Hey everybody, hello, hi Jenny. Wow, back into the swing of things. It has been a mere 14 days since we've last discussed an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

We've got a quick and dirty intro for you. Actually, it's not, well, it doesn't, it doesn't include this actual tension award. It's pretty dirty enough. That's pretty dirty.

A couple of things one this Saturday at 2 p.m. Eastern reminder for our book club members. We will be discussing Lee Bardugo's ninth house.

That is for $5 patrons and hire. It also reminded me that I should read the book. So I'll be doing that.

Also coming around the bend April 17th at 5 p.m. Eastern all of our patrons are invited to a concert of music played by one Jenny Owen Youngs.

You can learn all about this and all of the events that we have going on at Buffy the Vampire Slayer.com. Just click on events.

You know what else you can learn about right here and right now without clicking on anything, the winners of last episode sexual tension awards.

You should bookmark the episodic poll when you post it. You should bookmark the fucking episodic poll. Maybe I will. Okay, speaking of me bookmarking things in fourth place with a mere measly pathetic 18% of the vote. It's me and a short thick TV guys.

It's not that bad when you consider the next result. Yeah, honestly stiff competition. If you know what I mean because in third place practically on herd of with 20% of the vote. It's Buffy and Spike.

So I'm almost me and TV guy are almost as hot and heavy as Buffy and Spike in the second place. It should be noted.

In second place with 26% of the vote. She's a vengeance demon. He's a watcher. It's and neither one of them knows it. It's Rupian. Anya. Thank you.

And in first place. What we have all been waiting for out stiffening all the competition with 36% of the vote. It's Randy and Rupert. Hell yeah. Yeah. My emoji for that one.

I think when I brought that nomination up into the feed, Jenny, you were like, I don't know. And I was like, you just wait. So thank you for proving me right the internet. One one more thing before we rolled into the episode. I haven't been doing emails in a couple of episodes because we've had so much to talk about.

I've got an email to share with you today, Jenny, that I'm pretty excited about. The email is from Rosie. And it it harkens back to a time in the pod. Not that long ago. When we started talking about clams. There was just a lot of a lot of like mollusk centric conversation.

And if you remember the time. Okay. So Rosie writes in recently and says I wanted to share with you a little known tale about eight heroic clams in Poland. Wow. Yeah. Thank you. I couldn't even I couldn't wait to get into another intro. So I could share this email.

Water quality in Warsaw is monitored by clams. If the water gets too toxic, they close. And this trigger shuts off the city's water supply. What automatically the lives of millions depend on eight small clams working hard to detect contamination in the city's water supply.

And again, the fact the lives of millions depend on these eight small clams. Is it a coincidence that the podcast eventually turned to discussing clams alongside our hero and Buffy. I think not. Wow. Polish filmmaker Julia Polka has directed an incredible documentary called fat Kathy about this life saving work of clams.

Anyway, I thought it was a nice connection between Buffy hero of sunny jail and the eight nameless but no less important heroes of Warsaw. Wow. Jenny Rosie sent a picture to us that I'm going to share with you now.

Of one of these clams. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Do they have Google eyes glued onto their shells. Oh my god. What?

You described to the listeners what you're seeing. Okay, picture a clam. It's just sitting like you would think a clam would be sitting and then fastened to top its upper shell is a sproingy spring.

There's sort of like a short cylinder with a little dome cap, which I guess is the sensor, which when the clam fully closes, it gets very close to a rod directly under it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, sending the message to shut off the water supply. No big deal. Just a fucking tale of heroic clams to us. Unbelievable. To this. The chosen clams. Yeah. Now that my soul has been nourished by this tale of eight clams who just wanted to do the right thing.

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