Beached Globster: Helen Scales and the Bioluminescent Beings
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Helen Scales is a marine biologist and writer fascinated by how little we truly know about the ocean. In her book 'What the Wild Sea Can Be' she explores deep-sea mysteries, the world's weirdest creatures, and what’s at stake as humans push further into the deep.
Host: Dan Schreiber
Guest: Helen Scales
Producer: Cassie Merritt
Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, we're still off a pickleball Sunday. Oh, so hold on a sec. Hey, how's the hustle? Pretty busy. |
| 0:05.7 | No time to chat. I'm married to the grind. He's asking me my 10K time. That's none of your business. |
| 0:11.2 | This place, so boring. It's just not me. |
| 0:15.1 | Oh dear. Is your business stuck in the wrong place? Then try workspace. |
| 0:20.6 | Look at our new space. |
| 0:22.5 | It feels just like home. |
| 0:24.5 | With your own space and your people, your business can happen. |
| 0:28.1 | It all happens at workspace. |
| 0:32.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | Warning! |
| 0:37.0 | The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, |
| 0:40.3 | unexplainable experiences, and multiple deep-sea alien intelligence. |
| 0:45.3 | It may not be suitable for younger weirdos. |
| 0:49.3 | They are an alien form of intelligence. They evolved completely separate to us. |
| 0:55.0 | If that happened twice here on Earth, |
| 0:57.2 | surely that raises the chances of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. |
| 1:00.6 | This is not a one-shot thing. |
| 1:02.9 | It happens. |
| 1:05.5 | Ah, ha, ha. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, oh, oh, welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Shriver. I am coming to you from my home, Roughway by Sea. And this is the show that believes that everyone, no matter how rational they think they are, harbors most likely just a little bit of batch in themin in them and it is my job in each episode to try |
| 1:46.7 | and reveal what that is. I do that by handing them a thing that I've devised called the bat-shit |
| 1:53.1 | list. It's got a lot of boxes on it, things like ghosts and telepathy and time travel and plant |
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