I think it is a well-established fact that women love baby animals. It's true. Case and
point: Tara I would like you to look at a photo of a baby hedgehog in a teacup. Awwww-wait
it's showing your wireless network. Oooh. [Laughter]. We'll try this again. Would you
like to look at this picture of a baby hedgehog in a teacup? Awww it's so tiny and those sad eyes.
So Tara Long host of Rev3 games Destructoid thanks so much for coming on the show. Yeah
thank you for having me, any opportunity I get to talk about baby animals, I'm game.
You love baby animals so much that you have a calendar that you brought with you? I do.
This is actually probably the best gift I've ever received in my lifetime. This is a one
a day baby calendar for cute overload. My co-host on Destructoid gave this to me and
it is literally the gift that keeps on giving. Every day there are just adorable baby animals.
Oh, the puppies are the best. Now do you ever save some of them because I feel like if you
tear them off and have to throw that picture of a baby animal away--it's heartbreaking
everyday, that's the worst part of it but I do have mural on the side of my desk with
all of my favoite ones. This is a little goose wearing tevas sandals. Oh my god. Do you think
it is a universal truth that all women love cute baby animals? I mean have you ever met
a lady who doesn't like a cute animal? No never, not in my life. I--I don't know, many
men who dislike them either but it does seem like women have a more natural response to
looking at a cute baby animal, like guys will just be like, 'Oh that's cute,' women will
be like--we sort of naturally go into that baby voice you know a little bit. Like, oh.
Just high-pitched squealing. I actually read a study suggesting that seeing these pictures
of baby animals taps into our care-giving instinct as women. I totally believe that.
Whenever I'm sad, looking at a picture of a baby animal just makes me that much happier,
that's why I put them on my desk actually cause I'm constantly sad at work, so--awww--it
just uplifts my spirits I guess. Well it's funny how you talk about how you look at them
specifically at work which I think a lot of people do. There was a 2012 study that came
out in Japan which found that looking at pictures of animals, adorable ones, helps with productivity.
Actually my co-host Adam was saying that whenever he's said people just show him pictures of
baby animals. Nature's best medicine. Nature's best medicine, well speaking of pandas there
were these two twin pandas that were just born at zoo Atlanta, have you seen them? I
haven't yet. Okay I'm going to warn you there is a line with the cuteness of baby animals
because I saw the headline like new baby pandas so I clicked on it and was like that's got
to be adorable. They're not in the cute phase yet. Really? They're still, well they're just
like pink blobs without eyeballs. Ohh, that's what I--see, people make fun of me for me
for liking like the baby baby animals--oh you like like the newborns?--I saw a picture
of a baby bat embryo once and I thought that it was so cute and adorable and everybody
called me a weirdo for liking it. Tiny and small like what more do you want, it has not
eyes yet, that's adorable. Even though guys might not emote as loudly as women do about
baby animals I think that plenty of dudes love them as much as we do. Who knows, maybe
it's just like a machismo thing, maybe guys do like squeal inside when they see a picture
but they just have to hold it back because of society's pressures. They wait until they're
in the bathroom by themselves before they let it all out. Well I definitely buy that
Japanese study finding that it is good for us, that we're supposedly it like makes us
focus more, it gives us a timeout, a happy distraction. It calms you really, it makes
you reevaluate your life's priorities for like a second and a half. Since this is good
for our health, our mental health, do you have any recommendations of a place to go
to look at baby animals or just a specific kind of baby animal that's especially adorable
for people to Google Image? I do like the awww subreddit of reddit. They have a lot
of cute animal pictures on there. I also follow a lot of people on Twitter who are into baby
animals too so that's always a good place to find them. I find Google Image search actually
gets the job done, like just search baby sea otter or something and you will just die in
delight. Also the baby bat embryo, I can't recommend it enough. Yeah I got to look that
up now. I'm very curious to see what--curious to know what you think actually. Well Tara
Long thanks so much for coming on--thank you for having me--and where can people find you
when you're not looking at pictures of baby animals. Well on Twitter, looking at pictures
of baby animals. I am uh, TaraLongest on Twitter. Follow Tara and go Google Image some cute
baby animals right now, do yourself a favor. Baby bat embryo. Comment we want to know what
your favorite baby animals are. Let us know, let us have a squealfest, okay?