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puts to Leon continues to actively ruin before we get to our tizbeth for today. The Guardian
newspaper just announcing this morning that they will no longer be posting on what used to be Twitter.
They've decided that they're, they're going to promote their news elsewhere.
Maybe on blue sky. Blue sky is a nice place to be.
Jane, can people find you on blue sky? You can find me on blue sky if you can spell my name.
There's that. That's an achievement right there. You can follow me on blue sky.
I am Greg Bock. I am Greg Bock on all the social media. Is it maybe no longer Twitter?
One of these days because it really is just a hellscape. I still it's still useful.
It is still where news breaks. Yeah. But as far as spending too much time on there,
I just am finding the experience on blue sky. A lot more positive. A lot more positivity.
It's just it feels like you just like take a breath. Yeah. Take a breath. It is 1153 Calvin.
That means it is time for this shouldn't be a thing.
This shouldn't be a thing. Today it is the feral EMU edition.
Headlined for the New York Post EMU's escape and closures in South Carolina
a week after dozens of monkeys. Fleeed a research facility. South Carolina may be the new Florida.
Oh, I can't be good. Two large EMU's are on the loose in South Carolina. They've been free
for three months. Sam Morris went on social media to plead with a residence of
Loris South Carolina who were taking pictures of these EMU's. He's asking people to stop. Don't
shoot them. Yes, let's not shoot them after they escaped her father's enclosure over the summer.
For anyone that keeps seeing an EMU. Yes, they are mine. There are two of them.
They got loose three months ago. They're feral and not trained like the ones we have at the house.
I follow a woman on TikTok. Yeah. Who has EMU's? Yeah. And I don't know how well trained you can
how well trained you can actually train an EMU. I think a lot of people who have non-traditional
pets believe is like, oh, I can train them like until they know, sorry, I have a pet squirrel
get out of my face. Local law enforcement has already visited my house. We're trying to get a
tranquilizer approved so we can bring them home. Locals seven trying to band together to locate
and capture the EMU's native to Australia as residents took to social media. Putting pictures of
the EMU's in their backyards and their local highways. They're very large. Yes. Really large.
And like they you can't just catch them. They're going to get away from you or knock you down.
Also, why do we have them? They're from Australia. Let them go back to where they need to be.
That isn't a quote. That isn't a commentary on immigration, by the way. I just don't think
they should be here if they're not meant to be here. Greg Lucas, a spokesperson for the South
Carolina Department of Natural Resources says first monkeys and now EMU's South Carolina
may be the new Florida. Of course, this was going to be a tizbets last week after 43 monkeys
broke out of the alpha genesis medical research facility also in sort of South Carolina.
Some of their remaining primates, high tailing around the rural area after a worker left their door
open last week. As of Monday, though, 30 of the monkeys are back in the back with the company
unharmed. The facility breeds the recess macaques to sell to medical facilities and other researchers,
police urging people to keep their distance from the rogue monkeys and to avoid flying drones
in the area. What? You can't throw that little bit in there like watch out for monkeys. Watch
out for EMU's also watch out for the flying drones. Calvin, you have any thoughts on this?
Well, are you guys familiar with the great EMU War of 1932?
No, yeah. So in Australia in 1932, after public outcry about overpopulated EMU's destroying crops,
the Royal Australian Army deployed soldiers to take care of these EMU's and though,
I want to say thousands of birds were killed. The EMU population persisted and continued
to cost destruction. You cannot stop the EMU's! We will regenerate! Now we're really afraid of
feeral EMU's. Sounds like a bad idea. Well, I'm not going to South Carolina in January now.
Well, we want to revisit that. Give it another year before they round everything up in South
Carolina. Oh, this one's great. That does it for today's edition of. This shouldn't be a thing.
Yeah. Coming up on the show tomorrow, Jim Santel, our colleague here at Civic Media,
and host of the show, Amicus, a law review. You can catch him on Saturday mornings from 9 to 11.
He is a brilliant attorney. Oh my gosh. Yes. He really is. You will learn so much.
And he'll be joining us at 11.06. We have J.R. Radcliffe from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
to talk all things sports balls. That is on the way for tomorrow. Dan Schaefer will be here
back on Friday. And then we're working on a bunch of stuff for next week as well.
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