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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Save the Bats!

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2010

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As the only flying mammals, bats play unique roles in our world's ecology. Yet in caves across North America more than a million bats have fallen prey to a mysterious affliction known as white nose syndrome. Tune in and learn more in this podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. In this week's episode I had the honor to

0:06.0

interview President Joe Biden in his first ever personal interview about mental health.

0:11.4

We have an enormous opportunity but the thing I want to change is American attitude.

0:16.1

We can do anything. There's nothing we've ever said our mind who we've not been able to do we've

0:20.7

done together. For real. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app,

0:26.7

Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Craig Ferguson goes in search of joy

0:33.6

in talks with actors, doctors, stand-ups and scientists, everyone. Is it love, religion, drugs,

0:39.2

money? Where do you find it? Craig Ferguson in search of joy, the celebrations, the dances,

0:44.4

science, poetry, laughter and music of joy. Don't miss it. Joy with Craig Ferguson.

0:50.5

Here at No on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:56.9

I'm here to help. This is a special transmission from M and Jeff.

1:02.8

And we're setting the navigation back to Earth. Why? You promised we would stop on

1:07.5

Zorp for those flangle fries. We can go back for them later. We need to pick up some clean suits

1:11.8

and fuel up because we have a lot more flights to do and we start now. Who's flying with us

1:17.3

this time? Tell me. You know that's classified information. Ooh. Strap in tight and join us for

1:22.4

season two of In Our Own World, part of the Michael Duda Podcast Network, available on the iHeart

1:27.5

Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. See you soon.

1:31.8

Welcome to Stuff from the Science Lab from howstuffworks.com.

1:46.0

Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. This is Alice in Laudermale, the science editor at howstuffworks.com.

1:50.7

And this is Robert Lam, science writer at howstuffworks.com. And we're talking about bats this week.

1:56.9

That's in danger. Yeah. My last encounter with bats, really. I mean, I know they're around,

2:02.3

but I don't really see them. But the last time I really had an experience with bats was when I was on

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