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Welcome to episode 13 of the Ross Bullin podcast. RBP13. I'm your host Ross Bullin here at the Grand Ex Media Studios in Austin, Texas with producer Michael Weiner. Hello Ross, I am aroused. Good.

We're going to get right into it. No time for bullshitting. But stick around at the end of the episode. We'll have important announcements including a continued contest for our listeners and the opportunity to perhaps win something bigger. Maybe an Nintendo 64?

No, the first segment this week is the animal of the week. We've been doing some wild ass animals lately, like the quaka and the axolotel or whatever it's called.

This week we're going to go back to one that everybody is aware of. But maybe not as aware of as you think. You maybe don't know as much as you think you do about this animal. It's the kangaroo.

Yes, the kangaroo. They are marsupials, the largest living marsupials. In fact, indigenous to Australia, mainly Eastern Australia, where they live in small groups of 50 or more called troops or herds.

The Australians call them mobs. And we'll get to the reasoning behind maybe a little more why the Australians have a negative connotation and go with mobs.

There are 40 plus varieties of kangaroos. They're coming all shapes and sizes, but they range in size from the two pound rock wallaby to the six foot 300 pound red kangaroo. Wait, six foot 300 pounds.

So you know how you see those like Instagram videos and photos of those jacked kangaroos going after people are doing.

They look like giant boxing monsters. It turns out these things can get to like six foot seven if it's a really large male.

Yeah, and up to like 300 pounds. That's a big like that'll get you. I'm not trying to fight that. That's like an NFL defensive end.

I said, Normandy. So yeah, so yeah, I mean, I had seen some of these more recent videos, you know, showing super jacked kangaroos, but I didn't know how big they were. And that is crazy to me.

But more normally they weigh full grown somewhere around like 198 pounds or 90 kilograms or whatever. But yeah, they can get up there to 300.

They run, they can run like 40 miles per hour over 40 miles per hour for short distances, which is extremely fast.

40 miles an hour. Yeah. And they can maintain like 25 mile an hour sprint for like a mile. So they're very, very, very fast.

Holy shit. Yes. Crazy. Yeah. Kangaroos live up to 23 years. They're herbivores and mainly eat grass, which is crazy because considering how giant they can get.

And how much muscle they can build in their only grubbing on grass. Really making a statement for all the, you know, Tom Brady's an area in fosters of the world.

Yeah, the vegans. This is a this a point for them. This Brady eat meat. I think he does. Is that in the TB 12 diet? It is. I think there's some meat. I don't know if it's if he doesn't eat red meat or I'm sure there's some sort of fucking insane restriction.

It's probably like only German meat that's been. Yeah, he might just eat it kangaroo meat. Who knows who knows? Speaking of which besides humans and wild dogs called dingos, the dingo H.O. Baby kangaroos face very few natural predators.

But heat and drought as you know that come with the Australian climate and hunger due to their vanishing habitat are some serious dangers that they face. So it's not like, you know, it's not all smooth sailing for the kangaroos.

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