Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature Future production of I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden, and this is
Speaker 1: the Creature Kringle Time special of Hallelujah, Creature Kringle Times. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's Creature Kringle Times, the Holy Birth of Condors, a
Speaker 1: Miracle of Sea Lions, funny time efforts. That's right, the
Speaker 1: tiny Sama Ferts discover this and mores as we answer
Speaker 1: the angel question is it a miracle or is it science?
Speaker 1: I'll stop singing for the rest of the episode to
Speaker 1: food dude, Creature Kringle Times. Okay, that's it. Joining me
Speaker 1: today is friend of the show, co host of George's
Speaker 1: and turn Lower after Hours, and festive holiday person Christie.
Speaker 1: I'm a Gucci mane a k A. Will Pool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me again, Katie, I am. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: a festive person. I've been called jolly before. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: have a pretty big beard beard and white yet um,
Speaker 1: but I have very rosy cheeks. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can see in this light. My cheeks are always
Speaker 1: bright red and and nobody ever notices until they think
Speaker 1: that I should be embarrassed by something. And then they
Speaker 1: asked me. Then then they pointed out and it's like,
Speaker 1: have you not been paying it? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: You Okay, you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's
Speaker 1: the worst people point out that I'm blushing. I hate it.
Speaker 1: It makes me turn even redder. But this time with Ray, well,
Speaker 1: I yeah, my my cheeks stay this this red all
Speaker 1: the time? Your Santa? Maybe I am? I I could
Speaker 1: uh yeah, there could be some I need to get,
Speaker 1: like a genealogy test or something, find out if I
Speaker 1: have anything. Yeah, did you accidentally like of Santa at
Speaker 1: some point, like not that I'm aware of, because that's
Speaker 1: the Santa Claus like Tim Allen murdered a Santa and
Speaker 1: then you become Santa sort of, I guess the highlander
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Or yeah, I think I think I
Speaker 1: think that's how that works. Maybe I pulled out, Maybe
Speaker 1: I pulled out in front of Santa Sleigh one year
Speaker 1: and as it ran them off the road and it's
Speaker 1: in a horrible accident, and now I'm slowly turning into
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Yeah, I just didn't clear out your gutters
Speaker 1: and then they froze and he slipped on them or something.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, you know, there's all all sorts
Speaker 1: of kind of legal loopholes that you can get yourself
Speaker 1: into a Santa Claus situation. I'm not a lawyer, but yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: you've got you've got the beard, you've got, you've got
Speaker 1: the cheeks, you've got I think you've got, you've got
Speaker 1: the jolliness. You know, you've got the thank you. I
Speaker 1: have never been called jolly, which is uh, I think wrong.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a very jolly person. Yeah, you're like,
Speaker 1: of all the the podcast I listened to, I would
Speaker 1: say that you come across by far as the jolliest.
Speaker 1: Thank you for once in my life someone has recognized
Speaker 1: the jolliness factor. It's true I talk about parasites. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I'm not jolly, you know, exactly exactly, it's
Speaker 1: not the subject matter. Jolly is all about the delivery.
Speaker 1: It's about the delivery and the disposition. You are perstantly
Speaker 1: positive no matter how you know. When it comes to
Speaker 1: the animal kingdom, there's a lot of brutal, brutal stuff
Speaker 1: that happens, but you always, you know, put a positive
Speaker 1: light on it because it's part of just how it works.
Speaker 1: And and that's a key key element of of you know,
Speaker 1: putting your jolliest foot forward. Right, You think Santa Santa
Speaker 1: Claus doesn't see the stuff he doesn't want to see. No,
Speaker 1: he sees lots of stuff. God, yeah, that dude, Spencer.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but he remains jolly. And today's shell is
Speaker 1: gonna be real fun because we're talking about Creature Kringle
Speaker 1: Times miracles. It's a miracle, Miracle on Creature Street, right,
Speaker 1: you know? Yeah, yeah, there we go, Yeah, Miracle and
Speaker 1: Creature s Yeah. I'm familiar with that movie. I've seen
Speaker 1: it before. Yeah, yeah, where the little girl writes letters
Speaker 1: to creature clause and uh, he since her you know,
Speaker 1: the toy. I don't know that movie, The Miracle. I
Speaker 1: don't either. I know that there was like a I
Speaker 1: know there's the black and white version and then I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure they remade it with uh, what's her name?
Speaker 1: The little girl that I could be making this up?
Speaker 1: The little girl that played um Matilda. Wait, are you
Speaker 1: talking about Marra Wilson. Yes, who's been on this show before,
Speaker 1: been on the show. Yeah, I don't that's that's yes.
Speaker 1: Haara Wilson. Was she in Miracle on? Was she? Oh?
Speaker 1: My god? I should know this. She's a close personal
Speaker 1: friend of mine. She was in the remake, right, close
Speaker 1: personal friend of the show. Yeah, no, she was. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you. I'm thank you for solving that
Speaker 1: brain itch I just had. I could not put two
Speaker 1: words together to describe that to you. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: as it's as much as I'm familiar with Miracle on
Speaker 1: thirty four Street is that Maura Wilson was in it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, she's fantastic person, completely lovely person.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about Coral. Anyways, it was a
Speaker 1: great time, um and but we're also going to have
Speaker 1: a great time today talking about Kringle Times miracles and
Speaker 1: of course the most miracles and miracles on these creature.
Speaker 1: Kringle Times nondenominational holiday to be celebrated by all and
Speaker 1: whoever want to. You know, we are going to talk
Speaker 1: about Immaculate Conception. Ok. We all know the story. Uh,
Speaker 1: they weren't allowed at the end, so they had to
Speaker 1: stay in the barn an Immaculate Conception, A miracle happened,
Speaker 1: the holy and divine story of Baby Condor's being born.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I love Baby Condor. I love the Nativity
Speaker 1: scenes that feature baby cardor. Yeah, it's it's just the
Speaker 1: the wiseman and some sheep and a baby condor, and
Speaker 1: some carryon and and the mother just like regurgitating some
Speaker 1: carryon into this sweet, blessed little baby condor's mouth. It's
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, I think the I think the
Speaker 1: three wise men were carrying gifts of roadkill. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: roadkill um, like a deer awesome, and like a coccoon. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 1: And that's why every year and Creature Kringle Times, we
Speaker 1: will burn incense of skunk. Uh, skunk smells. Oh no,
Speaker 1: maybe some beaver. The isn't there some kind of strong
Speaker 1: scent that beaver? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, we
Speaker 1: gotta put the condor back in Kringle Times. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I'm tired and sick and tired of
Speaker 1: Starbucks and whatnot, trying to take the condor out of
Speaker 1: Creature Kringle Times. Creature Kringle Times, exactly. This is a
Speaker 1: holiday celebrating the divine holy birth of the cutest, the
Speaker 1: most sweet, tender and mild of animals, the baby condor.
Speaker 1: So I truly do love these birds. That's that part
Speaker 1: is very genuine California condors are huge majesty vultures with
Speaker 1: gorgeous black and white plumage and of course that saggy
Speaker 1: pink bear head and neck. Some may call ugly, I
Speaker 1: call bold and beautiful. They have fashion choice. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I think, uh, stunning, you know, like look, I it's
Speaker 1: it's an avant garde. Is the word I was struggling
Speaker 1: to do because I'm not a very fashionable person, neither
Speaker 1: of I. I just said it was a choice. You're
Speaker 1: actually coming with like uh definitions and stuff. It's I
Speaker 1: I love they they are. They look like a Disney
Speaker 1: character almost. Um, just how over the top their fur
Speaker 1: collars are. Um, they are incredible looking birds. I I
Speaker 1: adore them. Kuril de Ville only good, which I guess
Speaker 1: like Disney tried to do that in some movie like
Speaker 1: Krilla's Backstory. She's actually good. I don't don't really know.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch it, but yeah, no, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: definitely it's definitely cruel the vill uh sort of fashion,
Speaker 1: but without the sort of fraud ethics of it. Agreed,
Speaker 1: so beautiful birds. They have a wingspan of almost ten
Speaker 1: feet long over three meters, which you know, bigger than
Speaker 1: a human their wingspan, that is. And uh, despite they're
Speaker 1: just ginormous size, they are exquisitely graceful flyers. They can
Speaker 1: once they're aloft, they don't need to flap their wings. Instead,
Speaker 1: all they need to do is glide and ride these
Speaker 1: thermal air columns, and they can soore its speeds of
Speaker 1: up to fifty six miles per hour or ninety kilometers
Speaker 1: an hour, just soaring gracefully, like like a bird shaped
Speaker 1: knife through butter. That's amazing. They have these very very
Speaker 1: sharp beaks that they don't use to attack pray. Instead,
Speaker 1: they use them to tear through scavenged carcasses. Their bald
Speaker 1: head allows them to dive into the meat of the
Speaker 1: carcass without matting down feathers, getting dirty. And despite eating
Speaker 1: carrion and occasionally pooping on their own feet to stay cool,
Speaker 1: they are actually very fastidious and tidy birds. They are
Speaker 1: constantly grooming themselves to stay clean. They preen each other,
Speaker 1: and they also have a complex social group. I think
Speaker 1: that sometimes we see something like a condor or vulture,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, they're they're edgy and dark, they must
Speaker 1: be loners. But no, they have a social group, older,
Speaker 1: more dominant birds will often be given first DIBs on
Speaker 1: food before the younger ones, and they also play fight
Speaker 1: with each other and communicate with grunts and hisses. Adorable
Speaker 1: sweet babies. Um. So, the fact that California condors are
Speaker 1: still around is itself something of a miracle if you
Speaker 1: count the hard work of conservationists and researchers as a miracle.
Speaker 1: So in n seven their population had dwindled to only
Speaker 1: twenty seven individuals. So that is it's stunning, like twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven of these things. You could fit them in,
Speaker 1: you know, a CVS like it's it's nuts like, you know.
Speaker 1: So this was due to pesticides, habitat loss, poaching, and
Speaker 1: overall the loss of large animals that once dominated the
Speaker 1: North American ecosystem, and so the remaining population, if left
Speaker 1: on its own, would probably have just fizzled out and
Speaker 1: they would have gone extinct. So one of the most
Speaker 1: ambitious captive breeding programs was started to try and revitalize
Speaker 1: the population. So they captured all these birds and started
Speaker 1: breeding them and using all these weird tricks, like they
Speaker 1: would have a hand puppet shaped like a vulture to
Speaker 1: feed these little baby or a hand puppet shaped like
Speaker 1: a condor to feed these baby condors, because they didn't
Speaker 1: want them to become comfortable with humans. They that wanted
Speaker 1: A problem with captive breeding is you need to try
Speaker 1: to breed them to be able to be successful in
Speaker 1: the wild. You don't want to have them think that
Speaker 1: humans are their mommies and daddies and then they just
Speaker 1: they don't know how to be a condor. So this
Speaker 1: program was really very successful. Now there are five hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen calif for new condo condors out there. Uh,
Speaker 1: that is a huge improvement. Of course, they are still
Speaker 1: very rare. They're still you know, that's not that's not
Speaker 1: enough to be completely comfortable, but they and they're still
Speaker 1: one of the rarest birds in the world. But that
Speaker 1: is an amazing success story of conservation. I see every
Speaker 1: once in a while, like whenever a headline UH is
Speaker 1: written about this conservation effort uh it, they always seem
Speaker 1: to throw in the fact that this this thing, this
Speaker 1: UH program costs millions and millions of dollars to bring
Speaker 1: this bird back. And it always it's like like it
Speaker 1: is such a minuscule amount of money to save these
Speaker 1: birds compared to the amount of money made off the
Speaker 1: destruction of their habitat and the basically basically you know, uh,
Speaker 1: ruining the ecosystem and the food chain and stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a drop in the bucket of what
Speaker 1: we should be spending on conservation efforts. Obviously, that's like
Speaker 1: one wheel of like a military aircraft or something, you
Speaker 1: know exactly exactly exactly like giving it give me a break. Yeah, seriously,
Speaker 1: I uh, I would love to see one of these
Speaker 1: things in real life. Ten Conceptually, I can imagine like
Speaker 1: a ten ft is a the height of a basketball goal.
Speaker 1: You know, I go playing basketball. I know, I know
Speaker 1: what that looks like. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: cannot picture a wingspan that, you know, unfolded. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's also because typically you would, if you are lucky
Speaker 1: enough to see one, you would only see it at
Speaker 1: a distance, and it's hard to really gauge the size
Speaker 1: of it. It's it's really incredible. I've I mean I've
Speaker 1: gone to you know, the Grand Canyon and really really
Speaker 1: looked trying to see when I wasn't able to see
Speaker 1: uh any but unfortunately, um, but yeah, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: they're beautiful. They're so striking, and they're they're also really
Speaker 1: interesting in terms of their behaviors. Condors actually mate for life,
Speaker 1: and the male will put on this display for the female,
Speaker 1: fluffing his feathers and stretching his wings for her, and
Speaker 1: she will indicate if she's impressed by bowing her head,
Speaker 1: and then they will become mates for life, so that
Speaker 1: it's it's so it's like they proposed to each other.
Speaker 1: It's very cute. Yeah, I've been there before. I feel
Speaker 1: your brother, I feel you trying to impress. Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: just like all of the neck puffs and bobbing and
Speaker 1: wing stretching that guys have to do. Gosh, so the
Speaker 1: preening and the gurgitating food, I mean, seriously trying to
Speaker 1: make sure her feet are cool enough by throwing up
Speaker 1: on him, yeah, ooping on him, Yeah, pooping on her
Speaker 1: feet all the time. It's just exactly. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, the dating scene is not what
Speaker 1: it once was. You know, things you do for love.
Speaker 1: So they will lay about one egg every other year,
Speaker 1: which is you know, that's not that frequent. So that's
Speaker 1: one reason their population is often so threatened by environmental changes.
Speaker 1: Is it's not like they reproduce that quickly. Uh So,
Speaker 1: unlike with eagle chicks, there is no competition amongst sibling
Speaker 1: because you have one egg that they focus on. But
Speaker 1: if that first egg is lost, the female will actually
Speaker 1: lay a subsequent one to replace it. And actually this
Speaker 1: was taken advantage of by conservationists to trick females into
Speaker 1: laying two eggs because they took away the first one
Speaker 1: and then the they would lay another egg and then
Speaker 1: they would like you know, raise, since the condors wouldn't
Speaker 1: raise two chicks at once, then they used those like
Speaker 1: weird condor hand puppets to feed these these uh extra
Speaker 1: chicks that they were tricking the females into laying. So
Speaker 1: now this brings us to the creature Kringle times miracle
Speaker 1: of condors having immaculate conception. But she didn't think the
Speaker 1: Messiah is gonna be condors. Part of these conservation efforts
Speaker 1: to maintain the condor population is regular DNA tests to
Speaker 1: make sure what's to research the genetics of the condor population,
Speaker 1: and they found that there were two males that had
Speaker 1: been born from two different mothers, and one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of each of these males, DNA came from their mothers,
Speaker 1: so no paternal DNA at all. Yeah, so this happened twice.
Speaker 1: There were two Jesus condors that we even know, uh, potentially,
Speaker 1: this is the first. This is like like when this
Speaker 1: mother condor came home to her parents and said, I
Speaker 1: am still a virgin. I promise I didn't have sex,
Speaker 1: but I'm pregnant, like and the parents were like, absolutely not,
Speaker 1: You're you're out on you know, like angry at her
Speaker 1: for being irresponsible. This is like the first time in
Speaker 1: history where she was like, that's actually what happened, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, okay, no, shade, and I don't want it.
Speaker 1: I don't want it to sound like I'm I'm shaming
Speaker 1: anybody that has ever been in that situation. Beautiful, but
Speaker 1: you know, like the you know probably probably you know, look,
Speaker 1: I'm a true believer. Um, we love the Lord on
Speaker 1: this podcast. But Mary probably probably you know, she probably
Speaker 1: slept over at Joseph's house. Just saying like, it's probably
Speaker 1: what happened. Mary wasn't a condor though. Are we certain
Speaker 1: of that that? Okay, okay, no, we are absolutely not
Speaker 1: certain of that. So that's Okay, back in the immaculate
Speaker 1: this really solves a lot of a lot of the loopholes.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say in the Bible. It really does,
Speaker 1: and you'll see in more ways than one too. So
Speaker 1: so these immaculately conceived h condors of their genes from
Speaker 1: their mothers, and this is called parthena genesis. This is
Speaker 1: the production of offspring without male sperm. So one interesting
Speaker 1: thing is that in birds, when you have parthenogenesis, it
Speaker 1: will always result in a male offspring. Is this sexism?
Speaker 1: Should we start bird feminism over this? Maybe? But the
Speaker 1: reason for this is that birds have different chromosomes the humans.
Speaker 1: So generally speaking, humans have x x or x y
Speaker 1: chromosomes for female and male genotypes, but for birds, including condors,
Speaker 1: z Z is the male genotype and z W is
Speaker 1: the female genotype. So a part the note which is
Speaker 1: the weird word for a an offspring resulting from partheno genesis.
Speaker 1: So the parthon note is that I've never heard of
Speaker 1: it before I googled it yesterday, So the person note
Speaker 1: is always going to be male. The reason for this
Speaker 1: is the way that female gammets can merge without for fertilization,
Speaker 1: So Basically, you have a reproductive cell either containing a
Speaker 1: Z or a W chromosome, and it's divides into two
Speaker 1: exact copies. So in the absence of one of these
Speaker 1: being fertilized by sperm, it normally wouldn't, you know, reproduce.
Speaker 1: But if these copies re emerge, so you have this
Speaker 1: thing that has split in half and then it re
Speaker 1: emerges again, it can self fertilize in rare circumstances. So
Speaker 1: this would result in either a z Z or a
Speaker 1: w W offspring. And w W doesn't mean anything in condor.
Speaker 1: It's it's not viable. There is no, it's not a
Speaker 1: viable genetic commendation, whereas z Z is viable. It would
Speaker 1: result in a mail It creates a mail chick. I
Speaker 1: keep wanting you to say zz top everything that you
Speaker 1: say zz over and over, like, I mean, yes, they
Speaker 1: might be condors as well. Apparently it's ez top is.
Speaker 1: The origin story is condors. This is what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is whenever there's something strange, something that you can't figure out,
Speaker 1: just ask yourself weight is this a condor? And then yeah,
Speaker 1: it might clear it's not. It's not all crabs. It's
Speaker 1: all condors. So just like Jesus, these miracle condors didn't
Speaker 1: live for very long. Um so when they lived to
Speaker 1: The amazing thing is they did live to maturity, which
Speaker 1: is unusual for a part of a part of note
Speaker 1: to do. But they did die young. So one of
Speaker 1: them died at age two, and one of them died
Speaker 1: at age eight and so forth. Perspective condors can live
Speaker 1: to be up to sixty years old. So definitely, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely gone before their time, too good for this world,
Speaker 1: too precious and sweet, called up by the great condor
Speaker 1: in the sky. Um, you know, sacrificed for our you
Speaker 1: know sins. I guess their father's heavenly birdhouse's. Yeah, their
Speaker 1: father was preparing a place, um, a perch, a perch
Speaker 1: in yeah, condor heaven where I mean like condor Heaven
Speaker 1: would be weird though, right because they would need carrying,
Speaker 1: and for there to be carrying, they would have to
Speaker 1: eat like other angel right, like angels of other animals.
Speaker 1: And so is there a second heaven for oh God? Okay,
Speaker 1: so this this is quickly, this rainbow bridge has very
Speaker 1: quickly turned. That would be a downer if you got
Speaker 1: got to heaven and like your pets. You know, it's like, uh, well,
Speaker 1: we do have condors here. So although to be fair, yeah,
Speaker 1: to be fair, the condors do not kill their prey.
Speaker 1: Typically it is they feed on carrying, so you know
Speaker 1: they're scared. There's scavengers. They do a very important role
Speaker 1: in you know, they're under takers. So parthena genesis is
Speaker 1: not only found in condors. It is found in other
Speaker 1: birds like chickens and turkeys, and in other animals like lizards.
Speaker 1: So one of the more famous examples that we've talked
Speaker 1: about on the show before is the New Mexico whiptail lizard,
Speaker 1: which is an all female species that reproduce exclusively through
Speaker 1: parthena genesis. So really amazing, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think what's really interesting about this story about the condor
Speaker 1: is that it is a species that was brought back
Speaker 1: from the brink of extinction from a very tiny genetic
Speaker 1: pool of only twenty seven individuals. So, right, is this
Speaker 1: parthena genesis happening due to some kind of genetic bottleneck,
Speaker 1: like some kind of um, you know, is there is
Speaker 1: there a genetic reason that this is happening or another
Speaker 1: alternative is that this could be a common occurrence amongst
Speaker 1: condors and other bird species, um, but that we don't
Speaker 1: know about because we don't track other bird species so
Speaker 1: closely as we do condors. We're doing these genetic tests
Speaker 1: on these condors. We're not doing this for you know, pigeons. Uh.
Speaker 1: So like uh, And that's another that's potentially the reason
Speaker 1: why we see this so much in turkeys and chickens.
Speaker 1: It may not be because it happens more frequently to
Speaker 1: turkeys and chickens, but it's because their domesticated birds that
Speaker 1: we keep track of more carefully. So a farmer who's like, wait,
Speaker 1: there was no male chickens here, but they gave birth
Speaker 1: to you know, or laid an egg that hatched like
Speaker 1: that would be odd and they would make note of that,
Speaker 1: whereas we are not necessarily noticing it if it's happening
Speaker 1: in other birds. So that is to say, there could
Speaker 1: be a whole bunch of Jesus birds out there that
Speaker 1: we just don't even know about. So is this a
Speaker 1: is this a holdover from the evolutionarily evolutionary linear edge
Speaker 1: of uh, like the dinosaurs that they evolved from. Like
Speaker 1: you said, lizards do it and birds do it? Yeah, Birds,
Speaker 1: birds is dinosaurs, birds dinosaurs, but birds birds is dinosaurs
Speaker 1: for sure for sure. And and lizards do they they
Speaker 1: come from dinosaurs to yes, yeah, lizards branched off everything
Speaker 1: I think from a caromin ancestor of dinosaurs. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So so I'm just wondering if like this is like
Speaker 1: hidden in the genetic code where in way more animals
Speaker 1: than we realize. But it just hasn't It doesn't have
Speaker 1: the need to be expressed for the most part anymore,
Speaker 1: unless you are, you know, unless you really as a
Speaker 1: species dove headfirst into this being the best way to
Speaker 1: mate all the time, or to to produce reproduce rather
Speaker 1: not mate. Yeah, I mean, I think it really has
Speaker 1: a lot to do with the the nature of these
Speaker 1: the way these chromosomes work, and then the nature of
Speaker 1: the sort of reproductive cells. But yeah, it is, it
Speaker 1: is really interesting. And also in a fish. But yeah,
Speaker 1: birds and reptiles are you know, evolutionarily speaking, distant cousins,
Speaker 1: very very distant. Um may have something to do with
Speaker 1: um the fact that these are non placental animals, and
Speaker 1: and it also like just from a survival aspect, it's
Speaker 1: probably nothing. It's it's not the best way to reproduce
Speaker 1: because you need but you need genetic diversity in order
Speaker 1: to prevent your species getting wiped out by a single
Speaker 1: uh disease or or virus or or Bacteria's exactly exactly,
Speaker 1: And that's why with some of these some species like
Speaker 1: um aphids, which are you know, an insect who reproduce
Speaker 1: a sexually, they actually sometimes go through generations that reproduce
Speaker 1: sexually just to add in some genetic diversity. And whiptail
Speaker 1: lizards that that species they all females species that reproduces
Speaker 1: entirely through parthenogenesis. They managed to keep their genetic diversity
Speaker 1: by having actually three sets of chromosomes that they shuffle through,
Speaker 1: so so they get sort of more genetic combinations than
Speaker 1: other species may. And I think an important thing to
Speaker 1: note with these condors is that these parthenogenic births result
Speaker 1: in these males that didn't live as long as their
Speaker 1: other male peers, and that may have been because they
Speaker 1: were smaller and weaker. So it's you know, uh, that's
Speaker 1: there may be some issues with this type of reproduction,
Speaker 1: so it's it's not necessarily a great way to reproduce.
Speaker 1: But you know, on the other hand, like maybe they
Speaker 1: started a new bird religion over it. Yeah, seriously, seriously,
Speaker 1: Oh man, we're we're, we're we need to grow the
Speaker 1: population um of the California condor to the point where,
Speaker 1: uh they start spreading their bird religion around to other
Speaker 1: other species of birds. I'd be evangelized by condor. I'd
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, I would too. I would too. It's
Speaker 1: like just like, no solicitors unless you're condor spreading the
Speaker 1: good word. Absolutely, I will, I will remove the Oh,
Speaker 1: this is a different episode. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: I will clean the poop off the front of my house.
Speaker 1: Uh my, I will take down my poos safe system
Speaker 1: and allow for condors to uh to step. In a
Speaker 1: previous episode, we talked about how bees will put poo
Speaker 1: on their entrances to their hives to ward off hornets
Speaker 1: and uh, so yes, that is U. You haven't listened
Speaker 1: to that episode. That is the screaming episode, probably from
Speaker 1: a week or two ago. But yeah, I pick that out.
Speaker 1: Miracles from the ocean, so uh, the ocean bears many
Speaker 1: gifts like sharks and salt water and kelp and fish
Speaker 1: and I could go on I won't, but uh, many
Speaker 1: many miracles can arise from the ocean, and in fact,
Speaker 1: a miracle has come to New Zealand because a bunch
Speaker 1: of sea lions are taken over their golf courses, which
Speaker 1: is I think great in my opinion. Yeah I am,
Speaker 1: I am uh completely pro ruining golf courses. So the
Speaker 1: New Zealand sea lion is a adorable, blubbery, wonderful sea
Speaker 1: lion that used to live abundantly on New Zealand's mainland coasts,
Speaker 1: but due to over hunting and commercial fishing, their population
Speaker 1: in New Zealand all but disappeared as they fled from
Speaker 1: the mainland to the small sub Antarctic Auckland Islands of
Speaker 1: New Zealand. So they are big chunks uh. Males can
Speaker 1: weigh up to nine hundred and nine pounds or four
Speaker 1: and females way up to three pounds or one. So
Speaker 1: females have a pretty unusual behavior for sea lions. They
Speaker 1: and they're young will move far inland to avoid rowdy
Speaker 1: harassment from males. They'll even live in like these forested
Speaker 1: areas away from the coast with their young, so that's unusual. Usually,
Speaker 1: seal sea lions stick to beaches or rocky areas near
Speaker 1: the beaches, but they all go inland a good ways,
Speaker 1: a way to get away from the rough housing of males.
Speaker 1: What do you know, males are heads and other species.
Speaker 1: They're taking the kids and go into the forest, go
Speaker 1: into their mother in law a joke. Oh man, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So that's the situation. That's wild, okay, But
Speaker 1: that makes it even worse for them when human activity
Speaker 1: is near the beaches, because things like roads and fences
Speaker 1: and buildings can block their path. But despite the New
Speaker 1: Zealand sea lions absence from the mainland for so long,
Speaker 1: they are returning to the mainland for unknown reasons. So
Speaker 1: they have slowly but steadily been coming back, and uh,
Speaker 1: in order for them to survive back on the New
Speaker 1: Zealand mainland, people are going to have to make some adjustments,
Speaker 1: gonna have to shake things up a little bit because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to learn to cohabitate with a bunch
Speaker 1: of sea lions. So their first yeah, exactly. They've shown
Speaker 1: up at golf courses, hiking trails, private pools, which you know,
Speaker 1: I think fair personally, Yeah, absolutely, I would be thrilled
Speaker 1: if a sea lion showed up at my pool. That
Speaker 1: would be that would that would be the coolest thing ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And they're not aggressive. They are large and they can
Speaker 1: bark loudly if they're feeling threatened, which may frighten people.
Speaker 1: But no, they're they're not like, they're not really particularly dangerous.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go up to one and like try to
Speaker 1: hug it. It might bite you. It might not like that,
Speaker 1: but you know, um, but they are much more threatened
Speaker 1: by us. They have been hit and killed on roads
Speaker 1: or intentionally killed, which there's there's a special place in
Speaker 1: like Condor hell where you know, all these Condor jesus
Speaker 1: Is go and like feast on your innards for an eternity,
Speaker 1: uh for intentionally just for the hell of it. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so we just solved that problem. The people
Speaker 1: intentionally killing these seals are the carrion. There we go
Speaker 1: that that the condors get in Condor Heaven. Right. I
Speaker 1: think we're fine tuning this Condor religion and I love
Speaker 1: it absolutely well. Yes, it's got it's got Greek vibes,
Speaker 1: because I think that was one of the punishments of
Speaker 1: a Greek of like Prometheus, that that Titan and Greek
Speaker 1: mythology that stole fire to give to humans or something.
Speaker 1: He had his like liver eaten by vultures every day
Speaker 1: and then it would grow back and it got re
Speaker 1: eaten by vultures, which seems harsh. You know, Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't remember that part in the Ridley Scott movie. Um
Speaker 1: that's uh. It's about as much as my knowledge of
Speaker 1: her Metheus goes. So conservationists are looking into ways to
Speaker 1: help human society and seal seciety merged together. They've like
Speaker 1: run simulation programs to try to figure out where these
Speaker 1: sea lions are going to try to go, and like
Speaker 1: put up signs like hey sea lions here, just just
Speaker 1: note make a note of that. And actually the repopulation
Speaker 1: started in nine when a female New Zealand sea lion
Speaker 1: came to the mainland to give birth to her pup,
Speaker 1: and it has been steadily has been increasing since then.
Speaker 1: And this is really important because as of you know now,
Speaker 1: there are only about twelve thousand New Zealand sea lions
Speaker 1: in general in the world out there, and the mainland
Speaker 1: conditions for sea lions, even though it's populated by humans,
Speaker 1: it's it's more favorable to them than the staying on
Speaker 1: the Auckland Islands the whole time. Because the Auckland Islands
Speaker 1: are colder, it may be fine for them to migrate there,
Speaker 1: but you know, to take advantage of the warmer waters
Speaker 1: around the mainland for fishing and survival. Uh may really
Speaker 1: help out their population, even if they have to share
Speaker 1: the area with humans, as long as humans are willing
Speaker 1: to cooperate, you know, sure, sure, sure, your gosh darn
Speaker 1: golf courses. Seriously, the last thing the world needs is
Speaker 1: another golf course. But the world always needs more sea lions. Seals, wait,
Speaker 1: seals seals sea lions okay, different from seals, both completely
Speaker 1: out of brain fart for a second. That is okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's got seal in it, which is like,
Speaker 1: yes it does. Yeah. I mean, I, for one, welcome
Speaker 1: the return of being someone who does not live in
Speaker 1: New Zealand. I welcome the return of the sea lions.
Speaker 1: This is very this is very easy for me to say.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I love wildlife and animals
Speaker 1: so much that I would I would be thrilled. I'm
Speaker 1: always jealous of videos of people like that live in Alaska,
Speaker 1: U or you know, out West, or in Canada or
Speaker 1: something where like there's a moose in their yard just
Speaker 1: you know, destroying their trash can or something like that
Speaker 1: is the coolest ever I wish. I wish that would
Speaker 1: happen to me. Yeah, I wouldn't want to directly face
Speaker 1: off with a moose, but if a moose was destroying
Speaker 1: my trash can, and'd be like, you know, fair, fair
Speaker 1: is fair that that trash can was looking at the moose? Wrong? Um, completely,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on the moose side every time. So we
Speaker 1: all know the story of Tiny Tim and how he
Speaker 1: defeated Scrooge in psychic combat, sending hallucinations of ghosts to
Speaker 1: shame the old man into treating his father better. Right,
Speaker 1: that was and that was my interpretation of the I've
Speaker 1: I've never never thought about it that way, but that
Speaker 1: is the coolest version of was it Christmas? Was it Christmas? Carol? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. Uh wow, that's a much so
Speaker 1: so do we think so we're talking psychic warfare here,
Speaker 1: We don't think there was any kind of hallucinogen slipped
Speaker 1: into the old man's like tea or something like that.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of using the magneto principle where it's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, not Magneto. I'm sorry, I don't know my
Speaker 1: x men so great, doctor. I was so confused for
Speaker 1: a second. I was trying to make the connection of like, okay,
Speaker 1: professor X, Professor professor X. Yeah, professor X is is
Speaker 1: like x men code name, right, Yeah, so I think
Speaker 1: Tinyton might have just been a professor X. You know, Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense that psychic combat. I mean they're both British, right,
Speaker 1: so I don't yeah. Yeah, And and like the the
Speaker 1: ghosts that they could be forced ghosts, you know from
Speaker 1: this Yeah, yeah, we don't know if they're they're falling
Speaker 1: Jedi um because that takes place in our universe as well.
Speaker 1: It's just a long time ago and in a galaxy
Speaker 1: far away, so we don't know what. We don't know
Speaker 1: what the source of those ghosts are either. Um, it's possible.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah. I mean, my favorite version of
Speaker 1: the Christmas Carol is the Scrooge McDuck version. By far
Speaker 1: that it's a classic. But speaking of Scrooge with Bill
Speaker 1: Murray is a good one too. That's pretty sorry, I
Speaker 1: completely I just butchered your segue. You just brought up
Speaker 1: that you just brought up the Donald Duck version or
Speaker 1: the Scrooge McDuck version, and uh, that was going to
Speaker 1: be flawless. Bill Murray, We're going to talk about some birds. Now,
Speaker 1: Uh do these birds happen to have bills? They do,
Speaker 1: in fact, so excellent. Hey, you know we did it.
Speaker 1: We we we made it, we made it work. It's
Speaker 1: a creature Kringle Times, miracle of our very I have
Speaker 1: my creature Kringle Times. Carol does feature a tiny tim
Speaker 1: except it is a tiny Bruce. And he is a
Speaker 1: bird and actually kind of a large bird and a
Speaker 1: silly bird and a sweet bird and who has a
Speaker 1: beak disability that he has discovered an incredible solution to.
Speaker 1: So Bruce is just an amazing, amazing bird. This is
Speaker 1: the heart the most heartwarming of tails. He's the best best,
Speaker 1: the best boy best parrot. So he has a keya
Speaker 1: parrot from New Zealand. Again New Zealand, You're just rife
Speaker 1: with uh miracles. So Kia's are large olive green parrots
Speaker 1: with orange markings under their wings. And they are the
Speaker 1: world's only alpine parrots. They have a mountain parrots. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know, usually parrots do like things like forests and jungles.
Speaker 1: But yeah, living up in the mountains, looking bird beautiful birds,
Speaker 1: and they have these long, sharp curved beaks and they
Speaker 1: will eat anything from carrion too, roots, insects, berries, and foliage. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they live in burrows near the base of trees
Speaker 1: and Kia's like many parrots, are highly highly intelligent. They
Speaker 1: are capable of solving complex puzzles, stealing car keys, getting
Speaker 1: into hiking backpacks, passport theft, damaging cars, and other fun crimes.
Speaker 1: Sheep vandalism is one of their crimes, sheep vandalism. They'll
Speaker 1: they'll attack sheep and like pull off their wool. They
Speaker 1: are sometimes called the clown of the mountains, which I
Speaker 1: think is just kind of petty name calling because people
Speaker 1: are jealous they're so good at crime, just so good
Speaker 1: at crimes. Yeah, yeah, absolutely they are. Literally when I
Speaker 1: say passport theft, they have been documented to steal passports
Speaker 1: from people. So, you know, smart birds using their beautiful
Speaker 1: bird brains for fun crime. Uh. And in studies, kias
Speaker 1: have proved to be able to solve puzzles to get
Speaker 1: a food reward, similar to how crows. New Caledonian crows
Speaker 1: can also do this so kias can manipulate physical items
Speaker 1: to get some kind of food. So an example is
Speaker 1: pushing a marble through a tube to push a treat
Speaker 1: off a pedestal down a ramp into a tray that
Speaker 1: they collected from, which is way too clever for me.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I don't think I figured that out. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't either. Um. Is there any evidence of identity
Speaker 1: theft after the stealing of the passport, like any credit card?
Speaker 1: Fraug um, because I'm I'm assuming there is. These birds
Speaker 1: sound intelligent enough to get away with that. I don't
Speaker 1: despite never having been to New Zealand. I did lose
Speaker 1: my credit card once and I did get a weird
Speaker 1: charge for like two thousand pounds of millet. So then yes,
Speaker 1: the answer is yes absolutely. Um uh wow, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: so this is like, uh, New Zealand probably has its
Speaker 1: own like department within the government that just focuses on
Speaker 1: keya periods. Bird crimes. Yeah, bird crimes, yeah, bird crimes.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well, bird crimes, They're They're amazing. I think
Speaker 1: I don't usually advertise the shirts on the show, but
Speaker 1: I think we do have some shirts in our store
Speaker 1: that it's like one of them is bird crimes. The
Speaker 1: shirt and shows a bird doing bird crimes. Um, so uh,
Speaker 1: I'll do a link in the description. Why not, it's
Speaker 1: it's Kringle times so exactly exactly so. But back to Bruce,
Speaker 1: the best, the best, smartest Kia boy. Um, I love them.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm I hope, I'm not I hope I'm
Speaker 1: not rambling too much. I'm just so excited about Bruce.
Speaker 1: I love him so much. He's should I love him
Speaker 1: like a son. He is a Kia, but he's missing
Speaker 1: most of his upper beak, possibly due to it getting
Speaker 1: caught in a rat trap. But he was found and
Speaker 1: rescued as a baby orphan, so already the protagonist of
Speaker 1: basically every Disney movie, right right, so his rescuers made
Speaker 1: sure that he could eat, but missing his upper beak
Speaker 1: still presents a problem. Kia's need those long curved upper
Speaker 1: beaks to preen their feathers to keep them clean and
Speaker 1: free of parasites. But Bruce is a genius u and
Speaker 1: the world cannot keep Bruce down. When he needs to
Speaker 1: preen his feathers, he grabs a pebble, holds it between
Speaker 1: his tongue and his lower beak and uses it as
Speaker 1: a tool to comb through his feathers. The pressure of
Speaker 1: the pebble wedged between his beak and the feathers allows
Speaker 1: him to scrape dirt and parasites off. So he has
Speaker 1: been invented a bird comb for himself. That's amazing that
Speaker 1: displaying ingenuity like that, it never fails to amaze me.
Speaker 1: I should assume that animals are just so much more
Speaker 1: intelligent than I understand them to be. But when it
Speaker 1: expresses itself like this, it just makes me realize that
Speaker 1: like animals and and of all you know, uh kind
Speaker 1: are just doing stuff that is intelligent constantly that I
Speaker 1: just don't understand, you know. Uh. This is just one
Speaker 1: that like we can relate to because it's I'll include
Speaker 1: a link to a video of Bruce in the show notes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's as he's doing this, and it's really
Speaker 1: interesting to watch because he picks up this pebble repeatedly
Speaker 1: and he seems really he's very choosy about like the
Speaker 1: kind of pebble he uses. He's got like his favorite
Speaker 1: pebbles that he uses because he's you know, using one
Speaker 1: that works well for him and there's a certain joy
Speaker 1: in realizing that, no, we are surrounded by intelligent creatures
Speaker 1: on this planet, you know, like we there's there's uh,
Speaker 1: there's just so much like amazing behaviors that just to
Speaker 1: be found in, even in kind of sad circumstances like
Speaker 1: this poor bird had had this bad thing happened to him,
Speaker 1: but he has used his his incredible bird wits to
Speaker 1: make sure that he's happy. And there's this really cute
Speaker 1: quote by one of his rescuers because like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask them, like, well, why haven't you given him a
Speaker 1: prosthetic beak? And it's like, well, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: basically figured out his own his own prosthetic, Like he's
Speaker 1: he's uh, you know, he's he's got his own system
Speaker 1: and and uh, that's I think, really really amazing because
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, sometimes these animals are that they
Speaker 1: can figure out solutions to these problems and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just that's it's just mind blowing. I love it. It is.
Speaker 1: I love it too. It's like you said, life wasn't
Speaker 1: going to hold him down, and he didn't let it.
Speaker 1: So wonderful. Uh So I hope Bruce has a wonderful
Speaker 1: creature Kringle times celebrating Condor Jesus. Uh. This year he's
Speaker 1: he's getting into Condor Heaven percent and they're going to
Speaker 1: have all the uh what kind of what kind of
Speaker 1: food does he eat? Again? And like we're talking like
Speaker 1: nuts and yeah, yeah, insects stuff that carrion though, so
Speaker 1: he can hang out with like Condor Jesus and they
Speaker 1: can enjoy some carrion from some some naughty sinners who
Speaker 1: ever hurt a seal intentionally I hate them, hate them, sorry,
Speaker 1: hurt a sea lion intentionally sea lion. So yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's uh, that's that's our I guess, our new
Speaker 1: Condor religion that we just came up with, which I
Speaker 1: would assume is going to become a very popular religion,
Speaker 1: probably will have you know, we'll have some crusades and
Speaker 1: so on. So that's a that's a fun thing forward
Speaker 1: to the followers. Would be called a congregration. Yeah, okay, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: just one a day and that'll be all my time. Folks,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate you having me Katie.
Speaker 1: Well before we go, though, don't you want to hear
Speaker 1: the answer to uh, last week's Mystery animal sound game.
Speaker 1: I would love to yes. So the hint from last
Speaker 1: stweek's Mystery animal sound game or guess who's squawking? Was
Speaker 1: tis the season? So who do you think it is squawking? Wow?
Speaker 1: I'm so bad at this. I can't even tell, like
Speaker 1: if it's like a bird or a large like reptile
Speaker 1: or an mammal. Like I don't even know like which
Speaker 1: wing of the animal kingdom to even start at. Uh man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that is a wart hog? Mm interesting,
Speaker 1: It's going to be so off. Well, it's not quite
Speaker 1: a ward hog, but what it is is a reindeer,
Speaker 1: a baby reindeer. What's a baby reindeer? Oh? I bet
Speaker 1: that's a doorm Lots of you guys got this correctly,
Speaker 1: But I want to congratulate the three fastest listeners, he
Speaker 1: wrote in the quickest tim m Natalie in and saga E.
Speaker 1: Congratulations did I had? The only sounds I knew reindeer
Speaker 1: made were from the famous Christmas special with Rudolph. I
Speaker 1: just assumed they talked like human beings. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you have your your sort of image of Rudolph the
Speaker 1: Red Nose Reindeer just like in all of these movies
Speaker 1: just replace all of the audio with like raw raw.
Speaker 1: I wonder, so, my dad was in the film business,
Speaker 1: And have you ever seen the movie Prancer? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. No, okay, he he shot Prancer up in Indiana. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh it's a delightful, delightful movie. I wonder if
Speaker 1: they got the sound olmes right for it. It kind
Speaker 1: of makes me want to go back and rewatch it
Speaker 1: and then leave a bad review on your dad's movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Um.
Speaker 1: I love when I get to witness a person like
Speaker 1: usually it's online learn for the first time that reindeers
Speaker 1: are actual animals, like are not just mythical creatures, because
Speaker 1: far more adults do not realize that, uh than than
Speaker 1: you would assume. Yeah, reindeers are are real, folks. They're
Speaker 1: they're real, real animals. I guess it's true that you
Speaker 1: would think, like, well, they if they're depicted flying through
Speaker 1: the air, they must not be like real animals. But yes,
Speaker 1: they are very real animal They're very real animals. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah that anyone who lives I guess in sort of
Speaker 1: the more northerly regions of the world already know. Yes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um I've have a I have a friend of mine, um,
Speaker 1: very good buddy of mine who did not realize that
Speaker 1: sloths were real creatures. He thought they were like extinct,
Speaker 1: Like he didn't exactly sloths are extinct to be fair, right.
Speaker 1: He he thought that tree sloths were similar to the
Speaker 1: giant sloth and that they were long extinct creatures and
Speaker 1: they did not still exist. And it's a it's kind
Speaker 1: of a beautiful moment, you know, when when somebody learns
Speaker 1: about the narwhall too. That's another one that like, oh,
Speaker 1: I thought they just made up that up for the
Speaker 1: movie Elf. You know that I thought that was a
Speaker 1: mythical creature as well. There's so many animals that people
Speaker 1: do not realize until they're adults that wow, these are actual, actual,
Speaker 1: real creatures, but we only know them or associate them
Speaker 1: with like pop culture, you know, film and television. You
Speaker 1: know it's not real though. What's that birds? Their government drones?
Speaker 1: They are They absolutely onto this week's mystery animal. Sound
Speaker 1: a hint? People will pay out the nose for their poop.
Speaker 1: What do you think? So the poop clue just makes
Speaker 1: me think of the m M or what And when
Speaker 1: I say that, I have no idea what that would
Speaker 1: sound like, so I'm just are actually correct, which means
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna put a bunch of jingle sound
Speaker 1: effects on that. So I'm sorry apologize. You don't want
Speaker 1: to apologize for being right? Okay, Okay, the nose clue.
Speaker 1: I did not know what the nose clue was about.
Speaker 1: That threw me off. Heck yeah all right, yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for you listeners, I jingled out the correct answers,
Speaker 1: so you will still have to guess if you think
Speaker 1: you know the answer to this week's mystery anal sound game.
Speaker 1: Guess who's squawking right to me at Creature Feature Pod
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I'm also on Twitter at Creature
Speaker 1: feet Pod. That's f e A T, not f e T.
Speaker 1: That is something very different, and on Instagram at Creature
Speaker 1: feature Pod at Instagram. Uh. Thank you so much, will
Speaker 1: aka a Christie Yeatin for joining me for this most
Speaker 1: best of miraculous of holiday spatials. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Thank you again for having me. It was a blessing
Speaker 1: um uh to be here. We want to invite the
Speaker 1: entire congregation uh to uh find me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Wopple House w A P P L E h O
Speaker 1: U s E UM. I also host a podcast about
Speaker 1: the Dan Lebotard Show for LeBatard Show fans. Uh. And
Speaker 1: also I do a podcast with some friends of mine
Speaker 1: called George Center. Um we kinda. The tagline is kind
Speaker 1: of like ship posting for your ears. Um so that's ah,
Speaker 1: it's very funny pod. We have a good time. So
Speaker 1: come check us out there. And uh, yeah, Katie, thank
Speaker 1: you again for having me on here. Thanks for coming
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Speaker 1: it makes my day. I made that one up, but
Speaker 1: I do. I do actually read all of them. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate them. And uh and thank you so much
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