Alan Gofinski

Opposite of worst is... The best.

Bestrials.

Yeah, you got it.

Okay, I like it.

Terrestrials is a show where we uncover the strangeness waiting right here on Earth.

I am your host, Lula Miller, joined as always by my song bud... Take me to the river.

Alan.

Swimming with the beaver.

So here we are kicking off this brand new season of terrestrials.

While all around us, really hard things are going on.

Wildfires, wars, climate change.

And so we wanted in this moment to look to creatures that might give us hope.

creatures that actually mend the world around them.

And there is maybe no mammal that has such an outsized positive effect on the planet than beavers.

Yep, those buck-toothed, waddling, funny-looking rodents.

By the end of the episode, you will see how a single family of beavers can have such a positive impact on the world around them.

You can literally see it from space.

So our story today is going to center around one little beaver named Jose.

He will rise out of murky waters in a place where no one expected he could survive.

And to tell us his tale is producer bud, Ana.