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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature Feature production of I Heart Radio Creature feature.

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Speaker 1: It's Creature Cringle Times, a holiday special about our furry friends.

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Speaker 1: Today will learn how reindeer eyeballs work, how Rudolphs knows

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Speaker 1: good really glow Imagination Station. Animals of you join us

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Speaker 1: as well, learn exploring, learn magic, blowing creatures. Want to

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Speaker 1: reach you up by a luminescence is a tree Creature

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Speaker 1: feature the holiday special. But we will not be singing

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Speaker 1: the whole time. I promise stay here, Please don't go.

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Speaker 1: Happy holidays everyone, It's me Katie Golden, your host a

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Speaker 1: many parasites. Today, on the second part of our two

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Speaker 1: part holiday special, we'll be creating our own nondenominational holiday

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Speaker 1: using evolutionary biology to make this magical time of year

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Speaker 1: scientifically accurate. We'll talk the biology of reindeer and the

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Speaker 1: best bacterial filled light show in the world. Happy creature, Grank,

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Speaker 1: Happy creature, Grank Happy creature. Gre I feel like you're

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Speaker 1: a little pitch either, little pitch, little pitchy joining the note,

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Speaker 1: joining me today to create a new holiday out of

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Speaker 1: spare animal parts. As comedian co host of The Bechtel Cast,

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Speaker 1: screenplay writer of Santa University, Jamie Loft it hello, but

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Speaker 1: a little pitchy, a little pitchy. I appreciate the feedback

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Speaker 1: and I love just the note. It's good because you

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Speaker 1: know sometimes people are They're like, no, it's not worth it,

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Speaker 1: right right, I'm always looking to improve, are open to

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Speaker 1: constructive criticisms. The holidays need to be harder on your

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Speaker 1: loved ones. And usually, yeah, you have to take a

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Speaker 1: firm hand with your loved ones. You have to call

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Speaker 1: them out when like, say they're wrapping isn't really up

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Speaker 1: to snuff. Oh yeah, I will choose the smallest thing

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Speaker 1: and go on for hours exactly. And if you are,

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Speaker 1: if they threatened to not invite you back, that's when

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Speaker 1: you know you're really honest. That's when you've done it.

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Speaker 1: That's when you've won. You've got the holidays. You've won

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Speaker 1: the holidays. And it's unwinnable. It is a winnable objective

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Speaker 1: based time of year. Absolutely absolutely so today. I know

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Speaker 1: last time we constructed our own Santa and that is

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Speaker 1: kind of the first part of creating creature. Kringle Times

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Speaker 1: are nondenominational holiday fun times based in science and evolutionary biology,

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Speaker 1: and we came up with hydro catsa crotal clause, yes,

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Speaker 1: which was very impressive. Right, And if you haven't heard,

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Speaker 1: if you don't fear his name yet, you should probably

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to the first part of this

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Speaker 1: two part holiday special. I just don't repeat it three

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Speaker 1: times in a row. I would I would recommend no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: especially not like when you're looking in a reflective surface.

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Speaker 1: You could really end up in some hot water. And

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Speaker 1: we don't want a little bit of a pickle. Well,

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Speaker 1: today we're gonna be talking about reindeer and other math

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Speaker 1: creature Kringle times. So I want to start off just

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Speaker 1: giving giving you the real science facts about reindeer because

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Speaker 1: they're actually quite interesting. So, reindeer are also known as

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Speaker 1: caribou in North America, and it is the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Actually a lot of people don't know that, myself included. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your educating. You're very welcome. So reindeer

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Speaker 1: are in fact a species within the deer family, and

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Speaker 1: they are circumpolar. Get your mind out of the gutter,

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Speaker 1: because you know what that means. That means they live

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Speaker 1: The point is that they are all found around the

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Speaker 1: the boreal tundra and mountains of North America, Europe and Siberia. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and coal. Yeah. Uh. And normally we talk about tiny

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Speaker 1: finish forest subspecies of reindeer way up to five fifty pounds. No,

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Speaker 1: thank you, but it's they're so fluffy. Okay, and that's

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Speaker 1: Sorry to be the bearer of science here, but I'm

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Speaker 1: it's fluffy. Why did they change that? I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's a perfectly cute nose they've got. I know, I

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Speaker 1: little noses there. They do. Actually, sometimes their noses do

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Speaker 1: have a nice The reindeer have a nice matt nose blush.

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Speaker 1: antlers as well as the males. Up a point for feminism,

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Speaker 1: a new growth of antlers. Male reindeer shed their antlers

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Speaker 1: news flash, Santa's reindeer not boys. No, No, these are

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Speaker 1: lady reindeer because they have the antlers still. And we

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Speaker 1: So there's Dancer, there's Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and vix and

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Speaker 1: fictional adaptations assume them male. Yeah, that's I think a problem.

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Speaker 1: until they're needed for meeting. I think it's a human problem.

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Speaker 1: There's a new Danny plus movie out called Noel, and

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Speaker 1: they they the way they revise um the sexist Christmas

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Speaker 1: to them to have a female Santa, that women were

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Speaker 1: everything that happens in Santa University eventually comes true, right

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Speaker 1: Santa wins Santa, but the Santa is killed every year, right,

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Speaker 1: exactly in Santa University, there's like a woman Santa, and

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Speaker 1: in this version Santa, the slay and the flying ability,

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Speaker 1: like sort of an entourage. Maybe the reindeer rides Santa

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Speaker 1: What do you think their job is. I don't know

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Speaker 1: once a joy ride. It may be a joy ride.

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Speaker 1: fill your pet with holiday foods and treats. Bad for them.

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Speaker 1: Public service announcement to the pets. Could you could just

419
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: stop like taking all that ding dang holiday food. It's

420
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: not for you, but it's so good. Don't put your

421
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: face in the soup. Don't put your face in the

422
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: macaroni and cheese. It's not for you, and your owners

423
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: are suckers. If you look at them, they will give

424
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: you the food and it's bad for you. Then your

425
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 1: owners are going to look like the bad guy. But

426
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: it's you know, and you're pressuring them into giving filling

427
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: them up with mashed potatoes a little salami. If you

428
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 1: do your dog have a stalking you know what she

429
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: does because of my mom. I knew it. My mom

430
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: is so funny because she's sometimes she disapproves of dogs

431
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: and clothing. She's like, oh, that's just silly like dogs,

432
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: and then she's like, I think we should get your

433
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 1: dog pajais. My mom also hates dogs and clothing. But

434
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: then I dress sunny up like a cowboy, and all

435
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden, no, it's changed. You know the moms.

436
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: Here's the thing with the moms is they'll sound they'll

437
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: do the reasonableness, like, you know, the dogs shouldn't be

438
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: in clothing, which is probably true. But the dogs can

439
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: wear a little clothe. You can wear a little clothing,

440
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 1: and they can have a little stocking. I have a

441
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: little can't be the same size as yours. No, I

442
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 1: think I have it's got to be Payah. On the

443
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: first part of this holiday special, we invented a new

444
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: Santa for Creature Kringle Times, a combination of immortal hydro DNA,

445
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: the transatlantic flying ability of the giant pterosaur cats a codalists,

446
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: the ability to remember naughty people of a crow, the

447
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: belly of a blue whale, and the ability to scream

448
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: out ho ho ho of the howler monkey. His name

449
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: is Hydrots Croto Clause, and he brings regurgitated treats to

450
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: good boys and girls and destroys the naughty. He flies

451
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: across the globe accompanied by his terrifying blue eyed female reindeer.

452
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: And one such rangeer is more terrified ying than the rest.

453
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: Her name Rudolph, and we'll discover how she might have

454
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: evolved to have such a brightly glowing red nose. Done

455
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Duh Jingle Jingle Jingle. Imagine you're prancing along an enchanted

456
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: winter wonderland in a snowy forest when you see a

457
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: beautiful sight, a glowing light show greenish and red creature

458
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: Kringle Times lights. They glow and dance and flash, and

459
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: you frolic over to enjoy the beautiful miraculous lights. There's

460
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: a big yellow glowing ball dancing so festively. So you

461
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: skip on over like a little who and who Ville

462
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: and reach up to touch this big, bright, glowing orb.

463
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: But as your eyes adjust to the light, you've noticed

464
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: something shining in the background. Two huge car tire sized

465
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: eyes and an enormous hungry beak. Merry Kringle times it

466
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: boom before snatching up in its glowing tentacles. Jamie, Welcome

467
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: to the science real of bioluminescence. Oh, I love bio.

468
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: This is we've done bioluminescence talk about together. In fact,

469
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: you may hear a familiar friend from last time, what

470
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: a treat. So. Bioluminescence is the holiday lights of the

471
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: natural world that are festive year round. And the reason

472
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: I bring up this horrible imagination station story is that

473
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: one of our festive friends examples is the firefly squid,

474
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: which we will talk about soon, which looks it looks

475
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: like a holiday light display. It looks very Kringle times.

476
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see it. But there. Let's first, I

477
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: want to give sort of an overview of bioluminescence, because

478
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: it is a glorious, magical thing that happens in nature.

479
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: So bioluminescence is a chemical reaction UH and it could

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00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: be either produced by the animal itself. It can also

481
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: be a symbiotic relationship with bacteria, and the bacteria are

482
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: the ones that produce the bioluminescence. It can also be

483
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: obtained by eating prey items that contain the ingredients necessary

484
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: for bioluminescence. In all cases, bioluminescence is a chemical reaction

485
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: known as chemoluminescence yeah of luciferin and luciferaise or photoprotein.

486
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: So Luciferin is a class of small molecules that will

487
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: emit light when they are oxidized. This reaction is catalyzed

488
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: by luciferase, which is an enzyme that enables the luciferin

489
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: to be oxidized, and this chemical reaction creates light. It's

490
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: a cold light because it doesn't actually produce that much heat,

491
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: which is probably good for the bioluminescent animals because if

492
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: you really overheating, overheating cheat pies. So bioluminescence is not

493
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: just to attack prey. It actually has a multitude of purposes.

494
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: So one is propagation, which is so bacteria can bioluminess

495
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: so that they'll be eaten by editors and inside the

496
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: predator they breed because they're bacteria and they don't they

497
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: don't play by your rules, kinky little free exactly. It

498
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: can be speaking of which, it can be for sexual selection,

499
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: attracting a mate with your dongle you're glowing horngus. So

500
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: it can be, as we've implied earlier, to lure and prey,

501
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: such as the anglerfish whose bulb contains symbiotic bacteria that

502
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: glows and lures and little fishies and then they snap

503
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: them up. It can also be defensive to distract predators.

504
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: So remember our friend the vampire squid, that little little

505
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: drama go tough guy uh and they that vampire squid

506
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: shoots by luminescent goo to distract predators. Yes, yes, the

507
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: shiny goo kind of like just like throwing sparkly confetti

508
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: and then running away, which is kind of how I

509
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: want to like when I'm confronted, Like if I'm like, hi,

510
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: what's your name in and someone's like you've already met me,

511
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: you know me? Why don't you remember my name? I'm

512
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: like just kidding, And then sparkle confetti and they run

513
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: away and then like Nature's answer to the Little Men

514
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: in Black mind race right exactly exactly. So, as I

515
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, we're going to talk a little bit about

516
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: the firefly squid getting you a good picture. As you

517
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: can see in in the regular light, looks like a normal,

518
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: normal squid, but in the dark it looks like holiday

519
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: cringle lights. Whoa, it's so beautiful. Oh wow, they're close up.

520
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: They're just little jewels. They're a little they're like they're

521
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: you know there, just animal. You know that the what's

522
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: it called the Chevy Chase Christmas Special? What second? The

523
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: National Lampoon Christmas Specially gets the house all covered in lights,

524
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: just completely covered in lights. But the squid are I

525
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: haven't seen those. I mean, it's basically all the whole

526
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: movie is a Chevy Chase. Go no, no Christmas is ruined. So,

527
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: like I said, it's a squid who looks like Christmas

528
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: lights exploded onto a squid. And it's it's a little guy.

529
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: It's about three inches big with many, many points of bioluminescence.

530
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: Their native to the oceans along Japan. It's dotted with photophores,

531
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 1: which are light producing organs. They flash them to lure

532
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: and prey, and it also lights up its whole body

533
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: during mating. Just just a whole light show. I like it.

534
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: I like it, And like, you know what sex is

535
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: a performance? It is and I don't I think that

536
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: little with it? Yeah I would. This is just a

537
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 1: little hint. I would like a light show in sort

538
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: of the courting rituals in my life. That wouldn't that

539
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: be incredible? It would be cool? Right if someone someone

540
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: hangs some you know it hangs a tasteful string of

541
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: lights to indicate and it's not physically invasive. It's beautiful, right,

542
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: it's easy to take down exactly. Yeah, I think instead

543
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: of nagging each other all the time, perhaps just carry

544
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: a small string of lights. Right, It's string of lights

545
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: that you kind of dance around with and then you're like, oh,

546
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 1: you have to do like a little okay yeah, right,

547
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: and then and you kind of you know, or you

548
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: flash them, like maybe you have like a full body

549
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: suit like re suit covered in little lights and andy

550
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: circus like mo cab. Right, and then like when you

551
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: see someone you're interested in, you flash the lights and

552
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: if they flash back, it's a match. You're like, that's beautiful.

553
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, and that's a that's a happy black mirror episode.

554
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: Maybe that's like our creature Kringle times. Uh. Instead of mistletoe,

555
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 1: it's covering yourself in tiny led lights and flashing them

556
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: when you are sexually interested in someone, I think, and

557
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: assaulting someone exactly, like, oh, you're under the mistletoe. I

558
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: guess like that hass aggressives, I mean asking for it. Yeah,

559
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: that's that's sometimes I'm just standing in a doorway. Yeah,

560
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's I think that. Like, you know,

561
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you're under the missiletoe. You want to

562
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: kiss It's like, no, the party's really full, right, it's full.

563
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: I'm this. I didn't hang this here. Yeah, I'm I'm

564
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: deeply in love with someone else. You can only be

565
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: said to maybe be indicating your preference. If you're wearing

566
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: an apparatus that is hanging the missiletoe above you at

567
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: all times, maybe then you are indicating a preference for

568
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 1: being kissed. But I think that even so, you should

569
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: still ask you all yeah, and and the light the

570
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: light show still asks. I think you should. I mean,

571
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: it's best if you it's you still got I mean

572
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: obviously always got to check in and ask, but I

573
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: think it does help along that interaction. Like we both

574
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: we both flashed our our squid suits at each other,

575
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: so you know, may I kiss you? And then you're like, hey, yeah,

576
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: I would actually enjoy that because I too flash my

577
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: squid suit at you indicating my interest. And I really

578
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: appreciate your Thank you for checking in right, thanks for

579
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: respecting me at every step in this festive kissing times. Yeah,

580
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 1: see how much better this holiday is? Already exactly the rules.

581
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: So let's talk about some more bioluminescent creatures. There's the

582
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: railroad worm, which is the larva of a genus of

583
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: beetles that is called frick so thricks. Yep. They are

584
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: found throughout the America's and they look like a normal

585
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: caterpillar in day times, but in the dark they look

586
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: like a train with lights on. Let me get you

587
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: check out this little buster check them out? Okay, So,

588
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: as you can see, it looks kind of like normal

589
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: yellowish caterpillar in the daytime. At night that's party time,

590
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 1: it's covered in a little greenish greenish lights. I don't

591
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Nat Geo called it weird and wild. I

592
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: gets normal and good I mean normalized glow in the

593
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: dark gown. Yeah, you've got a real good hit with

594
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: the bagful eyebowls reindeer. But you can't call this weird.

595
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: This yourself, yeah exactly. So, yes, it glows and it

596
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: undulates and it's beautiful. And so they are called railroad

597
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: worms because they kind of look like trains with all

598
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: the lights on in the cabin as they wriggle around.

599
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: And they even have glowing uh they have eleven glowing

600
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,959
Speaker 1: dots on the sides of their bodies, and they have

601
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: a red glowing dot on their head, which is very

602
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: cringle times, I think it is. And the lights warn

603
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: predators that they are toxic, which again very wish more

604
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: people did that, Like you know, it's it's polite, it's courtesy.

605
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: I imagine how much easier it would be to go

606
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: through really any area of life toxic people merely marked

607
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: them a shirt, sort of like how you know dogs

608
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: wear the little like I'm anxious around other dogs, don't

609
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: pet me. Emination, Like if we had shirts that was like,

610
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: I'm a toxic person, trust me, you don't need me,

611
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: and you ask for references if you want a heads up,

612
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: like you can. I'm just strongly suggesting against it. I

613
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: like it. So the reason that they have the green

614
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: dots on the side and the red dots in the

615
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: head is that they actually have different lucifer raise enzymes

616
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: which will create slightly different chemical reactions which causes different

617
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: different flavors of light. I like it. Yeah, And then

618
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,919
Speaker 1: I want to talk about foxfire fungus because it's not

619
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: just animals that get a claim on bioluminescence. I had

620
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: a real brain fart moment where it's like, funguses aren't animals,

621
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: are they? Well? Oh no, no, I'm scared they're not. No,

622
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: they're they're actually in kingdom of of fungi, which is

623
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: separate from the king ms of plants and animals. Okay,

624
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: there you carry. It's like like animals, but it's just

625
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: like it's fungus an animal. So I got a little

626
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: too much of the creature Kringle knog any. So fox

627
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: fire is also called fairy fire, and it's the light

628
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: created by bioluminescent fungus, So it's many species of fungus.

629
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 1: Does this makes this fox fire? It's just the generic

630
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: term for any bioluminescing fungus. Is that why there's a

631
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 1: web browser called Firefox. I have no idea. I don't

632
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: know why I thought you would I have I don't

633
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 1: know why you're ambushing me with these questions about browser. Sorry,

634
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: corner trapping you like Katie Golden doesn't know what hours

635
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: of research on fungi you want me to talk about

636
00:40:52,760 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: Mozilla fire like? Jeez, maybe if I can show you

637
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: a picture of this, you will leave me alone. I

638
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: don't know hard to say. Let's let's give nap you

639
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: another shot here Redemption arc WHOA, Oh my god, that's

640
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: so cool. It looks like it looks like a glow

641
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: in the darkness stick. It looks like a stoner's bedroom. Well, hey,

642
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: I wasn't a stoner when I was a child, and

643
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: I plastered that with glow in the dark stars. I meant,

644
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: I guess an adult stoner's bedroom. I don't expect it

645
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: in an adults bedroom, That's true, but sometimes I want it.

646
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: You just find a pet snake and a bunch of

647
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: glow in the dark paraphernalia. So the light is created

648
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: by bioluminescence. It glows greenish blue. The fungus feeds onto

649
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: kinge wood and it creates its own lucifer aise enzymes.

650
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 1: And it's thought that the purpose of this bioluminescence maybe

651
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: to attract insects to spread spores, or maybe even to

652
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: deter animals from eating it, because glowing things are often

653
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: not something you should eat, but it's tempting. I know

654
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I always wanted to crack

655
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: open one of those glow sticks and just slurp them

656
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: up like a go gurt. I feel like we grew

657
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: up in a very bizarre time for foods that don't

658
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: look edible, looking too like the purple catchup exactly. I

659
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 1: feel like we were almost it was almost some sinister

660
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: experiments trained children to want to eat things that don't

661
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: look at it because it's like, okay, you've got the

662
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: multicolored goldfish and the purple ketchup and it's like, okay,

663
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: you're making that fun. I get it. But then it's like,

664
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: and here's tied pods and glow sticks, but you don't

665
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: eat those, right. I feel like we were set up

666
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: to want to eat cut things, and then this generation

667
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 1: is really suffering. And yeah, I used to have learned

668
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: from our mistakes. I used to have blue margarine in

669
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: a squeezy bottle. You could just squeeze water as you

670
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: say it blue margarine on toast. I would yeah, my

671
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: mom would true, Sorry, I'll stop calling it. I like it.

672
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: It was like a treat. My mom was like, do

673
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: your homeworka and I'll give you space toast. Space toast.

674
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: That doesn't take it better. Anything blue does make it space. Yeah,

675
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: you can just plue milk blue cheese. They had blue

676
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: SpongeBob Macaroniongebob Macaroni. I would get the yellow SpongeBob macaroni,

677
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: and I actually preferred it, not because I cared too

678
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: much about SpongeBob, but I liked the texture of the

679
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: SpongeBob shaped noodles. The shape it allows allows the cheese

680
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: to flow through them. They were you could breathe through

681
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: them and a little blow through you SpongeBob dark. Yes,

682
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,919
Speaker 1: so sometimes this fox fire of the fungus is bright

683
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: enough to read by, and it was actually used as

684
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: an early form of glow in the dark technology. In

685
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: s It was used to illuminate instruments in the first

686
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: ever combat submarine, the turt not an intimidating name for

687
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: a combat submarine. But that's how it sneaks up on you, right,

688
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: No one expects the turtle blood, right McConnell, that's true

689
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 1: that the turtle with a lot of so I brought

690
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: up by luminescence, first of all because it's wicked cool,

691
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: but also because for our creature kingle times, I feel

692
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: like we need to revise Rudolph. Now, clearly Rudolph is

693
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: Now wait, does Rudolph have antlers? I guess that's a

694
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: good question, right, I think I think that Rudolph does

695
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: have antlers. I think in the in the stop motion special,

696
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: we don't see Rudolph with antlers or yeah, I think

697
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: he's just got a little little could So if he

698
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: doesn't have antlers, I guess he could be a male reindeer.

699
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: But if he does have antlers in December, then she's

700
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: got to be a female reindeer. These absolutely, these absolute

701
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: pigs making Christmas entertainment don't understand, right, it's a matriarchy, right,

702
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: so I think. But let's imagine how a real Rudolph

703
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: would evolve, Like, why would Rudolph have a glowing nose,

704
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: like an actual glow glow in the dark nose? That

705
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: it's never the franchise does not attempt to explain it. Yeah,

706
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: it just is that hydric cats a crotal clause or

707
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: Q claus could uh could use to to fly by.

708
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: So I mean I think, you know, I do think

709
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 1: that probably it would be a symbiotic bacteria in that nose,

710
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: sort of like the angler fish, because they have that

711
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: little bold that bulb, the little dongle that they used

712
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: to lure in prey love. When the bulb is on

713
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: the dongle and the bulb on the dongle, it glows,

714
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: and it would be we know, we can get the

715
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: red biolumin essence from the railroad worm that has that enzyme,

716
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 1: So you got you got that that sort of lucifer

717
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: raise in their produced by bacteria or maybe even just

718
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: like a bunch of like symbiotic railroad worms. I don't know.

719
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: And then who's to say, And then but why would

720
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: why would this be the case? Like there's got to

721
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: be a reason for this glowing nose, and don't tell

722
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: me it was to help Santa. There's always an issue

723
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 1: with that because you're like, well, you know, what's the reach?

724
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: How strong is this luminate? It's like you wouldn't. You

725
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't be reaching beyond a few feet in front of you, right, right, exactly.

726
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: So I think here's my theory is Rudolph is a predator.

727
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: This is the glowing noses, bioluminescence to lure and prey

728
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: because maybe I mean and it's red like a berry,

729
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: so it's probably the lure in small winter birds. Sure,

730
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: maybe a waxwing or something get in there, wants to

731
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: eat that big bright berry of a nose. It's glowing

732
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: so they can see it. Really, it's attractive bait, bait,

733
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: so Rudolph would have giant jaws to snap up. The

734
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: little Birdie is sort of like an angler, right, is

735
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: a brutally carnivorous woman, right, which actually fits with our

736
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: hydrogen crotal clause, which is also a predator. So you

737
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: have these two, the team of apex predators. The thing

738
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: through this guy house Christmas that we're creating a bloom house, Well,

739
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,280
Speaker 1: it's just like it's like it's a horror movie. It's scary,

740
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: it's not. You keep using the H word. I keep

741
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: H and M. Yeah. I don't think that these are monsters.

742
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: I think if you could learn anything from listening to

743
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: this show is that horrible creatures aren't monsters. They just are.

744
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: They just are We just they just are. We have

745
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: and I think Creature Kringle Times is about understanding them.

746
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: So in honor of that, I want to sing a

747
00:47:54,719 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: song with you. It's called Rudolph's Violuminescent Nose out to

748
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: the tune of Nothing. No, no, it's not to the

749
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: tune of anything because of copyright issues. So this is

750
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: my own, very own composition. If there's any similarities to

751
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: any other tune, it's purely coincidental. Yeah, and I'm confident

752
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: that our singing abilities are not gonna be spot on

753
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: enough to infringe in. It's gonna to which is great.

754
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: You know. I'm sorry for criticizing you for being pitchy

755
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: because I think legally speaking, legally speaking, it's going to

756
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: save my key stir Well. There you go. All right,

757
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: so let's let's do this. Maybe I might put some

758
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 1: jingles in the background, but there's not gonna be any

759
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: means acapella. Acapella do it, let's do Yeah, alright, let's

760
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: try and a one and a two and a three

761
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 1: nose reindeer had a violina essent no like an angler fish. Yeah,

762
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: full of symbiotic bacteria whose enzymes catalyze the oxidation of

763
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: a light emating compound. Come on, somebody, Some would even

764
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: say it claws like that's quid, Like that's quid. Yeah.

765
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 1: All of the other reindeer were frightened of his hunt. Sorry, sorry,

766
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 1: her massive teets, lady snabbing up tiny birdies while camouflage

767
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: the very reee. Then one foggy wait wait, sorry, cring

768
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 1: old times creature, your cringle times. There we go. Sorry,

769
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 1: this is a nondenominational holiday. Then one foggy creature cring

770
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: old times night. So say a hydro catsa cotal claws,

771
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: rude off with your nose and jaws. Let's go hunt

772
00:49:54,760 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: for prey tonight. All of the other reindeer as they

773
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: cower down in fear. Oh, Rudolf, oh Lord, please serve

774
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: us for another blood. So, dear God, I'm monster though, Rudolf,

775
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: Oh Lord please spect wait, oh wait, Dakota, Oh yes, sorry, Rudolf,

776
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, please spare us for another blood. So dear,

777
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: do you know nice? That's nice, that's great, good for us. Yeah, well,

778
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,240
Speaker 1: thank you all for joining me on this very special

779
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: two part holiday special and for Jamie for sticking through

780
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 1: it and singing all the songs with me. It's been

781
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:47,320
Speaker 1: a true pleasure. You've been integral to creating the lore

782
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 1: of Creature Kringle Times. Thank you. We've I think we've

783
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: done it. We've created a better holiday. I think that

784
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: we have and I and if you can't hang then,

785
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: I mean you know, the doors right there. Honestly though,

786
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: the door is kind of revolving door. Because back, please

787
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: come back, please, there's only the two of us here

788
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,919
Speaker 1: in our Creature Kringle Times. We're having a great time.

789
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: We're having a great time about so much shallow light

790
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: up like our body suits. Please don't be alarmed by

791
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:22,959
Speaker 1: head trick as at hydrotal clause. Yeah, they're very nice. Yes,

792
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,479
Speaker 1: Just don't get too close. Just don't get too close

793
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 1: to the beak area. Yeah, just stay away from the area.

794
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: That peripheral isn't great. It's the it's the it's our

795
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: creature Kringle Times motto. Stay away from the beak, Stay

796
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: away from from the beak. You've heard the song. You've

797
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: heard the song for the stay away from the stay

798
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: away from the bak. No jingle in the background. The

799
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: beak is the business and stay away from it. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful,

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00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: Join us, Join us, Happy Creature Kringle Times. Trade off

801
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: your trade, your cheese for your bread and your Creature

802
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: Kringle Times presence. We've got all the grudge holding crows,

803
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 1: they come, throughs, they come. We've got the ravens who

804
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: know if you've been naughty, and we'll give you the

805
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: cold shoulder. You've got glowing squids. It's join us, Join us,

806
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: Join us. Well, it's been a real treat. Jamie, you've

807
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: got anything to plug? Yeah, you can just follow me

808
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jamie Loft as help. And I've got

809
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,760
Speaker 1: a new podcast called My Year in Mensa that's about

810
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: my year in Mensa that'll be out sometimes this month. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome. So Creature Kringle Times, by the way, thank you.

812
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: Happy Creature Kringle Times to you as well to everyone.

813
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's it's a holiday for everyone. Absolutely yes.

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00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: So you can find us at Creature feature Pod dot com,

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00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: Creature feature Pot on Instagram, Creature feet Pot on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: That's f E T f E T. That is something

817
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: very different. I have been your host of Mini parasites.

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00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: Katie Golden, I am also the human friend of pro Bird,

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00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: writes Twitter that explores a universe in which birds are

820
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: actually the dominant species. Thanks so much for listening, you guys,

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're enjoying the show and you're full

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00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: of creature Kringle time spirit, and if you'd like to,

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Speaker 1: you know, leave a nice reigning in a review that

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Speaker 1: that really helps subscriptions, super help. It's just but honestly

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Speaker 1: just listening. I super appreciate it. That's it fills me

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Speaker 1: with Kringle spirit. Thanks to the Space Classics for their

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