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The What If? Podcast

Ep. #2 - What If Dolphins Could Skydive? [Animal Intelligence]

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6672 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

With guests Eric Mayson and Chance York, we discuss animal intelligence through a variety of stories, from skydiving dolphins, to painting elephants, to talking birds, and militarized monkeys. Ryan advocates book-burning, Spencer reads the autobiography of a horse, Chance thinks something’s fishy, and Mayson finds a bug.


Hot Topics: Soviet Dolphin Paratroopers, There’s A Bug In This Room, Don’t Save The Dolphins, Flooded-Basement Dolphin-Tank Party-Time, Written By A Horse, Yeah But Think About Birds, and much more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the What If Podcast.

0:16.0

This is the What If podcast?

0:19.8

Hi.

0:20.4

Hi.

0:25.4

Hey. Who are you? What's up? What's up? My name is ryan copperwood who are you what's up what's up my name is spencer i spencer hey we have a we have a first for the what if podcast we not only have one guest in the room

0:30.9

we got two yep we're full up to the tippy top double dose top of our ditties are full with guests.

0:40.3

Boos sick.

0:44.2

We got Eric Mason.

0:44.8

Hello.

0:46.1

This is me,

0:49.2

AKA Flappy McBlowole.

0:51.3

Yep.

0:53.0

We're going to talk about blowholes later, actually. Oh, that's a good time.

0:53.9

We are actually because of content reveal.

0:57.5

Yeah, you do reveal the content of today's episode, which is, uh, what if dolphins could skydive?

1:04.4

But I feel like maybe we steam rolled over who the other guest was because I said his name, but he didn't say anything.

1:09.5

Well, he did.

1:10.5

He said he was boob sick.

1:11.6

Oh, right.

1:12.2

But that's not his name.

1:13.2

But please, say hello, my friend.

1:16.0

My name is Chance.

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