September 4, 2025 • 6 mins
"How many scorpions does it take to make you sell your house?"In this episode, the gang dives into a bizarre and unsettling local news story about a Frisco woman who fled her townhome after being terrorized by a scorpion infestation. What starts as a wildlife report quickly spirals into a riotous blend of personal anecdotes, absurd hypotheticals, and off-the-wall band names like Social Colonoscopy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, welcome, welcome, wildlife, Hold on wildlife, if.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You just remix and forever, we're gonna start having that
as part of the Wildlife News intro.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I like to think Christine is not gonna pull that.
I'm gonna I'm gonna text her right now.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Tanisha Jones of Frisco is the subject of an article
I found on w f a A headline. Tell me
this is Ai too, scorpion surge.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yes, they do.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Call North Texas home and they're causing issues for homeowners.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I think you said w f a A. I think
Pete Friedman wrote that.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Head Sometimes they get stuff from well, the author is
Kevin Reese.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Headline writers and copywriters are different, Yeah, but sometimes they
can get their stuff from other people.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And I don't know if Kevin and Reese's local or national.
And sometimes they get ap articles and stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Christina get Kevin Reese on the front.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Not here today, Hey guys, Kevin, let's men, Hey Kevin?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Did you write that headline?
Speaker 5 (01:10):
You guys looking at my article? Are you straining right now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm lifting up a heavy bench all reading a magazine network.
Why are you lifted on the bench? Everything a bench?
Hek you taking a dump.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
When Tanisa Jones moved to Frisco from Chicago, she expected
it's gonna be hotter here. Probably you know it's gonna
be hot summer. But she's like, I didn't know that
I would see multiple scorpions per week in my new home.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Uh Oh, I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I can remember a time that I've seen a scorpion.
I had last and since I'm a child, maybe.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I went I used to live in Frisco, ironically, and
I wonder what part of Frisco this is?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Uh, but the scorpion zone. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I used to listen to the Scorpions band in my
house that I lived at at one in Custer. And
the very first night we were there, we closed, we
closed on our loan, and before we had even moved in,
we were going to sleep on the floor in our
new house.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We were like, how exciting is this? This is or
this is amazing?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
And as we were laying there, I saw something moving
on the floor and I was like, what is that?
And sure enough it was a scorpion. Now it was
not a large one. It was a tiny one. I
hit that thing with a shoe about forty times and.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It was just like, what else you got, bitch?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Like, it was like not impacted by the shoe hitting
it at all, and I was terrified. I was like, Okay,
so there's a baby scorpion in this house. Clearly there's
a mama scorpion at about a thousand of these things.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So it might have been a finding nemo situation, though
it's it's been removed from the family and it's.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Just on its own.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
That's a good point. Well, we never saw another one
after that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I think it was a finding nemo that was the neo.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, well you said, how like if you had to
guess how many inches was it?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Uh, I would say it was maybe one inch thick
or long long? Yeah, yep, And I'm familiar with that measurement.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
They got a doctor in on this article, and these
are called striped bark scorpions native detextas. They are venomous
but not lethal, which time I would say, well, hold on,
how do we know, I mean, how much venom can
you take?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, if a hundred of them sting you at the
same time you're aft, they.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Grow to be about two and three eighths inches long,
which is not enough to satisfy the story. Nope, yeah. Yeah,
the story needs more, although what is enough to satisfy it?
And should everyone want more in life?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, I've seen some movies where I'm like, man,
there's no way I'm in this game.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In the game, it's like not even like, how is
that even good? Yeah? For anyone?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And well for him, he's got to fill the guilt, yeah, him,
but he's also he's got a gotta go.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
A scorpion has to pull back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Weren't you in a band called Social Colonoscopy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yes, pretty good too, until that time we got kicked
out of trees.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, uh, because we're gonna do a live one on
stage and they didn't. They were not okay that we
had Switzer come in for it.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So what happened to the lady?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Her town is in Far North or her townhome is
in Far North Frisco next to a green belt?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Ben Oh no, I live on a green belt.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
The Scorpions love green belts, Oh they do. I got
my green belt from Taekwon Dong Taekwon Dog.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, his ex wife owns.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Part of the jingle.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
You know, his ex wife owns half the business.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
On top of everything, she says she bought a new house. Now,
She's like, I can't take it, so she like moves
from Chicago.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
The scorpions freaked her out. She sold her town home
is buying a new house. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I respect it. I respect it. She has no confidence
in exterminators. Yeah, dude, the bud Like, I know, I
have seen one scorpion. That's enough.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I don't think that they're prevalent necessarily in Texas, but
clearly they have a stranglehold on this town home out now.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They are not where we are. They are prevalent down
in Santonio, Austin area. It has to do with the
type of that sediment that rock whatever they're called. I've
told you guys the story before. My uncle was rocking
a deuce and a scorpion dropped down from the ceiling
on him while he was rocking a deuce, milestone like thigh.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I think it was his God, so imagine he had
to jump up with unfinished business.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That's like the opposite of the toilets nack. It's hard
to live down the sky scorpion.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
God, what does he do if he's like they finally
get to calm down and have a seed on the couch.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
He just talked about the sky scorpion. All right, well
that'll different.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
All right, thank you, Kevin. Coming up next, just three
minutes away. Let's go around the sports, and obviously it's
a Cowboys game day. We'll talk Cowboys. Coming up at
five o'clock. Mark Cuban jumps back into the news. For
what reason we'll discuss next
Oh, welcome, welcome, wildlife, Hold on wildlife, if.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You just remix and forever, we're gonna start having that
as part of the Wildlife News intro.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I like to think Christine is not gonna pull that.
I'm gonna I'm gonna text her right now.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Tanisha Jones of Frisco is the subject of an article
I found on w f a A headline. Tell me
this is Ai too, scorpion surge.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yes, they do.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Call North Texas home and they're causing issues for homeowners.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I think you said w f a A. I think
Pete Friedman wrote that.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Head Sometimes they get stuff from well, the author is
Kevin Reese.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Headline writers and copywriters are different, Yeah, but sometimes they
can get their stuff from other people.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And I don't know if Kevin and Reese's local or national.
And sometimes they get ap articles and stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Christina get Kevin Reese on the front.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Not here today, Hey guys, Kevin, let's men, Hey Kevin?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Did you write that headline?
Speaker 5 (01:10):
You guys looking at my article? Are you straining right now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm lifting up a heavy bench all reading a magazine network.
Why are you lifted on the bench? Everything a bench?
Hek you taking a dump.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
When Tanisa Jones moved to Frisco from Chicago, she expected
it's gonna be hotter here. Probably you know it's gonna
be hot summer. But she's like, I didn't know that
I would see multiple scorpions per week in my new home.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Uh Oh, I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I can remember a time that I've seen a scorpion.
I had last and since I'm a child, maybe.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I went I used to live in Frisco, ironically, and
I wonder what part of Frisco this is?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Uh, but the scorpion zone. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I used to listen to the Scorpions band in my
house that I lived at at one in Custer. And
the very first night we were there, we closed, we
closed on our loan, and before we had even moved in,
we were going to sleep on the floor in our
new house.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We were like, how exciting is this? This is or
this is amazing?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
And as we were laying there, I saw something moving
on the floor and I was like, what is that?
And sure enough it was a scorpion. Now it was
not a large one. It was a tiny one. I
hit that thing with a shoe about forty times and.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It was just like, what else you got, bitch?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Like, it was like not impacted by the shoe hitting
it at all, and I was terrified. I was like, Okay,
so there's a baby scorpion in this house. Clearly there's
a mama scorpion at about a thousand of these things.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So it might have been a finding nemo situation, though
it's it's been removed from the family and it's.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Just on its own.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
That's a good point. Well, we never saw another one
after that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I think it was a finding nemo that was the neo.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, well you said, how like if you had to
guess how many inches was it?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Uh, I would say it was maybe one inch thick
or long long? Yeah, yep, And I'm familiar with that measurement.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
They got a doctor in on this article, and these
are called striped bark scorpions native detextas. They are venomous
but not lethal, which time I would say, well, hold on,
how do we know, I mean, how much venom can
you take?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, if a hundred of them sting you at the
same time you're aft, they.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Grow to be about two and three eighths inches long,
which is not enough to satisfy the story. Nope, yeah. Yeah,
the story needs more, although what is enough to satisfy it?
And should everyone want more in life?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, I've seen some movies where I'm like, man,
there's no way I'm in this game.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In the game, it's like not even like, how is
that even good? Yeah? For anyone?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And well for him, he's got to fill the guilt, yeah, him,
but he's also he's got a gotta go.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
A scorpion has to pull back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Weren't you in a band called Social Colonoscopy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yes, pretty good too, until that time we got kicked
out of trees.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, uh, because we're gonna do a live one on
stage and they didn't. They were not okay that we
had Switzer come in for it.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So what happened to the lady?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Her town is in Far North or her townhome is
in Far North Frisco next to a green belt?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Ben Oh no, I live on a green belt.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
The Scorpions love green belts, Oh they do. I got
my green belt from Taekwon Dong Taekwon Dog.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, his ex wife owns.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Part of the jingle.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
You know, his ex wife owns half the business.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
On top of everything, she says she bought a new house. Now,
She's like, I can't take it, so she like moves
from Chicago.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
The scorpions freaked her out. She sold her town home
is buying a new house. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I respect it. I respect it. She has no confidence
in exterminators. Yeah, dude, the bud Like, I know, I
have seen one scorpion. That's enough.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I don't think that they're prevalent necessarily in Texas, but
clearly they have a stranglehold on this town home out now.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They are not where we are. They are prevalent down
in Santonio, Austin area. It has to do with the
type of that sediment that rock whatever they're called. I've
told you guys the story before. My uncle was rocking
a deuce and a scorpion dropped down from the ceiling
on him while he was rocking a deuce, milestone like thigh.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I think it was his God, so imagine he had
to jump up with unfinished business.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That's like the opposite of the toilets nack. It's hard
to live down the sky scorpion.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
God, what does he do if he's like they finally
get to calm down and have a seed on the couch.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
He just talked about the sky scorpion. All right, well
that'll different.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
All right, thank you, Kevin. Coming up next, just three
minutes away. Let's go around the sports, and obviously it's
a Cowboys game day. We'll talk Cowboys. Coming up at
five o'clock. Mark Cuban jumps back into the news. For
what reason we'll discuss next
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