1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Find other great podcasts like this one at podmoth.network. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Hey everybody, welcome to... what did we decide to call it? Hello Weird? Hello Wednesdays? 3 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Whatever this is entitled on Spotify, it's that one. 4 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:48,000 I'm your host Dave and I am joined by the always lovely Luke Ferry. How's it going handsome? 5 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Oh very good. Yeah you're looking good. Especially with that opening. Oh dude that is like my... 6 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,000 You want to see me bop around like a dumbass place, spooky upbeat music. That's a fun one right? 7 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Oh man. It's like now I want to watch Halloween Town. Oh so good. 8 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:10,000 But yeah so this is our little cryptic cocktail party bonus episodes that we're going to be doing every week. 9 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Just for the month of October just to get a little spooky with it. Just a little something extra for you guys. 10 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Because I know you guys love the weird and the unusual and the... I don't know. 11 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:28,000 What does that girl say in fucking Beetlejuice? Strange and unusual? That's what it is. 12 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:35,000 I too am strange and then every fucking goth hot topic girl forever use that and got shitty tattoos at 18. 13 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Yeah but we all got shitty tattoos at 18. 14 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:45,000 You do. The silence was deafening. God damn. 15 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Oh shit. Alright well today the script is going to be flipped literally. 16 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Luke is going to be the one taking the reins on this one. 17 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Why am I taking the reins on this one Dave? 18 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Because I realized that the subject matter that I chose for mine I couldn't condense into a cohesive story. 19 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Because I chose something that is actual history and there's more to it than I thought there was. 20 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 That is to say I chose poorly. Let's just put it that way. 21 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,000 The life of a tortured human being really can't just be like rushed in in like seven minutes. 22 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 I mean... fair. 23 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Alright Luke well I know this is your first time. You're pretty green at this. 24 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 The reading of the script but I think you're going to do just fine. I'm excited to hear your story. 25 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Oh these tender feet are ready to run dude. 26 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Why don't we set the mood? You got a lighter on you? 27 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 No. 28 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Here I got one. 29 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 There we go. 30 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 There it goes. 31 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 A little campfire sound for you bud. 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 That's a campfire. You don't have to say sound. It's a campfire. 33 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Oh yeah. 34 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 We're actually around a fire. 35 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 In the dark woods with eyes behind us in the trees. 36 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Oh you're really setting the mood. I'm spooked now. 37 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 I am. I'm shirtless. 38 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I don't know why I took it off. It's kind of chilly but you're looking. 39 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Yeah but this is a... 40 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 So alright Luke. So what do you got for us today? 41 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Alright so we've talked about Bigfoots before. 42 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 He's the guy on the logo drinking the brewski. 43 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,000 True. We never discussed Bigfoots besides the fact that I don't buy into them. 44 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Oh see I actually kind of do. 45 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 For another episode. 46 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 So we know what he drinks which is beer because it's on the logo. 47 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 But what does he eat? 48 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Oh shit. 49 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000 You know what this is actually... alright so this is one of the main things why I don't believe in Bigfoot because there's no... 50 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 There's no environment where he could sustain a... 51 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,000 I'm thinking too much of it. I'm just gonna have fun with this. I'm gonna say fish and berries like a bear. 52 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 You are very close. 53 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Am I? 54 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Yes. 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Is he vegetarian? 56 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 No. 57 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Just fish? 58 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Octopus. 59 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Bear. Does he eat bears? 60 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Alright well... 61 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Your face made it seem like I just did something. 62 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 It's actually a dish called by some... 63 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Sanakji. 64 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Sanakji? 65 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 But most of us know it as... 66 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Octopus. 67 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 No way! 68 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 And not just any boring ass sea octopus. 69 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 The Pacific Northwest tree octopus. 70 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 What the fuck is the tree octopus? 71 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:47,000 So due to the moistness of the temperate rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula... 72 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 I feel like you're gonna die. 73 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:59,000 The octopus Paxerbolis spends its early adult life in the ocean where it grows to be on average about a foot from its arm tip to its mantle tip. 74 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:07,000 When the time comes to venture forward this amphibious friend will migrate out of the Pacific Ocean and start its new life in the temperate forest. 75 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Okay. Alright. I'm vibing with this. So it's kind of like a coconut crab kind of thing. 76 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 I can see that. 77 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 But an octopus. 78 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 But an octopus. 79 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 But an octopus. First of all that's fucking... 80 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Alright. We've talked about a lot of spooky shit on the show. A tree octopus is hands down the most terrifying thing I've ever heard in my entire life. 81 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Or they're best friends. Who knows? 82 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 No, no, no, no, no. Because first of all they're too smart. I'm gonna assume already. 83 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 They're very smart. 84 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 They are strong as all fuck, dude. Like imagine like... 85 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 You know how like Australians joke about like drop bears but they're just talking about koalas basically? 86 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Now imagine that. But a fucking octopus just drops on your head and just fucking chokes you out like a motherfucking... 87 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 No. 88 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Full nightmare feel. 89 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 All sad, dude. But anyways, I'm sorry. Continue. 90 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Well thanks to the moistness and a skin adaptation... 91 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:09,000 The ocephalopods will not dry out and can live, laugh, and even love, Dave, in the lush, coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. 92 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 So they're like in like the Redwood forests? 93 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Uh, no. That is more southern. That's around San Francisco. 94 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Yeah, that's like California. Okay. So they're like... 95 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 We're talking around the Puget Sound. 96 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 We're talking about Twilight area. 97 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Yeah, like right near Canada. 98 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Gotcha. Alright. 99 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Like about a hundred miles from like Seattle. 100 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Yeah, it's America's answer to England. Got it. 101 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Yeah. 102 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Sorry. 103 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000 But my man, you ready for the sad part? 104 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 No. Why is there a sad part? 105 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 I know. Me neither. They're endangered. 106 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Well, I would assume so. 107 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 And it's our fault. 108 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Road construction is cutting off the water access they need for the spawning season. 109 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Suburban encroachment and logging are destroying their habitat. 110 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:02,000 And predators such as eagles, Sasquatch, and humankind too are lessening their numbers at a drastically. 111 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 And I don't give a shit, Dave. I don't give a fucking shit if you're in your home. 112 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Pour one out for dead homies, David, because we already lost the Douglas octopus and the Red-Ringed Madrona sucker. 113 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Are those real octopus? 114 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:22,000 No. 115 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 The last two sounded real. 116 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Did you make those up or were those, was that actually in your research? 117 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 This is in my research. 118 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Oh, was it? That's so good. 119 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 I would have believed that in a fucking heartbeat, dude. 120 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Alright. Can I just say that the list of... 121 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Yeah, so where are you at? Where are you at? 122 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:51,000 First of all, I love that the list of it's like the apex predators that are killing this thing goes eagle, bigfoot, and then humans. 123 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Like, because two out of the three are way more abundant, I'm going to assume, than one of those. 124 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 And that is the eagle. 125 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Eagles are quite right. 126 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Oh shit, no. Oh God. Alright, so here's what I'm gathering so far. So what's it called again? 127 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 The tree, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus. 128 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Alright, so there are many different species. 129 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,000 So it lives in the water until about a foot long. 130 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Yeah, about its first year or two. 131 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Okay, so then it migrates onto land, and then it lives in the canopy of the Pacific Northwest forests. 132 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 So more so it hunts in the canopy. 133 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 So it doesn't live in the trees, it just hunts in the trees? 134 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 It nests in small puddles. 135 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Oh, okay. 136 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:54,000 And then so logging and deforestation is causing the routes that it would have to take back to the ocean to spawn like a salmon. 137 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:01,000 But it can't do that, and it gets all discombobulated and can't figure its way back home because now the landscape has changed. 138 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 And it's causing it to die off. 139 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Well, yeah, if it encounters a highway. 140 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 In the water, they're pretty quick. 141 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 As most octopus are. 142 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Yeah, on a highway, it's flat now. 143 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Oh, sad. 144 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000 I know. 145 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 I don't like that. 146 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 You know, it's sad that, you know, Bigfoot eat them, but that's just nature. 147 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Okay, he's not doing anything inherently wrong. 148 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 And as we know, nature is metal, nature is brutal. 149 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 I do follow an Instagram account called Nature is Metal. 150 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Nature is Metal, which is fantastic. 151 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 It makes me so sad, but I love it. 152 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:43,000 But we, the peoples, we are in the wrong. 153 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Not only are we not. 154 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,000 We're not eating them like Sasquatches and fucking eagles. 155 00:09:49,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Not only are we not addressing the conservation efforts that need to be put in place, but starting in the 1920s, humans started gathering up these octopi for fashion and decorative purposes. 156 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Really? 157 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 And there is a. Is it like a big black market for this? 158 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Or is it a black market? 159 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 No. 160 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 This is just forgotten history. 161 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:21,000 You're so serious about this. 162 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 And then the fucking loggers, dude. 163 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Okay. 164 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 I get it. 165 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Like you have, you got to get your bag. 166 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 But loggers hated them. 167 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:39,000 You see the Pacific Northwest tree octopus favors the lucrative old growth forest and any efforts for conservation is met with hostility from the logging industry. 168 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:50,000 It said that loggers of the time would kill them on site, mostly fueled by anti-octopi propaganda. 169 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Do you have any? 170 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 I need to, I need to know what this propaganda is. 171 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,000 I'm sure you don't have any, do you? 172 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Oh buddy. 173 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Do you have any? 174 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Okay. I'm just going to read directly from the source. 175 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Is this the propaganda? 176 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Yes. 177 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Hell yeah. 178 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000 All right. Hit me. 179 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:18,000 These fears were fueled in no small part by gratuitous stories involving octopuses harassing lumberjacks and distressing damsels in the Northwest theme pulp magazines of suckering flesh and the heroes of men's action movies in the 1950s. 180 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:27,000 These magazine publishers depended on cheap paper made from wood pulp and were glad to contribute to the anti-octopus propaganda campaign of the timber industry. 181 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:44,000 All right. So hold on. So pulp magazines of the 50s and the logging industry lobbied like Congress to prevent preservation of the forests because they hated these fucking octopus so much. 182 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:51,000 And I got to know what were they doing to distress damsels? Were they like pulling up their skirts? Like what were they doing? 183 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Suckers, sucker in the flesh. 184 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Jesus Christ. I feel like these are just things that wily raccoons get up to. 185 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 I know, but they got little masks so it's cute. 186 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 True. They do have little tiny human hands and they can hold a cookie. 187 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Yeah. No one's mad at the raccoon. 188 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Little buddies. 189 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,000 But octopus can also open car doors and probably fucking kill you if they wanted to. 190 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Yeah, but I don't think they want to. I think they're just cute little buddies. 191 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:24,000 True. Off topic. I watch a lot of like David Attenborough documentaries, like almost consistently. So I watch a lot. 192 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:29,000 And I really am a big fan of like the shallow oceans and also like the deep, deep, deep oceans. 193 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:35,000 And dude, some of these fucking crazy cuttlefish and like shit like that that they have out there, they're so cute. 194 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,000 My wife's watching and she goes, delicious. 195 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 So she's the problem. She's one of these guys. 196 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 If she saw a fucking tree octopus, she'd be like, I'm all about this. 197 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Allie, you're no longer a fan of the show, a friend of the show at all. 198 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 I love you, but you're out. 199 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Grounds for divorce right there. 200 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Seriously. 201 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:04,000 All right. So where we are now is that the government is actively against these things pretty much. 202 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Maybe not directly, but indirectly. 203 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Yeah, not so much directly against them, but against conservation because of the logging interests. 204 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Gotcha. All right. OK, gotcha. 205 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 So, David, have you ever seen a Pacific Northwest tree octopus? 206 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:26,000 No, but if there anything like the Pacific octopuses, the huge fuckers, I can only imagine they're terrifying. 207 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 How big do they get? 208 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Not that big. 209 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 So they probably don't grow much more than what they grew when they came onto land. 210 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Yeah, that's pretty much like they were like once they fully grow, they start heading out. 211 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:43,000 They said they can grow up to six foot in diameter, but that's more so rare. 212 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Is that like OK, that's like full spread circle. That's not massive. 213 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 No, no, that's kind of I mean, that's fine. 214 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Like, what do you come on, guys? 215 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,000 So as much as I would love to see them, you know why we haven't? 216 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Homies got the active camo. 217 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Well, I mean, that makes sense. 218 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Tree octopi have been seen changing their colors in efforts to hide from predators and to help communicate with other octopi. 219 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Well, that tracks, though, because cuttlefish and octopus do that now. 220 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 And yeah, and squids. 221 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 So, I mean, what is it like? Is it like is it like predator camo? 222 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Like, do they go invisible or is it like, you know, this was first this was first seen in over 100 years ago. 223 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 So maybe through evolution, their their camouflage has gotten better. 224 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Well, I think 100 years is a little it's a little short for. 225 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Yeah, but they're super smart. They could figure it out. 226 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Yeah, probably. That's fair. 227 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,000 And that paired with their rapidly decreasing population, that makes for a very hard to find animal. 228 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 And it makes sense why we have kind of forgotten about their history. 229 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,000 True. I got to find me a pair of shoes made out of them, though. 230 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Oh, wow. You're on Ali's side real fast. 231 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:07,000 No, it's not that. But I mean, like, I mean, if they're going to be extinct, I want to I want to have something of them. 232 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Are you going for a white rhino, too? 233 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Yeah. I mean, I mean, I already got a couple of fucking ivory. 234 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Don't worry about it. I'm not. Don't worry about it. 235 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,000 You know, do I have a white rhino carved out of ivory from a white rhino horn? 236 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Maybe. But that's called it's called remembrance, Luke. 237 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,000 All right. It's called it's it's called celebrating a life. 238 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 OK, don't judge me. 239 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,000 As fucked up as that is. 240 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:45,000 So there are different species all over the world, not just the Pacific Northwest, including the UK, Rome and Polynesia. 241 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:51,000 But if you're in the U.S. and you'd like to try your luck at getting a glimpse of one of this majestic and highly intelligent creatures, 242 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 your best bet is the western shores of the Puget Sound and the Hood Canal. 243 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:00,000 And don't just look up into the trees because they, of course, love a good puddle. 244 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:08,000 And if you're as old as me and Dave, your parents probably too, relieved to this bullshit fucking thing that came up when the Internet was new. 245 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 This is a hoax created by Niles Apato in 1998. 246 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 So all right. So that's pretty good. 247 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:19,000 But that also reminds me of, first of all, I want I want I you know what? 248 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Fuck it. I'm going to I want I choose to believe these are real because I love them. 249 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:33,000 So I I know it's ignorant of me to just say I believe something that is clearly a hoax like anyone who believes in Q or anything like. 250 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Yeah, I walked by two churches on my way home from work, so I think I can believe in a fucking octopus. 251 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Like it's it's fine. It's fine. 252 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,000 But if they were so fucking smart, why can't they outsmart these loggers? 253 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 They're slow, but also and they don't have axes and chainsaws. 254 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000 They could just go back to living in the water. 255 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Have you seen how beautiful it is in the Pacific? 256 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Do they develop lungs or something like that? 257 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:06,000 They have to know because they go to the puddles and it's moist there. 258 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Stop saying that. 259 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 You're bumming me out super hard. 260 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:20,000 The the one thing that I it reminds me of, do you remember those old commercials where they talked about this? 261 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:35,000 This is kind of the same vein of like your parents believing something that came out of the hoax on the Internet is like I think in the early 2000s, there was a commercial about house hippos and they were like the size of mice or like rats basically. 262 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 I vaguely remember that. 263 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Dude, I remember at the end, dude. So that basically is wild. 264 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:48,000 That that commercial was about media literacy and knowing what to believe and what not to believe when you see it on the Internet and or the TV. 265 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,000 But even though it had that message at the end, I was still like 10. 266 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 So I didn't understand it. 267 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 So like, fuck you. I just found out Santa's not real. 268 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 So I still believed. 269 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000 So for a hot minute there, I was like, yo, these house hippos are going to eat all my chips. 270 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Better lock this shit away. 271 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:14,000 The house hippos, a fictitious species of hippopotamus, the subject of a Canadian television public service announcement produced concerned children's advertisers. 272 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:23,000 That's a company produced by concerned children's advertisers in May of 1999 and reintroduced in 2019. 273 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,000 The fictitious animal found throughout Canada and the eastern United States. 274 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:38,000 The animal is described for sleeping 16 hours a day and enjoying I wish I found this and did a whole fucking thing, enjoying a diet of raisins, chips and crumbs from a peanut butter on toast. 275 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Yeah, that's his favorite meal was peanut butter, just crumbs from peanut butter on toast. 276 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Yeah, the commercial was for media literacy, like making sure that you don't believe. 277 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,000 That's hilarious. 278 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Stupid shit. 279 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,000 And it was aimed at children, but children don't know what media literacy is. 280 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 No, you're going to see a fucking tiny house. 281 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 It will be like, yeah, that's that's real. 282 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 I think we've got house that was in here. 283 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 That's kind of what the the tree, the tree octopus is. 284 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Is it not? 285 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 No, 100 percent. 286 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:19,000 So if anyone would like to go check out my source, it is just Google Pacific Northwest tree octopus. 287 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,000 And it's Zapotope dot net slash tree octopus. 288 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,000 They have been updating this website since 98. 289 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Oh, so they keep adding new information to it. 290 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Let's see. 291 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 The most recent one was two months ago. 292 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 That's fucking wild, dude. 293 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:43,000 And that was the rare deep sea octopus nursery discovered off Costa Rica and cuttlefish camouflages complex more so than previously thought. 294 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Yeah, that's so I think most of it is just octopus news. 295 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 And then every once in a while there's like and then sometimes they're in trees. 296 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000 So it's a legit octopus site. 297 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,000 And then they just every once in a while add new facts about the tree octopus. 298 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 That's so fucking good, dude. 299 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Holy shit. 300 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,000 All right, man. 301 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Well, thank you so much for sharing, Luke. 302 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,000 That was really good. 303 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 I had a lot of fun with that. 304 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 That was fun. 305 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,000 These these weekly episodes are going to be out of control. 306 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 My next one is going to be significantly less fun. 307 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 That's fine. 308 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Mine's going to be a complete bummer and it's probably going to be an hour long because you know, you know the history of goody coal. 309 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,000 It's oh, yeah. 310 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Yeah. 311 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 Maybe I'll change it to something a little less depressing. 312 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Anyway, anyway, you know that weird cryptid I sent you the other day. 313 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Yeah, that's what I'm doing. 314 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000 That's I mean, that's not really a cryptid. 315 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Anyways, thank you so much for listening, everyone. 316 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,000 I hope you enjoy the this this Hello Wednesday episode. 317 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,000 It was it was it was an emotional roller coaster, to say the least. 318 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Made me moist. 319 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Fuck. 320 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000 All right. 321 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,000 I'm going to end the episode now. 322 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Luke, would you like to say goodbye? 323 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 No. 324 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Moist. 325 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Let me just extinguish this fire real quick. 326 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 There we go. 327 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Practice fire safety. 328 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 There we go. 329 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Pssst. 330 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Pssst.