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My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick.

And we have a special holiday episode here for you today.

It does concern Christmas trees of a sort. We have, of course,

talked about Christmas trees plenty of times on stuff to blow your mind in the past. I think the most

recent installment being an episode we did a couple of years back, holiday inventions, Christmas

tree, lights, tinsel, and angels. We've talked about Christmas trees

in connection to sacred trees in the past, but today we're going to find our Christmas trees

in an all-new location. We are going to venture beneath the sea. That's right. It's euletide

in the deep today. Yes, deep down in the ocean, in some cases deep in the ocean, where it's said that

Cthulhu waits dreaming, but just maybe, maybe he's dreaming of a white Christmas.

He's dreaming of that Red Rider BB gun.

Yeah.

So had we come around to Christmas trees under the sea?

Well, credit where credits do, we had a couple of lead-ins to this.

One of the organisms we're going to cover here is one that was already on your radar,

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