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Ologies with Alie Ward

Smologies #1: THE MOON with Selenologist Raquel Nuno

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Introducing… SMOLOGIES. Smaller, shorter, G-rated episodes cut from your favorite classics. Listen to Smologies in classrooms, around people whose language is squeaky clean, and in safe-for-work settings. You get bite-sized info in a jiffy, and I get to reserve my filthy language for our longer, regular episodes that drop on Tuesdays. In this episode, planetary geologist Raquel Nuno chats about when the moon formed, what its made of, how moon phases work, gravity, conspiracy theories debunked, the far side of the moon, lunar caves and why she pulls out the telescope to stare at the sky every night.

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0:00.0

Oh, hi. It's Small Legies. This is the first ever episode. I'm Allie Ward. These are Small

0:06.6

Allie Gees episodes delivering little tiny bite-sized brain snacks, little episodes that are

0:13.6

refreshers on your favorites, and class and friendly. All ages cuts of Allie Gees episodes that you

0:19.9

love. So I hear it from folks every day. I get messages, yo, Dad Ward. I see you have bleeped

0:25.5

episodes, but what about making Allie Gees super family friendly? Can you change your whole vibe

0:30.7

for Small Legites? I can't. I love you, but I love the way I get to make the full-length Allie Gees

0:35.3

episodes that come out and land on your feed every Tuesday. But I did decide I can tweak what we have

0:41.6

and release these clean, shorter edited versions as free bonus episodes so that when you see the

0:47.1

Small Legies title, you know that you can listen with your kids and my parents. And Small Legies are

0:52.8

quicker cleaner cuts of the back catalog favorites that are just perfect for my Weezy jog around the

0:59.9

block or your dinner prep or anytime you have about 20 minutes to burn. And if you want the full scoop,

1:04.6

all the juicy full episodes with more facts and back stories and words that we would not say

1:09.9

around youngsters, you can find a link to that full version in the show notes. So with that,

1:14.6

welcome to Small Legies, which are dropping twice today as a little honeymoon break debut this week.

1:20.3

Just kind of an introduction to our podcast baby. And then Small Legies will be out every other week

1:25.6

on Thursdays as a bonus. So introducing Small Legies number one,

1:31.1

Cellanology, a word that comes from the Greek cellan for moon. So get ready to bask in the glow of

1:37.3

cellanologist, Raquel Nuno. So what exactly would you say when you introduce someone and say what

2:03.5

you do? What do you tell them? I tell them that I'm a planetary geologist. That's just what I say.

2:09.3

And people usually have no idea what that means. They're like, I know geology. I don't know

2:13.6

planetary. What does that even mean? So then I say, I'm a space geologist. I study rocks and other

2:18.8

planets. And that's what I tell them. And then they lose their mind. And then like, what does that?

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