Bio Babes

This episode journeys to the Galápagos islands where we investigate everyone’s favorite sterile, PTSD-ridden conservation leftovers. The islands are known for their iconic wildlife, but those dumb finches get plenty of attention, we wanna talk about the goats! And the absolutely insane honeypot style scheme to eradicate them. And the tortoises! Well, mostly just one named George. Have you ever wondered why goats hate helicopters? Wanna know how to get oil from a tortoise? Have you ever felt the deeply scientific urge to poke Chris Evans’ peck? Well so did lonesome George… possibly, I mean we can’t prove he didn’t. Pour yourself a Pina Colada and climb down into the cold, damp, turtle-filled hold of the HMS Beagle cause it’s island time baby! 

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Hey everybody pees! You, me, astronauts, even lobsters pee. Sometimes pee smells like asparagus, or buttered popcorn. Sometimes it’s clear, or yellow, sometimes the medication you’re taking turns it blue. No matter what, you got to get rid of all that gross urea, but if you happen to be an orphaned baby animal, or like.. in space, peeing is gonna be kind of a big ask. Find out how they do it, and how many rats it takes to pee as much as a human.

We also go on wild tangent about possums. And lobster sex. So, you know, a pretty typical episode. 

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It’s season 2 baby! And to kick things off we’re going to ask and answer all the hearing-related questions you’ve never wanted to know the answers to. What has better hearing a frog or a parakeet? How does bat echolocation even work? If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, does it listen to Indian kirwani music? Can my chicken hear me sing to her? Are ghosts real? As usual, things go off the rails, and you’ll have to suffer through several minutes of ASMR to find out the answers. Sorry about that. Get yer listening ears ready for this sonic journey into the science of hearing!

PSA: If you are like Kelsey and would rather eat a lightbulb than listen through the ASMR bit, it runs from 0:01:55 to 0:06:05 feel free to skip it, we understand. The transcript for that section is below so you don’t have to miss the fun facts. 

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The ASMR transcript — 

Grab your waders it’s time to jump knee deep into the third and final field trip! You’ve seen a kid in a candy shop, get ready for Bio Babes in a swamp. Join us on what is quite possibly the best day of Kelsey’s life as we slorp through the muck and wade through the gunk to find a decomposing moose corpse that Libby is sure is around here somewhere. If your dark passenger also enjoys the clickity clacks of a moose bone marimba then you will love this adventure. If not, then you’re gonna want to vape some DEET to really get into the right headspace for this one.

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Hop in gang we’re going on another field trip! This time we meet a friend at the local reptile convention and experience untethered joy for the first time in years. We see so many things, and we describe them to you. It’s almost as good as being there. If you get as hyped for herps as we do, want to smooch a poison dart frog, eat a cage full of hedgehogs, or swear in front of children, then this is exactly the episode for you. 

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Have you ever seen a bird and thought “what the hell is that?” Well so have we. In this special field trip episode the bio babes put you in their pocket and carry you on an adventure. We see so many birds, and we even know what a couple of them are! If you’ve ever wanted to go birdwatching but wanted someone else to do the “going” and the “watching” for you, then boy are you gonna love this. Grab your binoculars, field guide, and a gross prickly pear cider cause we’re going birdwatching!

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Well, we made it guys, this is the last episode of season 1 and you know what that means… it’s SNAKE time baby! Do you have a specially evolved snake spotting brain? Then you’re gonna love this episode. We slither through the evolution of snakes, and why its gods fault snakes don’t have legs, we blab about blind worm snakes, the python color morph inbreeding conundrum, female-presenting AMAB garter snakes, and how much we want to boop their lil snoots! Fall backwards with us into the undulating embrace of the Narcisse snake pits.

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This episode is full of contention and infighting, but, like, in a good way. We’ve got a real lovers to enemies story to tell, so pour yourself an entire bottle of wine and come along on a journey through history as we explore a few especially iconic cases of academic beef and scientific rivalry. Find out what those 19th century dinosaur sugar daddies were fighting about, why Libby hates Descartes, why you should be the science communicator you want to see in the world, and so, so much more. 

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Are you on the side of the orcas in their vengeful quest to eat the rich? Good! Then this episode is for you! We blab on and on about animal revenge, why cowbirds display “mafia behavior”, why you shouldn’t give a monkey a puppy, and why those orcas are attacking boats in the Mediterranean. Eat some tater tots and join us as we agonize over the ethical quandaries of animal vengeance. 

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Houston we have a problem, the bio babes don’t know anything about space, so for this mission we brought a space expert along, Libby’s dad. On our tour through the cosmos we find out the answers to some of earthlings most asked questions: Are we alone in the universe? Whats a Fermi paradox? Do you cry when watching The Right Stuff? Wait, is that an alien or a Bart Simpson ballon? 

Buckle up and grab your doggy bag cause we’re blasting off in 3… 2… 1… 

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