Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
We were talking about another exciting thing, Bat Appreciation Day. We're arguing about
this during the commercial break. Bythe way, you really don't like bats,
Well, I think that we can. A lot of things can be
true at once. Do we appreciatebats for what they contribute to our society?
Yes? Are they also objectively terrifying? Yes? No? No,
(00:21):
they are little rodents with rent wingsthat fly around in an unsettling manner and
they look scary doing it. Dothey only straight into our houses? They
don't break into your house? Andthey swoop by young Matt when he's just
trying to figure out life, andall of a sudden the back comes swooping
by out of the corner of hiseye, and all of my great scheming,
my plans, everything I had planneddown the toilet, millions of dollars
(00:45):
of therapy to get to where Iam today. All right, So I
really think that that's a bit ofan exaggeration. But we'll revisit your issues
in a second. I want toget to the phone. Four h two
five five, eight eleven ten.We got Kurt on the line. Kurt,
help me out here. What doyou got for me? Okay,
you better be sitting down for this, oh boy. Okay, on a
(01:07):
beautiful sunny day, I was fortyfoot up on the ladder tearing off some
old stucco on a building, okay, And as I pulled a big chunk
of stucco off, about three hundredbats come flying out of that building,
hitting me in the face, hittingme everywhere. I was so high up
on the ladder I couldn't jump,and so there I stand, and all
(01:30):
of a sudden, one gets stuckin my hair and it's flapping all over
my face. Oh. That wasthe most horrifying day I've ever had.
Okay, Kurt, a couple offollow ups. First follow up, when
it comes to the when it comesto this particular job that you were doing,
(01:57):
did you have like a hard haton or anything. No, I
was. I was way up ona ladder, like forty foot and all
I had on was a pair ofgloves and grabbing onto the ladder because I
was using one hand to pull thestuccle away from the wall. And as
soon as that stucco came off thewall, boom. Okay, they started
pounding me in the face. Kurt. I think, I think the trauma
(02:21):
that you are experiencing you could sueyour employer for that, because that sounds
like an Oceana violation. Second ofall, the the the so they fly
at your face, and obviously they'rethey're coming with some speed because they have
been startled in light. Light allof a sudden is in there and it
wasn't in there before when they werehiding. I have you had a like
(02:42):
feelings that are not great for batsin the time interrom or do you have
kind of a realistic like, well, that's just a once in a lifetime
situation kind of thing. Well,put it this way, I don't like
bats. Oh yeah, he's ahe's a gonner, Matt, Matt,
you found a friend and he's agone or two. His trauma is too
much for him to handle. I'mright there with you, Kurt, and
(03:05):
you know what, there's a lotof us out here. We just we
just need to keep talking about it. Maybe even form a group where we
sit in a circle and maybe somebodycould bring some free donuts. I'm going
to bring a bath house with batsin it to your meeting, and the
bats will not leave the house.I guarantee it. My name is Matt,
and I'm terrified of bats. Kurt. My name is Kurt, and
(03:25):
I'm terrified at bats. You're notdoing this on my show. It's not
happening. If you're gonna make yourlittle your little group and cult or whatever
of bat haters, you're gonna doit on your own time. Get off
my show. Kurt appreciates you callingin man. All right, oh jeez,
all right. So so again we'regonna investigate this further because this is
(03:46):
it's out of it's stupid, andI'm gonna get through. I'm gonna get
it through you and Kurt and everybodyelse who's like anti bat. We're gonna
figure this out because I have emailstoo coming in saying I can't do bats.
Everybody needs to be able to dobat that's they're tiny little things.
They don't eat meat. Don't getit another. Okay, so it's between
(04:08):
as far as for me, likeyour backyard animals power rankings, it's got
to be bats and possums one twolike one two. If you got a
possum story, we'd love to hearit. Two four, two, five,
five, eight eleven TiO. Wegot Richard on the line. Richard,
thanks for the call today. Whatdo you got for me. Oh,
I've got a possum story for you, but I'm going to segue for
(04:28):
a second about bats. I thinkone of the main reasons that people have
such a problem with bats is they'renot exactly the cutest charming looking critters you
ever saw. That is, that'sfair, But Matt said something about a
fly in an irregular pattern. Whenyou look up in the evening sky and
(04:50):
see them flying back and forth,what they're what they're doing, of course,
is chasing and catching bugs. Yep, now, having and you're right,
they really do eat a lot ofbugs. Having said that, my
possum story for you is more thanone, but just this one. I
(05:12):
have caught them wive. They donot really move that fast. I have
to chuckle at Matt, always scaredof a possum. But there again too,
I think it has to do alot with their looks. They I'll
tell you how slow they are.You can if they can't even run fast
(05:33):
enough to outrun a human being.And how I've caught them is I've seen
one in the yard. I'll runup to it, circle around the front
of it. They'll stop, andI'll wave my left hand in front of
their face to hold their attention andat the same time reach around. I've
(05:56):
grabbed them by their tail and liftthem up, and I've had people call
me a liar because they say that, well, he can curl up with
his tail in and grab you,which is really not true. But now
they're they're they're not exactly beautiful creatures, but yeah, they do catch.
They do eat a lot of bugs. And the one you've got in your
(06:18):
yard is your buddy. There's theonly one thing about apossums is that there
is something in their feces that isdangerous to horses. But you can look
that up on the internet sometime.But it's not a big deal, right
If you don't have a horse,that doesn't sound like it, it would
(06:38):
matter to you. No number,you're you're in. You're in good shape.
Hey, Richard, appreciate you sharingthis with us. This is good.
I like talking about animals that needmore love, even if they are
ugly. You got it? Bye, all right, Mark, Jackie Glint,
everybody else calling in, We're gonnatalk to you next. It's bad
Appreciation Day and we're appreciating them.And I'm gonna rope the apostlem in there
(06:59):
too, because they matter. They'relike the bats of the ground. Don't
quote me on that, but they'rereally useful and we're gonna keep talking about
it. Coming up on news radioeleven ten kfab. Em Marie Sunger on
news radio eleven ten kfab. We'reenjoying talking about bats in opossums because bats
(07:19):
and opossums, I think are oneand two in some order and most underappreciated
and underrated animals for their ecosystem andto help humans. By the way,
in North America at the very least, it's Bad Appreciation Day, which is
how we got started on all this, and we're getting a lot of stories
from you and your thoughts on bats, opossums and anything else that you know.
(07:42):
You can call us four L twofive five eight eleven ten four L
two five five eight eleven ten.Mark is on the line. Mark,
thanks for the call. Today.You're with Emory on news radio eleven ten
kfab. Hey this, I'm thepastor of Rebels in his Hands Biker Church
over here and Council Bluffs. Ohsweet, and uh, we got backs
in our church which are really cooland they really kind of they kind of
(08:07):
clean out the faint of heart oncein a while and they when they fly
around and we've got no bugs inour church. No, you wouldn't,
Yeah, you wouldn't. If if, if you're allowing the bats to hang
out in there. This is whatI tell people, right, if you're
afraid of them getting into the house, first of all, they find like
a crevice or an opening to getinto the house. So that's like the
first problem. But the second problemis if you or the solution. I
(08:31):
suppose they don't want to be inyour house. They can't eat anything when
they're in your house generally, unlessyou've got a bigger building like you might
have, and that that that createsa you know, uh, they might
be able to feast a little bit. They want to be outside. But
if you put like a bath house, like these little boxes that people make
that you can like put up ona tree that they can fly underneath and
(08:54):
like hide during the sunlight during thedaytime, they'll go there. If that
that's easy access for them, thenthey can come out, eat and then
live there. They all have noreason to try to break into your house.
It's not like they're trying to getin there. Yeah, exactly,
And they eat their weight in insectsalmost every night. Yeah, and there
are some they have measured certain batscan eat up to a thousand mosquitos in
(09:16):
an hour. Okay, so anythinganything that kills mosquito's is a friend of
mine. Now, if there wasone thing that I am I am absolutely
not going to advocate for, it'sfor mosquito life. No normal mosquito life
necessary, especially if you can justhave a bat like just be a watchdog
essentially for you in your yard andyour family. Sign me up, give
me, give me a dozen.I'll take them right now. Mark,
(09:37):
appreciate your call. You bet.You. Oh, and and opossums are
the only animal that is immune torapies. Mm hmmm. Yeah, and
I've got a family of I gota family of them living under my deck
at my house. So you haveit. You have the ecosystem working for
you. Mark, that's good tohear. Betcha all right, I appreciate
you calling in man. You bethave a good one, you too.
(10:01):
Let's go to Glenn. Glenn,you're on the line with Emory on news
radio eleven ten KFA B. Heygot a great fun fact for you,
Austin. There's a riverfront that runsthrough through Austin. A bunch of music
venues, restaurants. I had justrecently learned that there are bridges that cross
(10:22):
that river that had tens of thousandsof bats that live on the bridges,
and people come from all over theUnited States just to watch them fly in
twilight. And that's how you're ableto enjoy your dinner and your drinks and
your music along the riverfront in Texas. Okay, this doesn't scare people.
(10:43):
No, they flocked to go takepictures to watch them take off in flight
and it buzzed around their heads whilethey're drinking and eating. And you like
this too, Glenn, Oh yeah, I think it's awesome. All right.
So so Matt, did you hearthe story? Were you paying attention
for this one? Yeah? Whatdo you have to say to Glenn?
Because it sounds like Austin, Texashas this whole bat thing figured out.
(11:07):
Not only are they useful, butthey're also a tourist attraction now absolutely urism
dot com and you'll see that theythey promote this type of thing. Yeah,
Austin's known for their bats. Yeah, I uh, And you know
what. I I love the exhibitsat the zoo too. My only issue
(11:28):
is when they get into your houseand they start flapping around and they get
into your house because you didn't puta bathouse on the outside of your house
to try to, uh to tokeep them from, you know, looking
for some shelter. You just putshelter out there for them, you know
what. That's too much, youknow. Yeah, I don't agree.
I don't agree. Uh, Glenn, appreciate the call. Thanks for the
info on that. Yep, youtoo. I'm telling you, if you
(11:54):
have a problem with them getting inyour house, you can solve that problem
by just putting a bathouse up ona tree. It's all gotta do.
And then what's next, you know, and you got to build a raccoon
condo, you know what's after that? They don't need a raccoon apartments for
squirrels or raccoons, and squirrels arenot nearly as useful to our ecosystems as
(12:16):
a bat is. Those guys don'teat the mosquitoes or the ticks. Raccoon
they want to eat your trash,is what they want, right, you
know. They they're they're just they'rethere to use you and abuse you if
you feed them. They're like,I'm just gonna hang out here all the
time. I'll make my own condo. You don't do anything for me.
But also, hey, you betterlook out because you know I'll attack your
dog because you know those guys they'relittle fighters. Raccoons. A possum doesn't
(12:43):
want any part of that, Abat doesn't want any part of that.
But a raccoon, they they'll mixit up with you. They like that.
So you're telling me that basically thatbat came into my house as a
child just to make some new friends. No, that bat came into your
house because they needed a place tosleep and didn't know what it was doing.
(13:03):
It just looked for a crevice andapparently your house had some crevices that
it could squeeze into and have founditself inside your house and couldn't find a
way out. It sounds like itwas a building error and that architectural malfunction
in your housing unit. That's whatthat sounds like. But if you put
a bathouse like a little wooden bathouse, google plathouse if you if you guys
(13:24):
don't know what a bathouse looks like, google it. It's a small little
box thing. It's got a coupleof like rods. I guess underneath that
bas could just fly up under there, grab them, fall asleep, be
there out of sunlight throughout the entireday, and then easily get in and
out of And when they have aplace like that that they want to live,
and guess what, They're not goingto come into your house. I've
(13:46):
had nothing of luck with it.Four twenty eight. If you want to
talk about possums, you want totalk about bats, it's bad Appreciation Day.
We'll keep it trucking with you,So stick around and call us a
four h two five five eight toeleven ten. It's news Radio eleven ten kfab
We were talking about another exciting thing, Bat Appreciation Day. We're arguing about
this during the commercial break. Bythe way, you really don't like bats,
Well, I think that we can. A lot of things can be
true at once. Do we appreciatebats for what they contribute to our society?
Yes? Are they also objectively terrifying? Yes? No? No,
(00:21):
they are little rodents with rent wingsthat fly around in an unsettling manner and
they look scary doing it. Dothey only straight into our houses? They
don't break into your house? Andthey swoop by young Matt when he's just
trying to figure out life, andall of a sudden the back comes swooping
by out of the corner of hiseye, and all of my great scheming,
my plans, everything I had planneddown the toilet, millions of dollars
(00:45):
of therapy to get to where Iam today. All right, So I
really think that that's a bit ofan exaggeration. But we'll revisit your issues
in a second. I want toget to the phone. Four h two
five five, eight eleven ten.We got Kurt on the line. Kurt,
help me out here. What doyou got for me? Okay,
you better be sitting down for this, oh boy. Okay, on a
(01:07):
beautiful sunny day, I was fortyfoot up on the ladder tearing off some
old stucco on a building, okay, And as I pulled a big chunk
of stucco off, about three hundredbats come flying out of that building,
hitting me in the face, hittingme everywhere. I was so high up
on the ladder I couldn't jump,and so there I stand, and all
(01:30):
of a sudden, one gets stuckin my hair and it's flapping all over
my face. Oh. That wasthe most horrifying day I've ever had.
Okay, Kurt, a couple offollow ups. First follow up, when
it comes to the when it comesto this particular job that you were doing,
(01:57):
did you have like a hard haton or anything. No, I
was. I was way up ona ladder, like forty foot and all
I had on was a pair ofgloves and grabbing onto the ladder because I
was using one hand to pull thestuccle away from the wall. And as
soon as that stucco came off thewall, boom. Okay, they started
pounding me in the face. Kurt. I think, I think the trauma
(02:21):
that you are experiencing you could sueyour employer for that, because that sounds
like an Oceana violation. Second ofall, the the the so they fly
at your face, and obviously they'rethey're coming with some speed because they have
been startled in light. Light allof a sudden is in there and it
wasn't in there before when they werehiding. I have you had a like
(02:42):
feelings that are not great for batsin the time interrom or do you have
kind of a realistic like, well, that's just a once in a lifetime
situation kind of thing. Well,put it this way, I don't like
bats. Oh yeah, he's ahe's a gonner, Matt, Matt,
you found a friend and he's agone or two. His trauma is too
much for him to handle. I'mright there with you, Kurt, and
(03:05):
you know what, there's a lotof us out here. We just we
just need to keep talking about it. Maybe even form a group where we
sit in a circle and maybe somebodycould bring some free donuts. I'm going
to bring a bath house with batsin it to your meeting, and the
bats will not leave the house.I guarantee it. My name is Matt,
and I'm terrified of bats. Kurt. My name is Kurt, and
(03:25):
I'm terrified at bats. You're notdoing this on my show. It's not
happening. If you're gonna make yourlittle your little group and cult or whatever
of bat haters, you're gonna doit on your own time. Get off
my show. Kurt appreciates you callingin man. All right, oh jeez,
all right. So so again we'regonna investigate this further because this is
(03:46):
it's out of it's stupid, andI'm gonna get through. I'm gonna get
it through you and Kurt and everybodyelse who's like anti bat. We're gonna
figure this out because I have emailstoo coming in saying I can't do bats.
Everybody needs to be able to dobat that's they're tiny little things.
They don't eat meat. Don't getit another. Okay, so it's between
(04:08):
as far as for me, likeyour backyard animals power rankings, it's got
to be bats and possums one twolike one two. If you got a
possum story, we'd love to hearit. Two four, two, five,
five, eight eleven TiO. Wegot Richard on the line. Richard,
thanks for the call today. Whatdo you got for me. Oh,
I've got a possum story for you, but I'm going to segue for
(04:28):
a second about bats. I thinkone of the main reasons that people have
such a problem with bats is they'renot exactly the cutest charming looking critters you
ever saw. That is, that'sfair, But Matt said something about a
fly in an irregular pattern. Whenyou look up in the evening sky and
(04:50):
see them flying back and forth,what they're what they're doing, of course,
is chasing and catching bugs. Yep, now, having and you're right,
they really do eat a lot ofbugs. Having said that, my
possum story for you is more thanone, but just this one. I
(05:12):
have caught them wive. They donot really move that fast. I have
to chuckle at Matt, always scaredof a possum. But there again too,
I think it has to do alot with their looks. They I'll
tell you how slow they are.You can if they can't even run fast
(05:33):
enough to outrun a human being.And how I've caught them is I've seen
one in the yard. I'll runup to it, circle around the front
of it. They'll stop, andI'll wave my left hand in front of
their face to hold their attention andat the same time reach around. I've
(05:56):
grabbed them by their tail and liftthem up, and I've had people call
me a liar because they say that, well, he can curl up with
his tail in and grab you,which is really not true. But now
they're they're they're not exactly beautiful creatures, but yeah, they do catch.
They do eat a lot of bugs. And the one you've got in your
(06:18):
yard is your buddy. There's theonly one thing about apossums is that there
is something in their feces that isdangerous to horses. But you can look
that up on the internet sometime.But it's not a big deal, right
If you don't have a horse,that doesn't sound like it, it would
(06:38):
matter to you. No number,you're you're in. You're in good shape.
Hey, Richard, appreciate you sharingthis with us. This is good.
I like talking about animals that needmore love, even if they are
ugly. You got it? Bye, all right, Mark, Jackie Glint,
everybody else calling in, We're gonnatalk to you next. It's bad
Appreciation Day and we're appreciating them.And I'm gonna rope the apostlem in there
(06:59):
too, because they matter. They'relike the bats of the ground. Don't
quote me on that, but they'rereally useful and we're gonna keep talking about
it. Coming up on news radioeleven ten kfab. Em Marie Sunger on
news radio eleven ten kfab. We'reenjoying talking about bats in opossums because bats
(07:19):
and opossums, I think are oneand two in some order and most underappreciated
and underrated animals for their ecosystem andto help humans. By the way,
in North America at the very least, it's Bad Appreciation Day, which is
how we got started on all this, and we're getting a lot of stories
from you and your thoughts on bats, opossums and anything else that you know.
(07:42):
You can call us four L twofive five eight eleven ten four L
two five five eight eleven ten.Mark is on the line. Mark,
thanks for the call. Today.You're with Emory on news radio eleven ten
kfab. Hey this, I'm thepastor of Rebels in his Hands Biker Church
over here and Council Bluffs. Ohsweet, and uh, we got backs
in our church which are really cooland they really kind of they kind of
(08:07):
clean out the faint of heart oncein a while and they when they fly
around and we've got no bugs inour church. No, you wouldn't,
Yeah, you wouldn't. If if, if you're allowing the bats to hang
out in there. This is whatI tell people, right, if you're
afraid of them getting into the house, first of all, they find like
a crevice or an opening to getinto the house. So that's like the
first problem. But the second problemis if you or the solution. I
(08:31):
suppose they don't want to be inyour house. They can't eat anything when
they're in your house generally, unlessyou've got a bigger building like you might
have, and that that that createsa you know, uh, they might
be able to feast a little bit. They want to be outside. But
if you put like a bath house, like these little boxes that people make
that you can like put up ona tree that they can fly underneath and
(08:54):
like hide during the sunlight during thedaytime, they'll go there. If that
that's easy access for them, thenthey can come out, eat and then
live there. They all have noreason to try to break into your house.
It's not like they're trying to getin there. Yeah, exactly,
And they eat their weight in insectsalmost every night. Yeah, and there
are some they have measured certain batscan eat up to a thousand mosquitos in
(09:16):
an hour. Okay, so anythinganything that kills mosquito's is a friend of
mine. Now, if there wasone thing that I am I am absolutely
not going to advocate for, it'sfor mosquito life. No normal mosquito life
necessary, especially if you can justhave a bat like just be a watchdog
essentially for you in your yard andyour family. Sign me up, give
me, give me a dozen.I'll take them right now. Mark,
(09:37):
appreciate your call. You bet.You. Oh, and and opossums are
the only animal that is immune torapies. Mm hmmm. Yeah, and
I've got a family of I gota family of them living under my deck
at my house. So you haveit. You have the ecosystem working for
you. Mark, that's good tohear. Betcha all right, I appreciate
you calling in man. You bethave a good one, you too.
(10:01):
Let's go to Glenn. Glenn,you're on the line with Emory on news
radio eleven ten KFA B. Heygot a great fun fact for you,
Austin. There's a riverfront that runsthrough through Austin. A bunch of music
venues, restaurants. I had justrecently learned that there are bridges that cross
(10:22):
that river that had tens of thousandsof bats that live on the bridges,
and people come from all over theUnited States just to watch them fly in
twilight. And that's how you're ableto enjoy your dinner and your drinks and
your music along the riverfront in Texas. Okay, this doesn't scare people.
(10:43):
No, they flocked to go takepictures to watch them take off in flight
and it buzzed around their heads whilethey're drinking and eating. And you like
this too, Glenn, Oh yeah, I think it's awesome. All right.
So so Matt, did you hearthe story? Were you paying attention
for this one? Yeah? Whatdo you have to say to Glenn?
Because it sounds like Austin, Texashas this whole bat thing figured out.
(11:07):
Not only are they useful, butthey're also a tourist attraction now absolutely urism
dot com and you'll see that theythey promote this type of thing. Yeah,
Austin's known for their bats. Yeah, I uh, And you know
what. I I love the exhibitsat the zoo too. My only issue
(11:28):
is when they get into your houseand they start flapping around and they get
into your house because you didn't puta bathouse on the outside of your house
to try to, uh to tokeep them from, you know, looking
for some shelter. You just putshelter out there for them, you know
what. That's too much, youknow. Yeah, I don't agree.
I don't agree. Uh, Glenn, appreciate the call. Thanks for the
info on that. Yep, youtoo. I'm telling you, if you
(11:54):
have a problem with them getting inyour house, you can solve that problem
by just putting a bathouse up ona tree. It's all gotta do.
And then what's next, you know, and you got to build a raccoon
condo, you know what's after that? They don't need a raccoon apartments for
squirrels or raccoons, and squirrels arenot nearly as useful to our ecosystems as
(12:16):
a bat is. Those guys don'teat the mosquitoes or the ticks. Raccoon
they want to eat your trash,is what they want, right, you
know. They they're they're just they'rethere to use you and abuse you if
you feed them. They're like,I'm just gonna hang out here all the
time. I'll make my own condo. You don't do anything for me.
But also, hey, you betterlook out because you know I'll attack your
dog because you know those guys they'relittle fighters. Raccoons. A possum doesn't
(12:43):
want any part of that, Abat doesn't want any part of that.
But a raccoon, they they'll mixit up with you. They like that.
So you're telling me that basically thatbat came into my house as a
child just to make some new friends. No, that bat came into your
house because they needed a place tosleep and didn't know what it was doing.
(13:03):
It just looked for a crevice andapparently your house had some crevices that
it could squeeze into and have founditself inside your house and couldn't find a
way out. It sounds like itwas a building error and that architectural malfunction
in your housing unit. That's whatthat sounds like. But if you put
a bathouse like a little wooden bathouse, google plathouse if you if you guys
(13:24):
don't know what a bathouse looks like, google it. It's a small little
box thing. It's got a coupleof like rods. I guess underneath that
bas could just fly up under there, grab them, fall asleep, be
there out of sunlight throughout the entireday, and then easily get in and
out of And when they have aplace like that that they want to live,
and guess what, They're not goingto come into your house. I've
(13:46):
had nothing of luck with it.Four twenty eight. If you want to
talk about possums, you want totalk about bats, it's bad Appreciation Day.
We'll keep it trucking with you,So stick around and call us a
four h two five five eight toeleven ten. It's news Radio eleven ten kfab
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.