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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know front House Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot Com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, Jerry's over there

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Speaker 1: in the ether, floating, possibly not existing, who knows. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And this is stuff you should know, that's right. Just

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Speaker 1: a couple of couple of merman trying to make their

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Speaker 1: way in the world, trying to keep their tails wet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you know, yeah, because that thing dries out. You've

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Speaker 1: seen Splash. Yeah, it's a actually past now. She dried

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Speaker 1: out and she was just fine. Oh. I thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: you thinking of et when he turned all white and

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Speaker 1: dried out. I was thinking of Splash because I couldn't remember.

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Speaker 1: It's one of It was one of my favorite movies

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Speaker 1: as a kid. It's a cute movie. Um. It was

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Speaker 1: one of those early HBO movies, early Tom Hanks, which

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Speaker 1: I'm big fan of early Tom Hanks, and um, I

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Speaker 1: just thought it was a really fun funny movie. John

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Speaker 1: Candy movie what's his name played the evil man trying

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Speaker 1: to expose her. Um, Eugene Levy, I think, oh, was

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Speaker 1: he the bad guy? Yeah? He was the one that

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Speaker 1: you know that's a high quality movie. When Eugene Levy

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Speaker 1: is the bad guy. Yeah, there was the SETV crew

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Speaker 1: and um, he actually tried to spray her and get

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Speaker 1: her wet so she would and the fat kid turned

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Speaker 1: into a mermaid on the sidewalk, That's what it was.

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Speaker 1: And she got wet, she turned to a mermaid. She

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Speaker 1: got tried, no problem. Yes, And Daryl Hannah, of course,

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Speaker 1: who's running around with Neil Young? Now? Oh really? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How about that couple? Sure? Why not? Both environmentalists. But

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of turquoise in that bedroom. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if you hook up with Neil Young, if or anyone

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Speaker 1: like that, if if you're sort of a new relationship

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Speaker 1: and not like the wife they had for forty years,

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Speaker 1: if you're like, ya, play a song, why don't you what? Like?

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Speaker 1: I wonder if you asked them to play music? Oh,

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Speaker 1: like you're actually into him? Yeah, Like if if you're

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Speaker 1: Billy Joel's new year old wife, do you ever say, like, hey, honey,

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Speaker 1: play me a tune. Play that one that you that

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Speaker 1: you wrote ten years before I was conceived. I think

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying is I would have a hard time

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Speaker 1: being with Neil Young and not every night after dinner,

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Speaker 1: just kind of nudging the guitar towards him, Oh, I

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Speaker 1: got you, and saying I'd love to hear Old Man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: please baby one for me, And yeah, he says, I

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Speaker 1: played that song times. Yeah, I would guess that, well,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you I would. I would. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would guess that once you reach a certain point and

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Speaker 1: playing a song, you never want to hear that song

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Speaker 1: or even think about it existing again, but then you

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Speaker 1: still have to play it. I try not to think

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Speaker 1: about that when I'm at those shows. Yeah, it makes

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Speaker 1: me feel bad for him, like they might as well be,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the monkey house or something, and you

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Speaker 1: just throwing bananas at him. And God bless the people

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Speaker 1: who really bring it still where you feel like, man,

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Speaker 1: they're playing that song for me tonight, Adam Man did

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Speaker 1: he still bring it? He's just who came to mind.

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Speaker 1: Whereas when I saw the Police on their reunion, they

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Speaker 1: were phoning it in really, even Stewart Copeland. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they were playing the songs, but it just it didn't

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Speaker 1: look like they were enjoying themselves at all. It looked

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Speaker 1: like a total money grab. Sure, they entered from three

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Speaker 1: separate entrances and exited from three separate and I got

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Speaker 1: the feeling they didn't even like speak much. That's like

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Speaker 1: I was reading an article on the Ramons, the Rolling

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Speaker 1: They would be gun stage because they had to. That

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Speaker 1: great article, good read. Um, So back to splash, funny

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Speaker 1: movie about a mermaid, and we're gonna talk about mermaids here,

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Speaker 1: and mostly what we're gonna cover is the lore in

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Speaker 1: an obviously doctored photo. What would be fun, though, is

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Speaker 1: if we had a time machine forget killing Hitler. If

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Speaker 1: that stuff. With your aim being what just a freak

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Speaker 1: Josh is traveling Wonder Wonder emporium. It's not a bad

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Speaker 1: idea where in which you just show them photos. But

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Speaker 1: like almost immediately. Right, there's like one guy in the town.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why no one ever thought of that.

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Speaker 1: It was a terrible idea, like from beginning to end.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about mermaid uh lore. Well we can

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Speaker 1: you go to kiryat Yam, you could win how much money?

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Speaker 1: Does he even say? Million bucks? Million American dollars if

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Speaker 1: you um, if you provide incontrovertible evidence of the mermaid

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's just um suggest to enough that people

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Speaker 1: or just the ancients non bicameral mind wasn't um fused

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Speaker 1: were a lot of folksore even was rooted in misogyny.

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Speaker 1: I believe Merman were even first on the literary scene.

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Speaker 1: Tale episodes that were twin episodes almost um about the

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Speaker 1: original Little Mermaid and how you know she was disnified

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Speaker 1: So at the end, this is where dramatically differs from

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Speaker 1: and then he saw she had a tail, and it's like, oh,

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00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: I can't go there. So what's going on here? They're

421
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: hallucinating because they've been on the high seas too long.

422
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people say. Um. Other people

423
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: say that again, they were predisposed to believing in mermaids

424
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: because people thought mermaids existed. This were This was the

425
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: age of exploration. So it's the beginning of the age

426
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: of exploration, which means that before then the oceans were

427
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 1: largely unexplored and there were tons of beliefs in thousands

428
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: year thousands of year old mythologies about creatures that lived

429
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: in the sea. So if you thought that those things existed,

430
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: then something that looked kind of like a mermaid could

431
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: be a mermaid. So that was probably if they were

432
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: just they're just cases of mistaken identity. They were highly suggestible. Yeah,

433
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: we did. Yeah, that was a good one. I thought

434
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: that one was going to be awful and it turned

435
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: out pretty great. Like I remember thinking like this is

436
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: not going to go well, and kind like this one.

437
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: How do you think this one's going pretty great? All right,

438
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: let's take a break then and uh give each other

439
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: a neck rub, and we'll come back more comfortable than ever.

440
00:26:49,240 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: All right, there is a dude. I love this guy.

441
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: His name is Carl Bants and he he di're not

442
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: a Carl Bands fan. Well, I just I'm not quite

443
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: sure to understand unless did you read the article. Well,

444
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 1: just to set it up. Okay, So dude named Carl

445
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: Bants back in he wrote a an article in a

446
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: legitimate journal, the Journal Limnology and Oceanography, um, and they

447
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: published it, and it is an entirely tongue in cheek

448
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: but totally played straight account of the extinct species mermaid. Yeah,

449
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 1: like wherein he surmises on like for real, where they

450
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: came from, what their biology was, where they while they

451
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: left us? Yep, that they were warm water dwelling, that

452
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: they ate human flesh, which is why they lured people

453
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: to their death. Um. He goes so far as to

454
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: say that they um most likely only produced one or

455
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: two offspring at a time because the females of the

456
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: of the species had two breasts, and that was it. Okay,

457
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: you know, um, like like this is the thought that

458
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: this guy put into this this article and the fact

459
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: that he writes it totally straight and like really gives

460
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 1: it its due attention, Like it wasn't that that, like

461
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a great idea, and just the

462
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: idea itself is hilarious, so I don't really have to

463
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: put any effort into actual execution. He put effort into

464
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: the execution and did he did pretty good. I'm not

465
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: knocking him. I guess I just don't see why this

466
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: journal would put something like that out there. Even I

467
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,719
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, I guess they had a good

468
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: sense of humor and they were Maybe it was the

469
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: April Fool's episode. I was wondering if that was the

470
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: case too, and I forgot to look if it was

471
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: the April issue. Perhaps he did use the words horny

472
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: skinfolds though, right, their skin, and he theorized was not smooth, smooth,

473
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: scaled like a regular fish. But I had quote horny

474
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: skin folds like an armadilla. Yeah. What's interesting is I

475
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: saw another account from eighteen thirty in Scotland. There's a

476
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: kind of a town called Benbecula on the Outer Hebrides, right,

477
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: which is like the outer Islands, the arca archipelago. It's

478
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: an archipelago. That's how you say that, right, it's archipelago. Yeah,

479
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: either way. There's a town there, a string of islands,

480
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: coastal thank you, coastal town where in eighteen thirty the

481
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: whole town swore they saw a mermaid and tried to

482
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: grab the mermaid, and the mermaid swam away. So some

483
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: kid threw a rock at it and hit it in

484
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: its back, and two days later they found it dead

485
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: on shore and they felt so bad about it that

486
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: they they they buried it. They gave it a funeral

487
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: with like a casket and everything, and um they said

488
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: that it didn't have scales, that it had like kind

489
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: of rough skin instead horny skinfold. Yeah, they didn't use

490
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: that term, but this is like a thing in eight

491
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: thirty in Scotland. Yeah, pretty interesting that when you read

492
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: the account of it years later. By the way, horny skinfolds, Yeah, yeah,

493
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: that is interesting. Uh, maybe there's something there, right, I

494
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: had to keep the folds of the horny skinfold clean,

495
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: you know that, like gunk gets trapped in there. I

496
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe that's the name of the first single

497
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: cleaning the folds. The other thing um that A Bants

498
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: did in his article was explained probably why they're extinct. Now.

499
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: He came to the conclute their extinct um. He said

500
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: they were warm water, so they would have cohabitated or

501
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: shared the their a system with jellyfish. And as humans

502
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: started to fish more and more of the sea, um,

503
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: we upset the ecological balance. Jellyfish populations were allowed to

504
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: boom which is the case. And they stung the mermaids

505
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: to death because the mermaids had they lacked the blubber

506
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: that would protect them not just in cold water, but

507
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: from jellyfish things as well. So they died out from

508
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: jellyfish things. Yeah, because their their upper skin was just

509
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: regular skin. It wasn't the horny skin folds, so it

510
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: provided no protection. Exactly. That's it's worth reading. Go check

511
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: it out. It's called Mermaids the Biology, Their Biology, Culture

512
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: and Demise. You can find like the full pdf online. Well,

513
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: I think we have to address the animal planet snapoo.

514
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if they would call it a snapper.

515
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: I think they would call it a ratings bonanza. Yeah, which,

516
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: what was the other when we talked about the Megalodon?

517
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: When Discovery Channel aired a Megalodon documentary that appeared by

518
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: all accounts to be true and was not the same

519
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: thing with Mermaids, But they did it twice, they did

520
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: they did a sequel because it got like you said,

521
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: huge ratings and uh, this was a documentary, Um, well

522
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: not a documentary. It was a mockumentary that looked like

523
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: did you watch any clips or anything of the second one? Yeah, yeah,

524
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it looked like, you know, a show like

525
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: a hunting Bigfoot crew. It's like, you know, we got

526
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: this mermaid, we know where she is, and we're down

527
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: here hunting and the yeah, below the surface. Yeah, and

528
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: they interviewed a guy that looked like Zack Gallifanakis. If

529
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: only it would have been a Califannakis, it would have

530
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: made it much better. But um, you know, then it

531
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: was one of these shows where at the end and

532
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: small lettering it it's right, not be small, but at

533
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: the end of the credits it's like this was all

534
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: made up. These are actors and yeah, but if you

535
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: go online, people are still like arguing over the the

536
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: legitimacy or credentials of the marine geologist Torsten Schmidt. That's

537
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: a great name, it is um and people are like, well,

538
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: if he were a real scientist, he would have been

539
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: published elsewhere besides this, and he's not published. And it's

540
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: like that's because he's not real. He's made up. This

541
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: is like settled. They didn't even pretend that it was real,

542
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know if that's the case

543
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: or not, because I mean they said it wasn't on

544
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: the at the end of the show, okay, but they

545
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: didn't come out and say everybody, everybody right, it's so

546
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: actually Noah. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had to

547
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: release and they felt they needed to release a statement

548
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: after the first one saying like, hey, um, mermaids don't exist,

549
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: no evidence has ever been found. We're Noah the end.

550
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: And I bet they love that even show. Yeah, my god,

551
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: Noah's making a statement. Yeah, it's gonna be over the news, right,

552
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: And so I guess enough people bought it and and

553
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: um bought into it that they were able to release

554
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: a sequel. And in the sequel, the reason they released

555
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: the sequel was because Torsten Schmidt had footage of a

556
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: webbed hay and like smacking the windshield of his little

557
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 1: like um underwater sub man sub um and then swimming off.

558
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: And so they just kept showing that over and over

559
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: and over again, and it was Sack gallup and Akis

560
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: he did look like him, Tonty a lot um. I

561
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: thought you were going to say that. It was found

562
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: out when Torsten Schmidt showed up on a episode of

563
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: Two Broke Girls the next week, right like a waiter

564
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: and a progressive insurance and it's like customer and over

565
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: two exactly. There's one other sighting I wanted to mention

566
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: this one, the second for my favorite, after the Scottish one.

567
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: It was in Adam, Netherlands. Is it eat him like

568
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: the cheese? Yeah? Okay, Um. Two girls were like rowing

569
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: their boats and found a mermaid and took it home

570
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: and dressed it up as a little girl and taught

571
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: it to live on land. But it remained mute its

572
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: whole life. Yeah, but isn't that cute? That very cute,

573
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: Like you're coming home with us, Oh, you've got a family. Ts,

574
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: we got a family too, and it's your new family.

575
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: And they just made that story up and told people

576
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: and it survived, I guess interesting, although they didn't they

577
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: support they didn't apparently like they matriculated the mermaid into

578
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: human society there. But we're talking fourteen thirty, so who

579
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: knows what was going on. They were eating, They probably

580
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: got their hands out on somebody who was like who knows,

581
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, mermaid, this is a mermaid. Oh,

582
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: just someone who had some sort of physical and made

583
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: them come live with them just as a girl for

584
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: the rest of their life. Like SCHLITZI or something. Yeah,

585
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: like we did in the freak shows. They would just

586
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: call them make up whatever animal they wanted to. That

587
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: was another great episode. Two are you just recounting the

588
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: good ones while we do this one? Just to remind

589
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: people it gets better. So being a mermaid is an

590
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: actual job you can get if you back in the

591
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: day in the nineteen for teas in fifties, it was

592
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: a big hit. Uh to go to a like a

593
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: c park and have mermaid shows and specifically one in

594
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: is it WEEKI watching Springs? Yeah, WEEKI watching Springs Florida

595
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: on your Tampa And uh, it was a booming business

596
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: back then. They said, um, between half million and a

597
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 1: million tourists every year and including big famous people like

598
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley and Don Knots. Those are the two they mentioned.

599
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 1: Those two would trash and play together. Oh I bet

600
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: Don gets into the whiskey. It's all over. Um. So yeah,

601
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: it was a huge deal back then. They're still doing

602
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: it there today. But it is a real job you

603
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: can um, you can go if you're a great swimmer,

604
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: Like you have to know what you're doing. Oh yeah,

605
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: Like it seems like, oh yeah, you just put on

606
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: that that tail, but that tail is is heavy and awkward.

607
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: Well but yeah, and plus like somewhat buoyant swimming with

608
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: your legs together. Yeah, that's very difficult. Yeah, it's not

609
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: an easy job from what I can tell. Yeah, so

610
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: apparently once you put like they look very graceful, uh,

611
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: swimming around in those things. But you go put one

612
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 1: on and get in a pool and see what happens.

613
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: Right in this article, I think rightly points out that

614
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: the professional mermaids that you see today are um, like

615
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: this is from years and years and years of practice,

616
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: Like they didn't just get in the water and they're like, yeah,

617
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm a natural. Yeah exactly. Um can be really awkward.

618
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: And you also have to know how to hold your

619
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: breath like a mo like a mo yeah it's stop myself,

620
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: Yeah you do. And you have to learn how to

621
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: swim the mermaid crawl, which is what they name it.

622
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: But you know it's not like regular swimming. Uh yeah right,

623
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: you know. And you can make a little dough too,

624
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: a little bit. It said. You can be hired like

625
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: it's a one off for a party. What is that?

626
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: Like you go to like a neighborhood pool and everyone

627
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: gathers around like look at the mermaids class out of

628
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: rhythm and you're like, what do you guys want me

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Speaker 1: And some of these uh professional mermaids apparently use their

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Speaker 1: the professional mermaid culture. You're like an eco activist. That's

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Speaker 1: can't promise we'll use it, but we probably will, yeah,

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