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My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick. And in today's episode, in the Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I'm Joe McCormick.

And in today's episode, in the episode to follow, we're going to be getting into the topic of golden fishes.

Specifically, varieties of carp that have been historically selectively bred to produce brightly colored fish, golden fish, even.

But colors that are not limited just to gold, yellows, oranges, and so forth, as well as some less bright colors as well.

But basically this process by which humans have turned wild fish into almost swimming jewels

to delight the eye and perhaps inspire the imagination. However, I do have to stress that for a lot of

us, we might not find the goldfish all that awe-inspiring.

I don't know about you, Joe, but I certainly was exposed to the goldfish pretty early on, like a lot of kids.

I've seen goldfish my whole life.

I had a goldfish at some point.

I've seen them carried around doomed to a lonesome death in tiny plastic bags by children who perhaps won them at a fair or just bought them at a

store without a lot of forethought. So I don't know. I feel like I have mixed feelings about the goldfish and and maybe less respect for their beauty because of these experiences with them.

For a few years when I was in elementary school, my family had a relatively small freshwater aquarium that I really liked.

I would just, you know, I would watch it like TV.

I would just sit there and look at it.

We, I don't think we ever had any goldfish that I recall.

We got a variety of fishes from a little, little fish store in town.

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