Octopuses.

Known for being wiggly.

Famous for being eight wiggles specifically.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why octopuses are secretly incredibly fascinating. Day. 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, what is your relationship to or opinion of octopuses?

I love them. I love them. One of my favorite animals. I take your time to think about it. I know it's difficult to

figure out how you feel. I love them. I love octopuses so much. They are, yes, I really think they are

one of my favorite animals. They're just so weird, so different from us, and yet so cute and cuddly,

except for some of them, which you

shouldn't touch because you'll die. But other than that, very cute and cuddly. Yeah, they're

really cool. And generally, they don't set off my phobia of sea creatures, oddly. Oh, good.

Even though they're pretty wiggly. Like, especially the biggest ones, like the giant Pacific octopus, it just seems like a

megafauna in a way where that doesn't bug me.

Basically all the huge sea creatures, except maybe giant squids.

I know that sounds similar.

But basically all the huge sea creatures don't really bug me very much.

Ah, you don't like a giant squid.

It's their huge eyeballs, isn't it?

Yeah, that and I feel like two of the tentacles are just too long. You know what I mean?

Like, there's smaller ones and then there's two that are just way out there twice as long,

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