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Hello, it's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. I didn't establish this was a show

But this is Mike and every Saturday we bring you one from the vaults and one from the week

The one from the vaults aren't even from just vaults. They're from NPR's vaults 2005

I did a story about the then blockbuster documentary March of the penguins and March of the penguins with Immorgon Freeman

narration, you know it you'll hear a clip of it in the piece

It inspired some discourse about homosexuality in the animal kingdom and I don't even mention this in the story

But I report on two penguins at the central park zoo Roy and silo and Roy and silo were also the

Inspiration for a book called tango makes three tangos the baby the chick right and silo got together and

Same sex parented that chick for a season that book tango make three maybe you heard of it

It became pretty popular. It was a children's book has just been taken off the shelves by a school district in Florida

Because of Ron DeSantis's anti penguin don't say penguin stance also something about gay people now in the self critique of this

Report it's three minutes. We can't get to everything. I don't even know time wise if

Antango makes three was already out as a book. I know the New York Times have reported on the two

Gay let's call them gay. They're not really gay to same sex male penguins

So I will not even mention in the story and

tango makes three

but I do

mention in the story the fact that the gay marriage debate

Has been and people involved in the gay marriage debate have been looking at these penguins

Which is kind of stupid, but it's all kind of stupid. We're treating the penguins as people

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