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Therapy Gecko

“I HAVE 300 ILLEGAL SNAILS”

Therapy Gecko

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9951 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A stressed caller attempts to dispose of 300 illegal African land snails. Afterwards a car enthusiast tries to make sense of his adrenaline chasing nature, and we end the show with an interview I did in the park with a guy on a bike who works in the TV biz. Watch the full park video here. Beware of the garbage disposal. I am a gecko.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, what's your name?

0:03.4

Neeve. What's up, Neve? How's it gone?

0:06.3

Good, how are you doing?

0:07.8

I'm hanging in there, I'm lizzarding.

0:10.1

I'm lizarding it up.

0:11.5

What, uh, how can I get you today, Nieve? I totally did not expect you to answer.

0:19.7

I have pet snails, pet giant African land snails and where I live they're illegal and so I keep them a secret a lot and I usually keep track of the amount of eggs that they have

0:38.5

but I guess I missed a couple days and they usually lay hundreds at a time and they all hatched and the other day I found hundreds crawling around and I don't know how to kill them. Whoa, so why are these snails illegal?

0:57.0

I live in Canada and it's like if they're native to Africa and if they get out they can you know ruin the ecosystem in the area

1:11.8

What how did you get them?

1:13.4

Some girl who like lives in a random town outside of my city

1:21.0

happened. I don't know how she had them.

1:27.3

You know, I, so like, you know this,

1:37.9

like, they'll be like a bunch of like crickets. I'm just using a random example, but like there'll be like crickets and they're like an invasive species, right?

1:42.5

And so there'll be signs where it's like,

1:44.5

if you see one of these crickets kill them

1:47.0

because they're invaded, you know what I'm talking about?

1:50.0

Yeah.

1:51.0

I always thought, I always thought that was fucked up because it's like why hold on wait a minute so but these crickets these crickets are not morally I mean you know we can make an argument about

2:05.1

whether or not you know like people who've done wrong deserve to die right but

2:09.5

you know do ant do do insects that have done wrong deserve to die I think pretty obviously no because

2:16.6

that like no insect ever invaded you know the insects are not like you know Hitler doing World War II they're they're not like

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