Allie Ward

And it's actually a very reverent kind of somber affair.

I went there in March and I spoke with the docent as the museum was closing.

We kind of snuck in right before and then popped out.

And she told me that as she locks the door behind her every night, she bids goodnight to the bog bodies and wishes them a restful slumber.

So haunted hydrology, it's history, it's chemistry, it's ecology, it's biology, it's geology.

And of course, it's geo.

But I should also note that I'm sitting here asking you a million late questions and you are by profession trained as an artist.

So this post racked up hundreds of thousands of views very quickly.

And partly, Gio told me, because people got mad that this art book, by her definition, wasn't a real book.

And so they fought it out in the comments.

Gio says that she was very experimental and had planned on being a high school teacher again, but then scrapped that and has been sailing the beautiful and sometimes stormy TikTok waters.

I love that glimpse into behind the scenes.

Cause I, I'm like, you must be working all year, like a week to no, that's, I mean, same, same with ologies.

Like our episodes should publish by midnight, 1157 sometimes, you know what I mean?

Are you a person who is afraid of lakes in general?

Yeah, I think you thread that needle really well where it's also educational, where I'm like, I wouldn't know that a low dam could kill me.

I wouldn't know that.

Or you don't know that aerated water is impossible to get out.

And for more on mining on tribal lands in the Southwest, we happen to have a great pedology episode with Dr. Lydia Jennings, and it's on soil, and it's a topic that matters, we don't hear much about, which is why Gio's work, these three-minute videos reaching a huge audience of millions, is so impactful and also addictive.

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