1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, and welcome to Saturday. Yesterday was Friday, Tomorrow Sunday. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: Today's Saturday. This is Chuck. Today's episode is Mermaids not 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: a real thing? This from August four, and I gotta say, 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: I just remember thinking this is kind of an interesting podcast, 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: and that's why I picked it for Saturday. Enjoy, everybody. 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. Yeah, 8 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: that's right. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, Jerry's over there 9 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:47,639 Speaker 1: in the ether, floating, possibly not existing, who knows. Uh. 10 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: And this is stuff you should know, that's right, Just 11 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: a couple of a couple of mermen trying to make 12 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: their way in the world, trying to keep their tails wet. 13 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: Yeah you know, yeah, that thing dries out. You've seen Splash. Yeah, 14 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: it's a actually post. She dried out and she was 15 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: just fine. Oh. I thought, oh, you're thinking of et 16 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: when he turned all white and dried out. I was 17 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: thinking a Splash because I couldn't remember. It's one of 18 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. 19 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: It was a cute. Um. It was one of those 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: early HBO movies early Tom Hanks, which I'm a big 21 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: fan of early Tom Hanks. And um, I just thought 22 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: it was a really fun and funny movie. John Candy, Yeah, 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: it was a great movie. What's his name played the 24 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: evil man trying to expose her. Um, Eugene Leevy, I think, Oh, 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: was he the bad guy? Yeah, he was the one 26 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: that you know, that's a high quality movie when Eugene 27 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 1: Levy's the bad guy. Yeah, that was the SETV crew 28 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: And um, he actually tried to spray her and get 29 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: her wet so she would and in fact, kid turned 30 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: into a mermaid on the sidewalk, So that's what it was. 31 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: And she got wet, she turned in to a mermaid, right, 32 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: she got dried, no problem. Yes, And Darryl, of course, 33 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: who's running around with Neil Young? Now? Oh really? Yeah? 34 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: How about that couple? Sure? Why not? They're both environmentalists. 35 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: But there's a lot of turquoise in that bedroom. I 36 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: wonder if you hook up with Neil Young, if or 37 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: anyone like that, if if you're sort of a new 38 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: relationship and not like the wife they had for forty years, 39 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: if you're like, play a song, why don't you what like, 40 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: I wonder if you asked them to play music. Oh, 41 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: like you're actually into him? Yeah, Like if if you're 42 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: Billy Joel's new year old wife, do you ever say, like, hey, honey, 43 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: play me a tune, Play that one that you that 44 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: you wrote ten years before I was conceived. I think 45 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: I'm What I'm saying is I would have a hard 46 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: time being with Neil Young and not every night after 47 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: dinner just kind of nudging the guitar towards him, Oh, 48 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: I got you and saying I'd love to hear old Man, 49 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: please baby one for me, And yeah, he says, I've 50 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: played that song times. Yeah, I would guess that, well, 51 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: I can tell you I would. I would. Yeah, I 52 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: would guess that once you reach a certain point and 53 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,839 Speaker 1: playing a song, you never want to hear that song 54 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: or even think about it existing again, but then you 55 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: still have to play it. I try not to think 56 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: about that when I'm at those shows. Yeah, it makes 57 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: me feel bad for him, like they might as well 58 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: be you know, in the monkey house or something and 59 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: you just throwing bananas at him, and God bless the 60 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: people who really bring it still where you feel like, man, 61 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: they're playing that song for me tonight, Adam Man, does 62 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: he still bring it? He's just who came to mind. 63 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: Whereas when I saw the Police on their reunion, they 64 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: were phoning it in really, even Stewart Copeland. Well, I 65 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: mean they were playing the songs, but it just it 66 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: didn't look like they were enjoying themselves at all. It 67 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: looked like a total money grab. Sure, they entered from 68 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: three separate entrances and exited from three separate and I 69 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: got the feeling they didn't even like speak much. That's 70 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: like I was reading an article on the Ramons, the 71 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone one recently. Uh, yeah, I guess it was. Yeah, 72 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: they had a great article on them, so yeah, I 73 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: guess it was. It was definitely Rolling Stone. So okay, 74 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: did you read it? Yeah, then it was awesome. But yeah, 75 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: they're like they they would they would just like get 76 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: on the bus and not speak to one another, go 77 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: to the next town and get on stage and play 78 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: and then come off stage and not like they would 79 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: they would speak on stage because they had to. That 80 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: was it. Apparently, Well, at least Joey and who was 81 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,679 Speaker 1: his big foil d there's those ones who really hated 82 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, supposedly they didn't speak at all for 83 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: like twenty five years straight, right, because Joey stole d 84 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: D's like love of his life and then they were 85 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: in the band together still after that it was just 86 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: like ts Man, so weird, so like a lot of songs, 87 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: especially once like the kk K Took My Baby Away. 88 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: That's about Joey stealing d D's girlfriend. Wow, it was 89 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: a great article. Yeah, good ready, um so back to Splash, 90 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: funny movie about a mermaid, and we're gonna talk about 91 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: mermaids here, and mostly what we're gonna cover is the 92 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: lore in history and the mythology of the mermaid because 93 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: there's a little giveaway there are no mermaids. What did 94 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: you look up like pictures of real mermaids sightings and stuff. Yeah, 95 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: and it's the same thing as pictures of Bigfoot sightings 96 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: and pictures of UFO sighting some weird distant blur that 97 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: like you can't it could be kelped or is such 98 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: an obviously doctored photo. What would be fun, though, is 99 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: if we had a time machine. Forget killing Hitler, forget 100 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: like back machine. Oh yeah, that's right. I can't believe 101 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: we don't put this into good use. Yeah, forget like, um, 102 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: you know, saving the world. They're keeping the Dodo from 103 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: going extinct. I would take some of these doctored photos 104 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: that are just so easy to make today back to 105 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: like the nineteen twenties and be like, look at this, 106 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: and they go, yeah, I know, we still believe in 107 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: that stuff, with your aim being what just a freak amount. 108 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: Oh I figured there'd be a money angle. Oh yeah, 109 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: Josh is traveling Wonder Wonder Emporium. It's not a bad 110 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: idea where in which you just show them photos, but 111 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: I charged them like two thousand sixteen rates and no 112 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: one can possibly afford that, So I go out of business, 113 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: like almost immediately. Right there's like one guy in the town. 114 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: It's like, I'll pay twenty seven fifty to see those right, 115 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: step right up, towns only billionaire. Um, that's a great idea. 116 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: I don't know why no one ever thought of that. 117 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: It was a terrible idea, Like from beginning to end. 118 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: Forget going back and betting on the stock market or 119 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: the outcome of the World Series. I'm gonna go back 120 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: and set up a business doom to fail. Alright, So 121 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: let's talk about mermaid uh lore. Well, we can start 122 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: here in the more modern age, because there are still 123 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: places that try and take people for money, like we 124 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: were just talking about, even like me Um in fact 125 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: uh in Israel on the coast there, Um, they actually 126 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: have a town called Kiryat Yam. And if you go 127 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: to Kiryat Yam you could win how much money does 128 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: he even say? Million bucks million American dollars if you um, 129 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: if you provide incontrovertible evidence of the mermaid that is 130 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: reputed to want to live there and appear at sunset 131 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: as of two thousand nine was the first sighting there. Yeah, 132 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: And of course what that is is is a ploy 133 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: to try and get tourists and come and spend money 134 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: in the town and look for the mermaid. Come on, chumps, 135 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: welcome you to Kiryat Yam. I'm sure lock ness has 136 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: made plenty of tourist money over the years. Apparently they 137 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: have a standing offer as well, and that's where the 138 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: mayor of Kuryot Yam got the idea great idea. And 139 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: actually I saw that photo too. It's kind of neat. 140 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is or who created it 141 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: or whatever, but there's allegedly a photo taken obviously from 142 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: like a cliff down on to a beat, you know, 143 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: a beach that will have like a big just slab 144 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: of rocks surrounded by sand, sand and mermaids. Right, there's 145 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: a mermaid on that rock, just kind of looking out 146 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: in the sea. And of course it could be anything. 147 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: It could be totally doctored, who knows, um, but it's 148 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: from a distance. And at least they didn't like go 149 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: full out like perfect picture of a mermaid of Red's. 150 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: It's it's just um suggestive enough that people who believe 151 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: in such things would be like the right there, there's 152 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: a picture of a mermaid, you know, so that that 153 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: was found in two thousand nine or that surfaced in 154 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: two thousand nine, and since then the surfaced right, since 155 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: then the town's uh had that standing offer, correct? So uh. 156 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: The really the interesting thing to me about mermaids is 157 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: the mythology. Did you take mythology in college at all? Yeah? 158 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: I did. It. Always wanted it to interest me more 159 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: than it did me too. It was just I don't 160 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: know if it wasn't explain to me quite well enough, 161 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: or just the ancients non bicameral mind wasn't um fused 162 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: together enough to interest people in the modern age. Well, 163 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: I think so. I think the stories themselves, as far 164 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: as good storytelling, we're just lacking because a lot of 165 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: them were just versions of one another, and there was 166 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: usually a very basic uh premise or or moral um. 167 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: And in the case of mermaids, a lot of times 168 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: they were a lot of folksore even was rooted in misogyny. 169 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: You know how you know there'll be a woman to 170 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: come along and screw your life up right, or if 171 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: you written up a woman, um, she will kill your 172 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: children or something like that, like women were not to 173 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: be trusted, and they were murderous and duplicidus and a 174 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: lot of mythologies to the old hag so uh, it 175 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: was in various I mean hundreds and hundreds of books 176 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: and texts, including the Talmud believe it or not. And 177 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: we've talked about plenty of the Elder, the Beer and 178 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: the Dude Rome's plan of the Elder. He in his 179 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: Natural History talked about a mermaid like creature called the nereid. Yes, 180 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: I think I'm pronouncing that correctly. Yeah, in E R E. 181 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: I d that EI is a tough transition. It is 182 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: because you want to say, like Nereid. Yeah, ner Red, 183 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: these are sea nymphs, half human, half fish mermaids and um. 184 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: He also talked about c men and we should point 185 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: out that Merman we made the joke about us being Merman. 186 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: I believe Merman were even first on the literary scene. 187 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: Is that correct? Well first, at least with mythology or 188 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: um theology. I guess there's a Babylonian god of the 189 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: sea named Ea, yeah, e a sports um just e A, 190 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: and he pops up in uh Babylonian mythology from I 191 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: think four thousand years ago, and they think that he's 192 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: actually the progenitor of or the predecessor I should say, 193 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: of Poseidon, who is the Greek god of the sea, 194 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: and Neptune, who's the Roman god of the sea. Because 195 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: the Greeks gave us Western culture, but they just walked 196 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: around to all of the neighboring cultures and picked their 197 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: favorite parts and put them together, and that was definitely 198 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah. Yeah, uh, well we talked in 199 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: our I guess it was in the folklore and fairy 200 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: tale episodes that were twin episodes almost um about the 201 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: original Little Mermaid and how you know she was disnified 202 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: to the fullest, but the original story was far darker, darker, 203 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: but also even more touching by far like, I went 204 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 1: back and read the last um the last like section 205 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: of it. Well, give me a summary at the So 206 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 1: at the end, this is where dramatically differs from the 207 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: Disney story. The little Mermaid is scorned for another woman 208 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: her the guy she loves chooses someone else and marries her, 209 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: and the Little Mermaid is like, dude, I gave up 210 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: my tail for you, I think, which has my tongue 211 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: kind of thing um, and I want to get back 212 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: my life. So her sisters came and bring her this 213 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: ritual knife and say, you can convert back to a 214 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 1: mermaid if before dawn you plunge this knife into this 215 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: dude's heart, this guy who loves heart, and you get 216 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: some of his blood on your feet, you will regrow 217 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: your tail and you can jump into the sea and 218 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: everything will be just fine again. So she goes and 219 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: she finds the guy sleeping with his new bride beside him, 220 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: and she just can't do it. She throws the knife 221 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: into the sea and um becomes c foam. She disintegrates 222 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: and becomes c foam. So she gives her her own 223 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 1: happiness up for this guy's right and dies as a result. 224 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: But even better than that, when she turns into sea foam, 225 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: she becomes a different mythical creature, uh like basically an 226 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: air nymph that goes around like helping humans um and 227 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: she can possibly get into heaven if she helps people 228 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: um for three hundred years. Hans Christian Andersen wrote it 229 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: way better than I just recounted it a lot less 230 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: ums and likes, but it's it's pretty it's worth reading. Uh. 231 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: Plenty also talked about merman um back in the day, 232 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: and there would be merman or seamen who would at 233 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: night climb up onto ships as a quote that so 234 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: I'm reading it weird, upon which the side of the 235 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: vessel where he seated himself would instantly sink downward, and 236 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: if you remain there any considerable time, even go underwater. 237 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: And that was something that we will see as we 238 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: talk more about mermaids is they are um very They're 239 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 1: often either an omen that's something bad is going to 240 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: happen to sailors or coastal dwelling people, or they actually 241 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: directly cause harm two sailors or coastal dwelling people. Yeah, 242 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: and most times under the guys of something beautiful and 243 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: like a siren. Um, they are often Well, I don't 244 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: we haven't even described one. Surely you know that a 245 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: mermaid has the head and body torso of a of 246 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: a woman, human woman, usually with huge boobs. Yeah, if 247 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: you're talking about a sailor's account, sure, yeah, she was busty. 248 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: Did I mention the boobs? Yes, you did, sir seven times? Um? 249 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: And uh from the you know torso down she's a 250 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: fish maybe web feet maybe not very graceful, very fast 251 00:14:54,040 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: and always beautiful. Uh, it depends. Oh yeah, yeah. There 252 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: were some of legend that we're not ugly really yeah, 253 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: not ugly, or that they were not in parentheses beautiful 254 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: comma ugly. Uh. Well, I hadn't heard about that. Yeah, 255 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: it's it's in here. I thought. I'm just I must 256 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: have missed that part. It's it's it's far more frequent 257 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: what you were saying, that they were beautiful and alluring. Um, 258 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: but we'll talk more about that after we take a break. Huh. 259 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: All right, Chuck. We were saying that, for the most part, 260 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: mermaids are beautiful and one of the reasons why they 261 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: are supposed to be beautiful is because they are frequently 262 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: um accused of luring men sailors out to see to 263 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: their death. Yeah, and how you do that? You do 264 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: that one of two ways. You have a beautiful singing voice, 265 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: or you just straight up look good yourself. That's right. 266 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: And if you have a beautiful singing voice, you're a siren, 267 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: in which case you would not be a mermaid because 268 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: the siren is half bird, half woman, and they don't 269 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: even necessarily live in the water or near the water. 270 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: They're sometimes described as hanging out in fields. I guess 271 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: sometimes you can be very pretty and be a good singer, right, 272 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: your mermaid? But the yeah you could be, Yeah, sure 273 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: you'd be. Who am I to disagree? Or Alicia Keys 274 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: or Adele? Oh you know who I like his? Uh Rihanna? 275 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's great man, very pretty. That part in 276 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: uh what's it called this at the end and she 277 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 1: played herself, Yeah, yeah, she's pretty great. She was pretty funny. 278 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: Michael Sarah likes bank her and she just immediately turned 279 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: around and smacked the heck out of him. Yeah. I 280 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: enjoyed parts of that movie, especially Michael Sarah. Yeah, playing 281 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: like a cooked out jerk. That was really funny. Um, 282 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: So back to the beautiful mermaids though, Uh there there 283 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: was one and one thousand BC in Syria. And her name, 284 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: how would you pronounce that? At her gaddis? Oh, I 285 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: think you nailed it. Yeah, yeah, all right, we'll go 286 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: with that. And she and you'll you'll see a lot 287 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: of duality a lot of these stories. And she was 288 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: one for sure. That was a protector, a goddess. I 289 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: think she protected the fertility of her people and um 290 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: watched over them and uh, fell in love with a 291 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: human man, as you will often see in a lot 292 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 1: of these stories. Dude, yeah, dude, and it and it 293 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: was fine for a little while, like in most stories, 294 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: and then it goes south and she kills him. She 295 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: crushed him with her greatness. Oh I thought, like her 296 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: big tail or something. I don't know. Well, she wasn't 297 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: a mermaid yet. This is where she becomes. That's right, 298 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: I forgot about that. So um, she accidentally kills him 299 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: and then his very shamed throws herself into the lake 300 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: because she wants to become a fish, and she's so 301 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: beautiful that it only works half as good. I really 302 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: can't figure out the math on that. But I guess 303 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: she's just so beautiful that the human beauty part of hers, like, no, 304 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: I won't be a fish, just the lower half can 305 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: be a fish. Yeah, because she had to fungus, so 306 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: that was easily overcome, but her face was really nice, 307 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: so the fish part just couldn't overcome that. That's right, 308 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 1: So she ended up a mermaid. Weird story. Well, that's 309 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: just weird, like like oh, it's foreign or anything. I'm 310 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: not being xenophobic, but it really like says a lot 311 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: about like humanity and like how we think of things like, no, 312 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: he was so good looking that this magic couldn't even 313 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: overcome that. You know that point. We place a lot 314 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,479 Speaker 1: of value on that kind of thing. Uh, all right, 315 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: should we move on to Germany? Yeah? This one was 316 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: kind of interesting to me because Germany's landlocked. I never 317 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: really thought about it. What does Germany have a mermaid mythology? Well, 318 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: I mean they have lakes, I guess, but mermaids are 319 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: ocean dwellers, aren't they know? There are some river dwellers. Oh, 320 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: that's right, although I think the sirens were specifically river. Well, 321 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: then in the German myth that was a river dweller. Correct, Okay, yeah, 322 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: the Nixes. Uh yeah, and they lured men into the river. Yeah, 323 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: it was a river, and so they could drown them, 324 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: like again the call of the siren. Come in here. 325 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: Look how beautiful I am. And now I'm holding your 326 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: head underwater and you can't breathe anymore. And the guys like, 327 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: I regret nothing. But this duality that we're talking about 328 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: is uh what you see a lot of times in 329 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: mermaid myths from West Africa. The Mommy Wada, the mother Water. 330 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: She was a mermaid who was very nurturing and very 331 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: loving if you didn't cross her. Yeah, exactly. That's where 332 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: the duality comes in. I don't even know that's duality. 333 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: I think that's just a complex person, good, good complex 334 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: character there. Yeah, yeah, so she's great, but when you 335 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: cross her, she's murderous. Sure, all right, And that's what 336 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: she did. Actually, she had If you were loyal to her, 337 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 1: she would you could be wealthy from her magic mirror 338 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: and comb. But if you betrayed her, then what this 339 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: article says is she reigns down fury and destruction right 340 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: word from above. But the duality is as an important 341 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: part of it because the the physical creature itself is 342 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: two things, and they are also too things emotionally. And 343 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 1: but so the mermaid, the mermaid or mermaid or murf 344 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: folk as their call in this article. Yeah so mrf 345 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: folks are half fish half people, right, But they're not 346 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: anywhere near unique in the pantheon of mythological creatures throughout 347 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: the ages. Right, there's again, there's sirens, half birds, half women. 348 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: There's there's just tons of hat like them. The minataur 349 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: half man, half bull. The centaur was what half go 350 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: or horse and half man. I don't remember that sounds right, 351 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: I think half horse um. And I was like, where 352 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:45,199 Speaker 1: did all these come from? I suspected beast reality, And 353 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: it turns out I may be right. Yeah, yeah, you 354 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: find there are some scholars out there who believe that 355 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: this is the product of a much more relaxed attitude 356 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: towards beast reality than we modern humans have today. Yeah. Yeah, 357 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: I still never saw that documentary about the horse. Yeah 358 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: it's a good one, zoo. Yeah, I need that fell 359 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: off my radar. Man. It's one of those ones where 360 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: they largely to recreate, Like the whole thing is almost recreation, 361 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: And I usually am not hip on those. It doesn't 362 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: feel like a documentary to me, But that one changed 363 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: my mind about that whole technique that they did it 364 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 1: so well. It's rough. It's rough, especially like when you 365 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: think about you know, the animals as well. Yeah, of 366 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: course you know, but there's more than just that that 367 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 1: makes it rough. I need to see that, um So. 368 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 1: I guess we can talk a little bit about some 369 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 1: eyewitness accounts. They're all bunk, of course, but they have 370 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: happened in World War two in Japan on Indonesia's Kai Islands. Uh. 371 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: Supposedly they encountered a monster on the beach that had 372 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: you know, webbed hands and feet and was kind of 373 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: part human part fish. It was like, look at these 374 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: jazz hands. You can't do this. And then back in 375 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: the day, uh, some of our most revered explorers and 376 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: adventurer adventurers reported seeing mermaids, like John Smith and Henry 377 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:18,479 Speaker 1: Huntson and Columbus him, Yeah, what was There's a good 378 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: quote in here from Columbus because he wasn't too impressed. 379 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,919 Speaker 1: He said, and here's the thing. I read that in 380 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: his diary. He's referring to himself in the third person. Well, 381 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: that says a lot. That's odd. He's like Ricky Henderson, right, 382 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 1: or George Costanza. So he says that he saw some 383 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: oh yeah, the quote cent and you got to read 384 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: the quote. He's sailing around, not that it e Oh 385 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: what is that in the ocean? I think I'll take 386 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: a look through my spye glass. The day before when 387 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: the admiral was going to the and the admiral is himself, Yeah, 388 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: that's what I'm thinking. He was the admiral of his 389 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: fillet for sure. The day before when the admiral was 390 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: going on to the Rio del Oro, that's the river 391 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: old he said he saw three mermaids who came quite 392 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: high out of the water. But we're not as pretty 393 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: as they are depicted. For somehow, in the face they 394 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 1: look like men. But I still thought about it. Yeah. So, 395 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: and what they think now, and I don't know how 396 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: they substantiated this, is that Columpus was seeing manatees. Yeah. 397 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: Have you seen manatees? Yeah, it looks nothing like a human. 398 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: From enough of a distance, though, you're like, wait, what 399 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: is that, especially if you've never seen a manatee before. 400 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: I don't think it looks human like at all. But 401 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: from enough of a distance. Yeah, I can see how 402 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: somebody would, especially if you believe that mermaids existed. You 403 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: see a manatee, maybe it's hard for me to totally 404 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: get that go there in that put my mind in 405 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: that kind of frame, in the frame of Christopher Columbus, well, 406 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: just to have never seen a mermaid, to have never 407 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: seen a manatee, to be high on on the aarrow 408 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: wax scalps, like I just blanked on the green marijuana, 409 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: the green, the green drink absinthe I don't think Absinthe 410 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: was around with Columbus. Are you kidding me? No, I'm not. 411 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:19,360 Speaker 1: You're shooting that stuff. Kind of see it. Uh so 412 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: he maybe saw a manatee. I was like, yeah, they're 413 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: not so great looking. After all, they're not that great. 414 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 1: What's everyone talking about? Uh? Yeah, he saw one. This 415 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: is like Jimmy Carter in the UFOs. Like you're kind 416 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: of surprised when you hear this that somebody sited it. 417 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: Apparently Reagan said he saw UFOs as well. Uh. John 418 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: Smith said he saw some. He liked what he saw. 419 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: He liked the look of the manatees because he said 420 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: he fell in love with one with long green hair. Yeah, 421 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 1: he said it was it wasn't bad looking, or it 422 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: wasn't unattractive or something like that. Yeah, it was kind 423 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: of a head. He hedged his bets a little bit. 424 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: I guess he wanted to check the rest of her 425 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: out and then he saw she had a tale, is like, oh, 426 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: I can't go there, So what's going on here? They're 427 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: hallucinating because they've been on the high seas too long. 428 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people say. Um, other people 429 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: say that again, they were predisposed to believing in mermaids 430 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: because people thought mermaids existed. This were This was the 431 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: age of exploration, So it's the beginning of the age 432 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: of exploration, which means that before then the oceans were 433 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: largely unexplored and there were tons of beliefs in thousands 434 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: year thousands of year old mythologies about creatures that lived 435 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: in the sea. So if you thought that those things existed, 436 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: then something that looked kind of like a mermaid could 437 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 1: be a mermaid. So that was probably if they were 438 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: just they're just cases of mistaken identity. They were highly suggestible. Yeah, 439 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: we did. Yeah, that was a good one. I thought 440 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: that one was going to be awful and it turned 441 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: out pretty great episode. Like I remember remember thinking like 442 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: this is not going to go well and kind like 443 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: kind of like this one. Yeah, how do you think 444 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: this one's going pretty great? All right, let's take a 445 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: break then and uh give each other a neck rub, 446 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: and we'll come back more comfortable than ever. All Right, 447 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: there is a dude. I love this guy. His name 448 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 1: is Carl Bants and he did not Carl Bands fan. Well, 449 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: I just I'm not quite sure I understand unless did 450 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: you read the go ahead the article? Well, just to 451 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: set it up. Okay, So dude named Carl Bants back, 452 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: he wrote a an article in a legitimate journal, the 453 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: Journal Limnology and Oceanography. Um, and they published it. And 454 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: it is an entirely tongue in cheek but totally played 455 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: straight account of the extinct species mermaid. Yeah. Like wherein 456 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: he he surmises on like for real, where they came from, 457 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: what their biology was, where they while they left us? Yep, 458 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: that they were warm water dwelling, that they ate human flesh, 459 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 1: which is why they lured people to their death. Um. 460 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: He goes so far as to say that they um 461 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: most likely only produced one or two offspring at a 462 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: time because the females of the of the species had 463 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: two breasts, and that was it. Okay, you know, sure, um, 464 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: Like this is the thought that this guy put into 465 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: this this article, and the fact that he writes it 466 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: totally straight and like really gives it its due attention, 467 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 1: Like it wasn't that that, like this is gonna be 468 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: a great idea, and just the idea itself is hilarious, 469 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: so I don't really have to put any effort into 470 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: actual execution. He put effort into the execution and it did. 471 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: He did pretty good. I'm not knocking him. I guess. 472 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: I just don't see why this journal would put something 473 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,479 Speaker 1: like that out there. Even I don't know. I mean, 474 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: I guess he had a good sense of humor and 475 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: they were Maybe it was the April Fools episode. I 476 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: was wondering if that was the case too, and I 477 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: forgot to look if it was the April issue. Perhaps 478 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: he did use the words horny skinfolds though, right, their 479 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: skin and he theorized was not smooth, smooth scaled like 480 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: a regular fish. But I had quote horny skinfolds like 481 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: an armadillo. Yeah. What's interesting is I saw another account 482 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: from eighteen thirty in Scotland. There's a kind of a 483 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: town called Benbecula on the Outer Hebrides, right, which is 484 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: like the outer Islands, the Arca Archipelago. It's archipelago. That's 485 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: how you say that, right, Ture arcapela ago. Yeah, either way, 486 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: there's a town there, string of islands, coastal thank you, 487 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: the coastal town where in eighteen thirty the whole town 488 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: swore they saw a mermaid and tried to grab the mermaid, 489 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: and the mermaid swam away. So some kid threw a 490 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: rock at it and hit it in its back, and 491 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: two days later they found it dead on shore and 492 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: they felt so bad about it that they they they 493 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: buried it. They gave it a funeral with like a 494 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: casket and everything, and um they said that it didn't 495 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: have scales, that it had like kind of rough skin 496 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: instead hornie skinfold. Yeah, they didn't use that term. But 497 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: this is like a thing in eighteen thirty in Scotland. Yeah, 498 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: pretty interesting that when you read the account of it 499 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: years later. The band name by the Wayne Skinfolds. Yeah, 500 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: that is interesting. Uh, maybe there's something there, right, I 501 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: had to keep the folds of the arny skinfold clean 502 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: you know, but like gunk gets trapped in there. I 503 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe that's the name of the first single 504 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: cleaning the folds. The other thing um that A Bants 505 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: did in his article was explained probably why they're extinct. 506 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: Now he came to the conclust right their extinct um. 507 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: He said they were warm water, so they would have 508 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: cohabitated or shared the their ecosystem with jellyfish. And as 509 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: humans started to fish more and more of the sea, um, 510 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: we upset the ecological balance. Jellyfish populations were allowed to boom, 511 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: which is the case, and they stung the mermaids to death. 512 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: Because the mermaids had they lacked the blubber that would 513 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: protect them not just in cold water, but from jellyfish 514 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: stings as well. So they died out from jellyfish stings. Yeah, 515 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: because their their upper skin was just regular skin. It 516 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,719 Speaker 1: wasn't the horny skin folds, so it provided no protection exactly. 517 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: It's worth reading. Go check it out. It's called Mermaids 518 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: the Biology. Their biology coal True in Demise. You can 519 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: find like the full pdf online. Well, I think we 520 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: have to address the animal planet snaphoo. I don't know 521 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: if they would call it a snaphoo, I think they 522 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: would call it a ratings bonanza. Yeah, Which what was 523 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: the other when we talked about the Megalodon when Discovery 524 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: Channel aired a Megalodon documentary that appeared by all accounts 525 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: to be true and was not the same thing with Mermaids, 526 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: But they did it twice. They did they did a 527 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: sequel because it got like you said, huge ratings and uh, 528 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: this was a documentary. Um, well, not a documentary. It 529 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: was a mockumentary that looked like did you watch any 530 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: clips or anything of the second one? Yeah? Yeah, I 531 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: mean it looked like, you know, a show like a 532 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: hunting Bigfoot crew. It's like, you know, we got this mermaid, 533 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: we know where she is, and we're down here hunting 534 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: and the three thousand feet yeah, below the surface. Yeah, 535 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: and they interviewed a guy that looked like Zack Gallifinakis. 536 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: If only it would have been Zacal Fineckis, it would 537 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: have made it much better. But um, you know then 538 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: it was one of these shows where at the end 539 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: and small lettering it was right, not me small, but 540 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: at the end of the credits, it's like this was 541 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,719 Speaker 1: all made up. These are actors and yeah, but if 542 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: you go online, people are still like arguing over the 543 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: the legitimacy or credentials of the marine geologist Torsten Schmidt's 544 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: name it is um and people are like, well, if 545 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: he were a real scientist, he would have been published 546 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: elsewhere besides this, and he's not published, and it's like 547 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: that's because he's not real. He's made up. Yeah, this 548 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: is like settled. Right. They didn't even pretend that it 549 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 1: was real, So I don't I don't know if that's 550 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: the case or not, because I mean, they said it 551 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: wasn't on the at the end of the show, okay, 552 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 1: but they didn't come out and say everybody, everybody, well right, 553 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: it's so Actually Noah, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 554 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 1: had to release in They felt they needed to release 555 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: a statement after the first one saying like, hey, um, 556 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: her maids don't exist. No evidence has ever been found. 557 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: We're Noah the end, And I bet they love that 558 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: even show. Yeah, oh my god, Noah's making a statement. Yeah, 559 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,879 Speaker 1: it's gonna be all over the news, right, And so 560 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: I guess enough people bought it and and um bought 561 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: into it that they were able to release a sequel, 562 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,240 Speaker 1: and in the sequel, the reason they released the sequel 563 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: was because Torsten Schmidt had footage of a webbed hand 564 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 1: like smacking the windshield that was little like um underwater 565 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: subw man sub um and then swimming off. And so 566 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: they just kept showing that over and over and over again, 567 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,439 Speaker 1: and it was Sack Gallif and Akis. He did look 568 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: like him, Tony a lot um. I thought you were 569 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 1: going to say that it was found out when Torsten 570 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,720 Speaker 1: Schmidt showed up on a episode of Two Broke Girls 571 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: the next week. Right, it's like a waiter and a 572 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: progressive insurance add it's like customer and over two exactly. 573 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,319 Speaker 1: There's one other sighting. I wanted to mention this one, 574 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: the second for my favor after the Scottish one. It 575 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: was in Adam, Netherlands. Is it eat him? Sure? Like 576 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:11,760 Speaker 1: the cheese? Yeah? Okay. Um. Two girls were like rowing 577 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: their boats and found a mermaid and took it home 578 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,879 Speaker 1: and dressed it up as a little girl and taught 579 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: it to live on land. But it remained mute its 580 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: whole life. Yeah, but isn't that cute? That very cute. 581 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: They're like, you're coming home with us, Oh, you've got 582 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,319 Speaker 1: a family. Ts, we got a family too, and it's 583 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: your new family. And they just made that story up 584 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,280 Speaker 1: and told people and it survived. I guess interesting, although 585 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: they didn't they supported they didn't apparently like they matriculated 586 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: the mermaid into human society there. But we're talking fourteen thirty, 587 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: so who knows what was going on. They were eating. 588 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 1: They probably got their hands on on somebody who was 589 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: like who knows, and they're like, oh, mermaid, this is 590 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 1: a mermaid. Oh, just someone who had some sort of 591 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 1: physical and made them come live with them, just as 592 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: a girl for the rest of their life, like Schlitze 593 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, like we did in the Freak shows. 594 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: They would just call them, make up whatever animal they 595 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 1: wanted to. That was another great episode. Two are you 596 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 1: just recounting the good ones while we do this one? 597 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 1: Just to remind people it gets better? So being a 598 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: mermaid is an actual job you can get if you 599 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: back in the day. In the nineteen forties and fifties, 600 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: it was a big hit, uh to go to a 601 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,879 Speaker 1: like a sea park and have mermaid shows, and specifically 602 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: one in is it wiki Watchie Springs? Yeah, WEEKI Watchee 603 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: Springs Florida near Tampa. And uh, it was a booming 604 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: business back then. They said, um, between half million and 605 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,839 Speaker 1: a million tourists every year, including big famous people like 606 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,759 Speaker 1: Elvis Presley and Don Knots. Yeah, those are the two 607 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,839 Speaker 1: they mentioned. Those two would trash and place together. Oh 608 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: I bet Don gets into the whiskey. It's all over. Um. 609 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: So yeah, it was a huge steal back then. They're 610 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: still doing it there today. But it is a real job. 611 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:08,040 Speaker 1: You can um, you can go if you're a great swimmer, 612 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 1: like you have to know what you're doing. Oh yeah, 613 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,319 Speaker 1: Like it seems like, oh, yeah, you just put on 614 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,760 Speaker 1: that that tail, but that tail is is heavy and awkward. 615 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 1: Well but yeah, and plus like somewhat buoyant swimming with 616 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: your legs together. Yeah, that's hard, very difficult. Yeah, it's 617 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 1: not an easy job from what I can tell. Yeah, 618 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 1: so apparently once you put like they look very graceful, 619 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 1: uh swimming around in those things. But you go put 620 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 1: one on and get in a pool and see what happens. 621 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 1: Right in this article, I think rightly points out that 622 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,920 Speaker 1: the professional mermaids that you see today are um like 623 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: this is from years and years and years of practice, 624 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: Like they didn't just get in the water and they're like, yeah, 625 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,239 Speaker 1: I'm a natural, yeah exactly. Um, it's really awkward. And 626 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,919 Speaker 1: you also have to know how to hold your breath 627 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,880 Speaker 1: like a mo like a mo yeah it's not myself, 628 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: Yeah you do. And you have to learn how to 629 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,839 Speaker 1: swim the mermaid crawl, which is what they name it. 630 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,680 Speaker 1: But you know it's not like regular swimming. Uh yeah, right, 631 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,280 Speaker 1: you know. And you can make a little dough too, 632 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 1: a little bit. It said. You can be hired like 633 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 1: as a one off for a party. What is that? 634 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,240 Speaker 1: Like you go to like a neighborhood pool and everyone 635 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,400 Speaker 1: gathers around, like, look at the mermaid claps out of rhythm. 636 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 1: That's so fun. You're like, what do you guys want 637 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: me to do? I guess you can do that. But 638 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,280 Speaker 1: the most mostly what I've seen are like the shows 639 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 1: in some like Sleepy Florida town right like Gator Farm 640 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: and the start in the in the WEEKI watching Mermaids 641 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: or like at resorts or something like that. Yeah, back 642 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 1: when they used to love that kind of thing. Uh. 643 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: And some of these um professional mermaids apparently use their 644 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: uh status as a soapbox for ecology and efforts to 645 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 1: keep the oceans clean. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, there 646 00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,799 Speaker 1: seems to be a real thread of that running through 647 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: the professional mermaid culture. You're like an eco activists. That's 648 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 1: a decent band name too, professional mermaid culture. Yeah, this 649 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 1: one was rich with bands name Horny Skinfolds. Yeah. Uh, 650 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 1: if you want to know more about mermaids, you can 651 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,200 Speaker 1: type that word in the search bart how stuff works 652 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 1: dot com. And since I said search bar, it's time 653 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: for listener mail. Actually in lieu of listener mail today, Uh, 654 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,640 Speaker 1: we are going to ask you for something because we 655 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,200 Speaker 1: people also often say like how can I help the show? Uh, 656 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,839 Speaker 1: Spreading the word is awesome. We always appreciate that. 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