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57: Felines & Fangs: Black Cat Lore & The Beast of Gévaudan · Amigos, Afraid!

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Welcome back to another episode of Amigos Afraid.
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This week I'm talking about Black Cats and the bizarre
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journey behind their reputation, from ancient beliefs to witches,
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bad luck and everything in between.
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And this week I'm haunted by the Beast of Jeva Don, an
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unstoppable monster that brutally slaughtered over 100
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people in 18th century France, and the real life inspiration
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behind Teen Wolf's most powerful werewolf.
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Hey you, are you here for what I think you're here for?
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Yeah, where? Where's the stuff?
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The stuff. Yeah, the stuff, you know, the
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stuff that scares you. Well, it depends what kind of
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stuff we're looking for. Are you?
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Are you looking for this stuff? Fuck.
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Not that scary. I see.
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OK, OK, well, how about this podcast?
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It's called Amigos Afraid. That's exactly what I was
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looking for. Hits the spot every time.
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All right, another happy customer.
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Welcome back, everyone. I don't know if I like that, but
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you can never say no to improv. Jerry gives, I take, I give, he
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takes, and we meet each other in the middle and that's showbiz.
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Wow. Welcome back, everyone to
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Amigos. Afraid I'm Brian.
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That was so fast. I can't and and I'm a a.
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And it's Thursday if you're listening to this right now.
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Today. Today, the day that this showed
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up on your whatever app you used to listen to, it's a Thursday.
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I think you're here for the weekly A a meeting.
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Grab a seat. Any any open seat.
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Sit in the front. Oh, I know you want to sit in
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the front. Come on.
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If you grab under your seat, you're going to find an
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envelope. And a Bible.
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Throw the Bible. Keep the envelope.
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What's in the envelope? Another Bible.
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PDFAQR code to APDF version of the Bible.
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Yup, Yup, Yup. Yup, you have the storage space
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on your phone. Yeah, check it out.
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Check it out. This is not the a a meeting that
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you're thinking of. I mean, it is, but it's not that
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one. It's not that one.
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How you doing friend? I'm good.
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I had a really, really, really good weekend.
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I can't complain. Oh yeah, that's good.
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Yeah. It wasn't as hot as it is today
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or this week, but it's definitely, it was a good
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weekend. It was a good weekend.
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Anything that you would like to share?
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I just had a very gay weekend. I spent it almost exclusively
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with gay people. I think this is the longest I've
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gone without seeing Jerry or just talking to him.
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Wow, I'm sorry, I never thought. I never thought of it that way.
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That's so crazy. Yeah, all my social interactions
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this week. This weekend we're gay.
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Saw the boys on Friday for our usual Hangouts and then Saturday
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I hung out with Yvonne. Wow, Saturday, Yvonne and the
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boys. But that's cool.
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We. Were playing video games.
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Wow. And I was like, Oh my God, we
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should have like a lamb party. And he's like, wait you down.
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I'm like, yeah, when can I come over?
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And he's like, shoot, OK, let me clean and then you can come.
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So that was nice. Had a really good evening.
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Had some really good Chinese food dude.
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Don't talk to me about Chinese food.
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It was delicious. Sorry I have to just you
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reminded me of something. I had a craving of Chinese food
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like a very a big craving and we got some Chinese food.
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It hit the spot. Craving was satisfied.
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I didn't eat all of it because I saved it for the next day.
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The next day comes around, it's lunchtime.
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I heat it up, put it on a bowl, heat it up, get it, eat it.
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I think within like 30 minutes I just started feeling like like I
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started burping my like stomach was kind of hurting and you
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could imagine the rest. What's the saying?
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Better out than in, as I always say.
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Yeah, circa Shrek 2000. And six.
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Oh yeah, not not the greatest memory.
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That's really interesting because the only time I've ever
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had any kind of food poisoning has also been Chinese food.
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But yeah, it was little I I really wasn't thinking it
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through. I knew we had left the Chinese
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food on the table out the entire night.
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Oh, OK, OK. But in my little like 10 year
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old brain, it did not process that, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean I. Think food goes bad if it's not
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refrigerated? Also, you were.
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You said you were. How?
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Old I was like 10 or something. It's food at the end of the day
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if you're. Hungry.
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You're hungry. No, it did also taste weird,
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but. I didn't question it.
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You just kept going. Yeah, you're like, doesn't taste
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like earlier. No, violently.
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I'll for like a good two days. Oh I see, mine wasn't as bad I
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think I just. You got it out immediately.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like my, my stomach was like,
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yeah, no, I don't think this is good, dude.
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We're not dealing with this. Not today, no.
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And then Expelliarmus and I felt better.
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Wow. Although I did break out in like
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those, like little like. Yeah, you walked in and I
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thought you were sunburned. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's like I get like, like. Burst capillaries or something?
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Yeah. What's capillary?
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Who knows, Maybe that's what it. Was it's like surface blood?
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I guess it's a little I forget I his.
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Blood vessels popped. So my face was just covered in
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them, but I'm guessing it's just because of the pressure that you
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do. He threw up so hard crazy dial
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into the toilet. Well, my anyways Chinese food
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experience was not like that. It was delicious, just as good
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the next day because I did have leftovers.
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And then Sunday I spent the day once again with the boys.
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That's. What you're going to say on
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Sunday, I ate more leftovers. No, I wish I should have had two
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orders. Wow.
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No. Sunday I had a pool day.
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Wow. Yeah.
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You can say I'm working on my Speedo tan.
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Is it fair? Not really.
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Did you wear contacts? No.
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No though ever since Jose was on this episode I've been scared to
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put them on. I have them, they're right
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there. I even bought contact solution.
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I've just been nervous. Those are new contacts.
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Yeah. Wow, no.
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Because I've been nervous, it's so hard to put them on they
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already. Have.
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Parasites. Oh my God, Because they've been
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sitting there in their unboxed parasites.
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No stop. I don't want to be on my own
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episode of the podcast. Well.
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Haunted you My eye infection. No, no, we're going to start the
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episode and I'm going to be talking to myself the whole
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time, and my segment is going to be the most recent case of
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parasitic contact. Yeah.
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That was it for my weekend. Yours was very eventful I.
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Had a very busy weekend. I drove down to San Diego, met
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up with some friends. We ended up going to a Padre
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game. Shout out to Melissa and Paula,
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who went with us. The Padres did win thanks to me.
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Wow. And my manifestation was a
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pretty boring game up until like the 7th inning when it got good.
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But it was cool because I haven't been to Petco Park in 10
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years. So it was very nice just to see
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how the, the, the, the new additions and what's there.
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And just walking around downtown San Diego was always, it's
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always fun. It was really humid, though,
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which is a first because every time I go down there, it's nice
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and fresh. There's a good little breeze.
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But superhumid, so I think it's the beginnings of El Nino.
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The Super El Nino, we're going to have a wet winter.
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I mean, it's a lot of snow though.
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I think it was. I was talking with those and she
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was like, eventually our summers are going to be like humid, like
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like Mexico, some parts of Mexico where they're just humid
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and hot. And then like up north, they're
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going to get like California summers where they're just like,
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perfect. And that's on global warming.
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Yeah, so sad. Anyways, Sunday I went over to
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my parents, we ate some bomburia that my mom made and we ended up
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watching their wedding video from 1994.
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On. VHS.
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Yeah, it was so. It was so cool.
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My dad randomly was like, hey, do you want to set up the VHS
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player? I'm like sure, like what?
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Are we watching Lion King? Yeah, I was like, which one do
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you have all my movies from back then?
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But no, he was like, no, I found the our our wedding video from
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94. I was like I found both copies
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and I'm like both copies. One of them was the unedited
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just full wedding from morning to end.
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Wow. And then the other one was like
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the edited the. Professional put together
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professional transition. Music, literally just the music
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is a difference. They added some music at the
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beginning but then the audio for the mass was just gone.
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Like you couldn't hear it. That video was so choppy.
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At one point my parents kiss in the video like when they're
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having their ceremony and then the video just turns away and
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just gets everyone clapping. What?
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What? There's a story there, you just
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have to really analyse it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Unprofessionalism. And just 1994.
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Just yeah. It was really, it was really
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cool. But it was it was really, it was
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a trip to seeing them young, I bet in their 20s, like getting
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married. I'm like, dude, where am I?
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I wasn't invited. What the hell?
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Yeah. Hello.
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You think of me. You.
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Weren't even a thought yet. Oh, my God, Sometimes my mom
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will be like in our group chat with me and my brother.
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Look at this mijo. And it's a picture of her, just
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young. She's like, oh, your mom was so
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pretty. Yes, mom, you were.
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You were. Yeah.
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Show off a little. That's awesome.
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You're like, I'm gonna need more, like keep going.
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Yeah. Pull them from the archives.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow.
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That's that was my weekend. Glad you had a fun weekend.
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Thank you, I was glad you had a good weekend too.
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Anything that haunted you this week?
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Damn friend. So this is another story.
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What haunted me this weekend. This week was losing my eBay
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bidding war. What were you bidding on?
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My docs were officially retired. I retired my docs after.
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No. In six years, great.
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Like if you have Docs that you've worn just year after year
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through everything thick and thin, you know that those are
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the most comfortable shoes ever. But like I'm talking about these
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Docs were busted, busted. So it was time I finally got rid
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of them. And I'm like, you know what?
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Before I go to the store and pay the full price for the docs, let
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me check eBay. I've had really, really good
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luck on eBay recently with other stuff.
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And I found some some new new docs that were missing the box,
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but they looked great, all tags and all that good stuff put in
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my bid. It was like a 12 hour bid.
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And so I was like, oh, I should know by tomorrow.
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I think it was the first. And the initial bid was like 30
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bucks. OK, I was like, why not?
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It's 30 bucks. I get a notification an hour
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before the timer runs out that I was out bid.
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Oh my God. It jumped from 30 to 60 and then
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for a minute straight this person and I were going back and
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forth, just increasing the bid. How?
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Much are they retail? Think they're like 120 plus
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maybe four. Oh yeah, for docs we started
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going and I'm talking about like petty ass increments, like a
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dollar, $1.50 cents. No, I think it was only a dollar
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actually. So I take it back and it got to
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the last 10 seconds and we're going back and forth and I'm
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refreshing the page and I'm trying to do it as fast as
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possible. And you can increase by like a
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dollar, five dollars, $10, however much you want.
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But I'm like, no, I'm trying to get these for as low as
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possible. At that point they were like at
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80 something and I had clicked it and in my mind I thought that
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when you place a bid in the last second, there's like a 10 second
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buffer for the person to respond if they want to either increase
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the bid or not. Apparently eBay doesn't do that.
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So as soon as that timer runs out, bam, done, it's over.
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The person beat me. No, I'm so sorry.
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So I've been thinking about those docs I could have got for
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like 40-50 bucks off. It's OK, they weren't meant for
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me. I'm glad they got them.
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I'm going to move on because I've been on another kick
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recently. What really haunted me this week
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was not having a cat. Oh my God, I was talking to
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Andrew about this. I'm in my cat era.
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For some reason. I'm really like, I just, I want
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a little Kitty, you know? And I don't know but go off.
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I see it in my near future and because we're in Summerween and
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we're already celebrating Halloween in this 90 plus degree
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weather, I started thinking about the lore behind why Black
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Cats are considered unlucky or associated with Halloween.
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So I hit the books, I sat down and I just started going through
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black cat lore. I found some great articles that
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are going to be on the website so please check them out.
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But man, I learned so much and some of this stuff reminded me
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of things that we've talked about in the past.
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Really. So today we're talking about
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Black Cats. I'm so excited.
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I did not think that there was like lore about it.
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I mean there has to be, but I feel like I only hear it orally
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from like person to person. Traditions passed down.
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OK. Researcher I think most of us
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have basically inherited the same image of Halloween, a
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witch, a black cat, and a pumpkin.
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But that image didn't just appear because Black Cats look
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creepy. There's a really long history
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behind why we associate them with, which is bad luck and the
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supernatural. And what I loved is that the
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black cat wasn't always a villain.
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In some of the oldest cultures that had relationships with
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cats, the exact opposite was true.
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Take ancient Egypt. Cats had a much more important
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place in Egyptian society than just being animal people kept
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around the house. They were associated with gods,
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goddesses, and cats were particularly connected with
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Bostet, a goddess associated with protection, the home, and
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fertility. Whoa, OK, The article Why Black
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Cats are associated with Halloween and Bad Luck by
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Elizabeth Yuko. She points out that Black Cats,
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because of their resemblance to the feline goddess, could
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actually be honored rather than feared.
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Already a pretty funny contradiction there.
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The modern Halloween version tells us that Black Cats are
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this creature that you should be suspicious of, but one of the
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culture's most famous for its relationship with cats could
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look at that same animal and see something divine.
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The things are getting more complicated once you move into
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religious traditions of Europe. There wasn't one moment when
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everyone suddenly decided cats were evil, but there were
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already supernatural associations surrounding cats.
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In oldermythologyhistory.com points to the Greek goddess
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Hekati, who was associated with magic, sorcery, the moon, and
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witchcraft. I'd shout out to Frenchie
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because she's, I think she's mentioned she has this goddess
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before. She described, she's described
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as having a cat as a pet and a familiar.
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And that word familiar is important because later European
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folklore would use the idea of a familiar to describe a
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supernatural animal companion that assisted a witch.
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Just like in Dungeons and Dragons.
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Like in DND, baby, some unfamiliar So you've got this
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existing connection between cats and magic, and centuries later,
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European witchcraft beliefs build on that idea.
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The problem is that during medieval Europe, the Christian
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Church increasingly viewed witchcraft and other religious
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practices as threats. And eventually that suspicion
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wasn't limited to the person accused of witchcraft.
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The animals around them could have become suspicious too.
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You're a witch. Your cat's a witch.
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A horse is a witch. Also in history.com, I know it's
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crazy. It's just like, Yep, you know,
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you and your whole you and yours whole household.
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Yep. Down to the cat, sin, sinners.
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History.com also quotes author and Wiccan priestess Kuridwen
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Falling Star, explaining that affection between people accused
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of witchcraft and animals could itself be interpreted as
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something diabolical. And if you think about the
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stereotype that eventually developed, it's usually some
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older person living somewhat independently surrounded by
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animals, particularly cats. Oh my God, this is just a baddie
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living her dream out in the. Woods being independent just.
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Living life need anyone but my animals.
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I'm headed that direction. My God, that image didn't come
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out of nowhere. The animal became part of the
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accusation, as mentioned. And cats had another quality
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that probably didn't help them. They don't exactly behave like
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obedient little servants. A dog hears its name and it
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comes running. Man's best friend right there.
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A cat hears its name and sometimes looks directly at you
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before making the conscious decision to ignore you.
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History makes the same interesting observation through
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falling stars. Explanation.
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Cats, much like woman accused of witchcraft, were perceived as
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independent and unwilling to simply submit to authority.
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Obviously that's folklore and social interpretation, not some
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inherent quality that made cats supernatural.
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But if you're living in a society where independence
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itself can make someone suspicious, a creature that
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wanders wherever it wants, appears whenever it wants, and
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doesn't seem particularly interested in obeying anyone
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isn't exactly helping its case. And who doesn't like this men
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who wrote history men? Who said Man's best friend, man.
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Ah, yeah, yeah. Once again, there isn't a
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definitive historical moment where someone said from this
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point forward witches have Black Cats, but there are some points
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from the article that it's still unclear exactly when the
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association between witches and cats narrowed specifically to
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Black Cats. One possible explanation is
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actually pretty practical. Black Cats may have been
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particularly effective night time hunters because of their
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dark coats making them harder for prey to see.
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There's another part of this that I think makes a
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superstition understandable from a historical perspective.
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So imagine you're living hundreds of years ago without
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streetlights. You walk outside at night and
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there is animals moving around that you can barely see.
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A black cat could move through the darkness without being
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noticed too easily. You might hear something moving
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and then see a pair of eyes. That's the scary part, just
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looking back at you. And then it's gone.
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Where to go Now we understand what's happening because we know
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how cats see and move. But if you're living in a world
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where people already believe witches can use supernatural
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animals, the darkness makes that belief much easier to accept.
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History time. Sit down.
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Grab your notebooks. Oh, Dang.
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OK. OK, You ready?
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You have a pencil? Yes.
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Sure. If you need to use a restroom,
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raise your hand. OK, Then go to the restroom.
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No, Sit down. One of the most important pieces
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of actual historical documentation on June 13th,
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1233. Oh my God.
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OK, Pope Gregory the 9th issued A papal document called The Box
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in Rama. There's a medieval document
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declaring Black Cats as an incarnation of Satan.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait what?
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This goes all the way to the top.
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This got escalated to the boss's desk and they said Yep, Black
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Cats Satan. Our closest connection to God on
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earth said it. Here I have this message to
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throw upon you. These Black Cats, incarnations
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of Satan. Oh my goodness.
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OK. Layla Morgan Wilde, author of
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Black Cats Tell All True Tales and Inspiring Images, states the
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decree marked the beginning of the Inquisition and church
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sanctioned heretic and or witch hunts.
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Initially, it was designed to squash the growing cult of
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Luciferians in Germany, but quickly spread across Europe.
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Inquisition, if you if this doesn't ring a bell, was a
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Catholic judicial system and group of institutions created to
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investigate, judge, and eliminate heresy, blasphemy, and
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unapproved religious practices from the 12th to 19th century.
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Punishments. What right did they have to do
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this? None.
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They gave it to themselves. According to Kuridwen Falling
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Star, the Wiccan priestess and author of Broth from the
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Cauldron, A wisdom journey through everyday magic.
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Wow OK. Witches were the pre Christian
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Pagan practitioners of Europe. Stuff like a tongue twister.
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Amazing. Although the early Christian
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Church in Europe coexisted with witches as a church gained
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power, she says that the organization saw witches as
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their direct competition in gaining the hearts and minds of
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the people. Whoa, it's a war between priests
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and the witches. That's when the church began
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hunting, persecuting, torturing and killing witches in vast
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numbers, she explains. Witches honor the natural world.
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Shout out Frenchie. She's mentioned this having deep
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respect for plants and animals. Falling Star says affection
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between human and animal therefore began to be seen as
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diabolical or devilish. And the old lady with her cats
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became seen as a suspect. But so did the cats, and so did
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the cats. But it wasn't the only
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connection they fabricated between witches, cats and the
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devil that the early Christians feared.
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They also saw them both as threats.
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Cats, like the women accused of witchcraft, tend to exhibit a
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healthy disrespect of authority, she notes. history.com
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identifies Vox and Rama as one of the earliest written records
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linking Black Cats to the occult.
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The document described as a heretical group in Germany and
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included a black cat as part of its depiction of diabolical
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activity. Once an animal becomes
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associated with the devil in religious writing, that idea
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doesn't just stay on the page, it becomes part of the cultural
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imagination. So where does the whole black
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cat cross? My path gives me bad luck.
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Yeah. Being come from.
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Yeah, you're asking the tough questions.
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Yeah. That's what I really want to
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know after reading that. The basic idea, yes, although it
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developed through folklore rather than coming from one
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single rule it. Didn't come from the Pope.
22:41
It didn't come from the Pope this time.
22:43
If people genuinely believe that witches could transfer
22:45
themselves into cats, or that witches could send supernatural
22:49
animal companions to harm people, then encountering a
22:52
strange black cat could have become an omen during the
22:56
Renaissance. Some people apparently believe
22:58
that a cat crossing their path could indicate that a witch had
23:01
sent a familiar to cause harm. Oh, I see.
23:05
The cat doesn't actually have to attack you or scratch you or
23:09
interact with you, but the entire superstition is based on
23:12
the direction in which the animal happened to walk.
23:16
These people were really afraid. They're not our friends yet, but
23:20
they were afraid. Oh my God, not my amigos.
23:23
Not my amigos, but they were afraid so these fearful people
23:27
could actually seek out a priest during that time for a blessing
23:30
after encountering a black cat. OK, wait, wait.
23:33
I have a theory. Go, go.
23:35
The church was releasing Black Cats so people would then turn
23:40
to the church to increase their numbers.
23:42
And you know what? I bet they weren't charging, but
23:47
they probably said oh please, anything for the church.
23:51
War tactics. That's a great theory.
23:55
I'm just saying, seems like a great business, Yeah, create the
23:59
problem that you're offering the solution for.
24:03
Yeah, in this case, they're going to go get blessed after
24:05
coming across a black cat because they believe that
24:08
they've now been cursed. So please absolve me of my
24:11
curse, of my whatever was put on me.
24:13
Pray for me. Clear.
24:15
Cleanse me. Thank you.
24:16
I'll be back. That's a happy customer right
24:19
there. Because the superstition didn't
24:21
just make Black Cats unpopular. Cats in general could become the
24:25
targets. So now we're getting into
24:27
something more, another historical moment that could
24:29
have maybe changed, but let's keep going.
24:33
I'm fearful that you're going to tell me that at one point they
24:35
start hunting black. Cats, take a sip and let's
24:40
continue, shall we? During the Middle Ages, cats
24:45
were sometimes killed because of their association with evil.
24:49
Oh, I spoke too soon. Crazy.
24:52
Not a coincidence. Some people even blamed the cats
24:56
for spreading the bubonic plague.
24:58
No girls, the rats, the cats kill the rats.
25:02
Just someone once again. Someone once again found the
25:07
problem and they said let's make it worse because cats are the
25:11
solution. No, I will be the solution.
25:13
Come to the church, we'll pray for you.
25:16
History.com describes the consequences as a particularly
25:19
tragic irony, because reducing the number of cats also reduce
25:24
the number of predators controlling rodent populations.
25:28
I want to be careful with this part because the popular version
25:31
of the story sometimes gets simplified into people killed
25:35
cats, and that's what caused the Black Death.
25:37
Cats were viewed through the lens of fear at exactly the same
25:40
time Europe was dealing with a catastrophic disease.
25:44
And when people don't understand the cause of something
25:46
terrifying, they look for something to blame.
25:49
Cats were the first invisible at that moment.
25:53
Or it was the church this is. Reminding me it's eerily similar
25:58
to what we're facing now with FDA and RFK and our food.
26:06
I'm so sorry. That's just a really weird
26:07
coincidence. I mean, you're making the
26:10
problem worse by removing the things that make it better.
26:13
Is that this concept of history repeating itself?
26:16
I think right Maybe. Nothing has made me more fearful
26:19
than history repeating itself because we should be learning.
26:24
We should be. So why do we keep believing this
26:28
stuff? Because people don't learn.
26:32
The Carnegie Museum article highlights something important.
26:35
The museum explains that researchers have suggested
26:38
superstitions can give people a feeling of control over things
26:41
that are otherwise unpredictable.
26:43
Weather is a great example. You can't control weather
26:47
whether the weather is, I'm kidding, whether it's going to
26:50
rain. But you can create rituals or
26:52
beliefs that make uncertainty feel a little bit more
26:54
manageable. And that's not true anymore.
26:56
Cloud seeding, look it up. That's so true.
27:00
The article also discusses research suggesting that luck to
27:03
base rituals can reduce anxiety and potentially improve
27:06
performance in certain situations.
27:07
What kind of rituals are in here?
27:09
It's going to be luck based rituals that in a way makes a
27:13
black cat superstition make a little bit more sense in my
27:15
opinion. So imagine something bad happens
27:18
after you see a black cat. You remember the cat.
27:21
Now your brain has that connection.
27:23
Black cat bad thing. The next time you see a black
27:26
cat, you're already waiting for something to happen.
27:29
And if nothing happens, you probably don't think much about
27:31
it. But if you trip, you lose your
27:33
keys or get into an argument that led to a terrible day.
27:37
You remember the cat. Wow.
27:40
That's how these things can reinforce themselves.
27:43
The superstition doesn't necessarily need evidence every
27:45
single time. It just needs a few memorable
27:48
coincidences. You're.
27:49
Caught. It's causation affectation.
27:52
You're trying to connect A to B when there is no causation
27:56
affectation. And when it doesn't happen,
27:58
you're just like. You forget about it because
28:00
there's no cause and effect of a cat that we know of.
28:04
Unless. Unless.
28:05
Unless so after all that, are Black Cats actually unlucky?
28:09
Brian, where do you stand on that?
28:11
I think Black Cats are some of the most beautiful cats to
28:14
exist. So no, I would love a black cat
28:17
to walk past me and I will respectfully try to pet it.
28:21
Yes. So I and then I will deal with
28:25
the repercussions of being allergic.
28:27
There you go. But I did that to myself.
28:28
Yeah, but it wasn't the cat's fault.
28:30
No, it was just your my lack of self-control.
28:34
It was your immune system. And that's not.
28:37
Control. Either it's my histamines, I'm
28:39
back at it again. I want a black cat so bad.
28:43
So so so bad. Get a Baldwin.
28:48
I'm down. So we took this animal that was
28:52
once revered in ancient Egypt, connected it with gods and
28:55
protection, eventually associated with magic and
28:58
witchcraft, and then turned it into the symbol of the devil and
29:01
bad luck. And even then, other cultures
29:03
never brought that idea that black hats were inherently bad.
29:07
The Welsh could see one and think good fortune was coming.
29:11
Someone in Scotland or Japan could associate the animal with
29:14
prosperity. Someone in medieval Europe could
29:17
see the exact same cat and wonder of a witch had sent.
29:20
To my life is ruined like. Dang it, now I have to go kill
29:23
it. It's so sad.
29:25
Not that a black cat might be carrying some supernatural
29:28
curse, it's that humans have spent hundreds of years deciding
29:31
what an ordinary animal is supposed to mean, and sometimes
29:35
those beliefs have been powerful enough to hurt the animal
29:38
itself. I'm also going to tie this back
29:40
to the Lechusas cough cough cough.
29:43
Once again related to witches. Like at that point I find that
29:46
so fascinating. Like, why can't I become an
29:50
animal? So the next time a black cat
29:52
crosses your path, maybe don't worry about what kind of luck
29:55
it's bringing. Just remember that somewhere in
29:58
history somebody looked at that exact same animal and thought,
30:03
I'm scared. That was so interesting.
30:07
Yeah, friend. I did not know that the church
30:11
was involved in this. I should have known.
30:13
Church involves in self and everything.
30:16
It's it's wild. I agree.
30:17
I was not expecting that. The fact that it was a papal
30:20
decree in 1233, like I just, it just doesn't seem.
30:24
And those hold weight like that's, yeah, that's heavy.
30:29
Yeah, I mean, we're talking about the Inquisition.
30:30
Like, that's such a heavy, heavy, heavy time in dark,
30:37
terrible dark. Yeah, yeah, friend.
30:40
I had AI, had a lot of fun. Like I mentioned, this was a
30:42
little bit different. I love learning about the lore
30:44
now because it makes me want a black cat even more.
30:47
Oh, we need to rewrite history. We need to reattribute good
30:51
luck, good vibes to Black Cats. They are misrepresented in
30:55
media. And they're so cute.
30:57
They're just little, little black voids.
30:59
They are. They just want to cuddle some of
31:02
them. Some of them.
31:03
I do agree that a lot of cats have their own temperament for
31:06
sure. But so does every animal.
31:08
Yeah, you're right. So does any animal.
31:11
That goes for reptiles, canines, humans.
31:17
Yeah, it's everyone. You just got to find the 1.
31:21
And I am confident, I believe that the cat distribution system
31:26
will bless US one day with a little black cat.
31:29
OK, the US better be you and Bootsy because it's not blessing
31:32
me. I'll be saying bless you because
31:34
you'll be sneezing and stuff. Bless me.
31:38
Get out of here. Get.
31:40
Get. Yeah, friend, thank you for
31:42
listening to my. Cat Talk.
31:44
Oh, thank you for sharing. Is there anything that was
31:46
haunting you this week? There was, and it's so funny
31:50
that you brought out a cat story because I almost did a dog
31:56
story. Is it the black shark?
31:59
No, it was almost a little like mini in depth analysis of how
32:05
black dogs are representative of like death and stuff in Mexican
32:11
culture specifically and stuff like that.
32:14
But I said no, I need to devote more time to that.
32:17
He's I want to do that with more intent.
32:19
He's having an aneurysm. So I was not haunted by that
32:21
this week. OK, not.
32:23
This week, I'm haunted by something that has existed in my
32:27
reality for years. Whoa.
32:30
It even has links to a piece of media that played a vital part
32:33
in my sexual awakening. What?
32:37
What do you know about Teen Wolf?
32:39
Maybe both? I've watched the entire I think
32:45
first three seasons. I stopped watching when Lydia
32:49
became the banshee. The banshee I think which was
32:53
like season 3 ish. Sure, Season 4.
32:56
Ish. They all kind of merged together
32:57
to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:58
I did not know you watched. This is actually makes me really
33:02
happy because you'll understand a good portion of my story
33:05
hopefully. I'm automatically thinking of
33:07
names like. Keep, keep thinking.
33:10
Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
33:11
I'm really excited now, OK. Cool.
33:15
Well, Teen Wolf first premiered on MTV in the summer of 2011.
33:20
It's still kind of related to dogs.
33:22
It is. I saw the first episode and I
33:25
was hooked. Dude, yeah, as soon as I saw my
33:28
forever daddy Derek Hale. OK, I had I had other names in
33:32
my mind, but OK, go ahead. No, literally.
33:35
He was my first experience of witnessing like a troubled
33:38
broody angsty beefcake of a man and I couldn't look back.
33:46
Like SMAO. I'm so sweaty just thinking
33:49
about it. For reference, I was 15 when
33:52
this came out and very hormonal. At a ripe age of. 15 Finally had
33:57
a really hormonal moment in my life.
33:59
Derek Ale. Crazy.
34:03
I was like obsessed obsessed dude.
34:04
I had a Tumblr dedicated to the show.
34:07
I wrote fan fiction. Amazing.
34:09
I made, like, GIFs and photo edits before video edits were,
34:13
like, a thing on TikTok. OK, Remember 2011 through 2000,
34:16
like 1516, whenever the show was airing.
34:19
Yeah. It was my first, like, big
34:21
fandom experience. Wow.
34:23
It was like, I had never watched anything as it aired and had
34:26
access to the Internet at the same time.
34:28
So there was always a lot of anticipation of, oh, my God, the
34:31
cliffhanger. What's going to happen next
34:33
week? Did you hear?
34:33
That I did hear that it sounded like knocking, but.
34:35
It sounded like clapping. But also clapping.
34:39
Yeah, OK, weird. I didn't once again like burnt
34:43
bottle Santo again today. Oh, nice.
34:45
OK, OK. Anyways, the show, if you don't
34:52
know, is about main character Scott McCall who gets a bit by
34:55
werewolf as a teen, hence the name Teen Wolf.
34:59
That's what it means. Yeah, dude, that's what it
35:01
means, isn't it? Crazy.
35:02
Wow, and it's all about him embracing his werewolf powers to
35:06
save his friends and the town of Beacon Hills from all other evil
35:09
monsters that are trying to take over because for some reason
35:13
they love Beacon Hills. Something to do with the an
35:16
ancient tree. Something like that.
35:18
You find out later seasons. It's a beacon.
35:20
It calls. Yeah, literally.
35:24
What I love most about the show, aside from the shirtless fan
35:27
service, was that they'd like pulled inspiration from
35:30
different cryptids and paranormal beings for the bad
35:32
guys. And the topic I'm covering today
35:35
ended up playing a major role in the plot, and when I saw the
35:39
name recently I was so shocked to know the connection.
35:43
OK. This week I'm haunted by the
35:47
Beast of Jevodon, a bloodthirsty, seemingly
35:51
unkillable creature, a terrorized 18th century France,
35:55
and was responsible for over 100 brutally gruesome deaths.
35:59
Wow. Also what you call me at the
36:02
beginning. The beast of Jeva Dong.
36:04
What the fuck? What the hell you call it?
36:06
Is the beast. No, you're you're, you're
36:07
insulting me. Beast.
36:10
OK, just based on the connection to Teen Wolf, what do you think
36:13
this beast could be? I mean, some sort of like wolf,
36:17
some sort of werewolf. That's my, that's my original.
36:23
That's my first thought. I keep that in your mind,
36:25
werewolf in case that changes. Werewolf, although I was the
36:28
first one that introduced me to Teen Wolf.
36:30
Really. Him of all people.
36:32
And I think he finished watching the show I.
36:34
Stopped after Derek Hale left. You're like I'm I'm.
36:37
Good. Like no, my daddy's gone.
36:38
I don't need to finish this. And you?
36:40
Lost me damn. Back in 1764, it was only known
36:45
as the Beast. The Beast allegedly mauled over
36:48
100 villagers in the region of Gevardin, France Francais.
36:53
You keep calling me names. I'm going to walk out of here.
36:55
Also, Please note there's a lot of French names in here that I'm
36:58
going to try my best to pronounce.
37:00
Amazing. If you speak French and I
37:02
pronounce it wrong, please give me grace.
37:04
If he's cussing me out in French, please.
37:07
Contact me Never. Never, never.
37:08
So the first named attack happened over 262 years ago this
37:13
summer. That's not too long ago,
37:15
honestly. That was when 14 year old Jean
37:18
Boulet was out alone in the field.
37:21
Jean was a shepherdess and was out watching the family sheep.
37:23
She never expected a massive 4 legged monster to charge at her
37:27
out of the woods. By the time the attack was over,
37:29
all her family found was a mangled corpse left in the dirt.
37:32
So there was proof. Yep, that something had murdered
37:38
Capital M murdered, mauled, maliciously ate this girl.
37:42
Murder. While she was the first person
37:45
killed, she wasn't the first one attacked.
37:48
A few months prior, another woman had been out with her
37:50
cattle when a similar beast charged at her.
37:52
Luckily, the cattle defended her and they were able to scare it
37:55
off. Whoa.
37:57
She was the one who was able to share the first description of
37:59
the beast, which was it's like a wolf, yet not a wolf.
38:04
This reminds me of the Britney song.
38:06
I'm not a girl, not yet a woman. Maybe it's something in between.
38:11
Just like Brittany. I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.
38:14
I'm not a wolf, not yet a beast. Yeah, yeah, but it sounds
38:18
exactly the same. Probably inspired by.
38:20
A third attack happened a few months later where another young
38:23
woman had been killed by a four legged beast.
38:26
What's the saying? Once a fluke, twice as a
38:28
coincidence, third time is a pattern.
38:32
Fool me once, shame on you. No, leave that behind.
38:36
Well, we can't get fools again. Well, this was a pattern all
38:40
right. A pattern that had no intention
38:43
of stopping. Words spread like crazy.
38:47
There's a wolf attacking whip own.
38:49
Was it rude to do a French accent?
38:52
No, it's like an English accent. OK, words spread like crazy.
38:55
There's a wolf, I can't do it, attacking women and children.
38:58
But it's not really a wolf, but it looks like 1 and everything
39:01
is terrible. I would imagine so.
39:04
The stories of the attacks were awful.
39:07
Allegedly, it only targeted people's heads and necks,
39:11
ripping them off from their bodies.
39:12
This thing was vicious, and it really wanted everyone to know.
39:18
Descriptions kind of varied. Some people said it was as big
39:20
as a cow, others said it was as big as a horse.
39:23
Most people agreed that it had a long tail, with some saying it
39:26
had a tuft of hair at the end. It was brown with dark stripes
39:31
on its back and massive teeth. It's like they mixed together
39:34
the descriptions of a bunch of animals together with that tiny
39:38
bit of description. Any guesses of what animal it
39:41
might be? I mean, you kind of gave the
39:43
description of, like, a hyena, a lion, a wolf.
39:48
Yeah, just like a mix of everything.
39:51
A Guinea pig. OK, eventually people who
39:55
witnessed some of these attacks started saying that there was 2
39:58
beasts. This thing was multiplying,
40:01
procreating. What's worse than one
40:04
unidentified beast? Two unidentified beasts.
40:08
No, no, children actually play a really big part in the story.
40:14
After dozens of murders, the French villagers were finally
40:16
fed up. Some areas put bounties on the
40:19
beast, offering rewards for anyone that managed to kill it.
40:22
A few groups did eventually try to hunt it down.
40:25
In one instance, a group of huntsmen caught wind of an
40:27
attack near Chateau de la Bomb and sprung into action.
40:33
They grabbed their weapons and they ran their butts over.
40:37
They haunted it through the nearby woods when finally they
40:39
cornered it into a clearing. At once, they all drew their
40:43
guns and opened fire at the beast.
40:46
The creature fell. The silence was probably
40:49
deafening after all the gunshots, because they all just
40:53
aimed. Emptied their freaking guns.
40:57
Yeah. They held their breath as they
40:58
began to approach the monster. However, it was not dead.
41:04
The bullets didn't even Pierce its skin.
41:06
The beast got up and dashed back into the woods, seemingly
41:09
unharmed. That's when they started to
41:11
think that the beast was not something of nature and could
41:13
very possibly be indestructible. Wait, so I just imagined like
41:18
this smart beast thing just like feigning like it died, Yeah,
41:24
making it look like and then oh wait, that didn't do shit.
41:28
Bye boom. And then taking off.
41:30
Yeah, you shoot up this massive beast, you think it's dead and
41:33
boom, it's back. It's kind of giving boss battle
41:36
for sure, for sure. Like the video game boss has
41:38
multiple lives like different stages of fighting in.
41:42
Eldon Ring all over again. One vital encounter resulted in
41:46
the intervention of the King of France at the time, King Louis
41:48
the 15th. On January 12th, 1765, the beast
41:54
came up on little old Jacques Portafaix.
41:57
The 10 year old boy was hanging out with his group of friends,
41:59
all ranging from 8 to 12 years old.
42:02
Well, this little group of children practically became The
42:04
Avengers of 18th century France, no?
42:07
Way. Rose Chamacos or out in a field
42:10
just playing amongst the cows when they were attacked by the
42:13
Beast of Jevaodon. Instead of cowering in fear,
42:17
these little rascals fought back.
42:20
They grouped up against it using homemade weapons that they
42:23
prepared to counter attack. They had them ready.
42:26
Dude I have like a slow MO video of this playing in my head just
42:29
like in a circle all backs to back holding their makeshift
42:33
weapons just readied up. The stick of mud.
42:37
Together, they ended up scaring it off, sending it back into the
42:40
woods. They became local heroes, and
42:43
news eventually reached King Louis the 15th.
42:45
He sent them all money and he specifically paid for Jacques
42:49
schooling as like an honor for leading this charge against the
42:52
beast. Wait, I have a question.
42:54
Yes. So did they manage to kill the
42:56
beast? No.
42:57
Did they just they just didn't die.
42:59
They were able to fight it off. Wow, they survived.
43:02
Like they were able to tell the tale.
43:04
Gotcha. I think my brain was still
43:05
playing that whole like little movie in my head where I didn't
43:07
hear anything you said after that.
43:09
Sorry. Loki, I think the king was kind
43:11
of embarrassed that so many adults had failed to fight off
43:14
the creature and it was a bunch of kids were able to fend it
43:18
off. Immediately after this he ended
43:20
up rounding up troops to finally deal with the beast once and for
43:23
all. Like this had been terrorizing a
43:25
whole area of France and they had been complaining to the king
43:29
and he paid no attention to it for the longest time.
43:31
Like no, you don't figure it out, someone will kill it.
43:34
Group of kids are the only ones to do have survived an attack
43:37
from the freaking beast. Wow.
43:42
So he ended up sending out royal hunters into the area to kill
43:45
the beast, but even then they had no luck.
43:48
Another seven months passed and the creature was still at large.
43:52
Wow, Jerry. If not the Kingsman, who do you
43:57
think could kill this thing? The power of friendship, because
44:02
apparently that's the only thing that has succeeded and
44:05
prevailed. No, I think it would have to
44:08
take more than your typical lead based weapons.
44:13
I think we have to start looking at supernatural weaponry.
44:18
Oh, I like that. Well, we've had men, we've had
44:23
children. How about a woman?
44:26
Oh yeah, for sure. Well, on August 11th, 1765,
44:32
which is 261 years ago this month, Marie Jean Valet was
44:37
crossing a bridge over the River Discus with her sister.
44:41
The two were braver than most because by this time many people
44:44
were afraid to be outside unless they were in large groups.
44:47
But the sisters came prepared. Mary Jean happened to be
44:50
travelling with a bayonet she had attached to a very long
44:53
pole, so when the beast eventually snuck up on them, she
44:58
was ready. She took this idea from the
45:00
kids. She said I'm not going out there
45:02
without my weapon. When it leaped towards her,
45:05
aiming for her neck, she braced herself and pierced the beast
45:09
with the bayonet. The beast recoiled in pain and
45:12
ran away. Mary Jean Valet did the
45:15
impossible. She hurt the creature, which
45:19
meant it could be killed. Her heroic actions made her a
45:23
local legend and she eventually became known as the Maid of Jeva
45:27
Don. Nice.
45:29
And that's the story that Teen Wolf pulls from.
45:32
They have an episode called The Maid of Jeva Don where you find
45:35
out that one of the main characters is related to her.
45:38
Guess. Guess who?
45:40
Alice. Yes, Allison.
45:41
My. Allison, sorry.
45:43
Wow. There's a whole family of
45:46
werewolf hunters on the show whose lineage dates back to her.
45:51
In the show's lore, she's the first werewolf hunter in
45:53
history, and the Beast of Jala Dawn was the history's most
45:56
powerful werewolf, and it becomes a villain in the show.
45:59
Cool. I don't think I was there for
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that. I think that season 4, three or
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four, and then they managed to kill it.
46:07
And then do you remember the Dread Doctors, those creepy guys
46:11
in masks? That's when I started getting
46:13
kind of scared. Teen Wolf I.
46:15
Don't like this? Anymore.
46:16
No, they were creepy. They had like gas masks on.
46:19
But they start like kind of fucking with things and making
46:22
their own monsters and they bring it back as like a chimera.
46:25
Yeah, it was really cool. Months later, father and son
46:31
hunters announced that they were on the hunt for the beast.
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The father claimed to have killed over 1200 wolves in his
46:39
career and that the beast was no different.
46:43
They died, no, but they were unsuccessful for sure.
46:47
Next came Francois Antoine, the King's own gun bearer.
46:52
I probably butchered that. He was sent in after the father
46:55
and son announced their defeat. It was Francois who came across
46:59
a giant wolf in September 1765 and he used his gunman skills to
47:03
kill. It was that it was the Beast of
47:07
Javadan finally defeated. No, this is like a But wait,
47:12
there's more. Well, the king and villagers
47:14
thought so. The wolf was presented to the
47:16
Court of Versailles, who determined that the wolf was
47:18
much larger than the breach should be normally.
47:21
It eventually ended up getting taxidermied and kind of paraded
47:24
around because this thing was massive.
47:26
Whoa. Based on this, Francois was
47:29
given the reward money and was celebrated as the person who had
47:32
finally killed the beast. Real convenient that the King's
47:36
gunman, yeah, was the one to finally defeat the beast and get
47:40
the earnings. Also, didn't you say there was
47:42
maybe 2? Oh, Jerry.
47:45
Oh, so smart. Not even two months later, the
47:51
attacks started up again. Remember how I mentioned that
47:54
some people had seen two beasts? Oh, Jerry, you're so good at
47:57
memorizing things. So.
47:58
Smart. For 18 more months, the same
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area was terrorized once again and more than 30 people died
48:05
from gruesome new attacks. He just killed his mate.
48:09
I would imagine so. He was angry, but the king
48:12
didn't believe them. He had already sent his men.
48:14
He had already awarded them the bounty.
48:16
Villagers must be exaggerating. Plus, he didn't want to be seen
48:19
as a liar. He had already told the entire
48:21
country that the beast had been dealt with.
48:23
Sorry, got to deal with it on your own.
48:25
So the villages in the area suffered alone.
48:29
Typical. It wasn't until two years later
48:32
that farmer Jean Chastel grew brave enough to hunt the
48:34
remaining beast. He shot another large creature
48:37
on June 19th, 1767, finally bringing an end to the
48:41
massacres. So what was the Beast of
48:43
Javanon? The Royal Court thought it was a
48:45
large wolf. I mean, that's what the King's
48:47
gunman brought in, right? Well, other locals didn't think
48:51
so. There's a bunch of theories of
48:53
what it could be. A wolf with a thirst for human
48:56
blood is 1. But cryptozoologist think it
48:59
could be some sort of hyena or a lion that escaped nearby
49:01
enclosure. So you're right on the money.
49:05
Some lean more supernatural, believing it was indeed some
49:08
sort of man wolf hybrid or a creature that defied extinction,
49:12
such as a dire wolf or bear dog. Yeah, on a Reddit thread by
49:17
Remarkable Trip 1167, they claim that the beast could not be a
49:21
lion or hyena, as these are tropical predators who cannot
49:24
withstand the French winters. However, other people in the
49:28
thread disagree. The top response is from user
49:31
Chowgasm, who states that the weather in that area of France
49:34
rarely reaches freezing temperatures.
49:37
Most of the attacks were done in the summer or fall anyways.
49:40
Yeah, it could have been a lion that moved to warmer climates
49:43
during the winter months. Chowgasm.
49:46
Hey, I'm not in charge of naming these people.
49:48
That's their selfie expression. Good name.
49:52
My favorite comment comes from a deleted account which says it
49:56
was actually a weather bloon. Oh no, that's it, That's the one
50:03
they won. Deleted user, you win.
50:07
OK So what do you guys think? Was the beast of Java Don a
50:10
wolf? Or maybe something worse?
50:13
I could totally see it being a dire wolf like that would make a
50:15
lot of sense, but who knows who knows?
50:20
I, I love the I love the term crypto zoologist because it
50:23
just, it seems so fun, you know, just.
50:26
I think that should have been a career path for you, friend
50:29
that. Would have been so fun.
50:30
That would have been so cool. Imagine how much I did seven
50:35
years in Mexico studying Lechusas.
50:38
Yeah, like cryptozoologist. Yep.
50:41
Like what's your business here? Cryptozoologist, Cryptozoology.
50:45
Proceed. Dang, kind of.
50:48
See credentials. It's a little handwritten name
50:50
tag. It has the the what is it?
50:53
The the the the freaking pants. The Nightcrawlers or Sacramento
50:59
Night Crawlers or Sacramento something anyways.
51:03
I don't know. It's it's the Mothman as a
51:05
picture I. Don't know Mothman is was also a
51:07
potential topic for the week. Interesting.
51:09
So funny you bring that up. But yeah, wow, my money is it
51:13
has to be, I don't know, a lion or something.
51:15
Let me pull up pictures because yeah, I want to see some
51:18
pictures. There was a lot of art and stuff
51:20
where they painted it as it's described.
51:22
So it does look like a very unique original animal with
51:27
characteristics from lions, wolf, hyena.
51:30
So maybe it was a weird hybrid of all of those combined.
51:34
Yeah, I mean, even some of these, like this one right here,
51:38
it says hyena, but that very much looks like some sort of
51:42
like big cat. Yeah, the tail.
51:45
That's so wild. Yeah, this one looks more of
51:48
like a bear. Yeah, like hyena patterns.
51:52
What if it was just like a mangy bear that like, who knows, grew
51:56
a tail? We'll never know.
51:57
That's so crazy. That's because that was 200 plus
52:00
years ago and most everything was just like really not
52:04
dramatized. But yeah, like dramatized
52:06
retellings of like the attacks. Most of it was like first hand
52:10
accounts, probably from far away because you don't want to be
52:12
nearby when that thing is coming at your neck.
52:16
Sounds like the black Shuck all over again.
52:18
Right. But a little further South Down
52:20
in France, in France is France more S France?
52:26
Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure.
52:29
I think, I think it was just a little puppy.
52:32
I would have pet it, OK. I would have fought it versus I
52:36
would have put him in a battle with the Black Shark.
52:38
Wow, that would have been cool. What if they're cousins?
52:43
Maybe there's a whole big breed of just big dog that we have yet
52:47
to discover because they love to hide in the woods.
52:49
Yeah. All right, y'all, if you're.
52:51
Interested in the fanfic? Brian will be posting that on
52:53
the website. I'll be pulling characters from
52:56
history. And Teen Wolf.
52:58
And Teen Wolf, it'll be King France the 5th, King France,
53:02
it'll be King Louis of France the 15th.
53:04
And Derek Hale fanfiction. There you go, perfect.
53:07
And they're each one of them is a black shark.
53:09
One of them is the beast. Jerry Ka Jerry's my co-author.
53:14
He's my editor. I'm getting rights to that.
53:16
He's my idea man. If I have the time this will get
53:21
posted somewhere on the website. That's so why.
53:24
Do it. Wow friend, thank you for that.
53:26
That was so cool. I love this episode.
53:28
Look at our animals like just running the episode today.
53:31
Yeah, we had. I had no idea what you were
53:33
talking about. I did tell Jerry that I was
53:35
going to talk about a beast, but didn't go into specifics.
53:38
Also, I might have just glanced over that message and like,
53:42
something, just something. The wheel started turning.
53:45
Yeah. Because I wasn't going to do
53:46
Black Cats today. I was going to do something
53:48
else. But then I just happened to
53:50
think about the black cat. And then I searched it out and
53:53
then, yeah, I just. I got my stuff.
53:56
That was fun. Hope you all enjoyed.
53:58
Before we get into the song recommendations, I do want to
54:02
just have a moment of silence for an icon that passed this
54:08
week. And yes, my song will be a
54:13
recommendation for Miss Dolly Parton.
54:17
Hope she rests in paradise. Just a a true loss.
54:21
I have no words. An icon that really serve the
54:25
people for I think A7 or 8 decades of music.
54:30
Now she was 80 years old, but she has a legacy that will
54:34
hopefully live on for forever. Absolutely.
54:38
Beautiful person, beautiful soul.
54:40
Yeah. Always did amazing things for
54:42
her community. But communities at large, Big
54:45
advocate for people of color, LGBT plus community and she has
54:51
a nonprofit. I know we don't make money.
54:53
I wish I did. But if for any reason you
54:55
thought, oh hey, I want to give these guys some money, love
54:57
their content. No, Please send a donation to
55:00
the Imagination Library. Yeah, a wonderful program trying
55:03
to get books to underprivileged kids.
55:05
The first thing we did when we heard of the news was bust out
55:09
the Dolly record. I would like to recommend the
55:12
original version of I will always love you.
55:16
We're both recommended I will always love you because that is
55:18
just. Wow, Whitney Houston's version
55:21
is outstanding. That woman could sing, but there
55:24
is something just so authentic to Dolly's version.
55:30
Please give it a listen if you've never heard it or for
55:33
some reason did not know that that was the original version.
55:36
All right, I think it might be working, man, but because I
55:38
can't think of it and I don't have it in front of me, I'm
55:40
going to recommend Tennessee Homesick Blues.
55:45
Yeah, I did see the video of Orville Peck that Dulce showed
55:47
me where he was. He received the news while he
55:49
was playing live and he just had a little a moment.
55:54
Yeah. No, I did not see that.
55:56
No. And then the comments were like,
55:57
has someone checked in on Trixie Mattel?
55:59
Like it's just yeah, Oh my God, so many Yeah, like everything
56:02
Dulce was telling me. I was like, they're so right.
56:03
Like there's people currently that just.
56:06
That was. Pull so much inspiration in her
56:09
Global Icon. Yeah, I saw a video where AI
56:12
think they're British. A theatre group was putting on a
56:17
production of nine to five. Wow.
56:19
And they did break it to the audience right before because
56:21
they did not know like, hey, I know we're doing the show, but
56:24
this was written by Dolly Parton.
56:26
She unfortunately has passed away today.
56:28
And the whole crowd was like, like gas.
56:31
I could not believe it. I cannot believe it.
56:33
It has been a a tragic week. Lost Hayden Panettiere last
56:38
week, losing Dolly this week. It's been too much.
56:42
They're taking the good white people.
56:44
It's been a lot, and not to end the episode on a sad note, but
56:48
this is a celebration of their life and their legacy.
56:53
It's going to, it's going to live on and.
56:54
It doesn't have to be sad, it could be a powerful moment of
56:57
just recognition. We thank you for listening.
57:03
Go listen to some Dolly today and we hope you enjoyed the
57:06
episode. Yeah, I'm Brian.
57:08
See you next week. I'm Brian.
57:11
That's Jerry. And this is.
57:13
Amigos a friend.