Oh, hey, up top. So this is an encore version of one of my favorite recordings I've ever done. This was such an experience.

I'm going to take you to a lab down many, many corridors in New York. This guest, oh the stories.

I just want to sit in like an old mariners bar

and glug disgusting things out of glasses

and hear all of her stories.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this. This is an encore because I'm having some medical stuff. I had to have surgery this week. So I'm a doctor's orders laying low, but there is a new secret at the end. So listen to it again because it's a great episode and then I'm going to hit you with a secret at the end that's new. Okay.

Oh, hey, it's that second cousin who tries to talk to you about sports stats and can't read that you don't care.

Ali Ward here with another episode ofologies.

So this episode, it's so amazing.

I think you will find it equivalent to like a bag of jelly beans that you've selected out of the

bulk bins where there's not a single bean in a flavor you don't enjoy.

It's just pure delight and some of the best long-form storytelling I have ever heard. I just I set up the mics. I forced a

world respected ologist to talk into them and I interjected occasionally with some

gasps. She's amazing. Before we get to that feast, let's do some formalities.

Let's tuck our napkins into our collar, if you will. Thank you to all the folks who have logged

into Patreon.com slash ologies to donate a buck or more a month to support the show.

And that helps me pay a wonderful editor.

Hi Stephen and lets me continue doing this, which it's my favorite thing to do so

thank you for that thank you to everyone who gets merch at ologies merch.com

there's some really great fall college sweatshirts backpacks are up bird patterned

mugs just a whole mess of awesome. Thank you also to listeners who rate and

subscribe you guys keep ologies in the front of new eyeballs

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