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Speaker 1: I know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous. I will

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Speaker 1: surprised at what the FOURD escape. Let's say your FOURD

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Speaker 1: so you know it's also ridiculous. Besides all that tell

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Speaker 1: me Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippo. Now, if you're wondering, cocaine,

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Speaker 1: hippos are not actually made of cocaine, but they were

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Speaker 1: You're paid in cocaine. They're cocaine warriors if you If

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Speaker 1: Escobar and hippos, you'll see a bunch of headlines and

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Speaker 1: like there be things like Pablo Escobar why scientists want

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Speaker 1: Dudude Bro has been dead for almost thirty years that

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Speaker 1: people are still blaming the state of Columbia on him.

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Speaker 1: I mean this case, it airs a direct connection. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know he's pretty much less well, he could be

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Speaker 1: so you're ready for a very very bizarre story about

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Speaker 1: the same story. Okay. Our story starts in sub Saharan Africa. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they're brought to New Orleans, You're like, wait, what, Well,

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Speaker 1: but it's more fun to say it that way. Now,

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Speaker 1: They have become this unofficial symbol of Colombia's sense of itself.

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Speaker 1: It's a way of recognizing who they are and who

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Speaker 1: It's an element of magical realism. Now. However, though, at

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Speaker 1: It's a growth and it's total growth. So Paulo Escobar

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Speaker 1: Public Escobar needed you on his team. I would have

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Speaker 1: been so helpful. God, he probably would still be alive.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of a logistic scale. Yeah, So let's just

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Speaker 1: it sounds like a joke, right, but it's like hippos

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00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 1: their poop is turns out to be a really bad

422
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: anaerobic problem. It basically pulls oxygen out of the water,

423
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: so the available oxygen for the fish is not there.

424
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: So that means if you were fish, and then if

425
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 1: you're a fish, means if your otters, and then also

426
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: if you're manatees, so these hippos are threatening to basically

427
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: kill manatees. That's not cool, right, Everyone loves manatees, and

428
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: like people are like, bro, come on now, like what's

429
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: up with these cocaine hippos and their hippo crap? And

430
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: exactly the manatees are like, you know, these super gentle

431
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: sea cows. And everyone's like, oh, y'all like the new one. Huh,

432
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,959
Speaker 1: y'all got that new model. We're just over here. But

433
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: what would you by the way, just you know, off handedly,

434
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: cocaine hippos. I keep saying the term what would you

435
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: have fixed cocaine to? What animal would you put cocaine

436
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: in front of if you had a choice? Cocaine? Uh,

437
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: what's something that's like I think it would be about

438
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: for comedic effect or like in real life. I don't

439
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: think in real life use this is like you know,

440
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: it's a nickname that's associative to Pablo Escobar. I just mean, like,

441
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: what would be a funny animal to refer to as

442
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 1: a cocaine This a cocaine that, like the cocaine art vark.

443
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: I think amster cocaine. Amster cocaine will not get off

444
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: the hamster wheel. I think that is just you just

445
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: described cocaine had like anyone who dugs code cocaine amster. Yeah,

446
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: that's the new name for people. You see some you

447
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: see someone, I'll toot it up. You're like, look at

448
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: that coke cocaine hamster ever there? And then we shorten

449
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: it and we just refer to them as hamsters. How

450
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: will we know which ones are which? Though? Well, because

451
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: if I if, if I'm at like a rock and

452
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: roll show and I come out of the bathroom and

453
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: I go, there's a bunch of hamsters in there, would

454
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: immediately sharing a stall and I hear some snorts, You're

455
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: not going to be like literal hamsters. You're like, oh

456
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: my god, what why is there a hobbit trail in there?

457
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: Is it broken? This club has a habit trail that

458
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: runs all through the bathroom system. It's amazing. So I

459
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: think that Zaren context clues context was okay, fair enough,

460
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: fair enough? So how about this a more serious question?

461
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: What would you do with a fast growing population of

462
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: cocaine hippos and you had to get rid of them,

463
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 1: organize them in revolt, have them leave themselves out of

464
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: their exploitation, completely, break the chance, take over the cities. Yeah,

465
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 1: if I had to get rid of them, I don't know.

466
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: It's not my it's not my business. The government of

467
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: Colombia has been taking that approach for a while. They've

468
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: tried recently a more hands on approach. So basically, for

469
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: the longest time they just blame Pablo Escobar. They're like, oh,

470
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: it's pablos hippos. Anything they do, it's pablos. But then

471
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: that didn't work after a while. Yes, he's dead, yeah exactly.

472
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: After then they god, like ten fifteen years later, people like, bro,

473
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: those are not pablos hippos anymore. I mean they are,

474
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: but y'all have been letting them wild out. So the

475
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: descendants of public exactly probably never met any of these hippos.

476
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: So the Colombians are like, okay, well we can go

477
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: through some options, and so they basically have tried most

478
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: of the options you would think of. So let's start

479
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: with a couple of them, right, Like, you got this

480
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: invasive species and you're like, well, well, how do we

481
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: get rid of them? Well, we brought them here, we

482
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: could just send them back. So the first idea of

483
00:26:54,760 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: the old idea send them back to Africa. Had that

484
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: one that one met with about the same responses the

485
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: first time they tried it, because it was like, that'll

486
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: be too expensive. How are we going to do that?

487
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: We want to do it, but how are we going

488
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: to do it? It's like a whole nightmare on the

489
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: Hippo star line, exactly, the Black Hippo Star. The thing is,

490
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: it's like those those dudes, those hippos aren't yeah exactly,

491
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: not anymore. Yeah, So it's like, y'all got some South

492
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: American hippos. I don't know what to take speak Spanish. Well.

493
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: Then the other issue is that the Colembian government has

494
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: had to start to solve this problem because now the

495
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: cartel is smuggling these baby hippos. They go and have

496
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: ducked the baby hippos and smuggle them out of Colombia.

497
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: So the cycle has come full circle and the cartel

498
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: is now they're selling them overseas. Whoever wants a baby hippo.

499
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: They're like, we got some baby hippos. What y'all need?

500
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: Billionaires who have too much money and they're like, what

501
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: can I put in my palatial estate about baby hippo hippos?

502
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: And so people like yo, I know somebody I can

503
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: hook you up with that you want to go out

504
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: on a kilo and two baby hippos like kid, their

505
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: kid gets a hippo for its fourth birthday and the

506
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: kids riding the hippo on the grass until it loses

507
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: interest and they're like, he did you feed the hippo today?

508
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: Where's your where's your hippo? Becky? Did you If you

509
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: get me a hippo, I promise I'll take care of it.

510
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: Hippos are violent. Oh yeah, that's the other thing. Yeah,

511
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: they naps that kid in half. No more than any

512
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: other wildlife in Africa. That includes the king cobra, the lion,

513
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: the elephants, rhinos, all those hyena. None of them get

514
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: close down. Many of the hippo hippos just will snap

515
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: you all neck. So proud of them. So there have

516
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: been some other approaches. The Colinbian government that came up

517
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,479
Speaker 1: has come up with. One of them was the always

518
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: the old fashioned well we could eat them because well

519
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: this this was a real thing. This came up and

520
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: basically this this hippo died of semi natural causes semi

521
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: natural s to suicide. He ran into an electrified fence

522
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: and so it was like half cooked. It's not semi

523
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: natural causes because no one actively killed the hippo. The

524
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: kip hippo wandered into a kill environment. I don't know

525
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: what to tell you, but it's not natural because it's

526
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: not like the natural electrified fences like eels get together

527
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: and like hanging from trees just to like experience. People like,

528
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: let somebody come through, come through, come through, Come on.

529
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: It's like a hazing thing in the jungle of these Okay,

530
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: so we'll call it. We'll call it a negligent death. Okay,

531
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: negligent homicide. Death of this hippo occurred and the locals

532
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: were like, well, it's it's already kind of cooks. What

533
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: what do you think it taste like? So they divided

534
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: it up and then they like you know, partitioned it

535
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: up amongst each other, and then we went to town.

536
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: They were like, that's so good hippo meat. I mean,

537
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: if another one comes through here and it gets killed

538
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: on Bob's fence, it's like when you're driving down the

539
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: street and your windows are down and you smell someone barbecuing.

540
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, that's good, that's really good. Should I

541
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: go and pretend I'm a relative. That was the neighbors

542
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: with hippo. They were like, oh, that kind of it's

543
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: got some real hits, a little different kind of comes

544
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: out to the nose and says hello. So this they

545
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: have called me. Government's like, hey, is this is something

546
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: we can do? We heard some locals that we're eating

547
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: some electrified hippo meat. Is that something we could push

548
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: off on the people? And biologists is like, well yeah,

549
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: I mean there's a high fat content, it could probably

550
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: marble well, and maybe if you paired it with local

551
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: spices it could be a really good meal. Which did

552
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: How about you? Do you remember when Louisiana tried to

553
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: do this with Nutria with that giant beaver and they're like, okay, people,

554
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: we tried to get you to shoot them, and you

555
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. What if would you just eat them?

556
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: Let's come up with some recipes, people, and they put

557
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: out a state like a cookbook for Nutria and nibble

558
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: on them, tiny little real exactly get some of that

559
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: rib meat. Work real hard for it. It's sort of

560
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: like a cornish game hyn a Louisiana game. Hyna. Well,

561
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: you're good at cooking, how would you prepare a hippo.

562
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like it's in my mind

563
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: because you said this is like a high fat cun

564
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: But I don't believe it's like marble. Do you probably

565
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: have to get through a fat layer. Yeah, I imagine

566
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: it's it's more like whales where you have like blubber

567
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: or it's a condensed I mean, then I'll use the

568
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: techniques I use when cooking whales. Yeah, okay, than never mind.

569
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: I mean I bet you could get like a hippo

570
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: steak somehow, like get some sort of because they're strong,

571
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: very very so you get you tapped into that muscle though.

572
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: Oh probably. And I don't know if if it's something

573
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: you kind of got to like stew to soften, got

574
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: to tender eye, it probably. Yeah. I don't know any

575
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: of these things. I'm just making this stuff up. Hippo tacos,

576
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: hippo tacos. You know, I can make anything into a taco.

577
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: About talent, people like what is Elizabeth like? Well, if

578
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: you can make anything into a taco and she loves

579
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: the television show nine one one, Yeah, those are thats

580
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: pretty much all I think. That's full stop. That's my autobiography.

581
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: So Colombia is like, um, well we've tried all these

582
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: different approaches. Well we could always do the old well,

583
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: you know, stand by just shoot them. We could just

584
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: go out and hunt them and shoot them. And the

585
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: people are like, bro, bro, you canna let God sort

586
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: them out. That is not the approach. They're like, well,

587
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: hear us out. So when they had a like this

588
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: rampaging hippo going around in the rural back country, the

589
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: locals were like, help us up as we got this

590
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: hippo is just rampaging in the back country. And the

591
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: Columbian government's like, okay, we got you son, We'll send

592
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: out like the killed team. So he send out to

593
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: you like the army, and the army goes out there.

594
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: You know, A K forty seven is the whole bit.

595
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,479
Speaker 1: And uh, they hunt down this hippo, they kill it,

596
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: and then they make the mistake of taking a picture

597
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: with it. Yep, they know the whole group. There's like,

598
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: you can find this picture of Peppe the hippo dead,

599
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: surrounded by Colombian army folks all smiling. And when that

600
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: photo hit the internet, what do you think happened? Angry? Yeah,

601
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: so a bunch of people got pissed and it was

602
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: so bad that the Colombians protest. It was an international

603
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: incident online. The Columbian people. They went down and protested

604
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: in front of the environmental ministry and Bogata. They're like,

605
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: y'all can't do this to Pepe ended any of the

606
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: other hippos. This is not gonna be cool. People are like, oh, well, okay, well,

607
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: I guess we can't come back to Africa. We can't

608
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: eat them, we can't shoot him. What are we gonna do? Miriam?

609
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: No good guests though that came up with the last one.

610
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: Castrat um ouch exactly. You don't even have tests. So

611
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: I will explain to you after the short break how

612
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: the answer of castration also is failing. Okay, So if

613
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,719
Speaker 1: I had to ask you, Elizabeth, why do you think

614
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: it would be difficult to castrate to hippo? Well, it's

615
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 1: like there do they have four h like the agricultural

616
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: It's like it's like homest harvest hippo. Yeah. I think

617
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: that's like they teach the kids to wrastle down the hippos.

618
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: And I don't think their nuts. No, I don't know.

619
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: I don't think they have that I don't. I would

620
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: imagine that it's well again, I'm going to go back

621
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: to the angry, angry hippo that they're a very big

622
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 1: animal and they're very angry. So that is a good read.

623
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: And they don't have like rodeo pens in the rivers

624
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: where they live in lakes. You got to get them

625
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: out of the lake. I don't know. You know what,

626
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: why don't you tell me? Well? These are all you

627
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: pretty much nailed the basics. Ones, big animal, mean animal

628
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,479
Speaker 1: can be mean when confronted, or it's a territorial animal.

629
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: You get into their territory, the act that way, and

630
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: then lives in muddy water. So how are you gonna

631
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: get You gonna get in there the water and put

632
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: it like a strap on Nathan and helicopter amount. You're

633
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: gonna get in there with a tractor and drag them out.

634
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: You have to give to the animal, right, So they're like,

635
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: well that's difficult. But then there's something even more difficult.

636
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: Hippos are sexually dimorphic. Yeah, it's actually dimorphic means you

637
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: can't tell a male hippo from a female hippo. Hippo

638
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 1: is essentially a genderless animal like a Kendall. No, no,

639
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: not like that. It's not smooth front, but it turns

640
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: out it is. It's like they have, you know, the

641
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: actual sexes. There are a male and female hippop, but

642
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: you but looking at him, there are no there's no

643
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: descended genitalia, there is no coloration difference, there's no size difference.

644
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: They look identical, and their genitals you cannot parse from

645
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: looking at them as if it's male or female because

646
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: it looks like smooth Kendall. When you like everybody, Okay,

647
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: I got I'll give that to you. Though, hippo looks

648
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: like a smooth Kendall. I'll give you out points. That's

649
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: kind of cute that there's no difference. Yeah, no, right,

650
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: it's not the only Okay, not to be delicate, but like,

651
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: how do they how do they do their uh reproductive business,

652
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: their muddy business. You know what happens is apparently the

653
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: going as the testies of a male hippo are up

654
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: in the body, like up like ovaries. They are like

655
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,959
Speaker 1: way up high in the body. So if you're gonna

656
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: try to find those, you can't reach them, but the

657
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: penis is going to be able to get out and

658
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, do all the business you want for like

659
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: a sexual interaction between you and miss hippo. So they're

660
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: like anies. Everybody's in it. It's kind of like a

661
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: dog whether the penis comes out, but like a lot

662
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: of animals have a penis bone, so that kind of

663
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: like helps it pop out. Like the human beings, we

664
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: don't have a penis bone. We have like a ligament

665
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: and some blood pressure to make our penis works. But

666
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: there's when they get excited, you know, pops out. It's

667
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: like one of those birthday party horns or you it's

668
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: hippo penis so and I don't know if they're like

669
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 1: horses where they're like huge and hung or if they're

670
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: like you know, smaller animals, but they have like if

671
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: you look at like a boor a pig, they're close

672
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: relative you'll see the balls from behind, right, not the

673
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: case for the hippop. So if you're trying to castrate

674
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: them and you can't find the gont, you have to

675
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: make difficult so you have to tranquilize them surgery. And

676
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: then if you now, let's say you have this tranquilized hippo,

677
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: which is by the way, a very difficult animal to

678
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: tranquilse because it's so thick and so heavy, and they

679
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: don't know how much to give it. Thick th i

680
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: c c oh double c thick that hippop thick. But

681
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: some of these thick hippos that you can't tranquilize, they

682
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: will get angry if they wake up in the middle

683
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: of the surgery, like your hand all up on their

684
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: go and adds that are up in their body cavity problems.

685
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: Sterilize them, good question. There actually are chemical castration. So

686
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: chemical castration means you put the sterilizing agent into their

687
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: food and if you do that, then you just have

688
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: to put the food out. They eat the food. Food

689
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: gets them sterilized. Or you can do the other way,

690
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: which is basically you put the food in a pen.

691
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: They come up to the pen, you don't close the door,

692
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: they eat the food, they leave. You put the food

693
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: in the pen, they come up to the pen, they

694
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: don't close the door, and eventually you close the door

695
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: and then you tranquilize them in the pen. That's the

696
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: other approach. So you've got two approaches. You can either

697
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: you know, feed them something, or you can go up

698
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: and tranquilize them after tricking them. Now, the big deal

699
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: with that is is it costs about fifty dollars to

700
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: try to do most of these efforts I've described, So

701
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: the cheapest approach is to turn to the Americans who

702
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: have offered up free sterilizing agents at the Department of

703
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: Agriculture invented. They're like, hey, bro, we got this for you.

704
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: So we're like, this will be cheap and easy. You

705
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: just give the hippos this. But people you know around

706
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: the world, animal rights activists, Hippo Lovers United, They're like,

707
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: you can't do that to the hippos. And remember the

708
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 1: people of Columbia they see it as like a national emblem,

709
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: so they don't want these hippos mistreated. So and also

710
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: the hippos themselves, you know, they are a charming animal there.

711
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: Even though they are really aggressive. People don't think of

712
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: them that way. They think of them in the Disney

713
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: terms of being like in the two twos and dancing

714
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: a hippo is this it's not seen as an aggressor.

715
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: So people aren't siding with the manatees in this issue.

716
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: You would think that the animal rights activists will be

717
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: able to make the case. But they're like, say, the hippos.

718
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: So people are like, well, why well, how are we

719
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: going to save these hippos and people? Animal rights activists

720
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: are like, I've got it. Will turn hippos into people.

721
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 1: Well not exactly, not like scientifically into people, just legally

722
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: into people because if you want to castrate them chemically,

723
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: and you're gonna use this weird US government sterilyzing agent,

724
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: now he don't just put them on like the Megan's List.

725
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: So I understand. What happens is they take these hippos

726
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: and they give them personhood right and the reason why

727
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: to do that. It's just like corporations, it's exactly. So

728
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: no hippos and corporations all have more legal rights than

729
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: I do. I love this. So the hippos they this

730
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: this drug that they're trying to give them right, it's

731
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: called going to colne like like gone going ads, but

732
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: like not going ads, like going to Colm right, So

733
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: like g O N A c O N. Yes, going

734
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: like comic con comicon for gonads. So this stuff I

735
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: will not attend that it's been it's been designated to

736
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: be not good for hippos because it's for like you know,

737
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: I don't know, like elk and horses and native North

738
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: American wildlife to people like this is not designed for hippos,

739
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: so the animal rights actors or you can't do that.

740
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: Columbia is like, well, we got these free drugs, so

741
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: we're thinking about doing it. So they give the hippos,

742
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: they go to court, they file a lawsuit. So there's

743
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: like animal rights activists, they file lawsuits and they've been

744
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: doing this for a while, Like there's one guy, Luis

745
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 1: Domingo Gomez Maldonado. He's been like really key and leading

746
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: the fight. So by giving these animals personhood, then they

747
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: have to be respected and they have to be treated humanely.

748
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,959
Speaker 1: That's the whole point, right, So that's kind of neat,

749
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: But this idea is based on the This idea of

750
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: giving them personhood is based on a larger environmental approach

751
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: that has been very successful. Australia has given personhood to rivers,

752
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: the Colombians have given personhood to parts of the Amazon

753
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: based on the Amazon rainforest. So this is actually an

754
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: expanding model. So these these cocaine hippos may signal the

755
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 1: forefront of a new legal fight that we can possibly

756
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 1: say things we love on this planet and maybe even

757
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: save things like rivers and trees by treating them humanely

758
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: like people. So ultimately this could be a very helpful

759
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: step along the way for us all living better. So

760
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: we maybe owe a debt of gratitude of these cocaine

761
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: hippos for making us treat each other and animals more humane.

762
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: And they too can go into bankruptcy over an ambulance

763
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: ride exactly. So, now that uh Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos

764
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: are legally considered people under American law, and which was

765
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: the court case that was like in the news re

766
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: cently we have the standpoint to work with. But what

767
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: I want to know is if you could give and

768
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 1: grant personhood to any animal, which way animal would you pick?

769
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: Bears and wolves? Bears and wolves to save them or

770
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: just because you want them to be able to like

771
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: chill in places with you. I want them to be

772
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: able to like go to school embedded themselves. Now I

773
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: want to hang out with them, no, protect them. Yeah,

774
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: I like that. I think I think the idea of

775
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: person is actually a really cool idea. I was talking

776
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: to an indigenous activist from Australia about this and that's

777
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: what I first learned, that they turned a river into

778
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: a person. That's like, what that sounded silly at first,

779
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: but really it's kind of genius under our construction of law. Yeah,

780
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: I mean it is, but it's also it's difficult to

781
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: get your head around in terms of like the definition

782
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: of personhood and the idea of will and its ridic

783
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: action that around. But there was also one other thing

784
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you that I learned while I was

785
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: researching about these hippos. There was something all the American

786
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: Hippo Bill, right, and it's just as fun as it sounds.

787
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: There's his representative down from Louisiana. He's like, you know

788
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: what we need to do to save America's bring us

789
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: over some hippos. Because everyone's like, what what is this

790
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: dude talking about? Why is he even in Congress? And

791
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: how prescient that the Louisiana is going to be supprising

792
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: later on? Way to bring it around? Yeah, you're welcome

793
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: these Uh this bill that just put forward, the American

794
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: Hippo Bill, it hits the floor of Congress, and the

795
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: bill is quote, will authorize the importation and release of

796
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: hippopotamuses into the values of Louisiana. Now, why would they

797
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: want to release hippos unto the bias Louisiana. It wasn't

798
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: to fight gators, if that's what you were thinking. It

799
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: was to eat this like unwanted plant that was clogging

800
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: up the waterway. So they're like, if we can get

801
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 1: to eat that plant, and then you know we can

802
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: do next. We can eat the hippos. So they're like,

803
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: fight invasive species with invasive species, and then we'll eat

804
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: the invasive species. Solved. And the reason why they came

805
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: up with this idea is because they needed meat. So

806
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: that's how they tried to get it right. So they

807
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: put this. There's a huge push and I'm talking Washington

808
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: Post is writing about this. New York Times is writing

809
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: about this. Teddy Roosevelt is a huge fan. He's out there.

810
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: He's just left the presidency, so he's like still a

811
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: major figure in nineteen ten and he's sitting there going around.

812
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: You know, America needs what he calls, by the way,

813
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: lake cow bacon. That was lake cow bacon. Yeah, that

814
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: was part of the like sales campaign to make it

815
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: like a hip thing. We need eat fat content. Yeah, exactly,

816
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: delicious friends, that stuff on electric fence. I'm telling you, boy,

817
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 1: get you some eels and keep in mind this American

818
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 1: hippo bill. It almost passed in the end. We were

819
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: just a few votes shy of America's adding lake cow

820
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: bacon to all of our diets. Oh my god, it

821
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: would have been like in school lunches. Yeah, instead of

822
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: like like pepperoni pizza on Friday, it's hippo pizza. And

823
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: then you'd have Peta dressing up like hippo's and oh yeah,

824
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: laying around in front of a whole food screaming at people.

825
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: So what do you think is ridiculous takeaway for the

826
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: cocaine hippo story. Um, I think our ridiculous takeaway is

827
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: that if you feel the impulse to show out and

828
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: show off, think about what the ramifications of those actions

829
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: may be. So if it involves another living thing that

830
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: you're treating is just an object, it's probably not a

831
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: good idea. So if you want to like flex on

832
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: everyone and be like I got hippos, I got dinosaur bones,

833
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: come on now, like, you know, think about the long

834
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: term effectually, got a plan. I gotta think forward otherwise

835
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: you know what you are ridiculous? Wait, to go. I

836
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: think my ridiculous takeaway is, look, if you take something

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Speaker 1: See around, and we're back next time with more particularly

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