I'm jacket Emma contributing writer for the New York Times magazine I'm recordings my bunker here. My save corona three bunker here and New Haven Connecticut. So yet in this age of corona virus isolation. I thought it might be nice to deceive story but see monkeys you know amazing live see, monkeys, I don't have you had as a kid. I did they may remember. You bought these off the back page of comic books years ago and still you can still for sale, and get the subtle aquarium. There was no bigger than your fists and you know you would Grow these things out of these packets I should. I should say that I, you know I've done a lot of radio, and so in the past I used to sit in my office, which has a lot of echo that we just put a toy over my head with the tape recorder, undress and that worked well for short bed.

But you need to read an entire peace for basically a half an hour. It was insufferable, so I created recording studio. You know in my basement- and that was my recording booth for for the story, I was sitting on the sole music chair that I just dragged in from the seller. It's an old share that I've been meaning to fix for a long time and anyway, at a certain moment. I just felt this weird sensation. It was like somebody rather anger at my back then about two second later in the entire region. This collapse from Bunderby I requested to the floor, and thankfully, the tape recorder. Bizarre Anyway. This is a story about amazing lives, z, monkeys and, frankly, it has nothing to do with the corona virus. It's just a string. Julie, very american story, and it's never about

time to remind ourselves as the just who we are ass Americans in crisis or not. Here's the story The battle over the sea monkey fortune published in the New York Times, written by jacket, recorded by jacket in jackets basement this pat cast, is supported by each Trading isn't for everyone, but he trade is whether at saving for a rainy day or you retirement, each trade has you covered. They can help. You check financial off your list and with a team of professionals, giving you support. When you need it, you can be confident that your money is working hard for you get more than just trading with e trade to get started, visit each dot com, such pot cast for more information, each Securities LLC member FIN as Ipc the way the lawyer, William Timmins, described the case. It was practically

newsreel melodrama, but the helpless widow being menaced by a heartless tycoon. The story began with the widow, whose name is your lunch Senor relate of Unbound Hut, the one time heir to the considerable fortune still generated by her husband, heralds iconic, invention, amazing lives, see monkeys ass. Her lawyer told it. Was no isolated cash. Starved often without trinity or running water? On a palatial estate on the Potomac ever in southern Maryland? Having it, to a single room in the old mansion? She was pressing for her second freezing winner barricaded by thick quilts. Her bed, next to a fireplace stock was split, would from this bunker Senor relevant brown tat, been waging legal, combat against same power chief executive of a big time toy company

whose name seems straight out of a Chuck Jones Cartoon big time. Toys in his tiny office and say bill among on Timmins spoken clipped near nor toads. Handing the five page summary of the case eager to executive produced the plot line, the heart and soul of this case is trademark infringement. He said senior relevant Brown had believes in the concept of justice he continued and when you have that on your side, then you can get through the day. A few years after her husband's death in two thousand and three senior relevant Brown hut licensed out part of the labour of his multi million dollar, see monkey enterprise mostly packaging and distribution, to big time. If you ve ever been eight years old, then you know that Sea These arrive in a small plastic aquarium with several small packets that include

The tiny brine shrimp critters, which reanimate once you add water. By way of a secret formula, that senior relevant Brown hut keeps locked in a vault in. In the original deal held. That big time would supply everything except the specially engineered critters and the accompanying packets, which VON Brown Hut would mean factor and sell separately to big time, which were then bundle. The full kids and handle the sales. Also in the contract was a second deal too by the company, including the secret formula. It allowed big time to pay a straight up: five main dollar fee. Then five dollars more installments three winters ago, bigtime called up the widow and announced that it considered its previous payments for the packets. Be a kind of layaway deal for the company and that, as far as big time was concerned, it now owned the sea monkey franchise.

Senor relevant Brown had pursued in two thousand and thirteen and last year, Timmins filed further complaint, accusing big time of breach of contract and trademark infringement big times national law, firm, Epstein, Becker and Green, sent me a statement denying any wrong doing in claiming instead that the widow improperly terminated the contract in a particularly contemporary twisted melodrama big times court. Finally, revealed that it was now buying knock off, see monkeys from China. This is David and Goliath story. Timmins said only without a slingshot. Tim and ensure this have to invite me to look around his office is to be generous, snug, There was barely enough room for me. It was surprised with the door didn't bang his desk. Isn't that Alan coming gagged from the tv show, the good wife Timmins is a tall thin man with some Nicholas caging this to him.

At times he seemed uninterested, not so much in seamen he's, but maybe in the law in general or just in the wanted. Quote in reality in the which we are all born. A convict. Patient, easily swerved off topic in and say a debate bill Mars Pithy or about how could we are all individuals at the tail end of a universe expressing itself or Timmins is rock band which play in the local bars under changing names like Rainbow Bridge and dreamworld. He likes renaissance rock. It's a convergence. Lenin asked with him ex overtones and some Dylan maybe dinosaur. At this point he told me it's altruistic, seeking the higher ground instead of just lamenting upon the human condition. Timmins represents Yolanda VON Cinderella Brown Hut because years ago he used to go to this legendary Halloween Party, hosted by

larger than life opera, singer known as Maestro Senor Ellie, a bohemian possessed of his team and says This gravitate national, like field of energy, the great patriarch of a bustling family, Senor Ellie, taught Bell Canto to locals, determined to improve their colours His annual Halloween mass ball attracted hundreds of musicians, dancers and artists. All came in their most flamboyant costumes, some attended, if only to meet one of his five beautiful daughters. The second youngest Yolanda was particularly studying and began a film career in the mid nineties sixties. She played Lorelei than the nineteen. Sixty seven bondage classic VI this in furs, based on the Leopold Bun Suffer, must acknowledge all of that same name as well,

various mixes in all women are bad too much too often, death of a nymph fat and assignment female. I wash three of them for research. And was struck mostly by how these films appeared long before the phrase money shot entered the lexicon and the directors mandatory seen list. When I only screwed up the courage to ask any relevant brown had about her previous career. She casually said in those days they might have been racy, but today I don't think so, which is true if anything. Her brief movie career looks presently Campi Less like porn, then like a make Myers parity titled cool baby, which is also the title of a nineteen sixty seven senora live on brown tat film. On paper, including the legal. Some rate timmins gave me the issues of July

The Van Brown versus bigtime toys might be technical breach of contract shore until you find yourself reading affidavits. That suggest that this could be one of those unusual contests, not of law, but of meaning. Not the tail end of a universe, expressing itself definitely one that leads into that lively place between ordinary truth and hopeful dreams and all the way to the essential contradiction at the core of the american character As it happened, senior relevant brown, but was visiting long island that very afternoon to see her sister, we met at Timmins his office and then walked down to the Aegean. Cafe stakes, seafood, pasta on main street for a lot but Brown Hut is a very good looking woman, whose age I'm just to chicken to ask, but if she was eighteen,

she told me when she started her film career, one thousand nine hundred and sixty six and she's about seventy. Now she is trim and decades younger, looking and skin tight jeans and an equally engaged v neck top reminiscent of the ageless Sofia, L'Wren or Raquel Welch. She has an artful, must have dark, hair, framing a smile that slow to form but amplified by flirtatious eyes that sparkled at the end of each sentence or salad. She said she was eager for me to understand the inventive genius of her husband, Harold beginning in the 1950s and 60s. He took out patents on a hundred and ninety six different inventions, gadgets and toys that hole ass page abstaining novelties found in comic books for years was the domain of Harold than Brown Hut. He also raised motorcycles under the name, the Green horn, it he was a some time, television producer and the agent for one of them guys who high dived into awaiting pool with twelve inches of water. He was a magician.

Work under the name. The great tulip, oh, she said He also invented the direct them at a device into which you punched your destiny. In the New York City and the machine told you the fastest subway route, half a century before Google MAPS, see, monkeys were run, Brown had most lucrative toy and still are in two thousand and six. According to the findings of this lawsuit, sales three point: four million dollars, part of what made see monkey successful was a scientific bread through Harold than Braun had claimed he achieved in the early years. In nineteen. Sixty after observing the successive uncle Milton's aunt farm from Brown had stuttered shipping infinite life simple, Brian Shrimp that could travel in their natural state of suspended animation was the era when a good idea with smart marketing was the dream. The F Duncans Yoyo George Parkers Monopoly Game, Ruth Handlers,

Barbie around the same time, the big time to a company of the day we ammo started selling a similar product called instant fish, which was an immediate dead. They didn't work because the formula wasn't thought through properly Cinderella. Man Brown had said why most product was actually african. Killy fish, which were supposed to come back to life when we hydrated, but they didn't so it really hurt sales. For Harold too, when was nineteen, sixty failure led Non Braun had to read introduces creation with new science and a new concept. You worked with a marine biologist named Anthony Dagestan out and using a proxy they worked with the brine shrimps. Coordination, they created a hybrid Brian Trout, they could more easily survived the United States postal Service and be more likely to flourish to re animation

with the brine shrimp species, Arteria, Selina and because and making their breakthrough at my contacts and why what's out the New York Ocean Science Laboratory, they called their new hybrid party, MIA Neos, and why os I contacted D'Agostino at his home, but his wife said he was seriously ill and couldn't come to the phone According to Richard Perle, who maintains an aquarium of sea monkeys at the center for posts, natural history in Pittsburgh, alongside displays about spider, silk, producing goats and other attractions heat Me they were selectively bread in the early seven days so that they would have this extra long, dormant cycle in their eggs state and they were able to increase that yield so that you get that satisfying swarm Pell admits is worried these days. The new ones come from China, he said, and they are.

Technically not see monkeys, because they don't come from that original culture developed by Harold and Doktor Dagestan O over coffee Senor. Only VON Brown had talked about this. Miller for altering the shrimp is one of her husbands, greatest scientific breakthroughs. His greatest invention, Timmins himself jumped into that heralds. Genius was, with the science, get them to live for a prolonged period of time. She agreed said. Yes, he went to tremendous efforts to make sure that day, Should I elaborate on that amendment said abruptly? No, whenever the science came up in fact, timmins shoot me away. Senor. Eleven Brown had met her husband in the late nineteenth sixtys. When she happened.

In the audience for taping of a television programme, he was producing for the magician Joseph done injure. Harold was such an exciting person. Senor relevant Brown had said explaining why she set her movie queer side. Show business was kind of a tough thing, and I am not into all that myself, I like being around Harold and the sea monkeys. So she went to work for him and later they married well done injure, has been largely forgotten. The couples fortuitous meaning on the set, came at a critical juncture in the development of american magic and marketing damages served as a bridge that led away from life performance, deigning to old school bud. Villain, stagecraft and toward the small stage of television were magic was more patter than prestidigitation. More possess than performance. Harold VON Braun had was the perfect,

listen to attend to the shift does he was in a sense, a kind of marketing, Jedi Master. Remember amazing: hair raising monsters, a bald troll printed on the car, the grow green mineral locks when watered that was when Braun huts and although his novelty toys were once they arrived a bit disappointing. The marketing of them was a wonder of what we ve all come to know as infomercial ism, he's crazy. Crabs were nothing more than hermit crabs and a little cardboard box, but the ad copy described another world as gentlest pussy. Cat did lives on land instead of water does not bite unless mishandled net loves to be touched and petted. And enjoys running from hand to hand swinging from your fingers just cuddled. On your shoulder like an adorable tame parrot was see, monkeys Van Brandt

is marketing to new levels. He spun of numerous whimsical books without kinds of imaginary advice for caring for the tiny creatures you could cobble them. Was monkeys banana treat or bizarre meeting powder inside joke for the arthropoda geologists, see monkeys, don't monkeys, don't always need were timely. Variations of the toy. There was a space, see my see, Monkey Speedway deployed giant, I dropped to giant race courses to create equipment was re purpose and the kids for sea monkeys ski trials, see monkeys, Fox Hunt and see monkeys, mystery, Robo Diver in ninety. Ninety two

PS broadcast to see mucky tv show starring, naturally how we men down to this day. There is a website for sea monkeys zealots, whose James C monkey Lore and kitty enthusiasms. What made brown has worked so edgy, so American was just how wickedly far he journey far pass the product itself into the fictional. I remember X, Ray specks also Van Brandt Huts, with that promise of seeing girls naked beneath their clothes. As my earth shattering disillusionment with the world of adults and all their horrible lies. Senor eleven Braun had told me that house purist novelty was his invisible goldfish. It was a good ass ball with some see plants. She said than a sign that said: invisible, goldfish do not feed the kit came with a printed guarantee, that you'd never see them not ever

I appreciated the joke in the nineteen seventies, at the height of a nation, wide focus on consumer protection. New York's attorney General Louis left duets, when after Bunbury The suit against Harold by Louis left, go what's Senor relevant Brown had said, argued that sea monkeys were fraudulent because it's a fantasy, a federal judge who were viewed left, go its case was amused by the attorney general's intense concern. According to the judge left, which argued that the novelties marketing included when Braun Huts claim that sea monkeys are covered by limited group, see Monkey life insurance policy left go its demand Did the Van Brown had seized the usage of the name, see monkeys in the sale of brine shrimp because they were not miniature monkeys and our

a miracle or anything new scientifically finally left go. It's beseech the courts to enjoy the issuance of insurance policies covering see monkeys, and the legal record is not clear that left duets got any further than legally stick tantrum, but Senor relevant Brown, who remembers that judge coming down on the side of Whimsie see monkeys were vindicated. She said the judge compared the issued a sponge cake. It's not a sponge and butterflies are not made of butter. But apparently this fundamental question about c monkeys was not settled in the scores of files that have already been entered into court for the current litigation. One is an affidavit by same Hartwell. The chief executive of big time toys- he's a very powerful man in Nashville, not only because he owns a big time to accompany, but also because his wife best Hartwell is the speaker of the Tennessee. Has a record.

Additives are to return. My phone calls, but big time has to sell, see, monkeys to Walmart and toys or us even after Yolanda claimed a breach of contract and quit sending out the specially formulated shrimp, and this affidavit harmful, explains precisely why he out source to see monkeys to China. He declares that there are seven recognise species of our team, you Brian Shrimp, and that our Timmy nears quote claim by plaintiffs is not one of them, because it's a hybrid, regular, old salt lake, brine shrub, at least in terms of their size and life expectancy, are indistinguishable from the pouch is supplied by plaintiffs. In essence, Haro is making a kind of existential case about the fundamentals of em

and marketing and a familiar one he's practically picking up were left? Go what's left off by arguing that there is no there. There seem to be wise. It's all part of the confidence game, part of the share its humbug. And if the issues and hobbles affidavit go forward, then that is what may be untrodden humbug when pity Barnett the great nineteenth century, impresario of public entertainment and co, founder of the I am in Bailey Circus popularized that word humbug. He was talking exactly about things like see. Monkeys, most assume is horrible, might but the word is synonymous with total nonsense and absolute fraud, but that over generalization Missis, Burnham Sly Nuance humbug

not a lot. I, the great commodities to say quote no humbug, his great without truth at bottom. It's unfair to say that Barnum peddled pure fantasy, great humbug, simply took off from a small truth in use to show people what they wanted to say in his own way. Pity Barnum was the greatest cognitive scientists of the nineteenth century. He understood that when you pit humbug against harsh reality. Reality doesn't stand a chance, knowing this explained so much world wrestling. Taco Bell, Donald Trump Humbug is, as American is writs cracker apple pie, which his wife monkeys are involved in a lawsuit. Now, then, why Barnum get tangled up in one in his time. Let it go

The nature of humbug, the case involved one of the biggest tourist attractions after the civil war, the eighteen sixty nine discovery of the Cardiff giant and a little town of that name nor Syracuse tissues. Nowadays, there was an argument between rationalists and people of faith about the science in the Bible. In this case whether the giants described in the scriptures real people forget that the reason God flooded the entire earth during the time of Noah is that angels in humans kept having lots of illicit sacks, an inadvertent They created a race of derange giants at the time. Fossil had become one of the buzzwords and the popular battle between darwinian scientists and angry pastors. So a cigar maker named George Hall, but it would be entertaining the fabricated fossil of one of Knowest giants. He had a ten foot man secretly sculpted

treated it to look old and then buried it in rural New York state where he contrived to have it found instantly. Massive crowds of astounded Christian started pouring into town eager to see biblical, proof and the petrified man with a twenty one, inch long feet and the six inch knows I'm a businessman headed by a man named David Handsome pity Barnum instantly offered hand em in the consortium. Fifty thousand dollars to buy the Cardiff giant. No doubt convinced that humbug of this magnitude really deserved his marketing skills Hannah decline, but he clearly did not. Pity Barnum instantly offered hand em in the consortium. Fifty thousand dollars to buy the Cardiff giant. No doubt convinced that humbug of this magnitude really deserved. His marketing skills have declined, but he clearly did not appreciate just whom he

up against Barnum, had his own copy carved and rushed his giant to New York City. At one point, the fake giant and the knock off fake giant were being exhibited. Two blocks from each other, Barnum's marketing drew much larger crowds and even his whole, the original forger publicly confessed that the original giant was a fake Hannah took Barnum to court. The judge, of course, ruled in favour of Barnum. You can't be sued for calling a fake, fake humbug one and the giants toward for years afterwards before the judges. Eighteen, seventy ruling handsome still believed in his child.

Authenticity and feel about the popularity of Barnum's saying, there's a sucker born every minute. Many mistakenly ascribe the remarked a pity Barnum himself and his understandable. The quote has a way of making complete sets, no matter which side you're. On a few weeks after lunch, Senor, relevant Brown. Had I visited the grandest state built by sea, monkeys south of the nation's capital, just off the road cold, hard bargain large metal gates decorated with prancing wrought iron, see monkeys, into a number of no trespassing sides about a mile down the road turned into farmland. The barn and a scallops would bridge decorated with large festive red bows crossing upon gleaming, with bright chartreuse scum from the trees. Like a visual allusion, a large brick house emerges near by a small rave propane generators, throw

inside Yolanda Senor, relevant Brown Hut, greeted by warmly She invited me into her kitchen where propane heater was at work. The common cooler held her comestibles and a camping stove heated us up some tea, a large yellow bird in the kitchen hopped around upset, thus Josephine, a copper too, who flew into my window in New York and nineteen. Eighty one she said ass. She fixed vague and snacks and recommended some anti oxidizing super plant protein called wild force green formula. It helps you d age. She said through hallway crowded, with scores of piling angel dolls and various cherub em. We parted a few warming curtains to the living room and entered a cabinet of wonders. Whimsies abounded on the table beside me. The snow white LAMP Bambi Figurine see Monkey Babo heads on the wall

there was a painting of her mother whose all american beauty seem familiar. I met the artists with Superman Senor only one Brown had said he had a few Lois Lane models and she was one of them. Senor eleven Brown was dressed in tight genes with a deco, TAJ guess top Josephine perched on her shoulder for the duration of my visit. Occasionally striking angry bird poses an voicing some shrewd concern, I queries Senor relevant brown hat, elaborated about what happened after the willow instant fish disaster. That was when her husband change, the name from instant life and started marketing them as Making life see monkeys There are no water castle Van Brandt. Her took this new marketing to the back page of comics, but one place where he could bypass parental sceptic. No, it a sea monkey family with three antennas wagging on their heads and long panels,

ales lounging outside their underwater Castle Van Brandt, who took this new marketing to the back page of comics, but one place where he could bypass parental scepticism and speak directly to children's imaginations. His campaign was a textbook case of what we now call. Native priming. That is the deep cerebral desire. We all have to see what we expect to see. So, when you biasing ticket, you get the tiny plastic aquarium. And fitted into the sides, are little magnifying lenses that enhance the tiny brine shrimp just enough setting off a little motion picture in your head of itty bitty primates swinging to and fro by their curve tails gambling in a watery jungle

real innovation may never have been the secret formula of his brine trap, but the cognitive ignition of those four perfect words of distilled Humbuggery amazing live see, monkeys, That alone may well have been enough to laughed Harold Van Brandt, her into the pantheon of toy inventors, alongside Uncle Milton Levine Ds Duncan and George Parker, except for one almost unimaginable and horrible thing Harold VON Brandt had was a NEO nazi. Moreover, a jewish NEO Nazi, he was born Harold Nathan, Rounded, to jewish parents. He inserted the VON to sound, more germanic Vaughan and had even indulged his dark side with one particular invention. The car yoga retractable baton for downs, also known as the steel cobra

when Richard Butler, they had a very nations, was indeed did, and the Ladys he encouraged. His supporters to biker Yoke is because the quote manufacturer had made up. Wage of twenty five dollars to my defence fund for each one. So two area, nation supporters, after an anti defamation League report, emerged from Braun had refused to answer any more questions who was known to simply slammed on the phone when any reporter called him. His background is the source of great remorse on marketing chat boards were writers distraught that someone is visionary as the x ray specks in sea monkey guy could be such a racist head case. I came close to writing a biography, wrote a contributor notice

terrific guard but found it too difficult to write a sympathetic account due to his political views. Apparently, there are some realities that marketing can't obscure Senor really been Brown Hut, grew quiet, even sad. When I brought up the subject there. Calculated silences at the heart of any marriage, and this was definitely one. Harold- and I never really talked about things like that, she told me we just really loved each other and I didn't question him- are interrogate him. She said I am very inclusive with everybody and that's why I live on a farm with all kinds of animals and try to unpack the earth in the least possible way.

I live a peaceful, happy living life. She handed me an old school, see monkey kit on the way out the door on the drive home. I stopped by Walmart and found the big time version. The container makes no mystery of the fact that this is a product of China, so I conducted an experiment setting up both kits at precisely the same time and with the same water. When Brown has kit had extra package to keep the water stable big times, kit seem very stripped down on the day that the shrimp reanimated there was really no comparison. Van Brown has produced hundreds of sea monkeys which, I have to say, are still irritatingly tiny. After all these years, big times, TAT was very quiet by comparison requiring a lot of glinting and really good light for the embedded magnifier to offer a fleeting glance of one or two drifting by it also felt odd the for a company that broke with Van Brandt.

A few years ago, big time and close literature that still offered such Harold E and extras as see Medic Sea Monkey, Medicine Bids arrow mating powder and the Sea Monkey Aqua leash. Despite big times court, of buying plain, O Brien Shrimp from China. The inclosure boasts that quote after years of cross breeding, we developed a hybrid these amazing new hybrids grow larger at live longer than any natural variety of Brian shrimp. Big time had no come when asked about its use of natural or hybrid arteria and dismissed. My test is not reliable. The last item on big times pamphlet, was especially surprising in small print. It urged its new sea monkey owners to earn a dvd degree doktor of denizens of the deep by rating directly to the Crustacean College of CE marking, knowledge. It then,

list, the marrow and address of the sea monkey estate. The senora live on Brown Hut lives in her quick line, room and answer see monkey mail by firelight. This article was read by Jack this. This was recalled by thought. It bottom is an app. You can download to listen to lots of audio stories from publishers such as the New York Times. This episode of the daily is supported by the new Showtime original series penny dreadful city of angels when a gruesome,

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