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it's wednesday july 6th 20 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, we take a deep dive into the freshwater lake origins of Big Mouth Billy Bass, the singing fish, and his riptide success in the early 2000s.

And in other peak scientific innovation news, the large Hadron

Collider has been booted up once more and already discovered three new exotic particles.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Remember the late 90s when every other household suddenly had one of those singing bird clocks?

Not cuckoo clocks, ordinary-looking wall clocks that at the stroke of 12 every hour would play

the call of a different bird.

Kitchy, a little annoying, slightly off-putting. I remember being at people's

houses and thinking there was an actual bird in the house before realizing they had the clock.

It was technology that wasn't impressive, but was painted as being innovated simply because

no one had thought to use technology to do that before.

But a few years later, one man saw the hourly bird songs invading people's walls and said,

Hold My Beer.

Joe Pellitieri came up with the idea for Big Mouth Billy Bass in 1998.

He wasn't actually inspired by those singing bird clocks, but I was shocked

to discover that he actually had the idea for his singing fish in my hometown. And not just in my

hometown, but outside of a store that I frequented way more than I cared to admit at the time,

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