Spook-E – Octoroks
The Common Descent Podcast
Common Descent
4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Common Descent podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | And welcome to Spuiculative Evolution. |
| 0:12.1 | Hello, Will. |
| 0:13.6 | Oh, |
| 0:15.4 | David. |
| 0:16.9 | And hello, everybody, and welcome back to Spooky. |
| 0:21.4 | Spuculative Evolution is our Halloween-ish-themed series that we do every year in October. |
| 0:28.4 | We release a bunch of episodes where we choose monsters from myth and popular media |
| 0:33.7 | and discuss how those creatures or something like them might evolve under the regular |
| 0:39.9 | rules of real world biology. |
| 0:43.1 | It is our own fun little game of Monstery Speculative Evolution. |
| 0:47.8 | Every year we have a theme. |
| 0:49.7 | This year's theme is Monsters of Nintendo. |
| 0:53.6 | As always, there will be four spooky episodes releasing every Saturday throughout the month of |
| 0:58.8 | October, and then a bonus cute E episode, the first weekend of November, and then we will have |
| 1:05.3 | a spooky live stream on November 8th. |
| 1:07.7 | Come join us and chit chat about all sorts of monster-y, speculative evolutiony stuff. |
| 1:12.9 | That'll be at 3 p.m. Saturday, November 8th. |
| 1:17.7 | Last episode, we tackled the question of how to evolve piranha plants. |
| 1:23.4 | This episode two, we are swapping monsters and swapping franchises. |
| 1:28.5 | We are moving away from the baddies of the Mushroom Kingdom, this time picking some monsters from Hyrule Kingdom. |
| 1:36.4 | Our monsters this episode are Octorox. |
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