Short Rest: C3 Ep. 50: Beast Master

Legitimately the first time any of you have made me involuntarily grimace; " Nut cheese is fine. "

I was happy to be the herpetology nerd staying out of the comments until I heard "how is a turtle not a toad with a shell"........

The next logical conclusion is water turtles are frogs and land turtles are toads, obviously.

For whatever reason, this episode is not in the Short Rest collection

Calder going to the ice knife tourist area is literally me going on maid of the mist for the first time in my 20s despite living in Niagara Falls my whole life

Best Christmas special is the x files episode “how the ghosts stole Christmas”

I teach about reptiles and amphibians to children and I'm going to start using your guys' facts. Thanks for your contributions to science!

According to Wikipedia, humans do 1-2% of our respiration through our skin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaneous_respiration

cant believe the "why can a toad be dry" discussion didnt prompt a call back to the dry toads (who were the army's footsoldiers i think?) from the hexbloods arc

Caldwell definitely watched Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. “Sparks!”

Question for the crowd I'm slightly confused about the submersible sitaution- what is the current status with it/with Alexandrite changing their plans?

ALL TOADS ARE FROGS BUT NOT ALL FROGS ARE TOADS. I hate that this sounds like a joke but it is actually 100% true 💀

I’m gonna need you guys to throttle back on all the frog talk please

I’m the egg plant loving biologist in the comments and I’m fucking furious.

Every time I meet a couple from now on: “So which one of you is the frog and which one is the toad?”

"How is a turtle not a toad with a shell?" 😂🤣 This made me actually laugh out loud.

Jake is actually onto something, bc in Norwegian the name for a turtle/tortoise (we use the same word for both) literally translates to "Shell toad" They really are just dry toads with shells on, and that's science.

humble eggplant lover signing in

Random question, but does anyone know where to send fan mail/holiday gifts to the two crew?

honestly... we know that there was plans for a mothership in the frigid north... it's not completely impossible that they would've experimented with attempting sol clones that would survive more easily in that environment

Wouldn't a wet snake be an eel, not a frog?

I'd like to recommend Netflix "Klaus" for a holiday movie this year. It is absolutely phenomenal

How is a turtle NOT a toad with a shell……

Barely halfway through but this is my favorite short rest ever

absolute funniest thing i have heard in a long time is Emily saying "eyes wide shut." perhaps the last, but technically appropriate for the question, answer.

This frog toad turtle tortoise conversation had me loudly cracking up in the grocery store - good stuff two crew

so crazy I was absolutely taken out by a head cold for a few days when this came out. mine cleared up quick wishing you all the same

Fun fact underneath the shell is actually super wet...cause of the viscera. It is their spine.

As a biologist that loves eggplant, I feel ostracized by this episode

All the frog facts reminded me how sad it is about Sol’s fungal network. Chytrid fungus strikes again :(

Tortoises guys! Land turtles= toads.

Is sal still canonically hot?

not a biologist but proud owner of a toad and I can confirm that they are indeed very snarky and sharp witted.

We appreciate all you do whether over or under the weather. Feel better everyone!

Gargling salt water helps with the uncontrollable cough -signed, someone with the same (get well soon!)

I just learned today that there is something called a spadefoot that's like a toad but not! Not sure where they fall on the wet v. dry debate though.

Turtles are frogs and tortoises are toads. Period.

Turtles aren’t toads because toads don’t have necks, duh

There was nobody in this record with a foreskin. The week after Smeg-gate we have nut-cheese-a-palooza

Eggplant Parm is the superior Parm!

I’m a biologist and I love eggplants. There’s dozens of us!

"compelling"

Tortoises are toads, turtles are frogs

please let Murph being a dry shitty little toad be a thing

“I sound like Wheezy” made me actually spit take my coffee at work

I was just reading the Grim Hollow Etharis book and I believe Arboreal Curse originated from there. It was recently published.

There is a super incredibly amazing eggplant curry at the restaurant Taste of Sri Lanka 100/10 would recommend

Fight or flight or gaslight

As an amphibian biologist, can confirm everything is 100% accurate

Please try baba ganoush Jake! That’ll turn any eggplant hater into a convert 🍆

Just finished my biological diversity class, frogs have a three chambered heart which causes their oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood to mix and thus their blood is not that great at distributing nutrients as a four chambered heart (in humans) would be. They also need to absorb oxygen through the skin as tadpoles in order to breathe underwater and keep that feature as frogs on land to absorb even more oxygen. The frog can absorb oxygen through its skin, lungs, and even the skin around its mouth so that the lack of oxygenated blood running their their vascular system isn’t a harm to the amount of oxygen they can obtain. Breathing through the skin also makes them vulnerable to human pollutants, as they absorb harmful chemicals and are thus the easiest indicators of extinction via the mass rates of mortality in frog species due to air pollutants.

Respectfully if the duck team is too much "go get less" lol

No a turtle is a frog with a shell while a tortoise is a toad with a shell

Could be just me, but I didn’t get a push notification or email notification from Patreon for this or the episode drop.

I'm never this early, hi anyone who sees this 👋

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