What A Tool!
Creature Feature
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Today we’ll be talking about tools! Tools of the trade, tools of torture, and tools of, well, hehe, you know. Bow-chika-wa-wah! What’s a butcher, a tailor, and a bendy-stick maker got in common? They’re all birds! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: what’s the most humiliating thing to happen to an eel? With special guest Carmen Angelica.
FOOTNOTES:
1. Bottlenose dolphins wielding sponges
2. Video of a tailor bird sewing leaves together
3. New Caledonian crows create their own hooks
4. The Brazen Bull torture device
5. Butcher bird impaling its prey
6. Macaques using human hair to floss
7. Palm cockatoos drumming to get the ladies
9. The weird world of dragonfly wieners
10. The woman who has trained herself how to run like a horse
Correction: Living root bridges are found in Meghalaya, Northeast India.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Katie Lowe's and I'm Giermo Diaz and we're the hosts of unpacking the |
| 0:05.8 | toolbox the scandal rewatch podcast where we're talking about all the best |
| 0:09.7 | moments of the show mesmerizing but also we get to hang out with all of our old scandal friends like Belmy Young, Scott Foley, |
| 0:17.2 | Tony Goldwyn, Debbie Allen, Carrie Washington. |
| 0:20.0 | Well suit up, gladiators, grab your big old glass of wine and prepare yourselves for even more |
| 0:25.1 | behind the scenes stories with unpacking the toolbox. |
| 0:27.8 | Listen to unpacking the toolbox on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | Or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro, host of the hit podcast Family Secrets. |
| 0:39.0 | Imagine this. |
| 0:40.0 | Your parents sign away your childhood to an academic psychological study. |
| 0:44.4 | And what about if your sister is very publicly tried, convicted, and sent to prison, |
| 0:49.9 | when really she was just telling her long-buried truce. |
| 0:53.4 | These tough questions are just a few |
| 0:55.2 | that will be grappling with on our upcoming |
| 0:57.2 | 10th season of family secrets. |
| 0:59.4 | Listen to season 10 of family secrets |
| 1:01.2 | on the I-HeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:05.6 | Welcome to Criminalia. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Maria Tremorke. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:10.1 | Together, we invite you into the dark corridors of history and true crime. |
| 1:14.6 | For each season we explore a new theme. |
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