Throwback Episode: Sperm Whales, Strain, Space

The Sarah Silverman Podcast

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This episode originally aired April 11, 2024 Sarah shares an explosive fact about sperm whales. Plus, she helps a mom support her young child through divorce, motivates someone struggling to get in shape, and analyzes a dream about cannibalism. You can leave a voice memo for Sarah at speakpipe.com/TheSarahSilvermanPodcast. Follow Sarah Silverman @sarahkatesilverman on Instagram and @sarahksilverman on TikTok. And stay up to date with us @LemonadaMedia on X, Facebook, and Instagram. For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Julia Louis Dreyfus. I'm back with a new season of Wiser Than Me,
0:08.6	the show where I sit down with remarkable older women and soak up their stories, their humor,
0:15.8	and their hard-earned wisdom. Every conversation leaves me a little smarter and definitely more inspired. And yes,
0:23.6	I'm still calling my 91-year-old mom, Judy, to get her take on it all. Wiser than me from
0:30.8	Lemonada Media is out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:48.0	Yeah. you get your podcasts. Hey, I want to say, hey, I want to fight.
0:50.3	Hi.
0:51.3	Hi, you fuck up.
0:53.3	Hey.
0:54.2	Hi, everybody. It's your best pal, you fuck up. Hey. Hi, everybody.
0:55.8	It's your best pal, Sarah.
0:58.6	You know, I read, actually, Rory texted me a story from the news.
1:04.9	What's it from, actually?
1:06.1	Something that he follows, that animal news or something.
1:10.7	A group of sperm whales was attacked by a big group of orca whales.
1:18.2	Orcas, they're just called orcas, right?
1:20.6	And they were able to fend them off how?
1:26.0	I'll tell you.
1:31.4	This is a defense mechanism that they use sperm whales.
1:40.6	It's a defensive explosive diarrhea. And I'm not just saying that because this is exactly what I would want it to be.
1:45.9	It's actually true. They expel explosive diarrhea, and then they use their giant fins and, like, fan it over to where the orcas are coming from, and they get lost in a cloud,
1:54.3	a diarrhea cloud, and it disorients them and probably makes them lose their appetite.
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