Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Just the Zoo of Us
Join us, Ellen and Christian Weatherford, while we review your favorite species of animals and rate them out of ten in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity and aesthetics.
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Episode One: 1: American Alligator & Florida Manatee
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started: May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 333 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
317: Sea Angel
00:48:37 | Episode: 317 | December 24th, 2025
Ellen gets into the festive spirit with sea angels. We discuss Christian’s beachfront disaster, secret tentacles, teeny titan battles, undismissable companions, Hello Kitty merch, and so much more.
316: Southern Cassowary w/ Marco Wendt!
00:55:34 | Episode: 316 | December 18th, 2025
Joined Ellen & special guest wildlife ambassador and care specialist Marco Wendt from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park for a review of the towering birds that are ready to literally rumble: cassowaries. We discuss short kings and feminine rage, a secret bird language humans can’t hear, nature’s best dads, getting a modern dinosaur to be brave for his shots, and so much more.
315: Kinkajou
00:56:21 | Episode: 315 | December 11th, 2025
Ellen irons out the kinkajous. We discuss Thomas Jefferson’s giant moose sidequest, the dessert hypothesis, bad pets, who the real Frankenstein monster is, and so much more.
314: Sarah Suta's Top 3 Dream Comebacks!
00:58:53 | Episode: 314 | December 4th, 2025
Join Ellen & host of Bizarre Beasts Sarah Suta for a lineup of some animals she’d like to see get a second chance, whether they’re species we’ve already lost or ones that might still have a shot. We discuss foreign exchange student accents, the ecological impact of the invention of the telegraph, bird call sheet music, the scientific fumble of the century, bison where you least expect them, and so much more.
170: Wild Turkey (REPLAY)
00:55:02 | November 26th, 2025
In this week’s re-broadcast of an episode from November of 2022, Ellen goes on an odyssey through history with the wild turkey. We discuss their path alongside humans for thousands of years, from prehistoric America to praise from Benjamin Franklin, the brink of extinction and nets fired out of cannons.
313: Turkey Vulture
01:07:34 | Episode: 313 | November 20th, 2025
Ellen has a bone to pick with turkey vultures. We discuss aura farming, our gripes with the pH scale, a check-in with our resident Dragon Ball Z correspodent, screaming inside your heart, laser harassment campaigns, and so much more.
312: Common Snapping Turtle w/ Emma Ratway!
00:57:33 | Episode: 312 | November 13th, 2025
Join Ellen & special guest from the world of wildlife rehabilitation Emma Ratway for a review of the chompy rogues lurking at the bottom of ponds all over the country: snapping turtles. We discuss working with wildlife and getting to raise and release baby snapping turtles, a jury of one’s deers, a cat named Crunch Wrap Supreme, butt breathing, magnets, simple English wikipedia, eating board game pieces, and so much more.
311: Cleaner Wrasse
01:09:41 | Episode: 311 | November 6th, 2025
Ellen comes clean about the bluestreak cleaner wrasse. We discuss trust, cheating, fish patriarchy, manipulation, deception, game theory, the prisoner’s dilemma, marketing, the mirror test, the horrors of self-awareness, and so much more. Christian drinks a Capri-Sun.
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started:
May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 333 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
