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February 6, 2025 11 mins

A very, very cute otter with some horrible habits may change your perspective on the adorable carnivorous mammal.  

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Enough news, enough politics. Let's take a moment to look
at the animal world, which is rapey and horrifying.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
That's one more thing, one more.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Before we get to that. A little animal rape on
your Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is what I yelled at Katie about the other
day when I.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Said it swear, I said, yes, say lady or whatever
I said.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
This is it. Stay tuned.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
So you have a new feature you've been mentioning, Katie.
Where where do people find Katie's corner?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Got Armstrong, getty dot com.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's across the top?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Okay? And you decided to spell it with a K.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I did because you both had conniption fits because I
spelled it like a regular person.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Feel that may make a big deal. And how do
you spell your name? Katie is with a wire and
I E an I E Okay? Do you put a
heart above the eye?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, Jack, I did.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
When I was like twelve.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's I'm cute Katie's corner, grown ass woman you're talking to.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
He's corner with a heart over the eye and a
K for a corner sounds pretty good to me. On
ets to sell your Doiley's you make it all work.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
I will say there is a restaurant in San Ramon
in the Bay Area in California that's called Katie's Corner,
and they have the best eggs, Benedict, I'll write that down. Yeah,
and it spelled Katie's with a Y, corner with a K.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I take breakfast places more seriously than any other kind
of restaurant. Love a good breakfast place.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh, it's hard to mess up breakfast, I feel damn.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
But man, the good, the great from the good ol. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, it's like they say about pizza and sex. I
mean it's gonna be fine from the male.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Point of view.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
If you had sex and you burnt the roof of
your mouth, that's no good.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
What are you doing but breakfast?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, to achieve a solid B is practically effort true.
But to get up to the AA plus ranking, then
you're talking some really good food, I mean crazy good.
I mean you get you spend twenty dollars on your breakfast,
You have had deliciousness on par with a seventy dollars

(02:04):
meal for dinner. Tell me I'm wrong, No, that's absolutely
that's absolutely true.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Now I want to go to Katie's. Yeah, to get
to to get the best steak. You're gonna have to
spend one hundred bucks to get the best breakfast you
can spend twenty bucks, So you're right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, yeah, breakfast all day. That's gotta be my new restaurant.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
But I'll spell it with a like Oh no, I
gotta have a clever spelling.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Spell like an adult.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Joe. I remember you're gonna have a restaurant called Walk
this Way and you were in spell at w Ok.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's right. Yeah, one of my many ideas.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, Chinese restaurant breakfast.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, maybe I'll just have a whole food court.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'll like offer a suite of restaurants, like I'll buy
out a strip mall and I'll have Walk this Way
and then I'll have breakfast all day. And then I
don't know, I'll come up with some more ideas, probably
not as great as those two would be good. Uh oh,

(03:03):
speaking of which, one final side before we get into
the horrifying raypie story from Nature and it's worse than
you think, lady lady. So my my old friend Drew,
who worked in Mexico for several years.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Uh no, sombrero, it's not catching. No, have you ever
been to Mexico?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Not everybody wears the sombrero you raises culture, not a
costume anyway, but he became aware of and this is
a very popular in rural parts of Mexisco, especially or
people of who.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Are not rich.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Discatta it is the disc from a plow that they
just change a little bit with welding and sometimes referred
to as the cowboy walk in the United States. And
it's it's essentially an outdoor you put it over a
fire walk to cook up your meat and taters and
vegetables or whatever. And Drew would make this for a

(04:04):
big party once a year so and it's just absolutely fantastic,
and partly because we're going to get our kitchen room
modeled if the permitting ever comes through. I bought one,
but I need like really good discatta recipes, including if
people were like, dude, just go to a Chinese cookbook
and that's what you do, or put anything in there.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
You can't screw it up. I'm just curious. I want
to make the most out of it. But it's the
food is delicious. This stew is in its own juice.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
But the fact that it was on a disc was
a farm implement. Does that help the food or is
that just.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Is that part of it.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I think in the same way, like like a cast
iron frying pan cooks food a little differently, and you
don't like wash it with soap, you'd wipe it out.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
And it cures with the oils and stuff like that.
It's one of those things. Why are you looking at
me like that?

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Because you're like, oh, man, I just need some recipes.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
I wish there was some.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Thing like a like a box, the electronic and you
could type in the scotta recipes and then there would
be lists.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
You know what, girl, Why I.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Wish there was like this thing. It's like a box.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I don't know, some way to put letters and words
into the box and then ask.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It not I what stuff people have actually enjoyed.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm not gonna go out into the freaking internet. I've
already done that. It's like, I don't know anyway, but
you're not wrong. So here's the deal. A locally famous
sea otter in Canada, and you ask how does an
otter become famous?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, do you know honors? Have you seen honors? They're
cute as can be?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
You ever go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium or.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
The aquarium most convenient to you where you live.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Uh, they're unbelievably charming, charismatic and.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'll e the otter. Oh we even as like cute name.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Has his own Facebook fan page chuck full of adorable photos.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
But here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
So like that squirrel, yeah, peanut the squirrel.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh that the State of New York killed for being
a conservative squirrel? Right, he saved his nuts for winter.
He didn't like go to the government and say, oh,
it's winter, I'm hungry.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
You gotta give me nuts. It's not my fault. Oh,
he's saved them like a squirrel. Should they killed him
for it? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
So Ali is a sea otter, and like sea otters,
sometimes he hangs out in rivers. But he's the only sea.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Otter in the immediate area.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
And evidently, unlike my people, the Neanderthals that would get
with Homo sapiens and you know, make sweet cave man love,
sea otters don't get with with uh usually with with
river otters, kay, unless they murder them first and then
have sex with their corpses.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Whoa Okay, says.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Wildlife educator Molly Cameron. He's the only sea otter in
the immediate area. So the assumption is that he does this.
He kills the river otters then sort of had his
has his way with them for multiple days to release
the sexual tension of being the only sea otter around.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
So ist snuff films a regular thing? Or is it
just this one aberan seatter?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's not well? The nature expert says, it's known to happen.
I mean, they don't put a number on it. But
Ali the otter, oh look at him, is suspected of
murdering at least twenty river otters over the last decade
and having sex.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
With their corpses. Barbaric, it is, sir.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Hmm. So for days do they still have the website
for the necrophiliac?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Or lord?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
He will carry his victims around, they say, according to
this nature educator, like a Teddy bear for days.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So it's like a Jeffrey Dahmer sea otter.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's very much like that.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, wow, says CBC News. That's that's the network up
there in Canada. They have TVs now, by the way,
uh and they will have all the modern conveniences when
they become our fifty first state. But CBC News, talking
to another otter researcher, male seatters without access to females

(08:35):
become sexually frustrating and frustrated, and the results often aren't pretty.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, he's what sometimes is referred to as a satellite male.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
He's sitting there just hoping he's made a territory that's
going to have females in it, and it doesn't, so
instead he murders the innocent river otters and then does
what I said in cell.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Exactly.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
So I'm looking at an article on vox and apparently
they're referring here to otters as the necrophiliac serial killing
fur monsters of the sea.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, some that's a good phrase right there.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
They rape baby seals and hold others pups hostage for food.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
I was just gonna mention that twenty ten scientific paper
documented cases of forced copulation between male sea otters in
California and young arbor seals.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
This, this is wrong.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
They can't rapers.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
They can't be that cute and act like this. That's
an interesting stance, well.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Spoken, like somebody whose fills carnther kay.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
To jerk is uh, that is interesting. So I am
a third of the way through the book Sapiens. They
keep jumping back and forth in it. And he explains
in that book what's unique about humans and they're evil
from the animal world, taking into the account that sometimes

(10:04):
monkey's murder and dolphin's rape, and then you get the
sea otter thing. It's something to do with animals generally
do it to gain something, as opposed to the way
people sometimes just do it for to be cruel. Usually
in the animal world it's like to take over a

(10:27):
chunk of the jungle, or to drive them out of
it or whatever.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Or to get your otter rocks off in this case.
Now there are cases of dolphins doing what really looks
like toying with their victims before they end them. But
in general, though, I'm sure he's right.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember. I'll have to
find that again because I thought it was really interesting you.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
So, does anybody have a lighter or more humorous note
to end this with? If I'd been thinking ahead, I
would have come prepared with them.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
I apologize after hearing that you want to hand feed
an otter, you can go to SeaQuest in fulsome because
I've done that there, or you can handfeed them. They
stick their little arms through a hole in the glass
and they grab the shrimp out of your hand.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
And all that is. That's got to be cute as hack.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
It's so cute.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
But now that I know they do this, barbaric otters
are cute. They have the advance and some animals just
have the advantage of being cute.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Wow. So but I mean they murder and then have
sex with the corpse.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
But that's cute.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Oh boy, don't forget when animals attack, which was on Fox.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
The most horrifying comedy attack ever caught on tam.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
If you remember that, that's true story, Katie, and also
on Family Guy when they advertise the Fox show Fast Animals, Slow.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Children, another comedy classic. Yes, well, I guess that's it.
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