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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. A listener mail.

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Speaker 2: This is Robert Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day

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Speaker 3: All kinds of messages are fair game. If you have corrections,

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Speaker 3: you mind if I get started with this message from

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Speaker 3: Stephanie about our episodes on whale spouts, Yeah, let's have it.

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Speaker 3: So this is responding to a couple of shows we

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Speaker 3: did based on a chapter in Moby Dick where the

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Speaker 3: narrator describes the whales blowhole and what comes out of it.

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Speaker 3: Among many strange claims made in that chapter was that

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Speaker 3: whale blow was poisonous, that if it went in your

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Speaker 3: eyes it would blind you, and in some cases if

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Speaker 3: it touched the skin of say the arm or the hand,

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Speaker 3: it would cause your skin to peel off. In short,

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Speaker 3: none of this is really true, but after some research,

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Speaker 3: we did wonder if these claims might be based on

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Speaker 3: stories of people having skin rashes, conjunctividis, and other topical

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Speaker 3: infections after exposure to whales, which is a well documented

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Speaker 3: phenomenon among people who handle marine mammals directly. You can

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Speaker 3: get zoonotic infections, skin rashes, and so forth from them.

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Speaker 3: Stephanie says, Hi, Robin Joe, thanks for another series of

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Speaker 3: fascinating episodes on whales. I'm no biologist, but an alternate

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Speaker 3: explanation for Ishmael's suggestion that whale blow is poisonous occurred

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Speaker 3: to me. Could it not just be the extreme pressure

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Speaker 3: of the air slash mucus expulsion that caused the side

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Speaker 3: effects described? According to this Quebec research bureau, and she

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Speaker 3: includes a link, whales can spout air from their lungs

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Speaker 3: at a rate of seven hundred and twenty kilometers per hour.

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Speaker 3: I can imagine that sticking your arm into a seven

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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty kilometer per hour jet of air could

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Speaker 3: give you some pretty serious road rash or air rash.

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Speaker 3: Sticking your eyes directly in front of this jet of

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Speaker 3: air seems like it could lead to temporary or permanent

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Speaker 3: blindness too. Thanks as always for expanding my horizons of interest, Stephanie. Well,

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Speaker 3: thanks for the message, Stephanie. Yeah, on that question, I

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Speaker 3: really just don't know it. That does seem like very

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Speaker 3: you know, that would be an extreme blast. It does,

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Speaker 3: you know, it exceeds hurricane wind speeds. But there are

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Speaker 3: also plenty of modern day accounts of people who take

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Speaker 3: whale spout blasts to the face or to the skin,

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Speaker 3: and it doesn't usually seem to cause immediate physical injury,

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Speaker 3: at least in the cases we've seen or read about.

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Speaker 3: But on the other hand, yeah, it's hard to say

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Speaker 3: love to hear from somebody who does have a lot

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Speaker 2: All right, and now we're going to get into some

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Speaker 2: of the listener mail that we've been receiving regarding our

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Speaker 2: episodes on the moons of Uranus. So yeah, let's see

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Speaker 2: where should we start with these? I guess I'll start

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Speaker 2: with this one from Joseph. Joseph writes, I first found

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Speaker 2: your podcast in twenty fifteen due to Your Saturn's Brood

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Speaker 2: and Children of Jupiter episodes. Great episodes, and I was

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Speaker 2: very excited to listen to this week's Uranus moon episode.

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Speaker 2: The Greek god is pronounced your anus. The NASA official

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Speaker 2: pronunciation is your anus. I should add this Joseph is

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Speaker 2: spelling this out as your anus. Most people, including myself,

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Speaker 2: true proper pronunciation is your anus according to NASA scientists,

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Speaker 2: but most folks just say 'in US. German scientist Johann

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Speaker 2: erleit Bode proposed the name to name the planet Uranus,

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Speaker 2: and his associate Martin Heinrich Klaproth named the element uranium

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Speaker 2: establishment to accept the name Uranus or Uranus, which has

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Speaker 2: a near identical pronunciation in German, Uranus does not have

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Speaker 2: the same connotations as in American English. Can't wait to

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Speaker 2: listen to the rest of the episode. Keep up the

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Speaker 2: good work, best regards, Joseph.

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Speaker 3: This is interesting because this is in direct contradiction to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm staying in the in the Urinus camp, though

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Speaker 3: Yes, but thanks nonetheless, Joseph. We got the following message

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Speaker 3: from our listener Constantine about the pronunciation of the name

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Speaker 3: of the planet Uranus. Constantine says, Hello, gentlemen. Let me

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Speaker 3: in putting out an informative, entertaining and addictive podcast. I've

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Speaker 3: top of my weekly rotation of podcasts. Oh well, thank you, Constantine.

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Speaker 3: I recently heard your Moons of Urinus podcast, and once

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Speaker 3: again you fell into the rabbit hole of proper pronunciation.

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Speaker 3: The word Urinus does not even begin with a you,

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Speaker 3: let me provide you with an official, bonafide, definitive opinion

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Speaker 3: the Satanic maxim of pronunciation. I like this level of license,

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Speaker 3: but constantine goes on. Much of Greek came to English

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Speaker 3: via those grand cultural appropriators, the Romans, and then back

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Speaker 3: in the eighteenth century or so, English intellectuals decided to

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Speaker 3: standardize English Greek with novel grammatical protocols. Not to bury

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Speaker 3: the headline, but this game of telephone went badly. To

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Speaker 3: begin with, Greek is not even a thing. The name

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Speaker 3: the start of the word Hellenic. Remember those English intellectuals

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Speaker 3: the Greek epsilon or e will have a leading H

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Speaker 3: in English for reasons unfathomable. That's right, it's not Helen

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Speaker 3: The Greek H or it's spelled chi. Here is that

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Speaker 3: octopus is octopodia. So if all that got jumbled up,

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Speaker 3: what chance is there that Uranus's original Hellenic pronunciation of

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Speaker 3: uranos could possibly survive through Roman transmission and English quote greekification.

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Speaker 3: Uranus than Uranos, and such as life, and if pedants

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Speaker 3: come along with an alternative pronunciation, tell them to quote

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Speaker 3: As for us Helenes, we're just happy to be invited

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Speaker 3: to the party. Cheers, good folks, Constantine, Well, thank you, Constantine.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry I probably also pronounced some of those Greek

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Speaker 3: words in your email wrong, but yeah, we're doing our

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Speaker 3: best here. There's there's a whole mess of trouble leading

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Speaker 2: All right. Constantine also adds ps monster factor is fund

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Speaker 2: short up your game people. Well, thank you. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: you enjoy it. They are short by design, but we're

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Speaker 2: going to continue to experiment with putting out omnibus episodes,

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Speaker 2: which take multiple related episodes from the past and cobble

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Speaker 2: will be an omnibus episode of Vampires.

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Speaker 3: Ooh nice. Well, actually, so since we did that, Constantine

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Speaker 3: The PPS that he adds is that Urinus is simply

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Speaker 3: g in Greek. Are you ready for this? Gaia is

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Speaker 3: the poetic form of gamma eta and is pronounced ye okay,

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Speaker 3: I think poetic means quote, getting it wrong, So it

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Speaker 3: is Urinos and ye not Uranus and gaia, all right,

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Speaker 2: All right. This next one comes to us from Jared

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Speaker 2: another one responding to our episode on the Moons of Uranus.

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Speaker 2: Jared says, hey, guys really enjoyed these episodes and looking

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Speaker 2: forward to more like them all right, well, we'll have

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Speaker 2: to come back to Neptune in the future. And then

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Speaker 2: Jared goes on to a comment about the Shakespearean names.

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Speaker 2: They write, quote, it was a compromise between Great Britain

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Speaker 2: what I heard on doctor Neil Degrass Tyson's podcast, Keep

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Speaker 3: Jared, Yeah, I've read something similar. So the idea was

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Speaker 3: Georgium seed Us I think, meaning the George Star, named

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Speaker 3: I guess the moons. Okay, I think we're going to

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Speaker 3: cap the Urinus messages there. But we've got a whole

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Speaker 3: maybe we should try to read some of those, including

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Speaker 3: some messages in response to Time cop So Lawrence writes, Hey, guys,

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Speaker 3: just listening now to your episode on time and you

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Speaker 3: said it's your fourth time travel film. Not to jump

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Speaker 3: in The and the Treasure of Dracula, and I think

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Speaker 3: you ought to. Thanks Lawrence, Lawrence, Oh my god, you're correct.

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Speaker 3: This must have been I don't remember which one of

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Speaker 3: us said that, but this must have been an oversight,

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Speaker 3: because it is true. Santo not only has a time

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Speaker 3: machine in that movie, I think he invents the time machine.

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Speaker 2: that Santo and the Treasure of Dracula was actually a

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Speaker 2: time travel film. Now I won't say it's one that

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Speaker 3: And you know, thinking on it, somehow, that movie doesn't

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Speaker 3: really the main use of the time travel in it

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Speaker 3: is just like watching videos of the past, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? But wasn't there also some like theft via time travel.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't that part of it? It's like we have found

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Speaker 2: Dracula's treasure in the past, we can steal it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they saw where Dracula left his treasure in the

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Speaker 3: All right, so Rob, I've attached the screenshots Chris took

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is the look of a guy who makes weird pottery.

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Speaker 3: So the article is by Christopher Borelli, and it says

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Speaker 3: Bert Eye Gordon, who died earlier this spring at the

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