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Pocket Full of Piranha in Quicksand
Why were Generation X kids terrified of quicksand despite almost nobody ever encountering it? What made us believe swallowing gum would remain in our stomachs for seven years? Nicole and Heather dive deep into the irrational childhood fears that shaped our generation—and how most turned out to be completely overblown.
Quicksand, once a staple of adventure films, required such specific conditions it's practically non-existent in real life. The hosts explore how this trope exploded in popularity from Lawrence of Arabia through Gilligan's Island and beyond, despite the physical impossibility of being fully swallowed by sand. Similarly, the Bermuda Triangle's fearsome reputation stemmed from pre-GPS navigation difficulties and intense storm patterns rather than supernatural forces.
The conversation weaves between lighthearted debunking and nostalgic personal stories, including harrowing family boating adventures during thunderstorms that left lasting impressions. Remember being warned against showering during storms? Turns out lightning strikes through plumbing are extraordinarily rare. And that knuckle-cracking habit your parents swore would give you arthritis? Medical science says it might actually release tension and endorphins.
Not all childhood warnings were baseless—"stop, drop and roll" remains valuable fire safety education, though it likely convinced many kids that catching fire was an inevitable part of growing up. The episode highlights how these shared anxieties shaped Gen X psychology, from media influences to well-meaning but scientifically dubious parental advice.
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Speaker 2:Welcome to Like Whatever, a podcast for, by and about Gen X. I'm Nicole and this is my BFF, heather. Hello, alright, so I have to start this week with some disturbing news I heard on NPR.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh.
Speaker 2:I'm upset, so Sesame Street is in jeopardy.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:Yes. So let me read this from NPR the Sesame Workshop will downsize significantly, announced President and CEO Sherry Rollins-Weston on Wednesday in a note to staff. The layoffs came about two months after Mac said it would stop distributing Sesame Street episodes after 2025, and within a day of more than 200 of its employees asked for Sesame Workshop to recognize that they want to form a union. Casts like puppeteers, crew and writers had already unionized, said the statement in the OPEIU Local 153. So, yeah, they want to unionize. I think this is probably going ahead, but I think it's a 10-year contract they had with HBO and now they want to drop it and it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot of interest.
Speaker 1:That's a shame.
Speaker 2:It breaks my heart. So, amid the changing media and funding landscape, we have made the difficult decision to reduce the size of our organization. A Sesame Workshop spokesperson wrote in an email to NPR Last December. Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns Max All right, so it's Warner Brothers Discovery that owns it announced that after 10 years, it was not renewing its deal to fund new episodes of the iconic children's series. At the time, the corporation said its priorities had shifted and that Sesame Street was not as core to our strategy. I don't know. I feel like we've all learned to read from Sesame Street.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I feel like we've all learned to read from Sesame Street. Yeah, but times are different now.
Speaker 2:I'm going to die on this hill.
Speaker 1:I know it's sad but I feel like maybe with YouTube and all that. I mean for sure, definitely all that. I mean, yeah for sure, definitely. Do kids even watch that? Well, first of all, there's 276 streaming things that you have to. You know once they said this whole baloney of dropping cable because it's cheaper is bullshit I was a sucker.
Speaker 2:I fell for it. I did too. I need to just go back to cable, it's probably cheaper.
Speaker 1:It is because now, because not only do you have to pay for your internet, right, which is ridiculous, yes, but then you got to buy every single solitary other thing, because nobody runs the same thing on every, so you have 27 subscriptions to things that cost way more than cable ever did, right.
Speaker 2:And I'm paying like six bucks a month for a landline that I haven't used in like 20 years it is a racket.
Speaker 2:But wrapping up, sesame Ware Workshop said the layoffs are necessary to ensure that the workshop is poised to continue to deliver on its mission for years to come. But that does not make the human impact of these reductions any less painful. Max is currently airing the 55th season of Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop has not announced a new distributor but said production on its 56th season will begin next month. So I guess however many they get filmed before the contract runs out will be the end. So yeah, that made me sad.
Speaker 1:It is sad, but I just feel like I mean I don't know, because I don't have kids, but I just feel like probably that's not how they learn anymore.
Speaker 2:You're probably right. But, and I guess that show was huge to us, so me as a mom, like my kids, definitely watched it.
Speaker 1:Plus with graphics now on things and AI.
Speaker 2:Who wants to watch Muppets and old people, exactly, muppets are just not doing it for these kids, the whole Muppet thing just grew back out of nostalgia.
Speaker 1:I mean you know those Muppet movies they made a little while ago. It was probably just us in the theater.
Speaker 2:It's just for us yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean, I just I don't know. It is sad, but I just feel like that's not the way kids learn anymore. Fair enough, they don't have the attention span for that. I still count by fives the same way as Sesame Street, and I count to 12 that way. Yeah, it is Well. Did you hear that they changed the alphabet song? No, they changed. It's not LMNOP anymore. They didn't change the alphabet, it's still intact. But instead of doing the LMNOP like that, it's a different cadence now, so they're not all strung together like that. I mean, wasn't that the best part, like kids not being able to say it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the fun part. Yeah, Even if you could say it like singing through that part.
Speaker 1:I forget. If it was my niece or my nephew would just say M-N-M-N-M. But yeah, they changed it and then it's not won't you sing Next time? Won't you sing next time? Won't you sing with me? It's something else at the end, like didn't I do a good job doing the alphabet? That's what it is.
Speaker 2:That's probably what it is. Here's a trophy. You said the alphabet.
Speaker 1:Yay, you know the alphabet.
Speaker 2:Whatever, so also this weekend was my birthday it was your birthday. I had such a fun weekend. I want my birthday to be on a saturday every year I don't think it works that way it's very convenient though. So on friday night a friend came over and we got pizza, and she brought chocolate cupcakes from my favorite bakery, and then, um tuesday, my husband got up and went back to that same favorite bakery at 6 30 in the morning and got the cinnamon rolls right out of the oven oh yeah, they were amazing.
Speaker 2:Um, and then we went to a taylor swift themed drag show awesome, yeah, it was cute, like they were clearly new to their art um, but I was happy to support the community, like whatever it was. Funny it was, it was fun and the food was good. It was brunch um, I danced a lot excellent, I know, it's my favorite, I know. And then we came back home for a little bit and hung out with the puppy who's doing awesome. And then my daughters took me out to dinner. We went for Mexican.
Speaker 2:It was delicious, I bet. And then we came back here and my husband had baked me a cake. I don't think he's ever baked me a cake before it was really weird, I know, and it was delicious. He did a really good job. Yep Hung out with the kids and then Sunday I went to the winery with some of my favorite people, and me and my one friend brought subs and chips and cookies and they brought pizza and wings and soda oh my gosh man, what winery Harvestridge in Marriedalearydale?
Speaker 2:yep, and it was like packed there, and so they sang happy birthday to me. And then across the way, that was somebody else's birthday, so they all sang happy birthday over there but my happy birthday was better because I was with black folks, so I got the happy birthday like the good one where we were rocking.
Speaker 1:The other ones were like happy birthday, yeah, yeah, so mine was better you know who has a, the, a really good vineyard um salted vines in frankfurt, because I don't I'm not a drinker I don't say do you drink wine at all?
Speaker 1:I don't care for wine, I don't. I like sangria because I like it sweet. It has to be super sweet. I can drink Moscato and I can drink sangria. So Salted Vines has the sangria slushy? Yes, and during COVID you could get them to go, because I don't drink that so much. So I am a lightweight when it comes to drinking and it's better to have them at home than to, but yeah, they have. Really, it's highly recommend.
Speaker 2:And then my husband pulled a real Gen X move on the way to the brunch because he was like, do you have the tickets? Yes, I have my phone.
Speaker 1:Oh, they don't have tickets anymore.
Speaker 2:No, and I miss that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember going to like Ticketmaster.
Speaker 2:Yes, and like what do you collect now? Nothing. Screenshots, Right, exactly that you're never going to print out, you're never going to see it again.
Speaker 1:That's the thing with taking photos Once you die and your phone gets whatever that's it. Those pictures aren't going anywhere. Nobody is downloading your pictures off the internet.
Speaker 2:It's not happening, nope.
Speaker 1:Nope, nope. Well, thanks For that do-me-a-clue. Oh look, earlier, she tried to put me in the septic tank. I did. She deserves it. It's a long story. I come up missing. It's because I'm in the septic tank.
Speaker 2:Well, now I can't put you in the septic tank, Because I don't want to be in the septic tank.
Speaker 1:Feed me to the pigs?
Speaker 2:I don't have pigs, I have a septic tank.
Speaker 1:There's a pig farm around here somewhere. I have no doubt we're in.
Speaker 2:Delaware. There has to be somewhere, exactly so anything.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to say, like that Gene Hackman stuff is just so sad.
Speaker 2:It's so sad. It's so sad and it shows how twisted our brains are and how much shit that we watch on tv. Because her dying first never once occurred to me, not not a single time did I think. Maybe she died and he just couldn't take care of himself. She was so much younger, so yeah, but she was still 67, which is young, yeah, but that's certainly old enough to pass away. And she was sick. But, like, why was no one checking on?
Speaker 1:them. That's what I thought too the other day. I was like why was nobody checking on them?
Speaker 2:yeah, like you know you probably knew your mom was sick. If she was that sick, it was like three weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was dead for a week. He was dead for a week, so I guess that's two weeks, but yep, I don't know and it's, it's just sad, all I know I just imagine him like I know, just not knowing what's going on or where he is, where he is and I guess he just he didn't eat anything and that's what I was thinking when they said his heart.
Speaker 1:I was like dehydration sets in quick well, they said he wasn't dehydrated, so he was. He was drinking something, but I guess he well, I mean, if he didn't have any, if she didn't have anything prepared, right you know he's and uh, they were probably medications he was supposed to be taking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, heart, probably heart medications and that's really sad, I just I mean what a horrible, after such a amazing life, to go out that way I know and that and that's just it, like that's the alzheimer's thing.
Speaker 1:Just it's so cruel it is. It is for everybody, for everybody.
Speaker 2:It's just a shame yep, and then also the dog that was in the kennel I heard it had just had surgery. Yes, so that's why it was in the kennel and it starved, it starved yes, and it's just so it is all completely normal to explain, but that's why the door was open.
Speaker 1:I had.
Speaker 2:They had a junkie grandson that broke in and I was like, oh, she had it.
Speaker 1:I had all kinds of theories but that's why the door was open. He probably was going in and out of the door at some point.
Speaker 2:He's probably looking for her yeah, I never shut it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if it was like her bathroom or something. I think the problem was is when they, straight out the gate, told you that those pills were spread everywhere. That was just immediately you're thinking yeah yep was oh well right right, no, murder, suicide, or.
Speaker 2:I'm just glad they'll stop telling us it wasn't carbon monoxide. We're like, okay, no shit, you told us that within like 30 minutes of finding out.
Speaker 1:Okay we got it, we got it everyone has tested it, it's not there I did just want to take one second and tell you that I did want to give a shout out to the podcast. Free nights and weekends. Yes, it is also a gen x podcast and it's really good and you should give it a listen yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:That's all yep, all right. So, um, before we get into this week's um, we're gonna add the social information at the beginning of the podcast.
Speaker 1:I totally forgot, so that you actually she just literally told me this I did 10 minutes. Well, it's over 12 minutes because we're at almost 13 minutes, so like 15 minutes ago she told me and I just forgot that fucking fast. So this we're on all the socials at like whatever pod, um. Uh, youtube is like whatever pod, and the l and the w are um capitalized, and is it all one word, or is it it's all one word?
Speaker 2:Okay, that might get you there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know that might get you. Try that. If not, I don't know what to tell you. It's there, google it.
Speaker 2:Or just find us somewhere else. Yeah, I need to add the YouTube link to this.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say All the other socials, so that people, yeah, duh, we need to put that on there. I'll do that. It's on the Tickety Talk.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, it does link it to the Tickety Talk.
Speaker 2:Okay, good, yeah, there you go. Yeah, all right, there we go. Let's fuck around and find out about gen x fears. I'm excited namely irrational ones that we were raised on. I mean um my um sources came from historycom, christ and pop culturecom well, that is my biggest fear jesus is coming back for me scary. You did everything all wrong.
Speaker 1:I know trust me and mcgill college.
Speaker 2:Um, all right, so the first one I wanted to get to was quicksand because, like I, still have an irrational fear of quicksand I live a block from the beach my whole life and I have always been afraid of quicksand and it's a thing it is, but it is extremely rare, all right, so you've never been on the beach and had your feet swept out from under you.
Speaker 2:Yes, I have all right, despite being realistically unimaginable for adults today. One of the things that terrified gen x's kids that turned out to be no big deal was finding themselves battling quicksand. Whether it was a children's book, a wise tale from a neighborhood friend or a late night action movie on TV, many Gen X kids were convinced that the biggest worry they'd face in adulthood was getting stuck in sand. Yeah, less than a handful of people actually find themselves in an unsafe situation with quicksand.
Speaker 1:Well, you know you have. First of all, I think quicksand only grows next to trees with vines. That has been my experience in looking at the TV.
Speaker 2:Well, that would make sense, because it comes up later that sand, water, clay and salt, so sandy and clay soil can go together. Water, I don't know where the salt would come from.
Speaker 1:But it always sounds like they would always throw somebody a vine to get you out of it. Yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 2:Right? Well, I'm going to blow all your theories out of the water Great.
Speaker 2:If you were born sometime between the 50s and the 80s, you know the trope well. The hero trudges confidently through the wilderness, whip in hand, smirk on face, ready to take on whatever nature throws at him. Then, without warning, the very ground gives way beneath his feet. He reaches for a branch, a vine, anything, but it's no use. He's been sucked down down into the earth. In a matter of minutes he'll have disappeared and his quest will all be for naught. Quicksand is exceptionally rare, requiring a rather unusual confluence of ingredients what you're saying is I'm not going to get stuck I mean, it's not impossible, okay.
Speaker 2:So yes, the ingredients sand, water, clay and salt have to mix at the exact right ratio. So it's not even having those things together, they have to be exactly right. To the extent that it exists, it's not all that dangerous. You might get stuck in the stuff, but you won't sink in over your head. As a mixture of water and rock, quicksand is far too dense. You can try as hard as you want to sink in a substance denser than you, but it's not going to happen. Some of us are denser than others.
Speaker 2:While quicksand can and does kill people from time to time, it never does so by swallowing them up, never to be seen again. The best it can hope to do is hold you in place until you die from dehydration or exposure, one of the slowest and least dramatic deaths possible I mean, that's pretty fucking terrible way to go it is. I'd rather just sink down and get right I would rather be crushed with quicksand.
Speaker 1:You know what I think it is is. I was from when Atreyu the Swamp of Sadness. I perpetually live in the Swamp of Sadness, but, man, I think that might be where.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of Gen X trauma that fucking movie, that scene, that whole movie, that scene is the Rock man.
Speaker 1:I love the Rock man. I fucking love that movie. I know Never ending story, in case you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you haven't seen it in a while, watch it. If quicksand is really so dull, though, how did it become such a popular trope in cinema, and how did it disappear just as quickly? So, in the first place, the so-called age of exploration, also also known as the Age of Evil, colonialism lit up the public imagination with the idea that there were endless possibilities for what could be found in the world, everything from sea monsters to fountains of youth, to headless people with faces on their chest, which I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1:No me either, but hold on.
Speaker 1:Can I just tell you that yesterday I was on the Tickety Talk. Was it yesterday or was it this morning, I don't remember. It was within the last 24 hours and apparently this is straight insane. Apparently, on the TikTok the new conspiracy I don't even know what the hell it is Some guy put out a video that his friend put out, this video that she went to a hollywood elite party and they were eating hold on mermaid and when she was leaving she saw a whole cooler full of mermaids. I bet this bitch actually believes it.
Speaker 1:you would be shocked at how many people I'm hoping that they're all just really doing a good job of being sarcastic, but some of them I'm not so sure I mean.
Speaker 2:Like if that ever happened at a party, you would ever be allowed to speak of that.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what they said. They said she had to sign an NDA, so why was she a supposedly? I don't know. I couldn't find the original video, but there was like a whole bunch of people talking about it and I was like how, first of all? I was like how did I get to this part of tiktok?
Speaker 2:that people were eating mermaids. What were you looking?
Speaker 1:I don't even know, like I. I don't know how, I don't know, but I guess the elite, the Hollywood elite, are now eating mermaids.
Speaker 2:Okay Well, at least they're not eating babies anymore. They could be eating Well they're fit and cool, or they had to be baby mermaids Great.
Speaker 1:Even worse One hell of a Yeti. You can put a whole mermaid in there, a couple of them too uh.
Speaker 2:Compared to some of the wilder tales from explorers, the concept of sand that sucked you down to your doom was barely even a stretch. The colonial era obviously predates the invention of cinema by a century or two, but the late 19th century saw a surge of the trope in literature, to the point that even respectable authors like Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote House of Baskervilles, was making use of quicksand. The second explanation for quicksand's popularity is mainly how easily it inserts itself into an adventure adjacent film. The introduction of Quicksand into the hero's path provides some much needed excitement in a dragging second act with very little exposition required and with very little chance of confusing the average viewer. After all, there are few things more universal than the need to not get swallowed by the earth and not die. For some of you, I guess that's the plan. I am scared of sinkholes, but and that's what's up like that's for real and like that's our.
Speaker 2:That's why biden put money into the infrastructure, because all those caves, all that mining, all that, there was a sinkhole in in ocean city, at the bottom of the bridge, a couple months ago that sinkholes, no joke yeah, um, let's see my, my, one of my favorite podcasts, my favorite murder they do.
Speaker 1:Um, she has a one of the hosts. Uh, karen does a bonus episode on Saturdays called Sinkhole Saturdays and she rates sinkholes.
Speaker 2:That sounds terrifying. It also didn't hurt that the budget for a quicksand sequence is basically nothing. Get yourself a big sandbox and have your actors pretend to sink in it. To sink in it. The sudden surge in the troops popularity stemmed from its inclusion in the multi Oscar winning film Lawrence of Arabia, in which TE Lawrence's servant boy Dodd is shown getting swallowed up by the stuff. The historical Dodd actually died of hypothermia.
Speaker 2:From there it is just a matter of time before quicksand was popping up, and everything from Adam West's Batman series to Gilligan's Island, to Get Smart, to one of my favorites, blazing Saddles. By the time 1987 cult classic the Princess Bride came out, it was enough of a cliche that the script could have a joke about lightning sand in it, and audiences got it. For anyone keeping score at home, though, the quick in quicksand isn't actually a reference to speed. It comes from medieval usage of the word quick to mean living as in the living, or as in the quick and the dead. In other words, quicksand means living sand, which is way more awesome than fast sand, that's true, yeah, living sand.
Speaker 1:No thanks, it just sounds like I, I mean, I'm still scared of it, I do remember being really scared of but a.
Speaker 2:I grew up around sand yeah, that is true, and I was just scared of everything because I had a lot of anxiety. So, and the the bay.
Speaker 1:Like I told you before about my little boating adventures, when you got out of and had to walk it the bay, like I told you before about my little boating adventures, when you got out and had to walk it the bay has, like Mud yeah, A foot of guck on the bottom. It is sticky and you sink down in it and then when you go to pull, it's.
Speaker 2:It's like a suction cup it is.
Speaker 1:It's a struggle.
Speaker 2:No, you're right.
Speaker 1:But I didn't die.
Speaker 2:No Obvi, all right, sadly. The next one I wanted to talk about because this was another huge fear of mine, although I don't know why, I was never anywhere near it but the Bermuda Triangle the first time I went to the Bahamas I was like uh-oh, but I didn't disappear. No, and I, as an adult, have been fascinated with it and have tried to like and like. The fear was so deep and real that I tried to find proof, like in facts and stuff and everything you watch is just theories and stuff and it's very unsatisfying for me.
Speaker 1:Well, because most of the planes that disappeared and either got caught in a storm or something like that, ran out of fuel.
Speaker 2:I mean, you're going over a very large body of water and we were not really with a lot of hurricanes. We weren't a lot of, we weren't master aircraft especially that area.
Speaker 1:There's like a like a hurricane highway right yep, exactly.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, there, and it's very deep. So, yeah, you go down the middle of nowhere, you're going to sink to the bottom and you're not going to be seen again. Like it's not that crazy. That is true story, but it's not nearly as exciting. Um, all right. So it's not uncommon for people, regardless of age, to fear the things they don't understand. According to a study from the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, while these irrational and sometimes rational fears evolve over time, characterizing people's coping mechanisms and self-soothing behaviors into adulthood, it's not completely surprising that things like the Bermuda Triangle or quicksand were some of the things that terrified Gen X as kids. That turned out to be no big deal. As they grew up, they were able to replace fear-driven narratives and stories with factual evidence and research. Hence me trying to find an answer.
Speaker 1:And then you also replace those fears with like things that are real, that could actually happen in your life, like murders, murder, uh, your mortgage, car insurance, like these things became way more important than whether you're gonna get sucked into quicksand yeah, yeah, I'm still scared of it, though.
Speaker 2:Um, alongside the feelings of autonomy, that adulthood presents a reminder that you don't have to go to the bermuda triangle if you don't want to.
Speaker 1:That's true that's the same thing with sharks, like everybody's freaking out about.
Speaker 2:Just don't go in the water, yeah, yeah you literally can't get eaten by a shark if you're not in the water. Exactly, they cannot come on land and get you.
Speaker 1:It's very easy to avoid getting bitten by a shark. It's very easy. Just don't go in the water.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, like you can't die bungee jumping if you don't bungee jump. No, that's true, you cannot. These terrifying thoughts are now nothing more than funny fleeting memories. I beg to differ with that.
Speaker 1:She still won't go to the Bermuda.
Speaker 2:Triangle. I won't go to the Bermuda Triangle and I won't step in quicksand. A source of fascination for sailors, researchers and crackpots alike. The Bermuda Triangle is a roughly 500,000 square mile expanse of the Atlantic Ocean located off the coast of Florida. Descriptions of its borders vary, but most accounts cite the three points of the triangle as Miami, Puerto Rico and the island of Bermuda. Reports of bizarre activities in the region date back to the days of Christopher Columbus, who reported unusual compass activity while traveling through it en route to the New World. But the triangle would later earn a reputation as a dead zone for planes and ships after a string of unexplained disappearances in the 20th century. And that's another thing to me. Um, that I think is a huge factor here is we don't understand the whole world.
Speaker 1:What's the earth and the, the frequencies and the poles, and we think we know, we think we know how all that shit works but, and that you know, we know more about space than we do the oceans oh, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:So it would make sense that maybe things that work close to land.
Speaker 1:Well, and that's just. You know, they didn't have satellites in the 40s and 50s. They didn't have satellites, they didn't have the radar, wasn't as good as it is now, probably only went out to a certain area.
Speaker 2:This part's probably in you know a dead zone between you know Bermuda and I mean, how often do you hit a dead zone with your phone?
Speaker 1:Well, exactly, Now I'm down the street, like I do every day in my first neighborhood.
Speaker 2:So it is all very easily explained. But man, it sure was terrifying back then. But carrying on, in 1945, five US Navy aircraft known as Flight 19 got lost, advantaged in the Triangle during a training mission, While the pilots most likely ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea. No trace of the planes or their 14 crew members were ever found. Another famous mystery dates to 1963, when the tanker ship SS Marine Sulphur Queen sank near Key West Florida. Life preservers and other items were later discovered drifting in the water, but the exact cause of the disaster remains unknown and the wreck has never been recovered. So some life preservers floated up. They're supposed to. You know, you remember when that plane, malaysia plane went.
Speaker 1:Man, I have all kinds of conspiracy theories, I tell you I have been obsessed with that, like that there are some good documentaries on that. Yeah, it's crazy that I still cannot fathom that a plane could go missing like that.
Speaker 2:I have to say and it's been a while since I've watched it, but I remember that my biggest theory was that it was the Americans. I think there was something on there that was getting rerouted like that plane was being used for foul play, right.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think it was a pilot, pilot suicide. I think it's somewhere in the indian ocean.
Speaker 2:That's what I think I'm gonna have to rewatch it now. Yeah, all right. Writers like charles burlitz helped popularize the bermuda triangle mystery in the 1960s and 1970s, and its treacherous reputation has been chalked up to everything from intergalactic portals definitely what it is time for Texas to paranormal phenomena and even the lost city of Atlantis. That is a big ass city.
Speaker 1:If it goes all the way in that, that's a lot, that's more than a city that would be like another state continent I've always been fascinated with atlantis too. I think I buy into that because it's pretty, but I mean it's like a fantasy land, so like I had a theory a very long time ago about dinosaurs. So what? What will be left of us in 100 million years, especially now? Like, yes, plastic and all that, but all these buildings won't be there and so all people will find is like a McDonald's.
Speaker 2:They're going to find piles of trash.
Speaker 1:Piles of trash, right? So how do we know that the dinosaurs didn't have houses and we just they're just gone? Yeah, that's my theory. Dinosaurs were much more. They might have had cell phones, we don't know. They might have talked.
Speaker 2:Had jobs.
Speaker 1:I've seen them show dinosaur. You are not the mama.
Speaker 2:That's one of my dad's favorite shows. My sister loves that show. But despite the hysteria, government organizations and shipping companies don't show the triangle on any official maps and groups ranging from the US Coast Guard and the Global Insurance Outfit Lloyds of London maintain that the region doesn't have an unusually high rate of maritime disasters. That the region doesn't have an unusually high rate of maritime disasters. Other skeptics note that the triangle sits in an area famous for rogue waves and storms, and they blame any disappearances on extreme ocean depths and the effects of the gulf stream, which can combine to quickly erase all evidence of plane crashes and ship.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's the real fear. Y'all should be worried about fucking rogue waves.
Speaker 2:That is insane oh my god, like I'm very comfortable on the water, like I grew up on boats out in the ocean, all that, but the thought of a rogue wave, just watching, like those shows where those waves come crashing down on the front of like the fishing boats and stuff like the north sea.
Speaker 1:Have you ever watched any of the north sea videos? Oh my god, no, thank you. I know it's scary, but those rogue waves like every time. I was out every time. Okay, I've been on cruise ships that go to the bahamas. So you're down in that general vicinity and at night when it's dark out there, and like the whole ship is lit up, right, but it's just the the chance of a rogue wave just knocking the shit out of that boat, like it will just knock it, and then they all look top heavy anyway. Yeah, they look like they shouldn't be allowed. Well, didn't?
Speaker 2:that happen a few days ago and because, like I remember seeing a cruise ship just in the past week that tipped and all the pools emptied out oh really, they were in the kitchen and all the stuff was sliding.
Speaker 1:I have been on some rough cruises to the Bahamas, like in December it gets pretty rough, and there was a couple of them where one we couldn't dock oh my gosh. So we had to take an extra day at sea because they couldn't. They couldn't dock um, and it was. It was rolling pretty good. I also have, you know, grown up on boats, so that doesn't bother me um, because I've been on the freaking ferry when I've been, like the when they have been like this is the last ferry going, because this is we shouldn't even be running this one.
Speaker 1:I have been on that ferry and it has been a 75 minutes of pure terror so but yeah, it's it's crazy so our next one is not necessary.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, it did make us fearful, but it is actually legit this is my biggest, biggest fear I'm not going to lie this is 100%.
Speaker 1:I am scared to death of this.
Speaker 2:All right, so it's stop drop and roll.
Speaker 1:I'm so afraid of a fire I am.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, fire. That would be a terrible way. It's a terrible way to go, yeah, and even worse, to live through, I would think.
Speaker 1:I would think Let me tell you.
Speaker 2:Like when 90% of your body has been no, just let it go. Yeah, just please unplug me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shoot me with some morphine, whatever. I'm not interested in living through that. Yeah, yeah, I don't have enough will to live through all that. I do have will to live and I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2:That sounds excruciatingly painful.
Speaker 1:I can't even take it when I burn my fingers I know I bitch about it for like two weeks Me too While many Gen X kids in the 70s and 80s.
Speaker 2:And that is funny that you're scared of fire and burning because you worked as a cook for so long.
Speaker 1:That's why probably because I got burnt so many damn times.
Speaker 2:But you think you build immunity. I mean, you do.
Speaker 1:I would rather be burnt than cut. Oh really, oh yeah, 100%, I hate being cut. Yeah, cuts do hurt. Cuts hurt for a while.
Speaker 2:Like a burn, and they don't stop bleeding either. Yeah, and you get any little thing in them at least with a burn like it crusts over. So the skin.
Speaker 1:You throw some ice on it and move on All right.
Speaker 2:So while many Gen X kids in the 70s and 80s were taught about fire safety through stop, drop and roll, the National Fire Protection Association report suggests that there's actually other risks outside of ones that Gen X kids were taught to fear and learn about growing up.
Speaker 1:Well, probably, here's the thing, though Probably you were more apt to catch on fire back in the 80s because everything was made out of flammable shit like polyester, and every adult in your life was smoking. Yes, and your clothes were meant and your house was made of like brick, so the chances of it burning all the way down it got slim, but all that plastic and shit, yeah, you're and your bed was made of flammableness. Everything was flammable.
Speaker 2:Your pajamas were flammable. I think it was until my kids were little that they were like oh these pajamas won't catch on fire.
Speaker 2:Oh thanks, good job. The phrase stop, drop and roll became popular during the 1970s and the 1980s as part of fire safety education for Generation X. It was taught to children to help them respond appropriately in case of a fire emergency, encouraging them to stop, drop to the ground and roll to extinguish the flames. This phrase became a cultural reference point for that generation, symbolizing the importance of fire safety awareness. So, like I said, while that was just a short blurb and it was a fear as a kid because by doing that you were sure you were going to catch on fire at some point you were definitely going to need to know how to do this, definitely had to know how to stop drop and roll, and it was very important.
Speaker 2:But it is good, like you see people on TV like they'll catch on fire and they're running and their arms are flailing and you're like stop, drop and roll yeah.
Speaker 1:I know they have fire safety now, well, here's the other thing that I sleep through fire alarms I always have. We had one when I was growing up. A pipe broke in the house and it set the fire alarm off and it was literally two inches away from my bedroom and I did not hear it. I sleep the sleep of the dead In our apartment. Now, literally everything sets the fire alarm off and I have slept through it and we live in one room, so that is one of my. I will burn to death because I will not wake up. Yeah, then I know they do still have fire safety because they have, like the fire. Oh, yeah, the fire engine comes in the dog.
Speaker 2:Isn't there some dog?
Speaker 1:in a costume maybe, oh yeah, the dalmatian, but I don't know does it have a name? I don't know I'm sure it has a name, of course, probably spot or I don't know fire engine flamer I don't, I don't, I just I think it was a good thing they taught us. Oh, 100, that was yeah but it didn't instill fear in us so pretty much the 80s was just about scaring the shit out of us.
Speaker 2:Exactly Again. We say crawl under your desk in case a nuclear bomb falls, right because that's helpful, then you can stop drop and roll when you're on fire From the nuclear bomb, from the nuclear fallout.
Speaker 1:Stop drop and roll when your skin fluffs off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because it's not fire it's radiation.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's how you get radiation off of you too yeah, oh yeah, you might be onto something well, because if you stop drop and roll and you're being radiated, I imagine you're just gonna roll that top layer of skin right off of you. There you go, it's like shedding your skin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, looks like a snake. All right, so the next one is swallowing gum, and I remember truly believing. It stayed in my stomach for seven years.
Speaker 1:I did too.
Speaker 2:I never really swallowed gum, yeah, and we had no reason to believe otherwise because our parents told us so do you know what my mom and dad told my sister?
Speaker 1:oh, god. I know she believed it so when my, my aunt was pregnant with vinnie maybe no, it was nick, because she had she had to be smarter than that at 10, but five okay so so she was present pregnant and I have a feeling this is something she still might believe today, so that my aunt ate a watermelon seed?
Speaker 2:yes, and that's why her belly was so big I accidentally swallowed like an orange seed once and I was so scared like and I could picture the plant growing up out of my stomach up through my throat did you ever hear about that guy that had like a pine tree growing in his lungs?
Speaker 1:That's insane.
Speaker 2:I was jealous of that. That would be cool. That would be cool. So afraid of letting gum sit in their stomachs. For decades, many Gen X kids refused to swallow gum and grew terrified over the myth of eating their candy. But today, research debunks that myth as one of the things that terrified Gen X kids. That turned out to be no big deal. Swallowing gum isn't truly that big of a danger for kids or adults, according to gastroenterologist Dr Elizabeth Rijan, as long as it's nota constant and regular occurrence.
Speaker 1:So we're talking about the obsessive people Don't swallow a lot of gum.
Speaker 2:So while large amounts of swallowed gum can cause digestive issues in young kids, there's no reason to seek out a trash can in certain situations or crash out over having to swallow a single piece. Chewing gum will not stay in your intestines for seven years. It will not. While gum is not metabolized, broken down or absorbed, like most food, it doesn't sit in your colon for the better part of a decade. Intuitively, the idea is believable. Gum is sticky and hard to scrape off the bottom of school desks, so the idea that it could become lodged into some corner of your digestive tract is not entirely implausible. However, it is worth remembering that we actually eat a lot of things that we cannot digest. However, some things simply can't be broken down because neither we nor the bacteria in our colon have the enzymes to metabolize it. Fiber is a prime example. Insoluble dietary fiber passes undigested through the digestive tract and draws water into the bowels through osmosis. You're getting a little science lesson, I see that.
Speaker 2:This softens the stool and can ease constipation. Other foods like nuts, seeds, beans and corn also go undigested and simply pass through you within a matter of hours. The average transit time through your gastrointestinal tract is probably a little over 24 hours, and it did have tips in there. If you'd really like to know how fast your tract is, eat some corn and then pay attention.
Speaker 1:I don't care that much, but I already know my gastrointestinal tract has massive problems. You're not worried about a little corn. It's not working very well at all. My if I ate gum it might sit in there for seven years, just because or maybe it'll patch a hole up somewhere it might, we should ask my doctor what if I eat a lot of gum?
Speaker 2:you should definitely ask your doctor if I eat a lot of gum and swallow it.
Speaker 1:Will that patch up some holes in there? I don't think it will. All right well, and you know what else. Here's the thing, though. It doesn't stick to your mouth, so why in the hell would it stick to your intestines?
Speaker 2:it's an excellent point yeah, yeah, it's even slimier down there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, all right gotcha, what's that problem solved? Yeah, there we go. Hey, just don't swallow gum. How about yeah?
Speaker 2:like why, yeah, you keep the paper and you spit in the paper when you're done with it. I mean you're not. You all are not in school anymore you're not running around outside and you ran out of gum and nobody's stopping you from chewing gum, where you gotta hide it and then swallow it suddenly.
Speaker 1:That's not a thing, guys.
Speaker 2:You're all right, you're adults yep, yep, you can spit your gum out, but if you do swallow it, it'll just come out in 24 hours so you're good time it see what happens. All right, so I just have two more um of these um, and this one really hit home to me because I all right, so it's Showering Door in a Thunderstorm. Oh, I can't wait for this one.
Speaker 1:My mother.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's what I want to say. Like I grew up out in the country I mean, when it was summertime we didn't have air conditioning you left the windows open. You came home and your whole house was covered in green fertilizer because the crop duster had come to do all the fields around you Right. And so you had to clean all the toxic fertilizer out of the house. So I'm talking country and we had the-.
Speaker 2:We had mosquito that would come and spray for mosquitoes with the crop duster, yep, and then we had the really tall antenna, like the one that went way up there, and the little rotary thing, so you'd have to turn it.
Speaker 2:read real quick. While it's possible to be struck by lightning, both walking around outside or standing in the shower, the odds of it truly happening are close to nothing, according to the National Weather Service. Despite most children being afraid of thunder during a storm, many Gen X kids were taught to fear lightning with parents who were concerned about it traveling through the pipes while taking a shower or a bath. So, yes, the risk is there. As with many of the other things that terrified Gen X's kids, that turned out to be no big deal, but the true reality of having to come face to face with these fears is nothing to spend all day worrying about.
Speaker 1:So bye, my mom. You can't talk on the phone in a thunderstorm, I might remember still you still? Oh, if you call her, she will. First of all, she don't like talking on the phone anymore at all, but she will text you and be like it is lightning, like okay, it's not hooked to anything anymore.
Speaker 2:Mom I mean, my husband does freak out and charge his phone every time a cloud pops up. He's like, just in case, I'm like all right, we've lived here three years and never lost power. But do you boo?
Speaker 1:so my mother made then in turn made my sister deathly afraid of thunderstorms. Still to this day. She, she tries really hard to not make her kids right, but she, my sister, moved out of the house when she was 23 or 24 years old. Up until that point she still got in bed with my mom and dad when it thunderstormed.
Speaker 2:Wow, she is that afraid like that's so sad because thunderstorms are so awesome I love them.
Speaker 1:My dad and I would sit out when my mom would freak the fuck out get, get in here, get in this house. Why are you out there? The lightning's getting close, oh my gosh, especially because we lived on on the bay and they would spend the summers.
Speaker 1:And he had a boat. My grandfather had a boat. He loved this boat like this boat was the pride and joy of his life. So he would take us out fishing on the boat, flounder fishing. We went crabbing. I love flounder fishing Me too. So one time we were out and one of those storms that just kick up out of nowhere rolls up and it starts raining and lightning and we're out in the middle of the bay. Really a bad situation. It is a bad situation.
Speaker 2:I've been in that situation where I'm watching the storm as the whoever's driving.
Speaker 1:I'm like it came up and we couldn't outrun it. Yeah, so it was raining so hard my poor grandfather couldn't see. I bet he was terrified, his, because his glad handed out having you guys. Yeah, take his glasses off and she was freaking out like she just kept yelling mickey, mickey, get us. And you know he's doing everything he can, but she's screaming at him. So this traumatized my sister.
Speaker 1:He ended up running that boat up onto the to the shore the bay shore, and the people that lived in that trailer part, too, were waiting for us when they got, because they knew, knew we were out. He ran and I will never forget, like her screaming for one but that didn't affect me because she yelled at him all the time, but him running his boat up on the sand was like, oh my God, like. When he did that, I thought oh my.
Speaker 2:God, as soon as you said it, I cringed. I was like oh God.
Speaker 1:We were really in trouble, so bad for the book. The second one we used to take we had a pontoon boat and we would take the pontoon boat over to my aunt and uncle over by assateague and we would take the grill and then we would pick them up and we would go out into the bay.
Speaker 1:One time we were going and one of those storms came up I don't know where, and we had to run up on the beach under the bridge in ocean city. Oh gosh, yes, and my mom was freaking out and lightning is crashing all over everywhere and my dad ran it up. And then we had to run up and get under um the road, right where the sinkhole was, as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1:No wonder you're not scared of death so, but then as we're sitting up underneath the the high, we're under route 90 bridge like it's a pretty big hot. Not, it's not big highway, but it's yes, it's the ocean city expressway yes we're up under it. The boat starts floating away because he didn't run it up far enough, so he goes running at my mom.
Speaker 2:He's running out and lightning is great and my mom was freaking the fuck out.
Speaker 1:Then the storm blows over because they only last like five minutes. Yeah, we get over to my aunt and uncles. We picked them up. My uncle was Mr Weatherman, my uncle and I shared a birthday and we were pretty much the same people. Yes, that is true. Yeah, 100% yes, picked them up, took them out on another one of those storms. I don't know how he didn't know these storms were going to kick up, but I remember my dad driving that boat down that lagoon at like as fast as that motherfucker would go, and the grill was like tipping over, oh God.
Speaker 1:So that is why my sister yeah, that's fair and she tries so hard. But now if I see one coming, because I love to look at the radar and stuff I'll text her and be like, do you see what's coming? And she'll be like, God damn it, yeah, she is.
Speaker 2:It's a shame. I'm glad I'm not scared of them because I really enjoy them. I don't want to be out in them, but I'm not scared of them, because I really enjoy them. I don't want to be out in them, no, but the house that I live in. Now I have hangovers Like my front porch is covered, my back patio is covered, my pool area is covered, so I can actually go out and sit and be safe Right and not get wet.
Speaker 1:Although my mom always said that lightning was going to come in through the windows, did you ever hear that, like balls of lightning, just come rolling through your house?
Speaker 2:I think it's possible, but I don't know that. I heard that, but I did always Like reading this and them saying that they were afraid the lightning would come through the pipes. I never knew that. No one ever told me why lightning. I was like is it going to come through this roof?
Speaker 2:and get me, because we didn't have a window in the bathroom. So I was just like, how's it going to get me? I was smart enough to know what was going to happen. Pretty sure that's not going to happen, but yeah, I don't remember balls of lightning coming into the house.
Speaker 1:I remember people being concerned about balls of lightning and it could just be my mom because she was scared. You know, everything was like a big deal. Plus we get those weird, like crazy ass thunderstorms.
Speaker 2:We do, yeah, they're awesome that are like. They're awesome, I love them, wicked, and we're coming up on that time of year, all right. So my last one, real quick, is about cracking your knuckles too often.
Speaker 1:I crack my knuckles constantly.
Speaker 2:You do and I never, ever did. Just because I don't like bones cracking at all, like I can't go to a chiropractor because it grosses me out, people crack their necks in public, I'm like, but anyway, but it's a myth. So one of the things that terrified Gen X's kids that turned out to be no big deal was the fear that they develop an illness or hurt their fingers by cracking their knuckles. And although I didn't crack my knuckles, I was still scared of it and that's probably a lot of why I didn't do it.
Speaker 2:However, according to experts like rheumatologist Dr Eric Ruderman, there's no association between risks of arthritis or any other long-term health benefits for cracking your knuckles, and while parents might have condemned their kids for cracking their knuckles and making unnecessary distractions, dr Ruderman suggests it's a harmless habit that can even spark some endorphins in people of all ages and reduce tension and pain. I think that's why I did it. It was, yeah, my anxiety thing was I chewed on my cuticles. I didn't chew my nails, but I chew my cuticles, and my mom would smack me in the mouth every time, which didn't help with my anxiety.
Speaker 1:You know my cuticle weird I chew on the inside of my mouth I have always been a nail biter, but look how long they are right now yeah I.
Speaker 2:You have gotten much better as you've grown older with your nails.
Speaker 1:I remember when you had no, no, they were not like bled all the time. Yeah, they were bleeding. I remember that I have gotten better about that. I don't chew them as much. I never really really chewed them. I picked them off.
Speaker 2:I'm better with my cuticles, as long as they don't get real dry, like if I get a good one there, I'm going to make that bitch bleed. Yeah, I can't, I'll pull them off, I just can't.
Speaker 1:Scabs. I got to pick a scab.
Speaker 2:No, I don't do that.
Speaker 1:Cracking my knuckles and, um, actually the muscle relaxer does make me feel a lot better, but I, uh, the last two days at work have been I, I think it's a pulled, it's not a pulled muscle. I don't really know what I did. I think it happened when I was trying to clean my refrigerator out.
Speaker 1:Being gen x, yeah it was we all I twisted the wrong way and breathe too hard. Yeah, so yesterday I did it on sunday yesterday was monday, oh, I was at work and it was like I was fine if I was standing still. But every time I try to move before I just moved the wrong way, it sent shooting pain every all over, and yesterday it took my breath away quite a few times. And the problem is is you have to bend over so much and pick stuff?
Speaker 1:up and then today was today. Well, today was even worse than yesterday. I had to take a couple breaks.
Speaker 2:I can't even imagine how bad it hurts your feelings when you drop something funny, that you say that because this morning I did drop my keys, like because we have these special keys that open up um cluster boxes so I we get them.
Speaker 1:Um, they hand them out in the morning. You have to sign for them. And, uh, I signed for mine and I turned around and they flung out of my hand somehow and onto the floor and I did and the line is really long, so you can't like lollygag. Yeah, you can't be a lollygag in there, and so I would just like, and I ended up kicking them like halfway across the room get into an area where you can take your time.
Speaker 1:I can't, I can't pick these fuckers up right now and my one of my supervisors would walk by every couple like 15 minutes or so, and she'd be like, back still hurt. I'm like, don't talk to me. I'm trying, I can't breathe, so I'm hoping that it will work itself out. I don't because, you know, in school, when you had those desks, I think we should have been able.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I say I didn't crack anything, but I did do those desks with the thing it was the perfect table that was attached and you could get and it would hit just exactly the right spot, although I will say that's probably about the spot that's always hurt me my whole life.
Speaker 2:So I don't think it was. I mean, I don't know, but I would.
Speaker 1:I might even pay money to get one of those desks again, just for real I don't go to a chiropractor because I say they're witch doctors same. That's freaky I don't like no, thanks I agree, I don't like to be touched, I don't get massages, I don't want nobody. No, I don't even want people I know touching me.
Speaker 2:That's why I don't touch you. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:Then you have cooties. I do have cooties, not currently, yeah, so I am big on cracking knuckles, toes like the fallout. I just crack my toes, I did always crack my big toes.
Speaker 2:That was an anxiety thing but I've outgrown that. But I do still crack the cartilage in my ears. I'll just like push on them like this and I don't even realize it I never knew you could do that. You probably can't normally, but I've been doing it my whole life.
Speaker 1:I don't think I can I crunch when I push on them. I know that sometimes my shoulder will pop. But aren't all these things just us getting old? Some of?
Speaker 2:them. Yeah, my ears have always cracked.
Speaker 1:I can wiggle my ears. I can't. I can wiggle my ears. I can touch my tongue to my nose. I can't.
Speaker 2:I can turn my tongue upside down, I can do that? Can you curl your tongue?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:My mom turn my tongue upside down. I can do that. Can you curl your tongue? No, my mom can't either. I can't cross my eyes. Nope, I just said it. I can't do anything weird with my eyebrows, so my sister and I both can wiggle our ears.
Speaker 1:My mom can't, my dad can't, so I don't know, maybe we don't belong to either one of them.
Speaker 2:That wouldn't surprise me um she can.
Speaker 1:She can do hers independently wow mine, both wiggle at the same time impressive. Yeah, she's good she's good.
Speaker 2:She's good at wiggling her ears.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think of what else?
Speaker 2:what other fear? Yeah, so I'm trying. There was one that I actually wanted to put in here and I didn't, and now I kind of wish I did, so I'm just going to bring it up, with no knowledge, really, of what I'm talking about, but, um, it was our fear of barracudas and piranhas okay, uh-huh, I do have my dad made me figure out, because we, why doesn't that? Surprise me we had.
Speaker 1:My uncle had a condo in Florida and it was a private beach because he was fancy, much fancier than he.
Speaker 2:Anyway, he couldn't afford it, so we would go down. He just wanted to be fancy. Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1:He had this place and so we would go down a couple times a year and it had a private beach, and so we would go down a couple times a year and it had a private beach and so we would go snorkeling all the time. My sister again got chased by Barracuda all the time. I don't know why they picked her, but she did scream and come running out for Barracuda all the time. So in our family Barracuda is is an actual real. I don't think they've tried to bite her or anything I think they're just doing barracuda.
Speaker 1:Well, what?
Speaker 2:I read, was, um, that well, yes, it could happen, and there was a movie that came out in 1978 called, uh, piranha, which didn't help anything, and I do remember that movie. Um, but piranha typically, um, they're in very specific areas in, like south america and they tend to attack, like, uh, animals. And I mean, when are humans really? Even, it said, even fishermen who fish waters that have piranha don't care about piranha we had we had piranha for a little bit.
Speaker 1:I knew I had knew somebody that had a pet. Piranha we had. We had piranha for a little bit.
Speaker 2:I knew I had knew somebody that had a pet, piranha we had.
Speaker 1:My husband does aquarium maintenance and we always end up with the like.
Speaker 2:Somebody wants them like oh, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, wait, yeah, so we had they don't, you can stick your hand in there. I mean, if they're hungry, they'll bite you, but any of the freaking clownfish we have right now will bite your finger I had a very um, aggressive cichlid, yes, when I was married to my ex and that thing I mean, it would.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised it didn't knock itself out hitting the glass, trying to attack you yeah like it was really mean. But um, and then barracudas are only eat like small fish, like there's no way they would tackle a human. They are, and that's where a lot of the folklore comes from, with them.
Speaker 1:I think so. I think that because they just got a mouthful of teeth, they look like a deep water fish and they're very fast and yeah, we, we would go. You know, to be honest, I don't really remember seeing too many other kinds of fish besides the barracuda.
Speaker 2:But I don't. I felt like you would have barracuda and piranha stories because you grew up near the water and your dad's a dick a lot of the time. So, I figured you would have some sort of Gen X fear.
Speaker 1:He made us go when we would go to the Keys a lot too. We spent a lot of time in Florida. I don't you did, yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Um, nothing else to do, thank you my dad really like, really like snorkeling, um yeah, and he would make us go and I remember I didn't. I'm not. I'm not a big fan of the ocean. To begin with, even as a a little kid, I mean, I went in, but once I started to not be forced to the beach on my own, I stopped going. I don't really go. Well, you don't like the sun? I don't like the sun, I don't like sand, I don't like the ocean. It has to be like stupid warm.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I'll go in at the end of September and that is it.
Speaker 2:It's got to be warm Bathtub, but then you only go in like two feet because there's sharks, because there's sharks.
Speaker 1:I know what's in there and I'm not trying to get bit by no damn shark, and I know that they're not trying to eat me.
Speaker 2:But but if you bump into them they might be like bitch.
Speaker 1:Times are tough for sharks too. You know they need you freaking hammerhead in the bay that they had? They saw they come and lay their little babies in there and great whites are getting real close to this area you should get the um. Have you ever seen the o search?
Speaker 2:I think so. Is that the one around ocean city?
Speaker 1:no, it's, they tag them all over everywhere. Oh, it's called o search and they tag sharks specifically, but they tag, oh, turtles too, sea turtles. Um, my uncle that lived over by astig um, they were out fishing one day and something really big went under their boat and uh, they were telling me about it and I was like, oh you know, and there was one of the real big great whites in the area and it had gone, it had gone.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I would shit my yeah it had gone under their boat yeah, they, they, they not just around here. They get way too close to the shore.
Speaker 1:Now they do well, they're running out of food we're eating all their food, so that you know we deserve to get bit by sharks because we do stop eating their goddamn food, yeah, or stay out of the ocean. Exactly, you're not gonna get bit by a shark on land. They don't come up that way, they don't.
Speaker 2:Usually, although have you ever seen them? The other guys?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:With Will Ferrell and Marky Mark. No, that's one of the things. Marky Mark keeps bullying Will Ferrell, their cops, and Will Ferrell turns it on him and he was like what? Your tiger is going to come get my shark. My shark will evolve and learn. You know, we might not be able to stay on land for long maybe you know 10, 20, 30 minutes but we'll get there and we'll create a chain and we'll come and we'll kill your family. So I guess in Will Ferrell's mind it's possible.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think if I've ever seen a shark In real life In real life, Like in the wild Right right. I have seen sand sharks. We've caught sand sharks.
Speaker 2:I've caught sharks, but just like the little two, three foot ones.
Speaker 1:I've never seen anything big.
Speaker 2:And even those scare me. They're pretty mean, mean looking. They are mean, that's, that's all them.
Speaker 1:Teeth, yeah, and their eyes are kind of weird because they're the only ones with um. They have very hollow eyes and they they're the only fish that have a. They can close their eyelids or have eyelids or something. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, I love great white.
Speaker 2:I love a great white is like my favorite shark shark week is my favorite week of the whole year I love the great whites.
Speaker 1:They call them the men and um, in california surfers, they call them the men in the gray suits. So when they are out surfing they'll say the men in the gray suits are out and they'll all leave. That's like a. That's kind of neat. So if you're in california swimming and a bunch of surfers are talking about men in gray suits, get out of the water, get out immediately yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, yep, I hope I didn't trigger anyone back into any old fears you had forgotten about, but I think I diluted them all for you so you don't have to worry anymore I don't gotta worry about any of them.
Speaker 1:Plus, I mean really how many of us are going to any of these places and exactly we can't fucking afford anything anymore exactly oh, so I said already that you should um to our socials like share rate review.
Speaker 1:Find us where you listen to podcasts YouTube. I haven't put anything new up on YouTube. I don't think we're on the Tickety Talk Forever long that's going to be around. Is that going away again? I don't know, I don't pay attention. You know what, if I get this new phone, I don't know if I can get TikTok on it, because I don't think you can have TikTok anymore. If you already had it, you can keep it, but I think when you get a new phone, you can't get it anymore.
Speaker 2:That's crazy, I know.
Speaker 1:I'll have to figure that out. I'm just going to die without TikTok. Anyway, that's my fear. No TikTok. Whatever will I do, and you can send us an email to likewhateverpod at gmailcom. Or don't Like whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2:Bye, bye.
