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Do you celebrate Shark Week?

I don't, only because of how ridiculous it's become.

It keeps positioning like these like ultimate shark predators, like the Megalodon and like, you know, all these kind of like half fictional shark beasts that are chasing us around.

And every shark scientist ever talked to is like, that's not how it goes. Sharks aren't that bad.

Yeah, that's what I hear too. And I hear people that, you know, go and swim with the sharks.

You know, I remember one time we were in Tahiti and there was like this place where you could literally swim out and there

were a whole bunch of reef sharks and it was not scary at all. Yeah. Those aren't the scary ones,

but I went scuba diving and there are sharks there. You know, we live here in San Francisco. There's

sharks that come in and swim around Alcatraz and they don't do anything to anyone. No. So I wanted to get to the bottom of sort of where we are in terms of the relationship

between humans and sharks, because of course the media often portray the sharks as just

feasting on humans. And so I came across a book by a documentary filmmaker named William McKeever.

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