I used to volunteer at one of the kinds of places Felix talked about but it was strictly big cats. It's wild how individual each cat is. Every one of them has their own personality. There was a lioness who had nerve damage so she didn't get around really well, but she shared an enclosure with (and bullied) the biggest, derpiest looking tiger you've ever seen. He was a sweet boy. Like 600 lbs or something nuts and this little crippled lioness walked all over him. There was one tiger who I loved who would sit in the back of her enclosure and just stew, looking at another tiger in a different one. She could see other tigers but this one in particular pissed her off and she'd just stare and get mad. Another was very friendly and mischievous. She'd go up to the fence and chuff at people as they walked by then turn around and put her tail up like she was going to spray but never did (though she could.) There was a bobcat, Rusty, who was my favorite. He slept a lot but when he was awake I'd play with him with a stick through the fence

love how Felix defends monkeys. A capuchin could never be a thief.

animals are basically dudes and as we all know Dudes Rock!

The homeless thing hits the cosmopolitan types hard because it spits in the face of them justifying the absurd cost of living. People who refer to 90% of the country as "flyover" actually think NYC or LA are the best places to live. Seeing so many homeless people in their paradise town blows up the illusion and reminds them they are a few bad days away. For the cost of some of these properties I have no clue why people would ever want to live in NYC. If I had 5 million to burn on a house I would have a fucking palace and a 100 acre estate, not a shoebox with a doorman.

Another person you commonly see in SoCal is the new yawker who won’t shut the fuck up about new yawk ☠️

I like the idea of returning to a hue and cry system as long as we can get rid of the cops.

damn extremely good episode, I loved listening to felix prattle on about animals for the first ten minutes, no shortage of quality content

If you look carefully, you can even see where the wave crested, and rolled back...HST

I rented the basement from a guy who ran a wolf rescue out of the house. It was f'ing nuts.

I love how Felix has a deep connection to cats but has no idea how to pick up a cat's poop

The ads are out of control fellas.. fix it

I love how Ernest has cross podcast coverage

A new ad after every 6 sentences.

I think they're putting more ads on the content that is less news-y or serious. (I'm totally cool with that lol). If that's the case, I think its an understandable way to try to work with lesser cash coming in maybe?

Who are these strange people who keep interrupting the ads?

I'm pretty sure Felix heard people using the Arabic word for brother at the bodengler.

I'm sure Felix is right about the wolf-hybrid size effect. I know back in the 1980's there were a group of dog breeders who mixed wolves with german shepards. The offspring were huge averaging around 150 to 160 pounds. Unfortunately they ended up being unusually aggressive and a number killed their owners, as a result, I believe many states banned them.

NY has bodegas, CA has Bodega Bay... put THAT in your pipe and vape it.

Thank you mary

Matt nailed NY Dems in the 2022 midterms.

16 minutes in and this is by far my all time favorite episode

PLEASE clip the homeless population discussion!

The amount of ads in this is obscene

It's the SUN in SoCal that drives peeps insane. Trust me... I should know. I grew up there.

dude, I literally got 3 2 minute commercial breaks in the first 6 minutes of the podcast, you are just now talking about capuchains (6 minutes of ads) wtf?

Aki is Arabic for brother

Think tank, schizophrenia, Chauncey blocked me

if NY is the best city in the world then CA is the best state in the world even though our leaders suck

Anyone got a link to the Spectator article they're talking about?

great episode!

How about you drop the politics and just talk about animals

Chill vibes ep

Did virgil do a no-growth?

If you complain about ads on the internet then you deserve the purgatory of sitting through them

I love Matt. But I can tell you for a fact that car jackings, robberies, and homicides skyrocketed in the summer of 2021. Speaking as an inner city Chicagoan who has lived in all but the very worst areas of Chicago. Whether the police were significantly de-funded, what morale the good ones have left has been obliterated by the "left wing reactionaries", who are just as bad as the right. I find them worse than the right (who also suck) thanks to their nauseating moral superiority complexes, and the fact that they did fuck up so many of our beautiful cities, legitimately scaring the shit out of city dwellers. I remember a carjacker nearly killing a woman two blocks from my elderly parent's house. Home burglaries next door, too. And these leftist yups have been some of the earliest to flee back to the suburban communities they came from. I haven't heard the homelessness segment but looking forward to it. I've been reading into the homelessness epidemic in LA. Looks like a very large segment are vets. So the empire sends these young men off to trample other nations, and then they get traumatized, economically trampled, and treated like human garbage when they return. Terrible cycle of trauma and abuse of the environment, our brothers and sisters, and the world at large all in the pursuit of a machine that's grown to be almost completely out of human control.