WEBVTT - Why It's Now Illegal to Give Dolphins Acid (For Science) 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.240 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio and there. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:09.799 She is missed the Lizabid I go gonna save the day. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:10.680 How are you doing there? 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.039 Pretty well? Consider my day saved. 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.040 I saved the day for pretty much everybody. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:17.560 You do for me, I mean, my day is already 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.960 looking up and now it's saved too. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.200 If it's not comfortable, this is true. Yah, you make 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:23.599 the call. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.880 I got a question for you over there, save her 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:27.480 and destroyer of worlds? 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:27.880 Uh? 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.000 Do you know it's ridiculous. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.320 I do know it's ridiculous. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:31.720 Share it with me. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.199 It has to do with ranch dressing. You fan a 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:35.080 ranch dressing? 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.960 Yes, breathe through it. Okay, here's how I put it. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.080 I never had ranch dressing until I went to UH 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.320 college and then and then I had it. And then 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.640 I was like, oh, okay, and really the only thing 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.519 I ever eat it with, But it's not true. I 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.519 eat it with pizza because that's how I learned it. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:54.920 And then I tried to put it any on salads 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.480 when it was the only dressing and I didn't want 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.120 to go with like blue cheese or something, and I 0:00:58.200 --> 0:00:59.960 was like, huh yeah, Because I grew up my father 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.480 there was just oil and vinegar or Italian dressing, and 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.640 then my mother had like Catalina in French dressing, so 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:06.760 I never saw. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.440 Yeah, we never had ranch at Woodstocks Pizza in Davis, Californy. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:12.399 That's where I learned. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.200 That's where I learned. They give you ranch with the pizza. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:16.880 And I was like, what the h am I supposed 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.840 to do? Exactly what the h E? Double hockey sticks 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:20.200 is this? 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.360 And you're not supposed to drizzle, You're supposed to dip 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:23.880 dip yearned And then. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.600 I was like, this is kind of great if the 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:32.440 pizza is like not not like sparkle tacular anyway. But yeah, 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.360 I can't put it on a salad. I can't go there. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:39.440 It's two thicks anyway. Ranch dressing, that's one thing. Put 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.600 that put a pin in that pen stuff. Have you 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.080 ever been to Great Wolf Lodge? Do you know what 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:44.520 that is? 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.160 It sounds familiar. I don't think I have. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.880 It's my understanding that it is like an indoor water park. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.200 Oh yeah, no, I've seen ads just like kids pee 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.840 in the water. Sure, I think they encourage it. They're 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:57.520 probably signs. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:58.840 They give rewards, little stickers. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.240 Yes, yes, there's a rewards program. They have this list 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.160 of where they are located all across the USA. My 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:12.960 favorite is there's a location in San Francisco slash Mantica, California. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.920 I'm going to tell. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.600 You something right now, y'all. Mantica is nowhere near San Francisco. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:24.360 But let's you know, don't stop believing anyho So Mountain 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:29.120 Range Valley. All right? Anyway, what was I saying? Great 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.200 Wolf Lodge Ranch Dressing and you know what I'm going 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:37.560 to go to now, milkshakes Because the Great Wolf Lodge, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:45.480 in honor of Ranch Dressing Day, which was March tenth, 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:53.000 they started selling a ranch milkshake. It is blended with 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.840 vanilla ice cream and ranch dressing, garnished with Crispy chicken, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.880 so like little Chicky Nuggies. So like is that like 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.240 on the rim of the glass, Well, it's a salty 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:10.960 lime rim. But then on little skewers there's Chicky Nuggies, carrots, celery, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.120 whipped cream in my shake, in your shake, and so 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.519 it's eight bucks. You can get it at Great Wolf 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.280 Lodge until they're not they're going to stop this madness 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:26.239 May twentieth, So get there beforehand. The thing is is 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.040 that they've been like wilding out on social media because 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.399 everyone's talking about how disgusting it is. Sure on Twitter, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.960 but then Great Wolf Lodge, which is on Twitter, which 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.680 makes me highly suspicious, they get on there and they 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.160 respond to this stuff. So someone's like getting ready to 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.080 puke now, and Great Wolf Lodge responded with the laughing 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.720 emoji and said that rant shake will do that to you. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.840 Vibes alone are enough to flip a stomach. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.320 So it's kind of like milkshake duck. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.120 But it's I think that's the new era that we're in, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:59.920 is that you're supposed to come up with the most 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.920 disgusting things possible to go viral. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:04.440 It's the attention economy. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.040 The attention economy. They also someone just kept asking why, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:13.120 and then the Lodge responded, honestly, that shake feels like 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:19.719 chaos in a cup. Why is the only correct reaction? Okay, 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:20.920 cool kids, I. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.120 Just come on now, this is what we're gonna do. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:25.840 But you know who has the final word on this? 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.080 Not I, not you, No producer, No. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:30.200 Not not you. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:31.000 I know it's not me. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.040 R and b Legend Dion Warwick. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:34.359 Yes, this will be good. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.159 She commented on the post and she said, quote just 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:39.839 in the kitchen wasting food. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.080 Thank you, Dion. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.159 She knows God bless So that is ridiculous. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.080 My god, it's so ridiculous. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.320 The end goodbye. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.800 Now that you cleared the end day ruined, I got 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.360 something ridiculous for you. It's way more fun than that. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:01.599 Good Yeah, giving dolphins LSD because you know science. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:26.360 Oh, this is ridiculous Crime, A podcast about absurd and 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.479 outrageous capers, heists and cons. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:34.520 It's always ninety nine percent murder free and one hundred 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:41.520 percent ridiculous murder was the case they gave you free, Elizabeth, 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.919 I got a wild one for you about dolphins and 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.880 crime and psychedelics. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.080 If I could do that dolphins sound, I would do it, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:49.719 but I can't. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.000 Something like that, Yeah, the clicking and the whistle, Yes. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.560 That just summons the interns. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.320 Before we get into this, the folks who gave us 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.000 dolphins on l because science. I want to set the 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.320 stage with a different and bizarre story about dolphins. To 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.120 wet your beak, so to speak. It comes to us 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.000 from Florida, so you know it's good. As the local 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.400 news outlet CBS twelve reported earlier this month, on March six, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.640 twenty twenty six, dateline Lee County, Florida and I quote, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.800 dolphins are back in the headlines, and this time they're 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:28.440 being accused of running Florida's most bizarre development project. Wait, yes, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.080 so the news stories what they were referring to had 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.440 the following headline update mysterious dolphin kidnapping case takes bizarre 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.240 turn as victim's background raises new questions. That's just got 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:39.800 so much. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.880 In it, right there, there's a lot going dolphin. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:47.479 Kidnapping, suspicious victims, background, new questions. Anyway, the story was 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.760 from a different new story. It's reportedly shared by the 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.200 Associated Press out of Fort Myers, Florida and I quote 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.840 and a story that has captivated local residents and gone 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.560 viral on social media. Thirty three year old man found 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.600 disoriented and sunburned on the Santa Belle Causeway early Monday 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.240 morning claimed he was abducted by a pod of dolphins 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.280 and forced to labor on an elaborate underwater construction project. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.679 Wait right off bed, we have outrageous claims. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.200 Let's let's go back and let's do some Let's do 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.680 some point by point on here. Sure, so we got 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:24.280 a sunburned guy on a highway and then he. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.280 Says, abducted by a pod of dolphins. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.080 And forced to do like water welding. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.880 Correct, so I got more for Elizabeth. Back to the 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.800 ap story. Out of Fort Myers, Florida, Lee County Sheriff's 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.960 Office deputies responded to a nine to one to one 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.080 call it approximately five forty five am from a passing 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.760 motorists who spotted Ricky James Hallowell standing barefoot on the 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.400 shoulder of the causeway, drenched in seawater and frantically sketching 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.640 diagrams in the wet sand. Hallowell, a resident of nearby 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.840 Cape Coral, was clad only in faded blue swim trunks, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.920 with severe sunburn covering his upper body and what appeared 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.800 to be minor abrasions on his hands and feet. Consistent 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:06.280 he later claimed with quote handling coral and structural materials underwater. Okay, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.920 so now we're getting into some real details. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:09.880 They still sell bath salt. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.120 I went immediately wint to that, but he wasn't eating faces. Now, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.480 buckle at Buttercup, because I have a bunch more for you. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.480 Back to the ap story. According to the official incident 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.600 report obtained by the AP. Hollowell recounted being approached by 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.160 a group of bottle nosed dolphins while swimming recreationally off 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.840 Fort Myers Beach on Friday afternoon. Quote they surrounded me 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.680 like a security detail, Hollowell told deputies. It wasn't aggressive 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.200 at first, but they nudged me deeper away from the 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.320 shore before I knew it. I was at a site 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.079 about forty feet down in the gulf, helping them build 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.079 what looked like a full scale aquatic habitat. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:47.079 Okay, right, So at this. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.760 Point I hope alaren bills are going off for you. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.320 The questions like how the hell can this be true? 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.800 Or do dolphins construction workers have unions and protections like 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.520 osha but for the ocean too. Well, before we answer 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.280 these questions, I have a few more details. Where are 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.120 you from the AAP. Hallowell learned to communicate with the 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.480 dolphin overlords who would have taken him hostage. Quote. Hallowell 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.479 describe the dolphins communicating via a complex series of echolocation 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.320 clicks and whistles, which he said he quote picked up 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.680 on after a few hours. It was like learning a 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.800 new language on the fly. He identified the apparent leader 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.680 of the pod as Gerald, a large male dolphin with 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.600 distinctive scarring on his dorsal fan, whom he referred to 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.000 as the project Foreman. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.760 Wait, did Gerald the turkey right have a cousin? I 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.760 have a cousin Gerald or morph? 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.480 Yeah? Oh I like that reincarnated maybe. So now we 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.920 have a leader of a dolphin construction crew, aka Gerald, 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:39.800 the alleged Foreman. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:41.959 So he's such a task master. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.960 Oh, hard, hard boss. But you also may have other questions, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.160 like how the hell did Hallowell survive underwater for days 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.320 without needing access to air food? 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.080 Oh? I'm Jared. I like to have logic and reason 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.240 in my story. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.960 According to Hallowell, and I quote, when pressed by deputies 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.439 on how he survived on water for three days without 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:06.760 oxygen equipment, Hallowell replied, cryptically, quote Gerald handled the breathing part, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.800 some kind of bubble system or pressure adaptation. I didn't 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.880 ask too many questions. You don't question Gerald. He's got 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.320 that authoritative vibe. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.200 I just he kissed Gerald. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.600 Make them kissing now. I don't know about you, but 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.439 I really hope that you do question Gerald, and more 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.240 generally questioned anyone with what some might cally an authoritative vibe. Right, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.840 Please just question authoritative vibes. It's usually a front a lie. Meanwhile, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.439 the Lee County deputies, they did have some questions, even 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.960 if they weren't about Gerald, leader of the dolphins. The 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.920 deputies were more focused on what Hallowell did once he 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.679 re emerged on land. Notably, they were curious about the 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.920 symbols he was drawing in the sand. I remember that part, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.480 so back to the age. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.800 But a guy can't scribble in the sam on the 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:50.760 side of the highway. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.239 Is he making diagrams? 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:53.760 What is this? So? 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.160 According to the AP story out of Fort Myers, Florida, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.000 and I quote, deputies noted that Hallowell's sand sketches are 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.280 remarkably detailed, spanning roughly ten feet across and including scaled 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:08.240 blueprints for what resembled a submerged community, multi level condo 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.760 structures made from natural, coral and synthetic like materials, a 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:16.000 central town square with gathering pods, and even a recreation 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.560 center featuring what Hollowell described as dolphin friendly obstacle courses. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.600 Wait wait, and he was just scratching this into the 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.400 dirt apparently wanted to get it down. I guess you 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.480 know they do those fine sand. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.040 Beaches down there, white sand beaches. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.800 Because I'm just I can't understand how you're getting so 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.280 much detail in this, You know what I mean? 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.760 If like me and apparently you, you're astounded to learn 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.520 that dolphins are building multi level condos from coral with 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.280 rec centers and obstacle courses. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.000 Gerald is a developer. I mean, what kind of lovely 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.280 farmland down there did he buy up? 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.880 That's exactly destroyed the Florida condo communities continue now. The 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.520 Lee County deputies, they had questions. For instance, Deputy Sean Oakley, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.520 are reputed eleven year veteran told the AP, I've seen 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.960 my share of oddities in Lee County, but this guy's 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.640 diagrams had zoning regulations penciled in, setbacks, load bearing specs, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.560 even environmental impact notes. It was detailed enough to make 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.720 you wonder if he wasn't onto something. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:15.600 Way, what right? 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.200 So as for how Hollowell survived the strange ordeal and 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.520 managed to get back to land to share with all 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.400 of us these developmental plans of our underwater mammalian cousins, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.400 According to Hallowell, he was released from his captivity and 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.760 his indentured servitude to Gerald and once he was free, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.080 he swam ashore. Then he crawled out of the surf. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.360 His feet touched dry sand. He was like, oh, thank god. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.120 He was all exhausted, confuse, wondering what he just experienced, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.800 and brother, I've been there. But once he could stand 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.840 and eventually walk, Hallowell walked until he found the causeway. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.440 That's where he collapsed and was eventually discovered by the 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.880 deputies responding to the nine to one to one call. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.520 Yeah right, so, according to the AP story, emergency responders 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.560 transported Hollowell to Lee Memorial Hospital for evaluation, where he 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.320 was treated for dehydration and sunburn. No drugs or alcohol 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.199 were detected in his system. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.760 Saren what if he's telling the truth? 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.840 Right? How about that aliens and dolphins working together on 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:11.959 some abyst level thing? 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.840 What I've come to learn, Yes, is it? You hear 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.880 all these conspiracy theories, believe and you think, oh, it's crazy, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.120 and then you find out, oh god, they're real. And 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.520 so now I am just like I'll buy any. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:28.360 I'll buy that for a doll. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.840 I'll buy that for a doll. Yeah, I've been taught recently. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.400 Recently, same I'm right there with you. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.719 Go with it, you know, so now I believe them all. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.720 Tell me about the nine different types of aliens we 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.160 were in contact, Yes, exactly, so we've basically rolled out. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.760 He wasn't high on basalts, he wasn't tripping on magic mushrooms, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.800 no LSD. He's stone cold, sober. So how can this be? Like, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.720 you know, I'm also glad that you're kind of questioning 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.280 yet also willing to accept this story because it gives 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.880 me hope. Kind of. Anyway, back to the story, because 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.200 there were some updates. Okay, once Halliwell was under medical 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.360 supervision in the hospital setting, more tests were run. The 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.040 doctors discover that Well it was. One of the medical 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:11.400 professionals is doctor Elena Vesquez. She's credited as an attending pulmonologist, right, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.160 so she shares her opinion in the release of the 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.400 findings of what happened to Hallowell and I quote, this 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.520 isn't consistent with a brief drowning incident or aspiration from swimming. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.960 It's as if his respiratory system was exposed to seawater 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:30.560 for an extended period, yet without the expected inflammation or damage. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.440 We're consulting marine biologists for further insight. But it's puzzling. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.520 This is all odd, right, Yeah, Elizabeth, I'm glad to 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.240 hear that you do have some questions and some doubt 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:39.960 for this story. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:40.760 That's important. 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.680 I have more details for you, ones that may confound 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.760 your lead to more questions. Apparently, the Lee County Sheriff's 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.840 Department looked into Hollowell's background, and the deputies found that 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.160 demand's a scientist. He'd gone to MIT, worked for Lockheed 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.640 Martin and later NASA. According to AP story, Hallowell quote 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.320 holds a master's degree an aerospace ructures from the Massachusetts 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.720 Institute of Technology. Previously worked for a decade at Lockheed 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.640 Martin in Orlando, where he specialized in advanced composite materials 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.880 and submersible vehicle designs for deep sea exploration projects funded 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.720 by NASA and the US Navy. So Jaron is like 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.160 a headhunter. I mean, he got the. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.720 Right he really did. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.800 So this all gives credence to why Gerald, you know, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.720 picked him to join his construction crew. But one of 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:30.160 Hollowell's former supervisors was quoted saying that Hallowell was and 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:35.320 I quote always talking about bio inspired engineering, mimicking marine 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.240 life for better tech. If anyone's story about building for 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.560 dolphins could have a kernel of truth, it's his. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:42.000 Oh right. 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.400 So at this point, I still hope that your questions 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.880 are multiplying and growing. I'm talking like exponential progression. I 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.520 want you like going, wait, what the hell is thereon 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.840 telling me? How could any of this be true even 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.520 with all these like corroborations from doctors and former supervisors. Well, 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.920 to answer that fundamental question, I returned to the Lee 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.200 County Sheriff's Office. Okay, and the story from March sixth 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.520 that I mentioned up top from the local news outlet 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.640 CBS twelve, Yeah, yeah, so, and I quote the Lee 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.520 County Sheriff's Office is setting the record straight. On Friday, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.840 after an outlandish online rumor claimed marine mammals were behind 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.320 an underwater construction operation off Florida's coast. The story gained 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.320 traction after a widely shared social media post reference to 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.680 Florida resident who allegedly reported being quote kidnapped by dolphins 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.600 and forced to build an underwater city. The Sheriff's office 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.520 responded with a tongue in cheek statement assuring residents that 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.920 the region's real estate market had not expanded below sea level. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.880 So the Lee County Sheriff's Office did indeed have fun 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.440 debunking this viral news story. The deputies. They put out 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.560 a statement that said, and I quote consulted their fictional 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.080 underwater construction investigation team to look into the claim. According 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.680 to the agency, the dolphins that inhabit Southwest Florida's waters 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.320 quote deny any involvement in the supposed deep sea development. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.760 So what was up with all the AP news story stuff? 0:16:58.840 --> 0:16:59.000 Right? 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.960 Yeah? That may Your source for this alleged AP story 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.800 was a website called Scottprentice dot com, And in his 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.879 reporting on Gerald and the underwater Dolphin construction crew, he 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.200 wanted to point out the gullibility of online news stories. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:13.400 Oh my goodness. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.959 Yes, so he also has his own agenda by conspiracies 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.520 and whatnot. So I'm not exactly recommending anyone visit his website. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.880 I just wanted to cite all my sources to make 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:22.800 it all obvious. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.640 Now the local news AP all draws back to this cast. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.480 The only story that is true is the CBS twelve 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.720 local news outlet that debunked it. Everything else, all that 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.879 AP stuff he was. He was just putting that in 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.119 the news. He's like, yeah, AP story didn't have links 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:41.960 to it, just an AP news story. Wow, that is right. Yeah, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.879 because the AP Associated Press is cited throughout the story, 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.400 it clearly is not an AP news story. How they 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.800 don't sue, I don't know. But the sheriff's deputies were like, yeah, 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.239 and the medical personnel, all that stuff is made up 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.679 and it's all all lies essentially. So I will return 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.959 to Scott Prentice for one quote, because he did make 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.760 a good point. This isn't about dismissing humor or creativity. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.879 It's about discernment. When fake or satirical stories spread like 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.919 wildfire and drown out verifiable warnings, we all lose. The 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:14.200 dolphin kidnapping might be harmless absurdity, but the pattern is dangerous. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.840 Distraction wins clicks, truth gets buried. Well, thank you, Scott Prentiss, 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.119 who is doing the very thing anyway. Now that my 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.080 public service is over and done with, Next up, Elizabeth, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.159 I have another dolphin story for you, but one that 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.240 will also have you asking questions, one that will also 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.960 sound out landish and possibly made up. But I promise 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.800 you this next dolphin story is one hundred percent true, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.200 one percent factual. But before we get into that, let's 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.320 take a little break. Listen to some ads, and when 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.120 we're back, we will get wicked with some LSD AND's 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.680 our mammalian cousin goodness. Yeah. Also we have unexpected celebrity 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.400 appearances like Alan Ginsburg and Carl Sagan. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.120 Love it. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.080 We're back, Elizabeth. Hell, now up top. I promised you 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.479 a story about scientists giving dolphins. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:17.680 You made that problem. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.399 Right, which does sound ridiculous and contract it's criminal. So 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.080 as I promised, this story is one hundred percent true. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:25.760 No no wool pulling here. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:26.200 Okay. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.080 So I got to ask you, Elizabeth, who is your 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:29.159 third favorite dolphin? 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:31.960 My third favorite dolphin? 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:33.840 Like to give you a couple of ideas, Like, there's 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:38.960 obviously Flipper. There's the mascot for the Miami Dolphins. There's Tua, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.359 who's just been released from the Dolphins. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.639 So you should just stop altogether. Yeah, there's that's like 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:51.000 the extent of my knowledge of football should stopper. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.879 There's free Willie, although he's an or you know what, 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.120 Killer whales are the largest dolphins, so he counts. Really. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.879 I love when they takeout ships yachts. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.920 Yes, I like. 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.320 The lease of frank dolphins on the stickers. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.920 Nice there you go. Well, keep those in mind as 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.199 I start this story. And Elizabeth, i'd like you to 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:13.280 meet John Lily. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:13.960 Hi. John. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.000 He was born in nineteen fifteen, the son of wealthy parents. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.000 His father was the president of a local bank in 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:22.320 Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he grew up. His mother's family 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.159 they owned a stockyard company, so she also came from 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.160 wealth and his well to do existence as a child. 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:32.000 It allowed him like a life of exploration, right, he 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.119 could make mistakes and it didn't cost him any but 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.919 a luxury totally. He was also the middle child in 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.359