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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Lay's edition of
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the Jake's Take with Jacob Eli Shar podcast. I'm your host,
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Jacob Eli Shar, the chief contropreusier and writer of Jickstake
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pieces of content. I'm so thrilled to welcome our latest guest.
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She is the collection manager at the University of Montana's
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Paleontology Collection. She's also known as the Fossil Librarian. She's
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also the co founder of Eons. As of this recording,
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they have over seven one hundred and fifty seven million
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video views across YouTube and PBS. They also have a
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three point one seven million YouTube subscriber count. She's also
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the co host of the new series Eons, Life and
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Death on Pangaea. She's also the author of Tales of
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Prehistoric Earth, and more importantly, she's a fellow Kansas City native,
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So please help me welcome the fab is Cali More
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to the podcast.
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Hello everybody, thanks so much for having me. I'm excited
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to talk about EON's life and death on Pangaea.
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And I'm excited to have you here.
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And it's very rare I have a Kansas City native
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on this podcast. So thank you so much for taking
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time at your schedule to talk with me today. I
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really appreciate a CALLI.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to talk.
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All right, So let's get start with our origin story.
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So when did you get interested in paleontology and how
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did that passion evolve and tsar to pursue your career
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in the field.
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Yeah.
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I have been interested in fossil since I was a
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little kid. I blame my dad. He had a fossil
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collection and I always would look through it as a child.
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We lived in the Kansas City area in the Wyott
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County side, and there are areas where there's fossil a
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first limestone, and I actually had an outcrop in my
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backyard and so I would go and collect fossils and
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bring them back and me my dad would bust them
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out of the rocks and it was just a great experience.
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And I really never got out of it. There was
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a little waiver in late high school early college where
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I was going to be a high school like biology teacher, and.
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No, that was not for me. And I switched my
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major into earth science with a minor in paleontology and
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I kept with it ever since. So I was hired
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directly out of undergrad here at the University of Montana.
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I had four weeks between graduation and when this job started,
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and I've been here ever since. Live in the dream.
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That's amazing.
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So you work at so First of all, Kansas City
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is an incredible plays.
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I did not know there are areas to find these fossils.
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Yeah, so Kansas City. A lot of the limestone that
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you see in Kansas City is from a unit of
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the geologic timescale called the carboniferous and the limestone and
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is roughly three hundred and fifty million years old. So
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you're basically looking at the bottom of an ancient sea floor.
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So you can find brachiopods, of bivalves, so shelley creatures,
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lots and lots of crinoids, coral bria z Owen's a
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lot of lovely little marine creatures. So that's what I
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cut my teeth on as a paleontologist was the invertebrate
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side of paleontology. I actually didn't see my first dinosaur
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skeleton until I was probably in like eighth or ninth
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grade and a traveling exhibit came to Crown Center and
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we went and checked it out.
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So, yeah, I'm always in awe of those of those
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skelet the dinosaur t rexing, especially in movies and like
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television shows.
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They're always common, and it's like, it's pretty cool.
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And I kind of wish personally that we were additioned
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to having talking about barbecue, Hallmark, Taylor Swift and a Chiefs.
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We could talk about we could talk about fossils.
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Yeah, I mean, there are some really incredible fossil localities
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in Kansas, maybe not in Kansas City, but in Kansas
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as the whole entire state. So the largest flying insect
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ever found is from a site in Kansas. It's actually
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a Permian locality. It's called mega neuropsis. It looks like
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a dragonfly, but we call them griffin flies, and it
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would have been about the size of a crow. If
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you can imagine a dragonfly the size of a crow,
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that's from the Elmo Fossil Site, Insect fossil site, and
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then in western Kansas is the preserved floor of the
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Western Interior Seaway. So that's why Kansas really doesn't have
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any dinosaurs is because we were the bottom of a
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seaway during the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, basically the Mesozoic.
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a whole bunch of different species of shark. There are
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amazing critters fossilized in Kansas, just not really dinosaurs.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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And I got to say this, while you're working as
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a collections manager at the University of Montana's pay Lodge collection,
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you got the nickname Fossil Library, And so how did
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that or how did that came to be?
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So I was trying to figure out a fun social
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media handle back in the day when Instagram was kind
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of blowing up in the mid twenty tens.
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And I remember, I when I give public lectures and
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I tell people I'm a collections manager, a lot of
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times people are like, oh, you go after people with debt,
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and I'm like, no, no.
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And so I started describing myself as a librarian for fossils.
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So everything that you think about a book librarian does
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for books and a life, I do that in our
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paleontology collection. So I make sure they're accessible, they're preserved,
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they're digitized, they're available. And so that's kind of how
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that handle came to be. Is Fossil librarian is a
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little bit more descriptive than collections manager.
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Absolutely. Besides, it's very Instagram and ticked out from it.
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Oh yeah, and I think I took it on every
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single platform, even though I don't use them. I just
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made sure to get it. Uh So maybe I'll branch
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out one of these states.
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Absolutely, absolutely. So you are part of the court the
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group called eons.
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So can you share the origin story of eons to
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my audience who are unfamiliar with it?
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Yeah, eons started, well, the idea of eons kind of bloomed.
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Back in twenty sixteen, PBS contacted Complexly, a production company
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that does sideshow and crash course they're based here in Missoula,
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and we're like, hey, are you guys interested in doing
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a show on dinosaurs? And Complexly answered back and they're like,
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we see your dinosaurs, and we raise you the history
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of life on Earth, and so PBS was like, great,
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send us a description, let's start talking about the same time,
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I was invited to do a guest spot on sishow
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talk show where Hate Green interviews cool people, cool jobs,
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and I did a great job, undoubtedly. I didn't know
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at the time that it was kind of an audition.
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And after that filmed, they were like, how would you
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feel about being a host on a channel? And I
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said sure, I don't have any experience, and they're like, oh,
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it's fine, it's fine. So I did a couple of
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screen tests and it turned out great, and they were like, cool,
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we want you to be a part of it. We'll
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let you know when we get funding. And a year
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went by, I hadn't really heard anything. I hadn't really
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heard anything, so I didn't know if it was actually
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going to happen. And then all of a sudden, like
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I think in May of twenty seventeen or something like that,
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I get an email and they're like, we got money,
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we got we got a name, we have graphics. Let's
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go let's make some episodes. And we launched in June
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or July at VidCon twenty seventeen and launched like a
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week later on YouTube after that, and we just finished
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filming season eight. The last episode of season eight, I believe,
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was filmed last week, and I'm already starting to get
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scripts to fact check for season nine, so there will
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be more Eons.
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That's incredible.
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And Eons is celebrating its anniversary next year, and this
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year is the fifteenth anniversary at Jake's take with Jacob Eliashar,
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so it's so as a brand. So I'm very excited
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that you made it to this passes your make So
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what does it mean because in the world of YouTube,
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in internet science education, what does it mean have Eons
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stand out in the test of time?
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It's pretty incredible. I did you know, when I first
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joined Eons, I did not know how long this was
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gonna go. I didn't know how long the funding was
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gonna last. I didn't know how well it was going
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to receive with the public. And people have really really
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enjoyed it. So I'm so impressed, and I'm so thankful
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for our fan base and for the people that tune
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in almost every single week for new episodes, and the
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broader audience that is going to be introduced to Eons
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with EON's life and Death of Pangaea being available on
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the PBS app and on select broadcast stations across the country.
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So I hope to grow our audience and I hope
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more people become curious about the history of life on Earth.
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Awesome, So let's talk about the season. So EON's Life
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and Death of Pangaea. So why did you and the
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n seem decide this was the time to cover Pangaea.
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Well, we have been working looking on this idea of
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kind of a hero project for a very long time.
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The idea has changed a lot since we first thought
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about it until we actually filmed something we wanted to
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talk about. As we changed, we got down to this
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point where we thought it would be really cool to
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talk about the great die, the mass extinction event at
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the end of the per main event. But that's really depressing,
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and to do a six episode series on just a
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bunch of mass extinction that was a little Nobody could
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really get energized for it. And so as we started
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to think about it, we were like, wait, wait, so
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this happens on the super continent of Pangaea, So why
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don't we broaden this out? Why don't we set the
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stage we can start in the Carboniferous period, talk about life,
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then we can talk about Pangaea forming. We can talk
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about then what's happening over the course of Pangaea, and
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then we can kind kind of punctuated with the Great Dying.
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Triassic recovery. So we try to leave everybody on a
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high note after the worst mass extinction of all time,
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because of course life recovered, so we kind of broadened
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it out and we were able to cover so much
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more cool places, cool critters, cool people by branching out
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a little bit and looking at Pangaea as a whole
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from start to finish, including the Great Dying.
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All right, what do you hope that your audience?
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What are some of the key lessons that your audience
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that you and the Eon team hope that the audience
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take away from the series.
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Yeah, so, I think a lot of what we would
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like the main takeaway to be is that Earth is
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constantly changing. The configuration of our continental plates right now
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is temporary. Everything on our planet is temporary. I mean,
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there was a time when there was absolutely no oction
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on our planet. There was a time when there was
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no water on our planet, and so everything is temporary.
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Everything changes. Even though we're very comfortable with the layout
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of our globe. In one hundred and fifty million years,
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those plates are gonna come together and make another super continent.
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And so I hope that people realize that there is
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so much more to Earth history than just dinosaurs and memos,
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you know. So we're talking about critters that lived millions
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of years before dinosaurs ever evolved, and they're super cool
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and they're super weird, and I hope people come to
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love these permian animals as much as we do.
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Awesome.
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I know you might have answered this, But another thing
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is why should my audience check out this series?
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Oh, it's gonna look and sound so cool. If you
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want just a usual delight tune in. The cinematography on
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this series is absolutely out of this world. Our film
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team did amazing. The writing is lovely. If you are
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an Eons fan or familiar with Eons from the last
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few seasons, you have experienced far Han, our main writer,
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and he just really knocked it out of the park
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with this series. So it sounds good. The storytelling is amazing,
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it looks good. The soundtrack we're gonna release the soundtrack
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for people too, So if you like instrumental music while
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you work, we've got it for you. At some point,
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we talked to a lot of really amazing experts in
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their field. So we're interviewing, we go out on location.
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It's just this wonderful documentary of a period of time
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that was really really neat, and a lot of stuff,
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a lot of stuff that led to us happened in
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need you to write it, and so we went back
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Palaeozoic as well as the Cenozoic afterwards. So the book
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itself covers almost four billion years of Earth history. So
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the younger story is about four thousand years old, so
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children's coffee table book, if you will. But it took
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it was a very rewarding experience. And I hope they
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contact me someday for a volume two.
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I was that ready to ask you that fingers crossed
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for a volume two.
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excited for learning. I was always excited to learn when
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Same with me. Guys.
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Please go back and listen to what Cale I just say,
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because that's impeccable.
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That's impeccable, pre gang, ready to go back to school?
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Advice when you support education around So, thank you so much, Cally, Sorry,
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Yeah, alrighty Cally?
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Where can my audience watch eons Life and Death Pangaea?
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And also they love that so much?
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Where can they.
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Watch the the Morby ions? Also where can they buy
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your book? And also where can I connect with you
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on social media?
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For sure? All right, So let's start with the first one.
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Where can you watch EON's Life and Death on Pangaea?
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The easiest place to do it? Is on the PBS app.
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It will be available starting July twenty ninth on the
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PBS app, and then there will be select showings on
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you can see it on TV. I'm very excited to
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As for watching Eons the YouTube channel, you can find
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MS and you can find all of our almost three
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hundred episodes there. We have a lot of content for you,
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some areas of Earth history that you might enjoy more.
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She is the collection manager at the University of Montana's
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Paleontology Collection. She's also known as the Fossil Librarian. She's
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also the co founder of Eons. As of this recording,
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they have over seven one hundred and fifty seven million
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video views across YouTube and PBS. They also have a
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three point one seven million YouTube subscriber count. She's also
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the co host of the new series Eons, Life and
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Death on Pangaea. She's also the author of Tales of
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Prehistoric Earth, and more importantly, she's a fellow Kansas City native,
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So please help me welcome the fab is Cali More
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to the podcast.
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Hello everybody, thanks so much for having me. I'm excited
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to talk about EON's life and death on Pangaea.
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time at your schedule to talk with me today. I
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really appreciate a CALLI.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to talk.
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So when did you get interested in paleontology and how
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in the field.
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I have been interested in fossil since I was a
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little kid. I blame my dad. He had a fossil
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collection and I always would look through it as a child.
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first limestone, and I actually had an outcrop in my
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backyard and so I would go and collect fossils and
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bring them back and me my dad would bust them
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out of the rocks and it was just a great experience.
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a little waiver in late high school early college where
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That's amazing.
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the geologic timescale called the carboniferous and the limestone and
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skeleton until I was probably in like eighth or ninth
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grade and a traveling exhibit came to Crown Center and
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a Permian locality. It's called mega neuropsis. It looks like
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Western Interior Seaway. So that's why Kansas really doesn't have
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seaway during the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, basically the Mesozoic.
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amazing critters fossilized in Kansas, just not really dinosaurs.
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paleontology collection. So I make sure they're accessible, they're preserved,
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they're digitized, they're available. And so that's kind of how
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Absolutely, absolutely. So you are part of the court the
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group called eons.
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a show on dinosaurs? And Complexly answered back and they're like,
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we see your dinosaurs, and we raise you the history
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of life on Earth, and so PBS was like, great,
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send us a description, let's start talking about the same time,
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I was invited to do a guest spot on sishow
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talk show where Hate Green interviews cool people, cool jobs,
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screen tests and it turned out great, and they were like, cool,
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we want you to be a part of it. We'll
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let you know when we get funding. And a year
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year is the fifteenth anniversary at Jake's take with Jacob Eliashar,
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so it's so as a brand. So I'm very excited
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that you made it to this passes your make So
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in internet science education, what does it mean have Eons
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gonna go. I didn't know how long the funding was
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gonna last. I didn't know how well it was going
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to receive with the public. And people have really really
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enjoyed it. So I'm so impressed, and I'm so thankful
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for our fan base and for the people that tune
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broader audience that is going to be introduced to Eons
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more people become curious about the history of life on Earth.
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bunch of mass extinction that was a little Nobody could
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this happens on the super continent of Pangaea, So why
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don't we broaden this out? Why don't we set the
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Triassic recovery. So we try to leave everybody on a
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high note after the worst mass extinction of all time,
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more cool places, cool critters, cool people by branching out
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that you and the Eon team hope that the audience
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constantly changing. The configuration of our continental plates right now
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there was a time when there was absolutely no oction
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no water on our planet, and so everything is temporary.
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of our globe. In one hundred and fifty million years,
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so much more to Earth history than just dinosaurs and memos,
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you know. So we're talking about critters that lived millions
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of years before dinosaurs ever evolved, and they're super cool
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love these permian animals as much as we do.
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this series is absolutely out of this world. Our film
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team did amazing. The writing is lovely. If you are
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with this series. So it sounds good. The storytelling is amazing,
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it looks good. The soundtrack we're gonna release the soundtrack
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their field. So we're interviewing, we go out on location.
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the Permian period, So it's kind of Earth's history as
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hundred and fifty plus million years ago.
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Prehistoric Earth. How long did it takes you to bring
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very long time. I just really I didn't know how
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need you to write it, and so we went back
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Palaeozoic as well as the Cenozoic afterwards. So the book
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itself covers almost four billion years of Earth history. So
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children's coffee table book, if you will. But it took
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it was a very rewarding experience. And I hope they
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contact me someday for a volume two.
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for a volume two.
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of summer, and a majority in my audience have families
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open ended questions. What's your favorite dinosaur and why why'd
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to move and think and get creative and curious about things.
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kid questions as you go through the museum. What do
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you think that is? What do you think that animal
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is a sharp build. Do you think they eat different plants?
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excited for learning. I was always excited to learn when
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because that's impeccable.
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That's impeccable, pre gang, ready to go back to school?
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Advice when you support education around So, thank you so much, Cally, Sorry,
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ready for your last questions?
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Yeah, alrighty Cally?
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Where can my audience watch eons Life and Death Pangaea?
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And also they love that so much?
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Watch the the Morby ions? Also where can they buy
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your book? And also where can I connect with you
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on social media?
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For sure? All right, So let's start with the first one.
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Where can you watch EON's Life and Death on Pangaea?
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It will be available starting July twenty ninth on the
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PBS app, and then there will be select showings on
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broadcast in your area. If it's not and you can't
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find it, reach out to your local PBS channel and
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ask them to add it to their syndicate and so
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you can see it on TV. I'm very excited to
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As for watching Eons the YouTube channel, you can find
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hundred episodes there. We have a lot of content for you,
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some areas of Earth history that you might enjoy more.
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for you. As for my book, you can basically pick
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up my book anywhere that sells books online. Some local
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bookstores will carry it, some local museums will carry it.
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Yes, thanks again for having me and go Royals. What what?
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