Oct. 21, 2024

Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Journey Through Shark Science and Conservation

Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Journey Through Shark Science and Conservation

In this special 100th episode of the Beyond Jaws podcast, hosts Andrew and Dr. David Ebert reflect on their journey over the past four years and the significance of reaching this milestone. They express gratitude for the support they've received from...

In this special 100th episode of the Beyond Jaws podcast, hosts Andrew and Dr. David Ebert reflect on their journey over the past four years and the significance of reaching this milestone. They express gratitude for the support they've received from listeners and guests, highlighting the diverse voices and stories shared throughout the episodes.

The discussion delves into the podcast's origins, emphasizing its goal to provide a platform for marine scientists, conservationists, and communicators to share their experiences and insights. They note the importance of showcasing not only established figures in shark science but also early-career researchers and professionals from various backgrounds, including illustrators and filmmakers.

Andrew and Dave reminisce about their first episodes, featuring pioneers from the "Jaws generation," and how the podcast has evolved to include a global audience, with guests from over 40 countries. They celebrate the unique stories shared by individuals from different cultures and the challenges they face in the field of shark research and conservation.

The hosts also reflect on the collaborative efforts that have made the podcast successful, including partnerships with organizations like the Save Our Seas Foundation, which provided initial funding and support. They acknowledge the hard work that goes into producing each episode, including the recent symposium on wedge fish and guitar fish, which featured numerous international contributors.

As they look forward to the next 100 episodes, Andrew and Dave express their excitement for continuing to connect with new guests and explore various aspects of shark science and conservation. They invite listeners to engage with the podcast, share their thoughts, and help spread awareness about the importance of ocean conservation.

In closing, the episode features congratulatory messages from past guests, reinforcing the podcast's impact on the community and the importance of sharing knowledge and passion for marine life. The hosts emphasize their commitment to inspiring others and fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities of shark science.

Connect with us:

Website: https://bit.ly/37TMqeK
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@beyondjawspodcast7591

Dave: 
Website: https://www.lostsharkguy.com/
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3q1J9Q5

Andrew:
Website: https://www.speakupforblue.com/
Instagram: https://bit.ly/37g5WkG

 

Transcript
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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of you know, the book Chasing

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

429
00:26:39,765 --> 00:26:43,068
always great. And then there's also the, which I

430
00:26:43,108 --> 00:26:46,311
thought, I never thought we were gonna do this, but when we

431
00:26:46,371 --> 00:26:49,633
started to do this, it was a lot of fun, is talk about sort of

432
00:26:49,713 --> 00:26:52,917
the, Shark like productions that were

433
00:26:52,957 --> 00:26:56,701
done in the behind the scenes. So we had like Andy Casagrande on

434
00:26:56,761 --> 00:27:00,886
we had Jesse Khaleesi Who's been on the podcast we

435
00:27:00,926 --> 00:27:05,211
had Joe Romero who've been on?

436
00:27:09,916 --> 00:27:13,238
Jeff Kurt yeah yeah so like we've had and we've gotten a

437
00:27:13,418 --> 00:27:16,499
sort of an indication and a behind the scenes look at

438
00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:20,381
how you begin a career like that where does it go how do you

439
00:27:20,461 --> 00:27:23,923
even get like a little bit of that take your personality and being on

440
00:27:23,983 --> 00:27:27,325
camera camera person you know and yeah and develop that

441
00:27:27,345 --> 00:27:30,667
and I think it's really interesting just to see the different backgrounds of

442
00:27:30,707 --> 00:27:33,909
people, where they came from, where they go. You know, the

443
00:27:33,949 --> 00:27:37,531
fact that Joe Romero from Portugal originally,

444
00:27:37,691 --> 00:27:41,453
when he came to the US, learned English through Godzilla movies,

445
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
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We're out fishing for seven gill sharks which I know hold a

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special place in Dave's heart. I just wanted to say congratulations on

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Hey Dave and Andrew, this is Josh Moyer. I just wanted

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to say congratulations on 100 episodes of

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the Beyond Jaws podcast. It's one of my favorite ways to start

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the morning. I put it on when I'm driving to work in the car, and

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it's wonderful to listen to the stories, the adventures, and the

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science of both preeminent established shark

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biologists and some of the best up-and-comers that the field has to

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offer. So I, and all of your listeners, owe

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you a debt for putting that right there on our stereos, in

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our smartphones, and on our computers, where we can

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learn about not just sharks, but the discipline of

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shark biology. So for that, I just wanted to say Thank

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you, congratulations, and I look forward to the next 100 episodes.

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Hello, Andrew and Dave. I just want to send you all my greetings and

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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