Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host
Speaker 1: of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,
Speaker 1: and today on the show, we are playing a little game.
Speaker 1: This is a fun, fresh and funky new format for
Speaker 1: the show. We're gonna play a game of whether it's
Speaker 1: an animal, a mineral plant, or fun guy. I am
Speaker 1: giving my guests a bunch of pictures and he will
Speaker 1: describe them to you in detail, in disgusting, porous detail,
Speaker 1: and you can play along too. I will have links
Speaker 1: Tobby's images in the show notes, or you can just
Speaker 1: form a mental picture from our words, from our word
Speaker 1: paintings that we paint, and we will go through this
Speaker 1: and my guest will have to try to guess is
Speaker 1: it an animal, a mineral plant, a fungi or something else.
Speaker 1: Entirely Joining me today is friend of the show producer
Speaker 1: at iHeart Radio. He does so many things. I don't
Speaker 1: really even know where to start, uh, DJ Danel.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Katie, happy to be back. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have you plug everything at the end
Speaker 1: because I can't. I don't even know how. There's so
Speaker 1: many things. You you have your hands and so many pies.
Speaker 2: There's lots of pies. My fingers are sticky and disgusting
Speaker 2: at this point. Very stick Yeah. I've over the years
Speaker 2: touched many pies and am therefore again very sticky.
Speaker 1: If you've listened to a podcast or eaten a pie,
Speaker 1: chances are there's germs from Danel on it.
Speaker 2: I do love pie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pie is good.
Speaker 2: I love pie. Pie is good, savory or something great both.
Speaker 2: I mean, if I had to pick one, actually, damn,
Speaker 2: I was about to just pop off an answer, but
Speaker 2: now that I'm think about it, it's really hard to say.
Speaker 2: I was very lucky enough to travel to Australia a
Speaker 2: couple of times, and eating savory meat pies in Australia
Speaker 2: is just on another level. They just hit so differently.
Speaker 1: There used to be an Australian pie savory pie shop
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I think they may have moved, which
Speaker 1: is really sad because it was incredible, absolutely incredible, just fantastic.
Speaker 2: Really are I love?
Speaker 1: I think I like a savory pie. I think I'm
Speaker 1: sort of a you know, fifteenth century noble. I like
Speaker 1: a savory pie. So today we are talking about some
Speaker 1: things that may look like maybe they belong in a
Speaker 1: savory pie. Hard to tell. These are images, and it
Speaker 1: is up to you, Daniel, to try to guess what
Speaker 1: it is. It could be an animal, a mineral, a plant,
Speaker 1: fung guy, something else.
Speaker 2: I'm already confused, or rather not confused, but like I'm
Speaker 2: looking at these pictures and I'm just I know that
Speaker 2: I'm going to be surprised. I know I'm going to
Speaker 2: be enchanted, and i know I'm going to have a
Speaker 2: new fear at some point.
Speaker 1: I'd also like you to answer the question of whether
Speaker 1: you would eat.
Speaker 2: This thing gladly? Oh man, glad.
Speaker 1: So let's get right into it. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: very first image the candidate number one. Great, First, I
Speaker 1: want you to describe this image to the audience.
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, audience. I want you to imagine, you know,
Speaker 2: you've ever seen a huge strawberry that looks really amorphous. Now,
Speaker 2: just like double the amount of amorphousness of that weird strawberry.
Speaker 2: Make that strawberry white, and you've got kind of what
Speaker 2: we're looking at here. You know, it's just like kind
Speaker 2: of like a It looks like a globule but also
Speaker 2: has a pretty defined shape. It looks like it has
Speaker 2: tiny seeds on it and it's currently sitting or the
Speaker 2: image has it sitting on a bit of wet sand.
Speaker 2: So a white, ghastly kind of looking giant globule strawberry
Speaker 2: little dots of look like seeds and all sitting on
Speaker 2: some sand.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was beautiful. That was like you you're like
Speaker 1: Monet with your words. You know, when strawberries like are
Speaker 1: weird and they're like a double strawberry or even a
Speaker 1: triple strawberry. That's actually something called fasciation. It happens in
Speaker 1: plants when they have basically sort of a situation where
Speaker 1: there is this like extra growth where like this basically
Speaker 1: the plant like stem cells are telling it like grow
Speaker 1: that thing. But again over here it's really interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, this does kind of look like a white
Speaker 1: mutant strawberry totally, but it is already amorphous. It's blobule
Speaker 1: and it has these sort of like light tan speckles
Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, kind of like strawberry skin. It's it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Would you eat this danile?
Speaker 2: First of all, absolutely, Okay, I'm looking at this thing.
Speaker 2: It looks like a laffy taffy that washed up on
Speaker 2: the shore. I might look around, dunk it in the
Speaker 2: water real quick and then chow down. Looks like it
Speaker 2: would be delish. And if I had to guess, I
Speaker 2: had to Is it time to guess?
Speaker 1: Are there more time to do it?
Speaker 2: Okay? Cool? Cool? Cool cool? If I had to guess,
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to use some context clues here, looking
Speaker 2: at like that, it looks like it's something that washed
Speaker 2: up on the shore. So I'm like, it could be
Speaker 2: a plant, it could be an animal. I think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go. I'm gonna go animal.
Speaker 1: You are absolutely correct, Congratulations, Yes, this is an animal.
Speaker 1: It certainly is a strange looking one. Yes, this is
Speaker 1: something called a tunicate, also known as a sea squirt,
Speaker 1: or when it's washed up on the beach like this,
Speaker 1: it is called sea pork just because people. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: like to have a name that I don't know. To me,
Speaker 1: this doesn't look like pork. I guess it could kind
Speaker 1: of look like pork fat. Yeah, it's kind of a disgusting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very it makes it more gross. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: a name that that makes it much more gross.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So under the ocean there they look like these strange,
Speaker 1: beautiful or sometimes kind of creepy like flowers or even
Speaker 1: like coral, but they are not coral, and they are
Speaker 1: not flowers. There's a few images that I've also shared
Speaker 1: with you that are various examples of tunicate. Some of
Speaker 1: them are solitary where they look sort of like this
Speaker 1: weird almost like a like a flower or like a
Speaker 1: bulbous thing with this kind of like purply coloration. But
Speaker 1: sometimes they are in colonies, so like sometimes they form
Speaker 1: like chains. So you'll see this thing that looks like
Speaker 1: this giant chain and it's all these tunicits that are
Speaker 1: linked together. And sometimes they form like a blobby colony
Speaker 1: like that initial image. Also like what that's when it's
Speaker 1: kind of discolored. Sometimes when they're fresher, they're like pink
Speaker 1: or red. And yeah, so they are. There's many different
Speaker 1: species of tunicate, from those who live as individuals to
Speaker 1: those who live as colonies. And they all start out
Speaker 1: in this like free swimming stage. This larva that kind
Speaker 1: of looks like a tadpole sperm, like a sperm that's
Speaker 1: the size of a tadpole, and right they will latched.
Speaker 1: For the ones that are sessile, they will latch onto sessile,
Speaker 1: meaning that they stay fixed in one location. They no
Speaker 1: longer move around. They will latch themselves onto a substrate
Speaker 1: and go through a metamorphosis where they sort of lose
Speaker 1: their ability to move and then form this like siphon system,
Speaker 1: so they turn into kind of like just this almost
Speaker 1: like bagpipe looking thing some of them. Others will form colonies,
Speaker 1: so they look like that weird like mutant strawberry lumpy thing.
Speaker 1: And so they they will essentially act as filter feeders.
Speaker 1: And unless they are part of this like chain like organism,
Speaker 1: like some of them form this like long chain where
Speaker 1: they're floating around as a chain. They will mostly stay
Speaker 1: motionless or at least like stuck fixed in one place
Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives while filter feeding. They're
Speaker 1: called sea scortes because a lot of them will do
Speaker 1: this like siphoning of water, like sucking it in one
Speaker 1: tube and pushing it out the other. It's a it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Really quickly. I want to jump back just two seconds
Speaker 2: to make sure I understood some terminology you said. They
Speaker 2: attached to a substrate is like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is like sand or rock or any it's
Speaker 1: basically floor. It's a science word.
Speaker 2: For floor, a science word for floor. I like that cool.
Speaker 1: But it's a floor that could be made out of
Speaker 1: rocks or sand or gravel.
Speaker 2: I had a feeling it was at a feeling it
Speaker 2: was the hard surface. I just wanted to be sure.
Speaker 1: Specialized surface of some kind. Yeah. So, despite sometimes being
Speaker 1: called sea pork, most species of tunicits aren't edible. But
Speaker 1: notice how I said most. There are some species that
Speaker 1: are edible, and people actually have them in various cuisines.
Speaker 2: And you know, really, yeah, is there a particular regional
Speaker 2: cuisine that eats these the most?
Speaker 1: I mean, I have, I think because there are so many.
Speaker 1: There are various countries where they are featured in cuisine
Speaker 1: from anywhere from Korea to Chile. So yes, So let's
Speaker 1: go on to the next image here, great, Yes it is.
Speaker 1: This is gray looking thing with sort of red splotches
Speaker 1: on it, Danield.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's a it's a looking thing, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, first of all, describe it to the audience.
Speaker 1: Use use the art of poetry to paint a picture.
Speaker 2: How to describe a summer's day. Well, this thing we're
Speaker 2: looking at here, I would say it's dominating. Colors are
Speaker 2: I would say, imagine something that is an eighty percent
Speaker 2: kind of muddy gray with twenty percent of a very
Speaker 2: vibrant orangey red, and these little tiny splotches all over it.
Speaker 2: It would appear that there are these very small dots
Speaker 2: of red around this object. Now, this object is kind
Speaker 2: of like this thing creature. I don't even know. This
Speaker 2: thing is almost like the shape of an avocado maybe,
Speaker 2: but it almost looks like it has a protrusion, like
Speaker 2: a protrusion that has lesions on it. So imagine like
Speaker 2: a avocado shaped thing that almost looks like it's covered
Speaker 2: in little like calcified ringworms or something like. It looks
Speaker 2: like these like tiny little wormes on it that are
Speaker 2: hard like petrified worms, tiny little specks of red, and
Speaker 2: then these open lesions that look like small pools of
Speaker 2: lava on this weird avocado shaped rock looking thing. It
Speaker 2: looks both hard and rough and also sticky and gross
Speaker 2: at the same time, Like parts of it look like
Speaker 2: you could sharpen a knife on it, and then other
Speaker 2: parts of it looked like they could give you a
Speaker 2: disease if you touched it. So yeah, it's very strange.
Speaker 2: It also looks like it's looking at me like a
Speaker 2: hundred times, like it looks like several parts of it
Speaker 2: are looking at me because the red dots are placed
Speaker 2: in such a way or are in such a place
Speaker 2: that they look like little eyes. It's like a pair
Speaker 2: of red dots in several places around this thing. No idea,
Speaker 2: but it is definitely again we're seeing it on top
Speaker 2: of what looks like very wet sand, maybe wet mud.
Speaker 2: But it is out in nature. It looks wet and
Speaker 2: it looks gross. But also I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 2: shame the thing. Yeah, body show no share, certainly not
Speaker 2: certainly not, But it is something I don't know if
Speaker 2: I would want to touch.
Speaker 1: Right so that I would assume you wouldn't eat it.
Speaker 1: Then if you don't want to touch it.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, hold on. You know there's there's there's some
Speaker 2: things I don't want to touch. Then necessarily I throw
Speaker 2: on the grill and then you know I'm touching them
Speaker 2: with my mouth. You know, I will say, off, rip, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to eat this, but I am curious.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It feels so violent to say I
Speaker 2: want to see what's on the inside. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, these these lesions of of you know, bright
Speaker 2: red and orange color are like, what's going on in there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is that violence or just curiosity?
Speaker 2: There we go. I appreciate that there's some aliens that
Speaker 2: are going to probust and say it's not violence, it's curiosity.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like, well, my arm's off now, so
Speaker 2: I don't know scientific amen to that. All right, I'm
Speaker 2: going to I'm going to take a guess.
Speaker 1: Yes, go for it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go with my gut and say that
Speaker 2: this is a mineral.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Well, no, it is in fact an animal. And
Speaker 1: I'm seeing kind of a jerk here because this is
Speaker 1: yet another tunicit. What I got you? Yeah, So this
Speaker 1: like leprous looking gray avocado is a tunic kit called
Speaker 1: pyra chilinasis uh wait wait sorry, I pronounced that totally wrong.
Speaker 1: Pya chill and sis uh. And it looks like a
Speaker 1: gray rock with weird tubules that has flesh inside. And
Speaker 1: that's essentially what it is. It's a flesh rock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I just need to be very clear with
Speaker 2: the audience. So Katie has provided, you know, like we
Speaker 2: were talking about with the first tunicit, is the name
Speaker 2: of the creature right, yes, tunicit. So so so Katie
Speaker 2: provided four different images of the first tunicit and they
Speaker 2: all look pretty different then, but but there are some
Speaker 2: similar qualities. This picture, this second picture, or rather fifth picture,
Speaker 2: at this point, could not look more different than the
Speaker 2: prior four pictures. There's nothing about this picture that says, well,
Speaker 2: that's the same creature. Yeah at all.
Speaker 1: Well, to be fair, it's a different species for sure.
Speaker 2: But being like, you know, look, you showed me two birds.
Speaker 2: One could be big, one could be small. They both
Speaker 2: look like birds, right, this does not even this is
Speaker 2: this doesn't even look like a globule of strawberry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it kind of looks moldy. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so that gray rock like exterior is the exoskeletal structure
Speaker 1: of a colony of tunicates. Inside that red flesh is
Speaker 1: you know, they're flesh, the flesh of these kits. So
Speaker 1: this is a colony of tunicts. And yeah, just like
Speaker 1: other tunicates, they siphon in water and filter feed and
Speaker 1: essentially just hang out and seem like a rock until
Speaker 1: they are dragged out by fishermen. And I know you
Speaker 1: said you were on the fence about eating this, but
Speaker 1: these are an example of an edible tunicate, and indeed
Speaker 1: they are featured in Chilean cuisine. Yes, what.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So because it does look like a flesh rock from hell,
Speaker 1: it's not a particularly popular food in Chile. And this
Speaker 1: is not like some kind of like common cuisine, but
Speaker 1: in areas where like there's a lot of fishing, it
Speaker 1: can be eaten in fishermen. Well, what they do essentially
Speaker 1: is they take out the inside. You don't eat out
Speaker 1: the exoskeleton, just like you wouldn't eat like the exoskeleton
Speaker 1: of a clam. And then they take these like basically
Speaker 1: like globules of meat from inside, dry them out, and
Speaker 1: it's used in soups. So you know, I would I
Speaker 1: I would try it. I would.
Speaker 2: I mean now that I mean, now that we're having
Speaker 2: this conversation, I'm like, yeah, I mean, throw it on
Speaker 2: a plate. Let me see what some see what we're
Speaker 2: rocking with. But like, wow, I'm shook. I'm shook. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, that's.
Speaker 1: When it's like, when you're essentially giving me the option
Speaker 1: of eating a living rock made out of flesh, it
Speaker 1: does sound a little appealing.
Speaker 2: Actually, that sounds like some pokemon stuff. It's like, do
Speaker 2: I want to eat a geo dude.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Katie, those traps they've got delts that look
Speaker 1: you know, delectable, delectable.
Speaker 2: Though there's meat there.
Speaker 1: All right, So do you want to move on to
Speaker 1: the next image. Let's do it, all right, This is
Speaker 1: candidate number three. I want you to describe this image
Speaker 1: for the audioka gladly.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to avoid the rather explicit connotation that
Speaker 2: these things have and say that they are They do
Speaker 2: look like blue wieners. They look like they look like, uh,
Speaker 2: doctor Manhattan wieners sticking out of the ground. They look
Speaker 2: like and the thing is so again, this is a
Speaker 2: scale thing where I'm like, don't know how big these are,
Speaker 2: but they I'm going to guess small. They look like
Speaker 2: small stalagmites, translucent bluish stalagmites. They look like, you know,
Speaker 2: you can see there there may be gooey blue center.
Speaker 2: It's almost it's almost like a it looks like one
Speaker 2: single piece that is like attached to a rock with
Speaker 2: a lot with a lot of little like you know,
Speaker 2: blue wieners sticking out of it.
Speaker 1: But it is a meadow of blueis.
Speaker 2: A meadow of blue wieners is a great way to
Speaker 2: say it there is also as part of them. It
Speaker 2: almost looks like you're looking into like a cave, a
Speaker 2: cave of blue wieners that are being exposed to light
Speaker 2: for the first time. I'm also going to guess this
Speaker 2: is guessing this is also I'm guessing this is underwater,
Speaker 2: but there's no evidence of that. You know what, Actually,
Speaker 2: I take that back. There's no water evidence in this picture,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna say it's not water. I'm going to go.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think there's any other physical descriptors that
Speaker 2: are worth mentioning here. I mean, like, you know, uh no,
Speaker 2: I think I think we I think we kind of
Speaker 2: nailed it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2: I'm going to thank you. I'm going to go I'm
Speaker 2: going to go with a fungus hm.
Speaker 1: But also, would you eat it? You gotta answer that one.
Speaker 2: Too, Oh right, of course, yes, they look like they
Speaker 2: they look like they explode in your mouth like gushers.
Speaker 2: So yes, absolutely due.
Speaker 1: They look gummy, they look like delicious gummies. They do
Speaker 1: look gummy, you know, like how you're at a bachelor
Speaker 1: party and you get some weiener gummies. They look like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I would know personally, have been very familiar with those. Yes,
Speaker 2: I've seen those images and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I've been to a lot of bachelorette parties. There's always
Speaker 1: some kind of weier thing, and it's just like, come on,
Speaker 1: aren't we adults here, Let's grow up, Let's just grow up.
Speaker 2: Let's grow up.
Speaker 1: Anyways, so that is a fantastic guess. This is a
Speaker 1: fun guy. Sadly it is incorrect. This is actually a mineral.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I gotta I gotta throw in a mineral there.
Speaker 1: I gotta guess, switch up a curveball, a little bit
Speaker 1: of curve.
Speaker 2: These are things, definitely aren't These things definite aren't squishy
Speaker 2: that No, no, it looks There are so.
Speaker 1: Many minerals that I would put in my mouth and
Speaker 1: chomp down and break every tooth because they like candy
Speaker 1: and I want to eat them.
Speaker 2: Yes, these absolutely look like candy. One.
Speaker 1: These are chrysocola. They are this blue color. They're actually
Speaker 1: quite beautiful. I think it's actually due to the copper
Speaker 1: hydroxide content of the mineral. Obviously, copper is typically copper colored,
Speaker 1: but when it is oxidized it's blue. Like have you
Speaker 1: ever seen a gross old penny that's like kind of
Speaker 1: wet I have. Yeah, I turns blue and sometimes it
Speaker 1: turns your pocket blue too, and so yeah, it will.
Speaker 1: That is where this blue color comes.
Speaker 2: From, and that was where blue jeans come from.
Speaker 1: People just have penny penny washed jeans.
Speaker 2: Penny washed.
Speaker 1: So I think, I mean it's possible, though, that oxidized
Speaker 1: copper was used in paints. I'm not I'm not a
Speaker 1: paint expert or mineral mineralist, but yeah, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's very possible. It's used as like coloration in things.
Speaker 1: But that bulb, that sort of bulbous valley of penises
Speaker 1: type thing that's going on that they can look like
Speaker 1: little tentacles. Sometimes it looks like little bubbles like it's
Speaker 1: it's literally sort of bubbling up. It's called a boeroidal formation.
Speaker 1: It is when there are many seeds from which the
Speaker 1: crystal forms. So when I talk about seed, it's essentially
Speaker 1: like maybe it's a piece of sand or a small
Speaker 1: particle of mineral from which a crystal sort of starts growing.
Speaker 1: So again, I'm not a mineraloid, I'm not a professor
Speaker 1: of mineralogy.
Speaker 2: But what was my favorite aliens from Star Trek?
Speaker 1: Mineral Oid just a bunch of rocks. It's just a
Speaker 1: geodude rebranded. So it's essentially like the way I learned
Speaker 1: it eons ago is that you'll have sort of a
Speaker 1: structure of a crystal, and then once you have like
Speaker 1: if you have like things that it's stuff that kind
Speaker 1: of knocks things into place or like it forms this thing,
Speaker 1: and then you start to get this formation and everything
Speaker 1: sort of settles in this this structure form because you
Speaker 1: have a seed structure that enables this type of formation,
Speaker 1: and so the crystal continues to form sort of like
Speaker 1: a domino effect. And so if you have a multiple
Speaker 1: number of these like seeds that will grow these crystals,
Speaker 1: then you have this like bubbling form or forest of Weena's.
Speaker 2: Most certainly it's beautiful. I have a question to go
Speaker 2: for it now now that we now that we know
Speaker 2: that it is a mineral, can we get what is
Speaker 2: the scale of the image that we're looking at? Here?
Speaker 2: Are these tiny? Are they large? Are they kind of
Speaker 2: like in between? Like what size are we looking at?
Speaker 1: Sometimes they can and it depends. Some of them are
Speaker 1: like bigger, some of them are like small, like sort
Speaker 1: of like smaller than a pencil. These I think are
Speaker 1: about pencil size.
Speaker 2: Pencil said, that's still pretty I mean, gang, if you
Speaker 2: were to look at these like saying that their pencil
Speaker 2: size means they're probably like the thickness of like a
Speaker 2: water bottle. So these are pretty substantial minerals right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, maybe pencil is a little big, but they're
Speaker 1: certainly like like uh yeah, like a thin sort of
Speaker 1: the head of a pencil maybe, oh like like the
Speaker 1: like the like you know, the like the not like
Speaker 1: the lead points, but like the conical part of the pencil,
Speaker 1: like each one of those is kind of like I
Speaker 1: would think sort of like that. But I've seen ones
Speaker 1: that are also really small.
Speaker 2: Like gotcha, okay, wow, okay, but they but they are
Speaker 2: small in range. We're not going to go into a
Speaker 2: cave and see two foot three foot tall ones of
Speaker 2: these bod mines right here.
Speaker 1: Not that I am aware of.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: And sometimes they don't I mean, sometimes they don't form
Speaker 1: like those sort of like Wiener shapes or bubble shapes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're like different shape, like it's just it kind
Speaker 1: of depends on how they form. Uh. This form I
Speaker 1: thought looked really organic and weird and possibly would throw
Speaker 1: you off, which it did, and I'm proud you.
Speaker 2: Nailed it, proud of lying to you, you know, an
Speaker 2: appropriate situation to me, And I'm proud of you too.
Speaker 1: So let's move on to the next image.
Speaker 2: If you're ready, I'm super ready.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. So first, describe this to
Speaker 1: the audience again. Let's let's let's be adults here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be let's be adults here, all right. So, gang,
Speaker 2: imagine that you were looking at a top down brain
Speaker 2: that was like flattened, like it looks like a flat
Speaker 2: cross section of a brain with a a very suggestive
Speaker 2: slit down the middle.
Speaker 1: Looks like a brain vagina.
Speaker 2: It is a brain virgin. It looks like there are
Speaker 2: a couple surrounding it. It looks like a little bundle,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe a three pack of brain vaginas. They're sitting, honestly.
Speaker 1: And get those big old tops of brain vaginas you do.
Speaker 2: Uh, they look like they're sitting in a pot filled
Speaker 2: with pebbles. So maybe this is like some sort of
Speaker 2: I mean, the pot looks I'll say this, Okay, this
Speaker 2: could be one of those things where like the geological
Speaker 2: formation was just so perfect and this is like underwater.
Speaker 2: But something tells me this is more of like a
Speaker 2: succulent and is actually a plant. But the last thing
Speaker 2: I'll say is in terms of so again, remember we're
Speaker 2: talking like a flat brain looking thing here. It's like
Speaker 2: a It's like a cross section of a brain if
Speaker 2: you were to cut it in half, all the wrinkles
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, same coloring as a brain, with
Speaker 2: the with all the folds and all the wrinkles being
Speaker 2: kind of like a the silk and ego being like
Speaker 2: a reddish hue. It's got kind of a pink look
Speaker 2: to it. There's kind of like an outline of yellowy
Speaker 2: orange all around, and I feel like I can see
Speaker 2: the root below it. I think I'm pretty confident that
Speaker 2: that is a succulent plant.
Speaker 1: And you say, you, hell, yeah, well you are absolutely
Speaker 1: correct that this is a fantastic I would not eat it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll kill you, but I think it
Speaker 1: would taste garbou and possibly give you a tummy age.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is a plant. It is called a lithops,
Speaker 1: which means easy to kill in Greek. That's not true,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. No, it actually means stone face in Greek.
Speaker 1: It is a very for me personally, maybe for other
Speaker 1: people too. It is a difficult succulent to keep alive.
Speaker 1: I have owned about three of them and kill every
Speaker 1: single one. I but they're so cool that the next
Speaker 1: time I see one being sold by a plant person,
Speaker 1: I will buy it again and probably kill it.
Speaker 2: Probably kill it. Yeah, So what what was so difficult
Speaker 2: about the care that made them made it easy to kill? So?
Speaker 1: These are These are succulents that are found in Africa,
Speaker 1: and they tend to do really well in very dry conditions,
Speaker 1: and so you really need very good drainage and to
Speaker 1: water it just enough but not too much, because if
Speaker 1: you water it too much and the drainage is not adequate,
Speaker 1: it will actually make the plant explode kind of because
Speaker 1: it absorbs too much water or the roots rot. So
Speaker 1: you water it like I've I've heard some advice where
Speaker 1: you water it like once a year, but I tried
Speaker 1: doing that and it die once a year. So I
Speaker 1: tried watering it more than that, but it also died.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what I'm exactly doing wrong. Probably
Speaker 1: I should stop buying these. So but yeah, they they
Speaker 1: are actually flowering succulents. So when they are in sort
Speaker 1: of the flowering season, a flower will emerge from betwixt
Speaker 1: the clefts of this. Really, yes, I'm probably I mean
Speaker 1: it is very labial. I'll probably get some obgi and
Speaker 1: mad at me for calling it a vaginan. Obviously that's
Speaker 1: not the vagiants, it's the labia. But yeah, so you'll
Speaker 1: have a flower that sprouts from it, and their appearance
Speaker 1: is thought to be camouflaged, so looking so much like
Speaker 1: a rock, meaning that it's less likely to be eaten.
Speaker 1: They're beautifuls.
Speaker 2: I mean they are, you know, honestly. Okay. Another another,
Speaker 2: another crass example for our listeners at home who are
Speaker 2: trying to picture this. Imagine you're very old and you
Speaker 2: put your naked butt cheeks on the xerox.
Speaker 1: Old pancaked butt cheeks.
Speaker 2: That's right, old pancakes butt cheeks on the xerox machine.
Speaker 2: You got what we're looking at right here.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. That is exactly it, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: I think that it is. I think that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Is like when you say old, wrinkly pancaked, but it
Speaker 1: makes it sound, you know, unappealing. But when you think
Speaker 1: about you, when you think about all the different shapes
Speaker 1: and folds that happen in nature. Look, we're just we're
Speaker 1: just nature baby, and we're just nature baby. We're just
Speaker 1: like succulents. Well, let's let's move on to the next
Speaker 1: to the next one. Dan, You're you're you're doing amazing
Speaker 1: at this game.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you. This game is amazing.
Speaker 1: This is fun. I'm having fun me too. This is
Speaker 1: candidate number five. Describe candidate number five if you will.
Speaker 2: So, this honestly looks like a haunted oil leak. We
Speaker 2: have a green slime that looks like it is coming
Speaker 2: out of something. The image is on what looks like concrete,
Speaker 2: and it looks like the green slime. There's there's a
Speaker 2: couple different like trails of you know when you like
Speaker 2: splash water or there's a liquid on concrete, and you
Speaker 2: can see the kind of residue. This definitely looks like
Speaker 2: it has been leaving a residue or something has been
Speaker 2: leaving a residue around it. Maybe this, whatever it is,
Speaker 2: has been moving. I'm honestly now looking at it, my
Speaker 2: first thought was fungus. Now I'm thinking creature, but also
Speaker 2: it might be a plant. It is very shiny, it
Speaker 2: is it is a it is a bright It.
Speaker 1: Is Nickelodeon's slime green.
Speaker 2: It is ghack green firs.
Speaker 1: Sure green?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you're right, no, no, slime, it's
Speaker 2: slime green. Gak is something different, but no, it's definitely what.
Speaker 2: I can't remember, Man, I need to google this whole.
Speaker 2: I'm googling gag wasn't gak?
Speaker 1: Jak was a toy?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: But was it all?
Speaker 2: But it was made by Nickelodeon. It was multiple colors. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but Nickelodeon slime is what we're talking about. Nicolas, You're
Speaker 2: one hundred percent right, Gang, it is Nickelodeon slime. Uh.
Speaker 2: This this, this floor is looking like Katy Perry's face
Speaker 2: after she accidentally opened that box. Uh, it's it's gross.
Speaker 2: It's long. There is something next to it for scale
Speaker 2: that almost looks like maybe a fishing line.
Speaker 1: So you're, oh, God, you're sure locking the hell out
Speaker 1: of this. I can tell by the angle of the
Speaker 1: shadows that this was taken into approximately fifteen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say I'm going to go with animal. I
Speaker 2: think this is a creature that is very interesting.
Speaker 1: Would you eat it? Your face says no, But your
Speaker 1: face says no, But your voice.
Speaker 2: My face says no, but my body says me, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It looks like a it looks like one
Speaker 2: of those. Honestly, it looks like a whole pack of
Speaker 2: gummy bears melted down the side of the street. And
Speaker 2: you look around and you're like, no one's going to
Speaker 2: see this. Pop them all in your mouth at once.
Speaker 1: The story time, when I was in high school, a
Speaker 1: classmate was doing this thing where we had like a yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how he came into possession of this
Speaker 1: many mint mints, but he had a bunch of peppermints,
Speaker 1: the green kind, the green and white striped peppermints, and
Speaker 1: so we were all bored, and uh he decided to
Speaker 1: try to fit as many as possible in his mouth,
Speaker 1: and so of course we all egged him on. It
Speaker 1: was a massive choking hazard. He could have died, but
Speaker 1: we didn't think about that. He ended up fine, But uh,
Speaker 1: I think what happened is he is trying, uh to
Speaker 1: he was trying to keep going, and I said, come on,
Speaker 1: just one more, man, you can do it, just a
Speaker 1: little one. And that's for some reason, that made him
Speaker 1: laugh and he started laughing and he spewed out this
Speaker 1: long tendril of green spit melted mint candy. It smelled
Speaker 1: very minty. It went everywhere. It was hilarious, and we
Speaker 1: got in trouble.
Speaker 2: You got in trouble with him.
Speaker 1: No, I mean just like the teacher was like, guys, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't do that. We didn't get like detention or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I was just like, guys, come on, because
Speaker 1: she spit like a massive glob of semi mouth digested
Speaker 1: mint everywhere. The poor teacher, leaguered chemistry teacher. This is
Speaker 1: what that looks like to me.
Speaker 2: I totally see that. Yeah, and that is horrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but your guess is that it is an animal.
Speaker 1: You are correct. Let's see. I want to see if
Speaker 1: you like, let's go, like, where do you think this
Speaker 1: animal lives? Let's see if we can get even more
Speaker 1: specific bonus round.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I may be reading too much into the
Speaker 2: quote unquote fishing line that's next to it, which I
Speaker 2: still think is a fishing line, And I'm going to
Speaker 2: say this thing lives in the ocean. I'm going to
Speaker 2: say it's some sort of like sea slug type joint.
Speaker 1: That is very good. Guess, Yes, it does. Live in
Speaker 1: the ocean. It is not a sea slug, but it
Speaker 1: is is a ribbon worm. It is a green ribbon
Speaker 1: worm found in the ocean off the coast of Taiwan, Japan,
Speaker 1: and the Philippines. It is a bright green, mean clam
Speaker 1: eating machine. Uh. It like a lot of ribbon worms.
Speaker 1: It's kind of horrifying looking. It's actually not like super
Speaker 1: closely related to say, like earthworms or anything. They're just
Speaker 1: similarly shaped, but you know, not not very closely related.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is a ribbon worm. And ribbon worms
Speaker 1: have this thing called a preboscis, which is a great word,
Speaker 1: and it is this long, sticky, tongue like organ, yes exactly,
Speaker 1: that they can evert meaning sort of turn inside out
Speaker 1: and spit out through their mouth. And this can both
Speaker 1: ensnare their prey and also it contains venom to further
Speaker 1: incapacitate their victims, which can be yes like clams, other
Speaker 1: aquatic worms, snails, basically anything small enough and unlucky enough
Speaker 1: to find itself tangled up in its lethal proboscus. But
Speaker 1: as you can see from this picture, they're not tiny.
Speaker 1: They can be very long.
Speaker 2: Actually, no, this thing, this thing looks frighteningly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think this one's like over a foot long
Speaker 1: and like thicker than a pencil. It's yeah, interesting. So uh.
Speaker 1: They then, once they have entangled their prey and their
Speaker 1: venomous proboscis, they pull it in and basically like slurp
Speaker 1: up their own proboscis like spaghetti and then engulf their poohole. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, that's so kind of it's kind of snake
Speaker 2: like in the assumption of it.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 2: But though even though snakes are not.
Speaker 1: You know, but they have no job, yeah or face. Really,
Speaker 1: they're just a evil spaghetti.
Speaker 2: Not the way I'm trying to go. It gets swallowed
Speaker 2: by evil spaghetti. Yeah. Yeah, Well I want to look
Speaker 2: I want to look my killer in the eyes if
Speaker 2: they're going to eat me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is hard to do with this thing. It's
Speaker 1: like where is it which it's hard to even know
Speaker 1: which end is the butt.
Speaker 2: Where it's exactly yes, exactly. Well, it sounds like we
Speaker 2: won't know until much much too late.
Speaker 1: Gross.
Speaker 2: Gross.
Speaker 1: Well, let's move on, all right. Ultimate mystery image Candidate
Speaker 1: number six. Describe what you're seeing here, Daniel.
Speaker 2: All right, so this looks like okay, this this looks
Speaker 2: like what you would tell chat Gpt to draw if
Speaker 2: you were, like, can you draw lollipops growing out of
Speaker 2: the grounds?
Speaker 1: It looks like an AI art thing, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: It really does. The orbs are so perfect, or rather
Speaker 2: the the it's almost like the reflection on them is
Speaker 2: so perfect it almost looks not real. So imagine, let's
Speaker 2: see here, just say like many, Let's say like at
Speaker 2: least ten like stubby hairs sticking out of the ground.
Speaker 2: And at the end of each stubby hair is like
Speaker 2: a shiny, perfect orb and either a red orange or
Speaker 2: a flesh color. Now, not all of these things are
Speaker 2: perfect orbs, but it's just these like rounded shapes that
Speaker 2: are like perfectly glossy, shiny on top of what looks
Speaker 2: like a gangly beard hair sticking out of the dirt.
Speaker 2: I believe it's dirt. It could be it could be
Speaker 2: wood perchance perhaps to dream, but yeah, this definitely looks
Speaker 2: like it looks like like stubbly beard hair on a
Speaker 2: piece of wood, with like lollipops or balloons at the
Speaker 2: end of it that are just these shiny, glossy globules.
Speaker 1: Globules.
Speaker 2: Love a globule, Love a globule, big fan big globbers.
Speaker 1: Would you would you eat it?
Speaker 2: I'm super duper tempted.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: Don't they look like each one of us crunch?
Speaker 1: Don't they look like little chupa chuops?
Speaker 2: Yeah they do. One hund.
Speaker 1: I would eat them.
Speaker 2: Do you have a Do you have a favorite chupa
Speaker 2: chube flavor? No?
Speaker 1: I don't even pay attention to the flavors.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I respect that, you know.
Speaker 1: I look at it, It's like wow, that's cheep chop,
Speaker 1: and I stick it in my mouth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, Okay, totally fair. The only reason
Speaker 2: I have a favorite flap yes, just because just because
Speaker 2: it's one of those candies that has this flavor, and
Speaker 2: that flavor is root beer. Oh yeah, I love love
Speaker 2: a root beer flavored candy.
Speaker 1: Nosed to have like those little root beer candies that
Speaker 1: were shaped like root beer barrels that would have my
Speaker 1: lame jumper or other sort of you.
Speaker 2: Know, hundred her scent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those were good. Those were so good. Sometimes they'd
Speaker 1: sort of split in like form sharp edges and like
Speaker 1: cut my mouth. Worth it, absolutely worth it, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: This one I think is like this is the one
Speaker 1: I'm like second to the one that was actually a mineral.
Speaker 1: I'm it's like very tempting to like want to eat it.
Speaker 1: Sorry you didn't. You didn't guess what it is yet, right,
Speaker 1: Oh you're right, I did.
Speaker 2: Not guess what. Oh my goodness, say, what do you
Speaker 2: think this is? I think this is a fungus. Interesting,
Speaker 2: I think this is a fungus I see growing out
Speaker 2: of the wood, and something tells me that this is
Speaker 2: like some sort of fun guy that has killed some
Speaker 2: curious creatures out in the forest, being like, looks yummy.
Speaker 2: But then again, the colors would have earted them. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, like, look, I'd fall for it.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of a goof so I would be, oh,
Speaker 2: yummers and then be dry heaving twenty minutes later.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd do it even if I knew that
Speaker 1: it was bad. For hell, yeah, they just look a
Speaker 1: tiny If you gave me like something, You're like, this
Speaker 1: is a poisonous miniature TUBEA tube.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I mean it exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, you said we'll pay the price later, so you
Speaker 1: are so close. Oh this is I mean one of
Speaker 1: the things I'm most impressed was that you guess that
Speaker 1: this is wood, because this is decaying wood. And this
Speaker 1: is not a fungus. This is a little unfair because
Speaker 1: it is very close to a fungus in terms of
Speaker 1: like the way it's actually not that closely related to fungus,
Speaker 1: but it is something that is like sometimes seems similar
Speaker 1: to fungus. It is a slime mold. So are actually
Speaker 1: not in the fungus kingdom. There are creatures, aren't they
Speaker 1: They are different, so they are there. They are eukaryots,
Speaker 1: just like humans, plants, fungus, but they are a variety
Speaker 1: of eukaryotic organisms who typically will have like a single
Speaker 1: selled individual stage and then glom together with other individuals
Speaker 1: to form a slug and then a fruiting body. So
Speaker 1: uh so, slime molds are kind of it's sort of
Speaker 1: an et cetera category in biology where it's like it is,
Speaker 1: it is just a bunch of unrelated, uh, single celled
Speaker 1: eukaryots who come together form these group organisms and often
Speaker 1: tend to have sort of a similar thing going on,
Speaker 1: even though they're not really that related. But they are.
Speaker 1: They are all eukaryots, and they are not fungi. They're
Speaker 1: not They are not in the fungus kingdom, and They
Speaker 1: are not to be confused with mold because like mold
Speaker 1: is typically like what we would say, say like on
Speaker 1: a on an orange or something, that mold is like
Speaker 1: a fungus and so it is not a mold really
Speaker 1: in that sense. It's a slime mold, which is sort
Speaker 1: of it's own thing. It's like a kind of miscellaneous
Speaker 1: category of totally of eukaryotic organisms that I'll do a similar.
Speaker 2: Thing there you go, yeah, wow, gorgeous.
Speaker 1: So uh they find yeah, so they are. They are
Speaker 1: basically when you see it like this right, like where
Speaker 1: you can actually visibly see it, this is a colony
Speaker 1: organism of like many individual organisms. So uh, this one
Speaker 1: specifically the image that we have is Comatrica nigra, which
Speaker 1: feeds on rotting wood in forests. So very good identification
Speaker 1: of the substrate, which we have learned means floor. So
Speaker 1: they feed on rotting wood in forest. They're found all
Speaker 1: over the world. It's interesting, right because it's like they
Speaker 1: have these stalks and then this like a balloon at
Speaker 1: the top. Right, they look like they kind of look
Speaker 1: like tiny balloons with this like black st on the bottom.
Speaker 1: What if this is so like preceding this, they would
Speaker 1: form like something that's kind of like a slug that
Speaker 1: can move. It's not a slug because it is actually
Speaker 1: this like colony of many, many different individuals. And in
Speaker 1: order to reproduce the they release spores. But in order
Speaker 1: to release the spore, they need to get off of
Speaker 1: the surface of the substrate and go upwards, like build
Speaker 1: a skyscraper upwards so that they can release the spoor
Speaker 1: and it can go up and be distributed. Because if
Speaker 1: they're just trying to release spores, well they're stuck on
Speaker 1: the ground. Then they it just like plops really close
Speaker 1: to them, competes for food with other it's not a
Speaker 1: good situation. And so they'll form this slug. And then
Speaker 1: after they form the slug, they all try to basically
Speaker 1: get on top of each other. They're trying to go up.
Speaker 1: And so what happened in terms of both their behavior
Speaker 1: and just like physics, is they form a stock and
Speaker 1: then a body on top of the stock, like a
Speaker 1: bulb on top of the stock. And while this kind
Speaker 1: of seems so the ones in the stock are kind
Speaker 1: of screwed. They just die and they're unable to distribute
Speaker 1: their spores. And that seems like that's altruism, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's just they're unlucky. They are all trying to do
Speaker 1: the same thing and they lost out, whereas the other
Speaker 1: ones won out in terms of getting to be on
Speaker 1: the top of the stock and they'll be able to
Speaker 1: release their spores. But yeah, it is a fascinating it's
Speaker 1: a highly sort of studied, fascinating thing where you have
Speaker 1: this group behavior resulting like of like individual competing unicellular
Speaker 1: organisms coming together to do a thing that they could
Speaker 1: not accomplish on their own. But they're still competing with
Speaker 1: each other and trying to behave it's behaved sort of selfishly.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because it's a way in which we
Speaker 1: can see how in our own bodies, like we are
Speaker 1: basically an extremely well developed colony of individual cells, right,
Speaker 1: and sometimes our cells actually will compete like are you know,
Speaker 1: like we've all learned about, like when you have a
Speaker 1: fertilization of an egg, all these sperm or racing to
Speaker 1: the finish line, you have like competition between sex cells
Speaker 1: and so like. But then somehow our bodies are able
Speaker 1: to come together and function well as a unified organism.
Speaker 1: And so this is an interesting sort of like precursor
Speaker 1: to a functional multicellular animal. It's very interesting.
Speaker 2: That's wild, very very cool, and you shouldn't eat it.
Speaker 1: Don't eat it. Even though it does look like tiny
Speaker 1: tube chupes.
Speaker 2: You would look at these gang. I'm telling you you
Speaker 2: will look at this picture and be like, I mean, okay,
Speaker 2: case is not to eat it, but I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 1: I don't do it.
Speaker 2: I okay out it's sick.
Speaker 1: Probably I don't actually know how sick.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say face some of you from the hospital
Speaker 2: being the kadio, I'm sure get it.
Speaker 1: Just get it. This episode was brought to you by
Speaker 1: chupa Choops. I wish like if I could get some
Speaker 1: free cheep choops for talking about it. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, I gotta imagine. Let me let me
Speaker 2: just say this. I haven't heard them sponsor a single podcast.
Speaker 2: This is a market that they have not been attacking enough.
Speaker 1: Frankly, you want one now right now that I've compared.
Speaker 2: It, absolutely, I am one serious about Like, okay, no joke.
Speaker 2: I did just google chupa Choops to make sure that
Speaker 2: A they had the root beer flavor and B where
Speaker 2: can I get those rupeer flavor?
Speaker 1: So you think I can get them in Italy? Which
Speaker 1: is great?
Speaker 2: Ooh, talk about to go up.
Speaker 1: There's a Cheep Choop website in Italian. So I'm set.
Speaker 2: Really, you're good, You're good.
Speaker 1: I want to get some squab we got it looks
Speaker 1: so good? Anyways, that yes, so slime mold. Uh, fantastic job, Daniel.
Speaker 1: But you know what, actually we actually have another game
Speaker 1: because every week, even though this is a special episode
Speaker 1: where the whole episode was a game, every week we
Speaker 1: also play a game called Guess who squawkings? The Mystery
Speaker 1: Animal sound game?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so I love this game.
Speaker 1: We are going to play and uh, last week's mystery
Speaker 1: animal sound hint was this? This animal sounds feeres, but
Speaker 1: the most you have to fear from him is plamidia.
Speaker 2: Oh I know what it is?
Speaker 1: You do already? Can you want to listen to the sound?
Speaker 2: I do? Yes, I do?
Speaker 1: Okay? Was the clammyia? The tell?
Speaker 2: It was? Well, I mean maybe it if I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of the right animal, then yes.
Speaker 1: All right, so you've said you already had a good
Speaker 1: idea of.
Speaker 2: What this is. What do you think this is?
Speaker 1: Daniel?
Speaker 2: Okay, So My experience with chlamydia in the animal kingdom
Speaker 2: is that it is a particularly big problem for koalas.
Speaker 2: And I think I just heard someone in the background
Speaker 2: maybe say something with an Australian accent. I could have
Speaker 2: been wrong, but also after listening to that, that did
Speaker 2: not sound like a koala. So my knowledge of chlamydia
Speaker 2: being a big deal for kuala's might be in vain,
Speaker 2: but I'm still going to go with my guess that
Speaker 2: the answer is koala's.
Speaker 1: You gotta go with your gut because you are correct.
Speaker 1: Is a koala which sounds very much not like a koala,
Speaker 1: But that is the mating call of a male.
Speaker 2: Koala, the maiding call.
Speaker 1: Yes, isn't it sexy?
Speaker 2: Yes? I can't even do it deep in guttural. That
Speaker 2: was way more guttural and horrifying than I thought it
Speaker 2: would come out of a koala. Those things are so
Speaker 2: small and cute, and I will say, I know that
Speaker 2: you know they got the fangs like they will throw down,
Speaker 2: and it's simply that they're just constantly eating eucalyptus and
Speaker 2: or highest that they're chill, but like wow, that.
Speaker 1: To digest like the worst plant. And so they're tired
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: She yeah, exactly, But yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Koalas do have a problem with chlamydia, which is a
Speaker 1: sexually transmitted disease in koalas, just as it is in
Speaker 1: humans caused by a bacteria. Researchers are trying out vaccines
Speaker 1: to protect the quala from chlamydia, which is important as
Speaker 1: it is very bad for the kualas and can kill them.
Speaker 1: And the antibiotic treatment that is so effective in humans
Speaker 1: is actually not great for koalas because it impairs their
Speaker 1: ability to digest eucalyptus. Because eucalypse this is not an
Speaker 1: easily digested plan. It's got all these like uh slightly
Speaker 1: toxic compounds in it that it's very very hard to digest,
Speaker 1: and so like when you give them antibiotics, it actually
Speaker 1: makes it harder for them to digest. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: the key thing here is we gotta we gotta get
Speaker 1: a vaccine for these koalas because they're not even common.
Speaker 2: Certainly are not nothing about that.
Speaker 1: We tried that and all these like you know, like
Speaker 1: look this is you know, just you gotta pack it
Speaker 1: before you you go go down onto And they didn't listen.
Speaker 1: Sex said for kulas did not work.
Speaker 2: No, they were not paying attention.
Speaker 1: That's funny, fantastic job, Daniel. But uh one more sound
Speaker 1: this week, christ sound and uh here it is. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: I didn't give a hint, did I. When you hear this,
Speaker 1: you know to pack your bag. Hey guys, Katie here
Speaker 1: with a bit of a warning. This sound is like
Speaker 1: Satan screaming into your ear after inhaling a bunch of helium.
Speaker 1: So if you have your headphones turned all the way up,
Speaker 1: I turn them down a bit. I tried my best
Speaker 1: to make the sound as quiet while still audible as possible.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you're sensitive to like high pitched
Speaker 1: sounds straight from how I just to you know, take
Speaker 1: a minute to maybe turn down your volume just a bit.
Speaker 1: Or if you have a dog who will start barking
Speaker 1: if they hear this, you know, maybe have your dog
Speaker 1: not listen to this. And anyways, enjoy this terrible sound
Speaker 1: that I'm going to play now. But are you hearing it?
Speaker 2: Yes? It is very loud my.
Speaker 1: Mind, Harriet, I'm sorry about the sorry about the noise.
Speaker 2: You're like, wait are you hearing it? But it was
Speaker 2: so I can't that one is aggressive? Do I do?
Speaker 2: I make a guess.
Speaker 1: Now, I guess, make a guess.
Speaker 2: Okay, the hit was to pack your bags. That sounded
Speaker 2: like I mean, it sounded like a bird. It could
Speaker 2: also be like a primate of some kind. I'm going
Speaker 2: to go with some sort of I'm going to go
Speaker 2: with some sort of primate. I think it was some
Speaker 2: sort of like. Yeah, I unfortunately cannot get more specific,
Speaker 2: but I will say yowler tough to some sort of
Speaker 2: tofted yowler.
Speaker 1: Sure yet not a real thing made that up?
Speaker 2: Right? Right right, right right? Yeah, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say a small primate, all.
Speaker 1: Small ish primate. Well, we will find out next time
Speaker 1: on Creature Keeping you on tinter hooks. Damn well, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for playing my little games with me.
Speaker 2: It was such a fun game. I look forward to
Speaker 2: many renditions of this game. Everyone else who guests on
Speaker 2: the show and let me know.
Speaker 1: Guys, if you really enjoyed this game, you can write
Speaker 1: to me a Creature Future pod at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: You can also write to me your guess is for
Speaker 1: the Mystery Animal sound game. You can also leave me
Speaker 1: a rating and review. In your review, you can tell
Speaker 1: me whether or not you liked this game format where
Speaker 1: we play a little guessing game and I will know
Speaker 1: then whether to do it again.
Speaker 2: Dale, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You got anything to plug, anything to promote my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Sure, I mean I would say, please listen to all
Speaker 2: the shows on the network. You already listen to all
Speaker 2: don at once. You already listened to Creature Future, So
Speaker 2: good job. I work on these scrubs, Rewatch podcast, Take
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Speaker 2: and the Cool Zone Media Network. I'm also the editor
Speaker 2: of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff with Margaret Kiljoy,
Speaker 2: another podcast on cool Zone. I am also the producer
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Speaker 2: You can find me on Instagram, even though I'm also
Speaker 2: divorcing myself from that social media. I'm not doing social
Speaker 2: media anymore. Katie, I'm off. I'm over it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you how you have time to like,
Speaker 1: eat or use the bathroom given how much you are doing.
Speaker 2: Well, that's very sweet of you. I don't your caf no.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, I've just capped up, that is. That's
Speaker 2: the other thing, you know what I did? So instead
Speaker 2: of being into social media, you know what I did,
Speaker 2: I got really into making espresso and so now I
Speaker 2: have an espresso machine and to make myself alatte every
Speaker 2: morning and it's nice. The bomb. I love it.
Speaker 1: I also got into espresso recently. I don't make it myself,
Speaker 1: but I drink.
Speaker 2: It and I like it. Hell yeah, man, it's good.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: Espress so good. It keeps me a week to feel that.
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Speaker 1: And if you see a tiny chube of chup on
Speaker 1: the ground, a little lick one little Thank you guys
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Speaker 2: So here is one where have you.
Speaker 1: Listening to your favorite shows? I don't judge you. I'm
Speaker 1: not your mother, and I can't tell you what to do.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta drive your own ship, baby. You
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