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Speaker 1: Hellone, and welcome back to another episode of Are You

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Speaker 1: Their Dad? It's me Yoko, And to kick things off

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Speaker 1: this week, we're going to spend this segment of They

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Speaker 1: Should Have Known talking about the one, the only, the

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Speaker 1: Bermuda Triangle. Now, for those of you who are dumb

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Speaker 1: and don't know what that is, it's a triangle in

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Speaker 1: Bermuda or around Bermuda that people just like randomly disappeared,

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Speaker 1: like a lot of ships and a lot of planes

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Speaker 1: have gone missing there. And here's the thing. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: It's like people just don't have on fine my friends

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Speaker 1: because if you don't have fine my friends, then you'll die.

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Speaker 1: And that's their fault. So all those people they died

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Speaker 1: because of that. And I never turned my off, like

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Speaker 1: I want all my friends to know where I am constantly.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, my dad actually just turned his

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Speaker 1: off for me recently, which is fine. I'm not mad

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Speaker 1: about it, but it is weird because I just saw

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Speaker 1: his other family's child, like, wait, what's that called Olivia?

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Speaker 1: What's that called half sister? I just saw my half

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Speaker 1: sister's Instagram story and I saw her posting about how

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Speaker 1: he took them to Disney World. Recently, which is fine.

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Speaker 1: It's fine really, and every wanted to go and I've

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Speaker 1: never wanted to go to Disneyland or Disney World. So

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Speaker 1: it's fine that they're going without me. And it's fine

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Speaker 1: that they're ready to tea cups and sharing a churro together.

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Speaker 1: It's fine that my house to share churro with her

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Speaker 1: dad my dad while they watched fireworks and stay at

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Speaker 1: the Polynesian which is on sale right now during the

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Speaker 1: off season. That's fine. I didn't want that. I didn't

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Speaker 1: want that for myself anyway, So it's fine. M oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: But back to the Bermdia try and go. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: it's like, come on, people, just turn to find my

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Speaker 1: friends on or just get to your hot their CRV

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Speaker 1: and like turn on the GPS and get out of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like the don't die. So anyway, that's

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Speaker 1: they should have known. Okay, well, now we're onto the

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Speaker 1: next portion of the podcast where we and by we,

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Speaker 1: I mean you all because I'm very smart and I

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Speaker 1: know everything we're about to talk about. We're gonna learn

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Speaker 1: about a new topic and this is you should have

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Speaker 1: known and how fitting that we're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: to Professor Alan Grundell, who's the vice dean and former

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Speaker 1: head of marine biology at Stanford University. Welcome, professor, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for having me. Thank you for that

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Speaker 1: lovely introduction. It's so so, so tremendous to be here

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Speaker 1: with another fan of the ocean. Wow, that's so great.

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Speaker 1: And just a quick correction. I am the vice Weistein.

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Speaker 1: I'm the vistein to the Weisteine as it stands right now.

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Speaker 1: Oh what, okay, so exactly I know this isn't your expertise,

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Speaker 1: but what exactly does a vistein do well? I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: know that. That's above my pay grade. I'm the vice

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Speaker 1: deane to the vistein. So yeah, I don't really participate

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Speaker 1: in those conversations at this time. So what do you do?

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Speaker 1: Anything that the visteine neat? A lot of it right

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Speaker 1: now is we're trying to find some fish to study

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Speaker 1: my department is to find and study fish, and right

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Speaker 1: now we're having a really hard time finding fish because

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Speaker 1: the ocean, as you know, is relatively enormous. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can't even I can't. I'm trying to use my

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Speaker 1: my hands. And the other really kooky thing about the

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Speaker 1: one of the more difficult parts of getting an eyeball

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Speaker 1: they want to. Oh wow, Okay, do you have a

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Speaker 1: favorite fish? Wow? It's hard to choose out of the

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Speaker 1: so many dozens of fish. I don't have a favorite

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Speaker 1: at fish. I think all fish are ruthless and I

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Speaker 1: don't really side with any of them, but I respect

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Speaker 1: all fish. Okay, So I have a question for you,

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Speaker 1: I can you? Can you give me the three again?

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Speaker 1: I I'm having trouble remembering. Yeah, yeah, Stanford right, Um, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and then kill the hammerhead shark. Frankly, it's just it's

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Speaker 1: good or bad. But it's pretty It's it's held sort

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Speaker 1: of a standard in the industry that hammerheads are are

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Speaker 1: a bad fish. M Did you know that When I

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Speaker 1: did not know that the whale from Sea World that

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Speaker 1: prison made of water? No, it's because I was an

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Speaker 1: Orlando transplant against my will. Oh well, that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: And I also have a fear of white families watching

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Speaker 1: me swim. Oh. I think that's a very reasonable fear.

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Speaker 1: I think, um, yeah, I don't think anybody should be

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Speaker 1: your instincts feel correct to me. Thank you. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions about the ocean because

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Speaker 1: it's just so big, you know, Yeah, me too. It's

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Speaker 1: it's enormous. So I'm understood, I was. I know this already,

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Speaker 1: and I'm asking you those questions so that the listeners know.

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Speaker 1: Really it's very helpful. So I'm to understand that at

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Speaker 1: tsunamism both. Yes, it might understand that earthquakes and tsunamis

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Speaker 1: that's a really really good way of describing it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it really is. If you do think of the tectonic

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Speaker 1: plates as the Earth's cheeks, you know, in the same

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Speaker 1: you'd hear that sound of the cheeks hitting each other,

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Speaker 1: and that sound is obviously the result of sonic waves

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Speaker 1: each other exactly. And so if you think of the

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Speaker 1: also releasing sonic energy. When it happens under water. We

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Speaker 1: say that Mother Earth, from an academic standpoint, has a

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Speaker 1: dump truck ass. Wow, mother Earth has a dump truck ass.

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Speaker 1: That's correct. Yes, you know, I've always thought that myself,

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Speaker 1: so I'm glad that someone else is affirming it up

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Speaker 1: for me. Yes, there's a lot of research to back

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Speaker 1: the ocean. Oh, the most evil creature is by far

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Speaker 1: the octopus. It's not really a contest now, to be clear,

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Speaker 1: one of the smarter ones, but it is the most evil. Okay,

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Speaker 1: They want to hurt us, they want to hurt each other,

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Speaker 1: because they have a hard time working together, mainly because

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Speaker 1: the octopus has the largest ego of any underwater creature.

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Speaker 1: For that reason, it doesn't work well in teams. Now.

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Speaker 1: A smarter but less evil animal, but one that I

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Speaker 1: still think we should be worried about is the oracle whale,

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Speaker 1: as you said earlier, because oracle whales, according to our research,

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Speaker 1: The only thing that has stopped oracle whales from being

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Speaker 1: just an issue of dexterity. Now, that's not to say

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Speaker 1: can definitely kill us. But here's the thing. They can't

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Speaker 1: You should never ever, ever, ever go into the water.

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Speaker 1: You should never go into an ocean because that's where

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Speaker 1: for now. Okay, well, that's very upsetting because I have

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Speaker 1: a bachelorette party I'm going to next week in the ocean.

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Speaker 1: It's on a boat, so I shouldn't go. I would

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Speaker 1: say that you should not go, but if you are

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Speaker 1: to go, you definitely want to be very, very heavily armed.

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Speaker 1: Are you sure? Because this is Fergie's bachelorette party and

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Speaker 1: I feel like I should go. Fergie's bachelorette party's coming up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Stacy Ferguson, my friend Fergie. Boys, that's a pickle. So

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Speaker 1: a moment. How close are you to Stacy Ferguson. I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty close. I was the third person she called after

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Speaker 1: she botched the national anthem. Okay, then yeah you have

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Speaker 1: to go. That's so I should go. But should I

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Speaker 1: go with a gun? Yeah, you should go, and you

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Speaker 1: should bring a gun or a sword. The other thing

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Speaker 1: you could do is just where something that tastes really,

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Speaker 1: really bad. Okay, that would be another good option. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening to this, Freggie, I'll be there. But

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Speaker 1: if I'm weird on the boat, know that it's because

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Speaker 1: of Let's it's because of him. Here's the thing orcus

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Speaker 1: present tremendous danger to us. But friendships, that's the family

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Speaker 1: that above all else. Okay, Well, to go back to

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Speaker 1: the octopus is being evil thing, because the way that

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Speaker 1: you're describing it sounds kind of like my stepmom Sharon.

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Speaker 1: Oh interesting, you know, evil and sure conniving. So what's

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Speaker 1: the most evil thing that you think an octopus could do?

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Speaker 1: Because whatever it is probably what my stepmom Sharon's gonna do. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: that's a really really good question. What's the most evil

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to hear this. So kind. I would

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Speaker 1: a new Hey, dad, you hear that. I have a

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Speaker 1: new dad now. Wow. I don't need you. Wow, I

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Speaker 1: don't need you. I don't I don't care about you.

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Speaker 1: I don't need your validation. I don't even care if

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Speaker 1: you show up to my cello recital next week. I

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Speaker 1: don't care about any of that. You have a cello

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Speaker 1: recital next week? I do. Will you come? I love

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Speaker 1: the cello, beautiful instrument, absolutely tremendous instrument. Thanks. I'm not

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Speaker 1: very good, but I'll make you proud. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I can be proud of you. I cannot be proud

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Speaker 1: of you. Your dad can be proud of you. He

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Speaker 1: cannot be proud of you. The most important thing, sorry,

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Speaker 1: proud of yourself. That's shared. Are you listening to this?

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Speaker 1: You need to talk like this to me a little

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Speaker 1: bit more often. That's wild. That's wild. Well, professor, I

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Speaker 1: have one last question about the ocean before we move

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Speaker 1: on to our next segment. Great, okay, So in the

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Speaker 1: ocean you said there's a lot of evil creatures. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of smart creatures. Yes. Who

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Speaker 1: do you think is the dumbest but nicest creature? Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's easy. Whales? Whales, and by that I do don't

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Speaker 1: mean dolphins. Killer whales are actually part of the dolphin families,

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Speaker 1: so they're a little bit different. But whales. Whales are

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Speaker 1: incredibly kind and not that sharp. Whales can't do math,

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Speaker 1: they can barely read. I'd say the only thing that

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Speaker 1: saves them is they have a decent sense of direction.

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Speaker 1: They have okay emotional intelligence, but in terms of hard skills, computation, etc.

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Speaker 1: Not very good. Also, whales, they don't really understand sarcasm

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Speaker 1: or irony at all. Whales have a really, really hard

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Speaker 1: time understanding any sort of complex humor. But whales really

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Speaker 1: never hurt anybody. They make amazing pets, they're wonderful travel companions,

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Speaker 1: and they're extremely trustworthy and loyal. You know, Look, every

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Speaker 1: creature has its pros and cons. Whales overall, they're all

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Speaker 1: right with me. It sounds like you really like whales, Professor.

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Speaker 1: I find whales useful. I find whaless interesting. Look again,

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Speaker 1: I try not to get into good and bad. I

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Speaker 1: know earlier I kind of slipped up. I let some

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Speaker 1: passions overtake me, and I mentioned how hammerhead sharks are bad.

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Speaker 1: Whales on the spectrum probably good. I guess you could

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Speaker 1: say that I like them. But again, what am I

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Speaker 1: going to Essentially, here's how i'd put it. What am

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Speaker 1: I going to talk about with a whale? What am

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Speaker 1: I going to do with a whale? There's not much.

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Speaker 1: I respect them, I give them their distance, they respect me,

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Speaker 1: They give me my distance. If we see each other,

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Speaker 1: we might say hello, that sort of thing, but overall,

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Speaker 1: there's not I don't have that much in common with

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Speaker 1: a whale. If that makes sense, Well, then what's your

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Speaker 1: favorite creature? Oh, my favorite sea creature? Gosh, it's crazy

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Speaker 1: nothing you bring it up. I guess I don't really

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Speaker 1: have one. And that makes me realize I've been spending

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Speaker 1: all this time in the ocean making observations, but I

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Speaker 1: haven't really been making friends. And you'd think after all

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Speaker 1: these years in the ocean, I would have a couple

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Speaker 1: of friends that I could call on. And I think

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Speaker 1: it wasn't until this moment that I realized, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the ocean, I have a lot of work colleagues.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of ocean dwellers that respect me

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Speaker 1: and whom I respect, but nobody that I could really

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Speaker 1: call on in hard times. And I think that's something

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Speaker 1: that I needed to wait to think about. I'll be

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Speaker 1: your faith, I'll be your favorite creature. What about me?

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Speaker 1: You're a person, but I can be your favorite I

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Speaker 1: just want to be someone's favorite thing. I can't be

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Speaker 1: your favorite ocean creature, but you're not. Just so it

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Speaker 1: just sounds like when you're talking about whales that you

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Speaker 1: like whales more than me and I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 1: just I just Hey, have you ever heard of a

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Speaker 1: zero sum game? No? What's that? So it's this idea

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Speaker 1: that for one person to win the other has to

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Speaker 1: lose and Buddy, just because I like whales doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: I like you any less. I can like both things.

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Speaker 1: This sounds like when someone's trying to explain to me Wortle.

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't get it. Hey, can

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Speaker 1: I whale play the cello? No, that's right, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: have hands. You can play the cello, and I can

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Speaker 1: shoot a gun and you can shoot a gun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And you can host a podcast and I can hear

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Do you hear that? Sharon? You have a

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Speaker 1: lot of things going for you, okay, And I don't

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Speaker 1: want you to overlook those. Thanks. And that concludes this

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Speaker 1: segment that before we say goodbye, we're gonna do our

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Speaker 1: last segment called I should have known, where our guest

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Speaker 1: has to answer questions about me to prove that I

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Speaker 1: may be an expert and professor Grundle's field, but he's

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Speaker 1: probably not an expert in mind are you ready? Yes? Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go. Okay. Question number one, what do I like

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Speaker 1: more cats or dogs? Dogs? Wrong? Picking is homophobic? The

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Speaker 1: Bible taught me that. Question number two, who is my

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Speaker 1: dream emergency contact? Free? No, I am Freggie's emergency contact,

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Speaker 1: but she's not my emergency contact. My dream emergency contact

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Speaker 1: would be Mariah Carey. I think she seems reliable, do

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Totally? Yes, she'll be there.

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Speaker 1: She's a song about that. Yeah. She just seems like

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Speaker 1: she'll drop everything to be there for me. But I

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Speaker 1: hope I'm not hers. She seems like a giver exactly. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Number three, what's my favorite restaurant? I know you definitely

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Speaker 1: don't know this one. For whatever reason, Chili's popped into

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Speaker 1: my head, but I don't know if that's accurate. No. Wrong.

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Speaker 1: The answer is the Cafeteria and the Tampa Bay Aquarium.

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Speaker 1: And I know you don't know that because you've never

519
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Speaker 1: been correct, But they have delicious French fries. And that

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00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: now explains to me how you lost your retainer. My

521
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: guess is you took it out to eat the French fries,

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Speaker 1: set it down, and either somebody took it or you

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Speaker 1: forgot to put it back in it. This is the

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Speaker 1: Vice Dean, Vice Dean of Stanford right here, exactly right, professor. Okay,

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Speaker 1: number four, what's the worst movie I've ever seen? Musucci? Wrong?

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Speaker 1: The answer is my stupid step mom Sharon's home birth

527
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Speaker 1: flog that my dad made me watch. Wow, it's awful.

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Speaker 1: It was gross, and it was just so stupid because

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Speaker 1: he just seems so happy to meet this baby. And

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Speaker 1: I've seen his video of meeting me at my mom's

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Speaker 1: birth and he did not seem that happy to see me.

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Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous. That's really tough. Who my producer, Olivia's selling?

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Speaker 1: I have to move on? Okay, and last question, who's

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Speaker 1: my favorite poet? Ed Garland Poe? Wrong? It's me. I'm

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Speaker 1: my favorite poet. Would you like to do one of

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Speaker 1: your poems for me? Really? Dad? I would love to

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Speaker 1: hear one of your poems. Okay, um uh too. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening to this week's episode of Are You There? Dad?

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Speaker 1: It's me Yoko. Until next time. Bye,