WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.919 This episode is sponsored by the Mighty Mighty Iron Galaxy. We make lots of 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.320 games. You might even like a few. Follow us on Twitter at eye 3 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:22.280 to the g that's it, o th eg on top of the morning. 4 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:26.640 To you a chief, it's far into afternoon. That's a configure speech, 5 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:30.120 Chief, What have we got here? Looks like a simple accident, Sir. 6 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:34.679 It's a male one point one five meters tall, approximately seven hundred ninety 7 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.640 years old. It looks like he fell and cracked his head on a rock 8 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:40.000 while out for a run or something. Have you taken a look at the 9 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.439 body at all? Now they're just finishing taking pictures. Let's go take a 10 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:51.920 look. I looks as if his Andrew's consistant would have fall right here, 11 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.640 as if the ragged rascal we're running round these rugged rocks. Looks like an 12 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.640 opening shutcase. Chief. I'll tell the boys to start wrapping up. I'll 13 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.680 hang on to our second lift up his wee waistcoat. Okay, Chief, 14 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:10.359 look at this. That looks like a stab wound. Plenty of fresh blood 15 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.840 around it. He was stabbed before he fell. Hey, looks like our 16 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:19.959 Johnny o'doll's death was no accident. Looks like he was Darby O kiled, 17 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:57.079 I'll not before the game. Who I really like to who? Yea, 18 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:02.840 yeah, yeah. This episode of C s Irish brought to you by Grandma 19 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:06.640 Wiggles Pickle Sniffins. If it's got to sniffle like a pickle, it's got 20 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.599 to sniff like Grandma wiggle. Do you know, special Guest Irish tea, 21 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.960 we found his pot of gold not too far from his body, so we 22 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.520 can whirl out robbery as a motive. The wait, you're thing that they 23 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.919 killed them and didn't rob them? Man, you can keep the timely th 24 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.759 Island magic. Well, who shout your help, coming all the way from 25 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.080 New York. But you gotta understand we do things and we've at difference here. 26 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.879 If you say, though, chief well, we're back in the room 27 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.080 full of nerds and computers. This is exactly the way it goes in the 28 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.639 UFA. Which one of y'all got the next pete the information that we got 29 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:49.439 to follow up on trying about here and thread of them, and I can 30 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:58.960 tell you canned you in hamp In hamp in hand. I don't even know 31 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.360 what I'm spoth to see this point, usually I say it three times then 32 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:09.319 it's clear at the daylight. I need you, man, I could have 33 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:20.560 told you that from the beginning. Okay, good getting the wait. You're 34 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:28.439 saying that he has scratches and blue flames squatch marks on his lapel. Yeah, 35 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.039 it sounds familiar to me too. Come on, Chief, I don't 36 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:38.080 know where we need to go. All right, Chief, We got the 37 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:42.199 subject in room three. It didn't come easily, but we got him. 38 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.520 Looks like your face. There's a little red there. Yeah. If you 39 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.680 can slap me giggling the whole time, why don't you go in and try 40 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.719 and cooks a confession out of him. I will be witting in the observation 41 00:03:51.800 --> 00:04:00.120 room. Hey, her jockey points pig. That's right, Jackie. Roh 42 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.639 me Eh, you got quite a rap sheet here. You've been a very 43 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:06.560 naughty boy. Oh it seems like you're like frightening girls. Give them a 44 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.039 bit of a scare, a bit of a squeeze, as long as you 45 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.960 get your taste right, Jackie boy on a donut. I got sad news 46 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.879 for you there, Jackie, there are no girls in prison where you're going. 47 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:27.000 Think about that. All I did say, I did it, I 48 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.480 did it all along. Had you as used me. I thought it was 49 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.160 it was a weak girl, and there was an accident my squires who thought 50 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:36.120 it was a girl. We we grabbed it and then it made me. 51 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:41.800 Cost just slept and right into the thing. It's so twiny. I never 52 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:48.839 grabbed it. Wait, twiny, I thought you to. What's going to 53 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:53.519 happen to me? All right, Jackie, I want you to write everything 54 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.720 on this notepad exactly as it happened. I'll see if maybe we can cut 55 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.279 something, a deal with a DA for you, as it wasn't accent. 56 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.160 Maybe, Hi, Hi, but I won't lie to you. You're probably 57 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:08.800 gonna do jail time for this. I know you. No, I don't 58 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:13.920 like authority, so chef, that good enough for you. Good work on 59 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:17.519 many thanks Jeff. Of course he's not taking it so well. Hi, 60 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:30.160 looks like his world just got sham rocked. Oh, not befooled again? 61 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:55.120 You Hi? Ti? Oh? He said, tricks day? Do you? 62 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:00.560 Hey? Everybody, it's a good news but bad news, sort of 63 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:05.680 a mixed bag, as it would, ah right, first off, bad 64 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:12.759 news, bad days. We're sober, so uh, good news. It's 65 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:17.480 not my fault. This one's all on me. Incredibly more of your treacherous 66 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.720 physiology. Flora don't. Yeah, I wish I knew. So anyways, 67 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:27.240 here's the deal. We were going to record this past weekend. The day 68 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.639 that we were going to record, a day is set in infamily. We 69 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:36.720 we actually planned for our hangovers. Yeah, my body decides to reject the 70 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:42.240 idea of me existing. Yeah. You you just got the hangover without ever 71 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.839 having drank. I got, I got what I what I got last year. 72 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:48.000 The day after the day off, it was so weird. I had 73 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.680 some stuff to do during the day, but nothing really out of the ordinary. 74 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:57.199 I don't know what caused this, but I had a migraine, I 75 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:01.079 had fever. I threw up, I was I was gone. I thought 76 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.800 I was going to be able to power through it. That's called they call 77 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.240 that the ship show trifecta. It really was. You hit the bingo card 78 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:12.560 on that one. It really was. Anyway. Yeah, it completely just 79 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:16.279 leveled me. Yeah, so good news. We made a promise to you, 80 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.439 we T listener. We are going to get can smashed for next week's 81 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:25.439 episode. Yeah, so just know that we will do this. Just unfortunately, 82 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.240 we're not gonna make Floria drink if he's sick. Come on, we're 83 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.920 not animals. Well, yeah, I wasn't able to function. Yeah, 84 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.199 like I wouldn't have even there could be no lights on in here for us 85 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:39.160 to do it. And Dave just gets real pissy when there's no lights, 86 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:46.519 so pissy. Sorry, proper illumination, bro, Sorry everybody. I apologize. 87 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.560 I know that's it's a disappointment. I don't know. I mean maybe 88 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:54.240 they were like, thank God because that that was just so much to take. 89 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.319 We are even if you hated it, So don't listen to next weeks 90 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:01.040 because we're going to be faced. That's right. But I'll tell you this. 91 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.240 We'll be sailing on the ship with a certain captain you know, and 92 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:16.160 love for a shadow under sound bringing it back. It's the Pride of America 93 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:24.240 and the Sad motherfer. Anyways, I hope everybody's doing great. We're back 94 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:30.399 on the saddle in the Saddle on the Horse in the Horse four more seasons. 95 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:35.279 Season four kickoff. You might have noticed a new website. Yes, 96 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.320 you may have, or at least a revamped rep website. Yeah, we're 97 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.879 we We've launched the new website. So I know that we had a couple 98 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:50.279 of particularly astute listeners noticing the interim. I I mean I really leaned on 99 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.600 Flora for the little nineties gift of the stickman digging. To be honest, 100 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.799 I couldn't find it. Well, yeah, it doesn't exist. You'd have 101 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:05.360 to find like an AOL trial disc somewhere. Um, usually as a coaster. 102 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.840 Right, yeah, exactly. But things are back. Our store is 103 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:15.679 is almost ready to open the doors. Yeah we have. We did some 104 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:20.320 Okay, so T shirt talk with your hosts Dave and David. Um, 105 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.480 we're we are making T shirts, like like literally doing it. We have 106 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.600 done our test run t shirts. I have worn a T shirt made by 107 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.879 us. How about that? Um? And so because we're not fantastic it 108 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.559 does it looks awesome, We're doing a couple more tests. I mean, 109 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:41.039 like we're we're worried. You know, we love you guys. And and 110 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.440 if we sell you a shirt, we want it to be a good shirt 111 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.360 that doesn't fall apart. So we didn't hire a screen printing shop. We 112 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.039 didn't buy five hundred shirts. We actually bought We bought the cow. We 113 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.039 bought the equipment to make shirts ourselves so that we could make them the way 114 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.200 we want them to be made. So now in past the savings along to 115 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.960 you. Yeah, exactly, so some savings. I mean, well we 116 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:07.120 still got a communist Russia. Bro, we still got a break even, 117 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.559 I got needs to feed. Um. But the moral of the story is, 118 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.159 um, So, now that we've made some test shirts, like we're 119 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.200 we're actually going through like a quality control process. We're like washing them a 120 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.879 bunch of times and kind of wadding up into balls because we're just making sure 121 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.440 that they last. Yeah. I would be embarrassed if if we sent you 122 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.759 a shirt and it sucked. That's right. Yeah, absolutely, We're also 123 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:37.519 this is how how deep we're going. Uh. We're also testing different shirt 124 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.240 types. Yeah, I mean for like solfness and durability. Yeah, you 125 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.679 never think about it, but like we want it to be a shirt that 126 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.600 you would enjoy wearing because it's comfortable. Yeah, we don't want to scratch 127 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.679 a shirt. Yeah. So I mean, which problems you never think about 128 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.960 until like, oh, it's I gotta think about this now. Like it 129 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:58.279 all pops up. So we will have the store up very soon. We 130 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.159 will have shirts, We'll have stickers, yep, um, we will actually 131 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:07.840 we're Grandma's dirty knickers. Wow. Okay, maybe maybe maybe for Christmas. 132 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.639 I don't know. I hope to get you know, maybe some posters up 133 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.120 there or something, you know, little nick nicky stuff. And then we're 134 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:20.159 gonna update the inventory. We're gonna have a limited time designs and stuff. 135 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:22.919 I think, Yeah, we've got a ton of shirt designs. We've got 136 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:24.440 like our standards. We're gonna have like, you know, like a blurry 137 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:30.679 photos logo shirt and yeah, but we're also you know, like the Hayton 138 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.279 ticket, the Devil, Debble Baby. Yeah, do you want to wear 139 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:41.679 Debble Baby here Church today? Um, We've got a whole bunch of ideas. 140 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.039 We've got some Jeff the Talking Mongoose ideas, and I think the best 141 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:46.960 way to do that is, Yeah, we're gonna have a shirt that's available 142 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.480 for I don't know, a month. Sure, then stop doing it, 143 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.080 I don't know. Yeah, and then eventually we'll we're on it. We 144 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.759 this is it's fun for us to super fun to given design this. Yeah, 145 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.480 and we're doing it, damn it. We've talked about it forever. 146 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.919 We're doing it. So so there you go. Yeah, other other things 147 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:09.840 that Florida doesn't know that I'm going to say, uh, Season four Live 148 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.879 show, we're doing that this this season. That is primo. Yep. 149 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.200 We are currently talking to a couple of theaters. We're figuring out like a 150 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:22.600 when and where kind of thing. We're thinking maybe maybe rounds about Midsummer when 151 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.480 when everyone wants to be cramped into a small, poorly aced theater. God, 152 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.759 that's true. We're gonna do it, though, We're gonna do it, 153 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:33.840 and that's what makes you drink more. That'll that'll be fun. And 154 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.879 what if you what if they wanted to come see us at some other time, 155 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.159 Flora, Well, you know, I don't know if that would be 156 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.279 possible because it's I don't know, you know, we you know, sixth 157 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:50.159 floor six the Milwaukee para con We bought a damn table at the Milwaukee Paranormal 158 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:56.320 Convention. We're gonna be there June six, June six. Now I have 159 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:00.360 a question because Florida and I have talked about this, and I I feel 160 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:01.919 like it's kind of a good idea. But I don't know to offend anybody, 161 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.840 but I was thinking that it would be a fun idea at our booth 162 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:11.720 to make tinfoil hats for people, like like well made or gomy tinfoil hats 163 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:16.039 that have blurry photos on the side. Would they find that offensive where they 164 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.000 be like, ah, they get it, oh tunfoil hat they find it 165 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.080 offensive? I don't think they would. So I want you to tell us. 166 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.039 You guys are into weird stuff too, so right in if you think 167 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.519 that's a good idea, I don't want to offend anybody. Where we're sitting 168 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.879 next to ghost hunters and squatch hunters, right, I think they're gonna find 169 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.000 and then like two tables down, it is going to be like the UFO 170 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:41.360 Good good dudes, because all we have to do is hide because neither those 171 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:50.759 could find us. I just just read it out the mic on that one. 172 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:52.480 But it was worth it. So I don't know. Do you tell 173 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.399 me I'm looking for input because I think that it would be a clever, 174 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:58.399 cute idea. I don't want to offend anybody. If you think it would 175 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.639 be offensive, I wouldn't do it. I won't do it. Right anyways, 176 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:07.559 we're gonna be there June sixth, Milwaukee Paranormal Convention. It's it's gonna 177 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.879 be a lot of fun. Well, just even if you want to come 178 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:11.960 out just to meet us. I think it's free. I think it's free 179 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:18.960 to attend. Holy snikes. I think google it. I think it's Milwaukee 180 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.480 paracon dot com maybe or mk Yeah, I don't even know. It's so 181 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:30.840 fresh. It's in Milwaukee the internet. Google the Milwaukee paracon Um. We're 182 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.519 on the website. We're on their website. It's it's legit. So hey, 183 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.919 hey, that's coming up. That's fun. We're gonna talk to people. 184 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.240 We're gonna get some guests in here this this season. Uh's hitting a 185 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:46.720 fan and it smails so good. I was a mixed metaphor. It's a 186 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:52.159 mixed genre. But you're probably not here for all this, Jim Jabin. 187 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.039 That's a lie. They're in for all this, Jim Jabin. But I 188 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.279 guess there is a reason. Uh now, Flora, what what topic? 189 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:03.639 Where we supposed to be barely coherent for well, we were going to be 190 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:13.639 ragingly unsober for talking about druids. That's right, Drewid's ads. We're starting 191 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:22.799 off with a topic of Celtic slash Irish slash awesome slash folklore legend lately raising 192 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.519 this, we're gonna talk about who the druids were, what their history was 193 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.879 is, what were some of their rituals and beliefs, and a little bit 194 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:39.039 about druidism today and hinge craft. How how one craft's a hinge? Did 195 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.000 you Actually we're not talking about Stonehenge very much. We're not doing much stone 196 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:48.440 Hinge. I was even going to go back and recomb through the stuff. 197 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:50.159 Drews druids is a big subject, and well, well, I don't know, 198 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.360 we'll, like, I don't drag a finger across it. We have 199 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.720 to. I mean, that's and we'll get into this maybe with the overview, 200 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:00.279 because you'll do that thing that you like to do on the bus where 201 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.440 you just get really close to it, just kind of bump into it a 202 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.679 lot, quote unquote on accident. Are you allowed on buses yet? Let 203 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:10.840 you back on there, Flora, because of your because of that homeless guy, 204 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:17.919 your multiple convictions. You know that you really achieved something with the homeless 205 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:22.600 guys like bus driver. You won't leave me alone? All right, you're 206 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:25.559 ready, you're ready to dup in this thing. Let's do this about an 207 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:32.440 overview of drew wads, drew eds, dr duds, druids as we'll discuss 208 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:37.320 them. Refer to an ancient, ancient, ancient learned class of the Celts, 209 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:41.919 Celtic tribes extended from Ireland, Oreland, through parts of Europe and all 210 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.879 the way into Boston. All the way all the way into Boston, you 211 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.759 Mastard, all the way into Asia Minor and the Balkans in the fifth century 212 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:56.200 BC. Yep, that's before the Common era. We don't actually have much 213 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.799 firsthand knowledge of the Druids, and what there is has been pieced together from 214 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:07.519 written accounts of philosophers and conquerors of the Celts, namely the Romans. Ever 215 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:15.000 heard of them, and they described the Druids as bunch of brutish gentlemen given 216 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:23.960 to loud noises, foughting sounds, as a priestly cast among the Celts, 217 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:30.359 or at least the educated members of the society. They oversaw both social and 218 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:37.039 religious practices. Were philosophers, scientists, teachers, judges, advisors. They 219 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:42.839 were highly respected and very influential. Were druids. Yeah, the word druid 220 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:49.799 has contentious origins. Yes, that's right to choose your lines of battle. 221 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:55.200 Now. For the origin of the Druid wars, some scholars argue it comes 222 00:17:55.240 --> 00:18:00.039 from Latin, which was derived from the Gaulish word for societal figures like this. 223 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:07.519 Others think It comes from the Proto Indo European roots of Daru, which 224 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:14.960 meant oak and wid, which meant to know, much like the Sanskrit vid 225 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:22.680 them oak noahan mother fuckers yep makes them have oak knowledge oak newers or less 226 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:29.440 literally those whose knowledge is great oh. A common view of druids sees them 227 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:36.400 as barbaric shaman leaders of roving savages with a fanatical devotion to nature, and 228 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:42.440 practitioners of such barbarisms as human or animal sacrifice, silly spells, and rituals, 229 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:48.839 and will seek to dispel that myth unless I mean not entirely. I 230 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:55.720 mean it's probably true most of it. Yeah, you don't. You don't 231 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:00.440 make a hinge unless you're into some weird ship. I got really deep. 232 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:06.720 This is Sam Elliott. You don't. You don't go about making a hinge 233 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:14.519 unless you're into some weird good evening like a rock. Don't forget to eat 234 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:18.480 some Kansas City strip steaks. They grew up real fun in the summertime, 235 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:22.720 and keep your wife off your ass. I like to pop open in nice 236 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:30.079 case of steakhms. Stakems eat them. Stakem is an abomination and judged by 237 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:36.519 God and loathed by man, this is Sam Elliott two. I'm fighting with 238 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:44.839 myself directly to Sam Elliot. All right, um, let's talk about the 239 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.599 history of the Drews. Oh wait, you're trying to tell me you're the 240 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:52.359 same actor. But you're having an argument with yourself. Man, you can 241 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:59.599 keep this podcast, so keep going. Sorry. The major reason we have 242 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:04.359 so little knowledge of druids is because all knowledge and culture was taught and preserved 243 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:11.759 orally, nothing was written. It was learned through mnemonics, apparently like Johnny 244 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:15.599 Nemonic. Yeah, just like that. They gotta get that message out of 245 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.880 your head. They all just knew kung fu and that was it. The 246 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:26.319 earliest discussion of druids comes from the writings of Julius Caesar in the first century 247 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:32.960 BC, though he may have been strongly influenced by the Greek philosopher Poseidonius. 248 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:41.160 Writing on Rome's history from one forty six to eighty one BC, Poseidonias visited 249 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.599 Gaul and spoke of the culture, though hardly any of his works have survived. 250 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.400 Gaul, if you want to think of it in easy terms, is 251 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.519 like France. Pretty much France, Yeah, pretty much France. If you 252 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:00.839 go much farther east, then you're going to get into the Germanic tribe Russia 253 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:08.039 and Prussia hints Germany, yea, France and Belgium is the lands we call 254 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:14.319 Goal if you're confused about that, probably and Dora also the tiny, tiny 255 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.880 nation state in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain, Catalonia, Monaco, 256 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:34.640 man, I think that. Okay, I'm like two more interruptions and cracks 257 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:38.799 from putting the percentage on this episode. Yeah, you're starting it out with 258 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:48.720 a barring Poseidonius's works influenced Sicilian historian Diodorus and Greek geographer Strabo as well. 259 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:56.880 But julieh Strabo. He's such a great geographer. Oh my god, Corthis. 260 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.319 That's why he just goes by Strabos Strebo. Look at his hair, 261 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.119 Oh my god. I wonder what he's got under that tauga. Oh my 262 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.480 god, it's so loose. Honestly, did you see him if he just 263 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.160 leans over, it's just the man cleavage. I wonder if he got that 264 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:18.160 from forever Xxio No I liked it. I like that a lot. I 265 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:26.880 was already committed to Strabo, like Julius Caesar's account in his Commentari de Bello 266 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:33.240 Gallico Book six is the most direct info on Druids of this era we have. 267 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:38.880 The Only problem is Caesar was leading armies through Gaul to conquer the Celtic 268 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:44.880 world under the packs Romana, so it's not as though he was exactly the 269 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:52.079 most impartial observer of Druidic culture. Yep. His account should be considered for 270 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.519 what it is, which is coming from a general and statesman writing to Rome 271 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.400 about a culture he was trying to conquer. He described him in three classes, 272 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:07.799 the Druides, the equities, and there form full roaming vapor and the 273 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:14.559 druids were the intellectuals. The equities were the military, maybe even nobility thrown 274 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:18.920 in there, and the plebs were the regular people were the equities? Is 275 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.319 that is that based on the equine where they mounted could be could be cavalry. 276 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.359 Yeah, you never hear about that. I don't know the Druid cavalry. 277 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:33.200 Druids here are not unlike a religious priesthood. He also says druids were 278 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:38.519 exempt from military service and taxes and had to memorize a great number of verses, 279 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:44.599 which could take twenty years to learn. Damn. If you think about 280 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:48.480 it, though, it's just like being a doctor. Really right, No, 281 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:56.119 think about because doctors are aren't exempt from taxes. All right, let's 282 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.119 just take the learning the number of years. Yeah, that's kindergarten up to 283 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.759 yeah, and there's you're right then, actually, yeah, that does come 284 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.240 out to about twenty years. And those people at the end of which should 285 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:11.359 be tax exempt and they should get paid all the money in the whole wide 286 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:17.519 world. Like my good friends C. F. Gunderson. Caesar spoke of 287 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:23.119 human sacrifice of criminals and sometimes innocence, and how they were stuffed into a 288 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:30.559 large wooden man and burned. And this was known as the Wickerman. Oh 289 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:37.880 not the bees Bees or the Wickerman. Although have you seen the Wickerman? 290 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:41.720 I don't think I have, or maybe I just couldn't pay attention. He 291 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:47.960 probably both. I saw it, and boy, howdy, I'll say this, 292 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:51.920 It's not Nicholas Cage's finest work. Or maybe it is, depending on 293 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:56.279 what you watch him for. But I'll say this, the movie sticks to 294 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:03.319 its guns. Okay, yeah, Wickerman spoiler No it's on Netflix or something, 295 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:08.880 Well, then I might watching you. So this Wickerman, this idea 296 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:17.640 of Wickerman was the Wickerman. It might just be a rehash of Poseidonius from 297 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:23.839 earlier, something that he wrote earlier, and that's its suspect to begin with 298 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.599 from that angle, never trust a Roman with an agenda, and all the 299 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.079 Romans had an agenda. So anyway, we'll come back to that. Some 300 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:37.640 evidence for sacrifice has been found in the form of mass graves, though it 301 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:44.799 could also be an honored burial side for fallen warriors huh, plague victims. 302 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:52.799 Many historians lean toward accusations of human sacrifice being propaganda. Oh. Caesar also 303 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:59.960 said the Druids believed in a form of reincarnation that after death the soul passes 304 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:02.920 is from one body to another. I'll come back to that in a minute 305 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:07.000 two. But if you if you take away anything from this, take away 306 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:11.480 the fact that Caesar was a general, Yeah he was. He was an 307 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:14.759 army man, and he was writing about the people he was conquering, right, 308 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:18.759 And just think about that in a historical perspective that never lends itself to 309 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:23.319 an accurate portrayal. I mean you, I mean even today in our lofty 310 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:30.119 new millennium, I mean us Allied whatever countries like they they have the these 311 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:36.839 these these horrible like nicknames for like I think what do they call them hodgies 312 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:41.279 sometimes, uh, skinnies and Iraq and not Iraq in in Somalia, you 313 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:45.720 know, like these kind of things, like they're these kind of dehumanizing um 314 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:51.000 phrases they'd used to make it easier to kill people, you know, like 315 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:55.559 to do their jobs, and to make it easier to win support back home, 316 00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:59.599 right to continue the campaign. Yeah, and so yeah, so this 317 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:03.920 this is something that not only hasn't changed, it will not change. Yeah, 318 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.960 unfortunately. I mean because if if you had a general that could write 319 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:14.000 like a genuine assessment of the culture they were they were seeking to completely eradicate. 320 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.720 I imagine that that to gain that much knowledge of it, you wouldn't 321 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:21.680 be able to then follow through if you knew them that well, you know, 322 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:29.519 and I think I remember reading that old Gaius Julius might have had some 323 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:37.079 debt to pay off. And so these these little military campaigns were quite prosperous. 324 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:40.279 Yeah, are lucrative. Lucrative that's the word I was looking for. 325 00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:44.400 Yeah. So yeah, you you write back back home and say, hey, 326 00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:49.039 everything's going great here killing these these people who are practitioners of human sacrifice. 327 00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:52.960 Better send me some more money and some more men and tell everybody that 328 00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:56.400 they practice human sacrifice. So everybody's okay with this, Please don't worry. 329 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:03.559 We took care of it everybody. In the twenties CE, Strabo broke down 330 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:12.480 Gaulish society into three categories. BARDOI who were the who were the poets and 331 00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:21.200 singers, Ovates who are the diviners and nature specialists. And druid A the 332 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:26.480 moral philosophers, or in other terms, bards, ovates and druids yep, 333 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.720 which we will most certainly come back to. Right. And this was after 334 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:36.079 the Gallic Wars of fifty eight to fifty BC, which was Caesar's heyday. 335 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:42.200 Many parts of Gaul failed to Roman rule, and the new rulers, probably 336 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:48.599 rightly worried about many new subjects being learned. Educated folks sought to get rid 337 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:53.799 of druids and their beliefs. Druidism was banned and religious practices suppressed. By 338 00:28:53.839 --> 00:29:00.400 the middle of the first century CE, Druidism was pushed back to Britain, 339 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.279 to to the to the British Isles. Yeah, and and honestly, God, 340 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.319 how many episodes are we going to come across this? Where one group 341 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.680 moves in an area, there's their religion is is suppressed and supplanted, and 342 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:18.400 then ultimately, you know, either through physical you know, or or or 343 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:23.880 outright suppression or the false acceptance, rejiggering, throwing, you know, absorbing 344 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:26.480 some traits of it, and then regurgitating it as the you know. Like, 345 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.079 m I guess, I don't know what what am I mad that history 346 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.759 has happened, that that every group that moves into an area wants to the 347 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:38.000 area to be like their old area. Sorry, no, I don't know 348 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:41.519 why I'm so pissy about. It's true. It got it got pushed back 349 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:47.519 into Britain and may have survived here and there, but as Christianity began to 350 00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:52.480 grow and take hold across the continent, the last remaining pagan religions were rooted 351 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:57.079 out and converted. And when this happened, druids became sorcerers or prophets, 352 00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:02.039 or they were in league with the devil, or they were wildman, etcetera, 353 00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:07.200 etcetera. They were made to look bad so that you know, nobody 354 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.359 would want to be a druid anymore. And again, it's not a knock 355 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.200 against Christianity. It's what happened, right, It's it's just history. That's 356 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:19.640 that's what every group does. And you can't limit that to Christianity. That 357 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:25.240 is every group with a belief system. And I don't even just mean necessarily 358 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.200 like a theological one, but that's what that's what every group does. It 359 00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:30.200 goes to the next area and says, hey, do you agree with us? 360 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.839 Well, I guess we'll settle this in the blood pits. Yeah, 361 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.240 that's that's just history, man, And that organisms do the same thing, 362 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:42.759 like you know, like oh, a whole bunch of of tarantula's got out 363 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:47.799 of this this area. Now they're in this area, who's gonna win because 364 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:52.759 they're not going to share it? So wow, Angela's nice you brought that 365 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:55.920 up yourself. Getting better about the spiders, okay, are you? I've 366 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.759 been watching a lot of YouTube videos, and not like the ones that are 367 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:00.759 designed to scare the shit out of you. Like there's like a guy who's 368 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.559 like a high school teacher who loves spiders. He's got like tons of them, 369 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:07.279 all these different varieties and talking about like, oh, I you know, 370 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:11.559 how they mold, how they behave, And I'm not cool with spiders, 371 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.960 but I'm trying to bess it's going to be a problem for our Australian 372 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:21.839 listeners. I mean, first of all, thank you. We're actually getting 373 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:26.640 it pretty good following and especially Southern Australia, which is awesome. We would 374 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.839 love to come visit, maybe do a live show. I'm gonna need some 375 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:36.720 assurances because my good friend Lisa her and her husband live in Sydney and they 376 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:38.319 delight in sending me just pictures like, oh, we were out for a 377 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.799 walk and that's just a picture of a tree on the side of the road 378 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.759 is just festooned with murder webs and you can see from the sidewalk you can 379 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:49.599 see the spiders, which means that they're big, and big is defined as 380 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:56.079 anything larger than a quarter. In my world, it's terrifying. It's pretty 381 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:02.920 small, you know what. Moving on to druids getting you're getting much better 382 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:08.720 about spiders. Let's talk about their belief and practices. Okay, let's do 383 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:15.119 that. But first now, for something completely different, I would like to 384 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:22.279 talk about women who wouldn't all right, if any we want pictures of hot 385 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.480 druids. We've given up on the wickeds and wist which, in our attention 386 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:32.240 to druids, women enjoyed a more equal status in Celtic or Gallic society than 387 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:38.480 many women of other cultures such as Greek and Roman at the time. In 388 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:45.440 fact, they could even rise to or inherit positions of power, one such 389 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:52.279 example being Budica or Bodicia whatever, however you want to pronounce that, who 390 00:32:52.319 --> 00:33:00.920 was queen of the British Icne tribe circa sixty CE and Automarus, a Gaulish 391 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:07.960 chieftainess, also a powerful figure. Women could be lawyers, judges, commanders 392 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:14.400 of armies. They could inherit property, they could divorce their husbands. Whoa. 393 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:21.319 Yeah. Given the rather unparalleled equality, many historians conclude females were accepted 394 00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:24.799 into the druid class as well. Hey, by the time Christianity got to 395 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:30.960 Britain, the culture had already started becoming more patriarchal, though, and Christianity 396 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:37.279 ended the equality women had had just pretty much put a put a stop to 397 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:43.680 it. Yeah, let's just knock that off, guys, Boudica is a 398 00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:49.240 and sorry if if if that's the Americanized pronunciation, I don't know how to 399 00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.039 pronounce hold on, you know, I'm gonna look it up. I mean, 400 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:58.359 I've it's spelled differently in some sometimes too as in Bodicia, But I 401 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:02.480 like bodicia. Boudica sounds made up well Buddha because what I've always heard it 402 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:07.079 as, And truthfully, that's how it's spelled a lot. That's how it 403 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:15.519 looks like it's spelled sometimes too. But she was a tragic badass because she 404 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:22.960 got to her position of leading the Icne tribe because she was beaten and had 405 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:28.000 her daughters raped in front of her Romans. Why does it have to always 406 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:32.079 get to that? And you know, she just went full on medieval on 407 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:37.760 ahead of her time, the head of her time. Head every time, 408 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:42.880 dude, every time. Anyway, she didn't have a very nice end, 409 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.880 but she did cause the Romans a lot of trouble. Well, good honor, 410 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:49.960 good honor. Yeah, And we could probably do an episode all about 411 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.719 her, but we won't because we just said her name like five times good 412 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:58.159 enough. We don't even how to pronounce it, she, I remind the 413 00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:02.159 audience, only you can't be drinking right now, de la la la. 414 00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:08.960 Uh. That's that's women, which I found extremely interesting just in the equality 415 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:15.079 standpoint. Um, how about the gods and goddesses? Apparently almost four hundred 416 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:21.079 different Celtic deities have been found, but over three hundred occur only once in 417 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:27.239 the archaeological record, which means they may be local deities, and perhaps up 418 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:34.639 to or precisely thirty three deities were the main pantheon, including Rowen, Rigid, 419 00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:42.079 Carnunos, Danulu, Morgan, Terrannists just a name. I was really 420 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.679 hoping you're gonna go for all thirty Triple aspect deities were common. Triple goddess, 421 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:52.280 triple gods worshiped in threes, triple gods and luck a Dolts honey bees 422 00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:58.440 like, ummm uh, triune trinity gods rights right. Some people argue that 423 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:04.880 the Christian Trinity, the Holy Trinity, may have entangled roots with this idea. 424 00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.079 Yeah, and we've we've actually think talked about that in the past. 425 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.559 I feel like, am I crazy? I feel like we did. I 426 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:17.719 know that we we definitely talked about um utilizing the triune interwoven symbol is an 427 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.639 explanation of the Trinity and the clover. I know that we talked about that 428 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:27.039 before. Okay, yeah, all right. Also the fact that Jesus wasn't 429 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:30.519 cristified and he made his way up to England to kick it and be awesome 430 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.119 that's that's where it was. Yeah, the afterlife? What about the afterlife? 431 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:40.320 Psychopomp Bellinis escorts the dead to the other world where life continued. The 432 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.639 phrase psychopomp word. It's a word. We've used it before, and I've 433 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.159 never liked it. Well, yeah, yeah, I can see where you're 434 00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.159 coming from. Yeah, thanks, bro, I can put quarters in your 435 00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:57.639 vending machine. I see what you're telling. Thank you. Uh, psychopomp 436 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:04.400 the soul to check the change. The soul is immortal. You just put 437 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:10.719 a bunch of vastly in there. Get you win. I have to lift 438 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:19.480 something there for you. I reward your curiosity. By the way, everybody 439 00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:30.360 who works in an office with vending machines, you're welcome. Yeah. Oh, 440 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:36.599 let's say the soul is immortal and reincarnates after it has learned enough. 441 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.320 It moves to a higher realm, and so on and so on until it 442 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:45.880 reaches quote unquote the source m and then it has to save trinity. No 443 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:59.519 um maybee, Oh you didn't. I like you take no way more. 444 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:05.119 But it's designed to fit with yours. Dude, it just stopped it too 445 00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:13.079 soon, all right, No, no, we don't. We've already dicked 446 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:16.840 araud so much. You're right. No, no, nope, nope, 447 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:22.360 nope. Stuff season. This this the source, the source, the source 448 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:28.880 from which all things are created. Okay, the soul reposed in the head. 449 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.440 Really? Oh yeah, and the number three was important number triune. 450 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:37.559 Yep, it's a magic number. Yeah. It is the heart and the 451 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.480 mind and the body and the faith and hope and charity. That's six, 452 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:45.599 give you three. It's a magic number. This maybe a good time to 453 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:50.400 point out the fact that you're on point. Some people, um say that 454 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:58.760 Celtic Celtic tribes might have roots in India or at least uh in Asia, 455 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:05.840 that from from people's that have migrated over, because there's a lot of parallels 456 00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:13.719 between the religious beliefs, part of that being the Druids and Brahman from from 457 00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:19.760 Hindu I believe it's Hinduism caste system and uh and and how similar they were, 458 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:24.920 and then this whole reincarnation is right in line with that and learning during 459 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:30.800 one life ascending. You know, yeah, I think there's still going there's 460 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:35.159 some similarities there. I would have to I'd have to see some pretty compelling 461 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:40.000 evidence to believe that the two were linked. Sure, because I don't know. 462 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.800 I I what do I know? I know nothing, But to my 463 00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:47.519 mind doesn't seem too crazy that two different cultures would come up with the idea 464 00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:51.639 of an ascendant spirit that that you know, oh, when you die, 465 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:53.679 you come back and you get better, you know. I don't know. 466 00:39:53.880 --> 00:40:00.239 I've never made up a religion in my life, so not true. Ranch 467 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:05.400 Devadians, there were. There was the parallel I mentioned earlier of um wid 468 00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:10.079 meaning knowledge in the Sanskrit vid. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's 469 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:15.280 in there too. But on the bucket there's some other things that that I 470 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:20.280 read that it's pretty compelling too, pretty proud, pretty proud of your literacy, 471 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:22.239 aren't you? You're kind of I want to tell everybody whatever, how 472 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:29.280 much I laid it on pretty thick to hick, oh thick, what three 473 00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:36.280 beers shut up. Druids are often closely associated with wiccans yep, but somewhat 474 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:38.440 mistakenly. So yeah, well, I mean, I I don't know, 475 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:42.639 because so many of those and we'll we'll get into this with the with the 476 00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:46.719 modern uh Druid beliefs. But there's no shortage of and not just wickens, 477 00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:52.519 you know, but there's no shortage of of more holistic um nature and earth 478 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:57.760 centered belief systems, especially since in the twentieth nineteen, the twentieth century re 479 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:01.800 emergent that that cover were so much territory. It's not at all surprising that 480 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:06.840 they you know, there's some overlap there and yeah, and that people would 481 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:12.280 confuse them. Sure. Sure they didn't follow the red the rick and weed, 482 00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:16.280 which you know is doing anything harm No one, that's paraphrasing him by 483 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:22.360 the one. Their moral philosophy was more that one should live in harmony with 484 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:27.519 nature, except that pain and death are not evils but part of the divine 485 00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:32.480 plan, and that the only evil is moral weakness. They were concerned spiders 486 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:38.960 and spiders. Yeah, they were concerned above all things with truth, capital 487 00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:45.280 T truth, the old Irish word of which was the basis for linguistic concept 488 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:52.880 of holiness, righteousness, faithfulness, religion and justice. Rivers and wells were 489 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:59.000 venerated. And it's a common belief that the oak tree was a great sacred 490 00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:05.400 tree revered by druids. This comes from plenty of the elder remarking we have 491 00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:12.280 definitely talked about and he was remarking on a ritual to cut mistletoe, that 492 00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:19.639 that the druids would take golden um cutters, golden cheers kind of and wear 493 00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:22.599 all white, climb up in the tree and cut the mistletoe and make out 494 00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:28.239 a lot crazy. Someone would catch it in a in a clean linen cloth, 495 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:31.920 and I think there was a goat that was killed somewhere. It's it's 496 00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:35.480 a lot of well just to get some mistletoe. But you know what, 497 00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.280 if the makeouts are worth it, I'll do it. But you know something 498 00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:42.880 that you mentioned there, Sparkeda thought, I think about especially. I mean 499 00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:49.480 this is we we've covered a lot of especially Celtic folklore things in the British 500 00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:53.199 aisles in the UK. How many of these things and even by extensions, 501 00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:58.159 say, for example, the legend of Sleepy Hollow, how many animals and 502 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:04.280 specters and ghosts are thwarted by moving water, by the ideas of wells and 503 00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.880 rivers and the and the power that they have as as a force of good 504 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:13.199 that forms these barriers. You know things the dula hand can't cross, I 505 00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:17.119 said hands, because I'm an American. At least the knuckle of V is 506 00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:20.519 that's it, That's what I Yeah, it was the knuckle of the by 507 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.599 freshwater. But yeah, lots of I mean, you know, the the 508 00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:28.360 horseman, you know, And I'll bet I'd be willing to bet that there 509 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:31.239 that's a direct relations there that there may be a result of that. Sure, 510 00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:37.519 maybe one of the well, here's here's some things that folklorists and historians 511 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:43.119 argue about the stuff from plenty plenty, plenty plenty of the elder died in 512 00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:50.039 a vesuvius eruption, by the way, I'm so proud about literacy, which, 513 00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:54.079 by the way, was an inside job. Lava camp milk, sandstone 514 00:43:54.079 --> 00:44:02.679 bro Lava can't melt sandstone. Oh my gosh, t shirt susop an inside 515 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:12.360 job. They died of ash poison. It wasn't ash poisoning. The first 516 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:14.760 scrolls, I mean, you can see it, the first scrolls they as 517 00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:17.599 you see, all right, here's here's a couple of things about the plenty 518 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:22.320 account of the missiletoe and the sacred oak and all that stuff. Number one, 519 00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:29.239 the missiletoe wasn't native to Oireland for one thing, Ireland gall Well, 520 00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:34.199 that's okay. Well. Number two, this ritual is strangely similar to an 521 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:40.119 uncient Egyptian ritual of Pharaoh's cutting corn. Mm enough so to make a remark 522 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:45.639 about it, I guess and number three plenty is the only source for this 523 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:49.360 info. Damn it. I don't think a lot of his stuff survived either, 524 00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.079 So I don't know where they go. Maybe they were trying to silence 525 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:53.079 him. They're trying to shut him up. He got too close to the 526 00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:59.639 truth. Plenty, plenonymous m M. Additionally, it's been said the favorite 527 00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:04.840 tree of the druids was the rowan, and it was on wattles of this 528 00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:10.360 tree that some druids slipped to have prophetic visions. The hazel tree was also 529 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:16.039 important by the lower concerning nine hazel trees at the source of the River Boyne, 530 00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:22.880 then the nuts of which had a nucleus of wisdom. Uh. Well, 531 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:28.480 so wisdom oaks. Yeah, yeah, I mean they're they're big enough 532 00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:30.280 deals. Yeah, they're big enough deals, Yes they are. Were they 533 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:36.679 the biggest deal? I don't know. I don't know. That's what That's 534 00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:39.760 what all that's trying to say. Uh. Druids and divination, they like 535 00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:44.599 to meditate. There's a lot of meditation. They studied flights of birds, 536 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:50.000 dream interpretation, They threw sticks on the ground and interpreted them all in order 537 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:53.719 to prophesy. The filtr yep did they did. They cast the bones like 538 00:45:53.800 --> 00:46:00.400 Burgol cut in Willow probably sweet. That was it my question from what I 539 00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:07.599 From what I gathered, they did quite a bit of everything to divine. 540 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.639 Yeah, they were mystics. Now, when we get to the end of 541 00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.000 this episode, Flora, I don't want you to have to spend more time 542 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:16.519 in the penalty box than you already are. Which, by the way, 543 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:21.719 with your permission, we're going to push the penalty box to when we're drunk, 544 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:23.639 as promised. As promised, not because we're trying to duck the law 545 00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:30.079 we didn't forget, but the sentence to be super trashed. But Flora, 546 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:31.760 I don't want you to spend more time in the penalty box. So you 547 00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:36.679 will let all of our listeners know what the antidote to druids is, right, 548 00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:42.679 like, how do you how do you how do you stay say from 549 00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:45.519 a druid? I don't know or be Roman? Yeah, I don't know. 550 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:49.440 About fifteen hundred years that that seems to be a pretty good distance from 551 00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:54.039 him. A couple more things here real quick, and then we'll get to 552 00:46:54.039 --> 00:47:00.639 the modern days stuff important days for druids. Sol One, I'll ever heard 553 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:06.199 of it. The end of the warm season where the veil is thin, 554 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:12.000 the veil between this life and the other world. It's fire festival, lots 555 00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:19.159 of fires lit. Another day imbolg Mbvolgimbolt, which means in the belly. 556 00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:23.320 It's February first, return of the light, first signs of life celebration. 557 00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:31.079 Another day Bell Chane May first celebrates fires of bell, peak of blossom season. 558 00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:38.559 Youths dance around the maybe pole youth and uh Lunasa the August first, 559 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:43.519 the feast of low Member old long arm blue. Yeah, yeah, God 560 00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:47.119 of Light. That's the harvest celebration. All of these, at least most 561 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:52.480 of them. You know. The this also from Wicca, the the Wiccan 562 00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:57.719 wheel. You know, you remember what I'm saying. You know what I'm 563 00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:00.639 talking about, the wick wheel, the wheel of holidays. There's um, 564 00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:07.079 there's only one wheel that I know, and that's mighty wheel. But yules 565 00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:14.679 on there, yep, um bell teen solstice right right, even tied one 566 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:19.719 quick thing. Uh Celts were apparently well groomed, even use soap. Oh 567 00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:22.199 really, um yeah, something I read said that I thought that was interesting. 568 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:28.360 Good on them. Everybody loves the queen. Druid. Druids used incantations 569 00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:31.400 uh. And in fact, in this one battle when the Romans were invading 570 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:35.639 an island they were they were coming up to the island in boats and there 571 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:39.639 was this just huge group of druids just standing there chanting, and it scared 572 00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:45.800 the holy living shit out of the Romans. Romans still came in and slaughtered 573 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.159 them all, but oh, it stopped them for a minute. That's terrible. 574 00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:52.719 They were supposed to win in for that. Yeah, supposed to be 575 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:55.320 a bad News Bears moment. It was, you know, just bad news. 576 00:48:55.360 --> 00:49:00.039 You know how superstitious Romans were, and this whole island of chanting druids, 577 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:06.159 it's probably a stirring site. They're like, well, we're pretty superstitious, 578 00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:10.239 but we do have this fae length. I'll risk it. I would 579 00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:15.480 like to take this opportunity to read a poem. Really can I I'll allow 580 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:21.239 it. Talking about incantations. I'm talking about incantations and we can dig it. 581 00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:25.159 No, wait, daven Flora, if you are about trying to thumb 582 00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:30.320 it forth a druidic demon, I will thwart thee. No, how about 583 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:37.400 this. This is from fellow by the name of a margin. This is 584 00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:39.320 not this is not something I've practiced saying, so, I don't know if 585 00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:44.800 that's right or not. A margin who was a son of Milesius and also 586 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:49.559 called the first druids of the Gaels in Ireland. Milesius. There was a 587 00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:54.679 remember when we were doing the Irish creation myth, the Milesians were one of 588 00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:59.599 the peoples that sailed to Ireland to oh right, yes, um, so 589 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:04.239 there you a son of three up the line right something like that. Yeah, 590 00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:08.840 yeah. And this is a poetical incantation of his that is directed to 591 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:19.079 Ireland herself or invoked. The land of air, much coursed by the fertile 592 00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:23.320 sea fire at all is the fruit strewn mountain, fruit strewn by the showery 593 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:29.480 wood, showery is the river of waterfalls, of waterfalls by the lake of 594 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:34.400 deep poles, Dape as the hilltop well, a whale of tribes as the 595 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:38.320 assembly, an assembly of the kings, as Tara Tara of the hill of 596 00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:43.440 the tribes, the tribes of the son of Meal, of Meal, of 597 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:46.800 the ships, like a lovely ship. Is the land of Ire lofty, 598 00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:52.920 land of Ire, darkly sung an incantation of great cunning, the great cunning 599 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.199 of the wives of breasts, the wives of breasts of Boyane, the great 600 00:50:57.199 --> 00:51:02.039 Goddess of ire Erman has conquered her. Hi, my urgin have invoked for 601 00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:14.320 her? Or you invoke the line of oire. It is an invocation, 602 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:17.239 damn you, David Flora. Yeah, I like that. I thought that 603 00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:22.320 was fun. London of oyor anyways, beliefs, rituals. There you have 604 00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:29.480 it, and now for the Modern Druid with David Steco. Hi, everybody 605 00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:32.199 at Steco and I just like to welcome to another episode of the Modern Druid. 606 00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:37.679 Now hinges right, who needs them? Listen? If you want to 607 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:39.599 build a backyard hinge, I've got a couple of links on the website, 608 00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:44.559 very cheap, very inexpensive. You gotta remember, you gotta take it down 609 00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:47.360 in between incantations because it's just not gonna stand up. I can afford his 610 00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:51.440 particle board and it just falls apart. It just falls apart. You're gonna 611 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:52.559 get barn owls in you. You're gonna get you're gonna get a lot of 612 00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:57.599 vermin. So be careful with your hinge people. You're gonna make an inadvertent 613 00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:01.800 shelter for a badger or a fox, and well, they might be cute 614 00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:09.360 at first, they'll they'll eat your pets, all right, Bedger, I 615 00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:13.760 just had this feeling like I was just about to start like a high school 616 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:17.239 book report, that I was gonna lie my way through um. East of 617 00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:24.679 eden Um was an interesting book. Uh. The symbolism of of being east. 618 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:30.280 Uh, that's where the sun rises. The sun also rises, but 619 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:37.960 I didn't read that book. Uh. No, So modern druidry druid rum. 620 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:44.320 There are a number of of of groups that are claiming or possessing this 621 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:47.880 in the modern age. Uh. There is the the afore mentioned the Order 622 00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:53.639 of bards, Ovates and Druids UM, who are are currently operating UM. 623 00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:59.599 And they actually have a pretty pretty good long history dating back to the eighteen 624 00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:05.280 hundred. So uh, I guess, being how long the Druids have been 625 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.440 around, are the different groups, It's kind of hard to say, oh, 626 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:09.039 well, this is where we stick a flag in the modern druid, 627 00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:13.360 But I'm going to do that anyway. Eighteen eighty how about that? While 628 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:15.480 there were some people that predated this, uh, And of course I'm just 629 00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:19.280 I'm just picking eighteen eighty because it feels good, and if it feels good, 630 00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:23.119 you do it. Druids taught me that So I guess what one could 631 00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:29.199 argue is for modern druidry, there's a gentleman by the name of William Stuckley 632 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:35.239 Stukelly, big Bill, Stuckley big Bill. It's it's stuk e l e 633 00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:40.840 wise to Stukelly, Stukeley stuck Kelly. Uh. He was. He kind 634 00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:47.119 of had a messianic druid ideal that he would write about often and it got 635 00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:52.239 a lot of people interested, but wasn't necessarily like as an organized religion and 636 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:57.679 this, and he was he was operating. He was born sixteen eighty seven 637 00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:02.239 died seventeen sixty five, and he proclaimed himself to be a druid. Uh 638 00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:05.079 you know, and he was. He was the guy who really got the 639 00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:10.039 ball rolling on things like Stonehenge being built by the Druids um, which is, 640 00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:14.199 by the way, something that is now known to not be accurate. 641 00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:19.039 Yeah, yeah, that was something I feel like that too. I was 642 00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:22.199 like, oh, we really should have mentioned that the Druids did not build 643 00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:24.199 Stonehenge. Yeah, do you want to who did build Stonehenge? Who? 644 00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:34.599 Me too? Oh? Future episode Mother Havard. So then from from Stikelly's 645 00:54:34.599 --> 00:54:39.280 writings we jumped forward and uh, there's a guy, a Welshman named Edward 646 00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:44.840 Williams, decided he was gonna go ahead and say that. He decided to 647 00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:53.239 take the name of God help us all Yolo Morgan wig it's it's exactly what 648 00:54:53.280 --> 00:55:00.559 you say after you say yolo, it's uh, yeah, it's it's iolo 649 00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:09.679 so yo yolo or um um. But he was a Welsh nationalist, very 650 00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:15.880 opposed to the British monarchy, and he decided, you guys, not only 651 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:21.360 am I a Drewd, I come from a long line of druids. Um. 652 00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:25.440 And he also uh then broke things down into other categories. Um. 653 00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:31.199 Some people were bards, some were ovates. Yeah you see where that's going. 654 00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:36.840 Uh. And he was able to to gain a pretty solid following with 655 00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:43.199 this. This moved on to eighteen seventy four guy named Robert Wentworth Little who 656 00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:50.519 was also a Freemason. Look it up, sheeple yoo yolo, and he 657 00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:54.719 started the Archaeological Order of the Druids. And it was again, you know, 658 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.320 these are this is the this is the these are the the Crowley Times, 659 00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:04.239 these are the the British aristocratic secret societies. It would have been fun 660 00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:08.920 to go back then and just to be like see how many different crazy robes 661 00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:13.960 you could collect by joining all these different groups at different times. And yeah 662 00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:19.239 and so and they and in that vein these kind of small groups, they 663 00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:23.639 kind of continue to very to very small degree. They're they're more secret clubs 664 00:56:23.719 --> 00:56:29.800 than they are actual religious orders. Now girls around, except for they were 665 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:34.559 Druids, so they were like, hey some girls, some girls allowed um 666 00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:38.679 and so then you you know, ratchet up to nineteen sixty four when a 667 00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:45.480 guy named Ross Nichols decides to found the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, 668 00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:51.480 the OBOD, who are still operating. They've got a huge number of 669 00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:58.159 people in them and are one of the largest organized Druidic you know congregations. 670 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:01.920 Yeah orders, I mean they are in order. So yes, the other 671 00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:06.679 one that I did a lot of looking into, did a lot of research 672 00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:08.199 on these people. I want to blow the lid off of it. Why 673 00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:17.400 I keep pushing this Outlex Jones thing Another popular current I order congregation sect. 674 00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:22.119 I always hate saying that because it's got such a bad connotation to it. 675 00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:28.639 Is the ready for this one are and droi Faine or the ADF. Oh, 676 00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:32.360 you know the ADF. They are another Neo Druidic group. Now they're 677 00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:37.239 much newer on the scene. They were actually found in nineteen eighty three by 678 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:42.679 Isaac Boonewitz. Yeah, and you can actually see I found tons of videos 679 00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:46.079 from both groups online to take a look at their their rituals and how they 680 00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:52.519 celebrate, you know, the high days, the the solstices and the equinoxes 681 00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:57.400 and things like that. Lots of white robes, yes, yes, lots 682 00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:04.079 of white robes unfortunately. Um, and it's interesting also, I mean the 683 00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:08.639 choice of garments, especially for the ADF is a very um, I don't 684 00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:14.199 know to just to my eye, very Catholic kind of looking. There's the 685 00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:16.559 the robe with the and I'm sure there's a very technical name for it, 686 00:58:16.599 --> 00:58:21.880 but it's the long strip almost like a scarf that goes over the back of 687 00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:24.239 the neck and it has the embroidery down the sides that goes straight down. 688 00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:28.280 I'm I'm sure it's a simple word and I just don't know it, but 689 00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:31.960 you know, very laid back kind of thing, and it's it's it's they 690 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:35.480 do it out in the woods. There's some drums, there's some candles. 691 00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:42.440 Yeah, sounds like my last erotic camping trip. Oh, anybody by the 692 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:46.599 way in the store blurry photos erotic camping trip Are you kidding? That's what 693 00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:52.760 that's money maker? Next summer twenty sixteen, the blurry photos are rocket camping 694 00:58:52.760 --> 00:59:01.480 trip book. Now it's foxingels. Right, it's the shortest night of the 695 00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:07.679 year. You got to make it count. Scary stories and scarier slves. 696 00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:16.079 Oh, white white robes is something that is claimed to be historically accurate. 697 00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:21.599 I believe. Well, there's the as you said, there's the trimming, 698 00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:27.840 the collection of the mistletoe, and it could all derive just from that one 699 00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:30.239 source too, right, that's that's the bad thing, which, yeah, 700 00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:34.639 it could be itself descripting of something else. And just saying, well, 701 00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:36.639 I don't know if they did it down here, they must do it up 702 00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:40.400 there. But again, and there's a there's an acceptance on their parts. 703 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:43.679 They're saying, you know, hey, we were founded in the eighties, 704 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:49.119 you know, like I'm older than that religious order. But it's a reaching 705 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.719 back to pagan ways, yes, and but also since yeah, and they're 706 00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:55.320 very clear about this, and and I enjoyed this. I was watching I 707 00:59:55.360 --> 01:00:00.559 watched a number of videos by both of these groups, and proud to say 708 01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:02.760 that I've joined both of them. No, I have not done that, 709 01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:07.000 ordained. But they were saying that, you know, like they are, 710 01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:09.519 they are druids in the modern world, and I felt bad for them in 711 01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:17.639 this degree because they have to repeatedly emphasize that they do not sacrifice humans or 712 01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:21.920 animals, and I feel bad that they have to say it as often as 713 01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:24.960 they do. Well, anybody who's not one of the major three religions, 714 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:28.960 I think has to say it, don't they, I guess because of mean 715 01:00:29.079 --> 01:00:31.199 Wiccans have to say it. Satanists have to say it. Satanists have to 716 01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:36.760 say it out the butt right literally with their butts, because they're Satanists. 717 01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:45.480 They don't give a dog. They're rock stars. Um. But yeah, 718 01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:47.880 so they you know, they they but they The exact phrase that the guy 719 01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:52.760 used was, um, you know we are we are. We are druids 720 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:59.039 living in the modern era, you know, the modern era. They're like, 721 01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:00.800 you know, this is how we choose to express ourselves, this is 722 01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:06.119 how we worship. But no, you know, I have a cell phone. 723 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:08.880 You know, I pay my water bill. You know, they're not 724 01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:13.599 trying to to jump into some way back machine. They're not, Um, 725 01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:19.920 LARPers or or or darpers. They're not historical reenactors. They you know, 726 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:23.719 it's the same. It's it's just like any any Christian, Muslim, Hindu 727 01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:29.880 practitioner. The belief stays the same. But they don't they don't say, 728 01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:32.360 oh, well, I've got to go back to Arimathea. You know, 729 01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:36.920 I'm going to make this unleavened bread on a rock and then wander around in 730 01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:39.239 the desert for forty days, because that's what happened then, so I'm doing 731 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:45.320 it right. And people people don't give druids or pagans or anything like that 732 01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:49.559 logical consideration to say, oh yeah, I'm a tax accountant. Also, 733 01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:52.719 you know, I believe in the spirit of the forest, and so I 734 01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.519 go out there and that's how I worship. And guess what, in two 735 01:01:55.559 --> 01:02:00.719 weeks, I'm taking two days off, mister manager, because it's the equinox 736 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:04.960 and I got some things to do. Like they're they're there are people that 737 01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:07.920 live in this world. They wear polo shirts. I don't want to tell 738 01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:10.719 you about it. Like they're not crazy. They they just have their own 739 01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:16.159 religious beliefs and it's should be told far less irritating or invasive to a large 740 01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:20.840 degree. I mean, just by the nature of it, and also I 741 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:22.679 imagine that I mean, I don't know, do they feel like that to 742 01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:28.159 keep a low profile. M I don't know, but I don't know any 743 01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:31.400 druids. It'd be really fun to meet some. Maybe we will at the 744 01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:36.559 Milwaukee Para Con. Maybe if you're a druid and you want to come out 745 01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:37.559 and say, hey, let me know. If you want a foil hat, 746 01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.840 I'll make you one. I'm bringing I'm bringing a box of foil and 747 01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:45.079 if we never use it, so be it, okay. I'll ask people. 748 01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:49.119 I'll ask like the first hundred people that go by the booth, there's 749 01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:53.239 going to be one hundred people. They're total. So I think it's free. 750 01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:58.000 I think they should entice somebody. But anyway, yeah, so I 751 01:02:58.119 --> 01:03:00.920 think, yeah, so they are practice there, Um you can. They 752 01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:05.840 are. It's a recognized religion. It's tax exempt in the United States. 753 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:09.480 Um, if you are practicing druid, just like you can. You can 754 01:03:09.559 --> 01:03:15.840 have the symbology of that. Put If you are a serving um serviceman in 755 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:22.400 the US military and you want to be buried in arlnkedin national you can do 756 01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.440 that and they will put your symbology on the headstone for that like it is. 757 01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:30.159 It is a recognized religion in the United States, and I imagine it 758 01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:34.519 also is in the UK. I would, I would hope better be. 759 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:43.039 I think a lot of misconception that that people have about druids is fed a 760 01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:47.079 little bit by things like D and D. H um in D and D, 761 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:53.280 the druid is a complete waste of time. Nature guardians. They they 762 01:03:53.320 --> 01:04:00.000 commune with animals and plants, They cast spells that you know, entangle with 763 01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:05.159 the vines. They it's pretty much the view of of like the wild man 764 01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:11.760 of the woods and um, it's that's just the fantastical view of them, 765 01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:17.119 you know, yeah, it's but but that to many people's mind is what 766 01:04:17.719 --> 01:04:23.239 druid, I Druid is. So I hope, I hope the shed's a 767 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:26.400 little bit of light on it for you. That's uh, that'll do it 768 01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:30.320 for you for Druid's that's that's Druid's in a painfully sober nutshell. And you 769 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:39.480 know, for one of us, woodland wood would painted nutshell was the nut 770 01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:45.800 with the wisdom in the middle, Oh oh oh yeah, the h hazel 771 01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:49.000 hazel nutshell, Oh all right, all right, Flora. Now usually this 772 01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:53.599 is the part where we make a fun segue joke, right, so let's 773 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:56.400 start on that and then and then and then bear with me, because I'm 774 01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:00.360 gonna I'm gonna grab the wheel from the backseat jerk it off to the side 775 01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:03.000 of the road. You're gonna jerk off the wheel and jerk it off to 776 01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:15.719 the side of the road. Jesus shut up. Three did snore it a 777 01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:20.880 little? It did snort? All right, so uh okay, so segue 778 01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:25.519 initiates. Now, hey, Flora, Yeah, you know what? Other 779 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:30.599 what? Other thing has a long and rich history dating back thousands of years. 780 01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:36.480 Um that is enjoying a resurgence, and it has been recognized by the 781 01:05:36.559 --> 01:05:41.639 United States government as a tax free entity. Now wait, it's time to 782 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:55.119 jerk off that wheel. Pun sound. That's right, motherfuckers, we have 783 01:05:55.159 --> 01:05:59.320 a pun sound now instead of the part where we go boons, we're trying 784 01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:00.880 out a pun sound. You think it's great. Great If you think it 785 01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.960 sucks, let us know, but be gentle gently, let us know. 786 01:06:04.320 --> 01:06:10.000 I like that sound. Jerikof that wheel. Oh so, Flora, pun 787 01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:15.800 me like a hurricane. I've got an all irish, all natural beer company. 788 01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:20.360 Oh really, Brewid's. That was low hanging fruit. You're a low 789 01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:25.480 hanging fruit. You know, you can't say that for everything and doesn't really 790 01:06:25.480 --> 01:06:28.199 work. What do you got? Do you know that? In the h 791 01:06:28.599 --> 01:06:31.480 the British Isles in general, but even extending as far back as to Gallic 792 01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:36.679 France, there was always a regional folk remedy. It was a cure all 793 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:44.199 for anyone who perhaps had drank too much fermented mead or would alcohol that they 794 01:06:44.199 --> 01:06:45.480 had gotten hold of, because it would it was a poison. It would 795 01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:50.679 make you feel terrible. So the next day the best way to defeat this 796 01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:59.039 was to pop down to ye old diner, get yourself an order of carbs 797 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:13.000 ome lay and fluids am late yea. Oh, Bates is a tough one 798 01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:15.679 and I really had to, like I had to wail on that with the 799 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:19.880 hammer. All right, all right, you gotta you gotta bear with me 800 01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:24.400 on this one. Oh well, after what I just did, Yes, 801 01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:33.079 this is uh. This is an Asian Irish fusion restaurant. Okay uh And 802 01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:44.239 the manager person who runs the place is a feisty woman. It's called Bamboodica. 803 01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:45.639 I was trying to think of that, but since I couldn't decide on 804 01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:47.920 how to pronounce her name. I had a really hard time. That's why 805 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:51.639 you just pick it and pick it and do it, you know, Florida. 806 01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:55.480 We picked up a new a new sponsor for the podcast because we don't 807 01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:58.559 have enough sponsors. That's good. Yeah, it's really good. It's good, 808 01:07:58.559 --> 01:08:01.119 it's really good. Excited. Yeah, it's a really old company. 809 01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:08.039 It's uh, it's brother Art Knox fourteen carrot gold plated missiletosh ears because twenty 810 01:08:08.039 --> 01:08:11.840 four carrot gold is just too soft to cut something with. It's a really 811 01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:14.840 old company. That's always been their motto, so I don't it's still a 812 01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:19.159 good motto. It's as true then as it is today. That's what a 813 01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:24.880 bunt sounds like. Oh my god, oh man, oh god. Well, 814 01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:28.399 I'm tired of hearing what we think is funny and cool. It's time 815 01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:31.119 to hear what you think is funny. Is cool? Is funny as cool? 816 01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:46.439 It's funny, it's funny. School is listener? The children's laugh that 817 01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:59.680 he's making mean? Those bleed taking things off with me? Hey mate, 818 01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:04.319 Emma, why you gotta be some mean? Wait? Wait you should read 819 01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:09.840 it first. Is she being mean? Well, let's see. Amy says, 820 01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:13.279 I just listened to the Valley of Death podcast and I cannot believe you 821 01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:16.000 guys were taken in by that hoax. Amy, Why you gotta be so 822 01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:26.680 mean? I'm so glad it worked out. She says. Soviet era Russia 823 01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:31.520 had surveillance everywhere. Were they watched and monitored every into that country. They 824 01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:35.960 even had a specific program for Siberia. Any search engine would have shown us 825 01:09:36.119 --> 01:09:43.359 that particular area and that there are no cauldrons there. Seriously, why didn't 826 01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:51.000 we do a search for the eye of the tiger? Amy, thanks for 827 01:09:51.119 --> 01:10:03.760 turning in into a pun. Very nice. I'm gonna enjoy Michael mcdonalding my 828 01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:08.279 way through all of this. I know there's a second d in there. 829 01:10:08.279 --> 01:10:15.159 Shut up, Michael McDonald. Thank you, Amy, thank you. Oh. 830 01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:25.439 We got an email that's like liquid sunshame from Lana, La La La. 831 01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:29.800 I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm enjoying the ride. Laana. 832 01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:31.720 It's so good to hear from you. And Lana has written us a 833 01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:36.439 novella. She writes, so whenever I get behind in blurry photos, I 834 01:10:36.479 --> 01:10:40.279 have a dream that reminds me to catch up. That's right. Yeah, 835 01:10:40.319 --> 01:10:43.479 we're in your head last night, and I don't think this is the first 836 01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:45.680 Lana dream we've heard of it. Yeah, last night I had a dream 837 01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:49.479 I was having dinner with Stecco, Flora and other blurry photos people. Yeah, 838 01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:56.520 blurry photos people put it on the list. What do you mean, 839 01:10:56.560 --> 01:11:04.000 blurry photos people? Which I mean, what people insensitive? It was like 840 01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:08.439 having a fan meet up, but at a seafood restaurant. We were all 841 01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:12.760 we were all talking and having a good time. Then everything went to shit. 842 01:11:14.399 --> 01:11:17.800 I love this already, which actually is weird because, um, why 843 01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:20.439 don't you might be a little bit psychic because we actually did have a little 844 01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:25.640 pizza party for our hundredth episode. That's true, That's true. It was 845 01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:29.560 not seafood though, No, it was pizza. It's Chicago, man, 846 01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:32.359 all right. So this dude that looked like Janet Reno showed up and was 847 01:11:32.399 --> 01:11:35.640 pissed that we were in his seat. So I started mouthing off loudly to 848 01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:41.079 him. Well played Lana mouthing off loudly to him, and then he and 849 01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:45.159 his goon squad start shooting the place up. I got shot twice. It 850 01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:47.399 was intense, but I got shot in places that were not life threatening. 851 01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:50.199 So I knew I wasn't going to die. It just hurt, like all 852 01:11:50.319 --> 01:11:57.960 get shot, but you're too playing. Flora immediately starts to perform basic first 853 01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:00.840 aid to my gunshots and said that he had to get me to a hospital 854 01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:03.880 soon. Oh, I'm so glad that you are so helpful. Let's see 855 01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:11.399 what I was doing while this was happening. God sad trombone. Then Stecco 856 01:12:11.479 --> 01:12:14.960 starts screaming at me because I got shot. Now he couldn't finish his crab 857 01:12:15.000 --> 01:12:17.800 cakes, so instead of take me to the hospital, who waited for him 858 01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:27.960 to finish his crab cakes? So bitch, typical Stecco. Laura Stecco has 859 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:31.840 to eat Flora's touching on the wind and oh, I've got the important information 860 01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:41.279 you need in this situation. I don't know why this doesn't defend me, 861 01:12:41.319 --> 01:12:44.760 but I don't like crab cakes. Crab cakes is one of the few seafood 862 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:47.039 items I do. Oh, well, then my mouth. Well, then 863 01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:54.279 maybe she has us confused. You bluttonist, filthy filth pervert. Not a 864 01:12:54.399 --> 01:12:58.199 filthy filth pervert. Right, So at that point the dream ended. It 865 01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:02.079 was horrible. I think that she might have us confused because I know first 866 01:13:02.119 --> 01:13:08.800 aid and you Joan fatty, you crab kik eating motherfucker. Plus you are 867 01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:14.560 the one that first grabs the girls. That's right. Wait, you're trying 868 01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:18.840 to tell me that you know first date and I have to do I have 869 01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:28.479 to eat crabcake. Man, you can keep this writ Oh that's awesome, 870 01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:32.800 that's all she has to say. No, not at all, now we 871 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:41.000 really that was like the prologue to an excellent story. Brilliantly written critique now, 872 01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:45.760 Lana writes, I also wanted to comment on the whole Lana would prefer 873 01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:49.600 UK to Duke's statement, you might recall me needling Flora about his weird, 874 01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:56.319 weird predilections for collegiate sports, which he's into weird things. It is hard 875 01:13:56.359 --> 01:14:00.319 to describe the level of hatred I have for UK, but I will joy 876 01:14:00.359 --> 01:14:03.000 trying. Imagine you have this neighbor who lives in a bigger house than you 877 01:14:03.039 --> 01:14:06.800 and has all the cool toys and brags about it all the time. Imagine 878 01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:10.960 that one person in your life that is just a smug asshole that wins at 879 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:15.319 every game because they have all the good cards. Imagine that asshole people think 880 01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:18.079 is funny even though he stole all his jokes from the lesser known comedians. 881 01:14:18.479 --> 01:14:23.239 Now imagine that all these people have a legion of followers and are all batched, 882 01:14:23.359 --> 01:14:27.119 crazy and everywhere. Combine them into one person. Then magnify it by 883 01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:30.520 a basketball team. Okay, so if you're keeping a track here, don't 884 01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:33.640 forget you have to put parentheses around the multiplication of the basketball team where you're 885 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:38.119 not going to get the right answer. After that, you might get close 886 01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:46.359 to understanding how much hatred I have for UK. Oh snap, Now you 887 01:14:46.399 --> 01:14:49.479 know what I love about this Floria, what I want to call her at 888 01:14:49.560 --> 01:14:55.520 a state university. I'm a proud, proud student, an alumni of the 889 01:14:55.640 --> 01:15:00.199 Rams. I don't ever have to be in a position of defending sports programs 890 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:05.600 because it's just not a problem. That's true. Oh god, that was 891 01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:10.840 glorious. Moving on that said, Duke is a bunch of yuppie assholes that 892 01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:14.800 no one ever likes. Having to choose them over UK is like having to 893 01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:18.600 eat versus having to eat coated and sugar. It's all. The best outcome 894 01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:21.159 in a game like that is if they all get in a fight, everyone 895 01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:27.359 gets ejected and they all cry. Flora, I understand that sometimes being raised 896 01:15:27.359 --> 01:15:30.039 by people can influence your world views. I want to still like you. 897 01:15:31.600 --> 01:15:39.319 Oh your first daid bitch, this crabcake eater wins. Perhaps if we never 898 01:15:39.399 --> 01:15:42.960 talk about sports together, even though I love sports, we can get along. 899 01:15:43.439 --> 01:15:45.840 I might be a little sensitive about this subject because Louisville is playing like 900 01:15:45.880 --> 01:15:49.600 a middle school team right now. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, I'm 901 01:15:49.680 --> 01:15:56.760 really very nice. Ps for those blurry people with audible Brian Cranston of Breaking 902 01:15:56.760 --> 01:16:00.399 Bed reads The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. It is totally awesome reading 903 01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:03.439 in the book. It is probably partly responsible for me having a dream where 904 01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:08.319 I got shot in the ass. Oh so that's why Flora was all over 905 01:16:08.399 --> 01:16:15.600 that first aid. Oh yeah, so there you go. There's your there's 906 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:24.119 your plug for audibletrial dot com slash blurry photos. Get Brian Cranston reading The 907 01:16:24.239 --> 01:16:30.000 Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, and also Laana that was poetry. As 908 01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:33.520 a matter of fact, I'm actually setting this letter aside so that I can 909 01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:39.279 keep it with me always not joking, putting it over here because that was 910 01:16:39.399 --> 01:16:41.880 awesome. You want to know, it's a really fun thing you can do 911 01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:45.560 in somebody's house when they have pint glasses that have UK on them. You 912 01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:48.960 can get post it notes and write a D and an E so it says 913 01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:54.199 Duke on the side and it's great. It just works so well. It's 914 01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:57.479 one of the few perfect things in the world. Much like you, Lana, 915 01:16:57.640 --> 01:17:00.520 thank you so much. In the future, in the dream, I'd 916 01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:03.039 like to be a little more heroic and a little less gluttony. So try 917 01:17:03.079 --> 01:17:09.520 to work on your subconscious on that one. Please. Oh Flora had that 918 01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:15.079 taste, Laana, I'd let everyone just take five. Not so fast, 919 01:17:15.159 --> 01:17:20.680 Launa, time out here, timeout, real quick. This this this goes 920 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:26.960 out to Laana. La. I'm not going to judge you based on based 921 01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:30.039 on your love or hate of a sports team. I'll judge you based on 922 01:17:30.119 --> 01:17:33.520 the type of person you are. And if you want to talk sports, 923 01:17:33.520 --> 01:17:41.760 I can no always I can. I can leave my my my heart to 924 01:17:41.880 --> 01:17:45.039 the side, so we can talk about whatever you want, I think without 925 01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:46.760 being like, no, they suck because they're not as good as Kentucky. 926 01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:50.600 I think she was really clear that that you shouldn't just she just because I 927 01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:54.520 feel like she's going to shank you. Hey, is this you and me? 928 01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:57.840 And Lana. No, this is this is me and Lana. That's 929 01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:03.880 what a timeout is. Dude, stop buttoning the stop. So I just 930 01:18:03.960 --> 01:18:11.039 ask you don't judge me based on what team I cheer for, because it's 931 01:18:11.079 --> 01:18:13.680 not a reflection of who I am as a person. You can still like 932 01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:16.039 me, but if you don't want to, that's okay, No harm, 933 01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:21.800 no foul. And remember I did first aid on your butt? Is the 934 01:18:23.199 --> 01:18:26.920 is the t O over this? It was back too. Yes, okay, 935 01:18:26.960 --> 01:18:30.439 we're back at it. Okay, I'm going back into time out with 936 01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:34.600 lanas Lana when we do our live show. We knew. I want you 937 01:18:34.640 --> 01:18:38.680 to come out to the show. I will pay for your ticket, the 938 01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:42.479 whopping one of five or ten bucks at class, I don't know. We'll 939 01:18:42.479 --> 01:18:45.960 make it worth your while. And then I'm gonna ask him a leading question 940 01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:47.880 about the University of Kentucky, and when he starts to answer it, I 941 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:53.039 want you to rush the stage and tackle him, knocking him backwards over in 942 01:18:53.159 --> 01:18:58.640 his chair. That will be the greatest moment of my life. I will. 943 01:18:58.800 --> 01:19:00.279 I'm still in t O. I am in t O. Hey, 944 01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:03.439 once I realized the rules, I respected them. I'm in timeout, sir. 945 01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:06.920 You stopped. One time you stop, I'm in time out timeout over 946 01:19:06.960 --> 01:19:12.199 till I declared that's why I asked you politely over. I still, well, 947 01:19:12.199 --> 01:19:14.800 guess what I get tackled by a girl. I still win timeouts over. 948 01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:16.640 Oh, you know what I mean? You say now, you're nothing 949 01:19:16.680 --> 01:19:19.520 to say. I get tackled by a girl. So win, win, 950 01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:24.079 bro win win. You know there's a difference between good attention and bad attention. 951 01:19:24.319 --> 01:19:28.760 We have so much more listener mail Lana, thank you, tackle Flora, 952 01:19:30.239 --> 01:19:33.039 but first date? All right? What else? What else? What 953 01:19:33.119 --> 01:19:39.079 else? We got here? I've got oh? Continuing continuing on our luon 954 01:19:39.479 --> 01:19:48.880 loon um Lana Luna Lana, Lunar Kitty Kitty, We're we're on a loon 955 01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:53.359 spree. Yeah, we are. Lunar Kitty says that we have taken most 956 01:19:53.359 --> 01:19:58.479 of the puns recently. That's too bad. But a Lunar Kitty did discover 957 01:19:58.640 --> 01:20:02.159 a book that we that we might like, called The Strange Affair of spring 958 01:20:02.199 --> 01:20:09.319 Hill jack Oh by Mark Hotter. Is it erotic fan fiction? How could 959 01:20:09.319 --> 01:20:14.000 it not be till that guy's history with it? Apparently it's on audible. 960 01:20:14.439 --> 01:20:17.600 Sweet Wow, we're here. Thank you guys for doing all of our work 961 01:20:17.600 --> 01:20:21.319 for us. Yeah, even even if you didn't get the audible from us, 962 01:20:21.119 --> 01:20:25.079 it's good to know because yeah, well we'll go on there and check 963 01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:27.640 that. But you should feel a little bad for not getting it from us. 964 01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:31.039 I'm just a lot Thank you, Lunar Kitty, thank you Cosmas. 965 01:20:32.560 --> 01:20:38.399 Well, I guess that's it for the the the lu lu la lul Actually, 966 01:20:38.439 --> 01:20:41.640 I have a feeling that the lunar train might come back around to the 967 01:20:41.680 --> 01:20:48.039 station. Sweet keep it trucking because Adam firstment Zverseman writes zasly good and talk 968 01:20:48.119 --> 01:20:53.960 once again, gentlemen, I bring you good news from Casa del versetment that 969 01:20:54.119 --> 01:20:59.479 some authentic German for you Inza he's got a new job as I'm a private 970 01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:02.079 investor gotten. Oh yeah, okay, that's as far as I'm gonna go 971 01:21:02.119 --> 01:21:05.239 with the German thing. All is not well, though, as my very 972 01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:10.600 first case has me rather stumped buckle In. This is about to get darkish. 973 01:21:10.640 --> 01:21:14.319 Ship. Apparently there's a serial killer around where I live, and the 974 01:21:14.439 --> 01:21:17.960 grieving widow is paying me to investigate. Some Sico is killing people by torturing 975 01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:21.880 them to death by puncturing their vital organs with numerous small splinters of wood. 976 01:21:23.399 --> 01:21:27.399 The only lead I have is that so far every victim's body has been found 977 01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:30.960 clutching a leather bound copy of the book The Grapes of Wrath. Creepy right, 978 01:21:31.560 --> 01:21:36.680 anyway, The news has been calling this string of killings the splinter Steinbeck 979 01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:45.800 murders. As always. Sorry, he's not sorry, Adam Verstmen totally versed 980 01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:49.760 the man. Yeah, thank you, don Kole verse Man. Nine guys, 981 01:21:49.840 --> 01:21:56.319 nine guys. This one comes. I'm guessing all the way from agypt 982 01:21:58.039 --> 01:22:04.920 for it is a nubous one and it was un It was unk. He's 983 01:22:04.960 --> 01:22:08.640 thinking, dude, just just because it's one word doesn't mean it to say 984 01:22:08.640 --> 01:22:14.439 it faster. It could just be a nubis and it was unc. There 985 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:19.479 was this unexplained grizzly murder in January of nineteen twenty two. I don't know 986 01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:25.159 if you've heard of this not, but an entire family was found brutally slain 987 01:22:25.359 --> 01:22:29.840 and stacked on their back porch. Gross. The strangest thing is that although 988 01:22:29.880 --> 01:22:34.079 there had been a series of rain and snowstorms, the entire area directly around 989 01:22:34.079 --> 01:22:42.600 the bodies was completely dry. What it's become known as the winter dry deck 990 01:22:42.720 --> 01:22:50.640 murders. It's probably the body's shielding from moisture. Chet him. Oh oh, 991 01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:57.600 very nice and a fun show suggestion. And this is great, says 992 01:22:57.680 --> 01:23:00.119 love the show, Love the show, my fifteen year old daughter. Or 993 01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:01.399 it gets so excited when we get in the car and I turn on blurry 994 01:23:01.399 --> 01:23:05.159 photos. Sweet, that is awesome. See, that's why we bleep out 995 01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:09.960 the dirty bits, right, the dirty bit, dirty bits, dirty bits. 996 01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:14.079 Thank you Anubis ONC and thank anubis Son's daughter for being awesome. Maybe 997 01:23:14.239 --> 01:23:17.600 recognizing coolness is a song. H Maybe you don't get to say that word 998 01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:26.199 anymore. Oh yeah, yep, I didn't think that bast DONC segment. 999 01:23:27.319 --> 01:23:33.840 No one listens like bast DONC. No one goes to high school like bastime. 1000 01:23:35.279 --> 01:23:39.359 Thank you, thank you guys. Oh god, I'm so glad we're 1001 01:23:39.399 --> 01:23:44.159 done with all the Oh it's Luna, Oh Luna, that's right, the 1002 01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:50.520 Luna Kitty and now just straight up Luna mother liquors and lock in because we're 1003 01:23:50.560 --> 01:23:57.279 going for a long ride. Luna luck in. Luna writes your master's Flora 1004 01:23:57.359 --> 01:24:00.039 and Stecco. Don't think it's favoritism. It's just alphabetical so you can pump 1005 01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:04.079 the Brakes dflow. Why is this? Why is this a hate on David 1006 01:24:04.159 --> 01:24:12.159 too? I can't remember any alphabetical name and your sports affiliation. Yeah, 1007 01:24:12.399 --> 01:24:16.319 First and foremost a drink suggestion. Someone wrote to you and suggested rare eagle 1008 01:24:16.439 --> 01:24:19.840 rare. It's all right, I guess if you're a twenty three year old 1009 01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:24.359 woman that needs bourbon so you can down the bottle to impress your cute software 1010 01:24:24.399 --> 01:24:33.039 developer roommate of your friend whoa This sounds pretty specific, Luna. Did a 1011 01:24:33.079 --> 01:24:39.560 girl hurt your feelings because you can tell me. But girls, you don't 1012 01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:43.039 have to down the whole bottle. You just have to drink it like one 1013 01:24:43.119 --> 01:24:45.119 sip without wincing. That's it. That's all you have to That's the minimum 1014 01:24:45.159 --> 01:24:49.279 dosage to impress any dude. And even then they're not really concerned about it 1015 01:24:49.439 --> 01:24:54.159 now, they're just glad you're there. How simple is that? But once 1016 01:24:54.199 --> 01:24:56.760 you've moved on to the next stage of court, you could do first aid 1017 01:24:56.800 --> 01:25:08.279 on your butt or not. Jesus yikes. Should never have said where you 1018 01:25:08.319 --> 01:25:13.279 got shot. Should never have done a huge mistake, Luna. But once 1019 01:25:13.319 --> 01:25:15.520 you've moved on to the next stage of courtship, whether it be sweet hookups 1020 01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:19.680 or trying to drown your first rejection. I'd highly suggest will Its single barrel 1021 01:25:19.720 --> 01:25:25.319 bourbon. It's a good sipping bourbon that pairs well with Netflix and departments that 1022 01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:29.279 are slightly out of your price range. Yes, thank you, sir. 1023 01:25:29.439 --> 01:25:31.680 I feel like that should have a little little hat tip to that, and 1024 01:25:31.800 --> 01:25:35.600 moving onward, it feels like you should come up with a nickname to distinguish 1025 01:25:35.680 --> 01:25:40.840 the irl name of Luna. Oh, Luna writes, I feel like I 1026 01:25:40.880 --> 01:25:44.159 should come up with a nickname to distinguish my name of Luna from the nicknames 1027 01:25:44.159 --> 01:25:46.439 of other listeners. Well, clearly we've had a big rush on that, 1028 01:25:46.479 --> 01:25:49.479 but well, we'll do that job for you. But I'm afraid that that 1029 01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:53.520 would be the first step of a slippery slope that leads to the Kaiser winning. 1030 01:25:55.000 --> 01:25:58.880 Yeah, well, most things do. How about some not so superpowers. 1031 01:25:59.640 --> 01:26:03.000 Tell a kinisis the ability to summon delicious Jewish pastries with the mystical powers 1032 01:26:03.000 --> 01:26:11.399 of the mind. Side effects include high cholesterol, chubb rub whoa, and 1033 01:26:11.600 --> 01:26:15.520 weird poops. I don't know what chubb rub is. I don't want it, 1034 01:26:15.560 --> 01:26:19.520 but I want to know what it is. You might want it after 1035 01:26:19.560 --> 01:26:23.680 you know what it is? How about this? When the new Star Trek 1036 01:26:23.720 --> 01:26:26.279 movie came out, there was an outcry among the fans at the casting of 1037 01:26:27.119 --> 01:26:30.720 Bumblebee cabbage Patch in the Roll of Khneah. Some fans were so angry that 1038 01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:34.520 they started a protest protest group on various message boards. They called themselves the 1039 01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:41.680 Order of the Olden Khan. Oh what's that from? Yeah? Yeah, 1040 01:26:43.039 --> 01:26:46.199 just checking Luna gives us a heads up that right now, at this second, 1041 01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:51.560 is the time to buy Mothman stock, sell slender Man, buye Mothman 1042 01:26:51.760 --> 01:26:58.199 stock, because it's about to go through the roof. There's a portentous creature 1043 01:26:58.239 --> 01:27:01.960 that shows up at your house at night before your favorite parajeans gets incurably torn. 1044 01:27:02.319 --> 01:27:05.880 They call him the Clothman. A writer for Seinfeld thought that the soup 1045 01:27:05.960 --> 01:27:10.000 Nazi would offend some viewers and tried really hard to get the monich or change 1046 01:27:10.039 --> 01:27:15.560 to the Brothman. There was a man so obsessed with ancient Egyptian mythology that 1047 01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:18.000 he got subdermal implants to make his head look more like an Ibis. May 1048 01:27:18.119 --> 01:27:23.439 wants everyone to call him Fothman. Some writers say that they wanted to give 1049 01:27:23.439 --> 01:27:26.680 the Flash a humorous sidekick that was always slowing him down. Luckily, all 1050 01:27:26.680 --> 01:27:32.439 the department heads quickly vote Vetoed Slothman. Oh there's an old guy in the 1051 01:27:32.479 --> 01:27:36.279 town who's kind of stuck in the nineteen eighties phase, perpetually sporting leopard print 1052 01:27:36.319 --> 01:27:41.000 pants, denim jackets, and big hair with crappy bleach. Everyone just calls 1053 01:27:41.039 --> 01:27:47.359 him the David Lee Unman. Okay. Due to some dark magic or perhaps 1054 01:27:47.399 --> 01:27:50.119 some medicine left over from the nineteen forties, there was a boy born in 1055 01:27:50.199 --> 01:27:54.079 Maine that had a number of genetic effects. His arms and legs were boneless, 1056 01:27:54.079 --> 01:27:57.079 the digits of his feet and hands were elongated and tapered, and he 1057 01:27:57.159 --> 01:28:00.239 was born with too many eyes and split pupils. He became a bit of 1058 01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:03.000 a tourist attraction, eventually setting up a shop for himself as a roadside attraction. 1059 01:28:03.399 --> 01:28:11.359 He makes a decent living as the Yogsman. There's a local hipster cafe 1060 01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:14.560 that doesn't actually serve coffee. They only serve milk and toppings. They call 1061 01:28:14.600 --> 01:28:18.119 it the Frothman. Oh my god, I see this is a marathon home. 1062 01:28:18.319 --> 01:28:23.000 Somebody's cashing in a brief interruption to simply say that Nikola Tesla ain't no 1063 01:28:23.119 --> 01:28:29.159 joke. He's so right. Wow, Luna all sets up hits us up 1064 01:28:29.199 --> 01:28:34.279 with some fascinating facts about real like posts on like message boards about like witch 1065 01:28:34.319 --> 01:28:39.760 groups that you're fun. Example, how about they put some special herbs and 1066 01:28:39.840 --> 01:28:44.479 soup kitchens to make the homeless feel full longer. These things happen if you're 1067 01:28:44.479 --> 01:28:46.800 a witch. I don't know really, but I don't know, but dude, 1068 01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:49.359 Luna dropped a dump truck on us. Unfortunately, we don't have time 1069 01:28:49.359 --> 01:28:53.680 to get through the whole thing because this this episode is always getting real top 1070 01:28:53.800 --> 01:29:00.880 heavy and bottom heavy, so I have to do but first, age God, 1071 01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:04.479 so thank all of you for writing. We thought we had caught up, 1072 01:29:04.479 --> 01:29:08.840 but you guys write so well that we have more to do so we 1073 01:29:09.000 --> 01:29:11.239 if we didn't read it this time, we will read it next time. 1074 01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:14.439 Sorry for the long delay, Lunar, because this was you sent us this 1075 01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:15.760 some time ago, so I don't know what the hell happened there, but 1076 01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:19.439 we don't know, so glad we got to it now. And don't forget 1077 01:29:19.560 --> 01:29:24.960 the following fun facts we already covered Audible. That was great. Yeah, 1078 01:29:25.119 --> 01:29:30.800 please leave us A review of the five star Variety on iTunes right. I 1079 01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:35.119 think we're at what's seventy one reviews right now in Toto, So I think 1080 01:29:35.119 --> 01:29:39.720 our most recent review is just like some three star calamity that I think that 1081 01:29:39.760 --> 01:29:44.159 we should bury with five star joy. It's just my idea. I don't 1082 01:29:44.159 --> 01:29:45.239 know. I'm not the boss of you, but that'd be pretty cool. 1083 01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:51.520 Also follow us on Twitter blurry underscore photos at Twitter. We are also on 1084 01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:56.239 the faces book ever heard of it. We're getting pretty good at responding to 1085 01:29:56.279 --> 01:30:00.119 that. I mean, we're getting quite nimble. And we're also uh chugging 1086 01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:04.760 along on YouTube. Yes, it's just the episodes again, no, no 1087 01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:09.199 big deal. But if you've you've got a Gmail account or any kind of 1088 01:30:09.199 --> 01:30:13.560 Google YouTube anything, subscribe to us on there. Yeah, always helps, 1089 01:30:13.800 --> 01:30:19.920 And don't forget there is a donate button there is. We still uh will 1090 01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:27.039 we still have time to to vote for us for the podcast awards. Don't 1091 01:30:27.079 --> 01:30:29.720 forget to do that, you know, vote, really vote often. That's 1092 01:30:29.760 --> 01:30:31.640 what we're doing. YEP, once a day or once every twenty four hours. 1093 01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:34.680 Yep, once from every iPad there, once a day or once every 1094 01:30:34.680 --> 01:30:39.640 twenty four hours, whichever works better for you. Yep. Vote voted as 1095 01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:42.039 much as you can do it, do it, do it. I mean 1096 01:30:42.079 --> 01:30:46.479 we're we are we we are like the Battle of Thermopoli holding back. I 1097 01:30:46.520 --> 01:30:51.079 mean we're we're the darkest of horses. We're up against Neil de grass Tyson. 1098 01:30:51.359 --> 01:30:55.199 I want him and I maybe I mentioned this before. I want him 1099 01:30:55.239 --> 01:30:59.359 to write his name backwards on his shoe so that when he kicks my ass 1100 01:30:59.399 --> 01:31:03.439 as hard as he's going to, I'll at least have his autograph. Ah, 1101 01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:08.600 that's so fun. So thank you everyone for just getting us nominated. 1102 01:31:08.640 --> 01:31:12.319 With these amazing people that we personally love and look up to, it's just 1103 01:31:12.439 --> 01:31:15.039 fun to make them roll around in the mud with us. And thank you 1104 01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:19.159 for listening and downloading and everything you do. Everything we very much appreciate. 1105 01:31:19.279 --> 01:31:24.800 We couldn't have gotten to fourth to four seasons without you. Absolutely could have 1106 01:31:24.840 --> 01:31:29.039 got a revamped website or a store that's opening any day now. All of 1107 01:31:29.039 --> 01:31:31.720 this stuff is because you guys are magnificent, and we are going to just 1108 01:31:31.920 --> 01:31:35.039 make more things like the better this does, the more we get to do. 1109 01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:39.079 But yeah, we've got we've got some fun surprises. We've got some 1110 01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:43.199 some pretty concrete things that we're that we're hammering out We're just gonna build our 1111 01:31:43.239 --> 01:31:47.720 tiny little wicked empire. Wicked not wicked, by the way. I'm not 1112 01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:55.159 including anybody. It's built on the pun. So thank you all very much. 1113 01:31:55.199 --> 01:31:58.279 Yeah, that'll do it for this episode of Blurry Photos. I have 1114 01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:03.079 been dovate, Flora nice, and I have been Dave and drought Fain Stecco, 1115 01:32:04.600 --> 01:32:14.399 you've been low Yolo, Markart, Yolo, br Morgenberg, Yolo. Bye.