Stranded with Dragons
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rinca[a] is a small island near Komodo and Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, within the West Manggarai Regency. It is one of the three largest islands included in Komodo National Park. The island is famous for Komodo dragons, giant lizards that can measure up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) long. Rinca is also populated with many other species such as wild pigs, buffalos and many birds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Citation Needed. |
| 0:24.3 | The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia, and |
| 0:28.0 | pretend we're experts. Use this to the internet, and that's how it works now. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Eli Bosnick and I'll be plunging into the depths of this story this week, but I'll need |
| 0:36.1 | some barnacles to cling to my sides. First up, two of the only men who have subjected themselves to more pain than the topic of this week's essay, the host of the No Rogan Experience, Cecil and Marsh. Yeah, it's getting to a point where it's more painful to listen to Joel than it would be to just get in a ring with him. Like, at least if he was picking me, he wouldn't be trying to explain to me how immigrants |
| 0:56.1 | are trying to hack the congressional map. |
| 0:59.2 | You don't know that. He might do both. |
| 1:01.7 | Immigrants from the UK. |
| 1:04.6 | And also joining us tonight, two men way too shellfish to star in this story, Tom and he. |
| 1:10.9 | Oh, geez. Terrible injuries like this make, Tom and he. Oh, Jesus. |
| 1:11.6 | Terrible injuries like this make me so crabby. |
| 1:14.0 | I feel like clamming up. |
| 1:16.7 | Like Ben Shapiro's wife. |
| 1:22.1 | Before we begin tonight, I'd like to take a moment to thank our patrons. |
| 1:25.1 | Patrons, without you, we'd be lost at sea. And if you'd |
| 1:28.9 | like to learn how to join their ranks, be sure to stick around to the end of the show. And with that |
| 1:32.5 | out of the way, tell us, Cecil, what person place thing, concept, phenomenon, or event will we be |
| 1:37.1 | talking about today? Today, we're going to be talking about being stranded with dragons. |
| 1:42.1 | And Tom, you found yet another story of daring do that ended in disaster. |
| 1:47.7 | Are you ready to gloat? |
| 1:48.9 | I am, although I am also worried I'm building like fate a bucket list for me at this point. |
| 1:54.4 | I don't know how comfortable I am. |
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