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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome back to
- 0:27Speaker 1: the show Ridiculous Historians, as always, who want to thank
- 0:31Speaker 1: our super producer, mister Max Williams.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Bah humbug.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Yes, it's funny. You're nol Brown. I've been bullying.
- 0:40Speaker 2: I had.
- 0:41Speaker 1: I had a great conversation about the word humbug because
- 0:44Speaker 1: get this, I watched for some reason, three versions of
- 0:50Speaker 1: a Christmas Carol of the Dickens story in a row.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Why would you have done this to yourself, Ben, because
- 0:56Speaker 3: you know I get in situations.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Are you Are you okay?
- 1:06Speaker 3: Oh gosh, you didn't even let us get through our
- 1:10Speaker 3: Scrooge discussion.
- 1:12Speaker 2: Man, Scrooge, Scrooge.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Oh, I love that he used to be cool.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Oh man, he and I man, we had such good times.
- 1:22Speaker 4: That is That is.
- 1:24Speaker 1: The big secret we wanted to reveal to you folks,
- 1:27Speaker 1: long time Ridiculous Historians. You know that we have a
- 1:32Speaker 1: nemeses on this show. Well we have several. There's Cheryl Crow.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Sure, well, I thought we made up with Cheryl Yeah. Yeah,
- 1:39Speaker 2: we have a ceasefire with Cheryl Crow.
- 1:43Speaker 1: We also have finally returning after quite some time here
- 1:48Speaker 1: at the end of the year, we have the man,
- 1:51Speaker 1: the myth legend Jonathan Strickland aka the Twister and Noel.
- 1:55Speaker 1: You and I have spent a lot of time over
- 1:59Speaker 1: twenty twenty four talking about his return.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Yes, is this like twin Peaks the return? That's a
- 2:07Speaker 2: fire walk with me.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Alone.
- 2:11Speaker 2: More is a bit of a red Room type figure.
- 2:14Speaker 3: He's sort of like a demonic force that exists between worlds.
- 2:19Speaker 4: All I have to say is wow, Bob Wow.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Carm Embozia.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Indeed, sir, Yeah, that gum you like is going to
- 2:27Speaker 1: come back in style, never left, never left, still here,
- 2:31Speaker 1: and so has the quizter, never left, always here in.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Spirit at the King.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Yeah, at the end of the year, we decided, well,
- 2:41Speaker 1: I say decided, we came to you hats in hands
- 2:45Speaker 1: and asked if you would grace us or curse us
- 2:48Speaker 1: with your presence.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Which one's the spooky ghost in a Christmas Carol? Is
- 2:53Speaker 3: that Christmas Future? Yeah, you're a bit of a ghost
- 2:55Speaker 3: of Christmas future type figure.
- 2:57Speaker 4: Jacob Marley is pretty darn spooky. He's the one who
- 3:00Speaker 4: tells Scrooge he'll be cast in chains for all eternity,
- 3:06Speaker 4: dead by dawn.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:08Speaker 4: Also also ghosts of Christmas present has the two really
- 3:11Speaker 4: freaky children ignorance and why yeah.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Oh jeez, you're going from the original source material.
- 3:17Speaker 5: I'm thinking more Scrooged kind of interprets Scrooge is a classic.
- 3:21Speaker 1: I'm saving Scrooge towards the end of the year.
- 3:24Speaker 4: Which did you watch?
- 3:25Speaker 1: By the way, this is There was one from nineteen
- 3:29Speaker 1: thirty eight, which was way closer to the Dickensian source material. Uh,
- 3:35Speaker 1: there was one from the seventies, and I'm sure there's
- 3:38Speaker 1: an actor that I should know by name there. But
- 3:41Speaker 1: and then there was one from like a I wanted
- 3:45Speaker 1: to get a taste, you guys. I wanted a flight
- 3:48Speaker 1: of Christmas carols, so I tried one from the mid nineties.
- 3:52Speaker 3: I'll tell you what a good one is that I
- 3:53Speaker 3: kind of forgot about as a Muppet Christmas Carol Michael
- 3:58Speaker 3: it is so straight.
- 3:59Speaker 2: So is he ever emits the Muppets. It really works.
- 4:02Speaker 3: They have two Jacob Marley's and I hate that Marley
- 4:06Speaker 3: and Marley. It's just oh, I hate it with all
- 4:09Speaker 3: But they.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Have a whole musical numbers. It's good.
- 4:12Speaker 4: Yes, I know. I watched the burlesque numbers set to
- 4:15Speaker 4: it just the other day.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Do you also hate fun and Christmas parties? Presence?
- 4:21Speaker 4: Have you not met me?
- 4:23Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a minute, all right, So where any
- 4:27Speaker 3: ben where any.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Of the musicals you watched, or any of the Scrooges
- 4:30Speaker 4: you watch musicals? That's what I need to know.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Ah, the.
- 4:36Speaker 4: Oddly enough No, So the nineteenth That's why I was asking,
- 4:40Speaker 4: because I was thinking the nineteen seventy one seventies one
- 4:42Speaker 4: could possibly have been Scrooge the Musical, which is my
- 4:47Speaker 4: favorite interpretation of a Christmas Gerald.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Now, is that based on the stage production of a
- 4:53Speaker 3: Christmas Carol that's so popular around the holidays?
- 4:56Speaker 4: I believe it's it's independent of any of the I
- 4:59Speaker 4: know that there had been staged versions that use some
- 5:01Speaker 4: of the same songs from Scrooge the Musical.
- 5:05Speaker 3: That's the one I'm having a hard time remembering whether
- 5:07Speaker 3: the Christmas Carol that I know from my youth that
- 5:10Speaker 3: always would come around every year, was it a.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Musical or was it just a dialogue driven.
- 5:15Speaker 4: The one I love had Obi Wan Kenobi as Jacob Marley.
- 5:20Speaker 1: All Right, do the song?
- 5:21Speaker 4: Oh what the song?
- 5:22Speaker 3: I like?
- 5:23Speaker 4: The song is the don give very much? Thank give
- 5:27Speaker 4: very much. That's the nicest thing than anyone's ever done
- 5:30Speaker 4: for me. That's the that's the big one.
- 5:41Speaker 2: I did not know you were gonna say.
- 5:44Speaker 3: It's the song done at the end. The song is
- 5:46Speaker 3: done at the end where all the people have come
- 5:48Speaker 3: together to celebrate Scrooge's death. It's when he's seeing the
- 5:52Speaker 3: future of but Scrooge. Scrooge hasn't figured out that he's dead.
- 5:55Speaker 3: In this future. He thinks everyone really likes him. So
- 5:59Speaker 3: it's this juxtaposition of just sixth.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Sense kind of situation.
- 6:03Speaker 4: It's so it's so beautiful. It's such a joyous song
- 6:06Speaker 4: about someone having kicked the bucket. Not that I can
- 6:09Speaker 4: draw any corollaries to things that are happening right now,
- 6:12Speaker 4: but certainly I've seen it.
- 6:14Speaker 3: Is this when is tiny Tim also deceased in the scenarium?
- 6:20Speaker 4: Yes, in that version, Yes, tiny tiny Tip is six.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Feet under in that he succumbed to the condition.
- 6:27Speaker 4: Yes, he died. He died from congenital tininess.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a it's a tragedy, and it may
- 6:35Speaker 1: seem a small tragedy, but it is supporting.
- 6:39Speaker 4: It's a it's a it's a very short tragedy.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And this is a short lived bit you
- 6:46Speaker 1: could tell folks we have some big end of the
- 6:48Speaker 1: year energy. We're playing fast and loose with this uh
- 6:52Speaker 1: as furious fast and furiously loose, which is how my
- 6:57Speaker 1: doctor describes never mind.
- 6:59Speaker 2: So we are we're gonna love coologists.
- 7:02Speaker 1: I reckon, I don't know if he's a real doctor.
- 7:06Speaker 2: You know.
- 7:08Speaker 4: Can we just tokyo drift into the quiz put please?
- 7:11Speaker 3: This is the thing we got to fill time, John, This.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Is the setup.
- 7:16Speaker 1: So long time ridiculous historians, you will know that for
- 7:20Speaker 1: many years now, uh apropos of whatever episodes we cover,
- 7:25Speaker 1: our nemeses, the the Quist will come to the show
- 7:31Speaker 1: and then will subject us to a series of torturous
- 7:36Speaker 1: mind experiments.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Noel, you remember.
- 7:38Speaker 3: These, well, something of a mind freak that that that
- 7:42Speaker 3: that Quist.
- 7:43Speaker 1: So Jonathan aka the quizter. Uh you have been, as
- 7:48Speaker 1: Noel said, uh, lurking in the shadows all these many episodes,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and at some point there was something that in some
- 7:58Speaker 1: episode we did that in fired you to yet again
- 8:01Speaker 1: begin our old greatest of games.
- 8:04Speaker 4: Well, let me explain a little bit here. I was
- 8:09Speaker 4: the reason why you've not heard from me and so
- 8:11Speaker 4: long is that twenty twenty four has been sort of
- 8:14Speaker 4: a year of reflection and self discovery and self actualization,
- 8:20Speaker 4: if you will. I went on a sojourn to really
- 8:24Speaker 4: reflect and think hard about this animosity that has grown
- 8:28Speaker 4: between us, and perhaps wonder if, mayhaps there'll be a
- 8:32Speaker 4: way to settle things and have us all become friends.
- 8:37Speaker 4: And as I thought about this, I then perused your
- 8:42Speaker 4: episodes and something, something caught my attention that filled me
- 8:48Speaker 4: with such strange.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Oh, such this is such intense loathing, some might say
- 8:57Speaker 3: unadulterated loathing. Be any number of episodes, yes, but there's
- 9:03Speaker 3: one in particular that got me. And it's not the
- 9:06Speaker 3: one we're going to quiz you about yet. No, that
- 9:11Speaker 3: that I have to save.
- 9:12Speaker 4: I'm saving.
- 9:15Speaker 2: This.
- 9:16Speaker 4: This is more about Vikings, about Vikings and kitty cats.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Right, we did. That was a fun episode. Turns out
- 9:26Speaker 2: the Viking kiddies didn't have braided you know.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Beards and little little little helmets, little hoarded helmets.
- 9:34Speaker 4: Yes, I have. I have some Viking quizzes for you. Right,
- 9:40Speaker 4: A quiz A quiz?
- 9:41Speaker 3: Oh you're going to say blood, I'm going to well,
- 9:44Speaker 3: I also have I also have a long story about
- 9:47Speaker 3: Vikings that I'll tell you after the.
- 9:48Speaker 4: Quiz, and that's just going to be a present from me.
- 9:51Speaker 3: All right, all right, But but then season, once we
- 9:54Speaker 3: do that, we can have our little chit chat and
- 9:56Speaker 3: our little discussion, and we could have our little tete tete.
- 10:00Speaker 1: That's the most important part of the game, what is
- 10:02Speaker 1: going on?
- 10:04Speaker 4: And then after that, well then after that spoiler alert
- 10:08Speaker 4: for your dear listeners, I'm going to tease the reason
- 10:13Speaker 4: why I have come back, but I'm gonna save that
- 10:17Speaker 4: for episode two. So just letting people know now that
- 10:20Speaker 4: they're not going to get it in this one. It's
- 10:22Speaker 4: just not happening.
- 10:22Speaker 2: I'm sorry, so real mythology dump forget.
- 10:24Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I had some time. I woke up pretty
- 10:28Speaker 4: early today, so I just kind of threw this together.
- 10:30Speaker 4: Here we go. As always for those who are unfamiliar
- 10:34Speaker 4: with the quiz, it is, of course the cringiest segment
- 10:37Speaker 4: in all of podcasting. We established that years ago, and.
- 10:39Speaker 3: To be fair, it's been a hot menace as we've
- 10:41Speaker 3: done it. So we're really going to bring the cringe
- 10:43Speaker 3: on these two episodes, by the way.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Yes, with a much needed refresher.
- 10:47Speaker 4: Yes. So this first one, I am giving you four scenarios.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Really in this case, it's it's four stories about Norse mythology,
- 11:00Speaker 4: but one of them is one I made up. The
- 11:04Speaker 4: other three are actual, let's call them paraphrased variations of
- 11:12Speaker 4: Norse mythology, because obviously we get the word saga from them.
- 11:17Speaker 3: I'm not going to be able to go through the
- 11:19Speaker 3: whole thing. So that's what this has been thus far.
- 11:22Speaker 4: This is what makes it so cringey is that the setup,
- 11:25Speaker 4: the setup makes the payoff completely pointless.
- 11:29Speaker 2: Oh, this is just like I love a shaggy dog story.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Obviously, Well you're going to love the second half, all right.
- 11:35Speaker 3: So this is just ten minutes it all right? Game, Yeah,
- 11:40Speaker 3: I'll give you the four scenarios. You will have three
- 11:42Speaker 3: minutes to deliberate amongst yourselves to decide which one of
- 11:45Speaker 3: them is.
- 11:46Speaker 4: The one I made up. Three of them are real,
- 11:49Speaker 4: one is fake. I keep saying this because one of
- 11:51Speaker 4: you know, keeps forgetting the rules. And then if you
- 11:55Speaker 4: have a question and you want some clarification that maybe
- 12:01Speaker 4: I'll be able to give you because I did this
- 12:02Speaker 4: this morning, you will have to preface your question with
- 12:05Speaker 4: the phrase I sure am thor.
- 12:11Speaker 2: That's gonna be hard to do. That's that's a real
- 12:13Speaker 2: tongue twister.
- 12:14Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big l s am thor, Sure, I
- 12:17Speaker 2: can't do it.
- 12:19Speaker 4: An no answers for Noel, you go, here we go,
- 12:24Speaker 4: here we go.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Here's scenario number one. Of all the gods in the
- 12:29Speaker 3: Norse pantheon, and only one was known to carve pow. Yes,
- 12:36Speaker 3: Ula was the god of snow and the patron saint
- 12:39Speaker 3: of skiers.
- 12:40Speaker 4: There's a ski resort in Colorado called Breckinridge that celebrates
- 12:45Speaker 4: Uller every year. The Norse folks weren't overly concerned with
- 12:49Speaker 4: writing stuff down, so Ula doesn't show up often in
- 12:53Speaker 4: written accounts of Norse literature, but his name does pop
- 12:57Speaker 4: up in different places on maps throughout the Scandinavian region.
- 13:01Speaker 2: I sure, am Thorn.
- 13:03Speaker 3: No, you have to wait till the end of all
- 13:04Speaker 3: of them, Noel, see, I forgot that. It's only after
- 13:08Speaker 3: I get through all four all right.
- 13:09Speaker 2: I was just gonna say the carved pow.
- 13:11Speaker 3: Yeah you did aund it's fresh snow pow.
- 13:16Speaker 2: Oh you just like Apheim.
- 13:18Speaker 4: Listen, I did.
- 13:19Speaker 3: I did a restless ones with the guy who runs
- 13:22Speaker 3: Veil resorts.
- 13:22Speaker 4: I know all about carving poud now, anyway.
- 13:26Speaker 3: I'm not Achalana society to know what them he named Drop.
- 13:29Speaker 4: So in some versions of Norse mythology, he was sort
- 13:33Speaker 4: of the winter version of Odin. He would actually take
- 13:36Speaker 4: over the ruling of Asgard and the colder months, while
- 13:40Speaker 4: Odin would go off summering someplace warm, probably Florida. In
- 13:45Speaker 4: other versions, Uller is son of Sith and step son
- 13:49Speaker 4: to thor. Now.
- 13:50Speaker 3: The general theory is that once he held a very
- 13:52Speaker 3: important place in Norse mythology, but over time other deities
- 13:57Speaker 3: became more prominent and his role was diminish.
- 14:00Speaker 2: He was so like how Steve Verrkle took over family Man.
- 14:03Speaker 4: Very much like that. What an odd thing to say
- 14:07Speaker 4: with with no context whatsoever.
- 14:10Speaker 2: He was a very popular character, as much beloved.
- 14:13Speaker 3: But eventually faded into obscurity. Anyway, He's got his own
- 14:17Speaker 3: line of weed. He was Ula, not Steve Verkle. Uller
- 14:22Speaker 3: was said to be an amazing skier as well as Archer. Oh,
- 14:25Speaker 3: and that ski resort in Colorado does crazy stuff to
- 14:28Speaker 3: celebrate Ula, like folks get together and they make a
- 14:31Speaker 3: bonfire out of old skis and stuff like that. That
- 14:35Speaker 3: scenario one, All right, we got three more to get through.
- 14:39Speaker 3: Do we want any more commentary from.
- 14:41Speaker 4: That carry scenario two. Leif Ormson is a mythical king
- 14:48Speaker 4: in Norse mythology who was said to have conquered many
- 14:51Speaker 4: lands in what is now Sweden. Leif had the luxury
- 14:56Speaker 4: of growing old, and he wished to see that his
- 14:59Speaker 4: power would pass down to his three daughters. So Leif
- 15:02Speaker 4: promised each daughter one third of his kingdom if they
- 15:06Speaker 4: showed him reverence. Two of the three daughters did as
- 15:10Speaker 4: their father asked, eager to seize their own kingdoms. The
- 15:13Speaker 4: third daughter refused and told her father that to demand
- 15:15Speaker 4: a display of love and respect in return for power
- 15:19Speaker 4: was to be a bad king. Leif was so insulted
- 15:22Speaker 4: he banished his third daughter and divided his kingdom into
- 15:25Speaker 4: two parts, giving him to his two other daughters. Then
- 15:29Speaker 4: Leif discovered, to his horror that once he had given
- 15:32Speaker 4: away all his power, his two previously dutiful daughters now
- 15:36Speaker 4: dismissed him. He became homeless, wandering the two kingdoms that
- 15:41Speaker 4: once belonged to him, until finally he finds the corpse
- 15:45Speaker 4: of his youngest daughter. She had apparently died not long
- 15:49Speaker 4: after being exiled. His story was told again and again
- 15:52Speaker 4: as an example of a bad king a warning to
- 15:55Speaker 4: other leaders, and many centuries later, laywright by the name
- 16:01Speaker 4: of William Shakespeare would take this story and then adapt
- 16:05Speaker 4: it to become an English tragedy called King Lear Scenario
- 16:12Speaker 4: Number three. Niall's Saga is an epic Can you do
- 16:17Speaker 4: that again?
- 16:17Speaker 2: That was some real funk you put on that.
- 16:22Speaker 4: In J A L L. Just listen. Listen your Scandinavian
- 16:28Speaker 4: folks out there. I know, I know I'm not saying
- 16:30Speaker 4: it right, But luckily you can leave the voice, y'all.
- 16:34Speaker 4: You can leave the voicemail to them, not to me.
- 16:39Speaker 4: Niall's Saga is an epic tale that follows many stories,
- 16:42Speaker 4: in fact, so many stories that y'all himself doesn't even
- 16:45Speaker 4: show up until the second one. He and his buddy
- 16:49Speaker 4: Gunner begin the tale by going after a debt owed
- 16:53Speaker 4: by characters from the first story, but those are just details.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Really.
- 16:56Speaker 4: The entire saga is one of male fragility and ego,
- 17:02Speaker 4: in that the saga features story after story of some
- 17:06Speaker 4: dude taking offense for some slight, sometimes the slightest of slights,
- 17:12Speaker 4: and how that inevitably escalates into a catastrophic confrontation in
- 17:17Speaker 4: which lots of people ultimately perish. Also, Gunner's wife and
- 17:22Speaker 4: y'all's wife hate each other, and regularly they each beguile
- 17:26Speaker 4: and coax dubious people into killing members of the other
- 17:31Speaker 4: person's household, which leaves Gunner and y'all to continuously meet
- 17:35Speaker 4: up and figure out who owes money to whom For
- 17:39Speaker 4: the rare guild. Y'all keeps trying to lawyer his way
- 17:43Speaker 4: out of stuff, but folks keep doing dumb things like
- 17:46Speaker 4: accidentally wounding one another, which necessitates vengeance, which inevitably ends
- 17:50Speaker 4: with someone killing someone else, until at one point y'all
- 17:54Speaker 4: and ten other members of his household die by being
- 17:59Speaker 4: burnt earned alive in their own house. Surprisingly, the story
- 18:04Speaker 4: continues from there, with y'all's one surviving son exacting even
- 18:09Speaker 4: more revenge while everyone else just tries to figure out
- 18:12Speaker 4: how they can stop killing each other. For just five minutes.
- 18:17Speaker 4: It's a pretty sweet story, and finally, scenario number four.
- 18:24Speaker 4: Voland is another mythical figure in nurse stories. He was
- 18:27Speaker 4: an artisan and jewelry maker who, along with his two brothers,
- 18:33Speaker 4: met some pretty rad ladies down by the lake shore.
- 18:36Speaker 4: One day. Everybody paired up and sort of got hitched.
- 18:41Speaker 4: But then nine years later, the three women up and
- 18:43Speaker 4: leave the brothers. Voland's two bros head out to find
- 18:47Speaker 4: out where their wives went, but Volan decides to stay
- 18:50Speaker 4: behind and make a pair of arm rings some jewelry
- 18:54Speaker 4: for his own wife. Unfortunately, since this means that Voland
- 18:58Speaker 4: was on his own, a greedy kidnapped him in order
- 19:01Speaker 4: to force him to make stuff for the king's family.
- 19:05Speaker 4: He also cuts Volan's hamstrings, so that volanay.
- 19:10Speaker 2: Oh, god, that's the most Oh, that's the crewst cut
- 19:13Speaker 2: of all. Oh, just wait, just wait, like a festus gripped.
- 19:16Speaker 4: Volan then turns the table on this wicked king by
- 19:20Speaker 4: tempting the king's two sons to visit with Voland only
- 19:24Speaker 4: then Volan kills the two princes, extrudes their eyes and
- 19:30Speaker 4: their teeth, turns those into jewelry, and then gives those
- 19:35Speaker 4: back to the king. Oh and then he apparently is what.
- 19:38Speaker 2: The spin doctor song is about.
- 19:40Speaker 4: Oh yes, two princes, yes, uh, and just go ahead
- 19:43Speaker 4: now and then he apparently he apparently flies away somehow.
- 19:49Speaker 4: How is not entirely clear, although some versions of the
- 19:52Speaker 4: tale say he forged a pair of wings for himself. Also,
- 19:56Speaker 4: some versions say that the woman he married was actually
- 19:58Speaker 4: a valkyrie and that was the and that she had
- 20:00Speaker 4: to leave, she had to go back to.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Wick some divine intervention. I I I do have to
- 20:06Speaker 2: put for it, though.
- 20:07Speaker 3: These scenarios are so elaborate that I think it's a
- 20:11Speaker 3: little unfair that we can't ask questions uh in media arrests.
- 20:15Speaker 2: But I'm just gonna put that.
- 20:17Speaker 3: I agree, I agree, there's nothing fair about it. Okay, okay,
- 20:20Speaker 3: go on, Yeah, No, that's it.
- 20:23Speaker 2: That's it.
- 20:24Speaker 4: I'm done.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Okay.
- 20:31Speaker 1: So four sonarios, Yes, that's how numbers. We've missed you
- 20:36Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh so Ula and skiing, uh Leif
- 20:40Speaker 1: and the three daughters and homeless and discovering the daughters
- 20:45Speaker 1: uh n y'all and Gunner, which Noel, I think Gunner
- 20:49Speaker 1: is a super cool name. I'm like tough, yeah yeah,
- 20:53Speaker 1: and uh then voland the artisan all right.
- 20:57Speaker 2: So strewds that is one extrud teeth? Is that just
- 21:02Speaker 2: the same as pulling them? So we have to we
- 21:06Speaker 2: have to I didn't say the phrase. Sorry, carry on.
- 21:09Speaker 1: We have to play by the rules of the game. No,
- 21:11Speaker 1: You're totally fine, because we have to return to our
- 21:15Speaker 1: grandfather clock that we spent way too much money on
- 21:18Speaker 1: in the beginning of this show and start to it off.
- 21:23Speaker 1: I hope, so, I hope we did. Uh, this is
- 21:27Speaker 1: where we can justify it to accounting. I'm going to
- 21:30Speaker 1: run and start the timer three to one.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Look at him, scoot go.
- 21:36Speaker 2: Good job man. All right, thank you man. We're gonna
- 21:39Speaker 2: cut those hamstrings, right.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Okay, So, first off, we know a little bit about
- 21:45Speaker 1: the quizters mo O in our forensics Snool used to
- 21:50Speaker 1: before I screwed.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Up and pointed it out.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Often the longest answer would be the one he made up.
- 21:57Speaker 2: They were all equally long. The third one was the
- 21:59Speaker 2: long Okay, you're taking taking count?
- 22:01Speaker 3: I see because the quista likes his own words so
- 22:07Speaker 3: much that he spends more time on the fake one
- 22:09Speaker 3: that on the real ones.
- 22:11Speaker 2: I get. At least he acknowledges it.
- 22:14Speaker 4: That's what I enjoy. It's true.
- 22:15Speaker 3: No, no, I yeah, maybe this is a silly this
- 22:18Speaker 3: is a question for you, but I don't think I
- 22:19Speaker 3: have to say the passphrase. But did they really ski
- 22:23Speaker 3: an ancient Norse times? I mean, I know they were
- 22:28Speaker 3: they sledded, but skiing seems like a little bit more
- 22:31Speaker 3: of a relatively modern twist on that.
- 22:35Speaker 1: They had to get across the snow somehow, so I
- 22:38Speaker 1: would imagine shoes, snow shoes for sure, but for speed,
- 22:43Speaker 1: you're looking for sleds.
- 22:44Speaker 3: They weren't cutting the pow carving, carving, they weren't ripping,
- 22:50Speaker 3: ripping the the shreds.
- 22:54Speaker 1: I sure am Thorpe has been okay, okay, So for
- 23:01Speaker 1: voland the artists, Yeah, going somewhere with this though, is
- 23:05Speaker 1: uh Is it possible that voland the Artisan occurs in
- 23:13Speaker 1: other sagas or just in this.
- 23:14Speaker 4: Way completely completely possible. Yes, The one I was specifically
- 23:19Speaker 4: referencing is a poem that I think is around twenty
- 23:23Speaker 4: stands as long. But a lot of these different stories
- 23:27Speaker 4: appear in variations in different accounts, but the one I
- 23:32Speaker 4: was specifically pulling from, which is why I say in
- 23:34Speaker 4: some versions the woman that he encounters technically referenced as
- 23:39Speaker 4: a Swan maiden may have been a vaal kili.
- 23:42Speaker 3: I think down's real. I don't know why, no, no, no,
- 23:46Speaker 3: that's too soon.
- 23:46Speaker 2: It's too soon. We got to stretch this out.
- 23:48Speaker 1: I was just a little biased because of the slant
- 23:51Speaker 1: rhyme between Bolan and voland I thought, but that's too obvious.
- 23:55Speaker 3: That makes me think I don't think he would make
- 23:57Speaker 3: that kind of.
- 24:00Speaker 4: Him to do that.
- 24:01Speaker 2: You're right, also true, see all right, you weren't so diabolical,
- 24:07Speaker 2: but then it wouldn't be as fun.
- 24:08Speaker 1: But again, it's this is what I love about it.
- 24:10Speaker 1: It's like we're in the Princess bride poison situation.
- 24:14Speaker 2: All right, dude, here's what I'm meaning to go with.
- 24:16Speaker 1: Uh, Noel, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna think number one.
- 24:19Speaker 2: What do you think you think number one is real?
- 24:21Speaker 1: Ula and skiing justice once again?
- 24:24Speaker 4: Face once again, there's one fake one.
- 24:28Speaker 2: That's the faith one. You think the skiing is the fake?
- 24:30Speaker 3: Oh well, that's I agree because I'm sorry.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Sorry, guys. It's it's a little early here. It's actually
- 24:36Speaker 2: not that early. That's what this ten forty five. It's
- 24:38Speaker 2: early ish. It's always early somewhere. It's true.
- 24:40Speaker 3: I did immediately question the idea of skiing in that era.
- 24:47Speaker 2: You want to lock it in. I think we ought
- 24:48Speaker 2: to lock it in.
- 24:49Speaker 1: All right, cool, because we just read out of time,
- 24:52Speaker 1: So three two one locked in?
- 25:00Speaker 3: There's still time, yes, timbalt Bach, there's still in the background.
- 25:05Speaker 3: He could be maniacally laughing because we got it right.
- 25:08Speaker 4: Nope, it's so wrong. Uler is in fact the patron
- 25:13Speaker 4: saint of skiers. But there's a patron saint of skiers, yes,
- 25:18Speaker 4: and his name is Uler.
- 25:19Speaker 2: You also a patron saint of douchebags.
- 25:22Speaker 3: Well, I'm I'm really kind of positioning myself for consideration.
- 25:29Speaker 3: No shade on any skiers out there. I think I
- 25:31Speaker 3: think it's a Venn diagram. Not all skiers are douchebags,
- 25:35Speaker 3: but a skiers.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Vases of puzzles. All right, Wait, which is the which.
- 25:42Speaker 4: Is the Yes, I can tell you which of the
- 25:46Speaker 4: scenarios this is the fake one. It's the second one,
- 25:50Speaker 4: Leif Ormsen, the one that's supposedly inspired King Lear. Now
- 25:54Speaker 4: King Lear is based off an eighth century before Common
- 25:58Speaker 4: era leddy king of England who probably didn't exist. But
- 26:04Speaker 4: Shakespeare did lift one story from Norse mythology or Norse
- 26:11Speaker 4: storytelling to inspire one of his plays. It just wasn't
- 26:14Speaker 4: King Lear.
- 26:15Speaker 3: It was happlet you always leave a bit of the
- 26:18Speaker 3: truth within your.
- 26:19Speaker 4: Diabolical, hateful lies. Yep, that's well, you know, that's the game.
- 26:25Speaker 2: That is that is the game.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Wow, now I feel you know what. I feel like
- 26:31Speaker 1: one of those people at a casino who maybe is
- 26:34Speaker 1: getting too into gambling because we lost this one, but
- 26:36Speaker 1: I want to go again, you know what I mean?
- 26:38Speaker 2: Oh, definitely double we will we will go again.
- 26:42Speaker 1: I mean that's the story though.
- 26:45Speaker 4: Yes, yes, So this is something that a tale I
- 26:49Speaker 4: have told innumerable times, a tale about history and the Vikings,
- 26:54Speaker 4: because I believe most people are aware of the Vikings.
- 26:58Speaker 4: The Vikings have a reputation that I think is largely
- 27:02Speaker 4: unearned or at least at the very least misunderstood, perhaps, yes,
- 27:09Speaker 4: or due to cultural and linguistic divides.
- 27:14Speaker 2: Are you going to tell us they are actually a
- 27:15Speaker 2: bunch of sweethearts?
- 27:17Speaker 4: Listen? Vikings used to do no choice. Vikings used to
- 27:21Speaker 4: have this this strategy right they They had a whole
- 27:25Speaker 4: name for it. It was recreational agricultural industrial development sojourns,
- 27:29Speaker 4: which is a lot to say. So they used raids
- 27:32Speaker 4: for short.
- 27:32Speaker 2: To stop it.
- 27:34Speaker 3: This morning, you're a monster, the Vikings dem The Vikings
- 27:39Speaker 3: would go on these raids where they would look for
- 27:42Speaker 3: peoples that were worse off than themselves and then find
- 27:45Speaker 3: ways to improve their well being.
- 27:49Speaker 4: But because there were often these linguistic and cultural divides.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Often those efforts were misinterpreted as acts of aggression. Allow
- 27:58Speaker 4: me to give you an exact There was this one
- 28:02Speaker 4: Viking captain sailing with his crew aboard their long ship.
- 28:06Speaker 4: They're rowing away when they see a small island on
- 28:10Speaker 4: the horizon, and as they grow closer, they notice that
- 28:13Speaker 4: there is a village on this island, which has very
- 28:17Speaker 4: few distinguishing features apart from a rather large hill toward
- 28:21Speaker 4: the roughly the center of the island, where there is
- 28:25Speaker 4: one prominent hut at the very top. And the Vikings
- 28:29Speaker 4: look out at this this little island, and the captain says, oh,
- 28:33Speaker 4: these people here, they're really struggling. You can tell they're
- 28:36Speaker 4: having a difficult time. Perhaps is time for us to
- 28:40Speaker 4: have one of our raids. And all the Vikings and
- 28:42Speaker 4: the ship agree. The Viking captain says, well, where shall
- 28:45Speaker 4: we start. Well, first of all, look at the crops
- 28:49Speaker 4: of this tiny village. They're barely producing in a grain
- 28:53Speaker 4: at all. What we should do is burn the crops
- 28:57Speaker 4: and use the ashes to fertilize the ground that next
- 29:00Speaker 4: year's harvest can be All the greater and the Vikings
- 29:04Speaker 4: all agree this is an excellent idea, so.
- 29:07Speaker 3: They just set upon them and burn their crops. Age.
- 29:12Speaker 4: Listen, we've all made some rather rash decisions while trying
- 29:16Speaker 4: to help people in need. So yes, the Vikings land
- 29:20Speaker 4: their ship, they pour out, they begin to burn the crops. Well,
- 29:23Speaker 4: on that hill, next to the very prominent hut, is
- 29:26Speaker 4: also this enormous bell. And next to the bell sits
- 29:31Speaker 4: the village chieftain, who looks down and sees all these
- 29:34Speaker 4: hairy men pouring out of a boat and burning all
- 29:37Speaker 4: his crops, and so he immediately rings the bell three times.
- 29:41Speaker 4: What this does is summons all the warriors of the
- 29:43Speaker 4: village up to the top of the hill, and he says,
- 29:45Speaker 4: these men are here to burn all our food. Chase
- 29:48Speaker 4: them away, And the warriors, brandishing weapons, scream and run
- 29:53Speaker 4: down the hill. And the Vikings don't want any trouble,
- 29:56Speaker 4: so they get back into their ship and pull away
- 29:58Speaker 4: to safety. And the Viking capt as, oh, these poor
- 30:01Speaker 4: poor fools, I have attempted to improve their lot in life,
- 30:05Speaker 4: and yet we have been chased away. So we show
- 30:08Speaker 4: away and get our new supplies and come back and
- 30:11Speaker 4: see how they're doing in the future. So they do,
- 30:21Speaker 4: they leave and a year passes. Well, in that next year,
- 30:24Speaker 4: the same Viking captain rows this ship all the way
- 30:28Speaker 4: up to the island. They take a look and they
- 30:29Speaker 4: see that the crops in fact have grown back, and
- 30:31Speaker 4: they look far better than they did before. But the
- 30:34Speaker 4: Viking captain says, oh, there's still so much that could
- 30:37Speaker 4: be done. Look at the homes these people live in.
- 30:40Speaker 4: They're barely keeping the elements out. What we should do
- 30:44Speaker 4: is very vigorously disassemble these homes and then use the
- 30:49Speaker 4: material to build houses in the Viking fashion, where they
- 30:52Speaker 4: will keep them warm and safe. And the Vikings all agree.
- 30:56Speaker 4: So they land their ship and they exit and they
- 30:58Speaker 4: begin to disassemble the homes with great favor. Well, the
- 31:02Speaker 4: AKA like pillage and just destroy. Listen one person's pillage
- 31:06Speaker 4: and destroys another person's home renault.
- 31:09Speaker 1: So the village the technical phrases they reverse IKEA, yeah, yeah,
- 31:14Speaker 1: I was thinking that.
- 31:15Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if you've ever read any of those instructions,
- 31:18Speaker 4: by the time you get to stage seven, you're ready
- 31:20Speaker 4: to tear stuff apart. So the village chieftain looks down
- 31:24Speaker 4: and he says, oh, the harry men are back, and
- 31:27Speaker 4: now they're tearing apart all of our homes. So he
- 31:30Speaker 4: rings the bell three times, So summon's all the warriors
- 31:32Speaker 4: of the village, and the chieftain says, you must chase
- 31:35Speaker 4: these men away, for soon we will have no place
- 31:37Speaker 4: to sleep. So the warriors, brandishing their weapons, scream and
- 31:40Speaker 4: run down the hill, and the Viking's, not wanting any trouble,
- 31:44Speaker 4: withdraw to their ship and head back out to the
- 31:47Speaker 4: safety of the sea. The Viking captains are these people
- 31:50Speaker 4: were just trying to help, they shout exactly, But of
- 31:53Speaker 4: course no one speaks Viking on the island. So the
- 31:58Speaker 4: captain says, we tried twice to help them, but we
- 32:00Speaker 4: shall not give up. These people clearly need our help,
- 32:03Speaker 4: and we will make certain that they improve their conditions.
- 32:07Speaker 4: But first we should resupply again. So another year passes
- 32:10Speaker 4: while the Vikings are gone. When they return, they see
- 32:12Speaker 4: that indeed the village has reconstructed their homes, but they
- 32:17Speaker 4: look far more sturdy and easily defendable now, and the
- 32:22Speaker 4: crops are looking even better than before. But well, the
- 32:26Speaker 4: Viking captain says, look at the children of this village.
- 32:29Speaker 4: They seem so sickly, those poor children. What clearly needs
- 32:33Speaker 4: to happen is some circulation of the gene pool, because
- 32:36Speaker 4: these are very forward thinking Vikings. And so the Vikings
- 32:40Speaker 4: land their ship and they set up what is known
- 32:42Speaker 4: as the first speed dating session.
- 32:48Speaker 3: Oh wow, they are speed dating at an incredible pace.
- 32:54Speaker 3: When the village speed raping speed rating dating, I know
- 32:58Speaker 3: that the connection isn't great dating.
- 33:00Speaker 4: So the village chieftain looks down. He says, ah, he
- 33:04Speaker 4: rings the bell three times, summoning up all the warriors.
- 33:06Speaker 4: But at this point they've got the gist of it.
- 33:08Speaker 4: They run down, brandishing their weapons, and the Vikings withdraw
- 33:15Speaker 4: get into their ship and sail off into the safety
- 33:17Speaker 4: of the sea. And the Viking captain says, ah, well,
- 33:19Speaker 4: thrice we have tried thrice we have been turned away.
- 33:23Speaker 4: The next morrow, upon the high tide, we shall sail
- 33:26Speaker 4: away forever. And all the Vikings are very sad say
- 33:30Speaker 4: same right. So then the village chieftain that night is
- 33:35Speaker 4: thinking about what evils have fallen his village over the
- 33:38Speaker 4: past three years, and he thinks, oh, those we are
- 33:41Speaker 4: bedeviled by these, these invaders. They burned our crops down
- 33:46Speaker 4: a few years ago. Of course there they look better
- 33:48Speaker 4: than they ever have, even in my youth, we didn't
- 33:51Speaker 4: have crops as nice as they are now. And then
- 33:53Speaker 4: they tore apart all our houses. And although my house
- 33:56Speaker 4: now is so much nicer than it was before they
- 33:59Speaker 4: showed up. And let's just assueration requires destructions, yes, and
- 34:03Speaker 4: let's assume that he had some grasp about the children. Anyway,
- 34:07Speaker 4: he decided, we've chased these people off, but perhaps they
- 34:11Speaker 4: weren't actually trying to hurt us at all. Perhaps they
- 34:13Speaker 4: were trying to help us. But now that we have
- 34:15Speaker 4: turned them away three times, how can we say that
- 34:17Speaker 4: we actually understand what they were trying to do? And
- 34:20Speaker 4: he comes up with an idea. He gathers all the
- 34:24Speaker 4: families of the village and he asks them to make
- 34:27Speaker 4: their specialty, which, for reasons I do not know, so
- 34:30Speaker 4: don't bother asking me. On this particular island in the
- 34:34Speaker 4: North Scandinavian Seas was peach pies. And so all night
- 34:39Speaker 4: the families bake and bake and bake and bake and bake.
- 34:43Speaker 4: The next mornings the Vikings wake up. I am free
- 34:45Speaker 4: mad at you. The next morning, as the Vikings wake up,
- 34:48Speaker 4: they look out at the beach and they are shocked
- 34:51Speaker 4: to see they can't see a square inch of sand,
- 34:55Speaker 4: not a square itch, because the entire beach is covered
- 34:58Speaker 4: by these peach pies. And they look out and they say, ah,
- 35:01Speaker 4: this is a sign, a sign that they welcome us back.
- 35:04Speaker 4: So they land their boat, crushing some pies in the process.
- 35:07Speaker 4: It could not be helped. And they get out and
- 35:09Speaker 4: they begin to celebrate with the people of the village.
- 35:11Speaker 4: When they hear it, the bell, it rings three times.
- 35:14Speaker 4: They look and they see all the warriors up at
- 35:16Speaker 4: the top of the hill, and they freeze in place.
- 35:19Speaker 4: But then the warriors do something amazing. They lift the
- 35:21Speaker 4: bell out of its harness. They carry it all the
- 35:24Speaker 4: way down the hill, and they throw it into the ocean.
- 35:26Speaker 4: And that was the very first celebration of the no
- 35:31Speaker 4: bell peach pies.
- 35:35Speaker 2: You were fired. This was a mistake. You used it
- 35:38Speaker 2: up in my mouth a little bit.
- 35:40Speaker 1: You begged me to come on here, say the bunch
- 35:45Speaker 1: live World War time.
- 35:47Speaker 4: Say yes, the first celebration of the no bell peach
- 35:50Speaker 4: pie from pie.
- 35:52Speaker 3: I was going to pose it that it was the
- 35:55Speaker 3: actual origin story of the very first Thanksgiving.
- 35:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that too, I love I love the pun.
- 36:02Speaker 1: You're right, we did. We did invite you on here.
- 36:06Speaker 1: I think with that, No, we got a hot hand here,
- 36:10Speaker 1: what'd you call it? When we were in Vegas? We
- 36:12Speaker 1: got it like a good table.
- 36:13Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
- 36:14Speaker 3: I didn't have that in life.
- 36:18Speaker 2: As evidenced by this charade.
- 36:20Speaker 3: I think I have sapped the will to live from
- 36:23Speaker 3: nol Hey, I mean so, yes, you just so. None
- 36:27Speaker 3: of that was true. None of that was true, Jonathan,
- 36:29Speaker 3: I believed you. I believe that the vikings were actually misunderstood, benevolent,
- 36:34Speaker 3: you know, generous, lovely genus.
- 36:37Speaker 4: Right, the whole recreational, agricultural, industrial development sojourns wasn't a
- 36:41Speaker 4: dead giveaway.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Oh come on, that's like fortification under consent to the King.
- 36:47Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many times I've told that story,
- 36:49Speaker 3: because literally I started telling it in nineteen ninety nine.
- 36:55Speaker 1: Oh wow, it was a good year, biscuits, Prince was
- 36:59Speaker 1: blowing off.
- 37:00Speaker 4: Twenty five twenty five years. I've been telling that story.
- 37:04Speaker 1: Well, the good news. It felt like years hearing you
- 37:07Speaker 1: tell me that was a short news. It never got better,
- 37:14Speaker 1: so we could say points for consistency. Jonathan aka quister,
- 37:18Speaker 1: thank you so much for hanging out with us.
- 37:22Speaker 2: Really, that's very heavil, very diplomatic. I appreciate what you're doing.
- 37:27Speaker 2: I see it's okay, nol.
- 37:28Speaker 1: Obviously I don't mean it because the.
- 37:30Speaker 2: Thing you say, but.
- 37:31Speaker 5: The here's the that was what they call on a
- 37:34Speaker 5: side in Shakespeare.
- 37:36Speaker 2: There it is, here's the thing.
- 37:38Speaker 1: We are going to continue this dangerous great game because
- 37:44Speaker 1: it must we well, you and I can't just have
- 37:47Speaker 1: the guy come back and immediately taken hell without trying
- 37:50Speaker 1: one more.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Time and we just spend time for the holidays.
- 37:53Speaker 4: Two things, One is that I do reveal and our
- 37:56Speaker 4: next episode what got me so angry that I had
- 37:59Speaker 4: to come back.
- 38:01Speaker 2: And two, it wasn't the It wasn't the Viking Kiddies
- 38:03Speaker 2: episode was angry. That was just caught a straight explain.
- 38:12Speaker 4: Really good. No, I will, yeah, I will.
- 38:15Speaker 3: I will reveal what got me so angry in the
- 38:18Speaker 3: next episode. Also, this is this should entice you know.
- 38:22Speaker 3: The next quiz only has three scenarios, Thank the sweet
- 38:27Speaker 3: Lord of life.
- 38:29Speaker 6: And I say, when you reveal whatever this this thing
- 38:35Speaker 6: is that's made you despise us even further, I promise
- 38:39Speaker 6: that I will pretend to care.
- 38:41Speaker 2: And I make no such promises.
- 38:44Speaker 1: I don't save stuff for the swim back anytime I'm
- 38:47Speaker 1: in a fight. Thank you so much to our our
- 38:52Speaker 1: dearly beloved uh acknowledge to exist, Nemesis the Quiztun.
- 39:00Speaker 2: Soon to be dearly departed. I've run it out, my
- 39:02Speaker 2: plans say it comes fruitions.
- 39:04Speaker 1: Big thanks for our super producer mister Max Williams Alex Williams,
- 39:08Speaker 1: who composed this track.
- 39:10Speaker 5: Who else though, guess Jonathan Strickland the Quizzler, Jacobs the Puzzler.
- 39:14Speaker 5: Hey j Bahamas Jacobs, you know you have sort of
- 39:17Speaker 5: a benevolent counterpart now, Jonathan, I don't think we've talked
- 39:19Speaker 5: about benevolent. Yeah, well you're the quizt and we've got
- 39:24Speaker 5: the Puzzler, who's a really lovely fellow, just.
- 39:27Speaker 2: A Cuban hug man. Gesh had a couture.
- 39:30Speaker 3: If you guys were in the same room together, a
- 39:32Speaker 3: rift in time and space would open up.
- 39:34Speaker 1: It like cross all Streams and Ghostbusters, and we can't
- 39:38Speaker 1: wait for you guys to hang out.
- 39:39Speaker 2: You actually would have.
- 39:40Speaker 1: A really good time with together, uh Rachel Big Spinach
- 39:44Speaker 1: Lance And of course everybody's tuned in. Please join us
- 39:49Speaker 1: later on in the week where we'll see if we
- 39:51Speaker 1: can get even with one of our favorite villains.
- 39:54Speaker 2: In the meantime, they'll thanks to you, Bud, thanks to
- 39:57Speaker 2: you as well.
- 39:57Speaker 3: Not super hopeful getting even, but going to give it
- 40:02Speaker 3: our holiday best.
- 40:05Speaker 4: Got a one out of three chance.
- 40:06Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see you next time.
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