Anesthesia and a Mysterious Chili Cheese Fry Craving

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A troubling image of a flamingo family has the flam world in a frenzy. ELT’s resident flamingo expert tells us what’s really happening in that viral pic. Plus, listener Paul goes in for an appendectomy, and wakes up with a bizarre craving. What happened when he went under the knife? Guests: Flamingo expert Felicity Arengo and anesthetist Kate Leslie. Thanks to caller Paul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You have the every little thing help.
0:04.0	We're interrupting our regularly scheduled programming to give you an urgent
0:09.0	flamingo update.
0:12.0	On the line we have our Flingo correspondent.
0:14.6	Hi, how are you?
0:15.6	This is Flamingo biologist Felicity Arango from the American Museum of Natural History.
0:20.6	You heard her on our Do Not Underestimate the the flamingo episode where we outline why the
0:25.0	flamingo is the most badass creature on the planet.
0:28.7	Yeah, they're pretty bad ass, yep.
0:31.1	I appreciate you taking our urgent call today. Sure. I don't know if you're
0:36.3	on social media, but on Twitter and Instagram, there has been a flamingo event in the last week.
0:44.0	Yes, I saw it.
0:45.7	It was brought to my attention by a few people.
0:50.4	It looks like a picture from a flamingo crime scene.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	There's two adult flamingos and a baby flamingo
0:58.0	and one of the adults looks like it's attacking the other one.
1:00.0	It's like drilling its beak into the head of the other
1:03.4	one. It's like drilling its beak into the head of the other flamingo. There's this red
1:04.8	bloody substance coming out and that is dripping down the other flamingo's face
1:08.6	into the baby's mouth. Right. It looks like that, but actually that's not what's happening.
1:15.0	Here's what Felicity said.
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