Oh, hi, it's that lady in front of you. The grocery store who didn't realize she was holding up the line because she's reading a magazine.

Allie Ward.

Okay, this is kind of two episodes of Oligies because over the next two weeks, you're gonna get up close and personal with those wizard,

slowly ambling boulders, tortoises, and turtles, and sea turtles.

What is their deal? Why do they live to be one million? Do they need us to save them? Are they missing throbs or just introverts?

Etc. Etc. But before we take a deep dive in a turtle borough, and we will kiddos per usual, thanks to all the friends on patreon.com,

such allergies who help support the making of the show and contribute so many good questions for theologists.

Thanks to everyone who is buying shirts and totes and hats on allergies merch.com.

Thanks to all the new subscribers. Hey, and folks leaving ratings and even reviews, which you know,

I read like your grandma going through old birthday cards like this week. This one from Put A Burk on It says,

this is the type of binge-worthy podcast that makes you sit in your driveway after a 90 mile commute home from work at Boream,

just because you have to finish the episode. Not that I've done that. Okay, yeah, I have, they say.

So thank you, Put A Burk on It. Thanks to anyone who has ever left a review. If you've written one, I've read it,

and it made me happy, probably. Okay, so turtles. Ho, boy, howdy.

Are you about to fall the hell in love with turtles? Okay, over the next two weeks, turtles will be digging a gentle

burrow in your heart where they will sleep like little cozy potatoes for the next, I don't know, 140 years.

So this week is Testudonology, which comes from the Latin Testudo for Tortoise.

And I was introduced to this Testudonologist through reptile hero Dr. David Steen, who you may remember from the

her patology episode. Remember him, right? Dope. I was like, Steen, you got new turtle people and he was like,

oh, damn, do I? And he introduced me to one of his favorite turtle people on maybe planet Earth.

She did her undergrad at the University of North Florida. She had an internship at the Jacksonville Zoo

Animal Hospital. And it's now getting her masters at Florida Atlantic University studying go for tortoises.

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