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Mermaids: Myth, Mayhem, and Modern Magic · PNW Haunts & Homicides

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  So depending on who you ask, Mermaids can symbolize both fortune and misfortune, like the sea
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  they can be both beautiful and deadly.
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  And if you were to travel to Portland's sister city, Moutares in Bobway, ooh, and ask
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  them what they think of Mermaids, they would probably lean towards the misfortune or deadly
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  side.
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  Okay.
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  Hi, Caitlyn.
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  Hi, Cassie.
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  Hi, creepy people.
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  The studio's looking pretty weird.
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  Sorry, I got thrown off.
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  Hello!
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  I was like, is she gonna do it?
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  I don't know.
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  No one knows.
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  No one knows.
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  It's perpetually distracted by the bright lights.
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  Yes, my arm fat.
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  The lights are very bright.
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  The arms are very skinny.
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  Here at PNW Haunts and Homicides, which that's what this is.
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  Is that what we're doing?
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  Oh shit.
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  Doing?
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  Just start.
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  No.
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  This is perfect.
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  Okay.
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  Where we talk about true crime, the paranormal, and all things spooky and or magical in the
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  Pacific Northwest.
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  Erie.
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  Sometimes other places.
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  Yeah, also that.
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  We also do a tarot reading at the end of every episode for a little bit of deeper insight
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  into our topic.
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  Deeper insight.
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  Very deep.
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  We dive deeper into the ocean.
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  Oh.
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  I mean, that's like the one place we haven't really explored very much of.
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  I know, right?
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  It makes me nervous.
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  We might talk a little bit about today and about some of the creatures that might be in
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  the ocean that we don't know about.
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  No.
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  But it's going to be fun.
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  Don't worry.
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  Okay.
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  Look at our hair.
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  We're having fun today.
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  Yeah, we are having fun today.
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  Yay.
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  So this was actually a Patreon live that we did a while back.
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  I can't remember when.
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  Sometime last year, I think.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  It's been close to a year probably.
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  I feel like.
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  But with our birthdays, mining, Kaitlyn's coming up.
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  Caitlyn's wedding, Shenanigans.
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  There's a lot going on.
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  So we decided we need to make our lives a little easy.
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  Bring back something old that we've already written.
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  I spruced it up a little bit.
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  There's some stuff added to it that was not in the Patreon live.
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  So you get something new as well.
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  And there's a bonus that can go with it too.
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  So a Patreon bonus.
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  So you're not missing out on anything.
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  We're not getting repeats because honestly we're goldfish.
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  And we might not even remember what is in this episode.
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  So that's what I was going to say.
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  There's, I mean, if you're adding to it and then our commentary, the decides.
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  Yes.
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  The digression.
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  We might say the same exact thing and not even know that we'd previously set it to either.
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  Say.
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  It's all new to us.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I'm going to start us off with a little dad joke.
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  Do you remember the dad joke?
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  No.
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  You might when I start say it.
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  How do mermaids relax?
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  I don't know.
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  They smoke seaweed.
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  Oh, my God.
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  I was going to say are they like me and they just like don't?
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  No, they do relax with you know, little seaweed at night after work in long hours.
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  Whatever they what I was like when what stress what job does a mermaid have?
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  Fishing.
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  Fishing.
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  Fishing.
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  Is this not already a pretty carefree existence for mermaids?
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  You know what they do?
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  They swim around old shipwrecks and collect forks.
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  Oh, oh, stressful day of that.
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  You're going to use some seaweed after that.
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  So I've been hard at work.
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  So what is the scuttlebot with mermaids?
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  That's adorable.
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  I know right now.
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  But it's like the mermaid version of gossip.
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  I love it.
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  Which is actually funny.
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  That word is going to come back around at the end.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Okay.
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  So the English word for mermaid is the old English for sea, which is mare and made a young
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  woman.
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  A woman.
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  In Ireland, they're called merrows.
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  And this is where I was like, oh my god, we had just talked to Jacquelin from Merrow's Anchor.
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  Yeah.
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  And I was like, I didn't even know what Merrow's Anchor meant.
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  Now it makes so much sense.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  There's literally a mermaid like in the artwork.
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  You know how sometimes you learn something new, right?
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  Again.
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  So again, that was Jacquelin, our friend Jacquelin.
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  Hi.
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  And I did forget to say this was also a suggestion from Michelle, who I think was one of our
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  patrons.
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  I don't know if she still is, but this was your suggestion, Michelle.
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  No, I, I, I, I, we had a couple of Michelle's.
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  I don't know which Michelle it was.
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  All of the Michelle's.
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  Yeah.
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  Michelle.
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  What were we saying about making up mermaid names and I know I said, shelly, shelly.
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  Because I'm an 80 year old and also a dad, despite the odds.
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  I mean, this episode has dad jokes and shelly's in it.
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  It's all coming together.
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  I love it.
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  So just another little aside, I was like just a little aside.
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  And like the whole beginning is kind of an aside.
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  Everything's an aside.
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  But before we totally dive in, we're kind of doing this gender stereotype thing with this
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  episode with like the mermaids, but I promise you at the end, I will fix it.
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  Don't you worry.
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  Oh, but I do have to say, you know, today we're talking mermaids, but mermaids are also a thing.
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  They're just not as popular unless you're John Cena in the Barbie movie.
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  For the fan, the favorite monster in cabin in the woods.
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  It's a merman.
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  Okay.
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  You've never seen it.
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  I think we've gone over this.
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  Yeah.
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  I feel like, yeah, it goes without saying.
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  Yeah.
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  So unless you're either one of those, no one really cares about merman, but I promise you,
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  we'll fix it in the end.
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  Okay.
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  I don't know.
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  Are we fixing it or fixing it?
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  Okay.
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  Mermaids have been making a splash in pop culture from books and music to Disney and Starbucks.
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  So I assume the majority of us know what this mythical creature looks like.
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  Upper body of a human until you get to the hip area and the rest is fish from there.
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  Yep.
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  Starbucks.
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  Mermaid.
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  She's stover titties out.
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  Fun fact, if you didn't know, kids.
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  Oh, she doesn't even have any now.
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  Nope.
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  They covered it with hair because titties are offensive as fuck you guys.
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  She just looks like kind of like the under the below the belt bits of a kendall in her
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  chest area now.
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  Speaking of kendall.
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  Nippleless.
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  Yeah.
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  That's funny.
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  Kend comes up again in this.
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  Yeah.
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  It's, it's, we're so feeble with everything.
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  I swear, we don't even try.
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  So mermaids can pop up to the surface for the occasional interaction with a full human,
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  you know, both halves are human and are generally considered non-threatening.
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  This is different from a siren, another mythical being that is nowadays depicted as some type
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  of evil fishy woman, woman, usually very similar looking to mermaid.
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  Sirens are famously hostile and lure you to your demise with hypnotic song.
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  Ooh.
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  Yes.
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  Not like hypnotic, the blue liqueur?
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  Maybe both.
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  Maybe she's singing about hypnotic.
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  Molly, what are you doing?
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  Oh, that's Charlie.
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  Oh, sorry.
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  He's Charlie.
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  What?
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  He can't tell from behind.
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  Both are like brown little furry mudbutt.
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  Charlie.
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  That is more of a Charlie thing to do. He is standing in the closet just to stare in a way,
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  stare in in the corner to box this basic, like there's literally nothing.
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  I mean, no, no.
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  It's, I mean, why would I be concerned?
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  Yeah.
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  Thanks, Charlie.
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  We got to get that pod dog cam.
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  We do.
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  So you can see how creepy shit they do.
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  We're recording.
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  Oh.
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  So with these sirens, think Harry Potter and the goblet of fire.
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  Oh.
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  Yeah.
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  I have a fun fact for you though.
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  Give it to me.
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  A little shimmy.
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  Well, sirens actually started out as human bird hybrids and over time, the lore kind of
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  merged with mermaids.
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  Merged with them.
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  I don't like that.
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  Yeah, I don't know why they like turn to them aquatic.
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  Oh, I'm okay with them being aquatic.
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  I don't like the bird.
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  Yeah.
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  You have to watch this clip though.
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  So open the email I sent you.
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  Damn it.
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  There is a siren in what we do in the shadows.
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  That is kind of the older version of a siren.
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  And I just want you to watch it because it's very, it's, he he.
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  She's like a Jersey girl.
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  Is that what it is?
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  Yeah.
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  Like Jersey Shore.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Jersey Shore.
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  Yeah.
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  The only thing I hate more than when someone tries to interrupt my song is when they join
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  in.
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  Is it me or is she hideous?
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  We are in the presence of a siren.
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  Yeah.
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  Where is she just pulled out of her mouth?
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  It was like a bone probably.
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  My god.
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  She's like eating things and birds.
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  It's so funny.
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  - It's perfect. - You have to watch it.
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  - It's great.
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  - So I'm just glad they really represented
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  the old school siren, you know?
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  - Yeah.
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  (chiming)
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  - So depending on who you ask,
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  Mermaids can symbolize both fortune and misfortune.
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  Like the sea they can be both beautiful and deadly.
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  - Yeah. - Very deadly, the sea.
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  - All right, dot lie.
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  - What did I say the other day about Tennessee?
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  I was like severely haunted,
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  (laughing)
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  to see severely haunted.
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  - Not really haunted. - Sivirly deadly play.
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  (laughing)
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  I did not even remember I said that when I heard it.
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  I was like, what the fuck was I even saying?
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  Tennessee - severely haunted.
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  (laughing)
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  Oh God.
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  - Okay, so like the sea, blue bit of blue, deadly.
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  - Blue bit, blue, blue, blue, blue.
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  They were used as figure heads on ships
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  as kind of an offering to the sea for safe travels.
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  - Oh, that's interesting.
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  - So like the pretty blopshuous mermaid on the ship
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  was as like a good omen for there.
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  - Okay.
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  - What's it called?
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  Sailor ship?
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  Do you sail a ship?
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  - Yeah.
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  - Or do you sail just a sailboat?
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  - No, I think it can be sailing.
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  I think that's the right term for more than one type of.
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  - So sail.
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  - Yeah.
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  And if it's not like whatever,
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  we're not sailors.
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  - Right, so.
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  - I had to look up nautical terms for this in a film.
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  (laughing)
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  I love it.
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  - And if you were to travel to Portland's sister city,
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  And if you were to travel to Portland’s sister city Mutare Zimbabwe,
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  ooh, and ask them what they think of mermaids.
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  They would probably lean towards the misfortune or deadly side.
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  - Okay.
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  Dam workers, not damn workers, but like dam workers.
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  - God damn workers.
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  (laughing)
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  - Those GD dam workers.
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  - Dam, dam workers, all over Zimbabwe,
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  including Mutare, are being scared away from job sites
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  by aggressive mermaid attacks.
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  - Like this is like real, like this isn't the news.
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  - Okay, it's straight up mermaid mayhem in this bitch.
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  (laughing)
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  - Well, some get away to tell their stories.
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  Others, sadly, are never seen again.
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  - Okay, that doesn't sound very mermaidy.
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  - Not well.
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  - It sounds more like.
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  - More sireny.
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  - Yeah.
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  - But these mermaids are not good over in Zimbabwe.
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  You gotta watch your back.
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  - Okay.
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  - This is a huge problem to have at a dam that provides water
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  to the people.
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  - Yeah.
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  - So when it breaks and people are too scared to go and fix it,
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  people are kind of fucked out of water.
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  - Yeah, that's a problem.
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  - It is a problem.
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  - Yeah.
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  - This was back, I think in like 2012, but they were doing
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  everything they could to make the water safe again,
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  performing rituals and traditional rights,
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  even brewing special beer to appease the malicious mermaids.
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  - I mean, I'm all about that.
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  - Right.
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  - I mean, I know we have our whole heart take about,
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  that's a problem, you guys, but the beer sounds pretty good.
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  - Mm-hmm.
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  - What kind of beer?
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  Do we have any information on that?
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  - I try to look, but I didn't try that hard.
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  - Yeah.
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  - It's kind of an ancillary detail.
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  - Yeah, and an initial goug of like,
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  what is a Zimbabwe beer that scares the mermaid's away?
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  It didn't really get me very far.
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  If you can imagine.
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  - Oh my God.
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  - Mermaid repellent.
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  - Yeah, mermaid.
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  (laughs)
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  So yeah, so I don't know if the beer was like an offering
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  or if it like literally repelled them away.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Maybe we drink the beer and just like get too drunk
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  to care about the mermaids?
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  - I think that's a strong theory as well.
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  - It's probably also dangerous around the dam though.
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  I don't know.
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  - This sounds good.
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  - Yeah, I mean the whole thing, again guys, hot take,
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  but not good.
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  It's not good.
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  It's not good and not only that, it's also bad.
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  - Mermaids are bad and kind of good.
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  (laughs)
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  Zimbabweans are not unfamiliar with the supernatural.
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  And these dam mermaids are a big part
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  of their spiritual beliefs.
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  So literally the mermaids are only in the dams.
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  Like their dam(n) mermaids.
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  - I don't, okay.
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  - Yeah.
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  - I see what you did there double entendre,
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  but how does that happen?
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  - I don't know, it's just a thing with like all of their dams
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  have mermaids.
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  I'm, to me it feels like the mermaid is kind of like
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  the protector of the water and they,
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  they don't like the dams obviously
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  'cause they fuck with the natural flow of the earth.
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  - Or the waterways.
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  - Yeah, that makes sense.
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  - That's my theory anyway.
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  - They're like preservationists.
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  - Right.
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  - Which kind of makes sense with their whole vibe later.
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  Yeah, we're gonna get into all that too.
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  - But I mean, dam water isn't that freshwater?
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  It's not like salty sea water.
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  - No, it's not.
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  They're freshwater mermaids.
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  - I'm, you're never too old to learn something new.
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  - Unless these dams are in the ocean,
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  but I don't think so.
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  - I didn't look at a map of like some like way.
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  - You're like, I need to see you.
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  (laughing)
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  - I need to look up where all the dams are
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  in the aboveway.
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  - I got.
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  - That's wild.
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  - Okay.
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  The mermaids are a big part of their spiritual beliefs.
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  Obviously still there are some zimbabweans
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  who are skeptical,
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  blaming it on the unpredictable hazardous currents
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  creating illusions in the dams.
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  - Okay.
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  I mean, I could see that.
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  The earliest known mermaid tale is from 1000 BC
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  about a Syrian goddess named Atargatis.
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  - Oh.
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  - She was a goddess of fertility and protection,
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  water and the moon.
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  So we like her.
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  - Oh, yeah.
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  I see you, you found.
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  - Maybe not so much the fertility stuff for us,
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  but for others.
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  - I mean, you know, broad term fertility, you know?
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  - Yeah.
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  - For people who want it.
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  - I mean, it doesn't have to be necessarily fertility
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  in the way that I feel like we always apply it.
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  - For general fertility reproductive organ health.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Let's go with that.
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  - Yeah.
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  I mean, I feel like at that point in history,
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  too though they sort of viewed fertility,
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  obviously in terms of reproduction,
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  but think about it too in terms of like the land being
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  for unlike your previous.
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  - Like enough fish in the sea.
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  - Yeah, you're right.
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  We have talked about that before.
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  - Take it back to food.
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  - Yes.
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  - That's where we live.
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  That's our happy place.
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  - You know.
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  - Enough beer for everyone.
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  - Got some beer, got some fish.
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  - So the story of Atargatis might sound a little familiar
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  to start.
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  - She fell in love with a regular human mans.
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  - Oh no.
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  - Don't do it.
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  - Don't ever do that.
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  - Don't do it.
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  - It's dangerous.
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  - Yeah.
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  - You end up getting married.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Funny you should say that.
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  - Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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  - I'm getting married soon.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Well, and not to totally give anything away,
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  but I do have a story coming up about the deadly,
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  the, what did you say?
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  It was like the seriously deadly or?
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  - Oh, severely.
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  - Yeah.
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  - The severe deadliness of what?
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  - I actually read that last night and it was not good.
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  - Yeah.
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  - That story was not good.
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  - Terrible.
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  - Don't listen to it.
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  (laughing)
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  - Is it or is it not?
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  Like it reads like a story that I wrote specifically
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  to be all of Christopher's Nightmare Fuel?
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  - Yeah.
• 19:04
  - It does.
• 19:05
  - It's like, I can't even--
• 19:06
  - I was like, well, she's mean.
• 19:08
  (laughing)
• 19:09
  - I told him.
• 19:09
  I was like, I think we went back and forth.
• 19:14
  So he hasn't read it and we haven't recorded it yet
• 19:17
  'cause spoiler alert Chris is going to record that one with me
• 19:20
  and I was like, maybe I'll have him read it first
• 19:22
  and then I was like, no, don't.
• 19:25
  - Yeah.
• 19:26
  - Let the horror sink in real time.
• 19:30
  - Make him cry.
• 19:31
  (laughing)
• 19:32
  If he doesn't cry, he's a monster.
• 19:34
  - I seriously doubt he'll cry.
• 19:36
  He's just not really a cryer,
• 19:37
  but just have to get eyedrops in him
• 19:39
  and then return back to the camera.
• 19:41
  - It's a little movie magic.
• 19:42
  - Go, yeah.
• 19:43
  (laughing)
• 19:44
  - Okay.
• 19:45
  Back to peace.
• 19:46
  - Back to Atargatis.
• 19:47
  - Yes.
• 19:48
  - She fell in love with his regular human man's
• 19:51
  and they end up having a daughter together.
• 19:53
  - Okay.
• 19:54
  - More fertility.
• 19:55
  - For color. - For color.
• 19:56
  - For color.
• 19:57
  - The myth sort of flip-flops here.
• 20:00
  One story says that her lovemaking was so powerful
• 20:05
  that she ends up accidentally killing her love.
• 20:08
  - Oh shit.
• 20:10
  Like in the, oh my gosh, that Amazon show, The Boys.
• 20:14
  - Oh, yeah.
• 20:15
  - I haven't seen it, spoiler alert.
• 20:16
  - Oh, well, listen, they're on like season four now.
• 20:19
  - I knew what I was literally gonna watch that.
• 20:21
  You totally just wanted that for me.
• 20:23
  - Yeah, we're gonna pick it up.
• 20:25
  - I won't remember.
• 20:26
  - No, you won't.
• 20:27
  It only pertains to like one episode.
• 20:29
  - Okay.
• 20:30
  - Yeah.
• 20:31
  - And you won't see it coming.
• 20:31
  - Okay, good.
• 20:33
  - I mean, she is a goddess, you know,
• 20:36
  and he's just like some regular dude.
• 20:39
  So, he just wasn't enough, you know?
• 20:43
  (laughing)
• 20:44
  - Oh my god, that's amazing.
• 20:46
  Bring it back.
• 20:47
  I'm just kidding.
• 20:50
  So good.
• 20:52
  Such a good movie.
• 20:53
  - It's really just my favorite.
• 20:54
  - Can we re-watch that?
• 20:56
  - All day.
• 20:57
  - Yeah.
• 20:58
  - Yeah.
• 20:59
  - Okay.
• 21:00
  - We have to see John Cena.
• 21:01
  That was a mermaid.
• 21:02
  - Yeah.
• 21:02
  - Mermaids.
• 21:03
  - It's a very serious role.
• 21:05
  (laughing)
• 21:06
  - Just pause it on that.
• 21:07
  We're just like a little bit
• 21:08
  'cause he's in it really a second.
• 21:09
  (laughing)
• 21:10
  - Yeah.
• 21:11
  (laughing)
• 21:13
  But, Atargatis was understandably so devastated
• 21:17
  that she took to the water intending to live out her life
• 21:21
  as an ugly fish.
• 21:22
  She just wanted to be a pout, pout fish
• 21:26
  with a pout, pout face spreading.
• 21:28
  - spreading the dreary-wearies all over the place!
• 21:31
  - Oh my goodness.
• 21:32
  - That's from a kid's book.
• 21:33
  I was a nanny.
• 21:33
  I apologize.
• 21:34
  - Yeah, I was like, um.
• 21:36
  - Sorry, not sorry.
• 21:37
  - Was it like, is that from Finding Nemo or?
• 21:40
  - That was really good.
• 21:41
  You should write a children's book.
• 21:43
  - Yeah.
• 21:43
  (laughing)
• 21:45
  - Also in another version, the reason for her watery escape
• 21:49
  was because she was ashamed about having a child
• 21:53
  with a mortal.
• 21:54
  - Oh.
• 21:55
  - So I don't know, the first version of the story is sad,
• 21:59
  but this one just breaks my heart a little bit.
• 22:02
  So I prefer the first.
• 22:04
  - Oh no, maybe figure your life out, you know.
• 22:06
  - Don't be ashamed to your kids.
• 22:08
  It's not there.
• 22:08
  They didn't do any of it.
• 22:09
  - You're the one with scale.
• 22:10
  - Your choice is.
• 22:11
  - Yeah.
• 22:12
  - Fins, jerf.
• 22:14
  - Especially because her daughter becomes the queen
• 22:16
  of Syria later.
• 22:18
  - Oh shit.
• 22:19
  - Yeah.
• 22:20
  - So there's really nothing to be ashamed about.
• 22:22
  - Seriously, she's like, what of?
• 22:25
  - Some queen material, okay.
• 22:26
  Just over here, crushing it, even though my mom's like,
• 22:29
  not that proud of me, whatever.
• 22:31
  Hopefully that's not true.
• 22:32
  Hopefully she was sad about killing her lover,
• 22:36
  doing sex.
• 22:37
  In any case, she was apparently too beautiful today.
• 22:42
  So she turned into a sea creature,
• 22:44
  human top, fish bottom, aka mermaid.
• 22:48
  Okay.
• 22:49
  So she went to kill herself in the sea
• 22:50
  and she just turned into a mermaid
• 22:52
  because the sea was like, you too beautiful girl.
• 22:55
  - Wow.
• 22:56
  - We're not killing you today.
• 22:58
  - All right.
• 22:59
  - We're just gonna give you gills n' fins.
• 23:01
  (laughing)
• 23:02
  - Like, that's not up to you.
• 23:04
  You creepy, ominous body of water.
• 23:09
  - I just love, I love myths.
• 23:11
  - There's a lot. - Yeah.
• 23:12
  - Very interesting.
• 23:14
  Okay.
• 23:14
  We're going to flow with a different current now.
• 23:18
  In 2012, a documentary was released
• 23:22
  in the US on Animal Planet.
• 23:24
  It was called Mermaids: The Body Found.
• 23:29
  As the title suggests,
• 23:32
  they're investigating the existence of mermaids.
• 23:35
  - Okay.
• 23:36
  - The first thing that inspired this documentary
• 23:39
  was the bloop, the bloop,
• 23:42
  a previously unexplained sound recorded under water
• 23:45
  by scientists in 1997.
• 23:48
  Okay.
• 23:49
  So, I want you to pull up the clip of the bloop, the bloop.
• 23:53
  - Oh yeah, there we go.
• 23:54
  Listen to the bloop.
• 23:56
  Don't mind if I do.
• 23:57
  - It's blue.
• 23:58
  - I feel like there's a lot of bloops in the ocean,
• 24:01
  you know?
• 24:02
  Bloops and fish poops.
• 24:05
  - I don't think bloops.
• 24:06
  - It literally goes bloop.
• 24:08
  (laughing)
• 24:10
  - So at the end of the documentary,
• 24:12
  they end up finding their own bloops.
• 24:15
  And long story short, they think the bloopities
• 24:18
  are sound made from mermaids communicating underwater.
• 24:22
  - That's how they communicate with farts?
• 24:25
  - Yeah, that's literally.
• 24:28
  - To mermaids, to fish fart?
• 24:29
  To fish a, I mean, they poop.
• 24:33
  They're buttholes.
• 24:34
  Do they fart?
• 24:35
  Somebody let us know with fish farts.
• 24:38
  - She's Google-ing it.
• 24:39
  (laughing)
• 24:41
  - This is so weird.
• 24:42
  The answer is weird.
• 24:44
  It's a little, I don't know.
• 24:46
  - It's not a answer, no?
• 24:47
  - It's not a, yeah, okay.
• 24:49
  So if you consider farting to be the byproduct
• 24:52
  of digestion in parentheses, guesses,
• 24:57
  expelled solely through the rear end,
• 24:59
  then no, most fish don't fart.
• 25:02
  But apparently they, it seems like,
• 25:07
  it seems like yes, they fart,
• 25:10
  but maybe not in a way that we think of it.
• 25:13
  - Do they fart out their mouth?
• 25:14
  Is that what the bubbles come from?
• 25:15
  They go bloop, bloop, bloop,
• 25:17
  from their mouth?
• 25:19
  - Listen to this, that's okay.
• 25:20
  So I was reading just the portion of it
• 25:23
  that I could see in the Google preview.
• 25:25
  So I click the link and it says,
• 25:27
  "Most fish don't fart with the exception
• 25:31
  "of herring and sand sharks."
• 25:35
  Apparently they fart.
• 25:36
  - Herring and sand sharks.
• 25:41
  - Uh-huh, see it sharks fart?
• 25:43
  - I guess so.
• 25:44
  - That is a really fun shark fact
• 25:46
  that you're never gonna forget.
• 25:48
  - No.
• 25:49
  - And we're gonna share with everyone
• 25:50
  who shows a little bit of interest in sharks.
• 25:53
  - That is so weird.
• 25:55
  - Sharks are in this episode too.
• 25:57
  - I'm really good.
• 25:58
  I'm going down a rabbit hole with this.
• 26:00
  - Okay.
• 26:01
  - Get out of your rabbit hole, we gotta finish.
• 26:02
  - Yeah, I found a university of Maryland,
• 26:05
  quote, on the fish farting and,
• 26:08
  - Okay, read it.
• 26:09
  - They say, "No one knows for sure
• 26:11
  "what purpose farting serves in any fish."
• 26:14
  - Well, I just got to wish.
• 26:19
  - The wildlife is really fucking mysterious.
• 26:22
  - Yeah.
• 26:23
  (whooshing)
• 26:25
  - You guys, we have something really exciting to share with you.
• 26:28
  - Let's hear a few words from our new pod besties.
• 26:32
  - Hi, I'm Shaun.
• 26:33
  - And I'm John.
• 26:34
  - We're the hosts of Sins and Survivors,
• 26:36
  a Las Vegas True Crime podcast.
• 26:38
  Each week we cover important true crime stories
• 26:41
  from Nevada, focusing on the Las Vegas area.
• 26:43
  We cover current cases in the news,
• 26:45
  as well as cold cases and missing persons,
• 26:48
  but there's a twist.
• 26:50
  - Our focus is primarily on crimes
• 26:51
  with a domestic violence component.
• 26:53
  Sins and survivors is centered on the victims
• 26:56
  and the families they leave behind.
• 26:57
  Our goal is not only to tell the stories,
• 26:59
  but also provide victims with resources
• 27:02
  to help in their own lives.
• 27:03
  - We're focused on Las Vegas,
• 27:05
  but as we'll remind you in every episode,
• 27:08
  what happens here happens everywhere.
• 27:10
  So listen now wherever you get your podcasts
• 27:13
  or just visit Sins and Survivors.com.
• 27:15
  - Check them out, creepy people.
• 27:18
  You can find their info in our show notes.
• 27:20
  - Okay, back to this documentary.
• 27:24
  They go on to explain how mermaids could exist
• 27:29
  using the aquatic ape theory,
• 27:32
  which in the absolute simplest terms,
• 27:35
  I'm not gonna deep dive on the aquatic apes,
• 27:37
  but it is that some of us evolved into sea humans
• 27:41
  instead of land humans, basically.
• 27:43
  - Okay, great.
• 27:44
  They feature a NOAA scientist really legitimizing things
• 27:49
  'cause Noah stands for National Oceanic
• 27:53
  and Atmospheric Administration.
• 27:55
  - Yeah. - Is real.
• 27:57
  - That makes me a little nervous though.
• 27:59
  Like I mean, I don't know.
• 28:02
  - It's a real thing.
• 28:02
  NOAA's a real thing.
• 28:03
  - Noah's for sure. - NOAA's for sure, legit.
• 28:05
  - Yeah. - So this is legit, you know?
• 28:07
  How out of context are they gonna quote this person
• 28:11
  to make it fit their documentary?
• 28:12
  - Oh, it wasn't out of context.
• 28:14
  He was in the documentary.
• 28:15
  He was their expert.
• 28:18
  - Okay. - Yeah.
• 28:20
  - Right.
• 28:21
  - Throughout the documentary,
• 28:22
  they go over all kinds of historical, scientific video
• 28:27
  and even physical evidence.
• 28:29
  I mean, it's called the body found, right?
• 28:32
  So like they have a body assume, assume,
• 28:36
  - Presumably. - Presumably.
• 28:37
  - Assumably.
• 28:39
  Assumably. - I meant presumably,
• 28:41
  but Assumably. - But Assumably, sounds cooler.
• 28:42
  - This is our apology and making up words podcast.
• 28:46
  And then every time that we make up a new word,
• 28:49
  we laugh at it and then apologize.
• 28:51
  - Every time we make up a new word, you have to drink.
• 28:54
  (laughing)
• 28:55
  - Oh my God, people will die.
• 28:57
  - I know. - Long with Caitlyn saying,
• 28:58
  "No, no, no, no."
• 29:01
  - Okay, so as I've learned from the Mel's Hole episode,
• 29:05
  I need to give a trigger warning for violence towards sharks.
• 29:10
  - Oh.
• 29:12
  - Told you there were sharks in this episode.
• 29:14
  - Yeah.
• 29:15
  - So the team found a dead shark
• 29:18
  with a peculiar spear hole in it.
• 29:22
  They say it's from a weapon made out
• 29:25
  of a steam raised hail thing of a bob.
• 29:28
  I don't know what it's called,
• 29:29
  thing of a bob, really.
• 29:30
  (laughing)
• 29:32
  - I just can't help myself, would I?
• 29:34
  - I mean, clearly.
• 29:35
  (laughing)
• 29:37
  - Who's it?
• 29:38
  - Who's it?
• 29:38
  - Yeah, that's right.
• 29:39
  - Who's it and what's it?
• 29:41
  - But, oh, well wait, there's more.
• 29:44
  - More, yes.
• 29:45
  - They also find bones inside the shark's belly.
• 29:50
  They are able to identify some pretty human looking parts.
• 29:55
  - Oh, yeah.
• 29:56
  Like something close to human anyway.
• 29:59
  - No thanks.
• 30:00
  - Like maybe a mermaid.
• 30:01
  - Like, yeah.
• 30:03
  - Adding wind to their sails,
• 30:05
  they disclose a cell phone video
• 30:07
  with a found footage vibe.
• 30:10
  It showed some kids on a Washington beach
• 30:12
  that found a bunch of dead whales.
• 30:15
  And this is like a whole other thing in the documentary.
• 30:17
  Basically, they claim it's from the military testing
• 30:20
  Sonar or weapons.
• 30:21
  - Oh no.
• 30:22
  - But that's not even the weird part of this video.
• 30:26
  - Oh, okay.
• 30:27
  - Amongst these whales,
• 30:28
  there is the body of what appears to be a mermaid.
• 30:32
  I'm gonna have you watch it.
• 30:33
  There is a jump scare at the end,
• 30:34
  which is why I'm ruining it for you.
• 30:36
  - I'm already sweating.
• 30:38
  I'm telling you, there's a jump scare.
• 30:40
  So don't like, it's still going away.
• 30:43
  - You see the whales and the kids?
• 30:46
  - Yeah.
• 30:46
  This definitely looks like found footage, right?
• 30:49
  - Yeah.
• 30:50
  - Totally.
• 30:51
  Not at all like Cloverfield.
• 30:53
  Definitely from a cell phone.
• 30:56
  A 20, like, 2012 cell phone.
• 30:59
  - Yeah.
• 31:00
  - Two early 2000s.
• 31:01
  - Ew, ew, ew.
• 31:02
  - No, no, no, no.
• 31:04
  - She's just a mermaid.
• 31:05
  - Can you describe it for us?
• 31:10
  (screams)
• 31:11
  - I told you there's jump scare.
• 31:13
  I know, but I didn't know when it was gonna happen, so.
• 31:17
  And I saw her fingers move and then I thought that was it.
• 31:21
  I thought maybe that was the jump scare.
• 31:23
  - She had like teeth, right?
• 31:25
  Like jaggedy teeth or am I making this up?
• 31:29
  - No, I think she did.
• 31:31
  (gasps)
• 31:32
  - Okay.
• 31:33
  - I do both of the face.
• 31:36
  - Yeah.
• 31:37
  I mean, it's really blurry, so it's really hard to tell.
• 31:41
  What it is you're seeing, but everything that you can make out
• 31:44
  is not gonna lie, it's pretty horrifying.
• 31:48
  - Yeah, some more like a Zimbabwe mermaid, like a meme.
• 31:54
  Like, I, yeah.
• 31:58
  I mean, it looks like basically in this section
• 32:01
  of the phone footage that this teenager
• 32:06
  and maybe his buddy who's off camera,
• 32:09
  like come onto the beach and they see all the whales
• 32:12
  and everything, and then they see kind of like,
• 32:15
  it honestly just looks like a pile of like rubbage
• 32:18
  or something, and he goes up to whatever this is
• 32:22
  and like it's kind of like poking at it.
• 32:24
  And then all of a sudden you see like fingers moving,
• 32:29
  and I was like, oh, maybe that's the part
• 32:31
  that's supposed to jump scare me
• 32:32
  'cause like I wasn't expecting that.
• 32:34
  No, no, that's not it.
• 32:36
  - That's not the jump scare.
• 32:38
  - Okay.
• 32:39
  - Yeah, 'cause that would be stupid.
• 32:42
  Who would even think that's the jump scare?
• 32:43
  - I should have put the time in there, sorry.
• 32:45
  - I thought it was gonna be plenty of warning
• 32:47
  about those jump scare kind of.
• 32:49
  - No, I should have known that that wasn't gonna be
• 32:51
  the jump scare, but I was like,
• 32:53
  oh, that was so scary, your fingers made.
• 32:56
  - When she jumps up and was like screaming in this place,
• 32:58
  it's based on whether pre-be siren scream
• 33:02
  and, yeah, it's not kind of covered that.
• 33:06
  - Yeah, you did a great job, thank you.
• 33:08
  'Cause I didn't pull it up 'cause I've seen it.
• 33:10
  (gasps)
• 33:11
  I was intense.
• 33:12
  - So at the end of this documentary,
• 33:14
  they claim that the government came
• 33:15
  and took all their evidence except for the kid's cell phone video.
• 33:18
  Okay.
• 33:20
  They had a website, believeinmermades.com.
• 33:23
  And if you visited this website,
• 33:27
  it had a government alert that popped up,
• 33:29
  saying, "US Department of Justice and Homeland Security
• 33:32
  has seized to the site."
• 33:35
  And, simulating, this is a federal cover-up.
• 33:37
  Okay.
• 33:40
  The site no longer exists today, unfortunately.
• 33:44
  - What?
• 33:44
  - I know.
• 33:46
  The government took it.
• 33:47
  Oh, right, right, right, right.
• 33:48
  If the government was taking a site,
• 33:50
  why would they put up a screen alert?
• 33:52
  - They would just take it.
• 33:53
  - I think, yeah.
• 33:54
  - I think they just erased from history.
• 33:56
  - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:58
  After many people watched this documentary,
• 34:01
  as it was presented as factual with scientists and evidence
• 34:05
  and everything, animal planet emits,
• 34:09
  this is nearly a speculative documentary,
• 34:13
  saying, quote, "The film is science fiction
• 34:15
  using science as a springboard into imagination."
• 34:19
  - I'll say.
• 34:21
  Yeah, I think that's putting it rather mildly,
• 34:23
  if I'm being honest.
• 34:25
  - There is also a quote from Noah.
• 34:28
  - Great.
• 34:29
  I can't wait.
• 34:30
  - No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.
• 34:34
  - What?
• 34:35
  - To have put that in there.
• 34:36
  - To science.
• 34:37
  - Just stating all, I'm bringing all of the evidence here.
• 34:40
  Okay.
• 34:40
  - Toads.
• 34:41
  - There was a not very obvious disclaimer
• 34:46
  at the end of the documentary.
• 34:48
  - Okay, most people missed stating that some of the evidence
• 34:53
  were fictional.
• 34:55
  - What?
• 34:55
  - Some.
• 34:56
  (laughing)
• 34:57
  - Try like 95%.
• 34:59
  And it's like a tiny writing, too.
• 35:04
  - Yeah, yeah.
• 35:05
  - All right.
• 35:07
  - It's just ridiculous, so.
• 35:07
  - Yeah.
• 35:08
  - It wasn't just that they faked some videos with CGI.
• 35:13
  Obviously, the cell phone video was not
• 35:15
  from an early 2000s phone.
• 35:17
  - No.
• 35:18
  - It was literally in cinematic proportions
• 35:22
  or whatever it's called ratio.
• 35:24
  - Right.
• 35:25
  - So it was like the quality was too good.
• 35:27
  - Yeah, it was perfectly pixelated.
• 35:30
  - Yeah.
• 35:31
  - It really does remind me of parts of Cloverfield.
• 35:35
  - Yeah.
• 35:36
  - Yeah.
• 35:36
  - And I was like, all right.
• 35:37
  - And cell phone videos back then,
• 35:39
  they were pretty, it was mostly just photos.
• 35:42
  I don't think videos were a super huge thing,
• 35:44
  but they were not.
• 35:45
  - I think it was a terrible quality.
• 35:47
  - Yeah.
• 35:48
  - Yeah.
• 35:49
  - So it's pretty funny.
• 35:50
  You can still watch that.
• 35:50
  Obviously, Kate would just watch it,
• 35:52
  so we'll link it.
• 35:53
  - Sure did.
• 35:54
  - It's fun.
• 35:55
  - So not only that fake video,
• 35:59
  they faked historical facts and used actors as scientists.
• 36:03
  They misused scientific theories,
• 36:06
  like the aquatic ape theory,
• 36:08
  just that their own completely made up theories.
• 36:11
  - Okay.
• 36:11
  - I'm sorry, they're scientific springboard
• 36:14
  into imagination.
• 36:17
  - All right.
• 36:18
  Also, I wanna say I wasn't able to watch
• 36:22
  this whole documentary.
• 36:23
  I didn't wanna like pay for it.
• 36:24
  So I found some clips on YouTube
• 36:27
  and I got most of my info from the unbelievers podcast.
• 36:31
  They do a hilarious deep dive review of the entire thing.
• 36:35
  It's really good and really funny.
• 36:37
  So you should listen to that.
• 36:38
  - That sounds, yeah.
• 36:40
  That'll be listening to that.
• 36:42
  - That.
• 36:43
  - In May 2013, Animal Planet aired an extended cut
• 36:48
  of Mermaids, the body found,
• 36:50
  and a sequel to the speculative documentary, Mermaids,
• 36:55
  new evidence.
• 36:57
  - Oh.
• 36:58
  - In this one for Monsters Week.
• 37:01
  - Okay.
• 37:02
  - It was, at least in 2013,
• 37:04
  the most watched telecast on Animal Planet.
• 37:08
  - Wow.
• 37:08
  - Wow.
• 37:09
  - Even after the scandal.
• 37:13
  - That's, okay, I'm sorry.
• 37:15
  There's more of this, like significantly more.
• 37:19
  - There's more.
• 37:20
  I just,
• 37:21
  - I know.
• 37:22
  I don't know anything about the second one,
• 37:23
  but over the extended,
• 37:24
  but like I kind of wanna see what it's all about, you know?
• 37:28
  - Yeah.
• 37:29
  Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna lie.
• 37:30
  I'm tempted.
• 37:32
  - Okay, now I know what you're thinking.
• 37:34
  But Cassie, what about the blue?
• 37:39
  - Oh, yes, I was thinking that.
• 37:42
  'Cause that is real.
• 37:44
  That is hard evidence, this blue.
• 37:47
  - I don't even know what to believe anymore.
• 37:49
  (laughs)
• 37:50
  - As it turns out, back in 2005,
• 37:54
  which I think this documentary was 2012.
• 37:58
  - Okay.
• 37:59
  - 2005.
• 38:01
  - Real Noah scientist had already figured out
• 38:03
  that the sound recorded was just a big old glacier fart.
• 38:08
  - Wow, it's a fart.
• 38:11
  - So it was a fart after all.
• 38:13
  (laughs)
• 38:14
  We were not wrong.
• 38:15
  - Okay.
• 38:16
  - Well.
• 38:17
  - Okay, like that's not the technical term for it.
• 38:20
  - It's a matter of.
• 38:21
  - I mean, they call them ice quakes
• 38:24
  when an iceberg cracks and breaks away from the glacier.
• 38:28
  It causes, you know, bubbles that go,
• 38:30
  (blows raspberry)
• 38:31
  I mean, first of all, not very descriptive.
• 38:35
  Second of all, not at all amusing or humorous.
• 38:38
  - I know, like ice quakes, glacier farts.
• 38:41
  - Yeah.
• 38:42
  - Same thing, which one sounds better coming out of your mouth.
• 38:44
  - Obviously, one of them is better.
• 38:46
  - Yeah.
• 38:47
  Farts.
• 38:48
  - You be the judge.
• 38:49
  (laughs)
• 38:50
  - 'Cause we're 12.
• 38:51
  - Even though unfortunately,
• 38:54
  this documentary's speculative documentary
• 38:56
  ended up being fake,
• 38:58
  with water being 71% of our planet
• 39:01
  and not quite 25% of that sea floor is mapped.
• 39:05
  And only 5% actually explored.
• 39:08
  - Mm-hmm.
• 39:10
  Who knows what could be lurking in the deep blue?
• 39:16
  - We're still here to believe in mermaids.
• 39:18
  - Yeah.
• 39:19
  - I'm sure it's all like totally chill stuff down there.
• 39:22
  - Yes.
• 39:24
  - Well, because mermaids are real.
• 39:26
  They are.
• 39:27
  There is even a mermaid museum near Aberdeen.
• 39:30
  - Ooh.
• 39:31
  - Washington.
• 39:33
  The nonprofit International Mermaid Museum is open daily
• 39:37
  with extremely reasonable admission rates.
• 39:40
  - Okay.
• 39:41
  - The museum is, quote, dedicated to teaching ocean ecology
• 39:45
  from the sea shore to sea floor,
• 39:47
  immersed in mermaid mythology,
• 39:48
  unifying oceanic cultures.
• 39:51
  - Love it.
• 39:53
  - So if you'd like to contribute to the museum,
• 39:55
  you can donate mermaid memorabilia
• 39:58
  and marine life artifacts
• 40:00
  or donate a brick or a bench.
• 40:03
  - Ooh.
• 40:04
  - Links are in the episode description.
• 40:06
  There is also a mermaid festival, April 12th through April 19th,
• 40:10
  2025.
• 40:11
  So next year we miss this year's, it was in April.
• 40:13
  - So damn it.
• 40:14
  - Next year, though, we can go.
• 40:16
  And it has, this is at the museum.
• 40:19
  It has the Northwest famous Una, the mermaid.
• 40:24
  - Ooh.
• 40:25
  - She'll be performing underwater in her tank every day.
• 40:28
  I actually saw her tank, I realized,
• 40:30
  when I went to St. Helens for Halloween town,
• 40:32
  she was there.
• 40:33
  - Yeah.
• 40:34
  - Oh, that's fun.
• 40:34
  - So I have like a picture of her tank.
• 40:36
  It has a tarp over it and you can just see like mermaid
• 40:39
  underneath it.
• 40:40
  You can see the moon apart.
• 40:40
  And I was just scared to like peep behind the curtain
• 40:44
  'cause I'm a sucker for like rules.
• 40:46
  And I don't want to get in trouble by touching things,
• 40:49
  but no touching.
• 40:51
  - I know, unfortunately I went like during the day
• 40:53
  on a weekday, so they're where, yeah.
• 40:55
  That was down by the water.
• 40:56
  I think they have like a little festival area.
• 40:59
  - Yeah.
• 41:00
  - That sounds like cool.
• 41:01
  - I know, we should go one time at night.
• 41:03
  - Cool.
• 41:04
  - And they are show.
• 41:04
  - I want to see Una, she's so cool.
• 41:06
  - Cool.
• 41:07
  - Okay, I told you I'd bring this back.
• 41:10
  A gathering of mermaids can be called a gossip.
• 41:13
  - Ooh.
• 41:14
  - I thought that was funny too
• 41:15
  'cause we just did our little podcast astrology birth chart.
• 41:20
  - Oh yeah.
• 41:21
  - And we were talking about like we were Gemini
• 41:23
  and we were all about like gossiping
• 41:26
  and we were also talking about like good gossip
• 41:29
  and bad gossip.
• 41:30
  - Yeah.
• 41:31
  - And I was listening to a podcast the other day
• 41:33
  that was like you know, like there is a difference
• 41:36
  between there is good gossip and there is bad gossip
• 41:39
  and I'm like we were debating that.
• 41:41
  - Yeah.
• 41:42
  - Yeah.
• 41:43
  - Yeah.
• 41:43
  - And then I was listening to this other podcast
• 41:46
  and they were saying that gossip was only made to be,
• 41:50
  like have a bad connotation because it was like women
• 41:53
  doing the gossiping about men in the patriarchy.
• 41:56
  So you know, we need to take back the gossip.
• 41:58
  It's not, if it's not mean spirited,
• 42:01
  it's fine.
• 42:02
  And it can still be called gossip
• 42:03
  without the negative connotation.
• 42:05
  - Yeah.
• 42:06
  - Also mermaids.
• 42:07
  But more often a group of mermaids is called a pod.
• 42:11
  - Ooh.
• 42:12
  - And the Pacific Northwest has several pods.
• 42:16
  Merfolk include all genders and body types.
• 42:20
  Some people enjoy mermaiding for exercise
• 42:24
  as a hobby, a side or a full-time hustle.
• 42:27
  - Hey, hey.
• 42:28
  Some go to schools and retreats to learn how to mermaid
• 42:32
  and even have custom costumes made,
• 42:34
  like gorgeous costumes made.
• 42:36
  But there's no need for fancy tales to join.
• 42:41
  Even if you just wanna wear a mermaid t-shirt,
• 42:43
  stay on land, sip a cocktail.
• 42:47
  - I'm in sale.
• 42:48
  - They're open to all.
• 42:50
  - Portlandia mermaid parade and festival
• 42:54
  is Saturday, July 27th this year.
• 42:56
  - Oh my God.
• 42:58
  - Yes, they also have a sirens ball
• 43:00
  as a fundraiser gallop on the parade on the 20th.
• 43:04
  - Yeah.
• 43:05
  So Una, the mermaid, remember her.
• 43:07
  She actually started this.
• 43:09
  So she started the parade and the pod that's in Portland.
• 43:12
  - That's so cool.
• 43:13
  - And you can find her on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
• 43:17
  She's a website, we'll link the website for you.
• 43:19
  - No worries.
• 43:20
  - Okay, so I told you earlier,
• 43:21
  I'd make up for the gender stereotyping.
• 43:24
  - I mean, it's about time.
• 43:25
  - I'm doing it.
• 43:26
  - I'm fixing it.
• 43:27
  - Justice for Mermen.
• 43:28
  - I'm trying, Mermaid folk.
• 43:31
  (laughing)
• 43:32
  So the mermaid is used as a symbol for Mermaid's UK,
• 43:35
  which is a transgender youth network and charity.
• 43:39
  They support children and young people
• 43:42
  who are transgender or gender diverse.
• 43:45
  Love it.
• 43:46
  And this is a quote from their website.
• 43:49
  Over the years, we've seen many changes in the language
• 43:52
  and understanding surrounding gender issues.
• 43:54
  But one thing remains the same.
• 43:56
  Transgender, non-binary and gender diverse children
• 44:00
  deserve the freedom and confidence to-
• 44:02
  I'm gonna cry.
• 44:04
  - Oh my God.
• 44:05
  'Cause it's like so obvious
• 44:08
  and people are ridiculous.
• 44:09
  Okay, sorry.
• 44:10
  - We have it just like people are trash.
• 44:11
  - I didn't think I was gonna cry.
• 44:13
  The mermaid episode.
• 44:14
  So these children deserve the freedom and confidence
• 44:18
  to explore their gender identity.
• 44:20
  Wherever their journey takes them,
• 44:22
  free from fear, isolation and discrimination.
• 44:27
  (baby crying)
• 44:29
  - Look at me.
• 44:29
  - Oh my God.
• 44:30
  - Oh my God.
• 44:32
  - Yeah, so I told you I'd fix it.
• 44:34
  - Oh.
• 44:36
  - Also, I think,
• 44:37
  You can call them Mermaid,
• 44:39
  you can call them Mermen,
• 44:40
  call them Merfolk, whatever you want.
• 44:42
  - Merpeople.
• 44:43
  - Yeah.
• 44:44
  There's no discrimination, there's no rules.
• 44:48
  You can be whoever you wanna be.
• 44:49
  - I love it.
• 44:50
  - Yeah, so if you're struggling with that,
• 44:54
  consider joining a mermaid pod.
• 44:56
  'Cause they got you.
• 44:58
  - Yeah, 'cause like, fuck yeah.
• 45:00
  - Yeah, yeah.
• 45:02
  - So we did have a question in the Patreon Live
• 45:05
  'cause we were giving away a mermaid postcard.
• 45:08
  - Right.
• 45:08
  - From the peculiarium.
• 45:10
  - Yes.
• 45:11
  - So we're not gonna give anything away this time,
• 45:12
  but the question was,
• 45:14
  what animal skeleton is often mistaken
• 45:17
  to be the bones of a mermaid?
• 45:19
  Do you remember the answer?
• 45:20
  - Does it manatee?
• 45:21
  - Yeah, it's a manatee!
• 45:22
  - Oh, yeah.
• 45:23
  - But we're not giving anything away this time.
• 45:25
  - Yeah, I mean, anyways.
• 45:28
  I think it often said like the stellar sea cow or something...
• 45:30
  Are they the same thing as stellar sea cow and a manatee?
• 45:34
  Manatee?
• 45:35
  I think they're similar anyway.
• 45:39
  - Yeah, I mean, as a marine biology expert, yes.
• 45:44
  They're the same.
• 45:45
  - Yep.
• 45:46
  - Once I was reading,
• 45:48
  said if mermaids were real,
• 45:49
  they would likely be like fat and hairy,
• 45:51
  like have blubber and be hairy.
• 45:53
  - Okay.
• 45:55
  - Like a manatee or something.
• 45:57
  And instead of picturing like a sea lion,
• 46:00
  which I'm sure is like kind of more what they meant.
• 46:04
  I pictured like a big foot mermaid hybrid.
• 46:08
  - Oh my God.
• 46:09
  Wait, did that be like a Bigmaid or a Merfoot?
• 46:15
  We'll workshop it.
• 46:18
  - Okay.
• 46:19
  - Let's go to the tarot.
• 46:21
  We'll workshops the big made Merfoot thing.
• 46:24
  (laughs)
• 46:25
  - Yeah, like Merfoot better, Bigmaid I dont know.
• 46:28
  - Bigmaid.
• 46:29
  - Yeah.
• 46:30
  - Almost kind of fun.
• 46:32
  - Yeah.
• 46:33
  - Love it.
• 46:34
  - All right, let's do some mermaid tarot.
• 46:36
  - Do it.
• 46:38
  - Okay.
• 46:39
  - Tarot.
• 46:40
  (Tarot whistling)
• 46:43
  (Tarot whistling)
• 46:44
  - Okay, we are drawing tarot for a mermaid episode
• 46:48
  from Caitlyn's Oceanic Tarot Deck,
• 46:52
  which, you know it has mermaids on it.
• 46:55
  - Doves.
• 46:56
  - Who got that for her?
• 46:57
  - Me.
• 47:00
  (laughs)
• 47:01
  - Oh.
• 47:02
  - Is that a mermaid?
• 47:05
  I mean, I know it's the oceanic deck, but it's still.
• 47:09
  Okay, so joke's on me.
• 47:13
  We got a merman.
• 47:14
  (laughs)
• 47:16
  - Oh, I love that.
• 47:18
  - Hey, hey.
• 47:20
  - I mean, it could be either, really.
• 47:22
  Like we said, you can be whatever you want,
• 47:24
  but it definitely presents as a male chest
• 47:28
  is what I'm trying to say.
• 47:29
  - Yeah.
• 47:30
  - I mean, I think that's fair, that's accurate.
• 47:32
  - So it is the world card.
• 47:34
  - Oh wow.
• 47:36
  - And on this card it says regeneration,
• 47:39
  which is interesting because it was all about like,
• 47:41
  oceanic preservation, pollution.
• 47:45
  - Yeah.
• 47:45
  - Like that's what the whole museum
• 47:48
  was really about, so that was kind of interesting.
• 47:51
  So we need to regenerate our oceans, you guys.
• 47:54
  - I like it.
• 47:55
  - Save the mermaids.
• 47:56
  - Okay.
• 47:57
  - And did we draw that up, right?
• 47:59
  - Oh, I'm sorry, it was in the reverse.
• 48:01
  - Oh, it was reverse, yeah.
• 48:02
  - It was reverse, okay.
• 48:03
  Okay, key words for the world.
• 48:06
  fulfillment, completion, achievement, mastery, and wholeness.
• 48:15
  The world represents the end of the fool's journey.
• 48:19
  You've tracked down an arduous path of awakening
• 48:23
  and finally reached your destination.
• 48:26
  In many decks, the world card shows a young woman
• 48:29
  sometimes nude holding a double ended wand.
• 48:33
  - Oh, okay, I got a wand.
• 48:36
  - I got a wand.
• 48:37
  - The point's both upward and downward suggesting,
• 48:42
  as above so below.
• 48:46
  In the Rider Weight Smith deck,
• 48:48
  the woman is encircled by a wreath, signifying victory,
• 48:52
  bound at the top and bottom by ribbons
• 48:56
  that call to mind the infinity symbol.
• 48:59
  - Oh, it does.
• 49:00
  - Oh, okay.
• 49:01
  - In this card, he's surrounded by fish.
• 49:03
  Like a wreath of fish.
• 49:05
  - Yeah.
• 49:06
  She's dancing and as Isadora Duncan believed,
• 49:11
  one truly lives only when one dances.
• 49:15
  - All or swims.
• 49:16
  - Swims.
• 49:17
  - That was like kind of one of the things
• 49:20
  why people do like the mermaid thing
• 49:22
  'cause it's like so peaceful and quiet underwater
• 49:24
  and like you just can move your body in different ways.
• 49:27
  Obviously you can't own land, you know?
• 49:29
  - I could totally see that.
• 49:31
  - Yeah.
• 49:32
  - That's so cool.
• 49:32
  - I like it.
• 49:33
  - I've never seen like a mermaid show, you know?
• 49:36
  I've never seen like someone being a mermaid.
• 49:39
  I wanna see it.
• 49:40
  - Oh, someone needs to get on that.
• 49:42
  - Oh, no, we're coming for ya.
• 49:44
  - Four figures in the corner signify
• 49:47
  the four elements via zodiac imagery.
• 49:51
  The world represents fulfillment.
• 49:53
  All is right with the world.
• 49:55
  You've faced your dark side and honored your beauty.
• 49:59
  - Ooh, very fitting.
• 50:00
  - Yes.
• 50:01
  I think of this as the congratulations card.
• 50:05
  The last card of the major arcana,
• 50:08
  it indicates fulfillment, achievement, balance and wholeness,
• 50:13
  the completion of the journey from innocence to enlightenment.
• 50:17
  - Oh, okay.
• 50:18
  So balancing is interesting 'cause it's like,
• 50:21
  it's a half fish, half person.
• 50:22
  - Like, you know?
• 50:23
  - Yeah.
• 50:24
  That is an interesting, huh?
• 50:27
  I didn't even think about it, but I didn't think of that at all.
• 50:30
  There's an extra excerpt and it's about a goddess.
• 50:34
  I literally went to go and grab the oceanic deck
• 50:38
  was looking at my goddess Oracle.
• 50:40
  And I don't know why, but I sat there for like a full minute
• 50:43
  summing through looking at the cards.
• 50:45
  Was Adder goddess in there?
• 50:48
  I don't know.
• 50:49
  And this one is actually talking about a different goddess.
• 50:51
  So, but yeah, that was just interesting.
• 50:54
  I was feeling drawn to it.
• 50:56
  Okay, so let's get to our reversed interpretation.
• 51:01
  Many choices are presented to you,
• 51:04
  but you don't know which way to go.
• 51:07
  Perhaps an obstacle still stands in the way of your success.
• 51:11
  Things may get stuck regardless of all your hard work
• 51:16
  and you'll just have to wait until matters right themselves.
• 51:21
  - It's kind of like, you know, fixing the ocean.
• 51:23
  You can't really do anything about it.
• 51:24
  You just have to wait until people get their heads
• 51:26
  out of their butts and stop polluting the ocean.
• 51:29
  - Get your heads out of your butts
• 51:30
  and turtle heads out of those plastic ring thingies, you know?
• 51:36
  I was talking about cousin yesterday
• 51:39
  and we were talking about like, straws, you know,
• 51:41
  how they, and we're at this bar and the straws were noodles
• 51:45
  'cause they didn't have, they got their straws taken away.
• 51:48
  - Oh.
• 51:49
  - We talked about, I don't know if it was this place
• 51:50
  or another place got their straws taken away.
• 51:53
  And I was like, was it like the straw police come?
• 51:56
  It's like a bunch of turtles and like,
• 51:58
  swat uniforms.
• 51:59
  (laughs)
• 52:00
  Taking the straws.
• 52:01
  - That's a hilarious and kind of adorable visual.
• 52:06
  - It is.
• 52:07
  - I love it.
• 52:08
  - I know.
• 52:08
  - I also have pictures of me drinking out of a giant noodle
• 52:10
  if anyone wants it.
• 52:11
  - Well, yeah, obviously we need to share those
• 52:14
  in a certain photo here.
• 52:16
  - Taylor.
• 52:17
  - Oh my goodness.
• 52:18
  - Maybe the end result doesn't live up to your expectations.
• 52:23
  Sometimes you may be required to go back
• 52:25
  and do more work on something you thought you'd finished.
• 52:29
  Oh, almost like this episode.
• 52:32
  - Oh.
• 52:33
  - Yeah.
• 52:33
  - It was complete the first and we're all just to be clear.
• 52:36
  Or the rewards you receive are of a private personal kind
• 52:41
  rather than worldly success.
• 52:43
  - I don't know about that.
• 52:46
  - So if you meet a mermaid, they're gonna reward you.
• 52:49
  - I don't know.
• 52:50
  - I don't know.
• 52:51
  - I'm not sure where we're going with this.
• 52:53
  Let's see.
• 52:53
  - They have treasure.
• 52:54
  - 'Cause there's treasure on the altar.
• 52:56
  - Yeah, treasure.
• 52:57
  - Treasure.
• 52:58
  - Treasure.
• 52:58
  - Okay.
• 53:01
  In a reading about money, you may need to wait a bit
• 53:03
  or work a little longer before you achieve
• 53:06
  your financial goals.
• 53:08
  Perhaps the compensation you receive
• 53:10
  is less than you'd expect.
• 53:12
  Sometimes this card shows you focusing on spiritual
• 53:17
  rather than material goals.
• 53:19
  - Oh, kinda like the dams.
• 53:22
  - They're like growing beer and stuff to a piece
• 53:24
  the mermaid's instead of fixing the dam.
• 53:30
  If the reading is about your job, the world reverse,
• 53:34
  reversed suggests you feel restricted, frustrated,
• 53:38
  or dissatisfied with your work situation.
• 53:41
  So maybe you should become a mermaid.
• 53:43
  - Exactly.
• 53:45
  Yeah, do what you love.
• 53:46
  - You thought you'd be further along by now,
• 53:49
  yet you still need to put in more effort.
• 53:53
  This card may also mean the end result
• 53:55
  isn't what you'd expected and you feel a letdown.
• 54:00
  - In a reading about love, a relationship
• 54:04
  may not have developed according to your plans.
• 54:07
  Despite your efforts, you still see areas that need work.
• 54:11
  Don't let frustration or inertia cause you to give up.
• 54:15
  - What if you're, oh sorry.
• 54:17
  - No, go ahead.
• 54:18
  - Happy your times may await just around the corner.
• 54:22
  - What if you like kill your lover
• 54:24
  from making love to him too hard?
• 54:27
  - Yeah, I'm guessing that she didn't see it working out that way.
• 54:32
  So there's that.
• 54:34
  I pose a lot of it for me.
• 54:37
  It's relating back to ocean conservation and stuff.
• 54:41
  That's really where it's getting me this card.
• 54:43
  Okay, there's actually two extra excerpts.
• 54:48
  This first one says, and this is a quote from a tarot manual.
• 54:54
  The world is a work of art, neither a mechanism,
• 54:58
  nor an organism, nor even a social community,
• 55:02
  neither a school on a grand scale, nor a pedagogical,
• 55:07
  yeah, I think that's right, nor a pedagogical,
• 55:12
  no, it's pedagogical, isn't it?
• 55:14
  - I don't know what that means.
• 55:16
  - Nor a pedagogical institution for living beings,
• 55:20
  but rather a work of divine art
• 55:23
  at one and the same time, a choreographic musical, poetic,
• 55:28
  dramatic work of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
• 55:32
  - Wow.
• 55:33
  - Just like the ocean is so beautiful down there.
• 55:37
  - Yeah, even though interesting.
• 55:39
  - Even the fact that this is like the world card,
• 55:42
  and it's like, I'm 70% of the world is water.
• 55:45
  - Yeah.
• 55:47
  - Wow.
• 55:48
  - Okay, I'm gonna read the goddess excerpt here.
• 55:51
  Shiva, God of creation, and destruction.
• 55:55
  - That's what I forgot to bring you guys.
• 55:57
  I forgot to bring my Shiva shell, my Shiva shell.
• 56:00
  - Which obviously would have been perfect for that.
• 56:02
  - Clearly we needed that for the altar.
• 56:05
  - Don't it?
• 56:05
  - The world card can be linked to Shiva,
• 56:10
  the Hindu God who dances the world into being
• 56:14
  and then destroys it.
• 56:16
  - Wow.
• 56:16
  - Only to again dance it into being
• 56:20
  in the eternal dance of life, death, and rebirth.
• 56:24
  - That's really cool.
• 56:25
  - Yeah.
• 56:26
  - I like how.
• 56:28
  - I didn't even know like, I don't know why it's called
• 56:31
  Shiva, I shall.
• 56:32
  Like what?
• 56:33
  - Yeah, I don't know.
• 56:33
  - 'Cause I didn't really have anything to do with the ocean,
• 56:35
  you know?
• 56:36
  - No, I don't think so.
• 56:38
  - It's interesting that like, yeah.
• 56:39
  The name Shiva is in there, and then I relate it
• 56:42
  to the ocean with my shell.
• 56:44
  - Yeah.
• 56:45
  - Interesting things.
• 56:46
  - Yeah.
• 56:47
  - Yeah.
• 56:48
  - All connected.
• 56:49
  - All connected.
• 56:50
  - It all circles back.
• 56:53
  - You got a little, what's that?
• 56:55
  Coral reef of connection.
• 56:58
  I don't know.
• 56:59
  - Oh yeah.
• 57:00
  - Yeah.
• 57:00
  - I feel like maybe coral reef, like,
• 57:04
  they all communicate to each other in the ocean
• 57:06
  the same way that like mushrooms and trees
• 57:08
  and other plants do here on land.
• 57:10
  - Mm-hmm.
• 57:11
  - It's connected.
• 57:13
  - Just a hat, right.
• 57:14
  - Well, should we open our gifts real quick?
• 57:17
  - Oh, yeah.
• 57:18
  - It's our birthday.
• 57:19
  So we just, you know,
• 57:20
  I was like, your presents.
• 57:22
  I was like, oh yeah.
• 57:23
  - But your presents too.
• 57:24
  - 'Cause we're gonna do our birthdays just in one episode.
• 57:27
  So we're not taking up 10 episodes with birthdays.
• 57:30
  - I mean, I know.
• 57:32
  - Oh.
• 57:33
  (laughs)
• 57:35
  - Okay, who should go first?
• 57:36
  - You go first.
• 57:37
  - Peace.
• 57:37
  - Yeah, it's like your actual birthday
• 57:39
  in a couple of days.
• 57:39
  - Okay.
• 57:40
  - (laughs)
• 57:44
  (crash)
• 57:45
  (laughs)
• 57:47
  - Should I read the card first?
• 57:48
  - Yeah.
• 57:49
  - I should have just pulled out the card.
• 57:50
  I'm struggling.
• 57:51
  - Yeah.
• 57:52
  - The struggle bus.
• 57:53
  - I saw her writing this card right before we started recording.
• 57:56
  (laughs)
• 57:57
  - Yeah, 'cause I found the card and I was like, oh shit.
• 57:59
  Like I didn't write anything.
• 58:01
  Why am I so dumb?
• 58:02
  - It's got astronauts on it.
• 58:08
  - I can't believe you say alien.
• 58:09
  - Alien, I know.
• 58:10
  - I know.
• 58:11
  - It's an astronaut.
• 58:12
  - I almost said aliens too.
• 58:13
  I'm like, it's aliens.
• 58:14
  - Let's get this party started.
• 58:16
  - Are we pink?
• 58:18
  - Let's pink, right?
• 58:20
  - Get the party started.
• 58:20
  - That's for a key.
• 58:22
  - Like from the black eyed piece.
• 58:24
  - Oh no.
• 58:25
  - Pink has a song, has that, yeah.
• 58:27
  Never mind.
• 58:28
  I guess there's more than one party.
• 58:29
  - I'm sure, yeah.
• 58:30
  - Like I'm pretty free.
• 58:31
  - Maybe for a guy who has said,
• 58:32
  get this party started at one point in a song.
• 58:35
  (laughs)
• 58:36
  - Let's get it started.
• 58:37
  - Right, let's get it started.
• 58:39
  Yeah.
• 58:40
  Do you want me to read this?
• 58:40
  Happy birthday to my co-host, BFF,
• 58:43
  a party or a cry.
• 58:45
  - Get it?
• 58:46
  - You got it.
• 58:47
  - You guys, you got it.
• 58:48
  - You're my PAC.
• 58:50
  You're my partner and creepy.
• 58:53
  (laughs)
• 58:53
  - In creeps.
• 58:54
  - Oh, I love that.
• 58:56
  - Partner and creeps.
• 58:57
  - In jerbs.
• 58:58
  - I didn't get hit on a card because I'm a monster.
• 59:02
  - I don't know.
• 59:03
  I just, I honestly stumbled upon that.
• 59:06
  - Is this the one I almost bought myself the other day?
• 59:08
  And I was like, I can't, I can't.
• 59:09
  - I think so.
• 59:11
  Yeah, I did the digital download for the book too.
• 59:15
  - Oh, cool.
• 59:16
  - Yeah, so I'll send you that.
• 59:18
  I almost just sent it to you
• 59:20
  'cause I was like, oh yeah, I got to send her the thing
• 59:22
  and then I was like, don't do that yet.
• 59:23
  - Maybe like, oh, why are you sending me this?
• 59:25
  I don't even have a dial.
• 59:26
  - What?
• 59:27
  (laughs)
• 59:28
  - Oh, it's a mushroom spirit or a cult act, by the way.
• 59:31
  - Yeah.
• 59:32
  - And I'm pretty sure, yeah, I was eyeballing that
• 59:33
  in "At Through the Veil"
• 59:35
  when I think we were getting tail in.
• 59:37
  - Yeah.
• 59:38
  - Something and I was like,
• 59:39
  "Eh, I should get this for myself."
• 59:41
  - Me too.
• 59:42
  - Don't need to do this.
• 59:44
  - Thank you.
• 59:45
  - Here's the welcome.
• 59:46
  - Mushroom.
• 59:47
  - We talked about mushrooms just a couple of seconds ago.
• 59:49
  - Oh, we sure did.
• 59:51
  And you just had, we just literally talked about mushrooms
• 59:54
  like "At length" in an episode.
• 59:57
  We reported the tree one.
• 59:58
  - It'll be, yeah.
• 1:00:00
  - Ooh.
• 1:00:01
  - What kind of rock is that?
• 1:00:04
  - I cannot remember.
• 1:00:05
  - I was like, what am I?
• 1:00:06
  - I was like, I'm gonna fucking idiot.
• 1:00:08
  It's a moor.
• 1:00:09
  - I saw that and I was like, no freaking way.
• 1:00:12
  - So pretty.
• 1:00:13
  I said, you guys, oh my god,
• 1:00:15
  I'm so sorry, the story is hilarious.
• 1:00:18
  I'm so sorry to tail in our video editor/socialmedia
• 1:00:23
  with social media like Queen.
• 1:00:28
  - Yep.
• 1:00:28
  - I was trying to think of something.
• 1:00:29
  - She's more than just the best.
• 1:00:33
  - She's all of the things.
• 1:00:35
  She's the glue holding this whole operation together.
• 1:00:38
  - Yeah, and I'm an asshole.
• 1:00:39
  And I didn't know that she's like,
• 1:00:40
  definitely afraid of moss and butterflies apparently.
• 1:00:45
  - I didn't know that either.
• 1:00:46
  And I said to picture of a moth in her text thread.
• 1:00:49
  And I was like, oh my god, look at this cute moth.
• 1:00:51
  And this was just like a couple of days ago.
• 1:00:53
  - Oh my god.
• 1:00:54
  - She's like, I'm gonna have a panic attack.
• 1:00:57
  And I was like, oh sorry.
• 1:00:58
  I'm so sorry.
• 1:01:00
  Oh no.
• 1:01:01
  Oh my god.
• 1:01:01
  But then she sent a picture of a spider
• 1:01:05
  and I felt better.
• 1:01:06
  I'm sorry and not a spider.
• 1:01:08
  - Not better about either of these things.
• 1:01:10
  - Not, by the way.
• 1:01:11
  Just in case anyone was wondering how I felt.
• 1:01:14
  - It's fine.
• 1:01:15
  - It was one of the daddy long legs.
• 1:01:16
  That's not a spider.
• 1:01:17
  - Oh my god, they are spiders.
• 1:01:20
  Oh there's, I thought I was done.
• 1:01:23
  You guys, she hates it.
• 1:01:25
  She threw it on the ground.
• 1:01:27
  (laughing)
• 1:01:28
  - Thrown on the ground.
• 1:01:30
  - It's a little pan.
• 1:01:32
  This is carry yourself with the confidence
• 1:01:34
  of a mediocre white man.
• 1:01:36
  - Yay.
• 1:01:38
  - I do wear this everyday.
• 1:01:39
  - We should be so lucky, am I right?
• 1:01:41
  - Seriously.
• 1:01:42
  - For cereals.
• 1:01:43
  - For cereals.
• 1:01:44
  - Oh cute.
• 1:01:47
  - That's a little skull.
• 1:01:50
  - Like a skull ghosty guy.
• 1:01:51
  - I would like to.
• 1:01:52
  - He looks like, I mean he's obviously a skull
• 1:01:55
  but he kind of also looks ghosty too.
• 1:01:57
  - He does.
• 1:01:57
  - Yeah.
• 1:01:58
  - Yeah.
• 1:01:59
  - I was like, okay, well obviously I know
• 1:02:01
  where you need to live.
• 1:02:02
  - Okay.
• 1:02:03
  - I put a bunch of my pins now on that coffin.
• 1:02:06
  The coffin word.
• 1:02:08
  - Yeah.
• 1:02:09
  - A little message board.
• 1:02:10
  - Yeah, I put my pins all over that now, whatever.
• 1:02:13
  - Love it.
• 1:02:15
  - Thank you.
• 1:02:17
  - You love everything.
• 1:02:18
  - Yeah, it's like your smallest gift
• 1:02:20
  like in the history of ever.
• 1:02:22
  - I mean, I got you like one thing.
• 1:02:23
  So I was like,
• 1:02:24
  our wedding's coming up, it's fine.
• 1:02:26
  - Yeah.
• 1:02:27
  - It's like a little change.
• 1:02:28
  - She's got enough coming.
• 1:02:29
  - I know.
• 1:02:30
  - It's a lot right now.
• 1:02:31
  She's just a lot.
• 1:02:32
  - Yeah.
• 1:02:33
  - She's just a lot.
• 1:02:34
  - But it's a good one, I promise.
• 1:02:35
  Good gift.
• 1:02:36
  - I'm excited.
• 1:02:37
  (laughing)
• 1:02:38
  - I think I know what it is, you guys.
• 1:02:41
  - I knew when I brought mine.
• 1:02:42
  I was like,
• 1:02:43
  ooh, she's gonna be so jealous.
• 1:02:44
  She doesn't even know I already got her one.
• 1:02:45
  - Sure was.
• 1:02:47
  Okay, guys.
• 1:02:48
  This, I think you can probably make out what this is.
• 1:02:53
  Oh boy.
• 1:02:55
  Oh, put it right up to my face
• 1:02:57
  'cause that's where we have the camera focused.
• 1:02:59
  - I love how it is.
• 1:03:02
  - And I have the infinity sign on it
• 1:03:03
  that we also just talked about with this card.
• 1:03:07
  - Okay, so it's like a cello night with,
• 1:03:09
  in case you can't quite puzzle this one out.
• 1:03:12
  (laughing)
• 1:03:13
  - It's a magician.
• 1:03:14
  Or no, no, no, I'm sorry.
• 1:03:16
  It has the infinity symbol like the magician.
• 1:03:18
  It always reminds me of the magician,
• 1:03:20
  which is similar. - Yeah.
• 1:03:21
  - Yes.
• 1:03:22
  But it's the string card.
• 1:03:24
  - It is.
• 1:03:25
  - It's the string card.
• 1:03:26
  - 'Cause you guys, I don't know if you knew this,
• 1:03:27
  but I'm a Leo.
• 1:03:29
  - She is.
• 1:03:29
  - So.
• 1:03:31
  - And. - It's like,
• 1:03:32
  has a lion on it?
• 1:03:34
  - Yeah, they didn't have the magician one.
• 1:03:36
  - I got my stuff for cool.
• 1:03:38
  - Yeah.
• 1:03:39
  - It's like your zodiac card is cooler than mine,
• 1:03:42
  mine's just the chariot, which is like, it's cool.
• 1:03:44
  - It's like the chariot's cool.
• 1:03:46
  - It's like, you know.
• 1:03:47
  - You're not excited about it.
• 1:03:48
  - It's like a string card, you know?
• 1:03:50
  So I was go for the fool,
• 1:03:52
  which is like my other favorite card.
• 1:03:53
  So.
• 1:03:54
  - Well, you know, I think typically when people think of me,
• 1:03:58
  what they think of is obviously, you know.
• 1:04:01
  - Strength.
• 1:04:02
  - Yeah.
• 1:04:03
  (laughing)
• 1:04:04
  - It's not strong, tall,
• 1:04:07
  is it a upper body strength?
• 1:04:09
  - I feel like the strength you have is more.
• 1:04:12
  (laughing)
• 1:04:13
  - Inside.
• 1:04:14
  - Yeah, like we're no inconsious.
• 1:04:16
  - Yeah.
• 1:04:17
  (laughing)
• 1:04:18
  - You guys, it's there.
• 1:04:19
  We swear, like you just can't see it.
• 1:04:21
  So.
• 1:04:22
  I don't know when to tell you.
• 1:04:23
  - Happy birthday.
• 1:04:26
  - Leo.
• 1:04:27
  - Leo season is coming.
• 1:04:29
  - Leo season.
• 1:04:30
  - But it's cancer season right now, bitch.
• 1:04:31
  And we're about to go to my pool party.
• 1:04:34
  - Pool party.
• 1:04:35
  - My summer win party.
• 1:04:37
  Wait, did I even show?
• 1:04:38
  I mean, I showed them in like,
• 1:04:40
  when we were being silly, but let me show my shirt.
• 1:04:43
  - Show me a lot of pop.
• 1:04:44
  (laughing)
• 1:04:46
  - Wearing my Halloween costume,
• 1:04:48
  which I was a dead mermaid.
• 1:04:49
  So I have a skeleton top with sea shells on my boobs.
• 1:04:52
  - Sea shells.
• 1:04:53
  - And that is my summer win costume.
• 1:04:56
  - I love it.
• 1:04:57
  I love it.
• 1:04:58
  - I mean, it's approximately 8,000 degrees.
• 1:05:01
  So I am not wearing my mermaid costume.
• 1:05:05
  - Yeah.
• 1:05:05
  - No.
• 1:05:06
  - We did use it in our alter setup though.
• 1:05:09
  - Yeah, we did.
• 1:05:10
  - We might have to take a couple of like,
• 1:05:11
  still shots of it so that you can like,
• 1:05:14
  see that it's like the mermaid.
• 1:05:16
  - Yeah.
• 1:05:17
  - I mean, you can kind of tell in the tarot video.
• 1:05:20
  - Yeah.
• 1:05:21
  - Yeah, well, okay.
• 1:05:22
  - Really, I really want to drive at home.
• 1:05:24
  Like, mermaid is fuck you guys.
• 1:05:26
  - It's so mermaid.
• 1:05:27
  - It's so mermaid.
• 1:05:28
  - I had that mermaid skirt, the skeleton skirt.
• 1:05:31
  Obviously, I wasn't gonna wear that today
• 1:05:32
  'cause it's like a full length.
• 1:05:34
  Yeah, no.
• 1:05:35
  - No.
• 1:05:36
  - Again, we're sitting on the surface of the sun.
• 1:05:39
  - Yeah.
• 1:05:40
  - Currently.
• 1:05:40
  - You're not under the sea?
• 1:05:41
  Unfortunately.
• 1:05:42
  - No.
• 1:05:43
  (laughing)
• 1:05:44
  - No, not the sea.
• 1:05:45
  - Okay, we know we gotta stop because I will.
• 1:05:47
  - Yeah, yeah, okay.
• 1:05:48
  - Okay, well, we need to go so we can get to my Jacolanna
• 1:05:52
  and watermelon that I carved.
• 1:05:54
  And the other fun summer win stuff we have to do.
• 1:05:59
  - Yeah, we need to go do a little tasty test.
• 1:06:01
  - Oh yeah. - To the sangory.
• 1:06:03
  - The sangory, yeah.
• 1:06:04
  It's like a fall/summer sangory.
• 1:06:06
  - Yeah, thanks for bringing this in a min.
• 1:06:08
  - I was like walking all over Jardir Joe's.
• 1:06:14
  Like, they don't have cinnamon in any kind.
• 1:06:16
  - Oh no.
• 1:06:17
  - It's like, what is happening?
• 1:06:18
  - I have cinnamon sticks so I can grind them up
• 1:06:20
  in my mortar and pestle and be witchy.
• 1:06:23
  Put them in jars. (laughing)
• 1:06:25
  - Yeah.
• 1:06:26
  - Wow.
• 1:06:27
  - All right.
• 1:06:28
  - I threw them in so they're cinnamon-
• 1:06:31
  - Okay, perfect.
• 1:06:32
  - A way.
• 1:06:33
  - Awesome.
• 1:06:34
  - Yeah. - Yeah, let's go drink it.
• 1:06:35
  - Let's go.
• 1:06:36
  - Okay.
• 1:06:37
  - Have a creepy ass day.
• 1:06:40
  - We'll see you next Tuesday.
• 1:06:41
  - See you next Tuesday.
• 1:06:42
  - Or-- - Or,
• 1:06:44
  - Make sure under the sea.
• 1:06:45
  - Yeah. - Swimming around
• 1:06:47
  doing mermaid choreography.
• 1:06:49
  (laughing)
• 1:06:50
  - Living a silent life,
• 1:06:51
  just flowing with the ocean,
• 1:06:54
  smoking your seaweed,
• 1:06:56
  which is what I'm about to do as soon as we cut.
• 1:06:58
  (laughing)
• 1:07:01
  - Why wait?
• 1:07:02
  - I know, right? - Yeah.
• 1:07:03
  - Oh, it's like kind of mermaid colored.
• 1:07:06
  - Oh, cute.
• 1:07:07
  I didn't even realize.
• 1:07:09
  - It's everything that's everything.
• 1:07:11
  (upbeat music)
• 1:07:13
  - God, what is that called?
• 1:07:17
  Is that on a monopia?
• 1:07:20
  - Maybe.
• 1:07:21
  - Yeah, that sounds great.
• 1:07:22
  - Is that like a smell?
• 1:07:24
  Wait.
• 1:07:24
  - No.
• 1:07:26
  - No.
• 1:07:26
  - Hold on.
• 1:07:27
  - Hold that, I'm gonna look at that.
• 1:07:28
  - Yeah, where it's like a sound is a word.
• 1:07:31
  - Okay, so on a monopia,
• 1:07:33
  the formation of a word from a sound associated
• 1:07:37
  with what is named.
• 1:07:39
  - Broom!
• 1:07:40
  - So like sizzle.
• 1:07:42
  - Oh.
• 1:07:43
  - Yeah. - Meow.
• 1:07:45
  - Meow.
• 1:07:45
  - Rough, rough.
• 1:07:47
  - Real words that sound like real things,
• 1:07:50
  real words made to evoke the sound of real things,
• 1:07:53
  made up words that sound like real things
• 1:07:55
  and a series of letters that mimic a raw sound.
• 1:07:59
  - Ha ha ha ha.
• 1:08:01
  (laughing)
• 1:08:03
  - Oh good. (laughing)
• 1:08:05
  - We're just gonna do an on a monopia episode.
• 1:08:08
  - Sounds good.
• 1:08:09
  - 'Cause I'm a p-on-a.
• 1:08:11
  I'm an on-a mon p-on-a.
• 1:08:13
  Okay, we're done.
• 1:08:14
  Oh, stupid, cut that out. (laughing)
• 1:08:16
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