"Sea Monkeys Dark History" with Luke Benson
58m | Mar 9, 2021This week Saoirse Siné is joined by improvisor Luke Benson to discuss Sea Monkeys, it's crazy inventor Harold Von Braunhut and whether you may have accidentally contributed to the KKK.
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Episode Source Material
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56755/16-amazing-facts-about-sea-monkeys
https://www.theawl.com/2011/06/the-shocking-true-tale-of-the-mad-genius-who-invented-sea-monkeys/
https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/01/the-bizarre-story-of-anti-jewish-jew-harold-von-braunhut/
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/jul/22/a-petri-dish-for-racism-supremacists-message/
http://www.planetxmagazine.com/seamonkeys.htm
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-01-tm-29473-story.html
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/harold-von-braunhut
https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/01/the-bizarre-story-of-anti-jewish-jew-harold-von-braunhut/
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/hitler-and-sea-monkeys
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/us/harold-von-braunhut-seller-of-sea-monkeys-dies-at-77.html
https://www.sea-monkeys.com/about-the-sea-monkeys/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVrTqaJrS4
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-battle-over-the-sea-monkey-fortune.html
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