BOTH BUCK HERSCHEL JD MALE MARGRET_ANN MITCH RYDER VO VO_BUCK BUCK Uh, heard you got a gator problem. HERSCHEL Yeah, they’re coming in the back out of the swamp. BUCK Whoa! BUCK That’s a monster bull gator living 30 yards from your house. RYDER And they got one purpose to kill and eat you. MITCH [GAGS] Oh my God. BUCK You ok? MITCH Yeah. BUCK There's a good remedy for skunks. It’s to take a bath in tomato juice. MITCH Whew! MARGRET ANN Hey! BUCK What? MARGRET ANN I want to go out to dinner tonight. You need to slow down and spend some time with me. BUCK Mitch and Ryder wanted to cook for you? MARGRET ANN What’s for dinner tonight? No, just not-- no. They’re creepy to me. I’m sorry. VO south texas, one of the most hostile environment for man and beast. VO but there's one man whose mission is to maintain the balance between nature and civilization. VO BUCK [squeeling] my name is buck medley. and i keep a watch over the ranch lands of texas. BUCK That’s where you get bit right there. BUCK If you have an animal problem, you call me. MALE Been having trouble with a bobcat. BUCK The water’s infested with huge alligators. BUCK Whoa! MALE Man, this fellar is one of a kind. Just look at him. BUCK Down here in South Texas, you’re gonna have to have backup. MALE No stranger to danger. MITCH Buck’s a South Texas legend because everybody knows him down here. RYDER Not only is Buck extreme in what he does, but he’s also kind of extreme in what he looks like. BUCK How’s my hair look? MARGRET ANN We’re not the beaver clever family. MARGRET ANN Ah! MARGRET ANN But we have lots of fun, MALE He knew exactly what to do. He’s absolutely the best. BUCK I’m gonna be out in that jungle making sure there's justice for all living creatures. BUCK Freedom awaits you. VO buck and his family make their home two hours south of san antonio in the ranch lands of tilden, texas. the sun has yet to rise but buck has already begun his morning routine. BUCK Every morning, I wake up at five a.m. I want to wake the roosters up. BUCK I got hair like a lion. I got muscles like a jaguar. BUCK Whew! That feels good. [GROWLS] BUCK I probably am more animal than human. That's what my wife tells me. BUCK It’s lovely to look like Tarzan in the morning. That feels good. MARGRET ANN I-- I love Buck’s look. BUCK There's all kinds of creatures living in my hair. I don't know what’s happening. MARGRET ANN He’s just a very rugged kind of guy that as long as he got his boots and his knife and-- and that hair and his hairspray, he’s happy. BUCK Come here, let me do your hair. MARGRET ANN All right, I just woke up, Buck. BUCK I know. But you're still beautiful in the morning. Turn around. All right, close your eyes. MARGRET ANN So beautiful in the morning? What do you want? BUCK Breakfast. MARGRET ANN I've been married to Buck for 24 years. We have our arguments. We have our disagreements. MARGRET ANN Sit down. BUCK I don’t have time to sit down. I gotta go. MARGRET ANN Hey, I-- I want to go out to dinner tonight. You need to slow down and spend some time with me. BUCK I know I’ve been meaning to take you out. So we gotta go out. MARGRET ANN All right, what time? BUCK When I’m done. MARGRET ANN But we also love and respect each other. And, uh, I think that balances our relationship. BUCK Give me a kiss. Now, give that. All right. MARGRET ANN All right, hey, you forgot your banana. BUCK All right. MARGRET ANN I don’t chase him out of bars. But I do chase him out of the woods. MARGRET ANN Hey! BUCK What? MARGRET ANN Try not to get eaten today. BUCK Mmm, that’s my main objective. VO while buck sharpens his spear throwing skills back up arrives to find out what’s on today’s agenda. BUCK And it’s hard finding good help in Tilden, Texas. I’m always looking for good hands that can help me with extremely dangerous and big animals. MITCH Hey! What’s up? BUCK Mitch and his son Ryder, they’re my good ole boy ranch hands. One looks like a cave man. One looks like a Neanderthal. MITCH Well, they call me catfish Mitch. And I’m from west by God Monroe, Louisiana. When work got slow, when I got -- I got in with Buck. And he said, man, I’ll put you to work, working for me on the ranch. Called my son, he wasn’t doing nothing. So he come down here with work too. BUCK Hey, Ryder what’s up with that hat? Don’t you know it’s like 100 degrees here in South Texas? RYDER Well, it’s a new style. You know, hipsters got it going on. So I’m gonna try it. BUCK When’s the hipster guy gonna get here? RYDER You know, I think I can offer Buck the right type of back up that he needs, a little bit of strength, a little bit of good looks. So hopefully that could be used here on this job. MITCH You got something for us to do today? RYDER Your phone’s ringing. BUCK Yeah, yeah, we’ll find something to do for sure. BUCK Hello? Good. How you doing, Mr. Finley? HERSCHEL I think we might have a gator run loose around here. MITCH Alligator! BUCK A gator? We’ll make this an urgent one and head that way. MITCH We’re heading east? BUCK Headed east, boys. Alligators. MITCH Yeah! Let’s do it. BUCK I’m from South Texas. I learned the ways of the animals here. And I basically run a perimeter of about 200 miles in any direction. BUCK We’re off to Yorktown. It’s about an hour and a half east from my ranch in Tilden. BUCK This must be the place. BUCK How you doing? HERSCHEL All right. You must be Buck. BUCK Yes, sir. You must be Mr. Finley. BUCK I heard you got a gator problem. HERSCHEL Yeah, they’re coming in the back out of the swamps and getting in the wallabies. BUCK Wallabies? Wow. Where do you get those at? HERSCHEL Well, they originally come out of New Zealand. Now we’re breeding 'em and, uh, selling 'em for pets. BUCK People want little baby kangaroos for pets? HERSCHEL Yeah, they-- they make good pets. BUCK Wow. HERSCHEL They better than dogs. BUCK Wallabies are little cute things. They're small, furry, lovable animals. The problem is, they make great good for alligators. MITCH How many have you lost? HERSCHEL Six or seven. RYDER How much does a Wallaby cost? HERSCHEL They start around 2,000. RYDER Ooh, my! BUCK What we want to do with these gators, we want to catch 'em alive, relocate 'em to a different water system where they can flourish. HERSCHEL Here’s the back of the wallaby pen. And you can see right behind that there's a slew. BUCK That's like a gator highway. HERSCHEL Yeah, the river goes all the way up here to this big pond. BUCK And this pond, look, it’s like 50 yards from your house. RYDER Not far at all. HERSCHEL Yeah, it’s-- it’s close. BUCK And you seen big gators in here before? HERSCHEL The last one I seen was a couple days ago. BUCK There's a river that surrounds the whole ranch where the gators can get closer to the ranch and actually live and hunt right on the ranch perimeter. And that’s not good. BUCK Look at that. Look. He went right up there. Look where the fence is laid over. You can see his belly line where he actually pushed it down right there. This gator had to weigh probably three, 400 pounds. HERSCHEL You think you can help me? BUCK Well, with what I’ve seen so far you’ve got one big bull gator right next to your house. But from what you're telling me you’ve got slews in the river. So there could be a lot of gators. We’re gonna fix you up. We’re gonna take care of your gators. All right, let’s go. BUCK It seems like there's several alligators going after Herschel’s wallabies. But from the looks of the damage to the fence there must be one huge on in there also. We need to find these gators and relocate all of 'em. BUCK Poop. Let’s go. VO BUCK THERE’S NO WAY TO MANHANDLE THE BIG THREE OR 400 POUND GATOR WE’RE LOOKING FOR, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE IN SWAMPY MUD. BUCK So what we’re gonna try to do is we’re gonna use these big hog traps to catch the big one. BUCK Keep your eyes peeled. Watch out. Ready? Go. BUCK Basically we set 'em halfway in the water where the gator can actually swim in the trap, door falls in behind him. It’s a perfect live catch trap. BUCK All right, get back. Don’t touch anything. Wing out. Come on, let’s go. BUCK We got our trap set for the big bull alligator. But there's still some smaller gators to deal with. BUCK Look, there's the house. What, three or 400 yards through that way? RYDER Oh, yeah. MITCH Yes. BUCK Gators, they hear dogs barking. They hear roosters crowing. It attracts them. They hunt. MITCH What about them [kawallabies?] BUCK Kawallabies, what? Is that like a new breed? MITCH Kawallabies. BUCK A Koala Bear Wallaby mixture, a kawallaby. MITCH They might be smelling them wallabies. RYDER They might be smelling you. BUCK When we got to the next water hole, we saw our first gator. Mitch, he’s from the swampland, so he’ll be a big help in wrangling these alligators. Ryder he’s big and strong. So once we get these alligators contained, he’ll be a big help in loading them and relocating them. BUCK All right, there he is right there. RYDER He’s going, moving that way. You got him? BUCK Whoa! Get back, get back, get back! Watch out, he’s gonna bite you. Get it out! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Get his head, get his head! Whoa! Ah! BUCK I got a call from a rancher named Herschel. He’s lost six of his wallabies to alligators. Mitch, Ryder, and I, we’re trying to catch all these alligators. We want to move 'em to a new home. RYDER You got him? BUCK Whoa! Get back, get back, get back! Watch out, he’s gonna bite you. Get it out! [BLEEP] BUCK He’s a lot faster than me with a lot more teeth. When he bites me it’s gonna hurt a little more than when I bite him. BUCK Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! [GRUNTS] RYDER There you go, there you go. BUCK Hang on. He’s twisting. RYDER He’s twisting on you. Got his body? BUCK When it comes to wrestling large man-eating reptiles, I don’t about you. But I love that BUCK Good job. RYDER Load him up. BUCK Yeah, let’s get him out of here. BUCK We’re still looking for the big bull alligator. But we’re also trying to catch all these little ones. RYDER Down in the hole BUCK Ok, he’s going by me. Get him! Get him! Oh, awesome. Good job, man. First snare. Don’t let him turn, don’t let him turn. Oh, ooh, man, he almost got me! Give me that tail. BUCK The best way to wrangle a gator is actually get him by the tail and drag him backwards. That’s when you can make your dive and get him behind the head. These hands are alligator tamers. BUCK Go straight out. VO BUCK when you catch alligators, you don’t have to exterminate 'em. BUCK Keep going, get him out in that deeper water. BUCK You can relocate 'em to different river systems. And, uh, we’re just gonna get 'em out of this ranchers area. RYDER He’s free. MITCH Hey, he loves it here. BUCK There you go, good job! VO BUCK so we finally made it back to the ranch. BUCK Look at that. VO BUCK we come across a huge slide with big tracks. BUCK The wallaby’s right there. There's his belly slide right there. That’s a ten or 12-footer. BUCK I’m thinking by the size of the tracks and the size of the belly slide this is the big gator we’re looking for. BUCK Let’s keep scouting. Look! Big gator crossed right here. MITCH I ain’t scared. But, uh, I’ma be behind Buck. [LAUGHS] That's my deal. I’m kinda the back up man. BUCK This is probably a gator den. Look how it’s hollowed out right here. BUCK Gator dens, they're caverns that go underneath the bank of the river. And the alligators go in there to hibernate and hide. BUCK Wow. It goes way up underneath there. I got five foot of pole in there and it’s still going further back in there. Music BUCK Now we’ve checked all the waterways close to the ranch. There's only one more pond that's right next to the house. We think this is where the big gator’s hunting. BUCK Ooh, door’s down. RYDER Oh, there's something in there. And the cage is beat up. BUCK Whoa! JD Got a skunk caught in my hog trailer there. BUCK Oh, he’s stinking now. He’s spraying. MITCH Oh my God. BUCK You ok? Music VO buck, mitch, and ryder have caught and relocated the smaller gator who had been attacking herschel finley’s wallabies. but there's still one monster gator on the loose. BUCK Ooh, door’s down. RYDER Oh, there's something in there. BUCK I don’t see him at the top. A lot of times they're just gonna be laying on the bottom. We don’t know how big they are. BUCK Whoa, yep! That's the big one. BUCK Once I saw this three or 400-pound gator, I mean I knew this was the huge gator that was hunting this area right close to the house. This had to be the gator doing all the damage to the wallabies. BUCK Whoa! That gator’s pretty heavy. I may go get Herschel’s tractor and see if we can pull him up out of here. RYDER You’re looking good! VO BUCK So we drag it out backwards, huge gator in there, turning, snapping. BUCK Whoa! Huh! What do you think, man? HERSCHEL You got him! BUCK Got it! Sweet! Is that the one? Is that the big one? HERSCHEL I think so. BUCK That’s a big bull gator. MITCH Woo! BUCK You had a serious gator problem. But I think we pretty much took care of it for you. HERSCHEL Appreciate it. BUCK No problem, man. I actually had fun doing it. MITCH We’re gonna feed ya, big boy. We just ain’t gonna feed you no [willabies]. BUCK Wallabies. MITCH Wallabies. BUCK Here, we’re gonna transport this gator on the trailer, take him to his new home. BUCK See that? I’m gonna let him go right on that bank. BUCK Right here, just let him down easy. BUCK This is my idea of a lot of fun, coming out here in the swamp, a lot of water, a lot of gators, a lot of action. I mean this is it for me. BUCK He saw freedom. You know? RYDER That’s right. MITCH Oh, he gonna love it here. RYDER Yeah, it’s gonna be a lot better. BUCK I think he’ll be right at home in this new swamp. BUCK All right, I gotta run by this store over here. Uh, me and Margret Ann are supposed to be having a romantic dinner tonight. MITCH Romantic dinner? BUCK Yeah. I do, I want to get some nice steaks for tonight. BUCK I want to put my own little spin on this dinner with Margret Ann. We’re gonna have a nice little picnic on the back deck, maybe cook some steaks. RYDER Steaks! MITCH Not being very romantic though, man. MITCH I’ve been married for 26 years, Ryder’s mama. And, uh, I’m very romantic. I gotta work on Buck, help him out. MITCH All right! BUCK I got a phone call. Let me take this real quick. You guys want to go in there and get that? RYDER Yeah, we’ll get it. BUCK All right. BUCK A skunk stuck in your trailer, that’s your hog-hauling trailer? It won’t be too long. We’ll head that way. All right, thank you, sir. BUCK Boys got what we need? MITCH We got it, man. We got you fixed up. RYDER I know Buck told us to get steaks. And that's a pretty good South Texas cuisine. But we were thinking something a little more Cajun. BUCK I just got a call on a skunk problem. MITCH What? BUCK A guy’s got a skunk trapped in his trailer. You got my dinner, right? RYDER Yes, sir. BUCK Let’s head out that way. MITCH Oh, yeah, Mrs. Buck’ll love it. Music Music BUCK Goin' on? How you doing, JD? JD Doing fine, brother. How you been? BUCK Good. JD Well, got a skunk caught in my hog trailer there. BUCK The skunk actually went in the hog trailer. BUCK Apparently the skunk has gotten into JD’s hog trailer before. And once we get this thing caught, we’re gonna relocate it to a different area far enough where it won’t find its way back. BUCK There it is. All right, that's a pretty good-sized skunk. RYDER When I heard skunk I was thinking, all right, stink, rabies, teeth, and claws. But mainly the stink. BUCK The plan is to go in and get the skunk out of the trailer and try not to come out stinking like a skunk. What I want to try to do with the skunk, I want to go in there and keep his tail pinned down. He won’t be able to activate his spray glands so we can grab him by the tail, get him out, and put him in that transport box. BUCK You gotta watch out. If he spins around and his tail goes up, you know what’s gonna happen next, right? It’s not a pretty sight if you get sprayed. BUCK And I don’t want to get sprayed today. Skunk spray gets on your clothes, gets in your beard, on your hair. And later on I got a date with Margret Ann. I mean I don’t think she’d want to get close to me. BUCK You guys ready? BUCK It’s only a skunk, man. BUCK Go on in there. MITCH Here! [SING SONGY] MITCH Hold his tail down. You doing a good job. MITCH Come grab him, Ryder. BUCK Get that tail. Get him by the tail. You got him. You got him. MITCH Oh, he got out. RYDER Hey, he’s getting out that front deal right there, Buck. BUCK Give me the broom. Give me the broom. BUCK Oh, his whole body’s out. Ooh, he-- ooh, he’s biting. Oh, he’s stinking now. He’s spraying. MITCH Oh my God. [GAGS] VO now it’s time for buck 101. BUCK That's the mating call of a very dangerous beast. There's nearly a half a million of 'em here in Texas. But there hasn’t been one fatal attack on a human in Texas State history. What do you think this animal is? The answer when we come back. VO back to buck 101 BUCK 26 million people call Texas home and zero have been fatally attacked by an alligator. These prehistoric lizards can live up to 50 years and measure over 15 feet long. [GROWLS] BUCK I got a call from my buddy JD. He’s got a skunk problem. BUCK Oh, he’s stinking now. He’s spraying now. RYDER Ugh! MITCH Woo! [GAGS] Oh, I smell it now. BUCK Go, go, go, he’s stinking too much. Go! RYDER I’m dropping it. Oh my God. RYDER You get him? BUCK It all went kind of haywire in the end. But, um, we managed to get him in the box. MITCH JD Man, y'all stink. RYDER I’m not happy that my dad got sprayed. But you know that saying rather you than me. MITCH [COUGHING] BUCK You ok? MITCH Yeah, I’m fine. RYDER He gonna make me puke [OVERLAPPING] He stinks, man. BUCK Did he get sprayed? RYDER Yeah, he got sprayed. BUCK There's a good remedy for skunks. BUCK Here, I got-- I got some stuff. MITCH What you got? BUCK It’s to take a bath in tomato juice. BUCK Get it all over you. MITCH Woo! BUCK It actually sucks whatever the burning sensation is out and it’s supposed to de-smell you. MITCH Man, it was fun. MITCH I look like Bloody Mary. MITCH But I wouldn’t want to do it every day. JD So what are y'all gonna do with him? BUCK I’m gonna take him and let him go as far out in the woods as I can find. JD All right, I appreciate it, brother. I gotta get back to work. BUCK No problem. All right. RYDER I was wondering. I said, man, get that box. MITCH He was pretty though, pretty stinky. Music BUCK Back over here towards this corner. Good area, wood lot. BUCK See that spot right there? MITCH This is Pepe, the poo. BUCK Look, there he is. MITCH Oh, look at him. Music BUCK There is goes. RYDER Woo! BUCK Margret Ann, she wants to have a romantic dinner. But I came up with something a little more my style. It’s gonna be a surprise picnic on the back patio. RYDER Man, them gonna be good. MITCH Oh, they 'bout ready now. RYDER I know. BUCK I can’t cook. But Mitch and Ryder can. So I asked for their help. BUCK All right, baby, come out onto the deck. I have a beautiful evening dinner in store for you. MARGRET ANN You don’t cook, Buck. Come on. BUCK Yeah, but Mitch and Ryder, they wanted to cook for you. MARGRET ANN Aw, how sweet. BUCK Look at them boys. MARGRET ANN Hey, guys! BOTH Hello, Mrs. Buck! MARGRET ANN So what’s-- what's for dinner tonight? RYDER We got you some frog legs. MITCH Frog legs. BUCK I told Mitch & Ryder to pick up some steaks. They bring back freakin’ frog legs. And the worst part, Margret Ann hates frog legs. This thing’s gonna turn into a total disaster. MARGRET ANN I don’t eat frog legs. RYDER You don’t? MARGRET ANN No. RYDER Or you won’t? RYDER We’re in South Texas. Steak’s everywhere. Frog legs? That's where it’s at. MARGRET ANN I’m just not-- no they’re creepy to me. I’m sorry. MARGRET ANN There's very few things I won’t try. But frog legs are on top of the list. RYDER If you’ve never had it, please. MARGRET ANN Let me smell it. RYDER Just try it. Eat that little white part right there. MARGRET ANN Oh my God, it’s delicious. RYDER [LAUGHS] I knew-- I knew it. MARGRET ANN I really enjoyed Mitch and Ryder being there because they're such great cooks. And, uh, it’s good to be open about trying new things even if they're frog legs. [LAUGHS] BUCK I may be a different guy, got a different life, got a different look. But I still want my wife to be happy. BUCK We might have to go hunting frog tonight. RYDER I’m ready! 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