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El Cuco in the City: Puerto Rico’s Boogeyman Comes to New York · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, folks? We got a good, good, scary little episode.
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  It's not even a little scary episode.
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  A little, perhaps a little positive thing going on here. A little monster thing going on here.
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  But let's make it happen, and welcome to the legendary podcast.
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  The legendary host, D.C. So, it's not the podcast.
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  I'm all over the place today.
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  But as you're all over the place, that means that you're in a place and you're
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  always in the right place at the right time and today you gotta you know i think
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  i say it's not concentrated on halloween in itself but here in united states
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  halloween it's around the corner so we have a nice little one kind of monster,
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  boogie man type of deal and you know
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  you might go back to my island and you
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  know i'm here in new york settings making this podcast but i
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  just wanted to remember um how when
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  i was growing up i had a i can ask face i understand
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  that in other countries like a little uh boogeyman story
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  or in puerto rico why we call it a cuckoo yeah and google we're gonna kind of
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  talk about why el cuco East in Puerto Rico And here in the United States Again
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  And Pucco For the most funny Folklore Lose By adults Parents,
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  Unc Adults To scare kids.
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  Well just about everything and sadly you know let's see where
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  we go let's go and google oh you know
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  and then c-o you know c-u-c-o and
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  yes and every touch if you have a little bit of cool thing going on
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  or booking under a little folks who want to go to
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  sleep early to eat that bad to eat
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  the whatever the taste that is disgusting even if your pattern made it your
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  mother being fat soup but you know what you ate it because they're cuckoo it's
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  about to get you and let's get it on and you know what that was in puerto rico
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  but for some reason coming to the united states that's cuckoo who came to crack at it.
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  To my fellow brothers and sisters in the
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  year in the upstairs in the car that i came to the united states a
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  lot of my uh puerto rican boys and sisters was under
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  the influence of certain drugs and basically the cuckoo story became about you
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  don't want to think like the leader over there you know what i mean look like
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  a zombie over there or you know under the influence of certain drugs you know
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  what i mean if you grew up in the 80s like 80 90 in the park New York City and any other place.
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  And the word of the United States you already know when I say drugs it can mean a lot of things.
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  You know what I mean? But Google became that story.
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  Here United States you don't want to be like your uncle and you got me and welcome
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  to the DeChristophe Podcast.
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  You already know hit that like button. You know what? Common if you are from
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  a country that is a folklore where the time For the most part,
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  one adult tells you these four adults who kind of scare you,
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  and they're kind of getting you to do something.
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  I'm not going to stay against your world, but you know, as a young kid,
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  you know, and there's certain things that we kind of tend not to do or not.
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  You know, we ain't mature.
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  We don't fully comprehend what's the importance of sleeping,
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  or whatever. when it comes to eating veggies or things to that effect.
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  We don't fully comprehend.
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  It's up to those who are 10-4. They're not a diet of wine.
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  They should. But, you know, sometimes you start eating that carrot, you know what I mean?
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  And then you'll be like, bleh. And then that's when the mother of your father,
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  they give you those sad eyes.
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  Like, you know, they don't want to smack you up, but they got to smell it for
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  you. and that's where and.
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  They use that kuko again boogie bed
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  my understanding again i go back i'll try
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  to do a little bit of research and you can't
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  keep on where the story made them out for the most part if you look at other
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  countries especially what those you know hispanic land countries but if mexico
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  central and south america they all have kind of like a similar story and you
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  know that a lot of times We started to add up a little, what did I say, Lutheran,
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  for the most part, being that we were under the Spanish.
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  Spanish, Spain, a lot of these countries in Latin America, so you could tell
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  that, you know, that was brought up in Spain and a little combination of the natives.
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  Those were the Ashton, the Hancors, let's say in this state, in Puerto Rico.
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  You know, we might have either Soviet team or might have created a story of
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  truth when Spain came in to kind of, you know,
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  how can I say, stand away from, get out of this town, go, go,
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  I'm about to get you, but the fact is,
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  if you're in Puerto Rico they basically even if
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  you're not living in Puerto Rico but you know grew up here you're
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  born here you got people that are from the islands or elite people uh whether
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  it's uh second generation third generation that you know were told about if
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  you don't know how to tie your sneakers if you don't tie your sneakers or if you don't know how.
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  And we're going to go to sleep at Cucco.
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  It's all about El Cucco.
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  That is one of those things that, despite that point, we might not necessarily
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  gravitate to Halloween,
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  even though despite the fact that, you know, Puerto Rico belongs to the United States, sadly.
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  But, you know, there's a lot of simulation.
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  The other day I'm in Puerto Rico and I'm in Home Depot. right there's how
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  many home people they got these things uh where you could only
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  you would think like okay who buys this great wall the
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  grand reaper at $200 you put it on from your
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  yard or whatever it is you know again that's more of
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  an American thing I'm not saying people they're
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  gonna do it because you will have people that ain't this
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  and they gravitated to the Halloween and I kind
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  of want to leave that little Halloween thing you have to do a little bit more
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  podcast before i really start in regards to medical school over here i'm going
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  to talk about it google and once again that google is only bringing up when
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  it comes to some friends where again every time that you're not doing anything
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  it's going off and google,
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  there's no specific meaning how to describe it of this people and you know i
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  guess you leave that also the imagination of the person that's been in the story
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  and you as a young young kid don't you start to think like wow who provided like ten thousand horns.
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  The kooka might be the youngest thing ever and then you know that's where
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  the psyche of your mind works in because uh
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  as we know you've got the halo effect and the opposite of the halo effect this
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  is the horns effect you know that if you decide something looks or something
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  then you're going to say oh that person is bad so it comes into that picture
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  and you know as we grew up in you know, Christian household early.
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  Kukor was meant to use that at times, especially with my mother and so on.
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  My understanding is that I kind of distanced myself from there,
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  but sadly, wherever you go in Puerto Rico as a young kid, that's all you hear
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  is that Kukor, Kukor, Kukor.
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  Now, in other parts of Kukor, which is UU, UU, and there's been an episode,
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  if I'm not mistaken, I believe it was The X-Files.
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  The X-Files, am I saying that right?
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  Yeah, right? There was this, I'm trying to think here, there was a teen show,
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  something with the Grimm, you know, and it's based on the Grimm Brothers story,
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  but it was kind of modern, and there were a couple of episodes that did kind
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  of talk about that fourth floor in the land called Keith.
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  Once again, they call it Cucuoy or Cucu, you know, once again,
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  because there are more of a population of Mexican and Central American,
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  obviously, and South American and Puerto Ricans, and they have stimulated that
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  situation to that store, to the main street at Cucuoy or some different.
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  Okay i'm trying i think that is the name of the show but my angel that's i mean
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  different masters ethics folklore stories you know what i mean like like the
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  owner the name of you uh you know,
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  you have one fucking whatever monster things and you know when it's that time
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  with halloween kind of how can i stay up it enhances those thoughts and the
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  stories with kuko again which is throughout,
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  Yes, you don't hear those comments.
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  If you're in Puerto Rico on towns or areas that are populated by 4 meters here
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  in our United States, a kooko is a 24-year-old.
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  Those stories, like, yo, if you don't do it, they're kooko.
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  Why kooko? Man. Oh, man.
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  I mean, with respect to my elders, I wonder how the hell did a kooko look like?
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  You know what i mean because i i think that if let's say my parents my aunts
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  my uncle whatever it is if their parents told them that the kuko had one horn
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  by the time that it got to me it was like i thought it had 10.
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  It looked at all of them looked crazy you know people can also kind of gravitate
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  and stand when somebody's not looking people be like oh no you look like a kuko
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  you look like a, you know, I'll give you a kubur.
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  And I'm like, I don't know what the kubur look like, right?
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  I understand it's not really a description of what it is. I guess we left it
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  as a poor flood of man, an ancient man. We loved it.
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  Something where it's dead. That will make you eat those veggies that you never ate.
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  You know what I mean? Like, listen, we all do. We explain unopened. Unopened.
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  They all do. Well, you know, made some stew there that just be so like kubur.
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  And i and i think i let the whole bowl in the spoon i think i eat the bowl in the spoon,
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  because they got down front of me that if i don't eat that boat i need that
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  spoon but that's true and it's cool for it's about to get i just said so you
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  know you want to close your eyes and you notice me but you want to wake up as
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  fast as you can because you know what.
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  The child you know the imagination goes crazy
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  but any little thing that's like
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  any little time is it you can pick that you know we got some adult like you
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  can plan and they play it out you know what i mean and i think you know in my
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  household they might have played out like the jungle is coming and there's a
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  shadow like the fun i'll close my eyes i don't like my my You know,
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  it's kind of like a title, no, in a sense.
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  All right, let me pop a little pill there, and I'm out. I don't want to improve
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  what you're going to make. I'm going to make that.
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  But once again, if you are in those countries that ain't, listen,
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  regardless of any weather, I see that my podcast is all over.
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  We've got places, countries in Europe. You know, I see Germany, Italy.
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  I see Spain. I see Russia.
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  I see other countries in Africa.
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  I wonder what is that between these people and where those elders lose.
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  It kind of reminds me a little bit of this movie called The Village where,
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  I'm going to spoil it for you, and my understanding of the village is that those buildings are.
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  If you watch the movie, you think that the movie was made like 200 years ago,
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  when he starts writing off the movie, to come and find out that there's a lot of people who are,
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  there was these elders who would pretend something you
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  know put on these uh students and smash and
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  they're scary and kind of scared and people in
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  those villages especially young people which have not
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  kind of wandered off the village to find out that all
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  along they've been living in modern times they're just that they've been village
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  that they want to keep secret and they don't want the people to kind of run
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  out the woods and whatever it is and i remember when i saw that movie i'm like
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  what in the world is going on and i'm trying to land this individual,
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  some people they're not in drug it's too slow but kind of have that fight it
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  would be like so you kind of see that google kind of plays into that mind where
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  you kind of can use it so that you can limit to where or how can i stay to you
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  wonder to say you know what.
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  I'm going to ride my bicycle, I'm not going to use this, I'm going to ride my bicycle.
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  I'm not going to use this, you know, ball of food, you know what I mean?
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  Because it's just nothing, so what I'd rather do is do this.
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  So let me tell you to think that, hey, you ride your bicycle,
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  that boogeyman's going to go after you, guess what?
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  So that's the story. I mean, Robert Cooper, just to introduce that little folklore,
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  once again, you know, the thing is, we kind of let the political culture find out what it is.
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  A lot of these folklords, and I really enjoy folklords, and a lot of these folklords,
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  especially if it's already oriented to that
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  effect they all have these little kind of
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  a little bit of a little bit of a little
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  bit of a little bit of the new uh a little bit of
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  that you know the thomas colonials are you
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  know spanish a little bit of the native italianos and
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  so on and all these vocals kind of like fade into
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  this own little work and it becomes its
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  own entity and that's where we come
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  once again and let's get it it'd be up everybody know if it's a like comment
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  so free to share enjoy your halloween but i finish all that we will hear from
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  you and you know listen and subscribe to my podcast you know what's gonna get you,
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  or me let's go take it out and i'ma see.