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Oct. 2, 2026

Folklore Friday | Vampire Legends & Dark Folklore for Halloween

Folklore Friday | Vampire Legends & Dark Folklore for Halloween

Why do vampire legends still frighten us? Henrique Couto welcomes folklorist and author D.L. Wainright to explore Romanian strigoi, Dracula, graveyard rituals, and New England vampire beliefs. This Folklore Friday conversation follows garlic, sunlight, shapeshifting, and a party guest hiding a disturbing secret beneath the table. Along the way: Ohio's Butter Street Monster, La Llorona, Slender Man, werewolves, and Halloween traditions. Discover how familiar monsters change as we share their stories—and which old fears still follow us into spooky season.

D.L.'s books: https://thehollowsun.com/

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Hello, my spookies.

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It's your old buddy Enrique Couto here, and I have

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a special guest and I would say a brand new

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friend of the show. I think you guys are going

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to get a real kick out of all the insights

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she's bringing. We'll call this a Folklore Friday kind of

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deal because we're going to be talking about folklore and

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especially folklore that has kind of a deeper dive, something

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you might not find just by Googling or what have you.

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So I'm joined by D.L. Wainwright.

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She is the author of the Hollow Sun series with

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a very strong background in folklore and religions, having studied them.

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What would you say it's safe to say most of

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your life? Oh, well, yes.

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And my degree is in world religions and religious studies.

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Yep.

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Yes.

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And it's fascinating because the religion versus folklore thing. I mean,

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it's kind of like religion versus cult. It's based on

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how widespread is it, how much real estate is involved,

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as to when something becomes a religion versus stays folklore,

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for instance.

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That's an interesting way of putting it, how much real

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estate it has. I mean, because a lot of folklore is, yeah,

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very local. And a lot of folklore, things that we

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call folklore now, were part of a religion previously. And

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they might have been like, Kind of sort of suppressed

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or changed and stuff as like Christianity spread and stuff.

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And so then these things that used to be the

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local deities and things now just become sort of lesser

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entities and just part of a local superstition.

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Yeah. Cause I always like to, I like to think,

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I like to have fun, you know?

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So I like to think as a treat to myself,

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like what if, what if like, let's use one that

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everybody knows to some extent, like what if Krampus, what

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if the people who first started believing in Krampus, like

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for fun or for, you know, celebration purposes, what if

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there was a famine and for some reason, the people

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who were really into celebrating Krampuschnacht ended up surviving the

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famine and And then it became like, no, we celebrate

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Krampusnacht like we do. And then you get like 500

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years and now it's like a religion. Because, you know,

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it just happenstance pushed it to be like, no, no,

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this is why we all lived. We keep doing it.

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We keep doing it. Like, that's kind of how a

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lot of faiths seem to happen.

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But honestly, you actually got Krampus backwards because Krampus probably

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was a local nature deity.

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Oh, yeah.

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So it was probably celebrated as some type of actual

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god-like kind of figure, but not like the actual god. Yeah.

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And then, you know, a lot of times people don't

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want to give up their cool traditions whenever the Christianity

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comes in and tries to erase everything. And so Christians

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have to make some Sort of trade-offs. Some would be like, okay, fine,

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you can keep your Krampus, but we've got to make

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it somehow Christian.

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Well, and Krampus and a lot of those are really,

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it's extra fascinating because they're always from like, when they're

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from like the Alps and stuff, really hard places to

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live too. Where the stories are basically like, if you

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don't do your chores and you don't gather up the food,

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you die. He comes and kills you. Because it's like

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a child understands much better. A guy comes and kills you.

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Then you will slowly starve. We will starve.

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We will freeze. A kid's like, duh. But then you're like, monster,

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eat shit. They're like, ah. You know, it's a fascinating element.

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That's actually touching on a very common thing in folklore.

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A lot of like the spooky things in the folklores

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are sort of cautionary tales and stuff like that's why.

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type of creepy water monster that will drown you and

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kill you if you go swimming in it as a

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child and stuff. Because it's to keep kids from going

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unsupervised around water.

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that's going to just pull you down under and stuff.

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that and stuff will be there. So it's just things

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to scare kids into not doing things that will get

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them killed.

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You're talking to a kid who grew up and his

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boogeyman was La Llorona. Like that was my boogeyman. So no,

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and that was, we lived in a, in a tenement building.

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Like we lived in a very unsafe area and I was, my,

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my stepdad told that story so well.

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With so many perfectly evil lies.

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For a child, you know, to hear the version he

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told La Llorona had two boys. Cause I was a

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little boy. And I was the only boy, little boy

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in the house. You know, he kept telling me about

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the stream behind our apartment building. Years later, I found

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out there was not even a stream there. There was

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not even a stream.

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He just made it up.

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Yeah. Yeah. To scare me more, you know?

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And, and, and then this whole element of like, you know, you'll, you'll,

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if you leave your bedroom and you walk around at night, you'll,

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you'll hear, you'll hear beautiful singing and you'll, you'll be

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so drawn to it.

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You'll want to know. who's singing so beautifully? What is

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the tune? And then you'll leave and you'll go to

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the stream and that's when you'll see a lady there.

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And by the time you see her face, it's too late.

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You realize she's weeping. She's weeping, Ricky. And then she

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gets you too. And I'm just laying in bed like,

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oh my God. So I'm like five years old sitting

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in bed going, do I just pee in here? Do

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I just pee the bed? Because I don't want to die.

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I don't want this monster to get me. I think

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you did it too well. Yeah, that's too well.

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And I think you just kind of made me realize,

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I think my older siblings created a folklore monster for me.

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They said if I didn't brush my teeth, the cavity

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man would crawl in through my window in the middle

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of the night and drill holes in my teeth, and

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that haunted me. my entire childhood scary that yeah like

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you should picture of like this yeah.

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You should write a creepy pasta like as soon as

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we're as soon as we're done you should write that

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creepy pasta before somebody else does it because that is

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a the cavity man well first of all that sounds

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extra scary when you're an adult too you're like what

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what what That has a lot of meanings. But the

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idea like he drills your teeth while you're asleep is

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frigging mortifying.

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It was mostly like the crawling through my window part

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that I think always like creeped me out and stuff.

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didn't have air conditioning.

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So I always had my windows open.

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Of course.

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So that would make it even easier for him just

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to crawl in.

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Of course, yeah.

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He's able to drill holes in my teeth.

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Drill those teeth.

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Well and that's that's an interesting thing like as as

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somebody who's looked into folklore a lot like deeply do

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you find it wild how the internet is so into

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lore like it's their favorite thing even if it's you

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know all made.

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Up yeah well no i actually i i do find

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that fascinating because it just shows that uh humans are

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always still coming up with their own folklore like I'm

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fascinated by things like Slender Man and stuff. We know

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we can trace back to where it was invented, like

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on that something awful thread and stuff. And you can

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see the inception of this, this creation of this concept,

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but it has just grown and evolved and become its

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own thing. And like, you know, back rooms and all

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those other things, like we just keep coming up with

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new folklore that becomes part of our culture and stuff.

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And I just, I, I, Just think that's fascinating and

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a really cool glimpse into like human nature.

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It's like we just we just crave that.

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And I love that we're at a point where we

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don't even mind knowing it's fiction.

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It's just that we love this idea because it was

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kind of missing. you know, this, this idea that, you know,

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here's this thing and here are the rules and here's why. And,

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and all these things, cause that was the kind of

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stuff you would, you know, whisper about. Like when I

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was a kid, I feel like our folklore were kind

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of the, the most urban legend, the.

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Urban legends, you know, can thing on the door.

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you know, like, uh, Was it the flashier high beams,

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you know, because there's a gang initiation?

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I remember that. There were so many. So many of them.

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That one, you could trace it back super far. There's

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so many interesting stories about it. As long as there

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has been a way to hitch a ride, there have

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been people who hitch a ride and vanish.

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very clear fear of urban change and playing on those fears.

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Because it was always like your aunt or somebody would

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just share that because they thought they were protecting you.

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bleeding into modern life where we kind of feel, especially

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I feel like back then, we kind of felt like

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we were above it. But then all of a sudden,

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you know, the chain letters would circulate no problemo.

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who got like a chain letter email thing and was like,

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should I, should I send it? Because this says that

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the person who didn't before her like died.

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And I'm like, that's fake. It's all me. But she

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was so.

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Concerned and stuff because yeah, it gets, it taps into,

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I think our like, our brains and like that little

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imagination thing. But what if it's real? Like, I know

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it's probably not, but what if?

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Like, and yeah.

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And what if is, is everything, especially because what you're

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talking about at the end of the day, imagination and

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imagination is all what if all the time. This is

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why I've, you know, put myself through seven years of

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weekly spooky, uh, telling scary stories, but then sharing, you know,

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true crime, but like in folklore, because when I first

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which was the Wednesday Weekly Spooky, which is a narrated

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short story. Oh, cool.

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And that was the beginning. That was the impetus for

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the first hundred weeks. That was all we did.

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what I called Terrifying and True, which is Mondays, which

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it was true crime and folklore, things like that. Things

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that people have believed was true or still believe is true.

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You know, that was kind of the rule of it.

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And the reason I made it folklore and true crime

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is I am a sweet summer child, and I get

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really depressed if all I talk about is true crime.

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I am not an adorable little white lady who can

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handle all that murder. I am a grown 40-year-old man

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with muscles, and it makes me sad, and I don't

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like only talking about that.

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No, I'm with you. So my day job is in logistics,

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and I will sit there and I'll be listening to

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documentary things. And if I'm listening to too many of

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the true crime ones back to back, I'm just like,

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why are people so mean?

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I need.

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To listen to something happier now. And my other co-workers

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are like, why are you such a little kid about it?

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I'm like, because it's.

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Yeah yeah it's it but i but and i get

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the entertainment value obviously because i still do them and

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uh the impetus really is you know to to bring

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interesting things to light but the folklore part would always

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kind of like like i was mentioning like grab the

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imagination for me and make me excited to talk about

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you know um la mancha negra i don't know if

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you know about la mancha negra the the uh black

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goop that was coming out of the ground in South

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America and nobody could figure out what it was. It's, it's, it's,

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they're all kinds of like, it's kind of folklore, kind

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of more unsolved mysteries. Cause it is like only from

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like the fifties, sixties, but like stuff like that, where

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people are talking about like, what the hell was that?

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I love those little bits. So that was what I

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started chasing, you know, as we expanded the show. And

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then when the show would expand a little bit more,

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with uh like one-offs or whatever I realized like most

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of what I wanted to do was either talk about

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you know scary movies because my my day job is

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in film yes so I want to talk about scary

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movies because I've always loved scary movies I wanted to

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talk about folklore and why things freak me out or

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what have you because one of my favorite things was

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like those long dark car rides.

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When you were young oh yeah and and it would.

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Be like dude did you hear about like There was

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a janitor at our school and he died. He died

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in the volleyball court, man. He died there. And they

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left him for like a week or something. My cousin

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told me all about it. His ex-girlfriend, she saw it.

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You know, like that guy, it's like.

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Yeah, it's always a friend of a friend who like

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really there.

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Yeah.

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But like, I, I found those things even, even when

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I was young, I found them fun. Even if I

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didn't believe in them, I was like, I'm still like,

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oh man, but like that creeped me out.

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That like made my hairs raise. And that's the vibe

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I chase my whole life. Yeah.

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So, and, and my favorite thing about Halloween season, cause

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this is coming out during our busiest season, spooky season,

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of course, um, One of my favorite things about Halloween

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was it felt like everybody, I think this is what

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a lot of people feel like that love Halloween and

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love the scarier, spookier stuff.

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It feels like everybody else got the memo.

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To join you in like being a little bit more

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willing to be spooked out and have the macabre be around.

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Yes, because I watch horror movies pretty much almost daily.

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And I grew up on reading horror books. I write

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spooky books. And I'm pretty gothy in my daily life.

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So I'm like, Halloween is with me all year round.

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I keep the Halloween spirit alive and stuff.

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Oh, yeah.

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That's why, yeah, October is my favorite month because it's like, hey,

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now everybody else gets to join me and we all

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get to be spooky.

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When I was a kid, I was born in September.

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And when I was a kid, I used to always

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feel like it was awesome because I had my birthday.

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And then it was but that was like the prelude

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to October. I always felt poetic to me.

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I was like, oh, man.

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So now I celebrate my birthday. And now next up

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is Halloween. Like, let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

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Yeah, same.

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My birthday's in October, so I always had Halloween birthday

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parties and stuff.

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Oh, that's so good. See, that would be too perfect.

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I can't have that. But I find solace in the

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idea that I was likely conceived at Christmastime because that

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just warms my heart. Because I'm a holiday guy in general, too.

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I think that any opportunity to celebrate, you should just

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grab it because you don't know.

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You know, what tomorrow will bring.

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You don't know when that'll be. I, you know, not

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even to be super cryptic, like not even your last,

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you know, Christmas or Halloween or whatever, but somebody else's

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that you always saw as being there, a friend, a

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family member, whatever you don't know. So, you know, never,

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never say, the two things I say is like celebrate

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every chance you get every opportunity, you know, even if you're,

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I mean, don't celebrate Christmas if you don't like it,

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but like, if you think the lights are cool and

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the tree is cool, but you're not religious, well, don't

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be religious. Nobody's going to make you just be like,

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I like the tree. I like the gifts. I like

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the candy. Like nobody's, you know, the, they're not going

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to come in and start an inquisition in your house.

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You'll be all right. You know, make it yours. Cause

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you're allowed.

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Right.

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You know, same, same thing. Like, uh, I go, I

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go eight, a friend of mine, uh, you know, has

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a Passover dinner. I go ape over the Seder. I

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prep for it. I cook things. I perform one of

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the roles for them because everybody else, like when they

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pass the little readings around, they get nervous, but I

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read out loud for a living.

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So I have no problem.

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So I'll sit there and, you know, announce the story

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of Passover and, and all this stuff.

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I love it.

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And I'm, you know, as far as I know, not Jewish,

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but it's a great excuse to celebrate with great people

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and have a great time.

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None of them care.

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I'm not Jewish, but, I mean, about half the people

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aren't that are that are at the dinner. So it's

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but those those moments to celebrate are great. And the

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other one that I always like harp on is, you know,

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never look at a good thing happening and say, but

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is this really good enough to really celebrate? Because if

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you if you judge that way, you'll wake up one

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day and be like, did I? I never celebrated anything,

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did I?

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Crap.

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So I, you know, if I get good news and

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it hasn't even come to fruition yet, I'll celebrate at

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least a little.

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Yeah.

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You know, because that moment is great. Even if later

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on it's like, ah, it didn't work out. It is

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what it is, you know, because like you, life is

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full of that. Life is full of like almosts and

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near misses and some of them are good, some of

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them are bad. And that's why, but this actually does

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relate to what we're talking about because, you know, right?

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I am the king of digressions, but that's why I

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love folklore because folklore kind of makes things special. It

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makes them important. It can make the mundane important. Last

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year at Christmastime, we went ape on Black Peter and

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Frau Perchta and all these things. Things that were less

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as known as Krampus, but just as, not even just as,

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infinitely worse than Krampus, honestly.

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I mean, way worse than Krampus.

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We would look at those and that was when it

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first really hit me.

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I was like, oh, wow.

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No, this is all about like, if you don't do

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your chores, you'll die, which was true. It's just that

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it wasn't a witch lady that would do it to you.

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It was, you know, it was starvation or the cold or,

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you know, because I mean, they were living lives where

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it was like, if we don't get all the knitting

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done today, there's no sweater and then somebody dies. And

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it's very easy. We live, even in the worst of it,

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we live really comfortably.

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Yes.

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We're very, very fortunate.

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And so it's hard to imagine, like, no, no, this

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story helped keep people motivated. And in a weird way,

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kind of made survival fun. It made it kind of

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a game. It wasn't, you know, do this because look

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at my ribs. Like, this is because you didn't do

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your chores. No, it became, oh, but like.

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We'll have a little cake to celebrate that she didn't

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come and do anything because we all worked so hard together.

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That's kind of beautiful.

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And that's the human experience, you know, is finding this odd,

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beautiful motivation in very painful reality.

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That's a very beautiful way to put it.

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Well, thank you.

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Yeah.

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We do have a topic beyond just general folklore, but

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I also, I also, you know, it's weird with folklore.

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You either find somebody who's like super duper into it

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and you can nerd out or you'll like find it

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the most, like at the grocery store, you'll realize somebody

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you're making friendly chit chat with, like, you know, knows

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a million stories because they grew up in like a

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town where they just did that.

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And you're like, Oh my gosh, you're like just some

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random dude.

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I would never guess is going to be able to

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tell me all about the butter street monster in Germantown.

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Ohio, you know?

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Butter street monster let.

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Me tell you something okay i did i had never

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heard of the butter street monster but this is a

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real thing in my area so dayton ohio is very

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much a city of suburbs of big suburbs we have

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about we have about 12 really large suburbs all around

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us and toward the south you get like germantown and

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farmersville which are like a bit more rural but they're

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still like towns with thing you know places you can

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go and stuff like that my mother grew up in

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farmersville after her family left kentucky so she was always

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in germantown to like go to the movies or get

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your hair did you know because that was where they

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had a Germantown's adorable, by the way. Like, if you

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ever want to, like, see this area, Germantown, they have

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an adorable theater owned by a family that shows, like,

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fun movies and stuff.

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They have great restaurants. And there's an area where the

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streets are all named after baking ingredients.

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What?

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Oh, that's why it's a butter street. Exactly. Oh, okay.

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So, in the 70s, I believe, apparently somebody thought they saw, like,

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a dog man near Butter Street. And it spread like wildfire.

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And the reason I found out about it is I

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started doing TikTok reels about folklore around the Dayton area.

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And I had no idea that TikTok was becoming localized

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at that time. So it's kind of taken off, which

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I wasn't really, I was just doing what I do.

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I just, you know, I was like, Hey, I'd already

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do this. So let's do reels as well. Cause I

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own the cameras. I own the microphones. I already have

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all the research done. So yeah, I mentioned butter street

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monster once and it blew up. I mean, everybody was

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talking about it and everybody had different memories of how

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the butter street monster, what it was. Some people thought,

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remember it as a Bigfoot. Some remember it as a werewolf.

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Some remembered it as a giant snake. Like a few

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different people said that they were told it was a

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giant snake growing up.

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Yeah.

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So that's, that is horrible.

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Fascinating. And, and definitely like reminds me of like, like

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folklore studies and stuff like that and how even in

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a small region.

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There can be so many.

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Variations, um, uh, Like I told you earlier, we might

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talk about the Virkuluk. The Virkuluk is one of my

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favorite Romanian folklore creatures, but it has, depending on who

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you ask, it is either a dragon, a group of dogs,

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a wolf thing with multiple mouths. Like, it is different

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depending on who you ask. And it causes eclipses by

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eating the sun and moon. And why it does that

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also varies depending on who you ask. Whether it's, like,

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you know, because it wants to bring darkness to the

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world or because it wants to make mankind face the

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darkness and the sin in their own hearts. And again,

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all of this in, like, a relatively small region has

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all these variations and stuff. So that your Butter Street

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Monster is like a modern day version of that kind

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of concept of just like how wildly different each person's

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concept of it is.

480
00:22:41.980 --> 00:22:43.960
And how much it travels too. Yeah.

481
00:22:44.019 --> 00:22:46.640
Because my mother, when I told her, I was like,

482
00:22:46.700 --> 00:22:48.079
do you ever hear about the Butter Street Monster? Because

483
00:22:48.099 --> 00:22:49.920
you grew up right by that area. And my mom

484
00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:51.720
was like, no. And she's like, but I did almost

485
00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.400
buy a house on Butter Street in 84, like right

486
00:22:54.420 --> 00:22:55.089
before I was born.

487
00:22:55.109 --> 00:22:55.190
Yeah.

488
00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:57.220
And I was like, mom, you really screwed up. I

489
00:22:57.259 --> 00:23:02.259
could have had a Bigfoot buddy. And you just selfishly decided.

490
00:23:02.339 --> 00:23:07.509
They're all wins. You know, they're all wins. But I

491
00:23:07.529 --> 00:23:09.069
was like, wow. So mom was right there and never

492
00:23:09.109 --> 00:23:11.309
heard that legend. And there's a newspaper clipping. Like I

493
00:23:11.349 --> 00:23:13.369
found a newspaper clipping about a couple who thought they

494
00:23:13.410 --> 00:23:13.970
saw like.

495
00:23:13.970 --> 00:23:16.250
What looked like a werewolf off of the side of

496
00:23:16.289 --> 00:23:18.819
the road. Now, the clipping was a little tongue in cheek.

497
00:23:18.859 --> 00:23:21.039
It was October. It was toward the end of October.

498
00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:22.680
I feel like that's why they went with it. And

499
00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:27.250
they had a little illustration that was really very Lon Chaney. Um,

500
00:23:28.269 --> 00:23:30.950
but that's just makes it even better. But then, then

501
00:23:30.970 --> 00:23:32.990
the other fascinating thing is then you have like the

502
00:23:33.049 --> 00:23:35.910
immense deluge of people who would say like, I've lived

503
00:23:35.930 --> 00:23:37.450
there my whole life, never heard anything about it. Like

504
00:23:37.509 --> 00:23:39.509
what bull crap or whatever. And it's like, and I

505
00:23:39.529 --> 00:23:42.009
always sound like, dude, it's folklore. Take your blood pressure medicine,

506
00:23:42.029 --> 00:23:44.599
like calm down. Like, like I literally never said a

507
00:23:44.670 --> 00:23:47.440
monster showed up. I said, people have been saying a

508
00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:50.740
monster showed up on the street for 40 years. I

509
00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:54.069
never said a monster showed up 40 years ago. you know,

510
00:23:54.109 --> 00:23:57.720
there's a humongous difference. Um, and you'd think they'd be

511
00:23:57.740 --> 00:23:59.579
able to catch it. I mean, their, their, their attention

512
00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:01.500
spans are short, but there's captions, you know, they're reading

513
00:24:01.539 --> 00:24:03.079
it as I'm saying it, you know, you think they'd,

514
00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:05.000
they'd catch it where it's like, people are saying this

515
00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:08.460
and this, but like, I've had people give me leads

516
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:13.089
on folklore around here that I don't find any record of,

517
00:24:14.049 --> 00:24:17.569
you know, from any other compilation of folklore or any, whatever.

518
00:24:17.890 --> 00:24:22.019
I recently started, uh, I added newspapers.com to my like, um,

519
00:24:22.509 --> 00:24:25.089
you know, toolkit. And now I'm finding a lot of

520
00:24:25.170 --> 00:24:27.269
extra stuff, you know, like really interesting stuff that just

521
00:24:27.349 --> 00:24:30.710
never ended up on the internet, you know, other than through,

522
00:24:30.750 --> 00:24:33.890
you know, behind a paywall or whatever. And, uh, it's been,

523
00:24:33.970 --> 00:24:36.160
it's been really fascinating, but yeah, I love when people

524
00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:36.920
like take it personally.

525
00:24:36.940 --> 00:24:38.420
I'm like, I grew up on that street. I never heard.

526
00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:40.700
It's like, maybe you didn't have cool friends that scared

527
00:24:40.740 --> 00:24:43.240
each other on, you know, at sleepovers, dude, I'm sorry. Like,

528
00:24:43.539 --> 00:24:45.400
I think you could probably calculate by like, how many

529
00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.039
s'mores did you eat as a kid will equal to

530
00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:51.509
how often, how many good stories you heard, you know? Um,

531
00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:54.170
but it's, but that's the other thing that really has,

532
00:24:54.430 --> 00:24:56.430
has been fascinating is I feel like I'm getting kind

533
00:24:56.450 --> 00:24:59.250
of a front row seat to folklore. And now because

534
00:24:59.309 --> 00:25:01.910
it's kind of taken off, there's one other lady around here, uh,

535
00:25:02.509 --> 00:25:03.410
Sarah Koshal.

536
00:25:03.450 --> 00:25:04.289
I think I'm saying her name, right?

537
00:25:04.309 --> 00:25:06.750
I feel as Enrique Kuto, I should be able to say,

538
00:25:06.769 --> 00:25:09.930
I should try to say names, right. But, uh, she's super,

539
00:25:10.069 --> 00:25:12.130
a super cool lady. And she's been writing these like

540
00:25:12.170 --> 00:25:15.410
haunted Dayton and like Dayton crime and Dayton history books.

541
00:25:16.089 --> 00:25:18.250
And they're really good. I bought all of them. I

542
00:25:18.289 --> 00:25:18.569
love them.

543
00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:21.000
And a lot of times if I can't find any

544
00:25:21.059 --> 00:25:23.900
other reference, it'll be because she wrote about it. Like

545
00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:26.069
that's the only way I could, you know, find research

546
00:25:26.150 --> 00:25:27.970
on it. But other than her, I feel like I've

547
00:25:28.009 --> 00:25:30.990
become this odd keeper of the Dayton folklore because I

548
00:25:31.009 --> 00:25:33.609
just keep, you know, because people will comment and tell

549
00:25:33.630 --> 00:25:35.529
me their stories and then I'll try to compile it

550
00:25:35.589 --> 00:25:37.650
and then I'll do a video where I'm like, I've

551
00:25:37.690 --> 00:25:40.809
been told by some viewers that there's a story about

552
00:25:40.849 --> 00:25:42.950
this or that or this or that. And then it

553
00:25:42.990 --> 00:25:45.890
either gets corroborated or shot down. If it gets corroborated,

554
00:25:46.190 --> 00:25:48.250
you just gotta keep digging. You gotta find out like,

555
00:25:48.529 --> 00:25:50.849
well then what are the other versions? Like, and some

556
00:25:50.890 --> 00:25:53.130
of them have really great, like somebody will say like,

557
00:25:53.269 --> 00:25:56.609
I remember like there was a swamp creature in this area,

558
00:25:56.650 --> 00:25:58.299
but I don't remember anything else, but it was like,

559
00:25:58.339 --> 00:26:00.450
it lived in the swamp and it was, it was

560
00:26:00.490 --> 00:26:02.819
like had tentacles or something like, you know, whatever. And

561
00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:05.039
I'll literally say like a viewer gave me a really

562
00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:07.740
bizarre one. You know, it's this creature from a swamp

563
00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:09.799
in this area. And I'm like, has anybody ever heard

564
00:26:09.819 --> 00:26:12.420
a story like that? And sometimes, you know, 50 people

565
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:13.980
will comment and be like, Oh my God, that was

566
00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.049
like the scariest story ever growing up. And, And, but like,

567
00:26:17.150 --> 00:26:19.910
it literally didn't exist because I already cross-checked the internet

568
00:26:19.950 --> 00:26:22.890
first before I would ever crowdsource it. I'd be like,

569
00:26:22.950 --> 00:26:27.869
go swamp monster near Dayton, Ohio, tentacles, zero results.

570
00:26:28.289 --> 00:26:28.509
Yeah.

571
00:26:29.029 --> 00:26:31.750
So it's, it's been like this fascinating thing because the

572
00:26:31.789 --> 00:26:34.589
funniest part was this one lady got, really angry with

573
00:26:34.630 --> 00:26:36.710
me because she was like you're they get mad about

574
00:26:36.750 --> 00:26:40.329
geography they'll be like that's not union that's fairborn ohio

575
00:26:40.369 --> 00:26:43.069
that's not whatever i'm like i dude they the person

576
00:26:43.250 --> 00:26:47.880
who knows about it said union i they could be

577
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:49.859
wrong or it could be that it's kind of murky

578
00:26:49.980 --> 00:26:51.859
and then people would come and be like that's literally

579
00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:54.480
union school township like why like you could call it

580
00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:56.039
fairborn but like the kids go to you know so

581
00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.210
everybody's fighting about like basic geography. But this one lady

582
00:27:00.250 --> 00:27:01.990
got super mad. She was like, you need to really

583
00:27:02.029 --> 00:27:04.369
do your research. And I'm like, I, but I search

584
00:27:04.509 --> 00:27:07.099
everything before I do it. And there's no real way

585
00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:09.380
to say like, is this random road that might have

586
00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:12.279
a bridge that's haunted? in this township or that, like,

587
00:27:12.299 --> 00:27:13.660
what am I, what do you want me to get

588
00:27:13.700 --> 00:27:16.140
a surveyor and go out because of like a bridge

589
00:27:16.180 --> 00:27:18.500
that like, or a bridge that isn't even there anymore.

590
00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:21.240
Like we're talking about like bridges that got torn down.

591
00:27:21.329 --> 00:27:21.940
Like, yeah.

592
00:27:22.289 --> 00:27:24.789
So finally I told her like, dude, I use, you know,

593
00:27:24.829 --> 00:27:27.430
basic internet searches and I crowdsource. And she was like,

594
00:27:27.710 --> 00:27:31.829
you crowdsource that stuff. That's really reckless. And I was like, that's,

595
00:27:32.650 --> 00:27:35.150
that's what folklore is. It's crowdsourced.

596
00:27:38.509 --> 00:27:39.109
Oh my God.

597
00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:43.500
Like, you know, and I get I get being on

598
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:45.960
your heckles a little bit because like people are lying

599
00:27:46.029 --> 00:27:48.549
on the Internet a lot to try and like do whatever.

600
00:27:48.609 --> 00:27:51.670
But I don't have a tip jar. I'm not trying

601
00:27:51.690 --> 00:27:53.250
to sell a tea, although I should make a I

602
00:27:53.289 --> 00:27:54.609
want I want to make an I believe in the

603
00:27:54.630 --> 00:27:58.910
Butter Street Monster T-shirt because like and I love German.

604
00:27:58.950 --> 00:28:01.690
I like legitimately love Germantown. I do movie screenings there

605
00:28:01.730 --> 00:28:04.069
and stuff. I've always loved that little town. So I

606
00:28:04.069 --> 00:28:05.990
was like, I'm going to eventually lean in on the

607
00:28:06.009 --> 00:28:08.279
Butter Street Monster. But now I'm like at this point,

608
00:28:08.299 --> 00:28:09.960
I'm like, man, after a year of doing those reels,

609
00:28:10.019 --> 00:28:11.180
I think I'm going to I don't know if I'll

610
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.339
compile a book or if I'll, you know, whatever. But

611
00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:16.460
I'm going to do something for all these Dayton area

612
00:28:16.500 --> 00:28:18.960
legends that some of them are like in Haunted Ohio,

613
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:21.880
which I'm sure you've at least scoped those a little

614
00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:24.039
bit because they're fascinating companions.

615
00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:27.220
I need to know because I'm not local to Ohio.

616
00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.740
So I'm still learning about the things here. Like, isn't

617
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.920
there a there's an abandoned town that's like hell?

618
00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:35.400
Helltown.

619
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:36.140
Helltown.

620
00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:36.599
Yeah.

621
00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:38.200
I want to like go there and stuff.

622
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.400
There's so much.

623
00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:40.240
Oh, yeah.

624
00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:47.359
Ohio is a very weird state. We are. Well, for

625
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:50.180
lots of reasons. But there's something in the water here.

626
00:28:50.670 --> 00:28:54.329
But for me, at least. But Ohio is the most

627
00:28:55.509 --> 00:28:58.150
we have the most evenly distributed population of any state

628
00:28:58.170 --> 00:28:58.589
in America.

629
00:28:59.329 --> 00:28:59.890
Oh, wow.

630
00:29:00.170 --> 00:29:01.710
Well, that isn't, you know, extremely small.

631
00:29:02.410 --> 00:29:02.589
Yeah.

632
00:29:02.670 --> 00:29:06.049
We have the most evenly distributed population. So and every

633
00:29:06.130 --> 00:29:09.519
single population hub in Ohio was established for a totally

634
00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:12.339
different reason. So you have Cleveland because of the Great Lake.

635
00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:15.400
You have Columbus because of the railroad. You have Cincinnati

636
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:20.049
Dayton area because of the rivers. So they're all entirely separate.

637
00:29:20.170 --> 00:29:22.609
And then like Toledo was related to the railroad and

638
00:29:22.630 --> 00:29:24.990
the Great Lake. And then so you have these little

639
00:29:25.049 --> 00:29:27.970
enclaves as well. But it was all because of different reasons.

640
00:29:28.089 --> 00:29:31.390
So Ohio to this day is one of the only

641
00:29:31.450 --> 00:29:34.529
states in America where if somebody leaves, decides to move

642
00:29:34.549 --> 00:29:37.509
for different opportunities, they have a higher chance of staying

643
00:29:37.609 --> 00:29:39.069
in their state than.

644
00:29:38.970 --> 00:29:39.970
Leaving it because.

645
00:29:40.250 --> 00:29:42.250
they'll be like, I'm in Cincinnati and I like, I've

646
00:29:42.269 --> 00:29:42.670
got nothing.

647
00:29:42.710 --> 00:29:44.670
They'll go to Columbus or I'm in Columbus. I got nothing.

648
00:29:44.690 --> 00:29:47.170
They'll go to Cleveland or even I'm in Cleveland. I

649
00:29:47.210 --> 00:29:47.470
got nothing.

650
00:29:47.490 --> 00:29:49.559
I'll go to Akron, like, you know, to try and

651
00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:53.420
find opportunities as opposed to like in, you know, like Indiana,

652
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:54.980
if you're in Indianapolis, you're like, I got to go

653
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.769
to Chicago or Columbus or, you know, Or if you're

654
00:29:57.789 --> 00:29:59.970
in Pittsburgh, you're like, I'm going to try Philadelphia or

655
00:30:00.069 --> 00:30:03.759
maybe I'll try Cleveland. You know, like there's just we

656
00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:06.220
have like a lot more options and we're a lot

657
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:09.720
more spread out. But we have, you know, city centers

658
00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:13.240
right next to planes, right next to like we've become huge.

659
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:15.109
I mean, you work in logistics. We've become huge on

660
00:30:15.140 --> 00:30:18.950
logistics in Ohio because of our placement. You know, because

661
00:30:18.970 --> 00:30:21.750
then the highways also, you know, cut right through Columbus.

662
00:30:22.650 --> 00:30:24.930
So right through Columbus is a major distribution hub.

663
00:30:25.710 --> 00:30:27.130
And it makes sense.

664
00:30:27.470 --> 00:30:30.789
But I feel like that's why we distribute spooky, weird

665
00:30:30.849 --> 00:30:34.630
stuff on top of, you know, your toothpaste that you

666
00:30:34.670 --> 00:30:40.569
need next day. That's, you know, the Ohio way. Things

667
00:30:40.650 --> 00:30:44.009
move quickly and they bounce between cities. And the Haunted

668
00:30:44.069 --> 00:30:49.250
Ohio books are actually written by Chris Woodyard and very,

669
00:30:49.450 --> 00:30:53.779
very mysterious person. doesn't do interviews but the craziest part

670
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:55.779
is I think there's like 11 or 12 of them

671
00:30:55.900 --> 00:30:58.700
and they're great you definitely and you can grab them

672
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:00.880
secondhand they've been published for years you can get tons

673
00:31:00.900 --> 00:31:04.000
of them secondhand uh for cheap but the craziest part

674
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:06.000
for me was I've been reading those books forever and

675
00:31:06.019 --> 00:31:07.240
I was like I should try and get a hold

676
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:09.500
of of Chris Woodyard so I opened up one of

677
00:31:09.539 --> 00:31:11.000
my I have like a dozen of them I opened

678
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.559
one of them up and I look at for like

679
00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:15.900
info on the publishing self-published all of them or nearly

680
00:31:15.980 --> 00:31:18.619
all of them in the 90s when it was really

681
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:19.750
hard Yeah.

682
00:31:20.049 --> 00:31:20.450
Oh my goodness.

683
00:31:20.470 --> 00:31:23.519
I find the address of the publisher, Beaver Creek, Ohio.

684
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:25.519
It's like 15 minutes from me. So they were actually

685
00:31:25.579 --> 00:31:28.400
coming from this area too. Not even of all the

686
00:31:28.420 --> 00:31:31.380
places I would have guessed Cleveland or Columbus or Cincinnati

687
00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:37.240
would not have guessed, you know, suburban Dayton, Ohio. So it, uh, Yeah,

688
00:31:37.339 --> 00:31:40.279
it just always breaks my brain. Like all the folklore

689
00:31:40.299 --> 00:31:42.539
that gets out there and like the weird books are great.

690
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.569
You know, Weird New Jersey, Weird Pennsylvania. A buddy of

691
00:31:45.589 --> 00:31:48.069
mine actually wrote, I think he wrote Weird Pennsylvania or

692
00:31:48.369 --> 00:31:50.750
maybe it was Weird DC, but he wrote one of them. Like,

693
00:31:50.809 --> 00:31:55.210
you know, they're really fun compendiums of the strange, but

694
00:31:55.250 --> 00:31:58.279
then there's no shortage of it. Even like the show's name,

695
00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:05.480
Weekly Spooky. Spooky comes from Dutch settlers in America.

696
00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:06.480
The word spooky?

697
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:07.359
Yeah.

698
00:32:07.859 --> 00:32:09.079
What? Oh.

699
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:12.640
And the way you can really know that that's true

700
00:32:12.900 --> 00:32:18.119
is Spook's Hollow. There are Spook's Hollow in random places

701
00:32:18.140 --> 00:32:20.720
all over. When you go into places that were more Dutch,

702
00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:24.240
there are literally street signs that will say Spook's Hollow.

703
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:28.259
It's not a nickname. There's actually a Spook's Hollow or

704
00:32:28.299 --> 00:32:32.079
Spook Hollow. And I never knew that there were roads

705
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:34.319
actually called Spook Hollow. I thought that was just nickname

706
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.720
until I was driving through upstate New York one time.

707
00:32:37.059 --> 00:32:39.140
And my GPS, I just saw I was driving past

708
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:39.720
Spook Hollow.

709
00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:41.930
I was like, wait, wait, what? I'm literally driving past

710
00:32:42.289 --> 00:32:42.890
Spook Hollow.

711
00:32:43.369 --> 00:32:46.509
So but even that, I mean, for whatever reason, that

712
00:32:46.569 --> 00:32:50.269
nomenclature went from a little thing that people in these

713
00:32:50.369 --> 00:32:55.880
very isolated communities said to each other to everything that

714
00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:59.140
has to do with Halloween, because spooky even connotates more

715
00:32:59.339 --> 00:33:04.980
of like a joyous, scary, a fun, scary, not, not

716
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:07.700
a regular, cause we'd say scary if we're scared, but

717
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:08.339
we say like, oh.

718
00:33:08.339 --> 00:33:08.960
That's spooky.

719
00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:11.200
That means like, oh, it's scary, but you want to

720
00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:12.819
go like, you want to go over there. You want

721
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:14.579
to see that you want to buy that that's spooky.

722
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:18.460
So it's, I love it. It's like my favorite part

723
00:33:18.509 --> 00:33:22.950
about being human is like the way stories. They, they

724
00:33:23.009 --> 00:33:25.309
transfer and the way, like what we're doing right now,

725
00:33:25.369 --> 00:33:28.170
the way we can sit down and with our words,

726
00:33:29.109 --> 00:33:31.890
um make make each other feel all these emotions about

727
00:33:31.910 --> 00:33:33.390
like i know about that too and yeah that and

728
00:33:33.430 --> 00:33:36.589
that and that i uh this is the last thing

729
00:33:36.630 --> 00:33:38.750
last part of the digression i was getting a loan

730
00:33:39.450 --> 00:33:41.470
for my car so i'm at the bank and i'm

731
00:33:41.509 --> 00:33:43.329
talking to my loan officer who i've known for forever

732
00:33:43.549 --> 00:33:45.089
uh like i've been at that bank for 20 some

733
00:33:45.109 --> 00:33:48.190
years and she has an apprentice in there like learning

734
00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:49.980
you know how to do stuff so we're talking whatever

735
00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:54.049
she brings up my podcast and my tiktok she's And, you.

736
00:33:54.009 --> 00:33:55.670
Know, she mentions that, oh, yeah, I heard you did

737
00:33:55.690 --> 00:33:57.450
a thing about the Butter Street Monster. That's so cool.

738
00:33:57.690 --> 00:33:58.769
And he's like, oh, yeah, I've never heard of it.

739
00:33:58.990 --> 00:34:00.069
And I was like, oh, yeah, I did that one.

740
00:34:00.109 --> 00:34:03.740
And I just did one on Morningstar Road and Betty Lane.

741
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:06.299
And his eyebrows go. He's like, we talked about Betty

742
00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:09.679
Lane all the time when I was a kid. Oh, wow.

743
00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:13.440
Like, it's just, and that's the thing, like, that's the thrill, too, is, like,

744
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.380
when you click and all of a sudden you're talking

745
00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:19.719
the same primal language about, like, that was scary, that's scary,

746
00:34:19.980 --> 00:34:22.539
but need no more. Like, tell me more, you know,

747
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.340
caveman kind of thing. And Betty Lane's really interesting because

748
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:27.920
there was literally a secret rocket lab at Betty Lane

749
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.389
and it caused a million... Oh, we had a bunch

750
00:34:30.429 --> 00:34:32.550
of Manhattan Project side elements in Dayton.

751
00:34:32.989 --> 00:34:33.550
Oh, my God.

752
00:34:33.829 --> 00:34:37.949
Like refining like super radioactive stuff and doing secret experiments.

753
00:34:37.989 --> 00:34:39.889
Well, there you go. That's where the Butter Street Monster

754
00:34:39.929 --> 00:34:40.280
comes from.

755
00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:41.260
It's some type of mutant.

756
00:34:42.260 --> 00:34:42.460
Right?

757
00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:45.199
It's got to be out there. People have got to...

758
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.639
There's got to at least be fan fiction about that. So....

759
00:34:49.059 --> 00:34:53.309
Um, but so you decided to bring us a particularly

760
00:34:53.369 --> 00:34:56.949
delicious piece of, uh, of Romanian folklore, hopefully as delicious

761
00:34:57.010 --> 00:34:59.809
as their food, um, which is excellent.

762
00:35:00.469 --> 00:35:01.550
I am a, I'm a fan.

763
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:05.420
Um, but, uh, but I didn't, uh, when you mentioned,

764
00:35:05.460 --> 00:35:07.199
what was the, uh, the wolf thing that might not

765
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:08.440
be a wolf, but then it would be a wolf

766
00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:09.840
with more fate with more mouths.

767
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:10.739
What was it called?

768
00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:11.980
The Virkuluk. The Virkuluk.

769
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.619
I think I actually talked very briefly about the Virka Luke. Uh,

770
00:35:15.659 --> 00:35:17.619
we do it on Thursdays. We do a thing called

771
00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:20.989
Thursday thrills. And the rule of Thursday thrills is I

772
00:35:21.130 --> 00:35:24.190
always create it the day before Thursday. Like it's the

773
00:35:24.230 --> 00:35:27.329
only podcast I can't record ahead because it's always about

774
00:35:27.409 --> 00:35:29.769
what's going on right in that moment. Like I want

775
00:35:29.789 --> 00:35:31.670
to like know what, what people are talking about, whether

776
00:35:31.690 --> 00:35:34.170
it's a cryptid or a creepypasta or whatever. And it

777
00:35:34.210 --> 00:35:39.030
was the, it was when, uh, uh, Europe had its, uh, um, Eclipse.

778
00:35:39.070 --> 00:35:39.190
Oh.

779
00:35:39.969 --> 00:35:43.030
And the Virgalook came up as one of the things

780
00:35:43.429 --> 00:35:45.719
about eating the sun. Because there were a bunch of

781
00:35:45.739 --> 00:35:47.980
stories about eating the sun. And I'm almost certain one

782
00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.380
of them was a wolf. And I'm almost certain it

783
00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:50.000
was the Virgalook.

784
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:51.340
It might have been.

785
00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:52.360
It might have been the Virgalook.

786
00:35:52.739 --> 00:35:53.079
Yeah.

787
00:35:53.099 --> 00:35:56.039
Because that is a popular one. That's in Europe.

788
00:35:56.059 --> 00:36:02.039
But there are eclipse monsters in cultures all over. And

789
00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:06.559
there's actually a similar thing. So here's a fun, this

790
00:36:06.619 --> 00:36:08.199
is one of my, I'm going to go on a

791
00:36:08.219 --> 00:36:08.800
little tangent now.

792
00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:09.619
Please.

793
00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:13.340
One of my favorite little things to show kind of

794
00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:18.599
like the evolution of like folklore and concepts. So in China,

795
00:36:18.679 --> 00:36:23.360
there's a thing called a Cheng Gao, which is a

796
00:36:23.460 --> 00:36:26.320
black dog in the sky that eats the sun or

797
00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:29.550
the moon to cause eclipses. And it's a sort of

798
00:36:29.809 --> 00:36:35.289
an omen usually of bad things, especially war. Okay. Now,

799
00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:39.460
That term and the writing, the characters for it, are

800
00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:43.980
what traveled over into Japan. And you get tengu, which

801
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.420
is not that thing at all, is it? Are you

802
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:47.840
familiar with what a tengu is?

803
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:49.320
I might be.

804
00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:52.739
All right. So for you and for anybody else listening

805
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:55.469
who's not familiar, so a tengu in Japanese lore, there's

806
00:36:55.489 --> 00:36:59.150
like two forms of it. But essentially, it's kind of

807
00:36:59.190 --> 00:37:02.800
a bird person. And so typically you'll see it and

808
00:37:02.820 --> 00:37:05.489
they've got kind of like a crow-like or a hawk-like

809
00:37:05.510 --> 00:37:07.369
kind of like head, but sometimes it'll be like an

810
00:37:07.469 --> 00:37:09.969
old man with like a big bulbous nose, but it's

811
00:37:10.190 --> 00:37:12.949
a bird person. And so how do you get from

812
00:37:13.489 --> 00:37:16.840
the black dog that eats the sun and the moon to...

813
00:37:17.650 --> 00:37:21.869
A bird person. Well, that's because of the introduction of Buddhism,

814
00:37:21.969 --> 00:37:25.809
which brought in the concept of the Garuda, which itself

815
00:37:25.889 --> 00:37:28.820
is an evolution of the Hindu Garuda, which the Garuda

816
00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:32.960
was initially a specific entity that was like the bird

817
00:37:33.539 --> 00:37:37.989
person-like thing that's a steed for Shiva, eventually becomes like

818
00:37:38.139 --> 00:37:40.949
a sort of species in Buddhism. There are Garuda. There

819
00:37:41.010 --> 00:37:43.719
are multiple things that are that and stuff. So the

820
00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:46.440
concept of that bird person, Garuda gets mixed up with

821
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:48.400
the Chang'e and you get the Tengu.

822
00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:52.610
I love the travel though. I love the travel.

823
00:37:52.780 --> 00:37:55.110
I love the way, the way, you know, they, they

824
00:37:55.170 --> 00:37:56.650
take a piece and they keep a piece and they

825
00:37:56.670 --> 00:37:59.170
change a piece and it just kind of, uh, it

826
00:37:59.210 --> 00:38:00.130
all fits together.

827
00:38:00.510 --> 00:38:01.630
History is great like that.

828
00:38:01.929 --> 00:38:04.050
Yeah. And it's still weird because Tengu, again, it's a

829
00:38:04.070 --> 00:38:07.610
bird person, but the characters are still mean, basically like

830
00:38:07.659 --> 00:38:09.860
heavenly dog, like sky dog, um.

831
00:38:10.869 --> 00:38:12.630
Yeah yeah.

832
00:38:14.210 --> 00:38:16.829
They're like oh it's slang you know you know it's

833
00:38:16.889 --> 00:38:22.699
yeah it's one of those things sometimes i'll say english

834
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:24.699
words and realize i've been saying them for so long

835
00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:27.260
i've never thought about like why why the pieces are

836
00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:29.400
there or like how like well that clearly doesn't sound

837
00:38:29.420 --> 00:38:32.070
like what i'm talking about though the poetic speaking in

838
00:38:32.130 --> 00:38:34.429
every language uh is it's one of the things that

839
00:38:34.449 --> 00:38:38.679
makes language so hard To learn is that especially English

840
00:38:38.699 --> 00:38:41.940
because we speak poetically constantly. I had a friend who

841
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:46.159
was Romanian and I've had a lot of fun. I

842
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:48.360
mean that legitimately. They were fun, but they were kind

843
00:38:48.389 --> 00:38:50.889
of like a little just a little crazy. But I've

844
00:38:50.909 --> 00:38:53.969
had a few Romanian friends who they would be like,

845
00:38:54.250 --> 00:38:55.170
that's the only thing they saw.

846
00:38:55.190 --> 00:38:59.110
They're like, you guys speak in like in poem all

847
00:38:59.150 --> 00:39:03.469
day long. And I was like, we do. I guess

848
00:39:03.510 --> 00:39:05.650
we do. I guess we do.

849
00:39:05.710 --> 00:39:08.849
Like, I just, you know, I guess we said, I

850
00:39:08.869 --> 00:39:12.309
was like, oh, no, no. You're just a rattlesnake chasing

851
00:39:12.349 --> 00:39:14.670
a jackrabbit through a mound of grass.

852
00:39:14.730 --> 00:39:16.610
And he'd be like, ah. And I'd be like, I'm awful.

853
00:39:16.789 --> 00:39:21.349
I'm just messing with you. That's not even his thing.

854
00:39:21.730 --> 00:39:25.250
But I love that they literally say Sky Dog, right?

855
00:39:25.289 --> 00:39:30.059
Was it Sky Dog? Yeah, because John is like heaven.

856
00:39:30.139 --> 00:39:33.460
It's the character for like the heavens. And then the

857
00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:38.900
gu part is also inu in Japanese. It's dog.

858
00:39:39.860 --> 00:39:41.139
So it's heaven dog.

859
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:43.039
Oh, yeah, yeah.

860
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:43.699
But it's not.

861
00:39:44.539 --> 00:39:45.840
But it's a bird person now.

862
00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:46.159
Yeah.

863
00:39:50.099 --> 00:39:52.400
So that's the kind of stuff I eat up. I love,

864
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:53.000
I love that.

865
00:39:53.019 --> 00:39:54.900
Cause that's the kind of stuff that you can't really

866
00:39:55.079 --> 00:40:00.239
find just by like surfing, you know, the web for folklore.

867
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.619
That's why, that's why I think that like, you know,

868
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:06.219
folklore books and folklore podcasts are so great is because

869
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.940
you get like a, a curated experience because you know, it's,

870
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:13.039
it's not like, like movies, you know, I mean, I,

871
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.199
I prefer, I'd prefer to be curated from a person,

872
00:40:15.260 --> 00:40:17.619
but you know, the algorithm will start to figure out

873
00:40:17.659 --> 00:40:20.500
what I'm watching and, and kind of make, maybe make

874
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:21.400
a good suggestion.

875
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:23.579
But with folklore, it's like, I didn't even know I

876
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:25.840
wanted to know about the sky dog. That's actually a

877
00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:26.500
bird person.

878
00:40:27.050 --> 00:40:28.780
How would I have ever known that? You know, I

879
00:40:28.989 --> 00:40:30.449
wouldn't even know where to look. I don't even know

880
00:40:30.469 --> 00:40:33.789
what I don't know. So no, that's, that's a, that's

881
00:40:33.829 --> 00:40:37.469
a great example. So with Romania, yes.

882
00:40:38.610 --> 00:40:38.909
Yes.

883
00:40:39.309 --> 00:40:42.489
Oh, and Romanian always confuses me too, because it's so

884
00:40:42.550 --> 00:40:44.150
similar to Spanish in reality.

885
00:40:44.489 --> 00:40:46.880
Cause it's a, it's a, also one of the romance languages.

886
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:47.460
Yeah.

887
00:40:47.619 --> 00:40:47.820
Yeah.

888
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:51.579
Which, uh, my, my girlfriend, uh, when I told her, uh,

889
00:40:51.699 --> 00:40:54.619
that Romania, Romanian is very similar to Spanish because it's

890
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:56.880
a romance language. She was like, she was like, really

891
00:40:56.900 --> 00:40:58.239
in that part of Europe. And I was like, think

892
00:40:58.260 --> 00:40:58.860
about their name.

893
00:41:00.090 --> 00:41:00.530
Roman.

894
00:41:00.550 --> 00:41:00.730
Yeah.

895
00:41:00.769 --> 00:41:04.309
Roman is the first part. Again, a word you say

896
00:41:04.329 --> 00:41:06.159
a million times and never think about like, what is it?

897
00:41:06.170 --> 00:41:07.949
And she was like, she just gave me the, like,

898
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:12.260
when I, you know, when I pointed that out, but, uh,

899
00:41:12.820 --> 00:41:14.300
So I remember the first time I heard somebody speaking

900
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:15.900
in Romania, I was like, what is, what?

901
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:19.840
I'm picking up some of it, but not much of it. Yeah.

902
00:41:19.860 --> 00:41:22.449
Because it's like a fascinating, it feels like kind of

903
00:41:22.489 --> 00:41:25.369
like an interesting combination of, yeah, like Spanish or Italian

904
00:41:25.510 --> 00:41:28.570
mixed with like kind of like a Slavic Russian-y kind

905
00:41:28.650 --> 00:41:29.610
of thing. Yeah.

906
00:41:29.630 --> 00:41:29.809
Yeah.

907
00:41:31.260 --> 00:41:34.900
But then listen to native Portuguese speakers from Portugal, and

908
00:41:34.940 --> 00:41:37.019
some people think they're speaking Russian because of the shh

909
00:41:37.059 --> 00:41:40.570
sounds and the hh sounds. And they couldn't be further away.

910
00:41:40.650 --> 00:41:43.969
They're literally, their neighbor is the Atlantic Ocean. They could

911
00:41:44.010 --> 00:41:46.929
not be further from the Balkans than they are. But

912
00:41:47.449 --> 00:41:53.130
yet here we are going, hh, shh, hh, shh. So

913
00:41:53.429 --> 00:41:55.610
what was the name of this? I'm never going to

914
00:41:55.650 --> 00:41:55.940
nail it.

915
00:41:56.250 --> 00:41:58.349
Strugoi. Strigoi.

916
00:41:58.610 --> 00:42:01.070
Strigoi. And if you want to talk a fun language

917
00:42:01.090 --> 00:42:06.179
thing about Strigoi. So the etymology of Strigoi, so we'll

918
00:42:06.219 --> 00:42:08.929
go back into sort of the Roman.

919
00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:11.019
Roots of this.

920
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:16.480
It comes from Strix, which is a Greco-Roman sort of

921
00:42:16.619 --> 00:42:19.679
night monster that's like an owl thing.

922
00:42:20.420 --> 00:42:23.420
And it basically means like to scream.

923
00:42:24.179 --> 00:42:29.500
And so that's why a lot of owl species names

924
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:33.800
have Strix in it as their scientific name. I think most,

925
00:42:33.900 --> 00:42:36.900
except for like barn owls, will have Strix somewhere in

926
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:39.019
their thing, which is odd. I don't know why barn

927
00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:45.340
owls get the exception. And then interestingly enough, language-wise, they

928
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:45.900
kind of.

929
00:42:46.219 --> 00:42:47.980
So in Italy.

930
00:42:49.449 --> 00:42:53.139
Strix kind of evolved into sort of strege, which becomes

931
00:42:53.179 --> 00:42:57.900
like a witch concept in Italy. And again, for a

932
00:42:57.940 --> 00:43:02.610
long time retained that owl and night monster sort of concept.

933
00:43:02.809 --> 00:43:05.550
It was like a owl creature that would sort of.

934
00:43:05.949 --> 00:43:09.510
Sneak in at night and sort of suck out all

935
00:43:09.530 --> 00:43:11.699
of the insides of a baby. and maybe stuff it

936
00:43:11.739 --> 00:43:15.360
with straw and then just a little straw stuff. Of course.

937
00:43:15.380 --> 00:43:17.300
So you, so you knew, you know, I was like,

938
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:18.679
why would I take the whole baby when I could

939
00:43:18.699 --> 00:43:20.159
leave you a horrifying reminder?

940
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.199
Well, so then you won't notice at first that the

941
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.119
baby has been all like tribbled up into it. It's like,

942
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:27.139
Oh no, I've got to just stuff that back and

943
00:43:27.219 --> 00:43:31.909
it's fine. It's just, you know, geez. Um, and then

944
00:43:31.929 --> 00:43:35.110
those also, then they evolved into other kinds of like

945
00:43:35.130 --> 00:43:37.409
witch concepts. Like a lot of times, uh, they would

946
00:43:37.429 --> 00:43:41.199
be like, um, like a wet nurse that also would

947
00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:45.280
feed upon the child or be poisoning the child instead

948
00:43:45.300 --> 00:43:48.860
of giving them actual milk. It's like poison from the, yeah.

949
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:56.230
And another thing, so that's a strega in Italy. So

950
00:43:56.309 --> 00:43:58.349
their concept of a witch is a lot different than

951
00:43:58.389 --> 00:44:00.559
what you'll like see up in like England and stuff.

952
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:03.780
But then, uh, you go off into more of the

953
00:44:03.820 --> 00:44:08.599
Balkans and stuff. This Strix Streghe evolved into two concepts

954
00:44:08.659 --> 00:44:09.199
in the Balkans.

955
00:44:09.219 --> 00:44:11.619
You have the Stregoi in the Strega.

956
00:44:11.989 --> 00:44:15.869
And so the Strega is something more similar to the

957
00:44:16.010 --> 00:44:19.769
Italian one where it's like a witch thing. Um, and

958
00:44:19.789 --> 00:44:24.349
then the Stregoi is what we would now call a vampire. Um,

959
00:44:24.469 --> 00:44:26.659
so like they didn't use the term vampire and stuff

960
00:44:26.699 --> 00:44:30.900
like that back then, just like, um, there were vampires

961
00:44:31.659 --> 00:44:34.760
in America that we didn't call vampires. Um, but if

962
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.139
you look at how they were treated and like how

963
00:44:37.179 --> 00:44:38.610
we dealt with them and stuff like that, that it

964
00:44:38.690 --> 00:44:41.650
was a vampire. Um, and so if we just term

965
00:44:41.730 --> 00:44:44.789
term wise, um, I think it's an important thing to

966
00:44:44.829 --> 00:44:48.610
note that, uh, historically, like people wouldn't have the term vampire,

967
00:44:49.230 --> 00:44:51.389
like what we have now, like that came about later

968
00:44:51.409 --> 00:44:55.750
and now we just use it as sort of a classification. Um, yeah.

969
00:44:56.130 --> 00:44:56.329
Yeah.

970
00:44:57.780 --> 00:45:00.469
Well, I mean, of course, that's how I use it.

971
00:45:00.969 --> 00:45:01.119
Yeah.

972
00:45:01.179 --> 00:45:04.289
No, well, yeah, well, it makes sense because vampire really,

973
00:45:05.090 --> 00:45:09.050
that term really grew from, you know, Bram Stoker's Dracula becoming,

974
00:45:09.690 --> 00:45:12.630
you know, the entire world that helped a lot with

975
00:45:12.690 --> 00:45:13.929
kind of the basic concept.

976
00:45:14.130 --> 00:45:15.750
Well, I mean, it came before him.

977
00:45:16.610 --> 00:45:20.170
But like the term vampire itself was more a Western

978
00:45:20.349 --> 00:45:25.429
European term, even though it supposedly came from Eastern European concepts. um,

979
00:45:25.849 --> 00:45:28.269
but it was more kind of like sort of, uh,

980
00:45:28.750 --> 00:45:30.849
and there's no like clear consensus on this, but there's

981
00:45:30.889 --> 00:45:33.809
like different arguments about like different potential words, either in

982
00:45:33.869 --> 00:45:36.909
Turkish or Serbian and stuff that got kind of, uh,

983
00:45:36.969 --> 00:45:41.659
sort of almost bastardized by, uh, Western European, uh, speakers. And,

984
00:45:41.860 --> 00:45:44.400
and you eventually get like this term vampire, which might've

985
00:45:44.420 --> 00:45:48.909
been something more like vampire or something like that. Um, but, uh,

986
00:45:49.610 --> 00:45:52.650
Still a very similar concept to what a stragoi is

987
00:45:52.949 --> 00:45:53.369
and stuff.

988
00:45:53.510 --> 00:45:55.230
So this stragoi is a.

989
00:45:55.710 --> 00:46:01.610
Romanian thing that Bram Stoker and others like him borrowed from,

990
00:46:02.260 --> 00:46:05.320
but is still going to be vastly different, which might

991
00:46:05.340 --> 00:46:06.440
be a fun thing to talk about.

992
00:46:06.460 --> 00:46:09.019
Yeah, that's the most exciting part.

993
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:09.860
Yeah.

994
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:12.659
So let's play it as a game.

995
00:46:13.059 --> 00:46:13.300
Yeah.

996
00:46:13.380 --> 00:46:13.679
Okay?

997
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:18.440
I'm going to say a vampire, like a traditional vampire thing.

998
00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:18.940
Yes.

999
00:46:19.469 --> 00:46:22.380
And then you can tell me if it applies, doesn't

1000
00:46:22.409 --> 00:46:25.000
apply or kind of applies. I think this will be

1001
00:46:25.059 --> 00:46:28.280
fun because as a lifelong monster kid, I'm like, you know,

1002
00:46:28.340 --> 00:46:29.440
I know vampires.

1003
00:46:29.659 --> 00:46:32.929
I know them. So we'll go with the most obvious

1004
00:46:32.969 --> 00:46:34.849
first drinking blood.

1005
00:46:36.409 --> 00:46:43.849
So, yes, but also, they would feed off of not

1006
00:46:43.869 --> 00:46:45.860
just blood, but they could feed off of the life

1007
00:46:45.909 --> 00:46:50.460
force of people. So if you, like, people start feeling, like,

1008
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:53.579
sick and drained and stuff like that, they.

1009
00:46:57.690 --> 00:47:01.389
So quick caveat, there are live type and dead type strugoi. Oh, okay.

1010
00:47:01.610 --> 00:47:04.130
Yeah, so live type are people who are living, but

1011
00:47:04.170 --> 00:47:06.630
whenever they die, they're going to rise again as the strugoi.

1012
00:47:06.690 --> 00:47:10.070
You're basically kind of, for one reason or the other,

1013
00:47:11.110 --> 00:47:13.469
either you're born in a cowl or something like that,

1014
00:47:13.489 --> 00:47:15.610
that gets you cursed, so you're going to be a

1015
00:47:15.869 --> 00:47:19.690
strugoi someday. And then dead type, of course, are the

1016
00:47:19.750 --> 00:47:23.690
reanimated ones. But there was a lot of concepts of

1017
00:47:23.809 --> 00:47:27.489
live type ones, especially lady live type ones, who could

1018
00:47:27.590 --> 00:47:33.719
also sort of take out the power of things. And

1019
00:47:33.860 --> 00:47:38.159
that could be like one instance, example was this one

1020
00:47:38.179 --> 00:47:40.559
lady who's really good at baking. She was the best

1021
00:47:40.900 --> 00:47:43.630
bread maker in her entire village. And that's because she

1022
00:47:43.670 --> 00:47:48.369
was a who took all of the bread power from

1023
00:47:48.510 --> 00:47:49.469
all of the other women.

1024
00:47:49.489 --> 00:47:52.300
So she was, better.

1025
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:55.440
Yeah that sounds like that might have been a little

1026
00:47:55.539 --> 00:47:59.800
a little mindset left over from feudalism you know because

1027
00:47:59.820 --> 00:48:02.489
they lived in the zero-sum game for hundreds of years

1028
00:48:02.550 --> 00:48:04.269
where it was like you don't own anything it's all

1029
00:48:04.289 --> 00:48:06.070
belongs to this guy who you'll only see when he

1030
00:48:06.110 --> 00:48:06.869
needs money.

1031
00:48:06.650 --> 00:48:09.210
Or food well no no no it was it was

1032
00:48:09.269 --> 00:48:11.510
like the actual power like like like because they would

1033
00:48:11.530 --> 00:48:13.599
also take the power from bees and it would make

1034
00:48:13.619 --> 00:48:15.679
it so the bees can't produce honey anymore but they've

1035
00:48:15.699 --> 00:48:19.780
got now power They've taken the energy from them. But

1036
00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:22.539
with this particular lady, she just used that power to

1037
00:48:22.579 --> 00:48:23.179
make the best bread.

1038
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:26.539
I mean, why wouldn't you?

1039
00:48:27.099 --> 00:48:29.599
What I mean is more so the idea that if

1040
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:33.659
you have something, if you're good at something, it's taking

1041
00:48:33.739 --> 00:48:34.489
from something else.

1042
00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:36.929
That's what I meant about relating to feudalism.

1043
00:48:36.949 --> 00:48:39.369
Because feudalism is where kind of a lot of zero-sum

1044
00:48:39.449 --> 00:48:42.750
thinking in human history, I think, comes from, is the

1045
00:48:42.809 --> 00:48:44.750
idea that like, oh, well, if he has something, it's

1046
00:48:44.869 --> 00:48:46.710
only because it was taken from me because that's all

1047
00:48:46.730 --> 00:48:49.269
they knew for the longest time was that, you know,

1048
00:48:49.309 --> 00:48:52.010
if somebody was powerful, it was strictly from extraction.

1049
00:48:52.050 --> 00:48:52.550
There was no.

1050
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.639
Yeah. Like we both can't be good at something. You, I,

1051
00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.099
the only reason I suck is because, is because you

1052
00:49:00.139 --> 00:49:01.920
took my, my ability from me.

1053
00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:02.519
Exactly.

1054
00:49:02.579 --> 00:49:03.000
Exactly.

1055
00:49:03.059 --> 00:49:05.780
Otherwise, you know, we're all on evil, even playing ground

1056
00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:08.260
or playing field, but you, you just stole it from me.

1057
00:49:08.570 --> 00:49:10.070
So that's, but that's really interesting.

1058
00:49:10.130 --> 00:49:12.590
The idea that you would be taking, I mean, bread

1059
00:49:12.630 --> 00:49:15.929
making in particular, I love, I mean, but again, we laugh,

1060
00:49:15.989 --> 00:49:17.550
but like, uh, it was pretty important to make some

1061
00:49:17.590 --> 00:49:19.110
good bread, you know, back in the day.

1062
00:49:19.210 --> 00:49:19.929
And it might be the only thing.

1063
00:49:20.050 --> 00:49:22.130
You're eating and uh if it tasted a little bit

1064
00:49:22.170 --> 00:49:26.800
better maybe maybe you'd live a little longer uh so

1065
00:49:26.929 --> 00:49:28.940
or or you know or maybe uh it was the

1066
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.840
other people's really crappy bread that made them hallucinate that

1067
00:49:31.860 --> 00:49:36.210
this woman was stealing their bread um But, you know,

1068
00:49:36.570 --> 00:49:40.849
that's a whole other concept. So, okay, so occasionally drinks blood,

1069
00:49:40.889 --> 00:49:43.929
but also just takes energy, power, strength.

1070
00:49:44.269 --> 00:49:46.190
Strength and would eat people. They also like to dig

1071
00:49:46.230 --> 00:49:47.250
up corpses and eat their hearts.

1072
00:49:47.730 --> 00:49:50.230
Oh, okay, just the heart? Yeah.

1073
00:49:50.289 --> 00:49:50.949
I like that.

1074
00:49:51.590 --> 00:49:53.289
Well, I like that because that also ties into, like,

1075
00:49:53.329 --> 00:49:56.070
because there's heart stuff in later vampire folklore.

1076
00:49:56.510 --> 00:50:01.360
So, okay. So they kind of drink blood, but with,

1077
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:02.340
you know, bonuses.

1078
00:50:02.739 --> 00:50:02.900
Mm-hmm.

1079
00:50:06.539 --> 00:50:07.860
Any aversion to sunlight?

1080
00:50:08.889 --> 00:50:11.409
So they don't, nothing that I saw says that they

1081
00:50:11.429 --> 00:50:13.829
die in sunlight. They just disappear or sink into the earth.

1082
00:50:14.750 --> 00:50:15.070
Okay.

1083
00:50:15.090 --> 00:50:17.849
I mean, it's kind of how I feel like doing sometimes,

1084
00:50:17.889 --> 00:50:19.809
you know, when I'm not ready for summer. I'm like,

1085
00:50:19.849 --> 00:50:21.369
I'm just going to sink into the dirt.

1086
00:50:22.829 --> 00:50:25.429
But no, okay. So I like that the aversion is there.

1087
00:50:25.809 --> 00:50:26.469
Yeah.

1088
00:50:26.829 --> 00:50:28.789
And I think that comes from more of like this

1089
00:50:28.829 --> 00:50:32.070
concept of sort of the dark and the nighttime is

1090
00:50:32.190 --> 00:50:35.150
for the bad things, the dark, creepy things. And then

1091
00:50:35.170 --> 00:50:38.800
everything goes away. In the light of day kind of thing.

1092
00:50:38.940 --> 00:50:41.280
All of the things that scared you at night are

1093
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:44.079
now gone once the sun has risen and stuff.

1094
00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:46.230
So that's, I think, what that ties into.

1095
00:50:46.269 --> 00:50:51.349
So again, I never encountered any stories where the Sturgoy

1096
00:50:51.409 --> 00:50:53.550
is hurt by the sun or dies because of the sun.

1097
00:50:53.699 --> 00:50:55.500
It just disappears or just sinks.

1098
00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:57.880
It just kind of disappears. They just got to F off.

1099
00:50:57.980 --> 00:50:58.920
You know, they got to get lost.

1100
00:50:58.940 --> 00:50:59.960
They just got to go away.

1101
00:50:59.980 --> 00:51:01.559
Yeah.

1102
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:02.460
Which is perfect.

1103
00:51:02.500 --> 00:51:02.679
Yeah.

1104
00:51:02.980 --> 00:51:04.719
Unless, of course, they're a live type. If they're a

1105
00:51:04.739 --> 00:51:07.159
live type, then they just walk around like everybody else.

1106
00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:08.199
They're just chilling.

1107
00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:08.719
Yeah.

1108
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:11.619
Because they're still a human being.

1109
00:51:11.989 --> 00:51:12.300
Yeah.

1110
00:51:12.619 --> 00:51:15.610
They just walk around in the sun going, huh, you

1111
00:51:15.630 --> 00:51:17.750
made some pretty good bread. And then they get the

1112
00:51:17.789 --> 00:51:22.710
big Della Lugosi eyes, you know. My bread will be

1113
00:51:22.809 --> 00:51:26.210
so much better now than in the original Romanian bread.

1114
00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:34.619
All right. So, okay. So, let's go religious iconography. Okay. So, no.

1115
00:51:35.010 --> 00:51:35.650
Well, yes and no.

1116
00:51:35.750 --> 00:51:36.010
Okay.

1117
00:51:36.110 --> 00:51:38.929
So, crosses, no, because a lot of times they hang

1118
00:51:38.969 --> 00:51:42.349
out in church arts. But there is one particular story

1119
00:51:42.409 --> 00:51:46.699
where a vampire was actually killed by a portrait of

1120
00:51:46.739 --> 00:51:48.260
a saint falling on him.

1121
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:51.130
So... Okay.

1122
00:51:51.409 --> 00:51:54.909
Which is rare because it's usually very difficult to dispatch

1123
00:51:55.210 --> 00:51:55.880
a Sturgoy.

1124
00:51:55.909 --> 00:51:57.389
Like, there's specific things you have to do.

1125
00:51:58.380 --> 00:52:02.300
But this was just, he chased his ex-girlfriend into the

1126
00:52:02.340 --> 00:52:05.340
church and she hid behind, like, a portrait of a

1127
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:07.940
saint and it fell down onto the Sturgoy and he died.

1128
00:52:08.300 --> 00:52:10.139
See, it's funny because, you.

1129
00:52:10.059 --> 00:52:11.719
Know, when you think of vampires, you think of a

1130
00:52:11.739 --> 00:52:13.599
Bela Gosi movie, but this was more like a Buster

1131
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:16.739
Keaton movie. He just stumbles in and then the thing

1132
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:18.000
falls right on him and that's it.

1133
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.900
But that's also very cinematic, poetic.

1134
00:52:24.179 --> 00:52:28.469
Because I'm sure at that time period, most of the

1135
00:52:28.550 --> 00:52:31.670
murals and big art pieces you would see were church

1136
00:52:31.769 --> 00:52:34.289
stuff and related to saints and stuff. So you'd be like, well, yeah,

1137
00:52:34.309 --> 00:52:36.340
that's the kind of thing that would fall on them.

1138
00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:39.199
The only thing that would work like that otherwise would

1139
00:52:39.219 --> 00:52:41.340
be a statue of a saint falling on them would

1140
00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:44.190
be a very similar kind of concept. So, okay, so

1141
00:52:44.210 --> 00:52:46.630
since we started on that, we'll dive right into, so

1142
00:52:46.670 --> 00:52:48.809
how do you kill, for all of our listeners in

1143
00:52:48.869 --> 00:52:53.670
Romania who are currently hiding under their blankets with a

1144
00:52:53.829 --> 00:52:57.300
loaf of very poorly made bread, try and figure out

1145
00:52:57.400 --> 00:52:58.920
what they could possibly do.

1146
00:52:58.940 --> 00:53:02.519
So how to kill a strogoi.

1147
00:53:03.639 --> 00:53:06.460
So there is some variations, but almost all of them,

1148
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:10.179
you have to cut out the heart, at least the heart.

1149
00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:13.269
Sometimes it's the heart and the liver. And cut it

1150
00:53:13.369 --> 00:53:16.429
up and burn it. And you can either scatter the

1151
00:53:16.510 --> 00:53:19.789
ashes in like a river or more likely you would

1152
00:53:19.849 --> 00:53:21.889
mix the ashes with some water and give it to

1153
00:53:21.989 --> 00:53:24.300
people who have been affected by the vampire recently.

1154
00:53:24.820 --> 00:53:25.860
And it would cure them of it.

1155
00:53:26.500 --> 00:53:30.000
But then in some of the other versions, you have

1156
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:32.400
to then chop up and burn every piece of the

1157
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:36.320
body afterwards. Because if even a sliver of bone is left,

1158
00:53:36.380 --> 00:53:37.389
that vampire will grow back.

1159
00:53:38.429 --> 00:53:38.530
Oh.

1160
00:53:39.230 --> 00:53:40.760
So, yeah. Yeah.

1161
00:53:41.579 --> 00:53:42.260
Not ideal.

1162
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:44.510
No. So, yeah.

1163
00:53:44.530 --> 00:53:48.389
So that's the only way really to completely dispatch Sturgoy.

1164
00:53:49.070 --> 00:53:53.239
That's fascinating because everything you said I've heard like kind

1165
00:53:53.300 --> 00:53:55.500
of in a vampire legend from somewhere. From like a

1166
00:53:55.500 --> 00:53:57.280
book or a movie or something.

1167
00:53:57.360 --> 00:53:57.760
Except.

1168
00:53:58.380 --> 00:54:02.500
The consuming the ashes of the heart. I've never heard that.

1169
00:54:02.820 --> 00:54:04.699
I've heard of versions where it's like you have to

1170
00:54:04.739 --> 00:54:06.320
take the vampire's heart and burn it or cut it

1171
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.000
up or whatever. And of course, staking them and blah, blah, blah.

1172
00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:13.820
But I've never heard of consuming a vampire to cure before.

1173
00:54:14.539 --> 00:54:14.880
I haven't.

1174
00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:17.889
I'm sure it's out there somewhere, but that's really fascinating.

1175
00:54:18.110 --> 00:54:19.050
Oh, so no, it is.

1176
00:54:19.070 --> 00:54:21.289
It is incredibly common. Like I said, it was the

1177
00:54:21.349 --> 00:54:23.909
most common way to do it. And like I have,

1178
00:54:24.030 --> 00:54:27.210
I brought it. I mean, you're not showing video, but

1179
00:54:27.329 --> 00:54:30.050
I have with me here Food for the Dead by

1180
00:54:30.110 --> 00:54:32.449
Michael E. Bell. If you ever want to learn about

1181
00:54:32.489 --> 00:54:36.190
the New England vampires that we had here in America,

1182
00:54:36.949 --> 00:54:39.510
which again, we didn't call vampires, but it's the same way.

1183
00:54:39.570 --> 00:54:42.409
The same way they were dispatched would be digging them up,

1184
00:54:42.550 --> 00:54:46.130
cutting out the heart, burning it, mixing that ash with

1185
00:54:46.550 --> 00:54:49.050
water and giving it to like family members who are

1186
00:54:49.090 --> 00:54:54.559
affected and stuff. And because it was, So one of

1187
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:58.429
the things about Strigoi and about these New England vampires

1188
00:54:58.469 --> 00:55:02.489
and other vampires pretty much everywhere is they're actually to

1189
00:55:02.550 --> 00:55:06.269
explain plagues and stuff. So digging up a corpse and

1190
00:55:06.369 --> 00:55:08.530
playing with it isn't honestly the best way to prevent

1191
00:55:08.570 --> 00:55:10.550
more plague, but they didn't know that.

1192
00:55:11.210 --> 00:55:13.949
No, I mean, the germ theory was they were way

1193
00:55:14.010 --> 00:55:18.429
before germ theory. They were probably a century before germ theory.

1194
00:55:18.849 --> 00:55:19.070
Right.

1195
00:55:19.150 --> 00:55:23.130
But so consuming part of that corpse was thought in

1196
00:55:23.210 --> 00:55:26.489
some way to be able to cure the curse and

1197
00:55:26.510 --> 00:55:28.110
stuff that had fallen upon you because.

1198
00:55:28.130 --> 00:55:29.380
Kind of like a vaccine.

1199
00:55:29.860 --> 00:55:32.179
Yeah, kind of like a vaccine, but not because they're

1200
00:55:32.199 --> 00:55:33.340
not doing it quite right.

1201
00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:37.000
Yeah, because it's not before either.

1202
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:40.400
Yeah. You already have the plague or tuberculosis. It's not

1203
00:55:40.420 --> 00:55:42.539
really going to help you.

1204
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:48.349
It's like Oregon Trail, but with a Romanian vampire creature. Yep.

1205
00:55:48.369 --> 00:55:48.469
So.

1206
00:55:49.170 --> 00:55:52.190
wow, that's, that's why we're actually, we're working on a

1207
00:55:52.230 --> 00:55:55.269
show for terrifying and true in November about the new

1208
00:55:55.309 --> 00:55:58.239
England vampire thing, because I felt like it was kind

1209
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:01.900
of festive because it's up by where, you know, up

1210
00:56:01.940 --> 00:56:03.119
by where the pilgrims landed.

1211
00:56:03.159 --> 00:56:03.659
So why not?

1212
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:08.320
Uh, Because last year we did a special that was

1213
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:14.539
like the real hardships of Thanksgiving, like the true fear

1214
00:56:14.619 --> 00:56:18.110
of death and murder and all these things. And then

1215
00:56:18.130 --> 00:56:20.929
the next one was the believed threats. So it was

1216
00:56:20.969 --> 00:56:25.750
like spiritual things like ghost stories, monsters, cryptids, whether it

1217
00:56:25.769 --> 00:56:28.949
was the pilgrims or the natives. We tried to like

1218
00:56:29.030 --> 00:56:30.409
kind of do one and then the other. So it

1219
00:56:30.429 --> 00:56:33.679
was like the real hardships. and the spiritual or, or, uh,

1220
00:56:33.900 --> 00:56:37.789
folkloric hardships. It was really fun, but, uh, it kind

1221
00:56:37.849 --> 00:56:40.389
of tapped me out on a lot of the stuff

1222
00:56:40.429 --> 00:56:42.789
we can do about Thanksgiving time. So I was like,

1223
00:56:42.809 --> 00:56:45.150
all right, well, we'll go, we'll go by Plymouth and

1224
00:56:45.190 --> 00:56:48.349
see what the vampires were doing at some point. Yeah.

1225
00:56:48.389 --> 00:56:50.090
Well, but I've heard it's a fascinating thing.

1226
00:56:50.369 --> 00:56:50.590
Oh yeah.

1227
00:56:50.630 --> 00:56:53.920
And Rhode Island is where there's like the most famous. Right.

1228
00:56:53.940 --> 00:56:54.179
Yeah.

1229
00:56:54.820 --> 00:56:57.159
Um, but New England is homogenized.

1230
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.719
Um, But I was going to say, because you did

1231
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:04.079
mention staking. So staking through the harder navel was usually

1232
00:57:04.099 --> 00:57:06.400
just a way to prevent the corpse from rising.

1233
00:57:06.539 --> 00:57:10.139
It wasn't a way to kill the vampire after it's

1234
00:57:10.179 --> 00:57:10.949
already been doing that.

1235
00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:12.550
I haven't heard that.

1236
00:57:12.829 --> 00:57:14.730
Yeah, it was more of a preventative measure. There were

1237
00:57:14.809 --> 00:57:19.230
various different kinds, things like that, or sticking a nail

1238
00:57:19.510 --> 00:57:22.329
in the back of the neck or in the eyes

1239
00:57:22.409 --> 00:57:24.409
and other places, putting a nail under the tongue, etc.

1240
00:57:25.090 --> 00:57:27.889
um yeah it's uh so there's lots of different there's

1241
00:57:27.909 --> 00:57:30.219
like one it was one region like i think wrapped

1242
00:57:31.579 --> 00:57:34.199
uh was it like rose vines or some type of

1243
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:37.820
vines around like the casket there's all sorts of just

1244
00:57:37.860 --> 00:57:40.190
ways to prevent the corpse.

1245
00:57:39.949 --> 00:57:43.150
From rising yeah they were you know it seemed like

1246
00:57:43.170 --> 00:57:45.670
they were always bouncing between either uh worrying about the

1247
00:57:45.690 --> 00:57:48.949
corpse rising or worrying about uh nobody knowing that the

1248
00:57:48.969 --> 00:57:51.670
person was not actually a corpse they kind of you know,

1249
00:57:51.829 --> 00:57:54.469
it kind of juggled between those two things. But also

1250
00:57:54.489 --> 00:57:56.230
I think that that might be one of the reasons

1251
00:57:56.889 --> 00:57:58.670
that they got scared is that they may have exhumed

1252
00:57:58.710 --> 00:58:01.469
at one and saw evidence that they weren't dead yet.

1253
00:58:02.090 --> 00:58:04.260
Well, that was, well, yeah, because it was actually very

1254
00:58:04.300 --> 00:58:07.340
common to, uh, exhume the corpses after a certain amount

1255
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:09.760
of time, just in general, just to check, to see

1256
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:12.139
if anybody was, uh, instead of going of some kind

1257
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:14.170
and stuff. And so there's different things to look for, um,

1258
00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:19.880
in that corpse and things would be like, uh, coloration, which, uh, uh,

1259
00:58:20.570 --> 00:58:25.429
So I guess I'm skipping ahead in the game. Vampires

1260
00:58:25.449 --> 00:58:29.619
aren't pale. They were usually red, very ruddy skinned. And

1261
00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:34.820
that's probably because whenever blood settles in a corpse, there's discoloration.

1262
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.110
But people back then wouldn't really... know what that meant.

1263
00:58:38.429 --> 00:58:41.289
They just think, oh, look, it's flush with blood. It

1264
00:58:41.329 --> 00:58:43.349
must be because it's consuming a lot of blood and

1265
00:58:43.570 --> 00:58:47.980
feeding off of its family. Things like if its legs

1266
00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:50.599
have been moved, so it shows signs that it had

1267
00:58:50.820 --> 00:58:57.179
been turning around and stuff. And then other things like

1268
00:58:57.219 --> 00:59:03.389
a little hole next to where the grave is, about

1269
00:59:03.409 --> 00:59:04.820
a size for a snake to go.

1270
00:59:04.690 --> 00:59:06.090
Through because that was.

1271
00:59:06.090 --> 00:59:09.000
That's what it would believe that the the vampire would

1272
00:59:09.019 --> 00:59:10.820
travel up through that hole to get in and out

1273
00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:14.429
of its casket um and but yeah and also if

1274
00:59:14.510 --> 00:59:17.469
it hadn't decomposed too too much and like let's say

1275
00:59:17.489 --> 00:59:19.030
it's been like three years and you dig it up

1276
00:59:19.530 --> 00:59:21.389
and really the only thing that's rotted has like been

1277
00:59:21.429 --> 00:59:23.750
the nose and everything else looks pretty okay then that's

1278
00:59:23.789 --> 00:59:27.250
probably a vampire. Oh, yeah. Yeah, if it's just bones,

1279
00:59:27.570 --> 00:59:29.570
then you put holy water and wine on it and

1280
00:59:29.590 --> 00:59:32.280
you do a little ritual over and bury it back.

1281
00:59:32.179 --> 00:59:32.900
And it's all fine.

1282
00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:37.000
Like making a good pot roast, you know?

1283
00:59:37.019 --> 00:59:41.079
Yeah, but if it's still fleshy, then that's probably Strogoy.

1284
00:59:41.099 --> 00:59:42.639
You got to cut out his heart and do that

1285
00:59:42.659 --> 00:59:43.199
whole process.

1286
00:59:43.510 --> 00:59:45.949
Got to do it. That's wild.

1287
00:59:48.489 --> 00:59:54.030
We've got the pale skin is a no. They got

1288
00:59:54.070 --> 00:59:56.590
how you kill them. They drink blood. What about, I mean,

1289
00:59:56.610 --> 00:59:58.469
this one, I feel like we got to wonder, what

1290
00:59:58.489 --> 01:00:02.150
about fangs? Did they have any kind of protrusion of

1291
01:00:02.269 --> 01:00:05.369
teeth or what was their method for extracting when they

1292
01:00:05.389 --> 01:00:06.690
were consuming blood?

1293
01:00:07.210 --> 01:00:12.219
So nothing is really talked about with that. And from

1294
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:14.820
any of the stuff that I've read, that might be

1295
01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:18.940
more of an invention later with like the Victorian romantic fangs.

1296
01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:23.679
like writings because that also became they started to get

1297
01:00:23.739 --> 01:00:25.849
obsessed with like the whole neck biting thing which it

1298
01:00:25.869 --> 01:00:29.690
wasn't really that wasn't really necessarily where they were feeding

1299
01:00:29.789 --> 01:00:32.070
off of you as Turgoy and stuff like that but

1300
01:00:32.130 --> 01:00:34.030
it's more sexy Oh, yeah.

1301
01:00:34.050 --> 01:00:36.670
Well, in the Victorian era, you know, I mean, that

1302
01:00:36.710 --> 01:00:38.630
was the era of VD.

1303
01:00:39.050 --> 01:00:41.989
So, I mean, no, I mean, you know.

1304
01:00:42.489 --> 01:00:47.099
And I... But, I mean, because, like, Dracula and other, like,

1305
01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:49.480
stories that came out at the time, they are, like,

1306
01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:54.000
gothic romanticism kind of things and stuff. So they are

1307
01:00:54.039 --> 01:00:55.960
supposed to be a little sexy. And so that's why

1308
01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:59.579
the whole little biting on the neck thing. But before then,

1309
01:00:59.880 --> 01:01:03.460
it wasn't really, like, the only... Physical characteristics besides the

1310
01:01:03.500 --> 01:01:07.300
red skin would be guy, a storgoy would usually be

1311
01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:10.920
bald and they would grow a tail and cloven hooves.

1312
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:13.139
That would be noticeable.

1313
01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:14.219
Yes, it would be noticeable.

1314
01:01:14.260 --> 01:01:15.340
A lot more so than fangs.

1315
01:01:15.849 --> 01:01:16.070
Yes.

1316
01:01:16.510 --> 01:01:18.610
Oh, can I tell a quick little story?

1317
01:01:18.630 --> 01:01:19.449
Yes.

1318
01:01:19.889 --> 01:01:20.170
Okay.

1319
01:01:20.269 --> 01:01:24.489
Okay. Absolutely. All right. So there's different variations of this story.

1320
01:01:24.510 --> 01:01:28.800
But basically the gist is that there was like a

1321
01:01:28.889 --> 01:01:30.940
party going on with a bunch of young people from

1322
01:01:30.980 --> 01:01:35.719
a village. And these, sometimes it's one, sometimes it's more

1323
01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:37.880
than one, but so we'll go with one. One young,

1324
01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:41.420
handsome gentleman showed up and all of the girls like

1325
01:01:41.460 --> 01:01:44.550
just loved talking with him. He was fun and witty

1326
01:01:44.610 --> 01:01:46.670
and just everyone was laughing, except for this one girl

1327
01:01:46.710 --> 01:01:48.989
who just wanted to like knit or whatever, do her

1328
01:01:49.030 --> 01:01:51.010
little cross stitch over and not pay attention to him

1329
01:01:51.030 --> 01:01:54.090
because she thinks he's kind of douchey. And he keeps

1330
01:01:54.130 --> 01:01:55.690
trying to get her attention. She's like, no, no, no.

1331
01:01:55.730 --> 01:01:58.230
And she drops what she's like working on, bends down

1332
01:01:58.269 --> 01:02:00.190
to get it. And that's when she sees he's got hooves.

1333
01:02:00.780 --> 01:02:03.590
So then she knows this is a stragoi.

1334
01:02:03.650 --> 01:02:05.550
This is not a normal guy.

1335
01:02:06.150 --> 01:02:08.630
And so then she tells like her friends, I'm sorry,

1336
01:02:08.650 --> 01:02:10.530
I'm just going to go to the bathroom for like

1337
01:02:10.550 --> 01:02:10.730
a minute.

1338
01:02:10.750 --> 01:02:12.250
I'm just going to duck out and stuff. And so

1339
01:02:12.289 --> 01:02:15.929
she slips away. And the stragoi guy is like, what happened?

1340
01:02:15.949 --> 01:02:16.570
Where is she?

1341
01:02:16.630 --> 01:02:18.230
And stuff. Because he notices she's not there anymore. And

1342
01:02:18.250 --> 01:02:19.110
they're like, I don't know.

1343
01:02:19.170 --> 01:02:19.750
She'll be back.

1344
01:02:19.769 --> 01:02:21.090
But she never shows back up.

1345
01:02:21.670 --> 01:02:26.119
So he kills everybody in the party. streams their guts

1346
01:02:26.260 --> 01:02:30.000
up like streamers and stuff like that and positions their

1347
01:02:30.059 --> 01:02:32.099
heads in the windows with the lips cut off to

1348
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:35.000
look like they're laughing. So anyone walking by just thinks

1349
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:37.579
it's a fun party and then he chases after her.

1350
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.519
That is the sickest thing i've ever heard.

1351
01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:46.760
That's wild and so he chases after her and like

1352
01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:50.449
she does things like like uh because vampires are ocd

1353
01:02:50.510 --> 01:02:53.110
she she throws crumpled linen in his way and he

1354
01:02:53.130 --> 01:02:54.429
has to stop and he has to straighten out and

1355
01:02:54.469 --> 01:02:58.150
fold the linen and things like that and um So

1356
01:02:58.170 --> 01:02:59.909
she does all these things to try to, like, keep

1357
01:02:59.929 --> 01:03:02.559
him away. And, like, one variation gets even wilder in

1358
01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:05.440
that she, like, finds this little house. And there's, like,

1359
01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:07.199
this guy that's, like, sleeping on the hearth. And she, like,

1360
01:03:07.219 --> 01:03:09.599
goes in there to, like, try to, like, just keep

1361
01:03:09.659 --> 01:03:11.480
away from the strogoy. But then it turns out the

1362
01:03:11.530 --> 01:03:13.489
guy on the hearth is also a strogoy. And then

1363
01:03:13.510 --> 01:03:15.949
when the first strogoy comes, they both, like, fight each other.

1364
01:03:15.989 --> 01:03:17.949
And she's just like, oh, no. And she just, like, leaves.

1365
01:03:18.030 --> 01:03:19.989
And then the sun shows up and they disappear.

1366
01:03:20.010 --> 01:03:20.289
Yeah.

1367
01:03:22.300 --> 01:03:25.530
That's like the earliest precursor to Twilight I've ever heard.

1368
01:03:25.550 --> 01:03:29.289
And then the other Storgoi, and then they fight. But

1369
01:03:29.309 --> 01:03:30.039
then the sun comes up.

1370
01:03:31.190 --> 01:03:34.409
But yeah, there's lots of variations of that party story.

1371
01:03:34.889 --> 01:03:38.349
But inevitably, everyone in the party ends up dying and,

1372
01:03:38.469 --> 01:03:42.090
of course, getting just decorated. Yeah, useless decorations.

1373
01:03:43.670 --> 01:03:45.750
That one's epic for so many reasons.

1374
01:03:45.769 --> 01:03:47.130
Well, first of all, it also gives you a better

1375
01:03:47.170 --> 01:03:49.170
concept of kind of like what the fear of the

1376
01:03:49.230 --> 01:03:56.739
Storgoi was because... I mean, you're talking vicious, but also morbid. Like,

1377
01:03:56.780 --> 01:03:57.840
there's a lot there.

1378
01:03:58.179 --> 01:04:02.519
Well, so one of the fun history things about that is,

1379
01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:04.760
so the whole cutting the lips away to look like

1380
01:04:04.780 --> 01:04:07.780
they're laughing is actually something that came out of, because,

1381
01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:10.090
you know, there's a lot of conflict between, like, Turkey

1382
01:04:10.170 --> 01:04:11.889
and that region and Romania and stuff.

1383
01:04:12.210 --> 01:04:13.650
And that was one of the things that was done.

1384
01:04:13.829 --> 01:04:16.449
I genuinely forget which side did it, but one side

1385
01:04:16.489 --> 01:04:18.730
did it to demoralize the other, where they would take

1386
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:21.420
the the heads of the troops and they would cut

1387
01:04:21.460 --> 01:04:23.420
away the lips to look like they're just like this

1388
01:04:23.500 --> 01:04:27.320
vicious grin and stuff um and so i think that

1389
01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:29.440
just kind of got into like the psyche into the

1390
01:04:29.489 --> 01:04:32.789
cultural mindset of like oh that's messed up and so

1391
01:04:32.869 --> 01:04:35.329
that worked its way into their folklore and this is

1392
01:04:35.349 --> 01:04:36.869
something that the struggle i would do.

1393
01:04:36.750 --> 01:04:39.889
No that makes that makes a ton of sense and

1394
01:04:39.989 --> 01:04:41.510
you know regardless of which side it is i'm sure

1395
01:04:41.530 --> 01:04:45.320
both sides were really lovely to each other you know

1396
01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:47.599
just just i mean war is bad enough but let's

1397
01:04:47.619 --> 01:04:49.659
do war like you know a thousand years yeah i'm

1398
01:04:49.699 --> 01:04:51.980
sure they were it was fine they were all super

1399
01:04:52.019 --> 01:04:53.559
duper nice.

1400
01:04:53.300 --> 01:04:56.099
And friendly and it was really they were just playing

1401
01:04:56.159 --> 01:04:57.880
chess and they were just having a good.

1402
01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:02.659
Time yeah it's different but it's nice.

1403
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:04.420
Yeah it's fine they were just yeah and then they're

1404
01:05:04.460 --> 01:05:06.400
like well it's nighttime we're just all gonna go back

1405
01:05:06.460 --> 01:05:08.159
and go sleep now okay we'll see you.

1406
01:05:08.079 --> 01:05:13.809
Tomorrow I also love that she sees the hooves, which

1407
01:05:14.210 --> 01:05:17.750
immediately made me think of the Deer Woman legends. How,

1408
01:05:17.929 --> 01:05:20.769
you know, the times where the Deer Woman wouldn't get

1409
01:05:20.809 --> 01:05:23.300
to trample a guy to death for being a jerk

1410
01:05:24.019 --> 01:05:26.300
were because he would spot the hooves and remember the

1411
01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:28.980
stories from when he was a kid.

1412
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:30.380
And then he would be like, I have to.

1413
01:05:32.769 --> 01:05:35.789
Run this way really fast, you know, like I gotta go.

1414
01:05:36.170 --> 01:05:38.050
So, but I love that because I love when like

1415
01:05:38.489 --> 01:05:42.489
there's intersection that literally can't really, they can't really inform

1416
01:05:42.530 --> 01:05:46.179
each other, but we have those moments of spontaneous creation

1417
01:05:47.079 --> 01:05:50.500
throughout all of human history where people completely unrelated who

1418
01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:53.800
maybe could never communicate at all in any way, let

1419
01:05:53.840 --> 01:05:58.320
alone directly, would just have almost the same concept come about.

1420
01:05:58.460 --> 01:05:59.800
I love that stuff too.

1421
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:03.090
I just think that's so so interesting it says something

1422
01:06:03.150 --> 01:06:05.329
about you know us at a species level that like

1423
01:06:05.369 --> 01:06:09.309
we find similar things scary or similar things threatening without

1424
01:06:09.469 --> 01:06:15.070
any relation beyond being the same species so man uh

1425
01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:18.340
all right so we we did the drinking blood they're

1426
01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:22.000
not a vd parable like the other vampires i strongly

1427
01:06:22.059 --> 01:06:24.739
believe that that you know dracula was like a vd

1428
01:06:24.780 --> 01:06:26.300
parable i really really.

1429
01:06:26.039 --> 01:06:30.300
Do I mean, they were, besides being plague explanations, they

1430
01:06:30.340 --> 01:06:34.150
also were stranger danger ones. Like that story with the party.

1431
01:06:34.329 --> 01:06:37.269
So even though it's not about, you know, VG, it's still.

1432
01:06:37.150 --> 01:06:40.710
About, hey, young ladies, don't go off with random guys

1433
01:06:40.789 --> 01:06:43.159
because they might be a sort of guy kind of thing.

1434
01:06:44.960 --> 01:06:45.980
And they might be, I mean.

1435
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:48.599
Yeah, they might be an actual monster, you know.

1436
01:06:50.719 --> 01:06:51.739
Anything with garlic?

1437
01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:51.900
Garlic?

1438
01:06:52.500 --> 01:06:52.860
Yes.

1439
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.300
So that's one of the few things. So garlic does

1440
01:06:57.460 --> 01:07:02.929
repel strigoi. It also repels the strega. So both of

1441
01:07:02.989 --> 01:07:07.829
the strixy thingies. In fact, there's evidently a little song.

1442
01:07:07.949 --> 01:07:11.630
So the strega like to project themselves as like little

1443
01:07:11.650 --> 01:07:13.550
dancing lights and they like all like hang out with

1444
01:07:13.590 --> 01:07:15.210
each other and stuff. And one of the songs they

1445
01:07:15.230 --> 01:07:17.130
sing is about how they'll never, never go in a

1446
01:07:17.150 --> 01:07:18.090
house that has garlic.

1447
01:07:18.110 --> 01:07:18.949
Yeah.

1448
01:07:20.070 --> 01:07:20.250
Yeah.

1449
01:07:22.579 --> 01:07:24.880
That's just, that's just a great, that's just great in

1450
01:07:24.940 --> 01:07:25.460
every way.

1451
01:07:25.539 --> 01:07:27.480
I'd like to think even though, you know, back then

1452
01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:29.699
there weren't like major corporations, I like to think that

1453
01:07:29.739 --> 01:07:32.380
it was, it was just all a scheme from big garlic.

1454
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:34.719
There was just like one garlic company that sold to

1455
01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:36.739
all of Eastern Europe. That was like, we got to

1456
01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:39.750
write a jingle. This is the Sturgoy, hate garlic.

1457
01:07:41.070 --> 01:07:42.869
But then they would. And so like there's certain times

1458
01:07:42.909 --> 01:07:46.809
of the year where Sturgoy are more active and stuff.

1459
01:07:46.929 --> 01:07:50.130
And you were supposed to basically just like kind of rub, uh,

1460
01:07:50.309 --> 01:07:53.099
every entranceway and stuff and like your cows and everything

1461
01:07:53.119 --> 01:07:58.480
with garlic. So rub garlic all over your windows and, um, your,

1462
01:07:58.559 --> 01:08:00.840
your key holes and around your chimney. Cause that's where

1463
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:02.780
they like to come in is through the key holes,

1464
01:08:02.840 --> 01:08:05.340
through the chimneys and stuff and put it on your

1465
01:08:05.380 --> 01:08:08.260
livestock and things so that they won't bite your cows

1466
01:08:08.340 --> 01:08:09.219
and eat your cows.

1467
01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:11.590
And yeah. Yeah. Don't bite my cows guy.

1468
01:08:11.949 --> 01:08:13.570
No. Well, that was one of the signs that there

1469
01:08:13.590 --> 01:08:16.250
was a stragoi in the areas that your livestock.

1470
01:08:15.809 --> 01:08:16.649
Was dying off.

1471
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:17.439
Yeah.

1472
01:08:17.460 --> 01:08:20.100
Which makes so much sense, too, because that just happens.

1473
01:08:20.659 --> 01:08:21.189
Yeah.

1474
01:08:21.250 --> 01:08:23.090
I mean, that just happens when you have a farm,

1475
01:08:23.289 --> 01:08:25.850
a big farm, especially and especially, you know, in the

1476
01:08:25.869 --> 01:08:26.770
days when, you know.

1477
01:08:28.170 --> 01:08:28.970
And the disease.

1478
01:08:29.010 --> 01:08:29.390
Yeah.

1479
01:08:29.989 --> 01:08:31.550
And again, spreading diseases.

1480
01:08:31.770 --> 01:08:33.850
And you don't know why all your animals are starting

1481
01:08:33.890 --> 01:08:35.680
to die because you don't know how diseases work back

1482
01:08:35.729 --> 01:08:36.439
then and stuff.

1483
01:08:36.460 --> 01:08:36.560
Yeah.

1484
01:08:36.989 --> 01:08:39.609
So it must be because one of the recent people

1485
01:08:39.630 --> 01:08:41.489
who died must be a suragoi and they're coming and

1486
01:08:41.510 --> 01:08:42.939
eating your cattle, the jerk.

1487
01:08:43.020 --> 01:08:43.319
Yeah.

1488
01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:44.539
Yeah, really.

1489
01:08:45.140 --> 01:08:46.600
First thing I would do if I had like five

1490
01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:48.220
cows dead is I'd be like, I'm baking a loaf

1491
01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:50.239
of bread right now. And then if it tastes like shit,

1492
01:08:50.859 --> 01:08:54.529
I'm going to the cemetery right now. And I got

1493
01:08:54.550 --> 01:08:58.510
some lighter fluid. I got my ginsu knives. I'm taking

1494
01:08:58.569 --> 01:09:01.899
care of this today. i don't care that it's saturday i'm.

1495
01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:03.720
Doing it oh no that's actually the best day oh

1496
01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:08.439
really yes can't rise on a saturday that's the one

1497
01:09:08.479 --> 01:09:10.170
day they can't ride so that is the best day

1498
01:09:10.210 --> 01:09:11.869
to go dig up and dispatch a.

1499
01:09:12.449 --> 01:09:16.390
That makes me a little nervous though Because that sounds

1500
01:09:16.489 --> 01:09:21.750
like a little shade of anti-Semitism in there.

1501
01:09:21.789 --> 01:09:25.340
Well, there's lots of seven-day advent and stuff.

1502
01:09:25.380 --> 01:09:25.800
Yeah, that's true.

1503
01:09:28.909 --> 01:09:31.310
And I think in Europe, they had kind of a

1504
01:09:31.350 --> 01:09:33.689
different concept of the week and stuff than we do.

1505
01:09:33.729 --> 01:09:35.390
So I think it's more of lingering of that. It's

1506
01:09:35.449 --> 01:09:38.850
the final day of the week. It's the day of rest.

1507
01:09:38.869 --> 01:09:41.189
Yeah, that's fair, too. There are every now and then

1508
01:09:41.210 --> 01:09:43.760
you'll read something and be like, it sounds a little

1509
01:09:44.069 --> 01:09:46.500
bit like... Because it's also, it's not about what Jewish

1510
01:09:46.539 --> 01:09:49.140
people actually did. It's about what people who didn't understand

1511
01:09:49.180 --> 01:09:49.720
them thought.

1512
01:09:49.739 --> 01:09:50.000
Yeah.

1513
01:09:50.260 --> 01:09:53.600
Yeah, and to be fair, a lot of the Victorian

1514
01:09:53.680 --> 01:09:58.079
era stuff, the changes that they made did have elements

1515
01:09:58.220 --> 01:10:00.390
of the anti-Semitism and stuff on it because there was

1516
01:10:00.409 --> 01:10:03.590
a lot of xenophobic fear and stuff that was happening

1517
01:10:03.649 --> 01:10:06.850
at that time. And that bled over, of course, into

1518
01:10:07.569 --> 01:10:10.500
its thing because, as you know, with a horror person,

1519
01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:16.409
cultural fears and stuff... work their way in to the

1520
01:10:16.430 --> 01:10:18.069
modern horror and stuff. Yeah.

1521
01:10:18.350 --> 01:10:20.909
It's like, we don't even realize that we're trying to understand,

1522
01:10:21.109 --> 01:10:23.489
like when we're writing the stories that we're actually trying

1523
01:10:23.510 --> 01:10:26.880
to understand what we're afraid of to some extent, um, or,

1524
01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:29.800
or at least, you know, a burden, a burden shared is,

1525
01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:32.579
you know, I'll share what I'm afraid of with everybody.

1526
01:10:32.619 --> 01:10:35.680
Then now it's all everyone's problem. My, my fear of the, the,

1527
01:10:35.739 --> 01:10:37.939
the dog with the three mouths, that's everybody's problem. Now

1528
01:10:37.979 --> 01:10:39.710
I just shared it. Like I told you all about it.

1529
01:10:40.220 --> 01:10:44.640
That's everybody's now. But that's really fascinating, though. So Saturday

1530
01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:45.979
is a good day to do it, which is good

1531
01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:49.199
because most people are off work, too. So, you know,

1532
01:10:49.220 --> 01:10:54.680
go take care of that. So I'd heard a story

1533
01:10:55.600 --> 01:10:57.319
about I don't know if it was specifically Romania. It

1534
01:10:57.340 --> 01:10:59.539
might have been it was in that area that there

1535
01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:04.289
were that there were eras where they would, you know,

1536
01:11:04.310 --> 01:11:06.890
put a bulletin saying, like, we're pretty certain there's some

1537
01:11:06.930 --> 01:11:10.149
kind of vampire there. Like we found evidence or whatever,

1538
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:12.970
you know, so, you know, prepare and do this and

1539
01:11:12.989 --> 01:11:16.369
that and this and that. And then I guess later on,

1540
01:11:17.470 --> 01:11:20.020
some researchers found that there actually may have been a

1541
01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:24.699
difference in context that later in history, it may have

1542
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:27.960
not actually been that that village believed straight up in

1543
01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:30.560
like some kind of vampire. it may have become a

1544
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:34.810
reason to throw parties and spend time together and cook food.

1545
01:11:35.369 --> 01:11:37.470
And that it was actually more tongue in cheek, like

1546
01:11:37.550 --> 01:11:40.310
not always, but like, but they, cause they would find this,

1547
01:11:40.350 --> 01:11:42.029
this evidence of like, you know, Oh, this had been

1548
01:11:42.069 --> 01:11:44.149
published all over this village, like the vampires loose.

1549
01:11:44.510 --> 01:11:46.229
And they'd be like, Oh, it's kind of late in

1550
01:11:46.250 --> 01:11:48.109
the era. Like, I guess they were cavemen.

1551
01:11:48.130 --> 01:11:50.609
And then years later, somebody was like, What we're finding

1552
01:11:50.649 --> 01:11:52.989
is suggesting that when they thought there was a vampire,

1553
01:11:53.010 --> 01:11:56.430
they would all cook garlicky food and throw a dance.

1554
01:11:57.289 --> 01:11:59.149
And it was a really good time to meet a

1555
01:11:59.210 --> 01:12:03.699
future husband or wife. And I just love that, too, because, again,

1556
01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:07.079
humans are just humans. So as time went on and

1557
01:12:07.100 --> 01:12:10.539
there was no vampire ripping everybody apart, they'd be like, hey,

1558
01:12:10.579 --> 01:12:11.739
this is kind of fun.

1559
01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:14.579
And, I mean, it might have evolved out of.

1560
01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:17.100
So, again, they are more active during certain parts of

1561
01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:19.500
the year, and I forgot which holiday it is. But

1562
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:23.609
there is a particular holiday that they're usually very active on.

1563
01:12:24.210 --> 01:12:29.090
And what villagers would do is they would stay up

1564
01:12:29.149 --> 01:12:32.989
all night telling each other stories. Because as long as

1565
01:12:33.010 --> 01:12:37.819
you're telling a story, then the strogoy can't get to you. Oh, okay.

1566
01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:40.920
And so I could see it being something like that

1567
01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:43.859
where there's this particular holiday where everybody would get together

1568
01:12:44.090 --> 01:12:47.289
and like, you know, swap stories or have a dance

1569
01:12:47.449 --> 01:12:49.470
or do some other kind of thing where it's people

1570
01:12:49.529 --> 01:12:53.510
gathered together. And strength in numbers, therefore, you know, the

1571
01:12:53.550 --> 01:12:55.970
bad thing can't get you. And that evolving into, like,

1572
01:12:56.069 --> 01:12:59.470
a fun local festival that would happen every year. Like,

1573
01:12:59.510 --> 01:13:00.189
that would make sense.

1574
01:13:00.270 --> 01:13:00.949
That would, yeah.

1575
01:13:01.350 --> 01:13:05.340
And knowing the Eastern European friends that I've had, I

1576
01:13:05.359 --> 01:13:07.500
wouldn't be surprised if as, like, the actual fear of

1577
01:13:07.520 --> 01:13:11.739
the Strigoi or things like that diminished, it started to become,

1578
01:13:11.800 --> 01:13:12.079
you know.

1579
01:13:13.539 --> 01:13:15.899
Like the grandmothers of the village or whatever, noticing like,

1580
01:13:15.939 --> 01:13:17.939
it's been a while since we had some marriages.

1581
01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:20.840
Maybe we should have a, an event.

1582
01:13:20.899 --> 01:13:23.359
Maybe we should have one of those events, a mixer, basically,

1583
01:13:23.380 --> 01:13:25.460
you know, just get everybody together, tell some fun stories,

1584
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:27.859
eat some food, have a big fire, play music.

1585
01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:29.289
And, uh, we got it.

1586
01:13:29.279 --> 01:13:30.710
Cause we got to get these kids. We got to

1587
01:13:30.729 --> 01:13:33.470
get kids. We got to get kids in this village.

1588
01:13:33.510 --> 01:13:35.180
Like it's, you know, like we got it.

1589
01:13:35.590 --> 01:13:37.090
Now I will say, I don't think like, so it

1590
01:13:37.130 --> 01:13:41.060
has diminished some, but it's not fully, uh, uh, exterminated

1591
01:13:41.140 --> 01:13:43.479
this concept of the strugoi and stuff over there. So

1592
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:50.840
I have a friend who is a forensic pathologist. And

1593
01:13:50.939 --> 01:13:55.260
back when she was in school, her professor got got

1594
01:13:55.300 --> 01:13:58.520
a request from somewhere over in Romania that was like, hey,

1595
01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:00.659
we have this corpse we think is a vampire.

1596
01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:02.239
Can you come and verify? And he's like, no, I

1597
01:14:02.260 --> 01:14:03.979
don't need to. It's not a vampire.

1598
01:14:05.069 --> 01:14:05.609
Wow.

1599
01:14:05.630 --> 01:14:08.529
Which is exactly what somebody who's in the pocket of

1600
01:14:08.649 --> 01:14:10.890
vampires would say, by the way.

1601
01:14:10.909 --> 01:14:14.930
You work for big vampires. Yeah, you work for big vampires.

1602
01:14:15.350 --> 01:14:17.579
Which I guess is just Dracula, but you know.

1603
01:14:19.670 --> 01:14:21.930
No that's that no i mean i i believe that

1604
01:14:21.949 --> 01:14:25.710
i mean like superstitions are a weird thing um because

1605
01:14:25.770 --> 01:14:28.600
some people can fully believe them some people can believe

1606
01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:32.920
them um half-heartedly or ironically or for the amusement and

1607
01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:35.239
or the joy of their culture which is kind of

1608
01:14:35.260 --> 01:14:37.039
what i was thinking like um it's kind of like

1609
01:14:37.279 --> 01:14:40.859
halloween became um in some ways because i've thought about

1610
01:14:40.880 --> 01:14:44.659
this a lot um how Halloween is, because it's really

1611
01:14:44.739 --> 01:14:48.050
a relatively new, the literal Halloween is a relatively new thing,

1612
01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:51.789
but all the stuff it kind of conglomerated is, you know,

1613
01:14:51.850 --> 01:14:52.350
very old.

1614
01:14:52.609 --> 01:14:53.350
Similar to Christmas.

1615
01:14:53.409 --> 01:14:56.229
The kind of Christmas we know is relatively new, but like,

1616
01:14:56.630 --> 01:14:58.649
you know, a lot of those celebrations were being done

1617
01:14:58.670 --> 01:15:01.460
in different ways. You know, whether they were originally Christian

1618
01:15:01.500 --> 01:15:03.850
or they were elsewhere, there were a lot of things

1619
01:15:03.890 --> 01:15:05.949
that people were doing around those times of year or

1620
01:15:05.989 --> 01:15:07.930
when they thought was the time of year, you know,

1621
01:15:07.949 --> 01:15:10.529
then stuff like that, which I always found fascinating. But

1622
01:15:10.550 --> 01:15:15.119
then with Halloween, especially, I had a weird realization because

1623
01:15:15.140 --> 01:15:18.529
when I was growing up, At Halloween, like the coolest

1624
01:15:18.609 --> 01:15:22.819
places to go, the most awesome places to be were

1625
01:15:22.979 --> 01:15:26.779
all church things. They had all of the best haunted houses.

1626
01:15:26.819 --> 01:15:28.039
They would do the thing, you know, where you put

1627
01:15:28.060 --> 01:15:31.800
your hand through the curtain and you touch spaghetti and

1628
01:15:31.819 --> 01:15:34.399
it would be worms and, you know, and peeled grapes

1629
01:15:34.430 --> 01:15:38.289
were eyeballs. That was the era I grew up in

1630
01:15:38.909 --> 01:15:40.710
was that you would go to these churches and they'd

1631
01:15:40.729 --> 01:15:42.649
have like in the rec center, they'd have like something

1632
01:15:42.689 --> 01:15:46.109
scary and people would dress up and it was really goofy.

1633
01:15:47.289 --> 01:15:48.909
And then a few years later, I noticed like I

1634
01:15:48.909 --> 01:15:50.390
had friends who would say like, oh, the religious people

1635
01:15:50.430 --> 01:15:52.010
hated Halloween around here.

1636
01:15:52.050 --> 01:15:53.729
And I'd be like, really? Yeah.

1637
01:15:53.789 --> 01:15:55.510
Where I was, it was like the Methodist church was

1638
01:15:55.529 --> 01:15:58.149
like the first place you went if you wanted to

1639
01:15:58.189 --> 01:15:59.810
have some fun on Halloween.

1640
01:16:00.689 --> 01:16:02.899
So I started thinking about it more and looking into

1641
01:16:02.909 --> 01:16:03.060
it more.

1642
01:16:03.069 --> 01:16:05.500
And then as I'm doing Weekly Spooky, I, of course,

1643
01:16:06.260 --> 01:16:08.100
the number one folklore I want to learn about is

1644
01:16:08.119 --> 01:16:10.760
Halloween because Halloween is a state of mind. It's who

1645
01:16:10.779 --> 01:16:12.699
you are in your heart. And then you get to

1646
01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:15.159
let it blow out of you and make everybody happy.

1647
01:16:16.439 --> 01:16:20.149
at least in October without scaring anybody. So I was,

1648
01:16:20.189 --> 01:16:21.810
I was looking into it some more and I found

1649
01:16:21.890 --> 01:16:27.250
some like booklets of how to celebrate Halloween from like 1920, 1930.

1650
01:16:27.250 --> 01:16:30.189
We actually read one on a, on an app on

1651
01:16:30.229 --> 01:16:32.430
a show. And it was hilarious because we started to

1652
01:16:32.449 --> 01:16:35.640
notice it kept mentioning crepe paper and And then all

1653
01:16:35.659 --> 01:16:37.689
of a sudden I realized it was literally distributed by

1654
01:16:37.699 --> 01:16:42.470
a crepe paper company. And it was, it was leaned

1655
01:16:42.529 --> 01:16:45.789
heavily on crepe paper, but it wasn't everything was crepe paper.

1656
01:16:45.810 --> 01:16:47.789
I mean, it had just, you know, party games and

1657
01:16:47.829 --> 01:16:49.729
stuff like that. And occasionally you'd like make a decoration.

1658
01:16:49.750 --> 01:16:51.550
It would recommend you use crepe paper for it. So

1659
01:16:51.569 --> 01:16:53.369
it was like, it was a little, yeah, a little

1660
01:16:53.409 --> 01:16:56.789
guide for celebrating Halloween. Cause it was relatively new, but

1661
01:16:57.489 --> 01:16:59.829
the funniest thing though, cause I've, I've known people who,

1662
01:16:59.949 --> 01:17:03.000
you know, don't love Halloween, you know, for religious reasons

1663
01:17:03.020 --> 01:17:04.920
or whatever. And I'm always like, that's so weird because

1664
01:17:04.939 --> 01:17:08.479
it's like silly. When you look at how they celebrated

1665
01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:12.109
Halloween in like the 20s and 30s, it was super occult-y.

1666
01:17:12.470 --> 01:17:17.310
It was everything was seances. Everything was like communing. Everything

1667
01:17:17.350 --> 01:17:19.090
was like you look in the dark in the mirror

1668
01:17:19.130 --> 01:17:20.970
and you summon a spirit and then they'll show you

1669
01:17:20.989 --> 01:17:24.109
like the face of your future husband. Everything, everything was

1670
01:17:24.210 --> 01:17:28.289
actually pretty like weirdly occult-y you know I grew up

1671
01:17:28.329 --> 01:17:29.850
it was like yeah please.

1672
01:17:29.689 --> 01:17:32.010
Well there was like the spiritualism thing and stuff like

1673
01:17:32.029 --> 01:17:32.890
that that was like.

1674
01:17:32.710 --> 01:17:34.930
Yeah yeah yeah so that was at its height then.

1675
01:17:34.869 --> 01:17:37.289
Yeah it was so that was that makes sense that

1676
01:17:37.310 --> 01:17:38.149
they would have like.

1677
01:17:37.970 --> 01:17:39.630
Seances and things like that.

1678
01:17:39.489 --> 01:17:41.720
And then it started to make me realize like now

1679
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:44.600
I get why if you grew up like then you

1680
01:17:45.020 --> 01:17:47.340
might be like all they do is worship dark stuff

1681
01:17:47.380 --> 01:17:49.949
when they when they do Halloween because it's like I

1682
01:17:49.989 --> 01:17:52.310
never went to a Halloween party where we like did

1683
01:17:52.430 --> 01:17:54.210
weird seances and stuff.

1684
01:17:54.310 --> 01:17:55.789
Like we didn't do that.

1685
01:17:55.810 --> 01:17:59.420
I think it also is like a regional thing too,

1686
01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:04.100
because where I lived in central Florida, I never encountered

1687
01:18:04.140 --> 01:18:06.220
anyone with an issue with Halloween. But when I moved

1688
01:18:06.340 --> 01:18:09.359
to the mountains of North Carolina, there were friends that

1689
01:18:09.380 --> 01:18:12.270
weren't allowed to dress up or do anything Halloween related

1690
01:18:12.430 --> 01:18:13.750
and stuff like that because it.

1691
01:18:13.750 --> 01:18:15.140
Was It's the devil.

1692
01:18:17.579 --> 01:18:19.720
But down in Central Florida, my friend brought me to

1693
01:18:19.779 --> 01:18:23.899
her Baptist church for the Halloween thing and stuff.

1694
01:18:23.979 --> 01:18:25.319
It was the coolest.

1695
01:18:25.579 --> 01:18:28.500
Yeah. I mean, the only thing is that the church thing,

1696
01:18:28.520 --> 01:18:31.020
you weren't allowed to dress as any type of demon

1697
01:18:31.100 --> 01:18:34.890
or witch thing. And one year I did go as Elvira.

1698
01:18:35.729 --> 01:18:37.529
I was a little kid, but it was after I

1699
01:18:37.630 --> 01:18:38.670
had watched her movie.

1700
01:18:38.689 --> 01:18:38.770
Lost.

1701
01:18:40.670 --> 01:18:44.119
And so I went there in a child-appropriate Elvira costume.

1702
01:18:44.539 --> 01:18:48.050
And whenever one of the church people was like, what

1703
01:18:48.090 --> 01:18:49.750
are you dressed as? I was like, I know it's

1704
01:18:49.810 --> 01:18:53.600
a witch, but she's a good witch. So it's okay.

1705
01:18:53.619 --> 01:18:54.460
She was a good witch.

1706
01:18:54.619 --> 01:18:56.810
That was the whole point of the movie. I was like, no,

1707
01:18:56.819 --> 01:18:58.560
you have to watch the movie. She's a good witch.

1708
01:18:58.619 --> 01:19:04.460
It's okay. That's so cute. No, but more so, why

1709
01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:05.880
do you have those balloons in here?

1710
01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:10.460
No, I said it was child appropriate. I know.

1711
01:19:10.539 --> 01:19:12.390
I mean, if it was Elvira, she would make that joke.

1712
01:19:12.399 --> 01:19:12.899
So you got it.

1713
01:19:13.470 --> 01:19:13.909
That's true.

1714
01:19:14.149 --> 01:19:17.449
But it's just been wild to think about the like

1715
01:19:17.569 --> 01:19:21.609
the dichotomies of like, you know, I like the idea

1716
01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:23.619
that some people grew up and like all they saw

1717
01:19:23.659 --> 01:19:27.399
was like. Ouija boards and like handholding and candles and stuff.

1718
01:19:27.409 --> 01:19:28.979
And I'm like, I don't even think of that as

1719
01:19:29.140 --> 01:19:31.920
even vaguely related to Halloween. I just think of like

1720
01:19:32.020 --> 01:19:35.159
Garfield TV specials and candy, stomachaches and stuff.

1721
01:19:35.199 --> 01:19:37.770
It became more commercialized, kind of.

1722
01:19:37.810 --> 01:19:38.210
Oh, sure.

1723
01:19:38.569 --> 01:19:43.590
Like child targeted and stuff, I think, by the time

1724
01:19:43.630 --> 01:19:44.250
we were kids. Yeah.

1725
01:19:44.810 --> 01:19:46.689
Oh, yeah. Well, and there's and there's a this is

1726
01:19:46.770 --> 01:19:48.310
one of those things I love to talk about because

1727
01:19:48.350 --> 01:19:52.789
it's so painfully nuanced about holidays, especially is sometimes when

1728
01:19:52.810 --> 01:19:55.310
I'll hear somebody say, like, I hate, you know, Christmas,

1729
01:19:55.369 --> 01:19:57.149
it's become so commercial or I hate this because it's

1730
01:19:57.170 --> 01:19:57.869
become so commercial.

1731
01:19:57.909 --> 01:20:00.670
I'm like, commercial is secularized.

1732
01:20:01.109 --> 01:20:01.250
Yes.

1733
01:20:01.270 --> 01:20:01.350
Yeah.

1734
01:20:01.779 --> 01:20:03.420
You know, so it's like, you know, a lot of

1735
01:20:03.460 --> 01:20:04.939
people who would say that to me, I'd be like,

1736
01:20:05.180 --> 01:20:08.729
do you should I demand you be Catholic? I don't

1737
01:20:08.810 --> 01:20:10.970
think that's what because, you know, they're never religious people

1738
01:20:11.010 --> 01:20:12.510
that are saying it's too commercial to me.

1739
01:20:12.529 --> 01:20:13.430
I mean, my friend group.

1740
01:20:13.890 --> 01:20:16.640
So I'm always like, I think that that's the point

1741
01:20:16.699 --> 01:20:19.039
is you can just you and anyone else can go

1742
01:20:19.079 --> 01:20:21.699
to Target and buy the candy canes like it's not

1743
01:20:22.619 --> 01:20:23.420
it's for everybody.

1744
01:20:24.300 --> 01:20:26.279
Versus, you know, being very, you know, niche.

1745
01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:29.579
Yeah, it makes it more inclusive and stuff as opposed to, yeah.

1746
01:20:29.600 --> 01:20:31.859
But it's a double-edged sword. I mean, you know, you

1747
01:20:31.899 --> 01:20:33.270
know they're trying to get your money, but they're also

1748
01:20:33.289 --> 01:20:35.090
trying to sell you fun. So you kind of have

1749
01:20:35.109 --> 01:20:37.630
to balance it. I mean, life is all about balance.

1750
01:20:38.050 --> 01:20:41.649
And no one says that just because, you know, it

1751
01:20:41.710 --> 01:20:44.090
is commercialized that you can't have in your family your

1752
01:20:44.189 --> 01:20:48.449
own traditions and stuff like that to keep it special

1753
01:20:48.640 --> 01:20:49.979
in your own way and stuff.

1754
01:20:50.109 --> 01:20:51.119
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

1755
01:20:53.750 --> 01:20:55.869
And a lot of that, too, is like, you know,

1756
01:20:55.890 --> 01:21:00.960
being an elder millennial. I'm older than you. No, you're not.

1757
01:21:04.539 --> 01:21:07.140
I don't buy it. And I'm not just trying to

1758
01:21:07.180 --> 01:21:08.859
gas you up. I just don't buy it.

1759
01:21:09.279 --> 01:21:11.649
I was born in 1983.

1760
01:21:11.649 --> 01:21:11.970
What?

1761
01:21:11.989 --> 01:21:13.810
Okay.

1762
01:21:13.829 --> 01:21:16.739
So you and my, my buddy, Michelle, uh, we do

1763
01:21:16.779 --> 01:21:18.760
a talk thing on here called monthly spooky at the

1764
01:21:18.779 --> 01:21:20.600
end of every month where we like read news, creepy

1765
01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:23.859
news stories and stuff. Uh, you both, I'm angry cause

1766
01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:25.819
you're both like the exact same age. And I think

1767
01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:28.659
you both look, uh, I think you both look, you know,

1768
01:21:28.739 --> 01:21:32.470
about four years younger than me. So I'm a little

1769
01:21:32.489 --> 01:21:34.350
mad and I don't think I look that old. I mean,

1770
01:21:34.430 --> 01:21:36.329
as I, as I move, as I move the gray

1771
01:21:36.350 --> 01:21:41.720
on my beard to kind of, uh, But, but no, uh, wow.

1772
01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:43.869
Okay. Well that, well that helps though for like, uh, uh,

1773
01:21:44.239 --> 01:21:45.640
you know, context too. Yeah.

1774
01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:48.619
Well, I'm not going to sit there. This is our

1775
01:21:48.659 --> 01:21:50.859
first like long form conversation outside of the audience. I

1776
01:21:50.859 --> 01:21:51.600
was not going to be like.

1777
01:21:51.800 --> 01:21:54.949
How old are you? Tell me your age right now. But, uh,

1778
01:21:54.979 --> 01:21:56.819
you know, you just don't want to be rude, but

1779
01:21:57.859 --> 01:22:00.090
you know, uh, people want to know how old I am.

1780
01:22:00.100 --> 01:22:01.590
They can do what I do. Go on Wikipedia.

1781
01:22:01.659 --> 01:22:04.649
I forget how the dates work sometimes, but, uh, I've

1782
01:22:04.689 --> 01:22:06.649
done that in my, in my thirties, there was a

1783
01:22:06.670 --> 01:22:09.010
time where I was really like, I was like, that's

1784
01:22:09.029 --> 01:22:17.119
what I'm thinking. I'm like, I'll just check Wikipedia. But, uh, I,

1785
01:22:17.560 --> 01:22:22.189
I just love, uh, seeing like, uh, seeing how everything

1786
01:22:22.229 --> 01:22:25.050
has changed. I get that, you know, there is that

1787
01:22:25.149 --> 01:22:27.010
sense of like, oh, they're just selling us things. But

1788
01:22:27.029 --> 01:22:29.350
then when you go to like, I remember when I

1789
01:22:29.390 --> 01:22:31.090
was in my late twenties, early thirties, and I had

1790
01:22:31.109 --> 01:22:35.140
a lot of friends who were, um, frustrated with holidays

1791
01:22:35.220 --> 01:22:35.579
and stuff.

1792
01:22:36.510 --> 01:22:37.189
And rightfully so.

1793
01:22:37.229 --> 01:22:38.789
I mean, it can be really hard, you know, if

1794
01:22:38.810 --> 01:22:40.810
you don't have a family unit you're close with, or

1795
01:22:40.829 --> 01:22:42.670
if you don't have a unit you're close with. But

1796
01:22:43.010 --> 01:22:44.750
a lot of the friends that were, they had a

1797
01:22:44.789 --> 01:22:47.689
family they were just kind of like annoyed with. And

1798
01:22:47.729 --> 01:22:49.029
I'd tell them, I'd be like, you know that you're like,

1799
01:22:49.149 --> 01:22:50.840
you're the adult in the room, believe it or not.

1800
01:22:51.659 --> 01:22:53.220
Like you can walk in and be like, look, I

1801
01:22:53.239 --> 01:22:55.600
brought a pizza because that's what we do on this

1802
01:22:55.640 --> 01:22:58.319
holiday now. And if you don't like it, I'm bigger

1803
01:22:58.380 --> 01:23:02.039
than you. You know, and then you just start eating

1804
01:23:02.060 --> 01:23:05.899
your pizza. That's what that's what Christmas Eve is now, guys,

1805
01:23:05.920 --> 01:23:07.619
because that's what I can I can fit in because

1806
01:23:07.699 --> 01:23:09.840
I work retail and you don't or whatever it is,

1807
01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:12.279
whatever reason it might be. And I think that it's

1808
01:23:12.399 --> 01:23:15.310
easy to kind of forget that. um, that we are

1809
01:23:15.350 --> 01:23:16.520
kind of in control. That's kind of what I was

1810
01:23:16.529 --> 01:23:18.560
talking about, but like celebrate every holiday, make it your own.

1811
01:23:18.600 --> 01:23:19.060
It's fine.

1812
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:21.420
Everybody else did. That's the best part about learning this

1813
01:23:21.439 --> 01:23:23.479
kind of stuff is everybody else made it their own.

1814
01:23:23.960 --> 01:23:26.579
It took a while, but you know, eventually somebody had

1815
01:23:26.619 --> 01:23:28.340
to say like, nah, I'm doing it this way. And

1816
01:23:28.359 --> 01:23:29.840
then somebody else was like, oh man, I like that.

1817
01:23:29.939 --> 01:23:32.560
And then, you know, and then nobody remembers who actually

1818
01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:35.289
did it. It's just, everybody does it now. And, and

1819
01:23:35.329 --> 01:23:36.909
that's just about as human as it gets.

1820
01:23:37.369 --> 01:23:37.750
Exactly.

1821
01:23:39.069 --> 01:23:43.489
So is there anything else about the Strigoi that we desperately.

1822
01:23:43.069 --> 01:23:43.510
Need to know?

1823
01:23:45.020 --> 01:23:45.939
They don't turn into bats.

1824
01:23:47.300 --> 01:23:49.680
Do they turn into any kind of animal or have

1825
01:23:49.699 --> 01:23:50.159
a familiar?

1826
01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:57.699
Yes. So there are tales of them turning into cats, dogs, horses,

1827
01:23:58.260 --> 01:24:01.659
and owls, and death's head moth. If you see a

1828
01:24:01.699 --> 01:24:04.260
death's head moth in your house, that is probably a strogoy.

1829
01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:09.979
But not bats. And that makes sense because the only

1830
01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:13.479
bats that are the vampire bats are from the Americas,

1831
01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:17.470
so people in Europe wouldn't have been... The only bats

1832
01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:19.859
that the Europeans would have been exposed to would be

1833
01:24:20.090 --> 01:24:22.869
bats that eat bugs and things like that. There'd be

1834
01:24:22.909 --> 01:24:25.270
little harmless things that you're not going to think are

1835
01:24:25.289 --> 01:24:29.670
very scary, but owls are huge and terrifying and could

1836
01:24:29.770 --> 01:24:31.029
definitely probably eat a baby.

1837
01:24:31.050 --> 01:24:37.270
And then leave a little weird pellet thing.

1838
01:24:37.689 --> 01:24:39.930
No, stuff the baby full of the straw and leave

1839
01:24:39.970 --> 01:24:40.550
it in the crib.

1840
01:24:41.029 --> 01:24:44.630
LAUGHTER I like it's a little song to keep, you know,

1841
01:24:44.649 --> 01:24:47.189
to remind you of the order of incidents.

1842
01:24:47.590 --> 01:24:49.949
Oh, I can just put this wrinkled little prune back in.

1843
01:24:49.989 --> 01:24:55.449
I've got to just stuff it up. Tuck it in

1844
01:24:55.489 --> 01:24:56.880
and no one will know the difference.

1845
01:24:57.760 --> 01:24:58.420
Not a one.

1846
01:24:58.939 --> 01:24:59.180
No.

1847
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:01.300
So, yeah, so there's that. Oh, and they can also

1848
01:25:01.359 --> 01:25:03.140
come into your house without needing to be invited.

1849
01:25:03.159 --> 01:25:05.239
Okay, that's important too.

1850
01:25:05.600 --> 01:25:06.739
Yes.

1851
01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:09.060
So, because like I said, they will come in through

1852
01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:11.560
keyholes and chimneys. Also, a weird thing is.

1853
01:25:13.289 --> 01:25:15.550
I read about how one of the ways to try

1854
01:25:15.569 --> 01:25:17.729
to keep them out besides telling stories all night is

1855
01:25:18.229 --> 01:25:24.079
putting your furniture upside down because evidently they can use

1856
01:25:24.119 --> 01:25:27.420
your furniture. They can control it remotely, I guess, from

1857
01:25:27.460 --> 01:25:29.380
outside to come and open the door for them.

1858
01:25:30.579 --> 01:25:31.239
So if it's.

1859
01:25:31.180 --> 01:25:35.510
Upside down, they can't make that chair walk.

1860
01:25:35.390 --> 01:25:36.130
Over to open the door.

1861
01:25:36.930 --> 01:25:39.430
So there are a few thoughts come to mind immediately

1862
01:25:39.470 --> 01:25:42.229
about that concept that makes it infinitely funnier to me.

1863
01:25:43.739 --> 01:25:44.420
Number one.

1864
01:25:44.439 --> 01:25:48.079
Well, actually, I think actually they all feed into one thing,

1865
01:25:48.100 --> 01:25:51.829
which is it sounds like some housewife who got, like,

1866
01:25:51.909 --> 01:25:56.630
lazy or just didn't care, like, that she invented that idea. No,

1867
01:25:56.649 --> 01:26:01.039
because hear me out. The bread doesn't taste good. That's

1868
01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:02.579
a Strigoi's fault.

1869
01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:04.119
Yeah, it's totally.

1870
01:26:05.069 --> 01:26:07.510
I slammed my knee on this chair. That's upside down.

1871
01:26:07.529 --> 01:26:11.729
In reality, she, she, uh, was, uh, the other.

1872
01:26:11.750 --> 01:26:11.829
Yeah.

1873
01:26:14.010 --> 01:26:15.399
But it's like, I hit my leg on this. Oh,

1874
01:26:15.420 --> 01:26:18.060
the Strigoi moves furniture, dude. It's not that I was like,

1875
01:26:18.079 --> 01:26:21.039
I moved it to sweep and then decided to go outside.

1876
01:26:21.140 --> 01:26:23.100
Cause I was, you know, I wanted to, I don't

1877
01:26:23.119 --> 01:26:25.340
know what people did back then other than clean and

1878
01:26:25.359 --> 01:26:25.880
just work. Yeah.

1879
01:26:25.899 --> 01:26:26.000
Yeah.

1880
01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:30.840
But that's just funny to me. It's like, oh, it

1881
01:26:30.859 --> 01:26:36.819
sounds like a lot of, like, minor domestic inconveniences. Because

1882
01:26:36.859 --> 01:26:38.079
I'm not even trying to be mean. I don't even

1883
01:26:38.100 --> 01:26:41.920
think she's, like, bad at her, like, her wifely duties.

1884
01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:44.050
I'm just saying she's like, she's like, eh, I was

1885
01:26:44.060 --> 01:26:46.210
slipping that week, so I went with a sturgoy.

1886
01:26:46.689 --> 01:26:48.109
Oh, yeah, gosh.

1887
01:26:50.069 --> 01:26:51.789
We've got a real problem with them around here. I

1888
01:26:51.789 --> 01:26:53.489
don't know what's going.

1889
01:26:52.949 --> 01:26:53.689
On, man.

1890
01:26:53.970 --> 01:26:57.640
The furniture's moved around, uh, You know, the bread doesn't

1891
01:26:57.699 --> 01:27:01.319
taste good. You know, I always have a headache at night.

1892
01:27:01.350 --> 01:27:05.729
You know, it's just all Mr. Goy's fault. It's all Mr.

1893
01:27:05.750 --> 01:27:09.390
Goy's. Oh, sorry, please.

1894
01:27:09.449 --> 01:27:11.489
I was just trying to think of any other thing. Oh, yeah.

1895
01:27:11.789 --> 01:27:14.970
I don't think I've encountered anything with mirrors. Okay. They

1896
01:27:14.989 --> 01:27:16.649
could probably still see themselves in the mirror.

1897
01:27:16.670 --> 01:27:17.310
What about silver?

1898
01:27:18.260 --> 01:27:19.640
No. Oh, okay.

1899
01:27:20.020 --> 01:27:20.899
Yeah, nothing to do with silver.

1900
01:27:20.920 --> 01:27:26.319
That one surprises me. Yeah. And, like, I think even

1901
01:27:26.399 --> 01:27:30.520
with werewolf, whenever I did werewolf research, the silver stuff

1902
01:27:30.550 --> 01:27:32.779
was usually from.

1903
01:27:34.359 --> 01:27:35.029
Book stuff.

1904
01:27:35.109 --> 01:27:40.670
It's more from fiction later. Mistletoe and things like that

1905
01:27:40.729 --> 01:27:42.750
are things that I would see in folklore to do

1906
01:27:42.829 --> 01:27:47.109
with werewolves. But honestly, werewolves, more often than not, were

1907
01:27:47.130 --> 01:27:52.449
a type of witch. Whenever they were convicted of lycanthropy,

1908
01:27:52.550 --> 01:27:56.539
it was also of lycanthropy slash witchcraft. and killed because

1909
01:27:56.579 --> 01:27:56.939
of that.

1910
01:27:57.079 --> 01:27:59.510
Yeah um so it was kind of like a combo

1911
01:27:59.520 --> 01:28:03.229
of like familiars kind of thing and like in black

1912
01:28:03.289 --> 01:28:06.630
magic and like uh making yourself a beast for whatever.

1913
01:28:06.409 --> 01:28:09.729
Reason yeah as opposed to like a curse or a disease.

1914
01:28:09.789 --> 01:28:12.859
Yeah although there is well no not not disease stuff

1915
01:28:12.920 --> 01:28:16.100
in uh werewolf lore i know we're getting off of

1916
01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:20.840
topic from but with uh Werewolves, because depending on the things,

1917
01:28:20.859 --> 01:28:22.880
because there'd be some where you'd have to wear the

1918
01:28:22.920 --> 01:28:24.520
skin of a wolf and you could turn into a wolf.

1919
01:28:24.539 --> 01:28:27.710
There is, I think, a Greco-Roman story of a belt

1920
01:28:27.810 --> 01:28:31.149
that did it and things like that. So there would

1921
01:28:31.170 --> 01:28:36.090
be things like that. But oftentimes, like France at one

1922
01:28:36.149 --> 01:28:39.529
point went through a big werewolf boom um, where they

1923
01:28:39.550 --> 01:28:43.109
were just convicting everybody of being a werewolf. Um, yeah,

1924
01:28:43.180 --> 01:28:44.220
they were like that.

1925
01:28:44.579 --> 01:28:45.079
Oh gosh.

1926
01:28:45.140 --> 01:28:49.560
Yeah. Um, uh, and, uh, I want to say it

1927
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.680
was like, oh gosh, golly, I'm trying to do math

1928
01:28:54.739 --> 01:28:55.720
and trying to think, I know it.

1929
01:28:55.699 --> 01:28:57.430
Was maybe the 16 or 1700s.

1930
01:28:57.439 --> 01:29:02.920
I know, um, But, like, so if someone was, like,

1931
01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:05.159
a serial killer or somebody was, like, some other type of, like,

1932
01:29:05.340 --> 01:29:07.159
horrible killer, oh, they were probably a werewolf.

1933
01:29:09.119 --> 01:29:11.020
That's what it was. Of course.

1934
01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:15.149
You can't imagine, like, an actual human being doing these atrocities.

1935
01:29:15.510 --> 01:29:17.770
So they have to be some type of beast thing.

1936
01:29:17.789 --> 01:29:20.279
So therefore they were a werewolf. which also means that

1937
01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:22.430
if you're a werewolf, then you are some type of witch,

1938
01:29:22.590 --> 01:29:24.649
because that's the only way that you can turn yourself

1939
01:29:24.689 --> 01:29:25.020
into that.

1940
01:29:25.050 --> 01:29:26.649
Yeah, how else would you be able to do that,

1941
01:29:26.750 --> 01:29:31.590
you know? It's simple. It's just so obvious. Duh.

1942
01:29:31.670 --> 01:29:34.449
Although, honestly, a lot of the old werewolf stories, so

1943
01:29:34.470 --> 01:29:39.470
just much like the Strogoy is to explain plagues, werewolf things,

1944
01:29:39.670 --> 01:29:41.989
from what I read, it sounds a lot like how

1945
01:29:42.029 --> 01:29:44.869
to explain how this, like a guy that always seemed

1946
01:29:44.949 --> 01:29:47.670
nice just snapped and killed his family kind of thing.

1947
01:29:47.979 --> 01:29:48.479
That makes sense.

1948
01:29:48.520 --> 01:29:51.470
I mean, we still try to figure it out with

1949
01:29:51.649 --> 01:29:55.850
BS to this day when bad things happen to good people.

1950
01:29:55.899 --> 01:29:57.100
I mean, that's kind of the old thing. You know,

1951
01:29:57.140 --> 01:29:58.720
why do bad things happen to good people?

1952
01:29:58.779 --> 01:30:04.199
It's like, let's just invent, like, a 900 religions instead

1953
01:30:04.220 --> 01:30:06.140
of answer instead of like trying to really answer that

1954
01:30:06.159 --> 01:30:08.770
it's too hard like we'll just you know every religion

1955
01:30:08.789 --> 01:30:10.670
will kind of answer it in its own way but

1956
01:30:10.689 --> 01:30:12.329
that makes i mean that makes sense you know uh

1957
01:30:13.090 --> 01:30:15.470
the idea of like a being beastly you know like

1958
01:30:15.909 --> 01:30:17.770
if somebody killed somebody brutally it'd be like that's like

1959
01:30:17.789 --> 01:30:21.779
an animal they must literally be becoming an animal no human.

1960
01:30:21.479 --> 01:30:24.220
Being would be capable of such an atrocity like it

1961
01:30:24.260 --> 01:30:27.140
has to be some type of monster and stuff.

1962
01:30:27.020 --> 01:30:30.289
Yeah Well, and then as time went on, you know, uh, and,

1963
01:30:30.529 --> 01:30:32.510
and things would change, you'd have to kind of alter it,

1964
01:30:32.630 --> 01:30:37.569
you know, uh, like when, uh, I had a train

1965
01:30:37.720 --> 01:30:40.210
of thought there, but it might've derailed. But like, uh,

1966
01:30:40.300 --> 01:30:41.800
if you had like, say a group of people that

1967
01:30:41.819 --> 01:30:44.319
were always seen as animalistic and then all of a sudden,

1968
01:30:44.380 --> 01:30:48.020
as time went on, they became totally, you know, uh,

1969
01:30:48.500 --> 01:30:50.579
congruous with the rest of the population. All of a

1970
01:30:50.600 --> 01:30:52.609
sudden you just kind of, it would kind of the

1971
01:30:52.649 --> 01:30:57.010
idea of like them being, you know, savage or, or, or, uh, untamed.

1972
01:30:57.939 --> 01:31:00.020
like leave their group entirely and now it's just a

1973
01:31:00.100 --> 01:31:01.970
thing that happens to anybody it's like oh no that

1974
01:31:02.010 --> 01:31:04.670
person turned into a monster because the witch did that

1975
01:31:04.710 --> 01:31:07.289
or whatever because because that's you know my point was

1976
01:31:07.329 --> 01:31:10.310
kind of like dehumanizing is a common thing when people

1977
01:31:10.829 --> 01:31:12.829
commit lots of crimes or whatever to kind of you

1978
01:31:12.850 --> 01:31:15.060
know say that they're an animal or they're evil or

1979
01:31:15.100 --> 01:31:18.100
whatever so we have that kind of there and it's

1980
01:31:18.119 --> 01:31:21.180
interesting when it's kind of isolated to just the criminal

1981
01:31:21.979 --> 01:31:23.520
that did it yes to say like oh they must

1982
01:31:23.539 --> 01:31:24.159
be an animal.

1983
01:31:26.109 --> 01:31:28.090
Then there were, you know, a lot of possession was

1984
01:31:28.170 --> 01:31:29.270
often blamed as well.

1985
01:31:29.689 --> 01:31:29.869
Yes.

1986
01:31:30.109 --> 01:31:35.029
Which is also interesting seeing the evolution of that. So

1987
01:31:35.090 --> 01:31:37.399
like the whole concept of it being like a demon

1988
01:31:37.409 --> 01:31:40.689
possession is a far more like recent thing. there would

1989
01:31:40.720 --> 01:31:42.920
be different types of spirit things that would like be

1990
01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:44.699
able to possess you and stuff like that. And then

1991
01:31:44.739 --> 01:31:48.619
eventually the spirits became demons and stuff, but it could

1992
01:31:48.640 --> 01:31:51.359
be either like a, a ghost to someone either living

1993
01:31:51.439 --> 01:31:53.420
or dead. Like there could be somebody that's like a

1994
01:31:53.479 --> 01:31:55.939
witch type of thing that could be possessing you. That's

1995
01:31:55.960 --> 01:32:00.420
still alive, like a living person that's doing it. Um, and, uh,

1996
01:32:00.939 --> 01:32:04.229
or it could be, you know, uh, some type of, uh,

1997
01:32:04.359 --> 01:32:07.300
angry ghost and stuff that is doing it from beyond

1998
01:32:07.340 --> 01:32:11.119
the grave that's possessing you. But then, Christianity has a

1999
01:32:11.140 --> 01:32:13.840
tendency to like to demonize everything. So eventually that just

2000
01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:17.520
kind of evolved into these must be all demons.

2001
01:32:19.100 --> 01:32:21.090
You know, I get why they started with it because

2002
01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:22.390
it's a good way to get you to think about

2003
01:32:22.409 --> 01:32:25.170
the church. You know, a lot is to be like,

2004
01:32:25.710 --> 01:32:27.829
you know, when you, you know, when you see a

2005
01:32:28.090 --> 01:32:31.529
lady in a really nice blouse, you're evil. You better

2006
01:32:31.550 --> 01:32:34.720
start praying instantly. The moment you think of sex or

2007
01:32:34.729 --> 01:32:38.199
drinking or fighting or any, it's like, okay, so anything

2008
01:32:38.220 --> 01:32:41.100
that's human, Yes, think about the church in that moment,

2009
01:32:41.140 --> 01:32:43.359
the moment you are being in any way a human being.

2010
01:32:43.380 --> 01:32:46.420
Yes, sir. It's also like an us versus them thing

2011
01:32:46.520 --> 01:32:47.779
and stuff, too.

2012
01:32:47.899 --> 01:32:51.949
Because that's why a lot of the deities and stuff

2013
01:32:51.970 --> 01:32:56.930
from other religions eventually just become demonized in Christianity. And

2014
01:32:57.289 --> 01:33:00.000
I did a whole thing, which if you ever want to...

2015
01:33:01.369 --> 01:33:03.289
have me geek out about Satan. I can talk to

2016
01:33:03.310 --> 01:33:05.510
him about the entire evolutionary.

2017
01:33:05.529 --> 01:33:08.109
I mean, that sounds like a pretty awesome offer.

2018
01:33:08.229 --> 01:33:14.130
Cause I did a, um, a, like a, a educational

2019
01:33:14.170 --> 01:33:17.189
presentation at a convention about that and about the, um,

2020
01:33:18.029 --> 01:33:21.470
the evolution of the ideas of the concept of Satan, um,

2021
01:33:21.510 --> 01:33:23.909
the depictions of Satan and things like that, uh, because

2022
01:33:23.970 --> 01:33:26.439
it was not a canonical thing. And so how it

2023
01:33:26.479 --> 01:33:32.449
goes from being, a completely different concept in like Judaism

2024
01:33:32.489 --> 01:33:36.000
and stuff to being what we in like modern times

2025
01:33:36.399 --> 01:33:38.180
think whenever someone says Satan and stuff.

2026
01:33:38.819 --> 01:33:40.180
It's fascinating.

2027
01:33:40.239 --> 01:33:43.220
But a lot of that in that process is the

2028
01:33:43.300 --> 01:33:48.949
demonization and incorporation of different characteristics of different deities and

2029
01:33:49.010 --> 01:33:50.710
stuff to be like, no, it's bad.

2030
01:33:51.029 --> 01:33:51.670
It's the devil.

2031
01:33:52.350 --> 01:33:55.170
And there was a lot more flexibility in the earliest

2032
01:33:55.229 --> 01:34:01.359
days of Christianity because people couldn't read. I mean, very many,

2033
01:34:01.420 --> 01:34:03.800
many people couldn't read. It was the church was actually,

2034
01:34:04.020 --> 01:34:05.699
if I'm remembering correctly, because you will know better than

2035
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:08.840
I do. My understanding, I always, the understanding I was

2036
01:34:08.880 --> 01:34:13.949
given was that the Catholic church was the religion, not

2037
01:34:13.989 --> 01:34:14.369
the book.

2038
01:34:15.710 --> 01:34:16.029
Yes.

2039
01:34:16.689 --> 01:34:19.850
And that's why they have such an intricate, like such

2040
01:34:19.890 --> 01:34:23.689
an interest, intricate system is because they were the, the

2041
01:34:23.810 --> 01:34:26.649
access to the faith, not the book because they.

2042
01:34:26.569 --> 01:34:27.529
Were like one of the earliest.

2043
01:34:28.180 --> 01:34:29.899
Yeah, there were, there's a lot of, I guess there

2044
01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:33.159
was a lot of different types of Christianity, but that

2045
01:34:33.199 --> 01:34:37.079
is like a huge one. Yes. That came about from

2046
01:34:37.119 --> 01:34:40.420
the whole sort of spinoff movement of Judaism, the whole

2047
01:34:40.439 --> 01:34:45.100
little Christian, the Jesus movement did eventually, yeah, there was

2048
01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:47.649
the Catholic church that then had its schism and you've

2049
01:34:47.659 --> 01:34:50.850
got the Orthodox church and so forth. But so yeah,

2050
01:34:50.890 --> 01:34:54.409
they did, that particular branch did of course come up

2051
01:34:54.449 --> 01:34:59.899
with a bunch of non-canonical theological concepts that they then

2052
01:34:59.960 --> 01:35:03.300
go back and try to use elements of the scriptures

2053
01:35:03.380 --> 01:35:10.869
to support. And as much as Protestants want to say

2054
01:35:10.909 --> 01:35:13.449
that they are beyond that, they still have their own

2055
01:35:13.489 --> 01:35:16.729
things because there are going to still be Protestants today

2056
01:35:16.850 --> 01:35:20.050
who think that Satan is a thing or that have

2057
01:35:20.090 --> 01:35:22.750
all these concepts of these devils and demons and even

2058
01:35:22.789 --> 01:35:24.909
think that Lucifer is a name for the devil and

2059
01:35:24.930 --> 01:35:25.270
it's not.

2060
01:35:26.659 --> 01:35:31.340
So it's funny because, you know, as I get older

2061
01:35:31.380 --> 01:35:33.880
and I kind of I kind of feel like I

2062
01:35:33.939 --> 01:35:38.239
see things a little bit broader, you know, like I

2063
01:35:38.279 --> 01:35:41.119
kind of look at like the Catholic church thing as

2064
01:35:41.199 --> 01:35:44.159
like at least they kind of were aware that there's

2065
01:35:44.180 --> 01:35:46.239
a human element, you know, that they would like let

2066
01:35:46.279 --> 01:35:49.119
things change. I mean, they may not have seen it

2067
01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:51.159
as a human element, obviously, but I mean, like, you know,

2068
01:35:51.189 --> 01:35:53.869
they were aware that like as times change, things change,

2069
01:35:53.949 --> 01:35:57.880
hence the pope. being the direct communication with the upstairs

2070
01:35:57.939 --> 01:36:00.279
so that it, so that you could make a unilateral change.

2071
01:36:00.760 --> 01:36:03.819
And people often forget that like some of those unilateral

2072
01:36:03.880 --> 01:36:06.819
changes were really good things. I mean, the Pope basically

2073
01:36:06.979 --> 01:36:10.760
ended the North Atlantic slave trade, like, like straight up

2074
01:36:10.819 --> 01:36:14.239
because he said, actually in the Bible, it says slavery

2075
01:36:14.279 --> 01:36:14.619
is wrong.

2076
01:36:14.659 --> 01:36:17.079
That applies to just everybody, not just Christians. And then

2077
01:36:17.100 --> 01:36:18.319
it was like, what? And it was like, yeah, you

2078
01:36:18.350 --> 01:36:22.149
got to like stop everything. And they were like, oh crap.

2079
01:36:22.789 --> 01:36:28.659
Which is funny because, um, In America, there were Bibles

2080
01:36:29.550 --> 01:36:37.630
that were specifically to support slavery. They were slave Bibles

2081
01:36:37.789 --> 01:36:39.590
and stuff. They were Bibles that were given to slaves

2082
01:36:40.510 --> 01:36:44.050
or used for the preaching with slaves and also spread

2083
01:36:44.109 --> 01:36:46.010
by slave owners and things like that because it would

2084
01:36:46.069 --> 01:36:50.210
be taking particular passages and taking certain things to show that, no, see,

2085
01:36:50.489 --> 01:36:51.770
it's totally supported.

2086
01:36:52.420 --> 01:36:56.489
Buy them yeah so it didn't work out though the

2087
01:36:56.510 --> 01:37:00.250
religious belief helped the slaves uh immensely anyway which is

2088
01:37:00.369 --> 01:37:02.449
i mean which is just a fascinating another element of

2089
01:37:02.829 --> 01:37:04.640
i keep saying this because i really mean it like

2090
01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:08.539
another element of why i love humanity and the human

2091
01:37:08.579 --> 01:37:10.260
experience though is like you hand them this thing you

2092
01:37:10.279 --> 01:37:12.680
go look even the guy upstairs says like you're supposed

2093
01:37:12.699 --> 01:37:14.470
to be in this lot and they turn it into

2094
01:37:14.510 --> 01:37:18.159
something that moves them to greater lengths, you know, greater

2095
01:37:18.229 --> 01:37:19.329
distances instead.

2096
01:37:19.350 --> 01:37:20.189
I love that.

2097
01:37:20.210 --> 01:37:22.409
It's like, no, what we make of it is what's

2098
01:37:22.430 --> 01:37:24.449
going to happen. Not what you say, not what you

2099
01:37:24.470 --> 01:37:28.710
hand us. I love that makes me so happy. I

2100
01:37:29.710 --> 01:37:32.189
just want to hug being human sometimes. I mean, there's

2101
01:37:32.210 --> 01:37:34.680
a lot of negatives, but I, I, I just think that,

2102
01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:37.399
you know, I don't know, we're so vast and there's

2103
01:37:37.420 --> 01:37:40.479
so many different types of people. You never know who

2104
01:37:40.500 --> 01:37:42.079
you're going to meet in any given day. You never

2105
01:37:42.119 --> 01:37:45.140
know when you're going to meet somebody and, and feel, uh,

2106
01:37:45.460 --> 01:37:46.739
and be like, Oh, that was kind of a nice person.

2107
01:37:46.760 --> 01:37:48.390
And then 15 years later, be like, Oh, I guess

2108
01:37:48.430 --> 01:37:50.029
that was the first time I met that person. And

2109
01:37:50.050 --> 01:37:52.149
now like, if they weren't around, I would be heartbroken

2110
01:37:52.250 --> 01:37:55.609
every day. Like, you know, life is that way, you know? Uh,

2111
01:37:56.710 --> 01:37:59.050
You can really tell I just turned 40. Like I'm so,

2112
01:37:59.590 --> 01:38:01.630
I'm looking back and I'm just like, oh yeah, this thing,

2113
01:38:01.670 --> 01:38:03.979
this thing.

2114
01:38:04.020 --> 01:38:06.300
The middle age is finally hitting you.

2115
01:38:06.939 --> 01:38:10.399
Exactly. Oh dude, I frigging, I turned 40 on the

2116
01:38:10.460 --> 01:38:11.359
10th of September.

2117
01:38:11.390 --> 01:38:12.869
Happy birthday.

2118
01:38:13.229 --> 01:38:13.649
Thank you.

2119
01:38:13.670 --> 01:38:14.350
Seven days later.

2120
01:38:17.350 --> 01:38:21.380
Progressive lenses in the glasses seven days now I had

2121
01:38:21.460 --> 01:38:23.840
put off my eye exam for four years which was

2122
01:38:23.899 --> 01:38:25.270
my own fault I had to get a new eye

2123
01:38:25.279 --> 01:38:27.430
doctor they just were impossible to schedule it wasn't me

2124
01:38:27.470 --> 01:38:30.180
being lazy or cheap it was this one time it

2125
01:38:30.220 --> 01:38:32.579
was just it was just that i i finally was

2126
01:38:32.600 --> 01:38:33.960
like i'm going to a place where they just can

2127
01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:35.739
see you in a day because i'm tired of waiting

2128
01:38:35.779 --> 01:38:38.529
and whatever yeah they hand me the prescription i go

2129
01:38:38.569 --> 01:38:40.090
home and type it in to like order some glasses

2130
01:38:40.130 --> 01:38:41.970
online and it's just like wait what is this plus

2131
01:38:42.149 --> 01:38:45.149
one oh.

2132
01:38:45.060 --> 01:38:46.300
I sent it to my mom and I was like,

2133
01:38:46.659 --> 01:38:50.060
does this mean I need bifocals? And she was like, barely,

2134
01:38:50.119 --> 01:38:53.119
but yes. And I was like, I feel old.

2135
01:38:53.180 --> 01:38:56.899
And my mom was like, join the club. She's loving,

2136
01:38:56.920 --> 01:38:58.420
but she's also like, yeah, how old do you think

2137
01:38:58.520 --> 01:39:04.619
I feel then? My youngest kid's 40. But no, these

2138
01:39:04.640 --> 01:39:06.510
are the kinds of things I love to think about.

2139
01:39:06.520 --> 01:39:11.369
One of my favorite, so it was like folklore, like history,

2140
01:39:11.470 --> 01:39:15.350
folklore is the history that we tell each other. you know,

2141
01:39:15.430 --> 01:39:18.579
instead of a literal history that like is supposedly written down.

2142
01:39:18.619 --> 01:39:21.239
It's a history where we're not really worried about accuracy

2143
01:39:21.279 --> 01:39:25.119
so much. It's more about intent and moment and vibes.

2144
01:39:25.239 --> 01:39:27.520
Let's go with vibes, you know, if you're really old.

2145
01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:28.779
It's about vibes.

2146
01:39:28.800 --> 01:39:30.060
It's about the vibes, man.

2147
01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:31.159
Yeah.

2148
01:39:31.220 --> 01:39:33.819
Because if it's about the human experience, it's not quite

2149
01:39:33.880 --> 01:39:36.239
as manipulative as if it's about like literally like, what

2150
01:39:36.260 --> 01:39:39.399
did Mussolini do? You know, that if it's about vibes,

2151
01:39:39.470 --> 01:39:41.810
you could really be lying and it would not be great.

2152
01:39:41.869 --> 01:39:44.130
And they did in that time period.

2153
01:39:45.020 --> 01:39:50.500
But like I like I've been thinking I'm really going

2154
01:39:50.760 --> 01:39:54.039
way off the reservation. And I don't apologize because this

2155
01:39:54.100 --> 01:39:56.859
is this is why I guess I can survive in

2156
01:39:56.890 --> 01:39:58.409
this business is because you put a mic in front

2157
01:39:58.470 --> 01:40:01.729
of me and I can never shut up. But it

2158
01:40:01.869 --> 01:40:04.010
starts to make me think, you know, while history can

2159
01:40:04.050 --> 01:40:06.189
give you a good concept of where we're going, folklore

2160
01:40:06.210 --> 01:40:07.890
makes me kind of feel like I get a good

2161
01:40:07.930 --> 01:40:11.189
concept of where we'll we will be feeling. I guess

2162
01:40:11.270 --> 01:40:13.029
is a way to put it like how we will

2163
01:40:13.069 --> 01:40:17.659
be vibing as a species. And I think that overall

2164
01:40:18.539 --> 01:40:21.460
we're surprisingly sweet to each other, even though it doesn't

2165
01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:23.680
always feel that way. Cause it's easy to notice when

2166
01:40:23.720 --> 01:40:27.909
people are mean or cruel because we should, we should

2167
01:40:28.090 --> 01:40:30.170
stop and look and go, wow, that is crazy.

2168
01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:32.659
That's not all right. Like that's cruel. That's hateful.

2169
01:40:32.689 --> 01:40:35.829
That's everything that I hate about. Everything is what I'm

2170
01:40:35.869 --> 01:40:38.810
seeing right now, but it's so easy to walk by

2171
01:40:39.109 --> 01:40:42.810
kindness and be like, yeah, that's just, that's Wednesday. Like

2172
01:40:42.850 --> 01:40:44.829
that guy's being nice to that person. That person be nice. Like,

2173
01:40:44.869 --> 01:40:47.029
it's not weird that people are being nice. So I'm

2174
01:40:47.050 --> 01:40:48.710
not even going to stop and look. I'm not even like,

2175
01:40:49.409 --> 01:40:51.319
you know, that's why a video of somebody doing something

2176
01:40:51.359 --> 01:40:53.300
nice will go viral. But a video of somebody getting

2177
01:40:53.399 --> 01:40:56.680
cruelty done to them will really go viral. It's because

2178
01:40:56.939 --> 01:41:01.119
it's not, It breaks the system. It breaks the pattern

2179
01:41:01.180 --> 01:41:06.199
as well. And I'm a vicious Pollyanna. I know that.

2180
01:41:07.529 --> 01:41:09.250
So when I look at folklore and I look at

2181
01:41:09.329 --> 01:41:12.649
where the beliefs come from and things, I notice that

2182
01:41:12.850 --> 01:41:16.689
often if you can get over the very human desire

2183
01:41:16.789 --> 01:41:21.949
to worry and feel negative about everything, you find like, wow,

2184
01:41:22.109 --> 01:41:23.689
there was a lot of good intent there or a

2185
01:41:23.710 --> 01:41:26.970
lot of good result there. And that's something that I

2186
01:41:27.029 --> 01:41:29.569
try to keep in mind because none of us, you know,

2187
01:41:30.050 --> 01:41:33.409
that phrase, ends justify the means. I hate that phrase because, like,

2188
01:41:33.689 --> 01:41:36.609
there's no ends. There's never ends. All we ever have

2189
01:41:36.649 --> 01:41:39.840
are means until the day we die. So, you know,

2190
01:41:39.899 --> 01:41:41.680
so if the means are going to be crap, that

2191
01:41:41.699 --> 01:41:42.899
means that your life will be crap.

2192
01:41:43.260 --> 01:41:46.020
There's no ends. There's only means. So I don't know

2193
01:41:46.039 --> 01:41:47.220
if I had a point. You should say something.

2194
01:41:50.100 --> 01:41:51.560
Some of what you said actually made me think of

2195
01:41:51.600 --> 01:41:52.909
tricksters in folklore.

2196
01:41:53.149 --> 01:41:54.890
So, because.

2197
01:41:56.060 --> 01:42:00.140
uh if like to your point like uh there's things

2198
01:42:00.180 --> 01:42:02.560
that we should normalize like like being nice is nice

2199
01:42:02.819 --> 01:42:04.699
it's nice to be nice uh and we should all

2200
01:42:04.729 --> 01:42:07.510
be nice to each other and it should stick out

2201
01:42:07.550 --> 01:42:12.029
to us whenever somebody breaks um the norm and that's

2202
01:42:12.130 --> 01:42:14.970
what tricksters a lot of times in different cultures are

2203
01:42:15.010 --> 01:42:18.399
to do they are to show what you should not

2204
01:42:18.439 --> 01:42:23.130
do in a society or like uh even sometimes to

2205
01:42:23.189 --> 01:42:26.909
show maybe there's an aspect that is absurd and maybe

2206
01:42:26.989 --> 01:42:29.310
not great currently in that society, and they push back

2207
01:42:29.390 --> 01:42:32.920
on it. So they are there to be like a challenge,

2208
01:42:34.199 --> 01:42:38.840
and to challenge but also to teach. And so it's

2209
01:42:38.880 --> 01:42:42.859
either like, don't be like this, or hey, isn't that

2210
01:42:42.899 --> 01:42:46.159
ridiculous and awful to be like that? We should instead

2211
01:42:46.180 --> 01:42:50.619
be nice. We should be like that. But that is

2212
01:42:50.680 --> 01:42:54.300
one of the primary functions of tricksters in different cultures

2213
01:42:54.359 --> 01:42:55.000
and stuff.

2214
01:42:56.189 --> 01:42:58.630
Yeah, it makes perfect sense.

2215
01:42:58.710 --> 01:43:04.840
And the subtext of folklore and stories is always fascinating

2216
01:43:04.880 --> 01:43:07.430
because you know, as much what they put in there

2217
01:43:07.439 --> 01:43:10.689
is as important as how it's interpreted throughout different times

2218
01:43:10.970 --> 01:43:14.329
in history. You know, like it's kind of like I

2219
01:43:14.590 --> 01:43:18.090
read Moby Dick every so often. And I feel like

2220
01:43:18.170 --> 01:43:20.170
every time I read Moby Dick, I get something different

2221
01:43:20.609 --> 01:43:22.670
from it. If I like wait six years, I'll like

2222
01:43:22.689 --> 01:43:24.189
feel a totally different.

2223
01:43:23.949 --> 01:43:24.600
Feeling about it.

2224
01:43:25.550 --> 01:43:28.550
And I feel like that's, you know, another sign of

2225
01:43:28.590 --> 01:43:31.210
like where the culture is going. Like, you know, now

2226
01:43:31.289 --> 01:43:33.430
when people look at like a movie like Texas Chainsaw Massacre,

2227
01:43:33.489 --> 01:43:35.210
that's a great example because it's a movie that may

2228
01:43:35.229 --> 01:43:38.159
not Because of its title, it doesn't sound like it

2229
01:43:38.199 --> 01:43:41.439
has a lot to say about anything other than chainsaws

2230
01:43:41.510 --> 01:43:46.390
in Texas and massacres. But when that movie was made,

2231
01:43:46.649 --> 01:43:48.989
there were a lot of cultural fears. A lot of

2232
01:43:49.010 --> 01:43:51.770
the fear was about automation. And the family in that

2233
01:43:51.810 --> 01:43:57.529
movie is actually literally all displaced by technology. They don't

2234
01:43:57.649 --> 01:44:01.430
have a job because the air gun replaces killing an

2235
01:44:01.510 --> 01:44:02.310
animal with a hammer.

2236
01:44:03.350 --> 01:44:05.260
Which everyone in the.

2237
01:44:05.260 --> 01:44:08.600
Audience would agree, even if they eat meat every day,

2238
01:44:08.920 --> 01:44:10.619
they would agree, I would rather it be an air

2239
01:44:10.659 --> 01:44:13.819
gun than a hammer. Nobody's going to take the side

2240
01:44:13.859 --> 01:44:18.300
of the cannibal family. But then the cannibal family, their

2241
01:44:18.359 --> 01:44:20.640
attitude is, well, we got to make do. Everybody's got

2242
01:44:20.659 --> 01:44:23.579
to make do. This is how we're making do. It's

2243
01:44:23.619 --> 01:44:27.460
a pretty fascinating statement when there was such an upheaval

2244
01:44:27.619 --> 01:44:29.779
in rural America versus the cities, and there was such

2245
01:44:29.800 --> 01:44:33.119
an upheaval in in a working class versus, you know,

2246
01:44:33.239 --> 01:44:35.939
white collar, blue collar. Um, the kids who are coming there,

2247
01:44:35.960 --> 01:44:38.439
they're all college age. They probably, none of them have any,

2248
01:44:38.579 --> 01:44:41.199
have worked very much in their lives yet. So, and

2249
01:44:41.229 --> 01:44:44.649
they walk into a place they don't understand and they

2250
01:44:44.689 --> 01:44:46.470
expect it to be just like every other place they've

2251
01:44:46.489 --> 01:44:46.869
ever been.

2252
01:44:46.890 --> 01:44:48.130
And it's not there.

2253
01:44:48.170 --> 01:44:50.750
So there's like all these places you could take it.

2254
01:44:51.869 --> 01:44:54.869
And I, I, I love that about folklore. I love

2255
01:44:54.890 --> 01:44:57.729
that about storytelling. That's, that's the thing is like, what

2256
01:44:57.750 --> 01:44:59.529
can you get from it? And if it could be

2257
01:44:59.569 --> 01:45:02.130
something beneficial, what can you get from it? You know,

2258
01:45:02.149 --> 01:45:04.689
can they have a moral, like the trickster telling you,

2259
01:45:04.710 --> 01:45:08.149
you know, don't, um, you know, don't switch somebody sweetened

2260
01:45:08.170 --> 01:45:09.489
condensed milk for powder.

2261
01:45:09.710 --> 01:45:12.189
I don't know.

2262
01:45:12.289 --> 01:45:15.180
And I mean, uh, Oh gosh, my brain just went

2263
01:45:15.189 --> 01:45:16.439
off the tracks for a second.

2264
01:45:16.479 --> 01:45:19.039
Oh, it's okay. You're the first, that's your first time.

2265
01:45:19.180 --> 01:45:23.939
Okay. I was going to say, uh, cause my brain

2266
01:45:23.960 --> 01:45:24.939
was going in two different ways.

2267
01:45:24.960 --> 01:45:27.199
Cause you brought up like the good point again with the,

2268
01:45:27.260 --> 01:45:31.350
with like how horror reflects our own, uh, personal and

2269
01:45:31.369 --> 01:45:34.130
cultural fears but going back to the folklore element though

2270
01:45:34.909 --> 01:45:38.640
um oh gosh hold on make my brain go back

2271
01:45:38.699 --> 01:45:42.199
onto that track where you were talking about the things

2272
01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:44.760
and the stuff hold on rewind all right you were

2273
01:45:44.800 --> 01:45:45.770
talking about.

2274
01:45:45.729 --> 01:45:48.750
Texas chainsaw massacre social upheaval uh.

2275
01:45:50.359 --> 01:45:52.779
And oh, oh yes.

2276
01:45:52.840 --> 01:45:56.399
Context. Okay. So like, um, yeah, with folklore, just like

2277
01:45:56.420 --> 01:45:59.590
with a lot of things, like, uh, heck, even with like, um, satire, like, uh,

2278
01:45:59.659 --> 01:46:04.329
look at, um, Gulliver's travels kind of thing. Um, yeah. And, uh,

2279
01:46:04.569 --> 01:46:07.890
like reading it out of historical context, you get a

2280
01:46:07.909 --> 01:46:12.350
completely different, uh, you know, vibe of what it is

2281
01:46:12.399 --> 01:46:14.939
and what it's saying and stuff versus looking at it

2282
01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:18.310
within historical context. And the same can be true with, uh,

2283
01:46:18.729 --> 01:46:21.880
folklore and with different like religious scriptures and anything like

2284
01:46:21.899 --> 01:46:24.680
that once you take it out of its historical and

2285
01:46:24.720 --> 01:46:27.239
its cultural context and you read it you've got your

2286
01:46:27.420 --> 01:46:31.130
own interpretation what it means for you now and then

2287
01:46:31.149 --> 01:46:33.350
you can also just look at it in history so

2288
01:46:33.470 --> 01:46:37.420
like whereas we've been talking about the struggle and how

2289
01:46:38.300 --> 01:46:39.760
it has been used for.

2290
01:46:40.060 --> 01:46:41.439
Plague and for stranger danger.

2291
01:46:41.520 --> 01:46:43.909
But if you take it out of those contexts and

2292
01:46:43.949 --> 01:46:46.529
you are reading a story about a vampire and things

2293
01:46:46.569 --> 01:46:48.289
like that, it's a completely different thing for you. It's

2294
01:46:48.329 --> 01:46:51.529
a spooky monster man. And, and it's like, yeah, but

2295
01:46:52.069 --> 01:46:54.729
put it within its cultural thing. It's, it's telling you,

2296
01:46:54.840 --> 01:46:58.039
you know, don't go off with strangers and also like why,

2297
01:46:58.180 --> 01:47:01.340
you know, how to deal with this spreading disease and

2298
01:47:01.359 --> 01:47:04.560
stuff like that. But it's a completely different thing for if,

2299
01:47:04.779 --> 01:47:07.090
if you're not, if you're not used to, if you're

2300
01:47:07.109 --> 01:47:08.810
not from that and stuff.

2301
01:47:09.430 --> 01:47:10.449
Um, so absolutely.

2302
01:47:10.609 --> 01:47:13.140
And that is an interesting thing. So that makes us that,

2303
01:47:13.380 --> 01:47:17.220
so that each story has different layers to it. Um, and,

2304
01:47:17.619 --> 01:47:19.920
and to your point, coming back to like the same

2305
01:47:19.979 --> 01:47:24.060
movie or the same book, um, after years of like

2306
01:47:24.100 --> 01:47:27.500
having initially consumed and stuff, there's like things that, in fact,

2307
01:47:27.539 --> 01:47:30.460
I was just thinking the other day, I should rewatch

2308
01:47:30.840 --> 01:47:32.300
this ties in kind of with what we were just

2309
01:47:32.319 --> 01:47:36.310
talking about. The French, uh, have a whole werewolf boom.

2310
01:47:36.350 --> 01:47:39.659
There was a movie called Brotherhood of the Wolf that

2311
01:47:39.699 --> 01:47:39.989
came out.

2312
01:47:40.060 --> 01:47:41.260
I remember Brotherhood of the Wolf.

2313
01:47:41.279 --> 01:47:43.800
Yeah. And like, I saw it back when I was like, what,

2314
01:47:43.800 --> 01:47:45.180
20 or something. Is that when it like came out?

2315
01:47:45.220 --> 01:47:46.239
We were like, that sounds right.

2316
01:47:46.479 --> 01:47:47.420
Yeah.

2317
01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:49.960
And I remember thinking it was really cool then, but

2318
01:47:49.979 --> 01:47:53.640
that was also before I had all of this historical

2319
01:47:53.680 --> 01:47:55.640
knowledge in this context. And now I really want to

2320
01:47:55.659 --> 01:47:58.899
go find it and rewatch it again. knowing what i

2321
01:47:58.939 --> 01:48:02.140
know now um and i'm like i'm i wonder i

2322
01:48:02.239 --> 01:48:04.100
would get like because like before yeah it was a

2323
01:48:04.140 --> 01:48:07.819
cool movie as itself like on the surface level but

2324
01:48:08.159 --> 01:48:11.439
having the context i wonder if i'll be more like.

2325
01:48:11.399 --> 01:48:15.369
Oh whoa this is a reference to da da da

2326
01:48:15.810 --> 01:48:17.489
and be like oh i get it now it makes

2327
01:48:17.529 --> 01:48:19.810
so much more sense or if i'll be like uh

2328
01:48:20.479 --> 01:48:23.500
that's like an inaccurate reference to such and such, which

2329
01:48:23.539 --> 01:48:25.420
is actually supposed to be like da-da-da.

2330
01:48:27.020 --> 01:48:29.199
But either way, it'll be a new experience.

2331
01:48:29.229 --> 01:48:30.329
Yeah, exactly.

2332
01:48:30.350 --> 01:48:33.250
Yeah, it'll either be pure camp or you'll be like, wow,

2333
01:48:33.270 --> 01:48:36.810
I was not expecting that little extra stank on it

2334
01:48:36.850 --> 01:48:37.770
that makes me love it more.

2335
01:48:38.560 --> 01:48:39.909
Um, no, that, that, yeah.

2336
01:48:39.949 --> 01:48:43.119
Revisiting stuff, especially from childhood is so much fun, especially

2337
01:48:43.159 --> 01:48:44.880
if it ends up being way better than you remember.

2338
01:48:44.939 --> 01:48:47.520
And you remembered loving it, uh, which doesn't always happen,

2339
01:48:47.560 --> 01:48:48.760
but it does happen sometimes.

2340
01:48:48.840 --> 01:48:49.439
Sometimes.

2341
01:48:49.880 --> 01:48:50.260
Yeah.

2342
01:48:50.359 --> 01:48:51.560
When you, when you're really lucky.

2343
01:48:51.939 --> 01:48:54.180
Sometimes, sometimes you rewatch something that was like a really

2344
01:48:54.220 --> 01:48:55.659
fun horror movie when you were a kid. And now

2345
01:48:55.680 --> 01:48:58.979
you're like, well, that was a movie. Um, yeah, yeah, yeah.

2346
01:48:59.020 --> 01:49:02.539
That was, it was definitely a thing that exists. Yeah.

2347
01:49:05.340 --> 01:49:08.739
And then, you know, like I revisit Monster Squad all

2348
01:49:08.779 --> 01:49:09.100
the time.

2349
01:49:09.119 --> 01:49:09.920
Oh, nice.

2350
01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:11.439
Like that's one of my favorites.

2351
01:49:11.800 --> 01:49:13.189
And every time I watch it, I'm like, man, that

2352
01:49:13.199 --> 01:49:17.279
script is oddly great. Like, like, and then, and then

2353
01:49:17.340 --> 01:49:19.220
as I got older, cause I mean, like in my twenties,

2354
01:49:19.279 --> 01:49:21.180
I'd be like, wow, it holds up pretty well. And

2355
01:49:21.199 --> 01:49:22.699
then it got even older. I was like, oh, this

2356
01:49:22.760 --> 01:49:27.119
is co-written by the guy who wrote Lethal Weapon. And, uh, and, um,

2357
01:49:27.479 --> 01:49:28.979
oh gosh, what was the other one? Uh, and like

2358
01:49:29.000 --> 01:49:32.039
Long Kiss Goodnight and stuff like he's written. And yeah,

2359
01:49:32.100 --> 01:49:35.880
Shane Black, he's written a ton of great stuff. And, uh,

2360
01:49:36.020 --> 01:49:39.420
and he co-wrote that with the director and, And I'm like, oh, yeah,

2361
01:49:39.479 --> 01:49:41.880
they're just really good. Like, that movie, no wonder I

2362
01:49:41.899 --> 01:49:43.220
liked that movie even as a kid. I didn't even

2363
01:49:43.279 --> 01:49:45.560
know that it was great. I just liked the wolfman

2364
01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:49.829
having nards. You know, I thought that was funny. So, yeah,

2365
01:49:50.010 --> 01:49:53.189
you always get to pull something new, and that feeds

2366
01:49:53.229 --> 01:49:56.670
into the human element of storytelling. Yeah, it's the teller,

2367
01:49:56.770 --> 01:50:00.229
and then more importantly, the interpretation, because the interpretation will

2368
01:50:00.310 --> 01:50:02.430
live infinitely longer than any teller.

2369
01:50:02.869 --> 01:50:08.890
Yes. Unfortunately, it also affects, like... Now, you know, I'm

2370
01:50:09.210 --> 01:50:11.510
well out of college since we established them in my 40s.

2371
01:50:11.550 --> 01:50:17.289
But doing any continued research now, and if I start reading, like,

2372
01:50:17.310 --> 01:50:20.720
the actual, like, you know, account, like, actual folklore stories

2373
01:50:20.840 --> 01:50:24.399
from different things that I may not have the historical

2374
01:50:24.460 --> 01:50:29.819
background knowledge in, and I'm sure you're aware of this,

2375
01:50:30.340 --> 01:50:33.939
and to those listening, sometimes folklore stories don't make sense.

2376
01:50:34.439 --> 01:50:36.760
They are not... They don't, like, they.

2377
01:50:37.180 --> 01:50:39.989
People... people back in the day didn't always have what

2378
01:50:40.029 --> 01:50:43.090
we have now as concepts of, of how narration works.

2379
01:50:43.750 --> 01:50:46.890
And they, it'll start off one way and then it

2380
01:50:46.930 --> 01:50:49.130
goes off on this other tangent. And like, maybe like,

2381
01:50:49.449 --> 01:50:51.180
you know, there's an action that's happening, but then he

2382
01:50:51.199 --> 01:50:53.079
gets sidetracked by like this old man in a hut.

2383
01:50:53.140 --> 01:50:54.920
And then he goes back to the main action. You're like,

2384
01:50:54.960 --> 01:50:56.500
what was the old man in the hut thing having

2385
01:50:56.520 --> 01:50:59.560
to do with anything? And maybe if you were familiar

2386
01:50:59.720 --> 01:51:01.840
and from that culture or you knew the historical things,

2387
01:51:02.220 --> 01:51:05.050
you would get whatever that side thing was, whatever that

2388
01:51:05.109 --> 01:51:07.170
tangent was, but it's lost now.

2389
01:51:07.930 --> 01:51:10.449
On me now because I, I don't know.

2390
01:51:10.630 --> 01:51:13.130
So that would, unless I want to go down an

2391
01:51:13.449 --> 01:51:17.319
entirely new rabbit hole and learn like the entire like

2392
01:51:17.479 --> 01:51:20.159
history of like Nigeria or wherever it is that I'm

2393
01:51:20.199 --> 01:51:21.659
reading the stuff.

2394
01:51:22.859 --> 01:51:27.500
Um, then yeah. So, ah, that's one of the great things.

2395
01:51:27.539 --> 01:51:30.189
But one of the frustrating things about folklore is that again,

2396
01:51:30.229 --> 01:51:31.409
you take it out of its context.

2397
01:51:31.510 --> 01:51:34.250
It's what's happening.

2398
01:51:34.670 --> 01:51:35.550
Why is he in a hut now?

2399
01:51:35.569 --> 01:51:35.670
Yeah.

2400
01:51:37.100 --> 01:51:39.260
But then, you know, you're walking along, living your life,

2401
01:51:39.300 --> 01:51:42.439
doing something totally unrelated and you learn something and then

2402
01:51:42.460 --> 01:51:45.039
you realize it completely fixes the context of something you

2403
01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:46.460
read like five years ago. So you have to go

2404
01:51:46.479 --> 01:51:48.380
find it again because you're like, wait, wait, does that

2405
01:51:48.659 --> 01:51:49.279
have to do with this?

2406
01:51:50.180 --> 01:51:50.340
What?

2407
01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:52.100
That's why the hut.

2408
01:51:57.250 --> 01:51:59.810
I remember telling a friend of mine years and years ago,

2409
01:51:59.829 --> 01:52:01.050
I was like, you got to read Moby Dick. It

2410
01:52:01.090 --> 01:52:02.569
all falls back to Moby Dick. But I was like,

2411
01:52:02.590 --> 01:52:05.069
you got to read Moby Dick. And she came back

2412
01:52:05.109 --> 01:52:06.149
to me and I was like, did you get a

2413
01:52:06.189 --> 01:52:07.619
copy or something? She was like, well, I can only

2414
01:52:07.659 --> 01:52:10.140
find abridged and I want the unabridged. Like, why would

2415
01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:11.779
I want the abridged? And I had to tell her

2416
01:52:12.859 --> 01:52:19.000
the unabridged is a literal whaling manual. Oh, wow. It's

2417
01:52:19.039 --> 01:52:23.159
from that era when books were multi-purpose. It was literally

2418
01:52:23.199 --> 01:52:25.590
a whaling manual. Like you would learn how to tie

2419
01:52:25.649 --> 01:52:28.890
clove hitches and stuff from reading the book. So all

2420
01:52:28.930 --> 01:52:33.149
the stuff that's cut out was from once books kind

2421
01:52:33.189 --> 01:52:36.489
of hit their peak. relatively modern era where it was like, no,

2422
01:52:36.510 --> 01:52:39.430
I just want to read about Captain Ahab and the whale.

2423
01:52:39.449 --> 01:52:42.029
I don't want to learn how to put a sail up.

2424
01:52:42.090 --> 01:52:43.850
I don't want to learn how to set a sextant.

2425
01:52:44.310 --> 01:52:46.899
That was all in there because, because a lot of,

2426
01:52:47.029 --> 01:52:49.680
a lot of storytelling was used to get across really

2427
01:52:49.810 --> 01:52:52.979
like literal important information, not just figurative, like how to,

2428
01:52:53.899 --> 01:52:56.399
you know, cook something or how to survive on a

2429
01:52:56.439 --> 01:52:58.100
boat or whatever it might be.

2430
01:52:58.479 --> 01:52:59.960
Like if you read, have you read like a really

2431
01:53:00.020 --> 01:53:01.539
old cookbook, like from like 1800s? They're so weird.

2432
01:53:04.000 --> 01:53:09.319
They will, like, the friggin' recipe will say, like, first,

2433
01:53:09.960 --> 01:53:13.380
prepare a pan with boiled water and onions, like I

2434
01:53:13.420 --> 01:53:15.970
showed you. Then, and you're like, what? It's because you're

2435
01:53:15.989 --> 01:53:18.909
meant to read it from start to finish. Like, you're

2436
01:53:18.930 --> 01:53:20.729
not meant to go to, like, you're not meant to

2437
01:53:20.770 --> 01:53:22.949
just flip around. You're supposed to, when you buy the book,

2438
01:53:22.970 --> 01:53:24.770
you would open it up, read the beginning all the

2439
01:53:24.789 --> 01:53:27.409
way to the end, and then go back for reference. So,

2440
01:53:28.029 --> 01:53:31.180
it would, like, teach you basic things at the beginning,

2441
01:53:31.319 --> 01:53:33.260
and then just reference the other ones.

2442
01:53:33.279 --> 01:53:33.340
Oh.

2443
01:53:34.010 --> 01:53:36.010
So you would just be like, wait, what? Like I

2444
01:53:36.090 --> 01:53:37.470
showed you what the, what?

2445
01:53:38.210 --> 01:53:39.390
And it'd be like, yeah, it had a whole thing

2446
01:53:39.430 --> 01:53:41.590
about how to boil the onions to get this effect.

2447
01:53:41.970 --> 01:53:45.229
You're supposed to read it all. Like, so it's kind

2448
01:53:45.270 --> 01:53:47.270
of like that. They would put it into the narrative.

2449
01:53:47.590 --> 01:53:49.470
But it's still better than what they do now with

2450
01:53:49.569 --> 01:53:51.729
if you look up a recipe online and it's like

2451
01:53:52.189 --> 01:53:53.750
a 10-page story before you.

2452
01:53:53.569 --> 01:53:55.649
Get to it. SEO story.

2453
01:53:55.670 --> 01:53:56.289
The SEO story.

2454
01:53:56.350 --> 01:53:59.130
My grandmother used to always tell me, you know, my

2455
01:53:59.149 --> 01:54:00.800
grandmother used to always tell me that if you walk

2456
01:54:00.840 --> 01:54:03.399
the moors at night, a werewolf will eat you. Anyway,

2457
01:54:03.439 --> 01:54:06.579
this is plum pudding. You know, like what the, what?

2458
01:54:07.000 --> 01:54:10.720
And it's, yeah, it's entirely for search engine optimization, I guess,

2459
01:54:10.739 --> 01:54:11.920
because it doesn't make you like them.

2460
01:54:11.979 --> 01:54:13.810
That's for sure. Because you're sitting there.

2461
01:54:13.819 --> 01:54:15.449
You're just scrolling and scrolling. And I'm like, I just

2462
01:54:15.489 --> 01:54:16.729
want to know how to make a meat pie.

2463
01:54:17.109 --> 01:54:21.489
Standing in the kitchen with dirty sticky hands slowly moving

2464
01:54:21.510 --> 01:54:23.270
my phone through trying to find out how much olive

2465
01:54:23.340 --> 01:54:25.619
oil the stove's already on how much olive oil you

2466
01:54:25.659 --> 01:54:29.020
know this is getting really out of hand no it

2467
01:54:29.180 --> 01:54:33.850
yeah that's that's see that's like a dissertation worthy thing

2468
01:54:33.909 --> 01:54:40.270
like The, you know, whaling manual in Moby Dick versus

2469
01:54:40.390 --> 01:54:43.470
the heavily SEO storied recipes.

2470
01:54:43.750 --> 01:54:46.170
Like, is this actually the same thing? I don't know.

2471
01:54:46.189 --> 01:54:47.569
Oh my gosh, it is.

2472
01:54:47.670 --> 01:54:50.640
It's all, Sue, you're talking about like how we have

2473
01:54:50.649 --> 01:54:53.260
got modern day folklore stuff and are like urban legends.

2474
01:54:53.300 --> 01:54:59.880
And now we've got modern day whaling manuals and online recipes.

2475
01:55:00.319 --> 01:55:01.380
Everything that's old.

2476
01:55:01.859 --> 01:55:02.000
Yeah.

2477
01:55:02.039 --> 01:55:02.140
Yeah.

2478
01:55:02.810 --> 01:55:04.369
Everything that's old is new again.

2479
01:55:04.390 --> 01:55:07.649
I mean, we're literally doing a, an audio talk show

2480
01:55:08.069 --> 01:55:11.479
for people who will listen to it with advertisements placed,

2481
01:55:11.600 --> 01:55:12.609
you know, to support it.

2482
01:55:13.000 --> 01:55:14.199
And then people are going to be done with that.

2483
01:55:14.239 --> 01:55:15.079
And then they're going to put.

2484
01:55:15.039 --> 01:55:17.680
On Tubi so they can watch free movies with commercials

2485
01:55:17.800 --> 01:55:19.000
and be like, this is so great. I don't have

2486
01:55:19.020 --> 01:55:21.500
to subscribe to anything more. And it's like, okay, this

2487
01:55:21.619 --> 01:55:26.689
is 1964. Like everything that's old is new again. You know, it's, it's,

2488
01:55:27.310 --> 01:55:29.470
that's how it all started. And now we're there again

2489
01:55:29.550 --> 01:55:33.789
right now. Like that's, it's, uh yeah you know the

2490
01:55:33.829 --> 01:55:35.869
more i think about it the more profound i find

2491
01:55:35.909 --> 01:55:40.109
myself a lot less you know but but no i

2492
01:55:40.250 --> 01:55:43.149
i uh and thank you sincerely so much for like

2493
01:55:43.229 --> 01:55:47.180
hanging out and talking about this because there's so i

2494
01:55:47.220 --> 01:55:49.520
know there's so much folklore as obvious by like when

2495
01:55:49.539 --> 01:55:51.239
we first started nerding out about it it was so

2496
01:55:51.279 --> 01:55:55.159
hard to even focus i'm glad we in advance knew

2497
01:55:55.199 --> 01:55:57.079
we wanted to talk about one thing just so we

2498
01:55:57.100 --> 01:56:00.600
could land on it eventually yes but but like uh

2499
01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:04.729
It's been like such a blast. And I hope you'll

2500
01:56:04.770 --> 01:56:06.670
come back and do it again sometime. I'd be happy

2501
01:56:06.689 --> 01:56:09.750
to have you. We could definitely talk all about Satan.

2502
01:56:09.770 --> 01:56:12.989
I think that would be really interesting.

2503
01:56:13.050 --> 01:56:16.380
Well, because not only, you know, because there's so many

2504
01:56:16.409 --> 01:56:19.689
facets of that element, because you could talk about You know,

2505
01:56:19.710 --> 01:56:21.989
the literal text where Satan, you know, where it first

2506
01:56:22.050 --> 01:56:24.649
pops up. You talk about like the Satanism movements, which

2507
01:56:24.670 --> 01:56:26.840
I have a lot of really funny and bizarre opinions

2508
01:56:26.880 --> 01:56:30.260
about because I work in show business. You meet a

2509
01:56:30.300 --> 01:56:35.760
lot of self-styled Satanists and it's never fun. It's always lame.

2510
01:56:36.520 --> 01:56:37.020
I'm sorry.

2511
01:56:37.039 --> 01:56:39.300
I mean, I'm sure there are Satanists that are totally

2512
01:56:39.359 --> 01:56:43.439
cool folks. but I don't meet them. It's just not

2513
01:56:43.470 --> 01:56:43.979
been my luck.

2514
01:56:44.329 --> 01:56:47.409
It makes sense because it's also like, cause again, I'm, I'm,

2515
01:56:47.489 --> 01:56:50.090
I'm very gothy. And like one thing that a lot

2516
01:56:50.109 --> 01:56:52.140
of people don't understand about a lot of goths is

2517
01:56:52.229 --> 01:56:54.279
that we're just huge geeks and nerds.

2518
01:56:54.619 --> 01:56:54.819
Yeah.

2519
01:56:55.460 --> 01:56:58.039
And like, uh, I just remember distinctly this one time

2520
01:56:58.079 --> 01:57:02.369
I went to like this, uh, goth party. And, um, is, uh,

2521
01:57:02.590 --> 01:57:04.170
when I still lived in Atlanta, I had a lot

2522
01:57:04.250 --> 01:57:06.609
of like, uh, people that were big in the scene,

2523
01:57:06.649 --> 01:57:08.609
but also big in like the BDSM scene and stuff, because,

2524
01:57:08.630 --> 01:57:12.090
you know, there's a big overlap. And, uh, what we

2525
01:57:12.149 --> 01:57:15.029
ended up doing is just watching strong bads emails.

2526
01:57:15.550 --> 01:57:17.949
Like, Oh my God. We are, we are in the

2527
01:57:17.989 --> 01:57:18.710
same generation.

2528
01:57:18.729 --> 01:57:18.810
Yeah.

2529
01:57:19.510 --> 01:57:21.550
I will never write a song about libby i will

2530
01:57:21.590 --> 01:57:23.029
never write a song about libby.

2531
01:57:23.090 --> 01:57:26.510
Like like we're not doing any sort of creepy occult

2532
01:57:26.609 --> 01:57:28.949
things and stuff like that all these like you know

2533
01:57:29.109 --> 01:57:30.729
gothy people where it's just like.

2534
01:57:31.350 --> 01:57:42.020
Uh emails and like it was at a house that's

2535
01:57:42.060 --> 01:57:44.220
like a huge anime geek and stuff like that and

2536
01:57:44.239 --> 01:57:47.229
like we're just we're just we're not cool we're uh

2537
01:57:47.449 --> 01:57:48.329
so yeah.

2538
01:57:48.630 --> 01:57:50.649
Yeah no we are cool that's the thing well you

2539
01:57:50.689 --> 01:57:51.550
were awesome.

2540
01:57:51.989 --> 01:57:54.800
Yes we're cool and um but i mean like like

2541
01:57:54.939 --> 01:57:57.079
to your point with like the the satanists and stuff

2542
01:57:57.100 --> 01:57:59.100
that you they're not like cool people it was because

2543
01:57:59.279 --> 01:58:02.199
no they're probably just huge geeks too or like.

2544
01:58:02.300 --> 01:58:04.970
I wish oh no they weren't even that they're clever

2545
01:58:05.029 --> 01:58:06.590
i don't know they just think.

2546
01:58:06.329 --> 01:58:08.050
They're so smart all right now i know who you're

2547
01:58:08.069 --> 01:58:09.949
talking about what kind of people okay because i also

2548
01:58:10.359 --> 01:58:12.739
I would also encounter them in like the goth community

2549
01:58:12.760 --> 01:58:15.000
and thought they were like too cool for school kind

2550
01:58:15.039 --> 01:58:17.319
of thing those are not the fun goths if you

2551
01:58:17.380 --> 01:58:19.810
like the I had an ex who was also like

2552
01:58:19.829 --> 01:58:21.609
that who saw like I'm gothier than that and he

2553
01:58:21.630 --> 01:58:23.689
would like try to out goth people and he also

2554
01:58:23.710 --> 01:58:26.350
thought he was super duper smart and stuff and he

2555
01:58:26.369 --> 01:58:26.729
was not and.

2556
01:58:29.340 --> 01:58:30.800
Whenever I see somebody who's like, let me show you

2557
01:58:30.819 --> 01:58:31.380
how smart I am.

2558
01:58:31.420 --> 01:58:33.039
I'm like, okay, let me show you how good at

2559
01:58:33.199 --> 01:58:37.310
talking I am. Because that's way more valuable if you

2560
01:58:37.350 --> 01:58:39.609
want to look smart, but not be smart.

2561
01:58:40.970 --> 01:58:42.970
And a lot easier to have happen naturally.

2562
01:58:43.310 --> 01:58:45.989
But no, I mean, and I run in a lot

2563
01:58:46.010 --> 01:58:48.609
of these like horror circles, obviously, and like Weekly Spooky's

2564
01:58:48.649 --> 01:58:51.180
got this audience of people who love scary stuff all

2565
01:58:51.220 --> 01:58:51.489
year long.

2566
01:58:51.810 --> 01:58:54.460
We're some of the most friendly, tender people.

2567
01:58:55.729 --> 01:58:59.890
People who love to talk about emotions and good things

2568
01:58:59.970 --> 01:59:04.130
and bad things. We're totally not what somebody would expect

2569
01:59:04.170 --> 01:59:06.109
to the point where when people think when I meet

2570
01:59:06.130 --> 01:59:08.270
somebody who thinks horror people are kind of intense I'm

2571
01:59:08.310 --> 01:59:10.390
confused because I've never known it to be that way

2572
01:59:10.909 --> 01:59:13.010
so like I don't even understand the notion.

2573
01:59:12.989 --> 01:59:16.250
No because like horror is a way for us to

2574
01:59:16.430 --> 01:59:19.140
like it's a catharsis so like I feel like people

2575
01:59:19.229 --> 01:59:21.140
that are into things like and by the way I

2576
01:59:21.149 --> 01:59:23.319
have to I have to say horror because if I

2577
01:59:23.439 --> 01:59:27.020
say horror then my southerness will slip out I told

2578
01:59:27.039 --> 01:59:29.159
you before I don't usually have an accent but for

2579
01:59:29.199 --> 01:59:31.960
some reason whenever I say horror it just sounds like

2580
01:59:31.979 --> 01:59:33.420
I'm talking about.

2581
01:59:33.319 --> 01:59:34.140
A lady of the evening.

2582
01:59:34.520 --> 01:59:38.739
So, uh, why we like horror is, uh, and it

2583
01:59:38.779 --> 01:59:41.270
does help like to, to your point, like, like it

2584
01:59:41.279 --> 01:59:44.670
helps us be able to like kind of process emotions

2585
01:59:44.729 --> 01:59:46.630
and process things and stuff a lot better than other

2586
01:59:46.649 --> 01:59:49.569
people who just kind of like keep it all in, um,

2587
01:59:49.729 --> 01:59:54.229
and stuff. And, um, but yeah, I also, my experience

2588
01:59:54.270 --> 01:59:56.930
with like fellow horror lovers and stuff is that.

2589
01:59:57.270 --> 01:59:58.760
Yeah, they're usually the nicest.

2590
01:59:59.600 --> 01:59:59.899
Oh, sure.

2591
01:59:59.909 --> 02:00:00.720
They're super friendly.

2592
02:00:00.739 --> 02:00:00.819
Yeah.

2593
02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:04.399
Super welcoming, uh, you know, cause, cause they're all, they

2594
02:00:04.420 --> 02:00:06.979
were all like kind of outcasts at some point and

2595
02:00:07.020 --> 02:00:08.649
then found their group.

2596
02:00:09.119 --> 02:00:14.130
Yeah. And their people, their people, people, cause like, uh,

2597
02:00:14.949 --> 02:00:21.170
circling back again, like, uh, horror itself is about like, um, like, like,

2598
02:00:21.409 --> 02:00:23.890
like our own person, like our, our fears, whether they're

2599
02:00:23.930 --> 02:00:30.399
micro or macro. And I think there's something, um, very like, uh, like,

2600
02:00:30.729 --> 02:00:35.760
community like very communal about like experiencing those those stories

2601
02:00:36.380 --> 02:00:40.079
with others and stuff um like uh it's almost like

2602
02:00:40.119 --> 02:00:43.100
a group therapy like you you you get to realize

2603
02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:46.220
oh other people have these kinds of like anxieties these

2604
02:00:46.260 --> 02:00:49.220
kinds of fears i'm not alone in this and stuff

2605
02:00:49.479 --> 02:00:51.760
and not only the people who made this movie but

2606
02:00:51.819 --> 02:00:54.090
other people who are watching it with me uh and

2607
02:00:54.100 --> 02:00:57.409
stuff like we're all we're all in this together kind

2608
02:00:57.449 --> 02:01:00.850
of thing and and i think that's pretty cool So.

2609
02:01:01.649 --> 02:01:06.220
I could not have done a better final soundbite than that.

2610
02:01:06.359 --> 02:01:07.479
Like, God damn.

2611
02:01:07.920 --> 02:01:11.779
So real quick, tell people where they can find you online,

2612
02:01:11.800 --> 02:01:15.300
where they can find your books, you know, because if

2613
02:01:15.340 --> 02:01:17.359
they don't like you by now, then they're never going

2614
02:01:17.380 --> 02:01:17.720
to like you.

2615
02:01:17.899 --> 02:01:18.359
Oh, no.

2616
02:01:18.699 --> 02:01:20.619
But that's fair. That's OK.

2617
02:01:22.699 --> 02:01:27.359
So it would be the hollow sun, like H-O-L-L-O-W sun, S-U-N,

2618
02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:29.640
like the like a sun in the sky that got

2619
02:01:29.840 --> 02:01:35.489
hollowed out. theholosun.com and that's where it's got links to

2620
02:01:35.529 --> 02:01:38.350
be able to buy the book and find different ways

2621
02:01:38.399 --> 02:01:41.659
to interact with me online and stuff like that.

2622
02:01:42.579 --> 02:01:44.000
And also, if.

2623
02:01:43.960 --> 02:01:46.619
You liked the story of the stragoi that cut people's

2624
02:01:46.680 --> 02:01:50.319
mouths off, that's actually in my first book. There's a

2625
02:01:50.520 --> 02:01:53.939
serial killer that the media calls the Grin Reaper because

2626
02:01:53.960 --> 02:01:54.619
that's how he.

2627
02:01:54.539 --> 02:01:58.520
Leaves his victims. And it's a stragoi with that M.O.

2628
02:01:59.569 --> 02:02:02.439
I love that. No, that's, that's so good. The link

2629
02:02:02.449 --> 02:02:05.020
will be in the show notes, guys. Check out her work.

2630
02:02:05.520 --> 02:02:09.229
I'm assuming you have audio books available since or no. Oh,

2631
02:02:09.390 --> 02:02:10.609
did I bring up a sore subject?

2632
02:02:11.420 --> 02:02:13.600
Yeah, I've always been too busy doing other people's work

2633
02:02:13.619 --> 02:02:16.840
because I'm also a voice actor. But I have been

2634
02:02:16.880 --> 02:02:20.880
taking a break from doing a lot of the work

2635
02:02:20.920 --> 02:02:22.890
I used to do for this year and going into

2636
02:02:22.930 --> 02:02:24.369
next year. So I'm going to be taking that little

2637
02:02:24.390 --> 02:02:25.970
break to try to work on my own stuff, get

2638
02:02:26.010 --> 02:02:26.989
those audio books out.

2639
02:02:27.470 --> 02:02:28.970
If it makes you feel any better.

2640
02:02:28.989 --> 02:02:30.750
I mean, I do this podcast so much. I have

2641
02:02:30.770 --> 02:02:33.250
a few books I published that I worked with an

2642
02:02:33.430 --> 02:02:36.489
author on. And it took me, there's still one or

2643
02:02:36.510 --> 02:02:38.449
there's still two of them that don't have audio books.

2644
02:02:39.689 --> 02:02:42.149
But like, it took me three years to do three

2645
02:02:42.170 --> 02:02:44.439
of them. Like, even though I'm in the booth almost

2646
02:02:44.489 --> 02:02:47.380
every day. So like, it's hard. It's hard when you're

2647
02:02:47.399 --> 02:02:50.000
already worrying about clients and stuff. And the last thing

2648
02:02:50.020 --> 02:02:52.159
you want to do with the remaining fun part of

2649
02:02:52.180 --> 02:02:55.380
your day is choke down some slippery Dutch elm and

2650
02:02:55.420 --> 02:02:57.649
try to get through one more hour, you know?

2651
02:02:57.789 --> 02:02:59.130
Yeah. Yeah.

2652
02:02:59.630 --> 02:03:02.569
I already worked. I said sometimes like 14 hour days

2653
02:03:02.649 --> 02:03:05.810
and stuff. So it's like, I just, yeah.

2654
02:03:07.050 --> 02:03:09.090
Well, we appreciate you taking some time out of your,

2655
02:03:09.229 --> 02:03:10.850
out of your schedule to do this. And I hope

2656
02:03:10.890 --> 02:03:12.510
we can do it again. Maybe we'll, uh, we'll talk

2657
02:03:12.529 --> 02:03:15.789
all about Satan. Maybe, uh, December we'll talk about werewolves. Cause, uh,

2658
02:03:15.810 --> 02:03:19.609
that new, uh, werewolf movie by, uh, Eggers, uh, the new, uh,

2659
02:03:19.720 --> 02:03:22.119
the guy who did Nosferatu recently, he has a new

2660
02:03:22.140 --> 02:03:24.659
werewolf movie coming out at Christmas time. So maybe we'll, uh,

2661
02:03:25.170 --> 02:03:27.689
We'll do that and we can unwrap it for a

2662
02:03:27.750 --> 02:03:29.050
little early Christmas present.

2663
02:03:29.229 --> 02:03:29.760
Well, that'd be fun.

2664
02:03:29.770 --> 02:03:32.300
We already talked a little bit about werewolves, but I'd

2665
02:03:32.619 --> 02:03:35.340
be up for talking about even more different werewolf lore

2666
02:03:35.359 --> 02:03:35.859
from all over.

2667
02:03:35.890 --> 02:03:38.670
Awesome. Thank you again.

2668
02:03:38.689 --> 02:03:39.369
Thank you.