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Getting old blows. Why do we get old? Can we cure aging? What animals are immortal? Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you...

You're an African farmer and all your crops just got eaten by locusts. You're in New York and your windshield is covered in dead Cicada. Insects invasions are growing more frequent each year. Today we dive into these infestations. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. Can we...

According to aborigines the creator of Dreamtime visited earth on a rainbow, turning the rock that he stood on into an opal…the ancient greeks thought that amethyst came from the tears of the god of wine Dionysus after he tried to kill a young maiden in a fit of rage…there are some talmudic texts even, that say king Solomon had a precious emerald that gave him th...

Originally manifested in Ancient Greece at the stadium in Olympia (really just a pile of dirt) famously included a chariot race and the killing of a serpent..they were as much a religious ceremony as an athletic one…in modern times we can now flick through the oddly organized peacock streaming and see a giant Georgian man lift 500 pounds over his head and a nimble Japanese...

Insects are weird. They can become zombies when they are overtaken by a fungus, they can live their teenage years in the water and fly in adulthood. They pee on each other, they farm mushrooms, and they have weird sex. So today we continue the epic saga on animal sex by exploring the world of insect sex…or as one article I read put it…fifty shades of WRONG Can we ask you for a favor? Ple...

The deep ocean is a weird place, we’ve covered it. Theres crabs and worms that extract nutrients from deep sea vents, giant jellyfish and octopods (huge centipedes) and blood red octopuses….could there also be a giant shark that weights 20x as much as a great white…how about a squid big enough to sink a clipper ship??? In this episode we take a look at a few discovery channel favorites (giant...

The average cost of a wedding in the US in 2020 was $20,300 dollars! While the average salary is $31,000 how did the cost of your wedding take up most of a years salary? What makes these events so expensive, and who really stands to profit from love sweet love??? We explore in this episode on weddings. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of co...

Hematophagy is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood. It turns out that blood isn’t really that hard to get once you go below the skin and is actually a dominant method of feeding for many small worms and arthropods…humans also eat and drink blood! Cow blood mixed with milk, for example, is a mainstay food of the African Masai. Marco Polo reported that Mongol...

Back in ye olde days there were birds (or maybe reptiles?) as big as planes...also landmasses dominated almost completely by birds. In this episode we take a look at the biggest most badass beasts to ever terrorize earths lower atmosphere. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. MOTHE...

What is universal basic income? Can it cure all of humanities/societies problems? Also ligma. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. MOTHERSHIP: https://dudenature.com ITUNES: https://apple.co/3jVyX6Z INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dude_nature FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com...

The mythical beast that is the four day work week. Shorter, better, more time off....also more productive? Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. MOTHERSHIP: https://dudenature.com ITUNES: https://apple.co/3jVyX6Z INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dude_nature FACEBOOK: https://www...

Are the robots coming to take over your job? Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. MOTHERSHIP: https://dudenature.com ITUNES: https://apple.co/3jVyX6Z INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dude_nature FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dudenaturepod FOURSIGMATIC: https://us.foursigma...

We’ve come to accept the 40 hour grind as our daily dose of suffering pie…but as the pandemic is showing us, and as many labor frontiersmen and women have known for a long time…work can and should be totally and completely different….so in this series of episodes (The Future Of Work) we look at how what we’ve come to know as employed labor is harmful, whats changing about it, and interesting...

Whenever we took strange family vacations on our moms birthday to Monterrey, we would always hit up the tide pools and poke our fingers into sticky anemones on the ride back up the coast….tide pools are fascinating and amazing worlds of invertebrates toughing it out in harsh conditions with amazing adaptations, so today we talk about one of our favorite things in nature….tide pools!...

All the greatest discoveries and breakthroughs about the natural world and camel spiders that happened in the last two weeks. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. MOTHERSHIP: https://dudenature.com ITUNES: https://apple.co/3jVyX6Z INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dude_nature FA...

Many hairless, albino, and blind critters live beneath the surface of the earth and they are weird as shit….today we talk about some of these troglodytes (cave dwellers) and the fascinating world of organisms that live below our feet. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, thank you. MOTHERSHIP...

Have you ever broken a hot dog in half, shoved the bun in a bucket of hot water and stuffed it into your mouth? If so, you would probably be a competitive eater! The most famous competitive eating competition is the July 4th Nathans hotdog eating contest…but there are competitive eating contests for volume like the ice cream contest in Delaware and spiciness like the jalap...

On this episode of The Nitty Gritty, Noah talks to Darren Polypore host of The Mushroom Hour Podcast about all things Mushroom. The book Darren mentions for beginner mushroom people is "In Search Of Mycotopia" - written by Doug Bierend You can find Darren's podcast (Welcome to Mushroom Hour) wherever you get podcasts or at his website ( www.welcometomushroomhour.com ) Darren also has an awesome In...

On this episode of The Nitty Gritty, Noah talks to author Menno Schilthuizen about his book "Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution", the crazy evolutionary changes happening to animals in cities, how cities are actually rich with biological life, becoming an urban-naturalist, and a classic battle of creationism vs evolution. You can find Menno at: Website: https://www.schilth...

Whales are fully aquatic, open ocean creatures, and feed, mate, give birth, suckle and raise their young at sea…they make their babies with semen and every time a whale ejaculates 360 gallons of salty whale semen are flung into the sea! Today we explore the fascinating world and science of whales, and why we should study them for more than just their giant sperm loads. Can we ask you for a fa...

Lebron james, Usain bolt, Michael phelps…these are the insane athlete of our generation and when you see them on tv, holy cow are these people even human? When I look down at my small sort of puny body it seems impossible I can even be in the same species as these people, but maybe I could? What makes an athlete? Is it their genetics, are they born...

On this episode of The Nitty Gritty, Noah talks to Tom Major co-host of the Herpetological Highlights podcast about all things Snake. Tom is the co-host of the Herpetological Highlights podcast which covers everything from Snakes, to Frogs, to Lizards, to Toads and all sick creatures like that. Tom and his co-host Ben are both scientists and give really cool perspectives on new research in the fie...

Venom is a type of poison produced by an animal…predators like the pit viper produce venom to kill their victims and the puffer fish has venom in its skin to poison larger fish when they try to eat it. Our sister has venom to fend off potential boyfriends and venom is also an alien in a black suit. Today we are talking about the venom specifically produced by animals, how it works, and i...

On this episode of The Nitty Gritty, Noah talks to author Ben Goldfarb about his book "Eager - The Surprising, Secret Life Of Beavers And Why They Matter" and how North America looked completely different before Beaver eradication. Using Beavers for land management and getting rid of misconceptions around Beavers hurting the environment/ agriculture. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and sub...

Lightning strikes the earths surface about 100 times every second...Brilliant flashes of hot white light flicker across an open prairie or beams of energy hit the worlds tallest building, flickers dance across an open lake while fisherman run for cover. Lightning while 5 times as hot as the surface of the sun, is only about 2 cm across and the white flash that we see light up the sky is...