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Episode 18: Platypus - What happened here?

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0

The Ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 18 of oral presentations.

0:24.0

Platypus, what happened here?

0:28.0

Now I decided, you probably hear my tone and I sound a little bit different than normal now.

0:36.0

Okay, so I picked this topic early in the week like Tuesday and when I picked the topic it was

0:43.0

Platypus what happened here?

0:46.0

Right? Which it still is. It's still still the same thing.

0:50.0

And I did a I started looking into it. I went to the public library. I got books on this because I was like there's a lot of platypus shit already out there. Let's go primary source. Let's go books. Let's go actual written like how deep can we get do it. I got so I I was so excited to look into the platypus

1:06.7

That like I picked it on Tuesday and then the rest of Tuesday I was like nervous about looking into it starting Wednesday because I didn't want to be let down

1:17.2

with how cool the platypus was. That's written Tuesday night, like I remember being like I don't even want to look into it. I bet it's so cool but like what if it's not? Like I was so in like I was so into the idea of the episode plat Platypus, what happened here?

1:35.0

Okay, so then on Friday, I don't know what you guys did, but on had I had a stand-up comedy gig and I was

1:48.3

closing it it's I was just like okay I didn't really look into it and so I drive out there and I was feeling all right.

1:55.5

And I'm lucky to get any sort of stand-up comedy gigs at all.

1:59.8

I'm really happy to be, and like a lot of people that do stand up never end up closing a

2:04.0

show anywhere they never they never like it's I'm a it's a privileged position to

2:08.0

be in and I completely understand that right so I had done a lot of platypus

2:12.1

rejors taking a lot of platypus research taking a lot of platypus notes

2:14.3

felt really good and I'm still like I'll do this is great and we'll get into all that it'll be great I do really like the platypus I got some platypus facts for you

2:21.6

I think it'll still be a good episode right?

2:24.0

But here's the thing dude I went to do this gig on Friday and I'm sure I'm driving alone right

2:30.1

all right so I'm driving alone into the middle of South Jersey and there's like people who listen to this who don't live in America or South Jersey

2:37.4

they don't really know what's going. So like an area in your country or wherever you live at that if you drive far enough out like you like

2:47.8

you know that these people are here does that make sense or if you've ever been to Utica, New York,

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