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🗓️ 25 August 2021
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Promoted as "the real live fun pets you grow yourself" Sea-Monkeys took the world by storm in the 1960s. Essentially brine shrimp delivered by mail after being advertised in comic books, it was marketing genius. Generation after generation were captivated by the idea of the little creatures but then in the late 1980s creator Harold von Braunhut's extremely controversial views came to light. Throw in X-Ray specs and a lawsuit over the Sea-Monkey fortune and you've got a wild story.
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642405/sea-monkeys-history
https://www.theawl.com/2011/06/the-shocking-true-tale-of-the-mad-genius-who-invented-sea-monkeys/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-battle-over-the-sea-monkey-fortune.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-01-tm-29473-story.html
https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-fortune-from-sea-monkeys-and-x-ray-spex-20040102-gdi32l.html
https://www.flatirondistrict.nyc/discover-flatiron/flatiron-history/21/henri-lamothe
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/nyregion/thecity/19fyi.html
https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Harold_von_Braunhut
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/hitler-and-sea-monkeys
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/09/the-legal-battle-over-those-no.html
https://seamonkeys.fandom.com/wiki/Harold_von_Braunhut
https://www.sea-monkeys.com.au/pages/history
https://www.sea-monkeys.com/sea-monkey-set-up-instructions/sea-monkeys-handbook/
https://www.sea-monkeys.com/what-is-a-sea-monkey/
https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-fortune-from-sea-monkeys-and-x-ray-spex-20040102-gdi32l.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/national-sea-monkey-day-explain-means-article-1.3167943
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0:00.0 | ["Linux Rising"] |
0:09.6 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On, |
0:13.0 | my name is Dave Wannakey and I always am here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. |
0:18.5 | Hello everybody, my name is Dave. |
0:21.7 | That's how I should have started it. |
0:23.8 | Go again. |
0:24.8 | I've been saying that literally for years and you've never started it the way I've suggested it. |
0:30.8 | Well, let me start it again. |
0:32.4 | Hello, everybody. My name is Dave. I'm here with Jess and Matt and my best friend Ray. Hello, Ray. |
0:39.1 | That's you, Matt. Hello. |
0:43.5 | Hello. |
0:44.7 | Great to be here with Jess, Matt and Ray. Can I ask not Ray, not Matt, but Jess, how the hell does this show work? |
0:50.3 | Oh, that is bullshit and unfair. Just because before we started recording, Matt reminded you that he |
0:56.1 | had to explain it last week. And so now you're like, oh, keep a fair. |
1:01.5 | Look, I'll tell you how this works only because I'm a professional. |
1:06.1 | What we do here at DoGo on headquarters is we take it in turns going away. We fuck right off. |
1:12.8 | We go to our own homes. We research a topic usually suggested by a listener. |
1:17.2 | We bring that research back to the other two who politely listen, slash interrupt, slash rift, |
1:23.5 | slash make some jokes. And throughout the process, we live, we laugh, we learn. |
1:29.4 | And we usually get on the topic with a question. |
1:32.4 | Absolutely beautiful words there, Jess. Thank you. And my question for both of you is, |
1:37.5 | what product was marketed with the tagline? |
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