Hey everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford. I'm here today with Just the Zoo of Us. This is your

favorite animal review podcast. And I have a really special brand new friend today. This is Vinnie Thomas.

Say hello, Vinnie. Hello, everyone. Hi. I'm really excited to meet you virtually because I'm a huge fan of your comedy and your

videos and your art and everything that you do. Can you introduce us a little bit to you?

Yeah. Howdy y'all? My name is Vinnie Thomas. I'm an up-and-coming comedian in Chicago. I'm also

very popular on Twitter and Instagram for videos

in which I pretend to be all manner of creatures, animals, insects, aliens, and occasionally people.

And now I'm here, reviewing animals on this incredible podcast with you. I'm very excited.

I will say that the first video of yours that I saw was the Galactic Federation one.

And it was extremely funny. And it set off this little like alarm in my head when you reference to the dodo.

After the Galactic Federation video that I thought was so hilarious, you know, I started following you.

I started seeing the stuff you were posting on Twitter.

And just some of them were about very fun, obscure animals that I was like, you know what?

This is somebody who's interested in zoology.

I was like, this is definitely an animal nerd because I don't think anybody who was not an animal

nerd would be like posting memes about Matamata turtles.

That seems like such a deep cut.

Matamata's, oh my, there are so many reptiles that are just because faces are permanently

baked into their skulls.

They're not moving.

You know, they don't have cheeks or anything.

And a Matamata, it has this wide, mirthless grin, like it's stolen money out of its mother's purse. And it's just like, pleased about it constantly. It's a ridiculous animal. Love it to death. It's just a big, wide, like a thin, crooked line. Like the Grinch. They look like the Grinch. Precisely like the Grinch. Well, we're not

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