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  • First aired February 2023

    Twitter bans an ornithological society for posting photos of "woodcocks" while Melissa gets banned for "Hairy Man"; The Media takes special care to protect the identity of one little jailbird with hilarious results; and, no post is complete without a little butt science.

    There is a photo that I can't stop laughing at in this episode - that photo is attached but also a part of this tweet:
    https://twitter.com/CampbellxEmma/status/1178400639208116224

    All of the articles I read directly from are here:

    Dirty Birds:
    https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/31/bird-charity-banned-from-twitter-for-posting-woodcock-photos-18196900/

    Jail Bird:
    https://time.com/5689057/bird-arrest/

    Regenerative Butt Science
    https://www.livescience.com/sea-spiders-anus-regeneration

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  • First aired October 2021

    Fat Bear Tuesday is the culmination of a week-long bracket-style event inspired by mega-chonk bears and March Madness. What is it? Why is it? Who is going to win? Let's go!

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    Resources:
    https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/fat-bear-week.htm


    https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1041674219/fat-bear-week-2021


    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/get-to-known-the-bodacious-bulky-bears-of-fat-bear-week-2021-180978778/


    https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650110/fat-bear-week-history


    https://boingboing.net/2021/09/26/its-almost-fat-bear-week-when-online-voters-decide-which-bears-have-best-prepared-for-hibernation.html

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  • First Aired: Feb 10, 2022

    A series of the best and funniest animal escapes, all inspired by a police blotter where a camel chase was afoot on a Kansas golf course.

    Resources for today's episode:

    http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2041628_2041646_2041645,00.html

    https://www.livescience.com/wildest-animal-escapes-2021

    https://www.facebook.com/BonnerSpringsPD/posts/211926681120376

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/camel-causes-chaos-running-away-kansas-nativity-scene-rcna8061

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/true-californian-sea-lion-takes-94-805-freeway-rescue-rcna11428

    https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2012/09/llama-lam-saga-has-happy-ending-cowpens-national-battlefield10597

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-zoo-animal-escapes/2021/09/19/811aa4f4-17f2-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html

    https://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/24/orangutan-ken-allen-san-diego-zoo-escape-artist-469908.html

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  • First aired: August, 2022
    The Belgian government once used cats to deliver the mail. It went about as well as you would think.

    Resources for today's exclusive episode:
    https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64025/time-cats-delivered-mail-belgium


    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42098216


    https://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/morning-start-cats-once-delivered-mail-in-belgium/


    https://www.cracked.com/article_28965_for-hot-second-belgium-relied-cats-to-deliver-mail.html


    https://www.grunge.com/920707/belgium-once-used-cats-to-deliver-mail/


    The Comic Liar: A Book Not Commonly Found in Sunday Schools - a book published in 1883. According to Goodreads: “This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.” It has 0 reviews or comments in Goodreads. Sorry Goodreads - I don't think the opinion is widely shared :)


    The measure of things website.

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  • First Aired: January 20, 2023
    This month's bonus ep for you is all about the chickens who give back in rather surprising ways - from keeping 100 tons (?) of food out of our landfills to preventing Dengue Fever in Central Florida.

    BTW: Florida, you ok?

    So, get some chickens, put on a farming hat, and let's go learn about chickens who do more than just poop you breakfast. Let's GOOOOOOOO!

    Resources:
    https://htrchickens.com/tag/belgium/#:~:text=%231.&text=Hens%20help%20recycle%20food%20and,an%20alternate%20waste%2Dmanagement%20system.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/belgians-egged-on-to-keep-chickens-ndash-but-they-re-not-for-eating-1942124.html

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17540287

    https://www.permacultureproject.com/belgium-offers-chickens-to-waste-cutting-households/

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8539877.stm

    https://www.thebulletin.be/adopt-chicken-etterbeek

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonytellez/2023/01/12/why-are-egg-prices-still-so-high-its-not-the-reason-you-think/?sh=12af174f7c6b

    https://newjerseymonitor.com/2022/12/22/south-jerseys-chicken-lady-aims-to-bring-chickens-to-backyards-one-town-at-a-time/


    https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/chickens-in-florida-are-helping-to-detect-mosquito-borne-viruses-in-communities


    Podcast: Coffee With the Chicken Ladies for general info and my own personal experience as a Noob in the chicken game.


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  • First Aired: Nov 5, 2021
    This month, New Zealand's Bird of the Year competition ruffled feathers, as per usual, when a bat took the gold. A look at the complex and controversial BotY awards and mean tweets at the non-tweety bats.

    I got today’s information from :

    https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934749679/for-the-birds-voter-fraud-ruffles-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-competition

    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2110/S00189/native-bats-cause-a-flap-entering-bird-of-the-year-competition.htm?fbclid=IwAR3B_D_QYsUdlLl848tHVjdzs_GWYV0sBPcr3YUueZMbT1Iu69UGmRJsAdQ

    https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/bat-flies-off-with-new-zealands-bird-year-title-2021-11-02/

    https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stpeterscitymissouri

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/new-zealand-twitchy-amid-claims-of-russian-meddling-in-bird-of-the-year-contest

    https://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/

    https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/coronavirus-covid-19-national-news/tens-of-thousands-experiencing-long-covid-19-symptoms-in-ontario-science-group-4331926

    https://www.livescience.com/bat-named-bird-of-the-year

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_the_Year

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-zealands-long-tailed-bat-is-crowned-bird-of-the-year-180978979/

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  • First aired April 19, 2022

    Let's learn about the time an actual chimpanzee saved the Today Show, and changed morning news-ertainment forever.



    Resources:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Muggs
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/j-fred-muggs
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/324954729281
    https://www.grunge.com/598607/the-truth-about-celebrity-chimp-j-fred-muggs/

    And an episode of Ridiculous Crime - a 99% murder-free podcast on capers, crime, and utter ridiculousness, where I first heard about J. Fred Muggs - if your older kids - I’d let Acey listen at 9, are into something like this, it’s clean language, silly, and great hosts. I don’t know the hosts, I have nothing to gain from it - just thought you might like it if you or family like to listen to such things. Check it out first before letting littles listen but I think, and you hear my show - you know what I’m cool with letting my kiddo listen to - it might be a lot more than you’d be ok with, so check it out first. Ridiculous crime

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  • First aired: Nov 26, 2023

    One man dreams of being completely alone, but it turns out, companionship is human nature. An unlikely meal ticket doesn't just save his life - but saves his humanity in 70 days of darkness, in Greenland's icy solar night.

    Big thanks to The Outlook Podcast Archive from BBC World Service for a podcast called “The chicken who sailed the world”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct34pm

    Fowl Play - a book I’m reading on the history of chickens by Sally Coulthard. So much of our language - cooped up, henpecked, cocky, flew the coop - comes from these tiny evolved dinosaurs.

    https://www.yachtingworld.com/all-latest-posts/the-hen-that-sailed-around-the-world-a-farewell-to-monique-144044

    https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/apr/21/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-globe-french-sailor-guirec-soudee-monique

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36475672

    https://www.guirecsoudee.com/

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  • First aired Nov. 2022

    A man recently caught a goldfish the size of a 5th grader and Melissa is waiting for the goldfish food-delivery uprising.

    Resources:
    https://www.livescience.com/man-catches-enormous-goldfish-in-france

    https://largest.org/animals/goldfish/

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2021/07/11/minnesota-goldfish-invasive/

    https://www.khq.com/news/thousands-of-goldfish-found-in-west-medical-lake-whats-next/article_15244861-1a80-5273-a27b-4e34db5160cb.html

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-this-fish-out-of-water-drive-a-mini-vehicle-on-land-180979328/



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  • First Aired August, 2023:

    A series of scientific studies to understand the human mind, but using a slimy gastropod in our place.

    Because using meth on a human is illegal.

    I got today’s information from

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/snails-memory-molecules-spd

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vww3/scientists-are-repeatedly-fucking-with-snails-memory

    https://www.livescience.com/62559-snail-memory-rna-transfer.html

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memory-transferred-between-snails-challenging-standard-theory-of-how-the-brain-remembers/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/science/memory-transfer-snails.html

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/2596/#:~:text=Scientists%20Made%20Snails%20Remember%20Something,remembered%20the%20trained%20snails'%20experiences.

    https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-have-managed-to-erase-memories-in-a-snails-brain-42331

    https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs3/3981/index.htm

    https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/09/snails

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  • First aired: Sept 13, 2022

    As promised - this week there was just TOO MUCH to put in a main feed episode. The Unkindness episode was really, really long. This 10-minute tangent was added after the Queen of England died last week and her son, Charles, ascended to the throne, assuming the name "King Charles III", but then promptly had to cut because of time. Also, it didn't fit as well as I had hoped, and I wanted to get to the buffet menu for the ravens.

    So, we look at what legacy he's looking to satisfy by taking the name Charles III (eeek, it's not great), and a little more tie-in to Charles' tie-in to environmental issues.

    All resources at episode 73, The Unkindness

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  • First aired July 28, 2022

    A bunch of stitchin' women in a Washington Women's Correctional Facility who have put their knitting needles to good use - helping the chickens who helped them in jail, plus some other unusual animals who find themselves behind bars.

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  • First Aired on Dec 25, 2022

    When a farmer in small-town St. Severe, Quebec, noticed 20 head of cattle broke through a fence during a thunderstorm, he thought, "Easy. I'll just get them back."

    Listener. He did not "just get them back." It's been 5 months and these uncatchable ungulates are now terrorizing the neighboring town of St. Barnabee.


    Resources for today's episode:
    https://thecanadaguide.com/basics/money/

    https://www.saint-severe.ca/

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/1/herd-of-fugitive-cows-frustrates-tiny-village-in-canada

    https://globalnews.ca/news/9357994/four-cows-have-been-captured-in-a-small-quebec-town-after-months-on-the-loose/

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/cows-captured-after-months-on-the-loose-1.6690530

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/fugitive-cows-in-quebec-elude-captors-and-inspire-a-following-11671464755

    https://www.tiktok.com/@matnessmtl Mathieu Murphy-Perron's TikTok where you can also follow #TeamCow hashtag and updates as they happen : ) Also, buy a shirt!

    https://www.redbubble.com/people/MatnessMtl/shop (buy the Wild, Dirty, Free shirt and others!)

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  • First Aired June 8, 2022

    Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby with 80-1 odds - meaning out of every 81 races, he's thought to win ONE. Well, he won the Kentucky Derby. If you're going to win a horse race, that's the one to win! Today, we dive deeper into Rich Strike's inspiring underdog win, and investigate a few other longshot winners in horse racing who made a few people some pretty pennies. Let's GO!

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    I got today’s information from:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Strike

    https://edge.twinspires.com/racing/top-10-fastest-kentucky-derby-times-in-history/

    https://theathletic.com/3299361/2022/05/07/long-shot-rich-strike-wins-kentucky-derby/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donerail

    https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/14454980/rb-wild-promise-one-longest-shots-horse-racing-history-206-1-wins-mahoning-valley-race-track

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWDGFQDa_As

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  • First aired June 22, 2023:

    Two sisters combined their love of historically accurate dioramas, the Civil War, and clay-making to pen an ode to the US in one of the most historically significant cities in the United States. They even purchased a building with deep roots in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg to bring the stories of the dead to life. But, the clay characters aren't human - they are a different species entirely telling the accurate tale of the bloodiest battle of the civil war.

    A diorama of the Civil War Cat Museum: https://youtu.be/N1yc1UFnVYY

    I got today’s information from my friend Lydia who sent a Tik Tok about the Civil War Cat’s museum, which is actually called Civil War Tails


    https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gettysburg-address/

    https://civilwartails.com/the-homestead/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yc1UFnVYY

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/theres-a-museum-for-everything-even-civil-war-battles--depicted-by-cats/2016/05/26/1f8c4674-1d30-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html

    https://civilwartails.com/

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/civil-war-tails-at-the-homestead-diorama-museum

    https://www.achs-pa.org/news-events/achsblog.html/article/2020/07/08/national-soldiers-orphans-homestead

    https://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm

    The full text of the Gettysburg Address, took up less space on a page than my 5th grader’s 5 paragraph essay, is at:

    https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text



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  • First aired July 2023:
    In 1912 when the "adventurer" was a job description & also an alibi, two brothers took their dogs on a road trip - before roads existed.

    These brothers loved their dogs and hated shirts but that didn't stop them from circumnavigating Australia several times by bike and car - often digging their own roads IN THE OUTBACK!



    Resources (Hey, look, I remembered!)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Birtles which includes THE photo I keep referencing

    https://www.whichcar.com.au/explore/francis-birtles-australias-greatest-overlander (the awesome WhichCar.com article by the Moons that I heavily quoted)

    https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/fido-blog/wowser-and-dinkums-australian-road-trip (the article from CarTalk that Sip and I wrote)

    Photos of Wowser (which is a name that has been on a journey), Francis and Clive are attached.


    Francis digging out a car without a shirt.jpg


    Clive and Wowser.jpg


    The Shirtless Francis Birtles.png

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  • This Patreon Exclusive episode (#2) first aired on August 4, 2021.

    This is a fun turn I never saw coming, that Pikachu is based on a squirrel and there are new species of real animals named after fictional Pokethings. My favorite? An animal called a Pika who survives on ...yak poop. Why didn't they show THAT in the kid's show?

    Regular episodes will resume in September, but for now, enjoy your Patreon exclusive content!

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  • The very first Patreon Exclusive episode was ....super short. It first aired on July 22, 2021. I wasn't sure if it would play or work at all. But, this test led directly to another 28+ episodes, so thank you, evolution ;)

    Here's a shortie for you to enjoy about a #1 moth who looks like #2.

    Stay Curious -

    Xx
    M3

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  • Patreon exclusive #6: First aired Dec 7 2021

    Geneticists made Daddy Shortlegs. (WHY GOD, WHY?)

    We imagine the Jane Fonda workout with 50' human legs (WHY GOD, WHY?!?)

    And we learn about some very sneaky males who look like females in a devious plot to slide into her DMs.

    Let's get right into it :)

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  • This Patreon Exclusive Episode first aired May 16, 2022

    Patron started his life in entertainment by illustrating how dogs can be trained for search work. And now, he's employed by the government. He found over 200 bombs in the town of Chimigov since February. Let's meet Patron, the hero dog who has a similar entertainer-turned-hero storyline as Ukrainian President Zelensky himself.

    (Thank you, Christy, for the suggestion!)
    https://www.insider.com/patron-dog-sniffing-for-bombs-in-ukraine-2022-4

    https://mymodernmet.com/patron-bomb-sniffing-dog-hero/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tene3h/the_pups_name_is_patron_cartridge/

    https://english.nv.ua/life/social-media-craze-about-ukrainian-sapper-dog-patron-50235197.html

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61099213

    https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/the-jack-russell-terrier-detecting-bombs-in-ukraine-138688069962

    @Patron_dns/instagram https://www.yahoo.com/now/meet-patron-dog-loves-cheese-173647625.html

    https://www.usip.org/public-education-new/dogs-detecting-landmines-building-peacehttps://www.theverge.com/2022/5/2/23053944/russian-troops-steal-millions-farm-equipment-ukraine-disabled-remotely-john-deere

    https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/27/22953398/go-read-this-researchers-google-maps-russian-troops-ukraine-invasion

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682 - the intentionally targeted misinformation attacks and straight-up lies in Russian state media - a common war tactic to get people on your side for terrible things, we see it here, too, will continue to persuade those who consume Russian media to believe this isn’t real. The attacks by Putin, using Russian tanks, bombs, and guns on the Ukrainian people is real. And a powerful interview, mandatory reading, I think, from Time Magazine with Volodymyr Zelenski: https://time.com/6171277/volodymyr-zelensky-interview-ukraine-war/

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