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16- Vampire Lore History: Humans vs. Vampires – Which Side Would YOU Choose? · Arguing Ever After

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Hello and welcome to Arguing Ever After.
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I am Luke and this is the most amazingly costume decorated wife
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of mine, Amber. Hello.
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Together we are the Lord and Lady who lock horns.
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The counting Countess of contention.
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The Duke and Duchess of Disagreement.
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And the king and queen of quarrels.
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We have been together since a little before the blockbuster
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hit came out featuring the day walking Vampire Blade.
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all things big and small and the audience gets the say on who the
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winner is. We are not relationship experts,
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unscientific method of letting the masses decide who is right
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can help solve your argument before you even have it.
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And so here we are at lucky number Sweet 16.
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Sweet 16 not lucky? I don't know.
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It's not lucky for me. Well, I don't know if it was
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lucky for me when I turned 16. Yeah.
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Did you have a Sweet 16 party? No.
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OK. Is that a thing still?
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I don't know. Well, we get to find out in a
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few years, don't we? We.
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Will we? Will.
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For you audio listeners, I just want to tell you briefly what
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you're missing out on cuz first of all, it's still spooky
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season. Still spooky season, and we're
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deep into it. We're on the 4th 1/4.
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And final. Sadly, the 4th and final, I
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mean, we'll still talk about stuff in the woo woo category as
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Amber calls it, but we've been like putting on different types
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of clothing that's, you know, related to spooky season.
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And today we're fully in our Halloween costumes, which is the
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Lord and lady who lock horns. We have horns on.
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Yes, she's got like this fly Lourdes Duchess Countess looking
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dress with a like a big wig with a tall hair.
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Lourdes. Is that a term?
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I just made it up, OK. I didn't think so.
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The she Lord. I guess yes, yes.
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And you've come very decked out as well.
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I think this is the most glamorous I've ever.
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Seen you. I'm like level 10 glam right
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now. I have a what is this called?
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A puff? No.
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Is it a neck robot? No, it's a neck.
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What's it called in that ghost show?
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I don't know. Poof.
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What does he call it? I don't know.
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Anyway, it's this little neck thing and it's like a poofy,
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poofy white thing. And then I got little little
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sleeve poofs too. Yeah, it's pretty great.
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And there's a lot of. Gold lace.
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A lot of gold. And gold buttons.
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And maroon colored pants and the vest and I'm just, I'm feeling
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very fancy. Oh, and I also have hair, which
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is great because I don't actually have hair.
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So although it makes me look like a judge from the 1700s
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because I got like a ponytail going on, if you could see that.
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I'm just, I'm saying I'm feeling very good today.
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And Amber is man. Well, the horns are a little
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weird, but everything else I'm saying you are smoking hot
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today. Thank you.
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That thank you. The Victorian makeup was very
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interesting for me. Not Victorian.
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Or Elizabethan. I don't know, somewhere in
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there. I'm not probably accurate to any
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specific time period, but. They put horns on.
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What they didn't do? That that's not period accurate.
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Maybe they did it like a masquerade.
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I'm. Sure they did.
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Horns and a little mask. Why we could have got masks?
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There's still time. There's still time, yes.
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Anyway, so here we are, Episode 16 and we have our announcement
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of new states, territories, colonies, countries, etcetera.
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What have we got? Yeah, well, we picked up some
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new states, which is really exciting because, you know,
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we've been kind of wondering what would happen while we were
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gone. Obviously our last episodes were
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recorded, you know, kind of back-to-back.
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So we didn't know who was coming, but we got California.
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Oh, the big one. They know how to party.
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California. A Yes, yes.
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And South Carolina. Oh.
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Yes. So those are two new states, but
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we also caught a new country. Uh oh.
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Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago.
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Tobago. Maybe either 1 is.
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Tobago. And I'm saying it Tobago, 'cause
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I'm such a Minnesotan. They probably have an accent, so
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we're saying it wrong regardless.
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Sure, I'm sure, but. You know, is it Caribbean, like
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I don't know, like Jamaican like like Srinidad is that.
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I didn't actually listen to how they spoke it.
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I suppose that would have been a wise move.
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OK, I had a friend growing up in grade school whose parent?
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Whose mom was from Trinidad. Yeah.
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That was before. Did they combine at some point?
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I don't know, but they are two separate places.
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They are they, they, but they for whatever our reasoning is,
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they are grouped together. But it is Trinidad and Tobago
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that sounds more reasonable than Tobago.
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Yeah, but may on do I sound Minnesotan when I say that?
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Tobago. Tobago, I'm not trying to insult
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anyone, it's just how I talk, sorry.
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And in in tradition, each time we get a new country, I give it
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the old college try, which is funny because I didn't graduate
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college, but I did go briefly. I give it a try to say hello in
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that language. Now, their language is English,
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and I would guess also maybe Spanish.
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I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong. A lot of the Caribbean has some
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Spanish in it. But the greeting from there is
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was the scene. Yeah.
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Yeah, which I want to know what's the scene?
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I think we're the scene. We're the scene.
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Yeah, we are. But we're.
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Not in Trinidad and Tobago. But we are with the advancement
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of technology right now. If they're watching us right
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now, they're for sure going to tell their friends.
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Even if we totally diff it, they're going to be like, look
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at these two costumes. Well, yeah.
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Out of control. Out of control for sure.
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We this. Is our best, I think.
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I think so, and we usually do have costumes and our.
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Ego. And all of that.
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We go pretty hard. We go really hard and I when we
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were talking about our costumes for this year, I was like, we
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kind of have built in themes we do.
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And since we were wanting to do spooky season, I was like, we
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need to give them a big show for our final spooky season of the
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month. Yes.
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And so here you go. Here we are.
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And then briefly, I just want to apologize.
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We've had some technical difficulties today, so if our
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sound is a little worse, it's because our microphone died.
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And you know, sometimes you can't predict these things.
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So we'll have to work on getting a new microphone setup.
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But yeah, we'll do what we can to clean it up in editing.
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We're in the market for a new one, so if you happen to know
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anything about podcast microphones, you know, maybe
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drop a comment, let us know. Yeah, we'll enjoy it.
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So like we said earlier, we were gone.
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You know, we had done those recordings because we had been
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on vacation. We'd send that in other episodes
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and that's what we were doing and and we went.
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We did, and we Halloweened so hard.
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We Halloweened so hard. It was the.
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Halloween. Yes, Halloween.
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This might rival Salem. Maybe.
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I I mean like. Salem maybe felt more Halloween
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because the whole town was spirited.
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Yes, but we paid to be in all the Halloween places this time
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and it was really, really fun. We had gone to the new Universal
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Epic Park. Epic Universe.
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Epic Universe. At Universal.
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Yeah, it doesn't matter. And the reason we've gone there,
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you know, as we've said before, was because we wanted to visit
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the dark more monsters. And we went and did that.
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We did, and my daughter and I did some really fun face makeup
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there. For sure.
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You guys looked amazing. They had a do a thing where you
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did makeup to become a monster. Yeah.
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And they both did like Frankenstein's monster theme and
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it was on point. I would highly recommend if you
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go to Universal Studios and you're planning on going to Epic
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to do that experience. As far as theme park things go,
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I think it was really, really reasonably priced if you just
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did the makeup. Otherwise, I don't know if I
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would have done the whole makeover because you're buying
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costume pieces and but like, we got it done early in the day and
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they were touching up our makeup all day for free.
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Yeah. So it was a really cool
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experience. Unfortunately, I will give the
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addition or the park like the park itself was beautiful.
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Yes, most beautiful park, I think actually of any of the
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theme parks down there in Florida, in my opinion.
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I agree the the scenery of the whole of the park, Yeah, which
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isn't just Dark Universe, it's. Definitely not. 4 separate lands
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and they have a new Harry Potter park called the Ministry of
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Magic I think and it's a France based Harry Potter which looked
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amazing. Yeah, they all looked amazing.
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They looked and then they had the How to train your Dragon
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Island of Burke Land of Burke. Isle of Burke.
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That was also supremely well done.
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Yeah. And then they had, I don't know
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if it was a Nintendo World or Super Nintendo World, one of the
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two, but I'm going to just call it Nintendo World.
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Yeah. And that one was, I think, the
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most immersive because it was very Nintendo E.
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OK, so let me ask you something, and it's not the big question.
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What would you consider 'cause I'm not as much of A gamer or at
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all? What would you, what would
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define it to be Super Nintendo versus Nintendo for you?
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Well, the games themselves. OK, like what's Super Nintendo
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and what's Nintendo? It was super rare.
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Like is there different characters?
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Like the whole thing is Nintendo but Super Nintendo.
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I mean, like, well, so in the well, that's two different
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questions, two different answers.
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It's one question for you, and I'll try not to bore you.
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So I've got about four seconds, so bear with me.
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Yeah. They both had the same
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characters carry through from Nintendo to Super Nintendo, but
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the games were redesigned and better and different.
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So they still had the Mario Brothers and Donkey and Diddy
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and Zelda, but they like updated the graphics and they made it
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look better and they changed the story.
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But they did, of course, as they do with every new game system,
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add new games. So I don't know what they were.
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I'm not that much of A like a like a true enthusiast, but the
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ones I like got better from Nintendo to Super Nintendo.
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I'm recalling it being called Nintendo World.
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It might be. So I think that that is, I bet
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they just kind of were like, yeah, everything Nintendo.
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I don't know. So yeah, that was there was a
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lot going on in that world. There was a lot.
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It was a high intensity. Super hard for someone like me
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that is clearly over stimulated easily I.
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Don't know if that's clear to the listener, but.
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No, I mean, but to me it's clear.
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Like I, I don't know what it is, but if you have too many things
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going on, I'm just like, just shut up everything like.
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I did that. Earlier color, turn down sound,
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turn down noise. People like just everything.
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And maybe I could just be in a nice quiet room.
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I don't know. So yeah, you did that earlier
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today. Need a quiet room because
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earlier today we were going to school conferences and I was
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just yapping away and she goes shut up.
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Yeah, because you were. Well, I was trying to park the
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car in something. You just kept shouting at me.
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I was like parallel parking. You're shouting like that's not
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helpful. I wasn't.
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Shouting. You were.
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I was animatedly talking. I know.
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I mean like you weren't mad shouting, but you were yelling
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whatever it was like turn, turn, turn, turn, turn.
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And I was like just you've got to stop.
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You've got to just let me do this and concentrate like I, I
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don't know. I'm sorry that I was too much.
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I clearly was too much. Yeah, I was.
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You have always been this way. Have I always been this way?
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Oh, for sure. Oh, OK, well.
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Yeah, you're still you. It's all good.
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That's good to know that I'm not like changing and.
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I'm usually not that I was very animated, I think it's because I
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felt like I was in a hurry. Yes, yes.
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And I had just had some caffeine, so maybe you know.
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Well, so anyhow, Nintendo was just a a lot for for me after
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I'd already been to a couple other part.
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Maybe not. I mean like the inside, like the
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celestial park was gorgeous and calm and like just lots of
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greenery and water. Features.
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And like, not necessarily calming music, but certainly not
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the Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo.
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I'm so excited that you just nailed that.
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Did I? Yeah, you did.
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Was I right? I'm sure.
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Look at me. Yeah.
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So anyhow, it wasn't that incessantly, because that's what
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it was doing in Nintendo World. And so I kind of always felt
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like I was hurting. But I know that that was a huge
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drop for you and our child. I didn't know that that was
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going to be the one I liked the most.
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I Yeah. I mean, I think like I'll say
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this and, and I don't care because I'm sure a lot of people
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have said it, that I think Universal stopped too short on
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the other 3 lands. Like they all looked really
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cool. But I feel like they could have
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done more like stores and shops like they have at their other
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locations and more places to eat like they have at their other
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locations. And I don't know, I just, it
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didn't, it felt like they didn't go as far as they had at their
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other places. I felt Burke was done.
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Yeah, that was good. That was really.
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Good. Done really well.
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And I think the set for the ministry or whatever, I think
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that was good, but it wasn't filled in.
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Like it wasn't fully I, it wasn't fully realized Dartmoor.
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And I'm not just saying this because I'm a universal monster
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lover. Love it was too.
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Small. Too small?
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Yep. And I talked to several people
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about it and everybody like even employees who are not supposed
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to have an opinion were like, yeah, agreed.
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Yeah. So.
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Well, it was really fun getting and I, I don't know if we hadn't
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have gotten those makeovers, if I would have just been
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completely bummed out. But the makeovers were on point.
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Also, we had the bonus at the end of the day.
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We did think. Where we ran into and got to do
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a character meet greet and picture with the Invisible Man.
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Yes. And then to top it off with the
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monster and the bride. Our favorites.
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Our favorites? I mean, yes, and they were
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great. They were good.
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They were good. Now the thing that I will say
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about it was I thought the ride that I went on, the Monsters
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Unchained or whatever. It was really good.
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It was really good. It was really good.
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It was essentially the story of Dracula fighting.
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I don't know this the some crazy scientist doesn't really matter,
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honestly. It does to somebody, but.
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It sure does, because it was Victoria Frankenstein.
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OK, being fighting against, I don't know, a calmed
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Frankenstein or something. So that that whole part I was
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like meh, but like the Dracula part of the ride and the
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animatronics was really good. And I'm one of those if rides
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are too spinny or gosh, I really have issues, don't I?
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If rides are too spinny or too jerky or too much of the lots of
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rides, they love to put the video screens up.
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OK, Goldilocks. If there's too much of that,
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I'll get motion sickness. I guess I'm just a touchy
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person. I don't think any of these.
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Have to be just. Right, Just right.
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But this one was just right. Yeah.
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And it was really fun and it was really cool to see kind of the
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vampire stuff in there. Oh, for sure.
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Yeah, yeah. And I guess honestly, that's
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what we're going to be talking about today.
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It sure is. Not just our fun vacation, which
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I'm sorry we didn't bring you all with, but check out our our
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pages and you can see all of our.
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We did earn some new followers while we.
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Did This was kind of a challenge I had because I'm not always the
17:31
most outgoing person, that's true.
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But I decided that I was going to tell people if I got into any
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conversations about our podcast to try to drum up some new
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listeners. Yes.
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And I'm pretty sure we got some new listeners because I was able
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to look and see where people have, you know, states we
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already had the new cities. And I was like, that sounds like
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the person I was talking to. I told several people and our
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daughter told one person. I told a few people.
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Yeah, yeah. And it was really, it was just
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really different for me to purposefully engage people in
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conversation, especially people I don't know and not for
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business. Well, I guess technically it is
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a business reason, not making any money in the business, but
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you know. Well, that's fine.
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This is our hobby business. Literally, it's a hobby.
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Look at us. Well, this is OK.
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I'm gonna say the costumes are. It's just a matter of what our
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decision is. We do costumes.
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We do costumes every year, but this one is next level.
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Yeah. The other thing we did while we
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were in dark more that is also vampire related was we ate at a
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place called Das Steakhouse. Yes.
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'Cause that's super German. Yes, yes.
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Yeah, I don't think it's steak Fleisch.
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That's. Probably right.
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That's meat. Yeah, that sounds right.
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And House's house, so das Fleischhaus would have been
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maybe actual German. And that would have sounded
18:50
better. It would have the flesh house,
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right? Whoa, the decorations.
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Will change it, call us up 'cause we deserve some money on.
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That that's what I'm saying. Just a little.
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Just some royalties maybe. Yeah, like a cut of the
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restaurant. But they had in that restaurant
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some very good vampire decorations and art.
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Yes, and like, like fake sarcophagus stuff in the walls.
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And that was very well done. I have been a little fascinated
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by vampires most of my life ever since I saw the original.
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I don't know if it's the original, but one of the early
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black and white vampire movies, not the not the very first one
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that is silent. But the silent 1 was Nosferatu
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I. Think yes, yes, that was.
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With count forlock. I'm sure I saw it, but I was not
19:45
as into silent films and I'm probably still not, but I really
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do appreciate that movie now. And like just thinking about all
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that they had to do 'cause they didn't have what we got today,
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You know it. Wasn't like a green screen and
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digital imaging and you. Yeah.
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But did you know how they made, like, women's lipsticks, like,
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look black and stuff back then? They used green, Green lipstick,
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green makeup. Yeah.
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Worn green lipstick before. I have, but that was for Saint
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Patrick's Day. It's true.
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So, but it's just really so anyhow, I think I recall that so
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much when I wish I could remember his name.
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But when he came on screen and like there was the he can't be
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seen in a mirror type of a thing with the woman in the bedroom.
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And you know, he's just like sitting there with his hands
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hunched over and stuff and. I think that was 1931 Dracula.
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Oh, did you do research? No, but we were just in
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Universal and they had a poster on the wall and it said Dracula
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in 1931. Yeah, same here as Frankenstein,
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actually. I loved that movie.
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I mean I am I. It's a great movie.
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We rewatched it as adults recently.
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Yep, Yep. And when I was a kid, my mom,
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when I was a kid, my mom had us watch all those classic
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Halloween or horror monster movies.
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So it was really. Yeah, yeah.
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That's we just didn't. I don't know man.
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Oh, I kind of feel bad for your early film life, you know?
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I feel bad for you being traumatized.
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I. Wasn't I loved Dracula and I
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thought that he was just such a so fascinating, right?
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Like the concepts of being able to what they call an I heard
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this term and I'd forgotten about it.
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Like True Blood, the glamouring, you know, that's what they call
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blood. So whatever it is hypnotizing,
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you know, like hypnotizing someone and all of that.
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I thought that was really fascinating and then the concept
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of garlic being so scary for them.
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That was I, I didn't like garlic back then when I was a kid.
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So I was like, same, same. I will run away.
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But I love garlic today, so that's good.
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Oh so good. And then the cross, you know,
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like having the cross will keep you safe.
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But I recently read something and supposedly the cross only
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keeps true believers safe from a vampire.
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So if you're. That makes sense.
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Yeah, if you're agnostic or, you know, work, yeah, it won't work.
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Or yeah. I mean, you have to believe that
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that cross means something. Otherwise Dracula be like, get
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that out of here. I don't care, I don't care.
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But mirrors today. So like back in the Dracula
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movie, Yeah, those mirrors were supposed to be silver, right?
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And we're very much like silver for whatever.
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Why do we think silver is so important against monsters?
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I don't know. Cuz think about like.
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Maybe it is. The werewolf, right?
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Like, I mean, silver bullet Dracula, can't you know it's.
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Probably all from some book or movie cuz like so much of what
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we think about a lot of I don't know.
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I mean, I don't actually know where it came from, but we're
23:09
not doing a werewolf episode. So I didn't, I know, research.
23:12
That being said, I don't really do research.
23:15
I'm kind of sure I need to do some looking as to why is is
23:19
silver. I mean, it's almost like it's
23:21
got to be considered a holy metal or something.
23:24
Maybe. Maybe it is.
23:25
You know, if my phone wasn't being used right now, I would
23:28
Google that. But yeah, it's fine.
23:30
Yeah. So, yeah, it was just
23:32
interesting to me back then. And it has continued to be a
23:35
passion. There have been many vampire
23:38
things that I've been, like, on board, right.
23:41
You know, I mean Anne Rice. Bram Stoker.
23:45
Abrams, did you know what his full name is?
23:48
Tell me. Abraham Stoker.
23:51
OK. Of course.
23:54
That's OK. I don't even think that's weird.
23:56
Well, I was like, why? I was shocked.
23:58
I was like, why didn't I ever come up with that would be what
24:01
is short for Bram. It's a fun little twist on
24:05
Abraham. Yeah, yeah.
24:07
Feel like my name was Abraham. I was like Bram, Yeah, Bram,
24:10
yeah, yeah, me too. None of this Abe stuff.
24:13
Yeah, that's so boring. And Bram makes people think of
24:16
Bram Stoker's Dracula Epic book. Yes, it's been remade into, I
24:20
don't know, dozens of movies at least probably.
24:23
But and he. The epic one would be the one
24:25
where Gary Oldman was the vampire.
24:28
I don't know who Gary Oldman is. He was the He was Dracula and
24:31
Bram Stoker's Dracula the movie. I'm thinking of Gary Coleman.
24:36
Not the same person, no. What you talking about?
24:40
Willis? No, it'd be so cute though.
24:43
I mean, it can't happen now. That would not be cute.
24:46
That would be Nope. Yeah, it can't happen now.
24:50
Like what you talking about I. Want to see.
24:52
I want to see because there was one where Christopher Lee, Sir
24:56
Christopher Lee, the legendary, made he rest in peace.
25:00
I don't play Dracula. I don't know who that is.
25:02
Christopher What? No.
25:04
I know who Christopher Reeves is.
25:06
Oh my goodness, Superman. I don't know Christopher Lee.
25:09
Would you, would you recognize it if I told you he played
25:12
Saruman the White Wizard in The Lord of the Rings?
25:16
I know who that is. Like I know who Sauruman is.
25:21
Am I messing up my that's? Sauruman.
25:23
That's him. Sauruman was the evil Lord.
25:26
Sauruman was the White Wizard. OK, I know who that is.
25:31
And then I don't, I couldn't put him in anything else.
25:33
It's like people become the character and then I can't see
25:37
them as anything different, right, like that.
25:39
Brain stuck on Lord of the Rings and Dracula but he did like so
25:44
many movies and real life story of the guy he fought in World
25:48
War One and World War 2 for the British both and then he was
25:54
like a knight and then it's his life story's absolutely insane.
25:59
Yeah, so you know of absolutely insane life stories.
26:04
I don't know. For the current concept of
26:08
Dracula that we have today, there was a lot of research done
26:13
to write that book. And Mr. Stoker was like, I want
26:19
to find out about the most gruesome person in Europe and
26:24
use them as my archetype for for a vampire.
26:29
And so he did. And that's where we've got the
26:34
concept of Dracula today. You know that.
26:38
Like Vlad, be Impaler. Yeah, yeah.
26:40
But he was, so he used the real person.
26:42
He's a real person. Vlad, he used him, is what
26:45
you're saying? Yes, that's his inspiration and
26:47
he's even more messed up I think, than actual Dracula.
26:52
Well, maybe. I mean.
26:55
Except, you know, the eating of of people.
26:57
And what? He did way worse things.
26:59
Well, sure. I mean, I think most of our
27:01
viewers probably know at least some of the story of the real
27:04
Vlad the Impaler. Yeah, he's pretty awful.
27:06
I think I would prefer like if I had to hang out with the two,
27:10
I'd be like, give me Dracula all.
27:11
Day instead. Yeah.
27:13
Oh yeah. Because, because he could also
27:15
glamour me. That's and I wouldn't know him.
27:18
You'd just be like, I'll do whatever.
27:19
Yeah, I'd be like, whatever you say, Dracula.
27:22
But you know, I feel like if I were to meet Vlad, I'd be just
27:24
screaming. Yeah, OK.
27:28
Well, so long as you weren't the enemy, that would be important.
27:30
Yeah, but he wanted to go to like where they, the current or
27:36
most recent home of major vampire lore was.
27:39
That's why he went to Eastern Europe and he's like, cool,
27:42
apparently I didn't. I think Transylvania, right,
27:45
Right. I don't know if you'd think
27:46
Transylvania, but I think. Well, that's the that's the
27:49
made-up place, isn't it? No, there's a bit of
27:51
Transylvania. OK.
27:53
In Romania. Oh, right.
27:55
But like originally at that or at some point like the big hub
28:00
was in Russia and I can't remember, I, well, I remember
28:05
that the term vampire sprouts from a Russian term which I
28:11
could not state to you. Right, because it's in Cyrillic.
28:14
Cyrillic. It's in that that language that.
28:17
Yeah. Whatever Russian and whatever.
28:19
Yeah, so. But if that's so, if you hear
28:21
that, you'd be like, Oh yeah, that makes sense.
28:23
Where vampire came from the term vampire, but the concept of
28:28
vampires have been around since Mesopotamia.
28:33
OK, I I believe it or not, I did a little research.
28:37
Oh. Who do you think the oldest or
28:39
first representation of a vampire is?
28:41
It is Lilith. How old is that?
28:44
The beginning of time. No, no, I mean the story.
28:47
The beginning of time. What do you No, no, no, no, no.
28:51
I don't mean in its in its mythological form.
28:53
I mean when it was written in real time.
28:57
When it was written in real time, it has so it.
29:01
That's Bible stuff, right? No, when it was written.
29:06
No, because it's not. Lilith is not a part of the
29:09
Bible. OK, when was it?
29:11
So it was before written history, it was a oral history
29:16
and then it was put into writing when they're like, cool, here's
29:20
our and I don't remember the name of the book or how it goes,
29:26
but like Jewish folks, their oral tradition was put into a
29:31
book. So like there's two Genesis
29:34
books. We do a lot of talking about
29:36
religion for two people who don't have much real knowledge
29:42
experience. But anyhow, that's where it
29:44
originated. The first vampire.
29:46
To differ, I feel like I have a decent amount of knowledge and
29:49
experience in religion. OK, great.
29:53
Now, where do you think the first vampire came from?
29:57
Well as we would loosely define it not as its current sort of
30:02
quote UN quote modern day with the whole blood sucking fangs
30:05
and whatnot. Sekmet from ancient Egypt 5500
30:10
ish years ago. She was either the daughter of
30:16
or appointed by the sun God to punish humanity and she was a
30:21
demonic demonic goddess with the head of a lion.
30:25
And she would eat and consume the blood of and the parts of
30:29
people. This is very interesting because
30:31
we spoke about all of this about an hour and a half ago.
30:36
Well, about 30 minutes ago is when I found out so.
30:40
I'm so proud of. Thank you the Internet I'm so.
30:42
Proud of you. Coming through in the clutch.
30:44
So, OK, well, let's talk a little bit about history.
30:47
What else did you learn? Now you're thinking I did a lot,
30:49
OK. That's true.
30:50
OK. I really didn't, but I read that
30:52
and I was like, OK, well that checks out.
30:53
Segment. I've heard the name before.
30:55
Yeah, well, I mean, but you know.
30:57
What I mean the powerful 10? OK.
30:59
That's another thing I learned about Sekmet.
31:01
But so when I was doing research as to why people thought, you
31:05
know, vampires existed and things like that, it has to do
31:09
with, you know, honestly, early, like early childhood deaths and
31:15
frequent deaths going on, not just with children, but like
31:18
when if there was a new plague or a new sickness, they're like,
31:22
gosh, somebody in our family. And it would be like family
31:26
people that they would always be worried about.
31:28
They're like, they were evil. They did something wrong.
31:30
And because they were evil and did something wrong, God was
31:33
like, poof, you're a vampire. So when they were dead, just in
31:40
case they had done something wrong.
31:42
And this was a huge thing. And actually as late as 18-50
31:46
people were worried about their family being dead Vampires here,
31:49
even in the US, but that checks out.
31:52
They would do this. That's bomb.
31:54
Wasn't Bram Stoker's Dracula written in like 18?
31:58
Yeah. 17, Yeah, yeah, there were.
32:00
So the historian. The hysteria of vampires
32:04
continues and most the time when you see the height of it, it's
32:07
when there's been like large sicknesses.
32:10
It's probably I I mean this one of the reasons that I semi
32:14
demanded we have an episode about vampires is because
32:18
they're like probably the most, I would say, prolific and
32:27
pervasive topic of monsters or demons or like because there's I
32:33
bet I couldn't even tell you like how many movies have been
32:36
made. If you just said even in the
32:38
last 100 years, which really is the start of movies right to now
32:43
there I bet you there's hundreds of vampire movies.
32:46
I would be shocked if there weren't, yeah.
32:48
And I would not say there are hundreds of pick any of the
32:51
other monsters like from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
32:54
There's probably in I bet in the 20s, thirties, maybe of movies.
33:00
Same thing with like, I don't know, werewolves.
33:03
There's maybe there's more about witches, Maybe.
33:06
But I don't. I don't.
33:07
Know man, vampires are like a big deal.
33:09
I don't know. Well, I mean in the concept of
33:13
being undead. Right.
33:16
You know, and people were like, dude, I, you know, like if your
33:20
child died and, you know, you're like, well, we gotta go dig up
33:24
Uncle Marv. Uh oh.
33:26
And take a look and see. What happened to Uncle Marv?
33:28
Well, you know, he's most recently dead.
33:30
And just so you know. So is he a vampire?
33:32
That's what we're working. Yeah, yeah.
33:34
And we're digging him up. We're digging him up.
33:36
Oh my goodness. We're gonna dig him up and.
33:38
Or Uncle Marv. Yeah, I know it's real hard for
33:41
the guy, but he's, you know, he's not, you know, he's kind of
33:44
hurting our, our family. So we need to do this.
33:47
So they would dig them up and they would look at these people.
33:49
And now today is a little different because of the
33:52
embalming and all of that, right?
33:54
But they'd be bloated and gassy and stuff like that.
33:57
And they would be pale because they're dead.
34:00
And the concepts of long fingernails and hair, when you
34:03
die, your stuff continues to grow.
34:05
So, but they would look at that. Forever.
34:07
No, I think forever. I don't know until those things.
34:10
I mean, it's a really long time. So they would look at it and
34:12
they're. Like they get like the long
34:14
curly weird. But I don't know if it's curly
34:16
but after. You die if you're in a coffin.
34:17
You grow. You keep on growing fingernails.
34:20
You do. Well, I don't know for how long
34:22
it must be at some point this stuff, but I mean, it's about
34:25
it. It's just it's not messed up
34:27
because nails and hair are just dead skin cells or dying them
34:32
continually but. But if you're dead, your body is
34:35
no longer going through the process of living and dying.
34:37
It's dead all the way. Well, you know what?
34:39
What if you're vampire? Sure isn't, I guess.
34:42
Yeah, that was their thought. They're like this dudes clearly
34:45
well fed because he's bigger than he was when he was alive.
34:48
And he's got a huge fingernail. What about?
34:50
The and he's gassy and he's smelly.
34:52
You don't get fangs. I don't think they were looking
34:53
for fangs because the sucking of blood is not necessary to be a
34:58
vampire. The sucking of blood, right?
35:00
Well, in modern vampire Lord, it certainly is, yes.
35:03
But they would do all sorts of things to trick these people.
35:06
They would do things like they thought vampires were, I don't
35:10
know, stupid or something. Our current theory is, you know,
35:13
they're very smart, but they would be like, cool, let's just
35:16
flip him over. Just turn him over.
35:18
Because then when he's back in the ground, he's gonna crawl his
35:20
way. He's just gonna get deeper into
35:22
the ground. They thought the dead people
35:24
were gonna crawl into the ground.
35:26
Instead of crawling up, yeah, sometimes they would put spikes.
35:30
That's where the original spike was.
35:32
Because they're like, well, if he tries to crawl up Uncle Marv,
35:34
he's just going to get this, this, stake this.
35:37
The stakes through or. Whatever.
35:39
Yeah, that'll happen to him. So that's oh.
35:41
I did read about the stake through the heart that the the
35:44
only way to kill a an original vampire so not a not a created
35:49
vampire is using white oak as the wood.
35:54
Well, very specific. For the steak.
35:56
So that wouldn't be very helpful if you're from like Africa where
36:00
white oak is not native. It wouldn't be.
36:02
You're not killing sect met no in Africa.
36:05
No. Well, how could you?
36:06
How? Can't you can't be done.
36:08
Another thing they would do to trick their family OK is
36:11
apparently. This is really interesting
36:14
correlation, but they believed that vampires were like
36:20
obsessive compulsive so they would be like cool.
36:23
They believed that vampires had to count things.
36:28
Oh like is that why they became Count Orla?
36:31
I don't know, but I mean, if I think of this and along with
36:34
Count of on Count of Sesame Street, it actually makes sense.
36:37
But they'd be like, cool, we're gonna throw out a bag of rice
36:41
and and the vampire won't be able to come into our house cuz
36:44
he's gonna have to pick up every grain of rice and count it.
36:49
So I wonder where some of the like like all the now that I'm
36:52
thinking about things cuz you said stuff that people had a
36:54
superstition about vampires. Like I wonder where the origins
36:58
of like the mirror thing is or like the sunlight thing is or
37:03
the garlic what how those came to be.
37:06
So. Oh, and how about the whole they
37:10
can't come in unless they're invited?
37:11
I. Couldn't find that one.
37:13
Oh well, tell us about what you found, because I didn't.
37:15
With the sunlight, it's that they never saw them during the
37:19
day. Because they were dead, Uncle
37:22
Marv. Yeah, dead Uncle Marv never
37:24
showed up during the day, so clearly dead Uncle Marv can't be
37:27
out in the sun. OK.
37:29
So I mean that's a kind of a logical, I mean illogical but
37:33
logical. Yeah, kind of messed up thought
37:36
just happened in my head. What would happen if, and I
37:39
imagine there's probably some sort of a funeral director
37:44
person that might know if you took a dead body and put it in
37:48
the sun, does it get a sunburn like a like a normal person or
37:51
does it get it like way worse? Maybe that's where it came from.
37:54
Maybe someone put that Uncle Marv up on the surface and then
37:57
he like turned bright red like 10 minutes.
37:59
They were like, he's a vampire. He's allergic to the sun.
38:03
Yeah, I don't. Know what if you can get mega
38:05
sunburn when you're dead? You know what that does?
38:07
That answer probably exists because of all the cadaver
38:11
research that we're going to. Find out after the show because
38:14
I want to know. All right.
38:15
Well, sounds good. Sounds good.
38:16
What else? Oh gosh.
38:19
I mean, those were kind of some things that really stuck out to
38:22
me. And like when you look at today
38:24
again, the silver thing. The Mirror.
38:28
Well, the mirror has something to do with silver, and I think
38:31
that's maybe where I kind of went.
38:33
And I found this other thing about the counting thing and I
38:35
was like, that's hilarious. Like here, clearly, let's throw
38:39
out some matchsticks and you're like, can't get into that door
38:41
because I got to count them all. Yeah, I don't know why they
38:44
would even think that that, but it was just a lore and people
38:47
would do that to keep their families safe.
38:49
Did you find out about the Why do they have to be invited?
38:52
No, but I did see that in some places they felt if you carried
38:56
your debt out of the house feet first, they would turn into a
39:00
vampire. What?
39:03
Yeah. So don't you got to go ahead
39:05
first. First, apparently.
39:07
No vampire. Maybe.
39:10
Man, this is crazy. So this is like a thing that's
39:12
been forever. Forever.
39:15
Maybe that's why it's the one of the biggest stories.
39:17
I mean, you can't go wrong with that.
39:19
It's, it's just interesting how it's been adapted because then
39:21
today you have like the glitter vampires, right?
39:24
That's just one story. Well, what's cool, I think about
39:27
current, maybe it's maybe it's all but current vampire stories
39:30
is vampires are basically like like super powered.
39:34
Like they can fly and they can, some of them can turn into bats
39:37
and they can like they're super strong and they're super fast
39:41
and they got, you know, I don't know, like all these cool.
39:45
But that's all newer. That's all newer.
39:48
I mean, I don't like the idea of the sucking of blood.
39:51
Yeah, but I do. There was one story.
39:53
I think it's the glitter story. Anyway, our daughter likes the
39:58
the glitter story. And one of the things they can
40:01
do is they can feed on animal blood.
40:05
Yeah, OK. Yeah, yeah.
40:07
Well, I think. That's not too bad.
40:09
There's a We already eat animals.
40:10
Yeah, well, there's a difference, I think when it
40:13
became entertainment to like fear, right?
40:17
So during fear, they were scary. And once they hit entertainment,
40:22
well, what sells? And they're like, that's let's
40:26
make them romantic. Oh, and pretty.
40:28
And yeah, and extra powers and glamory.
40:31
Yeah, yeah. So I think that's a lot of it.
40:33
Yeah. I don't know, It's just a lot of
40:36
fun things to to dig into, especially at this time of year.
40:41
It's fun every time of year. I certainly have my favorite
40:45
versions of Dracula or vampires. And hot take, it's not going to
40:51
be a team Edward or what is it, Edward or Yeah, that sounds
40:55
good. Yeah, I'm, I'm, that's not where
40:57
my favorite vampires come from, but I think I just might be a
41:00
little past that craze. Well, we did learn that we might
41:02
both have the same favorite vampire.
41:05
Yeah, but that would. It's semi cheating but it's.
41:08
It's not that it's necessarily my favorite vampire, it would.
41:11
It's just kind of like what powers and all of that work?
41:15
I'd have a really, I don't know if I were to pick one, there
41:19
would be different reasons for it.
41:20
Like, I don't know I I am thinking though.
41:24
But Luke, if let me ask you a question.
41:28
OK, and surprise. And so here we are folks.
41:31
The moment you've all been waiting for in this corner,
41:35
claiming to weigh in at 125 lbs lowered it if you're if you're
41:40
paying attention. I don't.
41:41
Claim this because she wear in the dress to prove it.
41:44
OK, so we got the most amazing. I'm just gonna redescribe this
41:48
costume for the listener because you're missing out if you're not
41:50
seeing the video, which is on Spotify, FYI.
41:53
Yes, she's got like full like gothic makeup like Elizabethan
41:59
era, like whited whited face, which isn't that hard because
42:04
you're pale, super easy, but very very red spot blushed
42:08
cheeks and a beauty mark on the lip and red red lipstick and a
42:13
tall white wig. I know it's like a beehive.
42:16
Fancy red dress with a like a neck ruffle.
42:19
That's the name I was trying to come up with earlier.
42:22
So anyway, that's what she's sporting today and a couple of
42:24
horns because, you know, that's the.
42:27
Lord and Lady. The theme of our deal?
42:30
That's what she's coming in hot with today.
42:33
And in this corner, we have Luke.
42:36
Lord Luke to be exact. That's right, Who also is just
42:41
so dapper in this outfit. And I'm really loving the horns.
42:46
OK, good. I feel like it's just really
42:49
bringing in our butted heads that we were dealing with a
42:52
little bit earlier today. We did now this and This is why
42:58
we are at such a straight up tie.
43:00
It's not even funny. Uh oh.
43:01
What's the record? Equal wins and losses.
43:05
We're tied, tied, tied. Tied, tied, tied.
43:08
What's the OK? What's the count?
43:10
Well, we have 16 episodes. Right.
43:13
We have three ties, OK? No, we each have six wins.
43:19
Dang, and two ties? Oh no, there's probably still
43:24
one open or something. Maybe it's like 5.
43:26
And anyway, OK, so we're both tied on wins and losses and
43:30
ties. And the stakes could never be
43:34
higher. I love that.
43:36
The stakes. Yeah.
43:39
You and the jokes, yeah. You're always coming with it.
43:41
I'm trying, you know, I mean maybe with these.
43:44
Little curls coming off of you. OK, stop.
43:45
Stop anyhow. However, I got a sweet.
43:49
Phone. So my question for you is.
43:51
Oops, fix my horns. Yeah, fix those if there were,
43:58
for whatever bizarro reason. OK, A plague upon the earth.
44:04
OK, where half of society at random at random was vampires,
44:11
vampires and the other half of society at random you don't get
44:16
depict. I understand.
44:17
It's human, OK? You are allowed to choose your
44:21
side. OK.
44:23
Which side would you choose? This is a heck of a question.
44:27
Mm hmm. This is a heck of a question.
44:30
So I just want to say that I don't love the randomness part.
44:36
Totally random. But I mean, I like to believe in
44:41
my head that I get to keep the people around me that matter.
44:43
But if no, you don't. If I don't, if I don't, I might.
44:46
I might. You're right, I might not.
44:49
But if I had to pick a side, I'm in a vampire camp.
44:56
Why? Well, part of it is because
45:01
probably from all of the books and movies that have existed
45:04
that have told me what a vampire is, there are obviously some
45:09
relatively significant drawbacks.
45:12
Like for the most part, it seems like folks think that you got to
45:18
like kill and suck the blood of any people to survive.
45:24
So that doesn't sound like the greatest thing.
45:28
And you don't know who would be part of your part of your crew.
45:31
So that's another situation that's a problem.
45:34
But I like the idea of like being able to the other the
45:39
other crazy stuff they can do. I like the idea of being able to
45:42
fly. Immortality has its like, you
45:48
know, I kind of, I kind of like the idea of immortality.
45:50
It sounds kind of fun because you could get super smart, you
45:55
know, like you could, you could hone your craft and be, you
45:58
know, really good at a lot of stuff if you live forever.
46:02
So I like the idea of getting better at a lot of things.
46:04
Like you can get really good at physical stuff like, you know,
46:09
certain, I don't know, physical practices like, and you could
46:13
get good at, I'm speaking so improperly.
46:17
You could get good at grammar. So I like it.
46:22
I like that. And I like the idea of being
46:26
super fast and super strong. And there's some vampire stuff
46:32
that like, well, what if because what if, what if you could still
46:36
go in the sun and you just glitter camps.
46:38
Sorry, you're defining that. And what if I could eat the
46:41
animals? That's out too.
46:43
Yeah, the the good parts are out.
46:45
Well, OK, that's I'd still pick team vampire because I like the
46:48
idea of having the powers. And and there's this to be said.
46:53
If it was a 5050 split and vampires are real, there's
46:57
really I don't think it anymore. There's no longer a question of
47:02
do they have to live in secrecy in the shadows because because
47:06
you really wouldn't be, you couldn't be if you're happy if
47:09
half society only came out at night, it'd be pretty obvious
47:13
that there was a difference. And if the other half was food,
47:17
it'd be pretty obvious that there was a difference.
47:20
So, so I think that like for those reasons, I would pick team
47:25
Vampire. There's some reasons I could see
47:27
that the argument on your side might be a little better, but I
47:31
still think the idea of super super strength, super speed,
47:35
being able to fly or turn into a bat, which is technically being
47:38
able to fly and living forever all sound like pretty cool.
47:47
So I think that's my that's my spot.
47:49
I think that's where I'm at. OK.
47:52
I might come up with other stuff because you're going to say some
47:54
stuff and. Let's see.
47:56
OK, well clearly this is an argument, so I disagree.
48:00
I would not want to be a vampire.
48:02
That's a problem. Well, I mean, if you're a
48:05
vampire, I'm. Going to Glamour.
48:09
You, that's how I'd have to work for me to be agreeable to
48:12
anything. But I'm not going to be a
48:13
vampire because I don't. I don't think I could live with
48:19
how they live Right. Like the concept of having to
48:23
kill people. If half of society is vampires
48:27
and the other half is human, we got a numbers issue there right?
48:31
Like we humans are only going to be.
48:35
Food. Think about that.
48:39
So. And it it's a reproduction, so.
48:42
Sure, but I mean, like, we're going to be farm animals, which
48:45
sounds pretty awful, but it sounds better than being having
48:50
to eat somebody, right? You know, and and knowing that,
49:00
like thinking about the concept that I would then be having to
49:03
eat someone's family or maybe my own, you know, all of that.
49:07
Like that's just things I don't, I wouldn't want.
49:10
I don't think I could. I think I'd be a suicidal
49:13
vampire real quick. But then the other thing is so
49:17
like, just based on that alone, I, I could not do that.
49:21
Also, I don't care to fly. Not even a little, not even a
49:24
little. No, I don't That sounds pretty
49:26
terrible. And really I you're saying you
49:32
wouldn't have to hide that you can live out loud.
49:36
But I mean, if it just happened like that, I think you almost
49:39
would have to because you have to hunt your prey, right?
49:47
And to hunt, to be a good hunter, you have to kind of
49:50
pretend that you're not really trying to kill somebody, right?
49:54
Like, OK, that's just, you'd have to make people believe that
49:58
you're not a vampire. But then the other thing is,
50:00
although I am super pale naturally, I love the warmth of
50:05
the sun and not just like necessarily on my body, maybe
50:10
for a few moments because like I kind of do have that sun
50:13
resistant skin. But to lose out on that and to
50:18
just hope for like the two warm nights all year long.
50:23
Oh, it sounds awful. And like being dead or undead,
50:28
the body's always cold. Like just that.
50:30
Just living within my own skin sounds pretty unbearable.
50:35
I also don't like small spaces, sleeping in a coffin.
50:38
No, thank you. You know, So I just feel like
50:42
those large things again. I love garlic.
50:47
What am I going to do? Be like, I can't, I can't eat
50:49
that. And it's salt.
50:51
Yeah, everything's salt. Yeah, it would be really, really
50:55
terrible. So I mean, I don't think I could
50:58
also like be a vampire, live forever while all the humans
51:06
that I know and all of my bloodline, you know, like while
51:09
they're dying. Yeah.
51:12
Maybe not all the humans. Half the humans I know are
51:15
dying. I would not want to live that
51:17
way. And the concept of learning
51:19
things, OK, but I mean, does it really matter?
51:24
Because like now I'm going to get really technical on
51:29
education and stuff like that and jobs and things like how are
51:34
you going to keep money? You still need things as a
51:36
vampire it. Would be so easy to get money as
51:38
a vampire. Or just steal money.
51:42
Well, no. If you got really good at stuff,
51:43
you could just be good at stuff that makes money.
51:46
But like OK, I mean I do accounting.
51:49
OK. I'm not going to be doing that
51:51
forever. I have a pension, you know, like
51:54
that's going to run out. Money's going to run out for
51:57
someone, you know, like me, you know, or a Social Security that
52:00
you think they're going to just fund that forever.
52:02
They're not. So then, you know, like just
52:05
economically, it does not feel like that would work.
52:08
And I just, well, I feel, I feel I can see what you're saying
52:13
about the supernatural gifts, you know, because, you know,
52:17
like you're not killing them. Chances are they're able to
52:20
regenerate all that. Like maybe your body might be
52:22
feeling better on the inside, but feels like too much of AA
52:27
dark, cold, lonely life. Because I don't think I'd trust
52:32
other vampires either. Well, I mean, I OK, that's
52:39
that's fair. Are you?
52:40
Are you done? Yeah, that's my answer.
52:42
So the answer for me is heck no. I don't want to be a vampire.
52:46
I'm team. Human OK well just to counter a
52:49
couple things cuz I have to no. You, don't you?
52:53
Could just turn the heat up where you are.
52:55
But you're always. You could also.
52:57
See your bones? No, cuz it's not.
53:00
That's not depicted. Vampires aren't always walking
53:02
around shivering. That's not true at all.
53:04
I. Know, but do I?
53:05
Well, they touch gold like that. You're so cold.
53:08
Right. But that's the people that touch
53:10
them, sense them to be called. The vampires themselves don't.
53:13
And you don't have to fly. You could just go real fast, run
53:17
real fast. And technically if you can run
53:19
real fast. And I think they can also swim
53:21
without problems because they don't have to breathe.
53:24
Old lore says they cannot cross running water.
53:29
Interesting. OK, well anyway, take that away
53:31
so you can run real fast and you could go to a warmer place that
53:35
was like warm at night. You could just do that.
53:37
You don't have to be stuck in Minnesota.
53:39
I would definitely not be stuck in Minnesota if I was immortal.
53:43
I might come. I might come visit.
53:45
Well, because I'm sure some of the people I like are going to
53:48
be cool and and it doesn't necessarily have to be like a
53:52
always animosity relationship. I wouldn't trust you if you were
53:56
a vampire. I didn't say you, I mean again,
54:01
I would glamour you. So that's the solution for part
54:03
of my problem. But I'm talking about just like
54:05
normal people. There's a lot of people in
54:07
today's society that not only believe vampires are real, but
54:10
like want to be like hanging out with vampires.
54:12
They want to be familiars and stuff there.
54:14
Are people who believe they are vampires.
54:17
I mean, of course. So I'm just saying like there's
54:22
a way to make this vampire situation work out and not be,
54:25
you know, always, always terrible, I think.
54:28
Well, OK, I disagree, but my fundamental beliefs would
54:34
disagree with me being able to do the job that's acquired by a
54:38
vampire. Maybe it'd be like a Van Helsing
54:40
and just slaughtering vampires. I don't know if I could do that
54:43
either, maybe. I feel like you'd be able to get
54:46
over that. You're kind of crazy.
54:47
You know what I would I be like you're trying to kill me.
54:50
Stake to the heart. Yeah, yeah.
54:52
There you go. You get like one of them big,
54:55
the boom boom guns that have the cylinders but just shoot out
54:58
stakes. You'd be like, do, do, do, do,
55:00
do, do, do. That'd be cool.
55:02
A Tommy gun. Sure.
55:04
That's what I would. Want same concept except real
55:06
big. I don't really want it, but that
55:08
would be what I would choose. OK.
55:10
Just kind of sit there and a little.
55:12
I get those old timey accents, you know, Be fun.
55:17
We could probably talk about vampires for another hour, but
55:19
we shouldn't. We shouldn't.
55:20
That's it. That's it.
55:21
So what? We've made our.
55:23
Cases. We've made our cases.
55:24
Now, folks, we need you to vote. Yeah, we do.
55:27
Because for me, no, for me, I mean, who we got to break this
55:31
tie? Again, Team Human, what side are
55:34
you currently on? Well, that's unfair.
55:38
Would you like to have supernatural powers?
55:41
I think a lot of people would. OK, so.
55:46
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55:50
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Rate US on your app. Yeah.
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56:15
I'd take a four. I'd take a four too.
56:17
I'd take a four. There's nothing wrong with 80%.
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You know what I don't want A1A1. That'd be said star rating.
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56:35
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Yeah, check this video out. They must be vampires.
56:40
Look at them. You do look, I mean, I'm.
56:42
Just saying I have to have a pit.
56:44
Because if we took the horns and just put some fangs in and like
56:49
got to dark makeup, we for sure look like vampires today.
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