Alligators

don't know.

Alligator's pretty good.

It is, but that's an exception to the rule.

That's an exception.

Welcome back to The Devil Within.

This is The New Monsters, Episode 3 of The Alligators in the Sewer.

In our first episode, we built the hidden New York beneath Manhattan and followed the remarkable 1935 story of an alligator reportedly pulled from an East Harlem sewer.

Then we followed Teddy Mae into the tunnels, where one misplaced reptile became an alleged colony and eventually a municipal extermination campaign whose documentary evidence remains considerably thinner than the story itself.

Americans really did purchase baby alligators in Florida.

Owners really did abandon these exotic animals.

Alligators really have appeared in New York.

An enormous underground infrastructure really does exist beneath the city, accessible primarily to workers, and most residents will never see it.

Live from the Gator Grapplers Hall of Fame in Biolabatry, Louisiana! It's the Ringhausen Brothers Alligator Wrestling Hour.

30 minutes of no-holds-barred discussion about the exciting and dangerous world of professional alligator wrestling with your host, the eldest and wisest of the Ringhausen Brothers, author, inventor, philosopher, the first banjoist for the New York Philharmonic, and the legal representative of the International Brotherhood of Professional Alligator Wrestlers, a man whose only fault is that he loves too much, mainly himself, Richard J. Ringhausen! And also featuring the youngest of the Ringhausen brothers, well-loved song and dance man and self-taught herpetologist, the new overseer of the Bridge of Death, Twice decorated Air Force hero sandwich eater.

A man with Ringhausen blood coursing through his veins.

Craig, 12 and a half percent Ringhausen Johnson.

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No portion of today's broadcast may be reproduced without the express written consent of the North American Alligator Wrestling Association.

And with that little bit of legal business in hand, see you later.

You know, I've never...

No, I have seen Alligator once.

It was with a group of friends, and I don't remember anything about

it.

I'm like, well, it's like, Jaws was first.

I mean, there's been other films before that in which animals were But in terms of the big animal snack, it's like Jaws is a shark in the New England area that shouldn't be there, and it's coming close, and da-da-da-da-da, right? Okay, and that's been a blueprint that's been fairly successful, done right.

Again, I'll mention Alligator.

It does a good job of that.

I'm John Rawl, and we appreciate you tuning in to the Y'all Show as we go into history, and sometimes the dark history of the South.

And the chant that I'm referencing specifically is the Gator Bait chant.

It's a chant that is used essentially when the Florida Gator football team or sports teams of UF are about to clinch a big victory.

And it's used to kind of put a finger in the eye of the opponent.

I'll let you hear it in a moment.

And, you know, I doubt many of you do.

That's why we're going to talk about it now.

Gator bait actually has a very ugly history in the South.