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My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in our 2026 crab bag series.

By somewhat popular demand, we are doing a, we're doing a sort of roundup or maybe a pinch up of crab-related subject matter.

This was in part inspired by a listener mail that we talked about in our most recent

listener-mail episode.

And we're always down to talk about some crab stuff.

No real organizing principle here.

It's just, yeah, assortment of crab topics, a crab buffet.

So in the last episode, we talked about the legend of a miraculous crab associated with a Catholic figure named St. Francis Xavier and how that legend sort of connects to a real decapod species in the Western Pacific and Indian oceans. We might revisit that topic today.

I'll explain more about that later.

And then also at the end of the last episode, we talked about an idea known as crab theory, or maybe under various names, but that's one way to refer to it.

It's a metaphor for chaotic, anti-cooperative human behaviors in certain situations

based on the supposed behavior of crabs in a bucket.

And we briefly got into the question of,

to what extent crabs ever could be said to be socially cooperative?

And we're back today to talk about more.

That's right. So for my own part for this episode, I kind of poked around and I wanted to find something to talk about that's

tied directly to some crab species. But then also I have some stuff that we'll get into later

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