gouda? farm? i didn't know that. that's all for tonight, have a happy thanksgiving. how bout them cowboys? and always remember i'm waters, and this is my world. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to what were calling a special edition at tucker carlson. happy things giving, there is a lot to be grateful for this yea obviously our families, the corner of everything, our friends, our way of life read w should also be thankful also fo the greatness and beauty of nature that is all around us. animals are part of nature. we talked about were not a

nature show, but we can't resis rate we recently talked to one we like to call that chicken lady she was horrified when the totally discredited bureaucrat said they had to stop being around our birds. so since it is thanksgiving, a day that in some sense celebrates all that birds give us, we thought we would provide that interview. here it is. we are happy to have her on tonight. thank you for coming on. that is a good looking bird. it feels like you have been singled out for the criticism b the cdc. how does that feel? >> i'm not a huge fan of it because i have been handling chicken since i was about four years old and i've been kissing them, snuggling them, shoving m face in them and i'm fine, the people around me are fine, i don't see a problem with it. >> i mean people, you are livin the way people used to live,

poultry is a domesticated animal , right? why do you think there is the concern now? why are they coming after you now? >> i think they are may be just looking for something else to control and i'm not a huge fan and i don't support it. i'm just going to keep doing what i'm doing great i'm going to keep loving on my birds and showing them my affection. >> tell us what you are doing with those birds. it does that bird. , is that sheila? >> this is not sheila. this is bad boy halo. this is one of my roosters that i back in february and he basically just makes me babies and he's a real important in lifelock. >> what kind of pet does he make . for people that are thinking of chickens eggs eggs and dinner, you are describing a whole new way of looking at chickens. are they good pets?

>> i fully support everybody owning a chicken in their lifetime. there are way smarter than people give them credit for. they have facial recognition. they know exactly who i am when i pull up to my house. they are just all-around great pets. they have amazing personalities and people are over here saying they're dumb and stupid and they're not. not even for a second. >> i've got to ask you, since you are in enthusiast in an expert. someone once told me that chickens are so dumb if they face them in the corner and the can't out. is that true? >> whoever made that up has something against birds. they know exactly what to do. sometimes they get stuck in corners, but for the most part they can figure it out. >> you are totally winning me over. how many chickens do you have? >> i have 30.

>> tucker: do you live in a rural area? >> i live in the outskirts of the city and i have 20 to acres there with all of them. >> tucker: are these house birds? i'm trying not to ask if they sleep in the bed, but do they sleep in the bed? >> when i have hatched chicks, have been known to bring them inside. i will fold them up in and tell them they will sleep next to me. and sometimes they will come inside, but they are pretty comfortable inside. trend when i am such a believer. thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: you can imagine yourself getting close to a chicken. it's not that threatening, but bare? no, not voluntarily. was recently spoke to a college wrestler who had a completely

unexpected extremes with a bear and it turned out to be a hero. most people see a bear particularly in the west where they are legitimately dangerous and they run from it you attack the bear. why did you decide to do that? >> i just couldn't want my teammates be attacked by the bear. i saw him right on top of him. i could let that happen. i had to step in and do something. so i walked up to it and grabbe his year and pulled on it and the bear directed its attention towards me and attacked me. >> i think if you pull on a bears gear, you have to expect that bear is going to attack you . i think it is so heroic. what did the bear do? how did he attack you? >> when i pulled on its ear, it

kind of looked right at me and my heart kind of sunk. i took a few steps back in the bear just lunged forward and he got me onto the ground and pushed me all the way against some trees and starting attack me, chewing on my hands and on my legs a little bit. and then it left me alone. i called out to my buddy to mak sure he was still all right. and then the bear came back in it attacked me again. a got my head in my face over here and then i can do just lai there lifeless and it left agai and this time i gave it two or three minutes before i got up and darted walking down the mountain. >> tucker: bleeding from their attack. how our your injuries, how our your hands and your head? >> i have puncture wounds in my legs and my hands and my arm

here. and have 60 some staples and my head and another big bite mark in my cheek and i think i had hundreds of stitches. >> tucker: i hope you were greeted like a hero at home. this is heroic. >> fire trucks, police cars and all sorts of stuff when i got back home. >> well deserved. you hear about their attacks in the people that do survive. the ones i do always say that the bear has terrible breath. is that true? >> that is very true. i don't know what it was eating before, but it's breath was something i will remember. it was nasty. >> tucker: when the bear had

your head in his mouth, you mus have thought you were going to die covey he was chewing on your . >> i did for a second grade i thought i was going to die laying there. i guess it wasn't my time. >> tucker: what did your parents a? >> they are just happy for me t be library they set i was alway going to that kid that would fi my life before someone else's. >> tucker: but to attack a grizzly bear is kind of going above in beyond. >> they called me crazy for that . >> tucker: i love it and i wish we had a lot more men like you. we try to avoid sneak stories because they are just too cold for us. when you come across a guy know as the bike on cowboy is stop and listen. we listen to this man and he

explained how he catches python in florida's everglades and effort to restore balance to nature there. so those pythons get turned int python jerky. for real. here is that interview. this is the python cowboy, we are happy to have him on tonight . what is your plan to deal with the overabundance of pythons in florida? >> it's not just my plan, a lot of people are involved with it and we need to hunt and remove them. for state right now has different programs to do that, but we need more help. we need the general public involved and we are doing everything we can to try to incentivize that. to get one of the core ethical precepts of hunting is you eat what you kill. you eat python?

>> yes, sir. you can only eat so much snake, so anything i don't eat myself, i feed to my different wildlife rescues. >> and me and he goes with sain it taste like chicken, tell me how hard it is to hunt a python. how dangerous? >> it's definitely not easy. it's a labor of love, it's something you have to be passionate about, something you've got to have motivation for. i generally go out there for 3- days at a time. i am sleeping in the swamp and am hunting these either by boat or in my customized truck or dropping these levees that stretch out into the swamp and looking for these snakes while they are hunting for our wildlife. >> it looks like you are they are hunting for you. you got bitten by a python. what is that like? >> sometimes the job gets a little messy in dangerous.

it's just a part of it. i recently captured in almost 1. it struck at me, i was able to dodge the strike, but it gave m another quick half strike i wasn't expecting. these older snakes are smart an know what they're doing. it got me pretty good on my arm actually. got a couple of mean veins. i think it just missed an artery , but i had the little bit of a gusher coming out of my arm . >> tucker: where is that snake now? >> here is the one that got me. >> tucker: that is amazing. what kind of firearm do you use? >> generally i am just using my hands. i capture them alive, for me, that is the safest way in the most humane way to do it. it is a lot harder to snake shoot as snake directly in the brain the way you think it is.

these snakes aren't scared of anything. they are the top predator and i am able to sneak up on them, grabbed them and once i grabbed them, they are not going anywhere. it becomes a wrestling match, but thankfully i get the better of them. >> tucker: great to see you tonight, good luck. >> thank you so much. >> one of the greatest was clea thinking people in journalism, but he is also, and if you already like them coming you to be happy to know a dog lover wh runs as shelter for stray dogs out of his home in brazil. we went there.

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rio de janeiro and went to his animal shelter and his home and thought we would show you what it's like. >> good morning. hi, guys, how are you? >> they are bilingual. this was a dork that was born i my office. his mother a picked up when she was pregnant. >> with a beautiful dog. he's kind of the leader of this fact. these are sisters. they are twins. >> can i just ask what's going on here? i'm sorry, can we just talk about this? it's interesting, dogs are like our pathway into the animal world or something. it's like they are the bridge between us and the other species . for me, they are the gateway

into getting people to care about animals. that bond between a dog and a person is just so profound. >> end hard to really understand . it's like why did this evolve this way. it's interesting. >> i guess it makes sense that it was wise evolutionary state for dogs to make themselves so well adapted to human sites i think that they have so many capacities of perception and understanding in the world. >> i would agree with that. what i will say is this dog her is the one who i am most am close with physically. i am always with him. he really doesn't allow me to have extra interactions with th dogs rates i got used to say i always is my best friend, but i realize she's more like an abusive voice wafer a friend. i'm convinced when i am sleepin he goes through my phone at night blinken lake chemists

khmer. khmer. he really does not appreciate it . >> sometimes will happen people will bring dogs here, and we just fall in love with him and wear like that one's not going to the shelter. >> this one. >> do you see what happens is h is old, this is an older dog, he's at least ten years old and he was super traumatized it too him eight years to even get nea anybody pretty plays with them all day. so younger dogs,. >> that is true. >> you can truly love animals, but you also probably eat meat, there is nothing wrong with that , but the people in charge don't like that, not that they love animals, but they would still like you to eat insects i

your tiny pot and be grateful for it because that will help with climate change somehow. obviously we're never going to do that, but we did think it might be worth seeing what it's like if we had to do so at one point we tried out some cicada brownies out of pure curiosity. >> tucker, the brood x kindest signs like the rival gang at th high school, but this is the group of cicadas that show up every 17 years the last time we saw them was in 2004. they are notable for that loud sound that they make. its often heard when we go to press conferences throughout th washington, dc area 100 decibel is how loud that sound can get. the sound that you are hearing from the cicadas is that mating call from that mail cicada to the female cicada so they can make the babies, drop them into the grantor may pop out 17 year later.

they are edible, we got some edibles for you from the rising creek bakery, they sent you quite a variety of delicious treats there including cicadas. we have to say this, the fda ha saved if you have an allergy to shellfish, associate shrimp, lobster, shellfish, if you have things coming you will have an allergic reaction to the cicada because they are up from the same family, but they are otherwise safe to eat. as for your pets, it's okay for them to eat them in moderation. so are you going to try one of these delicious cookies? i've got to be honest, i never looked carefully and i baked goods, and i am embarrassed to admit that i shouldn't have, bu i did. and it was delicious. they've asked what need to eat one on tv to reassure your spirits i'm going to eat it,

there is a cicada right on the top. honestly, it's delicious for it. >> it's like a chocolate. it's not that bad. i have seen recipes popping up online from all the celebrity chefs, toss them with sesame oi and chopped garlic in there, just double check before you're eating other bugs, but just kno that the cicadas are safe right actually they are a good source of protein. all in all, as you're saying, they're not that bad. may be every 17 years we have some interesting edibles involving bugs. the only thing that wrecks it for me as i know that build dates approved. brett larson, thank you so much. >> valid point. >> tucker: we have a weakness for weird teaching scandals. none of them has approached the

level of existential weirdness as what happened at ute contest in saudi arabia. this is a story involving arabs botox, and camels, we will tell you how they come together next.

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>> welcome to fox news live. an eyewitness on the horrific warmer and shooting says the suspect who killed six coworker appeared to target people durin the attack. they say the suspect shot some victims after they already appeared dead. walmart employees gathered in a breakroom for a meeting when th team leader started shooting at them with a handgun. other witnesses say they shooting appeared to fire randomly. granting amnesty for more band twitter accounts after the new ceo posted able asking if account should be reinstated as long as users didn't break the

law or take part in spam coming last week he posted a similar ball, trumpet said he would not return to the platform. i am ashley strohmeyer, back to the tucker carlson tonight special. >> tucker: welcome back to tucker carlson. we are thing for for animals so we are doing an animal special tonight. you can't do in animal special without considering the life of of california. this is the man who was caught having sexual relations with a, but he has some weird things when left to his own devices he writing around shirtless in the arabian desert. so it must've come as a shock t him that dozens of camels like the one you're seeing on your

screen right now we're recently barred from a regional beauty contest for using botox to make them hotter than they already are. why is this happening, america? we sent our cameras to saudi arabia to find out. the wildlife biologist or ernst estimate. for us, thank you for coming on. let's say you have a camel through no fault of his own he was unusually unattractive and you think i'm going to fix this with the lip tik tok or an ear pin, they can't give consent, should that be allowed? to get you get us the same question what your dog at home, they get crop tales, they get their ears pinned, and that is not ant it's basically the same thing. it as patent that you are altering. >> you make a wise and common sense point that never occurred to me. how unattractive because i thin from the western perspective camels all kind of like the same . youth he see a wide variety in

camera as statics? gap so lately. going back to the penn analogy. it's like your dog at home, som people have show quality dogs, others are less fortunate. i live in southern california s i see homes that have been enlarged and lips that had been blown up basically every day that i live, so it's not the most natural thing and the worl over here, and now were pointin it out as being a problem over there on camels it's a little double edge there. >> that is such as smart point, don't tell me they are getting hump implant spirit. >> you know, different kinds of humps, but that is i think they are doing for camels over there. botox fillers on the lips, they are stretching things, inflatin the homes they are doing all kinds of different plastic surgeries to try to enhance the beauty in the aesthetic of the camels because the prize millio money is huge. millions of millions of dollars.

horrible personalities on camels . can they fix that? ticket no, they are typically jerks where they really are. you are not wrong about that, but every now and then you get sweetheart and if yes me they are all beautiful. if you draw the short end of th stick and get ugly camel, love it for its personality. we appreciate you coming on, thank you so much. >> thanks, tucker. we told you about the college wrestler who turned into a hero when it mattered when his frien was attacked by a bear and he saved him. another man in siberia was not quite as lucky. he broke his back and was kept in they did in a bear den as leftovers for a month after being dragged there by an angry brown bear. according to reports of the tim the man survived somehow he drank his own. that's what they told us right he was found later by a group o hunters who rescued him into come to the hospital.

could demand really survive a month and a bear den with no food, a broken spine, and only as a beverage? could that happen? we asked our medical expert. it is one of the stories you want to believe is true. as a matter of human physiology is it possible? >> it is possible under the following circumstances. brown bears do not usually drag humans anywhere. humans are not their prey, but if you attack the cubs or put the cubs at risk, the bear migh get angry in the brown bears do sometimes store food and wait for a while until the food decomposes in the edict. it was possible he could be in the cave for a month right he can survive without food, you can survive weeks and weeks without food. you need water though, and you're not going to survive by drinking you're in the way he

says he did very that's the par of the story i don't believe because is very salty and will make you more dehydrated. you could survive with the broken bones, you might look like that because areas of your skin are going to slough off from insufficient blood flow, the body will protect its vital organs and blood glucose and oxygen goes to the vital organs freight here so you could survive if you were drinking from a icicles and the cave. if the water that was dripping down the cave. it has minerals in it, if you'r drinking that, you could surviv and it's cold there. l2 villages near mongolia is about 27 or 28 degrees the colder it is the more likely yo might survive because you your organs stay alive longer including your brain. i think it's possible and plausible, but not the part of this. you would have to get water somehow great if you got water, he could survive.

great to see you tonight. >> the courage amazing to if it happened very. >> it is amazing. siberian hunters are tough group . seeking profoundly under its mayor lori lightfoot. not only becoming more violent, much more violent, it's also getting dirtier. so dirty that rat have dominate chicago ph chicago is that ratt a city in america and has won that title for eight years and row. residents say they are scared t sit in there own backyard because of rats. lori lightfoot decided to release 1,000 for all coutts into chicago. when you hear of people releasing feral cats to keep under control,.

they are not known for catching rats. >> anybody deeply familiar with feral cats would know that. we are known for my walk out here in california and oregon. that is creating the rapid spread. >> terriers as they were called in great britain so long ago, ratting dogs, how many rats can they will trained ratting dog, interior take out in the course of an evening? >> i often take my dogs out for three or four hours, but different locations and i've go an excess of several hundred in that time period with three or four adult dogs. >> several hundred, that's remarkable very deal at your dogs eat them? >> no, just in case of poisoning

, training to drop is one of the first commands they learn. use the whole rats, like that. >> what do your dogs think of it ? how proud of they are killing after killing 200 rats and at night? >> i would say the reason i hav chosen this is my fun activity is because i am embracing the true nature of the dog crate it is my believe this is truly in the nature of the animal. because i like terriers, i have to give them an activity. >> a look that. i live dogs to end a degree wit you completely. a few years ago we did a timely in very important segment on th secret life up and has.

it is straightforward, but it triggered many people on the left there are pockets of and they rose to the surface the moment we did the following segment. you know the official story about pandas, they are cute, bu adorably hopeless which is why they are almost as extinct. the real panda is a secret stud with a taste for flesh in a fearsome bite. pandas it turns out could easil clear you kill you if they felt like it. 40 times in a single afternoon. pandas are so distracted by the personal lives are humans, something else to be grateful for. you think shark attacks aren't real? as surfer in northern, california on his surfboard whe he was pulled underwater by a great white.

he told us what he had to do just free himself from the jaws of that shark. we will talk about that next on this special things giving addition of tucker carlson tonight.

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>> tucker: walking back to you this thanksgiving animal addition of tucker carlson tonight. that many people can say they have come face to face with a great white shark. out paddling on as reported during the of shark tober when all of a sudden his leg was grabbed by a great white shark and he was pulled underneath th water. we asked him how did you survive . had you worried about this? in california, a lot of sharks off california were you ever worried about sharks? to get it is framed probably on of my biggest fears for a long time. and i serve despite and i have

served up and down the coast, but for the most part i serve u here in humble county and it wa definitely has been on my mind. i live in a town or in an city called fortuna and the surfing options we have locally are pretty remote and not a lots of traffic or people in the water, so surfing there quite a bit. it is definitely on your mind i would say upwards of 70 percent of the time i surf there by myself, so it was on my mind an being the month of october i ha some second thoughts about it and that day it was on my mind more than usual probably becaus it was the beginning of october. >> it is kind of neat went your worst fears come true because

then you get it out of the way. this great white shark latches onto you, how did you get them off? >> at the time, i just paddled out, i'd probably been in the water for ten minutes and between sets of waves, you have some time to think about anything, and it was kind of even on my mind in that moment in there was a lot of seals in that water. and they thought it was sealed. mom was underwater and the pressure was around me and it was more localized. it gave me 100 cake and it pretty quickly released and i got to my board and paddled in kind of not knowing that i had

many lacerations and i even checked my need to see if it ha broken my wetsuit and felt a little tear and almost initiall i felt somewhat inconvenienced when i got to the beach i realized how serious it was very . >> amazing. there's nothing cooler then surviving in shark attack four from a great white great thank you. there are domesticated animals, wild animals, and then there ar truly wild animals they just cannot be controlled by men. we spoke recently to someone wh has been able to coexist and develop deep emotional feelings for the most uncontrollable animal of all, the alligator. >> how did you and your alligator meat? >> he was a wild alligator rescued at disney in one of the lagoons there.

a friend brought him up to me the following day. how old was the gator when you first got them? >> he was about 18 months old. and about 20 inches long. >> so i think the question everyone watching this is askin how does that man not get eaten by that alligator. is that a concern for you at all ? could get no, we are not on the food chain for alligators freight you cannot train a alligator not to bite. wally just chooses not to bite. eight just refuses to bite. we do not know in cannot understand why. >> that is amazing. so you are saying this is as unusual as it looks. people don't kiss alligators fo

a reason, but you just did. wally is not your average alligator. >> i love this alligator. >> tucker: since he's not eating you, what does he eat? >> wally only eats checking eat chicken legs, rats, and puffed corn spread the other gators i've had her last ideas i had t feed too. >> chicken legs, dead rats, and cheesy puffed corn. >> yes. that is amazing. with a diet. where does he live? >> he lives in my living room. he lives in my house freight i have a 300-gallon pond in my living room and he runs my whol house. >> how big is he going to get? he can average 15 or 16 feet.

i went in skeptical, but i'm touched by this. i think it's a really nice stor and you seem to have a great relationship with your gator. thank you for joining us. happy things giving you're probably watching this through the turkey, we want to end the show on good news involving the release of thousands of beagles with from the lab with ties to tony fauci.

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it is essential that we treat them kindly. a cumis or shocked as to learn that thousands of beagles had been locked up and tortured in lab in virginia for no real scientific purpose and that tha lab received funding from tony fauci department of health freight it's a funding scam, it doesn't save children from pediatric cancer, it just kills beagles. so the scam is exposed and the beagles are being freed, we spoke to someone who's been following this carefully. to get these beagles are not going to be tortured, congratulations, we are celebrating, what happens to them now? >> thank you, we are celebrating . thinking for having me back on. over that next 60 days or so they are going to be transferre to the humane society of the night states and from they are going too various shelters in virginia and beyond their the first group was released yesterday to the tune of approximately 400.

these are thousands and thousands of dogs bred for research, the facility has been there since 1961 and we are thrilled that not a single one of these 4,000 beagles will eve be tortured and killed in a lab they will all have the opportunity to find a loving home to feel grass under their paws, the sun on there back, play with a toy, and have a name , things they haven't had that the chance to experience thus far. >> what was so upsetting about the story was nobody could say with a straight face while thes dogs are being killed so kids won't die of cancer there seem to be no justifiable reason to torture these dogs to death or am i missing something? >> you are absolutely not missing something. we are thrilled for these 4,000 dogs, but this facility was the second-largest provider of dogs for experiments in this country pair there is a larger facility in new york that has believe it or not 21,000 beagles. these animals are bred and sold

for pointless painful experiments in our federal government has bought dogs from this facility since september o 2020, the nih has had contracts for live dogs, at least three contracts right it's time for the nih to wake up and realize it's the 21st century and move on to modern nonanimal methods. >> so much money is sloshing around the system that to keep it flowing, they invent experiments that benefit nobody. so, you are saying just to be totally clear on the way out, i the next how long until these dogs can be adopted by people watching? >> the plan for a transfer will take place over the next 60 day and we urge people to just keep an eye and we are so thrilled that peta undercover investigation prompted this domino effect that resulted not only in 74 violations at the department of justice getting involved, but the liberation of

these 4,000 dogs. we hope all the cages get emptied next from all the laboratories and breeding facilities. >> tucker: that's it for us tonight, happy things giving pair there is so much to be thankful for even though we are stuck in an echo chamber of lunacy. we will see you tomorrow, have great night ♪ >> welcome to this special edition of hannity. tonight for the hour we will highlight some of our interview from the past few months first up my interviews with senator marco rubio, senator ron johnso after the big midterm wins. had a huge victory and the grea state of florida, you know, i don't know, senator, nearly 20 percent of the vote. you could've done a lot better, i i think think you let the party down