Speaker 1: Ruby.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Rich Schwartz, but don't see this world.
Speaker 1: I'm Marco Wentt and this.
Speaker 3: Is Amazing Wildlife, a podcast that explores unique stories of
Speaker 3: wildlife from around the world and uncovers fascinating animal facts.
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Speaker 3: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance in international nonprofit conservation organization
Speaker 3: which oversees the San Diego Zoo and this beautiful place,
Speaker 3: the San Diego Zoom Safari Park.
Speaker 2: M M.
Speaker 1: That was my hornbill here. Yeah, yeah, but you brought
Speaker 1: it right to us. I really did you know? Because
Speaker 1: we are at the beautiful Safari park right. Not only that, my.
Speaker 4: Friend, we have birds behind us, a beautiful species of flamingo.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah's great.
Speaker 3: And if our listeners want to see where we are,
Speaker 3: coming up pretty soon on YouTube, we'll be doing this
Speaker 3: visual podcast. It's being filmed right now, so if you're
Speaker 3: watching it, Soda, you can see us. But if you
Speaker 3: listen only you might want to check it out. And
Speaker 3: of course we'll let people yeacial media whe it's available.
Speaker 4: Yeah, tons of things going on to so Amanda, we're
Speaker 4: in the habitat, so don't step on any flamingo poop.
Speaker 1: Point about it does wash off.
Speaker 4: It does right, Yeah, but I'm excited. I'm excited about
Speaker 4: the visual component. But also, friend, we have something that's
Speaker 4: happening at the Safari Park now called Wildlife Awareness DAGE,
Speaker 4: so certain species throughout the year that our wildlife care
Speaker 4: staff are going to help promote support in different kind
Speaker 4: of ways.
Speaker 2: What one would we want to talk about? What wildlife?
Speaker 4: I wonder, Well, we're looking at these beautiful flamingos behind us,
Speaker 4: right and it happens to be signor International Flamingo Day
Speaker 4: on the twenty sixth of April, that's a Saturday, and
Speaker 4: this episode is going to air right before, so we thought,
Speaker 4: why not top flamingos.
Speaker 3: Right, diming, Now, do we have a flamingo line up
Speaker 3: we can talk with?
Speaker 4: Not a flaming We got a few behind us right now,
Speaker 4: but we have someone very special I think flamingos specialists
Speaker 4: that we're going to talk to you today.
Speaker 5: Very good morning, good morning, almost as good and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh so excited to be here, and especially in
Speaker 4: this wonderful habitat.
Speaker 1: I love this area of the Safari Park.
Speaker 4: Oh and our guests they can see these greater flamingos, Right,
Speaker 4: this is a species are highlighting if they ride the
Speaker 4: African tram, which is included in everyone's sect, which I
Speaker 4: absolutely love about that.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot to talk about about flamingos.
Speaker 4: Right, Sometimes I think like not everyone knows what a
Speaker 4: flamingo is, which I know sounds really funny, Aaron, But
Speaker 4: see the person who maybe there's someone in the world
Speaker 4: they've never even heard of a flamingo, which I know
Speaker 4: is very shocking.
Speaker 3: Well, wait, the other part of it too, might be
Speaker 3: the only interaction you've ever heard of.
Speaker 2: The flamingo is a plastic one on someone's long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is not accurate.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, tell us what's a flamingo.
Speaker 5: Well, the plastic ones are, They're pretty close. Depends on
Speaker 5: the type of flamingo you're thinking of. So the ones
Speaker 5: that you would normally see as a lawn ornament.
Speaker 6: Are very very bright pink.
Speaker 5: But the flamingos that we're looking at just behind us
Speaker 5: are greater flamingos, and they're.
Speaker 6: A lot lighter in color and much bigger than a
Speaker 6: lawn ornament.
Speaker 5: So flamingos are long legged, very tall, often pink birds
Speaker 5: some shade of pink and the greater flamingos that we're
Speaker 5: looking at behind us are actually the largest species.
Speaker 6: Of flamingo in the world. The greater they are the greatest.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of different species.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the species here, but you also mentioned that
Speaker 3: the lawn armed ones.
Speaker 2: Are very pink.
Speaker 3: That's right, and there are some species that are very pink,
Speaker 3: But ours behind us right now aren't.
Speaker 2: Why is that.
Speaker 6: Not quite as pink?
Speaker 5: So this is a question that actually does come up
Speaker 5: quite a bit for our guests that do see the
Speaker 5: species of flamingo as they're riding our tram. All flamingos,
Speaker 5: depending on the species, they metabolize the food that they're
Speaker 5: eating a little bit differently, and that is what determines
Speaker 5: the pigment and the pink in their feathers. So an
Speaker 5: interesting fact is there are six different species of flamingos. Oh.
Speaker 6: You can see a couple.
Speaker 5: Of them here at the Safari Park and also at
Speaker 5: the San Diego Zoo, all different, but all fed the
Speaker 5: exact same diet, so they get fed the exact same thing.
Speaker 5: So if you see the Caribbean flamingos of the San
Speaker 5: Diego Zoo, they're much pink er. The very very pink,
Speaker 5: and those are the ones that I think the laments
Speaker 5: are at ornament, but they get fed the exact same thing.
Speaker 5: So it just depends on the species of flamingo, where
Speaker 5: they're found, where they live naturally, and how they metabolize
Speaker 5: the food.
Speaker 1: That they eat.
Speaker 3: And some people will say that it is shrimp that
Speaker 3: makes them pink, but that might condrupt the idea of
Speaker 3: shrimp we would get at a restaurant shrimp cocktail.
Speaker 5: They're not eating shrimp cocktail, shrimp Mark Brian shrimp, so
Speaker 5: really small microscopic organisms and also algae, which is also
Speaker 5: something that the shrimp are feeding on. So really, if
Speaker 5: you're going to get super technical, the flamingos are turning
Speaker 5: pink because of the algae that they're eating.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. And I also like you mentioned a few
Speaker 1: species already.
Speaker 4: I mean, one of my favorite from lingo facts is
Speaker 4: they look like a delicate animal, but they live in
Speaker 4: some of these hard, sometimes even caustic kind of environments
Speaker 4: depending on the species. Maybe a lot of salt in
Speaker 4: the water make it very difficult for other animals to survive.
Speaker 4: And we mentioned a few, but maybe we should highlight
Speaker 4: all all those six right, six species of flamingo.
Speaker 1: Right, we said, let's say I'm gonna try this.
Speaker 4: Okay, we said the Andean flamingo, right, we said the
Speaker 4: James or the Puna flamingo more locally known, right, the
Speaker 4: Chilean flamingo. Well, you mentioned the Carribean flamingo, which in
Speaker 4: the States you could see maybe in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 4: We have the lesser flamingo in Africa, and the one
Speaker 4: behind us is the greater flamingo. All right, but all
Speaker 4: unique in their own ecosystem, right, but the same kind
Speaker 4: of adaptations, right for the way they eat. You mentioned
Speaker 4: the color of the feathers, but that beak is really
Speaker 4: unique too.
Speaker 1: Can you talk a little about the flamingo beak?
Speaker 3: And speaking of the beak and how they eat, some
Speaker 3: people mention to notice that it looks like their beak is bent,
Speaker 3: not hooked like an eagle or an owls beak, but
Speaker 3: it's got sort of this weird bend to it. And
Speaker 3: also the upper part of the beak is thinner than the.
Speaker 6: Lower part, where we usually think upside down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, helpe explain why that adaptation.
Speaker 5: Exists because of the food that they eat, so they're
Speaker 5: actually filter feeders. So when the mingos are feeding, and
Speaker 5: we may get no, they're all sleeping, so bring.
Speaker 6: Our voices down there.
Speaker 5: But if they are awake and they're feeding, their heads
Speaker 5: are upside down really, so they're going to filter through
Speaker 5: the water to eat those really small organisms. And as
Speaker 5: they're taking in all of that water, they're actually squeezing
Speaker 5: the water out the sides, so the sides of their
Speaker 5: beaks are they look serrated like they're filtered on the side,
Speaker 5: so they're squeezing the water out and then just taking
Speaker 5: in the food that they're consuming.
Speaker 4: For kids that are listening, kind of reminds of like
Speaker 4: balen whales, right, yeah, back pushing all this fluid ocean
Speaker 4: water for them, you know, and capturing all those little
Speaker 4: microbes as a little yummy little items for them to
Speaker 4: survive out there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: Yes, you'll actually see them out there.
Speaker 5: It looks like they're dancing because they'll move their feet
Speaker 5: back and forth really really fast too to kind of
Speaker 5: stir up all that good stuff. And then you'll see
Speaker 5: them filtering through the water.
Speaker 2: And that actually kind of steps us into my next question.
Speaker 3: Nice their feet stepping up and down. Often I will
Speaker 3: hear people when they look at from and gooes they wonder,
Speaker 3: why is their knee bending backwards? Because from the visual
Speaker 3: the foot is down flat, and then you have a
Speaker 3: part of the leg coming up and the joint moves
Speaker 3: equivalently backwards to a knee that we're used to seeing, correct,
Speaker 3: and then the leg goes up into the body. And
Speaker 3: that's it as far as we can visually see on
Speaker 3: the outside. But anatomically, that's not actually their knee, right,
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 5: Their knee, it's their ankle, their ankle, it's their ankles.
Speaker 5: So their knees actually located a little bit higher up,
Speaker 5: which does bend the quote unquote correct way. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: that joint is actually their ankle joint. So when they
Speaker 5: are standing and often on one leg, Yeah, a lot
Speaker 5: of them are sleeping out there.
Speaker 4: Right now, explain that, you know, because that's that's here, right,
Speaker 4: the locking like that what is?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that joint actually kind of really kind of locks
Speaker 5: into place when they're sleeping, so they're not tipping over.
Speaker 4: They look pretty sturdy right now. I gotta say, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And often people do ask quite a bit why
Speaker 5: they stand on one leg, and there's a few ideas
Speaker 5: or theories, but really it's primary comfort and we do
Speaker 5: it too. You don't really notice it unless you point
Speaker 5: it out, but if you're ever standing somewhere for long
Speaker 5: periods of time, you tend to kind of like lean
Speaker 5: on one leg and take a pressure off one leg. Ye,
Speaker 5: And that's really what they're doing. So for comfort, they'll
Speaker 5: pull a leg up, and then they also use it
Speaker 5: sometimes regulate their body temperature, so you'll see them kind
Speaker 5: of alternating those legs. So these guys are found in
Speaker 5: very warm weather, but the andy and Flamingos are found
Speaker 5: in very very cold weather, so they will pull one
Speaker 5: leg up and they can keep it nice warm, and
Speaker 5: they can alternate back and forth.
Speaker 4: Well, you brought that up because it's an interesting fact
Speaker 4: that the andy and Flamingos sometimes they'll live in a
Speaker 4: high altitude lakes as an example, and the water can
Speaker 4: freeze over, so they're actually a little water lock for
Speaker 4: a hot and in the morning, so they need to
Speaker 4: get the sun come out and melt away that frozen water.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 4: I love the idea of just again this hard environment
Speaker 4: and you see life just flourishing like that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really great.
Speaker 5: Sure, really cold environments are really really tough bird, so
Speaker 5: really cold environments they can be found in. And then
Speaker 5: the African species, the lesser flamingo, which is not less
Speaker 5: than but the smallest flamingo in the world. And then
Speaker 5: the eight or flamingos are found in really hot, really dry,
Speaker 5: very sunny environments. Yeah, so really tough on the other
Speaker 5: end of the spectrum.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I was thinking the other day, because everyone knows about it,
Speaker 4: if you haven't heard, there are these bald eagles out
Speaker 4: in Big Bear, right, And I love this shot because
Speaker 4: it really highlights a big, beautiful raptor nest, like you know,
Speaker 4: eagles and hawks and falcons.
Speaker 1: Like really unique stick kind of nests.
Speaker 4: But can you talk a little bit, because I'm sure
Speaker 4: a lot of guests aren't familiar what makes a flamingo
Speaker 4: nest so unique, why it looks the way it does,
Speaker 4: and why they do what they do.
Speaker 5: Sure. Yeah, Flamingos build really really interesting nests, and they
Speaker 5: kind of look like little mini volcanoes. So there are
Speaker 5: mud nests that they build, and they build them up
Speaker 5: really really high, and it's interesting because they start low obviously,
Speaker 5: and they're sitting on the ground of what they've started
Speaker 5: with these nests, and then they're slowly pulling mud underneath
Speaker 5: them and building it beneath their bodies and raising it
Speaker 5: up off the ground until they get it to their
Speaker 5: desired height and then it kind of bowls out. So
Speaker 5: that's where it kind of looks like a volcano for
Speaker 5: that one single egg to sit. And the reason they
Speaker 5: do that is because they do nest and live in
Speaker 5: areas that flood and the water can Yeah, the water
Speaker 5: can rise very quickly, and they're doing that to protect
Speaker 5: their eggs and eventually their newly hatched chicks up out
Speaker 5: of the water.
Speaker 3: I remember when I was working at Sandygo Zoo, the
Speaker 3: swimingos right out front. A lot of people be always
Speaker 3: you know, why do the keepers build all those mounds
Speaker 3: and keepers?
Speaker 2: They look so uniform and so nicely done.
Speaker 3: I think, to Marco's point about the bald eagle nest,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of sticks. It looks very nest like
Speaker 3: is climate cluttered together, But there is some thought process
Speaker 3: there on their part, whereas these flamingo volcanoes look so
Speaker 3: uniform and perfect.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of fascinating to think that they build those,
Speaker 2: they make those.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not us if I was responsible for doing that.
Speaker 6: They would not look.
Speaker 1: Like the movie that goes I have my moment.
Speaker 6: We will sometimes encourage them.
Speaker 5: We'll see that they're getting ready to start, so we
Speaker 5: will sometimes make very small little areas, but they yeah,
Speaker 5: they'll take it upon themselves to finish it.
Speaker 4: When you said that, it instantly made me think of
Speaker 4: a flamingo parade, the flamboyants of flamingos. Right, can you
Speaker 4: talk a little bit about flagging or what kind of
Speaker 4: the precursors of what you see prior to Oh, they're
Speaker 4: about to lay, but something happens right before all that?
Speaker 1: Right that people get a big kick out of it.
Speaker 6: They love it. I love it.
Speaker 5: It never gets boring to watch those breeding behaviors. So
Speaker 5: as they're kind of gearing up for a breeding season,
Speaker 5: they will start marching. So it looks kind of like
Speaker 5: a very choreographed dance. So they all get together in
Speaker 5: a very large group. The flagging is their heads, so
Speaker 5: they're swinging their heads back and forth very quickly, and
Speaker 5: they're marching together, just in one large group, back and forth,
Speaker 5: and that is usually our indicator that they're starting. So
Speaker 5: the African species of flamingos are greater flamingos the lesser flamingos.
Speaker 5: They're keten with the weather, so they nest during the summer,
Speaker 5: so late spring, early summer, very very hot weather. So
Speaker 5: we get a really nice hot sunny day, which we
Speaker 5: definitely get at the Safari Park. We'll start to see
Speaker 5: the flamingos get very excited and I'll start to do
Speaker 5: that marching and flagging.
Speaker 3: So when they do that marching and flagging, is there
Speaker 3: also like vocalizations ago with that?
Speaker 5: Are they chattery very noisy, very very noisy.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, it's a whole production.
Speaker 5: And you can definitely not be in the area and
Speaker 5: you will hear it and.
Speaker 6: You know that it's happening. You will run over.
Speaker 4: To see it totally. I mean you'll even see like
Speaker 4: the little youngsters doing it together. Even that's you need
Speaker 4: to one. Like they're super colonial species. I mean there's
Speaker 4: tons of them in a flock, thousands even at some point.
Speaker 4: And it's really unique for me too that they can
Speaker 4: identify their young and amongst this whole flamboy.
Speaker 1: Is going in front of them.
Speaker 4: But also I forget the word there's a word for
Speaker 4: I believe it's crashing, right, Can you.
Speaker 1: Say what is that? What does that signify? That word?
Speaker 5: So the whole process, the whole spectacle, from start to finish,
Speaker 5: is so impressive and really one of my favorite things
Speaker 5: about flamingos is what incredible parents they are. So from
Speaker 5: start to finish, it's the males and females that are
Speaker 5: involved in all of this. They're both building that nest,
Speaker 5: they're both incubating and taking care of the egg. They're
Speaker 5: both participating and feeding the chicks. And then yeah, once
Speaker 5: the chicks have moved off the mounds, they tend to
Speaker 5: all get together into a group, which is called a crush.
Speaker 6: So all of the.
Speaker 5: Little baby flamingos tend to all stick together. But what
Speaker 5: is so incredible to see, and I have no idea
Speaker 5: how they do it, but those little chicks will vocalize,
Speaker 5: they sound exactly the same to me, and you will
Speaker 5: see the parents' heads pop up immediately and the parents
Speaker 5: will come straight to that one individual little baby to
Speaker 5: feed the babies.
Speaker 6: So it's a really cool, cool thing.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, flamingos are always like for me, like knocking
Speaker 4: down those gender norms one, you know, like the males
Speaker 4: and the females are all doing together. We even have
Speaker 4: evidence in the pastor at the Safari Park and in
Speaker 4: the wild the same sex pairs as well. It could
Speaker 4: be two males two females, but also again speaks to
Speaker 4: that societal aspect of this kind of bird. Right, so
Speaker 4: sometimes ones without babies are fostering or taking care of others, right.
Speaker 1: How that happen here at the partners.
Speaker 6: That happened here, we've had it happen with.
Speaker 5: I think we've seen it in all of the species
Speaker 5: of things that we've had here at the park. More recently,
Speaker 5: it was our lesser flamingos, So we did have a
Speaker 5: pair of males that were showing a lot of interest
Speaker 5: in a nest. They built a mound, a nestsound together.
Speaker 5: They obviously did not lay an egg, but they were
Speaker 5: showing a lot of interest. And we do occasionally see
Speaker 5: a problem with our male pairings out there because they
Speaker 5: aren't going to lay an egg, but the drive is
Speaker 5: so strong for them to take care of an egg.
Speaker 5: They will sometimes try to steal an egg from another
Speaker 5: pair because they're communal nesters and they all nest really
Speaker 5: close together for safety and that's how they feel comfortable.
Speaker 5: But it also does cause some disagreement sometimes so in
Speaker 5: order for us to try to keep the peace among everybody,
Speaker 5: And they did give them a fake egg to sit
Speaker 5: on just to see how they would do. They went
Speaker 5: straight to it. They both were incubating it. They were
Speaker 5: doing a fantastic job. And so we had the idea
Speaker 5: because obviously we want to increase the numbers of chicks
Speaker 5: that we can produce here whenever possible. So we were
Speaker 5: actually able to take a fertile egg from another pair,
Speaker 5: prolific pair, an established pair that can lay multiple furtle
Speaker 5: eggs in a year.
Speaker 6: So we took that egg from them.
Speaker 5: Gave it to our pair of boys, and they took
Speaker 5: that egg, They hatched the chick, they did everything. And
Speaker 5: then that other pair that we took the egg from,
Speaker 5: if an egg disappears or doesn't hatch naturally in the wild,
Speaker 5: they will often lay a second egg. So that pair
Speaker 5: did lay a second egg. They were able to produce
Speaker 5: another fertile egg. So from that pair.
Speaker 3: We actually got two checks, very similar to what we
Speaker 3: have done in the past with California condors, treating a
Speaker 3: double clutch situation where we take that first egg put
Speaker 3: an incubator.
Speaker 2: They then instinctively lay another egg.
Speaker 3: Which normally it's one egg per year for them, very
Speaker 3: very similar concept and bolstering up the population.
Speaker 2: That's so awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that story too.
Speaker 3: You had mentioned in the crash right the babies, Okay,
Speaker 3: one will stick its head up and call and the
Speaker 3: parents know running over to feed it. Talk about the
Speaker 3: feeding because it's something that can be startling for some
Speaker 3: people when the crop milk, which isn't true milk, when
Speaker 3: the parents are feeding a baby, sometimes it can be
Speaker 3: concerning it first if you don't know what you're looking
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 6: We do get questions about that as well. Because the color,
Speaker 6: the colors, the color is a little alarming. It is bright,
Speaker 6: bright red.
Speaker 5: And this is what also is so interesting and what
Speaker 5: allows two males to raise a chick together is that
Speaker 5: males and females because the parenting duties are fifty to fifty.
Speaker 5: The males also produce that crop milk. So these two
Speaker 5: boys that fostered this egg fed that chick without a problem.
Speaker 5: But yes, the color of the crop milk and it
Speaker 5: is just a secretion from their crop.
Speaker 1: But it's very very in the upper part the es.
Speaker 5: The flamingos will actually digest their food, so they secrete
Speaker 5: this milk and they will kind of dribble it onto
Speaker 5: the chicks, and it does look alarming.
Speaker 1: Horror film maybe sometimes, and it maybe doesn't give the
Speaker 1: exact look alarming if you don't know well.
Speaker 5: And then for anyone who's raised a human baby, they're
Speaker 5: basically crying. So the babies are screaming for attention from
Speaker 5: their parents, So the vocalizations very very loud.
Speaker 6: They're vocalizing the whole time they're.
Speaker 5: Being fed, so you have to just like dramatically yelling baby.
Speaker 5: And we do get concerns sometimes that their beaks are
Speaker 5: actually stuck together, but the parent has the beak directly
Speaker 5: at the tip of the baby, so the whole thing
Speaker 5: is quite a spectacle that needs to sometimes be explained.
Speaker 4: Doves and some penguin species do it also. I think
Speaker 4: that's sai, not just the mammals. I want to point
Speaker 4: out so that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the birds do it too.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: Well, before we.
Speaker 3: Wrap up, you did mention that the parenting process and
Speaker 3: how it shared responsibili is one of your favorite facts
Speaker 3: about them. Is there anything else we haven't asked about
Speaker 3: when it comes to these flamboyant.
Speaker 2: Birds that you'd like to share with our audience.
Speaker 3: Make sure that people know when they come to see
Speaker 3: them at s Fary Parker Zoo, you want to know
Speaker 3: that one fact.
Speaker 2: I mean we covered a lot.
Speaker 6: We did cover a lot this flock.
Speaker 5: Actually though, if you do come to visit them at
Speaker 5: the fire park, can you ride the tram and they
Speaker 5: are one of the very first things that you see.
Speaker 5: So it's a great way to start your tour. But
Speaker 5: you're actually looking at the largest flock of Greater flamingos
Speaker 5: in the entire country.
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know that all of the.
Speaker 6: US and all of the US this is the largest flock.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 4: Well, all the departments here and taking job you guys
Speaker 4: helping out bird numbers.
Speaker 1: I love it. This was a lot of fun. Thank
Speaker 1: you Eron. That really great.
Speaker 2: Appreciate having you on the show.
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: See me smiling, sir. We just swim birds around us
Speaker 4: all day. We lend them, I know, am I glowing pink?
Speaker 1: Is that what's going on?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But this is a lot of fun, right, and I'm
Speaker 4: excited that guests and come they can celebrate flamingos on
Speaker 4: International to Day exactly right front. Yeah, So we covered
Speaker 4: like so far frozen zoo, meerkats, flamingos.
Speaker 1: What's going on for our next adventure?
Speaker 3: I think it goes right into what this podcast is about.
Speaker 3: We're going to be talking to one of our head
Speaker 3: lead top educators at all San Diego Zoo about the
Speaker 3: importance of inspiring the next generation for conservation and wildlife care.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna go to the zoo. Yeah, they will
Speaker 1: get their little early and check out those giant pandas.
Speaker 2: I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: That sounds good.
Speaker 3: We'll be sure to subscribe and tune in next time
Speaker 3: when we learn more about the importance of inspiring the
Speaker 3: next generation.
Speaker 1: Al Mark go Wentz and I'm Rick Schwartz.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
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