Narwhals, known for being pointy, famous for being unicorny. Nobody thinks much about them,

so let's have some fun. Let's find out why narwhals are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie, perhaps this is too big of a question starting out, but what is your relationship to her opinion of narwhals? Wow, narwhals.

They are my personal unicorn. I love them.

Yay, good. They are fascinating animals. I mean, I love all cetaceans, all whales, all dolphins.

I think they are really, really interesting. But narwhals, both narwhals and belugas have a special place in my

heart for sort of the weirdos of the whale world. I just love how funky and fun they get with it.

And narwhals in particular, of course, we know about the narwhal tusk. Everybody loves them for it. But then when you delve into that tusk, it's so much more weird and fascinating and mysterious

than you'd even think with basically the real life unicorn.

Like, is that task magic?

Maybe.

I'm sure we're going to talk about it.

I also really love their connection to sort of

the cryptozoology thing of mythical beasts and how people would see this tusk or see this whale and think

of unicorns, think of fantastical beasts. And I think that just they are, they are really, really cool.

And yeah, I'm so excited to talk about it because I know some stuff about narwhals, but,

you know, I feel like there is a lot of room for me to learn more.

This was such an interesting thing to research and there is so much to know about them, yeah?

And thank you very much to Dacoup bear on the Discord and other people who voted for it.

This is yet another topic chosen by supporters of the show, listeners of the show.

Yeah, I'm really glad they picked it because oddly I was relatively neutral about narwhals before

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