PETE SMISSEN | Stepping On Turtles, Rare House Plant YouTubers & The Economics Of A New Hobby

Aug 13 2022 • 2hr 16m

Show Notes

Pete Smissen is now a Three-Pete (get it) guest on the Mere Mortals and is the awesome host of the Aussie English podcast and the newly created Pete vs Plants YouTube channel.In Conversation #77, Pete and I discuss: some crazy animal stories from his PhD days, shows like Prehistoric Planet and Altered Carbon which appeal to his love of science, random hypotheticals of pre-colonisation days, why both of us have non-conventional jobs (and bloody love it!!), his new passion of exotic house plant cultivation and some unsavoury shenanigans happening online and in the real world.Hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are in the world, Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Three-peat guest(0:51) - Sitting on turtles at Heron Island(4:30) - Stepping in turtles (gross) on Raine Island(10:03) - Hatchlings storming the beach(12:50) - Marlins, sloth teeth and missing biology(16:20) - Dinosaur behaviour(22:18) - Humans misrepresenting animals(25:00) - Individually incorrect theories but true as a whole(29:14) - Evolution & aliens(36:46) - Biological enhancements(44:30) - Romanticising the past & foreign countries(54:23) - High IQ people in non-developed nations(1:02:33) - Guns, Germs and Steel(1:07:56) - Two jobless slackers(1:16:17) - Value for Value explanation(1:19:51) - Why handstand so hard?(1:31:53) - Rare house plant YouTubers are girls and camp gay men(1:42:12) - Anything can be interesting if presented in a passionate and smart way(1:51:34) - Misrepresenting how you get 'insert X'(1:57:12) - Protesting against the Julian Assange extradition(2:03:07) - Conspiracy theorists(2:13:52) - Check out Aussie English and Pete vs PlantsConnect with Pete:Website: https://aussieenglish.com.au/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/australia_english/Pete vs Plants: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPhARg2VN5k1fO8xhff6m2gAussie English: https://www.youtube.com/c/AussieEnglishPodcastConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show