Alie Ward

In the etymology episode, I was talking to Helen Saltzman, and I pitched maybe a bon mal, like French for good, bad, or Greek, like voivlap.

Anyway,

I told Simone, I wish there was a word.

And she said, there is.

In Swedish, it's called a bear favor.

And it's from a fable about a bear trying to help someone by shooing away a fly with a boulder on their face and kills them.

So a bear favor.

Y'all, there's a word for it.

I'm thrilled.

It's very exciting.

Okay.

Bye-bye.

Oh, hey, it's your mom's friend who's always vaping into his sweatshirt, Allie Ward.

In this episode, it's about putting your dukes up or curling into a ball so that you don't die, either or sometimes both.

Let's talk to an ologist I've known for years, an LA area animal icon who invited me to the lab down at California State Long Beach where they're a professor.

for a visit, a tour, and a chat about armadillos, skunks, pangolins, spikes, spurs, stripes, spots, and the will to keep living.

So we'll chat in a sec, but first, thank you to all the patrons who support the show for as little as a dollar a month at patreon.com slash ologies.

We also have brand new merch about revolutions and protests.

It's up at ologiesmerch.com, designed by Andy Diaz, with proceeds benefiting the National Immigration Law Center.

That's brand new.