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The Common Descent Podcast

Sloth Chat Livestream 2018

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In April 2018, we hosted this Sloth Chat Livestream! Following up from Episode 24 (Sloths), we were joined by sloth scientists Ryan Haupt and Robert McAfee to answer audience questions about sloths, living and extinct! For anyone who didn't (or doesn't want to) watch it on YouTube, here it is in audio format for your listening pleasure! You can also still watch the original recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirqw5ei45U Find Ryan:https://ryanhaupt.com/ Twitter: @haupt Find Robert:http://slothsearch.com Twitter: @DocSloth Hear Ryan and Robert discuss sloths on Science … Sort Of:https://sciencesortof.com/show-notes/2014/10/episode-207-drop-bears-of-south-america https://sciencesortof.com/show-notes/2016/6/episode-242-the-little-slothologist-that-could Hear Will and David chat with Ryan on Science … Sort Of:https://sciencesortof.com/show-notes/2018/7/episode-287-descent-into-madness Keep up to date with modern sloth conservation with the Sloth Conservation Foundation, founded by Dr. Becky Cliffe, the one sloth scientist who didn’t make it to our Sloth Chat: https://slothconservation.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Will.

0:01.6

Hello, David.

0:02.8

Hello, listeners.

0:04.3

Here's something a little different.

0:06.4

Back in April of 2018, we did a live stream called Sloth Chat.

0:12.2

It was a follow-up from episode 24, which was about sloths, where we were joined by two sloth scientists to answer sloth questions from our sloth interested listeners.

0:22.6

It was sparked when one of them contacted us to help us update one of our blog post facts.

0:29.7

And then the conversation continued.

0:32.3

Well, now as we approach the anniversary, the one-year anniversary of that event, we are releasing the audio.

0:39.3

So what you're going to hear here in just a bit is the audio of Sloth Chat.

0:43.3

In case you didn't get a chance to see it or you don't want to watch it on YouTube.

0:47.3

You can listen to it here on the podcast feed.

0:50.3

This is the original audio that you would have heard on YouTube.

0:54.4

It's been edited a little bit.

0:56.0

Pared down, shortened a little bit.

0:58.2

It's still YouTube audio.

1:00.4

Like, we didn't, what we should have done is record each track separately, but we did not do that.

1:05.4

So this is all one track.

1:08.1

We were learning back then.

1:09.8

There's a little bit of audio wonkiness every now and then, especially from Ryan's end,

1:15.0

because he was in a car.

1:16.1

Yes, the entire time.

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