Hey, Johanna, what's going on?

Hey, Amanda, I'm good. How are you?

Good. So today I want to show you a photo.

It's a photo of a sort of unusual piece of furniture that's at this museum in England called the Lime Regis Museum.

Yeah, yeah, it's beautiful.

So this is a tabletop. So we're looking down in it from above.

That's the angle here.

How would you describe this?

Okay.

It is sort of a rectangular shape with some chiseled edges.

And in set, in the middle of it, is this really, I find it kind of beautiful collage, I guess you would say, of what looks like possibly bugs or some sort of intricate design that are all within these little circles sort of inlaid into the table.

It's like very delicate.

So these bug type looking things are actually not bugs at all.

They're a material called coprolite, which is a scientific term for essentially

fossilized feces. So these beautiful stones that we're looking at. This is all poop. This is

poop, yeah. This is not a pool table. It's a poo table. Oh, God. That's a lot of poop.

It is a lot of poop. Yes.

I have a lot of. I was going to ask, who's poop, where the poop comes from. I imagine we'll soon find out.

Yeah, so this table is affectionately known as the poo table of William Buckland, who's the man who had this table made.

And so, yes, today we're going to talk about who was William Buckland.

Why did he have a poo table? That's what we're going to find out.

I'm Johanna Mayer.

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