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🗓️ 20 March 2024
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0:00.0 | What's up, guys? If you're on Spotify right now, please follow the show so that you don't miss any |
0:04.4 | future episodes and leave a five-star review. Thank you. On the first night that we discovered that we |
0:10.4 | could walk on the grassy mats that are over the water, we found a snake that I now know was |
0:15.8 | somewhere in the order of 25 to 27 feet long. The only measurements that I know from this snake is that I jumped on this snake, tried to wrap my arms around it, and I couldn't touch my fingers. And I know this because on the grass, as I was being propelled forward, I was basically riding a snake. And as I'm being dragged across the grass, the mats are porous. They're floating in the water so i i shoved my |
0:38.7 | hands under to try and like couldn't do it that's how thick the snake was and so when i don't know |
0:51.3 | if i ever told you this but when i was was growing up, I had a jungle room. |
0:57.1 | It was like my obsession. |
0:58.5 | Animals were my obsceness. Seriously. |
1:00.0 | Yeah, it was all like everything in the room was themed that way from the time I was three years old on because I loved animals so much. |
1:07.2 | And then when I got older, you know, I'm from New Jersey. |
1:10.4 | You live in the cities. You go about your life. You get the job that's not in the middle of the fucking Amazon, right? But reading in your book, Mother of God, about how you always had this bug and were so obsessed with animals as a young kid and always knew that was your calling |
1:28.9 | to see how you treated animals growing up is so cool because you i would read things like you |
1:34.5 | would you would go rescue eels from the local bait store and put them out in the wild just to like |
1:40.1 | say you did it you'd you'd raise praying, you'd take in loose animals you found and |
1:46.1 | raise them as your own. |
1:47.4 | It's such an amazing thing. |
1:49.6 | And, you know, does it ever hit you that your whole life is pretty much full circle from |
1:54.7 | where you were with the wonderment of a child? |
1:57.9 | Yeah. |
1:58.5 | I mean, I, my earliest memories are animal related i remember you know i grew up my parents had |
2:08.8 | golden retrievers i remember rescuing the eels i remember you know you i guess i guess parents show |
2:14.5 | their kids you know you have like your tonka truck and you got your Legos and you got your animal books. |
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