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Hello, Len!
Hello, Asami. How goes?
Goes are things. Is that right?
That sounds wrong, grammatically.
I don't know. It's early enough that I give free reign to any type of English manipulation.
It's too early to think grammatically correctly.
Anyway, it's been a while since we last recorded Cuz Life.
Cuz Life, yeah.
Spooky Lake Monthの紹介
It's already October, which brings this very important PSA for all of my nerdy friends, and that includes you, Len.
Right, yeah. So you sent me something the other day, which was just...
Yeah, what did I send it to you, like my cryptic message?
I think it was just, I have to talk about spooky lakes. And I was like, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I guess it's sort of the, you know, as you said, October month, the Halloween, you know, sort of season month for those that sort of celebrate.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I have no idea what that is. So are you going to enlighten me today?
Yes, yes. And you will not regret it for this annual celebration of spooky lake.
Okay.
So this creator, who is on TikTok and Instagram, I guess, called Gio Rutherford.
She is an artist, as well as limnology and geography education.
Okay. All right.
Your first thought, like mine, must be, what the hell is limnology?
Yep, yep. Googling it now. All right, go ahead. Now I'm on board.
So limnology, according to Wikipedia, is the study of inland aquatic ecosystem.
And it can be biological, chemical, physical, and geological characteristics.
Okay, I see how we're getting towards lakes.
That's fresh and saline, natural and man-made bodies of water.
So anything that has, you know, enclosed liquid on Earth, basically count.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait.
Yes.
Do puddles count?
Well, according to this definition, as long as it is some kind of bodies of water,
maybe it needs to sort of sustain its existence in somewhat of a consistent format, more than puddle.
Okay. All right. All right. Fine. I'll take it from there. Yep. Yep.
Right. But any wet bodies of water that exist in a somewhat sustained, consistent way,
count as a target for the study of limnology.
All right.
That's right.
Okay.
Anyway, so she, Gio, does this extremely entertaining and educational daily content for the month of October called Spooky Lake Month.
All right.
She shares her knowledge and enthusiasm for bodies of water that exist around the world,
including, you know, dams, lakes, pond, ocean, currents, waterfalls, all of these things.
Oh, wow. Okay. Yep.
But I think she's particularly interested in sort of like lakes, you know, like the enclosed bodies of water system.
And she shares for the month of October every day about sort of fun tidbits, fun and spooky tidbits,
of these lakes and bodies of water that exist on Earth.
And rates at the end of that episode, you know, how many spookies out of 10 it is, in her own opinion.
Okay. All right. How many spookies out of 10?
So, first of all, I have never been that interested in bodies of water on Earth, as much as she has,
until I saw her content.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
スプーキー・レイク・マンスの紹介
Until I saw her content and like, wow, the world is full of really weird bodies of water.
You know, some are small, some are giant, some are shallow, some are deep.
But it's very strange that one of the many characteristics of this planet Earth is having a bunch of water.
And I never sort of questioned how unique or how interesting each of these are.
And it's thanks to Gio that I have come to enjoy this.
So, I first encountered her contents last year and shared with some of my nerdy friends about this.
And we delighted for the month of October, reveling in these trivias of lakes that we didn't know.
And of course, come October 1st, 2025, I get a message from my friend saying,
Asami, it's Spooky Lake Month with the link of Gio's first content of the month.
And of course, I'm just like, oh my God, how did I forget to follow her and this entire delightful content about hydrology, limnology, you know, bodies of water.
So I will share this, you know, one of the episodes, maybe on the show notes to kind of get what she's about.
But there's a whole month worth of episodes. So that's like, you know, 31 episodes.
Some of them are like multi parts available from last year's archive.
So you have plenty to catch up, Len.
Yeah, if I've got at least, you know, a month in the past, plus this upcoming month.
And I will edit this episode as soon as possible and publish it so that listeners, you can also keep up with, you know, the ongoing October 2025's worth of Spooky Lake Month.
水の特性とスプーキーな側面
And she, I think, really strikes a great balance of being knowledgeable and sharing new knowledge that most people don't know about.
But at the same time, like not leaving people behind.
So there are lots of terminology, as you can imagine, like already words like limnology and stuff shows up.
But all the weird words to describe different types of water movement or water like currents.
They're like a bunch of words that are just not everyone's everyday vocabulary to think about.
And she does like she doesn't leave people behind while also keeping their entertaining aspects of it and keeping very much in line with the spookiness.
Because a surprising number of people die around bodies of water.
OK, I would say I'm surprised, but I'm not.
But OK, good. That's an addition of spookiness.
Some of these people, they go purposely deep diving into caves and get stuck and like die.
Yeah, I cannot explain why I am aware of this because I don't remember when it happened.
But I did become aware of like, I think I was reading a whole series of like science communication award collections.
And like one of them was a whole multi page piece on, you know, spelunking, right?
Like the cave sort of hunters and the attempts to like, they're basically trying to map out underwater bodies of water, which is where some of this is bringing me back to.
A lot of the spooky lake episode comes with the spelunking and a lot of underwater cave exploration episodes because apparently humans are not satisfied with, you know, mapping what we can see without getting wet.
And, you know, we must do that.
スプーキー湖の魅力
But yeah, like it's crazy what people did way before sophisticated instruments were developed and became available.
And also, it's very interesting how much we don't know about bodies of water.
Like we all kind of get drilled in our heads about how most of the ocean is unexplored.
But we don't really think about that kind of grand scale of things about lakes or like waterfalls, rivers, things like that.
We feel like we have a decent idea of what's going on to those.
And yet we don't. And there are so many interesting like combination of things like did you know that there's a volcanic lake?
Not just like a lake that happened as a result of volcanic eruption, but there's like a little volcano underneath the lake.
Like there are such lakes.
What I'm attempting, right.
And that's the silence is me attempting to sort of visualize, right.
This sort of like volcano under the lake type thing.
Yeah, it's it's wild.
And the tectonic plates are wild.
And it's just like I love her content because it reminds me of how little as humanity we collectively know about like things on Earth.
And yeah, the sort of like the length at which we try to go to try and understand them.
And also another one of her talents, other than being an excellent scientific communicator and educator, in my opinion, is that she's a really talented artist.
So she has an illustrated books about spooky lakes.
Okay, all right.
She illustrated and wrote the contents of the book itself as well.
And it's, it's really, it's really cool.
So she knows a thing or two about visual sort of cues and visual communications.
And she has this like really interesting passion and knowledge for spooky lakes.
So I think it's worth checking her content out.
And it is a month of October.
As we recorded, it's still 15th of October.
Hopefully the episode comes out pretty soon after so.
Right, so that everyone can get caught up before the end.
Yep.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Even if you don't, there's last year's spooky lake months that you can check out at her Instagram at Geodesaurus.
So like Geo, like Geography Desaurus, like the dinosaur.
Wait, hold on.
I get it now.
I didn't get it before.
Now I get it.
Aha.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right.
It's Geode and like dinosaur.
Yes.
In terms of.
Okay.
Like Saurus.
Yes.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I'm sure we'll, I'm sure we'll include a link or something to that in the footnotes,
because that's going to be hard for I think our listeners to spell out.
But I think it's like an interesting sort of mix too, because it does involve a lot of physics, right?
Like a lot of fluid dynamics comes in play.
Sure.
Right.
Like current or vortex and things like that of nature.
But also there's a lot of chemical components in it.
Like how some gas buildup happens inside the lake, or she even looks at some radioactive lakes.
So a lot of like kind of, you know, if you're interested, if you're not necessarily like, oh, I'm not interested in geology.
スプーキー湖月の紹介
Well, maybe, you know, if you're interested in like anything surrounding it, like chemistry, biology, physics.
Yeah, I think it would like tickle some bits of your brain spot.
So very accessible, I think, to a lot of people.
This is already fascinating me.
I mean, I'm looking at the book going, you know, maybe I'll try to get my hands on this.
I think it's a beautiful book.
Yeah, it looks really, really well illustrated.
And I went to the website.
And there are also apparently wall calendars in case people prefer a wall calendar.
And there is a coloring book that apparently may have just come out.
Oh, okay.
Which I mean, so if you know, if you want some cool lake stuff, and you don't want just the book with all of her like, you know, grand description and explanation, you want one that seems more, you know, hands on that you can you can color in yourself.
There you go.
Like, you got something for everyone.
Oh, that's so awesome.
So, yeah, I think I think it's great.
And also, just like as a last thing, every year, I mean, I guess the summer has passed ish.
But every summer, you hear a news about a very tragic news about, you know, someone severely injuring or losing their lives, trying to rescue someone or thing that got drawn in like river and like, you know, water places.
And I think this is like, she really does a good job about how really, really dangerous bodies of water can be.
Okay.
All right.
And it's a warning to everyone look like quaint and very calm on the surface.
I think like watching her videos just like makes me really nervous about getting into bodies of water, even if it's deep, because it's like, I am now aware of the dangers of aerated water.
And now aware of dangers of undercurrents and stuff like that.
Ah, okay.
All right, this.
So good, good, good reminder to just in case you're not scared of nature enough.
Yeah, in case you're not scared of nature enough.
If you are already very scared of nature, maybe pass this one up.
Instead of adding a new phobia to your list of things or more reasons to be scared.
So everyone check out the Spooky Lake Month by Gio Rutherford on Instagram.
And I guess also on TikTok as Gio Desaurus.
I'll put the link on the show notes.
危険を再認識する
I'm going to go look for some sort of spooky lake next to me and just take a quick dip.
You know, I think that might be it.
Just before I read the book.
This might be the last time we hear from Len.
Yeah.
In that case, I'll deliver.
I'll be the bearer of the sad news.
This one looks pretty safe.
Splash.
Bye all.
All right.
Bye.
That's it for the show today.
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