This week on the podcast:
00:00:00 – The Paleopals Ryan, Patrick and Charlie are all drinking beers (shocking!) and they’re all in locations (also: shocking!) but the only way to learn what those beers are and where they’re being consumed is to listen!
00:05:44 – This week the Paleopals are talking with Dr. Seth Shostak who hunts aliens and has a real radio show. (He also uses radios to hunt aliens.) They’re talking specifically about an article positing that the search for ET may need to focus more on the AI than the squishy EBE’s that made them.
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00:33:03 – Because everybody loves George Clooney this week’s Trailer Trash Talk features The American (not the one from The Bugle).
00:42:23 – Charlie, widely considered the most energetic of the Paleopals, brings us a story about some of the problems facing alternative energy. The guys are sure to get this problem solved, they just need some organic matter to be broken down over a few million years until it’s some sort of fuel… made from fossils. That would do the trick!
01:03:01 – PaleoPOWs are as follows: Patrick cheated by using a facebook post from David Precht earlier when we talked with Seth Shostak. Elli wants to know if you can smell in space. And Ryan gets some love for the “sort of side” from Danielle when it comes to stripping.
Other media we talked about:
Thanks for listening, be sure to check out our blog for regularly updated content all week long at http://paleocave.sciencesortof.com/!
Direct download: Episode 51 – Area-51
Music for this week’s show:
12:51 – The Strokes
Aliens Exist – blink-182
American Idiot – Green Day
Royal Oil – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Tags: ai, aliens, alternative energy, area-51, et, extraterrestrial life, oil, podcast, science, science podcast, seti, shostak, the american
This week on the podcast…
00:00:00 – Charlie is taking point this week to welcome everyone to the Science… sort of golden anniversary. Hooray! We made it to 50! Next stop… 51! (Obviously)
00:06:11 – There are a lot of animals in the world worth talking about. The Paleopals crank through as many as they can with this omni-list segment of some of our favorite extremophiles! (Not really extremophiles but the word was thematically appropriate.)
00:43:44 – Trailer Trash Talk is feeling monstrous this week so we take a trip to the Mexican border with the trailer for Monsters.
00:51:18 – We’re sad to report that last year we lost a Chinese snake with a foot when it was tragically beaten to death with a shoe by a woman who caught it crawling up her wall. Hard to blame her.
00:56:29 – PaleoPOW brings us a question about the Hulk which makes Charlie angry (you won’t like him when he’s angryz), a ‘critical’ review from a ‘pal’ of ‘Pods’ over at iTunes, and some good old fashioned spam debunkery!
Thanks for listening, check out more great content updated regularly on our blog at http://paleocave.sciencesortof.com/
Direct Download: Episode 50 – X-Treme Manimals!
Music for the show:
Animal (Punks Jump Up Remix) – Miike Snow [An Album of Remixes]
Lisztomania (Alex Metric Rmx) - Phoenix
Monster – Abandoned Pools
Footloose – Kenny Loggins
This week on the podcast…
00:00:00 – Patrick is feeling whiney again; Charlie thinks he’s being typical and Ryan unwinds with some local flavor after a long journey.
00:04:46 – Patrick surprises everyone by telling us marsupials might not have come from Australia at all! Ryan argues for the Creationist perspective. Charlie tries to make sense of it all.
00:17:59 – This week Trailer Trash Talk goes behind bars as the (chain)-gang talks about the new documentary Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo.
00:28:29 – Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the frying pan Charlie scares us more than a prison rodeo with his story about mutant canola escaping the confines of the farm.
00:43:39 – Now all Ryan wants to talk about is kissing with the dudes, which is different than kissing dudes, a distinction he may have missed.
00:53:41 – PaleoPOW is a bit somber this week as Nicole takes us to taxonomy class, Ryan gets yelled at for illegally riding a dinosaur while under the influence and finally H. Elliot’s husband used us to get an ‘A.’ We approve but want to see the assignment for ourselves.
Thanks for listening, if you’d like more great content updated all week check out our blog at http://paleocave.sciencesortof.com/
Direct download: Episode 49 – Of Marsupials and Mutants
Music:
Old Number Seven – Devil Makes Three
Australia – The Shins
Prisoner of Today – Billy Talent
Personal Space Invader – Sugar Ray
Kiss Me – Sixpence None the Richer
We made the mistake that many other media outlets made in regards to a story about Triceratops and Torosaurus potentially being different growth stages of the same animal. We stated that the genus name Torosaurus would have priority over Triceratops because it would be the adult stage. Not true, Triceratops was named earlier and would remain the name of the dinosaur even if the two dinosaurs (Triceratops and Torosaurus) were found to be the same animal. Thanks to listener Nicole Ridgwell for jumping to the defense of the Triceratops. You can read more about our mistake at our blog.
This week on the podcast…
00:00:00 – Charlie drinks something that helps clarify a previous misstep. Patrick avoids problems. Ben is bennnnn. Ryan regales (or bores) everyone (including you) with his tales of travelling around the USA in search of good beers.
00:07:36 – Jack Horner and Co. have taken our Triceratops but the Paleopals are arguing to get them back!
00: 23: 43 – Dinosaurs may not be expendable but your favorite 80’s action stars are in this week’s Trailer Trash Talk for The Expendables!
00:31:53 – Charlie sounds like a Bond villain as he explains possible plans to geo-engineer the Earth!
00:57:20 – Ben may not drink alcohol but he has no problem recommending a quick drink to help superconductors function better.
01:04:18 – PaleoPOW: Canada steps up it’s game with a all new all northern iTunes review. Patrick thanks COED magazine for some unexpected publicity. Charlie finds out how much we confuse the older generation. And Ryan revisits an old friend, an old joke, and an even older computer program.
Check out more great content updated regularly at our blog: http://paleocave.sciencesortof.com/
Direct download: Episode 48 – No Frills
Music this week:
Russian Jazz Waltz – Vagabond Opera
Let there be horns – RJD2
Bad Company – Bad Company
The World at Large – Modest Mouse
Electric Avenue – Eddy Grant
Tags: beer, expendables, geoengineering, horner, paleontology, paleopals, podcast, science, science...sort of, superconductors, triceratops
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