Oh hey, it's your fourth cousin. Twice removed, Allie Ward, back with a familial, historical

episode of Oligies. So you are here because people made babies with each other. And out

of all of the camis in all of the gonads, you became a collection of molecules. And you're

suspended in a web of family. Even a cockroach technically has grandparents and cousins.

Isn't that weird? Your cat might have an uncle. And if you have children, gaze at them.

They may have children who have children. And then those childrens might not even know

your damn name. They'll just know you're dead. But before we get into it, first a quick

thank you to the select slice of listeners who are also patrons. You know who you are.

You make the show possible. Thank you to everyone spreading the word with your mail or with

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works. And leaving reviews like sweet, sweet Tyra mail for me to see such as this fresh

evaluation from DC doppelganger who says feeling sad and monotonous, life getting it down.

Listen to this podcast. Oligies reminds you about how amazing the world around you actually

is. Thanks, Dadward. Stay curious, everyone. We'll do DC. I promise. Okay. Genealogy. The

first topic ever to not be anology. Look at it. Genealogy. What is this? The barren stained

bears? It's an allergy. What the heck man? So genealogy comes from the root word Gina

meaning to give birth to like Genesis. And genealogy is not the study of genetics and

how DNA works. That's just called genetics. So this was news to me. Now genealogy is the

tracing of family origins. And in old English, it was called folk tellu meaning folk tales.

But the allergy and not all of these is because the O analogies is borrowed from the first

word anyway. So my point is that this podcast should actually just be called loo cheese. And

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