Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Just the Zoo of Us
Join us, Ellen and Christian Weatherford, while we review your favorite species of animals and rate them out of ten in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity and aesthetics.
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Episode One: 1: American Alligator & Florida Manatee
This is an Episodic show. You can listen to it in any order, but episode one is always a great place to start.
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started: May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 342 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
326: Moth Flies w/ Emily, your Certified Bug Friend!
00:50:43 | Episode: 326 | March 5th, 2026
Join Ellen & special guest, science communicator and Certified Bug Friend Emily, for a review of the tiny little bugs that fly around your nearest kitchen sink. We discuss what Big Pest doesn’t want you to know, convergent evolution between bugs and fish, the drain gods, secret spy languages that only bugs can read, and so much more.
325: Triops (AKA Tadpole Shrimp)
00:44:04 | Episode: 325 | February 25th, 2026
Ellen goes on a journey through time and space with Triops, the tadpole shrimp. We discuss book fairs, vernal pools, whether saltwater or freshwater came first, trips to space, prehistoric scampi, surprise guests at Burning Man, and so much more.
324: Egg-Eating Snake w/ Lyn!
01:12:11 | Episode: 324 | February 19th, 2026
Join Ellen & special guest artist and reptile keeper Lyn for an up close and personal look at a little snake with a big appetite. We discuss how it feels to handle a snake, stress dreams specific to pet owners, gastoning it, spine teeth, snacktivities, how snakes flirt with each other, and so much more.
323: Banana Slug
00:56:26 | Episode: 323 | February 12th, 2026
Ellen takes things slow with the iconic banana slug. We discuss mobile slip ‘n’ slides, recreationally poisoning yourself, liquid crystals, oobleck, robosnail, slime trains, moisture farming, apophallation, college mascots, and so much more.
322: The Bird Hall w/ Shannon Hackett & John Bates!
01:09:15 | Episode: 322 | February 5th, 2026
Join Ellen & special guests, power couple Shannon Hackett and John Bates from the Field Museum, here to talk about the intersection of science, history, and of course, birds in a love letter to the natural history museum. We discuss working alongside SUE the T. rex, specimen pickles, harlequin romance novels, and explore bigger questions like how museum collections can reveal evolution happening around us right now in real-time and help us look into the future, what the average everyday person can learn about themselves and what science actually looks like from a museum, and the hotly contested debate as to whether grey vireos are interesting or not.
321: Norway Lemmings
01:03:51 | Episode: 321 | January 29th, 2026
Ellen sets the record straight on Norway lemmings, busting over 400 years of myths. We discuss rodent audacity, ecological impacts that can be seen from space, spontaneous generation, Ole Worm, Atlantis, a Disney lie, and so much more.
320: Vinny Thomas's Top 3 Urban Wildlife Species!
00:59:15 | Episode: 320 | January 22nd, 2026
Join Ellen & special guest comedian, writer, and nature enthusiast Vinny Thomas for a review of some of the furry, feathered, and scaly neighbors making themselves at home right in our very own cities. We discuss domestication, dogs with human feet, inflatable snoods, ostriches for self-defense, kaiju battles at the park, life in a shipwreck, and so much more.
319: Tasmanian Devil
01:07:10 | Episode: 319 | January 15th, 2026
Ellen gives the Tasmanian devil his due. We discuss mythbusters, cranial real estate, the masculine urge to bite your fingers off, which came first: the chicken or the egg, dump stats, contagious cancer, and so much more.
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started:
May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 342 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
