1.1. The octopus teacher

The octopus teacher
Calidad
Velocidad

  • [birds squawking]

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  • [man] I remember the day when it all started.

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  • Seeing this really strange… thing.

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  • A lot of people say that an octopus is like an alien.

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  • But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them,

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  • you realize that we're very similar in a lot of ways.

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  • It's a hard thing to explain,

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  • but sometimes you just get a feeling

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  • and you know there's something to this creature that's very unusual.

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  • There's something to learn here.

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  • I had to have a radical change in my life.

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  • And the only way I knew how to do it was to be in this ocean with her.

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  • And then I had this crazy idea.

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  • What happens if I just went every day?

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  • But you realize that there's a line that can't be crossed.

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  • You start thinking about your own vulnerability.

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  • Worried about your family or child.

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  • I hadn't been a person that was overly sentimental towards animals before.

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  • I realized I was changing.

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  • My relationship with people, with humans, was changing.

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  • What she taught me was to feel...

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  • that you're part of this place, not a visitor.

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  • that you're part of this place, not a visitor.

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