On Being Animals

We heard from Sara last episode, so now it’s time to hear from her hubby, my brother in arms, he who flees from the sun, Andrew. We set up the On Being Animals studio at his place, cracked open some groomsmen whisky, and learned about the Speedy Lobster Claw Diva. In addition to whiskey, we get into the Bat Man, dick pics, and growing trees on Mars. Most Egregious Error: Andrew set up a perfect conversation about Jordan Peterson’s lobster and I was too slow to notice. I totally left him hanging and missed out. Jordan Peterson is bit of a divisive figure. From what I can tell, he has produced solid peer reviewed research, and he has also produced some stuff that ain’t peer reviewed, and uh, that stuff is different. In his 12 Steps book, he says that lobsters are biologically hierarchical so humans must also be biologically hierarchical. Lobsters. We should take notes on how to behave from lobsters. There are over 5,000 species of mammals in the world, and he picked the lobster. You know who has spines? Seven t