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Speaker 1: Just to note, as we make jokes on the show,

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Speaker 1: on how you personally can help. Thank you guys so much.

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Speaker 1: I know this is a topic that is extremely important

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Speaker 1: out there. Welcome to Creature future production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied

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Speaker 1: and I'm definitely a human and not a sentient flock

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Speaker 1: of birds. Today on the show, I want to talk

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Speaker 1: the world. As you may know, Australia is facing a

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the cause of these fires, how it's

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Speaker 1: of Australia's most iconic animals, the koala, as well as

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Speaker 1: Discover this and more as we answer the age old

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Speaker 1: it with love? So? The Australian bushfires have had a

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Speaker 1: monumental cost. At least twenty five people have been killed,

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Speaker 1: fifth of California being burned while wildfires due corregularly during

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Speaker 1: Australia's fire season. The scale and duration of these fires

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Speaker 1: climate change. Despite all this, and the fury of Australians

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Speaker 1: Joining me today to talk Koala's Kangaroos and inept government

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Speaker 1: lot cuter um. But yeah, I mean, Koala's have suffered

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Speaker 1: massive losses um. And the area that's being burned is

425
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Speaker 1: very important to the Koala in New South Wales. It

426
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Speaker 1: represents a huge, very important part of their habitat um.

427
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Speaker 1: And there's um. Well, come to cough cast where you

428
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: just hear my esophagus get torn up. There aren't enough

429
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,439
Speaker 1: cough podcasts cough casts. Yeah, it's it's too bad that

430
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: true crime is kind of like soaking up the market

431
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: for the cough cast industry. I like a certain number

432
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: of crime podcasts otherwise, but not enough coughing. Not enough coughing.

433
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: But yeah, so well, well we're gonna we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about those little fuzz balls in just a minute, and

435
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 1: I don't there's there's some encouraging news about it, some

436
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,959
Speaker 1: things that are scary, but all in all, they're very cute.

437
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: And we're going to also talk about their poop, which

438
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Speaker 1: is exciting. I heard you say something about mom's poop.

439
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into it. We're thing. I thought that

440
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: was a weird non sequity. There's no non sequiturs here.

441
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Speaker 1: Can ecosystems come back after fires? Often the answer is

442
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: actually yes. Wildfires are a natural occurrence and can even

443
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Speaker 1: help forests regrow. Aboriginals in Australia have used firestick farming

444
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: and cold fire controlled burns for thousands of years, which

445
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: is thought to help thin out the bush and prevent larger,

446
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: more destructive fires from occurring. However, the planet is changing

447
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: and the hotter temperatures, drier climates, and larger, uncontrollable infernos

448
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: due to climate change presents a bleak picture. Research indicates

449
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: that forests that were once able to bounce back after

450
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: a wildfire are no struggling. Forest sites with no signs

451
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: of regrowth have doubled since the year two thousand, which

452
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 1: is attributed to hotter temperatures and increasing droughts. Animals may

453
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: also face greater challenges and surviving wildfires, and may not

454
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: be able to have the same success stories as they

455
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: have in the past. For instance, the agile antiqu kindness

456
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: and Australian marsupial, who looks like a little shrewd, suffered

457
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Speaker 1: a seventy drop in its population following the two thousand

458
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: nine fires, but over three years it managed to completely

459
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: regrow its population. However, with hotter, more destructive fires and drought,

460
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: animals who survived the fire may find too much of

461
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: their habitat has been destroyed and there are too few

462
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Speaker 1: resources for their populations to completely recover, and survival techniques

463
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Speaker 1: such as the brush tail possum, who hides out in

464
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Speaker 1: tree hollows during fires, will no longer be viable, as

465
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Speaker 1: repeat destruction weakens trees to the point that these shelters collapse.

466
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Speaker 1: I don't mean to sound like too much of a

467
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Speaker 1: debby downer, but I think it's important to know that

468
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Speaker 1: while nature can be extremely resilient, we can't take that

469
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Speaker 1: ability to recover for granted, or assume that the natural

470
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Speaker 1: world will be able to bounce back after repeated blows.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's so critical that we take action to

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Speaker 1: help Mother nature out. Think of it like Rocky. It's

473
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: been a great fighter getting back up after multiple blows.

474
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Speaker 1: But we've got to be like Mickey and have its

475
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Speaker 1: back and prop it back up and cut open Mother

476
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Speaker 1: Nature's big, old, gross busted eye. All Right, maybe that's

477
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 1: a bad analogy, but you get the idea. When we return,

478
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: we're going to learn some quality facts. You're gonna learn

479
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: koal of what there is. We're talking about koality. Yep,

480
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:14,959
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing now. I want to spend some

481
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Speaker 1: couality time talking about one of Australia's most iconic animals,

482
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Speaker 1: the koala. Koalas are one of the many animals being

483
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Speaker 1: threatened by Australia's bushfires. You may have heard that koalas

484
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: are functionally extinct, but I'm happy to say that reports

485
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: of their extinction have been greatly exaggerated. Koalas are being

486
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: threatened by these bushfires. That much can't be overstated. Their

487
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Speaker 1: conservation status is listed as vulnerable, meaning they're not yet endangered,

488
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Speaker 1: but they are on their way down that path if

489
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Speaker 1: things don't change. As frightening as this is. I think

490
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Speaker 1: it's also important to highlight some of the wonderful things

491
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: humans are doing in an attempt to help out the koala.

492
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Speaker 1: People all over Australia and all over the world are

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Speaker 1: trying to save this much love Marsupial through rescue efforts,

494
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Speaker 1: including some real a cute ones. Quilters in the Netherlands

495
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: are making protective mittens for koalas whose paws have been

496
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Speaker 1: burned in the fires, and pouches to serve as a

497
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Speaker 1: home for orphan koalas. Families have been loading their cars

498
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: full of injured koalas to drive them to animal hospitals.

499
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Speaker 1: People have been offering dehydrated koala's drinks from their water bottles,

500
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Speaker 1: and koala rescue organizations have been tirelessly treating injured and

501
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: bird koalas. While it's true that each action alone is

502
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: not enough to make up for the damage done to

503
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Speaker 1: the koala population, I think this outpouring of concern and

504
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: help shows that most of us really do care about

505
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Speaker 1: the world around us. Now, if we can get enough

506
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: people on board, we may be able to learn a

507
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: lesson from this devastating event and realize how important it

508
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Speaker 1: is for us to agitate for ecological protections to save

509
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Speaker 1: these wonderful animals. So let's learn a bit about this

510
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: noble koala, who is as fascinating a creature as it

511
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: is adorable, and we will definitely get into discussing their food.

512
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Speaker 1: So don't worry about that great so kouala. What are they? Well,

513
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: I'm glad you have so Koalas are marsupials endemic to Australia.

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00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: Uh they Their closest living relatives are the wombats. Another

515
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: doofy bumbly looking animal. You've ever you've seen a wombat?

516
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: Right now? Oh? Boy, you got to see a wombat?

517
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: I know the name a lot? Uh you got no

518
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: shape is coming to mind? Here's the shape? Oh yeah, okay,

519
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: I've seen that. It's the shape is how would you

520
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: describe that shape? Like a I like when? Um, if

521
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: you ever trying to design like characters for a cartoon

522
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: or something, you just you have to have certain anthropomorphic qualities,

523
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,239
Speaker 1: so you know, uh, and then teddy bear esque kind

524
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: of things. This feels like a jam pack of certain

525
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: like kind of a bare body, a little bit of

526
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: poo bear. Yeah, like a bare body, kind of a

527
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: al one in the chipmunk's head. But then the head

528
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: also has like Pomeranian qualities or something. It's a it's

529
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: a very cute, cute animal. And do you know what

530
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: a koala looks like? Yeah, koala, I'm more familiar. Yes, yes,

531
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: they've got that nice cute it's not really a button knows,

532
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: it's more of a big old honker, but it's it's

533
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: very cute. They got those big tufted ears and they

534
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: look like sleepy little balls of flu from that is

535
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: essentially what they are. So that's what I want an animal, right,

536
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: just where people that have like hairless cats, they would

537
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: defend them and be like they're great, certainly not diminishing

538
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: your love or the the hairless cat in general. However,

539
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: I think there's something that is invoked in more people

540
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: than others, which is like cuddly, chubby fluffiness. Right, it's adorable.

541
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,239
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the difference between to me like a

542
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 1: nice soft couch, and like a leather couch that your

543
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: legs get stuck to, you know, Like the leather couch

544
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: can be sort of regal and nice to look at,

545
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: but I don't want to sit on it. Yeah, I

546
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: want to go collapse into that fluffy thing. If if

547
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: I if, I would rather have a couch made out

548
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: of koalas than a couch made out of hairless cats.

549
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: But don't make couches out of koalas. I just the

550
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: cruella devil of koalas. My bumper sticker says, I like

551
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: my couches like I like my koalas, and then it

552
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: doesn't have a finish. People know they can kind of

553
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, although you could also be like, what like

554
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: your couches like eucalyptus anyways, so they can wag up

555
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: to about thirty pounds, so they're they're big boys. Yeah,

556
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: big boys and girls. And they grow up to thirty inches,

557
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: so you know they're they're handful. Yeah. What I'd love

558
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: is if they could walk around on their hind legs

559
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: and act like it wasn't a big deal. Yeah, just

560
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: like Karen little briefcases. They can get up on their

561
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: hind legs it. When they do it, it is a

562
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: big deal, very big. They look around, they do the

563
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: little applause. If you had to choose between owning a

564
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: wombat koala, which would you go with? Owning wild animals?

565
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: Is wrong, David. This is a different world, the better

566
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: world than this one where you don't even own it.

567
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 1: It just kind of lives in your house and doesn't

568
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: pay rent. Honestly, I won't. It's a good question. I

569
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Speaker 1: I think maybe. Oh god, it's so hard because on

570
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: one hand, wombats poop and little cubes, and that would

571
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: make cleaning up after them really fun because you could

572
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: make like sort of a lego structure out of the

573
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Speaker 1: poop and that'd be super fun. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: Koala's sleep all the time, so I feel like it'd

575
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Speaker 1: be really easy to take care of them because they

576
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: just like sleep about eighteen to twenty two hours a day.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I don't know. I could do both, like

578
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: bring them on, give me both of them. So, like

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Speaker 1: I said, koala sleep for most of the day. Because

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Speaker 1: their diet of eucalyptus leaves are extremely difficult to digest.

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00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 1: It's an interesting choice in terms of it being their

582
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: main diet because they are super toxic those leaves. So

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00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: eucalyptus leaves are very toxic. Likely it has developed as

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Speaker 1: a defensive weapon against insects. It's basically saying like, hey,

585
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: these leaves aren't good, don't eat them. And koalas are like,

586
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: hold my, hold my beer. Yeah, I'll show you what's

587
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: hard to eat. Yeah. Uh. And koalas have adapted to

588
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: neutralize eucalyptus leave toxins. So first of all, they're kind

589
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: of picky about which tree they pick. So some trees

590
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: are more toxic than others, depending on the soil they

591
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: grow on. So a koala will SNIFFI leave and be like, no,

592
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: this isn't for me. What I love about this process

593
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: is that they must be I procrastinate quite a lot, right,

594
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: but I don't have the benefit of needing eighteen hours

595
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: of sleep per day to really lean on. But a

596
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: koala can get into one, maybe two trees smelling leaves

597
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: and then see one a little bit away. I'm gonna

598
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: tag you tomorrow. It's ambitious for an animal that sleeps

599
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: most of the day. I would say, really need to eat,

600
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: but I'm going to get to that one tomorrow now,

601
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: when I when I sleep most of the day, let

602
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: me say I'm a little less finicky with my food.

603
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: I get up and basically the first thing my hand

604
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: touches I put in my mouth. Sometimes it's food and

605
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: that works out well for me. The genome in the

606
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: koala that codes for detoxifying proteins in the digestive system

607
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: is twice as long as in other mammals, so they've

608
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: got a serious situation set up to deal with these leaves.

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00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: It also is represented anatomically, that's yeah, anatomically. Uh. Their

610
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: fiber digesting organ in the intestines, called the secum, is

611
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: much longer than in other mammals, including humans. We do

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00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: have a secum, but we cannot eat Eucalyptus leads. We

613
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: just we are sikum is real wimpy compared to a koala.

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00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: Would you trade, say, like a really cool secum so

615
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,919
Speaker 1: you could have like a party trick can go any

616
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: party and like how old that pizza? Give me that?

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Speaker 1: Or would you rather have a hairless cat? Oh the

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00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: scum definitely? Yeah, yeah, I think so, because then I

619
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: mean the hairless cat is cool. They're there, but you

620
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: also have to really be careful cleaning them in the maintenance.

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Speaker 1: But with a secum, I could just be a garbage

622
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 1: disposal as I've always dreamed of being. Same. This scum

623
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: is also it's like a big old balloon of helpful

624
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: bacteria that breaks down the plant fibers. So but they

625
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: still have to sleep a long time to digest all

626
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: this food. So that's why they sleep so long, because

627
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 1: they're just they're eating garbage and digesting garbage all day long.

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00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: If you think of things being designed from like a

629
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Speaker 1: code standpoint, like writing out DNA and Okay, these ones

630
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: are gonna need this much sleep. They're gonna walk on

631
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Speaker 1: two feet and all right, send it out. This packaging

632
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: is ready. It feels like the Koala is kind of

633
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: like a model you wouldn't enjoy. It's interesting you would

634
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: mention that because I'm not a professional code or I

635
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: don't know too much about it. But it does make

636
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: me think of like a coder who's like, okay, and

637
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: then I'm going to add this, and then I'm gonna

638
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: like steal some code from this and add that on.

639
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: It's like there was not like a sleek design from

640
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: the beginning. It was sort of like and maybe different

641
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: developers working on it to like many different developers working

642
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: on the koala, and then like all the notes are

643
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: messed up and like missing brackets everywhere. Because this is

644
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: an interesting animal. It seems like they've definitely if they

645
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: had a deadline, they were like, are you getting closely in?

646
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 1: How you doing? Like you wouldn't believe how great this

647
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: um digestive system is. Put in some work like cool?

648
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: What else? Hey, it's I mean it coold some a

649
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: little cool ears. And then because I put some switch work,

650
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: it needs to sleep basically its whole life right And also, oh,

651
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention, Yeah, we're going to have to

652
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: make the ab crawl from the vagina to the pouches.

653
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: That cool? H So why kangaroos their babies, which are

654
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: called Joey's, are born tiny pinking about the size of

655
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: a kidney bean, and they have to crawl from the

656
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: vagina up the koala into the koala's pouch. So it's

657
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: a real It's like the most activity they'll do in

658
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: their entire life. I learned some of that stuff about

659
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: marsupials in the last couple of years. It was a

660
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: thought I'd never really had, Like what's that pouch doing

661
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: born in the punch, so they have to make and

662
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: the mom doesn't go, let's get you in this pouch

663
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: just like scoop it up. No, it's gotta it's gotta

664
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: really pull itself up by its bootstraps. Buy it some

665
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: biblical cord. Yep, why don't we make our newborn babies

666
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: work that hard? You know, just like just like pull

667
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: yourself up by your biblical cord. I you start a

668
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: college fund when I have the doctor set it up,

669
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: you set you set it on the floor, crawl to meat,

670
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: get over here, you get over here. It's like like, well,

671
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: why don't you push for a change out there? So

672
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: they will stay in the pouch for up to seven months. Uh.

673
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: And while they're in the pouch, they do drink milk

674
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: from the mother, but they also eat their mother's poop

675
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 1: and it's a special poop made with motherly love. So

676
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: the look of joy on your face currently, this is

677
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: my favorite fact about them. It's it's so messed up

678
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: and it's so wonderful at the same time. It's heartwarming

679
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: and disgusting. So I like, go, ah, but you look

680
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: like you're telling someone about an off menu item at

681
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: a very delicious restaurant. This is exactly what that is,

682
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: off off menu, off off off menu. So the joey

683
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: will stick its head out of the pouch blankets brilliant

684
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: blue eyes into the world, and then stick that face

685
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: right against its mom's but so it nuzzles its mother's butt,

686
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: and the mother releases a special poop slurry called PAP

687
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: which is full of proteins and helpful bacteria that helps

688
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: the joey grow and to develop its gut flora for

689
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: digesting eucalyptus leave. So it's basically like a protein shake.

690
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you believe in reincarnation and

691
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: things like that. And we see koala's think they're so cute.

692
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: But imagine you go from being a human and then

693
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: you're in some sort of weird middle space and then

694
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: you you re emerge and you kind of it's like

695
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: the birth canal and you come out like this looks

696
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: like the bush. Did I think this means I lived

697
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: a good life. I'm like out in nature, I'm getting rewarded.

698
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: And then you're just buried in kala, you know, And

699
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: then it gets worse than than poop starts coming as

700
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: simply lifestyled down towards you, and you like, I eat this.

701
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: Who I didn't kill anyone in my last life. I

702
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: can think of worse, worse lives that actually, but it's

703
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: not a winner. Maybe it is the sleep though maybe

704
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: later like if I okay, so payment for being able

705
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: to sleep twenty two hours a day eating a little

706
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: bit of mom poop that tastes good, and it probably

707
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: tastes great to them. They're probably like, this is the

708
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: best mom poop I've had ever. I guess they're here.

709
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: Are people that that that is a sexual activity? Okay, yeah,

710
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: well you know, but this is a wholesome poop eating activity.

711
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: This is a this is a from a mother's love, Joey.

712
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: I used to think that the grossest thing was birds

713
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: vomiting into their children's but this is ten times more.

714
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a matter of perspective, a

715
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: matter of perspective puns. I do it to hurt people

716
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: because I hurt so um. Speaking of well, weird things

717
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: that happen with koalas um like other marsupials, male koalas

718
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: have a two pronged penis, and that's a marsupial thing.

719
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: Just a marsup just marsupial. Things to do you do

720
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: you have a two pronged penis, then you might be marsupial.

721
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: If you have two prongs, then if you have three vaginas,

722
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,760
Speaker 1: you might be a marsupial. They don't have three vagina.

723
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,919
Speaker 1: What is going on with these multiple Well, remember when

724
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: we were talking about like the writing the code for

725
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: the Koala and you have different developers. Well, one developer

726
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: was like, all right, we need somewhere to put the

727
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: Koala plumbing, like the urinary track and all all that plumbing.

728
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, I don't have any room for it.

729
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: We got to run it through the vagina. And so

730
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: what happens, and this is the case with other Marsupials

731
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: as well, is that the vagina can't fuse into a

732
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: single vaginal canal because the the urinary plumbing runs right

733
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: through it. So they it's got it's basically like like

734
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: building a bypass right through and it's excuse me, and

735
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: got a round the pipes. Have you ever like seen

736
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: a really poorly designed house, Yeah, that's what this sounds like. Gentlemen,

737
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: if you're remodeling this room, I need room for two

738
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: mor zubial penises, so do not in any way you

739
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: end up with like bathrooms running right through a wall.

740
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: It's like what, it's very it's like perpendicular to the wall.

741
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: What's going on? Uh yeah, it's like that. Uh. And

742
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,800
Speaker 1: you may be wondering why males have that bifurcated penis

743
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: that means the penis nut splits off into two. Well,

744
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, we're not sure. Um, but

745
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: it could just be because like you know, the females

746
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: have two vaginal canals. Is like, hey, you know, it's

747
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 1: so it's got it's got two vaginal canals that branch

748
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: off and go into the uterus, and then it has

749
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: one middle canal as well, and so like maybe it's

750
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: just like you know, like hey, you know, two guns

751
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: for two jobs. I don't know, maybe it only needs

752
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: one of them to be efficient for reproduction. But a

753
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: kind of like door number one and it's like a

754
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: it's like a wheel of fortune situations, just sort of

755
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 1: a guessing game. My left portion of my bifurcated when

756
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: the correct place they go right right. Yeah, it's kind

757
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: of kind of headge your bets when it came What

758
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,240
Speaker 1: if though? What if it is reincarnation style, the best world.

759
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: You get delicious poop, you sleep all the time, you

760
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: have this cool digestive system. They can right, and then

761
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: you get double sex and you get a puzzle vagina.

762
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: It's great. Um. So they also have two thumbs per paw.

763
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: I'm leaning back now towards this is just a rushed

764
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: homework assignment. This is an animal that I would have

765
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: designed in the third grade. But yeah, those extra thumbs

766
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: help them climb. Well extra who extra? That is actually

767
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: good idea. Can you like, uh, there's like a robot.

768
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: Oh there's this, Um, it's not a robot. It's like

769
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: a it's a robotic attachment that can give you an

770
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: extra thumb. That give me that. Yeah, and I think

771
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: it's like maybe to help people who have mobility issues,

772
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: but I kind of just want it. Yeah, you know

773
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: hell yeah. I mean think you're getting out of your car.

774
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: You grab your keys. They are between your thumb and

775
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: index finger, and then you go, oh, right, I have

776
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: that bag of food or something groceries. You use two

777
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: fingers in the middle and the ring. Now you've got

778
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: the bag, your keys in the bag. You're stupid. Pinky

779
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: is just wait and then you look over the pinky

780
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: is the world's greatest mistake. I mean, if that was

781
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,959
Speaker 1: a thumb, give me the thumb. There an extra thumb. Absolutely,

782
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: and then and there's like there's a kettle bell, and

783
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 1: I go, no problem, I got two thumbs. Boom, great

784
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: for gaming for so many things. Jealous of these koalas,

785
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: But what if they are they right next to each other?

786
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: Where are these thumbs? You know they're on opposite side.

787
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: It's like calabunga. Dude, why do they call ours opposable thumbs?

788
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: Those are true opposable thumbs. Ah ah, that's good. Well,

789
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: don't be too jealous of koals because on the count

790
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 1: of all the rampant clumb idio I have heard of this,

791
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: well you heard it because I was talking about it. No,

792
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: I people don't want to pick them up. In the

793
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: last however many years, there was like maybe I'm thinking

794
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: of lice. There was something where like koala's look really cute.

795
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: You should never touch them. You shouldn't pick them up

796
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: for multiple reasons. Um, so let's say I grab a

797
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: koala and I'm showing off. I'm walking around like jogging

798
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: out like a pet. We were friendly and then I

799
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: touched my eye. Could I get chlamydia in my eye

800
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: from doing that? Just talking? You might be you might

801
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: be able to. Yeah. So chlamydia and koalas is different

802
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: from the chlamydia in humans where it's just just STD.

803
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: But then it can be transmitted through touch, it can

804
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: can be it can be transmitted through mating, and it

805
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: can also be transmitted as baby qualas eat that poop

806
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: shake from their moms. So, and thank you for not

807
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: saying qual media quala media. Oh damn, and I should

808
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 1: have said that, thanks for thanks for bringing that Jim

809
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: into the world. Qualamidia. Yeah, one of the I think

810
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 1: you're actually right. So one of the reasons you should

811
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: not pick up kualas as you you can get this chlamydia.

812
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: And then you would have to like go to a

813
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: doctor and be like, yeah, I got chlamydian. It's like, oh,

814
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: where'd you get it from? Koala? And and that's you know,

815
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a pregnant pause there. Doctor is going

816
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: to slowly pick up a phone and call nine one one.

817
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: You know what I would do, I would wear a

818
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: Mormon missionary outfit into the doctor. So then they'd be like,

819
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: is this true, and I'm big. Yeah, I mean, I'm

820
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:39,959
Speaker 1: saving myself. This is Koala chlamidia. Oh no, but yeah,

821
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: So so it is on one level it's it's funny,

822
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:48,399
Speaker 1: but on another level, it's extremely bad for um. It's

823
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: a very serious specterial infection. It can lead to blindness, infertility,

824
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 1: and death in Koala's. Researchers think that the recent surge

825
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: in chlamydia is not due to Koala is just like

826
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: descending into sin advice. They have a lot of spring breaks,

827
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: but it could be due to retrovirus Koala retrovirus type B,

828
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: which is compromising their immune system, so similar to like HIV.

829
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: How that compromises the immune system and the Koala's diet

830
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: of eucalyptus leaves is actually kind of a complication when

831
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: it comes to treating calamydia. So so their ability to

832
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 1: break down and flush toxins from their system can also

833
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: cause them to flush out medicine. And conversely, some some

834
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: medications like antibiotics, can actually compromise their ability to break

835
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: down toxins, meaning that they can't eat eucalyptus, which is

836
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: bad because all they do is eucalyptus. So I don't

837
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,399
Speaker 1: want to end on such a dismal note, because there's

838
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: some research research that has found that there's a bacteria

839
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: that's been discovered that could help koalas survive antibiotic treatments.

840
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: And I think we should have known the answer all along.

841
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: To save in Koala's is make koala is even more filthy.

842
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: Put more bacteria in them. Make these these dirty boys

843
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: even dirtier. And girls and girls, these these dirty guys

844
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: and gals just like filth them up, and that'll help

845
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: them filthy, filter the equivalent to this thing that's just

846
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: adorable and cuddly looking. And then you get up close,

847
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: it's like penguin teeth just heinous. Yeah, and you and

848
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: penguin opens its mouth, it's full of these little barbs.

849
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: They're not not exactly teeth like a human. If a

850
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: penguin smiles at you with human teeth, that's a demon

851
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: penguin run away. But a normal penguin they'll just have

852
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: bunches and bunches of spines in their mouths and that's normal.

853
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. Let's sing and so gross. And

854
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: a koala is kind of a cuddlier version of the

855
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: right to me, this just makes them more of a

856
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: treasure in my eyes, but fact they eat poop in

857
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: there full of chlamydia. I mean it's a it's look

858
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: at you, little buddy. My Dave is rufus and um

859
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to call you an informia that you have chlamydia.

860
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: You touched my head. You know, I'm that koala that

861
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: you petted. Remember last last week? Yeah, it was a

862
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 1: magical time. Anyways, you might want to get checked. If

863
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 1: you're wondering how you can help out Australia's koalas, I'll

864
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: include a link to some wildlife foundations in the show notes.

865
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: There's also the Koala Hospital of Port Macquarie in New

866
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: South Wales, to whom you can donate and give money

867
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: to adopt a koala. Among these a koalas you can

868
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: adopt with your dollars are Barrington, Xavier, crescent Head, Jimmy

869
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: and Oxley Twinkles, which does the best names ever. In fact,

870
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: I think we should adopt one. Here reach your feature.

871
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: I'll set up a poll online on Twitter and you

872
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: can help me decide which one I should adopt as

873
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: our own personal creature feature. Koala all install a eucalyptus

874
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: tree in the studio, all koala proof, all the microphones

875
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: and all all right, I'm being told by our producer

876
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: that we're not allowed to have a koala and that

877
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: by adopting a koala through the Koala Hospital, it's a

878
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: symbolic gesturement to raise awareness and to donate money to

879
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: a good cause. Well god dang it, I already bought

880
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: a onesie for our quality that says I Love Youcalyptus.

881
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's still a good idea. Check out that

882
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: Twitter pool. I'll include a link to it in the

883
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: show notes and we'll pick out a coal to adopt.

884
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm rooting for Oxley Twinkles. Oxley Twinkles. That's incredible.

885
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: It's incredible. But I mean, you know, you should check

886
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: out their bios, you know, scroll through. See they're like

887
00:52:52,200 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: little me, I walk eaten eucalyptus, I do he media.

888
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: While the Koala is iconic, Australia is home to many

889
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: of the world's greatest biodiversity hot spots, and the Queensland

890
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: and New South Wales areas host two incredibly important ecological

891
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: hot spots, with some of the greatest diversity in the country,

892
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: with rare and threatened creatures, including the greater long eared bat,

893
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: the jewel butterfly, the glossy black cockatoo, the long nose

894
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: podoro spot tailed calls Coxon's big parrot, to name just

895
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: a few. In all of Australia, there are one hundred

896
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: forty species of marsupials, the greatest diversity of marsupials in

897
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: the world that rivals that of the America's, the other

898
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: home to marsupials. So let's discuss some of these incredible animals,

899
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: some of which you've probably heard of, some of which

900
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: may be new to you. Some of them are cute,

901
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: and some of them leak milk out of their pores.

902
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: The first up you'll probably enjoy because I want to

903
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: talk very briefly. I'm gonna there's a lot of animals

904
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: to discuss. I'm just gonna do a do a couple

905
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: of things about each one. But the platypus. Yeah, you

906
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: like these guys, right, I do. I When I think

907
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: it was in the second or third grade, I went

908
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 1: to great detail to draw one and this was pre Google,

909
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: so I had to like go get a book and

910
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: then kind of I don't think I traced it maybe,

911
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: but I remember, you know, looking at the eye and

912
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: then the and they look so to me, a platypus

913
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: should be like a really big house cat. But they're tiny.

914
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: They're so small. Yeah, they're pretty. They're not They're not

915
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: as big as a house cat. They're like, um, they're

916
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: a little smaller there m hm, loaf of bread. Yeah,

917
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: And to me they were like the biggest house cat.

918
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: As I was drawing it, I was like it was

919
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: like a huge Yeah, totally, like this is like a

920
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 1: twenty pound thing, kind of fat, kind of scary. Actually,

921
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: a huge platypus just only that little hook thing on

922
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: their back they have that. They have the barbed barbs

923
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 1: on the back of their hind legs can deliver a poison,

924
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: which or sorry, a toc toxin. Poison you eat. Toxins

925
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: are well so okay, So venom is what gets in

926
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 1: you and hurt you that way. Poison you eat. Toxins

927
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: are both poisons and venoms. Oh that's how you remember it. Yeah,

928
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: it doesn't rhyme as well as i'd like, but no, yeah,

929
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: it's poison is the thing you eat. Toxin is weight No,

930
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: hang on, poisons the thing you eat venoms. Venom in

931
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: youa poison poison sauce anyways, platypus. Uh, they are monotreams.

932
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: Who So that's a very sort of ancient form of

933
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: mammals because they still lay eggs and they don't got

934
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 1: no nipples. What that's what a monotream is. Yep. They

935
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: they don't have nipples. They lay eggs. I'm the opposite

936
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: of a monotrem. You uh do not lay eggs and

937
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: you have nipples. Correct. Wow, that's it's good to know,

938
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,959
Speaker 1: thank you. Um. And they actually they just sweat milk

939
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: right out of their bodies is how they feed their young.

940
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: It just kind of okay, I do sweat milk. Well

941
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: that's um. I was going to say that something you

942
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: should get looked at, but it seems that you've embraced it.

943
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: I like it. Cry milk as well. Okay, yeah, you

944
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: can never so when you spill milk, you just just

945
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: sort of an endless cycle of milk household. And whenever

946
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 1: milk is spilled, that one looks at me like I'm

947
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: trying to cover something up because I'm sobbing. I see

948
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: milk and spilled, just lose it and then you spill

949
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 1: that milk, so you correct milk. Yeah, and they don't.

950
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: They're kind of oil and watery. It's very strange. My

951
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: tears get in there with regular milk and then there's

952
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: kind of like a yeah, I don't an interesting kind

953
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 1: of milk. I'm not sure I'm going to replace that

954
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: for the milk on my cereal. Though not drinkable. Not drinkable,

955
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 1: it does melt cereal, okay, but if you have it

956
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: just straight out of like a shot glass, it's it's okay,

957
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of like almond milk. And then uh and

958
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: what's sort of the the percent of the proof on that. Oh,

959
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: it's high in fat content. That's where this is. And

960
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: it's non pasteurized, so it's sort of a solid, right,

961
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: it's like it comes out it's kind of a gel.

962
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move the conversation away from this. So achidnas

963
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: are the only other living species of monotream. They're covered

964
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: in spines and they also laygs, so that those are

965
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: the two monotreams and they both live in Australia. And

966
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: the other sort of a famous I would say animal

967
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: coming out of Australia is the kangaroo, and the red

968
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: kangaroos are the largest marsupial in the world, and they're

969
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: pretty darn big. They're about as big as a big

970
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: old dude. Yeah. And the buff ones, yeah they got

971
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: They are swollen. They can get very small. I don't know,

972
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: maybe they're stealing some koala protein butt shakes, but they are.

973
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: They are swollen, and they can leap up to twenty

974
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: five ft in distance and jump up to six ft high.

975
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: So you don't really want to get on a kangaroo's

976
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 1: bad side. I don't think Carl lewis long jumped. I

977
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: think so, not particularly scared. Uh So. Kangaroos, like the

978
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: koalas and other marsupials, have three vaginas and two r dresses,

979
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: and they actually use that weird structure to have sort

980
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 1: of a Joey assembly line that they can be kind

981
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: of constantly pumping out Joey's Yeah, that's what you want.

982
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: Always just be is full. Use my other one, always

983
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: be making Joey's um. And then the males have the

984
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: two headed penis as usual. That's what I've grown to

985
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,479
Speaker 1: assume most marsupials have. They do there it is. Yeah,

986
00:58:53,720 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: it'd be real tough there it is. Wallabies are sort

987
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: of like the Kangaroo's kid cousin. They're similar to kangaroos.

988
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: They are related, but they're smaller and more compact for

989
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: a denser forest. And that's you know, Rocko from Rocco's

990
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: Modern Life. Remember that cartoon. I remember the name. I

991
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: don't know that. I remember. He's a wallaby, not a kangaroo.

992
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: Pop culture fact. Only nineties kid will get this. Only

993
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: nineties kids. I was alive in the nineties, but I

994
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: think I was what were your a kid at heart? Well,

995
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: I mean I would get home in like grade. What

996
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: do you know, I'd watched like Dark Queen Duck and

997
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: I remember feeling like dark one duck. Little known fact

998
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: also a wallaby. No, he's a duck and you know

999
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: it all right? Well you got me there. Bandicootes of

1000
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 1: Crash bandicoote fame is a small marsupial who kind of

1001
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: looks like a cross between a bunny and a rent

1002
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: w Yeah, like a tail. Yeah, let's show you bandicoot

1003
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: this bandicoot. I picture what was the name on? Like?

1004
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: Was it ducktails? Like crash Bandicoot. Crash Bandicoot is video

1005
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: game character? What was this thing on one of those

1006
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: shows like there was a Bandicoot character that was had

1007
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: like a scarf and goggles on. It was like a pilot.

1008
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: I always there was a Bandicoot. Well, Crash Bandicoot has

1009
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: like Jenko jeans and sneakers. If if that's a totally

1010
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: totally different guy. Um, but yeah, it's it's a doesn't

1011
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: like to gotta say Crash Bandicoot doesn't quite look like

1012
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: the real thing. It's Uh. First of all, I don't

1013
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: think bandicoots wear Jenko jeans, but um, you know, creative license,

1014
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 1: he's like a Bandicoot. I see yeah on on that

1015
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: sweet Koalist the Koala Protein Shakes. He's on pap He's

1016
01:00:55,760 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: on pap you, pap bra pap. So we talked a

1017
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: little bit about wombats earlier. Uh, and just a quick mention.

1018
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: We we talked about this on the Weapons of ass

1019
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 1: Destruction episode. But they've got armored butts and they will

1020
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,919
Speaker 1: sit on you if you're being naughty. I like it. Yeah,

1021
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: spine or a little hook thing on my leg versus

1022
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: spines all over my body versus a really destructive But

1023
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: how do they go the cool? But I can sit

1024
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: on people with Yeah, no, I'm I'm saying yeah, the cool.

1025
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: But you can like and they can also like beat

1026
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: it against so like if a if a predator is

1027
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: trying to get at them in their din, they can

1028
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: like crush their skulls with the butts. Yes, it's very good.

1029
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: Give me that. So if someone's breaking in your house

1030
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 1: and there the doors kind of opened, like in a hotel,

1031
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: and they're trying to get the chain and grab that,

1032
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: and then you just jump and crush them with your butt,

1033
01:01:56,120 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: that's empowering. Its great, like I mean, you know, instead

1034
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: of like those home security since like things, you just

1035
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: get a big butt and use it to smack people around. Absolutely,

1036
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 1: does it help chewing the cough drops no, um, nothing

1037
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: seems to help. But I do it. Yeah, I've been.

1038
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: I've been coughing up a storm. I'm probably going to

1039
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 1: edit those out so you guys don't have to hear

1040
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 1: them all, but you know it's been. It's I do

1041
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: it to bring you the koala is alright, So it's

1042
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: true dedication. So not quite koala is. But quolls are

1043
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: a different type of marsupial. They look like a cat

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01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: and a rat had a baby. They have cute little

1045
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 1: spots um but don't live there. What if we had

1046
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: quets quite an obnoxious name Koala's and quols get out

1047
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: of here, come up with a cooler name. I think

1048
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,919
Speaker 1: coals is kind of cool because then you can say

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01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: that's a cool cool Nope, not worth it not it's

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01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: not nope. Quality. It makes me like this, like see

1051
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: all of my words, like couality, calls, wanting, that's one,

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01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: quality calls cool. Now your favorite calls us favorite qual spot,

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01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 1: qualities coln for quality qualls uh, quality director qual, I

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01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 1: am a qualm. Qulling you about my qual your qual

1055
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: who owns a qual Yes? Correct? My name is Steve Kual.

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01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 1: This is this is madness, this is this is this

1057
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: is where the podcast descends into madness. But yeah, so

1058
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: this is a coal and they they're very, very cute,

1059
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: very let's read name them. Let's call them squeams something

1060
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: like that. It's totally different than Koala. Kind of fits them,

1061
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: kind of spots. I vote for squeap. I mean what

1062
01:03:54,960 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 1: I do like is the adventures of a qualm name Squeams. Squeams. Uh,

1063
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: this is Squeams and friends. Come on, party never ends

1064
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: and Squeams and friends. And he's like, I hate ling. Oh, man,

1065
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 1: that's so us squeams. That's man, that's so squeams. But

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01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 1: all of those qualls like Linguini because you came up

1067
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 1: with squeams on the podcast. That's that's now my I

1068
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: p so, don't come looking at me for Squeams royalties.

1069
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: Maybe put together some sort of an initiative. I guess

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01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: this is it's offensive because there might not be any

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01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: qualls and or squeams left. But if we if they're

1072
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: running ahead, count after the destruction is over with and

1073
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,439
Speaker 1: they're walking through and like, okay, they've got nine kangaroos left,

1074
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: We've got ten of those guys, what is that? And

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01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: then hopefully someone listens to your show it's a squeap.

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01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: That's so that we can kind of rebrand. Yeah, like

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01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: a rebranding. It's rebrandom and squeams start like a Nickelodeon

1078
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 1: show about squeams, so lovable scamp squems the scamp and

1079
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: and I think this that'll do it. That'll solve global warming. Well.

1080
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: Another another Australia favorite is the Tasmanian devil Um. Those

1081
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: are those pugnacious, little carnivorous marsupials and one fun fact

1082
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: about them is they pee on food once they're done

1083
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 1: with it out of spite, so other other things can't

1084
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: eat it. Same same Uh. The brush tail possum is

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01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: arguably cuter than opossums found in North America. So in

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01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: Australia it's the brush tail possum. In North America it's opossum.

1087
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: In Ireland it's os it's not they don't live there. Uh.

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01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: It is a marsupial like America's opossum. Uh. It's about

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01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: one to two ft long ways up to nine pounds,

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01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: so you know they're not not huge. Um. Both males

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01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: and females excrete red goo out of their chests that

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01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 1: they used to mark territory, every animal they have down there.

1093
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 1: It's like a grosser version of something we kind of have.

1094
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: Or hear me out better at skincare, I had I

1095
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: had a reast for him. You're going to say cooler,

1096
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 1: and then you're waiting quite a while. You're you're moisturizing.

1097
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: I excrete my own moisture. Answer from my chest, from

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01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: my chest. Don't hug me. You're you're buying store bought

1099
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 1: go I think my own. G God, I want a

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01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: brush tail, you know how like Gwyneth Palchow has goop

1101
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 1: just like brush tail possum like goo, and it's just

1102
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 1: like it's like things like fifty recipes to make with

1103
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 1: your own chess goo. You know, your own chess goo

1104
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: can be a natural sun block. I use it as

1105
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 1: that using chess go in your car. Uh. And as

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01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, in the two thousand and nine Black

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01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: Saturday Fires and I'll Australia, a lot of these brush

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01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: tail possums survived by hiding out in tree hollows, which

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01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:09,920
Speaker 1: very resourceful, dangerous. I mean, it's not like fire is

1110
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 1: going to ignore those trees. No, it gets very very hot.

1111
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, some of them did survive using that technique.

1112
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: Like I also mentioned earlier, that technique is gonna not

1113
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 1: work so good as more and more trees get burned

1114
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 1: over and over again, because it's just they're just not

1115
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: it's like, uh kind of whittling it down to they're

1116
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: just gonna like hold a little leaf over their head

1117
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: and be like, well here it goes. Everyone hoped tight

1118
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: would we click our heels together, which we oh god,

1119
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: oh it's not working. I like the idea, and this

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01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: is maybe a little too dark for this show. But

1121
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 1: the idea of a of a single trait being eliminated

1122
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: from a species, the chance that is a little dark,

1123
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: but it would be nice, right, I mean, say you

1124
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 1: have a type, say in our culture, someone who's ultra aggressive.

1125
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 1: Men and women run around telling everyone to do bashing

1126
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: people over the heads, looking before following me. And then

1127
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: they go to the top of the trees. And then

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01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 1: there's more of a reserved, kind of calculated, thoughtful group

1129
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: and they go underground, and then the top of the

1130
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: trees people get scorched. It's the ones who asked for

1131
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: directions out of the forest who survived, Like, no, no,

1132
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 1: I got it, I got it. I've got it on

1133
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: Apple Maps right now. No, no, no, that's fine, it's fine.

1134
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:32,720
Speaker 1: I ate a breakfast with a friend this morning, and

1135
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:35,759
Speaker 1: when we were leaving, there was a giant hummer parked

1136
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 1: in a handicapped spot, very crooked, and I would love

1137
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 1: it if all of those people and it was full

1138
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: of possum. Sorry, continued, Well, the possums would hopefully get

1139
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: out in this fire, but that guy would drive straight

1140
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:54,360
Speaker 1: in the Google work just this summer, trying to fit

1141
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 1: in a tree hollow. And it's like I'm trying to

1142
01:08:56,560 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 1: get shelter. I'm hunkering, hunker everyone hunger were over the car,

1143
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: throw the fire off our trail. So, speaking of the

1144
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 1: brows of nature, let's talk about dangos, Bros, dingos. You

1145
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 1: don't like you think I think about a dingo. I

1146
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: think about the dingo going like, hold me back, bro,

1147
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: no way. Yeah. Dingoes are like, dude, are you talking

1148
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,600
Speaker 1: to me? They're very like I think they're chill. I

1149
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: just think they're very quick. What that's always the picture

1150
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 1: right there, that's a that's a species of bro though, right, yeah,

1151
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 1: I guess what what what? What? What? They look like

1152
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:42,920
Speaker 1: domesticated dogs, but they're wild animals of a completely separate species. Um.

1153
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 1: Fun fact about dingos their paws can rotate and their

1154
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:49,719
Speaker 1: necks can rotate a hundred eighty degrees. So sleep well

1155
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: knowing that exorcist. Dingos can open your door knobs. They

1156
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 1: have some cool features. I feel like down there, just

1157
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: the coder's got a little more leeway, like throw in

1158
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: some stuff. These are like elon musk coated. Because it's

1159
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: like we're going to have the dingo and it's head

1160
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: is going to rotate d eight degrees. Why did you

1161
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,680
Speaker 1: do that? Sorry? Why did you give it a one

1162
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: degrees rotating head? What? Yes, well, because we could. You

1163
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 1: know how dingoes always want to look at their own

1164
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 1: paw and they just can't watch this one. They'd be

1165
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: so good at raves to like. So now onto the

1166
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: long nose podoro, which I guess you're wondering what a

1167
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 1: podorou is. Well, it's a type of rat kangaroo. If

1168
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 1: you're wondering what a rat kangaroo is. Kind of what

1169
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: it sounds like. It's a marsupial that looks like a

1170
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: mouse in a rabbit and a wall to be kind

1171
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: of just glorped together into one. What size are we

1172
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: talking about with one of these small I'd say, like

1173
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: rabbit size. So let me show you there we go,

1174
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,959
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, be a little smaller than a rabbit. Yeah,

1175
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:06,599
Speaker 1: some of our mice here hop around anyway, kangaroo mice. Yeah,

1176
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: that thing could throw I was expecting. I don't know

1177
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: what I was expecting, more of like a pronounced pouch

1178
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: or something. Right, But look at the little nose. I

1179
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,800
Speaker 1: think it's got a good it's got a distinctive nose. Yeah,

1180
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: it's longer. It seems like one of the characters in

1181
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: uh like Fible Goes West, where they'd be like, we're

1182
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 1: just stretching the bounds of what a mouse or rat

1183
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:31,559
Speaker 1: really looks like. We've given this mouse sideburns? Is that cool?

1184
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: Don Bluth? Yeah, there's a little Don Bluth. I don't

1185
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: think mice have sideburns, Don Bluth, both animator or yeah, yeah,

1186
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 1: and our director animator guy, Yeah, And I don't think

1187
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: mice have hair. Well, you'd be surprised. They also wear

1188
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 1: little round bifocals. And I've I've done extensive research in

1189
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 1: the Southern hemisphere and it's pretty common, right, I see,

1190
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: I see, yeah, yeah, that was five old five Al

1191
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: goes West is one of the unsung heroes of American cinema.

1192
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:13,679
Speaker 1: Um So they also dropped fungal spores in its poop

1193
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:16,680
Speaker 1: on account of all the fungus it eats. So and

1194
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: it's got a prehensile tail. So are all these things

1195
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 1: included there? Or do you dig further from what your

1196
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:28,320
Speaker 1: preliminary findings are to get specifics on their poop? I

1197
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 1: got me, you got me. I just love my Google.

1198
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:36,680
Speaker 1: But what about their poop? Great? I understand what they

1199
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: look like, their size, what they eat when they sleep.

1200
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: What do they know? Well, this one I don't have

1201
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: any information on their poop. So this is the Kuka barra.

1202
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: And you may remember the Cuca barra as being a

1203
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:54,559
Speaker 1: bird with that that sound that it makes, the cuca

1204
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 1: barro sound. I'll play it for you just in just

1205
01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:02,280
Speaker 1: afo jumps around and as the cool like kind of dance.

1206
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: There are a lot of birds that do that. If

1207
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 1: it's true, you know, uh, here we go. Yeah, that's

1208
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 1: a very like let's get what turned up? You know.

1209
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 1: There's a YouTube video of a cover of lit The

1210
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:32,680
Speaker 1: bodies hit the floor with a drowning pool um and

1211
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: heavily utile. It's an all animals cover and it heavily

1212
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: utilizes the cooka bara. So it's in the Kingfisher family,

1213
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: but despite its familial name, it doesn't actually do all

1214
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 1: that much fishing. It's their carnivores. They eat small mammals,

1215
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: small birds, reptile snakes, pet goldfish, and meat from barbecues.

1216
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 1: If you're not careful, Oh man, the guys are scavengers. Yeah, yeah,

1217
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 1: they'll they'll crash your barbecue. Part. It's like, yeah, did

1218
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 1: you bring something to this party? Brought some beers. Which

1219
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,680
Speaker 1: beer did you bring you? You know an I p

1220
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: a uh yeah? And that that call um can be both.

1221
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,759
Speaker 1: It can be a territorial call to mark their territory.

1222
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:23,480
Speaker 1: Can be done during the mating season as well. Um.

1223
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 1: Another cool bird hailing from Australia are pink robins. Now,

1224
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:33,080
Speaker 1: they look like regular robbins, but guess what they're distinctive characteristic?

1225
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:38,080
Speaker 1: Is there? Blue? Jeez, you're so dumb. God damn it.

1226
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 1: Why did I have you on? I'm sorry, I'm not

1227
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 1: good at guessing. Oh my god, all right, so this

1228
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 1: is what they look like. Um. They are a just dashing, vibrant, pocking,

1229
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:56,719
Speaker 1: shocking color of bright hot pink um. They have black

1230
01:14:56,720 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 1: heads and bright hot pink bellies. Both males and females

1231
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: have pink coloration, but males are the ones that really

1232
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:06,639
Speaker 1: take it to the next level, like really vibrant. That

1233
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: hot pink color is to used to attract females and

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01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: it is it. I will include a picture of it

1235
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 1: in the show notes. But it is spectacular. Looks like

1236
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: it looks like you ran a robin in the washing

1237
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: machine with a red sock. I got a real joy

1238
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 1: on your face. Like again, off menu happiness. Well that

1239
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 1: I did do a pro bird rights tweet to that effect,

1240
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: which people found hilarious. So they're so another bird this.

1241
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of birdies on our menu here,

1242
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 1: not not on our We're not We're not gonna eat

1243
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: these birds. Story. The lyre birds are large ground dwelling

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Speaker 1: birds with beautiful, fancy tales. They're gray and brown, and

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01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: their tails form a fan of multiple earth hues. Um.

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01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,680
Speaker 1: They can grow from two to three feet long, so

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01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: they're they're big, but they're not like huge. Um. Don't

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01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 1: you think it's weird that if if birds could talk,

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01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 1: as cartoons have let us to believe, they should be

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01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 1: able to in human voices. Anytime you said, oh my god,

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01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: that bird is gorgeous, their response from the bird would be, hey, thanks,

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01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 1: it's funny, funny, yeah, well yeah, And I mean it's

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01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: really interesting because with birds almost across the board, the

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01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 1: males are the ones that are the fanciest, the prettiest,

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01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 1: with the most spangles and the brightest coloration. And it's

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01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: uh thought to be mostly because through sexual selection that

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01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:38,360
Speaker 1: females find that nice to look at, and that's why

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01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: they're so fancy. And it's so charming to me that

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01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:43,759
Speaker 1: it's like, Hey, why is this bird got a curly

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01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 1: queue on its head and like pink stuff on its button.

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01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:51,640
Speaker 1: It's like because the female flows cool, yeah, but they

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01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 1: have to try hard. It's very flipped of what It's

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01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,960
Speaker 1: kind of like women or female birds are kind of

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01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:01,000
Speaker 1: like the dad body of just Cargo shared with the shirt.

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01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 1: Oh cool, I like to look at that one. Yeah,

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01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,799
Speaker 1: and then yeah, it's very flipped from us. It seems

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01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:08,759
Speaker 1: like my friend Chad Daniels has some funny jokes about

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01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 1: that special um it's called dad channels. That's in and

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: you and you criticize me for my puns. But it's

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01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: interesting you would say like that they would just like

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01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: talk in a in a voice because liar birds are

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01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 1: notable for their ability to mimic sounds and uh. During

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01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 1: the peak of mating season, they sing for many hours

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01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: every day and they craft complex songs by mimicking the

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01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:41,040
Speaker 1: sounds of other birds or sometimes just other sounds. Doesn't

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01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: have to be birds. It can be other animals and

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01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 1: it can even be human created sounds. Let me play

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01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: very Michael Winslow of the bird world, remember him, he

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01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 1: can police academy. Yes, yes, yeah, it's actually very similar.

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01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 1: Let's give it a listen here in the original list

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01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 1: shut up David addenbrow. No, I don't mean and I

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01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:09,719
Speaker 1: love you David addenbro. But that's it. Impersonating a cooka burrow,

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01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 1: which we just heard. Let's let's get another. You see

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01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:16,600
Speaker 1: if I can get another. I don't know what the

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01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 1: end game. There is songs that he has in the Funnest.

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01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: That is the liar bird impersonating the I think that's

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01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: actually a shutter, camera shutter. They have been known to

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01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: imitate a gun. Sounds like bollets. Yeah, let's get another.

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01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: Another sound in here that was a camera shutter and

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01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: again okay. They're kind of like a person that just

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01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:52,719
Speaker 1: walks down the street and goes Toyota, oh, subway, taco bell. Okay.

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01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: You know when I when I was in college, I

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01:18:56,560 --> 01:19:00,879
Speaker 1: don't know why, but there were squirrels all over the campus.

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01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 1: And every time there's a squirrel and just be like, oh, squirrel.

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01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: I could be in the middle of a conversation just

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01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:09,360
Speaker 1: say oh yeah, squirrel. It's like, yeah, there's squirrels everywhere.

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01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 1: But I had to I was like, hey, squirrel, this

1298
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,720
Speaker 1: is like your own little private bit you were doing. No,

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01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: like a tick. It's sort of like a tick. It's

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01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: sort of like you know, the dog and up kind

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01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: of situation where I just was like, oh, yeah, squirrel,

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01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 1: Like I don't get what this bird is trying to

1303
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:31,440
Speaker 1: get out of this that you do the coca barracabra,

1304
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 1: and then um, an opposite of that sex comes over

1305
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, what's up? I got you. I'm

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01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: not even the same same season as you. I mean,

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01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:42,880
Speaker 1: we love stand up comedians that can do impersonation like

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01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: well what's to do? Yeah, but they don't stand in

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01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: the mall, off in the corner and do like alright, alright, alright,

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01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 1: and then people run over and go what I got?

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01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: That would be a wonderful world for comedians, though if

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01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:58,920
Speaker 1: they did. You've never you've never tried to pick anyone

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01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: up by doing personations. I don't think so, at least,

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01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: not like that's something you would remember or not remember.

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01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 1: That sounds you're like a dodging like I can't recall. Oh,

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01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,960
Speaker 1: I certainly have not done it where I was like

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01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:16,799
Speaker 1: down a hallway in the in a mall, just doing

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01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:22,240
Speaker 1: like some sort of voice of some specific denial. Yeah. Wait,

1319
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 1: are you saying like, have I been on a date

1320
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:29,599
Speaker 1: and then done my just aces? Impersonation of whoever? Right?

1321
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: Like that would make sense. And I'm looking at them

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01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 1: going like, hey, have you not? And so talks this way?

1323
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: But to be like hiding Mr High and mighty over

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01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:41,840
Speaker 1: the liar bird does impressions on dates are how are

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01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,679
Speaker 1: you different? How is this different? Well, no one named

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01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: me the liar person. I guess that's different. It's not

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01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 1: liar like it lies to you. It's exactly no, it's

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01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 1: liar like the instrument. It's not. It's not the bird

1329
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 1: like this is a bird that this bird tells only

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01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:01,840
Speaker 1: the truth, and this liar bird tells only lies. Line

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01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 1: as birds lying about like hey, I'm a shutter on

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01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:07,600
Speaker 1: a camera and then people go, you are Ca'm a

1333
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:10,679
Speaker 1: liar a liar bird as pretending to be a couca burra.

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01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: I'm not that either. So that's a car alarm that

1335
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:20,240
Speaker 1: it's doing and another doing or lying about. So. The

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01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:25,000
Speaker 1: Australian magpie is another one of Australia's greatest songbirds. Um

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01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: They can mimic over thirty five species of birds, as

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01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,240
Speaker 1: well as dogs, horses, and man made noises. As kind

1339
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 1: of a poignant thing. I guess like a there was

1340
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 1: a magpie recorded during the bush fires mimicking the sound

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01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: of an emergency vehicle. So here's what this sounds like.

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01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: That is an appropriate young man? Is a serious situation? Yeah,

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01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,640
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really poignant, but it's also at the

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01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 1: same time this bird making sirens sounds it's haunting, and

1345
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: then at the same time as this bird mocking us

1346
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 1: definitely is. So I want to finish up the show

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01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: just by saying that you can definitely help out. There

1348
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:16,040
Speaker 1: are lots of organizations that are fighting the fires that

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01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: you can donate to, you can signal boost. I'm going

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01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: to include links to all of those in the show notes.

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01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,639
Speaker 1: And again I'm gonna have a poll on which Koala

1352
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: we as Creature Future, should adopt, So check that out

1353
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 1: and I'll get that in the show notes as well. Um.

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01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 1: I also want to do a shout out to Laney

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01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:36,439
Speaker 1: from Memphis. So, a fan of the show wrote in saying,

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01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: my six year old daughter Laney is a huge fan

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01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:42,640
Speaker 1: of the show. Her favorite episodes are the Cryptozoology Epps.

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01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 1: She wanted me to leave alike for the Creature Show

1359
01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:47,960
Speaker 1: and she wanted to tell me to tell you to

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01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 1: please include the Rugaru in a future episode. It's basically

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01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 1: a Cajun werewolf and they have a statue of one

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01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 1: at the New Orleans Zoo, which is something I didn't

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01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: know and that's really cool, and watch out for that.

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01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: She he's actually very scared of mythical monsters, which only

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01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: increases her fascination with them. Please give her a shout

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01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:08,519
Speaker 1: out in an episode. It would absolutely make her whole year. Uh,

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01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: And thank you so much for writing in, Laney from Memphis.

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01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:14,679
Speaker 1: What a cool little fan I got there. Yeah, that's

1369
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: greatly And thank you for telling me about this, this

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01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 1: really cool crypto crypto zoology fact. I will I'm certain

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01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: I will have an episode where I bring that up.

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01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:28,360
Speaker 1: So thank you so much, Laney. And thanks for listening

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01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 1: to the show. What a what a sweet message. Um.

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01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: And so yeah, you got got it. Thank you so

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01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 1: much for joining me today, you got thanks for having

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01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 1: me this week. I'm in Winnipeg at Rumors Comedy Club

1377
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: and then and that's Tuesday through Saturday, every night I

1378
01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 1: think at eight pm, and then some later shows on

1379
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday as well. And then if you live

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01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:50,680
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles January. I will be at the Dynasty's

1381
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: Typewriter recording were filming the set and love to have

1382
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 1: an audience there here in town. You can get a

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01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: more information at David Hansburger dot com And as you mentioned,

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01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 1: I do a podcast called This Base Cave and find

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01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: out on where we get podcasts, and then I also

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01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: do a monthly show here in l A. All that's

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01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:09,680
Speaker 1: on David Onnsberger dot com. Anyway, thank you for having me,

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01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:11,719
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, Thank you so much for joining you. Sorry,

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01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:14,040
Speaker 1: this was a little bit of a bomber open episode,

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01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:17,240
Speaker 1: but at least we got to learn about quality. While

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Speaker 1: I'm we're humans, we cause all them. Yeah. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: the Space Classics for their extremely groovy song ex Alumina.

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Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your

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Speaker 1: favorite shows. See you next Wednesday.