This is the outside podcast.

There are two kinds of animals that humans don't like very much.

Animals with too many legs and animals with too few legs.

And the too many categories... and animals with too few legs.

In the too many category, we have things like spiders and centipedes. In the too few category, we have snakes, worms, and eels.

Don't ask me why, but for some reason,

fish get a free pass.

We like them just fine.

This bias against under and over-legged creatures turns up everywhere.

In our scientific research, which is biased towards mammals and birds, in our endangered

species lists, which draw on that research. Even in an old Pee Wee Herman movie where

Pee Wee is saving pets from a burning pet store.

Come on, you can help me. Come on. Don't panic. You see him going through the store that's on fire and it's shot from behind a fish tank. But the fish tank has that snake in it.

The person telling the story is named Fred Benenson.

And every time he goes into the burning building, he goes, grabs another furry animal or something

and you're like, oh, a ferret or like whatever and at the

end he's like looking around and he keeps on looking at the steak and he hates

the fact that he's gonna have to stick his hand in the snake tank and he

finally does it and he grabs all these snakes and he runs out and he's like so so

upset and he's like saved these snakes and he passes out. It's a it's a brilliant scene.

Fred ish not just a Peewe Hermann officinato. He was also briefly internet famous for

translating Moby Dick into emojies. The famous first line, Call Me Ishmael, translates to a red phone, a man's face,

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