Oh, hey, it's that second hole that you have to carve into a can of pineapple juice

in order to get the first one to glove out,

Halleward. Back with an episode of Oligis, you better not sleep on.

You're about to get walloped with excitement and passion and gossip about drugs and dongs

and aliens and how it all relates to these tiny goofy, dick-shaped flatworms.

You know what you're going to do tomorrow?

Tomorrow, you're going to paint an airbrush mural on the hoodie or car that just says,

I got damn love plenarians. But before we get you there, let's thank the folks at patreon.com

slash allergies. They send in as little as 25 cents an episode and they get to ask questions.

Thanks also to everyone who is sending this episode to friends and family despite the fact

that it is about worms and it is not safe for work. Thanks to everyone who rates and subscribes

and of course reviews, you know I pick a new one each week to read and this week obsessed with

science oh six says oh hey I hate all podcasts but this one it's amazing. Thank you Allie,

I hope you read this. Obsessed with science oh six, I did read it also. Happy birthday.

Okay, let's get into it. Plenaryology, it's indeed a thing. It's the study of plenarians which are

a class of free living, free wheel and flatworms and the word plenaria comes from the Latin for

on level ground because these things look like if you miniaturized a human penis and cranked it

through the rollers of a pasta machine. Flat, phallic, little triangle shaped head that contains

tiny brains to boot so thisologist has studied them for years and we met via twitter and he is a gem.

So he's an associate professor of biology at Westchester University in Pennsylvania and author of

the popular science book The First Brain, the neuroscience of plenarians. He also wrote strange

survivors how organisms attack and defend in the game of life and he's working on a new book

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