BewilderBeasts!

Bonus: Butt Science and Twitter Bird Bans

First aired February 2023 Twitter bans an ornithological society for posting photos of "woodcocks" while Melissa gets banned for "Hairy Man"; The Media takes special car

Bonus: Ursa Majors

First aired October 2021 Fat Bear Tuesday is the culmination of a week-long bracket-style event inspired by mega-chonk bears and March Madness. What is it? Why is it? Wh

Bonus: Great Escapes

First Aired: Feb 10, 2022 A series of the best and funniest animal escapes, all inspired by a police blotter where a camel chase was afoot on a Kansas golf course. Reso

Bonus: Mail Cats?

First aired: August, 2022 The Belgian government once used cats to deliver the mail. It went about as well as you would think. Resources for today's exclusive epis

Bonus:Dengue Chicks and the Grocery Store Walk of Shame

First Aired: January 20, 2023 This month's bonus ep for you is all about the chickens who give back in rather surprising ways - from keeping 100 tons (?) of food out

Bonus: BOTY goes Batty

First Aired: Nov 5, 2021 This month, New Zealand's Bird of the Year competition ruffled feathers, as per usual, when a bat took the gold. A look at the complex and c

Bonus: A Monkey Could Work Here

First aired April 19, 2022 Let's learn about the time an actual chimpanzee saved the Today Show, and changed morning news-ertainment forever.  Resources: https://e

Bonus: Monique

First aired: Nov 26, 2023 One man dreams of being completely alone, but it turns out, companionship is human nature.  An unlikely meal ticket doesn't just save his

Bonus: A Troubling of Goldfish

First aired Nov. 2022 A man recently caught a goldfish the size of a 5th grader and Melissa is waiting for the goldfish food-delivery uprising. Resources: https://www

Bonus: Methed Snails

First Aired August, 2023: A series of scientific studies to understand the human mind, but using a slimy gastropod in our place. Because using meth on a human is ille

Bonus: Monarchy Charlies

First aired: Sept 13, 2022 As promised - this week there was just TOO MUCH to put in a main feed episode. The Unkindness episode was really, really long. This 10-minute

Bonus: Jail Birds

First aired July 28, 2022 A bunch of stitchin' women in a Washington Women's Correctional Facility who have put their knitting needles to good use - helping th

Bonus: Oh, Canada

First Aired on Dec 25, 2022 When a farmer in small-town St. Severe, Quebec, noticed 20 head of cattle broke through a fence during a thunderstorm, he thought, "Easy. I&a

Bonus: Longshot

First Aired June 8, 2022 Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby with 80-1 odds - meaning out of every 81 races, he's thought to win ONE. Well, he won the Kentucky Derby

Bonus: Gettysburg

First aired June 22, 2023:  Two sisters combined their love of historically accurate dioramas, the Civil War, and clay-making to pen an ode to the US in one of the most

Bonus: The Dogs Who Mapped Australia

First aired July 2023:  In 1912 when the "adventurer" was a job description & also an alibi, two brothers took their dogs on a road trip - before roads existed. These br

Bonus: Pika Who?

This Patreon Exclusive episode (#2)  first aired on August 4, 2021.  This is a fun turn I never saw coming, that Pikachu is based on a squirrel and there are new species

Bonus: Oh, Evolution

The very first Patreon Exclusive episode was ....super short. It first aired on July 22, 2021. I wasn't sure if it would play or work at all. But, this test led dire

Bonus: Daddy Shortlegs

Patreon exclusive #6: First aired Dec 7 2021 Geneticists made Daddy Shortlegs. (WHY GOD, WHY?)  We imagine the Jane Fonda workout with 50' human legs (WHY GOD, WHY

Bonus: Ukraine's Little Bullet

This Patreon Exclusive Episode first aired May 16, 2022 Patron started his life in entertainment by illustrating how dogs can be trained for search work. And now, he&apo