The Breakfast Club - Adventures of Curiosity Cove: Katie The Cuttle Fish

Episode Date: January 4, 2026

The Black Effect Presents... Adventures of Curiosity Cove! In this episode of Animal Apprentice, Katie the Cuttlefish shows us why life under the sea is full of color, camouflage, and clever tricks. We’ll learn how she changes her skin into dazzling patterns, why she has not one…not two…but threehearts, and how she squirts ink to escape trouble in a flash. And wait—did she just hypnotize her dinner with stripes? Come see for yourself!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Pencil to paper, sketching new art on this page. What kind of journey will this drawing bring to life? Today, another adventure awaits for you. Scout and Layla might come along to it's imagination time at Curiosity Cove Curiosity Cove it's a magical place come true welcome to adventures of curiosity cove Hello, and welcome back to season three of Adventures of Curiosity Cove.

It's me Ella the Curious. And whether you're joining us for the first time or coming back for more adventures, I'm so thrilled to have you here. This season, we'll dive into brand new adventures from my tree house. Think cozy beanbags, fluffy pillows, and of course my favorite stuffy row, right by my side. peaceful, almost like my mom just used her relaxing dream spray, perfect for story time. Today I get to introduce you to a new series called Animal Apprentice. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up as a brand new animal, deep in the ocean,

high in the jungle canopy, or out on the wide Sirengeti? An animal apprentice you step into the tiny paws, claws, wings, or fins of a baby animal seeing the world for the first time. Each episode, a wise grown-up animal becomes your guide, teaching you how to survive and discover your special traits. So what are we waiting for? Let's dive in. Katie the Cuddlefish.

Oh, M.G. Hi, little cutlet. Look at how cute you are. Yes, I do. just called you a cutlet. Cutlet's the name of a baby cuttlefish, which you are. Welcome to the ocean. You must have been just born.

I just saw all your brothers and sisters swim by. There were so many of you. I couldn't tell the number because I can't count that fast. I just know that when a mother cuttlefish gives birth, she gives birth to 100 to 300 babies. Oh, look how time. tiny and cute you are. I know you can't see you,

but you're like the size of a tic-tac or a pearl, or a bead, or a clareton pill, or a... Okay, that's enough. My name's Katie. I'm a two-month-old cuddlfish. That's why I'm so much bigger than you.

I'm practically a teenager. I mean, I'm not going to be old for an entire year. My great-grandma lived to be one year and six months old. We were all like, whoa, great-grandma, are you shooting for two years old? But she didn't make it to two. She senesensed. That means she just deteriorated on the spot. That happens around one to two years for us cuttlefish.

But you don't have to worry about that. That's like forever away. And seems really peaceful. Whoa. I got to tell you a cool fact I just learned from my mom. So like 400 million years ago or so, You would have been bored and with a hard exterior shell. All of us cuttlefish used to have shells like a mollusk

until one brave cuttlefish said, I can't take it anymore! This shell is weighing me down and I need to be free! And he just ditched his shell to go hunt and the rest is history. We're free of a big shell because of that fella, or gal. I wish I could have met him or her to thank whoever it was. Okay, so I'm sure you're crazy hungry. Good news, you could start hunting right now.

Yeah, like right from birth, you can start hunting for your own food. Let me see, let me see. Oh, what's on the menu today? What are you hungry for? Ah, brine shrimp, 10 o'clock, just right over there. See that little shrimp swimming around saying, Cudlin, come eat me. I'm tasty

You're hungry Quick rundown first See my cute little skirt You have one too That's how we swim backward and forward But if you have to make a dash for it You could squirt water out of your gut In any direction and propel yourself

In the opposite direction Similar to a car or a plane But the best hunting technique is to be Super calm And patient sneak up on your prey. Prey is any animal hunted by another animal and show them your dazzling lights and skirt.

In your little pea-sized body, you have around 1 million chromatophores. That's just a fancy word for cells that produce color. What does that all mean? That means that you can change the color and the shape or texture of your skin. your skin can expand and contract how cool is that you're like a mini marvel character i'm sure you noticed you have some cool new set of peepers look into my eyes you see my eyes look like charlie brown's weird smirk or a super squiggly w or a smile that has a bump in the center yeah our eyes are pretty amazing and beautiful unlike any other creature on earth we have a binocular

vision where we can see all around our body. No blind spots here, and yep, it's black and white, but we can see contrast and polarization really well. Have you ever looked through polarizing sunglasses? It's like seeing the world in a different way. Everything pops out, including depth, color, and movement. Our eyes are out of this world. Well, I mean in our body, but they're really.

really cool, unlike any other eye on this planet. Oh, and we have three hearts. So if you're going to sing a song with the word heart in it, you'll have to change it to plural hearts. Like, total eclipse of the hearts. Or, quit playing games with my hearts. Or, everybody's got a hungry heart. Or, don't go breaking my hearts.

Elton, John, no? Anyway, you have five senses. You might think you don't have smell underwater, but guess what? You do. Yep. Sight, obviously, we already discussed, smell, taste, hearing, and do you think touch? I mean, we can do that with our tentacles, but our major, sense is balance. We can all use a little of that, you know what I'm saying? We need this

balance for everything, hunting, swimming. So, hearing is a big one. Recently, we've been having a hard time with this sense due to all the humans and their big machines. I mean, I don't blame them. They're just trying to live, but the sounds affect how we listen for prey. We can hear super low frequency sounds, so we can tell when a bigger fish is trying to sneak up on us. Well, I think I told you enough, and I'm sure you're ready to go live your best life. So go find a comfy spot in the sand and cover yourself up to your eyes. That's what all the little babies do to hide from prey until they grow up. It was so nice talking to you, and I wish you a super happy and healthy life.

I hope you live to like two years and a day old. Ciao. A dazzling skirt that helps them swim in any direction that they want. I'm going to try that. Maybe in my bathtub. Anyway, it's really cool. I hope you enjoyed our podcast story as much as I did today. Boy, was I comfy and cozy and all tuned in.

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It's always, see you later. Adventures of Curiosity Cove was created by Tika Sumter and Nicholas Muscarella. written by Nicholas James Muscarella. Adventures of Curiosity Cove's theme song was written and composed by Maddie Lim and sung by Laura Serafein, engineered by Robert Alt Shuler, sound effects by Command Creative Studios.

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