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Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to PDACast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide

children's hospital. We're in Columbus, Ohio. It is June 11th, 2014, episode 289. We're calling this

one speech disorders, nasal speech, and velopherential dysfunction. Now, I realize that's a big

word, and we'll break it down in just a couple minutes.

First, I just want to give a shout out real quick to the Columbus Zoo. Now, I know we have a lot of listeners in Central Ohio, but there's also, in fact, a larger number of you who are not in Central Ohio.

And if you find yourself in Columbus, one of the must stops is the Columbus Zoo.

It's really the zoo that Jack Hanna built, unless, you know, it's in the dead of winter and

then maybe it's not the best place to go.

But this time of year, it's great.

And they have a new Africa exhibit, I guess you'd say, a new section of the zoo that they opened.

And we went as a family a few days ago, and it was really quite amazing.

Really exceeded my expectations for what I thought it would be.

They have these cheetahs that, when they were little cheetahs, whatever you call, I guess, cubs, I don't know.

But they had yellow labs that they have dogs that have they've grown up with the cheetahs since they were puppies and cubs together.

And so they're like buddies and they chase each other around.

And it was really quite amazing seeing cheetahs and dogs interact together.

So that was pretty cool.

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