Hello everyone, welcome back to relax with Animal Facts. I am Steph Wolf and today I'm going to be

learning with you about our furry, scaly or possibly even slimy friends. And in today's case, it is definitely going to be a scaly friend of

ours because we are covering the oh so wonderful angler fish. This is a very special listener

episode dedicated to Logan, MJ,. Brady and his dad, Kyle.

Now, M.J. Brady and his dad, Kyle actually requested the football fish, which is a kind of

angler fish. So that is why you are being shouted out and why this episode is dedicated to you.

The football fish is also, of course, a pertinent suggestion given the fact that right now the World Cup is

raging, everybody's cheering for their teams, and so here we are today covering an animal that

has a subspecies known as the football fish. But thank you for your request, Logan, MJ,

Brady, and Kyle. This episode would not have been possible without your wonderful suggestion.

For how to request your very own

episode and for the resources that were used in this episode, all of that information will be

at the end of the episode, but it is also immediately accessible in the show notes or the

description. And now we are going to begin to slow down as we

begin and prepare ourselves to not journey into the forests or to trek on high mountains,

but rather to go into the deep sea. And so, of course, any sort of journey like this requires some

preparation. And I have two exhortations for each and every one of you. The first is that you

bring a sweater because we are going to be going into a high-tech research vessel that will allow us to plumb the depths of the sea.

And the second is that you try your best to imitate jello.

All of us carry tension in one way or another.

For some of us it's in the head, for some in the shoulders, in the legs,

but regardless of where it is, and everybody's truly different here, my request of you is the same.

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