#kalh certainly has thoughts and feelings on the matter

[vagueandominousvibes]

So last week my partner and I discovered rain frogs — specifically the black rain frog and the desert rain frog. We’re late to the party, we know. We watched multiple videos on rain frogs. We sent videos about rain frogs to our friends. I looked up more photos to learn how to draw rain frogs. 

Then I thought, heck, frogs are delightful little guys, surely there’s going to be numerous podcasts about them to listen to on a day I’m feeing Not Great?

WRONG.

There are two podcasts that I (with an, admittedly, somewhat sleep addled brain) managed to find: Tales from the Lily Pad by Marlene Wurfel, which, if you’ve listened to it, you’ll know is a collection of bedtime stories told by Lily the frog; and Frog of the Week that, once a week, selects a frog to talk about for 2-3 minutes, in a very soothing and calming tone, with some ambient background music — it feels a little bit like reading the summary of a wikipedia page. 

BUT WHERE’S THE RESEARCH?? Where are the fun facts, presented in a “wtf did I just read” kind of way, as if you’re a bunch of undergrads clustered around a particular piece of info?? Where’s the weird obscure details you’d need to talk to highly specialised researchers to know about?? Where are the nerds desperately trying to describe a feature in the most ridiculous way to try to convey the frog’s appearance to their listeners??