1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, and 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: we're back for Globsters Part two, The Revenge That's Right. 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: The last episode was a fun introduction to the world 6 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: of globsters, grotesque, love crafty and amorphous monstrosities that wash 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: upon our shores and perplex onlookers. Now, last time we 8 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: tended to focus on globsters that are of a sort 9 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: of maybe you could call like the standard class globster, 10 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: which is something that is sort of off white, gray 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: or pale pink and color. Huge blob like in shape, 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: maybe multi ton no apparent skeleton or bones, no apparent eyes, 13 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: no apparent head covered in will find hairs or stringy 14 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: fibrous substances, kind of a rubbery texture, your classic beach blob. Yeah, 15 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: And as we discussed and explored in that episode, it's 16 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 1: almost always a safe bet to go with the explanation 17 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: that it's a big old piece of rotting whale blubber. 18 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: In fact, if someone if you're out in the world, 19 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: you know, in the next over the next few months, 20 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: and someone says, hey, did you see this headline about 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: this strange creature that washed up you. You can just 22 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: go ahead and say, oh, yeah, that's probably whale blubber, 23 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: and you have a very good chance of being correct. 24 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: You can you can really feel like a Sherlock Holmes 25 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: in this scenario. Yeah, you'll be right most of the time. 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: But we should acknowledge that there is also another, well, 27 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if it'd be one class, you could say, 28 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: a whole range of other classes of globsters, which are 29 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: you know, some form of mysterious dead organic matter that 30 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: washes up on a beach and defies initial classification and 31 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: people don't automatically know exactly what kind of animal it is. 32 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: That it might be a new species or some kind 33 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: of sea monster or sea serpent. And that's what we're 34 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: going to talk about today, the globsters that are not 35 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: just whale blubber or some type of whale tissue. Right. 36 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: One of the key examples that you come up with 37 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: our our globsters that are interpreted as being a plesiosaur. Yes, 38 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 1: this is one of the biggest classes of other globsters 39 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: out there. The plesiosaur form the kind of like long 40 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: neck reptile with weird little paddle fins, the lockness monster. Yeah, 41 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 1: but the thing is, you can you can just go 42 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 1: ahead and forget about the lockness monster for a second, 43 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: because the lockness monster does not exist, never existed, but 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: the plesiosaur did. And it's uh, you know, it's it is. 45 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: It is an amazing thing, like we should wake up 46 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: every day in amazement that giant marine reptiles once ruled 47 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: our seas. Yeah. Well, a point of clarification. Sometimes plesiosaurs, 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: they get lumped in with dinosaurs. Weren't dinosaurs more than 49 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: pterosaurs were dinosaurs. Plesiosaurs were seed dwelling reptiles, right, Yes, though, 50 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: I have to I have to admit I myself will 51 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: sometimes mistakenly refer to a tarrasaur as a dinosaur, and 52 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: my six year old son will correct me. They're not 53 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: actually dinosaurs, Dad, they're tarrasaurs. Good on him, he's flexing 54 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: those pedantic muscles early. Yes, I mean, that's just good 55 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: training for adulthood, nobody. The kind of person everybody loves 56 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: most is the person who corrects them about what kind 57 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: of animal something is. Yes, well, you know you have 58 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: to work on that too, that's that's the story of 59 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: of of raising a child, right. Um, the difficult part 60 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: is yet convincing them that there is a time and 61 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: a place to correct people on this and this sort 62 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: of thing. And in granted some adults never learned that lesson. 63 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: But anyway, to come back to Tanessy, it is important 64 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: to acknowledge Nessy because NeSSI is a great example of 65 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: how we have this well worn cryptid trope uh to 66 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: turn to when we find a strange creature that in 67 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: some way resembles a prehistoric marine lizard. And so it 68 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: is a great form to turn to because for starters, 69 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: nothing alive today really looks like a plesiosur in the 70 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: same way that nothing to the live today really looks 71 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: like say a sauropod or any number of prehistoric animal forms. 72 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: I mean nothing, I mean nothing outside of you know, 73 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: a chicken looks like a t rex, but you know, 74 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,239 Speaker 1: certainly not at that scale. But but at the same time, 75 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: these forms are famous and and if certain animals decay 76 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: in just the right way, underlying you know, bones or 77 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: ligaments may create the illusion of a long neck and 78 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: a small head emerging from a bulky Torso So what 79 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: happens is. On several different occasions, basking sharks have been 80 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: misidentified as plesiosaurs. This due to their prominent snouts or noses, 81 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: which is the namesteak, the namesake of their genus uh 82 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: set O rhinus ketos, which is marine monster in Greek 83 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: plus rhinos meaning nose, and with it so with the 84 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: underlying basking mouth rotted away because these are big, you know, 85 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: filter feeders. Uh, it looks like the remnants look like 86 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: a small head on a long neck. One of the 87 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: most prominent examples of this that you still see everywhere. 88 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: You go to any cryptozoological website and they will have 89 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: this picture is this This this thing that was pulled 90 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: up by a Japanese fishing trawler, the zoo Maru in 91 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: ninety seven. Again, this picture still makes a round sometimes 92 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: as part of a creepy pasta. I've even I've seen 93 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: it used in that way, and it is an unsettling image. 94 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: It looks like there is this long necked, small headed 95 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: creature with like two or at least two probably like 96 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: four limbs trailing off of it. Some sort of underlying structure, uh, 97 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: you know, it could be a skeleton, so it's easy 98 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: to look at that and think, oh, my goodness, that 99 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: is that's that's nesty, that's that's e Plesius are right, 100 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: but it's not right. Uh. You know. One of the 101 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: books we're looking at for this was Abominable Science Origins 102 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: of the YETI, uh Nessy and More by Daniel Lockston 103 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: and Donald R. Prothero, and it provides an excellent illustration 104 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: of how this sort of thing would occur, exactly like 105 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: how the flesh would rot away to create this false 106 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: impression of e Plesiosaur. It's on page to fourteen in 107 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: a Kindle edition. Yeah, there's actually ah, there's a great guy. 108 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: It's a reversal of the shrink rapping thing you know 109 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: that we know we talked about when we did the 110 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: episode with Katie Golden of Creature Feature. You know this 111 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: idea that sometimes when paleo artists are trying to figure 112 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: out how to draw what a dinosaur looks like, they 113 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: essentially just like wrap the skin as tightly around the 114 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 1: bones as possible, and so we end up with a 115 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: dinosaur or any kind of extinct animal that looks like 116 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 1: a very like slim, very slim, slender interpretation of what 117 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: the bones were kind of like the bones have been 118 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: shrink wrapped by the skin, but in fact many animals 119 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: are They've got all kinds of tissues that are not 120 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: fossilized don't show up in the bones. So maybe we 121 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: should be imagining dinosaurs as as plumper, fat or more 122 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: more fluffy creatures. And uh, this is like the opposite 123 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: of that procedure where we pull up the bones and 124 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: then you're we're actually maybe it's the same thing. You're 125 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: imagining a shrink wrapped version of what these cartilaginous remains 126 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: are from the basking shark. And if you were to 127 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: do the shrink wrapped version of the cartilaginous remains, they 128 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: look what would look kind of like a plesiosaur exactly, 129 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: you know, when when alive. The head of a basking 130 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: shark is something like five feet across, but it's skeleton 131 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: is made of cartilage, and those huge jaws that it 132 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: have they quickly wrought away and it leaves behind what 133 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: looks like a small skull at the end of a 134 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: long spine. Another example of this this exact same situation 135 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: occurred in eighteen o eight with the strong say beast, 136 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,119 Speaker 1: this is a this is a classic globster. Yeah, washed 137 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: ashore on the island of Stronsay in the Orkney Islands, 138 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: Scottish anatomist John Barclay thought that it was surely the 139 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: remains of a sea serpent, and it caused quite a 140 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: stir at the time, especially in the media. Though anonymoust 141 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: to Sir Everard Home, who was a belief based in 142 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: London at the at the time, he dismissed it. I'm 143 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: almost immediately saying that's a decaying basking shark. Uh. And 144 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: others backed him up on this, But so there were 145 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: other people who jumped to Barclay's defense, saying that this 146 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: was clearly the remains of a long necked beast with 147 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: three pairs of paws or wings, along with hair like 148 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: bristles down its back. Now, one place I have frequently 149 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: seen claims of people trying to validate the existence of 150 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: plesiosaur remains found coming out of the ocean is among 151 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: Young Earth creationists. Well, I guess they sometimes seem keen 152 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: on the idea that there are still dinosaurs out there, 153 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: or there are still animals that we now know to 154 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: be ancient extinct animals. Uh, you know they're because they've 155 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: compressed the timeline of Earth history to a tiny fraction 156 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: of what it really is. I think they're motivated to 157 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: think that things that we think have been extinct for 158 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: millions of years are actually still somewhere in a jungle 159 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: or somewhere in the deep ocean. If your agenda is 160 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: to take geological time and fit it within the time 161 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: frame of human language, then that's probably solid step to make. 162 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 1: But but the thing is, even people without that agenda 163 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: in mind, I mean, they still can fall into this 164 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,839 Speaker 1: uh under this way of the plesiosaur interpretation. I mean 165 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: that there were a couple, at least a couple of 166 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: scientists in Japan who supported the plis are the pleas 167 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: sr interpretation of that that Zeromorrow case from seven uh, 168 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 1: which is kind of baffling, But but I guess who 169 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't want to believe It comes back to the whole, 170 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: you know, situation of finding either a dead sasquatch or 171 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,599 Speaker 1: a dead chimpanzee in your backyard. One of them is 172 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: far more likely, but one is amazing. Well, I you know, 173 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: I'm a plesiosaur molder like I would love to believe 174 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: that that would be wonderful if we discovered that some 175 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: kind of branch of plesiosaurs had survived into the modern 176 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: age at this point. You know, it seems kind of unlikely, 177 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: but you know, the ocean is big. Who knows. It's 178 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: just that these cases are not actually good evidence of that. 179 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: So I still maintain that there's far less excuse for 180 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: going with the plesiosaur explanation today or even in nineteen 181 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: seventy seven. But as Lockston and Prothero pointed out in 182 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: their book Abominable, Abominable Science, we should realize a few 183 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: things about about the early nineteenth century when considering these 184 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: earlier examples, like the strong state beast, they write, quote, 185 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: by nineteenth century standards, the ink was hardly dry on 186 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: newspaper reports of the sea serpent siding around Gloucester in 187 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: eighteen seventeen, when ichthyosaurs were shown to be reptiles in 188 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: eighteen twenty one. The first nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton was 189 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: described in eighteen twenty four in a presentation before the 190 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: Geological Society of London at the same meeting that announced 191 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: the first dinosaur genus name, Megalosaurus. Almost immediately naturalists made 192 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: the connection to sea serpents. So you've still got contemporary 193 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: reports of sea serpent sightings. People are just discovering remains 194 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: of these ancient you know, gigantic reptiles. And so, you know, 195 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: why not put two and two together. Maybe these these 196 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: remains were discovering are the sea serpents that people claim 197 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: to see out on the waters. Yeah, And you had 198 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: people like the likes of geologist Robert Bakewell stating that 199 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: he was inclined to believe that something like ichosaurs were 200 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: likely alive today. He stated this in the eighteen thirty 201 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: three textbook Introduction to Geology. Well, I mean, it's not 202 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: without precedent that an ancient marine species thought to have 203 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: been extinct for for millions of years or so is 204 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: actually discovered to still be alive today. That one of 205 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: the most commonly sided examples is the lobe finned fish 206 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: the seila can't. Yes, But because one has been found 207 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: to exist does not suggest that necessarily another world be found, right, 208 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: But all prehistoric marine life forms are on the table, right. Uh. 209 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: And to to put this time period in context, you know, 210 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: the the early nineteenth century. To put it in context 211 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: of a past episode of stuff to blow your mind, 212 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: the bathosphere would not descend for another century like so 213 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: that's where we were too in our understanding of the 214 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: ocean and what kind of animals live there. I think 215 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: these were the This might even been before. I forget 216 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: when this happened, but they we were talking about in 217 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: the Bathisphere episode, how people tried to figure out what 218 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: was deep in the ocean before we had, you know, 219 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: anything that could go down there. And there were the 220 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: days of the drag lines where you just drag a 221 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: bucket along under you know, behind a ship and see 222 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: if you could pull anything up in it. It seems 223 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: remarkably crude technology. Now, yeah, just a death bucket to 224 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: pull things up and see what kind of flesh you 225 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: managed to snare and if it exploded by the time 226 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: it got to the surface. Right, all right, well, I 227 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: guess we should take a quick break and when we 228 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: come back we will discuss some more non whale globsters 229 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: from the Globster Hall of Fame. Thank you, thank you. Alright, 230 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: we're back now. One thing I wondered about is how 231 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: long have people been reporting globsters, Like how far back 232 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: does the does the Sun article about the beach blob go? 233 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: That's true, because if it, certainly this would seem like 234 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: the kind of thing that would have occurred throughout human history. 235 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: Of course it would I mean nothing like nothing that 236 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: we know have changed suddenly in the seventeenth century to 237 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: make this stuff start happening. So, uh, let's take a 238 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: look at old Plenty of the Elder. This is kind 239 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: of a late appearance, for Plenty usually shows up earlier 240 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: in an episode. That's true. Yeah, well he's making of 241 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: fashionable appearances. Okay. So Plenty of the Elder in his 242 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: Natural History is in a section talking about nereads, which 243 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: are the sea nymphs or the ocean fairies or mermaids, 244 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: and he writes about how the governor of Gaul once 245 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: wrote a letter to Caesar Augustus reporting that a number 246 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: of dead nereads had washed up on shore in his 247 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: territory and that their quote mournful song moreover, when dying 248 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: has been heard a long way off by the coast dwellers. Uh. 249 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: Later he writes, during the rule of Tiberius, in an 250 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: island off the coast of the province of Leone, the 251 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: receding ocean tide left more than three hundred monsters at 252 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: the same time of marvelous variety and size, and an 253 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: equal number on the coast of the Saints and among 254 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: the rest elephants and rams, with only a white streak 255 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: to resemble horns, and also many neriads. And then later 256 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: he writes about a couple of other monsters cast cast shore. 257 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: One story quote, the skeleton of the monster twitch Andromeda, 258 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: and the story was exposed, was brought by Marcus Scaurus 259 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: from the town of Jaffa in Judea and shown at 260 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: Rome among the rest of the marvels during his his 261 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: uh edile ship. It was forty ft long, the height 262 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: of the ribs exceeding the elephants of India, and the 263 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: spine being one foot and six inches thick. Well, this 264 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: all sounds exactly like what we've been talking about, like 265 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: people finding strange bodies, strange flesh upon the shores and 266 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: turning to mythological explanations or it just I mean, really 267 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: it almost almost of the you know, uh, it's it's 268 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: almost unfair to say mythology in these cases because in 269 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: some of these cases we're talking about just sort of 270 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: unexpected understanding of the more mysterious corners of the world. Well, yeah, 271 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: I mean this was a time for which mythology I 272 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: think was in some ways kind of blended with history. 273 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: Might not always be clear to these people which of 274 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: these myths were true and to what extent or were 275 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: they based on actual historical events. So if you've got 276 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: a story of your your classic heroes like Perseus or whatever, 277 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: and there's a sea monster in them, I don't know, 278 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: maybe that story happened, and maybe the c monster is 279 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: real and this. Oh and you know what, I found 280 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: some really big bones or a big, old, confusing pile 281 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: of flesh on the beach. I bet it was that 282 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: sea monster, right, And then of course we have to 283 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: we have to recognize that if these things are occurring 284 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: throughout history, we have possibly the reverse situation occurring where 285 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: you have just a story about a sea monster and 286 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: then you find these weird remains and you're like, well, 287 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: this must be the form, and then that informs the myth. Yeah. Now, 288 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: we just we've discussed creatures like this on the show 289 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: in the past, especially Triton's and neriads, mermaids and whatnot. Uh, 290 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: And you know, I believe we discussed the link between 291 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: mermaid myths and the sightings of real life marine mammals 292 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: and even occasionally sightings of cephalopods. But I wonder too 293 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: if actual human remains ever factored into these observations as well. 294 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: Oh so, like like kind of bloated dead human corpses 295 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: washing up on the beach and people and say, ah, 296 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: these are the dead sea nymphs. Yeah, I mean we've 297 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: we have looked. At example, I looked around for specific 298 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: discussion of this, and I couldn't find anything. And maybe 299 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: it's out there though, and I just didn't happen upon it. 300 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: But you know, in discussing the Kappa in Japanese folklore, 301 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: we talked about how they are aspects of that myth. 302 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: They're based upon misinterpretations of of of bloated bodies, the 303 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,719 Speaker 1: bodies of drowning victims. So it doesn't seem that remote 304 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:47,360 Speaker 1: a possibility that one could misinterpret the human remains found 305 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: on a shore, you know, the remains of some fishing vessel, 306 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: or even a vessel in a time of war, provided 307 00:17:53,880 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: that the the decay was substantial enough or unique enough. Yeah. 308 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: I feel like we're developing an interesting parallel to like 309 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: Adrian Mayer's geomethology, where the idea that maybe ancient people's 310 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: discovered dinosaur fossils or other kinds of fossilized bone remains 311 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: and developed the ideas of mythical beasts from them. Here, 312 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 1: I guess we're talking more like bio mythology, like recently 313 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: dead creatures and corpses found or blobs found could give 314 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: you ideas of the types of mythical monsters and creatures 315 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 1: that inhabit the hidden part of the world, you know, 316 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: and looking around it more like recent examples of supposed 317 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: cryptozoological creatures. I did find at least one example where 318 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: it's this weird bipedal looking creature. It appears hairless and 319 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: has this kind of quasi human appearance to it, and 320 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: the likely explanation is that it was a sloth. Whoa yeah, 321 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: So so you know, you could have a situation where 322 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: somehow this animal is wound up in the water, it's dead, 323 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: it's lost its hair, and it is no longer quite 324 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: recognizable as what it was and now occupies this kind 325 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: of strange in between space. Well, it makes me think 326 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: about the New Jersey Beach monster. I think you've probably 327 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: seen pictures of this, which is what do they ultimately 328 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 1: decided it likely was like a raccoon. Yes, they did 329 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: run across this one Yeah, it's just this hairless, gross 330 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: looking little demon mammal without you know, it's smooth all 331 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: over dead on a beach in New Jersey, and people 332 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: now think, oh, it's probably just a raccoon. But regardless 333 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: of what you know, they may have made of human 334 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: remains on the beach, they were inevitably encountering chunks of blubber. 335 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: They were encountering things like basking sharks, perhaps the remnants 336 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: of marine mammals such as manatees or doo gongs. So 337 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: there's plenty of stuff there to to lend itself to 338 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: monstrous interpretations. Yes, I'm so sorry. I've got to clarify. 339 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: I said New Jersey it was the Montauk Monster. I 340 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: was wrong. It was the New York beach mont talk. 341 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, sorry about that. New Jersey sea monster 342 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: is an entirely different scenario. By the way, myriads and 343 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: Triton's uh play an important part in Transgenesis, the sci 344 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: fi podcast that is publishing January thirty one, two thousand nineteen. 345 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: I hope everyone that listens to the show will check 346 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: it out. You can find out more about it at 347 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: Transgenesis dot show. That's right, check it out. Now, Robert, 348 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: are you ready to talk about a sea monster or 349 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: wonderful beast? Do I get to choose between the two? 350 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: Are they one and the same? They are one and 351 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: the same, But you will get to choose which one 352 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: you think it is? All right, let's do it, okay, now, 353 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: I so I came across evidence of a seventeenth century 354 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: lobster washed ashore in Ireland, and this is a glorious 355 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 1: thing it was. I'm going to make the case that 356 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: this was pretty clearly a giant squid of the genus 357 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: arctotis uh. It was written up in a pamphlet published 358 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: in London in sixty four, and the pamphlet is usually 359 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 1: known by its opening line, which is a true and 360 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: perfect account of the miraculous sea monster or wonderful fish. 361 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: The pamphlet continues, lately taken in Ireland, bigger than an ox, 362 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: yet without legs, bones, fins or scales, with two heads, 363 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: and ten horns of ten or eleven foot long, on 364 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: eight of which horns there grew knobs about the bigness 365 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 1: of a cloak, button in shape like crowns or coronets, 366 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: to the number of a hundred on each horn, which 367 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: we're all too open and had rows of teeth within them. 368 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: That does sound a lot like a giant squid. I 369 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: think we're getting there. So. The pamphlet tells the story 370 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 1: about a man named James Steward who was riding by 371 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: the seaside in the west of Ireland, and quote, as 372 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: the tide was coming in, perceived at a distance something 373 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 1: of a strange bigness to make towards the shore. At 374 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: first he apprehended it might be some horse that might 375 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: have been caught away with the violence of the tide, 376 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: and having recovered himself, was now swimming to land. But 377 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: approaching nearer on a closer view, he was infinitely surprised 378 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: and amazed, not so much at the bigness, which yet 379 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: he found to exceed that of a horse, which he 380 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: first took it for in the body, as at the 381 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: uncouth shape, and a number of strange horns of great length, 382 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: which rendered it not a little terrible to behold, insomuch 383 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: that he durst not go near it, lest it should 384 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 1: destroy both him and his horse. So we got the 385 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: dramatic set up. Steward goes off and gets help from 386 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: a couple who live nearby, and they use ropes to 387 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: drag it up on the beach. This they could do, 388 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: though the account says that when they tried to touch 389 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: the horns quote, they found there on shells like coronets 390 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: with teeth within them, which got hold of their hands 391 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: and fingers, so that they were glad to let them go. 392 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: So they come back the next day with a bigger company, 393 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 1: and by then the beast was dead. And after that 394 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: they gave a further description, saying that the body was 395 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: smooth and without scales or bones, and that it had 396 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: two heads and two eyes, quote, of an oval form 397 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: and of extraordinary bigness. Now, I think this has pretty 398 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: much got to be a giant squid, especially when talking 399 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: when they talk about the size of the eyes, because 400 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:22,479 Speaker 1: the eyes of a giant squid are extremely remarkable or organs. 401 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: They've got a maximum diameter of around twenty five centimeters 402 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 1: or ten inches. I've also seen slightly larger estimates of 403 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: around thirty centimeters or about twelve inches, And the eyes 404 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: of the giant squid and their southern Southern Ocean cousins, 405 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: the colossal squid, are by far the biggest eyes in nature. 406 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: Like they're often compared to the size of dinner plates. Uh. 407 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: The one I like is that they're bigger in diameter 408 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: than a standard basketball. They don't have irises or eyelids. 409 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: Their eyes are not filled with jelly like fluid like ours, 410 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: but rather they're just filled with water. And so I've 411 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: read that after the squid dies, their eyes just kind 412 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: of like collapse like a deflat bag. Um. They're made 413 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: for extreme light sensitivity in the pitch dark of the 414 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: ocean more than five hundred meters down. And I was 415 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: reading an interesting piece in Scientific American from twelve by 416 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 1: Katherine Harmon about research on the purpose of those huge eyes, 417 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,959 Speaker 1: because why why do they need eyes that big? Like 418 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: the next biggest eyes in nature are the eyes of 419 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: the sword fish, and they're literally like a third of 420 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: the size of the squid's eye. These eyes are like 421 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: three pent of the next biggest eyes in nature. Uh, 422 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 1: the entire eye of a swordfish would fit inside the 423 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: giant squid's pupil. On top of this, there's the fact 424 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: that beyond a certain size, scientists have generally found really 425 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: diminishing returns in eye bigness, where in most cases it 426 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: just does not pay off at all for an animal 427 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: to have an eye any larger than an orange, It 428 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: consumes a lot of energy, it's very vulnerable, and it 429 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: doesn't see much better than anything bigger than an orange. 430 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: I mean, you think of some of the of the 431 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 1: animals that have that are known for having the most 432 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: impressive eyesight, and that the eyes aren't that big. Eyes 433 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: aren't that big. You're you're generally dealing with different varieties 434 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: of bird. Yeah, that's exactly correct. So what are the 435 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 1: squid using these triple huge eyes for? Well? Study found 436 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: that while a squid's huge eye is not generally better 437 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 1: at seeing, it's not just it's not like better at 438 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: seeing everything. It is better at seeing one extremely specific 439 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: kind of visual information, which is subtle changes in contrast 440 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 1: caused by large objects at a distance. Oh, I bet, 441 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 1: I know what that large object is. That's right. So 442 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: imagine what, in fact a squid might be most likely 443 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,719 Speaker 1: to be on the lookout for, Robert, you know the answer, 444 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: the sperm whale. That's right. So imagine the body of 445 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: a sperm whale diving through the Black Ocean five meters 446 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: down and as it travels. What the scientists were pointing 447 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: out is that you know, as as a sperm whale 448 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: dives through the water, it will probably disturb and trigger 449 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: the bioluminous the luminescence of tiny organisms here and there 450 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: as it rushes through the water column. And most of 451 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: the time it does not pay to have foot wide eyes. 452 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: But the one exception is if you're going to be 453 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: looking around for huge objects in the pelagic darkness, then 454 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: gigantic eyes are where it's at and five down. The 455 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: researchers figure that a squid can spot an approaching sperm 456 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,159 Speaker 1: whale at a hundred and twenty meters, giving it a 457 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: chance to escape. Of course, the whales don't really need 458 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: sight to hunt in the dark because they use sound 459 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: based decolocation. This is amazing and but it does make 460 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: perfect sense, you know, because the sperm whale is the uh, 461 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: the giant squid eater par excellence. Yeah. Yeah, we love 462 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: to think of the giant squid as like the ultimate crazy, 463 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: scary ocean monster. But it's a prey animal. Yeah, I mean, 464 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: of course it preys on other things, but like but 465 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 1: a sperm whale. When sperm whales are found, sometimes they 466 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: will have guts full of beaks, you know, because the 467 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: squid it's mostly got soft body parts that are easy 468 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: to digest, except for this one hard body part, the beak, 469 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: which which you know, you open up a sperm whale 470 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: stomach and you you may may just be beak city 471 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 1: in there. All right, we're gonna take a quick break, 472 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: but we'll be right back. Thank thank and we're back. 473 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: So back to the sea monster or wonderful fish. Uh So, 474 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: Another thing the pamphlet says is on the cloak button 475 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: shaped crowns upon its horns. The pamphlet points out, quote 476 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: the resemblance of a pearl, which was to open and 477 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: shut as a little mouth, and had within it a 478 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: row of teeth, so that it should seem beside the 479 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: mouth of a little head, which we shall describe by 480 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: and by this monster received nourishment for its body at 481 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: eight hundred several places for that to number, or thereabouts, 482 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: did the crowns on all eight horns amount. So they're 483 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: saying they think that this this creature eats with its suckers. 484 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: If this is a squid, that seems to be incorrect. 485 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 1: But but they thought, oh, these look like tiny mouths. 486 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: These are the mouth through which it eats, and they 487 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: are kind of like tiny mouths they're kind of like 488 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: a little leech mouths all over the arms. A giant 489 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: squid has eight arms and two feeding tentacles longer than 490 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: the other arms, making the tin limbs tin limbs in total, 491 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: consistent with the report of the tin horns. And of 492 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: course these cloak button shaped crowns sound pretty much exactly 493 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: like the toothed suckers lining the arms and the tentacle 494 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: the feeding tentacle clubs of a giant squid. I've got 495 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: an image here of what they look like, Robert. They're nice, 496 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: real quick. I should also throw in that the tentacle 497 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: armed distinction, that's another one that's easy to to refer 498 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: to the tentacles of a squid when you really are 499 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: referring to to the arms. Right, But you get into, 500 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: especially when you get into like weird fiction and all, 501 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: the word arm is not nearly as evocative as the tentacle. 502 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: You don't want to have a mini armed alien crawling 503 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: out of a dimensional gateway, No, you want a many 504 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: tentacled monster. Well it makes me wonder, you know, when 505 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: like you hear about these ancient monsters that are described 506 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: to say an apocalyptic religious visions as like an angel 507 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: with tin arms or something. If we go with the 508 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: cephalopod analogy here, maybe those are things more like what 509 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: people would call tentacles, not necessarily human arms with elbows 510 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: and hands. I like this this reading of pretty much 511 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: any certainly any biblical account. Just put in tentacles for 512 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: arms or heads, and you have. You have quite a 513 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: cool monster in your hands. But to be biologically rigorous, 514 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: you are correct about that distinction. There the squid has 515 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: eight arms which are covered in suckers all over, and 516 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: then it's got the two tentacles which are longer, and 517 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: I have clubs for grabbing prey and bringing it to 518 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: the mouth. Those are the feeding tentacles. But let's come 519 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: back to this, uh, this globster here, because there was 520 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: mentioned to get biblical again, there was mention of horns, right, yeah, 521 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: so it's got these tin horns, and then it says 522 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: in the middle of the head, between all these horns, uh, 523 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: we're we're assuming the horns are the arms and the tentacles. 524 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: The pamphlet says between all these horns there was a 525 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: smaller head quote in shape much like the head of 526 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: a hawk, looking upward, and had a strange mouth and 527 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: two tongues in it, and here too, no doubt it 528 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: did take much of its nourishment. And in this they 529 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: are correct because this sounds like the beak and mouth 530 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: of a giant squid exactly right. They mentioned the resemblance 531 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: to a hawk. Giant squid actually do have hooked bird 532 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: like beaks. As we're talking about a minute ago, the 533 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: sperm whale stomach might be full of beaks, and inside 534 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: this beak in a giant squid is a chewing mechanism, 535 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: a grinding tooth covered tongue called the radula. And here 536 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: here's a crazy thing I did not remember learning about 537 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: in the past. I may have, But so the mouth 538 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: parts here have to process food down into tiny piece 539 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: is before it swallowed. And there's a very good reason 540 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: for this because the squid, and I've read about this 541 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: this in the context of the colossal squid, I believe 542 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: it's also true with the giant squid. Uh. The squid 543 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: has a taurus or doughnut shaped brain, and the esophagus 544 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: through which it swallows food passes directly through the middle 545 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: of that doughnut shaped brain, so it goes through the 546 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: donut hole. So if it tries to swallow a piece 547 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: of food that is too large it could literally press 548 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: against its brain. Now, imagine if when you ate there 549 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: was a choking risk, but the choking risk was not 550 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: of suffocation, but a risk of mashing on your cerebral cortex. 551 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: I'm imagining an alien race of cephalopod beings who, in 552 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: order to have hallucinogenic experiences, they swallow polyhedral dice. So 553 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 1: that you know, different different sizes will press on their 554 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: brains their donut brains in different ways produce different visions. 555 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: It's called the god choking. Anyway, I know what you're thinking. 556 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: Whenever a sea monster washes up dead on a beach, 557 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 1: the next thing they should do is figure out what 558 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: did it taste like? Right? So, for experiment that people 559 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: boiled some of the flesh. But the longer it boiled quote, 560 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: the harder it became. It gave a very good scent 561 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: as it boiled and seemed fat, But in boiling the 562 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: fat hardened, and no creature, though several at diverse times 563 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: were tried, would eat a bit of it, or so 564 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: much as taste of it. They don't say what creatures 565 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: they tried, though, I mean, did they offer it to 566 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: a cow? To a dog. What I mean a dog, 567 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: I'm sure it would be up for anything. Did they 568 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: offer it to a shark? I mean, there's no clues 569 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 1: to go on here, but anyway that I mean, this 570 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: just reminds me of Robert. Have you ever tried to 571 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: cook calamari? I don't think I've ever tried to cook 572 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: it myself. I've only ever had it in restaurants. Well, 573 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,719 Speaker 1: I don't know if what is true of smaller squid 574 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: is also true of larger squid, but food sized squid, 575 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: which is what calamari is because I'm is overcooked and rubbery. 576 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: Extremely easily boiling it can make it tough as rubber. 577 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: You actually be very careful to cook it very quickly. Uh, 578 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 1: and you know, get it out of the heat before 579 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: it gets overcooked and gets super chewy. So this would 580 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: be this would be why you tend to encounter it 581 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 1: in kind of like a flash fried uh fashion. And 582 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: I bet you've had you may have like ordered calamari 583 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: at a not so great restaurant and it was really 584 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: tough and chewy. Yeah, I probably said, but it also 585 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: probably explains why it is hard to find calamari that 586 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: is not fried and of course not sushi. On the 587 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 1: other side, like there used to be a Vietnamese place 588 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: in Atlanta. This was ages ago that that I like 589 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: to go into because they had like a calamari salad 590 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: and the calamari was it was baked or something, you know, 591 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: so some of that I forget how it was actually prepared. 592 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: It's been so long, but it was like one of 593 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: the few places where it's like, oh, it's cooke calamari, 594 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: it's not fried. Well, I mean, I think another way 595 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: you can get tender calamari. I'm not positive about this, 596 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 1: but I think the other way is to like of 597 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: the low and slow method, you know, low temperature, long 598 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: long period of time. But I haven't tried it myself, 599 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 1: but anyway, I've got to mention. There is also an 600 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: addendum to the pamphlet at the end, which does it's 601 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: been I would say I'm impressed with this seventeenth century pamphlet. 602 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,359 Speaker 1: It sounds, based on my reading, like it's a very 603 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: like kind of thorough empirical description that they do a 604 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,839 Speaker 1: pretty good job of giving you an idea of what 605 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,919 Speaker 1: this thing was. Uh, it's not too sensational. But then 606 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 1: it gets to the addendum at the end quote. We 607 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: might now divert the reader a little and tell him 608 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: that some Zealots, hearing of a strange creature with several heads, 609 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: tin horns, and more than triple crowns, took it for 610 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: the apocalyptical beast and fancied the Pope was landed in person. 611 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: And it just like us humans, we can't even have 612 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: a nice pamphlet about a dead blob of sea monster 613 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: flesh without bringing religion and politics into it, getting all 614 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,760 Speaker 1: your Protestant grievances out against the pope. Well, that reminds 615 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: me of the example from from like this month's headlines 616 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 1: that we referred in the first one, where some strange 617 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 1: blob was found and they compared it to the current 618 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: yost president. Oh yeah, I just want pure enjoyment of 619 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 1: sea monsters that having to think about politics. Yeah, yeah, 620 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: it seems that would you. There should be plenty to 621 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 1: talk about without bringing politics and religion into it, because 622 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 1: here behold is a mystery of the deep cast upon 623 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: the shore for our perusal. Now, I guess one thing 624 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: we should say is that this is a globster by 625 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,800 Speaker 1: by virtue of its time in history, because this wouldn't 626 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,319 Speaker 1: be classed as a globster today. I think if this 627 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: thing washed ashore, people would immediately now be able to 628 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,719 Speaker 1: recognize that it was almost undoubtedly a large species of squid, right, 629 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 1: Not much like the recent Australian case we mentioned in 630 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: the last episode where people saw it and they're like, hey, 631 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,879 Speaker 1: it's a giant squid. Let's get the camera, let's put 632 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: this stuck around Instagram. Well, yeah, I mean those things 633 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: are rare enough on there. Even though we know what 634 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 1: they are and they're just animals, they are in a 635 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: way like the modern equivalent of a sea monster. You've 636 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 1: seen something rare and amazing, it's exotic. Yeah. Not for 637 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: sperm whales though maybe not right they're like, yeah, I had, 638 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: I had six of them yesterday. Yeah. Actually, you know, 639 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: this one thing I'm not clear on or I don't 640 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,240 Speaker 1: remember from past research is just how often a sperm 641 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,719 Speaker 1: whale is eating a giant squid. I don't know either. 642 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: One thing I did come across in this research is 643 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 1: um that a colossal squid has an extreme colossal squid 644 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: is the Southern Ocean like Antarctic equivalent of a giant squid. 645 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: They're around the same length, though a colossal squid has 646 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: a fat or more robust body, and the colossal squid 647 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: apparently has a very very slow metabolism. I guess it 648 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: lives in deep cold water, and despite its gigantic size, 649 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,799 Speaker 1: it really doesn't have to eat very much at all 650 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: because it just doesn't move or do very much. But 651 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 1: either way, I mean, I guess these things delicious sperm whales. 652 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: I I wonder, like, do sperm whales get upset stomachs 653 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,920 Speaker 1: when they have too many squid and they get do 654 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,799 Speaker 1: they get like beak belly? One well, one would think so. 655 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: But then again, if these are these are indeed a 656 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: primary part of their diet, they've they've had time to 657 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,359 Speaker 1: get used to it. One wonders, maybe someday, if we 658 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,800 Speaker 1: create the machine that allows us to talk to whales, 659 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: we will that will be the first thing we ask them, right, 660 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 1: Or maybe it's just simply the fact that it's sure, 661 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,160 Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for it, you're gonna get beak belly, 662 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 1: but it just tastes so good. It's indeed, like when 663 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,439 Speaker 1: a when a human goes to a restaurant and eats 664 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: an entire appetizer of fried calamary all By themselves. It's 665 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 1: a terrible choice. They're gonna pay for it later, but 666 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,920 Speaker 1: it sure was delicious while they were eating it. Squid 667 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,719 Speaker 1: the awesome blossom of the sea. All right. So there 668 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 1: you have it. Globsters A two parter here on stuff 669 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: to blow your mind. Again. We didn't cover all the 670 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,800 Speaker 1: globsters that have occurred and been reported by humans wandering 671 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: the beaches of the world. We haven't discussed anywhere near 672 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,160 Speaker 1: all the amazing creatures that live in the in the 673 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 1: ocean and sometimes wind up washed on the shore. But 674 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: we get to cover a lot of ground. I think 675 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 1: there are some examples we didn't get to that are 676 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 1: neither confirmed to be parts of whales, nor are they 677 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 1: like basking sharks or squid like we talked about today, 678 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: but some other kind of blobby mass that we don't 679 00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 1: quite know what it is, and uh, who knows. Maybe 680 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,480 Speaker 1: will come back to that in the future if people 681 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 1: really want to hear more blobs. They love blobs, you know, 682 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 1: we we can always we can always return to blob 683 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 1: Blob Island. Will do Globster three D. That will be 684 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,960 Speaker 1: the third one, because it'll be in three D. You 685 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: can't have a monster movie that's number three without having 686 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: some three D glasses. That's good. I like it. Whether 687 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 1: whether it's whether it's whale body parts, whether it's a squid, 688 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: whether it's a basking sharp or shark, or whether it's 689 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: the Pope. It's all gonna look good in three D. 690 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,480 Speaker 1: You're gonna be glad you came and you paid the 691 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 1: extra dollar for the glasses. All right. Well, if you 692 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,919 Speaker 1: want to check out more episodes of Stuff to Blow 693 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 1: Your Mind, you know where to find them. 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