Everywhere that the public dollar intersects with food we have a problem-- jails and institutions, the way we feed and care for our elderly in assisted alligator meat in Florida or bison meat in the Southwest, and we can't get that healthy protein into the hands of people that need it the most-- I mean,
And they're told the mouse is not alive anymore. The alligator ate it. So first of all, biological questions.
The mouse wants to go home to be with his mother, and he's feeling a little tired, and he's hungry. And then the alligator eats the mouse. And then the children are sent off for grief counseling.
This is a epidemiological study coming out of Northeastern University just published last year about 1,000 under age drinkers 13 to 19 years old. I had my own alligator dream as described in the book.
And I went with a pet detective up to the South Bronx to investigate reports of an alligator there. Guy was offering an alligator for sale on Craigslist. It's normal. It was a big bust in a housing project and everything.
In Australia, doing yours. You're an alligator . You've got to-- he has one line.
that they're fighting at the moment. You got the ISIS alligator . You got the economy alligator .
You got the ISIS alligator . You got the economy alligator . You've got the national debt alligator .
You took, you unscrewed the telephone and there are two little prongs, right? And then you had alligator clips. Have you ever heard of alligator clips?
I know, yes. I can't even remember anymore. You would alligator clip it into the telephone and attach that to the microphone. No, to the, geez, recorder.
And I think this is a great picture, because I feel like it illustrates where I was then and where I'm still about now. In the foreground, you'll see what I termed a "crocodile" or "alligator ." I like to think that it is recognizable as such. But in the 20 minutes that it took me to build that 7- or 8-piece figure, one of the adult fans who was at that convention in Michigan built a Tyrannosaurus Rex out of Duplo bricks. And he wasn't bragging; he was just much better.
So that's the real sweet spot. He had alligators roaming the property, a giant spiderweb that guests would climb on.
That's the site in Louisiana, and you can tell because it's swampy. There are alligators and bass and things like that in the swamps. And so here we're going to see the laser light.
Or I can lay down and gain a perspective that gives it a little more subject to work with. These are not alligators or crocodile that historically would kill people.
That's probably what happened. But the legend says that the alligator lady was about to eat the gorilla, but then they looked into each other's eyes-- --and they fell in love and they got married in a swamp wedding and they had a little gorilla gator.
It's normal. It was a big bust in a housing project and everything. But we didn't find the alligator . So I was pretty disappointed.
You got the economy alligator . You've got the national debt alligator . You've got the Syrian refugees alligator .
You've got the national debt alligator . You've got the Syrian refugees alligator . So somebody comes along and says, you know, sir, pardon me, but it's entirely possible that a cyber attack on the power
There were animals that were aquatic. There were animals that were kind of alligator -like. These guys somehow managed to not just survive, but speciate, meaning they evolved into many different species over millions
Nothing about the journey of light down this barrel is a straight line. and I'll put it in the alligator clamp.
And then you had alligator clips. Have you ever heard of alligator clips? They're little electrical things.
It looks kind of suspect to me. I don't know if there's alligators there. It looks a little scary, but you have all these kind of row houses.
We had the Tailgators, alligator tailgating.
I was talking to him about what made the fish so valuable. And a guy in Harlem with a tiger and an alligator that were best friends according to him.
In Australia, doing yours. He's good. The alligator .
They're little electrical things. They're, call them alligator clips 'cause they look like that. They're really small. You would put it on one, how did it work?
cat like, chase the alligator for a minute, but at the end of the day, whatever. I think information and content's what's gonna drive that and if you have that, it's much easier
And I just had a few too many alligators I was wrestling in my life around business development.
I-- yeah. So George said the alligator thing and Luke laughed.
And like swamps in Florida, there were alligators and crocodiles swimming under my bed.
There's this one scene in Waterboy where the professor is talking about how alligators have a large medulla oblongata.
east. It was said there were alligators in the mangroves.
It's on afterlife beliefs in children. So we brings children into the lab, and he does a puppet show with an alligator and a mouse. And there's a story about the mouse.
I was doing a radio story about the exotic pet trade in New York City. And I went with a pet detective up to the South Bronx to investigate reports of an alligator there. Guy was offering an alligator for sale on Craigslist.
So what we're working on now is actually trying to figure out how to put basically an alligator -like tail on a bird.
realizing that people are moving from regular landline phones, that you could take two little alligator clips to and listen to what they're talking about if you
But this ad would be equally funny if it had a pet guy in a giraffe suite or an alligator suit or sort of a brand like
And inside his house, that was a pool full with alligators and sharks.
And in life, sometimes we get inside pools full of alligators and sharks and this pool is dangerous for us
I was talking to him about what made the fish so valuable. So the example that's often given-- and I talk about it a little bit in the book-- is crocodilians-- crocodiles and alligators .
your business. Warren Buffett says that if there are alligators in the moat, that's even better.
As I mentioned in the book, the old saying, there's no such thing as a pretty good alligator wrestler.
If you were to swim across the river, the river might take you, or the alligator might take you.
And I was just absolutely astounded by what I found. So I thought what I would do is start off with a very short reading from the book explaining what happened after I got home from that failed alligator bust. So this is what I read.
Not their DNA. Have you considered, OK, well, we're going to take the DNA that we know in an alligator makes the tail, splice it in, and then hey,
And then that's when George said, I quote, I feel like we're fucking wrestling an alligator or some shit.
And what they argued is, geeze, people aren't using-- it's not just about the copper wire and the alligator clips anymore.
Nothing about the journey of light down this barrel is a straight line. And I figured, well, I have a clamp, and I have this little alligator clip thing, and what I'll do is I'll just pluck it,
Record and pause. And then, you would read, which meant you couldn't talk to somebody because the headset is all--. You could, technically. You could hold it up with these alligator clips, but you're talking through your microphone, so the sound was much, much better going through the telephone. And, or you would record it and just send everything.
Jonathan Rosenberg: It's challenging Silicon Valley great, Jim Barksdale, who basically said, "Who wins in a fight between an alligator and a bear? It depends if it's in a swamp