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of the Day! Doo

1:00

doo doo doo doo doo doo. This

1:02

week's fact of the day theme, and

1:04

I we are late but Jack Black.

1:07

Yeah joy, a privilege. We are late

1:09

but Jack Black. It's mythical creatures, little known

1:11

mythical creatures because I was reading about someone

1:14

was spending all this money to go and

1:16

like finally get answers on Loch Ness. I

1:19

was like save your money. Oh give it

1:21

up. There's no dinosaur creature in Loch Ness.

1:23

What celebrity was just chiming in as well?

1:25

Each sheren or someone. Like your grainy photo

1:27

is just a log or someone's check. It's

1:29

always a log. Like that

1:31

bloody alpaca that's fallen in. Yeah they've

1:33

literally run sonar on every inch of

1:36

that lake. There's nothing in there. He ain't

1:38

real Hans. Yeah he ain't real. So let's, I

1:40

think we should spend some time learning about other

1:42

mythical creatures from around the world and that's today's

1:44

fact of the, this week's fact of the day.

1:46

Right. Well fact about Aklut is

1:48

number one. The

1:52

Inuits of Alaska along the shore

1:54

of the Bering Sea have a

1:56

mythical creature called Aklut which has

1:58

a really long name. kakwanung

2:00

gat gigluingnik.

2:03

Okay, great pronunciation. Thank you. He

2:06

said it was confident. Well, he speaks a little

2:08

bit. Uploot,

2:11

for short, is a orca,

2:14

right, that can take on the form

2:16

of a wolf when it's on land. Wow.

2:19

Yeah, orca wolf. That's cool.

2:21

Imagine if orcs had legs,

2:23

that'd be unstoppable. So, apparently

2:25

the origin... When I

2:28

imagine an orca with legs, I'd imagine the legs being

2:30

tiny. Yeah, like a theory, but more of a

2:32

huge orca. For

2:34

Scotland, for Scotland along. Apparently the

2:36

origins of this is that

2:38

a very well-respected chief of the area,

2:41

once saw a wolf walk up to the edge of an

2:43

ice shelf, jump into the water,

2:45

and then when he looked across, an orca was swimming

2:47

away. Oh, that's just

2:49

a coincidence, isn't it? Yeah. And

2:52

apparently you will find lots of wolf prints that

2:54

just walk up to the edge of ice. Wow. Because

2:56

orcas get them, or they go swimming. No, so apparently

2:59

it's just like they just keep walking, but

3:01

then the ice will melt and crack, and

3:03

like crack off, so you just don't see

3:05

where the wolf kept going. Oh, right, okay.

3:07

Oh, yeah, of course. See, there is a

3:09

reasonable explanation for everything. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,

3:12

but apparently in this region,

3:14

a lot of Inuit folklore is about

3:17

composite animals, animals that can be too.

3:19

The white whale transforms into a reindeer.

3:22

Ooh, yeah, like that. I

3:24

imagine if it was big whales pulling Santa's

3:26

sleigh all along. Oh, my God. They were

3:29

just in their reindeer form. No, when you

3:31

see reindeer, I thought of a unicorn for

3:33

some reason. I was like, yeah, big horn.

3:35

That's not a reindeer. Yeah, that's an owl.

3:37

That's kind of the unicorn of the sea.

3:39

So today's fact of the day is that

3:41

when we talk about mythical creatures, let's forget

3:43

about Loch Ness and go to the Bering

3:45

Sea, where local Inuit folklore talks about Uploot,

3:48

the orca who can turn into a hoof. Hoof. Fact

4:00

of the day, we're having a look at some of the... What's

4:02

happened there? What's happened

4:04

there? He just had a look at my face. Three day

4:06

water, it's got a bit of a tang to it. I

4:08

probably should have just got fresh water. He doesn't rinse it

4:10

out, he just puts it in the locker after work. Ah!

4:14

Earthy. It's been sitting in there

4:16

a little bit. Yeah. You don't drink

4:18

that much water at work. I'm going through a litre

4:20

of data. He's used to growing water. A litre during

4:23

the show, baby. Yeah. Why, I'm wheezing every quarter hour.

4:25

You are wheezing. On the quarter hour. Well,

4:27

today's... Actually, this is a nice tie-in. Yeah. Today's

4:30

fact of the day about mythical

4:32

creatures and urban legends comes to

4:34

us from Japan. Arigato. Gazemasu. Gazemasu.

4:38

Teacher? I don't know. Ah, anyway.

4:41

Move away from that. In the end, if you're

4:43

not aware of not knowing. But again. It's

4:46

Akaname. What? Akaname. Okay.

4:50

Akaname is an urban legend and mythical creature in

4:52

Japan that does a lot of work.

4:57

In Japan, that does nothing except

4:59

sneak into your house at night and

5:01

lick the dirty parts of your bathroom. Ooh!

5:04

Gosh! So,

5:07

if you don't want the mythical monster coming in and

5:09

licking your bathroom, you've got to keep it clean. So,

5:12

that's the basic... It was

5:14

apparently drawn from a sort

5:17

of a want for cleanliness because it

5:19

was linked early in Japan that if it

5:21

wasn't clean, chances are there was going to

5:23

be disease and disease and disease. Right. And

5:27

it was the idea is to keep it as tidy

5:29

as possible. So, it lives in

5:31

old bath houses and

5:33

deliberated buildings. It would sneak into places

5:35

at night when people are asleep and

5:38

using its long tongue. It would lick

5:40

the silken grime sticking to bath places

5:42

and bathtubs. It does nothing other

5:44

than lick filth. But right. Given

5:46

that it was considered very unsettling to

5:48

encounter, people would work harder to make

5:50

their baths and bathtubs and bathplaces clean

5:52

so that the Akaname wouldn't go to

5:54

come at night. Right. Yeah.

5:58

And linked into popular culture. familiar

6:00

with Pokemon. Lickitung, which

6:02

is a Pokemon with a very long tongue.

6:05

Lickitung. And it can only

6:07

say its own name. And I just got

6:09

a big long tongue. And that is partially

6:13

based on the Akaname of Japanese

6:15

legends. It's one of the Hailey's

6:17

20 book club about there. I

6:19

was thinking that as well. That's

6:21

a book in waiting. Yeah. So

6:24

to describe its look, it's goblin-esque

6:26

in appearance, but it has a

6:28

long, um, Lickitung and only one

6:31

toe. Ooh. Did

6:33

it lose the other toes in a freak

6:35

accident? Its foot goes to a point. With

6:37

one toe. And it's got one toe and

6:39

toenail on the end of it. Ooh, yeah.

6:41

Like the witches from Raald Dahl. They had

6:43

pointy toes, didn't they? Yeah. Long pointy toes.

6:45

So today's fact of the day in Urban

6:48

Legends slash slash mythological creature week. And thanks

6:50

to Anthony for sending this in, by the

6:52

way. Yeah. So wait, you didn't do this

6:54

work. Anthony sent this in to me. Anthony

6:56

did it. Yeah. So I took the knot

6:58

off. Does it flinch Anthony

7:00

and Hailey now? Yeah. In this moment.

7:03

Okay. But it's Anthony's fact of the

7:05

day with Fletch, Worn and Hailey. Okay.

7:07

Lovely. Featuring Anthony. Yeah, great. And his

7:09

facts. Uh, today's fact of

7:11

the day is that if you don't

7:13

want Akaname to come visiting

7:15

at night, you must

7:17

clean your bath. Wait.

7:21

Get in Fletch, Worn and Hailey. This

7:24

week's fact of the day theme, weird

7:26

mythical creatures from around the world. This was triggered because

7:28

some dude was going to spend a whole lot of

7:30

money to finally get the answers on Loch Ness, which

7:33

I was like, give me the money. Here's the answer.

7:35

It's just not there. Yeah.

7:37

Not being silly. Yeah. You're all being silly.

7:39

So we're having a look around the world

7:41

at different mythical creatures that might be better

7:43

to try to get a final answer. I

7:45

liked yesterday's one, the Japanese one. I liked

7:47

that. But they're creepy pictures. The look at them.

7:49

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The guy, the

7:52

guy that looks up the dirty bath. So you got

7:54

to keep the clean bathroom. We're going to go to

7:56

Sardinia today. Is he going to Sardinia? No, but I

7:58

know simply plan to. It looks lovely. Is

8:00

that where sardines got their name? Yes

8:03

sardines and submarines. It's not origins week. It's

8:05

not origins week. You've done that. You can't

8:07

go back. You can't fact

8:10

us about other facts during another fact. I'm

8:15

about to. You missed it. I'm about

8:17

to. Origin week. Sardines are named after the

8:19

island of Sardinia where they were once found in abundance. Oh there

8:21

you go. Well we ate them all. So good work

8:23

dude. Good work everybody. I love that human. I'm

8:26

a classic human. Sardinia

8:28

has a- Sardinia, why are

8:31

you saying Sardinia? Because he's

8:33

thinking of sardines now. Sardinia.

8:35

Sardinia has a folklore

8:38

of ichitu. Ever

8:40

heard of a werewolf? Ichitu is a were cow.

8:43

Hey. Amanda

8:46

has committed great fraud so don't

8:48

commit fraud. Okay. What was that

8:50

noise? Was that you making that noise? No. I

8:53

handed it away here. I was like I think I'm going crazy. Amanda

8:55

is giving a great fraud to wake up in the

8:57

middle of the night and turn into a great ox

8:59

with two candles on top of its iron horns. So

9:01

the iron horns are very heavy to carry. Yeah. And

9:04

it will come down and curl around and then there's two

9:07

candles sitting on it. Like a koya candle. It's like really

9:09

nice big old sweet peach. Sweet

9:11

peach. Sweet peach. Sweet

9:13

peach. Sweet peach. Sweet peach. Sweet

9:16

peach. Sweet peach. Sweet peach.

9:19

Sweet peach. Sweet peach. Sweet

9:21

peach. Sweet peach. Sweet peach. And

9:23

then we'll put the candles on the horns. And in

9:25

some of the stories, in some of the tellings, it'll

9:27

also have a few devils with it to keep the

9:29

candles lit. Okay. We'll walk around

9:31

looking for a house. And

9:33

then when it finds a house, it

9:35

will bellow outside the house three

9:37

times. By

9:44

the time that third one's finished it's too late. The

9:46

owner of the house will be dead within a year.

9:49

Oh my gosh. The only

9:51

way to stop a cheetoo is by chopping

9:53

off its horns or blowing out the candles

9:55

in one blow like a birthday cake. Oh

9:58

yeah. Could you go? Yeah,

10:01

well no you have to. One breath. Run

10:05

around the devils by the way. I mean it's not

10:07

real, it's obviously not real, it's stupid isn't it? Excuse

10:10

me. The devil knows that. Have you

10:12

been to Sardinia have you? No I haven't but. Have you

10:14

been to Sardinia? Eating a sardine? I love sardines. I've never

10:16

had a sardine I don't think. Is it a whole fish

10:18

and it's not the whole fish? I don't know. That's like

10:20

anchovies. You don't want to do that. Yeah, sardines come in

10:22

a can. Sardines are a

10:24

bit fleshy. They're not very fleshy. They're not very

10:26

fleshy. They're not very fleshy. But they're small and

10:28

very fleshy. Sardines are

10:31

a bit meatier. Yeah. I'd eat one.

10:33

So you blow it out and then they'll stop and

10:36

the horns can be used to heal the spleen. The

10:38

spleen specifically. Right. I'm not

10:40

sure why. Ridiculous. I'm not sure why. But

10:43

it's a were cow. It's

10:46

a cheetoo and it is from

10:48

Sardinian folklore. Okay, lovely. Play,

10:51

ZM, Fletch, Vaughan and Hailey.

10:53

Small creatures we've been looking at this

10:55

week. Yes. Got into a little

10:57

bit of urban legends. Japan, I read,

11:00

we had a lot of Japan submissions. We've been

11:02

like, this is from Japan, that's from Japan. A

11:05

lot of them sort of like contextualized in Pokemon

11:07

and stuff. Yeah. And

11:09

people, somebody sent me an article yesterday about why it

11:11

is. And it's apparently like, it was your

11:13

family thing to invent a

11:16

monster. Oh, no, my mum would have just

11:18

said, stop being so bloody silly. Yeah, yeah.

11:20

She just could have told the family's monster

11:22

from prior generations. It's because something

11:24

became like really popular because they made it

11:26

into like cartoons and stuff. Oh,

11:29

nice. I'll show that for the fascinating

11:31

article. The Caltex, also big on mythical

11:33

creatures. Okay. For storytelling. Yeah.

11:36

For storytelling. Today I thought we might slightly dip

11:38

our toes somewhere a little bit different with mythical

11:40

creatures. Mythical creatures that turned

11:42

out to be real. Oh, okay.

11:45

Oh, like the Loch Ness. Now I know that

11:48

you're a big fan of the Loch Ness Monster

11:50

Fleet. Oh, I wish people would just stop. It's

11:52

a log, it's definitely a log. It's a log.

11:54

Yeah. Or an alpaca just

11:56

like having a dip. Having a

11:58

little bath. Number one, the

12:01

narwhal. Through

12:03

the middle ages, it was

12:06

all talk about unicorn. Now, apparently once upon

12:08

a time, the Vikings had

12:11

the tusks, they're called tusks, they're not horns of the

12:13

narwhal. And somebody said, is that

12:15

a unicorn horn? And they were like, yes. And

12:17

someone paid way more money for it. So it

12:19

became this unicorn horn trade that turned out it

12:22

was the narwhal, although they weren't discovered until 1577. So

12:26

they were like a mythical creature. Somebody

12:28

said it's a unicorn whale, and

12:30

it's actually real. Another one, the rhinoceros.

12:34

The rhinoceros people did not believe that rhinoceros

12:36

were real, dating back to the Greeks. Really?

12:38

Yeah, an adventure apparently described a mythical creature

12:40

with a head like a stag, the feet

12:42

of an elephant, and the tail of the

12:44

boar. Oh yeah, that's a rhino. Yeah,

12:46

it's a rhino. And then they ended

12:48

up actually seeing one. Wow.

12:51

But up until then, thought it was mythical.

12:53

Yeah, because someone could come back and describe

12:55

it, that they might have been delirious, they've

12:57

been traveling a long time, they didn't have,

12:59

obviously, photographic proof was massive. They didn't have an

13:01

iPhone 15. No iPhone 15s in ancient

13:03

Greek times. Because it takes a lovely photo. It's

13:05

a crisp photo. You're telling me they had all

13:08

those lovely aqueducts and engineering and roads that still

13:10

exist and buildings that still exist. But they couldn't

13:12

get down into Africa. Well, there

13:14

was people in Africa, but yeah, the Greeks were

13:16

told about this animal, and they said that sounds

13:18

too good to be true. Okay. The journey of

13:20

all the animals. The journey from Greece to Africa.

13:23

In 1798, Captain John Hunter was

13:25

in Australia, and he sent back a pelt

13:28

of a platypus. Oh, yeah,

13:30

weird animal. He made

13:32

it as a joke to play with prank on people. And

13:35

the idea is... Weird, eh? Yeah, platypus. Platypus pie?

13:37

Kind of like an ornery... Platypuses or platypie? It's

13:41

platypuses. It's

13:43

like octopus, it's not technically octopi. The

13:45

correct would be octopuses. Okay. It's got

13:48

a duck beak. It's got weird feet.

13:50

It's got a beaver's tail. It's all

13:52

gone. Did you know the gorilla was

13:55

considered a mythical creature? Good, yeah. It wasn't

13:57

confirmed until 1847. But

14:00

we are gorillas. I know. The tail

14:02

of a monster. For those that celebrate. A human-like

14:06

monster that visited their camp and stole food with the

14:09

strength of ten men. It's a monkey.

14:11

Or it's an aswatch. And it turns out it's a gorilla.

14:14

So there you go. A lot

14:16

of animals actually started out as myths

14:18

because no one had rock hard

14:20

evidence that they existed but turns out

14:22

they existed all along. Play. Get in,

14:25

sledge, born and aley. Get

14:28

in. Medical creatures we've been looking at this

14:30

week. Yes. Got into a little bit of

14:32

urban legends. Japan, I read,

14:35

we had a lot of Japan submissions. We were

14:37

like, this is from Japan, that's from Japan. A

14:40

lot of them sort of like contextualized in Pokemon

14:42

and such. Yeah. And

14:44

people, somebody sent me an article yesterday about why it

14:46

is. And it's apparently like, it was your

14:48

family thing to invent a

14:51

monster. Oh, now my mum would have

14:53

just said, stop being so bloody silly.

14:55

Yeah. She just could have told the

14:57

family's monster from prior generation because some

15:00

of them became like really popular because

15:02

they made it into like cartoons and

15:04

stuff. Oh, nice. Showed up fascinating article.

15:06

The Caltyx, also big on mythical creatures.

15:08

Okay. For storytelling. Yeah. For storytelling. Today

15:11

I thought we might slightly dip our

15:13

toes somewhere a little bit different with

15:15

mythical creatures. Mythical creatures that

15:17

turned out to be real. Oh,

15:19

okay. Oh, like the Loch Ness. Now I

15:22

know that you're a big fan of the

15:24

Loch Ness Monster Fleet. Oh, I wish people

15:26

would just stop. It's a log. It's definitely

15:28

a log. Yeah. It's a log. Or an

15:30

alpaca just like having a dip. A

15:33

little babe. Yeah. Number one, the

15:36

narwhal. Oh,

15:38

the middle ages. Um, it was

15:41

all talk about unicorn. Now apparently once

15:43

upon a time, the Vikings, uh,

15:45

had the tusks, they're called tusks. They're not horns

15:47

of the narwhal. And somebody said, is

15:50

that a unicorn horn? And they were like, yes.

15:52

And someone paid way more money for it. So

15:54

it became this unicorn horn trade that turned out,

15:57

uh, it was the narwhal, although they weren't discovered until

15:59

15. So they

16:01

were like a mythical creature, somebody said

16:03

it's a unicorn whale and it's

16:05

actually real. Another one, the rhinoceros.

16:08

The rhinoceros people did not believe that rhinoceros

16:10

were real. Dating back to the Greeks. Really?

16:12

Yeah, an adventurer apparently described a mythical creature

16:14

with a head like a stag, the feet

16:17

of an elephant and the tail of the

16:19

boar. Oh yeah, that's a rhino. Yeah,

16:21

it's a rhino. And then they ended

16:23

up actually seeing one. Wow.

16:26

But up until then thought it was mythical.

16:28

Yeah, because someone could come back and describe

16:30

it that they might have been delirious, they've

16:32

been travelling a long time, they didn't have,

16:34

obviously photographic proof was massive. They didn't have

16:36

an iPhone 15. No iPhone 15 is

16:38

an ancient Greek time. Because it's a lovely photo.

16:40

It's a crisp photo. They're telling me they had

16:42

all those lovely aqueducts and engineering and roads that

16:44

still exist and buildings that still exist. But they

16:46

couldn't get down into Africa. Well

16:49

there was people in Africa but yeah, the Greeks

16:51

were told about this animal

16:53

and they said that sounds too good to be true. Okay.

16:56

The journey. The journey

16:58

was east to Africa. In 1798, Captain John

17:00

Hunter was in Australia and he sent back

17:02

a pelt of a platypus. Oh

17:04

yeah, weird animal. He made

17:07

it as a joke to play a prank on

17:09

people. What? And the idea was...

17:11

A weird, eh? Yeah, platypus. Platypus.

17:14

Kind of like an ottery... Is it platypuses

17:16

or platypi? It's platypuses. It's

17:18

like octopuses, not technically octopi. The correct would

17:20

be octopuses. Okay. It's got

17:22

a duck beak. It's got weird feet. Yeah.

17:25

It's got a beaver's tail. It's all

17:27

gone. Did you know the gorilla was

17:30

considered a mythical creature? Good now. It wasn't

17:32

confirmed until 1847. But

17:35

we are gorillas. I know. For

17:37

those that celebrate. A human-like... For those

17:39

that celebrate. A human-like monster that visited

17:42

their camp and stole food with the strength of

17:44

ten men. It's a monkey. Well it

17:46

or it's an aswash. And it turns out it's a gorilla. So

17:49

there you go. A lot of animals actually

17:51

started out as myths because no one had

17:53

rock hard evidence that existed but turns out

17:55

they existed along. Day

18:00

day day. Do

18:03

do do do do do do do

18:05

do do do do do do do

18:07

do do do do do do do

18:10

do do do do do do do

18:12

do do. Okay, if you had to

18:14

rate, review or marry, Flitch, Vaughan or

18:16

Hayley, what one would it be? Okay,

18:18

I would marry Hayley, I would

18:22

have six. Wait, which

18:24

one would it be? No,

18:26

no, no, no, no, it's only rate, review, marry.

18:28

Oh, okay. No comment. I'd

18:30

have six with the podcast and then now that would be it.

18:33

I'm gonna have a sexy little review though. ZM,

18:37

Flitch, Vaughan and Hayley.