114: La Brea's Bone Count & Giant Pumpkins

About this episode

How many bones are in the La Brea tar pits? And what can that teach us about life, death, and oil? And what's the point of growing giant vegetables? Well, the pure whimsy of it all, as well as some fascinating techniques and tales. Images we talk about: (Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/114/) Tom's Picture from La Brea 2nd Picture from La Brea Giant Tomatoes Giant Carrot Giant Zucchini Giant Pumpkin Eating Pumpkin Pumpkin Race Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:37) La Brea's Bone Count (00:49:35) Giant Pumpkins (01:36:04) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Good to be back in the bone zone, how many corners does LLE have? wolf skull wall, untangling all the oil words, life uh dies, Coal Oil & Gas, crude oil has over 350 different hydrocarbons, refining oil is just separating different hydrocarbons, the official stance of the podcast is that fossil fuels are cool, hey kids - see what it was like to be in the asphalt’s deathly grip! Kids Yearn for the Tar Pits, La Brea has the bones of Tigers and Lions and Camels, I’m actually an epoch girlie, um actually it’s the La Brea Woman, it’s 10,000 years ago - women c