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Radiolab

Silky Love

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We eat eels in sushi, stews, and pasta. Eels eat anything. Also they can survive outside of water for hours and live for up to 80 years. But this slippery snake of the sea harbors an even deeper mystery, one that has tormented the minds of Aristotle and Sigmund Freud and apparently the entire country of Italy: Where do they come from? We travel from the estuaries of New York to the darkest part of the ocean in search of the limits of human knowledge. This episode was produced by Matt Kielty and Becca Bressler.  Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.  Further reading: Lucy Cooke's book The Truth about Animals! Chris Bowser's Eel Research Project

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh my god, map.

0:04.0

Money.

0:05.8

Let me do money.

0:07.5

Oh, okay.

0:08.2

Oh, my God.

0:10.2

I found it.

0:10.7

Okay, here's the tweet.

0:12.3

Okay.

0:12.6

Fishing.

0:13.7

Whoa.

0:14.6

Literally, I'm just reading it.

0:17.2

How it's written.

0:17.8

Okay.

0:18.7

Uh, fucking radio lab.

0:38.8

Figure this donation thing out like other podcasts. Stop doing a PBS Pledge drive every time. And this is great. And maybe more people would give some jingle. So clearly that's a tweet about the fact. Oh, we should really quickly say. Matt Kilty. Beccaasselor. We produced the episode that you're about to hear.

0:50.3

And that tweet that you found after seven minutes for you to find was a tweet about the fact that occasionally, not that often, I would say, not that often.

0:56.1

We do a thing at the top of an episode where we ask if you would be so kind to become a sustaining member, give money to the show on a regular basis because we put a lot of,

1:01.3

a lot of time and energy and labor into making these things. And having people who give money

1:09.2

on a regular basis, like it supports the work that we do and allows us to do the work that we do that we love doing. We know it's not the most fun thing to hear at the top of an episode. Honestly, it feels a little awkward having to ask. But it's kind of like it's an essential thing. It's totally essential. And we don't really have a different way to really do this. And there's been this whole thing going on in September podcast appreciation month. And so we are just simply politely sane. Consider becoming a sustaining member of the show. Yeah. And it could be, I don't know, what are the values? Like $5, $10? Maybe if you're like feeling super generous, maybe 20 or 30 like whatever feels appropriate to you

1:45.1

yeah whatever feels good um okay uh what else we have to say um thank you uh well do we have to say how to do it

1:53.8

oh yeah okay uh you have the favor.

2:01.6

Oh, yeah, I got it right here.

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