Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 320 of Just the Zoo of Us this week. I am joined by a

comedian, writer, and nature enthusiast for a review of some of the furry, feathered,

and scaly neighbors making themselves at home right in our very own cities. We discuss

domestication, dogs with human feet, inflatable snoods, ostriches for self-defense,

kaiju battles at the park, life in a shipwreck, and so much more.

Just The Zoo of Us presents Vinnie Thomas' top three urban wildlife species. I'm I'm I'm

The Hey there, everybody. It's Ellen Weatherford with Just the Zoo of is your favorite animal

review podcast. I'm so excited this week because we have a

returning champion. It's been a while, so maybe newer listeners haven't heard your voice yet,

but I'm so excited to have you back. This is Vinnie Thomas. Say hi, Vinnie. Hi, everyone. Yes,

it has been a really long time. I wonder if I'm even the same person as when we first did the podcast.

Do you feel different? I think I feel different. I

feel, I think I feel better. More coming to your power. I've come into my power. I think I've,

I've gone into the cocoon and I've emerged a different kind of gross little thing. Still gross.

And yet like a caterpillar soup, have you retained your memories of your former life? Oh, big time. And I'll tell you, I can completely forgotten about that fact. And that is, it's nuts. So you've soupified. This is your post soup era. Yeah, yeah. I'm post soup. Right now, I'm pretty solid. But I'll probably soup again, such as life. Life is a constant flow of souping and solidifying. Nobody's journey is linear. Sometimes soup comes for us all. Yeah. Write that down, dear listener. Vinny, you are a comedian and a writer. You're one of the funniest people on the planet. I have been overjoyed to see you pop up on places like dropout, which I'm a big fan of. But I have been following you for a few years at that point. So then when you showed up on there, I was like, hello. You know, I don't even think I was aware of like, Dropout has a huge fan base. All those like kind of internet platforms that dropouts, the Smoshes and Mythicals, I don't think I was aware of it. And I see it now.

I see it now. I recognize your game dropout. I wasn't familiar. I'm sorry. I wasn't familiar

with your game. One thing you've had so much incredible success and growth in the couple of years

since we've last talked to you. But you mentioned that you do in some ways you kind of feel like the same person. I feel like the through line has been your love for animals and nature that I feel like was one of the things that really caught my attention at first. Yeah. Because you're pulling some deep cuts. Like in your posts, there's some obscure ones in there. Like you'll be posting about like hornbills and like kinkajoo's and stuff. And I'm like, That's ball knowledge, I feel like. Absolutely. Like, you'll be posting about, like, hornbills and, like, kinkajuns and stuff. And I'm

like, that's ball knowledge, I feel like. Like, this is some elite ball knowledge. Hornbills is

elite ball knowledge. Let me tell you something about hornbills. Hornbills alone are so weird and

different from each other. Like, you can spend the rest of your life learning about different

kinds of hornbills and be totally

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