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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Everyone & Dolphins

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Maeve Higgins and Emma learn why you never want to be recognized by a dolphin and find out where the magic happens.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I'm Emma Jordan. Welcome to everyone in their mom, a weekly show for him. Wait,

0:09.2

wait, don't tell me. This week we're talking about something cute and gross with weight

0:14.1

weight panelists, comedian, and woman whose biggest fan is my mom. It's me, Piggins. Hi,

0:19.0

M.A. My mom loves you. Wow, I'm glad that she likes me. Yeah. Big news. Researchers discovered

0:26.5

a gross new way that dolphins tell each other apart. Tasting each other's urine. Oh, recent studies

0:36.4

found that dolphins are more, quote, unquote, interested in the urine of dolphins. They know.

0:41.9

Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I felt too. And according to the Hubbard Post, who reported

0:48.0

on it, quote, when one dolphin peed or pooped, the others would swim through the excretions

0:53.1

with their mouths open to get a big taste of their friend. And a, what's identally taste of

0:58.6

your friend is the name of everyone in their mom's super fuel line, Mave. So that's exciting.

1:03.0

I didn't realize that you were doing merch. That's really exciting. I mean, you're doing

1:06.4

merch to appeal to every cent. Absolutely. You know, a lot of animals recognize each other

1:12.7

by their urine, right? Like dogs and cats and I don't know what that's what I was thinking.

1:17.4

Yeah. And according to National Geographic, like this study is the strongest evidence that

1:23.0

animals of the same species identify each other by taste. Oh, they can actually taste.

1:27.5

Yeah. That's what they swim through with their mouths open. Because they can't smell. Yeah,

1:32.0

that's why if they come above the water, like they're able to smell, right? I don't know.

1:36.4

I don't know if they can, they have nostrils, you know? Yeah, I mean, they do, but I don't

1:42.1

know if they can, because when I picture a dolphin, I think I can see like a no, I think

1:45.6

I've seen a dolphin before the nose ring, actually, like a younger kind of a cool dolphin.

1:50.3

And do you have a lower back tattoo of another dolphin? Yeah. That's so lit. That's awesome.

1:56.7

They have a lower back tattoo of a white lady.

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