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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pickled sharks like.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This like a delicacy.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, you don't need it,
you don't need no. They are actual sharks, but it's
not like it's not like pickled like like oh, like
pickled cucumbers. They're awesome, except for that one listener. No, no, no,
that Their nickname is pickled sharks. So here's what it is.
They'll take like a baby shark like about like eight
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nine inches, and they put it in a jar, and
they filled the jar with like like formaldehyde or something
like that. And it's in the jar and they filled
the jar up with is would it be formaldehyde? I
think that's what I read. Yeah, okay, So in the
jar and it's like a like a like an extended
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Mason jar, I don't know whatever however long that is.
And they're these baby sharks and they put them in
the formaldehyde and then they screwed the lid on it
and seal the lid on there, and they sell them
like it at like gift shops.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I got the shore.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I've never I don't. I've never heard of it before.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
But somebody said I was reading this article where somebody
said they were at a thrift shop and they found
a shark in a jar.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
They let it go, Diane let it out.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I got it that they found this shark in a
jar and they were asking is this legit?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And people were like, oh, yeah, oh this is one
hundred percent legit.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
People thought it was fake.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It she thought it was fake.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
They're popular, Yes, people had commented like I have this.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Thousands and thousands of people are like, oh, yeah, you've
never seen Pickles sharks before, which again is just its nickname.
I don't know what you would call it, Christian, Will
you find me somebody who's heard of that or knows
about it, maybe had one, maybe their parents had one
eight six six to Elliott eight six six two three
five five four six eight.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I do know this. They're not illegal.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They may it may seem odd to take like an
itty bitty little shark and put it in this jar.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's dead, well, I mean the from aldehyde probably kills it.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
What like who's supplying the contents of the jar?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Whoever? Whoever gets the shark? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I don't get a deuced I don't under that's not
like it's a one off thing.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Don't if I have a breeding farm for baby sharks.
So this is the search online pickled sharks.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean I did find one. It looks like it's
a retail business where it's got shark in a jar.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, that's it. Shark in a jar. Maybe that's what
it's called.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And how many does it look like are on their shelves?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I mean they're thirty six bucks apiece?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Thirty six bucks apiece.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, it's oh, it's gross to you. True.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, there you go. Look at that shark and a jar.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh they dyed the ic of propyl alcohol blue to
make it look realistic.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Old school barber shop. Oh see the one that I have?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, that almost makes it look like with the blue,
it almost makes it look like it's like marine ish.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, there he goes shark right.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
There in that picture on that shop a shelf. There's
probably a dozen at least. What the hell you never
seen it? Never even heard of it before. I've been
in plenty of gift shops and souvenir places.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The first place I thought of the gay dolphin, the
gay dolphin in Myrtle.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
If they had it, I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It wasn't from a lack of spending time in that
stupid store looking for it.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You put your face in the shark for the photo.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That is true. And then I went outside and smoked.
I was on the board walk with everybody else.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
But we also we went into the place Remember that
had the parrot in Charleston. You don't recall that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That had the parrot? A parrot in the jar?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
No? No, no, no, like it was like a store.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they didn't have one of those.
Or let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
If I go to Ocean City, is there a shop
on the boardwalk, yes, that has a shark in a jar?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
If I go to dewey Rehobeth, You're making it seem
like there is. Why wouldn't there be?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But based on my daughter's retail interests, I went into
all those shops. I don't remember seeing these. They have
rules you can't even bring ice cream in, but.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
They got that's ridiculously get they got jar sharks, the
pickle sharks, shark in a jar?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And why did you say, parents? Did this? Was this
really popular years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm just asking because I've never even heard it or
seen it, so I don't know if it's like But
and they also said they found it in a thrift store.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Thrift to me sounds like old people, so that's why
I that.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Then I went to the Goodwill last holiday season, I.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Know, and look at all the stuff we walked out
with nothing.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Well, we were looking for something specific, So that's Goodwill.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's not a thrift store like I think of like
thrift stoes like oh these even by these genes on
consignment awesome, Well, consignment is different than.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Made that you're confused. They actually have good reviews. The
Shell connection where is that? That is the online but
they're they're based right here.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Everybody's everybody knows them. Everybody knows them.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Their beach side destination, South Texas, Padre Corpus, Los Fresno's.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know where that is. Fresno is California. Yep, Hi,
yell Fresno Sharks. Hi, yelly in the morning.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It's it's right by South Padre.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah? I got you loud and clear. Do you know what?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Do you know?
Speaker 9 (05:53):
If?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I am pulling one out as we speak from where
my son he's in college, and I bottom one a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
He was like a I don't know. Fourteen, and we
were at the beach. I was looking for some extra
gift for him.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I was in a shop, like a legit shop.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Here it is right now, says Shark. It's kind of
gross and it's in this jar.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm holding it right now.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
See if I can picture. It was literally at the beach,
like in a shop. It was either we were in
Ocean City, Virginia beach or like Jersey.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It was just on the shelf.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
It's kind of him and.
Speaker 10 (06:37):
It was definitely like along the East coast.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Right and it looks like an itty bitty little well,
itty bitty it looks like biz.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But it looked but you could tell it.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yes, you can absolutely tell.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
And it says Shark on it. So I'll see if
I can send you a picture. But it's legit.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
And my son was like, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
And now I haven't and I don't know what to
do with it.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
Anyone wanted.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I don't. I don't want one of those.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But yes, send Diana picture, Send Diana picture, please, Diana
DC one on one dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Thank you, ma'am, thank you. I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Everybody's got them, Yes they do.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Everybody. I've never even heard of them.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And they've gotten them everywhere from the Carolinas to Florida
to Texas. Study how Delaware beaches.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
How have I not heard of it? I'm sure there's
a lot of things that I've never seen that I've
heard of. Black holes.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Hi, Elliott the morning. Look, Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Devin Gavisberg?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you? So?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
When I was a kid, I remember in the city
went to the Ashteague Island Country Store to stock up
long sandwiches and stuff before the beach, and of course,
as a child, I naturally gravitate towards the shark and
the jar, and a cousin of mine bumped into me,
and I dropped and broke the shark in the jar
in the middle of the store. And that thing is
one hundred percent real. It stinks off, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, the stink is going to be like the formaldehyde
or the ice of prop prom chemicals.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, the chemicals. Yeah, what did did you pick the
shark up?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I didn't because of the broken glass. But I do
recall some some back and forth between whether it was
my fault that I dropped it or whether I was bumped.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Into Oh my god, and do you really did you
tell me where where it was?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
The island? That's right?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
There you go, there you go? All right, very good,
very good, Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
See that's interesting because a lot of people have said
they spent most of their ownership of the jar shark
wanting to open it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Oh I get that, I get that, I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But I'm telling you we will go our. I will
go my entire life without touching a shark. Actually that's
not true. I've touched the shark. I've touched a sh
but not one in my living room.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Or went in a jar.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I can hold it just like that.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Apparently TSA does not love them.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Hey Elliott.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
When I had one as a kid, I actually opened
it up.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
I didn't take it out, but I'm stuck my fingers in.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
And like petted to feel it was real.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It sure was real, but it was he was dead, right,
they don't sell him alive. Okay, it was dead.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I had it for It was actually my older brother,
So I snuck into his room.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Where does it open it up? I was obsessed with sharks.
I think he threw that away.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
The boy he went to Korea, so you know, but
I would have kept it, but it's unbroke the feel
and then I feel it backed up. It didn't leak
or nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
All right, very good, very good. I appreciate it, Thank
you sir.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But are they actually sharks?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Or are they?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I can't think of like an example of that.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
There are a lot of fish that look shark.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I think they are.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Do you think their actual shirks?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yes, they're too popular to not be.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Where are we farming them then? Because that now if
if they're everyone had one is sea monkeys? What about
sea monkeys?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
No, they're not real monkey Brian shrimp, Brian shrimp. Right,
So I was just that, like, are these blank? But
we call them sharks?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
As you said, we're not breeding for this. I think
you are. It's a living SeaWorld like.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Where I don't know where you would do it? Where
do where do I have that shell connection? You don't think?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I don't think like the the Baltimore Aquarium is running
trucks up on the outside.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
They probably hate this line. Three Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Hey is this me?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Who's this?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (10:54):
This is Corey from Richmond. Yeah, they used to have
these all the time, like wings down in myrtle beach. Right,
But the reason I was calling, So I had one
and I threw a little atfl football and my brother
right broke it all over my floor and the smell
never went away.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
What did you do with the shark?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I flushed it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
It's pretty big.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
They were very big.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
They were pretty small, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, they they say they're about eight inches.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
You gotta imagine. Yeah, But I mean, if it's been
sing enough maldehad the whole time, it's not much resistance
going down the toilet, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Probably not plus that cartilage beddy. Anyway, all right, very good,
very good, Thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Someone says these are just byproducts of the commercial fishing industry.
So are they inadvertently?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh so it gets caught, Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Know what to do.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Or they catch or they catch a mother that they
don't realize is pregnant.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
How many How many babies does a pregnant shark have?
Like when a when a pregnant shark gives birth? How many?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
How many are in a litter?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Is it called a litter?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
That's what I'm calling it?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Some species have hundreds of pups.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh so I just need one and I could fill
my store.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So what is the process, like, when do you kill
the shark? I don't know what are you butterflying it.
I just opened up the belly and I've got one
hundred um just in.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
But when I'm talking about the pups, Oh, I'm not
the pregnant mother. You've just murdered the Okay, I'm not
doing it. I'm showing you how it's done. I'm a
documentary nothing.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I just I have.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I have one hundred jars of formaldehyde. I don't know
if they're alive or dead. I just put them right
in there.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh my, Oh, you're right, I'm being humane about it.
I'm selling baby sharks that are pickled.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I probably just dip it right in there.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
This summer, we were con that are staying at a
rental that is connected to a souvenir shop, and my
big concern was their hours. But now I'm just wondering
if anyone in that store throws a football and they
have jar sharks, We're gonna smell that for the whole.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Stay the But again, it's not illegal from what I
was reading.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Oh, it can't be there's so many. They are examples.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah everywhere. Hi, yelliot in the morning. Is this a
good gift?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Like if I, like at a kid's party, I guarantee
you people went home like if they had.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
By the way, think about how big baby shark was.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Right if I was, if my kid was having a
baby shark party, I send everybody home with a shark
and a jar Ooh that's rough.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Hi, who's Thistle Cartoon?
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
This is Tony.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Hey Tony, what can I do for you?
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (14:02):
So, I remember going deep fishing in Ocean City and
we weren't catching much, so they kept moving to different locations,
and finally they moved us to this one location where
they knew baby sharks were going.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
To be.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Oddly enough, I well, I caught one, and actually I
caught a few. And one kid on the boat really
wanted a shark, and I didn't really understand why. But
apparently they take them and they pick them for you.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh so if you get one, oh so it's like
it's almost like a farm raised. So I go, I
didn't want one, that's why. Yet red lebs the tank
and picking your own lobster.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Pretty much, I mean I went there and touched fish
so I could go home and eat it. And then
we were going and they took us to this place
where the little sharks were and I felt kind of bad,
but this little kid wanted one. I said he could
have mine since I caught it. But it was quite odd.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, no, it's very bizarre. By the way, like I'm saying,
I had never even I heard of this.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I could take calls for the next ten hours from
people who have their Oh they're everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, there is no shortage, and also free tornado and
a jar, but that's different.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Everybody has them. Oh what is that?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
It's a snake? Snake in a jar?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Line too? Hi, Elliet the morning, Good morning. Hi, who's this?
Speaker 9 (15:32):
This is Ashley.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yes, Ashley, you have a snake in a You got
a pickled snake or a pickled shark?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
No, In fourth grade so this is like thirty years ago,
my tutor got a great white shark and we got
to dissect it as like ten years old, and we
got to keep pieces of it. And I remember that
the shark had pups. Yeah, I kept in the freezer
because I was a weird kid. I kept in the
freezer for like ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
By the way, you've got awesome parents. I would have
immediately lost that. Wait a minute, so you dissected a
sharking class, Yeah, like.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
At ten years old.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Wow, our team is a tawkman. By the way, every
year with the kids.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Did you just see there was a video either yesterday
or the day before of somebody who was down like underwater,
like scuba diving with nerf nerve sharks I think, and
they had their iPhone out and the shark came up
thinking that it was chum and took the iPhone into
its mouth hate it. Well, didn't eat it, but the
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iPhone because the guy was like filming right, so it
made it in past the shark's teeth and then the
shark was like this ain't food.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Spit it out and spit it out.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh he spit on that thing. The it shark to Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It has been a nice couple of days.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
I think if you've watched a shark week, all you
need to do is like pet the shark's nose and
the like falls asleep or something I.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Know exactly, but that's the inside of a shark.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
That is bizarre.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That's the inside of a shark. And now watch when
it comes out like you obviously you can't hear, and
there you go. Now it falls to the sand on
the bottom of the ground.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Isn't that cool?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Did the diver get got his phone back? But they're
right next to these totally?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, because they go down there with chum and they feed.
They went to a place where these sharks know that
humans are coming.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Say, oh my god, they're afraid of close. Jeez.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You know who I BET's done that?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Being serious? You know who I bet, smelly good thrasher.
Oh he's a goody diver. I guarantee you he's touched
a shark.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Like that down there.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So are these sharks known to be a little calmer though.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes, because they they know, like Diane feeding animals in
her yard, that these people go down there and they
feed them.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So that's why the guy thought it was just some chum.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Isn't the feeding of the animals in your back yard
leading to them being more aggressive?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, And that's why that shark ate a phone.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Are They named him Jitterbug.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
By the way, you know what I'm thinking about gifts
for the show this year, it's Shark and Jar, sharking Jar,
sharks for everybody. Let me grab line one. Hi elliot
in the morning.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Hi, this is Haley.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Hi, real quick. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
So I actually collect these. These are called wet specimens,
and I have an entire room devoted to taxi army
wet specimens and bones.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So you are to wet specimens what shoehorn is to Funko.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Pops store exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
What does that room look like like? What what other
wet specimens do you have?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Let's see, I have a baby opossum, I have a through,
I have part of an i guana. I have a
squirrel that I actually did myself from my backyard. It's
a lot of different animals. And then I have more
exotic things like ostriches and cowhalls and.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wait a minute, okay, so back up.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So you caught a squirrel in your backyard and you
put it in a jar of like death juice.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't know from.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Aldehyde, no, so I because I am a collector, I
only go through humane resources. So this is a squirrel
that had died naturally in the wild. I found it
and then I was able to put it into the
liquid and preserve it myself. So everything that I purchased,
I would never buy from one of these gift shops,
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and like myrtle beach. But I make sure it was
not killed for this purpose. It was something that died naturally.
It was sourced humanely, so that squirrel.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just died of old age.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It was a natural car.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
And we know it had a small wound to the
back of its head. So if we think like there
was some sort of blunt force, but it didn't really
have any issues on it, or it could have been
an age thing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And can I ask you this, what like the ostrich
isn't in like a that is it? No?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
So the ostrich itself is taxidermy, so that life because
it's quite a bit larger, it's too large to be
a wet specimen.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
When does your killing spree start?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
You know, I get that all the time, and it's
just I am fascinated by biology. I'm fascinated by animals.
This is the closest I'm ever going to get to
these kinds of animals. And I think that it is
a waste to let these things decay and decompose when
they could otherwise be studied and enjoyed. So if it's dead,
anyway if it lived its natural life, and then I
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think that we should preserve it and we should celebrate it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And then I can I honest question, are you Are
you married? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Are you married?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I have a long term partner.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And when are they fine with it?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Well, the first time that partner walks into the room,
or they like, oh my god, no, so funny enough.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I didn't mention it when we first started dating. And
then I went over to their house the first time,
and they also have what specimens intacted?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Ermay, Oh there's an ask.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
For every scene heaven.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Oh my god, you have a squirrel. I want your
squirrel covers. This is perfect.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Then you had you had no idea that they collected
what specimen?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
And I mean we have been together for months and
I'd never talked about it because I was like, oh,
they're going to think it's really weird.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yes, you know what kiss met, kiss met. That was
meant to be you hold on you hold on to
that partner forever.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Oh this is my person.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Yeah we know that.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
All right, very good, very good? Will you will you
send a picture of that room to Diane. I got
to see what that looks like.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Absolutely, I can do that, all right, very good, very good,
thank you. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I think I'll take the jar shark over the squirrel.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, how about the apossum?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, but that is there something about it being just
the didn't she say the possum was like a fetus
the No, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But the squirrel something squirrel.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The squirrel just did just died in blunt force trauma.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I mean, honestly, it looks like you just put a
squirrel underwater a cup and that's what she did.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Line too.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Hi, Elliott the morning?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (22:46):
Elliot's Todd Thrasher.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Here's Todd Thrasher. How are you, sir?
Speaker 11 (22:51):
I heard my name in passing as I was passed
in Alecxa this morning.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Now the you have no I was talking about you
have fed sharks like as a scuba diver.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
I have not in a long time, not since I
had a child.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But yes, why not since you? Oh, now, when you're
fraid of dangerous, losing an arm.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Or losing a life, yeah, a lot of people do that. Hey,
let me ask you this though. We you know what
we were talking about, Todd, and maybe you've heard of
these things before. I had never heard of it, But
it turns out everybody, or just Elliott the Morning Listeners
pickled sharks or shark.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
In a jar.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh, they're like they're there are these little baby sharks
that are like eight inches long, and people put them
in these jars full of formaldehyde and they sell them
it like every beat shop ever.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Oh I've seen that stuff. I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I didn't know if you like put them in a
liquor and you drank.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It the no no, no, no no, But what is
the We were trying to figure out where would they
where would they get these sharks with to get the babies.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Oh, there's like all types of breeding places you can
get baby sharks. Like you you like, you're like, they're
all over the places you go to. Believe, there's a
place in Belieze called Shark Ray Alley. I'm sure you
can find millions of sharks like baby nurse sharks there,
are you serious?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (24:22):
And then maybe I'm sure they breathed those little sharks
for that kind of stuff too, oh like.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Pigmy sharks like then, well though, somebody did send us
a note that said t s Oh my god, Tyler
just pucked up looked up shark cann Alley, shark ray Alley.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Dude, you were not kidding craziness.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Oh yeah, it's crazy there. I did a night dive
there once when I was like in my early thirties.
It was the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
I was like, what did I just do? They are
like bull sharks, tiger sharks. The dive masters said, oh,
there's only nerve sharks. They are bull sharks, tiger sharks,
there every type of sharks there.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
There are literally thousands and thousands.
Speaker 11 (25:12):
Of sharks there.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That's crazy. Oh yeah, all right, good So like all right,
so now at least I know where to go get this.
I'm going to start my business.
Pickled sharks like.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This like a delicacy.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, you don't need it,
you don't need no. They are actual sharks, but it's
not like it's not like pickled like like oh, like
pickled cucumbers. They're awesome, except for that one listener. No, no, no,
that Their nickname is pickled sharks. So here's what it is.
They'll take like a baby shark like about like eight
(00:26):
nine inches, and they put it in a jar, and
they filled the jar with like like formaldehyde or something
like that. And it's in the jar and they filled
the jar up with is would it be formaldehyde? I
think that's what I read. Yeah, okay, So in the
jar and it's like a like a like an extended
(00:46):
Mason jar, I don't know whatever however long that is.
And they're these baby sharks and they put them in
the formaldehyde and then they screwed the lid on it
and seal the lid on there, and they sell them
like it at like gift shops.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I got the shore.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I've never I don't. I've never heard of it before.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
But somebody said I was reading this article where somebody
said they were at a thrift shop and they found
a shark in a jar.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
They let it go, Diane let it out.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I got it that they found this shark in a
jar and they were asking is this legit?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And people were like, oh, yeah, oh this is one
hundred percent legit.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
People thought it was fake.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It she thought it was fake.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
They're popular, Yes, people had commented like I have this.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Thousands and thousands of people are like, oh, yeah, you've
never seen Pickles sharks before, which again is just its nickname.
I don't know what you would call it, Christian, Will
you find me somebody who's heard of that or knows
about it, maybe had one, maybe their parents had one
eight six six to Elliott eight six six two three
five five four six eight.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I do know this. They're not illegal.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They may it may seem odd to take like an
itty bitty little shark and put it in this jar.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's dead, well, I mean the from aldehyde probably kills it.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
What like who's supplying the contents of the jar?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Whoever? Whoever gets the shark? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I don't get a deuced I don't under that's not
like it's a one off thing.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Don't if I have a breeding farm for baby sharks.
So this is the search online pickled sharks.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean I did find one. It looks like it's
a retail business where it's got shark in a jar.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, that's it. Shark in a jar. Maybe that's what
it's called.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And how many does it look like are on their shelves?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I mean they're thirty six bucks apiece?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Thirty six bucks apiece.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, it's oh, it's gross to you. True.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, there you go. Look at that shark and a jar.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh they dyed the ic of propyl alcohol blue to
make it look realistic.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Old school barber shop. Oh see the one that I have?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, that almost makes it look like with the blue,
it almost makes it look like it's like marine ish.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, there he goes shark right.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
There in that picture on that shop a shelf. There's
probably a dozen at least. What the hell you never
seen it? Never even heard of it before. I've been
in plenty of gift shops and souvenir places.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The first place I thought of the gay dolphin, the
gay dolphin in Myrtle.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
If they had it, I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It wasn't from a lack of spending time in that
stupid store looking for it.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You put your face in the shark for the photo.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That is true. And then I went outside and smoked.
I was on the board walk with everybody else.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
But we also we went into the place Remember that
had the parrot in Charleston. You don't recall that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That had the parrot? A parrot in the jar?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
No? No, no, no, like it was like a store.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they didn't have one of those.
Or let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
If I go to Ocean City, is there a shop
on the boardwalk, yes, that has a shark in a jar?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
If I go to dewey Rehobeth, You're making it seem
like there is. Why wouldn't there be?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But based on my daughter's retail interests, I went into
all those shops. I don't remember seeing these. They have
rules you can't even bring ice cream in, but.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
They got that's ridiculously get they got jar sharks, the
pickle sharks, shark in a jar?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And why did you say, parents? Did this? Was this
really popular years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm just asking because I've never even heard it or
seen it, so I don't know if it's like But
and they also said they found it in a thrift store.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Thrift to me sounds like old people, so that's why
I that.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Then I went to the Goodwill last holiday season, I.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Know, and look at all the stuff we walked out
with nothing.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Well, we were looking for something specific, So that's Goodwill.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's not a thrift store like I think of like
thrift stoes like oh these even by these genes on
consignment awesome, Well, consignment is different than.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Made that you're confused. They actually have good reviews. The
Shell connection where is that? That is the online but
they're they're based right here.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Everybody's everybody knows them. Everybody knows them.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Their beach side destination, South Texas, Padre Corpus, Los Fresno's.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know where that is. Fresno is California. Yep, Hi,
yell Fresno Sharks. Hi, yelly in the morning.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It's it's right by South Padre.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah? I got you loud and clear. Do you know what?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Do you know?
Speaker 9 (05:53):
If?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I am pulling one out as we speak from where
my son he's in college, and I bottom one a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
He was like a I don't know. Fourteen, and we
were at the beach. I was looking for some extra
gift for him.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I was in a shop, like a legit shop.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Here it is right now, says Shark. It's kind of
gross and it's in this jar.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm holding it right now.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
See if I can picture. It was literally at the beach,
like in a shop. It was either we were in
Ocean City, Virginia beach or like Jersey.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It was just on the shelf.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
It's kind of him and.
Speaker 10 (06:37):
It was definitely like along the East coast.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Right and it looks like an itty bitty little well,
itty bitty it looks like biz.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But it looked but you could tell it.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yes, you can absolutely tell.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
And it says Shark on it. So I'll see if
I can send you a picture. But it's legit.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
And my son was like, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
And now I haven't and I don't know what to
do with it.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
Anyone wanted.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I don't. I don't want one of those.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But yes, send Diana picture, Send Diana picture, please, Diana
DC one on one dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Thank you, ma'am, thank you. I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Everybody's got them, Yes they do.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Everybody. I've never even heard of them.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And they've gotten them everywhere from the Carolinas to Florida
to Texas. Study how Delaware beaches.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
How have I not heard of it? I'm sure there's
a lot of things that I've never seen that I've
heard of. Black holes.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Hi, Elliott the morning. Look, Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Devin Gavisberg?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you? So?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
When I was a kid, I remember in the city
went to the Ashteague Island Country Store to stock up
long sandwiches and stuff before the beach, and of course,
as a child, I naturally gravitate towards the shark and
the jar, and a cousin of mine bumped into me,
and I dropped and broke the shark in the jar
in the middle of the store. And that thing is
one hundred percent real. It stinks off, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, the stink is going to be like the formaldehyde
or the ice of prop prom chemicals.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, the chemicals. Yeah, what did did you pick the
shark up?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I didn't because of the broken glass. But I do
recall some some back and forth between whether it was
my fault that I dropped it or whether I was bumped.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Into Oh my god, and do you really did you
tell me where where it was?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
The island? That's right?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
There you go, there you go? All right, very good,
very good, Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
See that's interesting because a lot of people have said
they spent most of their ownership of the jar shark
wanting to open it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Oh I get that, I get that, I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But I'm telling you we will go our. I will
go my entire life without touching a shark. Actually that's
not true. I've touched the shark. I've touched a sh
but not one in my living room.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Or went in a jar.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I can hold it just like that.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Apparently TSA does not love them.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Hey Elliott.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
When I had one as a kid, I actually opened
it up.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
I didn't take it out, but I'm stuck my fingers in.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
And like petted to feel it was real.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It sure was real, but it was he was dead, right,
they don't sell him alive. Okay, it was dead.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I had it for It was actually my older brother,
So I snuck into his room.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Where does it open it up? I was obsessed with sharks.
I think he threw that away.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
The boy he went to Korea, so you know, but
I would have kept it, but it's unbroke the feel
and then I feel it backed up. It didn't leak
or nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
All right, very good, very good. I appreciate it, Thank
you sir.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But are they actually sharks?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Or are they?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I can't think of like an example of that.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
There are a lot of fish that look shark.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I think they are.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Do you think their actual shirks?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yes, they're too popular to not be.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Where are we farming them then? Because that now if
if they're everyone had one is sea monkeys? What about
sea monkeys?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
No, they're not real monkey Brian shrimp, Brian shrimp. Right,
So I was just that, like, are these blank? But
we call them sharks?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
As you said, we're not breeding for this. I think
you are. It's a living SeaWorld like.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Where I don't know where you would do it? Where
do where do I have that shell connection? You don't think?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I don't think like the the Baltimore Aquarium is running
trucks up on the outside.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
They probably hate this line. Three Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Hey is this me?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Who's this?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (10:54):
This is Corey from Richmond. Yeah, they used to have
these all the time, like wings down in myrtle beach. Right,
But the reason I was calling, So I had one
and I threw a little atfl football and my brother
right broke it all over my floor and the smell
never went away.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
What did you do with the shark?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I flushed it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
It's pretty big.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
They were very big.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
They were pretty small, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, they they say they're about eight inches.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
You gotta imagine. Yeah, But I mean, if it's been
sing enough maldehad the whole time, it's not much resistance
going down the toilet, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Probably not plus that cartilage beddy. Anyway, all right, very good,
very good, Thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Someone says these are just byproducts of the commercial fishing industry.
So are they inadvertently?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh so it gets caught, Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Know what to do.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Or they catch or they catch a mother that they
don't realize is pregnant.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
How many How many babies does a pregnant shark have?
Like when a when a pregnant shark gives birth? How many?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
How many are in a litter?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Is it called a litter?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
That's what I'm calling it?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Some species have hundreds of pups.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh so I just need one and I could fill
my store.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So what is the process, like, when do you kill
the shark? I don't know what are you butterflying it.
I just opened up the belly and I've got one
hundred um just in.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
But when I'm talking about the pups, Oh, I'm not
the pregnant mother. You've just murdered the Okay, I'm not
doing it. I'm showing you how it's done. I'm a
documentary nothing.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I just I have.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I have one hundred jars of formaldehyde. I don't know
if they're alive or dead. I just put them right
in there.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh my, Oh, you're right, I'm being humane about it.
I'm selling baby sharks that are pickled.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I probably just dip it right in there.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
This summer, we were con that are staying at a
rental that is connected to a souvenir shop, and my
big concern was their hours. But now I'm just wondering
if anyone in that store throws a football and they
have jar sharks, We're gonna smell that for the whole.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Stay the But again, it's not illegal from what I
was reading.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Oh, it can't be there's so many. They are examples.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah everywhere. Hi, yelliot in the morning. Is this a
good gift?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Like if I, like at a kid's party, I guarantee
you people went home like if they had.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
By the way, think about how big baby shark was.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Right if I was, if my kid was having a
baby shark party, I send everybody home with a shark
and a jar Ooh that's rough.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Hi, who's Thistle Cartoon?
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
This is Tony.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Hey Tony, what can I do for you?
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (14:02):
So, I remember going deep fishing in Ocean City and
we weren't catching much, so they kept moving to different locations,
and finally they moved us to this one location where
they knew baby sharks were going.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
To be.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Oddly enough, I well, I caught one, and actually I
caught a few. And one kid on the boat really
wanted a shark, and I didn't really understand why. But
apparently they take them and they pick them for you.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh so if you get one, oh so it's like
it's almost like a farm raised. So I go, I
didn't want one, that's why. Yet red lebs the tank
and picking your own lobster.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Pretty much, I mean I went there and touched fish
so I could go home and eat it. And then
we were going and they took us to this place
where the little sharks were and I felt kind of bad,
but this little kid wanted one. I said he could
have mine since I caught it. But it was quite odd.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, no, it's very bizarre. By the way, like I'm saying,
I had never even I heard of this.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I could take calls for the next ten hours from
people who have their Oh they're everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, there is no shortage, and also free tornado and
a jar, but that's different.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Everybody has them. Oh what is that?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
It's a snake? Snake in a jar?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Line too? Hi, Elliet the morning, Good morning. Hi, who's this?
Speaker 9 (15:32):
This is Ashley.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yes, Ashley, you have a snake in a You got
a pickled snake or a pickled shark?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
No, In fourth grade so this is like thirty years ago,
my tutor got a great white shark and we got
to dissect it as like ten years old, and we
got to keep pieces of it. And I remember that
the shark had pups. Yeah, I kept in the freezer
because I was a weird kid. I kept in the
freezer for like ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
By the way, you've got awesome parents. I would have
immediately lost that. Wait a minute, so you dissected a
sharking class, Yeah, like.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
At ten years old.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Wow, our team is a tawkman. By the way, every
year with the kids.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Did you just see there was a video either yesterday
or the day before of somebody who was down like underwater,
like scuba diving with nerf nerve sharks I think, and
they had their iPhone out and the shark came up
thinking that it was chum and took the iPhone into
its mouth hate it. Well, didn't eat it, but the
(16:35):
iPhone because the guy was like filming right, so it
made it in past the shark's teeth and then the
shark was like this ain't food.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Spit it out and spit it out.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh he spit on that thing. The it shark to Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It has been a nice couple of days.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
I think if you've watched a shark week, all you
need to do is like pet the shark's nose and
the like falls asleep or something I.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Know exactly, but that's the inside of a shark.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
That is bizarre.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That's the inside of a shark. And now watch when
it comes out like you obviously you can't hear, and
there you go. Now it falls to the sand on
the bottom of the ground.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Isn't that cool?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Did the diver get got his phone back? But they're
right next to these totally?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, because they go down there with chum and they feed.
They went to a place where these sharks know that
humans are coming.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Say, oh my god, they're afraid of close. Jeez.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You know who I BET's done that?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Being serious? You know who I bet, smelly good thrasher.
Oh he's a goody diver. I guarantee you he's touched
a shark.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Like that down there.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So are these sharks known to be a little calmer though.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes, because they they know, like Diane feeding animals in
her yard, that these people go down there and they
feed them.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So that's why the guy thought it was just some chum.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Isn't the feeding of the animals in your back yard
leading to them being more aggressive?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, And that's why that shark ate a phone.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Are They named him Jitterbug.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
By the way, you know what I'm thinking about gifts
for the show this year, it's Shark and Jar, sharking Jar,
sharks for everybody. Let me grab line one. Hi elliot
in the morning.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Hi, this is Haley.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Hi, real quick. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
So I actually collect these. These are called wet specimens,
and I have an entire room devoted to taxi army
wet specimens and bones.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So you are to wet specimens what shoehorn is to Funko.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Pops store exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
What does that room look like like? What what other
wet specimens do you have?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Let's see, I have a baby opossum, I have a through,
I have part of an i guana. I have a
squirrel that I actually did myself from my backyard. It's
a lot of different animals. And then I have more
exotic things like ostriches and cowhalls and.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wait a minute, okay, so back up.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So you caught a squirrel in your backyard and you
put it in a jar of like death juice.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't know from.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Aldehyde, no, so I because I am a collector, I
only go through humane resources. So this is a squirrel
that had died naturally in the wild. I found it
and then I was able to put it into the
liquid and preserve it myself. So everything that I purchased,
I would never buy from one of these gift shops,
(19:42):
and like myrtle beach. But I make sure it was
not killed for this purpose. It was something that died naturally.
It was sourced humanely, so that squirrel.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just died of old age.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It was a natural car.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
And we know it had a small wound to the
back of its head. So if we think like there
was some sort of blunt force, but it didn't really
have any issues on it, or it could have been
an age thing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And can I ask you this, what like the ostrich
isn't in like a that is it? No?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
So the ostrich itself is taxidermy, so that life because
it's quite a bit larger, it's too large to be
a wet specimen.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
When does your killing spree start?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
You know, I get that all the time, and it's
just I am fascinated by biology. I'm fascinated by animals.
This is the closest I'm ever going to get to
these kinds of animals. And I think that it is
a waste to let these things decay and decompose when
they could otherwise be studied and enjoyed. So if it's dead,
anyway if it lived its natural life, and then I
(20:53):
think that we should preserve it and we should celebrate it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And then I can I honest question, are you Are
you married? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Are you married?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I have a long term partner.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And when are they fine with it?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Well, the first time that partner walks into the room,
or they like, oh my god, no, so funny enough.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I didn't mention it when we first started dating. And
then I went over to their house the first time,
and they also have what specimens intacted?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Ermay, Oh there's an ask.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
For every scene heaven.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Oh my god, you have a squirrel. I want your
squirrel covers. This is perfect.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Then you had you had no idea that they collected
what specimen?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
And I mean we have been together for months and
I'd never talked about it because I was like, oh,
they're going to think it's really weird.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yes, you know what kiss met, kiss met. That was
meant to be you hold on you hold on to
that partner forever.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Oh this is my person.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Yeah we know that.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
All right, very good, very good? Will you will you
send a picture of that room to Diane. I got
to see what that looks like.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Absolutely, I can do that, all right, very good, very good,
thank you. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I think I'll take the jar shark over the squirrel.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, how about the apossum?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, but that is there something about it being just
the didn't she say the possum was like a fetus
the No, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But the squirrel something squirrel.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The squirrel just did just died in blunt force trauma.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I mean, honestly, it looks like you just put a
squirrel underwater a cup and that's what she did.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Line too.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Hi, Elliott the morning?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (22:46):
Elliot's Todd Thrasher.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Here's Todd Thrasher. How are you, sir?
Speaker 11 (22:51):
I heard my name in passing as I was passed
in Alecxa this morning.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Now the you have no I was talking about you
have fed sharks like as a scuba diver.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
I have not in a long time, not since I
had a child.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But yes, why not since you? Oh, now, when you're
fraid of dangerous, losing an arm.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Or losing a life, yeah, a lot of people do that. Hey,
let me ask you this though. We you know what
we were talking about, Todd, and maybe you've heard of
these things before. I had never heard of it, But
it turns out everybody, or just Elliott the Morning Listeners
pickled sharks or shark.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
In a jar.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh, they're like they're there are these little baby sharks
that are like eight inches long, and people put them
in these jars full of formaldehyde and they sell them
it like every beat shop ever.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Oh I've seen that stuff. I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I didn't know if you like put them in a
liquor and you drank.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It the no no, no, no no, But what is
the We were trying to figure out where would they
where would they get these sharks with to get the babies.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Oh, there's like all types of breeding places you can
get baby sharks. Like you you like, you're like, they're
all over the places you go to. Believe, there's a
place in Belieze called Shark Ray Alley. I'm sure you
can find millions of sharks like baby nurse sharks there,
are you serious?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (24:22):
And then maybe I'm sure they breathed those little sharks
for that kind of stuff too, oh like.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Pigmy sharks like then, well though, somebody did send us
a note that said t s Oh my god, Tyler
just pucked up looked up shark cann Alley, shark ray Alley.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Dude, you were not kidding craziness.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Oh yeah, it's crazy there. I did a night dive
there once when I was like in my early thirties.
It was the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
I was like, what did I just do? They are
like bull sharks, tiger sharks. The dive masters said, oh,
there's only nerve sharks. They are bull sharks, tiger sharks,
there every type of sharks there.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
There are literally thousands and thousands.
Speaker 11 (25:12):
Of sharks there.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That's crazy. Oh yeah, all right, good So like all right,
so now at least I know where to go get this.
I'm going to start my business.
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