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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 Falling with

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Speaker 1: Style from a tiny dragon to a sky diver without

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Speaker 1: a parachute, we're looking at some of the world's most

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Speaker 1: spectacularly styl ish fall Discover this more as we answer

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Speaker 1: the ageled question how do you make a splash in

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Speaker 1: the dating scene when you're shaped like a pancake? Joining

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Speaker 1: me today is front of the show and host of

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Speaker 1: Secretly incredibly Fascinating the Internet's Darling Alec Schmidt. Welcome head,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. That's always so great. Every Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I think here, I think we're all

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Speaker 1: like this. First of all, I've selected for you some

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Speaker 1: choice choice gifts or Jeff's whatever you used to say,

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Speaker 1: and we will of course, this is a podcast, so

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Speaker 1: we will need to describe these in detail for the listeners. Also,

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Speaker 1: as always, include all the images in these show notes.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, we are talking about animals who know how

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Speaker 1: to fall. They know how to take a fall, and

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Speaker 1: they do it with pizzazz and flourish, and it is

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Speaker 1: incredible These are not flying animals. These are animals that

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Speaker 1: fall really well. I feel like I can really relate

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Speaker 1: to them because I can't fly either, and then at

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Speaker 1: the same time I cannot relate to them because I

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Speaker 1: lack physical grace. It seems like they're really good at

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Speaker 1: doing a movement that looks cool when dropping out of

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Speaker 1: the air. I'm yeah, so I'm like, I do do

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Speaker 1: take a tumble on occasion. I do fall down, you know,

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Speaker 1: perhaps more than my fair share. Um. I sometimes catch

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Speaker 1: my self in a cool way, though, so I think

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Speaker 1: it all evens out. It's like, yes, I trip in

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Speaker 1: my own shoes for seemingly no reason, but then when

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Speaker 1: I catch myself, I think I look cool doing it.

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Speaker 1: Even the way you said that was very stylish, Like

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Speaker 1: I'll probably not get it verbatim, but like I take

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Speaker 1: a tumble on occasion, like I'm imagining you had a

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Speaker 1: fancy party, Like I take a tumble on occasion, and

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Speaker 1: then Mr Bean movements all over the room, then tumble

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Speaker 1: on occasion. Yeah, but yes, this is essentially what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about today. It's okay to fall as long as

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Speaker 1: you do it with confidence, which is what these animals do.

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Speaker 1: And Alex, do you believe in dragons? Oh, I'd say no, broadly.

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Speaker 1: I was I was thinking a lot about the Chinese

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Speaker 1: zodiac the other day, and I was born in the

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Speaker 1: Year of the Dragon, so maybe that's something. This is

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Speaker 1: very upproposent because they're real dragons. Dragons is real breaking, fantastic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like learning I'm real. It's great. Yeah, yeah, teeny

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Speaker 1: as long as you go teeny weeny, little teeny weenie.

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Speaker 1: Flying dragons are very real. The drake a lizard also

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Speaker 1: known as the flying dragon. It is a real animal.

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Speaker 1: These are little lizards about eight inches or twenty centimeters

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Speaker 1: in the length including their tails, so you know your

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Speaker 1: neil guys. And typically they look just like skinny, little

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Speaker 1: olive green lizards with a band of yellow under their throats.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they're very cute. They're very pretty, but nothing extraordinary,

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Speaker 1: just lizarding around being lizards. Uh. They live in the

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Speaker 1: forests of Southeast Asia and southern India. They are arboreal,

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Speaker 1: meaning they live in trees where they eat ants and termites,

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Speaker 1: and they are safer from predators than they would be

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Speaker 1: to females. As I understand that this podcast often finds

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Speaker 1: asking someone on Twitter. I don't know, Oh, I'm I

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Speaker 1: was joking. I'm the kind of like all wearing leather jackets,

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Speaker 1: doing masculine stuff. It's all like you know, like boxing,

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Speaker 1: like way punching other authors was like gonna attract these ladies,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna mess up this dude. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: naming Way is the most attractive of the authors. That

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Speaker 1: is true, especially when he extends his dow lap. The

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Speaker 1: ladies love. The ladies love a dow lap. I think

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Speaker 1: ladies love an extendable dow lap, especially if it's bright yellow.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, they in addition to this incredible dow lap,

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Speaker 1: gliding wings, and they can sail through the sky like

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Speaker 1: tiny dragons. So, Alex, I have shared with you an

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Speaker 1: one of these lizards as it jumps off a tree

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Speaker 1: up gifts of the Draco Lizard. I'll also include them

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Speaker 1: of it's almost like the Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park. But

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Speaker 1: or Marvel have taught me, like the hero jumps out

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00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: of a plane or whatever, and then there are two

424
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: movements they can make. They can either do this drag

425
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: thing that this salamander is doing to like slow down,

426
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: or they can do the bullet thing to move to

427
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: the thing. And I'm seeing I'm seeing animals do both things. Amazing.

428
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: We could actually replace all c g I and stunts

429
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: with with lizards and amphibians. Apparently, I would love that.

430
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: Like you're watching you're watching Mission Impossible seven or whatever

431
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: they're on. You see Tom Cruise like getting out of

432
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: a plane and then suddenly just like cuts to one

433
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: of these salamander's falling and with with the music and

434
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: everything going. But you just like, you know, just to

435
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: spend disbelief like this, this is now Tom Cruise the salamander. Right,

436
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,479
Speaker 1: if you're looking for the tucked tail, you're not in

437
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: the movie. You know, you're not fully taking it in,

438
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: like don't don't be, don't be a cinema sins about

439
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: this people, exactly is it is? It? Really? Like it's

440
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: the it is the you know when like people say

441
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: it's the something of the law, like, oh, letter of

442
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: the law, spirit of the law, spirit of the law.

443
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: There it is. Wow, sorry, god, my brain, it's yeah.

444
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta look for, like, you know, the

445
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: spirit of the movie, not details such as is this

446
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: tom cruise or an amphibian that lives in the redwood

447
00:28:53,040 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: forests of California? Those are unimportant details. I also, I

448
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: do like to imagine all stunt men and stunt women

449
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: living in a redwood forest when they're not making movies.

450
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure that just feels right to It does feel right. God,

451
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: I'd love to hang out with that crew. That'd be awesome. Yeah,

452
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,239
Speaker 1: Like I can like that cabin that a commando who

453
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: has become disenchanted with the force lives in before there's

454
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: one last mission to bring them back. I want all

455
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: stunt men to live in those And right, why haven't

456
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: we had like a movie about like Hollywood stunt people

457
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: have We would be so good. They deserve it, they

458
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: get they do so much of the stuff gets a

459
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: little of the credit. Um. But yeah, I mean, these

460
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: these salamanders are they typically don't jump all the way

461
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: down from the tree onto the forest floor. What they

462
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: try to do is land on another tree, and this

463
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: allows them to jump to other trees, quickly, find other

464
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: mates of a danger, and just get around because they

465
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: like to wander. I guess that's appropriate. Man, that's good though. Yeah,

466
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: when you when you quit your tree, you want to

467
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: have an ex tree lined up. It's just it's a

468
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: better situation all around. Gold It's it's not a golden parachute.

469
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: It's a confident salamander. You want to be a confident salamander.

470
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: All these CEOs getting confident salamanders where they leave, which

471
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: sounds fine compared to the real thing. So we've talked

472
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: about draco lizards, the little real dragons that can glide

473
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: through the sky. We've talked about salamanders who are so

474
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: confident in falling they don't even need a pair of shoot. Now,

475
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the best falls that marine

476
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: life can do. You might be thinking, like, how can

477
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: an aquatic animal even fall? They're like in the water, dumb, dumb.

478
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: I imagine everyone thinking at me with arms crossed, if I,

479
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: if I may bring some extraordinary expertise in here. When

480
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: they're moving downward, it's actually because they're swimming down there

481
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: in water not air. Ah, yes, yes, sorry, I guess

482
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: last section is canceled because Alex Alex out thought me,

483
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: outmaneuvered me mentally. I was destroyed biologic and facts. So no,

484
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: But what we are talking about our rays. So rays

485
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: are those flappy oceanic gliders with flat bodies, these two wings.

486
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: At times they have a stinger. Uh. They are cartilage

487
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: us and are closely related to sharks. You know what

488
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, right, Manta rays, sting rays. Lots of

489
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: different species of rays. I like that their shark relative. Yes, yes,

490
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: shark cousins and the There are many, many different species

491
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: of rays. But right now we are going to talk

492
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: about one particular genus, the mobula. So the mobular ray

493
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: is found all over the world in warm oceanic waters.

494
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: Depending on the species, mobulas can grow from around four

495
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: ft or one meter to seventeen feet or five meters

496
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: from wing to wing, so they can get quite big.

497
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: I hope the really big ones are irritated with the

498
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: really little ones. We're not in the same club. Try

499
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: is hard to be us. We're basically like brothers, you know,

500
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: the same You mean you need me and you and

501
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: me we're the same. Yeah, um, I hope it's wearing

502
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: that little hat that I've only seen in tropes about children,

503
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: where it's a little ball cap that's speech ball colored,

504
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: like it's five or six color propeller, like like a

505
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: big what are you doing? Like I again or different species?

506
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: I'm not your big brother. Yeah, yeah that's cool. That's cool.

507
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: Uh might if I hang out with Yeah. That hat

508
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: has only ever existed as a prop in a prop house.

509
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: No real person has ever worn it. I know I

510
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: had a I had one of those little hats when

511
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: I was a kid, the propeller hats. Yeah, yeah, it's

512
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: a toy. But I was really sad because it didn't

513
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: just like I had seen in cartoons that you you know,

514
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: you get the propeller going and you actually are able

515
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: to like take off in flight. Not true, right, not

516
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: not even a little bit true. It was very disappointing.

517
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: Is the last chunk of the episode animals that do

518
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: take off? That? Yes, the last The last animal is

519
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: man who uses the propeller hat to float down from

520
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: amazing heights. Don't do that. Don't try that. It doesn't work.

521
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: I tried it. As a kid. It didn't work, just

522
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: led to like a scraped knee and and disillusionment. So yes,

523
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,760
Speaker 1: momule rays are also called devil rays, but they're actolutely.

524
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: They're actually fine, they're actually cool despite being called devil rays.

525
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: Most species of Mobula lack a tail stinger, or if

526
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: they have a stinger at all, it's harmless. So it's

527
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: a very fearsome moniker. But you know, there's chill, their chill,

528
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: little sea pancakes. Not to make the show to sports sea,

529
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: but have you heard of the Devil rays sports mascot.

530
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: There's a baseball team in Tampa Bay, Florida. They're now

531
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: called the Tampa Bay Rays, but when they were first

532
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: an expansion baseball team, they were called the Tampa Bay

533
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: Devil Rays, and I always thought that was just like

534
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: a made up aggressive thing and that. But they've since

535
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: changed it to raise because I think people were not

536
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: into devil rays. They were like, what is that? Now

537
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: I finally know what that is. I'm a humgus baseball fan.

538
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I think devil rays was a

539
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: cooler a cooler name, both as someone interested in biology

540
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: and heavy metal. H So, you know, it's just you know,

541
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: go back, go back to being called the devil rays.

542
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, and their their logo is a little

543
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: devil roy. That's so cute. I love that. I think

544
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: I think they were going for a verbal rhythm like

545
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay devil ray, you know. But now it's just

546
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: the race. Yeah, oh my goodness, wow sports huh really

547
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: going downhill ever since they got rid of the devil

548
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: ray um. So yeah. They are also filter feeders. They

549
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: just eat plankton. So they're really sweet little things. They're

550
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: not scary at all, little sleep floppers, flopping glinding around

551
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: under the water. They're so graceful and beautiful. Sometimes they

552
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: form these big shoals where you just have these big

553
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: groups of of these devil rays all kind of like

554
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: shoaling together, swimming together in these big balls and like

555
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: gracefully changing direction together. It's beautiful. They actually to me,

556
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: looking at one of these mobular rays from like the top,

557
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: they look like if Batman was like squished squished into

558
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: a pancake, you see that, right, or like or like

559
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: maybe like the like the bat wing, you know, his

560
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: like airplane thing that's kind of shaped like a bat ish.

561
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: It sort of looks like if a bat also was

562
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: wearing Batman's hat, and then it's like, you know how

563
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: Batman's caves. Sometimes they depict it with like a hundred

564
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: specialty suits on a big clothing rack or whatever, like

565
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: this is the scuba aqua whatever it is, right, but

566
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: a bat that's wearing Batman's hat because they have like

567
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 1: their heads are sort of you shaped, with these two

568
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: prongs kind of coming off off near their eyes, and

569
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: then the rest of their body is sort of typical

570
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: ray you know, like like with the wings sort of

571
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: the downward wings that it's kind of this like V

572
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: shape um, and then and then a tail. I mean

573
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: I can see how they look, I guess a little menacing.

574
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,959
Speaker 1: To me, they look cute. I like them, they do. Yeah.

575
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: I think that's part of why I was so surprised

576
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: to learn they're related to sharks, because, like I like,

577
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: I know, this is not how evolution works, but part

578
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: of my like cartoon brain wants to think evolution is

579
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: one animal deciding to look like a different animal. So

580
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: just the idea that there was this shark that wanted

581
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: to be really flat and weird is fun to me.

582
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: And these guys are like flat and weird in a

583
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: really appealing way. It's great. Yeah, yeah, now they have

584
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: decided to go the pancake root and it worked out

585
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: well for them. Uh. And there are other nickname other

586
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: than devil rays is flying rays because they do an

587
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: extraordinary behavior where they leap out of the water, glide,

588
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: flap their little wings, and then crash back into the

589
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: water in a spectacular belly flop. And you've probably you've

590
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: probably seen dolphins gracefully slipping in and out of the

591
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: water as they jump barely making a splash. Mobula Rays

592
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: they don't do this style for them. They pride themselves

593
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: on doing the biggest, sloppiest belly flop they can possibly manage.

594
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: This jip is so stupid. This I'm looking at a jim.

595
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: Some wonderful person got really cinematic footage of like many

596
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: devil rays doing this just direct leap into the air,

597
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: flap back down into the water, maneuver the crap. I

598
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: love that there's a crowd of them. It feels like

599
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: this should be soundtracked, like when the Ewoks are celebrating

600
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: at the end of Return, like it's it's a real

601
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: just party going on of pointless sleeping, it's into the

602
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: air and landing. It's great and it is I mean

603
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: it is a party atmosphere because these are rays that

604
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: are trying to flirt with other rays. By making these

605
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: loud splashes, they create a sonic wave underwater, alerting eligible

606
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: singles to their location. And the bigger the splash, the

607
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: more noticeable they are. So male mobulas do this breaching,

608
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: jumping out and splashing into the water the most, but

609
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: females will also partake, and it's often these big groups

610
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: of all these rays all putting on a stunning show

611
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: as they try to impress a potential mate. Uh. And

612
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: they can actually, they can get some serious altitude. They

613
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: can leap up to six and a half feet or

614
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: two meters out of the water. Wow. Yeah, it really

615
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,439
Speaker 1: looks like it. Because I'm looking at the mountains behind

616
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: these guys and stuff, I kind of have a general

617
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: sense of the depth and scale and everything. They're really

618
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: getting up there. This is not like, this is not

619
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: that thing where it's like, oh something, what am I

620
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: thinking of? Never mind, Yeah, I love the leaping. This

621
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: is just right. And then just like the flapping of

622
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: their little because like the wings that they have are

623
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: for uh, therefore gliding through the ocean. There there for swimming,

624
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: they're not really for flying, and yet here they are

625
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: flapping these little wings and a little more altitude. It's

626
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: it's so cute. They're so cute. I think all rays

627
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: are really cute, but these guys just like being the zest,

628
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: the jois de vive of these little these so little

629
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: actually they can be quite quite big. But yes, it's

630
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: just incredible, just such spunk, right because they they're not

631
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: going to take off when they come out of the water.

632
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: They are flapping as if they are going to just

633
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: proceed to fly into a tree and make a mast

634
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: or something. It's really we're going to marsh. Yeah, no,

635
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: it's it does look very optimistic, like they've just kind

636
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: of forgotten that they're not birds and they're not bats,

637
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: and they're just like, you know, I'm a bat now

638
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: we and then falling back down. But yeah, it is,

639
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: it's it's just it's so cute. Yeah. Also, if I

640
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: remember right, the Tampa Bay baseball team, they have a

641
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: stingray tank at the stadium, and I wish it was

642
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: a bunch of them constantly leaping or like when there's

643
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: a home run. They do this, they would be great,

644
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: but that's probably not how it works. No, no, yeah,

645
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: I I feel like if they were doing that, that

646
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: would mean that they're in an amorous mood, which you

647
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: know might not be appropriate for all the kids who

648
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: show up for the baseball And it's a two one

649
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: count to Jeff Cappinger. Also, we can see the raise

650
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: are amorous, amorous, and the pitch oh man, actually, I

651
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: take it back. I do want baseball integrated with animal

652
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: mating rituals. But then you have to like because I

653
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: don't want them to just be in a little tank.

654
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: It means taking the baseball to their habitats, like a

655
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 1: big floating lootilla of baseball right next to the rais

656
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 1: or nothing. Right, it's it's field of dreams, but instead

657
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: of walking out of a cornfield to to play ancient baseball,

658
00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: it's guys like going through a double ray party on

659
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: surfboards or something you could do like underwater baseball. Just

660
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: real slow. Oh yeah, right, the manager is going to

661
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: have to take out that picture. I mean his arm

662
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: is tired. He ran of oxygen um. His arm is tired.

663
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: Though that's the main reason the third baseman is turning blue,

664
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: which I've never seen this strategy before. You hate to

665
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: see it. I don't know that much about baseball, I'll

666
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: be honest. I mean, you don't want the third basement

667
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: to turn blue? That's pretty good crystal, all right? All right,

668
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,959
Speaker 1: well then maybe I know more than I thought. Yeah,

669
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: you should manage my favorite team. But yeah, yeah, there's

670
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna be some real change around here you put me

671
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: in charge. There was a clip the other I won't

672
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: divert it too far, but there was a clipp the

673
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: other day of the White Sox manager in the first

674
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 1: inning probably falling asleep, like they had the camera on him,

675
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: and it looked like was probably falling asleep. So I

676
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: think you're ready. I think you could do it. You

677
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: would probably remain awake for the first inning. If I

678
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: was president of baseball, I would never fall asleep during

679
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: the baseball Only outside of baseball times would I sleep.

680
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 1: So already more well qualified, I wouldn't get rid of

681
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: the Devil Raises the name of my baseball team, because

682
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: what the heck? That is such a cool name and

683
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: that's just the Raise. Come on, Yeah, these guys are great.

684
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: They got such a baseball spirit and I'm proud of them,

685
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,760
Speaker 1: and I don't want them to get discouraged just because

686
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: baseball teams are changing their names from devil rays to

687
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: just raise. That's the you know, I see you guys

688
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: out there, I see you you mobular rays. They could

689
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: have changed it to the mobular rays. That would have

690
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: been cool too. It's a cool name, oh man, I'd

691
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: love that because the minor leagues especially, there are a

692
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: lot of teams with relatively obscure animal names, like the

693
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: snappers and stuff and so yeah, and the miners. You

694
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: could some kind of like wandering salamander franchise. Also, mobulas

695
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: sounds like a mob of draculas, so it sounds cool.

696
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: There as the plural word for it. Yet a flock

697
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: of draculas is called a mobula. Yeah, you thought it'd

698
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: be a murder. Murder was taken. Murder was taken. We

699
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: had to be a mobula. Biologist never used those funny names,

700
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: like it's like, did you know, like a group of

701
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: crows is actually called a murder on a group of

702
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: vowels is called a parliament. It's like I've I've never

703
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: see actual Like it's no, it's not really used in

704
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: biology papers. I don't ever see it actually used really

705
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: the different like things like flocks versus herds versus shoals, yeah,

706
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, or troops, like there are there are

707
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: general ones that are done for like very different animals,

708
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: but when you get really specific, like a group of

709
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: flamingos is called a flamboyance, it's like you just made

710
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: that up right now, I don't. I don't know, like,

711
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: even if it's true, I don't really see any anyone

712
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: using that in any official capacity. I'm I'm really glad

713
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: to hear that, honestly, because I really always felt like

714
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: I really want to celebrate science and support science, and

715
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: I really always felt like those nouns were specifically just

716
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: British nobility around. I always assumed it's like an earl

717
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 1: was bored and decided to just a group of British

718
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: nobles is called a rough by the way, Yeah, uh, well,

719
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: I think we've we've covered some of the world's most

720
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: spectacular followers. Uh. And it's it's a good reminder. It's

721
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: like you can fall down, you could pick yourself up,

722
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: but you could also fall down a really fun and

723
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: cool way that's also active to mates. So you know,

724
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with falling, is what I'm saying. Yeah, I

725
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: like the especially I feel like animals. And again, I

726
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: know evolution is not individual choices by animals, but it

727
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: feels like so many animals have either chosen to fly

728
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: or chosen to walk, swim, etcetera. And I like that

729
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: so many of them are in the middle area between

730
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: light and not flight. You're just gliding around. Look, you

731
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: know it's we think that you can only conquer the

732
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: skies by going up flying. No, like you can, you

733
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: can be like you know what, gravity, You and I

734
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: let's team up together and get something done and not

735
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 1: instead of fighting gravity. It's like we're we're joining forces

736
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: two for me to be a little salamander guy just

737
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: jumping out of trees. Uh uh you know, yeah, I

738
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: love it. Just you gotta work with physics sometimes, give

739
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: yourself a little express elevator, you know what I mean this? Okay,

740
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: Now we're getting dangerously close to telling people to just

741
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: like fall great distances, and I don't don't want to

742
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: do that. Human human beings are not quite We're not

743
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: Our bodies are not as capable of handling these kinds

744
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: of feats. Uh as these animals so you know, leave

745
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: it to the professional like the like the little salamanders

746
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: and the little flying lizards and the ray but not

747
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, but they're professionals. Yeah, buzz Lightlier. Also, I wish,

748
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: I wish the buzz Lightyear movie was just kind of

749
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: about the real buzz Lightyear learning how to fly. That

750
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: would have been fun just watching tape of mobular rays, like, Okay,

751
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: what do they do? What do they do? Like Chicken Run,

752
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: but a fully man sized buzz Lightyear. Yeah, I don't know.

753
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the movie, so I have no opinion

754
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: on it, but you know, that's I just I just

755
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: like to see things getting launched into the air. This

756
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound weird. The most recent movie I've

757
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: watched his Chicken Run. It was. It was a lot

758
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 1: of fun. It's still great. It is. It's that was

759
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: a good movie. It's about chickens trying to learn to

760
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: fly to escape escape their egglaying operation. But really it's

761
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: kind of a metaphor for unionization and and the fight

762
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: against oppressive capitalism because I think I only saw it

763
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: as a child in a theater and then now and

764
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is a pretty based movie. Yeah,

765
00:49:52,800 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: but make it chickens. Well, before before we get all political,

766
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,280
Speaker 1: we gotta play a game. This game is called Guess

767
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: Who's Squawking? The Mystery Animal Sound Game. Every week I

768
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: play a mystery animal sound and you know, the listener

769
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: try to guess. Hey, this squawking can be any animal.

770
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: I know it's called Guess who squawking? But it's not

771
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: just birds. Can be any animal in the world. Uh,

772
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: in the universe really, once we find aliens. So um.

773
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: Last week's mystery animals sound, the hint was don't blame

774
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 1: the dog for this one, but it is the sound

775
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: of a happy carnivore. Okay, So I promise this is

776
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: not a rude noise and just play a part for you.

777
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. I'm not a child. So who

778
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: do you think? Get squawk? Can anything's making this sound?

779
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 1: I got an aquatic vibe from it and almost kind

780
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: of a dolphin sound, But I don't know if it's

781
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: a dolphin. I'll just go dolphin. You are correct, Alex,

782
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: good job, Yes, bonus points. Can you guess what it's doing? Oh? Yeah,

783
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: that's that's the more difficult to ask. And I think

784
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: I think I was able to get it because Atlantic

785
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,720
Speaker 1: Bil those cellphones were a prime animal at my childhood

786
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: zoo that I later worked in as a guide. So

787
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: we didn't we didn't like go through the dolphin exhibit

788
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: on the tours. But I I've gotten to hear him

789
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: a lot and it's a lot of like clicking and

790
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: funky sounds, flicking and squeaking part noises. Yeah, what was

791
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: it doing because it sounded happy. I'm going to say

792
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,919
Speaker 1: it was like rooting out some kind of food out

793
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: of a thing. Alex You are so good, that is

794
00:51:55,080 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 1: exactly what is happening. Nice job, well done up. Yes,

795
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: so this is a dolphin hunting and closing in on

796
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: a fish. You're like the dolphin whisperer, alex I. Brookfield

797
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 1: Zoo was like training me shout at Brookfield z Brookfield, Illinois,

798
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: outside Chicago. I feel like I feel like I heard

799
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: that sound and I activated, like Jason Bourne, like a

800
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: bunch of dolphin training just turned on. I don't know

801
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: very much about that was a sleeper cetation. I'm gonna

802
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: finish taping and be capable of like perfectly feeding dolphins,

803
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: like I throw fish individually into their mouths or something.

804
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have incredible skills. You're you get elected dissent

805
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: and you start passing like pro dolphin bills and you

806
00:52:46,120 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: don't even know why was it the cetacean candidate or so? Uh? Yeah,

807
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: As the dolphin closes in on its prey, it emits

808
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: a terminal buzz which is so narrow that lets it

809
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 1: precisely close in on the fish. And that little squeak

810
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: at the end is called a victory squeal. It's a

811
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:20,240
Speaker 1: happy sound as the dolphin catches its meal, so it's

812
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: it is happy and it did find food. So you

813
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: are so correct. I am very impressed and a little suspicious.

814
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: I feel exactly the same about myself. Yes, so I

815
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: actually got some guesses that it was an orca or

816
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: bluega which was closed but no cigar. Still, thank you

817
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: guys for writing in your gifts. Is really good sleuthing everyone.

818
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:49,720
Speaker 1: You narrowed it down to a cetacean, which is impressive. Um. Also,

819
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: technically that sound of the dolphin was from two weeks ago,

820
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,919
Speaker 1: since last week I aired a rerun so I could

821
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 1: go on a little vacation. Um, So congratulations to Nathan

822
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: A who actually guessed the rerun sound correctly. That sound

823
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: was the rock high Racks, which is an adorable little mammal,

824
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: little fluffy. Uh. And they are related to elephants incredibly

825
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: onto this week's mystery animals sound. The hint is the

826
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 1: Sharks and the Jets are about to have a showdown,

827
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: but they really ought to calm down. H So uh Alec,

828
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: you gott guesses the correct answer is space alience what presiden,

829
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: we got it, we got it, we did it game over.

830
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: But if you think you may know what this is

831
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: other than the space sailing space sil Lands, which he

832
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: clearly is space aliens, you can write to meet Creature

833
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: Feature Product gmail dot com. Alex, thank you so much

834
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 1: for joining me today or can people find you? Hey?

835
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: Thank you? And my podcast is called Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

836
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: and I hope people check it out. If you just

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Speaker 1: search Secretly in your podcast you have, you'll find it.

838
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Speaker 1: It's a red logo and uh and I don't know

839
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: when this comes out with Katie's on one either soon

840
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