a.k.a.`Health boundary hogs` and `Butt Straw McGraw` Fuck yeah. We're live with Drunk Safari veterans JOE WADLINGTON and SARAH GAILEY for a self-care animal extravaganza. We talk coping mechanisms, things that roll into a ball, mom being a bitch and so much more at our last live show. Adam makes a cameo and we play a game. Show Notes Sarah Gailey's…

a.k.a. Buzz Buzz fish Fish scientist KASSANDRA FORD is here to electrify you with her knowledge of the ocean's vibrators. Or electric fish. Whatever. We get into little bitty buzzers and ALSO electric eels. Show Notes Kassandra Ford on Twitter Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter…

Paleontologist and pal, LEE HALL is back to talk about the UNDENIABLY best dinosaur. We get into the T-Rex in all their tiny-armed glory, and learn my new favorite term: the cloacal kiss. So. Hold on to your butts. Show Notes COME SEE DRUNK SAFARI LIVE on August 29th! Lee Hall on Twitter The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Support Drunk Safari …

Anyone who knows me, Maggie, the host of this show, knows that spotted hyenas are my absolute FAVORITE animal. So it is with GREAT PERSONAL HAPPINESS that we have hyena scientist ARJUN DHEER here to 1.) correct my misconceptions about them and 2.) blow my gentle little mind about animals I thought I couldn't *possibly* love more. Show Notes Arjun D…

a.k.a. 'Forest Hags’ and ‘Shouldn’t-be-tigers’ TARA MARSDEN is here to talk about the world's undeniably greatest and most photogenic primate, the orangutan. We get into why you shouldn't use so much palm oil and also why you should NEVER make a liger, on our newest! Show Notes Drunk Safari On Facebook Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter…

a.k.a. 'The Sociopaths of the Skies' and 'Fashion Alien Dogs' We get into animals sociopathic and weird, with special guest RYAN BOYD! You've probably been physically and emotionally assaulted by a Canada goose, but have you ever even heard of a maned wolf? Educate your face off about these animals both ubiquitous and obscure. Show Notes Ryan Boyd …

It's our first ever live show! We had the best time ever at the Betabrand store with real humans! In an actual space! Thank you to all who came out, but especially to guests RED SCOTT-- who was a Mouse Deer Scientist-- and MEG ELISON-- who was a Moa Scientist. We project images and play game and talk about animals that would look great on instagram…

a.k.a. “Iratus Alienus Equis (Angry alien horses)” and the “I’m not mad I’m just disappointed foxes” The charming and hilarious BECCA HENRY is here, with some of her best dating woes. And also animal information. Whatever, we're here for it. Her beef with camels gets *personal* and we also talk about foxes who look perpetually judgey, or stoned, or…

a.k.a. ‘round bellied bossy barkers’ and ‘SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE! fish’ Fabulous and beautiful and talented comic book author and artist MARI NAOMI is BACK to talk with another adorable mammal! We get into prairie dogs (who can be pets???) and lionfish (who can also be pets, but it's like, not as exciting?) and animals who are cute and animals wh…

a.k.a. ‘babykillers’ and ‘my little burrow bois’ Happy 69th episode of Drunk Safari, pals! We celebrated by having special guest BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ on to talk about bunnies and turtles, bc we LOVE YOU and we LOVE BARUCH and so this is our gift to you, the listener, on this the 69th episode of our show. Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreo…

a.k.a. 'whiskey jacks' Corvid queen and friend of the show KAELI SWIFT is back! She's here to tell us about the world's most adorable corvid the CANADA JAY. We get into smoky eyes, sticky sticky sticky sticky saliva and also objective adorableness as we deep dive into Kaeli's current studies. Show Notes Kaeli Swift on Twitter Kaeli's Blog Know more…

a.k.a. ‘weinerdog birds’ and ‘jamba butt juice dogs’ Let's get into animals land-bound and stinky, with gentleman pal CASEY CHILDERS! We talk Kakapos-- a flightless parrot-- and lesser anteaters-- a odiferous mammal-- and also sex trenches. All the normal things you'd talk about with your normal friends, on a totally normal night. Show Notes Suppor…

a.k.a. ‘misplaced furry pancakes’ and ‘the count of monte kitty-stos' Love of my life and beard face ADAM WOLF is back, to talk about the raviolis of the forest, SOUTHERN FLYING SQUIRRELS. Inspired by John Vaillant's amazing book, The Tiger, I cover Siberian or Amur tigers, who are *terrifying* Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Adam on Twi…

a.k.a. ‘fuzz captains’ and ‘our little miracle buddies’ Stick it to big hamster, and listen to this episode featuring the magnificent CHARLIE JANE ANDERS, as we get into GERBILS and GOLDFISH! Learn more about your favorite pets and also erase that paper trail. We get into obscure Italian law and also California's prejudices. Show Notes Charlie Jane…

aka ‘idiokiwis’ and ‘OM NOM ursis’es’ He's back! Friend, scientist, and mensch RED SCOTT is back to talk about the only animal he doesn't like-- the kiwi. We get into flightless birds, India's historically dancing bears, and also, the gently teasing of Ivan Hernandez. So basically, this episode is part of the BGASPU. Show Notes Red Scott on Twitter…

a.k.a. 'snow floof’s' IMOGEN CANCELLARE: lady's lady, man's lady, lady about town. She's here to educate your effin face off about SNOW LEOPARDS.They're floofy. They're beautiful. They're mysterious. I know. We're excited, too. We get into it, and by it I mean poop. Show Notes Pajama Kid Meme Imogene on Twitter Imogene Website Imogene Instagram Imo…

Come one and come all, and meet the world's most adorable and doting father, the THREE SPINE STICKLEBACK! We get into it with SciComm queen and absolute goddess SARA SMITH WUITCHIK. It may not be the world's most charismatic fish in the world, but it is a FASCINATING one. Show Notes Sara on Twitter Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter Drunk Sa…

Join us with SciComm pal DUSTIN GROWICK as we explore what is true and what is not about Jurassic Park's wiliest villains: the velociraptors. We talk size, feathers, speed, and of course, cloacas. Hold on to your butts. Show Notes Dustin on Twitter Dustin on Instagram Dustin on The Dinosaur Show Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter Drunk Safar…

a.k.a. ‘blue babies’ Actual scientist EARYN MCGEE is here to, to educate you about some spiny lovely lizards! We get into toe clippings (it's more than you'd think), curiousity in STEM and also, poop. Show Notes Earyn on Twitter Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter Drunk Safari on FacebookBy Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Earyn McGee

‘tiny taters’ and ‘the accurate portrayal of heterosexuality-pus’ First time guest TIRUMARI JOTHI is here to blow your mind with the world's hardiest and most lovable invertebrates! We get into some extreme situations, and some silly heterosexual ones with Blanket Octopuses. Show Notes Tirumari Jothi on Twitter Tirumari's website Maggie on Twitter …

Actual scientist and very patient human KAELI SWIFT is here to get you fuckin jazzed on the birds in your backyard! Get inspired to go birding, but like, all the time, as we talk about our smartest, wiliest urban neighbors. Also, that mask? From that study we all talk about it? It was actually Dick Cheney. Show Notes Kaeli Swift on Twitter Kaeli's …

a.k.a. ‘flashy screamer bird’ and ‘bunchilla’ Super important and totally real scientist JENNIFER LAUGHRAN is back to talk about her least favorite animal: the peacock. We talk about liars and showoffs, and also the rare Peruvian bunny chinchilla thing, vizcachas! Show Notes Jennifer Laughran's website! Jennifer on Twitter Literaticast for great pu…

At long last we pack up Shadow again, and hit the road. From Death Valley, to Lake Mead, Phoenix and back again, it feels mostly the same to be on the road again, but this time with a bonus doggo! With Taco all grown up, some changes have had to be made. We talk not dogs, being an indoor kid, talking to robots and our various opinions about driving…

'blood sucker mcgarigals’ and ‘creaky squeaky dumplings’ She's baaaaack! KELLY ANNEKAN is here to talk about yet another unsettling animal to shine her brilliant light upon-- the vampire bat. We talk bloodsuckers, wings, and also the squeaking desert rain frog on our newest. Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Kelly Anneken on Twitter Kelly …

'winged reply guys’ and ‘chicka-chicka-doom-doom’ IVAN HERNANDEZ is back for a heroic third time to talk about his least favorite animal, Scarlet Macaws. We get into his Floridian heritage and hot buffet habits, along with a little crash course in the Janelle Monae of snakes, which, naturally, are rattlers. Show Notes Ivan Hernandez on Twitter Ivan…

‘the earth’s public lice’ and ‘the great allegory bird’ The Milky Way Galaxy's greatest person MEG ELISON is back, and she's here to hate on a crab, whose migratory habits are nightmarish at best. We get into extinction with Dodo Birds and unsettling scuttling with the Christmas Island Red Crab on our newest! Show Notes Meg Elison on Twitter megeli…

a.k.a. ‘wandas’ and ‘floppy boys’ What did we do to deserve MICHEAL FOULK as a special guest? We're not sure. Frankly, we probably don't. But somehow we tricked him, and he's here! We talk Timon but not Pumba, and also California Sea Lions in our newest. Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Micheal Foulk's website Micheal Foulk on Instagram M…

a.k.a. ‘scary winter dogs’ and ‘not even metaphorical fragile masculinity birds’ Alligator scientist GABRIELLE MOSS is back to talk more apex predators! She educates our damn faces off about arctic wolves, but *specifically* TEEN arctic wolves to celebrate all things 90's, winter goth, and bitey. We get into Trent Reznor, some Magnificent Frigates …

a.k.a. ‘compost pile shit loungers’ and ‘bad fashion collateral damage crocodiles’ Co-host and panda racist ADAM WOLF is back to shit all over everyone's favorite animal. We talk animals who may not deserve saving and animals who *totally do* in our newest episode, covering Panda Bears and Orinoco Crocodiles. Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patr…

a.k.a. "sentient breadboxes" and "finer things monkeys" How it is we covered toxic plasmosis BEFORE domestic cats is beyond me, but don't worry special guest AMY STEPHENSON is here to rectify that error! We talk everyone's favorite little meme makers, along with the spa-going Japanese macaques in our newest, and Amy's dog, who sometimes eat tampons…

a.k.a. ‘death footed murder birds’ and ‘imma fuckin’ get you starks’ Cohost of the Binge Movie Podcast, film critic, writer and resident prolapse expert JASON LEROY is BACK to talk about the world's most unsettling bird, the cassowary! Both our animals are upsetting af this week, so. Buckle in. And sorry. Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreon …

a.k.a. 'fucking Trevor' and 'dumpster peacocks' Humanity's greatest achievement JOE WADLINGTON is back, and this time he's forced to abandon his sunny disposition to talk about his least favorite animal. We talk the animal kingdom's absolute worst citizens with iguanas and wild turkeys, who I think we can all agree are total jerks. Show Notes Joe o…

a.k.a. 'Pain-Footed-Fur-Birds' That's right. The correct plural of platypus is platypodes. Super special guest and science writer and human being far too fancy to be on this show CHRISTIE WILCOX is here to talk about the world's weirdest, tiny, venomous animal! We get into plurals in latin vs greek, what a platypus does when it's DTF, dropkicking a…

OoooH we love it when you have sick stories, they say, give us more poop stories they say. First of all, how dare you, and secondly FINE. We talk Ireland, including some beautiful cliffs, great food, and also like, the sickest Maggie has ever been in her whole life. Show Notes Adam and Maggie on Patreon The Drunk Safari Podcast Let's Not Panic on I…

a.k.a. 'Maybe-Wizard Head Ripper Offers' and 'Happy Good Time Friendship Birds' It's all birds all the time in our newest episode! Excellent human and pretty ok guest, ADAM WOLF, is back to discuss which animals are and are not secretly wizards hiding in a birds' bodies, falconry, dog birds and things that go HOO in the night. Show Notes Support Dr…

a.k.a. 'horn puppies' and 'unforgivable asshole wasps' ALLISON PAGE is here! And if, improbably, that was not enough to celebrate (it is) she's also here to talk about moose! Or meese. Is it moose or meese? It's meese. Anyway, we talk Dudley Moore, full racks, mind control and ovipositors. You know, normal stuff! Show Notes Allison Page on Twitter …

We’re meat-bagging it up, with a stay at a foofy Scottish resort that fully looks like Downton Abbey, and some time by the Lochs and in Oban. Adam is pretty high on golf— will it be enough for him to actually use his clubs at home? PROBABLY NOT. Maggie eats her body weight in seafood. We make friends with a Harris Hawk. Show Notes Adam and Maggie o…

Thylacines are only *maybe* extinct, according to guest scientist, best-selling author and all-around super hero, SEANAN McGUIRE! She's here to tell you all about these toothsome babies, her super powers, and also to gloat about being seeing Hamilton with the original cast. Twice. Show Notes Seanan McGuire on Twitter Seanan McGuire Website for info…

Jet lag is real, and so is this new episode. Don't worry, Taco is safe and sound in Berkeley, but Maggie and Adam are in Scotland! Also, likely safe and sound. One must assume. We talk delicious foods, aimless wandering, excellent museums and also Maggie's NEAR PERFECT copiloting skills. Show Notes Adam and Maggie on Patreon The Drunk Safari Podcas…

Zoologist and author of Cute as an Axolotl, JESS KEATING is here to educate your faces off about this most winsome salamander! We talk regrowing spinal cords, souls, and what it means to be cute. AND, for the first time ever, this episode has ZERO cussing, so depending on your comfort level around scientifically accurate sexual reproduction talk ab…

Living land mermaid MOLLY SANCHEZ is back, and this time she's here to tell you all about her sea-brethren the manatee. We talk nanas, Margaret Atwood, animals we don't deserve, and animals we should stop naming stuff after. Show Notes Molly Sanchez on Twitter The Red All Over Podcast The Failure to Launch Podcast Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on …

a.k.a. 'marshmallows' Actual scientist and New York Times Bestselling co-author of Does it Fart, NICK CARUSO is here! Firstly, you should buy his book and also preorder True or Poo. But ALSO he's here to educate your face off about the salamanders he studies! They're squishy, they're adorable, and they'll eat pretty much anything they can fit in th…

a.k.a. ‘pinchy mc paralysis faces’ and ‘feminist life goal fishes’ ADAM WOLF is a dirtbag, and also he's back! We talk animals that grow up to 4.5 inches long, which is the only thing they have in common. Terrifying arachnids! Fish we should learn from! It's opposites day on the podcast, I guess. Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Adam on T…

a.k.a. 'kidnapper ants' Actual scientist NEIL TSUTSUI is here, and he's a *professor* at *UC Berkeley* and he agreed to be on this show, so. We're kind of a big deal now. He's an entomologist, and he's here to genuinely educate you about the polyergis ant! They're crafty little sneakers, and their lifestyle is fascinating. Stay for the ant facts, s…

a.k.a. 'sparkle spits' and 'ocean hankies' Special guest MEG ELISON is back and she's here talk the many and terrible caves of the world, but especially those that glow! We talk vomit nets, sparkle times, and ALSO Giant Oceanic Manta Rays! It's a lot. And you don't know Elsa, maybe she DID make her ice palace with vomit. Show Notes Meg Elison on Tw…

a.k.a. ‘the pissed off placoderm, the destroyer of the devonian, the razor-jawed murder fish from hell, the CLEVELAND CLEAVER’ We're covering our very first *extinct* animal, with paleontologist and special guest LEE HALL! So naturally, we go for the murderfish. We talk armored faces, shark relatives and also-- improbably-- trees. Show Notes Lee Ha…

a.k.a. ‘steely garden tube’ and ‘bum bum breather’ Self-proclaimed: "very important scientist," JENNIFER LAUGHRAN is back and she's more scientific than ever! We talk about worms that are not worms and turtles that exist on only ONE river in the world. It's about to get reptilian AF up in here, so strap in. Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreo…

a.k.a.‘mind control poop worms’ and 'family reunion black belters' It's opposite day on Drunk Safari, with two animals that are so different it seems bonkers to talk about them on the same episode. Official co-host and mustache wearer ADAM WOLF is back to talk about the parasites that make us go cat-person CRAZY and also, African Elephants. As you …

a.k.a. ‘misandry zombies’ and ‘something is wrong it’s time to go to the OBGYN discharge fish’ Oh girl. Someone had to cover them, and we're very pleased to report that it is civil rights labor attorney REBECCA LEE who has taken on the task of defending praying mantises. We talk obscure, medieval art and also MURDER. Also discharge. We got a lot do…

We're baaaaaaaack! And it's been a hot minute. We talk about our most recent adventure, crimes against Shadow, and our dog the best dog in the world. Shadow faces her strangest injury. Adam doesn't understand Palm Springs. Taco finds a tortoise! Show Notes Adam and Maggie on Patreon Map of this leg of the journey Desert Tortoise on Wikipedia The Dr…