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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Timing of this is a little bit odd if you
ask me, but I like it.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So anyway, on Friday, what did we do Friday night?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Little Mermaid?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, thank you, Little Mermaid?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Right, so we went to Toby's Dinner Theater and we
saw The Little Mermaid and we've been talking about giving
away tickets and stuff for that. Is anybody else shocked
that the Washington Post decided to do a mermaid story
based on that?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
You mean, mm hmm, like what kind of mermaid story?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I didn't know this, So here's where I'll give them
a little bit of credit. Did you know that the
DC area is the second largest area in the country
for mermaids.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Oh hasn't Diane told us about gatherings or conventions?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Definitely?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh that's right. Wasn't there one in Montgomery County not
too long ago?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh? Yes, yeah, oh yes.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You've read all about it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The Oh yes, you know where else? It's a hotbed
of mermaids.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And if Columbia the say again, Columbia Maryland, No you're close, Laurel, No,
I'm being serious. Yeah, there's oh what they list a
couple of areas. No, they did this whole thing about
I gotta find somebody who swims at Merit clubs swimming
pool in Eldersburg, m E R R M E R
(01:20):
R I t T Merit Club swimming pool in Eldersburg
or the circus.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh no, that's the name of the pod.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh, that's what they call their groups. That's what they
call their groups. Apparently there was a whole Netflix series
or docuseries on people who I don't want to say
identify as mermaids because they're not, but that that's their thing.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They dress up as mermaids.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Men and women dress up as mermaids, and they say
there are professional mermaids.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And just.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Hobby mermaid Is this.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Different than remember the performer at the aquarium who got
stuck or something happened in the tank and she had
to quickly shed her tail. Yes, was that just a job,
that's not like a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, that's her job. That was her job.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What is going on with your stomach?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm starving. I haven't eaten since dinner last night.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
It's so loud and it just continues to go on.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That's what happens when you're hungry.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You can't ignore it because I know.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I know when it's time to feed my body. There's
a lot going on behind the scenes here. The restaurant's
not coming in, and I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Somebody is hang gry.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, I'm not hungry, but my stomach is really starting
to can you hear it?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh, God is eating itself?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well it is. I'm eating.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm eating my spleen, my bladder, I mean all of it. No,
but for example, So, no, that's not a life style,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know if I could say that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I don't know if I could say that, like, no,
it's not a lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Oh, I think it definitely is a lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You think everybody that is a mermaid at at at
Renaissance festivals all throughout the mid Atlantic is a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's a right. No, But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
There's hobby and then there is But I don't want
to call somebody's hobby a lifestyle. I don't think these
people really think they're mermaids.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh no, I'm not implying that either. It's just they
enjoy what putting on that tale brings them.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yes, Christian, will you find me somebody either a that
has that has seen them.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'd love to find somebody that is one.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Second largest mermaid population in the country is in d C.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, that makes sense why they would have had murmagic
here them?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
That was that convention that they had earlier this year?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't even remember that. Oh damn it.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
So are you gonna tell us what number one is?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, it's Florida, Florida, Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But that's the whole state. Ours is just this area.
It's not all of Maryland, all of Virginia. It's just
the area.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Because didn't I may be a little muddled on this.
The waters are murky, but when we talked we talked
to a Kansas City based artist, Catherine. Didn't she sometimes
what would be the proper term? I keep saying, throw
on the tail?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Didn't she dress up?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
See? I don't love that. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
No, because that sounds like it they're they're put on
her uniform. It's a silly thing with like kids do
dressing out. Did she mermaid?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I dressed up to go to Toby's.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
What's the verb? It's not mermaids? Out of herb?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Is your murr? People?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
No? Not the noun yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I don't know. Activity called swimming.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's not mermaiding.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, who CARESID get the terms?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, yeah you're a murmaid, you're mermaiding. I don't know.
It's not my thing.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And if there's such a big population in Laurel, have
they done an outing to Toby's there?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I don't know if the Siren Pod has gone that's
the name of their group.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Oh can I go to line one? Hi Elliott the Morning.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
A few years ago, my friend and I went to mercon.
We went as observers. We were not part of it,
but it was something to behold. It was in out
at that aquatic center out in Chantilly. I can't remember
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't that. I don't know. I'm not I'm not
up on all my aquatic centers.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
So it was it was It was like a comic con,
except for people who dress up as mermaids.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh yeah, no, I told you this is the second
largest area for mermaids in the entire country.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah. It was crazy. They were selling, you know, mermaid tails.
They had people dressed up as mermaids. They had people
who had wranglers who basically carried them around on like
decorated wagons and stuff so that they could remain in
their mermaid tails all day long.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Oh? It was something and then hey, by.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The way, Cord, let me just say this, like whatever
you want to do that makes you?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I like hockey? Right, touchboard maids.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
This is an escape, just like.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, the the the no, no, do it, do whatever
you want?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
What do?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I always tell you have some love in your heart.
Be a good person. You're good to go. If you
want to be a mermaid and you ain't hurting nobody,
go be a mermaid. They know people are gonna look
at you a little bit and go seriously, that's your
that's your thing. Now if you are the handler, now
that so that's your thing.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You just like to wheel around mermaids. Come on, come on,
say again.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
May you're just a supportive friend. You're a sleepover friend.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
No, you know what your thing that you're there to
wheel around your.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Buddy, then find it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Then find someone else in your pod to pull you around,
because I ain't walking around pulling it. Sorry, Jackie, I'm
not pulling you around in a wagon.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm here to sew your shell. Bikini.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
No, I'm not if that if this is Jackie's thing,
she'd doing it so low, I am not doing it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
At the end of the whatever you want to call it,
the con, they had all of the mermaids get in
the pool and there were I don't know, maybe two hundred,
two hundred and fifty mermaids splashing around in the pool.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No, I believe it. I'm telling you, I believe it.
All that being said, And by the way, I bet
their what Diane, I bet their tails are very expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh you know what I mean. I bet the tails
are very expensive.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Absolutely, you could have spent that's good money, you could
have spent on something else.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
My daughter went through a mermaid phase and for her
birthday one year, we got her a mermaid tail and
it was three well she was like six, but it
was like one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And by the way, and listen, I don't care what
anybody's into, Like I said, just don't hurt anybody, be
a decent human being.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Like it's not that bad. But if I came in
and this.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Is where everybody, this is where Diane is being This
is where Diane thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Diane.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If I came in and said, hey, I brought in
a video of my weekend, that's me yet.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
See you would do nothing but make fun.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But it's you because you're having so much fun and
we're envious of that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
No, you're not, No, you're not.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This was sent over on Instagram. This is the Capital
Merman who is local.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's his name.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
That's the name on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah that no, but that's him. Yes, he is Capital Merman.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Being a Mrman on a Tuesday means trading routine for
the rhythm of the waves and discovering the ocean's hidden wonders.
We need to talk to this.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Call me Murman.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
This guy.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'll keep Diane away.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, because Diana, Diane, Diane would be sweet and kind
to him.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, it should be, yes, absolutely, But if it were made,
you'd be like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Because it's not you. It's not your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You don't know that. Okay, I'm a Murman.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I love his tails.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
He's got a bunch of them.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yes, Oh, I thought you meant his story spent.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
A lot of money on those.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Where where does he swim out of?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Does that saying, oh, under the sea it appears to
be a pool.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, no, Doug, Diane, Well, where is he here though?
Is he a no?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
That now's the take of some sort look at the ground?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
No, but is that like is he at like an
aquarium or something I don't know?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Or is he on vacation beach somewhere?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Does the person who sent us his info know him?
Can they contact uh? Capital?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Mrman?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
He was in Mr People?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Was he really? Is that the Netflix? That's the Netflix show.
That's the Netflix show.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, I'm loving everything about this guy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Mermaids or the Washington area estimate they have the second
highest population in the country.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Where am I going? Line two? Pardon me? Hi? Elliott
the morning?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Hi Elliott?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Hi? My name is Dane Russell. I am in Ocean City, Maryland,
and I am a professional mermaan.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So you you are a You're but you when you
say professional, are you doing like aquariums?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Are you doing Rena Soun's fairs?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I worked with a company called mermaid Tasha, LLC based
out of Ocean City. We perform at several different pools
and hotels all over our area. We do birthday parties,
all sorts of fun stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is there a lot of money to be made in that?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I bet When as soon as you said like birthday
parties and stuff, I bet there is.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
So I don't necessarily want to get too too much
into the finances of it because contractual obligations. But for me,
like about an hour a gig, if I'm in my tail,
I make about one hundred dollars, I do it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I do it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Were you were you a mermaid first and then became
professional or did you just get into it to be
a professional.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
So I've always loved the world of mermaiding. I love
the ocean, I love, you know, being able to do
that kind of fun stuff. And I discovered it when
I was about like eight years old.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I was like, oh my.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
God, this is a real thing. I could make this
a career. I kind of straight away from it because
being a dude and being into mermaids when you get
to be like thirteen years old is kind of like,
you know, sure, I wouldn't say taboo, but you are bullied.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh, I would totally believe that.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
So I kind of like put it on hold. And
then when I turned about twenty I got to see
my first real performer in a tank at the Ocean
City Renaissance Festival. It was actually Morgana from the Circus
Siren Pod, and I was like, oh my gosh, I
this is real and all the magic that I felt
(12:50):
when I was a kid came back and I was like, Okay,
I have to do this. I have to make this happen.
And within a year of experiencing that, I actually make
it happen. You know what?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Good for you? Hey?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I was gonna ask what pod you're a part of?
Are you part of that Circus Cyrus circuit? You know
what it is? The Circus Siren Pod and Laurel.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
So I am not a member of CSP. However, a
lot of my friends that are part of the community
either are on the team right now or we're former
Circus Syroen.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Can we not say CSP like everybody knows what that is.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I'm just so used to it. I talked to so
many darnmer people.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's just quote of my vernacular.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
All right, very good, I appreciate it, Thank you very
much for the phone call.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
What event was I at? And it's funny because it's right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I worked with dsp at Monumental once on an all cast.
That's Davante Smith Pelly.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Were you guys nominated for an Emmy on that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
No, No, the one that I was nominated for we
lost with Alan May and tark Elbasher.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
At least that one got nominated.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Maybe you'll remember I will will I do recall talking
about this and it was right next door to Toby's.
But it was an event at Merriweather Post Pavilion where
I definitely saw a tank and a mermaid. Oh was
that like when it was like in the forest. It
was back by the Crystali stage. It wasn't It wasn't
(14:24):
something on the main Merriweather lawn, right, It wasn't that
thing where Seth because Seth dresses up as a mermaid occasionally.
What was it? It definitely had a a theme to it,
like there was arts and crafts and there was me.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I know what you're talking I know what you're talking about.
That No, I know exactly what you're talking about. And
there were like pathways to get all through the all
through the grounds and stuff. I know exactly what you're
talking about, but I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
What it was.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Was that a ticketed thing?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I don't remember, but he was Seth the Magic Murmaid.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
But there I'm pretty sure there was.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A mermaid in a tank.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yes, I thought you were, because sometimes sometimes if it's
an off night at the venue, Seth will just go
swim in the backstage pool.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I mean, as Seth the Magic Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You were surprised he had a pool installed.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Seth was also in Mr People. Where am I going line?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
For?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Hi? Elliet the morning?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Is this me?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Who's es.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
My name is Megan.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
My sister in law actually swims for the Circus Siren Pod.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh csp yes, yes, hey wait can I ask you
this though?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When you say your sister swims for them like that
almost like to me it would sound like and let
me see if I can explain this right, She swims
with them like it's a group. When you say for them,
are they almost like a performance group?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
That I mean? I mean that's the way I understand it.
I'm not fully involved in the world, so maybe I'm
I hope I'm not offending them by saying that way.
But she performs with them a lot, and she does.
I think it's a phenomenal, Like, she does a phenomenal
job every time I've seen it. So, I mean that's
just the way I describe it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
When like does she ever, like do you and she
ever go to like Rehoboth or something?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Does she bring her tail?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
No, she she kind of she leaves that behind. As
you mentioned earlier, it's expensive. So I don't think she
really busts that out every net, like just casually you
take when she's gonna perform.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
But she doesn't, like she doesn't like if unless it's
like a like a like a pod event. She doesn't
just show up somewhere and swim as a as a
as a mermaid.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
No, no, like honest question.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
If I was a member of huge in Vany's like
neighborhood pool and I was I was a murror people,
I could just show up there at swim right.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Somebody just sent does a video of their daughter's birthday
party in a local pool and you can see all
these little kids swimming alongside a mermaid in the pool.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh wow, dude, four a hundred bucks. I do that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I would do that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I bet that was a real thrill for the attendees.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, probably with their kids.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I understand that, but as an adult I would have
thought that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Was, Hey, is your sister always been into mermaid life?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Yeah, she always has. She got into it a few
years ago. She's been swimming for them.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
For a while.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I told her that you guys were talking about it.
So hopefully she ends up calling in and can answer
some more specific questions for you. But yeah, she's always
been into like marine life and the ocean and all
of that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Can I can I thank you, ma'am, thank you? Can
I ask a question? What is like they talk about?
Like like like the last caller, that dude was like,
I was always into like mermaid Like, I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't know what mermaid like living under the water.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I think it's more than just like she just sort
of said, it's a fascination with marine life too.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's not just being so is Hoby a mermaid without
a tail? He loves the water. He goes fishing all
the time.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I'm gonna venture and guess now.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
He may have some like home decord that says like
mermaids drink free. There was one of those in my
Airbnb in Jersey.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Let me grab line three. I have so many mermaids, Hi,
Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Hi, Yeah, I've actually met the Capitol Merman. They have
him at the Vita Clubs that you've talked about the
gym before. They had him at rest and I actually
sent Diana picture of me with the Capital Merman.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So wait a minute, Murmand shows up at like like
like like weekend parties and like she was prepared to be.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
He was hired to be there as part of like
an event that they were doing for grand opening, and
they've hired him some other weekends for Sunday brunches and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Dude, that is genius.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I just saw her email. So his custom tail costs
five thousand dollars a piece?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
No way, Yeah, I know were half hour because I
was so fascinating. He goes, oh yeah, custom tail over
five thousand, he said, between fifteen and twenty tails. It's
his full time gig.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
He's got fifteen joint hold on. Hold on, let's say
let's say let's say he's got fifteen. I'm going to
go on the low end, and it's five thousand. So
five times five is twenty five carried the two five
times one is five plus two is seven. He spent
seventy five thousand dollars on tails.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Yes, and this is his full time gig. He runs
a big Mermaid People, More People whatever convention also in Richmond.
So if there's the Richmond one, you'll see that one.
He runs that. He was on the Netflix special I
think episode two.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So he's found so he warns DC and Richmond.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
Yeah, he's totally fascinating though. Sitting and talking with him,
I did not get in the water, but I did
talk to him for a while. He came to a
couple of events like I said, cool dude, Yes, very cool,
very chill, very nice. I've seen him in and out
of the tail, totally ripped as you would expect.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
To in your core to swim right, but out of
the tail he has no voice.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
No, it's really interesting. In the makeup. I mean they
go all in the jewelry, the chest everything, jewelry. Yeah,
they have like the chains. You just saw a little Mermaid.
Did you not see their outfits?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Trenton had a Triton Triton.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
There were like shell necklaces and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It was a brawl with shells on it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
No, but they had like stuff like pins in their hair.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Of like that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I didn't pay attention to okay, because you were looking
at the bron No.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
No, I was listening to the beautiful singing. Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
He also said another thing he does to make money
is they actually get hired for movies when they need
people that can hold their breath underwater, as like stunt double.
So he gets hired to go out and does that
photo shoots for different modeling things. So that's how he
makes all his money doing. This is a full time living.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He's got three things that I can I'll never be
hired to be a mermaid. I can't hold my breath
for long, thank you, Marl. Yeah, and I don't model.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
God, damn it.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
All right, very good, very good, thank you, damn thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, you weren't captivated by Triton's head piece.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
He had a crown on.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
He had more than the crowd.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But I mean he had a wig because I met
him without the wig on. I don't know if I'm
supposed to reveal that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
What Like Mary Kay came out, she had a hood on.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
She had a robot yeah yeah, but it had a hood.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
On it because she was covering up probably part of
her costume.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, which is a brawl, remember, because we could see
Triton's armband still.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh that's right. When he was picking up dishes, you
would see the arm band.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, he was very nice. He was very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
He came over and introduced himself.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yes, hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's that.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Katie?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes, Katie? What are you a mermaid?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
No, but I'm part of Merritt Clubs and Eldersburg. I've
seen them there before.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So do they have their own time that they go swimming.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I've seen them in like the kiddie pool area, but
it was I think it was last year sometime. But
I don't know the exact times.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That they go I got Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I just I just know that they they that the
that that Eldersburg, that Eldersburg pool got mentioned as having
a pretty big pod.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yeah. I think there were five the last time I
saw them.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Oh really, and they saw the tails?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, they they saw everything there too.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh do they really dim? Maybe for the old birthday?
I get you a tail? All right, very good? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Over five hundred million dollar industry mermaid.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes, I'm in, I'm in.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I just swim with one on word.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
He could just be like a vendor at out at
an event.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
No, I'll just pull mermaids around conventions in a wagon
or something.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So it started with you at those rates.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, hi, Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Hey, uh so, first of all, I got to uh,
you know, correct some of your ignorant callers.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
They're called the people of Murder, not murror people. First
of all, But secondly, craziest.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Date ever went on this girl.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
She was obsessed with mermaids. You know. I tried to
take her to a sushi restaurant.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
She started freaking out.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Hey, you're lying, You're lying.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I promise you, I promise you. But way we get
back to her house, she's got seashells everywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You know, we start doing the deed.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
She wants me to put on a whale skin condom.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Okay, get out of here, no, I swear, Oh, Elliott,
get in back at
Timing of this is a little bit odd if you
ask me, but I like it.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So anyway, on Friday, what did we do Friday night?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Little Mermaid?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, thank you, Little Mermaid?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Right, so we went to Toby's Dinner Theater and we
saw The Little Mermaid and we've been talking about giving
away tickets and stuff for that. Is anybody else shocked
that the Washington Post decided to do a mermaid story
based on that?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
You mean, mm hmm, like what kind of mermaid story?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I didn't know this, So here's where I'll give them
a little bit of credit. Did you know that the
DC area is the second largest area in the country
for mermaids.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Oh hasn't Diane told us about gatherings or conventions?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Definitely?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh that's right. Wasn't there one in Montgomery County not
too long ago?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh? Yes, yeah, oh yes.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You've read all about it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The Oh yes, you know where else? It's a hotbed
of mermaids.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And if Columbia the say again, Columbia Maryland, No you're close, Laurel, No,
I'm being serious. Yeah, there's oh what they list a
couple of areas. No, they did this whole thing about
I gotta find somebody who swims at Merit clubs swimming
pool in Eldersburg, m E R R M E R
(01:20):
R I t T Merit Club swimming pool in Eldersburg
or the circus.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh no, that's the name of the pod.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh, that's what they call their groups. That's what they
call their groups. Apparently there was a whole Netflix series
or docuseries on people who I don't want to say
identify as mermaids because they're not, but that that's their thing.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They dress up as mermaids.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Men and women dress up as mermaids, and they say
there are professional mermaids.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And just.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Hobby mermaid Is this.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Different than remember the performer at the aquarium who got
stuck or something happened in the tank and she had
to quickly shed her tail. Yes, was that just a job,
that's not like a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, that's her job. That was her job.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What is going on with your stomach?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm starving. I haven't eaten since dinner last night.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
It's so loud and it just continues to go on.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That's what happens when you're hungry.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You can't ignore it because I know.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I know when it's time to feed my body. There's
a lot going on behind the scenes here. The restaurant's
not coming in, and I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Somebody is hang gry.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, I'm not hungry, but my stomach is really starting
to can you hear it?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh, God is eating itself?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well it is. I'm eating.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm eating my spleen, my bladder, I mean all of it. No,
but for example, So, no, that's not a life style,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know if I could say that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I don't know if I could say that, like, no,
it's not a lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Oh, I think it definitely is a lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You think everybody that is a mermaid at at at
Renaissance festivals all throughout the mid Atlantic is a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's a right. No, But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
There's hobby and then there is But I don't want
to call somebody's hobby a lifestyle. I don't think these
people really think they're mermaids.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh no, I'm not implying that either. It's just they
enjoy what putting on that tale brings them.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yes, Christian, will you find me somebody either a that
has that has seen them.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'd love to find somebody that is one.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Second largest mermaid population in the country is in d C.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, that makes sense why they would have had murmagic
here them?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
That was that convention that they had earlier this year?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't even remember that. Oh damn it.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
So are you gonna tell us what number one is?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, it's Florida, Florida, Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But that's the whole state. Ours is just this area.
It's not all of Maryland, all of Virginia. It's just
the area.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Because didn't I may be a little muddled on this.
The waters are murky, but when we talked we talked
to a Kansas City based artist, Catherine. Didn't she sometimes
what would be the proper term? I keep saying, throw
on the tail?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Didn't she dress up?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
See? I don't love that. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
No, because that sounds like it they're they're put on
her uniform. It's a silly thing with like kids do
dressing out. Did she mermaid?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I dressed up to go to Toby's.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
What's the verb? It's not mermaids? Out of herb?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Is your murr? People?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
No? Not the noun yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I don't know. Activity called swimming.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's not mermaiding.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, who CARESID get the terms?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, yeah you're a murmaid, you're mermaiding. I don't know.
It's not my thing.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And if there's such a big population in Laurel, have
they done an outing to Toby's there?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I don't know if the Siren Pod has gone that's
the name of their group.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Oh can I go to line one? Hi Elliott the Morning.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
A few years ago, my friend and I went to mercon.
We went as observers. We were not part of it,
but it was something to behold. It was in out
at that aquatic center out in Chantilly. I can't remember
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't that. I don't know. I'm not I'm not
up on all my aquatic centers.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
So it was it was It was like a comic con,
except for people who dress up as mermaids.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh yeah, no, I told you this is the second
largest area for mermaids in the entire country.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah. It was crazy. They were selling, you know, mermaid tails.
They had people dressed up as mermaids. They had people
who had wranglers who basically carried them around on like
decorated wagons and stuff so that they could remain in
their mermaid tails all day long.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Oh? It was something and then hey, by.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The way, Cord, let me just say this, like whatever
you want to do that makes you?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I like hockey? Right, touchboard maids.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
This is an escape, just like.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, the the the no, no, do it, do whatever
you want?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
What do?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I always tell you have some love in your heart.
Be a good person. You're good to go. If you
want to be a mermaid and you ain't hurting nobody,
go be a mermaid. They know people are gonna look
at you a little bit and go seriously, that's your
that's your thing. Now if you are the handler, now
that so that's your thing.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You just like to wheel around mermaids. Come on, come on,
say again.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
May you're just a supportive friend. You're a sleepover friend.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
No, you know what your thing that you're there to
wheel around your.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Buddy, then find it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Then find someone else in your pod to pull you around,
because I ain't walking around pulling it. Sorry, Jackie, I'm
not pulling you around in a wagon.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm here to sew your shell. Bikini.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
No, I'm not if that if this is Jackie's thing,
she'd doing it so low, I am not doing it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
At the end of the whatever you want to call it,
the con, they had all of the mermaids get in
the pool and there were I don't know, maybe two hundred,
two hundred and fifty mermaids splashing around in the pool.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No, I believe it. I'm telling you, I believe it.
All that being said, And by the way, I bet
their what Diane, I bet their tails are very expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh you know what I mean. I bet the tails
are very expensive.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Absolutely, you could have spent that's good money, you could
have spent on something else.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
My daughter went through a mermaid phase and for her
birthday one year, we got her a mermaid tail and
it was three well she was like six, but it
was like one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And by the way, and listen, I don't care what
anybody's into, Like I said, just don't hurt anybody, be
a decent human being.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Like it's not that bad. But if I came in
and this.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Is where everybody, this is where Diane is being This
is where Diane thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Diane.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If I came in and said, hey, I brought in
a video of my weekend, that's me yet.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
See you would do nothing but make fun.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But it's you because you're having so much fun and
we're envious of that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
No, you're not, No, you're not.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This was sent over on Instagram. This is the Capital
Merman who is local.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's his name.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
That's the name on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah that no, but that's him. Yes, he is Capital Merman.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Being a Mrman on a Tuesday means trading routine for
the rhythm of the waves and discovering the ocean's hidden wonders.
We need to talk to this.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Call me Murman.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
This guy.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'll keep Diane away.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, because Diana, Diane, Diane would be sweet and kind
to him.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, it should be, yes, absolutely, But if it were made,
you'd be like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Because it's not you. It's not your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You don't know that. Okay, I'm a Murman.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I love his tails.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
He's got a bunch of them.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yes, Oh, I thought you meant his story spent.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
A lot of money on those.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Where where does he swim out of?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Does that saying, oh, under the sea it appears to
be a pool.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, no, Doug, Diane, Well, where is he here though?
Is he a no?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
That now's the take of some sort look at the ground?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
No, but is that like is he at like an
aquarium or something I don't know?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Or is he on vacation beach somewhere?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Does the person who sent us his info know him?
Can they contact uh? Capital?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Mrman?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
He was in Mr People?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Was he really? Is that the Netflix? That's the Netflix show.
That's the Netflix show.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, I'm loving everything about this guy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Mermaids or the Washington area estimate they have the second
highest population in the country.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Where am I going? Line two? Pardon me? Hi? Elliott
the morning?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Hi Elliott?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Hi? My name is Dane Russell. I am in Ocean City, Maryland,
and I am a professional mermaan.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So you you are a You're but you when you
say professional, are you doing like aquariums?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Are you doing Rena Soun's fairs?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I worked with a company called mermaid Tasha, LLC based
out of Ocean City. We perform at several different pools
and hotels all over our area. We do birthday parties,
all sorts of fun stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is there a lot of money to be made in that?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I bet When as soon as you said like birthday
parties and stuff, I bet there is.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
So I don't necessarily want to get too too much
into the finances of it because contractual obligations. But for me,
like about an hour a gig, if I'm in my tail,
I make about one hundred dollars, I do it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I do it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Were you were you a mermaid first and then became
professional or did you just get into it to be
a professional.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
So I've always loved the world of mermaiding. I love
the ocean, I love, you know, being able to do
that kind of fun stuff. And I discovered it when
I was about like eight years old.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I was like, oh my.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
God, this is a real thing. I could make this
a career. I kind of straight away from it because
being a dude and being into mermaids when you get
to be like thirteen years old is kind of like,
you know, sure, I wouldn't say taboo, but you are bullied.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh, I would totally believe that.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
So I kind of like put it on hold. And
then when I turned about twenty I got to see
my first real performer in a tank at the Ocean
City Renaissance Festival. It was actually Morgana from the Circus
Siren Pod, and I was like, oh my gosh, I
this is real and all the magic that I felt
(12:50):
when I was a kid came back and I was like, Okay,
I have to do this. I have to make this happen.
And within a year of experiencing that, I actually make
it happen. You know what?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Good for you? Hey?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I was gonna ask what pod you're a part of?
Are you part of that Circus Cyrus circuit? You know
what it is? The Circus Siren Pod and Laurel.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
So I am not a member of CSP. However, a
lot of my friends that are part of the community
either are on the team right now or we're former
Circus Syroen.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Can we not say CSP like everybody knows what that is.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I'm just so used to it. I talked to so
many darnmer people.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's just quote of my vernacular.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
All right, very good, I appreciate it, Thank you very
much for the phone call.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
What event was I at? And it's funny because it's right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I worked with dsp at Monumental once on an all cast.
That's Davante Smith Pelly.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Were you guys nominated for an Emmy on that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
No, No, the one that I was nominated for we
lost with Alan May and tark Elbasher.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
At least that one got nominated.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Maybe you'll remember I will will I do recall talking
about this and it was right next door to Toby's.
But it was an event at Merriweather Post Pavilion where
I definitely saw a tank and a mermaid. Oh was
that like when it was like in the forest. It
was back by the Crystali stage. It wasn't It wasn't
(14:24):
something on the main Merriweather lawn, right, It wasn't that
thing where Seth because Seth dresses up as a mermaid occasionally.
What was it? It definitely had a a theme to it,
like there was arts and crafts and there was me.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I know what you're talking I know what you're talking about.
That No, I know exactly what you're talking about. And
there were like pathways to get all through the all
through the grounds and stuff. I know exactly what you're
talking about, but I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
What it was.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Was that a ticketed thing?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I don't remember, but he was Seth the Magic Murmaid.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
But there I'm pretty sure there was.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A mermaid in a tank.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yes, I thought you were, because sometimes sometimes if it's
an off night at the venue, Seth will just go
swim in the backstage pool.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I mean, as Seth the Magic Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You were surprised he had a pool installed.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Seth was also in Mr People. Where am I going line?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
For?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Hi? Elliet the morning?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Is this me?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Who's es.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
My name is Megan.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
My sister in law actually swims for the Circus Siren Pod.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh csp yes, yes, hey wait can I ask you
this though?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When you say your sister swims for them like that
almost like to me it would sound like and let
me see if I can explain this right, She swims
with them like it's a group. When you say for them,
are they almost like a performance group?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
That I mean? I mean that's the way I understand it.
I'm not fully involved in the world, so maybe I'm
I hope I'm not offending them by saying that way.
But she performs with them a lot, and she does.
I think it's a phenomenal, Like, she does a phenomenal
job every time I've seen it. So, I mean that's
just the way I describe it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
When like does she ever, like do you and she
ever go to like Rehoboth or something?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Does she bring her tail?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
No, she she kind of she leaves that behind. As
you mentioned earlier, it's expensive. So I don't think she
really busts that out every net, like just casually you
take when she's gonna perform.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
But she doesn't, like she doesn't like if unless it's
like a like a like a pod event. She doesn't
just show up somewhere and swim as a as a
as a mermaid.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
No, no, like honest question.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
If I was a member of huge in Vany's like
neighborhood pool and I was I was a murror people,
I could just show up there at swim right.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Somebody just sent does a video of their daughter's birthday
party in a local pool and you can see all
these little kids swimming alongside a mermaid in the pool.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh wow, dude, four a hundred bucks. I do that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I would do that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I bet that was a real thrill for the attendees.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, probably with their kids.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I understand that, but as an adult I would have
thought that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Was, Hey, is your sister always been into mermaid life?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Yeah, she always has. She got into it a few
years ago. She's been swimming for them.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
For a while.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I told her that you guys were talking about it.
So hopefully she ends up calling in and can answer
some more specific questions for you. But yeah, she's always
been into like marine life and the ocean and all
of that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Can I can I thank you, ma'am, thank you? Can
I ask a question? What is like they talk about?
Like like like the last caller, that dude was like,
I was always into like mermaid Like, I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't know what mermaid like living under the water.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I think it's more than just like she just sort
of said, it's a fascination with marine life too.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's not just being so is Hoby a mermaid without
a tail? He loves the water. He goes fishing all
the time.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I'm gonna venture and guess now.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
He may have some like home decord that says like
mermaids drink free. There was one of those in my
Airbnb in Jersey.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Let me grab line three. I have so many mermaids, Hi,
Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Hi, Yeah, I've actually met the Capitol Merman. They have
him at the Vita Clubs that you've talked about the
gym before. They had him at rest and I actually
sent Diana picture of me with the Capital Merman.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So wait a minute, Murmand shows up at like like
like like weekend parties and like she was prepared to be.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
He was hired to be there as part of like
an event that they were doing for grand opening, and
they've hired him some other weekends for Sunday brunches and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Dude, that is genius.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I just saw her email. So his custom tail costs
five thousand dollars a piece?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
No way, Yeah, I know were half hour because I
was so fascinating. He goes, oh yeah, custom tail over
five thousand, he said, between fifteen and twenty tails. It's
his full time gig.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
He's got fifteen joint hold on. Hold on, let's say
let's say let's say he's got fifteen. I'm going to
go on the low end, and it's five thousand. So
five times five is twenty five carried the two five
times one is five plus two is seven. He spent
seventy five thousand dollars on tails.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Yes, and this is his full time gig. He runs
a big Mermaid People, More People whatever convention also in Richmond.
So if there's the Richmond one, you'll see that one.
He runs that. He was on the Netflix special I
think episode two.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So he's found so he warns DC and Richmond.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
Yeah, he's totally fascinating though. Sitting and talking with him,
I did not get in the water, but I did
talk to him for a while. He came to a
couple of events like I said, cool dude, Yes, very cool,
very chill, very nice. I've seen him in and out
of the tail, totally ripped as you would expect.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
To in your core to swim right, but out of
the tail he has no voice.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
No, it's really interesting. In the makeup. I mean they
go all in the jewelry, the chest everything, jewelry. Yeah,
they have like the chains. You just saw a little Mermaid.
Did you not see their outfits?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Trenton had a Triton Triton.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
There were like shell necklaces and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It was a brawl with shells on it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
No, but they had like stuff like pins in their hair.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Of like that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I didn't pay attention to okay, because you were looking
at the bron No.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
No, I was listening to the beautiful singing. Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
He also said another thing he does to make money
is they actually get hired for movies when they need
people that can hold their breath underwater, as like stunt double.
So he gets hired to go out and does that
photo shoots for different modeling things. So that's how he
makes all his money doing. This is a full time living.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He's got three things that I can I'll never be
hired to be a mermaid. I can't hold my breath
for long, thank you, Marl. Yeah, and I don't model.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
God, damn it.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
All right, very good, very good, thank you, damn thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, you weren't captivated by Triton's head piece.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
He had a crown on.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
He had more than the crowd.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But I mean he had a wig because I met
him without the wig on. I don't know if I'm
supposed to reveal that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
What Like Mary Kay came out, she had a hood on.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
She had a robot yeah yeah, but it had a hood.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
On it because she was covering up probably part of
her costume.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, which is a brawl, remember, because we could see
Triton's armband still.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh that's right. When he was picking up dishes, you
would see the arm band.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, he was very nice. He was very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
He came over and introduced himself.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yes, hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's that.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Katie?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes, Katie? What are you a mermaid?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
No, but I'm part of Merritt Clubs and Eldersburg. I've
seen them there before.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So do they have their own time that they go swimming.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I've seen them in like the kiddie pool area, but
it was I think it was last year sometime. But
I don't know the exact times.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That they go I got Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I just I just know that they they that the
that that Eldersburg, that Eldersburg pool got mentioned as having
a pretty big pod.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yeah. I think there were five the last time I
saw them.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Oh really, and they saw the tails?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, they they saw everything there too.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh do they really dim? Maybe for the old birthday?
I get you a tail? All right, very good? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Over five hundred million dollar industry mermaid.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes, I'm in, I'm in.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I just swim with one on word.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
He could just be like a vendor at out at
an event.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
No, I'll just pull mermaids around conventions in a wagon
or something.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So it started with you at those rates.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, hi, Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Hey, uh so, first of all, I got to uh,
you know, correct some of your ignorant callers.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
They're called the people of Murder, not murror people. First
of all, But secondly, craziest.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Date ever went on this girl.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
She was obsessed with mermaids. You know. I tried to
take her to a sushi restaurant.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
She started freaking out.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Hey, you're lying, You're lying.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I promise you, I promise you. But way we get
back to her house, she's got seashells everywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You know, we start doing the deed.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
She wants me to put on a whale skin condom.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Okay, get out of here, no, I swear, Oh, Elliott,
get in back at
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