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Speaker 2: Also bottom of the hour, Rod Pile, I'm going to
Speaker 2: talk about the asteroid that's going to take out Earth
Speaker 2: in just a couple of years. Doctor Jim Keaney at
Speaker 2: eight thirty. We had a fun day to day and
Speaker 2: then ask handle anything. We're starting to do that and
Speaker 2: see how it works. Where you call in, you record
Speaker 2: questions that I don't know what they are. I hear
Speaker 2: them for the first time and I answer them, ask
Speaker 2: handle anything. And last time it was incredibly humiliating for me. Okay, guys,
Speaker 2: Ron DeSantis remember him, kind of hard to forget, the
Speaker 2: governor of Florida, and one of his more famous phrases
Speaker 2: and referen and referring to his state, Florida is the
Speaker 2: state where woke comes to die. And guess what woke
Speaker 2: is a die in? Walmart just rolled back. It's the
Speaker 2: EI program. That's diversity, Equity and inclusion is what that
Speaker 2: stands for. And it's the latest company to backtrack on
Speaker 2: these diversity initiatives.
Speaker 4: In the face of a couple of things. Right wing pressure,
Speaker 4: big time, you know, the right wing.
Speaker 2: I mean we with the election of Donald Trump, we're
Speaker 2: swinging hard right in this country. It's just that simple.
Speaker 2: And we voted for it. You know, it's not as
Speaker 2: if the election was stolen. It's hey, the people of
Speaker 2: America voted for this kind of way.
Speaker 4: America is going to go.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: Welcome to you know, welcome to America. It's a free country.
Speaker 2: And so part of what's happening now is the whole
Speaker 2: idea of wokeness, diversity, inclusion, LBGTQ rights.
Speaker 4: You go on and on minority rights and why is
Speaker 4: that falling apart? Well, two reasons.
Speaker 2: One, as I said, you've got a lot of pressure
Speaker 2: coming in from the right, you have lawsuits that are
Speaker 2: flying like crazy, and you have something called the pendulum,
Speaker 2: and the pendulum swings. And we go back to twenty
Speaker 2: twenty the murder of George Floyd, and that exploded America
Speaker 2: in a big way. It showed how bad the police
Speaker 2: departments can be, I think, aberrationally, but there was also
Speaker 2: systematic problems going on with the many police forces. And
Speaker 2: then out of all that comes a whole new way
Speaker 2: of viewing America. Minorities are treated horribly and they are
Speaker 2: to some extent lbgkey rights. Heretofore ignored a lot of discrimination,
Speaker 2: I mean, and it went pretty far to the point
Speaker 2: where you know, police departments, people are running on the
Speaker 2: premise police departments should not just be defunded. Defunded means
Speaker 2: you just take away you take away money, budgets from
Speaker 2: the police department, but dismantled, let's get rid.
Speaker 4: Of the police. That was a thing. That's a movement.
Speaker 2: Of course that all disappeared because it went a little
Speaker 2: bit too far. And since we are all turning right America.
Speaker 4: Is not all of us are.
Speaker 2: But you have the left, which is I'm going to
Speaker 2: equate diversity, inclusion, LBGTQ rights, women's rights, reproductive rights pretty
Speaker 2: much with the liberal side of politics and American philosophy. Well,
Speaker 2: look what Supreme Court has done with reproductive rights Roe v.
Speaker 4: Wade, very conservative.
Speaker 2: Look what governors like DeSantis are saying.
Speaker 4: And that's gaining real strength.
Speaker 2: Look at the southern legislatures, Look at other than the
Speaker 2: East and West coast.
Speaker 4: Everything in the middle is not a big fan of
Speaker 4: Die DEI.
Speaker 2: And you have major corporations that are all over the
Speaker 2: place and they're going, you know what this is hurting us.
Speaker 4: This is remember Anheuser Busch with bud Budweiser.
Speaker 2: And they had this gay influencer, trans influencer.
Speaker 4: Now, normally would a corporation do that, I would.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I happen to be a big fan of
Speaker 2: trands and gay rights and always have been, so to me,
Speaker 2: I would make that business decision.
Speaker 4: I would go broke.
Speaker 2: They figured, and we're talking about the company lost one
Speaker 2: point five billion dollars in sales. Budwiser, after being the
Speaker 2: largest most popular brand of beer in the world, fell
Speaker 2: the second because of this, and so the pensulum has
Speaker 2: swung its di is going away.
Speaker 4: And by the way, other companies are doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: A lot of them are coming back realizing we have
Speaker 2: to move back towards the middle. You've got legal cases
Speaker 2: going going to see those going all over the place,
Speaker 2: because when you talk about those that believe in minority rights,
Speaker 2: affirmative action, for example, where minorities are given preference, where
Speaker 2: minorities are accepted and not deemed to have the same
Speaker 2: qualifications per the schools, by the way, per what the
Speaker 2: school says the qualifications, and who goes, who's at the
Speaker 2: top of this and who isn't when those are all
Speaker 2: going away with the courts and even here okay, and
Speaker 2: I've been here for a lot of decades here at KFI,
Speaker 2: and I just this morning show, this one. I'm not
Speaker 2: this morning but I'm talking about the morning show itself.
Speaker 2: We've been doing this show for thirty one years. That
Speaker 2: was the first time I opened the mic and said,
Speaker 2: welcome to the morning show.
Speaker 4: This is Bill Handle. And at that point I could
Speaker 4: say anything I wanted.
Speaker 2: Man, we were cutting edge, and then cutting edge became
Speaker 2: a very different definition, especially through twenty twenty and or
Speaker 2: the Me Too movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, and
Speaker 2: we got and by the way, I don't necessarily disagree
Speaker 2: with a lot of it, it became a lot more
Speaker 2: woke where we had to pull back so much that
Speaker 2: the show had to change. Here comes the pendulum. You
Speaker 2: know what, I'm having more fun. I'm offending more groups.
Speaker 2: I am pissing off more people. I am making more
Speaker 2: fun of your ethnicity and your penis size and your
Speaker 2: inability to sing or to sing, or your body or
Speaker 2: your body weight, or just go on and on and on.
Speaker 2: And now I'm back to offending everybody. And I wonder
Speaker 2: if we can go back to where we were. I
Speaker 2: can't even say what we used to do. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was that much fun. But at least we're moving
Speaker 2: back towards what I think is a middle ground. And
Speaker 2: I think that companies are pulling back because not only
Speaker 2: was this woke business, but it was also a political statement.
Speaker 4: That's another thing.
Speaker 2: Part of all this was where companies making political statements,
Speaker 2: and usually corporations would stay away from politics.
Speaker 4: You couldn't be within one hundred.
Speaker 2: Miles of a political statement if you were a corporation.
Speaker 2: Now you're all over the place, Disney all over the way.
Speaker 2: Remember guys couldn't have long hair, women couldn't have mustaches,
Speaker 2: and they changed that where they're now allowed to do that.
Speaker 2: It is all different ethnic groups. And I'm not going
Speaker 2: to go into you know, women, Okay, that's enough of that.
Speaker 2: It's just wokeness is moving away very very quickly. And
Speaker 2: I think a lot of the baby with the bathwater
Speaker 2: is going on too, I truly do. Okay, Now women
Speaker 2: are boycotting Thanksgiving. Actually, it's you know, we're back to
Speaker 2: with the election of Donald Trump. We are back to
Speaker 2: the Civil War in terms of how Americans feel about
Speaker 2: this election. It's the Grays versus Blues. It's brother against brother.
Speaker 2: The feelings are that strong. And it's really coming out
Speaker 2: this Thankgivings, this Thanksgiving, where entire swatches of Americans, particularly women,
Speaker 2: are boycotting Thanksgiving, not Thanksgiving per se. I mean they're
Speaker 2: fine with Thanksgiving. Their boycotting Thanksgiving with family members.
Speaker 4: Who voted for Trump. That is how upset and it
Speaker 4: really is.
Speaker 2: It's not Trump's supporters boycotting people that voted for Harris.
Speaker 4: It's the other way around. In terms of my experience.
Speaker 2: And the amount, the level of misunderstanding or not understanding
Speaker 2: what happens. Being shell shocked looking at people accept what
Speaker 2: Donald Trump believes in and has represented. It is so
Speaker 2: shocking to folks that entire families are being disrupted. I
Speaker 2: live with someone like that, and it is very tough
Speaker 2: to see. I'm not as affected, but she certainly is.
Speaker 2: And she spends a lot of time on social media
Speaker 2: and does a lot of instagramming, and has a lot
Speaker 2: of friends and is always showing me, look at this,
Speaker 2: look at this, and it's astounding how many family members,
Speaker 2: how many families have become disrupted. I mean, I was
Speaker 2: kind of stunned about this that you Thanksgiving. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine families not to getting together on Thanksgiving because of politics,
Speaker 2: not because Uncle Harold is a falling down drunk and
Speaker 2: disrupts everybody, Or you don't want Aunt Mamy there.
Speaker 4: Because well it's uncle Harold puts on a.
Speaker 2: Puts on a lampshade and pretends it's a hat and
Speaker 2: walks around. I can see families saying, no, we don't
Speaker 2: want anybody there who disrupts or is obnoxious.
Speaker 4: No, this is straight politics. This is straight politics. You
Speaker 4: voted for Trump. I want nothing to do with you.
Speaker 4: And I keep on saying, hey, listen, this is America.
Speaker 4: Americans did this. Oh my god, look at the three
Speaker 4: Supreme Court justice and Roe v.
Speaker 2: Wade disappeared. This is America. The rules were followed. You
Speaker 2: had a sitting president who, under the rules of the Constitution,
Speaker 2: nominates Supreme Court justices. You had a sitting Senate that confirms,
Speaker 2: and it just so happened.
Speaker 5: You had a.
Speaker 2: Republican president a Republican Senate, and that's how three nominees
Speaker 2: came through and change the whole tenor of the Court.
Speaker 4: That's the way it works. Those are the rules.
Speaker 2: You may be unhappy with it. I mean, I'm not thrilled.
Speaker 2: I happen to believe in the concept of ro v weight.
Speaker 2: Although legally it's a very interesting argument that the president.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there's been around forever. It's been around
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy three Row, and there was a lot
Speaker 2: of argument that it shouldn't have been decided the way
Speaker 2: it was in nineteen seventy three. Now again I'm on
Speaker 2: the other side of the coin on that one, but
Speaker 2: there's some real solid legal premise and legal argument why
Speaker 2: Rose should have never been decided the way it was,
Speaker 2: and so it's the rules, and now entire families are
Speaker 2: being upset, and it's true. I mean I have I
Speaker 2: gotta tell you. I shake my head and I see
Speaker 2: conversations and I hear conversations, and to the level that
Speaker 2: people are engaged in hating each other, this time around
Speaker 2: has been very, very difficult. As you know, I'm not
Speaker 2: a huge fan of Donald Trump. I've said that over
Speaker 2: and over and over again. I think there's going to
Speaker 2: be a lot wrong with the administration coming in, but
Speaker 2: the level of the hatred for him his policies is
Speaker 2: crazy anti gay, although I don't think he's particularly anti gay,
Speaker 2: and by the way, I don't think he's.
Speaker 4: Particularly against reproductive rights.
Speaker 2: I think the only reason that he was was to
Speaker 2: go after the evangelical vote. I was simply a pragmatic
Speaker 2: approach because I don't think Trump believes.
Speaker 4: Much of anything.
Speaker 2: No, he believes in border security that he does, he
Speaker 2: believes in tariffs that he does. He believes in isolationism
Speaker 2: America first that he does, but those are his core beliefs.
Speaker 4: The rest of them, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think so, And why is he going to continue
Speaker 2: being on the side of anti abortion because to him,
Speaker 2: the other thing he believes in more than anything else
Speaker 2: is loyalty. And if someone is loyal to him, look
Speaker 2: at the cabinet nominations. If someone is loyal to him,
Speaker 2: he is loyal to them, notwithstanding anything else. And the
Speaker 2: fallout of this is we are so polarized. We are
Speaker 2: We used to talk about how polarized we were. Man,
Speaker 2: it doesn't hold a candle to what's happening today.
Speaker 4: And it's it's horrible to see.
Speaker 2: And Thanks Thanksgiving dinners falling apart.
Speaker 4: Is I mean, have we really gotten there? Yeah? I
Speaker 4: guess we have. I guess we have.
Speaker 2: It's tough, it really is. I mean, with my Emily,
Speaker 2: we don't talk politics. We talked turkey.
Speaker 4: Huh strong, huh.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go ahead and take a break because I'm on.
Speaker 2: By the way, have you a little real quickly survey says,
Speaker 2: and have you experienced not necessarily your family members, but
Speaker 2: in general family members being.
Speaker 4: Divide? This divisive?
Speaker 3: I know that other families are, Okay, this is pretty
Speaker 3: much on the same page.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I have heard from friends who are sitting
Speaker 4: it out. Yeah, the family gatherings out, which is really
Speaker 4: really hard.
Speaker 2: Amy have you seen it either personally or amongst people
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 3: Not with not with my close circle. We're all fine, okay,
Speaker 3: Like my family knows like that. We're there's a couple
Speaker 3: of us who were on pretty polar opposites and have
Speaker 3: been for years, and so we just don't talk about
Speaker 3: it near.
Speaker 4: Okay, fair enough. Kno, I've lost friends, have you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That's interesting. Yeah. And if I had friends to lose,
Speaker 4: I would have lost friends. Okay. Rod Pyle, co host
Speaker 4: of This Week in Space.
Speaker 2: On the iHeart app been wherever you listen to podcasts.
Speaker 2: His website pilebooks dot com, p y l e books
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Pile, good morning.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm fine, let me uh, excellent, Okay, I wanted
Speaker 2: to get rid of the frog in my throat.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: We have all seen science fiction movies about asteroids hitting
Speaker 2: the Earth.
Speaker 4: We know the dinosaurs became extinct.
Speaker 2: I think the Gulf of Mexico happened because of an asteroid.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And we know that at some point the well, the
Speaker 2: US comes close all the time, the Earth comes close
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 4: There, I want you to comment on this.
Speaker 2: The European Space Agency has just given a go ahead,
Speaker 2: uh for a mission to visit an asteroid called.
Speaker 4: At which is Greek for you are going to die.
Speaker 5: So exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So let's talk about this because this is a
Speaker 2: real thing.
Speaker 4: This is not sci fi. I mean, we're really talking about.
Speaker 2: Something that is out there I'm assuming eventually will.
Speaker 1: Happen probably, And you know, the Solo system's a bit
Speaker 1: of a shooting gallery. There's a lot of stuff left
Speaker 1: over from the early formation, big chunks of ice, rocks
Speaker 1: like Apophus, big blobs of gravel drifting around out there.
Speaker 1: So there's stuff whizzing past us and entering the atmosphere
Speaker 1: all the time. What we get worried about are these
Speaker 1: asteroids they call near Earth objects that are big enough
Speaker 1: to cause problems. So if Pophus is about fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: feet across, it lasts passed Earth on twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: in March, and it's been an object of concern since
Speaker 1: two thousand roughly. But JPL and NASA keep getting better
Speaker 1: and better readings on it and have been able to
Speaker 1: determine that it's going to miss us by about twenty
Speaker 1: thousand miles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's nothing. We're gonna be able to see it, aren't.
Speaker 1: We Yeah, we'll be able to see it with the
Speaker 1: naked eye. You won't see the features or to see
Speaker 1: hopefully a bright spot when the sun's hitting it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: in cosmic terms, that's a whisker. And the next time
Speaker 1: it comes around or after that, which is I think
Speaker 1: twenty thirty six and twenty sixty, it may.
Speaker 5: Be a little closer.
Speaker 1: But they don't see any real danger of impact for
Speaker 1: about one hundred years.
Speaker 5: But it's a city killer for sure.
Speaker 2: That's crazy and I assume that, and we've talked about this.
Speaker 2: The only way we are going to actually be able
Speaker 2: to do anything like an atomic bomb bowling it up.
Speaker 2: That doesn't do anything. It's just the pieces come and
Speaker 2: there's smaller pieces than a lot of them. It's nudging
Speaker 2: it out of the way when they discover one that's
Speaker 2: really going to come nearer or hit the earth. Where
Speaker 2: is that in terms of science or reality?
Speaker 5: So for decades we had known about this.
Speaker 1: The people I work with National Space Society have a
Speaker 1: big department working on this, and the idea was, look,
Speaker 1: we really got to get busy, guys and do something
Speaker 1: about this, because it's not a matter of if it's when,
Speaker 1: and statistically we're overdue for something an impact like this.
Speaker 1: So NASA put together a mission called DART, which stands
Speaker 1: for double ass Rays Redirect, Double Asteroid Redirect, Yeah, mission,
Speaker 1: And the idea was to send a spacecraft up and
Speaker 1: it's only about side of the golf cart, and its
Speaker 1: only purpose in life was to find the asteroid and
Speaker 1: smack into it, in this case, a little asteroid orbiting
Speaker 1: a bigger asteroid called detamos. And it did it, and
Speaker 1: the effect was not just noticeable, it was actually much
Speaker 1: bigger than they thought it would be.
Speaker 5: So we knew.
Speaker 1: We know, if we find them early enough, we can
Speaker 1: nudge them off. Course, you know, if you remember your
Speaker 1: high school geometry, you may need something bigger if it's
Speaker 1: closer when you spot it, and that's when you start
Speaker 1: talking about either nudging it with a nuclear explosion or
Speaker 1: even possibly attaching rockers rocket motors to it to push
Speaker 1: it out of the way.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming, depending on the size of the asteroid
Speaker 2: and depending on how far out it is, and I'm
Speaker 2: assuming depending on the speed that it's heading towards us,
Speaker 2: there's some magic formula there that landing on the asteroid
Speaker 2: just literally giving it just the tiniest little push is
Speaker 2: going to do it.
Speaker 1: We hope, and you know, we know they can do
Speaker 1: that math because it was only a few years ago
Speaker 1: that the Osiris REX mission rendezvous with an asteroid called
Speaker 1: Benu and grabbed a sample. And in fact, once Osiris
Speaker 1: REX dropped that sample off back at Earth, which they're
Speaker 1: looking at now, it was repurposed to go rendezvous with
Speaker 1: this asteroid Apophus in twenty twenty I just after it
Speaker 1: passes by US, and the European mission which is called
Speaker 1: RAMSES is going to rendezvous with it just before it
Speaker 1: passes by US.
Speaker 2: So the pictures that were taken on that spacecraft that
Speaker 2: went and landed on the asteroid whatever its name was,
Speaker 2: and the photos as it was approaching the asteroid, I
Speaker 2: think the last one was like a few hundred feet.
Speaker 4: Or just.
Speaker 2: Literally yards away. Extraordinary see an asteroid that close up.
Speaker 5: It really was amazing.
Speaker 1: And it just kissed it just enough to pick up
Speaker 1: that sample and bring it back. And one thing is
Speaker 1: this thing about these big asteroids. So the track about
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand of these neurot objects. The danger points
Speaker 1: are when they cross the Earth's orbit when we're in
Speaker 1: the way, that's what you don't want to be there, right,
Speaker 1: But one of the things that's become clear over the
Speaker 1: last few decades is a lot of these aren't rocks.
Speaker 1: They're just big piles of gravel. So they still pack
Speaker 1: a lot of energy, but.
Speaker 4: Not as dangerous, not as dangerous as dangerous.
Speaker 2: Okay, Rod, thanks, this just came out and it was
Speaker 2: of course they had to get your opinion on this,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately, we're not going to lose cities here. God,
Speaker 2: that would be so entertaining. You talk about ratings, right,
Speaker 2: New York has gone.
Speaker 4: Well, let's say one of them. Mind, I'm going to
Speaker 4: talk about another. You know what city do we wiped
Speaker 4: out for the purposes of this show that we feel
Speaker 4: comfortable with? All right?
Speaker 5: We always laugh at Barstows, so there.
Speaker 4: There you go. I feel better for no Barstow. That
Speaker 4: always works out.
Speaker 2: Unless you really like sheep, then it's a big problem, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Rod. Thank you.
Speaker 2: This week in space on the iHeart app and other platforms,
Speaker 2: pilebooks dot com. Pyl ebooks dot com one of the
Speaker 2: best websites out there.
Speaker 4: If you're all interested in space, we'll catch again, Rod.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Take care all right. Mood Dang.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if you've heard of Moodang, but
Speaker 2: a lot of people around the world have heard of
Speaker 2: Moodan And it is a love affair with this little
Speaker 2: baby hippo. Baby elephants and hippos are so cute. I mean,
Speaker 2: when hippos grow up, they eat you. They're in the
Speaker 2: most dangerous animals in Africa. But when they're little babies,
Speaker 2: they're cute as hell. And the world is fall in
Speaker 2: love with this pygmy hippo moo ding souvenirs and costumes.
Speaker 2: She's out of Thailand or she lives in Thailand, and
Speaker 2: her zoo keeper and this is something that is These
Speaker 2: are zoo keepers that have a lot of brains. Anyway,
Speaker 2: her zoo keeper recognize her potential before her birth and
Speaker 2: hatched a plan because the zoo was struggling. He was
Speaker 2: about to fail, and he came up with this plan.
Speaker 2: And it's celebrity baby animals. And here is why hippos,
Speaker 2: baby hippos make so much sense.
Speaker 4: And baby elephants. Pandas are the big thing right all
Speaker 4: over the world. People love pandas.
Speaker 2: San Diego Zoo has pandas Washington Zoo had pandas. They're
Speaker 2: leased from China and they cost a fortune to maintain
Speaker 2: and keep up, and you have to bring him back
Speaker 2: to China the zoo. No one actually gets a panda,
Speaker 2: and they always have a name, right, What are the
Speaker 2: last two pandas Moo Googui Pan and Chowmine whatever the hell?
Speaker 2: Those names are the pandas names. But those are expensive.
Speaker 2: Baby Pigmy pigmy hippos are tremendous and they're cheap. But
Speaker 2: just isn't that much money to feed and get a
Speaker 2: baby hippo. So the zookeeper in China or in Thailand
Speaker 2: decided he is going to really go crazy and think
Speaker 2: of this before he is born. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: we have a new baby hippo coming and we're gonna
Speaker 2: put it on the internet and we are going to
Speaker 2: video it and everybody will be jumping up and down,
Speaker 2: and you get to choose the name.
Speaker 4: What was the last panda after Mo Gooo Gui Pan left?
Speaker 4: What was allowed next?
Speaker 5: One?
Speaker 4: Ralph? That was it.
Speaker 2: It was Ralph, the little panda. Also, pandas don't do much,
Speaker 2: they really don't. They sort of sit there. Baby Pigmy
Speaker 2: hippos walk around, they pretend they're roaring, they practice they are,
Speaker 2: so they're just as cute as pie.
Speaker 4: And then they grow up and eat people.
Speaker 2: But we knew that, and so by the way, that's
Speaker 2: not new, you know, animals to bring people to the zoo,
Speaker 2: celebrity animals.
Speaker 4: Eighteen twenty eighth the London Zoo.
Speaker 2: Began and in eighteen forty seven they were about to
Speaker 2: go broke the London Zoo and people grew bored until
Speaker 2: guess what a baby hippo Obiash, named after an island
Speaker 2: in the Nile where he was captured. That was the
Speaker 2: first hippo scene in Europe since the Roman times. So
Speaker 2: Obiash or obeysh doubled annual attendance at the zoo. What
Speaker 2: fans do is they quickly attached to favored animals. The
Speaker 2: London Zoo sold Jumbo the Elephant to P. T. Barnum
Speaker 2: in eighteen eighty two. People were protesting in the streets.
Speaker 2: A black bear named Winnipeg became the inspiration for Winnie
Speaker 2: the Pooh Guy. A Western Lowland gorilla gets hundreds of
Speaker 2: birthday cars every year, and we just love to connect animals. Seabiscuit,
Speaker 2: the Great probably the greatest racehorse that ever lived.
Speaker 4: TV shows Lassie.
Speaker 2: Puntsatwani Phil Every year is spring happening where winter continues.
Speaker 4: In twenty seventeen, Fiona.
Speaker 2: The Hippo went viral because was she going to survive infancy?
Speaker 2: We didn't know she did. So you still want pandas?
Speaker 2: What is San Diego Zoo? I think has two pandas
Speaker 2: and people wait forever and you can you can't see him.
Speaker 2: By the way, you go to China, Beijing, you go
Speaker 2: to one of their panda enclosures because that's where pandas
Speaker 2: come from, and you look down, you're right on top
Speaker 2: of them, and it's not very crowded the place, and
Speaker 2: it's like a panda convention. It's like a bunch of
Speaker 2: pandas going to some kind of a medical convention. You
Speaker 2: got hot and cold running pandas here. People go crazy
Speaker 2: for pandas. So you are going to see zoo animals
Speaker 2: more and more. By the way, there are two siblings
Speaker 2: to Moo Dang, and I love this. They are named
Speaker 2: MoU Wan and Moo Tune, named after Tai pork dishes.
Speaker 4: For real, Okay, I'm not kidding. Now that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Named after food, because we all know that hippo is
Speaker 2: the meat is very dense and it really is a
Speaker 2: little gamey, especially baby hippo. So to name them after
Speaker 2: and they're not pork, they're hippo, so to name them
Speaker 2: after pork dishes doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4: But this guy thought of it. He said, this is
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