BHAVNEET: Welcome back to Drive with us. I’m Bhavneet.
TARANJIT: And I’m Taranjit.
BHAVNEET: Today’s episode is going to be a surprise for both you and me because I was not told or informed what this episode was going to be about. So let’s unwrap this gift together. But you’re driving so be careful unless if you’re walking still be careful or biking, running. Just Yeah, I’ll unwrap it for us. But you got to give it to me first.
TARANJIT: Okay, I’ll start with this. How adventurous are you?
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: I said how not yes or no.
BHAVNEET: I changed it to a yes or no question because that’s how not I am… like in my mind.
TARANJIT: How not you are?
BHAVNEET: Yes. I’m a big knot like a really complicated Boy Scout knot. They teach you how to tie those right?
TARANJIT: They’re adventurous though.
BHAVNEET: Yes. Well I’m the knot that they created so I’m not the adventurer. But ok so in my mind I like to think that I am adventurous, but you put me in a situation I am not. Like all right let’s go back to the safety of not here. What about you? Are you… are you adventurous?
TARANJIT: Adventurous in terms of what?
BHAVNEET: Well I don’t know you just adventurous so I just went off of that.
TARANJIT: Adventures as in going in to nature and exploring on my own.
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: Not.
TARANJIT: Adventurous as in like just exploring a city like doing thing?
BHAVNEET: Still kind of ehh. I hate going into the unknown by myself. Not adventurous like that.
TARANJIT: What if you are in like a spot that you like, just go to like walk through or just, you know?
BHAVNEET: A park?
TARANJIT: Yeah, but not a park. But like, like walk a trail or something?
BHAVNEET: That’s still kind of like hiking into the unknown. So no. By myself? Never. I’m way less adventurous by myself. If there’s someone with me then I’m more adventurous.
TARANJIT: But would you still…
BHAVNEET: Peer pressure. Now, what were you saying?
TARANJIT: This was kind of leading into the story I found. I was trying to give you hints on the surprise.
BHAVNEET: That was a hint? That was a question. Did anybody sense a hint in that? Was it a hint to what my gift is? Our gift is? I think we’re going to get our gift soon.
TARANJIT: It’s hints in terms of questions.
BHAVNEET: Well, you didn’t tell me that in the beginning. I just answered the question.
TARANJIT: I know. So you forgot the questions already.
BHAVNEET: You only asked one. Are you adventurous?
TARANJIT: I know. But then I gave another hint. Like as I was talking, in terms of…
BHAVNEET: Just traveling. Just walking through random places. That’s what you said. And then I was like, oh, like hiking or in a park and then now we’re here again, and I don’t know. I clapped. Okay.
TARANJIT: Did you hear the story about the guy who killed a lion with his hands?
BHAVNEET: No. Is this recent?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Is that even allowed?
TARANJIT: Well, according to because it was his safety that was in question. It was okay. Because if he didn’t kill it would have killed him.
BHAVNEET: Was he in one of those like Safari thing since we were talking about that recently? Was he in one of those Safari things where you’re an open Jeep? And they could just walk around up to you. Speaking up, I would never do that. That’s scary.
TARANJIT: Well, we did go on but it wasn’t open Jeep.
BHAVNEET: We weren’t open. It was a closed vehicle and they were all like sleeping on rocks.
TARANJIT: Yes, but we do have a baboon attack and Ostriches pecking.
BHAVNEET: Yes. Those ostriches. Ostrich-I. Ostrich-Es.
TARANJIT: Itches.
BHAVNEET: Itches. Those Ostriches with itches. Um. They kept pecking. Like they were trying to break our glass. Like they so aggressive.
TARANJIT: They’re a pretty fast bird, too.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, well don’t want to get one of those people angry. People. They’re not people. Those Ostrich with itches. Oh my gosh. Don’t want to get them angry. Now the baboons broke our rever- rever- reverse. What is it called?
TARANJIT: Windshield wiper?
BHAVNEET: The reverse one. Is that even called that? The back windshield wiper? Yeah.
TARANJIT: Yep. We drove home with a dangling…
BHAVNEET: Yea. It’s like this way south.
TARANJIT: In case you didn’t know.
BHAVNEET: That’s the way gravity points just FYI. In the space outside where there’s no gravity but here on Earth where there is gravity it points this way. You’re welcome.
TARANJIT: So this jogger, he was jogger.
BHAVNEET: Oh it was a jogger.
TARANJIT: In Colorado. And…
BHAVNEET: There’s a lion just… where was he jogging?
TARANJIT: Mountain lions.
BHAVNEET: Okay, so he was jogging in the mountains.
TARANJIT: Mmhmm. So there’s this trail in Colorado. I forget the mountain name. But he was he was on his run that he runs I guess you know, because he’s a jogger. So he runs every day, I guess or…
BHAVNEET: No, he does not run. He jogs.
TARANJIT: Whatever.
BHAVNEET: Correction. There’s a difference. Running you get out of breath like. Jogging…
TARANJIT: Oh, here’s the name. Fort Collins. It said he said 31 year old who was halfway through his 12 mile run.
BHAVNEET: 12 miles?! Oh, so now he’s running?
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: Make up your mind guy.
TARANJIT: And while he was running, he heard rustling in the bushes.
BHAVNEET: Well that’s probably why he started running. He was jogging at first. And then he heard the rustle…
TARANJIT: And this lion jumped out at him.
BHAVNEET: Ahh. No. See adventure. Nope.
TARANJIT: So he said that first…
BHAVNEET: Hey guys, there’s a… I’m sorry. Oh, you got so excited about that.
TARANJIT: He said at first that he was scared but then his like fight reflex kicked in instead of his flight reflex.
BHAVNEET: I think my freeze and fear reflex would kick in.
TARANJIT: That was my question, too. What do you do in that situation?
BHAVNEET: Even though that is a terrible refex. Reflex.
TARANJIT: You can’t speak.
BHAVNEET: It’s a terrible reflex to have but apparently, I have it.
TARANJIT: So you would just freeze
BHAVNEET: Yeah. And then I’d be dead. But then again, I wouldn’t be out there by myself. I would never do that. So you’d be with me so what’s your reflex? Would you save us?
TARANJIT: Would you rather die from the lion? Or would you rather just go off the side of the trail? Off the mountain?
BHAVNEET: Oh, jump off. I was like what other option is there? Huh? It will seem very painful. But if you went off and you are awesome and you managed to like catch yourself like in the movies. I don’t know how they do it but they always managed to somehow survive then I guess go off the side. But depends what the side looks like that you’re going off of. Is it a waterfall? Like am I going to land in water and hit it like concrete and still break everything? Or is it like spiky rocks?
TARANJIT: I don’t know. It’s off the Colorado mountain.
BHAVNEET: Who was in Colorado. I need you to go and insepect this trail for me. Well, be careful go with people because apparently theres mountain lions. So why would you be there in the first place? I don’t know. Well, yeah, I need to do some research on that one.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Okay. Yeah.
TARANJIT: What he did, because he decided to fight.
BHAVNEET: Apparently killed it.
TARANJIT: He tried to scare it first.
BHAVNEET: How did he…
TARANJIT: So, he like put his hands like straight up above his head.
BHAVNEET: Okay. When you said that. Put them above your head and be like aahhh. Oooga booga booga.
TARANJIT: He tried to make himself look bigger.
BHAVNEET: Like that?
TARANJIT: And then he was like making noises to like, scare it.
BHAVNEET: What kind of noises?
TARANJIT: I don’t know he was just…
BHAVNEET: Raar.
TARANJIT: To make himself seem bigger and scarier to the lion.
BHAVNEET: I would have never thought of any of those things so good for you because you survived but I’d like to know what you were doing. Because when you said that I imagined something really hilarious and that was a very serious situation. Not hilarious. I just see hands up in the air and he’s gonna start making random like chanting noises like Hoo Hoo Hoo. I’m an ape. Hoo. Hoo. Or like raar. Ooga. Booga. Booga. It reminds me of Courage the Cowardly Dog where in the intro scene section thing was it called? The intro part of the show? Where the guy the old man would like put on a mask put hands in the air and be like, ooga booga booga and scare. Scare courage.
TARANJIT: But he’s a dog.
BHAVNEET: That was a weird show.
TARANJIT: It was.
BHAVNEET: But I watched it a lot.
TARANJIT: So does that method work on just lions or would it work on other animals?
BHAVNEET: Like any big cat?
TARANJIT: Just any like wild animal. Like if we were to encounter…
BHAVNEET: Wait, so did it scare the lion off? I thought he killed it.
TARANJIT: No. So the lion wasn’t scared. He just kept coming towards us.
BHAVNEET: Of course. He’s like, ookkaaay. Now I get to eat a weird animal. Crazy.
TARANJIT: And then he jumped at him. His mouth grabbed his wrist.
BHAVNEET: Aahh.
TARANJIT: And his claws scratched his face.
BHAVNEET: No. And that’s it?
TARANJIT: He was like latched on his lip list.
BHAVNEET: I thought you said lips. His lisp. He has a lisp that you can latch onto?
TARANJIT: He was latched onto his wrist. So he like lost. You know, he couldn’t do anything with that hand because it was in the mouth of the lion. And the lion was like, clawing at him.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god.
TARANJIT: And while this is happening, he was trying to throw the lion off. And what…
BHAVNEET: How big was this lion compared to him? Is this a big dude?
TARANJIT: He…they said he was five foot 10.
BHAVNEET: But is he like a big dude? Like, how can you throw a lion off? Those things are strong.
TARANJIT: I mean, he’s a runner, so he’s probably not like, you know.
BHAVNEET: Why buff people can’t run?
TARANJIT: No, I’m just saying he’s not
BHAVNEET: 12 miles though. I don’t know.
TARANJIT: I don’t know. He, I mean, the picture looked like he wasn’t like super.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I’m just trying to figure out how you can throw a mountain lion off of you.
TARANJIT: Well, he was basically wrestling with this thing. And he said it was based. It was mostly the adrenaline in his system that was helping him fight this lion. And he used his legs to hold the lion’s back legs because he didn’t want the lion to kick. And if the lion got under him, he would have been like…
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: So he wanted to keep the lion…
BHAVNEET: How did you think about that? I wouldn’t have even thought that.
TARANJIT: He wanted to keep the lion above and then he somehow managed to get his one leg out and put his leg by the lion’s neck and he pressed down on the neck and suffocate the lion.
BHAVNEET: So he put him in a chokehold?
TARANJIT: To the point it killed him.
BHAVNEET: How?! So he choked a lion like wrestling move?
TARANJIT: Kind of.
BHAVNEET: Was he a wrestler?
TARANJIT: He wasn’t. That’s what it says. He has no fighting experience.
BHAVNEET: But how did you know that was gonna kill him? And how? Your leg well, I mean, you’re a runner, so your legs must be really strong. But like how you…how can you hold down the neck of a lion?
TARANJIT: Before he was able to get to the point where his leg got on his neck he like reached around for sticks and stuff, but every stick he grabbed was like so brittle that it just snapped when it touched the lion.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: And then he grabbed a rock.
BHAVNEET: And the whole time the lion had his wrist?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god. Is his wrist broken? Gone.
TARANJIT: Then he grabbed a rock and hit the you know lion started hitting him with a rock I guess that kind of gave him leverage.
BHAVNEET: The lion started hitting him with the rock?
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: You just said the lion started hitting…
TARANJIT: No I said he started hitting the lion.
BHAVNEET: You said the lion. We will reverse this. You said the lion started hitting him.
TARANJIT: Or you can just re-record over it.
BHAVNEET: Nah. There is the gift. We found it you guys. There it was. That was it.
TARANJIT: Yep. So he suffocated this lion.
BHAVNEET: Oh dang.
TARANJIT: And killed it.
BHAVNEET: Yeah no. Would’ve never been able to do that but good for you.
TARANJIT: So and then after he got away from the lion he ran.
BHAVNEET: Well yeah, I mean the lions dead though. But I mean there must be more somewhere.
TARANJIT: He ran and he came like another runner was coming that way so he like saw the runner, told the runner about it and…
BHAVNEET: What was he like coming with a broken like dripping blood arm, and was like there’s a lion over there.
TARANJIT: He was scratched. So I’m pretty sure…
BHAVNEET: There’s a lion over there. You don’t want to go that way. Dude. Let’s turn around.
TARANJIT: He like asked that runner if he had a phone on him, and he didn’t. So then they like both…
BHAVNEET: Why do people run without phones?
TARANJIT: And then they both ran down the trail and came to another like two people that were about to start running.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god. If they had ran a little bit faster, they would have seen this and helped him.
TARANJIT: No. They made it back to like the parking lot. Almost. There’s two runners about to start.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: So they asked them for a phone and they had a phone. So he used a phone to like, make a call and tell I don’t know if he told the Park Service people about it. The incident. That there’s lions up there, or what? And then after that, he drove himself to the hospital.
BHAVNEET: But…
TARANJIT: So here’s a question for you. No. Never mind.
BHAVNEET: No question. All right.
TARANJIT: What I want to know is why didn’t he have his phone on him? Is this just a thing? Like, I mean, I guess if you’re running you don’t bring your phone with you.
BHAVNEET: But if you’re running in the mountains where you know, there’s gonna be the chance of like animals and mountain lions attacking you. Why wouldn’t you?
TARANJIT: Yeah, and then he didn’t have his phone so he encountered this first runner who didn’t have a phone so then they had to go to find another runner.
BHAVNEET: Like, is this a thing that you don’t carry stuff with? Like, you should have some way of contacting someone in case something happens. Like get one of those little clips that people have and put it on your waistline.
TARANJIT: Like a fanny pack?
BHAVNEET: Except for a clip for a phone. I mean, you could have a fanny pack and be more secure. Maybe Yeah, fanny pack running, you know, the new trend?
TARANJIT: Yeah, well, he had to get 25 stitches in his face.
BHAVNEET: Aahhh.
TARANJIT: And three in his wrist.
BHAVNEET: Wait. Only three in his wrist yet 25 in his face? So the claws are more dangerous than the mouth.
TARANJIT: I guess. Maybe he had it like where he just like his teeth weren’t digging. He just kind of had his mouth like you know, gripped on his wrist.
BHAVNEET: But some teeth were digging somewhere.
TARANJIT: Yeah, that’s probably where the 3 stitches came from.
BHAVNEET: This was a three toothed lion? It was missing the bottom right canine you know. Are they called canines for them to? I don’t know. It was missing the bottom right tooth. It just had three. It was a toothless. Toothless. You know, the tooth fairy just visited him.
TARANJIT: Well, after this happened, the horse tooth mountain open space, I guess that’s the area.
BHAVNEET: The what?
TARANJIT: Horse tooth mountain open space. So like the park, people in charge of that closed it down?
BHAVNEET: Well, yeah, there was an incident.
TARANJIT: And they captured two more juvenile mountain lions.
BHAVNEET: So that was probably the mom hunting for the babies.
TARANJIT: But they said that it was possibly siblings of the lion that was killed.
BHAVNEET: Oh, so two younger siblings. Well, either way, I don’t know, they’re probably together.
TARANJIT: Well, they captured them. And then they reopen it.
BHAVNEET: Well, yeah, I mean, go at your own risk, right? If you’re adventurous.
TARANJIT: So I found statistics or more information on mountain lions in that area.
BHAVNEET: Probably a lot.
TARANJIT: And how common it would be for you to encounter one if you were to run on this trail.
BHAVNEET: So anybody that lives near Colorado, listen up. Be careful, don’t sneeze.
TARANJIT: Well, they’re native to America.
BHAVNEET: Wait mountain lions are or just the species?
TARANJIT: Mountain lions, I guess
BHAVNEET: Really? Mountain lions are native to America?
TARANJIT: But they can roam anywhere from Canadian Yukon. Yukon, Yukon. How do you say it.
BHAVNEET: You can.
TARANJIT: To the tip of South America. So they can be anywhere from there.
BHAVNEET: So anywhere on the continuous American continent. America.
TARANJIT: Pretty much. And it was reported that Well, there’s only less than 20 reported fatalities in North America from Mountain Lion attacks on humans in the last hundred years.
BHAVNEET: Oh, wow. So now this guy just bumped up the statistic to 21.
TARANJIT: Yeah, and according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website or something like that.
BHAVNEET: Really? So not that common?
TARANJIT: Or that’s how many are reported.
BHAVNEET: That’s true. Maybe they don’t find half the people that are dead. They’re like, dragged off and then they were missing. I feel like it has to be way more common than 20 in a 100 years.
TARANJIT: So how many mountain lions do you think live in Colorado?
BHAVNEET: More than that. Probably hundreds.
TARANJIT: That’s it?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I thought they were more like a dangerous species.
TARANJIT: They said anywhere from 4500 to 5500 mountain lions.
BHAVNEET: Oh my God. In Colorado alone? Oh my gosh, I’m never going to Colorado. I mean we’ve been there but like I never living in Colorado. What if they just come into like civilized areas? Like do they do that? Have people spotted mountain lions in like neighborhoods? Like here you would be like…
TARANJIT: Well…
BHAVNEET: Oh, I spotted a fox or wolf.
TARANJIT: Or a bear. Bears have been in yards.
BHAVNEET: Or very rarely but like a wolf, you know. Over there it’s like oh my god, there’s a mountain lion at my door.
TARANJIT: Yeah, but they live in the mountains. So what they venture that far?
BHAVNEET: I don’t know people live in the mountains too.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: But do they live in the Rocky Mountains? Do people actually live there? I don’t know.
TARANJIT: People live in all mountains, don’t they?
BHAVNEET: In? On.
TARANJIT: In on. So since 1990, the state of Colorado has only seen 16 people injured and three killed from mountain lion attacks.
BHAVNEET: Or that’s how many have been reported.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I guess.
BHAVNEET: With over 4000 mountain lions in existence in Colorado, only three people have been killed in like the past 30 years?
TARANJIT: Their flight, not their flight. Their fight response didn’t kick in, like the runner’s.
BHAVNEET: Maybe their freeze in fear response kicked in, which is not a very advantageous…
TARANJIT: But they could have gotten adult lion. Whereas this guy got a juvenile lion it sounds like.
BHAVNEET: So that’s why he was able to fight it off because it was a juvenile?
TARANJIT: I guess.
BHAVNEET: Because if it was an adult, they would have taken him down. Like they have to be…they wouldn’t have rustled those branches. They would have been like, and you wouldn’t have seen it coming.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: It had to be a juvenile then.
TARANJIT: Considering they found siblings that were also younger.
BHAVNEET: Probably
TARANJIT: Probably not an adult.
BHAVNEET: Because you would have more experience if you’re older and you’d be like I got this down. You’re not gonna even know I’m there.
TARANJIT: So there was another article on the same thing, but they were mentioning the best way to avoid or like what to do in a situation if a mountain lion…
BHAVNEET: So like not throw your arms up and go ooga booga.
TARANJIT: They’re like, don’t run.
BHAVNEET: Because then they’ll chase you. Then it will be like oh food.
TARANJIT: But they did say try to make yourself look very big, make noise, stare it back.
BHAVNEET: Okay, so he did the right thing. It just didn’t work.
TARANJIT: Yeah. And then it said slowly back away, but can make sure that that lion is still facing you and you’re still facing the lion. Because if you get behind the lion then obviously they’re going to be more scared. Like, where they go, what are they doing?
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Stay in like…
BHAVNEET: So you have to stay in their sight. But you have to back away.
TARANJIT: Yeah, make yourself big, make noise and stare at it.
BHAVNEET: I can’t make myself very big. The lion is gonna be way more bigger than I would be. How do you make yourself so big.
TARANJIT: And then it says if you are attacked, fight back.
BHAVNEET: Oh, thank you. That was very great advice. I wouldn’t have thought of that myself. Yup. I don’t want to ever be in that situation. Again, I wouldn’t never go in that kind of place without someone who’s trained and knows how to yawn.
TARANJIT: I think you know how to yawn.
BHAVNEET: Who knows how to fight back.
TARANJIT: But this article did mention some more facts about lions and like about their behavior and like how they are to I guess use it to your advantage.
BHAVNEET: I guess so. So if you ever were to encounter lion which I will not put my myself in a situation where I would but if you ever do, I guess it’s good to know. I mean obviously this runner knew.
TARANJIT: Well this runner I guess was going like either running really early really late in the day because it says that mountain lions usually stay undercover like don’t come out during the day. They tend to come out like dusk or dawn when deer out.
BHAVNEET: That’s true. That is when deer are out. I mean, why come out if you’re not going to get any food? Like what’s the point? Right?
TARANJIT: Yeah, so they like to come out of low light. So maybe this jogger was running early in the morning.
BHAVNEET: Probably. People do that. That tends to be a morning thing.
TARANJIT: So I think they the park services says you know, try to go when it’s more light out, I guess.
BHAVNEET: But then people have to go to work. People have things to do. People run in the morning and in the evening. So I don’t think that would change much.
TARANJIT: Well, it also says they don’t see like humans, which a lot of animals don’t.
BHAVNEET: So how do they see then?
TARANJIT: Their eyes are adapted for lower lights. So…
BHAVNEET: That’s why they come out dusk and dawn. So if you you can blind them. If you go out in the day, they’re like, ahh I can’t see.
TARANJIT: I liked this point that they made. They said that they rely on the shape and movement of their prey. So act as human as possible.
BHAVNEET: Why they don’t like humans?
TARANJIT: Well, they’re praying or deer for the most part. So they’re saying act more like a human. So…
BHAVNEET: So what do you do just break out into dance? Just start dancing. Do some disco. Bhangra, you know just start. Then they would be like what the heck is this? Like, okay, I’m going over there.
TARANJIT: This is not my food.
BHAVNEET: No need to become big and make weird noises just start dancing. And then you’ll be like that is not a deer. All right that must be some really weird tree thing. Next.
TARANJIT: And the last thing they said is to wear brightly contrasting colors like black and white, or red and white. Because lot of those lions can’t see color. But the contrast helps them distinguish I guess. I think people stand out that they’re not deer.
BHAVNEET: So by seeing different colors, they’re like that’s not my food.
TARANJIT: You have to be like brightly contrasting colors they said.
BHAVNEET: Because deer are not.
TARANJIT: I guess.
BHAVNEET: I mean they are not.
TARANJIT: Be as human as possible. Don’t be like an animal.
BHAVNEET: So just bring music with you and just turn it up. So you don’t have to make really loud noises just turn up your music have some speakers with you at all times. I don’t know why, but you know, and just turn it up on full blast. And it would be like huuh, what is that. Like get some really loud, heavy metal.
TARANJIT: Yea, but what if you don’t listen to heavy metal? You don’t have it.
BHAVNEET: That is your lion deterrent.
TARANJIT: Repellant?
BHAVNEET: I couldn’t think of the word. Yeah, repellent. There you go. Lion repellent. That’s your lion…
TARANJIT: Would that actually work?
BHAVNEET: Well, it said make loud noises. Fine. carry out a big cardboard cutout of the foldable one. So like when one comes you whip it out and be like, rawr I’m so big. Turn up your heavy metal and then they’ll be like, what is this go away.
TARANJIT: Like that.
BHAVNEET: Then start dancing. And it would be like, what is going on? Like, that’s not my food back away? I think that’s a legit thing. I mean, it has to be tested out. I don’t really know if it would work.
TARANJIT: Would you test it out?
BHAVNEET: No. Again, I wouldn’t ever be in that situation. So what about you?
TARANJIT: What about me?
BHAVNEET: What about you? Tell me about you. Hi. Nice to meet you. Tell me about you. That’s how you handshake? You sandwiched my hand. I don’t wanna. You didn’t tell me about you.
TARANJIT: You already know about me.
BHAVNEET: But the gift has not been unwrapped.
TARANJIT: You just unwrapped the gift.
BHAVNEET: That was a gift?
TARANJIT: There is another one.
BHAVNEET: Okay, another gift. I don’t like surprises. No, just kidding. Give it to me.
TARANJIT: It’s another animal story.
BHAVNEET: Yet again, I don’t like surprises. Because when you try and surprise me, I react five seconds later and jump. Scared.
TARANJIT: That’s when I try to scare you.
BHAVNEET: Yes.
TARANJIT: Not surprise you.
BHAVNEET: Well, you’re trying to surprise me by scaring me. Whenever you jump out. I like stop. I look at you. My brain doesn’t comprehend and then is it gets up there and it like, and then it comprehens and I’m like, ahh. And you’re like, why did you just ahh? You know, like five minutes ago when you jumped out? Yeah, that’s why.
TARANJIT: Except it is not just a little ahh. It’s a big one.
BHAVNEET: Actually like normally I just jumped back that one time I actually screamed. I don’t really scream, but I don’t know why that time I did. That was weird.
TARANJIT: No, that was funny.
BHAVNEET: For you. My heart went, huh? That’s it. And then it stopped. Oh, no, it kept going. It’s still going. Okay.
TARANJIT: Okay.
BHAVNEET: What’s the other gift?
TARANJIT: This is about a three-year-old and a bear.
BHAVNEET: I don’t like where this is going.
TARANJIT: And a bear.
BHAVNEET: This is not a good gift. I don’t like surprises. I take it back.
TARANJIT: Well, the article was called a three-year-old boy missing in the woods for two days says a friendly bear kept him safe.
BHAVNEET: What? There is kind of like a Mowgli situation.
TARANJIT: Yeah, except there was a bear. Didn’t he? Like a gorilla found him.
BHAVNEET: Oh yea.
TARANJIT: Oh no. That’s Tarzan. Wait.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. That’s Tarzan. The Jungle Book was the bear. Yeah, Mowgli and…
TARANJIT: Baloo.
BHAVNEET: Baloo. Blue. Baloo.
TARANJIT: Wasn’t it like Baloo like, you know the word for bear.
BHAVNEET: Oh yeah. It is. So you know I never really connected that until right now. But that makes sense because baloo means a bear.
TARANJIT: Yeah. And I’m here…
BHAVNEET: Oh my god. That’s why they say that. Wow. Mind blown. Like that makes so much sense. But everyone else was like Baloo Baloo. Oh Baloo. Oh my gosh, they just did the word for bear.
TARANJIT: It’s just the American way of saying it. So…
BHAVNEET: Yeah but oh how did I not realize that?
TARANJIT: Seriously?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. No I never really thought about it because we never really watched a movie.
TARANJIT: And like the saap was like the saap.
BHAVNEET: The saap was the…
TARANJIT: The snake was named something like…
BHAVNEET: What was the tiger thing? It was something.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Now the Tigers, but like the Panther. The black one.
TARANJIT: Yeah they had like something along those lines.
BHAVNEET: Because originally it was like a Indian type.
TARANJIT: Clap clap.
BHAVNEET: No it’s more like all the wires fell into my lap. Clap clap up on my lap.
TARANJIT: So apparently this three-year-old boy spent two nights in the freezing cold. It was during that polar vortex time, I think.
BHAVNEET: Ooooo. Why was he even out there?
TARANJIT: And then when the police found him, he told them a friendly bear was with him the entire time.
BHAVNEET: Well dang.
TARANJIT: So my question is what made this child not be afraid of this bear? But like go with the bear.
BHAVNEET: I mean, when you’re little you don’t you’re not really afraid of anything. You’re just like, Oh, what is that? And probably the Baloo. Baloo. Was like, aww, it’s a little baby.
TARANJIT: So it’s like, it’s not gonna hurt me. So must have been a mama bear. I want to know, because when you’re younger, you have like toy bears. And you watch cartoons that are friendly bears. Did that make him think? Oh, bears are nice.
BHAVNEET: Did he think it was bear in the Big Blue House or something? That’s the only bear show I can think of.
TARANJIT: Really? Little Bear. Berenstain Bears.
BHAVNEET: I didn’t like Little Bear.
TARANJIT: The bear in Franklin.
BHAVNEET: In Franklin there was a bear?
TARANJIT: Yeah. His friend.
BHAVNEET: I don’t really remember that show.
TARANJIT: And Berenstain bears.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, that one. But I didn’t like Little Bear. Little Bear was like meh.
TARANJIT: Yeah, it was.
BHAVNEET: Bear in the Big Blue house was what I remembered because that’s was what our brother watched. That’s all I remember. Okay.
TARANJIT: I don’t remember what my question was for…
BHAVNEET: You pointed at me like it was my cue. But then again, you do you fail to remember that. This is a surprise for me. So I don’t know what’s happening.
TARANJIT: Well, this happened in North Carolina.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god. Now we’re on the east coast. We’re getting too close to home.
TARANJIT: And it was a black bear.
BHAVNEET: We’re getting too close to home.
TARANJIT: And it was a black bear. They have a lot of black bears apparently down there.
BHAVNEET: Well I mean, weren’t there bear sightings up here too? We have brown bears don’t we? Not black bears? Aren’t they brown bears? I don’t think there are black bears up this way.
TARANJIT: What was the bear that was in someone’s yard up here?
BHAVNEET: Oh. Maybe it was a black bear.
TARANJIT: It was a black bear.
BHAVNEET: So this side is black bears.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I guess. Well, this kid was playing in his grandmother’s backyard.
BHAVNEET: Another kid? Oh my God.
TARANJIT: No. No. I’m talking about this three-year-old
BHAVNEET: I said another kid. Oh, the same one.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I’m talking about how this happened.
BHAVNEET: Oh, gosh. Okay.
TARANJIT: You were wondering weren’t you?
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Well, I’m getting to the point if you listen.
BHAVNEET: Then get to the point.
TARANJIT: If you listen.
BHAVNEET: Let me cup the ear that has a headphone on it so I can hear you better.
TARANJIT: And put it against a microphone?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Because you know, when you talk it goes into this ear. It’s like a telephone. I don’t know.
TARANJIT: Okay, well, Storytime.
BHAVNEET: Okay, let me get my…
TARANJIT: There’s one…
BHAVNEET: Blankey.
TARANJIT: Oh.
BHAVNEET: It’s too far away. Continue.
TARANJIT: There’s one three-year-old boy. He’s playing with two other kids in his grandmother’s backyard.
BHAVNEET: And yet he is the one? Oh my gosh.
TARANJIT: In his grandmother’s backyard. But those two other kids ended up going inside. He didn’t.
BHAVNEET: So he just stayed outside by himself?
TARANJIT: So my question I have a bunch of questions for this because there are not a lot of answers.
BHAVNEET: Where was the grandmother in all this.
TARANJIT: That’s my question. First of all, she saw two kids come in. Wouldn’t you wonder where the third kid is?
BHAVNEET: Where her grandkid is.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Like, Oh, the the friends are here. Where’s my grandkid? And why was she not outside with them? They are three years old. Who just lets their kids just run…
TARANJIT: And if it was cold, like…
BHAVNEET: Why were they outside in the first place.
TARANJIT: Or was it nice and it turned cold? Because you know how the polar vortex was like…
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Maybe.
TARANJIT: And also was there no fence around the yard that it was just open?
BHAVNEET: So the kid just ran out. It there was no fence, again why was the grandmother not outside with the baby? He’s three years old.
TARANJIT: Exactly.
BHAVNEET: Who lets a three-year-old just run rampant except for in Rugrats, but that’s beside the point. Obviously, the grandmother watched too much Rugrats. And she’s like, yeah, that’s fine.
TARANJIT: Does no one watch their kids anymore?
BHAVNEET: Apparently not. Which is really scary. But what are you gonna do? I have many questions for this lady.
TARANJIT: Yeah. And this article did a very bad job of giving you answers.
BHAVNEET: Maybe they didn’t haven’t any. You know, journalists…like a lot of journal articles, like they give you the bare minimum. And they just keep talking about that same point, and they don’t really give you much more.
TARANJIT: The Colorado lion story gave so much information.
BHAVNEET: Well, maybe they interviewed him and they actually got stuff out of him.
TARANJIT: Yeah. This is a three-year-old. How much information are you…
BHAVNEET: The friendly bear was there. That’s all he’s gonna tell you. Like what is he gonna remember? Maybe he made it up. I don’t know. He’s three years old. Like…
TARANJIT: But he was out in the freezing cold for two nights.
BHAVNEET: And knowing a lot of Americans they do not put warm clothes on. Like, that’s what I’ve noticed. {eople don’t wear enough layers and they walk out in T-shirts and shorts and they don’t even bundle up their kids and they wonder why they always get sick. Yeah, and I’m over here in like five jackets and like…
TARANJIT: Like a marshmallow.
BHAVNEET: And two hats. And three gloves. Three pairs. Not three gloves. One hand gets 2 and one gets one. Yeah, and I am over here like I can’t walk. Poof poof poof. Marshmallow snowman over here.
TARANJIT: Now if you someone were to run into you wouldn’t feel anything because your marshmallowed.
BHAVNEET: Come on lions. You can’t bite me. Oh, I gotta get through all this flub that’s not real.
TARANJIT: How would you be running in that first of all, I doubt you would be all bundled up to run.
BHAVNEET: You’re not supposed to run when you see a lion. So I look bigger than I am. And now all I have to do is start dancing. And making loud noises. Oogaa booga booga. Hoo. Hoo. Hoo. Oogaa booga booga. Hoo. Hoo. Hoo.
TARANJIT: You remind me of the Wild Thornberrys.
BHAVNEET: Wait. What is the Wild Thornberrys?
TARANJIT: Making noises.
BHAVNEET: I just keep thinking of Courage the Cowardly Dog when I say that. Yeah. So…
TARANJIT: That was it about the bears.
BHAVNEET: Oh.
TARANJIT: Lion attacked. Bear saved.
BHAVNEET: Go bears. Except for when you attack. Oh, there’s an Open Season bear from that movie. That’s a bear. But that’s not a show. So never mind. That was my…Weird noises. Okay.
TARANJIT: So that wasn’t the only wilderness nature adventure stories. I found a lot. I don’t know if there’s enough time to talk about all of them. But this was an interesting one.
BHAVNEET: There has to be a lot. I mean, people go out every day and…
TARANJIT: No. Within the span of a week. When I first saw the Colorado lion…
BHAVNEET: In America?
TARANJIT: Then I saw the bear story. And then I saw a quicksand story.
BHAVNEET: I mean, America is pretty big. A lot of people are live here. So things gotta happen, right? Otherwise, we just be void of nothingness.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So what happened?
TARANJIT: This one’s about quicksand.
BHAVNEET: Wait. We have quicksand?
TARANJIT: So you know, like…
BHAVNEET: How does quicksand happen?
TARANJIT: I’ll get to that point.
BHAVNEET: But I want to know now.
TARANJIT: Well hold your horse.
BHAVNEET: I don’t have a horse.
TARANJIT: The surprise will come in a second.
BHAVNEET: You have a bear right there. It says class of 2017.
TARANJIT: There’s a horse.
BHAVNEET: Oh yea. Mustang. Continue. I’m just holding its snout. Is that what it is called? The snout?
TARANJIT: So this article was talking how just like in a scene of a movie where you would see two people just walking and then all of a sudden fall into quicksand. Something similar happened. There’s two people who were hiking in the wilderness and they had no cell service. So there’s no way of contacting…
BHAVNEET: Of course. So they actually had their phones, but they couldn’t do anything with it. Exactly. So at least they tried to be prepared.
TARANJIT: And then suddenly they came upon quicksand and the girl fell in.
BHAVNEET: But isn’t like the more you move them more quicker you go in? I think.
TARANJIT: That’s a movie thing. I think.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Gosh, movies you’ve wronged me.
TARANJIT: Because this girl fell in and then the guy tried to pull her out. And then he went in.
BHAVNEET: Oh, great. This is going really well.
TARANJIT: And this is a Utah Zion National Park.
BHAVNEET: What?
TARANJIT: Still want to go there?
BHAVNEET: Yes. I still want to go there. We just avoid the quicksand. We need a quicksand detector. Again, how does quicksand happen?
TARANJIT: So how quicksand happens…
BHAVNEET: Yes, I asked that.
TARANJIT: When water from the air…
BHAVNEET: So rain?
TARANJIT: That’s not right. The water gets trapped.
BHAVNEET: In the air? Wait. So there’s floating water?
TARANJIT: Wow. I can’t speak. This is not what I’m trying to say. My mind is not…
BHAVNEET: When water is floating.
TARANJIT: When water or air gets trapped in the sand.
BHAVNEET: Okay. Water gets trapped in the air.
TARANJIT: And it’s exposed to like stress or a shudden. Shudden.
BHAVNEET: A shudden?
TARANJIT: Sudden shock.
BHAVNEET: When it is exposed to a shut in. Their shut in. Yes. It’s stuck. And then when it gets out of the sand shutting it in. It makes sense. Okay.
TARANJIT: So that basically makes the sand become unstable. So like when the weight of like a person steps onto this quicksand now, they sink in.
BHAVNEET: So how deep is quicksand? Like how much rain water needs to be trapped in? And how likely is that to happen?
TARANJIT: But, it says that you won’t completely end up going under quicksand usually. Maybe like up to like your waist, or your you know…
BHAVNEET: So then how do you get out? And can this happen anywhere that there’s sand, I guess?
TARANJIT: I don’t know. I feel like they’re saying that this doesn’t usually occur at Zion National Park, but because they’ve had unusually wet winter, there was quicksand areas.
BHAVNEET: But like does quicksand just happened randomly anywhere that there is sand, I guess?
TARANJIT: That’s my question. I want to know, like…
BHAVNEET: How likely is quicksand to happen?
TARANJIT: And if this quicksand forms, does it go away, or is it permanently quicksand?
BHAVNEET: How do you get out, like, how did they get out? And if it’s not that deep, like so you just sit there and like now what? My phone doesn’t work. Now what. It’s in the quicksand. You want to go down and get it? You might not come back out.
TARANJIT: So like when it becomes warmer, will it…
BHAVNEET: Wait. But like if you go in quicksand, are you actually like stuck or can you get back out? Like you know in the movies they are like you start moving you go deeper in and it sucks you in more and then you can’t move.
TARANJIT: I think you’re stuck in it but you don’t like sink completely into it.
BHAVNEET: So then how do you get out?
TARANJIT: There’s a study done that said that it’s not possible for a person to sink completely because your buoyant. You’re too buoyant. But it doesn’t mean it’s dangerous.
BHAVNEET: Because you’re filled with water?
TARANJIT: I guess.
BHAVNEET: You’ve trapped water in you too and air. Just keep breathing and holding your breath and then you’ll float back up. Lots of air.
TARANJIT: Sure.
BHAVNEET: I want to know how you get out. Like survival skills.
TARANJIT: I don’t know. Somehow somehow this this article doesn’t say. They said this girl fell and then the guy tried to pull her and then he fell in. But then later it says the girl was out all of a sudden and she was able to go get someone and help.
BHAVNEET: Wait. Was he like push her out and be like I’ll go in for her.
TARANJIT: I have no idea. They didn’t even explain.
BHAVNEET: If you can’t even move. Wow. That was very uninformative. That didn’t help me at all. Like, I’m glad they got out, but you didn’t help me in any way. Like, what if I encounter quicksand? What am I gonna do?
TARANJIT: Now I have so much more questions about quicksand.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Now I want to know. Like, I’m afraid to go to Zion National Park, because what if we’re just walking and then boop you’re gone.
TARANJIT: We will go in the summer because it seems like they had a wet winter that caused this.
BHAVNEET: Why are you going in the winter? Crazy people.
TARANJIT: People go.
BHAVNEET: It’s cold.
TARANJIT: Well, they’re cold over there is probably not as cold.
BHAVNEET: That is true. California is like in the 50s. And we’re over here in the minus 20s.
TARANJIT: How cold does Utah get?
BHAVNEET: Well, their near… Well I guess it depends. Because like part of its like, Grand Canyon’s in part of it right? And another part is like the…
TARANJIT: Grand Canyon is in Utah? I thought Nevada and…
BHAVNEET: Nevada. Well, don’t the.y have like.. They’re above Colorado. Aren’t they? Where’s Utah?
TARANJIT: No, it’s near Nevada, isn’t it?
BHAVNEET: It’s one of the four corners states like where they all meet.
TARANJIT: Yeah, Colorado’s above it.
BHAVNEET: Colorado’s above Utah?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Well isn’t like the southern part of it more deserty and the northern parts more near the Rocky Mountains. So I guess it depends where…
TARANJIT: Well where is Zion National Park? Probably up north.
BHAVNEET: Why would it be up north when it is like deserty. Zion National Park is a lot of desert. Remember the hoodoos? Wait. That was Bryce Canyon. That was Zion. I don’t remember. There was hoodoos somewhere.
TARANJIT: We’re so smart.
BHAVNEET: We literally just did an episode about this.
TARANJIT: I told you I wasn’t gonna remember.
BHAVNEET: I wasn’t either. I just remembered I wanted to go see it. But apparently there’s quicksand. So… I still want to go see it. We’re just gonna go during summer where there’s not a lot of water to be trapped in the air.
TARANJIT: Not like we would go in the winter anyway. So…
TARANJIT: Yeah, no, thanks. Your horse was sniffing your lotion and it smells good.
TARANJIT: What?
BHAVNEET: Well, I was holding his snout and I don’t remember… is that what it’s called on the horse? The snout? And you were talking because you said hold your horse. So I held it. And then you have a lotion bottle sitting there. So it started sniffing it while you’re talking but you didn’t notice and then it started eating it.
TARANJIT: Okay.
BHAVNEET: But you didn’t notice so I’m kind of recapping and now he just did it again.
TARANJIT: I’m sitting here talking to you, and you’re over there playing with the horse.
BHAVNEET: You gave it to me.
TARANJIT: I did not give it to you.
BHAVNEET: You told me to hold it.
TARANJIT: No. You said hold a horse. I said, hold a horse. And you’re like, well, there’s no horse. And I’m like, oh, there’s a horse. And then you held it.
BHAVNEET: Well. You said to hold it. I was listening. I was listening.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Your ear wasn’t close to the microphone, though.
BHAVNEET: What did you say?
TARANJIT: Oh, I said, which of those three situations would you want to be in? That’s a question.
BHAVNEET: I was trying to remember the situation, and then I remembered near death experience, near death experience or near death experience. And I thought I’m staying at home.
TARANJIT: But if you were stuck in one situation…
BHAVNEET: No mountain lines because no. I feel like the quicksand because no one’s trying to eat you except for the ground. But…
TARANJIT: Yeah, but then you’re stuck in the middle of the wilderness.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: In the cold. No cell reception.
BHAVNEET: Is it cold?
TARANJIT: They said it was cold.
BHAVNEET: Oh well you didn’t give me that fact. I don’t like cold. So… well I mean if this bear was nice…Okay. But I’m not a baby so the bear is not going to be like all little baby mama bear instinct.
TARANJIT: But would the bear… bears are bigger. How big are bears?
BHAVNEET: Depends what kind of bear I guess.
TARANJIT: A black bear.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. Aren’t they like a little bit taller than a human or they can be as they stand on their hind legs.
TARANJIT: How tall do you think a black bear is?
BHAVNEET: Maybe like… Well, I mean, an adult? Male or female? Like I feel like males might be a little bit bigger, right? Maybe like they can get up to seven feet if they’re standing on their you know, hind legs.
TARANJIT: It says…
BHAVNEET: What is it? Google?
TARANJIT: N. G. Fish and wildlife. Com.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Not Google? Well, you went through Google.
TARANJIT: Not N. G. N. J. I meant. Sorry.
BHAVNEET: New Jersey?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Oh, wow.
TARANJIT: Female bears can weigh 175 pounds. Adult male bears can weigh 400 pounds.
BHAVNEET: That does not answer the question.
TARANJIT: And they’re about three feet high when standing on all four feet. And five to seven feet tall.
BHAVNEET: Oh, I was right seven, they can be up to seven.
TARANJIT: And then not all black bears have black fur.
BHAVNEET: So then why are they black bears? Then how can you distinguish whether it’s a black bear? If they are not all black furred.
TARANJIT: So then maybe it wouldn’t keep you safe because you’re five… above five feet. So you’re almost like…
BHAVNEET: Exactly. So that’s what I’m saying. Like this is gonna be like, Oh, that’s not a baby. Oh, let’s box.
TARANJIT: What are you supposed to do when you encounter bear? Play dead? I think that’s what they say.
BHAVNEET: That’s what they show it like movies and shows. But obviously, that was not accurate for the mountain lion situation, or the, or the quicksand situation.
TARANJIT: But bears and lions are different.
BHAVNEET: For the quicksand situation. They weren’t accurate for that either. So I don’t know how much I trust that as a resource reference thing. I don’t know what do you do? I felt you are supposed to like be very still and let the bear do its thing like and then it will go away.
TARANJIT: But this kid was definitely probably not still.
BHAVNEET: But again, it’s like a little baby. Three years old. But it was like, that’s not gonna do anything to me. It had to have been a female bear, right? Because the male bear would have been like rawr. Four hundred pounds, right? Yeah, I don’t know. What would you pick? Well, there’s no animals trying to eat me. So I don’t really know what I would choose.
TARANJIT: I would definitely not encounter the lion.
BHAVNEET: Yea. No. He came out. Very not good.
TARANJIT: Very not good. I probably wouldn’t even be in that situation and probably wouldn’t even be in the quicksand situation.
BHAVNEET: I mean, if you want to go to Zion National Park…
TARANJIT: But I wouldn’t go in winter when it’s wet.
BHAVNEET: That’s true. So I would pick that situation because I would never go in the winter. And therefore, I have a like zero percent chance of encountering quicksand. So yeah, let’s go to Zion National Park. What’s your choice? Bears or quicksand?
TARANJIT: I don’t know. Probably quicksand, even though…
BHAVNEET: And yet you were like, why would you pick quicksand?
TARANJIT: But I don’t know if I want to be stuck in quicksand. That’d be gross.
BHAVNEET: Well, obviously, you don’t want to be in any of these three situations. Like who is like yes, I want to get into mountain lion attack today. I got my speakers. I got my cardboard cutout. I got my mushroom jackets.
TARANJIT: Well, those adventure thrill seeking adrenaline rushy type, might.
BHAVNEET: Rushy?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: And I got my dancing skills ready. I’m ready to encounter a mountain lion.
TARANJIT: I’m pretty sure there’s people out there who would want to go in situations like that, or try to be in like, you know, try to get out of those situations.
BHAVNEET: Well remind me never to go on a trip with you if you are like that.
TARANJIT: I’m not.
BHAVNEET: No, not you. In general, whoever is. Not going anywhere with you.
TARANJIT: But they’re not going to outright say, Oh, I’m going to do this. They’re probably just like, let’s go here and then be like, oh.
BHAVNEET: No. But if they said let’s go to the mountains, I would be like first off hiking, no. Second off, you said mountains that means wilderness, which means animals which means I will be attacked which means I will die. No. So. Yeah.
TARANJIT: Which means?
BHAVNEET: Which means next.
TARANJIT: Next option? Take someone else.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I’ll enjoy it from my bed.
TARANJIT: The mountain from your bedroom?
BHAVNEET: Yes. You can send me back the pictures.
TARANJIT: I was going to say how are you going to enjoy mountains from here but you meant 2D versions.
BHAVNEET: I mean you can make a video or you can do like a virtual reality thing or 3D. Synchronized yawing.
TARANJIT: So if you are doing virtual reality which of those three would you want to VR?
BHAVNEET: Well, see definitely not the mountain lion. I feel like I would VR both of the other two to see which one I would actually be okay being in. But apparently virtual reality is a lot of getting used to because it’s like all wonky when you put it on. You’re like whoa, makes you dizzy.
TARANJIT: You know because you’re like seeing another world when you put it on?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, Nope, that’s not cool. I don’t know how I feel about virtual reality. It’s like weird, why don’t just see it in real like…
TARANJIT: You would rather go and get in real quicksand as opposed to VR version?
BHAVNEET: No. We can do VR for that. That kind of thing.
TARANJIT: Exactly. So…
BHAVNEET: Make sense. Yeah. Quicksand, bears, mattresses falling on you all things you should do in VR.
TARANJIT: I one last thing that you would definitely do.
BHAVNEET: The way you said that makes me think that I would totally do it.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: Would you skydive without a parachute?
BHAVNEET: Without a parachute? What is wrong with you? Do I want to die?
TARANJIT: Would you skydive with one?
BHAVNEET: If you were attached to me.
TARANJIT: If I were attached to you? As a parachute?
BHAVNEET: No. You know how you can do two people? Actually I mean like, I feel like I need a trained professional attached to me to like be like pull the chute, because I’d be so scared that I’d forget the pull the chute. And then I would be ker-splat.
TARANJIT: If you’re doing that. Would you want a male professional or female professional or would you care?
BHAVNEET: I didn’t think about that. But now that you’re pointing it out. Like does it matter? I feel like as long as a person is really trained like they know what they’re doing like they are 100% never killed anyone.
TARANJIT: So you would go with whoever is the higher life expectancy?
BHAVNEET: Yes, I would. I don’t want to die. What about you?
TARANJIT: I don’t know if I’d be comfortable with a guy so close to me.
BHAVNEET: But if he saved me and she had a chance of not saving me. I’d go with the guy.
TARANJIT: Yeah, that’s true.
BHAVNEET: Like I want to live.
TARANJIT: But I wouldn’t even do it in the first place.
BHAVNEET: Exactly. I don’t even want to go bungee jumping. And there you’re attached to things that are attached to the ground. Nope.
TARANJIT: Yeah, but you’re like springing so…
BHAVNEET: Yeah, that’s scary. I mean, they hit indoor bungee jumping. So you bungee jump and hit the ceiling, like I don’t know.
TARANJIT: They have indoor skydiving. Would you do that?
BHAVNEET: Oh, yeah. We drove by it once. So it’s not really skydiving is like indoor air diving. Like how is that skydiving? You’re not in the sky. You’re indoors.
TARANJIT: Yeah, they like turn on this huge fan I think. And you like float. But what is that flan…flan.
BHAVNEET: What if the flan. What is flan?
TARANJIT: It’s like a bready…
BHAVNEET: It’s like a britty. Bready
TARANJIT: It’s like a sweet thing, I think. Made out of…
BHAVNEET: Isn’t it like an upside down like cup shape thing?
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: No? I thought that was what flan was.
TARANJIT: No. Now I want to know.
BHAVNEET: I thought it was like if you took like a bread thing that shaped like a solo cup and you flipped it upside down. You have flan. I don’t know what’s in it, but isn’t that what it is? I need to see a picture.
TARANJIT: Oh, yeah. You’re right. It’s a big disk.
BHAVNEET: Disk?
TARANJIT: It is a disk.
BHAVNEET: I mean the bottom.
TARANJIT: It’s a baked dish consisting of an open top pastry cake with savory or sweet filling. Kind of like a cake.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, so it can look like upside down cup kind of thing. Flan.
TARANJIT: That’s cream brulee.
BHAVNEET: Cream? Crème brulee?
TARANJIT: Oh my god.
BHAVNEET: There is a little accent above that. You said brulee.
TARANJIT: I know.
BHAVNEET: But you said cream. So American over here. Did you not watch High School Musical? Crème. I want to buy or make crème brulee. Remember that? High School Musical little song mom wants to be a chef. Yeah. What an old movie. Zac Efron anyone? What do you like first started. Yup. I was very hesitant about watching that movie at first, but then we watched all three of them.
TARANJIT: Aren’t they doing a remake?
BHAVNEET: They are?
TARANJIT: I don’t know. I’m asking you.
BHAVNEET: Okay, you’re asking the person that knows nothing about movies.
TARANJIT: I thought I heard something about High School Musical. I don’t remember. I’m probably wrong. Let’s take that out.
BHAVNEET: Why would they do a remake? Like with the same people?
TARANJIT: I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: Lie they’re older now in the future kind of thing. I don’t know. Why were we talking about flan?
TARANJIT: Because of skydiving. I think that was it. Oh. Bungee Jumping.
BHAVNEET: No. Because the fan would turn on.
TARANJIT: Oh yeah. I never finished that.
BHAVNEET: Why were we talking about flan? Does flan taste good?
TARANJIT: I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: Have we had flan?
TARANJIT: I don’t think so.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know if I want to try it. Is it good? Is it actually sweet? Because I like sweet.
TARANJIT: It looks like it’s like this syrupy type you know thing over
BHAVNEET: Oh, then I don’t know how I feel about that.
TARANJIT: I have no idea what it is. It’s filled with like, sweet stuff.
BHAVNEET: Does flan taste good? Somebody tell me. I don’t like eating things that don’t taste good.
TARANJIT: It looks like a cake type thing, doesn’t it?
BHAVNEET: I don’t like cake. I mean I like the actual cake part of cake. I hate the icing. So if the flan were to turn off while you were indoor skydiving that’s what you’re talking about.
TARANJIT: Oh right, that was my point. If the fan were to turn off and you fell.
BHAVNEET: That’s scary.
TARANJIT: Does that ever happen?
BHAVNEET: I hope not.
TARANJIT: Or do they have generators backed up to the fans?
BHAVNEET: Oh, like if the power went out? Oh my god. That’s so scary. They better.
TARANJIT: Or what if hey have multiple, like indoor skydiving experiences and there’s just too much power and just boomp. Shut off.
BHAVNEET: I don’t think they would do that. Oh my God, that’s scary. Why would you make me think about that? Like, I’m like maybe we should go…nope. Uh. Huh.
TARANJIT: I was watching. I was listening to somebody and they were talking about how they went skydiving indoors and like how you have to like control your body to make sure you don’t like just fly. But there’s apparently a guy in there or a lady whoever like works there professional that’s there in the thing with you.
BHAVNEET: They’re flying with you.
TARANJIT: But they’re like so experienced the point they can just stand on the side and be there for you
BHAVNEET: What do mean stand on the side? While they’re floating?
TARANJIT: They’re able to like keep themselves down and over while you float. Have you not seen videos?
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: There’s like a guy standing in there and another person who’s actually been…
BHAVNEET: But they are there so they can just jump in and catch you if they need to?
TARANJIT: I guess.
BHAVNEET: Fly.
TARANJIT: What is the power was so high that you went to the top?
BHAVNEET: Exactly I mean those buildings are pretty tall. I guess for that reason.
TARANJIT: Do they like change the speed based on your height and weight?
BHAVNEET: They better. Because if a little skinny person want there, they would go…
TARANJIT: But don’t they… I have so many questions. Don’t they give you a suit or something to put on?
BHAVNEET: I think so. I mean, wouldn’t they?
TARANJIT: Do you have to sign a waiver?
BHAVNEET: Obviously. Because I feel like there would be like liabilities.
TARANJIT: Would you do it?
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. Like I now I’m like oh, maybe I’ll do it but if I were actually get there be like nope. Uh huh. Get me away from here. But like once I actually did it, I would be like, Oh, I’m glad I did that kind of like we…
TARANJIT: Like a roller coaster?
BHAVNEET: Yea. I was gonna say. Like we went on that one scary one. Which was not scary at all. I guess comparatively to other category level 5 ones. But we went on it and we’re like oh my god so scary then we got on we’re like oh let’s do it again Except not really roller…
TARANJIT: Which one?
BHAVNEET: The claw.
TARANJIT: That’s not a roller coaster.
BHAVNEET: No. Because first we went on was it the Comet. The first time we went on.
TARANJIT: That was a wooden one.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. But like oh my god I never been on the four but then we’re like oh I like it.
TARANJIT: We went on Laugh Track which is a four.
BHAVNEET: I know but it was indoors. That we were like, Huh and then we’re like oh my god I keep doing that again. And the claw, too. We were like Oh this is so scary even when I’m on it was…
TARANJIT: Claw was a three.
BHAVNEET: I know but like whenever we were on it I was like oh my God, my glasses. And I’m like gripping the ra— like the constraint thing so hard. I was always afraid that it wasn’t just like going to fly open because it was kind of like in the roller coasters that goes over your shoulders and just like clicks in and no like lap constrained belt thing so that every time like you went in the air and you’re about to go down, like click up a little and I’m like aahhh. What. Every time it did that I’m like what is it opens all the way that I’m dangling. And then like every time I do that like grip really hard.
TARANJIT: Would you be able to hold yourself if?
BHAVNEET: No, they would have to stop that thing like real fast. That’s why I’m like every time we would like about to go down and like click open a little on like grab really hard. What is it opens? Then I’m going to be dangling and then we’ll go down like oh, I’m okay. And then we’ll go back the other way again.
TARANJIT: I hate when we’re at the highest points. When we were on the sides, it wasn’t as bad. But when we got to the highest point…
BHAVNEET: We thought we finally figured out the right spot to sit in, but wherever we sat we always ended up on the highest point. I’m like, what the heck. But that’s what I thought about every time we were on the claw. Then when we got off I’m like oh, that was pretty fun. I just freaked myself out but that was pretty fun.
TARANJIT: Get back in line
BHAVNEET: Yeah, except for while I was on I was giving myself heart attacks like haahhhh. Hahhh. Okay. And then people across from me we’re like Haha.
TARANJIT: You try so hard to keep a smile on your face.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I know. Cuz it’s like it said you’re sitting in a circle if anyone has been on the Claw at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania.
TARANJIT: Isn’t that the only Hershey Park?
BHAVNEET: I think so, but I have to for you non-American like non U.S.-ers. If anyone has been on that you know you stand in kind of like a circle and there’s people that are staring straight at you from across as you’re going up and down so it’s like try and creep… try and creep. Try and creep at them. You try to keep a straight face because they all like Oh this is so fun. I’m like yeah, this is fun. I’m gonna die. And then my face was very expressive. So I’m like trying really hard to be like ha ha ha, this is so fun.
TARANJIT: Sort of a half-smile, half scared…
BHAVNEET: Then I look like a creeper. There you go. You can creep. They are probably just like ha. That’s probably what I look like.
TARANJIT: One eye really squinty and the other one big.
BHAVNEET: This is so fun.
TARANJIT: Can you really see people’s face expressions clearly?
BHAVNEET: I saw the peoples’ across from us, and they were either laughing at me or something else. Because they were laughing and they were looking in my direction because I am right across from them. So I’m like, Oh my god, they’re laughing because I’m freaked out over here. So they’re just like heee.
TARANJIT: Did they go home or did they go and get off and talk about it?
BHAVNEET: Probably like that girl that was sitting across from us. Did you see her face? She looked like a deranged person. That’s what I always think I was like. Oh this is so much fun.
TARANJIT: How many people when you’re in the amusement park, I lost my question…
BHAVNEET: Watch other people? I don’t know.
TARANJIT: Yeah. And then talk about first, like, have you ever thought that strangers might be talking about you?
BHAVNEET: All the time? That’s what like whenever I see someone like look at me and then they like laugh or like if they like look at me, and then they turn and like, say something. I’m like, Are you talking about me? Like what did I do? So yeah, I get super self-conscious.
TARANJIT: So how many people are talking about you right now?
BHAVNEET: You are. And I am.
TARANJIT: Strangers?
BHAVNEET: Anybody listening to this.
TARANJIT: Talking about you?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Please stop. No. I’m kidding. I’m very self-conscious.
TARANJIT: They can’t see your face and they can’t see what you’re doing.
BHAVNEET: Oh. You didn’t see my claw face. I’m sorry. But you saw it. That’s okay. Maybe if I look into the mic into my this thing you can see it.
TARANJIT: Yeah because they’re on the other side of that.
BHAVNEET: What is this? Pop filter. That’s what it is called. Like this thing. It’s a circle. Hello Are you in there? But yes in amusement parks I look at other people. Half of the amusement is other people. Aside from the ride.
TARANJIT: Well, when we usually get off rides, we talk about the ride. I don’t think we talk about the people. Do we?
BHAVNEET: Unless, there’s a weird person or a crazy person that was on there. We talk about them. Like did you see that person who was sitting on the other side the whole time they’re like…or like that one time when we went on the ship.
TARANJIT: The pirate ship?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, the pirate ship and like that’s not really that big of a thing like its fun. But like there was a person on the other side that was so freaked out because they sat in the very back which I really enjoyed that one because it goes the highest. But they were there and they’re like death gripping everything the whole time. That’s the one right where I’m just like weee. Weee. Go up. Oh. My stomach is gone. Weee.
TARANJIT: In the beginning like the first time you ride it, I can sit like the second or third from the back. But then when I get on again, I can only enjoy the ride you know sitting in the back. If I’m sitting anywhere else I’m just like that’s a no fun
BHAVNEET: Yeah, just like wee. Wee. oui oui.
TARANJIT: Oui oui.
BHAVNEET: Oui. Oui. Sorry French people. I just stereotyped you. Oui. Oui. And then if you’re in the back, you’re like, weeeee. Hey look, there’s that train thing. Weee. Okay. Weee. My stomach is gone. Roller coaster.
TARANJIT: Would you go on that ship that went upside down now?
BHAVNEET: There was a ship that went upside down?
TARANJIT: Playland. It went all the way around.
BHAVNEET: There was something we went in. At Playland. I think it was that went upside down.
TARANJIT: Yeah. The ship. It was like…
BHAVNEET: We went in it.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Would you go on it now?
BHAVNEET: My head hit the top because I was too short for the constraint.
TARANJIT: I know I’m talking about now. Would you go on it?
BHAVNEET: Maybe. I mean, we went on that one roller coaster, that went loop de loop and we didn’t realize it went Loop de loop.
TARANJIT: That was at Disneyland.
BHAVNEET: I know.
TARANJIT: We’re hopping from park to park.
BHAVNEET: I know. But we were talking about going upside down. We went and then we were like…we went with our aunt with us. And she’s like, Oh, this one doesn’t go upside down, right? And we’re like, No, I don’t think so. We’re like looking at the track. We were like I don’t see anything that goes…But the part that went upside down was like down. Like the roller coaster went down. And we’re like going, we’re going and we’re like, oh, it goes upside down. We’re like…[Okay, I’m good. Good thing it didn’t stop there. Yeah, but…
TARANJIT: How scary would it be if you were on a roller coaster that stopped?
BHAVNEET: Oh, very scary.
TARANJIT: What point…
BHAVNEET: There was that roller coaster that stopped in the middle at Kings Dominion. When we went there. It was like this cool like, car action movie type thing.
TARANJIT: It was a stunt type thing.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. We’re like, Oh, that looks really cool. The bus is about to leave, like you know in a little bit. We have time to get on one ride. Let’s get on this one. And then we you just see the people stop on like this up up a hill kind of thing. And they’re just like, oh, rides closed. And we’re like, Well, I didn’t want to get on it anyways, Okay, bye. Because as we’re standing in line, we’re like looking at and we’re like, that looks scary. That looks fast. Oh my god. What is that? We’re like, we’re like one of us say it first. I want you to say it first you probably are like you say it first. I don’t want to write this. Okay? We’re just like kind of I like hey, yes, no, yes. No. Oh, they’re closed. We can’t go in it anyways, Okay, bye. I didn’t say it first. They closed it themselves.
TARANJIT: Yeah, we kind of looked at each other. And we’re like, they closed, oh well.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Internally. I was just like, just say you don’t want to ride it. Were you thinking that?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Because I was totally thinking it.
TARANJIT: So if you were to get stuck on a roller coaster, what point would you rather get stuck at?
BHAVNEET: The bottom? Not at the top of a loop. A flat part.
TARANJIT: Would it stopped like this? Wouldn’t gravity eventually make it come down?
BHAVNEET: Because it wouldn’t look and then just fall down would it. They’re connected somehow right?
TARANJIT: No. Is it? It’s not like hooked or anything. It’s just a force that’s making it spin, right?
BHAVNEET: That’s scary.
TARANJIT: Right?
BHAVNEET: It has to be hooked somehow, right? Oh my god.
TARANJIT: You’re hooked to it.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, but if it still fell straight down. You’re underneath. You don’t want to be hooked. You want to get out. Oh my gosh, this is why I don’t go on anything that’s like level five. Like the Big Bear or Superman or Batman or whatever. Or what is that big wooden one?
TARANJIT: Wild cat?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, it’s a wooden roller coaster, but it’s like super long. So like, I’ve never gone on it. I want to go on it once. But it’s like,
I don’t know.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: I just want to do it once to be like I’ve done it.
TARANJIT: Have fun with that.
BHAVNEET: But nobody will go with me.
TARANJIT: Exactly. Not me.
BHAVNEET: I can’t do it by myself. That’s no fun.
TARANJIT: You can go by yourself. It’s not that you can’t. You don’t want to.
BHAVNEET: It’s not fun I said. It’s not fun going by yourself. I don’t know what to say anymore. So amusement parks, they’re fun, but scary.
TARANJIT: Sounds like the end of a comedy or like a comedy stand up. So amusement parks right?
BHAVNEET: Oh yeah. Did you guys hear about those amusement parks? They’re a lot of fun. Ha. Ha. Ha. Slap knee. That wasn’t a joke. I couldn’t think of anything in the moment. But that was my joke. So the end. Thank you guys for coming out. Good night or Good morning. Good day, wherever it is. I don’t know. Sign Language. Good. Morning.
TARANJIT: Good. Morning.
BHAVNEET: I don’t even know if that’s accurate. But I saw that on a video somewhere.
TARANJIT: YouTube.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, but I don’t know if that’s accurate. So what do I usually say at the end? So what kind of adventurer are you? Would you rather be attacked by mountain lion? Maybe get attacked by a Baloo? Or get eaten by quicksand? Let us know. Yeah. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. And Pinterest. Oh my god Pinterest. For extra content. We will see you next time. Whoo! That was my joke.
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