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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. It's time once again for Amanda's
Evening Scroll. So these are the things I what I
discovered just scrolling last night. You know how we always
there's the myth of the drop bear. Yes, what you
tell tourists that koalas drop.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Out of the Swedish backpackers who you.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Might need to cuddle when they hear the story.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Choose to wear little garments? How is lars Well The
reality are sleeping had a great show on Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
The reality is forget drop bears. But apparently fifty five
million years ago we had drop crocs. Drop crocs five
meter long crocodiles that lived in the trees. Imagine how
terrifying that would be. A group of paleontologists have unearthed
Australia's oldest crocodile eggshells at a dig site. Finally that
they belong to an ancient crocodile that's extinct. It's a

(00:57):
bizarre idea, they've said. But some of them appear to
have been terrestrial hunters in the forest, hunting like leopards,
dropping out of trees on unsuspecting things that they fancied
for dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
So no reason they couldn't. They've got those claws and
they move quite quickly. The only thing is climbing a
tree might be hard.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
For have you seen the go and I go up
a tree very easy?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I can't so have.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
So imagine that a giant crop jumping out on you.
Another animal story, five parrots at a UK zoo had
to be separated after they began swearing at visitors and
laughing together. That's the worst thing. Swear. You don't laugh
at people. It would have sounded like this is this
is actual audio. I'm not making this up of parrots swearing.
I hope we've beat the appropriate bits. See what happens

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is at the beginning, you think it's funny and you're cute,
and they're cute, and so you you know, you laugh
and you feed them, and then they get worse and
worse and worse. So these parrots have had to they
burst into laughter, which made the behavior escalate, and so
they'd swear and laugh at the visitors to the zoo.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Just on that. If you've got a cockatoo, are you
allowed to keep a cockatoo in a cage? I think
so a white software crested cockatoo. Because I was at
a pub and they had a cockatoo in a cage.
And but then other cockatoos were flying around, and I
was thinking, I wonder about that.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Cockatoon thinks, does he think he's special?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Or does he mates on the outside? Geez, what's he done?
Or does he in the big house?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Look at that guy in the big house getting three
meals a day and swearing his head off, and no
one says a thing.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
He has had. I'm flying around in freedom.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
It'd be like having Gordon Ramsay, Samuel or Jackson, the
Gallagher brothers and Nicki Minaj in a cage. And how
about this story there, that's a couple of animal stories.
This story isn't an animal story. It's about the human
human animal. You know old people smell? Yeah, you know
how old people get a smell, A very specific musty

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old person smell. It's quite specific. Science has worked out
what it is and how to avoid it. Wash behind
your neck and your ears, because that's where it's happening.
Our skin becomes thinner as we get older, prone to dryness,
and gives us an altered odor. Two nonenal is an
unsaturated alidine that's the compound responsible for this distinctive smell.

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It's it's body odor associated with aging. It's waxy or
grassy smelling. It's a compound created when seven fatty acids
on the skin break down, et cetera, et cetera. It's
also found in certain foods like aged beer and buckwheat
can be a component of flavorings like you smell like
two minute noodles. They smell like a burp. So this

(03:38):
comes on, Brendan, how old are you? I noticed that
your last.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Birthday fifty seven? Yeah, oh, what's that? I'm going to
break out the old spice. I'm not talking about ginger.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, this smell after the age of forty can start appearing,
and it's a no, none of us do. And it
doesn't matter until you're older and you start to produce
this compound. So here the minute you're over forty, everybody
wash behind your ears and your neck to avoid old
people's smell.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know what it smells. I can hear someone commented
the other day instant soup. Because we drink instant soup.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Can I rub it behind my ears?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's available at chemist warehouse. The fruits of your endeavors
go to bed now, not now At night