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89: Understanding Blood & Peculiar PercussionBlood! We all have it, but how much do we know about it? And more importantly, what was the journey of understanding to get there? And just how deep can the history of these peculiar percussion instruments go? Well we'll be criss-crossing across the planet today to find out! Images we Talk About: The Quijada Son Jarocho Quijada Video The Clapper The Clapper in Performance Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:35) Understanding Blood (00:49:38) Peculiar Percussion (01:24:41) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: 5 liters of blood over 60,000 miles, humoral theory, phlegm - yellow bile - black bile - blood, I’m from house sanguine - our fire is strongest in our season of spring, humoral theory was around for 1500 YEARS, blood letting, a leeches detour just for Caroline, very few leeches actually suck blood, the exportation of leeches for blood letting made them endangered, we nearly killed the leeches in nearly killing us, leeches are sometimes used today after reconstructive surgery for their enzymes, Nafis’ circulatory system would not be believed for 400 YEARS, these time skips are killing me, Harvey was ALSO NOT BELIEVED, we stan Harvey cause he got witches acquitted, the government and church’s ban on blood transfusions, 1818 was the first recorded successful transfusion, 1658 Jan Swammerdam first saw “oval particles” but this was 7 years before the word “cell” was used, pop quiz on what the parts of blood do, don’t draw your blood while driving, blue and green blood in crustaceans and leeches, antigens and antibodies, “I hope this will be of some use to mankind”, sodium citrate helped blood stay fresh for transfusion, god medicine fucking rules, we reinvented humors with blood personality types, the humors are stored on the antigens obviously, “do you know what my blood type is, for no reason, I’m fine, it’s a podcast thing”, Tom has a slumdog millionaire moment because he was working on another video, there are 48 recognized blood groups each with dozens of antigens, having your own bloodtype means having your own bespoke horoscope, we’re averaging one blood group discovered a year, the journey of understanding blood is the journey of science, it’s hard to tell if rocks were used for a cup song routine, Caroline & Ella fall in love with the quijada, it’s a literal death rattle, “play my bones when I die”, make a jawbone that won’t break, the much sillier vibraslap can still sound good, vibraslap on All Along the Watchtower, the whip/clapper/slap stick, comedia dell’arte, the slap stick was a literal stick to make a slap sound, the christmas rise in slapsticks, the armenia alchemist Avedis Zildjian, since we were working with metal we went listen to this taaah tah tah taaah, a perfeclty clear cymbal is just a bell, a cymbal is crafted chaos to sound good, mmm this wine is very trash but not pingy, now we know Ella’s partner wasn’t just making shit up about cymbal sounds, confirming our sources for this wild Zildjian story, what do you think about this instrument?? I can’t stop making chocolate cymbals! Ringo made people want to drum, finding out Sabian is from the Zildjian family is like finding out Wendy’s last name is McDonald, a percussionist can literally touch history from all across the world, it’s about the reviews we don’t read. Sources: Science Museum: Blood J Thromb Haemost: Discovery of the Cardiovascular System Contagion - CURIOSity Digital Collections: Humoral Theory MedicineNet: Is Bloodletting Still Used Today? Fresh Water Habitats Press Release: Medicinal Leech Breeding The New Yorker: The History of Blood NCBI Book: The ABO Blood groups Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science: The Discovery of Blood Cells Red Cross Blood Services: History Of Blood Transfusions 1628 To Now NCBI Bookshelf: Blood and the Cells it Contains The Conversation: Essays on blood: why do we actually have it? Blood at 70: its roots in the history of hematology and its birth PMC: A Brief History of Human Blood Groups Japan Experience: Blood Types in Japan The Conversation: More Blood Types than you Think CBS News: New Blood Type The Conversation: Gwada-negative --- Kabeleh Bah Playing the Quijada Salsa Blanca on the Quijada John Jeremiah Sullivan on the Quijada Son Jarocho Quijada Video History of the Vibraslap Boston Symphony Orchestra on Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 2 Britannica on Slapstick's Etymology The AMNH's Slap Stick The Cymbal Test Video NPR on Zildjian's History NYT on Zildjian's History

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87: Mating Rituals & True CrimeJust how complicated can animal mating rituals be, and why did they even evolve them at all? And why is true crime Everywhere, and what can we learn from breaking down what makes it feel so icky? Also see Tom's new Game Show in NYC this Sunday! www.OurFindingsShow.com Things we Talk About: Deathwatch Beetle Red-Winged Blackbird House Finch Lesser Florican Video Dance Analysis Video 1 Dance Analysis Video 2 Cruell Step-Dames Carolina Buddies Murder Ballad Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:04) Mating Rituals (01:03:01) True Crime (01:46:08) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: the adorable death watch beetle, the deep sea “ah fuck it - you’re here” approach, of course the man on the podcast thinks reproduction is easy, why are people on hinge so picky, hermaphrodite sea bunnies, there’s plenty of fish in the sea and the sea is fucking huge, sexual ornaments, peacock feathers made Darwin SICK, sexual ornaments to identify you’re doing it with the right species, you can hang your sexual ornaments all year long for other purposes, finch dating shows, carotenoids from skilled foraging make a brighter pigment is an indicator trait, or just go to a tanning salon, going to the gym is the same - false muscles, active at night - gives you a fright - active at day - wants to get laid, wow flies give eye contact during courting - that’s better than a lot of humans, the fly cha cha slide, drosophila simlish, nuptial gifts, Women! Want! Regurgitated Nutrient Liquid! the arms race of jumping birds, the “I’ll have what she’s having theory”, dancing mannequins, intermediate level of asymmetric arm movement, if anything the study shows how comical it is to try to boil down human mating, the famous shirt smelling study, what are you trying to show with a human mating study? we shouldn’t be reductive for human mating or for animal mating either, ascribing the gender binary to worms, there is no one easy tip to dating in nature, a double banger for nuance, early crime tabloids like Illustrated Police News, Jack the Ripper was dubbed by the press after all, the prison chaplain’s broadsides, nature’s cruel step-dames or matchless monsters of the female sex, I can’t stop myself from coming up with names fro these murders, true crime lit was a best seller at public hangings, some broadsides sold 30x more than the news, the unmissable attraction of La Morgue de Paris, American Murder Ballads didn’t need you to be literate, true crime as an indicator of media trends, the vicious cycle of true crime consumption, icky entertainment motivations, working against the wishes of survivors, if only the victim had had our sponsor - simply safe, the commodification of people’s suffering, what stories do we choose not to tell, true crime seems to say there is “right” kind of victim, but true crime isn’t irredeemable. Sources: Combermere Abbey: A Hard Day’s Night For The Beetles Padi: Sea Bunny Sea Slug Courtship and Reproduction 1978 Paper: Ultraviolet reflection and its behavioral role in the courtship of the sulfur butterflies 1972 Paper: The Role of the Epaulets in the Red-Winged Blackbird, (Agelaius phoeniceus) Social System Audubon: Are Brightly Colored Males Really the Best Mates? Scientific America: Why are male birds more colorful than female birds? National Science Foundation: Bright colors in the animal kingdom: Why some use them to impress and others to intimidate 2019 Paper: Facial masculinity does not appear to be a condition-dependent male ornament and does not reflect MHC heterozygosity in humans Yale News: Yale study reveals mating tip for bird species: You should be dancing The Guardian: Dinosaurs performed dances to woo mates, according to new evidence Northumbria University: Study identifies high quality female dance movements 1995: MHC-dependent mate preferences in humans 2023 Paper: Do humans agree on which body odors are attractive, similar to the agreement observed when rating faces and voices? 2017 Paper: Humans as a model species for sexual selection research 2009 Paper: Dance dance attribution: exploring the relationship between dance and attractiveness in intial perceptions 2020 Paper: Mutual mate choice and its benefits for both sexes --- Podcast.co: How Many True Crime Podcasts Crime Reads: The Rise of the True Crime Podcaster JSTOR: The Bloody History of the True Crime Genre Henry Goodcole: Nature’s Cruel Steppe Dames NYT: The Bloody History of True Crime Lit Wellcome Collection: Paris Morgue JSTOR: The Paris Morgue Provided Ghoulish Entertainment JSTOR: The Murder Ballad Was the Original True Crime Podcast Psychology Today: Why the True Crime Audience Is Predominantly Female SAGE article: Why women are drawn to tales of rape, murder and serial killers NYT: Is Our True-Crime Obsession Doing More Harm Than Good? Gawker: True Crime is Rottnig Our Brains TIME: The Human Cost of Binge-Watching True Crime Series Reclamation: The Fascination With All That is Morbid and Macabre Binghamton University: True Crime Adaptations and How the Public Surveils University of Oregon: The true crime genre is popular, but is it ethical?

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