Summary
Today we are going to talk about the ugliest animal on earth (at least, by popular vote). Join us, and discover why they look so awful on land and so normal at sea. Find out the fun facts we have about this animal, and learn about the nature of ugliness itself, on this episode of Species.
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| 0:00.0 | Last year, Texas Senator Ted Cruz defeated late-night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel in a charity basketball game, which they build as the blobfish basketball classic. |
| 0:15.2 | Now, if you didn't hear about this event at the time, this summary of the news might leave you wondering if you are living |
| 0:21.5 | inside a journalist's fever dream. Everything about the event was abnormal, a comedian playing |
| 0:28.6 | sports against a politician, naming the event after a deep sea fish from the oceans around Australia. |
| 0:37.2 | Ted Cruz, knowing how to play basketball, all of it would |
| 0:40.6 | put a bewildered expression on even the most stoic among us. Now, Ted Cruz's hooping abilities, |
| 0:48.1 | the bizarre logistics it must have taken to get Kimmel and Cruz to play basketball together. |
| 0:53.3 | These things are really outside my purview, but the name of the event, |
| 0:58.5 | the blobfish basketball classic, is really right up my alley. |
| 1:03.7 | They called it that because, according to internet users, |
| 1:08.7 | Ted Cruz looks like a blobfish. And while I am absolutely against deriding |
| 1:15.5 | people for their looks instead of their ideas, and while I think the comparison exaggerates |
| 1:21.1 | the senator's worst features, in reality, I think he's a fine-looking guy, I nevertheless do |
| 1:26.6 | see the resemblance. |
| 1:29.0 | Today we are going to talk about an animal that has been recognized as the ugliest animal on earth. |
| 1:35.3 | An animal that has gone viral multiple times, purely for looking repulsive. |
| 1:41.0 | Today we are going to talk about what ugliness means and why it matters so much to us. |
| 1:47.7 | Today we're going to talk about the blobfish. |
| 1:51.9 | Cycrolutees, Marquitis. I'm Mackin. This is Species. |
| 2:00.7 | Welcome to the show. Happy Easter. This episode, like basically every episode, was a request. |
| 2:07.0 | How do I request an episode? You ask. Well, you can go to Speciespodcast.com slash contact. |
| 2:14.2 | You type in your name or pseudonym. You type in an animal. |
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