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This is I Doubted Podcast with Brittany Page and Jesse Dallamore.

Fighting fascism on an episode by episode basis.

Welcome to I doubt a podcast episode 859.

I am your host, Jesse Tallimore, joined today by your host, Britney Page, everybody.

Fighting fascism also rats.

And I know people are going to be like, really, again, with the rats. Well, rats could be

considered fascists if we anthropomorphize them. Yes. They are still terrorizing me. They will

continue to terrorize me. And they will be, they will be here

long after we're gone, I hear. That's, that's how, that's how tenacious they are.

They're going to survive. Not if they keep hanging out in our trash can, like the one who we thought

was dead. Well, let's, yes. So I thought that I murdered a rat in the trash can because it was having a midday hang in the bottom of the trash can.

Normally, it's only nighttime that you need to worry about when it comes to the rats.

They come out at night, I thought. That is not the case.

I now have encountered several rats in the middle of the day, including one that had fashioned a

branch directly into a trash can, like had bent it down into the trash cans. It's using it as a tool.

Fashioned a branch. Into a ladder. Fashioned it into a ladder into the, into the trash can.

And when I came near the trash can, it climbed up the branch out of the trash and ran away.

Wow.

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