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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to episode zero of Ologies with Ali Ward.
Speaker 2: I'm Ali Ward, and my deal is I'm a CBS
Speaker 2: Science correspondent for Wow, I already screwed this up, you guys,
Speaker 2: why do an episode zero? This is like a placeholder
Speaker 2: to be like, Hey, this is what the thing's gonna
Speaker 2: be about, and this is who I am, so you
Speaker 2: can get a taste of it and then subscribe that way,
Speaker 2: when the very first first episode drops, it's in your
Speaker 2: device and your ears. So I'm Ali Ward. I'm a
Speaker 2: CBS Science correspondent. I'm also co host of a podcast
Speaker 2: called slumber Party. And I've been obsessed with ologies more
Speaker 2: than a decade. And I remember, like over ten years ago,
Speaker 2: I was on the Internet and I came across this
Speaker 2: list of ologies, and you know, when you see something
Speaker 2: that's so exciting, you're like, you feel like you're going
Speaker 2: to throw up a little bit. That happened to me.
Speaker 2: I got so excited to read all of these weird
Speaker 2: ologies that I never knew existed, Like nidology is the
Speaker 2: study of birds nests, and calology is the study of beauty.
Speaker 2: Laterinology is the study of writing on toilet walls. I
Speaker 2: mean there's nasology, study of text, imy, mico, toxicology, toxic fungus.
Speaker 2: There's so many different ologies, which means there's so many
Speaker 2: different ologists. And it's like, who are these people who
Speaker 2: study clouds and clowns and bees. I'm like, what is
Speaker 2: their deal? So has fard to Now podcasts are a
Speaker 2: great way to corner someone and ask them two personal
Speaker 2: questions about their life and they'll have to answer it
Speaker 2: because there's a microphone there. So that's what I'm doing
Speaker 2: with this podcast. I'm meeting all of these really really
Speaker 2: awesome ologists, some of them obscure, some of them less obscure, primatologists.
Speaker 2: My first job was dressing up like a lobster outside
Speaker 2: of the New England Aquarium, and we always say around
Speaker 2: the Chimp building of like chimps wind every day, the
Speaker 2: chimps wind. Gemologists legitimately brack crystals I think are a
Speaker 2: thing for women. Rock crystals, crystal. Is it not kosher
Speaker 2: to touch someone's crystal? Because I always feel like you're
Speaker 2: not supposed.
Speaker 1: Touch their crisis.
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Paleontologist, largest land animals of all time?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, well, you're right. Actually did cut up
Speaker 2: a canaver this morning, So it's like a Frankensare. It's
Speaker 2: like a frankenstor. Okay, volcanologists and volcanoes breathe, So oh
Speaker 2: that's creepy. Yeah, you have to keep that joy. And
Speaker 2: that's that's what I think is so important these days
Speaker 2: for scientists. You know, there's a very real possibility that
Speaker 2: we could die torologists, you're gonna have to wait for
Speaker 2: that one to come out to find out what that is.
Speaker 2: And getting to know them as people and getting to
Speaker 2: know what they do on a day to day basis
Speaker 2: and with their best days in the job have been
Speaker 2: their worst days, why they do what they do, and
Speaker 2: really getting to know the people behind the science, because
Speaker 2: I feel like so many quotes you hear from scientists
Speaker 2: are like really official sounding pr statements in the middle
Speaker 2: of a big article about a topic, and I just
Speaker 2: wanted to sit down with the people and say, why
Speaker 2: are you doing this? What is it like, why do
Speaker 2: you love it? What don't we know? Where have you
Speaker 2: peed in public for your work? Have you ever really
Speaker 2: fucked up? What did that feel like? What's been the
Speaker 2: best day? What do your parents think of your job?
Speaker 2: All of this stuff. So that is what ologies is.
Speaker 2: So we'll have a different ologist on every episode. I
Speaker 2: hope you enjoy The first one is a pretty hot topic.
Speaker 2: It's about volcanoes, so I hope you like it. Thank
Speaker 2: you you subscribe, you'll be on your way to listening
Speaker 2: to the first one. I hope you guys enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2: I'm nervous recording this.
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