The Bathtub Mermaid

Tales from the Tub

Episodes

TBM-2508.28: Mermaid Minute -Storms We Cannot Swim Through

August 28, 2025 • 4 mins

I’ll be honest, my brave little barnacles: I’m angry. I’m sad. And I’m confused. Because from where I swim, it looks like weapons are valued more than children. And that thought makes my saltwater boil.

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TBM-2508.27 – Mermaid Minute: The Merangutan Question

August 27, 2025 • 3 mins

Way back in the Miocene Epoch, a small group of primates took one look at the water and said: “Yes, let’s stay.” Thus began the aquatic line.

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TBM-2508.26 -Mermaid Minute Bonus: 19th Amendment

August 26, 2025 • 2 mins

So today, we remember the women who marched, protested, and risked it all to crack open those voting booths. And we also honor the ones who had to keep fighting long after 1920, because justice doesn’t always arrive on time.

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TBM-2508.26 – Mermaid Minute: On Disney and (Calendar) Dating

August 26, 2025 • 3 mins

We do NOT comb our hair with forks. We know the difference between combs and cutlery, thank you very much

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TBM-2508.25 – Mermaid Minute: Rainbow-Crosswalks and Ocean Truths

August 25, 2025 • 2 mins

Painting over a rainbow doesn’t erase the people who live it, love it, and shine it every single day. That’s like trying to paint over the tide. The water’s just going to wash back in.

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TBM2508.24 – MermaidMinute: The Gulf of Mexico

August 24, 2025 • 2 mins

Here in the water, we know the Gulf’s true name because it’s written in the currents, sung in whale-song, and traced in the migrations of sharks. Try to rename a living body of water? That’s like trying to rename the moon and expecting the tides to care.

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TBM-2508.24 – In the Tub with Jack Mangan

August 24, 2025 • 21 mins

Jack would love to be a science rockstar. (The explicit version of this interview can be found on my patreon site. )

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TBM-2508.23-Mermaid Minute-Sand Dollars and Nonsense

August 23, 2025 • 3 mins

But then inflation hit, and suddenly every tidepool toddler with a bucket of shells thought they were a millionaire.

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TBM-2508.21 – Mermaid Minute: Mermaid Eldercare

August 21, 2025 • 2 mins

We wrinkle, we slow down, we get cranky about currents that “aren’t what they used to be.”

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TBM-2508.20 – Mermaid Minute: Keeping our Voices (Keeping our Souls)

August 20, 2025 • 2 mins

Actual Women of the Sea do not give up their voices to attract a mate. Not for a crown, not for a castle, not even for an all-you-can-eat buffet of sea cucumbers.

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The Bathtub Mermaid

Episodes

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TBM-2508.26 -Mermaid Minute Bonus: 19th Amendment

TBM-2508.26 – Mermaid Minute: On Disney and (Calendar) Dating

TBM-2508.25 – Mermaid Minute: Rainbow-Crosswalks and Ocean Truths

TBM2508.24 – MermaidMinute: The Gulf of Mexico

TBM-2508.24 – In the Tub with Jack Mangan

TBM-2508.23-Mermaid Minute-Sand Dollars and Nonsense

TBM-2508.21 – Mermaid Minute: Mermaid Eldercare

TBM-2508.20 – Mermaid Minute: Keeping our Voices (Keeping our Souls)

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