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TBM-2508.16 – Mermaid Minute: The Last Tide

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The funeral itself isn’t about burial. We don’t put anyone in the sand. We build a shell barge — decorated with what they loved — and let the current take them. Aunt Coral had strings of pearls and her favorite coral comb. Old Finnback? A treasure chest full of maps he never used, because that man never admitted he was lost.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:09 — 4.3MB)

TBM-2508.15 – Mermaid Minute: Marketing Mishaps

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The Starbucks mermaid? Nice girl, terrible swimmer. She’s been treading water in the same pose since 1971.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:52 — 3.1MB)

TBM-202508.14 – Mermaid Minute – Welcome to Octlantis

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Yesterday’s bustling Octopus’s Garden becomes tomorrow’s empty patch of sand.. They call it “relocation.” I call it “ghosting, but with eight arms.”

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:11 — 3.1MB)

TBM-2508.13 – Mermaid Minute: Sea State of Mind

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No matter how deep the ocean gets, you’re never really swimming alone.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:34 — 3.8MB)

TBM-2508.12 – Mermaid Minute: Defenders of the Deep

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Look, I’m not saying mermaids aren’t already super, but if we’re gonna be superheroes, we’re not doing the land-walker knock-off version.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:17 — 2.7MB)

TBM-2508.11 – Mermaid Minute – HOA or OCZ

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I’m sorry, am I an Actual Woman of the Sea, or did I wake up in a land-walker HOA with kelp-based paperwork? Because this is giving suburban cul-de-sac energy.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:21 — 3.5MB)

TBM-2508.09 – Mermaid Minute: No Direction

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You land-walkers call it”getting lost,” but here in the water? We call it it a day that ends in ‘y.’  Or perhaps a possibility… which also ends in ‘y.’

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:12 — 3.4MB)

TBM-2508.08 – Mermaid Minute: Fears and Phobias

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. I once lost a hairpiece and my dignity trying to wriggle out of a monofilament nightmare.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:27 — 3.6MB)

TBM-2508.07 – Mermaid Minute: Calling Out Climate Change

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I’m sweating through my scales… and we don’t even have scales!

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:05 — 2.2MB)

TBM-2508.06 – Mermaid Minute: Drifting with Porpoise

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I was floating in my favorite cove this morning. Waves just right, ambiance somewhere between spa day and kelp explosion—and I pick up this essay from the Coral Library. Title says, “The Philosophy of Drifting with Purpose.” Very serious. Very highbrow. Smells faintly of seagrass and smugness.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

Contact:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:56 — 4.2MB)