Just in time for the Fourth of July, in this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Peter Benchley’s Jaws!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• Benchley’s original novel, published in 1974. Read on Amazon or iBooks.
• The 1975 movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Roy Schneider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Thalassophobia: an intense and persistent fear of the sea or of sea travel.
• Fish vs. Cetacea
• Bears Not Attracted to Menstruating Women from Live Science
• “Bitch eating crackers”
• The “Father and Son” scene from Jaws
• The USS Indianapolis
• John Milius
• Jaw 2, Jaws 3-D, Jaws: The Revenge, and Jaws 19
• Lorraine Gary and Sid Sheinberg

You can follow Adapt or Perish on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and you can find us online at adaptorperishcast.com.

If you want to send us a question or comment, you can email us at [email protected] or tweet using #adaptcast.