WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:05.400 Oh hey, it's your weird old Internet dad Ward Von podcast, 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:10.080 back with the let's do a drum roll? Might as 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:20.160 well one hundredth episode of Ologies question can you even? 4 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.719 Are you able to? Even? I can't? And I thought 5 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:26.239 for my hundredth episode, I couldn't just throw up a 6 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.719 random topic. I needed to do something numerical. I thought 7 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.520 about doing numerology just for fun and for kicks, and 8 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.159 then I just couldn't in good conscious put that out 9 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.840 for my hundredth So I thought, for folks who have 10 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:44.000 listened since the very beginning in September twenty seventeen, or 11 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:48.039 folks who have just cherry picked episodes without realizing that 12 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:50.719 they may have skipped some real gems, I would give 13 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.880 you a recap of the best life lessons I have 14 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:59.479 learned from the last almost two years studying other people's ologies. 15 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.679 All just the top five things I have learned about 16 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.319 life from making ologies. These are things that I wish 17 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.000 I knew when I first started. So here it is. 18 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:12.719 This is the one hundredth episode. I'm going to give 19 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.040 you the top five self healthy things I have learned 20 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.159 from making ologies, as well as after the break, the 21 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.760 next one hundred episodes of things I'm going to cover. Okay, 22 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:44.560 are you ready? We're a hundred Okay, let's get into it. Okay, 23 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:49.200 the first thing, paths are not linear? Wait? What paths 24 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.680 are not linear? I always used to think that other 25 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:56.159 people's lives were like that airport. People mover just like straight, 26 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:02.000 very determined, measured a consistent page, hopped on at the beginning, 27 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:04.879 it just coasted up to their gate of life. But 28 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.280 that's not it at all, even a little bit. What 29 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.479 I've learned from Ologies is that I am not the 30 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.800 only person who has had hairpin turns and stops and 31 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.400 starts and stalls and sprints and point point like hopping 32 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.120 onto different paths like a Mario brother Sitting down and 33 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.479 hearing one hundred stories, give or take, has taught me 34 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:31.680 nobody knows what they're doing, and it's great. Some of 35 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:35.520 the best field biologists bailed on VET school, and some 36 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.719 really amazing doctors thought they were only good at the arts. 37 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.439 I never intended Ologies to be a podcast. In the beginning. 38 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.599 I had this idea to do a series, and I 39 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.280 thought way back then, fifteen years ago, it came across 40 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:48.800 this list of ologies and I thought, oh, I should 41 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:50.439 make a book about this, I'm going to do maybe 42 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:53.520 an illustrated book, and it sat on the back burner forever, 43 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.680 and then I pitched it as a TV series and 44 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.280 no one wanted it, and finally I thought I could 45 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.039 do a podcast now that they exist, and it's been 46 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:06.039 the best way for me to just make it on 47 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:08.680 my own terms. I can leave all the swearing in, 48 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.520 I can talk about butts, I can make it as 49 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:13.400 many minutes as I want to make it, with as 50 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:16.719 many episodes as my brain and fingers and zoom recorder 51 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:19.800 can handle. So if you feel like your life has 52 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.759 taken some twists and turns, that just means that you're 53 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:27.560 like everyone. Also, it's the switchbacks that kind of get 54 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.080 you up the steepest hills and you just can't really 55 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:33.560 see it until you're at the top. So keep truck in. Also, 56 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.680 hydrate and check your premises as long as we're at it. 57 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.319 But don't worry if your path is not a straight line. 58 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.759 No one's is, and that's great. Okay. Another thing that 59 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:45.599 I've learned from making this podcast is it's really good 60 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.439 to figure out what you love. What you love so much, 61 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:51.800 so when we pick jobs, we don't always lead with 62 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.759 a thing that kind of burns a big love hole 63 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:57.560 through our chests. We pick based on what's going to 64 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.960 pay back student loans, or maybe what we think are 65 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.199 family would be proud of, or what someone like us 66 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:05.879 seems capable of, and then we forget to ask what 67 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.360 do we like? What do we dig? What makes us 68 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:13.639 nauseated with excitement? What are we infectiously affectionate toward? What 69 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.399 would we do for free? And I love stories about 70 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.959 choral scientists who volunteered before they went pro and squid 71 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.839 experts who badgered labs into hiring them. This feeling of 72 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:27.800 these whole new worlds opening up, and this is where 73 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.439 volunteering helped me so much, and I talked about it 74 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.199 in the Field Trip episode. I was so bummed out 75 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:34.639 at this point in my life that I just wanted 76 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.639 to volunteer doing something that felt like me. They didn't 77 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.000 have a lot at stake and didn't have to be permanent. 78 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.319 That kind of put me in a place I didn't 79 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:44.959 usually get to be with people I would otherwise never meet, 80 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.639 and it completely changed my life. And I realized that 81 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:50.439 talking to scientists and learning and communicating all that was 82 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.480 what I wanted to do more than anything. And I 83 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:55.120 really would not have connected those dots years ago if 84 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.519 I didn't start out very sad, newly single with a 85 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.560 margarine to hang over, lamenting that none of my current 86 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:05.199 friends at the time wanted to talk about spiders with me. 87 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:08.199 So let yourself have a little corner of time, a 88 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:11.399 little notepad, and write down the things that you love 89 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:14.000 the most, the stuff that gives you butterflies, and then 90 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:16.399 ask yourself if you can spare like three hours a 91 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.000 week to go volunteer somewhere in that field. The worst 92 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.680 thing that could happen is that you use that time 93 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.800 learning new things instead of like scrolling on your ex 94 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:32.319 roommates cats Instagram feed, like did your molecules spend this 95 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.399 long in the universe and line up to make the 96 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:38.600 person that you are just so you could see a 97 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.120 not even well composed photo of someone else's cat on 98 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.160 a couch that you never liked. No, go figure out 99 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:48.040 what makes you horny for living, not sexy horny, just like, 100 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:50.639 oh hell yeah, I like being alive. And then maybe 101 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:53.360 if you can volunteer, so figure out what you love 102 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.160 what you love so much. Another huge lesson in making ologies, 103 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.279 just do the thing. If you have a thing you 104 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.519 want to do, or a painting that you want to make, 105 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:04.879 or a garden that you want to plant, or a 106 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.600 poetry book you want to write, or maybe a grad 107 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.519 program you want to apply for, someone you want to 108 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:14.560 be friends with. Just happen, get a try. You know, 109 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.560 you can watch double dutch jump rope for years, but 110 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.879 nothing prepares you better than just getting your old patuity 111 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.279 in there and just screwing it up till you get 112 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.120 it right. There are so many inventors I interview for 113 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.439 my TV jobs and other science communicators and scientists who 114 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.800 have told me that they learned as they went, and 115 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:34.959 that to get a dream to exist, you have to 116 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.480 just start and fail until you get there. Experiments go 117 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.560 wrong all the time. Do you know how many rockets 118 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.360 have blown up without people in them? A lot rough 119 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.800 drafts get edited, mistakes get corrected. You just learn as 120 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:52.600 you go. And as a perfectionist and a workaholic, my 121 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.399 favorite thing to do is to just wring my hands 122 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.240 from the sidelines, mentally doing and imagining failing at something 123 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.399 before I do. Well, guess what, that doesn't work. I 124 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.319 started recording this podcast and sat on it for nine 125 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:08.360 months before I was forced to put the first episode 126 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.240 out on a deadline. My biggest regret is that I 127 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:15.040 was too chickashit to start earlier. So nothing will be 128 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.120 perfect the first time. Nothing will ever be perfect. But 129 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:20.560 you're gonna learn as you go. This is why experiments 130 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.720 are repeated. You got to get a larger data set. 131 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:26.759 This is why bands practicing, garages and paintings start out 132 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:31.240 as sketches. Failure is success because failure and learning is 133 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.560 progress no matter what. So go do the thing. You 134 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.240 not only have my permission, but you have my eager, 135 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:43.000 paternal impatience and some of my projected regrets. So deal 136 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:47.240 with that. Another lesson. If all this evolutionary biology has 137 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:51.720 taught me, one thing is to embrace your mutations. Every 138 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.240 weird mantis that looks like an orchid, or your dog, 139 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.759 or pine needles or sea slugs, each of these things 140 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.680 are the results of just a heap of mutations that 141 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:04.519 worked out for the best. The stuff that's weird about 142 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:08.920 you is your greatest asset. Look at gross Michelle bananas. 143 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.120 They were all clones. Fungus came in, wiped them all out, 144 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:14.959 they all died. There was no variation. So in the 145 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.879 words of International phonologist, variation is a feature, it's not 146 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:21.480 a flaw. So if you're weird, or you have a 147 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:27.160 great memory for medieval cookwaar terminology, or you're fascinated with 148 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:32.360 slime molds or always silently psychoanalyzing your coworkers, or maybe 149 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:35.039 you could read history books that put others to sleep, 150 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:37.159 or you just don't feel like you fit in at 151 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.200 any particular lunch table, that's great. Your weirdness is the 152 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.639 best thing about you. When it came to making ologies, 153 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.279 I was worried about doing a podcast with so many 154 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.480 fucks and shits because no other science podcast in the 155 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:53.600 top ten had an E next to it for explicit 156 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.200 I was like, there's gotta be a reason why I 157 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.759 can't do a science podcast for adults. If I work 158 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.080 on kids science shows, there's got to be a reason 159 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.600 why everyone keeps us clean. In the asides, I do, 160 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.679 what if people find them annoying? The weirdest stuff about 161 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:08.879 ologies ended up being the thing that makes it what 162 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:12.759 it is, So embrace you mutations. There would be no progress, 163 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:18.639 no evolution, no adaptability without that weirdness, So don't be 164 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:23.759 a banana clone. Embrace mutations. Oh you're weird, thank you. 165 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.240 And the last thing I have learned from doing ologies 166 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.919 and interviewing so many people who literally like swim with 167 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.960 sharks and give ted talks and teach students and find 168 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.639 cures for things and travel the world literally turning over 169 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.399 rocks and finding new species. Is this. Sometimes you just 170 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.480 have to get out of your own damn head, like 171 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.679 the sports Psychology episode recommended, just be in the moment. 172 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:46.600 And I have a thing I have to tell myself 173 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:49.200 when I'm nervous, and that is to show up like 174 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:54.679 you belong and have fun. Because imposter syndrome is very real. 175 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.000 Everyone you admire probably has it. I feel like a Charlottan. 176 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.759 Sometimes are worry this podcast isn't good enough. Sometimes I'm 177 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.200 plagued with regret over how many air horns I dropped. 178 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.360 Sometimes I'm like, didn't drop enough air horns. But no 179 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.200 one could make this podcast better than me, because I 180 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:14.440 love it the most. Likewise, no one could do your 181 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:16.440 life as well as you can. So you got to 182 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.080 show up like you belong because you do. And if 183 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.440 you don't see anyone that looks like you in the room, 184 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:24.279 you belong even more because that room needs you and 185 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.720 needs your perspectives and have fun. It's such a stupid 186 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:32.240 sounding advice, but as again a perfectionist, I will sometimes 187 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:36.320 like Robot myself for the sake of professionalism, and I'm 188 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.840 just going to go on record to say that that sucks. 189 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.840 I mean, yeah, in a business interview, you should show 190 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.200 up with pants on and not drunk. But it doesn't 191 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.960 mean you can't enjoy the experience and be a human being. 192 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:50.919 Just know you belong there, have fun, be loose, don't 193 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.200 police yourself into a fugue state. I have done that 194 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:55.720 in the past. It never goes as well as when 195 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.440 I just task myself with chilling out and goofing off 196 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.200 a little. So show up like you below and have fun. 197 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.320 So many episodes, so many lessons. I did not expect 198 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:07.320 to make this episode like this, but I hope it 199 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.480 helps someone. I wish I knew these things years ago 200 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.759 when I started, but now we all know them, as 201 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.600 well as so many facts about lizard dicks and sky 202 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:19.639 burials and volcanoes and personality quizzes and exploding whales, fungus, 203 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:23.159 Jenny's and if your pet turtle loves you, Yes it does. 204 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:26.000 So are we out of ologies? Is that it one? 205 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:29.600 Hundred episodes. Oh hell no, Oh, we're not done, how 206 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.080 dare you? After the break, you're going to hear about 207 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:36.120 some very nutty ologies I haven't yet covered and what 208 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:39.080 they mean. And let's just get pumped for the episodes 209 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.639 that come up next. But before I mention the sponsors, 210 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.440 I want to let you know I'm going to be 211 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.679 keynoting this year's sycom Camp, which is run by my 212 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.879 friends Carasanna Maria and Sarah Curtis and Jason Coleman. I'm 213 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:52.200 so excited about that. So I'll be giving a talk 214 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.519 about science communication again. It's Sycomcamp dot com in case 215 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.679 you want to see the lineup. It's an incredible lineup. 216 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.440 I'm very very honored to be included. And this week 217 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.159 a donation will go to their scholarship fund to help 218 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.159 folks afford the conference fee. So I'm donating ad revenue 219 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.360 from this podcast to go toward a scholarship for that 220 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.600 and I'm excited to see some of you there. So 221 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.399 for more info, that's at Sycomcamp dot com. It is 222 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:20.279 the first weekend in November, and the lineup is amazing. Okay, 223 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:25.440 so some sponsors that made that donation possible Okay, so 224 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.840 what ologies are coming up next? So many of you 225 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.759 on Patreon have asked for musicology, so many in fact, 226 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.320 right now, I'm going to say your names with my mouth, Okay, Amberwood, Park, 227 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:41.879 Howard Irmish, Irone, Kelly King, Christopher Lowren, Alicia Linn, Sarah Sexton, Raiden, 228 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:47.000 markham Leanna, Joe Weinmanson, Katie Stomps, Rihanna Huminy and Kendall. 229 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.559 So many want musicology or ethnomusicology. I'm in la U 230 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:55.279 Sale has a really great program, So yeah, musicology has 231 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:56.840 got to happen. I feel like that needs to be 232 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.399 a seventeen part episode. How many parts should it be? 233 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.399 Should be eighteen? Let me know. Also, so many of 234 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:07.000 you are just begging for bats so chiropterology. I'm hoping 235 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.159 that I'll be up in October. I was supposed to 236 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:12.480 go to Austin to go interview Merlin Tuttle like the 237 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:15.919 King of Bats of Chiropterology in Austin, and I wasn't 238 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:17.679 able to go last week, so I have to find 239 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.759 some time to go between now and October. Ps should 240 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:25.720 I do a whole spooky October with like spectrology which 241 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:30.559 is Google gag ghosts or parapsychology or demonology or rachnology, 242 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:36.720 spiders Osteology is boones. Should I just do Spooky October Spooktober? 243 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:39.120 Should I do it? Okay? Let me know. I also 244 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.480 really want to do meteorology, which is like weather, tornadoes, hurricanes, 245 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.480 A ton of you want lagomorphology, which is about bunnies 246 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:52.000 and rabbits and hares, just rabbit holes, about rabbit holes. Fuck, yes, 247 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.759 maybe I should say that till next spring. I'm not sure. Okay, Cryptology, 248 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.879 y'all really want. It's code breaking, but you also want cryptozool, 249 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.279 the study of Bigfoot in the Locknus monster and the Yetti. 250 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:06.799 Perhaps I should save that for next April. First, maybe 251 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:12.559 satology is a study of whales, y'all want it? And 252 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.039 whale whale whale. We are in a cord on that one, 253 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.200 big wet, leathery pickles. There'll be a whole episode about you. 254 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.840 Audiology is how people here. I really would like to 255 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:25.720 do that. One. Analogy is about wines. Garbology is a 256 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:29.200 real thing. I have so many questions about garbage. There 257 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.919 are actual garbologists out there. Oh, I want to sit 258 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:33.919 down with one so bad. I want to smell them, 259 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.919 because I bet there are garbologists who smell way better 260 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:41.600 than the average person. Formology about cheese. That must happen. 261 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.000 It has to happen. I want to do one on hipology, 262 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:49.120 which is about horses. Aerospace technology is rockets. Thank you 263 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.440 Roxanne Parker for mentioning that I wouldn't have thought of 264 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:55.799 aerospace technology as analogy, but boom, here we are. Pinnipedology 265 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.799 is sea lions and seagals and walruses. Hell yes, oh, 266 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:05.600 I definitely want one on pharmacology or psychopharmacology. Glaciology is glaciers, 267 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.399 so I should interview someone, I guess while we still 268 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:12.360 have glaciers on Earth. I've got New York Times crossword 269 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:16.919 editor Will Schartz ready to record enigmatology about puzzles whenever 270 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.960 I'm in New York next. So give yourself a minute 271 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.000 disagreem about that alone in your car. Y'all definitely want 272 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.200 some proctology, and I will be there to administer that 273 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:33.600 episode to you. Also, pathophytology, phytopathology, poisonous plants. It's on 274 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:38.080 the list, as is exercise physiology, and bromatology, which is food. 275 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.679 Who eats everyone's hand should be up. There we go. 276 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.440 So that's twenty five I've just mentioned. Let's see if 277 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:46.360 I can come up with another seventy fipologies I want 278 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:49.799 to do, keeping us covered for at least a few years. Again, 279 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:51.639 I may not do all of these in the next 280 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:53.960 one hundred. My miight swaps them out, but these ones 281 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:58.159 are just all my radar. Okay. Speech language, oh my god, 282 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:03.919 speech language pathology that was not intentional. Odentology is teeth pomology, 283 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.879 fruit heliology is a study of the sun. Numstmatology is 284 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:14.720 coins and money. There's cartology, maps, Megadrolology is this study 285 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:18.080 of earthworms. I want to talk about their dirty, dirty guts. 286 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:23.360 Mechanology is opiates and the opioid epidemic. Spielology is the 287 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.039 study of caves. Cryology is technically I think the study 288 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:31.360 of emojis several of you want chickenology, I don't know 289 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.000 if that's a thing. Maybe gallology would be chickenology. But 290 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:37.240 if we have to invent a chickenology, I feel like 291 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.039 it kind of is like we get a pass on 292 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.559 that one. I want to know about chickens. Pilmatology, kissing, 293 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:44.759 that's the study of kissing. And there are people who 294 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.639 do it. There's futurology. What is a future hold? Does 295 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:50.320 it hold more kissing? I don't know. Campanology is the 296 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:55.519 study of bell ringing, okay odo. Rhino Laryngetology is the 297 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:58.440 study of taste and smell and yes, I said it wrong. 298 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:03.080 Bryology is a study of I have a neuropsychopharmacologist who 299 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.640 studies how LSD and mushrooms may be used in mental 300 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:09.319 health care in the future. Do you know a latologist 301 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.240 studies lottery tickets? I know, and now you know, And 302 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:13.720 there's one in New Jersey and I want to talk 303 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:18.559 to them. Broleology they specialize in umbrellas. Limnology that's a 304 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.279 study of water in rivers. Suicideology is a thing they 305 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.839 help with prevention, survivors and grieving families. Fulminology it's the 306 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:33.319 study of lightning toxicology, poisons pyrology. Fire pyrotechnology is the 307 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.920 study of how humans used fire to our advantage. There 308 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.279 is a whole sub section at Yale of people who 309 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:43.359 study this, and I wanted just to ask them about campfires. 310 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.400 How much should you roast a marshmallow? What does it 311 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.279 say about me if I burn mine? Anyway? That's fifty. 312 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.119 Here are a few more I mentioned to do you ready, dermatology, 313 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:57.480 skin scuriology, study of squirrels, cardiology, the heart. Maritime archaeology 314 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:01.000 is the study of shipwrecks. Coprology it's the study of porn. 315 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:05.799 Latrinology is the study of writing on bathroom walls. Agnetology 316 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.920 is a study of culturally induced ignorance. Many of us 317 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.240 know nothing about that. Is that induced by culture? I'm 318 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:18.319 not sure. Climatology, of course, very topical. Bacteriology because they 319 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.559 are literally all over us in us right now, we 320 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:24.519 would be dead without them. Hydrology, the study of water. 321 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:30.200 Bogology is a real thing. It is the study of bogs. Mommiology, mummies. 322 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:35.599 Should I do that? In October? Ah, parasitology, parasites, immunology, neurology, 323 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:38.960 the brain. Metrology is a study of measurements. Y'all want 324 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:42.039 that so bad? I'm on it. Sinology is the study 325 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.559 of China. Kremlinology is the study of the Soviet Union. 326 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:50.400 We could do paprology. That's the history of paper. Diabetiology, 327 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:54.960 metabolism and blood sugar. Dysteleiology is the study of seemingly 328 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:59.559 useless organs. What and I'm looking at you Jacobsen's organ 329 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:04.119 the part where we have an extra nosehole. Plutology is 330 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:09.039 the study of wealth, seismology, earthquakes, virology, viruses, and how 331 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:13.640 things go viral. Maybe I'll do scientology or astrology or 332 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:17.039 bnology is the study of cities. Electrology is a study 333 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.839 of electricity. What is it? How does it work? Why 334 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.359 was Tesla in love with a pigeon? Astycology the science 335 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:28.519 of crawfish. Who does it? I'm going to talk to them. 336 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:33.799 Raegology study fingerprints, medusologies, the study of jellyfish, nuthologies, bird nests. 337 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.799 We Diemology is the study of happiness. Probably said that 338 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:41.480 one wrong too. Ethology is animal behavior. So many types 339 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.359 of psychology I can't even list them. Mimology is a 340 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.359 study of memes. Nephology study of clouds. Ontology is the 341 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:53.960 study of being. Scatology is poop. Tocology is childbirth. I 342 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:57.920 have a feeling those are related. Sometimes lupinology wolves, vol 343 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:02.319 Panology is foxes. Ersenology is the study of bears. Those 344 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:04.599 aren't for sure the next one hundred, but that is 345 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.880 a vague sampling of some that may appear. Now ward. 346 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.160 You ask, what about a sneak peek it's some coming 347 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:13.119 up zoom. Well shucks, boy howdy, why not. I've already 348 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:15.799 recorded them and I'm working on these ones for upcoming weeks. 349 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:20.440 One on chronobiology or day night cycles and circadian rhythms. 350 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:24.240 I'm working on vexillology, which is the study of flags. 351 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:28.720 There is a bisonology episode that involves three different ologists 352 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:30.839 and that's a real doozy to put together, but I 353 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:34.480 think you're gonna like it. Also, disasterrology is the study 354 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:40.359 of disasters and emergency management systems. That one's recorded. It's 355 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:42.799 going to be great. Also, I did one on poor 356 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:46.160 scene virology, which is pig flu outbreaks, and I'm saving 357 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:49.640 that for the Dawn of the Apocalypse. Finally, there's one 358 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.359 on Potterrology, and that is a two part episode from 359 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:57.599 a university chemistry professor about the chemical reactions behind Harry 360 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:01.119 Potter spells. That will be a two parter. That one 361 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:04.079 will knock your round glasses right off your face. Okay, 362 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:06.960 So there it is. That's one hundred down, many hundred 363 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:09.240 more to go. In each episode, I'm going to ask 364 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:12.480 the smartest people stupidest questions. It will be an honor 365 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:15.400 to make this weird show for you. The last one 366 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.920 hundred episodes have just taught me so much, from mucus 367 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.119 covered slimy sea spirals at the bottom of the ocean 368 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:25.079 to just to the outer edges of the cosmos and 369 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:27.720 my own brain and back again. So thank you so 370 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:30.839 much everyone for listening, thank you for asking your questions, 371 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:33.799 thank you for supporting on Patreon, and thank you for 372 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:37.279 cheering me on. Just like marathon volunteers with some cold 373 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.200 gatorade each week with bad hair and crispy contact lenses, 374 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:43.359 I'm just hustling to the finish line to get these up. 375 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:45.359 So this is the best job in the world. I 376 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.359 feel very lucky to be up in your ears, so 377 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:52.720 cut banks, stare at the sky, observe a snail, text 378 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.680 your crush, do the thing, follow a dream volunteer. If 379 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.519 you need to shake things up, and just be truly 380 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.799 you be afraid ofly and stupid because no one knows 381 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:06.519 anything seriously until they ask. So to find me. I'm 382 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:09.079 Ali word with one L on Twitter and Instagram, where 383 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:12.240 at ologies on Twitter and Instagram. Thank you to Hannah 384 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:15.079 Lippo and Aaron Talbert for admitting the Facebook group and 385 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.200 being such wonderful friends. Same to Shannon Feltis and Bonnie 386 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.119 Dutch of the You Are That podcast. 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Also thanks to my 397 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.119 family who listens even though I swear so much during 398 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:56.079 this The theme song was written and performed by Nick 399 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:58.720 Thorburn of the band Islands. And if you listen to 400 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:01.119 the end, you know I tell you a secret, And 401 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:03.519