Oh, hello. It's your eccentric aunt and your internet dad, Ellie Ward. We're back with an episode of Smaller Gs.

So, Smaller Gs are these classic, oligee's episodes, but we cut them down and make them shorter and we edit them for language

so that they are kids safe and classroom appropriate and parents don't yell at me.

Now, if you've never listened to the full version of this episode about fish and you're not around impressionable ears,

it's linked right in the show notes for grownups, the longer one, it's there for you, go straight to that.

But if you're down for a family-friendly shorter version, this episode of Smaller Gs is for you.

Also, quickly before I get into it, I am going to be at Wendercond in Anaheim.

I've ever heard of Wendercond. It's in Anaheim. It's on Friday, March 24th. I'll be there leading a panel.

That's Friday, March 24th, 2023, 6 p.m. Friday, a panel about climate change and art with my friends from the organization Functional Magic.

I'm going to make these awesome collectible climate solutions, gig posters.

I've interviewed my friend Andy Hall who started the organization before. I'll link that in the show notes too.

They donate proceeds to Rainforest Charities. I'll be there if you're at Wendercond. Come to our panel Friday. It's 6 p.m. and say hi.

Now, Ike theology Smaller Gs. This is a good one.

I was giddy to talk face to face about fish.

First, the etymology of Ike theology. Pretty straightforward. Ike these means fish in Greek.

It also sounds like a cat sneezing. Ike these.

Do it. Do it right now. Ike these.

Right? Whatever. Okay. So this all just let me into the bowels of a natural history museum.

To the very basement where she walked me through the Lord of Sealing, gray metal shelves filled with jars of fish suspended in these amber chunky liquids.

Past these articulated fish skeletons. Apparently the collection the museum is over 5 million specimens of just fish which weigh a lot of pounds.

So they got to put them on the bottom floor because they're so heavy. That's the thing with museums. What you see on display is the tiniest fraction of what they really have so much is kept in the back in libraries and warehouses is like a catalog for research.

So we pulled up some chairs in this little library and thisologist honestly she has the regal presence of Robin Wright but she has the timing of a comedian and she has the obsessive fish knowledge of a savant.

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