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Why bears? Pooh bear, Teddy bears, Paddington bear...

🕑 Added 2024-04-29 17:47:46 +0000 UTC

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mandalyn

My late father’s name is Edmond and his favorite animal ever is elephants so that made me so happy to hear!!!!

Lydia Theologus

I love that they’re your fave animal bc I feel like that’s unique 😹

olivia delprete

Opossums are my favorite animal so I’m kinda pissed that Billy possum didn’t take off

J

I love the episodes like this the most. Sure pop culture is nice, but tons of people cover it and no one else covers topics like this and it’s so much more interesting to me

Elijah O M

i think an interesting avenue related to what topics you spoke about being interested in is - Cultural History - you could look at popular culture or celebrity examples of less obviously pop culture topics, like for numerology you could explain what different number mean in cultures and then point out examples in popular media/celebrity etc. (like how so many shows use a group of 4 friends)

Megan

Omg yes a numerology episode would be soo good.

Emily

This was so fun!!

Jennifer Lake

I saw a clip of that vegan guy using that argument, but I don't think that's an equivalent comparison. No they most likely wouldn't eat a living animal but give them an apple and a chicken finger and see which they eat first. Kids don't eat a lot of vegetables anyway, give them an onion or a piece of candy and which would they eat first? Lol. I just don't think using kids' eating preferences is a good litmus test for whether humans are omnivores or herbivores. I just feel that there are better arguments to be made if you wanted to convince people to not eat meat. Not the point of this mini ep tho 😂 I almost exclusively had stuffed animals as a kid, not many baby dolls, and I don't want kids so maybe they're fears weren't completely crazy 🤣

Savannah Martin

this episode was SO fun!! i didn’t know any of the history. i sleep with my teddy bear named bernie every night 🥹

Anna-Claire Butler

It’s funny because a lot of little towns in North Louisiana all fight and want to claim that the bear hunt happened in their town! My grandparents will swear up and down the bear hunt happened in their town haha.

Vitor Dutra

Shannon what a great episode and unexpected topic! 😂 I love how your mind works and absolutely adore listening to your take on anything honestly! You always immediately vocalize what I’m thinking as I listen 💕

RJ

I had a stuffed raccoon that I cried over after leaving it in a hotel by accident and then cried again when I found a replacement that was the same lol 🤣 real bears seem so friendly to me 😫😭 too bad bear hugs are lethal!

Elizabeth

I’m a simple gal… fluently forward uploads, I click 😌 what an interesting & fun topic!! You never disappoint :)

Alex

LMAO me too!! their chaos is appealing to me.. and they’re ugly in a cute way

Haley

I think the old guy in his fifties that was using hgh around 2005 in his thirties is Gerard butler — he would have been preparing for the movie 300 around that time, which he got really famous for

Jess Thomas

You called it… someone in a Patreon saying they like opossums. Me - I like them. 😆Good episode, as always!

T Nat

This was really refreshing, thanks!

Laura

🐻

Paulina Altofová

John Green covered this in his most recent book (highly recommend btw)! I was just searching to listen to something while i clean so thank you Shannon!