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29 Apr 2026
Florida has a serious invasive python problem originating from pets released after a hurricane hit a research center.

You know, I just saw some shit about Florida. So they have a serious. Snake problem now. Like, I think it's. Pythons. Yeah, it's pythons. And how to do it on? Python cowboy. He gave us a head. Where is that head? Do you know what that head is? Well, yeah, well, they so they they have they've been trying to catch so apparently it came from the 80s and the 90s of like a big python pet boom and it was a research center that got hit by a hurricane, right? That's what I was about to say. The hurricane came, they released them to the wild.

20 Jan 2026
Nutria are large invasive rodents that exist in the South.

No, It's a type of large rodent because David Tell used to have a TV show called Insomniac, and he went out at night one time with them in Louisiana and they're hunting these things that they're an invasive rodent, a giant rodent. And it was like Dave would do his shows and then after it was a Comedy Central show. It was a really good show. And then he would find things to do in the town because he can't sleep because he's up all night. And so he went out with these people that were, God, I can't remember what the animal was, but it's a large invasive rodent that exists in the South. I mean, Nutria.

05 Nov 2025
Introducing species like gorse or frogs to control pests often leads to new ecological problems.

Frogs. That's going to end up doing something else. Yeah, it's going to kill everything else. Every single time they've done that. In New Zealand, for example, they introduced the gorse bush as a way to have hedging instead of fences.