Ep 127: Science... sort of - Padre de Chupacabra
Science... sort of
Brachiolope
4.7 • 674 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2012
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
00:00:00 - Illustrator David Peters thinks a tiny pterosaur was a vampiric leach of larger sauropods. Does paleontologist Chris Bennett agree? Should we ignore evidence so we can live in a world with blood sucking pterosaurs? These are the important questions of our time, people.
00:23:28 - Some drinks that aren't blood include: a Kona koko brown as enjoyed by Charlie, water from a mug via Ben, Newman's own wine as imbibed by Kelly, and the classic beer and a shot combo Canadian style consumed by Ryan.
00:28:13 - Este semana en Trailer Trash Talk, actor Will Ferrell es en una pelicula nueva, llama Casa de Mi Padre, sobre drugas en Mexico. Todas las personas le gusta?
00:43:01 - Everybody knows lizards love to leap. Now biomechanical scientists from Robert Full's lab have tested just how their tails help them leap so well, by building robots. And of course, they had to test their findings against Jurassic Park. Did the movie get it right? Listen and find out!
00:55:58 - PalePOWs are a lot like pterosaurs, difficult to reconstruct. Ryan begins with a bit of cash from Kyle H., who apparently felt bad after hurting our feelings in episode 123. Thanks, Kyle! Ben comes through with yet another new Canadian iTunes review! Charlie gets corrected on his French wine translation, Ben attempts to comfort him with the intricacies of accent marks. And Kelly hears from Alesa M. about her luck of the Jurassic and subsequent attempts to find a VHS player (a.k.a. a VCR).
Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!
Music for this week's show provided by:
There's Something Wrong - Brad Sucks
One Shot - O.A.R.
Caress Me Down - Sublime
Spanish Flea - Herp Albert & The Tijuana Brass
Jump Through the Hoops - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | That was good. You listen to my podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | I do listen to your podcast, Ben. |
| 0:03.4 | What a nice guy. |
| 0:04.6 | I actually really like the, your work as dark born fruit. |
| 0:08.6 | Here is some fruit. |
| 0:11.5 | Do a good job, Ben. |
| 0:13.9 | It's important to put stupid things in as a regular thing because people really like that. |
| 0:19.3 | It's called trailer trash talk, Ben. |
| 0:21.0 | I'll thank you not to refer to the end of the stupid thing we do. |
| 0:26.8 | From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of. This is episode 127. |
| 0:46.4 | This week's theme is Padre de Chubacabra. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science are the paleo pals. Ben. Good evening. Kelly. |
| 0:59.4 | Hello. And Charlie. Happy daylight savings time. |
| 1:07.0 | All right, cool. So, uh, this is science sort of. And we're going to talk about some, this is, we're, we're going to talk about some this is we're |
| 1:12.3 | we're keeping to that in a big way because our first story is definitely sort of i'll go ahead and |
| 1:18.1 | take point on this one it is a pop press article from i.09 that first clued me into this but |
| 1:25.0 | i've tracked it back to its source so we're going to start where I started and then work our way backwards. |
| 1:30.0 | The title is, was there really a vampire who fed on dinosaur blood? |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.7 | So this is a story about a tiny terosaur named Jeho Lopteros, which is found in northeastern China. And it's, uh, |
| 1:49.9 | interpreted by one lone, not really a paleontologist as being a blood-sucking vampire. So did you |
| 1:58.4 | guys take the time to, to read this? Yes. Oh, yeah. |
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