All language subtitles for Weird.But.True.S02E07_English

CHARLIE: Hey
guys, Charlie here.

CHARLIE: You know
my sister Kirby.

KIRBY: Hey, guys!

CHARLIE: Today we
are hanging out...

...underwater in Hawaii,

checking out some coral reefs.

KIRBY: Coral might feel like
rocks and look like plants,

but they're actually animals!

CHARLIE: It's time
for Weird But True!

(theme music plays)

CHARLIE: So we just
like dump the food right?
Like one big dump?

KIRBY: I'm pretty sure it's
more like a pinch and a toss,

like sprinkles on
a cupcake, you know?

CHARLIE: Yeah.
Hey guys!

You're not gonna
believe what showed up today.

KIRBY: What the heck is this?

CASEY: Guys!
I am so glad you're here.

I have a super busy day today.

I have clarinet lessons,
and tutoring sessions
and I'm in a bit of a jam.

CASEY: Patrick just left
for summer camp today and
put me in charge of this,

his coral reef aquarium,
because, you know, I
work at the aquarium.

CHARLIE: Wait, don't you
volunteer at the aquarium?

KIRBY: In the gift shop?

CASEY: I've just got a
million things going on today
and I was thinking that it

would be the perfect
project for you guys.

CHARLIE: I mean, we
were gonna spend the day.

CASEY: Perfect!
You know, I gotta run.

I really gotta go,
so um thank you! Bye!

CHARLIE: Two fish tanks!

KIRBY: Pat loves these fish.

CHARLIE: And I guess
that's where he grows
his aquatic plants?

KIRBY: It all looks
kind of complicated.

CHARLIE: Yeah, I'm not even
really sure what coral is.

KIRBY: Me neither, but
we gotta figure out how
to keep this all alive.

CHARLIE: I guess
that means today, we're
unraveling the world of...

BOTH: Coral reefs!

CHARLIE: I mean, how
hard can this really be?

KIRBY: You just like
throw the food in.

CHARLIE: Yeah.
The fish swim around, and
the coral just looks pretty.

KIRBY: Pat left a
note, let's check it out.

PATRICK: Casey, important!

Splish, Splash,
Flip, Flop, and Colonel
Archibald Billingsworth

are all friendly. But!

Feed Rainbow and
Dr. Sparkles separately!

They are the damselfish,
just like at the aquarium.

With love, Patrick.

KIRBY: What's a damselfish?

CHARLIE: I have
absolutely no idea.

KIRBY: Me neither.

CHARLIE: To the books!

CHARLIE: So this says
you can identify fish
based on the different

shapes of their bodies.

KIRBY: Like the
fins or the tail.

CHARLIE: Exactly.

KIRBY: Oh my gosh, this
is just like that show!

CHARLIE: The one where
they help people identify
antiques from their attics?

KIRBY: Yeah!
CHARLIE: I love that show!

Let's see what kind of
fish we got in our tank.

CHARLIE: So what can you tell
me about these pieces that
you've brought in today?

KIRBY: Well it's
a series of three
paintings all of fish

from my grandson
Patrick's fish tank.

CHARLIE: Well, I was very
excited when you brought
these to my table.

The best way to approach
pieces like this, when you're
trying to identify the fish,

is by looking at
different shapes.

CHARLIE: So if we start
at the front here you
have a wonderful example

of a terminal mouth.

It's paired with a long
continuous dorsal fin,
and a tail that is

very slightly forked.

CHARLIE: Now, I talked
with my colleagues and we
believe that this is a great

example of the damselfish.

Let's take a look
at the next one.

CHARLIE: This is
an iconic design.

You have a very long
snout, it's paired with
a spiked dorsal fin

and a tail that is
much more truncated.

CHARLIE: I'm fairly confident
in saying that this is a
longnose butterflyfish.

KIRBY: Ooo!
How special.

CHARLIE: But the next
one is the one that got
us very excited.

Here we have some whiskers.

These are called barbels.

CHARLIE: They're paired
with two separate dorsal fins,

and a tail that is much
more forked than the others.

CHARLIE: We don't see a
lot of these coming in.

This is a fine
example of a goatfish.

And, I'm pleased to
tell you that at auction this
collection of three paintings

would get around,
a bagillion dollars.

KIRBY: A bagillion dollars!
For these fish?

Oh I must tell Patrick!
Oh I'm so excited!

CHARLIE: I guess the orange
one and the rainbowy one are
goatfish and then the yellow

one and the tiger stripey one,
probably the butterflyfish.

So that means these two
blue guys are the damselfish.

KIRBY: So, we just have
to feed them on opposite
sides of the tank.

Come here guys, separate.

Come this way.

I'll give you some food.

Amazing.

KIRBY: And sprinkle,
sprinkle, sprinkle.

Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.

Boom!
We're crushing
this fish thing.

We just feed them, they have
a good time and the coral
just kind of like chills.

CHARLIE: And shoot
giant tentacles that
strangle the other coral?

KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: What the heck?

Look at this thing Kirb!

KIRBY: We need more books!

CHARLIE: So there's nothing
about coral in the plant book.

KIRBY: Yeah, nothing
in geology either.

CHARLIE: Hmm, it's right here.

KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: Yeah, check it out.
Apparently coral is an animal.

CHARLIE (off-screen):
What we think of as coral
is a structure made up of

thousands of tiny animals.

Some can be no
bigger than a pinhead.

They're animals
related to jellyfish.

KIRBY: They're animals,
related to jellyfish?

What are you talking
about, let me see that.

KIRBY (off-screen):
One individual coral polyp
is made of an exoskeleton,

a big giant
stomach, and tentacles.

KIRBY (off-screen): All of
the individual coral polyps can

be linked together
by a coenosarc.

Cool science word!
Coenosarc.

It's like a pipeline
system that lets them
share nutrients.

KIRBY: That's so weird.

CHARLIE: What
else does it say?

CHARLIE (off-screen):
Microscopic algae live within
coral polyps,

providing them with food,
and giving them their color.

KIRBY: Let me
read the next part.

KIRBY (off-screen):
Coral also use their
tentacles to sting plankton

and bring them to their mouths.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Some
have extra-long tentacles,
called sweeper tentacles,

they use to sting
neighboring corals that
might be getting too close.

CHARLIE: So, those are
sweeper tentacles in the tank!

That coral is
attacking other corals!

KIRBY: Not today coral.

CHARLIE: Hmm, come
on, guy, you got it.

There we go.

Hmm. Ah.

KIRBY: Now it can't
reach the other ones.

Problem solved.

CHARLIE: What do you think?
We should take a break?

How about we record an
episode of "Crafternoons"?

KIRBY: You know I'm down.
CHARLIE: Let's do it.

CHARLIE: And that
completes our list
of the 100 differences

between goldenrod and dandelion.

KIRBY: Next up.

Moving on to the pros
and cons of cerulean.

CASEY: What happened?

CHARLIE: What's going on?

CASEY: It's green!

KIRBY: What's all
this junk on the walls?

CHARLIE: Uhh.
This doesn't look good.

CASEY: What was Patrick
thinking leaving us in charge
of these things?

I'm running late for a
meeting at the soup kitchen,
and I don't have time to fix

any of this right now.

KIRBY: Maybe say
you're too busy?

CASEY: No, no.
It's not too much, it's never
too much I can do this right?

CHARLIE: Case! Relax.
We got this.

Alright, here's the game plan.

You stay down here
and watch the fish.

Video chat into your
soup kitchen meeting.

KIRBY: We'll figure this out.

CASEY: Okay,
but hurry, please.

CHARLIE: Uh where
are we gonna go?

KIRBY: I know this guy,
Dr. Alan Friedlander.

He's a National
Geographic scientist.

And him and his team
are cleaning up and
saving coral reefs,

just like Pat's,
but in the ocean.

CHARLIE: Oh my gosh!
That's perfect!

They can
definitely help us out.

We'll see you guys there.

KIRBY: Ok.
CHARLIE: Let's,
let's find a plane.

CHARLIE (off-screen): And just
like that, we're headed to the
middle of the Pacific Ocean

to dive the coral reefs
around Honolulu, Hawaii.

Honolulu is famous for
hula dancing and surfing.

KIRBY (off-screen):
Weird but true, some fish can
change from male to female.

CHARLIE: Hey guys,
we just made it here
outside Honolulu in Hawaii.

KIRBY: And we're here at the
Anuenue Fish Research Center.

CHARLIE: To meet Brian
from the Department of
Aquatic Resources.

They take care of the entire
coastline here in Hawaii.

And also Alan from
the Pristine Seas Project.

He's traveled the entire
world saving the oceans.

KIRBY: So if anyone can
help us it's these guys.

Let's go.

ALAN: Weird but true,
parrotfish eat coral and
a single parrotfish creates

about 500 pounds of sand
a year that it poops out.

CHARLIE: Here's the situation,
back home we're helping our
sister watch our friend's tank

and it's really
not going well.

Algae is building up on the
sides of the walls and we
have no idea how to fix it.

CHARLIE: Do you guys
think you can help us out?

ALAN: Your problem you just
described is a problem that's
going on in the whole world.

The oceans in
general are not doing well.

The project with National
Geographic Pristine Seas that
we have is we're trying to

seek out the last wild places
in the ocean, places that
really haven't been impacted

by people yet.

ALAN: And this gives
us an idea of what
natural systems look like.

CHARLIE (off-screen):
Alan's sharing lessons
they've learned from healthy

reefs to help Brian
fix a big algae problem.

Algae are aquatic organisms
that range in size from
microscopic to large seaweeds.

BRIAN: Kind of like your fish
tank, invasive seaweed is
really bad for our reefs.

CHARLIE: Why is it
such a bad thing?

BRIAN: Since it's not
naturally from here,
it doesn't have

its natural predators.

BRIAN: And so it just
soon became out of control.

ALAN: The problem with
invasive species are that
the naturally occurring

things in the ecosystem
don't recognize them, so
they just kind of explode

and take advantage
of the situation.

CHARLIE: So this algae
is an invasive species?

ALAN: It certainly is.

CHARLIE: We know all
about invasive species.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Invasive
species are perfectly fine in
their native habitats,

where they have predators
and competition to keep
them in check.

But when they're
moved to new locations,
they might have no

predators and competition.

So, they take over which
can be very harmful to
that new ecosystem.

CHARLIE (off-screen):
And that's what happened
in Kane'ohe Bay,

with non-native algae.

CHARLIE: What a beautiful bay.

Ooh! The sun!

We should farm here.

KIRBY: What should we farm?

CHARLIE: This stuff,
algae from the Philippines,
they put it in everything.

KIRBY: We'll make millions.
CHARLIE: What could go wrong?

CHARLIE: This just in, the
algae market is down, it
escaped its underwater pens,

and is slowly taking over the
coral reefs in Kane'ohe Bay!

CHARLIE (off-screen):
We're heading out to the
reef to see what the

invasive seaweed has
done to the coral.

ALAN: This is Kane'ohe Bay.

And this reef's
pretty degraded.

There's a lot of algae
that's invaded and kind
of smothered the coral,

the corals die, and
it's just an unhealthy,
out-of-balance ecosystem.

CHARLIE: Ready to hop in?
ALAN: Let's do it, guys.

♪ ♪

CHARLIE: This is
the invasive stuff.

CHARLIE: That's choking out...

...this reef.

CHARLIE: Under all
this coral it's just...

...layers and
layers of this algae...

...just weaving itself through.

KIRBY: All this algae is
suffocating the coral.

KIRBY: There aren't too
many fish over here either.

KIRBY: Fish are losing houses.

KIRBY: This stuff is bad news.

ALAN: How'd it go, guys?
CHARLIE: It was a good dive.

It was rough to see all
that algae down there though.

ALAN: Yeah.
KIRBY: For sure.
ALAN: Pesky stuff huh?

CHARLIE: Yeah.
KIRBY: Yeah.

ALAN: It just gets to all
the cracks and crevices.
KIRBY: Yeah.

CHARLIE: And
that's the hard thing.

It really cements
itself down there.

ALAN: Yeah.

And it ruins the habitat for
all the rest of the critters
that are trying to live in

there, cause it just
takes over everything.

KIRBY: That's crazy.

CHARLIE (off-screen): As bad
as the coral looks here, on
another part of the reef,

they've come up with a really
cool solution that they're
anxious to show us.

BRIAN: To try to get
rid of this stuff.

We went in with an underwater
vacuum system and hand
removed the algae and

then to keep it from growing
back afterwards we put sea
urchins out on the reef.

KIRBY (off-screen): It
turns out that sea urchins
love to eat lots of seaweed.

They say it's just
like goats eating grass.

And the really good news
is that these sea urchins
are native to these

Hawaiian coral reefs.

CHARLIE: So is this like
a cleaned reef after you
guys have been able to get

in and do your work?

BRIAN: Yeah, urchins have
been at work here for
about two years now.

It'll stay nice and healthy
as long as those urchins
are out there eating it

and keeping the seaweed at bay.

CHARLIE: Nice,
I'm ready to go.
KIRBY: I'm ready to go.

ALAN: Alright,
let's do it guys.

CHARLIE: You guys
ready to dive in?
Let's go underwater.

KIRBY: So this is
a healthy reef.

KIRBY: It's filled
with glistening coral.

KIRBY: There's barely
any algae anywhere.

KIRBY: There's pinks and
purples and yellows.

CHARLIE: I haven't
seen any algae...

...in this whole area.

KIRBY: These urchins
are nailing their job.

KIRBY: Maybe Pat could use
a few urchins back home.

KIRBY: This is pretty amazing!

BRIAN: In total we've put over
300,000 of these little guys
out onto the reef so far.

KIRBY: They were
all raised here.

BRIAN: That were all
raised here in this facility.

KIRBY: That's awesome.
CHARLIE: What is a sea urchin?

BRIAN: They're really
cool little creatures
covered in spikes,

and that protects them and
keeps things from eating them,
but then they also have little

tube feet, and that's how the
urchins actually crawl around.

CHARLIE: See ya, bud.
KIRBY: Bye.

KIRBY: Whoa.

CHARLIE: Whoa.
That's a giant.
KIRBY: That's crazy.

BRIAN: These are about a year
and a half old, and so now
you can really see those

tube feet that we were talking
about with the little ones.

KIRBY: Are these his teeth
or his mouth or something?

What's going on?

BRIAN: Yeah, so that's his
mouth moving up and down.

CHARLIE: Ugh.

KIRBY: That's so weird
it's like 5 little beaks
coming forward.

BRIAN: It's like
something from a horror
movie, doesn't it?

KIRBY: Kind of.
That's crazy.

Sounds like these
urchins are kind of like
reestablishing the balance

of their ecosystem.

ALAN: You know, everything
has to be in balance, right?

If one thing's missing
from the ecosystem it
all goes out of whack.

It's complicated, but yet
nature does a great job
of taking care of itself.

KIRBY: So we know how
to get rid of the algae
and make it stay away.

I think we're
gonna fix the tank.

(Phone buzzing).

CHARLIE: Dude yeah
without a doubt.

We got a bunch
of voicemails from Casey.

CASEY: Hey Charles,
it's Case, just you know,
things are getting kind of

green in the tank.

Call me back. Bye.

CASEY: If you could call me
back ASAP that'd be awesome.

Thanks.

CASEY: Where the
heck are you guys?

I can't handle this stress!
Call me back.

CHARLIE: She's freaking out.
KIRBY: Is it bad?
CHARLIE: It's bad.

KIRBY: We gotta go.

CHARLIE: Alright guys,
we'll head back to HQ,
we gotta help Casey out.

See you soon.
Quick!

KIRBY (off-screen):
Weird but true, the surface
of the Atlantic Ocean is

saltier than the surface
of the Pacific Ocean!

CHARLIE: Hey Casey!
CASEY: Guys!

KIRBY: How's it going?
CASEY: Terrible.

There's green stuff all over
the walls of the tank, and
I told Bob like an hour

ago that I'd teach him how
to play racquetball.

CHARLIE: Don't worry about it.

We can handle it,
just tell Bob we say hi.

CASEY: Oh my gosh
you guys are the best!

Thanks! Bye!

CHARLIE: Okay, so it seems
like the same problem as the
reefs in Hawaii, right?

All this green stuff
is just tiny algae.

KIRBY: Yeah, and the first
thing they did was remove it.

So.

CHARLIE: This is
looking amazing, but
we're not done yet.

Remember back in Hawaii
after they took the algae out,
they put some sea urchins

in to make sure that it
didn't grow back.

KIRBY: We don't
have any sea urchins.

CHARLIE: Yeah. We gotta to
be missing something, right?

I mean, Patrick was able
to make this thing work.

KIRBY: Charlie!
CHARLIE: Whoa!

There are a bunch of little
bugs in here, swimming around!

What's going on, Kirb?

KIRBY: I think this
tank is called a refugium.

CHARLIE: What is a refugium?

KIRBY: Hi, Kirby
here for refugium.

Your filtration specialist.

KIRBY: This supplemental
tank shares water with
your main tank,

is powered by sunlight,
activated by fish poop,
is safe for your fish

and Mother Nature approved.

I'm talking about
macroinvertebrates
that eat fish poop,

and other
beneficial microalgae.

Both of which keep
the nutrients in your
tank in check.

KIRBY: Look over here, by
absorbing the fish waste and
balancing the chemicals in the

tank, these organisms are
taking nutrients away from the
bad algae in the main tank and

promoting a healthier
environment for your fish.

What I need from you is
to call in the next 4 minutes
to get your very own refugium

and we'll throw in a
microalgae starter kit, a
giant beat up shark and heck,

why not, my brother, Charlie.

CHARLIE: Okay, so I guess
this isn't just an empty
tank without any fish.

KIRBY: Yeah, this refugium is
a filtration system with tiny
little organisms in it to

make this a balanced ecosystem.

CHARLIE: How cool is that,
tiny little organisms and
little plants can have

a huge role in a coral reef.

KIRBY: Yeah, and I guess
we just have to connect
the two tanks then.

CHARLIE: Yeah, definitely
not plugged in here.

And, they're connected!

KIRBY: Boom!

Natural
filtration is back online.

CHARLIE: This is
looking pretty good,
Kirb, not gonna lie.

KIRBY: What can we do
to make sure this is in
the perfect condition?

CHARLIE (off-screen):
I don't know.

What could possibly be
left for us to diagnose?

CHARLIE: Hey, Earth.

KIRBY: How have you
been feeling recently?

CHARLIE: I'm gonna
have to ask you to take
a deep breath for me.

KIRBY: And open up wide
so I can take your temp.

KIRBY: Hmm, a
bit above normal.

CHARLIE: We're gonna
have to take a look at
your coral real quick.

Oop, very white.

You're suffering
from coral bleaching.

CHARLIE (off-screen):
That's when the coral gets so
stressed from the increased

ocean temperatures, it
expels the good algae inside
of it that gives it food,

and its color,
turning it white.

The coral cannot
survive without their
algae for very long.

KIRBY: And if we look at
your file from 1998, it looks
like you lost 16% of your

coral due to a worldwide
bleaching event.

KIRBY: It seems to be
getting worse every day.

CHARLIE: You're
taking in a lot of CO2.

CHARLIE: It looks like
your oceans are absorbing
22 million tons of

CO2 every single day.

KIRBY: Look, your water sample
just came in from the lab, and
it looks like all that CO2 is

causing all of your
waters to become more acidic.

KIRBY (off-screen):
Ocean acidification makes
it hard for corals to

grow their skeletons.

CHARLIE: You're suffering from
coral bleaching and ocean
acidification.

So, I'm gonna have to
recommend that you reduce your
daily intake of CO2 and

encourage your caretakers,
the people of Earth, to
reduce their contribution

to climate change, too.

KIRBY: We're rooting for ya.

CHARLIE: Okay, so coral reefs
thrive at specific
temperatures and PH levels.

Hmm, oh!

This one's a little frigid.

I'm sure we got to plug
into the heater or something.

CHARLIE: Now we got to
do a bunch of tests,
on like ammonia,

nitrates, we do
PH, and oxygen, too.

KIRBY: Keeping a tank
is kind of difficult.

CASEY: Hey guys!

Sorry I was gone,
but I'm here now.

And this looks amazing.

KIRBY: Yeah, we connected
two symbiotic ecosystems,

and we regulated the
water temperature.

You want to feed them?

CASEY: For sure!

CASEY: Guys.

KIRBY: What?
CASEY: Where's the last fish?

CHARLIE: What are
you talking about?

CASEY: In Patrick's note,
he said there were 7 fish.

Flip, Flop, Splish, Splash,
Rainbow, Dr. Sparkles,

and Colonel Archibald
Billingsworth.

There are only 6 fish here.

KIRBY: We lost a fish?
CHARLIE: Wait, we
didn't lose a fish.

This is how it always looked.

CASEY: Oh, my gosh.

CHARLIE: Don't
worry about it, Case.

I'm sure Kirb and I
figure this one out, too.

CASEY: No, no, I'm done
handing out responsibilities.

Guys, give me some space.

I've got a fish to find.

CHARLIE: Hey guys.

KIRBY: Case has
been researching for
like an hour and a half.

CHARLIE: She's
missed three meetings.

KIRBY: She's not
answering her phone.

CHARLIE: It's crazy.

CASEY: I got it!
CHARLIE: Where is it?

CASEY: Right here.
It's a stonefish.

KIRBY: Woah.

CASEY: Yeah, he looks way
more like a stone than a fish.

And he wasn't lost at
all, we couldn't see him.

CHARLIE: That's a
super close call.

CASEY: Way too
close of a call for me.

That's why I'm clearing out
time in my schedule to make
responsibilities like

this one more of a priority.

Nothing's falling
through the cracks.

KIRBY: Probably a good idea.

CHARLIE: You want to know
the craziest thing, though?

Patrick has no idea that
any of this is happening.

KIRBY: Should we
craft him a letter?
CASEY: I can help!

KIRBY: Case,
focus on the fish.
CASEY: You're right.

CHARLIE: Alright, guys, it
looks like we have a new
project on our hands,

but thanks so much
for stopping by.

Come by again when we discover
more things that are weird...

KIRBY: But true!

CHARLIE: We'll see you
guys later! I want to
put a fish in the tank.

KIRBY: We gotta
tell em about all this.

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