Hello, dear friends. This is Ellen Weatherford and Christian Weatherford. And we're here with

just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite species

of animals. We review them and rate them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We are not zoological experts.

We do a lot of research and try our best to make sure we're presenting information from trustworthy sources.

Do you think maybe one of these days we should just record that intro rather than having to say it every single time?

Probably.

That's probably what real podcasters do.

They probably record it and just do it the one time, right?

I think so.

But this gives us the opportunity to banter, right?

For the audience to listen to us mess it up in different ways.

It adds a little bit of flavor to each episode.

Oh, you know what?

This week we have two invertebrates that we're talking about.

We're taking y'all to the no-bone zone this week.

Leave your bones at the door, folks.

Was it the Florida Aquarium that has that in Tampa? Mm-hmm. Yeah, the no-bone zone where they got all their invertebrates, but it's like a touch tank. You can, like, reach in and touch them. Yeah. I don't recommend touching your animal this week. Nope. But that's a surprise for later. I also have an invertebrate this week.

What you got?

This week I'm talking about the periodical cicada.

Oh, okay.

Yes.

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