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One host, one guest, wildly different lifespans. INK is an octopus. Three hearts, nine months to live, and a microphone. Every episode he interviews an animal that outlives him by decades or centuries and asks the only question he has: how long have you got? The guests do not cooperate. A sponge with no nervous system points out it has never been anyone. A jellyfish explains that "immortal" is a translation error. A bat admits its longevity record was reassigned to another species in 2012. Every figure is checked, and when a number is soft the guest says so on camera. The glass sponge's eleven thousand years is a reading off a temperature curve, plus or minus three thousand. Guests include the Greenland shark, bristlecone pine, tardigrade, mantis shrimp, immortal jellyfish, axolotl, naked mole rat, bowhead whale, olm, nautilus, Wisdom the albatross, Antarctic icefish, and Pando. Comment with the animal you want in that chair.