Speaker 1: You know, hey, it's that avocado you don't really feel
Speaker 1: like eating, but you also can't watch it mold because
Speaker 1: avocados aren't cheap. Okay, all word back with another episode
Speaker 1: of Ologies. This is a weird one. Listen, listen. This
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Speaker 1: to bed, and I just fell asleep. I thought, let's
Speaker 1: just get kind of stupid for a week. Let's just
Speaker 1: hang out on the porch, dusk falling, whiskey warming in
Speaker 1: your hand, whatever it is, or mountain dew, maybe sweating,
Speaker 1: and let's just gab. But we'll go through all of
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Speaker 1: keep the podcast up in the charts and every week
Speaker 1: I pick a freshye for you, and Jessica Awaw says
Speaker 1: life is hard right now. Ologies makes it easier. The
Speaker 1: world is an overwhelming place right now, but hanging out
Speaker 1: with my internet dad makes it easier. Thanks Sally, Thank you, Jessica. Www,
Speaker 1: I think I said too manys AnyWho, this is an AMA.
Speaker 1: This doesn't ask me anything. I said, go ahead, ask
Speaker 1: me some stupid questions. I'm not a smart person, but
Speaker 1: I'll talk into a microphone about them. So this is
Speaker 1: essentially a compilation of secrets. This is like you know
Speaker 1: when you eat crackerjacks and you're like, oh, a peanut cluster.
Speaker 1: This is essentially like you open up a crackerjack box
Speaker 1: and it's all peanuts. Maybe it's too many peanuts. I
Speaker 1: don't care. This is just summer fun time. We're crackling
Speaker 1: around a campfire.
Speaker 2: We're shooting the shit.
Speaker 1: So without their adoe, please enjoy this minisode of me
Speaker 1: answering your questions. I'm going to start randomly after the break,
Speaker 1: We're going to get to your most asked questions. Okay, cool, Okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: it's just me. You host the podcast. I know, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. Okay, first question, Alexis Wallach wants to know
Speaker 1: what's your favorite cephalopod. I think my favorite cephalopod is
Speaker 1: the blue ring octopus because it has all of these
Speaker 1: rings on it that look like a ring toss, and
Speaker 1: also it can absolutely kill you so hard. But I mean,
Speaker 1: have you seen it? It looks like a circus clown
Speaker 1: with too many arms. It's yellow, it has polka dots.
Speaker 1: It's like, boo boo boo, le bams, You're dead. So
Speaker 1: I think that's fun. Chase Phoenix asked in the Ipeiology episode,
Speaker 1: you talked about cringing a bit. When you see people
Speaker 1: have started listening to the podcast from the beginning, what
Speaker 1: would you say are the biggest ways the podcast is
Speaker 1: grown and improved. Oh that's nice. How have you personally
Speaker 1: grown with the ologies? I think it's always hard for
Speaker 1: me to listen to any episode I've ever ever done.
Speaker 1: I always just want to clip little pauses, or clip
Speaker 1: whole sentences, or just hide under a couch and suck
Speaker 1: on a digit. But I get really bent about sound effects,
Speaker 1: and there was a period like maybe a year and
Speaker 1: a half ago where I feel like we use too
Speaker 1: many and I always think, oh, I'm so sorry about that,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I think that just in general, I
Speaker 1: never want to be annoying. I don't want to be boring,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be annoying anyway. I think
Speaker 1: I've personally grown with Oologies because I've learned so much
Speaker 1: from so many listeners who tell me about their own experiences.
Speaker 1: You know, you walk in your own life as the
Speaker 1: person you are, and you can't live a life as
Speaker 1: every individual, so you can only kind of keep your
Speaker 1: ears open to others' experiences and kind of like how
Speaker 1: hot water, how those molecules just bump each other more.
Speaker 1: I think that Ologies has given me a chance to
Speaker 1: just bump around more into more people and learn from them.
Speaker 1: Salem wants to know what does your daily self care
Speaker 1: look like in twenty twenty, which is this is as
Speaker 1: funny as this episode's going to get. It's just Salem's question.
Speaker 1: Right now, I am wearing a tank top that is
Speaker 1: made from a T shirt that I cut the arms
Speaker 1: off of, and then I used one of the arms
Speaker 1: as a headband yesterday, and then I slept in it,
Speaker 1: and it's currently nightfall and.
Speaker 2: I'm continuing to wear it.
Speaker 1: I've kind of fell asleep meaning to work, and then
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning was like, dang it, so
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I am an example of someone who
Speaker 1: is killing it. I am a hashtag entrepreneur. I'm a monster.
Speaker 1: I have it together. I'm as good as it gets.
Speaker 1: I brush my teeth today. I feel good about that.
Speaker 1: It's not great, salem Am. I talking to a therapist
Speaker 1: about it tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Sure, I am. We'll get there. We'll get there. Don't
Speaker 2: be me.
Speaker 1: Haw's that for helpful?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 1: And Jude wants to know if you had to whip
Speaker 1: out a weird science fact to wow someone at a party,
Speaker 1: what would it be. I think square poops, wombats, square poops.
Speaker 1: Everyone needs to know that. Korn wants to know what's
Speaker 1: the craziest food that I have ever eaten or tried.
Speaker 1: I think fish eyes temper a deep battered fish eyes.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to eat them, and I was like, I'll
Speaker 1: do it for a dollar. Guess who left with a crisp,
Speaker 1: greasy dollar in her pocket? Aw, you know what? It
Speaker 1: tasted like?
Speaker 2: Grease?
Speaker 1: It tasted like crunchy. Although it is funny that no
Speaker 1: one wants to eat eyeballs, but if you were out
Speaker 1: in the natural world, everyone be like, fuck, did's on
Speaker 1: the eyeballs? The eyeballs are cherries on a Sunday. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine if you ate a whole Sunday and everyone's.
Speaker 2: Like, Ooh, I give you a dollar to eat the cherry.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when we don't eat eyeballs.
Speaker 2: Ah, what a fucked up world.
Speaker 1: That being said, I don't like eating eyeballs. Molly wants
Speaker 1: to know what's your favorite place that you've ever conducted
Speaker 1: in interview? Is there an ologist whose office is just
Speaker 1: the absolute coolest or weirdest? One of my favorite places
Speaker 1: was in the snow Hydrology episode. We just had to
Speaker 1: pull up a bench outside of lax. But that was
Speaker 1: very exciting because to find each other in the middle
Speaker 1: of the layover, I see someone walking, Please be ned.
Speaker 2: Please be ned? Are you ned? Yes?
Speaker 1: My phone was about to die, real high stakes. It
Speaker 1: felt like a heist movie. I will say that doctor
Speaker 1: Tom Folk, who's a mycologist, he had the most interesting
Speaker 1: office I've ever been in, and it had the most
Speaker 1: say ephemera. It had a lot of knick knacks, including
Speaker 1: his heart in a ziplock that I got.
Speaker 2: To hold, and so and actually, my heart is in
Speaker 2: that recycled thing right there for you. Is it really?
Speaker 1: I know if you wanted to look at it, you could,
Speaker 1: of course I do.
Speaker 2: Can I look at it now or should I look
Speaker 2: at it later? Oh my gosh, it's in here. I
Speaker 2: knew your heart was in here. Oh my goodness. So
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: If you have a human heart that is your own
Speaker 1: in a felted box in your office, I'm gonna forget
Speaker 1: a lot of the other offices. Andrey Pearce wants to
Speaker 1: know if I can be an animal for the rest
Speaker 1: of my days, what would you be? And I did
Speaker 1: see the movie The Lobster after eating a medicinal gummy
Speaker 1: and affected by it. But I think a lobster seems
Speaker 1: pretty dope, because if you can get far enough out
Speaker 1: or no one can catch you, you can live forever.
Speaker 1: And you're super happy just eating shit like bottom feeders,
Speaker 1: marine snow. Put me in a suit of armor, give
Speaker 1: me weapons for hands. I'll live forever just slurping up
Speaker 1: shit off the floor. You know what, low expectations, You're
Speaker 1: never disappointed. Stephen Clark says, do you miss recording.
Speaker 2: In your closet?
Speaker 1: And how do you stay organized with all you have
Speaker 1: going on. I still do record in my closet. I
Speaker 1: made a recording closet out of one of the closets
Speaker 1: in the house. Right now, I'm not recording in it
Speaker 1: because it's kind of hot and whatever. How do I
Speaker 1: stay organized with all you have going on? It is
Speaker 1: not easy because when you have a lot of different jobs,
Speaker 1: none of the jobs care about the other jobs, so
Speaker 1: you're like, ohh and so I have a lot of
Speaker 1: juggling going on, and I really really want to do
Speaker 1: the best job possible on all the jobs. And sometimes
Speaker 1: you fall asleep wearing yesterday's shirt. That's okay. Hey, I
Speaker 1: would rather have this life than any other. So sometimes
Speaker 1: you wear the same shirt. I don't care, you don't care.
Speaker 1: It's fine. There's bigger problems in the world. Kristin wants
Speaker 1: to know if you were to create a new collab
Speaker 1: show with one type of ologist, which kind would it be.
Speaker 1: I think it would be a fear ologist and it
Speaker 1: would be about fears.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Maria Jerrevleva wants to know if I have any advice
Speaker 1: for people in our mid twenties. They just turned twenty five,
Speaker 1: and Bridget says ditto from another freshly twenty five year old, Ooh,
Speaker 1: twenty five, see a therapist. You might need to get
Speaker 1: diagnosed with something. Boy, oh boy, did I wish that
Speaker 1: I knew what anxiety disorder was before I turned thirty. Also,
Speaker 1: don't drink so much. People are usually not their best selves, Katie.
Speaker 1: You also asked that question about advice for those in college,
Speaker 1: same thing. Just be yourself also, and if anybody doesn't
Speaker 1: like you, then they suck. It's so easy once you
Speaker 1: realize that if you have to bend or to try
Speaker 1: to fit yourself to be somebody else's preferred way, than
Speaker 1: they are not someone that you definitely need to impress
Speaker 1: and listen and be compassionate, but also stand up for yourself.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I let myself be a doormat if
Speaker 1: only I would assassed them. But bygones, Toby James wants
Speaker 1: to know, are you doing another season of one hundred Humans.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite show on Netflix, not that I know of.
Speaker 1: It took like a year and a half to shoot,
Speaker 1: and I feel like they probably would have told us
Speaker 1: by now if we're doing another one.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It took a really long time shoot. I mean that's
Speaker 1: like one hundred people, plus a cruel like seventy people.
Speaker 1: That's so many granola bars for craft service, there's golf carts.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of phone calls you gotta make
Speaker 1: tell the people to show off for work the next day.
Speaker 1: It's a production, so I don't know. I will let
Speaker 1: you know. I really liked so many of the humans.
Speaker 1: A lot of them are really good friends. Still, some
Speaker 1: of them got their human number tattooed on themselves. The
Speaker 1: day we wrapped, they went to Dave and Busters and
Speaker 1: then hit a tattoo parlor. I have never been to
Speaker 1: a Dave in Busters. I could not go that night,
Speaker 1: but I understand it was a good time. G wants
Speaker 1: to know what is something you're dying to do an
Speaker 1: episode about but you haven't been able to find anologist for.
Speaker 2: I really want.
Speaker 1: To do an episode on ADHD and I'm not quite
Speaker 1: sure exactly what ology that would be, and I want
Speaker 1: to find the perfect person to interview, so I really
Speaker 1: would like to do that. Also, a neurology episode and
Speaker 1: doing something on MS would be really great. Katie Coast
Speaker 1: wants to know have you gotten into any video games
Speaker 1: during this downtime and I have not even animal crossed once.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is happening with you, the turnups
Speaker 1: and stuff. I haven't done any video gaming. This downtime
Speaker 1: quarantine has not been downtime at all. I've been really
Speaker 1: lucky that I have a couple of new projects that
Speaker 1: were like work from home that cropped up right around
Speaker 1: the start of the quarantine. But I also have had
Speaker 1: to accept that I need to be better about time management,
Speaker 1: and I need to just work during the day and
Speaker 1: then be off at seven pm. And I am very
Speaker 1: bad at that, and so instead I just have like
Speaker 1: a only semi productive to twelve to fourteen hour day
Speaker 1: instead of having a normal human productivity day.
Speaker 2: For eight hours.
Speaker 1: I'm learning if I could implant a chip in my
Speaker 1: brain that would teach me how to do that, oh,
Speaker 1: I would do it myself with a wine opener and
Speaker 1: a pair of tweezers. Like yesterday, Carrie wants to know
Speaker 1: what is my guilty indulgence. I pinterest landscaping. Also, there
Speaker 1: is something that is very relaxing about whittling. You have
Speaker 1: to make sure that you buy these like ten dollars
Speaker 1: gloves that work like oven mits or a shark cage
Speaker 1: for your hands, but you just get these little gloves
Speaker 1: on and then you just sit there and widdle. Moment
Speaker 1: to moment, this looking more like a spoon. It's the
Speaker 1: same feeling of gratification you get watching a pimple popping video,
Speaker 1: but it's real life. You can't hold a phone and
Speaker 1: it's not someone else's pus. Ten out of ten. Davis
Speaker 1: Bourne says, you're a role model for me as a
Speaker 1: person and as a working professional. I Ben Davis is like,
Speaker 1: at this point in the episode.
Speaker 2: Was like, never mind, I'm in like a dirty tank up.
Speaker 1: Were there concrete actions you took to put yourself on
Speaker 1: the path that you are on? Are there moments or
Speaker 1: decisions you made internally that you feel like were particularly defining?
Speaker 1: And when did I start feeling accomplished or fulfilled? Oh? Good,
Speaker 1: good questions? Okay, The concrete actions I took to put
Speaker 1: myself on this path were identifying the things that actually
Speaker 1: got me jazzed in life. And there were certain things
Speaker 1: I was doing professionally that got me like money or
Speaker 1: a little bit of success, but they did not really
Speaker 1: feel like me. It felt like having to twist myself
Speaker 1: into a pretzel to do that, and so what I
Speaker 1: did was I got very depressed, and I went through
Speaker 1: a really rough summer where my now partner and I
Speaker 1: broke up, my dad was diagnosed with cancer.
Speaker 2: I was very sad.
Speaker 1: I think I talked about this in the museum episode,
Speaker 1: the field Trip episode. I started volunteering at a museum,
Speaker 1: and I realized I loved being there so much. And
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know it, that three hours a week that
Speaker 1: I went in to volunteer, time that I probably would
Speaker 1: have spent scrolling on Instagram really helped me realize what
Speaker 1: I loved to be doing, and that was like learning
Speaker 1: about bugs and hanging out with nerds.
Speaker 2: So that was really helpful.
Speaker 1: If you can find even like an hour a month
Speaker 1: to go volunteer or just meet new people who are
Speaker 1: into what you're into, hang out with him socially distanced
Speaker 1: or online, that can really help. Putting up this podcast
Speaker 1: is something that was really defining. I had been sitting
Speaker 1: on it for nine months before I put it up,
Speaker 1: and then I had the logo, I had the trailer,
Speaker 1: I had the Instagram handle, I had the Twitter handle,
Speaker 1: and I was just tinkering too much. And then someone
Speaker 1: messaged me about Brady Harron's Unmade podcast. In the first
Speaker 1: episode they put up, he talked about how he wanted
Speaker 1: to do an Ologies podcast, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, I've been working on this forever.
Speaker 1: I've done like five interviews, and so I had already
Speaker 1: done the trailer, and so I just put up the
Speaker 1: trailer that night, and that's how I Launchedologies.
Speaker 2: So that was very defining. It was a big lesson
Speaker 2: that I.
Speaker 1: Should have just put it up eight and a half
Speaker 1: months sooner, because I had been working on it all
Speaker 1: that time. But it took that threat of getting scooped
Speaker 1: by an idea that I had wanted to do for
Speaker 1: twenty years that really made me do it. So it
Speaker 1: was a very defining moment. Is just do the thing,
Speaker 1: don't wait for it to be perfect. It'll get better
Speaker 1: as you go. And I started feeling accomplished and fulfilled.
Speaker 1: I think when I realize it, more than just my
Speaker 1: friends were listening to Ologies. I was like, Oh, there's
Speaker 1: other people out there that want to hear about Toad
Speaker 1: turns also winning an Emmy for the Henry Ford's Innovation
Speaker 1: Nation with Morocca, which is the CBS show that I
Speaker 1: do every Saturday, I've been on it for seven years.
Speaker 1: This episode of Ologies is going up July twenty first,
Speaker 1: and I'm nominated for two more Emmys this weekend. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: i'll find out. One is for host and one is
Speaker 1: for writing for the show. So that's a really big honor,
Speaker 1: and to be recognized by colleagues and the industry is
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal. So that made me feel
Speaker 1: like a bit of a grown up. So we shall see.
Speaker 1: We'll find out on Sunday. But yeah, my main advice
Speaker 1: is just to figure out what you really love and
Speaker 1: what you feel like yourself doing. Bonnie wants to know
Speaker 1: how I find most of theologists and how I stay
Speaker 1: positive when things are terrible. I find the ologist two ways.
Speaker 1: Either someone says there's just a great ologist, you must
Speaker 1: meet them, and then I go and look at all
Speaker 1: their stuff and get a little bit of a brain
Speaker 1: crush on them.
Speaker 2: Or I say, I wonder who.
Speaker 1: Knows the most about horses and then I just start
Speaker 1: googling the terms.
Speaker 2: Horse expert or hipologist.
Speaker 1: Or whatever, and I sometimes will look at the hashtag
Speaker 1: let's say it's hippologist and like, who's self identifying is that?
Speaker 2: On Instagram? And do.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to them, and I love finding
Speaker 1: people and I love making contact with them, and when
Speaker 1: I get an email back saying they're interested, it's like, huh.
Speaker 2: It really does feel like.
Speaker 1: The person that you have a crush on in eighth
Speaker 1: grade just passed you a note back. It's very exciting.
Speaker 1: Cycling Tiger just wants me to know that they added
Speaker 1: a forty plus mile detour to the end of their
Speaker 1: cross Canada cycling trip just so that they could visit
Speaker 1: the town of Dildo, and then asked, what's the rudest
Speaker 1: named place I've ever been to? I mean, I was
Speaker 1: an inter course, Pennsylvania. It's related, right.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Pennsylvania. That's okay, Katie.
Speaker 1: First time question asker wants to know if I had
Speaker 1: any other alternative names for ologies when I was first
Speaker 1: starting out, and I do. Actually, I'm so glad you
Speaker 1: asked me this because I found this recently and I
Speaker 1: sent it to a friend of mine who's trying to
Speaker 1: come up with some show ideas. Okay, you ready, these
Speaker 1: were the names that Ologies was maybe gonna be named.
Speaker 1: Science Corner with Ali Ward science questions. Okay, but why
Speaker 1: cocktail party?
Speaker 2: Science?
Speaker 1: Science surrounds us you can science also science for people
Speaker 1: the world according to Ward. Things that are science with
Speaker 1: Ali Ward, Science, creep creepy science with Ali Ward, Science
Speaker 1: l cove, Okay, Cephala Podcast, The Big Weird World and
Speaker 1: beyond thinky stuff, fire hose of science. Should I put
Speaker 1: this in my brain?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what ologies was almost called.
Speaker 2: Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1: Isn't it like someone being like your name was almost
Speaker 1: Janet and you're like, what why?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: It's ologies with Ali Ward, Dad, We're just gonna have
Speaker 1: to accept it. Science alcove? What the fuck was I
Speaker 1: thinking with that? What even is an alcove? Anyway? Paola
Speaker 1: Alejandra Martinas Ramos wants to know ketchup store it in
Speaker 1: the pantry of the fridge. I may be wearing yesterday's
Speaker 1: shirt with a pile of laundering next to me, and
Speaker 1: I had a whole pizza for dinner, but in the fridge.
Speaker 1: Who puts ketchup in the pantry? Also, if you are
Speaker 1: someone on Twitter who saw that this episode was almost
Speaker 1: a thirty to forty minute long rant about rot tomatoes
Speaker 1: right before we go to the break, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you why I hate rot tomatoes.
Speaker 2: So much.
Speaker 1: The insides remind me of cytoplasm. They're very mucisi. You'll
Speaker 1: notice I said the word mucus. I don't bleep it anymore.
Speaker 1: We get it, we get the joke. We don't need
Speaker 1: to bleep it anymore.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: It's like organelles in a cidoplasm, and I hate.
Speaker 2: That when you bite into it.
Speaker 1: Ugh.
Speaker 2: If you do that, there's like too much give and chew.
Speaker 2: It's like a.
Speaker 1: Peach that's so much some one should have eaten last Wednesday.
Speaker 1: There's nothing crisp about a raw tomato. There's nothing crunchy,
Speaker 1: like if I'm going to eat a peach, like I
Speaker 1: want that peach to have been green five minutes ago,
Speaker 1: Like I want crisp. You give me a raw tomato,
Speaker 1: A number one.
Speaker 2: It's just gush. It's just gush town. It's just squish city.
Speaker 1: And so I feel like I'm eating a flaccid peach
Speaker 1: that spit in my mouth.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: Now. You broil that tomato for five minutes, you sun
Speaker 1: dry it, you put it in a can. I'm down
Speaker 1: to clown. But if that thing is just right off
Speaker 1: the vine, get it out of my face. Do not
Speaker 1: put that in my mouth. I've eaten one cherry tomato
Speaker 1: in my life, and that thing is lucky I digested it. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to a break really quick. In terms
Speaker 1: of a charity, the funds that I normally would be
Speaker 1: given to a charity are going to go into a
Speaker 1: special grant that I'm working on that I can't talk
Speaker 1: a lot about, but I will tell you more about
Speaker 1: it this summer. It's in conjunction with another ologist who's
Speaker 1: been on the show, but we're putting together a grant
Speaker 1: for science communicators, so you'll hear more about that. So
Speaker 1: just know that this solo confessional is going toward that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Your most asked questions after the break all most asked
Speaker 1: question you ready for this? I think the most asked
Speaker 1: question by Alexis Wallach, Diane Jelottie ashle Er by Jessica Chamberlain,
Speaker 1: Lauren wy Earl of Graham Olkin, Katie Stomps, cass Claremyer,
Speaker 1: and gentle all wanted to know how is Gremy? Grammy
Speaker 1: is my dog? Diane, this is the first question ever.
Speaker 1: Wanted to know, who's your favorite living creature? Why is
Speaker 1: it Gremy?
Speaker 2: People?
Speaker 1: Want to know weird things about her, weird noises, she
Speaker 1: makes goofy behavior. I will fill you in a little
Speaker 1: bit about this. So Grammy's my dog. She's about eight
Speaker 1: years old. I got her a year ago. She was
Speaker 1: very skin it and she looked kind of like a rat.
Speaker 1: I'd wanted a dog for probably fifteen years, and I
Speaker 1: finally lived in a place where I could have a dog,
Speaker 1: and I thought we should give her back. After the
Speaker 1: first week, I was like, I don't think we're a
Speaker 1: vinemen Like.
Speaker 2: I don't think she really likes us. She seems kind
Speaker 2: of bummed.
Speaker 1: Maybe she needs to be in a place with like
Speaker 1: goats or other dogs, or like cuter furniture or something.
Speaker 1: And it turned out she just had a camel cough
Speaker 1: and then she got on antibiotics and she was like, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's not you.
Speaker 2: I just had a respiratory infection.
Speaker 1: And I was on a business trip and Jarrett informed me,
Speaker 1: He's like, we're keeping this dog. This is our dog now,
Speaker 1: and I was like, so it is. She's such a
Speaker 1: good dog. Oh, she doesn't chew anything she shouldn't. I
Speaker 1: never come home and find like the bathroom garbage strewn.
Speaker 2: All over the house.
Speaker 1: She's only diary had maybe four times in the living
Speaker 1: room and it was because of fireworks. It's fine, who
Speaker 1: hasn't done that. She only works when we have a
Speaker 1: package or if she's sleeping, and in terms of noises
Speaker 1: she makes, she falls asleep and then her little belly
Speaker 1: will flutter and you just hear and she sleep works
Speaker 1: and it's the fucking Her mouth sometimes smells like fish,
Speaker 1: and I think that's from licking her butthole when she
Speaker 1: needs her anal glance squeezed. Have I learned how to
Speaker 1: do that watching YouTube I have? Is it disgusting?
Speaker 2: Of course it is. I love her. I would do
Speaker 2: anything for her.
Speaker 1: She doesn't even listen analogies, Okay b Wilson, Emily Arnold,
Speaker 1: a less opie, Cameron Stewart all wanted to know do
Speaker 1: you narrate the Kroger commercials? Emily Arnold said, I need
Speaker 1: to know this. I've absolutely yelled about it in the car.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: It's Kroger, it's Pick and Save, sometimes it's Smith's. It's
Speaker 1: also Gerbs. Here's the deal. So someone reached out to
Speaker 1: me and they're like, we are trying to find a
Speaker 1: voice of Kroger, and I guess some of the people
Speaker 1: who were like in the ad creative department listen to ologies,
Speaker 1: so they're like, we want to find a voice like
Speaker 1: this lady. And then they're like, why don't you just
Speaker 1: ask that lady. And so it's a union job. I
Speaker 1: don't have to wear pants when I do it. I
Speaker 1: do wear bottoms. So yeah, that is a question. I
Speaker 1: get a lot because people think that they are having
Speaker 1: some sort of a psychotic break and then they're just
Speaker 1: putting my voice places where it doesn't belong. If my
Speaker 1: voice comes out of your grandpa's face, that's a you problem.
Speaker 1: But it fits out of your radio, then yeah, sorry
Speaker 1: about that. Meryl Stark, Seth Sulky and Amy Farcas want
Speaker 1: to know if I actually enjoy the products that you
Speaker 1: advertise on the podcast. Out of all the advertisements, which
Speaker 1: ones do you actually use? And do I get a discount?
Speaker 1: They have to give you a freebie that way you
Speaker 1: can endorse it because you have to have used it
Speaker 1: in order for you to endorse it. You can't just
Speaker 1: say I love this stuff and like you've never laid
Speaker 1: hands on it. They send it to you, you try it,
Speaker 1: and if you like it. You're like, yeah, I'll endorse this,
Speaker 1: and if you're like, Nope, I'm not putting my name
Speaker 1: on this, then you can say no. So yeah, I've
Speaker 1: tried everything, and I've dug everything that I do ads
Speaker 1: for because I would feel super skipy if I didn't
Speaker 1: one thing that I use the most. I use stitch
Speaker 1: Fix all the time ever since I signed up for
Speaker 1: it because I need blouses and stuff for the CBS
Speaker 1: show and I like that. Someone else is like, hey,
Speaker 1: right about now, you could probably use in new pair
Speaker 1: of pants, and I'm like, I appreciate that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but I use a bunch of them. A lot of
Speaker 1: folks Emily Akana, Carly Cross, Ethan Stoller, Captain Fantastic, and
Speaker 1: Jess all want to know if I have a favorite
Speaker 1: ologies episode that I've ever done.
Speaker 2: I want to say.
Speaker 1: Merlin Tuttle is someone I wanted to interview before the
Speaker 1: podcast even existed. I think I put up a picture
Speaker 1: of him months before the first episode even came out.
Speaker 1: Was just like, look at this guy. Look at this guy.
Speaker 1: He was wearing a head lamp. He had a big
Speaker 1: old mustache. It was like from the nineteen eighties. He
Speaker 1: had a fruit baat, and I was like, I gotta
Speaker 1: know this guy. I gotta talk to him. How do
Speaker 1: I become his friend? And sure enough, boom, I got
Speaker 1: to go to his house and hang out for three hours.
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, I would put him down as my
Speaker 1: emergency contact if I could. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 1: of them, and I legitimately text and talk to so
Speaker 1: many ologists. I really have warmed my way into their lives.
Speaker 2: It's very creepy.
Speaker 1: A bunch of people including Spencer, Siames, Roxham, Parker, Sarah
Speaker 1: Lych which is Shmidie Thompson, Even Stoller, and Ted Hamilton
Speaker 1: asked about books specifically. Ted Hamilton said, when you hit
Speaker 1: the road for a long haul drive, do you have
Speaker 1: any go to comforts like books on tapes at twenty
Speaker 1: four ounce slushy screaming show tunes? Ted Hamilton, good question.
Speaker 1: I go in to a stop and I get like
Speaker 1: a huge cup of ice, and then I pour like
Speaker 1: the Vanilla truck stop coffee over it, and then I
Speaker 1: go get more ice, and then I get more of
Speaker 1: the Vanilla truck stop coffee and then I use like
Speaker 1: fifteen of those creamers. Wow, it tastes like a watery
Speaker 1: tire and cake batter mixed together. But also in terms
Speaker 1: of books, I've been listening to Brading Sweetgrass by Robin
Speaker 1: Wall Kimmerer. I will say, if there has been a
Speaker 1: book that has changed my life over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, this is gonna be a surprise, probably to
Speaker 1: a lot of you, because it's like, Oh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be something mystical, it's gonna be set maybe in a jungle,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. Nope, it's just a book about ADHD.
Speaker 1: But ADHD and the effect on marriage I think is
Speaker 1: an But my partner, Jared, we have been together a
Speaker 1: long time, but we broke up for a few years
Speaker 1: and he did not know who he had ADHD.
Speaker 2: I did not know. I had anxiety.
Speaker 1: We both got very easily but hurt by each other
Speaker 1: and just felt rejected a lot. Yeah, the ADHD Effect
Speaker 1: on marriage by Melissa or Love, But it is about
Speaker 1: essentially partnerships. Jar and I aren't married, but it's essentially
Speaker 1: about partnerships. We both listened to that audiobook over the
Speaker 1: same course of like a week at our own pace,
Speaker 1: and it is fundamentally changed the way that we relate
Speaker 1: to each other and also the way that I, in general,
Speaker 1: I think relate to people. I think it's made me
Speaker 1: more empathetic. It's made me understand myself more. I wish
Speaker 1: I had gotten that in my brain so much earlier.
Speaker 1: Poppy Millican wants to know there are a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways to cook an egg.
Speaker 2: Which way is your go to?
Speaker 1: Is it different if you are cooking versus someone else,
Speaker 1: Poppy Millican, these are the questions that we all want
Speaker 1: to know. They're hard hitting. I'm glad you asked. My
Speaker 1: go to is scrambled because it's hard to fuck up
Speaker 1: if someone else is cooking, I'll have a hard poached egg.
Speaker 1: Don't give me something gooey though. I'm sorry, I can't do.
Speaker 2: A gooey egg.
Speaker 1: So I ask for hard poached, and then everyone up
Speaker 1: Brunch's like, oh my god, they screwed up your egg order,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, I asked for it this way,
Speaker 1: and they're horrified. Katie Coast wants to know favorite way
Speaker 1: to eat a potato mashed skins on.
Speaker 2: I like them.
Speaker 1: Rustic d Adams wants to know a fact that will
Speaker 1: forever stick with me. I think at some point I
Speaker 1: learned that post themself. Thirteen nipples and the thirteenth is
Speaker 1: just right in the middle like a bull's eye. What
Speaker 1: the fuck?
Speaker 2: Man? What is life? Eric A.
Speaker 1: Stairs wants to know what my favorite conspiracy theory is.
Speaker 1: Maybe that Scarlet Johansson's a clone. I do really want
Speaker 1: to know who the human clones are out there, because
Speaker 1: there's got to be human clones. We're far enough down
Speaker 1: the line where there are certainly human clones. Who are they?
Speaker 1: Do they know their clones? Do the people that clone them?
Speaker 1: Do they get what they expected? What is a soul?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: These are not questions I'm here to answer. Alison Ewald
Speaker 1: wants to know first time question asker, what's my favorite
Speaker 1: part of the day.
Speaker 2: I love going to bed.
Speaker 1: I love getting ready for bed. I love taking a
Speaker 1: shower before bed and get into pajamas. And I don't
Speaker 1: do it enough. I kind of fall asleep doing what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. But going to bed feels like a vacation.
Speaker 1: It feels like a luxury. Like when I actually go
Speaker 1: to bed and I turn the line off and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's time to sleep now. I like, people do this
Speaker 1: every day, and if I did that, oh, my life
Speaker 1: would be amazing. If I would just be like, Nope,
Speaker 1: we're done at eight o'clock. I'm trying to do that,
Speaker 1: but I swear I'm always catching up from the day before.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's my favorite part of the day.
Speaker 1: Melanie Baker wants to know if you're a shop teacher,
Speaker 1: what would be your favorite project to a sign.
Speaker 2: A bad house dude.
Speaker 1: Heather Densmore wants to know how much input do you
Speaker 1: have with the fun TV and film assides or does
Speaker 1: Stevie just surprise you when he's done editing. No, I
Speaker 1: actually I actually pick those and I put a link,
Speaker 1: and Steven Ray Morris does surprise me with putting in
Speaker 1: a few extras, and sometimes those extra stay and sometimes
Speaker 1: I cut some of mine that I put in but
Speaker 1: keep his, or sometimes I'll cut the ones that he
Speaker 1: puts in. But yeah, I just I use those sometimes
Speaker 1: to bridge thoughts too. If I have a section and
Speaker 1: then we kind of skip to a new topic, sometimes
Speaker 1: they'll bridge it with a little clip. Jessic Morgan first
Speaker 1: time question asker also asked have I ever dressed up
Speaker 1: as a certain redheaded mermaid? Jessic Morgan, I have once.
Speaker 1: I went to an all night Disneyland event.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: I went with a friend of a friend, but Disneyland
Speaker 1: was open all night and someone had an extra aril onesie,
Speaker 1: so I put it on over my clothes. It was
Speaker 1: not slimming, but it was warm. I looked like a
Speaker 1: big od old baby.
Speaker 2: Hangry.
Speaker 1: Auntie wants to know if I enjoy my red headedness.
Speaker 1: They're a redhead and they vacillate between staruting four and
Speaker 1: hiding from the attention. I die my hair like this,
Speaker 1: so clearly it's choice, and I'm sorry that I'm ripping
Speaker 1: off your look. Ruby Lee wants to know fingers for
Speaker 1: toes or toes for fingers? Ruby Lee, I would rather
Speaker 1: have fingers for toes because A shoes and B you
Speaker 1: pick stuff up in the shower better.
Speaker 2: I already pick up a.
Speaker 1: Razor in the shower with my toes, but if you
Speaker 1: have fingers down there, sh I might get good at
Speaker 1: French braiding.
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 1: Michael Handy wants to know what's my go to drink
Speaker 1: at a dive bar where I know that they don't
Speaker 1: have a wine list or decent booze. A wine spritzer
Speaker 1: is usually pretty good. Treat yourself. Have a wine spritzer.
Speaker 1: They're a lot better than you.
Speaker 2: Think they are, white Wine Spitzer seth.
Speaker 1: So she wants to know. This is a serious one
Speaker 1: important to me. How do you personally face and overcome
Speaker 1: mental health challenges you might struggle with They struggle with
Speaker 1: oppression on the daily, and I like to hear other
Speaker 1: people's strategies with dealing with their own mental burdens. It's
Speaker 1: a really good question. I think I have to remind
Speaker 1: myself a lot that anxiety is kind of like clouds
Speaker 1: that pass. I think I get caught up so much
Speaker 1: in the things that I haven't done that I sometimes
Speaker 1: forget that we're all just doing our best and that
Speaker 1: that's good enough in other people for me. So I
Speaker 1: have to let that be good enough for me too.
Speaker 1: And I think I try to see the good and
Speaker 1: other people too. When people are turds, try to remember
Speaker 1: that that comes from a place of fear or hurt.
Speaker 1: One thing I learned from people close to me being
Speaker 1: sick is that you could only take things moment by moment,
Speaker 1: and sometimes like you can't pre grieve anything, you can't
Speaker 1: pre experience anything. You can't have misery now so that
Speaker 1: you could skirt it later, So you might as well
Speaker 1: just deal with the things you can deal with right now.
Speaker 1: Do what you can do right now, and then deal
Speaker 1: with conditions as they come. So think what can you
Speaker 1: do in the immediate I think that's helpful. And like,
Speaker 1: right now it's a banana's time.
Speaker 2: Things are a little nutty.
Speaker 1: If you feel a little a little nutty, that's par
Speaker 1: for the course right now. So yeah, let's try to
Speaker 1: take it easy on ourselves and know that we're not
Speaker 1: going to be writing a novel during this time, and
Speaker 1: we're not going to be cleaning out every closet.
Speaker 2: This is not a vacation.
Speaker 1: This is isolation and it's not easy, and so like
Speaker 1: understanding that there are those ups and downs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I.
Speaker 1: Also used a company called gene Site to find an
Speaker 1: antidepressant that worked well for me. So it's they're not sponsors,
Speaker 1: but I looked into some studies, and some studies found
Speaker 1: that people who chose medications based on some brain chemistry
Speaker 1: stuff had better odds, And so I did that and
Speaker 1: I found something that worked better for me. So that's
Speaker 1: helpful and that if you are going the medication route.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you can spend time outside, do it.
Speaker 2: You deserve it. So I've tried to do that as well.
Speaker 1: Finally, a few of you, including Angela's GOOTUZI I want
Speaker 1: to know got to do it. What do you hate
Speaker 1: most about making the podcast and what is your favorite
Speaker 1: part about making the podcast?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: What do I hate the most about making the podcast
Speaker 1: is probably having to listen to it right before it
Speaker 1: goes up, because by that point, it's like the third
Speaker 1: time I've heard the conversation, and I'm just doing QC
Speaker 1: to make sure everything's in the right spot and there's
Speaker 1: nothing missing, and so I have to listen to myself
Speaker 1: like tell the same jokes over like this is the
Speaker 1: third time, or I just am listening to my voice again,
Speaker 1: and so that's always just cringe fest twenty twenty for me.
Speaker 1: But the thing I love the most about making the
Speaker 1: podcast is that listeners have been friends. That's one thing
Speaker 1: I love. I love that there are people like us
Speaker 1: who care about weird shit and are not afraid to
Speaker 1: be curious or goofy or excited, and so people kind
Speaker 1: of finding like minded people makes me really happy. And
Speaker 1: I really really love that hearing what other people like
Speaker 1: to do so much inspires y'all to figure out what
Speaker 1: you like to do so much because I think that
Speaker 1: that's an added bonus that I didn't really expect, is
Speaker 1: that that would be inspiring that way. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: I love when people feel inspired by the podcast. John
Speaker 1: Worster wants to know, could you ask that everyone just
Speaker 1: sends some positive thoughts into the void to help those
Speaker 1: that are sick and hurting or feeling lost. Pick a
Speaker 1: day in time and a not too distant future so
Speaker 1: all of this energy can be manipulated. Thank you with John,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say Friday, July twenty fourth, let's say
Speaker 1: nine am for John. Let's just send some positive thoughts
Speaker 1: into the void to help those.
Speaker 2: That need it. I just send out good vibes.
Speaker 1: My family could use them this week. In all this,
Speaker 1: it's not the easiest time right now, but I think
Speaker 1: staying hopeful and appreciating the most that we can, whether
Speaker 1: it's moss or frogs, or your neighbor or somebody you
Speaker 1: haven't talked to you in a while, just try to
Speaker 1: appreciate them and ask some more people stupid questions. And obviously,
Speaker 1: if you want to follow ologies, you can follow ologies Twitter, Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm Aliward of one l If you want ologies merch.
Speaker 1: It's at Ologiesmarch dot com. If you tag a photo
Speaker 1: of you on Instagram Ologies Merch, then we will repost
Speaker 1: you on Mondays. Thank you Shannon Feldas and Bonnie Dusha
Speaker 1: the podcast you are that for managing merch. You should
Speaker 1: also listen to their podcast. Thank you Ernie Talbert, who
Speaker 1: I've known since I was for for managing the Ologies
Speaker 1: podcast Facebook group. Thank you to the Ologies of podcast
Speaker 1: transcribers and Emily White professional transcriptionists. They make transcripts available.
Speaker 1: Caleb Patten does the Bleeped episodes. Those are up at
Speaker 1: aliward dot com slash Ologies dash extras. Kelly Dwyer helps
Speaker 1: update the website. Noeltilworth helps me keep my.
Speaker 2: Schedule on track.
Speaker 1: Jarret Sleeper assistant edits and helps me through anxiety attacks.
Speaker 1: And the wonderful Stephen raymore Is will be editing this
Speaker 1: and putting this up tonight. Thank you to him and
Speaker 1: his mustache for making every episode better. He is completely
Speaker 1: responsible for that little thing that you hear at the
Speaker 1: very very end of the episode. That's all Steven. He
Speaker 1: surprises me with it every week. He's a genius. Nick
Speaker 1: Thorburn does the music which we are getting up on
Speaker 1: iTunes and if you stick around to the end of
Speaker 1: the episode, you know I tell you a secret. And
Speaker 1: this was an entire thing full of secrets. But Catherine
Speaker 1: Elizabeth wants to know first time question aster have you
Speaker 1: ever kissed a girl? Hashtag juicy? This is a juicy question,
Speaker 1: which is why I save it for the end. And
Speaker 1: of course I've kissed a girl, kissed a couple of them.
Speaker 1: I think if you get a chance she kiss people,
Speaker 1: you want to kiss. I mean, I know, woof, covid
Speaker 1: man woof, but yeah, go out there smoochin. Also, I
Speaker 1: do kiss Grammy on the mouth. She is a girl,
Speaker 1: got her mouth smeuth so man byebye ye bye, oh
Speaker 2: Wow home Miss