Zoos! Feed Drop: Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Creature Feature

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Science, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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A feed drop from the Secretly Incredibly Fascinating podcast, with me and Alex Schmidt! On this very Creaturey-featurey episode, we talk about the history of zoos, and tons of cool zoo facts! Baby pygmy hippos definitely mentioned!

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.5	Adventure should never come with a pause button.
0:07.1	Remember Movie Pass?
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0:11.1	I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:13.9	And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.
0:17.4	Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company he
0:21.9	built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.
0:27.3	And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the
0:32.2	Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Zoos. known for animals, famous for getting to visit the animals at the zoo.
0:43.5	Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.
0:46.1	Let's find out why zoos are secretly incredibly fascinating.
1:08.0	Music secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt. And folks, not only am I not alone, I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie.
1:23.7	Alex! Hey, good to see you, buddy. Yeah, it's good to see you, too. I'm glad you're back from your break. Me too. And I am also so glad people picked such a wonderful topic for any SIF episode. Thank you, Dekoup Bear with support from lots of folks. Katie, what's your relationship to or opinion of zoos? You don't think about animals. You probably haven't heard of them or anything.
1:45.6	I grew up in San Diego. So I went to one of the world's most famous zoos quite a bit when I was
1:52.1	growing up as an adult, the San Diego Zoo. Yeah. And I also, because I host a animal podcast, a
2:00.8	creature feature, I get asked a lot what my opinion is on zoos.
2:05.5	It really comes down to the zoos because some zoos are basically animal prisons.
2:11.1	They're not very good.
2:12.5	They don't have adequate space for animals.
2:16.1	And so a lot of like roadside zoos are terrible. You just can't like put a
2:22.0	wild animal in a small cage and call it a day. And I don't see any value to that. Zoos like the San
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