Josh Clark

Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here for Dave, and we're just hopping along, talking about kangaroos and how they hop.

And creator of Unladylike, the podcast, too.

I thought this was a particularly well-researched short stuff, so I should have known that Jennifer Horton and Kristen Conger had something to do with it.

Yeah, we talked, I think, a lot about this in the Naked Mole Rat episode, where essentially, like, the marsupial fetus does not develop as long inside the body of the mom as it does inside the pouch.

Essentially, at some point, it's what you would call born, but really, it's just crawling out of the birth canal, outside into the world for a second, and into the pouch, and then the little Joey latches onto a nipple in there, and the nipple grows...

Three times in size, just like the Grinch's heart.

And so the little Joey couldn't let go of the nipple, even if he or she wanted to, until they develop a little further.

It's quite ingenious.

Hats off, Natural Selection.

That's a great one.

Oh, I'm sorry I took that.

I didn't realize that it was.

I like to, you know.

That's very generous of you.

Thank you.

Yeah, that's a great way to think about it.

They don't have four legs.

They have two legs and two arms.

And it makes sense.