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So Ron McGill is with us now. And if you want to talk to the animal doctor, the telephone number seven eight six four five six four eight three seven. Is this our final Ron McGill show? Good Lord, we're getting nostalgic. Is this the final Ron McGill show for ESPN Radio? Across many. Well, let me get nostalgic here for a moment then. I didn't realize that we've got our last Ron McGill show right now. If you want to talk to Ron McGill on ESPN Radio for the last time, 76, four or five six four eight three seven now across many years here across.

Ron, how long have we been doing this with you?

I don't know. About seven, eight years, something like that. OK, well, I think it's longer than that. I feel like I could be longer than that.

I'm old, so I've lost track of time, but it's been at least seven, eight years. No, I think it's more than that. It was before we got to ESPN. You've only been doing it at ESPN for seven or eight years. You were with us for many years before that. Hold on. Before we get nostalgic here with Ron McGill, let's just go out here to Christine Lacy real quick in her kazoos.

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Yes. Happy Greg Codi to his day. There's a lot of nostalgia in today's show. We're saying goodbye to Greg Cody Tuesdays on ESPN Radio. Maybe or maybe not the useless sound montage that means back in my day on ESPN Radio's Gone. And if you've been following this throughout, you know that the weirdest thing that we did at the beginning with ESPN when they wanted us to do more sports, more sports, and the thing that we got the most pressure on was this segment was why the animal segment don't come on, why are we talking about animals?

It's dumb. It's not sports. And after all these years, here we are with Ron McGill at CNN. And SportsCenter has used him to declare mascot fights. And, you know, he is someone who's been on Good Morning America and he's made it, you know, to the South, although he got it before he was even on with us. So it's been exciting to grow this thing with Ron McGill. And if you want to talk to him one last time, seven, eight, six four or five, six 437 is the telephone number.

Now, Roy, let's start with you before we take some calls. What do you have for Ron McGill today?

Ron, I've seen many videos of people who have teamed wild wild animals like lions, and they are just rubbing them like, you know, like the dogs. What does it take to tame a wild animal? And why haven't these animals turned on these people?

Well, a lot of those cases, you might ask the question, why haven't these animals turned on these people yet? Because more often than not, it usually is the end result. Bottom line is these animals are raised with people. They look at people not as a threat. Many people are very lucky. They can go through their lives without having any serious injuries. But I can tell you that anybody who treats a lion like a dog is, you know, manufacturing a recipe for disaster.

And even the people who do this, I mean, you know, Kevin Richardson, really well known for interacting with lions and hyenas out in South Africa, will be the first to tell you he's probably going to die that way.

Wow, that took a dark turn there where you just sort of dismounted the thought. I'm just I'm just I'm trying to be honest with you guys that these animals is that old saying you taken out a lot of the wild. You can never take the wild out of the animal. You know, taming an animal and domesticating an animal are two totally different things. You may tame an animal temporarily, but as soon as an animal has an attitude or has a problem or gets angry, somebody's going to feel the wrath of that animal and it could be devastating.

Well, how does one train a lion? How does one do that?

Well, I'm not going to give a course of training a lion on ESPN radio, but basically it's just a matter of of setting up a protocol, trying to establish yourself as the hierarchy. Part of that, you know, lions are social animals. You've got to be the alpha male and you have to know how to work around these animals. You have to know there's certain body position, certain postures, certain certain smells that, you know, might set an animal off.

And that's all trial and error. That's tremendous amounts of experience. And anybody who's trained these animals for any length of time, I can guarantee every one of them has been injured one way or another.

Have you ever had a bad interaction with a lion? You've told us all sorts of stories.

No, I've never I've never got into, you know, into a situation where there's no barrier between me and an adult lion. I've been with, you know, juvenile lions, subadult lions. I've been slapped at a couple of times. I've gotten scratched a couple of times. I've gotten some bites, but nothing like I want to kill you type of stuff. And now at my age, I would never go in with an animal like that at all.

Chris, what do you have for Ron Magill of Zoo Miami? Ron, a zookeeper, has drawn the short straw when they have to claim this animal exhibit. It depends on what you're looking at, I mean, if it's just physical work, it's going to be an elephant exhibit. When you think about an elephant can defecate 300 pounds of feces in one day each elephant. That's a tremendous amount of work. This tremendous amount of weight is the wheelbarrows going up the ramps.

It's it's a smell. You know, most elephant keepers, you know, they're elephant keepers when they come home because it's the smell that permeates through the body. I don't find it that offensive. A lot of people do. But that that's that's the hardest work. But if you're talking about, you know, just slimy and stuff, gosh, you know, when you've got to clean the Flamingo Pond or the penguins, penguins, a lot of these birds that feed on fish.

Oh, my gosh. Any fish eating animal, it's just the smell is just holy places. It's horrible. So, you know, you go to any penguin exhibit at any zoo and you'd be hard pressed not to really be hit by the smell, no matter how clean and how wonderful the filtration system is.

Put it on the pole gear. Are you surprised to learn that the penguin exhibit smells worse than the elephant poop exhibit? Mike, what do you have? Ah, Mike, what do you have for Ron McGill?

Ron, I've been reading about the Serbo man eaters. They were sort of fictionalized and not socialized and goes in the darkness. And I'm wondering if lions can truly develop a taste for human flesh.

Absolutely. There's no question about it. It's not necessarily a taste for human flesh. It's a taste for easy opportunity. Those lions found out that this was easy prey. Remember, animals don't look at things saying I hate you, so I'm going to kill you over anything else. They look at you and say, well, you're easy. I can get you with minimum amount of energy and you provide a protein for me. They don't look at it like, you know, it's a human being.

It's disgusting. It's protein for them. So human beings, once they understand, that's why you have the same issue with tigers in India, once a tiger becomes a man killer, those tigers, unfortunately, have to be either removed from the area or they have to be taken out. They have to be euthanized because they have learned that this is easy prey. It's a lot easier to catch a human than it is to catch a, you know, AmEx's deer.

Vince, you're on with Ron Magill of Zoo Miami. Go ahead, Vince.

SeaWorld, I'm the guy that brought you thank hummingbirds versus fang giraffes. Would you rather be sitting in the crotch by a Humboldt squid for a boat? A couple of pods, underrated pachyderms, overrated. Why didn't you have super cute head tilting when they look at you?

All right, get along. Get out of here. Get out of here. Let's all get out of here. I leave us alone. You answer whatever you heard, there was too much.

Well, I you know, I wouldn't want to be hit in the crotch by a bullet in it all because I was hit in the hand by bullet. I felt like somebody hit me with a hammer that had been kept in an iron fire for so long. But having said that, the squid, if you've ever seen the beak on a sefl pot on these squids or octopus, I mean, it's not going to bite you. It's just going to castrate you.

So, you know, one one of the other six, one half dozen the other.

Oh, no, no. A bullet in and castration or two different things like it can be horrible, but a fiery hammer is not as bad as castration. I don't know, Dan, I put it on the pole, gizmo is a fiery, fiery hammer to the crotch, worse than castration.

Yes, hammer to the crotch. Understand that's going to be ongoing. It's like he keeps hitting with the hammer. Bam, bam. This thing is not just that movement one time and it's over. Well, that's what keeps him going. And it gets worse for hours. Sometimes it might be just better just to cut them off and just go for the love of God.

I was going to say that with Rod. I think it might be better just to cut them off. Wait. Yeah, ok.

OK, that's enough. I don't think deputations. Let's see the pain. All right.

Let's just end the segment there symbolically with Ron McGill. You just heard the argument break out whether you'd prefer to be castrated or just have a throbbing pain from a fiery hammer in your crotch. Let's over and over again, as you mention that. Thank you. Let's end that segment. Feels like the worst thing. Well, castration sounds like the worst thing ever is what I'm arguing. Castration sounds worse than a couple of hours of throbbing pain. Yes, I.

Come on my way. Do you vote? Which way would you prefer to be castrated or a fiery hammer to the to the to the loins for two hours. Fiery Loyn. Yes, me too. How about you, Tony? Which way do you vote? I like this fiery loins as well. Roy, what's your vote? My loin is on fire. OK, loins on fire because you guys are young.

I've already heard that face. I'm older. Wow.

Really? Is this an age question? All right. Good question, because, you know, you guys haven't really sewed all your own. All right. Greg Codi then, who has sewed all the oats? All the oats have been so they've been regurgitated. They are what they want to be thinking about more oats being. So would you prefer to just lose it and become a unique or fiery, throbbing pain from a hammer for two hours castrating it?

What's the video? What's no use? I've got no use for this old thing anymore. Ron McGill. What do you what is the video? What is this? Oh, this is a video.

We were like we animals, but there's no sound telling what they are with the first one that's called a blobfish. A lot of times they call it the Jimmy Durante fish. So on the next animal, it's a slider. The turtle is called a slider.

I don't know what's funny about that, but it's a Jimmy Durante fish. Is that that's what's funny. Jimmy Jimmy Durante fish. Then you got the waxy monkey frog. Oh, now you got the I the II. This is a really neat animal. Looks like something out of Star Wars has a neat little finger. It looks like Yoda. Oh, you have the peacock spider that is one of the greatest spiders ever. Google peacock spider. And look at the courtship with the spider.

It's absolutely phenomenal. Oh, let me have an octopus. I mean, what's so funny about an octopus? I don't understand this thing. It's supposed to be strange, funny animals all in the blue footed booby. It's a great thing. Galapagos Islands, you go to the golf course, they have all the boobie pictures and they go, oh, I love boobies. It's really fun, you know.

That's okay. So there it is. And this ends with a fireworks show of oh, then you have to coax Dick.

Dick, that's actually really cool. It's a little go for the Kirks. All right. I'm making that up. All right.

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OK, this is the end of the road for us here at ESPN. We've got segments left, not shows plural. We've got segments left. We've got what remains of today's show on terrestrial radio, on ESPN. And then we've got January 4th. And that's it for us here. So we Billy is saying we've got our final celebrity prognosticator on ESPN. So what happened here, Billy? Because magnets for Magnússon is join the chat and I need to talk to you about the the pressing question from last segment, castration or getting a fiery hammer to the nether region for two hours or three hours because he's a man's man and he's the perfect person to answer this question.

He told us yesterday he was a bit of a ladies man before he found old green eyes. And and so he is a man's man. He will answer this question. We will get a verdict and we'll find out whether this is age specific. As Cody says, he doesn't need a baby anymore and his fine walking the rest of his days as a eunuch. So we will get an answer to this briefly. But the celebrity prognosticator, Billy, who is it?

What can you tell us about it? Are you excited about it? I can't believe we're doing it. I think Colin Cowherd said we if we stopped right now, we will have won it. Be over. Colin Cowherd says he's not even making picks this week. Correct. He said that he's not making picks, but he'll put out picks and they count, which whatever that means, I don't know what that means because it sounds like you're making picks calling.

So would be if he wins the count, if they don't, they don't count. OK, OK, so big surprise. Next stand on Zoome. OK, Larry Prognosticated going to be and I can tell you who it's not Dick Cody because that was the plan and then I found out at seven thirty in the morning he couldn't do it because today's golf day. Yeah.

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Well, two things. Is Magnis coming with us at Magnis? Are you OK? I just heard I don't know what that sound was, but did you pull something?

What happened? I'm just a little cost. OK, but don't worry. It's not correct, you know, because because I've I've actually gone through fourteen covid tests already and just about six weeks. covid is afraid of you, right, covid you don't get caught? Yeah, you don't get covid Kovac gets magnis for Magnason.

Yeah, he likes that one. So tell us the answer to the question, please. Magnis, we were talking about we were talking we've got a zookeeper. He's he's a modern day Tarzan. He talks to the animals. He's six six foot six. He's had accidents with animals. And he was telling us that the bullet and if it hits you, it throbs and is a terrible, terrible pain. And so we were asking which would be worse.

And he didn't know castration, just castration or a bullet and hitting you in the nether regions in a way that makes that area hurt for many hours, throbbing and and hurting for a long time. It's not a temporary pain. Who did not say the number one?

So that's worse or better. Which one you're choosing? You have to choose between the two, the world's strongest man and I'll choose number one.

Oh, my God. That is sure. I'd rather you know. Not get that done or rather have the bullet. OK, I asked the question poorly, he'd rather have the fiery crotch, the. We were shocked by that for a second.

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So we have a lot of things to do here in very little time to do them. Bill, before we get to Christine. Lisa, you've got a sinister grin on your face because the celebrity prognosticator has not been revealed in the Zoome. I don't know if the celebrity prognosticator can see us right now. I don't know if the celebrity prognosticators confuse saying is that magnets for magnets in the world's strongest man in their Zoome. And the answer, celebrity prognosticators.

Yes, that is magnets for magnets and the world's strongest man. Before I get to Billy and Christine, though, magnets, because you've been so kind to us during the pandemic, can I just ask you, please, what you need to promote so that the people out there can support how nice you've been to us, bringing them through a horrible time here in America, coming on with us every day for no good reason. Well, one of the things that I've been involved with one of my friends is we developed a strong month of disabled people.

And we've done the world's strongest disabled man for years now, of course, this pandemic has. Changed everything and, you know, we postponed this, but finally, we are putting together the world's strongest man disabled man challenge on the twenty seventh of December virtually. So we'll have, you know, a place in Iceland that few athletes are UK, but few athletes, Sweden, Australia, you know, USA, and we'll take that old film on that.

But it's going to be a kind of online film at all and make an actress out of it. Like it would have been just everything done in one place. OK, so how can we help you? How can our listeners help you? How can we support what it is you're doing here before we bring in the celebrity prognosticator in the courtroom?

My thing is, you know, if if anybody knows of a disabled athlete or someone in any way, please sponsor them.

Oh, my God. Thank you, Magnis. Please believe in the things magnet's do. You know who has appeared here in the Zoome? Chad, do you recognize that face? One world's strongest man must recognize another. I know. I know. The nature boy knows who he's in the Zoome with. I know Ric Flair knows that is who's the world's strongest man on this call. Is it the nature boy or is it magnets for magnets in nature?

I don't know. You know, a couple of years ago I might have tried to magnets.

Do you know who that is? Are you familiar with American wrestling?

Fifteen sixty back in nineteen seventy one.

Hold on a second Rick. Hold on. Magnets. Do you know who Ric Flair is? Are you familiar with American wrestling?

Yes, I am. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to join that. I would have loved to. Oh, here we lost it. They're gone now. No, we're still here. Rick, this is us on the job. No, we're here. Just turned down this microphone for a second because this is this is not the height of entertainment. This is technological issues. Hold on a second. We're going to get Rick your on air.

So be careful with anything you say, thinking you're not on air. Mike, why is your head in your hands? Because we have executed this in our special way. Oh, here we go. All right, look, that's why.

Dan OK. All right, Magnus. Hold on a second. John, stay right there. All done. Right. Rick hold on. Hold on, your boy. Hold on. Give me the kazoos.

Roy All right. I'm. And finally, Australian koalas are in danger of extinction because over half of them have chlamydia has OK. Oh, no, no. Good Lord, Christine. All right, hold on. Christine, you stay over there. We've got chaos here. Magnus, hold on a second. We've got Ron home. Ron, I'm yelling at Ron McGill, please. Najd, just hold on a second, OK? Don't say anything inappropriate, OK?

Magnis, you never got into wrestling, but tell me what you know about the nature boy, Ric Flair, before we throw to his celebrity prognostications. We need you, Nate. It's the last part of the season. We need you to win and take out Colin Cowherd here. Magnus, what do you know about Ric Flair and American wrestling? I know he is a star in it, and actually I've watched, you know, some of the fights and stuff that he was in and he was really entertaining.

All right. There you go. Yes. And you, of course, Rick, because you love ESPN. You must have you must have loved those world's strongest man competitions back in the day.

My my roommate and one of my best friends, Ken Patera, competed in. Yeah. Yeah. Well, getting better the older you are, obviously, but yeah, we are. When Ken was training and Charlie said after the 72 Olympics because it's like seventy six, he, we had a minivan that we built, we had a harness made for him and he would pull the minivan up about literally a city block five times while I was training for it.

But that Ken Ken, the first guy to ever press five hundred pounds overhead all but it was a fun guy for sure.

If he if he had had the same vitamins available to the Russians, he'd have walked away with them. OK, wait a minute.

I think that's a reckless accusation. They're being made against the Russians. There's a couple of strongmen, magnets, magnets. You know, you Patera, you're stronger than Patera. Rick can say whatever he wants. Patera was the world's strongest man, four times, runner up twice. No, but terror won a bronze medal. Yeah, well, you know, he was doing great.

I've watched most of these old competitions. Yeah, just like in the beginning of Most Wanted man. And, you know, then, you know, today some of these events that they were doing, like, you know, the wrist rolling and stuff like that. Yeah.

You know, they wouldn't do in the modern context. And one thing that this sport is just gone, you know, grown so much and the weights have just gotten ridiculous. Yeah.

No, I haven't seen you perform. And trust me, I have nothing but respect for you that that Rick I'm sorry.

Magnus is telling you flatly that your friend Patera was nothing compared to him, that he did those wrist exercises.

Let's go. Rick Magnus is telling you it's a nice story with Patera, but he's not Magnus for Magnus and have some respect flair.

OK, well, listen, once again, once again, that medal for the Olympic Games says at all.

That's a bronze medal. Magnus, if it isn't, the gold doesn't Magnus. All right.

Let's talk about four golds at the Panamerican game. Oh, yeah.

That's still not making the Olympic team into sport, weightlifting and track and field.

You know, it is pretty awesome. And he wasn't a hell of an athlete.

All right, let's pick games.

First time I met everyone is number one. I know it is staggering to imagine what it would have done if you couldn't have done that.

Nature boy, Vikings and S.S. minus seven, who you got? That's who they're playing, the Vikings, the Vikings are going to the Saints, Saints minus seven, I'm taking the Saints offense at Raiders, Raiders plus three at home. Who you got? Dolphins. Dolphins are called to Steelers, Steelers, plus one and a half at home, who you got?

Right now, I'm taking the Titans at Packers, Packers minus three, who you got I'm going to go for Kevin Green Bay for the Packers that Aaron Rodgers bills at Patriots again, the Lions provided by Caesars, William Hill, pills that pay the bills.

And Josh Allen Hardin doesn't even need a point spread. All right. Good seeing you. It was good seeing your smiling face. That's it. That's it.

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All right. Give me more time. All right. I'll stay there.

Maybe it'll be more Ric Flair and more. Man Mr. Magnussen, stop yelling at us and stop yelling at us.

Wow.

That was a bad segment for both of you. Love can the of the in I not everything at first, but in your case, for good reason.

Oh, Andy. All right. We're starting our guys. Have I got to read the commercial. So I did.

The shortest guy on the show was destroyed. Shut the hell up again. Don, a card that bear was not on house, deck, deck excuse me, I was going to say desk, I meant deck, I botched it. Terrible doodlers penalty box, two minutes.

Siete. Home for the day, walk to the ocean, what do you want me to do? Super Bowl weekend? I didn't ask for any of this and I have no money. I still got to walk to the ocean. Walk to the ocean. I ran out of money. Get out of here. Get out of here. I'll do the show without. I don't like this incident. Live with our show with these two guys on ESPN Radio.

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Hurry up and do that so I can get back to revisiting what just happened because I'm Light-Headed. I'm like hurry up and do this long segment.

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Think. Yeah, OK, very good, thank you. That is Zenk for lunch, because Mike is at home, he he does not have the coronavirus, but the show has been blown apart here on its last day before the last day by the virus because taggants is home. Roy is here. Mike is from home. We've done the contact tracing hopefully on January 4th. We are all healthy and can actually come on the radio and do our last show.

We're hoping for that. But first, let's just revisit what just happened, because I just can't believe it. I can't believe it on a couple of fronts. One, what Stuart said, just a couple of strong men cutting it up. But also Magnus is not here for Ric Flair, Ken Patera, stories like I love I love that Magnus is the world's strongest man and knows it and tells you that he knows it. And we'll tell Ric Flair to get out of here with your Ken Patera bronze medal.

It's like he's got no he has got no issue with I'm the world's strongest man. Not anyone in your world. Artist, performer, guy win it gold.

Because you and I would hang on to those campfire stories forever. I mean, fler tell them forever and you and I would be engaged forever.

Magnus had no time for that. Mike, you're walking around the room scared because you saw them fighting, right? You saw they were insulting each other. And I need to I need more of that in my life. The nature boy's a headliner, and he's not here to play second fiddle to the world's strongest man.

That's exactly what happened there. He didn't understand how nature boy just had to fit in some tight window. He was he's a showman. He comes in with his robe and he's like, why don't I have 15, three minutes? Why do I have to share a stage with this oaf? Ric Flair is all those things, but he also thought he was off the air in the middle of it, which was funny, right? He did not know that I loved Mike.

You've noticed this because Greg Cody Ric Flair is about Greg Cody's age. He's older. What chance does he have with the Zoome?

I'm so happy Sophi fixed it.

Ric Flair is all those things. He's also your dad.

Yes, he is also older. How old is Ric Flair now? Probably a lot of people's dad. Well, he's he's. Yes, that too. He has been struck by lightning and lived to tell about it like he is one. He is one of our favorite guests. Can we bring him back for the post game show, Mike, or is that it? Like he feels like he feels like he doesn't do him hosting he's game.

All right, Cody, what were your thoughts there? First of all, who won the back and forth between magnets for Magnason and Ric Flair?

I know Ken Patera lost. I have to say, the world's strongest man won.

I mean, when you start dissing Pan American gold medals as well as Olympic bronze, you're on your game. You got to do you you got to do more than that.

I love that Magnus agreed with me. It's a bronze medal. Knock it off. I don't have time. I'm the world's strongest man. The two years I finished as a runner up in world's strongest man, I then won the next three because I finished in second.

So Magnus's two guys. This is the strongest Magnus with a goal that also Panamerican Games do it in the Olympics.

The strong and strong in Magnus. It's not the gods that's strong. It's the strong, the strong. It's like I don't care about your piddly Ric Flair. Show me. Don't give me the world's strongest man in wrestling. Give me a Viking and give me somebody a barbarian to fight against. Who? Who would you prefer to fight? Cody not in their prime. Who do you got in terms of a strong man or a bad man that you want in your corner headed into a brawl of any kind?

Well, Magnussen is is I feel like his actual strength in a way that Ric Flair is more that is from the 9/11 that show on ESPN Radio.

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