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Oh boy howdy! Big eggs. Little eggs. 100,000 eggs in the basement of the Field Museum. Meet Dr. John Bates and hear all about speckly eggs, falcon tales, delicate treasures, pigeon mysteries, modern research with old artifacts, Easter bullshit, and whether or not you can hatch chickens from grocery store eggs. Also the carnival ride I will never ever ever go on.

Steven and I spent so much time working on this one. It has clips from a tour of an off-limits part of the museum and ALSO: I way over-wrote the asides and then insisted on cutting out HALF of them. So, there's that. If anyone wants the full-full-full version, you can hear the over-asides one here, below. 

But warning, there are a LOT of asides in this one:https://www.dropbox.com/s/fk7cxn5uefup1xq/Ologies%20-%20EGGS_v1.mp3?dl=0

and many fewer in the REAL, published version, which is here: https://art19.com/shows/ologies-fb/episodes/ccce4c8b-c645-4f14-9e04-7e470a2d7386

I hope you have an egggselent time listening, okay burbye.

Hearts, 

Dadward

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Oology (EGGS) with John Bates

The biggest eggs! The smallest eggs! The people arrested for stealing the most eggs! Oologist Dr. John Bates gave Alie a tour of the egg vault at the Field Museum of Chicago and it was a barrage of beautiful sights and shocking facts about bird butts.

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Heath Allyn (edited)

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2026-09-15 06:00 "Too many asides"? Does not compute. I'll take the MEGA-ASIDES version!
2018-08-14 05:05

Alie Ward

There are SO. MANY. ASIDES. And lengthy, too. In hindsight I was like, slash and burn 'em.

Greg

I love the asides!

Mats Nylund

Are you apologizing for my favorite part of the podcast? I LOVE the asides!

Bob

Grump 😡 can't d/l the asides version

Alie Ward

Aaahahahah! Be straight with me. It was too many asides.

Kelli

Your asides are my favorite part of every episode, i.e. We (or at least I 😉) want more! So, thanks so much for sharing the "full-full-full" version of this episode. I'd be THRILLED if you'd share it for every episode – even past ones. 😅 Whatever you do, please don't hold back on the asides and always keep making this podcast. You and Ologies are everything! 😍

Stu

+1 for the asides, I love them too!

Lisa Murphy-Tate

Eggs! I loved this episode. I'm a tag along from ARIYNBF. This was not my first episode listening to your podcast but had to say that I truly enjoy your interview style and appreciate the asides to explain things to those of us who don't know about the ology you're talking about. It truly makes listening to your pod fun. Thanks!

Wyatt Crabtree-Scott

Alie! Just want to give you a heads up about cookie dough... it’s not the raw egg that actually gets you sick, it’s from eating raw flour. Raw flour can contain E. coli or ....you guessed it... salmonella! 😦 Sorry to burst any doughy bubbles. The world is full of danger >_>