Latest / Hocus Pocus Lack Of Focus / What The Fuck Is Wrong With America, Part I: The Puritans
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- 0:23With August Faulty, The Hocus Pocus Lack of Focus, the very
- 0:26uneducational podcast that fills your ears with a neuro divergent
- 0:29soup filled with ingredients such as witchcraft, true crime,
- 0:33paranormal activity, and a whole habit of shy talk.
- 0:36Today we are starting off our series that Ocean has dubbed
- 0:39What the Fuck is Wrong with America?
- 0:41Today's focus is on the totally chill and not weird at all guys.
- 0:44The Puritans who I will be referring to as the pure tans.
- 0:48I'm Brother Justy and for my sins I will be flagellating
- 0:51myself every time I mention ADHD.
- 0:56I'm joining today by the good Reverend Ocean Byrne who will be
- 1:00leading today's sermon and keeping us on the right side of
- 1:03God as we learn about America's beginnings.
- 1:06Good luck with that one greeting sinners, because of course we
- 1:10are joined by someone who would have been burned at the stake
- 1:13for her massive hits, let alone her sailor's mouth.
- 1:15It is the anti puritan, our Hostess with the most chest
- 1:20Nanny Homers. How can you help me with my
- 1:26psalms? And I just, I just think anti
- 1:30Puritan would be a really good drag name as well.
- 1:33Yeah, that's pretty good. I'm making a note we.
- 1:35Bring to the stage anti puritan. I already have my my drag name
- 1:41ready for when I have to go and do it.
- 1:42It's going to happen at some stage.
- 1:44When you inevitably. Have what is it, Gran?
- 1:45You're good thing. Nice.
- 1:48Yeah, it does. Yeah.
- 1:49Thank you. Really.
- 1:50Good. I know trademark copyright and
- 1:55nobody steal that. Goddamnit.
- 1:57Not that anybody listens to this.
- 1:59Brandy good thing is really good if they do like a RuPaul's Drag
- 2:02Race Arden. And it's and it's just a bunch.
- 2:05I was just a bunch of straight dudes being like, I came up with
- 2:08a name and that's as far as I got.
- 2:09To be to be honest. With you no wearing makeup.
- 2:12I've absolutely no intention or I have never had any desire to
- 2:16go and do drag, but when I came up with that and.
- 2:19When you came up with the name. I came up with the name I'm like
- 2:21I need. Yeah, you're like I, I have AI
- 2:24have a whole character I can do you're.
- 2:25Afraid of makeup, though? You couldn't do drag.
- 2:28Uh yeah, I am afraid of makeup, but I will I I would not mind
- 2:32being sedated and then wake up in full drag.
- 2:35Wake up in full drag. Makeup could do it, it's just
- 2:37the texture going on and. Being Yeah, exactly.
- 2:40Yeah, you can, Mr. T me into drag.
- 2:43I ain't getting no dress. I actually had umm, I had a
- 2:50gentleman umm over at the weekend.
- 2:53Oh, definitely not. He couldn't read.
- 2:55He wasn't a gentleman, yeah. No, gentleman.
- 2:58But he's Australian, so yeah, yeah.
- 3:01There's not as many convictions as.
- 3:03He had. Absolutely no such thing as an
- 3:05Australian gentleman. But like I, I literally, I was
- 3:08like, I was that because we were going out for food, umm, the
- 3:12next day and I would start doing my makeup, whatever.
- 3:14And he was just like watching me put my makeup on.
- 3:16He was like, it's like watching shit turned diamonds.
- 3:19I was just like. Nice, that was like a gentleman.
- 3:22What a what a fucking charmer. I know I was like.
- 3:26Jesus fucking Christ. Love that no anyway and.
- 3:29Did you still go for dinner with him?
- 3:31Oh yeah. Of course he did.
- 3:32Yeah. Psalm today, so.
- 3:35Yeah, you're, you're just like I know my value.
- 3:37And well, yeah, whatever. It's fun.
- 3:38Dick's good. It's OK, I'll put up with it for
- 3:40a while. Umm, but I'm like, I'm still
- 3:42like, I have such an avoidant attachment style anyway that
- 3:44it's just like, he'll be gone in a couple of weeks.
- 3:46Sorry. It's fine, don't really care.
- 3:48Getting free food and I'm getting the lay.
- 3:50It's good. It's all good.
- 3:51This podcast seems to be the longest relationship you've had
- 3:54in a while. Yeah.
- 3:56And it's mostly with you, justy. Yeah, well, look, I'm like a gay
- 4:00friend. She tells me about all the other
- 4:01Dicks that she takes. Like I'm just, I'm just her gay
- 4:06friend with dreams of being a drag queen.
- 4:11OK, Chapel Row. And OK, so I have been
- 4:16threatening to do episodes of Better America since my first
- 4:18guest appearance on this show. And the idea that evolved into a
- 4:22series, as Jesse said, is what is wrong with America or
- 4:25threatening. Like we were trying to stop you,
- 4:28yeah. No one's right.
- 4:29No one tried to stop me, you guys.
- 4:31I came up with a dumb idea and you guys do it.
- 4:33You watch, and we were. Yeah, but you were just like,
- 4:35oh, you'll write an episode. Cool.
- 4:37I I have to do very little this week.
- 4:39So yes, absolutely. Because it is.
- 4:41Normally supportive of the What's wrong with America?
- 4:43Because I still my conspiracy theory is that America isn't the
- 4:47real place and it's all been made-up.
- 4:49It's a simulation. There's too much wrong with
- 4:51America. When you look at, you know most
- 4:52of what happens in Florida, umm, like have you ever played the
- 4:55your birthday game of Florida? Oh yeah.
- 4:57Yeah, so if you Google, Google your birthday with the words in.
- 5:02Florida Man. And then the date, Yeah.
- 5:05And the date and oh man, and let me tell you, mine is the best
- 5:08because my birthday. We all do it right now, just on
- 5:11the birthday. Is. 4th of July.
- 5:13Oh nice. So if I go Florida Man 4th of
- 5:16July, it's just like man kills crocodile and or no sorry
- 5:20alligator and himself with, you know, homemade rockets.
- 5:24Love. That remember the the Florida
- 5:28cannibal, remember that was the thing that we all thought like
- 5:30the zombie was actually happening.
- 5:32Like the zombie? Because they, they had a, there
- 5:34was a particular drug that was like making everyone act like
- 5:37cannibals, the bath salts. And it was like, oh, it's making
- 5:40everyone eat everyone. And it's like, no.
- 5:42It's mine. Is Florida man accused of
- 5:44forcing small alligator to drink beer?
- 5:47Nice. It just sounds like an average
- 5:50Sunday outside a football stadium.
- 5:53I would do that like. That's that's definitely
- 5:55something that happens in Jacksonville.
- 5:57Yeah, regularly. Redneck fucker from
- 5:59Jacksonville, you go on. Just see what's yours.
- 6:03It's give me pop ups. Florida man arrested after girl
- 6:06hit with flagpole during street corner pro Trump rally That's
- 6:11American, Yeah. That's America, right?
- 6:15There flagpole love. That love that.
- 6:20So if you have any listeners from Erica as most.
- 6:23Of the world knows. Triggered by all of this talk.
- 6:26We do. We just clarify this at the
- 6:28start. Apparently we have a lot.
- 6:30We're very sorry. We're not sorry.
- 6:32We're not sorry. You saw, like a lot of this is
- 6:34said in good spirits. I like, I will make fun of
- 6:37Americans and I will make fun of the English.
- 6:40I will make fun of the English more than I will make fun of the
- 6:42Americans. And we do have a lot of English
- 6:44listeners. I have lived, I've lived in
- 6:46England for like 11 years now. I have a lot of affection for
- 6:50the English. It's just that the history
- 6:52that's there. Would you look at all the
- 6:53things? Say if I was kidnapped.
- 6:56It's it's just it's ripe to make fun of.
- 6:58Ocean. Ocean will make fun of
- 7:01Americans, eh? Obviously Australians, he's just
- 7:04done. And English people.
- 7:05I will make fun of minorities and ethnics.
- 7:09So yeah, Danny. Danny makes fun of all men.
- 7:13All men I'm I. I do have to say, though, if you
- 7:16are American and then if you're listening to this podcast, you
- 7:19probably share our political views.
- 7:21So I don't think you, yeah, I don't think you guys have
- 7:24anything to worry about. We're not.
- 7:25We're not coming for you. Specifically, umm.
- 7:28So in the interest of balance, we will find an Irish person to
- 7:31make fun of in the next few weeks.
- 7:33Well, Mexico. Trash.
- 7:35No, Erick Burke, we will make fun of Enoch Burke.
- 7:39Fun out a pox. Oh, probably with this is
- 7:43Americans who are listening to us make fun of random Irish
- 7:46people like Enoch Burke will be like, who the fuck is he not?
- 7:50Yeah. Exactly.
- 7:50He's a fucking nobody. Don't waste the Google.
- 7:53Don't, I don't even know who he is really.
- 7:56And I just he, he comes up in my feed all the fucking time and
- 7:59I'm just like I, I don't, I don't know who that man is.
- 8:02He just stands inside the schools from what I can see.
- 8:04I, I don't. It's, it's a whole mess.
- 8:06It's a whole mess. He's just he's just like born
- 8:11into a family that is destined to be victims.
- 8:13That is the and so speaking, Speaking of Puritans.
- 8:17And so as most of the world knows, there are a great many
- 8:19things wrong with the young nation of America.
- 8:21And they felt it appropriate to start with one of the many
- 8:23colonial beginnings that America has suffered.
- 8:26This week's episode, what is wrong with America, the
- 8:28Puritans. So the Puritans first landed in
- 8:31America between 1620 and 1640, landing in what would come to be
- 8:36known as Mass Massachusetts almost said that wrong there,
- 8:39specifically at Plymouth Rock. The most famous of these
- 8:43landings was aboard the ship known as the Mayflower.
- 8:45And yes, there is an actual boulder named Plymouth Rock that
- 8:49is said to be the very spot in which these freaks first stepped
- 8:51to shore the cursed continent of North America.
- 8:55However, said boulder did not receive this honor for another
- 8:58100 years or so because they just thought, oh fucking let's
- 9:00make an actual Plymouth Rock. This event is the founding
- 9:04moment of the state of Massachusetts, and indeed a
- 9:07founding moment for the European colonization of America.
- 9:11These guys formed one of the original 13 colonies.
- 9:14This goes right back to the origin of the settlement of
- 9:18America. Just wanted a boulder though
- 9:20and. I like that boulder.
- 9:22Not as a knife. They.
- 9:23Moved, they moved a lot. So they pointed where it is.
- 9:28So like it's it's funny to say like even like whatever, what is
- 9:34a 400 years ago there were no, it would have been 300 years
- 9:38ago. It was like 100 years after like
- 9:39you were saying like this start like broadcast of that.
- 9:42This is the rock, this is Plymouth Rock.
- 9:44So like it's just fascinating to me that like tourism and like,
- 9:50you know, a shysterism was happening so early, like where
- 9:53they were like. Snake oil seals the rock.
- 9:55Yeah, yeah, yeah. And but before we continue, we
- 10:00need context. Who were the Puritans?
- 10:02What is a Puritan? Where did they come from?
- 10:04Where did they get those little outfits from?
- 10:06Their little kitten heels, kitten heels, their little like
- 10:09starch shirts, they're silly hats, the whole shebang.
- 10:12So my favorite thing about the kitten heels is, umm, it's
- 10:15actually because the streets were filled with that much human
- 10:18excrement that they needed the little heel on the shoe to stay
- 10:22above. So they they're just didn't get.
- 10:24Sinking into shape, that is. Because like in like, yeah, like
- 10:28England at the time, it was just shit, honest.
- 10:30Everywhere if you go to, I don't know if you've been to the the
- 10:34London dungeons. Oh yeah, of course.
- 10:36Or I loved it. I thought it's great.
- 10:38It's really fun. Yeah, it is.
- 10:40And they get the actors are so much.
- 10:42Fun like great. I was dating a Welsh guy at the
- 10:45time when I went to it. And then like the guy, the actor
- 10:48had a fucking field day heckling him when he asked where he was
- 10:51from. And there was a whole like sheep
- 10:52jokes and everything like that. And then they he was like, oh,
- 10:55where are you from? And I was like Ireland and he
- 10:57just skipped me completely. He was like, Nope.
- 11:01When I when I. Was there can't be dealing with
- 11:03your trauma? Yeah, he's.
- 11:05Like, and I was there and there was a scene that was like a
- 11:08courtroom and the judge was like doing like, you know, he was
- 11:11doing crowd interaction work. That was the the one.
- 11:13And he was going from person to person.
- 11:14And then when he, he like looks at me and he's like, he just
- 11:17like squeezed me. He's like, where are you from?
- 11:19And I was like Ireland. And he just like like fucking
- 11:22knee jerk. He's like.
- 11:23Guilty, Guilty very good and. I was just like, that's very
- 11:29good. That's that's historically
- 11:31accurate. I love that.
- 11:33And they like and they love it, the actors love it.
- 11:35But it, it is a whole like the whole theme throughout the
- 11:38entire tour. And if you are in London and you
- 11:41do get a chance to, to do the tour, you absolutely showed.
- 11:44It's a lot of fun. It's really, really good.
- 11:47The theme throughout it is just and there was feces in the
- 11:50streets. And then we move on to this time
- 11:53in this place and and this the King.
- 11:55And there were feces in the streets.
- 11:57And then when this happened and there was a tuberculosis
- 12:00outbreak and we had to go here, here and here and there were
- 12:02feces in the street. How they like at the time
- 12:06they're like referring to Irish people as peasants and stuff
- 12:10like that as like, yeah, Irish people at least we shit and
- 12:12feels like. Yeah, we go to holes in a field.
- 12:16We knew how to dispose of our excrement, we didn't just throw
- 12:20it in our window. Yeah, they literally were just
- 12:22chilling chamber pots out the windows like.
- 12:23Yeah, and that is another. That's a whole other, umm, it's
- 12:27part. Of the pigs, like eh spread
- 12:29through London so badly because it was just like the whole place
- 12:32was just covered in shit. Is it another?
- 12:35Is it it's it's a Monty Python sketch as well that they were
- 12:39doing. And it's it might be life with
- 12:41Brian, because I think they did the same like, but they were
- 12:43making fun of that. No, it wasn't.
- 12:44It was. It was, said, the Holy Grail.
- 12:47Yes, thank you. But like it was like the someone
- 12:50walking through the streets with this big fucking like like bring
- 12:55out your. Dad, bring out your dad.
- 12:58And it was like, it was, it was like that back then, literally.
- 13:01Because. Yeah.
- 13:02Yeah, it was, it was someone's job as well to like scoop up
- 13:05that human shit and use it as fertilizer.
- 13:07Like, so that's what they were doing as well.
- 13:09Like so there was a guy whose job was like in every street was
- 13:12just have a cart like that. Like those bring out your dead
- 13:16carts were probably being used for shit before that.
- 13:19Yeah. Yeah.
- 13:20And so the answer to all of my questions, as it's so many
- 13:23terrible things throughout history, is the English.
- 13:26Did. You think, did you think that we
- 13:28would do an episode of this show without proving that a terrible
- 13:30thing was English? John Wayne Gacy, who we recently
- 13:33covered as English, a man that has ever existed.
- 13:36Do I need to prove that? How dare you question me?
- 13:43He does have a bang of Protestant often though I will
- 13:45say he. Does.
- 13:46Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
- 13:47He's definitely some weird like president.
- 13:49He's very much so Polish Catholic, but I will let you.
- 13:55We don't claim him. So we cast ourselves back to the
- 14:001530s England. Puritanism was born out of
- 14:05Protestantism, of course, and it was a bunch of religious
- 14:08hardliners who wanted to purify the Church of England by purging
- 14:12the last remaining traces of Catholicism from it.
- 14:15The English and their gripes with Catholics.
- 14:17Now where have we heard about that?
- 14:19Elsewhere. Don't know.
- 14:21Among their main gripes were priests clothes.
- 14:24They didn't like the vestments. They wanted priests to wear
- 14:26simpler clothing because as we all know, Catholic priests and
- 14:29bishops dressed like pimps. Yep.
- 14:32They didn't like kneeling for communion.
- 14:34They thought that was like a little bit, I don't know, too so
- 14:36be or something. And they didn't like making the
- 14:39sign of the cross on oneself, on your body.
- 14:41This is the literal meaning of Puritan.
- 14:44It's the 16th century. You got to entertain yourself
- 14:46somehow. Yeah, it's it's funny how this
- 14:49this comes about like when like this is obviously you're you're
- 14:52going to get into it like what it all comes down to Henry
- 14:57wanted to kick Henry the eighth wanted to write and believe and
- 15:02she didn't want to be a side piece.
- 15:03So she was like, you need to marry me.
- 15:05So he needed to get his his marriage in the old all this
- 15:07shape. So then so him who was a staunch
- 15:10Catholic, not only astonished Catholic, but was actually
- 15:13headed for the he was going to be going for a priesthood
- 15:15because he was the second brother only for his brother.
- 15:19Eh, his older brother actor died.
- 15:21He would have been like the Archbishop of fucking SO.
- 15:26Whatever the he was the Prince Andrew of his day.
- 15:29Yes, yeah, yeah. Eh, I don't know.
- 15:34I don't know if he was as Nancy, but umm.
- 15:38I mean what? It's a safe.
- 15:39Bet yeah, now that I come to say it, like they're all nonsense,
- 15:44but eh, yeah, like so the fact that so he couldn't get his
- 15:50marriage annulled. So decided to like all this like
- 15:55he couldn't have given a fuck about the Reformation,
- 15:59Lutherism, Calvinism, couldn't give a fuck about any of that.
- 16:02Well, because he needed, he wanted his son, eh, catching up,
- 16:08arrogant, not not doing the job. So like he he wanted to settle
- 16:13in for he wants, he wants to get with Amberlin.
- 16:16He changed his religion, a change to religion of England.
- 16:21Of the whole country. So that he could get his end
- 16:23away with this Amberlin chick, this French bitch.
- 16:28And then he, he, it's, it's just funny how like, what way like
- 16:34America would not be the America that we know now.
- 16:37Ireland would be the Ireland that we know now.
- 16:40England definitely won't be the England that we know now.
- 16:43Had the Pope of the time just annulled his marriage?
- 16:48Yes, yeah. Yeah.
- 16:49So, so all this kind of happens. So like he ends up haven't
- 16:53Edward was a son, but his his son was sick and gay and 15 and
- 16:59he died and eh, so then like it's this is where we we play
- 17:04halfway or what religions in England and it gets really
- 17:07contentious. So like, yeah, after Edward
- 17:09dies, Mary takes over his eldest daughter who's a staunch
- 17:13Catholic. And then once they reform
- 17:15England back to Catholicism, she gets spoken gone and Elizabeth
- 17:19comes in and Elizabeth being a Protestant then brings
- 17:22Protestants and back eh around. And that's this is when we start
- 17:27seeing like Elizabeth being in power is a big deal because
- 17:32first of all, England is at war with the Spanish.
- 17:34Spanish are after been fucking colonies in South America like
- 17:38crazy. Now, North America, there's
- 17:40people over there killing Beavers and fucking and you
- 17:43know, and locals and doing whatever they're doing, you
- 17:45know, skinning and being skinned skin and Beavers are being
- 17:48skinned by eh indigenous Americans and they realize, oh,
- 17:53we need to eh, we need to settle this place.
- 17:57And that's when Elizabeth like that, that would have been in
- 18:00around 15 eighties if I'm, I'm right that she's like, yeah, we
- 18:04need to get people in there to start, eh, to start settling.
- 18:08And it's not that easy to get people to to convince people to
- 18:14come over as a colony to set like, it's easy to get people
- 18:18over if you can say, listen, you if you go over there, there's
- 18:21riches beyond your your wildest dreams.
- 18:23Like, yeah. Like the the allure of the new
- 18:26world. Yes, but people were coming back
- 18:28and being like, OK, the fur trade is kind of being taken
- 18:32over. They hadn't really realized what
- 18:33tobacco was yet and how much that was going to be.
- 18:36Eh, yeah, like, you know that that could make people rich, but
- 18:40they didn't know yet. They certainly didn't know about
- 18:43all the gold yet. But yes, it was like, what I was
- 18:45going to say is it wasn't yielding gold like South America
- 18:48was. Like, yeah, old rushes in
- 18:49America didn't really happen until like, the 1800s.
- 18:52This. Yeah.
- 18:53Yeah. So like that.
- 18:53That would have been. Hundreds.
- 18:54Yeah, in California and stuff like that.
- 18:57So like it's it's funny how this like all this kind of tumble
- 19:01fork of events had to happen before we get to what you're
- 19:04gonna explain that was that the the Puritans, but it's all
- 19:08English politics gets us to where we are and eh.
- 19:13And yes, for some reason, the kind of weird way that
- 19:18Protestantism breaks it like breaks itself.
- 19:22Well, because Catholicism is so old, there's kind of just one
- 19:25Catholicism. So like, so when people broke
- 19:29off and made Protestantism, which basically is like just,
- 19:33it's like the new cork of Catholicism.
- 19:35You know what I mean? Like, let's, let's put new
- 19:36ingredients into Christianity, but all these different sects
- 19:41start breaking away. Like there's like Orthodox book
- 19:44and Presbyterians. There's like all these different
- 19:47kind of versions of it, but the Puritans as you're like, as
- 19:50you've pointed out there, they're kind of, again, I don't
- 19:52want to get too into the weeds on this because you've got a
- 19:55whole. No, no, but like this.
- 19:57So So what you're talking about is like it feeds into like my
- 19:59next point. So the reason that I chose the
- 20:02Puritans is because they have several really important
- 20:04characteristics to carry on into modern day that like still like
- 20:08infect modern Americans. They have exactly like as we
- 20:13like JD Vance wears heels, Trump wears heels.
- 20:16Like, you know, sorry I. Hate them?
- 20:18Tom Chromos wears. He should.
- 20:19If they're 57, they're. Called steps.
- 20:22Steps their heels for men. Give me a break and so they have
- 20:26weaponized religious zealotry and they practically created the
- 20:29Holyarden Dow trope they have they all have chips on their
- 20:31shoulders. They distrust their fellow man
- 20:34and worst of all, and this is the this is the word that like
- 20:37you were making this point. Worst of all, they're the
- 20:40biggest contrarians to come out of Europe until the 1930s.
- 20:44And that's right, I'm comparing them to Nazis as.
- 20:46You. Should as you should.
- 20:49Wow. But like, the word contrarians
- 20:52has just been bouncing around my head for the last week, and it
- 20:55is, it is exactly what it is. They're just complete and other
- 20:58contrarians. And even when they broke off and
- 21:00they got their way and they formed their own religion, there
- 21:02was still a bunch of them who were just like, actually, we
- 21:04think we can do it better. Yes, yeah.
- 21:05Yeah, and then you get all these different sects.
- 21:08As you like said, like it's very much like a constant victim
- 21:12mentality constant like that these people have always had.
- 21:17I I think that the problem with with because like I do not like
- 21:21the Catholic Church. Just so we're all clear on this.
- 21:25It takes. It takes.
- 21:27Wow, this, this is this is the reason why nobody questioned the
- 21:33word of God from the Catholic churches, because when you've
- 21:37got like the holy polite that the masses, they have to
- 21:41understand scripture. True, a priest the Bible yes,
- 21:46was in Latin and that was it. So you had priests ex like doing
- 21:51sermons in Latin, like your your religion right.
- 21:56So we'd sit there where Irish been bet English bet into us at
- 22:02the English in like which fucking all these people had to
- 22:05get the word of the Lord to them in Latin.
- 22:09So it's not it's not an accessible like your own
- 22:13religion wasn't as accessible to you because it's been dictated
- 22:15to you in a way. Like I can't just grab a label
- 22:19and read it now when Calvin and eh Luther, Martin Luther, they
- 22:25went everybody should be able to read this.
- 22:28So we want the Bible to be translated into all of our
- 22:31languages. Yeah, that was outlawed in in
- 22:33Britain because the Catholic Church were like no folk and way
- 22:36the way it. Takes away the level of control
- 22:39we're adding to this third hierarchy.
- 22:41We don't want anyone else to interpret it, Yeah.
- 22:43Exactly, but they were kind of right because what then happens
- 22:46when the eh, some dude smuggles in an English Bible into England
- 22:51from Germany, which is weirdest foot, but they translated in
- 22:54Germany, brought to to England. And then this is around the time
- 22:58as well as the printing press was just eh, like getting
- 23:02started. So like they're now mass
- 23:04producing copies of books. So when the Bible started
- 23:08getting mass produced in in English, you had it.
- 23:12Was really subversive so. People were able to sit down and
- 23:14read this and interpret it their own way.
- 23:16It wasn't just being dictated to them.
- 23:18So that's why you get so many different kind of sets of, eh,
- 23:21Protestantism, because you've got a bunch of people
- 23:25interpreting that one way or the other.
- 23:27Now, the Puritans, they sat down and interpreted it in a way that
- 23:31was the strictest, strictest and most staunchest way that they
- 23:34could possibly do it. And yeah, they were rigid with
- 23:38the the rules of what they taught.
- 23:41The word of God was that was just the how we got here to
- 23:45Puritan. Yeah, I suppose that's just,
- 23:47well, that's my kind of understanding of how it would
- 23:49have. Oh yeah, absolutely.
- 23:51And so the Puritans were one of the main causes of the English
- 23:54Civil War through their zealotry.
- 23:56So again, context is king, and this story features many English
- 24:00kings and Queens, but I have compacted it down just to the
- 24:03main players. And a lot of it started with
- 24:05King Charles the First. But much like most bad things in
- 24:08history involving the English, bad things that happen in
- 24:11England can often be attributed to the biggest sack of shit king
- 24:15They had King Henry the Eighth. This fucking guy.
- 24:20Could do like we're gonna do a multiple parts on what the fuck
- 24:24is wrong with America. We could do multiple parts on
- 24:26Henry the Eighth because. Oh, we should do an episode in
- 24:29Henry. Like.
- 24:30Umm, did you know that? So with the line of kings in
- 24:34England, there's like, you know, we're just like there's loads of
- 24:36Henry's, there's a couple of Charles.
- 24:37Yeah, you know, they have to pick their.
- 24:40Names. There is one King Stephen.
- 24:45Steve. And, and he was, he was known as
- 24:47like King Stephen the Coward or something, something like that.
- 24:51Yeah, he was shit. Like he was shit Steve the
- 24:53Coward. And I anytime I see him
- 24:56mentioned, I'm just like King Steady Guy.
- 24:58Like, come on. Like having a King Robbie.
- 25:03Kid. Yeah, it's like, do you
- 25:04remember? It's like the eh the John
- 25:07Goodman movie King. Ralph Yeah, yeah.
- 25:08Where? It turns out that yeah, yeah.
- 25:10Where it turns out he's the the heir to the throne.
- 25:13I. I watched it a couple of months
- 25:15ago. It is awesome.
- 25:17It's great. I love John Goodman.
- 25:18Yeah, I love John Goodman. John Goodman in Old Road or ACT.
- 25:22I can. I just want to give him that
- 25:24one. That's that's his best.
- 25:25Oh no, John, if you haven't watched just, I don't.
- 25:27Have you watched Righteous Jim Stones?
- 25:30Oh yeah, the Righteous Gemstones.
- 25:33Just you keep telling me. Yeah.
- 25:34Oh, she's finished. I know.
- 25:35What if? He's I've just finished the
- 25:37whole thing. It's.
- 25:38No, I do. I really want to watch because
- 25:39like all my favorite people are in it like but I.
- 25:41Yeah, so John Goodman is the straight man of the show.
- 25:45Yeah, but like, you know, he does do like some ridiculous
- 25:47stuff and he has a bit of fun, but he's the straight guy and
- 25:50his kids are, yeah, fucking insane.
- 25:53I see. Everyone else is insane, yeah,
- 25:56but. You have to go through like the
- 25:58fact that like, Danny McBride is the second most sane in the
- 26:03show. That will tell you everything
- 26:05that you need to know. He's so fucking good.
- 26:07It's so funny. And then you go like it goes
- 26:09like back to the Heritage and how they actually became like
- 26:12heavy Christians and stuff and. Yes, yeah, it's.
- 26:14Really fucking good. It's such a good show.
- 26:17I I just love the accents like they're all like daddy daddy.
- 26:21Tell Daddy it's like, yeah, Daddy off that day.
- 26:26It's like I'm going to move to California and shave my pussy.
- 26:29It's like, how do you want to shave your pussy for so I can
- 26:32jump back there today. It's it's the, it's such.
- 26:36It's. Just watch it it's.
- 26:39And like, you've got like, I am like a like a Walton Goggins
- 26:43superfan anyway. Like I've loved him from fucking
- 26:46the Sons of Anarchy days when no one knew he was not.
- 26:49The she he worked on. Him in the.
- 26:50Shield is fantastic, like he's so good in the ship.
- 26:53That's that's how he obviously was eh, in with Kurth Sutter to
- 26:57get to do Sons of Anarchy. So like he's, Yeah.
- 27:01The first thing that he did that he broke in was, umm, fucking
- 27:05League of their own. He was, only he was like the
- 27:07hotshot baseball player in League of their own.
- 27:09He was like 21. For some reason I thought of the
- 27:13the. Tom Hanks movie.
- 27:14Yeah, he's in that he's. There's no.
- 27:18Crying in baseball. But he's like the, the, the
- 27:21young hotshot. He's like really young in it.
- 27:23And then like obviously then like, I think the next time I
- 27:26saw, next thing I saw him in was Sons of Anarchy when he was
- 27:30Venus Van Damme, incredible as Venus Van Damme.
- 27:33It's like, didn't your daddy ever tell you not to judge a
- 27:35book by its penis? Venus Van Damme.
- 27:40He has like the tapes and. Everything like and then like
- 27:44take from take it like this, like fucking big horny bastard
- 27:49character in the show and he's obsessed with her.
- 27:52Who are you? Explaining this to them.
- 27:54Actually hasn't seen Sons of Anarchy you.
- 27:55Haven't seen Sons of Anarchy. No, no, never watched it.
- 27:58Well, I don't like Charlie Hunnam.
- 28:00Yeah. I, yeah, I really get that.
- 28:02I can see that. But umm, yes, well, he's, he's
- 28:05so fucking good. And then like he did, eh, he did
- 28:08audition for Eastbound and down in the whole Danny McBride
- 28:11universe. And then Daniel Bride was like,
- 28:13Oh no, not free spreading down, but I have something else in the
- 28:16world that I need you for. So we had him for vice
- 28:18principals, which I seen, I think I, I.
- 28:21Have to put that on your list, yeah?
- 28:23Yeah, yeah. Incredible show.
- 28:24So fucking funny. And then brought him back for a
- 28:27fucking baby Billy. Uncle Baby Billy.
- 28:29And the my favorite thing about him is that they all referred to
- 28:34him as Uncle Baby Billy. It's not like Uncle Billy or
- 28:38it's all Uncle Baby Billy and it's like.
- 28:41Uncle Baby Billy. Uncle Baby Billy.
- 28:42And then he has his own show, like Uncle Baby.
- 28:44It's like Baby Billy's Bible. Baby Billy's Bible.
- 28:46Bonkers. He's like, yeah.
- 28:49Baby Billy so so the two long didn't read section of this
- 28:54section of history is. This is Walton Garden the best.
- 28:59Walter Garden should play Henry the eighth the.
- 29:01Only thing is like people see Henry the eighth as like a this
- 29:06big fat mess. Well, like for most of his life
- 29:09he was a tall, very attractive, awesome, athletic man, but he
- 29:14got, yeah, perked in a jousting incident.
- 29:17Like a lot of eh, you can go back to like, eh, you've seen
- 29:21Game of Thrones ocean. Yeah, you you're yeah.
- 29:23Like they kind of base King Robert on eh Henry.
- 29:28Yeah, when like. On Henry, Yeah.
- 29:29So when when he gets fat like and then they do this.
- 29:33Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they do the things like
- 29:34you've gotten fast. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 29:37But like, but the thing with Henry is that he got injured in
- 29:42a jousting incident, which he shouldn't.
- 29:44Like why your king is jousting. But like, we've seen this
- 29:46obviously in Game of Thrones as well when he was getting
- 29:48trained, eh, he still wanted to be jousting as the king and
- 29:51everybody. Still wanted to be that.
- 29:53Guy, yeah, but that's what happened.
- 29:55He ended up eh the guy him in the face while he had his visor
- 30:01up and he took a math he so he fell off his horse, gashed his
- 30:04leg like took proper like damage.
- 30:07But ever since then, now he was already in the middle, like he
- 30:11was already after doing all his eh, swapping religions and eh
- 30:15beheading a couple of waves like but his his temperament changed
- 30:19completely once he got that head head injury and that's.
- 30:22Been so he. Starts getting really fucking
- 30:25shitty, like, and his memory starts going and stuff like so
- 30:29he's had, there was incidences where because like he wasn't
- 30:33able to the gash on his leg was an old wound where he reopened
- 30:36it and it never healed and he wasn't able to go up.
- 30:39So he went from like having a 36 inch waist to having like a 54
- 30:43inch waist. I think they said that's yeah.
- 30:46So like then he he went from being this really athletic man
- 30:50who was still like riding in tournaments and stuff like that
- 30:53in his yeah, and then to having his arse wiped because he was
- 30:56after getting so far. Basically being like he was
- 30:59basically disabled. He actually had umm, there was a
- 31:01title for them but they I think they were called like Lords of
- 31:04the stool. Royal Wipers.
- 31:06Yeah, there were people who were like, were employed in a party.
- 31:09This was like a big fucking job to be employed as like a Lord of
- 31:14the stool, which is basically your job, was to just help him
- 31:17shit wipers Iris. Umm, because he was that big
- 31:20that he couldn't, he couldn't do it himself.
- 31:23He couldn't like literally just wipe properly.
- 31:25Just the absolute worst, yeah. I was so Lord of the Steeler was
- 31:29pages. It was something one like
- 31:31fucking thing. Probably Lord.
- 31:32Yeah, but it was basically like a like if you were in Catholic
- 31:36Ireland and your your mother was like, oh, you know, you worked
- 31:38for the church. Fucking delighted.
- 31:39It'd be like, it would be that level of like your family was
- 31:43better than everyone else because your son wiped.
- 31:45The arse. Yeah, wiped the yeah, basically.
- 31:48And so to to really, really summarize and reduce a large
- 31:53section of history, it is Henry couldn't Sarah Miller, so he
- 31:57murdered some wives and he had the bright idea to create a type
- 31:59of Protestantism called the Church of England.
- 32:02And the English Civil War was a war fought between various
- 32:05factions of English Puritans. Henry is the most famous English
- 32:08king had six wives murdered two of them via beheading.
- 32:11That's a good shit. Yeah, yeah.
- 32:13I mean, yeah. And there's a a music.
- 32:15That comes up like so much history.
- 32:18Pretty much. But actually you've, you've
- 32:20probably, you're probably aware of it because you like your
- 32:22musicals. But there is one called, I think
- 32:23it's called 6, yes, 6. And it's, it's basically got all
- 32:27the wives of of Henry the eighth.
- 32:30Yeah, Fantastic. Really, really good.
- 32:33Very funny. And it's it's really, it's
- 32:36really good. But yeah, there's like, there's
- 32:38so much shit that this man did that like baffled me because
- 32:42it's like I get power is like a whole thing, but there was
- 32:46nothing attractive about this man.
- 32:47There never was at any fucking point.
- 32:50Like, well, not like when he was when he was young, like, you
- 32:52know, he was that kind of like big, burly, beastly man, like,
- 32:55you know, somebody. No, he wasn't the big.
- 32:59Little bitch. He was he was a big athletic man
- 33:01until, until he got a big. Athletic like he was a big like
- 33:04he was a big, like, masculine. The kind of guy you know you
- 33:06would book back in the the fucking 1500s.
- 33:09And that's genuine. Genuinely, it is because he was,
- 33:13he was a big, tall, mostly guy who was good at the sport at the
- 33:16time. And you would have been like, Oh
- 33:20yes, Sir, I will be your Lord. You're fucking Duchess of the
- 33:24Dookie or whatever the fuck it is that you're you, probably.
- 33:26Would have come up with some weird nickname for like when you
- 33:29go to watch the jousts, like the way women call ice hockey the
- 33:33the boy aquarium. Oh yeah, I hate that.
- 33:35Like, you would have come up with some.
- 33:37I think it's really fun. That's.
- 33:39Considering, you know, there's worse things that men talk about
- 33:42women's sports. So a boy aquarium is actually
- 33:44like. See that article in the
- 33:46Financial Times, though, about hockey?
- 33:48No. Yeah.
- 33:50So she, she went to like a hockey game, one of the, I think
- 33:53it was like a Nottingham Panthers game, basically just to
- 33:56be like. And I could tell that he wanted
- 33:58me. He was staring at me from behind
- 33:59the glass. She was talking about like Mitch
- 34:01Fossier, who was like the nicest man in the world.
- 34:04And then it was just basically like, this is what the obsession
- 34:07is with like hockey players. And like any pretty girl can go
- 34:10and push themselves up against the glass and then they want to
- 34:12fuck them. She was just basically like
- 34:14saying she's just. Being an asshole about it.
- 34:16Being like oh the only reason that it's popular is because of
- 34:19these novels like heated rivalry and Icebreaker and blah blah.
- 34:22That's cool. Like if they've made a sport,
- 34:24but. Women have been going good
- 34:26hockey for fucking forever. And then like, it's just like,
- 34:29it's this whole thing that comes out and it's just like, Oh yeah,
- 34:31it's popular now because of this, this and this.
- 34:33Whereas like someone who clearly has never been to a hockey game
- 34:35before, it goes. OK, that's like maybe like,
- 34:38like, no, you're basically just, you really go to wrestling shows
- 34:40now because no, no. No popular.
- 34:42I'm just basically saying like she thinks it's a it's a point
- 34:46that like women who have been going for fucking ever have only
- 34:49just started going. Like she doesn't know that it
- 34:51has been an all fucking everybody goes to hockey games
- 34:55with so much fun. And it's just the fact that like
- 34:57she's going to prove a point that it's because of these
- 34:59books. It's like, well, no, you were
- 35:00never here before, so you don't know that these people.
- 35:03Always. Went like.
- 35:04If the if the books help the popularity, that's a good thing
- 35:07because like ice hockey in in like the UK and Ireland and
- 35:11Europe is like a DT or sport. And if a couple of books in ATV
- 35:16show have created more fans, that's fucking great.
- 35:19Like I. Would know though opening up so
- 35:22there's a talk of like a Dublin EIHL team which is which is.
- 35:25You know, I would see my local team play recently and it was
- 35:28the first sold out match. Them and like I think the
- 35:32atmosphere of a sold out hockey game is so much fun.
- 35:34It's great. It's a great night.
- 35:35Out the club has the club has a women's team and the women's
- 35:39games are setting new records for attendance like this is
- 35:42fantastic. You've never been to 1.
- 35:44Like it's even. Even if you're not into the
- 35:46sport, it's a good night out. It's a lot of fun to go have a
- 35:49few beers. Beers and hot dogs, baby.
- 35:52Just fucking watch a few chaps dig each other's head in on the
- 35:56ice. Just watch a very graceful sport
- 35:59played by men who can't read. Yeah, that.
- 36:03Is that? Is true.
- 36:04I definitely want to check one out one of these one of these
- 36:07days. Dude, if you come over and
- 36:09visit. Speaking Speaking of Czech.
- 36:11Oh. Peter Czech, yeah.
- 36:13Champions. League Premier League winner,
- 36:15yeah, he is the goalkeeper of my local team.
- 36:18He. Just bopps around anyone who
- 36:20will have it. Yeah, he just give a fuck.
- 36:22Play. Yeah, he just he, he he loves
- 36:25the game. That's what it is.
- 36:26He he lives for. The game, he's so funny.
- 36:28OK, so another common thread of the Puritans, and indeed America
- 36:32since its colonization, is a sense of victimhood.
- 36:35The Puritans felt like they were being persecuted, and in some
- 36:37case, they actually were. Thoughts.
- 36:40They're very fucking annoying and they deserved it.
- 36:43So they wanted to go to a land where they would be free of fast
- 36:46but wife murdering assholes. So they went to the Netherlands.
- 36:50But that I love. The surprise?
- 36:52I love the Dutch thing as well because they so, so the English
- 36:56had this kind of a tense kind of, eh, alliance because
- 37:02obviously they were born at war with Spanish and the Spanish
- 37:06Armada was a big thing at the time.
- 37:08Like, so they were like fucking everybody up.
- 37:10Yeah. Kind of the reason why England
- 37:11are so famous for the Navy now is because they had to build
- 37:15ships to fight off the Spanish Armada.
- 37:18After the Spanish, yeah. But the it's funny with the the
- 37:21Deutsch thing, obviously the Deutsch and the Brits, they're
- 37:23all like, we know New York was first called New Amsterdam.
- 37:26So like the, the Deutsche were over there like, yeah, eh,
- 37:29colonizing as well. But the Puritans went over to
- 37:34the Netherlands, who is a Protestant state, and they were
- 37:39like, yes, they'll take us in. And they were like the Dutch.
- 37:44If you think about the city of Amsterdam and what it's been
- 37:47famous for for hundreds of years, the Puritans land over
- 37:51there and they're like, yes, we'll go over to this Protestant
- 37:54nation. And then what?
- 37:55Like when you land in Amsterdam, it's this Oh yeah, it's an
- 37:59unholy place which doesn't like the if you want.
- 38:03Exactly iniquity. But this whole thing is like, if
- 38:05you want religion, go practice it.
- 38:06But religion isn't the state, especially not in Amsterdam.
- 38:10So you want to display us as like booze, prostitution and
- 38:15anything illicit you can think of The Puritans land here and
- 38:19they're like, yeah, we've made a mistake.
- 38:22There's. Like a terrible mistake.
- 38:24And it's it's, it's funny because the Puritans then were
- 38:27like, OK, where else do we go? And they taught about colonies
- 38:31in Ireland like, well, like not colonize and what?
- 38:33Like going to Ireland and. Taking a Swatch.
- 38:36Exactly. And then they figured out that
- 38:39probably not going to happen because not all like it's hard
- 38:42enough to compete with like the Catholics, but like the
- 38:45Protestants that are going over there, you're going to know
- 38:47you're going, you're going to have to compete with the
- 38:49Protestants that you don't agree with to get some land from
- 38:53Ireland. And it's you're not going to be
- 38:55given that land anyways because the king of England at the time,
- 39:01well, well, let's say like Elizabeth, then it comes down to
- 39:05Edward like, but they're basically running you out of
- 39:09England. Like what?
- 39:10They are persecuted, I suppose. But like, did, yes, you've
- 39:12disagreed with the king so much that he's been like, get the
- 39:15book on my side. Like, yeah.
- 39:16But like it's a persecution because they picked.
- 39:19The fucking fight, yes, yeah, yeah.
- 39:21Yeah, you know, And then they were like, oh, we're the victim
- 39:23again. This is like a common thread
- 39:25that, like, exists up to Mother Day.
- 39:27They pick a fight and then when people fight back, they're like,
- 39:30we're being oppressed. Please.
- 39:33It's like there's a big sign that says like, do not wear blue
- 39:36in this area. And then they wore blue, walked
- 39:39in, I went, why is everybody picking on us?
- 39:41Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like a rule of the woman.
- 39:43Can't wear blue. Yeah, like it's like that, eh,
- 39:45that woman, have you seen, umm, the shit now with the Grammys?
- 39:49So, eh, Billy Eilish won umm best album or whatever the fuck
- 39:54she won. I don't care.
- 39:55I'm mad at it because I wanted it to be sprinter Carpenter, but
- 39:57whatever. So she won.
- 39:59And in her acceptance speech she basically said fuck ice, like
- 40:03word for it. Damn right.
- 40:04And then there. There was this influencer now
- 40:07I've never heard of her before but she is a MAGA Fucking
- 40:11whoever the fuck. Because the Grammys just invite
- 40:14random fucking influencers these days.
- 40:16A lot of award shows are doing. Anything to get ticks?
- 40:18Yeah, so. She went Emily, Emily Austin, I
- 40:21think her name is, I don't know, like whatever, but she she
- 40:25based, no, I believe, looked as an Angel, but she she went and
- 40:30she she did this thing right. And so she was like filming
- 40:33herself during Billie Eilish's acceptance speech.
- 40:37So she obviously knew what was coming.
- 40:38She knew fucking Billie Eilish, outspoken liberal like Jenna
- 40:42mean, like, she's, she's gonna say like, yeah.
- 40:43So she was like, she basically, like, accepted the award, gave
- 40:47the whole speech. And then as she was walking off,
- 40:50held it up. And she was like, fuck ice.
- 40:52And then like, left. And she's like, oh, fuck ice,
- 40:55Fuck ice. I'm so edgy and cool.
- 40:57And like, her and her friend were just like, oh, and her
- 41:00friend was just like, we love America.
- 41:02And she was like, yeah, we love our law enforcement.
- 41:05Like did this. And then everyone was just like,
- 41:07she posted it. And she was like, oh, Billie
- 41:09Eilish. So you recently she said, I
- 41:12don't know a lot about Billie Eilish.
- 41:13I don't know about y'all. They always do this.
- 41:15They always do that. Yeah.
- 41:16I've never heard of Billie Eilish before she said this, but
- 41:19yeah. She was like, I don't like I,
- 41:21you know if, but a quick Google search will tell you that a
- 41:24random man like broke into her house last year and she called
- 41:27911 Billy. So you called 911 and you're
- 41:32saying that, you know, fuck I. And then like every comment was
- 41:36ice. Aren't cops, yeah.
- 41:39Ice. Aren't cops.
- 41:40And then she was like. I just wouldn't.
- 41:42Speak on something that I'm not educated on.
- 41:45So. And then everyone was like take
- 41:47your own advice because ICE aren't cops.
- 41:51And then I left a comment I'm not I'm not proud of, but it
- 41:57went viral. This is this, of course, what's
- 42:00Danny's viral comment this week like This is becoming one of
- 42:03those things. That he's like guys usually just
- 42:05picking a fight with some like idiot.
- 42:07Thinking and and it goes viral and like my favorite one was
- 42:11basically just this guy was swimming, diving, didn't know a
- 42:14blue whale was behind him. And then he freaked out.
- 42:16And then my comment was just like whale is just like, excuse
- 42:18me, sorry, like that got like thousands of likes and like
- 42:22hundreds and thousands. I'm like, that's fine.
- 42:23But this like, right. And I just I I don't know what I
- 42:26don't know why I said it. I don't know why I said it,
- 42:29because like she has thousands of like Republican women
- 42:32followers and you know, Republican women, right.
- 42:35And she now she. I know of an Ireland.
- 42:37Big fan of an Ireland. She.
- 42:39She. Was she was a gorgeous woman but
- 42:42clearly had a lot of work done and my car was I just don't see
- 42:47how you a trans woman has these political.
- 42:51Views. And everyone.
- 42:56Was just. I'm sure she was very happy
- 42:58with. That everyone was like, I, I
- 43:00think it has like last time I checked 150,000 likes within
- 43:05three hours of posting it. Haven't checked again.
- 43:08She's probably blocked me. But like, yeah, I was just like,
- 43:10that was just my first thing. And then I was like, is this
- 43:12rude to post? I don't care.
- 43:14I don't see how you, a trans woman, cannot like like
- 43:18objectively gorgeous woman but who's great hard.
- 43:21Work, it's perfect. It's perfect.
- 43:23It's like the one. It's the one thing that they
- 43:25want to hear. But I'm just like, yeah.
- 43:28Especially because they're all so obsessed with like getting
- 43:30plastic surgery to look a certain way to like look
- 43:33ridiculous, super feminine, but but then they end up looking
- 43:36like a melted welly and I think. And there's the whole, eh,
- 43:38there's a trend of like, Republican makeup.
- 43:41The MAGA face. Yeah, it's the eyeliner all the
- 43:44way around the eye, the fucking clumpy mascara, the lip too pale
- 43:49for your face. It's like I and it's it's it's a
- 43:51success. Legit.
- 43:52It's drag, actually. Yes, that's that's exactly what
- 43:55it is. All of the comments that I've
- 43:56seen on other videos about this woman are like, who the fuck is
- 43:59this person? Like nobody knows who she was.
- 44:02And there's like I'll. Tell you what, She is a
- 44:03contrarian. And that's the word.
- 44:05That's the word that's been going around my.
- 44:07Head loving that word. You do love that word.
- 44:10Yeah, man, I've been like, it's all I can think.
- 44:12About Have you been diagnosed with anything?
- 44:16Self diagnosed. Just because that's a, it's a
- 44:18very, yeah, it's very ADHD. And again, this is one of those
- 44:23things that shit I forgot I had to flagellate myself.
- 44:28But it is a very ADHD thing. It is too bad.
- 44:31You get like obsessed something. Yeah, so like when?
- 44:33When one word gets into your Danny.
- 44:35First of all, you also don't have a fucking ADHD diagnosis so
- 44:41I will be when? When did you get diagnosed?
- 44:442017. You were just all.
- 44:45I thought she was just on an autistic.
- 44:47Why would I not say I am autistic and I got my ADH in
- 44:52ADHD diagnosis in 2017 when I moved here.
- 44:57I had my autism diagnosis in 2013.
- 45:00Yes, it doesn't count as it doesn't, it doesn't settle and
- 45:02women the same way, but anyways, so.
- 45:04Yeah, I kind of I'm kind of like self diagnosed.
- 45:06Yeah, I think I'm like a little bit.
- 45:10It's one of those, it's one of those things that what happens
- 45:12when you get diagnosed is that you can now diagnose other
- 45:16people. It's basically it's a zombie
- 45:19virus. I diagnose so many people with
- 45:21aliens. When I hear you saying that you
- 45:23have the word contrary in your head and it's rattling around
- 45:26your head, There is this real cyclical thing that sometimes,
- 45:29like you get a thaw in your head.
- 45:32Me and Danny have talked about before, like where you just get
- 45:33like, like it could be like just a vocal stem.
- 45:37Like just add something like a line from a movie, yeah, a song
- 45:41or something like that. And it just stays with you for
- 45:42the week. Like, and like, you know, like
- 45:44dental plan these on these braces.
- 45:46You could be doing that for two weeks.
- 45:47Like you could be like and it gets but I it happens to me as
- 45:50well, like random words as well, where it like will stick in my
- 45:53head and like that. Yeah, it that sounds like a go
- 45:58get yourself checked out, although it don't because you
- 46:00don't get it. I wouldn't have further like you
- 46:01just get to say you have it. Yeah, like, because the, the
- 46:04self diagnosis with like, you know, being on the spectrum was
- 46:07like I was trying to like, oh, you are.
- 46:09I was like frustrated. I was frustrated with like a
- 46:11situation that I was in, like I was living with a work colleague
- 46:14and I was really frustrated with it.
- 46:15And it just, it may, it reminded me of a lot of stuff from when I
- 46:18was younger and how I reacted and how I emotionally reacted to
- 46:22it. And then I just like was
- 46:23thinking about and thinking about it, thinking about it.
- 46:25And then I was reading about like autism.
- 46:27And then a friend of mine is a social care worker who
- 46:29specializes with autistic hits. So I called her just out of the
- 46:33blue. And I was like, hey, so I think
- 46:35I could be on the spectrum. Like, do you do have some time
- 46:38to talk about this? And so we talked about it for a
- 46:40few hours and she was like, oh, yeah.
- 46:41Like you meet a bunch of criteria, but like, you know,
- 46:45there's nothing wrong with that. And I was like no, no, no, like
- 46:46I'm just, I'm trying to like understand myself and how I.
- 46:50How? I interact with situations that
- 46:52I find myself in and I want to be better.
- 46:54Like I'm doing this as a 40 year old man.
- 46:56Yeah. And but yeah, like I, I wouldn't
- 46:58be surprised if I had like a touch of the ADHD like.
- 47:01My my friend Ree, so she's also into like her, her witchcraft
- 47:05and things like that. And believe it or not, I am the
- 47:09the normal one in this because she's very much just like I've
- 47:13had this term in my head like all week.
- 47:15And I've seen it on videos and things like that.
- 47:17And it just, I think I was something like a freezer burn.
- 47:21I think she had. And she saw a bunch of videos
- 47:24that had. Yeah.
- 47:25The. Freezer burn was the thing that
- 47:27you kept cropping up for you then.
- 47:29Yeah, and she, she, so she was talking about this.
- 47:32So I, I had mentioned like I had like freezer burn in my head,
- 47:34whatever. And she was gone.
- 47:36She's like, oh, this up. And this time, this time I was
- 47:38like Rihanna, like, sometimes you're just autistic, Like
- 47:42sometimes like not everything is a fucking sign.
- 47:44You, you just have pattern recognition, which is a huge,
- 47:47huge fucking thing when it comes to 880 and autism.
- 47:50Like and she, she, she's like, um, I guess you could say
- 47:53wicked. So like rule of free, everything
- 47:56and everything means something. I'm like, no, not everything
- 47:58means something. She rule of tree because she's a
- 48:01wicked no rule of tree because she's got fucking OCD.
- 48:05Yeah, like, oh, whatever you do, I'll come back on you.
- 48:08And like, that's all. It's all.
- 48:09And Denny's just like a nihilistic witch where she's
- 48:12like, nothing matters. I'm just like literally like
- 48:14there's like if I show I'll I'll send you a picture of the
- 48:16fucking the bottom shelf in my freezer.
- 48:18After this I don't give a fuck. I think I know.
- 48:21I know the horror. Whatever exists in your I don't
- 48:23want that euphemism to look at the bottom jar.
- 48:26Me fridge. So reason is like everything
- 48:29means something and just just basically like just everything
- 48:32means something. Everything has more meaning than
- 48:34it does. And then it's like, I was
- 48:35thinking about this person and they they popped up in my
- 48:37Instagram story views and I'm just like, that doesn't mean
- 48:40anything. That just basically means
- 48:41someone was just fucking going through their Instagram and was
- 48:44like, you came up or something like that.
- 48:47And I was like, I think you might have schizophrenia.
- 48:49And like coming from me to say that to somebody, she was just
- 48:52like, yeah, maybe. And he just diagnosed everybody.
- 48:55Speaking of someone who hears voices or heard voices.
- 48:59Here we go, America, that there we.
- 49:02Go Oh, America had been found. Quotations.
- 49:05Found in adverted commies. Found by a Grade A piece of shit
- 49:10Christopher Columbus a mere 40 or so years before the Puritans
- 49:15first set sail to those new shores.
- 49:17So they thought what better place to start afresh and build
- 49:20a utopia based on a pure form of Christianity than the New World?
- 49:24It is also worth noting that Columbus first arrived in the
- 49:27Bahamas as they're known today, and was preceded in terms of
- 49:30European visitation by Leif Ericsson, which as we know was
- 49:34preceded by Saint Brandon of Ireland.
- 49:36We fucking did it. Eh, please refer back.
- 49:41We are saying Brendan. As we did in last week's
- 49:44episode. Anyone, anyone who's like listen
- 49:47to this being like, let's listen to this American EH podcast.
- 49:51We did a podcast just last week on eh same Brendan or Brendan
- 49:55the Voyager. And I would implore you to go
- 49:57back and listen to that because we make some very good arguments
- 50:00that he founded America, OK? And the majority of our
- 50:04listeners are American, so they all know, eh?
- 50:07They will not know. They just know Christopher
- 50:08Columbus came over and they did some really shitty stuff and
- 50:11they didn't even know about the shitty stuff and they're about
- 50:1320 years ago. If even Christopher Columbus,
- 50:16like, let's not give them too much credit, but OK, yeah.
- 50:19Like, yeah, they had, like, you know, Columbus Day, which they
- 50:21eventually stopped celebrating. And now Donald Trump is talking
- 50:24about Trump Day. He's talking about putting up a
- 50:28statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House lawn just as
- 50:32a troll. He's a fucking contrarian.
- 50:33Just as a troll. He is.
- 50:35Like he's the one you see. Yeah, you see.
- 50:37Like, I get it the the the word, the word is right.
- 50:40Like it's eh, he's like contrarian is just another word
- 50:44for edge Lord really like and that's what like these yes, but
- 50:47that's what these that's what yeah, that's what umm Trump is
- 50:50basically and again, I don't want to go to into into the
- 50:52weeds of Trump because we're getting there.
- 50:54This is the long road to how Trump fucked America.
- 50:57It. Is the long Rd.
- 50:58Trump where we're, yeah, yeah, we're kind of like we're
- 51:01starting at the very start. Well, if you look at all these
- 51:04people in America like these guys and what America really is.
- 51:08Building blocks. It's guys who are like, oh, is
- 51:10this? Is this what you believe?
- 51:12Well, we're the opposite. And then they do fucking the
- 51:16stupidest, most horrible stuff that kind of, yeah, trolled in
- 51:20people's faces. It kind of just seems like it's
- 51:22been the American way since before America was even a
- 51:26country. Before it was called America, it
- 51:28has been the American way. Yeah, so I digress.
- 51:32As we tend to do on this podcast, back to the 17th
- 51:35century. So the Puritans arrived and
- 51:38built themselves a new colony, and each subsequent wave of
- 51:41arrivals built and built, each seemingly bringing different
- 51:43variations of purity, Puritanism and its interpretations.
- 51:47They believed in a social hierarchy based around first
- 51:50generation, second generation arrivals and so on.
- 51:53So they would, they initially, they would base people's
- 51:56ability, ability to vote based on who arrived 1st and who
- 52:00arrived last. So the the the original
- 52:02colonizers, their vote counted more than the most recent ones.
- 52:06So their colony, as I mentioned earlier, was one of 13 original
- 52:09colonies that were all based on the eastern seaboard of America
- 52:12that reached as far inland as just beyond the Appalachian
- 52:15Mountains, one of Danny's favorite places and a population
- 52:19which was estimated to be around 3,000,000 by the time the
- 52:22American Revolution arrived in 1775.
- 52:25Beyond those mountains laid the Native Americans in their
- 52:27largest numbers. They were on the land that the
- 52:29colonies were built on. And we all know what happened
- 52:32when Europeans discover other people's countries.
- 52:35Murder, theft, Death. Pestilence.
- 52:38So the again, Appalachia being like my favorite.
- 52:43I knew you couldn't mention Appalachia without as I was.
- 52:47Writing this, I was like, there we go, and.
- 52:49There's actually like a large thing going on nowhere.
- 52:52So the the mountain folk in Appalachia who don't have, I
- 52:57mean, they're that rural that they don't have like
- 52:59certificate, like birth certificates or they're not
- 53:02included in the census, anything like that.
- 53:04They're basically just so off the red.
- 53:05They have been coming forward now.
- 53:08Yeah, legit. Like have been coming forward
- 53:11now to take in immigrants and hide them because yeah.
- 53:18Like as slaves are. The opposite of what I was
- 53:20expecting you to say. Just hide them just to basically
- 53:23like we will take them in and and help them and just keep them
- 53:27out of the fucking radar. If they're already in the area
- 53:30and they have been in their radar and in the in the area and
- 53:33they don't have the documentation.
- 53:35These people have never had documentation, but they've been
- 53:38born in these mountains, Umm, and they've basically like.
- 53:41And they're all called William They.
- 53:43Fucking whatever. Umm, but they've all, they've
- 53:46all basically come forward to locals of their villages.
- 53:51They've come down and been like, look, if there's anyone that
- 53:55needs help, we can help, just bring them up.
- 53:59Here are the coordinates bringing them to random spots in
- 54:03the forest, not exactly to their places of residence, but to
- 54:07points where they can come and get them after they've been
- 54:09dropped off. And that's really huge thing.
- 54:13Yeah, there's been like. Kind of amazing a.
- 54:15Lot of people who've posted about it and stuff on like X and
- 54:20on. Call it Twitter.
- 54:22Yeah, I. Twitter yeah, sorry.
- 54:24I I just whatever. So like I like TikTok and stuff
- 54:26and like there's been a bunch. So there was one woman who she
- 54:30kind of made it go viral, who is a she's she teaches like
- 54:35folklore and something else in in a college.
- 54:40Like American folklore. Yeah, like, like she basically
- 54:44American history folklore, but towards that end of of American
- 54:47history, not essentially like the politics of it, just the
- 54:51whatever. So she's come forward and she's
- 54:52basically been like dropping these coordinates just really
- 54:56skeptically and like not spent. That's not the word I'm looking
- 54:59for cryptically. Yeah, yeah.
- 55:02Just dropping, dropping these coordinates, whatever.
- 55:04And these people who live in these very, very remote villages
- 55:08which don't have law enforcement, don't have
- 55:13anything. They just have a community.
- 55:15They're basically being like, if you are struggling, if you are
- 55:18in trouble, if you need fucking help here, go to this
- 55:22coordinate. They won't find you.
- 55:24They won't find your children. They won't, you know, any of
- 55:27this. Just come and we'll help you.
- 55:29And it's basically the fucking mountain folk who've never been.
- 55:32That's cool in the in this, in the census, anything like that
- 55:37have been? Able to call.
- 55:38And these people? Are doing to be honest with you.
- 55:41Yeah, like what's what's like? The thing is, there is AI.
- 55:44Know but like. That's yeah, they're tired to.
- 55:46Me just thinking, yeah, no. I don't think go to that point
- 55:50though of actively giving the coordinates.
- 55:52Because they're drop off points, Yeah.
- 55:54They're not the actual. Drop off point there's.
- 55:56It's it's close enough. Yeah, it's, it's easy that they
- 55:58they would still be in like travelling distance, walking
- 56:01distance to get to. Trafficking these people are.
- 56:05Trafficking distances, OK. Let me just believe in the good
- 56:08for a. OK, can can I get into just
- 56:11before I forget my eh, what I was going to say here and mine
- 56:14is actually about the pilgrims. Yeah, yeah.
- 56:17Danny, I don't want to cut you off.
- 56:19There was like is that? No, no, no.
- 56:21I mean like it's no, yeah, yeah, we know we're done.
- 56:23I just mean like that. There's nothing else to add to
- 56:25that. But I just it is a really
- 56:27interesting point. I actually I wouldn't mind
- 56:29looking at Openseam, they are actually doing with those
- 56:32people. And I want to see what's
- 56:34actually going on. From right, So what I what I
- 56:37wanted to do just again, hold on Riddle with ADHD.
- 56:41So I need to get this out of my system before.
- 56:44So like the idea of this like when they landed in New England
- 56:48is like, so like what was happening with these for once, a
- 56:53better plantations. There wasn't a lot of English
- 56:56people that were like, OK, we want to go over to the new world
- 56:59now, because it wasn't as if like, eh, at this point, it
- 57:02wasn't like you're going to get your fortune or whatever like
- 57:04that. The idea was you were going over
- 57:06there to colonize and it was going to be tough.
- 57:08Well, yeah, we've yeah. They've heard of like the only
- 57:12places that have read that the English have really, Colin, are
- 57:14actually another very fascinating thing is for me, I
- 57:18thought it's going to be fascinating.
- 57:20One of the colonies that they were actually, one of the places
- 57:23that they were looking at colonies and these Puritans was
- 57:26French Guyana, which is beside Venezuela now, which I think is
- 57:30another really interesting one that like the world would have
- 57:32been a completely different fucking place.
- 57:35Yeah. Like a bunch of fucking English
- 57:37Puritans landed in South America.
- 57:38There are, eh, Is that South America or would that be Central
- 57:42America? So it's the top of South
- 57:45America. It's the yeah.
- 57:47It's like lower central. Is that a good Guyana?
- 57:49Is that where that is? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 57:51yeah, yeah, yeah. Bolivia.
- 57:52Yeah. All them guys are all alone.
- 57:54Yeah. Closer than it, Yeah.
- 57:55So anyway, it doesn't matter. But like, I just thought that
- 57:57that was a fascinating thing that like they were looking at
- 58:00places like they thought Ireland, Ireland wasn't going to
- 58:02be a things like this. They said, let's go over to
- 58:05England. And now they were already on the
- 58:07outs with Edward, who was after. Ireland, they're just like,
- 58:12yeah, don't even bother, yeah. I think it was like there was
- 58:16going to be too much hassle, and there were.
- 58:17And again, yeah, they're going to be too close to England,
- 58:20where they were going to be under the persecution of Edward
- 58:23the king. Yeah.
- 58:24Yeah, because eventually England would have, they knew that
- 58:26England was like looking at Ireland going Yeah, that's.
- 58:28That was too like well, it it was like they they king of
- 58:33England was the king like Edward at the time I think was eh the
- 58:36king of eh his title was a king of England, France and Ireland.
- 58:41I think like he was like, yeah, he was the main, the main deal
- 58:44over there. So what Elizabeth had started in
- 58:46there. Now Elizabeth, an absolute cunt,
- 58:49but like her and eh her buddy Walter rally as well as Irish
- 58:54people would not be a big fan of and but he was like over there
- 59:01scope and out and like, well, he didn't even go over at that
- 59:03stage, but he was in charge of like the eh, the guys heading
- 59:09over there and colonizing eh America.
- 59:12And even though he hadn't gone over there yet, like the legs of
- 59:14John Smith and stuff had gone over there and the established
- 59:17Jamestown. But the stories coming back like
- 59:21now here's here, like I don't want to get too fucking eh down
- 59:25the rabbit hole of Roanoke. Roanoke was a settlement.
- 59:28Oh. My God I have I have a bunch of
- 59:30notes to do an episode. On that is a settlement in North
- 59:34Carolina that eh, they everybody kind of vanished.
- 59:40Now again, it's it there's it's supposed to be this mystery.
- 59:43I don't want to do this spoiler on that yet like of what I
- 59:45believe it is. But like what happened was
- 59:49people went over some shit went down like they were friendly
- 59:52with the locals. One guy kind of was a little bit
- 59:55opity and fucking a silver cope went missing.
- 59:58So he went and blamed a bunch of the locals and he was like, give
- 1:00:00me back my fucking silver cope. And they were like, we what is
- 1:00:03ownership? What is the silver cope?
- 1:00:05What do you want to book off? And so he created a bit of
- 1:00:09tension between these locals and then the people.
- 1:00:11Eh, the the guy that I think John White, eh White, yeah, he
- 1:00:18traveled back. He ended up getting fucking
- 1:00:20mixed up in this eh, Spanish War.
- 1:00:23And then got the kind of stuck in England for three years and
- 1:00:26by the time he came back the settlement was gone.
- 1:00:29Everything was gone, yeah, like no trace of anyone, nothing.
- 1:00:32And then? They left some carvings on trees
- 1:00:35on the. Trees.
- 1:00:36Yeah, to to like the the name of the local tribe that they
- 1:00:39thought they were kind of friendly with and stuff like
- 1:00:42that. Like and there was kind of a
- 1:00:43bunch of clues what happened, but like the place has taken
- 1:00:46apart. It wasn't as if it was destroyed
- 1:00:48and burnt around like that. The houses that were.
- 1:00:50No bodies or like bones, nothing.
- 1:00:53Nothing like that. It was like everyone just
- 1:00:55disappeared. Yeah, so the, the, the like even
- 1:00:57their, the, the the cabins and stuff that they had put up or
- 1:01:01dismantled and taken away. It wasn't like.
- 1:01:04So yeah, it wasn't burnt. Down like again, I'm after
- 1:01:08getting as far as I got into the weeds with fucking Henry the
- 1:01:12Eighth. They got so deep in.
- 1:01:15You've got into a row well. I'll say.
- 1:01:17About you and but we went rolling off what happens now it
- 1:01:21was word was getting back that this place you can't settle it
- 1:01:25because yeah and. Yeah, it's too wild, the land.
- 1:01:28Is. Animals will fuck you up, Yeah,
- 1:01:30the land will fuck you up and the natives will fuck you up.
- 1:01:34And it's The funny thing because they do kind of paint like with
- 1:01:40with the English hucked to they are cons for eh.
- 1:01:44They basically will demonize the locals like they don't know what
- 1:01:47Ireland eh where they actually use phrenology to say like that
- 1:01:50Irish people. Salvages or film or.
- 1:01:54Yeah, they were using like this the forceps on the head and we
- 1:01:58like look at the size of this big ignorant Irish head.
- 1:02:01That's just a big fat Irish head.
- 1:02:03That's just how we're built. I say this all the time, right?
- 1:02:05And people like people say this to me like my English or fucking
- 1:02:07like whoever friends think that big take Irish head is
- 1:02:11offensive. It's not.
- 1:02:13It's a biological. And I, I've left this comment on
- 1:02:15a bunch of TikTok videos and I'll have people be like, wow,
- 1:02:18OK, Oh my God, like how was this coming?
- 1:02:21And then like the actual fucking Irish person whose video it is
- 1:02:24that I've commented on have been like, yes girl.
- 1:02:27That's right. Yeah.
- 1:02:29It's crazy. Like come give me a fucking hug.
- 1:02:31But yeah, big take. Irish head is a fucking thing.
- 1:02:34But the English actually would. A demon is a saying that we were
- 1:02:36closer to animals like the than they were because we had this
- 1:02:40big ignorant head and they they like.
- 1:02:42Evolved. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:02:43They they used to put out pictures in their local
- 1:02:45newspapers of most looking like monkeys.
- 1:02:47Look like Wolfman or like, you know, half happy, Yeah.
- 1:02:51And I did on the same with the Africans, obviously.
- 1:02:53And yeah, Oh yeah, now that we're getting over to, umm, to
- 1:02:58America, what they've done now is they call these natives to
- 1:03:01savages. And yes, don't get me wrong, the
- 1:03:04further W you go, the more hostile the people were.
- 1:03:07But on the course the East Coast of America, they, they actually
- 1:03:11got a lot of cooperation with these, yeah, these locals.
- 1:03:15And that's what happened in Roanoke.
- 1:03:17And they actually did like with the the local, I fucking forget
- 1:03:21the name of like there's a lot of names of a lot of tribes over
- 1:03:24there. Yeah, the local tribes, they're
- 1:03:26actually working way at the side until the guy kind of made it
- 1:03:29like the English kind of made it hostile, you know what I mean?
- 1:03:31And then, yeah, it's the same in Jamestown, which was the most
- 1:03:35successful kind of plantation at the time.
- 1:03:38Eh, before the pilgrims are the before the the Puritans made
- 1:03:42their way over. They had also kind of had a
- 1:03:46really good kind of like that was in Virginia.
- 1:03:49Yeah. So like it was named after
- 1:03:51Elizabeth for diversion Queen. So I was in, I think James in
- 1:03:54Virginia. Yeah.
- 1:03:55So. Also a banger of a song by the
- 1:03:57movie Life, but yeah. Yes, but they, they, they, they
- 1:04:02had like again, the locals and the English actually had like
- 1:04:06they were cooperating and they were working together and the
- 1:04:08locals were actually showing them how to like plant the likes
- 1:04:11of maize. Actually.
- 1:04:13Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
- 1:04:14And they were showing them like what it like they act actually
- 1:04:17getting into like how to fertilize the land because this
- 1:04:20land is kind of different. So they went that was different.
- 1:04:22Yeah, they caught fish and they do as they opened the fish coats
- 1:04:26and they put the fish courts in with the seeds and then that was
- 1:04:29the fertilize the seeds. And like did the people are
- 1:04:31actually like did they were surviving on the goodwill of the
- 1:04:35locals, But going back home they were calling them savages
- 1:04:38because like, you know, like these people, they were uncouth
- 1:04:40and they weren't English and they weren't, you know, they
- 1:04:42were they were wearing linen clothes and stuff.
- 1:04:44So by the time they came around to to Plymouth and to actually
- 1:04:49like a getting colonizers to go over there and actually create a
- 1:04:55kind of a colony. Sorry, I don't know why I came
- 1:04:58into that word. Yeah, of horrible British
- 1:05:04people. Yeah, but it was pretty tough to
- 1:05:06get these people. So when the Puritans like who
- 1:05:10are kind of like a fucking the Netherlands are two Netherlands
- 1:05:13for us. So they, they were like, they
- 1:05:16went to the king, who, by the way, didn't like them.
- 1:05:20He was like, OK, well, we do need people over there, English
- 1:05:24people over there. Yeah.
- 1:05:26So the Puritans got on to the, I don't know if you get into it,
- 1:05:30but with the Mayflower and, eh, so they jump in there.
- 1:05:33And again, people think that the Pilgrims are the Puritans are
- 1:05:36just all Mayflower, but there were only probably about 1/3 of
- 1:05:40the people there and there was a lot of contention even on the
- 1:05:43board. I think there was like an 8 year
- 1:05:45old kid who nearly blew up the the the Mayflower because he was
- 1:05:48playing with a gun and he shot a a fucking a keg of gunpowder.
- 1:05:52Yeah. Yeah, on the fucking board,
- 1:05:54which was like. Your kid play with a fucking gun
- 1:05:57but whatever. English.
- 1:05:58And that is the story of America.
- 1:06:01Like. Even that, even the broadcast,
- 1:06:03even in. The episode we're done, we're.
- 1:06:09Done well, even. That's exactly the fucking
- 1:06:11Puritans. Yeah.
- 1:06:13So. This has been hoagies bogies
- 1:06:14like a focus. No, but that that's umm, but
- 1:06:18that that I just I just wanted to get into like how the
- 1:06:22Puritans ended up like this fork again, another yeah closer fork
- 1:06:26of events is after happening that gets the Puritans over
- 1:06:29there and when they land, Europeans have already been over
- 1:06:33there and yeah in Massachusetts and it was a pop poxit.
- 1:06:39What's namely? Poxitonia, yeah.
- 1:06:41Pop pox yes, something. We're probably wrong in that
- 1:06:44foot. But it's a it's white Pawtucket
- 1:06:45is called Pawtucket now. Yeah, so but it's pop pox is
- 1:06:48something whatever. And I'm sorry, sorry, sorry to
- 1:06:51any naive Americans this which I doubt you.
- 1:06:53Are we actually? Have two, but we.
- 1:06:55Do actually have two that I have?
- 1:06:56People. Oh, I forgot, they're probably
- 1:06:58people that she's right and he's like.
- 1:07:00Literally, I'm not. I'm writing him for verse
- 1:07:02Cowgirl and he's like, do yourself a favor, don't turn
- 1:07:05around. Oh good God, won't be the first
- 1:07:14Indian. Who was it?
- 1:07:17Was good. I'm so disappointed.
- 1:07:23Right. So these natives were decimated
- 1:07:26by as Ocean's north have said, the pestilence.
- 1:07:31So the Europeans brought diseases over there guys that
- 1:07:34there was like basically a plague ran rampant through the
- 1:07:39the locals and there was only a few of them left.
- 1:07:44So when like the Mayflower headed over and fucking, you
- 1:07:49know, a couple of 100 people got off this board.
- 1:07:52The locals were like, it's better that we actually work
- 1:07:55with these guys than get in trouble with them because what's
- 1:07:58happening on the West of the locals as well.
- 1:08:00They're at war with these other like tribes.
- 1:08:03So they actually got in and, as I said, helped the locals start
- 1:08:09on how to to eh, work the land and how to like survive
- 1:08:14basically and hope at that stage that I think they arrived in the
- 1:08:18like the winter was coming already like so like it was
- 1:08:21getting they. Were arriving at a tough time,
- 1:08:23yes, so. I was going to be fucked up.
- 1:08:25So when they arrived, the locals really like looked after them
- 1:08:30and the pilgrims didn't you know, it was needs most like the
- 1:08:34Puritans came over, but the like we are holier than thou and
- 1:08:38we're going to take over. Yes.
- 1:08:40But what really happened was they're like, OK, now we
- 1:08:42actually have to bend and allow these locals to show us how to
- 1:08:47survive in this land that is fucking yeah crazy over.
- 1:08:50And it was, it was a tough pill for them to swallow because like
- 1:08:52they, they saw them as savages and then they were like relying
- 1:08:55on them. And they could see that like the
- 1:08:57these, like the, the natives understood the land better than
- 1:09:00they did because of course they did.
- 1:09:02And it was, you know, it was a difficult pill for them to
- 1:09:05swallow because they were bringing over that like, you
- 1:09:07know, European supremacy with them.
- 1:09:09Yeah, Jagged Little Pilgrim. Well, it was, it was could not
- 1:09:14do it. And it was a yeah, I got it.
- 1:09:19But that's yeah. So that's just, again, not to
- 1:09:21try try and fucking like take off or whatever because like
- 1:09:25you've done a lot of work on this.
- 1:09:26But for me, I like the the little nuances of like, how the
- 1:09:30fuck this happened, like how it got there, like, you know, this.
- 1:09:32Yeah, just tumbling of the vet, like the snowball that kind of
- 1:09:35gets bigger and bigger, bigger and then lands.
- 1:09:37Yeah. OK, America, weird Christian
- 1:09:40nation because these guys landed over there and got taken care of
- 1:09:43by natives that they then more or less murdered.
- 1:09:48Yes. So pretty much.
- 1:09:50The Puritans, or Pilgrims as they were also known, spread far
- 1:09:54and wide and what would go on to become New England.
- 1:09:56Approximately 13,000 Pilgrims are Puritans made the journey in
- 1:10:01the hope of escaping persecution.
- 1:10:03That is until they found that they could be the ones doing the
- 1:10:05persecuting as mentioned their. Themes There was less than
- 1:10:0913,000 at the Robbie Williams concert in Slain and 1990. 6 So
- 1:10:15I'm just saying there was like a Robbie Williams, no.
- 1:10:18There's more. There was 18,000 years at Robbie
- 1:10:21Williams Lane. I don't know why that was my
- 1:10:24head but whatever. Anyway, there was less Pilgrims
- 1:10:27that came over. Less pilgrims than Robbie
- 1:10:29Williams. And then caused more destruction
- 1:10:32than anyone who went to Robbie Williams and slain would have.
- 1:10:35And that brings us back to the American the the saying of like
- 1:10:37Americans will use anything other than the metric system to
- 1:10:40measure things. They didn't even have Rocky Day.
- 1:10:43They didn't even have. As mentioned there, there are
- 1:10:47teams and a big team is their victimhood complex and paranoia
- 1:10:51under Charles the 1st. When this all kicked off, he
- 1:10:55then banned emigration to the New world.
- 1:10:57And who reopened emigration to the New World in the 1650s?
- 1:11:01Justy what English character? Fucking Cromwell.
- 1:11:06Fucking Cromwell, another of history's great bastards, the
- 1:11:11Puritans then went on to dominate.
- 1:11:13They were the the dominant European influence of the new
- 1:11:17World until the early 1700s. That's how long like their their
- 1:11:20direct eh influence was, which obviously then like it waned,
- 1:11:24but like continued to modern day.
- 1:11:26And that's the I have a Cromwell.
- 1:11:27The whole point of what we're. Talking about I have a Cromwell
- 1:11:30story. I know I need to tell it right?
- 1:11:31So my my brother, not my MAGA brother, my my good brother,
- 1:11:37good brother lives in Wexford still, right?
- 1:11:41And he lives in Cromwell Port. Oh God.
- 1:11:44In Wexford, that's what that's what the place is called, right?
- 1:11:47They had next door neighbors who had moved in and moved out like
- 1:11:52pretty much fucking straight away.
- 1:11:53So my brother and his wife had like actually had to complain
- 1:11:56about the noise several times because at like her I just see,
- 1:11:59I think I told you this, no. I, I, I maybe you did, but I, I
- 1:12:05don't remember that shit. But I, I'm just thinking that I
- 1:12:07know of Cromwell's Fort. I know people took like blocks
- 1:12:12from Cromwell's court. They went in and like took it
- 1:12:15down piece by piece in the right.
- 1:12:16Book in Yeah, the Cromwell court is all like.
- 1:12:19For sorry, not called. Gorgeous land and and mountains.
- 1:12:23It was it's a really nice area has like a lake and stuff like
- 1:12:26that. Like we used to like have to.
- 1:12:28So when my brother lived there when he rented at the time,
- 1:12:32there was like this house and say that was just built, but
- 1:12:34behind it was like fucking gorgeous, beautiful countryside
- 1:12:37like whatever. But anyway, so my older brother,
- 1:12:41I have three, my other brother like who bought his house that
- 1:12:43he lives in there with his wife and his two kids.
- 1:12:46And they had next door neighbor who in the middle of the night.
- 1:12:50Now they had like made noise complaints before.
- 1:12:53Well they didn't they had knocked in and been like what
- 1:12:56the fuck is going on? Why you so fucking labeled at
- 1:12:583:00 in the fucking morning? We have two children like
- 1:12:59whatever. And this family, they were like
- 1:13:02a Polish family. They were just like yeah, Nope,
- 1:13:05sorry, didn't really give any explanation.
- 1:13:07But they were just like, we'll, we'll keep it down.
- 1:13:09Long story short, ended up in the fucking local newspaper in
- 1:13:13Wexford for the house being haunted.
- 1:13:17So in the middle of the night, basically all this banging and
- 1:13:20crashing that my brother and his his wife had heard the cupboard
- 1:13:26doors in the kitchen would just swing open the cutlery and the
- 1:13:29crockery were just being fucking like slammed onto the ground,
- 1:13:32just thrown to the fucking ground.
- 1:13:34I think the kid had been woken up screaming.
- 1:13:38I think that their kid was two years younger than my brother's
- 1:13:44youngest kid. So they weren't like, you know,
- 1:13:46they weren't the same age. They would like play together,
- 1:13:49but they knew each other kind of thing.
- 1:13:51All of this mad shit would happen.
- 1:13:53Umm, and it was in the the fucking Westford Echo, the the
- 1:13:57People newspaper, all of this shit that it was like haunted
- 1:14:00house in Cromwell sports like terrible or in fucking Cromwell,
- 1:14:04whatever. And do you reckon it could have
- 1:14:06been Cromwell? Oh, that whole area.
- 1:14:09So that whole part of Wexford is like horribly fucking haunted.
- 1:14:13Like if you go all through those woods and everything like that,
- 1:14:16there's stories for fucking wherever, but it's.
- 1:14:19Wexford is kind of, eh, it's weird because like, it's just
- 1:14:22down there, yeah, but like, again, it's like the Kennedys,
- 1:14:26the Cromwells, the Famine, fucking there.
- 1:14:30Yeah. Everything.
- 1:14:31Happens, yeah. There's loads of fucking weird
- 1:14:35shit fucking play and umm, so, and that was the thing like
- 1:14:40strawberry. But there was like a huge
- 1:14:43fucking thing on my brother was like obviously he's just like, I
- 1:14:46don't fucking know, Like I don't care.
- 1:14:47Like he's like, he's so he goes to bed, he sleeps through the
- 1:14:50night and his wife is just awake all the time.
- 1:14:53So she's like, she'll hear crash next door a fucking like glasses
- 1:14:59smashing, whatever. And she thought to herself at
- 1:15:01first, So like, she's a very nice woman.
- 1:15:03She's a very like, oh, like what if it's an abusive relationship
- 1:15:07and we have to get that woman out of there Generally?
- 1:15:08What if it's people are in danger?
- 1:15:10That's where her head is going because she's waking up in the
- 1:15:12night to like fucking yeah, dishes smashing and like
- 1:15:15whatever. As for her head's going?
- 1:15:17Just sounds like the Polish to. Me and then she like does she
- 1:15:19she don't don't start me, but she basically like she got it up
- 1:15:27the next day that I think like my brother was like in the
- 1:15:29office and whatever and she was working from home that day and
- 1:15:32she was like, you know what I know she's in there the as in
- 1:15:36the wife. I'm going to just knock in and
- 1:15:39I'm going to just talk to her and just going to see like
- 1:15:41what's going on. I'm going to just offer an ear
- 1:15:43whatever right and this woman she was like, I'm so glad that
- 1:15:48you knocked in. She was like, I just, I thought
- 1:15:50I was going insane. It's so nice to hear that
- 1:15:52someone else just fucking hears it.
- 1:15:54She's like, what are you talking about?
- 1:15:56And she was like, just we can't sleep.
- 1:15:57We haven't slept in so long. Our children are fucking
- 1:16:00terrified. There's we go to bed and things
- 1:16:02are being thrown around downstairs doors are are
- 1:16:06slammed. We think we have a night without
- 1:16:08it. There's someone storming up the
- 1:16:10stairs and storming back down the stairs.
- 1:16:12And she basically just sobbed and started pouring her hair out
- 1:16:14her hair out to my sister-in-law.
- 1:16:16My sister-in-law was like, very, very Catholic, very like, you
- 1:16:19know, she was raised like, very religious.
- 1:16:21She need to get the church involved.
- 1:16:23You need to do this. You need to do that.
- 1:16:25And she was just kind of like, well, I know that's not going to
- 1:16:29help. Yeah, she's like, I that's not
- 1:16:30going to help. Like, whatever.
- 1:16:32And it was just, and, and she called me and she told me about
- 1:16:36it and I was like, eh, I was still living in my old place and
- 1:16:39all the time because she knows I'm, I'm so into it, whatever.
- 1:16:41I was like, well, you know, it's because you're living in a
- 1:16:43fucking place called Cromwell Sport.
- 1:16:45I'm sorry, but that's like, it's a lot of hate and just fucking
- 1:16:49bad energy that's going to just carry yourself over bad vibes.
- 1:16:52And she was like, well, what do I do?
- 1:16:53And I was like, well, she needs a fucking exorcism or she needs
- 1:16:56to move out. And it got to a point where the
- 1:16:59neighbors started talking about it so much that it was in the
- 1:17:02fucking papers that it was like House of Horrors.
- 1:17:05If you Google it, you'll probably fucking see it.
- 1:17:08It's like House of Horrors and Wexford.
- 1:17:11And this poor woman and her family just moved.
- 1:17:13They were just like, yeah, we don't want anything to do with
- 1:17:15it. And apparently so they were.
- 1:17:18So the house was like joined as well.
- 1:17:21So she we've been talking about and stuff and I was like, oh,
- 1:17:24have you, have you heard anything else?
- 1:17:25Like, no, nothing since they moved out.
- 1:17:27There was nothing. And then there was a whole
- 1:17:29thing. And she was like, I think like
- 1:17:30whatever was wrong was attached to the family and not the house.
- 1:17:33And I was like, you live in Cromwell.
- 1:17:36'S park. The family were haunted.
- 1:17:38That old chest. The whole thing.
- 1:17:39And I was like, oh, you haven't heard anything.
- 1:17:41I was like, well, does anyone else live in there?
- 1:17:42And she was like, no. I couldn't have been Cromwell
- 1:17:44because, like, if Cromwell was haunting like that place, he'd
- 1:17:48want the Irish out first. Of course, there's a pure habit.
- 1:17:52Like he leaves like, yeah, he leaves the Polish alone.
- 1:17:54Like he'd be like, yeah, they're.
- 1:17:57Terrifying in that house. And then like literally they
- 1:17:59realize that it's my brother and his wife and kids in the wrong
- 1:18:03house. He's like, fuck, I meant to go
- 1:18:04next door. I I meant to be in in the house
- 1:18:08that's haunted by actual Oliver Crown I need.
- 1:18:10To go to 18 for fuck's sake. But yeah, it's just and that
- 1:18:14that's like a a huge fucking pirate of Ireland and a lot of
- 1:18:18places in America, you have all of these like massive hauntings
- 1:18:21that date back to how fucking terrible it was when the English
- 1:18:27buried this and. Found this.
- 1:18:30Like it's all this said, the trope is the Indian Indian
- 1:18:34burial ground, isn't it? Yeah.
- 1:18:36So that's the, that's the kind of it and.
- 1:18:37It's never. That again, it's.
- 1:18:39Paved over an Indian burial ground and that's why you've got
- 1:18:42angry spirits just. I don't, I just I don't want to
- 1:18:46get down down here. And again, I'm not infected by
- 1:18:49the walk mine virus here guys. But just if I you say an Indian
- 1:18:53burial ground, I'm not trying to be when I say the word Indian,
- 1:18:58it's just like it's one of those.
- 1:18:59Phrases in pop culture, Yeah. Yeah, so again, like, I don't
- 1:19:02know. I don't know if Native American
- 1:19:04is what we're supposed to be saying or Indigenous American or
- 1:19:07whatever. Native Americans I think is
- 1:19:09acceptable. I do hear people saying like
- 1:19:11it's fine to say Indian as well, but like I can't, I look again,
- 1:19:15if if I heard like a bunch of fucking French people doing a
- 1:19:21podcast and refer to Irish people as Paddies, I'd be a
- 1:19:24little bit like, hey, hey up. I know it's yeah.
- 1:19:27It's not as hurtful. Yeah.
- 1:19:29If you're not. English, but like, I'd still be
- 1:19:31like, yeah, like he's up. Like, so again, if I'm not,
- 1:19:35damn. If I'm saying Indian burial
- 1:19:36ground, it's only because that's the trope.
- 1:19:38Yeah. And but yeah, let's get.
- 1:19:40I can do this. So here's where we get to 1 of
- 1:19:44the juiciest parts of the Puritans.
- 1:19:45And again, this is extremely no, the Jews were not in America at
- 1:19:50this point or to. Just to do it.
- 1:19:52Sorry to go back to a Cromwell point, You ever heard a story
- 1:19:55about when they invited Bertie Ahern or?
- 1:20:00Oh my God, down the street. That's my favorite and my
- 1:20:02favorite story. So when when Bertie Ahern was
- 1:20:06being looked with like I think was Blair at the player.
- 1:20:10Yeah. So I like to invite them into
- 1:20:12down the street and no in #10 down the street, Yeah.
- 1:20:16I don't know if it's still the way it is now, but in the like
- 1:20:19for yeah, like as you walk. They have Cromwell.
- 1:20:22At like a 10 foot, yeah, picture of that.
- 1:20:25Was deliberate. They did that on purpose.
- 1:20:28Yeah, but like it's funny, it's like getting inviting all this.
- 1:20:31Fucking. Like it's like inviting
- 1:20:33Netanyahu over and having a massive picture of Hitler in
- 1:20:36your fucking yeah in your for yeah.
- 1:20:38Like it's, it's just like guys come on a little bit more
- 1:20:40tackling. No, no.
- 1:20:42That was just a weird power move.
- 1:20:44I. Would have swastikas.
- 1:20:46I would have everything. I Yeah, yeah.
- 1:20:48Yeah, yeah. OK, maybe that was a bad
- 1:20:50example. But I'm just saying it's that
- 1:20:52thing is like you put up like one of the like a painting of
- 1:20:54like one of the worst people that you could put up for a
- 1:20:56person to look at. And it's just like, ah, I see
- 1:20:59the power game you're playing here.
- 1:21:00Yes. Anyway, go on.
- 1:21:01OK, so one of the juiciest parts of the Puritans.
- 1:21:04So it wasn't the first church, but it was called the First
- 1:21:07church and it was the first Puritan church in Salem,
- 1:21:11Massachusetts. An early arrival by the name of
- 1:21:14Roger Williams landed in Boston. And was, he was like, you know,
- 1:21:18one of the first waves of, of immigrants to come via the
- 1:21:23Puritans. And he landed in Boston, and he
- 1:21:26was offered, well, what would go on to become Boston.
- 1:21:30He was offered to be the pastor of the church, but he refused on
- 1:21:33contrarian grounds of you're too close to the Church of England.
- 1:21:38So after a few more falling outs with various people in Boston
- 1:21:41and in other churches, he found his way to Salem, MA, where
- 1:21:46nothing bad happened. Oh, never, ever, ever.
- 1:21:49Now, while Williams was 60 years before the Salem witch trials
- 1:21:53took place, he was assistant pastor to a guy called Samuel
- 1:21:57Skelton, good Irish name and the pair of them essentially, they
- 1:22:02set in motion the the local culture and religious beliefs
- 1:22:06that eventually led to one of the, you know, spooky true
- 1:22:10crimes favorite events, the Salem witch trials nice love it.
- 1:22:14You know, because they were, they were just a community of,
- 1:22:17of Puritans and the Puritan pastor would just set the tone,
- 1:22:22you know, like they would, it was like Catholic priests.
- 1:22:24They would set the tone for the town.
- 1:22:26They would control people's lives.
- 1:22:27They would tell people how to. Live in their little.
- 1:22:29Heels in their little heels. And so the Salem Witch trials
- 1:22:32were a case of mass hysteria in which over 200 people were
- 1:22:35accused of being a witch, 30 people were convicted, and 19
- 1:22:38were put to death or murdered. By any other definition, 14
- 1:22:42women and five men were executed because they were believed to be
- 1:22:45witches. When really, a compelling case
- 1:22:47can be made that the town and its surrounds had acute ergot
- 1:22:50poisoning and were just tripping balls for the space of a whole
- 1:22:54year. All.
- 1:22:55Of that. One woman, one black woman who
- 1:22:59was a slave and who they had basically seen as a the source
- 1:23:05of all of this tuba was her name.
- 1:23:07Basically. She was a slave.
- 1:23:09Yeah. So she, she had a lot of
- 1:23:12obviously herbal remedies for things.
- 1:23:15Yes. And she was basically seen as a
- 1:23:18witch because these herbal remedies had worked for.
- 1:23:21These fucking this stuff came. Pasty cons.
- 1:23:25This stuff, she obviously had like remedies that would have
- 1:23:27been like African. Or is it that?
- 1:23:32Yeah. OK.
- 1:23:32It would have been like natural remedies she understood.
- 1:23:35Like, you know, if you boiled a certain root, you could get a
- 1:23:37compound from it because, you know, like, she came from a
- 1:23:40community that was more in touch with nature.
- 1:23:41Yeah. And she was basically.
- 1:23:43Like making Brits were after some things like that.
- 1:23:45Yeah, the Brits were like, that's bad.
- 1:23:47Exactly like these different herbs do different things and
- 1:23:49you have like the same correspondences in witchcraft
- 1:23:52where it's like different herbs will do different things in
- 1:23:54witchcraft, but it's also health wise.
- 1:23:56You can brew anything into a tea to help combat different things
- 1:24:01and to do different things. So this woman basically was umm,
- 1:24:04not even a medicine woman like because she was very much just
- 1:24:08like umm, like a house. She.
- 1:24:10Was like just like like my fucking what her years ago would
- 1:24:13have been like Paul Paul to sign your exactly yeah on your
- 1:24:16ingoing toenail or and like the metal.
- 1:24:18Team. Oldest.
- 1:24:20Yeah, Witch. She's a witch.
- 1:24:21Whatever the fuck. Yeah, yeah, it was.
- 1:24:24It was basically just that. And because she was and she was
- 1:24:27from a country that like so this was probably very fucking normal
- 1:24:30in, you know, in her country to be like, oh, you have this
- 1:24:34ailment, put this and this not on it, right?
- 1:24:36And because she's shipped over from a fake fucking a different
- 1:24:40country to here and she has these different ideas to do
- 1:24:43different things that like these fucking puritan cunts would
- 1:24:45never have thought of all which. It's funny.
- 1:24:48As well that they evil. The Puritans were being fucking
- 1:24:51like eh, obviously like 60 years beforehandler or whatever.
- 1:24:55It is where they landed. They were being rescued by the
- 1:24:58people of the land who were using the land to save the pure.
- 1:25:01There were still 2. There were two of their own
- 1:25:04hours to accept. That there's always this, this
- 1:25:07layer of hypocrisy through like, puritanical behavior that goes
- 1:25:12on to the modern day. And it's almost like hypocrisy
- 1:25:14is the point. Yeah.
- 1:25:16And to to just just to jump back into this specific thing with
- 1:25:19the sound mature. So the two little cons that
- 1:25:21basically start this whole thing and the two daughters, the one
- 1:25:24of them was the daughter of the new reverend in this town and
- 1:25:29she was just a fucking bad egg and her and her best friend were
- 1:25:32going out. And now, umm, we'll talk about
- 1:25:35this in a second. Ocean has notes on this that
- 1:25:37basically there was like a route that made the whole town high
- 1:25:40because it basically kind of. No, it was a there was it was a
- 1:25:45yeah. So it was the IT was like their
- 1:25:47grain stores. Yeah, got eh, got like an
- 1:25:50Oregon, eh, Yeah, yeah. Mold, yeah.
- 1:25:53And if you if you eat it, you just get high as fuck and you
- 1:25:56loosen it. But.
- 1:25:57These these two little bitches had gone out, unlike actively,
- 1:26:01umm, consumed plants that would make you get high actively.
- 1:26:08And so they were doing that and whatever.
- 1:26:10And then they they'd come back, eh, to the town hi as fuck.
- 1:26:16And they were told basically like, what the fuck?
- 1:26:18Like instead of getting in trouble, they'd be like, Oh
- 1:26:20yeah, like to Tuba gave us this shit.
- 1:26:23She, she bewitched us and that's why one of the, one of the
- 1:26:26common things was that, umm, like a woman that they were
- 1:26:30accusing of being a witch would control them with her mind and
- 1:26:34make them hurt themselves. Yeah.
- 1:26:35So it's like, oh, you know, I I have this bruise because she
- 1:26:38controlled, she did it with her mind and her witchy power and.
- 1:26:41It's basically just like, yeah, they didn't.
- 1:26:44So like with with stuff like this, would like to sell them
- 1:26:47which try to like I am painting in broad strokes because like
- 1:26:50these are things that we can get into in more depth.
- 1:26:52And it's the same with like, you know, like other things that I'm
- 1:26:56about to mention. It's just that this is kind of
- 1:26:58just very rapidly us kind of running through history and
- 1:27:02dipping into these subjects like the Salem witch trials is a
- 1:27:05whole thing in itself. Doing an episode right?
- 1:27:11But it didn't survive. But like, no, to be fair, when
- 1:27:14it comes to that, right? And we can go back to like what
- 1:27:16we're saying. A lot of it is just basically
- 1:27:19the bridge just fucking coming in and lying.
- 1:27:23And then that's just what fucking happens.
- 1:27:25Like so. You with those, with the girls
- 1:27:28particularly, what I would say is sorry, I need to cut you off.
- 1:27:32But like I, I'm, I'm actually just kind of trying to piggyback
- 1:27:36on your point there of the lion. It's like when you've got the
- 1:27:39girls and there's so much rigid rules, especially with the
- 1:27:42Puritans, and then you've got, you know, hormones, your, your
- 1:27:46want, your zest for life has been suppressed.
- 1:27:50You're out in this fucking place that is kind of wild, but you're
- 1:27:53expected to not be wild. And these young girls wanted to
- 1:27:57go out and play and do this. And when they get back and it's
- 1:28:00like, why have you done this? Why are like, why are you
- 1:28:03bruised? Why are your clothes malled?
- 1:28:04Why are you having? Why are you having?
- 1:28:07Yeah, exactly. And then they turn around and
- 1:28:10they go, oh, shit. It's, you know, it's this chick
- 1:28:12who's making. It's the medicine woman or
- 1:28:14whatever it is that's after bewitching us because she's a
- 1:28:17witch. Yeah.
- 1:28:19And so generally, witch trials were common in over the
- 1:28:22religious communities. And in my opinion, it was a way
- 1:28:24for religious losers to punish people that they thought weren't
- 1:28:28holy enough, or they were jealous that they had a husband,
- 1:28:30or they were jealous that they had a really cute bonnet.
- 1:28:33So, so so in Salem. Which is the cute?
- 1:28:37Planet in Salem. It was a couple of young girls
- 1:28:40who accused all and sundry around them of committing
- 1:28:42various acts of violence and harm through witchcraft.
- 1:28:45And when you're high as fuck and you don't know that you're high
- 1:28:48as fuck, all of this seems plausible.
- 1:28:50And so the witch trial again to go back to an earlier point of
- 1:28:54how there are teams that go from Puritan behavior up until modern
- 1:28:58day, the witch trial is another team that runs to modern
- 1:29:01America. The phrase witch hunt stems from
- 1:29:04this and can be attributed to people in power deciding that
- 1:29:07the small group or thing is causing a larger problem and the
- 1:29:10majority should hunt and seek these people or things and get
- 1:29:13rid of them, thus exercising the evil.
- 1:29:16Prime examples are Native Americans, Chinese immigrants
- 1:29:19who built most of their railroads, Japanese immigrants
- 1:29:22post World War 2, Joseph McCarthyism and his hunt for
- 1:29:26commies blaming. Metal music, yeah.
- 1:29:29Oh absolutely, that's huge. Blaming metal music for school
- 1:29:33shootings? That's another one.
- 1:29:34And today? Titanic panic.
- 1:29:35Blaming immigrants for all of society's woes when really it's
- 1:29:39just a cabal of super rich paedophiles pitting us all
- 1:29:42against each other. Shots fired.
- 1:29:47That. Shots fired.
- 1:29:50Like, like, like, like when I was, when I was writing that, I
- 1:29:53was just like in my head, it was just Alex Jones's voice, you
- 1:29:59know, like it's, it's just, it's bananas.
- 1:30:02Again, like I'm just, I think the way that I see America these
- 1:30:06days is just The Sims. Like it's just, you're just
- 1:30:10dropping characters into something and you're just
- 1:30:12you're, you're, you're testing different plots, but it's
- 1:30:14happening in real time because nothing that ever happens makes
- 1:30:19fucking sense. Nothing that happens is logical
- 1:30:23and the rest of the world is just watching it.
- 1:30:25Like what? Like what the?
- 1:30:26Fuck are you? Doing like.
- 1:30:28We're watching. So like in in V for Vendetta,
- 1:30:31Yes. By Alan Moore.
- 1:30:33Yeah. They refer to America as a place
- 1:30:37of like, you know, filth and sin.
- 1:30:39And essentially, the rest of the world had to lock America off.
- 1:30:42It's like modern day city of. Like to like lock off their
- 1:30:47negative influence from the rest of the world.
- 1:30:48And then like, of course, V for Vendetta, the, the British
- 1:30:50government is like this dystopian, full religious, uh,
- 1:30:56like fascist government that is just like hell bent on
- 1:30:59controlling. But they, there is a throwaway
- 1:31:02comment about how like, you know, Oh yeah, the Americans are
- 1:31:05these like filthy dirty things that we have to just, you know,
- 1:31:09lock them away from, from the rest of us.
- 1:31:11Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's an interesting
- 1:31:13one because like, I suppose if you, if you consider like, like
- 1:31:18let's say the world is a science project, right?
- 1:31:23And let's like, let's just look at Ireland in the way that what
- 1:31:26you would have done here is you, you put like germs, you know,
- 1:31:31one of those science projects where you put germs into a
- 1:31:34little Petri dish and you watch them grow.
- 1:31:37And then it becomes like a mold or whatever it is, you're
- 1:31:40watching it and it blossoms into this kind of a thing and it
- 1:31:43grows what it has. It has a lot of time to become
- 1:31:46what it is, but America is like you have a Petri dish and you
- 1:31:50take this mold that mold this, whatever it is and all these
- 1:31:54different influences and you throw them into a Petri dish and
- 1:31:57none of them have ever reacted with each other before.
- 1:31:59And now it's all brand new. That's what's after happening
- 1:32:02here. So like you've got the likes of
- 1:32:03Ireland or even Britain, like, you know, like that they, these
- 1:32:06places have thousands of years to, to breed culture, to become
- 1:32:11what it is as a country. And America in like, eh, but
- 1:32:16they, they always talk about how it's, it's 250 years old or
- 1:32:19whatever it is. And but like that's not what
- 1:32:21it's, it is older. Like since eh, I suppose
- 1:32:24Columbus landed. So you were talking like 1500
- 1:32:27there, there, there about 1492 Columbus sail the ocean blue.
- 1:32:30Yeah, like so like 1500. You think about that within
- 1:32:34those, the, the 500, eh, years since Columbus landed there, you
- 1:32:41get all these people from all over the world landing there,
- 1:32:46but all these different cultures who do not react or do not like
- 1:32:50they're, they're, they don't gel together very easily, even like
- 1:32:54we've, what we've already been through is like different
- 1:32:56versions of Protestantism doesn't gel correctly together.
- 1:33:00You get like now Irish people are living beside English people
- 1:33:06and no one is better than the other one because they're in
- 1:33:08this new nation that is, is coming up and there's conflict
- 1:33:12there. And then you get like, they're
- 1:33:14after bringing a bunch of slaves over from Africa and now who
- 1:33:17have to create their own identity over there in this new
- 1:33:21land, You've got indigenous people who are being stripped of
- 1:33:24their fucking land and their rights, and they're being
- 1:33:26tricked out of everything. And you've got the French are
- 1:33:29coming down from the north after fucking.
- 1:33:31Yeah, like depleting that place from the fucking there of all
- 1:33:35their Beaver pelts. The Spanish are coming up from
- 1:33:37the South after fucking there, uh, losing like this fucking war
- 1:33:42in Mexico, losing Texas. And then you've got all these
- 1:33:44new people are like, they are fucking basically indigenous
- 1:33:48slash Spanish people who are now part of America.
- 1:33:51And all these people are all like fluting into this one brand
- 1:33:54new country. And what, how do you make a
- 1:33:57culture out of so many different things without conflict?
- 1:34:00You know what I mean? It will, like eventually it will
- 1:34:04settle into a culture, but the culture is, as we've seen now,
- 1:34:08this kind of crazy amalgamate like, and it's such a massive
- 1:34:13landmass, like fucking Florida is completely different than New
- 1:34:16York and fucking, you know, and the, the Bible Belt is a
- 1:34:19completely different place than fucking, you know, the, the West
- 1:34:22Coast or the East Coast. It's this kind of, uh, like
- 1:34:26massive place where there's so many different cultures all
- 1:34:30coming together and just putting heads in clashing.
- 1:34:32And that's why we've got this weird, uh, divided country,
- 1:34:38like, and it's not just divided down the middle.
- 1:34:41Like the, the easy thing to say is like it's divided between
- 1:34:44liberal and, uh, conservative or red and blue.
- 1:34:47Like that's the biggest divided up.
- 1:34:49But then you go and look at on the ground and you see people,
- 1:34:51there's racial divides, there's cultural divides.
- 1:34:55You don't see it, but there is class divides because, uh, of
- 1:34:59the, uh, massive, uh, gulf with prosperity.
- 1:35:03Like you've got people who are on the breadline and people who
- 1:35:06like literally have all of the money, like the 1% of people
- 1:35:10that have like 99% of the money. And they're in America as well.
- 1:35:13And it's just some like it's like in Europe or in Asia and,
- 1:35:20and like places like that where culture has kind of bred for
- 1:35:25thousands of years. And then you try and throw that
- 1:35:27into this one landmass and like see what happens in a few 100
- 1:35:31years it's going to get fucked up.
- 1:35:33Sorry that was a big rant of. No.
- 1:35:36No, no, that's it's, yeah. It's perfect.
- 1:35:38It is. It is absolutely perfect.
- 1:35:41Umm. And so the facade of religious
- 1:35:44purity. Sorry, I just, I actually have
- 1:35:46to take a breath after that. You, you did great, sweetie.
- 1:35:50You're fine. And so the facade of religious
- 1:35:55purity is another common theme that run through the series
- 1:35:58because it's used as an armor and a justification for shitty
- 1:36:01behavior. So if you listen to any of the
- 1:36:03worst American modern politicians and the stewardship,
- 1:36:07they'll speak in puritanical ways about their faith and how
- 1:36:10only God can judge and save them.
- 1:36:11And this is the vestigial tale of the Puritans.
- 1:36:14In fact, it is one of many vestigial tales that are
- 1:36:17leftover. Like even you see Trump, you see
- 1:36:21Trump like trying to get with the, the the Bible tempers in
- 1:36:26America, like where he's he's like, I love the Bible.
- 1:36:29OK, what's your favorite verse? I love all of them.
- 1:36:32You know, he's, he's not religious at all.
- 1:36:34But when you get to. Rape, get in favor with them.
- 1:36:36I love it all. Yeah.
- 1:36:37Yeah, yeah. And I think this is like a huge
- 1:36:40fucking thing as well as that, like these people who claim to
- 1:36:43be good Christians and like fucking whatever, like they're,
- 1:36:46they're terrible people. They're.
- 1:36:48Always terrible. Fucking people.
- 1:36:51And it's like it's, it's my, my brother alone again.
- 1:36:53We bring him up all the time on this podcast, but I, I.
- 1:36:56You break them up all the time. I know, but I just have to say
- 1:37:00it's people who like find God and who think that they're like
- 1:37:03whatever they they find God because they think that there's
- 1:37:07this like weird loophole. I'm convinced of this, that they
- 1:37:12think that they can act fucking horrible in their day-to-day
- 1:37:15lives and then be forgiven magically when they're going.
- 1:37:20It doesn't work that way, but I think that's how Christians,
- 1:37:24especially in America, tend to live their lives, is that they
- 1:37:27just like, if they're doing something and like, OK, and
- 1:37:31maybe it might be wrong, but because they're like they
- 1:37:34worship God, they'll be forgiven at the end of it.
- 1:37:37Yeah, they think Jesus is on their side and like that, that
- 1:37:40like they think, they think that Jesus is behind them pushing
- 1:37:42them to every little action and that, you know, and I think
- 1:37:45that's, that's one thing that like from, from Catholics, we
- 1:37:49don't have that to like when you get these, eh, whatever product,
- 1:37:53whatever, eh, Protestantism you have like they're kind of think
- 1:37:58that like Jesus is going to support everything that they do
- 1:38:01because what they're doing is God's plan.
- 1:38:02Exactly. And we're Catholics, what we
- 1:38:05have is fear and shame. Yeah.
- 1:38:09Of God. And that's the difference that
- 1:38:11they don't have. First of all, they're Americans.
- 1:38:13They don't know what shame is. And they and eh, they don't have
- 1:38:17the fear of God like they say. They actually use this line.
- 1:38:20They go I'm a God fear an American.
- 1:38:22No, you're not. You think that God is.
- 1:38:24Oh, you, Oh, God is appalling. All your shitty decisions in
- 1:38:28your mind. But the Catholics are spent.
- 1:38:31I don't know about the rest of them, but like us Irish Roman
- 1:38:34Catholics and who have been kind of downtrodden.
- 1:38:37It's all. Shame.
- 1:38:38Yeah. Like it's all like we're like we
- 1:38:41come into the world with original sin and we're fucking.
- 1:38:44We're ashamed of that from the day like we're told, like, you
- 1:38:50know, fucking, you know, like you're going to hell unless, and
- 1:38:54it's not like God, we're going to get to the king when I die,
- 1:38:57I'm going to get to the Kingdom of heaven.
- 1:38:59But there's no that's when you die.
- 1:39:00You better hope you were good and.
- 1:39:02There's there's not anything that you can do that like you're
- 1:39:05going to be accepted like, and this is the whole thing of like,
- 1:39:08well, there's no guarantee. Well, there's no guarantee.
- 1:39:10You can live your life to like the fucking like to a fucking
- 1:39:13word for word to the Bible, but there's no guarantee.
- 1:39:17And that's the difference, I think.
- 1:39:19Either either way, I think that I think you're fucked like like
- 1:39:21the Puritans who are who are like, umm, oh, when we, when we
- 1:39:25get to the Kingdom of heaven, like, you know, everything's
- 1:39:28going to be good like afterwards, like, but that's
- 1:39:30what like you've kind of you're you're hedging your bet on that
- 1:39:33and you're giving yourself a really shitty life.
- 1:39:35Yeah, you know, to hope that you're going to get there.
- 1:39:38And then there's also the other side of the kind is like, I
- 1:39:41don't believe in anything, so I'm going to be the fucking boy
- 1:39:45again, Which I don't. I don't believe that this is the
- 1:39:46case because like I'd say I'm like atheist, like I maybe not,
- 1:39:51maybe I'm agnostic, I don't know.
- 1:39:52I believe there's some kind of cosmic thing out there that is.
- 1:39:55The reason why I would say yeah. I don't believe that in any kind
- 1:39:59of a God that's sitting on a cloud or anything like that.
- 1:40:02Yeah, there's. Nobody.
- 1:40:02There's no one absolute fucking being that Dick.
- 1:40:06Yeah, you know, yeah, I don't. I don't live my life in a kind
- 1:40:09of a hedonistic way. Yeah, because because there's no
- 1:40:14rules. Like, like, it's not as if I'm
- 1:40:16going to hell. When I do have, it's just
- 1:40:17because I like, I have morals because I like, I'm like, I
- 1:40:20think. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:40:21Being a good person I think is important.
- 1:40:23But like, but again, if there is that, if there is someone out
- 1:40:26there that's like, there is no God.
- 1:40:28I can do whatever the fuck I want and then it turns out there
- 1:40:31is a God. You fucked up.
- 1:40:33Yeah, like what? Like whatever way you choose to
- 1:40:37live your life, we don't know what way it's going to be at the
- 1:40:39end of it. Honesty So when it comes to all
- 1:40:42of this, and this is like a huge thing like I've had with myself,
- 1:40:45obviously, like doing fucking witchcraft stuff, which it does
- 1:40:47work, right? I have I've done shit that I
- 1:40:50can't explain. We'll say whatever, right?
- 1:40:53And you can believe it. You cannot believe it.
- 1:40:55That's fine. Whatever.
- 1:40:57They're OK, I've no, no, and that's fine.
- 1:41:00Like you can't have. That.
- 1:41:01I don't care, right? But there have been things where
- 1:41:06like I've done shit that I can't explain and I've had shit happen
- 1:41:10to me that I can't explain. Like I've done like stay a
- 1:41:12fucking money ritual when I've been that fucking desperate that
- 1:41:17I needed something and I've had an unexpected refund in my
- 1:41:21account the next day. You know what I mean?
- 1:41:23Like there's been, there's a lot of shit that you can, you can
- 1:41:26probably do, but I look at witchcraft and things like that
- 1:41:29as a manipulation of energy, which I think is a lot more
- 1:41:34plausible than just being like, well, I asked the man in the sky
- 1:41:37to do this for me and then it happened.
- 1:41:40No, you can manipulate energy. You can like manifestation is a
- 1:41:44very fucking real thing where you say if you can do, you can
- 1:41:46basically change the frequency that your mind operates on and
- 1:41:52you can basically been you can kind of like move that around.
- 1:41:57To Yeah. Suit what you want it to be to
- 1:42:00do whatever like it's so fucking powerful to just if you just
- 1:42:03believe one thing it can happen and I.
- 1:42:07Don't think, tell me this you you'd has a belief in this?
- 1:42:12Yeah. What?
- 1:42:13What? What's your afterlife game plan
- 1:42:17there? I don't have one.
- 1:42:20But like, what's the sorry, not the game plan, but what's the
- 1:42:22what's the belief? I think we give back to the
- 1:42:25Earth and I think maybe it's a little bit of a cycle.
- 1:42:29Like I mean, I do, I would like to believe that it's kind of
- 1:42:32like reincarnation. I would love to believe that
- 1:42:35that is a thing. But also at the same time, like
- 1:42:38I kind of like, I'm OK with it just being one and done, you
- 1:42:42know, even though I don't think I think there's like it's,
- 1:42:45there's so much more. There's so much involved in
- 1:42:49everything and going on. Yeah.
- 1:42:50Is there a consensus in in there in witchcraft or, or you know
- 1:42:56that or? Do you are are you guys like
- 1:42:57moving towards your own civil war based on what you believe?
- 1:43:01And it does sound like that one because she it does sound like
- 1:43:04witches do. There is kind of different weird
- 1:43:07sects of. I mean, so I, I practice
- 1:43:11demonology, which is different to demonology.
- 1:43:14Demonology is a study, umm, of, of demons of demonology is the
- 1:43:20worship and the practice, right? That's what I I go by and I
- 1:43:26don't know, I just kind of like, I feel like it's a thing where
- 1:43:30you just live your life how you want to live it, right?
- 1:43:33And if it's like, 'cause no harm, we're fine.
- 1:43:38I don't think. I don't think about an
- 1:43:40afterlife. I just think about like, what
- 1:43:41can I do now in this life to not be a cunt and to basically just
- 1:43:47live my life how I want to do it.
- 1:43:50Like I don't know if. Puritans would have fucked you.
- 1:43:55I know they wouldn't. They.
- 1:43:57Wouldn't they would have just heard like any of those words?
- 1:44:00They don't know. I know.
- 1:44:02Burned at the stake. I know, but I mean I, I, I tag
- 1:44:05the yes give one P option when I'm ordering Domino's.
- 1:44:09Like they would have fucking hated me for that.
- 1:44:11They're just like charity. Fuck this whore like.
- 1:44:17I would have thought more about the demons than the charity,
- 1:44:20but. Fine.
- 1:44:23And so to go back to a point that you briefly mentioned
- 1:44:26earlier about like the Puritans and the state or a religion and
- 1:44:29a state. Yeah.
- 1:44:30So the Puritans believed that the church in the state were
- 1:44:32one. So if you cast back to when
- 1:44:35we're talking about like their political and religious
- 1:44:37maneuverings within the UK that caused the Civil war, they were
- 1:44:40all about getting involved in how a country was run and how
- 1:44:42they taught a country should be run.
- 1:44:44Like they they believed in the like, you know, Christian ethno
- 1:44:49state. Essentially, the they believed
- 1:44:51that the church in the state were one.
- 1:44:52They were foundation of disbelief, which is still seen
- 1:44:55across America with Bible bashing politicians on every
- 1:44:58level of claiming that they were put there by God and they sleep
- 1:45:01with a Bible and a Glock because the apostles were packing baby,
- 1:45:05baby. Yeah.
- 1:45:07And with this religious salary came came the affirmation
- 1:45:12aforementioned Puritan given persecution.
- 1:45:14They executed several Quakers just for being Quakers.
- 1:45:18And like, Quakers are like puppies like that.
- 1:45:20They literally just want good things for people.
- 1:45:22They're baby like. They're basically like little
- 1:45:25don't like, not automations and retriever puppies.
- 1:45:28No, but I, I know Quakers and like they, you know, like
- 1:45:31they're peace loving people Like it's, it's, it's about, it's
- 1:45:38like, it's about community. And so they just want like good
- 1:45:42things for people and they're pacifists.
- 1:45:44And the Puritans also hate, hated the Jesuits because of
- 1:45:48their originating hatred for all things Catholic.
- 1:45:51They like, what they used to do is in their towns, if a Jesuit
- 1:45:55came in, you know, just to exist in their town, they would banish
- 1:45:59them from the town, and that would be it.
- 1:46:00But if that Jesuit came back to the town again, then they were
- 1:46:04just like, oh, well, now the sentence is death.
- 1:46:06Like, now, now you've gone too far.
- 1:46:08We're going to kill you. Yeah.
- 1:46:10And when you say this, they they were killed like legally.
- 1:46:16Oh, no, not at all. Like, you know, this was, this
- 1:46:18was like, you know, extrajudicial kind of kind of
- 1:46:21killings. Like they would just murder them
- 1:46:23because they were like, you can't be here.
- 1:46:25Like this is this is, you know, this is our town.
- 1:46:28Like this is not for you filthy Catholics.
- 1:46:30You you Jesuits coming in here trying to oppress us.
- 1:46:33Yeah. And then, and then they just
- 1:46:36murder them. And so the, the Puritans were OK
- 1:46:41with the African slave trade because it is a like again,
- 1:46:45these are just like certain sects, both sects that like
- 1:46:48still 'cause like big problems. So they were OK with the African
- 1:46:52slave trade because slavery is a practice in the Bible.
- 1:46:56So, you know, that was another theme that runs through to
- 1:46:58today. Like modern white Americans will
- 1:46:59often justify hatred in their hearts because, quote, it's in
- 1:47:03the Bible. The Bible.
- 1:47:05They're often misquoting the Bible.
- 1:47:07Like I'm stating the fucking obvious here, but they're often
- 1:47:09misquoting the Bible, completely misinterpreting it, or plain old
- 1:47:12ignoring the parts of it that tell you not to be a cunt.
- 1:47:15In some Puritans defense, some of them were very strongly
- 1:47:19against slavery and advocated for its abolition.
- 1:47:21Yeah, not. All Puritans, Yeah.
- 1:47:24Hashtag not all Puritans, yeah? I'm start, I'm starting a new
- 1:47:28movement. Yeah, I, I got, I kind of got
- 1:47:30into, I got into this a little bit, but like, it's funny, when
- 1:47:33I, when I was doing my my research into this, kind of like
- 1:47:38again, I got into like so many different tunnels, like for such
- 1:47:43a bore and bunch of people like the different kind of tunnels
- 1:47:47you can get dragged down. Yeah, from, from this and
- 1:47:50obviously with like the the kings all that, but they the
- 1:47:52slaveryone kind of got me a little bit like where I I just
- 1:47:56hooked me a little bit in because it was like what they
- 1:48:00were willing to do for themselves.
- 1:48:04Like when they got over there, it's still they didn't practice
- 1:48:08what they preached really like. Yeah, it was the the closer to
- 1:48:12power they got, yes, the further from God they got yes and
- 1:48:16essentially. And again, the team continues to
- 1:48:20this day. Yes, yeah.
- 1:48:22And so the Puritans influence existed up until like their
- 1:48:26heavy influence existed up until the establishment establishments
- 1:48:29of the United States of America, but their sway had waned in the
- 1:48:3330 years leading up to 1776, but they stuck around and their
- 1:48:36influence remained and reached into the 20th century.
- 1:48:39So Puritanism, you can say, grew into evangelicalism.
- 1:48:44Am I saying that right? Evangelism.
- 1:48:47Yeah, Evangelicalism, yeah, That's that's, Yeah, that's also
- 1:48:50the word which. Continues and evolves all of the
- 1:48:52worst traits as discussed previously.
- 1:48:55And so as I mentioned on a previous podcast, this is a nice
- 1:48:59phrase that I threw out there is that this has grown into a
- 1:49:02modern day crystal fascism, which is just plain old fucking
- 1:49:05fascism in Christian clothing and rituals pretty much.
- 1:49:08So the current Trump regime is the prime example of this.
- 1:49:12It's full of people who claim to be honest God fearing
- 1:49:15Christians, but really they're just using that to appear pure
- 1:49:19and justify their hatred, racism, intolerance and
- 1:49:22xenophobia. All of this traces it's roots
- 1:49:25back to the Puritans who arrived on the Mayfair a few 100 years
- 1:49:28ago. It is very common to see these
- 1:49:31modern freaks with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other.
- 1:49:34Literally they take photos and put this on their fucking
- 1:49:37Christmas cards of them and their families with children
- 1:49:41holding guns. Nothing says baby Jesus like a
- 1:49:44polyester American flag T-shirt made by Asian slaves and an AR15
- 1:49:49assault rifle. Man, you've done such a good
- 1:49:52job. Like, I'm sorry, but like this
- 1:49:54this eh, What you've put together I've.
- 1:49:58Been thinking like this for a long time.
- 1:50:00Yes, but like, it's, it's such a fucking like tapestry of
- 1:50:05absolute bastardry. And what you've put together
- 1:50:08here in the North is actually fucking like, really, really
- 1:50:12like, I'm really happy with this.
- 1:50:14Yeah, yeah. Because like there's, there's
- 1:50:16hundreds of years of history that I'm kind of just like I'm
- 1:50:19cherry picking things from because like, you know, you can
- 1:50:21do, you know, we could do like several hours on, on Henry the
- 1:50:25eighth. We could do several hours on the
- 1:50:28English Civil War. Like if we're a history podcast,
- 1:50:30but you know, we could do like, like there will be an episode on
- 1:50:34McCarthyism. There will be an episode on like
- 1:50:39you know what was the when they banned all the booze.
- 1:50:41I should know this because. Prohibition.
- 1:50:45Prohibition, like prohibition, was a bunch of religious
- 1:50:48lunatics who managed to get a big influence with the with the
- 1:50:53government at the time. And it was like a minority
- 1:50:56movement, but somehow through religion and through their
- 1:50:59Puritanism, and because it was a bunch of really religious
- 1:51:02politicians, they managed to ban alcohol in America in the 20th
- 1:51:07century. And that is that like that is
- 1:51:09literally just like the line of Puritanism coming up where
- 1:51:13they're like, all of society's woes is the fault of alcohol.
- 1:51:17And look, they had a point. Like, you know, I, you know,
- 1:51:21alcohol has caused a lot of problems.
- 1:51:22But like, yeah, yeah, it's just the fact that they managed to
- 1:51:25ban it nationwide. And then, like, prohibition is
- 1:51:28so funny because they ban it nationwide.
- 1:51:30But then there was just this whole industry of people who
- 1:51:33like made millions from bootleg and alcohol.
- 1:51:37Yeah, and. In the the White House at the
- 1:51:39time, you could have a Scotch, you could have a vodka.
- 1:51:42Yeah, of course. Because like at anytime there's
- 1:51:45this level of control introduced, the elites are still
- 1:51:47just like, yeah, we can do whatever we want.
- 1:51:51Like, you know, all alcohol is banned.
- 1:51:52Well, we have all the alcohol now.
- 1:51:55Yeah, like even when the listed probation.
- 1:51:57Piercer is the The is a really good kind of.
- 1:52:01Set the train. Yes.
- 1:52:02So it's like a really good kind of metaphorical example of like
- 1:52:06a class systems and how like the the.
- 1:52:10Yeah, each car is a different exactly like the higher cast
- 1:52:14almost. Exactly like that.
- 1:52:16The higher you you, you move off the train, the the, the more eh
- 1:52:20kind of indulgence there is and the more kind of you get away
- 1:52:23with that kind of stuff. But yeah, like, it just like
- 1:52:26each thing that I kind of brushed over, you can do so much
- 1:52:31on. And like, I have a list of
- 1:52:32things that I want to do episodes on and, you know, just
- 1:52:36like leading up to like, you know, like I think you guys have
- 1:52:40done the Curse of the Kennedys. But like, you know, they're
- 1:52:42like, they weren't like, you know, like a religious thing.
- 1:52:46Like they were like Catholics. Catholics, yeah.
- 1:52:49But like the. Did they got they got there
- 1:52:51despite the Catholicism, I think.
- 1:52:54Yeah, I think that was definitely like a very much like
- 1:52:58a. It was something else, like.
- 1:53:00But it was like, that was one of those things were like Ireland
- 1:53:03is like so proud of the fact that like, eh, like it was
- 1:53:06Kennedy's grandfather who left Wexford, went over to America
- 1:53:09and two generations later we we had a president of America.
- 1:53:15It was. Ross, of all places.
- 1:53:17Kennedy's Kennedy's Alpha Joe Kennedy.
- 1:53:21Yeah, Joe. Joe.
- 1:53:22Was it the grandfather or the dad?
- 1:53:23No, no. So the grandfather.
- 1:53:25Was the grandfather. Yeah, but his father was like
- 1:53:28Joe. Was a maniac.
- 1:53:30So he, yeah, like so he had whatever, whatever the the thing
- 1:53:35that was in the Kennedys. This kind of risk taking.
- 1:53:39Yeah. Not I won't say our hungry boy.
- 1:53:42Like I think Joel was power hungry for his sons were more or
- 1:53:46less kind of just like they would do anything to impress the
- 1:53:48batter. Like we've done a whole episode.
- 1:53:50Yeah, but like. Because like.
- 1:53:52It was just, it was, it wasn't for them.
- 1:53:55It wasn't religion. It was awkwardly mobile.
- 1:53:58And also this stuff that there was a lot of inside trading.
- 1:54:01They got the money like that got them influence as well.
- 1:54:05So like they, they were basically rigging the system to
- 1:54:09get ahead. And the fact that there was a
- 1:54:13Catholic president of the United States of America says a lot for
- 1:54:17the Kennedys themselves and their will to push past and to
- 1:54:21kind of eh, really like bolster favor true like these massive
- 1:54:29kind of deals and stuff like that.
- 1:54:30So like, yeah, it but it's actually crazy to think that
- 1:54:34there was a Catholic, eh, president of America because of
- 1:54:39exactly everything that you've just said today with their
- 1:54:42Puritans and how the Protestants and the Christians these eh,
- 1:54:48what is brilliant to say? Crystal Crystal fascist.
- 1:54:51Crystal Fascism. Absolutely brilliant, by the
- 1:54:53way. And but like, these guys have
- 1:54:55such a grip on American politics that like the fact that the
- 1:54:59Kennedys. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:55:00But like, that was one of those things that Republicanism really
- 1:55:04fucking worked at the time because it was like, OK, let's
- 1:55:06put this out to a vault. And there was no amount of spin
- 1:55:09that could have got people and not vote for John Kennedy
- 1:55:12because, yeah, JFK had like obvious.
- 1:55:16Choice like. He was just beloved by the.
- 1:55:19Nation, he was the American dream as well like you know,
- 1:55:21America as a country was like long established, but like, you
- 1:55:23know, he he was the personification of the
- 1:55:26acceptable American dream in that he's a white European.
- 1:55:29Yeah, what? European Who you know he fought
- 1:55:32for. He fought for America.
- 1:55:33He's a son of an immigrant who came over, yes.
- 1:55:36Not a spot to piss in. Handsome.
- 1:55:38As well like I mean for. That time and yeah, charming and
- 1:55:42also like just like on JFK. Like I know you guys talked
- 1:55:44about the Kennedy's before, but like JFK when you look at his
- 1:55:46speech, always wanted to talk about you.
- 1:55:48Look at him. Like he was he was so like he
- 1:55:52was such a statesman and he was he was a great, like public
- 1:55:56speaker. His speech writers were great
- 1:55:58hit the way he delivered them were great.
- 1:55:59Like I was I, I'm, I'm obsessed with the the moon landings and
- 1:56:03the like upcoming attempt to get back to the moon with the
- 1:56:06Artemis rockets is like, you know, it's like porn to me.
- 1:56:09Yes, but I was watching, I was watching like a documentary
- 1:56:11about Apollo 1 recently and that's the one where they got
- 1:56:15like burned alive in the capsule during like a test run.
- 1:56:18And you know, it did all of these documentaries.
- 1:56:21They play the JFK speech. You know, we do it because it's.
- 1:56:24Hard, yeah. We choose not to go to the moon
- 1:56:27because it is easy. We don't because it's fun.
- 1:56:30It's so ahead, you know, go to the moon.
- 1:56:32It's hell. We'll go to the moon and, you
- 1:56:34know, like it's, you know, you watch a speech and.
- 1:56:37I got a number. How about them apples?
- 1:56:39I'm going to the moon. Is he from Long Island now?
- 1:56:44Not Boston, sorry. No, that was that was Long
- 1:56:47Island. No, I've lived on Long Island.
- 1:56:49Long Island is more nasally. You got to be like, I'm going to
- 1:56:52the moon to show you who's boss. So thus ends our first trip into
- 1:57:00the world of what is wrong with America, the first of many
- 1:57:03concurrent psychosis that have shaped, molded, and destroyed
- 1:57:07that country. Well said.
- 1:57:09Here, here this. This was really good, really
- 1:57:13interesting. And for me it's, it's funny
- 1:57:16because I again, like I said when I was researching, like so
- 1:57:20many, like I've been, oh, there's a podcast with the
- 1:57:22pilgrims. I listen to it.
- 1:57:23Rabbit hole after rabbit. Hole, but like I've gotten into
- 1:57:26like I've like one of them today I had to switch off was like
- 1:57:29these eh conservative and eh guys who wanted to bring
- 1:57:36puritanism back like they were like.
- 1:57:38Oh God, we. Want to, eh, we want a church
- 1:57:42state. And it was like, oh, did they
- 1:57:44think that? Well, the liberals, what the
- 1:57:46liberals think that we want to do is impose our power on the
- 1:57:50country. And that's not what we want to
- 1:57:52do. That's what they're doing.
- 1:57:53That's what the liberals are doing right now.
- 1:57:55And I'm like, well, why do you want?
- 1:57:57Why do you want power then? Exactly.
- 1:57:59Yeah, it's, it's that, it's that thing of like, you know, they,
- 1:58:02they want to oppress and and then if, if anyone what, that
- 1:58:07they disagree with, if anyone they disagree with.
- 1:58:11Where are we at? What is just doing?
- 1:58:13I don't know. I don't.
- 1:58:14Want to get? Anything.
- 1:58:15I'm sorry. What?
- 1:58:16What's going on? I'm scared.
- 1:58:18Sorry, I just see. I just see Ocean did something
- 1:58:20and I had I. Did that by accident it.
- 1:58:22Worked for me and you know what I had to say he.
- 1:58:24Has something to say and it's bouncing and.
- 1:58:26I'm like push, push the little hand, push the little hand on
- 1:58:29the thing a little, yeah. That's doing it.
- 1:58:32There you go. Ah, OK.
- 1:58:34Yes, this is terrible for an an audio eh thing.
- 1:58:37So what you're saying? I can't remember, so let's just
- 1:58:42cut that out. Yeah, but this has been there.
- 1:58:51This has been great because again, I've like I've gone from
- 1:58:55fucking. I went, I said fucker, I'm going
- 1:58:58to go all into this and I've spent like days Yeah, because I
- 1:59:02like again. Maybe I will get the notes from
- 1:59:05now on because this is the first time that I've been like, OK, I
- 1:59:11need when you were like, give me your e-mail address so I can
- 1:59:15send you to notice. I was like, OK, I'm going to
- 1:59:16have to take these notes because this is such a vast kind of a
- 1:59:19thing. It's not just like, OK, learn
- 1:59:22about the Salem witch trails. It's like when you say the word
- 1:59:24pilgrims, this goes back. It's.
- 1:59:28Yeah, it goes back to like, yes, so how like this goes back to
- 1:59:31fucking, like looter nailing fucking to a door.
- 1:59:36So like, yeah, when, when, when you have to go from fucking like
- 1:59:40Lutheran fucking practices in Germany all the way through
- 1:59:44like. To modern day, like, yeah.
- 1:59:46Civil wars, Yeah. Then fucking the Netherlands.
- 1:59:50Yes. Then over to America.
- 1:59:51Over to America and like and all the time, like you're hearing
- 1:59:56different points of views from different people about this.
- 1:59:58When I'm listening to this, I'm listening to like English.
- 2:00:03Eh, the English point of view, I'm listening to Americans
- 2:00:06talking about it. And you get like all these
- 2:00:09different casts of, of characters that you hear like,
- 2:00:11you know, like Cromwell, eh, Walter Rally and, you know, John
- 2:00:16Smith and John White, eh? And your man, what was his name?
- 2:00:21Gorgeous. There was one guy there that was
- 2:00:23Fernando Gorgeous or eh, I think it was called, as what they call
- 2:00:26him Gorgeous. And eh, I was.
- 2:00:28A wrestler if I've ever heard of.
- 2:00:29Her yeah sounds. Like a boy.
- 2:00:31Fernando Gorge, there's all these like cast of characters.
- 2:00:34Then obviously I fell down a Roanoke at Jamestown, like these
- 2:00:40settlements. The fact that like they were
- 2:00:42looking at Guyana as a as a place to settle as well.
- 2:00:46And I was like like a pinball. I was like, so interested in all
- 2:00:50this kind of stuff. Like I'm really looking forward
- 2:00:52to like, and obviously we're not going to do this like America
- 2:00:56next week in America the week after, an American week after.
- 2:00:58Because this is going to be like every few episodes we'll.
- 2:01:01Show it in here and there, like next week we'll get back to
- 2:01:04we'll probably know what I was just thinking Danny, we might
- 2:01:06get into to eh, if you want to do 1 of yours if you do a Danny
- 2:01:10episode and and go down some airy ferry.
- 2:01:13But I was thinking something something, eh?
- 2:01:15Like I've heard some really interesting stuff about Lilith.
- 2:01:20I'd love to do that. So I think Lilith would be a
- 2:01:23good one if you again, I don't know, I'm just springing that on
- 2:01:26on now. Like what?
- 2:01:28Umm. I know I would love to do that.
- 2:01:29So the whole hierarchy of like, uh, Lilith and uh, basically
- 2:01:34like Lucifer and his, uh, he had X amount of wives.
- 2:01:38All right, save. Save for next.
- 2:01:39Week. Yeah, I wasn't.
- 2:01:40Going. To go into it, I just met like
- 2:01:45there. She was there's.
- 2:01:46A lot. No, it wasn't.
- 2:01:46There's a lot that we can talk about, umm, especially with her
- 2:01:50so. Yeah, just just so like we
- 2:01:52don't, we don't blow our beans on this America thing because
- 2:01:55again, it's so fascinating and I've like I've gotten away with
- 2:02:00like the selkie thing was kind of a lot very justy.
- 2:02:04And the same Brendan, I think, was very justy.
- 2:02:06Our editor Alex, our beloved, who makes this whole thing
- 2:02:10possible. He has a gripe with you, Justy
- 2:02:14for making Yeah, apparently his ex-girlfriend has the same name
- 2:02:20as as the main the main female character of the story that
- 2:02:27you've written. And the the daughter because the
- 2:02:31circle, it was never named. So yeah.
- 2:02:33Yeah, he's he's basically just like, well, this makes me not
- 2:02:37want to edit your podcast ever again, so apologize to.
- 2:02:40Alex, Oh if Alex, if you could just send me a list of people
- 2:02:44you've booked, I'll try and not put them into any stories.
- 2:02:49And I. Was just like, wow.
- 2:02:50I don't know. I was listening Irish.
- 2:02:52Women. And he was like, no.
- 2:02:55Yeah, he's right. He's right.
- 2:02:57You know he is. Yeah, he is, yeah.
- 2:02:59But he's like, yeah, you're, you're, you're to blame in in
- 2:03:01the fact. Sorry, Alex.
- 2:03:03Sorry. It's.
- 2:03:03Difficult for him to edit that episode, but umm yeah.
- 2:03:06Some trauma would actually as well as he actually put some
- 2:03:10effort into that story. So I imagine that he would have
- 2:03:13to have listened to that a little bit.
- 2:03:15Extras or Sorry I didn't listen to it.
- 2:03:16Did he put any music behind it? I didn't listen to it.
- 2:03:21He was. He was supposed to.
- 2:03:23Did you listen to it? I didn't.
- 2:03:25I never listen to it. He must be about a bunch of
- 2:03:27things, but to do with the podcast, I'm like, I don't care.
- 2:03:32She's. Crazy.
- 2:03:34OK, just just bring us home. Well, now that Danny has said
- 2:03:39she doesn't give a fuck about this, how many Danny, we.
- 2:03:42How many N words do you want me to edit out?
- 2:03:44I'm like Jesus. We need to timestamp whatever
- 2:03:48Danny says the N word man. Like this thick.
- 2:03:50Oh, she hasn't been here for that joke.
- 2:03:53But basically like we were, I had a conversation with Alex
- 2:03:56ages ago and we referenced this a few times the podcast.
- 2:03:59Whereas basically he was like, Oh yeah, he only, he only said
- 2:04:01the N word twice in this episode.
- 2:04:04And so the whole thing is like, I get so drunk when we're
- 2:04:06recording. He's like, I never, I never said
- 2:04:10I never, I've never said that. But no, this is a joke that me
- 2:04:13and Alex have that he's basically like, he could
- 2:04:16blackmail me and say, I'm going to drop all the episodes where
- 2:04:19you say the N word and I'd be like, yeah, OK, cool, fine,
- 2:04:23here's the money. Because I get so drunk that I
- 2:04:25forget what I've said. And he's like, no, you've never
- 2:04:28said the word. I was like, well, you could tell
- 2:04:30me that. I feel like fair enough.
- 2:04:33I just want people. I just want people to know she's
- 2:04:37never actually said the N word. I've never said it and I've been
- 2:04:40here and sober every time. But Alex is basically when I
- 2:04:44could tell you that you said the N word like.
- 2:04:47And you would believe it. And I would believe it because I
- 2:04:49got so drunk that I'm like, yeah, OK.
- 2:04:51And she also has that personality type.
- 2:04:53And he said like. You would have to like I usually
- 2:04:56I could. I could probably convince you
- 2:04:58that you need to issue an apology and you would do it.
- 2:05:02And I'm like, yeah, I probably would.
- 2:05:04Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to hear Danny say the
- 2:05:07N words and join. The.
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- 2:05:13contact us for any complaints, just leave a leave a comment
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- 2:05:23will take all of the complaints. I think it's
- 2:05:26oceanburn6969@hotmail.com of course.
- 2:05:31So next week we can look forward to a, to Danny talking about
- 2:05:35demons or or some shit. But this week I've absolutely
- 2:05:40fucking loved. I hope if you are out there
- 2:05:42listening to this and this was all Ocean, you can thank him if
- 2:05:48you were offended by anything. Also Ocean, ladies, bro, ladies
- 2:05:54and gentlemen. She's been Danny, he's been
- 2:05:59Ocean. I've been justy.
- 2:06:01Thank you for hanging out with us for a spell.
- 2:06:05Love you all.