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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature future production of I Heart Radio. I'm

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

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Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about those tubular dudes, those little wiggle pipes snakes from

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Speaker 1: the goofy is to the cutest to the most dazzling snakes.

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Speaker 1: Were going to find out how truly odd snakes can

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Speaker 1: be discover the smore as we answer the angel question

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Speaker 1: is it a snake or is it spaghetti? Joining me

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Speaker 1: today is writer, actor, YouTube video essayist and snake mom

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Speaker 1: Maggie May fish hell Long. Welcome back, Welcome back my dad. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Last last the podcast, I made so many dad puns

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Speaker 1: that I officially became Maggie's pun dad. So welcome back, daughter, um,

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Speaker 1: mother of snakes. Hows how's your snake snake baby doing?

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Speaker 1: Your little noodle boy? Oh, my little noodle boy is great. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I was just telling Katie, So it is two and

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Speaker 1: a half years old, um, which means it's basically full

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Speaker 1: grown at this point. He's like three feet long, three

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Speaker 1: and a half, maybe even four at this point. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got he's basically done growing. And yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: live for another eighteen issue year. Nice. Just he's going

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Speaker 1: to continue to eat lots of lots of mice, lots

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Speaker 1: of and and then sleep eating, sleep easily explore. We

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Speaker 1: got him the final tank because as they're growing, you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't you don't have to size up. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: get a size up. So we we have upgraded to

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Speaker 1: the biggest tank that we can conceivably keep without you know, right,

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Speaker 1: without just your entire apartment being dreary. Um right? Which one?

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Speaker 1: You know? One day, if you know, I would love

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Speaker 1: to get like a giant terrarium, you know, really like

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Speaker 1: duck it out, And the one we have is a

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Speaker 1: pretty big so you know, the next step up we'll

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Speaker 1: walk in terrarium. Yes, a full zoo, a full zoo

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Speaker 1: room that you can just explore to your heart's desire.

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Speaker 1: To watch out for the snake. Does your little noodle

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Speaker 1: boy have a name? Yes, duck Duck the snake I

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Speaker 1: love it. Probably would eat a duck if he could too,

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Speaker 1: he you know, I So I take him out and

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Speaker 1: the cats don't really notice him because he's so slow moving.

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Speaker 1: Every once in a while they'll notice that something's there,

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Speaker 1: but he watches them, uh, you know, and like maybe

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Speaker 1: he thinks he could get away. He never would, he

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Speaker 1: just you know, sits on herman breathe. But yeah, part

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Speaker 1: just in case. I mean like probably has looked no offense,

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Speaker 1: but he's probably sized you up to like could I

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Speaker 1: probably not? Could I for sure? For sure? Yeah? Probably not,

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Speaker 1: Like he still loves you. But it's it's snake brain

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Speaker 1: where snake brain is like I love this person, but

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Speaker 1: Which you know that's you know, snake flattery, that's what

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Speaker 1: you know. I before I got my cats, people would

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Speaker 1: like love you? It's like no, but that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that it's not like a meaningful relationship that like it's

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Speaker 1: not a great pet, right and in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 1: like having a pet that doesn't emotionally depend on you

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Speaker 1: is also very cool. It's liberating, right, Yeah, it's it's liberating.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, I love the snake, but

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Speaker 1: I also don't need it to yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: depending snake Mom, you don't you don't need snake validation. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't need to be hanging all little over although, yeah,

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Speaker 1: are constrictors. They are non venomous. Uh they I guess

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Speaker 1: My my goodness. Uh, it's it's just a little like slogo,

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Speaker 1: like the rattlesnakes, the front finged snakes, they have a

421
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: bit of a sort of what would you call it,

422
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: like ghoulish look, because you know, yeah, they look like

423
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: they're out to get something. You know, it's probably just

424
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: like dinner, but you know, like or you um, which

425
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: I can respect, but you know, they're sort of they're

426
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: they're a little bit more aggressive, whereas the rear fame

427
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: snakes or the constrictor snakes tend to have a little

428
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: bit of a cuter, cuter snout situation I would say,

429
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: like a little bit of a puppy dog mouth and ye.

430
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, so so here are some super cuteis so.

431
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: One of the cutest snakes, in my opinion, are the

432
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: hog nos snakes and mag you've probably seen these before

433
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: because they are actually hobbyists do keep some of these

434
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: as pets because of how cute they are. If I

435
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: got a second stake, it would probably be a hog nose.

436
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not, but it would be up there. Yeah,

437
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: the nose is like slightly upturned and you can almost

438
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: like see they're like little mouth underneath, just like yeah,

439
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: they have a little upturned snout and just like slightly

440
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: parted little mouth. Then it's just like eepep, you know,

441
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: it's like little roadrunner noises coming out of these guys.

442
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 1: They're very cute. I got these big ground eyes. Um.

443
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: So there are actually a few genuses of hog no

444
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: snake that are distantly related. So they're all called hogno

445
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: snakes because of their similar appearance, but they're actually not

446
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: like directly related. So there are the heterodonts of North

447
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: America and Mexico. Those are probably the ones most people

448
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: are familiar with living in North America. Uh, there is

449
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: Leo heterodons of Madagascar, which well lives in Um, there's

450
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: Les Tropus of South America. So three distinct genuses. I'm

451
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: mostly going to talk about the heterodons of North American Mexico,

452
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: but I did want to mention the Les Tropus of

453
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: South America, like to mimic the deadly coral snakes which

454
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: have red, white and black stripes, And there are a

455
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: lot of snakes that mimic the coral snake coloration because

456
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: it's a pi semitism. In the actual venomous snake, it's

457
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: signaling a very potent venom. And then there are a

458
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: variety of mimics. Some are less venomous but still rather venomous.

459
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: Some of them don't have nearly as powerful venom or

460
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: don't have venom at all, that are mimicking it to

461
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 1: get the benefit of that coloration. And it's this kind

462
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: of careful balance of sneakery but then honest signals. So

463
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: it's very interesting. But with these guys, the South American hognas,

464
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: they have that dangerous looking coloration, but then this little

465
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: snout that's just like to give away, like like you

466
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: go from the tail, it's like, oh what, oh no,

467
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: this looks like a dangerous snake. And then and then

468
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: it ends in the head is like getting It's like

469
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: when I do my makeup and the I put on

470
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: false eyelashes that start like falling off. It's like, Okay,

471
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: you got me. That's not so. Heterodonts are the ones

472
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: that live in North America and also Mexico, and they

473
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: are so cute to me. They're the cutest ones. They

474
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: have just a totally adorable little boops newt. They only

475
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: grew up to be about twenty inches long, which is

476
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: about fifty centimeters. They're relatively stout, so some snakes are

477
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: kind of long and skinny. Some are like sort of

478
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: stouter and thicker. They're on the thicker side and thick

479
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: boys thick gold noodles. What what are like the thick

480
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: noodles called like like linguini linguini Yeah, like yeah, I

481
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: don't sorry, I don't know pasta names that good, even

482
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: though I love pasta. But you know, some big old,

483
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: thick little yoki's yoki snakes. So they are they don't

484
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: want to really tangle with you. They are they they

485
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: don't want to fight you. They don't want to bite you.

486
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: They want you to leave them alone. And they are

487
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: scared of you, so they will try to ward you

488
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: off if they detect a threat by pretending to be cobras,

489
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: and they will hiss and flatten their necks. But they

490
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: know cobras. They're they're just sweet little babies, just we

491
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: little babies. They do not want to bite you. They

492
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: only bite if they are extremely distressed and there you know,

493
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: their venom is pretty weak and mostly effective against frogs,

494
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: so it's not really you know, too dangerous for a

495
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: human unless you have an allergy for an adult human,

496
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: right or you're an adult woman who turned into a frog.

497
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: That's true, like if you turned into a frog, like

498
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: if you drank the water that Alex Jones told you

499
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: not to drink and you turn into a frog, and

500
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: then then you're in trouble. But yeah, they really don't

501
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: like to bite unless it's prey, and you know that

502
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: if I'm not interest thing, I think they just really

503
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: want to avoid. It's both wanting to avoid confrontation and

504
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: wanting to save their venom for actual actual hunting, and

505
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: so they will use other techniques to try to ward

506
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: you off. And usually if they strike at you, it's

507
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: actually just a head butt because like it's just so

508
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: cute to me. It's just like, no, no, there's something

509
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: adorable to me about like an animal that's usually associated

510
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: with like being dangerous, and they just really really don't

511
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: want to fight with you. I think I LL. I

512
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: grew up in Michigan, so there were very many venomous

513
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: snakes as opposed to you know, like out here in California,

514
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: So growing up, I didn't really have an association with

515
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: snakes being venomous. Most of the snakes in our area,

516
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: you know, or just garden snakes. All to say, when

517
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: I got a snake, a lot of people were worried

518
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: and like, and you know, and people, a lot of

519
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: people are afraid of snakes, but for the spart snakes

520
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: are much more afraid of us. Exactly. There's a lot

521
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: of species of animals that it makes sense that we

522
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: have such a negative association with because when it comes

523
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: to our safety, it's like if you if you trust

524
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: every snake and you just like pick them up and

525
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: give them a kiss, like, that's not gonna work out

526
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: for you, because like some of them, some of them

527
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: truly are dangerous. So in terms of our our survival

528
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: as a species, it makes sense to be overly cautious

529
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: about animals than to be too to like, hey, give

530
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: me a big old hug, Mr. Rattlesnake, or even like

531
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: a giant Boa constrictor like, give me that's a little tight,

532
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: little tight. But yeah, I mean, like now that we

533
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: have the Internet and the magical power of Wikipedia, I

534
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,719
Speaker 1: think we can definitely revised our views of snakes as

535
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: all being terrible and dangerous and mean because they're not

536
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: a lot of them are good little noodles widow noodles.

537
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: So so the little hog nose noodles have another trick

538
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: up their sleeves to get you to go away, and

539
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: it is to play dead by flipping over, lolling their

540
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: tongue out of their mouths, and going like I'm dead,

541
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: go away. Is that I don't I've never heard of

542
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: another snake doing that, and do other snakes or is

543
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: that just a hog nos thing? I think it's I mean,

544
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: I know that hognos are the most famous for it.

545
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,479
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're the only snake that does

546
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: It's called thanatosis, where you like play dead. They're certainly

547
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: not the only animal that does it, but they I don't.

548
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: I don't think they're They're certainly not the only reptile

549
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: that does it, um, but I don't. I also don't

550
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: think they're the only snake that does it. But they

551
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: are the most famous ones for doing it. And they

552
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: also will excrete a foul odor out of their cloaca

553
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: to complete the the illusion of being dead. Wow, he's

554
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: like a Disney imagineer coming all the senses to really

555
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: pull you into the narrative of I'm dead right like

556
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: a fog machine, a fake burglary scene, all pig footprints,

557
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: a murder weapon nearby, and like a motive, like a

558
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: message scrawled out in fake blood. That's like like the

559
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: mongoose did it. So yeah, they they in fact, like

560
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: if they're in this stage where they're playing dead and

561
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 1: you try to like flip them back over, they will

562
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: flip right right back over to committed committed, so committed

563
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: like the Daniel day Lewis is of snakes, Wow, very cool.

564
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: In North America we have a few hognos species. There's

565
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: the Western hognose snakes, which tend to have sort of

566
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: a rougher tan and brown skin. They I think they

567
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: they're kind of like mimicking rattlesnakes a little bit. The

568
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: Eastern hognose snakes are a little bit smoother, but they're

569
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: also sort of brown, tan and splotchy. Sometimes they have

570
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: solid color patterns. And the ones that are grown in

571
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: captivity for um, you know, to be kept as pets,

572
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 1: they can actually like breed them to have like different colorations,

573
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. And the whole reason that they

574
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 1: have that adorable little upturned snoot that just looks so poopable,

575
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: Like it just looks like my my finger would fit

576
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: right on it. And then if I poked it, like

577
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: their little tongue would come out and be so cute.

578
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: The purpose for that is not for me to poop it,

579
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: but for them to dig in the dirt and sands. Oh,

580
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,479
Speaker 1: it is like a shovel like a little exactly wow,

581
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: because they like to cover themselves in a blanket of

582
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: dirt sand leaf litter to help them thermoregulate and keep

583
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: warm or keep cool. So yeah, that is that they

584
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: got a little little shovel for a nose, and it's

585
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: so cute. It's so cute. So the next total cuteie

586
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: snake that is unbelievable unbelievable is the blunt head tree

587
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: snake of South America, Mexico and Central America. You know

588
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: earlier when I said I like snakes with heads. This

589
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: is that, Like, but the cursor goes all the way

590
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: like like if you haven't had a snake character creation

591
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: slider and you just like you slit all the sliders.

592
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: Have you ever watched a monster factory that like McElroy.

593
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: They do a series where they just go crazy with

594
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: character creation sliders. I love it because like nature also

595
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: does this. So like the character creation head like a

596
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: body zero percent. Yeah, so they have. They are a

597
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: little stringy spaghettis with big heads and tiny, skinny bodies.

598
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: They look unbelieved. It doesn't look like it should work.

599
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: It just it doesn't. It really looks like a ribbon

600
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: someone lost that got found a penny and like they're

601
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: just sitting there. Yeah, like it looks like, you know,

602
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to move because their heads would

603
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: be too heavy. And of course they they are real.

604
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: They are tree dwelling snakes that live in moist and

605
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: wet I wrote down wet ass forests because I thought

606
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: it was clever last night. It's pretty clever. So they

607
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 1: are sort of a very, in my opinion, very pretty

608
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: like brown and cream color with a banded pattern. Sometimes

609
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: they're a little more orangey brown. Sometimes they're sort of

610
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: like brown and white. And they got big old eyes,

611
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: skinny little bodies and giant heads, and they can reach

612
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: up to about a meter in length. But it's all

613
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: like skinny noodle body like so so skinny noodle body.

614
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: I think like it. It gets a little bit thicker

615
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: in the middle, like they have a little more muscle

616
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,720
Speaker 1: in the middle, but it is like mostly skinny noodle.

617
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me like they really gave me

618
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: the vibe of like Captain America before he goes in

619
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: the muscles machine. Yes, when he when he's still dinky, yeah, cut, yeah,

620
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: I thought it was cute before he went in the

621
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: muscles cheese cute. He's horrible, but I need to change.

622
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: But I don't think he needed to change. I mean

623
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: he needed to change for America to protect America from

624
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: like base Nazis. In my opinion, as as a nice

625
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: looking person, he didn't need no muscles machine. Like you

626
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: don't need no muscles machines, guys, And we look at this.

627
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: This snake should be a body positivity for anyone who

628
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: feels like they're not rough enough. No, no, no, you're

629
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: perfect and wonderful. This snake is beautiful and the reason

630
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: their heads are so big is that they have to

631
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: accommodate their big old eyes. They have some of the

632
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: best vision of any snake on the planet. Whoa a

633
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: lot of snakes. Actually, their vision isn't super great, Like

634
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: they mostly rely on smell, and like that's why they're

635
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: like always starting their tongue out. They have receptors on

636
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: their tongue that helps them like smell, taste the air,

637
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: and be able to locate things that way. But yeah,

638
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: their eyes aren't always that great. But for these guys,

639
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: they have giant eyes, big old peepers that are very

640
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: good at peeping. And so in order to house these

641
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: giant eyes that take up almost of their heads, like

642
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: they need they just need a big skull and they

643
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: need a big head. Wild, that's wild. I think that

644
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,959
Speaker 1: the head is this big simply for the eyes. Yeah,

645
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: it's a vehicle for the big eyes. That's basically Timothy shellomy, right,

646
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: Like he's a vehicle for guys, you know, and then

647
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: there you go. So one of the reasons they need

648
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: such big eyes is that they are nocturnal and they

649
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: hunt for tiny critters like amphibians and little reptiles at night,

650
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: so they need much better vision and that those big

651
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: old cat eyes helped them see in the dark. And yeah,

652
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: just utterly like ridiculously cute. They look like a Jim

653
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: Hanson horrible. They do have a mild venom, but they're

654
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 1: not dangerous to humans. They I don't think there's ever

655
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: been a serious case of a snake bite for for people.

656
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: And they also just like don't tend to bite like

657
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: they're not they're not interested in it. They Um, can

658
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: I ask a question about how or what what did

659
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: it eat? I mean, because it's just its head and

660
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: its tiny body. Yeah, I mean does it just body stretchy? Yeah,

661
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 1: body stretchy. Um. It does have a venom to incapacitate

662
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 1: its prey, and it eats little things, so like little things.

663
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: But as you know, like with snakes, they can eat

664
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: things that seem like they shouldn't fit inside of the

665
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: snake because the snakes bodies are so stretchy. So yeah, yeah,

666
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: so so the answer is they eat small things and

667
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: their body stretchy. Just cut little chill, little sling beans,

668
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: little dud uh. And then our last contender for cutest

669
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: cutiest of snakes is the big eyed green whip snake,

670
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 1: which I like to call the kermit snake. I don't

671
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: think they're technically called that, but they look like, you know,

672
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: a little kermit snake, like, oh, normous, speggy, I'm a snake.

673
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: How are we going to do the show Miss Peggy.

674
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: So they are found in Malaysia. Not too much is

675
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: known about them, um so kind of scant info on

676
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: their behavior. But they really look like a long, tubular

677
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: Kermit the frog to me because they are a super

678
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: bright green. They've got these light cream colored bellies and

679
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: these huge Kermit eyes, so Kermit eyes trademark. Yeah, like

680
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: you know how like Kermit's pupils go side to side

681
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: with sort of like the it's like a big pupil

682
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 1: in the center and then it kind of tapers off.

683
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: You know, Kermit eyes. You get it, you get it.

684
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: You know. That's what these snakes got and they're very

685
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: cute and it's funny because their heads are pretty Their

686
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: heads are actually kind of long, so when you look

687
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: at its profile, it kind of makes more sense, like

688
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, it's got kind of a longer, narrower head,

689
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 1: so the eyes kind of fit. But when it's looking

690
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: at you face on, it's so silly looking because it

691
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: just has these like two big beady eyes and then

692
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: it's like a little tiny mouth. It looks very grumpy. Yeah,

693
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: these puddles look because the either are slanted and his

694
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: little chin comes up. Yeah, it's like an old man

695
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: just kind of swamp yea retired and just got over

696
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: it really quickly. It's not easy having no limbs, so

697
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: cute verte. When did snakes lose their legs? Probably around

698
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: a hundred million years ago. Genetic researchers identified the gene

699
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: that controls for limb development, which they call the sonic

700
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: hedgehog gene because scientists are nerds. Basically, the sonic hedgehog

701
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: gene and snakes is dampened such that legs never developed

702
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: beyond a very basic cartilage blueprint during embryonic development. Sometimes

703
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: these underdeveloped legs are still present in adults, like in

704
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: pythons who have legs stubs near their pelvis that they

705
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: used to grip onto other snakes during mating, so they

706
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: do still have some of the original leg blueprints that

707
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: their lizard ancestors had. It just doesn't fully activate during

708
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 1: embryonic development. So why did snakes lose their legs? That's

709
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: a bit of a trickier question. It may be that

710
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: their ancestors were aquatic and became more streamlined for swimming,

711
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,720
Speaker 1: or they were terrestrial and ditched their limbs in favor

712
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: of burrowing. And sneaking up on prey, or maybe they're

713
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: just forgetful and don't remember where they left those Dane legs.

714
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: When we return, we're going to find out that regardless

715
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: of legs, snakes can totally own the runway. Most of

716
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: the time you see a vibrant, colorful snake, it's a

717
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: case of APIs semitism or warning coloration. The beautiful red, yellow,

718
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: and black bands of a coral snake warns potential predators

719
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: of their deadly toxicity. But sometimes non venomous snakes come

720
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: in dazzling colors for a mysterious reason that has to

721
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: do with magical crystals. So now we are going to

722
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: look at some of the most beautiful instagrammable snakes in

723
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: the world. Just I mean, it's like you see these

724
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: snakes and you're like, what I want what she has.

725
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: I'll buy what she's selling, right, I'll take whatever supplement

726
00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:01,959
Speaker 1: she's taking, whatever exercise hit program she does. I will

727
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: follow her makeup videos and army pants and flip flops.

728
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: Army pants. Yea, these girls were mean to me in

729
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: high school, but now we're children. We've gotten over it. Yeah,

730
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean, like they've gotten over it and I've pretended

731
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: to get over it. Yeah, that's what. Yeah, it's like no, no,

732
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: I'm over it. I'm over it. Yeah. So these are

733
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: sunbeam snakes and there they look as ethereal and pretty

734
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 1: as their names suggests. So they're also known as xeno peltus,

735
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: which is also sounds fantastical, like some kind of fairy

736
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: queen name. So these are a genus of snakes so different.

737
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: There are multiple species in this genus and they are

738
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:56,240
Speaker 1: found in Southeast Asia. And they have beautiful, shiny, glistening, irridescent,

739
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: fairy magical scales. They shine like a beautiful rainbow. They

740
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: grow up to be a little over a meter, so

741
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: about fifty one long, so they're not that big. They

742
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: live underground for the most part. They are non venomous.

743
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: They are constrictors. They are a dark brownish color, but

744
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: who cares about all of that. All that we care

745
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: about is they are shiny, shiny and rainbow ee and iridescent,

746
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: iridescent like the best, like holographic eyeshadow, nail polish out.

747
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It's they have a just glossy rainbow shimmer.

748
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes they have like this violet bluish undertone as well,

749
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 1: just absolutely gorgeous, shimmering and shining in the sun. So

750
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: a designer snake, Yes, yes you will, uh yeah if

751
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: I if in the future I get another, you know, reptile,

752
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: I tell myself, you know, I don't know what I

753
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: would get, but these snakes are beautiful, but they do

754
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: cost a lot of money. You. As soon as I

755
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: got my regular pet snake, my Instagram was filled with like,

756
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: oh but you didn't get like, okay, okay, They're all

757
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: beautiful in their own way. They're all beautiful. Yeah, I

758
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: mean it's what's on the inside of the snake, which

759
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: is like partially digested mice, the snakes pellets. So yeah,

760
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: these are the magical fairy princesses of the snake world.

761
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: The so the shin nous is actually caused by microscopic

762
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: structures on their scales that catch the light. These are

763
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:48,479
Speaker 1: called ritophores and eritophores are these tiny crystal structures. So

764
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: it's a snake made out of tiny rainbow crystals, which

765
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: is just I can't anymore. Princess wouldn't want that. It's

766
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: the princess, and I mean I want to be snake princess.

767
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: You know, I would be a fairy snake princess. So

768
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: the purpose of these microscopic crystal structures is probably thermal regulations.

769
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: So by catching the sun and it helps like cool

770
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: off their skin, it like reflects the heat. And for

771
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: this reason, they and actually other snakes in the world

772
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: glimmer and shine like wonderful holographic rainbows. So we're going

773
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: to talk about two other snakes that have the same effect,

774
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: which blew my mind because like I had heard about

775
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: these sunbeam snakes. I was like, yeah, that's great, and

776
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: then it's like, this is the same mechanism that these

777
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: other snakes us. I'm like, what, there's more, but there

778
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: iss but wait, there's more. You call this number one snakes.

779
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: We'll give you a snake you can't tell what kind

780
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: and see a snake grab bag. So there is also

781
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: the brazil only in rainbow boa, rainbow boa, rainbow boa. Yeah,

782
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: and they are found in Central America in humid woods.

783
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: They have sort of the regular boa pattern, like this orange,

784
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: brown and black sort of splotchy skin pattern, and on

785
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: top of that though, they have this glowy rainbow sheen,

786
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: which I am just it's like it's it's amazing because

787
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: they have they're like, okay, regular snake pattern, but on

788
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: top of that, we just put a rainbow. Right, what

789
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: do you think about that? Right? Sell a million handbags.

790
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:44,439
Speaker 1: Don't turn these snakes into handbags. I forgot that that's real,

791
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: Like my brain would snake skin, and then I was like,

792
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:52,720
Speaker 1: oh yeah, but like people, Yeah, yeah, the Cruella developed snakes.

793
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 1: I would watch that like a hundred and one rainbow

794
00:50:54,800 --> 00:51:00,720
Speaker 1: bow snakes. It's just the Cruella de bill of snakes.

795
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: And then there's just like hundreds of snakes doing a

796
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: grand adventure that movie, and then like the what are

797
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: they called the Darling I don't remember what the humans

798
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: are in that movie, but yeah, it's not that darlings.

799
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: Is Peter Pan right? Oh wait, yeah, you're right. I

800
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: don't know humans. The humans that on the Dalmatians, but

801
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: this time they own snakes and then like their snakes,

802
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, get kidnapped by Kriola de Ville, and then

803
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: the snakes come back with like a hundred other snakes

804
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: and then they're just like, well, I guess we gotta

805
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: now we have a hundred snakes, and I'll write a

806
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 1: song about it. And then it's gonna be really cute

807
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: and down. Yeah. So yeah, these these rainbow but Brazilian

808
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: rainbow boas are found in Central America in humid woods,

809
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, they have it's like just normal Boa behavior,

810
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: normal normal boas, just just rainbow addsh like a holographic Pokemon.

811
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, they're like the holographic Pokemon of

812
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: of BoA's. Yeah. So the other snake that has this

813
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: effect is just incredibly beautiful. It is called the foremost

814
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:23,800
Speaker 1: an odd scaled snake. So these are non venomous, dark

815
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:29,800
Speaker 1: blackish snakes found in Taiwan and the ryu Que Islands, Japan,

816
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: and they grow to be about thirty five inches long,

817
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: which is ninety you know, not too big. They are nocturnal.

818
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: They mostly eat earthworms, frogs and so on. Yeah, eating

819
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: worms in the dirt most important. I know, it's weird, right. Well,

820
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: what's gonna blow your mind is like some snakes even

821
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: eat what are called like they'll eat smaller snakes. Sometimes

822
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: they are these snakes called blind snakes. And just for

823
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: the sake of time, I didn't get into them in

824
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: the cute snake section, but these there are little little

825
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: blind snakes that there are these tiny, tiny snakes and

826
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: they look like worms. Um. And they like you can't

827
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: even really see their eyes um, and like some of

828
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 1: them like they have barely functional if if at all

829
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: having eyes, and like these little tiny meals and they

830
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: just like look like little worms, but they're actually snakes.

831
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: So you know, a bigger snake could probably eat them

832
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: like a plate of spaghetti. Uh them up. But they

833
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: also eat the Arabian sandbo which we talked at the

834
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: top of the show, I think also eats legless lizards

835
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: that look like snakes. Oh yeah, those things look they

836
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: look they look like worms or snakes, but they're actually

837
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: a lizard, which is I mean, you might be like, well,

838
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: but all snakes are like okay, true enough, but slightly

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Speaker 1: different evolutionary paths. So um, but these guys, the foremost

840
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: and odd scaled snakes um, are also beautiful, shiny and glimmery.

841
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: They are beautiful snake mertmaids who glisten and shine and

842
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: they actually have like bumpier scales so it catches the

843
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: light slightly different. So to me, it looks like these

844
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: snakes are not only rainbow but also slightly gilded, like

845
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,360
Speaker 1: they're partially made out of gold partially made out of rainbows.

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00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: When you have the light, it's all about the lighting. Like,

847
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: if you don't have these snakes in the right lighting,

848
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: they're not going to shine, just like me, like when

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Speaker 1: I'm not When I'm in the right lighting, it's great,

850
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: but like nine of the time I'm not in the

851
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: right lighting. And you know, yeah, yeah, it's like you

852
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: know why my chin looks like it's above my nose

853
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: and like one eyeball is like, you know, beneath my mouth,

854
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: Like it's the lighting, right. So remember that next time

855
00:54:53,320 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: Gussie Katie was with a Picasso face. Yeah, so my

856
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: mind is blown by these snakes. I can't get over

857
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: these shiny rainbowie snakes. They're beautiful, absolutely beautiful utiful. Yeah, man,

858
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: I do really want one, I know, I want like,

859
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: I want to like be them if that makes sense

860
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 1: in a non in like a non furry way. Well,

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00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: I guess they wouldn't be furries, right, they'd be like

862
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: scally that would be oh yeah, I don't know what

863
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 1: the terminology is there. If any listeners know, feel free

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00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: to tell Katie tell me. But all to say, I

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00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: would love to see a free costume of this time

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00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: you're descent snake skin. It's beautiful. This is my snake sona. Yes, yes,

867
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Speaker 1: I also like I want like, um, I guess, like

868
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: an eyeshadow in this color, not made out of the snakes.

869
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: Let me make it clear, I'm not the cruel devill

870
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: of these snakes. These they are perfect and they must

871
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: be defended at all costs. But you know, because like

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00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: I feel like I have a blue undertone in my skin,

873
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: and I feel like these would go well with my

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00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: skin tone. You know, I'm a winter not a summer,

875
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: and these snakes are sort of a winter. So you

876
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. I see what we're saying. It's

877
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: also the especially on the sunbeam snake, it's kind of

878
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: like oil slick color where it just like, ah, I

879
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: need a nail polish that is in snake color, you know,

880
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: snake color. Yeah. Really, Yeah, I'm shiny, but they're not

881
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah those are nice. Yeah, but they're not they're

882
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: not quite like they're not sunbeams snake you know. But yeah,

883
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: I also would like to just like Beauty Gurus channel,

884
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: but it's just these snakes flopping around. Snake. Yeah, you'll

885
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: never be sorry. I'm sorry if it offends you that

886
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:59,919
Speaker 1: I was just born beautiful. I'm sorry, like I'm sorry

887
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: glisten in the rainbow. Same sorry, it looks like I'm

888
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: made out of a hundred golden rainbows. It's not my fault.

889
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: A wonderful well. We have covered from the goofiest to

890
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: the cutest to the most Instagram influencer snakes, in my opinion,

891
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: in the world. I'm there's so many snakes, though, we'll

892
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: probably have to do this all over again. Get more

893
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: snakes in here. I would love to talk snakes anytime, anytime.

894
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: We will bring you back for snakes too, snakes reloaded,

895
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: Snakes in a recording booth. Yeah, snakes on a podcast, No,

896
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: snakes on a pod. Snakes on a pod? Yeah, okay,

897
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: all right, sure, okay, But thank you so much for

898
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: joining me today, Maggie. This was incredible. It's so fun

899
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: to talk to someone who is as in the mesiastic

900
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: about snakes and loves them and cherishes them and wants

901
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: to kiss them as much as I do. I do.

902
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: I love them. And if anyone is curious about owning

903
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 1: a snake, there's a lot of resources, but do make

904
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: sure you do your research. Um they are you know,

905
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: the one I have is a beginner snake, but that also,

906
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, matters. There's easier snakes to take care of.

907
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: There's more involved there. There there's a varrieta. Yeah, but

908
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: they are great pets. So if you're thinking about it, yeah,

909
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: I encourage you to check it out. Yeah. I've actually

910
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on snake forms, not because

911
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: I don't I've never owned a snake, so I only

912
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: know about it in theory on paper, but like I'm

913
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: just fascinated by these like snake forms where they're like,

914
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: you know, my snake has not even a mouse in

915
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: like in five weeks, and like what can I do?

916
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: And like all this advice about like try heating up

917
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: the mouse sometimes they like warm and you know, really

918
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: change the temperature or yeah, it's like have you tried seasoning?

919
00:58:57,880 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: It's but a little bit. It's a little salt and

920
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: pepper on it. You know. It feels like people appreciate snakes,

921
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, more of these days. Yeah, there's a great

922
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: like like snake community where yeah, there's anyone who owns

923
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: a snake has usually been online asking all their snakes, right,

924
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: snakes making this weird noise? What does it mean? Um?

925
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: Because also the other thing is that veterinarians oftentimes don't

926
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: have that much experience with snakes. So I didn't go

927
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: to I didn't go to veterinary school to treat this hose.

928
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: Give me it's a tube. Um, And they have a point,

929
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 1: but I'll to say that it's also you know, there's

930
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: a there's a fun community of you know, just sneake

931
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: owners who love their animals and are happy to help.

932
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: It is. It is like nuts to be a veterinarian though,

933
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: because they're like, you just know all it's all animals now,

934
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: it's like any animal because like human doctors is like humans. Okay, humans,

935
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: you can get a handle on humans, it's like, but

936
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: with veterinarians, it's like birds, cats, dogs, snakesh turkeys, hedgehog,

937
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: just any of it. It's like, but these are different.

938
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: They have different organs. Some of them don't have legs,

939
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: and they should have leg some of them shouldn't have legs.

940
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: So what snake looks like a rainbow? And I oh,

941
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: there was this, I think a few years ago, this

942
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: viral video of a veterinarian pulling an entire bath towel

943
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: out of us out of it. I think it was

944
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: a it was a python, right, and and it was

945
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: just like this poor python had eaten an entire bath towel.

946
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: Had a very bad tommy because the poor thing was

947
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: like at this point, it was like nine bath towel,

948
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: just like a snake tube filled with bath towel. And

949
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: they pulled out this whole thing and everyone cheered at

950
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: the end. It was amazing. Yeah, and it came out

951
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: so smoothly. He clearly he might have figured out that

952
01:00:56,160 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: it should come out the snakes like all right, I

953
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 1: gave my best shop started right about this. Yeah, incredible, incredible.

954
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: Also also when you do your research, just make sure

955
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: that you're getting snakes that are ethically sourced, like you

956
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,479
Speaker 1: don't you know, like and that's also yes, And try

957
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: not to shop at, you know, any of the name

958
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: brand pet stores if you can avoid them, because they

959
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: usually go with um mass breeders who you know, just

960
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 1: breed and toss the puppy the puppy mills of snakes, yes,

961
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:36,439
Speaker 1: the puppy mills snakes and little puppies, so you know, yeah, um,

962
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: you know, you can look at you know, your local

963
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: pet stores, um or there are pet stores that just

964
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: deal with reptiles, um, and you can ask if you

965
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: know where the snakes have been sourced, right, um. Something

966
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: actually to consider when you own a snake or other

967
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 1: reptile is actually finding a vet who can spay or

968
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: neuter your pet to prevent it from becoming an invasive

969
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: species if it escape, because you never know where your

970
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: snake is gonna find love, make a bunch of babies,

971
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:09,280
Speaker 1: and start eating all the local birds. Also, make sure

972
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: your snake isn't sourced from the illegal pet trade. I

973
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: totally get the desire to have cool pet snakes, but

974
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: you gotta do your research to make sure that their

975
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: wild counterparts and your local wildlife will not be harmed.

976
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 1: With all pets, you want to keep them indoors. Don't,

977
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: don't really some because then you know if they can

978
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: become invasive and you don't want that. So but there

979
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 1: are all sorts of ways to be a responsible snake owner.

980
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: So snakes are amazing. And if you're scared of snakes,

981
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: just look at the Arabian sand abou and I promise

982
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: you you will no longer be well. Thank you so

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01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: much again, Maggie, you got anything to plug? Uh? Yeah,

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01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: you guys, can hop over to my YouTube channel. Um,

985
01:02:56,280 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: I do fun videos where I break down movie um,

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Speaker 1: and we have some fun ones. Comment snakes on a plane,

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01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: that's not snakes on a plane. But many of the

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01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:11,080
Speaker 1: films I cover have animals involved. Yeah, you did a

989
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 1: cats one, right, I did. I did a cat's one. Um,

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01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: we have a Lord of the Ring one nighteming not so.

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01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: If you like all the fuls, then holiphants, lazy J

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01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: k Rowling just inventing an animal that's like two words

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01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 1: away from Elephanta. So you can find us on the

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01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 1: internet at Creature Feature Pod on Instagram, at Creature feet

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Speaker 1: Pot on Twitter. That's f E T not et. That

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997
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: or otherwise, if you've got pictures of your pets, if

998
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: you want to ask me, wait, am I a snake?

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01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: You can email me at Creature Feature Pod at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com. And yeah, thank you guys so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: and I just like you know, I appreciate everyone for

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