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62. Oh Odin, You had them Fooled (American Gods) · The Book-Watchers

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now. Today's episode is going to be something long, yeah, because today
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Devin will be talking about American gods. Bye, Neil Gamen, Gaemon Gamon.
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I'm looking at Do I pronounce it A like an ear and A like
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an a is? How do you spell it the A? I am a
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N but it's pronounced the g e I Gamen Demen, dimon, diamond,
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diamond. I think Neil Gamen Gamen, Neil Gamen. Yeah, Neil Gaman
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wrote American gods as well as other works like I mean, he did the
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Sandman series. He's done novels and stuff in the com book world, but
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he's most notable for like American Gods, The Sandman, Stardust, Good Omens,
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the Graveyard Book. He's also done film stuff. Uh, he's been
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he's been on. Uh. He was the voice of the Crow in the
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Sandman show. I didn't know that, but apparently he was the crow.
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Okay, Uh, yeah, he's he's he's he's all over the place in
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the entertainment world as far as books, common stars in some movies, theater,
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screenplays. He is born in England. He's English British. Do you
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know how they beat he's been I mean, he's been doing this stuff since
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nineteen eighty four, so he's been the business for quite some time. I
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think Sam some of his more popular works came out from the nineties early two
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thousands, and then it's just now getting popular because they've gotten screen adaptations like
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American Gods and the Sandman series, because those Sandman series is from the nineties,
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was from like eighty ninety to ninety six, and American Guys that were
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taught that I'm talking about today was released on actually June nineteenth, twenty not
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twenty twenty one. Oh my god, two thousand and one, so a
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long time ago. He uh, twenty three years ago, jesus. It's
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a fantasy novel Ovvy and it takes place, well that takes place, I
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mean it takes place in the United States, in America. This book blends
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Americana fantasy as well as like modern takes a mythology and old and like the
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a decent old mythology. It's all mixed in a little melting pot. Now,
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the cool thing about this book is uh Neil decided to go on a
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road trip when he was writing this book. All the locations that are talked
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about in the book he has actually been to because he purposely wanted to use
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real locations in the United States that he that he would they personally have been
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to for these for the locations for this book, as far as like the
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Landmark. So he went all the way from like Rock City, Tennessee,
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all the way over to like I'm trying to thak the other locations in this
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book, to the far West. And so he's been all over the place
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once large huge road trip getting locations down for this lovely book that got also
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adapted into a TV series. For seasons, we were unable to watch the
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show because where is it on Stars right now? Or is on Stars now?
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I was able to watch. I watched the first two seasons, and
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I was able to watch the part of the third because my friend bought those
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seasons on his voodoo so I was watching a little bit of it. But
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let me tell you, the material really heavily differs from the book, which
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I will probably just sprinkle in throughout the story. As I talked about it,
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because there's a lot of big diferences between this the TV series and the
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UH case. So going into chapter one, we're going in chapters to day.
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This thing has twenty chapters. It is in total page wise, this
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book is probable. Well it's actually it's four hundred and sixty five pages.
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Okay, So this book is going to be following the character known as Shadow,
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who is a ex convict and who is released three days early when the
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story begins, when he gets released from said prison because he was in prison
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for a theft gone wrong. He committed a crime of theft and he's the
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only one that got caught amongst him. Yeah, he spent last three years
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in prison and he finds of course, he gets out three days early.
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But like when he's in prison, he finds it relieving to be there.
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He feels free, and he's kind of just he's vibing, like he's enjoying
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his time in prison. He has to worry about the outside world or anything.
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And he's kind of just I mean, when you go to prison,
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I mean you can't have to make the best of it, I guess.
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But he's he's having a great time he's having it. I mean, he's
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having pretty much a great time. He's cell mates are kind of a problem
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here. He's going he goes through cell mates like he goes through white people
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go through water. But he has one. His uh current cellmate that he
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ends with is a very interesting man. His name is low E like l
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O w k e Y very interesting fellow. Low key low key that his
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name. Yeah, he's very low key. Huh ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha. Very well. Yeah, his name is first name is low
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last name Key, and then it's live Smith is his full name is the
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guy's full name, and they are telling jokes each other's as like Shadow on
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his last day starts marking off. He's been marking off days that he gets
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to be released, and upon back into Decide of America, he ends up
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getting released three days early because he was waiting for it. So originally his
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wife was gonna come get him, and he's they're gonna have a big old
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surprise party for him to get released and everything. But he got released three
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days early because his wife died of a car accident right off the bat,
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So they decided to release him three days early because his wife died and he's
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like, oh, why am I going to release three days early. He's
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like, oh, yeah, so your wife is dead. And he's like
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what, yeah, you know, good behavior, community service parole. Your
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wife is dead. Your wife is dead. Yeah. Of course he's obviously
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distraught by the fact that she's dead, obviously, and he she So he
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also learns that he died or she died with his best friend Robbie, because
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when he got was when he was going to get out of prison. He
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was also he had a job waiting for him his best friend at his there
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was a mechanic job, and they found his wife did. But he also
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found out the only job he was going to get also personal I was gonna
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give him that also died in that sett of car accident. So they're both
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in the same car together when they died. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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Because I sure was so with that. Now with this, with talking
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about this book, I'm not gonna go over every single little, idiotsy little
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detail. I'm hitting the big major points. Off said, sorry, because
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otherwise we'll be here all fucking day. Because the novel, like I said,
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is very dense for the four hundred pages, So we jump a bit.
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But he goes to the funeral for his wife and he finds out that
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his wife had an affair with his best friend, who is going to give
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him that job at the mechanic job because he found out from he found out
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from his wife from his best friend's wife. Apparently she died. Now this
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is gonna be very team am I. This book is very adult. It
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does not shy over over certain topics of certain things they go in daytown and
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how she died or how they found them. Uh, Robbie got into a
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car accident while Laura Laura. Yeah, Laura was in the middle of give
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me him a fully shadow, give him head RoadHead Yeah yeah, yeah,
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they crash and she apparently she bit off his uh member as they were crashing,
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so his member was down her the road. Well, it looks like
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RoadHead turned into roadkill. Wow, golf clap for that joke. Yeah.
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Now, Robbie's best friend was also Laura's best friend. So they had the
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funeral is what Obviously rob His wife was very upset and she went up to
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Laura's Gray Laura's coffin. I can't remember the coffin was open or if it
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was the close casket because it might have been close casket, but she was
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like, you were my best friend. And then she and then she spit
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at the at the dead body. She said, you fucking wore And I'm
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like, old, there's some tea here. I was like, day,
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the drama of it all, wow, mm hmmm. I mean you can't
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blame her, Yeah, exactly. Her husband, her husband and her best
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friend both died horribly in the car crash, and she found out, oh,
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they're having an affair. They're having an affair, and they literally found
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her best friend with her husband's dick literally down her throat. So yeah,
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and it would be understandably pissed about that. So you can't really blame her
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for that. That that that is completely fair. That's completely yeah. As
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Shadow has been dealing with the funeral and the fact of what the fuck am
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I gonna do now? I don't have a place to go because my wife's
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dead. I don't have a job anymore because Robbie's dead. I don't have
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anything. That's it for me? What the fuck? He's like, I'm
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better off going back to jail. At this point, then he comes across
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an old man, a very old man, that's a con man, very
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mysterious conment. He goes by the name of mister Wednesday. An that's yeah,
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that's con man's name, mister Wednesday. For my mythological my mythology girlies,
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Wednesday's a clue. If like low Key wasn't a wasn't a clue,
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Wednesday's another clue. So uh, he decides to take up this job being
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this con man's mister Wednesday's bodyguard because he's just like, I have nowhere else
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to go, Fuck it, Let's just do it, because otherwise he was
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just gonna rob a store to go back to jail. Oh like, I
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got nothing else going for me, Let's go. So he decides to take
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up this job, and him and mister Wednesday travel across the United States and
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they visit Wednesday's acquaintances confidants. They met a bunch of different people along their
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journey, and Shadow then meets a very well okay so, one of the
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first people they meet on their little journey across the United States is named Matt
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Sweeney. Matt Sweeney is a ginger man. Now in the I like him
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better. Honestly, I like him better in the show than the book because
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the book that make him seem like a redneck irishman like backwards heaven why beat
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wearing Like, I don't like that depiction of him. The TV show depiction
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of Mitte Sweeney love it. He's a irishman that calls himself a leprechaun,
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but he's like six foot Like well, on the show he was six foot.
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I think in the book he was actually a little shorter than six foot,
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but he is still way taller than than your typical image of a leprechaun.
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They met Matt Sweeney and he gives Shadow a gold coin after he decides
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to have a bar fight with Shadow because Matt Sweeny loves to fight. He's
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like, okay, let's he decided to beat up on Shadow, and when
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Shadow won, he's like, here's a gold coin. He gets a gold
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coin from the lepre gun. Shadow is not catching on. He's like,
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this is all fucking weird, but okay, yes, okay, all right.
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Shadow then tosses said coin. Now this is all still in the hometown
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where him and his wife were living. Now this is right before they leave.
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Shadow has the coin, but he throws it down onto his wife's grave
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where his wife's yeah, grave at the funeral. When that happens, the
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coin brings her back to life. She becomes walking undead because the coin like
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burrows into the flesh and shit. She comes back to life obviously because of
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the coin, but she's technically still dead. Her body's not like she's not
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like, oh my god, I'm fully healed and resurrected. No, she's
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still like a corpse. But she's now alive and she she has all our
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memories and shit, but she's just unfortunately a now a coherent moving around talking.
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So that causes a whole lot of problems cause you know, uh yeah.
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So from there, Shadow then leaves and meets Then they go to Chicago
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for this one. Along their journey they take a lot of economy them.
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That's when he joins them and he's like, Okay, where are we going
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now? And I'm pretty sure it's in Chicago and they meet Oh God,
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how I pronounce his name? So he meets Turn the Bog and the Zorira
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Sisters, which are the audience knows well know that basically they are Scandinavian gods
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the m they're more specifically Russian. Yeah, they come from like old Russian
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low it's like it's part of like Scandinavian lore that has Russia that like Russia
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has its own like indigenous lore, similar to like the Scandinavian stuff. It's
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the West Slavics. It is where they come from, which is like Polish,
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Czech Slavic Lower Saudi Arabia, Upper Saudi Arabia, which all used to
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be a good chunk of the western part of the Soviet Union back in the
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day. Yeah, that little region right before you get to the main country
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of Russia, uh Churnabog And it's the sisters, the zoria Rus Sisters,
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the Zoria's Sisters, the Turnabog. Okay, getting back to Turnabog, Turnabog
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is technically a god of evil. He's repped him and his brother. So
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he has a brother, which you which he kind of mentions in the story.
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His mother's like the light and he's the darkness, is what they kind
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of what they what they talk about in the book obviously in the in the
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actual mythologies to it than just that. But he's the his brother is the
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light, and he's the shadow. Only one can put show up at one
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time. They can't alternate and ship. So currently I can't think of his
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brother's name, Bella Bog, really Bog, but the Johnny, do you
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know his brother's name is the Bella Bog, Bello Bog. Okay, that's
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what Okay, cool, cool, I'm pronouncing that one correct. Bella Bog
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is currently dead and that's his twin brother in the story. Now, the
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sisters, the Zorio sisters represent basically, they're they're there's a Slavic version of
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the the god, the I want to say, the fates, but they're
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probably closer towards the nerds, where they can see one can see the past,
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one I can see the president, one can see the future. They're
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very similar to those, but each sister has a certain time of day that
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they show up at. One shows up at dawn, one shows up at
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uh I think what dusk, and the other one shows up at twilight.
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One's they're not all up at the same time. They go and they go
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in God, what the They're going rotation on who's up and who's asleep and
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who's doing whatever. So one of the sisters ends up giving Shadow a silver
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coin which came from the moon, or if you're watching the show, it's
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like she literally gives him the moon and takes the shape of a silver coin,
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and he's like what. And of course this dream they had because he
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was staying with them for I think like a day or two, and he
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thought he was having a dream of meeting the Twilight Sister and he gave her
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she gave him the moon, and he's like what. He woke up and
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he thought this was a dream and then he realized, oh shit, so
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he thought he was like tripping out from there. After getting the silver coin
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that the sister tells him that we'll protect him while he goes on this journey,
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Shadow learns that Wednesday is a Wednesday is a day of the week,
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right, Wednesday is considered Odin's day. Too long after all that, he
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finds out Wednesday is Odin. Now in the show, that's something completely different.
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He has a fine out that Wednesday is Odin. This soon and the
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show. He finds out Wednesday is Odin towards the things towards the end of
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season one or over halfway through season one, where he's dealing with he meets
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Easter, which in the book, Easter doesn't even come into play till much
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much later, and even then she's barely there. You find out. He
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finds out that Wednesday is Odin, the Norse God, quite earlier than he
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does in the show. Yeah, So after finding out about Wednesday being Odin,
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and then he really and then he starts kind of putting everything together that
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all the people, all the weird people he's met so far, Matt Sweeney,
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China, Bog, those Order sisters are all obviously gods, old gods.
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And he learns about Odin's mission to try and gather a bunch of old
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gods to take on these new gods, new American gods. And he's trying
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to gather adversaries for this war that's gonna happen old gods gods, yes,
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old god versus new gods. And while all that with the Moon and finding
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out about Odin, he makes a bet with Turnibog that he ends up losing,
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and Turnibog gets to So basically the bet was that if I think it
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was a game with checkers, and Turnabog and Shadow played a game of checkers
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and shows like cool if I win, right, If I win, you
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go with us, you go with me and Wednesday, and if you win,
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you kill me. He basically he offers up himself his head in this
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game to turn a Bog. He's like, cool, if I lose,
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you could take you could take a hammer, your hammer to my face,
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to my skull, crack it open like a night. He ends up losing,
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and Turnabog agrees to go with Wednesday. Do what Wednesday wants to do.
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But at the end of it all, he'll take a hammer too Skyle's
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face. At the very end of it, after it's all said and done,
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he'll die by turner Bog's hand. Turner Bog agrees the sisters obviously will
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hold the fort as Turnabog leaves as well with Wednesday. Oh okay, so
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I did forget. I didn't miss something. Now, back when he was
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still at home in his hometown before with Matt Sweeney, Wednesday he did come
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across. Well, he'll soon be known, soon to know as the one
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of the new Gods. A young man caught captured Shadow deliverally a message that
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to tell when basically to tell Wednesday that he is and I quote dumpster of
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history and their goal is to read and I quote reprogram reality. So he's
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techically already met one of them before, but he just didn't know that they
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were the new quote unquote the New Gods. And that's another thing with that
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young man. That young man is considered techno boy. He's the tech he's
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the technology deity of the New Gods. In the show, they make him
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look like a very rich white boy, uh, skinny, freaking full of
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himself. In the show. It's quite the opposite. In the show,
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he's very overweight, he's very ugly. They make him more attractive in the
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show, and he's very just unseemly. He's not very attractive in any way
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preted in the show. He's not really either, But they didn't make him
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a big boy because he's like really heavy set, almost like a fucking like
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humpty dumpty, not humpty dumpty freaking tweeto d and tweeted dumb. That was
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the imagery I got from the description of technob boy to the logical boy A
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sweet o D what it's very dopey looking. Yeah, it's basically like if
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someone spent their whole level on at a computer. They didn't leave it.
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They just ate drank the other life at a computer and name going outside.
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That's what you look like, look like one of those people that lived at
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internet cafes. And shit. Okay, cool. So as we continue on
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the story with Turnbot, this is the bad his head blown up, brains
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plowed into the ground. When all this is said and done, finds out
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odin Gods, new gods, all that kind of shit. Uh, Shadow
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is not take is kind of like weirded out by all this and obviously it's
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like a computer processing all this all this information. At one He's just he
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was just living his life as a human and then he's getting thrown into this
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mess. So he leaves the house. Well, of course, one of
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the Zoira's, one of the sisters, says their goodbyes to Wednesday and Shadow
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as they leave. Of course, Shadow does have that coin from the day
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from the night before, from that dream he had in his hand, and
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of course he flipped the leaves with Wednesday. From there they decide to There
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was a cool little history lesson in this because sometimes you get little little tidbits
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from Wednesday, and one of my favorite ones was this one that happened right
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after they left Zaira. Wednesday talks about Lady Liberty, how Lady Liberty is
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is a technically a foreigner, and how we as Americans put Lady Liberty as
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a symbol or quote unquote freedom, and he says, and I quote Liberty
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is a bitch who must be betting on a mattress of corpses. And I'm
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like, damn, wow, I mean that's America for you. So I
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mean, yeah, I like that's interesting. So technically, lady Liberty is
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a old deity as well in a weird way. He doesn't really go much
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in detail after that. He just says that little comment, and I'm like,
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damn, that's intense. So now our Wednesday takes shout out to a
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bank which they eventually rob, or Wednesday robs later. So they going to
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go about the place and devise a plan they come back later to rob.
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Said now, of course Odin is also a god of wisdom luck obviously they
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rob the banks. They don't get caught, but they rob it because Odin's
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like, we need money, we need money to get places, so let's
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get the money. And when and shouts like, I'm not going back to
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jail. I'm not doing it. I'm not going back to jail. And
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it's like, you're fine, we won't get caught. It's fine, it's
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fine. Well did you hear that? I did oh I did hear that?
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Oh my god, that's what's loud, not really loud, but why
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do I want to go? So now they robbed the bank, and they
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because they ask, They go through a whole freaking ruse. And how Odin
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robs his brain is like a whole process. He gets checks from the teller,
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he drops, He's like, oh God, drop objects, blah blah
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blah, and he just goes to this whole ruse and the whole Diabocle plan
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that makes no fucking sense while reading it. And at the very end and
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it's like he puts it all together and he's like, all this plan,
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see, all this will work out in the end. It does for him,
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because that's just how Odin works. When they get all the money,
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they decided to piece the fuck out. Wednesday gets Shadowy, new identity,
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new identity, and new papers. The whole works. Yeah wow. And
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from there they go on their journey through the rest of America as they try
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to gather more of Wednesday's allies, including mister Nancy, who is actually a
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god of stories, wisdom and knowledge and trickery from African Lord. He's the
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spider god. Mister Nancy. He also tries to gather Easter, who's a
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or a Stara as she's known. She's a gods, a fertility from the
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Germanic Old Germanic mythology. Now, of course Easter is still technically so the
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whole idea of the God, old gods and new gods is the fact that
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the old gods are not getting the worship they used to get. Well,
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obviously the new gods are, and some of the old gods are aligning themselves
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with the new ones to get that praise where they could still be relevant to
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the world. And the current day Easter is one of those gods that's still
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being worshiped indirectly because Easter the holiday. Now, for those religious folks out
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there, if you're listening to this to this episode, hate to break the
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news to you. Easter holiday is not a Christian holidays. Riginally, it's
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readapted from a holiday surrounded by Astara, for it was a holiday, a
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pagan holiday in the spring that celebrate fertility and rebirth, and technically they readapted
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that holiday for the Christian hall that we have today. But Astara is still
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technically getting worshiped indirectly through the skies of Jesus Christ and that story with Easter,
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but she's still kind of relevant in a weird third party kind of way.
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She's not They're not like war shipping a star up. But she's like,
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cool, I'll take the power. Why take what I can get?
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And they go more into that with the show itself rather than the book,
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because in the books she's kind of just there well improvised it to overcome exactly.
34:17
They also meet a guy named Whiskey Jack, which he is not in
34:23
the show. Whiskey Jack is God. I don't even describe whiskey Jack.
34:34
Now. Whiskey Jack is Oh he is. I'm assuming he is from tribal
34:42
mythol from once some of the tribe of tribal mythology, some of the Native
34:47
tribes. He's depicture as a crane or a bird of some kind, depending
34:53
on the tribe, and he is a He's also the one supposedly responsible for
35:02
the great flood in old Native tribe tribal stories. Okay, which you which
35:12
is kind of funny, how the great flood? How law mythology. Some
35:15
of the really older ones also do have a great flood at that end of
35:20
the world. I've destroyed the world. Christians do that, and there's and
35:27
and then there's Greek. They have their own and I've heard I've heard like
35:34
the Native American mythology once before, but I wasn't sure if it was credible
35:38
because I read it in another Uh it was in the Twilight Books of all
35:45
things. Yeah, there's much, no, yeah there, Yeah, there's
35:51
a bunch of Uh. This deity is a god of from like several different
35:55
tribes has He has many different names, but in their creation story of how
36:01
they explain the animals in the geographical locations saying that he is responsible on the
36:07
earth. So it's like, I've found that interesting. But yeah, whiskey
36:09
Jack is one the lesser known gods that you that you see in this story,
36:15
because you would have I had to look them up, be like,
36:17
who the hell is that? Who's whiskey Jack? So I had to look
36:22
that one up. And of course you got John Chapman, who is a
36:28
ka Johnny Appleseed. Yes, Johnny Appleseed, Ladies and Jenthlemen is technically American
36:36
mythology, but he's also a real person. So it's weird that one's that
36:42
one gets a little Yeah, Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman, some of the
36:51
many characters that he comes across on their journeys. The New Gods, of
36:54
course, consist of the Internet, which would be technological boy, media who,
37:00
media or persona. She changes her appearance depending on the the like she
37:09
changes the appearance from I Love Lucy to like in the show David Bowie to
37:15
I think in season two of the of the American Gods series, they she
37:20
turned into like a K pop star, like a K pop influencer, and
37:23
she changes her appearance pretty ugly throughout the story to kind of reflect the ever
37:30
changing form of media in the United States and the New World. And they're
37:37
all led by a guy named mister World as the head of that now.
37:52
So the New Gods abdug Shadow again amongst their journey because he gets abducted by
37:59
them all by by a group of shadowy men in black that they call the
38:04
Spooks. And the Spooks have weird names like mister Wood, mister Stone,
38:10
mister House. It's all like miss mister and they it's something and what I
38:19
can correlate to, And they don't really explain that much in the book,
38:22
but like mister Stone, mister Wood, they kind of give you a little
38:28
give you a hint that these were old gods that signed up with the new
38:31
gods and they got like a new name, mister Wood, mister Stone,
38:35
whatever happened maybe, and they're just nothing more than goons for the new gods.
38:42
But they somehow, but they keep relevancy in a different way than the
38:49
normal way of Oh God would get worshiped in Chad. So, uh,
38:53
Shadow gets abducted again by the spooks, led by of course, mister World,
39:00
who was the Big Cheese. Laura rescues him his dead wife who got
39:06
resurrected. She rescues him killing off a bunch of spooks, so she apparently
39:10
has superpowers now super strength, durability, and Wednesday tells him to hide from
39:21
there when he escapes, because she kind of just says and then she pieces
39:23
out and then Wednesday's like, yeah, you need to go hide with mister
39:29
Oh God, mister Jackal and mister Ibbys, which is mister Ibbis is Ath
39:37
and Jackal is a Newbis respectful, which of course Nubis for those of you
39:45
who don't know, as a god of funeral rites, graves, protector of
39:51
graves, and guide to the underworld. Which is a Newbis. And then
39:54
Thoth is a god, an Egyptian god of knowledge and wisdom. Yes,
40:02
that's about to say knowledge, wisdom, writing, hieroglyphic science, magic,
40:06
art, and judgment. And those two run a funeral home together. I
40:14
find it adorable. It makes sense for a new biss off. Yeah,
40:23
you know, they run a funeral parlor in Cairo, Illinois, which is
40:28
a real city or town in Illinois, and in Cairo. So Sweeney the
40:36
leprechaun bay Is he kind of he ventured off among their journey, and he
40:43
kind of just he's not as much in the book around like he is in
40:46
the show, because in the show he's around quite a bit, but in
40:50
the book he kind of ventured. He splits off for a while because he
40:53
kind of gets tired of Wednesday and how he's like when Odin's manipulating everything blah
40:59
blah blah blah blah, and interest I say, fuck y'all. In pieces
41:00
out, But he ends up popping up again at the funeral home while Shadows
41:07
in hiding out, and he begs for his coin back because he gave the
41:10
wrong coin to Shadow. He was supposed to give Shadow a normal gold coin
41:17
but the coin that he gave Shadow was very important to him because he owed
41:23
somebody that Yeah, he owed somebody that coin and he gave yeah, he
41:32
gave him the actually gave him the wrong coin, and it held that particular
41:37
coin they gave. Shadow held all all held all his luck as well,
41:45
so he was not lucky this whole time. Without having that coin, his
41:49
life was complete shit. Anything bad that could happen did happen to Sweetey.
41:55
Mad Sweetey and he's begging for the coin, but he'said, give it back
42:00
to me, I need it, and Shadow that he doesn't have the coin
42:07
anymore because he put the because he gave the coin put it in his wife's
42:13
grave, and the coin is sitting in his wife's chest. So he is
42:19
like, I don't have it, bro, and Sweeney gets very upset.
42:25
He storms off. He doesn't. He's Matt Sweeney in the book is kind
42:34
of set is kind of depressing because he is a desperate man that wants is
42:39
that wants his luck back as a lopper conn of like, he talks like
42:45
that's all he has in life, it's just that, and he lost it.
42:47
So he goes he storms off and they do find him later, but
42:52
they find him dead. Uh oh, yeah, Sweeney died. I was
42:57
very upset. Doesn't the show and the show had he does die, but
43:00
he doesn't die till much much later because he's in the series a lot more.
43:06
But yes, Sween, he dies and he had a fold. He
43:15
had a whole funeral and everything too, and they're like, what so unfortunately
43:21
he deceased then he used to be. Yeah, it was kind of depressing
43:29
because they were when they found his body. He was on the side of
43:32
the road. He had like a bottle in his hand and he drank.
43:35
I think he drunk, either drunk himself he died of I don't remember how
43:44
he died exactly, because I don't think anyone. I don't think anyone came
43:51
up to him and just killed him but pulled up future demon cuts proud Johnny.
43:59
How did how did MATD. Sweeney die in the book? Did he
44:01
die just like a bottle inside of him he just basically drank himself to death?
44:05
Or do he Because I don't think anyone killed him. I think he
44:09
just died because he was just unloocky and just kind of just drank himself.
44:14
Think I'll go with that. Anyway, his death was very depressing, and
44:22
I was very sad because MATD. Sweeny's one of my favorite characters in this
44:31
Yeah. Yeah, he freezes to death. So he dies a very very
44:37
depressing death, freezes to death, freezes to death out in the cold,
44:42
which kind of go shows how how his luck was just not on his side
44:45
anymore. And they found him dead a while later, a free stormed off.
44:50
They his body was tended to buy of course a Nubis in thought,
44:54
and they put him up down and they kind of talk about how they it's
45:00
like, well, there's another one of us gone, another old god gone
45:04
to the world and the world never knew mm hm on. And then from
45:12
there other stuff happens. But of course Shadow relocates again from Cairo. It
45:21
relocates to Lakeside, Lakeside in this town in Wisconsin. Shadow picks up a
45:30
hitchhiker on the way named Samantha black Crow as he's traveling up to Lakeside because
45:37
Wednesday sent him there. He's like, you need a hideout, so we're
45:42
gonna send you to a faraway place that we make it real difficult to find
45:46
you. So you're gonna go to this random fucking place in the middle of
45:51
fucking nowhere in Wisconsin, Lakeside. You have a house, you have your
45:54
name, you have a you got money. Lived there for hideout. That's
46:00
what he did. He wanted to go hide out. Picked up a girl
46:02
on the way up there, Samantha, and he drops her off at her
46:07
house, and then he continues on into Lakeside and once he gets there,
46:13
he hides out under the alias Mike Ansel. This is alias while he's spending
46:22
a lot of his time in Linkside, Mike Ansel. He spends his time
46:28
with several Lakeside residents, including a elderly man that introduces him, well,
46:36
introduces himself to him when he first comes into the town, as well as
46:39
he pops up pretty odically throughout his time there. His name is Hanselman.
46:46
Heinselman, Yeah, Hinselman. And of course he meets the chairff of the
46:52
town, a local reporter, and they lived a very simple little life.
46:58
It's not a lot going on there. It's pretty much there's a lake,
47:01
there's a town. Everyone minds their own business, keys very quiet. He's
47:06
just there to hide out. Yeah. Now, when when Shadow decides dig
47:19
in a little more into Lakeside because there is some ooky, spooky shit happening
47:25
there. Henzelman then along this journey is he's finding out that that Lakeside is
47:34
not all that's cracked up to be. There's some there's some ship bruin.
47:38
He finds out that Lakeside has a tradition of taking a car onto the ice,
47:44
belt the ice, and belt on onto the ice and belt on when
47:51
it okay. So they have a tradition in lakes Side where they take a
47:55
car out on the ice and it's a wait for them to tell that because
48:00
will walk across the the frozen lake. They put a car on there and
48:05
when it's the cars, when the ice thaws out, the car will obviously
48:07
sink into the lake and that's when they'll know, okay, cool, we
48:12
don't go walk on the ice. If the car falls, it's a way
48:15
to keep it's a way to tell if it's safe to walk on the ice
48:17
or not. So they have that weird ass tradition here there in Lakeside and
48:25
Wednesday throughout all this periodically takes shadow on jobs, meet the meet old Gods
48:31
throughout. So he comes and goes. They are pursued all while by the
48:38
spooks. During all this, he is by one of them. One of
48:44
the big ones that pursues him is known as mister Town, who blames Shadow
48:49
for the death of friends and I think what I think his friends were like
48:54
mister Wood and mister Stone. Basically he mister Town blames Shadow for the death
49:02
of those friends of his, but in reality, Shadow didn't kill them.
49:07
His wife did. Who's undead, super big. She's over there killing people
49:12
and she killed them, not him, but mister Town blames Shadow for that.
49:17
During all the fiasca, so mister Town has a vendetta where it's like
49:21
it's on site when Shadow comes back after several of those missions, and during
49:25
one in between all that, he catches word that a teenager in Lake's Side
49:31
has gone missing, and he joins the rest of the town folk as he
49:37
tries to find this teenage girl. He learns that another teenage girl in the
49:45
town have also has also gone missing. Like this is a trend. This,
49:51
this teenager that went missing is not the first. It's one of many
49:53
over the course of the last several years that in this town that teenagers and
49:59
kids go missing. So he's trying to solve this murder case that's happening while
50:06
all this is what he's also dealing with Wednesday and his bullshit. He's then
50:10
arrested for breaking his parole and they kind of assume that he might be responsible
50:19
for the missing teenager, well at least this particular recent one. They arrest
50:24
him when they find out who he really is, but he does escape with
50:28
the help of Trinibog and mister Nancy. So they come in they give him
50:32
the fuck out, like cool, we're getting you the fuck out of here.
50:36
So he finds out that the girl that the teenage girl that went missing
50:42
this time around was the one he drove, Samantha. The one he drove
50:45
he gave a lyft to when he was coming into town, but he dropped
50:51
her right in front of her house and then she went missing. And then
50:54
they found her at the bomb of the lick. That's suspicious. That is
50:58
suspicious. So the new Gods and the old gods are getting ready for war
51:02
Avvy and they're getting ready for war in a city known as Rock City.
51:08
Rock City, Tennessee. If you have not been there, please do yourself
51:13
a favor. Go up there. It's quite nice. It's a city,
51:16
I mean, obviously it's Rock City. So there's rocks caves, it's at
51:21
the top of God. It's up in the Appalachian Mountains or Appalachian Mountains in
51:28
Tennessee, and it's a nice little place where you can see cave systems,
51:32
rock, nice rocks, and ship there's a reason why they call it rock
51:37
City's a bunch of rocks up them. But it's it's I've been there.
51:42
I've been there since I was a child, when I lived in Tennessee.
51:45
But it was great. So I was like, Rock City, I've been
51:47
there. Wow, Okay, rock City, all right, that's weird.
51:55
Apparently Rock City has a Apparently Rocks City has a very has an important connection
52:01
to the gods. And that's almost kind of like an I'm trying to remember
52:07
how they described it's a place where the gods could go to have their battle
52:14
because they don't. They will not. They don't have their battle on Earth
52:16
per se. They have it in like a different realm almost, if that
52:24
makes sense, like an a kind of like an astroplane in a way,
52:30
because they don't they don't literally go in god mode and fight on Earth.
52:39
I'm trying to make it make sense, but it's it's it's a lot more
52:44
confusing, and I'm not doing a very good job at explaining it. So
52:49
it's a place for them to basically be able to just go out without yeah,
52:53
doing any like kind of like irreparable damage to Yes, the world.
52:59
Yes, and all these old gods are coming into the fray as well,
53:05
and of course all these new gods are coming in. It's become a war
53:07
zone both sides. You get this is during the part of the story where
53:10
you get a bunch of little appearances of other old gods that they give names
53:17
to or they give descriptions to you, and you're kind of like, that
53:21
seems familiar. They have a lot of real interesting ones. Granted they're like
53:27
cameos, so they're not necessarily important, But even when y'all read the book,
53:34
you're gonna be looking at some of those descriptions you're like, huh,
53:37
who's that? Who's that? Or oh, my god, I know who
53:39
that is. There's a lot of that because everybody's pulling up, pulling out
53:46
for the war by rock. By the time Rock City happens, MHM Wednesday
54:01
was captured by the New gods and he was murdered. Oh uh, huh.
54:09
They killed They killed Odin. The New Gods killed Odin, and that's
54:13
what started this. That's what the war was gonna happen anyway. But the
54:16
fact that they killed Wednesday sent everyone into a frenzy, and everyone's like,
54:22
cool, we're all going to rock. See, we're gonna fuck shit up,
54:25
y'all gonna fucking die. So that's what started. That's what really put
54:30
the fire under the Old God's asses, is that they killed Odin, the
54:35
one part, the one god that was trying to rally everybody up to fight
54:39
off the New Gods dead like Stab Stab deceased. So as everyone's rallying up
54:49
for the war, Wednesday's bodies retrieved back by Shadow, and he's just surprised
54:57
to discover that his old prison cellmate and mentor, low Key, is working
55:07
as a driver for the New Gods. Oh God, that's suspicion I am.
55:13
Of course, of course low Ki would do it. I mean his
55:15
name is low I don't know what you're talking about. Who's just low Key.
55:21
Let's not play around. We know we all know who that is.
55:23
I didn't. I never knew who that was. I never knew who that
55:27
was? What never so Low is read the book and I know exactly who
55:35
that is. Yeah, it's Loky, It's Loking. So Low is a
55:39
driver for the New Gods and he comes across Shadow and he's like, know
55:45
you, and Shadow is, of course yeah, he sees Loki or Low
55:57
and he's just like, who, why the fuck are you here? And
55:59
he's like, I'm hired for a job. Lookings like I'm just minding my
56:01
own business. Don't look at me. You don't know me? What you
56:07
don't know me? It was it was pretty funny. It's like, what's
56:10
he doing here? Because I already knew that Low Low Ki was Loki.
56:16
It's kind of funny what Loki? Who? Huh? Huh? What huh?
56:23
And even though Shadow is dead, not Shadow, Wednesday is dead,
56:29
Shadow is still bound by the contract he made with Wednesday. At did all
56:35
of this to hold his So back track a little bit, when Loki not
56:44
Loki? When when before Wednesday died, Shadow and Wednesday made a blood pack
56:50
blood pack. No, they drink, they drink to it. They did
56:54
the old fashioned way that drink. They made a deal and they drank to
56:58
it. And the deal was to do for Shadow to do Wednesday's visual by
57:06
reenacting Odin's time hanging from the world tree. So, if you all don't
57:13
know Norse mythology, Odin spent some time. This is where he lost his
57:20
eye. Yes, this is where he lost his eye. He was so
57:27
there's a story of Odin how he lost his eyety he became all powerful and
57:30
shit. He basically was hanging from the world tree for a very very long,
57:37
significant amount of time. He was also not significant amount of time,
57:43
but like nine days, but nine days with a spear in your sides a
57:45
lot. So Shadow is supposed to hang reenact. Basically, to do his
57:52
visual is to hang from the world tree with a spear in his side like
57:57
Odin did for nine days. He's supposed to do for nine days. And
58:01
granted, Shadow's mortal, so he's like, I'm a Everyone around him is
58:07
like, no, you're not doing it. We'll have someone else do it,
58:08
someone that will live, because you do it, you're gonna die.
58:13
And Shadow was like, now I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna fucking do
58:16
it. So he does it. Let me let me tell you something.
58:25
By this point he goes, Shadow goes from love to hate when hating Wednesday
58:32
throughout this whole story because Wednesday is a bitch. He's a bitch. It's
58:37
a big bitch. But Shadow has a weird, weird relationship with Wednesday,
58:45
and he's like, I said I was gonna do it, so I'm gonna
58:49
do it. And Wednesday's went over and beyond for Shadow countless times as well,
58:55
So he's like, I owe Wednesday that to do that. So during
58:59
those nine when he's hanging from that tree, from that world tree, as
59:05
the war is happening in rocks, during those nine days, he is visited
59:12
by Horace. And to those of you who don't know, Horace is an
59:19
Egyptian god, and he's an Egyptian god of kingship, healing, protection,
59:23
the sun and the sky. But Horace is not He has long gone mad
59:34
and now he's just a bird. He's a hawk permanently because they discribed they
59:40
talk about how if they the gods stay in their animal forms for too long,
59:45
they get stuck. Horas obviously got stuck, so the Horace is now
59:52
just a hawk flying around and they do this and he's kind of a weird.
59:58
So in Norse mythology, got the word tree, you got the squirrel,
1:00:00
you got the dragon. You got the serpent. But there's also a
1:00:05
bird that a hawk. Okay, there's a bird, right, I'm not
1:00:09
tripping, right, there's a bird. And with the world that lives in
1:00:13
the world tree. Yeah, there's an eagle, Yes, an eagle.
1:00:17
So Horace is supposed to represent the eagle in the world tree and I'm like
1:00:21
that's interesting. I like what they did though with that kind of merging in
1:00:24
the mythologies a little bit. So Horace is there and he lives his life
1:00:30
as a hawk basically Shadow then during the course of those nine days dies unfortunately,
1:00:37
and he visits the Land of the Dead where he is then judged by
1:00:39
a Nibbis as you do. Shadow then learns that during this when he's being
1:00:47
judged by Nubis, he learns that, sir, you're not just a wardal
1:00:54
no, no, no, none, You are the Sun of Odin.
1:01:00
You were Wednesday's son. He's a demigod technically, Oh my god. So
1:01:07
he finds out that he is the son of Odin and he's like what And
1:01:13
he's part of the deities plans. All this was planned to happen. Odin
1:01:21
to die was Gado doing this visual of nine days off the world tree and
1:01:27
dying and then being finding out all this and hopes that possibly gets godly powers
1:01:34
bringing back to life and shit that was planned. Everything to this point was
1:01:37
fabricated and planned by Wednesday, the war everything, And I'm like, hmm
1:01:45
tee tee. So Wednesday finding out that Odin is the one that started all
1:01:55
of this, wanted to bring the war, the new Gods and the old
1:02:00
gods together for getting Shadow, purposely getting with a woman to have Shadow be
1:02:09
born. All of this low key being there in Shadows cell as a cellmate.
1:02:15
Everything was fabricated and planned by Odin. Odin plays the fucking long game
1:02:22
here. He plays the long game. So he is being judged by anubist,
1:02:27
finds out all this out, and he finds out that he is that
1:02:30
he is part of this god's plans. During all this time, mister Town
1:02:35
arrives at said world Tree and he's ordered by mister World to cut down the
1:02:39
world Tree and I'm like, what cut it down? But Shadows on it?
1:02:45
What the fuck? Horace then decides to go out and find Easter.
1:02:52
This is where Easter comes into play more and he convinces her to bring Shadow
1:02:58
back to life. Shadow then realizes that mister World is low key. Yeah
1:03:16
my face too. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, Loki is
1:03:21
mister World all right, right, And Odin and Loki have been playing con
1:03:29
to man con They've been conning both sides. Oh my god. Odin and
1:03:36
Loki have been conning the old gods and the New gods for a war.
1:03:40
And the idea was the orchestra in shadows birth, his meeting of Loki in
1:03:46
disguise in prison, even Laura's is wife's death, all fabricating Loki had arranged
1:03:52
for Odin's death, thus making the bottle between the New and Old gods a
1:03:55
sacrifice to Odin, restoring Odin's power while also allowing Loki to feed off the
1:04:01
chaos of the battle. So their whole goal was to get their god like
1:04:08
powers back, have all the gods kill each other, have it be a
1:04:12
sacrifice to the Great Odin, and then Loki get that power from just the
1:04:17
pure chaos that's happening during the battle. So both of them, regardless of
1:04:21
who wins and who loses, they're both when coming out on top because they
1:04:27
wanted that power back. I was like, you die a boggle, bitches.
1:04:33
Oh, I was Sugarth beeth So as all this it's starting to come
1:04:45
to light. Shadow arrives at Rock City after he's brought back to life by
1:04:50
Easter, of course, and he confronts Loki, now gravely wounded, and
1:04:59
the ghost of Odin. Loki now gravely wounded with the ghosts of Odin,
1:05:04
who reveals their plans Hobby. Shadow travels to the site of said battle that's
1:05:11
happening right now between the Old Gods and New Gods, and he explains to
1:05:15
both sides that they have nothing to gain from all this, and that Loki
1:05:20
and Odin are playing all them bitches, and there they're gonna be the true
1:05:25
winners of the Battle of the War, and all of them are just chess
1:05:29
pieces in a very long game, long haul game. Y'all saw bitches,
1:05:34
y'all got play like motherfuckers. It was great. I was like, ah,
1:05:41
drag him, drag them. So Shadow then that Shadow tells the gods
1:05:53
basically now. It says, is a terrible place. Don't don't be here.
1:05:57
It's a bad place. It's a bad place for gods. And he's
1:06:00
like, yeah, go back to your homelands. Go you're better off going
1:06:03
back home. Better off going back home. This is a godless land.
1:06:08
Here go home, bro. So all the gods apart and they go back
1:06:12
to their homelands instead of standing in the stay instead of standing in the United
1:06:16
States, and Loki dies. Odin's ghost fades. Laura then asks Shadow to
1:06:26
take the coin from her, and when he does take the coin from her
1:06:30
body, she dies. She is finally dead dead, not like partially dead,
1:06:34
but like good dead. Takes the coin and then he rests. He
1:06:40
goes back and with mister Nancy, and he rests at the at the funeral
1:06:45
parlor. And then Shadow has a dream of the god Ganesha, which is
1:06:54
from Hindu into religion. Ganesha tells him to look in his trunk, look
1:07:01
in the trunk, well not looks not okay, not wherever? Okay.
1:07:08
When I first heard that, I was like looking at his trunk and I'm
1:07:11
like no, wait, he said, look in the trunk, and I'm
1:07:15
like, what do you mean the trunk? Like what? So Shadow wakes
1:07:21
up and he goes back to lakeside, and he walked onto the thin ice
1:07:27
towards the car, resting there because Lake said tradition. He goes up to
1:07:35
the car, opens the trunk, and what does he find the child's body,
1:07:45
the body of the child that we're missing. And it kind of comes
1:07:50
to light that all the cars at the bottom of the bottom of the lake,
1:07:56
in every single trunk, the child of the town. That comes to
1:08:05
light, and he finds out that Henzelman, the elderly man that he's been
1:08:13
quite friendly with as he's been in linksite kind of showing him around town.
1:08:16
He spent Christmas with them, the whole works. The man that he's been
1:08:20
friendly with, turns out he's a deity. He's a god. He is
1:08:27
a he's the god responsible for kidnapping children and killing them. Now he is
1:08:31
known as a Cobalt in mythology of Northern Germany. Okay, he's basically a
1:08:41
little guy. Like from what they COBALT's not a dragon, not a little
1:08:46
dragon guy goblin thing from D and D. A Cobalt is like a He's
1:08:50
almost like a little gremlin, a little goblin, like a take on a
1:08:55
goblin. So Henzelman is taking these children, killing them as sacrifices to himself,
1:09:05
and that's how he stayed alive for so long, because all those deaths
1:09:09
are sacrifices for him, okay, and Hendelman explains that he regrettively must take
1:09:16
one child at a sacrifice each year in exchange for the towns on prosperity.
1:09:23
And I'm like, that's that seems us But okay. The townfolk, of
1:09:30
course, are unaware of all this that's happening. They just assume children are
1:09:33
going missing, and they are unaware that he that Hansleman is in control of
1:09:40
the town at the end of the day. So he finds out they're unaware
1:09:47
of the town sacrifices. Chia then kills him. Well, he thinks of
1:09:56
killing him, but he finds that he cannot kill Henselman. He saved his
1:10:02
life, thank him, he saved his life. However, the sheriff.
1:10:10
The sheriff, on the other hand overhears his whole conversation. It opened fires
1:10:15
on Hisselman. The cops like Papa, I can't Papa, and kills him.
1:10:25
Shadow in the sheriff drive of the sheriff guilty to the point of taking
1:10:32
his own life. He feels so bad for killing because Hendelman, you see
1:10:38
over here is the conversation. He just reacts, So he just kills him,
1:10:42
not really thinking about it. He just reacts Shadow then considers this a
1:10:55
fail saved creed by Henzelman, so that whoever killed him would soon die after.
1:11:00
So it's almost like a fella say so, the fact that he killed
1:11:01
him, he was going to drive the sheriff made to the point where he
1:11:06
was as like a fallaw safe. So he were to die, you take
1:11:11
someone with them, or they be blind or they be the one blame for
1:11:14
the death of the kids. Here the way, it's a fella safe to
1:11:15
make sure that he comes out on top. Yeah, and I'm assuming also
1:11:25
that if he kills himself because he killed Henzelman, wouldn't that be a death
1:11:34
in his name? Would that bring him back? Because so shout with use
1:11:45
and now that Shadows a god or demigod. He uses magic to change the
1:11:49
sheriff's memory of overhearing him and the killing of the goblin the cold Uh,
1:11:58
he leaves the He leaves the sh sheriff and lakeside behind. It kind of
1:12:02
just like the problem solved, you know. He also understands that the town's
1:12:08
prosperity will likely wither away without Hiselman's protection, so the fate of the town.
1:12:14
Basically Shadow killed the guy, and it's like, well, whatever happens
1:12:17
to the town happens to the town. Now, oh well, I can't
1:12:23
do it. I can't do anything about it. Henselman's dead. So now
1:12:26
town's this guy find for itself and hopefully they stuck around. Yeah. So
1:12:32
from there, this is towards the end of the book, Shadow goes to
1:12:39
Iceland and he comes across another incarnation of Odin. This incarnation of Odin is
1:12:50
created by the beliefs of the original settlers of Iceland. Oh okay, Now
1:12:58
this Odin is more of the white man, not the con man. So
1:13:01
he's more of the wise old man, and he is much closer to this
1:13:06
Wednesday, to this particular Odin than the original. Shadow confronts Odin on Wednesday's
1:13:18
actions or Odin of Wednesday's actions, but Odin reports he's like, and I
1:13:24
quote he was me, yes, but I'm not him, that they're the
1:13:30
same different so this iteration, yeah, she says to the same coin,
1:13:40
Yeah, you're right. He indicates that that Wednesday was part of him that
1:13:45
went with his followers when they traveled to the New World and became corrupted.
1:13:50
As he gradually was forgotten, it became that greedy man as everyone was forgetting
1:13:57
about Odin. A Shadow gives this Odin Wednesday's glass eye. Now, this
1:14:06
is the eye that Odin lost technically to the world when he did the whole
1:14:10
world tree fiasco. He lost his eye the game winsdom and Wednesday replaced it
1:14:15
with a glass eye. So he gave Odin this new Odin Wednesday's glass eye,
1:14:20
which Odin places in a leather bag for as a keepsake. Shadow then
1:14:26
performs a single handed coin trick, which he learned from Matt Sweeney. Because
1:14:31
he's been doing coin tricks throughout the whole fucking story. He became a little
1:14:36
obsessed with coin tricks and he learned quite a few of them because he had
1:14:41
a whole fascination with the coin, Matt Sweeney's coin to that coin that was
1:14:45
the moon and all that kind of fun shit. Okay, from there,
1:14:50
Shadow then performs a piece of real magic, putting a gold coin from nowhere,
1:14:57
from pulling a gold coin from nowhere like Mad Sweeney, because when they
1:15:00
first fought, Matt Sweeny told him, Hey, I will teach you how
1:15:03
to grab a coin from nothing. It's taut Shadow, the Shadow. It's
1:15:11
almost like that little piece of memory that Matt Sweeny taught him that disappeared,
1:15:16
but he remembers how that how he does that now. So Shadow pulls a
1:15:23
coin off in air like Matt Sweeney, and then he flips the coin up
1:15:29
and the air and then walks away, and the coin lands, and you
1:15:32
kind of just left to wonder if the coin will ever come back down.
1:15:40
So he kind of just flips it and then walks off, and that's the
1:15:43
end of the story of American Gods. The story's fucking good. It's a
1:15:55
lot the show doesn't like it in some ways, like for example, and
1:16:00
the show You Get You Get the gossip Love Love, which is not this
1:16:06
particular gossip of love was not. Aphroditis Queen Sheba in the Bible. She's
1:16:12
in the book, but in the book they kill her, and the way
1:16:15
they kill her is very fucked up. So of course she's a sex worker
1:16:21
during in this story. And basically, if I remember quicktly, I think
1:16:26
it was the Techno Boy those are Technical Boy or one of the other gods
1:16:30
when of the newer gods. But she's on she's on the street and she's
1:16:34
walking up the street or whatnot, doing her thing, and they come Bine
1:16:39
to shoot her and then drive off and she's left on the floor die And
1:16:44
I'm just like, that's fun because she wasn't that big of a part in
1:16:47
the story in the actual like book, but in the show she has a
1:16:51
much bigger role. You get to learn more about her in the actual show
1:16:56
than the book. The book, she's just there and in the in between
1:17:00
stories because the American gods in between each chapter, they have like a little
1:17:04
segment in the beginning of the next chapter that talks about another god or another
1:17:09
deity that's somewhere in America and why those little stories that doesn't really correlate to
1:17:14
the overall plot was hers and they kind of mentioned her. And then she
1:17:18
dies later on kind of just off Hilter and I'm like, damn, that
1:17:23
sucks. I was kind of upset about that too, Yes, very sad.
1:17:30
Anyway. One of her first stories though, is about her having sex
1:17:34
with a man. This is gonna get teen, This is the Royalty,
1:17:38
am I So have you watched You haven't watched the show, right, So
1:17:44
the show kind of does the same thing as the book did as far as
1:17:46
like her first appearance she has relations with the man or having sex, and
1:17:51
he is. Really she's intoxicating in a way. I mean, she's a
1:17:59
god so love and fertility, so she's very intoxicating and she's like, worship
1:18:02
me, worship my body, and he does obviously. But then she gets
1:18:10
larger and she puts this guy's body in her Oh my god. Yeah,
1:18:19
yeah, she devours him in another way, and he gets absorbed into her
1:18:28
and he's like floating they describe like he's floating on the cause when it's in
1:18:31
like an egg space thing, and he kind of just absorbed into her.
1:18:38
And he's never seen the game out, like he died, like she like
1:18:41
she that's her sacrifice. He took, she took him, and she you're
1:18:47
part of me. Now. Yeah, it's a lot. It's very descriptive,
1:18:51
and I'm like, oh oh oh, and the show shows everything of
1:18:58
that too, and I'm it's like, oh, I love the first off.
1:19:01
I love the energy and the imagery of it all. It's lit,
1:19:05
it's cool, it's weird, it's very weird. Then there's another in between
1:19:14
story about a gen which gens are genies demons depending on which lore you look
1:19:20
at. As far as the pre Islamic lore, Yeah, there's a GEN
1:19:28
running around New York and there's a businessman. Basically, gay sex happens between
1:19:36
this man and the gen. What's interesting about the gen because they did again
1:19:42
they did the same thing in the show too, because the gen that's gen
1:19:45
story shows up too where this businessman is there to sell trinkets and he's not
1:19:49
doing so hot and he's having a rough time, and he gets very familiar
1:19:53
with the taxi driver, and the taxi driver and him have sex, gay
1:19:58
sex, the gay sex, and when they have sex, the gin is
1:20:04
the top and when he climaxes, the gin leaves the body of the person
1:20:17
that he is, that he is in and he moves into the other one
1:20:25
that good sense through his yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it.
1:20:32
So when the guy, when the businessman at the end of the story
1:20:38
of the businessman gets up and leaves, the gin is now inside of that
1:20:45
businessman and he takes on the taxi driver position and gets into the cab and
1:20:49
drive. And I'm just like, what happens to the taxi driver. I
1:20:59
don't remember. I think he either the guy either left or he just or
1:21:03
they kind of indicated that he might have left or disappeared, but they make
1:21:08
it very apparent that the gen was using that body as like a vessel and
1:21:13
they moved from one body to the other in that particular way. And I'm
1:21:15
like, that's that's weird in like an interesting way because the show does the
1:21:20
same thing. But the show does this weird cgi'ed moment where they're both having
1:21:26
or the what both men are having sex and they turn into like one of
1:21:29
these Greek statues and you could see like the see through where like the where
1:21:36
you can see I'm trying to say it in such a PG way. You
1:21:42
can see the top penetrating the bottom, and you can see his deck and
1:21:48
you can see the the climaxing. It's like this gold liquid dust that leads
1:21:56
one guy and goes to the other, and they show the whole thing of
1:22:00
how that process works. And I'm like, this is someone had to animate
1:22:04
that. Someone had to animate that someone took hours of their life to it
1:22:13
three D animate those two bodies and that god like jizz. Yeah. Yeah,
1:22:25
I was like, Neil, are you it's straight? You know,
1:22:33
there's a reason why this show is on Stars because Stars is where you get
1:22:36
all these really shows. This show, Yeah, yeah, this show has
1:22:43
sex and violence and ships. You almost kind of have to do it on
1:22:45
like Stars or show Time or Netflix or something. But I think there was
1:22:56
a time when HBO was that raunchy. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, the
1:23:03
show did not finish out the story. They got through three seasons and they
1:23:06
kind of just ended it or got canceled, and I'm like, come on,
1:23:12
finish out the story because they ended off if I remember, because I
1:23:15
didn't watch season three, but I kind of. Johnny, my boyfriend,
1:23:19
was telling me where they cut off on season three. He got to Lake
1:23:24
Lakeside and they were doing that storyline where they ended it. So they only
1:23:30
got like halfway through the book with like the first three seasons. Technically,
1:23:35
Grantul there's a lot of major changes and inclusions from the show to the book.
1:23:41
But main bulletpointed, go about halfway halfway through the book when they did
1:23:45
the end of the show. Is it just one book that they split up
1:23:49
into three seasons or is it all late? Well, it's one book.
1:23:56
American Gods is just one book. But they made three seasons and it didn't
1:24:00
and they didn't and they did not finish the whole story. There was a
1:24:03
good half of the story that they didn't get to tell because the show got
1:24:05
canceled. Yeah, so it could. It took the series could have gotten
1:24:11
another two seasons before it ended. All for one book, there was a
1:24:18
lot. There was a lot of stuff I didn't even go over on how
1:24:24
like the system of the New Gods worked and shit, But that's not really
1:24:30
one. It hit the major bullet points exactly what I did. So,
1:24:36
yeah, you guys can get the book and read it to hear yourself a
1:24:41
paper and read it. I read the I did an audio book obviously of
1:24:45
it, and I did the tenth ten year anniversary edition. And at the
1:24:49
very end, Neil I think, does the narration for at the very end
1:24:55
he talks about how he did a part he wrote in Jesus Christ into the
1:25:00
story. Yeah, and he didn't quite it wasn't there like there wasn't there
1:25:08
like different versions of Jesus, Like there was like in the Black Jesus,
1:25:12
Korean Jesus. Yes, so in the show, not really in the book,
1:25:15
but in the show. I'm all in the book that kind of mentioned
1:25:17
Jesus, but they never show them in the show Easter because they visit Asara
1:25:24
on Easter Day and Easter Day when they walk up to her to a little
1:25:29
mansion or whatnot. You see a bunch of different versions of Jesus, Korean
1:25:32
Jesus, Mexican Jesus, Black, Jesus, White, Jesus, all these
1:25:36
this crowd of Jesus' because everyone has their own image of Jesus in their head.
1:25:43
Yeah, and I'm like, that's interesting. I kind of like what
1:25:45
they did there. But in the book you never really see Jesus, but
1:25:53
he talks about the very end of the book. He's like, he did
1:25:56
write apart with Jesus Christ in it. He just never really thought it fit
1:26:01
well in the book, so he took it out. Let me see if
1:26:05
I can find that particular part because I'm trying to remember because he read an
1:26:12
excerpt of what that part was, and I think it was with the when
1:26:15
he was on the World Tree for nine days. I think he had interaction
1:26:23
not with just horrors, but he also with Jesus. I'm trying to see
1:26:27
if I can find that. Oh. Yeah, and the show. Speaking
1:26:30
of Jesus. In the show, they had an episode one episode that was
1:26:33
like part of the first season where they show uh, the Mexican border.
1:26:40
Yeah, and there's an undocumented Mexican man who was shot and killed at the
1:26:45
border, and it's they shot Jesus Christ. Oh god, they shot Mexican
1:26:51
Jesus Christ. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, I remember. That
1:26:56
was weird because he was trying to cross. He was killed by a border
1:26:59
patroled trying across in the United States border. Immediately after saving a man from
1:27:03
drowning, Jesus gets shot through both his hands and falls to the ground,
1:27:09
where a tumbleweed rolls over his head, leaving him with a crown of thorn.
1:27:15
Oh god, right, right, it's very brutal. It's very brutal.
1:27:20
By the way, I can't I can't seem to find it. But
1:27:24
he has an interaction with Jesus Christ as he as Jesus kind of gives them
1:27:29
wisdom, a nice little talking to about wisdom and shit and how the world
1:27:33
works and everything. It's not really that big of it's not a big part
1:27:39
of the story, which is why he didn't put it in because he didn't
1:27:41
think it would necessarily fit anywhere. But if you listen to the audio but
1:27:45
for the tenth Adversary edition, or get the book itself, I'll actually have
1:27:48
it at the very end. But yeah, so that's more or less American
1:27:55
Gods. As far as ratings go, if I were to read this book,
1:28:01
I mean five out of five, five out of five. The book
1:28:08
is way better than the show. The book is way better than the show.
1:28:13
Read the book, reade the book, then watch the show. But
1:28:16
I will say the show's imagery though. Jeff's kiss it's so good. Oh
1:28:24
there's American Guys by Neil Gimmon. Nice. Yeah, see it's funny.
1:28:33
How like it doesn't seem like a long book, but from what I can
1:28:38
tell, it's a long book. And the fact that they were able to
1:28:42
make they were able to like spread it out across three seasons, even if
1:28:45
they didn't actually finish the story. Yeah, it's impressive. Kind of like
1:28:49
what they did with The Hobbit if you think about it. Yeah, they
1:28:53
turned in such a The Hobbit was a little book, was it not.
1:28:56
Yeah, it was a little book. Yeah, it was a little book.
1:28:58
They just added a lot of like extra characters, like extra shit that
1:29:02
like didn't even happen in the book and stretched it out. And I mean
1:29:09
the movies came out great. I don't I had no complaints, but yeah,
1:29:15
that was American Gods. Thanks guys, and thanks guys for who are
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