Speaker 1: Oh, hey, it's an announcement episode. It's a minisode. I
Speaker 1: hope you're as excited as I am. I'm actually genuinely excited,
Speaker 1: and I'm not excited the way people say I'm so
Speaker 1: excited when they're on like a conference call where no
Speaker 1: one's excited. I'm actually excited. Okay. This is also just
Speaker 1: a general like, hey, what's up and here's what's changing
Speaker 1: coming up soon? Oh I've been waiting for this day
Speaker 1: for at least a year maybe like maybe probably closer,
Speaker 1: just you okay. First off, though, thank you to patrons
Speaker 1: at patreon dot com slash ologies for supporting the show
Speaker 1: and you send in the best questions. We hear them
Speaker 1: every episode. Also, thank you to everyone wearing Ologiesmirch from
Speaker 1: ologiesmarch dot com. We have hats for your summer or
Speaker 1: winter needs, totes, we even have swimsuits. You can wear
Speaker 1: our logo on your butt, and ologiesmirch dot com is
Speaker 1: linked in the show notes. Also, thank you to anyone
Speaker 1: who's ever left reviews. I have honestly read them all
Speaker 1: and they are usually so sweet. Only occasionally it feels awkward,
Speaker 1: But thank you for the reviews. This week I will
Speaker 1: read one is proof from abc F Smiley Face one
Speaker 1: two three, who wrote so amazing what I can't imagine
Speaker 1: how this world would be without Ali and her guests
Speaker 1: keep on sciencing. Thank you for that, ABC D E
Speaker 1: F Smiley Face one two three. And I know you
Speaker 1: can't imagine it without me or my guests. And I
Speaker 1: suppose it's timely that I happened to read this one
Speaker 1: on an episode without actual guests, but it's rare and
Speaker 1: here we are. Also thank you for the review Campbell Soup,
Speaker 1: who wrote, I love knowing that you will read this.
Speaker 1: Look at that I did. Okay, we're going to get
Speaker 1: into this minisode with some not life altering, but exciting
Speaker 1: for me announcements about the future of the podcast ologies.
Speaker 1: What's it going to be? Here?
Speaker 2: We go.
Speaker 1: Pretty soon? So okay, first, I've been mentioning some May
Speaker 1: sixteen news for a bit. I've been like, we've got
Speaker 1: some exciting stuff for you. And the news is that
Speaker 1: Smologies is becoming its own show. It's its own show already.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this, we just put it up.
Speaker 1: It's fresh as hell, hot off the griddle. This is
Speaker 1: something that makes me so thrilled. That's how thrilled. I am.
Speaker 1: So I've been talking about this for like a month
Speaker 1: and it's been a long time coming, and this means
Speaker 1: that forever more. Starting today, you can subscribe to this
Speaker 1: new show. It's Called'smologies. There are shorter, g rated and
Speaker 1: classroom safe cuts of these classic Ologies episodes. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: a parent who tries to find them in the feed
Speaker 1: going back three years, or maybe you're not interested in
Speaker 1: them and you've dodged them in our regular ologies feed
Speaker 1: for years, or you've tried to yeah, find them by
Speaker 1: scrolling through our back catalog. But we're now releasing them
Speaker 1: in their own dedicated place and you can click the
Speaker 1: show notes, it'll take you right there. You can subscribe
Speaker 1: right away, and then you'll just get them when we
Speaker 1: release them once a week. We're alternating with some ones
Speaker 1: we've already put out, but it'll be populating that feed
Speaker 1: from no one. You can also, obviously just look for
Speaker 1: Smologies wherever you find podcasts. It's just ologies with an
Speaker 1: SM at the front, and you'll know you're at the
Speaker 1: right place because we have a new logo with new
Speaker 1: pictures for Smologies that are all really colorful, so you'll
Speaker 1: know you're there. Now, in a minute, I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you the backstory of Homologies and why I'm so
Speaker 1: excited about this, for real excited, and why it's a
Speaker 1: weight off my soul. But here's the trailer that we
Speaker 1: put up as an episode zero on the new Smology
Speaker 1: show feed. And right after it, we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break for sponsors of the show who make it
Speaker 1: possible for us to donate to causes every week. And
Speaker 1: then right afterward, I'm going to be telling you some secrets,
Speaker 1: some that are juicy, some that are embarrassing, and also
Speaker 1: just some thoughts about authenticity and where I feel the
Speaker 1: show is going. Okay, here's the trailer, just so i'll
Speaker 1: tell you. So, this is a trailer that we put
Speaker 1: together Boom Smologies its own freaking show. Look at you,
Speaker 1: you made it. Welcome to the podcast Smologies. This is exciting.
Speaker 1: Do you love the podcast Ologies? But you could use
Speaker 1: less swearing out of my mouth so you can listen
Speaker 1: in the carpool line or around your school's vice principle.
Speaker 1: Well we made this for you. Welcome to Smologies completely
Speaker 1: kids safe, classroom friendly, all ages and shorter versions of
Speaker 1: ologies podcast classics. So Ologies is an award winning science
Speaker 1: podcast that examines one ology per episode, from rocks to toads,
Speaker 1: to personalities, to clouds to bears and around here. We
Speaker 1: ask super smart people the questions that are on all
Speaker 1: of our minds, even if they're a little silly. The
Speaker 1: language is clean, but the topics are of science.
Speaker 3: The giant panda has poo that smells like tea.
Speaker 1: They're eating bamboo. It literally smells like tea. Did you
Speaker 1: know what you can eat? Bugs? So I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of termites, so one they're my favorite because I've
Speaker 1: had them the freshest, straight from the mound, boiled for
Speaker 1: a minute, salted, zoomed, and it tastes just like popcorn.
Speaker 1: An ententophagic anthropologists say it's better for the planet than cheeseburgers.
Speaker 1: Speaking of planets and all things cosmological, there's water on
Speaker 1: the moon, ice water ice on the moon. Yes, Yet
Speaker 1: we'll learn new things as we bust old myths and
Speaker 1: flint flam.
Speaker 3: A lot of people think that there aren't any fireflies
Speaker 3: in the Western United States, and that's not true.
Speaker 1: So pump can believe it or not? Is a berry? Oh?
Speaker 1: Why it's a verry because it said I'm going to
Speaker 1: be a berry, and it's very true. Some snakes today
Speaker 1: still have these little remnants of legs. They got nubbins,
Speaker 1: they got nubben legs. Yep, what a who hum. Day
Speaker 1: gets exciting when ologists reveal the wonder of the things
Speaker 1: all around us and someone's like, tell me about trees.
Speaker 1: I'm just like where to begin because life is electric
Speaker 1: and they turn and they get all the other electrons
Speaker 1: riled up. Yea, let's go. And learning is like a
Speaker 1: secret code. Our bodies are so cool that they speak
Speaker 1: their own language, which is the genetic code. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in this class, like, oh my gosh, none of my
Speaker 1: friends are in this class. They have to learn about this.
Speaker 2: This is so cool.
Speaker 1: Through the eyes of ologies, things become wonder filled, fascinating
Speaker 1: and bigger. This is nature, This is evolution, This is
Speaker 1: just all. This is our world we live.
Speaker 2: This is a planet we live on, which is kind
Speaker 2: of like just blows my mind.
Speaker 3: This is fishes.
Speaker 1: I think my fishes every day with that sort of tone, like,
Speaker 1: this is on our planet with us? Are these creatures?
Speaker 1: We answer the gross questions ken snakes, heart and the
Speaker 1: big ones too.
Speaker 4: Where did we come from?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 1: Are we going, How did life originate? We go back
Speaker 1: in time.
Speaker 4: Now, imagine your rubbish heap, your dump was right outside
Speaker 4: in your backyard. Just imagine what people would find. But
Speaker 4: it really is exciting because what you're doing is you're
Speaker 4: recovering the remains of ancient co That's what really archaeology is.
Speaker 1: And into the future. Like the surprising merits of video games.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, your brain gets better at looking at a
Speaker 3: difficult skiller task and saying, let me try it, because
Speaker 3: I have a great and long history of getting better
Speaker 3: at things that I'm bad at, and that's what gaming
Speaker 3: does for most people.
Speaker 1: So join us as we take a trip through all
Speaker 1: the ologies of the world. Studies you never knew, existed,
Speaker 1: experts you've never heard so casual science somehow makes you laugh.
Speaker 1: So subscribe for smologies, the smaller, shorter, and all ages
Speaker 1: versions of ologies podcast episodes, and tell your friends you
Speaker 1: like it because this audio reaches more ears through your
Speaker 1: word of mouth. Join us every week we'll be here
Speaker 1: with some new friends who also happen to be ologists
Speaker 1: or toads. I love that you had a toad friend,
Speaker 1: Like the toad was your friend. It kind of was
Speaker 1: my friend Smologies shorter G rated episodes of Ologies. Classrooms
Speaker 1: say kid friendly, Subscribe now and never miss an episode algylogy.
Speaker 1: Is this a great story? Okay? So that's up. You
Speaker 1: can get the link in the show notes or at
Speaker 1: aliwar dot com slash smologies. Please do pass it on
Speaker 1: to anyone who needs shorter versions of Ology's episodes, or
Speaker 1: is about to embark on some road trips with kiddos
Speaker 1: this summer, or with people who would not like to
Speaker 1: hear a lot of swear words and talk about lizard
Speaker 1: dicks in full length episodes. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: a story about that really quick. Okay, So this one
Speaker 1: time I was driving my parents down to LA. This
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with smologies, well tangentially. So it's
Speaker 1: one time I was driving Oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe I was driving my parents down to LA. My
Speaker 1: dad was getting cancer treatment down here. My parents didn't
Speaker 1: make a lot of road trips, and I didn't make
Speaker 1: a lot of road trips with my parents, but it
Speaker 1: was a seven hour drive, and so I'm trying to
Speaker 1: keep them occupied, and obviously my dad's kind of sick.
Speaker 1: No one feels like just chating the whole time. So
Speaker 1: I was like, let me put on a podcast. Do
Speaker 1: you guys know what podcasts are? So I was like,
Speaker 1: how about this American Life. I turn on this episode
Speaker 1: and it's an episode about a guy generally just being
Speaker 1: like a real fuck boy and language not family friendly
Speaker 1: at all. Content not family friendly, and so my parents
Speaker 1: are obviously like we listened to probably like fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: of it before I'm like, I'll just change I'm going
Speaker 1: to change this. Here's what my parents didn't know. And
Speaker 1: my dad is now passed, so he will never know
Speaker 1: I had dated that guy.
Speaker 2: I I had dated that guy a few years prior,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, the stories hit a little different,
Speaker 2: but they never knew that anyway.
Speaker 1: So I just turned on a rain of podcast and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is not something I want to
Speaker 1: listen to in the car with my parents. So smologies
Speaker 1: are good for things like that. For example, I wish
Speaker 1: I would have known about them that time I drove
Speaker 1: with my parents on a road trip. And my parents
Speaker 1: and I love them, but we don't have the kind
Speaker 1: of relationship where I'll be like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: fuck this guy. That's not the kind of relationship that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. Even the fact that my mom listens to
Speaker 1: ologies in general makes me say, oh, should I change
Speaker 1: who I am on this and that Mom, I love
Speaker 1: you if you're listening, and I have to remind myself
Speaker 1: to try not to do that anyway. That's another reason
Speaker 1: why I'm really happy that Smology's is in its own
Speaker 1: feed because just knowing that they're like kids in the room,
Speaker 1: I feel like, over the last couple of years, I
Speaker 1: like watch what I say a little bit more, which
Speaker 1: isn't fun for me. It's probably not something that you
Speaker 1: might notice, but I just I hesitate a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and this show is much more fun when I can
Speaker 1: just be myself. So that's why I'm excited that Smolog's
Speaker 1: is getting its own feed. People can find it there,
Speaker 1: people can just binge listen. Parents aren't dodging stories or
Speaker 1: swear words or whatever they don't want to hear. It's
Speaker 1: just boom. You can listen to them all at once,
Speaker 1: and then I don't have to worry about, like, who's
Speaker 1: listening right now? Did someone accidentally auto play on this episode?
Speaker 1: And I'm like ruining someone's childhood because now they have
Speaker 1: to have an uncomfortable conversation with their parents that their
Speaker 1: parents are not emotionally willing to go there with. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm excited. Also, I started smologies three years ago
Speaker 1: because I would sometimes get angry emails from people who
Speaker 1: are like, this information should be accessible to children and
Speaker 1: it's not, And I'm like, I love that you have kids.
Speaker 1: I personally don't thank you all for having kids, because
Speaker 1: if you didn't have kids, I wouldn't have doctors when
Speaker 1: I'm old. But I personally my body cannot make them,
Speaker 1: so I don't have them. I have a dog. That's
Speaker 1: enough responsibility. That's all I can handle. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people were like, why aren't you making those records?
Speaker 1: And I was like, why can't I make for adults
Speaker 1: who are still living and breathing on the planet. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have sort of lost a connection with
Speaker 1: like wonder and what the world does? A lot of
Speaker 1: us are fed like what nail color is the celebrity
Speaker 1: wearing today? And there's a lot better content I think
Speaker 1: we could be talking about, which is why I made
Speaker 1: Ologies and why I want to make it for adults.
Speaker 1: I also have worked in children's TV. I still do.
Speaker 1: I'm still on Innovation Nation on CBS every Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: I've worked on Ada Twist as a science consultant on
Speaker 1: that on Netflix. A lot of people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: my kid loves you as the science friend on Brainchild
Speaker 1: on Netflix. I was like, I love doing all that,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of science content for kids, which
Speaker 1: is great, but there's not a lot that's for adults.
Speaker 1: It's just like conversational and weird. So that's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I wanted to make stuff about bugs
Speaker 1: and stars and vampires and pigeons and even genocide because
Speaker 1: I feel like learning about these things keeps us connected
Speaker 1: to each other in the world, and that's not always
Speaker 1: a pro for kids. So I love that this show
Speaker 1: Ologies has the authenticity, this wearing the whatever content, an
Speaker 1: aunt expert screaming fuck over and over again talking about
Speaker 1: bullet ants. But also a lot of Ologist's stories start
Speaker 1: with like I saw this thing about rocks as a kid,
Speaker 1: and I became obsessed or like squid or whatever, and
Speaker 1: so Smologies I also want to exist because maybe that
Speaker 1: could be a jumping off point for someone to be
Speaker 1: excited about something for their whole life. So the fact
Speaker 1: that it's like we got this one we got these
Speaker 1: episodes in these feeds, and those episodes in those feeds
Speaker 1: make me very happy. I've also been so stressed out
Speaker 1: because I feel like if people are new to ologies
Speaker 1: and they're like, what are these smologies wants? Oh, they're shorter,
Speaker 1: I'll just click on this one, and they may not
Speaker 1: be getting like the full in depth, maybe raunchy, more
Speaker 1: off the cuff stories that we like to offer our
Speaker 1: clients in full length episodes. So for years I've been like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I hope some just just be like, oh small, it's okay,
Speaker 1: Smology's okay, but doesn't know like what the tone of
Speaker 1: the show usually is. So I'm really happy that we've
Speaker 1: made this switch. And then in its place, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be doing one or two field trip episodes a
Speaker 1: month so I can take you with me to some
Speaker 1: cool places, and honestly, so that I could just get
Speaker 1: out of house more. I just I got to get
Speaker 1: out of the house more. So tune in here for
Speaker 1: some field trips as well as our usual long form
Speaker 1: episodes of ologies. So Smologies they are kids safe, their
Speaker 1: classroom happy, they're shorter, and they are their own show,
Speaker 1: so you can please look for that colorful new artwork
Speaker 1: by Bonnie Dutch actually, who's a friend of the pod
Speaker 1: for a long time and who's a professional artist in Portland,
Speaker 1: who honestly hire her for your art needs because she's
Speaker 1: fast and she's very good. And you can go to
Speaker 1: the link in the show notes. Just subscribe right away
Speaker 1: look for that colorful logo. And this week we'll be
Speaker 1: dropping two episodes. We're putting out new ones. We're re
Speaker 1: releasing some that have already been on this feed, so
Speaker 1: I can just stack them up in there. Also, let
Speaker 1: me know where you'd like me to go for some
Speaker 1: of the new field trip episodes, like museums or natural wonders.
Speaker 1: You got any roadsided tractions, I should see some weird conferences,
Speaker 1: a garlic festival, whatever, because these field trips won't just
Speaker 1: be about my colonoscopies or surgeries. Those were just happenstance
Speaker 1: and they got me out of the house, which is good.
Speaker 1: So okay, happy Smologies. Let's get on with business. New
Speaker 1: ologies out next week, and the next week's ologies pertains
Speaker 1: to one of my favorite pets. Get ready, it's so good. Also,
Speaker 1: just thanks for being here, and thanks for being on
Speaker 1: the new Smology Speed. Also thank you to Noel Dilworth,
Speaker 1: our scheduling producer again, Bonnie Dutch who made the new
Speaker 1: cover art design for Smologies, Aaron Talbert who addamin Zoologies
Speaker 1: podcast Facebook group. Kelly ar Dwyer works on our websites,
Speaker 1: Aveline Mallick who makes our professional transcripts. Assistant editor Jake
Speaker 1: Chafe Chared Sleeper, and Zeke Rodriguez Thomas of mind Jam
Speaker 1: Media who edited many of the first run Smologies, and
Speaker 1: of course Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio, who make sure
Speaker 1: that these Smologies are out the door and edits and
Speaker 1: produces them. If you listen to the end of each
Speaker 1: Smologies episode, I don't tell a secret there, but I
Speaker 1: do give a piece of advice, and this week's it's
Speaker 1: that if I'm stalling on a project or maybe displaying
Speaker 1: what my therapist might gently call avoidance behaviors, I literally
Speaker 1: have to stay in my head that the actual worst
Speaker 1: it can be is not done or not started. So
Speaker 1: instead of thinking of some magic perfect version that could
Speaker 1: exist in one universe and in my head I have
Speaker 1: to achieve it, I think of anything that is existing
Speaker 1: or progressed as the best possible outcome. It's like the
Speaker 1: done is better than perfect thing, but for initiating tasks
Speaker 1: like starting it is the only way it can ever
Speaker 1: be good. So all you have to do is start it. Also,
Speaker 1: you can set a timer to work on something. Don't
Speaker 1: even do ten minutes, just do seven minutes. It's more
Speaker 1: than five, and do it for seven minutes. And if
Speaker 1: you go, yeah, okay, this isn't so bad. There you go,
Speaker 1: and you've built some confidence. So just start the thing,
Speaker 1: make the thing. Just jump in, do a thing, work
Speaker 1: on it. Don't worry about it being perfect. All right,
Speaker 1: you heard it here first, probably for the million time. Okay,
Speaker 1: So go subscribe tosmologies so that I know that this
Speaker 1: was a good idea to give its own show. Also
Speaker 1: tell your parent groups, your teachers, Facebook friends, what have you.
Speaker 1: Your kids are going to start loving dolphins and bugs
Speaker 1: and weird stuff and algae and sea urchins, wearing hats
Speaker 1: and more. So you're welcome and thank you for listening
Speaker 1: all these ears. This is exciting to me. Okay, bybye, pacadermatology, homeology,
Speaker 1: r doo zoology, lithology, technology, meteorology, paratology, anthology, zeriology, selenology.
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