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The Hey there, everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford.

And Christian Weatherford.

And welcome to 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 are not zoological experts, but we try our best to bring the best and most interesting information we can.

A long-forgotten echo of a voice that listeners may remember from eons and eons ago, Christian back in the studio.

Yep.

It's been a while since Christian has recorded with us, not because he's been ousted or excommunicated from the podcast.

You've not resigned in disgrace.

Or in some sort of hiatus. No. It just worked out that way. You know what's funny? Someone in an email,

I read all of the emails that people send in, by the way. I don't get a chance to like respond to

everything, but I do at least read every email that comes in, I promise.

And in an email recently, someone, like, signed off with, like, P.S. Bring Christian back.

Oh.

Free Christian.

Release him from podcast, Jail.

1,000 years dungeon for Christian.

No, Christian didn't go anywhere.

We just happened to, our recording schedule worked out that way where we had Isaac on for the kids questions episode and we had guest episodes.

And also on the last one we did together, I hijacked the entire thing.

So you also didn't

get a chance to do your segment last time. You've been sitting on these notes for like two months.

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