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Creature Feature

Creature Classic: Fallout Critters

Creature Feature

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Education, Comedy

4.6911 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

I'm getting excited for the new season of Fallout, so here's one of my favorite episodes where we look at the mutated creatures of the Fallout franchise and discussing whether they could actually exist in a nuclear wasteland! It's a real optimistic episode and we discuss BIG BUGS! How can we bring back big bugs?! 

Guest: Will Poole 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:10.7

Welcome to Creature Feature, production of IHeart Radio.

0:14.1

I'm your host of many parasites, Katie Golden.

0:17.2

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,

0:20.2

and today on the show we're talking about the creatures of fallout, from the rad roaches to the weird naked mole rat mutants.

0:29.4

Is this accurate?

0:31.0

What this actually happened?

0:32.5

What do we know about how animals might survive nuclear radiation?

0:36.9

Discover the samores. We answer the age-old question,

0:39.8

what kind of bogus PR campaign are cockroaches running?

0:43.8

Joining me today is friend of the show, host of Jort Center, the podcast,

0:48.1

Will Poole, also known as Christy Yamaguchi-Main.

0:51.3

Welcome.

0:53.0

Thank you, Katie.

0:55.8

I appreciate you having me again.

1:04.1

Glad to be back and talking about this weird video game that my kids are obsessed with.

1:09.1

I'm thrilled to discuss this.

1:15.9

I've been doing research mainly through my children by asking them questions about the Fallout series in the world.

1:18.2

And they are, they've been like kind of side eyeing me.

1:22.9

Like, why am I asking about all of this all of a sudden?

1:25.5

So I'm looking forward to being educated.

1:28.5

So I can go back to them and sound like I know what the hell I'm talking about.

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