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The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash. This is Joy Brooks.

Hello. We haven't recorded together since February, Joy. So there must be a lot to catch up on, I'd have thought. For example, how is the snail empire?

The snail empire, yep. Are you a Tai Chi master yet? If there is such a thing, I don't know enough about Tai Chi, but how's that going?

You know, there's all kinds of things we can talk about, isn't there?

There's so many questions to be answered.

Feel free to answer them.

Well, because you've given me more than one.

I was like, oh, what's going on?

Right, no, not a Tai Chi. I don't even, I don't know what happens if you get really good

at Tai Chi, but no, the way I tend to use it, I don't think I'm ever going to be particularly

spectacular at it, but that's all right. Snail Empire is definitely growing. There's been lots of

couples, snail couples being discovered, and lots of teeny weenie snails as well, which is so cute.

I don't think I've ever seen a snail baby before in my life.

Oh, wow.

They're so tiny.

Yeah, I'm not sure they must be.

Like really tiny, so that's very cool.

Do they come out with shells or does that grow later?

I think they lay eggs, don't they?

And then I presume they come out of an egg with shells.

But I think they might not be very, very hard.

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