Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Journey Through Shark Science and Conservation

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Hey Dave, your old friend Greg here. Congratulations for reaching 100 episodes

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of Beyond Jaws. I enjoyed being part of it and I've really enjoyed

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Hey, everybody, and welcome to a special edition of

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the Beyond Jaws podcast, where we are celebrating our

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100th episode. Today's episode, we're going to be going over a

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little bit of the history of the Beyond Jaws podcast, because there's some

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things that I don't even remember what we did because we were able

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to accomplish so much. So I can't wait to

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get into the episode. And I'm here with my

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co-host, Dr. David Ebert. Dave, how's it

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Oh, it's awesome, man. I'm pretty pumped up. We got our hit 100 episodes of

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our podcast and, uh, that's a pretty good accomplishment, I

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think. So, and I believe is probably one of the most, um,

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popular shows. Cause I don't think too many shark episodes of podcasts

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have reached a hundred episodes. Um, I think we should have a lot to be happy about

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there and, uh, are the episodes grown as

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we'll talk about today. And we have a few guests on that

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were, uh, that come on and give us a little bit of a shout out here. We'll

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talk a little bit about the podcast history and kind of

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how we got this whole thing started and how you and I first kind

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of came to know each other and all that. So, um,

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I'm looking forward to it as well. This is going to be a lot of fun. I think, I think this

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is, you know, one of those episodes, you know, we talk about the 100. It's always

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a big milestone in a, in a podcast because

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I've been podcasting for almost a decade now. And when

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you reach that 100th or every time you reach a hundredth, uh,

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you're, you, you feel something a little special because with

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a lot of times with, with podcasters, it doesn't matter what

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your topic is that you're talking about. It could be sharks. It could be the ocean. It

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could be. learning how to play the ukulele. It

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doesn't matter. If you can reach 100, you've probably outperformed

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or outpublished most of the

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podcasts that are out there. Because I think there was a study done a couple of

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years ago that looked at the total number of podcasts that have been

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launched, and there were like four million or so. The

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active podcasts at that time was 400,000. It

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just goes to show that a lot of people will start a podcast, realize how

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difficult it is and how time-consuming it is, and then realize that,

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hey, you know what? Maybe this isn't for me, which is fine. That's up

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to everybody else. Sometimes when you get that

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hundredth, you know you've outworked a lot of the

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people who have been on there. And, you know, shout

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out to all the other shark podcasts who are approaching 100 or

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have hit 100, because we were trying to look it up to see if we were the

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only ones, but there are some great podcasts out there

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that, you know, deal with sharks in a very different way

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that we do. And they're fantastic. We listen to

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all of them, you know, at some point in time, it's kind of hard to

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listen to all of them because there are quite a few, but it's great to

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see them approach, you know, 50, 60, 70, 80, and

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if they get to 100, that's even better. We love our fellow

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shark podcasters out there and ocean podcasters and

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wildlife podcasters, because God knows, Dave, we need more

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people talking about the ocean to get more people aware and have

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the education. We can see it in

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some of our political leaders right now in the lack of information they have on

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science and conservation. So it's nice to be

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able to have people listen to us and just be like, hey, you know what, like

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we can teach you a little something or you can learn a little something from each and every

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one of our guests that we have on. And I think that's that's

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Yeah, absolutely. And I think, you know, Andrew, we kind of we started this whole idea

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of like, you know, kind of want to do something a little different in that Well,

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how, cause I certainly get this question a lot and you probably get it as well.

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Like, well, how do you get into doing marine science? How do you become like a shark researcher

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or science communicator? And so, you know,

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and like, you know, we wanted basically tell, have people tell their, tell

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their story, tell, talk about their journey and try to get

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a lot of people from, from just different stages of their careers. I

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mean, I think. Originally, we came up with this idea this whole concept

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of the the beyond jaws podcast It

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was my initial thing was let's get some of the more senior people on

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there So they could tell their story in their own words because

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you know oftentimes you go you'll somebody will pass away an older

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researcher You know and and they'll know the name and

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yet they won't they won't you know They won't know anything other

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than what the old I hate to say the shark obituary or the fish obituary

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It's been written about them versus like having them be able to

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share the story in their own words. And that's kind of morphed into

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like, well, that's great. We'll get some of the more senior people on

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there. And certainly our first, you know, half dozen

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or so episodes focused on some of the people that have

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had careers and gone through that. But then as we expanded on,

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we went to some, looked at some of the other things to talk about.

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Well, let's find some people, let's talk to people in their middle of their career, some early career

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people. Like, well, how'd you, get started. Why did you get interested in

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it? And the younger people are kind of fun because they

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can tell their story now at this point in their career, whether they're

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doing a graduate degree or they're early postgraduate, and

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then they come back in 10 or 20 years and see where they

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are now. And so I think that's kind of cool for some

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of the early career people to be able to come back at a later time and and

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see what they said, because now we have it on tape, literally, to

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see what they're doing and what their thinking was. And

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so I think that's kind of a cool niche that we found,

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I think we've dispelled a lot of the biggest myth, I think, in

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marine science in general for careers is that everything

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just falls into place. You know, you go to university, you do graduate work

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and everything is just, let's just, it's

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a straight path to your career. And we know now. you

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and I have known that for a while, that's not true. But people just don't

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believe it until you see and hear it from a

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lot of the people who've been in it for 30, 40 years and

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seeing their career meander, whether they were in shark

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biology and shark science the entire their career, or

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what a lot of people have gone back and forth between sharks Maybe

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fisheries, maybe aquaculture like you

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did, or science communication like I did. It goes

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back and forth a lot of the times and it really just comes up with

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what's the opportunity that presents yourself, what's your life

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situation at the time. It meanders. Path

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is the right path and no path is the wrong path. It's just whatever

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path that you get. And I think that's what's really

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Yeah. I mean, I think that, you know, like one thing that I think is pretty consistent is

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nobody has, as you just said, a direct path and people have had

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to do a lot of interesting jobs

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along the way, uh, different things. They just, but they stayed, but

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I think the one thing is they all stayed focused where they want to ultimately get to. And

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they had a lot of setbacks, a lot of things, you know, some people came

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to, you know, some people, you know, like myself knew early on, like

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I'm going to do sharks, you know, at that time, they're five years old. Other people came

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to the, came to sharks later on. Um, and I think another thing

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that too, with our podcast is that we have, we don't just have scientists on,

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we have people from the conservation and we have science communicators. We've

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had a number of people that do filming. You know, we've had, you

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know, a number of people like Joe Romero, Chris Fallows, people

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that are both behind in front of the camera for Shark Week and

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for the Nat Geo Shark Fest and other programs to

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talk about, to just talk about how, because one thing you hear a lot of

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is like, how do you become a wildlife photographer or filmmaker? Yeah.

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So having the, so having some of these people on to talk about

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their journey, It all revolves around, they all wanted to eventually get into doing

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marine science, or not marine science, be able to capture marine

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science either on film or on audio or in

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different areas. So I think that was one of the things that we wanted to step

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outside just the pure science or just the pure conservation,

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but to get people from other backgrounds. And

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so it's been kind of really neat in that

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respect for our series we've

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Yeah, and you know it's interesting because we've experimented over

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that time too. I think we've stayed true to the overall

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goal and that's to, you know, you know,

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share the stories of different researchers, share the stories

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of different conservationists that are within the shark or conservation field,

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like in that area, shark science or shark conservation. But

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we started experimenting right from the beginning. We did our first number of

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interviews. You were technically, I guess, you were

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our official first guest. Um, but, but you

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know, technically, cause you know, we want to tell your story as well. Um,

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but you know, we, we, we kind of came in right off the bat with

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Greg Skolmo as our first, uh, as our first, you know,

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episode. Um, and since then he's done two episodes and

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I think a bonus episode as well as we were going through

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that, but like, you know, he was first on in July of 2021, right

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around shark week. which is perfect, obviously, to launch

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and put out some episodes. And obviously, you've known

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Greg for a long time. Ever, yeah. He's

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always a great guest, telling us the behind the scenes of

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some of the stuff he's done. I remember that first episode, we did talk

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about Shark Week, what it's like to be on Shark Week, some of the ins and

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outs that scientists coming up in the field should

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know more about when they approach, you know, Shark Week

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or get approached by production companies to do Shark Week

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episodes, as well as any other, you know, big TV episodes like

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Shark Fest that's developed since then. And of

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course, you've been on them too, so you can share your stories as well. But

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then, you know, we also got to talk to him on that bonus episode

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of you know, the book Chasing

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Shadows with Rhett Talbott as well that he co-wrote that with. That

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was just amazing. To have him, you know, like as you mentioned,

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our first number of episodes were sort of dictating the

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history, especially of that Jaws generation. You

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know, do you want to just talk a little bit about the Jaws generation and a little bit about

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Yeah. Like I said, the first sort of six, seven episodes we had on

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there, we started off with Greg and these were people, these were all, we

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all kind of came up together, uh, you know, myself and Greg, we

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had Lisa Natanson on, we had, uh, Sarah

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had, we had, uh, Gavin Naylor on. And so we had a number of,

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a lot of these people we had on there, they were literally, we all kind of came of age

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in the, in the eighties. And, and so like they had,

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um, you know, with Greg and Lisa, Again, we

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all knew each other going back to when we were all graduate students together. Somebody

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like Gavin Naylor, for example, who was on one of the first episodes we

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had, he actually

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was a student of Eugenie Clark's. And

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as anybody who listens to the episodes know, we typically have on some

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of the we have on the, whenever there's a

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winner for the American Laszlobrank Society, the Eugenie Clark award, we typically

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have them on the podcast. And so most recently we had Grace

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Castleberry on there, who was the most recent winner, but we've had, you know,

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we had Britt Finucci on as on an episode.

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She was back in May of 2022 on episode 25. She

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came out and talked about her having received the Eugenie

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Clark award and talk about her research. And we also

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had Britt on more recently in April

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of this year, on a bonus episode to talk

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about the recent article she had that was on the cover of Science Magazine. But

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a lot of people, the reason you have something like a Gavin Naylor on is that most

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of these people, even though they might be a recipient of the Jeanne Clark Award,

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they have no idea that Gavin Naylor, who's been a long-time member of the American Algebraic Society,

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actually was a graduate student of hers. And so you can share stories like

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that. And that's really kind of the essence of the whole reason

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that we wanted to do the podcast is to be able to have

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people on like Gavin and

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the others, and of course, Greg Skomal, who's never short

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of stories to tell and stuff and some of his adventures back

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in the day. And so they can, there's a, this is kind

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of set up a connection between, you know, the, you know, the current,

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you know, people starting out and some of the maybe

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mid-career, some of the earlier people have been around for

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a while and then, but they can be like a link, like in Gavin's, It's

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a connection to Jeanne Clark. Recently,

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Leonard Campagno passed away, and we've done a couple things

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by talking about Leonard, having been a graduate student of Leonard's, and

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talk about what it was like. And I knew Leonard for about 40 years, over

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40 years actually. And so to be able to talk about what

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it was like working with Leonard Campagno, I was like, well, sit down buddy

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and pull up, have a beer and pull up a chair and let's talk. And

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so it makes a connection. And I think it's important, you know, for

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people to know the history of the field they're into and

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what they're doing. And so, you know, a lot of the people we

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had, like I said, our first sort of group of people were all literally pioneers

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people who, you know, read their papers and watch

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their careers and know, you know, what academic institutions

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they're at or government institutions they're at. And they see the

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people and they, you know, we've probably all done it.

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where you read a number of research papers by a particular person and

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then when you first interact with them you just don't know what to do because they're celebrities in

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the field and you're just like oh my gosh like I'm so intimidated I have

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imposter syndrome and so forth. But then you know one

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of the benefits of doing the podcast was to have them on and you

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can hear their voice you can hear their personalities and a lot of the times

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you know for me you know hearing and meeting some of the people that

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we've been interviewing It's kind of cool. They've been on TV.

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in the field of shark science and conservation. And it just kind of brings

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everybody to an equal playing field, as they would think, too.

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You know what I mean? They're easy to interact with. They're

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just regular people. And you get to hear their voice. You

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get to connect with them on a deeper level. And that's what

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I've always loved about podcasts. It's raw. It doesn't have to be professionally

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done. Uh, it's, it's one of those things where you just hear the person.

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interviews unless there's a connection issue or something like that. So it's,

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you, you get, this is what you get. This is who they are

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as, as guests and as scientists and conservationists. And

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you hear the passion in their voice. A lot of times from a journal article

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or maybe an article in a, uh, you know, a society magazine

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or something like that, you don't get that passion coming through that tone. And

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so you're able to get that through the podcast, which is

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a lot of fun. And then I think that's what you and I have enjoyed over

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the last, you know, four years to be able to do to

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series of people that have been around kind of from the Jaws generation, as

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you mentioned, But then we, we, we, we went into, uh, we,

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I, I actually with, uh, uh, Pete kind and Paula Carlson have

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also been on the podcast. We did a, uh, uh, the three of

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us, uh, uh, uh, coordinated, ran a, uh, a

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symposium. It was a global symposium on wedge fish and guitar

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fish, which are probably the most critically endangered group of, of,

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uh, of sharks or rays in the world. And we did a series of,

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29 people on. which was a lot of work for us, but

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it was, but everybody was able to come on and talk a little bit about their, share

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a little bit about their story. And of course we, you know, everybody on

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there, we can have on again for a full on episode and we'll eventually, um,

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but we had, you know, we were able to have some people on there and a couple of people we had

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on there was, uh, Adriana Gonzalez Pastana who,

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uh, talked, who's from Peru and talked a bit about some of the work

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she's doing. And then of course we had, uh, Benaiah Simone, who's

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on episode 13 from the same time. She's from Indonesia. Both

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are now doing their PhDs at Charles Darwin University under Peter

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great experience in Indonesia with both of

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them on that. And they're going to be on a future episode here again. But

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it was very, for them, from Peru, from

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Indonesia, to be able to come on a podcast that has

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a global reach, I think, is really Helpful

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and I think that in and I encourage people to go back and listen to that because

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a lot of the people That were we young people we had on those Symposium

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podcasts. It was our first Podcast experience. It

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was the first time they had a chance to speak to an international audience

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you know, we have we have people who've had downloads from over a

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hundred and forty countries and we had we've had guests

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on from over 40 different countries, which I think there's probably

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not too many Sharkey podcasts that can say they have had

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guests on from 40 different countries. There are over 40 countries.

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of examples of that. could talk about

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their experiences. And again, I'm sure in the future, they'll be able to go back and listen to

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what they said at the time. But part of

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that from a science communication standpoint, Andrew, and you could comment more

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on this, but here we're running this symposium that's

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within the shark community was fairly well advertised, but

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with the podcast, this is kind of this synergetic compliment

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to it. We're able to get out to a more global audience, to people even outside

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the field that want to learn about these groups. And I don't, I'm

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not aware of anybody that's ever done that. And I think that's, what's kind of cool

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about what we do is we're been being you

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and I doing it. We come up with some innovative things to do and some try some stuff,

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some stuff works. And I think that worked really well in some stuff, maybe

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not so much, but at least we're able to try some things in that, that

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podcast we did with the symposium, I think was, was

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been a long believer and supporter of

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sharing these symposiums with sort of

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a different audience. there's a lot of information that is passed on

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through those symposiums. It's always great to hear from

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each of the contributors to this, like the presenters that we interviewed,

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and have them, you know, talk about what they've done, you

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know, in terms of contribution, what they're going to be talking about at the symposium. Because

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a make-up of a number of different people. Shark enthusiasts, I would say. And

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to be able to bring that information of a symposium that

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you wouldn't normally get access to, where it would be written up as a

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technical report that may not be of interest to shark enthusiasts or

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may not get distributed to shark enthusiasts, Now

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we have it in a way where you hear it directly from the person, like you're in the

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audience yourself, and it's not in a presentation mode, they're in a relaxed mode,

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they're talking about some of the cool things they did, and it's amazing. But

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Dave, I don't know if you remember the

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amount of work we put on to do those episodes. There

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was, I think what is it, seven episodes, and you were talking about before, 29 different

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people on each episode, or on the

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total of seven. So that averages about three to four, 20 to

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25 minute interviews we did for each of those episodes. We decided to,

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you know, put it in, condense it into seven episodes. The amount of

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work that we did for that, and we were talking to people all over like Bangladesh, South

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Africa, I think we did Sri Lanka. Yeah,

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like it was it was everywhere and I remember just different time

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zones. We were juggling and we were going on and we were trying to remember where

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these go and But it was it was so much fun

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to learn all of these different uh,

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you know, just just the different information that's coming out of of

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Yeah. No, I think I think a thing that you touch on like, you know A

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lot of these things tend to be very North American-centric or

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Western European-centric, and yet we have people on from Bangladesh,

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from Sri Lanka, from the UAE, from

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Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Angola,

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all over Latin America. We actually developed quite a good following

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in Latin America now because we feature a lot of people from

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Central and South America. Who come on the show, you

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know, we had we had, you know, Francisco concha poncho

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as we know him by I was on an episode in March of

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2023 episode 42 and if you want to catch a funny a

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real funny guy, he's a professor at the University of Val Valparaiso

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He's a great. He's a great guest. He knows everybody and

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he just shared what is you know, like a lot of the types of research going

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on in in South America and in Chile there. And

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so here's a guy that had a chance to reach out and connect with

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people. And so it's been really wonderful

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to just get these people from different countries. And we

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have to say we have a good following in South America and Central America

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just because we have a lot of people on from those episodes to

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talk about, to share their story and talk about their journey. And you find out

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Even in these countries, most of these people, no one's had a very straight trajectory

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in how they got to where they were. And of course,

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one of the things that's kind of funny is sometimes after we interview some

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people, we'll be off air talking and

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I'll find some little nugget about them and I'm like, oh man, I wish I'd

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We should have recorded that. because that would have been

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really good to include in the episode. Oh yeah,

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for sure. Oh yeah, so it's pretty good to

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be able to get on there and talk about some of the people. Some

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of the people, we've had some young people on, like Josh Moyers, who's

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a lecturer at, I think it's Yale

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University, actually. It's Yale, yeah. Yeah, it

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was Yale. And he talked about the shark mook, which there was

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a thing that him and Willie Bemis, who's also been on the episode, podcast

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talked about it was a, it was an hour, it was an educational thing

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that they're able to communicate with people from all over the world. And,

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uh, it was a really good program. And I, I, uh, uh,

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and so being able to have someone like Josh on, who's just kind of launching his

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career. And of course, Willie is kind of at more of the, I'd

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like to say the tail end for those of us that kind of at the tail end of our kind of the

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latter part of our career, but, um, but if you kind of

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get that, have that, the golden years, exactly. uh...

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but uh... have josh come on their shares uh... thoughts and

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everything with the on the Shark Mook and where

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his career is going. He's going to be another one that's going to be great to

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have on again in the future and see where it's gone, you know,

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or see where his career is going and how it's going and, and share

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some of his stories. So again, that's some of the difference, the

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kind of the cool things that it's nice to have on some of these people. And

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again, he is another one that, you know, he doesn't, you know, he's, he'll be in North America,

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he gets a little more opportunity, but again, some of the people we have on don't

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have much opportunity and especially Especially going

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on with the English-speaking community. A number of

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the people we had on, even just this year, we

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had on Elisa Arreno from Guatemala.

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We've had Maria Cristina Doni, who's

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originally from Uruguay, also works as

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a professor in Brazil. I think it's one of the first sort

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of English-speaking podcasts they've

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ever been on. I know for sure it was for Cristina. And they just

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don't get invited on many of these things. And they're both very accomplished women.

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agree. And I think it takes also a lot of courage for

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people whose English is not their first language to come on an English speaking

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podcast and be able to communicate the

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way they've been able to do that and to put themselves out there. I think that

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is something that I know I never thought about before we started this

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podcast and then seeing them come on. And

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they did a great job. Every single one of them did a great job

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in coming on and telling us and it's allowed us to share their story,

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which is really nice that they shared their story with us and the

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audience because we don't get to hear from them, as you mentioned. That

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often but can I also talk a little bit about some of the groups that

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you know? It's the groups within the shark world that we've

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been able to share So for instance like Lindsay Marshall

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and and Mark Dando who have been on the podcast. They're they're illustrators

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we never really get to talk about what goes into book illustrations and

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textbook illustrations and digital illustrations and how sort

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of that market just kind of builds up, right? And we

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don't hear from people like that. And we're able to kind

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of get an idea. There are people out there who are really great artists and

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they want to know how to get into that type of career. We've

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been able to share their stories and they've been able to share them with

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people who are looking forward to starting their career in that as

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well. And even just being like, if you're new to this, if

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you're new to illustrations and you don't know anybody else who's done those

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types of illustrations, where do you go? How do you begin?

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You don't wanna just repeat the same mistakes that

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they did. They can provide you with a little bit of

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mentorship through their story or even you can reach out to them afterwards because

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we always put the connections to there as well. I think that was

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always great. And then there's also the, which I

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thought, I never thought we were gonna do this, but when we

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started to do this, it was a lot of fun, is talk about sort of

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the, Shark like productions that were

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done in the behind the scenes. So we had like Andy Casagrande on

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we had Jesse Khaleesi Who's been on the podcast we

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had Joe Romero who've been on?

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Jeff Kurt yeah yeah so like we've had and we've gotten a

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sort of an indication and a behind the scenes look at

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how you begin a career like that where does it go how do you

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even get like a little bit of that take your personality and being on

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camera camera person you know and yeah and develop that

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and I think it's really interesting just to see the different backgrounds of

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people, where they came from, where they go. You know, the

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fact that Joe Romero from Portugal originally,

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when he came to the US, learned English through Godzilla movies,

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00:27:41,513 --> 00:27:44,996
of all things, like, you know, and got into the big monster movies

446
00:27:45,056 --> 00:27:48,478
and stuff. And I think that's one of the episodes, Dave, where after the recording, he

447
00:27:48,498 --> 00:27:51,700
was showing us his, like, collection of the different monsters he

448
00:27:51,740 --> 00:27:54,942
had in the background, which would have been really fun to be able to

449
00:27:54,982 --> 00:27:58,205
show on camera during a recording, but we were like, damn

450
00:27:58,245 --> 00:28:01,748
it, we should have just, we should have kept going. Should have rolled the camera for that, yeah. Showing the,

451
00:28:02,409 --> 00:28:05,852
yeah, I think showing the niches within the science world,

452
00:28:05,872 --> 00:28:09,315
the shark science world and conservation world is really cool

453
00:28:09,716 --> 00:28:13,180
to bring to an audience. And we're going to continue

454
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,984
to do that, I think, with people who

455
00:28:17,044 --> 00:28:20,749
now, even people who have been big in social media and

456
00:28:20,809 --> 00:28:24,033
big influencers, who are

457
00:28:24,073 --> 00:28:28,259
developing their career at the same time and showing people What

458
00:28:28,299 --> 00:28:31,562
it's like to go through a PhD like Jalen Myers who's

459
00:28:31,622 --> 00:28:35,245
on episode 61 like in December of 2023 she

460
00:28:35,306 --> 00:28:38,449
was like a huge fan of the podcast and She kind

461
00:28:38,489 --> 00:28:41,732
of came on and gave her story which which is great, and we've been getting

462
00:28:41,772 --> 00:28:45,536
to know her Throughout that so I think it's it's

463
00:28:45,556 --> 00:28:48,759
a lot of fun to show sort of the different Areas of like

464
00:28:48,819 --> 00:28:52,321
growing areas like in terms of social media, you know video

465
00:28:52,381 --> 00:28:55,784
production and and doing a production like a high-end production

466
00:28:55,804 --> 00:28:58,926
Like we talked to force as well right right off the bat Those have

467
00:28:58,946 --> 00:29:03,029
been always the fun areas to get into the illustrators, right? And

468
00:29:03,169 --> 00:29:06,551
even the book writers to like you sharing your stories of book writing as

469
00:29:06,611 --> 00:29:09,914
well As as Greg Skomal and others who

470
00:29:09,954 --> 00:29:13,316
have been on to be able to say hey, look we've done this pretty cool stuff

471
00:29:14,977 --> 00:29:19,580
Yeah, we've had Dean Grubbs on to talk about the books he's done. We've had

472
00:29:20,421 --> 00:29:23,963
his co-author, Dan Abel, was on recently

473
00:29:23,983 --> 00:29:27,245
to talk about one of his books. And of course, they had a bit of a funny

474
00:29:27,285 --> 00:29:30,448
story that I met

475
00:29:30,508 --> 00:29:33,870
Dan in a bar in Catalina Island about 40 years ago

476
00:29:33,890 --> 00:29:37,672
with Lisa Natanson. So if you

477
00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:42,132
want to know more, you have to go back and listen to that particular episode. But,

478
00:29:42,152 --> 00:29:45,873
you know, we had, but you know, some of the people are like, you know, someone like, uh, we had Jesse Colosi

479
00:29:45,973 --> 00:29:49,034
on and he's like, he does the editing. I mean, everything you see on there, he

480
00:29:49,074 --> 00:29:52,655
does all, he's one of the guys who's bought kind of literally behind the scenes. Um,

481
00:29:52,855 --> 00:29:56,637
and he'd work. So he does a lot of stuff with Forrest Golan. He was another friend of the podcast and

482
00:29:56,657 --> 00:30:00,098
full course forces out there and the complete opposite where he's, he's

483
00:30:00,138 --> 00:30:03,379
basically the host and, you know, main person on the, he's

484
00:30:03,419 --> 00:30:06,760
had his own TV series and he's done, does a number of these shark week shows. And

485
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,838
he's obviously on the other extreme, he's out in front there in front of the camera. Uh,

486
00:30:10,918 --> 00:30:14,101
all the time doing the stuff, but then it's Jesse who takes the stuff and does all the

487
00:30:14,181 --> 00:30:18,385
editing behind the scenes that puts it all together and the music and

488
00:30:18,405 --> 00:30:21,969
the music. Yes. That was a big, there was some insights again.

489
00:30:22,009 --> 00:30:25,212
If you're, it's a whole area. I never, well,

490
00:30:25,232 --> 00:30:28,715
I've been, cause I've done some of the shows. I got a little bit of insight, but I really haven't them

491
00:30:28,795 --> 00:30:32,218
on. I even learned a lot just hearing him talk about just how much time and

492
00:30:32,259 --> 00:30:35,496
energy goes into doing these, uh, doing

493
00:30:35,536 --> 00:30:39,004
these episodes. I mean, it takes him months and months and

494
00:30:39,024 --> 00:30:42,352
he only does like one or two a year. And I didn't really

495
00:30:42,432 --> 00:30:45,624
think about that, just how much. time and energy it takes to be able to

496
00:30:45,644 --> 00:30:48,945
do one of these episodes. And so Jesse really provide a

497
00:30:49,005 --> 00:30:52,146
lot of insight. And I, uh, yeah. Plus he was just, he was

498
00:30:52,166 --> 00:30:55,267
just a great guest. He was one of those guys. They need to put him in front of

499
00:30:55,287 --> 00:30:58,607
the camera here sometime and let him like, just turn him loose.

500
00:30:58,627 --> 00:31:02,628
I think so. Yeah. Just a shout out to forest. Next

501
00:31:02,648 --> 00:31:06,089
time you have Jesse out in the field, um, you might have to put them on camera for

502
00:31:06,129 --> 00:31:09,450
a little bit to, uh, capture some of his personality. It was pretty, it

503
00:31:09,490 --> 00:31:13,250
was really good to have him on. and to be able

504
00:31:13,290 --> 00:31:16,693
to highlight some of that stuff. And

505
00:31:16,713 --> 00:31:20,376
then, yeah, so I think it's been really, it's

506
00:31:20,396 --> 00:31:23,618
been a great opportunity and a great vehicle to

507
00:31:23,638 --> 00:31:27,181
be able to share some of this stuff with people. And again, I

508
00:31:27,201 --> 00:31:30,844
think, I know for me, doing science all the time, it's like, I love doing it, but

509
00:31:30,904 --> 00:31:35,568
getting to know some of the people, kind of their behind the scenes and what they're doing is

510
00:31:35,688 --> 00:31:38,978
really kind of- It's my favorite part. Yeah, totally. It is. It

511
00:31:39,058 --> 00:31:42,459
is absolutely, it's absolutely one of the favorite things to be able to do. And

512
00:31:42,479 --> 00:31:45,699
I think we've been able to help connect people too. They kind of come on, they listen to

513
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,700
what somebody tell their story and then, you know, they feel like they get to know

514
00:31:49,740 --> 00:31:52,901
them. I think on a, almost on a personal level too. So they feel like

515
00:31:52,941 --> 00:31:56,021
they can, if you run into some of these people, if you're right, if you're a

516
00:31:56,061 --> 00:31:59,642
young person in the field, you run into a conference, go up and say hi to them. You

517
00:31:59,682 --> 00:32:03,543
know, now that you know a little bit about some of these people and

518
00:32:03,623 --> 00:32:06,972
everything, and I hope I'm kind of hoping like, you know, we have like

519
00:32:07,332 --> 00:32:11,093
every four years have like a sharks international. I'm kind of hope with our podcast now

520
00:32:11,113 --> 00:32:14,415
that we're at a hundred episodes and growing that we'll be able to start

521
00:32:14,955 --> 00:32:18,277
help people connect when they go to these, some of these international conferences, they

522
00:32:18,317 --> 00:32:22,793
can connect. A lot of these people that we've had on our podcast. And

523
00:32:25,114 --> 00:32:28,514
You can even do a couple of live episodes there at the conferences as

524
00:32:28,574 --> 00:32:31,875
well. I think that's the place to be where you get all the content that

525
00:32:33,276 --> 00:32:37,717
Yeah. And we've got to also give a real big

526
00:32:37,777 --> 00:32:40,917
shout out to Save Our Seas Foundation, which has been a

527
00:32:40,977 --> 00:32:44,338
tremendous, really helped get us off the ground initially with

528
00:32:44,558 --> 00:32:47,799
the initial sort of seed funding to get us going. And

529
00:32:47,819 --> 00:32:51,738
I just want to thank, initially it was Michael Scholl, was

530
00:32:51,778 --> 00:32:54,979
the executive director, I initially approached that, then he

531
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:58,460
left and James Lee came in, and James has been super

532
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,761
supportive of us, as well as Sandrine Griffiths,

533
00:33:04,461 --> 00:33:08,162
and Jade Schultz, and of course, Isla Hodgson, who does

534
00:33:08,182 --> 00:33:11,703
the World of Sharks podcast for Save Our Seas. It

535
00:33:12,423 --> 00:33:16,084
was very good for them to appreciate them

536
00:33:16,124 --> 00:33:19,685
for helping us get off the ground and get going, which

537
00:33:19,705 --> 00:33:23,410
has kind of led to where we are today. From initially starting

538
00:33:23,450 --> 00:33:26,795
out as just audio only, now we've got our own YouTube channel. So

539
00:33:26,835 --> 00:33:30,300
I guess to save our seats, thank you guys so much.

540
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,945
You guys really helped get our whole podcast

541
00:33:36,614 --> 00:33:39,856
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's the, you know, it's always

542
00:33:39,876 --> 00:33:43,178
the people, not only the people who've been guests, who have helped, you know, share

543
00:33:43,198 --> 00:33:46,660
their stories, but also Save Our Seas, who's helped us start off.

544
00:33:47,161 --> 00:33:51,424
They provided us funding for the first couple of years, which was great. And

545
00:33:51,464 --> 00:33:54,586
now we're off and running, and we've been off and running for the last couple of years, and

546
00:33:54,826 --> 00:33:58,368
it's been absolutely phenomenal to be

547
00:33:58,408 --> 00:34:01,671
able to continue this journey. You know, we're going

548
00:34:01,691 --> 00:34:05,675
to continue on Dave, right? We're going to continue on with our regular episodes,

549
00:34:06,515 --> 00:34:10,219
you know, sort of helping people share their stories and learning

550
00:34:10,299 --> 00:34:14,103
from them. And hopefully we all learn from each of those stories. And

551
00:34:14,123 --> 00:34:17,526
we're going to be kicking it off the 101st episode with

552
00:34:18,047 --> 00:34:21,249
Alexandra McInturff. from the Big Fish Lab at

553
00:34:21,329 --> 00:34:25,012
Oregon State University. That was a great interview.

554
00:34:25,112 --> 00:34:28,835
Looking forward for people to hearing that in the next episode.

555
00:34:29,255 --> 00:34:32,618
And of course, like you said, we're on Apple

556
00:34:32,638 --> 00:34:36,241
Podcasts, Spotify, we're on YouTube,

557
00:34:36,301 --> 00:34:40,023
we're on all the podcast apps, audio podcast apps, as well as Spotify Video

558
00:34:40,044 --> 00:34:43,766
Now. We started to post our videos on Spotify. We're on YouTube.

559
00:34:44,607 --> 00:34:47,789
We're pretty much everywhere you can listen to a podcast or any of

560
00:34:47,849 --> 00:34:51,271
our content. And it's always great. And so always check those

561
00:34:51,431 --> 00:34:54,613
out, share those with people that you think would

562
00:34:54,793 --> 00:34:58,055
enjoy hearing about the

563
00:34:58,595 --> 00:35:01,736
different aspects of shark science and conservation, the different careers. And

564
00:35:01,756 --> 00:35:05,078
of course, we almost forgot too, we've been doing some bonus episodes of Sort

565
00:35:05,118 --> 00:35:10,665
of timely things that have come out. We did an

566
00:35:10,705 --> 00:35:13,889
episode on the report of Ocean White Tips. We

567
00:35:13,929 --> 00:35:17,133
did, like you said, your dedication and sort of

568
00:35:17,673 --> 00:35:22,138
going over and paying respects to Dr. Lennon-Campagno. And

569
00:35:22,158 --> 00:35:25,520
we've done a number of other episodes where people have

570
00:35:25,740 --> 00:35:29,062
done something. So always check out and come back, you know, once a

571
00:35:29,082 --> 00:35:32,564
week, once every two weeks, we post episodes and

572
00:35:33,084 --> 00:35:36,666
it's always a lot of fun. So before we go, Dave, do you have any last

573
00:35:38,387 --> 00:35:41,649
Yeah, I just like to say, you know, it's been, I've, you know, Andrew, it's been really, it's been

574
00:35:41,689 --> 00:35:44,990
a joy working with you. And I got to say, you're, you're the reason I'm even

575
00:35:45,050 --> 00:35:48,400
doing podcasts because I, it all started about, What

576
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,825
about seven or eight years ago when I came on your podcast? Speak

577
00:35:52,905 --> 00:35:56,468
up. Yeah speak up for blue. That was literally my first podcast and

578
00:35:56,508 --> 00:35:59,752
then after that we did you know, we started

579
00:35:59,772 --> 00:36:04,156
doing it we had some real good synergy together and And

580
00:36:04,196 --> 00:36:07,479
I just I can't help it's for me. It's just kind of a fun new phase

581
00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:10,779
of my career to be able to do this you know I've been been

582
00:36:10,799 --> 00:36:14,040
in this field now for 40 years over 40 years now

583
00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:17,382
and so the podcast and be able to actually share stories we

584
00:36:17,422 --> 00:36:20,623
have people on uh from different walks of life it's just

585
00:36:20,663 --> 00:36:23,924
been amazing and uh excited I owe it all to you Andrew for

586
00:36:23,944 --> 00:36:27,526
really for kind of introducing me to this whole world and uh I'm

587
00:36:32,617 --> 00:36:35,859
I am looking forward to it as well. Hey, look, on the How to Protect

588
00:36:35,879 --> 00:36:39,201
the Ocean podcast, I'm at over 1,600 episodes. There's no reason why

589
00:36:39,221 --> 00:36:42,583
we can't do it for the Beyond Jaws podcast. And

590
00:36:42,603 --> 00:36:45,945
there'll be some iterations. There'll be some experimentation as we try and do different

591
00:36:45,985 --> 00:36:50,188
things. And we're always trying to connect with

592
00:36:50,488 --> 00:36:54,371
other shark researchers, shark scientists, shark conservationists,

593
00:36:54,411 --> 00:36:57,533
enthusiasts. people who bring in

594
00:36:57,593 --> 00:37:01,056
big productions, small productions, all that kind of stuff. It's

595
00:37:01,096 --> 00:37:04,560
always great to connect with a number of people, and

596
00:37:04,580 --> 00:37:08,043
we will connect with everybody. And so yeah, that's

597
00:37:08,123 --> 00:37:12,227
pretty much our 100th episode. Dave, it's been

598
00:37:12,247 --> 00:37:15,611
a pleasure for me to not only do the last

599
00:37:15,831 --> 00:37:19,094
100 episodes, but continue on to the next 100 plus

600
00:37:19,134 --> 00:37:22,276
episodes with you. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it.

601
00:37:22,537 --> 00:37:26,119
It's been fun so far and I know it's going to get even better. So for

602
00:37:26,179 --> 00:37:29,622
all those of you who have been with us since the beginning or since the middle or

603
00:37:29,682 --> 00:37:33,105
even just started this journey with us, thank you so much for

604
00:37:33,145 --> 00:37:36,367
supporting us. You know, the amount of people that have been listening to

605
00:37:36,407 --> 00:37:39,430
this podcast and connecting with us has been a

606
00:37:40,090 --> 00:37:43,213
real pleasure. It's definitely been a

607
00:37:43,253 --> 00:37:47,535
highlight of my career to be able to talk about sharks. and

608
00:37:47,595 --> 00:37:50,817
meet some of the great shark scientists that we've been able to meet.

609
00:37:51,077 --> 00:37:54,258
And so it's a lot of fun. So we thank you for

610
00:37:54,318 --> 00:37:57,539
sharing this episode and others and helping us grow and

611
00:37:57,559 --> 00:38:01,221
getting more people involved in sharks so that we can get better shark

612
00:38:01,281 --> 00:38:04,442
policies, better shark education out. It's just

613
00:38:04,702 --> 00:38:07,963
one cog in the wheel, right,

614
00:38:08,404 --> 00:38:12,445
of this whole thing we call shark conservation and shark science. And

615
00:38:12,485 --> 00:38:15,586
of course, Dave, it's been like, you know, I've said it before, it's been a

616
00:38:15,626 --> 00:38:19,028
pleasure, but you are like a giant in this field.

617
00:38:19,308 --> 00:38:22,589
And, you know, I definitely don't take that for granted. And I learn

618
00:38:22,629 --> 00:38:25,770
from you each and every day that we do this podcast. And

619
00:38:26,050 --> 00:38:29,532
of course, people don't hear about our conversations after we record

620
00:38:29,652 --> 00:38:33,174
and the three plus hours at a time that we talk. you

621
00:38:33,194 --> 00:38:36,457
know, multiple times a week, and it's always

622
00:38:36,478 --> 00:38:39,681
a pleasure. So looking forward to doing more of that in

623
00:38:39,701 --> 00:38:43,085
the future. But everybody else, thank you so much for listening to

624
00:38:43,105 --> 00:38:46,329
this episode and the 100 episodes before that. We

625
00:38:49,613 --> 00:38:53,899
All right. Okay. Well, thanks, Andrew. And again, just want to thank everybody for

626
00:38:54,219 --> 00:38:58,285
making this journey possible for Andrew and I. And please

627
00:38:58,325 --> 00:39:02,371
go to our YouTube channel and subscribe. We're just shy of 500 subscriptions.

628
00:39:03,162 --> 00:39:06,404
Maybe you can help us get over 500. And catch

629
00:39:06,464 --> 00:39:09,726
up on some of the old episodes too. We have a lot of stuff

630
00:39:09,766 --> 00:39:13,149
now. We've got 100 episodes. And again, just

631
00:39:13,329 --> 00:39:17,472
thank everyone for joining us on this journey. And

632
00:39:18,092 --> 00:39:21,494
we look forward to hearing from you. And by the way, please leave any comments

633
00:39:21,534 --> 00:39:24,596
too. We're always looking forward to any comments. We appreciate it.

634
00:39:24,616 --> 00:39:27,698
And we're on all the major social media platforms, as

635
00:39:27,738 --> 00:39:32,440
well as LinkedIn. So thanks again, everybody. Andrew,

636
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,881
it's been fun, and we'll see you next week. We

637
00:39:35,901 --> 00:39:39,542
start our 101st episode with Alexandra McInturff.

638
00:39:43,123 --> 00:39:47,384
Congratulations, Dave and Andrew. We are celebrating 100 episodes

639
00:39:47,504 --> 00:39:50,985
of the Beyond Jaws podcast. I cannot wait for more episodes

640
00:39:51,005 --> 00:39:54,946
to come. Hello, I am Naya from Indonesia. Again, congratulations

641
00:39:55,026 --> 00:39:58,627
for the 100th episode of the Beyond Jaws

642
00:40:00,948 --> 00:40:04,289
Hi, Dave. Hi, Andrew. This is Steve Goudreau from Florida Atlantic

643
00:40:04,349 --> 00:40:08,030
University. Just wanted to say congratulations on achieving

644
00:40:08,310 --> 00:40:11,850
100 episodes of your Beyond Jaws podcast. I'm

645
00:40:12,271 --> 00:40:15,451
delighted that there's so many different elasmobiologists that you've been

646
00:40:15,471 --> 00:40:18,772
able to talk to, and I hope you have great success in

647
00:40:18,812 --> 00:40:22,033
your next 100 episodes. All right. Thanks so much, guys, and

648
00:40:23,808 --> 00:40:27,232
Hi Dave, hi Andrew. I'm calling in to you from Fiordland

649
00:40:27,272 --> 00:40:30,616
National Park at the end of the world in southern New Zealand.

650
00:40:31,156 --> 00:40:34,240
We're out fishing for seven gill sharks which I know hold a

651
00:40:34,260 --> 00:40:38,545
special place in Dave's heart. I just wanted to say congratulations on

652
00:40:42,340 --> 00:40:45,662
Hey Dave and Andrew, this is Josh Moyer. I just wanted

653
00:40:45,682 --> 00:40:49,564
to say congratulations on 100 episodes of

654
00:40:49,604 --> 00:40:52,866
the Beyond Jaws podcast. It's one of my favorite ways to start

655
00:40:52,906 --> 00:40:56,308
the morning. I put it on when I'm driving to work in the car, and

656
00:40:56,368 --> 00:40:59,510
it's wonderful to listen to the stories, the adventures, and the

657
00:40:59,630 --> 00:41:03,031
science of both preeminent established shark

658
00:41:03,071 --> 00:41:06,312
biologists and some of the best up-and-comers that the field has to

659
00:41:06,392 --> 00:41:09,653
offer. So I, and all of your listeners, owe

660
00:41:09,673 --> 00:41:13,174
you a debt for putting that right there on our stereos, in

661
00:41:13,394 --> 00:41:16,655
our smartphones, and on our computers, where we can

662
00:41:16,735 --> 00:41:20,116
learn about not just sharks, but the discipline of

663
00:41:20,176 --> 00:41:23,657
shark biology. So for that, I just wanted to say Thank

664
00:41:23,697 --> 00:41:27,679
you, congratulations, and I look forward to the next 100 episodes.

665
00:41:27,859 --> 00:41:31,661
Hello, Andrew and Dave. I just want to send you all my greetings and

666
00:41:31,921 --> 00:41:36,363
congratulations for these 100 chapters in your podcast. I

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felt great and honored to be part of it, of one of the chapters, and

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Hi, hello, Dave and Andrew. Congratulations, 100 episodes

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of Beyond Jaws podcast. It's Lindsay Marshall here

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from Stick Figure Fish Illustration. It's no

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surprise to me that you guys have come this far. You're

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both fascinating to talk to, great people. There's

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no shortage of awesome, interesting, inspiring people

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in the Shark and Ray world. It was a privilege

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to be on one of your episodes and I very much enjoyed listening to

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all the rest of them. And also I

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think, you know, Dave won't stop talking so I'm sure you'll be doing it

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for us. Another 100. Congratulations. Well

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Hi, Andrew. Hi, Dave. This is Jalen Myers coming to

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you from Townsville, Australia. I just wanted

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to personally congratulate you on reaching 100 episodes

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of Beyond Jaws. It is an incredible achievement. In

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those 100 episodes, you've brought on so many amazing voices

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from the shark science field. and I speak for

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myself and I'm sure everyone else who listens. This has

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really helped us understand the amazing complexity

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of shark science that's happening right now and the champions

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who are making that happen. It has greatly helped with networking

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and just gaining some perspective on future career paths. Without

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Beyond Jaws, I wouldn't have such direction with

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where I'm going today. And it's been such a pleasure listening

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Hey, Dave and Andrew, congratulations on your 100th

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episode. to me that not only

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speaks volumes about your dedication to the field of study, but

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science communicating in general. Like, uh, I think everybody needs

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a good science communicator in their lives. Um,

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I've certainly been on the receiving end of that. Um, no,

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having both of you, but when Dave and I, um, first

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worked together back in 2020 on Land of the Lost Sharks

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for Shark Week, um, that, time

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sparked an obsession. I went home from that shoot and bought

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four copies of your book and I

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have taken that obsession into absolutely every animal show and

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wildlife show I've done since then, including like eight or nine shark

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weeks since then. And it

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has been just wonderful knowing you guys. I

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think that there is a wonderful future ahead for

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Beyond Jaws podcast. I can't wait to see what the next 100, 200, 300 episodes

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brings. And just

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too many more. Nothing but the best for you guys. I

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am so thankful to have both of you in my life and to

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have become the shark obsessed. All

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Hey, Dave and Andrew, Alex McInturff here. Congratulations

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on your 100th episode. And in honor of that, I

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actually just wanted to share my favorite story about Beyond Jaws. So

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you all asked to interview me in the middle of a training cycle I was in

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for my next running race. And in order to kill two birds with

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one stone, I decided to listen to a few of your

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episodes during a training run that same day you were supposed to interview me

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so I could sort of prepare for the questions you might ask. And

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as I'm sure most people know, running, particularly for me, can be painful at

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times. But as I was listening, I found myself smiling

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and laughing like an idiot by myself while I was on my run.

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And I think it put me in exactly the right headspace for our interview. And

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as a result, I had such a blast chatting with you guys. So what

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I've learned from that is that folks should really just listen to Beyond Jaws on

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more runs. Congratulations again, and I look forward to