WEBVTT - Feather Huntin': The Great Trans-Saharan Ostrich Heist 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:05.480 Hey it's Elizabeth. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.520 Hey, it's Elizabeth Dutton. What's up, Burnette? 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:10.160 I got a question for you. And you're a cool 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.360 felliny t shirt. Do you know what's ridiculous? 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:14.680 I do know it's ridiculous. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:20.240 What shack shack diesel shack jackfu. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:25.400 Yeah, Eel O'Neill. He's one of those celebrities. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.040 Shoe well, yeah, that's what my friend's dad always says 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:28.520 us every year. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.920 Sequel. He's like a good Irish name. He's Irish. Yikes. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.800 He he's one of those celebrities that's just like everywhere. 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.720 We'll do an ad for anything. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:40.919 there's a handful of them. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.559 If you can write the check to him and he 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.480 can see that it clears. Huh. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.680 So we got word that there was this thing called 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.600 a shack pack shack pack, which then when I googled it, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.560 that was originally something that was called that was like 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:55.760 a burger king deal. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.720 That's what I thought, Yeah, in the early aughts. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.320 It's like a sour dough burger. Shaquille O'Neill apparently endorsed, 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.480 was particularly fond of so anyway, But now there's this 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:11.440 new shack pack and it is a mash up, well 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:12.039 but not. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.200 Really was like a cryptocurrency, that's how bad it is. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.880 No, it's it's a product. It's Icy Hot. You know 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:20.680 he does. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.800 Icy I mean, this. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.640 Isn't that surprising. It's not truly a mash up. It's 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:33.640 just a celebrity endorsement, okay, until until they go too far. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.800 So there's like a limited edition roll on Icy Hot 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.520 for when you're curtain and a yeah, and then this 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.880 is what the packaging looks like. So it kind of 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.600 looks like a PEZ dispenservice that but the head is 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.400 Shaquille O'Neill's giant. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:02:00.400 Head that like removed from their body PEZ and. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:06.400 It's totally going to go up someone's tutor holding it 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.639 larger than I thought it would be. But so yeah, anyway, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.000 it's just kind of hideous and take. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:22.720 That related is perfectly good. No, not really, I'm not saying, yes, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:23.639 you know. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.840 He does what is it? The general all sorts of 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:32.360 other ads and is long and so anyway, yeah, we 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:37.200 got that from a few people on Instagram, thank you, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.520 and I think one of them, let me see, one 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:45.079 was where's the email? That I got Scott Nelson. Scott 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.000 his profile picture is some really cute dogs. So Scott, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.160 that's why we're going to pick you as the refer 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:51.880 on this one. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:53.320 Look you Yeah. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.440 He also sent us a great picture that the interns 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:01.560 forwarded me of Shilah boof doing gang science. So yeah, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.880 you know all around. Yeah, shock pack. I'm going to 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.240 get one. It's limited edition. I didn't really look into 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.440 how one would go about securing such a thing. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.799 You should, I don't like, should get a pair of 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.799 those shorts that have hot pocket pockets. Eric Buckolts sent 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.440 me a thing on Blue Sky about that we talk 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.280 about the hot pocket pockets. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:22.480 I feel like we might have talked. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.560 I'm trying to use this as a shield a defense. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.480 I'm holding this up here. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.639 Trying to block my mash this like. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.959 A magic cards like I don't know I'm gonna play. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.080 It's not a real mashup though. It's just like a weak, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.520 weird promotional thing. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.200 Yeah you know, I want saw Shaquille O'Neil outside of 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.760 a restaurant in Beverly Hills the night before the season 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.440 started at two am. It gets out of his like beautiful, 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.280 like uh Bentley or no, yeah, Bentley. And he gets 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.440 out and and I'm like, I'm walking out with this 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.320 guy with a good friend of mine. Uh, and we 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.360 both look up as this man unfolds from this car 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.240 right in front of us. I mean like we're walking 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.080 out round the sidewalk and he's parked right there, getting 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.880 out of the valet, and he just goes stretches, and 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.320 I don't even know what to say. I just look 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.200 at him and my head's going up, like I'm watching 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.880 like Jack and the bean sprout stretch. And he gets 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:17.600 up and he's just a full height. He's like seven 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.080 three or whatever, maybe seventy five. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:19.479 Of shoes on. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:24.320 And he says like I'm like, he's like hey, I'm like, hey, shack. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:29.680 He's like, yo, push past me. I think he might 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:30.920 have been self medicated. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.560 So you know, it's like, how like, don't Lales have 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.400 like the slowest heart? That's how he that. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.120 It was really impressive, and. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.720 You went on to write about him and for mel magazine. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.520 Right wrote in the Size of the Little Shack. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.880 Yeah, it's one of my red stories of all time. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.560 I still get emails about it. Anyway, enough about already. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.480 Too many ridiculous things abound. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.120 Elizabeth, I got a story for you today. Okay, it's ridiculous. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.520 My research into wigjackers, Yeah, led me down a different 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:01.120 rabbit hole. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.600 What I'd like to tell you about today. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.640 Yes, specifically, yes, the story of the great trans Saharan 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:08.640 Ostrich heist. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:32.880 Oh yeah, this is ridiculous crime. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:38.400 My podcast about absurd and rageous capers, heists and cons. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.080 It's always ninety nine percent motor free, that's right, and 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.239 one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.400 You know that, that's right, Elizabeth Sarren. If I asked you, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.159 what would you say is your favorite bird? 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:56.000 My favorite bird, I would have to say I like 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:57.560 redtail hawks. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.000 Good answer. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.120 In my backyard every afternoon there's a fight between crows 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:03.919 and a red tail. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:04.800 That's dope. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.000 Yeah, it's pretty cool stuff. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.000 Good entertainment too. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:07.719 Oh my gosh. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:08.800 You just go out there and they do it. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.560 They do, they signal you do, they let you know 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.200 it's on or you have to go out at a certain time. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.120 Well, one of the mocking birds comes and taps on 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.240 the windows. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:17.640 Like Lizbeth, it's happening. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:18.680 You better get out here. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.240 I'm okay, good defeat this lapping. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.520 It's happening. Well, I got a second question. Yes, what's 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:24.719 your third favorite bird? 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.919 My third favorite bird? Oh? I got a great barn 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.560 owl out in the tree outside my place too, so 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:31.760 I can hear them on some night. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.159 There's a lot of birds in your life. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.240 I really. Do you have that Merlin app on your phone? Yeah? 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:37.000 You told me about them. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:37.240 Yeah. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.800 Sometimes I'm out there and I. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.279 Just bird identify somehow. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.560 Dude, I just go out there and I hit record, yeah, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.880 and just watch it. Rack them up, rack them all 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.520 these lists of birds, bush tits, baller bush tits. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.119 There is that recent the do fine? 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.240 Yeah, it's a recent one. But you know something, I 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:54.599 don't know nothing about birds. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.480 Okay, good news for you. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:57.560 What's your favorite bird? 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.880 I'm not answering that question, a cop. What would you 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:01.279 say is the weirdest bird? 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.720 What is even happening right now? The weirdest bird? What 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.920 is that one with that giant bill that looks all crazy? Oh? 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.440 Yeah, like the stork thing. Yeah, but it's like huge 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.840 and it has a clacking bill. It looks like a 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:21.640 dinosaur illustration. Yeah, I don't know what that bird is. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.640 Called the weird looking big bill bird. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.040 Yeah, that answer is incorrect. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.760 The correct answer that we were looking for is ostriche. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:35.000 The answer was ostrich. Elizabeth, what do you know about ostriches? 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.960 Long leg They stick their head in the ground. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:39.880 That's true, they do. Yeah. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.080 Now, if like me, you thought ostriches come from Australia, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.040 you would be wrong. They are not from down Under. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.200 I totally thought they're from down Under. Oh yes, a 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.280 lot of those birds. Yeah, we'll get into that in 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.760 a second. Turns out they're transplants. They're the common ostrich 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.880 was brought to Australia, so you'll see a lot of 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.240 them there and being bad asses, they caped captivity, they 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.840 got free, got busy and created an enormous feral colonizers. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.720 They're not native, sure, they were brought there, you know. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.600 Now factually speaking, ostriches are criminals. No, they are not criminals. Well, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.720 they're free living, but they're they're from Africa, then they're 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.080 There are two main species, the common ostrich from West 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.280 and North Africa, and then there's the Somali ostrich, which 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.480 is like from the horn. Now there's the subspecies, the 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:34.200 rednecked ostrich aka the North African ostrich aka the Barbary ostrich. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.840 Now I learned a whole lot about ostriches for this, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.600 so that way I could talk with some like at 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.400 least the conviction of an eight year old with a 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:41.000 new obsession. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.160 So you didn't know this going into it, No, I 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:46.000 didn't know most of this. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:48.640 Love the research for the show. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:49.800 This knowledge with you. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.080 It's a gift I gave myself. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.520 Beautiful, you. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.120 Can't you damn right now. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:01.199 The Ostrich Elizabeth is considered the largest living retit, and 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.480 that is it was a new word for me. That's 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.080 a term for the species of tall flightless birds. So 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:11.400 EMUs are a tie It looks like it would be 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:12.640 pronounced retight. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.440 Yeah, but it's a red tit now. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.840 Yeah, so this includes is his EMUs castawerries the rahah. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.600 I just shifted way down into power nerd. Now I'm 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.240 like trying to figure out like the word origin exactly. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:26.480 It was all new to me. I was like, well, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:27.640 I've never been heard this reference. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:28.920 What does it come from? 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.240 Well, ostro whatever, I'll look look up. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.600 Yeah, they're the big daddies of the red tit family. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.880 The common ostrich stands nine feet tall. Dang, that weighs 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.040 about three hundred and fifty pounds. Did you know that 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.800 ostriches can run up to forty three miles an hour. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.960 Wait, they're like shack exactly. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.880 On two legs, it can run faster than a horse 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.200 can on four what, Yeah, like a lot faster, like 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.880 thoroughbreds running like thirty one miles an hour, So thirty two, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.720 you know, like they're running forty three. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.400 I imagine it's pretty funny looking too. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:09:59.959 Oh totally. And what ostrich run? 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.160 One single stride can be about six feet wide and 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.320 from point to point. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:05.760 Wow, exactly. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.520 Ostriches are the largest heaviest bird on the planet, so 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:10.720 heavy that they cannot fly. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:11.880 They're like chickens. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.199 They can kind of sort of hub or fly for 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.400 a second, but instead ostriches run and like I said, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.960 faster than a horse, Elizabeth, they can also kick ass. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.240 I'm going to I'm going to take one into the 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:24.800 Kentucky Derby. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.120 Right on the back of an ostrich. That would be dope. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.520 The ostriches have these crazy strong legs and at the 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.839 end of the of these clawed feet, which is two 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.839 intense claws that can disembottle a full grown man. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.280 This is perfect for the derby, right. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.520 Exactly have you ever seen an ostrich like up close, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:41.920 like at a petting zoo or I. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.520 Feel like I may have seen one at a zoo, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.720 but I'm kicking myself for not paying closer attention. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.880 We saw one. We crossed country that time. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.840 We stopped at the farm and like Arizona, and they 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:57.600 had remember the eyelashes, how crazy long eyelashes were, huge 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:58.679 eyes the memories. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.120 Yeah, I know, I forgot. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.040 Their eyes are two inches across. They have the biggest 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.520 eyes of any land animals. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.400 And honey, they pop, they do. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.480 Mean, they're just stunning. Now. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.240 Also their eyes are decorated, as they said, with these 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.280 super long eye lashes. That's like reduce glare. But also 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.640 because they're running at the speed of like an old 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.480 Honda Civic, right, so they need to be able to 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.319 see everything. Now, do you know about their eggs? 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.440 They're big, big ones, big ones, so they have these Okay, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.800 also let me I'll reverse it. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.680 I'll tell you this. The adult male ostriches, they're covered 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.840 in black feathers. That's who usually mean to see a drawing, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.839 it looks like that. Now for an accent, they have 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.920 those little white wings a little tough to white legs. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.120 And then for they have the white tail fleather plumage, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.240 and then their legs are kind of pinkish. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:41.679 You notice. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.800 Okay, so the adult female ostriches they're not so striking. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.160 They have gray brown feathers instead of black covering them. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.920 There's a reason for this, these two feather colors. This 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.760 isn't about mating selection. It isn't like, oh, the female 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.480 ostriches prefer this. No, they've worked this out as an 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:01.600 evolutionary advantage. It helps with egg protection. Ostriche daddies are 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.960 super involved because they sit over the guard of the 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.480 nest during the night, so they're black. The females sit 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.439 guard over the nest during the day, so they're brown 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.360 like the savannah. So the black feathers disappear against the 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:18.400 night sky. Brown feathers dis against, disappear against totally. And uh, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.439 you know, have you ever seen an ostrich egg up close? 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.640 They're absolute units? 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.400 Are they the ones that the eggs that if you like, 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:25.320 hard boil it. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.280 It's clear I do not know. It sounds right, I 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.760 did not, bigg I wish I knew the answer to that. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.640 No. Yeah, there's one of them where if you had 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.960 to hard boil it comes to crack it open. The 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.520 egg white is actually clear. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.920 That's cool, so the albumin doesn't turn like that. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.640 Just imagine eating that is a double egg. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.960 Well they came in China, would they age them and 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.559 then the paper wrap almost clear? 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.920 But the would be like if someone's messing with you 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:59.480 with like a jello. Yeah, ostrich could you imagine eating 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.560 and ostriche deviled egg? 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:08.920 Yes, six inches long, five inches across. Hell, yeah, that's 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.120 a meal for days. They weigh on average three. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.040 Pounds three pounds. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.480 Yeah, it's by far the largest egg of any bird 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.920 or reptile on the planet. Not only did they lay 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.960 the largest eggs, right, but these are the largest eggs 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.000 since the days of the dinosaur, from the days of 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.600 your Yeah, and they overlap with the days of dinosaur, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.439 but we'll get to that in a second. Yeah, they 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.080 lay like seven to ten eggs at a time. Ten 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.880 of those bad boys come out of your. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.920 Twenty one pounds eggs exactly. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.120 And each one of those eggs, if you were to 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.079 eat them, like if they did, do your thing like 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.360 boots cook them up, that's the equivalent protein to twenty 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:43.320 four chicken eggs. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.600 Each one is twenty one each egg twenty four chicken. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.680 Eggsli, you have to very cool hand looke. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.520 Does the price of eggs have you down? Have you 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.079 considered ostrich? I also learned ostriches are, in your word, quirky. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.760 I mean they're poly like as they're into polygamy. They 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.160 have unicorns and group dates. No, I'm kidding, they don't, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.800 but they are polygamous. Like the male will keep a 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.679 bruta hens and then they'll like so then because of 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.360 the egg laying issue, they pile all their eggs into 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.840 one communal nest of all of his females, which is 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.760 like the dominant female makes a nest and then the 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.880 I guess subdominant females. They put their eggs in her 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.840 nest and then he sits on them. They got like 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:21.640 a whole arrangement. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.120 They're interesting exactly. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:24.880 They're like, we're vegan. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.640 Have you read Stacey, she's new to our ostrich. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.400 They're annoying me. Now back out of this, put it 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:37.040 into reverse. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.120 I remember how he said the closest living relative to 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.000 ostriches or the cassawaies and the Rayas and the EMUs, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.480 but they're all from Australia. I remember I said the 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.840 red Hits. That's the name of the family. That's the 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.200 name for that whole species group. But Australia and Africa 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.040 are far apart. So how did like ostriches get there? 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.960 And there's a little thing called Pangaea. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.240 Good quote, it's actually Gondwana. I didn't know about this, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.800 the super continent of Gondwana. Are you familiar with the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.920 super continent? I mean, I have to met. It's been 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:08.600 a while since. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.080 I've been reading up on super continents. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.640 I'd forgotten more than I remembered about old deer Gondwana. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.800 The super continent of Gondwana was composed of four of 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:21.040 the present continents, one the mostly submerged continent, and two 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.200 subcontinents all together. So the four continents were Africa, Australia, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.560 South America and Antarctica. They were all pressed together. Now, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:35.080 the once submerged continent was Zeelandia New Zealand, and then 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.600 the two sub continents were India and Arabia the peninsula. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.920 So they all get pushed up and but Australia and 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.800 Zeland stay down and then South America on it just 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.160 jets over to the side. Now, as you might expect, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.400 this various geographical regions which are now separated by oceans 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.720 still share to this day many of the same flora 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.800 and fauna aka same plant and man animal life. Sure 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.640 back to ostriches, their ancestors diverged evolutionary back in this 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.760 period of Gondwana land. So when they separated, this was 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.280 like in the Cretaceous period days of the dinosaur. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.320 Yeah, like t rex in the days of yours exactly. Now. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.560 Then when Gwendana broke up, ostridges they become this evolutionary 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.840 cul de sac in Africa and Arabia. But they split 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.200 into a few subspecies. But they're more like an evolutionary 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.840 planned community, right with one way in, one way out. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.440 So one in Florida, Yeah. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.560 Exactly, the glade, you know, the what is it called 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.640 the something, the something something. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.480 They always have golf golf parts they drive around. Yeah, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:36.640 I do not know. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.840 I should point out that the ostriches have been around 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.480 for roughly, if I put it, numbers sixty six million years. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:44.440 Sixty six That's. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.400 Why there's so wild looking. They are old. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.520 It also means they're evolutionarily a super success. They're like sharks, 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.520 like we got this down, don't mess with us. Sharks 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.800 have survived the ecological collapse that took out the dinosaurs, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:57.840 so did ostriches. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.720 Yeah, and then came humans. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.920 While the other predators of the African savannah may like 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.120 to snack on an ostrich when they can catch them, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.520 humans are their real primary predator, so we have been 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.840 since we emerged on the savannah, so for the last 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.760 like two hundred thousand years or so. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.800 Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, like, look at them. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.640 They're tall. They can't fly and escape us. They can 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:20.800 run like hell. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.080 Right, I can shredge it with them totally. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.000 With the two towls, but with some planning, most of 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.680 that can be overcome. And plus, their eggs are equivalent 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.840 to two dozen chicken eggs, and they lay intended a 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:32.640 time in a nest. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.680 Oh man, that's eat for days for. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.439 The trus Now, if you can catch a full grown adult, 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:38.880 that's food for weeks. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.080 So this is how we began. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:46.560 To ordering wings at a restaurant. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:49.439 I want the leg, give. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.720 You the leg at like a medieval time totally held 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:53.840 up ostrich drumstick. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.880 Just work on that. You got a turkey leg. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.080 I needed the I need a whole table for my 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.840 ostrich leg. So one point we found their skin made 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.000 good leather, like then the Egyptians they. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.080 Figured that out. Yeah, They're like, oh, this is dope. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.840 And then we began to associate ostriches and specifically ostrich 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.639 feathers with the god Matt. That's the Egyptians. Yeah, and accordingly, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.040 so this becomes like divine justice. It also becomes symbolized 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.320 with ostrich feathers, so now they're associated with the divinity. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.720 And then the pharaoh war II ostrich feathers in their crown, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.720 so it's divine god given authority over men and women. 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.199 Ostriches start to really have a come up, right this 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.960 time keeping it Mediterranean over in ancient Greece, they're freaks 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.199 for the ostrich egg, right, they start offering them up 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:37.040 to gods as. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.440 A worthy form of devotion, like here, please have an egg. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:40.840 This will feed your family for day. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:41.480 Yeah. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.400 The Turks of the Ottoman Empire also keeping it Mediterranean, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.960 my dudes, right, They would hunt ostriches. It was considered 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.280 great sport to them because think about it, you got 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.240 a nine foot tall flightless bird that can run faster 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:53.840