Really quickly before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to say that this episode was filmed before a sea

conspiracy came out, which is a documentary, um, talking about our world's oceans and just different things.

And we do mention some things about whales and stuff like that in this episode that I probably would have gone a

little bit like deeper into now that I've seen like sea conspiracy. Um, but I just wanted to like let that be known

because it was like such a huge documentary that came out talking about um, our oceans and stuff like that.

But, uh, yeah, just wanted to make that known and, uh, let's jump into today's episode.

Yes, let's.

Hey, Alyssa. Hey, man.

Are you prepared? Um, I was prepared like two weeks ago when I researched this.

Yeah. But I do have notes. So I would say I'm prepared. Okay, so you're, um, physically prepared,

emotionally, mentally not. Yeah, it's just like I could have told you this story like without a hitch

like a couple weeks ago, but now I feel like I don't know.

Have it really like my dissertation, you know, depending it.

I think it's going to go great. Thank you. I have all the confidence in the world.

Oh, okay. So for today's episode, uh, you guys had requested we do a part two to the

weird science episode, which I found just like weird facts and researched them and then told you

about them. Um, specifically the eyelash face mites was, yeah, you know, that was pretty horrific.

Anyway, so I decided to go on a quest to find more scientific facts. However, as is with me in

research, I go in thinking one thing, I come out another. Okay, I mean, that's what learning's

all about. Yeah, so this is kind of, I'm ready to see it. So this is kind of, it started out as

weird science facts. Okay, I'll say that. But then I'm going to tell you a story. Okay. Okay,

that I find very interesting. Like this is the thing about history. Is I feel like had,

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