Eels Transcript – 3SchemeQueens

Hey there, foil heads, it’s Megan.

Kait, Colleen, and I just want to let you know that we really appreciate all of the support, especially over the last several months.

We’ve been seeing exponential increases in our listenership from all over the world.

So please drop a comment wherever you listen, let us know where you heard about the podcast, how you found us, and again, we just really appreciate all the encouragement and the continued support.

We really try to remain consistent in bringing you a fresh new episode each week.

Unfortunately, all three of the SchemeQueens have been dealing with illnesses related to all the various viruses going around.

Just a hazard of being three health care professionals.

So we’re all going to take the week to recuperate.

We are going to see you next Tuesday with a fresh new episode that we’ll throw back to some early episode conversations, and we’re really excited about it.

In the meantime, this week, we are going to re-release one of our favorite episodes.

This was our first ever episode of our Sea Sentinel series, in which we did a deep dive into the conspiracy surrounding the ocean.

If you’re an East coaster like we are, and you have been getting pummeled with snow the last month, hopefully this episode gives you warm weather vibes, acts as a distraction from the cold.

So enjoy this episode hosted by Colleen, in which we try to figure out where eels come from.

Stay warm, stay safe and healthy, and we will see you again next Tuesday with a new episode.

Now that we’re in the summer heat, has anybody been swimming in the ocean?

No swimming in the ocean yet.

Swimming in pools.

Well, this is the first official episode of the…

Se-a, if you’re not picking up on the pun.

How else would you spell season?

Is that how you spell the regular word?

I actually did not pick up on that till just now.

I thought we changed the spelling for it.

Season, like the waves, right?

Yeah.

How does the ocean say hello?

Wave, they wave hi?

They wave.

I was like, hello.

Whale, you’re not wrong.

Yeah, I was like, that’s a whale.

Well, before we get into our drink check, I have some fun ocean facts for you all.

Okay, I’m ready.

Just to prepare you all, our listeners, for the next six weeks and what’s to come.

It’s all deep, deep sea.

The deep sea is mystifying.

We’re deep diving.

So we said in the trailer, if you follow us on Instagram, but the ocean takes up 71% of the earth’s surface, and we have only explored 5% of it.

I believe that.

Since 1969, we’ve sent 12 people to the moon, but we’ve only sent three people to the deepest part of the ocean, the Marianas Trench.

The Marianas Trench is deeper than the height of Mount Everest.

I believe that.

We have only mapped 20% of the sea floor.

That’s crazy.

So we have mapped more of the surface of the moon and the surface of Mars than we have the seafloor.

This is actually my cousin just started a new job, and this is essentially her job.

Is to map the seafloor?

Yeah, she goes away on boats for weeks at a time.

Did you know that if we removed all of the salt from the ocean?

Desalination, if you will.

Desalination.

There would be enough salt to cover the earth’s entire surface and form a layer more than 500 feet thick, which would be the height of a 40-story building.

Do you ever think about like why it’s salty?

So much salt.

Do you ever think about how we’re, like, the blood of our body is salt?

Yeah.

And like…

Why is salt so important?

But do you think about how the trees look like our lungs?

Yeah.

Like, and the veins, capillaries?

Yeah.

So there are about 8.7 million eukaryotic species on the globe.

So that’s like plants, animals, fungi.

I’m just gonna ask, what does that mean?

Eukaryotic means more than one organism.

8.7 million eukaryotic species in the world.

2.2 million of those are marine, meaning that a quarter of all life lives on the ocean.

That makes sense, because there was ocean life before there was land life.

Scientists estimate that 91% of the species in the ocean have not been classified yet.

I don’t believe that.

What we know is just the tip of the iceberg.

Yeah, literally.

It’s literally.

That’s funny.

Straight ahead.

Wait, ice bag straight ahead.

I don’t think they say iceberg straight ahead.

It’s like another.

Yes, right ahead.

They don’t do it in the movie?

No, it’s like a Mandela thing where we’re like, yeah.

I don’t know if you guys listen to our past episode, but we talked all about the Mandela effect.

So go and just scroll on back and listen to that episode.

And ice bag right ahead.

They never said the British are coming.

Yeah, we talked about that on FreeMasons.

Yeah.

And then the last fact I have for you, if you really want to, not even a fact, this is just like a mystery, a global ocean mystery.

How did water end up on our planet?

I don’t like that.

On that note, is it time for our drink check?

Drink check.

What are we drinking today, Kait?

I’m so happy you asked.

I stopped at the Harris Teeter before I came to Megan’s.

Harris Titter?

Harris Titter.

And I used my Vivino app, sponsor us, where you can take a picture of the wine label, and it’ll tell you the rating and the notes of the wine, because not everyone just buys wine because of the label.

I look for wine with farm animals.

And anyway, this wine is called Charles and Charles Rosé.

Chuck and Charlie.

The original Two Buck Chuck.

Two Buck Chuck.

That’s actually what it’s called.

That’s at Trader Joe’s back in the day.

Back in the day.

They had their Two Buck Chuck, which is like their.

Two dollar wine.

Yeah.

A whole bottle.

You know the story about Trader Joe’s, right?

No.

No, do you know why the wine and like the alcohol at Trader Joe’s is like so cheap?

No.

Oh my gosh, you guys don’t know this?

Everything in Trader Joe’s is kind of cheap.

Okay.

Trader Joe’s is, I will listen, Kait and I will die on this hill.

That people try to tell us that Trader Joe’s is overpriced.

I don’t think Trader Joe’s, every time I leave Trader Joe’s, I’m like, I can’t believe I got all of this.

Okay, Trader Joe’s and Aldi are owned by brothers.

And they, so one brother owns Aldi, one brother owns Trader Joe’s.

The guy who owns Trader Joe’s was married.

And when he divorced, his wife said, you can take all the profit from the store.

I just want the profit from the alcohol.

And he said, done.

And then is like, sells it at cost.

Oh my God.

Oh, he’s just trying to fool his ex.

Yeah.

That’s funny.

To the benefit of the rest of the world.

Right, anyway.

So.

Buy your alcohol at Trader Joe’s, peeps.

Yeah.

Enough about Trader Joe’s.

Colleen, what are you drinking?

I’m drinking the summer classic.

Oh.

Lemonade.

Oh.

That is a summer classic.

The lemons made it.

You know what I like?

What?

When you go to the beach, and they’re selling that frozen lemonade.

Oh, the slush.

Oh, my God.

It’s so good.

It’s something about being on a beach and drinking a frozen lemonade.

Oh, yeah.

Colleen, what are you going to teach us about today?

Today, I’m going to talk about some slimy archaic creatures.

Ooh.

Have you ever been swimming in the ocean and felt something slimy brush past your legs?

Sure have.

Have you ever thought to yourself, was that an ocean snake?

Ew, no.

Have you ever looked at an eel and thought to yourself, where are their testicles?

I’ve never seen an eel.

Today, we aren’t talking about birds and the bees.

Instead, we’re talking about eels and dot, dot, dot.

Oh, the ellipses.

A mysterious.

Because today’s conspiracy is all about the mysteries of eels and their unknown reproduction.

Oh.

Where do they come from?

Okay.

How do they do it?

Well, what do you know about eels, Kait, you said?

You’ve never seen one?

Well, I’ve never seen an eel, but the only thing I think of when I think of eels is like in The Little Mermaid, where they like electrocute her.

Those are eels, right?

Right, I think so.

And then don’t eels like live in holes and they just like come up out of the hole?

There’s…

That’s all I know about eels.

There are…

Kait’s doing a reenactment of an eel coming out of a hole right now.

It’s really funny.

I’m pretty sure that’s a meme.

So there are so many different types of eels, and some of them aren’t even actually eels.

Some of them, we assume they’re eels because they look like it, but they’re actually just different types of fish.

And eels themselves are actually fish.

They are a part of the fish family.

They’re not like some kind of like reptilian…

Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean?

It’s its own…

They fall under fish.

Not related to the royal family, then?

Correct.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And did you know they can live up to a hundred years?

No.

Isn’t that insane?

Like, when I think about how old turtles are?

Hold on.

I have a question.

What eats eels?

Like, what is their predator?

Well, humans.

Humans?

Oh, yeah.

It’s part of sushi.

Sushi.

And I’m just going to assume other bigger fish.

I’m going to be honest.

Every time sushi has eel on it, I’m like, I could die from this.

Did I ever tell you about my care.com horror story?

There was a summer where I was in between jobs and I did care.com for a couple of months, and I got hired by this family that the wife was Ukrainian.

And the husband was Indian.

And they had these two identical twins.

And she made me lock up my phone when I would arrive.

I remember you telling me.

And she had nanny cameras in every single room.

And they stayed home the entire time.

They were just upstairs watching me.

And she made me-

This sounds like an experiment.

I wasn’t allowed to eat my own food because the girls had allergies.

So she made me eat their food.

And it was cold eel with like barbecue sauce.

And it was the, and I never went back.

I ghosted her.

I was like, I’m not coming back here.

Even though your girls are cute.

I’m not coming back here.

Start of a horror movie.

It really does.

She was sending me mean messages on care.com.

You’re like, you locked up my phone.

And anyways, I was like, let’s say the parents did leave.

I’d have no access to communicate with the parents other than the nanny one other than the nanny camp.

And they even have a home phone.

Yeah, very scary.

No one’s judging you about ghosting them.

Yeah, that was crazy.

So yeah, eels can live up to 100 years old.

They’re part of the fish family.

Their blood is poisonous.

Okay, I have a question.

Can they only breathe under water?

No, they can breathe.

Some breeds can live up to 48 hours above water.

They can live also without their heads.

They’re like worms.

If you cut their head off, the body keeps going for a couple hours.

Wait a second.

Can they grow?

No, I was like, yeah.

Yeah.

That’s what I was thinking.

So those are just some random fun facts.

But my particular focus today is going to be on their reproduction, because to this day, we have no idea how eels reproduce.

Do you know what I do know?

What?

The one fact I know about eels that I only learned after you mentioned eels.

What?

The only thing I know is that once a year, all the eels in the world travel to the Bermuda Triangle, and then suddenly there’s a whole bunch of baby eels.

I’m actually going to correct you.

Oh, okay.

There’s different types of eels that live in different oceans.

The American and European eels breed in the Bermuda Triangle.

But there’s also the Japanese eels that breed in the West Mariana Ridge.

Oh, so the Mariana’s Trench?

Yeah.

Well, so there’s different types of eels, and they breed in the either side of the…

So, but no matter what, they have to go somewhere to breed.

But we’ve not actually seen them.

We’ve never seen them.

We just know that after this, there’s a lot of…

Yeah, and I’m gonna get into how we’ve even come up with that.

So eels have been studied for as long as ancient Egypt.

They have been a phenomenon that historical scientists have been obsessed over.

Aristotle studied them, and his theories actually started the origin of eels.

We actually, for hundreds of years, assumed they just came up out of nowhere in water.

And Aristotle’s theory was around water and mud and eels creating in the mud.

And we just assumed that was fact until the 1800s.

Oh, wow.

So what did he think when they laid their eggs underneath?

In mud, and then when water hit it, it just formed.

That’s what he thought.

And there was also, Sigmund Freud was a huge…

He was obsessed with eels.

And he went on with…

That checks that.

He was obsessed with the fact that eels had no reproductive organs.

So he would go to fish towns, collect buckets and buckets of eels, dissect them, only to look for reproductive organs that he never found.

Okay.

There’s a lot wrong with Freud.

Yeah.

He was obsessed with finding gonads.

That’s all he wanted to do with gonads.

He loved his gonads.

But he never found them.

And no scientist, if you dissect an eel, you won’t find it.

So how do they reproduce?

In my opinion, it’s asexual reproduction.

Interesting that you think that.

We do learn more.

In 1886, there was another zoologist, Yves de Lège, who discovered a fact about eels that we never learned before.

Oh.

Eels are metamorphic.

So they can change.

They’re like butterflies.

And they go through five different stages.

Oh, I think I did.

Yeah.

We used to think these were like different species of eels.

But it’s really just an eel and different stage.

So yeah, we used to think they were completely different species.

We never coordinated them, because if you look at the pictures, they don’t look like, they don’t look alike, or they look like just different breeds.

So the first one is called a leptocephaly.

So that is when they’re past the larvae stage, and they look like a little flat see-through fish.

There’s glass eels, elvers, yellow, and then the end form, silver.

And that was the entire life cycle.

But we have no concept of how long they are in each cycle.

We don’t know how long are they leptocephaly, how long are they glass eels.

We don’t know, because we just cannot get ahold of them to track them.

They only grow reproductive organs only when they need them in that specific life cycle.

So you can find ovaries and testicles at a certain stage, but we haven’t been able to narrow it down, what age and what stage.

So they get them and then they go away?

Yeah, and we also don’t know why that happens.

Wait a second, but how do we know that…

So someone has found an eel with testicles and or ovaries.

Yeah, and they’ve also been using hormone injections on eels in laboratories.

Oh, that’s kind of sad.

They’ve been trying to reproduce, because eels actually, the American and European eels, are on the endangered species list, and so they’ve been trying to reproduce them.

And because we don’t know how they reproduce naturally, we’ve been trying to induce it in a lab by injecting them with hormones.

And we have been successful in creating the sexual reproductive organs in the labs, but not successful enough to reproduce babies.

Like, we haven’t gotten to that point yet.

Oh, so, well, they just gotta go to the Bermuda Triangle.

Yeah.

So, something there.

Something there.

Yeah.

So, I talked about the five stages.

Number one, the Leptosephaly only exists in the ocean.

Okay.

And a specific ocean, specifically a sea in the Sargasso Sea.

Sargasso.

You guys know where that is?

Nope.

It’s the Bermuda Triangle.

Oh.

So, it’s a circle of a sea.

They call it a sea within a sea.

Okay.

Because it is bordered by water currents only, no land.

And it loops around the Bermuda Triangle, and then extends into the Atlantic.

So, we’re gonna do a separate episode of the Bermuda Triangle.

Specifically, I’m gonna do the Bermuda Triangle.

Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is the 500,000 square mile area between Miami, Bermuda and San Juan.

So, it’s like Miami, Bermuda and San Juan form a triangle, and that area within that space is the Bermuda Triangle, where numerous instances of disappearances have been reported involving both ships and airplanes.

And there’s a lot of different theories to explain kind of these disappearances, but they think there’s a lot of weird environmental factors like strong currents.

We’ll talk about other theories in a future episode, but this is where a lot of these eels go to reproduce.

This is the only where they reproduce.

Sorry, this is where the English and American eels reproduce.

And if you look at the Mariana Trench or the Mariana Ridge, it’s the same type of environment.

It’s bordered by water currents only, similar temperatures, similar depths.

So that’s why we think that correlates.

But for today, I wonder, is it like similar pressures?

Yeah, I would assume so with the similar depths.

So the only reason why we know that they reproduce or can assume they reproduce in this Sargasso Sea is because we’ve studied the Leptosephali stage, the first stage of eels.

And so a scientist with the last name Schmidt traveled for months on the Atlantic Ocean.

Kait holding back a joke right now.

The video I watched didn’t say his first name.

They only said his last name.

Is it Winston?

Winston Schmidt.

But he was from Europe and he traveled from Europe to the Bermuda Triangle, the Sargasso Sea over months of a time.

And every couple meters, they would test the water looking for these Leptosephali and looking for eels.

And they monitored the amount of Leptosephali they found at what depth, what temperature, and they finally found a pattern where around the Sargasso Sea, they were finding the smallest Leptosephali, so the earliest born, and the most amount of Leptosephali in the Sargasso Sea.

So by taking those facts, we can make an educated guess that they are coming from that sea.

Okay.

But they didn’t see like eggs?

No.

Okay.

We’ve never seen that.

Okay.

Never found it.

Okay.

And never was successful in a lab to reproduce.

What if they’re coming out of like the magma?

The migration that these eels make in this Leptosephali stage is almost 6,000 kilometers.

So we have no idea like why, how they’re able to migrate that long.

We don’t know their migration trails like we do with like dolphins and seals, but we have not been able to successfully track these eels, other than finding them in different stages.

We don’t know their roots because they come from everywhere.

These eels are like in their adult form, are in like rivers, freshwater, brackish water.

They’re everywhere, but they all still come from the ocean.

Wait, I have a question.

Is there only certain seasons that they go to?

So you will find the most Leptosephali, so the most first stage during like the monsoon season in the Sargasso season, which is like a warmer, humid season.

But it’s like a yearly thing.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So we’ve never actually seen their eggs.

We’ve never actually seen their larvae.

We just know of the Leptosephali.

Yeah.

And how are you right?

How are the eels getting from like the ocean?

Yeah.

And we don’t know how long that migration takes.

So there’s so many variables.

Time, space, you know.

I also just want you guys to know in my process of learning about the eels, do you know we have a new ocean?

No.

Like officially declared, the South Ocean.

Oh.

It’s around Antarctica.

It’s its own ocean now.

Did you know that?

Wait, so there’s, how many oceans were there?

Five?

I thought it was five oceans, seven continents.

Indiana.

Indian.

So Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern.

Yeah.

Which is what you must be talking about.

Oh, just named in 2000.

Yeah.

It’s brand new.

So the new globes have it, not the old globes.

And it has its own like animal species.

Isn’t that crazy?

I said there were five oceans.

Couldn’t name it though.

Okay, Kait.

Anyways.

Yeah.

Anyways, I was also learning about different types of breeds of eels, and they all have the same lifestyle, but their adult form has the same name.

There’s different types.

So there’s parasitic eels.

And I learned in my process of researching this.

Guys, there were two parasitic eels found within a beating heart, within the beating heart of a great white shark off the coast of Montauk.

What?

Yeah.

They had no idea how I got into the bloodstream.

Isn’t that crazy?

Montauk experiments?

Were they coming from Plum Island?

I don’t know.

Or the aliens in the tunnels of Montauk?

And I’m like, are they studying eels?

Well, they probably are.

Oh, they’re definitely studying eels.

I 100% believe that eels are extraterrestrials.

Megan’s on one.

You’re laughing?

No, I agree.

Because eels and octopus, octopi, they’re up there.

Just learning about this eel situation, we just do not know anything about anything in the ocean.

Yeah.

And we also haven’t started questioning it until the 19th century.

That’s wild.

It’s crazy.

I mean, I didn’t start questioning it until we started this podcast, and you guys and Mermaid Girl were like, do you know how wild this sea is?

Yeah.

I want to talk about the Sargasso Sea a little bit more, just to get it more in-depth.

So it’s bound by water currents, no land.

It takes up two-thirds of the North Atlantic.

It loops around Bermuda and then stretches along east about 1,000 kilometers.

So that’s the size of it.

This is actually kind of the visual.

It looks like this on the, on the, like it has like the water chips.

There’s a potato chip bag that she’s using as-

It has a really good reference.

The reference.

It’s also known as the Golden Floating Rainforest.

Do you know why?

Also, it has an insane amount of seaweed just floating around.

Interesting.

And actually, this is not-

Is it Golden Seaweed?

I don’t know.

Oh, but I have-

My research on TikTok has taught me that this seaweed island, because of climate change, is expanding and growing and spreading way more than we want to because of the heat of the earth now.

And it also has the giant island of trash.

Have you heard about that?

No, but you know what I did see?

A lot of people were-

When you Google some of the mysteries around the ocean, one of them is like all this plastic that’s thrown in the ocean.

There’s an island.

Where it goes.

Is it like washed up onto an island?

We’re tracking it from satellites.

It’s that big.

You can see it from space now.

Oh.

And it’s trash and seaweed.

I bet.

Is it all straws?

That’s what we’re led to believe.

Plastic straws.

It was one straw, and it didn’t even kill the turtle, okay?

Let me have my diet cope with a plastic straw.

I think we should be more worried about the plastic wrapping around the coke.

Wait.

I think we should have more wine bottles than glass bottles that don’t even get recycled in 50% of places.

Yeah, but sea glass is a glorious treasure.

I love sea glass.

I’m actually pro glass in the sea.

I think we should talk about the plastic forks and knives that we all use.

That’s probably worse than the straws.

Let me just get, so we talked about Aristotle.

Ancient Egypt studied eels and they associated eels with their sun god or the god of sun, which I think is kind of interesting for when we get into ancient Egypt and when we talk about aliens in relation to Egypt, are the eels a part of that?

Also, this is a fun fact that I had no idea.

During the medieval times, eels were used as a currency because during Lent, they were told not to eat any meat that had, anything that came from an animal that had, like that did sex, right?

Because sex is bad.

So during Lent, people were directed to eat food that did not come from sinful acts.

And so the animals that were permitted were fish.

And a part of that was eels because eels had no testicles or gonads.

Oh, so they were allowed to be eaten.

And so it was used as a currency.

And during Lent was the time when all these towns were meant to pay taxes to the churches, and they would occasionally pay in bags of eels.

And how funny, isn’t that crazy?

Yeah.

So nowadays, there’s a lot of current day research on eels because of their endangered species.

And they’re focused on the reproduction and also the pollution effects, on how the pollution in the ocean is directly impacting the population of eels, which I found kind of interesting.

And we talked about how they grow them in labs and have yet to have any successful reproduction of eels in a lab.

But while the eels are in tanks, and it is that monsoon season, they will instinctually swim in the fish tank in the direction of the Bermuda Triangle.

Whoa.

So creepy.

They know that it is their breeding season, and they know they have to go there, whether or not they’re in a lab or not.

Oh, no.

This is giving extraterrestrial past.

Yeah.

It’s like, how do they know?

The mother is calling us back.

And actually, the country that knows the most about eels and is doing the most current day research is Japan.

I was about to say, is it Asian?

Well, eels is a huge part of their diet and their culture.

Sushi.

Yeah.

There’s so much sushi available.

And so they have been doing their own research and their own studies, and they have actually been able to localize spawning locations in the West Mariana Ridge.

So that’s where their eels come from.

They’ve actually collected fertilized eggs, but weren’t able to hatch them.

And they have tracked, tagged eels swimming towards spawn areas.

So they’ve been able to discover more details than we ever have.

Okay.

Because they’re spending money on it.

They’re focusing on it.

How creepy is that?

Yeah.

We have the eggs, but it’s like they know.

And you know, is it even creepier?

It’s like, it has to be close to the hive, you know?

It’s got to be close to the mother.

Yeah.

You know what’s even creepier?

Is that they’ve tracked down the spawning of the eggs and like the cracking of the eggs to within a few days of the new moon.

They only hatch when it’s the new moon.

Isn’t that weird?

That’s interesting.

And at a depth of about 150 to 200 meters.

So the depth of the water, I’m assuming that can correlate with the pressure of the water.

Why is it correlated with the moon?

I know the moon has to do with tides.

But what does the new moon’s effect on the water have?

When the sun, moon and earth are in alignment at the time of the new or full moon, the solar tide has an out of effect on the lunar tide, creating extra high, high tides and very low, low tides.

OK, so I’m sure that has to play a part with why it matters to them in the ocean.

But or just call me crazy.

OK, crazy.

But like everything was created on a rhythm.

Women are created on a like a cycle.

Yeah.

And men are created on a sun cycle.

Like we’re all eels, females, you know what I mean?

Since we can’t prove if they have testicles.

Well, we know they grow them at some point.

But what if they’re all like self reproducing females?

Oh, wait a second.

So you’re telling me, wait, I do now.

I’m like, wait a second.

Yeah.

We don’t even know the sex of an eel when we dissect it.

Why does this just occur to me?

That’s what I’m saying.

And then, all right, to connect it to another conspiracy that we may get into in the future.

Okay.

You ever heard of Nessie?

Yeah.

Ever heard of the Loch Ness Monster?

The Loch Ness.

Well, there is a lot of conspiracists that believe the Loch Ness Monster is just a giant eel.

And we have no proof that it’s not.

Well, yeah, because they can’t find it.

And we don’t actually know how big eels can get.

We know they can live a hundred years old, but we don’t know.

Well, this, I have facts that are trying to prove it against it being an eel.

And it’s like the probability of finding an eel that size in that amount of water is way too high.

Like, it’s not probable.

And then also, they say the probability of finding an eel that does the breaching behavior, where they like come to the surface is it would cost like a whale.

The famous photo.

Yeah.

They say it would cost too much energy for the eel to use for an area with not enough food sources.

So, essentially, they’re like, you’re wrong.

But also, I’m like, we don’t know anything about eels.

No.

Yeah.

What do eels eat?

So how do we know?

I think I also, I think I read the same article, article you did about is a Loch Ness monster, a giant eel, and they had the same fact as you.

And then the one other thing I saw was that it said, well, like based on the growth, the growth rate that we know, that they know from their studies of the eels.

They can’t get that big.

Yeah.

It would have to be over 200 years old to reach that size and they’ve never found an eel.

Hold on.

More than a hundred and four.

But we’ve also never explored the ocean.

Wait a second.

We’ve never found an eel that big.

Hold on.

I hear you.

What if the Loch Ness monster is just the mother of all eels?

We don’t know.

That’s the one who’s calling them back to the Bermuda sign.

Yes.

But she’s in Scotland.

Yeah, she could go.

That’s Europe.

You’re right.

It could be a European eel.

Yeah.

So you know what?

I don’t think that the Loch Ness monster is a giant eel, but you know what I do think it is?

What?

You believe in the Loch Ness monster?

I do.

I do too.

I believe in Megalodon.

Of course I believe.

What I think is that eels are extraterrestrials.

And pretty much while Colleen was researching eels, I was researching unidentified submersed objects, or UFOs.

We call them USOs.

We’re going to talk about that next week.

So I am researching this, and then I’m hearing what Colleen’s telling me, and like, I think I’ll leave it.

So here’s why I think that, as you mentioned, nobody knows where they come from.

They have no reproductive organs.

We talked about how they migrate to the Bermuda Triangle to somehow mate.

I mean, I was like, no matter where in the world they are, you corrected me.

They go to one of two places, but still two mysterious places, which by the way, are both thought similar environments, both thought to be potential areas of alien, of extraterrestrial colonies, water, which again, we’re going to talk about next week.

Oh my God.

They are the only water creature that can migrate saltwater to fresh water, then back to saltwater without dying.

Like you said, so they can adapt to all these different environments.

It’s crazy.

They can, as you said, they can live on land without water for 48 hours because they breathe out their skin and not through their gills.

What?

Yes.

How are they classified by fish?

There are so many variants of fish.

That’s the problem.

And then we’re going to talk in the USO episode about how…

Because we don’t know enough about fish.

Yes.

Well, specifically, they say, when we talk about the aliens, that there are potentially two species of aliens.

Okay, there’s the evidence we have.

If you had told me eight months ago that I would be making the schmeel, I would have said you were crazy.

Okay.

But based on the research…

It just makes sense.

We have the green aliens we think up with the big eyes.

Right.

And then we have these praying mantis-like aliens.

Okay.

So people are like, who’s to say there aren’t different species of aliens?

Right.

You’re forgetting the human reptilianzoids that are running the country.

You’re not wrong.

I am specifically referring to the two species of aliens in the water that we think might have colonies under the water.

Okay.

Right.

How could I forget those?

Who’s to say the eel isn’t like a third species?

Yeah.

Like its own species.

And we don’t know how deep they can actually go.

We have found them at such different depths.

Like, we don’t know what they can withstand again.

They can travel to the center of the earth, guys.

Yeah.

I mean, if I…

That’s what I just said.

Do they come from the magma?

Yeah.

Again, I said it on the Instagram trailer, but the Marianas Trench that we talked about, which is 36,000 feet deep, pressures at that sea floor are 16,000 pounds per square inch.

And at that level is where they have found these sea cucumbers that are living.

Am I selling you on this?

Yeah.

Kate’s nodding.

Could they be aliens?

Oh, oh, yeah.

I think octopi are aliens.

There is one fact I forgot to mention.

The American and English eels migrate 6,000 kilometers.

The Japanese only migrate 3,000.

So that’s where it’s like, I think the Europeans are a little bit more impressive.

European eels.

Thousand percent.

I agree that they could be extraterrestrial creatures or at least derived from extraterrestrial creatures.

Yeah.

Are we derived from extraterrestrial creatures?

The world may never know.

You know what?

We’re going to talk about that.

Scientologists think so.

You know what?

This is why we can’t send her to the Scientology.

I believe, I believe.

Yeah.

I think that they’re aliens, like the octopi.

Yeah.

I 100 percent think they’re extraterrestrials.

Yeah.

I think they, I would love to know their origin.

And also, I would love to know how much they haven’t changed compared to like dinosaur time to now.

Oh, yeah.

Like that is also interesting to me because I feel like they’re kind of like they just haven’t changed, they haven’t adapted.

It’s like so evolution isn’t real.

Well, I do believe in evolution within spirit, within species.

Like you do.

You always pull out these TikToks and blow my mind.

Yeah.

But all of my sources are not TikTok.

But this was inspired from TikTok.

I but no, I mean, I think I have never given Eels a second thought until now, whether or not I wanted to.

Yeah.

Until.

Oh, I’ve never given Eels second thought outside of the little mermaid.

I just don’t think I’ll ever.

I mean, I know I took one bite when I was babysitting.

I don’t think I’ll ever eat it again because it’s like, what if they are doing things to me?

No, but I do.

Isn’t there an eel type that you’re like, it could paralyze you if you eat it?

Wasn’t that a thing?

That’s an octopus.

That’s a squid.

I know what you’re talking about.

They can only, you can only eat it within a certain timeline of cutting it because it kills you.

Is that what you’re talking about?

The ink?

Oh, I don’t know.

There’s something about an eel.

I swear.

Google eel poisonous.

Blood is poisonous to humans and other mammals, but both cooking and the digestive process are fine.

It destroys the toxic protein.

Interesting.

Unlike poisonous steaks, eels do not have hollow teeth that contain venom, so unlike a snake bite, you won’t get sick or die from venom poisoning.

So I don’t understand how they would, then how is it poison?

The electric eels only get that aspect of them in their final form.

So like final destination.

Their final spawning, if you will.

It’s so weird, guys.

A dozen spawning.

But what generates the electric?

I didn’t research that, but that’s out there.

All right.

I only researched how they did it, it being italicized, you know what I mean?

Like brown, chicken brown?

Copulation.

That’s my word of the day.

Hey guys, electric eels can release an electric shock of up to 860 volts.

No, thank you.

When they’re in water, how do they not electrocute everything in the water?

You know what I mean?

Yeah, it doesn’t like water.

Also, you can put this earlier on in the episode, but does anybody else on their TikTok have that guy who has eels in his basement?

We aren’t on TikTok.

And in fact, I would say when Colleen sends a TikTok, I am able to open it.

But for the most part, Colleen and Mermaid Girl have to screenshot.

I have to screen record it and then send it in the group chat.

Every time I have to screen.

And then it builds up so much in my albums.

I don’t have to go through and delete them every once in a while.

There’s this guy on TikTok who has pet eels, and they’re just like in his basement.

So you go to his basement floor, and then he has like a drop hatch, and he opens it, and it’s just water and eels.

Nope.

Has he seen them reproduce?

No.

But they swim towards the Bermuda Triangle.

That is really funny.

Wait a second.

Could you imagine if you go out on like a Tinder date with a guy and he’s like, you want to come over?

And he’s like, you want to see my eels?

And I would think that’s a come on joke.

And then he just takes you to the basement and opens a trap door.

And she was never heard from again.

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Keep it spicy, add some seasoning.

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Add some season in.

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You-S-O.

Which Colleen just thought was a typo.

I did think you were spelling it wrong every single time.

Unidentified submerged object.

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