1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by square Space. Start 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: building your website today at square space dot com. Ter 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: offer code stuff at check out to get ten percent 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: off square Space. Set your website apart. Welcome to you 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: Stuff you should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 1: w Chuck Bryant's Jerry, This Joson John, and this is 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: stuff you should know. Mega Loodon, Burgo Loodon, saxomaphone. Jerry, 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: How where's yours? Nice? Jerry? Yeah, she's trained, well so, Chuck. Yep, 10 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: you ever seen Mega Ladon? No, no, you haven't neither 11 00:00:53,640 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: ye NEI there's any human being because they're extinct, that's right. Um, 12 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: but they are pretty awesome. And when they were alive, 13 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: you would not have wanted to see one anyway mm 14 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: hmm well maybe from sure maybe until they learned to walk. Yeah, 15 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: and you would have been like, oh, I regret coming 16 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: to the shore today. Um. Caracodon megaladon, Yeah, I think 17 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a carcrodon. How's that couch adon? 18 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: Let's a carcrodon carchar I likedon right, that's the official name. Uh. 19 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: And it was a real thing. It's not made up. Um, No, 20 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: it is not the invention of a cryptozoologist or a 21 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: sci fi writer. No, it was a real thing. It 22 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: was a real thing. And giant, giant shark, I mean 23 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: so giant. It's it's I don't want to overuse the 24 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: word my bobbling, so I'm just gonna say incredible, you remarkable. 25 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: Should we go and just say the size of a 26 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: school bus? Yeah, I saw size of a greyhound bus. 27 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 1: It's about the same size. Well, I guess, yeah, one 28 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: smells a lot worse than the other. Which one and 29 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: the greyhound? The school bus just smells like fear and disappointment, 30 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: and the greyhound bus smells like all that plus days 31 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: and days of body odor and farts and cigarette butts. 32 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: Have you ever taken a long bus trip? That's a 33 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: one from Arizona to Atlanta. It's it's the worst. Yeah, no, one, No. 34 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: I think I might have talked about this. It didn't 35 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: dawn on me until like day two. I was like, 36 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: wait a minute, nobody is able to shower. We're all 37 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: just getting stinkier. We're all eating garbage food and farting 38 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: into our cloth seats. It was awful. How long did 39 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: the trip take. It feels like it was like three 40 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: days because you know, he's stop like every freaking two hours, 41 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: you know, because you got account for you know, however 42 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: many people on there, and it breaks down, didn't break down, 43 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: and you just had to stop a lot for breaks, 44 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: and we got stopped in Mississippi for a drug dog 45 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: to come on. Oh really, did anybody getting in trouble? No, 46 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: they just randomly stopped for the drop drug dog. And 47 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: this German shepherd jumped all over the seats and they 48 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: opened up the baggage underneath and he ran all over 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: the place. So I guess then he went home and 50 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: took a shower. Yeah, he was like man getting out 51 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: of there. I guess smuggling drugs on a on a 52 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: bus is Actually when I thought about it, was like, 53 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: what a great idea, Yeah, because it's apparently under the radar. Yeah, 54 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: and um, everybody else's smell is overpowering the smell of 55 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: the drugs. You'd think they probably were tons of drugs 56 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: on that bus and the dog was just like I 57 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: had ten pounds of cocaine and they didn't smell that 58 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: just kidding, So like you really needed to say just kidding. 59 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: You never no kids listen to this, Yeah, probably especially 60 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: this one. We want to say hello to all of 61 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: the sixth grade classes that are listening to this right now, 62 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: and we'd also like to say a special hello to 63 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: our new sponsor, Greyhound Bus Lines. Leave the driving to them, 64 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: so chuckers. Yes, um, where we are talking about the Megaladon, 65 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: the biggest shark that ever lived, and it may have 66 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: had from what I can understand, it makes sense too 67 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: if you stop and think about it. It may have 68 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: had the um most devastating as how I've seen it 69 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: put bite of any animal that ever lived in the 70 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: history of Earth. Yeah, I would say, I would say 71 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: that's accurate. It was bigger than t rex. T Rex 72 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: is very ferocious, had a very ferocious bite ergo ipso 73 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: fact though it was probably um more ferocious as bite 74 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 1: wise than t rex or anything else. Let's talk about 75 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: it all right before, like years ago, people were dumb 76 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: and they thought they found these fossils of these humongous 77 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: six inch teeth, like a tooth itself. It's like larger 78 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: than a hand, a human hand, like a largish human hand. 79 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: So so again to put this in perspective, because everybody 80 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: knows what great white teeth looked like about the size 81 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: of a shot glass. It's a great white tooth. Okay, 82 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: so about two inches. Um, these were six so three 83 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: times larger than a great white tooth. And t Rex 84 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: is right in the middle at something. Yeah, t Rex 85 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: is at about four inches. So we're talking a megaladon 86 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: tooth is fifteen centimeters in length, where great white sharks 87 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: is about five centimeters. And that's we're a single tooth. 88 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: I just went tooth, very very large, and I saw 89 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: that they actually go up to seven inches as far 90 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,239 Speaker 1: as what they found. So four years ago people found 91 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: these fossils and they said, oh my god, it's a 92 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: petified dinosaur tongue, dragon tongue. Oh even better, Well, I 93 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: have dragon, snakes and dinosaurs down in my research. I 94 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: saw dragons only I believe in dragons four hundred years ago. Um. 95 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: And then in sixteen sixty seven, Danish anatomus named Nicholas 96 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: Stino said, these aren't tongues, their teeth. Don't be stupid, everybody, Yeah, 97 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: these are gigantic teeth, and everybody's like, don't be ridiculous. 98 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: They're they're dragon tongues. I'm wearing one around my neck 99 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: as we speak, and I use it in my potions, 100 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: along with eye of newt probably, so oh yeah, apparently 101 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: they did use it in medicine. You find something that big, 102 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: it's gotta have great powers short when you grind it 103 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: up and snored it. So they found these teeth over 104 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: the years, and these these fossils, uh, not only just 105 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: the teeth, but something called CenTra c E N t 106 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: R A H. And that is the uh it's not vertebrae, 107 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: but it's a part of the spine that doesn't deteriorate, right, 108 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: because here's the problem. A shark skeleton is made up 109 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: almost entirely of cartilage, So no matter how big it is, 110 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: over time that cartilage is going to break down and 111 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: return to the dust on the bottom of the sea 112 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: floor and you'll never know what was ever there. But 113 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: luckily those teeth in the center are made of harder 114 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: stuff and the teeth actually become fossilized. And there's another 115 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: one of my favorite episodes that just flies under the radar. 116 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: Fossil fossils was great, and that's an old one. So 117 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: you remember the fossilization processes where the the individual atoms 118 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: of this stuff are basically replaced by stone and the 119 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: thing literally turns to stone. So anything organic and it 120 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: is replaced by stone and it becomes fossilized in that sense. 121 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: So that's why something like a tooth could survive. It 122 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: becomes stone. And apparently the same thing goes with the center. 123 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: So taking megalodon teeth and mega look at then CenTra. 124 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: They started making calculations and measurements and figuring out like, 125 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: oh my god, this thing was enormous. Yeah, and we've 126 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: mentioned the t rex and dinosaurs a couple of times. 127 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: They weren't. If you're picturing in your head dinosaurs roaming 128 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: the earth and the megalodon swimming in the ocean fighting 129 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: one another. Yeah, they didn't overlap by about forty five 130 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: million years, so it wasn't even close. Uh. And of 131 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: course humans we haven't been around that long at all 132 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: in the Grand scheme, No Homo sapiens maybe a hundred 133 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: thousand years or so. Yeah, so obviously we were not 134 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: there during the time of the megalodon either. So our 135 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: opening bit about standing on the beach watching them is 136 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: was it was joked it's stanka bs just humor um. 137 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: So dinosaurs were around from two hundred million years ago, 138 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: just sixty five million years ago when the big asteroid hit, 139 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: and then Megalodon was from twenty million years ago to 140 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: about two million to one and a half million years ago. 141 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: It seems like, so yeah, absolutely no overlap whatsoever. And 142 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: I was just helping out a sixth grade class. Just 143 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: so you mentioned before, these scientists were left with quite 144 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: a task. It's not like finding of like a dinosaur 145 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: U dinosaur's bones and saying, well, we can put it together. 146 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: They didn't have a lot to go on with just 147 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 1: the center in the teeth. But they're much smarter than 148 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: we are, so they were able to do so. Yes, 149 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: And one of the things that the CenTra actually shows 150 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 1: two is growth rings. Right, so just like a tree, 151 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: sharks actually have a a signature of growth. I guess 152 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: you'd call it like a tree ring on their center 153 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: on these kind of vertebrae like structures. They get one 154 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: every year every season when it changes from I think 155 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: warm to cold, they get a little growth ring. And 156 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: so um, if you're an ichthyologist or a paleontologist or 157 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: a paleoich theologist specifically, Yeah, you could look at one 158 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: of these things and be like, oh, well, this this 159 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: megalodon lived to a hundred fifty years old because it's 160 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty rings. Yeah, and apparently, uh, wide 161 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: light rings means you grew faster as a megalodon and 162 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: narrow dark rings means you grew a little slower. So 163 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: they can look at these growth rates in the Age 164 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: of Death and just understand a little bit more about 165 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: the Great journey to extinction. So you too will understand 166 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: a little bit more about the Great Journey to extinction 167 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: right after these messages, so check. They found teeth, and 168 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: they found teeth actually all over the world. There's there's 169 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: a lot. It's an amazing amount of stuff that they 170 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: were able to glean from just finding some teeth in 171 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: some CenTra here um. And one of the things that 172 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: they figured out from the teeth is that, wow, we 173 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: found teeth all over the world, in Europe, in India 174 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: and Japan, in North America, South America, Africa, Australia. Basically 175 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: they've been found around every continent except for Antarctica. And 176 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: I would guess that if you could dig down through 177 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: the ice sheets around Antarctica, you would probably find some 178 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: megalodon teeth, yeah, because it was like very different a 179 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: million years ago down there. As far as right now, Yeah, 180 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: you'd like living in South Carolina. Nice coastal beach scene there. 181 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: Imagine the megalodon swimming around. That's exactly what happened in 182 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: two thousand nine. Um, some paleontologists from a a university 183 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: in Florida. I'll just say that they very generous of you. 184 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: They discovered some uh, some fossils. Uh. And these specifically 185 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: were interesting because they were all little baby megalodons. It 186 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: was a nursery. Yeah. And they discovered the same thing 187 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: off the coast of South Carolina, which if you know 188 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: how big something is when it dies, and you know 189 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: how big it is when it's born, just add them 190 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: together and divide by two and you have a pretty 191 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: good idea of what it's life was like. Uh. And 192 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: when they were little babies, they were just twenty long. 193 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: Yet that cute. They figured out did you say that 194 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: that nurser was found in Panama for those researchers, Uh, yeah, 195 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: And then then I think the other one is off 196 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: South Carolina. So they figured out from these teeth that Um, 197 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: the megalodon infant was as big as the normal size 198 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: great white shark adult, like a pretty big great white. Yeah, 199 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: that's like on the larger side. Yeah, that's amazing. Twenty 200 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: ft long are the babies. That's like um, baby huey basically, 201 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: but as a shark. So this means um, clearly, this 202 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: is the apex predator of its time. Um, and it can. Well, 203 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: it probably went everywhere because it could, but because nothing 204 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: threatened it, you could eat. It could eat whatever it 205 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: wanted to. And all things suggest that they had a 206 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: lot of whales, balleen whales. They found teeth marks on 207 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 1: whale bones. They even found teeth stuck in whale fossils. 208 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, pretty exciting. No, what happened there? They were 209 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: in the middle of the meal when they got wiped 210 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: out or they lost a tooth and it went down 211 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: with the whale. Well it said teeth though, like maybe 212 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: they just lost it, but maybe it was like me 213 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 1: and it bit into the chicken bone started dropping teeth. 214 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: Was that what happened? The chicken bone? The second one, Yeah, 215 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: broke off at the Falcons game. It didn't hurt, right, 216 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: You told us about that. It was so weird. I 217 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: was like, well, my tooth just broken half okay, as 218 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: long as didn't as long as it didn't hurt. And 219 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: I went and sat back down to my seat and 220 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: was just passed out from the pain that suddenly swarmed. No, 221 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: there was no pain. The only pain was watching the 222 00:13:55,520 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: falcons this season. Uh so they weighed between fifty a 223 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: hundred tons and they could eat up to twenty hundred 224 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: pounds of food a day. I love this. I love 225 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: the comparison. I wasn't gonna do it. Okay, we won't 226 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: go ahead. The author said, that's five hundred more pounds 227 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: than the average American eats in a year. Just such 228 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: a dumb comparison. But it's also hilarious in every way. 229 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: I think good comparisons are one where it really hits 230 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: home like that doesn't. So the author should have been like, 231 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: that's fifty big max. Maybe that would have satisfied me 232 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: times fifty Uh terrible. Um did we say, chuck? How big? 233 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: The um? The mouth is based on these reconstructions. No, 234 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: they put you know, how you see the big giant 235 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: shark mouth. Sometimes it's from a real shark, and sometimes 236 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: they just put it together. In this case, they put 237 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: it together. Yeah, but the mouthful feature like real megalodon teeth. 238 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: But the jaws, the bone jaws or cartlet shaws are 239 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: obviously resin right. But you'll frequently see somebody standing in 240 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: one of these and they're just dwarfed by it. And 241 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: this is pretty accurate. Apparently they had it was reasonable 242 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: for a megalodon to have a seven foot diameter, which 243 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: is who knows how many meters to at least in 244 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: diameter the mouth, and so like I saw this one. 245 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: I think shark facts or something shark inside or some 246 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: site was basically like, actually, if megalodon were alive today, 247 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to worry about it because it would 248 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: be like you eating a cheese it and calling that 249 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: a meal. They wouldn't even bother with you. I would 250 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: not gamble that and swim around it, because even if 251 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: it just opened its mouth, you'd just go right in. Well, 252 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: we like cheese, it's exactly. Yeah. Uh, and if there's 253 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: a whole box of humans, that megalodon would probably eat 254 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: the whole thing, as a box of humans is called 255 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: the school bus. That's right full circle. Oh my gosh, Chuck, 256 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: So you talked a little earlier about the bite force. Um, 257 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: this is a good comparison, I think because it does 258 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: hit home. Um specialist, specialist. It's a weird thing to 259 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: say experts. Experts, she means cardiologists. Yeah, experts and researchers 260 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: say that a megala don's bite force was akin to 261 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: us eating a grape, them eating a whale skull. So 262 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: it could chomp through a whale skull the same as 263 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: we could much do a grape, even those of us 264 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: with fewer teeth. Yeah, and again it's not just the 265 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: bite wasn't so bad just because there the teeth are 266 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: so big and the the mouth was had such a 267 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: wide diameter. It was designed basically to yeah, to crush, 268 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: to disabled, to to disfigure in mame and pillage that 269 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's right. So yeah, it would be 270 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: able to crush the skull very easily, and it did. Um. 271 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the podcast art for this 272 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: episode has a megaladon eating a whale Like it's nothing. Man, 273 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: it's an artist's rendering. It's not a underwater photograph. But 274 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. Nonetheless, you know, it's also cool is 275 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: us taking a break? Oh yeah, so let's do that, 276 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: and we'll come back and we'll finish up on the 277 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: mighty micheladon Marldon stop. So how are these dudes? Remember 278 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: one and a half to two million years to twenty 279 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: million years is when they lived. I'm not sure how 280 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: long they lived, and I'm not sure that ich theology 281 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: just to paleoic theologists know yet. Well, I said, they 282 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: guess they became distinct about two million years ago. No, 283 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: I mean how long they lived in like the lifespans area, 284 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: it was pretty big. I don't know. Well, I mean 285 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: most large like whale, sharks and whales, they have long lives. Listen, 286 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: one hunts them. But they think they went extinct a 287 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: couple of million years ago during the Playo placed to 288 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: scene period. And um, we actually featured an article just 289 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: a few days ago about a new study on what 290 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: they think caused the extinction because they used to think 291 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: it had more to do with climate changes that they 292 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: couldn't keep up with. Yeah, but um, I believe the 293 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: same researchers who figured out the um or who found 294 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: that Panamanian nursery. Um. Also we're the ones who conducted 295 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: this study. Maybe not, but um, they they showed that 296 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: the global ocean temperatures rose, was and um declined during 297 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: this eighteen million year period where the megalodon was around, 298 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: and they're still Megalodon. Yeah, their populations apparently didn't change. 299 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: So they've basically said, no, we don't think it was 300 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: temperature climate change that did it. We think it was 301 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: a lack of diversity in the prey. Well, yeah, and 302 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: I guess what you were talking about, like eating a human, 303 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: Like you know, we'll say a human is six ft tall. 304 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: That's still pretty large. And if that's not a cheese it, 305 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: then you need to eat super large things and a 306 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: lot of them. And you better hope those large things 307 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: are successful at reproducing as well, because they go away, 308 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,360 Speaker 1: you're in big trouble. And they basically think that's what happened. 309 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: The food sources became less diverse, and then smaller predators 310 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: evolved and started competing and we should probably faster and 311 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: better at hunting. And what happened by smaller they mean orcas. Yeah, 312 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 1: like that's that that was their smaller competition for the 313 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: same prey. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, and uh, who was it? 314 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: The Zurix Paleontological Paleontological Institute in Museum they examined two 315 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: hundred Megalodon records and came up with this new information, 316 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: and they flat out said, changing climactic conditions do not 317 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: appear to have had any influence. Yeah, they're like ocean hot, 318 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: ocean cold. We love it either way. Yeah, And I 319 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: mean if you if you're competing with an uh an 320 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: organism or species that is going after the same prey 321 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: but doesn't need as much as you to eat per day, 322 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: you're going to lose evolutionarily speaking, that it could very 323 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: easily be what it is. And because Megalodon, the recreations 324 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: of them look a lot like um great whites, a 325 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,959 Speaker 1: lot of people are like, well, they're obviously great white ancestors. 326 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 1: Apparently not. Apparently they are more closely related to mako sharks, right, yeah, 327 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 1: mako sharks um and poor beagles sharks, although they would 328 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: share some sort of relation to um Great whites because 329 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,719 Speaker 1: they would both be lamb uniforms. And the lamb niform 330 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 1: is a shark with two dorsal fins, five gill slits 331 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: in the mouth that extends back beyond the eyes, so 332 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: they can smile real wide after they eat a whole 333 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: boat full of people. So I was about to do 334 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: the Jaws line. Smile you son of a Um. We 335 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: should shout out Gordon Hubble. He's a megalodon expert who 336 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: uh he had his theory now I think it's cool. 337 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: He had his theory about the food source before. Uh, 338 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: it officially came out when everyone else was going and 339 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: now it was the climate. He actually theorized this beforehand. 340 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: So good on you, sir. Um. He's the same guy 341 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: who says no, no, no, there's no such thing as 342 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 1: this megalodon still right, Yeah, because we should do one 343 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: on cryptozoology as a whole. Um. There are people out 344 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: there that want to believe that somewhere in the depths 345 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: of the ocean and the deepest, darkest corners that we 346 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: have explored, that there are these giant beasts still living, right, 347 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: And actually they make great points. I mean, look at 348 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: the Ceila canth. We thought the silic canth went extinct, 349 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: and then it was caught off the coast of Africa 350 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: um in the thirties I think South Africa, UM, and 351 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: we realized, wow, this thing hasn't been extinct for a 352 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: couple of hundred million years. And then in the seventies 353 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: they found the megamouth shark, which is a here to 354 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: four unknown shark species that fed on plankton deep deep 355 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: deep in the ocean, and they caught one off of Hawaiian. 356 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: They're like, this is new. So crypto zoologist point to 357 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: these things and they say, how can you say that 358 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: there definitely is no um megalodons out there still? And 359 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: I think that same guy who you shouted out to says, well, 360 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: here's why, because the the megamouth shark um, which is 361 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,719 Speaker 1: a plant eater, lives in this part of the ocean 362 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: where we just don't tread. We're just now developing the 363 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: technology to be able to go down there, so our 364 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: path wouldn't really cross. A megalodon would have the same 365 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: type of habitat that a regular shark has coastal regions, right, 366 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: so we definitely would have noticed a megalodon by now, 367 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: even if there was just one left in the whole world, 368 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: we probably would have encountered it by now because our 369 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: our habitats overlap a little bit. Then a sela can't. 370 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: Isn't the size of a school bus in fairness. Yeah, 371 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: So he kind of did a mic drop explanations and 372 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: um that they haven't found any megalodon teeth that are 373 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: not fossils, even though some people have claimed that, uh, 374 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: it's all bs. Yeah, can we say that safely? I 375 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: don't know. I think so. But that's not to say 376 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: that some people haven't made great hay out of this stuff, 377 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: including a guy named, um, what is that named Steve Alton. 378 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: He wrote a series of books called meg about a 379 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: megalodon that likes to battle people and dinosaurs and stuff 380 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: and it's great fun. And then of course there's Mega 381 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: Shark Versus Giant Octopus. Have you seen that? No? I 382 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 1: haven't either, but Debbie Gibson was in it apparently, Well 383 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 1: sign me up. And then there is a sequel to it, 384 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: um called Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus. Yeah, Tiffany, isn't that actually? 385 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: Rkle Oh right, Julia White, good for him, and well, 386 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: I guess we got to talk about the elephant in 387 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: the room. Discovery Channel a couple of years ago, uh, 388 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: Discovery Channel, our our former bosses. They aired a show 389 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: um to kick off Shark Week about the megaladon that 390 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: was had the look of a documentary. Um, if you 391 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: didn't know any better, you would think it was real, 392 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: where they claimed the Megaladon was real, and that it 393 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: was um killing people off the coast of South Africa, 394 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: and it was this giant beast uh sixty seven ft long, 395 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: nickname a submarine and it's terrorizing humans and it was 396 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: called Megalodon. The monster shark lives. Um. They to put 397 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: it lightly, came under a little bit of fire from 398 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: the viewing public, most notably, well, not most notably, but 399 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: notably Will Wheaton. Uh, I don't know if we'll still 400 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: listen to our show, but at one point he did listening. 401 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: He was a friend of the show. Um. He wrote 402 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: a blog post which I'm so glad he did that. 403 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: He said a lot of things, but one of the 404 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: things he said was Discovery had a chance to get 405 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: its audience thinking about what the oceans were like when 406 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: the Megalodon roamed and hunted in them, and had a 407 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: chance to even show what could possibly happen if there 408 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: were something that large and predatoring the ocean today. But 409 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: Discovery Channel did not do that, and the cynical point 410 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: for ratings the network deliberately lied to its audience and 411 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: presented fiction as fact. They've betrayed its audience. UH. During 412 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: its biggest viewing week of the year and Discovery channels 413 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: that run by stupid people. This was not a mistake. 414 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: Someone may to deliberate choice to present a work of 415 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: fiction more suited for sci fi channel as truthful and factual. 416 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: That is disgusting. Whoever made that decision should be ashamed. 417 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: I was mad he got up on his uh hobby horse, 418 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: rightfully so, and called him out. Sure, not a hobby horse. 419 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: And here's the deal. After the show airs, they have 420 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: their uh what do you call it when you put 421 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: a disclaimer. Yeah, well they're sure they had a party 422 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: because it was huge in the ratings. But it said 423 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: none of the institutions or agencies that appear in the 424 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: film are affiliated with it in any way, nor have 425 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: approved its contents. Uh, those certain events and characters in 426 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: this film have been dramatized. Sightings of Submarine continue to 427 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: this day, which is total bs. Well, no, there are 428 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: a lot of people crackpots. To this day, there are 429 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: sightings or whatever, and Megalodon was a real shark. Legends 430 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: of giant shark persist all over the world. There's still 431 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: debate about what they may be. So basically people were 432 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: like Twitter lit up on fire. People went crazy and said, 433 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 1: Shark Week has jumped the shark officially, like you're airing 434 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: fiction is fact. And they came out a year after that. 435 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: Last year, I guess two years later, uh and the 436 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: new brand, the brand new chief Rich Ross Cross Rich 437 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: Ross uh and said, you know what, We're not gonna 438 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: do things like eating alive. Remember when they were gonna 439 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: have the snake eat the guy. Oh yeah, I forgot 440 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,479 Speaker 1: about that. That was just a huge stain on their brand. 441 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: So we're not gonna do things like the Mermaids documentary 442 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,880 Speaker 1: and the Megalodon documentary. What are they gonna do? He 443 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: said they were gonna try and get back to you know, 444 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: educational programming. So how have they done that yet? When 445 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: when did he say that? This is uh? And I 446 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: think he wanted to make a push to sort of 447 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: be the leader once again and smart educational programming and 448 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: not keep ratings boys. So we'll see nice. Um. Yeah. 449 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: The last thing I've got is if you love Megalodons 450 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: and you have a lot of money, you can buy 451 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: a Megalodon tooth for about bucks. I wondered about that 452 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: hundred Semolean boy, I would be worried that things fake. Yeah, 453 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: although I mean, like, if you look online, it'd be 454 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 1: tough to fake one. No one, all right, I mean 455 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: maybe to the discerning eye. But someone can make a 456 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: fake one and show me right now, and it's say 457 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: it looks real to me. Look at this? Maybe too, 458 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: Maybe the artists shouldn't have signed the bottom. Yeah, right, 459 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: that's it. I got nothing else megalodon. If you want 460 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: to know more about those, you can type that word 461 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: in the search bar. How stuff first dot com. And 462 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: since I said that, it's time for listener mate, I'm 463 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: gonna call this another one for the Equal pay Day 464 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: episode because we've got something a little wrong we want 465 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: to clear up. Um, whenever you guys touch on hey guys, 466 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: big fan, whenever you guys touch on sensitive topics, I'm 467 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: always a little worried. Is this going to be the 468 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: time they say something that makes me have to stop listening? No? 469 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: What you never do? Um? And this is from Ellen 470 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: and she says, uh, you guys mentioned that in the 471 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: US women are guaranteed twelve weeks of paid leave. I 472 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: have to take that one. I said that. Okay, I'm 473 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: assuming you're talking about the Family Medical Leave Act. I 474 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: wanted to point out a few strict qualifications, though that 475 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: don't apply to everyone. Uh. You must work for a 476 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: public agency, including state, local, and federal employers and local 477 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: education agencies like schools, or a private sector private sector 478 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: employer to employee fifty or more employees for at least 479 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: twenty work weeks in the current proceding calendar year, including 480 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: joint employers and successors covered employees. And I had a 481 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: nice exchange with some lady who this woman who had 482 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: to quit her job and she got pregnant because it 483 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: was under fifty employees. And she and I both conceded, 484 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: like we kind of get it. If you have a 485 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: really small business and you have eight employees and four 486 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: of them get pregnant, you're kind of screwed employees. Yeah, 487 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, I get that, you know stuff. 488 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: And she said, you know, people should sort of think 489 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: about these things when they're going to get a job. 490 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: A woman, if they want to have a baby, maybe 491 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: go to a place that does have the f m 492 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: l A qualify qualification. UM. So she, you know, she 493 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: she got both sides of the issue. I so thought 494 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,239 Speaker 1: that was nice. UM. Also an employements work for a 495 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: covered employer and have worked for that employee for at 496 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: least twelve months and have worked for at least twelve 497 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: d and fifty hours during that twelve months, and work 498 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: at a location where at least fifty employees are employed 499 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 1: at the location or within seventy five miles. So just 500 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: more specificity there. Thank you for that, Yeah, she said, 501 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to call you guys out. I know 502 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: a lot of people listen to your show up, and 503 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: I think it's important to everyone understands how little support 504 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: parents do have in terms of leave. We're way behind 505 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: the rest of the world and it's not something we 506 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: should be proud of. She said. We're only one of 507 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: only seven countries in the world that doesn't have paid 508 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: parential leave because it is also unpaid. So come on 509 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: us get together. Yeah, and I'm sorry for miss speaking, 510 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: but yeah, that's right. Also, my eyes are open, like 511 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: I definitely didn't know all that for sure. Yeah, and 512 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: I feel super lucky now because our company, Davis paid 513 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: leave paternal and maternal leave, which I now realize is 514 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: super generous. Yeah, it's pretty cool to how about that. Yeah, 515 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: and you took it too, like a chance. Yeah, and 516 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 1: that is from Ellen. Thanks a lot, Ellen. If you 517 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: want to get in touch of this for any reason, 518 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: we would love that. 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