WEBVTT 1 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:54.399 Good evening and welcome back to play Blurry form. I am your host, 2 00:00:54.439 --> 00:01:00.799 Bashar now muste and once again we'll be reading your letters and your concerned trying 3 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.439 to get you in touch with you and putting yourself on the most auspicious life 4 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:08.840 path we can. All right, First off, we've got a letter from 5 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:15.200 someone in New York. Dear playblurry for him. I've been dating this girl 6 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.480 for about three weeks now. Things are going great. I think she's a 7 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:25.480 very lovely person. She's beautiful, she's smart, she's funny, she gets 8 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:30.359 me. But something's been happening. Last night was the third instance of it, 9 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.000 and I just have to talk to someone about it. I awoke in 10 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.760 the middle of the night unable to breathe, and when I opened my eyes, 11 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.280 my girlfriend was perched right upon my chest. It was an enormous amount 12 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:47.480 of weight and I was terrified. I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe, 13 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.599 and I basically passed out from the terror. When I woke up the next 14 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.879 day, I tried to ask her about it, and she had no idea 15 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:00.000 what I was talking about. But I'm left wondering, am I dating an 16 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:07.360 old hag? Sincerely, Breathless in Buffalo. Oh my goodness. Well, 17 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.520 first, I would like to thank you, Breathless and Buffalo, for for 18 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.319 sharing that. I understand that there's a lot of pain and a lot of 19 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:19.759 confusion, and I'm feeling that, and I respect that. First of all, 20 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:24.039 communication is the center of any relationship. And if you're trying to build 21 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:30.280 bridges and she's constantly putting that no crossing barrier down, at that point, 22 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:32.840 you need to get in your honesty truck and floor it as fast as you 23 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:38.199 can straight at that barrier, putting a brick on the accelerator, then rolling 24 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:42.039 out of the car to safety while it heads towards the gas truck of her 25 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:46.919 emotional center. In the ensuing fireball, both of you will be basking in 26 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:52.199 the glowing warmth of an open and communicative relationship. I so hope that does 27 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.879 help you out, Breathless and Buffalo. Our next letter comes to us from 28 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.319 a longtime listener in Kentucky. I apply a blurry farm. I got this 29 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.360 problem where these kids are coming over in the middle of the night. I 30 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:08.360 think they're the neighbors kids. They're coming over and they're looking in our windows 31 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:13.240 and they're playing in the bushes or some ship. Well, I tried going 32 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.080 out there and hollering at them and tell them get out of here, and 33 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:20.120 they won't leave. And I know they're kids because they're only about three foot 34 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.199 tall and they're hiding in the bushes and they're climbing up on our tin roof. 35 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.680 I can hear them running around. Well, I'll tell you what we 36 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:30.759 did, what any sane person would do. We shot at them. Motherfucker's 37 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:35.080 their bulletproof or something, because they just they spun away, laughing, and 38 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.680 they came on back. It was all night. We stayed up all damn 39 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:42.560 night trying to get these kids to leave us the hell alone. Finally they 40 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.800 run off when we called the cops in on them. Anyway, long story 41 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:50.520 short, how do I talk to the neighbors tell them to get their damn 42 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.560 kids off our property and stop bothering us at night? I plumb out of 43 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:58.360 options here. I've tried hollering, I tried shooting. Now what else am 44 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.120 I supposed to do? If a gun can't fix it, I don't know 45 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:08.479 what can Can you help me out? Harassed in Hopkinsville? Yes, I 46 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:13.960 can feel your frustration and your anger. It's certainly disturbing to have one's own 47 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:20.360 sanctum violated by either children or potentially goblins when shouted obscenities. And twenty odd 48 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:25.639 buckshot fail, what are we left with at this point? I'll take a 49 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.079 cue from my friends the cetaceans. Have you considered focusing your chakras and your 50 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:36.120 own internal emotional and psychic energy into a high frequency beam that would be able 51 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:42.399 to directly connect with their mind? Perhaps using this you can communicate above the 52 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:47.839 ethereal plane, allowing direct emotional contact with no need for body armor or evasive 53 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:51.920 action. Once this link has been established and you become one soul with your 54 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:57.519 neighbor's children, might I suggest that you invite them to your home that they 55 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:01.000 may explore it with your blessing and permission, and maybe both of you can 56 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.920 enjoy a fun evening on the roof. I sure hope this helps. Now 57 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:10.480 I must stay harassed in Hopkinsville. Thank you all for all of your letters, 58 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.199 and we do try to reply to each and every one of them. 59 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:18.879 Once again for Playblurry for him, I've been your host the Shire. No 60 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:32.480 must stay. I wonder when they're gonna respond to my letter, but sure, 61 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.720 if you're listening. I've got to I've got some questions, bro, 62 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:41.040 Yeah, can you help me out? Man? I keep trying to hitting 63 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:45.680 on all these dolphins and they're all like and then they swim away, man, 64 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.160 And I'm like, I just came to party, y'all. Hey, 65 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:53.720 man, what's wrong all their dolphins? I try and hollered at him. 66 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.160 Oh hey, everybody, I'm David Florida. I'm David Stecko. Oh, 67 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.040 welcome to blurry photos, and welcome to an entirely new year. Oh my 68 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:08.680 gosh. Yeah, and you're fourteen. That's right. Seen has happened. 69 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:14.199 It has and good news. Um, I think from an apocryphal end of 70 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.199 Days perspective, a fairly uneventful year, it's anticipated. I don't think there 71 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:27.279 should be any major eschatological calamities. Very good. You might need an MS 72 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:32.839 paint TOOFICOD for that one that I will give to myself never sorry, great 73 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.079 cat. Uh yeah, yeah, I don't think there is. And you 74 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:41.959 know what I mean, We've we've escaped twenty thirteen unscathed. And that's the 75 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.560 year where if somebody forgot to carry the one right, that's when it would 76 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.519 have happened. That was the emergency backup plan for all the people who were 77 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.199 not willing to say they were wrong the first time. Yeah, so you've 78 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:55.439 you've run out of options, and now you just have to go ask for 79 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:01.920 your old job back exactly. That elaborate I quit song you wrote doesn't seem 80 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.680 like such a good idea now, No, but you can send it to 81 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:09.279 us. We'll sing it, Yeah, we will. It's twenty fourteen. 82 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:14.959 They nothing can touch us. Who twenty fourteen year if we don't give them, 83 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.879 Well, we're sixteen episodes into the year twenty fourteen. Let's take a 84 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:26.360 look at the foksgiven count and it stands at a resolute zero. Wait wait, 85 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:31.319 no zero. Can't wait for the new holiday this year? Foksgiving? 86 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.120 Oh man, man, we're starting twenty fourteen off right, Yeah we are, 87 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:40.240 Yeah, we are nothing but be soll year long. That's right. 88 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.680 Um. A couple of quick questions for you, our listeners. Did anybody 89 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.959 try my new holiday? Yeah? I'm curious as well. I mean I 90 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:55.079 don't I don't need a playblurry forum letter. No, but um, I 91 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:00.279 just would like a simple show of hands because I think it's a really good 92 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:05.160 idea. Did anybody think of a word for it? Anybody think any anything 93 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.680 for a good name could be Yeah, oh god, I can't heer a 94 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:13.319 reward because I break my problems. But I really would love a really good 95 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:20.639 name for my um Winter Solstice you will sex holiday. But I'm really trying 96 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.519 to get off the ground. And guys, I mean, it's not just 97 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.160 me, it's all of us. We're a community, we're a team, 98 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:31.360 and my goals are noble. Did you do anything for it? No, 99 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:37.200 I'm perpetually single, so no, That's that's what makes it such a magnanimous 100 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.000 act on my part. I'm doing it for everyone else. If if you're 101 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:45.879 single on it, it's the best night because you just you've an order in 102 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.000 pizza and you play video games all night. I mean, you can do 103 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:54.120 that any night. This is a holiday devoted to you. About it? 104 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.720 Okay, all right, I'll take that. I mean, I I flew 105 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.799 home for Christmas on the Solstice, so that would have been it's hard hard 106 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.279 to play seex holiday. Yeah, well at an airport, or maybe it's 107 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.240 easier. I don't know. I was with the gef's family, so oh, 108 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.159 so it was a little hard to have a sexy Yule time in the 109 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:16.120 in in your girlfriend's parents' home, right, don't blame me for that. 110 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.159 That's that's a that's a tough one, and that I think that there's always 111 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.960 going to be some scheduling problems. But I don't set the calendar. I 112 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.039 don't set which night is the longest night. It's just where it shows up. 113 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.840 But I think that I'm gonna I'm not giving up on this. I 114 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.879 will mention this the entire year, Okay, and uh, I'm gonna do 115 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:37.600 my damnedest to have a situation where in I can personally partake of the Yule 116 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:43.840 sex Holiday twenty fourteen. Whatever that turns out to be. Sounds good. 117 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:48.639 Sounds good. Also, both of our parents listen to this, So sorry 118 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:50.679 about that, but it's just what I'm trying to do. We're adults, 119 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:56.360 Yeah, at this whole podcast is a seriously adult situation. I don't think 120 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.519 you know who you're dealing, Cereal, right now, it's right, get 121 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:03.879 off me. Oh man. So okay, that's the future. Let's talk 122 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:09.080 about the present. Let's talk about it. We are starting the new year 123 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:15.440 off with I would say the most requested yea subject matter to cover. Yeah, 124 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:20.399 in blurry photos history, it is. This is the most requested topic, 125 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.399 and we've been really enjoying getting into it. Yeah, it's nice to 126 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.759 First of all, it's nice to come back and record again because, as 127 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:30.559 we made very clear, we had to precan a couple of episodes for the 128 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.440 holiday, and well, Flora, it's just so good to see you again. 129 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:41.159 This one. This one's fun. And it's funny because I've asked some 130 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:46.759 people if they've heard of this subject before, and nobody that I've asked has 131 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.720 ever heard of it. Yet we're still getting all these requests. It's you 132 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:56.720 know what it is. It's like this is like a cryptid meets folklore meets 133 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:00.559 Reddit. Yeah, it's like it's like it's for the Internet at savvy, 134 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.320 for the people who like their their minger and yes that's how it's pronounced on 135 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.399 this podcast. People who love their Reddit. This is a This is a 136 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.559 well known quantity, but for people who are not in that subset of the 137 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.120 what nine million people who use Reddit every day? How many? Yeah, 138 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.679 it's up there. I don't understand Reddit, so I don't use it. 139 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.360 It's confusing. I just like Imer because it's pictures and kiddies. Yeah, 140 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.039 yeah, a little too much. Emma Watson for my taste. I'm just 141 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:30.120 I'm too old for that. I can't meet. I don't find her that 142 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:31.600 attractive. I mean, listen, I mean you know what though, maybe 143 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.759 if I was fifteen years younger, I don't know, but it just it 144 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.200 seems pervy no matter what. But hey, I'm not here to tell Reddit 145 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:41.000 or imminger what to do with their lives. Yeah, the moral, the 146 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:46.320 story is what we're talking about tonight is Flora, the slender Man, Slendermann. 147 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.440 What is that a slenderment overay? Hey, hey mister no face, 148 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:56.480 but the nice suit. Slenderman. Come over here? Have you eaten you? 149 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:01.799 Look? You look skinny? Come in, slender Man. Slender Man's 150 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:03.960 coming to get you, he might be. It's freaky, this thing, 151 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.320 this thing toes the line. Also, I think to add to the list 152 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.879 that you threw out there, toes the line of the old shadow people in 153 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:13.919 my mind and the black eyed kids. Yes, yeah, it's this this 154 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:16.840 unknown entity. No one knows where he comes from, where he's going to, 155 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.080 what his agenda is. But he needs people. Yeah yeah, and 156 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:28.039 people who need people are the creepiest people of all. So about that Yule 157 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:35.919 holiday, Yeah, so we're going to talk about who or what is Slenderman. 158 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:41.679 I'm gonna talk about where he came from and if he slash it is 159 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:45.080 real. Yeah, this is cool. This is this is modern folklore. 160 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:50.639 This is this is We're getting in much like my sex holiday. We're getting 161 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.240 in on the ground floor of something. This is something that has popped up 162 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.919 within our lifetimes very very much. Actually was in the last five years. 163 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.360 Yeah, jeez man, and now it's something that we have to deal with. 164 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.240 We've we've created another reason to be afraid of the outside. Yep, 165 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.960 yep, yep, another reason to just stay at home with our podcast. 166 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:18.039 Another problem that neither shouting nor guns can solve. Hollering, holleran. So 167 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:20.919 let's tell you a little bit about this. Uh, this old son of 168 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.440 a bitch. So the slender Man, I forgive me, but I'm gonna 169 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:31.320 say Slenderman the whole way thing too. I am Spiderman, Slenderman. The 170 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.440 Slenderman is h He's a tall and when I say tall, I mean around 171 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.399 between seven and fifteen feet tall. Oh. Now, technically the fifteen foot 172 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.279 tall one might have been two of them in a hilariously gigantic overcoat or perhaps 173 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:54.639 a doctor's coat. It happens, dude. So they're they're very thin humanoids, 174 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:58.200 humanoids. I guess there's just one, right, there's just a slenderman. 175 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.039 I think there is a slender man. You never even no one's ever 176 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.159 seen more than one at a time, right, right, So okay, 177 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:11.320 so slender man, very thin humanoid. Where's a black suit, very stylish 178 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.159 with a white button up shirt, skinny black tie, and has a hairless 179 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:24.000 grayish whitish head and a no face, natureless face. It's zero face, 180 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.000 the goose egg face, dude, goose egg it's the I mean, there's 181 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:33.759 an approximation. There's sort of in all the photos and everything I've seen, 182 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:37.440 there's there's the hint of features. There's a sinking kind of where eyes should 183 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.519 be. There's there's maybe some cheek bone, cheek bone, there's sort of 184 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.600 a not like there's not like a nose sticking out, but there's kind of 185 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.279 like a hollow underneath, you know, like there's there's these hints of a 186 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:56.759 skull underneath it. R right. Many descriptions of it include it having unnaturally 187 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:03.759 long arms which he can lengthen or shorten at will, and also tentacle like 188 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:09.080 appendages which protrude from his back. Yeah, that's that was the thing that 189 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:15.879 surprised me, is that there is My my cursory just standing knowledge of of 190 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.759 of the Slenderman was that it was just a creepy, tall, thin person 191 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.679 in a suit with like, you know, abnormally long limbs and like hands 192 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:26.639 down past the knees kind of right. But the additional I was surprised at 193 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.000 how common that is of these additional um sometimes arms, sometimes like they said, 194 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:35.679 tentacle sort of things that seemed to come out of like the rear of 195 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.960 the shoulder, almost almost where where you would put like a wing on an 196 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:46.000 angel. There's these these additional couple come over the shoulders, couple come under 197 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.039 the armpits kind of thing. Yeah, now you just started playing Marvel Lego. 198 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.279 I sure, dad, I have been enjoying it with the old GF. 199 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.320 I got it for Christmas. I'm a grown man. I got a 200 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.000 video game, and I couldn't be happier. I couldn't wait, so I 201 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:06.120 bought it earlier. Ladies, it's it's not too soon to start your planning 202 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:14.440 for next year's le holidays. Oh I forgot. I forgot about that. 203 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:21.440 That potential name Hard to put that on a card. Hey, mary Fish. 204 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:32.000 The point I'm trying to make is you'll get there, but you can 205 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.480 unlock Venom in the go. Oh yeah, and he's got a similar thing 206 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:40.720 going there. Yeah. The character in the game has these tentacles coming out 207 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:45.360 of his back. Also Carnage, also Superior Spider Man. But you'll just 208 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:49.200 blew you just you just blew my mind. You'll get there, tentacles out 209 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.039 of the back. That's all the point that I'm making, all right. 210 00:16:53.120 --> 00:17:00.879 So in stories he's been implicated and causing paranoia, memory loss, insomnia, 211 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:06.759 and even I saw coughing fits. M m yeah, I see nausea, 212 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:11.279 nausea, yeah, I mean yeah, all kinds of of weird maladies. 213 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:15.880 Little moth Man in there, little moth manish, yeah, moth mannerisms, 214 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:23.000 points on the board, damn it. Twenty fourteen, starting right. One 215 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:29.039 way to tell if he's around is if your electronic equipment begins to malfunction. 216 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.359 Oh man, how many times do we hear that They're like the paranormal is 217 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.400 the enemy of the iPad. Yeah, yeah, like you can't you can't 218 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.599 have electromagnetic stuff. I think is is a cop out because I don't think 219 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:47.200 people understand it that well. Yeah, technology and bigfoots don't mix except for 220 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:51.680 EVPs. EVPs, yeah, cross okay, but maybe we can choose, 221 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:52.960 Bro, he can choose. I know, what's it gonna be, Bro, 222 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:56.839 you can do this a normal bible. Is that what you got going? 223 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:03.160 He also has they to teleport at will now there. Now, I 224 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.039 don't know what you saw. I didn't see any evidence or any accounts of 225 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:15.480 anyone actually seeing him like move like he he doesn't stride, he doesn't walk 226 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.160 around. I've seen him. I've seen him turn. I've seen yeah, 227 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.400 like a head turn, Yeah, things like that. But you don't you 228 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:27.480 never see him move his body anywhere. If if you go with some of 229 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:33.039 the stories not to not to dip into the pool here too early before it's 230 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:37.799 more no, no, no, not too soon you do. There is 231 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:44.000 one out there where there's a bit of that of long striding movements akin to 232 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:49.359 really thin trees that are blowing in the wind kind of thing, still walking 233 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:55.519 kind of a sort of yeah, or like a bindy tree like willowy. 234 00:18:55.839 --> 00:19:00.359 Yeah, but that's getting into Yeah, we'll get there into turtur that we 235 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:07.119 we don't have the clarence for you. But yeah, the teleportation one thing. 236 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.240 And because this is such a an Internet heavy thing, this is such 237 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:15.200 a a Reddit anger sort of thing. I'm very often reminded of the Weeping 238 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:22.079 Angels from Doctor Who, which it's just another thing that that inger and Reddit 239 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.000 worship as though it were a god. It is Doctor Who, and rightfully 240 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:30.680 so it's a great show. But this is this is a long standing obsession 241 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.319 with this group of people, and so I don't think it's I don't think 242 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:37.680 it's an accident that the single most popular episode of Doctor Who, of the 243 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.319 new runs of all Doctor Who, sure, I mean, um, the 244 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.799 one that people were most impressed by, the one that people most like to 245 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:48.720 discuss. Suddenly, in the same time frame that this comes around, there's 246 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.160 this this new thing that it kind of has one of that thing's powers, 247 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.640 you know, blink, Yeah, that's it exactly. So yeah, you 248 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:59.160 you you look away from the Slenderman and when you turn around, he's like 249 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.799 ten fe sir, yep. That I don't know. I mean, maybe 250 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:04.880 that's nothing, maybe that's something. But in my mind when I when I 251 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:07.559 did my research, I was like, man, this is this is real 252 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.920 Weeping Angels stuff. Yeah, And and right around that time frame. You're 253 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.240 right, Yeah, Oh my god, did I just blow the lid off 254 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.319 and just blew it off? I'm sorry, but you're welcome to Dave's Deco. 255 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:22.079 Here. Now, I need to I need to sell you some water 256 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:30.559 purification tablets because the government's gonna try to steal your computer. Obamacare will require 257 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.359 three quarts of your blood and you need to purify that water. In the 258 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:41.400 meantime, colloidal silver. There's the wave of the future. So yeah, 259 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.880 this teleportability just yeah, it's exactly like like you were saying, you see 260 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.920 him from afar, you'll look away, you'll look back. He's ten feet 261 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.000 closer. You look away, you look back, he's in your face. 262 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.839 It's a creepy trope. It's like, also, the same thing happens to 263 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.079 girls around last call at a bar. Yeah, yeah, that guy who 264 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:00.319 was like on the other side of the room. Every time you look, 265 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.759 he'll be ten feet closer. To be fair, though, they're so trashed 266 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:08.559 at that point that like two seconds is like actually two minutes. Sure the 267 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.359 guy has already walked up, tried to hit on you, walked away, 268 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.920 come back. Yeah. Everyone everyone is both the victim and the criminal. 269 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:22.319 At the last call and apparently I saw this. He has Slenderman has an 270 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:27.599 affinity for stealing children away to the forest. Yeah, he's connected to the 271 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:33.680 forest. He's definitely connected. He's seen in the presence of children. Yeah, 272 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:37.920 he'll take children and adults equally. But there seems to be a lot 273 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:42.079 of like him just being around kids. A lot of those pictures it's children 274 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:47.480 in the foreground and then him just malurking in the back. Malurking, he's 275 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:53.640 lodging in the back. He's lodging around with his lard wallet, all right. 276 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:57.920 So so that's that's what we're dealing with. This is a creepy enough 277 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:03.279 dude. Also enjoy a silent I like the fact that he's silent. Yeah, 278 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:06.640 yeah, there are some I don't know, like I would YouTube. 279 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:10.400 There's plenty of YouTube videos about them, and and they're fun to watch because 280 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:14.359 they range from like the genuinely like oh this is interesting, down to like 281 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:19.119 the there's like you know all those like crime Stoppers shows that have dramatizations. 282 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:22.559 Oh, there's a lot of that good stuff. There's a part that has 283 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.599 an audio recording of like a prolonged discussion with a Slenderman, which I don't 284 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:33.599 buy My favorite. My favorite Slenderman video is one that's made by a bunch 285 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.759 of twelve year olds that I love these kids. There's some some high drama, 286 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.240 there's some moments of terror. You know, I really enjoyed it. 287 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:45.359 That's awesome. Let's talk a little bit about where this dude came from? 288 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.799 Yeah, why why is he so popular in these internet circles? Now? 289 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:53.559 What calls that? There's I mean, and we'll get into both sides of 290 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:59.000 this, but there's there's multiple origins for this guy. And there's a very 291 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:02.720 popular doc. I mean, that's the fun thing. A thing that's born 292 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:06.519 on the Internet. That means that it's it's data somewhere. So we actually 293 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:10.839 know exactly where the modern idea of the slender Man was born. That's right 294 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.319 down to the date. Yeah, how's that for specificity? Didn't expect that, 295 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:17.799 did you? Well, maybe you should think about that next time. 296 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:19.880 And you know, don't underestimate us. We work really hard. And it's 297 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:26.000 twenty fourteen. Yeah, Flora, when when did this guy show up? 298 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:30.119 How the start? Well, I'll tell you. In June of two thousand 299 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:36.160 and nine, there was a forum thread created on the website something awful dot 300 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:41.559 com. This is the modern origin of the old slendimen. So what is 301 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:47.279 something awful dot com? Something awful dot com is a comedic website which was 302 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:52.440 started in nineteen ninety nine. It has blogs, forums, articles, funny 303 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.440 pictures, memes, etc. On it. It's just a comedy website with 304 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.759 a variety of crap on it. Now, if you're if you're playing along 305 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:03.480 on home, yeah, and you try to go to something awful dot com, 306 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:07.400 it might give you a little trouble. I had trouble earlier, but 307 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:08.519 you were just able to pull it up. I see, well, I 308 00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:12.160 can get I can get to the forums, but I can't. I don't 309 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:18.480 think I can get to the website itself anyway. Something awful dot com if 310 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:21.160 you want to try it's the forums are all you need if you want some 311 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:25.000 slendermen. Yeah, that's that's where this thing was. So the forum thread 312 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:32.759 was a photoshop contest called Paranormal Pictures, in which participants were required to make 313 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:38.319 ordinary photos creepy through photoshop or some kind of digital manipulation of the photos. 314 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:45.119 They then had to pass them off as authentic on different paranormal forums. That's 315 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:49.640 that's part I think was yeah, pretty funny. Yeah, it's kind of 316 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:55.200 a fun dick contest. Yeah, yeah, it is. So a participant 317 00:24:55.480 --> 00:25:03.079 whose handle was Victor's Surge. That was the user name Deserge likes photoshop. 318 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:10.839 He's got filter power, max power. His real name was Eric Knudsen. 319 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.680 He posted a couple of black and white photos. In all fairness, it 320 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:21.680 could have been a soft k just Nudson. Eric would have never gone by 321 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:26.240 there. All right, fair enough, fair enough. So he posts these 322 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:32.680 black and white photos of of these different groups of children who looked like it 323 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:37.359 was kind of early eighties from the from the dress of them, Yeah, 324 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.440 I think from the clothing they were wearing maybe uh. And in the background 325 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:48.119 you could clearly see a Dexi's Midnight Runner tape cassette in the photo. Well, 326 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.960 one of them, I swear has has a fair faucet hair. I 327 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:57.240 was like, well, it's it's at least late seventies, early early eighties. 328 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:00.920 Yeah. In the background of each of these pictures there's a tall, 329 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:08.240 dark figure standing there. The photos were each submitted with a different description, 330 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:15.680 and I believe you have the descriptions of the photos. So the first description, 331 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.920 as they submitted it was we didn't want to go. We didn't want 332 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:23.720 to kill them, but it's persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us 333 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:30.440 at the same time. Dot dot nineteen eighty three, photographer unknown, presumed 334 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:36.119 dead. That's the first description for the first photo and the other one one 335 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:41.160 of two recovered photographs from the Sterling City Library Blaze, notable for being taken 336 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.160 the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as the slender 337 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:52.079 Man deformities, cited as film defects by officials. Fire at the library occurred 338 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:56.799 one week later. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence nineteen eighty six. Photographer Mary 339 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:03.759 Thomas missing since June thirteenth, nineteen eighty six. So those accompanied the photos 340 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:08.160 that he submitted. Yep. He posted another one the next day and a 341 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:15.680 couple of other something awful. Forum users picked up the idea of this slender 342 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:21.039 Man and created their own stories, kind of like backstory, kind of deals 343 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:26.519 the talor of Slenderman. Everybody listen to me right now. This is what 344 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:34.680 happened when you don't eat. Telling these kids you're gaunt? What is that? 345 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:41.960 That ain't health? I'll tell you what health. He is. So 346 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:49.119 from there, the idea just snowballed and and virally it begat numerous new creations 347 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:56.359 of stories of art, media, etc. Including the following story posted on 348 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:03.720 the scary short story site Creepy Pasta Yeah, or the short scary story site 349 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:08.960 Yeah. You know one fun fact before you read that that um. For 350 00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:14.559 a long time, I didn't recognize that there was a difference. I thought 351 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:19.599 that that slender Man was like a fan thing because I didn't having not played 352 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:25.359 a lot of Minecraft. In my mind, I had confused the Minecraft Enderman 353 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:29.200 with slender Man, and I was like, Oh, they're just pretending to 354 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:33.720 be a video game villain and they're talking about it, and I for years 355 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.039 I had the two mixed together in my brain and I thought that it was 356 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.079 like a fan fiction kind of thing. Oh, I didn't. And then 357 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:45.559 I played Minecraft and I was like, wait a minute, there's a there's 358 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:52.039 a whole thing about the Enderman coming out after Slenderman did oh because they all 359 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.519 they're also kind of tall, they teleport, yeah, yeah, yeah, 360 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:02.519 you shouldn't look at them. Although they don't look quite like pictures. They're 361 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:06.519 not wearing suits. They're just all black and they're just blocky. Andy rectangular, 362 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:10.319 but they definitely do teleport to and fro. But yeah, they're there, 363 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:14.880 they are connected a bit um. As a matter of fact, it's 364 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.559 it's actually here in the even in the in the official Wikipedia article about slender 365 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:23.039 Man, it talks about Marcus Notch Pressing, who created Minecraft, and and 366 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:26.119 then it was there was a lot of people who drew that conclusions. Okay, 367 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:29.319 now I'm a little smarter. I feel a little better that I wasn't 368 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.680 the only person who I mean, these people said, oh this was supposed 369 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:34.359 to be like this. I thought they were the same thing. Um. 370 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:40.200 But apparently he's very popular in video game world. He's been incorporated into a 371 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:42.519 number of games. So yeah, there you go. Yeah, sorry for 372 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:45.920 sorry for the digression. There. Let's know, what are the small folks 373 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:49.759 that creepypasta have for us? So this is this is one of the mini 374 00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:55.759 pieces of fiction that have been written based on mister Slenderman. Is it? 375 00:29:55.960 --> 00:30:00.319 Is it erotic? No board, But there have been plenty of of those 376 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:06.599 written. Oh no really Yeah, that's weird and tragic and I'm gonna have 377 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:12.920 to fight. That goes my day off or is it a day off? 378 00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:25.599 Oh? Google erotic thong Slenderman and Metallica. So this was posted in the 379 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.920 on the Creepy Pasta website, which I don't I don't get that creepy pasta. 380 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.599 I don't get it. Yeah, maybe maybe we're too old for that. 381 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:38.240 Probably probably hippies. The following is a witness account of an encounter with 382 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:45.519 the slender Man. After waking up with a jolt, the girl laid in 383 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.960 bed a few seconds longer, Reaching over to switch on her bedside lamp, 384 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:55.160 she tried to remember exactly what had stolen her sweet slumber away. When she 385 00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:59.039 couldn't, she swung her legs over the side of the bed and heaved herself 386 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:03.200 up. Checking the time on her phone, she snorted when she saw it 387 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:15.559 was midnight on the witching hour. She snuffled her way over to her troth 388 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:23.799 her truffle bin. Knowing that sleep would only evade her. She left her 389 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:29.720 bedroom for the kitchen, a good cup of coffee on her mind. This 390 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:34.839 girl makes bad decisions as she passed self sabotaging. As she passed by her 391 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:40.440 front door, a chill ran down her spine. It's only winter, she 392 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.720 told herself, focusing again on the coffee plan. And you just know the 393 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:48.039 next day at work, she's gonna be like, I'm so tired and just 394 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:55.960 bitch about it all day until she has that five hour energy god. Measuring 395 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:00.440 out scoops water and preparing her cup kept her occupied, but as the dark 396 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:05.880 liquid boiled, she had nothing left to keep her mind from wandering off. 397 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.680 The chill returned, and she couldn't help but glance behind her to the front 398 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:16.240 door. It stood there innocently enough, just like always. The dead bulb 399 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:21.559 was still in place, and she could see nothing amiss with it. Turning 400 00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:23.599 back to her coffee, she did her best to forget about the feeling. 401 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:30.440 With her cup in hand, she started back towards her bedroom. As she 402 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.680 walked by the front door, she decided that a quick glance at the peep 403 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:39.839 hole would calm her restless thoughts. The best decision anybody has made in ever, 404 00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:45.680 never, ever, ever, look out a peep hole, ever at 405 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:47.920 midnight, at any time, at any time. Movies have taught us two 406 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:53.720 things that either the person on the other side is going to look really weird 407 00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:59.599 and comically fish eyed, or it's a mafia hitman and the gun is already 408 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:05.400 held up to the whole Have we learned nothing people, peepole's, make them 409 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.200 illegal, get rid of them all. When to pull the trigger like that 410 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:12.400 though? Yeah, well that's what I always wondered, because I mean, 411 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:16.599 they just have to guess, I don't know. The chill worsened with each 412 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:21.920 step she took towards the door and further away from the safety and warmth of 413 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:27.680 her blankets. She pressed her empty hand against the cold metal door and took 414 00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:31.720 a deep breath before leading her eye to the peep hole. That's a weird 415 00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:35.920 phrase, think, would you would you lead your eye to this microscope? 416 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:40.440 Please? I want you to look at these blood samples also metal doors. 417 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:45.359 She's living in a vault. Yeah, anyway, that's a bad living situation. 418 00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:51.039 Well, we've established she's not good at life choices. That's true, 419 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:55.559 she's self sabotaging. At first, she could only see an inky blackness that 420 00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:01.279 somehow seemed to swirl in itself, which she blinked in surprise. The void 421 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:08.039 melted away glaucoma. She wished it hadn't. In its place, there stood 422 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:14.239 what she could only guess was once a man. The limbs were long and 423 00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:20.760 inhumanly awkward, with bulky joints branching off into several arms. Not unlike the 424 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:25.039 branches of a tree, the creature was draped in a black suit, somehow, 425 00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.800 making the thing more nightmarish to her. The icing on the proverbial cake, 426 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:35.880 however, was what passed as the hellish thing's face. It was as 427 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:40.440 though her mind blurred the ghastly visage to spare itself further shock and horror. 428 00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:45.599 She shoved herself away from the door. With the hands still pressed against it, 429 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:50.159 The scalding mug of coffee fell, the liquid burning her bare legs. 430 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:53.360 As she fell backwards and tried to crawl away from the door, she knew 431 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:59.760 somehow that her mind hadn't been playing tricks on her. As she crab walked 432 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:05.199 away from the door, she watched as tendrils as black as the void itself 433 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:09.639 sneaked around through the cracks. The girl was trapped between the instinct to flee 434 00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:14.519 and the gut feeling to not turn her back on the door, and the 435 00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:17.719 desire for just one more cup of coffee, just another folders in her cup. 436 00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.599 Oh, never know, the sweet taste of flavor crystals again, Oh, 437 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:27.679 the best part of waking out, It's not this. When the door 438 00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:31.199 jolted, they urged to flee. Overcame her and she slipped in the burning 439 00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:36.480 liquid As she tried to make it back to her room. She knew deep 440 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:39.079 down that she was trapping herself in a corner, but she had to get 441 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:43.800 away from the door. The girl was halfway down the hallway when she heard 442 00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:49.800 the previously locked door creak open. She screamed and slipped into a wall, 443 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.239 cracking her chin on it and stunning her. After that, there was only 444 00:35:54.320 --> 00:36:00.880 blackness Nicole. A warm male voice snapped the woman out of her trance. 445 00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:06.039 As she turned around, she was met by one of her sister's doctors. 446 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:10.280 She nodded, not sure if she should say anything, or if she could 447 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.480 even find her voice if she did have something to say. That morning, 448 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.199 she'd gotten an urgent phone call from the hospital saying that her sister, Lindsay, 449 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.679 was there. Before they had even let her see her, the doctors 450 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:28.599 had pulled her off to the side and insisted that they talked to her about 451 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:35.159 what might have happened. Phrases like self inflicted an assault had been thrown around, 452 00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:39.199 and Nicole felt her mind real she still hadn't fully understood what they'd been 453 00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:44.920 saying until she saw Lindsay with her own eyes. The girl makes so many 454 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:46.880 bad decisions that even her family's like, yeah, she just did this to 455 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:52.239 herself for attention. Her little sister had a bandage wrapped around her head, 456 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:57.039 covering both of her ears as well as her eyes. They said it was 457 00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:01.360 to keep her now deadened eyes from drying out and to try to keep infection 458 00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:07.599 out of the wounds Lindsey had made to her ears. The doctors had guessed 459 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.599 that either she or someone else had jammed a pencil into them to keep her 460 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:16.440 off balance or to deafen herself against something. There was the mix of first 461 00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:21.679 and second degree burns on her hands, legs, and feet from what was 462 00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:24.920 assumed to be the coffee her neighbor's found spilled all over the entry way to 463 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.519 her apartment. As Nicole walked into her sister's hospital room the first time, 464 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:36.119 she thought she'd spied the silhouette of a man in the window that she knew 465 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:39.840 was impossible. Her sister's room was on the third story of the hospital. 466 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:49.000 Bum bum bum yeah, floating, Well, that raises a lot of questions, 467 00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:53.880 mostly who the fuck wants a cup of coffee in the middle of the 468 00:37:53.960 --> 00:38:00.679 night. I can't get past that. Mmmmmm ah. I mean, like, 469 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.360 I mean, granted, I don't drink coffee, but I enjoy tea. 470 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.880 I drink a lot of tea when and when I wake up, when 471 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:10.840 anyone wakes up in the middle of the night, who wants like a hot 472 00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:17.320 beverage? No one ever ever babies. That's not even a hot beverage. 473 00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:22.559 I don't know. Have you seen that? Mom? Whoa? Yeah, 474 00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:28.440 all right, so that's that was on Creepy Pasta. That's one of many 475 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:35.119 stories actually, but this that was inspired by these photographs. Yeah, and 476 00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:42.119 subsequently some other stories origin stories in mishmash and art, YadA YadA. So 477 00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.280 let me ask you this um not at all leading question, Flora. Okay, 478 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:51.519 if the slender Man has such a definitive beginning and it is takes no 479 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:55.760 pains to hide this out, the fact that it's these are fictionalized and people 480 00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.800 are doing this just for sea giggles, then I mean, how on earth 481 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:02.559 is it are people taking this seriously? I mean, wouldn't there have to 482 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:07.119 be some larger historical context than which this can be viewed, which clearly is 483 00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:16.320 not the case. Well, I'm glad you asked spiels. We're like the 484 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:21.719 worst kind of shills. We can never sell electronics to, like at a 485 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:28.000 street fair. Wow, that's an excellent question, sir. I don't know 486 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:30.880 about this, but I'll try it in front of all these people just to 487 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:35.920 see. Well. I gotta tell you, I'm skeptical, but I really 488 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:40.159 would like to make omelets in a jiffy. There have been origins that have 489 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:47.000 predated, or have been said to have predated this uh creation on something awful. 490 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:51.039 Yeah, we'll go through. We'll go through a few of them and 491 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:57.400 see if we can tie some string on on the corkboard. Yeah. Now, 492 00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:01.039 because here's now we're left in of fun and interesting crossroads. I mean, 493 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:05.599 you've got, on one hand, guy makes something up and and good 494 00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:09.000 on him. He came up with a scary concept that resonates with people that 495 00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:15.360 people are kind of kind of enjoy being scared by. Or on the other 496 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:22.199 hand, this guy kind of accidentally happened back into a pre existing, very 497 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:28.679 real entity that is actually bucking with people's ship and has been for hundreds of 498 00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:37.960 years now. This guy Knudson, he attributed Nudsen, or he attributed the 499 00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:46.440 creation of Slenderman to influences such as HP Lovecraft, Stephen King, short stories, 500 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:53.039 games, video games like Silent Hill, Yep, Shadow People, Yeah, 501 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:59.400 and the old Moffman. Oh, Jay Moffman, the third yep from 502 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:01.800 Maryland. You know, I'm sorry. No, Nope, that was mister 503 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:08.199 Goatman, the Goatman, mister goats from from Maryland. It's a my Mothman 504 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:13.000 is a he's from West Virginia. You don't hear that. To Woten, 505 00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:19.559 We're done, that's moving on. So those are the influences that he said 506 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.960 helped him create this old, this story, this figure. But throughout history 507 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:32.400 people have have drawn some parallels between this creation of the slender Man and some 508 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:37.760 other entities that are prevalent in folklore, ye, in mythology, or could 509 00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:46.480 even be maybe the same dude, Oh what well in eternal Boghman through the 510 00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:53.079 ages. Yeah, eternal snogan. Let it's just another boog human. Um 511 00:41:55.159 --> 00:42:00.719 I I just it. Doing that voice is like to me, it's like 512 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:06.079 snuggling into a blanket. It just feels good to do it. Every everything 513 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:08.960 is among these days. I know, you can't get away from Batman and 514 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:15.559 Spiderman. Here's here's a popular one. You're gonna hear of this this character. 515 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:21.960 Actually, this this piece of art ye wood cutting called it's the written 516 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:27.920 This is like Jack Ritter. Yes, it's like company. I'm done. 517 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.519 That's it, okay Ritter. Yeah, it's German, which means the night. 518 00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:35.519 Now. Now for the record, though, just to make sure like 519 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:39.719 that we're all clear, it's uh Richter is like the night k n I 520 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:43.280 g h T. Right, It's not that I supposed because if it was 521 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:45.599 the other one, it would be knocked. So it's it's not like is 522 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.280 in the opposite of day. Correct, It's good good to point that out. 523 00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:54.840 This is an idea that's kind of gotten smeared all over the internet. 524 00:42:55.280 --> 00:43:02.320 Yeah, and the story goes a guy named Hans Freckburg in the sixteenth century 525 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:13.599 did a woodcut of data the night being impaled by the lance like arm of 526 00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:19.559 a skeletal, faceless, multi limbed figure, and also did a woodcut of 527 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:25.400 a child being dragged from its home by the same very tall, skeletal figure. 528 00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:35.000 The problem is there was no Hans Frekenberg. What and the woodcuts which 529 00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:44.199 are pasted all over these O Slendiman sites were digitally manipulated images of Hans hobiin 530 00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:52.239 the Younger's woodcuts. The actual artist named Hans hobiin who you may recognize from 531 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:57.000 the portrait of Henry the Eighth. Oh that Hans Hobi. Yeah, that's 532 00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.840 the dude. Whoa, that's the one. He was the actual creator of 533 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:07.000 these woodcuts, and they're from a series called Dance of Death. He did 534 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:08.960 the forty one of them, I think, and if you flip them all 535 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:14.320 together, it's a guy tap dancing on a grave. But the one of 536 00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:17.920 the night and the one of the child, it's it's it's ridiculous. The 537 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.960 one of the child in particular. Look, there is no tall skeletal figure 538 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:30.119 dragging this kid out. It's actually a smaller size skeletal figure leading the child 539 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:37.599 out. It's completely different from from the woodcut week the night one. Uh, 540 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:44.039 it is not multi limbed. It is actually looks like a skeletal figure 541 00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:49.440 holding a lance that is that is piercing a night because the night is combating 542 00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:52.760 death. I get it. His series was basically just to say, everybody 543 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.960 dies. It doesn't matter who you are, what you are, You're you're 544 00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:00.719 gonna die. Scorpio, You're gonna die. But in the fifteen hundreds, 545 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.800 I mean, is that something that anyone who to be reminded of. I 546 00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:07.320 mean, like with the Black Death. Yeah, old men were like thirty 547 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:14.039 six years old. Yeah. Yeah, So this that's one thing that has 548 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:19.800 gotten spread around as like evidence that the Slenderman has been with us throughout the 549 00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:23.559 ages. That is fall Snoop and you know what and I you know, 550 00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:27.079 in my research, actually I didn't find that out. I didn't see you. 551 00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:30.400 I just learned that. But even before that, it just something about 552 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:36.320 that, It just it just felt to me like after the fact research, 553 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.880 like like pre presupposed conclusion research, like well, this is what we've got, 554 00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:43.639 So now we have to go and look for things that look like that 555 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:46.239 so we can say it's always been here. Yeah yeah, I can see 556 00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:51.639 that. And then again, what else what else can we do? Right? 557 00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:54.480 And I mean, and the idea of death is as a tall, 558 00:45:54.719 --> 00:46:00.320 gaunt specter or shade has always been And I think that's one of the reasons 559 00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:06.079 why the slender Man like gains traction. You know, it's it's it's a 560 00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:12.519 slightly interesting little twist on an archetype. Yeah, on an archetype. Whoa 561 00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:16.280 dude, You're you're throwing a live preserver to Captain Carl here. Oh yeah, 562 00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:20.519 you are dragging him into this one. He's not pouring in it at 563 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.960 all. You're bringing him in no, like, oh is this door open? 564 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:28.639 Well, let's just go on here. I am allowed to have opinions 565 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:38.800 without Carl sticking as young in this whole the Captain Carl. We get along 566 00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:43.079 the same lines, though, we get this something called the Brandenburg wood cut, 567 00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:53.880 supposedly a sixteenth century would cut by an unknown artist what I don't know 568 00:46:53.920 --> 00:47:00.239 who did it. So if you look at this thing, it's it's a 569 00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:05.159 nice little woodsy path that's in perspective going back to a point on the horizon 570 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:09.119 with trees on the side, and then a dude in a suit with wavy 571 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:16.800 arms alongside one of the trees. It looks fake as hall to put it 572 00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:23.440 in a nutshell, so it looks like a bunch of New age bullshit. 573 00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:31.840 You know. I tried to look for the actual woodcut that, you know, 574 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:37.639 maybe somebody had just stuck this figure in just like old Hans Holbein, 575 00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:42.719 but I wasn't able to find anything on this. Now, maybe I didn't 576 00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:46.480 dig deep enough, But for this one, I'm just gonna throw the old 577 00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:52.960 bullshit flag right now, and they can challenge my ruling on the field if 578 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.960 they want. But yeah, this is like a this is like a high 579 00:47:55.039 --> 00:48:00.440 school project. This isn't a woodcut. That's like an ink trans block, 580 00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:04.920 you know, linoleum blocks. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what this looks 581 00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:08.360 like. I got one. I'm very proud of it. Ain't I did 582 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:15.679 it from a magic card. Oh seeing, that's cool anyway, Uh stupid, 583 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.719 it's dumb, I don't. I don't think they can they can use 584 00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:24.039 that. So that's another one. That's there's another one that apparently some people 585 00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:30.400 use as as proof that this guy's been around. You're gonna like this one. 586 00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:35.039 It's a Hans Balding painting. I don't know why they're all Hans, 587 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:40.199 but it's called the Three Ages of Woman and Death and it shows a woman 588 00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:44.880 and well, it shows three different women in different ages of life and then 589 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:51.920 a very gaunt, ghastly figure which I guess represents death. And the story 590 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.800 goes they had to x ray it for for some reason or another one Oh 591 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.519 yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and the x ray show that the figure 592 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:07.280 of death had extra limbs that had been painted over. Well, if you, 593 00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:13.880 uh, I don't know. Look at it. You can see that 594 00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:19.239 the limbs have been copied and pasted and inverted. Yeah, and and just 595 00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:22.719 placed in different parts of the arm. Basically, yeah, they just rotate. 596 00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:30.000 I mean, that's that's like the weakest of photoshoppery. Yeah. All 597 00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:32.000 you have to do is look at the damn thing to know that that one't 598 00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:37.880 is bums anyway. Those are your renaissance uh fakes. Now, there is 599 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:45.159 something that is that is brought up here and there of an old German supposed 600 00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:52.119 old German tale of a being called del Grossman basically means the Great Man, 601 00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:58.159 and the stories go it's a German boogeyman or fairy of the black forest, 602 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.800 and they described it as a tall humanoid that took away bad children who entered 603 00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:10.719 the forest at night and also made misbehaviors disappear, and possibly also goes after 604 00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:15.440 bad people, not just children, and it impales them on tree limbs where 605 00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:21.840 they's so German, that's the most German I believe that one. Yeah. 606 00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:25.239 Now I don't know if this I didn't find whether or not this one is 607 00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:32.239 actually a real figure from German fairy tales or folklore. The jury for that 608 00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:36.920 one is still out because it does sound like something that could be an actual 609 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.719 figure. But there were also a posts and and things that I read on 610 00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:44.880 the Internet saying, you know, I'm German, I've never heard of this. 611 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:47.280 Yeah, oh man, I fell for it. I fell for it 612 00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:52.119 because when you say, hey, there's an old folk tale about children getting 613 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.280 impaled, I was like, yeah that, yes, I don't need to 614 00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:59.679 check that. That sounds that sounds right, but yeah, I mean it 615 00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:01.800 could be there. There could be out there. So if if you're German 616 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:06.480 and you know of Derk, oh my god, I'm murdering this, yeah 617 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:12.239 Rosman, then tell us, tell us if if you've heard of this, 618 00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:19.199 or if if this is just made up, both come on Germans, rally 619 00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:27.559 Germans to me. Let this be off. Find us out there. There 620 00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:31.800 is another wood cutting of Deck Rossman that is kind of like a weird, 621 00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:38.119 lanky, faceless figure. Again, it was even there's even less of it 622 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:43.280 out there than the stupid high school project one. Yeah, but I don't 623 00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.920 know if that one's true or not. But let's get out of Germany and 624 00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:51.880 uh, let's go to the old United Kingdom. Oh my god, in 625 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.840 my mind was like, please say England, please say England. How about 626 00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:00.519 how about some Celtic Italians here? Good, I've got another Goodland tie in 627 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:02.360 too, So bring bring us your celts and I'll bring you mine. We've 628 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:08.599 got a figure called the fair Dove, which translates as the black man and 629 00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:15.920 black as in dark disposition. Oh. He haunts footpaths at night, mostly 630 00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:22.440 in forests. He is entirely malevolent. The description of his appearance given is 631 00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:30.000 mostly like a burnt corpse with like the face burnt off, no no features 632 00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:35.000 or anything. But this is a this is another boogeyman. This is this 633 00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:38.599 something that's you know, teaching children to behave or the fair Dove is gonna 634 00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:43.599 get you. Also, um, I think it's another term for the devil. 635 00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:47.440 Oh, okay, all right. In a way, our Scottish and 636 00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:52.000 Irish listeners out there, if you know about the fair Dove, please for 637 00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:55.639 one thing, tell me if I'm saying dof right, Yeah, I like 638 00:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.159 it. I would have said fear dub, so you're better than me. 639 00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:05.719 It spells fear dub. Yeah, that's that's what I have of music nowadays. 640 00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:12.199 Oh doesn't count. Yeah, that one's interesting. Now what what you 641 00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.039 said? You had one? Right? Yeah? And I hate to harp 642 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:20.079 on this, but um, I have another another villain of the Doctor Who. 643 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.800 Oh um, in addition to the obviously what we talked about with the 644 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:29.719 Weeping Angels, but also the Silence creepy um. And if you don't watch 645 00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:31.559 Doctor Who, you're still a good person to worry about it. Um. 646 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:36.039 But there's a lot of people who don't care, who aren't that magnanimous about 647 00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:37.280 it, so I have to get that out there. Sure. Um, 648 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:43.239 there's another really interesting villain, a creature called the Silence. And they were 649 00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:47.119 they were very tall, very thin. They wore they wore suits, black 650 00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:52.639 suits, white shirt, black tie, no mouths or very i'm sorry, 651 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.519 very small mouths. They're they're like skins stretched over a mouth. Yeah. 652 00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:01.280 They're very gray, like very deep set, large sockets, but tiny little 653 00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:06.960 eyes and a nose and very very spooky looking. But their their trick was 654 00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:09.880 that you couldn't remember them. Yeah, So you see them, yeah, 655 00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:15.079 and then the minute you glance away, you have no idea that you just 656 00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:20.039 saw. So that's but but I mean, they don't have any any of 657 00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:24.800 the actual characteristics of of the slender Man. But but the physical appearance is 658 00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:30.960 very, very slender Man to the point where I would be shocked if that 659 00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:34.559 wasn't where they were going with it. Sure, sure, because in the 660 00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.920 Coming from Yeah, in the in the TV show, these people had been 661 00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:42.159 around for hundreds and hundreds of years. They'd always been kind of guiding and 662 00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:46.559 shaping mankind for their own dark whatevers um. But just as far as things 663 00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:52.159 that are inspired by this idea, it's too close to my mind to be 664 00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:58.960 a coincidence. Slenderman is usually really passive aggressive. Yeah, he's like yeah, 665 00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:02.000 he's like, oh, is that what you're gonna wear? Actually, 666 00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:08.159 I jumping ahead a little bit. That's his sassy brother Trenderman. Oh it's 667 00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:12.119 not a pun. It is a pun, but it's not my pun. 668 00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:17.039 It's an actual thing that people have come up with because somebody took a picture 669 00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:22.559 of a mannequin wearing gap or something and they're like, oh, look it's 670 00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:29.639 not Slenderman, it's Trenderman. And so he's like the sassy brother, like 671 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:34.280 passive aggressively tells you want not to wear Wow, I'm glad that you told 672 00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:37.280 me about that, so that I didn't accidentally repurpose that pun. Yeah, 673 00:55:37.360 --> 00:55:43.840 I wouldn't have come up with it anyway. Welsh mythology has something called the 674 00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:49.480 faceless one. Yeah, I mean that sounds pretty good. That a poem. 675 00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:51.679 Yeah, you get yourself some free poetry with that one. Le'll tear 676 00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:54.639 it floor. And I'm gonna need to hear this with some accent. I 677 00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:59.960 I'm just saying I'm gonna need to. Sorry, I don't. I don't 678 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:05.159 know a Welsh accent very well. It's like between English and Irish. I 679 00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:07.440 don't know that I can do it. I mean, I just get our 680 00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:09.920 our listeners pissed off at me. I don't. I didn't ask for a 681 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:13.760 good one. Let me throw some Australian and I don't care. Make it 682 00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:19.280 South Africans fine, by the way, if anyone cares. South African is 683 00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:25.400 the hardest because it sounds like every accent it sounds like a bad English accent. 684 00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:29.760 Yeah, and that's hard to do. Actually, for us, it's 685 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:31.960 very easy to do a bad English accent. I think you're but to deliberate. 686 00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:36.239 It's like it's like deliberately singing off key. It actually requires more focus 687 00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:40.199 than you'd think. Except for us, we just do it. And now 688 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:47.159 reading from the Book of Welsh Folklore with your host David Florida. This is 689 00:56:47.400 --> 00:57:00.039 TJ. This, Oh TJ. All right, I'll just throw a bunch 690 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:07.800 together. Yeah, go for it. Hush, thy child, do not 691 00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:13.400 stray far from the path. The Faceless One shall steal you away to fairyland. 692 00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:19.480 He prays on sinful and defiant souls and looks within the woods. He 693 00:57:19.679 --> 00:57:24.400 has hands of ebony branches, and it touches soft to sink. Fear the 694 00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:30.320 Faceless One, thy child, for he shall take you to a dark place. 695 00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:34.679 And what shall I become of thou? No? No, so be 696 00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:40.440 good, thy little one. Alas he's here to take thou away. Not 697 00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:52.199 in those shoes, sister, Just kidding, tender man. If we're gonna 698 00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:58.280 go out, you're gonna need a better frock than that. Oh my god, 699 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:04.880 is that a petticount me? Yow? Yeah, Trenderman's here to stay. 700 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:09.760 Yeah, well, welcome uboard trender Man. So anyways, that's good. 701 00:58:10.280 --> 00:58:14.920 I like that. That's they make They mix up there, these and 702 00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:21.239 nows. Well, it's right. Is this is this a fake poem? 703 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:22.599 Is it real? I don't even know. Well, whatever it was, 704 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:25.840 the faceless One. He sounds like a real bag of dicks, real bag 705 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:32.920 of dicks. And then then the old classic one. We've mentioned this before, 706 00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.159 the nopara bo Yeah from Japan. Yeah that sounds familiar, right, 707 00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:44.199 Yeah, it's it's just a faceless yoki that just delights and terrorizing victims. 708 00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:49.079 Now that one doesn't spirit you away to to who knows where? To me 709 00:58:49.199 --> 00:58:58.239 is Zaki Town to Slundermanville, Slendimonville, give it up Sandvale. But but 710 00:58:58.519 --> 00:59:05.159 yeah, the faceless thing is a common trait in in things. If if 711 00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:08.199 you want to make somebody shit a brick, then tell him that this thing 712 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:13.000 has no face. It's a spooky thing, just like uh, I think 713 00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:16.800 it's the denial of information. But we we we get so much from someone's 714 00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:22.920 face. I mean like first of all, hot or not natch question one? 715 00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:28.199 Then moving on from their emotional information like when when the when the face 716 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:31.519 is blank, you don't you you you you can't. The way we're yeah, 717 00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:37.119 we're The way we're programmed to get nonverbal information from something is through the 718 00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:39.679 face and when you have you know, and through body language. When you 719 00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:43.599 don't have that information, you don't have any of that. It's it is, 720 00:59:43.719 --> 00:59:46.920 it's unnerving. It instantly puts you off balance and that's that's the slender 721 00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:52.800 Man to a t. It's he's clearly coming for you. You have no 722 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:57.639 idea why he's not expressing anything, there's no you don't you don't see those 723 00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:01.440 even there's there's no one information. You don't see the movements from which you 724 01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:07.199 can determine, um anger or is he passive as he cared? Is he 725 01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:10.840 not? He's just this interactibly closing in on you. Um. And I 726 01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:15.880 think that's that's a very very unnerving. Yeah. And that's another thing about 727 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.880 him too, like if you see him, you're gonna get got Yep, 728 01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:23.239 he gonna get you. He's gonna get you, come hell or high water. 729 01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:28.199 There's no way to get away from him. And uh, that's that's 730 01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:31.199 another thing that that makes him so you know, creepy as a as a 731 01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:37.760 figure, I mean mostly in these in these myths throughout cultures in history. 732 01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:42.920 He's very much a boogeyman for kids. Yeah, like don't don't screw up 733 01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:46.159 or or this slenderman like thing is going to come get you. And that's 734 01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:52.960 that's again going back to now, I believe that this dude who posted who 735 01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:58.280 created this guy back in oh nine, I believe that he probably created him, 736 01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:01.360 you know, from his own SubCom or whatever. But did he do 737 01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:06.920 so with these things in the back of his head? Is it an archetype 738 01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:09.760 like you were saying earlier. Is it some conglomeration of of you know, 739 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:14.800 just scary things that he didn't he had encountered, or was there an actual 740 01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:20.239 like oh you know this, this German tale really sings to me. Yeah, 741 01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:22.280 let me kind of embellish it a little bit and make it more modern. 742 01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.440 I think that it's I mean when he when you look at those those 743 01:01:25.480 --> 01:01:30.559 original photos, I think he plays with some really and that's how that's how 744 01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:32.039 you know, it's that's why it survived. That's why we're talking about it. 745 01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:38.199 Like there's that very perfectly normal photograph and then it's not as it's not 746 01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:43.400 as alarming to a person if it was an alligator in the middle of the 747 01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.039 photograph, like, oh crap, there's no you know, something very obvious. 748 01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:49.960 It's that thing that your eye passes over and then when you look back 749 01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:52.880 at it, you're shocked again because you missed it. Yeah, you missed 750 01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:54.599 it. And then when you when you really look, you're like, oh 751 01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:59.760 my god, oh my god. Yeah, and you' and that allows you 752 01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:04.519 to empathize with the um this fictionalized person taking the photo, who just took 753 01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:07.440 the photo and they missed it, and they didn't see it till later. 754 01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:09.840 There was a thing on the news today about a um this woman who had 755 01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:14.920 taken her family to the beach on vacation, and when she was looking back 756 01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:17.159 through her photos, it's a picture of her kids playing in the ocean and 757 01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:22.079 there's a big wave swelling up and you can clearly see that there's a shark 758 01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:25.119 in the water. It's because the wave elevated it, so the sun shining 759 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:29.360 through the water, and she didn't see it at the time, you know, 760 01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:31.719 but it's that kind of like yeah, like you, oh, I 761 01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:37.199 missed it, and then and and so it's it's it's a well done photograph. 762 01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:42.119 Let that he that he photoshopped because it has that it's not so outlandish 763 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:45.760 that you consider it ridiculous, but it's it's it's not normal enough to dismiss 764 01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:52.559 it's right in that that perfect goldilocks psychological exactly right. And so you're like, 765 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:57.639 and that makes it super creepy. Yeah, Yeah, it's kind of 766 01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:00.920 hard to go through and say, you know, well, what what could 767 01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:04.639 this thing be since it was made up? Right? If you though, 768 01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:08.199 go go along the path of this is an archetype, this thing, this 769 01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:14.239 type of thing has been around cultures throughout the ages, then you could explain 770 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:19.880 it as demonic or even I mean, if you wanted to go around along 771 01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:23.559 the Gin path. They the good thing about Gin is that they fit in 772 01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:29.880 everything. It's the chicken of the paranormal. Everything tastes like Gin. It's 773 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:31.760 true. You could, I mean you could if you were so inclined to 774 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:37.320 say that the slender Man is the basis for the Grim Reaper. Mm. 775 01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:40.519 I mean, I don't know, Like, whenever you're afraid and you imagine, 776 01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:44.480 like there's always this thing about, like a big, tall, unknown 777 01:03:44.599 --> 01:03:47.239 stranger. You know, even even in fiction, you know, there's there's 778 01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:52.559 a hundred different versions of this, this sort of thing. Um. The 779 01:03:52.639 --> 01:03:57.679 only reason I particularly mention the Doctor Who because I think that I think that 780 01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:01.599 those are directly derivative of Sure, this this urban piece of folklore that's cropped 781 01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:05.679 up, which is cool. It's cool to see folklore crop up. Yeah. 782 01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:11.199 Yeah, Also with the Grim Reaper in mind, another thing you can't 783 01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:14.639 escape from. You know, you can run and run all you want from 784 01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:17.599 it, but you're it'll eventually catch up with Yeah, there's no antidote section 785 01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:20.440 to this podcast, which I'm so sorry, mister Flora. I know how 786 01:04:20.519 --> 01:04:24.440 much that it means to you. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't found anything 787 01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:30.079 another explanation. It's a transdimensional being. You don't see him walking because he's 788 01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:33.800 not moving through three dimensional space. Yeah, and he phases in and out 789 01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:39.920 of dimensions. Now doesn't necessarily have to be a higher dimension, because who's 790 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:46.400 to judge what dimensions are in a hierarchy for It's a nice little way for 791 01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:49.159 us, who have no control over it, to try and put it in 792 01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:55.800 a box. But no, Nerp, I think I think he's just a 793 01:04:55.920 --> 01:05:00.360 good cultural boogeyman. I think that he just he just scratches that itch in 794 01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:09.000 the back of your heads, right in the old young hole. There's they've 795 01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:14.800 also thrown out the theory of that he's a quantum wave form. This one, 796 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:16.679 this one you'll like. Um, I'd like to put forth a theory 797 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:20.760 using words that you are very disinclined to follow up on or read about, 798 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:27.199 or have any basic knowledge right now, therefore making myself down extremely intelligent. 799 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:32.880 I'm gonna go with quantum wave form alex. This is going along the old 800 01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:41.559 Schrodinger's cat idea where he doesn't exist until he's observed. It's hard to boil 801 01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:45.119 down and explain or easily right, well, which is again the strength of 802 01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:48.039 that argument. But let me let me fix that for you, okay, 803 01:05:48.599 --> 01:05:54.239 Um, and I realize I realized that the cat was dead in my scenario. 804 01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.639 I guess I realized this is like I'm about to actually try to apply 805 01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:01.760 some genuine science to a bullsh question. So God help us all. May 806 01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:11.960 God have mercy we're having shut up. The difference being that it's twenty fourteen. 807 01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:17.920 Y'all, ain't no law left. Do your toots. No. The 808 01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:24.400 thing with Schrodinger's cat is about um that you that a particle. He used 809 01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:27.119 it as an example. It's not. It's not a large organism. It's 810 01:06:27.119 --> 01:06:32.320 a They've done actual experiments with electrons. It does not choose a position until 811 01:06:32.360 --> 01:06:35.480 it is observed, and um, which is a hell of a creepy thing. 812 01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:40.400 It's it's a cool piece of science. It does not apply to entire 813 01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:44.960 organisms or an entire entire entity. And also, once observed, it is 814 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:48.280 locked into that state. It does not go back into uh in visit town 815 01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:56.119 um. And and also the phrase quantum wave form cannot possibly be applied unless 816 01:06:56.159 --> 01:06:59.719 you have no idea what the phrase quantum wave form means, like it doesn't 817 01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:04.880 that just the other good thing with that argument that they it's a cellular membrane 818 01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:09.920 is the head. That's a dick phrase that dicks use to sound like they're 819 01:07:09.960 --> 01:07:13.039 not dicks. But guess what it backfires You sound like a double dick. 820 01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:17.400 Well, they they use the the excuse, how do we know what what 821 01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:23.000 a waveform would look like? Or could or or or might? I mean, 822 01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:26.800 because it's it's it's well I could, I can make the satical physics. 823 01:07:26.920 --> 01:07:30.440 I can make the same article for a flippity jibsets. Yeah, it's 824 01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:34.199 a flippity jibsets. Yeah, that's and when you three two d's and a 825 01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:39.039 z when you observe it, it has technicals and it's back right, those 826 01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:44.119 are the jibsts and that that's that is particularly irritating to me, just on 827 01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:48.000 the basis of this. I want to sound like I have a definitive explanation 828 01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:51.480 and I'm very smart, but then when you pin me in the corner, 829 01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:55.679 I'll say, no, I'm these are Who's to say what that is? 830 01:07:56.199 --> 01:08:00.280 That's that's just a horseship. Anyone who said that I will stay ab with 831 01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:06.079 a pencil okay, not not not lethally, just like clean through and through 832 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:11.719 maybe in the leg, the forearm or something like that, threats of physical 833 01:08:11.800 --> 01:08:15.800 violence. In twenty fourteen, I'm making an enemy's list. The last one 834 01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:19.560 I have here, This this one is a fun one. A tulpa. 835 01:08:20.079 --> 01:08:24.720 Oh man, We've we've had that come up before as an explanation. That's 836 01:08:25.039 --> 01:08:30.279 once again the belief that a person can physicalize through intense focus and concentration, 837 01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:35.920 they can actually materialize a being may of their own thoughts, yes, and 838 01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:40.319 that being can then run a muck if they are not strong enough to continually 839 01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:45.159 maintain control over that beam. Right, and with this thing going viral as 840 01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:50.159 it did, and all these minds thinking of the same entity that could could 841 01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:55.319 could feed until the old tulpa pot until you've got a nice crispy all right, 842 01:08:55.479 --> 01:08:58.119 let me let me boast it. Let me propose this counter argument. 843 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:03.359 How many people on the planet do you think are aware of the Slenderman? 844 01:09:03.479 --> 01:09:06.439 Out of the seven billion, are we up to seven billion? Yes? 845 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:11.800 How many people do you think are aware of the Slenderman? Twenty nine million? 846 01:09:12.159 --> 01:09:17.079 No, twenty people, I know it. Not enough. Not not 847 01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:23.119 enough, because we don't have Jesus walking on the street. Yeah, exactly, 848 01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:28.439 that's my point. We would um And actually I was gonna a sadly 849 01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:32.439 more pragmatic approach to this is that we would have Jesus's walking everywhere, not 850 01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:38.399 without Kanye West help dragons. Jesus walks. Uh, we would have dragons. 851 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:43.880 But right now we would be neck deep in iron Men. It is 852 01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:46.680 like the most popular thing on the planet. Everyone loves iron Man. There 853 01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:51.199 would be iron Man everywhere. Yeah, good morning with Ironman. Helm. 854 01:09:54.199 --> 01:09:58.600 So I am I don't. I don't see the little tool for working out. 855 01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:03.800 Not not in that sense. Yeah, unless unless we're taking a page 856 01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:06.600 at his easy Toss book and it turns out that every girl is in fact 857 01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:12.359 crazy about a sharp dress man. Oh nice, right, I like it. 858 01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:15.800 And since not all women can agree on who's hot and who's not, 859 01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:19.760 it's right. Just keep the suit, leave the rest real lucy face blank. 860 01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:25.399 That's right. You can draw your own on by o by of that's 861 01:10:25.479 --> 01:10:30.199 right, so to choose your vowne adventure. But for a gentleman caller. 862 01:10:31.319 --> 01:10:36.680 Oh okay, well that's here. Here's something note that we haven't mentioned. 863 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:45.319 There's a YouTube channel that that helped to spike this thing into viral heaven oh 864 01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:49.880 man called Marble Hornets. Yeah, and this is a this is a film 865 01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:58.239 student's YouTube channel created as a found footage type story. It's sort of a 866 01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:00.880 sort of a blair which yeah, that's what I was asking. It's a 867 01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:08.319 play which esque u type thing. And they release videos on this channel that 868 01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:14.000 have this whole story of this this filmmaker student that was was filming this movie 869 01:11:14.479 --> 01:11:18.239 and and then it got too much for it slenderized and and and you see 870 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:26.640 this this figure of Slenderman in there here and there but a ring slender as 871 01:11:27.439 --> 01:11:33.640 slenderment. Uh. I can't stop. I love it. If you went 872 01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:39.680 through and watched all the videos, the videos range in length from a minute 873 01:11:39.720 --> 01:11:44.600 to you know, six minutes or more or less. Uh, Marble Hornets, 874 01:11:44.640 --> 01:11:47.199 that's you. You can go and check it out. It's if you've 875 01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:50.000 got a lot of time to kill, then then didn't look at some of 876 01:11:50.079 --> 01:11:54.319 them, but and I do. If you don't, then don't worry about 877 01:11:54.319 --> 01:12:00.079 it. Apparently popular enough that they they are making a movie with these guys 878 01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:04.399 about it now. So yeah, so you don't good on him. He 879 01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:09.560 did a thing and it it worked. Sure, but you know they're I 880 01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:13.640 mean, of the panoply of slender Man videos out there, these are some 881 01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:16.000 of the better ones. Oh yeah, uh, this one's actually got the 882 01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:20.720 whole story. Now there's this thing called an alternate reality game or an a 883 01:12:20.920 --> 01:12:24.760 arg Yeah, is that like that? What was there? Wasn't there one 884 01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.600 about like vampires and werewolves, Like when I was in high school, there's 885 01:12:27.600 --> 01:12:30.760 a bunch of goths running a muck. Are you talking about Masquerade? Yeah? 886 01:12:30.359 --> 01:12:33.880 No, that was actually that. That one's a pin and paper game. 887 01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:36.640 There's one where like people had to like run a muck, like they 888 01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:41.159 couldn't do it in a basement. I don't know, I like LARPing, 889 01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:45.680 sort it was like it was a gray area between role playing and LARPing. 890 01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:48.399 But I think maybe it was. I think I thought it was that Masquade 891 01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:51.399 one. But remember like, oh maybe they did the role I remember goths 892 01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:56.119 like in high school and college, they had like pins that would like designate 893 01:12:56.239 --> 01:13:00.359 their their coven or their their wolf pack, whether they were Edward or Jacob. 894 01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:05.000 This is this predates that this is? Or does that predate this? 895 01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:12.760 Oh? To go forward, you must go back? Oh god, alright, 896 01:13:12.800 --> 01:13:15.399 so augmented reality is this? You gotta have Google glass for this. 897 01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:19.920 Oh god, I don't know anything about it. Actually, I tried to 898 01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:26.039 learn here, we became old manus. True, it is so true. 899 01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:33.159 I don't understand this gay across the mercader. There's something about this, this 900 01:13:33.520 --> 01:13:40.239 slenderman reality that people are living in. I guess that that slenderman lives in 901 01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:46.119 it with him. Jesus, you drove the truck to an empty parking lot. 902 01:13:46.479 --> 01:13:53.079 You have nothing. You're like, there's a thing, my phone's dead, 903 01:13:54.279 --> 01:13:58.000 couldn't recall for help. I don't know. Look, if you're interested 904 01:13:58.039 --> 01:14:00.840 in it, look it up. That's a real big time waster. And 905 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:06.079 we mentioned uh, we mentioned trenderman who who is now a friend of ours. 906 01:14:06.319 --> 01:14:13.720 That's right, So that for you is uh is the slender man in 907 01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:19.479 a very thin, tentacled now it's not here nutshell quantum wave form one nutshell? 908 01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:25.199 Yeah, yeah, it's Oh well, I mean the only thing that 909 01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:30.880 that lurks better than a slender man is boons. Oh I just looked away 910 01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:33.479 in there there here Yeah, that's right. I thought about drawing that out 911 01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:38.279 further and I don't don't want to smart. Just get to it. Yeah, 912 01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.359 let's see whose turn is it? Um? Wrong, it's mine. 913 01:14:42.479 --> 01:14:45.840 Oh, we got a we got a new sponsor here for the podcast. 914 01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:51.439 Who is it? It's a Celtic company for a gentleman whose hair is prematurely 915 01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:54.680 graying. And it's just something that I have an issue with. I could 916 01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:58.079 use this product. I'm glad that they're working with this. It's it promises 917 01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:01.319 to uh to just dark in your hair and so you could you can finally 918 01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:04.800 be that that dark, that tall, dark and handsome man. It's called 919 01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:10.600 hair Doube hair Dope for men. It's right, hair dope for men. 920 01:15:12.479 --> 01:15:17.720 The fair Dove for men. Hair fair fair fair hair. Nice. Yeah, 921 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:21.960 I like it. I've got a store. Actually, that's uh. 922 01:15:23.640 --> 01:15:28.279 It's all about keeping your black suit pants up. Uh huh. When you're 923 01:15:28.279 --> 01:15:30.760 wearing your black suit, you need to you don't want to sagg in. 924 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:33.439 No, you can't look like a like a thug. Yeah, you you 925 01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:38.399 gotta go to suspender Man. Oh yeah, he'll do it. He'll take 926 01:15:38.439 --> 01:15:41.199 care of it. He'll take care of you know. Um, one of 927 01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:44.399 the worst things that can happen is, uh, you come back to your 928 01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:48.840 car, especially after this busy holiday shopping season, and people treat parking lots 929 01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:54.800 like bumper cars. Now yeah, and uh and if you know, if 930 01:15:54.840 --> 01:15:59.039 you if you have damage to your car, maybe you should go visit my 931 01:15:59.079 --> 01:16:02.760 friend Fenderman. He'll take care of it for you. He's uh, you 932 01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:05.319 know what. And all of his mechanics, they're well dressed. They don't 933 01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:09.640 talk much, they just get to it. That's that's really nice. It's 934 01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:12.640 a good place. I hear he has a lot of good guitars too. 935 01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:18.600 Oh nice. I like that because um, because um um. There's a 936 01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:26.600 company that they guitar um. It's called Fender. If you haven't heard of 937 01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:34.760 it, take us home, Florida. I've got I've got a website where 938 01:16:34.840 --> 01:16:41.399 you can go on there and read about hilarious court cases called something lawful. 939 01:16:42.199 --> 01:16:46.560 Oh that was something lawful? What you just did? I don't know. 940 01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:51.520 In baseball, if like like if the next batter can be so bad that 941 01:16:51.600 --> 01:16:57.279 they take the previous batters like off base for it. But that's what you 942 01:16:57.399 --> 01:17:00.840 just did. Double play? I guess, I guess, yeah, you 943 01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:05.520 just got double played. Oh, man grounded six three. All the good 944 01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:10.680 news is this is that that you don't have to listen to our crazy horse 945 01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:14.800 shit anymore. Now it's time to listen to your crazy horse shit. Oh 946 01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:18.600 how about that? Well, Hey, Flora is a giant red button that 947 01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:24.199 says listener mail sound. Yeah, I do push it, okay right now? 948 01:17:24.439 --> 01:17:28.039 Yeah, okay, dude, push it this one. Come on. 949 01:17:29.119 --> 01:17:33.439 Oh okay, don't tease me. Push it. I keep missing it. 950 01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:45.760 Here it is. You know, we got a lot of kids in that 951 01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:49.399 sound. I don't want it to attract a slenderman. Oh gosh, how 952 01:17:49.439 --> 01:17:55.399 do we know we're not acoustically chumming for a quantum wave form, which, 953 01:17:55.479 --> 01:17:59.600 by the way, is the subtitle of this episode, acoustically chumming. Yeah, 954 01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:02.680 but the quantum wave form. I'll kick this off. We got a 955 01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:08.640 we got a nice letter from from a listener after listening to our our our 956 01:18:08.680 --> 01:18:13.680 two part extravaganza flood myth Um noticed that we were we had to kind of 957 01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:17.119 tap dance back and forth on the our particular religious views versus other people, 958 01:18:17.199 --> 01:18:20.720 you know, like it's a it's a it becomes a religious debate. And 959 01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:25.479 he is a math and science teacher and uh, and he pointed out that 960 01:18:25.680 --> 01:18:29.520 it is, Uh, it is it's a difficult thing, that it becomes 961 01:18:29.640 --> 01:18:33.520 overly politicized, that it's it's not necessary for science and religion to fight, 962 01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:38.640 and it's it's a fairly localized issue, and that for for math and science 963 01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:42.399 teachers, he described it as being a very um let me read this here. 964 01:18:42.720 --> 01:18:46.520 Math and science teachers do not see themselves as carrying banners for one particular 965 01:18:46.600 --> 01:18:53.399 viewpoint. Their job is to relay information. Okay, the information that they 966 01:18:53.479 --> 01:18:56.880 have in the system that we have is that's just what they have. It's 967 01:18:56.920 --> 01:19:00.159 not that they're trying to subvert a child's religious beliefs or anything. You know. 968 01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:03.840 It and it becomes the way he described it, just it gets not 969 01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:08.000 not blown out of proportion, but it becomes so much more divisive than it 970 01:19:08.159 --> 01:19:11.680 needs to be. And so thank you very much for sending that answer. 971 01:19:12.119 --> 01:19:15.479 That's our buddy, Eric and uh and you know, and devetailing off what 972 01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:19.439 he said, I feel like and I even even during my my super churchy 973 01:19:19.560 --> 01:19:25.920 days, I have this feeling that it's so much easier to be Christian when 974 01:19:26.039 --> 01:19:30.359 you're persecuted, that it's it's easier when people are saying, oh, you're 975 01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:32.319 wrong, and then you can say no, I'm not because this is what 976 01:19:32.439 --> 01:19:36.439 I believe, and you can you can make strong stands and positions, And 977 01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:42.239 it's it's easier to feel secure in your faith when you are when you are 978 01:19:42.600 --> 01:19:46.640 under attacks. Yeah, um, it's very hard when everyone around you agrees 979 01:19:46.640 --> 01:19:50.279 with you. Then you just have to settle into a day to day I 980 01:19:50.399 --> 01:19:54.079 have to you know, I'm doing good things. I you know, it's 981 01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:58.239 that's the hard work of being a person of faith. It's it's the day 982 01:19:58.319 --> 01:20:00.199 to day things. It's it's the making sure that you're living up to that 983 01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:04.720 standard when there's when there's no one watching, when there's no one And I 984 01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:09.279 would think about that a lot that it would be you know that you you 985 01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:12.079 wish that someone would walk up to you in the halls at high school and 986 01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:15.680 say you're stupid for being a Christian, you know, because then you can 987 01:20:15.720 --> 01:20:18.239 be like, no, I'm going to now exhibit my faith by by by 988 01:20:18.359 --> 01:20:21.960 not being um combative about you know, like you can. It gives you 989 01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:27.600 a platform, yeah, of sorts. And and I'm talking I mean not 990 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:30.800 about like true persecution. I'm not talking about people being rounded up and tortured 991 01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:34.000 or anything like that, which has happened historically and happens today in parts of 992 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:36.720 the world. But you know, it's it's the same thing with that that 993 01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:41.960 that war on Christmas that people mentioned. There's no fucking war on Christmas. 994 01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:46.399 And if there was Christmas fucking one, yeah, it won. Everybody. 995 01:20:46.640 --> 01:20:51.680 Everybody loves Christmas. There's no like hidden cabal whose job it is to de 996 01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:57.520 Christianize Christmas. We get it. Even the people who don't, who don't 997 01:20:57.760 --> 01:21:02.039 describe ascribe to Christian beliefs, still have Christmas and they still understand what it 998 01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:06.439 is. Yeah, but there's this this kind of attempt to gin up a 999 01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:11.640 backlash against yourself so that it makes you stronger, It makes you, gives 1000 01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:14.560 you that that ability to say, no, I'm persecuted, but I'm standing 1001 01:21:14.680 --> 01:21:18.960 strong for my faith. It's it's easier sometimes to throw a punch than it 1002 01:21:19.079 --> 01:21:23.800 is to stand still. Yeah, And I think that that's what a lot 1003 01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:29.760 of this um evolution versus creationism. I think some of that is just ginned 1004 01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:32.079 up so that people feel persecuted, so they feel like they're under attack, 1005 01:21:32.920 --> 01:21:36.439 you know, and there are and as we said in the previous podcast, 1006 01:21:36.560 --> 01:21:43.000 that there are those people who are just militant evolutionists and atheists who are just 1007 01:21:43.399 --> 01:21:46.399 dicks, dicks about it, just can't wait to run into the playground and 1008 01:21:46.479 --> 01:21:51.039 kick over all the sandcastles like and those people are no better. Um and 1009 01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:56.399 they and they too feel persecuted. They feel like like their rights are being 1010 01:21:56.479 --> 01:22:00.760 sublimated by you know, and it's it's it's largely false to give both people 1011 01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:05.640 a reason to be up in arms, a reason to demonstrate their faith, 1012 01:22:05.760 --> 01:22:11.279 whether that be in God or in a textbook. Right, well, that 1013 01:22:11.439 --> 01:22:15.960 leads us to this An email from Taper actually nice, hey Tabor, h 1014 01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:21.039 Tabor, and Taper says, going to push back on the creationist scientist smug 1015 01:22:21.159 --> 01:22:29.640 off. My experience is that atheist slash scientist attacks in quotes on creationism do 1016 01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:32.159 not, for the most part, target the well, that's just what I 1017 01:22:32.239 --> 01:22:36.920 believe people. This only became an issue starting in the seventies, he says, 1018 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:43.119 with fundamentalist Christian political crusades to have creationism taught in public schools. This 1019 01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:49.359 creation science push, later morphing into intelligent design theory, was the whole impetus 1020 01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:57.479 for the modern science religion fight. Interesting insight on that, and it is 1021 01:22:58.319 --> 01:23:02.720 frustrating and weird how a lot of that impetus has come from the political world, 1022 01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:08.039 where it's in the constitution. It shouldn't even be a part of it. 1023 01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:13.319 Right, And here's the thing is that it's it is the same tactic 1024 01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:17.520 that is used by both sides. Right when you say we are under attack, 1025 01:23:17.760 --> 01:23:24.119 When Alex Jones says we are under attack, were consistently under attack by 1026 01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:28.840 the New World Order, you galvanize your group. Yeah, we are attack. 1027 01:23:28.920 --> 01:23:32.359 We have to hang together. I need to say everything that you say. 1028 01:23:32.399 --> 01:23:35.359 We need to be of one mind and one purpose, or otherwise all 1029 01:23:35.560 --> 01:23:42.119 is lost. You create this dramatic falseness that when you're trying to rally people, 1030 01:23:42.439 --> 01:23:45.800 it's the same exact thing that Hitler did. We are being attacked by 1031 01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:50.239 these mud races, by the Jews, by the Gypsies, by gay people, 1032 01:23:50.279 --> 01:23:54.079 like we are being attacked, and if we don't strike out now, 1033 01:23:54.279 --> 01:23:58.399 everything will be lost. And it is a tactic. It is a tactic 1034 01:23:58.439 --> 01:24:01.239 that has been used time and time again. Yeah, uh so cool, 1035 01:24:01.319 --> 01:24:06.319 thanks for writing in tape. Interesting uh and uh and we've got we've got 1036 01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:13.119 a few puns. Another another historical tactic used to subjugate the pun. Yeah, 1037 01:24:14.800 --> 01:24:16.359 oh man, we'll kicking this off. We got a great pun from 1038 01:24:16.479 --> 01:24:24.479 Josie. And my favorite part of this is the PostScript. Josie's pun ish 1039 01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:30.520 Alistair Boneley because he had sex with everything. I love this. This is 1040 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:34.720 like, this is like a pun high coup because it because he had sex 1041 01:24:34.800 --> 01:24:40.199 with everything. Do you get it? And my favorite part is the the 1042 01:24:40.359 --> 01:24:44.319 brief PostScript that is possibly the only pun to leave my mind, as they 1043 01:24:44.359 --> 01:24:50.000 were all terrible, including that I'm so sorry. See it's so unnecessary to 1044 01:24:50.079 --> 01:24:55.520 apologize for a pun, but I since I always want to. I I 1045 01:24:55.720 --> 01:24:59.479 respect it. It is a genuine you have to. There's a part of 1046 01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:01.600 you that has to say I'm sorry, but that won't stop you from doing 1047 01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:04.600 it, and I respect you. Well played, Josie. Yeah, thanks 1048 01:25:04.840 --> 01:25:11.159 thanks for sending us that. Josie also writes in in the episode on the 1049 01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:17.920 Illuminati, Stecco refers to a large wrestling company as WWF Wrestling and says, 1050 01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:24.880 isn't it redundant to say the wrestling after the WWF as WWF as an acronym 1051 01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:29.479 for World Wrestling Federation. Therefore it's already it already has wrestling in its name. 1052 01:25:29.520 --> 01:25:32.640 I guess it's like saying ATM machine or pin number, but people do 1053 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:39.119 it. Also, WWF had to change their name in two thousand and two 1054 01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:45.159 to WWE, which is World Wrestling Entertainment. Diamond Dallas Page, although he 1055 01:25:45.319 --> 01:25:47.199 was in the company when it was still called WWF, has since been in 1056 01:25:47.279 --> 01:25:53.640 the company after the name change, apparently super into wrestling. Oh well, 1057 01:25:53.680 --> 01:25:57.560 then you love us because we love wrestling too. We know, we know 1058 01:25:57.720 --> 01:26:00.640 that it's it's WWE. Trust us, we we weird, We definitely know 1059 01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:05.119 that. But to us, it's always w W. Yeah, I go 1060 01:26:05.239 --> 01:26:10.279 back to the old school. Yeah, I can say that because I don't 1061 01:26:10.319 --> 01:26:15.520 know that I've paid any attention since since the change over. I I'm a 1062 01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:18.520 Randy the macho man, savage guy living in the stone cold Steve Austin world. 1063 01:26:18.920 --> 01:26:24.079 Actually even he's probably long since done right, Yeah, yeah, I 1064 01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:28.239 double dated world. There we go, all right? Yeah, say they? 1065 01:26:28.359 --> 01:26:32.279 Yeah? And I'm an Undertaker fan. Oh nice, But I like 1066 01:26:32.439 --> 01:26:38.880 old classic Undertaker with Paul Bear and Paul Bear that's one of our heroes we 1067 01:26:39.000 --> 01:26:43.680 lost this year. But but doesn't the Undertaker still wrestle? I think frequently. 1068 01:26:43.720 --> 01:26:45.640 I mean he's getting old, dude, He's not getting old, He's 1069 01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:49.600 gotten old. He's old old, not chasing him old, tackled him and 1070 01:26:49.720 --> 01:26:53.199 pit him to the ground. Is going, why do you keep hitting yourself? 1071 01:26:53.399 --> 01:26:57.960 When do you keep hitting yourself? Old? Is slender Man? Well 1072 01:26:58.159 --> 01:27:00.319 yeah, so, well thanks for writing in. We we know. Don't 1073 01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:04.520 don't be too upset with us. We're just trying to keep the nostalgia alive. 1074 01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:10.159 Oh my god. And also puns and she likes wrestling. Gentlemen, 1075 01:27:10.479 --> 01:27:15.359 start your engines. Got a got a couple from Peyton. Bob, Oh 1076 01:27:15.560 --> 01:27:17.720 hi, Bob. I was supposed to write you an email, but then 1077 01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:21.000 I went to Colorado. Whoops a daisy on me. But you're gonna. 1078 01:27:21.000 --> 01:27:26.159 I'm gonna. I'm gonna write you because we're pen pals. So I haven't 1079 01:27:26.199 --> 01:27:30.520 forgotten, nor have I ignored. I am just poorly organized. Jesus can 1080 01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:33.720 I there's just just gonna be a part of every podcast where I make apologies 1081 01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:41.079 for all the ship I didn't do. Yeah wait, instead, just to 1082 01:27:41.159 --> 01:27:44.279 save time, can there just be a tone? We'll now be playing the 1083 01:27:44.319 --> 01:27:53.079 Dave Stecco apology tone boop rather head of your apology. Oh man, bring 1084 01:27:53.159 --> 01:27:56.840 it, Bob, Bob says, Iggorzill, truly a great tree, but 1085 01:27:57.000 --> 01:28:00.039 always talked about itself, never had anything nice to say about anybody else. 1086 01:28:00.439 --> 01:28:04.840 Whenever someone was talking, IgG Gerzill would interrupt. That's right. It was 1087 01:28:04.920 --> 01:28:10.199 a real pain in the ash. Oh, because it is the Nash tree. 1088 01:28:11.800 --> 01:28:17.319 Nice all right, Bob's gonna follow with this haymaker nice. Okay, 1089 01:28:17.880 --> 01:28:21.880 here we go. Uh So, the Bohemian Club started a basketball team that 1090 01:28:21.880 --> 01:28:27.000 would go around the country, playing second rate in local teams for charity's sake 1091 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:42.000 and pompous bragging rights. They were the Bohemian Grove Trotters. It's getting great, 1092 01:28:42.640 --> 01:28:46.520 oh man, thanks Bob, Bob Dave, even though you've been lax 1093 01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:51.199 on your duty on of MS paint certificate. Man, we have set a 1094 01:28:51.279 --> 01:28:56.960 place at this table, this fancy fancy table. Well, I mean, 1095 01:28:57.039 --> 01:29:00.479 if we have a fancy table and the fancy gett I mean, I suppose 1096 01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:05.920 that makes this fancy feast of sorts. Got a pun from Gray Cat, 1097 01:29:06.279 --> 01:29:15.520 hag, Gray Cat, Hey, great cat like that that is not gonna 1098 01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:23.760 catch on, like trender man the apology tone. Great Cat says, are 1099 01:29:23.800 --> 01:29:27.079 you an out of control drunk who's tired of the social stigma that comes with 1100 01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:30.960 constantly wetting your pants in public. Yes, then get oops. I pitched 1101 01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:39.199 him brand adult diapers and we'll make that deluge a myth. That's fucking brilliant. 1102 01:29:40.119 --> 01:29:44.439 Holy crap, you know what. I quit? And now now it's 1103 01:29:44.680 --> 01:29:51.119 David Flora and Gray Cats podcast and that should catch us up from the old 1104 01:29:53.079 --> 01:29:58.319 break. Yeah. I hope you guys had magnificent crisp mosses. I hope 1105 01:29:58.319 --> 01:30:00.279 that they were. I hope that you focus on the birth of the Lord, 1106 01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:04.680 our God. I hope that you took every opportunity to praise him in 1107 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:12.079 the highest and good on earth, goodwill towards men. Wow. I hope 1108 01:30:12.119 --> 01:30:15.279 you got and I hope you got drunk. It didn't fight with your family. 1109 01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:23.560 Uh. Welcome to twenty fourteen Yeah Glory photos dot Org. Go to 1110 01:30:23.680 --> 01:30:26.439 contact page, Write us, pun, write us a story, right, 1111 01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:29.920 a suggestion, whatever you want. Oh, if you don't get an inside 1112 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:32.199 joke, right in and ask us, we'll tell you what it is. 1113 01:30:32.319 --> 01:30:35.960 Yeah, we get pretty inside sometimes because we're just so in love with ourselves. 1114 01:30:36.119 --> 01:30:40.600 And I apologize. We've got We've got sixty some odd episodes that we've 1115 01:30:40.680 --> 01:30:44.520 built on and it's all just like beginning to end. Yeah, you know 1116 01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:47.239 that we'll happily explain it and that we when we will not have like some 1117 01:30:47.479 --> 01:30:50.680 smug ass No, oh, you should have listened to episode twenty two. 1118 01:30:50.760 --> 01:30:54.359 We'll tell you what episode to listen to for it. But we're not gonna 1119 01:30:54.399 --> 01:30:59.520 be like, um, we're not gonna make it. Really you don't know, 1120 01:31:00.439 --> 01:31:02.520 shar Is. I will say this sort of a caveat to that. 1121 01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:06.239 It's not like our explaining it is going to make you suddenly laugh out loud. 1122 01:31:06.920 --> 01:31:14.600 We will probably at the end of it go uh, but you're used 1123 01:31:14.640 --> 01:31:17.479 to that because you've been listening. Go to iTunes, give us five stars, 1124 01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.560 give us a rating on there. Go to Facebook. You can like 1125 01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:26.720 us on their Blowy Photos podcast. There in YouTube, also Twitter, Twitter, 1126 01:31:26.840 --> 01:31:30.239 Blurry Underscore Photos, all this stuff. One important thing, one big 1127 01:31:30.319 --> 01:31:32.720 change for twenty fourteen. We're done. We'll stumble upon. We're done with 1128 01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:38.239 it. No thanks, we'll just pass. We'll leave the We'll leave that 1129 01:31:38.359 --> 01:31:41.279 chick lit up there, just for for the sake of of all the times 1130 01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:44.960 we've mentioned it. Some people will understand what that inside jokes about. Yeah, 1131 01:31:45.359 --> 01:31:47.520 but no thanks. Yeah, moving on, we don't want your we 1132 01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:50.600 don't. We don't want your up up digits, right do you? So? 1133 01:31:50.920 --> 01:31:54.640 So do you know why we ask you to do this stuff? Well, 1134 01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:57.840 I mean, not only does it make us look awesome and legit, 1135 01:31:58.039 --> 01:32:02.000 but helps me get dates. It actually bumps us up to the forefront of 1136 01:32:02.399 --> 01:32:05.960 stuff that that we appear on. So yeah, we have searches and and 1137 01:32:06.119 --> 01:32:12.600 iTunes searches and things like that. The more you rate us and make us 1138 01:32:12.680 --> 01:32:16.479 look legitimate than the more we get out there and can get this crap to 1139 01:32:16.720 --> 01:32:19.640 to people. Who gets right, there's more people that need to know this. 1140 01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:25.920 Yeah, there are more people that need to hear us sing oh man 1141 01:32:26.119 --> 01:32:30.960 and that get that's not done. We were not finished with that whatsoever. 1142 01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:36.159 Uh. For this episode of Blurry Photos, I have been fair Dave Flora, 1143 01:32:36.680 --> 01:32:41.840 Oh nice. I like that. I am Dave, not at all 1144 01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:49.880 slender Man Stecco probably in the podcast now, Hey, I'm sort of you 1145 01:32:50.800 --> 01:33:34.079 have and something yeah, don't eat by. Our final letter tonight comes from 1146 01:33:34.119 --> 01:33:40.039 a longtime listener also in upstate New York. I do hope that my advice 1147 01:33:40.159 --> 01:33:45.039 is of service to you. Hey, dare play blurry Forum. We've got 1148 01:33:45.079 --> 01:33:47.920 a question for you. See, I've been having this trouble here lately. 1149 01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:54.439 I can't help going out tonight when it's real dark. My people are still 1150 01:33:54.560 --> 01:34:00.079 miling about. I donned my cape, my fancy shoes, my skin tight 1151 01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:06.239 outfit, and me mental clawed gauntlets, and I just see a pretty girl. 1152 01:34:08.039 --> 01:34:10.960 No, I go up to her. I didn't say anything at all. 1153 01:34:11.840 --> 01:34:15.359 I just spit flames in her face and grabbing boobies and then I just 1154 01:34:15.640 --> 01:34:21.239 run. I just run away. Is there something wrong with me? Or 1155 01:34:21.359 --> 01:34:27.800 is this normal behavior for a noise gentleman of the night like myself. None 1156 01:34:27.840 --> 01:34:30.279 of these girls, they don't seem to want anything to do with me. 1157 01:34:31.159 --> 01:34:35.600 What am I doing wrong? Is it the flames in their faces? Or 1158 01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:42.840 is it the grabbing? If they're sweet, sweet dat tell them out what 1159 01:34:42.880 --> 01:34:49.119 I'm doing wrong? Sincerely, Squeezing and Schenectady. Okay, let's try to 1160 01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:55.119 tackle this one. To begin, it sounds like what you're describing is a 1161 01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:59.279 salt, which is illegal, and I know that that can't be helping neither 1162 01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:03.880 you nor the girls. And what I'm hearing is a vulnerable man. I'm 1163 01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:09.960 hearing a man who wants to reach out in your case, and unfortunately literally 1164 01:35:10.840 --> 01:35:16.199 but you flee before any connection can be made emotionally or legally. So what 1165 01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:21.000 I would ask you to do is to slowly strip away these behaviors and strip 1166 01:35:21.079 --> 01:35:28.399 away these barriers you've put up between you and emotional honesty, until finally you're 1167 01:35:28.479 --> 01:35:32.800 left with just a skin tight suit of your skin. Doesn't that feel better? 1168 01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:39.359 Then, instead of reaching out and assaulting a woman, maybe you reach 1169 01:35:39.439 --> 01:35:44.319 out verbally with a hello, how do you do? And instead of fire, 1170 01:35:44.640 --> 01:35:47.359 breathe kindness in their face. And the best news of all is it's 1171 01:35:47.399 --> 01:35:53.760 completely legal to touch anyone emotionally. So next time, say hello, and 1172 01:35:53.920 --> 01:35:58.119 don't run away before someone can say hello back. And above all us, 1173 01:35:58.680 --> 01:36:04.000 please stop assaulting people in the night. Supert