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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormick.

And today we're going to be diving into the ocean to take a look at slime, froth, ooze, and mucus of various kinds.

And I thought maybe a good way to get in the mood for this kind of discussion would be to do a couple of literary readings perhaps.

Rob, if you're game, when I was thinking about this topic, something immediately came to mind.

I remember there was some passage from Walt Whitman in which he identified very strongly and emotionally with becoming a bit of ooze, froth, and debris, washing in the surf.

Do you mind if I read a bit of Walt Whitman here?

Yeah, go for it.

Okay, so this is from his poem that I think the title is just taken from the first line, but it's called, as I ebbed with the ocean of life.

The whole poem is too long to read, but I'm just going to read from the fourth section here where he really talks about becoming the ooze.

Eb, ocean of life, the flow will return.

Seize not your moaning, you fear-sold mother, endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not.

Deny not me. Russell not up so horse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.

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