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You start to question knowledge, all
the crap you've been told. You strive

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to get the word out about things, maybe a little of bad singer chat

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un till it's common place. Because
it's the unknown where the mysteries grow in

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the unknown, lots of GMOs.
It's the unknown where the cryptics go on

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the show blurry photos, blurry photos, which the unknown, whether maybe ghosts

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in the unknown, facts are scants
at most in the unknown, you go

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sexy hosts on the show weak blurry
photos. Ordinary living is like being asleep.

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Ordinary people might as well be sheet
treating next to learning, like it's

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eating the turn. Staying nice and
ignorant as much Brave Ferd and that we

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yes him blindly makes us corporate pause
and seeing such corruption that we just ignore,

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And what can we do differently to
lift this curse and keep it off

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for getting worse. You seek out
the unknown, where vibrations are raised.

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Unknown paranormal is praised in the unknown, where you'll be amazed by the show.

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Blurry Photoevoto, blurry photo photo,
blurry photo photos, blurry photoad.

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Since Great School, I've been so
brain dead now I question what I have

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read and what all my teachers have
said, I've been misled, So we

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started doing a podcast to teach and
have fun. Blurry photos we'll blow you

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might help you foster a sense of
intense common sense. Let you explore we're

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stuff your lord because you can come
seek thee unknown puns and listener mail in

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thee unknown, harmonizing fail it's the
unknown, just e mail stacko and deflow

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oh bluryfoet, creepy stories that you
really got a hear, Ryptic contests that

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you really gotta hear, candy mouth
songs you won't really want to hear.

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Never let us record after three beers
English accents that you were really Goda here,

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unknovet EVPs you a killing Goda here, unrazy interests that you really got

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as we know soon tell ken it
hight to come back here. Illuminati says,

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you really gotta hear Undimmi boxes won't
really be welcome here from heaven and

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help to get blurry foe. Leave
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blurry bote. I'm listening. We
hope you like every photo food mus stacko.

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Oh rap, Yeah, that is
musical page entry. I hope you

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guys like Little Shop of Horrors,
one of the lesser known musicals. But

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king awesome. Yeah yeah, pretty
legit in its own right. Everybody,

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welcome to Blurry Photos Musical Show.
I'm David Flora. I'm David Stecco.

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The hardest thing about singing that entirely
is one recording. Yeah, you have

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to get like some tu vun voice, you know, harmonizing so that you're

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like singing and then you sing the
other part at the same time. We're

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really good about that. We're very
good about that. I'm not yeah,

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not so much. Not some um
okay, full disclosure. That took us

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like three takes before we could just
sing every part of the song simultaneously all

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the way through. But yeah,
and sorry, sorry, I'm sorry.

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Oh who are you apologizing to?
Well, I mean everybody, anybody who

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who who listens to the podcast listen. We we know we can't sing,

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yeah, I know, we we
We're not trying to sell a product with

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our voice, well, not not
that way anyway. We sing because it's

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fun to do. Yeah. And
I was once told that the single best

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way to spread Christmas treer is to
sing loud for all to hear. Well,

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I'm I don't know about Christmas.
Yes, we'll keep doing it well

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after Christmas. Yeah, because it's
fun to do musical intros. And now

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I'm not saying that's going to happen
every time. That's a lot of work.

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Actually, it may not seem like
it. It's definitely late night karaoke.

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Oh may the best kryo. But
that's that's how we're gonna roll sometimes.

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So if you don't like it,
sorry, fast forward a few minutes

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until we start BLib blabbing. That's
right, like this sucker, get it

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anyway, stare go, How you
been good? Good man? I'm I

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am diving headlong into the holiday season. Oh I'm I'm a yule fool man.

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I loves me some Christmas. I
was able to give a friend of

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mine a speech about the meaning of
Christmas for real, but like like a

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legitimate speech about it. Did um
did? Whose joint hands around you?

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They should have? It was I
couldn't believe it was coming out of my

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own mouth. No, he's uh, he's he's super busy. His wife

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is a doctor. She's doing a
trauma rotation for like the whole month,

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so like she's never home and he's
like, yeah, we're just skipping Christmas.

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And I was like, no,
man, no, no, double

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down. Yeah. I was like, dude, Christmas is just like a

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cup of peppermint hot coco for your
wife in the morning. That's it.

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That's all you got to do.
Like, Christmas is not is not huge

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magnificent acts. It's tiny little decisions
made to make other people's lives better.

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Man, That's what Christmas is.
I mean that that was actually an exerpt

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of the speech that I gave it. Wow, so stirring. Yeah.

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So yeah, that's there you go. I'm into Christmas. Nice who knows

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it. I actually I actually put
up a tree this year. It's the

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first time I've put up a tree
in a long time. So I've got

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a festive little place, little little
corner of the new apartment that's decked out.

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Oh man, the future home of
blurry photos. I mean, I

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looked out the window the other night
and I was like, I do not

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want to go out there. I
see. I'm I'm in a win win

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situation. The longer you take to
unpack those boxes, the longer this podcast

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stays here. But the sooner we
get to broadcasting from your apartment, the

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sooner I have the guilt of doing
nothing lifted ever so incrementally from my shoulder.

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I don't know, man, we'll
see if it works out. I

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think that there's a family with a
child moving in underneath us, and that

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will put a penny on the old
rails for sure. But I don't know.

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Maybe we could um scare them Scooby
Doo style. Maybe we could create

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EVPs. I mean, we're pretty
good with your cult. We could scooby

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do them out of that house.
You can hear through the events pretty well

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already that that would be fun.
Yeah, that would be fun. Terrifying

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strangers. All of this has nothing
to do with what we're talking about tonight.

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Oh man, Actually nobody actually,
Okay, one person because we are

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doing a listener request tonight, and
a great listener request. It was only

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one person knows what we're gonna do. And it's such a cool idea.

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It's so cool, and at first
we were kind of like, oh,

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that's that's neat, But I don't
think there's it's got much much to it.

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Yeah, that seems like there's that's
all bones and no meat. Yeah,

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wrong, false, This is an
acoustic pork. Motherfucker's been slow roasting

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on our crock pot of mystery all
day. Flora, tell them what they've

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won, well, Dave, tonight
we're talking about crypto botany. Yeah,

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crypto biology. We cover that all
the whoa, that's right, botany.

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Oh unknown plants gidding, mysterious or
otherwise plants in this the dead of winter.

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Blurry photos explores their green thumb.
My mountain dew is paying off.

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Yeah, I chugged a ton of
mountain dew. I was really tired,

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and I jugged like a huge amount
of mountains paying dividends right now. You're

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welcome a murder. I deliberately limit
the amount of caffe and I have access

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to for this precise reason. So
I need to I need to to figure

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out what my button is. Yeah. Mine, Mine's awesome. I was

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able to do that. So uh
yeah, yeah, man, very verdant

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subject. Tonight we'll plan a little
seed of right, we'll see what what

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grows out of it. Okay,
that all right, but for for reals,

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uh, we started looking at this
stuff and it was it's really interesting

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because the I'm really trying not to
use metaphors and ponds right now, but

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the more we dug through this,
the more came out of it, then

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the deeper its roots. Man,
I hate this. Everyone's gonna be like,

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Okay, we fucking get it,
you too, but seriously, this,

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I mean, yeah, it is. It is what it is,

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and there's that's how we're going to
describe it. So that it kept giving

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us more stuff to to talk about
it. And there's, uh, there's

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gonna be some sophish choices along the
way here. We're not going to talk

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about every single thing, but tonight
we hope to cover what cryptobotany is and

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what kind of plants hitherto unfound or
unknown yeah, that are out there,

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and we're going to delve into some
myths and legends. That's always fun,

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and then we'll try to hit some
some stuff that can get themselves out of

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the myth and legend bucket into your
own backyard. Yeah, they're they're reported

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as as real, but then there
are some that may even be real.

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Some of that might not even be
boo, So uh, let's dive into

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this. You want to start Flora, Well, let's go. Let's talk

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about what cryptobotany is okay to set
the old table of numi. Christmas goodness,

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holidays, holiday goodness are offended.
You should be well this year,

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um thanksgiving. God to just take
a giant bite out of honaka. So

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I don't know what's left ironic.
So, just as cryptos zoology is the

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study of hidden creatures, yeah,
cryptobotany study of unknown hidden plants. That's

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pretty straightforward. Yeah, crypto meaning
weird, botany meaning plantsy. Yes,

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I read the encyclopedia. I'm a
genius, the Canadian Encyclopedia. There are

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plenty of places on Earth that are
still unexplored and untamed, most of which

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are perfect places for unknown plant life
to thrive. Yeah, like your jungles

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rainforests, classic modern crypto biology hotspots, nip jungles. These are plants which

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exist in stories, in myths,
in legends, and they're generally not believed

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to actually exist. There are new
species that are being discovered all the time

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every day, and general notions have
been challenged about whether or not some species

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of plants do exist have existed.
I don't know if there's a huge difference

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here. I mean, there are
crypto biologists and these are not guys that

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are out hunt and squatch, right, These are people who are like,

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no, there's been some some reportings
of a of a of a large deer

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species in Vietnam. So we're mounting
an expedition and oh look, we found

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some pelts, we found some skeletons, and we got a photo of one.

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Yeah, those kind of things.
The copy yeah exactly. Yeah,

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didn't I do something to one of
those rod through? I did ride one

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through through Uganda, um oh copy. Yeah. But I don't believe that

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there is an actual crypto botanist out
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of a more of a regular sort. I guess I'm doing a bad job

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of explaining it, but I think
that's just botany in general. There is

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always the opportunity to identify new plant
species, and they're doing that. They're

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doing an incredible job of it.
Yeah yeah, And so I think I

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think this is kind of one of
those things where it's not there isn't a

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direct equivalency. I think that there
is a real difference saying between say,

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cryptobotany and you're just run of the
mill botany true and anybody who would fancy

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themselves a cryptobotanist. I think that
would be a job b for them.

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Well yeah, and they're probably also
just saying that to get laid, you

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know at the sports bar. Yep, do you see the score of the

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Bears game? And also that plant
that can eat you? That's right,

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classic line the answers no. Um. There are a couple of note that

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that have made a name for themselves
in the field, though, including the

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British Carl Shooker and the late check
cryptozoologist Ivan Mackerel. I mean, well,

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come on, floor, I don't
just go for the ones everybody knows,

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go for some deep cuts. I
think we I mean everyone knows Mackerel.

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I mean we We've mentioned Mackerel before
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for Mongolian death worm, that's right, and which actually weirdly came up in

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a lot of our research for this. Yeah. Yeah, maybe maybe because

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of him, but that death worm, you know, come up out of

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nowhere. He really will get you, shocking, shocking, um, God,

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let us die. But that that's
that's who is has been looking at

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stuff. That's a couple of the
names making a name. Yeah, let's

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let's dive in and start talking about
Uh, let's start listing off some crazy

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motherfucking plants. I mean, we're
we're gonna we're gonna go through a hefty

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list. Yeah, and we're gonna
start in the world of myths and legends

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and and end up in the world
of maybe not miss legends. It's a

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short trip but with a lot of
beautiful scenery. Yeah, you're gonna love

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it. We're playing Ario Speedwagon on
the reader, so I mean that's I

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mean, how many do you want
more Ario Speedwagon jams for your road trip

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because I've got them? Oh yeah, I do. I heard a found

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a friend who damer something to your
hombo. I've been missing around great.

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By the way, what's the name
of your hobo. I don't know how

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your hobo got involved in this whole
thing, But Mario, I have a

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I have a habit speedwagon um where
I work at the auction house that um.

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Whenever we don't know what to do
with something you're seeing Orio Speedwagon,

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no, I just say, I
don't know, throw it at a hobo

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or give it to a hobo,
or sell it to a hobo. Those

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are my three answers. Super insensitive
but I think I think I was misheard

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today because I got a look from
somebody, and I think that they thought

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that I said homo. And then
I was like, no, no,

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I would never say that. I
said hobo. Throw it at a hobo.

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And I realized there was no defending
anything that I had done. That

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I'm just a horrible person and had
to take that and move on with my

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day. Wow, these are Dave
Stecco's problems. These are These are the

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slings and arrows that I deal with. Yeah, all right, all right,

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road tripping. Let's start the old
road trip in myths. I think

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I said that, everybody. Let's
talk about dry ads. Oh I love

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dry ads. You know, they're
really good ranged units, but you gotta

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have like four of them together in
order for them to to defeat um,

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the mounted orc units or the spear
throwers. Really Warcraft three, you know

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it? Oh? I didn't.
I played two, and I've played more

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Craft, so I haven't. Oh
man, it's good world, world of

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Warcraft. I mean, but I
never played three. Did you just judge

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me? No? Okay, because
you're trying to relate due, Yes,

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all right. Dryads are tree nymphs
that are found in Greek mythology, they're

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smoking hot. Nymphs are not goddesses, but they are minor nature deities.

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They're always female and yes, always
smoking hot, and they're associated with a

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type of place or a realm.
They have like land nymphs, celestial nymphs,

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water nymphs, and then they're they're
broken down even further than that.

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In one of the particular ones is
a dryad. Dryads were connected to trees,

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and specifically oak trees because the root
in Greek means oak. I think

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the dry part of dryads, Yeah, yeah, that is the signifier of

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the driss sound there without the acids
and dry and that the term is used

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to generally refer to other tree specific
nymphs. So dryad is connected to oak.

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But then you've got melia, which
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and then you've got epimeliads, which
were nymphs of apple trees. These are

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also the spirits that you that Jason
found protecting the Golden fleece in the story

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of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Uh. And then you've got caryodids,

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which were nymphs of walnut trees.
Now, if you took a humanity's course.

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Sometime in your your past learning's you
may may have had to do an

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entire semester on a dendro anthropomorphization.
Right, the caryotids, this is your

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porch of maidens. In the Greek
sculpture and engineering, there's a there's a

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poor which that has columns carved into
caryatids. So right, okay, you're

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judging me hard. No, I
am not judging you. You have completely

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blown me out of the water on
knowledge right there. I'm not even you

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sunk my battleship. Well you sunk
it hard. Nah, Nay. Here's

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another thing now, even broken down
even farther than that. What Hamma dryads

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are dryads that are connected to specific
trees. Now I don't mean specific as

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an oak or ash or walnut.
I mean like the tree out on the

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corner. There's a dryad that lives
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it's called a hamma dryad. Then, So therefore, if you were to

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cut the tree down or otherwise harm
the tree, the dryad would die or

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otherwise get harmed, right as opposed
to regular dryads, who they're just two

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trees in general. Yeah, they
they can turn into trees. They inhabit

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trees, but they're freewheeling and love
to dance. Their their dancers. They

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get they run around. Don't forget
that the hammer dryads also smoking hot.

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Now here's a well known dryad from
Greek mythology, famous dryads from history,

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uridacy. This was the wife of
Orpheus. Yeah, and she was a

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famous dryad who on her wedding day, uh, started getting chased through a

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field by a satyr who was oh
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Gonna say, says, gonna say, I'm gonna say. Anyway,

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she she's being chased through a field, she steps on a viper and dies.

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So again not not goddesses, because
they they do have quite more intensity

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to die. And this is where
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the underworld to rescue her because he
was so distraught and wanted her back,

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and then convinces I'm not gonna tell
this story. This is. You go

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find the story of ops. This
is. It's good. It's a good

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story. Anyway. That's a that's
a famous dryad. It was considered unlucky

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to see one or remain in their
company. So that's something. Yeah.

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So just when you're walking through the
forest, just just don't just o garad,

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just see the woods. Yeah.
And the Greeks weren't the only ones

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to have creatures such as this,
nature spirits like rice. You get it

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in all kinds of cultures. For
instance, the Japanese culture has the kodama.

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Yep, that's uh, that's another
type of nature spirit true linked to

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the trees in the forest, I
believe. So the deal with these dryads

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again, they could turn into trees
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You're going to see this a lot
in myths and legends, you know,

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protectors of plants and animals and things
like that. So dry ads,

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boom boom, dryads. I hope
you don't have any more questions about dry

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ads because Jesus, what what else
can I do for you? In the

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same vein here, uh, you
get what's called oracular trees. These are

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are your run of the mill talking
trees. Yeah you know those, Yeah,

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you know them? Um. And
there you know you see those things.

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Um, you to bring uh to
kind of bridge The two uh.

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Druids were often said to consult with
a wise or old oak. Um.

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That's that's really common in the mythology
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Ireland. Um, there's a couple
of sort of famous, some rock stars.

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Yeah, all right, I'll give
you some rock stars. How about

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the weeping date palm tree. Um. Now, this is actually from is

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Lamic tradition, and said that you
know, the prophet Muhammad, he used

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to lean against a tree while he
would deliver his sermons. And when he

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moved away from the tree, and
they built him a temple elsewhere, not

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a temple, but someplace too.
Yeah. Right, the tree began to

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cry because he wasn't there. So
he had to go back to the tree

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and kind of calm it down and
be like, hey man, it's okay,

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I'm still here. That's kind of, I guess, an equivalent of

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an Islamic miracle. It was said
everyone saw the tree weeping and had to

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be consoled by the prophet Muhammed.
So that's when your rockstar. Oracular trees

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now oracular as the name implies,
also were said to if if they would

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speak to you, they could tell
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and so you have them. Not
only the tradition of the dryads going

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to them, but other people searching
out the tree as as a quest,

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you know, to get the answer
that thereafter. Yeah, and you find

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it all over the world. Indian
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that they would tell you the future. Classic oracular trees. Um Marco Polo

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uh said to have visited it.
Alexander the Great went after that tree.

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I mean, pretty big deal.
Yeah, some wood buying. So yeah,

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common thing in a lot of folklore
around the world. Yeah. Um.

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Sometimes these trees in Islamic folklore were
depicted as gin crazy. Yeah, I

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mean, is it is it?
Is it? So? Yeah? Oracular

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trees. That's a fun mythological now
branching out from from trees. I'm gonna

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break a bottle over the bridge of
your nose. Weirdly specific well, that's

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how you sell a thread. Specificity
allowed allowed the kind of took me aback.

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Allowed the target to fully visualize what
you're trying to say. I don't

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know if you if you had said
I'm going to break this over your face,

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that have been like, oh,
but where are the Bridge of my

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nose. Possibly, I'll never know
where. Let's talk about Igdrasil. Oh.

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Yeah, world tree, the world
tree in Norse mythology. It's a

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huge ash tree that links and shelters
all the worlds. It's supported by three

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roots, one of which goes to
Asgard, the home of the gods.

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One goes to Yodenheim, the home
of the giants. The third goes to

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Stark Tower in downtown New York City
after the New York incident. None of

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us were the same agents of Shoot
sucks. Oh no, I haven't seen

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it. I don't know. Listen, they're giving agent Coltson a paycheck,

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so let's let's not rock the boat. He's been in everyone so far.

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I think his paycheck is is doing
pretty well. You just never know.

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You never know, dude, Yeah, you never know, dude. He

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died in a comic book movie.
There's no way they could bring him back.

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Ever. You should. You should
watch an episode or two just to

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see what you think. Okay,
and then maybe like next week I'll be

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like, God have judged this program. Yeah. The third route goes to

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Niffelheim, which is the region of
ice and coal, dark and mist and

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Nastrand the shore of Corpses Gross where
the dragon nidhog gnaws on the route.

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The third route is the bad road
to take it. Clearly, don't don't

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go down that route? Um was
that route? Or root? Who's doing

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it now? He's doing it now. There was a tree located apparently in

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what is now the hessoregion of Germany, which was linked by Germanic people's to

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igdrasil maybe personification of well digrification and
dendro anthropomorphization. Sure of the tree from

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mythology here on Earth. It was
a large oak tree, not ash.

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It was oak, and it was
called Donner's oak or Thor's oak or if

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you were Roman, Jove's oak,
which was sacred and it was cut down,

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according to legend, by Boniface,
an Anglo Saxon missionary who converted the

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locals to Catholicism ass and later became
Saint Boniface of of of tree chopping,

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Yeah, of ok hatred, All
right, Boniface oaks bain. Let's see.

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Gosh, these guys they're just not
taken to Catholicism. What can I

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do to really break their spirits?
Hey iced to say, uh, opling

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oak tree you're happy to have here. Pity if someone would have come along

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and chop it down, Isn't it? Isn't it? Maybe we should all

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go to church and pray that it
stays nice and safe. Right the name

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s Boniface, come with me.
Yeah, so Dick, a very big

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collective. Nine went up from the
from the locals, and then they started

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worshiping Jesus. Now nine apparently would
from the tree was used to build a

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church to Saint Peter on the spot
where it stood. So there's some salt

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in the moon. Yeah. Um, other cultures have world trees. It's

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again another thing that you're you're gonna
find with these myths and legends. A

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lot of them are pretty connected in
just the personification of nature. Yeah,

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having spirits and like ideas, and
one of one of them is this world

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tree idea that you find it in
a pre Columbian Mesoamerica. Hindu and Buddhist

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mythology has an idea of this,
and that's called ax sha Vat I believe.

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So that's that's your IgG Drazil.
Oh, Yeah, really pretty interesting.

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Now at the at the top of
Igdrasil, they're set an eagle,

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an unnamed eagle, and he and
the dragon nid hog hated each other,

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and apparently the hatred was fueled by
a squirrel. I think it was a

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squirrel that ran up and down the
tree and like, oh, oh gosh,

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do you know what that eagle said, here's what he's been saying about

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you, nid hog. And then
he'd run out, Oh my gosh,

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you hear what that nid hog said
about you? He say, if he's

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such a good eagle, how come
nobody knows his name? How come he's

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hiding from his own pass? And
I said to him, well, he's

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never been a he's never been nothing
but nice to me. And as an

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eagle, he probably shaid eight me
years ago. And it's exactly how the

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wind couldn't squirrels always caring up shite. I think it was a squirrel.

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I could be wrong. It was
some kind of roding. I hope it

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was a squirrel. But speaking of
pan cultural nature entities, let's talk about

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the green Man. Oh yeah,
green Man. He's a man that's totally

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green. But we're not talking about
Charlie's outfit that he wears when he needs

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to feel safe or do heavy ells. Nigiens Man do you know that.

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I heard that reference that song referenced
in something else the other day, and

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I was like, I know that, but I don't just because of me,

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And I was like, why are
you singing it that way? It's

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night Man or something like that.
Anyway, The green Man is a figure

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which appears in one way or another
in many cultures, I said, throughout

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the world, usually depicted in carvings
as a semi human face surrounded by leaves.

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It's almost like the unseen eye of
the forest sort of yeah, and

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very German, very popular in Old
Germantown, and often the face itself is

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just made completely of the leaves.
Once you start looking at it, you

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notice that the cheeks are leaves,
the forehead is a leaf, the chin

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leaves, but those teeth are real
No, there leaves too. He is

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the personification of nature, and while
he doesn't represent a deity or spirit in

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particular, parallels have been drawn between
him and such mythological figures as the Celtic

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god Kiernunos, also the Celtic lud
and apparently also Osiris odin Tamous, linked

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in one way or another two US
recently, Jimmy Hendrix even Robin Goodfellow or

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Puck in a Midsummer Night's Dream from
Shakespeare and uh, the old Robin Hood,

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the green Knight who fought Sir Gawayne
in the Arthur Tales and Peter Pan

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even. Yeah, and you can
find architecturally the inclusion of the green man's

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face in churches all through Europe,
Germany, England, Um, the France.

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That it's it's a very common European
theme, and it's it's it's very

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regularly was included for a number of
years in church architecture. Part of that

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was how when when they were trying
to convert to pagans, Yeah, they

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were co opting the the the iconography
that was already used, which which served

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them pretty well. It seemed like
now the color green has pretty much always

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represented life in nature, and representations
of this type of face, this carving

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have been found in many separate cultures
as far back as ancient Mesopotamia, which

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is about as far back as you
can go. Yeah, in old the

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old history books. You know,
if you want to go further back,

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pack a lunch, tell us how
it is when you get back, idiot

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researchers. So, yeah, green
man, he's not messing around much akin

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to the old green Man. We
get an interesting dude from Slavic myth,

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the leshy. Oh he's such is
his man lives in the woods. He's

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made his bank on face is Leshi
is lushy or lessovic. Yeah, this

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is the male woodland spirit from Slavic
myth. It's it's not one one leshie.

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There are multiple leshie Leshi. It's
it's called a harrumph of leshie.

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A group is a harrumph a conifer
of kindling. So the lessies can grow

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or shrink in size. And also
I think I read they can even shape

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shift if they wanted to. They
cast no shadow, which is pretty interesting.

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Their skin is pale white, they
have green eyes, Their hair and

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beard are made of living grass,
and because their blood is blue, they

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have blue cheeks. They also may
wear a red scarf, and their shoes

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are on opposite feet and uh,
you know, speaking of which they're they're

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considered by some to be spirits of
the woods, by some to be demons

400
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:55.440
of the woods. But if you
run across one, all is not lost.

401
00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:01.960
Yeah. You to thwart leshy,
first thing you got to do is

402
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:07.280
turn all of your clothes inside out
and backwards, and then put your shoes

403
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.320
on the wrong feet right, and
that, by all, by the many

404
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:17.920
exhaustively research sources, will make the
leshie explode and where he was standing will

405
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:22.360
be a perfect black forest cake.
I made up the last part. But

406
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.800
the clothes inside out. That's how
you fight a leshi. Yeah, because

407
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:30.000
no good. They're they're not evil
per se, but they're very mischievous and

408
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:35.159
they can lead people astray. They
can make people sick or the worst of

409
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.880
it, they can tickle people to
death. I dare you to try.

410
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:46.559
Oh god, oh god, No, Yeah, they're they're They are said

411
00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:52.719
to protect the animals and the trees, and they can be befriended for protection

412
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:59.400
or knowledge, so or for meat. Not not all Crewe wouldn't it,

413
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:01.360
would it be not meat? I
don't know. If they've got blood,

414
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:06.760
they got meat, That's what I
learned in the woods. Maybe it's a

415
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.360
lot of fiber. If it's good
blood, he's got meat. It was

416
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:16.440
our next T shirt bumper stickers doing
the follow but they photos. If it's

417
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:25.280
got blood, it's got neat.
I wouldn't feel good putting it on a

418
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:34.360
bumper sticker without the eyebrow emphasis it
goes into saying, yeah, that is

419
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:39.159
lushy. It's a good guy after
all, is me is much Mischief's meg

420
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:47.159
confused? Why he's close backwards does
not make destroy mean volupan make lushy lesh.

421
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:53.760
Moving on, So those are some
pretty popular. Yeah, those dudes

422
00:37:53.960 --> 00:38:05.320
from those are the most ology mythological
mythular mithmanman Moving on to the slightly less

423
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:14.360
confusing Yeah, more potentially potentially still
still hobbling around folklore. Yeah, still,

424
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:20.559
folksy, let's talk about the Aglaia
photus. Yeah, say it again

425
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:24.320
for the folks at home. Aglio
potus. Mmmm. This is an herb

426
00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:32.679
used in witchcraft and occultism. Supposedly
it's used for warding off demons and black

427
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:39.000
magic, yeah, and fevers,
although it's also described in the necronomic Um

428
00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:45.280
as being used in the evocation of
demons or evil spirits. Now, if

429
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:49.239
you go down to the local store, they're just going to call them peonies.

430
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:53.280
Yeah, yeah, it is a
member of the peony family. But

431
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:59.960
in interesting that some people say it's
it's used against bad stuff. Some people

432
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.880
say it's used for bad stuff.
There's there's a divide there. It's just

433
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.679
like a handgun. Yeah, you
can use it to to protect, to

434
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:13.239
throw a burglar, or open a
box of chips. I mean it's very

435
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:17.639
utilitarian. Yeah, however you use
it. Yeah, don't take them,

436
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:21.960
don't take them from it. No, I'd like to take a moment here.

437
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:27.880
No, No, enough of him
month lest Yeah exactly. We're all

438
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:35.239
full up on you, We're all
full up start. No one needs to

439
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:38.880
blow the lid off anything for a
while. Alex, you hack, I

440
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:43.639
mean we can call him a hack. But that guy is like rolling in

441
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:47.320
the money of lunatics. We have
no lunatic money, none, not.

442
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:51.960
We don't have a lunatic dime to
our names. And that guy is like

443
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.960
in a hot tub. That's just
nothing but lunatic money. Yeah, and

444
00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.880
lunatic babes. Man always with the
lunatuque babes. I don't know about the

445
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:06.519
babes. Have you seen Alex Jones, dude money? Have you seen Ron

446
00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:10.440
Jeremy the Different? I don't think
that's apples to apples, okay, but

447
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:21.159
Cards against Humanity? Maybe if Alex
Jones did meet a lunatic groupie, Hi,

448
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:30.920
I'm Alex Jones. I'm gonna blow
the lid off your panties. I

449
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:36.920
can't wait for you to infiltrate my
bohemian grow. Oh God, too far.

450
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:39.840
No, it's just uh, Alex
Jones will sue us. He's got

451
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:45.440
nothing better to do anyway. You
just can't give him any reason too.

452
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:51.239
It's mentioned by the Greek doctor.
Yeah, what's his name, Diascorides?

453
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:58.960
Damn it. Maybe you win this
round, Flora, but I'll be back.

454
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:04.679
Who was alive at the time of
Nero, and it was mentioned as

455
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.920
again a member of the Peony family. And before him, it was mentioned

456
00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:13.239
by Pliny the Elder or Plenty.
I think we just say Plenty we're friends,

457
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:17.400
who said that it was found growing
among the marble quarries of Arabia on

458
00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:23.239
the side of Prusia. It's considered
fictional today, however, because I guess

459
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:28.960
nobody can confind it. Well,
things go extinct sometimes, well, or

460
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:31.119
we rename it and forget that we
used to call it. That it happens,

461
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:34.880
bro, It's right, Get off
me. Now, let's talk about

462
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:39.800
Let's talk about some truly magical herbs. How about the Raskovnik. Yeah,

463
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:45.360
is such nice? Once again we
make you this Slavic is such nice arb?

464
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:51.719
He magic? He is put on
elbow make heart no elbow's fine is

465
00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:57.639
put on badlog is much open.
This is a magical herb again, this

466
00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:02.760
one comes from South Slava mythology.
South side. A lot of good stuff

467
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.559
from Slavic mythology in this in this
one. Nice nice to see. Yeah,

468
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:14.480
I like the South Slavs. This
herb has various magical properties depending on

469
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:20.320
region, but most commonly, it's
able to unlock any lock. Yeah,

470
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.000
how cool is that? Lock lock
pick herb? Yeah, brush it across

471
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:30.000
anything that's locked. Boom, it's
open. So unless you're initiated, which

472
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:35.119
I never found exactly what that meant. Oh, no, you have to

473
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.719
be tonic. And by that.
Another pronunciation that I saw was cathonic,

474
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:46.320
orthonic, orthonic or your air castrado
or I hope, I hope we have

475
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:49.679
some fans of Sea Lab out there. The only reason I know how to

476
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.000
pronounce this is because of the Alvis
Day episode of Sea Lab, which is

477
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.960
great. And if you know that
episode, then you are a new my

478
00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:01.559
new best friend. All right,
crabs screamer. So the term thonic or

479
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.400
cathonic or whatever, how did they
go the first sib? Well, it's

480
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:12.320
right, you don't want to say
you don't want to make any emphasis on

481
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:16.360
anything, right, it's not just
get through it was that is that wrong?

482
00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:21.679
Nic I could just keep saying it
and everyone's like, Okay, we

483
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:24.599
get it. Shut the up.
It means you're from the underworld. Yeah,

484
00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:30.239
related to the underworld. Well,
anyways, it's almost impossible to find

485
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:37.039
for humans. Even though it's not
a rare herb, you just you can't

486
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:43.320
recognize it. It's sometimes described as
resembling a four leaf clover, and some

487
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.960
legends say it could uncover treasure that
was buried. Some legends say that it

488
00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:52.679
could transmute lead to gold, and
some of them said that it could grant

489
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:59.000
wealth or desires. So it's kind
of a catch all awesome or what kind

490
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:07.760
of desire. Some of the animals
or cathonic animals, tortoises, hedgehogs,

491
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:12.239
or snakes. Wow, they knew
how to find it. Tortoises, Yeah,

492
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:16.039
I didn't realize that they were so
metal. Yeah okay. And and

493
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:21.679
one way to obtain it, to
obtain this herb was by tricking one of

494
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:24.320
those animals that knew how to find
it. Mostly it was from I think

495
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.719
locking up their young. It's not
really a trick, yeah, it's just

496
00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:32.679
a dick move, just kidnapping.
It's extortion. And they run off and

497
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:39.920
find a raskovnik and oh to open
the cage. Although the hedgehogs you had

498
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:45.039
to be quick called like swallow it. They just they just gobble it up

499
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:50.400
once they unlocked that lock. That's
because they're little hogs, like little piglets.

500
00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:52.719
They're little hogs, live in a
hedge and they know the underworld.

501
00:44:54.199 --> 00:45:00.880
Yeah, should lee. So that's
that's riskovnik. Yeah, that's pretty cool.

502
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:06.800
That's pretty legit. How about the
vegetable lamb of tartary Man. Anything

503
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:15.320
that has like that elaborated name is
just a giant sack of bosh. Now

504
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:21.639
that I've judged it, Yeah,
now let's talk about it. Say weirdly

505
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:25.280
judgment tonight. Yeah. I didn't
leave saying that thing at the beginning of

506
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:31.800
this. We're really judgments, right. This is a plant of Central Asia

507
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:37.079
that was at one time believed to
grow sheep. It's fruit. The sheep

508
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:44.719
were connected by stems from the ground
and they would eat the vegetation around the

509
00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:47.840
stem. Now, once the vegetation
had been eaten, or if the lamb

510
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:52.639
became separated from that stem, it
would die. That's such a weird thing.

511
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:59.599
It could then be eaten, and
apparently it's blood tasted like sweet sweet.

512
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:07.000
But other than that was a completely
legitimate lamb with meat and woolood because

513
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:13.039
it had blood, so it had
meat. It established that bones and whatnot.

514
00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:15.599
It was. It was a lamb
that just grew from a plant.

515
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:22.360
Yeah. Some regions believed it was
alive and had real blood and bones and

516
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:27.639
meat, and some say it was
just a fruit, just a fruit of

517
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:32.159
this plant that just happened to resemble
a sheep and eat the grass around it

518
00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:39.360
and provide a good woolf for clothing
which was actually made from it. Huh,

519
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:43.840
well, lady, go, what
a what an awfully nice plant.

520
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:51.159
It was mentioned as far back as
four thirty six CE in Jewish folklore,

521
00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:58.280
and in that it was called the
YadA. All evidence of it just throwing

522
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.800
its hat in the ring of everything
else we talk about. All evidence is

523
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.840
anecdotal. Oh what. And it's
believed it may have just been how the

524
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:14.400
locals explained cotton. Yeah, that'll
do it. Because they had sheep,

525
00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:19.519
they had wool and cottons full of
meat. It's just meat. It was

526
00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:23.840
also known as the boro mats.
Also the shui yang or water sheep in

527
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:28.320
China. Yeah, now the Chinese
version of it that they also called the

528
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:32.960
wooly fern. And apparently this this
is close to what this is anyway,

529
00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:37.679
because with that the fruit of it, if you opened it, took the

530
00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:44.000
rhizome out of it, yep,
and reversed it. Apparently it looked like

531
00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:47.639
a sheep with its legs sticking up
in the air. Now it's hard to

532
00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:52.559
picture that, I think, without
no one exactly without having done it yourself,

533
00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:55.800
I said, botanists r zome help
us out. I sure I could

534
00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:59.920
google it, but I'd rather hear
it from the horse's mouth. I remember,

535
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:05.559
we're going through fields near the house
I grew up in and running into

536
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:10.320
these pods that had if you opened
them up, it was real stringy stuff

537
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:15.440
with seeds. Milkweed. Yeah,
milkweed. Yeah, that knows me some

538
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:20.079
milkweed. Doesn't this sound sort of
like that? Yeah, I don't know.

539
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.760
I don't think people are making hats
from milkweed. But but dude,

540
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:27.199
you need to spend more time out
in the woods then. But my milkweed

541
00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:30.599
hat is my favorite hat. Weird
if you're so tough, Yeah, what's

542
00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:34.679
you're wear it? It's ten degrees
outside right now? Yeah? Hey,

543
00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.960
you remember when we were pitching about
it being so hot. Yeah, that's

544
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:45.159
over. He likes it cold here. We're getting it in speeds to m

545
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:50.920
Bring on the cold. I want, I want an Arctic waste land.

546
00:48:52.000 --> 00:49:01.400
It will never be it will never
be cold waste. It'll never be cold

547
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:06.840
enough for me. Ever. Yeah, you you were in Antarctica for six

548
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:09.920
months, I know, didn't get
it, get your didn't get your fill?

549
00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:15.960
Nope, I sleep on a giant
otter. Pop. All right,

550
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:20.599
so we got to let vegilimb.
How about about the fern flower? Yeah,

551
00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:27.039
fern flowers are cool again Slavic mythology. It's such nice now, ferns.

552
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.800
I don't know if you knew this
or not. Ferns aren't flowering plants.

553
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:34.719
Shut up, no, dude,
So a fern flower must be a

554
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:38.280
very rare thing. Indeed, indeed, for a short time on the eve

555
00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:44.760
of the summer solstice, one lucky
has a chance to find a flower blooming

556
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:46.840
on a fern in the forest.
What does he get, Well, it's

557
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:54.559
magical and brings fortune luck or is
my favorite the ability to understand animal speech?

558
00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:58.800
Nice? That's pretty good power.
Huh. You know what I like

559
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:02.840
about this U is the way that
they do it in some traditions is during

560
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.280
the night of the solstice, young
couples will go off into the woods quote

561
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:22.800
unquote seeking the fern flower. Oh, they're gonna so sad. Seriously,

562
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.039
they go into the woods to have
sex. Yeah, it blooms golden and

563
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:34.159
glowing until dawn, and apparently only
the courageous can find it. But here's

564
00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:38.960
the catch. Sharing the wealth that
it brings makes you lose everything, So

565
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:42.119
you just have to keep it all. You have to keep it all.

566
00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:46.440
Now. I read a fairy tale
about this, about a boy who finds

567
00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:52.519
the fern flower. He gets a
mass of wealth good on him and so

568
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.880
far, so good, but he
can't share it with his family. Oh,

569
00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.079
little nickel, why why you have
to keep all of these wealthful of

570
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:04.760
you. No, he's not such
big thing. Give to me something.

571
00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:12.519
And he turns into a stone cold
asshole because everything's too about himself. Yeah,

572
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.239
if he wants to keep it,
And he keeps going back to his

573
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.960
old house, and every time he
goes back, his family's in worse condition.

574
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.559
And finally he goes back and they're
not there anymore, and apparently they've

575
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:30.440
all starved and and you know,
horrible times. And he realizes that the

576
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:37.519
true treasure House's fine, he can
go right back to it. Yeah,

577
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.440
apparently it's a it's the old morality
tale. So so so don't joul.

578
00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:45.119
You can seek the ferd and flower
if you're just going into the woods for

579
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:50.840
some sex with a local friend,
or if you had no family you're out

580
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:53.320
on the street alone. Yeah,
you already hate everybody. If you're going

581
00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:57.440
to be a hermit, look for
that flower. Yeah, be a rich

582
00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:00.800
hermit, the bravest hermit. I
know the new Disney movie. That's right,

583
00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:04.679
all right, So that's the fern
flower. Yeah, how about a

584
00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:09.920
gin minjew Watch your language. This
is a creepy one. It's it's a

585
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:15.880
legendary type of tree that grows in
remote mountain valleys in southern China. Oh

586
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:17.679
yeah, hey, do you want
to take a bite of that ginmnjew apple?

587
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:22.800
Yeah you should, because the fruit, called jin minchi appear to be

588
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:28.639
human heads. But here's a good
thing. They're always smiling and laughing.

589
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.239
Hurts is Apparently the fruit is very
sweet and sour. What if you get

590
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:40.159
what I read that. I am
not I'm not being an asshole here.

591
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:45.480
Yeah it is there, I see
it. Does that mean that you could

592
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:47.920
make out with it as you eat
it? Or before you eat it?

593
00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:52.840
I don't know, why would your
mind go there? Its mouth? Dude,

594
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.880
it's a huge just said, it's
a human head. You can make

595
00:52:55.920 --> 00:53:01.920
out with a human head. Why
didn't your mind to go there? That's

596
00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:05.920
why didn't you wonder if you could
make out with an apple before you ate

597
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:08.639
it? Yeah? You're right,
jeez, I hope you feel stupid,

598
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:15.039
right, Yeah, I hope you
feel like a real choice. Ask nothing,

599
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:21.000
nothing too much about this besides the
legends of it and that it's it's

600
00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:24.480
creepy. But at least they're just
laughing. So that's the gin minjew.

601
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:29.000
All right, all right, you
think you're so cool with your tree full

602
00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:31.320
of heads? Yeah, what about
I throw some wool ami up in your

603
00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:35.679
face? I'll make you out with
it? Is that the right answer?

604
00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:38.440
Well, at least you're considering it, Okay, at least it's crossing your

605
00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:44.880
mind now, So my time here's
not wasted? Well, LIMI uh,

606
00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:49.239
this is a cool one. This
is one of those that straddles the line

607
00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:58.639
because it's actually real. What now
real threatened? This is not anything out

608
00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:04.119
of folklore, but it is out
of the fossil record. Blast from the

609
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:09.760
past, bro living fossils. This
is a coniferous evergreen tree only known through

610
00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:17.519
fossil records until nineteen ninety four when
an Australian bloke named David Noble he could

611
00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:22.960
just be a guy. He's only
a bloke because he's Australian discovered discovered a

612
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:28.480
patch of them in a remote area
of the Wollemi National Park. It's part

613
00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:35.159
of a species in a family of
this type of tree that is two hundred

614
00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:42.079
million years old. What the last
known fossils of this genus of this tree

615
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:45.239
two million years old. So that's
the last time one of these things was

616
00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:50.639
thought to be alive on Earth.
Wow, two million years ago and the

617
00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:53.840
whole family two hundred million years old. So this is a pretty big deal.

618
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:59.280
Have you heard of that fish they
discovered? Oh, the Celia camp

619
00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:02.880
said off the top of his head, Yeah, I have heard of it,

620
00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:07.360
maybe off the coast of Matta Gascar. Oh, I don't know.

621
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:10.760
I like it when you don't know
stuff, man, Well that's because that's

622
00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:14.960
why you like me. More often
than not. For the most part,

623
00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:20.079
I don't know stuff. Yeah,
tell us about that that thing. Do

624
00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:24.239
you mean the Ceili canth Toyota's release
production car from nineteen eighty three. Yeah,

625
00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:29.760
yeah, that's what I'm asking about. Scrapped in favor of the camera.

626
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.159
Good choice, Toyota. Yeah,
the Ceila canth. The same thing

627
00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.760
was not known except for fossils,
and then some fishermen hauls one up.

628
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:44.360
Everyone everyone gets the gigantic living fossil
bone. Yeah, pretty cool. I

629
00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:49.119
think people are doing their best to
get rid of it. Still. Yeah,

630
00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:51.920
it's yeah, it's a persistent it's
it's in excess of four hours.

631
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:58.840
Everyone should be contacting doctors. Very
much endangered obviously. Yeah, And it's

632
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:01.239
like the minute you say that to
people, they immediately want to go out

633
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:05.880
and kill these things. Oh yeah, you know. Um, there was

634
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:09.440
a time when there was a species
of sea lion that was thought to be

635
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:15.360
extinct in the late eighteen hundreds early
nineteen hundreds. This is the most vague

636
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:19.280
story. Sorry, I don't know
any details, but a ship found an

637
00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:23.119
island covered in these things. They're
like, holy crap, they're not extinct.

638
00:56:23.880 --> 00:56:28.320
Kill half of them so we can
put them in museums and fortunately it

639
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.360
came back. But yeah, like
they're they're instinct right off the like,

640
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:36.760
yeah, kill half of them,
so so dumb idiots. So anyways,

641
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:42.320
um those are that's that's some examples
of coming back from the from the brink

642
00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:45.880
of death basically or extinction. That's
such a cool story. It doesn't have

643
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:49.760
to grant wishes to be interesting.
That's what I thought. Yeah, that's

644
00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:52.679
why I wanted to throw it out
there, and who knows what else is

645
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:58.719
out there in the same shape,
because this was in such a bump area

646
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:05.280
of this park that this David Noble
was such a badass. He was bush

647
00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:10.880
whacking out there and just kind of
noticed that these were not normal looking trees.

648
00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.199
They're not something that he recognized.
So he killed half of them and

649
00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:19.199
took their pelts from me. So
he did exactly what somebody should do.

650
00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:23.599
Like it was real lucky that he
happened upon them because he knew exactly what

651
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:27.760
to do. He got a little
bit of his sample, but he went

652
00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:30.440
back and was like, can you
test this, you know, and see

653
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:32.800
what the deal is with this because
it doesn't look normal. It was like

654
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:38.639
the perfect way to discover an extinct
thing that was alive again, So good

655
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:45.119
on mister Noble for that. But
I'm sure that the rainforest has a ton

656
00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:52.280
of play the rainforest as if there's
just you know, rainforests on Earth have

657
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:57.440
a ton of the stuff that's probably
getting plowed away. Man, you know

658
00:57:57.480 --> 00:58:00.199
what I mean? Like, yeah, all kinds of stuff is getting and

659
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.119
it's and this is a this is
a particular tree, this will Limia has

660
00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:07.440
already danced with the devil. They
did genetic testing and all of the trees

661
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:10.840
are identical. Yeah, meaning that. I mean, obviously they have a

662
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:15.039
lot more research should do on it. But what they think is that this,

663
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:19.920
this particular stand got brought all the
way down to one or two individuals

664
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:23.159
and then came back again. Adam
and eved it. M m. This

665
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:27.440
is this is the Adam and Eve
of trees. That's right. So this

666
00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:32.360
is like Adam and leaves? Is
that? How's that for your crappy It

667
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:36.920
don't count pun It's pretty good,
yeah, I thought so. I was

668
00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:39.559
pretty proud of myself. It's pretty
damnably gonna do a victory lap around the

669
00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:45.559
house. Moving on, moving on, Well, let's let's move away from

670
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:52.599
helpful plants or or interesting non invasive
plants. Let's go to some harmful plants.

671
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:53.719
Yeah, how about the plants that
are trying to suck my ship?

672
00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:58.679
How about him? Let's start with
the old man Drake, Man Drake.

673
00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:04.599
Oh, thank you, I'm learning. Uh. This is a plant that's

674
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:07.480
featured in spells and rituals. Oh
yeah, it's got some Bible in it.

675
00:59:07.599 --> 00:59:12.400
It's It's also mentioned in the Bible. The whole thing's poisonous except for

676
00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:16.239
the fruit, and it contains a
ton of chemicals, some of which are

677
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:22.440
hallucinogenic and even deadly. Yep.
In the Bible in Genesis chapter thirty,

678
00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:29.960
there's a there's it's it's a pretty
funny story of I'll try and give you

679
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:35.639
a real brief overview. Jacob's son
Ruben, and he found the man Drake

680
00:59:35.679 --> 00:59:40.559
in the field, took it back
and Rachel, who was Jacob's second wife,

681
00:59:40.679 --> 00:59:46.679
after leahy Bible, she wants it
to chase Bible cut to the chase.

682
00:59:47.079 --> 00:59:52.519
She wants it and bargains for it
with Leah to have Leah sleep in

683
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:58.039
Jacob's bed, Leah the ex wife, to sleep with Jacob. Right,

684
00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:01.840
get it, and and then she
would give Rachel the plant the mandrake.

685
01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:07.400
Yeah, so that deal gets done. Jacob's like, hey when when bra

686
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:13.639
Yeah, and then Leah gets preggers, has three more kids. Apparently is

687
01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:19.800
supposed to be barren, but then
has three more kids. Um and so.

688
01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:23.559
But because of this, it was
kind of considered to be helpful for

689
01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:31.400
fertility. Yep. It loosely resembles
a human with the roots yep, which

690
01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:36.440
is kind of funny. I guess
it's like the little legs. Yeah,

691
01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:43.159
but when it's dug up, legend
says it's screams and all who hear the

692
01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:49.320
scream will die. Yeah, murder
sound. And it's said that demons cannot

693
01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:52.760
bear its smell or its presence.
It's just kind of like as garlic is

694
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:58.000
to vampires, mandrake is to demons. Good get us some mandrake, Like

695
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:02.440
go to the star? Why all
right? Oh on, bandike. So

696
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:06.000
that's that's your man Drake. That's
a bit, that's a pretty, that's

697
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:08.840
a that's a that's a rock star
of the crypto botany world. Everyone's heard

698
01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:10.880
a man. I mean, it's
got a big chunk in the Harry Potter

699
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:15.280
movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Any any witchcraft thing. I think

700
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.760
only never long Bottom knows how to
deal with him. Too bad? He

701
01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:24.800
dies? Oh whoops, don't you
dare? Everyone's like he turns though he

702
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:30.400
went from zero to hero. Mama
like me ow, that's what happens.

703
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:34.639
That's how that turned out. Man
Drake is an actual thing. It's not.

704
01:01:34.760 --> 01:01:37.239
It's not like something that's not able
to be found. I'm sorry what,

705
01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:43.480
Man Drake's a real thing? But
hold on? Are you implying that

706
01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:47.800
the Harry Potter movies are not a
documentary? Watch yourself, but beIN nice

707
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:52.360
bro sif thin. I'm treading fearfully
carefully here. Hey, yeah, I

708
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:58.400
think the most popular thing that's known
about them is the screaming yeah and the

709
01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:06.440
death. And I've even heard I
think madness can rest death screen madness.

710
01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:10.679
But that's not the only plant that's
looking to whoop your ass? What else

711
01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:16.599
is hungry grass? Whoop your ass? Brought you by the National Here Grass

712
01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:23.960
Council, Hungry grass. Certain patches
of land in Irish mythology, Hey Ireland,

713
01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:29.079
good to see you again, where
if a traveler passed over them,

714
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:35.320
these patches of land, they would
suffer from uncontrollable pangs of hunger. And

715
01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:42.400
they would die without immediate help.
Yeah, it's possibly planted by mischievous fairies.

716
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:46.159
So how do you deal with this
stuff? Well, you walk around

717
01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:52.039
with some crackers in your pocket and
possibly beer beer helps. There you go.

718
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:57.079
Yep, that's the only way to
say, say, if you're going

719
01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:00.119
to travel to this countryside, take
this beer with you and maybe all we

720
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:06.960
snack in your bocket. That's adorable. That's that's a great that's a great

721
01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:12.360
commercial, though. Crop I've stepped
on some hungry grass. Good thing,

722
01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:21.119
I have this guinnis with me,
me life. It's saved Hi tanks to

723
01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:29.400
gunnis drink gunnis gunnis gunnisis. Oh
and in case all your douchebag friends who

724
01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:37.800
did a semester abroad haven't told you, it tastes different hair top drink.

725
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:43.920
It's warm. Yeah, so that's
hungry grass. Yeah. Fun. Do

726
01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:45.880
you have you ever? Do you
think there's any plants with really difficult to

727
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:49.599
pronounce names left? I got one? Oh? Yeah, what's that?

728
01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:55.400
The umdalibi? Oh maybe that's how
it's pronounced. This is a species of

729
01:03:55.480 --> 01:04:01.599
tree said to exist in Zululand,
South Africa, described thus like delicate green

730
01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:09.400
leaves, a dead outer bark layer
and a living bark layer beneath oooh,

731
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:15.360
and it has red and black fruit. Apparently it grows in rocky terrain,

732
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:23.159
although the ground around it is lush
and scattered with skeletons of what well.

733
01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:29.880
According to the best two sources that
we have and probably the only two sources,

734
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:36.159
and these sources are stories collected by
Henry Callaway and a report by GW.

735
01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:42.519
Parker, who are both missionaries.
I believe in the nineteenth century the

736
01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:46.559
tree is toxic, causing death to
any living thing that gets near it,

737
01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:55.440
maybe by some kind of poison cloud
or spore cloud or something, or maybe

738
01:04:55.480 --> 01:05:00.280
I don't know. I'm just I'm
spitballing here. Carbonic acid gas strangely specific

739
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:06.199
from our boy Parker. It also
has a caustic fluid in it, so

740
01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:12.960
if if somehow the bark was split
open or cut into, then this caustic

741
01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:15.920
fluid would flow out. Well.
No specimen has been found to date,

742
01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:26.039
unfortunately, ohomp lump oh murder trees. This is similar to the bohon upas

743
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:32.440
in Malay. I think everyone knows
everything they need to about the boos um.

744
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:36.639
That's a Malaysian tree. That's that's
pretty much just like this, I

745
01:05:36.679 --> 01:05:42.559
guess murder tree. So that's that's
a murder tree. How about the vampire

746
01:05:42.719 --> 01:05:47.880
vine aka the Devil's snare. I
thought you were gonna stay devil's lattice,

747
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:51.519
and I said, sorry, we'd
already owns that. Uh. This is

748
01:05:51.519 --> 01:05:58.280
a supposed network of roots and vines
which entangles its prey and uses thousands of

749
01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:03.280
little suckers to drain the blood.
Sweet. Yeah, only it's completely fictitious.

750
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:10.320
Ah man, sorry, bro.
Now there is a parasitic plant called

751
01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:19.400
kascuta or daughter, which uses thin
stems to wrap around other plants and then

752
01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:28.360
feed off of those plants. That's
also called strangleweed or devil's guts or Which's

753
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:34.519
hair or hill bine or any number
of other folksy names that it could go

754
01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:40.320
under. The idea of this is
kind of similar to what you would find

755
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:45.119
if you looked up the man eating
tree of Nubia. Oh yeah, more

756
01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:48.199
murder trees. Yeah, look out, don't get murdered. And speaking of

757
01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:55.000
more murder trees, the yatte veo. Yeah, this is a carnivorous plant,

758
01:06:55.159 --> 01:06:59.679
not a kia car no. No, this is a carnivorous plant which

759
01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:05.079
in central and South America. It's
reported as having a short, thick trunk

760
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:11.480
and long tendril like stems used to
catch prey, and by prey we mean

761
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:18.800
hikers. Some accounts say that it's
trunk opens like a horrific mall to swallow

762
01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:25.800
victims. Now. It may have
leaves which apparently are just camouflage. They

763
01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:30.480
don't actually serve a purpose, and
it hides and blends in so well with

764
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:33.840
other stuff around it that by the
time you recognize it, it's too late.

765
01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:42.079
And it is your ass, which
which makes its namesake yat veo,

766
01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:48.719
which in Spanish means I see you, Oh creeper, Yeah, makes that

767
01:07:49.519 --> 01:07:55.239
stand out? Man? Oh you
think that's it? Dude? No,

768
01:07:56.239 --> 01:08:01.079
yes, I did think that was
it. How about the Madagascar man eating

769
01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:08.960
tree. Oh that's from Madagascar.
Yeah. This is reported by a German

770
01:08:09.079 --> 01:08:16.079
explorer named Carl Leish in papers in
eighteen seventy four, who apparently witnessed the

771
01:08:16.199 --> 01:08:26.520
Makodo tribe ritualistically sacrificing a woman to
this tree so his accounts. His account

772
01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:30.560
says it stood eight feet high,
had leaves that were twelve feet long,

773
01:08:30.840 --> 01:08:36.760
tapering to sharp points. It had
a plate like appendage on the top of

774
01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:44.640
the thick conical trunk, which held
a clear honey suite violently intoxicating liquid,

775
01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:49.279
under which protruded long, green,
hairy tentacles that were eight feet long,

776
01:08:50.119 --> 01:08:57.039
and then around the plate six transparent
tentacles five foot tall, stood straight up

777
01:08:57.159 --> 01:09:03.359
and twisted with constant movement. Yeah. Now this was so fascinating that the

778
01:09:03.520 --> 01:09:10.520
Michigan governor Chase Osborne went in search
of it in the nineteen twenties and apparently

779
01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:15.119
only found tales of it from the
locals. Oh no way, yeah sorry,

780
01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:18.000
bro, They're like, oh yeah, we just did like this,

781
01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:23.199
this this giant, really crazy sacrifice. You missed it thought so over.

782
01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:27.920
Now you can't even find it anymore. We have to go now. The

783
01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:35.000
original story of it was pretty unanimously
considered fabrication, completely made up. Yea,

784
01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:41.640
even the figure of Carl Leish himself
may have been made up. And

785
01:09:42.119 --> 01:09:49.479
another thing that makes this particular crazy
cryptied plant unlikely is its collection of specialized

786
01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:58.560
structural features that it has. Having
this plate like structure with intoxicating liquid,

787
01:09:58.680 --> 01:10:04.159
having all this tentacle it sounds like
leaves. Yeah, like the intoxicating liquid.

788
01:10:04.279 --> 01:10:06.479
I mean, I you know,
the guy's making it up. But

789
01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:12.640
you know, like he's listing off
what a plant? Who did that would

790
01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:15.960
require? Yeah? You know,
like, oh, you come in,

791
01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:18.960
I'm offering you what seems to be
a food source. It incapacitates you,

792
01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:26.800
the tendril's Japanese tentacle pouring you and
boom, that's dinner. Yeah. So

793
01:10:27.199 --> 01:10:30.920
apparently people have people who know what
they're talking about, have been like,

794
01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:34.359
well, maybe a plant has one
of these, maybe two, but why

795
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:38.119
would it need all of the all
of them? You know, from an

796
01:10:38.119 --> 01:10:42.319
evolution standpoint, it would be pointless. You know, you would only just

797
01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:47.000
evolve one thing that would help.
Yep. Anyway, our friend Ivan mackerel

798
01:10:47.359 --> 01:10:51.560
sought it. He that was that
was another thing besides the old Mongolian death

799
01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:59.880
worm. He went in search of
this Madagascar tree and I don't think he

800
01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:02.079
was successful, but I'm sure,
but no one never heard from him again.

801
01:11:02.199 --> 01:11:05.640
So that's not at all what happened. But it'd be cool if it

802
01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:09.600
was. Yeah, except for his
for his family, they would not like

803
01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:14.920
that outcome. So that's your dude. Yeah, crypto bot, how did

804
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:19.960
that feel? You haven't heard a
show on that? Promise you you do

805
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:25.680
get some real plants that are plenty
weird yeah out there. I mean everybody

806
01:11:25.720 --> 01:11:32.239
knows the old venus flytrap that's in
the picture plant or the nepenthes. Oh,

807
01:11:32.319 --> 01:11:39.159
yeah, that's those are cool though. Those are plants that basically they're

808
01:11:39.199 --> 01:11:44.600
the flower of It is a shaped
like a picture or to me, it

809
01:11:44.600 --> 01:11:48.039
looks kind of like a stomach,
Yeah, like an elongated stomach and filled

810
01:11:48.039 --> 01:11:54.039
with sweet smelling liquid that draws in
insects. Yeah, usually insects, maybe

811
01:11:54.039 --> 01:12:00.680
an occasional rodent maybe maybe, but
they fall in and they smell rots of

812
01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:03.760
the drawing flies. Yeah, and
and they they fall in this picture and

813
01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:08.279
then the sides are slippery so they
can't get back out, and then there's

814
01:12:08.359 --> 01:12:14.800
liquid at the bottom of them that
digests and then its it stays. So

815
01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:19.000
that's that's a picture plant um a
plant called the yellow trumpet, which is

816
01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:25.800
similar. It lures in prey,
mostly insects, with the nectar, which

817
01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:30.880
then paralyzes the insect, so the
nectar itself is dunward work. And the

818
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:38.039
sundu plant, which also lures with
with nice smelling nectar and then when the

819
01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:43.720
insect gets there, it wraps these
hair like appendages around it and suffocates the

820
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:47.039
insect and then gets its taste.
I mean it's possible that in some of

821
01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:53.439
these remote places these things grow huge. Yeah, you know, but but

822
01:12:53.479 --> 01:12:58.000
there there there are means of subduing
prey are very very passive. The yeah,

823
01:12:58.079 --> 01:13:01.560
yeah, yeah, they're they're passive, and they have evolved to be

824
01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:05.479
very specific in how they do it. Yeah, so it requires very few

825
01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:10.720
moving parts. Yeah. Even even
the Venis flytrap kind of relies on more

826
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:13.880
of an engineering trick. There's no
musculature, you know, in a plant.

827
01:13:13.880 --> 01:13:15.079
You have to always keep that in
mind, like, there's there's nothing

828
01:13:15.079 --> 01:13:20.439
to make them whip around like that. And so there's when you see plants

829
01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:25.399
that do have a physical reaction,
there's usually more of an engineering trick.

830
01:13:25.439 --> 01:13:30.479
There's a lot of energy to positive
that just gets released once. Yeah that

831
01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:33.000
yeah, that has to reset.
Yeah, and then that takes a very

832
01:13:33.119 --> 01:13:36.840
very long time for it to reset. Yeah. And some of the stuff

833
01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:42.399
that we're talking about that's out of
legend and lore. It gives the plant

834
01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:47.359
a sentience that just motivation. Yeah
that to date, no one has ever

835
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:53.880
experienced on record. You know,
there's something else that human kind may never

836
01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:58.119
never experienced to date. Oh yeah, it's something that doesn't require musculature.

837
01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:02.159
No, no, it's just require
tricks with a huge, an enormously long

838
01:14:02.239 --> 01:14:12.359
reset cycle. Oh with that,
that's right. Uh now, Flora,

839
01:14:12.680 --> 01:14:15.560
I asked you last week. You
went first because you claimed it, and

840
01:14:15.640 --> 01:14:20.439
you shafted me. You're not getting
that chance twice. I'm leading this thing

841
01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:24.520
off. All right, let's see
what you got well. First is that

842
01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:30.119
um turns out the dry Ads not
only like to sing, but some of

843
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:34.720
the Dryads, particularly the Dryads that
were just associated with one tree, also

844
01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:41.840
like to wrap. Oh yeah,
and their first album was entitled Please Hamma

845
01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:47.680
Don't hurt elm. Okay, it
was an mc hammer joke because mc hammer

846
01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:51.159
said, please Hammer, don't hurt
them. Oh there, Hamma dry Ads.

847
01:14:51.359 --> 01:14:57.640
Yeah, please Hamma don't hurt Elm. Will you did a steal mine?

848
01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:01.359
I didn't think I did. That's
the rich sound of a bunt mother

849
01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:08.880
lecas. This bitch is on base. All right, All right, let's

850
01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:15.640
see here. I've got a restaurant
that specializes in uh breakfast. Breakfast that

851
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:19.199
that's from you know, you can
get them from different cultures around the world.

852
01:15:19.239 --> 01:15:24.640
Oh delicious. It supports your your
entire day that's great. Yeah,

853
01:15:24.720 --> 01:15:28.800
I'm excited. You might even have
a dragon gnawing on on some of it

854
01:15:28.880 --> 01:15:33.319
under the table. Oh okay,
it's called bacon an egg drazil. Oh

855
01:15:33.399 --> 01:15:39.239
god, I smelled that one at
the last second. I did. I

856
01:15:39.279 --> 01:15:41.000
got a whiff of it. I
got a whiff of it. Yes,

857
01:15:41.159 --> 01:15:45.680
it's good. I've got one,
do you? Yeah? Um on Japanese

858
01:15:45.720 --> 01:15:49.439
television show kind of a mash up
of genres. Okay, on one hand,

859
01:15:49.880 --> 01:15:56.119
they've got ancient nature spirits, but
there it's in a far flung future

860
01:15:56.159 --> 01:16:00.680
where they're trapped out in space living
with a rag fleet, trying to fleet

861
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:06.439
from sentient robots. It's called Nature
Spirit Galactica, and the leader is a

862
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:18.079
Admiral Kadama. Yeah. Anything you
have to explain for ten minutes is always

863
01:16:18.199 --> 01:16:25.479
quality, that's right. Yeah,
So say we all all right, Flora

864
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:29.159
bringing home? All right? Let
me spin up my FTL here. Oh

865
01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:31.920
man, yeah, I've got an
actor. Actually, yeah, I don't

866
01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:34.359
know if you've worked with this guy
or not. I've worked with a lot.

867
01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:38.439
You may have. You may have
seen him in movies. I've seen

868
01:16:38.439 --> 01:16:43.600
this guy here. This guy you
hear about this He actually specializes in slavic

869
01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:47.199
mob films. Oh that's terrific.
Yeah, I've watched a ton of those,

870
01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:50.279
so I probably know exactly what you're
talking about. It's Joe Leshi.

871
01:16:51.479 --> 01:17:00.880
You, Joe Peshi is the owner
of the single greatest motherfucker in Hollywood.

872
01:17:01.039 --> 01:17:06.600
No one says it like he does. That's great, like Joe Leshie.

873
01:17:06.720 --> 01:17:13.560
Ye. Oh man, Them's puns. Them's his puns. And the only

874
01:17:13.600 --> 01:17:18.399
the only thing that can wash out
the foul, sickly sweet and incapacitating flavor

875
01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:32.880
of puns is listener. That was
we should have used that in the song.

876
01:17:33.199 --> 01:17:38.279
Yeah, well, ding ding ding. And in this corner, the

877
01:17:38.359 --> 01:17:48.640
welterweight pun champion Greg the Haymaker bak
wearing the powder blue shorts, not wearing

878
01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:55.239
shorts at all. Please put on
some shorts. Greg back, Greg back,

879
01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:58.399
Greg. Greg hits us in the
face with puns. Oh man.

880
01:17:58.479 --> 01:18:00.239
Yeah, he starts with the rabbit
punchy, moves into the cross and then

881
01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:03.119
boom, as the name implies,
the haymaker, So let's kick it off.

882
01:18:03.239 --> 01:18:06.640
Yeah. When building cities in ancient
Turkey, you have to eat,

883
01:18:06.680 --> 01:18:10.920
but you want to keep your food
fresh, says you should always pack it

884
01:18:10.920 --> 01:18:18.079
in go Beckley tepiware Oh one two
one one two one. That's right,

885
01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:23.039
he's working the mid section. Uh, he says. In Egypt, a

886
01:18:23.079 --> 01:18:27.800
little known fact was the great and
tut in Common was always in pain and

887
01:18:27.960 --> 01:18:34.760
was said to be addicted to oxyconnot
oh three four three two three. Also

888
01:18:35.359 --> 01:18:40.520
he shows me a little solidarity,
and that he also remembers eny Kamus and

889
01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:44.720
the hot stepper. Well, turn
it up, excuse ms officer? Turn

890
01:18:44.840 --> 01:18:47.439
it down? No, no,
no, God, how much singing?

891
01:18:47.680 --> 01:18:51.479
How in a year? Or we're
gonna have like a special episode where we

892
01:18:51.560 --> 01:18:56.399
don't sing. Well doesn't Isn't it
supposed to like lower your blood blood pressure

893
01:18:56.479 --> 01:18:58.840
or something. I don't know.
It's supposed to make you feel good.

894
01:18:59.039 --> 01:19:02.239
It does make me feel good.
Now conversely, hearing it, yeah,

895
01:19:02.560 --> 01:19:06.479
doing it is one thing. Yeah, sorry guys, Yeah yeah, Greg,

896
01:19:08.239 --> 01:19:14.239
Greg, send us some information about
quote unquote information quote. Yeah,

897
01:19:13.640 --> 01:19:18.159
he says, uh, sure you
already knew this. But Judas, you

898
01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:25.000
know from the Bible, Judas was
a vampire. Do you hear about this?

899
01:19:26.079 --> 01:19:28.319
Do you guys hear what? Judas
got a little get himself a little

900
01:19:28.399 --> 01:19:33.800
weekend job. Apparently he was the
first vampire and Apparently there is some crap

901
01:19:33.840 --> 01:19:40.960
floating around out there about this being
true, and some of it verified by

902
01:19:41.039 --> 01:19:45.760
Yahoo answers. So he threw that
in there for from us because he knows

903
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:50.119
that I have a much higher level
of proof required. Maybe I believe maybe

904
01:19:50.119 --> 01:19:54.760
this is something we could we could
throw into an episode one day. Oh

905
01:19:54.840 --> 01:20:00.279
yeah, in the old future Empire
Judas Vampire Judas. That's interesting. Yeah,

906
01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:02.720
well, I mean, same thing
with a robot apostle Paul. Yeah.

907
01:20:02.760 --> 01:20:06.760
I think they fought once, well
for the moon. There used to

908
01:20:06.840 --> 01:20:13.680
be a civilization on Mars until their
battle got out of hand. Robot Apostle

909
01:20:13.760 --> 01:20:16.840
Paul was disassembled on the road to
Damascus. Yeah, technically he was a

910
01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:26.600
Mecca apostle and then he had his
conversion to the new iOS. Moving on

911
01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:30.720
before we just wallow in that,
yeah, Greg. Greg ends it with

912
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:33.720
one more pun for us. He
says, there's a new erotic novel about

913
01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:40.239
a man's trip to a secluded cabin
which is haunted by a very dominant ghost.

914
01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:48.239
It's a tale of love and exploration
called Sifty Shades of Gray. That

915
01:20:48.439 --> 01:20:54.800
is a top five pun of the
year. It's a good one. Is

916
01:20:54.840 --> 01:21:05.640
that is magnificent I'm here, like, where is the mur No, I

917
01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:09.680
guess that would it would be like
I'm here in the bread room, but

918
01:21:09.880 --> 01:21:16.039
where m That's awesome. Don't forget. If you're in Chicago, Greg Bach

919
01:21:16.319 --> 01:21:20.840
will be playing at I think Second
City the twenty ninth of December. Nice.

920
01:21:21.079 --> 01:21:25.279
Yeah, check it out. We're
heard again from listener Josie h.

921
01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:30.640
Josie Well, Hi did Josie Hi? She says she was listening to our

922
01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:35.039
Reptilions episode and thought that maybe one
of the reasons why humanity hates reptiles is

923
01:21:35.039 --> 01:21:39.680
because of how different than humans they
are, because you know, people do

924
01:21:39.760 --> 01:21:43.279
hate things that are different than them, even other people. Yeah, and

925
01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:45.479
I think I think, I think
you're honest something. I think that there

926
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:49.800
is something that is so completely foreign
about reptiles to us. Yeah, that

927
01:21:49.800 --> 01:21:56.800
that does engender like an an instant
revulsion, right right. Yeah, And

928
01:21:56.840 --> 01:22:01.159
maybe even for something so different to
be similar her like that, even even

929
01:22:01.199 --> 01:22:05.880
with skills and vertical slits in their
eyes and all that stuff, they're still

930
01:22:05.920 --> 01:22:10.520
you know, if they're humanoid,
that's uh, that's just that makes you

931
01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:13.880
pissed off. Yeah, you know, like, yeah, you're not supposed

932
01:22:13.880 --> 01:22:15.640
to be like man. They're supposed
to have a little bit of arms,

933
01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:20.920
and you're supposed to chase Jeff Goldbloom
and a jeep. Oh man, thank

934
01:22:20.960 --> 01:22:24.920
you, Josie. Thanks for writing
in Josie. That's interesting. Man.

935
01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:31.640
Let's you wonder if there's anything else? What look to the north rather it

936
01:22:31.880 --> 01:22:40.520
broachs officer. Guys, see I
see her back? No, look he's

937
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:50.199
done, Luke. He has brought
a burro loaded with buns. Oh,

938
01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:59.239
welcome down Luke to blurry acid.
Oh man, Don Luke, Hey,

939
01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:02.239
Don Luke. First, thanks for
adopting the name full time yep ye.

940
01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:06.720
Second of all, prepare yourselves because
he is loaded. Here we go,

941
01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:12.600
that poor little burrow, Here we
go. All right? Where do you

942
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:17.960
cook self indulgent chicken a bohemian stove? I'll bet she can't make that pun

943
01:23:18.039 --> 01:23:23.840
rhyme. Where do you store your
urban pirate booty? A bohemian cove?

944
01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:27.640
Did it? Oh? No,
he did not just do the thing,

945
01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:33.119
favorite urinating president, not Richard Nixon, but Bohemian Grover Cleveland. I like

946
01:23:33.319 --> 01:23:39.159
it. That's that's what Grover?
What do you think that? What?

947
01:23:39.159 --> 01:23:42.520
What do you think? Uh?
President Nixon? What what did you think

948
01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:53.079
of Grover Cleveland was the latest Norwegian
dance sensation. What does the box say?

949
01:23:53.439 --> 01:24:01.279
Ring? And finally, to put
us out of our own misery,

950
01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:08.359
a sandhill crane that makes a fortune
off of locking industry, a pine baron.

951
01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:13.880
Oh oh, don, look,
we thank you for bringing these finest

952
01:24:14.000 --> 01:24:18.159
puns to our hacienda. You will
know us don't get caught by the officias.

953
01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:26.439
Thanks Don Luke, Thanks Don Luke. We'll see you again when the

954
01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:30.399
time is right. I Belois love, he believe in dun Luke. He

955
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:33.680
dun Luke believes in you. Well, you know who else believes in you?

956
01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:36.640
Who? Connor? Hey, Connor? What up? Connor hits us

957
01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:41.319
with a pun from our Bohemian Grove
episode. He says, in the Grove,

958
01:24:41.680 --> 01:24:45.000
there's a small dance club in the
style of soul Train known as the

959
01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:54.960
Bohemian Grove. Oh yeah, welcome, welcome, privileged what man, solid

960
01:24:55.039 --> 01:24:58.520
gold, show me what you were
born with and have never worked a day

961
01:24:58.600 --> 01:25:04.239
for? He says. Also,
a few people know that the Grove was

962
01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:09.640
where the phrases hang out with your
whang out and rock out with your cock

963
01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:16.239
out originated show enough Man. Also, he recently learned where the word etiquette

964
01:25:16.279 --> 01:25:21.039
has its roots. It's French meaning
little ticket, referring to small slips of

965
01:25:21.079 --> 01:25:26.720
paper given to commoners when meeting royalty. As such, he says, a

966
01:25:26.880 --> 01:25:31.079
haint ticket is in a way a
correct phrase for a slip of paper with

967
01:25:31.239 --> 01:25:35.239
rules for acting like a royal bitch, which is what I am. Oh,

968
01:25:36.920 --> 01:25:42.359
I'm the worst stecco. He also
wants you to stop harbing him on

969
01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:47.640
calling you out for down with the
sickness. Wow, that's the right one,

970
01:25:47.720 --> 01:25:51.800
right. That is a song by
Disturbed. There you go, Yes,

971
01:25:53.119 --> 01:25:56.880
I see, No, that's about
me learning see. He heard a

972
01:25:56.880 --> 01:26:01.000
recent report of a Disturbed cover band, the acist of which, while performing,

973
01:26:01.600 --> 01:26:09.520
was tuned so low while playing the
aforementioned song hit the infamous brown note,

974
01:26:09.640 --> 01:26:13.079
which caused everyone in the club to
release the contents of their bowels.

975
01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:25.239
Thus the report headline, heavy metal
fans are brown with the sickness. Oh

976
01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:34.359
God, brilliant great, Thanks Connor. We also got a couple of great

977
01:26:34.359 --> 01:26:39.680
messages from a friend, Bob Payton. Bob, and our simple reply is

978
01:26:40.399 --> 01:26:43.880
ease off on the throttle there,
Bob, pump the brakes. There's you

979
01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:47.239
were about to find out that there
is a toxic limit to how much blurry

980
01:26:47.239 --> 01:26:50.359
photos you can listen to in a
day. Yeah, yeah, this is

981
01:26:50.399 --> 01:26:56.680
this is a beverage best step to
not show They're not a session podcast.

982
01:26:57.039 --> 01:27:00.279
As much as I appreciate it,
I'm kind of worried about you because we

983
01:27:00.359 --> 01:27:08.680
can't even listen to ourselves that much. But thank you. I admire your

984
01:27:09.119 --> 01:27:14.279
your your tenacity. Yeah, that's
endurance. I don't have it. Thanks

985
01:27:14.319 --> 01:27:15.600
for writing in you, guys,
Yeah, thank you so much. You

986
01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:18.920
guys are magnificent. Thanks for the
reviews, and thanks for sitting through our

987
01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:24.359
our singing. Oh man, I
love it. I love I love them,

988
01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:27.039
I love them sitting through us,
sitting through it. If you can

989
01:27:27.720 --> 01:27:30.640
forgive us for the songs that are
that are fun and just full of parody,

990
01:27:30.880 --> 01:27:34.640
Yeah, go to iTunes, give
us five stars, rate us.

991
01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:39.520
Yeah, tell us to tell us
how how you can tell we sing and

992
01:27:39.800 --> 01:27:42.760
how good we are in the rist
You can tell us with the twitters.

993
01:27:42.760 --> 01:27:46.199
You can tell us with the facebooks. You can um send an an interest

994
01:27:46.279 --> 01:27:51.039
missive through stumble Upon. You can, uh, you can, you can

995
01:27:51.079 --> 01:27:55.680
YouTube, but yeah you could um
come to my apartment in four square it

996
01:27:55.680 --> 01:28:00.560
and become the mayor of this podcast. Man, imagine. Yeah, there's

997
01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:03.159
a lot of official duties and you
have a lot of violations with the city

998
01:28:03.159 --> 01:28:05.920
to clear up. So please,
I need someone become the mayor. You

999
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want that mantle? Yeah, do
you want that? You can? You

1000
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can email us, you can Facebook
message us. I already said that,

1001
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but it's so easy, I said, contact page on blurry photos dot org

1002
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and contact us like any one of
these wonderful listeners did that you just heard

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from and tell us something cool,
suggests something to us up. This whole

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episode is a direct result of a
recent show suggestion. We keep all of

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them. We have this big database, we have a big spreadsheet. We

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go through it, check them off. Even if even if you sent one

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in a while ago. Oh,
why don't you just keep listening? Yeah,

1008
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don't worry and come around that corner. It'll get you. It'll get

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you. Blurry Underscore photos on Twitter
and Blurry Photos podcast on Facebook. Please

1010
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go and tell your friends to like
us, even if they don't listen.

1011
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Who gives a shit if they don't
listen. What you could do is say,

1012
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hey, I got a podcast you
should listen to. That's right,

1013
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It's time for you to get on
board with this. Yeah, temperature to

1014
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actually be cool at once, son
of a bitch. Be real angry,

1015
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get really get right up in their
grill. Yeah, catch those flies with

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vinegar. So, for this episode
of Blurry Photos, I am David the

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Incapacitating Nectar Stecco, and I'm David
Venus flora trap. That was good.