Oh, hi. So 2025 me here. And last night was our first ever live in person show. It was at the bellhouse in Brooklyn. And it was so fun. I got to see so many of you in person. We talked about Treesap. We talked about funeral bells. I don't know if we're ever going to release that one. It was just sort of a fun experiment. And I think I'll go on the road more in the future. But this is an encore episode just because it's been kind of a heavy week and I'm going to take a couple days off. Okay, enjoy this one. I love it. Oh, hey, it's your

forgotten half can of LaCroix. That's just cold, just fizy enough to keep drinking it and not throw

it away. Allie Ward, back with a very, very weird, odd episode of Ologies. If this is not your first Ologies rodeo,

you know that each episode, I usually talk to one Ologist, but for some reason, I don't know,

man, bison just threw us for a very rare loop. So this episode is kind of more like a Buffalo

party. And thank you to patrons of the show who support us, anyone in OlogiesMurch from ologiesmerch.com. We have Smologies. They're shorter kid-friendly episodes. They're available now in their own feed. Thank you to everyone who leaves reviews. I read them all. This is 2025. Me thanking MRM Kennedy for the review that said, going through the worst breakup, my poor meat robot has ever been bopped through.

Thank you for this treasure trove of tiny joys and distractions.

MRM Kennedy, my heart wishes your heart the best.

Maybe a good rebound.

Okay, bisonology.

So bison, it's Baltic or Slavic origin.

It comes from the word whesund, which means the stinking animal because of its musk while rudding. And the word bison is distantly related to the word weasel,

which is also stinky. So weasel and bison. One is hulking, billowing steam into the cold air, and the other is a sock with a face.

Etymology, y'all. Okay, so you're going to hear from Ken Cannon, who is a New Jersey-born,

and now Utah-based research professor of anthropology at Utah State University, who studies ancient

bison and gives talks like Rolling Thunder, 10,000 years of bison in the greater

Yellowstone ecosystem. And he has short, cropped hair, rosy cheeks, and a salt and pepper

goatee. He looks like he could have been a rugby player in another life. So that's Ken. And he brought

along Utah State University ecologist Dan McNulty, who spent years in Yellowstone

studying animal behavior. And he has sandy blonde hair. He's a little more wiry than Ken. And I cannot

explain why, but Dan looks like a Ken and Ken looks like a Dan. And that screwed me up editing this

entire episode. But yes, Dan studies the more modern era of Bison.

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