Can We Talk With Animals? Chapter Two: AI is Another Animal

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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People have attempted to communicate with other animals since before the dawn of recorded history. Today, almost every pet owner feels they have deep, communicative bonds with their pets -- but what about wild animals? In the second chapter of this two-part series, Ben, Matt and Noel discover how 'AI' may soon allow humans to speak directly with multiple other organisms. (We also absolutely wrecked our search history with phrases like "sperm whale phonetic alphabet.")

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.9	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeartRadie. Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:28.6	My name is Noel.
0:29.6	They called me Ben.
0:30.9	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagin.
0:35.6	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:38.7	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:42.5	Caca, meow, wolf wolf.
0:44.3	Kee, grie, ki.
0:45.8	Yeah.
0:46.4	Cha, chit, chich, chish.
0:49.0	Yes.
0:50.1	Click, click, click, and some sureripish infrasound.
0:53.9	We're back with the second chapter in our series on human to animal communication.
0:59.5	Damn, I thought you were going to say conversion, and that was all in.
1:02.3	But no, communication's super interesting, too.
1:04.1	I like the chimera reference.
1:06.0	That is the chimera thing.
1:07.0	We already did that one.
1:09.4	So I think it's fair to say, folks, that our research here for this series has inspired
1:17.9	all of us to look at our pets and non-human friends a little bit differently.
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