The Alligator Whisperer: Gabby Scampone on Wrestling and Rescuing Wild Alligators

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Gabby Scampone is a Veterinary Technician, Wildlife Educator and Alligator Trapping Agent. She joins Chris Van Vliet from her home in Sunrise, FL to talk about the incredible work that she does with alligators. She discusses how she rescues what are called "nuisance alligators" in Florida and safely relocates them while other companies would kill them. She also talks about how much alligators are misunderstood and what we can learn from them! For more information on Gabby visit her YouTube channel called "Flordia's Wildest": https://www.youtube.com/FloridasWildest If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blit!
0:07.9	Well, here it is, and here we go.
0:11.2	Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:14.5	I'm Chris Van Vlee.
0:15.4	Thank you so much for joining us on this one, and for a lot of you for joining us on every single episode.
0:22.0	Hope you're having a great week, super grateful that you're here with us for this one.
0:25.8	And chances are you've seen our guest today online, even if you haven't put two and two
0:31.0	together and you maybe don't recognize her name.
0:34.3	But Gabby Scampone has gone viral quite a few times for her work with alligators.
0:40.2	And we're talking big gators here. We're talking like 10, 12 foot alligators. She kisses them.
0:48.0	She wrestles them. She rescues them. And she swims with them. And if you've seen the photos or videos that I posted online of that one time that I swam with a giant alligator, the alligator's name, by the way, was Casper.
1:03.1	Well, that was Gabby that made that all happen.
1:05.8	Her and her boyfriend, Chris Gillette, offer an experience in the Everglades where you can swim with an alligator.
1:11.4	His name is Casper.
1:12.8	And you can take underwater photos.
1:15.9	And trust me, swimming with an alligator sounds a lot scarier than it really is.
1:21.2	If you live in Florida or you're traveling to Florida, I can't recommend this enough.
1:28.2	And we'll talk about it a bunch here,
1:29.6	but man, what an experience.
1:31.6	Really, though, at the heart of this conversation,
1:34.6	is just about finding your passion
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