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Paleontology (DINOSAURS) with Michael Habib

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Did Ross Gellar ruin being a paleontologist? What's the hot goss on dino feathers? How did some dinos have four wings and which costs more: a used sedan or a dinosaur? Featuring guest Michael Habib of the Natural History Museum of LA County. Also covered: why Alie used to feel meh about dinos (DON'T JUDGE) and the realities of cloning. Oh and penis implants.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I'm going to be super, super honest with you.

0:03.4

And this pains me to say because it's kind of a point of shame for me as a like science

0:09.1

enthusiast, but I don't really give a fuck about dinosaurs.

0:12.3

At least I didn't for a long time.

0:14.7

Flies, turtles, birds, nests, plants.

0:16.9

I'm down with all these because in my brain, I'm like, we share the planet with them.

0:21.1

I can look at them.

0:22.1

I can watch how they grow, can look at what they eat, how they get it on.

0:26.3

Dinosaurs were always the wing of the museum that I was like, I don't know.

0:29.9

I'm going to go to the food court and, you know, soft pretzel, but enjoy.

0:33.7

So don't judge me because I know people love dinosaurs.

0:36.6

People get crazy.

0:37.6

And I read Jurassic Park in high school.

0:39.5

I loved it.

0:40.5

I was so into it that I was working at a stationary shop and I couldn't put it down so much so

0:45.8

that on my watch, two ceramic bunnies were stolen and I was almost fired.

0:51.8

So whenever I think about Michael Crite and I say to him, hey, dude, nice work.

0:55.3

Your book was so good.

0:56.3

It distracted me from someone putting two football sized porcelain bunnies down their

1:01.5

pants or under their shirt or something.

1:03.6

But what I loved about Jurassic Park was the dinosaur behavior.

1:07.0

But I wasn't really that stoked about fossilized bones.

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