• 73: Impressive Fish Percentages
    May 18 2026

    Immortal honey. The Icelandic fishing miracle. Lunar gold rush. Attacking Joe specifically. Jellyfish too big. Brazilian dinos. High drama in the orchestra. Scratch: Origins. Viking nothing. Your attention is fine.

    Cursive v Joe:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/cursive-clubs-students.html

    Famous signatures:

    https://www.taminoautographs.com/blogs/autograph-blog/famous-signatures-top-100-celebrity-signatures-in-history?srsltid=AfmBOor127NdSbljO7iqgw0s1zzETJvUZu01MJBA2oRL2kFYBmJb3mZL

    Attention Spans:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-attention-spans-really-shrinking-what-the-science-says/

    Helium 3:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-helium-3-create-a-gold-rush-on-the-moon/

    Icelandic Fishing:

    https://reasonstobecheerful.world/great-lakes-fish-interview/

    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard

    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com

    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/

    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 16 mins
  • 72: Not Soup.
    May 11 2026

    Tracy Arm Fjord! Not that boring! Similes! American Tea! Octofeet! Steve! Tybalt reports in! Prose corner? Saja! The Forks! Happy birthday to the OG animal interest haver!


    Comparisons:

    https://pudding.cool/2026/05/similes/


    Boring conversations:

    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123175


    Sir David:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/david-attenborough-celebrates-his-100th-birthday/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJaNDBI87s


    Yaupon Tea:

    https://catspringtea.com/blogs/yaupon/the-real-story-of-ilex-vomitoria-and-yaupons-name


    Tsunami!:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/tsunami-landslide-alaska-climate-arctic.html


    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard


    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com


    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/


    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 71: Dead Until the 7th
    May 4 2026

    Oops! All Kids! Popedrop! Smoking on the Whitehouse roof. Jesus Christ Frog. Your name in land. Believe? What are words? Tales of Typography. Clowncat. Thumbs up: An Investigation. What to do while making monsters.


    Poperave:

    https://youtu.be/XJuT27G5QEc?si=xiH2TKdc0xNNN1YO


    Dead frog/Alive frog:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPeehsXAr4


    Your Name in Landsat:

    https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/


    Fireball reporter:

    https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo/report_intro/


    Samurai Crab:

    https://www.curiousspecies.com/my-species/samurai-crab


    Sonja, Monstermaker:

    http://www.sonsationalcreations.com


    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard


    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com


    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/



    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners


    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 1 min
  • 70: 19th Century Equivalent of Texting
    Apr 27 2026

    Movie Bracket! Shakespeare nerds, this is your episode! Cuthulhu real. D'Artagnan: dead. Frogs: mini. Sky: synthed. Horseblood! Poetry corner! Chirps! Van Buren?!?! Warm spots in a cold universe.

    Film Bracket:

    https://lithub.com/and-the-best-literary-film-adaptation-of-the-last-50-years-is/

    Shakespeare List:

    https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2026/apr/22/every-shakespeare-play-ranked-lear-antony-cleopatra-hamlet

    The Majestic Giant Octopus:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kraken-fossils-show-enormous-intelligent-octopuses-were-top-predators-in-cretaceous-seas/

    D'Artagnan:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2rew2dgzzo

    The Frog Guy:

    http://www.markscherz.com/

    Skysynth:

    http://skyviewer.app/skysynth

    3I/Atlas:

    https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/interstellar-invader-comet-3i-atlas-formed-in-a-world-much-colder-than-the-solar-system

    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard

    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com

    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/

    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 69: An Awkward Thanksgiving at Spidertown.
    Apr 20 2026

    Zeus Loose! Wild Spanish Horses! Wings: Good. The Lonely Lystrosaurus. I, Naturalist. Advice corner with Finlay. Bird mob! Mistletoe: Maligned. Lemon/Lemun. Sabotage! More tests! Risograph!


    Zeus on the Loose:

    https://youtu.be/-uHhzCTVV7E?si=KyWxh7XRxAnX04Al


    Brand New Spanish Horses:

    https://youtu.be/2puOUHPivH8?si=AXgpuZUfyDlngnUt


    Why Birds:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/why-birds-were-the-only-dinosaurs-to-survive-earths-worst-day/


    Egg Laying Mammals:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/250-million-year-old-fossil-proves-mammal-ancestors-laid-eggs/


    Joe's iNaturalist:

    https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=theoriginaljoefisher&verifiable=any


    Pelican Spider:

    https://youtu.be/N92b8_r-L8o?si=YixesdEKcTSwRVPD


    Risotto Studios:

    https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/risotto-riso-club-graphic-design-spotlight-080426


    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard


    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com


    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/

    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners


    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 68: Craving Outside Water
    Apr 13 2026

    Inge Lehmann forever. Spaceward tungstan shotgun! Worst Salt Lake? Poisonous confidence! We celebrate the horse girls. Breathing bees! The deepening mystery of the prototaxites. The sperm whale miracle! Negative ions: the real and the influenced. To the moon again, despite it all.


    Inge Lehmann:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inge-lehmann-and-earths-deepest-secret/


    Pulverize it!:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-a-bold-plan-to-pulverize-an-earth-bound-asteroid/


    Great Arsenic Lake:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/utahs-great-salt-lake-may-be-hiding-a-massive-reservoir-of-fresh-water/


    The occasionally confidant snake:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-snakes-steal-poison-from-their-prey-heres-how-they-know-they-have/


    Prototaxites?:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-mysterious-407-million-year-old-fossil-may-represent-a-previously-unknown-branch-of-life-180988052/


    Sprem Whale Birth:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/sperm-whale-birth-assistance.html?searchResultPosition=2


    The moon again:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-artemis-era-may-finally-solve-three-major-moon-mysteries/


    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard


    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com


    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/


    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 67: Text Amber a Goat
    Apr 6 2026

    Simulation? He thrusts his fists and makes less posts and still insists this video roasts. Subscription fatigue. Green space, less crime. Palm trees defeated? Mid-tier cetaceans. I'r a bird, it's a plane, it's Steve. House Hippo. Catch you on the Aztec TL. Typewritten.


    Dolphin and whales head back home:

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12052-009-0135-2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExUzk2SDNaVXc4bVducmY3M3NydGMGYXBwX2lkDzUxNDc3MTU2OTIyODA2MQABHuQQA2l_n4gONEVbzo5aLSxG-lYmro-q-jp_zL4uk522MMPT7WVPtxRwdCpu_aem_6lOuYrmxO35ox2o0ycDJKQ


    Palm trees:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/los-angeles-palm-trees-dying


    Philly green spaces:

    https://reasonstobecheerful.world/greening-abandoned-lots-philly/


    Simulation theory:

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ae1e50


    Less posts:

    https://petapixel.com/2026/04/03/social-media-users-are-less-active-on-platforms-due-to-rise-of-short-form-video/


    Less subs:

    https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/three-newsletters-for-the-price-of-1-5-independent-journalists-experiment-with-a-bundle/


    Artemis tracker:

    https://artemis-tracker.netlify.app


    House Hippo

    https://youtu.be/TijcoS8qHIE?si=HM5FfcJ83-AcRxLZ


    Houe hippo felt:

    https://imgur.com/a/homemade-house-hippo-iWoL3WZ


    How to Pronounce the Aztec TL:

    https://youtu.be/3j2m510Pp2o?si=ofrLkRgYYAeUSuIM


    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard


    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com


    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/



    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners


    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    59 mins
  • 66: 100% Safe to Drink
    Mar 30 2026

    Meteors! Lightning! Moon! Kitten! Poop! Purple! Dolphins! Descartes! Turkeys! Tinnitus! Newfoundland! Typos!


    Meteors embiggening:

    https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-say-recent-rash-of-meteor-sightings-warrants-serious-investigation-2000738638?utm_source=DamnInteresting


    Crazy lightning article:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/lightning-strike-survivors-body-mind/686057/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ-X29a3sQP9dT9t6OaO3vMk


    Magnetic safe zone on the moon:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earths-magnetic-field-may-be-more-powerful-than-we-thought/


    Purple isn't real:

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70129575/purple-is-fake-science/


    Saber toothed kitten:

    https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/nx-s1-5193845/35000-year-old-kitten-siberia-frozen?emci=dc70b4ec-05a6-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&emdi=9ba28b99-4da8-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&ceid=2410533


    Bear Poop Beer:

    https://www.axios.com/2026/01/28/bear-poop-beer-columbia-breakside


    Enigmatic Cat Bird Research:

    https://www.science.org/content/article/dolphins-make-peace-and-love-not-war-when-they-encounter-strangers


    Typo exhibit:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/typos-have-plagued-us-for-centuries-just-ask-the-publishers-who-printed-the-seventh-commandment-as-thou-shalt-commit-adultery-in-1631-180988353/


    END OF SHOW TAG


    Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

    Edited & Mastered by Rich Palmer

    Music: My Own Kind of Tango by Alexandra Woodard


    Leave Finlay a message or a voicemail: https://www.hwatweekly.com


    Follow us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hwatweekly

    Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hwatweekly.bsky.social

    Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwatweekly/


    Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr