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It is time to believe your worries outside. Laugh with
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us inside the Treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley, along with Trey
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Trenholm and Raj Sharma on Wednesday, January twenty second, two thousand,
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twenty five. Welcome Trey, Welcome Dan, Welcome Raj. How Dan,
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We're a little late to this drug party, but we're
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not always punctual, but we're usually pretty damn funny inside
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the treehouse. And what I'm talking about is this. The
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Houston Police Department never welcomed the drug addicted rats inside
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their evidence hold. But they're there and they've set up shop,
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they've made homes, and I don't know if there's ever
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been a happier group of rats than the drug addicted
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rats that have holed up inside the Houston Police Department's
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evidence hold in Houston, Texas. They at this point, rats
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are very industrious creatures. In case you didn't know.
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Yeah, reading that article, At this point, they haven't just
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set up shop, they've got an they've got an empire running.
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By this point, I mean, this is generational.
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It's true, It's very true. This is like this is
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sort of like the Roman Empire for people, but for rats.
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This is like, it's like this group of rats are
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entering into their golden age.
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Yeah, actual rats, not like prison snitches.
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No, yeah, like actual Yeah, furry furry but bare legged.
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Rats, coked out rats. I see.
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You see what Cocaine Bear started. Who knew that Cocaine
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Bear was going to be such an inspirational film.
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For all the for all the creatures in the land.
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Yeah, kind of like the stories and the films and
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the books of my youth coming true fruition, but in
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ways that no one imagined. Because one of my favorite
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movies growing up as a kid was an American Tale
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that was the story about I believe it was a
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little Jewish little Russian Jewish mouse or was it a
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German mouse escaping the Holocaust? I don't remember. It was
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a story about a little Jewish mouse, uh, making the
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trip to America and the land of possibilities and prosperity.
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That it was American tale starring the tiny mouse fival.
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Then there was also the Rats of Nim so Planet
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of the Apes. They escaped from the testing facility and
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kind of take over the world. Rats and nim very
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similar heroes journey, but instead of apes, it was rats.
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They also were being tested on, and they grew very
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smart and wise. And their leader was no Dummas Nicodemus,
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Nicodemus inky tray. I knew it was slightly off there.
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The rat that can see the future, he did die.
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They grew strong and mighty and knew how to cut
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up lines.
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Yeah, the rats of Nim have have graduated.
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Yeah, I want to see all the I want to
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see all of this, like the rats of Nim, the
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methamphetamine mice, the delauded deer. I can't wait to see
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how all of this turns out. With all the woodland creatures.
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It's.
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Watch out for crazy those hallucinating possums. Yeah, they do.
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Instead of bum fights, they do.
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You know, it's it's like turf force between the raccoons
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and the possums. Throw out a little blow and see
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who wins.
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Throwing eight ball out in the middle and fight to
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the death.
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Possums wins because they put their knives on the little
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babies too, and so there's.
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Like that's a terrible tactic. But by a fact.
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Yeah.
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Uh. The Houston Police property warehouse, where thousands of pounds
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of drugs, blood samples, and countless pieces of evidence have
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been collected at crime scenes is in desperate need of
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a cleanup because it's been attracting rodents for years. The
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Houston Police Department, Mayor John Whittmeyer, and the newly elected
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Harris District Attorney Sean Tier announced that they are all
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joining forces to tackle the issue of decades old evidence
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that has led to a rat investation in the evidence room.
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According to Mayor Whitmeyer, he said, for many years, we've
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recognized that the property room and the evidence kept there
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has not been given the attention it needs in this system.
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To explain the volume that Houston Police has to deal
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with in its evidence rooms, Mayor Whitmeyer detailed a growing
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problem of rats invading old evidence. He said, we got
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four hundred thousand pounds of marijuana in storage that the
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rats are the only ones enjoying. Ooh oh. Houston Police
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Chief no Diaz asserted the issue in its evidence room
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has been kicked down the road by previous HPD and
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city officials. The department keeps over one point two million
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pieces of evidence in storage, some of which are no
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longer needed due to those offenses having already passed through
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the legal system. I don't know about you, but I'm
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hearing a new season of storage wars in order, and
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it could be really exciting.
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Four hundred pounds of weed, the slow Poke Rodriguez story,
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slow to return.
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They got weed from the eighties, kilos of coke from
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the nineties. Yeah, it's like a time capsule of drugs.
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Does does does? I've never done it? But does cocaine
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get better with age? I don't know. How is it
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like wine if you keep it like properly stored in
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a cellar? How long does? How long does weed last?
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I don't It's a plant. I don't think it ever
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goes bad. I have I have no idea. I really don't.
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My my drug knowledge is minimal at best. And you're right, Roger,
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it's a great question. I don't know if cocaine age
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is like wine or cheese, you know. I don't know
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if anyone's ever waited long enough. I don't know if
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anyone who does cocaine has the patience to wait years
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to see if it ages. Well.
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Yeah, it's like you don't need to take a little
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snort and it say, m that's a nineteen ninety Columbian nice.
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That's a I mean.
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For the finally aged stuff. Do you did like a
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skeleton key and a bump off that.
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I don't know, what's the training like for a cocaine somlier.
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I mean, do you still get the experience at the
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high end restaurants or they come over with the white towel, Well,
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I guess it have to be like a black towel
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or cocaine draped over the arm and then they present
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it to as if you know something about it, which
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you don't, and they say is this satisfactory to you?
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Nod approvingly, and then they they pour a little line
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onto your tail, and then you're supposed to I don't know.
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Well, do you do the do you do the thing
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they did in the in like the eighties, like where
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you take the pinky?
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Yeah, taste of it.
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Yeah, that's what every drug That's what every narcotics cop
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did in the eighties. They're a tongue on the pinky
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and they dabbed it in the mystery white powder and
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they taste it and be like, oh, that's cocaine. Well,
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of course a narcotics cop from the eighties gonna know
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what cocaine tastes.
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Like, Yeah, I mean it's like, oh, yeah, it's an
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eighty eight Chateau de Escobar.
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And I and I there's there's there's like a there's
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there's a there's like a note of Crockett and tubs
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in here as well.
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This is a beautiful mediine. You like this one.
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I still like the idea of Houston Police Department taking
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part in their own season of storage wars, Like it's
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gonna be fun in here, man. You can stell raffle
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tickets and people could buy them. And then they get
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to keep whatever's in there.
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That's hil there's they they didn't get so high on
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the weed. They just keep actually the same storage unit
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over and over and over again. They don't even move
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to the next units.
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And then at some point, you know, they get some
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weed and they're like, oh this sucks.
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Those hippies.
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Part. That's what happens mandon storage. You know, it's a mystery.
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You never know what you're gonna get. It might be
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the dirt weed, it might be the old stuff that
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you know, it may not have been weed at all.
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It might have just been some grass that came out
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of the underwear of a homeless murderer.
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If it kind of takes you back to that era,
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you know whatever it was, you know, and it's like
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one day you're you're a yuppie, the next day you're like,
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damn it, Grungeuse us online.
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Raj Sharma with you inside the treehouse, and I have
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something astounding to show you both today inside the Treehouse.
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I hope you're super excited, but deep down you might
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be a little terrified as well, because researchers seem to
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have found researchers seem to have found the world's largest
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snake in the Amazon. I'm going to show you a
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video of this snake. This is taken in the Amazon River,
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somewhere in the Amazon in South America. And in this
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video is going to be a video of an anaconda.
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And in the video also as a man with a
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breathing apparatus. So it's sort of like a cross between
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snorkeling and scuba diving as he's swimming alongside this super
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large and a conda. So here we have the world's
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largest snake. The world's largest snake has been discovered in
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the Amazon. Ironically, to see the man next to the
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snake in the video, the world's biggest idiot was discovered
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right next to.
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The world.
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Just anaconda. Don't want none unless you got tongues on
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that thing creeps me out. So yeah, the world's largest
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snake has been discovered, interestingly, right next to the world's
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biggest idiot.
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This okay, I have my first question on this. Why
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is the guy dressed like he could play guitar for
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ac DC.
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The outfit is interesting, you, I think interestingly point out
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that he looks dressed like Angus Young from a C
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d C. I think he's dressed like a seventy eight
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year old uh uh lady hiker because he's got like
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the long sleeve button down shirt, shorts and the Tiva
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hiking sandals.
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Yeah, that's just that's but.
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At the at the end of the day, researchers have
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found world. They're very excited about it.
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Hey, let me say this because not that really anybody
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had any questions, but just just in case you were wondering, yeah,
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the guy's white than.
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Sorry, was was that not just implied?
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You know, just to make sure there's the reason why
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even those Amazonian tribes don't go in that water.
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But this guy swimming alongside this massive anaconda in the
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Amazon on the river bed, right next to its head,
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and he's trying to offer up scale so you can
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get an idea of how big the snake is. Uh.
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They believe this is the world's largest conda, four hundred
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and forty pounds, twenty six feet in length, and its
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head is comparable to that of a human head.
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And it could have swallowed Trevor whole.
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We don't know that it was. This is just before video.
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Was it was it a Cooper or a Connor? I
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mean he's in a button down in shorts, so you
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might be right. It might be a Noah, they all
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they all look alike. I've been saying it for years.
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Who knew Raj will get validation in today's show.
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So I just mentioned there, Dan, I'm malling along with
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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma with you inside the Treehouse.
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Coming off the massive snake found in the Amazon There's
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something else trolling around that I think will be a
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benefit to all of us that I'm going to share
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with you. Now, raise your hand if when you fart,
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they're usually stinky. My hands up, ras, your hand is up,
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pray hands up.