Did Cam find Florida Man in Florida?

Wednesday's show caps off with a listener question asking if Cam found Florida Man while in Florida.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
To Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
To answer Seebee's question, Uh, I did not encounter any
Florida man or Florida woman. But the the house we
were staying at while my mom was while we were
moving rout of her apartment.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Kind of be in the backyard.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It like a lot of Florida neighborhoods, you have like
a pond or a smaller lake where it's behind because
it's you know, it's it's Florida and there's a lot
of water, and it's it's it's nice and scenic. And
so the first day I was there, out in the morning,
went out for a cup of coffee, kind of wake
up in the lake. I see something just moving across
the water with the head up. Turns out to water moccasin.

(00:39):
And then I also saw what I thought was just
a big, a big luck. No, it was an alligator.
It's an alligator. So a lot of wildlife out in Florida.
So I did not encounter or get bit by a
water moccasin, which is good in the gators. Uh, we're
not there the next day, so on that front, so
no Florida. But I did see a gator, and no,

(01:02):
I did not keep it in our bathtub.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I did not do that. You didn't. You didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
What was the thing of the story I had last
week before where the guy last sewed one and he
kind of like right off a bridge, and he was
a Navy veteran. And this was really kind of a
weird and unfortunate and complicated story because the guy was

(01:29):
a Navy veteran and he claimed the reason why he
did this was because the alligator was coming up through
the Title Creek near where he was and was eating
up his turtles. Now they weren't his personal one. They
were you know, wild turtles there, and they will they
will eat turtles. They do like turtles. I told you
when I played golf last year, one of the places

(01:51):
down near Sunset Beach, I played a golf course called
Sea Trail. There were three courses at Sea Trail, and
I was playing one of the courses and I shared
with that video that smaller alligator when he crossed the
t box number nine. He was a littler the smaller dude,
but a full grown biggie was down around the fourteenth
green and I heard him thrash in the water. I

(02:13):
knew exactly what it was, and I'd hit my ball
down there. I'm like, I'm not going down there, and
I got away and I saw what he'd done. He
moved to grab a turtle and it was a really
big box turtle and he cracked him up like a walnut,
it was, and he just so these these alligators, you know,
they they they they they like turtles, and this navy

(02:35):
veteran apparently got tired of it and he went and
and uh and laught sooed and he dropped.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Little wonder woman action. Well it was more like a.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Catching something with a hook because he dropped a last
so down, but he did last so the gator and
did enough damage to him where they had to euthanize it.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Uh oh yeah. And that was the sad part of it.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
When the guy was arrested and he was taking a
jail and all kinds of animal cruelty and uh that
kind of.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Illegal trapping charge.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
He called the authorities to say, hey, this gator wandered
into my enclosure. I've got him here or whatever. Well
they could tell what happened when they got there, and
so the guy got arrested. So that was you know,
when you're typical, that's insane. Yeah, what's insane? That they
arrested him. Yeah, for animal cruelty and unlawful trapping. But

(03:33):
are we supposed to be saving the turtles?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Did we are?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Do?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
We pushed back in that we're not.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
The alligators are more of an endangered species than the
turtles are.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay, I've never heard anyone say save the gators, unless
you're a Florida football fan.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
See if you're if you're down living in the state
of Florida, bet your mom would tell you that they'd
they'd The gators are a protected species. They're in Florida.
We know that, and unfortunately, you hear lots of unfortunate
stories where gators will carry off a puppy.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, or you know, so if you were the last
of the gator, would you get arrested for that? Well, yeah,
I said, the puppy. But it's animal cruelty. Well, a
domesticated animal. I think it'd be a different situation than
just a turtle in the wild and not someone's personal pet.
You know, I'm not taking the side of the gator.

(04:34):
I'm not doing that. I'm merely explaining what the law is.
It's kind of like when I do a football game
or a baseball game, And let's just say I call
a baseball game and a ruling goes against Texas. I
might not be up for that, but I might have

(04:55):
a pretty good understanding of why the ruling went the
way it did, and so then I would explain that
on the air. Now, by the same token, I'm not
saying necessarily that the umpire.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Was right and that I was explaining.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'd be explaining why the umpire ruled it the way
that he did, given the way the rule is written.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
How many times have you done a game?

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I know I've done it many times in calling a
Texas football game or a basketball game or a baseball
game when a ruling that would seem to be unfair
was within the letter of the way the rule was written.
So then what you go to at that point is

(05:42):
you say, the problem is the rule. The problem The
problem isn't you know, isn't that it was being enforced.
The problem is the rule. And so then you go
back to, well, is one side gaming the system by
using the rule that way? That's an entirely different conversation

(06:02):
that it could happen like that, that it's that somebody
could be gaining the system. That sort of thing all right,
we'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
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