Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature Future production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host
Speaker 1: of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,
Speaker 1: and today on the show fresh watt as in what
Speaker 1: the heck is in fresh water? Because folks, sometimes it's weird.
Speaker 1: We are talking about some of the weirdest things that
Speaker 1: you would not expect to find in bodies of fresh water.
Speaker 1: We all know the ocean is crazy in full of aliens,
Speaker 1: but in your local pond, in your marshlands, I don't
Speaker 1: think I would expect to find an alien, and yet
Speaker 1: there they are. Joining me today is my friend co
Speaker 1: founder of Small Beans, podcaster filmmaker abe E Person. Welcome.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about weird stuff today.
Speaker 2: Hey, Katie, thanks for bringing me on to your bog episode.
Speaker 3: I know that it's the bog, you know, Like, I'm
Speaker 3: just glad that.
Speaker 2: We've gotten to this point in our relationship where you're
Speaker 2: like still water, fresh water, ponds of scum.
Speaker 3: You know, that's a real kind of deal. I'm real
Speaker 3: excited right here.
Speaker 1: You bring a real stagnant energy that I need for
Speaker 1: my bog episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it, and I'm here for it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I'm a I'm a bog animal myself, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that we should all be more appreciative of bogs.
Speaker 1: They give us cool things like peat, moss and mummies, yes,
Speaker 1: and weird fish and weird animals. But yeah, we are
Speaker 1: talking about because you know what, there is something like
Speaker 1: primely spooky about water that is not it's it's fresh water,
Speaker 1: but it's not so fast, right, It's like kind of
Speaker 1: slow moving fresh water, like in marshes because there could
Speaker 1: be anything in there, and it's usually slimy, and it's
Speaker 1: like it's got it's got kind of a witch vibe.
Speaker 1: Witch talk. Are you listening, there's a witch talk. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's also like the place in which we sometimes
Speaker 2: get our water, which is necessary for our life and
Speaker 2: also produces one of the things that kills us the most,
Speaker 2: like in mosquitoes, you know. So it's so it's this
Speaker 2: thing that we just keep coming back to. I know
Speaker 2: we're probably destined as everything on the earth is from
Speaker 2: salt water. But it's like a it's it's it's a hoax. Really,
Speaker 2: fresh water is a hoax.
Speaker 1: Fresh Water is there's nothing fresh about it, folks. It's
Speaker 1: full of little tiny pieces.
Speaker 2: Of Hey, is that an ocean? No, it's way tinier
Speaker 2: and doesn't taste like salt.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, we are going to talk about some weird, wild,
Speaker 1: slimy stuff you can find in your very own body
Speaker 1: of fresh water. So, if you've ever been, I don't know,
Speaker 1: to a lake, maybe a lagoon, perhaps you have had
Speaker 1: the luck of seeing a lumpy, bloated alien looking mass. No,
Speaker 1: it's not me after eating chili. This is called a
Speaker 1: fresh water briozoan. So have you ever seen? Aby sent
Speaker 1: you some photos I'm looking. I hope you like it.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for sending these to me.
Speaker 1: You're You're welcome this. The first one is what I
Speaker 1: would like you to draw your attention to. What are
Speaker 1: you looking at?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking in an egg from the movie Alien
Speaker 2: that just a guy is holding in front of what
Speaker 2: looks like a series of lily pads. That there's no
Speaker 2: way that there isn't treasure inside that I want to
Speaker 2: get in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crack it open, slurp.
Speaker 3: It up, slurp it up.
Speaker 2: It's probably full of goo and slime and stuff that's
Speaker 2: just good for like nutrients, you know, stuff that's good for.
Speaker 1: Me, Probably nutrients Okay. You know what's funny, abe is
Speaker 1: that I have been struggling with a disease known as GIRD.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of Are you familiar with the calamity?
Speaker 1: That is god, not the specifics, but it is gastro
Speaker 1: intestinal reflux wait, gastro gastro reflex esophageal disease. Anyways, it
Speaker 1: means I get heartburn like a lot and it sucks.
Speaker 1: So I I asked, asked around to pharmacists give me
Speaker 1: something for this, and I tried some some pills and
Speaker 1: it didn't really do anything. So then a pharmacist is like, look,
Speaker 1: what you gotta do is take this, take this box
Speaker 1: of mysterious little packages of liquid and just you know,
Speaker 1: just gunshot these. Shotgun just shotgun these. Every time you
Speaker 1: eat anything. It's like, okay, great. It is apparently sodium
Speaker 1: alginate and it is a kind of goop that I
Speaker 1: guess it is algae based, and they have sweetened it
Speaker 1: to make it kind of taste like cream soda, but
Speaker 1: not quite because it mostly tastes like slime. And so
Speaker 1: I have been learning how to imbibe this like almost
Speaker 1: cream soda tasting, but mostly like algae pond scum tasting thing.
Speaker 1: I've got a little shot glass because at first I
Speaker 1: tried to just like go gurt it, you know, like
Speaker 1: it came in a little package and she's like just
Speaker 1: like put it direct, like squirt it directly in your mouth,
Speaker 1: and it was obscene and I didn't like it. So
Speaker 1: now I have a little shot glass full of my
Speaker 1: pond scum and it is actually helping my tummy feel better.
Speaker 2: So so you got your little slimy peptobysmo that you take.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got I've got my little bog brow, my
Speaker 1: little my little goblin drink that I drink every day.
Speaker 2: Little packets of somehow I assume related to stories is
Speaker 2: related to this organism.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's it's not really other than it's gowy
Speaker 1: and sliming. And you were reminding me of this because
Speaker 1: we were talking about slurping this.
Speaker 2: Up up Nature's gusher.
Speaker 1: You know. It's it is like Nature's gusher. And you
Speaker 1: know the thing that I worry about is that now
Speaker 1: I'm going to form this positive association with this pond scum,
Speaker 1: medical pond scum that I'm drinking because it makes my
Speaker 1: tummy feel a lot better. So now I'm starting to
Speaker 1: look at slimy stuff from ponds and going like, maybe
Speaker 1: I should just slurp that up. That is that might
Speaker 1: make me feel better.
Speaker 2: What a wonderful little caress. So what a cavalcade of
Speaker 2: chaos life is?
Speaker 1: You know? Here we go from marinera sauce making my
Speaker 1: tummy hurt to me wanting to eat a fresh water
Speaker 1: breazon and and.
Speaker 2: Now you're just a zombie.
Speaker 1: I'm just now just gonna be a bog monster. So
Speaker 1: I was in Minnesota. Actually, I was walking with my
Speaker 1: aunt in law and we saw this thing that looked
Speaker 1: like an eggsack. I thought maybe it was like some
Speaker 1: kind of bloated dead frog, and so I went over
Speaker 1: and I poked it with a stick, and it was
Speaker 1: just like an orb, a lumpy orb. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't like try to poke it open
Speaker 1: in case an alien did come out and did like
Speaker 1: hump my face. I didn't want that to happen. So
Speaker 1: I just like it seemed more or less hollow though,
Speaker 1: like a floating.
Speaker 3: Balloon, like so Spongy had some kids.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's yeah, it was like it was. It
Speaker 1: looked exactly like this this picture, and it it is
Speaker 1: like a brownish green, very lumpy texture. Uh and it yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a I don't know, it's like a flesh balloon,
Speaker 1: as slimy flesh balloon. And I was like, what, I'd
Speaker 1: never seen anything like this before, So I started trying
Speaker 1: to like googling things like like a slimy ball in
Speaker 1: pont flush balloon. Most of these searches did not bring
Speaker 1: me what I needed, but finally I found I found
Speaker 1: that this is Yeah, this is fresh water, a freshwater browzone,
Speaker 1: which is really really interesting because this is an animal, abe, right, Like.
Speaker 2: This is organism. This isn't like the byproduct that like detaches. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is wonderful, Like this is this is so alien that,
Speaker 2: like I sometimes I look at Mother Nature and I go,
Speaker 2: what what great jokes you have? You know, I.
Speaker 1: Will I will smoke what she's smoking exactly exact.
Speaker 2: So what does it do? Like, I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: that's a stupid question to ask for animals, what do
Speaker 2: you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 2: But like, what's your deal?
Speaker 1: What's what you're doing?
Speaker 2: What scammer? Are you running?
Speaker 1: I mean it passively sits there and absorbs nutrients and
Speaker 1: then that's pretty much it. Yeah, so it is actually
Speaker 1: so what this is is actually a colony organism. So
Speaker 1: I did say it's an animal, but maybe more accurate
Speaker 1: it is to say that it is animals. This is animals.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of tiny, uh like microscopic animals. It
Speaker 1: is a it is a colony organism. So Briozoans actually
Speaker 1: are a large phylum of colony invertebrates. So there's a
Speaker 1: whole philum full of families and species of briozoans, and
Speaker 1: most of them actually live in marine environments and they
Speaker 1: can look very different. They can actually be really pretty,
Speaker 1: kind of have like this lacey, coral like appearance. But
Speaker 1: freshwater briozoans is bringing big bog energy because none of
Speaker 1: them are really pretty. They are all just like big, bulbous,
Speaker 1: gouey green slimeball, which I actually love. So the freshwater brizones,
Speaker 1: also called phylactoalamatta, are found in lakes, ponds, lagoons, marshes,
Speaker 1: and slow moving streams, and they are made up of
Speaker 1: a bunch of zooids. So zooids are tiny animals that
Speaker 1: form a larger organism. And so there is a specific
Speaker 1: species of freshwater briozone called the magnet eficent briozoon that
Speaker 1: you probably if you live in North America, you might
Speaker 1: have actually seen in some of your fresh water areas
Speaker 1: if you if you like me, enjoy a good a
Speaker 1: good lake or a good bog.
Speaker 2: You just hanging around, Yeah, get a little hat, make
Speaker 2: a little hut.
Speaker 1: You know, this would make a fine hat.
Speaker 2: This is I did not know this existed. This is awesome.
Speaker 3: I love that I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I you know, I have to admit I didn't know
Speaker 1: this existed until like a few months ago when I
Speaker 1: saw it for the first time in my life.
Speaker 3: This is fascinating.
Speaker 2: Not only does it look awesome, I mean like, if
Speaker 2: you're into which I assume your audience, there are a
Speaker 2: bunch of freaks who are just into.
Speaker 3: Whatever animals you compliment.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure, I love freaks. But
Speaker 2: I assume that they're just like, you know, like slip
Speaker 2: down whatever you know. You're selling in terms of like
Speaker 2: I got some animals, you know.
Speaker 1: My weird goo that makes you tell me feel better?
Speaker 3: Yeah, ya, you're selling your wares.
Speaker 2: And this is like this is not only unique in
Speaker 2: like from in terms of like I I've never seen
Speaker 2: anything like this, but also like it's just this passive animal.
Speaker 2: Let me ask a question, and it's it's a part
Speaker 2: of what I was asking before of like what's what's
Speaker 2: your deal? Do any does anything eat this naturally? Like
Speaker 2: how does this work in the larger eco system, because
Speaker 2: like this is fascinating to just passively kind of develop
Speaker 2: almost like a bacterium, you know, or something like that,
Speaker 2: where it's just kind of like a part of the
Speaker 2: scum that just you know, from our perspective when we
Speaker 2: look at like stuck water, you know, like animals, we're
Speaker 2: just like, well, that's just gonna exist and that that's
Speaker 2: that's a good story for that, good for that, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but like this has got to be a vital part
Speaker 2: of someone's life, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting because the purpose of this kind
Speaker 1: of colony structures it makes it less likely that they're
Speaker 1: going to get eaten when they are individual zooids and
Speaker 1: they do actually have like a free swimming stage where
Speaker 1: there can be like this little individual very very tiny
Speaker 1: almost like a zooplankton, and it can swim around and
Speaker 1: that is like ripe for the picken for like eating.
Speaker 1: And so what happens with that is it will start
Speaker 1: to reproduce, so they can do both sexual and asexual reproduction.
Speaker 2: Nailing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like the sexual reproduction they do every so
Speaker 1: often and that allows them to you know, kind of
Speaker 1: judge up their gene pool and then like but often
Speaker 1: most most of the time, they do asexual reproduction by buttings,
Speaker 1: so they just like make duplicates of themselves. So you'll
Speaker 1: have this like free floating zooid, and then it starts
Speaker 1: to reproduce by butting, and it creates like these like
Speaker 1: little clusters, and then you get you reach sort of
Speaker 1: a point in which these little clusters are able to
Speaker 1: start forming a larger and larger, more stable sphere. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not like a perfect sphere. Sometimes it's kind of
Speaker 1: like slug shaped. But usually they form these like balls.
Speaker 1: And each ball, like each of those like lumps on
Speaker 1: the ball is like it's called a rosette, which is
Speaker 1: a much prettier name for what it looks like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but each of those like contains a bunch of these zuoids,
Speaker 1: and what they basically what each zuoid is is like
Speaker 1: it has it's like kind of like a doughnut shape
Speaker 1: or oval shape with like a single opening that is
Speaker 1: its mouth butt it's both the mouth and the butt,
Speaker 1: like yeah, like a chloaca, but for yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: one hole that does it all. And then it like
Speaker 1: is surrounded and cilia, which are like these kind of
Speaker 1: like eyelash like hairs that will help push food into
Speaker 1: the mouth butt, and then on the other end of
Speaker 1: the zooid, it actually excretes kind of a gelatinous goo
Speaker 1: like inwards, which helps strengthen the blob. And so at
Speaker 1: a certain point the texture of this blob. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are some animals that do try to eat it,
Speaker 1: but I think once it reaches a certain size, it's
Speaker 1: just too gooey and slimy to really be that palatable.
Speaker 1: And so it's just floating there with all of these
Speaker 1: individual zooids, just like passively slurping stuff up, and it
Speaker 1: just lives its best blob life. That is.
Speaker 2: So wonderful, just this mucous ridden blob that just kind
Speaker 2: of sits there, and that's its life.
Speaker 1: To me when I have it, That's that's exactly my life.
Speaker 1: When I have allergies, I'm just a mucus blob that
Speaker 1: sits there.
Speaker 3: That's me when I'm angry.
Speaker 2: Am I right? No, It's like geez, what a what
Speaker 2: a fun little I I am in awe of this,
Speaker 2: like this is I have a great amount of compassion
Speaker 2: for dumb like configurations of animals, Like it's it's always
Speaker 2: brought me joy in my.
Speaker 1: Life, Like that's why you're friends with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, yeah, I've like as soon as I saw
Speaker 2: you the first time in the writer's room, I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: look at that dumb animal. Me and her are gonna
Speaker 2: have a great time talking about blobs. Thank you for
Speaker 2: bringing this blob to me. I am so I'm so fascinated.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to really research this later.
Speaker 2: Like this does like I love that. My engagement with
Speaker 2: this is like happy to know it exists, but also
Speaker 2: just like its own life, where it's like kind of
Speaker 2: worthless and just there for the ride of you know, life.
Speaker 2: It's just like, hey, we're.
Speaker 1: All soo here because it's filter feeding. It is actually
Speaker 1: good for the aquatic environment, Like it does help with
Speaker 1: the ecosystem because it's like filtering stuff out right the water.
Speaker 1: It helps you know there, it is helps clean, helps
Speaker 1: filter things, and it is like I there's actually not
Speaker 1: like a huge plethora of like information on this thing,
Speaker 1: which I find even more intriguing. I love that it's
Speaker 1: like a mysterious blob, but I've also read.
Speaker 2: No grad student is like this is my sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if it.
Speaker 1: Should that's okay, but like it's uh, it's I I
Speaker 1: really think it is. It is cool, though there should
Speaker 1: be more research on it, but it is also fun
Speaker 1: for it just to be kind of a mystery blob
Speaker 1: of like I don't just kind of there, but you know,
Speaker 1: it does. It does serve a purpose and apparently also
Speaker 1: like if you see them in your pond or something,
Speaker 1: it's a sign of a healthy ecosystem to have these.
Speaker 1: So this is like a good thing. Yeah, I kind
Speaker 1: of look like tumors, but they are actually a good
Speaker 1: thing to have in your water system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bulbous mass, the fact, the idea that there's
Speaker 2: like there's a lot of bumps, you know, that's what
Speaker 2: That's why I reacted initially of like this is an
Speaker 2: alien egg and there's gonna be a face. It really
Speaker 2: does get out of it and you know, infects me
Speaker 2: with xena zeno phobes or whatever they're called xenomorphs that
Speaker 2: are going to destroy my digestive tract. But but it's
Speaker 2: just really it's just really there, isn't it? And like
Speaker 2: what if? So?
Speaker 3: I know it's full of goo more or less, it's squishy.
Speaker 1: Somewhat hollow, but also there's goo in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I do feel like there's a part of me,
Speaker 2: like a caveman brain that like wants to pop it
Speaker 2: and then throw it on a stove and see like
Speaker 2: what it tastes like. Is that wrong?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that bad?
Speaker 1: No, it's not wrong. I don't know that it would,
Speaker 1: you know. I did not like try to find out
Speaker 1: what it tastes like, either in real life or on
Speaker 1: the internet. I don't know that anyone else has tried
Speaker 1: to eat it. I would not suggest it, given that
Speaker 1: it probably is not good for you. But it does
Speaker 1: make me, you know, I also have that curiosity because
Speaker 1: it's like, is this gonna cure my tummy problems?
Speaker 2: Is it flesh? Because it's like flesh? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not like a fish. I get that it's pond
Speaker 2: scum that has organized in a slightly more complex, you know, man.
Speaker 1: Immunized pond scum.
Speaker 2: Yes, but like it's actually got like some turgid aspect
Speaker 2: to it.
Speaker 1: It kind of looks it's like a weird avocado.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of skin. And if skin's in the game,
Speaker 3: I might want to put it in my mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, Well, you know, I just get out there,
Speaker 1: find one of these things and give it a little nibble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like don't hurt it, but just like no,
Speaker 2: you know, tell that you're around and I see you
Speaker 2: as uh, I see.
Speaker 1: You, I hear you, and maybe I taste you. Don't
Speaker 1: taste these. I don't know if it'll kill you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I doubt it won't.
Speaker 1: I suspect you could just get sick in the same
Speaker 1: way that you would get sick if you drink pond water.
Speaker 2: Right, It's it's just sopping with whatever bacteria it exists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's, yes, exactly. But we are going to take
Speaker 1: a brief break while I, uh, you know, drink so
Speaker 1: more of my your go, and when we get back,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about another amazing couple of freshwater
Speaker 1: finds who are regal and incredible and definitely not done
Speaker 1: looking at all. The beer back all right, So we
Speaker 1: are back, and now we're going to talk about something
Speaker 1: called the meatcong giant catfish. Oh yeah, I shared some
Speaker 1: photos of it with you.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 3: I didn't exist in the South.
Speaker 2: I'm a Californian boy, so I don't know anything about catfish.
Speaker 2: I've never really eaten catfish, which is most of my
Speaker 2: relation to this podcast is eating Have I eaten?
Speaker 3: Have I eaten it? And what does it taste like?
Speaker 3: But tell me about this catfish.
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So this is a one of the biggest freshwater fish
Speaker 1: UH in the world and also one of the weirdest
Speaker 1: looking ones uh. It is found in the mid Kong
Speaker 1: Basin in Southeast Asia, and they can grow to be
Speaker 1: nearly ten feet long, which is three meters, and they
Speaker 1: can weigh up to six hundred and fifty pounds around
Speaker 1: two hundred kilograms. So it sounds terrifying, right, like giant
Speaker 1: catfish taller than a full grown man. But then look
Speaker 1: at its face. Abe, I want you to look at
Speaker 1: its face.
Speaker 2: It's such a pudgy little like. Ah, it looks like
Speaker 2: you got smushed. It's like this is the boxer of fishes.
Speaker 1: He's like a little ding dong. Yeah, like the dog.
Speaker 1: It's like a pug or a boxer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, it's like face has been squashed.
Speaker 1: Its face is a little dinga space. I love it.
Speaker 3: And its eyes are so low it's are wild.
Speaker 1: So his eyes are first of all, very wide set
Speaker 1: eyes on the opposite ends of its head, but then
Speaker 1: also very low set, so they're almost like underneath it.
Speaker 1: They're like yeah, And so it looks it does look
Speaker 1: like a droopy a droopy dog, like the wire exactly.
Speaker 2: I'm this is one of the cutest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It's I love you, I love you.
Speaker 1: And it's like kind of big but also downturned. It's
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, it's like the droopiest looking like.
Speaker 2: Dog. You O, man, imagine if imagine if this is
Speaker 2: your predator, imagine you're hitting by this. That's just a
Speaker 2: reality check for whatever you know is.
Speaker 1: I assume I know. This is the thing that is
Speaker 1: really cute about them is that they don't have any teeth,
Speaker 1: so they.
Speaker 2: Are they got all their teeth knocked out from all
Speaker 2: the fox that they do.
Speaker 1: Like gum.
Speaker 2: So these are also like you in that they they
Speaker 2: have to eat go gurt tubes.
Speaker 1: They do have to slurp up algae. It keeps coming
Speaker 1: back to my my, my new sodium alginate go GURTs.
Speaker 1: They slurp algae from rocks and other surfaces with their big, dumb,
Speaker 1: toothless mouths uh. And that's how it's just they're so
Speaker 1: what an existence, right, You're huge problem, possibly the largest
Speaker 1: fresh water fish out there, and you're just slurping up
Speaker 1: pond scum with your dumb mouth and your eyes that
Speaker 1: are like sagging down.
Speaker 2: Like I love it's so much you might think, yeah,
Speaker 2: and you and you become giant. Yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 2: best part too, is that, like I want I want
Speaker 2: to get a bunch of them and put them in
Speaker 2: my bed and to sleep on them.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: It's they're very cute.
Speaker 1: They would make a cute like body pillow.
Speaker 3: You know exactly. And they're enormous. They're I love that,
Speaker 3: Like just like the pond.
Speaker 2: There's one photo that you sent me of a bunch
Speaker 2: of gentlemen holding it and the pond that.
Speaker 3: There's in is like waist high. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So if I'm to understand exactly what's going on in
Speaker 2: this photo, they assumably found that thing that shark inside
Speaker 2: whatever body of water they're in. Yeah, I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: a lake or something like that, and I'm obscured, but
Speaker 2: it just feels wrong, like it feels like something that
Speaker 2: large should not exist in a body of water that
Speaker 2: is only like you waist high, right, Yeah, like that's
Speaker 2: what's like. Big fishes like whales and sharks exist in
Speaker 2: you know, the.
Speaker 1: Totality of depths of the ocean. Yeah, but this is
Speaker 1: just in sort of like slow moving rivers, lakes, you.
Speaker 3: Know, so it just gets tired. It doesn't like to
Speaker 3: move a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2: That's another thing I love about it is it's just
Speaker 2: like I'm just what's that I'm going to suck on
Speaker 2: that rock?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, it was around sucking on rocks and getting
Speaker 1: picked up by people trying to take photos. They grow
Speaker 1: really fast though. They actually can grow over seventy pounds
Speaker 1: or thirty kilograms per year. Whoa, and they can live
Speaker 1: to be over fifty years old.
Speaker 2: Ash so awesome.
Speaker 1: It's really sad though, because they are critically endangered because
Speaker 1: of the habitat loss overfishing. It's illegal now to fish them.
Speaker 1: But also just look like I can't imagine. Maybe I
Speaker 1: guess like if I have to feed my family, but
Speaker 1: I'd feel so bad looking at that face, being like
Speaker 1: all right, I gotta kill you know me?
Speaker 2: You're good?
Speaker 1: You can feel me. You just like so sad.
Speaker 2: It's just, you know, the boon of lazy fishermen everywhere.
Speaker 2: I know you could probably just like it feels like
Speaker 2: a fish that is moving so slowly that you can
Speaker 2: just grab it, Like you don't need a tool to
Speaker 2: kill this thing, which that makes that makes some sense
Speaker 2: of why it's endangered. It saddens me greatly because I
Speaker 2: wonder what a wonderful existence just kind of slurping around
Speaker 2: like a big dumb dumb dummy. I love you. I'm
Speaker 2: in love with this little low eyed it's just drag.
Speaker 1: Its face is incredible. I do have it in this
Speaker 1: show notes it's face or if you want to google
Speaker 1: a may Kung giant catfish. The face is. It's very photogenic.
Speaker 2: It's like what if what if your forehead was a mouth?
Speaker 1: The thing is if you flip the face. Actually, it
Speaker 1: makes more sense if you like rote. I'm actually gonna
Speaker 1: do that for myself. I'm going to rotate it. If
Speaker 1: I can't, d oh, it looks like it's smiling upside down.
Speaker 1: Wait in your document. I'm going to rotate this for you.
Speaker 1: Hang on, please, it's the bottom one with the like
Speaker 1: National Geographic logo on it. Don't tell me. I just
Speaker 1: flipped that around, like look at it.
Speaker 2: Hit me.
Speaker 1: It looks like it makes more sense now. It's like
Speaker 1: like the eye looks more normally play.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, exactly. Like I know we're not here to
Speaker 2: pass judgment on Mother Nature and her concoctions, but like
Speaker 2: I'm in between, like you really screwed up Mother Nature.
Speaker 2: And also no notes, you know, like I love the
Speaker 2: diversity that you create, but like you really fumbled this one.
Speaker 2: You really got it backward for no reason I love.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find like a specific reason why it's eyes
Speaker 1: are like that. I would assume though, because it just
Speaker 1: slurps the algae that it's just like look down for
Speaker 1: the algae.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: It's like almost all stimulaly, you know, like eyes and
Speaker 2: you know, like silly as you mentioned earlier, and just
Speaker 2: like it's always just reaching like trees reach for the sun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nutrition, nutritive goo.
Speaker 2: It's fascinating.
Speaker 1: Now on to our other big boy. Like this is
Speaker 1: the other largest freshwater fish. It is the giant freshwater stingray.
Speaker 1: It is actually the largest stingray in the world. And
Speaker 1: it's just like hanging out and hiding around in fresh water.
Speaker 1: It is It certainly has the largest diameter of any
Speaker 1: freshwater fish. It is found in Southeast Asia. They are
Speaker 1: related to marine rays. But yeah, these are huge. They
Speaker 1: grow over seven feet in diameter, which is over two meters,
Speaker 1: and they can weigh over six hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 1: which is around three hundred kilograms. Yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 3: Get out, Get out of fresh water. Yeah, get in
Speaker 3: the ocean.
Speaker 2: What are you doing like to me like that, this
Speaker 2: is way too big to exist, Like like this is
Speaker 2: in rivers, I assume, yeah, yeah, this is like and
Speaker 2: fresh Amazon or you know this is actually so this
Speaker 2: is found in Southeast Asia, so not in them, yeah,
Speaker 2: but in like in.
Speaker 1: Like rivers, slow moving rivers and like lakes. Uh, and
Speaker 1: so yeah it is uh. It actually looks like like
Speaker 1: it's kind of brown, so it kind of looks like
Speaker 1: a giant alien pancake.
Speaker 2: It's the the photo that you have is terrifying because like, so,
Speaker 2: you know, let's break down the biology. I understand exactly
Speaker 2: what's going on in every part of this organism. It's
Speaker 2: got the fan part, you know, like sting ray, you know,
Speaker 2: get the floppy bits but then there's a center mass
Speaker 2: that is basically a torso like a human torso it
Speaker 2: looks like kind of ribsolved.
Speaker 1: It does kind of look like a pancake, a monster pancake,
Speaker 1: like eight a human and like digested it. And then
Speaker 1: there's just like a human like rib cage in there
Speaker 1: that's like actually the top part of the the the array,
Speaker 1: and it's like there that may those like lines may
Speaker 1: actually be some bones because these are bony fish and uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, the underside is where you would find like
Speaker 1: its mouth and stuff like it's it actually has like
Speaker 1: near its mouth and electroreceptor kind of area where it
Speaker 1: can detect the electrical signals of its prey, which would
Speaker 1: be like fresh water crustaceans and stuff. So it is
Speaker 1: it is very strange, very very strange animal. It's covered
Speaker 1: in mucous so we've got another slime boy on our hands.
Speaker 1: This is a very slimy episode. And they also have
Speaker 1: they are a sting ray, so they do have a
Speaker 1: fifteen inch toxic stinger that is strong enough and media
Speaker 1: enough to punch through human bone, human bone, human bone.
Speaker 1: It can pierce your bones.
Speaker 3: What is that for? What are you taken down?
Speaker 2: Buddy.
Speaker 1: It is defensive, but also to take down it's prey
Speaker 1: like freshwater crabs, and it is it seems.
Speaker 2: Like overkill for freshwater crabs. I'm sorry, perhaps a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know what is interesting is that apparently they
Speaker 1: are not very aggressive. So even though they have a
Speaker 1: stinger that could probably just skewer us, right, I think
Speaker 1: it could just impale a person. I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're known to really do that because they're
Speaker 1: pretty chill. They don't really want to mess with us.
Speaker 1: They're like politely inquisitive apparently, which is really cute. They are.
Speaker 1: Sometimes fishermen do go after them, and if they do,
Speaker 1: like hook one of these, then they will fight back.
Speaker 1: And it's wild because they're so big they can pull
Speaker 1: like a small fishing boat under water, which just sounds like,
Speaker 1: why would you tussle with this giant murder pancake that
Speaker 1: can like drag you into this murkt absolutely like sediment
Speaker 1: filled water. That is like my worst nightmare.
Speaker 2: I I am like in awe that a part of
Speaker 2: its process isn't to just envelope you like a bruto
Speaker 2: and just be like and that's it.
Speaker 1: Kind of yeah, it does look kind of like the
Speaker 1: alien from Nope, right, like just like a big murder
Speaker 1: pancake sky whale.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like this flat. It's again amazing way to
Speaker 2: go fresh water. I did not think that you packed
Speaker 2: so many, you know, like demons. Yeah, frankly, this is
Speaker 2: a demon.
Speaker 1: I do kind of want to like lie on top
Speaker 1: of it, like use it as sort of just like
Speaker 1: a cushion.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's another body pillow.
Speaker 1: Little Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of like nap friendly animals on
Speaker 1: this episode, like the giant catfish that's like a body pillow,
Speaker 1: the Brozone Briozon, which is kind of like I feel
Speaker 1: like I could rest my head on that. It's like
Speaker 1: an air airplane. Nice airplane pillow. This one like sort
Speaker 1: of a yoga around Matt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I wrap myself in it as
Speaker 2: long as I had control, because it feels too muscly.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it's a fish.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it would defend itself if it felt
Speaker 1: like you were like doing something and didn't like And
Speaker 1: it does have that fifteen inch long toxic stinger that
Speaker 1: I did mention that can punch through bones. So maybe
Speaker 1: not a great idea. Maybe not a great idea.
Speaker 2: But I feel like this is like you said that,
Speaker 2: they're not really that uh you know, aggressive aggressive, So
Speaker 2: like I feel like this is a familiar in a
Speaker 2: D and D campaign.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we could be friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I'm like me and you. I'll
Speaker 2: feed you some something. And you're obviously a spawn from Satan,
Speaker 2: but that's fine. You and me are going to be
Speaker 2: best pals, and I'm gonna use you as a blanket
Speaker 2: and also hug you in your terrifying rib cage.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet. We're going to take a quick break
Speaker 1: and when we get back, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: one more very weird animal that you can find in
Speaker 1: fresh water.
Speaker 2: So you'll be right back.
Speaker 1: So now we're talking about toe biters biting them toes.
Speaker 1: Uh oh yeah. So these are giant water bugs. Hooray.
Speaker 1: So giant water bugs are giant bugs that you find
Speaker 1: in water. They usually grow around an inch to two
Speaker 1: inches long. There are some species that can grow up
Speaker 1: to four and a half inches long, which is eleven
Speaker 1: and a half centimeters. They are found all over the
Speaker 1: world in fresh water habitats, and there are many species
Speaker 1: in this family. The family is called bellow stone Matidae,
Speaker 1: and most of them are these like flat, brown, oval
Speaker 1: shaped bugs. They're just like these kind of beatly looking
Speaker 1: bugs with their flat and they've got really meaty legs.
Speaker 1: So all of them are weird and kind of scary looking.
Speaker 1: But let's just talk about the absolute most weirdo ones,
Speaker 1: like the most upsetting thing that you could find brushing
Speaker 1: against your foot. So sorry, So yes, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Looking at a photo that you've sent me, and you
Speaker 2: mentioned the meaty legs like that was the you know,
Speaker 2: that was the headliner. Yes, and I'm not going to
Speaker 2: disagree with you, but like, let's talk about what is
Speaker 2: its body?
Speaker 1: It's it's the bulblessness of it, right, the pustules that
Speaker 1: you're worried.
Speaker 2: About, the pustules like you're you're you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 2: sit there and act like that's not full of spiders,
Speaker 2: because like I I won't allow you to do that.
Speaker 1: Can you get can you guess what these like? Uh?
Speaker 1: What he's looking at is like these many protrusions like
Speaker 1: almost like the like the like the inside of a pomegranate,
Speaker 1: but it's on this bugs back and they're kind of oblong.
Speaker 1: Uh so what what do you think those are?
Speaker 2: So they obviously detach and invade the earth in a row.
Speaker 2: In emeric film, they shoot themselves into the White House
Speaker 2: and take over with duplicates of the President. I have
Speaker 2: no clue what those things do. I assume that there's
Speaker 2: some because they're running in a series. Because it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, much like the you know, shell of a
Speaker 2: turtle or the scales of an armadillo. I assume it's
Speaker 2: some kind of protection. Maybe there's a sensory involvement in there.
Speaker 2: Are you like you tell me you're the expert.
Speaker 1: You're much closer with the like they'll like go into
Speaker 1: the President and I don't know what they launched, like
Speaker 1: give birth to a bunch of little presidents like they
Speaker 1: are these are eggs. These are eggs stuck to the
Speaker 1: back of this thing.
Speaker 3: They're just taking a ride exactly.
Speaker 1: And when you say therefore protection, it's actually the inverse.
Speaker 1: The beetle or the not beetle, the giant water bug
Speaker 1: is the one protecting the egg. So uh, the so
Speaker 1: the way this works, I love this. This is some
Speaker 1: great parental care from these giant water bugs. And also
Speaker 1: we love a society where both the sexes take care
Speaker 1: of the young because the female will lay her eggs
Speaker 1: on top of the male's back, and actually she has
Speaker 1: like a secretion that glues these eggs to his back,
Speaker 1: and he'll litter do that, and so the male carries
Speaker 1: these eggs on his back and then he's able to
Speaker 1: protect them from predators who would otherwise just like get
Speaker 1: a free lunch by slurping up these eggs. But now
Speaker 1: you've got this giant water bug going around with his
Speaker 1: eggs on his back. And if you're gonna try to
Speaker 1: pluck one of these eggs off of them like a grape,
Speaker 1: he's gonna bite you. And they can bite really hard
Speaker 1: and it hurts apparently really bad.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, good for it. Yeah, you know I love that.
Speaker 2: So mom just kind of packs off.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, we love to see it. We love to
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 2: Love to see it.
Speaker 3: Man, I wish flip the patriarchal.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's more or less my plan. If I
Speaker 1: have a kid, I'm just gonna stick that baby on
Speaker 1: a baby bjorn, put it on my husband and be
Speaker 1: like all right, good luck, bye bye.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see the world. And by the world, I
Speaker 2: mean like yeah, four to eight feet that is our palm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but just imagine that with like fifty babies and
Speaker 1: fifty baby bjorns and you're just covered in babies and
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, you see ya.
Speaker 2: I love that, Like the organism doesn't like I know
Speaker 2: that we're talking about invertebrates, so like we're not like
Speaker 2: it's not like a you know, pregnancy, but usually, like
Speaker 2: I don't know, like usually animals have some form of
Speaker 2: like protect the baby. This one is just like I
Speaker 2: know you said, the males will bite, you know, if
Speaker 2: like someone is trying to pluck these eggs out, but
Speaker 2: they're so exposed. It's almost like, take my children before
Speaker 2: you attack me. I will form a shield of my children.
Speaker 2: It really does feel like because that's where the predators
Speaker 2: are coming from, is the top right, This is a
Speaker 2: bottom dweller. Yeah, it's low to ground, even I assume underwater.
Speaker 1: When I explain this other species, I think you'll get
Speaker 1: a better understanding of why animals might avoid trying to
Speaker 1: do that. So, like I said, a lot of these
Speaker 1: species are known as toe biters because they will bite
Speaker 1: you really hard, which can be incredibly painful. It's not
Speaker 1: necessarily dangerous unless you happen to be a little little
Speaker 1: fish or turtle, because these bugs actually can eat fish
Speaker 1: and small turtles and snakes, because they're so so good
Speaker 1: at biting in a way that is really disturbing. So
Speaker 1: many awesome, many species of giant water bugs are oracious predators.
Speaker 1: So kirk Kirkaldia dei roli, found in freshwater habitats and
Speaker 1: rice fields in Asia, have been documented to hunt and
Speaker 1: eat fish, small turtles, snakes. I saw some things about
Speaker 1: like maybe even eating like baby birds, like baby ducklings,
Speaker 1: but I think it's probably God, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I think that it's probably like they are in the water,
Speaker 1: so it's anything that they can grab that happens to
Speaker 1: be in the water. So their front legs are very beefy,
Speaker 1: and they basically like put their prey in like a
Speaker 1: half nelson, uh, And then they have this hard proboscus
Speaker 1: that they stab into their prey. And the proboscis is
Speaker 1: like it's like this mouth, this sharp mouth.
Speaker 2: Tube mouth spears.
Speaker 1: It's a mouth spear, perfect, thank you, And it injects
Speaker 1: enzymes that break down the flesh of their prey. And
Speaker 1: apparently it also has like a paralytic paralytic compound that
Speaker 1: is apparently incredibly painful. Like it's not, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's not generally harmful to humans in terms of it's
Speaker 1: not gonna like put you in the hospital. But this
Speaker 1: venom and this bite is like super super painful. But
Speaker 1: what it does for its smaller prey like a fish,
Speaker 1: is it renders them immobile and then they're just pumping
Speaker 1: it full of digestive juices that like turns it into
Speaker 1: a slurpe, and then the beatle just sucks it up.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think that might be why having
Speaker 1: the babies on its back is a good strategy, because
Speaker 1: most animals are probably gonna learn, like to avoid this
Speaker 1: horrifying thing.
Speaker 2: That way to go again, mother nature. You just little
Speaker 2: bite sized, candy sized versions of brutality running around the pond.
Speaker 2: Don't even care about predators. They're like, yeah, eat me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put the most attractive part of my animal
Speaker 2: right on my back because I am a murder toad.
Speaker 2: That is what a fascinating little organism.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's pretty creepy, but also like great,
Speaker 1: it's a great dad. It's dad of the month.
Speaker 2: It's a great dad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess is number one.
Speaker 2: Dad got got a little spear there to protect the
Speaker 2: children's Yeah, yeah, I love that. It also puts you
Speaker 2: in a half Nelson, you.
Speaker 1: Know, it really does.
Speaker 2: It wants you, It wants you to tap out, yeah,
Speaker 2: before it destroys.
Speaker 1: And yeah, good, good, good for these little guys. Love
Speaker 1: them not so little. Actually some of them grow over
Speaker 1: four inches long.
Speaker 2: So you know if I saw that that, like, if
Speaker 2: I saw that in my house, like a four inch
Speaker 2: size one of these, I would not try to save it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you live in a bog, I
Speaker 1: feel like you kind of because like that's probably the
Speaker 1: only time you'd see it in your house. Of if
Speaker 1: you live in a pond, like your house is just
Speaker 1: inside of the pond. Uh.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I live in la Am I right.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm making like, yeah, Heathcliff jokes
Speaker 2: on your podcast.
Speaker 1: It's fine. There's some kind of political joke there to
Speaker 1: be made about the swamp.
Speaker 3: And draining it, meaning it for the toe biters.
Speaker 1: But then the toe biters are going to come get you,
Speaker 1: and something about medicare. I don't know. I'm so tired. Listen,
Speaker 1: let's do a little game. I like to call gets
Speaker 1: to squawk on the Mystery Animal sound game. Every week
Speaker 1: I play mister Animal Saund and you the listener, and
Speaker 1: you the guests, try to guess who is making that sound.
Speaker 1: It can be any animal in the world. And just
Speaker 1: to remind you, animals include everything folks like insects, spiders, birds, bugs, frogs, cats, dogs, donkeys, uh, snakes, everything,
Speaker 1: So it could be any of those things. I keep
Speaker 1: going monkeys, squirrels.
Speaker 2: You're killing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I named every animal that exists, so you're a
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm so glad someone recognizes it.
Speaker 2: I'm yeah, I am amazed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The hint for last well, actually the week before
Speaker 1: last week, mister animal Sam is this. Uh these little
Speaker 1: guys are free living exterminators. All right, Abe, did you
Speaker 1: hear that little like kick?
Speaker 2: Yep, the cackle, Nature's little cackle, like try to defy me?
Speaker 2: Is like, what that organism? So you're saying to the cackle,
Speaker 2: I mean it honestly sounds mammalian, like it's doesn't sound
Speaker 2: like a bug to me. I feel like I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get dunked on in a second, because like I don't
Speaker 2: like pride myself on knowing you know, like sounds of
Speaker 2: organisms and being like to play this game. I don't
Speaker 2: think I'm particularly good at this game, but like, that
Speaker 2: sounds like a rodent to me.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, this game is designed not for education,
Speaker 1: not for fun, but just to make you feel bad,
Speaker 1: to make you feel.
Speaker 2: Bad, just for you to feel superior on your guests
Speaker 2: for just a brief second of happiness.
Speaker 1: Actually, no, fool, this is not a rodent. No, I
Speaker 1: mean it does really sound like it sounds like a chipmunk, right,
Speaker 1: it sounds like like some kind of rodent, maybe a chipmunk,
Speaker 1: maybe a squirrel. But no, this is actually the call
Speaker 1: of the common house gecko. This is a gecko making
Speaker 1: this little call.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There are a small brown, kind of pale brown
Speaker 1: gecko found in Asia and Oceania.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They like to hang around human homes, thus the name
Speaker 1: house gecko. And they eat have bugs for you, bell
Speaker 1: eat cockroaches, termites, wasps, moths, flies, crickets. So honestly, seems
Speaker 1: like a mutually beneficial situation. I would much rather have
Speaker 1: one of these little cute guys there. They're just a
Speaker 1: cute little gecko, and I'd much rather have one of
Speaker 1: those going around than like termites and cockroaches. So hey,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, for sure, they're like the best roommate that
Speaker 1: you could have, Like they're killing bugs.
Speaker 2: For you and the las fun all the time, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: they're the court jesture and like I feel like it's
Speaker 2: the cat. Yeah, they're like.
Speaker 1: This episode is like I think this episode is like
Speaker 1: just tailor made for bog witches. So I hope you've
Speaker 1: all all all my witches out there. I hope you've
Speaker 1: enjoyed this. H onto this week's mystery animal. Sound. The
Speaker 1: hint is this you're not gonna find this hen on
Speaker 1: a farm. Uh, and it'll make this call till it's
Speaker 1: red in the face. All right, any guesses abe?
Speaker 3: So at the end there was that like multiple of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Because there was like a like a paused chirp that
Speaker 2: was kind of happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there was more. I think there was
Speaker 1: more than one.
Speaker 2: And the second part and then it found it sounded
Speaker 2: like it found a friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh, I mean that does sound like.
Speaker 2: A bird because the repetition, but like I also want
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: Frog, yeah heard or a frog. I'll give you, I'll
Speaker 1: give it.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'll go frog Frog.
Speaker 1: All right, very interesting gifts. I will another little hint,
Speaker 1: just a freebel throw, and is that since this episode
Speaker 1: has been very very swampy, uh, that is that it
Speaker 1: is on theme, on brand with the rest of this episode. Well,
Speaker 1: I but I will reveal the answer on next week's
Speaker 1: episode of Creature Feature. Abe, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today and marchhen it up with me this.
Speaker 1: I really I just love weird stuff you find in water.
Speaker 2: Me too. I love Mother Nature and the ability that
Speaker 2: she has to, you know, just blow my mind with
Speaker 2: dumb animals that I want to apparently put in my
Speaker 2: bed and sleep with. Yeah, that seemed to be both
Speaker 2: of our ten throughout this episode.
Speaker 1: Super cute. If there was like a plush version of it,
Speaker 1: I would buy that. It probably costs like five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I buy it though. Where can people find you?
Speaker 2: You know, if you like, you know, just my conversational
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Speaker 2: and we talk about more or less pop culture, movies,
Speaker 2: video games and such like that. I'm there with my
Speaker 2: friends Michael Swam and Adam Ganzer, who are you know
Speaker 2: if you remember all of us from Cracked Fame which Katie, Yeah,
Speaker 2: who knows. But that's where I reside. And we're also
Speaker 2: making a movie. We're filmmakers, and we've been making a
Speaker 2: movie for a long time now. We're still in the
Speaker 2: you know, pre production phases. And it's a movie about
Speaker 2: a coming of age film where a teenager finds out
Speaker 2: that his dad is a gay furry and it's semi
Speaker 2: autobiographical based off Michael's life. It's a movie that we've
Speaker 2: wanted to make for a long time because we find
Speaker 2: the topic fascinating and how communities and fandoms are influential
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Speaker 3: And so that's kind of like what we're up to.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of the vibes if you go over there.
Speaker 2: But please check us out at small Beans.
Speaker 1: That sounds excellent. I'm a I'm extremely excited for this movie.
Speaker 1: I've heard about it and I think it sounds super interesting.
Speaker 1: And I know movie making is a long process, but
Speaker 1: come on, guys, yeah it get it.
Speaker 2: I know, I know it's we have had a series
Speaker 2: of strikes and yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not going I'm not criticizing you. I'm just impatient
Speaker 1: because I want to.
Speaker 2: See it, you and me both. Yeah, but that's but
Speaker 2: thank you for being a fan.
Speaker 1: I will remain steadfast and patient and when it comes out,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely watching it. Thank you so much, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining me, and thank you so much
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