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Bio Babes
by Libby & Kelsey
The podcast where two babes blab about biology. What do you get when you combine a wildlife biology degree, a childhood spent in the American South, and a willingness to get wine drunk at 3 pm? Why, you get the Bio Babes, of course! Join Libby and Kelsey for a new topic every episode as they compete to out-weird each other with the most outlandish bio facts. Topics include everything from noodling for catfish to alcoholic bears to how hummingbirds get it on. Follow us on instagram @biobabespodcast for memes and info on upcoming episodes. Listener discretion advised
Episodes
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field trip 4: new years hangover special
Happy new years! Or… well… close enough. Listen, we’re hungover, and we’re doing our best. It’s the NEW YEARS HANGOVER SPECIAL! Join the bio babes and friends for a bourbon tasting led by returning guest, Libby’s dad! Take some tums and grab your best (or worst) bourbon, this episode is a great...
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3.5: bio babes halloween spooktacular
It’s the spooktacular Halloween special but black cats and vampire bats are overused. We need a fresh new Halloween animal mascot! The Bio Babes got a big steaming cauldron of creepy critters here, and we’re throwing them at the wall to see what sticks — we got spooky animals of all kinds, some...
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3.4: women getting drunk, we love to see it
I’m drunk, you’re drunk, we’re all dunk. And we have alcohol to thank. In this episode, we sip and chat with Noah, a home brewer and Libbys body double, to learn about making mead. We also plan a trip to get blackout on malort in Chicago, we stumble through a chaotic exploration of the history of...
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3.3: deep dive down under
So, Australia… wtf is going on down there? well, their toilets flush backwards I think, so that’s one thing. I’m pretty sure that their royal family is the Irwins? And I’m still foggy on whether or not drop bears are a real thing. There’s a lot of things about Australia, that me and Libby don’t...
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3.2: caves pt. 2: crying about cave paintings
Caves part 2! We’re still in the deep dark depths of this cave somewhere in southern France. All the cave fish have been eaten and the batteries in the headlamps are going out. I’m going to be honest bio babe, things aren’t looking good. Oh! Put down that cave bear skull and look at these…
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3.1: caves pt. 1: I love all of god's creatures
Welcome to season 3 bio baby! Grab your spelunking gear and turn on your headlamp cause to ring in the season we’re crawling deep into the dark chambers of a cave. Follow Mmeeeeee…… oh look! Is that a bat?! No, it’s a cave snake hanging from the ceiling… gross! something with too many legs just...
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2.7: geyser?! I hardly know her
Are you ready to celebrate ?! It’s the last episode of season 2! Yeah, it’s nearly a month late, but the bio babes are doing their best! In this episode we are joined by a very special guest to talk about Yellowstone National Park. We chat about how much we love those good good glacial…
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2.6: and the crowd goes (re)wild
You ever think to yourself, “damn, I wish I was alive back when the mammoths were dancing around in their giant clogging shoes.”? Of course you do. Trust me, we all do. Well, you missed it, and so did I, but instead of cursing the linear progression of time and spiraling into a pit of despair, we...
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2.5: quips, queries, & quandaries
Do you have questions? Good! Cause we’ve got answers! Not, like, answers to *your* questions specifically, we just have answers to Mr. Lovell’s questions. Nobody else is getting their questions answered. Just Mr. Lovell. Like, I guess if you happen to have an overlapping question with Mr. Lovell...
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2.4: the long awaited gay animal special
It’s finally happening, it’s the gay animal special! To celebrate pride month, Libby is taking us all on a tour through the colorful world of queer animals. Want to learn about lesbian albatross power couples? Gay dolphins? Polyamorous ducks? Trans deer? Bonobos and their free love hippie...
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2.3: the sexiest goat on the island
This episode journeys to the Galápagos islands where we investigate everyone’s favorite sterile, PTSD-ridden conservation leftovers. The islands are known for their iconic wildlife, but those dumb finches get plenty of attention, we wanna talk about the goats! And the absolutely insane honeypot...
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2.2: pissin' and possums
Hey everybody pees! You, me, astronauts, even lobsters pee. Sometimes pee smells like asparagus, or buttered popcorn. Sometimes it’s clear, or yellow, sometimes the medication you’re taking turns it blue. No matter what, you got to get rid of all that gross urea, but if you happen to be an…
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2.1: no thoughts just sirens
It’s season 2 baby! And to kick things off we’re going to ask and answer all the hearing-related questions you’ve never wanted to know the answers to. What has better hearing a frog or a parakeet? How does bat echolocation even work? If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it,...
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field trip 3: mayhem and mooseadventures
Grab your waders it’s time to jump knee deep into the third and final field trip! You’ve seen a kid in a candy shop, get ready for Bio Babes in a swamp. Join us on what is quite possibly the best day of Kelsey’s life as we slorp through the muck and wade through the gunk to find a decomposing…
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field trip 2: hype for herps
Hop in gang we’re going on another field trip! This time we meet a friend at the local reptile convention and experience untethered joy for the first time in years. We see so many things, and we describe them to you. It’s almost as good as being there. If you get as hyped for herps as we do, want...
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field trip 1: the bio babes go birdwatching
Have you ever seen a bird and thought “what the hell is that?” Well so have we. In this special field trip episode the bio babes put you in their pocket and carry you on an adventure. We see so many birds, and we even know what a couple of them are! If you’ve ever wanted to go birdwatching but...
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12: snakes on a pod
Well, we made it guys, this is the last episode of season 1 and you know what that means… it’s SNAKE time baby! Do you have a specially evolved snake spotting brain? Then you’re gonna love this episode. We slither through the evolution of snakes, and why its gods fault snakes don’t have legs, we...
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11: biobabes - we have the beef
This episode is full of contention and infighting, but, like, in a good way. We’ve got a real lovers to enemies story to tell, so pour yourself an entire bottle of wine and come along on a journey through history as we explore a few especially iconic cases of academic beef and scientific rivalry....
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10: odontoceti is getting petty
Are you on the side of the orcas in their vengeful quest to eat the rich? Good! Then this episode is for you! We blab on and on about animal revenge, why cowbirds display “mafia behavior”, why you shouldn’t give a monkey a puppy, and why those orcas are attacking boats in the Mediterranean. Eat...
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9: in my shadow biosphere era
Houston we have a problem, the bio babes don’t know anything about space, so for this mission we brought a space expert along, Libby’s dad. On our tour through the cosmos we find out the answers to some of earthlings most asked questions: Are we alone in the universe? Whats a Fermi paradox? Do…
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8: cryptids and cocktails
Is all of our hard hitting science weighing you down? Too many facts can be exhausting, so for this episode we made sure that there aren’t any. That’s right, today Bio Babes invites two bird experts to talk about… cryptids. I mean obviously, what else would we talk to bird experts about. Luke and...
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7: kinky dolphin telepathy
In honor of 4/20, this episode is all about drugs. Wanna know what the worlds oldest drug is? What pufferfish poison does to your brain? How lemurs keep bugs away from their booty holes? What happens when you give a dolphin LSD? Well good news we’ve got the answers! So roll your self a thick…
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6: king of the fish pt. 2: electric boogaloo
Hello welcome back to fish shack for part two of our fresh fish fact episode. Prepare to prostrate yourself before the fish king and accept all his wisdom without question. I'm gonna be honest, we play pretty fast and loose with the concept of "fish" in this half. So grab your paddle and hop back...
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5: king of the fish pt. 1
Hey I have some bad news, you’re a fish… sort of... maybe. The king of fish himself is here to tell us what’s a fish and what’s not. We have so many fresh fish facts that we had to break this into two episodes. So, paddle down the river with us as we talk about extreme carp fishing, niche Georgia...
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4: panda p*rn and other vices
Have yer bear spray ready for this one Our Alaskan producer Liv is here to tell us about bears! So come experience the full spectrum of human emotion with bio babes, from the bliss you feel after shotgunning thirty-six beers and passing out in a tree to death by mauling. In this episode we learn...
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3: drown me in frogs baby
In this episode we explore the wonderful world of frogs and toads, no not the children's books, actual frogs and toads. They may be cute, but watch out they could explode at any moment. So pour yourself ~2.5 bottles of wine and join us as we learn about amphibians and their ongoing war with…
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2: d*ck eating vampires
Turns out intestinal worms are just the friends we made along the way. This episode is all about parasites, they come in lots of different flavors -- they might replace your tongue, take over your brain, or maybe even eat your d*ck.
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1: the birds & the birds
in this episode we learn all about bird sex, what even is a cloaca, and why did that cockatoo I held that one time hump my hand? This is the first of at least a few Bio Babes episodes.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The podcast where two babes blab about biology. What do you get when you combine a wildlife biology degree, a childhood spent in the American South, and a willingness to get wine drunk at 3 pm? Why, you get the Bio Babes, of course! Join Libby and Kelsey for a new topic every episode as they compete to out-weird each other with the most outlandish bio facts. Topics include everything from noodling for catfish to alcoholic bears to how hummingbirds get it on. Follow us on instagram @biobabespodcast for memes and info on upcoming episodes. Listener discretion advised
HOSTED BY
Libby & Kelsey
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The podcast where two babes blab about biology. What do you get when you combine a wildlife biology degree, a childhood spent in the American South, and a willingness to get wine drunk at 3 pm? Why, you get the Bio Babes, of course! Join Libby and Kelsey for a new topic every episode as they...
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