Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host
Speaker 1: of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,
Speaker 1: and today on the show, we are playing a little game.
Speaker 1: This is a fun, fresh and funky new format for
Speaker 1: the show. We're gonna play a game of whether it's
Speaker 1: an animal, a mineral plant, or fun guy. I am
Speaker 1: giving my guests a bunch of pictures and he will
Speaker 1: describe them to you in detail, in disgusting, porous detail,
Speaker 1: and you can play along too. I will have links
Speaker 1: to all these images in the show notes, or you
Speaker 1: can just form a mental picture from our words, from
Speaker 1: our word paintings that we paint, and we will go
Speaker 1: through this and my guest will have to try to
Speaker 1: guess is it an animal, a mineral plant, a fungi
Speaker 1: or something else. Entirely Joining me today is friend of
Speaker 1: the show producer at iHeart Radio. He does so many things.
Speaker 1: I don't really even know where to start, uh, DJ Danel.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Katie, happy to be back. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have you plug everything at the end
Speaker 1: because I can't. I don't even know how. There's so
Speaker 1: many things. You you have your hands and so many pies.
Speaker 2: There's lots of pies. My fingers are sticky and disgusting
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 1: Very sticky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've over the years touched many pies, and I am
Speaker 2: therefore again very sticky.
Speaker 1: If you've listened to a podcast or eaten a pie,
Speaker 1: chances are there's germs from Danel on it.
Speaker 2: I do love pie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pie is good.
Speaker 2: I love pie. Pie is good, savory or something great both.
Speaker 2: If I had to pick one, actually, damn, I was
Speaker 2: about to just pop off an answer, but now that
Speaker 2: I'm think about it, it's really hard to say. I
Speaker 2: was very lucky enough to travel to Australia a couple
Speaker 2: of times, and eating savory meat pies in Australia is
Speaker 2: just on another level. They just hit so differently.
Speaker 1: There used to be an Australian pie savory pie shop
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I think they may have moved, which
Speaker 1: is really sad because it was incredible, absolutely incredible, just fantastically.
Speaker 2: Are I love They're delicious.
Speaker 1: I think I like a savory pie. I think I'm
Speaker 1: sort of a you know, fifteenth century noble. I like
Speaker 1: a savory pie. So today we are talking about some
Speaker 1: things that may look like maybe they belong in a
Speaker 1: savory pie. Hard to tell. These are images, and it
Speaker 1: is up to you, Daniel, to try to guess what
Speaker 1: it is. It could be an animal, a mineral, a plant,
Speaker 1: fung guy, something else.
Speaker 2: I'm already confused, or rather not confused, but like I'm
Speaker 2: looking at these pictures and I'm just I know that
Speaker 2: I'm going to be surprised. I know I'm going to
Speaker 2: be enchanted, and i know I'm going to have a
Speaker 2: new fear at some point.
Speaker 1: I'd also like you to answer the question of whether
Speaker 1: you would eat this thing gladly?
Speaker 2: Oh man, glad.
Speaker 1: So let's get right into it. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: very first image the candidate number one. Great, First, I
Speaker 1: want you to describe this image to the audience.
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, audience. I want you to imagine, you know,
Speaker 2: you've ever seen a huge strawberry that looks really amorphous. Now,
Speaker 2: just like double the amount of amorphousness of that weird strawberry.
Speaker 2: Make that strawberry white, and you've got kind of what
Speaker 2: we're looking at here. You know, it's just like kind
Speaker 2: of like a it looks like a globule but also
Speaker 2: has a pretty defined shape. It looks like it has
Speaker 2: tiny seeds on it and it's currently sitting or the
Speaker 2: image has it sitting on a bit of wet sand.
Speaker 2: So a white, ghastly kind of looking giant globule strawberry
Speaker 2: little dots of look like seeds and all sitting on
Speaker 2: some sand.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was beautiful. That was like you you're like
Speaker 1: Monet with your words. You know, when strawberries like are
Speaker 1: weird and they're like a double strawberry or even a
Speaker 1: triple strawberry. That's actually something called fasciation. It happens in
Speaker 1: plants when they have basically sort of a situation where
Speaker 1: there is this like extra growth where like this basically
Speaker 1: the plant like stem cells are telling it like grow
Speaker 1: that thing. But again over here it's really interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, this does kind of look like a white
Speaker 1: mutant strawberry totally, but it is amorphous. It's blobule and
Speaker 1: it has these sort of like light tan speckles on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of like strawberry skin. It's it's interesting. Would you
Speaker 1: eat this danile?
Speaker 2: First of all, absolutely, Okay, I'm looking at this thing.
Speaker 2: It looks like a laffy taffy that washed up on
Speaker 2: the shore. I might look around, dunk it in the
Speaker 2: water real quick and then chow down. Looks like it
Speaker 2: would be delish. And if I had to guess, I
Speaker 2: had to is it time to guess or is there more
Speaker 2: time to do it? Okay? Cool? Cool, cool cool? If
Speaker 2: I had to guess, And I'm trying to use some
Speaker 2: context clues here. Looking at like that, it looks like
Speaker 2: it's something that washed up on the shore. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: it could be a plant, it could be an animal.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go I'm gonna go animal.
Speaker 1: You are absolutely correct, Congratulations, Yes, this is an animal.
Speaker 1: It wow, certainly is a strange looking one. Yes, this
Speaker 1: is something called a tunicate, also known as a sea squirt,
Speaker 1: or when it's washed up on the beach like this,
Speaker 1: it is called sea pork just because people. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: like to have a name that I don't know. To me,
Speaker 1: this doesn't look like pork. I guess it could kind
Speaker 1: of look like pork fat. Ye, it's kind of a disgusting, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: very it makes it more gross. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: a name that that makes it much more gross.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So under the ocean there they look like these strange,
Speaker 1: beautiful or sometimes kind of creepy like flowers or even
Speaker 1: like coral, but they are not coral, and they are
Speaker 1: not flowers. There's a few images that I've also shared
Speaker 1: with you that are various examples of tunicate. Some of
Speaker 1: them are solitary where they look sort of like this
Speaker 1: weird almost like a like a flower or like a
Speaker 1: bulbous thing with this kind of like purply coloration. But
Speaker 1: sometimes they are in colonies, so like sometimes they form
Speaker 1: like chains. So you'll see this thing that looks like
Speaker 1: this giant chain, and it's all these tunicits that are
Speaker 1: linked together. And sometimes they form like a blobby colony
Speaker 1: like that initial image. Also like what that's when it's
Speaker 1: kind of discolored. Sometimes when they're fresher, they're like pink
Speaker 1: or red. And yeah, so they are. There's many different
Speaker 1: species of tunicate, from those who live as individuals to
Speaker 1: those who live as colonies. And they all start out
Speaker 1: in this like free swimming stage. This larva that kind
Speaker 1: of looks like a tadpole sperm, like a sperm that's
Speaker 1: the size of a tadpole, and right they will latched.
Speaker 1: For the ones that are sessile, they will latch onto sessile,
Speaker 1: meaning that they stay fixed in one location. They no
Speaker 1: longer move around. They will latch themselves onto a substrate
Speaker 1: and go through a metamorphosis where they sort of lose
Speaker 1: their ability to move and then form this like siphon system,
Speaker 1: so they turn into kind of like just this almost
Speaker 1: like bagpipe looking thing some of them. Others will form
Speaker 1: colonies so they look like that weird like mutant strawberry
Speaker 1: lumpy thing, and so they they will essentially act as
Speaker 1: filter feeders. And unless they are part of this like
Speaker 1: chain like organism, like some of them form this like
Speaker 1: long chain where they're floating around as a chain. They
Speaker 1: will mostly stay motionless or at least like stuck fixed
Speaker 1: in one place for the rest of their lives while
Speaker 1: filter feeding. They're called sea scores because a lot of
Speaker 1: them will do this like siphoning of water, like sucking
Speaker 1: it in one tube and pushing it out the other. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Really quickly. I want to jump back just two seconds
Speaker 2: to make sure I understood some terminology you said. They
Speaker 2: attached to a substrate.
Speaker 1: Is like that, Yes, that is like sand or rock
Speaker 1: or any it's basically floor it's a science word.
Speaker 2: For floor, A science word for floor. I like that cool.
Speaker 1: But it's a floor that could be made out of
Speaker 1: rocks or sand or gravel.
Speaker 2: I had a feeling it was at a feeling it
Speaker 2: was the hard surface.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to be sure are specialized surface
Speaker 1: of some kind. Yeah. So, despite sometimes being called sea pork,
Speaker 1: most species of tunicits aren't edible. But notice how I
Speaker 1: said most, there are some species that are edible, Okay,
Speaker 1: and people actually have them in various cuisines.
Speaker 2: And you really, yeah, is there a particular regional cuisine
Speaker 2: that eats these the most?
Speaker 1: I mean, I have, I think, because there are so many.
Speaker 1: There are various countries where they are featured in cuisine
Speaker 1: from anywhere from Korea to Chile. So yes, So let's
Speaker 1: go on to the next image here, great, Yes it is.
Speaker 1: This is gray looking thing with sort of red splotches
Speaker 1: on it, Danield.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's a it's a looking thing? All right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, first of all, describe it to the audience.
Speaker 1: Use use the art of poetry to paint a picture.
Speaker 2: How to describe a summer's day? Well, this thing we're
Speaker 2: looking at here, I would say it's dominating colors are
Speaker 2: I would say, imagine something that is an eighty percent
Speaker 2: kind of muddy gray with twenty percent of a very
Speaker 2: vibrant orangey red and these little tiny splotches all over
Speaker 2: it. It would appear that there are these very small dots
Speaker 2: of red around this object. Now, this object is kind
Speaker 2: of like this thing creature. I don't even know. This
Speaker 2: thing is almost like the shape of an avocado maybe,
Speaker 2: but it almost looks like it has a protrusion, like
Speaker 2: a protrusion that has lesions on it. So imagine like
Speaker 2: a avocado shaped thing that almost looks like it's covered
Speaker 2: in little like calcified ringworms or something like. It looks
Speaker 2: like these like tiny little wormes on it that are
Speaker 2: hard like petrified worms, tiny little and then specks of
Speaker 2: red and then these open lesions that look like small
Speaker 2: pools of lava on this weird avocado shaped rock looking thing.
Speaker 2: It looks both hard and rough and also sticky and
Speaker 2: gross at the same time, Like parts of it look
Speaker 2: like you could sharpen a knife on it, and then
Speaker 2: other parts of it looked like they could give you
Speaker 2: a disease if you touched it. So yeah, it's very strange.
Speaker 2: It also looks like it's looking at me, like a
Speaker 2: hundred times, like it looks like several parts of it
Speaker 2: are looking at me because the red dots are placed
Speaker 2: in such a way or are in such a place
Speaker 2: that they look like little eyes. It's like a pair
Speaker 2: of red dots in several places around this thing. No idea,
Speaker 2: but it is definitely again we're seeing it on top
Speaker 2: of what looks like very wet sand, maybe wet mud,
Speaker 2: but it is out in nature. It looks wet and
Speaker 2: it looks gross. But also I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 2: shame the thing. Yeah, body show no share, certainly not
Speaker 2: certainly not. But it is something I don't know if
Speaker 2: I would want to touch.
Speaker 1: Right so that I would assume you wouldn't eat it.
Speaker 1: Then if you don't want to touch.
Speaker 2: It, well, okay, hold on. You know there's there's there's
Speaker 2: some things I don't want to touch. Then necessarily I
Speaker 2: throw on the grill and then you know I'm touching
Speaker 2: them with my mouth. You know, I will say off, rip, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to eat this, but I am curious.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It feels so violent to say I
Speaker 2: want to see what's on the inside. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, these these lesions of of you know, bright
Speaker 2: red and orange color, are like, what's going on in there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is that violence or just curiosity?
Speaker 2: There we go. I appreciate that there's some aliens that
Speaker 2: are going to probust and say it's not violence, it's curiosity.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like, well, my arm's off now, so
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Know scientific amen to that.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to I'm going to take a guess, yes,
Speaker 2: go for it. I'm going to go with my gut
Speaker 2: and say that this is a mineral.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Well, no, it is in fact an animal. And
Speaker 1: I'm seeing kind of a jerk here because this is
Speaker 1: yet another tunicit What you I got youa? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: this like leprous looking gray avocado, is a tunic kit
Speaker 1: called pyra chilinasis uh what wait wait sorry I pronounced
Speaker 1: that totally wrong. Pya chill and sis uh. And it
Speaker 1: looks like a gray rock with weird tubules that has
Speaker 1: flesh inside. And that's essentially what it is. It's a
Speaker 1: flesh rock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I just need to be very clear with
Speaker 2: the audience. So Katie has provided you know, like we
Speaker 2: were talking about with the first tunicit is the name
Speaker 2: of the creature, right, yes, tunicit. So so so Katie
Speaker 2: provided four different images of the first tunicit and they
Speaker 2: all look pretty different then, but but there are some
Speaker 2: similar qualities. This picture, this second picture, or rather fifth
Speaker 2: picture at this point, could not look more different than
Speaker 2: the prior four pictures. There's nothing about this picture that says, well,
Speaker 2: that's the same creature. Yeah at all.
Speaker 1: Well, to be fair, it's a different species for sure.
Speaker 2: But being like, you know, look, you show me two birds.
Speaker 2: One could be big, one could be small. They both
Speaker 2: look like birds, right, this does not even this is
Speaker 2: this doesn't even look like a globule of strawberry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it kind of looks moldy. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so that gray rock like exterior is the exoskeletal structure
Speaker 1: of a colony of tunicates. Inside that red flesh is
Speaker 1: you know, they're flesh, the flesh of these kits. So
Speaker 1: this is a colony of tunicits. And yeah, just like
Speaker 1: other tunicates, they siphon in water and filter feed and
Speaker 1: essentially just hang out and seem like a rock until
Speaker 1: they are dragged out by fishermen. And I know you
Speaker 1: said you were on the fence about eating this. But
Speaker 1: these are an example of an edible tunicate, and indeed
Speaker 1: they are featured in Chilean cuisine. Yes what.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So because it does look like a flesh rock from hell,
Speaker 1: it's not a particularly popular food in Chile. And this
Speaker 1: is not like some kind of like common cuisine, but
Speaker 1: in areas where like there's a lot of fishing, it
Speaker 1: can be eaten in fishermen. Well, what they do essentially
Speaker 1: is they take out the inside. You don't eat out
Speaker 1: the exoskeleton, just like you wouldn't eat like the exoskeleton
Speaker 1: of a clam. And then they take these like basically
Speaker 1: like globules of meat from inside, dry them out, and
Speaker 1: it's used in soups. So you know, I would, I
Speaker 1: I would try it.
Speaker 2: I would. I mean now that I mean, now that
Speaker 2: we're having this conversation, I'm like, yeah, I mean, throwing
Speaker 2: on a plate, let me see what, let me see
Speaker 2: what we're rocking with. But like, wow, I'm shook. I'm shook.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that's when it's like, when you're
Speaker 1: essentially giving me the option of eating a living rock
Speaker 1: made out of flesh, it does sound a little appealing.
Speaker 2: Actually that sounds like some Pokemon stuff. It's like, do
Speaker 2: I want to eat a geo dude? Hell yeah, Katie.
Speaker 1: Those traps they've got delts that look you know, delectible,
Speaker 1: delectable though there's meat there. All right, So do you
Speaker 1: want to move on to the next image.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: All right, this is candidate number three. I want you
Speaker 1: to describe this image.
Speaker 2: For the audience. Okay, gladly, Well, I'm going to avoid
Speaker 2: the rather explicit connotation that these things have and say
Speaker 2: that they are They do look like blue wieners. They
Speaker 2: look like they look like uh, doctor Manhattan wieners sticking
Speaker 2: out of the ground. They look like the thing is
Speaker 2: so again, this is a scale thing where I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't know how big these are, but they I'm
Speaker 2: going to guess small. They look like small stalagmites, translucent
Speaker 2: bluish stalagmites. They look like, you know, you can see
Speaker 2: there there may be gooey blue center. It's almost it's
Speaker 2: almost like a It looks like one single piece that
Speaker 2: is like attached to a rock with a lot with
Speaker 2: a lot of little like you know, blue wieners sticking
Speaker 2: out of it. But it is.
Speaker 1: A meadow of blueis.
Speaker 2: A meadow of blue wieners is a great way to
Speaker 2: say it. There is also as part of the Yeah,
Speaker 2: it almost looks like you're looking into like a cave,
Speaker 2: a cave of blue wieners that are being exposed to
Speaker 2: light for the first time. I'm also going to guess
Speaker 2: this is guessing this is also I'm guessing this is underwater,
Speaker 2: but there's no evidence of that. You know what, Actually,
Speaker 2: I take that back. There's no water evidence in this picture.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say it's not water. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go and I'm trying to think there's any other physical
Speaker 2: descriptors that are worth mentioning here. I mean, like, you know,
Speaker 2: uh no, I think I think we I think we
Speaker 2: kind of nailed it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2: I'm going to thank you. I'm going to go I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with a fungus hm.
Speaker 1: But also, would you eat it? You gotta answer that one.
Speaker 2: Too, Oh right, of course, Yes, they look like they
Speaker 2: they look like they explode in your mouth like gushers.
Speaker 2: So yes, absolutely, due.
Speaker 1: They look gummy. They look like delicious gummies. They do
Speaker 1: look gummy, you know, like how you're at a bachelor
Speaker 1: party and you get some weiener gummies. They look like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't know personally, have been very familiar with those. Yes,
Speaker 2: I've seen those images and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I've been to a lot of bachelorette parties. There's always
Speaker 1: some kind of weier thing, and it's just like, come on,
Speaker 1: aren't we adults here, Let's grow up. Let's just grow up.
Speaker 2: Let's grow up.
Speaker 1: Anyways, So that is a fantastic guess that this is
Speaker 1: a fun guy. Sadly it is incorrect. This is actually
Speaker 1: a mineral. So yeah, I gotta I gotta throw in
Speaker 1: a mineral there. I gotta switch up a curveball a
Speaker 1: little bit of curve.
Speaker 2: These are things, definitely aren't These things definitely aren't squishy that.
Speaker 1: No, no, it looks There are so many minerals that
Speaker 1: I would put in my mouth and chomp down and
Speaker 1: break every tooth because they like candy and I want
Speaker 1: to eat them.
Speaker 2: Yes, these absolutely look like candy. One.
Speaker 1: These are chrysocola. They are this blue color. They're actually
Speaker 1: quite beautiful. I think it's actually due to the copper
Speaker 1: hydroxide content of the mineral. Obviously, copper is typically copper colored,
Speaker 1: but when it is oxidized it's blue. Like have you
Speaker 1: ever seen a gross old penny that's like kind of
Speaker 1: wet I have, Yeah, turns blue and sometimes it turns
Speaker 1: your pocket blue too, and so yeah it will. That
Speaker 1: is where this blue color comes.
Speaker 2: From, and that where blue jeans come from.
Speaker 1: People just have penny penny washed jeans.
Speaker 2: Penny washed.
Speaker 1: So I think, I mean it's possible though, that oxidized
Speaker 1: copper was used in paints. I'm not I'm not a
Speaker 1: paint expert or mineral mineralist, but yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's very possible. It's used as like coloration in things.
Speaker 1: But that bulb that sort of bulbous valley of penises
Speaker 1: type thing that's going on that they can look like
Speaker 1: little tentacles. Sometimes it looks like little bubbles like it's
Speaker 1: it's literally sort of bubbling up. It's called a boeroidal formation.
Speaker 1: It is when there are many seeds from which the
Speaker 1: crystal forms. So when I talk about seed, it's essentially
Speaker 1: like maybe it's a piece of sand or a small
Speaker 1: particle of mineral from which a crystal sort of starts growing.
Speaker 1: So again, I'm not a mineral oid. I'm not a
Speaker 1: professor of mineralogy.
Speaker 2: But what was my favorite aliens from Star Trek.
Speaker 1: Mineral Oid just a bunch of rocks. It's just a
Speaker 1: geodude rebranded. So it's essentially like the way I learned
Speaker 1: it eons ago is that you'll have sort of a
Speaker 1: structure of a crystal, and then once you have like
Speaker 1: if you have like things that it's stuff that kind
Speaker 1: of knocks things into place or like it forms this thing,
Speaker 1: and then you start to get this formation and everything
Speaker 1: sort of settles in this this structure form because you
Speaker 1: have a seed structure that enables this type of formation,
Speaker 1: and so the crystal continues to form sort of like
Speaker 1: a domino effect. And so if you have a multiple
Speaker 1: number of these like seeds that will grow these crystals,
Speaker 1: then you have this like bubbling form or forest of weenas.
Speaker 2: Most certainly it's beautiful. I have a question go for
Speaker 2: it now now that we now that we know that
Speaker 2: it is a mineral, can we get what is the
Speaker 2: scale of the image that we're looking at? Here? Are
Speaker 2: these tiny? Are they large? Are they kind of like
Speaker 2: in between? Like what size are we looking at?
Speaker 1: Sometimes they can and it depends. Some of them are
Speaker 1: like bigger, some of them are like small, like sort
Speaker 1: of like smaller than a pencil. These I think are
Speaker 1: about pencil size.
Speaker 2: Pencil said, that's still pretty I mean, gang, if you
Speaker 2: were to look at these like saying that their pencil
Speaker 2: size means they're probably like the thickness of like a
Speaker 2: water bottle. So these are pretty substantial minerals right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, maybe pencil is a little big, but they're
Speaker 1: certainly like like uh yeah, like a thin sort of
Speaker 1: the head of a pencil maybe. Oh like like the
Speaker 1: like the like you know, the like the not like
Speaker 1: the lead points, but like the conical part of the pencil,
Speaker 1: like each one of those is kind of like I
Speaker 1: would think sort of like that. But I've seen ones
Speaker 1: that are also really small.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Okay, wow, okay, but they but they are small
Speaker 2: in range. We're not going to go into a cave
Speaker 2: and see two foot three foot tall ones of these
Speaker 2: bodmns right here, not.
Speaker 1: That I am aware of.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: And sometimes they don't I mean, sometimes they don't form
Speaker 1: like those sort of like wiener shapes or bubble shapes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're like different shape, like it's just it kind
Speaker 1: of depends on how they form, uh, this form I
Speaker 1: thought looked really organic and weird and possibly would throw
Speaker 1: you off, which it did.
Speaker 2: And I'm proud you nailed it, proud of lying to you,
Speaker 2: you know, an appropriate situation to be and I'm proud
Speaker 2: of you too.
Speaker 1: So let's move on to the next image.
Speaker 2: If you're ready, I'm super ready.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. So first describe this to
Speaker 1: the audience again. Let's let's let's be adults here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be let's be adults here, all right. So, gang,
Speaker 2: imagine that you were looking at a top down brain
Speaker 2: that was like flattened like it looks like a flat
Speaker 2: cross section of a brain with a a very suggestive
Speaker 2: slit down the middle.
Speaker 1: Looks like a brain vagina.
Speaker 2: It is a brain virgin. It looks like there are
Speaker 2: a couple surrounding it. It looks like a little bundle
Speaker 2: maybe maybe a three pack of brain vaginas. They're sitting
Speaker 2: by the honest and.
Speaker 1: Get those big old tops of brain vaginas you do.
Speaker 2: Uh, they look like they're sitting in a pot filled
Speaker 2: with pebbles. So maybe this is like some sort of
Speaker 2: I mean, the pot looks I'll say this, Okay, this
Speaker 2: could be one of those things where like the geological
Speaker 2: formation was just so perfect and this is like underwater.
Speaker 2: But something tells me this is more of like a
Speaker 2: succulent and is actually a plant. But the last thing
Speaker 2: I'll say is in terms of so again, remember we're
Speaker 2: talking like a flat brain looking thing here. It's like
Speaker 2: a It's like a cross section of a brain if
Speaker 2: you were to cut it in half, all the wrinkles
Speaker 2: and stuff like that same coloring as a brain, with
Speaker 2: the with all the folds and all the wrinkles being
Speaker 2: kind of like a the sulk ego being like a
Speaker 2: reddish hue. It's got kind of a pink look to it.
Speaker 2: There's kind of like an outline of yellowy orange all around,
Speaker 2: and I feel like I can see the root below it.
Speaker 2: I think I'm pretty confident that that is a succulent plant.
Speaker 1: And say, hell yeah, well you are absolutely correct that
Speaker 1: this is a punk fantastic. I would not eat it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll kill you, but I think it
Speaker 1: would taste garbou and possibly give you a tummy age.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is a plantat it is called a lithops,
Speaker 1: which means easy to kill in Greek. That's not true.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, No, it actually means stone face in Greek.
Speaker 1: It is a very for me personally, maybe for other
Speaker 1: people too. It is a difficult succulent to keep alive.
Speaker 1: I have owned about three of them and killed every
Speaker 1: single one. I but they're so cool that the next
Speaker 1: time I see one being sold by a plant person,
Speaker 1: I will buy it again and probably kill it.
Speaker 2: Probably kill it. Yeah, So what what was so difficult
Speaker 2: about the care that made them made it easy to kill? So?
Speaker 1: These are These are succulents that are found in Africa,
Speaker 1: and they tend to do really well in very dry conditions,
Speaker 1: and so you really need very good drainage and to
Speaker 1: water it just enough but not too much, because if
Speaker 1: you water it too much and the drainage is not adequate,
Speaker 1: it will actually make the plant explode kind of because
Speaker 1: it absorbs too much water or the roots rot. So
Speaker 1: you water it like I've I've heard some advice where
Speaker 1: you water it like once a year, but I tried
Speaker 1: doing that and it die.
Speaker 2: Once a year.
Speaker 1: So I tried watering it more than that, but it
Speaker 1: also died. So I don't know what I'm exactly doing wrong.
Speaker 1: Probably I should stop buying these, so but yeah, they
Speaker 1: they are actually flowering succulents. So when they are in
Speaker 1: sort of the flowering season, a flower will emerge from
Speaker 1: betwixt the clefts of this.
Speaker 2: Really, yes, I'm.
Speaker 1: Probably I mean it is very labial. I'll probably get
Speaker 1: some obgi and mad at me for calling it a vaginants.
Speaker 1: Obviously that's not the vagiants, the labia. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: you'll have a flower that sprouts from it, and their
Speaker 1: appearance is thought to be camouflaged, so looking so much
Speaker 1: like a rock, meaning that it is less likely to
Speaker 1: be eaten. They're beautifuls.
Speaker 2: I mean, they are, you know, honestly. Okay, another another,
Speaker 2: another crass example for our listeners at home who are
Speaker 2: trying to picture this. Imagine you're very old and you
Speaker 2: put your naked butt cheeks on the xerox.
Speaker 1: Old pancaked butt cheeks.
Speaker 2: That's right, old pancakes butt cheeks on the xerox machine.
Speaker 2: You got what we're looking at right here.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. That is exactly it, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that's the thing is like
Speaker 1: when you say old, wrinkly pancaked butt, it makes it
Speaker 1: sound you know, unappealing. But when you think about you
Speaker 1: when you think about all the different shapes and folds
Speaker 1: that happen in nature. Look, we're just we're just nature baby,
Speaker 1: and we're just nature baby. We're just like succulent. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's move on to the next to the next one. Danly,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're doing amazing at this game.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you. This is amazing.
Speaker 1: This is fun. I'm having fun me too. This is
Speaker 1: candidate number five. Describe candidate number five if you will.
Speaker 2: So, this honestly looks like a haunted oil leak. We
Speaker 2: have a green slime that looks like it is coming
Speaker 2: out of something. The image is on what looks like concrete,
Speaker 2: and it looks like the green slime. There's there's a
Speaker 2: couple different like trails of you know when you like
Speaker 2: splash water or there's a liquid on concrete, and you
Speaker 2: can see the kind of residue. This definitely looks like
Speaker 2: it has been leaving a residue or something has been
Speaker 2: leaving a residue around it. Maybe this, whatever it is,
Speaker 2: has been moving. I'm honestly now looking at it, my
Speaker 2: first thought was fungus. Now I'm thinking creature. But also
Speaker 2: it might be a plant. It is very shiny. It
Speaker 2: is it is a it is a bright It.
Speaker 1: Is Nickelodeon slime green.
Speaker 2: It is ghak green firs. Sure green? Uh oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you're right, No, no slime, it's slime green. Gak is
Speaker 2: something different. But no, it's definitely what. I can't remember, Man,
Speaker 2: I need to google this whole. I'm googling gagk.
Speaker 1: Wasn't gak Jak was a toy, right? But was it all?
Speaker 2: But it was made by Nickelodeon. It was multiple colors. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but Nickelodeon slime is what we're talking about. Nickel You're
Speaker 2: one hundred percent right, Gang, it is Nickelodeon slime. Uh.
Speaker 2: This this, this floor is looking like Katy Perry's face
Speaker 2: after she accidentally opened that box. Uh, it's it's gross.
Speaker 2: It's long. There is something next to it for scale
Speaker 2: that almost looks like maybe a fishing line.
Speaker 1: So you're, oh, God, you're sure locking the hell out
Speaker 1: of this. I can tell by the angle of the
Speaker 1: shadows that this was taken into approximately fifteen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with animal. I think
Speaker 2: this is a creature that is very interesting.
Speaker 1: Would you eat it? Your face says no, but your
Speaker 1: face says.
Speaker 2: No, but your voice my face says no, but my
Speaker 2: body says me. I don't know. It looks like a
Speaker 2: It looks like one of those. Honestly, it looks like
Speaker 2: a whole pack of gummy bears melted down the side
Speaker 2: of the street. And you look around and you're like,
Speaker 2: I was going to see this pop them all in
Speaker 2: your mouth at once.
Speaker 1: The story time, when I was in high school, a
Speaker 1: classmate was doing this thing where there we had like
Speaker 1: a yeah, I don't know how he came into possession
Speaker 1: of this many mint mints, but he had a bunch
Speaker 1: of peppermints, the green kind, the green and white striped peppermints,
Speaker 1: and so we were all bored, and uh, he decided
Speaker 1: to try to fit as many as possible in his mouth,
Speaker 1: and so of course we all egged him on. It
Speaker 1: was a massive choking hazard. He could have died, but
Speaker 1: we didn't think about that. He ended up fine, But uh,
Speaker 1: I think what happened is he is trying. Uh, he
Speaker 1: was trying to keep going, and I said, come on,
Speaker 1: just one more, man, you can do it, just a
Speaker 1: little one. And that's for some reason that made him laugh,
Speaker 1: and he started laughing, and he spewed out this long
Speaker 1: tendril of green spit melted mint candy. It smelled very minty.
Speaker 1: It went everywhere. It was hilarious, and we got in trouble.
Speaker 2: You got in trouble with him.
Speaker 1: No, I mean just like the teacher was like, guys, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't do that. We didn't get like detention or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I was just like, guys, come on, because
Speaker 1: she spit like a massive glob of semi mouth digested
Speaker 1: mint everywhere. The poor teacher, leaguered chemistry teacher. This is
Speaker 1: what that looks like to me.
Speaker 2: I totally see that. Yeah, and that is horrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but your guess is that it is an animal.
Speaker 1: You are correct. Let's see. I want to see if
Speaker 1: you like, let's go, like, where do you think this
Speaker 1: animal lives. Let's see if we can get even more
Speaker 1: specific bonus round.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I may be reading too much into the
Speaker 2: quote unquote fishing line that's next to it, which I
Speaker 2: still think is a fishing line, And I'm going to
Speaker 2: say this thing lives in the ocean. I'm going to
Speaker 2: say it's some sort of like sea slug type joint that.
Speaker 1: Is very good. Guess. Yes, it does live in the ocean.
Speaker 1: It is not a sea slug, but it is is
Speaker 1: a ribbon worm. It is a green ribbon worm found
Speaker 1: in the ocean off the coast of Taiwan, Japan, and
Speaker 1: the Philippines. It is a bright green, mean clam eating machine.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: It like a lot of ribbon worms. It's kind of
Speaker 1: horrifying looking. It's actually not like super closely related to say,
Speaker 1: like earthworms or anything. They're just similarly shaped, but you know,
Speaker 1: they're not not very closely related. But yeah, it is
Speaker 1: a ribbon worm. And ribbon worms have this thing called
Speaker 1: a preboscis, which is a great word, and it is
Speaker 1: this long, sticky tongue like a organ, yes exactly, that
Speaker 1: they can evert meaning sort of turn inside out and
Speaker 1: spit out through their mouth. And this can both ensnare
Speaker 1: their prey and also it contains venom to further incapacitate
Speaker 1: their victims, which can be be yes like clams, other
Speaker 1: aquatic worms, snails, basically anything small enough and unlucky enough
Speaker 1: to find itself tangled up in its lethal proboscus. But
Speaker 1: as you can see from this picture, they're not tiny.
Speaker 1: They can be very long.
Speaker 2: Actually, no, this thing, this thing looks frighteningly Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think this one's like over a foot long and
Speaker 1: like thicker than a pencil. It's yeah, interesting. So uh.
Speaker 1: They then, once they have entangled their prey and their
Speaker 1: venomous proboscis, they pull it in and basically like slurp
Speaker 1: up their own proboscis like spaghetti, and then engulf their poohole. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, that's so kind of it's kind of snake
Speaker 2: like in the assumption of it.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 2: But even though snakes are not you know, but.
Speaker 1: They have no job yea or face. Really, they're just
Speaker 1: a evil spaghetti.
Speaker 2: Not the way I'm trying to go. Sure it gets
Speaker 2: swallowed by evil spaghetti. Yeah, yeah, Well I want to look.
Speaker 2: I want to look my killer in the eyes if
Speaker 2: they're going to eat me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is hard to do with this thing. It's
Speaker 1: like where is it you which it's hard to even know.
Speaker 2: Which end is the butt where it's exactly yes, exactly. Well,
Speaker 2: it sounds like we won't know until much much too late.
Speaker 1: Gross.
Speaker 2: Gross.
Speaker 1: Well let's move on, all right. Ultimate mystery image Candidate
Speaker 1: number six. Describe what you're seeing here, Daniel all.
Speaker 2: Right, so this looks like, okay, this this looks like
Speaker 2: what you would tell chat gpt to draw if you were, like,
Speaker 2: can you draw lollipops growing out.
Speaker 1: Of the grounds? It looks like an AI art thing,
Speaker 1: doesn't it.
Speaker 2: It really does. The orbs are so perfect, or rather
Speaker 2: the the it's almost like the reflection on them is
Speaker 2: so perfect it almost looks not real. So imagine, let's
Speaker 2: see here, just say like many, let's say like at
Speaker 2: least ten like stubby hairs sticking out of the ground.
Speaker 2: And at the end of each stubby hair is like
Speaker 2: a shiny, perfect orb and either a red orange or
Speaker 2: a flesh color. Now, not all of these things are
Speaker 2: perfect orbs, but it's just these like rounded shapes that
Speaker 2: are like perfectly glossy shiny on top of what looks
Speaker 2: like a gangly beard hair sticking out of the dirt.
Speaker 2: I believe it's dirt. It could be it could be
Speaker 2: wood perchance, perhaps to dream, but yeah, this definitely looks
Speaker 2: like it looks like like stubbly beard hair on a
Speaker 2: piece of wood, with like lollipops or balloons at the
Speaker 2: end of it that are just these shiny, glossy globules globules.
Speaker 2: Love a globule, Love a globule, big fan big globbers.
Speaker 1: Would you would you eat it?
Speaker 2: I'm super duper tempted. I know. Doesn't they look like
Speaker 2: each one of us crunch?
Speaker 1: Don't they look like little chupa chuops?
Speaker 2: Yeah? They do. One hundred.
Speaker 1: I would eat them.
Speaker 2: Do you have a Do you have a favorite chupa
Speaker 2: chue flavor? No?
Speaker 1: I don't even pay attention to the flavors.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I respect that, you know.
Speaker 1: I look at it, it's like, wow, that's chop chop,
Speaker 1: and I stick it in my mouth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, Okay, totally fair. The only reason
Speaker 2: I have a favorite flap yes, just because just because
Speaker 2: it's one of those candies that has this flavor, and
Speaker 2: that flavor is root beer. Oh yeah, I love love
Speaker 2: a root beer flavored candys to have like.
Speaker 1: Those little root beer candies that were shaped like root
Speaker 1: beer barrels that would have my lame jumper or other sort.
Speaker 2: Of you know, one hundred her yeah scent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those were good. Those were so good. Sometimes they'd
Speaker 1: sort of split in like form sharp edges and like
Speaker 1: cut my mouth. Worth it, absolutely worth it, absolutely yeah,
Speaker 1: this one I think is like, this is the one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, second to the one that was actually a mineral.
Speaker 1: I'm it's like very tempting to like want to eat it.
Speaker 1: Sorry you didn't. You didn't guess what it is yet, right,
Speaker 1: Oh you're right, I.
Speaker 2: Did not guess what. Oh my goodness, what do you
Speaker 2: think this is? I think this is a fungus. Interesting,
Speaker 2: I think this is a fungus I see growing out
Speaker 2: of the wood, and something tells me that this is
Speaker 2: like some sort of fun guy that has killed some
Speaker 2: curious creatures out in the forest, being like, looks y
Speaker 2: on me. But then again, the colors would have earthed them.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, look, look, I'd fall for it.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of a goof so I would be oh,
Speaker 2: yummers and then be dry heaving twenty minutes later.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd do it even if I knew that
Speaker 1: it was bad. For hell, yeah, they just look a
Speaker 1: tiny If you gave me like something, You're like, this
Speaker 1: is a poisonous miniature tuba tube, I'm like, I mean.
Speaker 2: It exact well, you said minature.
Speaker 1: We'll pay the price later, so you are so close.
Speaker 1: Oh this is I mean one of the things I'm
Speaker 1: most impressed was that you guess that this is wood
Speaker 1: because this is decaying wood, and this is not a fungus.
Speaker 1: This is a little unfair because it is very close
Speaker 1: to a fungus in terms of like the way it's
Speaker 1: actually not that closely related to fungus, but it is
Speaker 1: something that is like sometimes seems similar to fungus. It
Speaker 1: is a slime mold. So are actually not in the
Speaker 1: fungus kingdom. There are the creatures, aren't they They are different,
Speaker 1: so they are there. They are eukaryots, just like humans, plants, fungus,
Speaker 1: but they are a variety of eukaryotic organisms who typically
Speaker 1: will have like a single held individual stage and then
Speaker 1: glom together with other individuals to form a slug and
Speaker 1: then a fruiting body. So uh so, slime molds are
Speaker 1: kind of it's sort of an et cetera category in
Speaker 1: biology where it's like it is, it is just a
Speaker 1: bunch of unrelated, single celled eukaryots who come together form
Speaker 1: these group organisms and often tend to have sort of
Speaker 1: a similar thing going on, even though they're not really
Speaker 1: that related. But they are. They are all eukaryots, and
Speaker 1: they are not fungi. They're not. They are not in
Speaker 1: the fungus kingdom, and they are not to be confused
Speaker 1: with mold because like mold is typically like what we
Speaker 1: would say, say like on a on an orange or something,
Speaker 1: that mold is like a fungus and so it is
Speaker 1: not a mold really in that sense. It's a slime mold,
Speaker 1: which is sort of it's own thing. It's like a
Speaker 1: kind of miscellaneous category of totally of eukaryotic organisms that
Speaker 1: I'll do a similar.
Speaker 2: Thing there you go, yeah, wow, gorgeous.
Speaker 1: So uh they find Yeah, so they are. They're basically
Speaker 1: when you see it like this right, like where you
Speaker 1: can actually visibly see it, this is a colony organism
Speaker 1: of like many individual organisms. So uh, this one specifically
Speaker 1: the image that we have is Comatrica nigra, which feeds
Speaker 1: on rotting wood in forests, So very good identification of
Speaker 1: the substrate, which we have learned means floor. So they
Speaker 1: feed on rotting wood in forest. They're found all over
Speaker 1: the world. It's interesting, right because it's like they have
Speaker 1: these stalks and then this like a balloon at the top.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They look like they kind of look like tiny balloons
Speaker 1: with this like black stu on the bottom. What if
Speaker 1: this is so like preceding this, they would form like
Speaker 1: something that's kind of like a slug that can move.
Speaker 1: It's not a slug because it is actually this like
Speaker 1: colony of many, many different individuals. And in order to
Speaker 1: reproduce the they release spores. But in order to release
Speaker 1: the spore, they need to get off of the surface
Speaker 1: of the substrate and go upwards, like build a skyscraper upwards,
Speaker 1: so that they can release the spore and it can
Speaker 1: go up and be distributed. Because if they're just trying
Speaker 1: to release spores, well they're stuck on the ground. Then
Speaker 1: they it just like plops really close to them, competes
Speaker 1: for food with other it's not a good situation. And
Speaker 1: so they'll form this slug. And then after they form
Speaker 1: the slug, they all try to basically get on top
Speaker 1: of each other. They're trying to go up. And so
Speaker 1: what happens in terms of both their behavior and just
Speaker 1: like physics, is they form a stock and then a
Speaker 1: body on top of the stock, like a bulb on
Speaker 1: top of the stock. And while this kind of seems
Speaker 1: so the ones in the stock are kind of screwed.
Speaker 1: They just die and they're unable to distribute their spores,
Speaker 1: and that seems like that's altruism, but it's not. It's
Speaker 1: just they're unlucky. They are all trying to do the
Speaker 1: same thing and they lost out, whereas the other ones
Speaker 1: won out in terms of getting to be on the
Speaker 1: top of the stock and they'll be able to release
Speaker 1: their spores. But yeah, it is. It is a fascinating
Speaker 1: it's a highly sort of studied, fascinating thing where you
Speaker 1: have this group behavior resulting like of like individual competing
Speaker 1: unicellular organisms coming together to do a thing that they
Speaker 1: could not accomplish on their own. But they're still competing
Speaker 1: with each other and trying to behave it's behaved sort
Speaker 1: of selfishly. And it's interesting because it's a way in
Speaker 1: which we can see how in our own bodies, like
Speaker 1: we are basically an extremely well developed colony of individual cells, right,
Speaker 1: and sometimes our cells actually will compete like are you know,
Speaker 1: like we've all learned about like when you have a
Speaker 1: fertilization of an egg, all these sperm or racing to
Speaker 1: the finish line, you have like competition between sex cells
Speaker 1: and so like. But then somehow our bodies are able
Speaker 1: to come together and function well as a unified organism.
Speaker 1: And so this is an interesting sort of like precursor
Speaker 1: to a functional multicellular animal. It's very interesting.
Speaker 2: That's wild, very very cool, and.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't eat it. Don't eat it. Even though it
Speaker 1: does look like tiny tube chubes.
Speaker 2: You would look at these gang. I'm telling you you
Speaker 2: will look at this picture and be like, I mean, okay,
Speaker 2: cases not to eat it, but I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 1: I don't do it.
Speaker 2: I okay out it's sick.
Speaker 1: Probably I don't actually know how sick.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, face some of you from the hospital
Speaker 2: being the kadium. Sure get it, just get it.
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Speaker 2: It, absolutely I am serious about like, okay, no joke.
Speaker 2: I did just google chupa choops to make sure that
Speaker 2: A they had the root beer flavor and B where
Speaker 2: can I get this rupeer flavor?
Speaker 1: So you think I can get them in Italy? Which
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Speaker 1: There's a Cheep Choop website in Italian. So I'm set.
Speaker 2: Really, you're good, You're good.
Speaker 1: I want to get some squab we got it looks
Speaker 1: so good? Anyways, that yes, so slime mold. Uh, fantastic job, Daniel.
Speaker 1: But you know what, actually we actually have another game
Speaker 1: because every week, even though this is a special episode
Speaker 1: where the whole episode was a game, every week we
Speaker 1: also play a game called Guests Who Squawkings the Mystery
Speaker 1: Animal Sound Game.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so I love this game.
Speaker 1: We are going to play and uh, last week's mystery
Speaker 1: animal sound hint was this. This animal sounds feerce but
Speaker 1: the most you have to fear from him is plamidia.
Speaker 2: Oh I know what it is?
Speaker 1: You do already? Can do you want to listen to
Speaker 1: the sound?
Speaker 2: I do? Yes, I do?
Speaker 1: Okay was the clamdia the tell?
Speaker 2: It was? Well, I mean maybe it if I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of the right animal then yes.
Speaker 1: All right, so you've said you already had a good
Speaker 1: idea of what this is what do you think this is? Daniel?
Speaker 2: Okay, So my experience with chlamydia and the animal kingdom
Speaker 2: is that it is a particularly big problem for koalas.
Speaker 2: And I think I just heard someone in the background
Speaker 2: maybe say something with it with an Australian accent. I
Speaker 2: could have been wrong, But also after listening to that,
Speaker 2: that did not sound like a koala. So my knowledge
Speaker 2: of chlamydia being a big deal for kuala's might be
Speaker 2: in vain, but I'm still going to go with my
Speaker 2: guests that the answer is koala's.
Speaker 1: You gotta go with your gut because you are correct.
Speaker 1: Is a koala which sounds very much not like a koala,
Speaker 1: But that is the mating call of a male koala,
Speaker 1: the maiding call. Yes, isn't it sexy?
Speaker 2: Yes, I can't even do it deep in guttural. That
Speaker 2: was way more guttural than horrifying than I thought it
Speaker 2: would come out of a koala. Those things are so
Speaker 2: small and cute, and I will say, I know that
Speaker 2: you know they got the fangs like they will throw
Speaker 2: down and it's simply that they're just constantly eating eucalyptus
Speaker 2: and or highest that they're chill, but like.
Speaker 1: Wow, that digest like the worst plant and so they're
Speaker 1: tired all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so koalas do have a problem with chlamydia,
Speaker 1: which is a sexually transmitted disease in koalas, just as
Speaker 1: it is in humans caused by a bacteria. Researchers are
Speaker 1: trying out vaccines to protect the quala from chlamydia, which
Speaker 1: is important as it is very bad for the kualas
Speaker 1: and can kill them. And the antibiotic treatment that is
Speaker 1: so effective in humans is actually not great for koalas
Speaker 1: because it impairs their ability to digest eucalyptus because eucalypse
Speaker 1: this is not an easily digested plan. It's got all
Speaker 1: these like uh slightly toxic compounds in it that it's
Speaker 1: very very hard to digest, and so like when you
Speaker 1: give them antibiotics, it actually makes it harder for them
Speaker 1: to digest. And so, uh, the key thing here is
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta get a vaccine for these koalas
Speaker 1: because they're not even common.
Speaker 2: Certainly are not nothing about.
Speaker 1: That we tried that and all these like you know,
Speaker 1: like look this is you know, just you gotta pack
Speaker 1: it before you you go go down onto and they
Speaker 1: didn't listen. Sex said for koalas did not work.
Speaker 2: No, they were not paying attention.
Speaker 1: That's funny, fantastic job, Daniel. But uh one more sound
Speaker 1: this week, christ sound and uh here it is. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: I didn't give a hint, did I. When you hear this,
Speaker 1: you know to pack your bags. Hey guys, Katie here
Speaker 1: with a bit of a warning. This sound is like
Speaker 1: Satan screaming into your ear after inhaling a bunch of helium.
Speaker 1: So if you have your headphones turned all the way up,
Speaker 1: I turn them down a bit. I tried my best
Speaker 1: to make the sound as quiet while still audible as possible.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you're sensitive to like high pitched
Speaker 1: sounds straight from hell, I yeah, just to you know,
Speaker 1: take a minute to maybe turn down your volume just
Speaker 1: a bit. Or if you have a dog who will
Speaker 1: start barking if they hear this, you know, maybe have
Speaker 1: your dog not listen to this. And anyways, enjoy this
Speaker 1: terrible sound that I'm going to play now. But are
Speaker 1: you hearing it?
Speaker 2: Yes? It is very loud.
Speaker 1: My not hearing it. I'm sorry about the sorry about
Speaker 1: the noise.
Speaker 2: You're like, wait are you hearing it? But it was
Speaker 2: so I can't that one is aggressive?
Speaker 1: I do I make a guess, now, I guess, make
Speaker 1: a guess.
Speaker 2: Okay, the hit was to pack your bags. That sounded
Speaker 2: like I mean, it sounded like a bird. It could
Speaker 2: also be like a primate of some kind. I'm going
Speaker 2: to go with some sort of I'm going to go
Speaker 2: with some sort of primate. I think it was some
Speaker 2: sort of like. Yeah, I unfortunately cannot get more specific,
Speaker 2: but I will say yowler tough to some sort of
Speaker 2: tofted yowler.
Speaker 1: Sure yet not a real thing made that up?
Speaker 2: Right? Right? Right, right right? Yeah, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: I want to say, a small primate, a small ish primate.
Speaker 1: Well, we will find out next time on Creature Keeping
Speaker 1: you on tinter hooks. Damn well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for playing my little games with me.
Speaker 2: It was such a fun game. I look forward to
Speaker 2: many renditions of this game for everyone else who guests
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: Show and let me know, guys, if you really enjoyed
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Speaker 1: liked this game format where we play a little guessing game,
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Speaker 2: Darl thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Got anything to plug, anything to promote my pleasure?
Speaker 2: Sure? I mean I would say, please listen to all
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Speaker 2: You can find me on Instagram, even though I'm also
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Speaker 2: media anymore, Katie. I'm off. I'm over it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you how you have time to like,
Speaker 1: eat or use the bathroom given how much you are doing.
Speaker 2: Well, that's very sweet of you. I don't.
Speaker 1: Your calf.
Speaker 2: No, I just yeah, I've just capped up that. That is.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing, you know what I did. So
Speaker 2: instead of being into social media, you know what I did,
Speaker 2: I got really into making espresso and so now I
Speaker 2: have an expresso machine and to make myself a lotta
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Speaker 1: And it's nice.
Speaker 2: The bomb. I love it.
Speaker 1: I also got into espresso recently. I don't make it myself,
Speaker 1: but I drink it and I like it.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, it's good. It's good. Espress so good.
Speaker 1: It keeps me a weak.
Speaker 2: Feel that ye, but yeah, that's it. And support your
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