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Marine Mammal Science is a podcast covering some of the latest scientific research on marine mammals – whales and dolphins, polar bears, seals and sea lions, manatees and dugongs, and sea otters. The podcast is produced by Speak Up For Blue Media on behalf of the Society for Marine Mammalogy and the journal Marine Mammal Science. The host and producer is Dr. Ashley Scarlett.
The pearl clutching about “cancel culture” and “censorship” has become louder and more absurd while also getting more and more play in the media. Journalists Katelyn Burns and Oliver-Ash Kleine see this panic for what it is though: a grift. They take a closer look at these temper tantrums, dispelling myths, laughing at the most outrageous takes, and shedding light on which perspectives are actually being suppressed and left out of the conversation. You can join our community and support our ...
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I’m Tawny Platis, voice actor and comedy podcaster. After my husband and podcasting partner passed away in November of 2019, I began interviewing other podcasters and creatives on how they were using dark humor to get through their grief, loss, and trauma. It's helped me cope, learn, educate, and - most of all - connect with others. Find healing and relief with stories, friendship, and lots of jokes on my podcast, Death Is Hilarious. Learn more at DeathIsHilarious.com You can still listen to ...
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The Fighting Sealions (ft. Michael Hobbes)
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Katelyn and Oliver are joined by journalist and Maintenance Phase co-host Michael Hobbes to discuss the most ingenious cancel culture grift yet, the newly formed (and unaccredited) University of Austin. The new college doesn’t offer degrees but is still likely to make boatloads of cash. You can support Cancel Me, Daddy on Patreon to join our commun…
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MMS 116: Intentionally Building Inclusive Spaces for Queer Scientists, part 1
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This week’s episode is part one of the “Intentionally Building Inclusive Spaces for Queer Scientists” webinar organized by the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Absolutely Smashing Events and Consulting. This webinar series will focus on the fact that the advancement of ocean science, and marine conserv…
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Please Mess With Texas (Ranch Nog Edition)
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This week, Katelyn & Oliver delve into the effort in Texas to ban LGBTQ books from schools and follow up on the latest in the Chapelle saga. Plus, things get a little strange with discussion of a furby drag king...and Katelyn's "favorite" condiment: ranch nog.
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MMS 115: Evolutionary History and Marine Mammal Mastication
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On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett chats with guest Dr Carlos Peredo about the evolutionary history of marine mammals and the extreme adaptations they've developed for eating their prey. Short Bio: Dr. Carlos Peredo is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology and a University of Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar. His res…
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Death Is Hilarious
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Interview with award winning author Autumn-Toelle-Jackson
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Today my guest is Autumn Toelle-Jackson, the award winning author of Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief & Holding onto Happiness. She’s also the founder of Growing with Grief, a website that provides those who are grieving with a place to find community, resources, and help. For more information about Death Is Hilarious,…
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MMS 114: Baleen whale prey consumption and its importance
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This episode is part 2 of an interview with Dr Matthew Savoca. He continues discussing the results of his newly published paper on estimating baleen whale prey consumption and how it impacts ocean ecosystems.By Society for Marine Mammalogy
This episode is one of two episodes with guest Dr. Matthew Savoca. In this episode, Dr. Savoca explains his new findings on the prey of baleen whales and why these results are so important.By Society for Marine Mammalogy
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Two Years Widowed + The Future of the Podcast: Special Episode
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Two years ago today, on November 8, 2019 I walked out of my in-home office and into the kitchen to find my husband, George, dead on the floor. It gets funny I promise. In this episode, I reflect on being widowed for two years, where I am today, and the future of the podcast Learn more at DeathIsHilarious.com…
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MMS 112: Swimming with whales in Australia
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In this week’s episode, Stephanie Stack from the Pacific Whale Foundation talks to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about the behavioural impacts of swim-with-whale tourism on cetaceans.By Speak Up For Blue
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MMS 111: Research Challenges in Asia Webinar
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This week’s episode is the recording of the Research Challenges in Asia webinar hosted by the Society for Marine Mammalogy Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee. This series will focus on research in Asia and issues around conducting marine mammal science in low-income countries.By Speak Up For Blue
Katelyn and Oliver revisit the Netflix/Dave Chappelle controversy with an in-depth interview with the two trans employees most affected by the fallout. Joining the show are B. Pagels-Minor, who was fired by Netflix after helping to organize the company’s trans employee walkout, and Terra Field, who was briefly suspended after a Twitter thread of he…
Today my guest is Bethany Harvey, author of Dipped in It, a book where she explores the unpredictable spiral of grief after unexpectedly losing her father and openly shares the heartbreaking, gritty and unexpectedly hilarious insights that surface. In this episode: How intending to write daily gratitude posts turned into being vulnerable, honest, a…
On this week’s episode, Michaela Kratofil, a research assistant at Cascadia Research Collective, is talking to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about her work as a statistical coder and how, via this work, she reveals foraging and ecological patterns within small cetacean populations.By Speak Up For Blue
Join the group for another potluck episode! Plus, Zach gives his take on last week's album. We don't actually have Club Club shirts for sale <3
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MMS 109: Spinner dolphins and becoming a marine mammal scientist
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On this week’s episode, Liah McPherson, a graduate student working on Hawaiian spinner dolphins, talks about her research on population abundance and age structure and her experiences entering the field of marine mammal science.By Speak Up For Blue
It wouldn't be Cancel Me, Daddy if we didn't delve into Dave Chappelle's horrible, new Netflix special "The Closer." Katelyn and Oliver are joined by the one and only Imara Jones of TransLash Media who shares her sharp analysis and insightful perspective on the hateful special who's actually being silenced. The trio discuss how Netflix can't "carbo…
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S2E5 - Dios (Malos) - Dios (w/ Bryan from Thou!)
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Special guest and friend of the podcast, Bryan from Thou, joins us this week with the album pick, Dios by Dios (Malos)!
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Interview with comic actress Jennifer Lee Weaver
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Today my guest is Jennifer Lee Weaver, a Los Angeles based comic actress, producer, public speaker, and widow. After beating cancer, Jennifer’s mother passed away at the end of 2017 and then her wife passed away from cancer. She’s what I affectionately refer to as a “gold star widow.” In this episode: - How absurd grief and loss is, especially when…
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MMS 108: Potential Jeopardy for Barataria Bay Dolphins
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In week's episode, Dr Naomi Rose explains a proposed coastal resilience project that could have negative impacts on a dolphin population living near New Orleans.By Speak Up For Blue
On this week’s episode, Jordan Lerma from Cascadia Research Collective talks to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about his work with drones and sampling the breath of cetaceans, as well as research on the behavior of false killer whales.By Speak Up For Blue
This week Katelyn and Oliver-Ash dive into Johnny Depp's insipid remarks about cancel culture and the latest Republican panic over the National Archives adding a content notice to give people diving into historical documents a heads up about our nation's troubling past. Plus, the pair discuss whether cancel culture is a phenomenon created by the me…
This week we listened to the album Keep the Camera Rolling by Dallas-based Sealion. This album isn't available on the streaming services, so let us know if you need help finding it.
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Interview with storyteller and poet Jenn Koiter
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Today my guest is Jenn Koiter- a storyteller with a background in education, nonprofit work, and technology who has taught at colleges and universities. Jenn is also the author of So Much of Everything, a book of poetry she created in order to process her complicated feelings of loss and grief that she experienced after her ex-boyfriend died from s…
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MMS 106: Using Acoustics to detect hard-to-find whales and dolphins
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On this week’s episode, Dr Ashley Scarlett chats to Dr Jay Barlow, an award winning marine mammal researcher whose natural ability to tinker with technology has helped with the conservation of many species. He discusses his newest paper on the unique calls and acoustic characteristics of hard to find beaked whales off the coast of Baja California, …
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S2E3 - Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr & Kiss the Child
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This week we listened to Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child by Norma Jean. Listen along to hear James' irrational fear of kids on scooters, plus his inside knowledge on baseball shenanigans.
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MMS 105: Hong Kong’s Indo-Pacific finless porpoise
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On this week’s episode guest Dr. Lindsay Porter, a marine biologist whose work focuses on the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, talks to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about how important regional, collaborative efforts are when working towards conservation.By Speak Up For Blue
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Censoring Judith Butler (ft. Eoin Higgins)
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This week Katelyn and Oliver-Ash have a colorful conversation with freelance journalist Eoin Higgins about the Judith Butler debacle and the big transphobia problem at the UK branch of The Guardian. You can support Cancel Me, Daddy on Patreon to join our community and help us become a weekly show: https://www.patreon.com/cancelmedaddy…
This week we listen to the album Mia Gargaret by Gia Margaret
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Interview With Nadine Menashe of Varsity Grief Squad
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Today my guest is Nadine Menashe, the creator behind the Varsity Grief Squad, one of my favorite accounts on Instagram and also where Nadine makes memes and merch about her dead mom. We talked about: - Nadine’s mom Svetlana was diagnosed with stage 4 breast, bone, and lung cancer in September 2019. That’s when the grief process started. When she pa…
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MMS 104: Internship Equality Webinar
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This week’s episode is the recording of the Internship Equality webinar co-hosted by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation and the Society for Marine Mammalogy Diversity & Inclusion committee. While we all rely on the ocean for half our oxygen, our climate, and our economy, not everyone has a voice in marine science and conservation, a field which has…
The Club Club Podcast is back with season 2! Join James, Hannah, Zach, & Patrick as they chat about the 2018 album "Room 25" by Noname.
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MMS 103: The Oldest Whale and Dolphin Conservation Organization
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This week’s episode has our guest, Dr. Rebecca Lent, the International Whaling Commission's Executive Secretary, talking to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about the IWC’s 75th anniversary. They also talk about its latest cetacean conservation initiatives and programs. Dr. Lent describes the valuable resources that the IWC provides for the general public, incl…
In this episode Katelyn and Oliver-Ash unpack the incredibly fraught search for a Jeopardy host. Plus the two discuss former Monty Python star John Cleese's upcoming disaster of a show about so-called cancel culture. You can support Cancel Me, Daddy on Patreon to join our community and help us become a weekly show: https://www.patreon.com/cancelmed…
Today my guest is Kathy Benjamin, author of the upcoming book, “It’s Your Funeral,” which aims to help demystify death, decrease your anxiety, and put the fun back in funeral. Every stage of the legacy planning process is considered, from a burial outfit to a funeral theme. Kathy’s writing has has received more than 100 million hits across some of …
This week’s episode is part 2 of a two-part interview with Dr Kathleen Hunt, where she teaches us about the history and importance of fecal hormone studies and other ways to test hormones in whales.By Speak Up For Blue
This week’s episode is part 1 of a two-part interview with Dr Kathleen Hunt, where she teaches us about the history and importance of fecal hormone studies and other ways to test hormones in whales.By Speak Up For Blue
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Interview with Mitzi Weiland (LMFT) creator of the podcast Dead Funny Dead Serious
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Today my guest is Mitzi Weiland, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and creator of the podcast Dead Funny Dead Serious. In this episode: - Mitzi was a bartender and artist before her mother was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 cancer (her father and grandfather also passed away when she was 7). Then she started looking into volunteering a…
This week’s episode marks the 100th Marine Mammal Science podcast recording. To celebrate, we speak to Dr. Chris Parsons, the creator of the podcast and the Membership Chair of the Society for Marine Mammalogy. He joins Dr. Ashley Scarlett to discuss the podcast, what the Society for Marine Mammalogy offers and ways for those interested in marine m…
This week, Katelyn and Oliver and delving into the conservative controversy around a wholesome episode of a Muppet's show for kids that features a trans affirming story line. Plus, they talk about what Louie CK's national tour tells us about cancel culture (or the lack thereof).
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Interview With Author Leslie Gray Streeter
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Today my guest is Leslie Gray Streeter, pop culture columnist, journalist, and author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title We talked about: - Leslie’s book Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journe…
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MMS 99: Conservation of small cetaceans and the IWC
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On this week’s episode Guest Dr. Lindsay Porter, Chair of the International Whaling Commission’s Small Cetaceans Sub-Committee, talks to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about the work of the Sub-Committee on the conservation of dolphins, porpoises, and beaked whales. One current issue is the threat posed by “wild meat” - the hunting and killing of small cetace…
