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Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, Charles W. Chuck Brian is

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Speaker 1: seated across from me, and that would make this stuff

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Speaker 1: you should know? Yes, Yes, how you doing. I'm feeling

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Speaker 1: a little rough, my friend, are you? Yeah? All right?

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Speaker 1: You look good? Ted White? You know Timmy my hazardous

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Speaker 1: waste stuff. But he turned forty yesterday, so we went

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Speaker 1: out afterwards. Italian. Yeah, Italian. Can you create a little

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Speaker 1: hazardous waste of our own? It's gross, it is I'm sorry. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you made it in. I'm here, man, I'm

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Speaker 1: Ready're sitting up right, as I said, and seated across

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Speaker 1: from me. Yeah. So I'm gonna tell you a story, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: please try not to fall asleep. Okay, there's an octopus

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Speaker 1: that you probably have never heard of because he got

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Speaker 1: almost no press coverage whatsoever. But his name is Paul.

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Speaker 1: You have, yeah, the World Cup octopus. Okay, Well, I

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Speaker 1: forget you do lots of research most people haven't heard

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Speaker 1: of this octopus. Right. His name is Paul, and he

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Speaker 1: lives in the Sea Life Center in Germany, a German

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Speaker 1: town that I am not familiar with. And um, he

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Speaker 1: had a tendency, believe it or not, to pick the

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Speaker 1: winner of the eight final World Cup matches in two thousand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't heed like pick up whatever flag he picked

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Speaker 1: up or something. No, it was they would present him

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Speaker 1: the right box every single time. In my mind's eye,

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Speaker 1: he waved a little I just totally created that or

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Speaker 1: he sucked it up in his beak because octopi have beaks,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to say octopi. I think probably most

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Speaker 1: of this pod has, but I'm gonna go with octopuses.

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Speaker 1: Octopuses is a way to go. You could also say octopods. Um,

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Speaker 1: there are at least three plural forms of octopus, so

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Speaker 1: you could say cactuses. I guess cactipods maybe. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the pods would transfer over because octopi are cephalopods, right,

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Speaker 1: which means head foot. It means head foot, literally means

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Speaker 1: head footed, and that means when you look at an

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Speaker 1: And that's why. That's whether whether you get that name

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Speaker 1: all right? And um it turns out that the area

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Speaker 1: of its eyes are not its head. Chuck. Oh, really,

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Speaker 1: as far as I understand, what's that? That the the

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Speaker 1: its mantle. Okay, we're getting ahead of ourselves. So you

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Speaker 1: going to classify it um as the phylum mollusca um

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Speaker 1: and um in the ass of Cephalopoda, which along with

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Speaker 1: their buddies the squid, and like nautilus and things like that.

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Speaker 1: But they don't have um like an outer shell like

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Speaker 1: which apparently squid have as well. And we'll we'll get

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Speaker 1: to that though, and why. But what they lack in

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Speaker 1: up for in spunk and pluckiness. Because they are probably

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Speaker 1: the most interesting mollusks of all. Dude, octopuses are extremely fascinating.

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Speaker 1: salivary glandges giggled when you said anus and go next.

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Speaker 1: chromatophors are little cells that have like three pigments sacks

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Speaker 1: Bread it's over a larger surface area too. Yeah. But

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Speaker 1: to put that with the woman, they will actually break

420
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Speaker 1: it off and just say here, just take this and

421
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: use it whenever you need it. Please don't hurt me.

422
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: And then then then they swim away and die. Well,

423
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: the males actually um die within a couple of months

424
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: after um reproducing once, so they pull off their hectic.

425
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: It's like a naturalization class in here. Hector catillus hectic catillus,

426
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: thank you um, and and giving it to the to

427
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: the female, which she just stores in her mantle. Yeah,

428
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: she keeps it until she's ready to have babies basically,

429
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 1: so then she lays the eggs, takes out the sperm

430
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 1: arm the little magic wand the hector catillus right um,

431
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: and then basically just spreads it over the eggs to

432
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 1: fertilize them. Or there are some species of octopi that

433
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 1: um where the hectic catillus is inserted into the females overduct,

434
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,440
Speaker 1: so there is some sort of sexual act. The traditional

435
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: thing that you think about happened sometimes in before we

436
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: move on from the little guy though, the little pillow

437
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: case guy, I'm sorry the little pillow guy, there's no case.

438
00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: He also has been known to rip off the tentacles

439
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,239
Speaker 1: of a man of war and use it as a

440
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: sword to protect himself because he's like build up a

441
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: resistance to the poison. I love this little guy. He's

442
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 1: like the fiercest little beast in the ocean. And what's

443
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: interesting is he's not supposed to be doing that because

444
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: that's tool use. Yeah, we there was, actually, um, I

445
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: think like a couple of months back, there's a big

446
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: sensation on the internet about an octopus being filmed using

447
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: coconut shell halves as portable, like story portable habitats. I guess,

448
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: so we just carried around then every wants while to

449
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: look around and like get under it. Um, it was

450
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: pretty cool. But animals aren't supposed to use tools right now,

451
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: they're not, but octopie do. Yeah. So, like you said,

452
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: they'll have the little egg hatch and the female will

453
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 1: die as well after hatching the egg, which is really sad.

454
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: And yes, but she protected the entire time. Yeah, she

455
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: like blows water over it and keeps it nice and clean,

456
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: and she might be she might be caring for these

457
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: eggs for between two to ten months. And she's not

458
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: eating at all. And then yeah, and then once they

459
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: start to hatch, she's out of there. She may not

460
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: she doesn't die quite then, but she's gone. So they're solitary.

461
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: She's aside from the moment when they're mating and the

462
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: moment these eggs hatch, they're on their own, like octopi

463
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: or solitary animals. Well, and not a very good chance

464
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: of survival either, right, don't want of them die? Yeah.

465
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Speaker 1: With the giant Pacific octopus, which can grow up to

466
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: I think six pounds. Um, yeah, they um, they have

467
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: a one percent survival rate for going from hatchling to

468
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: ten millimeters just a ten millimeters. Yeah, tragic. We need

469
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: Sally Struthers in here. What else we got, Oh the

470
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: personality stuff, that's pretty cool. Yeah, well we were talking

471
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: about them, you know, using tools. They're not supposed to

472
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: do that because they're cephalopods, so they're supposed to be stupid.

473
00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 1: They're all, you know, mating and eating and evading. Maybe right,

474
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: but octopi kind of buck that trend um among even cephalopods. Yeah,

475
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: they found some that have some can open jars, have

476
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,479
Speaker 1: learned to open jars pretty much outside of their tanks.

477
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: Well that too. They found some that have gotten outside

478
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: their tanks and like gotten into the food bends. And

479
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: then they found some that can open jars, some that

480
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: can work mazes, some that know like to pick a

481
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: red ball over a white ball, some that can call

482
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: the World Cup. Absolutely So. Octopi aren't supposed to have personalities, um,

483
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: but we have come to realize that they largely do

484
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: thanks to the work of a marine biologists named Jennifer Mather, right, Yeah,

485
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: she and Roland Anderson are two biologists that um kind

486
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: of got the feeling that they might, you know, from

487
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: seeing all these things in these aquariums, that they might

488
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: have a personality. And that's kind of a hard thing

489
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: to test, but they did. It was the other guy's name,

490
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: Roland what Roland Anderson Anderson, He was the one who

491
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: was tending or he worked at the Seattle Aquarium. And

492
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: he found out that the keeper's name three um species

493
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: of animals, I think it was otter seals and um

494
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: their giant pacific octopi. And normally like that, you don't

495
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: you reserve naming an animal based on his personality, And

496
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: since octopuses aren't supposed to have personality wanted to know

497
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 1: what's going on, so he went and found out, and

498
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: he found that um leisure suit Larry. Apparently this is

499
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: a very um, touchy feely octopus. When the handlers would

500
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: get in it's its tank, he'd just be all over

501
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,719
Speaker 1: im like, hey baby, how's that going? Um? And then

502
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: Emily Dickinson was so shy that she eventually had to

503
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: be replaced because she just high but behind the artificial barrier,

504
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: like would never come out and look just like it too,

505
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: so people didn't even know. And then she wrote poetry

506
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: as well, sad poetry, but good stuff. And then there

507
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: was Lucretia mke Evil, right, and the one destroyed her tank,

508
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: the interior tank, so she was obviously pretty feisty she was,

509
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: and apparently they were afraid to get in there with

510
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: her because again, this giant Pacific octopus, they can grow

511
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: up six hundred pounds, So if you have a mick

512
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: evil one, it's trouble. Well. And once you see this

513
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: video that wrestling a shark, I would be like, I'm

514
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: not going anywhere near that thing, right, So they Anderson

515
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: and Mather decided to come up with some I guess

516
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: some stimuli I think they opened the cage. They put

517
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: a brush into the tank see what they would do,

518
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: and I can't remember. There was another one. UM. And

519
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: then they figured out that these these octopus showed nineteen

520
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: distinct behaviors and they put it into three buckets, right, activity, avoidance,

521
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: and reactivity. So what happened, well, what happened was they

522
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: figured out that these these octopus actually were showing personality,

523
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: like they had person like an octopus would you could

524
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: say this octopus right here, number eighty nine is going

525
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: to do this if we do that, but the octopus

526
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: in the next hank over, we'll do something different. That's

527
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: personality and octopus aren't supposed to have that. They also

528
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: the same group. UM. I kind of looked over the article.

529
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: It's in the February two thousand seven issue of Natural History. Right,

530
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: they found that, UM, a couple of octopuses played and

531
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: they gave him a prescription bottle filled with like half

532
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: filled with water. A couple of Yeah, they really played.

533
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: They got really lethar as We kept that. UM. They

534
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: would play with it like they were bouncing a ball

535
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: in their tank. Yeah, these little guys are awesome. The girls, Uh,

536
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: the other cool thing that they did, the octopuses did

537
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: in these tests was they wanted to see how they

538
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: did with problem solving, and so they like wired clam

539
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: shut so they couldn't because traditionally they'll break the clam

540
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: open and scoop it out. And they wanted to see

541
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: if the octopus would just be like, I'll just need

542
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: something else. I can't get into this one right. No. Now,

543
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: what these things did was they said, Okay, I'll get

544
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: up my drill and even though this is not how

545
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: we get into clams, I'm gonna drill into this clam.

546
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: And not only that, but after a few tries, they

547
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: figured out the best point at the clam to drill

548
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: in to get the best meat, like right there in

549
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: the center. They figured all this out. Unbelievable. They're very smart,

550
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: very smart. You could play cards with an octopus. There's

551
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: been octopus gangsters before. Oh yeah, so they're very smart. Sure.

552
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean you have to have an organized brain, an

553
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: organized mind to participate in organized crime, I would think, so. Yeah.

554
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: I hope everyone found this as fascinating as I did.

555
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: I hope so too. All they have to do is

556
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: go and type in octopus, changed color and there's just

557
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: like scores and scores of videos, and you can also

558
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: read this very comprehensive article that was exciting how octopuses work. Remember,

559
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: you can say octopuses octopi. As a matter of fact,

560
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: I think everybody should walk around and call them octopuses

561
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: when they're corrected. You could like, no, jerk, you can

562
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: say octopi octopuses. Can't we all get along? And I

563
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 1: found out because these other two jerks told me, right

564
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: because they some jerk wrote an article, and they'll be like, well,

565
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: you're a jerk for listening to those two jerks, and

566
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: it'll just go downhill from there. I wonder what the

567
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: octopus's garden is. You know that Beatles song that Ringo sang. No,

568
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: of course you done. Uh, yeah, I'd like to be

569
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: under the sea in an octopus's garden, I guess. Oh,

570
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: is that the name of that song? Yeah? I thought

571
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: that was from the Little Mermaid soundtrack that's under the sea. Yeah,

572
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: it's a different song you just said. Oh. Well, if

573
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: you want to learn more about the octopuses, or the

574
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: Beatles or the Little Mermaid, I'm pretty sure you could

575
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: find something about all three of them on our site.

576
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: Just use the search bar at how stuff works dot com.

577
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 1: And now it is time for listener mail. Yes, Josh

578
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: Andy and Houston says this, Hey guys, huge fan. After

579
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: listening to your customs podcast about bringing items from embargoed countries,

580
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: took me back to some stuff if I did in college.

581
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: During the Columbus day break in my freshman year at

582
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: Clarkson University, twenty miles from the U S Canadian border,

583
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: Buddy and myself decided to go to Montreal for the day.

584
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: Once we got there, we bummed around the city and

585
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: bought some Cuban cigars, which is I guess what you

586
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: do in Montreal. We decided that if we'd wait until

587
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: we got back to campus too, and we decided that

588
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: we'd wait to get back to campus to enjoy them.

589
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: We pulled off the bands and figured we'd be just fine.

590
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: We got to the border and the officers asked us

591
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: why we were in Canada for six hours, and we

592
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: just said tourism. We were then instructed to pull into

593
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: a garage so we could get searched. I guess two

594
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: college kids hanging out in Montreal. Returning relatively soon through

595
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: the red flag, we were told to exit the car

596
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: so the dogs could check it out. We were brought

597
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: inside and asked if we had any illegal substances, which

598
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: we quickly handed over the cigars and were terrified. They

599
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: said we could be charged with willingly smuggling illegal items.

600
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: Uh and since they pulled the bands off, that could

601
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: have charged them with altering illegally altering material with the

602
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: intent of bringing it into the USA, which is exactly

603
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: what they did. And uh, he said. In the end,

604
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: they let him off with a warning and his Buddies

605
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: cup holder is still broken to this day from the

606
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: car search. We were so angry at customs that we

607
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: decided to spite America by blasting Rush the whole way home.

608
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: It seemed funny at the time, so I guess they

609
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: blasted Spirit of Radio and said Bill smoke something. Yeah,

610
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: that's Andy and Houston think in Houston, Houston, Texas. That

611
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: is what he said. But he went to school twenty

612
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: miles from the Canadian border, a little shady. If you

613
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: asked me, I wonder he's thrown up red flags talk

614
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: about climate change. Oh well, if you want to shame

615
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: me for that terrible pun, or you have a story

616
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: you want to share with us. You've got anything. Let's

617
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 1: plug Atlanta first, Okay, yeah, go ahead. We are having

618
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: our Atlanta All Star Trivia event, which is hopefully going

619
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Speaker 1: to kick off a nationwide tour. And it is going

620
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: to be October that the Five Seasons Brewery West Side.

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Speaker 1: Sometime in the evening. We'll get a time stamp soon.

622
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: Just show up some time after six po Yeah, I

623
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: would say it probably right in there. And should we

624
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: announce our special guests? I think we can now sure? Yeah, dude,

625
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: we got some three. We got three people verified. We're

626
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: very excited about. So go ahead. We've got John Hodgeman.

627
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: John Hodgman is coming to Atlanta just to play. He's

628
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: not just going down the block like New York. He's

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