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Eric Goode's Rattlesnake Bite: 36 Vials of Antivenom and Almost Stopping Breathing

#2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride · Aug 6, 2026 Health & Fitness

Eric Goode was hiking in the California mountains when a rattlesnake bit him through his river sandals. Over the next two hours he felt a metallic taste, then the sensation of sandbags crushing his chest. The hospital ran out of antivenom — all 36 vials — and had to get more from Ventura via Highway Patrol while he lay on a gurney thinking he was going to die.

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Joe Rogan opens with genuine enthusiasm for the new docuseries, calling Monsters of God a freak show in the best possible sense. Eric Goode and Jeremy McBride ease in with the Florida python problem — an estimated 500,000 Burmese pythons overrunning the Everglades — tracing the crisis back to the pet trade of the 1970s, when a baby python was an irresistible novelty. Eric casually mentions he had one wrapped around his neck as a teenager, gave away his whole reptile menagerie when he went to college, and genuinely cannot remember what became of the python. The conversation quickly establishes the episode's tone: funny, slightly horrifying, and full of unvarnished honesty from people who know this world from the inside.

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