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Wildly Curious
Wildly Curious is a comedy podcast where science, nature, and curiosity collide. Hosted by Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole, two wildlife experts with a combined 25+ years of conservation education experience, the show dives into wild animal behaviors, unexpected scientific discoveries, and bizarre natural phenomena. With a knack for breaking down complex topics into fun and digestible insights, Katy and Laura make science accessible for all—while still offering fresh perspectives for seasoned science enthusiasts. Each episode blends humor with real-world science, taking listeners on an engaging journey filled with quirky facts and surprising revelations. Whether you're a curious beginner or a lifelong science lover, this podcast offers a perfect mix of laughs, learning, and the unexpected wonders of the natural world.
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Right in the Funnies: Top 15 Moments from Seasons 1-5
Welcome to Wildly Curious (formerly For the Love of Nature)! In this hilarious episode, co-host Katy Reiss takes a walk down memory lane to highlight the top 15 funniest moments from the first five seasons. Whether it’s a raccoon attack gone wrong or the misadventures of koalas in explosive trees, these stories will have you laughing out loud. Katy and Laura Fawks Lapole have shared so many memorable, side-splitting moments, and this episode brings them all together for the ultimate recap. Get ready to hear about swan fights, chicken slapping machines, and much more as we prepare for Season 6!
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Hey, everyone, and welcome to For the Love of Nature, a podcast where we talk about nature, and I already forgot the intro. It's been too long.
Hey, everyone, this is For the Love of Nature, a podcast where we tell you everything you need to know about nature and probably more than you wanted to know. Laura is not here, but Katy is. And as we talked about, we gave a little teaser in the last episode that I was going to go ahead and have some guests on.
However, sometimes life happens, whether to Laura and I or to our guests. And so in this situation, just decided to mix things up. It is the end of season five, which is super exciting for us, because for some reason, we have been doing this for a year and a half, and our numbers just keep skyrocketing.
Why? Thank you. I don't know what else to say to you guys, because honestly, I mean, we're excited about this.
Laura and I love just making other people laugh and sharing our knowledge, but we've had so much fun over the last year and a half, and as we're prepping already for season six, Kim, as we said, we are never taking a break again. So Kim is gonna do our season breaks now. So she has sort of some mini episodes.
Do not skip over them. Why? Because Kim is funnier than Laura and I, I promise you.
I've already heard a couple little snippets of it that Laura and I were listening to them. Let me just say, guys, Kim, she's amazing. She's our manager.
You guys are just now joining us. She keeps us on deadline, and she keeps us on track. She just basically helps us with everything.
So without further ado, we are gonna talk about, or I'm gonna talk about, and highlight our top 15 favorite moments up until this point. So the first five seasons, these are our highlights. So without further ado, we're gonna go throw it back, way back to the very first episode where Laura and I are talking about our aspirations of having a goat milk farm, slash scorpion farm, slash butterfly farm.
Laura, the short term, we wanted to start a band. So let's go ahead and play this clip. I am so sorry for this episode, guys.
Yeah, that was definitely one of our big pipe dreams. And then even short term, we were like, hey, man, we could probably make just money panhandling.
So I feel like we need to have a shout out to our poor dream of Zuganru, which is going to be an amazing band with just the two of us.
We, that makes us sound so much poorer than what we were, but we really were that poor.
Because like, yes, we're just above minimum wage, so we're pretty freaking poor.
Panhandling.
So yeah, you with your hand drum, and then I'm like, I'm like, oh yeah, I am so on board. So I got myself a Native American flute. And we never practiced once.
Right. Not once, but.
I brought, I brought the, I brought the drum in. I remember that. And I remember we brought it in and everybody was like, what is that?
We're like, we're starting a band. Like we're starting a band. Like we're going to be panhandling.
And remember when we decided that maybe your toddler could get in on it and start like slapping his cheeks.
Which till to this day, he's very good at.
And that is Katy Reese original. I have not picked up that handband in like five years, which shows how into Zuganru, Laura and I were. But no, seriously, Zuganru is a term for migratory recluses.
I know we did mention it in another episode, but yeah, like who wants to start a band? We had several people after that episode asking us if Laura and I really are like that ridiculous in real life. And the answer is always yes.
And we hope through these first five seasons that you have seen that like that's just normal conversation for Laura and I. It's just like these insane ideas. All right, so Zuganru, we're starting a band.
All right, number 14. I actually forgot about this section until somebody mentioned it to me when I was going back through cutting other sections out of the episodes. And this one took me by surprise.
I totally forgot about it. It's when Laura's mom got attacked by a raccoon.
So in 2020, my mom had a raccoon approach her and either accidentally bite her or scratch her.
Oh, that's right, I forgot about that.
It had the fishing hook in its mouth.
Yes, I remember that.
And it like came walking up to her and rubbed against her pant legs, probably in a desperate cry for help. And it got stuck on her pants. They both rolled down a hill together as my dad is trying to beat it off with a stick.
And didn't work.
The poor raccoon is just like, please, somebody help me.
It runs away. It runs away as my mom is crying. Don't hurt it, it's just trying.
It's not doing anything. And then she has to go to the hospital for rabies shots because she has the puncture on her leg, either from the raccoon, when it was rolling down the hill or the hook. So I would be, I think it would be like my mom where I'd be like, is it, maybe it's just trying to ask for help.
Meanwhile, it's a rabid raccoon trying to attack me. So yeah, for sure it would be like the taking me off guard. Look at this cute little raccoon.
And then just trying to keep it away from me.
I remember when you messaged me about that because I remember reading it and I was laughing so hard.
Because it's the most random thing in the world.
It is, and I was trying, I was trying very hard to type out like, is she okay? But I couldn't stop laughing that it was, I was just like at the craziness of it.
Yeah, one of the chances.
Shout out to Laura's mom for just being an unwilling participant on this show. All right, that was number 14. Number 13 was Laura and I were talking about the best ways to go, like go out of this world.
And we highlight or I highlighted from my eighth grade English teacher, how he always said that before he went out, or if he, when he went out, this is how he wanted to go. I had a, wasn't my English teacher, my eighth grade English teacher, that he always told us that whenever he starts to get to the age where he's gonna be too old, he wants to die by tobogganing down Mount Everest. And I have never forgotten that, of how amazing of a way that would be.
Like if you're gonna die, I mean, might as well do something like so absurdly epic. Yeah, tobogganing down Mount Everest, right? Continue.
With your little tassel cap on. Goggles. Just pass it.
Anciently old.
What is that? Just like a snow drip like them, flying down the mountain.
Little icicles on their old man eyebrows.
All right. Good grief. So one of my favorite things about being a co-host with Laura is just like we feed off of each other's ridiculousness, and that is a prime example, because there's, I mean, first of all, let's just say, tobogganing down Mount Everest, that is a heck of a way to go.
Heck of a way to go. Would do I want to go that way? I, maybe, I would consider it.
Anyway, number 12. Could you fight that episode, which a lot of our top 15 segments come from our Could you fight that episode? Because that one was just so funny.
First of all, the title, just Could you fight that? And I had a coworker that gave me a bunch of different animals that he thought I could fight. And then my son gave me a bunch of different animals that he thought I could fight.
And it just snowballed from there. So this is one of the things that we said was about surviving in the ocean. If it was a survival aspect, which this is, I've already determined in a previous episode that I could definitely ride it.
So one, I would either ride it, or two, I feel like I could just curl up in a tiny ball and just like survive it. Like tuck and float in the water and just take it.
Pull over. That would be my, that would be my anything in the water, just tuck and float.
Just tuck and float. That needs to be on a t-shirt that Josh can make.
In someone in a little fetal position, but surrounded by sharks. Tuck and float, guys. Tuck and float.
Tuck and float.
Tuck and float. I really do feel like that needs to be on a t-shirt somewhere. All right, so we're gonna talk about my apparent anger issues.
And so this is gonna be a collection of one, two, three, four, five different animals in which I clearly have more of a fight response to what Laura does. So the first one is gonna be a swan. The second one is gonna be a shoebill stork, which if you've never seen how badass that animal looks, please go look at it.
A penguin, garanook, and then a camel. So here's our next section. This is the top 11 segment of Katy's anger issues.
I feel like your response is more flight, where mine is more fight.
Yeah, well, it would depend on the animal, I think.
Okay, okay, because if I was in that situation, I would totally grab that thing by the neck and drown it. Like, if I was in the water, grab its head, pull it down.
If it's near the swan, it's definitely gonna be the swan.
But remember, whenever we were kids, did you ever have to do, like, in swim? Did you have swim class as a kid? Like in gym?
So we had a pool and they had to teach us to survive where they, like, you take off your pants, you flop it over your head and make a flotation device. You ever learn to do that? So because I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, where we have rivers and stuff like that, we had to do these drills where you have a bathing suit on, you put clothes on and they make you all jump in the pool, and then you have to take everything off.
That's cool.
To survive, and so to float. And so you take your pants off, you tie the legs together, flop them over your head and you have to tread water, and then pull them down over your head, catches enough air, and then you spin the bottom, and then you can put the tied legs around your neck, and then just hold onto it. It's a flotation device.
So take that picture, and that's what I would do with the swan.
The swan. Fold its head down onto the water, grab it with my legs, and use it as a flotation device.
Use it as a flotation device until it drowns.
That's amazing.
How would I fight it? So most of it is by its beak, decapitating, it chomps it. It will kick, just like most birds, like you said with the chomper swan, it'll kick, it'll do whatever it can.
And I mean, most of the time, because it's a bird, it's gonna fly away. Fight or flight, it takes flight every time if it can. But if for some reason it was really pissed off at me, one, punch it square in its clogged face mug, then break its legs.
Like just sweep them.
Just sweep it at the legs. Because bird bones are hollow, essentially. Oh, geez.
So again, I feel like I went way more aggressive than what you did.
I don't think I killed a single animal in mine.
I didn't say I would kill it yet. I just said-
No, you drowned the swan.
Then this shoe-built stork broke its legs. So it may be able to fly away, but it clearly can't run away at this point.
Like unless you would, you would have to like, grab it by the beak, and then like, boom.
The facial expression. Because I started, I started motioning what I was gonna do. And the look of horror.
The look of horror. Laura's face.
That's the silence you heard.
Are you gonna snap?
Are you, wait, our listeners.
Katy, I don't know how much they can take.
I'm so glad you have headphones on, and your poor sweet baby isn't hearing anything. But he would have to pull his beak out, and then like, just like. Karate chop, like push down on the back of his skull.
How would I fight it? Because they do get pretty aggressive, and the males do have like long sharp horns. So again, it would have to be, same thing as yours, sidestep it, okay?
And then once I do, go grab it by its neck, and then just like.
Because, and I could not stop laughing at that image of like, how long its neck is. You just need to grab it anywhere. Yeah, and just grab it and then shake it.
Be like a cartoon.
Yeah, like, cause I'm picturing like, tongue out, like so aggressive shaking, like tongue out, and it sounds like it's tiny brain, just in there like rattling around like marbles. I'm just like.
It's either that or you sidestep and clothesline it. Like with your arm.
I'm gonna shake it. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna strangle it and shake it.
I'm gonna strangle it, mostly cause I wanna hear it go. Cause I'm pretty sure that's the sound it would make. All right, so my last actual animal was another one of my sons, a camel.
Oh my gosh. That one is, you're right. That one is as scary as, okay.
How would I fight it? Well, according to Lucas, I need to throat chop it.
Oh my gosh.
Yes, throat chop a camel. I don't know. I just have that much more of a fight response on Laura.
So now we're under the top 10. The next one is another little collection of why koalas suck so bad. Guys, the closer we get to number one, the more excited I get.
So let's go ahead and listen. Also, they're explosive.
What?
So eucalyptus trees, they explode.
Why?
So it has to do with the oil, the oil that's in them. So, you know, a lot of-
The poison oil.
Yeah, the poison oil. So, you know, a lot of, like Texas, like a lot of places around the world, you need to do, it needs to have a natural burn. Burn, yeah.
So you gotta burn. Which is horrible anyway, because so many quals get caught in these fires.
I know, I did know that, that they're in very fire prone areas.
But also, this is horrible. But also, so not only is it toxic, they're not all that quick, but the eucalyptus trees explode.
When they light on fire.
Yeah, when they catch on fire, because I think it's because of the oil.
That is nuts.
Yeah, so it's-
So they live in a toxic, explosive tree.
Explosive tree, yeah. Which I really thought you were gonna bring up at some point.
I don't know, how did I miss that fact?
So it's a very high flammable, vaporized eucalyptus oil, which is just produced by the tree naturally. So it's just like chill-
I'll just live on this grenade and eat poison.
What about my life? My happy little koala life. Oh, goodness.
They have an upside down pouch.
Yep.
So, opposite of a kangaroo, it's like opening faces downwards. So usually you see this in burrowing marsupials, like while in baths, because it doesn't let dirt in.
Yeah, makes sense.
Totally makes sense.
But you know what, actually just a pocket full of dirt. Like they're just burrowing.
The baby comes out. It'd be so cute, but awful. But so they, you know, clearly they think koal is probably used to burrow, but not for a real long time.
But they kept that, they kept that upside down pouch.
Instead of the safety of a burrow, let's climb into the toxic exploding trees.
Yeah, with an upside down pouch, like an upside down pouch for an arboreal species.
It doesn't make any sense.
Which, so you'd think that babies would just be getting dumped out all the time. Whoop, the only thing that keeps them in there has to be the fact that when they attach to the nipple, it swells up so much that they're stuck to it. And then finally, they almost all have chlamydia.
Yep.
Normally, like that's a normal thing. That's a normal thing for them.
Another reason why to not kiss them or anything, you don't.
A second reason to never kiss a koala, those dirty koalas. That's normally not a problem unless they get stressed. So, you know, like if their tree explodes or if there's a fire or any other stressful situation.
Which is basically their life, just one stressful situation after another.
But some scientists believe it's a natural control mechanism that makes sure the population doesn't get too out of control and only the strongest survive. As if everything else isn't controlling their population.
Let's also give them chlamydia.
I cannot.
I'm sorry. I told you guys, I would be laughing just as much as I did then.
I record these, and Laura edits a lot of these, or all of them. And so Laura edits them, and I still listen to them, and I still laugh like an idiot. Because half the time, I forget everything, parts of what I've said.
And so I laugh like an idiot every single time with you guys. Good grief. All right, the next one, we're gonna go back to Laura talking about swans, and our number nine, and we call it Swan Daddy.
Swan attacks. Swan attacks, swans are very territorial and protective of their nest. That's a great way to spin it.
As Katy said, it just sticks. It's the male's job to defend the nest and the female while she's on the eggs. So most likely scenario would be me walking around a pond, minding my own business, but I ended up getting too close to a nest.
Like just herping.
Getting too close to a nest and bam, daddy's on me.
Again. Didn't think about it till I said it.
Poor Laura. She has to put up with me so much. I swear I'm not a child, but so many of these things that she says are just so funny.
Huh. So speaking of things that are said that are funny. So as everybody knows, we write our episodes separately.
So I pick topics. Like we pick, well, we pick a topic together. And then within the topic, let's just say for this next one, it is animals I could do without, which is highlighted for this next segment.
So animals I could do without. That's the topic we pick. I pick some things to talk about.
Laura picks some things to talk about. And our amazing manager, Kim, reads over our outlines. And she gives some of the best comments ever.
So this next segment for number eight, I just read off all of Kim's comments about pandas, which again, we love pandas as an animal, but we just, there's some issues with pandas. And money sucking all the conservation funds. But anyway, this is Kim's thoughts on pandas.
So number eight, we have in panda penises. Kim, our manager, she actually found a neat fact that one, pandas conceive, the conceiving window is like no more than 72 hours long, which is so stupid. That's so short.
And the fertilized egg just floats around a little bit in the uterus before implanting. You know, just, she said, you know, for fun, just floating around, hanging out.
Yeah. Well, what is ours?
It takes a more direct, it's not like chilling there.
No, no, no, no. But I mean, our window of opportunity is pretty small like that.
Yeah, but it's, but we have it once a month. Right.
And we're a super social species.
Yeah. That's a great way for super social species.
Well, no, I mean, opportunity would be readily available.
Yeah. Where Panda's not so much. And then Kim's number three is, tiny penises make loving hard.
That was our point three. Thank you for that, Kim.
Kim, you're amazing again. Thank you for putting up with our shenanigans all the time. I don't know how you tolerate us or just like deal with us in meetings.
Just thank you. All right. So Panda penises.
Number seven is, we titled it Liking Crispy Lips.
Liking Crispy Lips. This is from one of our newer episodes, guys. I'm just gonna laugh harder because now we're getting into like my favorite, my personally absolute favorite segments.
And I'm just gonna die every time. I'm gonna have to introduce these now. So these are, this is Liking Crispy Lips from our Tidal Pools episode.
Just enjoy. Just to give you a refresher, lichen is made up of two organisms, a fungus and an algae. And that's your refresher.
That's a lichen.
That's a lichen.
That's it. But they do serve a good purpose. They break down the rock, lichens do.
And so that can help.
It's just, it's such a, okay, go with me here. Picture this, like you've zoomed in into the splash zone, and all you see is this lichen, but it's anthropomorphized. So it's like, just like a little dude, all crispy and covered in salt, chapped lips.
And it's just like, hey.
But it's so perfect, because lichen is crispy and crunchy like that.
Yeah, they are.
Or that's totally, they're just fine with it. They're just like, yay.
I'm liking my spot here.
If anybody else just laughed at that, please reach out to us, because you are our people.
I love it here. Oh goodness. I'm glad we crack ourselves up.
And again, if you did find that funny, please reach out to us, because you genuinely are our people. All right, so at number six, this was another one, like the Laura's mom segment that I totally forgot existed, until somebody mentioned it to.
I was asking some friends who I know listened to the podcast, and they were like, do you remember how many times Laura said she would go shirtless? I was like, what are you talking about? Sure enough, I went back and I listened.
I totally forgot about this one too, but it is so funny. So this one we simply titled at number six, shirtless.
Or like throwing your shoes at it, or taking off my shirt and throwing my shirt over it like a blanket.
You were taking off your shirt in this episode.
I mean, whatever, man. Survival.
Survival. Take off your shirt. No, Katy, take off your pants.
I'm glad we actually know that we could survive. I actually do have really good survival skills. Other than just like take off my pants.
All right.
That is not my only survival skill. I promise. So number five, if you've listened to any episode, any episode within the podcast, you know that I, no matter how many times I try, I just, I practice.
Well, I don't really, I don't practice a whole lot. I run through my scripts. I sound things out.
I look up pronunciations on YouTube. I am ready to go. And then when we're actually recording, it's not like I get stage fright or anything like that.
As soon as we get ready to go, I just cannot say what I need to say. And so I mispronounce everything. Did I have enough time to go back through every single episode and pull out all the clips that I mispronounce things?
No.
Because unfortunately, there are just way too many. So these are just some of the highlights. And number five is, Katy mispronounces everything.
Yeah, yeah. Or it's... I'm gonna try so hard.
I feel like we need to insert music.
Hold on, let me break this.
I don't like Architeuthis, the giant squid.
Okay, okay, that makes sense. Infernalis. Close enough.
Alright, so now that we are within the top five, guys, these are by far... If somebody who doesn't know that I have a podcast comes up to me and says, oh, you have a podcast, or I mention it, I should say, and then they ask me what are some of my favorite episodes. These top four are by far the ones that I always highlight.
So coming in at number four, can anybody guess what it is? Probably not, because it's chicken slappin.
I went with some ridiculous nature news. I've been talking about it, like, for two weeks. And here's the headline of the article.
See if I can keep it together. After years of trying, somebody finally just cooked a chicken by slapping it.
So I was like, what is this about? Yes. So apparently a while.
So Reddit.
Thank you, Reddit.
Apparently, years and years ago, somebody asked a question on Reddit. If kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy, how hard do I have to slap a chicken to cook it? And so some physics people chimed in saying what you'd have to do.
So they were very specific. How much your hand weighs, the velocity, the average rotisserie chicken weight.
Let me just pause. I love science. I love the science field because it's so many people that we take it so like jokes so seriously.
And there's so many times where I have to explain to people like I'm not alone in like doing pranks and taking like stupid situations seriously. Like there's a whole group of us out there.
Right, right. Because obviously somebody both probably genuinely wanted to know and was also just messing around. And then a physics person was like, well, you would have to slap a chicken at 3725 miles per hour in order to cook it with one hit.
Yeah, our normal sized hand. No baby hand slapping chickens. So you could slap it if you could do 3725.95.
But the earth only spins at a thousand miles per hour. So like three times the rotation of the earth.
You would put the earth off kilter then, wouldn't you? Why slapping a chicken so hard?
Well, not only that, but literally, I mean, if you did slap a chicken that hard, it would explode into a billion pieces. Like yes, it would be cooked, but it would be like tiny little fragments. So instead, then they were like, okay, so what about if you slap it enough times?
So somebody was saying, could you slap it 3726 times at one mile per hour to cooking? And people were like, I'm not sure. I don't think so.
That seems like some pretty slow slapping.
Yeah, one mile per hour. I don't know. But of course, leave it to the YouTube and the internet community to figure this out because people have been building machines, chicken slapping machines to try and figure this out.
And finally, someone did it.
You should be able to share your screen on here too.
I just need you to see how fast it's being slapped. All right. Where's the screen?
Screen. It's thinking.
Okay, you're good.
We're back. We're in business. Here we go.
Watch this.
Watch how fast this is. Wait, I can mute it that we don't have to.
So anyway, he built this machine. It broke multiple times because of how fast it's going. Literally, pieces are flying off.
There's so many jokes to insert right there.
Oh, my gosh.
Holy moly.
Because he called... It's also the name of the machine. I was dying.
It was a good name, too.
I love scientists.
Well, while I find that... Oh, yes. It's called the Meat Slapper 9001.
The Meat Slapper 9001. So, actually, I had a really good friend. He actually sent me...
There was a gift that somebody made. It's just like a hand slapping like a whole rotisserie chicken. Oh, goodness.
Anyway, I laughed about that episode for weeks after the fact of just the chicken slapping. All right. So, my next or the next...
All right. So, the next one is... It's number three.
I almost don't even want to spoil it for you. But this one... I didn't even know this word existed.
Laura found it. Thank God.
I...
Oh, my goodness. Just... Here we go.
Coming in at number three. So, we are in the top three right now of mine, Laura and Kim's favorite sections. Number three, squirrelspluding.
Well, My Nature News is really simple, but there's several articles. I saw on Facebook an article, took me down, kept finding more articles about this. This one's from Texas.
Oh, really?
Why squirrels are spluting in the heat and what we can do to help them.
What?
Yes, spluting. S-P-L-O-O-T-I-N-G.
Can I have a definition and a state of origin?
I have never heard of spluting. I'm so glad I know what it is. Now, it is specifically the squirrel behavior when they lie flat on the ground like they've melted.
Yes, that is such a good word. S-P-L-O-T-I-N-G.
Because I constantly do see squirrels do it.
S-P-L-O-T-I-N-G.
So, it's spluting everywhere. So, as we all know, it has been hot as Hades in most of this part of the country. So, the poor little squirrels are melting, and you'll see them doing this behavior called spluting, which is basically them trying to increase their surface area to cool down.
You know, you see dogs even do it too. Yeah. But you'll see squirrels sprawled out on branches, sprawled out on the concrete.
They're trying to get as much of their body cooled off as they can.
That makes sense.
Yeah. And unfortunately, some people are noticing that once the squirrel has spluted, you can't get it up. They're so hot.
So, what can you do to help? You can put out water dishes for these poor, spluted squirrels. I just want to say it as many times as I can.
It is so good every time. I wish. I just, I laugh just as hard every time.
Spluting squirrels. I'm not going to torture you guys by going into my brain, but there's just so many other things for the adults. There's so many other things you could put in exchange for spluting.
Spluting squirrels. All right. Here we are.
We are down to the top two. Now, this one, again, throw back to very early on. We are talking about our favorite creepy crawlies.
So people don't like insects. What are some of the best like introductory insects to get people kind of warmed up to liking insects, even though they don't? And we picked several.
And one of Laura's was an earthworm. And this was the first point in our podcast. I genuinely say we tried to start off fairly professional, even though we laughed from like episode one.
Everybody listens to number one episode, of course, because you're going to start at the beginning. But this part is the first one where I genuinely just could not stop laughing even after the episode. I couldn't stop laughing at what Laura said.
So coming in at number two, I can't even say it. It's slow motion hose.
We absolutely need worms. They are completely vital to healthy soil. If there was any doubt about roly polys, there is no doubt about worms.
Their poop, also known as casts, provide homes to tons of beneficial microbes and bacteria. They turn the soil over and distribute nutrients. And it's claimed that they can turn over the top six inches of soil in an area in 10 to 20 years.
That's pretty impressive.
Slow motion hose.
As I said it, I realized how it would sound. But I didn't mean it that way. I meant the gardening hoe.
Okay, okay. I mean, how could you not mean it that way? Anyway, again, I laughed for weeks after that, because we record these pretty far in advance, for the most part, pretty far in advance from the release date.
And so I had to wait at least a few weeks or so for until I could start telling people about this. And I was dying laughing every time it came out. I was so excited when this episode was released, because one, I really felt like it showed not only my and Laura's normal personality of just like I could not control my laughter of just something insane that Laura has said, but mostly I feel like this episode was the pivoting point, because we got so much positive feedback about just even that one little section, that it was a pivot point for like the direction that we started to go, even very early on in season one.
So without further ado, number one, what is the number one? Again, it is from a fairly recent episode early this fall. As you guys know, Laura, actually it was a year ago.
Good grief, where has the year gone? Laura had a baby, and we did an ode to Laura's baby with an episode called Ugly Animal Babies. And within there, this was not scripted.
This was just, again, one of those tangents that Laura and I went off on. Guys, this is my top number one, Laura's top. Goodness, it's just funny.
So I can't keep talking about it because I'm just going to keep laughing about it. Please enjoy our number one, which is called, we call it Fuse Baby Boobs.
And the babies, although this actually kind of makes them cute rather than ugly, but they're called imps. Because they're devils. So yeah, they are disgusting.
They attach onto the nipple and they don't let go for 100 days like creepy little parasites.
Yeah, which I believe that is an all marsupial fact. Like I don't think there's any marsupials. Yeah, which is disgusting in itself.
Can you imagine if you just had to walk around with a baby fused to your boob for like how many months? For those of you who can't see, Laura just shivied.
It would be so hard to navigate anywhere through doorways, just slinging your fused baby through openings.
Did I just picture like going into a store, like off clothes racks, like shelves, just like taking everything out with this fused baby?
That's so gross. And I just imagine it being completely limp, because it's just like this limp...
That's an image. An image that's not going to go out of my brain anytime soon, and I'm so happy.
I know, agreed. It'll only get better and better. My own head will keep elaborating on it.
Of all the things that this fused baby's going to knock over.
Or like the modified clothing that you'd have to have.
Oh, goodness.
Or the day that they're finally ready to let go, like, ripe fruit that doesn't fall off.
That has to be such a relieving feeling. Like a.
Hundred times better than when you get home at the end of a long day and take off your bra. Like, it has to be so much better. And then it just like thumps, and that's because you have to be like ready to catch it.
So, I'm just imagining again, you just brought up this store. There's just some... you're shopping.
You don't have a baby attached to your chest. But from a couple of aisles away, you just hear...
And then it thumps. And you're like, oh, kid must have dropped.
It's still so good every time. All right, everyone. So that was our top 15 from the first five seasons.
Again, we say it pretty much every episode. Thank you all for listening the first five seasons that you guys have really made it. We are not taking a break anymore.
Like I said earlier, we're going to have Kim up with some of her mini episodes. Please stick around and listen to these. They are going to be fantastic because it's Kim and she's way funnier than Laura and I.
And we will see you next season in season six. Can you believe it? Season six.
So until then, listen to Kim's mini series seasons. Good grief is at a time to talk about things I can't pronounce. Go visit us on Patreon and support us if you can, because it only helps us to bring you more content.
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