OBA Episode 51 - Bloody Aqua Dumper
On Being Animals
An On Being Animals first! We got rustic and recorded this in the deep woods. My sister Geneva and I recorded this near an abandoned silver mine deep in the interior of BC. We were hours from a Tim Horton’s, but luckily we had a couple of cold Kootenay Ales to quench our thirst and fuel our quest to learn about the Bloody Aqua Dumper. We also talk about hatch n grow dinos, taking family for granted, and eggs that can feed themselves.
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OBA Episode 50 - Speedy Lobster Claw Diva
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We heard from Sara last episode, so now it’s time to hear from her hubby, my brother in arms, he who flees from the sun, Andrew. We set up the On Being Animals studio at his place, cracked open some groomsmen whisky, and learned about the Speedy Lobster Claw Diva. In addition to whiskey, we get into the Bat Man, dick pics, and growing trees on Mars.
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OBA Episode 49 - Cooing Bob Wink
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For this episode, I climbed a mountain to get to my brother’s wife’s brother’s wife. How about we just call her Sara. She’s an Island girl that grew up on an aviary, so of course, we had to talk about the Cooing Bob Wink. You know that animal that we see all the time, right? The Cooing Bob Wink. We also talk about weaponizing animals, rats, allergies, and Dirty Rick. Yeah Rick, we’re talking about you again.
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OBA Episode 48 - Shimmer Two Four Staying-a-Dive
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A couple of Russell Book islanders came to the On Being Animals studio for an extra special tri-pod episode! A three person podcast that is as stable as a physical tri-pod. Sara laughed, Ross cried, and we all learned about the Shimmer Two Four Staying-a-Dive.. Ross and Sara are great guests and we talked about everything from Darude Sandstorm, to leaving home, and the ever so terrible, unwanted acoustic guitars. You know when they show up to a good party and ruin it?
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OBA Episode 47 - Slutty Lewd Mineral Craver
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Kate came to the studio fresh out of Russell Books where she was shelving books in the animal section! Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Kate has fantastic, specific question and she even name dropped ungulates! So yes, this podcast episode is about a certain ungulate that we lovingly refer to as the Slutty Lewd Mineral Craver. We nerd out on books, talk Bitoin, give out hot chocolate tips, and sensationalize disappointing sex.
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OBA Episode 46 - Diurnal Dichotomies
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Angus Watt was at death’s door and yet he braved the elements to come to the On Being Animals studio in James Bay to record this episode on the Diurnal Dichotomies. The animal featured in this episode is definitely diurnal and definitely a dichotomy. In this episode, we don’t discuss dry spells or the importance of foreplay, but we do discuss Kangaroo nipples, DJ Khaled, and we figure out who really caused the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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OBA Episode 45 - Looky Bubbly Pouchy Brownie
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This podcast episode had been on the books for a while and finally made it happen! Mel Jupp and I were finally in the same city at the same time and we were able to discuss the Looky Bubbly Pouchy Brownie. Yes, that is the new name of this animal. We also cover active starfishing, how to get ants into your pants, and floppy milkshake corrections.
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OBA Episode 44 - Bazooka Dabbler
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This is a great episode, it hits all the notes that On Being Animals should: philosophy, genitals. Every single note. The guest for this episode is an open minded sweetheart named Andrew. He’s not much to look at, but he’s a great guest. Together, we learned about the good, the bad, and the ugly of an animal we like to call the Bazooka Dabbler. Along the way we get into the taste of poop, the righteous sword of compassion, and the sexiness of back hair.
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OBA Episode 43 - Gazing Handsy Bandit Washer
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You asked for it so you’re going to get it. The lovely Jenny Pye came back for another episode and this time we discovered the Gazing Handsy Bandit Washer. Along the way we figure out a great paté prank, we explore bureaucracy, we give a shout out to Buster the pug, and we weigh in on eating poop.
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OBA Episode 42 - Onion Fast Love Horn
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You used to call her on her cellphone, but you don’t anymore because she doesn’t have one. That’s right, the Russell Books series continues with Savannah and she chose to learn about the Onion Fast Love Horn. If your favourite part of this podcast is when we go on tangents and don’t talk about the animal, then this is the episode for you! We figure out why you need to put a banana in your first aid kit, what we should spend our tax return money on, and how to almost make it to the NHL.
info_outlineWhen life gives you oats, record a podcast with your brother. This time my brother Clayton, aka the Clayzer Beam, helped me learn about the Motivated Sloppy Taste Sharp Eyed Killer. During the episode, we try to figure out if anything matters, we talk about being above the line, about being trashy fast-food eaters, and we learn about man-eaters, but not the man-eaters that make you work hard make you spend hard make you want all of their love.
Most egregious error: I couldn’t remember how sex ratios are related to resource abundance. In my defence, this is a bit of a nuanced relationship that depends on the animal. Research on owls has shown female-biased sex ratios when breeding territories have an abundance of prey. For the Motivated Sloppy Taste Sharp Eyed Killer, it might be the opposite because serious male territorial competition is due to limited resources and results in adult male deaths giving us the female-biased sex ratio. That is the answer I should have given in this episode. Instead I mumbled and poured more tequila. Oh, and it's not 25%, we actually share up to 60% of DNA with bananas. We're all just making proteins and replicating DNA.
Science level: High! We talked about how eyes work and photons.