4.7 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Fetch Mary! |
0:03.0 | Fetch Mary! |
0:05.0 | Ow! |
0:06.0 | Hey everybody, Maddie Sify here with shortwave reporter Emily Kwong. |
0:09.5 | Hey Kwong. |
0:10.0 | Hi, Maddie. What do you got for us today? |
0:12.0 | Okay, Emily, I've got an episode that combines the two things I love most. |
0:17.0 | Is that being efficient and the sister act movies? |
0:20.0 | Obviously, very good guess is too good. |
0:23.0 | But no, smack talk, which you know I love. |
0:26.0 | And critter facts. |
0:28.0 | Oh, of course, alright, into it. |
0:32.0 | In an episode, I'm calling animal fax-mech, in which we bring on a scientist to talk smack using fax. |
0:42.0 | To prove once and for all that their favorite animal is the best animal. |
0:46.0 | I mean, look, this is going to be me laying down the reasons why spiders are the best. |
0:52.0 | And there are many of them. |
0:53.0 | That is Sebastian Etgeberry. He got his PhD studying jumping spiders at the University of Pittsburgh. |
1:00.0 | But Kwong, he is a fan of all spiders. |
1:03.0 | I mean, these animals have been around for 300 or more million years. |
1:09.0 | They are older than the dinosaurs. They have survived multiple mass extinctions. |
1:14.0 | They are everywhere. |
1:17.0 | I cannot believe that you found someone to do this nonsense with you, Maddie. |
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