Bring On The Questions

Vlad III aka Vlad Dracula (Son of Dragon) aka Vlad The Impaler may not have actually been a vampire nor did he drink human blood he did lead an interesting life. Him and his brother were taken in by their father’s enemy to be raised by the enemy. While Vlad’s brother, Radu, took to the education and propaganda of the enemy Vlad never succumbed to it. He became even more resentful and filled with revenge when his father was brutally tortured and murdered and his other brother was tortured and buried alive. All of that eventually led to his intense reign and brutal punishments eventually leading to him getting his famous nickname. 

Bram Stoker, the Irish author, took quite the artistic liberties to spin Vlad Dracula’s life into that of arguably the most famous vampire in history.

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We decided to do a little bit of a loose conversation on vampires and what we know about them with a little structure from the notes. This conversation has sparked another episode. Listen and you’ll find out what that is. 
The history of vampires and the idea of them with differing characteristics around the world is endlessly fascinating! For instance Slovakian vampires require hawthorn wood stakes to vanquish them whereas Russian vampires require aspen wood stakes. Of course we talked about the sparkly vampires from the Twilight series. Another fascinating idea is that sunlight didn’t originally destroy vampires. Formally sunlight only disabled the vampire’s powers. 

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Mary Mallon, otherwise known as Typhoid Mary, just wanted to cook food and care for people, but her biology wouldn’t let that happen. She contracted typhoid in her life and it never actually left her system. She would sluff off typhoid pathogens and many people around her would contract typhoid very likely because she wouldn’t wash her hands after going to the bathroom. Poo particles on peach ice cream! Yum! 

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It almost seemed like we weren’t supposed to be talking about this. We skipped a week. It happens. Then we recorded one evening only to discover, after talking for an hour and a half, that the recording stopped 41 seconds into it. We tried again the next evening and again the recording stopped at about 57 seconds. We checked that time. The app was put into a deep sleep mode automatically somehow and it would just turn off even if it was actively recording. We got through that and were finally able to record the whole episode. Could the machines be actively keeping human generated content off the internet? Surely not.

According to some kind of test it has been determined that more than 50% of the activity on the internet is generated by automated systems as opposed to human interaction. We won’t pretend to know how those tests work, but it does make some sense if you really think about it. 1s and 0s looking at other 1s and 0s and telling other 1s and 0s they looked at them and somewhere some bank account gets some more digits added to it because some other bank account lost some digits. Thus, The Dead Internet Theory is quite plausible. 

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Bohemian Grove would be the perfect out of the way retreat for the wealthy elite if they didn’t do those odd rituals. Sure rituals can be fine, but do they really need to wear dark hoods and have the voice of Walter Cronkite come out of an owl totem? That’s weird, but you know what, they’re not hurting anyone with all that strangeness. The worst thing is the fact they don’t want to pay the employees for all the time they put in to keep things running. That is the biggest problem with the place. 

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In Elon Musk Part 1 we talked about his personal life, some of his lineage, his upbringing, his many significant others, and his many offspring. In Part 2 we are talking about his road to becoming the United States’s first trillionaire. His method of founding or becoming a high ranking member of a company and then squeezing the talent that helped make the company what it is until that talent can’t be squeezed anymore and then alienating said talent so much that they quit or straight up firing them is both brilliant and horrible. 

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We are talking about the origin story of the world’s first trillionaire in this week’s episode. That’s right, everyone's favorite rich person to hate Elon Musk! His younger years were pretty difficult and all signs point to those factors contributing to the person we see today. He practices pronatalism too much! He has multiple children to multiple women and hopefully he has decided to stop procreating at his advanced age. 

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No audio issues this time! This has to be our most giggly episode yet! Once those giggle fits start it takes some time for them to calm down. We finally get into deeper descriptions of what Nessie the Loch Ness Monster allegedly looks like and her fellow lake monsters around the world. The mispronunciations are out of control in this episode too!

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First, we need to apologize about the audio issues that happened towards the end of this episode as well as the abrupt end of the episode. We recorded for about 1 hour and 30 minutes and got 58 minutes of audio…sort of. Will’s mic died around 45 minutes and Foennix’s mic died at about 58 minutes so this episode will now be a 2-part episode and part 2 will feature more lake monsters! 

We got the stickers and we got Nessie’s story…pretty much. Will is wearing his wife’s Loch Ness Monster shirt that they got from the Bigfoot and Cryptid festival at the Susquehanna Valley Mall in Selinsgrove, PA last year. The festival will be on August 15th this year and we plan to be there! 

Tangents in the notes?! Yup! So many tangents in this episode, but we did manage to talk about the history of the Loch Ness region and how Christianity was brought into the area allegedly. We touch on some milestone alleged encounters of the Loch Ness Monster through history and up to the modern day. The audio died most of the way through the full description of Nessie herself. 

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The Corpse Walkers are a fascinating piece of history. Respect for the dead and ritual practice turned into an entire industry of work. The idea that a person’s body needed to be returned to their homeland and buried in order for the soul to rest peacefully seems a little crazy to a culture, us, that doesn’t practice it. The body was prepared in multiple ways in order to be ready to travel. We certainly go on plenty of tangents during this episode…as usual.

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