Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host
Speaker 1: of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology, devolutionary biology,
Speaker 1: and today on this show, weird Animal Rescues the weirdest
Speaker 1: way in which people have helped animals, from throwing babies
Speaker 1: off of a cliff to creepy Halloween costumes for the
Speaker 1: sake of not letting anyone know you're a person. We
Speaker 1: are talking about the weirdest, creepiest, and most heartwarmingest ways
Speaker 1: people have rescued animals. Joining me today are friends of
Speaker 1: the pod, hosts of the Dogga z Zone of the
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Speaker 2: We did it.
Speaker 3: Thank you for pronouncing it correctly. Nobody ever knows it
Speaker 3: ever gets it right.
Speaker 1: Right, they say, Rubert.
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Speaker 1: back on the show. This is a this is a
Speaker 1: fun one. It's it's all about saving animals. In the
Speaker 1: least it seems like we're tormenting them in these stores,
Speaker 1: which is what's funny, but it is actually I don't
Speaker 1: want to say no animals were harmed in this because
Speaker 1: in some of these situations like there is uh, it's
Speaker 1: not that the rescuers are hurting the animals, but the
Speaker 1: animals are in a dangerous situation. But all the things
Speaker 1: that the people are doing are helpful for the animals.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: So, first we got to start off in Iceland, which
Speaker 1: did you guys know that it's got plants on it too.
Speaker 2: In additions to Byork.
Speaker 1: In it, addition to buyork the beautiful orchid of a woman.
Speaker 1: So yeah, people live there. People live on Iceland. But
Speaker 1: guess who else lives there?
Speaker 3: Guys other than Man's Mickelson. He just seems like it.
Speaker 1: I don't actually know.
Speaker 3: I you know what, I have face, He's got an
Speaker 3: Iceland face.
Speaker 1: I have Nordic. I have Nordic blindness. This is a
Speaker 1: this is a terrible thing. But I get very confused
Speaker 1: among the Nordic countries and I cannot tell them apart,
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't know. I thought he was Swedish, but.
Speaker 3: No, I think I think like Doutsch or something. But
Speaker 3: he's got the bleakness in his face that I think
Speaker 3: he probably lives there, Like I think he has to
Speaker 3: go there. To be exempted. Well, he recharges. The answer.
Speaker 1: The answer is the answer is puffins, puffins. That was
Speaker 1: my second guest on Iceland. So uh, in Iceland, people
Speaker 1: are checking puffins off a cliff, and not just any puffins,
Speaker 1: but baby puffins called pufflings.
Speaker 2: Oh you say they're chucking them off a cliff like
Speaker 2: as a sport, yeah, or maniacs for the good.
Speaker 1: It's for good. No, No, they're doing it from kindness
Speaker 1: and empathy. I will explain it. So baby baby puffins,
Speaker 1: also known as pufflings, are lovingly tended to by their parents,
Speaker 1: fed fish throw up as they grow into fledglings. Once
Speaker 1: they're fledglings, the parents are like all right, and they
Speaker 1: leave and they're like bootstraps time, baby, uh, get out
Speaker 1: of there. You're you're you're old enough. And the parents
Speaker 1: just go back to the sea and trust that the
Speaker 1: pufflings will make their way out to sea on their own.
Speaker 1: The problem is sometimes they're dumb and they don't really
Speaker 1: do this, so they get lost on the way from
Speaker 1: the rocky crevices in which they were nesting to the sea.
Speaker 1: So this is where the Icelanders come in.
Speaker 2: I would really I would like to meet the first
Speaker 2: guy who came up with this, who saw like a
Speaker 2: little puffling, which is a very cute name and a
Speaker 2: very cute little thing, and he said, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 2: this into the ocean benevolently.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, like it's it would be very funny
Speaker 1: if the first guy was just like, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: this bird off a cliff and then it survives, and
Speaker 1: then someone's like and he he kind of goes, huh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I did save it.
Speaker 3: I know you said it wasn't a sport. Is there
Speaker 3: any reason it can't be? Though, Like, if it saves
Speaker 3: the puff you could still.
Speaker 1: Honestly, when I was reading about this, it kind of
Speaker 1: seems a little bit like a sport, to be honest, right,
Speaker 1: people get into it. There's like there's like these sisters
Speaker 1: who have been doing it for a really long time
Speaker 1: and they're really good at it and they're known as
Speaker 1: like the Puffling Queens.
Speaker 2: That's a sport, for sure, but it's it's it's do
Speaker 2: they have matching costumes? I mean, that's I think that
Speaker 2: would really push.
Speaker 1: It over the they they they don't. It's cold there,
Speaker 1: they got a.
Speaker 3: Weird I mean, you know, you know somebody has the record, Like,
Speaker 3: at the very least, anytime two people throw anything, somebody
Speaker 3: is going.
Speaker 1: To be like, how far do you would I would
Speaker 1: kind of like to know that. I want to know
Speaker 1: these birds how many times it skips on the one
Speaker 1: and is it.
Speaker 3: Like is it is it skipping technique that helps you
Speaker 3: the most or is it like you're handed like cricket.
Speaker 1: They can fly, So this means that they're not just
Speaker 1: throwing aless lightly.
Speaker 2: I'm going to really have to change gears in my
Speaker 2: brain to see. I always picture just falling like bowling
Speaker 2: balls into the ocean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean took.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can fly like their fledglings. They're not great
Speaker 1: at flying. That's why a lot of the time they
Speaker 1: have trouble. But once they're tossed off the cliff, they
Speaker 1: can fly, so they're not It's not what was that
Speaker 1: TV show or the as good as my witness I
Speaker 1: thought turkeys could fly or they just throw it and
Speaker 1: it falls to the ground. Now these ones actually can fly,
Speaker 1: so they're okay. Most of the technique I see is
Speaker 1: actually underhand, like sort of a I watched a video cricket.
Speaker 1: I watched a video of this and it's like this
Speaker 1: woman with her with her child, like showing them how
Speaker 1: to toss the puffin, but the kid is kind of
Speaker 1: balancing against her. So when she like tosses the puffin,
Speaker 1: kid falls over and I thought, I like legitimately thought
Speaker 1: he fell off the cliffs. But then I realized it
Speaker 1: was just like a little it was just a little
Speaker 1: like hill before the cliffs. So he was all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like you're throwing puffins. You mix him
Speaker 2: up with your kids. I feel like that happened probably
Speaker 2: twice a week in Iceland.
Speaker 1: They they apparently there's apparently not any actual reason for
Speaker 1: throwing them off the cliff, Like you can just go
Speaker 1: down to the you can go down to the beach
Speaker 1: and just gently put them in the water. It's fine.
Speaker 1: But but they they really like the cliff things. It
Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't hurt the burde.
Speaker 3: Person throw their kid. Now there's a record involved and
Speaker 3: that becomes a sport.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Right, do the puffins note like when they hear the
Speaker 2: entrance music for the Puffling Queens, like did they know
Speaker 2: what's coming?
Speaker 3: They get a hype?
Speaker 1: Oh damn, they get Apparently they they can when they're captured.
Speaker 1: They're a little stressed, so they the puffin. The puffin
Speaker 1: hunters have learned a technique of like they put their
Speaker 1: hand like on kind of gently on their head and
Speaker 1: then that just sort of deactivates the puffin. It's just
Speaker 1: like power.
Speaker 2: What a torrible creature.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the babies. The babies are like a little different.
Speaker 1: So you know what an adult puffin looks like. It's
Speaker 1: like black with the white tummies and then the orange
Speaker 1: beaks with the coloration. The the baby ones are they
Speaker 1: do have the white tummies, but there their heads are
Speaker 1: gray because they're not sexually mature. Uh So they're just
Speaker 1: these kind of like little innocent gray uh blops. But
Speaker 1: they'll like once in a while realize like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I'm being held by someone. In their little legs start
Speaker 1: kicking and then the person just like it's okay, a
Speaker 1: little puffin. They just like power down again, just like
Speaker 1: oh yeah, as soon as.
Speaker 3: They're comfortable, you whip them into the same in your hand.
Speaker 1: For the record, yeah exactly. But I really encourage everyone
Speaker 1: to like look at like there's an article about this
Speaker 1: and nat GEO with a bunch of photos and videos. Uh.
Speaker 1: The article is called quote, it's throw a baby puffin
Speaker 1: off a cliff season in Iceland. It's uh this by
Speaker 1: Marty oh Man. Marty, why you got this last name?
Speaker 1: I think it's.
Speaker 2: Puff Slutter.
Speaker 1: I think it's Govich. I think it's Govich, but it's
Speaker 1: got a tr at the beginning there, so it could
Speaker 1: be to Goovich. But I'm gonna say Govic, who took
Speaker 1: some amazing videos and photos of people catching and tossing pufflings.
Speaker 1: I really do encourage you to check that out. It's
Speaker 1: a videos are very good. So essentially what they do
Speaker 1: is they like watch they go on puffin patrols, and
Speaker 1: these are like families. These aren't all professional rescuers. These
Speaker 1: are local families. The locals all join in on this
Speaker 1: and they look for signs puffin signs, which is basically
Speaker 1: a baby a puffling shooting through the air and landing
Speaker 1: somewhere that is not the ocean, and then they have
Speaker 1: to like follow that to where the trajectory of the
Speaker 1: puffling to like find where.
Speaker 3: They land, like scavenger hunt, like ultimate frisbee, an ultimate frisbee.
Speaker 1: Exactly, yes, exactly, And they'll find them in a variety
Speaker 1: of locations and people get really intense about it. They'll
Speaker 1: like climb up onto roofs, they'll climb up onto like
Speaker 1: these sort of they it's apparently like a harbor light tower,
Speaker 1: but it looks like a cell phone tower. So just
Speaker 1: really intense. People really take it seriously to try to
Speaker 1: get puff these pufflings. They don't immediately throw them off
Speaker 1: the cliff. What they do is they take them to
Speaker 1: the rehab center where they're checked out for their health,
Speaker 1: their weight. Sometimes they're banded, given the little ankle bracelets
Speaker 1: so that they can be they can track their population,
Speaker 1: and then they get like a fish, like here's a
Speaker 1: fish puffling. And then the next day they will go
Speaker 1: back to they'll go to the cliff and then that's
Speaker 1: when they check the pufflings into the ocean. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Modernizing it like maybe building a device that could
Speaker 2: shove a fish in your mouth and your mouth, pat
Speaker 2: you on the head, chebbyche into the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a drone that goes around snatching the pufflings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that, uh, certainly that's possible. If
Speaker 1: you want to suck out all the joy, the joy
Speaker 1: on the children's faces, like you just put. What we
Speaker 1: should do is like replace the this this because like
Speaker 1: these kids will describe like, oh, you can hear its
Speaker 1: heartbeat and its warmth, and it fills me with joy
Speaker 1: that I can help this living creature. What you need
Speaker 1: to do is take the puffling away, put in their
Speaker 1: hands a phone with TikTok on it, so then you know, yes,
Speaker 1: that's they can raise a virtual Such little weirdos who
Speaker 1: care about a bird? Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: One kid with the phone, another kid throwing an air I'm
Speaker 2: under the ocean. I feel like that's equally weird depending
Speaker 2: on who's making the case.
Speaker 3: I mean, one kid films together. That's how got invented.
Speaker 3: That's what TikTok's for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I it would be nice if we started throwing
Speaker 1: phones into the ocean, am I right? Kids these days? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's so the human intervention in this case is actually
Speaker 1: really good because the whole reason the baby the pufflings
Speaker 1: get confused is that in order to know where the
Speaker 1: ocean is at night, they look at the movement reflecting
Speaker 1: on the water, and there's artificial lights in the town,
Speaker 1: so they get confused they go towards town instead, And
Speaker 1: so if humans were never there, the pufflings probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: get so confused. So the fact that we intervene is
Speaker 1: probably for the best because we inadvertently cause the problem
Speaker 1: in the first place, and there they're threatened species, like
Speaker 1: their population has suffered in recent years. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's a really good thing to like save these pufflings.
Speaker 1: It's not just that the pufflings are stupid and it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: like you're going against natural selection because these pufflings are
Speaker 1: pretty dumb. If they can't see the ocean, they they
Speaker 1: only know to like look for light. And if the
Speaker 1: light is like coming from a you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: salted cod shop. I'm sorry, Iceland, they'll go in that direction.
Speaker 1: It's salted cotton, icelandic thing. I know that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of preserve.
Speaker 3: The light is coming from Maud's Michelson's dazzling smile. Well,
Speaker 3: it's not their fault.
Speaker 1: It does have he does have a fluorescent smile. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's yeah, there is Wait, is it Iceland, I gotta
Speaker 1: there's a dish called a carl hi carl uh? Uh
Speaker 1: it is Icelandic. Yeah, it's high carl. Uh it's a
Speaker 1: it is a fermented shark. So yes, uh, that's which
Speaker 1: is apparently very strong, so not for the casual, give the.
Speaker 3: Little puffling Pi Carl and then fire them out of
Speaker 3: the tuffling canon.
Speaker 2: It gets it's so drunk.
Speaker 3: Never leave it, just keep coming back, and then you
Speaker 3: have infinite puffling launching.
Speaker 1: I love God Collins the ocean. How you worry? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well so this it's a very sweet thing. It looks like, uh,
Speaker 1: it kind of looks like a horror thing, right, like
Speaker 1: a scene from Midsommer with them like throwing birds off
Speaker 1: of a cliff. But the birds are fine. It's good
Speaker 1: for the birds. The kids love it. I think it's
Speaker 1: very very heartwarming and beautiful.
Speaker 3: Plus we got the puffling queens, got puffling queens.
Speaker 1: Plus we got the puffling queens. They apparently their children
Speaker 1: are quite good at it too. So there might be
Speaker 1: a puffling dynasty dynasty that would be so much better
Speaker 1: than the much can you imagine puffin dynasty?
Speaker 3: Come on, like picturing in them like matching bedazzled parkas.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that would be incredible.
Speaker 2: Be just cutting sick promos. I'm gonna throw those birds
Speaker 2: into the ocean better than you, brother.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's Annie, because I was gonna say it's like
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it was an Animal Planet, which would
Speaker 1: have been really bad.
Speaker 3: Now it's the Arts and Entertainment Channel, which is so
Speaker 3: much better.
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to take a quick break and when
Speaker 1: we get back, we are going to talk about animals
Speaker 1: who get very lost and confused and sometimes you've got
Speaker 1: to hitch a ride on a banana for over four
Speaker 1: thousand miles.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's the best of us.
Speaker 1: So we're back. And there have been a number of
Speaker 1: instances where a wild animal accidentally hitchhikes and winds up
Speaker 1: in a strange new land. Some times this kills the animal,
Speaker 1: right like transporting an animal is not always safe. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the animal survives and just ends up escaping to the
Speaker 1: wild and becoming an invasive species. Uh. And sometimes people
Speaker 1: actually notice, hey, there's an animal here that's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be here, and both rescues the animal and prevents
Speaker 1: there from being a new invasive species. So this first
Speaker 1: story is in Staffshire, England. I think I said that right, Staffordshia, Stafford, Staffordshire,
Speaker 1: Stafford Shia, Staffordshi. Yeah. So they found a frog from
Speaker 1: the Dominican from the Dominican Republic in their Beninese that
Speaker 1: they got from Saintsbury, which is a grocery store. So
Speaker 1: the frog was a Hispaniola common tree frog. They are small, tan,
Speaker 1: innocent froggies. The family did the right thing, which is
Speaker 1: they did not touch it out of concern that there
Speaker 1: might be some transfer pathogens or it could be toxic.
Speaker 1: The frog is not, in fact toxic, but they did
Speaker 1: make the right call and not touching it directly because
Speaker 1: you know, it can be it could potentially be transferring
Speaker 1: pathogens one way or the other. And yeah, it came
Speaker 1: from over four thousand miles in a plastic bag of bananas,
Speaker 1: and so the family was like, well, that's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be in there. So they gave the frog to
Speaker 1: the RSPCA, which described the frog as bright and alert
Speaker 1: and has since been feeding. Well holds me, yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 2: He just made the greatest frog escape of all time. Congratulations,
Speaker 2: it was the prize.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I'm glad they recognized that, right. That's
Speaker 3: how they do it. In the Dominican every bag of
Speaker 3: bananas comes with a free frog.
Speaker 1: Bananas come with free frog. Yeah, I hate bananas.
Speaker 3: I was so mad.
Speaker 1: This is this is a fascinating anecdote from my life.
Speaker 1: I was so mad. I got a smoothie from a
Speaker 1: store which was just like a bottle of it, and
Speaker 1: it said it had Kiwi's apples and cucumber and match
Speaker 1: in it. I was like, great, these are all things
Speaker 1: that I enjoyed a varying extense. And then I tasted it.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is a this is banana. There's
Speaker 1: banana in this. And the second ingredient was banana, Like
Speaker 1: there was no indication there was any banana on it
Speaker 1: in it by the label of it. I had to
Speaker 1: look on the ingredients, which is stuff that I don't
Speaker 1: read because I don't have time. And I got I
Speaker 1: got stealth banana much a.
Speaker 3: Frog invasive banana, and you gotta And then.
Speaker 1: They were like and then the the third ingredient was
Speaker 1: the hispanical.
Speaker 2: Tree frog and some frog was in there.
Speaker 1: Why am I getting right? So that's the best part
Speaker 1: of it. Uh, it's just you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: nice textural difference, like a boba.
Speaker 2: I think Harry Belafonte should add a verse to his
Speaker 2: song about picking bananas, because there's the one about Tarantula's.
Speaker 2: I think it could use a verse about about a
Speaker 2: frog making a daring banana escape across the ocean.
Speaker 1: Just A.
Speaker 3: That's a beloved children's movie, is what that is?
Speaker 1: There's this there's so there's a song about Tarantula is
Speaker 1: escaping from bananas.
Speaker 2: Well, it's about picking bananas. It goes day. Oh you
Speaker 2: probably heard it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I know, I know that song. I didn't.
Speaker 2: Well, there's in the second verse he goes tiny, deadly
Speaker 2: black TORRENTIALA.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, Now remember I probably should remember when
Speaker 1: I was in high school and I weighed like five pounds. Uh,
Speaker 1: I took a weightlifting class because I wanted to feel strong,
Speaker 1: and uh, the guy would play that every single day.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's a cult. I don't know what.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that's up to, but it's no good.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was to fortify us. It was
Speaker 1: to fortify us mentally as well as physically.
Speaker 2: Like it was for the purposes of like torture.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it was too inur us to torture.
Speaker 1: So if we're ever if we're ever tortured, we're like,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I listened to day.
Speaker 3: Or come to come to the y for my CIA
Speaker 3: Interrogation Resistance Techniques SLASH Weightlifting class for young women.
Speaker 1: Exactly that's a training high school super soldiers. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the frog was saved onto the next animal hitchhiker. The
Speaker 1: Colorado Zoo had an animal accidentally bring itself into the zoo,
Speaker 1: which does not use happened a marmot hid in the
Speaker 1: wheelwll of a truck bound from the Rocky Mountains all
Speaker 1: the way to Denver to the zoo, which is it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's kind of like the whole Shawshank redemption,
Speaker 1: but like in reverse, like you're sneaking in to the
Speaker 1: animal jail.
Speaker 3: It's like climbing into the wheelheel of a plane or something.
Speaker 3: You just right just going to on an adventure.
Speaker 1: Do you guys know what a marmot is?
Speaker 2: Vaguely?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, I mean, groundhogs are a type of marmot.
Speaker 1: It's a species of marmot, and then there's a lot
Speaker 1: of various other species of marmot there. Usually the other
Speaker 1: species are bigger than a groundhog. But yeah, just like
Speaker 1: think of a groundhog and maybe a bit bigger, just
Speaker 1: a large, chunky rodent. And so this thing, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like like almost got its way into Colorado. Do
Speaker 1: free meal ticket, never having to scrounge around for food
Speaker 1: again in his life. But they caught it and.
Speaker 2: Inspect they gave him a little like I'm sorry, just
Speaker 2: not the right fit for our zoo.
Speaker 1: They're not.
Speaker 3: Interesting enough, Damon, you know.
Speaker 1: What I mean. It was Matt. Yeah, it was Matt
Speaker 1: Damon trying to get to a little sum exactly. They
Speaker 1: caught him. I do think that, well, damon.
Speaker 2: Mark, I could see a kid being a little disappointed
Speaker 2: running into a marmot at the zoo. I think it's
Speaker 2: a there's an amazing that San Diego has an amazing zoo.
Speaker 2: But I'm pretty sure there's like a raccoon exhibit and
Speaker 2: you're like raccoons what like, like I left my trash out,
Speaker 2: Like this isn't a this is no special treat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why. That's why they give them cotton candy,
Speaker 1: so that we can be entertained by their existential suffering.
Speaker 1: Every time they try to wash the cotton candy. It's
Speaker 1: the only way to make the raccoon really really pop up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta be honest, those get to me. Those
Speaker 2: I when I see that, I really understand the cruelty
Speaker 2: of man to give a raccoon cotton candy. It's just
Speaker 2: it's just so sadistic.
Speaker 1: I disapprove. I I too disapprove. I really don't think
Speaker 1: it's mean.
Speaker 2: It's funny, but I hate the part of myself that
Speaker 2: finds it funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a it's exposing the monster inside of us.
Speaker 1: And I don't like it either. No, I agree. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: So another another hitchhiker. This one is in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Uh A Weka hitchhiked a ride in a family's Ford
Speaker 1: Ranger oot in May of this year. And I know
Speaker 1: what you're wanting your your question is you're what you're
Speaker 1: wondering is what's a Ford rangerot well Oot is an
Speaker 1: Australian slang for utility vehicle, which I guess is also
Speaker 1: used in New Zealand and Ford Ranger uh produces a
Speaker 1: line of utility vehicles.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's all we needed to know. Every other than that,
Speaker 2: more questions.
Speaker 1: Than that, ah yeah. Uh. In case you're you're somehow
Speaker 1: don't know what Owaka is. Uh it is also known
Speaker 1: as them they already hen It is a flightless bird
Speaker 1: from New Zealand. They're brown, about the size of a chicken.
Speaker 1: They have a large flat pointed beak. They eat bugs,
Speaker 1: small animals and fruit, and they've got long, weird toes
Speaker 1: and they live in forests and such as those found.
Speaker 3: We know they live in two places for SUTs than andots.
Speaker 1: They go into into you. Maybe it's utests or is
Speaker 1: it utes utes. I think it's because utility.
Speaker 3: Probably it's the accent. There you go, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's that one taking my eute out getting some wickas.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Uh yeah, there was a family who went
Speaker 1: to Bueller Gorge, which is a forest area. There's also
Speaker 1: a camping ground in uh which is in the on
Speaker 1: the west coast of the southern Island of New Zealand,
Speaker 1: and they apparently left their uh Ford Ford Ranger shoote
Speaker 1: door open. I'm trying to get the car correct. It's
Speaker 1: a sponsorship. I'm getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: to mention them. And uh so, the the weka climbed
Speaker 1: right in. Apparently these are very bold, curious birds. So
Speaker 1: it was like wow, free truck climbed in, nestled itself
Speaker 1: among some blankets that were in the back, and they
Speaker 1: just drove back home with this flightless bird and did
Speaker 1: not notice it until they got home to christ Church,
Speaker 1: which is like a four hour trip. I don't know
Speaker 1: how this bird remained quiet enough.
Speaker 2: I raised chickens when I was a kid, so I
Speaker 2: can tell you that in four hours a chicken poops
Speaker 2: about seventy five pounds. I don't know how much of
Speaker 2: wecca poops, but I guarantee they had to burn that out.
Speaker 1: In fact, I can tell you because apparently when they
Speaker 1: got when this is actually in the story that was
Speaker 1: written up by the newspaper, when they got home they
Speaker 1: opened the back door, the Weca made eye contact with
Speaker 1: them and pooped, adding to the pile of poop that
Speaker 1: had accumulated over the past four hours, which was considerable.
Speaker 1: So they said that the back of their truck had
Speaker 1: been covered in Weca poop, and the Weca was like,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do about it? So what
Speaker 1: they did about it was they very gently uh took
Speaker 1: custody of the weka uh and then found uh the
Speaker 1: wildlife uh conservation UH place the New Zealand. Sorry, I'll
Speaker 1: do it in the Accident News Zealand Department a conservation
Speaker 1: where they took the Wicca. The Wicko was fine and
Speaker 1: apparently this is not news to the New Zealand Department
Speaker 1: of Conservation because they've had related weka incidents over the
Speaker 1: past months. Uh, when some wakas hit out in some
Speaker 1: camper's wetsuits and that's how they got that thought they
Speaker 1: got a take it home. Yeah, just uh two others,
Speaker 1: like two wekas went into a west.
Speaker 3: I don't know what was the wet suit in the.
Speaker 1: I did not know if the wet suit was in
Speaker 1: a newt with in a ute with the wiccka poop,
Speaker 1: but I know the wet suit had a wicca in
Speaker 1: it and it probably pooped in the suit.
Speaker 2: And the said I was talking with the wet suit.
Speaker 2: Did I surprise you with my expertise therapy? Were you like,
Speaker 2: there's no way Sean's going to see this poop twist coming?
Speaker 2: And then I'm like, oh, actually, I know that bird
Speaker 2: pooped everywhere in that truck.
Speaker 1: I was very pleased that I knew the answer to
Speaker 1: that question, because I could see you from from your
Speaker 1: smug little grin that you thought like, oh, there's no
Speaker 1: way she's gonna know how much this bird poop is
Speaker 1: Like I actually know and guess what it was a lot?
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: And the people who turned in the Weka were like,
Speaker 1: we're really glad they named the Wicca Ranger. Wait is
Speaker 1: there car? Yeah, because their cars named Ranger, get A,
Speaker 1: get A, get A Thesaurus. Anyways, the Wekas was named Rangers,
Speaker 1: so they were like really happy that uh Ranger Weko
Speaker 1: was brought back home by the conservationist organization. But they
Speaker 1: did say it took a lot of time to clean
Speaker 1: out the poop from the truck. So you are correct,
Speaker 1: Sean it pooped a lot and was proud I'll expertise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we're going to take another break and then when
Speaker 1: we get back, we're gonna talk about some costumes to
Speaker 1: get in the Halloween mood.
Speaker 2: I'm going as a wetsuit filled with wekas. I just
Speaker 2: leave a wetsuit outside for a few days and then
Speaker 2: I put it on after it's been filled.
Speaker 3: I like to do I like to do sexy Halloween costume.
Speaker 3: So I'm doing a bunch of bananas with a tree
Speaker 3: frog on it in like a tantalizing spot.
Speaker 1: Okay, you guys did make me think of one more
Speaker 1: Weka story. Apparently there was like some survivalist game show
Speaker 1: and someone like caught and ate a wkkou, which is
Speaker 1: actually a crime. You can't do that because they're protected species.
Speaker 1: And uh, so they got in trouble, but they're like,
Speaker 1: I had to do it to survive, and it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: you're on like.
Speaker 2: If you just.
Speaker 3: Camera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Which, so that was a little bit. That was
Speaker 1: a mild weka controversy. So now onto animal costumes that
Speaker 1: you can recreate for your own spooky Halloween fun times. Uh.
Speaker 1: When rehabilitating animals, sometimes rescuers wear costumes in order to
Speaker 1: prevent the animals from imprinting on humans or becoming too
Speaker 1: familiar with humans, because if that happens, they may come
Speaker 1: and seek humans out, expecting food from them, which isn't
Speaker 1: good for the animals survival. For birds, it's bad because
Speaker 1: they got like they imprint on things really hard, and
Speaker 1: like if they imprint on a human, they might not
Speaker 1: even know that they're supposed to mate with other birds.
Speaker 2: Keep going with that problem, for they.
Speaker 1: Will like animals, some birds who imprint on human beings
Speaker 1: will indeed see human beings as potential mates and will
Speaker 1: like fall in love with them. This happens. This has
Speaker 1: happened with a number in a number of cases where
Speaker 1: they hopelessly fall in love with a human being, and
Speaker 1: it's an underquieted love usually hopefully hope to God. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So I've discussed this on the show before. Some of
Speaker 1: the famous examples are California condors, the chicks being raised
Speaker 1: by hand puppets, and so it's like these realistic condor
Speaker 1: hand puppets. Uh. And this is actually kind of by
Speaker 1: far the least weird one example of humans dressing up
Speaker 1: as the animal in order to rear them, because it's like,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good condor puppet and it's on your
Speaker 1: on your hand, it makes sense. A little stranger is
Speaker 1: in bear A Boo, Wisconsin, rehabilitators wear whooping crane costumes,
Speaker 1: which are both a lot funnier and more unsettling.
Speaker 2: This looks like a plague doctor or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like a custody skin on a plague doctor.
Speaker 1: It's very weird. It looks like, yeah, it looks like
Speaker 1: some kind of priest in a bird culture. It's very
Speaker 1: weird looking. So the crane, the whooping crane, whooping cranes
Speaker 1: are big, like they're quite tall.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They even the chicks are quite big, Like you can
Speaker 1: see these are tall. They like come up to your knees. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so the the rehabilitators dressed as the whooping cranes
Speaker 1: have to be outside with them, so they have to
Speaker 1: wear these white robes that cover their facial feet and
Speaker 1: then they're on their hand they have a similar to
Speaker 1: the condor rehabilitation. They have a whooping crane puppet, but
Speaker 1: then the rest of them is also covered in these
Speaker 1: like white robes, and they like can't talk because they
Speaker 1: don't want the whooping crane chicks to get used to
Speaker 1: human voices. So they're just dead silent walking around among
Speaker 1: these birds in these white flowing robes with like a
Speaker 1: bird hand puppet.
Speaker 2: Well I think they are. I think they're screaming. But
Speaker 2: when you wear the full set, it gives you like
Speaker 2: a seventy five percent stealth bonus.
Speaker 3: It's just for sure this is somebody I for sure
Speaker 3: fought this thing in clear obscure. This is like I
Speaker 3: know this.
Speaker 1: I mean to me, this looks like something from like
Speaker 1: elden Ringer. It's really somebody.
Speaker 3: Wants they've got like just a I don't don't even
Speaker 3: know what that's supposed to be. It's like part of
Speaker 3: a giraffe mask, like a stump or yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: It's it's meant to just blend in with the it's
Speaker 1: very weird. It's I think it's just meant to kind
Speaker 1: of blend in with the background so that they don't
Speaker 1: pay attention to the face area.
Speaker 2: Saw this thing, they would just immediately charge.
Speaker 1: They would Apparently they try to like they try to sell,
Speaker 1: like they commit to the bit in front of the
Speaker 1: crane chicks, so like they'll like like, Okay, I gotta
Speaker 1: think of my hand as my head. It sounds like
Speaker 1: they're you know, Jim Hinson puppeteers are like I gotta
Speaker 1: like think about the hand as actually being my head.
Speaker 1: So like when I hear a plane going overhead, I
Speaker 1: like turn my hand to like look at the plane.
Speaker 1: So it's just these weird they look like coltists. It's
Speaker 1: very strange, but it's for the good.
Speaker 3: Is this how the guy dressed for the weightlifting class?
Speaker 1: All right? Children? Hat banana time.
Speaker 3: And only dances with the puppet head of the crane?
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that harvest you and Dina Chrome children? All right?
Speaker 1: So the next weird costume is bear cub that was
Speaker 1: rescued in San Diego, and so the San Diego Humane
Speaker 1: society decided we got to save this bear cub because,
Speaker 1: of course, but we can't let it be attached to humans.
Speaker 1: We don't want bears to get too used to human beings.
Speaker 1: And this is like a baby black bear. So black
Speaker 1: bears aren't particularly dangerous unless they feel threatened, right, So
Speaker 1: the key is really to make sure that they're not
Speaker 1: getting into human stuff too much and that they have
Speaker 1: a healthy fear of humans. So they can't just go
Speaker 1: in there with their dumb human bodies and take care
Speaker 1: of this bear. Otherwise it's gonna like turn into a
Speaker 1: Yogi bear situation and you have to euthanize it, and
Speaker 1: that's bad. So I'm not sure this.
Speaker 2: Is a real this is a real pervert photo you've
Speaker 2: sent us here.
Speaker 1: Yes, listen, Nicholas, Man, it looks a little bit like
Speaker 1: the Shining Uh photo. True. It's like a fluffy like
Speaker 1: a fluffy body suit with like fake bear fur, and
Speaker 1: the head is like a rubber mask, a quasi realistic
Speaker 1: rubber bear mask that kind of looks like it's smiling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not like it's not like a cartoon bear.
Speaker 1: It's not like a smoky the Bear cross.
Speaker 3: Like Hams Bear. It's it's cartoon.
Speaker 1: Wait, remember what's that like? Old like Disney animatronics show that.
Speaker 2: They it was like the Sounds Song of the South.
Speaker 1: Well there there was a Song of the South, but
Speaker 1: there was also like a bear. There was a bear anima.
Speaker 3: The act the jam Country Bear Jambres.
Speaker 1: Country Bear Jambre it is it is giving a little
Speaker 1: bit Country Bear.
Speaker 3: Yeah, scared out of me when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: This is kid Czechoslovakia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kids, you you like kids have grown up on
Speaker 1: five Nights at Freddy's. So those are those like that
Speaker 1: game is based on actual animatronics that we when we
Speaker 1: were children were in real life subjective and attacked by
Speaker 1: and attacked by. Uh yeah, exactly so Country Bear Jamboree
Speaker 1: Bears truly one of the God. I'm looking at some
Speaker 1: pictures of the God. What were they? What were they?
Speaker 3: They're terrifying. I went to see eight or nine. The
Speaker 3: dad took me to Disneyland. It was like the last
Speaker 3: thing we did at night when nobody was around, Like
Speaker 3: everybody's left Disneyland, so it was just lost and like
Speaker 3: two weather kids for this whole show. Terrible.
Speaker 1: It's chilling. It's chilling because it's like, Okay, cute fluffy
Speaker 1: bear costume for the most part, and then a face
Speaker 1: that is like it looks like a Salvador Dolly painting. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like it's this weird, weird face.
Speaker 3: Do not move well, don't move like they're filled with
Speaker 3: snakes at all times.
Speaker 1: Which they probably are. So yeah, the baby bear is
Speaker 1: apparently not terrified from this bear, and it's like, ah, well,
Speaker 1: this this bear will grow up to not be too
Speaker 1: used to humans. But it's like it's almost like it's
Speaker 1: teaching this baby bear to see human purpose.
Speaker 3: Hanging out intel for sure.
Speaker 2: Really unset.
Speaker 1: So another another interesting costume choice is at a rescue
Speaker 1: center in Richmond, Virginia, they found a fox kit, which
Speaker 1: is a baby fox. Actually, when baby foxes come out,
Speaker 1: they're kind of a brown color or tan color. They're
Speaker 1: not that bright orange. But they did not want this
Speaker 1: fox kit to get used to humans because that would
Speaker 1: cause problems, so rehabilitators used a uh fox mask, and
Speaker 1: it does look a little bit like a deeply discounted
Speaker 1: furry mask, like because the furries. Furries range from the
Speaker 1: very cartoony masks right that kind of look like they're
Speaker 1: from Disney or something.
Speaker 3: To more realists, this is a water damaged second hand
Speaker 3: like refurbished from Craig Rights.
Speaker 2: This is the aftermath of a furry murder. I think is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's furries actually come up with some pretty
Speaker 1: good masks and costumes. There's a lot of skill and
Speaker 1: talent there. This one is not that. This one looks
Speaker 1: like this one looks like it was. It's like a budget,
Speaker 1: a bargain bin budget furry mask that someone who's like
Speaker 1: just kind of get into the furry scene, but they're
Speaker 1: not yet bold enough to actually drop real money on it.
Speaker 1: So they get this mask. Shouldn't the scientists.
Speaker 2: Like maybe call for hey, local perverts, we're trying to
Speaker 2: can we borrow a nice mask to help the baby fox?
Speaker 1: Not all furries are perfects perverts, saying the perverts specifically
Speaker 1: would be most likely to have nice probably the most
Speaker 1: probably the most skilled. It's very perverts, right in a
Speaker 1: in the best way. We we love our We love
Speaker 1: our perverts, don't we, folks. So so yeah, no, that's
Speaker 1: what I was like kind of thinking this whole time,
Speaker 1: is like you actually, like for people furry artists right
Speaker 1: who make the costumes, would actually be a really good
Speaker 1: resource for these rehabilitation centers. But probably, I mean it's
Speaker 1: probably really expensive, is the problem. So I don't think
Speaker 1: these real rehabilitation centers are like flush with cash to
Speaker 1: like t get them.
Speaker 2: Secondhand, you're like some of these perverts. They got married.
Speaker 2: The wife's like, did you cannot dress like an animal anymore?
Speaker 2: And they're like, well, am I gonna do all these suits?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: And then you call them scientists.
Speaker 3: Human generosity on every level. If you asked the furry
Speaker 3: community we need this to help rehabilitate animals, they would
Speaker 3: donate their time and supplies, and then you would get
Speaker 3: really confusing text right off out of it too.
Speaker 1: Yep. I mean you know what, I think that that
Speaker 1: really is the best of both worlds. Donate. Donate your
Speaker 1: old furry suits, no question to ask. We don't we
Speaker 1: don't need to know, and we don't care, and we
Speaker 1: love and support you. Just you know, wash them and
Speaker 1: then donate them and then we'll use them to save baby.
Speaker 3: If they still have like working lactation mechanics, leave those.
Speaker 4: In Oh no, no, but maybe possibly uh so.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The last one is the one I personally find
Speaker 1: the scary. Oh my god, these are the rehabbers at
Speaker 1: the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda.
Speaker 1: These are pandas that are being reared to be released
Speaker 1: back into the wild. So again, they don't want them
Speaker 1: to get used to human beings. They want them to
Speaker 1: get used to pandas, which is why they're wearing these.
Speaker 2: Coss This looks like a guy which in disguise to
Speaker 2: rob a dollar tree.
Speaker 3: This is the perch. This is the guy. This is
Speaker 3: the guy you're most worried about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Perginite, this is bad news on purgean eights.
Speaker 1: This he looks they look like it looks like something
Speaker 1: kind of hastily sewn together, maybe from human flesh. Uh
Speaker 1: died to look like a panda by a psychopath who's like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is their this is their killer persona
Speaker 1: like the pernicious pan U going around.
Speaker 2: To be clear, killing a level one mob like you
Speaker 2: like you see this guy on Purge, you're winning that fight.
Speaker 2: It's just to like, let you know, the steaks are
Speaker 2: are going to get.
Speaker 3: The level of filth on that costume tells me he's
Speaker 3: got a lot of experience doing this. I don't think
Speaker 3: I'm winning that.
Speaker 1: You're right, you guys, You guys have a way with words.
Speaker 1: Could you like paint a visual picture of this costume
Speaker 1: for the audience, because uh sure, it's.
Speaker 3: An it's an executioners hood for pandas like, if you're
Speaker 3: going to kill panda, this is what you put on
Speaker 3: before you chop off its head.
Speaker 2: But with the texture, with the texture of a very
Speaker 2: old scrotum, and the and the filth of a very
Speaker 2: very old scrotum.
Speaker 1: Some of that filth is going to be panda piss
Speaker 1: and poop because they sprinkle themselves with panda.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think this is I don't think this
Speaker 2: is a scientist. I think this is a guy who
Speaker 2: found him very Uh.
Speaker 1: No, there's work to cover the going to work, they guys.
Speaker 3: Just this picture, you can see just off screen there's
Speaker 3: like a shut cage with a panda outside of it
Speaker 3: looking in. I don't think I think it's to protect
Speaker 3: the panda, right, I think this is where this guy lives.
Speaker 3: Like look at the wall.
Speaker 1: This is what sort of funny is in this picture.
Speaker 1: The man in the panda suit is in the enclosures,
Speaker 1: the panda is outside, and this is where we keep
Speaker 1: looking this guy, this guy scientist guy like doctoring there.
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, totally the name you said, I'm that guy,
Speaker 2: I'm not it.
Speaker 1: It does look a little bit like the Panda Society
Speaker 1: found this guy and arrested them for being a permanent
Speaker 1: put him in panda.
Speaker 3: It's the I am legend of pandas.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so that the costume is not particularly convincing
Speaker 1: to me. It's not fluffy, no fur on it. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of a it's like a so they're wearing
Speaker 1: like a black body suit made out of a jersey
Speaker 1: material and then sort of a I don't know, like
Speaker 1: a fleece like onesie over that that's white, and then
Speaker 1: a hood made out of Yeah, I mean it looks
Speaker 1: like an executioner's hood.
Speaker 3: But with this, it's like it's hanging off of him
Speaker 3: like it wasn't it was made for a man six
Speaker 3: times his size.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got like a little black nose and a
Speaker 1: hole for the mouth. It looks very menacing and bad
Speaker 1: in a way that I just I the thing is,
Speaker 1: I this is my feeling. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: fooling the baby pandas, but I think it's still accomplishing
Speaker 1: the goal of scaring the crap out of them, so
Speaker 1: they will ever never want to get near a humans traumatizing.
Speaker 3: Why do you need the mouth hoole to feed pandas.
Speaker 1: Give them a kiss? You want to give them a
Speaker 1: little kiss on the nosy kiss on the noisy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very disturbing. I don't like it, but you know,
Speaker 1: I assume they're doing good work militating.
Speaker 2: I assume quite the opposite. I assume all of this
Speaker 2: is pointless except for one mad man's boner.
Speaker 1: Anyways. So that's that's that. If you want in spo
Speaker 1: for your Halloween costumes, I'll include uh document in the
Speaker 1: show notes with these uh convincing in it for you
Speaker 1: to enjoy. Beforehere we go. We do guys play a
Speaker 1: little game called Gifts to Squawk and the Mystery Animal
Speaker 1: Sound game. Every week I play mister Animal sound and
Speaker 1: you the listener, and you the gifts. But I guess
Speaker 1: who's making that sound. It can be any animal in
Speaker 1: the world. The last week's mister Animal sound hint was this,
Speaker 1: They may look like squirrels, but they're more closely related
Speaker 1: to us. All right, let me share a sound with
Speaker 1: you. You won't hear it yet to audio share, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. All right, you guys got any guesses.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's that uh Chinese panda doctor in the suit.
Speaker 1: Uh, Robert did say Lemur, which is actually very close.
Speaker 1: This is the pygmy marmose set. It's one of the
Speaker 1: smallest primates in the world and the smallest true monkey.
Speaker 1: So of the true monkeys and not the fake monkeys,
Speaker 1: this is the smallest. They're found in South America in rainforests,
Speaker 1: and they're very cute little guys. They are fluffy with
Speaker 1: golden brown fur. They've got long tails, and they live
Speaker 1: in little family groups and they can jump up to
Speaker 1: sixteen feet or five meters from branch to branch. They
Speaker 1: like to suck the juices out of trees. So what
Speaker 1: they do is they use their incisors to make incisions
Speaker 1: into the tree bark and they let the sap kind
Speaker 1: of goosehout, sort of ooze out, and then they eat
Speaker 1: that and that's their main food.
Speaker 5: That they I remember in a silk rage comics like
Speaker 5: sixties in earlier you could they would see ads for
Speaker 5: these little pigmy marmosets and you could just like order
Speaker 5: them comic book.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say that sounds like a great prize
Speaker 3: and a bunch of bananas, but if you could just
Speaker 3: order one directly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're very cute, I think. I think I've
Speaker 1: read about this. They would rarely survive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine. Yeah, they probably shipped them like that.
Speaker 2: They just stuck them in some banana eggs.
Speaker 1: Little little Johnny could only keep the marmoset alive for
Speaker 1: a few weeks. Yeah, it was an interesting time. They
Speaker 1: would also like give you turtles, which I think caused
Speaker 1: a big invasion of non native turtles in the water
Speaker 1: systems in the US.
Speaker 2: I think that's uh, you have a good point that
Speaker 2: that's probably why we know they didn't survive because there's
Speaker 2: not a lot of marmosets running around. I've never seen
Speaker 2: a marmoset like in the park.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it always feels like, you know, it's like, man,
Speaker 1: it'd be fun to have a bunch of marmosets like
Speaker 1: and baby invasive species. I get like, Look, I'm not
Speaker 1: in favor of invasive species because it's not good for
Speaker 1: the environment, but if they're gonna be there, be nice
Speaker 1: if it was cute ones rather than like boa constrictors
Speaker 1: and cane toads.
Speaker 2: Plus it would be just nice to see, like hawks
Speaker 2: taking out monkeys all day. I feel like people go
Speaker 2: outside more.
Speaker 1: That's probably one reason they're not very invasive, is there, just.
Speaker 2: Like monkey versus hawks taken out?
Speaker 3: Like, my money's on the monkey. Like a monkey can
Speaker 3: wield like a small blade of sometimes.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a very little monkey and it's a
Speaker 1: very little blade.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like surgical, give them a little surgical.
Speaker 1: Skill hawks have, like hawks have blades for fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not saying I'm saying it's coming out clean,
Speaker 3: but I'm putting my money on the blade monkey.
Speaker 1: Well, marmoset with like a butterfly and I'm tossing it
Speaker 1: from pompsong. I'm gonna get some winds now and then yeah,
Speaker 1: once in a while he's gonna get it's gonna get
Speaker 1: a hawk. All right. So, so this week's mister Animal
Speaker 1: Sounds the hints is justice rot row. All right, that's
Speaker 1: the sound that you get here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that was a panda scientist. No, No,
Speaker 2: I think that might have been a fox.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you gotta guess, is Robert.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna agree with Sean, but be more specific and
Speaker 3: say it's a fox seeing that guy in the fox mask.
Speaker 2: Yep, that was him saying oh sexy five. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no.
Speaker 1: It's the existential dread of realizing your mother is just
Speaker 1: some guy in a fox mask that they got from spirit. Holliwa,
Speaker 1: we really all have why we go to therapy. Guys,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me today. Hey out there,
Speaker 1: If you think you know who's making that animal sound,
Speaker 1: you can write to me at Creature feature Pott at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. You can also write to me your
Speaker 1: animal related questions. Robert and Sean. Where can people find you?
Speaker 2: Robert, you're better at plugging? Why don't you do it?
Speaker 3: Oh? You can find us. You can find us on
Speaker 3: one nine hundred hot dog dot com or support us
Speaker 3: on Patreon dot com Slash one nine hundred hot Dog.
Speaker 3: You can listen to our podcast The Dog Zone nine
Speaker 3: thousand or our other podcast with Jason Parton where we
Speaker 3: watch every episode of Mountain Monsters. It's called Big Feats.
Speaker 3: Those are all the places where you can.
Speaker 2: And pre order Robert's upcoming book, I Will Kill your
Speaker 2: Imaginary Friend for two hundred dollars or he will go
Speaker 2: to jail. It's a long story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: Is that the whole title of the book, or is Robert.
Speaker 3: Going it's if I could amend it, that would be
Speaker 3: the whole title of the book. I'm working on that.
Speaker 3: They say they don't want to redo the covers. I say,
Speaker 3: I don't want to go to prison, So we're it's
Speaker 3: something of an impasse.
Speaker 1: You could just write it and sharpie at the bottom.
Speaker 3: I will on every single one. They let me said,
Speaker 3: if you buy it, send it to me and I
Speaker 3: will write the full title, or I will go to
Speaker 3: prison underneath right.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, you'll write the full title, or you'll go
Speaker 1: to prison full.
Speaker 3: Title, I will kill your imagine for two hundred dollars
Speaker 3: by Robert Brockway by it, or I will.
Speaker 1: Go to prison, yeah right, Or you'll go to prison,
Speaker 1: or or I'll just go problem.
Speaker 3: I'm probably just go in prison if we're being real, Yeah,
Speaker 3: in which case it could become a collector's item.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're sort of already in a prison of our
Speaker 1: own minds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't want to go to the prison
Speaker 3: with the panda guy in it. That's the one a point,
Speaker 3: like I'm going to that filthy room with the guy
Speaker 3: in the pandam mask.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just go in. You see the guy just
Speaker 1: as the panda with the mouth whole. He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: what are.
Speaker 3: You in for? And I gotta say I didn't.
Speaker 1: Promote my my by Panda Emporium of London. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: the Surprised Books, so he doesn't have to go there.
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