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My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with our Crab Bag, 2014. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with our crab bag 2026 series.

This is a kind of chef salad of all things crab.

Now, we were just out for a week in between when we recorded the last couple of crab episodes and this one.

So, Rob, did you, did anything crabby happen to you in the past week?

Well, let's see. Put me on the spot here. I spent my time in Arizona, so I didn't really see any actual crabs, but I did go to the musical instrument museum in Phoenix, and I did see some musical

instruments that were shaped like crabs, which makes sense for a number of reasons.

The big one that we're going to keep coming back to in this series is just that crabs are fascinating,

just their basic body shape, their movements.

We can't get enough of them, and we want to reproduce their bodies in our art and in our tools.

This is interesting.

I didn't know this would connect to a major theme of today's episode, which is, yeah,

crab-inspired technology.

So in the previous two episodes of this series, we talked about first of the 16th century

legend of the miracle crab associated with the Catholic missionary figure, St. Francis Xavier.

This was a crab said to have carried a lost crucifix out of the ocean, aloft in its claws, and back to its original owner, the St. Francis Xavier I just mentioned. We talked a bit

about the loose connection between that story and a real species known as the crucifix crab,

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