Eels Alive!
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Eels are pretty much objectively unsettling. They’re not quite fish (although they are) and if they’re snakes, they’re messed up snakes (they aren’t). But they’re fascinating too! There are even little cute eels. It’s time you got acquainted with eels!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and this is stuff you should know about eel. |
| 0:23.8 | I know another podcast that has ruined something I like to eat, but now I can't. |
| 0:29.9 | What did it ruin? |
| 0:31.0 | Or why, how? |
| 0:32.1 | What part? |
| 0:33.0 | How about this? |
| 0:33.9 | When we get to the part where you're like, this ruined eel for me, shout. |
| 0:37.8 | Scream at the top of your lungs. |
| 0:40.4 | Okay. |
| 0:41.7 | Okay. |
| 0:42.9 | I want to give a hat tip to David Byrne via Yumi who inspired this episode. |
| 0:50.2 | The David Byrne? |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah, the David Byrne. |
| 0:52.8 | Yumi was watching David Byrne videos. He's on tour, and I think she's going to see him. Yeah, the David Byrne. He was watching David Byrne videos. |
| 0:54.7 | He's on tour and I think she's going to see him. Yeah, it's a great show. Have you seen it? Oh, yeah. I've seen the last couple of tours. It's great. Awesome. So he apparently was talking about a book he was reading about Eels and how fascinating it was. So that kicked off the idea for an episode on Eels. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, I went to read a new book. |
| 1:14.8 | I just. eels and how fascinating it was. So that kicked off the idea for an episode on eels. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, I went to read a new book. |
| 1:14.7 | I just finished my book, Cameron Crow's memoir, which is fantastic. |
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