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Carcinology (CRABS) Part 2 with Adam Wall

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hairy crabs! Shell swaps! Carcinization! Will we all evolve to be crabs? What’s with having one giant claw? Why would a crab stab you? Adam Wall, a carcinologist at the Natural History Museum of LA covers all of this and more in this thrilling conclusion of our two-part episode on crabs. Also: did the Little Mermaid get it right, and does Adam enjoy being interviewed? Listen to the end to find out.

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, it's your favorite thermus, rusting in an airport, Lost and Found again,

0:04.4

Alleyward. And welcome, you've made it to Part 2 of Crabs. You're here. If you skipped Part 1,

0:09.1

what the fuck you're doing here? Go to Part 1, Part 1. Go to Part 1. this is part two. Okay, there's a reason we put these

0:15.2

in order and in part one you're going to learn how a brachy urine, true crab differs from an

0:20.0

anim urine, non-true crab, how some crabs hang out in pods, speculations about Amelia Earhart's

0:25.9

fate, the weird history behind Old Bay seasoning, if you should eat the guts of a crab.

0:31.4

Huge land-dwelling hermit crabs that could crush a skull and what cancers and cancers have in common and so much more.

0:39.0

So we're now back with part two to address questions from listeners who signed up at

0:43.9

Patreon.com slash ologies.

0:45.7

It costs one American dollar a month to belong

0:48.4

and you can submit questions before we record

0:51.1

and I might say your name.

0:52.4

So thanks patrons as well as everyone strutting around in your ologies

0:56.1

t-shirts and such from ologiesmerch.com and of course thank you to everyone who leaves reviews

1:00.9

and subscribes and rates the show that helps genuinely so much and it's

1:05.0

free to do plus I read every single review so I can read one and here's one from

1:09.9

J.G. Oh. 349 who that, whether driving or dozing off before bed.

1:15.6

This podcast has saved my last fighting brain cells from spontaneous combustion.

1:20.5

If you read this, understand that all of your blood, sweat, and tears do not go unnoticed. I feel very noticed and thank you for that review this week.

1:27.0

J.G. Oh, three, four, nine. My two brain cells salute yours. Okay, on to carcinology part two. So let's crack into all of your questions

1:36.5

with a very dedicated, dry, wise, and wonderful crab expert.

1:42.6

Does he hate me?

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