WEBVTT - Beefalo Buddies with Lauren Ash 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.680 Hey guys, welcome to Greatest Escapes, the show bringing you 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.000 the wildest true escape stories of all time. Not today, 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.240 we're following a heartwarming tale, the story of an escapee 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.880 who the whole community rallied around. He even got the 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.840 police on his side. Very impressive. I'm Martro Castro, and 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.720 I'm joined by a fantastic actress and comedian who also 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.079 hosts a podcast, True Crime and Cocktails, Lauren Ash. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:58.320 Let's go, Lauren Ash bra blah blah. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.600 What a joy in my life, I think. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:01.800 Welcome to the show. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:03.480 Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to be here. I 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.320 was so excited when I saw this come through my email. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.240 I was like, hell, yes, I cannot wait. This is 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:07.600 the best. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:07.960 You know. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.240 It's one of those things where where you know the 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.360 wonderful folks at Film Nation. I love Film Nation. Film 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.120 Nation is great. I love them. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:15.680 Help me. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.360 Maybe you're plotting an escape. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.600 Well's nothing. I love them. They treat me so to 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.440 her will not be escaping. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.279 Legally contractually bound? I gotcha, Lauren. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.240 I wanted to ask you, do you have the greatest 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:34.000 escape story? 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:35.360 You know what's so funny? 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.880 I was with my best friend of ten ten twenty 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.200 years last night, Leslie Siler we met, Yes, we met 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.039 twenty years ago this month and I said to her. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.160 I was like, I'm doing this podcast and it's about escapes. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:48.640 And I was like, and I can't think it. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:53.720 She goes Boston and I went, that's it. Immediately she was. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.240 Like me, Mark Wahlberg is involved, Like, oh, Boddy, we're 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:57.560 gonna go. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.440 We're gonna go, we're gonna get some sandwiches, We're gonna 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:00.000 eat a lobstery. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.240 Okay, so tell me. So what happened in Boston? 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.240 She and I again, we met twenty years ago. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.480 We were best friends, comedy partners, and we were going 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.040 for this comedy festival in Boston and we were staying 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.240 kind of far from the venue and so you had 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.160 to take a like an uber or a cab. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.960 But this was kind of at the time when Uber. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.880 Was just starting. So for those of us we were like, 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:20.760 how does it work? 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:21.959 Do we have the app? 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.040 We were still hailing cabs at this point right in 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:26.120 the world, okay, and. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.760 It was hella expensive and like hard to get I 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.440 remember totally totally. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.680 And so we we had come out of the hotel 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.480 and we had so much stuff because we were doing 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.320 a sketch comedy show, so I don't have to. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.800 Tell you Wigs Wiggs. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.840 We've got a lot of gear and we're waiting and 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.840 we've somehow, for some reason, we like walked to half 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.320 a block from the hotel and we were like, there's 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:46.840 no cabs. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.520 What are we going to do? And then this car 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.040 pulls up. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.440 It's a black car, it's a nice car, and this 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.160 guy goes, where are you going? 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.560 And we both were like, and he's like, I'll take you. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.840 And it was in this moment that I looked at 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.440 her and she seemed okay with it, and she later 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.280 told me that she looked at me and I seemed 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.760 okay with it, when in reality, neither. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:09.639 Of us was okay with it. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.320 Wow, And so we were like, okay, I guess we're 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.400 getting into this unmarked limo car thing we put our 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.919 stuff in, but automatically now listen, this is pre me 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.480 having a true crime podcast. But I was already I'm 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.200 very familiar with the date lines. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:25.320 I know where this. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.200 Con is like one oh one, yeah, right. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.120 So on my phone, I've pulled up where we are 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.120 supposed to be going, because again it's not our town 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.280 and I'm watching, and then I have the true horror 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.600 set in as I watched this man going the wrong 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:44.080 way and he gets on a freeway and he's driving away. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:45.800 From where we need to go. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.520 And in this moment, this is when I my anxiety 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.680 brain takes over. And I told her later that I 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.840 was like, this is the picture that my brain painted. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.600 I was like, he was gonna drive us to an 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.360 abandoned airport hangar and that's where we get murdered. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.520 A very yes, very niche. There's so many of them, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.400 you know, people don't know. It's a rampant abandonment of 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.040 air hangers in the East Coast. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:07.840 Oh my god. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.040 But in this moment, so this is all this move, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.080 I'm playing the movie of the rest of the end 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.240 of my life in my head and I'm watching him 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:18.000 go past exit after exit, and after the third exit, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.080 the further we're getting from the from where we're supposed 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:21.279 to be. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.479 I'm Canadian? Can I curse on this show? 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:25.279 Do we curse? 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:25.680 Yeah? 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:26.120 Fuck it? 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.200 So in this moment, I was like something took over 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.280 in me, and again fight to the death, I guess 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.640 came out even though I never predicted it. And I 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.640 was like listen, motherfucker, you're going the wrong fucking way, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:37.520 and you're gonna get. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:37.960 Off this freeway. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:38.880 You're gonna take this turn. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.080 You're gonna win. And he was like okay, whoa and 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:41.720 he did. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:43.880 And then I was like, listen, from here on out, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.159 I am navigating, not you. And I was like telling 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.479 him where to go, and he drove us there. And 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.520 I don't know what his ultimate goal was. I think 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.920 it was just taking us for a ride to get 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.200 more money. I think that ultimately it was not necessarily nefarious. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.839 But ultimately I think what I showed was this isn't 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:01.680 going to be easy for you. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:02.680 This is not gonna be fun. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.359 But the best part was we finally arrive at our destination, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.200 which should have been about a fifteen dollars ride, and 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.360 he asked for seventy five. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.800 Oh fucking dare he? Also, I love the idea of 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:17.360 you combating a serial killer with assertiveness, Like that's like 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.240 they're like, oh no, I've been foiled. Somebody spoke with 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:21.719 the station. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.280 This depends on the kind of ride that guy's looking for. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.480 Don't pardon the pun, but again, it's like, you know, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:27.800 it was like, this is gonna be too much trouble 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.000 for you for you do, but I'll never be. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.360 You're right, people want easy prey. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.720 Yes, but what we have said ever since then, this 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:35.920 is the follow up to this, is that it was 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.560 like we escaped death potential death once. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.719 We can never court it again. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:42.040 Yeah, you get the one. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.560 Ge get one and that's it. 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:45.960 You're Canadian, you might get two. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.960 We consider ourselves good global citizens for the most part. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.160 That's right. I'm another brush with death. Don't don't you 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.320 worry about it? Like, put yourself at a risk, take 0:05:54.320 --> 0:06:01.400 that extra shot, jump in that car. Yeah, absolutely, Ben, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.760 Can you give me that cool like chapter music? Please? 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:12.760 You know when we changed chapter Ben, Ben, no, man, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.280 like you remember, it was like more emotional, like what 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.880 did we do last last one? We're gonna cut all 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:23.560 this out? But yeah, definitely oh this one, yes, like 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.920 turn yes please? Okay, So I'm gonna go, Ben, give 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:33.359 us some good chapter music. God damn it, man, we 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:40.320 just talked about it. Today. We start inside a prisoner 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.440 transport rattling down the Massachusetts Highway. They're being shipped out 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:49.120 of state to nearby Connecticut because everyone inside is scheduled 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.040 for execution. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:57.640 Oh no, so Massachusetts we're we're in the same world here. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.599 Yeah, that's right, And they were all being been by 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.880 a nounmarked vehicle. It was August third, twenty twenty. Along 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.680 with the other prisoners, Buddy pulled up alongside the new 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.520 facility and they jostled each other nervously as they came 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.560 to a stop. After four years penned up in Massachusetts, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.360 he had been carted to Plymouth, Connecticut to die. Oh 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.040 what do you know about the death penalty in Massachusetts? 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:23.760 Uh? You know what I should know more? 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.560 I have a true crime podcast after two years, but 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.440 I wasn't aware that it was in existence in Massachusetts anymore. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.360 My capital punishment was overturned for state crimes in nineteen 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.840 eighty four. Only federal crimes were punishable by death, so 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.320 Connecticut kept the death penalty for much much longer. So 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.560 in twenty twenty, Buddy was scheduled for execution, but he 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.880 had different ideas. Okay, so this was the first time 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.040 Massachusetts and Connecticut facilities had actually worked together, and the 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.560 handoff wasn't really the smoothest okay. In fact, when he 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.520 was being unloaded, Buddy saw his chance. Somehow he was 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.160 able to slip past the restraints, dodged the guards, and 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.040 hall ass right to freedom. Oh there was a super 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.280 thick forest nearby, and Buddy dove into the trees and 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.840 totally disappeared. So it was an impulsive escape, you know, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.800 he saw his opportunity and he took it. But whoever 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.960 said that it takes elaborate planning for an escape to 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.320 be great, right, This one was pure instinct. Buddy just 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.200 disappeared into the woods around Plymouth, Connecticut. Now he wasn't 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.280 hiding for long. In fact, multiple nine one one calls 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.560 came in when Buddy was spotted crossing the highway nearby. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.160 The police were so quick on his sail. But Buddy 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:31.920 wasn't easy to catch. You know. He was a really 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.440 big dude, like terrifyingly big, and he was super fast too, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.080 so once he got into the trees, he easily lost 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.560 everyone who was on his trail. Oh my god. Now 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.880 the police contemplated lethal force, but said it would only 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.360 be necessary if Buddy started to roam the streets and 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.640 threaten the public in Terryville, so it was like a 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.720 conditional lethal force action. It was more than three weeks later, 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.440 on August twenty seventh, that the police finally put the 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.880 word out that he was on the loose. The Plymouth 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.199 Police posted on their Facebook page that they were were 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.680 working with the two other agencies to recapture the eskpee. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:09.160 He had been last seen along Connecticut's Route seventy two, So. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.240 They waited three weeks to alert the public. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.240 Yeah. I think it's because of Yeah, it's hard to 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.840 admit when you pulled the dumbass act. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:18.080 You know. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:20.920 I guess when he did get away, he slipped away 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:21.440 so easily. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.320 Yeah, I guess maybe that's a tough thing to be. Like, Hey, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:24.120 guys are bad. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.880 Also, I love the idea that they're like, we have 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.559 to announce it somehow, we have to Okay, just put 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.760 it on the fucking Facebook page. Okay, nobody reads that one. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.480 They actually printed it on their MySpace page. Yeah, exactly, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:36.040 it was there. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:36.760 We put it out. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.760 We put it up there. Man, Yeah, you know, we've 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.080 announced it. You guys just didn't check high five dot 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:46.080 com at that time. Oh my god. So, for the 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.160 most part, Buddy was a really talented fugitive. He stayed 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.920 under the cover of the woods, ate his food super raw, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.319 and stayed quiet. Even so, the town of Terryville was 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.719 told to be cautious. The police said that Buddy was 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.000 aggressive and a confrontation with him would cause serious injuries. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.800 The town was cautioned to keep their distance and call 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.280 nine to one one on site. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:05.800 Now. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.559 On Monday, September one, twenty twenty, the state drone unit 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.559 was basically a couple of gamers down in Connecticut being like, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.240 y'all do it, I got nothing else to do, as 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.120 well as local and state officers combed the woods along 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.079 Judd Road and Rout seventy two on the north side 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.800 of Terrible Connecticut. Buddy had been at large for almost 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.200 a month by this point. Now the local police captain 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.080 on the case. His name is Edward Benecki. Am I 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.640 saying that, right, overlord? That is correct? Okay, So Edward 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.840 Benecki had previously seen I'm sorry to all my Italian 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.559 American friends had previously worked enforcement on narcotics, on gangs 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.240 and firearms trafficking, right, but this was something completely new. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.720 Buddy was massive and quick, so capturing him was difficult. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.600 Some would say he's a survivalist, you know, like if 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.160 he were on a survival TV show game, he'd definitely 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:00.120 be the star. How well would you do, Lauren? You 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:05.680 want to survivor show alone? What's no there's one called 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.640 yes naked and a frame. There's one just called alone, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.599 I think, and it's like so fucking. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.600 Scary, the ones where they drop you in the middle 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.440 of the woods and you're completely nude, and it's like 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.680 figure it out. That is what would happen to me 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.520 in like a purgatory situation after death if I did 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.280 bad things in life, like I. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.959 Don't want to camp. I don't want a glamp, no. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:34.240 Shower, man shower, Because here's my question, how is camping 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.040 anything other than bragging? 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.319 It is bragging that I can survive. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:39.760 That I don't. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.079 I have no I can be humble and say I wouldn't. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.800 Well, you know you also realize, like as actors, like 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:52.640 how meaningless our skills are in an apocalypse, Like I mean, well, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.600 everybody's like, you know this community used to say this, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.400 and I love her for you, but she's like she's 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.480 like she would be walking around with an almond being 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.240 like can anybody turn this into milk? Can anybody in me? 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.959 I would be like, yeah, I don't really hunt or 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.160 like digs. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.079 For stuff, but we just have to hope that people 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:10.199 still want entertainment. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.200 I think that that's it, Like you gotta hope that. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.120 Like, I mean, the musicians did go down with the Titanic, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.640 so that's maybe not a great comparison. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.600 Yeah, nobody was to make sure the musicians get in first. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:20.080 You know, the. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.960 Music must live on, the music must live on. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.440 Going get the laughs. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.239 I would learn to tap dance or something super marketable. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.559 I'd be like, you guys need some tap dancing. So 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.080 ed this ed Biniki thought that he could corner Buddy 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.160 because Buddy was also young. You know, in fact, Buddy 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:44.720 was only four years old. Here's where we have, Lauren, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:52.160 what do you think Buddy actually is a Number one, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.400 we have a sadistic doll possessed by an evil spirit 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.360 of a serial killer. Number two is he a top 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:04.240 secret early prototype kinetic robotic system that developed artificial intelligence? 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:09.720 Or Number three a beefalo escaping slaughter? Wait a second, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.679 what's a beefalo? Don't worry about it. Is it a bfalo? 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.240 Is it a top secret prototype or a sadistic doll? 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.880 Okay, well, you said he was big, You said he 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:18.280 was young. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:18.760 Uh huh. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.480 You said he was able to eat raw food, and 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.520 he could evade things and we couldn't shoot him. I 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.720 don't know what a beefalo is, but part of me 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.880 wonders if it is a cow buffalo hybrid that for 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:30.880 some reason. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.720 Ding ding ding ding ding, you got it. I didn't 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.000 mean to say, you don't worry about it, but they 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.920 told me I couldn't tell you what it was, so no, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.440 I I am, yeah, I am under contract. They're so 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.640 nice to me. I love them so much. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:44.200 I'm going to send you a burner phone. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.320 Okay, I actually, yes, please give me. Yeah. I didn't 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.320 know what a beefalo was either, but I think the 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.839 name is fucking hilarious. So yeah, it's a beefo. Is 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.520 a is a bison mixed with with a cow? I believe? 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:58.880 Or right? Am I? 0:13:58.960 --> 0:13:59.120 Right? 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.520 Guys, yes, sir, A beefalo is a bison cow hybrid. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:04.960 Oh my god. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.479 Okay, this is amazing. I love this turn. This is fantastic, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:09.000 so listen. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.640 It turns out Buddy's only crime was being born a beefalo. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.320 Oh so bison, you know, they are lean and mean, 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.080 and cows are docile but carry less meat, so when 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.200 they crossbread In the eighteen seventies, it was supposed to 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.040 make the perfect healthy meat animal, as lean as a bison, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.640 but as gentle as a cow. They have been tested 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.800 as having higher vitamin levels and more protein than beef, 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.280 and they were supposed to be easily led from the 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.640 feed lot to the killing floor. Now you can visit 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.000 American beefalo Association dot com for the full picture, which 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.320 is actually a thing which I love. But the point 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.120 is that Buddy the beefalow was literally bred for slaughter, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.760 but he was not planning to be merchandise. Nay, not Buddy, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.880 my friend. In fact, his initial escape was just the beginning. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:57.480 Give me a mood sound, will you? 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:03.360 Ma oh? 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.880 She was about yes and yeah, of course, Lauren, you're welcome. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.040 You're welcome to make any sound effects you would like. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.360 Yes, sorry, Lauren, but I wouldn't ask you so so 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:26.800 so succinctly, I would be appreciate, do you mind? So, Lauren? 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.960 Now that we know that the escapee is actually a 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.160 b falow, what we got here is a really lighthearted story, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.560 right like this happened early in the pandemic, and to me, 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.040 I don't know, it really showcases the like the power 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.600 of community and how we all needed a little optimism 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.480 and a little comedy in that time, you know, so 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.640 let's have some fun with it. Yeah, now, Bud, his 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.560 escape was pretty unusual. The slaughterhouse he ran away from 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.080 was a full service facility. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:51.480 You know. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.480 They did the slaughtering and the butchering, packaging, shipping out 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.000 of cuts of Primo b Falow everywhere ever. You got 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.520 to be follow, You got to be follow. That's all 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.000 they did. They were the real pros and they weren't 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.320 used to their animals escaping, so obviously neither were the 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.520 local cops. After the police put out an APV on Buddy, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:16.600 Captain ed bickhetdie what is it, mckheeddie, sorry, Captain ed Mineki. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.480 Captain ed Minecki gave a statement to the press. He 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.440 said that at one point there was an officer who 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.880 had cornered Buddy, but in that's words, I quote, yeah, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.200 he approached the animal, but the animal put his head 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.520 down and started to pall the ground aggressively or scratched 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.960 the ground real aggressive like. So at the time the 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.960 sergeant tactically relocated, which is another term for he to 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.880 retreat it from the area. What excuse, what excuse would 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.800 you make to save face when you're basically telling people 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.800 that an angry moo moo freaked you out, you. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.000 Know, a angry moo. Yeah, I like that term a lot. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.880 I mean, I think I think it's fair to say 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.400 I felt like I was going to be charged. 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.040 But I guess my question then. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.040 Would just be and I know this isn't answering your 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.000 question directly, but if he's kind of menacing to you, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.080 then I feel like you do have permission to use 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.160 deadly force because the whole point was right, So, yeah, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.000 it kind of feels like in that moment, you got 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.560 to come up with something else, which I guess then 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.680 I would just be like, I am a vegan, I'm 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.560 a vegitarian, and I couldn't ethically. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.199 So I have found Buddhism in that moment where he 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.640 was stomping on the ground, right. But so I can 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.200 imagine them being like, yeah, you know, it's just I 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.520 made a tactical retreat. They always love to talk in 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.000 military terms. I'm like, so you so you ran away 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.760 to a store. Yeah, the tactical retreat. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.400 I made a tactical retreat. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.960 I did ad a tumble into a dish. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.960 Yeah, the face of maneuver kind of John Wick style. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.120 Oh so you jumped into a bush? Yeah, yeah, yeah, my. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.080 Ankle pretty bad. Actually, I was laid up for a 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:45.879 couple of weeks with that. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.320 I don't know what a Connecticut accent sounds like, but 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.000 I think this is just what I'm going to keep 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.560 it as. So keep in mind, though, Buddy was almost 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.080 a thousand pounds in weight, so we can forgive him 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.840 for the tumble, for the very brave tumble. Of course, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.600 as word spread, reporters starting asking Terrible residents what they 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.640 thought of the escape, if some of them were afraid, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.240 or if they felt a little different about it. So 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.679 one of them said, they want to make steaks and 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:15.000 burgers from this animal. We don't want that. One putmouth 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.000 resident who put food out in their backyard for buddies, said. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:18.880 Well, good for him. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.720 He knew it was coming and now he's out venturing. 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.600 So this guy was from the very deep south of Connecticut. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.919 Of course, that's right, so is the word. As a 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.679 word about Buddy spread. He got his Connecticut neighbors on 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.760 his side, which is actually really cute. Local has created 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.080 this Buddy t shirts and on September twelfth, a Buddy 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.840 the Beefalo Twitter started spouting off right. The first tweet 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.800 was on the run and having von hashtag live large 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:51.560 hashtag beefalow balling. What which Okay, which team are you 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.520 are you on? Lauren? Is it beefalo bawling or just 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.760 beffalo bolognas? Like what do you no? 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.679 It's it's beefelow balling. Look, I was a vegetarian for 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.239 nine years. I came back holding me to the dark side. Yeah, 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.479 which is fine. But but the point is is that 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.440