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The Hey there, friends. It's Ellen Weatherford.

And Christian Weatherford.

We're here with just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast where we review your favorite animals by rating them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We are not zoological experts, but we try our best to get accurate information.

We do.

You emerged from the office after doing your notes giggling earlier saying

that I was really going to like this one because it was funny. Yeah, funny and a little bit of soul

searching. Oh, I can't wait. This is going to be so beautiful. Yeah, for sure. I'm excited. Before we

get into that, though, I do have a really

quick follow-up from our last episode together. Okay. So last time you and I spoke, like for the

podcast, not like in general, we talk to each other when we're not recording sometimes. No, we only

talk to each other every other week. We actually can only communicate via podcast.

Last time we were on mic together, we talked about the Kiwi.

Yes.

And as part of that conversation, you mentioned, first of all, that people from New Zealand often affectionately refer to themselves as Kiwis.

And also that many people go their whole lives without ever seeing a Kiwi, even people who live in New Zealand. And I prompted any Kiwi experiences from listeners

who were listening. And a friend did in fact reply with with a Kiwi experience. Oh, good. Yeah. So on

Twitter, a friend Alexander replied and said,

Kiwi story from a Kiwi once got to hold a one-legged Kiwi.

The other leg was lost to a trap.

Unfortunately, the poor thing.

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