the meetups?
7:58 Speaker 03 Of course. If it's a meetup, we're bringing the drones.
8:01 Speaker 08 I've seen a good deal of your meetup footage and it looks like it's just your drones meeting up without you guys.
8:07 Speaker 03 Well, it's us in a circle and then we get our drones in the sky to let them meet and shoot us letting them meet.
8:15 Speaker 05 I cannot watch another one of those videos of those drone meetups until you get rid of that sound. Turn the sound off.
8:21 Speaker 08 It's tough.
8:22 Speaker 03 How would you know they're meeting without the sound?
8:24 Speaker 05 It's so loud. It's forty drones together with their mics on.
8:28 Speaker 06 I like that it's kind of like you separate it like you do a dog park. So you have the small drones in one area and the big drones in the other area. Because otherwise they get into fights.
8:39 Speaker 08 Well, and it's gotten us into some hot water. When we were in Brazil and came across that.
8:45 Speaker 03 Bring up the Brazil trip.
8:46 Speaker 08 Come on, the over clang, the overhanging cliff hornets heard your drone, thought it was a mating call.
8:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, they attacked.
8:55 Speaker 08 Yeah. Well, and and I got fucked.
8:58 Speaker 05 Yeah, you got fucked by those.
8:59 Speaker 08 By fifty hornets.
9:00 Speaker 07 You got fucked?
9:01 Speaker 08 So, yeah, they attacked you and they fucked me.
9:04 Speaker 06 I'm sorry you got fucked by those hornets, by the way. I'm sorry you got fucked by those hornets. That's never good.
9:10 Speaker 08 I've been waiting eighteen months for an apology finally. Thank you.
9:13 Speaker 06 I've just got to say, oh, really, it's the production's fault. I'm very sorry.
9:17 Speaker 03 Introduce yourself. We can't just be the person who got fucked by all those hornets.
9:22 Speaker 08 My name's Sandy. People call me Cackies, or Cack, or Cackalaka.
9:28 Speaker 05 Cackalaka.
9:30 Speaker 08 Or sometimes-
9:30 Speaker 05 He calls her Cackalaka. Oh, he's Cackalaka.
9:33 Speaker 08 I'm a rigger, so I rig the shots, I dig the ditches, I make the magic happen. I have tunneled into ant mounds. I have covered myself in dung beetle dung. I have-
9:46 Speaker 03 Which you didn't need to do.
9:48 Speaker 08 But I was, it's out of respect for the animals. Come on!
9:52 Speaker 06 You are so respectful to the animals.
9:54 Speaker 08 I try, I try.
9:56 Speaker 06 You go to such great lengths to accumulate to their culture and sort of act like you're one of them to an extent. And I really admire that.
10:05 Speaker 08 Well, if, you know, the animal's story is their story to tell. And I feel like I can't appropriate it unless I embed myself with them and learn from their perspective, you know?
10:16 Speaker 05 Sometimes I feel like we lose you, too. You come back and it's like, where did, where did Cat go?
10:21 Speaker 08 I've gone. I've gone places before. I have, I have sent myself, and to me, I think that's part of the goal. It's almost like a spiritual aspect to our work.
10:31 Speaker 07 That time on your birthday, we lost you.
10:33 Speaker 03 You came back as a howling monkey. That was crazy.
10:35 Speaker 07 And you said it was my birthday, like, let me do what I want. And I was like, what's happening to Cat?
10:40 Speaker 08 Was I wrong? Was, shouldn't we all get to do what we want on our birthday?
10:44 Speaker 05 I think that's a God-given right.
10:45 Speaker 03 It's the one rule out there. You're allowed to do whatever you want on your birthday.
10:49 Speaker 06 Even in the wild, if it's your birthday, all bets are off.
10:53 Speaker 08 That's right. No, you see it-
10:55 Speaker 03 Even in the wild.
10:56 Speaker 08 You see it. You see it all the time. A lot of times, people think like a shark attack is because there was blood in the water. It's usually because it was the shark's birthday.
11:06 Speaker 06 That's so true.
11:08 Speaker 08 Yeah.
11:08 Speaker 07 Look how many criminals committed that crime on their birthday.
11:12 Speaker 03 Literally.
11:13 Speaker 07 Look at it.
11:14 Speaker 08 Look at it. Look at the stats. Look at it.
11:16 Speaker 06 If we looked at the birthdays of all those criminals, we could probably get a lot of people expunged.
11:22 Speaker 08 That's true.
11:22 Speaker 06 Because the judge doesn't always remember to ask, was it your birthday?
11:26 Speaker 05 You gotta, and we gotta get to death row and ask these people if it was their birthday when they did what they did.
11:32 Speaker 08 There's a one in 365 chance that it was, which is like a third of a percent.
11:40 Speaker 05 The odds are high.
11:40 Speaker 08 That's huge.
11:41 Speaker 05 The odds are really high.
11:44 Speaker 08 Think about that. There's way more than 365 criminals.
11:49 Speaker 06 It's a real flaw in the justice system. We have to fix it.
11:52 Speaker 08 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:55 Speaker 06 God, but it's so wonderful having you on the team. I mean,
11:58 Speaker 03 Kakalaka, I love you so much.
12:00 Speaker 06 If we could talk about meerkat manor, the reason we were able to make meerkat manor is because you embedded yourself in the social drama of the meerkats.
12:11 Speaker 08 Five months. Five months. We had a guy on the inside. Yeah, and I raised a family as a meerkat.
12:19 Speaker 05 And you reached a managerial hiring position within the meerkats.
12:23 Speaker 08 That's right. This is what a lot of you don't understand about the behind the scenes, you know.
12:30 Speaker 05 You like, and your big puffy Papa-san chairs.
12:34 Speaker 06 Smoking weed, probably.
12:36 Speaker 08 Probably, probably. Smoking, eating, you know. Meerkats are complicated because they're very emotional creatures. And, you know, yes, I reached a middle management position, which, you know, you might think like, oh, success, you're really gonna get us the shot. The downside of it is there was a lot of resentment among the meerkats. They all wanna talk shit about their boss. They all wanna complain to their wife. Meanwhile, mind you, I had a meerkat family.
13:08 Speaker 06 Right, mouths to feed.
13:10 Speaker 08 Yeah, and how do these kids feel when they hear their parents chittering shit about me? You know.
13:18 Speaker 06 Oh, it must be awful to have, hear someone chitter shit about you.
13:23 Speaker 08 It's tough. It's worse than talking shit. It really is. Because there's a lot of room for interpretation.
13:30 Speaker 05 You had to let meerkats go, too.
13:32 Speaker 08 Yeah.
13:33 Speaker 05 Pretty, you said that was brutal.
13:35 Speaker 08 It's tough. I love these chats you have of them. Thank you so much.
13:38 Speaker 05 Everyone you fired.
13:40 Speaker 06 While you were a middle manager.
13:42 Speaker 08 Yeah.
13:43 Speaker 03 And funnily enough, they all look kind of the same. They're meerkats.
13:47 Speaker 08 To you. To you.
13:48 Speaker 03 I'm sorry. That's inappropriate.
13:50 Speaker 08 That's very true.
13:51 Speaker 03 I'm sorry.
13:52 Speaker 05 Isn't that showing? Your bias is showing.
13:54 Speaker 03 Up in the drone, they all look the same, buddy.
13:56 Speaker 05 Of course they do, man.
13:57 Speaker 08 That's right, that's right.
13:58 Speaker 03 And guess what? Meerkats hate a drone. They hate a drone. All right, somebody else go. What's your name?
14:07 Speaker 05 You guys know me, I'm Dougie. I am the cam op. Uh, I specialize in, uh, the sedentary cameras.
14:17 Speaker 05 Look, I'm the guy they kind of lock into one camera and leave for about 12 hours. Grumpy Dougie.
14:25 Speaker 07 Grump.
14:26 Speaker 03 It's a grumpy Dougie.
14:27 Speaker 07 It's just, just because you're good at pissing where you sit, doesn't mean you get to pout all the time.
14:33 Speaker 03 This guy's watching plants like gro- it's like crazy.
14:37 Speaker 05 I got into this because I'm an introvert. I love animals. I thought it would be nice to be in around a group of people who respect the silence. And these people are the loudest motherfuckers I've ever met.
14:47 Speaker 03 Crazy because you're loud, Prue. Like you are yelling.
14:52 Speaker 05 I'm yelling because I'm telling you guys to be quiet. We got this drone screaming. We got a guy bringing his electric guitar to Bora Bora. We got you.
15:00 Speaker 08 What do I do wrong?
15:01 Speaker 05 Chittering shit about other people.
15:03 Speaker 07 I dare you to say what I do.
15:05 Speaker 05 Okay, should I talk about the chips you eat? You literally buy chips in order of how crunchy they are. You love a crunchy chip.
15:11 Speaker 07 If I'm directly under the boom, the boom doesn't hear him.
15:15 Speaker 05 You clear Serengeti's with that Dorito crunch.
15:19 Speaker 08 Which is handy sometimes, I have to say. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of-
15:23 Speaker 05 I don't agree.
15:23 Speaker 07 What about when that mountain lion looked you dead in the face? And I had the fucking audacity to grab a bag of Doritos in front of a mountain lion. Because I knew my chew would scare it off because it was so loud.
15:36 Speaker 05 And this is where we differ, and this is where I differ from all of you. We don't interfere with mother nature. We can interfere a little bit. We can't. We can't.
15:48 Speaker 03 Like a little bit.
15:49 Speaker 05 Look a little bit if it's your birthday, maybe. Not if it's your birthday. We have a solemn duty to document what's happening in nature. We can't change it with our chip crunches, or our guitars, or our roleplay, or our drones. We take what is happening and we-
16:08 Speaker 05 Pick it up on our equipment.
16:10 Speaker 07 God, I've never seen you in a good mood. Never.
16:13 Speaker 05 Yeah, because I'm alone when I'm in a good mood. When you guys leave, the biggest smile goes across my face. I look like a damn happy face.
16:21 Speaker 06 Well, sometimes it's like, you know, we're just trying to get, I'm a location scout, right? I'm trying to always get the best location a bit. And sometimes that involves the animal performance. So you got so angry when we simply suggested, why don't we just blow a little air towards that cougar to see if he'll pay attention?
16:40 Speaker 05 Yeah.
16:40 Speaker 06 See if he'll turn around.
16:41 Speaker 03 A little air.
16:42 Speaker 05 You look, listen how stupid you all look going.
16:45 Speaker 08 Yeah, it was a small amount of air. It's just a little. A collective, small amount.
16:50 Speaker 06 It's just a tiny bit. Just to get his lens.
16:52 Speaker 05 Have you heard of the butterfly effect? One wing of a butterfly, flitting and flapping the wrong way.
16:58 Speaker 08 Yeah, but this was a cougar.
16:59 Speaker 03 It's a different.
16:59 Speaker 05 It's the same thing, guys.
17:01 Speaker 07 No, it's the cougar. They call it the butterfly effect because butterflies, not cougar effect.
17:04 Speaker 08 Yeah.
17:04 Speaker 03 It's completely different.
17:05 Speaker 05 Cougar effect's something completely different.
17:08 Speaker 06 The cougar effect is something I like to see.
17:12 Speaker 08 I keep telling you, my mom is single. I keep offering.
17:17 Speaker 06 I don't, I love, you know, you know what? New year, new me. Pass me a number.
17:22 Speaker 08 I will. I will for sure.
17:24 Speaker 03 Yeah.
17:24 Speaker 07 All right, all right. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Um, what's up, guys? I'm Butch. Um, and I am the sound guy. What can I say?
17:31 Speaker 03 It's really interesting to talk about this because a lot of the time, you know, there's MOS, we're shooting MOS because it's so many hours and there's so many things going on. We had to recreate the sound later.
17:42 Speaker 07 Well, it's, I mean, it's so weird, right? To be on this crew and to see the call sheet and to see optional next to my name. But I still show up.
17:51 Speaker 05 You still show up.
17:52 Speaker 07 Right? I, I, I don't think the storytelling should stop at just the visuals. I think every once in a while, something I pick up on the boom, they use.
18:01 Speaker 05 You know what? And I'm working on giving compliments. The way you disguise your boom mics is very, very cool.
18:06 Speaker 07 Thank you.
18:07 Speaker 03 The way that you're able to put lavalier marks on some of these animals, it's crazy. They don't even know that they've been marked, you know?
18:15 Speaker 06 It's a blow dart lavalier and I think the technology is really quite, uh, it's quite humane. First of all, I'd like to say it's very humane, the way we've done it. And also, I think it's very inventive.
18:29 Speaker 07 I appreciate it.
18:30 Speaker 06 You're so committed to getting these animal sounds because I know we, we use a lot of your live audio that you, or that you do record on the day. And as long as we write down what animal it's for, we can use it later.
18:43 Speaker 08 Yep. And, and sorry, not to continue.
18:47 Speaker 07 Please, I love this.
18:48 Speaker 08 Blowing a small amount of smoke up your ass. But the, the impressive thing too is the knowledge of the animals and where you should place the dart and who can handle it. Those harvester ants were about a third the size of the lob. But you knew that they could carry 50 times their body weight and it wasn't a big deal.
19:07 Speaker 07 That was a simple Google search and I, I mean like.
19:10 Speaker 08 You don't catch me doing that, you know?
19:12 Speaker 07 I appreciate that, Gax.
19:13 Speaker 03 You can just boom them.
19:15 Speaker 07 Facts, I really appreciate that. But no, I mean, I was a little boy growing up and I, I invented a dart gun that you could, um, shoot at a woman's chest and take her bra off. And ever since then, it was like, my dad was like, you can keep going. He was like, keep going.
19:34 Speaker 06 Keep going. He, he said that, he, he wanted to encourage that behavior.
19:38 Speaker 07 He was just like, this kid's got something, right? So then I finally found a spot where I can lob anything, anything with my lob dart gun from a mile away. I can lob ants, I can lob fucking, I don't even know, dude. I tried to lob a crocodile, remember that?
19:52 Speaker 08 Yeah.
19:52 Speaker 05 Yeah, I mean, that was, you lobbed a crocodile while he was literally tearing into an antelope. It was crazy and he got it, it hooked on to the side of his mouth.
20:01 Speaker 03 And then he spun.
20:02 Speaker 08 Well, and then swallowing the antelope meant that he swallowed the lob. We got to hear the digestion process.
20:09 Speaker 07 That was nuts.
20:10 Speaker 08 That was nuts. There was metal rattling around in there.
20:13 Speaker 05 Who's ending up having to wait 24 to 36 hours after? The person is good at staying still. So, so some of the lobbs, I would ask if you could have them not try to eat those because then I, that kind of, uh... Makes my day about two to three days longer because I have to wait around for the laws.
20:28 Speaker 03 It just feels like you hate what you do pretty much. You don't even, you don't even like being in nature.
20:32 Speaker 05 I love what I do more than anything.
20:34 Speaker 06 It's just animals, bro. It's like a fun time, right?
20:38 Speaker 05 We are capturing in many, many instances, animals that we will never see again. The amount of animals we've captured that are now extinct.
20:45 Speaker 07 Dude, dude, don't make me cry.
20:47 Speaker 05 I'm just saying, guys, this is important work. We are cataloging the planet Earth. We are making document of these animals that we are also killing at the same time. It's beautiful work, guys. It's important work.
21:00 Speaker 06 Of course, of course.
21:01 Speaker 08 And I do feel bad about all the ones that we killed. I do. I do. We shouldn't be doing that on our show.
21:07 Speaker 06 Of course, of course. I'm guilty.
21:08 Speaker 03 Khaki just gets so excited that we've seen it.
21:11 Speaker 07 Dude, actors die in movies. That's true.
21:14 Speaker 05 No, not in successful ones.
21:14 Speaker 03 Khaki's trying to do shots where it's like an antelope is driving a car and it flips.
21:21 Speaker 08 You know?
21:21 Speaker 03 Trying to make it action based, you know?
21:23 Speaker 07 No, I do think it's important and that is something like I hate to say and like peek behind the curtain and say that animals sometimes die during these.
21:31 Speaker 08 Yep.
21:31 Speaker 07 Sometimes crew members die. Like, we're like, I mean, we should...
21:36 Speaker 05 Yeah, I mean, Khaki, let's talk about it. Accidentally waterboarded an ostrich.
21:41 Speaker 05 I thought it was horrifying. There was a lot of preventative measures we could have taken.
21:46 Speaker 08 To clarify, yes, it was an accident that I waterboarded it to death, but the waterboarding was instigated because the ostrich was not telling me key information that I needed to know.
21:59 Speaker 06 Right, because you were an ostrich cop at the time.
22:02 Speaker 08 That's right. I was an ostrich cop and I made it clear per the law that that would be the result of not giving information, so...
22:11 Speaker 05 What was the info you needed from that ostrich even?
22:14 Speaker 08 Where his contacts were. Who sent him there?
22:19 Speaker 07 And that's withholding, and that's on the ostrich.
22:21 Speaker 08 That's right, that's right. Uh, but no, but I do feel bad, as we all do. We're obviously animal lovers, or we wouldn't have gotten into this. And plant lovers, bird of paradise.
22:31 Speaker 05 Absolutely.
22:32 Speaker 07 Literally.
22:32 Speaker 08 Mushroom lovers, you had that spiritual experience with a fungus colony in South America.
22:39 Speaker 03 It was beautiful.
22:40 Speaker 05 I, um, was, was, uh, laying down so long to capture an Amazonian river otter that, uh, a colony of fungus, uh, grew above me, around me, and into me, and I saw...
22:53 Speaker 07 Did I say something?
22:54 Speaker 05 Yeah.
22:54 Speaker 07 In the middle of your story?
22:56 Speaker 05 Sure.
22:56 Speaker 07 Fungus is gonna come after us all. Continue.
23:00 Speaker 05 Well, I could tell you that myself.
23:00 Speaker 06 It's something to look out for, for sure.
23:03 Speaker 05 They told me a lot of stuff to keep an eye out for. I've seen their next 20 years in a glance. They gave me a quick go-through of what they're about to do.
23:09 Speaker 03 When they entered you.
23:10 Speaker 05 Yeah, they said, here's, it basically was a keynote presentation of what's coming for us.
23:14 Speaker 06 They gave you kind of the rundown.
23:15 Speaker 05 They gave me the rundown. It was like a launch, like a product launch, like, we are fungus, and in 10 years, we're gonna do this, and 20 years, we're gonna do this.
23:21 Speaker 03 No, it's just big Hollywood, you know? It's the, once Last of Us came out, it was like, fungus got all excited, like, oh, this is what we can do.
23:28 Speaker 05 It kept being like, we're so proud of the success of The Last of Us.
23:31 Speaker 08 We're gonna ride it, yeah.
23:32 Speaker 06 Oh, we really shouldn't have let our TVs, like, so close to the windows at times, because I think it let the mushrooms see. Then they got ideas.
23:41 Speaker 05 I think they did.
23:41 Speaker 07 I so rudely interrupted you. What were you saying?
23:44 Speaker 05 I, I, I, I was just saying that I saw some incredible things when they, when they took me over, and I, I feel like I learn a lot more about life when I'm out there with these animals. Have you guys learned about your own lives from these animals?
23:56 Speaker 03 Hmm, yeah.
23:57 Speaker 08 Yeah, you can't not.
23:58 Speaker 03 For sure.
23:58 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah, I mean, I saw, I know when we went to, um, uh, the Sahara Desert.
24:05 Speaker 03 Oh, is it?
24:05 Speaker 06 And we saw these two camels in a mating ritual.
24:10 Speaker 07 Hmm, yeah.
24:11 Speaker 06 And one camel was super into it, super, like, uh, let's do it, and the other camel was not so keen, and it made me realize I was in a one-sided marriage.
24:23 Speaker 07 Yeah.
24:23 Speaker 06 And it kind of taught me, like, oh, maybe I'm the one putting in all the work, and she's sort of, like, half in, half out.
24:30 Speaker 07 Whoa, whoa.
24:31 Speaker 06 So I took some steps. And then I went on a divorce moon by myself on a cruise. Bora Bora to Canada, to Alaska, to Cape Horn.
24:45 Speaker 05 Long cruise.
24:46 Speaker 06 It was a six month cruise.
24:49 Speaker 08 I mean, to be fair, you had to go to Alaska to drop off the drive.
24:51 Speaker 06 That's true. I had to drop off the drive because that's where we were. That's where we were shooting next. And I'm like, oh, you know, I don't want to fly to Alaska, burn so much, you know, fuel and whatnot. But this cruise is headed there.
25:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, the cruise is so much more fuel efficient, I would say.
25:09 Speaker 08 Oh, yeah, of course.
25:10 Speaker 06 I think so, right? Gotta be.
25:12 Speaker 08 Because you're already on there anyway. Why send an extra mail plane or something?
25:16 Speaker 06 I'm already on there.
25:17 Speaker 08 The beautiful thing about that is we spend so much of our time doing for others and being on the road, eight, nine, 10 months at a stretch for you to do something for yourself and then still work in a drive drop. So the whole thing's a write off. I mean, I think it's brilliant.
25:32 Speaker 06 Of course. I mean, it's all for taxes. At the end of the day, that's something we all should keep in mind. It's kind of fun, the stuff we get to write off, actually, as animal people. Anytime I go to the zoo, oh, that's for work, baby.
25:46 Speaker 05 How often are you going to the zoo?
25:48 Speaker 06 I hate going to the zoo.
25:49 Speaker 05 You see these animals in the wild.
25:50 Speaker 03 That's for work, baby.
25:53 Speaker 06 They're different at the zoo. And the Rainforest Cafe, write off.
25:58 Speaker 08 I will say.
25:59 Speaker 03 Usually would be a write off anyway.
26:01 Speaker 08 I will say, a couple of times in your location scout binders, you have pitched zoos and rainforest cafes as locations.
26:09 Speaker 06 Guilty. I love going there. Wish we could shoot it. Sometimes I go there and I'm like, there's stuff we could get here. We're just, I know how hard you work. You know, seeing you complaining all the time, stuck up with one camera. But the zoos, they're right there, right? So we should be just making our lives easier at times, don't you think?
26:30 Speaker 08 That's, as a locations manager, don't you understand how loaded that is? We have to get so many permits. We have to shut it down.
26:36 Speaker 06 Oh, no. Oh, I know. It's the permit. It's the permit every time. And that's what I'm realizing. That is so annoying.
26:45 Speaker 05 Listen, but it's frustrating you pitch, you know, those ideas, which I would say for a national documentary who are just the dumbest I've ever heard.
26:52 Speaker 06 All right.
26:53 Speaker 05 But you are what I'm just trying to give you a compliment here. You are amazing at talking to local native groups in the Congo, in Namibia.
27:01 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah.
27:02 Speaker 05 In Brazil, you talk to these tribes that have not allowed anybody to film.
27:08 Speaker 06 No contact with humans, except for me.
27:09 Speaker 05 Yeah.
27:10 Speaker 06 I'm pretty chill with them, you know?
27:12 Speaker 05 Yeah.
27:12 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah. We just sort of have an understanding of like, this guy is not really after me in any way. He's not gonna try and push any kind of lifestyle on me. And so we're pretty chill, you know?
27:23 Speaker 05 We filmed the crabs on Sentinel Island, which many people know is a no contact tribe.
27:28 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah, that's not where you're supposed to go.
27:29 Speaker 05 That does not allow people. You got us on that.
27:30 Speaker 06 Yeah, but they let us.
27:32 Speaker 03 You don't like your drones?
27:33 Speaker 06 They let a few people go.
27:35 Speaker 05 Yeah, they let us go. Who did they? How did you do that?
27:38 Speaker 06 Oh, well, they, you know, they had their, and rightfully so, I get it. You know, they don't allow anyone on this island. It's been this way for 200, 300 years. You know, anyone who goes there, it passes away. And that's just their law. And that, and we all know that going in. And I sort of motioned from the boat and I said, hi.
28:02 Speaker 06 Could I come in though?
28:05 Speaker 06 And they sort of interpreted from my vibe that I was not gonna pose any danger. So we hung out, we watched the Transformers movies. I pulled it up on my iPad. That's sick of them.
28:17 Speaker 03 You showed them Transformers.
28:18 Speaker 05 That must have blown their...
28:20 Speaker 03 They have no concept of what a car is even.
28:22 Speaker 06 It's like four steps ahead. Yeah. Wow. I know, but I kept pausing and going like, it's chill. Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. Cause I know it was a lot to take in, but they, they, they left with some new ideas. They were kind of scratching their heads, kind of like, kind of convening in some way. And I think they're gonna build a transformer. It seemed.
28:40 Speaker 03 Not even a car, just straight to transformer.
28:42 Speaker 06 I think they're gonna go straight to transformer.
28:44 Speaker 03 They must have just like, even the first shot of that movie, they must have been mind blown. Like, what is a car? What is this moving vehicle? What is a road? What is all of this? You know, it's very, very...
28:54 Speaker 06 It's just a completely different way of life.
28:56 Speaker 07 Favorite trip we've gotten on together?
28:58 Speaker 08 Oh, wow.
29:00 Speaker 07 It could be for the shots.
29:01 Speaker 03 Besides Miami?
29:03 Speaker 07 That was nuts.
29:04 Speaker 08 Besides Miami, which was for fun.
29:08 Speaker 07 You guys.
29:08 Speaker 03 Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
29:10 Speaker 08 I mean.
29:11 Speaker 03 I mean.
29:12 Speaker 08 We swore we wouldn't say it.
29:14 Speaker 03 No, no, no, no, no. You can say it if you want, but like, I'm not gonna say it.
29:17 Speaker 07 It was my fucking bachelor party.
29:19 Speaker 03 Yeah.
29:19 Speaker 07 And I think you guys have to be honest and say what happened. I mean, I, I was so drunk. I remember I fell, I went to bed that night, but like, what happened?
29:26 Speaker 08 I'll, I'll say it in two words and you can connect the dots.
29:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
29:30 Speaker 08 Butt stuff.
29:31 Speaker 07 Okay.
29:33 Speaker 08 Enough said.
29:35 Speaker 07 God, that could, that could be anything.
29:39 Speaker 03 Connect the dots by yourself with that one.
29:41 Speaker 08 Sort of like an inside joke, I guess.
29:43 Speaker 03 Yeah, you could say it was inside.
29:45 Speaker 08 It was inside of him.
29:46 Speaker 03 It was inside something.
29:47 Speaker 08 For sure.
29:48 Speaker 07 What does that mean?
29:49 Speaker 08 For sure, for sure, for sure.
29:51 Speaker 03 For sure, for sure.
29:53 Speaker 07 Anyway, okay, so besides Miami, let's talk about your favorite trip, your favorite.
29:57 Speaker 03 Besides Tokyo.
29:59 Speaker 08 Uh-oh. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Now, what happened on this one?
30:05 Speaker 07 What happened on that one? Whoa.
30:06 Speaker 08 It's easier to talk about what didn't happen.
30:08 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's say two words.
30:13 Speaker 08 Questioned sexuality. Okay, so, so but, and the butt stuff was first.
30:18 Speaker 07 What's going on?
30:20 Speaker 03 Butt stuff was first.
30:22 Speaker 08 Then you had questions.
30:24 Speaker 03 Long conversations into the, late into night.
30:27 Speaker 08 Late into night. Big time bonding trip. For me, life changing. Uh, I, I will say it's, you know, yes, it was awkward timing with me breaking up with my girlfriend, but it had nothing to do with that.
30:39 Speaker 03 No, no, nothing.
30:41 Speaker 05 Geez, I'm nervous to bring up, uh, Dallas.
30:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:48 Speaker 08 Oh, yeah.
30:49 Speaker 03 Hmm.
30:50 Speaker 05 Oh, maybe we don't talk about that one.
30:51 Speaker 07 We were in Dallas for a long time, yeah.
30:54 Speaker 05 We were filming the Longhorns.
30:57 Speaker 03 The Wild Longhorns of Dallas.
30:59 Speaker 06 Wild Longhorns of Dallas.
31:00 Speaker 08 Tiger location scouted a rodeo. And we had already committed and shown up on the trip.
31:07 Speaker 03 Tiger says, this place is wild.
31:09 Speaker 08 Brought all of our gear.
31:11 Speaker 06 Crazy animals at the rodeo. I really wish we had gone for it.
31:14 Speaker 07 Yeah, you really got us because you were like, there's restrooms here. And we were like, I need a break. I need somewhere to like fricking wash my fucking hands. And yeah.
31:22 Speaker 05 I gotta say, my favorite trip we've ever been on was when we followed and got accepted into that Killer Whale Pod, that Orca Pod in the Pacific, that went from Greenland down to the Canary Islands, down to the Pacific.
31:42 Speaker 03 Well, you really helped with that.
31:43 Speaker 08 Over the top and then down the Pacific, yeah.
31:45 Speaker 03 You really helped with that, you know, you like really got in there.
31:49 Speaker 08 Yeah, I tried. I had spent the summer during COVID, teaching myself four pod dialects. And.
31:58 Speaker 05 I was making bread, you were learning Orca dialect.
32:01 Speaker 08 I mean, to each his own, you know, and this is why we're a well-balanced team. Because also, you brought a lot of bread on that trip and we would have been fucked otherwise.
32:09 Speaker 06 So helpful.
32:09 Speaker 03 Delicious. I feel like the more you got into it, the better it was.
32:12 Speaker 05 I am bothered nobody brought any other food, but I'm glad we had my bread.
32:16 Speaker 07 I thought the bread was great.
32:17 Speaker 03 It was great. It's all we need.
32:19 Speaker 07 But can you do some of your, some of, can you share?
32:22 Speaker 08 Yeah, of course.
32:23 Speaker 06 Yeah, and be some like introductory phrases if you want to just say hard ones?
32:27 Speaker 08 Well, each pod has their own dialect. So, you know, just like you might do like a southern accent or something to connote someone who's from Alabama. An Orca from the Seattle area, San Juan Islands, that chain.
32:48 Speaker 07 Look at Cackie's eyes. If you go somewhere else, whoa.
32:51 Speaker 05 And what did you say there?
32:53 Speaker 08 Uh, hey.
32:56 Speaker 06 Oh, they have, you should kind of pause for a long time to get a hey from one of them.
33:00 Speaker 03 What about like, how does that change like when you get to the East Coast?
33:04 Speaker 08 Yeah, yeah, the further north and east you go, so the over the top towards Greenland, you're gonna drop in a register each time. So, you know, let's say we're approaching the Arctic, you get your.
33:28 Speaker 05 You can tell that's Arctic because they just sound colder.
33:31 Speaker 08 Yeah.
33:32 Speaker 07 They sound so cold.
33:33 Speaker 08 They're keeping those.
33:34 Speaker 03 What were you saying there?
33:36 Speaker 08 What's up?
33:37 Speaker 03 So they're even using regional differences.
33:40 Speaker 08 That's right.
33:43 Speaker 08 It's a much more casual pod up there because there's so few of them. They're all intimately connected versus the more formal dialects, the more south you go. You know, it spreads out just like communities, you know? You don't necessarily have a deep intimate conversation with someone on the streets of New York. But if you're in your own home, sure, you you talk casually.
34:01 Speaker 07 That is so insane. You did that over the pandemic and then we just happened to be friends with all those whales. I mean, some of that footage is so good. I'm so proud of the drone stuff that we got.
34:12 Speaker 03 My underwater drone, yeah.
34:13 Speaker 07 I think we should roll some of the clips.
34:15 Speaker 03 That you guys want to roll. Okay, yeah.
34:17 Speaker 07 I think it's good stuff.
34:19 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. So this is some of my drone footage. It was above water. It was below water. It's us just really in the pod. So let's play right now.
34:33 Speaker 03 The orca is near. It's mating threshold. And here you see. It's forever friend, becoming more than a friend.
34:49 Speaker 03 What will?
34:51 Speaker 06 Now, I know there's an aquarium in Long Beach we could go to. If you guys want to get a little closer.
34:56 Speaker 07 That's what I loved you on accident.
34:59 Speaker 06 I got him with that blow dot.
35:00 Speaker 03 Well, let's talk about the elephant in the room for that clip, too. The post-production of what goes in because that is, we have a narrator, you know? It's voiced by the legendary, you know, absolutely.
35:13 Speaker 08 The oldest Attenborough.
35:15 Speaker 03 The oldest Attenborough.
35:16 Speaker 08 Yardly Attenborough.
35:17 Speaker 05 Yardly Attenborough, absolutely. You know, we don't know who's going to be voicing over our footage. We never do. That's a decision they make at the very end, whatever company buys our footage. And the Attenborough is usually in pretty good hands.
35:31 Speaker 08 Yeah.
35:31 Speaker 05 There's some people, you know, that have bothered me, you know? We did that. Incredible, incredible documentary about the death of one elephant on the African plains. And they ended up going with Steve-O and that kind of broke my heart.
35:47 Speaker 03 We have the clip.
35:48 Speaker 07 Yeah, we should roll it for contrast.
35:50 Speaker 06 I think we have a clip of that.
35:52 Speaker 03 It's tough when they choose the wrong voice actor for it. Okay, here it is. Play.
35:59 Speaker 05 Hey man, so here's the thing dude, that elephant's friggin dying dog. Oh no, turns out these birds are trying to eat his fucking liver dude. That's crazy dog. I'm fucking thirsty as fuck. Anybody get some fucking water? This dying elephant's making me thirsty as fuck. I'm fucking thirsty dog.
36:20 Speaker 03 Okay, what was the high pitched thing coming on there?
36:24 Speaker 07 I think that was whatever was eating the...
36:27 Speaker 05 What was that?
36:29 Speaker 03 Birds, birds.
36:30 Speaker 06 I think it was birds, yeah.
36:32 Speaker 07 Yeah.
36:32 Speaker 03 Birds, okay.
36:33 Speaker 06 I'm pretty sure it was birds.
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37:35 Speaker 03 Yeah, birds.
37:36 Speaker 07 That was really good. Steve-O was weird, man. I'm trying to think of other ones that I love. I think I really enjoyed, um...
37:43 Speaker 06 I liked Robert De Niro.
37:46 Speaker 05 That was a good one.
37:47 Speaker 03 I thought he had such a good version of it.
37:49 Speaker 05 Those puffins.
37:50 Speaker 07 With the puffins!
37:52 Speaker 06 Those sweet, sweet puffins.
37:54 Speaker 07 Roll it, roll it. Take it to the clip.
37:57 Speaker 09 Oh, go, go, go.
38:02 Speaker 03 Aren't these fun?
38:11 Speaker 05 Yeah, they couldn't get him to speak at all.
38:13 Speaker 07 I like it.
38:14 Speaker 05 That was the greatest compliment. He was kind of, uh, didn't wanna interrupt our footage.
38:19 Speaker 06 I really liked, I really liked, uh, Joe Biden in the Amazon rainforest.
38:25 Speaker 03 Talking about that anaconda.
38:28 Speaker 03 Okay, ready, go.
38:30 Speaker 06 Uh, folks, uh, you're gonna see an anaconda. It's an ana- folks, it's an anaconda. Crap it around this tree, folks. Folks, there's an anaconda. You're gonna love, folks. What we're talking about is, come on, Jack, there's an anaconda.
38:48 Speaker 03 It's like a beautiful version of that. It's perfect.
38:52 Speaker 08 What I like about that is he really brings himself and, um, we can't forget that we are also a part of nature.
39:00 Speaker 07 Yeah. Yeah, I'd also say some of the, some of the duo ones were crazy.
39:05 Speaker 08 Crazy.
39:06 Speaker 07 Some of the, it was, it was, there was, who was it? It was Christopher Walken.
39:10 Speaker 08 And Carrot Top.
39:12 Speaker 06 Christopher Walken and Carrot Top.
39:14 Speaker 03 What a dream combo. I've always wanted to see them together. I've always wanted to see them together.
39:19 Speaker 08 And you got your wish.
39:21 Speaker 07 Reptiles, that reptile slideshow thing.
39:22 Speaker 05 Generic reptile slideshow.
39:24 Speaker 08 Oh, that's right. Yeah, we found some clip art of reptiles and inserted a slideshow.
39:28 Speaker 06 We did some screensaver work for Apple. It's, yeah.
39:31 Speaker 03 All right, let's roll on it.
39:34 Speaker 07 Oh, look at a ghost. Uh, look at that.
39:43 Speaker 07 Look at that.
39:47 Speaker 07 Carrot Top, what'd you think?
39:49 Speaker 08 What did I think? I gotta put my thinking cap on. Whoa. Oh, oh, hold on. Uh, screw that. It doesn't fit anymore. Uh, uh, uh.
40:01 Speaker 08 Give me a snake. Hand me a snake. Hand me a snake.
40:03 Speaker 07 Oh, oh, here, here.
40:04 Speaker 08 Do you like my new boa? Hey.
40:07 Speaker 07 The slideshow. We'll keep distracting from the slideshow.
40:09 Speaker 08 Slide. Electric slide.
40:14 Speaker 07 That worked on the animal kingdom.
40:16 Speaker 06 I forgot he was props.
40:18 Speaker 08 Yeah, yeah, that was tough.
40:20 Speaker 06 So that was tough. It's nice that they got both of them in the same room though.
40:24 Speaker 03 Got to give it to him. That was good.
40:26 Speaker 05 I actually, I think though it's special because something about Chris Walken looking at Carrot Top, you could tell he almost was beginning to hear himself for the first time.
40:34 Speaker 08 Yep. There's that moment where Walken looks like he has it and then stops mid-sentence and says, "Carrot Top, what do you think?" But hadn't really said much and then that's where the magic happens.
40:48 Speaker 03 It was exactly what I really imagined that chemistry to actually be like.
40:52 Speaker 06 Carrot Top, what do you think?
40:53 Speaker 08 And they're great friends now because of that shoot. Yeah, that was incredible. Yeah.
40:58 Speaker 07 Some of the stuff that, that the artistry that's coming out of animal documentation is just constantly evolving, especially with, um, with drone technology, especially just all of it. It's so cool. What's your guys' favorite, like newest thing we've worked on?
41:16 Speaker 03 Well, like I love, like, you know how drones are now used to like show off homes for sale or like hotels you're going to, you know, like they do these like, we did that with the Amazon, like to show off like what it would be like if you're living in the Amazon. So like we coordinated and like, it's really fun. Like you swoop down and there's like the orangutans waving.
41:36 Speaker 08 You sold a lot of land parcels, actually accidentally. Yeah.
41:40 Speaker 03 Accidentally, yeah, I like have accidentally devastated the Amazon. Sold one of those critically unfortunate.
41:47 Speaker 05 There was a group of people that saw that and said, "We want to do that." And that's why we got that weird gorilla Coldplay music video.
41:53 Speaker 08 But I mean, that was. But nature, you know, humans are a part of nature.
41:57 Speaker 03 But it wasn't like real. That was the thing about the Coldplay one is all mocap. And I'm like, I could have gotten you real gorillas, didn't you?
42:03 Speaker 08 Speaking of mocap, that connects to one of my favorite new pieces of technology. Um, there's a lot of interesting military tech, uh, and a lot of interesting Hollywood tech that I've been able to jerry-rig into things like the thermal suits that we use to drop into the volcano in Iceland. Now, when have you ever gotten to throw a steady cam around your shoulders and dip into an active volcano before? Did you ever imagine that that would happen?
42:29 Speaker 05 No, I've never done that. And to be honest, it was fucking terrifying. And the camera didn't get anything because it was covered in magma.
42:36 Speaker 06 But you got the experience.
42:38 Speaker 05 But I got it.
42:39 Speaker 06 I thought it was a little fun for you, though, wasn't it?
42:41 Speaker 05 I mean, it was, it was, uh, my heart has never beaten so fast. I thought I was gonna have a heart attack.
42:46 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah, that's fun.
42:47 Speaker 05 So scary. But it was very cool. I will say, I'm not ungrateful for that experience. I just don't think there was anything alive in there. So that's kind of not where I needed to be.
42:58 Speaker 03 What if there was? Like, what if you found?
43:01 Speaker 06 What if you captured it?
43:02 Speaker 05 If there was, if I captured a living being in the lava, I would probably take the suit off and kill myself, because that sounds so scary.
43:09 Speaker 08 And also, I'll pose this question. How do you know you didn't? How do you know life has to have eyes and fingers? POV, you're in the lava. You're alive.
43:20 Speaker 05 I mean, look, I showed you guys the footage. You guys said, this looks like a lava lamp. You said this looks just like a lava lamp.
43:26 Speaker 03 We were pissed off, like we wanted you to really go in there.
43:29 Speaker 08 I think we were jealous. I mean, it's a really cool thing that Cax made.
43:34 Speaker 05 I'm grateful, I'm grateful. Yeah. Can I just say one type of, uh, camera advancement that I'm a little frustrated by?
43:43 Speaker 03 Oh, here we go. Lord have mercy.
43:46 Speaker 05 There are some producers that are forcing me to put Facetune on my cameras to make kind of a yassified animal.
43:53 Speaker 03 Well, like a yassified ant, man. It's like beautiful.
43:56 Speaker 05 An ant with tits and ass. We don't need that.
43:59 Speaker 06 Imagine the yassified ant, though, for a second. It's kind of fun. Isn't it kind of fun? Doesn't it show ants to a new generation? You know, trying to, these kids, these kids, this generation alpha, you're sort of a hot-
44:12 Speaker 08 Sidebar, have you ever seen an actual, what the, did you see the before pic of what an actual ant face looks like? I'm being serious right now. Okay, all right, okay.
44:21 Speaker 06 Yeah, you don't, you don't want to be up close to that.
44:25 Speaker 08 I mean, guys, we have to keep up. Sorry. No, it's okay. I just wanted to make sure he knew that the tits and ass were a huge improvement.
44:33 Speaker 05 Now, I'll look at the ant face.
44:34 Speaker 08 And we threw a little thong on it.
44:35 Speaker 03 Imagine like a smoky-eyed tarantula. Come on, man. Come on, bro.
44:42 Speaker 06 If I were an animal, and I'm being shot, I mean, that's really crazy.
44:47 Speaker 08 Dude.
44:48 Speaker 06 That's really crazier than I remember.
44:50 Speaker 08 Or like, how cool would it be to see that thing barf rainbows?
44:53 Speaker 06 We've got to yassify that. We simply have to yassify that. There's no other way.
44:57 Speaker 08 That's fucking nuts!
44:58 Speaker 06 There's no way around it.
44:59 Speaker 08 Zoom on the teeth, zoom on the teeth.
45:02 Speaker 06 That's really right. It's quite, um...
45:04 Speaker 05 It's really cracking you up a little bit.
45:05 Speaker 06 It's really quite upsetting.
45:06 Speaker 08 It's tough. It's a tough...
45:08 Speaker 07 God, I'm looking at that and I'm like, "I wanna put a lather on it." "I wanna put a lather on it."
45:15 Speaker 06 It's so... I really admire how it hurts you, it pains you when an animal gets away unloved.
45:22 Speaker 07 Cause I think sounds are an important part of the storytelling.
45:24 Speaker 06 Absolutely.
45:25 Speaker 07 I think sometimes we get too caught up in the visual, I'll say it. I think we get a little caught up in capturing the sunlight at a perfect angle so we can see the cheetah sweating. Like, cool, but what does that sound like?
45:38 Speaker 03 Yeah.
45:39 Speaker 07 Right? I think it'll help people understand more of the world if we also know how it cries.
45:46 Speaker 05 Well, then you should be out there with me, Butch. I've been asking you to come join me. I sit out there for 12 hours to get that glistening sweat shot. You walk in when you think they're being noisy.
45:57 Speaker 07 It's an instinct I have. I like to follow it. But also, with all due respect, I don't wanna be with you for 12 hours.
46:02 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's like freaking watching paint dry and it's yelling at you.
46:07 Speaker 06 Now, I've got an idea for you, you know, cause I know, I noticed you're pretty unhappy out there alone. Have you thought about getting a girlfriend, bringing her along?
46:16 Speaker 05 We should talk about this. I think it's inappropriate to bring plus ones on trips. You guys do it all the time.
46:21 Speaker 03 Oh, come on.
46:22 Speaker 05 Well, it's not. We're working. You guys are bringing these people... You bring the fling of the week every single week. It's a new...
46:28 Speaker 03 I can't help it, eh? Can't help it, dawg.
46:31 Speaker 07 But then it always sets khakis off, and then khakis calls their ex.
46:34 Speaker 03 Khakis, I'm so sorry, kakalaka.
46:36 Speaker 08 You know, life is complex. Life is complicated. And maybe you're in a phase right now where that's your feeling, but you know, in three weeks, you'll, you know, one more fungus entry and you'll be like, "I would like to have someone here with me while this fungus is entering me."
46:53 Speaker 06 Have you thought about going back to the mushrooms, asking them what to do?
46:56 Speaker 08 Good idea.
46:57 Speaker 03 It's a good idea.
46:58 Speaker 05 They won't talk to me right now.
47:00 Speaker 08 Really?
47:00 Speaker 03 Probably cause you're so negative.
47:02 Speaker 05 They told me that, they did tell me that I need to start sporing more positive vibes.
47:08 Speaker 06 Well, you, you, you did psychedelics and you kinda came out still a little grumpy.
47:13 Speaker 03 This bloody guy won't even listen to a fucking mushroom, you know? Like cheer up bro, what's something that makes you happy? It's like a sexy animal or something.
47:21 Speaker 07 Remember that pizza?
47:23 Speaker 03 Remember you got so excited at that pizza?
47:25 Speaker 06 That's good, that's good.
47:25 Speaker 07 Remember that pizza?
47:26 Speaker 03 That's why you brought up Dallas. That's why you brought up Dallas because there was that pizza.
47:30 Speaker 05 You're talking about?
47:31 Speaker 06 We had that pizza and it was big as a what?
47:34 Speaker 05 It's big as a whale.
47:36 Speaker 06 Exactly.
47:37 Speaker 08 It was as big as a whale and we let you choose the toppings and you chose iceberg lettuce.
47:42 Speaker 05 Iceberg lettuce.
47:44 Speaker 08 Because it was your birthday.
47:46 Speaker 06 It was your birthday, so we had a big Dallas pizza.
47:50 Speaker 05 Iceberg lettuce.
47:51 Speaker 06 Covered in iceberg lettuce.
47:51 Speaker 05 And?
47:52 Speaker 03 And?
47:53 Speaker 05 Jelly beans.
47:54 Speaker 07 And that shit was bad and you were so happy dude. It was the happiest I've ever seen you.
47:59 Speaker 06 Why can't we get that guy out in the wild?
48:02 Speaker 05 I mean, I can go be positive, I guess. Am I really bringing it down? I thought I was doing the work.
48:08 Speaker 06 Look, it's just, you know?
48:10 Speaker 03 Look at Jane Goodall, you know, she's like doing the work. R I P to an absolute legend.
48:15 Speaker 07 Goat.
48:15 Speaker 05 I miss her every day.
48:16 Speaker 03 Never was she, never was she upset, you know? She was just documenting.
48:20 Speaker 07 Yeah.
48:20 Speaker 03 The goat, man. Greatest of all time.
48:25 Speaker 06 Really great gal, absolutely just bang up gal.
48:30 Speaker 07 And I'll say it, I don't want to say this on camera because I don't want to, I don't want to get you at all fired or anything. But sometimes the boom picks up your, your mumbling. When you're just cussing over and over and over.
48:46 Speaker 03 I think we have a clip of that, let's play it.
48:48 Speaker 07 It's a gorgeous clip, I think.
48:50 Speaker 03 It's gorgeous, absolutely beautiful clip.
48:52 Speaker 07 It's a stunning visual, but then the, the audio that's just immediately synced to it. You just, it, it ruins it.
48:57 Speaker 08 This is the kelp forest?
48:58 Speaker 07 Yes, this is the kelp forest.
49:00 Speaker 05 This is the kelp forest, this is the leopard seal thwarting that tiger shark in the kelp forest.
49:04 Speaker 08 And I had rigged a special strap that strapped you to the bottom of a giant sea lion. And dragged you through the kelp so that you could be their front row.
49:16 Speaker 07 And you just wouldn't be quiet. Let's roll.
49:20 Speaker 05 Big titty bitch. Big titty bitch fuck. Big titty bitch fuck fuck fuck shit. Biddy, biddy, biddy, titty. Big titty biddy. Please, big titty biddy. Tit, tit, tit, fuck tit, tit. Big titty bitch. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, titty bitch, fuck. Fuck, fuck ass.
49:36 Speaker 03 I think.
49:36 Speaker 06 I think we can stop.
49:37 Speaker 03 Really capture on big titty bitch.
49:40 Speaker 06 He really zoomed it and he only talks about big titty bitch when he's really mad. When he's really upset.
49:46 Speaker 03 And those have nothing to do with each other. I think he just thinks big titty and bitch are bad words.
49:51 Speaker 07 I think that's why he wanted the iceberg lettuce on the big pizza. Reminds him of big titties.
49:55 Speaker 05 No, that's not it, guys. I just like the taste.
49:57 Speaker 08 I have, I have seen you eat an iceberg lettuce hole and you started by sucking it like it was a tit.
50:05 Speaker 07 You motor boated two iceberg lettuce in Reno, Nevada, when we were filming those nails.
50:12 Speaker 05 You guys are saying this stuff to be mean to me. Think about what you're saying. I know the difference between iceberg lettuce and a big tit. I know the difference. Don't say that kind of stuff.
50:20 Speaker 06 It's just, I'm trying to be a friend.
50:22 Speaker 05 You are not being my friend.
50:24 Speaker 06 It just kind of looks like you don't know the difference. You know what I'm saying? The way you're suckling on it just kind of looks like you don't know the difference.
50:29 Speaker 07 If we're airing out your shit, then we gotta air it all out. I know where you send those drones at night.
50:34 Speaker 03 Where?
50:36 Speaker 07 You send them to those, those, I don't want to say it.
50:39 Speaker 05 Let's say it. Nursing homes.
50:41 Speaker 03 I sent it to nursing homes.
50:42 Speaker 05 You send the drones into the rooms where you know people are gonna die that night.
50:46 Speaker 03 Ask them back away, back alive.
50:49 Speaker 08 It has worked.
50:50 Speaker 03 You think you're gonna die? You have big drones above you, now you're awake. I'm saving fucking lives, bro.
50:56 Speaker 07 It's weird.
50:57 Speaker 06 You're scaring old people, giving them five, seven extra days.
51:01 Speaker 03 To capture the moment right before they die, that they wake up back alive. Ah!
51:06 Speaker 07 It's such a weird thing.
51:09 Speaker 08 I will say you did it to my gramps and we were thankful to have the extra time with them.
51:14 Speaker 03 Thank you. Thank you. And let's air out, if we're airing out everything, you go back to a lot of your jobs in the animals.
51:21 Speaker 06 Yeah.
51:21 Speaker 03 Like when you went back and with, with that priest for the snakes.
51:25 Speaker 07 Not the priest snake.
51:27 Speaker 06 You taught the snakes religion and I thought that was honestly inappropriate.
51:31 Speaker 08 And I didn't go back because I enjoyed it. It was because I had a roster of weddings lined up. And what am I supposed to leave the snakes high and dry?
51:42 Speaker 05 It's weird. You're also, you're also that moil for that buffalo.
51:46 Speaker 08 That's right.
51:46 Speaker 05 You do a lot of bristles for buffalo.
51:48 Speaker 08 A lot of buffalo bristles. They're fairly easy. You can do those with a chainsaw.
51:54 Speaker 08 Yeah.
51:55 Speaker 07 I'll say, I think it's, I think it's inappropriate, inappropriate the way that you're a notary for ladybugs.
52:00 Speaker 08 Well, and I think that all animals have rights and if a ladybug needs a notarized document and a human's going to be speciesist and not give it to them, then I need to offer that service.
52:12 Speaker 03 But like, what about the giraffe MLM that you fell into?
52:16 Speaker 05 That is weird.
52:16 Speaker 08 That I feel bad about. I did not know it was an MLM at the time. I'll say that, A, number one. Then number two, I do really do still believe in the product. Nesting containers that are multifunctional utilitarian kitchen devices. They can go in the microwave, they can go in the dishwasher. They are also, you know, think of it as a Swiss army knife for your home.
52:39 Speaker 06 It's like, is this not just a Tupperware?
52:42 Speaker 08 No, no, no, no.
52:44 Speaker 03 The giraffes ate that up.
52:47 Speaker 08 They did and I felt bad.
52:49 Speaker 06 Something I can use in my kitchen?
52:52 Speaker 07 I'm glad you felt bad. That's, that's human.
52:54 Speaker 08 I felt bad. A lot of them ate it up, literally, and died. Uh, but I, and I, I want you to know, I did not benefit from it because none of them got other subscribers.
53:04 Speaker 05 Well, what about that radio station you run for puff, for pufferfish?
53:08 Speaker 08 What about it?
53:09 Speaker 05 You're a DJ for pufferfish. I just don't get it.
53:13 Speaker 06 I think we do have a clip of that.
53:18 Speaker 08 Underneath Ibiza, what's good? Are you ready to puff yourself crazy? We're dropping foam in the water all nut nut nut nut night.
53:36 Speaker 05 So that's my issue. This was Ibiza, this is a club, and you played Shaggy?
53:40 Speaker 08 Yeah, why?
53:41 Speaker 05 That's like an oldie song.
53:43 Speaker 08 Well, we, it's meaningful to us. It's an inside thing from Singapore, and that's all even at that.
53:49 Speaker 03 Singapore, don't even get me started on Singapore.
53:52 Speaker 08 Keyword, poor.
53:53 Speaker 03 Poor.
53:53 Speaker 07 Just one word in that one?
53:55 Speaker 05 Like some sugar on me?
53:56 Speaker 03 Two keywords, sing.
53:57 Speaker 08 Sing and poor.
53:59 Speaker 07 What does it mean?
54:02 Speaker 08 Think about it, read between the lines and connect the dots.
54:04 Speaker 03 Just read a little bit.
54:06 Speaker 07 Define the relation, what was the other one? Oh yeah, questioning sexuality and Singapore.
54:11 Speaker 08 Sing and poor.
54:13 Speaker 06 Okay, I'm getting, it's getting vaguer by the day, because I wanna know, I have a question for the table, which is, what's your white whale? And by that I mean, not a literal white whale, but it's fine if it is.
54:28 Speaker 05 We've shot in a bunch of those.
54:29 Speaker 06 We've shot in a bunch of those.
54:31 Speaker 03 Tired.
54:32 Speaker 06 The thing that got away, the shot that got away, the animal you thought you were gonna get, that was gonna get you a Pulitzer or an Oscar, and the animal that just slipped on by. I would say, for me, there was a jellyfish I thought we were gonna get. I thought we were gonna get this jellyfish, and it, I thought it was gonna perform, and when it went on the camera, it just didn't really read, it just kinda looked like a bag.
55:05 Speaker 08 Yeah.
55:06 Speaker 06 And I thought that was quite unfortunate, because...
55:08 Speaker 05 I'm telling you, man, it was a bag.
55:11 Speaker 08 It did look like one, it did look like one.
55:13 Speaker 03 I'm pretty sure it was a jellyfish.
55:15 Speaker 05 It said Safeway on the side.
55:16 Speaker 07 I still don't know who to believe.
55:17 Speaker 06 So it was a Safeway, it was like a Canadian jellyfish jar thing.
55:21 Speaker 03 I wish I could just watch the footage.
55:22 Speaker 06 I think it's a Canadian jellyfish. If you look back, they have that red and white marking on them, sort of repeating in a pattern. I believe it was a jellyfish.
55:31 Speaker 05 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, over and over again.
55:32 Speaker 06 I don't think jellyfish can talk, mate. I don't think that's what it was.
55:36 Speaker 08 I have a, I have a white whale, and it's personal. There is, as you know, a species of spider in Venezuela called the Venezuelan forgery spider. And they're very elusive and very hard to track because they make a living out of posing as other animals and plants. And I have been engaged in a 17-year-long catch me if you can chase.
56:03 Speaker 03 I remember you told me, like, one time you went in youth and you were like, this is the forgery spider.
56:07 Speaker 08 I had him.
56:08 Speaker 03 And the spider said, you're too late.
56:10 Speaker 08 That's right. And I tried to hire him.
56:13 Speaker 03 You were trying to hire him.
56:15 Speaker 08 As part of our team, but he turned it down.
56:18 Speaker 03 And then, once you left, he ran away and you said, that's the spider.
56:21 Speaker 08 I mean, he's been spotted piloting airplanes.
56:25 Speaker 07 That must be so frustrating for you.
56:27 Speaker 08 It's so frustrating. He's integrated in every aspect of my life just before I get there.
56:33 Speaker 07 Dude, that must be literally so frustrating. I remember that one time you were on dating apps and you saw, you saw.
56:39 Speaker 08 Yeah.
56:40 Speaker 07 We were scrolling, like, we were on that plane.
56:41 Speaker 08 And he agreed to a date. I had him. I, I thought that I was catfishing him, but it turned out he was catfishing me.
56:48 Speaker 03 Yeah, like, he swept you off his feet.
56:51 Speaker 08 That's right.
56:52 Speaker 07 I have a couple of white whales, and it's just cards. I, I deleted, I, I cleared before dumping them. I had that one card where a penguin farted. And I got that, I got that MP3. And god, I would have been so cool to show the world what it's like.
57:09 Speaker 08 What did it sound like? Did it sound like a person fart? No?
57:12 Speaker 07 Not what you think.
57:13 Speaker 06 Do you ever, do you ever remember? Can you imitate it, maybe?
57:17 Speaker 07 Yeah, I'm gonna try, like, as best I can. And I, and I'm truly not being entertaining. I'm just doing what I really hurt.
57:24 Speaker 06 This is science, yeah.
57:28 Speaker 03 Like a dog.
57:29 Speaker 06 Not being entertained, I swear.
57:30 Speaker 03 Like a dog.
57:32 Speaker 08 Eerily close to an east coast orca.
57:35 Speaker 05 Yeah, that is close.
57:37 Speaker 08 That, I almost just automatically was like...
57:40 Speaker 05 I mean, I wonder. It's evolutionary.
57:42 Speaker 06 What if that is?
57:42 Speaker 03 Because it's saying fuck you, you're an orca.
57:45 Speaker 08 Wow.
57:45 Speaker 06 And that other card I dumped, that I wiped without dumping, was when that hawk, like, just looked at you and started talking.
57:54 Speaker 05 Yeah. Yeah, I'll never forget that.
57:58 Speaker 03 I cannot believe you deleted that before dumping.
58:01 Speaker 06 I can't believe we deleted that. I really wish we could see it. Do you remember what he said to you?
58:05 Speaker 05 Yeah, it was a lot of stuff. I think he thought I was somebody else.
58:13 Speaker 05 So he started talking. It was like mid-conversation, like he'd already picked it up from somebody else. So he said like, "I tried that soda, by the way." And I was like, "What?" He's like, "Oh, you don't remember talking about, remember we were over in the river and you were doing that thing?" And I was like, "No, I don't..." "What?" He was like, "Remember, and the big, big old head." And I was like, "What?" And then he flew away.
58:30 Speaker 06 I've never imagined a hawk could say, "By the way." I've never thought that would get to animals.
58:37 Speaker 05 I've never, I've never, ever forgotten that, because I always am like, "Who?"
58:40 Speaker 06 How could you?
58:40 Speaker 05 "Who was he talking to?" It means there's somebody out there that knows that this hawk can talk.
58:45 Speaker 06 It was a mid...
58:46 Speaker 03 And often suggested a soda.
58:50 Speaker 06 That a hawk, a guy recommended a soda to a hawk and the hawk took it into account and tried it in his own life. That's crazy.
58:58 Speaker 05 And the guy was not me.
59:00 Speaker 06 Animals are crazy, man.
59:02 Speaker 08 Beautiful. So beautiful. So inspiring.
59:05 Speaker 03 Um, it's tough to talk about, but I like to talk about it. It's orangutan 360.
59:10 Speaker 06 Ah.
59:11 Speaker 05 Yeah.
59:11 Speaker 03 Yeah.
59:11 Speaker 06 Oh, man.
59:12 Speaker 03 I want to do, like, an orangutan doing a flip.
59:16 Speaker 08 You weren't fast enough.
59:17 Speaker 06 You were trying to do a glam bot, essentially.
59:20 Speaker 03 Like I've set up glam bots for animals. Like I want a glam bot, like, boom, they get so scared.
59:26 Speaker 08 Yeah.
59:27 Speaker 05 They attack the camera every time.
59:31 Speaker 08 I do think also, the box of costume pieces might also be threatening. Cause sometimes you have feather boas and things in there.
59:39 Speaker 03 They all saw that sloth be a little awkward and embarrassing in slow motion. And so now they don't go anywhere near it.
59:47 Speaker 05 Well, that sloth holding that, that text bubble that said wine o'clock.
59:50 Speaker 07 Yes, or the one that had the mustache piece of paper on a stick.
59:54 Speaker 03 Well, the thing is, the sloth was having trouble because it's already moving slow.
59:58 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah.
59:58 Speaker 03 It can't move fast. I keep on telling the sloth, you gotta move fast. It's going in slow motion. Sloth.
1:00:04 Speaker 06 And I know you were able to find some animals, but then some of those animals had agents who said, no, no, no, they're not doing the blood.
1:00:10 Speaker 03 They said, no, absolutely not. We're not even risking it.
1:00:13 Speaker 07 We don't talk enough about animals agents. I think we should. That's something that people, I bet.
1:00:17 Speaker 06 Animals in the wild have developed the concept of an agent.
1:00:22 Speaker 03 And that's all we'll say about that.
1:00:23 Speaker 06 And that's all we can say about that.
1:00:25 Speaker 05 There's one species that stepped in as an agent and we won't tell you the species.
1:00:30 Speaker 08 We can, you could probably put it together. You could put it together. It would be the one that you would think it is.
1:00:36 Speaker 07 Clearly it's the one you're picturing right now.
1:00:38 Speaker 05 Literally that one.
1:00:38 Speaker 03 Okay, what's your what whale?
1:00:42 Speaker 05 There's this school of manta rays off the coast of Bolivia.
1:00:45 Speaker 08 Here we go.
1:00:46 Speaker 03 Here we go.
1:00:47 Speaker 07 Okay, all right. Here we are. The will they, won't they of our lives?
1:00:51 Speaker 05 You guys don't get it. There's five manta rays and I swear to God, I got a glimpse of them once. And it looks like all of us.
1:01:04 Speaker 05 I think we are the manta rays.
1:01:06 Speaker 06 You've been talking to the fungus.
1:01:08 Speaker 03 Was there a grumpy one?
1:01:11 Speaker 06 Cause it wouldn't really be us unless one of the manta rays was super grumpy.
1:01:16 Speaker 05 I'm trying to be nice, guys. The white whale is the thing that emulates us in the wild. Cause I love us.
1:01:21 Speaker 07 So you, so you can identify the grumpiness in the manta ray?
1:01:25 Speaker 03 Well, like, what gave it away?
1:01:27 Speaker 05 I don't see him as grumpy.
1:01:29 Speaker 03 Was one interesting in drones in South Africa?
1:01:31 Speaker 05 One of them is, yeah, one of them is doing really wild, crazy things and butt stuff with the other.
1:01:38 Speaker 07 So they're hooking up?
1:01:39 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:01:40 Speaker 03 How'd you guys figure that out?
1:01:41 Speaker 05 One of them is.
1:01:42 Speaker 07 Yes, figured it out. I never said that we were doing it with each other.
1:01:48 Speaker 05 One of them's playing a guitar.
1:01:50 Speaker 07 Alright, that's me.
1:01:52 Speaker 05 Oh yeah, right!
1:01:54 Speaker 07 Neener, neener, neener.
1:01:56 Speaker 06 Exactly.
1:01:57 Speaker 05 And one of them is searching for a lost card.
1:02:02 Speaker 05 And then there's the one that I think is me, kind of a little farther behind, wishing I could be up with you guys, but trying my hardest just to keep up at least. Cause I know that I'm a drag, but at least you're dragging me along and you haven't cut the cord and I appreciate that.
1:02:21 Speaker 03 We'll never cut the cord.
1:02:22 Speaker 07 That's right.
1:02:23 Speaker 03 But you, cause you're the best out of all of us. Even though sometimes you complain, it's for the best.
1:02:29 Speaker 05 Thanks.
1:02:30 Speaker 06 We can only fly so free because you're there to hold us down. Yep. And that's not something we take for granted.
1:02:40 Speaker 03 And you really have a good way of quieting us all down when we have to actually shoot, you know?
1:02:44 Speaker 05 We have to. You guys are making these animals. This taper just like ran the other way.
1:02:49 Speaker 07 I mean, I feel this way about you all.
1:02:54 Speaker 07 I feel like I sometimes drag down the team.
1:02:56 Speaker 06 No, no.
1:02:57 Speaker 07 I mean, sometimes I feel like I have to sleep next to my booms. I have to. And the way that makes us always have to get extra hotel rooms and stuff, I feel like that's dragging us down.
1:03:10 Speaker 03 I feel like I'm dragging us down.
1:03:11 Speaker 07 No, stop it.
1:03:12 Speaker 03 Cause I'm like, like, what if I hold the drone and fly up with it?
1:03:16 Speaker 05 No.
1:03:17 Speaker 03 What if, can I just try it one time like a kite?
1:03:20 Speaker 05 Just don't do that.
1:03:20 Speaker 03 Like I just want to kite.
1:03:21 Speaker 07 So just the thought of that, you think is dragging us down? He thinks that's your bugger.
1:03:25 Speaker 05 The impulsive thought you have.
1:03:27 Speaker 03 You're like, it's gotta be holding.
1:03:30 Speaker 08 You think that's like kinda bringing us down?
1:03:32 Speaker 03 It's gotta be holding the group back. It's like, I'll keep on thinking, what if I just held on to it?
1:03:36 Speaker 08 No, cuz we didn't even know that until just now, so to be honest. How, how could it be dragging us down?
1:03:43 Speaker 03 It's gotta be dragging you down like, oh, what if I just, what if I just hit the drone?
1:03:46 Speaker 08 No!
1:03:47 Speaker 03 And I just slapped the drone one time?
1:03:48 Speaker 08 No, not dragging me down, not dragging me down. As long as we're on the topic, I do feel like sometimes I'm dragging us down. Kaki, Kaki, how could you? No, no, of course, no. You know, like times where I tie rigs around everyone's ankles and drag them down a hill so that we can create a landslide that will mimic the mating avalanche of a tornado snake. That was an example of when I dragged you all down.
1:04:17 Speaker 03 But we needed that mating avalanche.
1:04:18 Speaker 08 And that was a rig that went literally viral. Yeah. It was like a Hollywood rig that people were like. Well, and then I dragged you all down because those comments got pretty nasty and a lot of you got doxxed.
1:04:29 Speaker 03 You both physically dragged us down, you dragged us in the comments.
1:04:32 Speaker 05 You called us out for screwing it up.
1:04:34 Speaker 08 You had our personal accounts.
1:04:36 Speaker 05 You blamed us.
1:04:37 Speaker 08 And, and do you see why I would feel like maybe that I would sometimes feel so?
1:04:42 Speaker 03 No, you're not dragging us down.
1:04:43 Speaker 06 No, you, you give a 100% every time and it's really a testament and we really value you on, on the team. I can say, uh, I, uh, if we're being vulnerable, um...
1:04:57 Speaker 03 Like, you're definitely dragging us down the most.
1:05:00 Speaker 08 I would say I'll feel pretty good.
1:05:01 Speaker 05 Okay.
1:05:02 Speaker 08 All right, all right, fair enough. Hey, uh, this was nice to be honest like this and connect and I, I feel like, um, you know, we give you shit about your mics a lot. But I think that I'm feeling the sentiment of your t-shirt right now about all of you. We all deserve love.
1:05:22 Speaker 09 Love.
1:05:23 Speaker 06 We all deserve.
1:05:24 Speaker 07 You can pick these up at my Tumblr account.
1:05:28 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:05:28 Speaker 07 Um, we all deserve love. It's, uh, I have t-shirts and a Moleskine's and you can get it.
1:05:33 Speaker 05 You should look into, um, getting a company to make them because I know you buy all those iron-ons and you make them yourself with the letters.
1:05:39 Speaker 07 I like, I like a little something to do with my hands.
1:05:41 Speaker 05 I don't care.
1:05:42 Speaker 08 Long days on set.
1:05:44 Speaker 06 Guys, we should go to the Rainforest Cafe. I'll keep telling you.
1:05:47 Speaker 03 Cafe.
1:05:48 Speaker 06 Why are we in the, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey?
1:05:51 Speaker 09 No, we made a truce earlier.
1:05:56 Speaker 06 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Listen, you guys, you have to try this place. It's, it's like a whole rainforest, but at a restaurant.
1:06:06 Speaker 08 Uh.
1:06:07 Speaker 06 It's so beautiful. You just believe me.
1:06:10 Speaker 03 Well, like, should we all sign off and say goodbye like we're orcas altogether?
1:06:15 Speaker 07 Holy shit.
1:06:15 Speaker 03 Orcas.
1:06:16 Speaker 07 Holy shit, guys. Don't move. You see that spider?
1:06:22 Speaker 03 Oh, my God.
1:06:22 Speaker 07 It's him.
1:06:23 Speaker 03 He's acting like a cameraman.
1:06:24 Speaker 07 Is it him?
1:06:24 Speaker 08 Fuck, I know.
1:06:25 Speaker 07 How do you know it's him?
1:06:26 Speaker 08 I can tell, but he just fucking winked at me.
1:06:29 Speaker 07 Oh, holy shit.
1:06:31 Speaker 05 Do we film him or do we kill him?
1:06:34 Speaker 08 We do a really good job and then when we all go backstage with him.
1:06:42 Speaker 08 Yeah, that's where I don't know what happens when I get him.
1:06:47 Speaker 03 You don't know his luck.
1:06:50 Speaker 03 Catching a bird.
1:06:51 Speaker 07 Just go and talk to him. Just talk to him. He's right there.
1:06:58 Speaker 07 I'll love him so we can hear him.
1:07:04 Speaker 03 So, you finally catch me. Well, joke's on you because I've finally caught you. He sounds like a fucking nerd.
1:07:13 Speaker 07 He's definitely a fucking virgin.
1:07:14 Speaker 06 You gonna take this from this four-oz? You ain't caught nothing. Listen here, eight legs. I've got a bead on you. I've got your number, see?
1:07:26 Speaker 03 Oh, you've got my number, you think?
1:07:27 Speaker 07 No, Kaki's doing that weird vaudeville bullying thing again.
1:07:30 Speaker 06 I'll hate when she goes vaudeville bully.
1:07:33 Speaker 05 She's who's on 30ing this spider.
1:07:35 Speaker 03 You're, well, you think this is who I am? Huh. Good luck trying to catch me now.
1:07:42 Speaker 09 Fuck! Ah! Cackey! It's in my butt.
1:07:48 Speaker 03 Look, that was reserved for me, though.
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