Oh hey, it's that lady on the plane next to you who gently punched you in the neck while taking off her parke

Allie Ward back with another episode of allergies

So if you're here for turtles and you're jumping right in with the sea turtles

Do just back the hell up and listen to the testudonology episode first. Okay, listen

I know you like sea turtles. We all do but we cover a ton of really basic

Turtle ground in that and some sea turtle happenings and it's gonna give you just a great turtle base

Now if you don't yet call sea turtle turtles you got to go back listen to last week's first and then just rejoin us

I promise we will be here when you get back you just have so many facts about turtle dogs to get informed about first

Okay, onward and downward into the sea, but first before

Surtlefest 5,000 a little business

So thank you to all the patrons at patreon.com slash allergies who keep the podcast going and who weather all of my behind the scenes

Updates and videos and they said big questions a dollar gets you in that club because as always my heart is a bargain

And thank you to everyone who has told a friend or four or tweeted about the show or left a rating or subscribed

Most of all left a review which are such nice notes and I creepily read you a fresh one each week like this one

From Joey Bethy who says my greatest dream in life has become to run into Ali may be in an airport and I'll be all

Oh, hey, it's your aquacus and that your parents never told you about until that day comes

I will continue to listen to Ali talk to really interesting people about topics that I didn't know were so fascinating

PS Joey Bethy if you ever see me in an airport or anyone just you free to say hi

You'll know it's me if my hair looks like a squirrel's nest. Okay, coloniology

So if you listened to Testudonology from last week first off congrats to studentology comes from the Latin

Testudo for tortoise and

Cologne in Greek means turtle so as an etymology opportunist

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