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00:08This is a story about getting murdered by your lover.
00:12About getting lost in Mexico.
00:14A competitive quilter, Tracy Morgan,
00:16and trying to find a connection with a possible alien.
00:19He's seeing the blades of grass,
00:21and he's turning himself into blades of grass.
00:24This is a story about the octopus.
00:27What creature does that?
00:30You know what I love about octopuses?
00:32Their vulnerability.
00:34I really don't know why they are so sexy for people at the moment.
00:39I think that they're very charismatic.
00:42Even though they're very ugly.
00:44To find out why they're so charismatic, vulnerable, and sexy,
00:48let's look at the octopus through the eyes of the experts who study them
00:51and the people who love them.
00:53And we're really committed to octopuses.
00:55If you could just take one more sip of your espresso,
00:58we can, yeah, that's great.
01:01Yeah.
01:04The last time we shared DNA with octopuses was 600 million years ago.
01:09Anything that is alive on this planet means that we are connected.
01:13So what does our collective obsession with them say about us?
01:16I know those animals are capable of basically crushing you.
01:20That's always kind of in your head a little bit.
01:21So I'm talking about my mom.
01:24Not only can they change the color of their skin, but also the texture.
01:29Every species is special in its very own way.
01:34If the female doesn't want to mate with the male, she'll just eat them.
01:37You're learning now.
01:39Keep your mind open.
01:40You might miss something.
01:41All right.
01:52We love you.
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