The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

Yeah, I feel like zero connection to birds. Like, I don't want to prep pet bird. Right. Right. Pet dog, pet cat, even pet weird, weird pets. Like, pet horse, I get it. Yeah, I get it too. Yeah, but like a pet snake, the fuck are you doing? You got a monster that lives with you. You got a monster that you feed. That's all that is. That is a heartless serpent. Yeah, they size you up. And the only reason why they're not eating you is because you're not big enough. Or they're not big enough. They're not big enough. And if they grow, but this is what I was talking about. The guy, the python hunting. I think in Florida now, anyone can hunt a python and you get a prize too. Like, you get money, then you get serious money. I don't know, it's like a thousand bucks. What? Did you ever see the video of the guy, there's something wrong with the ceiling. And they're pulling on the ceiling and the pythons were in the ceiling and it collapses. And you see like three or four pythons are in his fucking ceiling. And they're huge. Huge. Huge. Like, where the fuck is that place? And how do I make sure I never go there? It's Malaysia. Where was it? Malaysia. Holy shit, Malaysia. Watch this video. This is so crazy. Oh, God. Look at this. Look at the size of them. Bro. How many is there? There's two, three? There's the tail. That might be one. Three. Three all over ten feet long. Three all over ten feet long in the fucking ceiling. Even when you get them out, how are you going back to sleep? You never. How do you go back to sleep after that? You're never going back to sleep and you're not getting them out. They obviously have nested up there. Oh, my God. Look at the size of them things. Look at the size of these motherfuckers. So they must have heard them scurrying around the ceiling. They caught one in my development. A python? Yeah. How big was it? I think it was like ten feet. Oh, my God. And that's like... I mean, they found a record size one recently. I think it was 18 feet. I think it was 18 or 19 feet. And they think they get bigger. Like, they don't even know how big they ultimately get. This is not their environment, right? Did you see this video? What? These guys were... Pulling out a snake? No, they got in trouble. Something happened like... It's at a pet store or something like that. Killing over 300 pythons and a boa constrictor. But they did like... They killed the wrong one or something like that. One of these was pregnant and had like 50 inside of it or something. So why are they killing these things? I mean, they're in Florida and they're... Oh, so now he realized he killed the wrong one? Killing the wrong one or something like that, yeah. Oh... The longer video of them killing it is pretty intense. I don't need to see that. I mean, the whole thing is weird that they allowed those as exotic pets and then these people just let them go in the swamp. Right. And then he just came multiplied. Don't you remember that too? Apparently that's only a part of the problem, though. I thought that was the whole problem. Another part of the problem was that there was a wildlife research facility where they were studying pythons and somehow or another it got destroyed in a storm and the pythons got out. Oh, the... Is that true? Herc and Andrew, I think, are in that 90s. Yeah, yeah. Was that... So yeah, so that's also part of the problem. So some of it is exotic pets and some of it is these ones that they released from this research facility. But it's more mind boggling to me how just a couple can turn into completely taking over. How's that... It took over everything because they're invasive. There's nothing to fear them. But even when they're little, don't you think... I figured what is the survival rate if they're in the water with gators and you have bobcats? Yeah. Hurricane Andrew, it was that. That is part of the part of the python problem. I think they don't know exactly which percentage comes from the pets from the 1970s and shit people that go. Right. Thousands of specimens of exotic species escaped their cages and enclosures during the passing of the storm through the South Dade County. State environmental inspectors reported 10 days after the hurricane. Witnesses spotted hundreds of large snakes and non-venomous snakes loose. Wow, hundreds. And now those hundreds are half a million. There's a half a million pythons, they estimate. So because Burmese python invasion of South Florida everglades, populations of raccoons and opossums dropped roughly 99%. And some species of rabbits and foxes effectively disappeared. Species that had long flourished here were being decimated by the aggressive newcomers. Wow. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah, that's why it's a free-for-all now. It is a free-for-all. You know what else they've spotted in the Everglades? They spotted Nile crocodiles. So they don't know how they got in there, they don't know if it's someone's pet, but they had a kill on sight order for Nile crocodiles. They don't know if it's a breeding pair, they don't know, they have spotted at least one Nile crocodile in the Everglades. Crocodile is a whole different animal. That's a whole different animal. It's a whole different set. That's like a wolf compared to a German shepherd. Right. I was in Costa Rica, kids, we were just doing like a vacation, standing whatever. And I remember being in the water, in the beach. Yeah. Yeah, I was swimming around. And I didn't go... The beach dropped off where we were. It was like a river that in the ocean was close and it dropped by a little bit. And I mean, I was in there, I was touring around, I wouldn't go too deep and I stayed close. And the next day we went back there, it was a big freaking crocodile slide. No, he was banked on there. Yeah. And I went, oh my God. And I just couldn't believe no one else was in the water. Yeah. Dude. Yeah. Could have been it for just a road. It could have been it. Could have been that. See that? I was safe in Florida kayaking the gators. We went on a tour of the crocodile habitat with my kids when they were... The youngest were like, they were probably like six and eight, somewhere around then. And it was so creepy, dude. I was so... Every time they moved, like, get away from the edge, get away from the edge. I was so hover parenting, which is like... And the kids are crazy. Like, I want to sit on the railing. I'm like, fuck no, you can't sit on the railing. Right. Yeah. Don't do this. If you go in that water, I'm going to that water too and the ball's going... You see the guy? Yeah. The guy who did that? What happened? The guy with the dog? Oh yeah, I did see that. But that was a little one. It was a little dog, but yeah. No, I... Little gator too. That guy did get his dog back. That guy's a fucking savage. I don't know how you did that for kids. You must have been freaking out. Freaking out. Freaking out. And we saw them and they slide into the water right in front of you. There was this alligator slide, or crocodile slide rather, so you're on this body of water. And then right where the bank is, you see the croc sunning themselves. And then you see them slide into the water. It's so creepy. It is creepy. It's so creepy. Because they are just killing machines. And you're in just this fucking boat. It's just a boat. And you see them on land too. You don't think they're... They can move on land. Or they move. They move quick. They move faster than we can. They can run faster than us. Wait, what is this? They turned... There's a post. It says hundreds of alligators or crocodiles behind them. I don't know. In their tent. So they camped on the beach. Wow. They're hanging out. Did you see the one on the right? Oh my God. Oh my God. See all my eyes behind them. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. You literally camped at the spot where they go. What the fuck do you do? What the fuck do you do there? Do you leave? What if you run into another group of them? Like higher up the hill. Imagine you're out of breath. You're running up the hill. Running up the hill. And you get to the top and you realize there's more alligators up there. There's ten times the amount. Yeah. And you're out of breath now. I can't run. I mean you've got to do some research before you go there I think. You know what freaks me out more? Young kids. They're reckless. Hahaha.