Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the phrase “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” is secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guest: Jason Pargin.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

• PRE-ORDER the upcoming novel by Jason Pargin! It’s called Zoey Is Too Drunk For This Dystopia.
• ORDER the latest novel by Jason Pargin! It’s called If This Book Exists, You’re In The Wrong Universe.
• Audiobook of If This Book Exists, You’re In The Wrong Universe, narrated by Stephen R. Thorne
• Jason’s website
• Jason’s Substack
• Jason Pargin on Twitter
• Jason Pargin on Tiktok

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

• Three Wise Monkeys of Tōshōgū Shrine — Nikko, Japan (Atlas Obscura)
• The Oxford Dictionary Of English Folklore, edited by Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud
• Buddhisms in Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations, edited by Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong
• Silk Roads Programme: Nara (UNESCO)
• The Case Of The 3 Monkeys Is Tearing Twitter In Two (NPR’s The Two-Way)
• Mizaru, Kikazaru & Iwazaru (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil), c. 1910. (blog “OldTokyo.com”, citing primary sources)
• Need to Make Your Message Stick? Science Says Do This . . . and This and This (Inc.com)
• Japanese Macaque, Macaca fuscata (New England Primate Conservancy)
• Emojipedia entry for Speak-No-Evil Monkey
• The Original NTT DOCOMO Emoji Set Has Been Added to The Museum of Modern Art’s Collection (MoMA / Medium.com)
• Emojipedia listing for the SoftBank 1997 picture character set
• 1 Way To Make An Emoji (the bison emoji podcast)
• further Emojipedia entries for: Fish Cake With Swirl, Oden, Tokyo Tower, Hot Springs
• Alex’s fast googling for political “ignoring evil” readings found examples from: The Irish Examiner, The Guardian, Indiewire.com, National Review criticizing Obama, TheWeek.com criticizing Trump, Fox News quoting a congressman criticizing Biden