Silver Screen Science - Anaconda (1997)

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This June, by popular demand, we’re doing a Silver Screen Science double feature focusing on our two favorite reptiles: crocs and snakes. One croc movie, one snake movie, both quintessential creature features of the 90s. This episode, it’s snake time: Anaconda (1997) The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:18.4	Hello, Will.
0:19.6	Hello, David. Hello, Internet, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science.
0:23.3	Woohoo!
0:24.1	Silver Screen Science is a side series of the Common Descent podcast where we talk about the
0:29.1	science of movies.
0:30.7	That was a lot of S's.
0:31.7	It's a lot of S's.
0:32.5	I, alliteration.
0:33.3	I'm a big fan of it.
0:34.3	This month, we have a double feature going on with movies featuring our favorite reptiles, crocs and snakes.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.5	Last episode, we talked about Lake Placid.
0:45.5	This episode, we are back.
0:46.8	The timeless classic, Lake Placid.
0:48.8	The timeless classic of the last 22 years.
0:51.4	Lake Placid.
0:52.7	This time, we are back to discuss a significantly older movie,
0:57.4	Anaconda, from two years before that. We did Crocs. This time it's snakes. And boy, what a,
1:04.8	what a discussion about snakes. It's going to be, before we get into that, a reminder of the
1:10.6	mission of silver screen science
1:12.1	to analyze the science of movies, not just nitpicking what they did right, what they did wrong,
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