104: The Anthropocene Argument & Sound Effects

What is the Anthropocene? No really, who came up with it, when does it start, and why does that matter? Well it involves nuance, scientific beef, and a surprising amount of freaky little guys. And we all know of some sound effects we love, but what is their history, where are the weird places they've shown up, and what can they teach us about art? Images we Talk About: The International Chronostratigraphic Chart Opabinia Graptolite Sound Effect Rooms Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:37) The Anthropocene (01:21:57) Sound Effects (02:16:15) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: The human dominated geological time frame, this is actually a geology topic, let’s get our rocks off, the geological timescale, clues in the rock layers, the geologic calendar, the international chronostraographic chart, Eons Eras Periods Epochs Ages, GSSPs are physical places, a long cambrian tangent, the burgess shale was a rare cambrian preserver, trilobites are the alpha male body plan, opabinia had 5 eyes and one claw, hallucigenia actually makes Tom recoil, index fossils, Ella just loves these litt…