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216. Petty Pranks & Phony Performances
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We are back and not even technical difficulties could keep us away! Buckle up for a fun tangent filled ep, featuring interruptions by Gordo, many movie and tv show discussions as well as out usual shenanigans. Kelsey kicks things off with a listicle featuring many short tales of revenge and pranks, you may even find some inspiration.
Next up Alanna takes a deep dive into the tale of the Bottle Conjuror, where a once in a lifetime performance promising to amaze, turns out to be an elaborate hoax that leaves the public baffled for decades. Closing out with the Riot That Never Was, a radio broadcast that caused a huge reaction and shocked a nation.
We hope you enjoy this lighthearted ep, let us know what your favourite story was, Did you know that smelly usb sticks existed? Let us know! Until next time keep it cryptic!
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Introduction to the Podcast
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Darkcast Network. Indie pods with a dark side.
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Welcome back to Castles and Cryptids, where the castles are haunted and the cryptids are cryptic as fuck. And I'm Alanna. And I'm Kelsey.
00:00:37
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And I am excited to be back. I don't remember what we talked about last time, other than the actual subjects.
Podcast Production Insights
00:00:49
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I even have a post it here where i was like, I've had stuff I wanted to get with, talk to you about. And then like, sometimes by the time we get on mic, it's like, there's so much going on. Yeah. You know?
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Um, and then our episode would have just come out. The secret cryptid one has out now. yeah so then I think this makes us kind of back on our, we're recording this on our off week and then this will come out next week.
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I i but believe it is. we're like a week and a half ahead. It's good. Yeah, sorry if it was like, yeah, we kind of split that one e that went kind of long and it was, that was two true crime eps and, you know, shit happens.
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um sometimes we take a summer season off i sometimes look at people that do both seasons and i'm like ah
Movie Discussions: Spoilers and Performances
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that's a great idea you guys get like two weeks off every year or something that you like yeah plan in yeah we'll let you guys know if we you have a planned planned break so we end up doing it you guys get it you're busy in summer too uh yeah that is true because a lot of um podcasts like listens kind of drop a little bit you know I don't know if that just means I bet people are just probably like get around to it a little bit later i know I do with some oh yeah podcasts I really like it's just like oh yeah yeah exactly yes like you have been doing on movies and things which what did you think at the end of send help um
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I didn't love it but Oh, okay, because you seemed to be enjoying it. ah You were not halfway through texting. loved it.
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loved everything until the very end when I did, you know, like the final scene and it's kind of like, oh, how. Okay. Like the aftermath or whatever. I was just kind of like, oh.
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Like I kind of wanted a mutual destruction type thing. I didn't want either of them to make it off the island. Okay. Yeah, okay. I get what you mean. that's that That doesn't give away too much either. because but but But like when people are... I never want to like... it. Like you were like, oh yeah, Rachel McAdams is being crazy or something. I was like, oh yeah. But then you were like, oh, I'm only like third way through. and i'm like, that's why I won't say things like, did you get to the part where... Because like I hate spoilery type questions. I had seen a but couple like GIFs of different scenes. Yeah.
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Okay, yeah, I'm sure. So I was kind of surprised ah that, like, the one the one scene I had, I thought I knew was coming, ah ended up kind of being, like, a fake-out, and then I was like, oh, okay. So I like, still surprised, even though I thought i had got it spoiled for me. was like, oh, no, it actually still wasn't spoiled, because, like, I didn't know it was a fake-out. Right, right, right.
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But yeah, kudos to them for the fact that like 90% of that movie is just the two of them. Like they both did such an job like with their characters and I was surprised by how funny it was. I didn't know going into it that it was much of a comedy, but I found myself like laughing.
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I knew almost nothing and I was fine with that because Pat just wanted to see it and I'm always just down to go to a movie. Like, I don't care or whatever. Like, it's like, who's in it? Okay, cool. But then, yeah, they really both showed a lot of range. Like, like I was laughing and they they were like, oh, like, ew. Like, they make her seem kind of cringy and gross, which you're like, yeah she's so cute. This is like her Charlize Theron monster moment or whatever, you know? they Yeah.
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like Yeah, they both did really good like playing off the comedic like unhinged character. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. They did a really good job like holding and keeping it entertaining for the fact that there's only two of them. And they are just kind of like... I mean, in the grand scheme of things, is there a lot happening? No, they're mostly like trying to survive.
00:05:31
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and stuff so like right like with the wrong people or the wrong script it could get very boring that's why i'm always yeah like when it's like one actor is that's almost in every scene you're like like yeah what if this sucks yeah yeah they did really good job i thought it was really really funny and of course it's Is it sound Sam, Sam Raimi who did it? Who did the evil all those ones. Drag me hell. Of course it had the, yeah, all the goriness and everything was like on point and well done.
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Yeah, that made sense. That's why i was like, oh, that's why Pat wanted to go see it. Okay. Because at first I was like, this doesn't seem like a traditional like horror or anything, you know, you're like, okay.
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But yeah.
Workplace Adventures and Mishaps
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good stuff good stuff yeah yeah the project taathon was hail mary oh yeah yeah too i was gonna say like movies where like one person is in almost every scene it was like ryan gosling and project hail mary you're like it's mostly uh i haven't seen that one yet no but it's i would hesitate to say it's not boring like some of the other ones where it's like one guy on a ship or like yeah i didn't love passengers where like The one guy wakes up on the ship and he's the only one awake. So he wakes up the other girl and you're like, well, that's mean. It's Chris Pratt and like Jennifer Lawrence, I think. Yeah.
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But
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anyway, we haven't caught up. Yeah.
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Yeah, so we had to like move into a different workspace a little bit today because our basement office area apparently got a little flooded on Friday and I wasn't there and then I got to work and it It had all these dehumidifiers in the area.
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Found some of my co-workers and they were like, oh, oh yeah, we go upstairs. Like, didn't you like get the memo? And I was like, I wasn't here. What is happening? haven't had my tea yet. I'm confusion. Yeah.
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Yeah. And then saw pictures. i was like, oh yeah, the carpet was like flooded. i don't know, I guess because it's the basement. What? Anyway. That seems weird because it's not like that's the first rainfall like we've had like that. So we've never had flooding problems before?
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No, but we've only worked in that one for a couple years we were in a whole different building before this and that's a good point we have had a lot of rain like and it's not a new building so like you would think they would know if there been previous flooding problems i know they had some other like it department in there before us or something who knows We have all the luck. Cause then I get there today and then I like, okay, so we're working upstairs now. And I just put my stuff by my desk, even though I was like looking around, like but there's all these like humidifiers and stuff.
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And then like go up, we're going up to one of the upper floors, like second or third floor. And it's like, kind of sit down and get started working. And then, um, like then the fire alarm went everybody had to go downstairs and outside. Oh my God.
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At least it was nice weather. Yeah. It wasn't too bad. It's not raining. least it wasn't raining. I had, I left my sweater on the back of my chair, but I was like, oh my God, like what's next? A plague of locusts? This this is ridiculous.
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Damn, that
Prank Stories and Online Nostalgia
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sucks. Anyway, that's why I was like, Kelsey, I'm drained. And then I had tech issues. I was like, I can't. I'll tell you on air. just It's been a day. But anyway, that's that's about it.
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Yeah, that would be pretty shitty.
00:09:30
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Just weird. like I just moved desks again. now we're doing what? Where? Okay. But then they bla bought us some sandwiches for lunch. So that was always, hmm. Okay.
00:09:43
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Anyway, um yeah, I think we're talking about pranks today, which I'm excited about that it's going to be like lighthearted. Yeah, mine, mine, I ended up finding a nice like list on Cracked.
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a little listicle of some i know you do yeah i was like i saw it when it came up when i was searching i was like is this the site alana used to spend hours on one of those like kind of early day ish internet ones that don't really exist anymore like they kind of just anyway um But yeah, they used to not block it at work. So it's like, it's just fun stuff. Like, I mean, what was the internet in the early days? There was like Joe cartoon and frog in a blender and like nothing was censored to children at all. We were just like all going.
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Other people were in chat rooms. I'm glad I wasn't doing that stuff. Cause that would have been really unhinged. I don't think that would have been good. No, I was a little young for that. I wasn't doing nothing like that.
00:10:58
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yeah that was all msn it was definitely like whatever what like early youtube i loved uh that makes sense then yeah like msn yeah like the messenger so i would be on that for like the entire day if we were not at school like yeah best friend we're constantly messaging the entire day Like, a lot of people like even my my age, I mean, you're almost 10 years younger ish sort of if you want to round up. But you know, like, yeah, I'll hear people about like aim, you know, and other messages like yeah, I was around a bit for that.
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And then like, yeah, I started going hanging out with other people or older people and they're not doing that stuff and talking online. It's just, you know, it depends what crowd you were with or whatever.
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it was a wild time, guys. Or I was just, like, straight up on... because by the time I hit grade 5, 6, and 7, like, mom was back to work.
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So I, especially in the summer, i would be home all day by myself. And then... So I would, yeah, I would be...
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but I would be downloading a lot of movies, ah spending a lot of time on Facebook. Porn. No, I'm just kidding. so i was I was pirating Saw. Oh man, I saw that in theater. It was a pivotal experience for me.
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I remember the amount of times my parents would come home and I was watching something that was definitely not age appropriate. How young would you have been watching Saw? Sorry. This is fascinating.
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Kelsey Lohr. Maybe 11. even Like, probably not great. like i'll be not great Yeah, because I saw it in theaters, so would have been when it came out, and I think I was in my teens, so then that makes sense. If you would have saw it in, like, kind your pre-teens, that would have been not long. Yeah, I can Google what year it came out, but... um Yeah, it was so if they came home and I was like in the middle of watching something, I would just exit out of the town.
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I would like four days later or something, try and figure out where I was in the movie. It is like hiding porn. I get it. no but yeah But it was just the unhealthy obsession with R-rated horror movies.
Music Preferences and Platforms
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oh yes the 90s horror oh peak yeah um and then just blasting music super super loudly ah or uh or i would just be talking on yes much music the um top 20 music videos uh yeah because that was like i would just yeah that's the canadian mtv right We had much music. yeah They have MTV.
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I would play that all day long. It would be, it would repeat every four hours, I think. And then after all the commercials and everything, and it would just like start over and I was listening to so much Matchbox 20 at one point. Yes, okay.
00:14:43
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I still listen to them. If I pulled up, so my iTunes isn't set to show me my play thing, but I'm sure if I sorted it, they would be one of my top.
00:14:57
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people oh okay yeah spotify which is what i usually use just just because it's free or whatever um it's like shows you you're your most played at the end of the year and sometimes i'm like well that's because you play it most on one of my most random lists not because i paid the most no my thing i just i don't know i have too much music and too many bands i like to be able to not pay for spotify <unk> like, oh, Pace, you can have this. And I was like, why would I do that? Like, do you know how much time it would take me to re-find all of these songs on Spotify? I have like almost 7,000 songs.
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Like, it's just easier for me to go into my iTunes library and just play what want. Which is Well, I download them, so I haven't paid a penny for any of it. It just is a little bit of effort, and then you have it for the rest of your life.
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I don't have the iTunes, but I get it. I get it. Yeah. You got a big library. It's there. Yeah. You'd keep it. yeah And then I just have to re-torrent.
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Sometimes it'll be like a couple of years before I get back into an artist and I'll be like, oh, they've released an album or two. And then I'll be like, okay, I'll go download those and those will be, add them to the thing. Yeah.
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yeah Man, those were the days. when Napster was a big problem. um Yeah, pre-Facebook, if you've watched the so the social network, you know of the Napster, like I do. I have never used it. Or LimeWire.
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used to love LimeWire. Yeah. yeah my brother My brother got in trouble one time because ah I can't remember what I was downloading. I was downloading a song because it ended up on my MP3 player.
00:16:53
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And it was Bill Clinton saying he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lansky. Did you ever get that? Did they just clip that?
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oh Yeah, it was like the original Rick Roll thing where you would be downloading something on LimeWire and it would just be Bill Clinton saying he didn't cheat on Hillary Clinton.
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instead of a song and we didn't i didn't listen to it before i like put it into my mp3 player so i was like at school one day and it just you know it starts playing the next song and all of a sudden it's bill clinton i remember that quote yeah i did not have sexual relations and then i came home and i was like what is this song you downloaded for me and my brother's like what do you mean he got in trouble you almost got grounded by my mom for it it's so funny she's like how would you put that on your sister's mp3 player that's not appropriate
00:17:58
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yelling at him. That was so funny. they didn't think anything was appropriate. Blink 182. Poo poo poo. But yeah, it was like, that was the whole thing. And then there's like, oh, you're wrong about and that's where we're like, hey, maybe we were a little harsh on her when she was, you know, the secretary of the president.
00:18:19
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Yeah, is that her fault ever? No. And if it was a female president that was having an affair with their male secretary, it would also not be the male secretary's fault ever. like yeah who would become the butt of the joke. Like, yeah.
Prank Stories: Creative Revenge
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ah Yeah, like, are you kidding me?
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But anyway, I digress. I'm sorry. This is my... Anyway, my brain's not braining anymore. It was a long day. All right, you go.
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So, uh, yeah, like I said, I have some, uh, like, revenge, uh, stories. and I read through these all when I first picked it out, but I mean, it's been like a week. So I don't really...
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Right. They're like anecdotes from people. Yeah. Or whatever. so some of them are the people that did the pranks and then some people our kind of, it's like a secondhand telling of it. Like, I know somebody that did this.
00:19:23
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Oh God, even some of those are so good though. Like, anyway. Okay. um Yeah, so for oh on the website, it'll have a list of all of them. I'm not going to read all of them because there's like 33 this ah on this list And some of them are better than others. So I'm going to try and pick and choose yeah which ones I remember being good. Listicles are like that. Sorry, there was a motorcycle or something.
00:19:55
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Anyway. Oh.
00:20:02
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Gordo. You in your little tiny box. ah know. and
00:20:11
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Yeah, so some of these are just little things. ah
00:20:16
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The first one says, I have a friend whose pumpkin or fall display at the end of their driveway would get run over by their neighborhood jerk. Happened every year. and their friend decided to put a stop to it.
00:20:33
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he ended up withdrawing money from his savings account so he would have enough to buy the largest pumpkin that he could find along with several bags of like quick concrete um and filled up the pumpkin with that and made a really pretty display and then when the It says, when the jackass broke the axle of his shoddy car when he hit the pumpkin and then got stuck on it and i couldn't drive the vehicle away, my friend had his vehicle towed.
00:21:07
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Nice. Wow. That's like... Yeah. It's very good revenge because A, he he's doing the harm already. so you're just... Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:21:23
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You're just like, well, if you don't hit it with your car, then you'll never know I did this. Right, right, right, right. Like I'm picturing the two subreddits and then like one is traumatized them back and the other one is malicious compliance because it's like, oh, you want to play it that way? Okay, replay it that way. I'll just i'll just keep my pumpkins there, you know? like But now they're superhuman.
00:21:47
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Yeah. Yeah, it's like the people that, uh, they get packages stolen off their porches or something, so they fill it with, like, dog shit or, like, a confetti bomb or a glitter bomb or something, and be like, well, if you didn't steal it, then you wouldn't have this problem. Yeah, especially if it kept happening, I'd totally be down for that, because, like, that's not cool. Also, people that are just, like, too impatient in their cars and stuff, like...
00:22:13
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not cool yeah not cool it's just fuck off yeah okay
00:22:20
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uh yeah i'm gonna jump through some of these next one i used to manage a starbucks when one of my barista asked a guy his name and he just flipped the fuck out belittling her calling her stupid etc uh and didn't give a name It says, anyway, i took over the hand off of the drinks and placed his drink on the hand off with no words.
00:22:46
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um They said, I'll add that it's a busy store with a lot of people waiting. So I just keep putting drinks out for another 10 to 15 minutes. And the douchebag walks up, picks up his drink that's now lukewarm and goes, is this one mine? And I respond with, I don't know. It doesn't have a name on it. Because he refused to give his name.
00:23:08
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Like, oh yeah, God, Why why be that miserable bastard? Yeah, and it's like stupid. They're like, that's literally what all of the Starbucks do. It's not like location specific that they have to ask your name. Like, it's literally part of their job. Just let people do their job, okay? Yeah, it's giving main character energy for you to be like, we'll have to tell you this. We're like,
00:23:34
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Well, you're the one that wants the coffee. So actually you kind of do, yeah you have to participate in society. Yeah. yeah Or you can just tell someone who's never really had to work in customer service type jobs. Cause you're like, you wouldn't treat people like that if you had like, yes, absolutely. Like have some respect, right? Like know people, but I'm sure they love it when somebody evil yells at them at their job.
00:24:04
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Yeah. They can just do that to other people at their jobs. Like, yeah.
00:24:12
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Yeah. Or just like, I don't know, like, I feel like I've been a cleaner of an office before. And so like, I'll talk to the people that are cleaners of my office and stuff. And I'm like, what's wrong with this? I don't know. Some people like almost just like kind of act like they're there, you know, it's like, oh, like, like how people will like ignore homeless people. You're like, oh,
00:24:34
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don't like you know kind of like ignore another human being or like whatever don't know yeah if they haven't done anything to make you feel unsafe and if by them existing in your space or asking for change without being aggressive yeah or anything like that makes you feel unsafe that's something you need to deal with because like you as a person I think people say we're nice because culturally like we're pretty friendly here it's normal for us to walk down the street and like nod to someone or chit chat to someone online like that's normal for us here and a lot of places are like you like don't like walk down the street and like smile at someone and like I don't know Russia or maybe other parts of like Eastern Europe like you know what i mean like sometimes it's like it's just not as um done or whatever so it can be seen as yeah
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I don't know don't know. Differently. Whatever. ah Another one I caught my flatmate telling lies about me to some mutual friends. So I made plans to move out the next month. And in the meantime, she went out of town for a week.
00:25:45
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And left her car parked in its usual spot in the parking lot. So I threw birdseed on it every morning and evening. So when she came home, but the birds wouldn't leave her car alone. but Because then they they remember.
00:26:02
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They're probably covered in bird shit. And she kind of like was the one badmouthing the other one and getting her kicked out. Yeah. yeah do You don't want to fuck up a roommate situation. Like, why?
00:26:16
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you know Okay, that's fine. I agree with that. So now my previous job, we had separate refrigerators for the different shifts. Our food was constantly, constantly being stolen or messed with. So one day my buddy and I decided to make a nice cherry cheesecake out of cooking lard.
00:26:41
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we finished it off with get a graham cracker crust and cut a couple slices out. since we knew that the thief wouldn't be brazen enough enough to take the first bite we even found out who the thief was or sorry we never found out who the thief was but we never had to worry about anyone messing with our food ever again um and then they edited it said we chose lard as a less harmful art alternative to the laxatives or whatever or the wrong type of pepper that shit could be extremely dangerous and i doubt whoever tried her yeah grease cake was even able to swallow a bite it's like yeah don't try and kill people you don't want to end up on an episode of um forensic files or something well no true
00:27:29
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but I wouldn't be opposed if the if they were going to put some sort of those... um Usually it's like the sugar-free gummies and stuff that are famously like diuretics, give you diarrhea, like totally make you shit your pants. Oh, really? Oh, there are stories.
00:27:49
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Oh, I've never heard of this. Oh, there was one. and It was on Reddit. I don't know if people were... trying to verify it or not because they said it happened at like a toronto airport and the guy was like oh it was late for a flight and there was the only thing in the vending machine was like sugar-free gum those haribo gummies like we have them in canada i'm like oh haribo yeah and it's like if anything says sugar-free like I've heard a lot of stories where like, yeah, I can't immediately turn your bowels to water. And like then they were like, this guy looks like he's, ah the story was like, and then they thought he was like hiding something because he was like sweating, going through customs and stuff because he had to shit. And so they're like, this guy's got some. Yeah, that'll do it.
00:28:35
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Yup, we gotta pat him down. We gotta look up there. And he's like, no, don't! No, don't! You don't wanna do it! Please, God, no! Follow me into the bathroom. you can listen to me evacuate and then you would know that I couldn't possibly be hiding anything up there.
00:28:51
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And that's when I started to think that it might be a made-up story because it sounds like cartoonish where it was like they were like the roadrunner like bathed in shit on the back wall like their outline just there. the The person just like stunned. You're like I mean they've seen some shit in airport security. Sounds Mr. Bean episode or something. It does.
00:29:15
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um Yeah. Just to share that with y'all.
00:29:34
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Oh, this
00:29:42
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oh this one was pretty good. My friend did some work for a guy who skipped his bill and never paid him. my friend did... It says, my friend is so pity. He did many things. I think this is all um to the same person.
00:30:01
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So this is like next it's just fucking did gu um He placed fake for sale ads with ah too good a deal, like a nice boat for a thousand dollars and other numerous ads with this guy's phone number.
00:30:17
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Our city is big on garage sales, so he posted ads like, moving out sale, everything must go cheap, we'll be held inside the house, just walk in or ring the doorbell and then put the guy's address.
00:30:31
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Walk Yeah. Okay. um He also signed him up for numerous free gym memberships and responded to things like car dealership ads with this guy's phone number.
00:30:44
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shit Yeah, the spamming you can do to people if you have their, like, email address. Yeah, or their, you know, their phone number.
00:30:55
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Yeah, I mean, if it's done in the light of a good cause, I'm all for it, but it can be rough. and You're like, oh. Yeah.
00:31:09
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Do you remember the one, I don't remember when I told it, but I was thinking of this when were doing the pranks one, because it was kind of like a historical prank. And it was like the equivalent of them in the Victorian day being like calling 10 pizza parlors and then like 10 door dashes and people just kept showing up at the house. Yes.
00:31:29
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Here's your coal. Here's I'm here to pick up your furniture. I'm here to deliver your milk. it was just like everything. And I was like, what the fuck was that? i don't even remember. It was like a Baker Street hoax or something. Like I can't even. Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:45
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It was funny. Yeah, that one was crazy. yeah people are so creative sometimes. Right? can't remember what it was called.
00:32:02
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Short and sweet. Pardon me. But not not too sweet. ah Says my husband as a small child in school was sick and the teacher wouldn't let him go to the bathroom to throw up.
Driving Etiquette and Personal Experiences
00:32:13
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So he went to her desk where she was sitting and just threw up all over that instead.
00:32:19
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i A legit Especially if you're a child. like Good for him. Yeah, to have the foreign force, whatever, the balls to do that.
00:32:35
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Yeah. I, yeah, I'm sure that, I was just reading a book earlier and it she was like, I'm feeling so sick. If that guy doesn't shut up, I'm going to point it at his lap. And that's exactly what you Yeah. It just is kind of normal. So I was like, Amazing.
00:32:56
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This one says, in response to an an admittedly pretty good practical joke, I hid seven battery-powered alarm clocks in the perpetrator's room, set them off to go off one by one roughly every 40 minutes between 2 a.m. m and 6 a.m., m and the last one was hidden in the ceiling. ah you bastard.
00:33:23
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Yeah. Okay, by the Oh, the annoyance? Level 100. I mean, by the second one, I would probably rip my broom apart and try.
00:33:38
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Like, preemptively make sure there weren't any more. That episode of Friends when Phoebe is confronted with an alarm clock that will not stop ringing. I think she throws it down the garbage chute. Because she bashes it. and i'm it's totally that.
00:33:56
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You're like, no. Also that one ah we were talking about, it's the Burner Street hoax. Oh, Not Baker Street. That's Sherlock Holmes, I think.
00:34:07
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But yeah, it was epic too. Anyway. what about. This one I didn't even, I didn't even know this was something that you could buy. It says, I've told this one before, but it makes me happy to retell it. I had a boss seven or eight years ago that I hated. She was the fakest and most entitled person I ever met.
00:34:31
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And one day she decided that she didn't like the smell of microwave popcorn. Okay. So she waved her up magic office wand and had popcorn banned. Fast forward a month or so, i was browsing Amazon and found one of those USB sticks that's emits a smell when plugged in.
00:34:51
Speaker
What? That's a thing? I know. I'm like, I've never heard of this. It says that they ordered it in the smell of buttered popcorn. They bought it, plugged it into the back of their her computer, and she had the sweet smell of pop secret in her office for six fucking months. She complained almost every day, and it was the sweetest revenge I've ever tasted.
00:35:13
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oh I've never heard of this. I did not know there was such thing as a USB stick that emits a smell when it's plugged in. Crazy.
00:35:24
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Like, yeah, is that real? Because I'm obsessed with this. I don't know. like I want smell-o-vision to be real. Right? You never know what something smells like just by description. It's hard to describe.
00:35:40
Speaker
That is ingenious. If it's true, I'm like.
00:35:47
Speaker
Six months? And also it's like The Office when everything relates back to the Office and other TV shows, but no way. They're trying to have their fancy like book club or whatever club they have. And then Phyllis tries to come in to make popcorn and they have two break rooms or lunch rooms or whatever. And they're like, oh, I'm just like, can't can't you go and do that in the other, like in the lunchroom? And she's like, no, I can't do it in that microwave because it smells like popcorn.
00:36:14
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You're like, you're making popcorn. And she says a little, don't know, Illinois accent or whatever. Phyllis.
00:36:24
Speaker
Makes me laugh every time. But like, what?
00:36:31
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This is not putting like fish in someone's curtains or vents or whatever. like Oh, yeah. Ugh.
00:36:41
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This one's like pretty, pretty good. This one takes a while or a little bit to come back around. says when I was in law school, I went to a bar with a bunch of law students and decided I needed a cigarette. I went outside and a whole bunch of girls were smoking. I didn't like to bum cigarettes, but I had a free small fry coupon from McDonald's. So I offered it to one girl if she would give me a cigarette. She said, okay. And I handed the coupon to her and she wouldn't give me a cigarette. And she said, you shouldn't be so trusting. Flash forward a few months and I'm the head GA for the i t for the, a division in our university, which includes administration. I went to replace a computer and saw the same girl. She was waiting in line for a job interview. I went up to the person who is conducting the interviews as I was their IT person too. And I told them the story and she didn't get the job.
00:37:45
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Whoa. armma So he already had that job all along. They just happened to meet each other at a club. like as yeah they were like outside or something i was like pull a cigarette and i'll give you this coupon or whatever in exchange for it and then she took the coupon so trusting and didn't give him the cigarette i'm sorry bitchy move like can i bum a dart yes or no like you have can't like fuck off don't trick me ah oh man no that i'm glad he got revenge on her for that you should like always treat people as well as you'd like to be treated that's all we're gonna say right a golden rule yeah that's all we're about is treating people and teaching people
00:38:42
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man that's a sweet one um
00:38:48
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That's when my co-worker sometimes throws out her lunch in the garbage can at my desk instead of her own because she claims that she can't stand the smell of old ketchup that's been sitting out for a couple of hours.
00:39:01
Speaker
Once again, like, where's the break room? I've asked her several times to stop, but she'll then just wait until I get up to go to the bathroom and then do it and hide my garbage can under my desk so she thinks she won't see it.
00:39:14
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Every time she does it, I wait until she goes to the bathroom, and then I take out the plastic container she had the ketchup in, and I put it in the back of her bottom desk drawer.
00:39:26
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says there's six in there now. The oldest one is over a month old, and so far she hasn't noticed the smell. I'm going to keep doing it and see how long it takes her to notice. That's fucked that she would, like, literally be I don't like ketchup.
00:39:41
Speaker
but I don't care if you do, but I'm going to keep bringing ketchup yeah in my lunch or having lunch that I want ketchup. But then yeah, like where's the lunchroom? Where's, where's the communal garbage can?
00:39:56
Speaker
Yeah. i've I've like purposefully gone to eat like a breakfast sandwich kind of in lunchroom. Cause I'm like, if I do not eat all or I pick out some of the egg and I leave it in my garbage, it stinks. It stinks all day.
00:40:09
Speaker
and like everybody else around me has to smell that. And like, I don't want to be that bitch. You know, ah certainly not going to be like putting my ketchup into someone else's garbage. Cause like gross, not that ketchup itself is gross. would just rid of my garbage can. I would just be like, I don't need a garbage can at all anymore.
00:40:27
Speaker
Yes. And be like, you have two at your desk. No, but that's funny you say that because like when I was talking to the cleaner guy and he was like, how long guys up here? i was like, I don't know. And he's like, I heard it was a month. i was like, I heard they had to get new carpets. And he was like, no a month I heard.
00:40:48
Speaker
He's Filipino. So like, he doesn't talk a lot to me, but like, and then, oh, fuck. What is, sorry. swear. I was like, what did that have to do with the the lunches?
00:41:02
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um oh they're getting rid he said they were like getting rid of our individual garbage cans or something and i was like oh which like honestly yeah you just change a whole garbage can when someone like everybody has an under desk garbage can but like you don't fill that up every day but then like people like cleaners are told to change it every day so it doesn't stink up and it's like a real waste of like garbage bags when think about it yeah oh yeah so like i totally get that and like honestly it's always bothered me that they have in the cafeteria like the long like counter and then underneath it garbage can garbage can garbage can garbage can garbage can like we don't need six garbage cans in a row we can put it all into one or two it's crazy probably oh
00:41:58
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it's a child That was a cat.
00:42:03
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Noises. Anyway. Carry on. but Sorry.
00:42:16
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am just like reading the next couple be like, are these good? Some of them are kind of like, man. ah Yeah. I felt that when I was skimming, so like, Maybe that listicle too or another one where i was like, eh. Just some of them. This one's okay. I had a roommate in college that would blare their TV in their room and talk loudly on speakerphone well into the night.
00:42:43
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I was young and too big a pussy to confront them about it. So after a semester, I'd had enough. And one night before going out, I put my speakers up against our shared wall and blasted Enya's only time Enya's repeat.
00:43:00
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I don't even know that's, I don't know what that is. Um, well, I only know because when you say only time, I'm like, yes, it's used in a lot of films and stuff where they're like,
00:43:14
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trying to be evocative of emotion who can say where the road leads you'd know it only there only time it's that one and then you know enya she had like a moment they played her in my math class when i was in like grade seven but don't make me sing because then it's like it's that one it goes all like oh Really?
00:43:46
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No. No, okay. It's fine. You'd know it to hear it if someone sung it better than I just did, maybe. Possibly, don't know. Possibly! That was terrible, I'm just telling you. My version was terrible.
00:44:02
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um It says they also locked their doors so that they couldn't come into the room to turn it off, and that they got back to their room around 3 a.m., like, yeah. Oh my god.
00:44:14
Speaker
were They were probably pretty pissed off. It's a little bit like soft torture. Yeah.
00:44:27
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So bad. Someone says, my company has a password policy that locks your account after three wrong password attempts. After a few times when someone irritates me I'll lock my computer switch user and enter their username with the wrong password three times. So they'll get locked out.
00:44:47
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um Now they have to deal with help desk to unlock their account.
00:44:55
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but Excuse me. So like, I feel like I remember having to do. Yeah. He must just like, no, must have pretty generic usernames there that like,
00:45:08
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oh it's this many letters in your first name and then whatever to be like to just know somebody else's username and then just keyboard smash a password and then make a computer right i see because i was like yeah what is he like getting locked out and then he's getting them locked out yeah yeah because sometimes it's like it yeah but if it's on all the same company format First name dot last name, etc. Yeah, I could see it, maybe.
00:45:40
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There's hopefully getting better about that stuff now. Mine are always like, at school it would be like, if it was the first four letters of my last name, it'd be Pete.
00:45:51
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And if it was the first four letters of my first name, it'd be Alan. it'd always be something masculine. Aww. um
00:46:00
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Oh. This next one says, I had a roommate who used a lot of spoons. What? He ate a lot of pudding, pudding, soup, ice cream, and yogurt. And he would never wash the dishes.
00:46:14
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I was tired of washing his dishes, so I let them all pile up in the sink until we got to the last spoon. And this one I washed and hid in my room each time I used it. Cutlery wars.
00:46:28
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So yeah they were saying whatever he was eating, pudding, cream. Pretty soup, ice cream, yogurt. Like what? Like everything he eats is liquid.
00:46:41
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so many liquids. What? Yeah. um a um this one a young guy down the street was constantly speed speeding through the neighborhood gets home from work around the same time every day and always rips it down the street to his driveway so i called the city and had a cop come out and do radar he got a dangerous driving charge and stopped speeding around here like yeah if somebody's going crazy yeah like
00:47:15
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just community service man you're doing lord's work neighborhoods like depending what kind of neighborhood it is if you have like uh if you're more of like a cul-de-sac or like a subdivision or something and you have like kids that ever play out on the streets like yeah absolutely you can't have people driving like that right and like it's different than like the street i grew up on was like a main main street so like you wouldn't even cross the street in front of my house it's too busy yeah like um yeah so yeah you would never play or do anything on the road right it's like city kid life well though yeah the road our house was technically on a road that was um the old TransCanada Highway. So while it wasn't still super busy, it still wasn't like your little, yeah, nice cul-de-sac road. like Like, now we're on a cul-de-sac here. Yeah. And still they got to have signs. They have a sign coming into our neighborhood and a neighborhood. Is that weird? um I remember a friend of mine being like, does that sign just say like deaf or something? I was like, yeah, i think it says like deaf child. And i was like,
00:48:30
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She's like, no, it just says, like, deaf and it has, like, a symbol of, like, a child playing, like, a ball and stuff. I was like, I don't think it's deaf children playing. i guess there it's like, yeah, they just want you to know there's, like, a deaf child in the neighborhood.
00:48:42
Speaker
Weird. Yeah, never really. we had that. One of my friends growing up had that in one of their things. It's not a sign you see very often. No. Not that.
00:48:57
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Definitely, yeah, we should all slow down in neighborhoods. ah yeah and This one I like because always hear about this at Starbucks or other coffee places too, I guess. When I worked at Starbucks, we had one racist and sexist customer who always disturbed our work. He only wanted the men to make his drinks and literally ignored the women or said something creepy to them.
00:49:25
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And he didn't want our one black guy to make his drink either. um So I guess they had yeah like still have to go grief they know they had a group consensus that they would make his drinks, but they would only ever give him decaffeinated, even though he asked for caffeinated.
00:49:45
Speaker
so it's like Yeah, there was such a time when like was always right. That's better than like people fucking with the type of milk that like you put in it because you don't know if somebody has allergies. Yeah. Like the decaffeinated for caffeinated is. I think that's okay. That's not a big deal.
00:50:02
Speaker
Honestly, they're an asshole, yeah, spit in their drink. What? You don't have something that's communicable disease by spit, spit their drink. They're an asshole. I'm all for of that. But like, yeah, don't,
00:50:16
Speaker
um, tamper with it to that extent. But like, yeah, whatever happened to that was like, the culture was always like, Oh, the customer's always right. And like, you were just taught to take such a abuse. Like we'd even have to listen to training videos where people were like real people being like swearing at people. I remember in the last couple of years, oh and we're supposed to try and deescalate these people. Like we're, uh, you know, like counselor or something like what? No,
00:50:44
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normalize, no abuse. Just like, um, as the one girl at work has said to a few customers, um, she'll like straight up be like, you seem like you're having a pretty shitty day. Is there anything I can do to make it better? Or like, this is just you today. Like, I love the calling out That is so amazing. i mean, like, oh, you seem to be having a bad day. Are you all right?
00:51:15
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It's like we work at a call center, so now we get off the phone with someone and then they hear someone like one that became iconic in the office was like, Colleen's like, that guy sounds like he needs a snack and a nap. Like a toddler. It's like, yeah. yeah But like, seriously though, why Why do we have to involve these people to be this way?
00:51:38
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and And this is one I think you kind of, alluded to at the beginning but oh really um yeah this is like perfect timing and like instant karma my friend in high school was such a drama queen but it worked out hilarious uh he was cut off by a driver who had no brake lights and it pissed him off so badly that he followed until a cop was behind And then they merged around the guy to get in front of him. And then they brake checked him. So the cop would see that the guy had no brake lights.
00:52:15
Speaker
What? Yeah. The hauler let out when the cop pulled the guy over is still one of the funniest moments of my life. I'm like, yeah.
00:52:28
Speaker
Okay. So the guy that had no brake lights was originally being the asshole. Yeah. On the road. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, I just don't get it.
00:52:41
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Like, yes, some days I'm pissed off and I want get home fast, but like, what's the point of being? really I don't know. I pulled into my, like,
00:52:52
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um our kind of like little... street the one day and you know yeah go to drive down to get to my alleyway and somebody's like right on my ass like oh my they were close enough that looking out my back window i couldn't even see the hood of their vehicle like they were pulling up behind me at a stoplight but we were driving like and i couldn't see their hood at all they were that close to the back of my vehicle i could see straight into their windshield So yeah, yeah you can tell when someone's tailgating, yeah like whether you're in the vehicle or behind them.
00:53:31
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Yeah. Because it comes to like that T intersection. So they know I'm not going to be going straight. And because it has the stop sign, they thought I was going to be going there, but they didn't know I was about to turn into the alleyway instead of going okay like the five feet ahead and turning on and stopping for the stop sign.
00:53:51
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So okay I kept glancing behind me and like, no, they're still really close. No, they're still really close. So I went from nothing didn't signal to just slamming on my brakes.
00:54:03
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as hard as I could but like I basically gave myself whiplash like my seatbelt locked up and everything and then I and then I just like went and then I turned on my signal light and pulled into the thing and they just started honking and honking and then I just gave them the finger out the window like Fuck you.
00:54:23
Speaker
Like you're literally. kind of love it. I don't. I don't. I've not done something that aggressive, but hate when people ride my ass too. So then I'm like, oh, you want to drive bad? Oh, we can drive bad. Like I'll slow down. Yeah. No, I get that feeling where you're like, fuck off. Like, oh yeah. I've already been doing it for like two blocks. They were so close to me for two blocks. Yeah. I was like, know this is what we're going to do. And I know from insurance, I can stop for any reason at all, ever, even if there's nothing there. It's always their fault. And it's always their fucking fault. So I decided to absolutely slam on my brakes with no warning.
00:55:10
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And it was great. It's weird how, like, I've come to learn that, like, the... like learning to drive here and driving here, like makes you like almost have to be more of a defensive or aggressive driver. people would be very aggressive and like impatient and like, I don't know, growing up in the Maritimes, you're like, people are just kind like, we're like a little bit more patient for a little more patient we'll all get where we need to most of the times right like it's just crazy but like oh yeah it fucking ticks me off when people are like you're like what are you doing you have space to pass me the middle lane is for passing
00:55:56
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I've been reminded that my job from people that teach driving and yet people just treat it like it's, it's time to tailgate everybody until they get out of my way. And that's how driving is here on the highway sometimes. And it's like, what?
00:56:10
Speaker
Yeah. No, that's when you get into the fast lane and you match the other person's speed and then everybody's just stuck behind you.
00:56:24
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I don't know, man. People suck. Yeah, we got ah like we have the drivers and instructors and they were like, fun facts Friday. Remember that middle lane when you have three lanes? It's for passing. And i was like, that's not how people treat it They treat it like this is the lane you drive slow in. And then everyone gets mad because they can't drive faster in the left lane and then they tailgate everyone until someone in the left lane moves over.
00:56:48
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That's how it works. Well, like, if you're not going... I don't know. My dad always... wait My dad and my brother always told me if you're not going, like, at minimum 10 kilometers above the speed limit on a highway, you should not be in the left lane.
00:57:03
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No, I agree with that. I do. I do. Like... Because people do want to be, like... I don't go into the left lane unless there's, like, absolutely nobody behind me for, like, a kilometer or unless, like, the person in front of me in the... I like to drive in the middle lane. um but like unless the person in the middle is like going less than the speed limit or I normally do like a couple above depends yeah ideally though like literally only like not from learning it from driving instruction but like being reminded from like working in a place where there's driving instructors and stuff they're like
00:57:43
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Like actually, ideally that, or like that lane is supposed to be like, if nobody drives in the middle lane, then that lane is the lane for passing. But since nobody does that, it like never ends up working that way.
00:57:54
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Anyway, I just find it like so like- See, they can't even make a consensus because they- No, but that is like the law. No, not for the lanes. There's no designation like that. But my driver's training instructor told me to drive in the middle lane so that you have, you can always like change lanes to either your left or right, depending what you need.
00:58:20
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that's what I was. I've heard that too in relation to, yeah, if you don't know where you're going to kind of go to drive in the middle, I don't know. i don't know if I felt like that. I got told that more on like a city kind of designation, like within the city. But then again,
00:58:40
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Like I said, it's all different everywhere you because we grew up, like growing up in New Brunswick, there ain't no many city lanes that have, you know, like you're not going to get like even three lane highways most of the time. So we don't yeah like, like have to learn these rules.
00:58:56
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but ah Apparently there's the rules and there's what people do anyway. like, oh, so dumb. Yeah. Anyway, sorry. I'm venting.
00:59:11
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Oh, that's the end. That was the last one. Yeah. yeah There's more. There'll be, there's more on the list if anybody wants to look it up, but those were the funniest ones I thought. oh yes.
00:59:24
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I found a listicle too doing mine where it was like, I didn't click on it yet, but as mine so happened to do with like different one of uh, broadcasting type prank. It was like, Oh, 12 or 10 times a broadcast sent people into a panic. And I was like, well, we know one of them, but like, Oh, yeah.
00:59:50
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I had a couple more like historical pranks, hoaxes, kind of like that one where everyone, all the deliveries started coming on that one street. Yeah. That one was pretty good.
01:00:02
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Yeah. They're kind of like, hilarious semi-historical hoaxes um anywho enjoyed that shall we cut to break and
01:00:27
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There are moments when the world feels thinner, when the line between good and evil blurs, when certainty slips, and you're left standing somewhere in between.
Podcasting Challenges and Historical Pranks
01:00:41
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This season, I'm stepping into those spaces. The thresholds. The gray zones. The stories and figures that live at the edges of what we think we understand.
01:00:54
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Through folklore, horror, and psychology, I explore why we're drawn to the dark. And what those crossings reveal about who we are.
01:01:06
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Because fear isn't just something we survive. It's something that changes us. So step carefully. You're closer to the threshold than you think.
01:01:19
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This is Psychology of the Strange.
01:01:33
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Well, are we back? We might be back. look I hope so. We've tried several times. yeah A crazy episode of like...
01:01:52
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Yeah. It was long time between recording segment one. Yeah. Yeah, did I jinx us when I talked about us re-recording episode one like three times or something? oh Did I jinx us?
01:02:07
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Those were the days. This has been crazy. i was listening to an episode where someone was trying to figure out recording after like 2020. Oh, I have a window popping up, but it's okay.
01:02:25
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just Dropbox or something I need to silence. And they had tried to record like a Zoom episode and it went badly.
01:02:39
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Yeah.
01:02:42
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Yeah, I remember Zoom just having a really, really bad leg to it. It was like very annoying. yeah ours has a bit. Anyway.
01:02:57
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Just like last time, the minute i so we start to actually talk and then you couldn't hear me. Yeah, it... The screen was like freezing and then... Yeah, it was like... oh I don't know.
01:03:13
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Got like one or two sentences into your segment and then it cut out and then i was like, can you hear me? Hello? Alana, are you there? Like, what's happening right now?
01:03:26
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Yeah, you're like, they're either frozen or they're really listening intently. and ram No way to know.
01:03:38
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Oh my god. Well, so I'm, I'm even more excited to hear your segment than I said that last time that I was excited because it was like, I don't know how many it was.
01:03:53
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Yeah, a few days later, like three or four. Last time we tried, now it's been two days since then. like Yeah, it's been a week. We recorded like a week ago. Yeah. At least, but no, we recorded Monday night and it's fucking Saturday.
01:04:11
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So. but Oh. I think we did my segment on Monday. and now it's Saturday.
01:04:21
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Today has also been a thousand years. Pat said something about and when he wove the lawn and i was like, but that was yesterday. And he was like, no, that was this morning. And I was like, oh, I guess it was.
01:04:35
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I don't know.
01:04:38
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I woke up very groggy. He was dreaming about something stupid. And then it was literally time for Pat to come and walk the dog. So. since he walks the dog at around 10 ish that shows he has slept in a pit.
01:04:52
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Yeah. Oh, but yeah.
01:04:56
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Anyway, we're gonna hear about um a practical joke on a large scale. All right.
01:05:10
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home right
01:05:13
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I think I kind of half made up this name, but they did call it like a conjurer's trick or it'd be like conjurer would be in there. And there's a bottle involved. So it's the conjurer's bottle debacle.
01:05:29
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And it was circa January 1749. Yeah.
01:05:36
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Okay. i jump back I remember you telling me the year and me commenting, oh, that's a really long time ago. Yeah. But that was about all I remember of your kid.
01:05:48
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Because it cut out almost immediately after. it was like, oh, Jesus. How long is this recording? Like 10 minutes? Not even? hu The perils of recording remotely, yeah.
01:06:04
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People could always pretend to freeze too. Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:12
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shit.
01:06:15
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I think it's good. It did and just freeze a little. I know. it like It doesn't like us moving around too much, I find. Gordo has entered the screen.
01:06:30
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oh yeah. That was... um That happened on Amy Poehler's podcast. She was doing the pre-interview interview with a person that knows the person she's interviewing. And it was the guy who play acts with Tom Holland in the new Spider-Man movies. He plays Ned. He's like his best bud or whatever. He's like, I'm the guy in the chair.
01:06:50
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And like, his like dog came up and he's like... My dog, he's been like literally just laying around all day. And then the minute I get on the call, he's like in my face. And I was like, yeah, that's Gordo. I don't know what Gordo's thing is.
01:07:11
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He likes to follow me through different rooms and yeah.
01:07:21
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A little leg.
01:07:24
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You little buddy. Hear him purring. you knowll be It'll be the background noise. If you've got headphones in, you can hear him purring. He's like right in front of the mic. Oh my god.
01:07:35
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If we're lucky, we can hear us. Yeah. Yeah. This little boy. So we're taking taken back to a hard... Yeah.
01:07:47
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Sorry. Twas a bitter winter. There were frozen rivers and trains that were derailed some and late others, I would imagine.
01:08:03
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Yeah. People were fighting to stay warm and and fed. Yeah. It was not a good time. who and it's dark, as you know. This is in the England.
01:08:18
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thank God.
01:08:26
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So by mid-January, yeah, people are restless and ready for a diversion, I would imagine. So when a ah ah performance is announced, it like a show that's upcoming with a conjurer, sort of magic show, they were like, okay, what is this about? And they were like, the premise is crazy and strange.
01:08:52
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This man says he's going to put himself in a bottle. Probably.
01:08:56
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yeah It was probably the shit in the 1700s. I mean, they don't have TV. No. Books? You'd be like, a a show is coming to town? Something you can go to?
01:09:12
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yeah I'm sure that, yeah, they would have a live music, but maybe not all the time, and not if you're not in the tongue. Like, if you were in a rural area, you probably wouldn't get it as much.
01:09:25
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Yeah, you just get like some traveling stuff, probably. The touring musicians. Yeah, or like a little hometown choir, like in Schitt's Creek or in little love yeah the the church choir.
01:09:43
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Yeah, I mean, I kind of get it having lived, you know in a even though we were a capital city, none of the concerts came to Fredericton, New Brunswick. a They're like, if they came to the East Coast, it would be like Halifax or Toronto. um Yeah, we were joking about that at work because they were we were talking about a couple of people at work or following the FIFA games and everything. And they were talking about how like there's some, there's, yeah, there's one playing like Vancouver and then another one being hosted and in Toronto. And I said, yeah, because don't you know, there's nothing else in Canada. It's only Vancouver and Toronto. There's nothing in between.
01:10:30
Speaker
and then I was like, especially if you're a a musician, there's nothing in between, and nothing worth seeing, no nowhere worth playing. You don't need to go anywhere i know.
01:10:41
Speaker
I'm always impressed when someone... American or elsewhere can like name any other city yeah or province. I'll pay $100. Name anything else.
01:10:53
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he's going to put a ah not a ship in a bottle, but himself in a bottle, in a court bottle. a pretty small one. It's a pretty big claim, I guess. How very, what is it David Blaine or Criss Angel Mind Freak of you?
01:11:14
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Yeah. Literal genie in a bottle. I don't know.
01:11:21
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So they sell out the whole Haymarket Theater is where it was being held at. And so the place was packed come this opening night of January 16th.
01:11:33
Speaker
Almost my birthday. was going say, it's really close. Yeah. good um Coats were taken, seats were filled, audiences like brimming with excitement and chatter, and and they wait in anticipation.
01:11:51
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And they continue to wait and wait. like Half an hour passes, and you know that's a long time to be waiting for anything, right? Yeah. Like, um yeah, it reminds me of, I think there's a 30 Rock where she's dating Matt Damon, who's the pilot character, and he tells them that they won't tell anybody on that that they're going to be waiting more than 20 minutes of the tarmac because anything longer than that, and people start to freak out. so you have to tell them in 20 minute increments.
01:12:19
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It's just going to be like another 20 minutes.
01:12:23
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Yeah.
01:12:27
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But yeah, after like half an hour, People are kind of starting to shout and there's ushers around trying to like shush them. And one guy, um Oh, peeks out from the stage curtain to say, you know, ah we promise if there's no show, there's going to be no, like there'll be refunds. We wouldn't, you know, charge you for nothing.
01:12:52
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So, okay. It's kind of, I believe him. Yeah. Yeah. he still doesn't say if the show is forthcoming they're like waiting for the guy to show up i guess and then one person in the crowd is just uh yelling if one person chucked a candle on the stage sorry but i thought i had this part because before there was someone that was like yelling that was like um all I'll put myself in ah in a beer mug if you guys could pay me twice my admission price or something because he was getting so annoyed waiting.
01:13:30
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Yeah, so they're getting rowdy and one person chucks a candle onto the stage and so that makes people kind of start to get scared and flee because there might actually be fire. yes It could be a riot.
01:13:44
Speaker
Yeah, and as we know, even Canadians can riot after we... Yeah! Speaking of Vancouver, at the stand-up riots... But only about sports.
01:13:56
Speaker
Only at hockey games. if and Yeah. oh Yeah, they start to rage and destroy, and you're right, they're riding, breaking benches.
01:14:11
Speaker
Damn. Destroying the sets. So if the they start of whatever performance wasn't cancelled before, it definitely is now, guys. And you're not getting a refund anymore, because property damage.
01:14:25
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Yeah. Oh, it's like, somebody's getting into a bottle, but all these people are probably making their way to the bottom of a bottle, I would imagine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:36
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Hip, hip flasks. Yeah. um A bonfire started out on the street and. ah Okay. Sorry. I just looked at my timeline.
01:14:53
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Oh, I know they did get kind of crazy there for a second. um And just to kind of go back to like how. it had gotten booked, there was the manager of the Haymarket Theatre, Samuel Foote, who ended up taking a lot of heat for this hoax or whatever you want to call it.
01:15:11
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He said he'd been a little suspicious when making the booking, as he told the owner of the theatre, John Potter, and he said it was just a strange man who made all the arrangements for the quote-unquote showman, like he never really met the conjurer himself.
01:15:28
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and there ever was one yeah
01:15:34
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um yeah so once the show failed to go on even once the papers and media had a frenzy a field day of making fun of the failed magician it's non-phenomenon i wrote stuff sorry it's stupid snarky satires appeared written in many forms like papers little pamphlets all those gossip columns the i suppose they were which is impressive because the amount of effort it would take to print something in the 17 fucking hundreds evening know yeah yeah like each page is kind of by hand you're pulling a lever there's a yeah a printing press involved there's no
01:16:19
Speaker
copy paste uh go into your thing print 40 copies and whatever no you're you're at least through putting the thing down at 40 times and then folding pamphlet by hand it does make me think a little bit of like in bridgerton there's the whistle down and there the gossip pamphlets printed and it's like yeah they get written by hand and then she has to go pay someone to freaking be like print this for me it's not it takes some effort for a sure just like those original selfies took effort because you didn't have the ability to look at yourself on the screen
01:17:05
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um So there was then a sort of apologetic article that came out, supposedly by the perpetrator. Okay. Amongst other things.
01:17:18
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Okay, yes This was the one titled, A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle by Himself. like okay and then followed by a longer subtitle thing being a full answer to all that ever was or ever will be laid upon the important occasion and wow print how how is like shakespearean of you it sounds correct this why we have all those true crime novels with like 17 word subtitles
01:17:55
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How I learned to something something and stop the bomb. I don't know. yeah
01:18:01
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Yeah, it was London, printed in London and said printed by Jay Freeman near St. Paul's. Another account was founded the Romance of London in 1865, which was a three volume collection of strange stories like poisoners, corpse burglaries, the cudgelling of John Dryden, and of course the bottle conjurer.
01:18:22
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And I'm like, so these like Penny, these are like other Penny dreadfuls or like the OG like true crime podcasts. sort of
01:18:31
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Probably.
01:18:35
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We're all doing the same thing. Yeah, I think it's funny. Apparently it was quite some time before it came out who perpetrated the whole presentation that never happened.
01:18:49
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And apparently was born of a very small bet between a pair of bored noblemen. course they're bored. They don't have to work. They do nothing. Yeah.
01:19:02
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Those were the times. my God.
01:19:07
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Allegedly, or as purportedly came out later, like 23 years later something crazy. Yeah. actually took credit. But it was like a conversation between the Duke of Montague and allegedly the Earl of Chesterfield.
01:19:28
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As a Canadian, that sounds like Earl of Couch or like even Earl of Sandwich makes me laugh. That was a real title. It's been a, yeah, it's been a long time since I heard the word Chesterfield.
01:19:41
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right there's a fancy a second i was like what do you mean and then i was like oh yes i know what yeah just like my mom would say chesterfield what was it because we say like i don't know in my house you know like tv remote we always called it the clicker and then oh yes That reminds me of that 70s show.
01:20:09
Speaker
Why won't the clicker click, Red? Yeah, if Kitty goes crazy. yeah Yeah.
01:20:18
Speaker
I love a clicker. And same with, between Canada and the US about, like, washroom versus bathroom. Like... Oh, yeah. There's definitely some different words. Some different vernacular, for sure.
01:20:32
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say washroom, bathroom... I think, what like restroom? Yeah, like pretty interchangeably. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. I remember multiple times I've been on holidays and like asked where, can't even remember which word I used. And they like 100% could not figure out like what I was trying say. And I was like, do you not watch TV? Like, fucking Jesus. Like, this is base level word. Like,
01:21:03
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Yeah, to me, saying bathroom, like, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I need a room with a toilet in it. Maybe they're like, do they want a room that has a toilet and a bath? like Like, no. But it I was, like, in public. It was, like, a public washroom. Yeah, yeah. So, like... I know. I'm like, what do you think I'm asking for?
01:21:24
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It's such a common use word. I remember specifically, it was like in a mall. And like like, what do you think I'm asking for? you think this is the name of a store? Like, what do you think I'm looking for? Where can pee?
01:21:38
Speaker
Yeah. You start mind it. In the US, like, Jesus Christ. This cannot be this difficult. ah Anyway. Anyway.
01:21:52
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It is funny though. There will be like those little differences. Like, yeah, I listened to that British food podcast off menu and then they're like a starter. And then they go to America and they're like oh, that'd be called an appetizer. And I'm like, yeah, okay.
01:22:07
Speaker
To me, I would understand starter appetizer, same, same. Right. But like sometimes there's just different ones and you're like, not really prepared. yeah
01:22:19
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That's funny. Yeah. yeah there was one somebody wrote on a can of the subreddit and was like do you guys say packed lunch or like i don't know like the brown bag lunch you know like a lot you know what just a lunch you would take from home i was like yeah i think i've heard that like packed lunch or whatever yeah i probably just call it lunch more often Yeah, I brought my lunch. Bagged lunch? Bagged lunches? Oh, yeah, there was definitely some bagged bagged lunch things in there. I feel like I noticed some, like, when you move from the East Coast to, like, a Western Coast province. Like, i there was I noticed some, maybe some differences, but not really.
01:23:02
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Yeah.
01:23:05
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Anyway, all that to say they were bored and chatting about people and how gullible they can be and how naive. Oh, my God.
01:23:15
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what will some people do just because the crowd is who's going to jump off that bridge or into that bottle i don't know how drunk they were but then yeah the one guy says surely if a man should say that he would jump into a quart bottle nobody would believe that and i wrote chortles chesterfield
01:23:39
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and then said the duke hold of my ale
01:23:46
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Don't spill that mead. No. um There was an advertisement that read, this show will feature a person who would get into a court bottle without equivocation and while there sing several songs.
01:24:01
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Sorry. And suffer any spectator spectator to handle the bottle. That was a bit of a time twister. Yeah, now he's going sing.
01:24:15
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It's like some Harry Potter shit. Yeah. It's like, um... Or like, uh... it fucking...
01:24:30
Speaker
Like... Is it Nanny McPhee? No, it's not like Nanny McPhee. What's the... What's the Nanny one the magical Nanny that has that bag that, like, all the things fit into.
01:24:43
Speaker
Oh, ah Mary, like Mary Poppins? Mary Poppins! Yeah. Yeah, she has a magic bag. Okay, yeah. And then it's like, yeah, that's what the bottle is. It's just like ever expanding.
01:24:56
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oh my gosh. Or if you're talking like Dungeons and Dragons language, there's something called the Bag of Holding. And it is, it's like, well, I hate to bring it back to Harry Potter, but Hermione has that little magical pouch thing that she can fit everything into. Yeah, it's the thing that's bigger on the inside infinitely than it is on the outside. Maybe. Yeah.
01:25:19
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Oh, and he can also do some other stuff. This conjurer has some other tricks. He's not just a one-trick pony. i don't Well, he's not real, so you can say he can do whatever you want him to do because he can't do nothing.
01:25:34
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But ah maybe they have to like be like, oh, let's make sure because Houdini and everyone else has to like oh outdo themselves. Although this was pre him, but like the conjurer claimed they could create the sound of any different instrument simply by using their walking cane and they could casually just raise the dead if they wanted to as well.
01:25:58
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So those were also some claims on on the billing. damn You can imagine why the tickets went like hotcakes. Yeah. Even a member of royalty was said to be attending.
01:26:12
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And in fact, that we know that was true because of what happened afterwards. And as we kind of got into it, it was like on opening nights and people were all anticipating and then nothing happened. They were just staring at like a a plane table with a little ah container on it or a vase or whatever um an empty vessel um the host manager tried to placate them all and then you know the riot happened as well and in the aftermath oh so immediately after the bonfire and stuff has kind of started then the member of royalty the duke of cumberland which is hilarious and like i live so close to a cumberland road as we so still name things after fucking stupid royalty here um yeah he was son to the actual king and he was so pissed off he drew his saber and started charging the same stage take a little
01:27:19
Speaker
Oh my god, what's that gonna do? You gonna wooden piece like wooden planks? But I'm a rich boy Don't you know who I am?
01:27:32
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I'm the Duke of Cumberland. He had to be restrained from committing violence. And... What really made me laugh was there was a printed quote afterwards from, it just said a Scotch Jacobite lady that went thusly, fools should not have chopping sticks.
01:27:52
Speaker
Oh my gosh. That was probably a just scathing burn back then. Yeah. You don't need a big old knife. yeah Yes, especially the king's son. Yeah.
01:28:09
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No wonder they didn't want to name her. like yeah leave her anonymous. It's the equivalent of commenting on the internet now. Like fucking treason.
01:28:20
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Yeah, yeah, exactly. Could be. Slander. oh yeah certainly Totally. yeah apparently it said the speculation ran rampant for 23 years before the people eventually confirmed it.
01:28:38
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um Oh, and and some of the funny theories that came out after included one that was like, oh the conjurer was definitely tricked before the show when he was in his green room or backstage or whatever that somebody asked him to show the trick to make sure it was real. And he was like, sure.
01:28:58
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And then the minute he got in the bottle, corked it! What is their pocket? Yeah! You gotta go on. he was He was kidnapped. That's why he couldn't perform.
01:29:12
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it reminds me of warring news stories today. yeah
01:29:19
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Two different sides to every story.
01:29:24
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Three different sides, usually. so yeah so they said they like were keeping the guy kidnapped and letting out to perform he's my he's my pet now sits on my table and i push little pieces of bread in the the top of the bottle every day now he lives there yeah wasn't that a mad 23 years so two when they got all shrunk shrunk down yeah
01:29:56
Speaker
Oh, by the way, Severance came up on one of the streaming platforms we have. So I was like, oh I could actually watch this one now for free. yeah Ooh. Yeah. I think it's on Apple, Apple TV or something.
01:30:11
Speaker
okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of my many streaming services. Very good.
Entertainment and Liminal Spaces
01:30:18
Speaker
I really liked season one. And then I really liked season two.
01:30:23
Speaker
Like, I'm happy I was one of the people that only had to wait about a year in between the seasons, not like three or something that everybody else had to wait. That would have sucked. Oh, yeah. It's nice when you can binge something.
01:30:35
Speaker
And I really liked his horror movie. I think I told you that. Yeah, Hocum was really good. out Oh, I haven't seen it yet, but I keep seeing that creepy, like... Donnie Darko looking bunny thing with the creepy eyes. I don't like you. I don't know what you're about, but I don't like you.
01:30:53
Speaker
look great. Right? Anytime I see anything remotely but bunny costume, I'm like, Donnie Darko. Yeah. Yeah. Like, ah! Yeah.
01:31:03
Speaker
Yeah, it was good. Yeah, i heard that. uh, yeah, I'm gonna have to watch it when it comes out on streaming. Yeah, there's still a couple i I would have liked to catch in theaters, but I was i glad we watched that one in the theater. Yeah, that was good. It was good.
01:31:21
Speaker
Obsession's supposed to be good, too. i haven't seen that yet. No, no. a I wanted to see a back rooms, but I don't think I'm going to get around to it. so That looks good, though, right?
01:31:36
Speaker
Yeah, I'm holding off looking because I don't really know much about it. Yeah. yeah And because I watched the trailer a few times, it kept trying to give me all this stuff that was like, the whole lore of backrooms explain what you need to know before you watch the movie and all this stuff. And I was like, I should have read this actually. i was like, I don't know. Yeah, I wouldn't think so. i mean, it's kind of ah i've I've heard of the concept before so that when I saw the trailer, I was like, oh,
01:32:05
Speaker
Because I'm like chronically, you know, I'm on the internet, I'm listening to podcasts. I've heard of this backroom sort of or liminal spaces. They'll talk about where it'll be like, ooh, when you're in a creepy like building when it's after after hours or whatever. and it's just kind of like everything's a little bit eerie. So like I was like okay, I kind of get that's kind of the gist of it really.
01:32:27
Speaker
But like, but then it's like, yeah. maybe it goes on and deeper and deeper who knows yeah it's very i like it it's creepy yeah well they did um that show I used to like channel zero that did the um yeah they would take like creepy pastas online and they would make them into like a season-long show and that's fun the one I actually read that was season
01:33:00
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one or season two the one about like that kids show that like people were talking about and then they couldn't remember yeah i think it might have been on a patreon episode i did read it um but one of their seasons was called no end house i think it was and it was about a haunted house that like uh would pop up every once in a while and they they would have like a thing being like oh like you can't You can't make it to the end. Like, it's just a bunch of rooms. And, like, nobody's ever made it out. Like, made it through the whole thing.
01:33:38
Speaker
So they start going and, like, they make it through. and then they get back out. And they realize, like, after a while that they're not in the real world. Like, they are so deep in the house that it's now a mirror of, like, their world.
01:33:57
Speaker
and And then it starts involving, like, weird rooms. weird like replacements of like their family members but they're like I think they were like cannibals or something and like just this weird thing so they keep going into the house to try and get back to the real world but the house only appears every few years and it's only there for like a couple hours or one night a year one night every few years so they or something like that if you remember it's been a long time Yeah, so they keep going through the house and then it's like getting deeper and deeper and deeper and then they keep thinking, oh, we escaped and then they figure out, oh, it didn't escape. So it's like, yeah.
01:34:39
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Funky houses or things where it's just like layer upon layer. Yeah. We watched one where, yeah, they kept going through different doorways and each doorway would be like a different dimension they chose to go through. And so I'd be like, oh, you're going deeper now.
01:34:55
Speaker
How are you back out? Like it was, it was creepy. Hidden dimensions. How would you ever find? Yeah. Love it. So creepy. Yeah.
01:35:07
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So I'm like, oh, I'm excited. oh you know, there's enough cases. I'm sure we could do an episode where it's like, this isn't exactly the same, but it's like people almost going into sort of a,
01:35:20
Speaker
but that are in like a coma state or something or they they end up feeling like they like they live a life in another dimension and then they like wake up or whatever and they're like like one even came up on my instagram like part of an actual news feed sort of thing where it was like and this person this like teenage girl woke up from um a time in a sort of a coma and do situation and they needed therapy because they felt they lived a life and had like a family with two children and stuff like that it's like those weird stories like they like creep me out but they're fascinating yeah yeah there's that one and like there's the famous reddit red lamp story because it has something do him focusing on a lamp that takes him out of the dimension or whatever i think you told me that one already on the podcast
01:36:16
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That one's- it's got- it's like kind of, yeah, become one of those infamous reddit posts, yeah. um Crazy to think about.
01:36:28
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So...
01:36:32
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Oh darn.
Historical Pranks and Media Responsibility
01:36:33
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If anything I was gonna put a picture of, there was a picture in one newspaper. Da that a da da! Where did we get to? The credit.
01:36:44
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The noblemen that finally seem to get credit with it are the Duke of Montague, or sometimes it says the Duke of Portland, apparently not as much, and that old Chesterfield Earl.
01:36:59
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oh john yeah Apparently then an associate of Duke of Montague's called Dudley Broad Street ah was supposedly a government spy in the Jacobite Rebellion that tried to take credit for the prank by writing a play about it.
01:37:17
Speaker
I don't even know. That felt like a lot to unpack. Even the Jacobite Rebellion thing, that's the whole thing Jamie's involved in and Outlander. Like, it's get the Scottish king back on the throne and yeah.
01:37:31
Speaker
Um... So not to unpack that, but there's still satires coming out. And then one that was sounded the funniest to me was about a magician allegedly called Don Jumpito who claimed he could top the conjurer's bottle trick with one of his own. He was going to jump down his own throat.
01:37:55
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oh that whatever snake that's like swallowing its own tail. Yes, the Ouroboros. yeah I'm gonna put my foot in my mouth and like swallow myself.
01:38:11
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And it's like they're dressed like a ah a court jester, like a a harlequin sort of pattern. And then it's like it like, yeah, it looks like someone's two feet are going down his own mouth. was like, oh my god.
01:38:23
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If I can find it, I'll put it as the episode um picture, maybe. Damn. Yeah. If you could get a, like, contortionist that could put their foot in their mouth. Yeah.
01:38:37
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I mean, sometimes I'll watch literal close-up magic trick or sleight of hand magic or whatever they call it these days, and you're like, how the fuck did they do that? Like, I like when people, like, they'll do it some, so I've watched some where it's like,
01:38:50
Speaker
a celebrity or whatever getting a little magic trick and i think it was the one where it was like somebody's stoic like vincent d'onofrio and he just like saw the magic dream it was like fuck off like they're just so like not like mad but like they're just so like how the fuck did you do that that's fucking weird like they're almost like mad yeah get the fuck out of here how did you do that yeah oh god it i love it Okay.
01:39:19
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Sorry, I'm wrapping this one up. A pamphlet is published that was signed, The Bottle Man. it's
01:39:28
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The author excused the infamous trick, saying he was, at the time he post posted the show advert, struggling, looking for work, desperately in need of money to, quote, keep the wolf from the door.
01:39:41
Speaker
Oh yes, too rich like noblemen. I need money, that's why did Right? Or did they just take credit but it was some starving artist or someone or someone that's now trying to make money off of it in the aftermath. Like, I don't know. Yeah.
01:40:00
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He claimed he needed a patron for his arts yet lacks any artistical talent.
01:40:08
Speaker
That made me feel a little seen. was like... damn, I get it. We're all just trying to get our shit out there. We're like, are we just not good? Are we just not good at marketing ourselves? who Are you not entertained? Excuse me.
01:40:24
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Sorry.
01:40:28
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Oh yeah, and then he went on to like, I don't know, wine. i would never have had to do this if I was an Italian singer, a dancer, or fiddler. You know, anyone with any talent, I guess.
01:40:40
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Yeah, so he's really just trying to be like, it's your fault, I'm talentless that I had to scam you. Whoever I have It was because I was desperate.
01:40:53
Speaker
Yeah, that's usually when people get scammed when they're desperate. Yeah, not when they're doing the scamming, but sometimes. hello And then he was definitely like, I am not the son of Satan, as some of you media have mentioned. There are so many way worse people than me.
01:41:11
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Yeah, there definitely are sliceer yeah
01:41:17
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It just reminds me of like more modern things where people are like, not really apologizing for things, they're making excuses. And then he was kind of like, I was gonna get into a really, really big glass bottle. I really was.
01:41:32
Speaker
Why didn't you just stay gone? Yeah, if you were the showman, yeah. Show your face. Oh no, because you would have been stoned to death, probably. Oh yeah, that dude with the sharp stick or whatever they called it. He would have killed you in front of everybody. The duke with his chopping stick, his big old saber. Yeah, the chopping stick.
01:42:01
Speaker
That was funny. Honestly though, we want to talk about petulant princes, a lot of people have opinions about Prince William these days too, that we don't have no time to get into here, but I've always been more of a hairy girl myself, but that's neither there. I can't stand either of them. Maybe I'm just too young. i the like It's like, you know, the the the royalty, the palace, it's like the crown. It's like those kinds of shit that I can't really stand.
01:42:36
Speaker
you know and so yeah don't know whatever like i said i don't want get into it but like it kind of makes me happy that like at least one of the brothers kind of got away from the royal family a little bit because it does seem like a really stifling way to live under earth scrutiny of being a oh yeah british royal or whatever yeah yeah and then like losing your mom at such a young age and her being forever like such a figure in like your whole country right like that that people get to own her even when everything you do is so put on display and under scrutiny like your whole life is just on a stage oh that'd be awful i couldn't stand anything like that whether yeah like any sort of public eye like that i
01:43:29
Speaker
do not envy people that like have every minute of their life scrutinized. Right. Because everybody has done something. if you decide you want to like take somebody down or whatever, you...
01:43:51
Speaker
especially nowadays with everything like online, they'll find something. Yeah. who wants to grow up in that like limelight and, and nowadays, yeah, you can put your, your kids on center stage and it's kind of awful because they should be able to make mistakes and stuff and not have the whole world be like, what is happening? Yeah. It's gross. Like, I feel like i was like, by the time I graduated, it was like, it was starting to happen where like, ok people were starting to take phones to like house parties. And because there was a few pictures of me that ended up online of me throwing up in toilets. And I had to get, I had to make people to untag me from these pictures and stuff. Cause especially when I started trying to apply for jobs and they're like, we're going to check your social media. And I'm like, I'm fucking tagged in pictures thrown up in the toilet.
01:44:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, really? are' like I should be able to check your social media then. ah And it was like, just that kind of stuff was just starting to happen. Because at the same time, like maybe a year or so earlier, i would have friends that would bring like a digital camera.
01:45:03
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um to like a house party and they would take pictures and then they would upload like 90 pictures from their digital camera into a folder that was like some party or whatever and you'd like god i hope i have to scroll through these because i better not be in any of these pictures yes please don't post something without my consent which nowadays kind of more of common courtesy that you might like show it to your friend and be like hey is it cool if i like post this whereas then no it was a free-for-all Yeah, so like, yeah, people growing up nowadays, like, yeah, if somebody hates you, see you at a party doing something shitty, they're going to post it online, like, all that kind of stuff. And then 15 years later, when you're trying to become famous, I'm going to dig it up and be like, hey, this one time.
01:45:53
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Like, yeah, I can't imagine having your so your whole life analyzed like that. It would suck. I know, because people still would, like, dig up pictures where you're, like, yeah, to bring it back to frickin' a Harry reference, he dressed as a Nazi, or, like, Joni Mitchell apparently did blackface. Like, you can dig through and put people's sorted paths. Our former fuckin' prime minister did.
01:46:23
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Oh, yes. matt Yeah. And that fuckin', what was he, like, in...
01:46:30
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oh that was a costume too, right? Wasn't it? Yeah, he was like Aladdin or some shit or trying to be... Yeah.
01:46:42
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Yeah. Yeah, well, we can all grow, right? Yes, i think I think obviously if somebody does something like that in their past and they still like are acting like that or yeah they don't make their views...
01:47:00
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known or like that then yeah you can call out that of like or at least whatever but if somebody you can yeah if you can tell based on somebody's actions or what they've said in the current time like what they believe at that time unless it's something like a chargeable offense that could get you sent to prison i don't think we need to be digging up everything everybody's done and making people apologize like obviously unless they've
01:47:31
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They still think the same way or they haven't like made a position clear or whatever. But yeah. Exactly. Like, like firing Gunn because of tweets that were like over five or 10 years old or something from like Disney, you know, just stuff like that where you're like, okay like maybe if you've recently been like super anti this or that, I get why a company might drop you and like,
01:48:01
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That's kind of fair, but like, yeah, let's not go digging through people's past just to be like, oh, it's like, you know what? We were all kind of shitty early two thousand s There was a lot of shit that hasn't aged well in movies that were like, we wouldn't say that now. but Absolutely. And if somebody has shown that they've become a different person or whatever, I think you should. yeah like you don't have to respect that but I think you should acknowledge it at least instead of being like oh this especially if stuff happened when somebody's before the age of like 25 like i don't think that unless it's something absolutely heinous I don't think you should bring it up at all because yeah i glad I grew up pre everything posting on the internet um
01:48:51
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That's what I was saying. Like, i was at the edge of it, of like, it was just starting to happen. And it was just like, oh, damn, this isn't good. My mom's even like, you've got to get those pictures off Facebook. Like, they're going to find... Like, ah!
01:49:04
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I love the part on Modern Family where Claire's just like, and they're like, Claire, you got tagged, or mom, you got tagged in this photo. You're doing a headstand or something, my cake stand. And she's like, tagging? What is tagging? ah Yeah.
01:49:19
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of All right. That was a quick one, but I also have another quick one that's a couple pages. Oh, yeah.
01:49:30
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Yeah. Now that things are not going to be working, Alright, um... Still part of this title.
01:49:42
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The first part. Which was, The Riot That Never Was.
01:49:49
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So, from a riot to a non-riot? Yeah, but... Um, or I also called the subtitle, The BBC Prequel to The War of the Worlds.
01:50:04
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Oh, that's stupid. But we've all heard of that one, right? The infamous World of the World broadcast that allegedly made people scared that it's real. That radio thing, right?
01:50:17
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Yeah.
01:50:21
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Which is so funny. I was watching New Girl earlier. oh sorry. What? I said the original television. It's just sitting there listening to radio and imagining...
01:50:34
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theater of the mind they call it in dnd yeah which i learned ah from a show i was watching that they're trying to a challenge and then the girl said i have aphantasia and then i learned that was the thing that meant you're like not very good picturing things in your mind and i was like oh i'm a bit like that's a hard time sometimes when they're like picturing they're like describing a layout of a house and I'm like, i have like one house I could picture, you know what i mean? Like picture it one way in my mind. And they're like, the kitchen's over here. And I'm like, Oh, that's not what I'm seeing.
01:51:13
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ah But yeah. That's why I tend to, I don't know, books that have a lot of descriptions about like, places and all that kind of stuff I don't really for or I don't get into as much I'm very much like dialogue character actions tell me what's happening I don't really give a shit what stuff looks like I don't want to run i don't want to read six paragraphs about like what something looks like like just tell me they're in room tell me they're in
01:51:51
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a house whatever I don't need a description of like the paneling no whatever because I'm not gonna picture them that well anyway the carpet's green like I just don't give a shit like don't need any of that I know it's true it will take me out and that's why i used to have a lot of hard times with like any of the fantasy books that like say my mom would have around the house I'd just be like there's dragons and now everybody has a funny name and the world has a funny name and just like everything would just like, if it's not, it wasn't based in the little realism, it would kind of take me out. And then,
01:52:25
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ah yeah, hard to follow with the descriptions. I'm just kind of like, who whatever. Yeah. But apparently some people have hyper Fantasia, which also sounds like that Disney movie.
01:52:41
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Fantasia. Fantasia means the imagination or something. Like in Latin. i was like, that makes sense. I don't know. I've become like, I don't know. Maybe I have that.
01:52:54
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I have a hard time picturing things. It basically translates to lack of imagination. no. I have, I have too much imagination. So I sometimes get this thing where I, especially if I'm rereading something,
01:53:11
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yeah that I've read before where I will be reading it and I know I'm reading the book but I can almost like see it like I'm reading it it's like I'm watching it but I know that I'm reading it that's how they described it on reddit they were like oh what people don't see like a whole movie when they're reading a book and that's how some people experience it and was like we're like no like kind of jealous Yeah, it won't be like I'm like the first time I'm reading something, it doesn't necessarily happen. then
01:53:49
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But like second it'll be like if I'm rereading anything, I'll be sitting there and like, i won't even see myself holding the book anymore it's like I'm actually looking at a screen and seeing it like consciously I know I'm reading the words and I'm holding a book but I don't even actually see the book anymore it's like it's playing out in front of me and but I'm like but if my eyes are reading the words and I can't see the book anymore instead I basically am seeing a tv screen how am I still reading like yeah I don't know how to explain it because everyone's like I'll hear a noise in the room and I'll look up and be like oh wow like
01:54:29
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I'm here. And then it was like, but I felt like I was watching a TV show because I'm like, so in it, like, I don't know how to explain It's so weird. Because like, yeah you know, you're reading words, but you're not seeing the words. Because it's like, yeah, on a TV.
01:54:45
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Like, it's so crazy. It's like when they, yeah, they use that word engrossed when you're just like, yeah, and someone tries to talk to you or something and you're reading it takes you a second because you're like, you're like shake your head to come out of it.
01:54:56
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Yeah. Like not that I'm picturing it that much, but like I do feel like I'm kind of there the way. Yeah. Yeah. Pat will be watching movie and I'll try to talk to him and be like, sorry, I was like in the movie. Yeah. yes This is like, I won't even, like I'm not even.
01:55:14
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like consciously aware that I'm like not watching a show that it's like you're reading right now but like Yeah. It doesn't happen the first time I read stuff because obviously, like, I don't know. But I think it's because if I'm rereading something, you kind of know what's going to happen next. So you're kind of like almost half zone note where you're just like, like following along the plot, but you're not having to read every word. Something plays into it. It's like, oh, well, I know what happens next. Or I could tell you like, roughly what happens 10 pages from now. So then you just kind of like preemptively are like,
01:55:51
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going along with it. True. Must be something that's crazy though. I can kind of think all that. Yeah. Especially if it's a book that's now been made into a TV show and I'm like, well now I can kind of picture a face. Oh yeah. kind Like a random, amorphous, cool guy blob. Yeah. And see, and that's the weird part is because I don't imagine what characters look like.
01:56:14
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They are just like generic... right whatever so i'm like how it's not like you picture an actor or whatever until you like but it's like how do i feel like i'm like in this show watching this show when i'm not even picturing people like right i don't know so weird yeah i feel like i don't have like a detailed picture in my mind's eye yeah no yeah i'm just like oh we're outside we're walking yeah yeah I get the gist. It's like a dream where you just know something is just because you just know. Yeah. Yeah.
01:56:49
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Oh my god. All right. Well, we've made it through the title. So that's funny. This happened 12 years before the World ah War of the Worlds broadcast. Sorry, I abbreviated it. Oh, okay. I think in my head because it was almost the abbreviation. Wow, I went Worlds of Warcraft.
01:57:14
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yeah Yeah. um So this, yes, 12 years before and ah this was so 12 years before War of the Worlds broadcast swept the storm of fear over the radio waves.
01:57:30
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A priest went on air to report on a raging riot in London's city centre. So it's kind of funny how the last one was like, let's start a riot. And this one was like, is there a riot? Yeah.
01:57:45
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And also a bitter cold winter. oh no Oh my god. Also this one also happened to be on January 16th. I did not pick that on purpose. ah Is that weird?
01:58:00
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I had heard about both of them on one podcast. Yeah it was it's the constant podcast. What's happening? Yeah! January Although this one's in 1926, so I did realize it was 100 years ago. Like, exactly. Oh, damn.
01:58:19
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Crazy! Okay. Bitter cold winter, ah so probably more of that. What did I say? Restlessness. Yeah. And...
01:58:34
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i was like, maybe I got some of that mixed up because I also said that rivers were frozen and newspapers were late. But I do know that happened in this. Newspapers were definitely late. I suppose that makes sense.
01:58:45
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We're having a hard winter. The trains are not on time. It happens in the little house in the prairie. They have the book called The Long Winter where the trains can't get through and they're literally like,
01:58:57
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what it like twisting wheat together to burn and like grinding all the shit they have to make for bread. Cause they have like no supplies. It's so depressing. I'm like, at least our winters aren't that bad.
01:59:07
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I can get like McDonald's to like give myself some dopamine or whatever. you know Anyway, on January 16th, 1926, father Ronald Knox broke into a BBC broadcast that was discussing 18th century literature.
01:59:27
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oh does sound a little boring when they put it like that yeah but I love fucking Jesus lit literature um also hate the term chick lit always have hated that the fuck what is chick lit fuck up the only chick lit I like is those candies isn't that like the old timey gum yeah
01:59:56
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They used to be my favorite when I got them in Halloween candy. Oh, yeah. You get like one little box with like two of them. Two.
02:00:08
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I've heard people say chiclet teeth for like big whites. Yes. That's what they called my two front teeth because mine are like so. Yeah. People used to say that to me.
02:00:20
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I think I heard Pat say it about Evangeline Lilly that plays Kate on Lost. I was like, oh, I love her style. I get it. and kind of do.
02:00:32
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So anyway, he breaks into this boring podcast are apparently on literature. And then he's like, breaking news. Big Ben has been blasted by trench mortars. It's been blown up.
02:00:48
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Jesus. The city is under siege, he essentially says. ah The poorest, most pissed off citizens are ransacking the nation. It's the unemployed.
02:01:02
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that what? Kind of sounds like the some fears that people could prey on today in some countries. ah Yeah. Oh no.
02:01:14
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Not the unemployed or the refugees. Yeah. They are now hearing how the famous London Savoy Hotel is lit on fire, which is like, that's Gordon Ramsay level. He has a restaurant at the Savoy.
02:01:31
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It's a fancy place. um Then they hear a government employee was being attacked by a mob, possibly even lynched.
02:01:42
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What? Oh my god. Yeah, sorry, that's a bit of a trigger considering I did cover that recent case where someone was actually lynched. So I apologize that this is kind of making light of it.
02:02:01
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It said, the unemployed demonstration. The crowd in Trafalgar Square is now assuming threatening dimensions. Threatening dimensions are now being assumed by the crowd which is collected in Trafalgar Square to voice the grievances of the unemployed.
02:02:17
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Sounds like this person just needs a union. i was like, even saying it to me, is that like, out loud, it seems it does sound like it's it's a parody. i don't know. It sounds like it's ah a sketch.
02:02:30
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But I guess, you know, hindsight.
02:02:35
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um And context was important. There was a lot going on, which led, you know, the climate of the time to be kind of ripe with sort of fear and unrest there was the russian revolution merely a decade ago passed for them the time um kind of love a revolution do you know like they you think about it the french revolution like they talked about it in yeah different history historical books where they're like yeah i kind of uh influenced the american revolution directly
02:03:11
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Yeah. Which like, yeah, I guess it's around the same time. you don't I always think of the French Revolution as being like way before that or something, you know?
02:03:22
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But 1700s.
02:03:26
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um There was something called a general strike already started in the UK, I believe. I've heard about that. I don't know much about it.
02:03:37
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Yeah, it sounded like, you know, people wanted better wages and things and it was maybe not a good time to be tuning in willy-nilly to something that you didn't know if it was um a sarcastic thing or not.
02:03:51
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A sarcastic story. It went on for 12 whole minutes, mixed with some breaks as was apparently normal. ah Which, yeah, just makes it seem more to me like it seemed like a regular broadcast.
02:04:06
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They said the riot was spreading across London, which prompted actual concerned citizens to call in to the BBC multiple times, worried for the safety of the town, and actual hotels were bombarded with calls and telegrams. Like, one hotel had like 200 telegrams being like, is it safe for us to come stay here still? And stuff like that.
02:04:28
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Damn. Yeah, it caused a panic a bit They said... The crowd had broken into the National Gallery. um So the BBC was per you know reporting, allegedly.
02:04:43
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But then they were like, wait, time for the weather. And they would kick back to their weather update.
02:04:50
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Time for all of the weather, like Family Guy. It's going rain. No, just kidding. Then they'd be like, back to the chaos where a philanthropist is being burned in Trafalgar Square. so he won't be able to make his on-air show.
02:05:03
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yeah it's like can you not see that be a joke they're like he won't be able to make it because he's being burned alive you're like well yeah might have been one of your first clues but i hope if this was actually happening they wouldn't be talking about it like that so jovially yeah like so nonchalant then they cut back to some of the live dance music that was playing at the savoy hotel quickly back to the big ben blast reporting and they were like boom boom boom lightning fast so like i think they were hitting it with the realism like maybe maybe nowadays it would have been like podcast award or whatever you know
02:05:51
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Best auto drama. They'd just be like, we, uh, even live broadcast. They'll be like, oh, we've blocked their signal. They're not transmitting anymore. Yeah. i think usually shecation off the air yeah bo They were now reporting the hanging of the minister for traffic from a tramway post on Vauxhall road, Vauxhall bridge road.
02:06:19
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Next, we hear the mob is marching towards the broadcasting house itself. Scary.
02:06:27
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And yeah, it said some didn't know what to think, especially those that had missed the intro to this ah broadcast satire skit, you know, where they'd said the following is a joke, a sketch.
02:06:40
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Oh my God. Yes. Audio drama. It's going to be so funny, guys. Like, you can't even imagine how funny this is going to be.
02:06:53
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going to be so funny unless you catch it right in the middle. You know what? People, they leave their radios on. They never turn them off. They never change the channel. There's only one channel in the whole world. So everybody heard that it's a skit.
02:07:09
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Yes. Like, every time there's commercials, you skip to another channel. because we used to not be able fast forward to anything.
02:07:18
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So I can meet with my radio, being like, I have a five-minute drive. i will not be listening to a commercial or both the DJ radio hosts talking about whatever conversation. Like, I want to listen to music for my three minutes. Okay.
02:07:38
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Yeah. I find less ads to skip through if I do listen to a podcast and the way to work rather than using free Spotify. Sorry, not sorry, Spotify.
02:07:51
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Here's 30 minutes ad free proceeds to give you like three minutes before another ad. You're like, okay. and Yeah. Your idea of time is different.
02:08:02
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Yeah. Same with YouTube being like we've or not YouTube. Um, No. All the ones that are like, we've formulated the viewing patterns of whatever movie to give you the most or least disruptive ad break times. And it's like, no you haven't, because that was in the middle of a word.
02:08:24
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like ah have experienced that on podcasts. Yeah, not so much YouTube. Jesus Christ. That's funny. Yeah. can tell the ads they don't get to put in themselves. Yeah.
02:08:42
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Okay, so once some of the details started to come out, I started to laugh too. They talked about the philanthropist who was burned in Trafalgar Square. um i guess they had said in the broadcast that his name was Sir Theophilius Gooch.
02:09:01
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like What a name. I know, doesn't gooch mean underwear? or something I think that's a that's a yeah word some places in Canada. Slang term.
02:09:14
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The mob leader himself, Mr. Popplebury, was apparently named on air as the Secretary of the National Movement for Abolishing Theater Cues.
02:09:27
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Oh my god. What a stance to take. What a hard-hitting, world-changing stance to have. Right?
02:09:39
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I love that the British say Q instead of line up for something. i think I saw it in a a riddle that was like, what's a word that's like one letter followed by like four silent letters and it was like q you Because it's Q-U-E-U-E.
02:09:56
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What the fuck is English? Um... Makes no sense. Yeah. We got that when I first worked at HMV. They used to call it cue. Oh, really?
02:10:12
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At our work, we don't call it a cue, but we call it a cue line. so like, but we, we just use the letter cue, like just the letter and then like dash. Okay.
02:10:25
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Like we like, Yeah, because I'm like, if we're typing it out, it's so it's faster to type a four-letter word like line. But also... But we would never say, like, hey, can you come to the line? We would say either front line, like, come to the front line, or come to the queue line. Queue line. Interesting. Yeah.
02:10:48
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So we're basically, it's like a chai tea. We're saying line line. Can you come to the line line, please? Can you come to... Yes, used it at the beginning of the month at my work, I should say. We call it the whole list of the automatic registrations to be processed is called the queue. Yeah, they're like, oh, the queue is generated.
02:11:15
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yes yeah. So...
02:11:22
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Oh yes, yes! So who had come up with the story? That was ah the Nox His last name was Nox, the priest. He was also humorist, though, who had written this story or skit, whatever you want to call it. So funny. Somebody burning alive and some being somebody being lynched. And fake, fake like bombings. So humorous.
02:11:50
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Hilarious. At one point did you think, I'm a priest, but I'm also really funny. Like, yeah the the really religious are not always known for their comical relief.
02:12:06
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No, it sounds super awful.
02:12:11
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it was I remember I was laughing and hearing the story the first time, just like, What?
02:12:18
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oh Of course the BBC did try to assure fans that it was all, as they said, a burlesque. That's not the meaning of the word I've ever heard before, but apparently they were trying to say, oh, it's just a joke.
02:12:30
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But like it came to a little too late. And also the newspapers were very late the next day due to much bad weather again. that recurring thing. So people in the rural areas were like not still really sure what was going on.
02:12:46
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You know. Whether or not they were actually that concerned, I don't know. But... Allegedly, the milkmen in Dublin were spreading the news by the next day. so hopefully they were telling the correct version. like yeah Yeah. Like game of telephone. Right.
02:13:06
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Game of telephone thrones. Yeah.
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02:13:10
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The... One quote conclusion I read says the affair led to national outrage and hand-wringing about broadcaster responsibility.
02:13:20
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The Daily Express thundered. A blunder by BBC. revolution Revolution hoax by wireless. People alarmed all weekend. they spelled it weird. Week-end.
02:13:33
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know no. French people will say it in French like le weekend, le hot dog. Yeah.
02:13:45
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Anyway, um Sir Leo Chiosa? Chiosa? C-H, it might be Italian, don't know.
02:13:57
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So here's the funny name. sir leoa Sir Leo Chioza Money, ec... I can't even talk.
02:14:08
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An economist and former government minister said, i should not have made a worse joke if I had rung you up on the telephone announced that I had murdered my grandmother. that also wouldn't be a joke.
02:14:21
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Right? So not funny. All these people should not be making jokes.
02:14:31
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He's like, yeah, he's not funny. I'm not funny. let's you Yeah, you're like, okay. Yeah, yeah apparently the poor father, Ronald Knox, was surprised at the outcome his little shenanigans had.
02:14:50
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Really? Yeah.
02:14:55
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And at this point, I do think I was padding a little bit with some quotes to try and get the point across because I was trying to get our notes ready the first time. um rock Father Ronald Knox. ah Oh, yeah. His birth date is 1888 to 1957. Was a giant of his time.
02:15:15
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Catholic priest, polymath, biblical translator, the theologian. that how you say that? Theologian. um no detective right detective novelist devotional writer and per the daily mail the wittiest man in england i think we disagree with that uh it sounds like he's doing too many things and maybe you should stick to i know because he's right
02:15:46
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Sounds like the guy in Superman writing for the Daily Bugle. No. The Daily Mail, biblical translator, detective novelist. Okay, cool. Yeah, like, the fuck?
02:15:57
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Where'd that one come from? Yeah. Polymath... You're, like, really good at a lot of different maths. Because poly is more than one, right? So it's usually like, yeah, you're really smart in different things. I don't know.
02:16:13
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But, like... Maybe he's oversawed himself a little. So he should stay a little bit in one or two lanes. Instead of whole assing one thing, he's half assing multiple things.
02:16:27
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And not good at any of them. I'm a man. yeah Yeah, I can do, i can look at one article and suddenly I'm an expert. I can just start claiming I'm fucking doing all these things.
02:16:42
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I'm sure he had no way to know it was going have such a effect, but like, Yeah, there was a little bit more, which I found interesting, or context. It said, um while he has faded with fashion, his life that this was the stuff of biographies.
02:16:55
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a full biography by his friend, Evelyn Waugh, in brackets, the life of right reverend Ronald Knox, and a partial biography by his niece, penele fits Penelope p Fitzgerald, the Knox brothers.
02:17:14
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Knox had come up with the idea while listening to the 1924 general election on the radio. Quote, I endeavored to visualize the breathlessness there would be throughout the country during a revolution, and I tried to imagine the news bulletins during such a time of popular excitement. I put my ideas on paper and then attempted to burlesque them.
02:17:37
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Oh my god. Was this this just a thing that, like, people did? like big fake out yeah yeah so like why could they not see that this would go horribly wrong right but then at the same time i do think that people will blow some of it out proportion saying that like people heard the broadcast of the war the world and were like committing suicide and i don't think that was as prevalent as they like faff it out to be and stuff but i know it does seem like really kind of careless to be like we'll just quickly say how this is a joke and then like use this new news medium to give all these quote unquote reports like yeah
02:18:30
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It's still a problem nowadays where now we have AI and all this other shit that we have to be like, is this fake news? Is this news that fits someone's agenda? Like, what am I looking at? Like, we have to be so careful still, you know? It's just like, ugh.
02:18:48
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Yeah. Yeah. Well. Damn. That one was weird. It's all allegedly people. Don't tune in halfway and think that this is real. I'm gonna, I'm gonna think next time I am flipping around radio stations and I tune in for half a conversation being like, what was the beginning of this conversation? yeah How did we get here?
02:19:12
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I got on Pat's ass about that. Cause I'll be like, sometimes he just tunes in and I'm like halfway through listening to something and he'll be like, they sound dumb. And I'm like, Well, they're being sarcastic. They're not actually going to, like, go blow up the White House or whatever.
02:19:27
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No. What did we do? We burned down the White House once. Some Canadians. It's fine. We're not always chilly, guys. Watch out. No.
02:19:39
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No, we just talked about rioting over sports teams. Yeah, we did.
02:19:46
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There's just, oh, I know, I know, know. This is our second part of this episode and I want to go on and on, but there's stuff I'm like, oh man, we could do like a whole extra of Reddit random saves this month for Patreon if I want it There's just been so much like gold on there and like, oh my God, maybe. i don't know.
02:20:08
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i know i know i know for ksey is tired and busy
02:20:14
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i just can't remember because i was like there was one that got like i was like this got picked up and like talked about by like three different like podcasts patreons i listened to and then it was like they're just in these juicy like subreddits like wedding drama and like oh there's one i started reading that's called girl dinner diaries and it's a picture of whatever random thing that chick is like eating for dinner that night. And then it would be like, yes, I found out my boyfriend of two years is living a triple life. And you're like, wait, what?
02:20:47
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And I'm like, so locked into these like stories. Yeah. i was saying it to Pat earlier. I'm like, oh, do like a whole like Reddit random saves where I just regale Kelsey with all these drama ones I've been saving.
02:21:02
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So much fun.
02:21:07
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Anyway, if anybody's been following the Jamily drama, that's the one that came up on multiple. The what? Jamily. was about the couple, like, kind of like an under our bridezilla sort of post where, like, the couple is called Jamily because it's, like, Emily and, like, Jacob or something.
02:21:28
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it was, like, I would see it pop up on someone's, like, Patreon and be like, oh I've heard of Jamily.
02:21:38
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Did not say that i was going to talk about that? I really wanted to, but I'll save it for a Patreon. It's it's not even... It's just kind of silly. It's like, am I overacting? like but're We're holding like a ah a picnic to like plan the engagement party, and already I feel like this is a lot to take on as like a bridesmaid or whatever.
02:21:59
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And you're like, yeah. That does sound like it's going to be like a lot of fucking events that you need to attend. And I'm sorry, but... I would never make my fucking wedding or something like, I don't know, that much of somebody else's life, you know? It's like, ew.
02:22:17
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Yeah. I have a job. I don't need, like, an extracurricular, like, party planning committee. i'm not Angela. Right? ah Yeah, it can... Some of it's gotten a a lot too much.
02:22:34
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Oh, yeah. They had, like, a binder, and it was, like, it was like no Angela or something. it was like, why can't we talk about Angela? What is the backstory here?
02:22:45
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Anyway, I'll bring it, we're doing, we're going on something for our Reddit or our Patreon right now, but then we also do ones where it'd be like random saves and funny things and, I like it when bring like robot fail videos like when you're trying to run mar marathons and this. I haven't had a... I keep getting the same ones recently. i haven't had too many like new ones show up. i'm like oh this is a lot of the same clips.
02:23:12
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I got that like dancing panda on the parade float again. that like a person dressed up like the panda that's just like dancing.
02:23:22
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I said, did Oh, did you? Okay, good. okay. Maybe it didn't look then. Sounds like Katy Perry when her left shark guy just didn't dance right and he went kind of viral for being like, I'm a sad left shark in a shark costume.
02:23:39
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Oh, no, this person. causez all No, we we did it on one of the Reddit. okay <unk> or whatever because the the rest of the parade they're all kind of just like standing there on the float then this person is like on their knees like headbanging and like just giving her and this like inflatable panda costume and everybody else beside them is just like standing there waving just like no know out at the crowd on this everything's fine yeah and this person's just like crap like amazing
02:24:12
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And they're like, yeah, that one person gives 110% at their job. This person probably has a headache.
02:24:23
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like Yeah, they're in costume headbanging. You're like, okay. Oh, I love it. Okay, I'll have to go look for that because it does sound hilarious. Yeah, it was a while ago. It might have been like one of the first ones we did.
02:24:38
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nice. I love the one with all the robots are trying to like run that race or that marathon or something I watched and they were just like falling to pieces. Yeah. i go So bad. I'm not too worried about AI or robots taking over the world when I watch those ones.
02:24:57
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ah I'm more, I'm not worried about it taking over. I'm worried about all our resources and how the quality of everything's going to tank. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. People stop. Like, they use it to take over their writing and shit like that. Yeah.
02:25:14
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Well... shit, I gotta plug mine in. won't ever. writing... We don't ever use chat GPT, yeah. No, I never have.
02:25:26
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I don't use it for anything. i use spellcheck. That's the smartest thing that... but I don't mind when someone else uses it to input my D&D description and then they come up with like, ooh, this is what your character looks like with your tiefling horns. And I'm like, she's kind of hot. But then, yeah, I'm like, no.
02:25:44
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I don't need to put everything to chat to your T. I don't even know that works, okay? I know. that's a Stay away from it. don't need that.
02:25:56
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Yeah. Ain't nobody got time for that. Yeah. We're in our Ugh. Yeah. Alright. I just had to skewer you. Did that make you feel seen? That you're in your 30s? You're like, i'm on the I'm almost out of my 30s. Yeah. Time's flying by.
02:26:22
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Fucking flying. Thanks for sticking with us. Yeah, this is gonna be a long one. I don't know how long my segment was. Again, it was like a week ago. but True. I'll keep it as one though. Cause I feel like the other one we kind of split into two.
02:26:39
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yours was an hour. That's all good. all right. Well. Yeah. What are we doing next week?
02:26:52
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I can't even remember. ah folktales I have written down from African countries. Yeah. Yeah. Should be very fun. It's been a while since we did ah a folklore or like a researching of a specific, like specific country. Yeah.
02:27:13
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Yeah, I think you suggested it and i was like, I like that. Yeah, it's nice. I like learning about different places and history different people and like stories and everything.
02:27:28
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Did I? Sorry. My... Well, our one of our last cryptid episodes, and I was talking with the folklore of like, the tatsel worm guy and other fire drake-y kind of guys who were, like, snakes, but kind of, fire like, draggony. And then I was like, the Fafnir. And then i was listening to Drinking the Kool-Aid, and she, like, did a story from Norse folklore about the origin of the Fafnir, and then some other people. And i was like, oh, okay. I had heard of him, but not his, like... But then it was starting to, was like, the name sounded familiar. And then when he said he was guarding treasure, dragon treasure, I was like, oh, I know these guys. That's always fun to hear that, like, out in the wild where you're like, I just covered you. Yeah.
02:28:17
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Yeah, I love that. I love hearing something and being like, oh I know about this because I talked about it or Kelsey told me all about it. Yeah.
02:28:28
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It's... I like learning about the world. So fun. Folklore is fun. Weird dark history is fun. True kind. Not always fun, but interesting.
02:28:41
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Yes. So we still do it. Yeah, for sure. Educational. Yeah. All right. Catch you next time.
02:28:51
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and i
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