Oh hey, it's your karate teacher who smells like your college sweetheart, and so you're weird around them.

Alliward, back with another episode of Oligies.

So this episode was recorded in beautiful Hawaii,

her ever heard of it a few weeks ago, you're about to just get an earful of coral.

But before I recorded it, honestly, I knew neither Jack nor shit about coral.

Now, all I want to do is stare at videos of coral.

Honestly, I used to just consider them to be like the really plucky, kind of quirky

settings of a snorkeling john, kind of like a splashy backdrop in a community theater play.

Like, oh, that's nice. But you know, what's happening in front of them?

What kind of fish do we have? Oh, contrary. After this episode, you'll be like,

move out of the way, fish. I'm staring at a polyp. And yeah, it's totally fun if you don't know

what a polyp is. We will get to that. But first, thank you to all the folks that support the show

at patreon.com slash Oligies for as little as $1 a month. You can submit questions.

Also, thanks to everyone who buys and wears shirts and hats and such from Oligiesmerch.com.

We have some new denim dad hats. If you need a new lid, this says, I like weird facts.

Good intentions. It bad puns. It doesn't literally say that. I'm just saying that it's like

people will go, oh, that must be what you're into. Although, that's not a bad idea for a hat.

Stay tuned. Also, thank you to everyone who tells friends and co-workers about the show and who

rates and subscribes and lose reviews, which you know I read because I deliver a fresh one.

Each week, this week was a fun one for your all-pale, Alayward. I brought attention to the fact that

a department store was carrying some pretty out of touch and scientifically unsound body-shaming

dinnerware. And it made, for some reason, international news. And it was picked up by some new sites

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