Gecko

Right.

Gecko hands plus centipede vibes plus snake vibes plus chameleon camouflage.

It's like they combined all these reptile things and like gave him all the weird reptile superhero powers.

Yeah.

Well, we are talking about the northern striped gecko.

And you will know that I love to talk about herpetofauna here in New Zealand, of which we have quite a number.

Geckos are probably... one of my favourite types of reptile.

How, Jesse? Come on, we're 11 years in now.

How can you distinguish a gecko from a skink?

Anyway, so we have geckos, we have skinks.

Skinks are the ones that are like snakes with legs.

Geckos are the sort of more velvety creatures that have a distinctive neck and they do, in fact, have to lick their eyeballs because they don't have that outer lid situation where you're giggling at.

you.

Geckos are so cute.

I

figured it out.

And so she was going to South Africa, and she wouldn't have time, and she s- and I said, "Well, that's okay.

I understand." And, um, when she came back the following year, we stayed in touch, and when she came back the following year, we, we got together, and I said, "Do you think you might be interested now?" She says, "You know, I am." So I sent her my stories, and I sent her Iggy the Iguana and also another one called, uh, [laughs] uh, The Gecko Without a...

The Tail of the Gecko Without the Tail.

So a little bit of a fun, fun, uh, name for that title because geckos, if they're threatened and if they pull on their tail, they'll release their tail, right? So-

Mm.

Our grandson, um, Anthony, was just turning 10 years old.

Now, he's 21 now, so it was 11 years ago.

And I wrote this children's story about, uh, Gary the Gecko, The Tale of Gary the Gecko Without a Tail.

Fahad is not affiliated with me.

Any and all opinions expressed on the Gecko podcast have nothing to do with

Fahad.

Did I say that right, Fahad? Yeah, yes, sir.

nice talking to you.

Is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go? Hey,

as Gecko said, don't put too much pressure on yourself.

You know, just live your life.

Oh

... down from Geckos Et cetera.

Okay.

Then I definitely took a picture of those-

Okay.

So he always brings-

Was Geckos Etc.

there?