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