ScrubMode

ScrubMode

By Julio Adan VillanuevaComedy
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  • Giants

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    The gang talks about Giants in this one. The five true giants of DnD, the Giant Cheez-it, and some giants from around the world.


    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

    • https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/201708/what-are-the-creative-origins-of-the-storm-giant

    • Spooky Archaeology by Jeb Card.

    • https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington1929

    • http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Mi-Ni/Monsters.html

    • https://archive.org/stream/senecalegendymyth00curtrich/senecalegendymyth00curtrich_djvu.txt

    • https://sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/dow/dow73.htm

    • https://yokai.com/umibouzu/

      • https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/gentiles/ar-62712/

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olentzero

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispolin

      • https://medium.com/five-guys-facts/carnivorous-plants-d347b9706179

      • And the 5th Ed Monster Manual

        • 1 hr 7 min
      • Jinn and Jinn accesories
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        This episode we're talking the hidden ones, the beings of smokeless fire, genies AKA the Jinn. Fascinating creatures with huge folkloric foot print that stretches from Morocco to Indonesia, and from the pre-Islamic age all the way to today. We talk about traditional ways of placating or defending against the Jinn. Plus, some modern 'tactical' Jinn hunting techniques found on YouTube. We also look at the specific types of Jinn in both DnD and folklore, such as the Efreet, Marid, Hinn and Ghoul.
        Sources
        Big thanks to our main source Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn Amira El-Zein. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/316/islam-arabs-and-intelligent-world-of-the-jinn/
        https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k7ekv/what-are-jinn-arab-spirits
        https://www.islamawareness.net/Jinn/hyjinn.html
        https://www.birgun.net/haber/ankara-mayor-gokcek-gulen-has-jinns-he-controls-people-with-them-121670
        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181833/
        https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofun0000curr/page/196/mode/2up?view=theater
        And the 5th Ed Monster Manual
        Some Modern Jinn Defense Techniques
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlCBHMWg1bw
        https://youtu.be/Gb2BKjebQjI?si=tHvF3Mr7ichmPMnV&t=393
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtq-4iXJaMQ
        58 min
      • Grab Bag of Weird and Spooky Stories

        Jon needs a little more time to research the next episode so we're going to the grab bag for cool monsters and tales that're too short to be their own episodes. We talk about a gurgling tree dolphin, a brain eating bear, friendly vampires, a real-life super villain, and a real-life Scooby Doo case with tragic consequences.


        For more on the vampires be sure to check out the great CM Kosemen's full lecture on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxs4dgiItwA

        1 hr 6 min
      • Gargoyles and Ghosts

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        This week we have some paranormal hot goss for you (at least at time of recording). Then we're talking about gargoyles and their weird path from hyper-local french dragon to DnD monster. We also talk about ghosts. Are these spooks really universal? Also the oldest haunted house story ever recorded, and it's weird connection to Red Lobster.

        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle 

        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle_(monster)

        • https://ascholarlyskater.com/2013/12/02/la-gargouille-the-evil-dragon-gargoyle-of-rouen/

        • https://lainhart.medium.com/legend-of-the-gargoyle-5c30e063a37f

        • https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gargoyle

        • https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20211253 

        • https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70288/pg70288-images.html

        • https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12476/shakespeare-in-the-bush

        • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/725072?turn_away=true

          • 59 min
        • SMOKE VALLEY
          In this special episode we play-test a TTRPG system made by Julio. Thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music.
          1 hr 17 min
        • Flumphs and Such

          We have a jam packed episode ready for you. We talk about the new and unsurprising government report on UFOs before jumping to Flumphs, either the best or worst monster in DnD depending on how cool you are. We pair them with some of the dumbest but most beloved cryptids ever to spookily creep across the screen of a dusty old CRT TV: Rods and Fresno Nightcrawlers. Then we try to talk about Fomorians in DnD and Irish Myth before we pour one out for Dragon Ball Mangaka Akira Toriyama. Plus, Gundam, 2003 condensed down to its purest form, and is your cat's butthole haunted?!

          1 hr 3 min
        • [Insert Sponsor Here] Sponsor Us!

          Talking about Julio's interests leads us down some bummer rabbit holes, plus talking about fast food!


          Thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music, @jseonthebeat


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          1 hr 5 min
        • "IRL" Super-Soldiers with Tim Baksh

          We're joined again by Tim Baksh to talk about something really unhinged: "real life" super soldiers. Thrill as we discuss claims of outer space heroism, alien alliances, Reptoid fighter pilot school, space Infidelity, and several plot points clearly borrowed from popular sci-fi franchises!


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          Sources

          • https://www.wired.com/2012/01/obama-mars/

          • https://evelorgen.com/

          • https://evelorgen.com/wp/news/whistleblower-randy-cramer-tells-about-secret-military-operations-on-mars/

          • https://formspal.com/surfingtheapocalypse/

          • https://spacecapn.com/pendragon/

          • https://books.google.com/books?id=z7YSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

          • https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7eky8/pentagon-scientists-discuss-cybernetic-super-soldiers-that-feel-nothing-while-killing-in-dystopian-presentation?utm_source=vicenewstwitter

          • https://sm4csi.home.xs4all.nl/nwo/MindControl/project_superman.htm

          • https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/04/09/richardson-police-arrest-man-for-murder-of-college-acquaintance/

            • 1 hr 11 min
          • Dragon Turtles and Elementals

            Today we talk about dragon turtles, various sea monsters pretending to be islands and elementals. Yes, all elementals. Then we dip into the elemental theory of alchemy, and we promise, it makes just as much sense as anything else in alchemy!  We also discuss Disney movies, pig milk, and plague king Johnny Boss/Ianibeg.

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            Sources

            • https://archive.org/details/fourtreatisesoft00para/page/n17/mode/2up

            • https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/08/16/aspidochelone/

            • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidochelone

            • Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, book 9, ch. 4 (Latin)

            • https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667228/ (the original document!)

            • https://www.getty.edu/education/kids_families/do_at_home/artscoops/sea_creature.html

            • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus

            • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element

            • Treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 213–254. ISBN 0-8018-5523-3.

            • Seeber, Edward D. (1944). "Sylphs and Other Elemental Beings in French Literature since Le Comte de Gabalis (1670)". PMLA. 59 (1): 71–83. doi:10.2307/458845. JSTOR 458845. S2CID 163381869.

            • https://www.scribd.com/document/662798793/A-Book-on-Nymphs-Sylphs-Pygmies-and-Salamanders-and-on-the-Other-Spirits-Paracelsus-Henry-E-Sigerist

            • Early Galeb Duhr art, our beloved.


              • 1 hr 8 min

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            We're ScrubMode, a podcast about gaming, monsters and the intersection there of. Join us bi-weekly as we talk about monsters "real" and imagined, and poke fun at the goofier aspects of the paranormal…