Something Strange is Afoot: The Salish Sea Feet Mysteries | Rainy Day Rabbit Holes

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Welcome to Rainy Day Rabbit Holes, a uniquely Pacific Northwest podcast.

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I'm Shea, I'm Jody, and on each episode we will be sharing the mysterious, quirky,

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and fascinating stories of PNW.

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So grab your North Face jacket, strap on your TV as grab yourself a cup of Northwest

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roasted coffee and let's fall down the rabbit hole.

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Jody, what would you do if you found a human foot on the beach?

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Be paralyzed with fear.

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And then go in action.

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Have I got a story for you?

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The Pacific Northwest never fails to deliver on weirdness.

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We've got a ton of serial killers, cults, and now disembodied feet on the beach.

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It's creepy, it is.

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And on today's episode, we're going to talk about the Salish Sea Human Foot Discoveries.

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Okay, Jody, you ready to get into some weird stuff?

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Oh, I love weird stuff.

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This is why we got started on this.

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I know.

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I know.

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I know.

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Right here.

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Weird stuff.

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Weird stuff.

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Okay.

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Our story takes us up North to our much nicer neighbors in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Much nicer neighbors.

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That's Canada.

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Yeah, they are very much known for their niceness.

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So on the shores of False Creek Bay, not far from Grandville Island, is a cobblestone

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shopping plaza with a giant anvil art installation.

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So you know an anvil, something that you would hit a hammer on.

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It's giant.

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It's like 20 feet tall.

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It's huge.

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Well, who's running that show?

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Well, it's a run of that anvil.

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It's an art installation.

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Oh, okay.

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It just sits there.

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Here, you can sit and enjoy views of Vancouver Skyline.

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Or admire the many sailboats in the Marina, the name of the shopping plaza.

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Get this.

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Leg in boot square.

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Leg in boot square.

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Leg hyphen in hyphen boot square.

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I feel like somebody made the name up one day when they were trying to remind themself what

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they were supposed to do in the morning.

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I got to put my leg in the boot.

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I got to put my leg in the boot.

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I'm making a note of that.

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Everywhere on first square.

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And now it's the name, which makes you wonder how it came to be named leg in boot square.

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Okay.

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I have a feeling based on our intro.

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It's not about putting one leg in at a time.

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Nope.

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It's not like putting your pants on one leg at a time.

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It's not about putting one boot on at a time.

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I have a feeling that's a whole different story.

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It is.

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So here's the story.

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In the summer of 1886, our favorite time period.

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I had no idea we go back this far.

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Oh my gosh.

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Well, we started this journey.

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Hey, for those that don't know, Shane, I don't tell each other our rabbit holes.

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So literally what she is bringing to me, I am hearing for the first time.

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I had no, I knew this story was coming.

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I had no idea.

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I went back that far.

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Well, and we do seem to hang out a lot in the late 1800s in our podcast, don't we?

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We did the Chinatown.

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We did the beginning of the immigrants here in the Pacific North.

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Yes, we really like we like that old history.

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We like that night.

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Or excuse me, 1880s time.

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So in the summer of 1886, not long after the Great Fire that destroyed much of Vancouver,

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a half of a human leg washed up on the shore of false creek, still wearing a knee high leather

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boot.

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They were female.

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You know, they didn't at least the boot.

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They did not say I'm assuming mail.

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Because remember, they made skirt and high heels so that women couldn't run away.

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Oh, right, right, right.

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That's why I got a picture of a high heel boot or do I picture a dude heel boot?

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I think it's a dude heel boot.

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There was no sign of the rest of the body.

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Vancouver police department constables were baffled.

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But you know what?

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Detective work is really hard.

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You know, it's easier than actually pounding the pavement looking for answers.

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Oh, can I guess?

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Sure.

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Making assumptions and going with it.

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Or letting the answers come to you.

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Oh, oh.

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I've been watching too much ID channel.

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At this time, the police station headquarters was a tent at the foot of Carroll Street, thanks

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to the recent fire.

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So they mounted the leg to a pole outside their quote unquote headquarters and just waited

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for someone to come and claim it.

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What?

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Like you recognize this?

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What?

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Does this belong to you?

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It's in the lost and found.

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I had to do like digging through the lost and found through coats and water bottles.

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I've been looking for this everywhere.

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Oh my god.

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I forgot I left this year.

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Oh my god.

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What?

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OK.

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And at what point does it stink?

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Well, and they're at hung for two weeks rotting and stinking.

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But it was the 1880s.

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So everything probably smelled really bad.

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So it kind of just blended in with the feces that were probably in the gutter.

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And right, we used to let our livestock just roam the streets, let in there.

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Well, and if a fire had burnt down and there's no sanitation, the gutters are flowing with

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human feces too, I'm sure.

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It was a real sexy time.

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Let's go back there.

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Let's make America great again.

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You know, 1880s.

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You know, sorry.

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You're going to probably have to cut that, but yes, this is what I think every time somebody

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says that, let's make America great again.

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Make America great again.

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Like for fucking who?

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Right.

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OK.

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So not even you.

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Like literally not even you.

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You're in swimming and sewage right now.

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Bathing was like once a week of air if you were rich.

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All right.

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So it was already in an advanced state of Decomp when they found it.

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That's what I'm saying.

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I can only imagine what it smelled like after two weeks in the summer sun.

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Oh my god.

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This was in the summer.

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And it washed up on the shore.

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So it'd been in the Sailor Sea, which I do love, but does have its own smell.

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So it's already been decaying in the Sailor Sea.

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And then they nail it up to a pole and let it sit there in the August.

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Found, found January 24th on this beach.

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Is this yours?

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So when no one-legged man showed up, they just threw it away.

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Some stories say they gave it to a dog, but I think that's a little sailor sea.

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I think that's a little sailor sea.

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I think that's a little salacious.

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Salacious.

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Salacious.

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We start that over.

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So like, they gave it-- so one rumor is they gave it to a dog to like eat.

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I'm assuming it was just one.

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I mean, it was just one.

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One blurb.

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So that story--

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That story.

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I'm like, this is a three-legged dog story that may not be completely accurate.

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I found accounts that discredit this story possibly.

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Like the whole story.

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Well, not just the dog part.

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But there was telling that perhaps they found more than just the leg that they didn't

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hang it out on a pole for two weeks.

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It may not be completely accurate, but it was a good enough of a story to name this shopping

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plaza after it.

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Well, it's a legend now.

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And that was true or not.

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It's a legend.

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It makes a great story.

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And that was not the last time a disarticulated foot was found on Vancouver shores.

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Wow.

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But first, we're going to take a little bit.

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A break.

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Because I want to share with you a podcast that I discovered this week.

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Oh, wow.

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It is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

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Because you know, I love messed up stories in history.

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Right.

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And I think that our listeners, you too, I mean, that's where they're here, right?

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Yes.

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They're not just here for vanilla history, right?

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They want to know the weird, the wacky, and the best up.

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And this podcast delivers just that.

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It's called "Fed Up History."

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It's E-F-F-E-D-F-T-Up History.

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It's hosted by Christina Yeager, who is a historian specializing in the early modern

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which trials.

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We're talking like 1700s, 1600s, 1700s.

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That is very special.

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That is very special.

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Salem type.

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Exactly.

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The podcast tells stories from history and myths that are super F-Depth.

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I really, really love this podcast because she gives hilarious commentary on these messed-up

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tales.

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She's sarcastic and she goes on her hands with lots of swearing.

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Love it.

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Right.

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It's perfect for me.

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Yes.

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Perfect.

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Yes.

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I'm a fan.

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She's got episodes covering not only the Salem witch trials, but stories about the mythologies

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of the zodiac, cryptids, Hamilton, the tutors, Norse gods, Troy, you name it.

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And you can find her podcast on Spotify and all the things wherever you get your podcasts.

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You can even go to her F-Depth History website to listen to the episodes there.

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And that's F-Depth History starting with an E.

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E-S-F-E-D.

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F-F-E-D.

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F-D-Up History.

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It is definitely one of my favorite podcasts to listen to right now.

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I love her commentary.

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She's fantastic.

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So definitely go listen to F-Depth History herself.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Well, we should get back to the Salish Sea human foot discoveries.

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What do you think?

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All right.

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Let's do it.

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I'm so glad you dived in because I was like, what is this?

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Why?

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And how?

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And why is it not a bigger deal?

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Please tell me.

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Okay.

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So first off, I want to let you know that I am keeping account of all the feet we're talking

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about.

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So at the end, we will wrap it up.

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Excellent.

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So we've already talked about foot number one, which when you read about--

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Oh, big.

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When you read about this online, it often does not include the two feet that that were

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found before 2007, but I'm including them here.

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Okay.

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Because I think it's a good part of the history.

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All right.

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So according to a Wikipedia page dedicated to this mystery, which is literally just called

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the Salish Sea human foot discoveries.

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It's very thorough.

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And this was the source for much of this episode.

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The Vancouver Sun reported on July 30, 1914 that another leg in a high boot was discovered

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on a beach near the mouth of the Salmon River.

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All right.

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Fast forward to the summer of 2007, so almost a hundred years later.

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On August 20, a little 12-year-old girl was walking on a beach on Jebedaya Island in

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British Columbia with her family.

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She came across a blue and white Adidas-- or excuse me, as my brother says, an Adidas sneaker.

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Of course he does.

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She came across a--

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She came across a blue and white Adidas sneaker.

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And as many curious kids do, she peaked inside.

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She was horrified to discover that it contained a man's right foot.

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It was a size 12 and was later identified as belonging to a missing man who had been suffering

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from depression.

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Size 12.

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How tall was this man?

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Well, that's not that.

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I mean, that's a pretty normal size.

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As we will see.

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I'm going to keep going.

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As we will see.

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S-E-A.

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Oh, dead joke.

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All right.

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And you're not even one.

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Oh my god, nailed it.

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All these six days later, another man's right foot in another size 12 white re-bok was discovered

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by a couple of Gabriola Island in British Columbia.

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Police were stunned to being found in such a short period of time as suspicious.

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How far apart again?

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Six days.

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Six days, wow.

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So, quote, "To being found in such a short period of time as suspicious."

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"Gerry Cox."

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Of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police.

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I'm going to put a shoe size 12.

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Because the foot, the core is fun to the sides of the Gary Cox.

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Okay, I'm a nurse.

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I'm telling you, it's hands.

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No.

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And hands do.

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So, Bigfoot should have a, okay, 100%.

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We've talked about this before.

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You'll be able to get that special episode of Beatrie-O.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to put it on the screen.

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I'm going to put it on the screen.

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You'll be able to get that special episode of Beatrie-O.

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So, Gary Cox said that two being found in such a short period of time is suspicious.

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Finding one foot is like a million to one odds.

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But to find two is crazy.

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I've heard of dancers with two left feet.

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But come on.

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Oh.

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But, um, bump.

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King of the dad jokes.

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Gary Cox.

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Yeah.

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That.

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It's not.

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Okay.

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On June 16, 2008, a man's left foot now in a size 11 high top shoe was found on West Ham Island.

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High top.

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More foot.

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Exactly.

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It was later determined that this was the match to the foot found on February 8th on Valdez Island.

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Both feet now.

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Yes, it is bonkers that both feet were not only found but found on different islands.

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The remains were later identified as a 24 year old Surrey man who had been reported missing

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four years earlier.

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That's insane.

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So like both feet, both feet, different islands, different areas.

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There were four years after he had been reported missing and they think that it was a death

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by suicide.

425
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Dang.

426
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But nothing else about this man has been found just his two shoes.

427
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I couldn't find anything.

428
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I didn't see anything.

429
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I didn't look very hard though either.

430
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Okay.

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On August 1st, 2008, a right foot inside a man's size 11 black shoe was discovered in seaweed.

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It was covered in seaweed on a beach near fished Washington.

433
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Are you familiar with P Y S H T fished.

434
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I've never heard of fish.

435
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I live in Washington.

436
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It's a noise.

437
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Have you ever heard of fished?

438
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No.

439
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I've lived here my of weird names in Washington.

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All but two years of be the weirdest.

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All but four years of my life.

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The first two and a couple two in the middle.

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I've lived here my whole life and I've not heard that.

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The area is in the straight of Wanda Fuka, which is a body of water between Van.

445
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I wrote a bloody of water.

446
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Oh no.

447
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It can be.

448
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There's orcas and shirts.

449
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I know.

450
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There's a lot of blood in that water.

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It is between Vancouver Island and Washington State and it is the main outlet for the Salish

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Sea into the Pacific Ocean.

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Shay, it is literally one of my favorite places to be.

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If you haven't been there yet.

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Well, go around in the straight of Wanda Fuka.

456
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100% I've done it on my boat.

457
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I've done it on a kayak.

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Wow.

459
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Absolutely.

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Why is it your favorite?

461
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There is something majestic.

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When you're up there and you're in that water, it is overwhelming and majestic.

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And every time I see it, I am overwhelmed by the beauty and there's something about it

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that's just it encompasses your soul.

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Now that I know about the feet though, might change my opinion.

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Well, I mean, let's we'll get to that.

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You'll be fine.

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Real quick, for those of you who aren't in the Pacific Northwest or maybe just don't know

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about this area of it, maybe 11.

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I know.

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Right.

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Where I go, I know.

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Why would you know about the Salish Sea?

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Or the California.

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Okay.

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So you probably know in Alaska.

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So the Salish Sea is one of the world's largest inland seas.

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And it is named after the first inhabitants of the region, the Coast Salish.

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It encompasses the Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands and the waters off of Vancouver, BC.

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So we've got the straight of Juan de Fuca and we've also got straight George.

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It has 4,642 miles of coastline, 419 islands and a sea surface area of about 6,535 square

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miles.

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And we will include a map of this on our Instagram and Facebook page.

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So you know, deep it is.

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I did not put that down, but I did read it.

486
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It's pretty deep.

487
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It's really deep.

488
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I think there was like 20, it was like 2600 feet.

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Right.

490
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Yeah.

491
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I remember kayaking and our guide told us that I liked that and I was terrified and I'm like,

492
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"Jody, what does it matter if you're 10 feet?"

493
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Yeah.

494
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It's a little bit deeper than you really like, which is about 2000 feet deep.

495
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Okay.

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So on November 11th, 2008, a woman's left foot was discovered floating in the Frazier

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River in a new-balanced sneaker.

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Later it was.

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What's our count now?

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9.

501
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Wow.

502
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This is the 9th foot.

503
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Wow.

504
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Later it was determined that this was the match the foot found on May 22nd on Kirkland Island.

505
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Feet went quiet for about a year.

506
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They were just tipped away.

507
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Shhh.

508
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It was dumb.

509
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That was real bad.

510
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No, I loved it.

511
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I mean, I don't know why, but I'm thinking about like what was happening in late 2008, early

512
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2009.

513
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The only thing I can think is that when we were starting to get really into the recession.

514
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Right.

515
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These are so far suicides when we've been able to identify, right?

516
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I think causing people to think that.

517
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I think mostly it's been people who have drowned on purpose.

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522
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525
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Check them out, creepy people.

528
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Their info is in our show notes.

529
00:20:31,340 --> 00:20:37,940
So on October 27th, 2009, a man's right foot in a size 8.5 Nike running shoe.

530
00:20:37,940 --> 00:20:41,140
I keep it keeps auto correcting to show.

531
00:20:41,140 --> 00:20:42,140
Oh.

532
00:20:42,140 --> 00:20:43,140
Why?

533
00:20:43,140 --> 00:20:47,340
A running show was found on a beach in Richmond, BC.

534
00:20:47,340 --> 00:20:52,220
The foot was later identified as belonging to a Vancouver area man who was reporting missing

535
00:20:52,220 --> 00:20:55,180
in January of 2008.

536
00:20:55,180 --> 00:21:01,620
And then another good chunk of time goes by on August 27th, 2010, a woman's or child's

537
00:21:01,620 --> 00:21:04,740
right foot was found without a shoe or sock on would be island.

538
00:21:04,740 --> 00:21:06,940
Now we're in Washington.

539
00:21:06,940 --> 00:21:10,580
It had been in the water for about two months and was never identified.

540
00:21:10,580 --> 00:21:15,740
A right foot belonging to either a child or a small adult was found in Tacoma, Washington

541
00:21:15,740 --> 00:21:18,100
on the title flat.

542
00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:23,340
The foot was in a boy's size six Ozark Trail hiking boot and it was found on December

543
00:21:23,340 --> 00:21:25,340
5th, 2010.

544
00:21:25,340 --> 00:21:26,340
Boys.

545
00:21:26,340 --> 00:21:27,340
Oh, wow.

546
00:21:27,340 --> 00:21:28,820
I don't remember hearing this one.

547
00:21:28,820 --> 00:21:30,140
I don't either.

548
00:21:30,140 --> 00:21:36,980
On August 30th, 2011, a foot of undeterminable sex was found in a man's white and blue size 9

549
00:21:36,980 --> 00:21:37,980
runner.

550
00:21:37,980 --> 00:21:43,780
Next to the Plaza of Nations Marina back in good old false creek BC.

551
00:21:43,780 --> 00:21:48,620
This Marina, this was interesting, is almost directly across the bay from where our very

552
00:21:48,620 --> 00:21:51,420
first foot was discovered in the 1800s.

553
00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:52,420
The leg and boot.

554
00:21:52,420 --> 00:21:53,420
Huh?

555
00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:54,940
Directly across the bay.

556
00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:55,940
Wow.

557
00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:59,140
Also, it wasn't just a foot.

558
00:21:59,140 --> 00:22:01,180
The lower leg bones were attached.

559
00:22:01,180 --> 00:22:02,180
Again.

560
00:22:02,180 --> 00:22:03,180
Mm-hmm.

561
00:22:03,180 --> 00:22:05,820
So, but this was in a shoe, not a boot.

562
00:22:05,820 --> 00:22:08,260
Yet the whole leg stays maintained.

563
00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:10,740
It is coincidence, but it is an interesting coincidence.

564
00:22:10,740 --> 00:22:12,780
Yes, for sure.

565
00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:17,620
At Sasamott Lake in BC, I may be saying that wrong.

566
00:22:17,620 --> 00:22:26,740
The right foot of a local fisherman who had gone missing in 1987 was discovered by campers

567
00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:28,860
on November 4th, 2011.

568
00:22:28,860 --> 00:22:29,860
Oh, you believe that?

569
00:22:29,860 --> 00:22:32,460
That's like a retro shoe right there.

570
00:22:32,460 --> 00:22:34,260
I know.

571
00:22:34,260 --> 00:22:35,260
That's crazy.

572
00:22:35,260 --> 00:22:37,740
That's so, probably, see.

573
00:22:37,740 --> 00:22:40,260
So he probably had drowned.

574
00:22:40,260 --> 00:22:45,100
His body was at the bottom of the lake and then his foot finally came detached and finally

575
00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:46,100
floated up.

576
00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:47,100
Popped on it.

577
00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:48,100
Yeah.

578
00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,100
So, what lake was this?

579
00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:50,100
Sasamott Lake.

580
00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:53,980
So, so not related to the Salish Sea.

581
00:22:53,980 --> 00:22:54,980
I don't know.

582
00:22:54,980 --> 00:22:56,580
Or is it off of Salish Sea?

583
00:22:56,580 --> 00:22:58,380
Or is it off of Salish Sea or not?

584
00:22:58,380 --> 00:23:01,220
It may be unrelated, but it's a foot.

585
00:23:01,220 --> 00:23:06,820
All right, on December 10th, and I'm not laughing about the feet, it's just the whole thing

586
00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:08,300
is a little bit bizarre.

587
00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:12,260
It's morbid and bizarre, which sometimes all you can do is like, why feet?

588
00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:13,260
Why feet?

589
00:23:13,260 --> 00:23:14,260
Why not hands?

590
00:23:14,260 --> 00:23:15,260
Why not?

591
00:23:15,260 --> 00:23:16,260
Right.

592
00:23:16,260 --> 00:23:17,260
Well, there's a reason.

593
00:23:17,260 --> 00:23:18,260
Yeah.

594
00:23:18,260 --> 00:23:19,260
Okay.

595
00:23:19,260 --> 00:23:20,260
Most we will get to.

596
00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:21,260
All right, right.

597
00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:23,220
On December 10th, 2011, we head back to Washington.

598
00:23:23,220 --> 00:23:29,740
A human leg and foot were found in a black plastic bag under the ship canal bridge in Lake

599
00:23:29,740 --> 00:23:31,000
not to suicide. - Use suicide.

600
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,020
- No, okay.

601
00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:32,940
You don't.

602
00:23:32,940 --> 00:23:34,620
- You're like, come across the body. - I watched you.

603
00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:36,080
- I watch you, I watch ID channel.

604
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,480
The Owl bodies come in plastic bags.

605
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,180
Garbage bags, by the way, from the side of the road.

606
00:23:40,180 --> 00:23:41,020
- Oh, plastic bags.

607
00:23:41,020 --> 00:23:42,180
- On the side of the road.

608
00:23:42,180 --> 00:23:43,020
- Or any random place.

609
00:23:43,020 --> 00:23:45,220
If you see a garbage bag, a black garbage bag,

610
00:23:45,220 --> 00:23:47,280
- I always think there are bodies in there as a body.

611
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,340
- Right, that's how I always think.

612
00:23:48,340 --> 00:23:49,700
And this time it was just a lake.

613
00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:53,940
It was never identified.

614
00:23:53,940 --> 00:23:56,600
I had to have been foul play because you don't come across

615
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,440
a suicide.

616
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,380
I'm gonna wrap my leg in a plastic bag

617
00:23:59,380 --> 00:24:00,580
before a kill myself.

618
00:24:00,580 --> 00:24:03,280
Just to mess with people.

619
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,920
Oh my God, I might actually.

620
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,960
If I get to that point, I might mess with people.

621
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:15,480
- All right, so so far we have talked about 15,

622
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,900
kind of 15 disarticulated feet found

623
00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:20,560
in the Salish Sea greater area,

624
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,700
spanning over 100 years.

625
00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,120
And we aren't done.

626
00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:25,160
- Wow.

627
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,720
- There are still more of foot.

628
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:27,560
- Oh, shit.

629
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,600
- I cannot believe you're not a father.

630
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,760
All signs point to you being a real dad.

631
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,700
I'm a great dad.

632
00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:43,680
I mean, if your jokes are any indication,

633
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,680
fantastic, world renowned.

634
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,240
- So when I finally get my dog,

635
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,040
you're gonna be like, she's a dog dad.

636
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,200
- Yeah.

637
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,040
- You're really like,

638
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,200
- Why do you call her a dog dad?

639
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,800
- She is like, she is the best dad jokes.

640
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:56,640
I'm so bad.

641
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:57,480
- That's freaking happening.

642
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,300
- All right.

643
00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:02,720
All right, so a boot with human bones inside

644
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,520
was found on January 6th, 2012,

645
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,720
in the sand along the water at a dog park in Vancouver.

646
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,120
Now this did not mention if a dog found it.

647
00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:13,320
- No, yeah.

648
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,640
- Walks up with it.

649
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,000
- Hi, look what I put under the beach.

650
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,480
- That's where the mouth is.

651
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:18,320
- That's where you got it.

652
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,760
- Is that worse than having to pull

653
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,200
desiccated cat turds out of your dog's mouth?

654
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,480
- No, because this is definitely more intriguing.

655
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,440
Like at least there's a mystery on the other end.

656
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,720
- There's a mystery about the desiccated cat turds.

657
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,040
- No, the cat turds are just like,

658
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,520
"God, dad, I heard you."

659
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:35,520
(laughing)

660
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,120
The legs are like,

661
00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:40,160
"Prow, what is, what the heck?"

662
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,200
- I had a prize,

663
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,040
- Jaws'o.

664
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,360
- I had a prize that I was open to get the cat turd out.

665
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:46,400
It was like desiccated and he was like,

666
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,120
"Oh, it's gonna leave in forever."

667
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,200
Okay, this happened to me once I had a pit bull

668
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,840
and I did this and I get it out of his mouth.

669
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,400
It's a fucking rabbit and I mean,

670
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,720
it is powdery decayed in my living room.

671
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,280
I'm like, "Oh my God, no."

672
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,520
I'm like, I kept going,

673
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,960
so I actually walked by it like 24 times going,

674
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,800
that stuffed animal needs thrown out and God, it stinks.

675
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:10,720
And so far,

676
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,560
I'm like, "I'm like now."

677
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:14,720
(laughing)

678
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,120
It's so crazy.

679
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,120
- It's so cruel.

680
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,280
This is a bunny from long ago.

681
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,360
- It's so disgusting.

682
00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:22,440
- And dusty.

683
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,040
(laughing)

684
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,880
- Oh God, that's pretty bad.

685
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,040
It's so bad.

686
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,040
(laughing)

687
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,120
Either way, you go and you brush your dogs teeth.

688
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:34,960
- Yeah.

689
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,720
(laughing)

690
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,360
All right, moving on.

691
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:41,160
So we're gonna go fast through these next several.

692
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,840
I'll be here by myself.

693
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,080
- All right, a foot in a white new balance was found

694
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,440
on the shoreline of Centennial Park in Seattle, Washington

695
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,240
on May 6th, 2014.

696
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,080
- Okay, hold on.

697
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,880
I have to say a white new balance.

698
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,240
This was a 50, right, it was bought at Costco.

699
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,120
This is a 55 year old white male.

700
00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:00,960
- Right.

701
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,200
(laughing)

702
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,560
- Hey, do not shit on buying your clothes at Costco.

703
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,880
This is from Costco.

704
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,520
This is from Costco.

705
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,040
These socks are from Costco.

706
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:13,040
Is that from Costco?

707
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,360
So I don't go to Costco.

708
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:16,960
I end up buying all the clothes.

709
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,960
- Damn it, #CoscoFashionEestime.

710
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,120
- Yeah.

711
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,880
I am very comfortable right now.

712
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:23,720
Thank you very much.

713
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:24,560
- That's really nice.

714
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:25,400
- I'm fine.

715
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,520
I really started to give up caring

716
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,880
what I looked like to other people

717
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,160
as long as I'm comfortable.

718
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:30,000
Okay.

719
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,800
On February 7th, 2016,

720
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,240
Hikers found a foot in a sock

721
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,720
and running shoe on Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island.

722
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:38,960
Five days later,

723
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,320
it's mate washed up near Port Rindview

724
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,040
close to the prior location.

725
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,200
December 8th, 2017.

726
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,640
Remains of a leg and foot washed up near Jordan River

727
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,240
on Vancouver Island.

728
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,200
On May 6th, 2018,

729
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,040
a hiking boot with a human foot inside

730
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,720
was found on Gabriola Island.

731
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,960
We're back to Gabriola Island.

732
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,920
A size nine and a half light gray Nike

733
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:01,960
with a foot inside was found on the shore

734
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,640
in West Vancouver.

735
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,640
On January 1st, 2019,

736
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,120
a foot in a boot was found on Jenny Island

737
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,400
near Everett, Washington.

738
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,920
It was later tied to a man named Antonio Neal

739
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,760
missing since December 2016.

740
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,000
So almost three years.

741
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,600
Almost there.

742
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,760
We're staying in Washington on November 21st, 2021.

743
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,080
A size seven Brahma work boot was found

744
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,600
washed up on Locust Beach near Bellingham.

745
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,120
December of 2021,

746
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:34,640
a size eight new balance washed up on the mouth

747
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,960
of the Elwa River in Port Angeles, Washington.

748
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,320
They later tied it to Jerrelyn L. Smith

749
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,320
who went missing from squim in January of 2018.

750
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,440
For all of you out there who don't live in the Pacific,

751
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,600
Northwest, squim is another one that is commonly

752
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,400
pronounced because it is spelled sequim.

753
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,400
Sequim. Sequim. Sequim.

754
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,400
Sequim?

755
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,320
Last but not least,

756
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:04,320
the 26th foot in our story was found on July 23rd, 2023.

757
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:11,720
Ooh, ooh, on Gonzales Beach in Victoria, BC.

758
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,400
Wow.

759
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,600
Now, so why do we keep finding these grisly bits

760
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,240
to flot some on our beaches in the Pacific Northwest?

761
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,680
I want to hand an arm, something, nothing, just feet and shoes.

762
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,600
I mean, is it a serial killer who's in defeat?

763
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,280
Is it a playing crash in the nearby ocean?

764
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,280
Drowning victims that have been trying to cross the border?

765
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,040
Well, that I was thinking about people

766
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,760
like getting on cargo ships trying to get here.

767
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,080
That's one theory.

768
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:43,000
But authorities and scientists have concluded

769
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,640
that the reason we keep finding feet is for a few reasons.

770
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:47,800
Oh, few.

771
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,560
First, when a body is in the sea,

772
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,720
scavengers go for the more tender exposed bits.

773
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,320
Often this is the ankle where the skin is thin.

774
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,480
And there is not much actually holding your foot

775
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:02,880
onto the rest of your leg,

776
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,920
just some ligaments and tendons, right?

777
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:05,760
Right, right.

778
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,520
And those bones are, there's like several little bones, right?

779
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,800
So, Sebastian the crab.

780
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,120
Is picking away at this new--

781
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,320
Is he speaking in an accent?

782
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:16,800
Yes.

783
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,320
All right.

784
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,880
At this floating buffet, suddenly this is not weird

785
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,120
and creepy anymore and it's entertaining and fun.

786
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,640
Like hearted and trial-like.

787
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,760
And pretty quickly, the foot is disartaculated from the leg.

788
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,160
So in 2007, a study by Simon Frazier University

789
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,800
showed that a corpse could be reduced to a skeleton

790
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:42,400
in as few as four days by all of the hungry critters in the sea.

791
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,120
And is that at the bottom of the sea,

792
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,960
we're talking about crustaceans or do they just

793
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,520
float and something?

794
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,480
A pig's carcass, under something that would keep it submerged,

795
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,120
but it was still floating.

796
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:52,640
Oh, okay.

797
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:53,240
As far as I can see.

798
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,760
So it wasn't sitting on the bottom.

799
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,160
So the crab was also about--

800
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,160
Okay.

801
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:58,680
Yeah, there's somewhere near the bottom,

802
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,520
but they're not sitting necessarily.

803
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,440
You've got these big beds of seaweed

804
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,000
and sometimes animal carcasses will get caught in that.

805
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,800
And so scavengers will just hang out and eat

806
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,800
on the stuff that's in there.

807
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,240
So why doesn't the foot sink to the sea floor?

808
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,360
Well, there has been a big change in sneaker design

809
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,160
since the early 2000s.

810
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,480
So modern athletic shoes utilize a lot of lightweight foam

811
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,720
that has been injected with air, making the shoes

812
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,760
and the feet inside of them more buoyant.

813
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,720
So this is why it's more of a recent issue

814
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:33,720
that it's more fluid.

815
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,000
Notice this mostly is happening since the 2000s.

816
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,840
So what you're telling me is before the 2000s,

817
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,240
we just have a lot of shoes on the bottom of the floor.

818
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,440
Sure for sure.

819
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,240
They just need to make it up.

820
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,800
Yeah, they're most likely now to float up

821
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,960
to be able to be washed ashore to be discovered.

822
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,760
That part's a new phenomenon.

823
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,200
So the unique currents of water movement

824
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,080
within the Salish Sea also has something to do with it.

825
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,880
So according to oceanography professor Parker McCready

826
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,320
of the University of Washington in an interview to Vox,

827
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,760
he said things that float at the ocean surface

828
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,520
move with the currents, but are also pushed a bit

829
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,720
by the wind and this can be significant in getting them to shore.

830
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,080
The prevailing winds here are west to east.

831
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,720
And so floating stuff in this part of the Pacific

832
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,400
gets blown to the coast effectively.

833
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,160
So the large and complex body of water of the Salish Sea

834
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,400
acts as a trap.

835
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,280
So another factor why we're finding all of these feet

836
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,640
may be a phenomenon called frequency illusion,

837
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,880
also known as the beta minehaw phenomenon.

838
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,240
Frequency illusion was coined by Stanford linguistics professor

839
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,560
Arnold Zwicky.

840
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,920
I love that last name.

841
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:43,680
It's wiki.

842
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,320
It is essentially a cognitive bias in which a person notices

843
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,440
a specific concept, word, or product

844
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,320
after recently becoming aware of it.

845
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,840
So when you buy a Cadillac, all the sudden you see Cadillac

846
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:56,680
everywhere.

847
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,240
OK, so that's the what phenomenon, the beta minehaw

848
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,560
or frequency illusion.

849
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:02,520
OK, gotcha.

850
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,000
That happens to me a lot.

851
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,640
I'll be like, oh, Applejacks.

852
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,440
Oh, now I see Applejacks everywhere.

853
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,920
And I haven't talked about Applejacks since 1984.

854
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:11,680
Exactly.

855
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:12,200
Got ya.

856
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,800
So for the Pacific Northwest, there

857
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,520
were several news pieces about feet being found on beaches.

858
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,920
So now everyone on the beach looks for shoes

859
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,600
and then looks inside of them to see if there's a foot,

860
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,800
where before maybe you just thought it was a piece of sea trash.

861
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,000
So perhaps instead of the frequency of feet being

862
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,720
washed up on shore, increasing, it was just increased awareness.

863
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,840
So it's a mix of selective attention,

864
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,320
keeping an eye out for something, and confirmation bias.

865
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,600
More feet have been found, so more feet are being washed up.

866
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,440
Got it.

867
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,640
How about our time with that?

868
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:49,840
So it's just a--

869
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,960
It's a cognitive bias.

870
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,840
Like, does that mean we didn't used to look in shoes?

871
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,160
Because I think everybody always would have been curious

872
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,520
finding a foot in a shoe.

873
00:33:58,520 --> 00:33:59,360
Are we in a shoe?

874
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,160
Well, I think we're more curious now about where we're

875
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,040
in the shoe.

876
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,320
Because there's the awareness that people have been

877
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:05,560
finding feet in shoes.

878
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:06,720
Now we're going to be looking for it.

879
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,360
Instead of just walking on the beach,

880
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,360
now you're looking where at the shoreline,

881
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,120
and then when you see a shoe, you're going to look inside it,

882
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,760
where maybe before you're like, it grows,

883
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:16,800
and you stay away from it.

884
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,040
Well, that's the same thing as my black plastic bag,

885
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:19,760
my garbage bag.

886
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,960
I've never ever--

887
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,720
I'd be like, it grows, who dumped their garbage.

888
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:24,240
And I'm like, oh my god, there's a body over there.

889
00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:25,080
Exactly.

890
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,440
So that's the same sort of thing.

891
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:27,360
Yes, gotcha.

892
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:28,000
Yeah.

893
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,400
Well, anyways, that's the case of the Salish--

894
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:31,900
Wow.

895
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:34,680
So it's not as mysterious as it seems.

896
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,440
There's answers behind these.

897
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,680
Many of these have been identified.

898
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:38,320
I didn't know that.

899
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,680
For some reason, in my recollection of the story--

900
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:42,200
Right.

901
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,200
--of deep into it.

902
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,240
--a lot of them tied to missing persons.

903
00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:47,360
And most of those people, they think,

904
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,080
were probably suicides.

905
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:49,800
Gotcha.

906
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,240
I didn't even know that they tied them back to anyone.

907
00:34:52,240 --> 00:34:54,680
I just thought they'd been found and never identified,

908
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,520
but a lot of them have been tied back to suicide.

909
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,520
And the Salish Sea is--

910
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,640
I mean, it's a swirly-- I mean, as a boater, Keith,

911
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:03,600
and I used to have a boat.

912
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:04,760
We had no business being out there.

913
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:05,520
I don't know why.

914
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,080
You cannot leave a car a lot without a driver's license.

915
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,960
But you can go by a boat.

916
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,280
In fact, one that's way too big for somebody who's never

917
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,040
owned a boat or a Ben and Sea.

918
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:14,560
And just--

919
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:15,560
You can just wrap that.

920
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,160
They gave us an hour-long session on how to drive this.

921
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:18,920
I'm not even lying.

922
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,960
So running into docs everywhere and said, now you're good.

923
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,600
And go to the San Juan's, like you've always dreamed.

924
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:25,240
And we did.

925
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,440
And we are alive by the grace of God.

926
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,360
And then also realized, maybe this was

927
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,600
a great idea because it costs $1,000 every time we take the boat out.

928
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:33,560
Anyway, because of gas.

929
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:34,000
Anywhere.

930
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:34,520
Yeah.

931
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,960
And your friends are like, oh, can we take out your boat out?

932
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,840
And they're like, well, buy some beer.

933
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:39,320
Yes.

934
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,240
A six pack of beer, a case of beer on good days,

935
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:41,760
wouldn't show up.

936
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,280
And I'm like, yeah, the gas was $400.

937
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,480
But things-- I'm not thirsty now.

938
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,600
Thanks for spending $24 on that case of PBR.

939
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:50,600
Right.

940
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,080
Here we go.

941
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,040
That's just the gas.

942
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,600
Let's talk about the cost of the boat,

943
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,400
the insurance, the maintenance, the fact

944
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,880
that we had to store it in a slip because it was too big

945
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,520
to bring home.

946
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,960
So my grandfather had a little sign on his desk that said,

947
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,640
a boat is a hole in the water surrounded by wood

948
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,240
into which one pours money.

949
00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:12,000
Yes, 100%.

950
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:12,640
That's all it was.

951
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:13,440
Now wood.

952
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:14,440
Now it's fiberglass.

953
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:14,960
Fiberglass.

954
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,480
But still.

955
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,200
So my main source was the Great Wicapedia page,

956
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,120
the Salish Sea Human Foot Discoveries.

957
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,920
And there was also a great article on all that's interesting.com.

958
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,600
There's lots of articles out there.

959
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,280
I also listened to an episode on Stuff You Should Know,

960
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,880
which is a great, great podcast.

961
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,400
Not a whole lot of mystery, really.

962
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:38,000
About them.

963
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,640
Is there any other theories out there

964
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,280
that we could run with that are exciting?

965
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,280
Well, there was a theory for a while.

966
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,360
There's a serial killer that was in Canada.

967
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,520
I think his name was Robert Picton.

968
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:48,360
And he--

969
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,400
Is he the one that fed his--

970
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:51,720
Victims is pigs.

971
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:53,640
--to his pigs, and then would feed people the pigs?

972
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:54,160
Yeah, yeah.

973
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,480
He was like a modern Hannibal at the time.

974
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,280
Yeah, I would like to do a piece on him at some point.

975
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:00,080
Where we get into--

976
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:00,920
--the--

977
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,520
Yeah.

978
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,120
But for now, there's not a whole lot that's--

979
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,480
So they thought maybe he'd been toss and feed.

980
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,040
Yeah, but no, they just--

981
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,960
It's modern, secret design.

982
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,720
It's the Salish Sea's special properties,

983
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:17,600
and then it's that cognitive bias.

984
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,280
So there's real answers to this mystery?

985
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:20,880
Yes, there is.

986
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,880
But it still is mysteries.

987
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,000
And if you're walking on a beach in the Pacific Northwest,

988
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:26,880
you find a shoe.

989
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,160
Especially near the Salish Sea.

990
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,600
We aren't all near Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest.

991
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,640
If you are in the Salish Sea, keep your eye out.

992
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:33,120
First, me, please.

993
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,120
Look at that shoe.

994
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,360
You're walking the rocks.

995
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,920
If you see a shoe, keep your eye out.

996
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:37,720
Well, I mean, if you keep your eye out.

997
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:39,840
If you don't want anything to do with that,

998
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:40,880
don't look in a shoe.

999
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,160
You don't know.

1000
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,040
Probably all you're going to find is a crab and some seaweed,

1001
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:46,840
mostly.

1002
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:47,880
I will post.

1003
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:52,240
I have a fantastic photograph of a shoe on a beach

1004
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:57,440
that I took at my happy place, Harstein Island last summer.

1005
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:58,560
And it was--

1006
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,560
But there's no foot in it.

1007
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:00,440
There's no foot in it.

1008
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:01,960
But it was covered in seaweed.

1009
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,360
And it's just a great photograph.

1010
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,080
So I will post that on our social media.

1011
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:05,800
It's so good.

1012
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,360
But I definitely looked inside of it

1013
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,640
because I thought of this immediately.

1014
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:10,440
See?

1015
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:11,840
This is living with the illusion.

1016
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:12,040
Yeah.

1017
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,280
Spurred this entire adventure, really, me, rabbit hole.

1018
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:17,520
What was Harstein Island?

1019
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,760
And talking about this specific topic as well as others.

1020
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,680
But this did come into our hey, there's

1021
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,680
so many weird things in the Pacific Northwest.

1022
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,240
This was on the top of the list.

1023
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:30,280
So thank you so much for--

1024
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,320
Because I've always wondered and never put a lot into it.

1025
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:33,240
Because I've--

1026
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,720
It's just one of those mysteries.

1027
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:35,520
It's a mystery out there.

1028
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,440
And I'm always looking into other mysteries

1029
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:38,480
and never made it to this one.

1030
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,040
So thank you for answering this for me.

1031
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,920
I'm not exactly happy that it's not that much for mystery.

1032
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,160
I mean, you may have ruined it.

1033
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,480
It's something more nefarious.

1034
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,000
I did want a ferris.

1035
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,160
I mean, it could have been aliens.

1036
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,120
Hey, Bigfoot could have been just eating everything but the foot.

1037
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:52,640
And--

1038
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:53,680
He doesn't know.

1039
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:54,680
But no.

1040
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,280
He doesn't know how to work.

1041
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,720
Just the Salish Sea and modern sneaker design.

1042
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:00,520
Thanks, Shay.

1043
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,160
Bigfoot only has Velcro sneakers,

1044
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:05,480
because he does not know how to work.

1045
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:06,880
She does do laces, right?

1046
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,280
So if you're in laces, your feet are safe, but you are not.

1047
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,480
No, that's not what came from this story.

1048
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,960
So if you were the old man who buys his Velcro,

1049
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,880
get some new balance, your feet--

1050
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,200
will probably never be found, because--

1051
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,600
No, because that Bigfoot can handle the Velcro sneakers.

1052
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:24,880
They're just not safe.

1053
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,720
We're just never going to find any part of you if you're

1054
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:27,240
wearing Velcro.

1055
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,560
So if you wear Doc Martins, though, I bet your feet would never--

1056
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:30,760
Oh, shoot.

1057
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:31,760
--because they will sink.

1058
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:32,800
Those things are heavy.

1059
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:33,720
Yep.

1060
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:34,600
Let's wrap this up.

1061
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,320
So guys, thank you so much for being here.

1062
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:38,440
Thanks for listening.

1063
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,520
And please, again, go and follow us on Spotify,

1064
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,760
follow us on Apple Podcasts, follow us wherever you can

1065
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:45,960
follow us everywhere.

1066
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,800
And more importantly, please share the podcast

1067
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,480
with your friends and family.

1068
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,760
And anybody you know, your coworkers--

1069
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:53,640
Anyone you know.

1070
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,960
As long as they won't be offended by titty shack.

1071
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:57,480
Right.

1072
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,080
We've got to have some sense of humor.

1073
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,560
Yeah, you've got to have a sense of humor.

1074
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,880
So maybe not your church group.

1075
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:03,600
I mean, just saying.

1076
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,360
I mean, maybe.

1077
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,240
I don't know.

1078
00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:06,800
Well, we will see you next time.

1079
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:11,040
And until then, see you down the rabbit hole.

1080
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,840
[MUSIC PLAYING]

1081
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,200
[MUSIC PLAYING]

1082
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:23,160
Pickled.

1083
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:23,680
It's pickled.

1084
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:24,760
It's a pickled fruit.

1085
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:25,760
Yum.