OBA Episode 39 - Upcycled Squishy Kitten Yogi

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What a special guest. Tiaré has both the real world experience of fishing for a living and a grasp of the scientific method that can only be found in the ivory towers of academia. Plus she’s a fantastic podcast guest. A delight. On this episode we learned about the Upcycled Squishy Kitten Yogi and we dream of the day when we will judge animals, not by the phallic shape of their body, but by the content of their character. While dreaming, we learn about the armadillo of the sea, sustainable fishing practices, and someone confesses to knuckling the peanut butter jar. Most egregious error: the slime has protein in it and I was a bit unclear with some timelines, so 500 million years ago was when we shared the last common ancestor this animal. The Upcycled Squishy Kitten Yogi continued to change until about 300 million years ago. At that point, it stayed morphologically pretty unchanged. IT’s like school yearbook message to heart: “you’re amazing never change, xoxo besties for ever”. Science level: we had a a flipping practitioner of science on the show, so yeah, the science level was high. The scientist may have also recited a limerick about shark dicks. That’s still science.