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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature, feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,

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Speaker 1: and today on the show, it's Creature. We we're bringing

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Speaker 1: you some spooky species, some foolish genuses, tales that will

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Speaker 1: chill you to the beat, and boat from undead fish,

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Speaker 1: tailor rodents and flying zombies. These real stories will send

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Speaker 1: shivers down your spine if you have one. Discover this

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Speaker 1: and more as we answer the age old question can

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Speaker 1: you still be fashionable? From beyond the gray? Joining me

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Speaker 1: today is front of the show, one of the maniacal

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Speaker 1: minds behind the website one nine hundred Hot Dog and

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Speaker 1: co host of the podcast The Dogaga the Zone, Robert Brockway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Hey, thank you for pronouncing all of the letters.

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Speaker 2: Nobody ever does that, and I'm offended every time you did.

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Speaker 2: Forget nine thousand. We put a nine thousand on there

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Speaker 2: to make it extra hard to search.

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Speaker 1: As anyone who listens to this podcast can attest to them.

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Speaker 1: I'm great at pronouncing things, especially Latin names for stuff,

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Speaker 1: and it comes out as a beautiful letters and vowel.

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Speaker 1: Salad from my mouth.

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Speaker 2: Dogus zonicus from the Latin for the area of dogs. Yes, exactly, exactly,

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Speaker 2: thanks for having me for a spooky spook aween.

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Speaker 1: Spook aween. I should have called you Rob Boot. There

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Speaker 1: it is. Remember when we all did that with our names.

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Speaker 1: That was fun. That was innocent times.

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Speaker 2: That was Twitter right before uh, before it fascism.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a more innocent time. There's there's uh, there is Sean.

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Speaker 1: I guess I'll let them in. Oh yeah, just let

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Speaker 1: him in. I don't know if he's here. He says

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Speaker 1: he's here, but it's just it's his ghost, his spooky ghosts.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's what he's doing. He's doing a bit.

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Speaker 1: He's doing a spooky ghost bit. I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: gonna find we're gonna reading the newspaper that he died,

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Speaker 1: but he joined the podcast after he died.

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Speaker 2: Who was Shawn Baby? That's a game. I haven't heard

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Speaker 2: a ny on twenty years. Has been dead the whole time.

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Speaker 1: There hasn't been a Shoen Baby here since the Great

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Speaker 1: Bloodening of nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: Some say you can still hear him out there on

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Speaker 2: that old innet.

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Speaker 1: What's this we've got. I'm sensing something. It's coming through

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Speaker 1: through the fog of my seance globe with my crystal ball.

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Speaker 1: A figure emerges. Who is this? Is this the other

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Speaker 1: co host of the podcast, the Dogoga his own and

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Speaker 1: one of the other their maniacal minds behind the website

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Speaker 1: one nine hundred Hot Dog. Could this be the legendary

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Speaker 1: ghost whisper ghost Tickler shambaby dot com.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm I'm the legendary ghost tickler. That's what people

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Speaker 3: know me as. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be

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Speaker 3: back to tickle the ghosts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we we we are truly shocked. We reached

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Speaker 1: out to you through this stance. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a scam, but here you are.

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Speaker 2: You have to do it in a ghost voice whole podcast,

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Speaker 2: ghost voice, ghost.

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Speaker 1: Voice wherever that tickles Sean booms, sham boo, baby, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: We are talking about spooky animals on this podcast this

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Speaker 1: time on account of it being the spookiest Halloween of all. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: They like getting tickled.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the ghost Tickler on to catch a ghost where

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Speaker 1: they're like, hey, ghosts, why do you have a seat

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Speaker 1: over here? I'm gonna tickle you.

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Speaker 3: And then I'm like, uh, this zemas for me? I

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Speaker 3: was here to show them the dangers of drinking six

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Speaker 3: Semas by yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good. Rest in peace God. I forgot

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Speaker 1: that guy's name, Chris Hansen. Chris Hansen, he's still or

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Speaker 1: are you.

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Speaker 3: Talking about one of the predators you're touching? Butts that

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Speaker 3: that was the man's name he had I legally changed. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we all should have seen it coming.

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Speaker 1: Ripping piece. I love those funny tombstones they put up

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Speaker 1: on Halloween where they're like ripping' peace mister. But Yeah,

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Speaker 1: see more asses.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got some of those in our neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I meet a lot of squares now as a parent, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of You know, it's hard to like

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Speaker 3: zany tombstones this year?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever have you ever gone to a haunted

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Speaker 3: As a ghost ticker, I legally am not allowed near

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Speaker 2: Have you ever just busted the fuck up at one

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Speaker 2: of those tombstones, like you want to be too good

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Speaker 3: But then you're like, no, never classic cl The second

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Speaker 3: I felt that coming on, I would kick it over.

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Speaker 1: I split my guts open. And when I saw tombstone

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Speaker 1: and it said, uh, here lies the ghosts dead person,

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Speaker 1: mister Butts.

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Speaker 1: That one's yes, that is good.

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Speaker 2: Today we are square test and I caught both of you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, today we are talking about animals

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Speaker 1: who are spooky, spooky ghosts. We are first gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about a fish that can do skin magic from beyond

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Speaker 1: the grave. This is based on a great article in

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Speaker 1: the New York Times by Elizabeth and Brown or should

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Speaker 1: I say Elizabeth and boo around. Okay, I'll stop that

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Speaker 1: starting now. So, this is a fish called the hogfish,

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Speaker 1: the humble hogfish it is. It is a fish that

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Speaker 2: So doing some hog hogskin magic on this fish.

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Speaker 1: Hogskin magic, uh, tossing the old hogskin fish around. So

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Speaker 1: hogfish are found in the Atlantic Ocean. They are a

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Speaker 1: species of wrass that is this sort of patchy cream

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Speaker 1: of trapezoidal shape with long dorsal spines. It's called a

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Speaker 1: hogfish due to an elongated hog like snout, which it

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Speaker 1: the ocean floor. They're not small fish. They can grow

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Speaker 1: I have sent you a photo of this fish. It

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Speaker 1: that it is a fish.

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Speaker 2: Definitely definitely scared of fish, especially especially hogfish.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. The face is a little unsettling. You

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Speaker 1: don't like that scene in Beetlejuice where Alec Baldwin kind

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Speaker 2: He looks almost exactly like the guy that did piercings

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Speaker 2: He's got the three little spikes, the weird beady eyes,

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Speaker 3: Guy that did your belly button.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and amongst amongst other things.

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Speaker 2: Well, the belly button was fine. He actually did a

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Speaker 2: I lost some sensitivity that was big in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: So you know, this fish, it's uh, you know, pretty

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Speaker 1: typical fish stuff. But they can I mean, they're interesting

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Speaker 2: Very normal, very normal stuff for Yeah, exactly, like mayor

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Speaker 3: I used to do the same thing in the fraternity. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Look you know what they elect, they elect their mayor

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Speaker 1: and then it becomes sexually male.

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Speaker 3: So exactly, I triple in size, Yeah, I get much

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Speaker 1: Yeah, get uh you start like, uh being interested in sports?

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Speaker 1: Is that a guy thing?

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Speaker 3: What I like to do for my sports? I like

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Speaker 3: to take my snout and dig in the ocean floor. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and then I'll eat crabs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, such a guy thing.

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Speaker 3: So with the with the bros.

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Speaker 1: So another interesting thing these fish do is they change

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Speaker 3: I have a fish question. Can they mix and match?

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Speaker 3: Can you be like I'm going to be a rusty

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Speaker 2: Always easier on the white fellas, always easier?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean they they're The ability to change

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Speaker 1: They can both change their sex and change their color.

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Speaker 1: But that would be rad and.

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Speaker 2: It would be I love that it works, like like

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Speaker 2: picking classes in Overwatch. Like just nobody's nobody's playing Boy. Really,

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Speaker 2: nobody's playing Boy, right, I guess I'm not good at Boy. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we need one Boy.

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Speaker 1: We need one Boy. Does anyone want to play Boy

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Speaker 2: You know it's not fun.

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Speaker 1: I played Boy last time.

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Speaker 3: It's your turn play first playing Overwatch. I was just

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Speaker 3: this is just like being a fish. Been there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so they can change much about themselves. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is not like particularly unusual for a marine life.

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Speaker 1: There is there are a lot of marine animals that

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Speaker 1: common for fish. And what is odd is that researchers

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Speaker 1: have noticed that hogfish are able to change their skin

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Speaker 1: color from beyond the grave. So this is where I

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Speaker 1: get spooky from a watery grave because this is the

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Speaker 2: All watery grave by rusty hog.

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Speaker 1: So a marine biologist Lorian Skware god no waker Lorian

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Speaker 1: Schweikert noticed a speared hogfish on the deck of a

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Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, did we check her for paint scientists? You

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Speaker 3: can't trust him, that's what they tell me in church.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was, I believe there was. This must have

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Speaker 1: been in the eighteen hundreds or early nineteen hundreds. There

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Speaker 1: was like some experiment with like mouse skin, grafting skin

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Speaker 1: Right, it's like face off, but you just kind of

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Speaker 3: And this works completely independent from like the fish that

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Speaker 2: So science says the skin it's haunted.

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Speaker 1: It's haunted, haunted, fish.

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Speaker 3: Good, it's good news. You're giving me great news, Kating.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you want a color changing fish skin

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Speaker 1: to talk about carnivorous mice. So you guys remember that

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Speaker 2: Can we prove those birds are innocent?

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Speaker 1: You know, birds are innocent and help proven guilty, Robert.

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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm just being justice simple bird lawyer. But

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Speaker 1: Actually, this is not happening in the United States. This

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Speaker 2: Colonialist vampire mice. Yeah, no, word of mice.

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Speaker 1: No mouse is an island, but a bunch of mice

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Speaker 2: Does anybody have a vampire mouse? Impressed? I don't have that.

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Speaker 3: Blood. I am a mouse. I don't belong on this island. Blo.

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Speaker 1: It's me Mickey mouse pire, and I want to suck

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go to suck your blood.

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Speaker 1: And then sue you.

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Speaker 2: Now in Francis, litigious colonialists, vampire mouse, you sue you,

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Speaker 1: So yes, these mice, uh what I said, Travian madam? Okay,

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Speaker 3: When you said they're drinking bird blood, I was like,

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Speaker 1: No, now it's pain.

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Speaker 3: Something has to be done, Yeah, something has to be done.

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Speaker 1: There's something about penguins where it's like, I think humans

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Speaker 3: They're tummy, which is even cuter.

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Speaker 2: Any animal that wears a suit, that wears a little

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Speaker 3: Every day is a black tie event for these tummy

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Speaker 3: If they merge to form one man shaped mouse, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like the logic of the mouse forming like a human,

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Speaker 2: And so how would these birds know that they don't

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Speaker 3: Of course I saw I think it was a David

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some birds. Look, we can't generalize to all.

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Speaker 1: Hashtag not all birds, but yes, all all fish are

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Speaker 1: up on a bird while it's asleep and start chewing

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00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: on its skin. And even if the bird like wakes

440
00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: up eventually, essentially the mice kind of breaks the Geneva

441
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: conventions like the the like they commit war crimes by

442
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: continually disrupting the bird's sleep until the bird is just

443
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: so exhausted that it kind of like it can no

444
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: longer like keep waking up and trying to knock the

445
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,239
Speaker 1: mouse off, and so the mouse just like choose its

446
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: skin off. I have I've sent you a photo, the

447
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: most sort of the least gory photo I could find

448
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: of this of a mouse just sitting on one of

449
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: these birds attacking it.

450
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 3: I get this dock. I'm actually really glad I didn't

451
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: get this.

452
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: It's it's a photo of a mouse sitting on the

453
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: head of an albatross chick. It looks like and what

454
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: it's doing is it is eating its scalp off. You

455
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: can't really you can't really see that in this photo,

456
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,719
Speaker 1: but I have looked at the other photos where it's

457
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: essentially this poor little bird that's been scalped by a mouse.

458
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: Because like when I when I first read about these

459
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: mice where it's like, yeah, these mice like bite these birds,

460
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: I'm like imagining sort of just like little bite marks

461
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: on the bird. I was not imagining a bird just

462
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: having an entire chunk of skin missing in this like

463
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: really horrific way. So uh it is uh actually kind

464
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: of disturbing.

465
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 2: And yet in this photo, if you have kind of

466
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 2: bad eyesight, which I do, uh, it just looks like

467
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 2: a bird cosplaying is dan rather.

468
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: Like it's got like a little just some hair piece.

469
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just got like a real nice quaft,

470
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 2: velvety kind of poof.

471
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

472
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: Are we sure it's not symbiotic? Where like the bird

473
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: just understands how good it looks?

474
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: Now are you asking? Was like, if this is a

475
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:44,479
Speaker 1: ratituy situation where the ratituy is actually eating its scalp

476
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: as well as helping it cook food.

477
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, with the ladies with like the bird.

478
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: Lady right with the bird ladies, like you know, yeah,

479
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: you gonna want to go on to ask her what

480
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: her name is?

481
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 2: Can I eat in an exchange a little bit of.

482
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 3: Skin surroundo de bergiak retitui. But he's also eating the

483
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 3: human head.

484
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: Now that's the crossover I'd like to see. So, yeah,

485
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: they are a problem for these birds, and conservationists want

486
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: to get rid of these mice because, uh, you know,

487
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: they are actually a big threat to some of these

488
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: bird species on this island, and so they are trying

489
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: to They are going on like a big Tom and

490
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: Jerry style mouse hunt where they are they're they're they're

491
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: pulling out all the stops, they're they're they're, uh, they've

492
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: caught up Tom and been like, hey, Tom, what's some

493
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: of the ideas that they didn't let you use in

494
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: those cartoons because they were so heinous. Uh, so they

495
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: are us. They are using poisoned grain to try to

496
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: kill these mice, which is tricky because most of the

497
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: sea birds, while most of them actually eat fish, there

498
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: are some species that are more n wrists, so the

499
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: bird might eat the grain. So conservationists are actually collecting

500
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: the birds that eat grain, putting them in like protective

501
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: bird jail while they spread poison grain for the mice

502
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: to eat, and then once the once the mice have

503
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: presumably eaten the poison grain, then they release the birds

504
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: from from Protective Bird Jail.

505
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,239
Speaker 2: So I was writing that all birds are guilty, I mean,

506
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 2: and they go to bird prison.

507
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,479
Speaker 1: Look, I said, bird jail, and you're still presumed innocent

508
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: when when you're in jail you know nothing of bird law.

509
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 2: You know nothing of bird law, you were born into it.

510
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: So what happens? What happens if this doesn't work, if

511
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 3: the poison grain doesn't work, what's planned? B?

512
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: Plan B? I don't know, Like I guess hammers.

513
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 2: See that's right, all the birds together into one big

514
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 2: bird to fight the big.

515
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: Mouse helmets for the birds helmets, and.

516
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 3: I feel like we've solved it. You take the hammers,

517
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 3: the birds have helmets. Just go crazy with the hammers.

518
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 3: Just drop hammers out of helicopters, do whatever you want,

519
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 3: because the birds have the helmets. You can't hurt a

520
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: bird right with a ham No, we're not onto something.

521
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 3: We'll get it.

522
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: Have like uh have like a movie that's like mouse

523
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: film film for mice. Birds aren't going to be interested

524
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: in this movie. Then all the mice go to the

525
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: tiny mouse cinema and then.

526
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 2: You go quick where you drop hammers on.

527
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: Then you go Quentin Tarantino on it.

528
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 3: What about rat terriers. They're so adorable and I don't

529
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 3: know if you've ever seen a rat terrier go to town,

530
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 3: but they'll just grab a rat, shake it till it's dead,

531
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 3: and drop it. That's they have no more interest in it.

532
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 3: They don't want to eat it or present it to anyone.

533
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: They're just bread to murder rats. So I guess you'd

534
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 3: need to breathe smaller terriers, Like how adorable would that be?

535
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 3: Like a mouse terrier?

536
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you know a rat terrier might

537
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: go after the mice, not the birds. Might not be

538
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: a bad idea, that's what mean?

539
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 3: You put cats in the island. The cats are gonna

540
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 3: kill all the birds, right, crazy idea? But a rat terrier?

541
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, there accountable.

542
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 2: Butting serial killers onto the islands to take care of

543
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 2: all the rat terriers.

544
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: Right, okay, so then, but how do you get rid

545
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: of the butting serial killers? Then you've got to release

546
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: the flesh eating mice.

547
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 2: Now you've just four chan. You release a four chan

548
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 2: onto the island and they'll all become preoccupied with it

549
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 2: and will no longer venture outside to kill it.

550
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: Makes sense, all right, We've solved a good job boys.

551
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: Conservation achieved. We're going to take a quick break and

552
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: when we return, we're going to talk about flying zombies.

553
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: They fly now, they fly now, they fly now. All right,

554
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: we're about and we're talking about flying zombies. You know,

555
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: I feel like you're against him. I feel like the

556
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: zombie genre, the zombre has a lot of like iterations

557
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: of zombies, like these are these are zombie Nazis. This

558
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: is a zombie that you're in love with. This is

559
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: a storm trooper Nazi. Wait no, sorry, zombies storm trooper.

560
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 3: Agree too many hooks. Zombies have too many hooks.

561
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: A zombie Nazi storm trooper who you can fall in

562
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: love with, the whole zombie thing. But you know what,

563
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: I haven't seen I haven't seen flying zombies in movies yet,

564
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, you know, like just a zombie that can

565
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: Superman around.

566
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you're right.

567
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: That's the final frontier for just ringing every last drop

568
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: of content out of zombies. But there is actual zombie flies.

569
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: So probably a lot of you, and especially people who

570
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: listen to this show, or if you've seen or played

571
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: The Last of Us, you're probably familiar with cordyceps fungus

572
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: that infects ants and the ants go a little bit nuts,

573
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: a little batty, and then crawl away, and then the

574
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: cordyceps grows out of their bodies. Uh. And that's that's

575
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: all horrible We've are We've talked about that before. But

576
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: I've got another one for you.

577
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: Uh.

578
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: There is a different type of fungus that attacks flies.

579
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: So the fungus uh Intomothora mooski, also known as insect destroyer,

580
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: infects a variety of flies, including house flies and fruit flies.

581
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 3: I mean good, nobody likes those bugs.

582
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sweet name. I can't be against it.

583
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, insect destroyer, Yeah, no, just insect destroyer.

584
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 2: I would if I was marketing for the fungus, Like,

585
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 2: if the fungus hired me to mark, I would go

586
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 2: with insect destroyer in like a heavy metal font.

587
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was.

588
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 2: I would really.

589
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 3: Embrace if I saw a destroy if I had a bag.

590
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 3: My wife bought a uh one of those little plants

591
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 3: that pitcher plant the flies, and she is super pissed

592
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 3: off that it has not diminished the fly population. But

593
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 3: if I if I had a bag of fungus that

594
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 3: I could just release into the air, turn them on

595
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 3: the zombies just have three or four days of zombies.

596
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 3: Theoretically they would fungus.

597
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 2: That is how all zombie movies start, though I realize

598
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: that they're like if I could just release all of

599
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 2: this and get get rid of whatever I want to

600
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 2: get rid of, then surely everything will work. Oh no, zombies,

601
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: Like that's that is how you get zombies historically, Like, like,

602
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: that's how you get ants when you release sugar, that's

603
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 2: how you get zombies.

604
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: Either you can either put some red wine vinegar in

605
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: a cup and then put plastic wrap on the top

606
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: and poke some holes in it, or you can release

607
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: this fungus. And the releasing of the fungus sounds a

608
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: lot more fun, although I feel like maybe by the

609
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: end of this you might have like a shred of

610
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: sympathy for these flies.

611
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 3: So first, okay, let's hear it.

612
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: Open your mind and your heart to the flies. First,

613
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: the fungus lands on a fly via spores. The spore

614
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: then invades the flies hemo lymph. So hemolymph is bug

615
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: blood essentially, so the fungus feeds on the flies hemo

616
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: lymph and fat tissue. Then the fly's mind is influenced

617
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: by the fungus, and it is driven to climb upwards

618
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,439
Speaker 1: and upwards. Its body is riddled with the fungus. Then

619
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: it is induced somehow by the fungus. Now we researchers

620
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: don't know exactly how the fungus is doing this, but

621
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: the fly sticks out it's proboscis. That's its little two

622
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: blank mouth thing, the little like weird, tiny elephant trunk

623
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: thing that flies have that they use to suck up food.

624
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: It sticks this out onto the surface and it uses

625
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: this like sticky saliva that is probably infused with some

626
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: kind of sticky fungal compound. And this drool actually forms

627
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: like a glue, so it's glued from its like by

628
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: the mouth onto the surface that it's on. And so

629
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: now the fly is stuck. And then the fly is

630
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: for some reason compelled to extend its wings in this

631
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: like upright position that's kind of unnatural for it. And

632
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: now the fly has essentially become this fixed in place,

633
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: perfect substrate for fungus to grow and spread. And just

634
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: hours later the fly has grown this fluffy white coat.

635
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: And this coat is actually fungal filaments which will grow

636
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: spores at the tips. Importantly, the reason that the fly's

637
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: wings are now stuck in this like weird upright position

638
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: is to clear the way for the spores to fire

639
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: off of the fly's body. So now these spores that

640
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: are all growing out of the fly's body can basically

641
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: pop off like popcorn or fireworks and then hopefully land

642
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: on another victim who will go through the exact same thing.

643
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 3: Right, this is a nightmare.

644
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns It turns them into James Brown, kind

645
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: of like a you've been down, kiss the dirt, stick

646
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: your stick your legs up, stick your wings up. You

647
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 2: put on a big white fluffy coat.

648
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 3: The other guy comes in throws a cape on you.

649
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 3: You you got more to do, and that.

650
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 2: Cape infects and creates other James Brown's, as we well

651
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 2: know from history. Yeah, I'm on board with this so far.

652
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: I think this Whip's ad.

653
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 3: Would Team Fungus.

654
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: I think I think I'm agreed Team fungus. We're all

655
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,479
Speaker 1: team fungus. I would like to see a zombie movie

656
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: where basically a zombie just sort of bites a wall

657
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: and then starts growing a coat and sticks its arms

658
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: out and like Superman position, and then the coat starts

659
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: like just shooting off spores that'd be fun, but.

660
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: It'd be a bit If I saw that, I'd be like,

661
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 3: this is a bit much zombies.

662
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, it's a little dramatic.

663
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 3: It's a little hannibal lector it's like Writtner's The Majesty

664
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 3: of My Death. You're like, take it easy.

665
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 1: I feel like the groaning and the moaning is already

666
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: a little mill dramatic, Like we get it, you're dead,

667
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: but you're moving around, understood.

668
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna sell a lot of popcorn

669
00:39:59,520 --> 00:39:59,959
Speaker 2: at that movie.

670
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: Hmmm.

671
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 2: If if the theaters aren't gonna like it, they make

672
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 2: most of their money off of that.

673
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 3: Yeah're not gonna sell that. I like saw teed mushrooms,

674
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 3: like a nice cup of saw mushrooms.

675
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: Right, They're not gonna sell a lot of fungal spores

676
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: at the movie theater, if you know what I mean.

677
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 2: A couple of spores here, get you a couple of spores,

678
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 2: cold couple spores. I don't know why he's at a

679
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 2: movie theater. The all game was rattened down at the movies.

680
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: Now that's what that's what happens at modern cinema. Got

681
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: someone walking through the aisles screaming, yelling, yelling, hot dogs,

682
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: get your three D glasses and your fungle spores.

683
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 3: Watch out for Nicole Kidman. Her hair is being blown back.

684
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: Cinema, Yes, the magic of chinema. Well, so, yeah, this

685
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: is this is the fate of this poor little fly

686
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: gets turned into a mere vessel for the fungal spores

687
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: and it literally just has to like kiss the ground

688
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: and die.

689
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: Zero empathy for the flies. Still flies still don't like

690
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 2: the flies.

691
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: It's because it doesn't have a cute little tummy, isn't it.

692
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 2: No, it's because my adorable little dog is definitely afraid

693
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 2: of flies for no reason. We can determine that I'm

694
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: on her side. Yeah, this so if I could, if

695
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 2: I could release this fungus and encourage it to destroy

696
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 2: all flies.

697
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: I do it for her, one of the few insects.

698
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: I truly hate our tics because of them being mean

699
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: to my dog. Like, I'm like, how dare you beyond

700
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: my dog and hurt her. I will exact vengeance. You

701
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 1: will be contained in a bottle and drown in alcohol,

702
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: which sounds good, but trust me, it's not.

703
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 2: There are worst plays.

704
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 1: I guess it's rubbing alcohol. It's not like I drowned

705
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: them in a really nice sort of we don't.

706
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 2: Know have standards chocolate. We were all teenagers once. Uh.

707
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: Well listen before we go, uh, and you can go

708
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: about your ghoulish uh daily activities. We do got to

709
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: play a little game. It's called the mystery animal sound game. Uh,

710
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: guess who's squawking? Every week I play a spooky and

711
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: scary mystery animal sound and you the listener, and you

712
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: the kissed, try to guess who is squawking?

713
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 3: Uh.

714
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: So last week mystery animal sound hint was this, This

715
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: ferocious wild carnivore would eat you if only it didn't

716
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 1: fit inside your pocket.

717
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 3: I actually know this one. Yeah, that is a Hall

718
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 3: of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson.

719
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: Ah, how did you know?

720
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 2: No, that's not Maybe it's right in your pocket. It's

721
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 2: right in your pocket, little Randy.

722
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: Little Randy, little pucker. That's yeah.

723
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 2: And he would kill you if he had the chance.

724
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: Be so thankful, be thankful. He's so weet, blood thirsty.

725
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 3: He did kill a bird that one time with the ball.

726
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: Was that when he hit a bird with a ball.

727
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, he hit a bird with a ball, and that.

728
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: Bird Uh presumed guilty before being proven innocent.

729
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: Yes, that bird bunch of trial, one appeal.

730
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 1: Jury and bird secutioner. No, this is not that sports

731
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: guy you just said. This is something else. This is

732
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: called the rusty spotted cat. Uh. It is the smallest

733
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: cat in the world. And it is totally it was

734
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: like the size of a kitten.

735
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: Uh.

736
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: And yet it is a full grown wild cat.

737
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and you did not send us pictures.

738
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 2: I'm gonna google it.

739
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: Google it. You will be happy.

740
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 2: He's so cute, a little round ears in the big eyes.

741
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 2: And that's as big as they get.

742
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: That's as big as they get. That's it. They are

743
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: found in India and Sri Lanka and it is absolutely adorable.

744
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 2: Why did we pick other cats to keep? Why didn't

745
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 2: we just get this?

746
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: Why we get this cat? Yeah? I mean, you know,

747
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: I think we made a mistake. We need to go

748
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: back in time and instead of using a time machine

749
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: to like prevent some of the world's greatest atrocities, we

750
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: should go back in time and demesticate this little this

751
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: little guy.

752
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 2: I think that would prevent some of the world's greatest atrocities.

753
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 2: I don't think Hitler would have done what he did

754
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 2: if instead of the German shepherd. He had this tiny

755
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 2: little fella in.

756
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 1: His pocket, or this little cat was gonna kill baby Hitler.

757
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 3: You could wait in the Hitler's bunker with like fifteen

758
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 3: of these in your pockets. Yeah, very nice to see

759
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 3: you if you're and then boom, cats.

760
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: Cover him, whip out your trench coat and they all

761
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 2: just explode out of all the secret pockets of kiddies

762
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 2: that you have you have knit inside of there.

763
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean they are. They are adorable. They are

764
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 1: indeed sort of rusty and spotty. They've got little streaks,

765
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: they've got little little white tummies.

766
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 2: They look like they can't wait to hear a secret.

767
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look like they would sit on your shoulder

768
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: and whisper in your ear, like like heal him, heal

769
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: him for me, and.

770
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 3: You do it.

771
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: I would absolutely do if this little guy sat on

772
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: my shoulder telling me to go kill people at his whim.

773
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: Not gonna say I'm not going to do it.

774
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 2: As long as they're all hitlers.

775
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: As well as it's all hitlers, they're like, trust me, Hitler, there,

776
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: you must kill it like that looks that looks like

777
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: that looks like a normal person. No, definitely not you

778
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: should go kill him.

779
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 2: Goddamn it, Randy Johnson. This is the last time, little

780
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 2: Randy Johnson I have named my cat.

781
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, it likes to live in the forest. It

782
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: is very shy and in your pocket. No, Actually, that's

783
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 1: the sad thing is it's extremely shy. Probably the reason

784
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: that the our cats were domesticated from the African wild

785
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: cat is that the African wild cat is a little

786
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: more chill, a little more curious. This one is extremely shy,

787
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: probably because it's so small. You know, It's like, I'm

788
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: a little guy. I'm a little guy.

789
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 2: I gotta be shy, understand.

790
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll it'll eat it'll eat rodents, it'll eat birds, frogs,

791
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 1: insects and little one. Oh once.

792
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 2: Now, have you showed me a picture of this thing

793
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 2: on one of those big penguins just eating its skin.

794
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 2: I'd be much more compus.

795
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing. I'd be like, you know what,

796
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: I'll that you have it. You can take over the island.

797
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: So cute, I mean, that's essentially what we've done with cats.

798
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: Though we we were like, you're cute. You can be

799
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: invasive on this island, on this territory and kill all

800
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: the birds and indigenous species here.

801
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 3: If we could develop as we saddle small enough, we

802
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 3: could put that on the penguin slides kitty cat rides

803
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 3: in the penguin.

804
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what. Look, I know that it's been

805
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: a mistake every single time we've introduced to species to

806
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 1: try to take care of another invasive species. Uh, mistake,

807
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: but maybe this time right. Because it's so small, I

808
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: don't see how it's going to eat an albatross and so,

809
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: but it's not so small that it couldn't eat a

810
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: mouse that's eating an albatross. You see where I'm going

811
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: with this. I know every single time we've done this,

812
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: it's had a terrible outcome. I think we should try

813
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: it again.

814
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 3: What's the worst that could happen? We lose some albatrosses

815
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 3: and get an island of adorable kittens. Yeah, just swarming

816
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 3: with kittens, the only life form left. Yes, four feet

817
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 3: deep wading through adorable kittens.

818
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: And the great thing is there's no kind of saying

819
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: about like running into a folly that has anything to

820
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: do with albatrosses. Like it's not like like when something

821
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 1: happens where it becomes a big problem for you. There's

822
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: no saying that visa via albatrosses.

823
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 3: So they're saying, is uh getting a day terrific job?

824
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: Right, that's the saying.

825
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 2: So on It's like my mom always said, like you

826
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 2: never trust, never trust a tiny kitten. The tinier the kitten,

827
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:00,240
Speaker 2: the less trust.

828
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 3: It's what she says.

829
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: Is that what your mother said?

830
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, she had some medication problems.

831
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: Was this here, Like you came home from school one

832
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: day and you're like, I got I gotta be on

833
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 1: my math test. She's like, never trusting kids.

834
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have been looking for them ever since. These uh,

835
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 2: these kittens that curse your math tests.

836
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, anyways, Uh moving on to this week's mystery

837
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: animals sound the hint is this when he's crabby, he's happy.

838
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 3: Kawasaki crack Tucket.

839
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I usually have tried. I usually try to

840
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: be coy about it of like maybe you're right, but no,

841
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: you're absolutely wrong.

842
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 3: I didn't get it the first history.

843
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 2: You won't be polite.

844
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: Politeness is earned, and boys, you haven't earned it.

845
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 3: Ah. So no that boarding Walrus skateboarding Walrus closer.

846
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: I guess, but you will find out the answer on

847
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: next time, on this very show, on next Creature on

848
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: Next Creature Feature Fellas, thanks for being on. I guess.

849
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 2: That's the They usually cut that part in the podcast,

850
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 2: but yeah, we get that. We get that a lot.

851
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 3: It happens.

852
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: Thank you. I suppose where can people find you?

853
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854
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865
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Speaker 1: Like? I mean, this sounds like a podcast that Quentin

866
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: Tarantino is definitely going to be a guest on.

867
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Speaker 2: You will get some Quintins.

868
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, well, thank you guys for being

869
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,760
Speaker 1: on the show, and thank you the listener for allowing

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