Homicidal Earth Burps and Murderous Sky Rocks: All About Extinctions

Asteroids, volcanoes, and sex lakes - in this episode we discuss the varied and sometimes hilarious hypotheses of why animals have gone extinct. 


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Toxic shock syndrome, menstruation, caterpillars, cursing. Extinctions of the past, with very little about our present. Brief discussion of a serial killer living on your street as a metaphor. Referring to non-avian dinosaurs as just dinosaurs. One brief joke about preferring suicide to talking about geochronology. 

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