half-fish, half-human, all weird. I'm Jason Horton, I'm Rebecca Leib.

And this is Ghost Town. So we did an episode on island of Dr. Moreau, I've been thinking a lot about Tiger King,

as you might, although by the time this airs, I think it might be long watched and back in our Netflix shared history. But it reminded me of I was kind of obsessed with

Barnum and Bailey growing up. Baraboo Wisconsin is where a lot of circus happened. So that was really on my radar at that point.

I think I've seen Ringling Brothers in New York City. I believe that Madison Square Garden.

Wow, yeah.

And Circuses, like they're just not, like we all hate them now, which we should, we should, they're

bad, they're abusive, whatever, but I think as a kid growing up and at a certain time you know maybe like

20 years ago it was still like such a fun exciting thing and before that the

sideshow world of circus we've changed your minds on that because the greatest showman was very charming.

And it just showed Hugh Jackman being a real cool guy accepting of everyone and not explaining

anybody.

Oh, interesting.

As someone who didn't see the greatest showman I agree disagree agree

Zach Ephron is very charming and I don't know yeah how are his abs

You don't really see them but you know you You know that they're there. They're there

under whatever his costume is. I don't know whatever like turn-of-the-century

bullshit it is. All right. For today's fail, I'm so delighted to discuss the Fiji Mermaid, which is a staple of

sideshow circuitry in the mid-18 hundreds. What was it?

Where it came from?

It's so bizarre and it's so indicative of people

being like, I need entertainment.

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