Hi everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford.

And this is just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we rate your favorite animals out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We're not zoological experts, but we try our best to bring the most correct and interesting information we can.

I have some good stuff this week. I'm really excited. I had some fun surprises.

I have a couple of quick announcements I'd like to make

before we get into the sort of meat and potatoes of the episode. First of all, Max Fun members, a bonus

episode went up on Friday. It is called Fact or Feroon with our friend Austin Taylor, who is the

host of another Max Fun show called Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries.

Austin joined me where I presented them with a series of creatures, given their name and a brief

description of the creature, and they had to guess whether this animal is real and belongs to our world

or is a monster from Dungeons and Dragons.

It was really, really fun.

We had a great time and so if anyone is interested in hearing that, if you're currently a

max fun member, you can go listen to that right now.

If you're not already a max fund member,

and you would like to get access to our bonus content and help support our show, because

can't make it without you, head over to maximum fun.org slash join. And my other announcement is

that my other podcast relaunched. I have another podcast. It is called Spellbound and Gagged. It was on a year hiatus because we moved across the country and a thousand things happened to me, so I was unable to make episodes for it for a while. But I finally got back in the saddle. That has relaunched. New episodes are going up every month. It is not safe for work.

So if you listen to this episode with, for example, young ears, do not do that with my other show.

My other show is quite explicit. But it is really fun. We talk about like weird, creepy, gross,

disturbing stuff over on that show.

It is so not safe for work that some of the topics that we've done, I literally cannot say.

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