Oh, hey, it's your aunt's innocent work crush.

Allie Ward, back for another episode of Oligies.

Okay, it's time for us to come out of our spiral shells and give Snails a Whirl.

Now this episode is a big, drippy bag of happy surprises.

I have learned so much from Snails and their origin stories, their adaptability, their non-binary outlook on life.

It's inspiring.

I think I love them even more now.

I really love Snails, but first, and I'm going to say this quickly.

Thank you to all the patrons making the podcast happen and letting me keep it ad free since the start on purpose so far.

Patreon.com slash Oligies is where you can submit your questions toologists before I even record episodes.

Also, if you want to support by having Oligies swag on your actual physical body, you can go to oligiesmarsh.com

and through July, I'm having a summer sale on everything in the shop 10% off.

So browse, load up, buy some gifts, hoard some things for Doomsday.

The code at checkout is camp Oligies.

Also, thank you to everyone who rates and reviews and subscribes keeping Oligies up in the science chart so other people can find it.

Now, if you listen regularly, you know Uncle Allie creeps your reviews and to prove it, I read one aloud each week.

And y'all, I got my first shitty review.

Two stars. I mean, it was better than one, but someone called it a cute commentary track on science subjects with the occasional interesting question thrown in and didn't like that I had a sides on tangents like about rap music.

So, okay, that's fine. And no, I won't stop.

But thank you to all of you who always leave nice reviews like Nick Silverfangirl said that Oligies is like if PBS allowed swearing.

And I'm like, nice. Don't worry. I swear a lot more later.

So on to malacology, the study of mollusks.

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