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The Devils Hole Pupfish (Entry 342.PS10529)

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Omnibus

Society & Culture, History

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In which a playful-looking but delicate little species is unable to thrive anywhere but its 11-foot wide home near Death Valley, and Ken witnesses a jellyfish tragedy. Certificate #41036.

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0:00.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:16.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:25.5

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 342.

1:15.0

P.S. 10529, certificate number 41036.

1:22.0

The Devil's Whole pupfish.

1:30.0

This continues my new series of shows that are trying to connect with young people by describing the environmental catastrophe and then offering like a weird Gen X not entirely Marxist take on it.

1:46.3

This is a this is like a series within a series you're doing.

1:49.4

Like I'm trying to do a podcast and you're like showing up and doing a pop upup. Hey, during the day we have donuts now at

1:54.2

Omnibus. Hey, buy these handmade bracelets I'm making. To save the Devil's Whole

1:58.9

Whole-Pup fish. Devil's Whole-Pup-fish? Pup-fish. Oh? Pup fish.

2:03.0

Oh, pup fish.

2:05.0

A pup fish is a little fish that lives in the freshwater or brackish water.

2:11.0

It's a little.

2:12.0

Because there's a kind of dog called the dogfish,, it's a little.

2:12.8

Because there's a kind of dog called the dogfish.

2:14.4

It's like a shark.

2:15.3

There you go.

2:16.3

Is a pupfish a smaller dog?

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