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(00:04):
Hello folks, and welcome to Chronically the Sickest, the
podcast where we talk about all things that make us chronically
the sickest people we know. I'm Clark, your host.
It's nice to chat with you this week.
Join us as we dive into the episode, sit back, relax, and
enjoy the show. Hello and welcome my dear
(00:33):
listeners to Chronically the Sickest Unmasked.
I am so excited to be back with you all.
You know that Patreon is my favorite.
Don't tell the other people who are listening, but so excited to
be here with you guys. We are going to be talking about
my favorite podcast, one of my favorite podcasts of all time,
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on this episode of Chronically the Sickest Unmasked.
Before we get started though, ofcourse we are going to talk
about what I am drinking today. Today is going to be a ice
London Fog, which I was told recently on a post pod episode
with Saff that London fogs are not real.
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Like they don't come from London, they're not English.
Americans just made this up. She just said that it was a tea
latte. So in reality guys, I am just
drinking a tea latte this morning.
Amazing tea latte though. Oh and bonus little thing, I'm
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eating one of these scones from Heritage Bakery, which I know
you guys see me post about on Fridays because it's a little
like home bakery in San Diego and Oh my gosh, they made Earl
Grey scones. So I'm drinking essentially an
Earl Grey tea latte with my EarlGrey scone.
Living the dream. Also, can you tell that I am
autistic and I have a hyper fixation food right now, which
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may or may not be Earl Grey, which is great honestly because
you can put that in anything. But moving on into our topic for
today. So in these unmasked episodes,
you know, that we get into things that I like, things that
I'm into, and I just get to infodump on y'all because we're
friends. OK, so just the Zoo of us is,
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like I said, one of my favorite podcasts and it is called Just
the Zoo of us, which huh, cutestname.
I love a good pun. You know that Chronicle be the
Sickest is the name of my podcast.
So, you know, but just the Zoo of Us is a animal review podcast
and essentially it is a spouse duo.
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So a little husband and wife. They're so cute.
It's Ellen and Christian Weatherford and Ellen has like
the most soothing voice I have ever heard in my entire life.
Like I strive to have a voice like that.
Like it's not even like commercial.
It's like, it's like type of voice that you listen to on a
podcast to like fall asleep, youknow, but you can't fall asleep
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during this podcast because you learn so much.
But so they rate animals on eachepisode and they tell you about
them. So it's not just like them
hopping on and being like, this is a bird.
I think it's a pretty bird. So I think it's a good one.
No, you learn about animals. So they rate in effectiveness,
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ingenuity and aesthetics. So I mean, they do kind of say
like it's a pretty bird, but it's more than that.
Because I mean they've they've rated pretty high on like 1 to
10 for what I would consider to be some ugly animals.
But like in the sense that they're pretty for what they
are, you know, like frogs or like slugs, stuff like that.
But they rate it in one to 10. And I just, I love the podcast
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so much because I learn about such obscure animals.
Like the palace cat is somethingthat me and my partner love.
We found out about it from the show and it's literally it's
like if a cat became a pillow. Like it's so freaking fluffy.
And they do the cutest little thing where they when they sit
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down because they are a snow cat.
Or at least during the winter when it's snowing, they are a
snow cat. They put their little paws on
top of their tail while they're sitting, which is the cutest
thing ever. And actually don't tell my
partner, but I think I'm going to get them a palace cat pillow
for their birthday coming up in September.
So very excited for that. But I just, I get to learn about
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such obscure animals and the fact that they tell you about
like their conservation status and they, they genuinely do
research on these animals so that they are giving you the
most accurate information. None of them are like scientists
or like biologists, things like that.
But sometimes they do guest episodes with those scientists.
And honestly, I love it so much because a, it's animals and I, I
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love learning about animals. You, you know that I am a crow
lady through and through. Like me and the crows in my
neighborhood are tight. OK, which actually now that I'm
thinking about it, I need to go fill their little peanut bowl
outside. So I will do that after this
episode. But they talk about these
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animals in the same way that I am talking to you guys about
their podcast. Like they have such excitement
and they really love to info down about these animals and
even more so when they bring on a scientist because they're a
specialist in their field. So they actually did an episode
on crows and the lady was talking about the crows.
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She's like, they're geniuses. You won't find any other animal
like this. And it just reminds me of me
like I love a good little autistic info dump.
And even if they aren't necessarily autistic, it's just
the energy of it makes me so happy.
And you'll hear me talk about this podcast a lot with some of
the guests that come on, whetherthat's on like a post pod app or
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a main app, because when someone's like, oh, I really
like animals or I really like plants, I'm like, Oh my golly,
do I have a show for you? And recently, while I was on the
way to the zoo with my partner for our anniversary, which I
actually just posted about, I, we listened to the podcast on
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the way up and it was about raccoons this time.
So normally the husband and wifeduo will do 2 animals per
episode and this one I think actually might have just been
about raccoons. But let me see here 'cause I
might be lying to y'all. Also, don't you enjoy the fact
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that this is unedited, unfiltered?
So you guys just get to sit and see me scroll on my phone, which
like slay. Oh, so this one was seahorses
and raccoons. My apologies to the seahorses.
I just they're interesting, but they're not that interesting.
The most interesting thing actually that they said in that
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episode about the seahorses is well, actually, it's just what I
already know, which is that the the men carry the babies.
Oh, and that they're not necessarily life partners, but
they're really cute in the sensethat they they stay with their
partner even if they're like sick or injured or like can't
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bear children. So like these seahorses are
going through infertility and like, they have a supportive
family, which is so cute. But the raccoons, y'all, Wow.
I really love like a garbage animal, you know, like a
raccoon, a possum. Oh my God, I fuck with the
possum. I don't fuck with rats.
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So sorry to rats, but yeah, Possums, raccoons, crows.
I love a good Buzzard. My mom really likes Hawks.
If you guys have listened to herepisode, her special interest is
Hawks. We like to argue over which of
our birds is better, which, I mean, her bird could eat one of
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my birds, but my birds fly in packs, are murders, and they
like to bother Hawks. So you guys decide.
Yeah, you know what? Actually, you guys decide.
Tell me one to 1 is better. Hawks or crows.
Please let me know in the comments.
Would love that and OK, sorry, going back to just the zoo of us
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with Ellen and Christian Weatherford.
Oh my gosh, it just brings me somuch joy.
I love it. Yay.
So we found out you know those fun little videos that you see
online about like raccoons, likelittle raccoon Dr. Throughs.
I don't know if y'all's for you page or like Instagram real page
is the same as mine, but mine has a lot of animals on it
(09:06):
obviously. And one of them is the little
raccoon drive through where thislady every night she has
raccoons come up to her kitchen window which slides open almost
like a drive through. And she feeds them different
foods and like they really like grapes.
They love love some cereal, somesome cat or dog food, which if
y'all want to feed the trapezingtraversing traversing vagabonds
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in your area, meaning like possum skunks, raccoons just put
out some cat food. They love that shit.
But in the raccoon drive throughthing, you'll see in these
videos, these viral videos of raccoons where people are like
feeding them cute little stuff 'cause they're so cute.
Their little little little paws,their little hands are so good.
Oh my gosh. So I know, you know, in Elf the
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movie with Will Ferrell, where it's like Buddy the Elf, that's
like my family's Christmas movie.
We love it. You know how he like, tries to
go give a raccoon a hug and it like fairly attacks him?
That would be me. That would be me.
I am the white lady in the horror film.
I am that stupid. But we found out in these videos
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that they get, you know, like a little grape or something, and
then they'll dunk it in some water and then they'll eat it.
And people are always like, oh, how cute they wash their food.
Found out from this episode of Just the Zoo of Us.
That is not the case. It is a lie.
The social, social media is lying to me.
Oh my gosh, who would have thought?
Apparently so they're little Hannies when they're wet, become
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more sensitive. And because their eyesight is so
poor. Besides just being in the dark
and being able to see in the dark, their eyesight is so poor,
especially when they're like, looking and trying to figure out
if something's food. But their tactile senses, their
Hannies, are very sensitive, especially when they dunk them
in water. So they'll wash the food or like
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put water on their hands and then touch it to figure out if
it's food. And they're smart enough that
like, say you leave out a whole bowl of cat food.
So they dunk their little Hannies in the water and they
pick up the cat food and they pick up a piece and they go,
they touch, touch, touch, smell.And they go, that is a snack.
They eat it. They don't do that with every
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single piece of the food. Once they realize that, like,
say it's a bowl of grapes or a bowl of cat food or, you know,
they go, OK, this is all the same thing.
And I have designated that it isfood.
How smart? Like these animals are so smart.
And also, on the note of weird little trash, vagabonds.
Possums can't carry rabies. OK, You guys are being so mean
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to these giant rat things. They just play dead.
They're so sweet. People keep them as pets.
I'm not saying it's me. If this is like the wildlife
protection services, I have no wild animal pets.
I just have friends. But yeah, raccoons, possums, all
those. So cute, but those are like
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regular animals. Not regular animals but you know
what I mean? Like you guys know what those
animals are. But this podcast has taught me
so much, particularly around sharks.
Shout out to my other autistic. So I'm sure watching or
listening to this, I know y'all like sharks.
It is a very common one. OK, it's people like to say it's
like trains, but that's like an 8 year old boy.
Shout out to like the 28 year old girls who fuck with a shark.
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You know sharks are a special interest.
Definitely a common one I'd say but I learned so much about
sharks from them. Like basking sharks and a cookie
cutter shark which holy guacamole guys.
Cookie cutter sharks. Not a parasite but kind of the
same vibe. It literally like you guys can't
see the video of this if you areon audio tier but upgrade.
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But they latch onto something and they literally circularly do
it. Almost like a can opener.
Cookie cutter shark because it makes a cookie cutter as it
takes out a junk. It's crazy.
But really obscure animals like that are what I'm learning
about. Like their most recent episode
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that they did. Which if I'm being really fur
real with you guys, I don't always listen to the specialist
episodes. I really enjoy hearing Ellen and
Christian talk. So unless it's like a really
good animal that they're discussing with a specialist, I
just stick to the ones where it's just them.
But like, obviously when I run out of episodes to watch, I
totally do go back and go to thespecialist ones.
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But their most recent one where it was just the two of them, I
think was the parrotfish. Which is so funny because one of
the things that they pointed outin the episode was that because
there's so many different types of parrotfish, scientists
literally don't know which is which.
Because like humans, who we are all humans, we're all the same
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species, but we look very different.
Scientists be out here being like there are thousands of
different parrotfish. No, there's hundreds, sure, but
not that many. And it's just because at
different stages in their life they look different.
And even at those stages, so like, you know, baby,
adolescent, teen, adult, you know, kind of like the same face
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as we go there. Obviously it's not the exact
same. It's a fish, but it's a long
fish. By the way, y'all, it is 5 feet
long, like that fish might be bigger than me, which is so
rude. Anyway, when they go through
like the different stages of life, they can still look
different. So you can have like what, like
a green orange black teen parrotfish and then a green,
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yellow pink parrotfish and they're like, oh, obviously
those are different ones becausethey're both teens and they look
so different. No same species.
It's crazy. I learned so much from these
episodes and I love that they rate them because it's kind of
fun. Like effectiveness is the score
of like how good are they at doing what they're supposed to
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be doing? So like frogs and stuff like
that. Like they are good at what they
do, you know, like they be catching snacks, they are hiding
well, like that kind of stuff. And then there's also episodes
where they're like, this animal is not effective.
Like they did one on the dodo bird, which obviously is
extinct. And they kind of went into like,
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why it's extinct. And that's because, well, I
mean, it was haunted. So like, that sucked.
It wasn't necessarily their fault that they were being
hunted, but they evolved so slowly that they weren't able to
deal with the repercussions of their environment.
And so they were not super effective.
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You know, lower score there, which obviously they're dead
now, so shout out them. RIP.
Rest in peace, dodo birds. But then there's also the score
of ingenuity. So it's like, how well can they
adapt? So like humans, obviously we are
the reason that a lot of animalsare going extinct and we're like
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messing with their habitat. But there are animals that adapt
really quick to that. They are they have ingenuity, so
they rate that and that's alwaysvery fun because you get to kind
of hear how we interact with these species.
Oh, effectiveness jellyfish, no sunfish, no zero and zero Ki
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love a good jellyfish. They are so sweet.
I like to put the moon jellies at the aquarium here in
California, but not very effective.
No, so easily scooped up, burnt dead, not effective.
And then of course, the rating of aesthetics, which is how
pretty and cute they are, which is always so fun to hear because
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it's a podcast. So I don't always get to see it.
Of course sometimes I, I'd be listening at work and they're
talking about this animal and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I have to
see this and I'm Googling it. OK, that is my 10 minute break
by law. And the 10 minute break is me
Googling what this animal is that they're talking about or
writing down on my little whiteboard at work.
I have a little fun fact board. And sometimes if I hear a really
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good just the Zoo of Us episode,I will write down a fun fact.
Like right now I think on my whiteboard at work, it's about
leaf ants. I just listened to their episode
about leaf ants and which I'm pretty sure is pretty backlogged
back there. So don't mind me dating, I guess
how far back I am into these episode catalogs.
But the one on leaf ants is my fun pack board.
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And that is what my I spend my 10 minute breaks at work doing.
But I hope this episode has convinced you to listen to just
the two of us, even if it's justone episode.
They have done so many. Oh my gosh, they have been
running for a while here. They're almost at 300 episodes.
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So I would highly encourage you to go listen.
They are, like I said, the most soothing host in the world.
Their banter is so cute. They have they're sons that they
talk about. So if you're a parent, it's a
great podcast to listen to with your kids.
They even have like a a kids version.
Like they bring their kids on and the kids and the parents
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answer questions from other kid listeners about animals.
So great family podcast. But just on your own, if you're
interested in learning about animals, you can search through
their catalog of almost 300 episodes.
They have a search bar in Spotify for a reason.
So if you're like, oh, I would really like to learn about that
cookie cutter shark that Clark was talking about or hmm, I
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would like to learn about raccoons or moon jellyfish or
the sunfish and how ineffective they are as creatures.
Search that in the search bar and you are gonna find an
episode. I'm sure that will blow your
mind. It is literally one of the best
podcasts that I listen to and I can't rave about it enough
because even when I take a breakfrom it, when I'm just like, Oh
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my gosh, like I need something that will satiate me, I go back
to it because it's so good. Oh my gosh, you guys, I cannot
rave about it enough. But of course that's what this
is. This is me being unmasked.
It's talking about a hyper fixation, a special interest,
and this podcast is a special interest about a special
interest. It's like a Russian Russian
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nessing doll, but in a podcast form because I'm even talking
about this on a podcast. Oh my gosh, you guys, mind
blown. But thank you so much for
listening and for being Patreon members.
I just want you guys to know howgrateful I am for you.
You make this podcast possible. This is, like I always say, an
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expensive hobby to have. So God bless.
Hope y'all are having a awesome day, awesome weekend, listening
at work or the gym or at home. But yeah.
Love you guys. I'm Clark, and this has been
chronically the sickest unmasked.
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have a great day.
Hello folks, and welcome to Chronically the Sickest, the
podcast where we talk about all things that make us chronically
the sickest people we know. I'm Clark, your host.
It's nice to chat with you this week.
Join us as we dive into the episode, sit back, relax, and
enjoy the show. Hello and welcome my dear
(00:33):
listeners to Chronically the Sickest Unmasked.
I am so excited to be back with you all.
You know that Patreon is my favorite.
Don't tell the other people who are listening, but so excited to
be here with you guys. We are going to be talking about
my favorite podcast, one of my favorite podcasts of all time,
(00:57):
on this episode of Chronically the Sickest Unmasked.
Before we get started though, ofcourse we are going to talk
about what I am drinking today. Today is going to be a ice
London Fog, which I was told recently on a post pod episode
with Saff that London fogs are not real.
(01:18):
Like they don't come from London, they're not English.
Americans just made this up. She just said that it was a tea
latte. So in reality guys, I am just
drinking a tea latte this morning.
Amazing tea latte though. Oh and bonus little thing, I'm
(01:39):
eating one of these scones from Heritage Bakery, which I know
you guys see me post about on Fridays because it's a little
like home bakery in San Diego and Oh my gosh, they made Earl
Grey scones. So I'm drinking essentially an
Earl Grey tea latte with my EarlGrey scone.
Living the dream. Also, can you tell that I am
autistic and I have a hyper fixation food right now, which
(02:03):
may or may not be Earl Grey, which is great honestly because
you can put that in anything. But moving on into our topic for
today. So in these unmasked episodes,
you know, that we get into things that I like, things that
I'm into, and I just get to infodump on y'all because we're
friends. OK, so just the Zoo of us is,
(02:26):
like I said, one of my favorite podcasts and it is called Just
the Zoo of us, which huh, cutestname.
I love a good pun. You know that Chronicle be the
Sickest is the name of my podcast.
So, you know, but just the Zoo of Us is a animal review podcast
and essentially it is a spouse duo.
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So a little husband and wife. They're so cute.
It's Ellen and Christian Weatherford and Ellen has like
the most soothing voice I have ever heard in my entire life.
Like I strive to have a voice like that.
Like it's not even like commercial.
It's like, it's like type of voice that you listen to on a
podcast to like fall asleep, youknow, but you can't fall asleep
(03:10):
during this podcast because you learn so much.
But so they rate animals on eachepisode and they tell you about
them. So it's not just like them
hopping on and being like, this is a bird.
I think it's a pretty bird. So I think it's a good one.
No, you learn about animals. So they rate in effectiveness,
(03:35):
ingenuity and aesthetics. So I mean, they do kind of say
like it's a pretty bird, but it's more than that.
Because I mean they've they've rated pretty high on like 1 to
10 for what I would consider to be some ugly animals.
But like in the sense that they're pretty for what they
are, you know, like frogs or like slugs, stuff like that.
But they rate it in one to 10. And I just, I love the podcast
(04:00):
so much because I learn about such obscure animals.
Like the palace cat is somethingthat me and my partner love.
We found out about it from the show and it's literally it's
like if a cat became a pillow. Like it's so freaking fluffy.
And they do the cutest little thing where they when they sit
(04:21):
down because they are a snow cat.
Or at least during the winter when it's snowing, they are a
snow cat. They put their little paws on
top of their tail while they're sitting, which is the cutest
thing ever. And actually don't tell my
partner, but I think I'm going to get them a palace cat pillow
for their birthday coming up in September.
So very excited for that. But I just, I get to learn about
(04:45):
such obscure animals and the fact that they tell you about
like their conservation status and they, they genuinely do
research on these animals so that they are giving you the
most accurate information. None of them are like scientists
or like biologists, things like that.
But sometimes they do guest episodes with those scientists.
And honestly, I love it so much because a, it's animals and I, I
(05:11):
love learning about animals. You, you know that I am a crow
lady through and through. Like me and the crows in my
neighborhood are tight. OK, which actually now that I'm
thinking about it, I need to go fill their little peanut bowl
outside. So I will do that after this
episode. But they talk about these
(05:31):
animals in the same way that I am talking to you guys about
their podcast. Like they have such excitement
and they really love to info down about these animals and
even more so when they bring on a scientist because they're a
specialist in their field. So they actually did an episode
on crows and the lady was talking about the crows.
(05:51):
She's like, they're geniuses. You won't find any other animal
like this. And it just reminds me of me
like I love a good little autistic info dump.
And even if they aren't necessarily autistic, it's just
the energy of it makes me so happy.
And you'll hear me talk about this podcast a lot with some of
the guests that come on, whetherthat's on like a post pod app or
(06:13):
a main app, because when someone's like, oh, I really
like animals or I really like plants, I'm like, Oh my golly,
do I have a show for you? And recently, while I was on the
way to the zoo with my partner for our anniversary, which I
actually just posted about, I, we listened to the podcast on
(06:37):
the way up and it was about raccoons this time.
So normally the husband and wifeduo will do 2 animals per
episode and this one I think actually might have just been
about raccoons. But let me see here 'cause I
might be lying to y'all. Also, don't you enjoy the fact
(07:00):
that this is unedited, unfiltered?
So you guys just get to sit and see me scroll on my phone, which
like slay. Oh, so this one was seahorses
and raccoons. My apologies to the seahorses.
I just they're interesting, but they're not that interesting.
The most interesting thing actually that they said in that
(07:21):
episode about the seahorses is well, actually, it's just what I
already know, which is that the the men carry the babies.
Oh, and that they're not necessarily life partners, but
they're really cute in the sensethat they they stay with their
partner even if they're like sick or injured or like can't
(07:42):
bear children. So like these seahorses are
going through infertility and like, they have a supportive
family, which is so cute. But the raccoons, y'all, Wow.
I really love like a garbage animal, you know, like a
raccoon, a possum. Oh my God, I fuck with the
possum. I don't fuck with rats.
(08:02):
So sorry to rats, but yeah, Possums, raccoons, crows.
I love a good Buzzard. My mom really likes Hawks.
If you guys have listened to herepisode, her special interest is
Hawks. We like to argue over which of
our birds is better, which, I mean, her bird could eat one of
(08:23):
my birds, but my birds fly in packs, are murders, and they
like to bother Hawks. So you guys decide.
Yeah, you know what? Actually, you guys decide.
Tell me one to 1 is better. Hawks or crows.
Please let me know in the comments.
Would love that and OK, sorry, going back to just the zoo of us
(08:43):
with Ellen and Christian Weatherford.
Oh my gosh, it just brings me somuch joy.
I love it. Yay.
So we found out you know those fun little videos that you see
online about like raccoons, likelittle raccoon Dr. Throughs.
I don't know if y'all's for you page or like Instagram real page
is the same as mine, but mine has a lot of animals on it
(09:06):
obviously. And one of them is the little
raccoon drive through where thislady every night she has
raccoons come up to her kitchen window which slides open almost
like a drive through. And she feeds them different
foods and like they really like grapes.
They love love some cereal, somesome cat or dog food, which if
y'all want to feed the trapezingtraversing traversing vagabonds
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in your area, meaning like possum skunks, raccoons just put
out some cat food. They love that shit.
But in the raccoon drive throughthing, you'll see in these
videos, these viral videos of raccoons where people are like
feeding them cute little stuff 'cause they're so cute.
Their little little little paws,their little hands are so good.
Oh my gosh. So I know, you know, in Elf the
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movie with Will Ferrell, where it's like Buddy the Elf, that's
like my family's Christmas movie.
We love it. You know how he like, tries to
go give a raccoon a hug and it like fairly attacks him?
That would be me. That would be me.
I am the white lady in the horror film.
I am that stupid. But we found out in these videos
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that they get, you know, like a little grape or something, and
then they'll dunk it in some water and then they'll eat it.
And people are always like, oh, how cute they wash their food.
Found out from this episode of Just the Zoo of Us.
That is not the case. It is a lie.
The social, social media is lying to me.
Oh my gosh, who would have thought?
Apparently so they're little Hannies when they're wet, become
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more sensitive. And because their eyesight is so
poor. Besides just being in the dark
and being able to see in the dark, their eyesight is so poor,
especially when they're like, looking and trying to figure out
if something's food. But their tactile senses, their
Hannies, are very sensitive, especially when they dunk them
in water. So they'll wash the food or like
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put water on their hands and then touch it to figure out if
it's food. And they're smart enough that
like, say you leave out a whole bowl of cat food.
So they dunk their little Hannies in the water and they
pick up the cat food and they pick up a piece and they go,
they touch, touch, touch, smell.And they go, that is a snack.
They eat it. They don't do that with every
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single piece of the food. Once they realize that, like,
say it's a bowl of grapes or a bowl of cat food or, you know,
they go, OK, this is all the same thing.
And I have designated that it isfood.
How smart? Like these animals are so smart.
And also, on the note of weird little trash, vagabonds.
Possums can't carry rabies. OK, You guys are being so mean
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to these giant rat things. They just play dead.
They're so sweet. People keep them as pets.
I'm not saying it's me. If this is like the wildlife
protection services, I have no wild animal pets.
I just have friends. But yeah, raccoons, possums, all
those. So cute, but those are like
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regular animals. Not regular animals but you know
what I mean? Like you guys know what those
animals are. But this podcast has taught me
so much, particularly around sharks.
Shout out to my other autistic. So I'm sure watching or
listening to this, I know y'all like sharks.
It is a very common one. OK, it's people like to say it's
like trains, but that's like an 8 year old boy.
Shout out to like the 28 year old girls who fuck with a shark.
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You know sharks are a special interest.
Definitely a common one I'd say but I learned so much about
sharks from them. Like basking sharks and a cookie
cutter shark which holy guacamole guys.
Cookie cutter sharks. Not a parasite but kind of the
same vibe. It literally like you guys can't
see the video of this if you areon audio tier but upgrade.
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But they latch onto something and they literally circularly do
it. Almost like a can opener.
Cookie cutter shark because it makes a cookie cutter as it
takes out a junk. It's crazy.
But really obscure animals like that are what I'm learning
about. Like their most recent episode
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that they did. Which if I'm being really fur
real with you guys, I don't always listen to the specialist
episodes. I really enjoy hearing Ellen and
Christian talk. So unless it's like a really
good animal that they're discussing with a specialist, I
just stick to the ones where it's just them.
But like, obviously when I run out of episodes to watch, I
totally do go back and go to thespecialist ones.
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But their most recent one where it was just the two of them, I
think was the parrotfish. Which is so funny because one of
the things that they pointed outin the episode was that because
there's so many different types of parrotfish, scientists
literally don't know which is which.
Because like humans, who we are all humans, we're all the same
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species, but we look very different.
Scientists be out here being like there are thousands of
different parrotfish. No, there's hundreds, sure, but
not that many. And it's just because at
different stages in their life they look different.
And even at those stages, so like, you know, baby,
adolescent, teen, adult, you know, kind of like the same face
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as we go there. Obviously it's not the exact
same. It's a fish, but it's a long
fish. By the way, y'all, it is 5 feet
long, like that fish might be bigger than me, which is so
rude. Anyway, when they go through
like the different stages of life, they can still look
different. So you can have like what, like
a green orange black teen parrotfish and then a green,
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yellow pink parrotfish and they're like, oh, obviously
those are different ones becausethey're both teens and they look
so different. No same species.
It's crazy. I learned so much from these
episodes and I love that they rate them because it's kind of
fun. Like effectiveness is the score
of like how good are they at doing what they're supposed to
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be doing? So like frogs and stuff like
that. Like they are good at what they
do, you know, like they be catching snacks, they are hiding
well, like that kind of stuff. And then there's also episodes
where they're like, this animal is not effective.
Like they did one on the dodo bird, which obviously is
extinct. And they kind of went into like,
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why it's extinct. And that's because, well, I
mean, it was haunted. So like, that sucked.
It wasn't necessarily their fault that they were being
hunted, but they evolved so slowly that they weren't able to
deal with the repercussions of their environment.
And so they were not super effective.
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You know, lower score there, which obviously they're dead
now, so shout out them. RIP.
Rest in peace, dodo birds. But then there's also the score
of ingenuity. So it's like, how well can they
adapt? So like humans, obviously we are
the reason that a lot of animalsare going extinct and we're like
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messing with their habitat. But there are animals that adapt
really quick to that. They are they have ingenuity, so
they rate that and that's alwaysvery fun because you get to kind
of hear how we interact with these species.
Oh, effectiveness jellyfish, no sunfish, no zero and zero Ki
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love a good jellyfish. They are so sweet.
I like to put the moon jellies at the aquarium here in
California, but not very effective.
No, so easily scooped up, burnt dead, not effective.
And then of course, the rating of aesthetics, which is how
pretty and cute they are, which is always so fun to hear because
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it's a podcast. So I don't always get to see it.
Of course sometimes I, I'd be listening at work and they're
talking about this animal and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I have to
see this and I'm Googling it. OK, that is my 10 minute break
by law. And the 10 minute break is me
Googling what this animal is that they're talking about or
writing down on my little whiteboard at work.
I have a little fun fact board. And sometimes if I hear a really
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good just the Zoo of Us episode,I will write down a fun fact.
Like right now I think on my whiteboard at work, it's about
leaf ants. I just listened to their episode
about leaf ants and which I'm pretty sure is pretty backlogged
back there. So don't mind me dating, I guess
how far back I am into these episode catalogs.
But the one on leaf ants is my fun pack board.
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And that is what my I spend my 10 minute breaks at work doing.
But I hope this episode has convinced you to listen to just
the two of us, even if it's justone episode.
They have done so many. Oh my gosh, they have been
running for a while here. They're almost at 300 episodes.
(18:03):
So I would highly encourage you to go listen.
They are, like I said, the most soothing host in the world.
Their banter is so cute. They have they're sons that they
talk about. So if you're a parent, it's a
great podcast to listen to with your kids.
They even have like a a kids version.
Like they bring their kids on and the kids and the parents
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answer questions from other kid listeners about animals.
So great family podcast. But just on your own, if you're
interested in learning about animals, you can search through
their catalog of almost 300 episodes.
They have a search bar in Spotify for a reason.
So if you're like, oh, I would really like to learn about that
cookie cutter shark that Clark was talking about or hmm, I
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would like to learn about raccoons or moon jellyfish or
the sunfish and how ineffective they are as creatures.
Search that in the search bar and you are gonna find an
episode. I'm sure that will blow your
mind. It is literally one of the best
podcasts that I listen to and I can't rave about it enough
because even when I take a breakfrom it, when I'm just like, Oh
(19:10):
my gosh, like I need something that will satiate me, I go back
to it because it's so good. Oh my gosh, you guys, I cannot
rave about it enough. But of course that's what this
is. This is me being unmasked.
It's talking about a hyper fixation, a special interest,
and this podcast is a special interest about a special
interest. It's like a Russian Russian
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nessing doll, but in a podcast form because I'm even talking
about this on a podcast. Oh my gosh, you guys, mind
blown. But thank you so much for
listening and for being Patreon members.
I just want you guys to know howgrateful I am for you.
You make this podcast possible. This is, like I always say, an
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expensive hobby to have. So God bless.
Hope y'all are having a awesome day, awesome weekend, listening
at work or the gym or at home. But yeah.
Love you guys. I'm Clark, and this has been
chronically the sickest unmasked.
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Until next time, I'm Clark, and this has been Chronically the
(20:39):
Sickest podcast you know. Disclaimer, this is a
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