All right, just a little up top, hello. This is an encore of a very special episode to me,

and I am under the summer weather with some sort of tiny little plague. But this is a great

episode. Wow. Also, stick around to the very, very end of the episode for a new, fresh secret

about why this one means so much to me. Also, I slept 13 hours last night and then took a nap

tonight. So the hell? I don't know. Okay. Onward. Oh, hey. It's a lone air pod under the

bench at a bus stop. Alley Ward back with fresh horrors for you. Let's not get ahead of ourselves,

though. But straight up, if kids are listening with you, think about high-tailing it right now to a Smologies episode instead. They're in the main podcast feed. They're up at Alleyware.com slash Smologies, which is linked to the show notes. Smologies are short and classroom safe. This one is not. It is not. Are we good? Good. Okay. Let's get to Otters. First off, thank you

listener, Isaiah Nubbins, who suggested this guest in particular after hearing a review I read from

AWICs from the Urology episode. And AWICS dreamed that Lutrology was an episode. And your dreams are

coming true right now, all of our dreams.

Also, thank you just to everyone for leaving and writing reviews. They matter so much.

I read every single one. And this week we hit a really big lifelong goal of mine because of your reviews and subscribing.

And ologies was the number one science podcasts on Apple. It's been five years. We hit number one people. Let's do some

air horns and a tiny imperceptible butt dance. Good job. Huge giant goal. I can't believe it. Thank you so

much. Thanks also to everyone on patreon.com slash ologies for supporting the show. Each week, though,

for reviews, I pick a fresh one to prove

that I see them all. And this week, thank you to Shermworm, who wrote, come for the science

facts, stay for the feels. And also thank you, futureologist McKenzie King, who described the show

as a massage to my brain while drinking espresso. Okay, get into it, the trilogy. It's a word. It's been cited in the literature one time,

but that counts. J.C. von Vopalcline, a prominent scholar of crustaceans, coined it while describing

a study about sea otters that was so well written, it was an interesting read, quote, even for the non-Lutronologist.

So, Lutrius side note comes from a mix of old, old words for water, hence otter, water, water.

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