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Monsters | A Comedy Podcast
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In honor of Halloween (or All Hallow's Eve for those of you from the old country), Kevin leads the crew in a vibrant discussion about Monsters. Don't worry, John only gets scared a few times.
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Unexpected Flavor Combos and Banter
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So Joe had it and I was drinking it straight then, but I'm mixing it right now with a cola, a diet cola. That's also caffeine free, which I also started drinking with a lot of lemon juice. And if you drink any like Coke or fucking diet Coke or whatever the fuck it is Pepsi with a lot of lemon, it's really fucking tasty.
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Thanks for that. Thanks for that information and I'll never use. Yeah, that wasn't boring at all. Thank you for that.
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Oh, lemon? Can I use lemon in it? You know what's also nice sometimes? Lemon slices in a glass of water with some ice. Very refreshing. You guys ever try a finger in the butt? Pretty nice. Depends on whose finger. Whoever's in the room, if you get a finger in there, go for it. Would you recommend that they put their finger in the lemon first?
Introduction and Hockey Excitement
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History Defeats Itself is a comedy podcast. Kevin, John and Greg are not experts, historians, or even all that smart.
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Hello and welcome to History Defeats Itself, a comedy podcast that wonders why we as people never seem to learn from our history. My name is Kevin Rosenquist. Thank you for joining us. I am joined by my two co-hosts, two men who have already put in their applications for season two of The Golden Bachelor, John Banks and Greg Mitchell. How are you guys? I need to start working on my abs if I'm going to be on that show. I didn't realize we submitted. Greg, you said we were going to wait.
00:01:43
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I thought I submitted to the fat bachelor. That is so I think that I might make it. All right. Yeah. No, I just got it. You got a real good chance. I just got to be Greg. I just got to be Greg. That's all you got to do is be Greg. Yeah.
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I'm doing good. How are you doing? Good, man. Good. Can't complain, you know. Hockey starting. We're happy about that. Greg and I are happy about that. It is a good time of year.
Shoutout and Hockey Updates
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I would like to give a little shout out to my friend, Angie, who said to mention her in this podcast, because I just spoke to her before this podcast. And Angie, she may not be the only Angie in the world, but she's the best Angie in the world. And if you disagree with that, please email Greg Nutchill at Angie. Angie.com.
00:02:31
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What about Angie's list? Yeah, she's pretty good. I know what Angie, she's very nice.
00:02:38
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I didn't say that Angie's are bad, I'm just saying this is the best one. What about Angie Lina Jolie? That's what our friends call her. That is a pretty good Angie though. Solid Angie. And she's your lino. Greg, how are you? I'm doing great, man. Thanks for asking.
00:03:01
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Pardon me while I keep one eye on the Montreal Canadiens Toronto Maple Leafs score. The Habs were up five to three and it seems as though the Toronto Maple Leafs scored two goals in the last minute of the last couple minutes of the game. So it's five five. I just want to say that you're to pay is looks almost real. Oh, thanks, buddy. Well, you know, I did spend some time gluing it on. He did a good job. What about an American hustle? We talked about that when. Oh, yeah, his character.
00:03:31
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Who's that? That's that's Christian Bale was at the beginning of that movie. He's like fucking gluing the cotton balls or it looked like a cotton ball duvet on his head. Such a great movie. Bradley Cooper comes by and misses it up. Don't don't do that to him. He doesn't like that. You remember that movie a lot better than I do. I love that fucking movie. That's that's whoa, dude, you're going to remember next podcast. All
Hosting Styles and Pizza Preferences
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right. My next my next topic. So just lay off the movie. Is it John Banks Hustle?
00:03:59
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Yes. Yep. John Banks hustle. All right. I like that. I like that. The American dream. All right. Shall we go? I mean, I'm ready to go. Yeah, might as well. I got a pizza. All right. Well, this is a pizza coming. I don't know. What are your go to toppings for pizza? Jalapeno? No, no, I just talked about that. Yeah, I don't know what John likes on a pizza on his phantom pizza that he ordered.
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I like I like going veggie. Oh, that's fucking stupid. That is so fucking stupid. Well, I mean, the whole thing is bad for you. So I'm just like, I feel like if I want to make it feel like it's healthy, it's not. But I want to trick myself in anything that's healthy. And if I do veggies, then I'm like, oh, no, it's fine. It's just got veggies on it. What does that do? If you if you trick yourself, does that give you less heart disease or something? Same on heart disease. Yeah, I'll just be a lot more surprised when I have the heart attack because I'm like, how could this be because I made good choices? But I didn't.
00:04:54
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As you're having a heart attack, that's what's gonna go through your mind. Probably not. I made good choices on pizza. There's an elephant sitting in my chest. Also, I shouldn't have that pizza. It's gonna be, oh my god, I shit my pants, but it's okay because I'm in a Kohl's, or it's gonna be, oh god, please don't shit my pants because I'm not in a Kohl's. So those are gonna be the two things going through my mind. I just shit my pants. Good news is that I'm in a Kohl's. Bad news is that I'm dying of a heart attack. Yeah. I just had some PTSD.
00:05:24
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You did. John was going to drink, have a drink of his, his, uh, his beer and he pulled it from off screen and it started moving really quickly towards his mouth. And for split second, I thought it was his girlfriend because I'm so used to her scrambling by in background.
00:05:41
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I didn't realize that... That gave you PTSD? Yeah, there's two things wrong about it. There's a lot wrong with that. Let's just move on to the episode. Okay. That was right. Gen Xers, we are not tough. No. We are not a tough Gen Xers. No, Gen Xers are tough, man. Not if you're getting PTSD from a girlfriend walking by into the camera. Well, it's not like I peed myself or anything. Okay. We don't know that. I was like, like that. Hey, if I did that, I'd pee myself.
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Yesterday I was at the gym and, okay, here we
Humor in Daily Life
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go. And we started doing some cross training stuff. And I, one of the things was you had to do, you had to like push a sled, you know, you put like 500 pounds on there or whatever, you push it across the grass and then you do some like football kind of drills where you're doing quick feet, quick feet, quick feet. And my prostate was the shifted and my bladder started to open and I thought I was going to piss myself. So I just kept running and I just went right to the bathroom.
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And I came back. Did you high step all the way there too? No. Okay. I panicked. Did you panic around? Did you, as you were running, did you yell, my prostate shifted? No, I didn't. You should have. Come on, John. That sounds ridiculous. My prostate shifted. I mean, I'm a grown adult. I didn't need to get a hall pass to go to the bathroom.
00:07:04
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Things are pretty serious. They are. But I mean, it's not like I'm in the army. They could just I could just leave if I want to. I'm paying for it. But I was imagining there was only one functioning urinal. And as I was just imagining if it was occupied, what was going to happen because Pete was going to come out of my body one way or another. That's true. Speaking of you, I may have just gone. I may have just gone in the cold plunge or something.
00:07:33
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Kevin, speaking of journals, what's your topic? Let's get back to that. Hey, were we supposed to hit record? No, let's let's let's let's just let's go. Let's just go. All right.
Monsters and Halloween Themes
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Do you guys like monster movies? Yes. Yeah. Do you have any faves? I do. I love the thing, which is more like a monster. But the thing is good. It's good. Been a while since I've seen the thing.
00:07:59
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There's a lot of monster movies I like. I mean, if it's done well, I mean, I could fucking even watch Godzilla movies. Godzilla movies are kind of fun, actually. They're definitely fun. Especially the old ones. Do you mean like horror movies? Like Halloween? Just monster movies. Any kind of monster movies. Yeah, I like them all. I like watching scary movies. Yeah.
00:08:21
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So since it's almost Halloween, I thought we would talk about something spooky tonight. So let's discuss monsters.
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I don't I don't think we have the rights to use that. No, absolutely not. We don't. But I thank you for for sorry. That was kind of loud, too, wasn't it? It was great. That song always makes me want like mashed potatoes. Is that why you had you said you had to go to the bathroom or?
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No, I wanted to just go because it was very cringy. OK, got it. Got it. It was cringy. The song was OK. Well, you've taken off your shirt. Well, cringy.
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Every culture across time has had its monsters. These monsters often mirror the particular anxieties and concerns of their time. As societies have evolved, so have their monsters, adapting to new fears and concerns. So let's just dive right in, shall we?
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We're going to go back into the way back time, classical myths, and talk about a few of these. Early societies tried to explain the unknown to give form to their fears.
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Uh, one of example of an early classical monster is Medusa.
Medusa's Symbolism
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You guys familiar with Medusa? Yes, I am. Yeah. Snakes on a plane. Snakes set a plane. Exactly. If you look at her otherwise known as Samuel Jackson. Yes. Like you look at her, you turn into stone or something like that. That's right. That's correct. Then why did she have the snakes? What were those for?
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I would scary, I guess. I don't know. The snakes are going to eat you. And if the only thing can happen is you turn into stone, it seems like the snakes are kind of benign. Yeah, the snakes can't really do much then. Part of you turning into stone. Like in other words, she was so vile. I guess snakes were so vile and deadly. And so she was so vile that.
00:10:27
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all of that. Like she couldn't tell you. So she is not trying to justify fucking this stupid ass. You know, maybe you should stop shaming people who have snakes on their heads. That's true. I agree with that. I think you've been doing that for years. Yes. You know what? I'm going to take a stand. It stops tonight, Greg. It stops tonight. Okay.
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So Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden. Poseidon seduced and essentially... And that guy's a bastard. He essentially raped her in Athena's temple.
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I hope she was of age. Well, that doesn't matter. I guess if you're getting raped, doesn't matter how old you are, it's bad. So Athena did the logical thing after that happened and turned Medusa into a Gorgon, which is someone who has snakes for hair. You know, the classic picture that you think of. Oh, that would imply that there are more people than Medusa with the stone. She just happened to be a Gorgon. And that's just what Gorgons look like. Yeah, Greg. Yeah. You're so racist against Gorgons. What kind of comb do you use for that?
00:11:28
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Very like a very wide a comb full of mice. I think it's like a it's like a stick and you like knock the snakes out so they don't bite your face. You didn't even listen to my mouse comb. My mice. I liked the mouse comb. I'm sorry. It was solid. I listen to your stupid thing. No, you don't.
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In addition to her sneaky hair, she also turns those who looked at her directly into stone. As John and Greg mentioned shortly ago, Medusa's transformation can be interpreted as a punishment for challenging the gods or as a consequence of male attention. It happens if you look at John's beard. Yeah. You turn to stone.
00:12:13
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made it a straw so you turn into brick and then we've taken like the three little piggies and we're going to get like Greek guys ancient Greece with the other three little pigs nursery stupid fucking beard I mean the straw beard I mean the snake beard Medusa beard hurtful let's not say things we can't take back to pay
00:12:37
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You guys are you guys have a little tension here start talking about your sex and fairness The glue that I've been using to put my toupee down has seeped into my brain And and it's made out of snake oil so it's turning me into stone. Oh Nice nice to bring it all back around. Oh
00:12:58
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Hey, don't you think that like John and I used to work with some guy that really did have a toupee and We were talking about like isn't that glue really like you don't want to put it in your Fucking on your scalp. Yeah, doesn't leak leech into your fucking blood. I Don't think I don't think that's a good idea
00:13:16
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It's all part of the blue state, man. Does Trump have a toupee, or is that like plugs or something? Dude. Well, I think you get them where they like literally put like snaps under your skin so you can actually snap the toupee down. God, I don't, I hope not. That's disturbing. Yeah.
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That's just, just imagine snapping it on it. You know, you always got to kind of push it extra hard and wiggle it around a little bit. More like if it gets stuck and it's not quite coming apart and you keep pulling up your flesh. Oh, that makes me very uncomfortable. Or someone grabs your head and yeah, don't get in a fight with someone who pulls hair. You know what they should do for those two fades is they should give you like to be the sandpaper part or whatever. One, one half of Velcro and then the wig has like the other half of Velcro on it and you just
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Wait, why not just command strips, right? Just use command strips. And then you really have to pull it. It's like snap. So Medusa also represents the dangers of female rage, beauty and power and represents the fear of powerful women and the retribution that they might face for stepping out of their traditional roles.
00:14:24
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Was she in that band hole? Yep. Yeah. Mm hmm. The bass player. Today, today, Medusa is sometimes seen as a symbol of female empowerment and resistance against patriarchal oppression.
00:14:41
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I don't know why I said oppression like that because it's happy because we're all like we're, we all were very nervous. We've, we've all benefited from it. We know it and we know things are like going the other way and we're really happy about it because we're liberal guys, but also this part of us like, Oh God, we don't blame us for everything. We didn't do it all. Don't speak for me, John. Okay. I'm sorry. He is a radical right-wing conservative. That is true. Everybody.
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OK, so another example from the the classical or classical period in the classical period, it doesn't matter from long ago, the Minotaur and the labyrinth.
Minotaur and Human Nature
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Are you guys familiar with Minotaurs? Yeah, I'm familiar with David Bowie and the labyrinth.
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Okay, that's yes, that's true. Yep. Yep. I know I know with a minotaur you if you put them in a coca-cola it will like explode Oh, yes Minotaurs are the fresh makers. I'm so confused. I think it's diet coke. I don't think regular coke does that We should do it takes rest off a nail It also dissolves a tooth in 30 days. It's also really good to clean out your toilet with it's also delicious gets blood off of roads good for corrosive batteries and
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It's not just sugary water. It's also really good if you squeeze lemon juice at best. The Minotaur is a mythical creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man. It is known for dwelling within the heart of the intricate labyrinth on the island of Crete, where it was fed an annual tribute of youths and maidens to satisfy its voracious appetite.
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Well, I hope so. If it's only going to eat you once a year, it might as well get utes and maidens. That's what it's like. When, when, at what age are you no longer a youth? That's true. That's true. I mean, I don't know when that cut off is. It varies by state.
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And Greece was 15. Athens, actually, those bastards were 13. Very creepy. Different. Just different. Different time and place. Got to respect that. The Minotaur's birth was the result of a curse placed upon Queen Pasiphae of Crete. King Minos, her husband, had promised to sacrifice a beautiful white bull to Poseidon. Baby, baby, baby, I promise I'm going to sacrifice a white bull for you. You got a white bull out there? Just please stay. I'm so sorry. I forgot our anniversary.
00:17:10
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I'm going to I'm you know what? I'm going to kill that fucking white bull for you because I'm a jerk and I forget. Well, he reneged on this phone, kept the bull for himself. Oh, John, for someone that studied improv, you really interrupt people when they're starting to improv instead of like, yes, Anding, you're just like, I'm going to step over this and start saying my own thing. So Minotaurs
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In retribution Poseidon made Passiphae fall in love with the bull leading to the birth of the Minotaur. So she banged the bull. She banged the bull, got a Minotaur out of it. To hide the shameful secret, King Minos commissioned the famed craftsman
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Daedalus to build the labyrinth an intricate maze to confine the creature and the minotaur is a symbol of unchecked passions raw animal nature and the dark primal instincts that reside within humanity. I do hope she had a c-section No, I think that was I think that was a natural birth Had to been man. He's a brief baby. So it actually wasn't that bad. That sounds worse No, well the pointy stuff is coming out last and
00:18:26
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Is that good? Yes, if you have a vagina, I think that's good. If you're going to give birth to a bull person, I think that you want that bull person to go out feet first because you don't want the horns getting stuck in your... Well, the horns are coming out no matter what. Yeah, but there's a pointy side and not pointy side. But you got to believe, think that the horns are pretty small at birth.
00:18:45
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You know, like a calf, they're just sort of nubs. I don't think there's like, you know, Texas Longhorn stickers. First of all, I'm neither of you are an expert in chores, so you don't know. You don't know what their horns are like. I actually, I studied it. I have a PhD. I have a minitorology. Eat that. And a minor in jazz. Two very different but related topics.
00:19:19
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Because everyone knows jazz musicians are the wealthiest yeah, it's the it's the it's a gross Let's get
00:19:28
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Sorry, it could be part of jazz. And that's true. Both have horns. I actually love it. I actually love jazz, but that is great. I like that jazz is really good. Hey, I was thinking about this. The, um, if the head, if the head does come out first, it could be painful. It could be more painful that way, John, but as the head come, as it actually, the head comes out, then you're like, ah, at least it's a normal body after that.
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But if you're giving birth to a breech baby first, you're like, oh, look at these feet, knees, got everything. And then you're like, holy fuck, what happened to that head? I made a bowl, baby. Well, I mean, you can't be that surprised if you fucked a bowl. Well, you're probably thinking there's no way I'm going to get pregnant. There's no way the gods will allow this. The bull told her that he was wearing a condom.
00:20:19
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No, he's out of a sectomy. Yeah, maybe no, I can't get pregnant. I can't get anyone pregnant. Those giant balls attached to me? They don't work. They don't work at all. You probably should have paid more attention at your visit to the doctor when they did that. What's that thing called? Ultrasound? Ultrasound, yeah. You know, the DJ booth. Yeah, when the ultrasound technician was like, huh.
00:20:50
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That's weird. Did you fuck a bull? I don't want to. I don't know how to ask this, but did you fuck a white bull who told you he was wearing a condom because he was not. He definitely was not wearing a condom. Fourth time this week. And the mom was like, no, no, no, no, don't tell me a gender. I don't want to know gender. I don't want to know. We're going to do a deal. That's not that's not where I was going with this. So he really has four hearts.
00:21:20
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and a pierced nose born born with a prince like a ball your bull baby is already a rebel came out with a nose ring this this guy's not going to college
00:21:38
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All right. Let's, uh, let's move on from, from bullfucking and go to the middle ages. Uh, a time. Yeah, I think it's related. Yeah, he just glosses over it.
00:21:57
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So the middle ages, a time of societal consolidation around powerful entities like the church, a big monster of the time were dragons.
Dragons Across Cultures
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They exist in many cultures with variations in appearance and symbolism. So there were Eastern dragons.
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which were primarily in Chinese, Korean and Japanese cultures. And they were seen as benevolent, wise and associated with water sources and weather. And they symbolized power, strength and good luck. I feel like that's why a lot of people get Dragon Japanese style tattoos. Yeah, I did not know that I meant good luck.
00:22:34
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Yeah. So Western dragons, I mean, unless they breathe fire on you. Well, that's the Western dragon. They are often depicted as fire breathing winged and were often described to be hoarding treasures. They viewed they were viewed as threats, often requiring a hero to slay them. And they symbolized chaos, greed and the unknown. Their hoarding can be interpreted as an unchecked accumulation of wealth or power.
00:23:02
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Dragons know how to hang on to some coin. They're very thrifty. Those dragons. They're greedy. They're not thrifty. They can stretch a dollar. They can stretch a dollar. They're not buying shit on Amazon. They're budget dragons. They're budget dragons, yeah.
00:23:18
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They invest, you know? What they get, they're fire, right? They're fire. What is it? Financial independence, retire early? That's not fire out of the mouth. They're literally financial dragons. They're about saving up for about 15, 20 years and then you have a very simple life and you retire early, dragons. That's what they are. What's that acronym again? It's financial independence, retire early. That's an actual thing. I can't believe how genius that observation was for this.
00:23:46
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Yeah, that was really good. Especially since he gave you shit about the lack of improv skills. He's been funnier than you, Greg. Thank you. He said me laughing pretty good. Step it up. First of all, fuck you. Second of all, a comedy is subjective and everybody knows that John Banks gives you money to laugh at his jokes.
00:24:15
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Yeah. Well, you don't burn a chunk of money. So the other thing was witches, demons and the role of religion in medieval Europe. It was a time when the church held significant power and anything that didn't conform to religious norms was viewed with suspicion.
00:24:36
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There was a fear of paganism. So before Christianity spread widely, many European regions practiced pagan religions, which are basically any religions that aren't Christianity or Judaism. As the church sought to consolidate power, it demonized these old beliefs and practices. I can't believe that the church would do that. You know, I was surprised too. Yeah, I was surprised too.
00:24:59
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Usually they're just on the up and up and not really killing people for no reason. They're just trying to help people normally. But in this particular one isolated incident, they were a few little, there was like a couple of days in there, a little torture.
00:25:15
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persecution. We'll talk about that in a little bit. Kind of started from day one with the whole Adam and Eve thing. Here's a snake. Hey, see this delicious apple? Don't eat it. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. I know you're starving. You're naked and you're hungry. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. They weren't hungry. They had everything they want. That was the whole point. They could have anything in the world. It's fucking a fairy tale.
00:25:34
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unless the thing that they could dream of was an apple, and then they can have that, because that makes sense. It makes sense to allow somebody to have everything except one thing, because if you let them have everything, you spoil the child, you keep one thing from... But also, I mean, apples aren't that great. I mean, they're fine, but like... Can they get like sushi? Yeah, I mean, I feel like they could get anything they wanted, you know. They could have tiramisu. They could have tiramisu every day. A bag of Doritos. I'd take the bag of Doritos over the apple any day.
00:26:00
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There's a Taco Bell drive-thru. They're in the Garden of Eden, so they're never gonna like have heart problems or die, right? They can just fucking... whatever they want. God, they really fucked us all over, didn't they? Yeah. They screwed things up for themselves, too. They had a really good situation. All they had to do was eat and fuck. For a fucking apple! I bet you that apple was mealy, too. It had a worm in it.
00:26:19
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Well, they did live in a desert where there were no fucking apples. So yeah, they came, they had to import them from somewhere. How long did that take back then? There was nobody else on the planet. So then they were for sure mealy. No, no, what they would do is they would plant little apple trees in the buggy. And as they came across over the years, those trees would be bearing fruit by the time they got there. How long did they have to wait for that? Like 13, 14 years.
00:26:45
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Do you think, tell us more. Do you think Eve ever shaved her pubes? No, no, no. She was born with a V.
00:27:00
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Do you think she had an airstrip? I just told you. You don't listen to me. You say I don't. Yes. And I listened to you. I just, I was yes. Ending. I thought maybe we would take it to one place better. So do you think for, in fairness, we should talk about, about Adam's pubes. We should. Cause I don't want to get hung up on, on Eve's listeners. That guy definitely waxes balls. Definitely.
00:27:29
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So he was like a turtle shell down there and she had a V. I was thinking he was like full bush above the piano. Everything below waxed. Even even the BH smooth. So he waxed everything but left like a huge just bushy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, he was trying to be different back then. Yeah. Did he have an eight pack with you like Jesus? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and he also had one extra rib.
00:27:55
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for a while. I would shave everything if I had that kind of definition. I feel like I would shave everything, too. Yeah. I mean, why leave the bush, you know? It's going to look ridiculous. You guys don't even know the artist's adduction, do you? I mean, like, what color hair did he have? Was it a dark bush? In fairness, I think we should not listen to John Banks and that beard because he would probably tie it into his pubes if he could.
00:28:18
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Well, that's what he's going for. Well, I'm going to actually, I'm going to braid my chest hair into my beard hair into my stomach hair all the way down. Yeah. It's just your pube hair. Yep. My, my pubis. That is such a disturbing image. You're welcome. And then how about your, how about your big toe hair? You can tie that into your two hair. I've just got a couple like three or four and I can't really tie to that. I gotta stop at my pubis because I've after ridiculous. Okay.
00:28:45
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I don't think you should ever stop. I mean, I don't want to, but I'm going to have to. It's just science. Okay. The term which became associated with anyone, mostly women who practiced old rituals, used herbal medicines, or simply didn't fit in with societal norms. Accusations of witchcraft became a tool to control or eliminate undesirable elements in society. That also was a very effective tool.
00:29:15
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Like, man, they. That church. Oh, well, it worked well. Yeah, they weren't done. The Inquisition, which was established by the Catholic Church to combat heresy, soon became a tool of political and societal control.
Inquisition and Political Control
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The Inquisition didn't just target alleged witches, but also scientists, philosophers and anyone deemed a threat to the church's power. And if you've ever seen any of the tools of the Inquisition,
00:29:42
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It's fucking nasty. Yeah. I mean, who wouldn't admit to being whatever they are. Are you a monster? Absolutely. Can you stop trying to draw and quarter me right now? Just burn me. I like just please like I'll tell you whatever you want. Stop torturing me. You can burn me. But just don't don't let me die in this dungeon. What a crazy, crazy thing to even think about. Oh, God.
00:30:05
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I'm so glad I was born now. Yeah, I know we got problems, but like, man, not those kind of problems, not the not. Yeah, not being drawn and quartered. Oh, pretty, pretty close. Yeah. All right. Should I be worried? There are some bad shit happening. Yeah, I know there's bad shit happening, but I don't I hope no one's getting drawn and quartered.
00:30:33
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There was even something called the malleable in fairness. In fairness, there were people that were getting raped and then tied to the back of cars and dragged. Don't mean to bring it down in the in the Middle Ages. No, this just happened in this a couple of days ago. Hamas evasion. Oh, wow. Into that. Yes, we don't we don't we don't. Not great. Yeah.
00:30:57
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There was even something called the Malleus Maleficarum, which I think I did pretty well on pronunciation, which was a manual for witch hunters that played a significant role in the witch craze. We talked about this before. Did we? It detailed how to identify, interrogate, and punish witches, further entrenching the fear of witches in society. I don't remember the manual.
00:31:19
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We get mentioned in one of the I did a witches episode and you did a witchcraft episode. That's right I knew we did talk about witches, but I couldn't remember and what it was a long time ago. That was a long time ago now I've been doing this for four and a half years
00:31:30
Speaker
Wait, what? We've been doing this podcast for four and a half years. I gotta go. I've wasted so much of my life. I didn't know. I thought it's been three weeks. Has it not been three weeks? I don't think that's that long, actually, four and a half years. It feels like a lot longer. I enjoy spending time with you guys. I love this podcast. We better. We're doing this ourselves. Just for us and Angie. Thank you so much for paying me one million dollars every episode. Yeah, don't cash the check yet.
00:31:58
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Yeah, please, please hold on to that for a bit longer. I just got to move some money around for the next 90 or 100 years and then we're good. Hey Greg, have you had that money around yet?
00:32:10
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because I need knee surgery and I literally, my knees are gone. So I need that money. That's an expensive surgery. That's why I need the money. I don't need all a million, but listen, we'll talk about this when we hop off. Sorry. Are you going to have like the knees of kangaroos transplanted on your legs?
00:32:32
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Yeah, that's a bad idea. Hopping is way more effective. You ever watch those guys? They get around super fast. Kangaroos? Fuck yeah. Plus they lift, they're always in the gym. Yeah, they can box. Those guys are fucking jacked. They don't miss leg day or arm day. Or crazy. Or ab day.
00:32:50
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Well, religion played a crucial role. The witch hunts can also be tied to societal upheavals, plagues, economic downturns and more, which has became convenient scapegoats for societal problems. Yeah, it sounds like they're getting blamed for everything. They were. Yeah, I mean, you know, as far as I know, the only thing they're guilty of is the Blair Witch Project. Yes, I loved that movie. I did too. That was great. I saw it again recently.
00:33:16
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Nope. Didn't really. Because I saw it. I saw it. I mean, not that recently, but years ago and it still freaked me out. It did. Yeah. There's that one scene at the end that freaks you out a little bit. The end scene's great. Yeah. And also the booger scene. I like the booger scene's really good. Yeah. The booger scene's pretty solid. Yeah. Yeah. Then they did call it the booger scene.
00:33:37
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Yeah, no, that's how it was a script. Yeah. Page 47 booger scene. There was a script. Oh yeah. No, that whole thing. I thought it was a doc. No, no, no, no, no. That changes everything. Yeah. Hollywood's such a fucking lie. You can't believe Hollywood. Who can you believe? Aquaman. Not real. Wait, you can believe Aquaman?
00:34:03
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I said he's not really in 2024. I was going to say that guy's got nothing to lose. He doesn't even live on the same surface that we do. That's true. That's true. All right. Masters in the modern world.
00:34:15
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Let's move forward to the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, which was an era marked by rapid societal changes, scientific discoveries, and philosophical revolutions.
Frankenstein and Science Concerns
00:34:26
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Frankenstein's Monster, created by Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein, was written during the dawn of the industrial age. The novel reflected societal concerns with unchecked scientific and industrial progress.
00:34:41
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So I never, I never read that book and I never really saw a Frankenstein movie. What did that monster do besides walk around with his arms outstretched going? He did, he did a lot of like white color crimes that they don't talk about in the movie in the book. What a monster. He was like burning me off. Yeah. He literally just, he wiped out a lot of the villagers 401ks.
00:35:07
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Yeah, he took advantage of older women who, you know, didn't have much, you know, had had money, but didn't have much else going for them. No family and all that stuff. And so what he romanced them. He romanced them. It was less sexual and more just, you know, about listening companionship. You know, sounds like he was actually kind of nice. Well, until he until he took all their money. Yeah. Yeah. And left him and left him. He was in Nigeria for a while and did this whole email scam. Yeah.
00:35:38
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OK, so I know that's cute, but it was a genuine question. What the fuck did he do? Well, he was confined to he was he was locked up. You know, Dr. Frankenstein didn't want him out and he got out and he went in the country countryside and like skipped stones in a pond. This is the plot to Breaking Three. It never happened. They never actually made it. But this I think I read a treatment about it.
00:36:04
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It was tough to follow up Electric Boogaloo. It really was. You cannot follow up with that. And you're never going to beat that title. No. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Once they saved the community center, what was there left to be done?
00:36:21
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No, at that point, it's just they're just trying to get that franchise money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Totally. Well, a lot of those break dancers, they took out to pasture and, you know, let run. Yeah. So we don't know what Frankenstein was actually. I don't. I don't know. I never read the book. I thought a long movie a long time ago.
00:36:37
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The point of the story is that the group is the monster, not him. He just wanted love. He was made, but he was just basically because he was such a monster, he looked so frightening, he was such an abomination of nature that he deserved death.
00:36:55
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But he wasn't even an abomination of nature because he was created and he had those fucking spark plugs coming out of his neck and the only way you could start him up was to get your jumper cables on him. He was an abomination of nurture. But the point is, I feel like you're splitting hairs here, but you don't need to, buddy. Yeah, we're spending a lot more time on the Frankenstein part than I thought we would. I just got brow beat a little bit and I think I feel like I deserved it.
00:37:20
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It's funny when you're doing these topics and you think like, oh, they're going to talk about like, well, we'll get stuck in this for a long time. Then you go right by it. And the thing you just wouldn't ever think you'd talk about. That's what we talk about. Yeah. Mm hmm. Because we're not smart. I just don't know how like I know what the werewolf did. I think it's a good question. I think I even know what Dracula did. I don't really know Frankenstein. I just love too many. He just he'd love you and a little a little too deep. No, it's a little it's a little aggressive, aggressive. Yeah.
00:37:49
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He just wanted to change people too much. He should just let people be themselves. In vampire movies, they're always, well, not all, but most vampire movies, the vampire's always really hot, so it's like, all right, I'm sure. Go ahead, eat me. Whatever, right? Have you seen Nosferatu? I like when I'm bald and saggy, almost as deaf.
00:38:12
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I can't wait. I can't wait till Kevin gets to count Chocula. It's my favorite monster. So he's got a really good Jen Frankenstein story is used today as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific and technical advancements without considering moral and ethical implications, which is part of what John was talking about in that, you know, he was created and he was this abomination.
00:38:39
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But he himself wanted to be, he thought he was normal and he wanted to be normal and he couldn't. I mean, do you feel like this is your autobiography, Greg? No, but I'm just thinking as Kevin saying that, it sounds exactly like the plot from that Steven Spielberg movie, Fast Artificial Intelligence. Was it AI, that kid that was a robot? Yeah. He wanted to be human and then, God, I can never be serious. Man, for one second, I just wanted to be serious. I know the movie you're talking about. I actually never saw it. I do know the movie you're talking about.
00:39:09
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with Haley Joel Osment. It's kind of creepy. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Victorian society, the late 19th century was characterized by strict societal norms. There was a defined way to behave and deviations were not just frowned upon, but often ostracides. Dr. Jekyll was a respectable doctor and a pillar of society and represents the ideal Victorian gentleman.
00:39:36
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His transformation into Mr. Hyde is a physical manifestation of his suppressed desires and darker urges. Hyde is free from societal constraints, behaving violently and without morality. Kind of a genius idea. Yeah, I agree. For a story. Yeah. It's pretty neat how they kind of ticked away society. I guess all good art is a reflection about the woes of society.
00:40:06
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I don't know. I kind of like the way you're describing it. It's pretty brilliant. Well, Jekyll's potion, which transforms him, can be seen as a critique of society's reliance on substances to escape reality or to become someone else temporarily. Whoa, there's nothing wrong with that. It's a good thing we got away from that. It sure is. And three. Hey, I'm going to go grab some absinthe. Absinthe? Absinthe?
00:40:32
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That's a hard word to pronounce. It really is. This is a hard word to pronounce. I'm never sure. I'm going to write. Absolutely. In Massachusetts. The novellas. I was just in fucking Massachusetts and I'd tell everybody I knew the way John Banks. You're like, I got this dumb ass friend. You can't speak like a normal person at the grocery store. Just like, yeah. You're like, listen to this idiot. Who says clerk? Is that? Yeah. He's like, just pay for your Sam Adams and get out of here.
00:41:00
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the novella serves as a commentary on the duality of human nature and how societal repression can lead to extreme dichotomies in personality. So yes, that's a very, that's a very interesting, especially back then being that there was, there was prim and proper and ways that you were supposed to behave. And Dr. Hyde was the one breaking away from that jerking off in public. They really sounds like the more fun their, their podcasts back then were really censored.
00:41:27
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Really? Like, you couldn't make the masturbation jokes we make? No. I know. You could even say good. Too close to God. Fuck. Oops. Can't say that either. Nope. Definitely not. Wait, was Dr. Jekyll the good one or was Mr. Hyde the good one? Dr. Jekyll was the good one. Mr. Hyde was the bad one, which I guess actually, Craig, it depends on who you define good and bad. Yeah. And John just told me I shouldn't even say good.
00:41:54
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No, it's close to God. Right. I understand. You can say whatever you want now. I'm saying if we were in the 19th century. If we were in the 19th century, these microphones would be really funny. Because we'd all be basically on opium imagining this. Yes, this would not be a real thing. And maybe we are. Yeah. I hope so. That'd be great.
00:42:17
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King Kong, the story revolves around a giant ape captured from an exotic island and brought to New York City for exhibition.
King Kong and Nature's Power
00:42:26
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King Kong represents the raw power and majesty of nature. I could just listen to Kevin all night, give movie reviews.
00:42:36
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It signifies that one with Jack black when Jack black was in it and he's like filming gone and like people island I'm getting a shot The
00:42:54
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While his capture and exhibition in New York signify the human desire to conquer and commercialize the wild, that work arises when nature embodied by Kong resists its shackles. The narrative of venturing into a distant primitive land and capturing a mighty beast reflects themes of colonial exploitation and the Western fascination with exotic
00:43:16
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So again, this is, oh, and also one more thing. The portrayal of Skull Island's inhabitants often mirrors racial and cultural stereotypes, emphasizing the era's colonial gaze. So again, it's all just the monsters of the creator are reflective of the times.
00:43:35
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However, the indigenous people of Skoll Island knew how to fucking survive with Kong being on that there and not so much getting fucking eaten or thrown. They could coexist, which we could not coexist with Kong because we exploited him. We did exploit him. What a bunch of fucking assholes we are. Especially the three of us. You ever see him without a shirt on?
00:44:00
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I've never seen him with a shirt on, to be honest with you. Kong? Kong. King Kong? King Kong. He's jacked. We hit the gym together, and sometimes he'll take a shirt off. But usually when he comes, he's wearing a shirt and shorts. Like board shorts? And shorts. He's wearing his kicks. He's got to be wearing a shirt. And I always say, cool kicks, kid. And it's like, OK, John, I won't eat you this time. Let's do some squats. No, give me a superside.
00:44:30
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Hey, seriously, this is your turn to buy the peanut butter protein shake. I'm sick and tired of getting stuck with the bill. Do you think I should wax my back? It's going to show so much more definition. No, bro. It's going to show all your steroids. It's true. You don't know what your complexion is like. It's like a risk you should take. No, no word complexion mean.
00:44:59
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Kong eat you now. But you said you were going to. Damn it, Kong. Kong fickle. Freud rage. Kong not mad of his word. Kong make hasty decisions. He lull you into a sense of confidence and then he throw you into dinosaur. Kong invite you over to his house, have dinner five, six times before he kill you.
00:45:30
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lull you into a sense of companionship and friendship. Try to get a third base. Nothing makes me tender like Broken Heart. Oh, man, he is a monster. That's son of a bitch. He knows where all your sweet spots are. Hey, while you're up, get Kong more Doritos.
00:46:00
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You know Kong likes spicy ranch. Oh my god. So after World War II... Kevin, stop talking or I'll put you in my butthole again. I can't do it again, Kong. I can't do it. Kong, I'm gonna show you what jalapeno pizza really is.
00:46:34
Speaker
So after World War II, before the episode started, we were talking about toppings on pizza and how it could affect your digestive system. And Kevin said he wouldn't eat jalapenos and pizza anymore. I had to put the kibosh on that. But Kong did not. No, I'd rather not be Kevin and mayonnaise.
00:46:59
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I don't know. All right. Go, go, Kevin. Go now. Go now. He's down. He's down. He's going to be out for a while after after World War Two. The horrors of war gave way to new fears. And that would, of course, be nuclear annihilation. Oh, that's a big monster post World
Godzilla and Nuclear Fears
00:47:17
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War Two. Japan was grappling with the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fear of radiation was palpable. Enter Godzilla.
00:47:29
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Oh, fuck yeah. The creatures origin. Oh, that's good. John shorter arms.
00:47:43
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What's Godzilla supposed to do with these stupid fucking arms? Does he have like fire breath or lightning breath? Wouldn't it be funny? Wouldn't it be funny if the only way that he could set his fucking his breath on fire was to light like a Zippo and his arms his arms are too short and he's like trying to like he's trying to... That's why he's so mad. He finally found a name in flame and then it was much better. Oh, yeah, those are good.
00:48:12
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The Creature's Origin in the 1954 film is directly tied to nuclear testing in the Pacific. It's not just a monster, it's a radioactive entity birthed from mankind's own destructive capabilities.
00:48:28
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The creature's rampage through Tokyo can be seen as a representation of the nuclear devastation Japan faced with Godzilla acting as both the bomb and the after effects of radiation. While Godzilla is intrinsically linked to Japan's nuclear trauma, the monster's popularity worldwide underscores the global fear of nuclear war during the Cold War era. Greg, you find nuclear war very humorous, I see.
00:48:53
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I don't, but I was thinking about this entry. I made it on a New Yorker cartoon caption contest. Are you guys familiar with that? Yeah. You did one of those? Yeah. Well, I entered one. It didn't win, but I think it was the fucking funniest entry I ever did. And it was basically two King Kongs in the middle of a city and they're in the middle of doing their destruction. And one is obviously talking to the other one. And your job as a reader is to answer a caption for that.
00:49:22
Speaker
And my caption was, and it's going to sound stupid now because I built it up too much, but my caption. What is the lesson that we should learn from this? I'm going to say that my caption anyway. My caption was, can you believe I almost called in sick today? You know what? That's very New Yorker cartoon. It really is. Yeah. That is. Yeah.
00:49:44
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So zombie apocalypse. Oh, oh, shit. I saw that. I know. Can I guess what this is about? Sure.
00:49:59
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Oh, can I really? I don't want to root for you. I don't want to root for you. No, no, no, no. Go ahead. Go ahead. Well, because I would imagine zombies are going to be about basically like being worker drones. We're all just like slaves to this economic system and capitalism. And so we're just zombies. We go through our lives unaware and eat brains. So that's so close. That's so close. Not really. But I think that yours is good. But I think the real the real answer is that cranberry song.
00:50:27
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Yeah. Yes. That makes sense. Yes. So it actually there's there's I like John's John's answer better, though. Zombies sucked. Zombies chase back to Haitian folklore, where they were the reanimated dead brought back to life through voodoo.
Zombies and Societal Fears
00:50:45
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But modern zombies popularized by movies like Night of the Living Dead and AMC's The Walking Dead, among many, many others, represents societal breakdown, the spread of contagion and the fear of the mindless horde. So maybe that kind of stuff, that mindless horde that kind of ties into what John said. Yeah. I like what John said better. I think what John said was great. Like it holds up a mirror to our current society.
00:51:10
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modern narrative zombies often symbolize societal collapse either through rampant consumerism or fears of pandemics.
00:51:19
Speaker
But you know what? Our society is so shitty right now. The only thing that makes me feel good is buying shit on Amazon prime. It does feel good. Then it gets to the next day. It's so fast. How about we don't get it the next day? Let's see the world. That's stupid message that it's been delayed. Fuck that. The world goes crazy, right? Full out nuclear war. Would you rather be at home watching a really good TV show or reading a book TV show? Obviously.
00:51:41
Speaker
So you're going to buy TV off of Amazon, and that's what gives us joy and safety. We may die, but we're going to die with technology all around us. Or you could be a tool and go to the library. No, those jerks. That's dumb. Did you know that you can rent stuff from, or you can take out stuff like Kindle kind of books from the library?
00:52:02
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I didn't know that. My dad told me that. That's pretty cool. I was like, Hey, Kevin. How do you return that? I don't understand. So it's like basically they have so many digital copies and then, and then you get the digital copy for a certain amount of time and then they take it back.
00:52:18
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Like you don't return it. I can just screenshot it though. Like a 300 page book. You could always have it. Yeah. You could always have it. I don't think anyone's saying I'm not going to read a book in three weeks. It's not, you know, you could check out a book from the library and like photocopy of your page if you want it to. Awesome. Mary. You should check that out. It's a very good book. Oh yeah. I've heard, I've heard.
00:52:40
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I don't understand what he does, though. He just goes, ugh. And he's got a blockhead. And spark plugs. It's a story about a man with hemorrhoids. The spark plugs represent the little bubbly hemorrhoids.
00:52:56
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So let's move in to get a little bit more modern here with technologies monsters. I thought zombies was pretty. I'm sorry. I didn't. I thought you were. That wasn't me. That was Greg. I'm done. Oh, it was Greg. I was saying there were plenty at your nipples. I thought maybe you were going somewhere with that. Oh, that was just rubbing my nipples because OK. You know what? Thought I was on a different webcam. That's Thursday night. Sorry. Sorry. Got to get those bills paid, you know.
00:53:26
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This podcast not doing it. No, no, no. We owe him a lot of money if it's a million dollars an episode. Um, but we do like John's nipples. Yes. Who doesn't nice as text as technology advances. So do our anxieties.
AI and Modern Threats
00:53:41
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AI and robots are obviously a big concern right now. The idea that AI might one day surpass human intelligence and possibly see us as redundant or a threat leading to humanity's downfall. Robot replacements could replace jobs leading to economic chaos and societal restructuring.
00:54:05
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I didn't realize this. I remember when I took a film class in college and we watched a movie called Metropolis. I don't know if you guys are familiar with the movie Metropolis. It's a 1927 silent film and I kind of forgot
00:54:22
Speaker
that it so it features Maria, a robot used to manipulate the masses, touching on concerns about technology's potential to deceive and control. I didn't I guess I kind of forgot about that. That was 1927. So it's 100 years ago. That's pretty wild considering what we're what we're you know what's happening in the world now with technology. What was that? Oh, God. Was Charlie Chaplin and that a trouble is or no, I don't think so. Well, he did it. I can't remember. Nope.
00:54:53
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Are you just naming the only silent film era person that your Todd, Todd, Todd Jackson.
00:54:59
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Todd Jackson. Yeah. You guys don't know the silent actor, Todd Jackson. He was super famous, like from 1907 to 1913. Todd Jackson. You guys seriously. 1907's Todd Jackson. You should have come up with like Barnaby. Well, because he was the first one to have like a really short first name. He just became Todd. Gotcha.
00:55:29
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Other ones, other movies that that depict this Blade Runner. So you guys have Blade Runner, right? Yeah, it's good. Terminator, obviously. This is a big one. Good. Ex Machina, the show Westworld. So I agree. These are all good TV shows. But I'm saying like they're all they're all, you know, showing the fears of the time as far as robots and AI taking over and replacing us.
00:55:59
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All of them have that same theme going through them. I don't know what the movie you mentioned before, uh, the Steve Spielberg one, what was it called? Artificial intelligence. Was that what it was? Was that, was that a, was that a scary, like it's going to take over the world kind of thing? It was kind of like, yeah.
00:56:15
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sci-fi dystopian kind of society where people Well, what happened was there was a lot of people that had their own little AI robot and Their struggle was the robot struggle was thinking that they were human themselves and they weren't they were treated like less than so It's like get your heartstrings
00:56:37
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Yeah, so it's like class stuff, you know, I'm sure it's like a comment on like, again, you know, like economy or class. And consumerism. Yeah, and consumerism. And, you know, killer robots. Kind of like iRobot, where Will Smith was the only one that was smart enough to go, hey, I don't trust these motherfuckers.
00:56:56
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Cause he was a rebel is smart. Yeah. You know, it's a good thing. He didn't slap him with his robot arm. He would have smashed his head. Like it would have been really gruesome. Will Smith intuitive going to hit him with my human hand, not my robot hand. So a lot of our monsters today are more conceptual, like climate change and the consequences of unchecked human consumption.
Climate Change Monsters
00:57:24
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Um,
00:57:26
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That would imply that our monsters aren't real, though. Our monsters are pretty real, Kevin. I'm saying, yes, that's true, but... The monsters always been real, Greg. But the monsters... Oh, shit. The monster... We're... I feel like we're not giving it a face or a body as much. Does that make sense? Well, I know that when I... How do you explain Freddy Krueger?
00:57:49
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What? Tell me what the tell me what the symbolism is there. Michael, that was in a time when I was really a lot of people were taking Michael and cocaine. So he has a bunch of people on cocaine. One guy was like, hey, I got this idea for a movie. And it was like, that's really good. Let's make it. And then somehow made it. And oh, my God, we should make five of these five. There's got to be a lot more than that, right? I don't know, actually. I think there's quite a few. Freddie takes Manhattan.
00:58:18
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Freddie does the Muppets. Waka waka waka. Cookie. Oh, blades in my stomach. See cookies I ate come out. Cookie monster fall asleep at wrong time. I bleed blue. Hey, Freddie.
00:58:46
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Do you want to play in my sandbox? That's a lot of blood. Elmo didn't know he could play this much.
Humorous Monster Mash-up
00:58:56
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Elmo lightheaded down. Elmo going to lay down here. Ironically, Elmo need cookie. My blood transfusion.
00:59:15
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All right. And last, post-apocalyptic worlds are another another narrative set after a global catastrophe, often highlight societal decay, the struggle for survival and the redefinition of human values.
Post-Apocalyptic Survival
00:59:27
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And all I wanted to mention was my my favorite book of all time.
00:59:31
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The Road. The Road. I love The Road. That is my favorite book of all time. Well, obviously you haven't read the Bible. It's a tough read. No, I have not read the Bible. I'm saving that for my deathbed. I'm going to do that whole deathbed conversion thing. Jesse Case. I saw it today at someone went to high school where they posted a thing and it said something like, the world's getting ready for war and God's getting ready for a wedding.
00:59:57
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And so, yeah, I know. So here's the thing, right? Like, I'm not like, I grew up a Christian. So I thought the story went that there's like Armageddon and then we, we die and then the people go to heaven or this hell on earth or you go to hell and you spin attorney in hell. But I didn't, I didn't know anybody got married. So I really like, maybe we're all getting married. Like our souls get married to God's getting ready for a wedding.
01:00:20
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Don't know and and I was also thinking that you know the world's been at war since you know ever So it's like so it's like it's always interesting because I'm sure like when World War two was happening There were a lot of people thought this is the end this is Armageddon This is in the world and same thing in World War one and the same thing in the Civil War and you know It's like as long as that belief has been around anytime. There's like a war It's gotta feel like it's Armageddon right because your world is being destroyed around you but I think
01:00:48
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Someday, they'll be right. I mean, yeah. On a long enough timeline, Jesus is going to come back, I guess. And God will get to celebrate that wedding that he's been prepping for. That apparently he's ready for you. We're going to marry Jesus. He's going to put it out on the first night.
01:01:15
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Wait, that's blasphemy. Sorry. No, no, it's not. You're married. You know, that's true. You are married to the Lord. All right. I hope he does a romantic proposal. Last call. He gives me like a rose, one single rose, and then picks me as the bachelorette, like in the golden battle.
01:01:37
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Monsters are mirrors reflecting our societal values, fears, and prejudices, yet instead of addressing these core issues, we often externalize them, creating others to fear and fight against. From the Salem Witch Trials to modern xenophobia, humanity has a history of fearing and persecuting the other.
01:01:54
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Monsters often symbolize this fear, yet we rarely learn. We continue to create societal monsters based on differences instead of embracing diversity and understanding. So cheers to all the monsters out there doing good things. Cheers, good monsters. Hey, my nightmare. All right. I just want you to know that.
01:02:16
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Thank you for joining us. Happy Halloween, everybody. Be safe. Make sure you check your candy for razor blades and LSD and LSD. Kids, if you're listening and come to LSD, give it to your parents. Kids, if you're listening, stop. What are you doing? Yeah. What are you doing? Really called cultural services because you're paying yourself a terrible job.