WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.359 You know, hey, it's that avocado you don't really feel 2 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:04.440 like eating, but you also can't watch it mold because 3 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:08.560 avocados aren't cheap. Okay, all word back with another episode 4 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:13.080 of Ologies. This is a weird one. Listen, listen. This 5 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.120 is going to be a full blown, fully long episode. 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.000 I started editing it. There were some major audio lags 7 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:21.320 and I said, you know what, ninety nine, I'm going 8 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:24.160 to bed, and I just fell asleep. I thought, let's 9 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.199 just get kind of stupid for a week. Let's just 10 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:31.320 hang out on the porch, dusk falling, whiskey warming in 11 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:35.000 your hand, whatever it is, or mountain dew, maybe sweating, 12 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.960 and let's just gab. But we'll go through all of 13 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.640 the things up top. We normally do thank you to 14 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.240 everyone on Patreon who supports the show and has since 15 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.000 before even day one. Patreon dot com slash Ologies. You 16 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:49.520 can join that club for as little as twenty five 17 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:51.600 cents an episode, and in this case you can submit 18 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.880 and Ama asked me anything, even juicy questions. Also, we 19 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:56.679 do live streams and other things. Also, thank you to 20 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:01.399 everyone who submits reviews and who rates subscribes. Those really 21 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:04.319 keep the podcast up in the charts and every week 22 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:08.079 I pick a freshye for you, and Jessica Awaw says 23 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.560 life is hard right now. Ologies makes it easier. The 24 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.120 world is an overwhelming place right now, but hanging out 25 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:17.719 with my internet dad makes it easier. Thanks Sally, Thank you, Jessica. Www, 26 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:22.239 I think I said too manys AnyWho, this is an AMA. 27 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.040 This doesn't ask me anything. I said, go ahead, ask 28 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.079 me some stupid questions. I'm not a smart person, but 29 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.200 I'll talk into a microphone about them. So this is 30 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.480 essentially a compilation of secrets. This is like you know 31 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.319 when you eat crackerjacks and you're like, oh, a peanut cluster. 32 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:39.319 This is essentially like you open up a crackerjack box 33 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.719 and it's all peanuts. Maybe it's too many peanuts. I 34 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.760 don't care. This is just summer fun time. We're crackling 35 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:47.799 around a campfire. 36 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:49.079 We're shooting the shit. 37 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.719 So without their adoe, please enjoy this minisode of me 38 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.000 answering your questions. I'm going to start randomly after the break, 39 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.640 We're going to get to your most asked questions. Okay, cool, Okay, sorry, 40 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:23.240 it's just me. You host the podcast. I know, Oh 41 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.400 my gosh. Okay, first question, Alexis Wallach wants to know 42 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.840 what's your favorite cephalopod. I think my favorite cephalopod is 43 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:34.680 the blue ring octopus because it has all of these 44 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:36.680 rings on it that look like a ring toss, and 45 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:40.280 also it can absolutely kill you so hard. But I mean, 46 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.159 have you seen it? It looks like a circus clown 47 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.400 with too many arms. It's yellow, it has polka dots. 48 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:49.319 It's like, boo boo boo, le bams, You're dead. So 49 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.000 I think that's fun. Chase Phoenix asked in the Ipeiology episode, 50 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:54.800 you talked about cringing a bit. When you see people 51 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.879 have started listening to the podcast from the beginning, what 52 00:02:57.919 --> 00:02:59.719 would you say are the biggest ways the podcast is 53 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:03.840 grown and improved. Oh that's nice. How have you personally 54 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:08.199 grown with the ologies? I think it's always hard for 55 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.400 me to listen to any episode I've ever ever done. 56 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.039 I always just want to clip little pauses, or clip 57 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:18.759 whole sentences, or just hide under a couch and suck 58 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.800 on a digit. But I get really bent about sound effects, 59 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.080 and there was a period like maybe a year and 60 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:26.639 a half ago where I feel like we use too 61 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.759 many and I always think, oh, I'm so sorry about that, 62 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.319 and so yeah, I think that just in general, I 63 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:35.080 never want to be annoying. I don't want to be boring, 64 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.439 and I don't want to be annoying anyway. I think 65 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:40.520 I've personally grown with Oologies because I've learned so much 66 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:44.479 from so many listeners who tell me about their own experiences. 67 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.360 You know, you walk in your own life as the 68 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.639 person you are, and you can't live a life as 69 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:52.879 every individual, so you can only kind of keep your 70 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:56.919 ears open to others' experiences and kind of like how 71 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:59.919 hot water, how those molecules just bump each other more. 72 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.560 I think that Ologies has given me a chance to 73 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.240 just bump around more into more people and learn from them. 74 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:08.639 Salem wants to know what does your daily self care 75 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.120 look like in twenty twenty, which is this is as 76 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.039 funny as this episode's going to get. It's just Salem's question. 77 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.560 Right now, I am wearing a tank top that is 78 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.399 made from a T shirt that I cut the arms 79 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:22.519 off of, and then I used one of the arms 80 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.480 as a headband yesterday, and then I slept in it, 81 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:27.519 and it's currently nightfall and. 82 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:28.600 I'm continuing to wear it. 83 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:30.800 I've kind of fell asleep meaning to work, and then 84 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.160 I woke up this morning was like, dang it, so 85 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:37.560 I'm doing great. I am an example of someone who 86 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:42.279 is killing it. I am a hashtag entrepreneur. I'm a monster. 87 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:45.360 I have it together. I'm as good as it gets. 88 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.399 I brush my teeth today. I feel good about that. 89 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.120 It's not great, salem Am. I talking to a therapist 90 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:53.040 about it tomorrow morning. 91 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.439 Sure, I am. We'll get there. We'll get there. Don't 92 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:56.720 be me. 93 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:58.279 Haw's that for helpful? 94 00:04:58.800 --> 00:04:59.079 Great? 95 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.199 And Jude wants to know if you had to whip 96 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.120 out a weird science fact to wow someone at a party, 97 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:06.920 what would it be. I think square poops, wombats, square poops. 98 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:09.920 Everyone needs to know that. Korn wants to know what's 99 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:12.879 the craziest food that I have ever eaten or tried. 100 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.360 I think fish eyes temper a deep battered fish eyes. 101 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.959 Nobody wanted to eat them, and I was like, I'll 102 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.399 do it for a dollar. Guess who left with a crisp, 103 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.480 greasy dollar in her pocket? Aw, you know what? It 104 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:26.120 tasted like? 105 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:26.680 Grease? 106 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.319 It tasted like crunchy. Although it is funny that no 107 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:30.959 one wants to eat eyeballs, but if you were out 108 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.000 in the natural world, everyone be like, fuck, did's on 109 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.680 the eyeballs? The eyeballs are cherries on a Sunday. Can 110 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.000 you imagine if you ate a whole Sunday and everyone's. 111 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.720 Like, Ooh, I give you a dollar to eat the cherry. 112 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:41.680 That's what happens when we don't eat eyeballs. 113 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:43.040 Ah, what a fucked up world. 114 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.160 That being said, I don't like eating eyeballs. Molly wants 115 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.160 to know what's your favorite place that you've ever conducted 116 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.800 in interview? Is there an ologist whose office is just 117 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:54.319 the absolute coolest or weirdest? One of my favorite places 118 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.800 was in the snow Hydrology episode. We just had to 119 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.079 pull up a bench outside of lax. But that was 120 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.199 very exciting because to find each other in the middle 121 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:05.279 of the layover, I see someone walking, Please be ned. 122 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.680 Please be ned? Are you ned? Yes? 123 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.519 My phone was about to die, real high stakes. It 124 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.720 felt like a heist movie. I will say that doctor 125 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.480 Tom Folk, who's a mycologist, he had the most interesting 126 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.199 office I've ever been in, and it had the most 127 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.839 say ephemera. It had a lot of knick knacks, including 128 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:27.240 his heart in a ziplock that I got. 129 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.079 To hold, and so and actually, my heart is in 130 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.680 that recycled thing right there for you. Is it really? 131 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:33.199 I know if you wanted to look at it, you could, 132 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:34.160 of course I do. 133 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:35.879 Can I look at it now or should I look 134 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:38.560 at it later? Oh my gosh, it's in here. I 135 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.560 knew your heart was in here. Oh my goodness. So 136 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:43.439 I'm sorry. 137 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:47.519 If you have a human heart that is your own 138 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.120 in a felted box in your office, I'm gonna forget 139 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.639 a lot of the other offices. Andrey Pearce wants to 140 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:55.040 know if I can be an animal for the rest 141 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:57.800 of my days, what would you be? And I did 142 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:01.199 see the movie The Lobster after eating a medicinal gummy 143 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:05.519 and affected by it. But I think a lobster seems 144 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.199 pretty dope, because if you can get far enough out 145 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:10.759 or no one can catch you, you can live forever. 146 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.519 And you're super happy just eating shit like bottom feeders, 147 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.839 marine snow. Put me in a suit of armor, give 148 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:22.639 me weapons for hands. I'll live forever just slurping up 149 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:26.199 shit off the floor. You know what, low expectations, You're 150 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.199 never disappointed. Stephen Clark says, do you miss recording. 151 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.439 In your closet? 152 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:30.839 And how do you stay organized with all you have 153 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.399 going on. I still do record in my closet. I 154 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.879 made a recording closet out of one of the closets 155 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:37.360 in the house. Right now, I'm not recording in it 156 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:40.279 because it's kind of hot and whatever. How do I 157 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:42.879 stay organized with all you have going on? It is 158 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.240 not easy because when you have a lot of different jobs, 159 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.560 none of the jobs care about the other jobs, so 160 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.199 you're like, ohh and so I have a lot of 161 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.360 juggling going on, and I really really want to do 162 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:56.560 the best job possible on all the jobs. And sometimes 163 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.639 you fall asleep wearing yesterday's shirt. That's okay. Hey, I 164 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.680 would rather have this life than any other. So sometimes 165 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.720 you wear the same shirt. I don't care, you don't care. 166 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:09.639 It's fine. There's bigger problems in the world. Kristin wants 167 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.319 to know if you were to create a new collab 168 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.399 show with one type of ologist, which kind would it be. 169 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:16.240 I think it would be a fear ologist and it 170 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.000 would be about fears. 171 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:19.240 Stay tuned. 172 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.759 Maria Jerrevleva wants to know if I have any advice 173 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.040 for people in our mid twenties. They just turned twenty five, 174 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:32.080 and Bridget says ditto from another freshly twenty five year old, Ooh, 175 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:35.720 twenty five, see a therapist. You might need to get 176 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.279 diagnosed with something. Boy, oh boy, did I wish that 177 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:42.759 I knew what anxiety disorder was before I turned thirty. Also, 178 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.519 don't drink so much. People are usually not their best selves, Katie. 179 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.960 You also asked that question about advice for those in college, 180 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.480 same thing. Just be yourself also, and if anybody doesn't 181 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:55.320 like you, then they suck. It's so easy once you 182 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:58.120 realize that if you have to bend or to try 183 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.960 to fit yourself to be somebody else's preferred way, than 184 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:05.600 they are not someone that you definitely need to impress 185 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.240 and listen and be compassionate, but also stand up for yourself. 186 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:12.480 Come on, man, I let myself be a doormat if 187 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:16.200 only I would assassed them. But bygones, Toby James wants 188 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:18.240 to know, are you doing another season of one hundred Humans. 189 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.000 It's my favorite show on Netflix, not that I know of. 190 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.320 It took like a year and a half to shoot, 191 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.080 and I feel like they probably would have told us 192 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:27.440 by now if we're doing another one. 193 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:28.039 I don't know. 194 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:29.679 It took a really long time shoot. I mean that's 195 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.840 like one hundred people, plus a cruel like seventy people. 196 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.279 That's so many granola bars for craft service, there's golf carts. 197 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.440 You know, a lot of phone calls you gotta make 198 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.240 tell the people to show off for work the next day. 199 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:44.559 It's a production, so I don't know. I will let 200 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:46.960 you know. I really liked so many of the humans. 201 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.519 A lot of them are really good friends. Still, some 202 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.679 of them got their human number tattooed on themselves. The 203 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:55.279 day we wrapped, they went to Dave and Busters and 204 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:57.600 then hit a tattoo parlor. I have never been to 205 00:09:57.639 --> 00:09:59.519 a Dave in Busters. I could not go that night, 206 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.240 but I understand it was a good time. G wants 207 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.120 to know what is something you're dying to do an 208 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:06.320 episode about but you haven't been able to find anologist for. 209 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:07.879 I really want. 210 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.279 To do an episode on ADHD and I'm not quite 211 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.720 sure exactly what ology that would be, and I want 212 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.080 to find the perfect person to interview, so I really 213 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.559 would like to do that. Also, a neurology episode and 214 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:21.679 doing something on MS would be really great. Katie Coast 215 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:23.879 wants to know have you gotten into any video games 216 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.639 during this downtime and I have not even animal crossed once. 217 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.600 I don't know what is happening with you, the turnups 218 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:36.080 and stuff. I haven't done any video gaming. This downtime 219 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:39.960 quarantine has not been downtime at all. I've been really 220 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.519 lucky that I have a couple of new projects that 221 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:45.000 were like work from home that cropped up right around 222 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.919 the start of the quarantine. But I also have had 223 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:50.799 to accept that I need to be better about time management, 224 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:52.559 and I need to just work during the day and 225 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:55.600 then be off at seven pm. And I am very 226 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.639 bad at that, and so instead I just have like 227 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.360 a only semi productive to twelve to fourteen hour day 228 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.360 instead of having a normal human productivity day. 229 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:06.320 For eight hours. 230 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.279 I'm learning if I could implant a chip in my 231 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.559 brain that would teach me how to do that, oh, 232 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.240 I would do it myself with a wine opener and 233 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:18.720 a pair of tweezers. Like yesterday, Carrie wants to know 234 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:23.120 what is my guilty indulgence. I pinterest landscaping. Also, there 235 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.440 is something that is very relaxing about whittling. You have 236 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.360 to make sure that you buy these like ten dollars 237 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.399 gloves that work like oven mits or a shark cage 238 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:34.799 for your hands, but you just get these little gloves 239 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:36.919 on and then you just sit there and widdle. Moment 240 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.840 to moment, this looking more like a spoon. It's the 241 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:44.039 same feeling of gratification you get watching a pimple popping video, 242 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.320 but it's real life. You can't hold a phone and 243 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:50.720 it's not someone else's pus. Ten out of ten. Davis 244 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:52.960 Bourne says, you're a role model for me as a 245 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.679 person and as a working professional. I Ben Davis is like, 246 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:58.759 at this point in the episode. 247 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.919 Was like, never mind, I'm in like a dirty tank up. 248 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:06.720 Were there concrete actions you took to put yourself on 249 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.440 the path that you are on? Are there moments or 250 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.480 decisions you made internally that you feel like were particularly defining? 251 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.039 And when did I start feeling accomplished or fulfilled? Oh? Good, 252 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:23.399 good questions? Okay, The concrete actions I took to put 253 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.480 myself on this path were identifying the things that actually 254 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.080 got me jazzed in life. And there were certain things 255 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:33.320 I was doing professionally that got me like money or 256 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.279 a little bit of success, but they did not really 257 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:40.039 feel like me. It felt like having to twist myself 258 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.480 into a pretzel to do that, and so what I 259 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:45.440 did was I got very depressed, and I went through 260 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.559 a really rough summer where my now partner and I 261 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:49.720 broke up, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. 262 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:50.480 I was very sad. 263 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.000 I think I talked about this in the museum episode, 264 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.919 the field Trip episode. I started volunteering at a museum, 265 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.080 and I realized I loved being there so much. And 266 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.200 wouldn't you know it, that three hours a week that 267 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.159 I went in to volunteer, time that I probably would 268 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:07.320 have spent scrolling on Instagram really helped me realize what 269 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.399 I loved to be doing, and that was like learning 270 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:10.919 about bugs and hanging out with nerds. 271 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:12.360 So that was really helpful. 272 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:14.840 If you can find even like an hour a month 273 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.879 to go volunteer or just meet new people who are 274 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:21.679 into what you're into, hang out with him socially distanced 275 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.399 or online, that can really help. Putting up this podcast 276 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.879 is something that was really defining. I had been sitting 277 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:29.360 on it for nine months before I put it up, 278 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:31.679 and then I had the logo, I had the trailer, 279 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.759 I had the Instagram handle, I had the Twitter handle, 280 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.519 and I was just tinkering too much. And then someone 281 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.559 messaged me about Brady Harron's Unmade podcast. In the first 282 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:42.679 episode they put up, he talked about how he wanted 283 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:43.919 to do an Ologies podcast, and. 284 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.120 I was like, no, I've been working on this forever. 285 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:49.000 I've done like five interviews, and so I had already 286 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:50.799 done the trailer, and so I just put up the 287 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:52.799 trailer that night, and that's how I Launchedologies. 288 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:55.320 So that was very defining. It was a big lesson 289 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:55.559 that I. 290 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:57.279 Should have just put it up eight and a half 291 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:59.720 months sooner, because I had been working on it all 292 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:03.120 that time. But it took that threat of getting scooped 293 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:04.759 by an idea that I had wanted to do for 294 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.159 twenty years that really made me do it. So it 295 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.159 was a very defining moment. Is just do the thing, 296 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:12.039 don't wait for it to be perfect. It'll get better 297 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:15.000 as you go. And I started feeling accomplished and fulfilled. 298 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.399 I think when I realize it, more than just my 299 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.360 friends were listening to Ologies. I was like, Oh, there's 300 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.600 other people out there that want to hear about Toad 301 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.399 turns also winning an Emmy for the Henry Ford's Innovation 302 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:29.440 Nation with Morocca, which is the CBS show that I 303 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:31.759 do every Saturday, I've been on it for seven years. 304 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.799 This episode of Ologies is going up July twenty first, 305 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:41.039 and I'm nominated for two more Emmys this weekend. On Sunday, 306 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:42.919 i'll find out. One is for host and one is 307 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:46.600 for writing for the show. So that's a really big honor, 308 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.159 and to be recognized by colleagues and the industry is 309 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.840 kind of a big deal. So that made me feel 310 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.200 like a bit of a grown up. So we shall see. 311 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:58.039 We'll find out on Sunday. But yeah, my main advice 312 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:00.240 is just to figure out what you really love and 313 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.759 what you feel like yourself doing. Bonnie wants to know 314 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.960 how I find most of theologists and how I stay 315 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:10.159 positive when things are terrible. I find the ologist two ways. 316 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.840 Either someone says there's just a great ologist, you must 317 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:14.720 meet them, and then I go and look at all 318 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:17.000 their stuff and get a little bit of a brain 319 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:17.720 crush on them. 320 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.000 Or I say, I wonder who. 321 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:22.679 Knows the most about horses and then I just start 322 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:24.399 googling the terms. 323 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:27.480 Horse expert or hipologist. 324 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:30.039 Or whatever, and I sometimes will look at the hashtag 325 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.200 let's say it's hippologist and like, who's self identifying is that? 326 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:34.559 On Instagram? And do. 327 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:36.879 I want to talk to them, and I love finding 328 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:38.639 people and I love making contact with them, and when 329 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.519 I get an email back saying they're interested, it's like, huh. 330 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:43.000 It really does feel like. 331 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:44.960 The person that you have a crush on in eighth 332 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.840 grade just passed you a note back. It's very exciting. 333 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.360 Cycling Tiger just wants me to know that they added 334 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:52.240 a forty plus mile detour to the end of their 335 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.840 cross Canada cycling trip just so that they could visit 336 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:57.440 the town of Dildo, and then asked, what's the rudest 337 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:59.720 named place I've ever been to? I mean, I was 338 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.440 an inter course, Pennsylvania. It's related, right. 339 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:06.240 Sorry, Pennsylvania. That's okay, Katie. 340 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.240 First time question asker wants to know if I had 341 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:11.240 any other alternative names for ologies when I was first 342 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:13.879 starting out, and I do. Actually, I'm so glad you 343 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:15.759 asked me this because I found this recently and I 344 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:17.639 sent it to a friend of mine who's trying to 345 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:20.720 come up with some show ideas. Okay, you ready, these 346 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:24.159 were the names that Ologies was maybe gonna be named. 347 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:28.559 Science Corner with Ali Ward science questions. Okay, but why 348 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:29.559 cocktail party? 349 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:29.960 Science? 350 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:34.120 Science surrounds us you can science also science for people 351 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:37.440 the world according to Ward. Things that are science with 352 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.720 Ali Ward, Science, creep creepy science with Ali Ward, Science 353 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:46.360 l cove, Okay, Cephala Podcast, The Big Weird World and 354 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:50.320 beyond thinky stuff, fire hose of science. Should I put 355 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:51.200 this in my brain? 356 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:51.679 So? 357 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:53.720 Yeah, that's what ologies was almost called. 358 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:54.559 Isn't that weird? 359 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:57.120 Isn't it like someone being like your name was almost 360 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:59.000 Janet and you're like, what why? 361 00:16:59.600 --> 00:16:59.919 Anyway? 362 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:04.039 It's ologies with Ali Ward, Dad, We're just gonna have 363 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.160 to accept it. Science alcove? What the fuck was I 364 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.720 thinking with that? What even is an alcove? Anyway? Paola 365 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.799 Alejandra Martinas Ramos wants to know ketchup store it in 366 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.519 the pantry of the fridge. I may be wearing yesterday's 367 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.799 shirt with a pile of laundering next to me, and 368 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.920 I had a whole pizza for dinner, but in the fridge. 369 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:26.200 Who puts ketchup in the pantry? Also, if you are 370 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.240 someone on Twitter who saw that this episode was almost 371 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.000 a thirty to forty minute long rant about rot tomatoes 372 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.079 right before we go to the break, I'm gonna tell 373 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:36.519 you why I hate rot tomatoes. 374 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:36.920 So much. 375 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.079 The insides remind me of cytoplasm. They're very mucisi. You'll 376 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:43.440 notice I said the word mucus. I don't bleep it anymore. 377 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:45.599 We get it, we get the joke. We don't need 378 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:46.400 to bleep it anymore. 379 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:46.799 Anyway. 380 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:51.799 It's like organelles in a cidoplasm, and I hate. 381 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.160 That when you bite into it. 382 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:53.920 Ugh. 383 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:57.559 If you do that, there's like too much give and chew. 384 00:17:58.119 --> 00:17:58.880 It's like a. 385 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.920 Peach that's so much some one should have eaten last Wednesday. 386 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:05.799 There's nothing crisp about a raw tomato. There's nothing crunchy, 387 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.640 like if I'm going to eat a peach, like I 388 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.880 want that peach to have been green five minutes ago, 389 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:15.440 Like I want crisp. You give me a raw tomato, 390 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:16.119 A number one. 391 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:21.160 It's just gush. It's just gush town. It's just squish city. 392 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.599 And so I feel like I'm eating a flaccid peach 393 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:25.799 that spit in my mouth. 394 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:27.279 I don't like it. 395 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.839 Now. You broil that tomato for five minutes, you sun 396 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.319 dry it, you put it in a can. I'm down 397 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:35.759 to clown. But if that thing is just right off 398 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.039 the vine, get it out of my face. Do not 399 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:40.319 put that in my mouth. I've eaten one cherry tomato 400 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:43.759 in my life, and that thing is lucky I digested it. Okay, 401 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.279