WEBVTT - Creature Classic®: Halloweenisode 2022! 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.479 Welcome to Creature Feature, a production of Elipark Radio. I'm 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:15.800 your ghost of mini Parasites, Katie, It's actually Kitty Katie Golden. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:22.040 I studied psychology and evoboutionary biologee and today on the show, 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:28.520 it's a halloweenisode. Hags, slime Frogs, and the Boogie Woogies 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.240 who can Kill You with a touch? Discover this more 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.040 as we answer the age old question can we use 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.720 ectoplasm as a substitute for egg whites and baking? Joining 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.520 me today is my friend, co host of a plethora 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:47.240 of podcasts on the game Fully Unemployed Network, including Hypecast 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.440 and we just watched with Tom and Dave, also a 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.240 writer with me on Summer News, Dave, Welcome, Hi. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:03.280 What's my spooky name day? Belle has an obvious roll. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.600 Yeah, Hell Hell, Dave Hell Bell. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.040 Yeah, it's not it's it's. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.960 David, David, Dave, damn it. I would just say David Hell, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:21.440 but then I said David Bell, Yeah, David Bell parentheses hell. Yeah. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:26.240 Yeah, Yeah, it's not great. It's not great. Well, thanks 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:27.399 for having me on. Yeah. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.759 No, this is a very spooky episode. It is Halloween. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.240 At least it should be Halloween, hopefully when you're listening 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.280 to this, so, you know, happy Halloween everyone. Hope you're 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:44.160 eating a lot of candy, dressing up as ghouls, you know, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:51.160 having a good time, wear bright reflective clothing, watch out 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.880 for kittie kats, you know all those things. Yeah, you're 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:01.120 the pros. Yeah, be nice to ghosts, to like a 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:02.920 lot of them. I think are probably gonna be extra 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.720 sensitive because everyone's like, ooh, a ghost and they're like, yeah, okay, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:07.640 that's kind of mean. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.400 If you hear if you hear like the sounds of 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:17.200 like groaning coming from like a graveyard, honestly, go check 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.200 it out because that person probably needs help, right, Yeah, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.160 don't just go a ghost and run like that person 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.280 probably needs your help. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:30.040 Yeah. Ghosts typically don't make noise there, right, you know, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.280 And but human beings who are like felt like tried 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.640 to tour a graveyard and then fell into a hole 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.440 and broke their ankle, they do make sound. So check 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:46.680 that out. Yeah, just you know, enjoy enjoy Halloween. You know, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:53.160 check your candy for like hidden vegetables and throw those out. Yeah. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.400 I saw a post where someone was wrapping Brussels sprouts 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:02.840 in tinfoil to look like fair fer Ao rochet candy, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.760 and that's like the worst. That's so mean. I love 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.480 that candy. If I got that, I would break out 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.800 into tears and ever trust another human again. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.760 I would break out the toilet paper. That's where the 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.800 trick comes into trick or treat, right. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.680 And then you poop on their lawn and wipe yourself 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:23.720 with the toilet paper. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:26.280 That's the trick. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.440 Well, I hope that you are excited for this episode 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:35.080 because I have some creepy creatures to share with you. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:41.840 I also found the worst Halloween soundboard in existence, which 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:47.440 I'm really excited about, so you know, I hope you 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.600 are too. Just here is a little sample of that. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.560 With this this spooky Halloween sound. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.280 Oh my goodness. Yeah, they're having so much fun. What 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:06.640 was the joke they told me. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.880 I don't know. Here's here's a witch sound. 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:13.960 God also laughter. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.200 Yeah, this one is just called blood. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:24.640 That's the sounds of blootle right. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.800 Yeah, Well you know, uh, it's a free Halloween soundboard 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:33.480 that I lovingly picked out for this episode. So uh, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.600 let's get right into it and talk about some of 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:42.160 the ghoulish creatures that are very halloweeny, very spooky, very slimy. First, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:50.880 we're going to talk about the goliath frog. That's that's 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:55.120 not really I feel like that's not that. I don't 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.440 really Yeah, it's a haunted radiator. Wait, let me try 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:10.720 that again. Let's talk about the goliath frog. Jesus. They 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.400 are like, yeah, it's a water phone where they always 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.800 play that as like the spooky sound, but it sounds 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.200 like they're really rocking out on it, like getting a 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.640 little excited there. So, yes, the goliath frog. Do you 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.800 remember there was a fake video going around a while 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.919 of like this guy who had this giant frog, like 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.120 the size of a small chihuahua. He feeds it a 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.200 banana and everyone was freaking out about how huge this 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.440 frog was. Did you ever see that? 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:40.279 Yeah? I think so. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.480 Well, it was fake. It was a video, actually I know. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.400 It was a video of an Australian green tree frog. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.240 And they're beautiful frogs, but they only grow to be 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.760 around four inches or tin centimeters long. There's no such 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.279 thing as a frog the size of a chihuahua. That 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.600 would be ridiculous. I'm kidding. They're totally and it is 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:07.880 the goliath frog. So this is the world's biggest frog. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.120 And is it Australian. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.240 No, No, it is actually found in a relatively small 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:19.120 area of West central Africa and Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.840 And they are just big. They're they're big boys, and 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:29.240 they're loving they're loving life. Uh. And they like to 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:35.040 live in sandy rivers, in forested, humid, warm areas. They 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.880 are absolutely gigantic. They can grow to be over a 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.039 foot long from nose to butt. So it's not even 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.600 cheating where you know, like they display something else like well, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.800 when you stretch out its legs, it's like a foot long. No, 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.240 from its nose to its booty butt, it is a 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.760 over a foot long, not even including its legs. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.080 Yes, I'm looking at things like that. Are like my 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.479 keyboard and stuff. They're approximately a foot log. That's a 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.400 big that's a big frog. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.839 It's a big frog. Big frog. They can weigh over 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.240 seven pounds or three kilograms, which is larger than a 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.840 lot of chihuahuas. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.240 Yeah, this thing, it could eat a chihuahua if it 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.280 was so inclined. I envy this frog because I think 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.080 frogs are the chilliest. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.480 Of you want to eat? Oh sorry, yeah, exactly. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.240 No, they're so they're so relaxed. They just they're these 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.680 they're like they're like rocks but alive, and I love 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.640 them for it, and they're like the there's not much 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.680 else like them in my head, but yeah, there's like 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.120 lizards and alligators, but they're all like stretched out. Frogs 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.880 are the only ones that are like, I'm gonna bunch 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.840 up and be like ball of meat blob form. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:47.840 Yeah no, I like that. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.760 Yeah, they're like the rabbits of the reptile world. I 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:51.880 don't know, I don't know how that. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.600 Yeah, no, they totally are. I really love that description. Well, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.840 rabbits of me amphibian world to be Yeah, bad, that's it. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.760 You should feel bad, but yeah I do. It's true, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.680 but yeah, it's interesting. A fun little fact about them, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.920 other than their size, is that they are mostly silent, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.320 Like you would think that this huge frog would have 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.200 a big frog voice, but they're actually mostly mute. They 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:22.120 don't even have a vocal sack and don't produce mating calls. Uh. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.920 They can whistle, though, and it's like this squeaky, wheezing 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.160 whistle that they use to get the female's attention, which 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.760 is really funny because it's world's chunkiest frog, this big 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:37.920 goliath frog looking you know, absolutely like a whole mountain. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:39.120 And then it goes like. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:48.160 I was really hoping it was like a cartoon like, well, whistle, so. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:49.960 The ladies, you know, it's like it's like. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.920 Yeah, also, yeah, imagine being in a swamp and you're 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.560 hearing something whistle and you're like, who is that frog 0:08:58.679 --> 0:08:59.520 staring at you? 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.000 I would love to get hit on by a swamp monster, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.679 you know what I mean? Yeah, like, thank you. They 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.240 don't care if I didn't shower today. They think that's great. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.480 Oh yeah, they encourage it. They're like getting this swamp. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.960 Yeah, getting the getting these duck weeds with me. You know. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.160 So when they that is the life, living the swamp life. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.240 When they when they do mate, these goliath frogs, they 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:28.560 actually construct private pools for their offspring, building a nest 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.000 in or near a river, and they'll either dig a 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.520 pool near the river and allow water to seep in 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.160 it from the nearby water sore, sometimes like building a 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.200 channel from the river to the pool, or they'll wall 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.480 off a pre existing slow moving pool in the river 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.840 by moving rocks and creating this dam. Uh So, yeah, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.960 these guys are so huge. They can lift rocks and 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.839 do construction work like slimy beavers. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.400 That's so cool. Also, good on them. Nobody likes public 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.280 displays of infection, so like creating a private little lagoon 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.160 for themselves. Yeah, that's so romantic. Like I remember teenagers, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.040 or as a kid in teenagers, we used to do 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.680 that in creeks, like you you damn it up to 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.480 make a little swim in swimming hole. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.800 Here, your own personal swimming hole. Yeah. I grew up 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.679 in San Diego, so you'd go to the beach and 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.040 you'd just dig a hole and sit in that hole. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.640 So I feel like there must be somewhere deep in 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.160 our primordial brains some kind of shared evolutionary history with 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.880 these frogs where it's like you sometimes you just like 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.160 to be in a wet hole. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:33.960 Yeah, of course. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:41.360 So it's thought that the males construct the nest while 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:45.679 the females guard the nest against predators. But it's actually 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.640 not really known because the male and female frogs are 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.800 very hard to tell apart they're basically the same size, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.439 so we don't really like someone's like, yeah, I think 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.040 that's a male, but they're not sure. But regardless. One 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.680 of them builds the private pool, one of them guards it, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.800 and they lay their tadpools there. And in fact, the 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.280 pool construction industry that these frogs engage in is a 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.520 theory for why they evolved to be so beefy, because 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.880 the idea is that the frogs that were better able 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.520 to construct sturdy, safe pools for their offspring had more 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.480 of their tadpooles survive because you know, they're separated from 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.000 the predators in the river, and if you're bigger, you 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.600 can heft rocks around and dig better pools. So then 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:36.840 they just turn into these little froggy beefcakesh No adorable. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.040 I know what everybody's wondering, What do they eat chihuahuas well, 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:47.480 not quite. They eat worms, spiders, insects, crabs, mollusks, fish, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.160 other frogs, baby turtles, snakes, small mammals and sometimes bats. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.600 Basically anything that's uh smaller than them, like that's what 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.240 that's the anything that's in front of them is what 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.720 it sounds like. They don't eat chiualas, but if a 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.400 chihuaha walked by them, they think about it. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:09.400 They would I feel like they would eat a puppy chihuahua. Absolutely, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:14.679 I'm confident they would. Typically I don't think chihuaha puppies 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.200 roam around that area, but if they did, they'd be 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:19.360 in a hape of trouble. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.160 Yeah, if you're in this area, you're a puppy Chiuala, 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:23.480 you get out. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.720 Of there, head on a swivel. So they are hunted 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.640 as a food source, these goliath frogs, though by humans actually, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.079 but because they are endangered, local communities have worked to 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.160 make sure they hunt them in only sustainable amounts. So 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.680 fingers crossed that that works. Yeah, And cute fact about 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.800 the goliath frog, they are shy. They were introduced to 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.000 the pet trade, which isn't ever that great for these 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.760 like wild animal communities. But apparently they're too shy to 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.720 be good pets. Yeah, like they do not, like they 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.079 really don't want to interact with you. They don't want 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.400 you to look at them, and they like are way 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.960 too shy. So in addition to it never being really 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.160 good to have like an exotic pet in terms of 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.480 their like what that does to their populations. Uh, yeah, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.199 they're they're just they're too shy. So like they're they 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.240 don't they don't want to hang out they just want Yeah, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.199 they just want to build a wet hole and stay 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:23.440 in it. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.160 We just respect them from afire. What what business do 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.680 we have in the frog world anyway? Like like the 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.840 idea of eating frog legs, I'm like why though, why, Like, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.360 look at these things do you want? Do you want 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.000 your life to intersect with them at all? No? 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.480 And I just don't our entire French audience just to that. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.000 Ye. Sorry, I'm sorry, but like you know, we we 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.280 they have no business in our world, We have no 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.280 business in their world. We can respect each other from 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.200 the distance. Us and frogs. Our young might occasionally pick 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.199 them up, yeah, but then they pee in their your 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:02.920 hand and they they hop away. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.680 Yeah. I used to pick up frogs all the time. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.040 I love them. I would try to keep them as pets. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:08.880 That never worked. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.839 Oh they're neat, they are neat. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.320 They're very neat. You find a frog and it's neat 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.280 and they're wet, and they kind of just hop around 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.520 and they make a little sound when they land on you, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.320 and it's great. I love them so much. But yeah, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.760 there's like, because these frogs are so shy, there's like 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.840 a ton that we don't know about this frog's behavior, 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.320 which is kind of shocking because they are the world's 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:36.640 largest frog, the most obvious frog, right right. They are 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.000 these little teeny tiny frogs that we, like you'll read 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.920 about like, oh, we just discovered this new frog. And 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.240 it's usually these little teeny tiny guys, and they're often 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.600 they're called like micro highlight frogs, these little itty bitty 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.600 guys like sometimes the size of like a pinky fingernail. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.880 It's like, okay, well obviously we didn't. We don't really 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.880 know much about them. They're so small we literally can't 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.920 see them. But this frog is huge and we barely 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.760 know anything about them because you're so shy. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.760 And it's crossed the like a cat threshold, which is 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.400 to me, when an animal is a certain size where 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.120 it's like, oh, I want to take that animal and 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.800 put it in a crate, and it's like, technically I could, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.320 but it's not going to make it easy. Yeah, it's 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.680 going to hurt you. Like these frogs are big enough 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.440 where it's like you want you want to pick one up, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.680 Like we have a picture in here of a guy 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.880 who I believe is a Jim Henson puppeteer picking up 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.960 this like he just looks like he lives in the 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.800 seventies picking up the frog. The frog is not into it, 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.480 yeah doesn't he He just looks like you imagine you 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.680 like replaced the frog with Ernie in that picture. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.680 And I mean it's you had Kermit was right there 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.520 and you didn't. I actually can't respect you for that 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.800 a little bit. Yeah, no, it does. It is funny. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.160 It does look like Jim Henson, but sort of like 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.080 as if Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson just was 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.520 run through a realism filter or something. It's like, here 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.680 I am with with Kermit the Frog, and yeah, it 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.000 looks completely checked out. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.600 It's not into it. Both pictures is being held and 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.520 all it's thinking about is when it gets to not 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:12.920 be help. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.040 Yeah. I mean part of it too, is because they 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.560 probably have a sense that they should not be around 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.280 a larger animal because, like they are, they are hunted 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.480 for food, both by humans and other larger animals. So 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.800 he's thinking, like Jim Henson over here is gonna eat me, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.800 So you know, look at like because look at his legs, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.920 they're so beefy. He does not skip leg day and 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.400 he knows that gormands are gonna see those and imagine 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:39.040 a nice meal. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.760 Yeah, he's got he's he's got like a ninja turtle legs. Yeah, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.120 it's pretty incredible. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.520 Yeah, yeah he does. He is a little bit in 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.320 the pose of like, you know, the hello, my baby, 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.200 Hello my darlin. Yeah, that that whole thing a little 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.720 bit pos and do that a little bit. But yeah, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.640 so that is the world's largest frog. It turns out 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.760 that the real monster was us for trying to hold 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.440 this frog and make it uncomfortable. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.679 That makes so much sense. I'm willing to bet the 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.280 real monster will be yes for a lot of the animals. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:20.480 Yeah. Stuff, it's like freaking seventy nine degrees in like October. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.800 So huh, I wonder what that. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.399 I wonder who the real monster is. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.399 Yeah, well, on that note, we're going to take a 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.800 quick break and then we're going to come back and 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:36.880 talk about some hags. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:45.360 Oh she's so happy. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:53.359 So we're back and we're going to talk about the hagfish. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:54.480 Oh my god. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:05.200 Yeah, it goes on in a while here. I'm gonna yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Usually, 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:06.959 I mean I guess that is the thing with like 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.600 when there's like a dramatic thunderclap, usually then there's just 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.359 like more of it, and then you're trying to do 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.000 more of the story, but then it keeps thundering. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.639 So I love the idea of a soundboard with like 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.320 like rain Storm and it's like thirty five minutes. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.159 I think that is probably what this actually is. I 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.080 have to emphasize again, this is maybe the worst Halloween 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.560 soundboard I've ever found, which is why I'm using it. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.680 So hagfish are actually one of my favorite weird creatures. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.240 They are a primitive fish that are over three hundred 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:47.639 million years old, and they look like this weird cross 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.520 between like an eel and an alien, and they're kind 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.240 of this like they're basically this gray or pink kind 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.040 of worm like thing. They can grow to be around 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.520 twenty inches or fifty centimeters in length, and they are 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.920 literally spineless. And that's not an insult. 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.080 No, it's not. Have you seen the movie Dream Dream Catcher? 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:13.840 No, I haven't. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.480 Based off of Stephen king book that he wrote while 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.200 he was on painkillers, I believe because he'd been hit 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:21.119 by a car. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.720 Or that's not as funny. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.320 But it's yeah, yeah, I mean he's fine, but it's 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.480 not his finest it's not his finest story and it's 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:32.720 about aliens that let's say, come out of your butt 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.440 and they're taking over and they're trying to go to 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.720 the Quabin Reservoir to take over Boston in the movie. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.760 It's one of notoriously the worst movies based off Stephen King. 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.600 And I'm saying all this, you should watch it because 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.119 it's a big swing. And let me tell you, it 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.680 doesn't exactly hit it out of the park, but it's 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.920 a big swing. And the aliens in their larval state 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:01.560 look exactly like this. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.840 I wonderful. Do you think they have used them. 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.560 Or like used almost certain they must have. Yeah, well 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.520 they use them as inspiration for sure. 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.680 Well, yeah, so they really do. They have a very 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.200 alien look because they are they're essentially like they look 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.320 like a worm, but kind of not a worm because 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.280 they don't have segments and they're huge, like uh, you 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.600 know they are. They kind of look like an eel. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.600 But then they don't have a face. They just kind 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.920 of have a mouth hole. You can not really see 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.200 their eyes. They do have eye spots, but again, like 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.320 you can't really see them. They're just very eerie and 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:39.240 primitive looking. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:41.879 Yeah, they look like a big worm, like when you 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.399 worm comes out of the mud and it's like a 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.760 big pink worm, and you're like, what are you? Where's 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.800 your face? What's your whole deal? It's the same thing 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.600 where you look at this creature and you're like, how 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.640 how are you? How are you doing? What's going on here? 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.680 You can't really make eye contact with it, and that's 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.080 always tricky when I'm trying to relate to an animal. 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.280 But what's uh, Yeah, they have no vertebral column and 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.560 they also have no jaw. And what's even weirder about 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.439 this is there is the uh I mean, the current 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.760 leading theory about the hagfish is that they actually once 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.479 did have a spine but lost it because there are 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:21.200 some of these like semi formed vertebrae like structures that 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.159 just kind of don't seem to do anything, and so 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.959 they think that they actually had a spine and then 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.679 they're like, you know what, I don't need it that. 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.680 Yeah, I love that they were like evolving and they're like, wait, 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.040 I just want to be a worm. I just want 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:38.240 to be a weird worm. 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.239 I have a freaking yeah, just like this is this 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:49.680 is junk, This is this is useless junk. This spine yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So, yeah, 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:54.200 they have no fins. They have like a ridge along 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:58.359 the spine and tail, but yeah, really not much in 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:02.719 the way of fins, and they move around by undulating 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:07.439 his whole body. So yeah, very very weird, creepy movements. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:12.840 And additionally, they are absolutely covered in slime. The slime 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:14.560 is a whole thing. We're actually going to get back 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.640 to that later, but I just you need to have 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.680 that too to like imagine these creatures. They're very slimy, 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.159 and in addition to that, their skin is very loose 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:29.120 fitting and weird, like that roach alien from the original 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.959 Men in Black, which is uh what that that actor's 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:39.879 name Donoff. Yes, Yes, amazing performance. One of the like 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.040 one of my favorite like sort of like corny character 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:46.280 actor performances because he really doesn't make it. He really 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:50.679 sells the I'm an alien inside human skin suit things. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:54.840 So well, yeah, Danafero understands the assignment. He he I mean, 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:57.160 he was in full metal jacket like he's a he's 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.359 an amazing actor. And then he'll also have now and 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.080 then do these roles where he's like I'm gonna have 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:05.800 a blast, and that's one of them. He nails it. 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:10.840 Yeah, but yeah, they look like it's like some aliens 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:14.119 stole like an eel skin and is now kind of 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.840 like writhing inside of it. Because the skin is very 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:21.240 loose fitting, and in fact, it is really only firmly 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:25.359 attached to the muscles along the back. So this ridge 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.760 along the back is the only place where the skin 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.919 is actually attached to the muscles. There are also a 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:34.000 few points I think there are some slime glands where 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.760 it's also attached to the slime glands, but mostly it 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:40.760 is unattached other than to the spinal ridge or not 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.399 spinal ridge. They don't have a spine, sorry, just backridge. 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:48.200