Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 260 of Just the Zoo of Us. In this week's episode, we are

joined by comedy podcasting and tabletop role-playing legend Griffin McElroy for a review of the

squishy pugs of the Antarctic seas, Ross Seals. We discuss which Ninja Turtle we are, the Victorian-era magnetic crusades,

haunting siren calls below the ice, bagpipes, thick raptors, and so much more. Also, before we

get started, I would like to mention that last week, Maximum Fun released a tabletop hullabaloo

in which I got to play a D&D one shot along with this episode's

guest, Griffin, and a bunch of other awesome Max Fun hosts. I played as an Ericococro wizard

named Dr. Goodbones. So if you like D&D and want to listen to this very cool crossover,

I will have a link to it in the episode

description.

Anyway, without further ado, Just the Zoo of Us presents the Ross Seal with Griffin McElroy. I'm I'm I'm

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I'm Hello, everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford with Just Asuva's your favorite animal review podcast this week.

A special treat. Christians here with us. He's not usually on guest episodes. Hi, Christian.

Hi, everyone.

And I am so thrilled and honored to have a brand new friend who for a lot of people listening, I suspect, is probably not a brand new voice in your ears, but to this show is new. This is Griffin McElroy. Hi, Griffin. Hi, everyone. I'm not all your friends. I feel like boundaries should be a status. I'm your guys friends. You too. That's fine. I can't tear down the boundaries that I've worked so hard to build, make myself so detached and aloof from our audience. Oh, yeah. You're very mysterious. Yeah, I pride myself on that. I am so thrilled to have you here talking with us today

because you have begun to incorporate animals into, I mean, not begun to, you've been incorporating

some really cool zoology and biology into your work that I'm really excited about. So for people

who are maybe new to your voice, haven't heard your work before,

could you introduce us to The Adventure Zone? Sure. So me and my brothers and dad, we do a lot of podcasts,

pretty much all together. And the Adventure Zone is our actual play podcast. We started out playing

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