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Creators of Tiger King, Chimp Crazy, and the new series Monsters of God Eric Goode and Jeremy Mcbride give updates on Joe Exotic, speak on the morality of zoos, and explain what it is like to survive a snake bite. The two creators talk about their experiences creating prolific do ...  Show more

Best known for his Emmy award winning series Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd sat down with VCC as we discussed his favorite shows and movies, toxic masculinity, creative passion, and Scottish culture. Richard Gadd has been creating hard to watch hits for the past few years, taking hi ...  Show more

It’s the early 1970s, and grad student Penny Patterson sets out to investigate a big question: is language a uniquely human skill? So she begins an ambitious experiment -- with the help of a young gorilla named Koko. Pretty soon, Penny says Koko is learning sign language. But som ...  Show more

Today we are sharing an episode from one of our newest series -- A Show About Animals. This season, we tell the strange and wonderful story of the wildly famous Koko the “talking” Gorilla. In the early 1970s, a grad student named Penny Patterson set out to investigate a big quest ...  Show more

Recorded live before the pandemic in January 2020 at the Castro Theatre for San Francisco Sketchfest, Josh and Chuck explore the 70s movement that attempted to teach apes human language and the Ape Language Wars that erupted from it.

“It’s interesting that we became enthusiastic about ASL in the process of teaching it to a population that couldn’t benefit from it.”Mike tells Sarah about a very special ape and the very problematic humans around her. Digressions include video dating, "Biography" and the terribl ...  Show more