SYMHC Classics: The Dark Legacy of Sea Monkeys

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dipping back to a 2015 episode. Despite all the fun cartoons on the packaging featuring tiny humanoid sea creatures having wacky fun and wearing clothes, Sea Monkeys are just brine shrimp. But the story of Sea Monkeys and their inventor is actually pretty surprising -- and quite dark.

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0:30.7	Happy Saturday, everybody!
0:34.5	Today is May 16th, which is National Seamunkey Day.
0:38.7	The origins of that observance are unclear,
0:41.6	which is something that we talk about in today's classic episode
0:44.5	on the dark history of Seamunkeys.
0:47.1	This episode, which I will confess is a favorite of mine,
0:50.3	covers how Brian Shrimp came to be packaged and marketed
0:53.7	as a novelty product and the discovery
0:56.4	that the creator of that product had ties
0:58.6	to several white supremacist organizations.
1:01.0	And this originally came out on January 14th of 2015.
1:08.6	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class,
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