114 - The Mouse Universe Experiments

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

History, Comedy, Fact, Facts

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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In the 50s, 60s and 70s ethologist John B. Calhoun studied the behaviour of rodents in his custom built rat and mice utopias... the results were influential, controversial, fascinating AND a bit fucked! Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Twitter: @DoGoOnPod Instagram: @DoGoOnPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/ Email us: dogoonpod@gmail.com Sources/Further Reading: Fredrik Knudsen's great doco called Down the Rabbit Hole - The Mouse Utopia Experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2o&feature=youtu.be Copy of John B. Calhoun's 'Population density and social pathology' article in Scientific American: http://www.culture-clash.net/pages/evolution/evol_articles/e5calhoun.html http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22514/1/2308Ramadams.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-rats-turned-their-private-paradise-into-a-terrifyin-1687584457?IR=T https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/mar/23/science-ballard-high-rise-animal-research-pathological-overcrowding

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Dave here letting you know that a few people have asked if they can still buy tickets to our 400th episode live stream
0:05.9	and you can still get a catch-up ticket to both the 400th episode and of course the after party with DJ Bot Perkins on the decks.
0:13.6	Those tickets are available until Saturday, July 1st, 2023. Just go to dogoonpod.com and click on live shows.
0:21.2	This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.
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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of DoGoOnMyName is Dave Warnakia and I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins.
0:44.7	Hi Dave. Hi Dave. Hi Matt.
0:47.8	Hello. Hello.
0:52.3	Guys, how are we? The last episode for 2017 and what have you, it's been?
0:58.0	Yeah and I'm disappointed that we're ending on a low because I am furious at both of you.
1:04.8	What have we done?
1:05.8	For two things, I made a great joke before and you both ignored me and then I said really I'm getting nothing for that and you continued to ignore me.
1:12.4	I didn't want to, I didn't want to have to.
1:14.4	I've already forgotten what the joke was but I'm still mad. It was about sucking and pouring.
1:18.4	Oh yeah, it wasn't.
1:19.3	You're making like a suck pun sort of thing.
1:21.2	Yeah. I didn't even hear it.
1:23.0	No that's right. You didn't even hear you bring it up again.
1:26.4	Oh my god.
1:26.9	You say I didn't, I ignored you saying keep ignoring me.
1:30.0	Yeah, I know because you're so good at just blocking me out.
1:33.3	Which is what you wanted.
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