Don't Underestimate the Flamingo

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

While they may look like dainty, dorky birds, flamingos deserve respect. Flora brings the flamingo facts, and launches ELT’s campaign to bring a flamingo mascot to professional sports. Guests: Comedian Prashanth Venkataramanujam; Producer Katherine Wells; Mascot maker Jennifer Smith of Avant Garb; Renbert Mortimer, creator of the University of the Bahamas mascot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.1	Frasianth, hold on to your cargo shorts because you are about to get blown away. All right. I learned something this week. Honest to God that shook me to my core.
1:22.4	Which is that I have misunderstood the flamingo and you're just now realizing why all the
1:45.3	reasons it went off the rails? I don't know I mean we all have a relationship with
1:51.4	with flamingos because they're so ubiquitous they're in
1:54.9	every zoo they are and right behind I would say the chimpanzee it's one of the
2:01.1	funniest animals there is,
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