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Three grown up biologists rereading books from our teens (while desperately trying to make biological sense of glittery vampires, and dragons, and bird kids).
And it’s totally cool.
Episodes

Jan 2, 2024
Jan 2, 2024
1 hr 6 min
Chapter 84 is gonna take you to church! Actually, it's a cathedral. Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss sanctuary laws, failed adaptations, and the James Patterson '69.

Dec 19, 2023
Dec 19, 2023
1 hr 49 min
On the twelfth day of Christmas, Midlight Crisis gave to me:
Twelve dancing birdkids;
Eleven movie titles;
Ten concept changes;
Nine fired night guards;
Eight visual bird gags;
Seven evil patents;
Six himbo moments;
FIVE HOT CRISEEEEES;
Four heist montages;
Three story tropes;
Two percent bird genes;
AND A CASSOWARY IN A PEAR TREEEEEE

Nov 21, 2023
Nov 21, 2023
1 hr 11 min
Chapter 83 is screaming bloody murder and so is the audio quality for some reason. Sorry about that, I don't know what happened. Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss their own fourteen-year-old destinies (magical world-saving love triangles), bikes and Mikes, and the worst possible ways to make your human-dog hybrid not get hurt.

Nov 7, 2023
Nov 7, 2023
57 min
Chapter 82 comes to you straight from the, uh, pointer of the ouija doohickey. Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they, respectively, discuss the complex history of beanie babies, the surprising origin of the ouija board, and doing toy crimes.

Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 2023
1 hr 5 min
Chapter 81 is none of your beeswax, dipstick! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss Max's evolving brain disease, the very cool technology of the early 2000s, and if h-e-double-hockey-sticks is a swear.

Oct 10, 2023
Oct 10, 2023
1 hr 9 min
Chapter 80 is our Roman Empire (Taylor's version). Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss surfing the 'net (for kids and families!), Sophie's cat's inner potential, and secret subway cities.

Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023
56 min
Don’t worry, you’ll like Chapter 79 because it’s full of weirdos! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss the immersion-breaking appeal of New York delis, time-travelling Russian communist fashion, and indulge in their annually mandated zoo spiel.

Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023
1 hr 2 min
Chapter 78 is all about breakfast. Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they finally find the most divisive topic they've ever discussed: lasagna.

Aug 29, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
1 hr 4 min
Chapter 77 is full of so much good biology, finally! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss campfire snacks, some absolutely wild real life genetic experiments, and get super into the weeds (or into the womb??) about amniocentesis.

Aug 15, 2023
Aug 15, 2023
59 min
Chapter 76 started off with a fish, how did it end up like this?? Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss which Olympic sport is most like throwing a four-year-old, monarch butterfly migration, and why Max should stop scuba diving between chapters.
