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Corvid Thanatology (CROW FUNERALS) Encore with Kaeli Swift

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Crows have funerals? CROWS HAVE FUNERALS. The inky black bird with the big brain warns and maybe mourns around their fallen friends and Dr. Kaeli Swift is here to tell us all about it. As an avid wildlife researcher and corvid specialist, she's observed death behaviors that will shock you to your bones and ruffle your hackles -- while somehow also making you cry about peanuts. Also: so much inspiration to keep being yourself and to work hard toward what you love. She is a hero.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hey.

0:02.0

Oh, hey, hello, hi from the ghost of three years future.

0:10.0

From 2021, I'm here with an encore of one of the fanniest favorites episodes ever.

0:17.0

Corvidanatology. Why? Because it's spooky, but it's not at all too scary.

0:23.0

And also, I'm in a hotel in Fremont.

0:25.0

And early tomorrow morning, your podmom, Jarrett, is going under the knife for knee surgery.

0:31.0

A lot's going on. So here's Corvidanatology. You're gonna love it.

0:35.0

Listen to it again. Send it to someone you love or to someone you barely know.

0:39.0

Oh, hi.

0:40.0

A sad old guy sitting on a shabby sheet couch and anthropology waiting for his daughter to try on pants that cost too much.

0:48.0

Alliward, back for another episode of allergies. A spooky episode of allergies. A scary episode.

0:55.0

Okay, fine. But does it get gothler than the inky blue sheen of a crow in the shadows?

1:02.0

Who also happens to be having a funeral for another crow? Nothing is more goth than that. Nothing.

1:08.0

Not even a spider listening to bow house on vinyl. A bat smoking a clove at a warehouse party is not as goth as a crow funeral.

1:17.0

And I've been sitting on this episode since July. I've been waiting to air it this week.

1:22.0

I've been just building with nausea. I'm so excited to talk about Corvidanatology.

1:28.0

Fricken crow funerals.

1:30.0

But first I will talk quickly as I tell you things that also matter.

1:33.0

Okay, thank you to patrons at patreon.com slash allergies. Thanks to everyone for buying cool stuff at allergiesmerch.com.

1:40.0

And thanks for subscribing to and rating the podcast, especially for reviewing it, which helps get it seen by other people.

1:48.0

And each week to prove that your reviews mean so much. I read you a fresh one.

1:54.0

And this week I creeped on serious beetles who wrote, I have been experiencing an odd twilight zone effect or shortly after listening to one of your shows.

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