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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Ben, I'm Noel,

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Speaker 1: and today we are delving into you know, even for us,

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Speaker 1: this is a weird one. Noel, what shows this? This

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Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Sister cool in the right place? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we have a bumper that plays right, but we

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Speaker 1: like that's added in posts. So you know, sometimes I

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Speaker 1: we admired. It's a little early today too, if we're

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Speaker 1: being real, Um, we are talking about some some cool

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Speaker 1: stuff today. But I want to just preface by asking you, Ben,

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Speaker 1: have you ever snuggled a baby hippo. I have not,

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Speaker 1: and I would be hesitant to do so because in

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Speaker 1: their natural environment, hippopotamus will be one of the most

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Speaker 1: dangerous animals on the planet. I think it's the number

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Speaker 1: one most dangerous animal in terms of deaths per year

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Speaker 1: on the African continent. Yeah, and it's because they don't

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Speaker 1: they are they aren't predisposed to kill, but they are

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Speaker 1: up to eighteen miles per hour, and like you said,

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Speaker 1: they are apparently responsible for more human deaths in Africa

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Speaker 1: than any other um animal, wild animal, that is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and especially when they become sexually active, that's when a

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Speaker 1: But my point really is that the baby hippos are

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Speaker 1: are crazy cute. Oh yeah, they're a little weird like

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Speaker 1: I want one very much. Have you snuggled one? And

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Speaker 1: now I have no I have in my dreams there

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Speaker 1: were some people. There was a couple I believe, who

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Speaker 1: when it was large, they lived near a river in Africa,

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Speaker 1: and when it was large and full grown, it would

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Speaker 1: into their house. And it looked very It looked very cute.

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Speaker 1: But the reality of life with a hippo is way

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Speaker 1: different from those graceful ballet dancers you see in Fantasia,

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Speaker 1: a reality apparently lost to a certain drug lord by

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Speaker 1: the name of Pablo Escobar, who thought it would be

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Speaker 1: pretty cool to have a menagerie of exotic creatures. Um

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Speaker 1: had drafts as well. Yeah. Pablo Escobar, of course, is

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Speaker 1: the notorious drug bearing from the nineteen seventies and eighties

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Speaker 1: because he was building infrastructure, provided job security. Uh, he

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Speaker 1: also was behind thousands of bombings and assassinations. And I

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Speaker 1: I'm actually not up to date on it, but season

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Speaker 1: one kind of covers up through some of the real

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Speaker 1: manipulative behavior that he would do involving the government and

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Speaker 1: going further even than bribing to literally assassinating government officials

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Speaker 1: spoilers in this story, even though it's real life, I

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Speaker 1: don't think you're allowed to consider that spoilers, but it

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Speaker 1: clean as far as spoilers are concerned. But we're here

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Speaker 1: to talk about a very specific aspect of the opulent

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Speaker 1: existence of Pablo Escobar Um. Like you said, he was

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Speaker 1: beloved by many who possibly there's a you know, conflagration

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Speaker 1: He was referred to as Saint Pablo by many, and there,

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety three, was killed in a gunfight. But

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Speaker 1: you gotta have some hippo's, right. He smuggled four hippopotamus is,

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Speaker 1: When the Colombian government took over the hacienda in the

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Speaker 1: let's consider the problem of the hippopotamus. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: Hippos are herbivorous, but they are aggressive and the name

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Speaker 1: But after the menagerie was split up and the shipped

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Speaker 1: their native ecosystem, their feces is extremely important to wildlife

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Speaker 1: ends our episode on Pablo Escobar's hippo Haven. That's better, Well,

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Speaker 1: the haven is coming, Yeah, hopefully the hippo Haven is

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Speaker 1: on the way. This does, not, however, end our show.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back very soon with something bizarre, something weird.

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Speaker 1: Something dare I say ridiculous, You don't have to. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's out there now. In the meantime, we'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear from you have you visited Colombia? Have you,

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Speaker 1: you think of bumper stickers? That's the burning question really

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Speaker 1: that we were left it today, that's my take away anyway.

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Speaker 1: But um, you can do all that stuff if you want.

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Speaker 1: You can email us at what are we Ridiculous at,

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Speaker 1: still speculating on a Pinterest. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not about that Pinterest life. Well, we'll put a

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Speaker 1: pin in that for now. I know they're not all

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Speaker 1: going to be great. They're not all giving you home runs,

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