Slightly Above Average Podcast
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Could You Beat These Animals in a Fight?
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We’re settling the ultimate guy debate: from the viral "100 guys vs. 1 gorilla" argument to the animals you secretly think you could take in a fight, we’re tier-ranking nature’s deadliest predators to see whose confidence is actually delusional.
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Viral Animal Fights Set The Stage
SPEAKER_01I can beat the shit out of a champion. No. He's gonna piss it off. I'm pissed off that. This chimp ripped the door off a police guard.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna beat the shit out of that champion.
SPEAKER_01I don't know about that, man. That mother.
Dirty Soda Baja Blast Meltdown
SPEAKER_02So recently there's been a ton of videos going viral on the internet of people wrestling legitimate full-grown animals. I'm talking grizzly bears. There's a dude that's like ramming his ram in different costumes. It's getting absolutely out of control. And it reminded me of the boys of the glorious moment in history, which was probably like a year ago, when the entire internet was debating on whether you could fight a gorilla, a silverback gorilla. And so today we're gonna dive into these viral videos to see if they're legit or not. See what animals we think we could beat in a fight, um, and then get to ranking as we do on every episode. But before we do that, Sam, I feel like I need some nourishment here. Do you have anything for Sam's snack segment today? I absolutely absolutely do.
SPEAKER_01This will provide the the necessary sustenance your body needs to live. God what? This is a this is a special limited run at the Taco Bell. They're actually, they're not just conventional. That's the sugar-free one. They're not conventional Baja Blasts, they're they're dirty soda Baja Blasts. I don't know whether or not you're familiar with a dirty soda. Very big in Utah.
SPEAKER_00Why did I get a purple one?
SPEAKER_01Well, you got I was gonna offer you, do you want the OG or the midnight purple? Give me the midnight purple. I actually do want the There we go. I knew you. What the hell is this? So it's a Baja Blast with cream in it, like like coffee creamer. What? This is this is real big, yeah. There's a big ware with like Utah. The Mormons, the Mormon housewives, they're down in the world.
SPEAKER_02Bro, get the get the I I'm trying not to curse this, Mike. Get this out of here. Joe, no, you guys. There's no way you guys are drinking. This is a joke, right? It's sugar free. No, this is real. Wait all that breakfast. Wait, people drink this? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hold on. This is not a joke. No, this is real. This is real. The dirty subject.
SPEAKER_01People put cream and pop and drink it. It's actually not terrible. I've never tried it. What's the name of the place they go to?
SPEAKER_02It's like Swiz or something? There's not a there's not a part of my body right now, my existence, my one-legged existence here. I am so disappointed in the human race. Oh no. This is this is the we're at the bottom, guys. Wait. We're at the bottom of human existence.
SPEAKER_00If this is what it's come to. Swig. Swig. Yeah, look up swig. That's an everyone's call.
SPEAKER_01I am infuriated. Now give it a try. This is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. I've heard you say you would try anything once. No. Go ahead. No, and I've never said that.
SPEAKER_00I don't like how it looks.
SPEAKER_01No, I'm not putting that in my separated out of there's no way that's real milk. This is unbelievably deplorable and despicable.
SPEAKER_02Wow. This is like people who make content on their water and put a bunch of stuff in their water to not make it water. I mean, this shouldn't exist.
SPEAKER_01I think you're gonna regret not trying this. It's actually pretty good.
SPEAKER_02I don't care if it's good. I'm not putting cream in anything.
SPEAKER_01It tastes like Baja Blast was made in like an old-timey soda shop. That's what I'm getting from this.
SPEAKER_00Why does this exist? It's actually like not as Why do people keep putting random garbage things? I don't think it's that crazy about it. That's not a crazy.
SPEAKER_01That's actually there at it. There's probably some protein in the cream, right? Healthy fats that your brain needs.
SPEAKER_02There's nothing healthy about cream. Come on. Cream is like the least healthy thing you can get from a cow.
SPEAKER_01If you were You're better off eating pure cow fat. If you were well, it's not the pure cow fat, but the processed cow fat. If we can't get the pure cow fat, we'll we'll gladly take the processed cow fat.
SPEAKER_02We've reached the bottom, boys.
SPEAKER_01We've reached the bottom.
SPEAKER_02I don't think it's a bad thing. I thought the problem with coffee and all the shit people put in it was the bottom. This is the bottom. Be better. Get that out of my face. Sean.
SPEAKER_01This is a limited edition item.
SPEAKER_02You may not get a chance to get it. Taco Bell, be better. Hold a better standard, Taco Bell. McDonald's coming out with that.
SPEAKER_00That's a stretch. Asking the Bell to do that.
SPEAKER_02No, the Bell came back last year on a rampage. If you saw the keynote of their CEO, all kinds of better ingredients, new, fresher items, trying to not literally serve people dog food, and then you serve them dog piss. Why? Why? My clothes. Why? You know you're bored as hell and you do.
SPEAKER_00Why not?
SPEAKER_02That's the question we need to ask. Oh, you know what? You know what would be better to put in your next diet soda? What's that? Gasoline. We should try that.
SPEAKER_00Why not just put any liquid we can think of?
SPEAKER_02Let's go diesel.
SPEAKER_01Why not? Sure. Kerosene. I will say this is my closing statement. You made the statement before with your truck, for example. I was like, oh, why you lift this thing? You're like, well, that's the way I want to drive my truck. This is the way some people want to drink their soda. A little cream, little syrup, you know, spice it up a little bit. It's a literal mod.
SPEAKER_02Sugar bomb that is terrible for you.
SPEAKER_03At the start.
SPEAKER_02Then you're like, let's add some sugar syrup, but let's add some creamer. Why? Just it's like a thawed root beer float without root beer or ice cream.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, whenever someone makes like a mixed drink or something, you know, they're obviously making the alcohol even more.
SPEAKER_02At least you're getting drunk. This is you're just getting fat. Well, you're just literally giving yourself cancer and getting fat.
SPEAKER_01We don't know if this causes cancer. 100%! We don't know that. Can you move your drink?
SPEAKER_02Everything in pop and creamer causes cancer. I'm going out, put it up, make it the f hook of this video if you need to. I am the least. I refuse. You're lucky I can't walk right now, or I'd throw I'd walk outside and throw that in the dumpster. If I would take you a minute.
SPEAKER_00I wouldn't buy that personally, but like it's not the worst thing.
SPEAKER_02I just don't understand why. Why do we keep have to keep trying to do like more?
SPEAKER_01We're innovating. Why choose to go to the moon? Not because it is easy, but because it is hard. JFK. That's not hard. That is easy. That is easy.
SPEAKER_02That's like, you know what? I don't want to live to see my children graduate or get married. I'm gonna drink that. If you have one of those everyone. You know the people drinking those aren't having one of those. You don't know that. They wouldn't exist on a Taco Bell menu if people weren't drinking the shit out of it. It's despicable. We don't know that. It's I just like drink the pop, whatever. Drink the creamer, whatever. The creamer coffee is bad enough. You just put two terrible things together. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, people put cream in their coffee. I hate that too. Remember, you have the brain of a puppy. We literally argued about it on this podcast.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know, but I'm saying there's nothing wrong with throwing.
SPEAKER_02There's everything wrong with creamer. I'm anti-creamer. Give me put it on my next shirt.
SPEAKER_01Don't cream.
SPEAKER_02Creamy. Take my cream one way. Oh, alright. Donut! In a donut, obviously. You guys are incredible. That is creamer and pop is one of the most deplorable behaviors I think I've ever witnessed. Why? You guys are so bored in Utah. Go outside, kids. Just go walk around outside to bored ass Utah.
AI Animal Videos And Wolf Chihuahua
SPEAKER_00You might claim it's dangerous, but pivoting into our actual talk of the day, let's talk about the most dangerous animals on the planet. Uh, you know, we've been seeing a lot of AI videos. I love the effort.
SPEAKER_02That wasn't terrible. I tried. Better one. So you think that this pop's gonna kill you, but let's talk about something that actually could kill you here. That's a little better, but cigarettes.
SPEAKER_00But on to the topic of what might actually kill you. Much better. We've been getting served so many videos. So many. Of these AI uh, you know, instances of people Oh, dude, they're real. What people think are real. Let's start with this. I the why this topic came about. A month back, Pola came to me and Pola said, Hey Joe, did you see that viral video of the Chihuahua that joined a pack of wolves? Yes. And I was like, What are you talking about, man? Like, I haven't seen anything. He's like, dude, there's this video. A Chihuahua left home and joined a pack of wolves. I was like, I don't think that's a thing. Let me see the video. He showed it to me and I told him it was AI, and he was in disbelief that it was AI. And so that led us down more of a rabbit hole of people fighting these animals, boxing a grizzly bear, you know, wrestling silverback gorillas. So I think we need to go through this, rank the biggest and baddest, you know, animals on planet earth, and then go into ones we think we probably could fight or couldn't fight.
SPEAKER_02Do I get to at least vote from a point of not being on crutches?
SPEAKER_00Yes. Yes, you do. Prime John.
SPEAKER_02Because today I couldn't fight anything.
SPEAKER_01Like I'd lose to a f hamster.
SPEAKER_00Would you like to say anything back to the Chihuahua first?
SPEAKER_01Well, first, if it's if it's not going to throw us off, could you pull up the video? I just show it to John. It was convinced. Oh no, I've seen it. I you sent it to our group chat, and I couldn't believe that you thought it was real. Oh, come on.
SPEAKER_00It was a ring doorvell cam, it was a trail cam.
SPEAKER_01It was a trail cam, number one. And number two is a heart, it was a heartwarming story where the wolves took the chihuahua and got it.
SPEAKER_02Two, trail cam footage is not that clear, bro. Well, wouldn't you want to believe crispy as hell? It looked like someone's out there with an 8K camera living in wolves in the woods. Pull the video up, Joe.
SPEAKER_00Where do I pull it from?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Google fake Chihuahua living with wolves in my car. Oh yeah, there it is.
SPEAKER_01There it is. Look at that. Yeah, this looks so real. Yeah. This wasn't it. Okay. This is not it. This is not the video. Yeah, it's not exactly what it didn't send you this. I was like, look at this.
SPEAKER_02Wait, wait, wait, I think it's you know what the only you know the you know what? It's a this is a good tie back, because you know, I miss when Taco Bell had some had some some real, you know, balls in their marketing. Yeah, they got rid of the Chihuahua. And they had a chihuahua.
SPEAKER_03Look at them.
SPEAKER_02Get the hell out of here, dude.
SPEAKER_00Alright. You saw that and thought it was real is crazy.
SPEAKER_02Crazy. You know, there's only like live wolves in one part of America. I'm pretty sure. You know what they re-released them in the Yellowstone National Park. I actually I had a geography.
SPEAKER_00You guys ever seen those videos of the dudes in Russia wrestling bears? How do we know that? Those are real. Those have been out for years. Grizzly bears. No, no.
SPEAKER_02You uh brown bears, D. Claude. No, uh, there's a dude. What's his name? He sings like death metal. His name's Ivan the Terrible or something. See if see if you can see if you can come up with he's got tattoos, head to toe, he's jacked his shit. He owns a bear. Yeah, that's him. What's his name?
SPEAKER_00How to survive? No, that's not it. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02This dude's bet this dude's has a he has a pet bear.
SPEAKER_00That's him. Yeah, that's the bear.
SPEAKER_02And he's wrestling all the time. This dude, I mean, so this guy has like a very deep voice. Who is this? And he's covered head to toe in taxi. He's an absolutely terrifying human. And he is constantly wrestling bears on his Instagram.
SPEAKER_01Didn't Khib wrestle a bear? Or is that?
SPEAKER_02I feel like Khib is a bear.
SPEAKER_00I'm sure they do wrestle bears. Probably, probably. Bears in Dagestan? Yeah, I I bet they do. Their training regimens are what did he say? Two or three years Dagestan. Two or three years Dagestan. It's such a good name. And forget. That's a but like when I hear that, that's what I think they're probably doing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, 100%. So like I They make it seem approachable. I don't think there's a world that I could wrestle a bear. I can't wrestle. I could fist fight.
SPEAKER_00I mean, if the bear wasn't trying to just claw your brains out like that bear, you might be able to declaw baby black bear.
SPEAKER_01Which one's smaller? The brown bear, the black bear? Maybe that's why. That's a baby.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you're a black bear smaller.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00You think you could take one?
SPEAKER_01I don't know if I could take one, but I would I think my chances would be better wrestling a declawed baby black bear than anything bigger than that.
SPEAKER_02Well no shit.
SPEAKER_01You're like, you know what?
SPEAKER_02Why don't we just like uh why don't we just tie it tie it in like a cattle tie?
SPEAKER_01It's legs and paws are all. Well, I'm saying that's still pretty big. Google how much one of those things weighs. Probably at least 200 pounds.
SPEAKER_02I was on a fishing trip in college senior year. I was uh up in uh Cook's Forest with a couple couple buddies. We're sitting outside at his camp, having some beers, making some mountain pies. We're going fishing early the next morning, and we're just kind of like hanging out. We got a picnic table that's covered in like all the stuff we're making the mountain pies with, right? And he's got a corn feeder that's probably sitting like 50 yards from us. So like if you and I are sitting at the table, it's probably like where the shipping container is outside. Okay. So it's far enough away that you're like not looking at it, not paying attention to it, but all we hear is like a bunch of branches break, and then like a like a like a thump, like a thump. And then you you hear the bear put its head on the corn feeder. So it was like a raised corn feeder, and then start grinding into the corn in his mouth. So it's like right. Then another bear, a littler bear, so this is like a big bear, a smaller bear, which was a baby bear. It may have been decoded, comes walking from the other, like on the other side of the field or whatever, to the corn feeder. The mama bear is is so big that it I mean the corn feeders for deer that are standing up to eat off of with their heads up. So they're like probably like four feet off the ground. The bear is sitting on the ground and it's so big that it can just sit its head on it. The little bear comes out, stands up, it's as tall as this mom bear that's sitting there on its ass. The mom bear looks at it, the bear, like, and we're all sitting there, and we're like, oh shit, they're gonna kill the dog. Like, right? And then they're gonna come over here and eat all of our food. So you're like, you don't mess around with that stuff. Little bear stands up, the mom bear like grunts at her or something, or whatever. This little bear takes off into the woods, and I kid you not, it sounded like someone was driving a car just through every single tree in the woods, right? And you could hear it just knocking stuff over, breaking shit, runs up a tree, and then you heard it rattling in that tree. We like slowly packed our stuff and like went into like a porch area, but like you could hear this bear in there was just pissed, couldn't get to the corn feeder. So when you're talking about wrestling, what sounds like a Volkswagen beetle driving through the woods with no claws? I'm giving that one uh absolutely not.
SPEAKER_01Well, we just looked it up, it's only a hundred pounds, the baby one.
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SPEAKER_00There's the the strength of a adult males can range from 130 to 500, females 90 to 300. Yeah, they get big. So, like if it's like a hundred and two hundred pounds tops, do we just have to survive or do we have to k the thing?
Defining The Scariest Animals Alive
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SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're fighting to the death.
SPEAKER_01Are we doing folk style or free style?
SPEAKER_00Free style. Reversal.
SPEAKER_02We're actually doing Greco Roman. Oh, alright.
SPEAKER_00Both gonna be nude.
SPEAKER_01Bears already prepped for that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00You gotta have a ref out there? Yes. Acknowledging pins. Um, I feel like the bear, based off this list, was probably our best shot thus far. I mean, what are the biggest and baddest animals on the earth? Like if you guys had to go through a couple. Gorilla. Gorilla, grizzly bears. Grizzly bears.
SPEAKER_02Like giant cats are like terrifying.
SPEAKER_00Oh, like lions or mountain lions? Tigers, mountain lions, mountain lions are terrifying how like they creep up on people, how quiet they are.
SPEAKER_02You ever seen those AI videos? Like a mountain lion like chasing some chick or something, and she's like plugs her single or something stupid at the end of it. Yeah, those are those get me every time.
SPEAKER_01Tigers are terrifying to me. What about even small animals like super venomous snakes? I hate snakes. I can't do snakes. Something quick just gives you a quick bite, you're done. Um over here is like poisonous dart frog.
SPEAKER_00What about like a bobcat? Do you guys think bobcats are terrifying?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, all of us. Large cats are, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Would you consider a bobcat like a large cat? It's not a small one. I know it's not small. I wouldn't say it's like a lion.
SPEAKER_02It's not a lion, for sure. It's not like a but a bobcat can like run up a tree, jump down, like rip your eyes out. Yeah. They're like, they're scary as shit.
SPEAKER_01I could take a bobcat. I don't know, man. Yeah. My buddy. No, I don't know. I could fight one off, but like I don't want to fight off. I've seen, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I've seen some crazy videos of bobcats like hissing at people.
SPEAKER_02They're scary. Yeah, I don't know, but yeah. They're also like very well hidden.
SPEAKER_00Life or death, though?
SPEAKER_02I I mean I'm Bobcat, life or death.
SPEAKER_01With just your hands? Yeah. Yeah, dude. No, you're not. I'm six times the size of it. How much does that thing weigh? 40 pounds. They're that small. Wait, I thought bobcats are bigger than that.
SPEAKER_00That's what I that's what I was just I read this and thought I was zoned out. I didn't read it out loud. I'm saying I read it a thousand pounds.
SPEAKER_01Now maybe, maybe one bobcat you could beat, but let's say there's a handful of them. I don't think you could.
SPEAKER_02That brings me to one of my favorite corners of the internet. Have you guys seen the simulation corner of the internet? Oh, if people like putting, yeah. So they'll do like they'll do they'll do like 10,000 Mike Tysons versus a million bears in a simple. And I find myself watching them all the time. Right.
SPEAKER_01They did that one with uh, who was it? Was it John Jones or someone where it was like how many of his wife would it take to beat him? And they were doing it in like a simulation. You had to go there. This man just can't. Why did they do that? Was it bad? Why would he be able to do that?
SPEAKER_00Domestic violence is his biggest thing.
SPEAKER_01His wife won in the simulation. It took like 30 of them, but they won. I'm just saying, that's what happened.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I'm all over here. I was like, the last one I watched was Legolas and Gimli.
SPEAKER_00I watched like a hundred Iron Bands versus one Thanos or something.
SPEAKER_02Like I was like, Where are you falling into the symptom? The algorithm served it to me and I wanted to be a good one. Awful.
SPEAKER_00I get but do Bob do Bobcats like are they in packs?
SPEAKER_02No. I don't think any wild cat is in a pack that's not that's not like a lion on a prairie. Like I think they're the only pack.
SPEAKER_00I think when you start getting to you have to start like kind of weighing the options as far as retreating versus fighting in some of these animals. Like, could you outrun a hippo? You're not gonna beat a hippo. No, no, they're so mean. They're so quick.
SPEAKER_02If you outrun a hippo, I think a hippo is actually elite in the water.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're elite on land too.
SPEAKER_02They're pretty scary.
SPEAKER_00They're pretty fast. Then you go into like a moose. Dude, moose moose mess people up all the time.
SPEAKER_02All the time. They're huge. I don't know if we have anyone listening in like Canada or Alaska, but if you're if you are and you got some moose running around, please chime in. Because I might poop myself if I was driving down the road and a giant moose walk. Like a moose weighs like a thousand pounds.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're big.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah, I don't think the moon. It's like the size of your ranger.
SPEAKER_01R.I.P. I don't know. R.I.P. She's still alive.
SPEAKER_00What about uh crocodiles? Alligators?
SPEAKER_02So I will say. No, no, I wouldn't say that's what I'll hold the line there. Absolutely five. Did you see some of these dudes that are wrestling alligators and crocodiles, and they're not they're nothing special. They just have gigantic balls. You know how big salt water is something special.
SPEAKER_01Tom Brady, he's nothing special. He just could throw the football real good. Like no. That's not even close to being two things wrestling an alligator.
SPEAKER_02That I I disagree with you wholeheartedly. What? You put an alligator wrestler in the same ballpark as the greatest quarterback to ever play football? But this is when it comes to like skill.
SPEAKER_00We'll get into the debate later. Those skill sets aren't even close. Alligators aren't gonna tire as easy. Those things go for hours. Yeah, and you're not holding on as long as that thing's gonna turn and whip and flail its tail and try to move. Unless you have electrical tape handy on you, what are you gonna do? Snap its neck. It's built like a tube of pulp. It's mouth downward. Yeah, but you the You can get them closed. Well, you're underestimating with crocs and alligators are their tails. Those things, the alligator roll is a thing for a reason.
SPEAKER_02Put a 300 pound man on the back of a gator. I don't know how much.
SPEAKER_00Of a thousand pound gator?
SPEAKER_02How big is this gator getting? Joe's like the gr the largest gator to ever be in planet Earth. Can you can Yeah, it's kind of me. Let's look at the average.
SPEAKER_00The average size of a saltwater croc is 16 to 20 feet long. Bro, 400 to a Thousand kilograms.
SPEAKER_01880 to 22? If it's small at 880?
SPEAKER_00You're wrestling a Honda Civic from the mid-80s.
SPEAKER_02You might get an American crocodile or alligator. First off, alligators and crocodiles are not the same thing.
SPEAKER_00I know. I'm trying to say if you might be able to wrestle an alligator.
SPEAKER_02On a golf course, a croc is sitting, excuse me, gator sitting on like the bay of the water. A thing comes at me, I'm going toe to toe with it. Now I feel like a golf course alligator is different.
SPEAKER_00Alright, eight to eleven feet. Like that's a little bit different. 500 pounds max.
SPEAKER_02A saltwater croc is the largest version of whatever the hell the. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. No, of course not. You're like an It's like, yeah, I'm gonna fight an elephant. No. I don't care if it's a baby or 100,000 years old.
SPEAKER_01How do you okay? Let's hypothetically say you get on the back and it doesn't you. How do you how do you win?
SPEAKER_02It's not gonna it's still gonna piss it off.
SPEAKER_00Come here.
SPEAKER_02It's brain's like this big. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Unless you can penetrate its skin with your nails because you haven't find it. I think you win in that equation, but I don't think it's enough.
SPEAKER_02That's what I'm saying. We gotta we gotta do the math. I just like I I there's like a part of me that like I really do think like I could put something in my grab. Yeah, I just not jump its windpipe out, it's gotta breathe.
SPEAKER_00Okay, let's take a step back from the the the water-bearing animal animals. What about a kangaroo?
SPEAKER_02Bro, there's nothing that'll ever be better than the video of the Aussies boxing a kangaroo. Yeah, the the the the Chain Gillis skit. Have you seen that skit?
SPEAKER_00There was a mega viral video of this dude. He's some Aussie. This kangaroo had a kangaroo. This kangaroo had his dog and like was gripping up his dog. He went up and just pop pop and then he's boxing, he let go of the dog, and then he's just boxing this kangaroo. And I'm just like, dude, you got some balls on you.
SPEAKER_02Like kangaroos are like yoked too. There's this one jacked kangaroo that was on the internet before I think you guys were born. Kangaroo Jack? No, no. Look at him. There he is. Bottom right. That one's fake. But there was a real one from back in the day that they're just like jacked roos. Look at them.
SPEAKER_01I didn't realize how these things are pretty jacked.
SPEAKER_00Kangaroos are big, man. They're jacked. It is so they have some crazy claws on them, too. I never knew that when I was younger. Probably pretty fast, too.
SPEAKER_02Well, they can bounce on their tail and kick you in the face. Humans don't have tails, so we're at a disadvantage there.
SPEAKER_00You just grow one.
SPEAKER_02But it would be yeah, yeah, just grow one.
SPEAKER_00Kangaroos are like wild animals.
SPEAKER_02Like a what, a power ranger or some shit? Like just tail grow.
SPEAKER_00I don't know if that's I don't know if tail tombs. We watched a very different Power Ranger. Tail time.
Chimp Strength And Movie Reality Checks
SPEAKER_01I didn't even watch Power Rangers in my car. I just like the toys. What about a chimpanzee? No. After I saw Chimp Crazy, I that's one of the most deceptively like oh hold on, hold on. What the hell is a Chimp Crazy? Chimp Crazy was a Netflix documentary made by the same guy that made Tiger King, but it's even wilder. It's so wild. And like these animals, the chimps, especially, I think because especially all of us, with the exception of Joe, you got to grew up with these 90s movies where the chimps are your friends and they're these great side characters. Dunstan checks in, great film. But once they hit a certain age, man, they turn feral. I grew up with Planet of the Apes.
SPEAKER_02Not grew up, but like I mean, yeah. So first off, nods to Caesar, you know, the ultimate. But I I I cannot believe the things this man watches, Joe, and then the things he refuses to watch that we request of him. Yeah, that is like you're watching a bunch of chimps play with each other. That's not the plot of chimp crazy. And then we're over here, like we all we want you to do is watch Gone in 60 seconds. I watched it already. It was twice. It was three months. He's yet to finish it. It was fine. He has no proof. No proof. Yeah, outside of like the SparkNotes. What's the name of the car? Can't you remember? Eleanor. Wise. He wrote it on his palm.
SPEAKER_00We had a SparkNote summary, I think, regurgitated.
SPEAKER_02I remember Sparknote. You're over here watching Chimp Crazy, and we ask you all the time to watch movies, and you're like, I don't got time for that one.
SPEAKER_01I would argue I've probably watched more movies that you guys have recommended than movies I have recommended. Yeah, you recommend terrible movies. That's not true.
SPEAKER_02Literally, I watched Marty Supreme when I was locked up last year. And I and I honestly, Sam, lost so much respect for you because you because of the mountain of validation you gave that movie. You're in a minority here. No, I'm not. It's only it's gonna be critically acclaimed. No, it's not. He lost everything.
SPEAKER_01He lost everything. They're back on to losing all of everything onto these fights. He lost everything because he said the whole, oh, I don't respect the valet. That's why he lost it because he didn't deserve it.
SPEAKER_02That video had to be that movie. Bullshit. No, Chalmei is. We'll get into this at a later episode. And he's so much better. Like even Willie Wonk, he was better.
SPEAKER_01No, he wasn't. No, he's just saying crazy shit.
SPEAKER_00Back to the animals. Speaking of fighting all these animals individually. Fight this animal. This this raised a uh a debate we had internally. Hold on.
SPEAKER_02Can someone do a simulation that knows how to do that stuff of Sam's versus me? How many Sams? Please?
SPEAKER_00How many Samsung?
SPEAKER_02I want to see what a simulation thinks. How many Sams it would take too? Three good Sams? Oh yeah. I think I think I think I've I'm in at least ten. No way.
SPEAKER_01I think I could nine of you. Three good Sam's. One Sam would have to give up his life, the other one would have to act as a distraction, but the third one, he'd get the job done.
SPEAKER_02Are they all the same Sam's? Or are you talking like Sams of the multiverse? Are we talking like multiple Deadpools here? Like you got different purposes. That would actually be great. One comes up. Sorry, I got some real good pre-work on the radio polygast.
SPEAKER_00Is it really feasible? Hold on.
SPEAKER_02The one thing we didn't ask, like you asked chimpanzee. Yeah. I can beat the shit out of a chimpanzee. No. Yeah. Oh, Johnny. No, you're wrong. Well, if you really underestimate me, they'll rip your face off. I think you're underestimating me. That's the thing. It's the closest to a human that we got. Yeah. Which means that it's also going to react the same as a human. No, man. I think it's just think that there's nothing upstairs. Like if I if I like punched a tiger as hard as I possibly could in the face. Yeah. It's not phasing it. But a chimp it is.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think it's just gonna piss it off.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean it's gonna piss it off. I'm pissed off.
SPEAKER_01Their strength is off the chart. Can you look up how strong a chimpanzee is?
SPEAKER_00Like how do they measure strength? I don't know. Should I see what its combined bench press was for two weekly? He's acting like my strength is not off the chart.
SPEAKER_02You're acting like my will to live is not off the chart.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but a chimpanzee, though, it's a whole different brain. What one to three to 1.5 times more powerful than that. Cool, how many?
SPEAKER_00But like, what are they comparing that to? The average human is pretty weak.
SPEAKER_01Look at that grip strength. A chimpanze's grip strength is estimated at 441 to 727 pounds, which is capable of crushing bone. I also saw this video, it was in Chimp Crazy. This chimp went wild. It literally ripped the door off a police car. The policeman's trying to shoot it. As he's shooting the chimp, it just keeps going.
SPEAKER_02You're talking about outlier chimps here. We're talking about your run of the mill every day.
SPEAKER_00This was just a random chip from the you go to the Pittsburgh Zoo and this was this was a chimp in captivity.
SPEAKER_02I'm beating shit out of that chimp. I don't know about that, man. No offense to chimps, but.
100 Humans Versus Silverback Debate
SPEAKER_00But as you get into the bigger ones, right? The one that we haven't mentioned yet is the silverback gorilla. I I told you guys this the day that came out. I know, and we're going to get into that debate. There was the viral debate of a hundred humans versus one silverback gorilla, and we all debated it. I think that a hundred humans would lose to a silverback. John thinks one John could beat a silverback, and Sam was in between. Where do we stand a year later on this case?
SPEAKER_01I still think it depends on the humans. I feel like there's a hundred humans that could beat that gorilla. There's also a hundred that could get mauled. Like you have to have the best of the best. Like, I want humans that are like peak physical condition. They've got some sort of training that's going to help them in like this hand-to-hand combat. You know, they also can work together. They're not just one after another after another. I gotta give it to my boy Trav back when that was a thing.
SPEAKER_00He he he ran the simulation guy?
SPEAKER_02No, he did a uh he did a video on his channel. Um it's uh reinvented woodworks. And basically he was like woodworkers of how many woodworkers would it take? And this dude's To beat a silverback gorilla? Yeah, probably a lot. He started the video, he's like everyone's he just hyped the shit out of me and it felt great. It was awesome. Thank you, Travis. But he was like, we've got one that I mean it was me. He's like, oh I'm getting my ass kicked. I do think though that like ten of me could get a road killing. Ten. Yeah, easy. Ten? All day.
SPEAKER_00Ten of you. John, you have to think here. If I was in top shape, yeah, all day. But I preached this before and I will preach it again. Top shape or not, animal instinct, we do not have. I have it. Not like a silverback gorilla. They won't tire as quick as humans.
SPEAKER_02I'm not, yeah, you're not wrong with that.
SPEAKER_00I would say 50 of you gets the job done. 50. You have strength, you have size, you're gonna have to have some sacrifices. 50 is a guarantee.
SPEAKER_02I I think 50, you're still toting the line. I mean, I believe James Harrison said take two of him. I 100% agree. You guys haven't met that man.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, uh he's not human. I I'm not disagreeing with you. You saw him with your boy last week. I think humans blindly believe they could do a lot of things that they actually can't do. Hell yes! And I think I love that about humanity. Yeah. But going back to reality, you see some of these things these animals do, and it's like you can't teach that instinct.
SPEAKER_01And and you know what you I would even argue, even if you just go back with like like uh like anthropology, like whenever human beings started like animals and stuff, a lot of it wasn't just their raw hands. They had to develop tools and wisdom.
SPEAKER_02We're talking about gorillas, dude. Anthropology about that. There's an Alan on McKnight, and I'm married. Of course I know about it. You're not wrong there.
SPEAKER_00But I agree. It like develop like you know, as evolution has occurred, humans have gotten soft. You pull 100 average humans, they're getting cleaned. Cleaned by that gorilla all day.
SPEAKER_02That silverback is wiping. You know how strong humans are. We walk up to Walmart and we go grab a hundred people, they're getting slaughtered.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Unless I'm in there and I'm hungry. And then you go into the only chance.
SPEAKER_02I just think you'd give a gorilla more of a run for its money than you than you're giving yourself credit for. You just sent us a video of him jumping over like a six foot.
SPEAKER_00What about you jump on its back and choke it out?
SPEAKER_01Yes, Joe. We just looked up the strength of a chimpanzee, and that's like a fourth the size of a gorilla. It's in its 700 pounds of grip strength. What do you think the gorilla is?
SPEAKER_00It doesn't matter if he can't get his hands on you. I'm gonna die trying to kill that mother. But at the end of the day, I think it's clean in-house. Now, if you think 50 of you can beat a silverback, do you think a hundred of you could beat a grizzly bear? The claws are the X factor, though.
SPEAKER_02Yes. And so I don't think so. I mean that the thing with the gorilla is a gorilla can hit you so hard it can be too.
SPEAKER_00I think it just spins in like a T formation.
SPEAKER_02But that's a the thing with so a bear doesn't have opposable thumbs like a gorilla. Doesn't need it, it has sword-like fingers. That's what I'm saying. But it has swords on it. It does. So like it can swipe you, and like a gorilla swipes you, it's gonna, it's gonna break bone, it's gonna mess you up real bad. Add on top of that a grizzly bear bringing just straight razor blades through your body, you're screwed. So like I that's the X factor for me is the is the grizzly between the grizzly and the and the silverback.
SPEAKER_00They're 70 to 100% more dense, heavier. Than a human? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02What's the average weight's 500 pounds? It's only got a couple hundred on me. That's a difference. Yeah, but they're like I'm not small. But that's that's like a volume of media. That's a loaded 500. Yeah, that's not like that's not like a loaded three?
SPEAKER_00I'm not saying you're not jumping. I would I would bet that their like muscle mass is probably uh weighs a lot more to me all day.
SPEAKER_02All day.
SPEAKER_00They're bite force, 1300 PSI. Twice as powerful as a lion. Have you seen their their cane bite?
SPEAKER_02I just love gorilla, you're just so pro-gorilla.
SPEAKER_00No, I'm not. I'm not gonna-go live with them. I think if you get enough humans, it could beat a gorilla if it really needed to. But I'm just saying, like, gorillas are savages. I'm not saying they're not. There's savage humans out there, dude. I mean, do you think a gorilla or a silverback grizzly? Or sorry, silverback gorilla or a grizzly bear win in a fight? That's a tough one. That was a big one right after the human debate.
SPEAKER_02I think that the gorilla beats the grizzly only because you a gorilla can take a beating, but it's more mobile. So, like, the gorilla can get around the grizzly bear faster, wear the grizzly bear out, it can climb trees, so can a bear. But like, it can jump out of trees. Yeah, I guess a bear could too.
SPEAKER_01I think I just selfishly want the gorilla to win.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I think the grizzly. You want the gorilla to be supreme? I got the grizzly on it. I don't think the that means you're putting the gri the grizzly as like the apex predator of the planet.
SPEAKER_00I think polar bears probably are.
SPEAKER_02Polar bears. Now, now now but polars and grizzlies are not on the same page.
SPEAKER_00They're not, but I mean that's in the same place.
SPEAKER_02Like, bring up the stats of a polar versus a grizzly.
SPEAKER_00I I understand they're very different, but I'm saying if polar bears are the pinnacle. Hear me out. If polar bears are the pinnacle, I don't think grizzly bears are that much further behind that silverback gorillas would be. Is a polar bear bigger than a grizzly? Yes.
SPEAKER_02So, so I can't remember why. I'm almost bringing up the stats.
SPEAKER_01They're usually just chilling out drinking.
SPEAKER_02So because of where polar bears like live, they're just conditioned to like the worst of the world. And I feel like that they're just I guess I don't know. Maybe they're considered to be more of a vicious bear.
SPEAKER_00They're a lot larger compared to grizzlies.
SPEAKER_02Sixteen hundred pounds and ten feet tall.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But that's not as far behind as a a silverback gorilla would be compared to the polar bear.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_00A grizzly bear is closer to a polar bear than a a silverback gorilla is. That's what I'm saying. So as far as like the order of ops here and how we're dissecting it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. They're the polar bears are genuinely.
SPEAKER_00I think a grizzly, I think a grizzly with its its dexterity, it doesn't have the fingers, but like I said, it can stand in place and swipe. Its bite force is incredible. Well that I mean they're they're quite quick. Like you know how fast grizzly bears run?
SPEAKER_02That's what I'm saying. They're fast. I don't know. Maybe I just like the gorilla because it's closer to a human. That's where I'm kind of leaning to.
SPEAKER_00John, 40 miles an hour. I I know they're fast. I just said that. Come on. Yeah, but polar bears pull it. That's the one that, you know, you you start getting into that.
SPEAKER_01I think I've been conditioned through so much marketing to believe that they're just these friendly creatures hanging out up there like a polar bear.
SPEAKER_02That's your panda bear. Oh, we didn't even bring up panda bears. There's nothing vicious about that. Come on, man. No, I'm dead serious.
SPEAKER_01Panda bears, they they don't even eat they eat they don't even eat meat. Yeah, they eat that bamboo. Isn't bamboo a weird material? You could eat it or build with it. How many things are like that? You can't eat oak.
SPEAKER_00You can. I know there's bigger bears, but like a sloth bear, I think, is one of the bigger ones.
SPEAKER_02What's the biggest bear?
SPEAKER_00Kodiak bear. Okay. But I don't think it's the most aggressive. Like I'm fairly positive a polar bear would still clean it.
SPEAKER_02What's the most aggressive? I mean, a 1500-pound bear. It's 10 feet tall.
SPEAKER_00The swath bear. Yeah, that bear does look swirly. That thing, yeah, I don't know. It looks tiny and feisty.
SPEAKER_02He probably lives in like the desert or something in India. What did it say? Yeah. He looks haggard. Survival is just by being pissed.
SPEAKER_00What about a panda bear? You think they're cute? That's what we were just talking about about. Yeah, I don't know, man. Polar bears, man. That's just you're in a different ballpark.
SPEAKER_02You ever just like watch you ever see like a video of a polar bear playing with a sloth? Not a sloth. A seal. They'll just like bat them around, throw them in like 30 feet in the air. Like just it's sad for the seal.
SPEAKER_01They're not friendly. Coca-Cola. Those nature documentaries, they don't you just see so many animals die. They just keep it so real. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02This one dark fast. Real fast.
SPEAKER_01And they'll narrate over just a real calm tone of voice that's like sometimes even this. It's very soothing.
SPEAKER_00So I I have a list of animals ranging from the smallest to the to the largest. Uh I would love to go through you guys saying if you could beat it or not. Okay. Does that sound fine, John? That's good. Alright. First up we have a house cat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we could do that.
SPEAKER_00Norman goes rogue, Sam. You got him?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I will say yeah. Yeah, we could I could definitely take Norman. Callie. Almost 30-pound beast. Yeah. 30-pound beast.
SPEAKER_02Yes, if you didn't know Sam owns multiple cats.
SPEAKER_00What about a goose?
SPEAKER_02Yes. Goose are mean.
SPEAKER_00They're mean.
SPEAKER_02They're pretty mean.
SPEAKER_01Oh, this guy's really mean.
SPEAKER_00He was mean. To preface, we don't condone animal violence. You know, this is all hypothetical situations, life or death. He's very self-defensive. Um, a medium-sized dog, 50 pounds.
SPEAKER_01This is where we're starting to get into it now. It depends on the dog. What if he has rabies? What if that's the thing. You know, think about it like this. What if he has rabies? All it takes is just one bite and you're gonna be able to get it. What if he has superpowers? What if he can fly? I'm just saying, he's a rabbit.
SPEAKER_02If the dog could stand on two heads, what if its mom forgot to beat it in the morning?
SPEAKER_01Far away from the hospital, he's rabid, he bites you, you might die. He might get you.
SPEAKER_02I think he could probably straight up normal 50-pound dog, Sam.
SPEAKER_01Probably we could take.
SPEAKER_00I hope you could take a 50-pound dog. Same we. I mean, I think I could take a 50-pound dog, right? Yeah, oh probably. Large dog. Like a German Shepherd, Pipple, uh, Rottweiler.
SPEAKER_01This is where we get into. You ever see those dogs? Train.
SPEAKER_00Okay, those are outliers. Those guys that that have those dogs. Kane Corsos or whatever. Yeah, Kane Corso, I don't think. Kane Corso, Kane Corso is actually the right name. Kane Corso. Learned that in Texas.
SPEAKER_02But uh don't take anything they say for I'm just what I was taught.
SPEAKER_00I called it Kane, and they were like, it's a Kane.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's Kane.
SPEAKER_00So what so it's only just a German I mean, we could use a German Shepherd as an example. I mean, those dogs are ruthless.
SPEAKER_02It's like an extra large breeds, right?
SPEAKER_00No, like the XL breeds we can keep away from because those ones, yeah. Okay. But aggressive breeds, like what would you consider an aggressive breed large dog? I would say Pitbull, Rottweiler, um except cheese. Cheese is an outlier.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. She's very large, very nice. That's where I think we're starting to get into. I don't know if we're taking that.
SPEAKER_00I think we would take a beating, but we could come out on the other side. We'd be tore up, man. Like you start grabbing shit, hitting it with it.
SPEAKER_02I I I just you have more of a chance.
SPEAKER_01That's what we're doing.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Three shops ago, my the shop owner that I was sharing space with had like this 200-pound St. Bernard. It bit me once, and it it wasn't fun. That dog is enormous.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And it has a lot of bite force.
SPEAKER_00Dude, some dogs are terrifying. My neighbor had my my parents' neighbor has a um Rhodesian ridgeback.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, terrifying.
SPEAKER_00They they it's a nice like he has two of them. They're nice dogs, but the one male dude is terrifying. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't know why I'm just so not into big dogs at all. When I was growing up, a buddy of mine had an English mastiff. That thing was like it would just lean on you and knock you over.
SPEAKER_02My boy in college had one. In college. Like that was his puppy. And they lived with us in our like we had apartment dorms. Uh they lived with us in the apartment dorm.
SPEAKER_00I'm like good family friends, we know. He had to put him down because he was aggressive. They have a they had an Irish wolfhound. What the f is that? So there was one growing up that lived here. He's the nicest dog ever. His name was Moose.
SPEAKER_02Terrifying. But the dog like standing is Dude. It's like his back legs, he was up to like my pecs, man. Yeah, they're they're huge.
SPEAKER_00Five's nine. He's almost you know on all fours. Yeah, these dogs we can exclude because that that's a that's a rough one. Okay, we have an eagle. So we're birds of the sky. I'd I'd let it kill me.
SPEAKER_02I think it's I'd let a bald eagle just have me. Yeah. Attack me. Okay, let's talk about an osprey. What a way to go out. What's an osprey?
SPEAKER_01I don't even know what that is. A giant bird. I feel like the birds, the birds that are actually capable of flight, even though they're smaller, I feel like it like how are you gonna if you just have your bare hands, how are you gonna like do anything with it? I feel like you just Yeah, you can't catch, remember?
SPEAKER_00You gotta grab an eagle. You gotta get that thing in a jungle. You gotta grab that thing, you're gonna take some. Its talons are gonna claw into you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's you scratch your eyes out, you can't see, and then it's just gonna start.
SPEAKER_02You immediately go to like, okay, the worst case scenario going to happen to you. Give yourself some benefit when you cry.
SPEAKER_01I'd snatch it out of the air.
SPEAKER_00Well, we all admit a bald eagle could just have its way with us.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00I would just I would take one for the American. Bullish Eagle, you're not walking away from that one. You're not walking away from that. Um okay, so Eagle, yes or no? Like we could it could be a regular eagle. It doesn't have to be a bald eagle.
SPEAKER_01There's only one eagle. What about the Eagles? What if you could you you think you could fight the Eagles? Is that a the football team? Is that a band? The Eagles? Oh yeah, tearing them up. Yeah, probably now. Probably.
SPEAKER_00In their stage now, they're gonna walk through that place and come out.
SPEAKER_02They play Hotel California while kick his ass.
SPEAKER_00Um, a coyote. You ever seen one in person? Yeah, I think I can f the coyote up. It's like a rabid medium dog. Yeah. I think it'd be a pack of coyotes, is when you're you're you're yeah, good luck. One singular one, I think we all could take it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00They're vicious. You're gonna get tore up again. You know, it's another one of those, like, you're not coming out unscathed.
SPEAKER_01I think there's a chance I die, or there's a chance I get to tell a great story. Agree. I wouldn't believe I actually this coyote. One time. Um, here in heaven, he lost that battle. So is that a yes from you?
SPEAKER_02All day. Coyote go to hell.
SPEAKER_01Uh a bobcat.
SPEAKER_02I got a bobcat too.
SPEAKER_01The more I thought about the bobcat.
SPEAKER_02They're scary, but I'll get it.
SPEAKER_01No, no. I was gonna say the more I thought about, the more I don't know if you're winning that. I know it's smaller, but 40 pounds, man.
SPEAKER_00Once again, you're coming out beat up.
SPEAKER_01But it's so quick. Even the average. Yeah, but it's a bread pillow. It's so quick, though. I'm saying it latches onto you and just starts going. I don't know, man. I don't know. You give cats too much respect, dude. I'm just saying, like a regular house cat's quick as shit, but a bobcat?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, bobcats are terrifying. Have you guys seen the uh bobcats hunt quick? Did we just see something quick with a bobcat here?
SPEAKER_01I can't believe how scared of a house cat you are. I'm not scared of the house cat, but I'm aware of uh how how powerful these bobcats might be if just hold on. Uh the Bella's subs. Look at that.
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SPEAKER_00Ew. This dude fought it off with his bare hands, man. This guy right here, him. That's a teenage boy.
SPEAKER_01Okay, maybe maybe maybe you could take the bobcat. That kind of changes my perspective.
SPEAKER_00Also, he's hunting. Why didn't he just light that thing up?
SPEAKER_02I mean, you would you would prefer it would avoid you.
SPEAKER_00A hundred percent, but if if if it's creeping up on you like that, John Well.
SPEAKER_02I don't know what the laws are for bobcats.
SPEAKER_00I think it's you have to prove self-defense somehow with animals if you kill them out of season or if they're not allowed to be killed. How do you prove that? It's it's a slippery. Some people you don't want to be. Yeah. Um I think we could take a bobcat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, after seeing that, I think I actually don't think.
SPEAKER_00If you need to pull, you pull guard, you're good.
SPEAKER_01I don't know about that. I feel like you have a recipe to get I'm gonna lock him on top of me here. Oh god, it's so bad. It's so bad. Alright, I'll go down. Now, this one I'm so curious to hear what you guys think. A wild boar. I don't think we're winning. No. I don't think a wild boar have you seen it's I it's like it's Robert Brathian.
SPEAKER_02How would you kill the boar with your bare hands? Like, I that's that's that's my question, is because it's just like impervious to bare hand battle. Robert Brathian was very drunk, don't forget.
SPEAKER_01He was big that he was a big boy. Big man. A E. He was very drunk in that. I don't know, man.
SPEAKER_00Wild boars have some crazy tick. You get a boar with a tusk. They're hunting boars like in Florida because they're um yo. Oh, yeah. What are they called? Oh, they're big, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Intrusive or intrusive species. Unlimited. You can I always I want to go hunt wild boars.
SPEAKER_00Ryan in the creator playbook, he he hunts them for Florida. He does. Yeah, he's using super large caliber weapons.
SPEAKER_02They're impervious to like hand-to-hand combat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Like, what are you gonna do? Punch it? It it's like it's it's got a four-inch thick skull.
SPEAKER_01Like it's one of the few animals they allow you to use an AR-15 to hunt with. They're hunting with automatic weapons. Yeah, there's just guys take the helicopters out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's why I'm watching. I want to do that. If you got a helicopter and an automatic shotgun and want to take me out, please call. So you're you're conceding to the boar then? I don't think it would k me. I think I can get away, but I I can't. I don't think I could fit.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think maybe getting away from it, they don't seem very uh you know, elusive.
SPEAKER_02Pretty straight line. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh kangaroo.
SPEAKER_02This one's gonna be a battle here. It's got a long neck, so I think I could choke it out.
SPEAKER_00Adult-sized kangaroo for me, no, medium-sized, like going into adulthood. I think I could outbox it and just kind of keep my distance. I'm I'm throwing some jabs.
SPEAKER_02I wouldn't even try to box it. I'm waiting, I'm gonna try I'm gonna grab it, bring it in close.
SPEAKER_00No, you're locked in a room. You're in a room, John. John, you're in a room this size of this studio. There's a single door, only one person can come out. Yeah. You have to get out of the room. Yeah. Are you outboxing that kangaroo? I'm not gonna box it. I'm gonna fight it. Alright, I'll take that answer.
SPEAKER_02Like, I'm gonna choke it out. It's got a the long windpipe and neck, right? Like you like a kangaroo, like I I feel like I feel like there's a lot of area for me to get in there.
SPEAKER_00It's a lot of muscle you're grabbing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's a thick neck, man. If you saw that Aussie kangaroo, I'd be interested to see if you could even get both hands around it.
SPEAKER_02Two arms, arm, my legs are wrapped around it, and I'm I'm death spiraling that thing on the ground until I can get it to um okay.
SPEAKER_00What about a wolf? That's a tough one. I don't think so.
SPEAKER_02Because like we don't actually have a perception of how large wolves actually are. They're huge. They're like they're not small. It's not like a little puppy. Didn't they bring dire wolves back?
SPEAKER_00Six and a half feet in total length, potentially. Whoa.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's not happening.
SPEAKER_02They're very like a gray wolf three feet tall.
SPEAKER_00The size of a great dame, man. I mean, and with way more fighting and natural instinct. Yeah, it's it's a it's they're they're not they're not your little Yeah, that's an L. We had a good run. We did. Okay, this is actually a great one. What about a deer? Deer are so stupid.
SPEAKER_01Uh now, uh in rut, I don't know about that. They might tear you up. It could if it could get you, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'm not gonna I'm not gonna argue, but I'm not, I'm not, they're dumb as shit.
SPEAKER_02I'm not giving you.
SPEAKER_01I've got an algebra problem here. I got you now.
SPEAKER_02If it's a deer in a room, that thing's gonna run straight into a wall, Sam.
SPEAKER_01John gets out of his ranting, I think, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I think some deer are pretty pretty good. You might have it's 50-50 to me.
SPEAKER_02Zero.
SPEAKER_00I think 50-50. They're pretty big. If it's a buck, absolutely not with antlers. If it's a dope.
SPEAKER_02If you make a loud noise in front of a deer, it stops moving.
SPEAKER_00But if it if it's fighting you, he's in a rut.
SPEAKER_01He's pissed off, he's horny, he's got a big rack is ready to be.
SPEAKER_00He might not even fight you, man.
SPEAKER_01He might think somebody smells nothing like a female deer. You don't know that.
SPEAKER_00I do. You almost made Sam smell like one the one day uh in that video, he tried buying that deer piss to put on you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but if one of your enemies douses you in some female deer piss on the house. They know my weakness.
SPEAKER_00Okay, this is the one of contention before we started filming that we had an ostrich.
SPEAKER_01I don't know what an ostrich is, so the first thing I said was, oh yeah, I could do that. Giant bird. What do you mean you don't know what an ostrich is? I like nothing's popping into my mind when I hear ostrich. Fuzzy ass, long neck. Let me see. Legs. I imagined it like a turkey. No. Yo.
SPEAKER_02Okay, okay, no, never mind. Well, I didn't know it was like that. You know what's upsetting is that there was a period of your life where you were educating the youth. I was never a biology teacher. It doesn't matter. It's general knowledge. I was never into that. General knowledge. You don't know what an ostrich is when you are educating the youth of America.
SPEAKER_01Is that is that similar to an emu?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, maybe I was getting because I know what an emu is. Let me see an emu. It's like the same thing.
SPEAKER_00Look at that. No, it's not. Large bird family. Long neck, tall bird. Of course he knows what an emu is. You got more of a chance against this than an ostrich. An emu, yeah. Maybe a fighting chance. An ostrich, absolutely not. Yeah, seeing the ostrich now.
SPEAKER_02I'm an ostrich up. What the fuck? John. You guys are such pussies. No.
SPEAKER_00What are you gonna do? Yeah. It's like a giraffe. The giraffe knows how to use its neck. Oh man. It's all muscle.
SPEAKER_02There's like chicks on the internet that are uh third my size beating the shit out of ostrich. Where? What part of the internet are you on? Farmers, dude? Farmers that own ostriches, they beat the. It's actually hilarious.
SPEAKER_00You're making these farmers, you're downplaying these farmers. These people would probably beat our asses. You're downplaying me. I'm not downplaying you. I'm underplaying an Austrian.
SPEAKER_02I just believe in humanity. You're over here like this big dumb bird can fucking take down the human race.
SPEAKER_00Get out of here. I think if this was the 80s humans, we'd have more of a chance. We're talking about like 2020 with more pure coconut kids.
SPEAKER_01I mean, like the T count was higher back then. It was much higher. I'm talking meat. You get like 20 dudes off coast. Who's gonna get Smarborough? I'm doubling down that he's losing to that ostrich.
SPEAKER_00Okay, here's another good one of Python. No. How many feet? Ten foot python. No. I got it. Okay, I'd say no. A mountain lion. No, no, no. I mean, I'm gonna No, you're not. It's gonna wrap itself around your body.
SPEAKER_02Ten feet for a python's not that big. I'm telling you, you watch these dudes online do it all the time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but the thing is you don't have a weapon. You have your hands, so you're telling me you can get it behind the head. It's not like a garden gardener's. Watch the video of a dude in. Rabbit by in the back of the head.
SPEAKER_02You're you you guys are just ignorant, man. You gotta watch more people fight animals. Guy wrestling 10 foot fight. Watch him just they just snatch him out of the water. Ten feet for a python's not that good. An invasive Burmese python. Yep. He just they'll just like literally grab him out of a bush. It'll wrap its whole arm like shit around you. It's not strong enough to kill you. It can kill small animals. And then he just beat its head off of something until it dies. Look, look at this kid. This is a child. Yeah, he's obviously experienced in this.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh!
SPEAKER_02Do you think that's gonna kill you? You are an absolute baby. Alright, that's maybe 10 feet out. Okay, I I see. I'm thinking bigger. Telling you don't watch you're you're thinking an Anaconda. One, two. Okay, maybe. You don't watch enough grown men wrestling. I don't know. I was never super into animals. I'm not into animals, but like I use serve shit like this all the time. I watch a lot of content, Sam. I'm a student of the game. On animals, though? That's what you're alchemic about. When you watch stuff, you get served stuff. Yeah, you know the dumb shit that you get served that we won't talk about here because we don't want to discredit your personnel anymore that you already did. I thought you were supposed to kill those. He just put it back. It might depend on what state he's in. Gotcha. So, but anyway, there's a ton of guys out there that they all they do is like hunt not that previously domestic pythons and stuff that got chucked in the woods in like Florida. Yeah. They'll grab him by the handfuls.
SPEAKER_00Okay, and then feed's not that long. Okay, I I think I could take a python. 20-foot python? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Now you're talking like full 12 to 20.
SPEAKER_00You can't really get your hand on the phone. I was thinking of an anaconda. Yeah, me too. I think anaconda, no, but python, yes.
SPEAKER_02Because once I get if you think about it, yeah. All right. Wait, can they bite you though? Yeah, they're not venomous. They're not venomous. By compression. Yeah. But their bite probably still hurts. By suffocation. That wouldn't feel good, but there's no way that you wouldn't be able to beat its head until it's just on like until it's mush.
SPEAKER_00Okay, and then stomp on it with a if you got a good boot on. Lastly, a mountain lion. No. Come on, John.
SPEAKER_02John, for God's sake. Come on now. I don't think I have what it takes to survive that. That's a gigantic cat. Especially not if it's a nittney lion. Nittany lion beat the shit out of that thing. They're not even real. Panthers all day. So sad. No, they're not real. A mountain lion can get up to what? Eight feet, it said. That's that's a lion.
SPEAKER_00I love I was trying to see if the biggest lions on earth. Eight foot. Five to seven feet.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Weighing 64 to 141 pounds.
SPEAKER_02That's a lot. They're just so strong. They like I said before, they've got teeth and claws. At that weight and size, you're not.
SPEAKER_00They're so quick, is the problem.
SPEAKER_02Quite a disadvantage.
SPEAKER_00They're gonna chew you up as speed and their claws really.
SPEAKER_02They can bite you. So like that, that's like I can't bite back in a fight. You could. It's just not like it's not gonna do anything. Yeah. I'm sure they're biting. That's where like the one-dimensional animals. That's why like when you're like, I can't fight an emu, I'm like, what do you mean? You can't, it's a bird. All it can do is peck you. There's nothing diabolical.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, if it's fast, too, you can't outrun it. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna run at it. You know what it's gonna do? Run away. I don't know. But it can't bite scratch. If you implement weapons into this, it's a whole different ballgame. Hand to hand I don't know.
SPEAKER_02I don't know. But like so, like, I think a mountain lion gets me, unfortunately. Unfortunately. That's why I stay jacked on first form.
Sharks, Groupers, And Bird Wildcards
SPEAKER_00Um yeah, I mean that that's all I had for the you guys have any other wild cards? So we we didn't get into any of the aquatics, guys. I think aquatics, man, you're in their environment. Yeah, like we know more about space in the ocean. Good luck. Yeah, that tells you all you need to know. A shark? Could you fight off a shark? No.
SPEAKER_02Depends on the size. Oh, yeah. No, it would be you guys ever seen a shark in person. It's the most terrifying. Like, I've got to be. I'm talking like we caught two gigantic sharks on my bachelor party. I've showed you these photos. Yeah. You're like, how was any human being alive when this existed? I've caught a hammerhead before. It was like eight feet, and that thing was terrifying. Yeah, we caught a uh, it was like a 1200-pound hammerhead, and the teeth on it are like as big as this like can.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, down at the beach last year, there were these dudes, they were fishing for small sharks, and they would use drones to take their lines out. I've never seen anything like that before. You live a sheltered life.
SPEAKER_00Well, you deal with uh gray whites and you start getting into like some of the bigger species that are more ferocious.
SPEAKER_02Well, like so, so sharks aside, you still have there's like like like a giant grouper. The fish is so big. You ever seen someone catch a Goliath grouper?
SPEAKER_01Jason was telling us about him scuba diving. He saw like an eight-foot grouper, he's like, I just got out of the water.
SPEAKER_02It's like a giant bass, but it's so big, it can like swallow you whole. It's nuts. Nuts, and they're so powerful. Yeah, the aquatics, unfortunately, you're like but we didn't put any of them on there. What else did we miss?
SPEAKER_00Um more of the air birds, I'm imagining. We just had an eagle, but birds are tough. Yeah, it depends on the bird.
SPEAKER_02Because like I said, it goes back to one-dimensional fan. What about an owl? An owl? Have you ever seen that Netflix documentary on it's called the staircase? I think it's about this dude who murdered both of his wives and went to jail, but he got off on them. Right? And they come at the end, it's like the anyway. Oh wait, I did see this. The guy has a massive like unibrow. Yes, yes, yes. And he was like a an author or something. Yeah. And then after the entire episode ends, spoiler alert, it's like they did found giant owls living in the house that he like he claimed that like the wife just fell down the stairs, and like there was claw marks and blood. And they were like very indicative of owl behavior. I don't think an owl would hurt me. I'm beating an owl up. I could beat an owl up.
SPEAKER_01I'm beating an owl's ass.
SPEAKER_02You're afraid of an owl? A hoot owl?
SPEAKER_01I'm not afraid of an owl. I'm not I respect an owl, though. You know, I respect all of that.
SPEAKER_02Respecting every animal on our relationship. Put me in a room, life or death. I'm I'm banking on me.
SPEAKER_01We got the next unscrewed video. We're getting an animal here. We gotta put one of these to the test here. It would be the most illegal and frowned upon thing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So we gotta go to a third world country. Once again, or Florida.
SPEAKER_00Once again, we do not condone animal violence.
SPEAKER_02Or Florida.
Animal Fight Tier List Final Rankings
SPEAKER_00We don't condone Florida for a lot of that stuff. Take a John there. Um all right, that leads us to our last segment. Um, the animal uh fight tier list. We're gonna put um some of the biggest and baddest animals on a list. S tier being uh they clean you up, F tier being you should win this. How does that sound?
SPEAKER_02Sounds good.
SPEAKER_00All right, I got a black bear.
SPEAKER_02A.
SPEAKER_00I yeah, I agree with that.
SPEAKER_02I mean, S is 100% chance, no doubt, right? A is like you might survive. Yeah. I got a 5% chance against a black bear. I don't know what it is. I don't know what that 5% is. Just the fact that's not a grizzly. Um but I'm I'm giving it to it myself.
SPEAKER_00I got a bobcat. A? I'd say B. Oh, wait, that's a smaller one. S tier being that Oh yeah, no, oh, sorry. It's gonna clean you up. Uh D tier being you have a chance.
SPEAKER_02Maybe B. Hold on. Or C t. Yeah, no, I'm thinking Mountain Lion because it was the last cat we talked about. Yeah, I'm throwing it on C tier. Kick that bobcat's ass.
SPEAKER_00A chimpanzee. A or B. I'm gonna I'm gonna say A. You're chimpanzees are gonna be tough. Even though that photo is like the least imposing. This man has so much respect for the chimps. Pull a senior photo.
SPEAKER_02I got a wolf. Probably S. Like they just are built to like it's a it's a machine. A buck, a deer with antlers. I say B. C. C? It's only shot is that one ram it gets at me with his antlers. It's only chance. It gets one shot at you.
SPEAKER_01When it misses, do you know what? Starts hooving you. Backup? I'm being hooved right now. Someone help me.
SPEAKER_00Officer, you can send backup. I'm being hooved. Come on, settle a B. B. B is more appropriate.
SPEAKER_02You guys are afraid of deer.
SPEAKER_00A bald eagle.
SPEAKER_02I mean, is there a level above S?
SPEAKER_00No, for you put on S. You're putting the eagle above the chin. You'd fight a bald eagle? I I wouldn't, but I'm saying you put it.
SPEAKER_02That's all that matters. I'd say A. You're about to be I'm gonna say S. You were about to have hands. What? Uh a goose.
SPEAKER_00D.
SPEAKER_02A good punt.
SPEAKER_00Okay, we have a um a python. Size. Ten foot python. D. I'd say at least C. D. I say C. It might get you. Did you once again we just walked in?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but you put it on the same tear as a goose. The goose should be easier than the python. Even the goose, like, let's not even take fighting into account. If I see a goose, I'm like, oh, that's awesome. Look, there's a goose over there. If I saw a 10-foot python in the lottery, holy shit, there's a giant snake out there.
SPEAKER_02That's just because you're not used to seeing giant snakes.
SPEAKER_01I am. Anyway. Yeah, I don't know about the next one, Joe.
SPEAKER_00Um, we have a coyote.
SPEAKER_02Coyotes. B. Yeah, that's fair. Like, I feel like there's once again they're bred to keep.
SPEAKER_00We have a moose.
SPEAKER_02Uh S. I don't think a human. I just think the sheer size of a moose in a human. It's just like, what are you gonna do? It's too big.
SPEAKER_00We have a hippo.
SPEAKER_02And again, a moose doesn't it doesn't have like it's its horn, its antlers are different. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00We can agree on a hippo at S yeah. Um we have a this is a mountain lion.
SPEAKER_02That that the only chance I got against a mountain lion is the terrain and potentially chucking that thing off a cliff. That's why I give myself a 5% A tier chance.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I'm going S, but I'll I'll I'll find it. You might have to jump off the cliff with it lashed on. I was waiting for like something that could happen. You're like, well, my only chance would be if I chuck it off the hill.
SPEAKER_02How's that happen? I feel like it, I feel like it's another one of those animals that like you hit that with everything you got. It's not even phasing it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay, I got a grizzly bear. Same S. A kangaroo.
SPEAKER_02B I'd say. Okay, look at that neck. That neck is I'm saying it's a one, it's a one-dimensional fighter, once again. It's only got one move. It's gonna and it hit you.
SPEAKER_00I'd say B tier. I guess it does have shorter. I'm gonna go B tier just based off of its claws. We have a sm medium-sized dog, 50 pounds and under.
SPEAKER_02D. D, like obviously.
SPEAKER_00Wow. Large sized dog, aggressive breeds.
SPEAKER_02We're getting up to B, if you ask me. I mean, I'm talking like those like Rhodesian Raz Bridge back. Like those things, those things will tear you out. Might as well be bears. Yeah. Small bears.
SPEAKER_00You gotta kill something else because those things will just go. They don't have a shut off. No, though they're gonna die trying to kill you. Trying to kill you. They will die before they yeah. They don't feel pain. No. I got a wild boar.
SPEAKER_02That's gotta be A tier. Yeah, I agree with that. Once again, like you gotta get super lucky, but it's impervious to humans.
SPEAKER_00Um I'm just waiting for him to click on the next one, I know. We have a house cat.
SPEAKER_01I thought you did the ostrich.
SPEAKER_00House cat's D. Yeah, D. We have an ostrich.
SPEAKER_02Also D. C. C T. I'm putting a house cat and an ostrich in the same category.
SPEAKER_00I'd say ostrich is above the house cat. That's fair. Look at what's on the D tier, John. That's a goose on the ostrich. Is it on the same tier as those?
SPEAKER_02I just want it on there because Sam's afraid of it.
SPEAKER_00And last but not least, we have the one, the only Silverback Gorilla.
SPEAKER_02Unfortunately.
SPEAKER_00You conceded to S. We made progress today.
SPEAKER_02We never said that John Maleki one-on-one could support the game.
SPEAKER_00I think that deserves someone subscribing to the podcast.
SPEAKER_02You should probably subscribe because I don't think my ego is big enough that I could fight a grizzly bear or silverback gorilla one-on-one. I need at least 10 of me.
SPEAKER_00I am happy we made progress today. I feel like we are changed people.
SPEAKER_02I feel changed after I had to have surgery on a body part. It made me really feel like I'm not invincible anymore. 40's coming in hot, boys.
SPEAKER_00Oh. Sam's almost there. Coming in hot. He's almost closer to 40 than he is 30 or 20. Look at that. You technically are close. Yeah, you are. You're technically closer.
SPEAKER_02So the day you hit 30. 30, you'll be closer to 40. But I'm not there yet.
SPEAKER_00Not yet. Coming soon. Can't catch me, Father.
SPEAKER_02Technically, yeah. Technically, because it's it's what? Yeah, it's the end of April. So you have six months. Exactly. Left. That's fine.
SPEAKER_01I feel the way. I feel like when I hit 40, that'll be my prime. I know.
Aging, Humility, And The Closing Plug
SPEAKER_02As slow as it takes you to get into the day, it's probably as slow as it's going to take you to get into life. Wow. Wow. That's crazy. He's going to have a great back end while I'm in a journey. So like take the joke for whatever you want, but I'm gel. That's jealousy. I'll roll your ass. Put it out of my mouth. I'm going to be wheelchair bound. Sam's going to be hitting his peak. I'm well past mine. With that being said, we've yet to hit our peak on this show because you guys have not subscribed or shared it with your worst enemy or best friend. So please, it's the best way to support us and what we do. You can check out all of our episodes early on the Builder Bunker as well as extended cuts, all kinds of good stuff over there. Um, if you do like what we're doing here, if you got suggestions, leave them down below. And with that being said, we will see you on the next show. Peace. Thank you.