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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature, feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,

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Speaker 1: and today on the show, it's Creature. We we're bringing

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Speaker 1: you some spooky species, some foolish genuses, tales that will

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Speaker 1: chill you to the beat, and boat from undead fish,

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Speaker 1: tailor rodents and flying zombies. These real stories will send

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Speaker 1: shivers down your spine if you have one. Discover this

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Speaker 1: and more as we answer the age old question can

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Speaker 1: you still be fashionable? From beyond the gray? Joining me

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Speaker 1: today is front of the show, one of the maniacal

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Speaker 1: minds behind the website one nine hundred Hot Dog and

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Speaker 1: co host of the podcast The Dogaga the Zone, Robert Brockway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Hey, thank you for pronouncing all of the letters.

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Speaker 2: Nobody ever does that, and I'm offended every time you did.

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Speaker 2: Forget nine thousand. We put a nine thousand on there

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Speaker 2: to make it extra hard.

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Speaker 1: To search, as anyone who listens to this podcast can

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Speaker 1: attest to them. I'm great at pronouncing things, especially Latin

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Speaker 1: names for stuff, and it comes out as a beautiful

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Speaker 1: letters and vowel. Salad from my mouth.

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Speaker 2: Doggus zonicus from the Latin for the area of dogs.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me for a spooky spook aween.

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Speaker 1: Spook aween. I should have called you rob Boot. There

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Speaker 1: it is. Remember when we all did that with our names.

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Speaker 1: That was fun. That was innocent times.

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Speaker 2: That was Twitter right before uh, before it fascism.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a more innocent time. There's there's uh, there is Sean.

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Speaker 1: I guess I'll let them in.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just let him in.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's here. He says he's here,

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Speaker 1: but it's just it's his ghost, his spooky ghost.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's what he's doing. He's doing a bit.

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Speaker 1: He's doing a spooky ghost bit. I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: gonna find we're gonna like reading the newspaper that he died,

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Speaker 1: but he joined the podcast after he died.

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Speaker 2: Who was Shawn Baby? That's a game. I haven't heard

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Speaker 2: a ny on twenty years. There has been dead the

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Speaker 2: whole time.

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Speaker 1: There hasn't been a shop Baby here since the Great

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Speaker 1: Bloodening of nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: Some say you can still hear him out there on

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Speaker 2: that old innet.

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Speaker 1: What's this we've got. I'm sensing something it's coming through

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Speaker 1: through the fog of my seance globe with my crystal ball.

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Speaker 1: A figure emerges. Who is this? Is this the other

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Speaker 1: co host of the podcast, the Dogogacase his own and

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Speaker 1: one of the other maniacal minds behind the website one

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Speaker 1: nine hundred Hot Dog. Could this be the legendary ghost

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Speaker 1: whisper ghost Tickler shambaby dot com.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm I'm the legendary ghost tickler. That's what people

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Speaker 3: know me. Yes, thank you. It's a pleasure to be

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Speaker 3: back to tickle the ghosts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we we we are truly shocked. We reached

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Speaker 1: out to you through this sance. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a scam, but here you are.

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Speaker 2: You have to do it in a ghost voice whole podcast,

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Speaker 2: ghost Voice, ghost.

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Speaker 1: Voice wherever that tickles Sean booms, sham boo, baby, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: We are talking about spooky animals on this podcast, this

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Speaker 1: time on account of it being the spookiest Halloween of all. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: They like getting tickled.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the ghost Tickler on to catch a ghost where

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Speaker 1: they're like, hey, ghosts, why do you have a seat

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Speaker 1: over here? I'm gonna tickle you.

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Speaker 3: And then I'm like, uh this Semas for me. I

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Speaker 3: was here to show them the dangers of drinking six

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Speaker 3: semas by yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good. Rest in peace God. I forgot

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Speaker 1: that guy's name, Chris Hansen. Chris Hansen, he's.

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Speaker 3: Still or were you talking about one of the predators

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Speaker 3: you're touching? Butts? That that was the man's name he

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Speaker 3: had I legally changed. Yeah, we all should have seen

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Speaker 3: it coming.

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Speaker 1: Ripping peace. I love those funny tombstones they put up

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Speaker 1: on Halloween where they're like ripping' peace mister. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: see more asses.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got some of those in our neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I meet a lot of squares now as a parent, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of You know, it's hard to like

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Speaker 3: pick your friends group when when all your kids go

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Speaker 3: friend's parents are like, oh, yeah, I gotta see are

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Speaker 3: zany tombstones this year?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever have you ever gone to a haunted

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Speaker 3: Too terrifying spaghetti. As a ghost tickler, I legally am

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Speaker 2: Have you ever just busted the fuck up at one

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Speaker 2: of those tombstones, like you want to be too good

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Speaker 2: for it because you're a comedian, but then you're like, no, never,

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Speaker 2: classic clic.

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Speaker 3: The second I felt that coming on, I would kick

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Speaker 1: I split my guts open. And when I saw tombstone

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Speaker 1: and it said, uh, here lies the ghosts dead person.

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Speaker 3: Mister Butts, that one's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: That one's yes, that is good.

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Speaker 2: Today we are a square test and I caught both

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, today we are talking about animals

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Speaker 1: who are spooky spooky ghosts. We are first going to

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Speaker 1: talk about a fish that can do skin magic from

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Speaker 1: beyond the grave. This is based on a great article

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Speaker 1: in the New York Times by Elizabeth and Brown or

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Speaker 1: should I say Elizabeth and boo around. Okay, I'll stop

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Speaker 1: that starting now. So, this is a fish called the hogfish,

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Speaker 1: the humble hogfish it is. It is a fish that

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Speaker 1: can do necrotic skin magic.

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Speaker 2: So doing some hog hogskin magic on this fish.

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Speaker 1: Hogskin magic, uh, tossing the old hogskin fish around. So

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Speaker 1: hogfish are found in the Atlantic Ocean. They are a

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Speaker 1: species of wrass that is this sort of patchy cream

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Speaker 1: of trapezoidal shape with long dorsal spines. It's called a

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Speaker 1: hogfish due to an elongated hog like snout, which it

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Speaker 1: I have sent you a photo of this fish. It

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Speaker 1: is on its own, not that scary unless you're scared

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Speaker 2: Definitely definitely scared of fish, especially especially hogfish.

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Speaker 2: He looks almost exactly like the guy that did piercings

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Speaker 2: He's got the three little spikes, the weird beady eyes.

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Speaker 3: Big old that did your belly button.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and amongst amongst other things.

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Speaker 2: Well, the belly button was fine. He actually did a

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Speaker 2: piercing called the hogfish. Ah, yeah, that's that's left over.

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Speaker 1: So you know, this fish, it's uh, you know, pretty

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Speaker 1: typical fish stuff. But they can I mean, they're interesting

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Speaker 1: because when they are born, all hogfish are female, and

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Speaker 1: will change their sex as they mature, depending on environmental conditions.

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Speaker 1: so far typical fish stuff, very normal, very normal.

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Speaker 2: Stuff for Yeah, exactly, like mayor a political opportunity.

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Speaker 3: I used to do the same thing in the fraternity. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Look you know what they elect, they elect their mayor

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Speaker 1: and then it becomes sexually male.

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Speaker 3: So exactly, I triple in size, Yeah, I get much

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Speaker 3: more masculine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, get uh you start like, uh being interested in sports?

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 1: Is that a guy thing?

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Speaker 3: What I like to do for my sports? I like

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Speaker 3: to take my snout and dig in the ocean floor. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and then I'll eat crabs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, such a guy thing.

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Speaker 3: So with the.

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Speaker 2: With the bros.

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Speaker 1: So another interesting thing these fish do is they change

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Speaker 1: brown to white depending on their surroundings. Surroundings, they will

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Speaker 3: I have a fish question. Can they mix and match?

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Speaker 3: Can you be like I'm going to be a rusty

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Speaker 2: Always easier on the white fellas, always easier?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean they they're The ability to change

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Speaker 1: They they can both change their sex and change their color.

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Speaker 1: they they can't. Unfortunately, they can't like switch back and

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Speaker 1: But that would be rad and it would be.

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Speaker 2: I love that it works, like like picking classes in Overwatch.

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Speaker 2: Like just nobody's nobody's playing Boy. Really, nobody's playing Boy, right,

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Speaker 2: I guess I'm not good at Boy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we need one Boy.

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Speaker 1: We need one Boy. Does anyone want to play Boy

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Speaker 2: You know it's not fun.

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Speaker 1: I played Boy last time. It's your turn.

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Speaker 3: First playing Overwatch. I was just this is just like

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Speaker 3: being a fish. Been there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so they can change much about themselves. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is not like particularly unusual for a marine life.

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Speaker 1: There is there are a lot of marine animals that

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Speaker 1: can change their skin color, although this is not super

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Speaker 1: common for fish. And what is odd is that researchers

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Speaker 1: have noticed that hogfish are able to change their skin

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Speaker 1: color from beyond the grave. So this is where I

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Speaker 1: get spooky from a watery grave, because this is the

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Speaker 2: All water by rusty hog.

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Speaker 1: So a marine biologist Lorian Skware god no waker Laurian

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Speaker 1: Schweikert noticed a speared hogfish on the deck of a

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Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, did we check her for paint scientists? You

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Speaker 3: can't trust him, that's what they tell me in church.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was, I believe there was. This must have

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Speaker 1: Right, it's like face off, but you just kind of

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, fortunately this seems to be absolutely real. She

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Speaker 3: And this works completely independent from like the fish that

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Speaker 2: So science says the skin it's haunted.

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Speaker 1: It's haunted, haunted fish.

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Speaker 3: Taken away from this. Yeah, so if I was to

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long your fish skin to pay

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Speaker 3: But for a special night out, like it would last

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Speaker 1: A special night out, Like, well, that's.

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Speaker 3: Good, it's good news. You're giving me great news, Kating.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you want a color changing fish skin

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Speaker 1: we are going to talk about carnivorous mice. So you

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Speaker 2: Can we prove those birds are innocent?

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Speaker 1: You know, birds are innocent until proven guilty.

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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm just being justice simple bird lawyer. But

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Speaker 2: Toll prove all birds are guilty.

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Speaker 1: Actually, this is not happening in the United States. This

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Speaker 2: The island colonialist vampire mice. Yeah, no, word of mice.

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Speaker 1: No mouse is an island. But a bunch of mice

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Speaker 2: Do anybody have a vampire mouse? Impressed? I don't have that.

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Speaker 3: I a mose. I don't belong on this island. Blo.

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Speaker 1: It's me Mickey mouse spire, and I want to suck

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Speaker 2: I'm going to suck your blood.

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Speaker 1: And then sue you.

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Speaker 3: Now and Francis.

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Speaker 2: Litigious colonialist vampire mouse, you buly sue you, exploding ligous.

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Speaker 1: So yes, these mice, uh what I.

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Speaker 3: Said, Travian madam s.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So these mice uh want to feed on the

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Speaker 3: When you said they're drinking bird blood, I was like,

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Speaker 1: No, now it's pain.

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Speaker 3: Something has to be done. Yeah, something has to be done.

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Speaker 1: There's something about penguins where it's like, I think humans

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Speaker 3: They're tummy, which is even cuter.

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Speaker 2: Any animal that wears a suit, that wears a little

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Speaker 3: My I mean every day is a black tie event

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Speaker 1: I think the tummy theory is strong, right because some

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Speaker 1: And you might be asking, how does a mouse eat

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Speaker 3: If they merge to form one man shaped mouse, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like the logic of the mouse forming like a human,

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Speaker 2: And so how would these birds know that they don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some birds. Look, we can't generalize to all.

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Speaker 2: Birds, but some birds hashag, not all birds.

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Speaker 1: Hashag not all birds, but yes, all all fish are

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Speaker 2: And it's cool that I remember that on these birds.

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Speaker 1: Spooky, come on, spooky Halloween tip. If you just have

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you're like, uh, spiders, Now you've got

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Speaker 1: spiders on you. Then you have time to get away

440
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: while all the birds try to eat those spiders smart yeah,

441
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: so uh yeah. The mice will basically just like sneak

442
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: up on a bird while it's asleep and start chewing

443
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: on its skin, and even if the bird like wakes

444
00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: up eventually, essentially the mice kind of breaks the Geneva

445
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: conventions like the the like they commit war crimes by

446
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: continually disrupting the bird's sleep until the bird is just

447
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: so exhausted that it kind of like it can no

448
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: longer like keep waking up and trying to knock the

449
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: mouse off, and so the mouse just like choose its

450
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: skin off. I have I've sent you a photo, the

451
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: most sort of the least gory photo I could find

452
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: of this of a mouse just sitting on one of

453
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: these birds attacking it.

454
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 3: But I get this dock. I'm actually really glad I

455
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: didn't get this.

456
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: It's it's a photo of a mouse sitting on the

457
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: head of an albatross chick. It looks like and what

458
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: it's doing is it is eating its scalp off. You

459
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: can't really you can't really see that in this photo.

460
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: But I have looked at the other photos where it's

461
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: essentially this poor little bird that's been scalped by a mouse.

462
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: Because like when I when I first read about these

463
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: mice where it's like, yeah, these mice like bite these birds,

464
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm like imagining sort of just like little bite marks

465
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: on the bird. I was not imagining a bird just

466
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: having an entire chunk of skin missing in this like

467
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: really horrific way. So uh it is uh actually kind

468
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: of disturbing.

469
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 2: And yet in this photo, if you have kind of

470
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 2: bad eyesight, which I do, uh, it just looks like

471
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 2: a bird cosplaying is dan Rather it's got like.

472
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: A little just some hair piece.

473
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just got like a real nice quaft,

474
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: velvety kind of poof. Yeah, are we sure it's not symbiotic?

475
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 2: Where like the bird just understands how good it looks?

476
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: Now are you asking? Was like if this is a

477
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: ratituy situation where the ratituy is actually eating its scalp

478
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: as well as helping it cook food.

479
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, with the ladies with like the bird.

480
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: Lady right with the bird ladies, like you know, yeah,

481
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: you goulnat want to go on to ask her what

482
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: her name is? Can I eat?

483
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 2: In an exchange a little bit.

484
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 3: Of skin surround de bergiak ratituy. But he's also eating

485
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 3: the human head.

486
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: Now that's the crossover I'd like to see. So, yeah,

487
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: they are a problem for these birds, and conservationists want

488
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: to get rid of these mice because, uh, you know,

489
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: they are actually a big threat to some of these

490
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: bird species on this island, and so they are trying

491
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: to They are going on like a big Tom and

492
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: Jerry style mouse hunt where they are they're they're they're

493
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: pulling out all the stops, they're they're they're, uh, they've

494
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: caught up Tom and been like, hey, Tom, what's some

495
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: of the ideas that they didn't let you use in

496
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,479
Speaker 1: those cartoons because they were so heinous. Uh, So they

497
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: are used. They are using poisoned grain to try to

498
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: kill these mice, which is tricky because most of the

499
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,239
Speaker 1: sea birds, while most of them actually eat fish, there

500
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: are some species that are more unnow wrists, so the

501
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: bird might eat the grain. So conservationists are actually collecting

502
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: the birds that eat grain, putting them in like protective

503
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: bird jail while they spread poison grain for the mice

504
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: to eat, and then once the once the mice have

505
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: presumably eaten, the poison grain. Then they release the birds

506
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: from from protective bird jail.

507
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 2: So I was writing that all birds are guilty. I mean,

508
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 2: and they go to bird prison.

509
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: Look, I said, bird jail, and you're still presumed innocent

510
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: when when you're in jail you know nothing of bird law.

511
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 2: You know nothing of bird law, you're born into it.

512
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,479
Speaker 3: So what happens? What happens if this doesn't work, if

513
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 3: the poison grain doesn't work, what's plan B?

514
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: Plan B? I don't know, Like I guess hammers.

515
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 2: See that's right, all the birds together into one big

516
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 2: bird to fight the big.

517
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: Mouse helmets for the birds helmets.

518
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 3: I feel like we've solved it. You take the hammers,

519
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 3: the birds have helmets. Just go crazy with the hammers.

520
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 3: Just drop hammers out a helicopters, do whatever you want,

521
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 3: because the birds have the helmets. You can't hurt a

522
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: bird right with a hammer. No, we're not onto something.

523
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 3: We'll get it.

524
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: Have like uh have like a movie that's like mouse

525
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: film film for mice. Birds aren't going to be interested

526
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: in this movie. Then all the mice go to the

527
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: tiny mouse cinema and then.

528
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: You go quick where you drop hammers on.

529
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: Then you go Quentin Tarantino on it.

530
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 3: What about rat terriers? They're so adorable and I don't

531
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 3: know if you've ever seen a rat terrier go to town,

532
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 3: But they'll just grab a rat, shake it till it's dead,

533
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 3: and drop it. That's they have no more interest in it.

534
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 3: They don't want to eat it or present it to anyone.

535
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 3: They're just bread to murder rats. So I guess you'd

536
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 3: need to breathe smaller terriers, Like how adorable would that be?

537
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 3: Like a mouse terrier?

538
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you know, a rat terrier might

539
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: go after the mice, not the birds. Might not be

540
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: a bad idea, that's for me.

541
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 3: You put cats in the island, the cats are gonna

542
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 3: kill the birds, right, crazy idea.

543
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: But a rat terrier, Yeah, there accountable.

544
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 2: Butting serial killers onto the islands to take care of

545
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: all the rat terriers.

546
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: Right, okay, So then, but how do you get rid

547
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: of the butting serial killers? Then you got to release

548
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: the flesh eating mice. Now you've just four chan.

549
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 2: You release a four chan onto the islands and they'll

550
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: all become preoccupied with it and will no longer venture.

551
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: Outside to kill makes sense, all right, We've solved a

552
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: good job, boys, Conservation achieved. We're going to take a

553
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: quick break, and when we return, we're going to talk

554
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: about flying zombies. They fly now, they fly now, they

555
00:32:55,120 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: fly now. All right, we're about and we're talking about

556
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: flying zombies. You know, I feel like you're against him.

557
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: I feel like the zombie genre, the zambre, has a

558
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: lot of like iterations of zombies, like these are these

559
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: are zombie Nazis. This is a zombie that you're in

560
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: love with. This is a storm trooper Nazi. Wait no, sorry,

561
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: zombies storm.

562
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 3: Trooper are too many hooks. Zombies have too many hooks.

563
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: A zombie Nazi storm trooper who you can fall in

564
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: love with, the whole zombie thing. But you know what,

565
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: I haven't seen I haven't seen flying zombies in movies yet,

566
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, you know, like just a zombie that can

567
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: Superman around.

568
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you're right.

569
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: That's the final frontier for just ringing every last drop

570
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: of content out of zombies. But there is actual zombie flies.

571
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: So probably a lot of you, and especially people who

572
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: listen to this show, or if you've seen or played

573
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: the Last of Us, you're probably familiar with Cordyceps fungus

574
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: that infects ants, and the ants go a little bit nuts,

575
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: a little batty, and then crawl away, and then the

576
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: cordyceps grows out of their bodies. Uh. And that's that's

577
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: all horrible. We've are We've talked about that before. But

578
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: I've got another one for you. Uh. There is a

579
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: different type of fungus that attacks flies. So the fungus

580
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: uh Intomothora mouse ski, also known as insect destroyer, infects

581
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: a variety of flies, including house flies and fruit flies.

582
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 3: I mean good, nobody likes those bugs.

583
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sweet name. I can't be against it.

584
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, insect destroyer, Yeah.

585
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 2: No, just insect destroyer. I would if I was marketing

586
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 2: for the fungus, Like, if the fungus hired me to mark,

587
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 2: I would go with insect destroyer in like a heavy

588
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 2: metal font. Yeah, and I was I would really embrace.

589
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 3: If I saw destroy If I had a bag, My

590
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 3: wife thought, ah, one of those little plants that pitcher

591
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 3: plant the flies, and she's super pissed off that it

592
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 3: has not diminished the fly population. But if I if

593
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 3: I had a bag of fungus that I could just

594
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 3: release into the air, turn them on the zombies just

595
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 3: have three or four days of zombiesuretically, they would fungus.

596
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: That is how all zombie movies start, though you realize

597
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: that they're like if I could just release all of

598
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 2: this and get rid of whatever I want to get

599
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 2: rid of, then surely everything will Oh no zombies, Like

600
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: that's that is how you get zombies historically, Like, like

601
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: that's how you get ants. When you release sugar, that's

602
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:58,919
Speaker 2: how you get zombi.

603
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: Either you can either put some red wine vinegar in

604
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: a cup and then put plastic wrap on the top

605
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: and poke some holes in it, or you can release

606
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: this fungus. And the releasing of the fungus sounds a

607
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: lot more fun, although I feel like maybe by the

608
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: end of this you might have like a shred of

609
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: sympathy for these flies.

610
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 3: So first, okay, let's hear it.

611
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: Open your mind and your heart to the flies. First,

612
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: the fungus lands on a fly via spores. The spore

613
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: then invades the flies hemal lymph. So hemal lymph is

614
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: bug blood essentially, so the fungus feeds on the flies

615
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: hemal lymph and fat tissue. Then the fly's mind is

616
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: influenced by the fungus, and it is driven to climb

617
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: upwards and upwards. Its body is riddled with the fungus.

618
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: Then it is induced somehow by the fungus. Now we

619
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: researchers don't know exactly how the fungus is doing this,

620
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: but the fly sticks out it's proboscis. That's its little

621
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: two blank mouth thing, the little like weird tiny elephant

622
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: trunk thing that flies have that they use to suck

623
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: up food. It sticks this out onto the surface and

624
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: it uses this like sticky saliva that is probably infused

625
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: with some kind of sticky fungal compound. And this drool

626
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: actually forms like a glue, so it's glued from its

627
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: like by the mouth onto the surface that it's on.

628
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: And so now the fly is stuck. And then the

629
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: fly is for some reason compelled to extend its wings

630
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: in this like upright position that's kind of unnatural for it.

631
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: And now the fly has essentially become this fixed in place,

632
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: perfect substrate for the fungus to grow and spread. And

633
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: just hours later the fly has grown this fluffy white coat.

634
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:13,479
Speaker 1: And this coat is actually fungal filaments which will grow

635
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: spores at the tips. Importantly, the reason that the fly's

636
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: wings are now stuck in this like weird upright position

637
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: is to clear the way for the spores to fire

638
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: off of the fly's body. So now these spores that

639
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: are all growing out of the fly's body can basically

640
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: pop off like popcorn or fireworks and then hopefully land

641
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: on another victim who will go through the exact same thing.

642
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: Right, this is a nightmare.

643
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns It turns them into James Brown, kind

644
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 2: of like a you've been down, kiss the dirt, stick

645
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 2: your stick your legs up, stick your wings up. You

646
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 2: put on a big white fluffy coat.

647
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 3: The other guy comes in throws a cape on you.

648
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 3: You throw you got more to.

649
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: Do, and that cape infects and creates other James Brown's,

650
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 2: as we well know from history. Yeah, I'm on board

651
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 2: with this so far. I think this whip's ad.

652
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 3: Team Fungus. I think I think I'm.

653
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: Agreed Team Fungus. We're all team fungus. I would like

654
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: to see a zombie movie where basically a zombie just

655
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: sort of bites a wall and then starts growing a

656
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: coat and sticks its arms out and like Superman position,

657
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: and then the coat starts like just shooting off spores.

658
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: That'd be fun.

659
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 3: Would it'd be a bit if I saw that, I'd

660
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 3: be like this a bit much. Zombies.

661
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, it's a little dramatic.

662
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 3: It's a little hannibal lector it's like Writtner's The Majesty

663
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 3: of My Death. You're like, take it easy.

664
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: I feel like the groaning and the moaning is already

665
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: a little mill dramatic, Like we get it, you're dead,

666
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: but you're moving around, understood.

667
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna sell a lot of popcorn

668
00:39:59,480 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 2: at that movie.

669
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: Hmmm. If if the.

670
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 2: Theaters aren't gonna like it, they make most of their

671
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 2: money off of that.

672
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, not gonna sell that. I like sauted mushrooms, like

673
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 3: a nice cup of saw ted mushrooms.

674
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: Right right. They're not gonna sell a lot of fungal

675
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: spores at the movie theater, if you know what I mean.

676
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 3: I'm a couple of spores here, get you a couple

677
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 3: of spores, cold couple spores.

678
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: I don't know why he's at a movie theater. The

679
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 2: all game was rutted down at the movies.

680
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: Now that's what that's what happens at modern cinema. Got

681
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: someone walking through the aisles, screaming, yelling, yelling, hot dogs,

682
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: get your three D glasses and your fule spores.

683
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 3: Watch out for Nicole Kidman. Her hair is being blown back.

684
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: Cinema, Yes, the magic of chinema. Well, so, yeah, this

685
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: is this is the fate of this poor little fly

686
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: gets turned into a mere vessel for the fungal spores

687
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: and it literally just has to like kiss the ground

688
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: and die.

689
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 2: Zero empathy for the flies.

690
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: Still like flies, Still don't like the flies. It's because

691
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a cute little tummy, isn't it.

692
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 2: No, it's because my adorable little dog is definitely afraid

693
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 2: of flies for no reason. We can determine that. I'm

694
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 2: on her side. Yeah, so if I could, if I

695
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: could release this fungus and encourage it to destroy all flies.

696
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: I do it for her, one of the few insects.

697
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: I truly hate our tics because of them being mean

698
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: to my dog. Like, I'm like, how dare you beyond

699
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: my dog and hurt her? I will exact vengeance. You

700
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: will be contained in a bottle and drown in alcohol,

701
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: which sounds good, but trust me it's not.

702
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 2: There are worst ways.

703
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: I guess it's.

704
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: Rubbing alcohol it's not like I drowned them in a

705
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 1: really nice sort.

706
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: Of we don't know have standards chocolate. We were all

707
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 2: teenagers once.

708
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: Uh. Well listen before we go, uh, and you can

709
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: go about your ghoulish uh daily activities. We do gotta

710
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: play a little game. It's called the mystery animal sound game.

711
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: Uh I guess who's squawking? Every week I play a

712
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: spooky and scary mystery animal sound and you, the listener,

713
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: any of the guests, try to guess who is squawking?

714
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 2: Uh.

715
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: So, last week mystery animal sound hint was this? This

716
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: ferocious wild carnivore would eat you if only it didn't

717
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: fit inside your pocket.

718
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 3: I actually know this one. Yeah, that is a Hall

719
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 3: of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson.

720
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: Ah, how did you know?

721
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 2: No, that's not maybe it's right in your pocket. That's

722
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 2: right in your pocket, little Randy.

723
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: Little Randy, little pucker, that's what the Yeah.

724
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 2: And he would kill you if he had the chance.

725
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 2: Be so thankful, be thankful. He's so weet, bloodthirsty.

726
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 3: He did kill a bird that one time.

727
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: Oh, with the ball? Was that when he hit a

728
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: bird with a ball.

729
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, he hit a bird with a ball, and.

730
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,760
Speaker 1: That bird Uh, presumed guilty before being proven innocent.

731
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 3: Yes, that bird bunch of trial, one appeal.

732
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 1: Jury and bird secutioner. No, this is not that sports

733
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: guy you just said. This is something else. This is

734
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: called the rusty spotted cat.

735
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 2: Uh.

736
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: It is the smallest cat in the world and it

737
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 1: is totally it is like the size of a kitten.

738
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 2: Uh.

739
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: And yet it is a full grown wild cat.

740
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and you did not send us pictures.

741
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna google.

742
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,760
Speaker 1: Google it. You will be happy.

743
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 2: He's so cute, a little round ears in the big eyes.

744
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 2: And that's as big as they get.

745
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: That's as big as they get. That's it. They are

746
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: found in India and Sri Lanka and it is absolutely adorable.

747
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: Why did we pick other cats to keep? Why didn't

748
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 2: we just get this and we get this cat?

749
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,720
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean you know, I think we made a mistake.

750
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: We need to go back in time and instead of

751
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: using a time machine to like prevent some of the

752
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: world's greatest atrocities, we should go back in time and

753
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: demesticate this little this little guy.

754
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 2: I think that would prevent some of the world's greatest atrocities.

755
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 2: I don't think Hitler would have done what he did

756
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 2: if instead of the German shepherd, he had this tiny

757
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 2: little fella in his.

758
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: Pocket, cat or this little cat was gonna kill baby

759
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: Hitler Warrior.

760
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 3: You could speak into Hitler's bunker with like fifteen of

761
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 3: these in your pockets. Yeah, very nice to see you

762
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 3: if you're and then boom, cats.

763
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: Cover him, whip out your trench coat and they all

764
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 2: just explode out of all the secret pockets of kiddies

765
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 2: that you have, you have kmit inside of there.

766
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean they are. They are adorable. They are

767
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 1: indeed sort of rusty and spotty. They've got little streaks,

768
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: They've got little little white tummies.

769
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: They look like they can't wait to hear a secret.

770
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look like they would sit on your shoulder

771
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: and whisper in your ear, like like heal him, heal

772
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: him for me, and you do it. I would absolutely

773
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 1: do if this little guy sat on my shoulder telling

774
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: me to go kill people at his whim. Not gonna

775
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: say I'm not going to do it.

776
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 2: As long as they're all Hitlers.

777
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: As well as it's all Hitlers, they're like, trust me, Hitler, there,

778
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: you must kill it like that looks that looks like

779
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: that looks like a normal person. No, definitely not. You

780
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: should go kill him.

781
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 2: God damn it, Randy Johnson. This is the last time,

782
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 2: little Randy Johnson I have named my cat.

783
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, it likes to live in the forest. It

784
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: is very shy and in your pocket. No, Actually, that's

785
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 1: a sad thing is it's extremely shy. Probably the reason

786
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: that the our cats were domesticated from the African wild

787
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: cat is that the African wild cat is a little

788
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: more chill, a little more curious. This one is extremely shy,

789
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: probably because it's so small. You know, it's like, I'm

790
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: a little guy. I'm a little guy. I gotta be shy, understand. Yeah,

791
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: it'll it'll eat it'll eat rodents, it'll eat birds, frogs, insects,

792
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: and little one once.

793
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 2: Now, if you showed me a picture of this thing

794
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 2: on one of those big penguins just eating its skin,

795
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 2: I'd be much more compus.

796
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing. I'd be like, you know what, Uh,

797
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: I'll let you have it. You can take over the island.

798
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: So cute, I mean, that's essentially what we've done with cats.

799
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: Though we we were like, you're cute. You can be

800
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: invasive on this island, on this territory and kill all

801
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: the birds and indigenous species here.

802
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 3: If we could develop as we saddle small enough, we

803
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 3: could put that on the penguin, slides on the tummy,

804
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 3: kitty cat rides in the penguin.

805
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what. Look, I know that it's been

806
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: a mistake. Every single time we've introduced a species to

807
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 1: try to take care of another invasive species US a mistake.

808
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 1: But maybe this time right Because it's so small, I

809
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: don't see how it's going to eat an albatross and so,

810
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: but it's not so small that it couldn't eat a

811
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: mouse that's eating an albatross. You see where I'm going

812
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: with this. I know every single time we've done this

813
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: it's had a terrible outcome. I think we should try

814
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: it again.

815
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 3: What's the worst that could happen? We lose some albatrosses

816
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 3: and get an island of adorable kittens. Yeah, just swarming

817
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 3: with kittens, the only life form left. Yes, four feet

818
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 3: deep wading through adorable kittens.

819
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: And the great thing is there's no kind of saying

820
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: about like running into a folly that has anything to

821
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: do with albatrosses. Like it's not like like when something

822
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: happens where it becomes a big problem for you. There's

823
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: no saying that visa via albatrosses.

824
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 3: So they're saying, is uh getting a day terrific job?

825
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,479
Speaker 1: Right, that's the saying.

826
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 2: So on, It's like my mom always said, like you

827
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 2: never trust, never trust a tiny kitten. The tinier the kitten,

828
00:48:59,480 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 2: the less.

829
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 3: It's what she says.

830
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: Is that what your mother said?

831
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, she had some medication problems.

832
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: Was this here, Like you came home from school one

833
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: day and you're like, I got I gotta be on

834
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,439
Speaker 1: my math test and she's like, never trusting kids.

835
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have been looking for them ever since. These uh,

836
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 2: these kittens that curse your math tests.

837
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, moving on to this week's mystery animals

838
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: sound the hint is this when he's crabby, he's happy.

839
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 3: Kawasaki crack chocket.

840
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I usually have tried. I usually try to

841
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: be coy about it of like, maybe you're right, but no,

842
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:47,959
Speaker 1: you're absolutely wrong.

843
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 2: I didn't get it the first history.

844
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 3: You won't be.

845
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: Politeness is earned and boys, you haven't earned it. Ah.

846
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 3: So no that skateboarding walrus skateboarding walrus.

847
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: Closer, I guess, but you will find out the answer

848
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: on next time, on this very show, on Next Creature,

849
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: on Next Creature feature Fellas, thanks for being on. I guess.

850
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 2: That's the They usually cut that part in the podcast,

851
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 2: but yeah, we get that. We get that a lot.

852
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 3: It happens.

853
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: Thank you. I suppose where can people find you?

854
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 3: Take it away, Brockway, You're you're a much better plugger.

855
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856
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857
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864
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Speaker 3: How many are nothing to?

866
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Speaker 2: Is this?

867
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Speaker 3: Like?

868
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean, this sounds like a podcast that Quentin Tarantino

869
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: is definitely going to be a guest on.

870
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,240
Speaker 2: You will get some Quintins.

871
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: All right, all right, well, thank you guys for being

872
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,720
Speaker 1: on the show and thank you the listener for allowing

873
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