Selachimorphology (SHARKS) with Chris Lowe

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

SHAAAARKS. Leading shark researcher Dr. Chris Lowe dishes about bad shark PR, behind-the-scenes Jaws trivia, his thoughts on Sharknado, surfing safety, immune system marvels, cannibal twins, shark personalities, sea sex, and knife teeth. Alie learns that sharks are not the ocean's sociopaths but true evolutionary marvels who suffer from sensationalized reputations and sometimes inside-out butts. Listen up as a science primer during this, the holy Week of the Shark. (Note: the study of sharks can is also called elasmobranchology, a distinction which could also include skates and rays. Both -ologies are difficult to spell.)

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your two-talkative Petty Cab driver who eerily guessed your astrological
0:08.4	sign.
0:09.4	It's Ali Ward back with another fresh as hell episode of Oligies.
0:14.2	This is the quickest turnaround ever in the history of the show ever, and I guess given
0:18.6	it's oceanic vibe, I like to think of it as some treasure that washed up on the beach
0:24.1	delivered to your senses while it's still shimmering with sea foroth before it starts to
0:29.2	stink.
0:30.2	Now, I have been tracking thisologist for months, and he was always off on expeditions in
0:37.4	remote corners of the earth being awesome, and we had an appointment to talk sharks last
0:44.9	Friday.
0:45.9	And then I realized, boy, howdy, this week is shark week, this is perfect timing.
0:50.8	I don't mean shark week like anything you'd run.
0:53.0	It's actually shark week on discovery, and Nat Chio has a shark week, and then he had
0:58.8	to cancel because of work stuff.
1:00.3	It's fair enough.
1:01.3	But then he said he could record just hours before I got on a plane, so I drove my ass
1:06.2	giddily down to Long Beach, and I hung out in his lab, and I'm now back home.
1:10.6	I'm turning around, aside, I'm having the amazing Steven Ray Morris edit this in probably
1:16.3	a red bull-induced mania.
1:18.6	Honestly, we couldn't be happier about it.
1:21.4	It's very exciting.
1:22.4	But before we get to the episode, some thanks, and some pleas, and some thanks again.
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