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this week's podcast, one point one Cryptids. Yeah we uh we uh.
This week, if you hadn't figured it out, this week we're doing an
entire podcast about the Libyans. No, that's just a case of shiny pinball
parts, that's right. Yeah, Nope, this week we're actually doing times
slips. That's right, tiny little tears in time that people tumble through on
accident. It's almost like a Hollow Earth story, but in chronological order.
This comes directly to us from a listener. Yep, there's a listener request,
Hayton, Bob. That's right. You say do it, then we
do it. That's how it works. Yep. We're like little puppets on
a string, sexy sexy puppets. So thanks by for I'm ashamed of it.
It should be. Um, thanks thanks for sending this in, Bob.
Yeah, it's this has been a lot of fun. One of those
uh subjects that we had on the list. We would have gotten to it,
but but you just sort of little fire under our asses, Bob,
and we we responded accordingly, We responded by removing our pants. Wait.
Wait, so for this episode, we're going to talk about what a time
slip is. Yep, we're gonna talk about, you know, how often
they happen, what happens during a time slip, and possible explanations for them.
Yeah, and there's there's more to this than I had anticipated. Yeah,
there is. Although this is another subject where you really kind of have
to dig through the garbage of the internet yep, to find that ring that
some schmo has thrown out either down the garbage disposal or dropped it down the
turlet yep, the engagement ring, the classic all right, good call,
all right, you brought it, you brought it back. This is a
lot of fun. You have to to really sort it out. Because there
was an old British show called time slips. Yep. That's that's gotten its
its stinch on on most things. And how many times are we going to
get by the BBC because you're notice it's just British shows that are messing with
us so far. Yes, it's absolutely true. Now, one thing that
I see. I enjoyed the sifting because there is Also this also has a
really good kind of like our our EVP, where we should almost classify the
quality of these tales. Yeah, there is like an A, B,
and C level, and I enjoy like the G level stories like the ones
that you're like, honestly, how bored are you that you decided that the
unixed that that's somehow you you fell through to time instead of just taking a
nap. A lot of the information that is out there, it repeats itself.
Yeah, yeah, I found that. And uh, keep in mind
now time slips hugely theoretical. Yes, I mean when when we're talking paranormal
here, which we love to to get in that hot tub and just you
know far oh yeah, so um we're already living in that in that world
and everything. But this one, this one has very few solid leads on
if these things are real or what causes them. I think I can throw
down a little bit in this league. I have. I have a minor
in physics, had a lot of books about physics. I can discuss that.
I think, Yeah, yeah, I think we can. We can.
We can knock that ball around I discussing it. I think you can
do so at nauseum, right, and you know when there is a weird
almost belief system in it, like people. This is that that part where
people believe in science the way put people believe in religion, like they've they
haven't read the Bible and they haven't read a textbook, but they believe in
one or the other. And with this you also have to go along with
that thing where you you kind of got to trust what they're saying, what
they're telling you, because unless you've experienced it yourself, you're only going on
what somebody has relayed to you from their experience. Yeah, and these these
these the tales, the stories of accounts of time slips, they read like
ghost stories. They they're like ghost stories that are supposed to include that that
somehow incorporate this temporal phenomenon that's that that is supposed to spontaneously occur sometimes.
Yeah, speaking of of that, this one lives kind of in the same
world as the VP, where you you do kind of have to take the
people's word for it, you know, and unless they're just a big old
foolers, then uh, and they they tell you what they've experienced and then
you you go from there. So, um, let's let's get into it
and see what we think here. Yeah, so time slips also called time
shifts, time warps, dimensional anomalies, time slippy slide. Yeah, they're
supposed phenomena where in a person or a group of people suddenly find themselves in
the past or the future, or see a scene play out before them of
the past or the future. And this phenomena is a form of physical time
travel. Though how it happens, like we said, total mystery. Yeah,
and the transition from the present to the alternate timeline the past or the
future, it's it's sort of unknown, which is why I kind of brought
up the Hollow Earth. It has that same thing, like, well,
I knew where I was, and then I was somewhere I didn't recognize.
Yeah, there's there's never like a bolt of lightning or a moment of break.
You never never like a window that you actually physically stepped through or anything
like a doorway or gate, you know, And I did see. I
was actually intrigued by this because I started when I did my research, you
know, I started going through time slips and stories about that about people finding
themselves in other places, and I was reminded and I was surprised. I
didn't come up initially. I had to kind of then track it down separately,
those stories about um time slips in the bern Bermuda Triangle, aircraft being
in the air for an hour out of you know, Florida, but being
way further ahead than they should have been even based on their fuel consumption and
things like that, those sort of time leaps that happened, and I couldn't
I didn't find that when I was just looking for time slips. I had
to look within the realm of the Bermuda Triangle mythology and stories. But the
thing that I found interesting is that a lot of these time slip stories,
as well as a lot of the Bermuda Triangle stories include a dense gray fog.
Interesting. I found that that was that was real, that was present,
and I'd say at least seventy five percent of this of the accounts that
I I read, one that had that as well, although I just found
one story that that I had that. Well, I think everyone at this
point knows I do the more thorough research, So yeah, I know I
and and literally no one thinks that really everyone knows. What I was trying
to say is all your stuff is bullshit. Yep, all the things that
I've just made up as I speak agree with me. It's interesting that you
bring that up to because I have noted that it's not to be confused totally
with missing time, right, which is that phenomenon that that you lose an
hour like some you look down at the clock, it's nine o'clock, and
then maybe you're you're driving along for like five minutes and you look down and
it's and it's two in the morning. Right. You know, that's sort
of a thing that's connected more with UFOs or close encounters, although missing time
could be related to or caused by time slips. Yeah, and I think
another home that is that the time slips always return you home, you make
it back to your own time. I guess one could say that that lost
time is just a one white time slip. Yeah, you're propelled seven hours
into the future, right right, Yeah, it's sort of like squares and
rectangles at this point. Yeah. Time slips are generally reported to last only
a short time, from moments to several minutes, although there is a famous
case of two British couples on holiday in France that experienced time slip that lasts
almost a day. And we'll get to this story because it's it's one of
the more famous ones. Yeah, I would supposed to call it the famous
one. Yeah, when the time slips happen. When these events happen,
some people report just watching them, just being witnesses or observing the scene played
out. Some people report actually interacting or participating in them. Yeah, that's
that's the interesting part with these. I think that some people can actually speak
to to whoever's there in front of them. Uh, they can touch and
feel and do everything that they normally would do it if as if they were
in that time. Yeah, and that in that scene or whatever whatever's happening.
And likewise, the location of a time slip usually remains the same area
that you're already in, just just at a different time. But sometimes the
location that the event shows are nowhere near the area that happens in, So
there's actually like a physical as well as a temporal relocation. Yeah, that's
now a couple of the stories that I read. Yeah, that's that was
the case. Now, I didn't run across any of those. I didn't.
All the ones that I had were always just the same place, different
times. Yeah, And usually that's I mean the most common ones, that's
what you're going to find, but apparently there are some that can transport you
through space as well as time. Weird. Some people report and this is
another kind of like take this with a grain of salt too, but some
people report uneasiness or feelings akin to depression, or maybe even a sense of
a natural cold when the experience starts. It varies wildly. I think from
story to story, like some people don't nothing, they don't notice anything,
and then some people are like, oh do you feel cold? Yeah,
what's that night doing? Writing towards us dinosaurs. So let's get into some
examples of these, so you you give their sense of what we're talking to
break it down. I'm going to start out with this one we just mentioned.
It's called the Simpson Gisbee case, and it was made popular by the
nineteen seventy nine IV United Kingdom show Strange but True, And I think this
is probably why this is the most famous, at least at the top,
you know, of the of the famous stories out there of time slips.
This show I think helped it a lot. And you can find this this
episode on the utube's So that's I mean This is just like like a British
unsolved Mysteries right all right, minus Robert Stack So how good could it be?
His name was Nigel Stackthorne. Oh damn it, see I went,
I went shooting my mouth off about all the fact you had to do a
same more door man. So these two English couples are on holiday. They're
on the way to Spain via France. They stop at this little rural countryside
hotel. It's it's kind of like an antiquated bed and breakfast type type place.
And they go in and they they don't speak a lot of fringe,
but they speak enough to you know, get their rooms and have a meal
and everything. And they put their stuff down in their rooms, and they
noticed the rooms are a real basic, you know, nothing fancy at all,
even down to the cloth and the texture of the bedding was a little
different from what they were used to, all the way down to the napoleon
that was eating in the kitchen. And then they checked the windows because it
was it was getting colder in the night, and they found that the windows
didn't have any glass in them. They were just shutters that were open.
They had to draw the shutters close, so they thought that was weird,
but you know whatever, it's it's rural France. What what do you expect.
This is in nineteen seventy nine, by the way, no one expects
anything from rural France. Uh So then they go down and they have their
dinner, and the dinner was great. Apparently, the knives and the forks
and their their utensils and things, they all seemed weird to them, at
least outdated some somehow or another, or or just you know, they hadn't
seen utensils like that before, basically, but they didn't mind, and they
didn't they didn't speak enough French to to ask about it really, so they
just went on, you know with it. Ed, Um, the the
fork looks different from what we you know what, just just forget about it.
Bring me uh la framange. I don't know anything about salted cattle.
Um just used all of my French to say, what is the date?
And then like, yeah, I think it was in the like seventeen eighty
something. Yeah, I said some French, well well done, thank you,
well done, and I played the part of the confused Englishman. And
so they they get up in the morning, they have breakfast. They noticed
two policemen walk in and the policemen are wearing some strange uniforms, nothing like
they've seen from I guess French cops. But again they didn't think much of
it. They were just excited to get to Spain. They went up to
ask what the bill was and apparently it was just eighteen francs for the lot
of them, for for both couples. Some lag Yeah, and uh,
that surprised them a lot, because you know, you spend the night,
have dinner and breakfast and everything, and for just eighteen francs. But again
they were like, well, you know, who are we to question this,
and we can't because we don't speak French. The place didn't even have
windows, of course, it's cheap. But they enjoyed themselves and they they
took some pictures outside with each other in the place, in the background everything,
and then they took off and went on to Spain and had a jolly
old time. Tay three of a vacation. We stayed in a French tone,
took pictures out front, sent postcards to Mum, love Nigel ps.
No glass in the windows, cheeky pastids. So on the way back they
said, well, you know what, we enjoyed that quite a bit.
A plus, it was cheap, so they were gonna find it, find
this little ben breakfast and stay there again. Well, they apparently drove back
to the area that they had found it in and continued driving, driving around
up and down the these roads and sort of over the rural countryside. Could
not find this place at all. So they gave up and they went on
went home. And then a little while loaded later, they got their film
developed, and they noticed that all the pictures that they had taken at this
hotel were blank. They did not develop. And that was true for both
couples, who apparently discovered this separately, and then you know, phoned each
other on the telly and discussed it. And then they started doing a little
research about the dress at the time, the clothing and style, and found
that policemen wore those uniforms that they saw around the turn of the century,
nineteen hundred and so they are convinced that somehow they had a time slip that
allowed them to stay at this place overnight from nineteen hundred, even though the
year was nineteen seventy nine. So now that's interesting, like on a number
of levels. Yeah, like I keep keying in on the photographs. Okay,
that the photos didn't work, that they didn't develop. Yea, that
they didn't develop. Now, but I would like to know, like did
they develop? Did they not develop in that those photos were maybe the negatives
were not exposed at all, maybe just like as though they were advanced through
the camera without ever seeing light or were they over exposed? Yeah, and
they try to clear that up by saying, well, the rest of the
photos turned out fine, Yeah, we knew what we were doing. It
wasn't like we just had a lapse of how to take pictures. But but
yeah, even the photos and the negatives were were blank when they came out.
M I mean, and it's it is. It is one of the
things where you kind of you have to take their word for it. But
why not, this is a boring part podcast if we don't, so let's
do it. Uh. The other thing people key in on is the modern
money that was apparently accepted. Oh yeah, Now this comes up in other
stories from from what I read, where there is an exchange of money or
there is you know, some some type of thing like that where it's taken
without question and the the person who is from the more modern times. They
aren't questioned or looked at oddly by whoever's in the past. It's almost as
if when they show up, they're somehow dressed the same way. Their money
is the same currency, so they so the people inhabiting this this pocket,
for lack of a better word, see the people who have entered it as
as peers, that's as as normal for their era. That that's a theory,
but that may not have anything to do with it. If if this
were more along the lines of like a ghost situation, yeah, then it
probably wouldn't mat are at all to the ghosts or the spirits or the scene
that's played out. This is where your your mind just starts going, wait
on me on at well, And that's say And that's the thing that I've
that I've been kind of grappling with since I started reading these stories is that
there's there's so much of this that is I mean, there are almost two
different ways you can explain the same thing. There's the time slip theory and
then there's what we already have covered in like two different podcasts now, the
ghost theory, where the ghosts are just you know, the spirit of the
energy of that place is reliving the same event over and over and people just
wander through it and they'll either interact with it or they won't, which is
say also true for these stories, for these time slip stories, and when
they do, when they are interactive, they don't seem to recognize the person
they're interacting with as being outside of what they're experiencing. Right, So I
almost feel like these kind of our ghost stories, like and you could you
could say the same thing that the like a ghost that's inhabiting a building is
experiencing a time slip where it's getting projected into the future. Could be sure,
you know, I think that you, if if you really wanted to,
could make a case that we're almost talking like the same issue but from
two different angles. Yeah. Well yeah, I guess I have the beholder
kind of thing, right. But the thing that trips me up about because
we're talking about residual haunting, basically I'll just go on to throw that out
there instead of waiting for it. Um, it's it's it's the residual haunting
where where that that scene keeps getting getting played out. But to me,
something like that, it's not going to have that tactile since. Yeah,
there is a huge amount of interaction that none of the ghost stories ever had.
Yeah and up tune, including I mean, eating food, sleeping in
the beds, Yeah, you know, touching stuff. Here's a good question
that those English vacationers poop. I'm sure they did. I'm sure they dropped
a royal deuce, a real fucking shy, A screamer, which is what
we called it back when I was in middle school. A ship bridge,
the old Shropshire drop sea. That's British poops. That's what we're doing tonight.
Oh wow, doesn't count, does not count. A dover rover.
This could go on for a while. I'm gonna squash it right now.
Yeah, and that, and you're right, there's that huge amount of interactivity
with it that does make it very unique. A lot of the stories that
I read that are not honestly interesting enough to really go into individually have these
elements of oh, we went to a place and we saw how on a
hill or a building, and then we left and when we came back there
was nothing there, and I mean nothing that anything was ever there, but
maybe like an old long since filled in foundation or something right and those are.
I was like, really ghost story ish more than to me than than
time slip. Yeah, but there are some better time slip examples. I've
got one for you. Go for it now. The famous psychologist Carl Young,
yeah, a man of science and not of Phallus's um, had had
an experience himself. So Carl Young was traveling through Italy in the nineteen thirties
and he, like any good tourists, went to go see a Roman tomb
for an empress in Ravenna. And he was just blown away with the beauty
of these mosaics. And they were you know, like kind of like um
maritime boats and whatnot. They were on the walls of the tomb. Yeah,
and they they, as he described it, they had this this pale,
this eeriely pale blue light, and he was just entranced by them and
just stared at him. And when he left, he even tried to find
the gift shop. He wanted some some pictures, like some postcards of these
things. Couldn't find anything. So later a friend of his was also traveling
to the same place, and he said, hey, will you do me
a favor. I'm still hooked on those those mosaics. Will you grab me
some postcards? They didn't have any when I was there, and to be
honest, it really pissed me off. And I'm I'm faking mad about it.
I know he didn't say that, Carl, you never said that.
So his friend goes tries to get these postcards and comes back and was like,
hey, Carl, you're a psychologist and you're crazy dog. Because it
turns out the mosaics that he had seen and described were completely different from those
mosaics that are actually there. However, thundersound they did exist exactly as he
described them seven hundred years ago, but they had been destroyed in a fire.
Whoa Now Young was positive that he had somehow his consciousness had traveled back
in time and he was seeing it as it appeared fourteen hundred years ago.
I'm glad that's the only conclusion he could draw from there. Well, he's
a man of science, so he has got his brain travels through time.
But it is it is a hell of a thing that he was able that
he was able to describe something with without any knowledge. He's a psychology,
he's not an archaeologist. Yeah, he just thought they were really cool looking,
you know, I think I like this story because despite the fact that
he was he ended up being very famous in his field. He had a
very honest reaction. He's like, oh, I saw this thing and I
really liked it, and I tried to get a postcard and I couldn't.
You know, he didn't run out of there acting like anything was unusual,
and it took some time for the fact that something had happened to actually come
to light. That's true, which I think. I think that that story
a ton of credence. What a strange thing though, for just the mosaics
to be different. Right now, the mosaics were the things he noticed,
true, and it's very possible that the rest of it was also different,
but they that those portions had been largely unchanged because you remember me, he's
going through a Roman mausoleum. Everything's gonna look foreign and old. Yeah yeah.
Yeah. It doesn't say anything about the tombs being extra clean or anything
like that, like they were just built like a hundred years ago or something.
Yeah. No, he just he just thought that they were They were
just really amazing. So I like that story. I have. I think
that's a really credible account. Cool. I got a I got another one
here. All right, this is another one of those famous cases. Now,
this one, this one you'll find out there pretty pretty easily. It's
it's well documented, and that's that's all I'll say about that. It's it's
called the Moberly Jordan incident. I like that. It's called an incident that
implies that someone got killed. Yeah, yeah, but they didn't. It's
like a massacre. Nothing happened. Some credibility might have. But oh all
right, I like where this is good. They didn't take the slight flavor
of snark. Yeah, there were there were two, two women. One
was named charlottean Moberly and the other was Eleanor Jordan, and they were they
were English ladies. But yeah, it's nineteen o one. The year's nineteen
oh one. Horse less carriages, I'm starting to appear all over the land.
They take this trip to Versailles in France. They're they're pretty pretty well
brought up. So we've got some English people going on a vacation to France.
Now our listeners have fallen through the time slip. These two ladies.
Uh, they're no jack fools here, No, No, these are like
super educated schoolmarms. Yeah, like one's a daughter bishop. No scullery maids
here now now right, proper ladies they were, that's right, No battle
axes here, spit and polish everything, prim and proper. Out for a
bit to the wonder to France. So they go to the palace at Versailles
and they're checking it out, and they decide to to go to this little
chateau that's on the grounds check it out. And then they get there,
they find out this chateau was closed down. So they they decide, well,
that's too bad. Let's go back to h let's go back to our
party that we were with and and call it a day. They tried to
get back, and all of a sudden they found they were lost. Well,
they look around trying to figure out where to where they need to go.
Ye, they come across some roads, some paths, some lanes.
They find a lane to go down and they start walking down it, and
uh, they see this old, little old farmhouse. Plow was out front.
Didn't look normal to them, Well, and it didn't it didn't look
like anything at all to one of them, because only one of them actually
saw that farmhouse. Oh that's right, that's right. So Jordaane noticed this
cottage, and I apologize for the repeated pinging of my heater. There's just
nothing to be done for it. It's just chiming every six seconds. Now
you're welcome. How Englishmen, Yeah, think of it as big Ben.
So at that point they claimed that there was this dreariness that came over them,
this feeling of foreboding and the oppressive. Yeah, something weird they started
feeling. So they keep going and they both see this man in a cloak
in a large shady hat. They describe him as being just ugly, as
he's a bucket full of wards and then some Yeah, his face is all
jacked up from smallpox, got dark complexion, and he tries to hide it
with a rather festive chapeau that they describe flora as a large sombrero, large
French a sombrero, which is that it's it's just with eaux at the end.
That's how that's how you make a sombrero French. No no I.
So he tells them how to get back to to where they need to go.
So then they crossed the bridge. They get into the gardens that that
are in front of the palace, and who should they spy in that garden
sketching her a little hard out. Moberly noticed this, this lady sketching on
the grass and said that she was She was in an old fashioned, old
timey dress. Now this was old fashioned to nineteen oh one, so it's
functionally like a leopard pelt. She had lots of lots of hair. I
thought she was a tourist at first, but then decided nope, Marie Antoinette.
Yep, nobody else famous Marie Antoinette. I do. I just I
like these stories. It's like when everyone claims that they they like that they
have royalty right right, you know, right like in a past life.
Yeah, I just have no belief that, like, oh yeah I stepped
onto these gardens just in time to kick Napoleon and the balls and then laugh.
But the weird thing is George Aten didn't see this lady. Yeah there
was only yeah only almost likely saw her, just like before when when Jordane
had seen the cottage, but Moberley didn't see the cottage. So so if
we were like gonna like nypd CSI this, well, this is the part
we say, well, there's stories don't match up, and we and we'll
have a pun in there too, right, then we take our glasses off
and then the who get to play and yeah, we gotta do a pun
first bore before we earn that. Yeah, that's true. I think the
challenge I got it. I think that we're gonna have time to do that.
Yeah. Oh no, wait looks wait wait wait wait wait, wait
to start it all over record. I think we'll have time to slip that
in. Yeah. Oh. When this woman told me she saw Marie Antoinette,
I thought she'd lost her head. Yeah, oh god, why aren't
we writing for the c S I NYPD, didn't ciss of the world?
Oh man, free punts for you, all right? So one lady of
our lost play they see Marie Antoinette. They identify her from a portrait once
they get back to Versa. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the woman
that was sketching. And again I I love like this is this is reminder.
I remember this is the Moberly Jordaane incident. And with every incident there's
an aftermath. What's that aftermath that they go through sticko or that we are
subjected to well in order to create the most hysteria. They mentioned the incident
to no one. Okay, yeah, they tell nobody because at that point
she's like, oh, do you think this place is haunted? Because we
definitely saw something that no one else did. And again, this is kind
of where the genteel educated ladies come out, because they they both talk to
each other and they realize that they they both saw some things that no one
else did. And I give them points for this. They each write out
their accounts separately, which is why you have these these these differences. Um,
they decide not to not to just spill all the beans, like you
write what you saw, all write what I saw, and let see how
batch crazy we turn out to be. And uh, and that's why you
get these differences in their stories about who saw what. Now. They they
after they read each other's accounts and found that there was a lot of consistencies,
they decided to go back and they were never able to. And this
is this is the the the hands down calling card of a time slip.
They were never able to recreate their path or find that place again. Yea,
I have heard that somebody somebody around there was doing kind of like cosplay
or doing sort of a reenactment at the time. And they said, well,
that's probably what they stumbled upon. That just people doing reenactment. I
mean that that sounds like that sounds dumb to me as well, but I
don't know, man. Yeah. And then they go so far as to
say they believe that the man that they saw, they recognized him as being
a friend of Marie Antoinette, the Comptu Vaudoiu and uh, he was supposed
to be famous, famously jacked up in the face yep, really really known
as you know, the ugly guy. Yeah, with the sombrero. He
probably it was just a perfectly normal looking guy, but everyone hated that sombrero
so much that whenever they described him, like in history books, they're like,
oh, yeah, he was so ugly, hit a boil on his
eyeball, and ravaged by small pox. Oh yeah, he had to wear
a huge brimmed hat. Oh yeah, and every time he talked he would
talk about how his genitals didn't work. I remember that. Really clearly looks
like this is someone who couldn't think outside the pox. Yeah, man,
that's did you let me have that one? Or did you? All?
Right? Um? I all I could think of as while I was screaming
yeah, into the microphone. How unpleasant that's going to be for our listeners.
And I'm sorry, I'll try to do the best i can mute out
a little bit. Um. But they did finally find an old map of
the grounds that did show like the gardens, the bridge that they crossed,
everything that seemed to really uh line up with their story. They decided to
publish their findings in a book in nineteen eleven, but they used fake names
pseudonyms, so no one would know that they were crazy and every like everyone
you know, like it was a it was a big deal. Um.
Critics didn't think it was real. Even the Society for Psychical Research and yeah,
that's that's what it was called, did a review of the book and
they were like, no, these you know, these bitches cray dog anything.
They're seeing things. Let's talk about some more psychical stuff. The identity
of the ladies who published this wasn't even made public knowledge until thirty one and
then I don't know, like then they claimed, we've had many other paranormal
experiences before and after. What what do you think? Man? Now,
I'm not I'm not buying it at all. I mean to me this I
mean it's males like old French fromage yep. This is just the season,
this think you This is where we change Mayored to Merlin. Yeah, yeah,
this is I agree. And man, this is like biddie quest,
Like this is just like two ladies, you know, like when when moms
get together for margaritea night and just all hell breaks loose. Yeah, this
is what happens. Like they went on a vacation and then I'm surprised the
Wuiji board doesn't come up in here somewhere right right. These guys they just
they were having fun and then they got the giggles and then they were just
like no, let's just keep going capitalize on that. Right. I don't
know this story I'm gonna go with bunk could have happened, could have could
have been fine. It could have been fine. I mean, like we
said, you know, but I don't know what who now. Having grown
up in the in the church as it were, I think everyone who grows
up in a religious environment knows that it's the kids. It's the preachers,
kids that go buck wild. Simpson's dead at yep. So yeah, there's
that when you can read up about it on in a web there's plenty of
stuff on it. You can decide for yourself. I've got a chilling tale
for you, mister Flora, do you Yeah, let's hear it. This
is about jim and his buddy John, because we're not using their real names
to protect their identities. And this happened in the early nineteen seventies. It's
about Jimmy Jones. It's about the foundation of a sandwich empire. So they
went on a hunting trip to Tennessee and they're from Pennsylvania, but they rode
to Tennessee to go hunting. After a week, they decide, oh,
let's let's head on back home. And the where they were hunting was somewhat
remote, so there's a long dirt road and it's a good thing they weren't
hitting in like a city or anything. Right, we're going hunting. Where
are you going, Nashville. We're gonna beg guess one of them guitar folk.
We'll look for a cougar for someone watched them tape in episode of he
Hall. This is the seventies. So they're driving and they've been driving for
a while and again you get this this moment where things start to feel on
somewhat different or weird, and they describe the fog. They look in the
rearview mirror. There's there's fog behind them, not in front of them,
and it's just obscuring everything. It's just like there's nothing behind them. The
drivers like, hey, you know, John, do you do you know
what I say? I thing. He's like, yeah, this fog is
it's kind of all over the place behind us, but we're not driving through
it. It's just behind us. Oh yeah, this FuG Jimmy, Jimmy,
it's on a tail. What do we do me? I'm so glad
you said something. I was over here my pants thinking I don't know,
maybe I'm gonna Hunter's namelist. I mean, we need to get out father
from the city. After all these days, you would think I'd learn I
can be emotionally honest with you. We haven't anything, Jimmy, anything stopping
how we deserve what the fox's bringing on? Nah, keep going, stop
with this fog. We're making this story so much better than it's going to
end up our version. Yes, so much better. Yes, spoiler alert,
this story sucks. Okay, So back to the terror. Back to
the terror. So they noticed the fog they keep going. Then they approached
this intersection and they realize they're right back at the beginning of their trip.
Oh, they're right back where they started two hours away. That sucks.
Yeah, so they're like, what how did we get back here? Now
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, I don't know. They
got lost. And this is this is why I love this story, because
it's it's such a great dumb story. According to the writer of this story,
who's protecting their names, not using their real names unless they lose their
jobs at truck stops, that they had not driven in the circle, and
according to the odometer and the gas gauge, they had only traveled one way.
Because both of those things will give you directional information. There is nothing
that would tell you you would have traveled two ways in a car. Nope,
okay, keep going. That's it fair enough. I told you.
I told you that what I left the good stories to you, and I
just sought out like the really bad ones. And man, I thought it
was a great bad story. Like, ill, let's just go back to
Pennsylvania, John John, I got terrible news. I just checked the gas
gauge and the Oldomino We've been only going but one direction. What I swear
we went all over the place back there, Jimmy oh Man. Sounds like
their sense of directions been running on him. Yea, oh god, we
are no because we no more. We have to we we have puns to
do. We're burning our punsh There's apparently Liverpool in England has a has a
its fair share of time slips. I'm so glad you have a story from
Liverpool because I heard it reference. They kept like, I found three or
four different places they were like, well, the well known occurrences of Liverpool.
There's a street in Liverpool. I'm not gonna regale you with a whole
story. Okay, there's apparently a street that's famous for people slipping in and
out of the past on a lot of bars on that street. No,
like a tailor or something or something, I don't know, something old timey
cobbler. Yeah, they're all maker, I don't know, wheelwright a car
right. Yeah. So apparently apparently a lot of stuff happens in Liverpool.
Yeah, yeah, I saw that. I saw that mentioned a bunch.
One story I found was of this couple who were hiking in Haiti and they
had this weird sense come over them and suddenly they they were on like the
cobblestone streets of France, of like eighteenth or nineteenth century France, and it
was enough for them to have to like sit down and and like talk about
it. Sit down on the curb and uh. And they were describing things
for each other that they could both see and stuff. And then um,
they noticed that that a companion of theirs was up ahead of them and was
getting out of sight. So they kind of called out to him, and
he came back to them, and suddenly they were back in Haiti and he
had experienced none of this. Yeah, so that's that was one of the
ones that I read about going through space as well as time. Yeah,
it's strange. And I'll leave us there with with the stories because I want
to get into the explanations. Yeah. Yeah, let's let's get into that
side of it. But I encourage you guys listening to go out and and
try to find some stories of these that people mostly a lot of stories on
kind of like forms or sites that talk about time slips. They'll have you
know, listeners right in and and discuss it a little bit. But for
the explanations. It's this section is right up there with none of this stuff.
Yeah, we we This is not nothing that that we came up with,
or anybody in particular came up with. This is all. It's just
a big field of theory. I just I just got my metaphorical crowbar out
to open up the biggest woodbound cask of conjecture I've got. Yeah, we'll
start out with a boring explanation for this. Yeah, bore me to tears.
Uh, these are all lies. These are all damn dumb, boring
lies. They're they're hoaxes, they're they're just people fun on you, which
I mean, honest, you could you We could have said that at the
beginning of our first episode. Yeah, that's not why we just exactly so
let's just throw that out. Another boring one though. People are just confused
or mistaken. Yeah, they maybe did take a take a wrong turn.
Take the tragic tale of Jim and John in a hunting trip gone perilously inconvenient.
Yeah they so, so maybe they you know, there are roads out
there. I'm from the South. They check the headlights, they're still facing
forward. There are roads out there that you're driving on and you take a
you take a soft curve, and what you don't know is that you could
have kept going straight right, But it doesn't for you know, especially at
night, it doesn't doesn't really look that way, and you take the soft
curve and all of a sudden you're back in town, right, and then
you gotta reckon what happened? People are looking at you in that town.
It's in France. How come everyone goes to France? I don't know.
You notice that Frances is the epicenter of a lot of this crap? Yeah,
no one, No one goes to like good Dance. Nope, I
will one day, Yeah, lenningrad Bora, Bora. So let's get on
with some neater explanations. Yeah one, that one that's not too boring,
but but still kind of dumb. People are asleep, They just kind of
fall asleep and they experience this and wait, it's almost like a sleep walking
state, a lucid dream. Yeah, yeah, let's call it that,
okay, And I can see that, you know, if you, if
you're a British lady who've been walking for longer than you you're used to you
maybe you call it fall into kind of a walking days. Yeah, But
the thing that that doesn't explain is how multiple are groups of people right experience
that? So what if people actually travel through time? Yeah, all right,
let's let's get to the nasty. Yeah, what if what if they
actually do that? Or like we said, a scene has been imprinted on
an area and people are seeing a residual haunting going on that, as we
mentioned, that doesn't really explain the interactions as much. So what if people
are suddenly in another time? Let's say they do travel through time, they're
suddenly back in the pastor or something. What would cause that? Could it
be electromagnetic energy? That maybe is like you said before, a little pocket
causes a little little window to open up where you stepped through and you don't
even know it. This was experimented with by Tesla and he was I think
convinced that there may be a way to breach time and or space or warp
it to create a doorway using highly charged, rotating magnetic fields. Now my
question is does that mean that these could naturally occur? And are they dangerous?
If so? Well, because nobody in these stories really had any danger.
No. No, And I'll say this, like just before we even
get into the conjecture of it. I mean, as a stated fact,
time is malleable. It is not a universal constant, and it kind of
shares a few interesting things like with light. For example, for all observers,
regardless of their individual motion, the speed of light is always the same.
Right, So if I'm on, if I'm standing still, and you're
in a car going eighty eight miles per hour, we will still both observe
light as going the same exact speed. Yeah, that flex sur pastor is
really starting to hum by the w right, But in the same thing for
time, for each individual observer, time will always pass at the same rate.
However, the faster you go, you do experience a time dilation.
Theoretical physics really actually does teach us a lot about what could happen, especially
with time yep. In this like you said now, Einstein described something he
called spacetime YEP, which is, according to him, affected by gravity.
It can be bent or warped. You already made for me to drop a
nugget on you. Let's do it. Using a long equation called Rieman's metric
tensor, one can actually calculate the exact amount of spacetime curvature within a gravitational
field, thus determining the distortion of time within that field. Babboon, Yeah,
I'm drinking a beer. Think of it this way. The classic example
is have a you have a big sheet of rubber that's stretched out and you
drop a bowling ball in the middle of it. Yep. That rubber represents
space time yep, And the bowling ball represents the Earth or another huge mass,
any any center of mass, and so if you roll a smaller ball
around it, it's going to be affected by that curvature that happens. Now,
I can't get it in my head to make a three D model of
that. The two D model works great, but I cannot in my for
the life of me, you know, a picture, and probably because I'm
stuck here in the drudging third dimension. But I bet Jin could do it.
This has got odometers to help him, so he's got a lot more
gear. Only if you're rolling that ball in one direction. So that's that's
what we're dealing with in terms of spacetime and gravity and stuff. But another
fun thing that he came up with was the faster than light travel Yep,
going faster than light since light speed is a constant to us, going faster
than light actually makes the lighter the whatever is traveling at the speed of light
appear to go backward. Yes. So to make to make this kind of
simple, imagine you made a phone call to some very distant place, and
when I say distant, I mean Jupiter, like, very very fat.
If you were able to travel faster than light, you would be able to
initiate that phone call and answer it simultaneous to you in the present making the
phone call, even though because you have traveled faster than because the light is
our speed limit for everything, right, right, and by by being able
to some if you were able to somehow circumvent that, by if you were
able to go faster than light, you've circumvented our perception of time, right,
So you would you would be simultaneously talking to yourself on the other side
in Kazakhstan the success body, thanks for caller, No, I know you're
called the phone the call you made, Yeah, so I think of it.
Also is if if you're shooting a laser from point A to point B,
the laser is actually going to show up at point B before you shoot
it from point A. Yep, Although tatularly since the laser is light,
I mean, the hell of a trick. Well it's it's a fashion light
laser. So there you go, ftll fuckle. So wrap that around your
brains. The problem is it's supposed to take an infinite amount of energy to
increase anything that is slower than the speed of light, yep, to get
it to go to the speed of light. Yeah, that's and that's that's
the classic exchange of equals mc squared. Your energy is equal to your mass
times the speed of light squared. As that speed of light squared, half
of the equation goes up, E also has to go up to balance it.
So as you get closer to the speed of light, eventually it requires
an infinite amount of energy to hit what is the ultimate speed limit. Yeah,
and so that's why that's how that that curve be just goes exponentially to
an assom tote, as they say, unless there are particles that always move
faster than the speed of light, which you know theoretically they have positive Hell,
they've they claimed it. They claimed that it happened at CERN just last
year, but then it turned out they were Rizon. Somebody called divat on
that. That's right, those those new trinos they were behaving, so anyway,
faster and lie travel. That's that's that's the radical physics that we'll get
into in our podcast about about ghosts and Springhill. Jack's let's talk some more,
YEP, about theoretical physics. Gravitational time dilation is a nineteen oh seventh
theory by the Einstein, famous, the famous Albert Einstein, which has since
been confirmed on a number of times. It's a difference of elapsed time between
two events from observers of different gravitational masses. To simply put, the more
gravity there is, the slower time passes. YEP. The astronauts from the
Apollo mission they experienced one point zero zero zero one second. They live that
far in the future from us. Yeah, because of their time spent in
such a low gravity environment, they're not as close to the Earth. Once
again, thank you, Niel de grass Tyson. The closer you are to
the to the core of the Earth or the center of the crust, if
you're if you're a hollow earth near the near the gigantic grape fields, the
slower time time's gonna move for you, which I have to assume if you
are, if you were able to stand on the surface of the Sun.
That's gonna be a long day. Yeah right, you're gonna burn well time,
time's gonna gonna be taken pretty slow for you. Yeah. Now there's
a great extreme example of this. U. Sun's not extreme enough for you.
Thanks, Well, maybe you should meet my friend the black hole.
It's got chunks of your son and it's stool. Literally, it's uh.
Say you're on a radio and you plummet in a rocket into a black hole.
Now it will require at a radio, Yeah, you're you're transmitting.
Oh okay, you're transmitting. You're you're, you're you're live blogging your descent
into the black hole. Omg og um. Now, granted, it would
require a huge amount of compression technology decompression technology, because your signal be elongated.
But you will literally be transmitting your scream for millions of years because you'll
your time dilation will be so great as you enter as such an extreme well
of gravity, right that you will functionally, eternally be screaming on your radio.
So time slows down. So keep your mouth shut. If you're in
a rocket, nobody wants to hear that noise. No, But if you
are able to just skirt outside that event horizon. The your friend who is
screaming in the black hole, you will, you will age before their eyes,
right because the time's going more quickly for you. Unfortunately, you won't
because they're on the other side of the event horizon, and so nothing that
they can experience will escape that event horizon. They will enter in a well
of darkness. All right, all right, well but you know you,
yes, you're you're gonna Were they able to observe you? Were they able
to observe you if their eyeballs weren't also stretched into spaghetti times? Um,
anyway, that's gravitational time dilation. How about maybe pockets of these floating around
something like that? The hell of a trick, and I think there'd be
a lot of secondary effects, the least of which would be an alteration of
the time gikes. What about if it's a rift or flaw on the fabric
of time allowing for the travel in between. Supposing parallel universes that exist kind
of like how they they They give an example of bubbles, you know,
how bubbles foam up and touch each other, but there's still their own bubble.
There's the thought that maybe parallel universes exists like this, or like membranes
that float parallel to each other and times touch or bleed through one another.
So maybe maybe these are glimpses of these other universes that come into being on
an hour's right. And in that theory, it would be not that you
traveled back to our past, right, but you actually traveled to a parallel
universe that was its age for any number of reasons, was offset these seventy
or one hundred or two hundred years. So you weren't seeing out the Marie
Antrinet. You were seeing there, Marie Antoinette. Yeah, you ever watch
Fringe? I don't I need to. I've been told that by a ton
of people. Does that happen in the show? Yeah? Sort of?
There there they play with parallel universe, a parallel universe. Now I've got
I've got a theory for you in style of the matrix. If you really
want to bake your noodle too late, man. So I read a book
by Julian Barbour called The End of Time, in which it is proposed that
there is no such thing as time, Okay, that it is just kind
of a false construct we've used and incorporated into our our models, but it
doesn't actually exist, and that what we're really measuring is just it s hard
to say this without using time based the wording, but a rate of entropic
decay in our portion of the universe, okay, and that this is just
how long it takes for things to break down, and it seems somewhat constant,
although it's not, and that it can change. The pendulum can swing
back and forth where the rate of entropic decay is actually decreasing, where order
is increasing for an amount of for see again, I'm already saying time again.
It's really hard to divorce yourself from the concept of it. But in
a system like that, it would mean again almost just what you're saying,
like a bubble forms that that you can that you can experience things through.
Clearly, at no point in this book did they discuss time slip, because
there would just be slips. There ain't no time in this book. I've
heard that time is a human construct or a construct of the mind, and
that's that's just used to try and make sense of things in a way to
measure, yeah, what's going on around you, which I guess in this
case would be the entropic decay. I don't know the way this country is
headed. I don't think order is increasing. One of the things that I
think is really interesting is that, you know, you get. One of
the fun I don't know features of quantum mechanics is that that literally, since
things are guided by probability and there's no there are no absolutes, literally anything
can happen. It is it is scientifically plausible that you'll wake up with a
rhinoceros in your room. Yea, that never happens, but it always a
chance. Yeah, there there, it's it's it's down to probability, not
possibility. Yeah, and this is amazing. One of the fun things about
this being a proven fact. So take for example, an electron. Okay,
now that electron is never in one as far as we can tell,
like specifically, we can never know exactly where it is and where it's going
at the same time. That's the Heisenberg uncertainly principles says, you can't know
the position and the velocity at the same time because by knowing one you destroy
the other. The better the better you know a position, the less you
know where it's going, and the more you know where it's going the less,
you know exactly where it is at the moment it's going there. So
what you have for an electron is what they call the probability cloud. It's
somewhere in this area, and as you get closer to the center that cloud,
it's more likely because it's it's like anything else, it's it's more probable
that it's it's near the center of its probability cloud, that it's that it's
it's gone less distance towards the outer and then there's yeah, that's that's when
that happens to me. That center is called my kitchen right out, it's
called the smell. Yeah, but it is true. And even human beings
we have probability clouds. It's really likely at any given moment, if someone
observes you that you'll be closer to your home or your place of work.
You know, there are these clouds, and it's very unlikely that you'll be
an anchorage, Alaska, although it's still possible. Yeah. Um, And
so the same thing for electrons. Now, I'll imagine maybe we're electron what
maybe they are that's nuclear. Now imagine this. This is where things get
really fun to imagine you are, imagine you are an electron, and that
your home is the center. I'm so negative. You're so happy to be
negative. Um, your your home is the center of your electron cloud.
And imagine there is an infinite wall between you and Saint Louis. Saint Louis,
Yeah, I'm all right. So this wall states, this wall is
impenetrable. You can't go over it, you can't go under it, you
can't go through it. Okay, but Bill Goldberg, but it's still he's
Bill Goldberg. Here's that wrestler that used to spear people. He was a
former football player. Let's keep going. Oh you just Greg betholed me.
So imagine there's this wall you're you can't go over it, you can't go
through it, you can't go under it. But there still remains the mathematical
possibility that someday you'll be in in Saint Louis, and someday you will be
in Saint Louis. When someone observes you and electrons do this. It's how
your cell phone work, It's how integrated circuits work. Now that even with
an an impermeable barrier to an electron, it will statistically to the exact same
amount find itself on the other side of that barrier, and how that happens
spooky spooky science science. Yeah, and so there's these kind of quasi magic
checkal things that happen in very down to earth explained physics. Yeah, I
mean, what is magic if not unexplained science, right, and so and
so to that degree, why wouldn't there be this, like you said,
there's these bubble, these these slight openings that can happen, these things that
seem impossible. Yeah, why isn't there a possibility of someone just stepping through
and not even being aware of it and finding themselves surrounded by this and maybe
it's highly unstable and so and so suddenly boom, then it's gone again.
Yep. Doesn't affect the observer, luckily. I've even heard the theory that
you could be walking down the street and suddenly in a in an instant,
you're walking the other direction. There's like a chance all the time that that
could happen to you. Yep. I forget what it's called. I forget
what the theory is or what the phenomenon is. But theoretically, in theoretical
physics, there is a chance out there that that can happen to you.
Yeah, it's and it is so physics is awesome. Yeah, it's awesome
and terrifying. And it only like when when you get I mean to something
as ubiquitous as an electron, where they're moving so much and there's so many
of them that that probability shows up where where it actually that weirdly impossible thing
will happen at a predictable rate. Yeah. You know, when you get
to something as organized as a person, you're probably gonna be just fine.
Just sometimes you could be driving down a country road and regardless of what your
adminter might tell you, you've turned around. Buddy, I asked the proton
if he was sure he didn't kill that guy. He replied, I'm positive.
Yeah. Wow, Oh this this is a tough This is a tough
sell for people. Oh yeah, it's just all puns and physics. That's
what we did this week. It's puns and physics. Hey. I couldn't
be happier. I'm glad that that you sent this in, Bob, Thanks
for sending this in. That's that's time slips. Uh yeah, in a
very theoretical nutshell. Oh man, Yeah, so there you go. We
gave you uh gave you what's what? And why's that? And and just
a whole bunch of chill jabbel who's apple base? Yeah, we we don't
claim to know anything about these things, and I don't. I think most
of science out there doesn't. We only have these fun, fun theories to
talk about. Hopefully we talked about him enough for you. But if you're
interested, go out there and try to try to find out for yourself.
Don't go looking for him, because these things are so random yep, probably
never gonna happen to you. Should just pay attention. Yeah, yeah,
just play attention. I mean I I I've experienced a reverse time slip every
day I'm at work and a drag. But I hope we have whitted your
appetite for puns, because we got a whole lot more we're gonna Yeah,
oh my guys, we haven't wetted your appetite. This is like just dessert
on an all you can eat pun buffet. Good God, I'll go first,
please do. I've got an event where suddenly you're just outside of London
and a giggling irishman bounces up and smacks you. I love this already.
It's called the time slap spring hill jack slap. Yeah you just went through
time. Um, all right, well I've got I've got one. It's
where you are at a international rap competition and you're up on stage and all
of a sudden you find yourself, um throwing down sweet beats and lyrics about
how you're rolling with your gentleman in your model t And that's a it's a
rhyme slip. Will you You find yourself rapping anachronistically, never happened to Diggie
Toots. Never, no, no Diggie Toots. He's all in the present.
Welcome, I have a gourmet spice merchant. Oh god, oh okay,
all right it's called the time slip. Thy yes, yes, all
right, all right, I'm getting I'm getting out of the phrase time slip.
I am. We need that. As I always do. When I
can't come up with a pun, I will come up with a product.
And this one is a television show that I will be pitching two as always,
the now defunct to Up n Time is a one way street? Or
is it thursdays? This fall on up. Two men on a journey to
right the wrongs of the timeline. Jim and John Time hunters, Bong raw
talky'll jam. Where are we? Well, I just check the odometer.
It looks like we're in the future of space. Now, let's hunt us
some time. Two men on a journey to right the wrongs of the timeline
and get back to Pennsylvania at the time of their shift at the tire factory.
Time hunters. That's like, that's taking like quantum leap and samurai jacking
them all. That's right, it's up n's got some great programming. Rip
up N. How it's enough about us. Let's talk about you. Let's
talk about you, and let's talk about you talking about us. Oh yeah,
sounds like it's about time based on this sound listeners. Listener, man,
it's only in the makes. All the boys come to the yard because
they don't want our milk chicks. I'm gonna start this right off the bat
with an ongoing and blurry photos debate. Oh goodness, it is raged for
weeks. Could only be from one listener. That's right. When you want
a long running debate about a terrifying subject, you go to one mister Martin
R. Who still wants to discuss the sharimi. Okay and uh and I
put this out there, and we've got some other input on this that is
probably better than Martin's. Oh, Martin, Martin, you're you're really staying
on the butt thing a lot. Oh man, people, you're hard.
I don't you're Yeah, really, get out of that, really hard on
the butt last. You're in a butt rut, you dude. That's it.
That's the way I put out a challenge to our listeners of just name
something that would be that would be improved if you put an eyeball on it.
You'd be like, oh, yeah, that is better with an eyeball
on it. And in Martin, you bastard. You tried to lawyer me
on this, and I'm not falling for it because he gave me a succinct
list of things that would be improved with an eyeball. For example, he
says, almost any animal species with less successful light sensing organs than a human
would be really happy to see that and thus hunt or flee better. So
like a k fish, yeah, like a or at an eye to a
k fish, is it? Which? Yeah? Or like to one of
those naked mole rats that are blind at a giant human eye to those or
a bat, yeah, anything that can't see as well. But that's not
the point. That's not the point that how disturbing would just a normal bat
be with a human size eye. Exactly where would you put the eye?
It would be too heavy to fly at that point, not improved. He
also adds an eyeball soup, by definition, would be improved by adding eyeballs.
False, oh, false goodness. I think you're confusing eyeballs with paprika.
Right. Also, I think all of our listeners right now are going,
wait a minute, what about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
Right, it's a perfect example, because give me your head, no,
because I'm gonna puke it. Well done? H yeah, because the eyeball
soup was put in there to just horrify and disgust. The less eyeballs and
eyeball soup, the better the soup gets. Chude a monkey brids do we
make that little sound when the top of the head comes off? Um?
Now this one, this one's on the fence. But I'm still not giving
him points because now you've got a grudge about it. Flora, this is
right up your alley. The beholder from Dungeon than dragons, true floating head
with a bunch of eyeballs on stocks. Now it's basically a floating eyeball with
more ancillary eyeball, he says, since each eyeball possesses a new innate magical
ability that would be improved by the edition of an eyeball, so correct.
Yeah, I guess, but that doesn't exist, so so wash. Well
you're calling it a draw on that one. Yeah, you're not wrong,
but you're not right. I don't know. Did you ever see Big Trouble
in a little China? Yeah, kind of kind of had a beholder in
there, right, Well, yeah, I mean I also saw Lord of
the Rings that had a big eyeball at it. Okay, I can't believe
I said that, And then it was like wow, that then meshed together
mortar. Also, now this is where he just gets real beebop and word
jazz on it. About road. Yeah, oh god man, I'm on
a nostalgia train here. No doubt this was some teenage mutant ninja turtles.
There. If in the vastness of space, Martin writes, we find any
floating asteroids have an eyeball, that would turn that inert, lifeless rock into
a new and holy, miraculous species. Of life that would up in both
religion and science for all time. Come on, lard, jeez, cut
the cut the Jordy, no doubt, no, mister wharf, Oh man,
what are you going to use? Louise past the peace? What are
you gonna do? Break the prime directive? Come on, man, Yeah,
that's no even that's an abomination and they would just vaporize it. Yeah,
good luck probe in that too, Yeah, exactly. You wouldn't even
know where to shove the probe. Moving on, Uh, Flora, why
don't you Why don't you bring this one home? Because thanks, thanks Martin
for writing it, because we we like discussing stuff. We do. Even
though I took a pretty adversarial stance to you there, mister Martin R.
Because I feel I feel like you were deliberately dodging the point. I love
it though. It's great. Yeah, it's it's it's still fun to talk
about. But speaking of that, we got another example of what might benefit
from adding an eye to it. Listener Jeff says, if I see a
cyclops with an extra eye, I'd be more to ease. He did it.
That's it, man, he did it. That wins true true story
Right now I granted, yes, Cyclops is no more real than the beholder
was, but the Cyclops is a happier and I'm happier. In the beholder
scenario, I was just gonna get my ass kicked harder. So I still
couldn't say that I would be happier to see a beholder with another eye ran,
but a Cyclops. Everyone's happy when you give a Cyclops an extra eye.
Yeah, even though I guess technically it would still be a giant in
central and the other one would be like normal size and off center, like
looking like a bleed in Picasso. He would get real cubist or like kind
of like sloth a little bit baby Ruth. But the moral of the story
is, Jeff, you did it well played, Jeff. Thank you,
Jeff. Our good friend Martin is going to be so pissed that we called
someone else the winner on that one. Thanks for playing along, though,
Yeah, please continue to I enjoy these little chess matches. Uh. Friend
of the podcast Mel Evans writes in about our Merlin episode, she says,
dudes, that's us. I'd like to point out that in pop culture wizard
news, there are many wizards. In the work of Stephen King, including
Martin Broadcloak raya of the Couse Flag Magician and possibly Randolph Flag also the Meyer
Wizard. There's is that? Is that their their mascot Mayer is in the
store. Mel. I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but
no, but you know what, Thank you, Mel for giving us a
list of wizards. Are these I'm going I ask you mail? Are these
from? What is it? Dark Tower? The Dark Tower? Is that?
Who is that? Does that have wizards in it? I don't know.
It hasn't been read a gunslinger, right, Yeah, I wish I
had read that. The last Stephen King book I read was Dolores Clayborne and
and that was a long time ago, and that was such an awful book
that I never went back. Yeahikes. Now, but I will say this
now, Mel Evans, I have a gift for you. Oh geez.
Did you know, Mel Evans, that it is possible for you to write
your first name in looping cursive and have it look identical if you turn it
upside down? Oh man, yeah, yeah, you can. Your name
is looks Your first name looks identical if read from the top or the bottom.
What is what's the term for that? There's a term. There is
a term. I'm sure it's a great word, but I don't know what
Dan Brown knows it mail. That's great. Thanks thanks for showing us up
on on magician knowledge. Also what mail? Can you clarify? Meyer Wizard?
And to our other listeners, if you'd like to clarify what an awesome
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to tell if we're talented enough until you meet us. Yep, that's the
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wrap this, uh this little dog and pony freak show up, we gotta
give you guys a heads up for the month of May. Oh, it's
gonna be pretty great. What's going on in May? I hope you guys
like pageant tree, and by pageant tree, I just mean a pageant because
the esteem gentlemen of blurry photos fine connoisseurs of the unknown learned gormands. We
are having we're holding the first annual twenty thirteen Miscrypted Pageant. She is her
horns and flame breath. She scared some villagers and may not exist. That's
great. So we were dedicating the month of May to the Miscryptid Pageant.
So we're each week in the month of May, we will be discussing the
cryptids we like. We love cryptids, right, but there's so few that
have enough information to really give them fill out a hole, right, So
we're going to take all the fun cryptids that don't really ever get their time
in the sun. We're going to discuss them, and we're gonna need your
help with this. We want you to write us back each week who is
the cryptid you like the most, and then we're gonna use this to crown
the Miscryptid twenty thirteen. That's right. I'm going to try to get a
form on the site that's easy for you guys to fill out where you just
vote, Yeah, who's who who'd you like the best? I'm gonna probably
shoot for doing about four cryptids per episode, and then you guys tell us
which one you liked the best from each. Yeah, we'll roll them forward.
It's kind of a weird bracketing kind of thing. I have like a
final four of of cryptids, that's right, and uh, and then we're
gonna crown a winner. It should be a good time. We're gonna gonna
cover a lot of ground. Remember how much fun we had in bun Yiptown.
Yeah, I mean in technically spring Hill Jack Cryptid Yeah, well yeah,
and we're gonna go even I would say level below that in terms of
celebrity. Oh yeah, cryptids. Yeah, these are the cryptids that no
one's heard of. These are hipster cryptidsstis. Oh my god. You can
get into these guys and and then be like, oh, yeah, you've
probably never heard of El no Strnando, you know, the No Months to
Chile's right. Oh man, we just created an awesome crypted or a Lucha
libre wrestler. But we are going to have a trophy. Yep, that's
right. It's the Golden Goatman, the Golden Goatman. Whoever whoever comes out
on top of this pile of cryptids wins a golden gold We're gonna write that
cryptid's name on a piece of really nice tape and stick it to the golden
goatman, but like a really nice tape, like gaffing tape. That's expensive.
So I hope that gets your appetite, Brus. I hope we will
what your whistle the whole month. I mean, it's it's all gonna be
crypted. So don't get bummed out, you know, by lack of variety.
But these cryptis are going to be a variety enough for you. Oh
man, They're gonna blow your mind. They're all gonna be fun, and
you're gonna get four different ones each episode. So not to mention I am,
I'm not promising this, but I just knowing how we operate, probably
a different version of the miscrypted song every week. Yep. Now we will
know so uh so look forward to that coming up in the month of May.
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flora. Yeah, I'm negative, and I'm David time space curvature stack.
Oh my man, that's a sweet curve. Oh I thought that was a
knock on your self esteem. No way, man, I'm a I'm a
sweet curvy piece of meat and all the ladies fall into my gravity whale and
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