Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature Feature production of I Heart Radio Creature feature.
Speaker 1: It's Creature Cringle Times, a holiday special about our furry friends.
Speaker 1: Today will learn how reindeer eyeballs work, how Rudolphs knows
Speaker 1: good really glow Imagination Station. Animals of you join us
Speaker 1: as well, learn exploring, learn magic, blowing creatures. Want to
Speaker 1: reach you up by a luminescence is a tree Creature
Speaker 1: feature the holiday special. But we will not be singing
Speaker 1: the whole time. I promise stay here, Please don't go.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays everyone, It's me Katie Golden, your host a
Speaker 1: many parasites. Today, on the second part of our two
Speaker 1: part holiday special, we'll be creating our own nondenominational holiday
Speaker 1: using evolutionary biology to make this magical time of year
Speaker 1: scientifically accurate. We'll talk the biology of reindeer and the
Speaker 1: best bacterial filled light show in the world. Happy creature, Grank,
Speaker 1: Happy creature, Grank Happy creature. Gre I feel like you're
Speaker 1: a little pitch either, little pitch, little pitchy joining the note,
Speaker 1: joining me today to create a new holiday out of
Speaker 1: spare animal parts. As comedian co host of The Bechtel Cast,
Speaker 1: screenplay writer of Santa University, Jamie Loft it hello, but
Speaker 1: a little pitchy, a little pitchy. I appreciate the feedback
Speaker 1: and I love just the note. It's good because you
Speaker 1: know sometimes people are They're like, no, it's not worth it,
Speaker 1: right right, I'm always looking to improve, are open to
Speaker 1: constructive criticisms. The holidays need to be harder on your
Speaker 1: loved ones. And usually, yeah, you have to take a
Speaker 1: firm hand with your loved ones. You have to call
Speaker 1: them out when like, say they're wrapping isn't really up
Speaker 1: to snuff. Oh yeah, I will choose the smallest thing
Speaker 1: and go on for hours exactly. And if you are,
Speaker 1: if they threatened to not invite you back, that's when
Speaker 1: you know you're really honest. That's when you've done it.
Speaker 1: That's when you've won. You've got the holidays. You've won
Speaker 1: the holidays. And it's unwinnable. It is a winnable objective
Speaker 1: based time of year. Absolutely absolutely so today. I know
Speaker 1: last time we constructed our own Santa and that is
Speaker 1: kind of the first part of creating creature. Kringle Times
Speaker 1: are nondenominational holiday fun times based in science and evolutionary biology,
Speaker 1: and we came up with hydro catsa crotal clause, yes,
Speaker 1: which was very impressive. Right, And if you haven't heard,
Speaker 1: if you don't fear his name yet, you should probably
Speaker 1: go back and listen to the first part of this
Speaker 1: two part holiday special. I just don't repeat it three
Speaker 1: times in a row. I would I would recommend no, no, no,
Speaker 1: especially not like when you're looking in a reflective surface.
Speaker 1: You could really end up in some hot water. And
Speaker 1: we don't want a little bit of a pickle. Well,
Speaker 1: today we're gonna be talking about reindeer and other math
Speaker 1: magical mystical creatures and a holiday light show worthy of
Speaker 1: creature Kringle times. So I want to start off just
Speaker 1: giving giving you the real science facts about reindeer because
Speaker 1: they're actually quite interesting. So, reindeer are also known as
Speaker 1: caribou in North America, and it is the same thing.
Speaker 1: Actually a lot of people don't know that, myself included. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you for your educating. You're very welcome. So reindeer
Speaker 1: are in fact a species within the deer family, and
Speaker 1: they are circumpolar. Get your mind out of the gutter,
Speaker 1: because you know what that means. That means they live
Speaker 1: around the North Pole all around the same. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say latitude is latitude the one that is like the
Speaker 1: belt around the globe. Mm hmmm, I would never know. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, I think latitude's vertical is okay,
Speaker 1: like longitude it is. I believe it is, then longitude okay.
Speaker 1: The point is that they are all found around the
Speaker 1: land areas along the northern regions such as the Subarctic,
Speaker 1: the boreal tundra and mountains of North America, Europe and Siberia. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they like to they like to chill out around
Speaker 1: the North Pole. They like it. They like it nice
Speaker 1: and coal. Yeah. Uh. And normally we talk about tiny
Speaker 1: deer on the show, like the the the cutie little deers,
Speaker 1: like the little dick Dicks, the little the little crowd favorite, yes,
Speaker 1: the crowd pleasers. But these are these are are some
Speaker 1: big boys and gals, these reindeers. So they do have
Speaker 1: some subspecies that are smaller. So the uh, small barred
Speaker 1: reindeer weighs up to about two hundred pounds and the
Speaker 1: finish forest subspecies of reindeer way up to five fifty pounds. No,
Speaker 1: thank you, but it's they're so fluffy. Okay, and that's
Speaker 1: I guess I take it a big old antlers old.
Speaker 1: I can see antlers. They're probably antler heavy, right, there's
Speaker 1: gotta be a hundred pounds right there. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they can. That's a good question. When they weighed them,
Speaker 1: did they counter you know, you like include the antlers
Speaker 1: or did they like counterbalance the antlers the distribution of
Speaker 1: weight I think wouldn't help me be less right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like is it n antler and just this tiny inconceivable
Speaker 1: body bird body? Still that is scarier? Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: that is even scar It is it is, isn't it?
Speaker 1: So all reindeer subspecies these are well suited to cooler climates,
Speaker 1: and they have been an important source of food and
Speaker 1: materials for people who have lived in northern polar regions. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so I want to talk about like some sort
Speaker 1: of conceptual reindeer myths. So like when you think of
Speaker 1: like a Santa reindeer, you think of one with like
Speaker 1: a little like other than Rudolph. Obviously they have the
Speaker 1: little black, shiny, bold nose, but they don't have that. Oh.
Speaker 1: Sorry to be the bearer of science here, but I'm
Speaker 1: about to pitch a fit. Okay, I would have what
Speaker 1: very nose fuzzy dog nos Yeah, well, I mean it's
Speaker 1: not shiny like a dog noose. Like Look, it's big,
Speaker 1: it's big. They have those big, big nostrils, and it's fuzzy,
Speaker 1: it's fluffy. Why did they change that? I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a perfectly cute nose they've got. I know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's a mistake and it's a
Speaker 1: mistake that will not be repeated in in Creature Kringle Times,
Speaker 1: which is not after this our nondenominational holiday celebration open
Speaker 1: to all. Yes, absolutely so they don't have those shiny
Speaker 1: little noses there. They do. Actually, sometimes their noses do
Speaker 1: turn red, well not red red, but like sort of
Speaker 1: soft pink, like like the little pink, little pink. It's
Speaker 1: it's cute, it's it's nice little blush, a little like
Speaker 1: little peach blush. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, it seems like
Speaker 1: a nice, nice little Uch. What's that horrible makeup company
Speaker 1: that the billboards bother me looks like that? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: horrible makeup company. I'm going to quack that out. Probably
Speaker 1: all the all the models look so wet and what
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's that's the idea. We want everyone to
Speaker 1: look wet, And you're like, why quack cosmetics, everyone's moist. Ever,
Speaker 1: I feel like like some people will know exactly even
Speaker 1: with the quack, but like, oh the company or the
Speaker 1: models wet. Yeah, they'll know, but it's just like quack
Speaker 1: is there, so we dry them off. But these ones
Speaker 1: have a nice The reindeer have a nice matt nose blush.
Speaker 1: It's really good. It's very fetching, and it's actually because
Speaker 1: of all the capillaries in their nose to keep it
Speaker 1: warm in the frigid weather. And reindeer are actually one
Speaker 1: of the only species of deer where the females have
Speaker 1: antlers as well as the males. Up a point for feminism,
Speaker 1: another point for feminine Another talk about the animal kingdom.
Speaker 1: Women win. They do well technically that not even often.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't. I don't even know that. I haven't been
Speaker 1: keeping track, I think, to be honest with you, in
Speaker 1: the animal kingdom, at some point everyone's going to get
Speaker 1: one win and a lot of losses. Yeah. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the antlers fall off every year and are replaced with
Speaker 1: a new growth of antlers. Male reindeer shed their antlers
Speaker 1: in December, whereas females retain their antlers throughout winter. So
Speaker 1: news flash, Santa's reindeer not boys. No, No, these are
Speaker 1: lady reindeer because they have the antlers still. And we
Speaker 1: know that lady reindeer do not shed their antlers in December,
Speaker 1: whereas males do. I did not know that. So they're
Speaker 1: so weak, and so I feel like, so the names
Speaker 1: of the reindeer, are they very gendered? I don't remember.
Speaker 1: So there's Dancer, there's Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and vix and
Speaker 1: I feel like those could all be Cupid daughter. But
Speaker 1: I think that they're all pretty gender neutral, but most
Speaker 1: fictional adaptations assume them male. Yeah, that's I think a problem.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like a B movie how a lot
Speaker 1: of the bees are males, and like that would be
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but yeah, they are matriarchy. They have a
Speaker 1: queen and most of the workers are all female, and
Speaker 1: they have a few little males that just hang around
Speaker 1: until they're needed for meeting. I think it's a human problem.
Speaker 1: There's a new Danny plus movie out called Noel, and
Speaker 1: they they the way they revise um the sexist Christmas
Speaker 1: history is they make it seem like it's never occurred
Speaker 1: to them to have a female Santa, that women were
Speaker 1: excluded simply as an overseas Wasn't that? Wasn't that a
Speaker 1: joke in one of your Santa University things like and
Speaker 1: everything that happens in Santa University eventually comes true, right
Speaker 1: because I remember I watched your Your Your animated special
Speaker 1: of the Santa University, and there's a So Santa University
Speaker 1: is a university where all Santa's attend and the top
Speaker 1: Santa wins Santa, but the Santa is killed every year, right,
Speaker 1: and an arena Santa is sport if you win. The
Speaker 1: best case scenario of Santa University is that you get
Speaker 1: to live for one more year, right, But for most
Speaker 1: they will die in the year that they attend. I
Speaker 1: feel like Santa University is very much in touch with
Speaker 1: like the natural kingdom, Like that is a win. Like
Speaker 1: exactly in Santa University, there's like a woman Santa, and
Speaker 1: it's like a woman gal. Santa can also be named Santa,
Speaker 1: which I think is really groundbreaking, very groundbreaking breaking. The
Speaker 1: Santa ceiling breaking, the candy cane ceiling blasting, threat so
Speaker 1: previously on the part one of our two part holiday special,
Speaker 1: we did make a news better Santa Hydra cats croto clause.
Speaker 1: We did a good job. We did a good job.
Speaker 1: It was very good, very scientifically accurate, and but we
Speaker 1: do kind of need to work out iron out some
Speaker 1: of the details of his relationship with the reindeer, because
Speaker 1: in this version Santa, the slay and the flying ability,
Speaker 1: the ability to carry presents, all these things, the immortality
Speaker 1: has all been kind of bundled. It's a bundle deal
Speaker 1: into one entity. But the reindeer, I think it's good
Speaker 1: to keep them and on retainer, on retain. I feel
Speaker 1: like sort of an entourage. Maybe the reindeer rides Santa
Speaker 1: for once. Wow, it's it's a reversal, but you know,
Speaker 1: but but sometimes you know it's right, the reindeer going
Speaker 1: to ride Santa exactly exactly. So we've got our team
Speaker 1: of female reindeer with their antlers riding on top of Santa.
Speaker 1: What do you think their job is. I don't know
Speaker 1: that they have a job. I think it maybe for
Speaker 1: once a joy ride. It may be a joy ride.
Speaker 1: I do like that. I like that. I also just
Speaker 1: like the idea that these reindeer are just drunk on
Speaker 1: the Noog, on the Hydro, the giant lying parasaur immortal Santa,
Speaker 1: and they're just a real good time And it's okay
Speaker 1: because they're not flying, so it's not flying under the influence.
Speaker 1: It's they are just there to have a good time.
Speaker 1: They're basically just ubering they are on Santa, right, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it. Now. Realistically, Santa might want to eat
Speaker 1: one of these reindeer, but I'm gonna say they're probably
Speaker 1: too much antlers and too many hoofs, so they're they're
Speaker 1: probably okay right, probably safe. So yeah, maybe they could
Speaker 1: even like keep snacks on their their antlers, sort of
Speaker 1: like little or Durv's little little top oftrophe on their antlers,
Speaker 1: kind of like a like little cheese and crackers and
Speaker 1: canapees and things on their antlers. And whenever hydra cats
Speaker 1: crotal claws which rolls off the tongue so good gets hungry,
Speaker 1: they just like shake off some cheese bits from their
Speaker 1: antlers and and into its giant beak like mam, I
Speaker 1: like that. I do. People, We've solved the holidays, and
Speaker 1: they just that they can finally coexist it's like an
Speaker 1: equitable maybe slightly not equitable. Maybe more of the work
Speaker 1: is landing on hydrogen proto clause. But but again, for once,
Speaker 1: for once, the reindeer get to pass off the rains.
Speaker 1: I like it, I like it, and then they give
Speaker 1: it like we actually prefer to be called caribou. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. I'm sorry. Don't force your festive naming conventions.
Speaker 1: And that's that's a that's a creature, kringle Pa. When
Speaker 1: we return, we'll talk about another strange feature of Santa's reindeer,
Speaker 1: their eyeballs. Flying hooved creatures have been associated with winter
Speaker 1: holidays before Christianity. In Nordic mythology, the pagan god Odin
Speaker 1: wrote a flying eight legged horse named Slate near Sleep
Speaker 1: Near Yule was the holiday that preceded Christmas, celebrated around
Speaker 1: winter Solstice on December one. Rather than reindeer, gods and
Speaker 1: spirits flew around on the wild ride. It was a
Speaker 1: terrifying but festive experience, as Odin would deliver toys and sweets.
Speaker 1: Children filled their boots with hate for sleep near to
Speaker 1: munch on as this opta horse made stops at the
Speaker 1: many homes. When Christianity came on the scene. They wanted
Speaker 1: to ease Pagans into the shift in religions, so they
Speaker 1: borrowed heavily from mule traditions. Odin was replaced by St. Nicholas,
Speaker 1: and the eight legged horse god slap Near was replaced
Speaker 1: by eight reindeer guiding a sleigh. But I think our
Speaker 1: creature Kringle times needs to be a bit more metal.
Speaker 1: So let's give reindeer some credit for being terrifying by
Speaker 1: looking at their magical color changing eyeballs. Love it, Jamie.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to see some disembodied reindeer eyeballs? Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you for checking in. You're welcome there. They look
Speaker 1: like jewels, don't they. If you I would never have guessed.
Speaker 1: So wait, that is that's their eyeballs. Well, they're not
Speaker 1: cut open, they're just removed its eyeball sands. The rest
Speaker 1: of the reindeer they just have like eyeball minus reindeer.
Speaker 1: So they just have like Instagram filters for eyes. Like
Speaker 1: what is that? So reindeer eyes change from gold to
Speaker 1: blue from the summer to the winter, so like they
Speaker 1: go from a summer to a winter. Is that how
Speaker 1: they see things? Or is it just the how do
Speaker 1: they see? I will explain all First, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you, um, are you a summer or winter? Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm a summer, Okay, I'm I'm actually winter. So that's great.
Speaker 1: We could like be one reindeer together because like so
Speaker 1: like you you wear like gold and such like gold
Speaker 1: gold like looks good on you, yellows and things and
Speaker 1: and for me, blues go well with my transparent blue veins.
Speaker 1: So so this article I read on National Geographic which
Speaker 1: actually has this picture of these uh disembodied reindeer eyeballs
Speaker 1: a bit of a warning there, but all included in
Speaker 1: the in the episode notes. I do want to do
Speaker 1: a shout out to the writer Ed Young whose introductory
Speaker 1: sentences quote when Glenn Jeffrey first took possession of a
Speaker 1: huge bag full of reindeer eyes, he didn't really want them.
Speaker 1: That is the science writing that I live for. That
Speaker 1: is something to be treasured. That's a that's a good hook.
Speaker 1: I would say sometimes science writing is lacking in a
Speaker 1: good hook. That has nailed a big bag full of
Speaker 1: reindeer eyes, which he didn't really want, Like, I have
Speaker 1: so many questions, like who gave him this bag of
Speaker 1: reindeer eyeballs. Why doesn't he want them? Why the change?
Speaker 1: It was a change of heart or did he never
Speaker 1: want first place? Did his eyeball heart grow two sizes
Speaker 1: bigger that the year after Little Cindy Lou who gave
Speaker 1: him a big old bag reindeer eyeballs. Did he receive
Speaker 1: news midway through his voyage with these eyeballs that the
Speaker 1: eyeballs were no longer needed or superior eyeballs had been found? Right? Like?
Speaker 1: Are the was? He sort of like it? Was it
Speaker 1: a Scrooge situation where he had this big bag of eyeballs.
Speaker 1: He's like, bah humbug, I don't want these eyeballs. He
Speaker 1: goes to sleep. The three ghosts of eyeballs passed informed
Speaker 1: him of how cool reindeer eyes are, and then he
Speaker 1: woke up with a revelation and he shouts out to
Speaker 1: a small boy, bring me the biggest bag of reindeer
Speaker 1: eyeballs you can find. Yeah, I think I like to
Speaker 1: think that it was that. And then all of the
Speaker 1: people got eyeballs, and what turned what it turned out happening? Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I said, no one wanted eyeballs. And he thought he
Speaker 1: was being very generous, but he actually terrorized local community.
Speaker 1: Any one of these realities could be true. Congratulations and
Speaker 1: and young. That is the best introductory sentence to a science.
Speaker 1: It's it's inspiring. So the story is that this this
Speaker 1: man was a researcher. At the time, he didn't know
Speaker 1: how special reindeer eyes were, but after studying these eyeballs,
Speaker 1: they found that they are quite special because they change,
Speaker 1: like we said, from from gold to blue, gold in
Speaker 1: the summer, blue in the winter. And it is First,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you a little bit about the anatomy
Speaker 1: of the reindeer eyes. So the tape tongue lucidum is
Speaker 1: a reflective layer of tissue behind the retina. It's not
Speaker 1: just found in reindeer. It's also what makes like cat
Speaker 1: eyes and other animal eyes glow, like when you do
Speaker 1: a flash photo and then your cute little kittie like
Speaker 1: turns into a demon. It's because the light is reflecting
Speaker 1: off of the tapedum lucid um. That was the devil. Well,
Speaker 1: they the devil is inside of the cats, but that's
Speaker 1: not one of the sign stocks. That the coincidence. So
Speaker 1: it's a reflective layer of tissue. It helps animals see
Speaker 1: in dim conditions by reflecting light. So this is the
Speaker 1: part of the eye that causes that shifting color in
Speaker 1: the reindeer eyeballs. So what happens is in the winter,
Speaker 1: reindeer pupils dilate for months on ends so that they
Speaker 1: can see in the low light conditions of the winter.
Speaker 1: And as they do that, this squeezes blood vessels that
Speaker 1: help drain fluid out of their eyes, so that constant
Speaker 1: pressure of their pupils being dilated causes temporary glaucoma, and
Speaker 1: that pressure on the tap to tape tom lucidum changes
Speaker 1: how densely the fibers are and how light interacts with it,
Speaker 1: so it squeezes that reflective layer until basically the structure
Speaker 1: changes such that it reflects light differently. So with the loose,
Speaker 1: loose weave of eyeball fibers, they reflect yellow light, and
Speaker 1: with the tight glaucoma densely packed weave of fibers, they
Speaker 1: reflect blue light. Reindeer again, reindeer again, and all the stuffs.
Speaker 1: This is a little bit unrelated, but I would wear
Speaker 1: one of those reindeer eyeballs around my neck. They're beautiful,
Speaker 1: they are. They do. Actually, that's the thing is they
Speaker 1: do look like a beautiful sort of like a what
Speaker 1: do they call like a cabo shown with like a
Speaker 1: little like like paint painted iridescent paint. It's like those
Speaker 1: little glass bubble things. And you do oh, yes it does, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: they are beautiful. I don't it's not humane. No, I
Speaker 1: just suggested. But I mean I would do if a
Speaker 1: if a reindeer, an old reindeer willed me, yes, their eyeballs,
Speaker 1: I would appreciate it. Just I'm just putting up putting
Speaker 1: that up there for sure, only if it was like
Speaker 1: decided in advance, right, you know, as they want to
Speaker 1: remember me, or if like these scientists with their big
Speaker 1: old bags of reindeer eyeballs, maybe once to just toss
Speaker 1: a couple my way. Now I think that maybe this
Speaker 1: is we were not considering a villainous side to that,
Speaker 1: and that perhaps the reindeer eyeballs had been stolen a
Speaker 1: crimbus time caper. Yeah, a vengeful, a vengeful, vengeful being
Speaker 1: who wanted to remove Maybe the reindeer had seen too much,
Speaker 1: you know, you'll ever see anything again energy. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was a vengeful Rudolph. Maybe it was a
Speaker 1: vengeful Rudolph. Yeah, and how do we even how are
Speaker 1: you going to laugh at my nose if you can't
Speaker 1: see it? Exactly? I wanted to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about this just reminded me, this change from from gold
Speaker 1: to blue. That remember that dress that was a meme,
Speaker 1: the blue gold dress. Optical illusions. Some people saw blue
Speaker 1: and black and other people saw gold and white. When
Speaker 1: did that happen? Fifteen? Yeah, this is a hip hip
Speaker 1: and Happening podcast, the hip the hip reference. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean that with that too, them like it's it's
Speaker 1: very it's black and blue. I never I could see
Speaker 1: the other way, And I was curious why why this
Speaker 1: happened and what actually happened in the meantime after that
Speaker 1: meme faded away? Is a lot of researchers did research,
Speaker 1: psychology researchers and eye researchers. So yeah, I know, right, nerds,
Speaker 1: get get with the times. That's not the meme now
Speaker 1: is dripping in in reindeer eyeball jewels. Give me a
Speaker 1: baby Yoda analysis. Baby Yoda moves, some see a baby Yoda,
Speaker 1: some see a middle aged Yoda exactly whereas the psychology
Speaker 1: exactly so. Color constancy is a term for how our
Speaker 1: brain determines color not just on absolute light values, but
Speaker 1: in like based on our environments. So we take into
Speaker 1: account what we think the relative color is and make
Speaker 1: adjustments so in different light conditions we can still assess
Speaker 1: the color of something. So there's been so many studies
Speaker 1: on this dumb dress controversy. Brain scans of people looking
Speaker 1: at the white gold or black blue dress found that
Speaker 1: those who saw it as white gold were engaged in
Speaker 1: more interpretive processing, meaning that the areas of the brain
Speaker 1: responsible for creative interpretation were more active, whereas those seeing
Speaker 1: it as black and blue, which is the objectively correct answer,
Speaker 1: We're used more raw visual data. And it's crazy because
Speaker 1: like there's just like so much research on this that
Speaker 1: researches even linked the differences in the dress due to
Speaker 1: eye anatomy differences, like difference in the structure of eye. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we're like even within the same person, like in
Speaker 1: the progression of like a neurological disease like MS, like
Speaker 1: their interpretation of the dress change, which I think is
Speaker 1: what I don't understand why they're putting people who have
Speaker 1: neural neurological diseases. You're like all right, would you like
Speaker 1: to look at this dumb dress meme again? I hope
Speaker 1: that they got paid. Well, that's probably I mean deeply annoying.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that like they were compensated, but still it's
Speaker 1: like super annoying. Yeah, leave me, how is that? How
Speaker 1: is that your your question? I mean, I do I
Speaker 1: approve of most of these these studies on the dress thing,
Speaker 1: like that's that's fun, that's good. That like bugging bugging
Speaker 1: people with neurological disorders about five year old meme? Growing?
Speaker 1: Come on, use a fresher meme. Yeah, give it, give
Speaker 1: me a danker meme. Give me what the Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: pastrami meme? What there's the It's like an Elizabeth Warren
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders you remember they had them for the last
Speaker 1: election too, or it was like on the issues and
Speaker 1: I would say, like on giving a cat a little
Speaker 1: bit of salami, not pastrami and Elizabeth Warren, I would
Speaker 1: say cats cannot have a little slammy and Bernie so
Speaker 1: I was say cast can have a little salami. I see,
Speaker 1: it's a fun me. That's cute. It's just all designed
Speaker 1: to make Bernie Sanders look fun. Really it is fun
Speaker 1: to give cats a little salammy, just a little like
Speaker 1: a little tiny microscopic shaving of salami. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, Elizbe's Warren isn't wrong. Cats shouldn't know. They
Speaker 1: should not know, absolutely not. Sometimes cats can have a
Speaker 1: little slam. Here's a public service announcement over these creature
Speaker 1: kringle times. Resist the urge to fill your pet up
Speaker 1: with human food to the broom, Resist the urge to
Speaker 1: just shove as much. I saw my cat. My cat
Speaker 1: was like drinking soup the other day. I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. I left and I came back.
Speaker 1: He was drinking soup. Oh my god, I discussed I
Speaker 1: had a childhood cat. Or I turned my back and
Speaker 1: he just got right in the macaroni and cheese. That's
Speaker 1: right in there, dove right in that. It's fun. Public
Speaker 1: service announcement to Okay, so first, to the humans, don't
Speaker 1: fill your pet with holiday foods and treats. Bad for them.
Speaker 1: Public service announcement to the pets. Could you could just
Speaker 1: stop like taking all that ding dang holiday food. It's
Speaker 1: not for you, but it's so good. Don't put your
Speaker 1: face in the soup. Don't put your face in the
Speaker 1: macaroni and cheese. It's not for you, and your owners
Speaker 1: are suckers. If you look at them, they will give
Speaker 1: you the food and it's bad for you. Then your
Speaker 1: owners are going to look like the bad guy. But
Speaker 1: it's you know, and you're pressuring them into giving filling
Speaker 1: them up with mashed potatoes a little salami. If you
Speaker 1: do your dog have a stalking you know what she
Speaker 1: does because of my mom. I knew it. My mom
Speaker 1: is so funny because she's sometimes she disapproves of dogs
Speaker 1: and clothing. She's like, oh, that's just silly like dogs,
Speaker 1: and then she's like, I think we should get your
Speaker 1: dog pajais. My mom also hates dogs and clothing. But
Speaker 1: then I dress sunny up like a cowboy, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, no, it's changed. You know the moms.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing with the moms is they'll sound they'll
Speaker 1: do the reasonableness, like, you know, the dogs shouldn't be
Speaker 1: in clothing, which is probably true. But the dogs can
Speaker 1: wear a little clothe. You can wear a little clothing,
Speaker 1: and they can have a little stocking. I have a
Speaker 1: little can't be the same size as yours. No, I
Speaker 1: think I have it's got to be Payah. On the
Speaker 1: first part of this holiday special, we invented a new
Speaker 1: Santa for Creature Kringle Times, a combination of immortal hydro DNA,
Speaker 1: the transatlantic flying ability of the giant pterosaur cats a codalists,
Speaker 1: the ability to remember naughty people of a crow, the
Speaker 1: belly of a blue whale, and the ability to scream
Speaker 1: out ho ho ho of the howler monkey. His name
Speaker 1: is Hydrots Croto Clause, and he brings regurgitated treats to
Speaker 1: good boys and girls and destroys the naughty. He flies
Speaker 1: across the globe accompanied by his terrifying blue eyed female reindeer.
Speaker 1: And one such rangeer is more terrified ying than the rest.
Speaker 1: Her name Rudolph, and we'll discover how she might have
Speaker 1: evolved to have such a brightly glowing red nose. Done
Speaker 1: Duh Jingle Jingle Jingle. Imagine you're prancing along an enchanted
Speaker 1: winter wonderland in a snowy forest when you see a
Speaker 1: beautiful sight, a glowing light show greenish and red creature
Speaker 1: Kringle Times lights. They glow and dance and flash, and
Speaker 1: you frolic over to enjoy the beautiful miraculous lights. There's
Speaker 1: a big yellow glowing ball dancing so festively. So you
Speaker 1: skip on over like a little who and who Ville
Speaker 1: and reach up to touch this big, bright, glowing orb.
Speaker 1: But as your eyes adjust to the light, you've noticed
Speaker 1: something shining in the background. Two huge car tire sized
Speaker 1: eyes and an enormous hungry beak. Merry Kringle times it
Speaker 1: boom before snatching up in its glowing tentacles. Jamie, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the science real of bioluminescence. Oh, I love bio.
Speaker 1: This is we've done bioluminescence talk about together. In fact,
Speaker 1: you may hear a familiar friend from last time, what
Speaker 1: a treat. So. Bioluminescence is the holiday lights of the
Speaker 1: natural world that are festive year round. And the reason
Speaker 1: I bring up this horrible imagination station story is that
Speaker 1: one of our festive friends examples is the firefly squid,
Speaker 1: which we will talk about soon, which looks it looks
Speaker 1: like a holiday light display. It looks very Kringle times.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see it. But there. Let's first, I
Speaker 1: want to give sort of an overview of bioluminescence, because
Speaker 1: it is a glorious, magical thing that happens in nature.
Speaker 1: So bioluminescence is a chemical reaction UH and it could
Speaker 1: be either produced by the animal itself. It can also
Speaker 1: be a symbiotic relationship with bacteria, and the bacteria are
Speaker 1: the ones that produce the bioluminescence. It can also be
Speaker 1: obtained by eating prey items that contain the ingredients necessary
Speaker 1: for bioluminescence. In all cases, bioluminescence is a chemical reaction
Speaker 1: known as chemoluminescence yeah of luciferin and luciferaise or photoprotein.
Speaker 1: So Luciferin is a class of small molecules that will
Speaker 1: emit light when they are oxidized. This reaction is catalyzed
Speaker 1: by luciferase, which is an enzyme that enables the luciferin
Speaker 1: to be oxidized, and this chemical reaction creates light. It's
Speaker 1: a cold light because it doesn't actually produce that much heat,
Speaker 1: which is probably good for the bioluminescent animals because if
Speaker 1: you really overheating, overheating cheat pies. So bioluminescence is not
Speaker 1: just to attack prey. It actually has a multitude of purposes.
Speaker 1: So one is propagation, which is so bacteria can bioluminess
Speaker 1: so that they'll be eaten by editors and inside the
Speaker 1: predator they breed because they're bacteria and they don't they
Speaker 1: don't play by your rules, kinky little free exactly. It
Speaker 1: can be speaking of which, it can be for sexual selection,
Speaker 1: attracting a mate with your dongle you're glowing horngus. So
Speaker 1: it can be, as we've implied earlier, to lure and prey,
Speaker 1: such as the anglerfish whose bulb contains symbiotic bacteria that
Speaker 1: glows and lures and little fishies and then they snap
Speaker 1: them up. It can also be defensive to distract predators.
Speaker 1: So remember our friend the vampire squid, that little little
Speaker 1: drama go tough guy uh and they that vampire squid
Speaker 1: shoots by luminescent goo to distract predators. Yes, yes, the
Speaker 1: shiny goo kind of like just like throwing sparkly confetti
Speaker 1: and then running away, which is kind of how I
Speaker 1: want to like when I'm confronted, Like if I'm like, hi,
Speaker 1: what's your name in and someone's like you've already met me,
Speaker 1: you know me? Why don't you remember my name? I'm
Speaker 1: like just kidding, And then sparkle confetti and they run
Speaker 1: away and then like Nature's answer to the Little Men
Speaker 1: in Black mind race right exactly exactly. So, as I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, we're going to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the firefly squid getting you a good picture. As you
Speaker 1: can see in in the regular light, looks like a normal,
Speaker 1: normal squid, but in the dark it looks like holiday
Speaker 1: cringle lights. Whoa, it's so beautiful. Oh wow, they're close up.
Speaker 1: They're just little jewels. They're a little they're like they're
Speaker 1: you know there, just animal. You know that the what's
Speaker 1: it called the Chevy Chase Christmas Special? What second? The
Speaker 1: National Lampoon Christmas Specially gets the house all covered in lights,
Speaker 1: just completely covered in lights. But the squid are I
Speaker 1: haven't seen those. I mean, it's basically all the whole
Speaker 1: movie is a Chevy Chase. Go no, no Christmas is ruined. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's a squid who looks like Christmas
Speaker 1: lights exploded onto a squid. And it's it's a little guy.
Speaker 1: It's about three inches big with many, many points of bioluminescence.
Speaker 1: Their native to the oceans along Japan. It's dotted with photophores,
Speaker 1: which are light producing organs. They flash them to lure
Speaker 1: and prey, and it also lights up its whole body
Speaker 1: during mating. Just just a whole light show. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it, And like, you know what sex is
Speaker 1: a performance? It is and I don't I think that
Speaker 1: little with it? Yeah I would. This is just a
Speaker 1: little hint. I would like a light show in sort
Speaker 1: of the courting rituals in my life. That wouldn't that
Speaker 1: be incredible? It would be cool? Right if someone someone
Speaker 1: hangs some you know it hangs a tasteful string of
Speaker 1: lights to indicate and it's not physically invasive. It's beautiful, right,
Speaker 1: it's easy to take down exactly. Yeah, I think instead
Speaker 1: of nagging each other all the time, perhaps just carry
Speaker 1: a small string of lights. Right, It's string of lights
Speaker 1: that you kind of dance around with and then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you have to do like a little okay yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and then and you kind of you know, or you
Speaker 1: flash them, like maybe you have like a full body
Speaker 1: suit like re suit covered in little lights and andy
Speaker 1: circus like mo cab. Right, and then like when you
Speaker 1: see someone you're interested in, you flash the lights and
Speaker 1: if they flash back, it's a match. You're like, that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, and that's a that's a happy black mirror episode.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's like our creature Kringle times. Uh. Instead of mistletoe,
Speaker 1: it's covering yourself in tiny led lights and flashing them
Speaker 1: when you are sexually interested in someone, I think, and
Speaker 1: assaulting someone exactly, like, oh, you're under the mistletoe. I
Speaker 1: guess like that hass aggressives, I mean asking for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's sometimes I'm just standing in a doorway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's I think that. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you're under the missiletoe. You want to
Speaker 1: kiss It's like, no, the party's really full, right, it's full.
Speaker 1: I'm this. I didn't hang this here. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: deeply in love with someone else. You can only be
Speaker 1: said to maybe be indicating your preference. If you're wearing
Speaker 1: an apparatus that is hanging the missiletoe above you at
Speaker 1: all times, maybe then you are indicating a preference for
Speaker 1: being kissed. But I think that even so, you should
Speaker 1: still ask you all yeah, and and the light the
Speaker 1: light show still asks. I think you should. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's best if you it's you still got I mean
Speaker 1: obviously always got to check in and ask, but I
Speaker 1: think it does help along that interaction. Like we both
Speaker 1: we both flashed our our squid suits at each other,
Speaker 1: so you know, may I kiss you? And then you're like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would actually enjoy that because I too flash my
Speaker 1: squid suit at you indicating my interest. And I really
Speaker 1: appreciate your Thank you for checking in right, thanks for
Speaker 1: respecting me at every step in this festive kissing times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see how much better this holiday is? Already exactly the rules.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about some more bioluminescent creatures. There's the
Speaker 1: railroad worm, which is the larva of a genus of
Speaker 1: beetles that is called frick so thricks. Yep. They are
Speaker 1: found throughout the America's and they look like a normal
Speaker 1: caterpillar in day times, but in the dark they look
Speaker 1: like a train with lights on. Let me get you
Speaker 1: check out this little buster check them out? Okay, So,
Speaker 1: as you can see, it looks kind of like normal
Speaker 1: yellowish caterpillar in the daytime. At night that's party time,
Speaker 1: it's covered in a little greenish greenish lights. I don't
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Nat Geo called it weird and wild. I
Speaker 1: gets normal and good I mean normalized glow in the
Speaker 1: dark gown. Yeah, you've got a real good hit with
Speaker 1: the bagful eyebowls reindeer. But you can't call this weird.
Speaker 1: This yourself, yeah exactly. So, yes, it glows and it
Speaker 1: undulates and it's beautiful. And so they are called railroad
Speaker 1: worms because they kind of look like trains with all
Speaker 1: the lights on in the cabin as they wriggle around.
Speaker 1: And they even have glowing uh they have eleven glowing
Speaker 1: dots on the sides of their bodies, and they have
Speaker 1: a red glowing dot on their head, which is very
Speaker 1: cringle times, I think it is. And the lights warn
Speaker 1: predators that they are toxic, which again very wish more
Speaker 1: people did that, Like you know, it's it's polite, it's courtesy.
Speaker 1: I imagine how much easier it would be to go
Speaker 1: through really any area of life toxic people merely marked
Speaker 1: them a shirt, sort of like how you know dogs
Speaker 1: wear the little like I'm anxious around other dogs, don't
Speaker 1: pet me. Emination, Like if we had shirts that was like,
Speaker 1: I'm a toxic person, trust me, you don't need me,
Speaker 1: and you ask for references if you want a heads up,
Speaker 1: like you can. I'm just strongly suggesting against it. I
Speaker 1: like it. So the reason that they have the green
Speaker 1: dots on the side and the red dots in the
Speaker 1: head is that they actually have different lucifer raise enzymes
Speaker 1: which will create slightly different chemical reactions which causes different
Speaker 1: different flavors of light. I like it. Yeah, And then
Speaker 1: I want to talk about foxfire fungus because it's not
Speaker 1: just animals that get a claim on bioluminescence. I had
Speaker 1: a real brain fart moment where it's like, funguses aren't animals,
Speaker 1: are they? Well? Oh no, no, I'm scared they're not. No,
Speaker 1: they're they're actually in kingdom of of fungi, which is
Speaker 1: separate from the king ms of plants and animals. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you carry. It's like like animals, but it's just
Speaker 1: like it's fungus an animal. So I got a little
Speaker 1: too much of the creature Kringle knog any. So fox
Speaker 1: fire is also called fairy fire, and it's the light
Speaker 1: created by bioluminescent fungus, So it's many species of fungus.
Speaker 1: Does this makes this fox fire? It's just the generic
Speaker 1: term for any bioluminescing fungus. Is that why there's a
Speaker 1: web browser called Firefox. I have no idea. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I thought you would I have I don't
Speaker 1: know why you're ambushing me with these questions about browser. Sorry,
Speaker 1: corner trapping you like Katie Golden doesn't know what hours
Speaker 1: of research on fungi you want me to talk about
Speaker 1: Mozilla fire like? Jeez, maybe if I can show you
Speaker 1: a picture of this, you will leave me alone. I
Speaker 1: don't know hard to say. Let's let's give nap you
Speaker 1: another shot here Redemption arc WHOA, Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: so cool. It looks like it looks like a glow
Speaker 1: in the darkness stick. It looks like a stoner's bedroom. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: I wasn't a stoner when I was a child, and
Speaker 1: I plastered that with glow in the dark stars. I meant,
Speaker 1: I guess an adult stoner's bedroom. I don't expect it
Speaker 1: in an adults bedroom, That's true, but sometimes I want it.
Speaker 1: You just find a pet snake and a bunch of
Speaker 1: glow in the dark paraphernalia. So the light is created
Speaker 1: by bioluminescence. It glows greenish blue. The fungus feeds onto
Speaker 1: kinge wood and it creates its own lucifer aise enzymes.
Speaker 1: And it's thought that the purpose of this bioluminescence maybe
Speaker 1: to attract insects to spread spores, or maybe even to
Speaker 1: deter animals from eating it, because glowing things are often
Speaker 1: not something you should eat, but it's tempting. I know
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I always wanted to crack
Speaker 1: open one of those glow sticks and just slurp them
Speaker 1: up like a go gurt. I feel like we grew
Speaker 1: up in a very bizarre time for foods that don't
Speaker 1: look edible, looking too like the purple catchup exactly. I
Speaker 1: feel like we were almost it was almost some sinister
Speaker 1: experiments trained children to want to eat things that don't
Speaker 1: look at it because it's like, okay, you've got the
Speaker 1: multicolored goldfish and the purple ketchup and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're making that fun. I get it. But then it's like,
Speaker 1: and here's tied pods and glow sticks, but you don't
Speaker 1: eat those, right. I feel like we were set up
Speaker 1: to want to eat cut things, and then this generation
Speaker 1: is really suffering. And yeah, I used to have learned
Speaker 1: from our mistakes. I used to have blue margarine in
Speaker 1: a squeezy bottle. You could just squeeze water as you
Speaker 1: say it blue margarine on toast. I would yeah, my
Speaker 1: mom would true, Sorry, I'll stop calling it. I like it.
Speaker 1: It was like a treat. My mom was like, do
Speaker 1: your homeworka and I'll give you space toast. Space toast.
Speaker 1: That doesn't take it better. Anything blue does make it space. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can just plue milk blue cheese. They had blue
Speaker 1: SpongeBob Macaroniongebob Macaroni. I would get the yellow SpongeBob macaroni,
Speaker 1: and I actually preferred it, not because I cared too
Speaker 1: much about SpongeBob, but I liked the texture of the
Speaker 1: SpongeBob shaped noodles. The shape it allows allows the cheese
Speaker 1: to flow through them. They were you could breathe through
Speaker 1: them and a little blow through you SpongeBob dark. Yes,
Speaker 1: so sometimes this fox fire of the fungus is bright
Speaker 1: enough to read by, and it was actually used as
Speaker 1: an early form of glow in the dark technology. In
Speaker 1: s It was used to illuminate instruments in the first
Speaker 1: ever combat submarine, the turt not an intimidating name for
Speaker 1: a combat submarine. But that's how it sneaks up on you, right,
Speaker 1: No one expects the turtle blood, right McConnell, that's true
Speaker 1: that the turtle with a lot of so I brought
Speaker 1: up by luminescence, first of all because it's wicked cool,
Speaker 1: but also because for our creature kingle times, I feel
Speaker 1: like we need to revise Rudolph. Now, clearly Rudolph is
Speaker 1: Now wait, does Rudolph have antlers? I guess that's a
Speaker 1: good question, right, I think I think that Rudolph does
Speaker 1: have antlers. I think in the in the stop motion special,
Speaker 1: we don't see Rudolph with antlers or yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's just got a little little could So if he
Speaker 1: doesn't have antlers, I guess he could be a male reindeer.
Speaker 1: But if he does have antlers in December, then she's
Speaker 1: got to be a female reindeer. These absolutely, these absolute
Speaker 1: pigs making Christmas entertainment don't understand, right, it's a matriarchy, right,
Speaker 1: so I think. But let's imagine how a real Rudolph
Speaker 1: would evolve, Like, why would Rudolph have a glowing nose,
Speaker 1: like an actual glow glow in the dark nose? That
Speaker 1: it's never the franchise does not attempt to explain it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just is that hydric cats a crotal clause or
Speaker 1: Q claus could uh could use to to fly by.
Speaker 1: So I mean I think, you know, I do think
Speaker 1: that probably it would be a symbiotic bacteria in that nose,
Speaker 1: sort of like the angler fish, because they have that
Speaker 1: little bold that bulb, the little dongle that they used
Speaker 1: to lure in prey love. When the bulb is on
Speaker 1: the dongle and the bulb on the dongle, it glows,
Speaker 1: and it would be we know, we can get the
Speaker 1: red biolumin essence from the railroad worm that has that enzyme,
Speaker 1: So you got you got that that sort of lucifer
Speaker 1: raise in their produced by bacteria or maybe even just
Speaker 1: like a bunch of like symbiotic railroad worms. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then who's to say, And then but why would
Speaker 1: why would this be the case? Like there's got to
Speaker 1: be a reason for this glowing nose, and don't tell
Speaker 1: me it was to help Santa. There's always an issue
Speaker 1: with that because you're like, well, you know, what's the reach?
Speaker 1: How strong is this luminate? It's like you wouldn't. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't be reaching beyond a few feet in front of you, right, right, exactly.
Speaker 1: So I think here's my theory is Rudolph is a predator.
Speaker 1: This is the glowing noses, bioluminescence to lure and prey
Speaker 1: because maybe I mean and it's red like a berry,
Speaker 1: so it's probably the lure in small winter birds. Sure,
Speaker 1: maybe a waxwing or something get in there, wants to
Speaker 1: eat that big bright berry of a nose. It's glowing
Speaker 1: so they can see it. Really, it's attractive bait, bait,
Speaker 1: so Rudolph would have giant jaws to snap up. The
Speaker 1: little Birdie is sort of like an angler, right, is
Speaker 1: a brutally carnivorous woman, right, which actually fits with our
Speaker 1: hydrogen crotal clause, which is also a predator. So you
Speaker 1: have these two, the team of apex predators. The thing
Speaker 1: through this guy house Christmas that we're creating a bloom house, Well,
Speaker 1: it's just like it's like it's a horror movie. It's scary,
Speaker 1: it's not. You keep using the H word. I keep
Speaker 1: H and M. Yeah. I don't think that these are monsters.
Speaker 1: I think if you could learn anything from listening to
Speaker 1: this show is that horrible creatures aren't monsters. They just are.
Speaker 1: They just are We just they just are. We have
Speaker 1: and I think Creature Kringle Times is about understanding them.
Speaker 1: So in honor of that, I want to sing a
Speaker 1: song with you. It's called Rudolph's Violuminescent Nose out to
Speaker 1: the tune of Nothing. No, no, it's not to the
Speaker 1: tune of anything because of copyright issues. So this is
Speaker 1: my own, very own composition. If there's any similarities to
Speaker 1: any other tune, it's purely coincidental. Yeah, and I'm confident
Speaker 1: that our singing abilities are not gonna be spot on
Speaker 1: enough to infringe in. It's gonna to which is great.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm sorry for criticizing you for being pitchy
Speaker 1: because I think legally speaking, legally speaking, it's going to
Speaker 1: save my key stir Well. There you go. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's let's do this. Maybe I might put some
Speaker 1: jingles in the background, but there's not gonna be any
Speaker 1: means acapella. Acapella do it, let's do Yeah, alright, let's
Speaker 1: try and a one and a two and a three
Speaker 1: nose reindeer had a violina essent no like an angler fish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: full of symbiotic bacteria whose enzymes catalyze the oxidation of
Speaker 1: a light emating compound. Come on, somebody, Some would even
Speaker 1: say it claws like that's quid, Like that's quid. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All of the other reindeer were frightened of his hunt. Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: her massive teets, lady snabbing up tiny birdies while camouflage
Speaker 1: the very reee. Then one foggy wait wait, sorry, cring
Speaker 1: old times creature, your cringle times. There we go. Sorry,
Speaker 1: this is a nondenominational holiday. Then one foggy creature cring
Speaker 1: old times night. So say a hydro catsa cotal claws,
Speaker 1: rude off with your nose and jaws. Let's go hunt
Speaker 1: for prey tonight. All of the other reindeer as they
Speaker 1: cower down in fear. Oh, Rudolf, oh Lord, please serve
Speaker 1: us for another blood. So, dear God, I'm monster though, Rudolf,
Speaker 1: Oh Lord please spect wait, oh wait, Dakota, Oh yes, sorry, Rudolf,
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, please spare us for another blood. So dear,
Speaker 1: do you know nice? That's nice, that's great, good for us. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: thank you all for joining me on this very special
Speaker 1: two part holiday special and for Jamie for sticking through
Speaker 1: it and singing all the songs with me. It's been
Speaker 1: a true pleasure. You've been integral to creating the lore
Speaker 1: of Creature Kringle Times. Thank you. We've I think we've
Speaker 1: done it. We've created a better holiday. I think that
Speaker 1: we have and I and if you can't hang then,
Speaker 1: I mean you know, the doors right there. Honestly though,
Speaker 1: the door is kind of revolving door. Because back, please
Speaker 1: come back, please, there's only the two of us here
Speaker 1: in our Creature Kringle Times. We're having a great time.
Speaker 1: We're having a great time about so much shallow light
Speaker 1: up like our body suits. Please don't be alarmed by
Speaker 1: head trick as at hydrotal clause. Yeah, they're very nice. Yes,
Speaker 1: Just don't get too close. Just don't get too close
Speaker 1: to the beak area. Yeah, just stay away from the area.
Speaker 1: That peripheral isn't great. It's the it's the it's our
Speaker 1: creature Kringle Times motto. Stay away from the beak, Stay
Speaker 1: away from from the beak. You've heard the song. You've
Speaker 1: heard the song for the stay away from the stay
Speaker 1: away from the bak. No jingle in the background. The
Speaker 1: beak is the business and stay away from it. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful,
Speaker 1: Join us, Join us, Happy Creature Kringle Times. Trade off
Speaker 1: your trade, your cheese for your bread and your Creature
Speaker 1: Kringle Times presence. We've got all the grudge holding crows,
Speaker 1: they come, throughs, they come. We've got the ravens who
Speaker 1: know if you've been naughty, and we'll give you the
Speaker 1: cold shoulder. You've got glowing squids. It's join us, Join us,
Speaker 1: Join us. Well, it's been a real treat. Jamie, you've
Speaker 1: got anything to plug? Yeah, you can just follow me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jamie Loft as help. And I've got
Speaker 1: a new podcast called My Year in Mensa that's about
Speaker 1: my year in Mensa that'll be out sometimes this month. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. So Creature Kringle Times, by the way, thank you.
Speaker 1: Happy Creature Kringle Times to you as well to everyone.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's it's a holiday for everyone. Absolutely yes.
Speaker 1: So you can find us at Creature feature Pod dot com,
Speaker 1: Creature feature Pot on Instagram, Creature feet Pot on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That's f E T f E T. That is something
Speaker 1: very different. I have been your host of Mini parasites.
Speaker 1: Katie Golden, I am also the human friend of pro Bird,
Speaker 1: writes Twitter that explores a universe in which birds are
Speaker 1: actually the dominant species. Thanks so much for listening, you guys,
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