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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to SciShow Tangents, the lightly competitive science knowledge showcase. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm your host Hank Green, and joining me this week, as always, is Science Expert, |
| 0:24.3 | Siri Riley. Hello. And our resident every man, Sam Schultz. Hello. But also today we have a very |
| 0:30.8 | special guest, scientist, journalist, former host of NPR's shortwave and contributor to great shows |
| 0:36.0 | like Science Friday and PBS's Deep Look. It's Maddie Sophia. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hello, |
| 0:42.5 | hello, hello. I love to get science people on the SciShow Tangents podcast. One of the most |
| 0:47.8 | science people of all time, I would say. Well, it's lower expectations. Now you know how it feels |
| 0:55.0 | to be called the science expert. Now Maddie's our science expert. Yeah, Siri gets to take a break. |
| 1:01.0 | I get to ask questions like, what's your favorite thing about a salamander? I'll go first. |
| 1:06.4 | My favorite thing about a salamander is that despite every piece of evidence to the contrary, |
| 1:13.2 | people used to think that they were, they were spawned by fire because they were wet logs on fires |
| 1:18.0 | and salamanders would crawl out. And I'm like, is that really what you thought? And so salamanders, |
| 1:23.5 | despite being the wettest of the land animals, are deeply tied to a mythology of being a fire-related |
| 1:31.7 | like charmander. Oh, is that, is that where? You know, I have no idea. I have no idea. They may not |
| 1:39.2 | have known. It might have been a coincidence. No, absolutely. It's not a coincidence. There's |
| 1:43.2 | the word mander in it. Yeah, he is a salamander. Have you looked it in? Yeah. So they went char, like, |
| 1:49.0 | what if it was an actual fire lizard? And then they went, Oh, what's the word for that char? Char |
| 1:53.9 | mander. Wow. I got to know now. Oh, okay. Can I go next? Because I'm ready. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:58.5 | It's the mucus for me. It's the mucus all day. It's got to be, right? I mean, tell me more about |
| 2:04.7 | the mucus. Well, Hank, how long? So, I mean, it's all about gas exchange, right? With the salamanders, |
| 2:11.1 | right? We're doing, we're doing some, some respiring through our skin, right? It's just made a |
| 2:15.6 | little bit easier with a little shield of mucus. My favorite salamander, the hellbender salamander |
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