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Also thank you to 38 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:55.439 compose Yourself, who loved a review that said the show 39 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:57.920 is beautiful and that they are wishing you the beat 40 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.560 of lick Ali and that made me care I love you. You 41 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.799 can listen to the Catacombs to understand that reference. Okay, 42 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:09.199 on to part two with Beloved Indiana University, professor of 43 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:13.400 Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Culture, who helms the 44 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:18.000 bonkers popular course The Vampire in European and American Culture, 45 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:42.000 vamprologist doctor Jeff Holdeman. Can I ask you some listener questions? 46 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:42.360 Oh? 47 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.159 Absolutely, they had great ones. You know, you mentioned that 48 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.560 every vampire is the one that the age needs, and 49 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:51.960 so many people. 50 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:52.560 Looking at you. 51 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:56.479 Patrons Anthony Cherbino, Ali Vessels, Greg Wallach, Lauren Mesca Broda, 52 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:00.560 Kelly King, Kathlyn Daling, Caitlin Owens, Alex Joseph Tarina, Felix Wolf, 53 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.919 Paul Cerrillo, Deli, Dame Samantha Tuvy, Nicole Ursula Wood swoon 54 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.439 with us, and first time question asking Maddy Hobson. They 55 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.120 all want to know when did vampires get so horny? 56 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.800 Why are they such heart throbs? 57 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.639 And when did this idea that you're going to get 58 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:17.960 seduced by a vampire? 59 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:19.919 When did it start turning into that? 60 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.280 So, if we think about it, the folkloric vampire is 61 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.719 a reanimated corpse. It's going to stink like a reanimated corpse. 62 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:28.919 That's hot, it's. 63 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.319 Going to have a bloody mouth because it's perceived to 64 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.840 be feeding on people. You do not want to be 65 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.840 around a reanimated corpse. 66 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:36.400 ORed. 67 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:40.960 When we get through the nineteenth century of literature, all 68 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.840 of these vampires, our very first vampires. 69 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:44.960 Are all nobles. 70 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:51.639 Lord Riven in the Vampire, Sir Francis Varney the Vampire, 71 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:57.199 and Carmilla's a countess and Dracula's account the nobility has 72 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:01.719 a castle and everything. So already in nineteenth century, when 73 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.680 we're trying to demonize the nobility, right, what better way 74 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:08.400 of trying to tear them down than to call him 75 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:11.599 vampires people who take more than their fair share, who 76 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.080 suck us dry of our life force. 77 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.399 News flash, John, the super rich, they're not like us. 78 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:22.720 We get the introduction of beauty. Lord Riven is hypnotizing. 79 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:29.680 He's got this weird gray eye, but he's still captivating, charming, mesmerizing, 80 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.399 and people still keep inviting him into their house to 81 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:34.480 meet their daughters. 82 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:37.920 That was the story based on Lord Byron Varney. 83 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:41.519 The vampire is still a noble and is clever and 84 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:49.439 smart and powerful. Carmilla is described as being just supernaturally beautiful, 85 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:54.399 and she's charming, and she's coquettish, and she is passionate, 86 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:59.720 and then Count Dracula is hypnotizing, and he's wealthy. He's 87 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.000 got piles of money with dust on him in his castle, 88 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:05.759 and he, you know, can control the weather, and he 89 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.519 can control people's actions, and he can control wolves and 90 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:15.360 everything else that arms escalation starts already by then, with 91 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:19.199 beauty and with abilities and with wealth. When you're undead. 92 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:22.600 When you're undying, you remember the old times, which then 93 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.839 means that you're this automatic historian. So you're smart and 94 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:30.399 you remember things and you've seen people's actions over a 95 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.680 very long period of time. Nos Ferratu dead end because 96 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:36.600 nobody wants to be with mos Ferratu. 97 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:37.759 Belle Lagos. 98 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.639 He's like, he's kind of older, he's like but he's 99 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.839 got tuxedo on, and he's like he's debonair, and he's 100 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.519 got this way of speaking, and he's kind of, you know, mysterious, 101 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.720 and he's got these eyes that are enchanting, and he 102 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.040 can control people. And I tell my students that were 103 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:54.839 one of the mysteries we have to solve is how 104 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.560 do you go from a reanimated corpse to a. 105 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:02.040 Viilf This is a vampire like counicate with. 106 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.839 A Phil bless this man, protect him. 107 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.879 So why in the world would you want to be 108 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.079 with this gross, re animated corpse. Well, you clean them 109 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:14.959 up and you give them lots of money, and you 110 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.639 make them really smart, and then what we need that 111 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:22.839 they're still predators, right, there's still dangerous. In nineteen seventy three, 112 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.199 we get Jack Paul Lance from do you remember Ripley's Believe. 113 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:27.920 It or Not? Oh? 114 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.199 Yeah, I remember that show. But maybe what some people 115 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.759 immediately think of with Jack Palance is him winning an 116 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.439 Academy Award for City Slickers in nineteen ninety one, and 117 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:42.720 during his Oscar acceptance speech he paused to do some 118 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.920 one handed pushups. He was seventy three at the time. 119 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.360 And one thing I never associate Jack Palince with as 120 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:52.959 a leathery fitness buff is the nineteen seventy four British 121 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:55.879 made for TV version of Dracula starring him. 122 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:01.199 Many motion pictures claim to be horrific. Now comes one 123 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:06.680 which reaches a new height in Unobated Terror, the bram 124 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:10.480 Stoko masterpiece Dracula. 125 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:15.160 Jack plans an amazing voice and everything, and he is 126 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.720 our first remorseful vampire. He feels bad about being a 127 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:24.120 vampire about having to drink human's blood and he still 128 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.399 has to do it, but he feels bad about it. 129 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.920 Introducing that to make us want to have compassion for 130 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:35.240 him then takes off, and then we get this bifurcation 131 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:40.000 of vampire types where there either is the solely evil 132 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:44.000 vampire or there's a vampire that's remorseful about their nature. 133 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.120 And again, this is the seventies, and we're like trying 134 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.639 to understand psychologically why people are the way they are, 135 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:53.600 and we're in therapy and we're trying to heal and 136 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.879 I'm okay, You're okay, And this is the way that 137 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.959 people are different, and maybe I can overcome my alcohol 138 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.680 are my addictions, and maybe there's something about my nature 139 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:07.680 that I can overcome. I'm still redeemable. 140 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.600 Of course, every human is redeemable. But before the nineteen 141 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.160 fifties or so, the notion of introspection wasn't super popular. 142 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.519 So what changed things? Well, rewind a few decades actually, 143 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.519 to nineteen thirty six, when Dale Carnegie published How to 144 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.720 Win Friends and Influence People, and then a year later 145 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.519 Napoleon Hill wrote the book Think and Grow Rich. But 146 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:34.159 by the early nineteen fifties, self help was beginning to 147 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:37.600 grow as kind of an industry, And what corracked the 148 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.080 door open a little more was a clergyman, an author 149 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:46.759 named Norman Vincent Peel, writing this massively popular best selling title, 150 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.960 The Power of Positive Thinking. So by the nineteen seventies, 151 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.799 a whole generation had been raised with this mindset that 152 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:57.240 maybe we could control our lives with our minds. And 153 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:00.879 now the self help industry has a firm hold on us. 154 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.039 It makes about ten billion dollars a year in the 155 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.840 US alone, which is why I'm really excited to announce 156 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.639 I'm finally writing a book. It's called how to Stop 157 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.159 buying self help books and spend the money feeding raccoons 158 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.799 corn dogs instead. That's not true, but I bet if 159 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:21.879 I wrote that book, I could probably buy a boat. Also, 160 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.960 do not feed raccoons any corn dogs. They can have 161 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.240 worms that can eat your brain and kill you. You can 162 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.919 see the Prosionology two parter on raccoons for more on that. 163 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:31.720 But anyway. 164 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:34.919 In nineteen seventy two, the book I'm Okay, You're Okay, 165 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:40.399 by California based psychiatrist Thomas Anthony Harris enjoyed just a 166 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:44.440 cozy spot on the bestseller list for years and in 167 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:46.679 the nineteen seventies. This was a big breakthrough for pop 168 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:52.320 psychology and the notion that our childhood experiences still affect 169 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.240 how we regulate or don't regulate our own emotions and 170 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.480 thus our behaviors. So while vampires may not have a reflection, 171 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:02.919 they do mirror the zeitgeist. 172 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.320 I'm not stake worthy anymore. Maybe I should be given 173 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:10.159 a chance. And then that evolves and we get vampires 174 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:14.440 that are then more and more desirable. They go from 175 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:16.600 you know, the kind of bad boy. It's like, I 176 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.679 know he's dangerous, bod, he's hot, and he drives a motorcycle, 177 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.960 and this James Dean turns into lost boys and there's 178 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:27.600 a desire to be with the demon lover. 179 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:28.879 I'd like to try. 180 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.720 And then we just keep adding on every movie that 181 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:37.399 we get there's some other way of overcoming this badness, 182 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:39.759 and then we get like, well, maybe I won't drink 183 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.440 human blood, but I'll drink animal blood. 184 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.039 Or maybe maybe you know. 185 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.799 Pete is going to get mad at that, so maybe 186 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.399 we could come up with a synthetic blood that then 187 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:51.360 doesn't harm anybody. 188 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.480 Which side note is kind of the narrative hook of 189 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:57.480 the HBO series called True Blood, which is set in 190 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.960 this time when synthetic blood called true Blood is on 191 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.720 the market, leading to what's called the Great Revelation, which 192 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:07.960 allowed vampires to come out of the coffin, they say, 193 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:12.559 and enjoy their parahuman human rights and true blood. The 194 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:16.639 substance wasn't supposed to be delicious. One character described it 195 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.759 as giving up your favorite meal for slim fast shakes forever. 196 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.879 But it gets a job done and hello in real 197 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:28.279 life today, somewhere so many people are alive human beings 198 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.559 choosing to drink soilent. So true blood is pretty plausible 199 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:36.600 considering it's convenient and portable and allows you to stop 200 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.919 murdering people. But is there something more permanent than having 201 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.039 to keep buying cases of fake blood at costco. 202 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.600 Maybe there's a cure, right, We still don't get cures 203 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.480 for vamporism at that point because rather than fixing people, 204 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:52.639 and there's so many problems that still haven't been fixed, 205 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:55.840 it's like, maybe it's living with this condition, which is 206 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.519 the important thing. These people don't deserve to be executed 207 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:03.000 or locked up. Maybe we can reform them. And then 208 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.720 we want to hear that story, and we want to 209 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.279 hear their backstory too, and that's all of a sudden. 210 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.720 From that point on, all of our vampire movies have 211 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:13.279 the flashback of like, you know why this person became 212 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:13.919 a vampire? 213 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:16.039 Now you know what we are. 214 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.480 Now you know what you are. 215 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:27.159 You never growled, Michael, and you'll never die, but you 216 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:27.799 must feed. 217 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.519 It's this exact same fascination with the origin stories of 218 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:34.840 people and then of why they are the way they 219 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:39.000 are in life and can you overcome your dangerous urges? 220 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.320 And can you be trusted anymore? 221 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:45.320 Which brings us to your crotch and the horniest of 222 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:47.320 all the reanimated. 223 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:51.360 Corpses, Edward Cullen, is the manifestation of this. People always 224 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.960 ask me, like, do you like Twilight and this Twilight saga? 225 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.679 Do you like those books? Do you like that movie? 226 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.039 I'm like, it doesn't matter if I like them. The 227 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:03.240 point is that a lot of people did, and every 228 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.480 age creates a vampire that it needs. There had to 229 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.639 be something resonating about Edward Cullen that spoke to so 230 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.720 many millions and millions and millions of people that they 231 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.759 wanted to be with him. And it's not just the 232 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:18.000 demon lover, and it's the person who is able to 233 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:18.960 stay under control. 234 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:19.200 Right. 235 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.480 Bella wants it, and Edward's like, oh no, I can't. 236 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.879 And it's like the you know, the perfect boyfriend who 237 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.679 wants to wait until after they're married, and and you know, 238 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:31.600 she's like begging for it and probing and pushing and everything. 239 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.000 He's like, no, no, Bella, I can't, you know, and 240 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:38.080 like pulls himself away and all this kind of wonderful 241 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.919 and chaste imagery and everything. He is the ideal boyfriend, right, 242 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.919 And Charlie's you know, got his shotgun. He's like cleaning 243 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.120 the gun on the table and it's like ready to 244 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.159 meet Edward. 245 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.120 All right, bring me. 246 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.919 To be nice. He's he's important. 247 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.559 Then Edward brings Bella home, you know, like one minute 248 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:01.519 before curfew. 249 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:03.279 It's hard to not like this guy. 250 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:04.200 Listen. 251 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:06.759 I had to edit here because Jeff dropped so many 252 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.200 plot points spoilers. I had to cut him out because 253 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:11.759 maybe some people out there are going to queue up 254 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:16.120 Twilight tonight for the first time to psychoanalyze the whole thing, 255 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.120 and I didn't want an angry mob trying to burn 256 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:18.679 me in a barn. 257 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.720 Okay, we can have the demon lover who is reformed, 258 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.960 who's learned to control his urges, like the whole family has, right, 259 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.879 So you know, the Collins House is a halfway house, right. 260 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.720 They've all learned to kick the habit and they're all 261 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:37.240 living together this vegetarian lifestyle. Again, Pete's going to get 262 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:38.799 mad or and the Sierra Club is going to get 263 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.919 mad because they're out hunting mountain lions. But other than that, 264 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:43.799 you know, at least they're not killing humans. 265 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:46.000 I immediately was like, dude, why don't they just eat 266 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.200 squirrels or start like a gopher catching business at a 267 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.919 golf course. But I looked into it and Twilight author 268 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:55.960 Stephanie Meyer apparently has said that she thinks predators would 269 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.720 taste better than herb of wares, and that checks out. 270 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.200 But I was like, what is stuff Meyer's deal? And 271 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:04.240 I knew she's like religious, she's a member of the 272 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.080 Church of Latter day Saints a kay Mormons, but I 273 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.919 didn't realize that that is why there is such a 274 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:14.440 push for abstinence only activities, if you will, until marriage. 275 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:15.120 In these movies. 276 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:19.679 This woman delivered us the hottest, most brooding vampire who's 277 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.440 also sensitive, and then is like wait for a ring. 278 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:27.519 But you know what, one person's fantasy genre is another's horror. Also, 279 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:32.200 before Twilight, Stephanie Meyer had never written a book. Before 280 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.080 she had a dream about the plot. She woke up 281 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:36.080 a little horny injection. 282 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:38.559 That's pure conjecture, objection overbold. 283 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:41.360 But anyway, she wrote about it and now she makes 284 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.759 tens of millions of dollars a year. 285 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:44.799 And then E. L. 286 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:47.759 James, who somehow churned out literary work that we call 287 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:51.840 books the Fifty Shade series, started those books as fanfic 288 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.159 of Twilight. What is my point? My point is, if 289 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.440 you have an idea for a book, please write it 290 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.240 this right here. This is a signal from the univers 291 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.519 you've been waiting for. Okay, picture me standing over your 292 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:07.080 bed in the shadowy moonlight. I'm holding a frying pan 293 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:10.519 and I'm telling you I will swat my own head 294 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:13.360 with it if you don't start your book. And actually, 295 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:17.600 November is National Novel Writing Month via a nonprofit called 296 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:21.440 Nano Raimo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month and 297 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.200 Nano Raimo started over twenty years ago as a challenge 298 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:27.639 for people to write fifty thousand words of a novel 299 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.759 in thirty days, and according to their site, now each year, 300 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.840 on November first, hundreds of thousands of people around the 301 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:36.840 world begin to write, determined to end the month with 302 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.320 fifty thousand words of a brand new novel. They enter 303 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.679 the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay at 304 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:46.440 home parents. They leave novelists. How inspiring is that? So 305 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.159 nanoorimo dot org, I'm linking them in the show notes 306 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:51.039 and we're going to donate to them this month as well. 307 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:54.000 So Nana Ramo, write a book, do it for future 308 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.720 you and do it for me with a frying pan. 309 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.639 But yes, back to Edward and Bella and eating mountain 310 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.000 lions instead of people. 311 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:07.119 And now we can live happily ever after, actually completely 312 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.960 ever after, ever after, forever, forever and ever. And so 313 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.480 this is that evolution that we get. It's really really amazing, 314 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.920 and at each step there is it can't happen overnight. 315 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:19.599 We had. 316 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:24.599 Varney the Vampire is actually as technically our first remorseful vampire. 317 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:25.920 Do you think you'll ever read this? 318 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.119 Oh no, but I'll take a spoiler. 319 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:28.759 Okay, good. 320 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:34.519 So Varney is unable to control himself and attempts at 321 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.640 killing him have failed. And failed and failed all through 322 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:43.759 the four hundred plus pages, and he throws himself into 323 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:50.319 Mount Vesuvius. Oh what a death, and self cremates. Wonderful. 324 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:53.759 He's so remorseful and he can't be killed. And the 325 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:56.599 one way to really truly cremate a vampire. It's one 326 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:59.480 thing to like, you know, decapitate and burn them. It's 327 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:02.240 another to be thrown into the bowels of the earth 328 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.720 and to be cremated by Mount Vesuvius. That's wonderful. Rum 329 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.839 The people at that time just did not need that vampire. 330 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:12.920 They still needed nobles to be villains. And we just 331 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.839 don't pick up that thread for another one hundred and 332 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:20.359 thirty years until Jack Palance. That's amazing. We just we 333 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:24.160 needed the literary vampire, the cinematic vampire, to be evil 334 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.279 and an enemy and something that we know how to 335 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:32.400 identify and name and stake and destroy up until seventies 336 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:35.079 when we decide that, you know, maybe maybe bad people 337 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:39.519 can be reformed, maybe we can overcome our shortcomings, and 338 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:41.720 then that makes everybody salvageable. 339 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:42.759 At that point. 340 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:46.160 Every step is a product of the time, right, every 341 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:49.400 age creates the vampire that it needs. Every step of 342 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:52.680 softening that vampire and making them more attractable and making 343 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:58.119 them more marriageable is important. It's an amazing evolution. I've 344 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:01.559 ordered the movies, the six hundred and fifty or so 345 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:04.680 movies in my syllabus in chronological order, and if you 346 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:06.880 want to watch all of them in chronological order, you 347 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:11.480 can actually see that development over time. It's absolutely fascinating. 348 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:16.319 We can track when the first time a trait gets introduced. 349 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:19.680 So set aside a few months and watch six hundred 350 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.599 and fifty movies. Okay, So that was the first question. 351 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:27.200 Second question, patrons Ali Vessels, Zombat, Angela Clark, Christian Krup, 352 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:31.079 Alex Parrish, six Sugar, and Pachica asked permission to enter 353 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:33.319 the conversation with the query. 354 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.359 So many people want to know when did they have 355 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.640 to get invited in? Was that something that's super historical 356 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:41.559 or did that emerge in like nineteen eighty five? 357 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:44.839 This is from folklore, so many of these things. Again, 358 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:49.759 the literary vampire didn't just immediately be born out of nothing. 359 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.680 This is just importing all of these traits from the 360 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:56.200 folkloric vampire selectively at first, and then when the well 361 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.960 runs dry, we dig somewhere else people will go back 362 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:05.000 to these old sources that the Perkowski book has folklore 363 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:08.720 from lots of countries. And you can tell that people 364 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.279 have been reading this book and they hear this word 365 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.160 moder roi and they're ooh, I've got to put that 366 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:15.680 in Vampire Academy. 367 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:16.519 Okay. 368 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:20.119 Side note for more on vampirology, hit the two thousand 369 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:24.400 and six scholarly reference book Vampire Lore Writings of Jan 370 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:28.079 Lewis Perkowski, which is a textbook in Jeff's class, and 371 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.079 buried in all this literary history are mentions of the 372 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:34.920 mroy which now appear as characters in the Netflix series 373 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:40.799 Vampire Academy. And Moroy are mortal, but they're magical creatures 374 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:43.759 who can go out during the day but with parasols, 375 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:48.279 and they have human blood sources called feeders that they 376 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:50.799 sip from but they don't kill. And they have more 377 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:54.480 troubled and kind of bitchy counterparts called this trigg oi, 378 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:58.200 and those will drink you dead and or infect you 379 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:02.759 with simmering rage and the blood munchies. And in Roman mythology, 380 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:06.799 stragoi means a troubled spirit. And yeah, maybe they're just angry, 381 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:08.680 maybe they have low blood blood. 382 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:13.160 Sugar, and so there's always this pulling from folklore. And 383 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:17.720 in Central and Eastern Europe you didn't let people who 384 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.720 you don't know into your house. So I am an 385 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:23.960 ethnographer and I go out into the villages in Poland 386 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:29.039 and Lithuania every summer, and a stranger walking into a village. 387 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:32.960 Even today, people are suspicious. You can see people watching 388 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.359 out of their windows. It doesn't help that I go 389 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:38.720 and work in cemeteries too, but bill often you'll see me. 390 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.559 The road only leads to the cemetery, and then you know, 391 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:44.759 like somebody shows up thirty minutes later just to you know, 392 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:45.319 water the. 393 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.519 Flowers, water coincidence. 394 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:49.599 And then they're like, so what are you doing here? 395 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:51.920 And then we talk and I explain what I'm doing, 396 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:54.720 and then they're welcoming. Once I'm a known quantity, I'm 397 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:58.480 welcomed in. But you wouldn't welcome in somebody who didn't know, 398 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:01.720 especially in this prema, in time when they're diseases, so 399 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:03.880 you don't know if somebody's a murderer. You don't know 400 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.359 if someone's a thief, and you don't know if someone's 401 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:09.480