Why Are Angler Fish So Creepy?

The Valleycast

Comedy

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Why are these deep-sea creatures so scary? What was Darwin even up to? What would YOU do with lotto winnings? (And no, this episode does not contain any commentary on anything else that happened this week) Music/SFX: If you like our sounds, sign up for ONE FREE MONTH on us at Epidemic Sound! Over 30,000 songs: http://share.epidemicsound.com/n96pc Follow The Valleyfolk across the digital globe: http://twitter.com/TheValleyfolk http://instagram.com/TheValleyfolk http://facebook.com/TheValleyfolk Follow the group on their personal socials: Joe Bereta: http://twitter.com/JoeBereta http://instagram.com/joebereta Elliott Morgan: http://twitter.com/elliottcmorgan http://instagram.com/elliottmorgan Steve Zaragoza: http://twitter.com/stevezaragoza http://instagram.com/stevezaragoza Would you buy a wittle deepsea monster? I bet you would. Wouldn't you?

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0:00.0	I missed you guys.
0:01.4	I missed you guys.
0:02.8	Hey, Elliot's back, guys.
0:04.6	Hey, we're back.
0:22.5	Hey. Steve's been here the whole time. I'm in a bed with my friends. I got the shy guy over here. Who's this other guy? I think it's an, it's an angler. It's got a little bit. Angler, angler. Cute. With the dangler. It's so funny. Angler fish in reality are fucking disgusting monster.
0:22.9	They are the epitome of deep sea, frightening, like, sci-fi monsters.
0:28.2	Yeah.
0:29.8	Yeah.
0:30.7	You want to know what makes it scarier?
0:32.5	Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:33.1	The male just latches on and then just dies slowly and becomes fused into the female.
0:40.0	Yeah, reduced to his gonad.
0:42.0	And those teeth that are like the teeth that are like going in all the different directions and shit and they're like thin.
0:50.9	Like, ugh, what the fuck?
0:52.5	It definitely like makes me, it's one of the few things in nature that makes
0:55.6	me go like maybe all of these were designed by god because it's like what else would you
1:02.5	it's the body it's the depths of the ocean and they're like let's make it look like a demon
1:08.0	there's not anything down there that is like pleasant looking.
1:11.8	It's all horrifying.
1:13.3	It was like, was day like, let's say like day five was like God's emo day.
1:18.9	And he was like, I've been working on some sketches.
1:22.6	It's like the stuff you would, yeah, you would draw on your notepad in school.
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