28 episodes

Where science and music collide! This season we are featuring The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon, our musical, scientific, sci-fi radio-style adventure series! Music. Science. It's The Amoeba People Podcast!

The Amoeba People Podcast The Amoeba People

    • Science
    • 5.0 • 28 Ratings

Where science and music collide! This season we are featuring The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon, our musical, scientific, sci-fi radio-style adventure series! Music. Science. It's The Amoeba People Podcast!

    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 10: Onward!!

    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 10: Onward!!

    Once again, The Amoeba People Podcast features the latest installment of The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon!
    General Gobsplotch and his subservient Meebling minion plot their escape from a dungeon deep beneath the SpaceX compound.
    The Amoeba People and their human friend Beckford are regrouping after an unsuccessful time-traveling visit with Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubbel.
    Meanwhile, Elon Musk is preparing to capitalize on the Amoebic technology he's stolen by launching the first manned mission to Mars!

    • 38 min
    Mars Party!

    Mars Party!

    In this special episode of The Amoeba People Podcast, we throw a Mars Party. We bring you 3 brand new songs about Mars, plus an interview with Dr. Fred Calef of JPL about the Perseverance mission, Martian cocktails with proper bartender Brad Walther, and Martian-themed B-movie picks from our Senior Geek Consultant Mario Salazar.
    This episode is jam packed with all you need to throw a proper Mars Party! Onward!!!

    • 54 min
    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 9: The General's Relativity

    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 9: The General's Relativity

    Once again, this week The Amoeba People Podcast features the next installment of The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon!
    The Meebs receive orders from the planet Crouton instructing them to search for General Gobsplotch at his last known location. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to The Amoeba People, the General and his annoying Meebling servant languish as captives of the devious E. Lawn Musk.
    Beckford suggests that the Meebs use their record player time machine to drop in and say hi to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein during their historic meeting at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1931.

    • 29 min
    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 8: She Sells Seashells

    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 8: She Sells Seashells

    Once again, this week The Amoeba People Podcast features the next installment of The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon!
    While continuing to learn about Earth's scientists from their friends at the M51 Records Laboratory, The Amoeba People are intrigued by the story of Mary Anning, the 19th century English fossil collector whose important work went largely uncredited during her lifetime.
    Meanwhile, back on the planet Crouton, Dr. Beeple and Q receive a troubling data transmission from General Gobsplotch's ship, The Even Less Likely. 
    We’ve also included our interview with Cam Muskelly, who tells us about his own fossil hunting in and around his home state of Georgia!
    Onward!!

    • 38 min
    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 7: Transitive Reanimation

    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 7: Transitive Reanimation

    Once again, this week The Amoeba People Podcast features the next installment of The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon!
    The Meebs learn the remarkable yet tragic tale of Alfred Wegener from their friends Dr. Hindemith and Beckford of the M51 Records Laboratory. Inspired, The Amoeba People compose an epic science rock tune and summon Wegener by way of the Transmortifier, a vacuum cleaner that brings dead scientists back to life!
    Meanwhile, General Gobsplotch languishes in captivity along with his obtuse Meebling minion after being abducted by the diabolical E. Lawn Musk. Who knows what the scheming tech entrepreneur has planned for the General and his Croutonian spaceship, the Even Less Likely?
    Onward!!

    • 20 min
    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 6: Interstellar Encounters

    The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon Episode 6: Interstellar Encounters

    Once again, this week The Amoeba People Podcast features the next installment of The Amoeba People Audio Cartoon!
    General Gobsplotch has landed on Earth, and can finally stretch his Amoebic pseudopods after the 27 light year journey from the planet Crouton. Unfortunately, his arrival was noticed by the devious E. Lawn Musk who has sent a team of goons to the General's location.
    Meanwhile, The Amoeba People receive an intriguing summons from their friend Werner Herzog, who requires their aid in his investigation of a mysterious legend. Join Herzog and The Meebs as they travel to Nepal in search of the fabled Oracle of the Theremin!
    For a bonus, We feature an interview Ray did with world renowned Thereminist Dorit Chrysler for the Amoeba People Radio Hour celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Theremin. The interview took place in the summer of 2020, when Dorit was in Munich, after finishing a project with CERN (which is also discussed in the interview).
    Onward!!

    • 40 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
28 Ratings

28 Ratings

takinite ,

Great podcast Better Music

I really like their music and enjoy the science.
Then again, I’m old so just ignore me.
I want my pudding.

mlock3000 ,

Awesome

I’m a student and we did the Mass Extinction podcast and it was very fun! I love to listen to these!!

squadcar ,

The best!

I’ve been a teacher and a fan of the Amoeba People for a while. My students love their music and their music videos are entertaining and prove science is fun all of the time!

Now I’m pumped that there are podcasts to listen to as well. Keep up the great work guys!

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