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The Devil Living In David Bowie's Pool?! · Cosmic Peach

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Speaker 2: the store. I saw this weird theory while I was scrolling,
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Speaker 2: and it said why the world or how the world
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Speaker 2: stopped in 1999. And how nothing has actually really changed
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Speaker 2: since 1999. Which I thought was weird and kind of interesting.
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Speaker 2: Because in the video it was like. We've just been
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Speaker 2: in a time loop since 1999. We're in some kind
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Speaker 2: of a matrix thing. Where they say it's 2026. But
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Speaker 2: we really don't know what year we're in. Because it's
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Speaker 2: just been a time loop. And. it went on to say,
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Speaker 2: if you look back at all the past decades, they're
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Speaker 2: very easily recognizable by the changing styles. So, if you
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Speaker 2: go back to the roaring 20s, and then you had, like,
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Speaker 2: the 50s with the sock hops and the poodle skirts, and,
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Speaker 2: you know, obviously we have the hippie movement, which, don't
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Speaker 2: get me started on that shit, but It's clearly marked,
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Speaker 2: the 60s and 70s are clearly marked by this flower
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Speaker 2: power Janis Joplin's braided pit hair. And everybody had a
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Speaker 2: huge bush that definitely needed to be trimmed down. And
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Speaker 2: then we suddenly enter the 80s and it's Duran Duran
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Speaker 2: and Big Poof Bangs and, you know, XYZ. And slowly
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Speaker 2: we drift into the 90s where I guess the 90s
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Speaker 2: had its own thing going on for sure. You know, styles, whatnot,
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Speaker 2: grunge scene. So each decade is clearly marked. From the
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Speaker 2: 20s to the 50s to the 60s to the 70s, 80s, 90s.
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Speaker 2: There are marked shifts in cultural norms, music, movies, clothing, etc.
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Speaker 2: But in the clip, he was like, if you really
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Speaker 2: think about it from 2000 to 2026, what really has changed? And,
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Speaker 2: you know, he lists some other things like it's just
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Speaker 2: we're just on repeat. We're just on a loop. And sure,
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Speaker 2: maybe you could get on board with that. Maybe that's
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Speaker 2: true for some of you out there that you're thinking, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that kind of seems right. And my only argument would
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Speaker 2: be you didn't grow up as a child during this
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Speaker 2: time period. That would be my only argument because I did.
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Speaker 2: I was born in 1994 and I grew up through
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Speaker 2: the early 2000s and 2000s. I graduated in 2013, so
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Speaker 2: I saw the worst and the best the 2000s have
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Speaker 2: to offer. And let me just tell you something. There
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Speaker 2: may not be a huge shift in the fashion icons,
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Speaker 2: but music for sure. And I just don't understand what
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Speaker 2: he's talking about, because does anybody else remember the Jersey
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Speaker 2: Shore era? Or I just talked about this, the scene
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Speaker 2: kids with the weird stripes in the hair and the
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Speaker 2: blacked out eyeliner. The emo kids that wore the cat ears.
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Speaker 2: The Twilight era where everybody thought they were a vampire.
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Speaker 2: The Harry Potter era. I mean, I remember so many
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Speaker 2: huge changes just from elementary school to high school. The
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Speaker 2: fashion for sure. I mean, in the early 2000s, it
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Speaker 2: was like low rider jeans and juicy and oh my God,
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Speaker 2: the children's fashions were horrible. You know, bowl haircuts and
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Speaker 2: a lot of Disney stuff, Lisa Frank stuff. Again, I
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Speaker 2: can imagine an adult who didn't live through this thinking
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Speaker 2: that not much has changed since 1999 to now. But
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Speaker 2: as a kid growing up in this and becoming an
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Speaker 2: adult and being an adult in 2026 and remembering back
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Speaker 2: to my childhood. The shit's definitely changed. And maybe that's
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Speaker 2: super unconspiracy of me to not agree that we're in
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Speaker 2: some kind of a time loop. I think time in general,
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Speaker 2: from the beginning of it, talking about Adam and Eve
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Speaker 2: type shit, has been a time loop. I think that
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Speaker 2: the mythology around Kronos and Saturn and the soul eater
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Speaker 2: thing and the time loop stuff That's existed since time began.
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Speaker 2: So it didn't just start up in 1999 that we're
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Speaker 2: all in some weird timeless soul trap. I think that
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Speaker 2: started when time started. I don't think a bomb went
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Speaker 2: off in 1999 and now nothing changes because things have changed.
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Speaker 2: Fashion has changed. Music has changed. the invention of the
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Speaker 2: internet and people getting on MySpace. Do you remember the
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Speaker 2: MySpace days compared to now, like TikTok days? I mean,
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Speaker 2: so much has changed since 1999. So, I mean, you
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Speaker 2: can comment and let me know what you think. If
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Speaker 2: you agree that nothing has changed since 1999, you can
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Speaker 2: go ahead and just leave me a comment and tell
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Speaker 2: me what a douchebag I am. But There's got to
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Speaker 2: be some listeners out there who are in their early
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Speaker 2: or late 30s or maybe even early 40s who remember
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Speaker 2: growing up in the 2000s and how vastly different it
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Speaker 2: is than 2026. I mean, there just were things that
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Speaker 2: people were doing. Do you remember anybody else remember like.
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Speaker 2: The bump it thing that you'd wear in your hair
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Speaker 2: where it was like a bouffant style shit. Again, it
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Speaker 2: might've just been with the scene kids, but you'd wear
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Speaker 2: like a poof in the front of your hair clipped back.
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Speaker 2: And then stick straight on the sides and like concealer
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Speaker 2: as lipstick. This was all early 2000s stuff. And then
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Speaker 2: maybe lip gloss on top of the concealer. So you
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Speaker 2: looked like a cracked out halfway on your way to
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Speaker 2: the mortuary. This was a look in the 2000s. Concealer
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Speaker 2: over the lips with a little lip gloss. Your hair
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Speaker 2: in like some weird clip back poofed up. I'll try
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Speaker 2: to find pictures. Anyways, Jersey Shore days, Jim Tan laundry.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was all a hot fucking, just steaming
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Speaker 2: hot mess. And, you know, the Jersey Shore people are
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Speaker 2: still around in 2026, but so much has changed, people.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what planet the kids are from
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Speaker 2: that were born here. In like the late 2000s. My
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Speaker 2: kid's probably gonna be so weird. He's one of the new...
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Speaker 2: What do they call him? Generation Alpha or something? I
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Speaker 2: don't even know. They're probably gonna develop some kind of
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Speaker 2: telepathic communication by the time he's my age. Anyways. In
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Speaker 2: other news. Russell Brand's ass just got sentenced to 10
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Speaker 2: plus years in prison for the multiple rapes of several
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Speaker 2: young women. And, um... There's even some clips floating around
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Speaker 2: where he was like, when I was in my thirties,
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Speaker 2: I would just, you know, kind of like rape women.
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Speaker 3: I don't even, I i don't even know why it's
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Speaker 3: taking this long for him to go to jail if
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Speaker 3: all this is true which i'm not saying it's true
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Speaker 3: this could be a total setup and a scam and
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Speaker 3: part of the weird me too stuff but You know,
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Speaker 3: if he did it, if he really raped, which I'm
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Speaker 3: not saying that he didn't rape, I just wasn't there.
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Speaker 2: And, uh, you know, they be, they just bitches be
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Speaker 2: saying they got raped and sometimes they didn't. So if
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Speaker 2: he did rape, if it was horrible, if it was
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Speaker 2: genuine sexual assault, then he deserves everything he's getting. But
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Speaker 2: he's currently sentenced to 10 plus years in prison for
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Speaker 2: And it's just, you know, he went through this whole
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Speaker 2: dark night of the soul and he became all esoteric
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Speaker 2: and spiritual. And he was balancing all of his chankras and,
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Speaker 2: you know, saging his taint and smudging his nipples. You know,
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Speaker 2: he was doing the transcendental things. hallucinations, and now he's
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Speaker 2: serving 10 plus years for brutal rape of multiple women.
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Speaker 2: And there's even been a couple more women who have
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Speaker 2: come forward and said, yep, he raped me too, which
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Speaker 2: makes me think maybe this is all, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I need to dig further into it. All I'm saying
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Speaker 2: is sometimes bitches be saying they got raped and they
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Speaker 2: really didn't get raped. And that's just a sad reality
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Speaker 2: of it. Some people just get thrown into a pot
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Speaker 2: with other rapers. Some are actually rapers and some aren't.
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Speaker 2: Just aren't. But speaking of... celebrities who are into weird spiritualism.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to know what the topic is today?
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Speaker 2: I'll let you know what the topic is today. I
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Speaker 2: got a weird story I found about Jimmy Page and
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Speaker 2: David Bowie. Maybe you guys have heard this before and
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Speaker 2: it's just news to me, but there's a weird spiritual
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Speaker 2: link between Jimmy Page and David Bowie that I wasn't
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Speaker 2: aware of dark occultism and casting spells and stuff. We're
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Speaker 2: going to get into it. But before we do, if
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Speaker 2: if you're new, welcome! And if you're a long-time listener,
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Speaker 2: welcome back. Again, today we're going to be talking about
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Speaker 2: some strange, dark, esoteric, ritualistic... It's just... news to me,
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Speaker 2: I guess, but the bond that connects Jimmy Page and
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Speaker 2: David Bowie and the darkness that surrounds the two of them. Now,
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Speaker 2: where does this story begin? Let's start with the obvious,
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Speaker 2: a name that should need no formal introduction. Jimmy Page.
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Page. was one of the most innovative guitarists in
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Speaker 2: rock history, acting as lead guitarist, songwriter, and producer for
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Speaker 2: one of the most influential bands of our time, Led Zeppelin.
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Speaker 2: After the flurry of commercial success for multiple Led Zeppelin
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Speaker 2: studio albums during the late 60s, early 70s, Jimmy Page.
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Speaker 2: Would go on to purchase Alistair Crowley's former home, the
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Speaker 2: Boleskine House, or Boleskine House. Tomato, tomato, b-hole, p-hole, it's
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Speaker 2: all the same. The Boleskine House was a manor on
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Speaker 2: the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland. I've talked about
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Speaker 2: the Boleskine House before, but weird shit be going down, okay?
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Speaker 2: And Crowley, we all know what Crowley was into. He
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Speaker 2: was doing some weird stuff. But in particular, at this
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Speaker 2: Boleskine house where he was living at the time. And
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Speaker 2: he was moving up the ranks in the Order of
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Speaker 2: the Golden Dawn and shit. And he invited a senior
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Speaker 2: member of the Golden Dawn, a guy named Alan Bennett.
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Speaker 2: to come and live with him at the Boleskine House,
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Speaker 2: exploring ceremonial magic and ritual performance together a little bit further.
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Speaker 2: And at the age of 24, Crowley used the Boleskine
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Speaker 2: House as the site of an advanced ritual known as
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Speaker 2: the Abramelon Ceremony, Abramelon, Shamelama Ding Dong Ceremony, but... The
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Speaker 2: purpose of this ritual was to summon his holy guardian
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Speaker 2: angel and control demonic forces via the use of magical squares,
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Speaker 2: quote unquote. The ritual involves 6 to 18 months of
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Speaker 2: increasingly rigorous and repetitive spiritual practices, and Crowley Bitchass abandoned
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Speaker 2: his ritual after only 6 months. Supposedly he fucked off
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Speaker 2: to Paris afterward and just left the ritual unconcluded. And allegedly,
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Speaker 2: the abandonment of the ritual led to communication with these
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Speaker 2: entities to never be closed, to never cease, causing a
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Speaker 2: residual dark presence to still reside in the Boleskine Helm.
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Speaker 1: So, I.
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Speaker 2: Wonder if maybe that, among other things, wasn't a draw
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Speaker 2: for Jimmy Page. And how long did he stay there?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I could Google it, I guess. But I wouldn't want
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Speaker 2: to be up in that bitch with never-ending communication with
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Speaker 2: demonic forces just popping up while I'm trying to take
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Speaker 2: a shit or make some spaghetti. No, thank you. So
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Speaker 2: I don't even know how long he lived there. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if he was just really into it. But
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Speaker 2: he purchased a home, maybe specifically for that reason. And
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Speaker 2: During a time where youth and young adults were undergoing
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Speaker 2: a rebellion against mainstream ideals and traditional practices, Jimmy Page,
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Speaker 2: as well as many other musicians, was deeply fascinated by
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Speaker 2: Aleister Crowley's writings and his ideology, advocating for all the
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Speaker 2: bizarre-ass principles highlighted within Thelema, and one in particular being,
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Speaker 2: of course, do what thou wilt shall be the whole
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Speaker 2: of the law. In other words, do you, baby, and
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Speaker 2: fuck the rest of them. You know, all about the
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Speaker 2: pursuit of one's true will being the ultimate moral and
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Speaker 2: spiritual path. But what's interesting and what a lot of
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Speaker 2: people might not know is there are some weird-ass quotes like,
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Speaker 2: appearing etched in vinyl pressings of Led Zeppelin III. The words,
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Speaker 2: do what thou wilt, being directly taken from Crowley. And
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Speaker 2: the other saying was, so mote it be. Stemming from
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Speaker 2: the closing of a prayer or ritual or something like
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Speaker 2: that for the Freemasons. But both of those.
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Speaker 2: Sayings appeared etched in the vinyl pressings of Led Zeppelin III,
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Speaker 2: and Page would later acquire an elaborate collection of first
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Speaker 2: edition books by Alistair. In the mid-1970s, he would open
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Speaker 2: the Equinox, an occult bookstore and publishing house based in London.
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Speaker 2: named after one of Crowley's published works. After purchasing the
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Speaker 2: good old Bleskin House, Page would exchange letters with members
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Speaker 2: of the OTO, Ordo, Templi, Orientis, the occult society Aleister
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Speaker 2: Crowley controlled until his death in 1947. And his involvement
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Speaker 2: with the occult would continue, this time more in plain sight.
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Speaker 2: On the inner sleeve of Led Zeppelin IV, often called Zoso,
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Speaker 2: there is a depiction of four personal symbols that define
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Speaker 2: each member of the band. Although Jimmy Page doesn't speak
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Speaker 2: about the meaning behind his chosen symbol, many Led Zeppelin
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Speaker 2: fans have theorized that that the Zoso is directly tied
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Speaker 2: to the alchemical symbol of Saturn, which we just talked
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Speaker 2: about like five minutes ago, but this is directly correlated
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Speaker 2: to a printed representation of the symbol in page 91.
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Speaker 2: of the Grand Grimoire or the Dragon Rouge, a piece
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Speaker 2: of folk literature that has existed in different versions through
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Speaker 2: many centuries. The Grand Grimoire reads as a long form
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Speaker 2: ritualistic ceremony to communicate with. I hate even saying the
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Speaker 2: name because, uh, blood of Jesus over my body, blood
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Speaker 2: of Jesus over my spirit. I'm just saying this for
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Speaker 2: educational purposes and I rebuke any dark spirit. in the
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Speaker 2: name of Jesus. So the grand grimoire reads as a
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Speaker 2: long form ritualistic ceremony to communicate with Lucifuge, Refocal or
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Speaker 2: something like that. I don't know. Damn them to hell.
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Speaker 2: rebuke him in the name of Jesus. And basically, this
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Speaker 2: demon was a demon designated under Lucifer himself. And as
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Speaker 2: you read further into the passages, the book opens to
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Speaker 2: greater forms of communication as well as various incantations, rituals,
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Speaker 2: and spells. This book is used in conjunction with another
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Speaker 2: volume called The Lesser Key of Solomon. The Lesser Key
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Speaker 2: of Solomon contains all the names of every demon. They're
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Speaker 2: stationed in office. what the demon's powers can do, as
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Speaker 2: well as what they have dominion over, along with the
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Speaker 2: sigils or symbols of their names. And each of these
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Speaker 2: sigils or symbols must be used when summoning them. As
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Page doesn't openly delve into his vast knowledge of
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Speaker 2: the occult, definitely doesn't go too deep in the public eye,
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Speaker 2: It's difficult to discern what all the fuck he was
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Speaker 2: up to during these days. Some of his fans are like, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's just satire. It's just a 27-year-old with a dark
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Speaker 2: sense of humor. And he's just on his journey for
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Speaker 2: seeking deep enlightenment. My ass. That dude was all the
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Speaker 2: way practicing some real occultism, some real ritualism. And from
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Speaker 2: what I know, this is very limited to what I've
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Speaker 2: learned in the past. But Zoso is also the name
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Speaker 2: of a demon. I know they're saying it's connected to
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Speaker 2: Saturn and the Key of Solomon and this Grimoire stuff.
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Speaker 2: And that's all fine. And maybe that's true. But I
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Speaker 2: also know it to be the actual name of a demon.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes when you be fucking around with Ouija boards,
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Speaker 2: this one in particular likes to come on through. So...
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Speaker 2: He obviously knew something one way or the other, but
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Speaker 2: let's get to how the fuck it's connected with David Bowie,
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Speaker 2: and more in particular, David Bowie's fucking swimming pool. So,
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Speaker 2: little backstory. David Bowie is one of my favorite artists
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Speaker 2: of all time. I know he would probably worship Satan,
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Speaker 2: but Sometimes you just got to be a normie for
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Speaker 2: 10 minutes and just have a few things you can enjoy.
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Speaker 2: And David Bowie is one of those things for me.
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Speaker 2: But he is known for not only being influential to
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Speaker 2: the glam and art rock scenes but also for being
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Speaker 2: a master of renovation and throughout his five decade career
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Speaker 2: he would go on to don multiple different personas and
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Speaker 2: that could mean several things a lot of these artists
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Speaker 2: let things into their body and they channel spirits and
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Speaker 2: shit so the five different personas are I'll leave that
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Speaker 2: to your interpretation. But in 1975, Bowie was on tour
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Speaker 2: for his ninth studio album, Young Americans. And during this tour,
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Speaker 2: he was hinting at the development of a persona that
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Speaker 2: would become known as the Thin White Duke. And the
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Speaker 2: look and character of the Thin White Duke was influenced
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Speaker 2: by Thomas Jerome Smith. Newton, which was this like humanoid
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Speaker 2: weird alien guy that Bowie played in the 1976 film,
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Speaker 2: The Man Who Fell to Earth. I never watched the shit,
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Speaker 2: but they say the Thin White Duke is based on
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Speaker 2: that character. I think the Thin White Duke is based
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Speaker 2: on something totally different, and if you see images of
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Speaker 2: him as this persona, it's kind of spine-tingling. But, finally
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Speaker 2: mentioned by name, the Thin White Duke, in the title
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Speaker 2: track on 1976 album Station to Station, Bowie's Thin White
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Speaker 2: Duke persona would usher him into the darkest days of
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Speaker 2: his fucking life. At the time, Bowie had a severe
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Speaker 2: addiction to cocaine, remaining awake for days at a time
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Speaker 2: while living on a diet of, get this shit, fucking
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Speaker 2: red peppers and milk. Why? See, this is how you
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Speaker 2: know you've done enough drugs and you've tapped into some
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Speaker 2: weird shit to where something else is in your body.
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Speaker 2: Because red peppers and milk... with your cocaine addiction, and
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Speaker 2: you look like hell. You look like a fucking spectral
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Speaker 2: spirit walking around. You don't sleep for days on end. See,
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Speaker 2: this is how you know. Certain drug addictions can just
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Speaker 2: open you up to walking demon possession. He's even calling
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Speaker 2: himself by another name, the Thin White Duke. And he's
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Speaker 2: eating just a straight-ass diet of red peppers and milk, whatever.
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Speaker 2: Mental and physical deterioration became apparent While Bowie became highly
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Speaker 2: intrigued in the works of the Holy Kabbalah, Aleister Crowley,
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Speaker 2: and Ritual Magic, a drug-fueled paranoia, some call it a
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Speaker 2: drug-fueled paranoia, would lead Bowie to believe that Led Zeppelin's
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Page was leveraging black magic to conjure a dark
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Speaker 2: and evil force upon Bowie's life. which led Bowie to
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Speaker 2: cut all fucking ties to Jimmy Page, wrote him off,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't contact him, wouldn't associate with him, totally separated himself
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Speaker 2: from Jimmy Page. And basically, after this, they say he
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Speaker 2: spiraled into extreme paranoia. I don't think it was paranoia.
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Speaker 2: I think this is a real ass story about Jimmy Page.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they got in a squabble. I don't fucking know.
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Speaker 2: But it sounds like He was doing some weird black
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Speaker 2: magic shit to David Bowie. All right. So they say
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Speaker 2: he was in a paranoid delusion or whatever that Bowie was.
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Speaker 2: But he believed that this unknown entity was watching his
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Speaker 2: every move and attempting to manipulate his thoughts. All the
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Speaker 2: real stuff that can happen. And he thought that his
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Speaker 2: own home wasn't safe anymore. So he was drawing protective
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Speaker 2: pentagrams and pentacles all over his walls and storing bowls
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Speaker 2: of his own fucking urine around the house, wearing protective
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Speaker 2: relics to prevent bad energy and yadda yadda yadda. See,
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Speaker 2: I would have just got right with God. The pentacles
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Speaker 2: and the pentagrams and the... just mason jars that you
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Speaker 2: piss around the house. I don't see how that's going
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Speaker 2: to help with the demon stuff. Maybe somebody told him
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Speaker 2: that helps with the demon stuff. He really just needed
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Speaker 2: to get right with God and, you know, maybe bring some. Anyways,
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Speaker 2: that's what he did. Obviously, it didn't work. But in
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Speaker 2: his Beverly Hills home, the severity of his bizarre behavior,
27:33
Speaker 2: which probably was warranted, would drastically increase. Convinced that the
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Speaker 2: evil was harbored in one centric place on the property,
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Speaker 2: his swimming pool, and Bowie accounted that shadows could be
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Speaker 2: seen revolving around the edges of the pool and that
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Speaker 2: a dark figure had emerged from its waters. His then wife,
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Speaker 2: Angie Bowie, would account similar experiences in her book Backstage Passes,
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Speaker 2: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie. She said
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Speaker 2: something like Satan lived in the pool and she saw
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Speaker 2: it with her own eyes or something. David said he'd
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Speaker 2: seen the devil rising up out of the water one night.
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Speaker 2: And David Bowie, now convinced that Satan lived in his
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Speaker 2: swimming pool. I know you're laughing. Shit could be totally
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Speaker 2: 100% real. But anyways, he was now convinced that Satan
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Speaker 2: was living in his swimming pool. And all the shit
28:37
Speaker 2: was reaching the ultimate breaking point. And his immediate thought
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Speaker 2: and course of action was to seek an exorcism. For himself,
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Speaker 2: for the pool, I don't know, maybe both. And after
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Speaker 2: being connected through his publicist, the exorcism was conducted by
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Speaker 2: the hands of, I think the name was Wally Imlock
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Speaker 2: or something like that. I don't know. It was a
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Speaker 2: weird name. Anyways, it was a practicing Wiccan nicknamed the
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Speaker 2: White Witch of New York. And the White Witch of
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Speaker 2: New York performed a ritual of cleansing to David Bowie
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Speaker 2: and the pool and the house and whatever to repel
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Speaker 2: all negative energy. Angie Bowie, his wife, would continue to
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Speaker 2: recount this experience in her book. Here's a quote. There's
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Speaker 2: no easy or elegant way to say this, so I'll
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Speaker 2: just say it straight. At a certain point in the ritual,
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Speaker 2: the pool began to bubble. It bubbled vigorously. Perhaps. thrashed
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Speaker 2: is a better term. In a manner inconsistent with any
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Speaker 2: explanation involving air filters or the like. On the bottom
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Speaker 2: of the pool was a large shadow or stain which
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Speaker 2: had not been there before the ritual began. It was
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Speaker 2: the shape of a beast of the underworld. It reminded
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Speaker 2: me of the twisted, tormented gargoyles screaming silently from the
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Speaker 2: spires of medieval cathedrals. It was ugly, shocking, malevolent. It
30:16
Speaker 2: frightened me. After several hours, the whole exorcism event would
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Speaker 2: come to a close. resulting in a cease of future occurrences.
30:31
Speaker 2: Bowie would leave Los Angeles and turn a new leaf
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Speaker 2: in his career, seeking a new chapter in Berlin, where
30:40
Speaker 2: he would cut back on his vices and all the
30:43
Speaker 2: weird cocaine use and red peppers and milk, and no
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Speaker 2: longer heavily dabbled in the world of the occult. Put
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Speaker 2: it behind him, and thank God. This would mark.
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Speaker 3: the.
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Speaker 2: Berlin era for Bowie, producing more experimental and well-received works
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Speaker 2: such as Lo, Heroes, etc., etc. And due to Bowie's
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Speaker 2: heavy drug use, it's easy to question if this was just,
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Speaker 2: as many people think, just a drug-induced thing. paranoia, or
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Speaker 2: was this, like I think, maybe a dark force afoot? And,
31:26
Speaker 2: you know, you can argue whatever. You could say, yeah,
31:30
Speaker 2: he was on drugs and he was eating a lot
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Speaker 2: of peppers and milk and I'm sure he had the squirts.
31:35
Speaker 2: Because how do you eat red peppers and slosh it
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Speaker 2: down with some milk and not get the squirts? But
31:41
Speaker 2: he was malnourished, probably just staying up for days with
31:44
Speaker 2: the squirts, doing cocaine. He was pale. He looked like
31:48
Speaker 2: a ghost. He looked like the ghost of Karen Carpenter
31:52
Speaker 2: took over David Bowie's body. I mean, it was bad,
31:55
Speaker 2: all right? But the fact that he incorporates Jimmy Page
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Speaker 2: into this whole thing The fact that we know Jimmy
32:03
Speaker 2: Page was into all this shit and was practicing all
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Speaker 2: this shit and was calling himself even by the name
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Speaker 2: of a possible demon. I just, you know, it scared
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Speaker 2: Bowie so bad he turned into a new person. He
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Speaker 2: stopped messing with the occult stuff.
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Speaker 1: He.
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Speaker 2: literally changed his whole persona to like this under pressure.
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Speaker 2: That's when, that's the Bowie that everybody knows. I, I
32:27
Speaker 2: really dug into some of his real crazy stuff that
32:31
Speaker 2: was probably during his cocaine addled days. You know, is
32:36
Speaker 2: there life on Mars and Starman and Ziggy Stardust? I
32:41
Speaker 2: really love all that stuff, but the mainstream stuff, always
32:45
Speaker 2: goes to, you know, fame and under pressure and all that.
32:49
Speaker 2: That's like the, that's like the cookie cutter David Bowie stuff,
32:53
Speaker 2: which is great, don't get me wrong, but it's just,
32:55
Speaker 2: you can see the huge difference. There's a world of
32:59
Speaker 2: difference between Ziggy Stardust and Heroes, for example. But I'm
33:06
Speaker 2: glad he got his life right. You know, I'm glad
33:09
Speaker 2: he shaped up there at the end. It took the
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Speaker 2: devil himself living in his swimming pool. You know, water
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Speaker 2: and reflective surfaces are nothing but portals. Somebody's going to laugh.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, David Bowie, the devil was living in his
33:23
Speaker 2: swimming pool. That's all fine and good. And you can
33:26
Speaker 2: laugh at that, but it is a standing body of
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Speaker 2: water that never becomes altered. So it's not like you're
33:35
Speaker 2: in the tub and then you let the water out
33:37
Speaker 2: or you're in the shower, doing dishes in the sink,
33:40
Speaker 2: and you got some water and then you let it out.
33:42
Speaker 2: These reflective pools that they put at all these memorial sites,
33:46
Speaker 2: the standing still water that never changes. It's akin to
33:54
Speaker 2: scrying pools and bodies of water and reflective surfaces. So
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Speaker 2: laugh it up. that David Bowie thought the devil was
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Speaker 2: living in his pool. It could have just been a
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Speaker 2: huge-ass portal, and shit was coming up out of there
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Speaker 2: thanks to Jimmy Page. I don't know. I had never
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Speaker 2: heard this story before, connecting these two in this way.
34:14
Speaker 2: I had suspicions that they may have known each other,
34:17
Speaker 2: or hung out, or did crack off each other's dildoids,
34:21
Speaker 2: but who knows? It was the Laurel Canyon era. It
34:24
Speaker 2: was that Crowley era. All those assholes were getting into
34:28
Speaker 2: some weird stuff. But, um... You know, let me know
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Speaker 2: what you think in the comment section. Give me your thoughts,
34:35
Speaker 2: your feelings, your opinions. And if you enjoyed today's episode,
34:39
Speaker 2: go ahead and comment. Red peppers and milk. Go ahead
34:44
Speaker 2: and comment red peppers and milk if you enjoyed today's episode.
34:49
Speaker 2: Had you ever heard this story before? Is this just
34:52
Speaker 2: news to me? What do you think about all this?
34:54
Speaker 2: Let me know. But that's going to do it for today, folks.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging around. Take care of yourselves out there.
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Speaker 2: I love each and every one of you. And I
35:05
Speaker 2: will catch you on the next one. The kind of
35:25
Speaker 2: message from the actual man. I'm happy.
35:30
Speaker 1: Hope you're happy too. I've loved all.
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Speaker 3: Of needed love.
35:37
Speaker 1: Saw the details fall away. The shaking when nothing is
35:43
Speaker 1: killing just It is a trap.
35:46
Speaker 2: Goes in synthesis and I Ain't got no.
35:49
Speaker 3: Money and I ain't got no.
35:52
Speaker 2: Hands But I'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing.
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Speaker 3: Ashes to ash and fun to fuck it.
36:08
Speaker 2: We know Major Tom's a junkie.
36:12
Speaker 1: Strung out in Heaven's mine. Hitting an all-time low.