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122. Enriqueta Martí - Vampiress of Barcelona · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast, A long Delicious
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Speaker 1: Friends and welcome to her and what now the history
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Speaker 1: podcast That's not your History Class with me? Your host
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Speaker 1: Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books. Speaking of books,
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Speaker 1: I have I think found the cover for my book
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Speaker 1: that's coming out in May twenty six with August Books.
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Speaker 1: I am beyond excited. You know when you see something
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Speaker 1: and it's like baby Beal's Porridge, you know, it's just right,
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Speaker 1: like the images, the colors, just like the vibe, like
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Speaker 1: it was sassy. It was me in book form, not
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Speaker 1: like an actual image of me, but like the presentation
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Speaker 1: of me, like metaphorically me. It was fantastic. I love it.
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Speaker 1: It's it's I'm so excited. I'm actually really I mean
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Speaker 1: I should be, obviously because I'm writing a book and
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Speaker 1: a publishing house is publishing it. Like that's wild, Like
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be a published author, you know, once
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Speaker 1: I finally write these chapters. Ah, I know, I know,
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Speaker 1: I'm like two chapters behind, and so I need to
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Speaker 1: get on that. Like I have a full like writing
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Speaker 1: plan for this month, especially considering I've got like I've
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Speaker 1: got two festivals this month, so I've got two live shows.
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Speaker 1: Now that I'm no longer embargoed, I can talk about
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Speaker 1: it because on the twentieth of October, I'm in Dublin.
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Speaker 1: I'm in Tala at the Civic Theater, and I'm at
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Speaker 1: the Red Line Book Festival. So I've got that going on.
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Speaker 1: Fabulous love that journey for me, and it's it's sort
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Speaker 1: of I'm more focused on the city sides of certain
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Speaker 1: authors and it's a surprise. I will tell you about
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Speaker 1: it if you show up, because it's going to be fun.
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Speaker 1: All I'm saying is I will be talking about cocaine.
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Speaker 1: I mean, not cocaine raisins, and I'm kidding it as
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Speaker 1: actually cocaine anyway, that's a silly reference and the people
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Speaker 1: who get it, good for you. But I'm also doing
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Speaker 1: bram Stoker the City, Dublin City Council. That's it. It's
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Speaker 1: got such a long name, Dublin City Council's Bram Stoker Festival,
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Speaker 1: and I am I am talking in Trinity. Trinity. Gee,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to convey how big of a
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Speaker 1: dealer is to be invited to talk in Trinity, like
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Speaker 1: it's worth a book of kells us like it's it's
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Speaker 1: it's oh, it's like an academic stream, Like it's one
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Speaker 1: of those things that I'm shocked that I have the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to do, and I'm really appreciative of it. And
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Speaker 1: so I'm doing the Victorians Ruined Everything, eighteenth Century Guide
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Speaker 1: to Mysticism, and more. Speaking of the dark and twisted,
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Speaker 1: it is October, the spookiest of months, and as such,
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Speaker 1: every episode this month is going to be specifically awful.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be creepy or dark, or spooky or
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Speaker 1: just plain horrible. History wouldn't be history without the dark
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Speaker 1: and the depraved. But I know what you're thinking, quite
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Speaker 1: your jipper chabber, in fact me, In fact you, I will.
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Speaker 1: But first we've got to get our source on. Our
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Speaker 1: sources are Lostairo's de Endrikita Martella Vampire de Barcelona, The
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Speaker 1: Diaries of Enriquita Marty, The Vampire of Barcelona, edited by
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Speaker 1: Morales Trres, Enraquita Marty, The Vampires of bar Silona by
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Speaker 1: Tijana Radesca, Female serial Killers by Don Rolfe, Serial Killers,
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Speaker 1: True crim and Theology by Parker Erral. The Vampire of
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Speaker 1: Carreerponette and the Mysteries of Barcelona by josep Arias Velasco
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Speaker 1: and The Sky Underfoot by Elsa Plaza. I use it
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Speaker 1: incomfortably good. Then let's begin to day's tale of terror
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Speaker 1: starts where it ends in desperation and fear and people
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Speaker 1: trying to solve their problems in the absolute craziest of ways.
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Speaker 1: And I mean that I mean craziest. Now. Of course,
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Speaker 1: people of the past, they can be forgiven for their
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Speaker 1: beliefs in quackery and the like, because for a lot
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Speaker 1: of them it was the most logical option with the
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Speaker 1: reasoning and science of the time. We have the benefit
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Speaker 1: of scientific advancement, so it is absolutely what I could do.
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Speaker 1: We have people out there today who think that shagging
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Speaker 1: a vulgin will cure them of HIV, Drinking tonic water
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Speaker 1: will prevent you from catching COVID, bleach enemas will cure
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Speaker 1: the autism right out of your kid, and of course
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Speaker 1: the QAnon conspiracy of guzzling on the gizzards of children
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Speaker 1: to get adrenochrome so that you can be youthful and younger,
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Speaker 1: as opposed to you know, having lots of money, like
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Speaker 1: you look at celebrities and stuff like the reason that
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Speaker 1: they look so young and beautiful is because they have money.
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Speaker 1: It's money because it pays for trainers and nutritionists and
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Speaker 1: dermatologists and botoks and of photoshop and all that jazz.
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Speaker 1: Like it's just money. But yes, people are always looking
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Speaker 1: for solutions to problems, especially when it comes to health
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Speaker 1: and youth. We've all heard the story. In New Orleans,
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Speaker 1: Madame Lati would paint herself and the blood of her
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Speaker 1: victims in an attempt to regain her youth. In England,
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Speaker 1: the medieval cult of Saint Thomas Beckett would consume a
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Speaker 1: mix of water and the dried blood of the saint
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Speaker 1: as part of their rituals, which was their version of
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Speaker 1: the Eucharist. The Scythian warriors of ancient Siberia would drink
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Speaker 1: the blood of their enemies and the medicinal cannibalism. During
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Speaker 1: the Victorian era and in the early twentieth century in Barcelona,
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Speaker 1: there was a belief spreading through the city, a desperate
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Speaker 1: belief that consuming the blood of children will cure your consumption.
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Speaker 1: Consumption is just the old timey name for tibi tuberculosis,
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Speaker 1: and this is a period of time where tuberculosis no cure.
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Speaker 1: This is pre penicillin. If you got it like you
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Speaker 1: were gone. Ninety eight percent of the time. Most people
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Speaker 1: did not survive TB, a disease that spread through the city,
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Speaker 1: not quite indiscriminately, because the people who were lucky enough
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Speaker 1: to not live in cramped, crowded, impoverished, dirty conditions, they
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Speaker 1: unsurprisingly had less chances of catching TB. The city was
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Speaker 1: being ravaged by the disease, but that wasn't the only
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Speaker 1: thing causing dismay. On the streets, the children of the
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Speaker 1: city were disappearing. Rumors persisted that a man in black
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Speaker 1: was roaming the streets and stealing the children, like an
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Speaker 1: even scarier version of the child catcher from Chitty Chitty
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Speaker 1: Bang Bang, and parents would often use this boogeyman concept
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Speaker 1: to chastise and control their children. You better do as
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Speaker 1: we say. You better be in it this time, because
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Speaker 1: otherwise the boogeyman will get you and he'll steal you away.
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Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter, if it is true,
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Speaker 1: the fate of these children was so much worse than
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Speaker 1: anyone truly considered. We all know the journalists of the
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Speaker 1: era were not the most scrupulous or characters and often
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Speaker 1: facts would be embellished and information would be altered and exaggerated,
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Speaker 1: you know, sensationalism to sell papers. And in this situation,
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Speaker 1: separating the fact from the fiction, the myth and lower
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Speaker 1: from what actually happened is a bit difficult. So much
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Speaker 1: information has been lost over time or gotten rid of
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Speaker 1: which of course made verifying information just slightly more difficult,
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Speaker 1: you know, along with the fact that most of the
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Speaker 1: information out there is in Spanish or Catalonian, which is
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Speaker 1: even harder to translate. I did my best, okay, but
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Speaker 1: this is where we're at, which brings us to the
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Speaker 1: legend of the vampire de raval more commonly known as
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Speaker 1: in Rikita marti aropolis In Rikita was born in San
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Speaker 1: Feliu de la Brigate in eighteen sixty eight. And Rikita
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Speaker 1: was born into poverty in a poor town on the
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Speaker 1: outskirts of Barcelona, Nike so many other girls of the era,
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Speaker 1: When she was of age, she was expected to go
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Speaker 1: off into the big wide world and ern a living.
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Speaker 1: So when she was fifteen, she upsticks and goes heads
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Speaker 1: into the big city Barcelona to go and get a
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Speaker 1: job and support herself. She manages to get a job
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Speaker 1: as a maid she probably knew somebody who knew somebody,
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Speaker 1: some other girl from the village. Your boy had gone
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Speaker 1: in and become a stable hand or a maid or
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Speaker 1: a cook or whatever and managed to get her position.
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Speaker 1: So for a good few years she bides her time,
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Speaker 1: does her work, just gets by, and then when she's twenty,
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Speaker 1: the World's Fair comes to Barcelona. The World's Fair is
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Speaker 1: supposed to be like amazing, and I'm sure it is,
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Speaker 1: like I'm sure Crystal Palace was lovely back in the
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Speaker 1: day because it was actually a crystal palace. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: exist anywhere. Not the point. The point is the Worldfair comes,
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Speaker 1: and of course it's just exuberant. It is extravagant, and
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Speaker 1: it just shows how poor the poor are and how
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Speaker 1: wealthy the wealthy are. Like that gap is massive and
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Speaker 1: it does not go unnoticed by Enrikita. And as she's
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Speaker 1: spending her time there observing, very observant, she listens into conversations.
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Speaker 1: Being a maid, she's used to sort of being around
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Speaker 1: and being ignored, which helps her in many ways. But
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Speaker 1: there she is doing that, figuring it out, and just
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Speaker 1: I want to call her sleek it it's a wee
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Speaker 1: bit sleeky she's just slothering around and getting inflammation and
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Speaker 1: hearing what it is these rich folks talk about. So
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Speaker 1: for historical context of phones of the thirteenth of Spain,
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Speaker 1: you know, the randy royal, he who was hm, they've
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Speaker 1: got an episode on him. He made porn, or he
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Speaker 1: had porn made. He had his own like production company
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Speaker 1: that would make porn especially for him. That's the guy.
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Speaker 1: So he's only two at this point, again, eighteen eighty eight,
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Speaker 1: and that's where we are. We're like free, we're pre fascism, okay.
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Speaker 1: And interestingly enough, I know I said that tuberculosis, you know,
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Speaker 1: did not kill indiscriminately. But Alfonso's father, Alfonso the twelfth
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Speaker 1: of Spain, he died at the age of twenty seven
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Speaker 1: of tuberculosis. And Alfonso's mother, Christina, was pregnant at the time,
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Speaker 1: so I think they're probably doing a separation thing anyway,
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Speaker 1: just for old timey pregnancy rules. But yeah, he died,
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Speaker 1: and then Alfonso the thirteenth was born and was automatically king,
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Speaker 1: although the queen was his regent for you know, his
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Speaker 1: formative years. But that's where we are, and this is
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Speaker 1: the time the inrigator decides that she is no longer
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Speaker 1: comfortable with her current position and instead chooses a new one.
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Speaker 1: Being a maid just isn't for her, And so that
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Speaker 1: job walks out the door and then enters a brothel.
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Speaker 1: But not just any brothel. She's not just jumping on
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Speaker 1: a two penny down the street. Oh no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: she enters a high class brothel. Were they fucked so fancy?
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Speaker 1: And in this house of ill repute in the city center,
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Speaker 1: Enrikita does what she does best. No, not that listening.
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Speaker 1: She listens to the list of requests and requirements from patrons.
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Speaker 1: She listens to the ladies of the night discussing their
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Speaker 1: clientele with one another. The high class client tell from
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Speaker 1: the upper rungs of society, those who frequent the body
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Speaker 1: house to fulfill their fantasies and play out their perversions.
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Speaker 1: And she works and she listens, and she continues to
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Speaker 1: do so for the next five years. And then she
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Speaker 1: gets married. Typically for a woman of the era, this
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Speaker 1: would be the end game, This would be the whole plan.
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Speaker 1: You would work, you would get married, and then you
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Speaker 1: would become a housewife. Your husband would support you, because
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Speaker 1: remember this is the time where one person's job is
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Speaker 1: supposed to support an entire family. That being said, she
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Speaker 1: did marry a painter who are notoriously known for not
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Speaker 1: earning money during their lifetime. But for whatever reason, we
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Speaker 1: don't know her decision. Maybe she thought it was love,
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Speaker 1: maybe she thought she was going to live a better life.
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Speaker 1: Whatever happened, she married a painter, Juan Porello. Their marriage,
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Speaker 1: shockingly enough, does not last. He said that her character
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Speaker 1: was strange, false and unpredictable. He also wasn't keen on
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Speaker 1: the fact that she kept working in brothels like this
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Speaker 1: was a main source of contention for them, and so
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Speaker 1: over the next two years, the couple would get together
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Speaker 1: and separate, like get together and separate like five six times.
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Speaker 1: Like it was just tumultuous. They kept going away and
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Speaker 1: coming back, which is not healthy by anyone's standards. But
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Speaker 1: by eighteen ninety seven they had separated and they just
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Speaker 1: don't get back together after that point, and over the years,
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Speaker 1: life in Barcelona gets just more difficult as time goes on.
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Speaker 1: Barcelona is a port, it's a port city, and it
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Speaker 1: struggled immensely after the Spanish American War, which Spain did
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Speaker 1: not win eighteen ninety eight, so a year after she
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Speaker 1: like officially separates from Juan and the city is just
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Speaker 1: getting poorer and people are struggling more. But you know,
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Speaker 1: it always sells sex like Barcelona is effectively the porn
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Speaker 1: capital of Europe. And the Reval the red light district, Oh,
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Speaker 1: it always had the light on those living in poverty.
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Speaker 1: Those below the bread line are always hit the worst
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Speaker 1: when any economic crisis happens. With the WIT's war, famine, drought,
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Speaker 1: it's always those who suffer first, because of course they do,
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Speaker 1: because other people have the money and means to protect themselves,
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Speaker 1: to have those buffets. The impoverished, those living meal to meal,
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Speaker 1: they don't have those options. And it was no different
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Speaker 1: back then. But in Rikata she knew enough to know
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Speaker 1: that sex sells and that she could sell it. And
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Speaker 1: it was in El Reval that Inrikata decided that she
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Speaker 1: was going to open her very own brothel. But this
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Speaker 1: was not your typical body house. No, this catered to
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Speaker 1: a particular clientele, for those who had an appetite for
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Speaker 1: something specific. And no, it's not real, it's so much worse.
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Speaker 1: and maybe settle your stomach. Okay, The thing you have
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Speaker 1: to remember about La ra Val is this is not
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Speaker 1: an affluent neighborhood. This is impov worsht. It's where the
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Speaker 1: red light district is. It's where the soup kitchens are.
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Speaker 1: It's where they're giving it alms to the pearl. That's
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Speaker 1: where she is. That's where she chose to set up
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Speaker 1: her brothel. Now was that by design or was that
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Speaker 1: all she could afford? Whom's to say? All we know
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Speaker 1: is that that's where she established her first brothel. And
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Speaker 1: in order to not sort of stand out during the day,
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Speaker 1: she would wear poor people clothes. She would coseplay in
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Speaker 1: rags and shawls and dulty dresses, making sure to never
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Speaker 1: quite stand out against the other impoverished of the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: She would wait in line, standing in queues for crust
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Speaker 1: of bread or a dab of gruel. Outside monasteries and
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Speaker 1: churches and people who just wanted to help, she would
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Speaker 1: found a corner and beg and she would do what
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Speaker 1: she does best watch and listen, keeping an eye out
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Speaker 1: for children who were alone, those were appeared really in neat,
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Speaker 1: those that were homeless or abandoned, or simply unattended. Of course,
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Speaker 1: she would keep an eyeut for the most desperate, those
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Speaker 1: even who had the strongest of street smarts, whose tired
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Speaker 1: eyes and grumbling bellies would convince them just enough to
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Speaker 1: go with her. And she would coax and convince these
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Speaker 1: children to come back with her to her house, promising
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Speaker 1: them food and shelter. And what she would do is
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Speaker 1: bring them back to her brothel, a whole host of
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Speaker 1: children from the age of fourteen all the way down
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Speaker 1: to five years old. She would clean them up, give
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Speaker 1: them something to eat, and then keep them prisoner, renting
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Speaker 1: them out to her clients to satisfy their perversions for
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Speaker 1: a rather hefty fee, of course, money she would use
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Speaker 1: to go shoulder to shoulder with the upper crust because
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Speaker 1: remembered by she's caused playing as poverty personified. But by
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Speaker 1: night off comes the shawls and the dirty dresses, instead
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Speaker 1: adorning herself and silks and far and velvet, dripping in
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Speaker 1: jewelry as if she herself was one of the high society.
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Speaker 1: She's out gallivanting at night, going to the opera house,
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Speaker 1: going to parties and lavish dinners and just having a
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Speaker 1: good old time of it, getting an ex little lion
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Speaker 1: in the morning, and then going out and playing Pearl
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Speaker 1: Pelson so that she can continue her child's sex trafficking.
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Speaker 1: And for her life is good. Business is booming, and
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Speaker 1: it is working out well for her until nineteen oh nine,
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Speaker 1: when Spain's Prime Minister is not happy and comes up
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Speaker 1: with the absolutely terrible idea that Spain should colonize Morocco,
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Speaker 1: Morocco of all places. You think that's going to work?
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Speaker 1: Mmm mm hmmm. Spoiler alert, it does not now, as
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Speaker 1: we know. In order to fight a war and hopefully
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Speaker 1: win a war, which again they don't. In order to
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Speaker 1: fight a war, the main thing you need in order
21:25
Speaker 1: to even attempt to do that his soldiers, Like you
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Speaker 1: need trips, you need people ready to do battle. But
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Speaker 1: it's just it's just a bad, bad campaign from start
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Speaker 1: to finish, and they are just chucking boys out in
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Speaker 1: the front lines like nobody's business. Like i mean, this
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Speaker 1: is pre World War One, Like nobody knows what they're doing,
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Speaker 1: you know, and they're just pulling them all out and
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Speaker 1: decide that because they don't have enough soldiers, they're going
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Speaker 1: to bring in conscription, which is like, once you're a
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Speaker 1: certain age, you have to go fight. Now. It becomes
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Speaker 1: quite apparent quite quickly that the of age men who
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Speaker 1: are being sent out to fight, the majority of them,
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Speaker 1: the disproportionate amount they are poor men, like because members
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Speaker 1: in high society, the upper crust, the upper echelons, if
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Speaker 1: you will. What they're doing is they're buying their way out.
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Speaker 1: They're getting someone to go in their place, like someone
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Speaker 1: typically poor, someone who probably needs the money. And they're like,
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Speaker 1: I'll pay him and he'll go my place and it'll
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Speaker 1: be fine. And the government's like that's cool, which I
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Speaker 1: don't need to tell you is not cool. Not that
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Speaker 1: I believe in conscription as a general rule, because I
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Speaker 1: think it's stupid. I think, why would you put someone
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Speaker 1: out to fight for the country if they do not
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Speaker 1: want to do that? Why why would you do that?
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Speaker 1: If that person does not believe in what they're doing,
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Speaker 1: if they do not have that belief system, that patriotism
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Speaker 1: in place, they're not going to be all dultchy es
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Speaker 1: de corme. Is it adultchy edecormest dogies de corme propatria
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Speaker 1: more Listen, I don't speak Latin, all right, I don't
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Speaker 1: know what, but it basically means it is sweet and
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Speaker 1: honorable to die for one's country. I don't know. Was
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Speaker 1: it secret to sin or Wilfred Owen that did a poem?
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Speaker 1: Is that their poem? Am I thinking of somebody else?
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's all about how they say its sweet
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Speaker 1: and honorable to die for one's country until you see
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Speaker 1: what that actually means. Because war is often described as
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Speaker 1: this romantic situation. It's very artistic, it's very revered when
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Speaker 1: the realities of war are horrible and harsh. And here
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Speaker 1: is Spain sending their prayest out as fodder is fodder,
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Speaker 1: and the general folk they're like, hey, we don't like this,
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Speaker 1: particularly Catalonian people. They're not really keen on being ruled
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Speaker 1: anyway by the Spanish government. They're not really feeling it,
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Speaker 1: and so they've already got a bugbear. But now you're
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Speaker 1: sending their sons and brothers and fathers to die, and
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Speaker 1: so you know, not to not to feeling that, to
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Speaker 1: be honest, and so they do what they do best,
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Speaker 1: well not them. France does it best, but they do
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Speaker 1: what they do second best. They riot, They cause a
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Speaker 1: damn scene like me because I am a petty bitch
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Speaker 1: who holds a grudge. So there is absolute pandemonium, like
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Speaker 1: there's chaos on the street. They are rioting, they are
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Speaker 1: clashing with the Spanish like forces. Like the ordinary people.
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Speaker 1: It's just pure chaos because they're not only just mad
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Speaker 1: at the government. You know, they're mad at the government
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Speaker 1: for forcing them to go to war. They're mad at conscription,
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Speaker 1: they're mad that, you know, the rich folk can just
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Speaker 1: pay their way out of it. And they're also mad
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Speaker 1: at the church because Spain, you know, traditionally very Catholic country,
25:34
Speaker 1: and the Catholic Church would typically support the monarchy, and
25:37
Speaker 1: it's supporting this, and so the general people who would
25:42
Speaker 1: be looking to the church for advice now feel that
25:46
Speaker 1: they're being shafted because the church and their eyes and
25:51
Speaker 1: you know, probably true is colluding with the government in
25:54
Speaker 1: the monarchy, like it's colluding with all of this, and
25:57
Speaker 1: it is part of the problem. And that is a
26:03
Speaker 1: massive issue. And in a move that surprises absolutely no one,
26:08
Speaker 1: this escalates. So you've got these ryals and they just
26:13
Speaker 1: start tearing the place up. And I'm not being metaphorical
26:18
Speaker 1: with that. No, No, they are ripping shit out. They
26:21
Speaker 1: are destroying graveyards in churches, They are desecrating tombs, They
26:28
Speaker 1: are vandalizing graves. They said, churches and convents on fire. No,
26:36
Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest fan of nuns. We all know that.
26:39
Speaker 1: Apart from the movie Sister Act Maggie Smith rest in peace,
26:42
Speaker 1: but you know, don't set a convent on fire. A
26:47
Speaker 1: lot of the girls who were in there were forced
26:49
Speaker 1: to be in there, Like they didn't want to go there.
26:51
Speaker 1: They're sent there to an unarray for like having pretty
26:56
Speaker 1: hair and shit, like they send them to these places.
26:59
Speaker 1: We don't know what to do with. You be a maid, No,
27:01
Speaker 1: then you're being a nun, like go so like not
27:05
Speaker 1: everyone who's there wants to be there, like you know,
27:08
Speaker 1: not not fair, but like, yeah, they set convince and
27:12
Speaker 1: judges on fire, and this results in one hundred and
27:16
Speaker 1: fifty people dying. Like so much happens. You've got like
27:22
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty I say one hundred ft over
27:24
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty people die for like a bunch
27:28
Speaker 1: of reasons. Some are murdered, some are called by fires,
27:31
Speaker 1: like somewhere some dying classes, like people die. There's like
27:36
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred, seventeen hundred people who are arrested, and then
27:41
Speaker 1: five people are officially executed. And this is you know,
27:48
Speaker 1: the tragic week. That's the term they come up with.
27:51
Speaker 1: It's les semana tragica the tragic week, which is just again,
27:59
Speaker 1: it is a week of tragedy, you know, so much
28:01
Speaker 1: death and desolation and desecration, just all this bad shit happening,
28:08
Speaker 1: and it's like a really bad time for Barcelona, but
28:13
Speaker 1: with all that happening, a less bad time for you know,
28:17
Speaker 1: the children who are being sex trafficked. Because the Spanish
28:21
Speaker 1: government decides to enact martial law, which is basically where
28:26
Speaker 1: the Spanish military and government have like complete power, you know,
28:30
Speaker 1: carte blanche can do whatever the fuck they want effectively,
28:34
Speaker 1: and martial law comes into play typically when there is
28:39
Speaker 1: a situation that is so extreme that this is the
28:42
Speaker 1: only way to handle it, Like it's a situation of crisis,
28:47
Speaker 1: like a huge crisis, and that's what this is. Now.
28:51
Speaker 1: Of course, there's a target on who the poor? Why
28:55
Speaker 1: is their targets on the poor because the government believes
28:58
Speaker 1: they're the root of the problem because the government lacks accountability.
29:02
Speaker 1: I know you're shocked, and so they're like, we're gonna
29:07
Speaker 1: like crack down on crime. We're going to hit all
29:10
Speaker 1: these poor neighborhoods. We're going to go to this impoverished place.
29:13
Speaker 1: We're going to stop this violence. We're going to stop
29:15
Speaker 1: these pirated books. Oh and these lemons that fell off
29:20
Speaker 1: the bark of a car like pulfering donkeys. Listen, listen,
29:25
Speaker 1: I'm doing my best, like old timy crime, old timy crime.
29:29
Speaker 1: And it does not take authorities long to find in
29:32
Speaker 1: Rikita's brothel. And they raid the joint, battering down the door,
29:38
Speaker 1: storming into every room, expecting to find ladies of ill
29:42
Speaker 1: repute and their horrific client tell but what they find
29:47
Speaker 1: is so much worse, because behind every door is not
29:53
Speaker 1: a lady's settling her goods, but as instead, child after child,
30:01
Speaker 1: each more traumatized than the last, from teenagers all the
30:08
Speaker 1: way down to children who can barely formulate sentences. Now,
30:14
Speaker 1: I know I said five years old earlier, but I'm
30:17
Speaker 1: fairly certain that the youngest child they've found imprisoned in
30:22
Speaker 1: that building was three years old. Don't worry it gets
30:28
Speaker 1: worse because well, they're reading the property. Who happens to
30:34
Speaker 1: be there but a very high ranking member of society,
30:41
Speaker 1: one of Enriquita's best clients, a member of one of
30:47
Speaker 1: the wealthiest and most powerful families in all of Catalonia,
30:53
Speaker 1: and he is well known, like they know who he is,
30:57
Speaker 1: to the point that when they get there, they know
31:02
Speaker 1: there's crude. They know there's not much they can do.
31:05
Speaker 1: Like they think they're doing really well. They're cracking down
31:08
Speaker 1: on this crime. They're saving these children, and they think
31:13
Speaker 1: they're going to get the women responsible, which they're shocked
31:17
Speaker 1: at because they're shocked that a woman of all people
31:20
Speaker 1: could be the person to commit these crimes, that she
31:23
Speaker 1: would be the one to harm children, not sell them
31:31
Speaker 1: and abuse them and treat them like they're not human.
31:37
Speaker 1: But there she is with her big wealthy client and whip.
31:44
Speaker 1: What do you know, the entire paperwork for Enrikita's case
31:50
Speaker 1: for her crime disappears, without a fucking trace, With no paperwork,
32:00
Speaker 1: she cannot be charged, They cannot do anything to her,
32:04
Speaker 1: and so she's released. And it doesn't take long for
32:09
Speaker 1: her to get up to old tricks except now, oh
32:16
Speaker 1: now she has a fuck you attitude because she feels
32:20
Speaker 1: like she can get away with it. She can get
32:22
Speaker 1: away with anything because you just tried to catch her.
32:27
Speaker 1: You caught her in the act, red handed, even and
32:32
Speaker 1: you couldn't do anything. She feels like she is untouchable.
32:38
Speaker 1: She wastes absolutely no time recharging her revenue streams. She
32:43
Speaker 1: restarts her business, getting back into old ways, but she
32:48
Speaker 1: also decides to diversify. You know, doesn't want to keep
32:52
Speaker 1: all her eggs in one basket. Because she again watches, listens,
32:58
Speaker 1: she pays attention, and she is well aware the Barcelona
33:03
Speaker 1: is being destroyed by disease. Consumption has a chokehold in
33:08
Speaker 1: the city. People are dying the wretch of the power.
33:11
Speaker 1: There isn't a cure, at least not yet, and the
33:15
Speaker 1: story spreads through not just Barcelona, not just Catalonia, but
33:20
Speaker 1: the entire country, like whispers over your shoulder. The cure,
33:26
Speaker 1: the cure for consumption, is consuming the blood of children,
33:32
Speaker 1: human children, specifically, no animal children. They just won't do.
33:39
Speaker 1: Blood is life for a lot of people. That exists
33:43
Speaker 1: in mythology and lower we talk about blood letting and
33:51
Speaker 1: medicinal blood recipes, beauty recipes, so on, so forth. But yes,
33:58
Speaker 1: the citizens men, citizens believed that drinking the blood of
34:03
Speaker 1: a child would cure you of TV when tuberculosis was
34:09
Speaker 1: typically a death sentence, like you got it, then you
34:13
Speaker 1: weren't making it out alive. And in Rakita, she already
34:17
Speaker 1: has access to the necessary product. There's supply and demand,
34:23
Speaker 1: and she has the supply. She already has kids. As
34:26
Speaker 1: long as they're healthy enough, she's good to go. And
34:30
Speaker 1: she does just that. She rebuilds her business and she
34:35
Speaker 1: buys properties all over the shop. She really was doing
34:39
Speaker 1: well in her business because she bought several apartments in
34:42
Speaker 1: flats all over the city. She had one specifically for
34:47
Speaker 1: her child's sex trafficking brothel. She had one for child murder.
34:56
Speaker 1: There's no easy way to say that child murder, and
35:00
Speaker 1: another which is hers. She's just where she lived and
35:04
Speaker 1: that's it. Now we already know about the trafficking and
35:08
Speaker 1: what that entails. And if you don't, thank Christ, you
35:12
Speaker 1: don't need to know that information. Now in the house
35:15
Speaker 1: where she's doing all of the murdering, she is really
35:21
Speaker 1: she's really utilizing all of its very much a waste not,
35:26
Speaker 1: want not situation because she is getting rid of the children.
35:32
Speaker 1: Whether this was children from her brothel or elsewhere it depends.
35:38
Speaker 1: We're not entirely sure on that. But what she does
35:42
Speaker 1: is she kills those children, she drains them of their blood,
35:48
Speaker 1: she ensanguinates them, and she sells that blood two people
35:54
Speaker 1: as a cure for their TV. She then uses the
35:59
Speaker 1: marrow in fact of the children to make ointments and
36:03
Speaker 1: lotions and potions and creams, and sells them to the
36:07
Speaker 1: ladies of high society, seeing that they're going to bring
36:11
Speaker 1: back their youth. And for the record, I want to
36:14
Speaker 1: make this perfectly clear. Everybody who was buying from her
36:18
Speaker 1: knew exactly what they were buying. Like there was no ooh,
36:24
Speaker 1: I wonder what it could be. It's like, no, this
36:25
Speaker 1: is what this is, because this is child fat this
36:29
Speaker 1: is going to make you more youthful. People have said
36:33
Speaker 1: crazier things on DAYTIMTV, like this isn't the weirdest thing
36:37
Speaker 1: you've heard, but that's that, And so people buy it,
36:42
Speaker 1: people who clearly do not care about the lives of
36:46
Speaker 1: impoverished children. It's one of those things where it's like
36:53
Speaker 1: a victim the less than the victim being less than.
36:57
Speaker 1: That's what this feels like. And so for three years
37:02
Speaker 1: three years, she gets away with this. For three years,
37:06
Speaker 1: she nabs children from the street, she sells some to
37:12
Speaker 1: fucking sickos. Others she just ends their lives, dismantles them
37:18
Speaker 1: and sells them for parts. And for three years, children
37:23
Speaker 1: are disappearing from the streets of Barcelona. They're going away,
37:28
Speaker 1: They're just vanishing. And it gets to the point that
37:35
Speaker 1: the governor, the governor of Barcelona, Manuel Poterra Valdares, he
37:42
Speaker 1: makes an official statement saying that children aren't disappearing. The
37:47
Speaker 1: missing reports are just made up. They're false, they're just
37:50
Speaker 1: fabrications by all these families. The idea of this is
37:56
Speaker 1: that families were like selling their kids because they were
38:00
Speaker 1: death to shooting and they were desperate, and so they were
38:02
Speaker 1: selling their children and then being like, oh, somebody stole them,
38:06
Speaker 1: Like they think enough families were doing this, that this
38:12
Speaker 1: was an epidemic of people selling their kids and then
38:15
Speaker 1: lying about it, because of course it's definitely hundreds of
38:20
Speaker 1: families making the same claim. All these poor people keep
38:24
Speaker 1: selling and losing their kids because they're poor, and that's
38:27
Speaker 1: all they're doing, Like really, really, that's that's the most
38:33
Speaker 1: logical conclusion to this, not kidnapping or murder, which you know,
38:40
Speaker 1: in a time of turmoil, seems like that might be it. No,
38:44
Speaker 1: okay then, but back to in Rikita, in our houses
38:47
Speaker 1: of horrors, like it's so horrible when you think about it,
38:53
Speaker 1: because if you think about it too hard, you have
38:57
Speaker 1: to consider which fate is being killed, is some kind
39:03
Speaker 1: of false cure, having your body parts turned into face
39:08
Speaker 1: cream like or trafficking death or trafficking which is worse?
39:17
Speaker 1: Which is the worst fate? It is a double edged blade.
39:22
Speaker 1: And for three years, Enra Kita builds her fortune on
39:27
Speaker 1: the bodies of Barcelona's poorest children, and no one is listening.
39:32
Speaker 1: No one is caring that these kids are going missing,
39:35
Speaker 1: No one official anyway. That is until the tenth of
39:41
Speaker 1: February nineteen twelve, when Terasita Guetart is walking home with
39:48
Speaker 1: her mum. Terasita is five years old, and they stop
39:52
Speaker 1: outside the flats, the apartments, and her mother is chatting
39:58
Speaker 1: to her neighbor. Because Tercida usually just runs up the
40:02
Speaker 1: steps into the house bim bim bim, So when the
40:08
Speaker 1: mum finishes her chat, goes up the stairs and goes
40:12
Speaker 1: up all three floors. She walks in and Terasita isn't there,
40:18
Speaker 1: and her husband tells her that she didn't come up
40:20
Speaker 1: the stairs. She isn't in the house, and in a panic,
40:26
Speaker 1: she runs down the stairs. She screams, and she is
40:28
Speaker 1: out in the streets looking for her child. And this
40:33
Speaker 1: is where the shit hits the fan. All across the
40:36
Speaker 1: city people are searching for Teresita. Her pictures in the papers,
40:41
Speaker 1: there's flyers up like this is big news. Everybody, and
40:46
Speaker 1: I mean everybody is looking for this wee girl. And
40:51
Speaker 1: so you've got the authorities, you've got the police, you've
40:54
Speaker 1: got the newspapers, you've got other poor people, like the
40:58
Speaker 1: other general folk. Everybody's looking for her. Everybody is desperate
41:03
Speaker 1: to find this kid. And for ten days nothing, ten
41:09
Speaker 1: days nobody sees her until a neighbor of en Rakita's
41:14
Speaker 1: sees a child's face in the window. Enrakita hasn't had
41:19
Speaker 1: any children. The neighbors know she doesn't have any children,
41:23
Speaker 1: so who the hell is that? And she thinks, hah,
41:28
Speaker 1: that looks so weep. But like that wee girl who's
41:31
Speaker 1: in all the people's everywhere all the time, that everyone's
41:33
Speaker 1: making such a big ruckus about. And Claudia Elias, that's
41:37
Speaker 1: the neighbor. She's she's suspicious, right, she thinks that might
41:40
Speaker 1: be her, and she ends up telling like a mattress maker,
41:44
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, this is suspicious. She's just kind of
41:47
Speaker 1: like airing it out. And then he ends up reporting
41:50
Speaker 1: it to the police, who eventually raid the apartment mezzanie
41:56
Speaker 1: number twenty nine on Ponente Street, eventually five days later,
42:00
Speaker 1: like five days. Five days is a long time. You know,
42:03
Speaker 1: people can do in five minutes. Imagine what they can
42:06
Speaker 1: do in five days. Like you were lucky this kid
42:08
Speaker 1: was still there. They raid the flat, They go upstairs
42:13
Speaker 1: and they find not one little girl, but two. A
42:18
Speaker 1: little girl called Angelita. He looks by all accounts normal,
42:24
Speaker 1: like a normal kid, and the other has a completely
42:30
Speaker 1: shaved head and says her name is Felicidad, which translates
42:35
Speaker 1: to happiness. Oh yeah. The reason that they used for
42:41
Speaker 1: like reading the flat was keeping illegal chickens. They were like,
42:44
Speaker 1: this flat has illegal chickens, and so they're reading out
42:48
Speaker 1: to see if there was in fact illegal chickens. No,
42:53
Speaker 1: there were children, and so they are talking to these
42:57
Speaker 1: kids and they start questioning Felicidad happiness. You know, they
43:01
Speaker 1: actually go out and catch in Rikita. They catch her
43:04
Speaker 1: and they're like, your flat has chickens, we need to
43:06
Speaker 1: investigate it. And she's like, yeah, okay, you can check
43:10
Speaker 1: my flat for chickens. Now why what what level of
43:16
Speaker 1: confidence does this woman have that she's like, ne go
43:20
Speaker 1: check for chickens. You're not going to find any chickens.
43:24
Speaker 1: Like no, they're just going to find children, abducted children.
43:30
Speaker 1: But yeah, they find the two girls and Terasita she
43:35
Speaker 1: ends up being brought back to her parents. They're like, great,
43:39
Speaker 1: this is you, off you go, and she says that
43:42
Speaker 1: when she was taken to the flat, the first thing
43:44
Speaker 1: she did was cut off on her hair and told
43:47
Speaker 1: her her name was Felicidad, that her parents were gone,
43:50
Speaker 1: and that she was to call her stepmother from now on.
43:54
Speaker 1: Like okay, And Terasita manages to tell the officers about
43:59
Speaker 1: her abduction, which is if you can get a five
44:02
Speaker 1: year old to tell you any kind of story, like
44:05
Speaker 1: you're doing well because they do not tell those stories
44:07
Speaker 1: in linear fashion. Says me, who sidebars, I know, I know,
44:14
Speaker 1: pot kettle black. But she says on the day like
44:18
Speaker 1: instead of like going up to her house like she
44:20
Speaker 1: normally does. She like went around the corner, just kind
44:23
Speaker 1: of dawdling as children do. And there she sees in Rakita,
44:27
Speaker 1: who promises her sweets like she's like really gentle about it.
44:32
Speaker 1: She's like, come, pretty, come, I have sweeties for you,
44:37
Speaker 1: like candy. And at first she's like, yay, sweets because
44:41
Speaker 1: she's five, obviously, and she follows her, and then she
44:45
Speaker 1: realizes that she's taken far away from home, like she's
44:49
Speaker 1: she's not going the direction she wants to go in,
44:51
Speaker 1: like the fear is setting in, and then she starts
44:56
Speaker 1: to panic and in Rikita like covers her with like
45:00
Speaker 1: a black like cloak or cape and just drags her
45:04
Speaker 1: back to the mezzanine. In Terrasita also tells them that,
45:08
Speaker 1: like Inrickata would just go away for ages like days
45:11
Speaker 1: and would leave her in Angelita like alone, these two
45:15
Speaker 1: week girls. She would just leave them alone, and that
45:18
Speaker 1: she was warned like not to go out into the balcony,
45:21
Speaker 1: not to go over here, not to look out the windows,
45:23
Speaker 1: and to not go into these rooms rooms that I
45:26
Speaker 1: should add Inrikita did not lock. She didn't lock them,
45:30
Speaker 1: and so off they go into one of the rooms
45:35
Speaker 1: and there was a sack, like a full on sack
45:38
Speaker 1: of bloody girl's clothes and a boning knife just covered
45:42
Speaker 1: in blood, like, lock the fucking door. Lock the door,
45:48
Speaker 1: you know, because they went exploring, because they're kids. They
45:52
Speaker 1: went exploring when Nome was there. And Angelita she has
45:57
Speaker 1: a worse story, like do you think this is bad?
46:00
Speaker 1: Angela's is so much worse, Like she tells the police
46:05
Speaker 1: that before Terracida showed up, there was a wee boy
46:10
Speaker 1: he was five. His name was Pepito, and they would
46:14
Speaker 1: play together and they had great fun. And then one
46:18
Speaker 1: day she was peering through a door. She was just
46:23
Speaker 1: kind of watching, and Pepito, who was also calling Enrikita
46:29
Speaker 1: like mummy, mama. Enrikita had lifted the little five year
46:33
Speaker 1: old up, sat him on the kitchen table, and stabbed
46:37
Speaker 1: him through the chest with a butcher knife. Angelera was
46:42
Speaker 1: so scared and so terrified that she legged it, like
46:45
Speaker 1: she ran back and pretended to be asleep, acting like
46:47
Speaker 1: she never saw anything. And then Rikitta didn't cot an on.
46:51
Speaker 1: She had no idea that the wee girl saw her
46:53
Speaker 1: do that. And Angelita like it was hard to figure
46:57
Speaker 1: who she was because she had been conditioned by Enrikita
47:03
Speaker 1: to believe that was her mum, and she believed her
47:06
Speaker 1: dad was Juan, right, So like they go and ask him,
47:10
Speaker 1: he's like, we didn't have any kids. And also and
47:14
Speaker 1: so like when Inricheda is arrested, like he shows up,
47:16
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I know we're married, we've been separated,
47:20
Speaker 1: didn't have any kids. Don't know who this kid is,
47:23
Speaker 1: no idea who that is. And Enrikita ends up changing
47:27
Speaker 1: like the story. She's like, oh, yeah, no, it's not
47:30
Speaker 1: actually my husband's kid. It's actually my sister's child who
47:35
Speaker 1: I took as a baby and raised. And in Rakida,
47:39
Speaker 1: she is detained in the Arena Amalia prison, so like
47:43
Speaker 1: it's a prison for women and she's put there, and
47:46
Speaker 1: she starts claiming that, you know, she found Teresita like
47:50
Speaker 1: wandering the streets, hungry and alone, like she found her
47:53
Speaker 1: that day, and the neighbor's like, no, no, she's been
47:58
Speaker 1: there for a while because I reported this like so
48:01
Speaker 1: many days before, Like that's not a new kid. I've
48:04
Speaker 1: seen that wee bald girl, like met seen it before.
48:08
Speaker 1: And then Enriquita has to explain what they found in
48:12
Speaker 1: her flats. So the officers searched and they found jars
48:19
Speaker 1: and vases, balls, pictures, jugs just full of gloopy, coagulated blood, bones,
48:30
Speaker 1: fat marrow, children's hair, you know, that soft toddler hair
48:36
Speaker 1: that they found that in balls, and several of the
48:40
Speaker 1: flats they had like hidden walls and stuff in the ceiling.
48:45
Speaker 1: There was just stuff hidden there. There was like remains
48:48
Speaker 1: of children. There were sacks of clothes, just like all
48:53
Speaker 1: this stuff, all this evidence, skulls, fibulous tibulas, just all
48:59
Speaker 1: these things that kind of, I mean, all the evidence
49:03
Speaker 1: pointed to murder. And allegedly there was a book filled
49:09
Speaker 1: with all the names of her clientele, like a little
49:13
Speaker 1: black book sort of her security. But that never actually
49:20
Speaker 1: makes it to the light of day. Some say disappeared,
49:23
Speaker 1: some say it never existed. And because of you know,
49:30
Speaker 1: all of the issues before, like the tragic week and
49:32
Speaker 1: everything that had happened with that, they didn't want to
49:36
Speaker 1: let that out if it did exist, and so that
49:40
Speaker 1: was kept stumb what protecting the elite. You say, that
49:45
Speaker 1: wouldn't happen, would it. Hmm? And so Enriquita, she is
49:54
Speaker 1: trying to explain away all of these you know, jars
49:58
Speaker 1: of children's remains, and she makes the excuse that she
50:01
Speaker 1: is a student of anatomy and that she is just
50:05
Speaker 1: dissecting corpses that she found, just all of these random
50:11
Speaker 1: corpses of children that you found, just these random corpses
50:15
Speaker 1: of children that you just, by happenstance, came across. Now,
50:21
Speaker 1: as her trial is looming, because there's going to be
50:23
Speaker 1: a trick, right, she tries to end her life with
50:27
Speaker 1: like a piece of wedge, tries to slash her wrists. Surprisingly,
50:31
Speaker 1: this doesn't work, and it is and this story is
50:36
Speaker 1: absolutely everywhere. Those two we girls, their photos are on
50:39
Speaker 1: the front page of the paper. There are stories going everywhere.
50:43
Speaker 1: There is just reports of this client list, you know everything.
50:47
Speaker 1: It's just consistent. And then everything changes one day in
50:55
Speaker 1: April nineteen twelve because the biggest disaster happens, the Titanic sinks,
51:04
Speaker 1: and suddenly that's what everyone wants to talk about, and
51:08
Speaker 1: so the news then Rakita the vampirets of Barcelona, her
51:16
Speaker 1: story just sort of fades away, you know, the bottom
51:22
Speaker 1: of the news cycle no longer rotating, and with all
51:26
Speaker 1: of the foror and hoop lab about that her trial
51:29
Speaker 1: doesn't actually come about. She doesn't get charged for those
51:34
Speaker 1: crimes because they find the remains of at least ten
51:36
Speaker 1: children in her houses, at least ten, which is a lot.
51:44
Speaker 1: Like that is a lot by anybody's standards, don't you think? Yeah, yeah,
51:49
Speaker 1: but yeah, never charged for her crimes. But in Rikita
51:52
Speaker 1: does not get to live a long and fruitful life
51:56
Speaker 1: because one year and three months after being arrested, she dies.
52:03
Speaker 1: She is lynched by her fellow prisoners in a women's prison. Now,
52:09
Speaker 1: there was this whole rule about her not being left
52:11
Speaker 1: alone in case she tried to end her own life
52:14
Speaker 1: because she was already on suicide watch after what had
52:17
Speaker 1: happened previously. And there is a theory that it's, you know,
52:22
Speaker 1: somebody from her client lists to had her off so
52:25
Speaker 1: that she would not release said names. But this is
52:31
Speaker 1: a woman who trafficked and killed children and she's in prison.
52:38
Speaker 1: And now, if you know anything about prison rules, there
52:40
Speaker 1: are certain things that you can't do. There are certain
52:43
Speaker 1: things that make you like a target. One of them
52:49
Speaker 1: is murdering children, trafficking children. All of that is that
52:55
Speaker 1: is you're going to die in there. Someone is going
52:58
Speaker 1: to come for you, and they do, and they end
53:03
Speaker 1: her life. And on May twelfth, nineteen thirteen, Enriquita Marty
53:10
Speaker 1: dies of her injuries. Now, initially they lie about this.
53:15
Speaker 1: The president is like, she wasn't beaten to death by inmates, No,
53:20
Speaker 1: she suffered a long illness. Yeah, no she was. She
53:25
Speaker 1: was lynched, and she was buried secretly in a common
53:29
Speaker 1: grave in the Cemeterio del Sodeste, basically so that no
53:35
Speaker 1: one would know where it was good which like, did
53:40
Speaker 1: Epstein have like a secret grave? Like do we know
53:42
Speaker 1: where he's buried? Did they bury him? Did they burn
53:44
Speaker 1: him and just like dust him somewhere? Like what is that?
53:49
Speaker 1: I she don't care enough about him to to do that,
53:52
Speaker 1: because he's dead now, and he deserves to be dead
53:55
Speaker 1: because you know of what he did. AnyWho, Now, this
54:02
Speaker 1: is a horrible story about a horrible situation during a
54:06
Speaker 1: difficult time. Now, of course, there are always two sides
54:11
Speaker 1: to every story, and there is a theory that this
54:16
Speaker 1: case was blown all out of proportion, that she wasn't
54:22
Speaker 1: actually going around stealing children, selling children. She was just
54:26
Speaker 1: a mentally ill woman who stole two kids, and that's
54:33
Speaker 1: that's the story. Apparently that's it. But you know, we
54:37
Speaker 1: know she was arrested, so many times. We know she
54:39
Speaker 1: was trafficking kids, and you know, the buckets and buckets
54:44
Speaker 1: of blood I feel like are a thing. Now My
54:49
Speaker 1: issue with this is, I mean, I'm always wanting to
54:52
Speaker 1: try and stand up for women, but women can do
54:55
Speaker 1: some bad stuff too. Equal rights, guys, we can be
54:57
Speaker 1: horrible and like we already had a mayor come out
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Speaker 1: and say that people are blaming this, you know, people
55:08
Speaker 1: stealing kids, that children are disappearing when in fact they're
55:12
Speaker 1: just losing their children. They're just selling them. Like, I
55:17
Speaker 1: don't like that. I don't like them. I don't feel
55:22
Speaker 1: like that is a reasonable logical stance to take. People
55:27
Speaker 1: do crazy things. We know people do crazy things like
55:32
Speaker 1: and there might be some things that are exaggerated, like
55:35
Speaker 1: the face creams. The face creams does feel a bit
55:37
Speaker 1: much to me. The drinking blood for youth or not youth,
55:42
Speaker 1: but curing people have done that. People have done worse. Again,
55:47
Speaker 1: we're guzzling and gizzards guys, Like it's a thing. But
55:51
Speaker 1: the fact that this broth aloner her client list, with
55:55
Speaker 1: her being so famous, so infamous, that doesn't come to
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Speaker 1: light at all. Ever, that's the kind of news that
56:05
Speaker 1: gets out that's the kind of thing that people share,
56:08
Speaker 1: So for that not to come out to me, that's
56:10
Speaker 1: highly suspicious. But here is a horrific story. No matter
56:15
Speaker 1: which angle you look at, it just terrible, just terrible,
56:19
Speaker 1: terrible humanity. And I hope you've been sufficiently disgusted. And
56:26
Speaker 1: that is the story of the Vampires of Barcelona. So
56:32
Speaker 1: if you liked this incredibly terrible story about this terrible
56:35
Speaker 1: event that happened in the past, feel free to rate
56:38
Speaker 1: and review five stars. If you don't want to review
56:42
Speaker 1: the review and rate five stars, don't say anything at all,
56:45
Speaker 1: because be kind. If you can't be kind, don't be anything.
56:50
Speaker 1: You can catch me on the socials if you like
56:53
Speaker 1: message me on like Instagram or threats. It's easier for
56:57
Speaker 1: me to respond. I find it more accessible. I am
57:01
Speaker 1: on TikTok, but I found it harder to communicate on
57:04
Speaker 1: that one. And I guess it is recommendation time for reading.
57:10
Speaker 1: I am going to recommend Ghost in the Throat and
57:14
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you any context for watching
57:18
Speaker 1: Agatha all along. Love me some Mitchy Witchness, Love me
57:21
Speaker 1: some witchy Witchness. Have I recommended it two weeks in
57:24
Speaker 1: the row? Yes, I have don't care doing it again.
57:28
Speaker 1: And for listening. On a completely non spooky note, you
57:35
Speaker 1: should listen to Calm History, like if you have trouble
57:39
Speaker 1: sleeping or you're having like like stressful times, like I
57:43
Speaker 1: found it really really actual Cam Calm History. It was
57:47
Speaker 1: actually Cam. I found it really chill, and I would
57:50
Speaker 1: absolutely suggest you go listen to it anyway. With that,
57:54
Speaker 1: I'm going to say good night because it is two am,
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Speaker 1: So adios is my friends thebe