WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:35.679 Oh hello, I didn't see you there. Welcome to Blurry Photos. I'm 2 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:40.159 David Florida and I am David Stecco, and welcome back. For those of 3 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.439 you who are coming back from all the amazing podcasts that we have put out 4 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.079 there so far, You're so glad there's another one for you to listen to. 5 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:51.359 I am excited as I always am, because the music that we have 6 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.320 for this podcast makes it sound like you and I dive through windows and kick 7 00:00:55.399 --> 00:01:00.920 indoors insert like literally chasing ghosts that I'm trying to go through, like warp 8 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:06.159 zones and things sliding across seventy eight buicks, driving through alleys where a guy's 9 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:11.719 moving a sheet of glass. So so yeah, And if you haven't, 10 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.959 if this is the first time for you joining us, then go back and 11 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.959 listen to some of brother other stuff. Oh yeah, it'll be fall. 12 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.799 It's gonna be great. Anything exciting having to you this week? Stark? 13 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.319 Uh, you know what I have been. I've been working, as I 14 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:30.680 mentioned last week, tirelessly on my Halloween costume right right, which I am 15 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:38.359 very excited about. And I am I'm just enjoying the fall. Yeah, 16 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:44.359 it's it's so nice out I hate summer. I hate it. I hate 17 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:51.079 Earth's yellow sun. It weakens me. And the fall is when are you 18 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.599 narrow, Superman? Yeah, when I think with just just just bizarrow, 19 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.959 Yeah, I'm I'm of the same. I cannot stand summer whatsoever. I 20 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.759 hate the heat. I love fall, and I love winter. So I'm 21 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:15.199 getting very excited with October and everything. It's it's just an amazing time of 22 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.360 the year. October is a great month. It's full of all kinds of 23 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:23.520 the best holiday of the year. Yeah, exactly, I mean. And 24 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:28.039 in addition to my birthday, there's also a holiday called Halloween. Did you 25 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.439 know that is there? Were you waiting? Were you just referring to my 26 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.520 birthday is the best holiday of the year? Or no, that that I 27 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.560 would refer to a stecko miss oh nice? Yes, where I ride from 28 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:46.080 rooftop to rooftop visiting children in their dreams. But yes, longer recognized as 29 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:51.120 a holiday. Not not in the forty eight states. It's Alaska for hanging 30 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.199 time. So yeah, October. October is a great month. And we 31 00:02:55.240 --> 00:03:00.560 are continuing on our theme month, which which is everything that has to do 32 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:06.599 with with Halloween and things of that that you think of when when you when 33 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.199 you think of that. Yeah, and we still was still looking for a 34 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:15.800 name for what to call October because blank October it's really gets it's winning because 35 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.840 it's getting used. It's winning because that's all there is. We've tried some 36 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:24.039 others and they they've filled miserably. So again, if if you've got to 37 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.960 if you've got a good fill in the blank for our blank Tober, send 38 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.159 it in. Listen. I'm not going to ask you to do a lot 39 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:35.560 of work on our behalf. I mean, the pendulum for entertainment swings solely 40 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:39.080 from us to you, right, But if maybe maybe you've enjoyed listening, 41 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.840 maybe this is that little thing I'm not We're not going to ask you for 42 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.120 money unless you want to give it to us, in which case you can. 43 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.120 But we've got a form you can, we can get hiped up that 44 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:51.879 way. Just do it. But but if you don't want to give us 45 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:53.919 money, which I don't blame you. Yeah, I'm sitting here and I 46 00:03:53.919 --> 00:04:00.159 don't want to give us money, you could give us a name for for 47 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:05.240 October, not Noctober. Yeah, unless you really just want to start a 48 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:13.280 campaign to add Blanktober to the list of shirts that we make. Don't don't 49 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:20.639 do that. So today our topic for Blanktober is going to be superstition. 50 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:26.279 That's right, magnificent superstitions. We are going to go over some of the 51 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.360 history, some some of the popular superstitions where they came from a little bit 52 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:34.480 of the science. There's science or superstition. There's definitely science in there. 53 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:41.360 There's a little bit of disease and superstitions. There's there's a little bit of 54 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:46.519 foreboding and Zubert, there's If we keep going, we're gonna sound like Dolleks, 55 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:55.160 pretty exdaminate. That's our Halloween podcast. That's all. We're doing the 56 00:04:55.199 --> 00:05:01.480 whole Halloween podcast as Dolleks. You'll turn it off in ten second. Originally 57 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:05.519 we were gonna be all scary Victor Price voices, but nope, Dolle's no 58 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:16.639 sorry, Vincent Price, I Mary Naha. Okay, that's enough of that, 59 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:21.199 all right, Okay, so superstitions. Let's let's get into this a 60 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:25.199 little bit. By the end of this podcast, hopefully you're well versed on 61 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:30.720 on superstitions and we can add to your psychological burden. And then and then 62 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.160 at the end um you can send us some of your favorite superstitions that that 63 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:40.199 we don't cover, which we probably won't because there is a ton of superstitions 64 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:43.839 out there. I'm holding in my hand an entire dictionary of them. So 65 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.160 know that know that there's there's some literature here. There's there's plenty of literature. 66 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:53.199 And they repeat often, but just as often as they repeat, I 67 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:57.240 feel like they jump from one thing to another. Would you say that that's 68 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.000 true? You don't know what I want to know, because I don't either. 69 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:08.040 Okay, I'm glad I called it. I consequently refuted my own all 70 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:12.079 right, Well, okay, so let's let's go on and jump in superstitions. 71 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.279 Now, there's a couple of definitions I'm going to throw at you here, 72 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:19.839 because just like superstitions, no two definitions for it are like again, 73 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.920 I just refuted what I just said to two minutes ago. But here's the 74 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:28.600 first one for you. A superstition is a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, 75 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:31.759 fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false 76 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:38.920 conception of causation. It's an avely negative definition, although I will say that 77 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:45.560 after ignorance, everything else is just redundant. It's true, bad, bad, 78 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:53.879 bad resulting from ignorance. The second, the second definition I've got is 79 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:58.680 a belief that one event leads to the cause of another without any physical process 80 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:02.800 linking the two events, such as astrology or omens, witchcraft, et cetera. 81 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:08.439 That they contradict natural science. Now, is there is there sort of 82 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.800 an inherent caveat to that where like how I said, that's there an inherent 83 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:16.399 caveat to that wherein a person it feels like they control things. Is it 84 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:19.319 more active like or is it was? It was it kind of like like 85 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:23.439 a vote of sorts, like, well, it still may not go in 86 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:28.360 my way, but I'm doing my little part to to change this event or 87 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.879 get this outcome that I want. Yeah, that's a that's a good point. 88 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:35.800 Both of those I think are viable for this because when you get down 89 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:41.920 to its superstition is is nothing more than than just some some junk that somebody 90 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:46.879 believes that has no basis for money or some basis for belief, but the 91 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.079 basis is kind of supernatural. Yeah, yeah, or or just I mean, 92 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:55.079 or it's it's a way of explaining some particularly bad behavior, like I 93 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:59.319 keep them. When I think superstitions, I think of like like dude superstitions 94 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.279 like dude, I'm not gonna shave for the playoffs. Yeah, I'm not 95 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.920 gonna change myself. Yeah I'm not. Yeah. And those are things that 96 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.399 dudes don't want to do anyway, and then they just find a reason they 97 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.079 say, no, no, this is about winning. I didn't want to 98 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:15.680 I'm not gonna do laundry till we win. I have to inform you though, 99 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.839 that you just got dude yellow carded. Oh dude card m just it's 100 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.199 it's unprobable. I don't want to get kicked out of the dude again. 101 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:31.720 Oh but yeah, the well we'll get into this and just a little bit 102 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.759 about that. But what you just said is something that scientifically they they have 103 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:41.480 observed and uh, and we'll talk about that soon. But this is Superstitions 104 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:48.360 generally are stem from a reverence for things like omens and charms, symbols, 105 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.960 rituals, things like that, and the word superstition is often used negatively. 106 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.559 It's it's a majority of type word if it's not connected, especially to the 107 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.440 society's prevailing really or if it's not connected to Stevie Wonder, because that is 108 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:07.039 a jam. It is a jam. It's it's it's pretty superstition. It's 109 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.399 a great song, and if you try to look anything up online you are 110 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.879 going to get slammed with Stevie Wonder. See, we've done all the work 111 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.279 for you. We've waited hip deep through an ocean of Stevie Wonder of Billy, 112 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:31.600 ocean of Steve. You are on point and not well. Um, 113 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:35.240 yeah, and that's I think that that's sort of common sense. Like, 114 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.399 if your people don't do it, then it's it's probably something that you're gonna 115 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.919 call right stupid or or silly, you know. But if it's something that 116 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:50.480 that you've grown up on and practice doing ritualistically, yeah, it's it's something 117 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.240 that means a lot to you. You know. Yeah. People will make 118 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:56.559 fun of people who face Mecca to pray, but will also send okay, 119 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:01.320 now let's pray before we eat, right right, something like that. Yeah. 120 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.799 I do consider religion and superstition to be the same thing. There, 121 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:11.039 it's out there. You are an eighteenth century enlightened whoa I'm gonna die of 122 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:16.639 diphtheria. Show us that enlightenist because that's a word. Let's talk about the 123 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.840 roots of superstition. The word superstition has its roots in the Latin superstitezeo, 124 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.799 which is and comes from the first century BC. As a it's an excessive 125 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.000 fear of the gods or unreasonable religious belief as opposed to religio the proper. 126 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:43.039 I couldn't get through that without sounding like frigd Mario. Well here, I 127 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.559 wish, I wish we we recorded this on video. I don't really wish 128 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:52.799 that. But because the hand emotions that go with your Latin I could almost 129 00:10:52.840 --> 00:11:01.200 see that spicy meat, the ball in your hands. So religio religious in 130 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.840 the proper reasonable awe of the gods. Uh so, so yeah, it's 131 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:09.200 it goes as far back, you know, recorded history and to the to 132 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:15.559 the first century will BC, and it was it was used to describe the 133 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:20.879 outlaw religions of the Roman Empire, like the druids, and cults that they 134 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.759 had, like the orphic mysteries, the cult of ices, and and there's 135 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:30.679 a they had a cult on every corner back. But but isn't that I 136 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.240 mean, like, this is one of those interesting things that you're The place 137 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.080 that you find it in history is entirely dependent on your definition of it. 138 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.559 You know, you can you know, obviously the romans determine what is superstition, 139 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:48.360 Like you said, like it's a it's a religious centric view, you 140 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.960 know, like, well there's there's what we do, and then there's all 141 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.759 the weirdos. Yeah, but I mean you you imagine um even you know, 142 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.559 going far back to like like loose tribal associations. You know, if 143 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.080 if you don't have reverence for the for their religious beliefs, then they're all 144 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.799 superstitions. Yeah, you know, and you wonder how many of those things 145 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:11.159 started out as an actual historical process. The thing that I'm thinking of any 146 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:16.120 for example, is hanta virus, weirdly in the Four Corners disease that came 147 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:20.720 up in the nineties. Um, hantavirus is a pulmonary syndrome and you get 148 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:26.720 it through inhaling dried rodent urine. The crystallized you're in. The virus is 149 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:28.399 in there, it gets into your lungs and it infects you. And they 150 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.200 when this thing cropped up in the mid nineties, everyone flipped down, Oh 151 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.000 there's some so, some new virus that's killing people in the Four Corners. 152 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:39.879 But this thing had been around forever. It was just a statistical anomaly that 153 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.679 a few people had died within a week all of the same thing. And 154 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.600 when they when they did for the research, you know, months and months 155 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:52.240 down the line, they realized that most Native American populations in the area had 156 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.360 some larger explanation of this. Oh, when there's a wet spring, people 157 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:00.600 will die in the in the fall, and it was because a wet spring 158 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.360 led to more pinion nuts, which would feed more rodents, which would lead 159 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.759 to a larger incidence of dried rodent urine being in the air, and more 160 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.960 people would die. And you could call that a superstition, but it's it's 161 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:18.159 it's actually just sort of a masked scientific observation without understanding the mechanisms they're in. 162 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.639 So that's that's kind of an interesting thing. Like wives tales have figure 163 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.399 heavily into superstition and myths, yeah, to you know, all myths are 164 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.440 are ways of explaining things that aren't that that that people just haven't figured out 165 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.480 scientifically, you know, how to how to explain what was it called again, 166 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:46.960 the haunt of virus liminary syndrome, the official virus of Halloween. It's 167 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.159 not that fun. A lot of people are dying right now from it. 168 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:56.120 Haunt of virus man. I hadn't heard of that, and then and still 169 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:00.159 going on, Oh yeah, it's still it still kills people all crazy. 170 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.000 So this was going going on back back in the Roman Empire, and apparently 171 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.200 Pagans around Greece and Rome would mock anyone who acted with the fear of the 172 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:16.440 gods and trembled all the time, you know, don't don't want to displease 173 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:24.639 Jupiter. And they they in a sense were they were using superstition as as 174 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.360 a negative that that was the that was superstition to them. This this illogical 175 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:33.080 fear was was what they considered superstitious. And then the Rome, the you 176 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.120 know, the Romans or whatever they believe that the Pagans thought thought that Pagans 177 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.759 were superstitious for what they were doing, dancing in the wooden stuff. So 178 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:43.600 so you got two groups of people going, you're superstitious, No, you 179 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:50.279 are superstitious pretty much. So then we fast forward a little bit to our 180 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:54.759 friend Martin Luther. And then he has come up before, and he in 181 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:58.720 the early sixteenth century, he went so far as to accuse the popes of 182 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:05.879 superstitious practices, among other things. Yeah, but he was saying, being 183 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.519 the Antichrist. He was saying the popes who were using superstition in a way, 184 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.080 and you know, fleecing people of their money and stuff through that and 185 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.879 using ritual and things like that, So should mention. Currently, the Catholic 186 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.960 Church considers superstition to be sinful because it shows a lack of trust in the 187 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.799 divine providence of God. So you can be superstitious if you are not superstitious 188 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.960 enough right in the right direction, if you're practicing your own religions rituals, 189 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.679 it's not superstition. It's rituals and tradition and beliefs. But the guy across 190 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:45.960 the streets that you know burns sage in front of the door is a superstitious 191 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.320 nut and also probably a hippie, which is worse. You tell us, 192 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.919 So let's get into talking about this, the scientific stuff with it and the 193 00:15:52.960 --> 00:16:00.159 psychology. Yeah, which I like the scientific definition a lot more because like 194 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.120 most sting scientific it makes sense. It makes sense. It's it's not it's 195 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.120 not recursive, it doesn't. The definition doesn't change based on who's saying it, 196 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.440 and that's important, Tony, I agree. So why don't you hit 197 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.559 us, hit us with the science? Well, in this. This is 198 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:21.279 even in the twentieth century, the psychologists be of Skinner had a theory regarding 199 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:26.840 superstition because of the observations that he had of pigeons behavior when they were being 200 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.879 fed. And and this, this is this is pretty interesting. I don't 201 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:34.320 know how closely we can draw a link between humans and pigeons, right, 202 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:40.120 But he's just saying that the observe, the observations that he made with these 203 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:44.879 pigeons could correlate a little bit with some observations that that have been made about 204 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.440 humans, and the same things that the pigeons did could mirror the same thing 205 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:53.279 that that humans did in a way. So here's here's what happened when they 206 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:57.039 were being fed, or when they thought the fed. The pigeons, some 207 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.080 of them would turn around in their cage. Some of them would swing their 208 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.599 head back and forth, and they a bunch of they just did a bunch 209 00:17:03.599 --> 00:17:14.119 of of just weird movements and videosyncratic things. Yeah, And he theorized that 210 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:18.480 this they might be doing this to influence their feeding schedule as because when it 211 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.720 was time for them to be fed and he withheld the food, they continued 212 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:27.839 to do their their movements and things, and they did it incessantly until they 213 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:34.359 got fed. So he basically theorized that they were doing this because maybe they 214 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:38.039 believed they just did a little harder, their actions were causing them to be 215 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.240 fed. Yeah, and if and if they weren't getting it, they weren't 216 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:44.880 doing it the actions correctly. So so yeah, if they if they did 217 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.720 a little harder, faster, better, stronger than than, they would have 218 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.880 a remergence in the two thousands. Now. Now, the interesting thing is 219 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.799 that subsequently, you know, years later, scientists have obviously called into question 220 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:02.400 mister skinners observation and where he went with it, even going so far in 221 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:06.960 some cases as too to maybe the point the superstition stick at him. Oh 222 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.799 no, you know, And I guess that's what happens when you tackle a 223 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:11.799 subject like this. It's too easy to get tired with it. But what 224 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:18.200 I what I like about the central crux of the scientific definition being just that, 225 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.440 you know, one event leads the cause of another without any physical process 226 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.319 linking the two events, just that that A can be affected by B even 227 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.319 though they don't touch, they don't do any have anything to do with each 228 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.039 other. And then A does something to see you know, and there's a 229 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:38.559 pumpkin in there, right, Uh, if you imagine pumpkin and gord of 230 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:42.960 some sort um and it and it does, it does kind of clear things 231 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:48.880 up a lot. And you wonder in Skinner's experiment if he did control well 232 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.319 enough for what would just be a behavior for an animal, you know. 233 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.720 And but it's it's an interesting point that that you have that he brings up 234 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:02.119 with this this intermittent conditioning, this idea that every time you hit the feeder 235 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:06.799 bar, you don't always get the pellet, But will you always hit the 236 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:08.880 feeder bar in the same way at the same time if I you know, 237 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:12.839 if it's if it's not a guarantee, how far can I push you as 238 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:18.920 a person or a lab animal in your behavior to get that pellet? Like 239 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.480 just what you said? Do you do it bigger, better, faster, 240 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:25.759 more like? And I believe that there's a real psychological trigger there that that 241 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.960 underlies a lot of superstitions. Yeah, it rears its ugly head in sports 242 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.480 today especially you know, baseball players. They'll, like we mentioned earlier, 243 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.079 some of them if if they have a huge game, maybe they don't watch 244 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.279 their socks and they wear them again, you know, so in the hopes 245 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:44.920 that they will have another huge game and it they'll continue that because of maybe 246 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:49.119 some some good luck that that's coming from these socks for some reason or another. 247 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:55.880 Yeah, and it's amazing and without and I think people who are superstitious 248 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:59.119 do the least amount of looking into it, which I think is a part 249 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.960 of it. You know. It's it's the way. It's the way successful 250 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:08.000 religion incorporates um spreading the word and an idea like superstition. It is bad 251 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:14.160 luck to look into it too much. I mean, it's it's a it's 252 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:18.880 a great it's a great mechanism for an idea to take hold of. Ye. 253 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:22.440 And so these people, they're not terribly self examining about it. But 254 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.640 this this belief that, oh well, I was just going along my merry 255 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.640 way and I had somehow arranged everything in my life, the socks that I'm 256 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:32.880 wearing, the degree of facial hair that I have, the color of my 257 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.319 shirt, and everything turned out perfect. If I can just keep all the 258 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.039 switches in the same position, all the knobs and levers in my life, 259 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.279 I will continue to enjoy this. Yeah. Yeah, And then it's funny 260 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:51.559 and it's like you said, they're they're blaming C on A or they're blaming 261 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:56.680 C on like infinity symbol. Smiley has nothing to do with winky face, 262 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:03.119 the crab that marches side to side. So I briefly mentioned this earlier. 263 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:07.519 But the eighteenth century we had the Age of Enlightenment, right um, And 264 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:12.519 that's that's basically when when science started to really take a foothold and start examining 265 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:18.599 the cause of you know, a lot of the phenomenon that we see and 266 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:21.119 the way we think and all that good stuff. It was. It was 267 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:27.640 glorious, but they also that made people kind of the thinkers of the day 268 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:36.000 that it made them ridicule the belief in miracles and revelation, magic, supernatural, 269 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:38.599 that sort of stuff that when the Age of Enlightenment had its heyday, 270 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:42.279 the supernatural was kind of pushed to the side and made fun of. And 271 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:48.240 and this included superstitions and stuff. Now, superstitions were still considered it it 272 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:55.720 was still considered a derogatory term for a belief. But once people started looking 273 00:21:55.720 --> 00:22:02.799 into customs and and things that that certain civilizations and people had in terms of 274 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:07.920 tradition, then they started saying, well, let's let's not call these superstitions 275 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:11.920 because this is uh, it's it's rude, you know, to say this 276 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.960 about people when this is how they've acted all along, right, So let's 277 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.480 let's call them folk beliefs. So that's that's where the term folk belief comes 278 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:25.720 from. Just it's the it's the regional religious customs of an organized religion that's 279 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:30.400 outside of the doctrine of that that religion. But still are are things that 280 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:34.640 that people do and actions that they perform in stuff they could be considered superstitions. 281 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:40.240 But again, since it was since they were practices that that people have 282 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:45.039 always done and really revered, they hit him with that term the folk beliefs, 283 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.200 which which is awfully you know, like I guess you know for the 284 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:52.640 time, that's that's is accepting. I mean it is the term folk belief 285 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:55.759 is kind of a belittling a little bit. But on the other hand, 286 00:22:55.799 --> 00:23:00.400 if the if it's that or or repent your pagan ways, I guess fopefully 287 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.559 is pretty good. Yeah, yeah, you're you're dancing around the bonfires, 288 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:11.920 idiotic idiotic idiots to look at them dance around the fire like their traditions, 289 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:18.240 say, with their folk beliefs, so much better and they always said it 290 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:23.599 that way, Yeah, the flat folk. So that's I mean up until 291 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:30.799 now today, I feel like superstition is still it has some of that derogatory 292 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:37.359 meaning, but it's it's a little bit more widely accepted and kind of brush 293 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.160 to the side or like, oh yeah, that's just a superstition. Yeah, 294 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:41.759 it's I think I think for the most part, I think it's very 295 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.240 it's very tongue in cheek, you know, like actors break a leg, 296 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.160 Yeah, that kind of thing, Like I break a leg, you know. 297 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.720 But on the other hand, how often in your regular life do you 298 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:55.480 say, well, I don't want to jinx it. Yeah, you know, 299 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:59.240 like people they're like these things still doesn't matter. I'm like, I 300 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.200 consider myself ought to be a pretty rational guy, which is probably a mistake. 301 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.000 But but yeah, like the phrase I don't want to jinx it, 302 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.680 Like I say that, I mean it, like, oh I want to 303 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:11.960 say that out loud. It's gonna jinx the whole thing, you know, 304 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:15.400 right, I mean, everybody, at some point or another, I'm sure, 305 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:22.400 has has performed some kind of little superstitious act or gotten all crazy excited 306 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.599 when they find a four leaf clover or something. Yeah. I think there's 307 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.559 just that that piece of people that know they're not in control but desperately want 308 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:36.000 to at least create this illusion of some modicum of control. I like that. 309 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:38.599 I like that you keep coming back to that because that's something that I 310 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:44.359 don't see often in in the research that that I was doing on it and 311 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.160 have seen, is that people. I think, I agree that that people 312 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.960 want some control in their life, and that's why some of these are are 313 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.799 performed, some of these actions and gestures that the charms that people wear, 314 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.839 things like that. It's a little bit of having control role in a chaotic 315 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:06.880 system. And I think that makes a little more sense to me than just 316 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.039 a conditioned response to something. Yeah. Yeah, And I think that that's 317 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.000 the the evolution of it. I mean, there's so many things that we 318 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:19.680 that we kind of have quaintly, like the groom carries the bride over the 319 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:25.759 threshold, Yeah, you know, black cats, walking under ladders. I 320 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:30.599 walk under ladders all the time, and I do it because because it's well, 321 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:33.559 I mean, I bet to that superstitions because people used to get their 322 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:38.119 heads cracked by things falling from people on ladders. But you know, it's 323 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:42.720 it bothers me that it bothers me because you know, like for for work, 324 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:48.519 sometimes I have to walk under a ladder and the whole time I'm doing 325 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:53.240 it, there's a part in my brain that's screaming. You know, those 326 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:57.880 those things once you it's like when you're a kid, and like that's superstitions 327 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:03.599 to a child are kind of like the first science we learn rabbit's feet and 328 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:07.640 you know, touch blue, make it true, and and things like that. 329 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:11.839 That's like the first set of scientific tools. These are the tools with 330 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:17.759 which we understand our world and interact with And there's that. I think that 331 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:21.680 your brain retains some of that. But no matter how much you know that, 332 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:25.279 you're not doing anything. I guarantee once a week a person will be 333 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:29.039 walking down the sidewalk and be like, oh, they'll just do that little 334 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:33.119 extra step to get over the crack. And part of it, I think 335 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:38.440 also comes from the fact that they can't be necessarily disproven either, you know, 336 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:42.119 yeah, yeah, that's and that's the beauty of it. You can't 337 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:49.480 because there's another superstition that clearly had sway over that situation, a stronger superstition, 338 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:56.839 yeah, a megastition. You also get the whole thing. Where as 339 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:03.680 as technology evolves, and as as the world you know, hopefully if evolves 340 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:10.960 or things change from one thing to another, you get a transformation of superstition 341 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.200 as well. And I'm thinking of the just the ritual of blowing into the 342 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:19.200 Nintendo cartridge before you put it in. Yeah, Nintendo, you know, 343 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:26.519 even though I just I'm sure that that did nothing, but you do it. 344 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:29.839 But then if and if it didn't work, if if it you kept 345 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:33.359 getting that blue or green screen flashing on there, you took it out and 346 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.599 you blew harder. Yes, you're like, because that's all you can do. 347 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.039 You don't have that weird screwdriver that you used to put those things together, 348 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:44.720 so there's nothing you can do. And people, you know, and 349 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.319 it's even the way people deal with say their computers or their cars. People 350 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.720 have no idea what's going on inside their cars or their computers. They just 351 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.359 know like, oh, when it does this, I do this, and 352 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:57.559 then it doesn't do that for a while, Right, I mean that that 353 00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:03.000 that's that's superstition, but it is reproducible. Yeah, there's something in what 354 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:07.799 they're doing that is affecting that thing, and they are fine with never knowing 355 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.839 how those two things are linked, which I guess technically given the scientific definition, 356 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:17.559 because the two things are in fact linked, then it's not a superstition. 357 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.720 But it's also easier for them. Yeah, why you don't have to 358 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.400 know everything if you just know the weird things. But then people have all 359 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:30.039 kinds of superstitions about technology that don't mean anything. I mean, one could 360 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.759 one could argue that, you know, cell phones giving you brain cancer maybe 361 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:38.640 superstition, maybe maybe maybe fact. I mean there's stuff like that. It's 362 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:41.839 like, well, you get plenty of articles that say it does, plenty 363 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:47.359 of articles that say it doesn't. So then you're left basically with is it 364 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.039 a superstition? You know? Is it? Oh? I've got a great 365 00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:55.880 one. I've got a great example of a scientific superstition. Vaccines cause autism 366 00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:00.799 that has been disproven every eight hundred ways from Sunday from Hell to breakfast. 367 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:08.720 Vaccines cause autism. There was a scientist who back in the late nineties claimed 368 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:14.960 that he that vaccines were responsible for the rise in autism and children and unborn 369 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:19.240 children like if the mother got vaccinated or if the child got vaccinated after they 370 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:25.160 were born, Okay, and then he was at the University of Utah. 371 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:29.839 But they this guy did this research, said, oh, they causes, 372 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:33.240 there's a link here. No scientist was ever, he had a press conference 373 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.279 before his work was peer reviewed. The peer review was like, wait a 374 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:40.160 minute, none of this works right. You doctored these these results, You 375 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:44.759 had selected your your test subjects. Oh, you messed with your You made 376 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.440 this up. He completely made it up because he had a large amount of 377 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.599 money in the vaccine industry. Of all things, in specific in specific areas, 378 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.720 the vaccine industry that would have done well with this. Shocking And to 379 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.000 this day there is a huge right now, there's a huge rise in things 380 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:04.680 like measles, mumps. Uh, these are things that you and I were 381 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:10.440 vaccinated against. But there's a huge There was almost a generation of moms who 382 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:14.000 were afraid to vaccinate their kids. And it's and it persists based on this 383 00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:19.440 one guy and his terrible scientific hopes. Wow. And and to this day 384 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:22.079 there are still people like no, no, no, I heard that that 385 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.720 does give gives you autism. We're not going to do that. That that's 386 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:32.279 a great example of a superstition. Hmm. Yeah. It's it's scary now 387 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:36.960 that that people are and who Who's to say that some of these superstitions of 388 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.960 old weren't born out of you know, someone's greed of the day, you 389 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.839 know, something that would benefit them or something absolutely, you know, if 390 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.480 you don't have cracker Jack's at the ball game, a team's gonna lose. 391 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:51.880 I don't know if that ever they ever used that, but they should have. 392 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:55.160 But I guess, I guess The point is that we're not above it. 393 00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:57.039 We don't live in we're not back star trek where we look back on 394 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:03.119 the problems of history and just tut tut tut you poor Bastard's like, we 395 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.400 are still neck deep in it. We are just as inclined to believe and 396 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:12.359 generate news superstitions. True, true, And like I said way back at 397 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:18.440 the beginning, the things that make up superstitions are things like omens, charms, 398 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.359 rituals, things like that. I'll briefly go through a few of these. 399 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.079 And omen is a phenomenon that's believed to foretell the future. And it 400 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:32.759 can be good or bad. For example, um, seeing a comment can 401 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:37.160 can be good for somebody bad for somebody else. In particular, Haley's comment 402 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.519 they believed was bad for King Harold the second in England, but seeing Haley's 403 00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:48.559 comment later was a good sign for William the Conqueror apparently so Omens. It's 404 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:53.960 all in how you who you are, how you view it's a great superstition. 405 00:31:55.319 --> 00:32:00.319 Yeah, charms are are a popular thing even today. I would say 406 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.640 a charm is something that's worn or carried on one's person for its supposed magical 407 00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:08.759 effect. And this includes things like amulets, talisman and they're they're usually one 408 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:14.319 for for protection of something or another there. Yeah, usually they confer some 409 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.759 positive benefit. Yeah, in some cases they don't. Some cases they are 410 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:22.000 a cursed themselves. I mean I know exactly. For there's one specifical apricon 411 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.960 who is being hounded by children to the ends of the earth, and he 412 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:31.319 has several lucky charms. But you just please give them back together, just 413 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:36.599 give them back to the pork kids are not gonna give up them. Give 414 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:44.720 this guy his lucky charms back for the love pick. Yeah, and he's 415 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:50.039 getting so much bad luck and evil coming into his life, right, just 416 00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:52.160 let the kids have those damn charms. Want a bunch of dicks, man, 417 00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:59.920 But yeah, they they include things like gems and coins, pendants, 418 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.319 rings, statues. For example, one charm that that's probably pretty well known. 419 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:08.079 How about a crucifix. That's it's something that that wards off evil. 420 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.279 It stands for you know, uh, stands for what it stands for, 421 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:16.799 but it is what it is. But yeah, yeah, that that's to 422 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:21.480 ward off evil, especially vampires, if you if you go down that path. 423 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.519 For four leaf clover is a popular charm. The hams at hand is 424 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:30.640 a popular popular charm. Um pretty much anything a ring of protection plus one. 425 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:36.599 That's that's okay to get if you're if you're a low level that's all 426 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:40.480 right. Well I'll get you on the road. I mean whatever starts and 427 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:45.799 then and then you've got your your rituals and traditions that you following, which 428 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:51.400 is ritual is a set of actions performed to satisfy an obligation or need. 429 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:55.680 Uh. And I'm thinking of tossing a pinch of salt over your left shoulder. 430 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.920 We'll get into this in a little bit, uh, specifically salt. 431 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:05.119 But can you think of any other rituals that people might do? Oh um, 432 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:08.840 see now this is like rituals is a particularly to me interesting part of 433 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:15.559 the of the umbrella of superstitions because rituals, especially just like your definition. 434 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:19.880 Just know, a spot on is almost interchangeable for like to my mind, 435 00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:23.119 like a OCD. Oh sure, yeah, physical actions that you have to 436 00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:28.199 perform to satisfy a need right right, you know, if you touch something 437 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.840 left hand, touch at right hand, if you turn right, turn left, 438 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:35.679 you know, if you to establish balance or to scratch that itch. 439 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.559 Yeah. Yeah, And it's and it's interesting because it turns out science, 440 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:44.400 I mean, like psychologists have looked into this and they don't consider they think 441 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:50.400 that a lot of symptoms of OCD mimic superstitions, and there might even be 442 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:54.480 some attempt on the part of perhaps a patient. Patient doesn't want to say 443 00:34:54.519 --> 00:35:00.800 I have OCD, but they will say they're superstitious, and then further investigation 444 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.280 and therapy brings out no, or you know, like, oh, they 445 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:07.079 actually do have these compulsive disorders. This isn't something they're doing because they want 446 00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:08.400 to have a better day. Yeah, they're doing it because they can't not 447 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:13.400 do it right, And so they're actually very specific to say no, they're 448 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:17.360 they're they're there. They do have some some similar appearances, but they are 449 00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:22.239 very very different things. And you and you know, just as OCD is 450 00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:24.840 an obsessional, compulsive, that kind of thing that you have to do, 451 00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:35.599 whereas I almost view rituals and superstitions superstitions they're kind of like a cosmic have 452 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:37.920 a penny, leave a penny jar, Like, oh, if you know, 453 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.639 if you've got the opportunity to knock on wood when all the numbers and 454 00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:45.440 the clock are the same. Have you ever heard of that before? Because 455 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.440 there was a kid when I was growing up who said, oh, it's 456 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:52.039 lucky if you knock on wood when it's eleven eleven or three thirty three. 457 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:54.920 To this day, I'll do it. That little jackass made that up. 458 00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:01.280 I can tell you that right now. I'm coming after you. But I 459 00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:06.960 think that's that isn't important to point out a superstition. I feel like it's 460 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:14.119 something that you consciously do in order to effect an outcome, whereas OCD is 461 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.440 something that that you you do with no control. Right, and the two 462 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:22.679 harness and musually exclusive. It's not like you can't be both, but the 463 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:28.000 specific um activities usually boil down to different camps, even in your own mind 464 00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.800 if you don't see it that way, the pressure, the desire to perform 465 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:35.760 those two different kinds of actions a small like you said, pinch over your 466 00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:38.440 shoulder versus having to wash your hands five times a day. You know. 467 00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:44.639 Well, so yeah, cool, that's a that's a great point. Let's 468 00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:50.840 uh, let's jump into the top ten superstitions. I found a site nice 469 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.679 that that had that listed the top ten is it was like top ten of 470 00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:58.079 twenty twelve. It was a time, not of twenty twelve. It was 471 00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:02.400 the website was um top ten worldwide or something like that. I think dot 472 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.559 com, we'll trust them. It's I mean, until we're given reason not 473 00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:12.960 to. Who knows. There's a lot of sites that do list superstitions. 474 00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:19.519 Few of them put them in an order, but you have the courage to 475 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.960 rank them and hit them against each other. So coming in at number ten, 476 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:28.400 according to this side, coming in at number ten was spilling salt. 477 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:35.519 So I'll quickly go through this um. Spilling salt is said to arouse evil, 478 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:43.079 evil spirits, arouse them, arouse them. Salt was obviously a value, 479 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:46.719 valuable commodity back in the day, and it was also used in exorcism 480 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:52.360 and for protection from evil. That's some thought that where where that comes from 481 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:55.119 the idea that that's spilling it you know is I can't use it anymore. 482 00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:01.840 But one explanation is that Judas overturned the salt seller at the last supper. 483 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:07.559 Oh so it's it's bad form, Peter Pan to spill any salt as an 484 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:13.159 antidote. Tossing a pinch over your left shoulder will drive away the devil who 485 00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:16.360 is lurking there basically with the sinister shoulder right right, the angels on the 486 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:21.719 right shoulder. Devil's on the left shoulder and not according to the evan to 487 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:34.280 the advice I've been getting lately, Gosh, we'll see the devil soon, 488 00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:37.760 I'm sure. Yeah, but yeah, throwing salt. Here's one for you. 489 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:44.320 Throwing salt after someone leaves your house who's just visited, said to ensure 490 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.480 that they do not return for a long time. I will see if that 491 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:53.880 works on who I'm not saying. There's also a German belief that a girl 492 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:58.280 who neglects to put the salt on the table in the first place is revealing 493 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:04.599 the fact that she is no longer a chairmans, we're hot. That is 494 00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:10.920 like a to a hand printed three year old turkey picture, like that a 495 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.239 to a hand printed tree, not a to b but a to something so 496 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:21.599 far I see beyond. So if you forget the salt, you've been doing 497 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:27.360 things. You've been down in the TNT area of point pleasant. Nice. 498 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:34.280 That's really good. That was great, that was completely yeah yeah, so 499 00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.960 yeah, so that's salt. That's salt. Number nine. Wishbones. Oh 500 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:43.639 yeah. The wishbone is a bone that lies between the foul's neck and breast, 501 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.599 and when it's dried and pulled between two people so that it breaks, 502 00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:53.199 the person holding the larger piece is granted a wish. But you can't laugh, 503 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:59.079 talk, or reveal the secret while you're pulling or after or you can't 504 00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:01.440 reveal it afterwards. But while you're pull pulling, you can't laugh or talk 505 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:06.599 or else it's nullified. WHOA, I've never heard the laughing or talking thing, 506 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:08.719 which explains why so many of mine wishes were unfulfilled growing up, because 507 00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:14.679 it was like a throwdown, Like we had sides of the family shouting encouragement. 508 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:19.559 Everyone's screaming as he pulled the wishbone. That's it, man. No. 509 00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.880 Traditionally it may have roots in the resemblance of a horseshoe, which is 510 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:28.440 also a lucky charm. So that's that's the wishbone. Number eight. The 511 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:31.639 rabbit's foot, pretty common one. Yeah, I think everyone's uh, if 512 00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:35.400 they haven't owned one, they've seen one on a key chain. I think 513 00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:38.039 we're a little too animal friendly these days to have those. But I remember 514 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:42.199 growing up. Those things were everywhere. I used to get them out of 515 00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:46.840 the little quarter machines, like you know, outside of a Walmart. And 516 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:53.280 I'm sure they weren't real. I hope they were. They were real. 517 00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:57.920 They had fingernails and everything. AU guess you had these had fingernails too, 518 00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:00.840 but they were they were dyed. These upid colors, bright blue, bright 519 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:06.920 red. But anyway, rabbit's foot's supposed to bring exceptional good luck if if 520 00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.440 it's worn around the neck on a chain, or if fits carried in your 521 00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:15.119 left pocket. They're ideally I like this, hang onto this one. They're 522 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:20.440 ideally made from the left hind leg of a rabbit killed by a cross eyed 523 00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.360 man in the light of a full moon. Why you ask that one? 524 00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:30.559 I love all of that, Maybe both. I'm going out to make lucky 525 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:37.639 rabbits. Oh, the door artist, you can't shoot that crossbow. He 526 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:43.360 has a crossbow because he's cross eyed. That what this joke. That's gotta 527 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.480 be extra I mean, how else is he killing them? If you got 528 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:50.559 a cross eyed man? Yes, he shoots a crossbow. That's why they're 529 00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:53.119 called crossbow. Has all kinds of crosses hanging in his house. That's right 530 00:41:53.519 --> 00:42:00.440 by a rail road crossing during the days at crossing guard. And he loves 531 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:09.360 Crosby stillson, We're we're the worst kind of people. Oh, we look 532 00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:16.800 forward to your hate mail mail. Are you going to extror? Oh man? 533 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:22.960 If terror wasn't the right word, and you're a terror. So witches 534 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:29.079 are said to favor rabbits as disguises or familiars, which is which leads to 535 00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:34.599 the belief of their supernatural qualities for having the foot. So that's uh, 536 00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:38.039 that's number eight. Number seven. You care to guess what number seven might 537 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:42.519 come in? I didn't. I wanted to. I was gonna cheat. 538 00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:46.320 Let's see, Um, I just I don't. I don't even begin to 539 00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:52.400 know. Carrying the bride across the threshold. No ladders, oh man, 540 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.840 yep, walking under a ladder's bad luck? Right now? This, um, 541 00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:00.400 this has a couple of different origins that it could be from. I'm 542 00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:05.920 sure all of these have a thousand places they probably are derived from. But 543 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:12.280 um, for ladders, it could be that ladders that were leaned against a 544 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.960 wall formed a triangle, which is the sign of the Holy Trinity. And 545 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:19.840 you don't want to walk through the middle of the Holy Trinity because it's disrespectful 546 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:22.280 to Jesus and all the babies. I would have thought that it would be 547 00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:28.039 like you just get covered in trinity, Like that's a good thing, like 548 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:36.800 from the matrix. That's the best thing. Oh man, So don't don't 549 00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:38.280 can diffuse me, like all right, all right, but yeah, that 550 00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:42.400 is the best thing, if you can get covered by the Trinity, whether 551 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:47.440 holy or leather class the other the other origin for it, and this is 552 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.800 the one I like. Criminals used to be hanged from the top rung of 553 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:57.000 a ladder that was leaned up against the crux of a tree when there wasn't 554 00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.679 a suitable gallows or maybe a limb that they could hang from, and so 555 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:07.840 their spirit then lingered underneath the ladder. And that's why you didn't want to 556 00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:10.239 You don't want to stir them up when you walked underneath a ladder. That's 557 00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:14.000 pretty cool, huh, Yeah, I like that. I mean I can 558 00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:17.960 understand that there's a lurking spirit. Yeah, yeah, of a criminal. 559 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.480 No less you think they don't get better once you kill them. They don't 560 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:27.559 learn. So number six, what do you think Number six is? I'm 561 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:35.440 gonna go with rally caps broken mirrors. Breaking a mirror calls a seven years 562 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:38.800 of bad luck. Now, mirrors were thought to be the images of the 563 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:45.519 soul, a reflection of your soul. It was obviously bad form to break 564 00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:50.360 your soul up, and don't do it. But to keep your luck, 565 00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:53.119 here's what you could do. Wait for seven hours before you're picking up the 566 00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:57.880 pieces, one hour for every year of bad luck, and then you can 567 00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:01.199 bury them on sacred ground in the moon or throw them in a swift moving 568 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:05.920 river. I'm gonna go with the river because that's just easier. You have 569 00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:07.639 to do that at in the moon light. Or yeah, just throw them 570 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:13.440 in a swift flowing reverse stream. But yeah, I mean that that's nearest. 571 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:19.639 I've always been kind of a mystifying thing for people and cultures, people 572 00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:28.639 who are are new to hallucinogenic drugs. I Alaska. Soon we should start 573 00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:32.320 to get us to South America. Fund Oh god, we'll never that's it 574 00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:36.880 for us. Man. You don't you don't come back from South America. 575 00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:43.480 I guess not. Number five? What do you think? Thirteen? Number 576 00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:47.079 thirteen? Close? The four leaf clover. Oh, I'm the worst at 577 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:52.559 this. I've only I've been wearing my other socks. Four leaf clover considered 578 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:59.000 a good luck charm. The four leaves represent fame, wealth, faithful lover, 579 00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:02.800 and good health, so all the things you need in life. Yeah, 580 00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:07.280 it protects it also against witchcraft. There's a bonus for you and I 581 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:13.960 get a faithful lover and no witchcraft. That's right. But that's not all. 582 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.360 If you wear it, it grants you the ability to see fairies. 583 00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:23.519 I know you went down on Halstead here, that's what you did. I 584 00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:30.000 know it. The origin maybe from a biblical legend that said Eve stole some 585 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:36.159 clover as she was exiled from Paradise. So is clover actually from the hollow 586 00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:43.159 earth? Oh? Darby O Gillen, the little people? Number four? 587 00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:49.079 What do you think? Nope, horseshoes. Honestly, horseshoes. There is 588 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.880 nothing superstitious about a horse shoe. I refute this, all right, all 589 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:57.000 right, But it said that it's good luck if you found it, if 590 00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:00.679 it was legitimately lost by a horse, found by you, open end facing 591 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:04.599 you, and then hung above your door. Okay, well let me ask 592 00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:07.960 you this. Then this is a good example of like Hayley's commet, not 593 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:13.280 lucky for the horse, not lucky for the horse. Right, that is 594 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:17.000 a lot that is such a highly specific thing, and the cross eyed guy 595 00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:22.840 wasn't. But the cross eyed guy could like he's cross eyed and he's gonna 596 00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:28.639 go choose to cut a specifically golf of a rabbit at midnight. All right, 597 00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:31.840 you're right, you're right. I hate myself for trying to defend that. 598 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.320 So the properties of a horseshoe maybe derived from the crescent shape that it 599 00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:44.760 resembles the moon, because you know there's a lot of moon moon mystery that 600 00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:46.880 that goes on has gone on, or that it was made of iron, 601 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:52.639 which is the most magical of all the metals. Wouldn't when you wouldn't be 602 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:57.719 able to helpier, I just might just ensure that people walk with traffic, 603 00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.480 because then wouldn't all the horseshoes on the ground be facing you that you find. 604 00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:04.760 Oh that's a good point, but how do you know which way the 605 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:07.480 traffic is going? If you're new to an area, and well, I 606 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:09.519 mean you just stay stayed to the right. What if you're in England stayed 607 00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:16.079 the left? Good answer, Okay, movie, actually still stay to the 608 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:20.199 right, don't you. That's just you're on the left. Yeah, yeah, 609 00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:22.719 I don't see. I just killed us in England. We have to 610 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:27.440 go to South America because I'll kill us if we go to England. Also, 611 00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:34.079 seven seven nail holes are the luckiest because seven seven h popular lucky number. 612 00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:36.920 Oh, here's a bonus for you. Also, deters witches and fairies, 613 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:39.719 which is a huge problem at some point, you know it was that's 614 00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:45.039 true, man, because they're people are really I mean, like, that's 615 00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.719 why witches are extinct. Now, we found so many ways to limit their 616 00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:51.679 power that they just gave up. I could, well, they're they're not 617 00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:55.239 extinct. There's plenty of witches out there, and they're not the witches that 618 00:48:55.239 --> 00:49:04.280 that they've been stereotyped into being witches today. That today's witches is too proper 619 00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:08.400 witches as LARPers are to the legions of Rome, I can see your point. 620 00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:15.000 I do think that that a lot of witches today, though, are 621 00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:19.760 a lot hotter than than LARPers would be to the legions. Well you know 622 00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:23.239 what you only you know that is you're just like dodging sideways now yeah, 623 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:25.920 yeah, yeah, which is today are hotter than which is used to be. 624 00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.599 I just used to have to be ugly. But it also depends on 625 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.719 which way you larbers are better educated than the legions of Rome's that there? 626 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.559 No, okay, I don't know. Let's just throw out some more facts. 627 00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:46.000 Yeah, foam swords, metal, I just don't respect modern witches. 628 00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:52.880 You don't know. Okay, that's fair, But time getting all you are. 629 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:57.760 I just wrote a check off of your ass too. We're gonna get 630 00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:02.960 hext and cursed. And maybe the whiches are hot these days. There they 631 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.920 are. They are hot, They are better, well, some of them 632 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.119 are. Number three. What do you think it is? Thank you for 633 00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:15.599 ending that thirteen? Number thirteen. I'm it's going to be my answer from 634 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:16.960 here on out, because if it doesn't show up, I'm going to destroy 635 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:21.199 this place with my theory. You're doing this incessantly. I think it's becoming 636 00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:25.280 a superstition. Yeah, and number three is number thirteen. Yeah, I 637 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:29.719 do it. All I had to do was keep saying thirteen, and someday 638 00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:32.800 it would work what's it called when you're afraid of it? Stuck out Chris 639 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:39.360 good decaphobia. People also will not build. They don't number their floors and 640 00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:44.599 buildings with the number thirteen. It goes straight from twelve to fourteen, especially 641 00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:46.440 like older buildings actually will have this on the website. I've got a number 642 00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:50.480 of photos. My job allows me to go into some of the finer older 643 00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:54.519 high rises here in Chicago and I take pictures of the elevator panels. Nice. 644 00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:59.880 So I've got we've got some pictures of some thirteen less some some buildings 645 00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:04.800 just with a sweet twelve to fourteen. Yeah, other buildings just pay lip 646 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:07.440 service with a floor twelve and a half, which I think would be the 647 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:09.559 best floor to live on. Yeah, if you're a John Macovic, yeah 648 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:13.559 exactly. I guess John John Cusack at that point. Yeah. So yeah, 649 00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:15.840 we've got we've got some pictures of that on the website for you. 650 00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:21.760 Cool. And the Witches covens had thirteen members, which were twelve witches and 651 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:25.119 the drivel as did Jesus and the Apostles. That that was that was it. 652 00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:28.800 There were thirteen at the last supper and the last one to sit down 653 00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:34.719 our friend Judas. What didn't he up at that meal? The fish? 654 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:40.239 It was delicious. He nailed it. The tarot. In the tarot, 655 00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:47.679 the thirteenth card is death Friday. The thirteenth obviously a popular day to be 656 00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:52.800 scared of. Yeah, that comes from many different sources. One of the 657 00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:57.880 more popular ones coming out these days is that it was the day that the 658 00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:00.400 knights templar were hunted and killed in your up back in the Middle Ages, 659 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:07.320 back in like six hundred years ago, right, six hundred years ago, 660 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:08.639 when everything happened, Yeah everything. Have you heard that? Have you? 661 00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:12.760 Have you not heard that? The thirteenth plus a day that No, Actually 662 00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.679 I don't know anything about that as like the the root of it. So 663 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:20.360 that's interesting now is that when I mean, obviously they didn't kill all the 664 00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:23.840 templars in one day when like the order went out exactly. That's that's like, 665 00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:28.920 oh, six hundred hours, you are on your horse with a sword, 666 00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:32.480 go into these dudes homes. Wow. That's interesting. Yeah, So 667 00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.760 so ever since then, it was I mean, this is this is one 668 00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:40.599 of the theories that have cropped up. But there's evidence that the number thirteen, 669 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:45.719 in particular the fear of it, existed in Roman culture, even before 670 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:51.039 Jesus, even back as far as ancient Egypt and Hindu culture and stuff like 671 00:52:51.079 --> 00:52:53.239 that. So you can't you can't blame it all on Judas. You can't 672 00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:58.880 blame it all on the slaughtering of the nights. That's interesting. Now you're 673 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.639 like businesses even fall off. They'll actually see a decrease in business on Friday 674 00:53:02.679 --> 00:53:06.639 the thirteenth. And I mean do people. I mean, I don't know 675 00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:10.280 anyone whos ever said I'm staying home that day. But you always there's always 676 00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:20.679 some jagbag in the office who's like thirty look out the dag bag. There's 677 00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:22.800 there's always that guy. And you know what, listen to podcast. Maybe 678 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:28.559 you can be that guy for your office. Okay, so number two, 679 00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:30.400 what do you think number two is? Well, I knew what my answer 680 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:35.400 was gonna be, but I don't think thirteen's gonna pay out anymore. Um. 681 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:40.400 Blue moon maybe blue moon, Yeah, when there's five moons, I 682 00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:45.800 mean two full moons in a month. No black cats, black cats, 683 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:50.760 I said that earlier. Classic The US believes, along with a couple of 684 00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:55.000 their countries like Belgium, that a black cat crossing your path bestows bad luck, 685 00:53:55.280 --> 00:54:00.800 but it's the opposite. In the British aild they are harbingers of good 686 00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:06.199 luck. See that's awesome. I'm still gonna kill us when we go there, 687 00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:07.719 but we should go there. I should go there and hug a bunch 688 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:14.039 of black cats. Yeah. Then they were often depicted as which is familiars 689 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:20.159 or maybe which is or sorcerers themselves, so that that has some connotation with 690 00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:23.880 um, you know why why it might be considered bad luck over here anyway. 691 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:29.239 So black cats. Uh, yeah, that's that's something that's that's pretty 692 00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:32.760 big, I think, I think today over in the States anyway. Yeah, 693 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:37.199 so black cats go to England if you like them, as long as 694 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:42.199 you stay in America, you will stay clear of them. So number one, 695 00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:45.159 what do you think number one is? Man, I've spent the last 696 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:47.280 two minutes trying to think of one, Like the whole time you were talking, 697 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:52.800 all I was thinking of is another superstition. And so since I couldn't 698 00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:58.480 think of one, I am opening my dictionary area of superstitions. I believe 699 00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:04.360 the number one superstition. So we get some good paper page turning sounds that 700 00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:07.960 sounds great right next to the MICROPHO. Well, you have to hear it. 701 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:14.039 I believe that is the uh the pask flower, the purple flowered anemone 702 00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:16.559 that is widely grown for its attractive bloom. I think it's probably because of 703 00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:21.480 the Southern English tradition of considerable antiquity claiming that the pass flowers only grow where 704 00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:23.079 saxon blood has been spilt. So I'm going to say that's the number one. 705 00:55:23.159 --> 00:55:27.079 I think that's the most common one, that they only grow where there's 706 00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.800 been saxon blood spilt. So you just guess that one top of my head. 707 00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:35.840 The top of my head. Number one is knocking on wood. Yeah, 708 00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:39.320 knocking on wood, which is a gesture that's used to counter the threat 709 00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:45.199 one may incur when boasting or willing something to happen. Oh my god. 710 00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:50.119 It is directly linked to the Jinks. Yeah exactly, that's that. It 711 00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:54.039 is the Jinks. It's it's like it's anti jinks. So knocking on wood 712 00:55:54.880 --> 00:56:00.840 is associated with seeking protection of could be the wood of THESS. Again, 713 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:06.239 you get a religious theme here, or it could be invoking the benevolent wood 714 00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:09.679 gods or spirits that are brought out with a knock or a touch of wood. 715 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:13.519 I did not think I could bring out wood spirits by punching them. 716 00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:19.000 You know they don't you don't punch them, just maybe they're home. It's 717 00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:22.360 like knocking on a door. I guess there's a different between knocking on wood 718 00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:27.079 and whaling on wood, right, which is always bad luck to your knuckles 719 00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:31.519 in hand. So that's it. Knock on wood. Yeah, number one 720 00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:36.679 most popular there. I hope, I hope that we did not burden you 721 00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:39.880 with these that you may feel compelled to engage in them for the rest of 722 00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:45.119 your days. Yeah, I know that in my life, maybe sometimes I 723 00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:51.000 believe in things that don't exist, perhaps the efficacy of the Chicago Bears passing 724 00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:58.639 game, and maybe that I've learned my lesson. There is a superstition, 725 00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:04.960 because I keep going back being being from the theater, being from a theater 726 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:10.119 background, I do know some superstitions associated with that. Oh yeah, wearing 727 00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:15.119 green is bad luck, and that that comes from being in the limelight, 728 00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:21.639 which is thinking like the late eighteen hundreds, even they lit stages with sodium 729 00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:24.800 lights. Yeah, like the footlights had had a green tint to them, 730 00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:29.000 and you didn't want to appear like you're just a big pile of pug, 731 00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:32.920 right, stage whistling in a theater is bad luck. And this comes from 732 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:38.239 when they would hire sailors to run the flies to that that lifted the scrims 733 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:43.440 and the screens and the background and the curtains. And if you're just whistling 734 00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:49.400 willy nilly, then you could get a really heavy curtain or screen come down 735 00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:52.639 on your head, one of those those bags that are just full of sand 736 00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:58.400 or right exactly, yeah, because sailors whistled to to communicate you know, 737 00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:01.719 which lines to raise and lower. And then there's the old classic, don't 738 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:06.360 say McBeth in a theater. Yeah, that you have to say the Scottish 739 00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:09.239 play. I don't get that. That's just irritating to me. And I 740 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:14.800 mean I perform, I've done stage things. I have never had any respect 741 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:16.320 for that one, which is probably why to this day I have still not 742 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:22.360 been in McBeth. No one has asked that's right, you say mcbeth's theater, 743 00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:25.960 you'll never yeah blah. So yeah, those are some of the ones 744 00:58:27.039 --> 00:58:30.400 for for acting and stuff. Do you have any any in particular you want 745 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:31.480 to throw out there that we haven't covered? Boy, No, I think 746 00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:36.400 I went through like the ones that that that bedeviled me. Then knocking on 747 00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:38.480 the the clock saw the same number. I still do that. Yeah, 748 00:58:38.760 --> 00:58:45.480 and uh, and I do avoid occasionally stepping on cracks, although my mom's 749 00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:46.960 back has nothing to do with it. I just would prefer not to step 750 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:51.360 on them. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I you know you everyone 751 00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:54.119 would say that they're not a superstitious person, but everyone has these little tiny 752 00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:59.239 things rattling around and do something to do. Yeah, everyone's everyone's got lucky 753 00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:05.079 underwear. Everyone like when you just do laundry, you still will reach into 754 00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:09.599 the underwear stack of neatly folded underwears to pull out your favorite one. Is 755 00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:12.440 that? Is that just because you like it the most, or do you 756 00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:15.280 think it's lucky? I mean, I've got lucky underwear. I feel like 757 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:17.960 every time I wear a pair of underwear that I think it's lucky. I 758 00:59:19.159 --> 00:59:22.159 it just all everything falls apart for me. Oh, we'll see. That's 759 00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:28.679 that's I think the antithesis is just as good as the the intention. So 760 00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:30.960 so that's superstitions. Yeah for you. There you go. That's that's how 761 00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:37.119 that's what fragile, broken people we are. Let's let's jump into some superstitious 762 00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:40.719 Okay, Okay, I've got I've got a really great one. Okay, 763 00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:44.920 but I'd like it. I'd like you to start this one off already. 764 00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:50.599 I've got a prank shop called No Charm, No Foul. Oh that's a 765 00:59:50.639 --> 00:59:52.360 good one. I mean, you know of all the prank shops that are 766 00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:55.239 for all the prank for all the people who like to prank. All right, 767 00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:59.320 all right, I've got one because I like I do like Stevie Unders 768 00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:04.280 so much. It's called Very Superb Dishes. It's uh, it's just dishware, 769 01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:10.239 but it s. I was really proud of that when I said it, 770 01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:19.440 and it didn't age. Well. I think I think all puns are 771 01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:24.599 yeah not fine one right, yeah, true. My second one a locksmith 772 01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:32.800 called Emmy let me In. Oh man, that's everything about that hurt me. 773 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:40.559 Um. I really only had very Superb Dishes. I thought that it 774 01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:44.519 was. I even said it when I wrote it down. This is so 775 01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:51.519 good. It counts just oh. Usually I can try to whip one up 776 01:00:51.519 --> 01:00:54.079 on the fly, and man, I gotta tell you that Emmy Let me 777 01:00:54.119 --> 01:01:00.800 In just just punched me right in my imagination's throat. Well, this is 778 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:06.000 where you guys can come in and send us send us a fill the pund 779 01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:08.960 and uh. Also, I would like to know some of your you're all 780 01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:15.639 favorite superstitions or if there's something that that you do that you find brings you 781 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.199 good luck. Oh yeah, squirrely family superstitions. Yep, yep. I 782 01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:22.199 get pop tarts on my birthday to this day. Oh really yeah. I 783 01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:23.880 used to get him as a kid, and to this day in the morning 784 01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:27.840 and my birthday, I go either go the night before and get them, 785 01:01:27.880 --> 01:01:30.239 or I'll get them the morning of my birthday and have a pop tart. 786 01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:34.119 I'm a birthday or name. Huh, that's funny. I'm sure I have 787 01:01:34.239 --> 01:01:39.559 one. I'm bad at thinking of stuff in general, but but yeah, 788 01:01:39.559 --> 01:01:44.000 tell us like I would be particularly interested to hear, Like what you know 789 01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:47.000 are hyper specific things that you and your siblings cooked up that you're still compelled 790 01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:52.599 to do. Yeah? And um yeah, and a pun and go ahead. 791 01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:57.480 Go to blurry photos dot org. Uh, submit the form there on 792 01:01:57.519 --> 01:02:00.440 the contact page. Go to Facebook lie us, go to the twitters and 793 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:05.039 follow us on there. Get an RSS feed. We got all kinds of 794 01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:07.760 stell you. We can hook you up to go to the side. There's 795 01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:12.000 no limit to the amount of us you can get in your life right until 796 01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:16.400 until you're done listening to this and have to wait a week. So besides 797 01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:20.079 that, I think that's all I got. You gotta do anything else. 798 01:02:20.159 --> 01:02:23.760 I think I think we put a pretty nice little ribbon on this awesome um 799 01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:30.719 well, until next time, I am David Flora, and I am willing 800 01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:32.400 like David st And we'll talk at you later