The Cage

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This is episode two of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Jaws spawned a thousand imitators: sharks in tornados, sharks in avalanches, sharks that battle giant octopuses. Hollywood has officially turned sharks into monsters of every shape and size. And yet, somehow, there will always be more. But drop below the surface, into the cold, quiet blue, and another creature appears. One that has survived mass extinctions, outlasted ancient predators and pre-dates Mount Everest, the existence of trees, even the rings of Saturn. A shark that is somehow even more remarkable than sharks in tornadoes. Today, we go visit that shark. Special thanks to Andrew Fox, the entire team at Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions, John Long whose book The Secret History of Sharks inspired our obsession with sharks, and Greg Skomal, whose wonderful new book on his life studying white sharks is Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Rachael Cusickwith help from - Pat WaltersProduced by - Rachael Cusick and Simon Adlerwith help from - Pat WaltersSound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloomwith mixing help from - Jeremy BloomFact-checking by - Natalie Middletonand Edited by - Pat Walters EPISODE CITATIONS:Videos - Loved learning about all the different kinds of sharks there are? Check out even more Jaida Elcock’s videos on sharks. Book - The Secret History of Sharks by John Long Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark by Greg Skomal Signup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected] support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.7	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.2	This is Radio Lab. I'm Lulu Miller. I'm Loftiff Nassar. And I'm Rachel Cusick. We're here with day two of our week of sharks, inspired by the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws. And today, we're going to jump in the water with them. Well, I am. You too get to just sit in your cozy little offices. Fair. Fair point. Fair point.
0:39.5	But before we get into the water, I think we should actually start with the onslaught of shark movies that were inspired by Jaws.
0:46.8	All right. So there are 180 or so monster shark films. Wait, 180. With our Monster Scholar from episode one.
0:55.2	No way.
0:55.8	There are at least 180.
0:57.6	They're listed on the internet movie database.
1:00.0	Jeffrey Cohen.
1:00.5	I definitely know Shark Nato.
1:02.3	What else is there?
1:04.1	You know Shark Nato, but do you know Shark Nato 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6?
1:09.5	Oh, my God.
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