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I Rescued RIVER MONSTERS Left To Die…Added:
Ooh, what's his name? This is Barry. The boat is here.
Come on with me now. Ooh ah.
>> [music] >> COME ON, GUYS. COME ON, GUYS. YEAH.
YEAH. [screaming] DADDY SAYS GO, WE'RE GOING TO GO. PUSH.
PUSH.
>> [music] >> That Dude, we rescue a monster guarding it, I'm going to feel so good cuz they're just left there to die. No one's coming out here to do anything.
>> [music] >> Boys and girls, welcome back to another video.
>> [music] >> Really quick, everyone obviously knows this sticker because it reflects accurate and perfectionist.
Oh.
I'm obviously just playing.
>> [laughter] >> I don't think they knew I was messing on purpose.
>> Yeah, [music] right?
Right?
This is where I'm taking it serious.
Hear that? You hear that? Oh, yeah.
Yeah. If you look really closely, there is names written all over this wall and that's because we're making this thing the entire wall of names every once in a while. Normally when we're on live and a special occasion today. So, if you guys order on May 8th on zestysnacks.com, we're writing your name on the wall. We want to do that and fill up this entire wall with names. So, when we do a meet and greet, you guys can like come find your name on the wall. Slowly just going to get bigger, bigger, bigger and bigger until it fits this entire square. This is about 400 names right here off of the live the other night. So, if you want to get your name on the wall, that's the way to do it. We thought it'd be cool because we can come in here and actually read people's names and then when we do a meet and greet, you can come in here and see them. So, I just wanted to start off with that. It's only today, May 8th, if you're watching the video, if you placed an order then. We've got an extra 100,000 bags of candy in the warehouse.
We've got a lot more in here and the tank I really I actually can't really show you guys the tank that much, but some stuff went down just a little bit ago. You're going to have to see that in the next video. Regardless, we were just in Florida with Paul. We built the boat.
That went great. We're back in Texas now. And before we got back to Texas, we stopped by Zach's. All right, well, we're on the way to the airport after we dropped the boat back off at the house.
And uh there's Paul, and there's Zach.
What up? Hey.
It's a little hard to explain what's going on, and it could come off as something a little suspicious. What's his name? This is Barry.
For Barry Blue's Zesty Snack.
Zach, come That's mango.
>> This is my favorite flavor. That's the other fish. There we go. We've got to go to the airport, and uh yeah, they're measuring and weighing a bunch of fish right now. But, look at the size of some of these. The biggest redtail you've ever seen in your entire life. What do you Biggest redtail you've ever seen in your entire life is in that pond. And in here is another thing of, I don't know, 10 or 15 of the biggest freshwater exotic fish I've ever seen. I don't know what he's doing or what he's feeding them. Steroids and weenies.
Man, there's So, there's a big pond right here, and then Zach pumps water [music] from there into here, and then it's it's just constant fresh water flowing throughout this. It's it's absurd. But, we don't have any more time here. We've got to go get on a flight and get back home. And I think Paul's got a flight to us in a few days, so God knows what we're going to be doing. But, we can't miss our flight. I know. I know what everyone's thinking right now. I Sorry, I should have to stop the video.
What flight?
I >> [laughter] >> I haven't really taken this to the internet that much other than my Instagram story and my public Snapchat story. Yeah, I got I guess I have taken it to the internet. It was not It was not a Spirit Airlines flight that we got on.
>> [cough] [snorts] >> I'm going to try not to get emotional.
Um But, uh I'm getting emotional.
I can't do this.
>> [music] >> This is harder than I thought. Spirit Airlines was everything to me.
I uh had the credit card.
I think I had a million miles.
I think [snorts] I had enough points to travel the entire globe. Um But, they uh They wouldn't They grabbed me. Um I did everything I could. I was their most loyal customer. I'm sorry. I promised myself I wasn't going to get like this.
I'm just having a hard time. Um this is probably really awkward if you're a new subscriber. [music] Uh Spirit Airlines is my pride and joy.
Spirit Airlines is that's the only airline we fly. Praise more yellow in the sky. Reached out to corporate many times trying to become a A-series investor.
>> [music] >> But um now that I think about it, they really should have taken that call.
They're They're gone.
But I promise you guys one day one day I'm going to bring them back. Mark my [music] words. Sorry, that's enough of that rant. Um I'll uh I'll put you guys back into the video now.
Um I just I had to say that. Now that we're back here, I don't know if you guys remember the island video we just did, but we went out stayed on an island, but the island is only an island during specific periods of time when the river gets high. Well, when it drops for the summer, which is what it's doing now, all of that water disappears from the back side of the island, and it just becomes pools, and they completely dry up, and if there's any fish in there, they die. Our goal is to drive all the way to the Trinity, maybe fish, maybe fish for a little bit, and see if we can find a fish in one of those pools, rescue it, and put it back in the main river. This is rescuing a river monster, which we have never done, and it is absolutely possible. The only problem is we have to go back to the rapids on another like 8-mile journey all the way to the island. And we have no bait. And we have no bait.
Here we go.
>> [music] >> What is that?
It's right there.
I didn't put that there.
Why is it with Jack Link's the I don't know. They must have misplaced the Jack Link's. Guys, I don't know how we're not in QuickTrip yet. If you could go spam QuickTrip's DMs like [music] uh nicely.
Well, last time we did that, I think you guys offended the franchise of the other gas station, and it didn't work. You guys supporting online is literally what one day will allow everyone to be able to just come in here when you're at your local gas station and you just pick something off the shelf. Not yet though.
Not yet. But one day. We're getting snacks. I don't know what we're getting.
We need waters, a big red, no Red Bull, not anymore. A glizzy, a big glizzy. Do they have extra large >> [music] >> All right.
I'm going to be honest with you guys.
This is a mission mission forsaken for one like any other. The time in the grass and the leaves and the sky.
Cuz I don't know how this is going to go. Does my hair look a little Oh, I look like a What's that one little thing called? Oh my gosh.
>> turtle? As everyone has been comparing me to and I look just like Francis Ngannou.
That's what you guys have been saying and what would Francis do in this situation? He'd go rescue some gar. And that's what we're going to try and do.
We could be completely wrong. There could be no gar. There like there really could be. The backside of the island, it is low enough now to where all the water's drying up or there could be no water. I'm assuming there's going to be plenty of puddles of water back there and there's going to be fish in them cuz we're going to be honest here. We've done this before like in a very small version and rescued gar.
Oh, snap. That was a good throw.
I just SAW SOMETHING. OH MY GOD MAN.
LET'S GO.
>> [screaming] >> YES.
YES.
YES. IT'S GOT A ZIP TIE in its mouth.
Yo. Bro, it's got a zip tie. It's a long nose. It should be the same concept.
I've seen this like on Instagram gar.
Normally, they're not the brightest of creatures. If we're going to rescue a river monster, this is how we're going to do it. Hopefully the boat's still there.
No.
Guys, here's the test to see if the boat's here. Come on, baby mama.
Come on. Yes.
Yes, she's full of water, which is fine, but she's here. The boat is here.
FEEL LIKE I JUST SUMMONED EVEREST. THE ONLY thing is if there is no gar to I just stood on that. It came up and went right in between my cheeks. What the thing is if there is no gar to rescue, then that's why we have rods cuz we still need to fish, obviously. Can't come here and not still try and break the world record. We do happen to have no bait though. So, we're going to need to get that somehow. Okay, here's back of the boat. Honestly, this really not that bad. It's just full of water.
That's it. So, Oh. Yep, that's what That's what we needed. All right. Yep. Let me tell you, the plugs they sure work.
Here's the thing. The boat may have lasted while we were gone the last few days, but uh the motor she's just been out here in the rain and that is a gigasaurus spider on the handle. Oh my goodness.
>> She's been soaked, torrentially downpoured on, and uh maybe fondled with by one of you guys, hopefully not. And uh yeah, let's see if she starts.
Oh.
Oh my goodness. Josh might just be the most reliable, greatest motor of all time. Dude, we rescue a monster gar today. I'm going to feel so good cuz they're just left there to die. No one's coming out here to do anything, and I know what's happening every year. It might even be happening up in the rapids cuz big pools get full, and then it dries out in the summer, and then boom, they're stuck there. They can't go anywhere. They just die. I know you think like I might not be telling like I'm being dead serious right now. I think Kyle, the fish whisperer, found a pond where they were all just dried up in there. It's insane. Hopefully Josh can get us to where we need to go. And unfortunately, we do have to go past the rapids again.
Here we go.
Come on with me now.
Give it a one. Give it a two.
Just like that.
That's what I'm talking about, ladies.
Give it a Give it a Take a break FOR A SEC.
THAT'LL DO IT RIGHT THERE. SUSAN, is it your turn, your mama?
That's what I like to hear. Unlike normal, we're going up that way. Go to place called Dino Falls. And there should be some monster fish [music] there, but that's not what we're there for. We're there to try and catch bait in the event that there's no fish to rescue. Catching bait is really not that easy. But, if we do, the bait from the river is the best bait to catch a monster fish.
>> [music] [music] >> All right. This is where the carp live, and I don't know what else, but we've got a net and we've got a bucket.
We're trying to get our own bait today.
Oh my gosh. I don't know what there is over there, but there is fish everywhere trying to swim up the current.
Oh my god, there's hundreds. Boys and girls, holy sh Hurl. Hurl's going down. He just came down. Oh, come on, Susan, get the net.
Oh my god. Oh my god, there's a million gar. There's a million gar. There's million There's millions of them. Oh my gosh.
Giant giant over there. Boys and girls, boys and girls, there's millions of gar right here. Literally right here. If I throw this cast net, I will catch 10 gar. There's a monster over there. Can you see their fins coming out of the back of the boat? Coming up. Look at the Oh my gosh, you can see them. They don't even notice I'm here right now. All right, putting the net down. I don't think that's the way to go. What? Me? I got to take one of these with my hands.
I'll see you in a moment. Britton, we brought a net for a reason. Britton!
I'll have to try that again in a second.
They're a little hard to hold on to in the current. All right, boys and girls, here they are.
They're just hanging out. Long nose.
Long nose gar. Right here. RIGHT HERE.
OH! OH! OH!
COME ON, TAKE HIM OFF THAT OH! OW! THEY'RE LONG NOSE. LONG NOSE RIGHT HERE.
OH! OH! OH!
They're everywhere. Oh my gosh, they're literally everywhere.
Big one. I need the net.
That's a big one.
Boys and girls, there's a big one. I had to get the net. It's too big for me to grab.
Got him. GOT HIM. GOT HIM. OH MY GOSH.
OH, I GOT ONE RIGHT HERE. OH, MY LANTA.
All right, I've got A LONG NOSE GAR. OH!
I'VE GOT A LONG NOSE GAR. EAT for one.
Oh my gosh, there's hundreds. There's hundreds of them. They're everywhere.
Big one. Big one. Big fat gar. They're fighting to get up here. OH MY GOODNESS.
OH! OH! OH! OH! OH! HEY, BUD. HEY, OH!
OH! [screaming] THEY'RE EVERYWHERE. OH, he's on land. He's on land. He's on land. We got to find some bait.
Unfortunately, there's too many gar.
Look at this one. Big one. Big one right here. Oh my gosh, it's a tank. Oh my gosh. There's a big one, there's a big one. Huge, huge. Oh, carp, carp, carp.
THERE'S BIG FISH EVERYWHERE. WE DON'T NEED TO CATCH any of them. There's no eight-footers and that's what we're after. An eight-footer wouldn't be right here. Well, I mean, maybe there could be one. We need to CATCH THE BAIT.
I ACCIDENTALLY CAUGHT TWO BIG GAR. There one got out. I just got to get this one out. Come on. Okay, okay, let go. Let go, let go, let go. Let go, let go.
I'm just trying to get a carp. What even's going on? Like this is a big longnose right here. Like I would love to keep this fish right here as a pet.
Now I can just pet him. Look at this, I can just pet him.
Just petting the gar. What's going on, Bubba? You go be safe on your journey. I don't know where you're going, but you be safe, all right? You right there, all of you. You have fun. Go, swim. Go, Bubba, go. Come on, fight that current.
Fight that current, boys, let's go. COME ON, GUYS. COME ON, GUYS, YEAH.
>> [screaming] >> YEAH. DADDY SAYS GO, WE'RE GOING TO GO.
PUSH, PUSH. I KNOW you got it in you.
Push. Come on, yeah.
Come on. YOU RIGHT THERE. GO, GO, GO.
Get up there. Go. Get up there. [music] GET UP THERE. YEAH.
YEAH.
OH, ONE STUCK OVER THERE. GOSH, COME ON, GUYS. I love these fish. I got three right here. COME ON, GUYS. YES. GO.
THEY'RE GETTING UP AND THEY'RE GETTING TIRED. I NEED YOU TO KEEP SWIMMING. Keep swimming. Keep swimming. YES. YES. OH, MAN. Another big gar. Oh, it's a monster. Let go. Let go. Let go. Go on now. Go.
There is Big Daddy. Literally only caught gar. So, we're going to go to Celo.
That That's exactly what we needed.
Got you, brother.
How the hell did you catch carp up there? I caught 500 gar. All right.
>> [snorts] >> Well, we made it to the rapids. This is where we're fighting to get up right here.
It's not flowing nearly as hard.
rapids.
Even if we turned, well, we're not going to go through that either.
Oh, Oh my gosh, it got worse. All right, maybe you'll be able to tell with the camera this time. I mean, dude, I almost said, "Let's just go down these ones." Wait till you see this up here. I mean, I'm talking whole boat would be gone. Like, it's thin, no chance.
Literally zero.
Dude, it's Oh, we'd be gone. I'm telling you, the boat would go down and the front would just go right into that and we'd go under the water. Wow, this is the worst I've seen this. That's why the boat is not in the water. This is I'm dragging this on land 100%.
>> [music] >> No idea where that came from.
Boys and girls, there's the island.
Well, I'm going to be honest, it's not an island anymore. It really isn't because the river we went behind it last time. Can't even do that now. But we are also doing a 360.
>> [music] >> Look how low it's got.
That's crazy. And there's the river was there. Like, it's gone. It's completely gone.
We're going to walk around the whole back side of the island and see if there's at least any water. I don't know yet. We're definitely going to put up the drone at one point in time, so you guys will be able to see if there's water right now. We still don't know.
So, here we go. What's also insane is keep in mind when we you could see us drive around the island last time.
All right. We're on the back side of the island right now.
This is crazy.
I have no idea how we're even going to get on this thing. We were driving 10 ft above our heads. When we were filming the night clips on the island, right there, that's literally like all See those bushes up there? It's all the way up there. That's how fast this drops.
So, if there is water back there, which I'm assuming there's probably a few pools because I see a little bit right here. Maybe there's a fish. Normally there is, but who knows? We're about to find out. We haven't been here when it's been like this before.
Okay, well, there's water right there, but it's so shallow. I don't see anything. Well, maybe there No, there's nothing there.
There's a puddle right here, but there does look like there's a good amount of water over there.
The river was all the way up here. This is where we were driving the boat. Isn't that [laughter] It was a week ago. It was a week ago. About a week ago we got Isn't that insane? It's because everyone's probably like, "Where's the water going?" It's draining into the ocean cuz it goes all the way to the ocean. That's why it fills so fast and then drains out so fast.
It could be a turtle. There's something moving in that puddle.
That's a lot of water. That is a lot of water. That is a lot of water. And none of this is accessible. Literally none of it.
Oh my god.
What is that?
Is it a turtle?
It's either a turtle or a fish.
Disappeared.
Right there.
Big gar. Big gar. Big gar. You can barely see it. You can barely see it.
Here it comes.
Here it comes. It's really shallow.
Can you see it?
>> Oh, I see it.
>> You see it? You see it? It's right there.
It's right there.
Oh my gosh, imagine how many are in here. Oh, that's what I'm saying. These fish are going to die. They're going to die. I am not even joking. There he goes. He's a baby river monster. That is a baby river monster. That's just like the one we caught for the tank. Oh my goodness. I knew it. I knew there was going to be some over here. That is why we came. Oh my Look at all that water.
Oh, yeah. Wow. Okay. So, this fish got stuck right here. Which he's just swimming up and down. He's swimming with us. He doesn't even notice we're here.
It's probably cuz he's so focused on trying to get out. This is insane.
>> [clears throat] >> Oh my gosh. Okay, so he can't even get out of here. He can't get out of here.
He He can't fit through this. It's too shallow. So that means he must have swam down that way, gotten stuck in there.
Which by the way, all of this is going to dry up probably within the next 3 or 4 days. So he'll die probably in the next 3 or 4 days. Whatever's in here probably has like at least a week or two until it dries up. What?
What? [laughter] Oh, I guarantee you there's at least 20 good-sized gar. There There could be a 7-ft alligator gar in here. Is this a bone?
Yeah, this is too big to even cast net.
That means there's fish There's fish in here. I I guarantee you there's a 4- or 5-ft gar swimming in here, 100%. And by the way, there's no access back to the river. And the river it's not going to rain enough again for this to get up for these fish to get out. I don't think it will. Oh my goodness, did you see that over there?
Over there? Let's go look. Let's go look. I swear it was a gar. It was a gar. Came up for air.
Oh oh oh oh.
1,000% there is quite a few gar in here. That other one though, he only has a few days before he he dries up in that. He really got himself stuck. But we're going to have to give this a few weeks before we get anything out of here. It's too full still. I think that's literally too deep for me to walk in there. If I spent the next 45 minutes chest-deep cast-netting it, like maybe we'd have some luck, but I don't even think that's worth it.
They're not going to get hurt if you know, we leave them in here for another week or two. Okay, yeah. That gar, which it looks just like the one we've got for the tank at the warehouse. I wish we had a cooler to take him home. We could literally take him home. Then we could have two of them. Which just sucks because he's perfect. We're going to cat Yeah, I don't think it'll be that hard to get him. I feel so bad. It's cool to be able to rescue gar. It's like my favorite fish to rescue because that's like a future, you know, 100-year-old 7-ft fish.
I don't I don't know where he went.
Where's he at?
Where is he? Oh, there he is. There he is. Dude, you don't even see him. He just comes out of nothing. He's right there. Oh my goodness. That's like it's like a decent fish. Look at him. Look at him, he's trying to go up.
Hey.
All right. I was going to go in with the good old hands, but I don't know if he likes that. He's swimming right there right now. He blends in with the bottom.
It's actually deep enough to where like you can't even see him in here after a sec. You like you lose him. You can't even see him. It gets It gets too deep right there. But he's swimming fairly right that way. All right. Well, here goes nothing.
>> [music] >> You get him? What the heck?
All right. Threw the net over him and he goes to the edge of the net, pops it up over his nose, and started swimming out of it. Come on, bud.
All right. It's literally entirely on top [music] of him right now. Same thing.
Hey.
Nope. He's walking back.
Calm down. What's a frog? A frog.
>> Oh, it's a Did that come out of his mouth? That's it.
Theodore. I kind of like that. I kind of like that, too. Uh that's Theodore. I didn't even think about bringing in the big cooler because we didn't even know if this was going to happen. Um where else we would take him back to the house. We would put him in the garage pond. Imagine. That would be so baller.
But Theodore, you're going to have to You're going to All right, Theodore. Theodore. Theodore.
These little ones have the most energy by far. But that is a beautiful alligator gar. All right, bud. This is as easy as just taking him back to the main river and putting him in, and then he won't die, which is awesome. They can live out of the water for like, honestly, like realistically, without dying, quite a few hours. Some people say like 17 hours and like they can, but like you know there's a severe brain damage. Yeah. But like you can keep him out of the water for a few hours. But once this place dries up, he would stand no chance.
>> [music] >> Okay.
All right.
Well, I guess this is it.
I don't think there's much left to do from here. All right, big guy. Here we go.
All right, bye-bye.
Come on.
Whoa.
That's it.
We might cast out a few rods and see if we can catch a fish, but um yeah, we [music] there's not >> [laughter] >> there's not really much more we can do.
The whole other pool [music] is way too big, but that one was perfect. That one was great. That one literally couldn't have gone any better. We just wanted to come rescue like a 5-footer, but that's I mean, that's the son of a 5-footer.
It's also a lot cloudier and we don't have that much bait that we got from Celo. I mean, we can try. It got a lot cloudier, but we can try for a little bit.
>> [groaning] [screaming] >> Way too Way too far.
Oh my god, WHERE'S HE GOING?
OH.
I HAVE NO LEVERAGE ON THIS FISH. HE'S ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER. He's inside the tree.
Oh, he's on.
In the entire tree. He's on though.
Holy All right, boys and girls. With a LITTLE BIT NO.
EVERYTHING IS RIGHT BACK IN IT. ARE YOU GOT TO be joking? All right.
That was scary.
He's about to come off. He's barely on.
Oh, he's barely on.
WELL, WE LOST ONE FISH RIGHT HERE. And that's about it. We've got to go. I don't want to go right now. I think we could keep fishing and we might once we get up to Dino Land, but I'm not going through those rapids at night. There's no way. So, we're going to get out of here.
WE CAN'T AFFORD TO STOP. WE'LL FLOAT BACKWARDS TOO FAST.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> OH, MAN. WELL, it doesn't get much more dirty than [music] that.
That is absolutely awesome. River, we're done. We just left her. Normally, we come back at night and it's like we're going through the rapids in the middle of the night. We don't get to see the sunset, which is like one of my favorite parts. So, I'm glad to do that. The The only reason we have to go is cuz we have so much stuff we have to do tomorrow and we only came out here today to try and fish for a second and see if there's any fish to rescue, which we are What are we? Six for six >> Yeah. on the Trinity now. We haven't missed a gar. And not only that, we cast netted God knows how many. You thought I cast netted a lot. You should have seen off camera. I We to turn off the camera because I I kept gushing them.
Regardless, hopefully you guys enjoyed today's video. Click the subscribe button down below and also if you want your name on the wall, it'll be like a limited time thing that we do like here and there, but it'll be cool when we do a meet and greet. You can come see your name on the wall and like see how soon you got it on there. We want to fill up that entire wall at one point in time, but I love you guys. Go to zestysnacks.com.
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We'll catch you guys on the next episode of Fanatic.
Peace.
>> [music] >> Sounds like a literal boat motor.
If we're going to rev her Hey. Yep, morning.
Oh.
Do we have a another plug?
No, no.
That plug's kind of This plug will work great. You sure?
Should. There is gar all OVER THE PLACE.
OH MY GOSH. OH MY GOSH.
THEY'RE EVERYWHERE. There's some tanks.
There's some giants.
Hey guys. Go. Get up there. GET UP THERE. YEAH. [screaming]
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