00:00The newly waning moon just beginning its ascent into the blackened sky,
00:04peaked above the distant cypress trees, casting its pale light across the river of grass.
00:10As I'm riding this, I'm guiding an eclectic gathering of first-time python hunters,
00:15each hopeful of cashing in an award, winning snake during the Florida Python Challenge.
00:20The $10,000 prize, is that for the biggest snake or the most snakes?
00:27I believe it's for the most snakes.
00:29And I am going to pith them, put an ice pick down in their brain, and scramble their brains.
00:35Uh, uh, uh. Yeah.
00:38The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is ready to do whatever it takes to remove the Burmese python.
00:45The 10-day competition calls on both professionals and novices.
00:48I welcome everyone to join us in hunting this invasive snake and saving our beautiful everglades.
00:56I want to look good. I don't want these locals thinking I'm just some sloppy San Franciscan.
01:01The python challenge has turned into, like, the Burning Man of snake hunting.
01:05It brings the wrong kind of attention to this problem.
01:08Snake! Snake, snake, snake, snake, snake, snake, snake, snake, snake, snake, snake.
01:10It's a python!
01:12Oh!
01:13Yeah, he got it!
01:14Boom!
01:15Oh, shit.
01:16It's a big one, man.
01:18Have you seen people get snake eyes?
01:20And they pick up the snake, and they're, like, hypnotized in another reality.
01:30Come on!
01:31Throw that python!
01:34So if you definitely lose, go and get him.
01:37Bless this hunter.
01:39Regardless if he catches the biggest snake out there or he catches the most, Lord.
01:43Wow, it's Amy the python huntress, baby!
01:47I am gonna catch a 20-footer.
01:49You know, everyone's out here.
01:50He's got different motives.
01:51If you ever watch Scooby-Doo, it always turns out the real monsters are always people.
01:59Hey, sweetie, it's me.
02:00I just had a little micro-dose, and wish me some good snake and luck, and I'll see you soon.
02:06Oh!
02:09Oh, shit.
02:13Oh, shit.
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