Rambling 298: The Grounding of Stuff

In this episode of the Rambling Podcast, hosts Jack and Cristina embark on an exhilarating journey through the absurd and baffling ideas that have captured humanity's imagination. From the enigmatic Bermuda Triangle to the mythical Elysian creatures, this episode promises to ground some wild theories and concepts that have puzzled thinkers for generations. The conversation kicks off with a reflection on their previous episodes, where they explored various creatures and the mysteries surrounding them. Jack and Cristina delve into the origins of their exploration, which began with a quest to understand the phenomena of the Bermuda Triangle. As they unravel the threads of their investigations, they find themselves veering into the realms of clouds, weather patterns, and even groundhogs! One of the most intriguing topics discussed is the concept of adrenochrome, a substance that has been linked to various conspiracy theories and mythical narratives. The hosts delve into the historical context of adrenochrome, connecting it to tales of ancient civilizations and their often bizarre practices. They explore the idea that adrenochrome may have been used in rituals by figures such as the infamous Countess Bathory, who is said to have sought the substance for its supposed youth-preserving properties. As the episode progresses, Jack and Cristina navigate through a labyrinth of theories linking ancient civilizations, including the Atlanteans and Elysian beings, to modern-day myths. They ponder the significance of the equator in these ancient cultures and how it may have influenced the development of societies across the globe. Their discussions touch on the importance of grounding these ideas to make sense of the seemingly chaotic connections between history, mythology, and science. Listeners will find themselves captivated by the hosts' dynamic conversation style, which blends humor with profound insights. The episode serves as a reminder of the importance of questioning the narratives we are presented with and encourages listeners to think critically about the world around them. So, if you're ready to dive into a world where the absurd meets the profound, tune in to this episode of the Rambling Podcast! Whether you're a seasoned listener or a newcomer, you're bound to find something that sparks your curiosity and makes you rethink the stories we've been told. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and share with your friends as we continue our quest to ground humanity's most bizarre ideas!

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Topics Discussed

  • The Bermuda Triangle and its mysteries
  • Elysians and their connection to ancient civilizations
  • Groundhogs and adrenochrome
  • The significance of the equator in historical contexts
  • The role of Hermes and the nature of necromancers
  • The implications of time travel and reality manipulation
  • Vampires, werewolves, and the evolution of myth
  • The secrets of the Catholic Church and its figures
  • The duality of good and evil in the realm of deities

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Rambling 298: The Grounding of Stuff Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised. Jack: Going live in 5, 4. Cristina: What does live mean? Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack. Cristina: And I'm your host, Cristina. Jack: And this is the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas. And I think we've been doing that successfully lately. Cristina: Yes. Jack: So last week and the show before then, we were trying to get to what I was trying to talk about this entire time, but we got busy grounding things because that's our job. And that sidetracked us from getting to our one and only goal that this week we're definitely, without a doubt, gonna get to, which is, again, the fill people in on everything. And we've been doing this for a very long time. All we ever haven't. Cristina: Yeah. I don't understand. We've been doing what we've been supposed to be doing. Jack: Well, because grounding is our job, we can easily get sidetracked into grounding things because everything is groundable, if that makes sense. Cristina: So then we've been doing our job. Jack: Yeah, yeah, it's. It kind of loops back and forward to some degree, but I think we have some pretty good Grady greatest hits when it comes to grounding things. I think the whole Elation saga was beautiful. There's a lot, but it's infinite. And like, that gets frustrating. I think finding independent creatures that aren't related to them dope, and many things that are related to them dope. And it's funny because a lot of that, even finding the Elysians, really began about trying to see what the h*** was happening at the Bermuda Triangle. Cristina: That's where it started. Jack: Yeah. We were trying to find out what was happening in the Bermuda Triangle and then looking into clouds. Cristina: And then I thought it started with the unicorns. Jack: Well, that led us to the Alicorn that Antonio Dracohan. And that's kind of technically, that's the beginning. If this was a movie, if this was structured into a movie, the way that it built up into the Elysians. Right. Not even talking about the Elysian specifically, but a meta look at the show we were originally looking at. I think it was. Oh, no. Because then we migrated to the Groundhog. We were just looking at creatures and we were breaking apart clouds. There were some weird cloud patterns that we wanted to look into. And so we went through an entire breakdown of clouds, and then we veered off. We knew that the something weird was happening with that collection of clouds on top of the Bermuda Triangle. So that Allured us. Do you remember that? Cristina: Yes, but I don't think that had anything to do with Alicia. Jack: Not yet. Cristina: That was part of whatever story we had before. Jack: Well, no, because we were trying to find out what was happening directly under them. What was. What were they there for? Why was there a collection of clouds over the Bermuda Triangle? And I think then we looked into the groundhog, which I don't know if he ever finished his training. Cristina: Was it. Yes, he was part of training. To talk to the clouds. To the clouds? To get the clouds to talk to the sun, I think. Jack: Yes, because the sun is technically a cloud, too. Cristina: I think we were trying to stop some impending something from the cat People. Jack: Yes. Maybe an invasion or something. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Oh, no, no. We were trying to originally. Originally find out what was happening with the other stars disappearing in the great void. Cristina: Oh, yes. Jack: And we would need to talk to the sun to do it, which we. Cristina: Would use with clouds, but we thought we could use the. What is it? The. The groundhog. Because he could communicate with the weather. Jack: Yes, exactly. Oh, man. Cristina: The last one just died. So we had to train a new one. Jack: Yes. We had to give him adrenochrome. Cristina: Yes. Jack: He was Phil, right? Cristina: I don't know. Jack: It was Steve. Philly is the one who died. And then Steve was his replacement. A random groundhog we just gave a bunch of adrenochrome and started training. Cristina: Secrets of hogs is that they always were taking adrenochrome. Jack: No, it was specifically the one for. The one that they were talking to. Cristina: Yes. Yes. The groundhog 00:05:00 Cristina: that was chosen for Groundhog Day is always taking a dream. Jack: But that one died. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And so we were training one the way they were doing because we accidentally killed Phil. Cristina: I think so. Jack: I don't remember how we killed Phil, but we killed Phil. I know that much. Cristina: I believe that is right. Jack: And then maybe they don't even know we replaced Phil. They don't know. They're just humans. And then we replace Phil with Steve, and they have no idea. And then secretly we've been training Steve in order to talk to the clouds so that the clouds. Specifically weather, I guess, which was also bouncing off of when we were talking about lightning as a component, but unrelated to the clouds, because those are two different individuals interacting. Cristina: Yeah. So that's the idea. And then we're gonna communicate with the planet somehow. Jack: And then we're gonna get. Go on and on Steve. To talk to the clouds. The clouds would talk to the sun. The sun would. But still, something weird was happening down there. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And actually, Steve wasn't going to talk to the cloud specifically. There was a cloud with a face that we were gonna go talk to. Cristina: And we needed. Jack: Yes, yes. And we needed Steve for that. Cristina: Okay. Jack: So we were specifically gonna talk to that one cloud. That's a cloud. God or some crap. A demi cloud. And he was gonna talk to the sun or something. Cristina: I guess so. Yeah. Jack: Cool. But in doing so, we were like, weird that these clouds have. They're like floating over the. The Bermuda Triangle. And so we veer off and we're looking at different underwater things. I know. We were doing that for a while and we stumble upon. Actually, no, we ignore that for a while because we did Bimini Road, which we didn't. We thought about, you know, leading into the. Again, from a movie's perspective. It saw us doing these things, and then it shows us going somewhere else and discovering a different clue. But the. The. The viewer knows. The viewer knows. It's like, oh, this is related. The Bimini is by the Bahamas. A little tiny road that we looked at a long time ago that had the statues underwater. And it was like, kind of aiming towards the Bermuda Triangle. And we're like, oh, yeah, they're definitely down there because of xyz. Reason we still didn't know that the Elysians are the Atlanteans. We're just like some other people over there. And then we started looking into the Persian Gulf oasis because we were doing Atlanteans in specific. We were still calling them Atlanteans until we got to Antonio Draco. Cristina: I feel like before him, we were talking about the equator. Jack: Yes. Which was another thing related to them, wasn't it? But again, we didn't know. We're just like this giant equator surrounding the Earth. And it looks like these places built along this line were all in communication with one another or in communication with some bigger governing body. But they were all in sync with us. We still haven't found out what the point of that was. I thought we did the whole equator line. I know that a bunch of them died out. Is it because it was the line which. Cristina: Like, which Satan went to give them the tech? I guess it's easier for him to travel in a straight line. Jack: Yeah, I guess. Or maybe delivery was easier between the countries. So, like, we keep passing it down the line. We're all next to each other and he doesn't have to personally deliver it. It'll always keep rolling down the path. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Or maybe the equator is just the line in which the civilizations were Gonna be built like they were starting there. So we see them as just. Cristina: But why did they choose that? Jack: I. Why versus, like become a bubble or. Versus, like anything? Squiggly line. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Why a straight line, Right? Cristina: Yes. Jack: I have a theory on that. And I think it has more to do with Hermes. If you look at a lot of Hermes research, there were a lot of these symbols. He was essentially, if you remember, he was building comprehensive, like transmutation circles with a bunch of detailed symbolism and junk as part of meditation and energy moving and whatever he was doing. I think similar to the Hedron Collider, which is probably one of those. I think this line surrounding the Earth was the beginning of a complicated design that maybe was to envelop the Earth or a design that does in fact envelop the earth. And we have only found that specific 00:10:00 Jack: version of it interesting. Cristina: If it relates like, was he murdering them? Like, did they die off or did he kill them? Jack: No, no, no. Oh, well, that's another interesting. Cristina: Because we know the first. There was a different line and no one made it from that other line. Jack: So you think the Kearney. No. But the equator is just where everything moves along. I guess they must have done it ahead of time. Interesting. Interesting. Look at it like this. Look at it like this. Because this does have to make sense to some degree. Right. The equator gradually shifts place. The globe exists. And the equator is always by itself moving simply because of how rotations work and whatnot. So what if the line is starting to catch up? But they built society there and never told them. These guys are always working in secrecy. And the equator slowly kept migrating to that line. Slowly kept until it lined up. We know that alignments matter. We know the solaces work in Castillo in order to bridge a gate that allows people to go into the Shadow Realm and teleport along. So that's. Alignments matter. Somehow. If they built civilization, let's say north to south and started the line west to east, and it was always moving clockwise. It would eventually migrate from west to east to north to south. If in that moment something happened. Great transmutation. And all those people died. Philosopher stones. This could explain why some of these structures are some of the oldest ever seen. Cristina: Yes, they were. They weren't building on that line when it was the line. No, they were just way before the. Jack: Build on the line. That was unreal. And nothing they could track. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Or understand. Cristina: But someone did. Jack: Yes. And in order to get them to do this successfully, they did need technology. Maybe it was never about sharing the Technology. And the way we think about it, for Lucifer, maybe Jehovah man, we jump back and forth here real hard. Cristina: Bad guy. Jack: Who's the bad guy? Cristina: Okay. But Lucy was doing something sketchy. Jack: He was doing something sketchy. He was doing something really ridiculously sketchy. Because everybody was gone. Cristina: Yes. Jack: There's nobody there at all. It's all 100% gone. All that really exists is the ruins to that. And Jehovah recorded is telling him no. He is like, but come on, bro. We need this. Cristina: Yes. But we know he at least did it or tried to do whatever it was that he did twice. Jack: Because when he went to Shadow Realm. Cristina: No, because there was an old equator line that is destroyed of ruins and stuff. Jack: And the newer one, the new equator line, has nothing built on it. Cristina: It has nothing built on it. Jack: No. Oh, the new equator line is just where the line kept moving to. Cristina: Oh. Only the old one had the ruins. Jack: Only the old one had the ruined lines. Cristina: Oh, okay. Jack: If there is, we don't know where because nobody's thought about this. Cristina: Okay. Jack: And maybe it would be trackable. Maybe major cities line up in a way we never thought about or something. And then one day, by default, because. Cristina: It could be more than one line. Through the Earth. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: Around the earth. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: We just have to find. Jack: We would just have to find to connect the dots. Cristina: Yeah. And it has nothing to do with the equator. Just. We just need to see that pattern. Jack: But you know what's even scarier at this point, this means that 12,000 years ago, we weren't beginning to develop. We know that their technology was crazy, but they weren't beginning to develop immense technology. They were already at earth scale technology. 12,000 years ago, they could just, in one shot, boom, across the earth, kill everybody and make. Well, at least along the line of the equator. Maybe they didn't want to erase humanity. Cristina: That's what I was thinking. That the whole purpose of that would be so that not all of it was gone. Jack: So maybe they don't even need these factories like Epstein's Island. What the h*** is that for? Well, then again, where it's two different purposes. Cristina: Specific people. Jack: Yes. That's to drain. That's for adrenochrome. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Versus something like stone. The stones. So maybe they've been able to make stones casually, whenever they want. Cristina: Yeah. We just need to find more lines. Jack: We just need to find more lines. On the flip side, wars are an easy way, and they're clearly in charge of the government. Cristina: Somehow 00:15:00 Cristina: that seems more of adrenochrome. Than a stone thing? Jack: We don't know. Cristina: We don't know. Jack: We don't see. In some instances, we see the bodies, but in other wars, it's just like, oh, yeah, some private attack happened. And it's like, wow, really? Or is it only when we drop, like, bombs and we can't go look at the evidence? Like, that was probably no bomb. You guys are just showing us a bunch of. And really, at the end of the day, what happened was you guys made another stone. Cristina: Would the bodies disappear? Jack: The bodies would disappear. Cristina: Okay. Jack: If it's for adrenochrome, the bodies would stay. Cristina: Mm. That's why most of them has to be for adrenochrome. Jack: Have you seen the bodies in most of them? Cristina: I think someone has. Jack: How do you confirm that person was real and not just another person? Just saying. Oh, yeah, I saw it. Cristina: Oh. Jack: I bet North Korea makes stones regularly. Cristina: Who would know? Jack: I bet there's human farms there where they breed humans. Because nobody knows where they breed humans. And then just en masse. But you dilute the genetic pool if they're always just cattle. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And you're just making the. There's something about the more complex the life force. Well, the life form than the more complex life force. Yeah. What is the rule? The more complicated the life form, the more complicated the life force. The less complicated the life form, the less complicated life source. It began a long time ago at Butterflies or some s***. Weird. Because we discovered a bunch of adrenochrome before we found out it was connected. Cristina: Mm. Jack: We found it through butterflies. Well, we've heard about it here and there, stumble upon things kind of pointing in that direction, then when they looked at it, and we found that through butterflies, that was, like, the original, like, attempt. And then other people throughout history, which I remember specifically, we looked into that were figuring it out in other ways. The countess in the 1700s or 1600, somewhere around there. It could have been the 13th. Who the h*** knows who was killing her? Her maze. That was for adrenochrome. And so we found, again, adrenochrome somewhere else, and we didn't. She might have not known, and we might have not known. But, again, a bunch of people did, though. So maybe she was in the in group who knew about adrenochrome. And although the people who wrote about it didn't get it, she knew why she was doing it. She stayed young, and they were all, oh, yeah, she was using it for her skin. And that was. Make her stay young. And it's like, no she was drinking that s***, bro. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: That's why she actually. That's why it actually worked. F***. That's exactly why it worked. She was killing them b****** and drinking it. And they were. The people reporting on it didn't really understand. They thought she was bathing in it, but she was just putting it in the tub to have a source of it. Cristina: Ew. Jack: She could continue to drink. I guess she was vampiring the f*** out. And this has a lot to do with the area she was in. They probably thought vampirism worked this way. We interpret it in the horror movie style, but vampires are relatively new. They weren't. Cristina: Vampires are based on adrenochrome. Jack: Vampires are actually just based on Dracula, and Dracula ain't even that old, so. S***. You get my point. Like, there wasn't a concept of vampires back then. Their understanding of a vampire was crap. Like the Countess. And like, Dracula could have easily been based on the Countess in a castle. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Attracting maids. Cristina: Yes. Jack: And drink. Literally drinking their blood. Cristina: It's the same story. Jack: It's the same story. And we found the Countess and we found a couple of, like, old school serial killers who were doing the same thing. We. We did that for Halloween one. So we were just looking at weird instances like that. We have a couple of really good Halloween episodes. Cristina: Well, didn't do any this year. You got anything for right now, this. Jack: Moment to do some Halloween? Cristina: Yeah. Jack: No, I don't now. We didn't do it for this year, but next year we should hit all the holidays. Find. I mean, it's interesting to go look at something that we haven't looked at for a while and with new eyes and find something we missed before. Cristina: Yes. Have we ever did a Thanksgiving thing? Jack: We've done many Thanksgiving. Cristina: Oh, yes, we have. But we haven't talked about the turkeys that we save that we pardon. I don't get that. Jack: We pardon turkeys. Cristina: Yeah. The President pardons turkeys every year. Yeah. He puts them in a hotel, keeps them fed and happy, and then he, I guess, brings them in front of people like the, like. I don't know, like the groundhog. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: And 00:20:00 Cristina: it's like, these turkeys cannot be eaten. Eaten. Jack: They must die of old age. Cristina: Yes. And I don't know how anyone keeps track of that. Jack: I bet. I bet that's the turkey the President eats. Cristina: Oh, that's awful. Jack: I bet some president was a douchebag and did that. If that's not the case, somebody was like, you know what? This is a stupid tradition. I want that turkey President. But no, no. Replace the turkey. Nobody's gonna know. I want that turkey. I want to eat a famous turkey. Cristina: The one that you said can never be eaten. That's messed up. Jack: Why? What's the difference? How would anybody even know as long as the illusion persists? Cristina: I don't know. I feel like you'll get. You will not get away with it. Jack: I. I want to get away with it. And then on my deathbed as president, I'll be like, get cameras and everything. I'll be or ex president, however that works. And I'll be like, for the world to know I ate that turkey. Cristina: That's messed up. Jack: Boom, boom. Will anybody give up? Nobody's gonna give a. They're gonna be like, he ate a turkey. Cristina: They're gonna say, you're a monster. Jack: If they. If it happened, like, the next day that it came out, they would be like, oh, my God. Yay, though. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Right now, most of them send you. Cristina: To jail to rest, to live the rest of your life to. Jack: I'm. I'm on my deathbed. Cristina: Who cares? You're gonna be in your deathbed in a jail cell. Jack: That's. I mean, I guess it wouldn't matter to me. Cristina: It wouldn't matter to you? Jack: No, no, it wouldn't matter. I'm already dying. Like, what do I got? Days. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Like, spend the rest of my days in a place that has to take care of me for a fact. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Whoa. Cristina: But you'll be in orange or whatever color those suits are, and then they. Jack: Die in a box. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: That's cool. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Concrete box. Who else did we find that was using adrenochrome? Oh, we found some Greek stories with it. That was afterwards. That was after we found out the Elysians. When do we find out they were called the Aletians? Cristina: Probably to do with Greece or Egyptians or. I think it was Egyptian. Jack: I think it was in the text that the Egyptians had discussing the Elysians, because they also referred to them as the Sea peoples. Cristina: And so did the Greek. Not the Greeks, the Mayans. Mayans. Jack: We looked at Maya a bunch of times. We looked at my. A long time ago without knowing they were connected to the Egyptians. Cristina: And we also, like, recently found out that they have portals to the shadow realm. Yes, that we think. We were thinking there. Jack: No, we knew they had portals to the shadow realm. We found out recently they were crossing people regularly. Cristina: Yes. Yes. That's happening everywhere. Jack: Yes. Cristina: And we had no clue that was happening. Jack: Yeah, we looked at that. Didn't know that there was this Entire civilization there went like two years without having any idea. Meanwhile, we found the. The villages around the world, including the one in Puerto Rico. That's a really famous one. All these groups that are just mixed shadow realm, Earth realm creatures found out. Cristina: All those people that were talking crazy stories about, like, I'm afraid that my child's gonna be kidnapped by a fairy. And then we realize, oh, crap, there's. Jack: They're onto something. They're on to. They were. It wasn't fairies, but they were kind of on the market. Cristina: Yeah, they were. They were close. Jack: They were close. They were close. There's a bunch of creatures kidnapping children. So it was based on some interesting y. Cristina: They were insane. Jack: No, man. It is a kind of weird road that took us here. Adrenochrome was a weird one. We found that so many times because. Cristina: It'S the easiest way. Jack: Everything, even by accident. I really, really. I always think about the story about the wolves in the. In the battlefield and how they would go out and like, when they were starving because the battlefield scared off all the other creatures, so they had nothing to hunt, and they were just out there feeding on the freshly dead people. But those people were in war, bro. They had just unloaded their guns, had the guns unloaded on them, seen friends die, seen bombs go off maybe in that time, or depending when. When wars happened. Because this was in the, what, the 17, 1970s, 1917s, and another one again in the 1950s. So there was bombs already. And like, this resulted in some crazy creatures, bro. Yes, that's nuts. Werewolves, which then, in hindsight, kind of informs our older story when we looked into werewolves and we found out that the natives would dress up with the. Cristina: Fur of the wolves and then turn into wolves. Jack: Not turn tools, but run 00:25:00 Jack: around the woods. Cristina: There was some stories of people wearing wolf fur and then turning into wolves. Jack: No, that's what they thought they saw. That's what the people. The. The white man. Cristina: Oh, he saw. Jack: Because they would see the. The problem is that they were with wolves. The natives in these areas would be wearing the fur of their family members who were wolves. They lived in nature with the wolves, naturally, and so they would be wearing the wolf fur and the wolf would be seen by the people who lived around there. And then they would see shortly thereafter, a native wearing wolf stuff, and they think it's the same thing. That's where the original myth of the werewolf came from. But the actual real world equivalent is a werewolf, a wolf drinking adrenochrome and then resulting. Cristina: The werewolf is a Wolf becoming a man and not a man becoming a wolf. Jack: Exactly. It's not becoming a man, but kind of getting a more bipedal look. It's very Pokemon. Cristina: Okay. Jack: You know, just transformed and now it's bipedal for whatever reason. So. Yeah. Cristina: I don't know. I feel like there are some men that claim to have turned into wolves, though. But are those just crazy people? Jack: No, because we also have people that were turning in the things. Not everybody has exactly the same reaction, but it's more or less the same reaction. We've had men turning into wolves. No, I don't think we've ever had people turning into the wolves. Cristina: There's a guy, I think for the church, he was confessing that the devil made him dress up as a wolf, turn into a wolf to fight the. No, the church forced him to turn into a werewolf so he can fight the demons or something. There's some wild story like that. Jack: We talked about it on the show. Cristina: Yeah, it was before all of this. It's way in the past of just talking about creatures not connecting to anything. Jack: That was when we were doing werewolves one and two, right? Yeah, man, I don't even remember that. Cristina: Yeah. I think he was claiming that the church would turn him and like a bunch of other homeless people into werewolves to fight demons. Jack: What the. Well, I don't remember all that. Cristina: I don't know what that is. But I know that they do have weird stuff happening. Jack: We know because the Church does weird s*** all the time. Cristina: Yes. They have portals and they also have items. Sacred items. Jack: Yes, they do, actually. Cristina: Body parts. Magical body parts of saints. Jack: Yeah. They hoard all the things with power they could find. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: But later we found out that was entirely because they were trying to erase the existence of magic and. Which is really just really complicated science. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And the body parts and things are saving are. Because think about it. They're saving a cloth that was protecting Jesus and he came back to life in or something. And it's like. Well, that was some technology that was reviving him or whatever. Or that had like proof of some residue of some kind of compound that they don't need anybody to know exists, you know? Cristina: Okay. Jack: Of the fruit or something. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: So they. They keep all of these things. They either have some kind of ability attached to some complicated technology or whatever the case might be, and they confiscate it all and hide it. Cristina: That's crazy. Still. That's pretty crazy. Jack: And still they couldn't compete with actual Jesus. Cristina: Well, they're. They're either Helping him or hiding him? Jack: Why would they need to hide him? Cristina: Because they're working with the. The. I'm thinking fairies, but that's not the word. I'm thinking. Who, Who. What is he? Jack: What is who? Cristina: Jesus. Jack: He is an Elysian Alicia. Cristina: And they're either working with Jesus or the Elysians. Jack: The church. Yeah. I think. I think we have three parties. Cristina: You think they're separate? Jack: I think they're separate. I think there's more than three parties. I think party we actually. I think. I don't think we've ever broken this down. I think party number one is the Elysians and their homies, like the Mayans and the Egyptians. Group two is Jesus and whoever's backing him, which is unclear. Cristina: Shadow people. Question mark. Jack: Question mark. Because we don't know. Because group three is a shadow people with Lucifer and all those individuals. Because even the shadow people who've joined our Earth Realm teams, we're calling those as part of Jehovah's team. Okay, so those are the Elysians. We have the Elysians there with all those people, including the shadow realm people that are there. Then we have the shadow room people who are a separate entity entity 00:30:00 Jack: made up of many Elysians and humans who've been outcasted one to the shadow realm. We got Jesus. That's three main group tied up there. Then we have Mab and her group of people somewhere doing something that's hyper unclear to us. See, we all never know. Exactly. Then we have the Greek that randomly pop up and are like always keeping up. They're like Piccolo. They're always keeping up with Goku and like how. Okay, but they're always there. And we don't know if any of this or even if the Elysians themselves are in any way connected to the original top of that, which is Jehovah's father Yahweh and his father Eloi. And how. That we still don't understand the giant leap from all of that all the way back to Yaldabao and how any of them might connect to what's happening now. Cristina: Yes. And we have no idea anything about Hermes either. Jack: Hermes, he's like neutral party. It looks like he helped everybody do whatever. Yeah, he's such a central figure. Cristina: But he might have even helped Jesus Satan with the line. Jack: He might have. But we know many instances suggest he might have helped Lucifer. Cristina: Yeah. So that's interesting. Jack: It looks like he might have helped Lucifer. It looks like he might directly be the teacher of Jesus. Yeah, it looks like he gave a johor who Worked or was friends or something with Jehovah. Cristina: And he has some connection with the Greece. Jack: And he has some connection with Greece. And he might have existed back with Eloi and Lilith, which suggests that he would have also been around at the time of Jesus, Jehovah's father, Yahweh. He would have been in contact with every single everything straight through. Cristina: Yes. Jack: I don't understand how. Because he is a God, he might actually be. Everybody else is some being that got there. He might actually. Dude, based on how we're describing him, right? Cristina: Yes. Jack: He goes everywhere, lives immortally, contacts everybody. Now, here's an interesting part about Hermes, which, based on his talks, might make sense. Let's say Hermes does come around in the year 12,000 BC, right? That's when he's born, not before then. But what do his lessons teach us? He says the fabric of reality itself is up to you to move around and control as you please. If you understand my teachings, you can just casually move in and out. Nothing matters. Nothing is of consequence. Everything is readjustable. Could it be that although he began there, he easily just shows up in the past? Is that a capability of his? Yes, because we know many necromancers can just f*** with time. Cristina: He can too. Yeah, I guess. Jack: Just poof. So he was born recently, but he could just be back there? Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And that explains him showing up everywhere. He became he again. He was just a creature that became a God beyond anything all these other people could even fathom. Cristina: Mm. Except for Jesus, maybe. Jack: Well, he taught Jesus. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: It to this moment, it kind of does almost look like Hermes over Jesus. So if we were to just calculate their abilities and what they've done. Cristina: Yeah, but if Jesus gets to actually ex. Goes follows those principles that he has to teach, like what makes the difference, what makes him under. Jack: It looks like Hermes can cross into the fairy realm. It does not seem like Jesus can. As far as we know. Cristina: As far as we know. Jack: As far as we know. Cristina: Exactly. I don't know. That doesn't really. Jack: Only based on what we've found, he. He hasn't. Maybe we'll find something different to the contrary. But as of now, it looks like Hermes is the only one who's figured out how to enter this other space. With all of the efforts that everybody else has. I haven't seen a mention of Jesus doing that. Cristina: Well, maybe that story of him going into heaven. What does that mean. Jack: Going into heaven? Cristina: Yeah. And the end of his story before he comes back to Earth, like, what is that? I don't Know exactly. Jack: He dips out. Cristina: Could that be him exiting? Jack: But then that means he's always behind. He didn't just inherently have the ability like these other 00:35:00 Jack: things. He discovered that like a science. Which means that Hermes mastered it. He's a beginner at it. Hermes is still above. Cristina: Yeah, but that doesn't mean he can't get to that point. Like once you got it, you got it. Jack: He has a head start. Is he gonna. Is Hermes gonna continue getting better or is there a top? Which means if there's a top, they can catch up and land there. If not, then. Because again, if it's science, you can keep pushing it. Oh yeah, you can continue to push it. Cristina: But I think Jesus is still up there. Jack: He would be number two. I'm thinking he's number two. Cristina: Yeah. Because he did escape. I think he might have gone there. I think that was the story. Jack: And that's simply because we cannot rank things from Elfame. We have no idea. Yeah, it's possible. Those things are way more complicated in ways we couldn't comprehend. Cristina: But he might have gone into alpha and then came back. Jack: Yes. Cristina: I think that's. That's the story to say that. Yes. Jack: Right. But yeah, no, 100%. But that doesn't make him. I still think we've discovered that there is less appearance of Hermes. He's more rare to come across. So he's better at being invisible. He's been around longer, so there should be more of him. But he is good at being invisible. Cristina: But also he's using much of different names. I don't know. Jack: He always goes by Hermes. Cristina: He does. Oh yes, he does. It's Jesus that goes by different names. Jack: Jesus goes by different names and is still nowhere as elusive. Cristina: Okay. Jack: We don't know necessarily anything about what Hermes looks like. We just know he was robed. He was nice and discreet. Okay, he was robed. We have no descriptors for his face. We. We know just the things surrounding his robe. His face is usually in shadow and the robe itself was very dark. Gave look to that traditional necromancer thing, secrecy and privacy. So they adopted the look. Cristina: The necromancers. Jack: The necromancers adopt the look. That's also why we always see Jesus robed up. Everybody else might have layers to the robes, tuck ins on their ways. But Jesus wore like gown style things. It was very necromancer. And he's known for having the scarf with the hood. Cristina: That's not Mary. Are you sure? Jack: Jesus had the same thing. I guess Mary was also trying to be private. Oh, but that's logical. And the most important facet here is. I mean, Jesus would have to become a more more complicated threat eventually because he's still half Elysian. Cristina: Yeah. What is a Hermes? Jack: Human. Cristina: How do we know he's not half. How do. Jack: We don't know. We just know that you have to be human to be an echromancer. Cristina: Yes, but Jesus proves you could just be half human. Like you don't have to be full human. Jack: Jesus proves you could be half human. This brings up an interesting problem and it totally explains the Elysians not wanting Elysian men or women to breed with humans. Because nephilim that become necromancers may be problematic. Cristina: Yes. Yeah. Jack: Is the fear the necromancers, the few necromancers we know about are problematic. And then there's Hermes, who seems undefeatable by any standard we could imagine. Cristina: But then you think they'd be an enemy with him, but there don't seem to be. Even though they fear everything he is, they don't want another version of him. Jack: I mean, everybody's trying. Think about what the requirements were for the Golem. Think about what the requirements were for Jesus. You have to be able to cross all three thresholds seamlessly. What? Who's the only other individual we know who could do that? It's Hermes they're trying to imitate Hermes. Cristina: Yes. Jack: Right. And he ain't a fairy. They just know a human learned how to do the thing and that for whatever reason, Elysians can't be necromancers. Cristina: Yes, but they don't want to make more. They do and they don't. They don't want it. Jack: You want to control them. They want to be able to make a necromancer and control it. Cristina: Hence the creation of like things like Jesus. No more. Jack: Jesus was a problem. Yeah. Think of not Alexander. Was it Alexander? No, the. The sword guy. 00:40:00 Cristina: The sword guy. Jack: Who was being tricked? Arthur. King Arthur. Who was being tricked by Merlin. By Merlin. But the whole goal of that instance was a necromancer or not a necromancer. A person with the ability to cross between thresholds who could be controlled. Cristina: But he was all human. As far as I know. Jack: He was all human. Yes. And he was too easy to control. It became problematic. And we know that Merlin was an elation. Or is an elation. I don't know if that guy still around. But Hermes equals. I mean, not Hermes, Merlin. Equal elation. Cristina: He has to be half. Jack: He has to be half. Yes. You're Right, because how is he? And that's why he's whack. Cristina: Why is he whack? Jack: Because the more human you are. Cristina: So you think he's more than half human? Jack: No, he's the whack necromancer. Merlin is whack because. Because he is half and half. Cristina: But you have to be half and half. Jack: No, you have to be human. Cristina: Oh, but Jesus is half and half. And that he's not. Jack: Isn't half and half. Cristina: You think he's human. Okay, psychic abilities. Jack: Stories give us some details here to fill in for this thought, but I have some filler ideas. Right. For some blank areas. The stories emphasize how important Mary is, not just to the cause, but to Joseph. Joseph is a magi. A magi. And he is one of the other three who will later show up. He was her personal escort. They are Alician soldiers of some sort. Cristina: Okay, right. That's her man, though. Jack: No, that's the lie they're telling. Cristina: Oh, okay. Jack: But where you're getting at is where I think was maybe intentionally left out. The Bible tells us he's her man. Of course, the Bible is foolish and made up in order to suppress the truth. But the Bible tells us. So what motivation did the Bible have to tell us he was her man? Why wasn't he just her brother? She was gonna be a virgin and have a husband. Cristina: Yeah, that's weird. But weird. Jack: Could have. Any other narrative could have been spun there. Yeah, maybe. Maybe he was human and that's why he was different from the other Magi. Just like Mary was human. Because we know that child is part of Jehovah's DNA. But maybe the intention was to water it down and so it's not just Jehovah. What part of this do you need science for? Where was the experiment taking place in? Well, maybe both of them are the bad. Thus he's only one third Elysian. Cristina: Oh, crap. Okay, those make it more interesting. Jack: Interesting. So he has as much stake in this as the Elysians, but, you know, you're also just a human bro. We can get rid of you quite easily. So you're just gonna escort her? Well, you got bodyguards are gonna be watching, and they're gonna show up when it matters. You're gonna see them, and you just gotta take her over there. Where does he go when he gets. He just vanishes. The story just cuts off. We assume he left with the other Maggie, but he just. His story just ends. So what is that about? Well, his purpose was complete. He probably died off. Cristina: He died off. No, he died off. Jack: They get. They get to older age. Oh, but like, what's his. Why do we stop talking about him so heftily? It's because of this reason. He is really inconsequential, but is part of the equation, which is why he was actually present there the whole time. He's like, no, it's my Katu and I'm gonna follow this lady. Cristina: Okay. We just couldn't say, yeah, they were. Jack: The chosen ones to some degree, but it was just human. Cristina: Okay. Jack: You know, And I think that was a way of diluting some science was used in order to dilute elation DNA. Even if elation DNA is better for stones, they're not going to get rid of themselves. So they could easily run this tech, but no humans. But in order to make a necromancer, you need human. And they want one that they can control. But I don't know if they have Hermes, why they would need to. I don't get that part. But Hermes himself then trained Jesus. He's so neutral. 00:45:00 Cristina: He doesn't. He seems like part of the group, but he doesn't seem like part of their group. Jack: I think he literally isn't part of their group. I think he's just friends with Jehovah. And everybody must respect his neutrality because what are you gonna do about it? The fact that he's blessing you with his time is good enough. Cristina: But then he gets to train the guy that they offer, cuz that guy went to him. Jack: Again, neutrality doesn't matter who comes or what you want. I can do whatever. Cristina: Mm. Jack: I'll help you with limits. I don't hurt others or whatever. But what you do, but what I gave you is up to you. Cristina: Crazy. Jack: So everybody comes for something different. It's like, yes, he's really God about it, to the point that even Jesus goes to him on record. Yeah, well, Emmanuel. Emmanuel goes to him and it's like, bro, this dude moves like real omniscience. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Move through time, influence, whatever. Yeah. Oh, you said your grandfather needed what? Okay, I'll go back and I'll. Cristina: That's weird. Jack: Yeah, whatever, dude. Oh, no, I can't do that. I'm not gonna go get rid of the people. No, I can't do that. You need the. Oh, yeah, yeah, I can make the thing. Whatever you do with it, that's up to you. I don't give a crap. It's your choice. If it affects me, I'll bring him back. I don't care. Cristina: Real omniscience, okay. Jack: He moves like that, right? He has that feel if I don't care what happens, I don't care. I don't care what. I'm not doing it, but I don't care what happens. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And then he can adjust whatever in his favor. That's so impressive and everything. Again, if we look at the whack, watered down, non knowing necromancers, it's still like, d***, son. All of them except St. Patrick seem capable of controlling time. They're watered down. All of them. They're. They're whacker than Jesus. And Jesus can't mess with Hermes. That's where we are. They can control f****** time. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: It looks like maybe Santa, St. Nicholas is like real top tier op. Maybe third in line here because of how exaggerated he is. But it could just be time control that he looks like he's everywhere freezes, everything goes everywhere, takes him a long time. Then time moves forward again. Cristina: It's still really exaggerating. I don't know. It's pretty powerful stuff. Jack: Pretty powerful stuff. He also has deals with what seem to be actual fairies. Actual fairies? Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Which is like, d***, how do you do that? Yeah. Cristina: Yeah. Maybe they're not fairies. Maybe they're shadow worm creatures. Jack: They could be shadow worm creatures, but they can. We don't know shadow creatures that fit those suits. But we know fairies that do. Cristina: It's just too weird. Jack: It's weird. Cristina: It doesn't make sense to anything. Jack: But again, maybe he's. He does appear to stay neutral as well. So maybe the fairies aren't siding with him. And maybe the fairies aren't trying to stop Hermes. Who are the fairies trying to stop? All the people trying to imitate Hermes. Fair people don't care about Hermes. Why? Cristina: I don't know. Jack: Doesn't seem to be f****** with them. Neutral. The people who are like, we want infinite power. They get elf slapped on top. Stop their progress, please. Cristina: Okay. Jack: But Hermes clearly already capable. They're like, whatever. Interesting. They're scared of power hungry people because if they cross out, they're coming for us. Cristina: Okay, Jesus, kill off Marilyn and Jesus. Jack: Jesus is a problem because Jesus is the one that slipped through. And although Jesus isn't aiming to hurt them, Jesus seems to be on a revenge path. Right. Is his goal the Elysians or could he easily deal with the Elysians? Cristina: I don't know. Jack: Because if they are is infinitely trying to get stronger. And they're infinitely trying to get stronger. So he must again try to get stronger. So they must again try to get stronger. And now it's gotten to the point that they reach the Elfame just trying to get stronger than each other. And then they're just consuming everything around them in a war between each other. And that's the fear. That's why it didn't look like anybody was after anybody specific and that the Elfame was just fight. Who are we scared of? And it's like this guy or that guy or what? No, both. Cristina: Both. Jack: But it's not about them going after you. They don't care about you. They're. They're Borg. They're infinitely power hungry the way humans are. Okay, we want more. But it's about getting rid of each other. Cristina: It could be that very. It feels very Dragon Ball Z. Jack: Like just like always. Upscale. Cristina: Stronger. Yeah. Jack: And it doesn't stop. We've gone out of the realm. Man. I remember the ah, memories. What the good old days when we just thought creatures here, creatures there. Maybe some aliens, maybe an alien or two local 00:50:00 Jack: that can't, you know, lives in space between planets. Because why would it try? How would it travel from super far? They couldn't. It's just a biological something living in space to finding out no crap could travel. And here's the science behind it. Stars away, stars across, galaxies across. Until getting to the point of like nah. There's entire clusters of stars completely captured. Because escaping the entire universe is totally possible. And there's multiple of these things. And here's some science behind it to dimensions and realms. It's like I remember the good old days back then when it was so simple. Now. Now we have interdimensional multi realm existing different creatures of different magnitudes of development tied in infinite ways with each other and in different ways. All scientific. Cristina: They're trying to get up there, up somewhere there. Jack: So complicated. So, so complicated. It's ridiculous. It is good old days of just hey, vampires and zombies. You remember comparing vampires and zombies and they both need blood. Which it totally should have filled us in on so much. Totally should have. Because we erased it slowly from zombies to say that they were after blood. But zombies were after blood at the beginning of the invention of talking about zombies. But maybe the creators of zombies thought oh this too on the nose. It's too close. So I'm just gonna connect the dots. And so we slowly phased out zombies going for blood. And then they just became science zombies. The way like oh, vile. We're trying to cure cancer. But. But it was always science. Cristina: It was always science. Jack: Adrenochrome. Oh the science in a different way. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: We they try to block us off of certain paths of science so that we don't get informed on those things like realms and crap like that. That must use biological and physically tangible science applications in order to to interact with. But the laws were taught to build upon exclude the factors that would lead us in those directions so that only those who know about them can know about them. Esoteric knowledge everywhere. You know, it's funny, that reminds me that Wet Judges was the same story as zombies. We had. We were just going through different creatures and we found out that this creature existed and that it was the. The result of something unknown. But this is what the creature behaves like. And it's not a shadow Realm. Creatures opposite to a win dingo. But they both turned out shadow room creatures. But there was some difference between them that we were like one comes from this and the other one kind of sorta. Eventually we discovered wolves. And both of these things shared a lot of characteristics. And that episode involved the connection of well, this is how a wolf biologically becomes. And this is how wolf biologically becomes that one. I believe the Wet Judge is the feral shadow realm version of a wolf. And the Windingo is the in control shadow realm version of a wolf. And both of those we found in isolation separate because we were just doing episodes about creatures. Cristina: But what do they have to do with the Shadow Realm? Jack: Adrenochrome. And they're both shadow realm creatures. Cristina: Okay. But they're based off of wolves and the wolves are from here, not from the shadow Realm. Jack: Exactly. Were wolf. Well, wolf can wolf takes adrenochrome the stages of a wolf as they would break apart. A wolf can sue. Let's take one of these 1950, 1940. Like six werewolves from the battlefield. Battlefield night people hiding. It sneaks up in the shadows and starts eating and drinking some of the blood. Because it's dies or. No, no, let me get there. It's gonna turn into. In consuming so much of it. A werewolf. Cristina: Mm. Jack: The werewolf is just the in control version of the wolf. Now two wolves came. They were talking about two separate wolves from the same pack. They came. They ate the same body. During the werewolves, both of them became werewolves. One of them was smart enough to consider coming back and the other one was a little cower. And as soon as it heard people ran away so they didn't consume the next day. This happens repeatedly. And the second wolf doesn't come back. The first werewolf stays a werewolf. The second werewolf now becomes a lichen. 00:55:00 Jack: It goes feral. It's just a Savage now. Cristina: Okay. Jack: It even forgets how to get back to it. It's just now a monster. Cristina: Okay. Jack: But they're more or less fizzled off Earth Realm. Cristina: Yes. Okay. Jack: Yes. And they all fizz. They physically look very similar, except a werewolf looks like a humanoid. It looks very similar than the werewolf is very gray, furred, wise and less crazy, I guess. Cristina: Okay. Jack: And the lichen is black fur and slimmer, while the werewolf looks bulkier. The lichen is thinned out and like up looking. It's like a really thinned out werewolf that's all black. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Now if the werewolf dies a werewolf, it becomes a wet judge. Cristina: Okay. And if the lichen dies, it becomes the other thing. Jack: And if lichen dies, it becomes a wendingo. Cristina: And those creatures are Shadow Realm creatures. Jack: And those creatures are Shadow Realm creatures. Cristina: Or they're ghost versions. Jack: Yeah, yeah. A lot of Shadow Realm creatures are ghost versions of earthrealm creatures because there's an inherent tie between them. Cristina: A little weird, because the Shadow realm is the original realm and we are. Jack: A pocket realm within it. Cristina: Yeah. But when we die, we go back to the original realm. Jack: Well, this is supported by all sciences, all religions and all philosophies that the. This association from the self unites us to the all. Another way of thinking about it is the texts that make it sound like it's a simulation. If the barriers are built around a certain type of code and you extract that code, then whatever code is left could exit the equation. Cristina: Okay, and then we just go back to the shadow realm. Jack: We can just be part of the shadow realm. So it's possible. Weird thought that everything within earthrealm is already a creature that might exist within the shadow realm, and we are just programmed with the external shell that we then think is ourselves. Cristina: What do you mean? Jack: Like my body isn't my body? Maybe I was always a gin, but because I'm born over here, the body feels like a body. But then it's weird beating our campy because creatures from the shadow realm coming over here to kidnap children and stuff, but to live. But they don't. They don't become suddenly physical unless they go through a procedure. Yes, and I don't understand what the procedure necessarily is because there's no specifics on it. Yeah, we know that they need a model, which is why they kidnap kids. They need an example of who they're going to become and that person is going to stay alive. They don't kill that person. Cristina: They don't. Jack: Well, somehow still existed when Lucifer became physical. Cristina: Yes, but did he transform also? Jack: Then Samuel got turned into Alfamer. Cristina: Is that what happened? Jack: No, he got turned to a Naga, I think, right? Cristina: Yeah, I think so. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: This story is twisted and weird. Jack: Yeah, that's a weird. Someone else been through the ringer. It's a weirdo. But this isn't a couple of places. Because if you think of Glycon from the Greek, he also was just a Greek dude who became a Naga. Cristina: That doesn't make sense. With the help of Keto. Because Nagas are fairies. So these are people becoming fairies. Jack: These are people. Well, people becoming Shadow worm creatures and Shadow Realm creatures becoming Earth Realmers are still weird. Cristina: That's weird. But it's less weird. They're becoming fairies. Jack: Well, presumably the Shadow Realm is a pocket within Alfame. The best way to think about it is if Elfame is Earth Realm, then the Shadow Realm is the Internet. And EarthRealm is like Facebook. Each one is inside the other in a smaller, more constricted way. But it's still the one thing. Like it's still Facebook exists within Earth. Cristina: A video character becoming human. Jack: Yes. So, okay, I guess the. The most logical way to make the next step remove would be to say we have humanoid robots that don't have any AI. They exist everywhere. Cristina: Okay. Jack: And the Facebook AI decides it's going to figure out how to enter one of our robots and navigate earthrealm. That would be the leap that Jesus born in earthrealm does 01:00:00 Jack: to get to Alfame. He is the Facebook AI. Cristina: Yes. Jack: Getting into one of our robots and now existing as a Earth Realm being. Cristina: What does it mean when one of us becomes a Naga? Jack: That would be the equivalent. Cristina: It's still in there. Jack: Yes. So there must be some form of code that creatures from the top have. Like MAB logging in. Cristina: Oh, NPCs. No, not NPCs. Main characters. Jack: Main characters. Yes. They acquire main character abilities. Yes, that's what it really means. Which is a good example in being Hermes. Main character abilities. Cristina: Okay, so if you can do become a Necromancer or become a Naga, you're doing the same thing. Yes, sort of. Jack: The difference is they're trying to make Nagas of existing individuals that they know are already loyal. They don't want one born. They're trying to make one out of people they know are already loyal to them. So there's some half baked kind of approach there. Cristina: And they. I don't think they have the same abilities as Nagas. Jack: No. It doesn't seem like they have the tip top. The closest person who got To. That was the first one we know about, which is the oldest, which is Yaldabaoth and his. Not his artificial Naga, which I guess everybody else is. An artificial Naga that we're talking about. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: But it looks like his was literally created from nothing. It wasn't based on anybody. Which is also why that one's overpowered. Cristina: That doesn't make sense. That does it. I don't know. Jack: Osteomorphus. That was the name of that serpent. Osteomorphous. Cristina: Came from nothing. Jack: He came from nothing. He was raw, created. So he must be more pure than doing it on a creature that was already a different creature. But they'll be loyal because they're part. They're in on it. It's their hard work, too, versus this. No, you were made exclusively for this purpose. You could turn on me and it might have. We know it had its own intentions. It might have done whatever, but that's the risk. A different variation on that is Jesus. It might go rogue. Except it went rogue and they did. Where they. How do they control it? Cristina: I don't know. But how do you do that? What? You said he just made one. Jack: Made one? What? Cristina: Made a Naga? Jack: Oh, I don't know, but it would be like, how did we invent a robot from nothing? Like, it's just. It's that he just made science. Figure it out. Cristina: Okay. I don't know. Jack: But the leap Jesus made is pretty impressive, especially if we. If we listen. If we listen, Deacon, listen. If we take the texts that make it sound like a simulation at face value and say, oh, yeah, that's definitely the true one. Jesus made it out of the simulation and into an Alfame robot. That's basically what we'd be saying. Yeah, he jumped to the middle stage. Or went through it. We know he went through it. Literally. He could enter the wider Internet. Cristina: But he's not the only one. Jack: No, he's not the only one. Because whatever quote AI unquote Hermes is can easily just walk out. And he was just Earthreal. So he is another Facebook AI. He's the original Facebook AI that managed to just get into a robot in her throne. Cristina: That's weird, but yes. But then I still don't understand, because Nagas are. Jack: I think Nagas are an attempt to do a biological cheat sheet for Hermes, because you can either study and get it. That's a. The filter is crazy. Phew. It's so hard. So few people have figured it out. Immense power. Even people who didn't figure it out. Alexander the Great There you go. Even people who didn't get it, what they did get, made them monstrously overpowered, but with limitations. The idea of a Naga bypass the limitations instantaneously. Shortcuts. It's all shortcuts. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Because the right way to do it would be learned hermetic principles. Follow the laws that Hermes lays out. Understand his lessons. He says it, it's the only way. And the proof kind of stands on it. The fact that nobody else figures it out. Cristina: Yeah, he figured it out. Jack: He did. Cristina: And nothing is like gonna figure it out after him though. Is Jesus really it? Jack: Well, we don't know. Merlin came after Jesus. Cristina: That's true. Just forget he's the most recent. Jack: Yeah, he's the most recent. He was whack, but he was the most recent. Then again he was way overpowered. Still time bending. Cristina: That's crazy. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: Even if he was defeated, it's still pretty crazy. Jack: I guess so. Well, yeah, he was tricked, but he was tricked by a fairy. He was killed off by a fairy. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Like you know. The question is, could Hermes know her? Is the problem is also Hermes has no goal. Think about how interesting this is. It doesn't look like. No, but St. Patrick's was associated. Even if he was human. Cristina: What do they mean? Jack: He was still associated with the Elysians. They called on him for help. Cristina: I don't know. Because of him and Santa makes it seem like the religion is behind is part of them or they made the Catholic Church. Right. Jack: The Catholic Church was made by the Elysians, but the Catholic Church employs humans. Cristina: Yeah, but to keep the Elysians secret. Jack: Yeah. The whole point is to keep the Elysian secret and to make Jesus just seem like he's unrelated to the Elysians. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Yeah. And it looks like, you know, they're neutral. And maybe they were priests who were like, we're gonna put. We're gonna send you on a quest. We're gonna send priests. Maybe that's the point of priests. Raising some priests regularly to a school out in Greece where they're gonna come across a series of tests and tasks at the School of L. If they pass enough of them, you're going to get into a special class and you're going to take it and you're hopefully going to pass that class. That class is all that matters. Everything you're going to do for the next 20 years of your life is pure training to try to pass one class. That's it. Good luck. And then, you know, just kept sending people, kept sending people, kept sending people and one guy, St. Patrick, makes it through and meets Hermes and takes classes with him and, and St. Nicholas makes it through and gets there. But how many hundreds of other priests went there and like tried and they could, didn't even know what they were there for other than I told I was going to do this my whole life. And I'm not going to get married, I'm not going to have children, and I'm going to go back and go, you know, I dedicated my life to them. I'm gonna go lead a church and I'm gonna be great. I'm gonna have it said and made. But I don't know what the beginning of that path was. And only few of them, and they disappear forever. Now it's the, the St. Patrick's of the world. It was like, no, I'm an OG. I got the abilities that they want. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And so those are in house necromancers. Hermes is neutral party if they can, if they. Anybody who can get my teachings can get my teachings. Cristina: So you think he was training? Jack: He was at Lesium as written by Aristotle. Cristina: In his notes, they say for how long? Jack: Unclear, but he was at Lesium, so that's fact number one. The specific lines were that he was waiting for the special students. And Aristotle's take on that is that his students were the elite students, the students that had taken all their other classes, the students that have aced everything else. And it's a school of philosophy. What the f*** does it mean to ace that? It means to understand everything there. Cristina: Which makes sense for what you need for Hermes. Jack: You got to enter equipped in every aspect of everything. And so you get to his class. Most people didn't make it. And I don't know how he would evaluate them, but he must have been looking at the notes of the other teachers there and been like, I want that student on that guy. He seems to be doing good every class specifically in these topics, which means he understands the nuance I'm looking for. Maybe all the other teachers were just cover. Cristina: For the real goal. Jack: For the real goal. Everything is designed as an intricate filter. And it's, it's a tournament. There's one winner. Of course, there's more multiple winners. But in this case, you know, to picture it better, it's tournament style. The guy who makes it to the championship past all the tests, but you still got to eliminate, eliminate, eliminate. And so you can't have a huge class of thousands of people. You got to be very restrictive. And maybe not. Maybe anybody who can make it can make it. Except people don't make it because it's really hard to get. Cristina: Mm. That's really hard. Jack: It's really abstract. Cristina: Mm. Jack: Really abstract. But it all makes perfect sense is the problem. So you gotta be able to understand really abstract thoughts in order to then bend reality with your mind the way that Hermes suggest can happen. And that we've found this proof through Naga and other necromancers and the people who cheat and manage to get a stone and aren't necromancers because that's so op. Cristina: Yeah. But he's the reason that there are stones. Jack: Yes. He invented them. Cristina: That's crazy. Jack: Yep. He is so good at being secretive. Hermes. He's so good at being secretive and so good at making things that we didn't know that both parts of the craft 01:10:00 Jack: were literally him. We found the first part and we're like, he made the thing like somebody else made the other part and improved on it. No, it was also him. It's just. It's hard to connect any part of things that have to do with him because everything exists in isolation. Because he's so good at just disappearing off of that side of the planet and popping up over here and doing a bunch of crap over here and stays over here for a thousand years and disappears over here. And he's over there now. No given. Doesn't seem to care about the passage of time. Doesn't seem to care about what side anybody's on. Does no barriers exist. I'm in this room. I'm in that room. Whatever. Cristina: That's what he does. Jack: Very godlike. He reminds me a Q from Star Trek. Cristina: Probably less of a troll than him, though. Jack: We have no idea. We have no, no idea. Not a clue what his personality is like. Not a clue. We know some people had character to them. Some of the Elysians were like, you know, you can imagine them. The guy who's just whoring around banging humans. Cristina: Okay. Jack: You're probably a chill dude. Bro. Cristina: Know. Jack: You know, he's just a dude. He's out there just linging, slinging his come everywhere he goes. Cristina: We don't know anything about Hermes. Jack: Who the h*** does? Cristina: I thought he's a weirdo or not weirdo. He's just secretive. Jack: He's private. Cristina: Private. Jack: We got stories from Santa. We got stories from Patrick. We got Jehovah stories. He seemed to be pretty chill, but kind of stern dude. Lucifer seems kind of more worrisome. He's these would, you know, panicky Lilith has a bit of attitude to what she does. Everybody has characteristics based on everything we found. And then Hermes is like, I don't know about you, dude. I don't know if you're, like, serious jokey. If you're like, you know, expressions. He's robed. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Every description of him, robes. Nobody sees this face. Even his homies have no idea if he's smiling or not. He's talking to a robe all the time. Cristina: That's kind of crazy. It's pretty crazy. We don't know anything weird. There could be more than one. Jack: There could totally be more than one. But also, he can bend time. What the. Cristina: Like, why do you need more than one? Jack: Why do you need more? He's everywhere. He's everywhere. He's all over the place. Everybody's Hermes at one point. It's like, no, it's the same dude. We thought it was multiple people. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And then it's like, no, it's the same guy. What? How? How, How, How? In fact, we thought it was so multiple people because Loi is the title and Hermes exists. And we're like, that's probably the title, too. And he existed back then, and they knew each other. Weird. So different people. And then we're like, nope, it turns out same guy. It's like, how the f*** does this work out? We still haven't even proven that about Loi. Cristina: I don't think he's. I mean, I think he is more than one guy. Jack: Loi feels like a title. And the way they describe the giant ship shifts in behavior. Feels like different people. Feels like a title within the family or a job position or political role or something. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Hermes is literally the guy's name. He'll go by a different name. And then tell them, I'm Hermes. They gave me this name over here. But Hermes is from actual name. Cristina: Weird. Yeah. Jack: And he'll write it. He'll be like, I'm Hermes. Cristina: He writes it, I'm Hermes. Jack: I'm Hermes. And then he made the emerald. He made this, everybody. No, Hermes. Geras Magista's made this. Don't happen. How? How do you do this in Europe? And then at the same time, he made that in Afghanistan, bro. Let's have a real conversation. Cristina: Because time travel. Jack: Because time travel. Cristina: And because there's nothing really. Jack: Instantaneous teleportation. Cristina: Exactly. Jack: And, like, it doesn't matter. Cristina: Solution to any problem is time travel. For Hermes 100. Jack: That explains ever once that's. It's like, yeah, you could bend time. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: So you're just hanging out back there, like the day you chilled with that guy's grandson millions of years later. Cristina: Mm. Jack: To you it was minutes apart. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: You just skadoodled across and it's a. It's seamless. If we were watching you from a movies perspective, you're like, all right, Jehovah, I'll let him know. You take two steps, we zoom in on you. You take two steps, none of the scenery changes. And now you're standing in front of Loi. Hey. Your grandson said this. And when we zoom out, we see Eloi, but not Jehovah. That's how seamless it would be to him. Cristina: That's pretty crazy. Jack: He didn't think about it just there. Cristina: That's totally how it could work. I don't know. Jack: And from the point of view of both of these individuals, he never left. Cristina: Mm. Jack: Because he can pop into the same fraction of a second he left that with Jehovah and walk right into that same moment and be like, your grandfather said this. And from your point of view to my. I'm right now, I'm Hermes. And right now you're Jehovah. And you tell me you need to tell my grandfather to add this, this, and that to 01:15:00 Jack: the equation starting on this next sentence. I'm Hermes. Okay. All right, Jehovah, I'm gonna go tell your grandfather right now what to do. Listen, Loi, it's very important that you add these couple of parts. Now. Loi tells him whatever it's like. Okay. I'm gonna make sure your grandson knows this. Jehovah. Listen, he said that, that one sentence, he's gonna talk to two people across time. And to him it's gonna feel consistent and linear to them. Not a moment past the moment you said links. Cristina: And then he sees a different person. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: Okay. Jack: And time has stopped over there. Cuz not really. He's just in the past and he's gonna go back to that same moment. Cristina: Okay. Okay. That's crazy. That's his ability though. Jack: Does his ability though super overpowered. And he can do that at any point in time, at any place in time? That's God. Cristina: That's ridiculous. Yes. That's good. I don't think there's anything above that. Jack: I don't think there's anything above that. Minus whatever exists in Alpha that we have no reference point for. Yes, but the realms we are aware of. Even elves don't touch this. Nagas don't touch this. Cristina: As far as we can tell. Jack: Yeah. It would have to be the theory of the simulation. And it would have to be that MAB is a programmer and only then, because then she'd have the ability to like deprogram the robot, shut off the Internet, whatever. Cristina: But she can't. So it's not that. Jack: Or she should. We don't know if she can. Maybe she is just one of the programmers at the big company. The company really owns the Internet. She just knows how to work. She's the best worker, knows how to do it. Okay, but she can shut it off and ruin the project and save the world if it got that bad. Stop things from getting out and just destroy the robot that they got into. Whatever. Try not to. Expensive project maybe. Whatever that might mean in that realm. Cristina: Yeah, you know. Jack: Anyways, that's the road that took us to where we are. It's just all random pieces, man. Cristina: But it makes somewhat sense. Jack: It is composed. It makes perfect sense. It is a rational, reasonable, thought out kind of. Our job is to ground things like we said. Cristina: And we did it. Jack: Yeah, we've been doing it like you said. We've been doing it the entire time we've been grounding things. And those are all examples of how we've grounded things. And we added some groundings to thumbs things in. Just by talking about grounding things, we just grounded some more things. Yes, that's how we do now. The problem with explaining to the listeners that we do ground things and giving them examples is that it took an hour to do so. So we never got to get to the notes. Okay, so next time we're definitely going to get to the notes. But this time at least we grounded some things. Cristina: Which is the point. Jack: Which is the point. The job got done. Cristina: The job got that. Jack: The job got done. Cristina: It always gets done. Jack: It always gets done. And if anybody came here from last week looking to hear the episode that was planned, you're gonna have to come next week to find out what that was. But we'll totally get to it next week. We're talking anyways, if you guys think that you have noticed in our current grounding of things. But no, about the Elysians and all that stuff. Anything that you think we. We didn't. A detail that checks out. Maybe we touched on it enough that you were like, oh, that made me think about that. Let us know. Send us your input, your ideas. Anyone who just jumped in is like struggling to comprehend the mess of we just talking about. I realized that the other day. I was thinking about like, what if you jump in and you don't go back? Cristina: That's good. Then we summarize everything. Jack: Yeah, but like, what the h*** is an elation. And what is the shadow mentioned? Cristina: All of that. Jack: No, I know we didn't clarify much of it. It was a lot of like. But then again, if they start here and they hear the next episode and then the next episode, you'll figure it out. It'll start to make sense. It doesn't matter where you start. Just enough. Yeah, about it. Anyways. Tell us what you think. Tell us what you know. You could do that on our socials at just Convopod, on Instagram, on Exxon, Facebook, on TikTok, Tick tock, anywhere. Cristina: Remember to subscribe, rate and review the show. Jack: Yes. And word of mouth. Tell everybody that we exist and that we're out here doing the Lord's work and grounding things. Bringing angels to the ground the way the Lord did. Cristina: We are the groundhogs. Jack: No, we are the groundhog. Cristina: I don't know. Jack: We hug angels from the ground. Cristina: Or our family. That's what we're gonna call them. The people that are listening. You guys are the groundhogs. Jack: Oh, my God. It makes sense because we're always grounding things. Cristina: Yes. Okay. This has been the Rambling Podcast. Take 01:20:00 Cristina: nothing personal and thanks for listening by. Jack: SA. Cristina: Podcast is hosted by Cristina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by greatthoughts.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McCallister with social media managed by Amber Black. 01:20:53

Rambling 295: Real Life Pokemon

In the latest episode of our podcast, we embark on a whimsical journey to explore the question: what if Pokemon were real? This episode is a delightful blend of humor and thought-provoking ideas, as hosts Jack and Cristina dissect the implications of living alongside these fantastical creatures. The discussion kicks off with a seemingly innocuous topic—potty training. Jack recalls a conversation about how challenging it would be to potty train a wild Pokemon. Cristina agrees, pointing out that training any animal is hard enough, let alone a creature with powers and instincts of its own. This leads to a deeper exploration of the challenges of owning Pokemon as pets. Would you really want to catch a wild Pokemon? Or would it be better to raise a baby Pokemon to ensure it becomes a well-behaved companion? As the episode progresses, the hosts delve into the ethical considerations of Pokemon ownership. They ponder whether it is right to own humanoid Pokemon, drawing parallels to issues of race and speciesism in our world. "Are we just being racist and slave-owning these humanoid Pokemon?" Jack provocatively asks. The conversation raises important questions about consent, rights, and the nature of ownership in a world where intelligent creatures exist alongside humans. The episode also touches on the practical aspects of living with Pokemon. How would our homes adapt to accommodate larger Pokemon? What jobs would Pokemon have in society? From firefighting to healthcare, the hosts imagine a world where Pokemon play vital roles in our lives, contributing to society in ways we never thought possible. In a humorous twist, they also consider the absurdity of Pokemon battles and the implications of "chicken fighting" in a world where Pokemon are treated as pets and companions. Would we pay our Pokemon to fight, and how would that change the dynamics of their relationships with us? This episode is a rollercoaster of laughter and insight, leaving listeners to ponder the complexities of a world where Pokemon are real. It's a must-listen for anyone who has ever imagined what it would be like to catch 'em all in real life. Tune in now and join the conversation about the wild and wonderful world of Pokemon!

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  • Potty Training
  • Humanoid Pokémon Ethics
  • Pokémon as Pets vs. Workers
  • The Reality of Pokémon Battles
  • Chicken fighting
  • Eating Pokemon

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Rambling 295: Real Life Pokemon Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised. Jack: Going live in 5, 4. Cristina: What does live mean? Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack. Cristina: And I'm your host, Cristina. Jack: And this is a show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas. And today I figured we would do this to the max. Cristina: What does that mean? Jack: We were having a conversation. I don't remember when, where, or about what, but at one point, one of us said, like, if Pokemon was real. And that stayed with me. I don't remember what the conversation was, and I'm sure there was an example in context, but I don't remember what we were talking about. So I don't know the example or the context. I just remembered, what if Pokemon was real? Cristina: That was on the podcast or that was. No. You have no idea. Jack: I have no idea. I have no idea when this happened, but in doing so, I really sat down and thought, no, it was about potty training. Cristina: I kind of remember this. I think. Yes, it was. Random conversation. Okay. Jack: Yeah, I think it was about potty training. Cristina: Yes, yes. Jack: I think it was on the show. I think we were talking about that meme that shows how weird it is to go to sleep. Like, a kid will go to sleep with their Pikachu, and it's cute and cuddly, but a kid goes to sleep with their Mochomp, and it looks like gay p*** or something. Cristina: I don't remember that. But that is creepy. Jack: Yes, it's weird. Cristina: It is weird. Jack: And I think maybe we're talking about a fox or something. Like, how annoying it would be to have a certain Pokemon as a pet. Cristina: I don't remember. I just do remember the potty. I just don't know how we led. What led to the potty training. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: But I remember bringing that up being like, that's the worst part. Like, I wouldn't want to have Pokemon because of that. Jack: Yeah, you couldn't get old Pokemon. You got to catch babies. Oh, you see, this is exactly. But before we continue, what I thought we would do today is basically what we're about to do right now, which is just makes, like, put Pokemon in the world. What would that look like? We're gonna make it real today. Our one and only goal is fitting Pokemon into reality. Their abilities work as they're described, and they are shaped the way they are described. But, okay, our world works the way it does. Now, how would these two things fit together? First, potty training was how this began. And that makes a lot of wild Pokemon. A problem. You can't catch an older, higher level wild Pokemon. Potty training. Cristina: That sucks. You couldn't potty train. If it's anything like an animal, you don't. It doesn't. After a certain age, it's just gonna keep doing what it's doing no matter how much time as you try to train it. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: Teacher what's right or whatever. Jack: Yeah, no, it's gonna. Yeah, exactly. It's just gonna do what it's used. Cristina: To because it's a wild animal. Jack: And in theory, you could train them to be able to. But it would be so much work. Cristina: Would be. I don't know. It's weird to train. I don't know. It's. It sucks training a regular animal to do potty training. Jack: And now you got this thing that, like, can you up. Cristina: Yeah. And you're going to tell them how to. How you use the bathroom. Jack: How do you discipline a Pokemon? You just got to approach with confidence, I guess. Cristina: I guess. Jack: Like, only certain people can be Pokemon trainers in the real world. Only some people. It's not going to be a million kids. Cristina: It's not going to be all the Pokemon. There's so many options of Pokemon that you just can't have. You just couldn't. Because you die being around them. Like, anything that has fire coming out of it, like, you couldn't survive with it in your house and then all that smoke. Jack: Yes, 100%. Anything that actually has fire coming off of it. But it doesn't mean that those Pokemon are useless. For example, think of people who deal with clearing areas so that forest fires don't affect major living locations. Those Pokemon themselves are very useful because they can just wander those paths over and over while other people contain the fire. Cristina: We'd have Pokemon that have jobs, but to have them as actual pets or whatever. Jack: Those could be pets, but I guess it could never come inside. And it would need to be in a specific kind of environment where they can be in your backyard without burning everything 00:05:00 Jack: down. Cristina: Yeah, but if you're in the city, you couldn't. You couldn't do that. Jack: Definitely. You're locked out of having a lot of things, But a lot of them are also unrealistic to just have in a city. Unless you're taking them to a gym. Like, they need to be in their Pokeball. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Like, what the f*** is a Charizard? That's huge. Cristina: It's huge. A lot of things are too huge and dangerous. I don't know. I don't know how it could Work. Except that, like, have the baby and never evolve it. Jack: Well, the d. Well, no, everybody. Here's the thing. It's like an animal. If it's raised around people is my theory. It's not gonna hurt people. Cristina: Okay. Jack: I think that's definitely how it works. And a lot of them, if we look at. If we use some source material and think of, like, the way the shows show things, things tend to be what they look like. They behave in kind of ways as to what they're supposed to be. Cristina: Yes. Jack: So, like, the Tauros are at a farm. And that makes sense. They're basically a pet, but they're also livestock. And, like. Cristina: Yeah, so we'd see, like, the cow. Jack: Yeah. Milk tank would be there too, and it would make sense. And their purpose and abilities could be contained. And that person is an expert at controlling them. I. I could not tell you in a million years how to control a bull. I don't know. I couldn't tell you. But I know a bunch of farmers that do. Cristina: Yeah, they could, I guess. Yeah. But, like, what could you deal with? What could. Which ones can you deal with? Jack: Like, things that you could really. Let's say also like Machamp. Cristina: Is that his name? The guy with the many hands? Jack: Yeah, the four hands. Cristina: When does he get underwear? As a baby. He doesn't have underwear. Like, are you giving him underwear? Why don't you give him pants? Jack: He's a wrestler. Cristina: It's a wrestler 24 7. He has to be a wrestler. He's a man. Jack: There's a bunch of Pokemon with clothing. Cristina: Yes. You should clothe them. You should give them normal clothes for Pokemon type clothes. Like for dogs. You have dog type clothes. They should be the same with Pokemon. Jack: No, let's really talk about Machamp here or Machoke or whatever the crap this guy's name is. All three of them. Cristina: Yes. Jack: That's basically like a different race of human. Cristina: Yes. Jack: Like, it might say its name exclusively, but, like, come on, we do not own them. It thinks to the. Apparently most Pokemon think to the degree that a human does. Even if they can't speak our language, they think to the degree a human does. Cristina: Maybe like dolphins. Jack: Yeah. Yes, exactly. And then we have this. This one that already thinks like a human looks like, then looks like one. And it's like, at what point are we just being racist and slave owning slaves? Cristina: Yeah. I don't think we could own them. And also, they should just have their own society, like their own town. I don't know. Jack: Yeah, no, Machoke would definitely be just A species of people. Cristina: And we should give them clothes? Yeah, they. Jack: No, they could do whatever. We don't do what they do whatever the they want to do. Cristina: You think they're just choosing to wear. Jack: If they're. If they're gonna live in our society, then yes. But if they're gonna live in their own society, they could do whatever the they want. Cristina: Okay, so if they want to be naked, that's fine. Jack: Hey, if they're fine with it, I'm fine with it. Cristina: Okay. Jack: They got to do whatever because you. Cristina: Think they decided that. Jack: I don't know. I don't know. Cristina: When they level off the side. Jack: Yeah, I assuming. No. No. Because they all have the same underwear. It's just part of his body. Cristina: That's insane. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: How does that work? Evolution is weird because where is it coming from? Jack: It's not underwear. It's just skin. Cristina: Ew. Jack: That's in the shape of underwear. Cristina: Oh, okay. Jack: But he. It's just weird. Cristina: It's a human. Jack: Yeah, he's a human. Cristina: Yeah. And, like, there's other ones that are like that too, though, that, like, what do we do with them? Jack: A lot of the fighting Pokemon really are like. If you think of maybe not. I mean, he's still so humanoid. Hyp Lead is like, just really long legs, a big torso with no head, but, like, his head is his torso, kind of. And then arm sticking out of that. But also, he still thinks like a human. And again, he's kind of mostly humanoid. I think that would also just be a person. Cristina: I think so. And his baby form is his. His baby also. Jack: That looks like a human. Cristina: Like a little boy. Jack: Yeah. So all Hypno Hitmo. What is it? Hypmo Top. Hitmo Lead. Hitmo chan with a. The one before him. Those are people. They get to just be human, I think. 00:10:00 Jack: Yeah. We. That's illegal. That's slavery. Cristina: Which ones are okay to own? That seems wrong too. Jack: Animals. If you look like an animal, we're just gonna look. We do it to dolphins right now. We're like, f*** the dolphins. Cristina: Okay. Jack: So we're gonna use that same application. And it's. It doesn't matter if you're even smarter than us, okay. If you do not look like we do. Cristina: Okay. What about that? Talking meows. Does he get away because. Jack: Because he's talking. Cristina: But not. No other mouse. Jack: Yeah. And any Pokemon who can communicate psychically and it sounds like a human voice. Cristina: That's probably every psychic type. Jack: Hey, that's fair. If it is, it is. If it's not, it's not okay. That's totally fine. And that means that we can't have psychic Pokemon. Also. Those are dead people. That's mess up. Cristina: That's ghost. Although I guess we can't have. Jack: Yeah, no, you're totally right. So we can't have psychic Pokemon because those are just. They. They can't. They can break the illusion. No, they can break the illusion too hard. Yeah, they're just people and they're going to be letting us know they're just people and they can control our mind. Cristina: Yeah, that's dangerous. Jack: Those. Those are for weapons and other things. They have to live amongst us. Cristina: What about dark Pokemon? That's dangerous too. Jack: They're literally just evil. That is their defining characteristic. Cristina: So we can't have evil dudes. We can't have ghosts. We can't have. Jack: Because we couldn't trust the dark Pokemon. Psychic Pokemon 1. They need jobs with us. There are many things we could use them for. Cristina: Okay. Jack: And psychic are also like psychic. We don't want to have an issue with them. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Yes. Psychic fighters that look human. Because there's fighters that look like weird. Cristina: Like what? Jack: Like a fighting tree. That's not human enough. Cristina: Wait, the tree is a fighter? Jack: Yeah. Is it a fighter? Cristina: The Sudo. Sudo. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: I'm gonna look it up real quick. We should have a picture of all the Pokemon because I don't know every Pokemon's name. Jack: Okay, so he's not fighting. He's Rock. Cristina: It's Rock. That is weird. Jack: That is an incredibly weird fact. Cristina: Fighting makes more sense. I mean, grass makes the most sense, but fighting would be the second option, I guess. But no, he's a rock. Jack: Well, let's see. Right now, which man Pokemon would be an issue in real life? The freaking monkey one. Primeape. That cannot. That's just a monkey. That's fine. Monkeys are kind of humanoid. But there's far enough. Cristina: We can have all the rats and the cats. Yes. Here's the problem. Jack: Here's a problem. I'm about to break out that illusion real hard. Because the problem comes down to the fact that today, apes. Today gorillas and s***, all your ancestors or whatever, Machop, Machoke and Machamp. Cristina: Are all. Jack: More human looking than every ape. Other than humans that exist today. That's how human that thing. It looks more like us than it does our own apes. That's how human that thing looks. That's just a person. Okay, you know, that's definitely just a person. Hitmo chan is just a person. And because it's related to Hitmo lead. Even then Hitmo lead looks like a person. Cristina: Yes. Jack: And Tyrogue is who you're talking about. Cristina: Who's Tyrone? Jack: The one that evolves into all three of them. Cristina: Oh, okay. It looks like a child. Jack: Then. Cristina: We have wearing clothes. Yes. Jack: The bird. The firebird. Doesn't actually have fire Firebird. A torchic that becomes combustion, then becomes blaziken. The Fighting Chicken. Cristina: Okay, but it looks human. She's a human wizard thing. Or her last. No, wait, no, that's someone else I'm thinking of. Jack: This is a chicken. Cristina: But it's chicken. Jack: It. It looks. It's just a fire. Cristina: Fire chicken. Oh, the fighting Chicken. Okay, Is she at the zoo? Where. Where did we put that at? Oh, that's a person, I guess. Jack: Yeah, that's a person. That's just a human. There's too many real human. There's Pokemon that are just gonna live amongst us. Also, the psychic with the ballerina dress. Gardevoir. Cristina: Oh, what about her? Jack: That's just a person. Cristina: Oh, yeah, but we already ruled out psychic. Jack: Yeah, we did rule out psychic. Cristina: Can't have pets. Yeah. Jack: Okay, so definitely. No exaggerate. Anything that looks more like us. Anything more human looking than a gorilla cannot be simple. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Anything. Cristina: There's still a lot left over. Jack: Yeah, there's a lot left over. 00:15:00 Jack: There's a lot left over. Also, we couldn't have things indoors that are obviously going to destroy the indoors. Like you said. Pokemon that have, like, fire. Pokemon that actually have fire coming off of them. Cristina: Yeah. Are there some poisonous Pokemon that, like, if you touch them, they poison you? Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's definite Pokemon that are just truly dangerous to have unless you know how to handle them. Cristina: Okay, so we can't have poison types. That rules out. Yeah, we're slowly ruling out a bunch of types, though. Jack: Well, it depends on the poison type. You're not just gonna get poisoned by touching all of them. Cristina: Yeah. Okay. Jack: But here's another thing. We'd be eating Pokemon. And people don't think about this. Cristina: Maybe we just eat their eggs. Jack: We're still human and we're gonna eat Pokemon. No, that's just gonna be a reality of life. It's weird again when you think about how sentient these beings are. Cristina: We're gonna eat them, and we're just gonna eat them. Which Pokemon can we eat? Jack: We can eat Milk Tank as a different kind of cow. Cristina: Okay. Jack: You know, we can eat. Except we're not going to because it's humanoid. Cristina: That bird. Jack: The bird. Cristina: Well, baby ones, maybe. Jack: We could eat baby Ones? No, but that's their children. It's weird to us, but they're going to end up humanoid. Cristina: What if they like to eat their children? Jack: They can do whatever. Cristina: Oh, they can do it. But we can. Jack: We're not going to eat their children. But humanoid Pokemon are definitely out. And because of that, we don't eat that chicken person. But we can eat. We can eat anything that's. Do you know anything that's an animal, like a gorilla. Obviously the society approves of. We're not going to eat like the elephant Pokemon. Cristina: Who wants to eat a Pokemon? No one wants to eat a Pokemon. Jack: People are going to eat Pokemon. It's just going to be normal in society to eat Pokemon. Cristina: I don't know. That's really tough, I guess if Pokemon are already normal. But if they came out of nowhere. Jack: No, this is if they were normal. Cristina: Oh, okay. Jack: This is if they were normal, but society somehow evolved the way it did today. Cristina: Oh, okay. Jack: How would they fit into the current structure? Know based on how they are? We would be eating some Pokemon. We'd definitely be eating some Pokemon. We would have been eating Pokemon our whole lives. Cristina: How many people would be doing Pokemon? Jack: Oh, my God. I think a lot of people would be Pokemon. Cristina: Like. Jack: Also, is Mr. Mima made to Ash's mom? Cristina: I don't know. He's a person. I don't know. Also, he's psychic. Jack: He is a person and he's psychic. Okay, fair enough. You can't animal Pokemon. So you could. Your Machoke. Cristina: Yeah. Okay. Jack: You could. You could actually. That Pokemon. That wouldn't be illegal. It has to be consenting or a trade. Cristina: Okay. Jack: It has to be consenting or a trait. Cristina: I don't know. Jack: But hey, whatever you're into, man, you get to your. Your humanoid Pokemon. Cristina: Thank you. I think I rather eat them. Jack: You rather eat them? A choke? Cristina: No, I rather do nothing with one. I don't want to look at one. Jack: Yeah, Machoke is pretty awful looking. Cristina: There's some Pokemon I just don't want to look at. Jack: So then humanoid Pokemon would have all the rights. Humans do, basically, right? We're gonna let them vote in their elections. Unless they're acclimating to us. You said give them their own place. Cristina: No, that doesn't make sense. Because if it was there, they're with us since the beginning of time. It doesn't feel right to just separate from them. Jack: I mean, we could have been raised separately, different kinds of. But also there'd be places where people, humans and these different civilizations live together. Cristina: I guess you know, so you don't think it's everyone everywhere. Jack: There's many countries you can go to that are just one. One race. So there's probably a bunch of places that we'd be able to go to that are just one species. But there'd be places we can of humanoid, and there'd be other places we go to where there's multiple species of humanoid. Cristina: Okay. I guess. Jack: Think about how dark the reality is in Pokemon that they really are enslaving these things. Cristina: Yes. I don't know. Yes. Once you put something in the computer, I think that's really sad. Jack: Yeah. You just soulless at that point. Cristina: Yeah. Like, it's worse than just having them in your ball because you know at least it's gonna come out eventually. No, they don't even exist in your computer. That's it. Jack: Yeah, they just exist in stasis. Cristina: Yeah. Like, when are you gonna look at that again? It's lost forever. Jack: So then, which Pokemon would make 00:20:00 Jack: excellent pets? Cristina: Dogs and cats. Normal types. Jack: Fair enough. I think this is the moment where. Well, you couldn't have it as a pet. It would be like your clefairy. It would be your clefairy. Cristina: What, the adorable. Jack: No, Persian. You can have it as a pet, but it could be your roommate. It could be your family member. Cristina: It could be your family. Why would it be your family? Not your blood, but cat. Jack: It's literally a cat, but thinks like a human. Literally. Cristina: Do they not all think like humans? Jack: You think cats think like humans? Cristina: No. You're saying. Oh, so you're saying only Persians. Jack: Oh, Persian isn't psychic. Cristina: No, it's not. Jack: Oh, it has psychic moves. Right. Okay. No, you should definitely be able to have Persian as a pet. Yeah. That cat. Yeah. No, that's a pet. That's a pet for sure. Cristina: All the animals besides the psychic ones and the dark ones and the ghost ones. Jack: Yeah, the ghost ones, because those be dead people. And dead Pokemon, the. And that's f***** up. The psychic ones because they can prove their humanity. The humanoid ones, because that's just f***** up. And the dark ones, because we can't ever trust them. They're literally evil. That's the point. Cristina: Yes. And you can't get older Pokemon as pets. Jack: You can, but you have to know what the h*** you're doing. Not everybody can have an older Pokemon as a pet. It's like getting an older dog or some s***. That's just a person with problems, especially if they're a wild person who's lived outside their whole Lives. Cristina: That's insane. Jack: Yeah, I guess. Fair enough. I guess. That's not a person. Interesting. Cristina: Why? Jack: Because it's not. Think about it. Cristina: It's a wild animal. Jack: That's a wild animal that wasn't raised with people that was raised out there not thinking thoughts like humans. Cristina: And there's like, come on. Animal shelters. Like, for wild animals to be killed. Jack: There'S probably gonna be. Cristina: Oh, I guess. Jack: But think about it. I never thought about this. It's like if, like an indigenous person out there or something wild and savage, except they're one of us now. What would be the difference between one of those indigenous people? If they looked like. If they were all gorillas but the behavior was identical, we would say that that's not behavior that reflects us at all. That's animalistic behavior. Simply because they're an animal. Cristina: Mm. Jack: Even if they were doing exactly what they're doing every time they see us now. Except they worker at us. Cristina: So which Pokemons will those be? Just wild Pokemon. Jack: Those would be wild Pokemon. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Wild Pokemon outside. We would just. Because they're behaving, unhuman. Those are not people. Cristina: So then we can't have old. But you said we can. Jack: People who understand how to train them perfectly fine. But I'm saying wild Pokemon trained out there would never compare to a Pokemon, like, raised indoors or whatnot. Raised around people. I think the ones that are humanoid are only humanoid because they were raised around humans. The ones that have those thoughts, not physically. Cristina: Okay. Not the physical, because they're naturally just. They look like us anyway. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: Okay. Jack: But if one of those very ones that was very humanoid lived in the wild and acted like a savage, we would still protect it with the laws of humans. Because our laws are going to dictate anything that looks more human than the gorilla. We just like, they're like savages. That's it. But they're people. Those are people. They look too much like us. Cristina: I feel like there's still so many Pokemon we cannot have. I feel like a lot of Pokemon are bigger than we think they are. And that's a problem. Jack: But then again, people, you know, really filthy rich people would have made homes capable of housing some of these. Cristina: Yeah. Like even just like the Persian you were talking about, like a normal apartment can't hold a. Jack: No. That's like the size of a casual, like, small, big cat. Cristina: Yeah. You need space. You need a lot of space. Jack: Yeah. We would need so much room. An average size apartment wouldn't house like. Cristina: A Pidgeotto or Pidgeot. Like those things are huge. Huge. Jack: Huge f****** bird. It couldn't open it with swings. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Like your house to that fully evolved human sized bird is like a birdhouse. 00:25:00 Cristina: Yeah. So, like, I don't understand, like, you can't. A lot of these have to have their own home or live in your backyard or something. Jack: No, you gotta understand that homes would have simply changed, okay? We would have adapted with them. Cristina: So we wouldn't have apartment buildings. Like, how would the city look if it's filled with Pokemon? Jack: Ceilings would be really tall in every home. Or, you know. No, not every home. Because again, it would still be up to who can afford to house these things and feed them. Cristina: Okay. Jack: You know, the bigger, the more you gotta feed it. If it eats, I guess there's some Pokemon that don't eat. Cristina: There's Pokemon that don't eat. Jack: Pokemon that aren't even like living things more than they are like sentient things. Cristina: You can't have those as Pokemon, can you? Jack: Like, I'm sure you can have like, if like Sudowoodo. Cristina: He's a rock stick. Do we. Can we have him? Jack: I guess you could have him as a pet. As a Pokemon. Catch him if you want. I don't. What's the difference between owning and having it? Cristina: No, you own arms, legs, a face. What makes him not human? Jack: He doesn't look. He looks like a tree, not like a human. Cristina: Okay. I don't know. He's a weird one. Jack: You gotta look human, okay. Not just be standing by people. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Because then like Charizard could get in. Oh, yeah, that's just. No, no. But. Lost my train of thought. Which Pokemon was I trying to think about? Cristina: I don't know. What Pokemon were you trying to think? Jack: I have no idea. But no. The freaking bird. The houses would have adapted. Yes, the houses would have adapted to the size of Pokemon. So people who like, let's say damage is you can't own a metagross. But if you wanted like a giant alien looking spaceship, right? You want a giant alien looking. There you go. Another. But those things. Well, no, that's way smaller than the metagross. But gross is the example for a reason. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Because it's huge. Yes, but like, if you're Elon Musk, you probably have a giant. The biggest you could find. Cristina: Metagross. Jack: Metagross. It looks like an alien spaceship and it's the size of a building. And then he rides it around his like SpaceX facility. Cristina: Horrifying. Okay. Jack: You know, it walks him from one building to the other. Giant Spider thing. Cristina: We keep the lights off and it's crawling with its bright red eyes. Oh, my God. Jack: And it could float. Cristina: Horrifying. Oh, my gosh. Even scary. Jack: It probably would have been what inspired him to create most of the space stuff at that point. He'd be talking about his weird alien spaceship Pokemon. Cristina: Except that that guy is psychic, so he can't actually can't. Jack: You're totally right. Cristina: But that could be a co worker or employee, whatever. Jack: You're totally right. And man, there's so many. There's so many Pokemon. It's weird. But yeah, adopting Pokemon would have to be way considered. I'm sure they'd be like, man, it'd be weird because, like, rich people would be going to adopt like. Like adoption agency. Cristina: Yeah. They'll be in the global trade thing with all the Pokemons putting. Getting all the IVs. 31. Like finding the perfect expensive Pokemon. It wouldn't just be any Pokemon. Jack: Yeah, no. Cristina: They'd be looking for the beginning, the shinies. Jack: Yeah, they'd be collecting shinies. They'd be looking for the strongest, best Pokemon they could find. Wasting all their money on maybe the Alphas. Cristina: I don't know. Jack: But that's different. Them buying that versus going to, like, because you. They could buy a normal Pokemon. They can't buy a humanoid Pokemon. They got to go to a foster home. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And then when they go to a foster home, they're shopping between humans of different races and literal different species of humanoids. Cristina: Okay. At the foster home. Jack: Look at this human baby. Oh, look at this cute little machoke. Cristina: Oh, my gosh. You're deciding between those two. Oh, okay. Jack: Yeah. Think about how white people will sooner adopt a black or Asian kid to kind of check off their diversity box or whatever, instead of another white person who's equally in need. It's the same idea. There would be more options of species to adopt. Cristina: Okay. But normal person would not be adopting. They would just be finding them. I don't know. Jack: What do you mean a normal person? Cristina: Like, would we have Pokeballs in this 00:30:00 Cristina: society that's grown up with Pokemon? Jack: Yeah, we would still have Pokeballs for sure. Because we would also need, like, some of these Pokemon aren't having jobs, they're animals. Cristina: Because then we'd be catching them the old fashioned way. Jack: Catch them the old fashioned way. Like, we're not gonna. Like, we catch. I'm sure people go catch as well as breed. Ataros. Cristina: Mm. Jack: That's just a bull. Cristina: Yeah. This is a pretty cool bull, though. But. Yes. Jack: Yeah, but Then they catch this bull in their little Pokeball Majiggy. As well as freedom. Whatever. You're not a human. Cristina: It sucks. We can't have ghost Pokemon. Jack: Why these dead people? They're ghosts. Cristina: Why are there so many ghost Pokemon? I look so cool. Jack: If you had non Pokemon plants, you would want in your house a water Pokemon. Cristina: If you had non. Jack: Non Pokemon plants. Plants that aren't Pokemon. Cristina: Oh, okay. Jack: You want a water Pokemon living in your house. Cristina: Okay. But if you had a plant like Pokemon, would you not still want a water Pokemon? Jack: That's weird. How would one help the other? Cristina: I don't know. Because it's still a plant Poke. I mean, the Pokemon that's a plant still needs water. Jack: That's a weird relationship. Cristina: You give you water from the water Pokemon. Or would it still be seen as an attack? No, I don't know. Jack: No, they can control it. Cristina: Yeah, like, can't he just spray him with water and he just drink it up the way plants do? Jack: Mad kinky. Okay, assume the one who's doing the water spit spitting is the. The humanoid Pokemon with the spinny thingy on his body. And then assume that the other receiving end Pokemon is the flower that looks like a. A sexy lady or whatever the. They're going for. Cristina: Sexy lady flower. Jack: It's like a lady plant thing. They're definitely trying to make her look like she's a hot to. Kind of like that annoying rabbit. Cristina: Annoying rabbit. But the sexy flower lady, not flower. Jack: It's like some plant or some crap. I'm not entirely sure what it is. Let me see if I can find it. Cristina: And it's not. It's not bell awesome. Ryan P. She does not look sexy. She's just cute. Jack: It's the thick one. There you go. The thick one. Cristina: Oh, Rose. What's a ro. Red Roserade. Jack: Roserade. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Okay, so sure. So it's that buff bro looking thing trying to in this case, squirt its water onto this lady looking thing. And those just happen to be the two Pokemon that you own. That's weird. Now also, I think that Pokemon should be excluded because she's too humanoid and he's too humanoid. They're kind of allowed to do whatever they want. Cristina: Okay, so if he does want to give her water, it's not wrong. Jack: It's not wrong. Cristina: You can't tell him to give her. Jack: You can't tell him. That's. That's abuse. You can't tell him to do anything, especially not to give her water. Cristina: But there's how many flower looking Plants are okay to have. She's not okay to have. Jack: She literally looks like a chick. If you look like a person, that already exists. Cristina: Bellossom, that other choice. Is she okay? She looks like a little girl. Yeah. Jack: Blossom's in a sketchy area, you know, because it's like. You look like a flower, too. Like, a lot. A lot. But also you kind of look like a person. Cristina: Okay, but gloom is okay. Jack: You. Yeah, you get. Gloom is just a creature. Cristina: So if you're lucky and you evolve into something that looks humanoid, you're okay? Jack: Yes, 100%. You just lucked out by evolution. But the problem is, then your whole lineage must be protected so that you can get to where you're going. So I guess we have to weigh some of these. No, Blossom, because she looks so much like a flower, she's excluded and will just be a Pokemon. Cristina: Okay, so what if I want my Bulbasaur to water my. Whatever, my Bellossom? Jack: Well, that's just a turtle. That's an animal. You can get it. Do whatever you want. Cristina: Okay. So you can water her. Jack: You can water her. Cristina: Okay. 00:35:00 Cristina: And it's not wrong. Jack: And it's not wrong. And it's not weird or rape. It's nothing of the sort. Cristina: I'm just trying to water my plant. Jack: Criminals would also have preferred Pokemon. They probably opt into. And we would see this in a lot of places. Regions would have regions, jobs, different. Everything. Everything would have specialized Pokemon, you know? You know, think about how easy it would be to have power plants if you have electric Pokemon working there, generating electricity themselves. Cristina: And steel Pokemon, will they help? Jack: Probably for building things. Maybe they can pull really exaggerated loads of weight. Interesting. Interesting. Cristina: Well, then, if they would be helped like that, I guess Rock Pokemon, too. Jack: Yes, but also psychic Pokemon would literally be your employee at that time, moving things with their mind to help you build and lift even more. Cristina: They're way more helpful in, like, working with us than actually being pets. So I don't know if we should have Pokemon as pets. I think we'd do more if we were just like, let's work together and build and stuff. Jack: But, like, a fire dog is still a dog, you see. Like, it doesn't work anymore because you. Cristina: Can'T do anything with a fire dog. Jack: Yeah. Like, what the h*** are you going to do with a fire dog? Just treat it like a dog and. Cristina: Except you can't have Houndoom. Oh, man. Oh, he's evil. Jack: Yeah, he is. Cristina: He's just an evil dog. Oh, no. Jack: But our canine is a fire dog. Cristina: He's humongous. Jack: You couldn't. You could never. You could never have some of these cooler looking Pokemon in the real world. Cristina: Exactly. Jack: You would really. Cristina: You could have the baby version. Jack: You would have him on a farm. Cristina: Yes. Jack: He's like a giant. He's giant golden retriever. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And he's like a good 10ft tall. Well, sometimes. No, realistically, he could be like six feet tall on all four. Cristina: That's crazy. Jack: And that's huge. That's monstrously big. Cristina: Ridiculous. Jack: That's so inappropriately. But think. He's so. His fur is so cuddly. Cristina: Yes. He would feel like you could probably ride him around like neck like. Like your little dog or dogs. I don't know if people sleep with their dogs on their bed. Jack: He would be the size of your bed laying down. Cristina: Yeah. It's adorable. Jack: He would be the size of your bed. Cristina: He would be your bed. Jack: He would be your bed. Yeah. You could sleep on top of him. You wouldn't need the bed. Throw a blanket in on the corner of a room or something. He lays down and then you go and lay down on top of. Cristina: Oh, he's too huge though. Ridiculous. There. There's too. I don't know what Pokemon. Jack: All the small ones are easy. Like you could have a Pichu. Cristina: Okay, well then when it becomes a raichu. How big is that? Right. You. Jack: No, you choose not to evolve it or you gotta let it out. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Because that's pretty big. Well, then again, it says no, but that's just smaller than humans, so. Cristina: Right. You. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: Do you know what? What? How tall does it get? Jack: Three feet. Cristina: Okay. Jack: It's not that bad. Cristina: Okay, I guess. Okay, that's not bad. Jack: It's not bad. Cristina: But like a rat attack. That thing is huge, isn't it? Jack: It's still not like a human height. Cristina: Oh, how big is it? Jack: That's also like three feet. But then you can't have like Really? A Charizard is hard. A Blastoite is hard. These like giant Colossal Pokemon. Cristina: Charmeleon school. Jack: But he's on fire. You can't have that in your house. Anyways. Cristina: Charmeleon. No, I guess Charmander either. Bulbasaur is okay. Jack: Yeah. Squirtle. You can have most starting versions of Pokemon in your home, but it sucks. That's why you gotta get the out of the house if you want to be a trainer. Right. Because, well, you can have a bunch. And a bunch of them are going to get huge and you're not going to have that here. Cristina: So just gotta be A bunch of babies. Jack: They gotta be babies. You can't let them evolve because it wouldn't fit in your house. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: So you put them in a computer. Cristina: No, that's the worst. There's no computers. We did not invent the computer. Jack: I promise you. We would have invented the computer too. Cristina: No, that's the worst. That makes no sense. Jack: No, I'm sure they're keeping humans in that prison too. Cristina: It should be illegal. That's the prison. That's just a new prison system, is a computer. We don't have prisons. You just go into a computer. Jack: Well, no. Yeah. When we make that a prison for the humans. For criminals who are humanoid. Cristina: Okay. But actual humans. Jack: Well, humans too. Cristina: Okay. So then we would 00:40:00 Cristina: have to. Jack: Well, we are humanoid. Cristina: Exactly. So we're getting rid of the prison. Jack: Yeah. And putting us in computers that simulate our misery or whatever. Cristina: Okay. We're gonna make the Matrix. Jack: Yeah, we're gonna make the Matrix. I'm sure the Matrix is what's happening inside of a Pokeball. The Matrix is what's happening inside of Pokeball. No. Or is a state of not being. Is there nothing going on inside of a Pokeball? Because then it doesn't work as a prism if you're just not being and no time passes for you. Cristina: Like, I don't know. Jack: I think that's maybe what's happening. Cristina: I don't know. Because they don't act, like, horrified when they're out, like, how much no time. Jack: Has passed for them. Cristina: But when they realize time has passed, shouldn't that be horrifying the first time it happens? Will they be used? Like, how are they used to it? Jack: They're raised that way. Cristina: I don't know. Jack: That's why it's easier to catch younger Pokemon and harder to catch older ones because they're freaking out. The younger ones are like, what the f***'s happening? The older ones are, f*** that s*** up. Cristina: Okay, then that makes a little more sense. They're like, no, I don't want that. I know what's gonna happen. Jack: No, they don't know what's gonna happen. Cristina: Because they've never stayed in it. I don't know. It still doesn't make sense. No, no, no, no. That's horrible. Jack: Now, I have a note here that I find is funny because I was trying to think about the battling, and then next it. It just says, like, chicken fighting. Cristina: Like chicken fighting. Jack: That's basically what Pokemon battles are when you're doing it just for s**** and giggles, I guess. Cristina: Should we be throwing money in it. I guess we do throw money in it. Yeah. That will still be chicken fighting. Jack: It's chicken fighting. It's chicken fighting. We're enslaving humanoids and forcing them to fight. Like hobos for meat or something. Bro, what is happening in Pokemon? Cristina: I don't know. I mean, what if we split the money with the Pokemon? Would that make it more fair? Jack: You're making them fight for it and you're just taking what they earned. What the. Are you the fight handler? Yes. I guess you're just a fight promoter. Cristina: Yeah. Like when you have. You gotta battle with three Pokemon at the same time, you gotta help them decide what's the best. Jack: Why would they need. Cristina: I don't know. They need help deciding which move to make. Okay. Yeah. They would just stand there getting hit if you didn't tell them. Hey, dodge that hit. Jack: Yeah. No. 100%. It appears that all Pokemon have no sort of sense of drive of any sort. And they have a crazy sense of indecision. Cristina: Unless they're wild. That's the only time they know what to do. Jack: That's weird. We made them dumb. They're pugs. They're like pugs. Cristina: They become pugs once we catch them. Jack: They're just dumb and. Well, no, if they raise that way, because wild Pokemon that you do manage to catch sometimes still do whatever the they want because they know what to do. That's true dog life. Cristina: Okay? Jack: We make them dumb. We catch them and raise them like a stupid animal. It's like the difference between raising. Just bring a wolf home when it's a baby, raise that wolf, and then tell that wolf to go meet the wolves that grew up outside. They're gonna be like, you're retarded. Cristina: You can tell that wolf that you're retarded. Okay, yeah. Jack: You're dumb. You're dumb. Cristina: And that's why they need us to fight. And that's why dividing the money makes sense. Jack: Well, no, because those slaves don't get money. And those slaves are pets. They're animals. Cristina: There's no slaves. What are you talking about? In the game, sure, I guess they're slaves. But in ours, you wouldn't have. Jack: Machoke would not be fighting. No, he would have Pokemon he's using to fight. Cristina: Yes, but he would be splitting the money with those Pokemon. Jack: Why? Those are animals. You don't split your money with your horse now just because it's. Who pulled the people. That was your money. All you do is buy it. More hay and food. Cristina: Fighting is illegal. Isn't It. So we can't just have our Pokemon fight each other unless they're getting something from it. Jack: So is your argument that if we paid the chicken, it would be legal? Cristina: Yes, it would be more. Okay. Jack: Is paying the chicken the way to bring back chicken fighting? Cristina: Yes, I think so. Jack: Because it's not illegal chicken fighting. It's emotional chicken. Cristina: Exactly. Now he has a job. He's feeding his family. Jack: It's the logic behind p*** which is legal. Yes. Yes. A hundred percent. As long as it's being recorded. Yes, it's fine. Cristina: And they're getting paid and it's all. Yes, there are rules. That's how it works. I don't know. Yeah, 00:45:00 Cristina: it doesn't need to make a hundred percent sense. Everyone just has to agree to it. Jack: But in poor countries, people would still be chicken fighting. Pokemon fighting. Cristina: Yeah, they'll just keep the money themselves. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: Okay. Jack: But then, because they're animals, we're not Pokemon fighting. Basically, there's just like, ufc and Machoke is whooping a** like he's a Brazilian or something. Cristina: Well, no, because he wouldn't be fighting. He'd. Have you said he would be having Pokemon to fight? Jack: Well, no. UFC is just humans. Cristina: Oh, okay. So he can fight in the ufc. Yeah. Jack: Be fighting humanoids. Because he's not a Pokemon. That's where he would fight. Cristina: Yes, but maybe they'll have, like a class for every Pokemon or something. Class, too. He's. That. He's gotta be way heavier. Jack: He literally has powers. Cristina: Exactly. Although he probably can't use them. Jack: Oh, no. Cristina: But he's technically probably a wild Pokemon anyway. So he should be able to use it because no one owns him. Jack: No, he's just a person. Cristina: Exactly. So he should be able to fight like a wild type Pokemon. Jack: Well, that's not like a wild type Pokemon. It's really because he developed a sense of identity. We trained our Pokemon to do whatever we wanted to. Cristina: Yes. Jack: And we told them what to do, and they just do it. They're like dogs. Cristina: Yes, because he's not. Jack: He was raised. Yeah, but not because he's wild. Cristina: No. Jack: But rather he was raised like humans. You just do whatever you want, and I just do whatever I want. I didn't raise you to do only what I say. Cristina: Yeah. So, okay, then he. Yeah, he would just a person. Be able to fight. Jack: Yeah, he could easily go fight and he would just know what to do. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Probably no more than four moves. Cristina: Why do they only know formulas if. Jack: I think it's just up to the trainer's crappy Memory, Really? Cristina: Okay. I guess. Yeah. Like, some people probably just spam two moves. Who knows? Jack: Yeah. Like, you don't need a thousand things. Do the same four things over and over. Cristina: You'd be fine. Jack: Yeah, but so then UFC would have. Yeah. Divisions for. Because you couldn't. You couldn't realistically fight. You would die. Yeah. They got powers, man. So they would have to fight only their own, in their own weight class. There would be so many different species classes and weight classes within the species classes. Cristina: Yes. Jack: Whoa. UFC would be amazing. Cristina: We'd be tuning too much. We wouldn't be able to watch every episode. No, no, no. Jack: The crazy fights all the time. It's dope. And to be crossover things when possible, things that kind of scale, because, like, we're assuming all Pokemon that are no longer going to be referred to as Pokemon, but the humanoids would be stronger than, like, the heavyweight classes. Right. They're just way over that. So they would be exciting to watch like that. Like, just way over the scale. We're like, oh, heavyweight match. Cool, dope, crazy fight. But, like, macho fight. That's like. They could hit like a train. He could literally hit, like, if he was a train, and he's gonna hit another thing that could get hit by a train and be fine. Cristina: Yes. That's crazy. Jack: Like, that's way higher up of a weight class. Cristina: Yes. Yes. That works. Jack: That works. And I'm sure that there'd be infestations of Pokemon rats. Rats. There would be rat attackats everywhere on everything. They would be. No. Here's the f****** problem, dude. Birds would just stop. There'd only be Pokemon. There'd only be flying Pokemon. There wouldn't be birds. You know how big a feral Pokemon is? Even small Pokemon are huge. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: They're gonna eat all the birds. Cristina: Bugs would still be around. Jack: Bugs would be a problem. Cristina: Like human. I mean, not human bugs, but, you know, non Pokemon. Jack: Yeah. They'd be hard to get rid of. Cristina: Well, Sylvia, I think. Jack: But Pokemon bugs are going to be an issue. Cristina: Yes. Jack: If you don't like bugs, that's nightmare world to live in. Cristina: Especially, like, a hive of beedrills. How horrifying is that? Jack: You die. One stings you, you die. If you're human. The size of that bee. Cristina: Because, like, beetles are humongous if they have to. And they have that Pokemon that's like a queen bee, too. Like, are they living in hives? How big is that hive? That queen is kind of big. Those babies are kind of big babies. They're like. They're like Pikachu size, but they're still. That's a baby bee. Jack: No. Yeah, I know. We're talking that this bee is easily seven feet tall. Cristina: And then. Jack: Hives of these things. Cristina: And then how much is in a hive? Like, of hundreds. Hundreds of these tall beings. Like, they're living. It's probably like a tower made of honey or something that we just see. Jack: And 00:50:00 Jack: building. Cristina: That's where they are. We're gonna keep away from that. Jack: Yes, it's a building. But then again, those things are so big that either it's away from civilization out in the woods somewhere, which. Cool. Cristina: Yes. Jack: Or they're also just kind of living to a humanoid degree mentally, because they're so huge. Like, we can't stay out of each other's way. Then you just raise yourself around us, and then you're like the machoke. Cristina: Yeah, but they just have their own thing. Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. They can make their own home. Cristina: Horrifying still, because they're huge. Too many are too big. Jack: Too many, man. There's. Yes. All of the above. And that applies to so many Pokemon. So all these humanoid Pokemon would have to learn how to use money. The ones that lived in our societies. Cristina: Yes. And that's why we're paying them to fight each other. Jack: Well, they're just fighting the way humans are fighting. We're not paying the animal Pokemon. No, no. Cristina: So no chicken fighting. Jack: Only humanoid Pokemon get paid. Cristina: Okay, and those aren't Pokemon. Jack: They're just humanoids. Cristina: Yes, but we can't make our Pokemon fight each other. That's illegal. Jack: At least in this country. Okay, but there are countries where it's not. Cristina: Okay, but here, no. Jack: Here, no Pokemon fighting. Cristina: No Pokemon fighting. No battles. Jack: But the battles are going to be happening in third world countries for sure. Cristina: Okay. Jack: And on top of that, there's gonna be intentionally humanoid military operatives and animal Pokemon weapons. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Yeah. Armies of fire Pokemon running into enemy territory, using their fire ability to burn things down, being directed by humans and humanoids. Cristina: Mm. That's crazy. Can we do that? Jack: War would change so drastically. We literally have powers at this point. And there would be issues all the time. The moment somebody got a whiff, there's a. There's a legendary Pokemon with insurmountable amounts of power. Like a lot of countries, it's a race to the moon. Every time we hear about anyone about a legendary. Cristina: Yeah, yeah. Jack: Every country. Every country. Everybody. Cristina: I don't even know, like, these legendaries, they live in their own. They can make their own home outside of Earth. Can't they? Jack: Like, some of them. Cristina: Some of them are earthbound. Jack: Yeah. Like the ones that. Like the giant whale and the dino thing, like, the water and ground, those. Cristina: Are too dangerous to even be next to. They're huge also. Jack: Yeah. They cause tsunamis and earthquakes. Huge. Cristina: That's gonna be a problem. How is this not gonna turn into an apocalypse? Jack: Well, it would have been normal always. Cristina: Okay, that seems really dangerous. Jack: It would have been normal always. Otherwise we would have never gotten this far. If it was apocalyptic, we would have just never existed. Cristina: Okay. Jack: But we've made it here. Except society works with us today. Cristina: Yes. And we're only able to have some Pokemon test, but very few, so we'd. Jack: Have a lot more citizens. It's just weird. But then again, it's weird to think about, oh, there's a bunch of wild Machoke, but also, like, there's a bunch of wild humans. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Just out there being human. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: In the wild. Cristina: I mean, Macho will go to school with us and have jobs with us. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: 100. Jack: Even if they can't say anything but their own word. No, they would learn. I think they would learn because Meowth proved that. Yeah, he just practiced. Cristina: Yeah. And there's no reason why he would learn English from saying meow all the time. Like, if he can do it, they can all do it. Doesn't make sense. Jack: The police would be racist to other humanoids. 100%. Cristina: The police. Yeah, human, please. Jack: Oh, human police is gonna be racist to humanoids? To be fair, even if we let them into our society because they're humanoid, we would still treat them like lesser people. Cristina: For fact, even if they spoke English. Jack: Even if they spoke English. Cristina: I guess. Jack: It would go like this. White people treat everybody like crap. Then black people are gonna treat everybody. They're gonna be cool with the Pokemon, but not cool with the white people. Cristina: And then. Jack: How would this break down socially? Because it's. What 00:55:00 Jack: is it? The minorities? No, I guess it. No, it really breaks down to the following. The Pokemon that behave like white people will side with white people. And the Pokemon that behave like black people would side with black people. And the Pokemon that behave like middle. Like there's Middle Eastern behaving Pokemon. Cristina: Okay. What? Jack: Yeah. And racism would distribute itself like this. Cristina: You're saying there's Pokemon that act like different races? Jack: Yeah, there's Pokemon that have, like, racial biases attached to them. Some of the psychic Pokemon, if you look at Alakazam, always doing very Indian poses and always dressing in, like, old, ancient, wise India man or Chinaman, who knows? So he's this very specific area. A cliche character of it. Even how his eyes are formed, all of it is a giant cliche of this region. The people from those regions would be fine with this Pokemon, and they would prefer that humanoid Pokemon over some other humanoid Pokemon over, like, a Machoke that just looks like an American. Cristina: He looks like an American. Jack: He's too beefy. He's been eating too well. Cristina: Okay. Jack: You know. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And we would prefer Machoke to Alakazam just because we're racist. Cristina: Okay, that makes sense. Jack: That would happen to all Pokemon that are humanoid. We would just racially align with more of them or species. Ly. It would still be racially. We would still have race that crosses boundaries within these collectives, because species is not race. Cristina: So are you gonna. Jack: I guess culture is what we're talking about. Cristina: We're calling them. But are we gonna be calling them the race or culture that they're a part of? Jack: I guess we would call them. Interesting. That's weird. I guess we would be calling them part of the culture that they're part of. It's weird, right? Because you can be a Alakazam from India. You're Indian just because you're from India. That's also part of not just your nationality, but your culture is Indian. So you're an Alakazam raised in India. I'm sure that's different than an Alakazam raised in the United States. Behaviorally, very different. Cristina: Yes, it would be. Jack: Yeah, yeah, it would be. Now, on average, where a Pokemon is from is where its behavior is going to line up to the most. And a region where this Pokemon is really common. Well, that's an Indian Pokemon. Cristina: Okay, so you're saying Pokemon are going to be spread out. Like actual animals are spread out in. Jack: The world and like people. Cristina: Yeah, and people. Yes. Okay. Like certain types of animals. Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, maybe some are everywhere. Like Pidgeys. Cristina: Yeah. Because they can fly anywhere. Jack: Yeah. But then there's some that are just confined to where they're from. Cristina: Yeah. Okay. Jack: But the humanoids travel more. And also there's some Pokemon that can't go anywhere even if you're humanoid. There's gonna be some Pokemon that are. Cristina: Humanoid and just struggle and to stay where they're at. Jack: Yeah, they have to stay where they're at because other environments would be dangerous. Cristina: What do you think Snorlax is? I don't think he's humanoid. Is he? Jack: No, he's not humanoid. Cristina: That's just a bear. Jack: I think that's a bear. I think he is a bear. He's a hibernating bear. Cristina: Oh, okay. Jack: I never thought about it. Cristina: It's a bear. Jack: I'm just fascinated by how these panda. How this race problem is gonna break because are we gonna think about it like color? A lot of people literally devolve to color and would say lighter skin, white, darker skin, person of color. Cristina: There's no white skinned Pokemon. Jack: No. But then how do we. Because we're gonna. We're human. We're gonna be racist. Cristina: Oh, so we're just gonna call them whatever color they are? Jack: Like. Well, no, the question is how would we do it Racist to them? Cristina: I don't. Jack: Not just human racism. Cristina: Yeah, but how would. Jack: Because we can't. Cristina: Okay. Okay. Jack: Unless we're like, well, you stupid blue Pokemon. Cristina: I guess we could do that. Why not? Well, we'll invent words. Jack: Call them an ink stain. Cristina: An ink. Yes, like that. Jack: You ink. Cristina: That sounds awful. What is that supposed to be too like a poison type Pokemon? I don't understand. Jack: No, it's just any blue Pokemon. It's racism. Cristina: Okay. Jack: It's Pokemon whose skin is blue. Okay, you ink. Cristina: But ink can be blue, black, red. Jack: It's blue. Because pens. 01:00:00 Jack: Even if pens could be black, the common use for pen. You think is blue. Oh, call them an ink. Cristina: That's awful. Okay, that works. I guess. Jack: I guess, like how would we. I'm sure we would be racist because we cannot discriminate because they're still humanoid. We would find other ways to be a*******. We just do that. Cristina: Yeah. So we call them names. Yeah. Jack: The psychic Pokemon would also be translators. Cristina: Yes. Jack: I mean, great profession. They could translate between any two given languages. They're psychic. They're not even really using words. You're hearing it on words. Cristina: They could just lie to you too. But unless that's more like an evil psychic than you control society easily. Would you trust that psychic Pokemon would. Jack: Be running the world? If anything, there'd be nobody who can move outpacing them. We would be the second rate citizens. Cristina: Yes. I think psychic could be above. Jack: Yeah. We couldn't do anything. Cristina: We're normal time. Jack: They would be the nobility. They'd be royalty. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And then we're just. We're still human. We're second most dangerous. And probably they just ignore us. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: Because what are we gonna do to them? Cristina: I think so psychic is a little too above. I don't know. Jack: Psychic who think at a human level. Because you can be psychic, have psychic abilities and not be super intelligent. So if you're raised in the wild and you just got psychic powers. You're probably using it in different ways. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Versus a refined individual. I guess it really comes. No, but they would have figured it out. They would have made society themselves. There must be really hyper intelligent Pokemon too. Cristina: I wonder who would that be? Jynx? Jack: Jinx. Cristina: She lives in a cave, doesn't she? What is she supposed to be? I don't know. Jack: That's a racist Pokemon. Okay, well, that's basically the black woman in a dress, the Pokemon. And then they made her purple because she was black. Originally it was blackface. It was blackface, the Pokemon. Cristina: Okay. But with very blonde hair. Yeah, but she's a psychic type, right? Jack: She's the psychic type. Cristina: Oh. Would she be above us, or do you think she's not? Jack: It depends on intellect. I don't know. I don't know. Is that Pokemon? If it's raised in a cave, it's not. Cristina: Okay. Where's Mr. Mime found? Also in a cave. I don't know. Jack: Yes. It's weird that they just hang out in caves or cavemen. Cristina: That's scary. Jack: We can raise them to be just as intelligent as we are, so they need us anyways. There's no Pokemon that just went out and built society. Cristina: Munchups. No. I don't know what in Pokemon in general, like. Jack: No. I mean, yeah, it would have to be, right? Unless Pokemon really went out and did it. But there has to be, like, a Pokemon that went out and made a society, and it's just those Pokemon living in pain, Right? Cristina: Mm. Jack: But no. Cristina: Why? Jack: I don't know why the f***. It's never happened in the shows or whatever. Not that I know. Cristina: Not that you know of. Yeah, I know. Jack: If it's been a very long time. Cristina: It could be so. Jack: Last time I saw Ash was going to the Orange Islands. Cristina: I don't even know what that is. Jack: That was like 2003. Cristina: Oh. But like, what's that in generations? I guess two Pokemon. Two. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Jack: And what generation are we on? 9? 10? Cristina: 20? No, 12. I don't know. Jack: I don't know how anybody keeps up with any of this. Cristina: I don't know. I hardly know the Pokemon. I know. Jack: Would there be any Pokemon in the medical field? Cristina: Chansey? Jack: The medical field would be destroyed. There'd be mostly Pokemon in the medical field. It would. Humans wouldn't be allowed to be Pokemon. You would raise non humanoid Pokemon with the explicit purpose of using their healing ability and recovering people. Absolutely. We'd live to Forever. Cristina: I don't. Okay. Jack: Everybody's hella healthy. Cristina: Has healing abilities, though. Jack: Hella chancy. Cristina: Okay, so just chassis. Okay. Jack: Yeah. There's a bunch of Pokemon that can do things like that. Cristina: Like that. I don't know. I mean, they could heals. Heal themselves. Jack: Anybody who learns. Anybody who can learn a Heal for the party. Cristina: For the party. What move is that? Jack: I don't know. Cristina: There is a move like that, though. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: It was the party. Not just yourself. Jack: Yeah. It heals other members in your party. Cristina: Okay. Jack: And so that would. That guy would be in the medical field for. For a fact. Cristina: Yes. Jack: And one that heals. Well, itself. Great fighting. That's a UFC fighter. Cristina: Okay. Jack: Great. Also great for firefighting. Cristina: Yeah. 01:05:00 Jack: For war. Cristina: Heal itself, I guess. Jack: Any Pokemon that can heal itself. Cristina: How many Pokemon heal themselves? I mean, besides, like. I can only think of, like the grass type Pokemon that still helps the help of others to heal themselves type of thing. Jack: Or rest. Cristina: Or rest, I guess. Rest. The psychic, Right. Jack: Yeah. What is roost Flying. Cristina: Oh. Jack: But it doesn't matter what they are. The point is they can recover it. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: And if they can recover, they have purposes that you could put them in dangerous situations and they'd be fine. Cristina: They can't be pets, can they? Jack: A lot of them can. Why can't they be pets? Cristina: Because, like, Chansey kind of seems like a smart. Jack: Well, okay. The same rule. If she can outsmart an ape, then you're too human. Cristina: Yeah. Like, she's got a career. Why are we keeping her as a pet? Jack: Unless she's raised in the wild and is just an animal. Cristina: Why is she raised in the wild? Jack: Because I'm sure there's many that are just out in nature. Cristina: Okay. Okay. Jack: Anyways. Anyways, that's just what I wanted to talk about. Take a weird look at what it would be like if Pokemon were real. Because of potty training? Cristina: Because of hobby training. I'm very confused about potty training. I just. I don't think it's worth having a Pokemon. Jack: I mean, a bunch of Pokemon like. Cristina: Or, like, just have one. Like, there wouldn't. There's no chance of having six or seven or whatever. Jack: Depends on the Pokemon. Cristina: You think there's some that learn quicker than others? Jack: Yeah, for sure. And there are some that are tiny enough so they're not a problem. Cristina: Yeah. You have, I guess, your whole pack of those. Jack: Realistically. Cristina: I think realistically everyone just have one. Jack: If Pokemon showed up today and most of them just minded their business and we caught what we could and fit them into These homes we would like. A lot of Pokemon are removed from what we could have. It would just be the small ones. Cristina: The small ones. But I think everyone would just be okay with having one. I don't think anyone really needs more than one. Jack: Unless we had that find your friends. If we had that machine system, we would become soulless real quick. Cristina: Okay, but let's pretend no computer. No computer that traps anyone. Jack: It wouldn't just be one, but, like, you could have one. Most people would have one. Cristina: I think most people. I think it would be one or two actual pets. Like, some people have one, some people have two. But, like, it's reasonable. Jack: There's crazy cat ladies who have many. Cristina: Yeah. And there's that. But that's not. Jack: And Farms will literally have many. Cristina: Yeah. But most people averagely one to three. Jack: Yeah. Cristina: And then there's always the person that's a little bigger. Jack: The bigger it is, the less likely you'd have another. Cristina: Yeah. So pretty basic. Jack: Makes sense. Cristina: I don't think 7. 6. Is it 6 too much? Jack: If they were small, they're small. Cristina: Yeah. Jack: It's like having six gerbils isn't crazy. Cristina: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jack: I mean, it still sounds kind of like a lot, but. Cristina: Yes, because they're not gonna be that small. Jack: I wonder if. No, there's a couple of Pokemon that actually start really tiny. Cristina: Like Pichu that you saw, you know, even smaller. Like. Jack: Like an inch. There's Pokemon start like an inch big. Cristina: Well, it's an inch. What Pokemon? Jack: Top of my head. I don't know, but. Cristina: Oh, that tiny spider. There's a tiny spider. The electric spider. He's tiny. Jack: Well, yeah, there's a bunch of Pokemon to start off really tiny. Cristina: Okay. But that guy is like a flea size. Jack: Oh, well, he's literally a flea. Cristina: Oh, okay. Well, no, it's a spider. Jack: Yeah, I think it's a. It's a tick, actually. Cristina: Oh, it's a tick. Jack: But anyways. Anyways, if you guys have any idea as to what would fit Pokemon or what weird thing would obviously occur if Pokemon showed up. Cristina: Yes. Is watering your Pokemon with another Pokemon. Jack: Inappropriate If they look humanoid? It looks like sex. Too much. Okay, but tell us. Going to go into our socials and tell us if it's inappropriate or not. If your water Pokemon, who's male looking and just a buff guido, decides to water your female Pokemon who is made curvy and voluptuous for some reason. Cristina: Why is she female? What if. Why is it not a man that looks like a pretty lady? I don't understand. Jack: I wonder if that Pokemon comes male. Cristina: That could. Jack: If it does come now male. Is that. Is that more. Is that just like a drag queen or something? Is that the equivalent of a gay. Cristina: Okay. Because it's a guy watering a guy flower. Jack: No, if the guy. If the same flower that's a sexy, voluptuous lady was just male. Cristina: I guess it's. Jack: That's the equivalent of like a gay dude. Cristina: No, it's. I don't know. No, I don't know. It looks like a flower. That flower looks like something. Someone. Mosquito. Tuskeedo. Jack: What? Cristina: Crap. Jack: From what? Cristina: Sailor Moon Mosquito mask. Tusketo mask. Jack: No, I don't know. Who cares? I don't know the name of it. Cristina: But the guy. Yes, the guy with a mask. Jack: Yes. Anyways, you guys can talk to us on our socials. Oscar Pod. That's on what? TikTok, on X. Cristina: Instagram. Jack: Instagram. All the socials. Just type in. Just convo pop. Cristina: And remember to subscribe, rate and review the show. Jack: Yes. And word of mouth, tell people about this program. Get it across that we're trying to figure out out what it would be like to see how Pokemon would function in the real world. Cristina: This has been the Rambling podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening. Bye. Good morning. Good morning. This podcast is hosted by Cristina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by great dots.in fox art by 0lupo and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black. 01:12:03

Rambling 287: Lamia

Who is the Greek Mistress Lamia? What is the narrative surrounding her death? What is the truth surrounding her death? The duo unpack the mythology of an interesting creature known as Lamia, a mistress of a Greek God and what really unfolded with their affair.

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  • Greek Mythology
  • Naga
  • Romantic Jealousy
  • Hera
  • Snake Pits
  • Shapeshifting
  • Necromancers
  • Jesus Christ

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Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in five, four.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And this is the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas. And today we have some interesting things to learn look into. But first, as of late, we've been catching people up because of our jumping around. Anybody who is used to us following a giant cohesive narrative that we've been following for like two years isn't used to the old way. We were doing things of just casually picking things that kind of sort of related to this bigger theme that we didn't know existed. But we were just hunting monsters and figuring out what was going on. Except after a long enough deep dive into what we thought was an unrelated series of things that began with a creature, the unicorn, slowly spiraled into. Every creature seems to be related to this thing one way or another.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And initially we thought a lot of it had to do with the Elysians. When we started looking into the Elysians, but before then, we knew things about the shadow realm and many creatures who were in there. So we were hunting things like that. But before we knew about the shadow Realm, we were also just hunting creatures, trying to find out what the f*** these things are. We thought some of them are aliens. We thought some of them were interdimensional things. And weirdly enough, both of those things are kind of the same.

Cristina: Yeah, I guess so. Yeah.

Jack: You know, we knew this Chupacara was like a God like thing. And we thought it came from space looking for things. But no, it did come from elsewhere. But the elsewhere wasn't space. The elsewhere was a different realm.

Cristina: I don't know if you know anything that actually has come from space.

Jack: No, we know things that have gone out into space.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But it seems that everything we thought came from space we have proven with texts that mentioned it before we even looked up. And it's like, okay, okay, you guys knew about all these things ahead of time. So I was in trying to dig deeper into the Clinton Road thing that we've been looking at. We hit some walls because we gotta find things for this. We gotta figure out what's happening in the bottom of the castle. It's been sealed off. It clearly has a way in and out in a location that is undisclosed to the public because it's been kept absolutely secret with, you know, official reasons or whatnot.

Cristina: Whatnot.

Jack: But the castle it was on was Destroyed. So the entrance there is gone and the exit have been blocked and built around, so we don't know where they exist in the five towns that they're spread into. And then somewhere in this giant property, there could be a random manhole cover that's covered by leaves and happens to be in the woods. And that's the only way in or out of this f******. Like, who the h*** knows?

Cristina: It just sounds so suspicious. It just sounds like that lady with the house that makes it into a puzzle that ends up being a portal for ghosts and whatever.

Jack: Except she wasn't trying to hide anything that was just out there. So why were these people trying to hide it? What is the difference? And this is more recent than the house, too, so what is the point? And, like, I've tried to look. Like I said, the hardest thing about this was gonna be the castle. So we visited the castle.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But all it did was lead us to walls. So because we hit these walls and there's nowhere else to go. Look elsewhere. Maybe we'll get informed.

Cristina: Right, okay.

Jack: So we've gotten informed in the past just by looking at other places. We found the Elysians, and that informed a bunch of s***. We found the Shadow Realm. That informed a bunch of s***. Things that we thought were unrelated. So as I'm looking through random crap, looking through old notes, I come across as, you know, the fact that Zeus was kind of pretty successful at creating Nahaz.

Cristina: Okay, yeah.

Jack: Not Naha's Naga. Nahaz was a specific. Naga is the one from the Garden of Eden's research team. Nahaz is the one we call the Serpent. But so we know that he successfully made a Naga, and we know that he got his Naga to successfully make some that worked and some that didn't, like Medusai and her sisters and crap like that.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Yes, okay. But still have kind of OP abilities that are kind of sort of fairy like. And in looking at that, it came to my mind that, wait, this is the first instance of more than one, more than two, Many, Several. And so I'm like, okay, if you figured it out, you didn't also just stop. Those just happened to be the main narratives, right? The ones that are important because you figured it out, you want to be able to replicate it, and holy s***. That I immediately find something. I was like, there must be more. Just logically speaking, if nobody else could figure it out, the guy who did is probably going to mass produce them. That's the advantage right there.

Cristina: You're OP now he has a Naga army.

Jack: He Would have to. Right. He would have to build. I mean, not a Naga army, but he would have to make multiple. Logically speaking. And I stumble upon a thing called Lamia. L A M I A Lamia. And Lamia is described as a half woman, half serpent. But Lamia is not Medusa or the other Groguns. And Lamia is not Glycon. And Lamia is none of these things.

Cristina: She's from the same area.

Jack: She's Greek.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: She's Greek, specifically related to Zeus. Oh, weird. So I was like, okay, this is odd. But like, we can easily find it now because. Yeah, you had more than one and you instructed something to make it. Just because we only stumbled upon the three and didn't dig deeper, doesn't there isn't more? Yes, but there's definitely more. She's not even the only one I found.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But she's the most interesting one I found. So, as we said, she was originally mentioned in Greek mythology. And very specifically, the same thing that shows up again is half woman, half serpent. Half woman, half serpent. Very, very directly. It seems like Zeus wants Kido to continue making things that are half and half, not fully one. Or Kido is obsessed with not actually succeeding and going halfway because he wants to be the powerful one.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: I don't know the point of why they're always half and half. If a Naga is not. Anaga is not. Yeah, Anaga is a full fairy serpent.

Cristina: Serpent thing.

Jack: Yeah, absolutely. 100% a serpent.

Cristina: For some reason, he only makes halves and halves.

Jack: All of them are. Now they're really overpowered to the point that they are more OP than a bunch of the s***. Alicians didn't like some of this crap because of how OP it is. Meaning they felt, you know, some of these things were a problem to some degree, but they weren't. Naga, is it because it's impossible to actually go all the way? But no, because we know of people who've accomplished it.

Cristina: Yeah. So did they do it on purpose? And what was the purpose?

Jack: What is ultimately the purpose? So I dive into the story to just what do the Greek have to say about this? What is the main narrative about Lamia? So here we go. First of all, Lamia was the queen of Libya according to the Greeks.

Cristina: What?

Jack: She was the queen of Libya. Okay, but weird that the queen of Libya is a half serpent, half a woman. But whatever. The Greek had weird stories to tell.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: You know, everything was odd. Now, where this became really interesting to me is the fact that she was in love and loved by Zeus.

Cristina: Okay, yeah. Well, she always have snakes, though. Is that part of her story? Okay.

Jack: She's always been.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Always been half serpent. And Zeus is into serpents, I guess.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And upon finding out that Zeus was having an affair with her, Hera becomes jealous and curses Lamia to lose her children.

Cristina: Oh, hush. Okay.

Jack: And transforms her into a monster who would devour the children of others.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh. Whoa.

Jack: Hardcore.

Cristina: Hardcore.

Jack: So let's unpack this for a bit. Zeus loves a half serpent lady, but I guess he's a God and he f**** random s***. Like, whatever, dude, you're God. What is a human to you? You're a God.

Cristina: He's with someone who is not cool with.

Jack: He's someone who's not cool with that. But he's always cheating on her. All his children are from different women. And he has, like, 100.

Cristina: Yes. But does she get her revenge like this to every single lady?

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Like, how does.

Jack: Hera is. Hera is known as a total b****.

Cristina: He's also a monster. That's okay. With the reaction. Her reaction. Whatever he does. Because he's not getting hurt. It's just the people he's with getting hurt, and he's not feeling that well.

Jack: The logic goes as follows. He loves one person deeply, and that's Hera. He loves other people. Not deeply. He loves to love. It's the idea of, you can truly be in love with one person and love many other people who you're not in love with. Yeah, you want to be romantic, and, yeah, you want to f*** and you want to have. But there's one person who you are committed to.

Cristina: But do you not feel bad for these people that are suffering?

Jack: Well, they know they are also involved. They are not an uninformed party.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: In all of these cases, they are the informed party. Everybody's informed.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Zeus is not a liar.

Cristina: There's a chance that you'll die or you'll have to kill your loved ones to be with me. That's. That's tough.

Jack: No, I'm sure all of these God women are like, I could take. Oh, I guarantee you, every single one of them. The gods are full of themselves.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Every single one is like, I could take her. It's not a problem. But Zeus has always been committed to Hera. And he's like, I'm not gonna say to my wife, she said, you banned, so you banned.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But Hera is fine until she's not.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Like, she knows. And then I guess she just doesn't want to see it ultimately just like, don't bring it around me. Don't bring it around me. You come home to me and you don't bring any of them b****** around me. And when she sees them b******, them b****** gotta die or become other s*** or whatever the f*** she does.

Cristina: Just live a miserable, miserable life.

Jack: Yes. But to his defense, he 100% seems absolutely committed to Hera, because that's who he doesn't violate. She's like, I gotta kill this person. He's like, s***, I guess you gotta kill this b****. And it's like, d***, bro. Okay, you at least committed, okay? And like, I respect that. I respect the guy who can stay committed. And realistically, yeah, you love other people. Realistically, but you're not going to betray who you're in love with, which is Hera. Great important detail because of where this is going to go.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: That was. That was not without purpose. That rant was absolutely within reason. All right, so, yeah, Hera kind of notorious for tossing people into weird situations, killing them, turning into other s***, ranking them, sending them into other f****** planes of existence.

Cristina: Do you know what kind of monster she turned her into? Like, what does she look like?

Jack: He. She made her existing form feral. She was a woman, and now that woman became a monster based on that woman. Oh, so it's just she became a feral monster. She was still a woman snake thing, but now she was a snake woman. She wasn't before she was a woman snake. Now she's a snake woman, if that makes sense.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And like, yes, that's the priority right there. She's like, okay, now you're primarily the serpent. Enjoy killing all the children you would love.

Cristina: Harsh. Okay?

Jack: Hardcore.

Cristina: Hardcore.

Jack: But if she knew, then she opted into the possibility. That's more on her for thinking she could step into number one spot. And it's like, we all know where Zeus stands, and it's by Hera.

Cristina: Okay?

Jack: There's not a soul who's ever questioned if Zeus is going to turn on her. He's not going to. Why would he? Which means you opted into the situation to some degree. You weren't aware of what extent or what move. But you know, if you get busted, you. You f*****. And so you did, and I f*****. Okay, now let's break apart her appearance a little. Described as having the upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body of a serpent. Right, let's dive into a little more detail. One thing that I found, which, again, as I say it, the image as I keep Moving forward, the image is going to build itself. She has the ability to shapeshift.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And that's an important little detail right.

Cristina: There because that's always involved.

Jack: That's a clever little tidbit. Oftentimes into either a pure woman or a pure serpent. Those seem to be her main go to. She can shapeshift into other things. But when she's in her pure woman form, after her interactions with Hera, she lures men in this woman form, and usually men with children, intentionally trying to get to the children and eat them.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh. Okay.

Jack: And when she's in a pure serpent form, she uses that to blend into nature where there would already be children.

Cristina: She's actually. Oh, my gosh. That's horrifying.

Jack: Yeah. She became. It's not just like, you're gonna be a thing. And it's like, yeah, I'm gonna go live my life as the same s***. I am just waiting. No. Hera f***** this lady.

Cristina: Now she hungers for children.

Jack: Now she hungers for children.

Cristina: Oh. Oh.

Jack: Weird, right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Lamia, the lady who will eat children. But again, there's some patterns that are forming. I don't know if you're spotting them as I'm going through this. Shapeshifters, children.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Let's dive into some of these behaviors. They are going to paint even stronger image. She usually appears at night. Succubus behavior right off the bat. And the fact that you're luring men. Odd.

Cristina: Odd.

Jack: Luring men at night.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Sounds like a succubus. As far as I know.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah.

Jack: Which is already a shadow realm creature. So luring men at night and using the darkness to confuse and more easily abduct. Very, very succubus. The only difference is succubus are kind of mermaid, like always by water and s***. It's most likely a succubus is a mermaid and a mermaid is a succubus. Maybe different variations of the same thing. And by the end of this episode, if we remember, we could address that because it's gonna make sense why we would have to compare those things if we remember to.

Cristina: Okay, so you saying she didn't like magically turn her into a feral being. Now she is like the feral version of whatever creature she was. Like adrenochrome. Maybe she was given adrenochrome and killed and now she's after that or something like.

Jack: It's complicated. No, she was definitely a serpent woman.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There are serpent women? Yes, according to the Greek myths.

Cristina: But now she's a feral serpent.

Jack: Yes. But I don't think she was the non feral version of something that's inherently feral.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: I think there are just, according to the Greek myths, serpent people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Who are just normal people. And then there's weird other anomalies like the Gorgons and s*** like that. Or the Grogans. It's either Grogan or Gorgon. I don't f****** know. Medusa and her sisters and Keto, things like that. So those are weird artificial violent things. While Lamia didn't seem to be. It was just more of a literal person who happens to be of a specific race, maybe or something. It's not entirely clear. Yeah, there's actually very little information on this. This was a particularly difficult find, which is what made it more interesting because of the paths I had to take to get here. That informed quite a bit. But yeah, it looks like she was not some kind of weird thing. She was turned feral.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And there isn't a thing like that. As far as we know, that is specifically her kind of a creature that was a person. Or that she's the non feral version of something specific or race or something. It looks like she's just part of a race of people who happen to be. I don't know where the f*** the rest of her people are. There's no mention to that. Maybe you just made the weird serpent lady queen because she doesn't look like the rest of you. I don't really know the logic behind it.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But she was just a normal person other than her half serpent part. Now, when in her serpent form, she is known for consuming the children. When in her woman form, she is known for luring men. And when they don't have children, she kills the man.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Then there is little detail about what happens to the man that might inform what happens to the children. Because it's always described as eating. But when in her woman form, she is known for luring men. And when they don't have children, she kills the man and drinks her blood.

Cristina: Of course.

Jack: Of course. Very specific behavior. Now we gotta address how Hera accomplished this. Exactly.

Cristina: That's what I'm wondering. She turned her into.

Jack: Well, that's the end of the story. According to the the narrative of the Greek myth that is most promoted based on this.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: There's no more information right after that. That's where it ends. These are the events that took place. So what the h*** did Hera do?

Cristina: She turned her into. I don't know, a shadow realm creature.

Jack: Somehow How? The. She obviously drowned her in adrenochrome or some s***. Force fed her some s***. But how had she know? I mean, they're always f****** around with adrenochrome. But Hera knows.

Cristina: Why not?

Jack: Why would she?

Cristina: I don't know, but it depends. Like, what happens to these other women that she tortured?

Jack: Nothing like this.

Cristina: Nothing like this.

Jack: No, I would have. I would have talked about it. Obviously. Okay, so no, this is the case.

Cristina: This is the one case that happens.

Jack: At least this way. Yes, I looked at the other women. No, this is the one.

Cristina: Interesting.

Jack: So what the f*** happened? So she finds the lady and then what? You force fed her a dream? Where the f*** did you get a dr? How do you know adrenochrome was a thing? Even if you heard him talk about adrenochrome, how do you know specifically how to get it, how to make it? Hera knows a little something.

Cristina: Has to know something. Part of the team.

Jack: One of the gods, you would think, right? Yeah, but then who's on her side? Everybody's on Zeus side. Yeah, and Zeus sides with Hera. But Zeus isn't gonna tell his homies. Go, obey Hera. No, in fact, his homies tend to not like Hera a lot.

Cristina: Yeah. So she was snooping around somebody.

Jack: They would have caught her. Bro, we're talking about the most secure facilities in existence.

Cristina: There's no way she just stumbles upon this either.

Jack: Exactly the problem. There's also no way she entered these facilities. There's no way. Not in a billion trillion years. Considering specifically who she is and how she's known to behave, doubtful they would have let her anywhere near one of their labs. 100 guarantee you she didn't end it. I looked just to confirm the fact. Like, did she? There's no narrative that talks about her entering spaces relative to this. If there is, she was so f****** sneaky that nothing was registered ever. And we're talking about quite advanced facilities. She would have been busted.

Cristina: But how did she do this?

Jack: Then it has to be outside of the facility.

Cristina: How?

Jack: How did she accomplish turning Lamia into a feral person?

Cristina: How do you think?

Jack: Well, I don't know my conclusion, my thought is that perhaps she caught her and force fed it to her. But then the question is, how did she acquire? How would Hera stumble upon adrenochrome? What paths could she take? Who do we know that she could have been in contact with? There's so little about this interaction.

Cristina: And anyone she knows because we don't know anyone that talks about that's involved in adrenochrome.

Jack: We know many who are involved in adrenochrome. What do you mean?

Cristina: But, like, in the Greek gods. Any of them.

Jack: All of them have touched it one way or another. They literally discovered ambrosia. They have ichor in their position. And they have nectar, which a bunch of them consume specifically because they couldn't figure out how to do it without it, the way that the Elysians did with the stones and other methods. Okay, so they definitely had access to it. But why would she? And how would she.

Cristina: But why wouldn't she? Like she's one of them.

Jack: No, she's not.

Cristina: She's not.

Jack: She's the wife of Zeus. But she's not a scientist. She's just the wife of Zeus. And a particularly wild gun that they're not gonna let into their facilities, destroy all their s***.

Cristina: Mm. She knows enough. I don't know. It doesn't. It feels weird that she would just know how to do this.

Jack: We're missing the middle part, where somehow she did, in fact, acquire adrenochrome and then force fed it to this lady or something. What we know is that she knows Zeus.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And that this lady became some feral thing. And everything in the middle described is obviously adrenochrome related, but we also know she had no interaction with any other scientists in the facility, and that none of them like her.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And there's no mention. Not one. Which it would have. We found threads of the randomest s***. Not one mention of her hanging out or associating with any of these things.

Cristina: But she knows, Deuce. And he knows the information.

Jack: Yes. He's also not going to tell the lady, who is constantly having mood swings and having weird power moments.

Cristina: He doesn't have, like, the work at home.

Jack: And I assure you he doesn't, considering that it's the same work that the Elysians would like to confiscate. You're going to keep it in the most secure place, away from where they can easily come and take it from you. They're kind of op. You're going to take your work home, knowing how this s*** could just go down. Yeah, and they never did. Which means you didn't take the work home. Or you did take it home, and for whatever reason, they were just like, oh, let it go. And then this lady's op, that doesn't work out.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: They're too thorough. Deletions are mechanically thorough. It's computers at this point.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So he never took the work home. She Never entered the lab. His workers don't like her. And she still managed to turn the lady into obviously speaking an adrenochrome rampant creature. Who needs more adrenochrome.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Weird. And I don't know. So we know Hera has banished many women different ways. Never this way. And she is again hated by everybody. Nobody sides with her. They all side with Zeus. Although Zeus is a ruthless maniac himself. The loyalty or fear, one or the other. But then Hera behaves this way. It's definitely not the fear. Loyalty. They must just like him more. Yeah, but then again he is creating these. He kind of just successful at doing some s***. It's impressive. So successful. For many years we thought he was just some background noise that was being ignored by the Alicia. And then we found out he was one of the few to accomplish some of these really complicated things that the rest of them failed at. Like creating successful Naga. Even if it took a bunch of s***** experiments to get there.

Cristina: But she's one of them. No, she. She wasn't made at all.

Jack: No, she was just already a person who existed like that. Yeah.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: There must be a race. There's other serpent people who are not anything weird.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Greek mythology is packed with serpent people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Some made like the Grogans. And some who were just born that way. Like Keto.

Cristina: But I don't know.

Jack: Yeah, neither do I. Interesting though, the fact that she had the ability to do this.

Cristina: Yes. Without any help. As far as anyone can tell, without.

Jack: Any help they have their kingdom. And she managed to get a hold of Lamia and somehow force feed Lamia or Tricker or something. And she then becomes this feral creature.

Cristina: That's ridiculous. I don't know. It feels like she needed help. But who would help her?

Jack: Okay, so then I will continue forward since trying to figure it out is a pointless endeavor. Now we've done appearance, we've done behavior. Now here's where we get into the weeds of the situation. We have to deep dive into the hard explain many different texts, primarily focusing on Homer and Apollonius. But there are six or seven different versions of different texts that are going to inform the story. There's a lot of cross referencing that piece this together. But again we're focusing on the texts from Homer and Apollonius. Although there are some details from other individuals here. Now we find the story plays out a little differently when we do look at their references. And the story begins with a lady called Khalees. So Khalees is the name of a woman with which Zeus was having an affair.

Cristina: Crazy.

Jack: One of the many. And is discovered by Hera. Now, very important to point out that in the Greek myth that is popular, Hera always knows that is explicitly mentioned. It's also explicitly mentioned in Apollonius's writing that she didn't know and she discovered Khalees.

Cristina: Okay?

Jack: Hence the anger in the first place.

Cristina: That makes changes.

Jack: Cheating on me, you piece of s***. Blah, blah, blah. What the f***? Imma smack that b**** up. You know, Instead of being angry at Zeus, you cheating piece of s***, now I'm gonna smack that b**** up. Khalees probably didn't even f****** know. Then again, he's Zeus. Khalees probably knew. Yeah, he probably knows. You know who Hera is. Come on, bro.

Cristina: Yes. Okay.

Jack: They're the rulers. You knew he was sneaking around. You had it coming.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Now details that matter without Zeus being aware. During Khaleesa's final visit, Hera uses Zeus guards and has Khalees royal guards killed. Then tosses Khalees alive into a snake pit to die.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Hmm?

Cristina: They just have a snake pit.

Jack: It's ancient Greece.

Cristina: I know. This is so crazy.

Jack: The snake pit consists of hundreds of snakes no larger than a human arm, according to Homer's texts. No, Hugh. Because my initial thought is you're gonna fuse with a f****** snake or something. I don't f****** know. Yeah, it's ancient Greek mythology because this girl Khalees is not a serpent woman. Let me point that out. Apollonius says beautiful woman, pointing out that she has walked a long time because her legs were visibly muscular.

Cristina: She's human, pure human.

Jack: Khalees was pure human, while Lamia was not. Lamia is bottom half serpent. But Apollonius doesn't agree with this narrative. Apollonia says, no, that was a woman. He was having an affair with a normal human woman probably.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And thus makes more sense that she was the queen of a civilization of normal human people.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And definitely there's no such thing as normal born f****** earthling.

Cristina: Are you talking about the same person?

Jack: Yes, this is the same story. Oh, this is them all talking about the same.

Cristina: One of them that we already talked. Yes.

Jack: The Greek myth and everything I'm telling you right now is their take on the same Greek myth.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: This is Homer, Apollonius and a few others talking about this very same story.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Which puts Khalees, the queen of Libya, as just a human.

Cristina: Okay. Which makes more sense. All right.

Jack: Just a human lady called Khalees. And she had very muscular legs because she. Not muscular, but she had toned legs. Because she walked a very long time. She loved walking. And she had royal guards who Hera had her royal guards disposed of on.

Cristina: Her visit and then murdered her.

Jack: Threw her in a snake pit.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: To die. Didn't say she murdered her. She threw her in a snake pit to die, which presumably she died there, but that doesn't mean she murdered her. Snakes would have.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: She definitely left her to die, though. And again, the snake pit consisted of small snakes for the most part. No snake is eating her whole. That would be impossible. To the length of an arm. You can't eat her. Okay, so interesting little details.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The pit was explicitly designed to starve people to death if the snakes don't squeeze them to death. Lovely ancient torture device. Lovely ancient torture device. The important part comes now. We shift our view now entirely to Homer because Homer had some interesting tidbits that didn't make it to any other body, anybody else's story, and didn't even focus on the family. It focused on a random guard.

Jack: Let us unpack. With the upper body of Khalees and the lower body of a serpent. A guard sees Khalees flee into the forest during the night.

Cristina: What did he see?

Jack: The guard sees the upper body of Khalees and the lower body of a serpent flee into the woods.

Cristina: Okay, so she somehow transformed in the snake pit.

Jack: But how?

Cristina: How? Yes, how? That's very strange. That's his part of the story.

Jack: That's his contribution. He gave us this tidbit that nobody else mentioned, but allows us a little more information than just somehow. A civilization of humans put a serpent woman in charge of them fearlessly. No, it makes more sense to put a Greek God. They look like humans who are just real op and huge.

Cristina: Yes. But he's trying to explain how she looks.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: I don't know. That's weird.

Jack: Got muddy quick, right?

Cristina: Yeah. Unless that wasn't like a normal snake pit.

Jack: It was absolutely a normal snake pit.

Cristina: Well, how would she walk away like that?

Jack: I don't know. She gets tossed in the pit. And then a few days later, a guard doing his rounds sees her upper body somehow bottom half. Serpents now fleeing the pit into the woods, into the forest, casually.

Cristina: She somehow transformed in the snake pit.

Jack: She somehow transformed in the snake pit? Yes. At least it seems that way.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Weird.

Cristina: That is weird.

Jack: Very, very strange. So what do we believe happened here then?

Cristina: I don't. It wasn't a normal snake pit. Do you think it was a normal snake pit?

Jack: It was. I'll tell you what. The next line in his story. His correction of the story tells us, which will enlighten a little more. The next morning, after the guard reports what happened, they visit the pit and find Khaleesa's body still in the pit.

Cristina: So it was involved Shadow Realm.

Jack: It did not.

Cristina: It's a shadow Realm creature of her. But her dead body's there. So he did not see her dead body. No, but it was her. Is her adrenochrome version? I don't know.

Jack: Her body is still in there.

Cristina: Her body's still there.

Jack: She is f****** dead.

Cristina: Yes. But there's something out there.

Jack: Yes, for sure. There definitely is. A woman gets tossed into a snake pit where she fears for her death. The snake pit is filled with snakes who are going to attempt to eat the woman as she fears.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: For her life.

Cristina: Yes. This is adrenal chrome related. Okay.

Jack: Yeah. And a serpent woman gets seen leaving. And all Adrenochrome creatures seem to have the ability to shape shift.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So a serpent got adrenochrome and turned into saw. The only thing there that wasn't a serpent. Its intellect, as we know with adrenochrome, tends to skyrocket as long as you continue consuming it. And you have quite an amount here that's just persistently there. And so you kill her while she's screaming and panicking and she's being choked out in just fear in the most horrific of ways. And then this serpent or multiple. Who the h*** knows at this point? But at least one.

Cristina: At least one. Yeah.

Jack: Turns out into an adrenochrome creature. A hundred percent. Just fully converts.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Then turns like, tries to imitate what she was, what she looks like. But again, it's fresh. It doesn't know what the f*** it's doing. It's just newly. A creature has to discover its abilities, has to figure out how it works and all these things. So it managed half of a transformation that kind of sort of looked like her.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And then the pit is deep. Somehow still managed to get the f*** out of there. Like Adrenochrome creatures, you're thinking outside the box. You figured it out.

Cristina: But it's a feral Adrenochrome creature.

Jack: Why is it feral?

Cristina: Because it's eating children and stuff.

Jack: Eventually it will.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But actually, we haven't even gotten to any part in which this correction story even mentions anything like that.

Cristina: Oh, okay. I'm gonna guess that that's part of it.

Jack: That's. Yes, that's literally us using the parts we have to figure it out. Which is the logical conclusion, you got adrenochrome, but you didn't know you had to continue getting adrenochrome.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So you became feral, and you go out and once in a while you get adrenochrome without knowing you should keep getting adrenochromes. Now you're just a feral thing, casually killing s*** like a wet judge. Except the wet judge is on the other side. You've not died. You're a physical thing who just persistently exists.

Cristina: Yes. I forget that creatures here can do that, though. I always think it's like you have to die and then.

Jack: Yes, I know. Like I said, I'm present and remember the things.

Cristina: There's a lot of information to remember.

Jack: Oh, yeah. And I connect all of it, as would happen. But, yeah, that seems to be the case. This is all from Homer. This last part started, which makes sense days later. Yeah. So the creature with the upper body of Khalees and the lower body of a serpent is seen leaving into the forest in the night. While the guards making his rounds, he goes and he tells Hera and Zeus and the guards and everybody else like, this is what I saw. And then the next morning, they come and they see Khaleesa still there. Bro, like, you're out of your f****** mind.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You're seeing s***. That's impossible. Okay, she's still there, but there was something that fled into the woods.

Cristina: Yeah. That looked like a half lady, half snake.

Jack: Half lady, half snake. Interesting, though.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Which then corrects the story of Lamia, because there's no such thing as a woman named Lamia. There's a creature named Lamia.

Cristina: And that's not his whole story, though. Homer's version.

Jack: That's the whole addition. The rest of it kind of falls in line with what was already discussed. That's his final input that didn't exist previously. Okay, so he finishes off fleshing out this narrative. Now, the name Khalees barely shows up anywhere. These two texts are the two of the only mentions with the addition of a couple of other texts. They don't mention her name. They mention the same story from different points and a little couple of details, but the name literally shows up and refers to the events of Lamia, but without mentioning Lamia, they mention specifically Khalees. And Khalees is not a serpent person, but in the Greek myth, the Lamia is a serpent person.

Cristina: Okay, so after her transformation, she. She's known as Lamia, but before her transformation, she's just a lady named.

Jack: And the narrative we get from the Greek is completely afterwards, but a merge of the events before.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: So it looks like he was with a serpent woman, but where the were the serpent women born? What the.

Cristina: Yeah. So it was just a woman. He was just with some lady and horrible things happened to her. Because that's what happens when you're with him.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: Yes. Yes, yes.

Cristina: That's crazy. That's an actual story of a not.

Jack: Non accidental adrenochrome situation.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Somebody gets tossed into a pit, fears for their life, happens to be with the thing that's gonna kill them. The thing is, it's very similar to the warwolves.

Cristina: Yeah. Like, we have stories like that, but there is usually in the wild happening. It's not around.

Jack: Yeah. Rarely is it like, again, the werewolves is a weird one.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's literally starved wolves because war scared all the other creatures away. And these guys are just dying, starved. And there's bodies everywhere. You eat what you can, bro, but fresh bodies from war.

Cristina: Oh, half dead, already scared out of their minds.

Jack: Some still alive and screaming because they got crap blown off and s***. Just cut and like, holy f***.

Cristina: Making werewolves.

Jack: Making werewolves. Oh, and this is very similar to that.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You got a snake pit, which means really, really, really. Ultimately, if you look at the amount of serpent creatures that come out of India and the amount of serpent creatures that come out of Greece, the people who invented the f****** snake pits, suddenly the picture builds clearly. You're tossing people into snake pits casually as a prison sentence, as a death sentence.

Cristina: They probably have many stories of these human.

Jack: Maybe not. Maybe not many creatures stories, but. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not stories about pushing the people into thinking them turning, but definitely many, many, many, many serpent, human creatures.

Cristina: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Because I'm pretty sure they have the ones like the flying snake thing, that's just a witch who turns into a flying snake or whatever.

Jack: And it's like sketchy. No, there's something wrong going on here, buddy.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: But you see how interesting.

Cristina: Yes, I see. It makes sense, though.

Jack: Yeah, that is definitely it. At least it seems to be the case on how the events unrolled were like that.

Cristina: It makes way more sense than the original.

Jack: Yeah, for sure. The original is just a myth.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's why we can't take the myths at face value because they're usually bullshit. It's a bunch of warped, twisted stories trying to attach morality or some s***. It's like people aren't moral. They just do s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And like the truth behind Homer and Apollonius takes on it are just People doing s***. And like her is kind of a loose cannon.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: There's no way she was going to be allowed into a lab. She's just tossing b****** into snake pits, bro. Come on.

Cristina: That is amazing.

Jack: I'm not going to let her into a lab and then she has a mood swing and thrashes hundreds years worth of research.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: She would never be allowed into any s*** like that. But she does toss b****** in the snake pits casually.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That's just some s***. Who knows how many of these women turned into this s***. Now, again, the story of the Lamia plays out this way, but all these other narratives are also real exaggerated and sort of fluffed up, so they don't show any kind of reality to them. Probably a bunch of these b****** got tossed into snake pits.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Even if we don't have snake stories.

Cristina: Of them and their stories, they probably just. They died.

Jack: Yeah, they just f****** died. Yeah. It's like maybe she was too confident and like, not enough adrenochrome. So you didn't make a monster. Because I'm sure sometimes maybe you just fall, hit your head. No fear was felt.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah. Some people just die.

Jack: You just die. Yeah. And so not everybody became a creature. But this was a weird instance.

Cristina: She probably made a few creatures by accident.

Jack: I'm sure she made a couple. I'm sure. In India. I mean, we know based on just this new context.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: We know snake pits have resulted in snake like creatures. Multiple. Many.

Cristina: Yeah. And there's got to be people who saw it happen. Like this random guard.

Jack: Yes. Which means we could probably assuming it happens after the time of record keeping. Somebody penned the paper, Right?

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Now, what does it ultimately mean? We know that the serpent surrounding Khalees, while she was horrified, literally being squeezed to death, were exposed to the adrenochrome. One of the abilities of creatures and adrenochrome that most commonly is acquired is shape shifting. We see it talking everywhere, and the leftover body of Khalees assures us she was in fact, still physically there. So she's not who turned. She actually did die, which created the Adrenochrome. That was important. So one of the serpents morphed over the days. Interesting enough. It also gives us insight into the transformation, because nothing gets bigger or smaller other than Ophiomorphous, the artificial Naga created by Yaldabaoth in the Shadow Realm. That one can alter its scale, but we don't know of other Naga to alter their scale. So that's not a thing. And we don't know shape shifters to alter their scale. So he would have imitated her. It would have just been a tiny arm length snake with half of it being a tiny arm length Khalees.

Cristina: That's weird.

Jack: Yeah, but that's not what they saw come out. She was full size, maybe a little bigger than Khalees. That's the adrenochrome. It's morph increased its size dramatically, which tells us what happened. We don't have many takes on serpents being exposed to adrenochrome.

Cristina: No, but now definitely one of them.

Jack: Yes, definitely, yes.

Cristina: The whole victims of children and men.

Jack: On point. Yeah, on point. So it grew in size like 10 times, 20 times, 30 times. Whatever made it bigger than Khalees by default. And it did its best to imitate what it was seeing around it with one of its abilities. And it didn't fully maximize it, but it got enough to confuse the h*** out of a guard and then fled. It somehow climbed out of the pit, which is whole complicated thing, but again, weird abilities it has. And now it's got arms that it could imitate to have. And like odd, but. And it was days later it was in that pit hours and hours and hours exploring what it was now. Horrifying, you know, so it's. It probably turned into a million things in there trying to figure it out. Anomalous things, shapeless things that just don't make sense. Anybody who looked into that hole must have been mind looking in there.

Cristina: Except no one would because like why?

Jack: It's just dead people in snakes. Yeah, but that's what we got. The lamia is not a woman. The lamia is a serpent. Adrenochrome creature. The controlled version of a serpent. Adrenochrome creature. But that tells us what?

Cristina: There's more.

Jack: That there's more. And not just more. There are literally three other variations to this same creature. Not just more of the creature. This same one creature can have four different states based on what it is. It would have thalamia, which is it on adrenochrome, but that is not what is out there eating children casually. That is what left the pit. The lamia, the controlled thinking, logical, trying to figure itself out, highly intelligent version. That is not what's out there killing men and children.

Cristina: That's just a big snake.

Jack: Well, no, that would be the feral version.

Cristina: Yeah, but that's it.

Jack: Yeah, I guess it would, but it's not a snake. It stopped being a snake.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Now it's an adrenochrome Thing. Yes, because the snake would not have been on adrenochrome. And in deep diving, trying to figure out how this all fits together, I successfully did in fact find them. And they all happen to be based around the same area, and they all happen to be based around the same time. So presumably either a s*** ton of these m************ were made, or we can track the specific one that ate Khalees. There is a creature called a dracana, and it's all the identical characteristics of the lamia, with details like it being more monstrous and feral, less human and more driven by primal bloodlust. And texts suggest its behaviors are similar to the lamia. Only difference in the excessive amount of aggression that it shows. The lamia seems passive and it likes to hide. It's staying away from things. Someone don't catch me, don't see me, don't spot me. I gotta be in the COVID of night, in the dark. The dracana doesn't give a. That rolls up on towns, that rolls up on city. It doesn't give a. Broad daylight. It doesn't give a. It's eating.

Cristina: It's eating. Okay, so this is the feral.

Jack: This is a creature people run from towns, from, okay, destroyed villages because this rolled through.

Cristina: Oh, that's crazy.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which as you'd expect of an adrenochrome creature, oftentimes we don't get something crazy vicious because it's something stupid. But sometimes we get like, you know, if a groundhog. Like, whatever, dude. But if a wolf takes it, okay, we got a bit of a problem. We got nothing but stories of villages being terrorized by werewolves.

Cristina: Mm

Jack: Because when it's bad enough, it's bad enough.

Cristina: Horrible.

Jack: It's horrible. Werewolf. That's a f****** problem. Evacuate. Leave the f****** country. If you can get as far away, put water in between you, it's a f****** werewolf.

Cristina: Yeah, and I'm.

Jack: You know, most werewolves have started themselves out into the shadow realm. Ultimately as we got more technologically advanced and built structures that couldn't get through and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So in modern day, we see way less adrenochrome driven creatures because they will starve to death, minus the humans who can create farms easily.

Cristina: Yes, we don't have a problem.

Jack: We can solve our issues. But that's definitely the dracaena. If it. All the characteristics all perfectly, minus the fact that it's out of its f****** mind and fits the characteristics of what we're referring to as the Lamia. See, when we Talk about the Lamia. We're converging two stories of Khalees and a serpent, but the eating children and men were actually converging. The third part, the Jacana. So we're talking about three different instances of Khalees as a woman, of a serpent imitating Khalees and of the Jacana, all overlapping in one narrative that the Greek gave us. Because the lamia never hurt anybody. The lamia dipped into the woods and.

Cristina: That was the end of that.

Jack: That was the end of that.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And then we get the dracaena once that s*** goes feral and didn't get exposed enough, and now it's out of his f****** mind and has to just go eat whatever the h*** it comes across.

Cristina: And it wants children.

Jack: Yes. Now, the thing is, eventually that story fizzles out and we start seeing a very similar but different story about something called the echidna.

Cristina: Sounds familiar.

Jack: Is because Knuckles from Sonic is an echidna. But just the name of this thing is echidna. And in Greek mythology, the echidna is known as the mother of monsters, a half woman, half snake creature who gives birth to many of the famous monsters. In this context, the controlled shadow realm version of the Lamia would be the echidna. You make it into the shadow realm because you've died. But once in the shadow realm, you reset, you start again. Insane. Not insane. You start sane. So you're back to clarity. Except if you don't understand how it works, it's only a matter of time before you're right back to feral. Yeah, but you've left the body. You no longer need the blood requirements, but you still need what you were getting from the blood, which is the fear. But you no longer need the blood. So you got some time now that you've died and gone to the other side. And that brings us to the echidna, this creature that seems to be an ethereal shadow ghost. Like half woman, half snake, sort of faded silhouette thing that shows up. And it does not eat people. It sort of scares people to death. Oh, haunts them. It surrounds your house.

Cristina: It wants to fear.

Jack: Wants a fear.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It shows up. It surrounds your house. It hits things. It'll be inside. It'll run up to you. It just scare you and disappear right into your face. It's a horrifying f****** monster that's just trying to scare the living f*** out of you.

Cristina: And it's also having babies.

Jack: According to the narrative, it's having babies. But when you look at the stories that are mentioned relative to this creature, there's not one mention of it. That's specifically the Greek narrative. That's the main Greek narrative. That's full of bullshit.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Again, we never take the main narrative at face value. It's always a lie.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: We gotta take the details and. Yeah, so most of the narrative fits. The having babies part does not. But the having babies part is only mentioned in the main narrative and does not get mentioned ever again.

Cristina: Okay, so he. It's a ghost haunting.

Jack: It's a ghost haunting. And it's mentioned follows the dates that directly stop mentioning the dracaena.

Cristina: So that wild creature self died. Feral being. Maybe someone finally got it killed or something.

Jack: Yes. And then we have the ghost. The ghost.

Cristina: That's cool.

Jack: Eventually that must go feral, though.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because again, it's still uninformed. It's just a random thing. And then we get to something called the basilisk.

Cristina: Basilisk. And it's.

Jack: What is it described as? A deadly, mindless serpent spirit driven purely by instinct and fear.

Cristina: Of course. That sounds right. That sounds so right that all these match up in how they saw it.

Jack: Yep.

Cristina: They are all the stages of this creature's life.

Jack: They're all the stages of the creature's life. And they're all top, woman, bottom, serpent.

Cristina: Has to be the same.

Jack: And we found the origin.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: We can track this very instance to the very pit.

Cristina: This is crazy.

Jack: It's actually the first time we could do that.

Cristina: Yeah. Whoa.

Jack: Yeah. This is the clearest we've ever had.

Cristina: A situation that just lines up with every thing we thought about these creatures and how it works.

Jack: Yes. This answers many questions. Yes. As we were theorizing is the accurate turn of how it works. Every theory we had about how adrenochrome affects the body and what we are really getting from adrenochrome, which is ultimately the fear. And it's hard to even understand what exactly the concept of fear really is in a sort of tangible way.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because we're definitely not grasping it. We don't understand. Fear is something different to these things in general.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because why can these things tune into it? Must have already been something else. Why aren't they tuning into our happiness? You know, weren't they tuning into our sadness?

Cristina: Yeah. Because it's all the same. Well, to us, we think they're all the same.

Jack: Exactly. So it's. Fear is inherently something different.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And again, not just to the creatures. Because fear is what adrenochrome is. It's blood with adrenaline caused by fear.

Cristina: Yes. What is Happening. Okay.

Jack: We know Santa Claus, Mr. Clever, got planet Earth just having tiny little bits of faint fear. We know kids exaggerate smallest amount of fear. And he just needs kids to have a little bit of fear. He doesn't eat children. He doesn't do anything. He's just casual.

Cristina: But has accessed by it, though. So, like all of them.

Jack: But he's not some sort of creature. He's still, it seems, a necromancer. And necromancers can still wield things for power instead of having. Which he also has a stone on his staff.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So he has a stone and he's overpowered. That explains a lot. He has crazy powers. Entirely due to the fact that he has stones and still manipulating fear globally.

Cristina: Yes. I don't know. But we know he's not. He's not a human. He was a human once upon a time. Yes, but he is.

Jack: I mean, he might still be a human. We don't know what really to describe necromancers as.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Like, I think.

Cristina: But it does seem like they all went through death.

Jack: Yes, you're totally right. You're totally right. It seems in a couple of. In. You're totally right. Yes. In a couple of instances, there have been mentions that it appears to be that they must intentionally go through a process that they will die in. And that's where the original association with necromancers and death comes from. And if he is using necromancer abilities and is in any manner, shape or form, even scratching the powers of a necromancer, which we don't know. He's one of the only examples we have with, like, visible things that we can point at and be like, oh, this must be working in my favor. Like, yeah, definitely. It's hard to even grasp. But he had to die.

Cristina: I think.

Jack: So we know at least. Homer. Not Homer. Hermes. Jesus. Jesus. The best example, because, again, he couldn't go in there and do it. Dying was literally part of it.

Cristina: Yeah, it's part of the plan. That's crazy.

Jack: He's built in his own death. He managed to build the gates knowing he would need them to get back. He got back somewhere else entirely, so they couldn't stop him.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But he needed to die to do it.

Cristina: I'm pretty sure Patrick had a die too.

Jack: Maybe. I mean, the fact that he's so exaggeratedly overpowered and can so easily deal with even fairies.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Necromancers can't be touched.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Then the question that we have is, is Mab's problem? The Elysians or is Mab's problem that the Elysians are connected with Hermes? Is Hermes the issue? Is Jesus the issue? We know the Alicians at least had a heart attack after they lost control of that situation.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Get the out of here. We're all she was also fearing could totally be. Is Jesus gonna easily show up in El Fame and smack everybody around effortlessly? Sounds like Hermes can.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And like I'd be shook too, if I made your universe and you can come over here and just f*** me.

Cristina: Mm. That's crazy.

Jack: But here we have the proof that it kind of works. As we suspected it would work.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: As we have talked that it would work for years. And it played out.

Cristina: Made from adrenochrome transforming.

Jack: And we can. There's. I didn't put the dates here, but the dates kind of follow one another in the right order.

Cristina: That's so crazy because it's exactly what we thought.

Jack: It's exactly what we thought in narrative form. Although the original narrative muddies it up. And unclear is everything we're looking at. Thank you to all the other record keepers. Primarily Homer and Apollonius, who had meticulous notes.

Cristina: That's nice.

Jack: And as we know, Apollonius is really just Apollo. And Apollo directly knew Hermes because they were both present with Aristotle.

Cristina: Ridiculous.

Jack: At the school. Lycium. Yep. Everything connects.

Cristina: Everything connects. Yeah.

Jack: And somehow the problem is how the h*** did Jesus come in contact with anybody? Did Jesus didn't go to Elysium. How did Jesus. Jesus is so complicated.

Cristina: I don't know. He has some. I don't know.

Jack: He has some connection somewhere. Somewhere he must. Or he figured it out. But how? We're talking. The Elysians were definitely trying to figure this s*** out. And you alone with no help from anybody. Get the f*** out of here, bro.

Cristina: He had to have help. If he didn't like how.

Jack: Oh, s***. I just had a theory right now. It just came to me. Well. Well, I guess it kinda does make sense that he would just know. Let's look at the evidence. What is the biggest problem with Jesus that caused everybody to go.

Cristina: Everyone knew about him.

Jack: Everybody knew about him. What does that tell us? He's sending a mental wave of some sort.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah. It's coming from him.

Jack: It's coming from him outward. He was throwing a beacon back in time into the future. And in the present. This is where I am. Everybody was having visions, dreams, and everything about where he is.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Now what do we know? Following logical standing. If we think about Santa, what's one of the most Exaggerated things about Santa being everywhere. He just knows what you're doing casually.

Cristina: That's pretty powerful stuff.

Jack: Is that mental blast or whatever the f*** when Jesus was born.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So if Santa, some underpowered thing compared.

Cristina: To Jesus can do it, still know everything.

Jack: He could literally just know everything. Yes, as long as you know it. And as long as you don't have some sort of magneto brain cover protecting you from him looking into your mind or whatever. And even if maybe he's not. Not even looking at your mind, maybe he can just witness moments in space and time.

Cristina: Jesus is. I guess, I mean, that's why he's a God. He is God. He's the son of God. He is God though. That's a God power.

Jack: Yeah. You couldn't hide from him if you wanted to. He just knows. Okay. We hid it over there. Yeah. I know where they hit it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Oh, he'll never find out about these things. Oh yeah. I can just see their library and I can just see them doing the research.

Cristina: Yeah. Like, how could they really hide?

Jack: How could you really hide? But in return, the flaw with that logic is why are you looking for them if you know where they are?

Cristina: Yes. So they must have figured out a way to block him. To block him? Yes. Yes. Yes.

Jack: Which means. Yes. Going to Atlantis was very intentional. Going to Atlantis also meant that's where they had built the protection field that prevents him from seeing them. He has no idea where Atlantis is.

Cristina: No.

Jack: They know how to become invisible.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Not just literally cloaking, but they know.

Cristina: How to block their minds.

Jack: Yeah, they know how to block s***. But then that comes up to the. Let's go back to the point again. If Jesus is so freaking overpowered and you can so easily just hide from him, then his map scared of you and not Jesus. At this point, the argument really stands on one thing. One of these guys is who worried this lady. It's either the Elysians and Jehovah.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Or it was Jesus, which is a product of the Elysians and Jehovah. Anyways. But you know, we're still counting them as two separate entities, ultimately one two different units. And one of these units is triggering this lady into mobilizing elves into Stop. Could be basically being firewalls and trying to stop anybody else from getting to this level of power and trying to literally suppress the Elysians who went into hiding. And just who is she scared of? Is it Jesus or is the Alicians? They're not on the same side. One of those can easily side with her. To stop the other.

Cristina: I don't know. That's tricky. I don't know. It feels like it has to be Jesus because that's probably when she realized. No, like it is the Elysians, but it's because of Jesus that it's the Elysian.

Jack: Oh, like they could do some this. They could do this s*** again.

Cristina: Yes. And they probably would. They probably would. I don't know if they just learned their lessons. I feel like they're the type of scientists that are like, okay, plan one didn't work, let's go to plan two. Well, which is how we got other versions of Jesus that were way weaker after him. Like obviously they don't.

Jack: No, those were different people that was. We can follow him literally walking. Or do you mean like Muhammad and things like that? Because the people who were happening at the same time, we're not literally the same time. Kind of like this. We can track their dates back to back and we can follow every step Jesus took all the way to Japan. That was the same one, dude. That wasn't different people.

Cristina: No, I'm talking about like what's his name? Like the golem thing.

Jack: Oh, yes, yes. But that doesn't seem to have been Jehovah. That seems to have been information that came from the shadow realm. Kind of like the Viking forest. It was just something from the shadow and suspectedly that was Yaldabaoth just doing his own thing. Doing his own thing. And we know he did that with Eloi. He, you know, kind of influenced him. Like, hey, you could do this.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Kind of do it that way.

Cristina: Okay, okay.

Jack: Yeah. But Jesus being this level of overpowered and Jehovah's ability to easily make more Jesus becomes kind of a problem, especially because like, you don't know if they're gonna become good or bad.

Cristina: No.

Jack: And like this Jesus, at least not a threat it seems, because he directly preaches peace, love and happiness. And his whole path, every single stop he made for rest. The narrative is the same. He took care of us. He told us to love one another and treat each other really well. And he just kept going on his way.

Cristina: We know the ultimate plan is some weird war against the sea people.

Jack: Well, this is the most important part of this entire episode right here because we are way over time and we have to address this. Anyways, the narrative of Jesus, without diving into the separate cross reference parts, just the book itself, the Holy Bible, which is a rewrite of true events into this warped version by the Templar.

Cristina: Okay, right, yeah.

Jack: It tells us a very important Thing about Jesus. But we also have to remember who's telling us the story. It tells us what's gonna happen with Jesus. What's gonna happen with Jesus?

Cristina: That he's gonna come back.

Jack: Yes. And who's telling us the story?

Cristina: Let's see, people.

Jack: Which tells us what? There's an inherent plan to make another one. There's an inherent plan to make another one. Another Jesus. There's an inherent plan in the book written, telling us there's another Jesus coming. We don't know what Jesus looks like specifically. They can make him look like whatever the f*** they want. Anybody they want. We just know that a person who fits the abilities and characteristics as mentioned in the book about Jesus is gonna return. That doesn't mean literally return. That's just what they want us to believe. Because they are the people who make this.

Cristina: Exactly. Okay, so they are planning.

Jack: Yes. Within the book. We literally have. We literally have their plan.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That's telling us eventually we're gonna create another one. But we can't tell them it's another one.

Cristina: No. Because we don't want them to worry.

Jack: Yeah, well, no. We wouldn't even know. We think it's all one person anyways. We didn't know that he was even made.

Cristina: That's true. Okay.

Jack: Yeah. But the book directly. With all the information we have, the book directly tells us another one's happening. Another one's gonna happen. There was the plan. Always. The plan is we're gonna make a perfect version.

Cristina: That is horrifying. I don't know. I mean, like, if it works. But what does it mean? That it worked too.

Jack: Doesn't matter. The point ultimately comes down to the fact that that's whose map Mab is afraid of, like you said.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Maybe she's scared that they're gonna make another one.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And that one will be even harder to control.

Cristina: Interesting.

Jack: Or not a good guy, especially in today's world. You want an overpowered, beyond godlike thing to have been raised by a current day human woman? We're f*****.

Cristina: I don't know their plan. Well, we don't understand their plan, but obviously they told us their plan. Like we know it's happening. Interesting.

Jack: More is to come.

Cristina: More is to come inevitably.

Jack: According to the Holy Bible.

Cristina: That's crazy. Yes. Okay.

Jack: The Knights Templar, controlled by the Elysian, specifically put in a book the corrected narrative that Jesus is coming back. We know Jesus is essentially a lab experiment. What does it mean that he's coming back if they can't control him? Means they're making another one.

Cristina: They're making another one.

Jack: So you were right about that.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Anyways, that's what we got.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: Yeah. So if you guys have any comments, questions, concerns, and if you guys want to yell at me for always being so ruthless to Christina, feel free. You guys can come and yell at me, too. You know. You guys know how it goes. You can do that and hate on us on our socials, at Just Combo pod on Twitter, which is X on Facebook, on Instagram, wherever the h***, just search it.

Cristina: Just combo pod. Remember to subscribe, rate, and review the show.

Jack: Yes. And word of mouth is one of the most important, overpowered things that exists. So tell people about the program and the fact that we're finding all these weird things.

Cristina: This has been the Rambling Podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening. Bye.

Jack: Sam.

Cristina: Good morning. The podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by great dots.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McCallister with social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 281: Clinton Road: Part 2: Shadows

If Ghosts we title Echoes are visible time loops that can’t be interacted with, what is its opposite? Can Phantoms be interacted with? What are they? The duo continue unpacking the narratives around Clinton Road on their endless quest to understand what happened in their childhood. No longer looking at Echoes, they focus on the things that react to visitors. The stones uncovered will reveal some new perspectives never before visited on the show!

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  • Demonic Truck
  • Ghost Children
  • Disembodied Voices
  • Headless Horseman
  • Pine Barrens Devil
  • Melting Trees
  • Shifting Paths
  • Ghostly Campers

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+Transcript

Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And this is the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas. And so we do that.

Cristina: Do that every week.

Jack: We do that every week. We do that all the time. And so, you know, in the last couple of years, we've gotten way informed on a lot of sort of esoteric and stoic knowledge. Things hidden, you know, the, the secret scriptures and the secret texts and lost civilization things, and cross referencing information that suggested so many things. Anybody who's been following knows what we're talking about. So we've used this knowledge recently because it looks like we were digging into an infinite hole.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So let's use the knowledge instead of continuing to dig the infinite hole and apply it to other places that have very similar conditions. And so we've started to unravel things. And so last week we're digging a new hole. No, we're using the information we have from the hole to compare to other things and be like, oh, this looks like this over here and it looks like that over there. Okay, no more hole digging until something here informs us on which tool to go continue digging with. But point being that we were last week kind of going through some of the information that we were not talking about. But you know, we in the past have come across Clinton Road, which is a really odd place. And it had a lot of similarities to some of the things that we've recently uncovered. We've seen that we can find residue of high energy technology and it usually takes the form of space time alterations and odd anomalies. So looking for things like this informs us. And so two weeks ago we looked at a scenario that was heftily informed. I believe that was a skin walk around.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then before that again, we had another instance, some creepy mansion.

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: The mansion. Yes. And directly after the Skinwalker Ranch, we did Stonehenge. All which have the same things. And what we find is the same things. Gateways and distortions and a lot of quote, ghosts.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So last week we go to the place we know has all of these things happening simultaneously on top of each other. And like I said, I broke it into three sections because there was absolutely too much happening in this one place and.

Cristina: Ridiculous amount.

Jack: Yes, too much. And for anybody who's not familiar, many, many, many years ago, maybe like four or five Years ago, we dove into the experience me and two friends had there, three friends. Of course, we couldn't get a contact with them, but we brought to them on the show. We talked to them and everything about how strange that place was. Everybody had different stories. Whatever. You guys can go look at it. It's Clinton Road. I think it was Halloween episode. It was like three episodes long or whatever. And last week, we were just going over anything that we would identify as an echo, a sort of replay of a different moment that is not interactable necessarily, but rather something that's happening but not now.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And there was a lot, some things of which were very important that we need to look at in the future. But that was only one of three sections I'd made because that was just the echoes. This week, I would like us to dive into the things that do respond to people. Not that just play on a loop, but the things in Clinton Road that seem to not be an echo, that seem to actually be a thing of some sort.

Cristina: Like a conscience thing.

Jack: Something thinking. Yeah, something responsive. Something maybe dangerous, maybe not.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But that can respond. That seems to be moving with intention as opposed to a replay of a moment.

Cristina: Horrifying.

Jack: So next to the word phantoms, I've put conscious. I've put thinking intentional entities that are non human and probably could be from a different realm. I'm assuming the shadow realm, because Elfame or any higher level might be unlikely.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So let's unpack some of these details. This is a little bit shorter than the echoes of which there were many. This is still pretty long, but it was just a couple shorter. So let's start by going into the pickup truck. This is probably the most known thing on this road. There's literally movies that have taken this concept and rolled with it. And it's just some menacing black pickup truck that allegedly chases drivers at night, only vanishing when there's another car coming towards them or when they are successfully in something faster. And funny enough, it faster is very exact thing, because faster is conditional. People have been in supercars running down the street, and this pickup keeps up.

Cristina: That's weird.

Jack: That's weird. But if this pickup truck isn't physically here, if this pickup truck is in a different space where whatever is there knows how to manipulate the sort of distortion to cover ground faster, then it would look like you have this sort of ghost truck following you at an impossibly fast speed. But maybe on their side, it's normal speed, but they know how to move in such a way that over here we move fast.

Cristina: How do we know this isn't an echo? What makes it different?

Jack: Because it does interact with people. This is where the speed becomes very important because the vanishing and the fact that it's on the road. Very interesting here. Now it has moved around cars. Oh, it has moved around cars. It has diverted to hit cars. Somebody jumps off the road and it'll jump off the road behind them.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's very, very different than something on replay. Now, what's weird about this place is that it seems to happen at exactly between four and six miles, nowhere outside that range, which means there is a particular heavy amount of distortion that somebody's abusing there, I suspect, at least.

Cristina: Yes, but not the person driving the truck. They're just driving their truck.

Jack: They're not. I think that there's just a nice little fold.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Of the two realms here. And he's just on his end, but he can clearly see because people from the shadow realm can just see us or whatever the f***. I have no idea how that works. Maybe it's the same that, like, as fear manifests, we start showing up over there more and they start showing up over here more, and so the lines start to blur.

Cristina: It could. Like, we don't have any proof of that. But why can't it be that.

Jack: Yeah, it'd be weird if it was just one way in this direction.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But then it's. Yeah, I guess it would. I guess the argument would be that it's not that they're coming over here, but the veil is thinning.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And so we're sort of coming closer together in general.

Cristina: That could be it. We don't know.

Jack: Yeah, because we've always thought about it like, oh, the people from the shadow realm with fear start coming this way, but, like.

Cristina: Because it seems easier for them for it to be that way.

Jack: Yeah. But when we think about it, if they aren't actually over here, how are they seeing us? Yes, we're seeing them because they're phasing over here. But are they seeing themselves over there and themselves over here? That can't. That doesn't. Make sense.

Cristina: That doesn't make sense.

Jack: No, they're probably just seeing us start to fade in over there, and then they start to prey on us.

Cristina: Yes. Yep.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: That could be. That could be. I know there's ways in and out, but there's this other thing of just, like we're somehow in between both.

Jack: Yes. We're somehow at all times, well connected enough. And it's. It's a dial Right. You could turn it and sort of enhance how much of the entanglement is how much is crossed in that moment.

Cristina: How's that happening? But, yeah, I think that might be what's happening.

Jack: And in the case of this truck, I think that 4 to 6 mile range is a particularly dense area, which brings up an interesting point. Maybe this is a focal point of one of the major events that took.

Cristina: Place here in the future. Maybe. Question, I believe. Yeah.

Jack: Because there's. We look back and we find so little. We look. Well, we can't look forward. But the fact that, again, it's possible that a spacetime distortion from the future ruins the past, because that's how it works. It's space time.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And this distortion is huge here. But also the logic could be that it's a long, long street with no lights.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Maybe people start to panic around the same distance.

Cristina: I wonder. I wonder what it is. I wonder if we'll find a glimpse of what really happens in the future, though, through this conversation. Maybe eventually, like. Because the weird thing that happens there may even be from the shadow realm. Because we know they do experiments like we do. They do experiments here, but they also do experiments there. So what if this is just a spot where both sides were doing experiments?

Jack: Doesn't even have to be both sides doing experiments, because there's many instances just this side doing experiments, and that can mess it up. So why wouldn't it be that only on that side and cause the same thing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Especially after we know that it's almost like we are in the same space, but somehow a barrier was built to divide them. There's a wall that was put in between this realm and that realm. There isn't. The word realm ceases to lose meaning when we back up far enough because, well, this is just, you know, that room. And then he put walls around that room and called it Earth Realm.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's hard for us to get out the room, but we can.

Cristina: Yeah. It is up or down.

Jack: That's how it seems to be in every direction. Yeah. Which. It's weird, but this kind of really leans into the flatter theory. Right. Of like, well, they walled us in, but they're really out there. There's more.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: I mean, weirdly enough, that's kind of on the nose, but about the wrong thing.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But, yeah, this truck is responsive. It is responsive. It chases people. My idea is 10 miles Clinton Road, 4 to 6 miles. But what does that mean? That means if I enter from north, four miles in. If I enter from south, four miles in. It's the same distance either way. It could just be the people within. Like, as you start getting more and more. You start getting more panicking, more paranoid. And so in the middle is where people are the most freaked out. Which would make sense that enough people freaked out consistently going through at that level of panic. More and more and more about that truck.

Cristina: Also will be pushing that too.

Jack: Not even hearing about the truck, but hearing about all the other things that happen here.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And then you get to this part, and maybe this guy is just some dude who lives on the other side, but in this part of it. And maybe he is a bad guy.

Cristina: Or he just wants that fear. Like, it's not really about murdering anyone. It's just like he knows he hasn't done.

Jack: Yes. That's another thing I found interesting. So the truck does show up. The truck chases people. But I made sure to mention the weirdest part about this, which is right before he does anything, he always disappears.

Cristina: Yeah. He's about to want it. And then he goes. Yeah.

Jack: He'll jump on the lane you're in from far ahead and drive straight towards you and drive straight at you and then just f****** veer off into the woods and disappear.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's like he's f****** with you. He's f****** with you.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Whoever that is, just f****** with you. He's not trying to kill you. That's the weirdest part. But it's so intentional. It's like he's f****** with you legitimately in an impossibly fast pickup truck that looks like a moving shadow.

Cristina: Yeah. I wonder if it's possible. It's. He was a human who ended up over there. Fascinating, because there are those cases and.

Jack: There'S hella thin places around here. Could just be slipping in and falling on the other side.

Cristina: Yeah. He just knows what he needs. He's probably was hooked on it. Adrenochrome when he was alive and, you know, died.

Jack: Which then goes back to all the. That's here. There's been cults and there's been sacrifices, and there's been a lot of.

Cristina: Yeah, a lot of adrenal chrome and stuff going on.

Jack: So anytime we find something weird, this is the thing. Right. We realize in the beginning of our journey, adrenochrome is everywhere. Everybody's doing adrenochrome and that's what's up.

Cristina: Yes. But then when those people die, it's even worse.

Jack: It's even worse because they lose their minds on the other side or they. In the Fear of knowing they're gonna lose their mind. They getting desperate to get back over here and get adrenochrome. So.

Cristina: So it could just be one of those people.

Jack: Could definitely be. And as long as he sustains the fear, he doesn't need the blood. Yeah, that could totally make sense. He has to. He has to cultivate it over and over and over. And it's like, I'm stuck over here, but I'm. I'm not gonna go crazy. I refuse. And I'm gonna just with people every day if I have to.

Cristina: Could be. It's really easy for him.

Jack: He's gonna get us fixed. He needs it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If it's a problem, people up, they. They go in and they don't realize how bad this really is. Now, the next one is children. This one is very specific. Apparitions of children playing on the roadside who vanish upon approach but can be seen waving at passersby. Oh, I thought echo when I was first looking at the mentions of this. And then I started looking deeper in, and it's like some people have these kids get excited, get up, look at them, start running towards them and disappear.

Cristina: It's hard to tell, though, between echo and not echo. It's really, really.

Jack: It is absolutely not the moment something is responsive. The fact that somebody stood there and then they started waving as opposed to. They're just waving at nothing.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: The echo would be doing the action regardless. It's not responding to an environment. It's not there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Anything responsive cannot be an echo by default. This is the easiest distinction to make. It's not difficult.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It will be responsive. If it's not. If you stand in front of it and you're like, hey. And it's like looking right through you and doesn't notice and walks right through you, and that's an echo. It doesn't realize you're present. But these kids see a car drive by. People see the kids play. They think ghost. The kids see the car. The kids, excited, get up and wave. What's weird about this is that they're not trying to get to the street. They're not trying to get to the street. They're just aware of the cars passing by, and so they wave.

Cristina: That's so weird.

Jack: Like, they know they can't make it.

Cristina: How many children is.

Jack: It varies.

Cristina: It varies.

Jack: But it's like they know they can't get to the street. There's an awareness of, oh, it's another car coming. How there's another weird thing from the.

Cristina: Other side that is weird. But is there they just look like normal children, too?

Jack: It's unclear. Small people.

Cristina: Small people.

Jack: Small people that appear to be children playing. Yeah, it's Clinton Road. Nothing is a specific description. It's night. Always.

Cristina: It's always night. Okay.

Jack: Yeah. It's impossible. Any clear description you want, you will not get. Yeah, this is Clinton Road at night, every time. And, like, kids that's in the woods, like, how detailed can you get?

Cristina: That is so creepy.

Jack: Yeah. But the fact that they know you're there, they'll just be minding their business. A car rolls by, somebody. Oh, kids. And then the kids and like, oh, my God, let's just keep going. But ultimately, the kids notice cars, but.

Cristina: If you stop, they would just be gone.

Jack: No, if they run towards you, there's like a barrier that they can't make it past because they vanish.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Oh, that's even scarier. Oh, my gosh. They run towards you and then just.

Jack: Yeah. So my idea would be that unlike visual thin places that we can see through and look to a different time or an echo that's just a fold repeating. I think this would be a literal. Not just thin places towards the past, but thin places towards the shadow realm. And, like, they can see through, but it's bubbles that they can't get through. Weirdly enough, same as us thousand years ago, looking at the sky and seeing a plane. And it's just because on the other side of the bubble, a plane went in front of it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So there must be in front of this playground or whatever, a thin place just at the right angle that you can see it for maybe a hundred feet or so into the other side, and they can see you back and then you can interact, but beyond a certain angle, you can't. That's what it seems to me. Because they are responsive. They look in the wave, excited to see, and then they're just not there suddenly. But only do it when there's somebody you don't arrive and they're already in the motion. They're always awesome. Kids saw me and they came and they were coming to say hi, and they just not there suddenly. Yeah, it's pretty up.

Cristina: That's. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I guess that there's children on that side. Why not?

Jack: Why wouldn't there be? They're just people. Jin are just people.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay.

Jack: But I think this falls into something from the shadow room. The fact that they see the cars and they get excited. They're just kids. They're not trying to f*** with people. The way that pickup is they're really genuinely just kids or seems to be to people.

Cristina: But that's. That's it.

Jack: Yeah. They seem childish. The next one gets to more personal areas for me, which is disembodied voices, whispering voices heard in the woods, often leading people to feel as though they're being watched or followed.

Cristina: This is one that they say your name. We heard we were talking about one before on the last episode about someone saying your name.

Jack: This is unrelated to anything from last episode. These are all new things.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Yeah. This is just voices.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And these voices seem to be following people and it makes people feel like they're being watched. But mainly is that they're being followed because the voices are continuously behind them or next to them, around them. The voices tend to be unclear, but the voices seem like they're speaking a language. But it's also very, very off putting and very disturbing. The sort of guttural sounds that get made. It sounds like language, but like a demon is talking to people. It's the best way that people have described it. I would argue that we're hearing Jin language.

Cristina: Okay. Like shadow realm.

Jack: Yeah. And like it just sounds up to us because we've never discussed what it would sound like to speak in a place that's not physical. You don't have. You don't have vocal cords or anything.

Cristina: But they got. I would assume they have some kind of language because we do hear about people who do go over there and communicate with them.

Jack: And here's another thing. If I don't understand. I was thinking about this and just because I said this, it made me think about it again. I don't understand how it is that all the old text we find describes the shadow realm as a non physical place. But physical beings can so easily traverse. But also adrenochrome makes you traverse. I don't understand that problem. Because you have to stop being physical to get there with adrenochrome. But you can. Like the judge just walked in.

Cristina: Well, we don't know his life. What if he had Jesse? He had adrenal crown before.

Jack: How do you get back out? How does anybody go in and out? How do you get your body into a non physical place and then walk out still physical. Your body doesn't just dissolve and disappear and you can't ever come back. That doesn't make sense. There's some interpretation that's wrong there. Because that is a conflict of description is contradicting.

Cristina: It's a paradox.

Jack: You can't both be physical on the other side and not be physical on the other side. On the flip side, we do discuss ourselves as physical and non physical. There is a soul version of me that's controlling my body and then there's the body that the soul is controlling. There's the physical and the metaphysical simultaneously. But then that means that all the descriptions they have of the other side are f****** stupid because it's just this. But over there. Well, it's a non physical place. Your souls and stuff. It's like. You mean like we have over here?

Cristina: But is our body going in there? Our body's falling asleep and then we go in there. Like how does that.

Jack: I don't know. How would the Judge enter on earth realm on this side, take a shortcut in there and then pop out somewhere else? His body then just flatline over here and stay there unconscious, and then teleport to the other side of Earth?

Cristina: Huh?

Jack: Do you see the problem? There are active contradictions. And how this is described. There's something we don't understand necessarily because it's described as such a physical place. And you need adrenochrome to have a certain state. But also, let's think about adrenochrome. It's a physical thing.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Why would it take you somewhere non physical?

Cristina: It has to be just physical in a different way. It's not non physical. It's just.

Jack: Yeah, there's something we're not grasping about it.

Cristina: Yeah, but you need. You need it still to get there and somehow.

Jack: Yes, yes. Even with a gate, you cannot enter the shadow realm unless you've had adrenochrome. We thought adrenochrome meant only after you die. But then later we find out some people can actually just walk in every time except the Judge. That we don't know for a fact. But every other time required adrenochrome. So it's a physical place that requires that no matter what, something about the adrenochrome allows your body to adapt to the conditions of the shadow realm. I don't think it's not a physical place. I think they were focusing on the descriptions of what adrenochrome is doing in order to describe what the place is. Yeah, I think that's the reality of the matter. I don't think it's not a physical place. I think it's a different realm. Obviously it's a different space that requires some alteration physically that is different than what we consider normal on the side. And so in their attempt to describe that, it sounds like you're talking about something non physical.

Cristina: But I don't think you actually. You don't need adrenochrome because necromancers don't. They just need a state of mind. They. They can do it. Yes, they can. Just.

Jack: But there's also heavy understanding. And they have stones that are made of the same thing.

Cristina: They have the stones to do it.

Jack: They have the stones to do it. And it's made of the same thing that adrenochrome is. It's just not in their body. Now this is an interesting point you bring because Adrian, necromancers don't need to consume it yet their body can still exist in the Shadow Realm.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now let's take a step back because we don't have an instance of a necromancer in the Shadow Realm that we've ever read. We just know it says they can. But the only time we have them actually traversing instead of giving somebody the way to is through Elfhame. And we don't even know if they physically stand in Elfame as opposed to use Elfame to cut through.

Cristina: That's exactly what it seems like.

Jack: Yeah. Which means they're not entering the Shadow Realm either.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: Because we've never had a single discussion that says they entered the Shadow Realm. They just know how to get there. Which presumably means they know how to navigate the Shadow Realm even if they don't enter the Shadow Realm as a shortcut. Another shortcut. They can get anywhere, anytime, however they want.

Cristina: Yeah. That's so weird though. What is that? What?

Jack: Unless Elfame and the Shadow Realm are physical, which seems to be the case too. I don't know. It's so many contradictions there. Yes, but maybe if it. If it's not a different layer and it all is seamless, just with barriers like flat earth. A circle within a circle within a circle. If that's the case, then a necromancer literally enters the Shadow Realm. And a necromancer literally enters all fame.

Cristina: But as far as we know, that doesn't happen. Really?

Jack: We don't have a mention of either. Yeah, I've never seen a mention of either of those scenarios happening.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we don't even have Santa Claus entering the Shadow Room.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Nothing.

Cristina: Jesus. Entering the Shadow Realm after he died. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's.

Jack: The rules feel consistent. There is consistency. He didn't enter. He exited. He died. To get there.

Cristina: He died. He went to their prison, kidnapped a bunch of them, got some stones.

Jack: People over here thought it was part of their plan. To get rid of Jesus. Little did they know, Jesus planned every part of it. He needed to get over there.

Cristina: Yes, Very weird.

Jack: But then the transition state, I think is important, which then brings up a different problem. Did Hermes have to die? Because one very important thing we have to remember about necromancers is what are they most known for? Relating to the dead. The dead and death.

Cristina: That is interesting.

Jack: That is very interesting.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And Jesus is an example of somebody who didn't touch the other side until he died.

Cristina: So do they have to die?

Jack: Do they all have to?

Cristina: I think so, because Santa Claus, obviously that happened to him. That's why we have this Nicholas, who's so different from Sam. There was some metamorphosis, something that happened there, obviously.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: I don't know about Patrick.

Jack: I don't. I don't know about that. But he's also loosely the bottom tier of this.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Meanwhile, Merlin has several stories of his end.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah, yeah, this is making sense. Yeah.

Jack: So all necromancers must. Or at least it seems to be, death is part of the process.

Cristina: I think so. I think so.

Jack: Mm.

Cristina: It makes sense.

Jack: Which means Hermes probably consumed adrenochrome, but in a scientific correct way that keeps him in control just so he can cross over to the other side.

Cristina: Actually, yeah, I think that's right. I think they had to die.

Jack: I think he had to die. We might not have the text, but we have Jesus the only example of a necromancer entering the shadow realm and he had to die to get there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If it was so easy and it was so simple and you could just get there, why do you need to die?

Cristina: That doesn't make sense. Is the Judge.

Jack: Judge doesn't make sense. How do you get in?

Cristina: Unless he was a living dead person and just didn't know it.

Jack: Interest. So in any case, the idea is we have to find Inanna's brother and see what. We gotta really dive into him and.

Cristina: Find out what the stories they have about him does.

Jack: Can we find that the Judge has died? That's the reality of the matter. Can we find if the Judge has died?

Cristina: I think. I think we will find. Because if he has one weird story, I'm sure there's other weird stories he's involved in.

Jack: But then that brings up a really, really, really exaggeratedly interesting question that we didn't cross at any moment.

Cristina: What's that?

Jack: The Judge is the third necromancer. Fourth.

Cristina: Fourth Jesus?

Jack: No, he's like fifth Jesus, Merlin, Santa Patrick, the Judge, and Hermes number six.

Cristina: Oh, Hermes. Yeah.

Jack: Six necromancers in all of history.

Cristina: I would think so. I think so. I think we're on to something.

Jack: So. So then the question is, is the judge a necromancer?

Cristina: He might be even one of them. Like, we don't know. They all live such long lives.

Jack: I know. It's so weird, bro. It's so weird. There's some timeline distortions in this whole narrative. That's f*****. Some people go millions, some people go hundreds of thousands.

Cristina: So many different lies. We know Jesus had so many lives. Like, he wasn't just the Jesus in that place, but he was the whatever in that other place and the whatever in that other place.

Jack: Yeah, but this lives is an exaggeration because we're talking about.

Cristina: No, he was still living one life.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like not even that far apart. We're talking like he was here a couple of months. He was there a couple.

Cristina: Yes, but like that. They all seem to have that type of thing of like, I'm gonna pretend to be this person over there and I don't think.

Jack: I don't. The. The dialogue you're using, I think is incorrect. I don't think it's pretending. I think we're talking about him going to different places where people speak different languages and they're using their interpretation of what his name would be.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And so he lands at a different name and they're using their words to describe him, which is why the words aren't exactly the same, but they're so similar. If we were to paint the picture, he would look the same.

Cristina: Yeah. So this guy could just be someone else that we've met before and we just don't know it.

Jack: Interesting, interesting, interesting. You believe the judge could just be one of these other guys?

Cristina: Like, who knows? Because it's so rare that it would happen. To imagine that this is just another one, it's harder to believe.

Jack: Yeah. But it's also equally hard to believe. Yeah. It's like to imagine he's another one is really hard. And to imagine he's some casual who just enters the shadow realm is even more. Yes. Now here's something that we do have to look at though, because now thinking about it, he can't be a necromancer. He can't be. At least not in a way he's aware of, because he was shocked by the entrance. He had discovered it and was like, what the f***? And then he told his sister and he was like, it's the craziest thing. And she was like, show me. And then that's how they found the kingdom on the other side. He, you know, he became homies as he went through.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So he wasn't a necromancer, at least knowingly. If he was, he maybe stumbled upon a process or something.

Cristina: Probably some story. There's other things, though, that they rarely talk about. Like the plants and the app, the fruits and, you know, things like that.

Jack: There are other ways.

Cristina: So rare. But, like, humans don't interact.

Jack: Like, really.

Cristina: Yes. Like, he might have found one of those things.

Jack: You're totally right. So the science is very likely the fruit hard. You gotta go to the shadow room to do it.

Cristina: Yeah. But, like, there are things that exists that just don't get talked about because.

Jack: Like, plants are on this side and.

Cristina: They'Re, like, heavily guarded. So if he stumbled upon it.

Jack: Not the flower. The flower wasn't. The flower is just a flower.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: The flower was not heavily guarded. In fact, the mention we got of it was just somebody figured out that this could do that.

Cristina: Yeah. So, like, he could.

Jack: Maybe that's flowers in more places, but we can't tell it apart from something else. Oh, it's just a flower. But if we saw it and we knew what it was, we can consume it and without. Because we know that adrenochrome is the addictive one. But there are other things. Adrenochrome comes in three parts. It's ichor, it's ambrosia, and it's the literal liquid of nectar. Those are the three states. What is it? Ambrosia is the little organs that are adrenochrome dense. And then there is the. What is ambrosia? There is ichor, which is distilled. It's after it's been consumed. Yeah, it's the blood. I mean, they're all blood, but after it's been distilled, somebody consumed adrenochrome. And now you take the blood of a person who's consumed adrenochrome, and it sort of went through a process.

Cristina: Vampirism.

Jack: And then there is the. Not ambrosia. Nectar, which is just liquid. It's drinking the blood. It's just drinking the blood. It's Jesus's preferred form. But although Jesus is very known for both. He likes ambrosia, he likes to consume the individual, and he likes to drink their blood, too.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Or at least he's discovered is the most efficient combination. It doesn't look like he did ichor, but it looks like he gave people ichor.

Cristina: Yes. He loved sharing it.

Jack: Yes. Now, interesting point. The descriptions. I didn't think about this until right now. The descriptions that we went through about ichor, ambrosia and nectar make it seem like ichor is the valuable one because people who are normal can take it and die. It's super strong. But Jesus was giving people ick. Ichor, not adrenochrome or ambrosia. He was giving himself.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: To them, which is ichor. Even if it's his flesh, that would look like ambrosia. No, he had adrenochrome.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Even if it's his blood that you would call nectar. No, he had adrenochrome. Everything he's given you is actually ichor.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Nobody's as powerful as Jesus. The combination of ambrosia and nectar is stronger than the distilled ichor, which is both of them together. And he was giving his blood as high up on the totem pole as you can get. And still ichor was not as good. Is it because who he is, he can just do it with these two and be as powerful and like somebody having something stronger can't catch up? Or is it that there is an actual better combination to be had with ichor and. Well, I mean, with nectar and ambrosia, then there is to be had with ichor. And he knows the trick to it.

Cristina: He probably knows the trick to it.

Jack: Well, he's also a unique being. Why wouldn't it be the other? Why wouldn't it be that? Just. It doesn't matter what anybody else consumes. He's always going to be spirit.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know my point?

Cristina: We don't know what he is is very unique. Yeah.

Jack: Very special. So, yeah, just, you know, food for thought. Okay, next on the list, we have. It's weird about those disembodied voices, by the way.

Cristina: So you heard those disembodied verses.

Jack: Yeah, we heard children and we heard voices. I never saw the kids. But you remember we were hearing kids laugh.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: By the way, important detail. This just so happens to be on the road to paradise.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Which is where we heard the kids.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's why I was saying that this is, like, personal.

Cristina: Yeah, that's.

Jack: This is right on the road to paradise, where this has been reported, which is where we were when we heard the kids laughing. Well, first we heard the laughter and we couldn't make it out. And then we pulled on the side where the car just stopped turning on, and then we just started hearing.

Cristina: What is the car turning up or is that something else? I will talk about in the future.

Jack: I don't know. I don't know. That was a weird one. I looked when. Because of hearing the disembodied voices. It made me think about the car turning off. And then I was like, when has this happened? And there aren't mentions of this anywhere. This is just a weird thing that happened. It could have just been that our car was s*******. That was weird time. It was a weird timing. Yes, but, like, what weird timing?

Cristina: What we are timing, I don't understand.

Jack: Like, I can't explain it. But then the other thing is, let's. Let's have a quick. Maybe we're not gonna make it to the end of this. And this part alone is gonna be too. But we have to address this next point because I think I'm about to say something that's gonna make a lot of sense here. We hear the kids laugh. We hear laughter. We get on the dirt road. We pull up to the side just to scare the guys, lower the windows. We start to hear kids actually laughing. We're like, oh, f***. Like we were just f****** around, bros. F*** this. We put the windows up, trying to turn the car on. Wasn't turning on. We finally get the car on and we drive into paradise. Do you remember what happens next?

Cristina: You see a sign.

Jack: Yeah. Deaf children.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then the. The. The F is slashed and a D is put over it.

Cristina: The children.

Jack: Yeah, but that's not even the important part. What happens in paradise?

Cristina: That's all I remember.

Jack: You don't remember what happens when we drive into paradise?

Cristina: You hear more children. No.

Jack: We tried to get out of paradise and we can't.

Cristina: Oh, yes. I don't know. Okay. Yeah. I don't know.

Jack: It's like you never remember anything I needed to remember. Not once. It's horrible. But we enter paradise and then we can't get out of paradise. Paradise is where we hear children. Paradise is where we hear laughter. Paradise is where the dead children sign is. Where did we enter when we went to paradise?

Cristina: Where did you enter? Some type of loop. Some type of time thing.

Jack: What else looks like a physical place on this side and is not supposed to be because it's a jumbled mess that somebody on this side wouldn't be able to navigate.

Cristina: I know I should know. I don't know.

Jack: I don't understand. What happens in your mind? Obviously the shadow realm, girl. It's the only thing that looks like a physical. I'm gonna just stop trying to get you guessing. It doesn't work ever. I just got to Tell you, showing you doesn't work. The shadow realm, like everything, its description is literally a physical earth place that looks like a jumbled mess of an example of a physical earth place. I don't know. I got to explain this.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That is what it is. And we enter, we see distortions, we hear distortions and turning. Or we drove straight. We turn around and we're trying to drive straight out and the exit's gone weird. That sounds like the shadow realm. Now how the f*** would we have entered? Second, it looked absolutely normal to us. So could it have been?

Cristina: It could just be the whole veil example thing of like you're just. You're seeing it, but you're not actually in it. Like they're seeing you and you're. They're not actually there.

Jack: Then the straight line would have gotten us out.

Cristina: There must have been something messing with you as well. Like an actual thing.

Jack: Right. And how is it gonna change the shadow realm structure or our. How is it gonna change the physical space we're in?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: There's a huge issue right there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We go in, yeah, like three blocks in, do a 180, no turns, drive the same path we got there through. See? None of the same s***. And the f****** dirt road's gone.

Cristina: I don't know. Some of them have abilities. Maybe it was messing with you guys.

Jack: And we take hella turns through paradise. When we took no turns, we take mad turns in paradise trying to find our way out. And somewhere in a different corner entirely, we find a dirt road again. And then we find our way out after like 20 minutes of doing circles when we had only gone in a straight line, turned around, tried to do the same straight line back and just dead end, no road. So what was that? I've thought about that following some of this research, and I'm like, man, this.

Cristina: Isn'T match up with anything.

Jack: Doesn't match with anything. This is easily the shadow realm. Minus the fact that it couldn't be. Because how the f***. Unless these descriptions of the shadow realm, we are taking them too literally. And it's not a non physical place. We did see a jumbled mess of something we had just looked at that looked normal.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: We saw the same place jumbled up.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Nothing else changed except we couldn't navigate it. And it seemed bigger after we'd gone in.

Cristina: Soon as you got scared, as soon as the car. As the kid, children and the car.

Jack: As soon as it all. Yes, we fell into something. Right.

Cristina: Fear happened. This really overwhelming fear probably happened at that moment for all.

Jack: From all four of us at the same time.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then we panic, go on the road, and then we slip in. But then the argument would be, you don't need adrenochrome and Jesus did. There's something wrong here. There's a contradiction still going on.

Cristina: Because I don't think you're really in it, though.

Jack: I don't think so either. So then. Okay, so then what you're talking about might be the logical path that maybe even the judge didn't.

Cristina: Yeah, he saw. He saw a glimpse of it, or they.

Jack: He was literally interacting with people on the other side. And he met Ixchel, which then came out and went to Maya. They were literally something is. But we're onto something now because if we. You're totally right. All of this followed the fear. Let's recount the story. We drive in first. We see the guy in the robe, a black guy essentially walking around in a KKK robe. Weirdest sight ever. Okay. With a machete or a shotgun. Nobody was clear on which one he was holding. Everybody had a different story. We get far enough, we see the deer cut open. Okay. Panic, you know, Everybody like, what the f***? Yeah, we get far enough, we hear the laughter. We try to scare the guys, end up scaring ourselves because we hear the kids. We take the dirt road and suddenly the s*** spins out of control and we're nowhere. But we're everywhere. Because the one road we took disappeared and now we're just in this mess and we can't get out. And then the road showed up somewhere else entirely. Maybe you're right and we're just seeing it because again, it doesn't make sense that they could see us and we can't see them. I think it's a notch where the more you turn it, the more both sides are close together. Not one side to this side.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we're slowly more and more seeing.

Cristina: But you're not physically there. I'm not physically there seeing.

Jack: Now, in this instance, there is an interesting. This contradiction could then be resolved because when they're talking about the shadow or on being a non physical place, they are talking about getting there non physically through fear, through these other means that allows you to interact with that space without entering that space.

Cristina: Yes. Oh, okay. Yes.

Jack: And then there's a way to actually enter and be in the space which requires totally different means. In this scenario now we can apply the things that we didn't mention about necromancers. What are they really good at? Even if they don't cross. They're good at bridging communication. They're good at bringing things from that side over. They're good at interacting with things on that side, even if they don't go in. So they know how to turn the dial that allows them to f*** with things on that side without being on that side, which I would argue is stronger, more overpowered than having to be on that side. Additionally, if you have a Philosopher's Stone that has the ability to violate those rules, could you, in theory, use the Philosopher's Stone to make a sort of external shell that would allow you to enter without falling apart? Hence their ability to traverse and not be simultaneously. Like a suit made of. Think of Green Lantern puts the ring on and a green energy goes over his body. And now he can manipulate this energy. What if what's happening that's happens with the Philosopher's Stone? And I could use the Philosopher's Stone, create this energy around me, and just slip into the Shadow Realm without needing adrenochrome. Without the energy, I would just die over there or pop up over here, but I can literally be there without consuming adrenochrome. Now, Jesus didn't have Philosopher's stones. He went to acquire them.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Now we have a reason why he needs to die.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Maybe he didn't know how to make it. As overpowered as he is, he went to acquire them. Different.

Cristina: That's so weird that he didn't know how to. Because he knew how to make the Gates. The person who taught him how to make the Gates would know how to make it. Make a philosopher stone. Yeah, well, maybe Jesus wasn't into having to mass murder people.

Jack: Yeah. And he knew these things already exist. Let them kill me and I'll go get the stones, because I'm gonna be fine.

Cristina: Yeah. Mm. He just. He's just different.

Jack: He's just different. He. Look, he. His. Everybody who's ever talked about him said the same thing. He was preaching kindness the whole time. Regardless of what they saw him do or how they saw him do it. A lot of people were like, he did some pretty diabolical looking s***.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But attached to that, did he hurt anybody? Well, no, he did a bunch of diabolical s***. But he kind of just told us all to be kind to each other.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like fair.

Cristina: He's making an army. And his army aren't being forced to be his army. They're choosing to be his army. Whether it's from the Shadow Realm or it's us humans.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: And you're just, we're on his side. They're on his side.

Jack: I mean, when your argument is be kind and stop anybody who's not, it's like, f***. I mean, yeah, bro. And look, I'll give you powers to do it. Oh, s***. You're gonna give me powers to be kind and stop anybody who's not. That's.

Cristina: The only people he wants to get rid of are the sea people, though. Like, that's clear.

Jack: And like, let's be fair as we've dug in deep into this, like, kind of. Yeah. It makes sense. Look, even if Jehovah's on the side of the people, like, you guys just ultimately only want them alive so you can keep running experiments.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: You're like, don't let the civilization fall apart. We need to kill them for stones.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know, so ultimately that puts us back on Lucifer side. Right? Where he's like, give them tech so they could reach us. You're gonna kill them anyways.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Let those that can do it do it.

Cristina: Except that they couldn't.

Jack: Doesn't matter if they're gonna be massacred anyways. To make a stone. Give somebody a chance.

Cristina: Yeah, that's true. Okay.

Jack: This is all right, dude. I understand why the. The Lucifer, Jehovah problem is huge. Because it's, like, flopping back and forth.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: One of these guys is somehow right, or it's so nuanced that they're both right and wrong.

Cristina: Yes. I think that's more the most truthful.

Jack: Because in Jehovah's eyes, they're gonna die anyways, bro. I'm like, let's give them purpose. Let's let them their lives be used to improve the world. While Lucifer's argument is give them the choice. Let them choose what happens if it collapses. It was their choice, not yours.

Cristina: Yes. It's pretty good.

Jack: Like, f***, give them purpose. They're ignorant. Both of them are on point. Give them purpose. They are ignorant and they're gonna self destruct. Don't let them die meaninglessly. You give them this technology. They can't handle it. They will die meaninglessly and haven't gotten nothing. Which we see many relics from civilizations that are kind of Lucifer's fault. But he gave them a chance to make their choice. Jehovah is all about taking that choice.

Cristina: Away because he thinks that's safer.

Jack: He thinks it's better and more noble. Use them for something that they would be proud of. If they looked back. If they looked back a thousand years and thought, oh, I died in this moment, but all of human history improved because of my sacrifice. They would. His logic at least is they'd be happy.

Cristina: And what is Jesus point of view?

Jack: F*** both of them. Both of them. Don't give people technology so that they blow up and kill themselves and don't sacrifice people. Leave them alone.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Which, like, okay, when? That's the third argument. Kind of f*** those two other guys. Yeah, that's legit. We can move slowly. It's fine. We don't need to f****** flash forward a million years instantly and then collapse because we couldn't deal with it. And we don't need some other guy sacrificing us to accomplish the same f****** thing. Yes, maybe f*** both of them and just let people do what they're gonna do if we kill ourselves.

Cristina: At least it was us.

Jack: At least it was us. No interference.

Cristina: Yeah, okay.

Jack: In that argument. Yeah. Jesus.

Cristina: Oh, all right.

Jack: It's a lot of sides and, like, nobody's right or wrong until you put Jesus in the mix. And I was like, well, that m************ are wrong.

Cristina: Yeah, well, yeah, he's pro human, so.

Jack: He'S pro human regardless. Even if the other two are technically pro human. It's a lot like leftists trying to decrease criminal sentences for people who. A black judge gave them a really large sentence and then they go to prison for this really long time. But leftists are like, that's unjust and blah, blah, blah. And then they go ahead and force a different judge to decrease the sentence and the guy gets out of prison and he gets murdered a week later. And then we truly go and talk to the people who understand, not just feel like they're gonna help. Oh, I want to help. I want to help. But you're ignorant. You're stupid. You don't know the situation. We go and talk to somebody on ground level. Well, the judge is families of the gang that's in the prison, and that guy is a neighborhood friend. He increased the sentence so that he goes to that prison specifically and is protected there. He was gonna stay alive in prison. You guys got him out and he got killed. That's Jehovah and Lucifer being helpful leftists.

Cristina: Jehovah and Lucifer or Peter trying to save animals but then killing dogs.

Jack: Yes. The same logic of, you're not being helpful, you're just thinking you're being helpful.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And that's a very leftist ideology. So we can just throw Lucifer and Jehovah in the leftists and say, you're kind of ignorant. You think you're helping, but you're not on the ground level. Knowing what the people want.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You go to Jesus. Jesus is just asking people. Yeah. He's just like, I know why that guy went to prison on a really high sentence. He asked a judge for it. And you ignorant f**** don't know that Jesus is the guy who knows. He talks to the people. He's like, what do you guys want? Well, we just want to live our lives.

Cristina: He was forced to be with the people.

Jack: Yes. That's. That's literally Jehovah and Lucifer's fault.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah.

Jack: They made the problem that stopped them.

Cristina: Yes. That's really interesting.

Jack: They literally made him in a labor, and then they were like, f*** that guy.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And threw him to the people.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So the people were like, well, he's one of us, and he grew up as one of them. And they treated him right until. Who f***** him? The f****** people working with the Elysians.

Cristina: Oh, yeah.

Jack: The Church came after him, huh? Even more incentive. F*** that. Let's work these a******* into my plan so I can f*** him more.

Cristina: Beautiful.

Jack: LinkedIn. Yeah. Sacrifice me. Totally, man. Kill me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he enters and goes. He took it from Lucifer, bro. Even if these two guys didn't agree, they were still eye to eye on the people. We need them for something. He just used Jehovah and his disdain for Lucifer. Got himself killed to enter, rob Lucifer, and then get back to Earth Realm knowing these two guys aren't gonna work together.

Cristina: No. Yeah, I guess.

Jack: Divide and conquer.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: F****** 3D chess, bro. I mean, 4D chess.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Okay. Weird one. I didn't know this next one originated here. I was looking to see if this came from somewhere else, but this actually comes from the New England era of the United States, which is. The Headless Horseman is a New Jersey Clinton Road thing.

Cristina: Yeah, it is.

Jack: I had no f****** idea that that originated over here.

Cristina: Yeah, it did.

Jack: In fact, I would have thought that this was, like, an Eng type of ghost.

Cristina: There's a lot of ghosts that actually were from around here.

Jack: Yeah. No, we are in weird land.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We're in a really hot spot.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Weird. New Jersey is legit.

Cristina: It is it. That's why.

Jack: Yeah. No, we are in some crazy hotspot. I had no idea. I thought the Headless Horseman was significantly older and, like, by default had to be some, like, European thing. Yeah, no, that is just a Jersey thing.

Cristina: It's a Jersey thing. Yeah.

Jack: It got taken and showed up in a million places. But, no, that's. That's us. That's a Jersey thing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now, this is described as a humanoid that looks kind of like a shadow that doesn't seem to have a head in the way we would describe. And he's on something that we would compare to a horse, but doesn't necessarily look like a horse. This tells us a couple of things. It's a jinn of some sort. And he looks kind of human, but he wouldn't look perfectly human. That makes no sense.

Cristina: So it's a creature from somewhere else writing a creature from somewhere else.

Jack: It would be the people of the shadow realm, the gym, and whatever their horse equivalent is.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And based on everything else we know of the area. Now, there's a weird one. He doesn't f*** with people. Doesn't f*** with people. He's just not an echo. He is responsive. And here's the weird thing about this, right? People have yelled at him, and he'll stop and look like, turn his torso.

Cristina: Towards him and just gonna say, like, how.

Jack: You know, just turn and, like, wait. Like, he's just a dude. It seems like just a dude.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And he's like, okay. They, you know, people from the other side saw me. Let's, you know, let them have their moment or whatever. I'll stop here and let them roll by. Oh, they saw ghosts, whatever.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And it's like, it looks like he's not f****** with people. He's not doing it. He's just there and people see him. People have, oh, my God. The headless. And then he just, you know, he'll stop and kind of behaves like a. Like if he's a tourist attraction.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Oh, like, yeah, they're looking at me. Let me stop. And so he's very known for just stopping. He's very known for, like, approaching. But this. These descriptions are where it gets very informative because this falls in line with all the other things we saw of the things that interact. If you look at the truck, if you look at the children, proximity makes them vanish. But in his description, it's something very different. What, he gets close and gets more translucent. Yeah. So, like, really far away. It looks like whatever particles hold him together are denser together. But the closer he gets is like. If you were shrinking and looking at atoms more and more, everything would kind of look more far apart, more far apart. If you were the size of an atom, you wouldn't see two things touching ever. There'd be no body. There's no such thing.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Sort of that same thing. The closer he gets, the more through him. You could see.

Cristina: What does that mean, though?

Jack: I don't know. So when he's maybe 20ft away, he's so hard to make out. But he's there, and you know he's there. It's like closer than that, you know, you can't tell he's there anymore, but he's not. And that's closest. F***. By the way, 20ft is nuts. But. So he's fully aware you're there. And, you know, he. I did it. I tried to find if maybe his voices come from him or if he waves or something, like the kids. Yeah, none of that. But he is fully aware that people come through.

Cristina: You know, just sense that he. He notices you.

Jack: He. Well, people see him, and I guess he would hear them or see them himself. Because if we assume that there's a notch and you see him as much as he sees you, then he's aware. There's one road. There's one road. Anybody who is on the other side and wants to interact with humans, they know where the humans are. They're on the road.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And so it really. These descriptions. Not that anywhere says what I'm saying, that he's behaving like a tourist attraction. But if you were to tell me to describe what's happening, he's behaving like a tourist attraction. He knows all those people entertained, want to be scared or whatever. I'm not gonna scare them too much because there are things out here.

Cristina: But he does like that fear. Probably a little bit.

Jack: Maybe he does cruise by the road. Honest.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Quote horse unquote. But he doesn't mess with people and he doesn't chase people or anything. It just. Maybe he's just interested in humans. And it's like, oh, cool spot where you can see humans. You know, it's possible.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Which would. It totally has to be. I'm thinking the kids. There's no park there. I think the kids just like playing close to the road because they might see humans.

Cristina: Yeah. It might still be the fear thing of like, oh, we're gonna get something out of here, even if we're not gonna try anything. But we just know just being here.

Jack: Just being here, we'll see them, we'll.

Cristina: See them and we'll get something.

Jack: I don't think it's about getting something. I think it's about. Because why they're not getting anything. You use the fear to get to this side to then get adrenochrome. They're not doing anything. They're not getting to the side to hurt People, they're just kind of chilling there. The kids are just chilling there. Yeah, the horseman's just chilling there.

Cristina: And the trucker guy.

Jack: The trucker guy's with people.

Cristina: He's.

Jack: He's looking for something.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I think that guy was from this side. It's a truck. Yeah, that guy was from this side. And he just doesn't want to lose it. And he's like, I'd rather they lose it than me. But the kids don't have that. They just. Kids and they wave and, you know, hey, cool, whatever.

Cristina: And the horse, man.

Jack: The horseman is the same. He's just, you know, they're cool people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it's weird, but there are peaceful ghosts here. I'm not even ghosts. They're just gin, man.

Cristina: But he's from that specific area. He's not from somewhere else in New Jersey. He's from Clinton Road.

Jack: Literally, from Clinton Road. It looks like there is on the other side, some civilization.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And it's possible that that civilization is based on paradise, because that's where the jumbled mess began. On the flip side. On the flip side, there have been stories of people going on a straight line. There's nothing but Clinton Road as long as you don't turn.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And somehow leaving how they came in. So it could just somehow turn on you.

Cristina: Clinton Road.

Jack: Clinton Road. People have gone in a straight line 10 miles before you exit back to lights. People have gone in one line.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And found the exit through which they came in.

Cristina: That's right.

Jack: Without ever turning. So fear could be f****** with the surroundings.

Cristina: Okay. There is something just weird, naturally, about.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Clinton Road itself.

Jack: And so because we went to a place with mad turns, even if we didn't take a turn, we multiply the fact that you can go in a straight line and exit the same entrance by the fact that there's like 30 turns in paradise. And now we have a road that could be anywhere.

Cristina: Weird.

Jack: Very strange. Now, this next one is very literal because people describe it as this way, which is shadow people. Everything else they have not described as shadow people. This one, they literally use the word shadow people. Dark, human like figures seen darting between the trees, often in peripheral vision, which. Yes, that's just shadow people.

Cristina: That's great.

Jack: The thing is, this is the most reported sighting of something that seems to be responsive people. Look, they scatter away. I think there's a civilization. I think that that area has. And I think, based on what we're reading right now and what you said, that maybe the experiment isn't even in the future. Maybe it was on the other side.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And it seems like there's a civilization on the other side.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It could just be something that happened, you know, not even that long ago.

Cristina: It just happens over there.

Jack: Just happens over there. Could be. Doesn't have to be in the future. Could just be on the other side. It's folding everything together.

Cristina: Yes. And they just see shadow people.

Jack: Just shadow people casually running around, just living life. Okay. Pine Baron's Devil. Occasional sightings of a creature resembling the Jersey Devil in the denser parts of the forest. And that's very simply a creature from the shadow realm.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: But is it the same? They're saying it's like the other one. It's not the same as the Jersey Devil.

Jack: They're saying it's almost identical.

Cristina: It's almost identical.

Jack: It might be the same creature type and, like, be in a different area.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: No, that's the least weird thing here. I think it's just a creature. It's like seeing a wetchange or some s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, oh, my God, it's a demon. It's like. I mean, that's as close as raw. Nicka Run.

Cristina: It's just wild animal somewhere else.

Jack: Like a really wide. It's like if you see a wet shudge, that's like coming across a grizzly bear.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Get those f*** out. No. H*** no. Get the f*** out of there. That s***'ll flip your car, bro. Eyes in the darkness. This is definitely, most likely gin. Again, the glowing eyes. These are just probably. We're seeing light glares on Jinn and we just so happen to be seeing the Djinn simultaneously. My idea is described as glowing eyes watching from the woods at night.

Cristina: That's pretty creepy. But yeah. Yeah.

Jack: If it's just being observed and you're seeing through the thin veil and they're looking at you.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Unseen forces which are. Again, feeling like one is being pushed or pulled. And that's. That could just easily be things coming through, walking by. And like in parts where the veil is thin but still not perfectly gone so that you can like, oh, wow, something just pushed me to the side. Oh, my God. There's something out here messing. And they're just walking by, but they don't see you. You don't see them, and you just touch and you're like, what the was that?

Cristina: I think that's. That's a good thing.

Jack: And it's actually one of the most described things happening. And it always happens on the main road. Anybody Gets out of their vehicle for any reason, they're usually like, what the.

Cristina: You didn't go out on the main road?

Jack: Yes, I didn't feel as though.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: We got out of the car. I got out of the car to look at the deer. I got out of the car to see why the car wasn't turning on. And I got out of the weeds. I just don't give a. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die. It is what it is.

Cristina: But you didn't see any eyes, though.

Jack: I didn't see any eyes. I saw the deer, the black guy in the KKK outfit. I saw the. I heard the children separate to the laughter. That wasn't necessarily children.

Cristina: Yeah, but you didn't see whatever.

Jack: No, I didn't see eyes, didn't see shadows or any of that stuff.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But the weird moving roads and changing turns, that's pretty strange. And the fact that all of us saw that is weird. Minus Nunez, because from Nunez point of view, it was. We were just sitting and he just saw all of us go catatonic for a moment, which is. His story is worse than all of our stories. Yes, we all experience being somewhere, but now we have to unpack this because he says we pull over and we never get. We. He never saw the dirt road. He never saw paradise. We pull over, the car doesn't turn on. And from his point of view, all of us just sat there and thought really hard about what to do for a while. From our point of view, while that was happening, how the f*** do we get out of this mess we're in? Meanwhile, he's the only quiet one with us. We're just thinking, you know, nuna doesn't fear things. He's a special kind of person. He doesn't feel fear the way we do. So, you know, he's just quiet, watching us scramble.

Cristina: I don't know. That changes everything.

Jack: That changes everything because this falls into what you were saying about the judge. Did the judges go unconscious somewhere and his. Some other thing was in the shadow realm? Yes, because he says, we were just frozen in place, thinking. We say, bro, we were lost for like 30 minutes, homie. What do you mean you saw nothing? The three of us versus the one of you, bro, this is a different argument you're having.

Cristina: But is he right?

Jack: But is he right?

Cristina: I don't know. That's. That's really good. I don't know. That's so strange. That's just so out there. I don't know.

Jack: It's f****** Weird, bro. It's really strange. I don't know what to. There's a lot of complications here.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Here is something that I believe is the veil thinning, which is melting trees that appear to melt or distort adding to the surreal landscape. I think this is just sort of the warped nature of the shadow realm being seen on this side. I think that's just areas where the notch is way turned up and we're just seeing what that side looks like.

Cristina: That's pretty cool.

Jack: My note for that was just likely trees in the shadow realm different than the wandering shadows in the forest. There are eerie shadows that move independent of sound, independent of structure, and independent of physical motion. This is strange because what they mean by independent of normal physical motion is they can go vertically and horizontally but in a walking human fashion.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Weird.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like they'll just be walking and sort of like walking up into the sky suddenly.

Cristina: Because they're probably going up a building or something.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: We just can't see it.

Jack: We don't see the building. We see the shadow.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because they're the living thing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we don't see the structure.

Cristina: Kind of makes sense. Yeah.

Jack: Wow.

Cristina: It's weird. It would be weird to see, but it might make sense over there.

Jack: Yes. Informed enough. It's not disturbing to us because it seems like. Yeah, there's probably a structure there that we can't interact with. And it's just going up some stairs or something.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not that crazy. Okay.

Jack: Which then goes and supports again that there's buildings here.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Which supports that there's a civilization in around Clinton Road. Shifting paths. Which is the problem we faced.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And that is the literal story I was getting to about people going in a straight line and then exiting directly where they came straight through. That's shifting paths.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Us entering Paradise Road. Paradise Road disappearing behind us. And us just being in Paradise Town and not finding the road horrifying. Until it's suddenly just, hey, it's somewhere else apparently. Let's exit. And somehow it still took us to Clinton Road back. It's like this was. We didn't take any turns. We took a turn to get here now. And it still took us to the same place. What the f***?

Cristina: Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.

Jack: Mysterious footprints.

Cristina: What does that mean?

Jack: Footprints that just begin and stop in the middle of a trail without a beginning point or an ending point. I think this just falls into more shadow realm stuff.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Maybe this is a spot where the notch is particularly turned up and we can start to see them literally affecting our physical space. And then they get. Get far from whatever's causing that anomaly. And then we no longer see the footprints. They kept walking on their side, didn't just disappear on their end, but the veil is thinner, is more tight elsewhere. And it's thinner in this spot.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So that's my theory for that.

Cristina: I think so. It's not that crazy.

Jack: I think this next one falls a lot with the kids, which is ghostly campers which seem to be around the road. These people just hanging around the road, camping. You oftentimes even see tents. Apparitions in campers setting up tents around fires near the road. But they don't look human.

Cristina: They don't look human.

Jack: They look like shadows. Even with light present weird. And proximity. When somebody goes to see these campers, they aren't there anymore. Even with the fire burning. You get closer and the fire itself starts to dim, dim, dim until there's nothing camping. I think they're camping by the sea. I think they're being just as much as we're on this side. Oh, Clinton Road. This attraction, Horseman's Traveling. The kids are chilling there because it's entertaining and fun. People are camping by this road.

Cristina: Yes. I wonder if they see ghosts like we see echoes. Like, it's still an interesting spot to hunt for echoes or find echoes to them.

Jack: Maybe they're finding the same thing. Yeah. Distortions from their path.

Cristina: Yeah. Like they think that's as cool as we find it cool. And that's why we go there.

Jack: 100. It could totally 1000% be based on these comparisons. There are people just chilling here, trying to see the same things we're doing.

Cristina: Yeah. So, yeah. It's probably even weirder. Whatever they're seeing is probably even weirder than what we're saying.

Jack: I mean, maybe not for them. Maybe like, you know, we hear about ghosts and, oh, my God, this place is haunted. And we see an old guy pushing a wheelbarrow and it's like, all right, well, they see a wet shud, John. A loop. And it's like, to us, I would look nuts. But to them it's just like, oh, yeah, the echo of the wolf. You know, the wolf died.

Cristina: Entertaining enough for them to want to hang out in that spot, though.

Jack: Yeah. They're trying to get themselves scared.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And like, oh, wow. Cool.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: It feels. It really, really just feels like they're people, bro. Like they're really gin. Even in text. Seem to just be people.

Cristina: I think so over there. Yes.

Jack: They're not bad people. There are bad people. There are some who are bad, but we got humans who are bad.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: You know? Yes. There's a dude in a truck also. I would argue that guy's just a human on that side.

Cristina: Possibly.

Jack: Yeah. The truck part kind of makes that argument pretty strong.

Cristina: Yeah, I think so.

Jack: Yeah, exactly like the truck. They're not building trucks over there, bro. Come on. And then the final note on this is the floating lanterns, which again supports this again of. They're usually by the road in the woods.

Cristina: They're just hanging out.

Jack: Just hanging out, bro. They're chilling, they're seeing, they're doing what we're doing. Except they don't have cars. That's it. They're just doing what we're doing.

Cristina: Yeah, that's just them hanging out, I think. Yeah. There's weird stuff happening over there. Like over here. Yes. And so it's an attraction to them too.

Jack: Now, a random point to toss in about my personal experience with, with the guy in the robe. I thought he had a machete, not a shotgun. And what we saw was a deer open. If that deer was horrified enough. And this guy knew what he was doing. He was trying to get to the other side, wasn't he? He was by himself trying to get.

Cristina: To the other side and he just killed some s***.

Jack: And he opened it. He wasn't covered in blood. It was just opened. Yeah, this guy probably took some organs out, Ambros. Just spitballing. I don't know. But you're in the right place.

Cristina: You're in the right place for sure.

Jack: You're in the right place. If ever there was a maybe you're just trying to communicate. We know that the Vikings did that. They consumed a crap ton until they started hearing voices. And then those voices started guiding them and they turned it into a place that they could just casually walk there and interact with, quote the gods, unquote. Yes, the gods knew where to go and they knew where to go to just effortlessly interact with one another. Which, by the way, in theory, we could still do that today. We would just require killing a s*** ton of people.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But in theory, we could have a perfect, in sync, one to one communication with the other side. And I think we don't need to make it. I think maybe that exists somewhere in Clinton Road already and that somebody might know it. You know where I think it is, and I think we all think it's in the same f****** place. It's in the castle.

Cristina: Okay. Are we gonna get to the Castle.

Jack: We're gonna get to that castle.

Cristina: Okay, cool.

Jack: Yeah. The next part is about three times as long as these two parts and is the one I called significant. These are the things that are obviously something to look at. Everything else we talked about in this episode and last episode. Interesting.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And for last episode. Yeah, for last episode was definitely the most important because we got things to look at. For this side, there's less to look at, although there's still some things to look at. Mainly not things here. But what this made us think of. Yes, next time, I believe 100% of that we have to look at, but we'll get to that. Anyways, as usual, if you guys have any input, any additional information or anything you could think about, feel free to contact us about it.

Cristina: Tell us.

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Cristina: Remember to subscribe, rate and review the show.

Jack: Yes. And word of mouth is the most overpowered thing in the world. If you find what we are talking about interesting and you want to show somebody else what this is, feel free to do so because we will appreciate it.

Cristina: This has been the Rambling podcast. Take nothing personal. Thanks for listening. Bye.

Jack: Sam.

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Rambling 279: Stonehenge

Why does Stonehenge look so familiar? Who built this interesting structure? What was its ultimate purpose? The duo accidentally stumble upon Stonehenge while investigating cold spots for paranormal activity. Between familiar designs to identical functions, the similarities and purpose of this place becomes way more obvious than could have ever been anticipated. 

+Episode Details

  • Stone Configuration
  • The Avenue
  • Legends and Folklore
  • Similarities to other Structures
  • Records, Documents and Texts

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+Transcript

Cristina: This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And this is the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas. Hahahaha. Baffling day will be in fact.

Cristina: Haha.

Jack: Why, if I were some sort of a mime thing. Not a mime. What do you call it when you stick your hand up a doll's a** and you. He's not a mime, he's a puppeteer. Ventriloquist. First of all, I've never thought of this before, but have we in society sort of classified these two people in the same group? They're kind of like doing something, but also is like, what you're doing is impressive but unacknowledgeable.

Cristina: What?

Jack: The mime and the ventriloquist. Have we been treating them like equals? Kind of like, yeah, you're here, but like, f*** you guys. And not a direct f***** you, like cool, but like passively cool. You're not even like, inherently cool. It's just passively cool. Yeah, like, yeah, I'll stop and look at you for like a minute, for.

Cristina: A second, I don't know.

Jack: And then I'm gonna continue on my way. Regardless how impressive what you're doing might be. Outside of my point, this is a show where we ground stuff. And that doesn't mean that we take things from the ground or that we put things on the ground in the ground in a literal sense. Because in a metaphoric sense, we literally mean. In a metaphoric sense, we literally mean we grab things and put them on the ground. That's what we mean in a metaphoric sense. We mean literally, metaphorically, that we would grab something and put it on the ground so that it's like based. Okay, no, but we don't mean it literally.

Cristina: Even though you're saying literally.

Jack: No, no, no, we don't mean it literally. We mean it metaphorically, but we mean that metaphor literally. Okay, so we're literally meaning that metaphor, but we're not meaning the sentence literally. No, we're meaning the metaphor literally. Of course that we're grounding these thoughts. We're putting them on the ground anyways.

Cristina: We're starting off with like pictures.

Jack: Yes, yes, we are. You get it.

Cristina: Oh, snap.

Jack: You get it. Have you been having fun with the new mysterious? It's always more mysteries. Have you been enjoying this new format?

Cristina: Yes, I guess, because it's very Strange.

Jack: It is, but it's the fact that this keeps happening.

Cristina: It's everywhere.

Jack: Yeah. So I want you to tell me and the listener, I love this because I never put the image up. I tell them I'm always gonna put it up. But nobody puts it up. None of us put it up. Nobody puts anything up. The notes go up. Nothing goes up. Nobody puts anything up. So we're gonna describe this image. You're gonna describe this image. I know exactly what this is. I had to. Yeah, but you're gonna tell me what you're saying.

Cristina: I can't tell what's in the middle. I see. It looks like grass. It's a bunch of. It's just. It's very plain, grassy looking, with a circle.

Jack: So describe the grass. What are we talking about, grass wise?

Cristina: I'm not sure. Grass green.

Jack: Yeah. Like what? Where?

Cristina: Where? I don't know where. This is in the middle of nowhere.

Jack: How is the grass distributed?

Cristina: There's a lot of lines everywhere.

Jack: Is it plains? Is it a field? Is it a golf course? Is it a.

Cristina: It could be a golf course. I don't know. But there's a circle with two lines coming out of it. And then two lines come going over that line. But in the circle, I'm not sure what's in that circle. Is it trees? Can you tell what that's.

Jack: Yeah, I know what's in there.

Cristina: Are those trees, though?

Jack: No, I'm not answering that question yet.

Cristina: Not rocks? I don't know. And the two lines that are going out of the circle, there's something, some other type of path going through it. That. Not grass. Is it a road? It might be a road. I'm not sure.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: But everything else. The lines that are in the grass don't look like road lines. Those are, like, I don't know, biker lines. Maybe someone made it with a machine. But, like, grass is still there. So it's been a while. There, the lines.

Jack: Okay. Yes.

Cristina: And that circle is not perfect. Like, it looks like it's cut up in one side of it. But I don't know if that relates to anything. Okay. And I don't know.

Jack: All right, now give me some theories.

Cristina: What do you think this is something related to UFOs?

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Because it's a circle in a field.

Jack: Interesting. So it's a field.

Cristina: Maybe, but it's very plain. So maybe it's more like a fairy thing because they like to do it in planes.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Circles and planes are fairy related.

Jack: Like what?

Cristina: Like what? Like that. I don't know.

Jack: Yeah. Like what reference? What you're talking about fairies and planes.

Cristina: Yeah. Make circles, I think. And then they usually. What's in the middle of them? I don't know. It looks like trees to me.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Are we looking at it? Far away?

Jack: Say it again.

Cristina: Is this far away? Are we far away from whatever object is in the middle of that circle?

Jack: Yes, we're very far away.

Cristina: So I can only imagine that it's trees, but there's something sticking out. A bunch of something. I guess it could be rocks. It could be one of those things where people put weird rocks, like the stone hedge. But I feel like it's still fairy related, not alien related. Especially if it's. I don't know. I don't know. There's something because, like, when it's alien related, there's nothing in the circle. It's just, whoa, a circle. And then. But because there's something in the middle that makes it also feel like it's more fairy related.

Jack: I like the pattern you're spotting here. I've never thought of this before. We have discussed many alien instances. All their things are very exact lines. There's never objects in them. That is correct. We've also discussed fairies to extensive, deep, extensive details.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And they always have something in the middle, and it's usually a circle. You're totally right. I like all the things you're pointing out here.

Cristina: So. Am I even close?

Jack: What do you think it is? Three guesses. It doesn't matter.

Cristina: Is that what they're called?

Jack: Or fairy trees. Okay, well, fairy trees are in the Isle of Man. Okay, go on.

Cristina: Okay. It's. So it could be a UFO circle. Anyway. Even if there's something there, like maybe things grew in there after a while. Anyway.

Jack: 100%. 100%. Like, what the h*** are we looking at? Right? They favor fields.

Cristina: And if it's just. If it's unrelated to either, then I don't know, a real nice, interesting gardening pattern.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: It's possible. I don't know why you'd want to talk about someone who did.

Jack: You are absolutely right about a lot of this.

Cristina: Stones.

Jack: Stonehenge.

Cristina: It was Stonehenge. That poor photo is Stonehenge.

Jack: That's photo Stonehenge. Think about everything you've spotted here that we are very informed in right now.

Cristina: So far, you can't even tell that there's stones.

Jack: Yes. That's not even the point. You spotted every. Everything that mattered about this. All the similarities, every f****** ounce of everything that mattered you saw in this image.

Cristina: It's very Bad image?

Jack: Very. It was important this. The distortion of this image mattered. I chose it intentionally because it was very small, and then expanding it made it very hard to see what was in the middle. So that you don't fixate on what was in the middle. I know how you work.

Cristina: That's so crazy, because you can't really tell. Yeah.

Jack: It looks like a blob of whatever.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But you noticed everything else that mattered about that, right?

Cristina: Those things matter, though.

Jack: Every bit of everything you spotted mattered. And a lot of these similarities are like, But the question is, how did we get here? Right.

Cristina: It's not fairies. It's fairies. The answer.

Jack: Well, let me answer the question.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: How do we get on this road to begin with?

Cristina: With the hole in America.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Or I guess even before that. If we're starting from the beginning.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: It was that lady's house. Yeah.

Jack: We're just looking for distortions in space time.

Cristina: And you think there's a distortion here? There's stories about this place.

Jack: That's exactly what the landed me here. And that's what's throwing me off. Because then you look at it and then you're like, huh? Before I even read a story, I know who showed up here. I know what they saw, potentially just based on what I'm looking at.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: Yes. Give me some guesses and I guarantee you're gonna be on the nose of what the stories relate. Just looking at the shape of that. Give me one creature. Just make it an educated guess. Think about it. Don't go out of the blue based on what you're looking at. Make it one educated guess. Just one educated guess. You're going to be right. There's enough variation that fixates on this that you won't be wrong.

Cristina: I'm not sure what you mean.

Jack: One creature. One creature.

Cristina: The. Based on what you're looking at, creature and not fairies.

Jack: Not a fairy, but a creature that 100% you think could.

Cristina: Shadow Realm creature, or you're saying anything.

Jack: Anything you'd like. What comes to mind? What would show up? Whatever you want.

Cristina: Werewolves.

Jack: 100%. Yes.

Cristina: Okay. I don't know what.

Jack: So Stonehenge seems to be among the top 10 most active places that have ever existed. When I dive into what Stonehenge is, we're gonna be like, oh.

Cristina: Now more than just like what they say of like, it's a calendar in a way.

Jack: Okay, let's go straight to that. It's a calendar in a way.

Cristina: So. Yeah, that's enough of that.

Jack: Yeah. Calendar. That is the Sort of basic narrative we get. Right. That's the accepted narrative.

Cristina: You can see the passing of the seasons on certain points or something.

Jack: The light comes in between the sort of rock formations and that it works kind of like a clock, but for months at a time. And seasons. And that's it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Just a clock for months and seasons. Pretty basic, Pretty simple.

Cristina: Yes. I mean, it's still kind of complicated because it's so ancient to be doing that, but. Yeah.

Jack: Yeah, a hundred percent. And that's really, really, really badass about it.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But then I just gotta ask some basic questions. When you think about what it looks like, what does it look like?

Cristina: What does it look like?

Jack: What? Describe what Gates. Stonehenge.

Cristina: It looks like gates. They're gates.

Jack: Tell me the complicated nature of this. This is absurd, right? Just knowing what we know in general, why is it that we see this formation that's happening here? So now we got a close up look. Describe the current image we're hovering over. Describe what Stonehenge really looks like as we see it today.

Cristina: A bunch of stones. Two stones. Two long stones going up, one stone on top. Like a gate because there's like space in between each one. How many are there? Because there's one in the middle, one on the outside. And it looks like there could have been. There's a little bit in the middle too, but that could have just been the. The ones that were in the middle broken up. So because it looks like a lot of them are no longer there.

Jack: Here's a better angle directly from on top. And to show this is gonna be.

Cristina: A perfect circle like it was once upon a time.

Jack: Mm. Mm. Yes. Yes, it was.

Cristina: Why? Why don't they want to fix that? That's so cool.

Jack: They can't touch it. No, it's ancient.

Cristina: No, they should. They should definitely. Oh, my gosh. That's also part of it.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. Because I thought they were all separate stone doors or whatever you want to call it. Man, I wish we knew what the middle part would have looked like. I'm guessing it would have been similar, but it's hard to tell now because it's. It's so. It's pretty gone. Just the outside layers more together.

Jack: Pretty interesting, right?

Cristina: Yeah. Gates.

Jack: It looks like a bunch of gates put together.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So is that the case?

Cristina: Yes. No. I don't know. Yeah.

Jack: You think it's a bunch of gates stacked together.

Cristina: But who would that be for the shadow realm?

Jack: There's observations that must be made about this in the first place.

Cristina: Like where's he located?

Jack: Fair enough. Let us go all the way to the beginning and talk some rough details. Right. First again seeking space anomalies and space time disturbances. We get here and I got here because I found a bunch of weird stories which we'll get into. But it led us to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. That's where Stonehenge is. Had you asked me where this was, I would have never in a million years known. I would have thought one of these random countries or people yodel or some s***, ya know. Okay, now make a random guess at when this was built. We're gonna start where it matters.

Cristina: Where did it start? I don't know. It has to really. It's. Sure. I'm sure it's related to the sea people somehow. But like I can't pinpoint it.

Jack: Put random year on it.

Cristina: The. The year Jesus was born.

Jack: That's the year one.

Cristina: Okay. Year one.

Jack: No, way longer ago. This is the year 3000 BC. Pretty holy s*** kind of amounts of time back. Yes, let's talk details. 72 stones fill the outer circle. In the complete version, if you fill it out and you create a design that is perfect and flawless without any stones missing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: 72 stones fill the outside. It is in fact a full circle.

Cristina: Okay. Was the inside supposed to be the same though?

Jack: 15 arcs would form out of these 72 stones. That's two up one over every time.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: 15 arcs will form the 16 sort of doorways. Like you said, they all look like gates. Yes, specifically like Shinto gates. They all have that same kind of flat top to very stable side entrances or whatever.

Cristina: This has to do with the Shadow Realm people. That's not my new guess, but. Okay, continue though, right?

Jack: Like there's something to it too specific going on here. Now, more importantly, and where my fixation rests, here where the most important. Again, why first? What the h***? Fifteen. I don't think those are games. Not the 15 on the outside. Right.

Cristina: What's in the middle?

Jack: In the middle there are five and those are not connected. The ones on the outside creating the sphere or not sphere, but circle.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Are all connected. They all share. Each one vertical shares two horizontal and that continues all the way around.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But in the middle, each one arc is formed of three parts directly. They don't connect. They are set into a sort of horseshoe formation.

Cristina: Okay, and you said. How many of them are there?

Jack: Five would complete the sort of primary inside part.

Cristina: And that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And then there's just an open space in the middle yes.

Jack: Now, do you remember what you saw in the other image I showed you? It was a circle. With what.

Cristina: The first image?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: The very first image was a circle with two lines coming out of it.

Jack: Right. Is that something those two lines, they're important. That you saw were connecting. I mean, think about what you're looking at. Here's Stonehenge in the middle. There's a giant circle surrounding Stonehenge. There's two lines shooting right out of Stonehenge. I'll shrink this. Maybe you get a better view of what's going on.

Cristina: Oh my gosh. Oh, wow. Stones. There's more gays.

Jack: Those two lines are engraved in the ground and those two lines connect directly to the river.

Cristina: What's for.

Jack: That's not the important part. It's not even that they line up and did they connect to the river. It's what they line up with. What they line up with the summer and winter solstices.

Cristina: Yeah. That's why people watch that when it happens. People just live stream.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Watch it.

Jack: Now let's think about this real quick because you know of something else that fits both the suits we're talking about right now?

Cristina: That's when the spirits are easily come out. Right. Is that it? I don't know. Close like.

Jack: Yes, close like. Do you remember something familiar directly connected the two solstices with two of them? Yes. I can give you the reminder if you need it.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But if you can remember.

Cristina: It's not that what I said. No, it's relating to the two solstice. I'm not sure.

Jack: Okay, so if you remember, a long time ago, we were talking about El Castillo created by the earth gods, which is essentially a temple where the very entry of the temple is lined up with the autumn.

Cristina: But that was also because we thought it was a gate.

Jack: It was a gate. It was a gate to the Shadow Realm.

Cristina: Exactly.

Jack: And to Mount Cuff.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: Think about the shape you saw and the fact that this one we're looking at is not lined up to autumn and spring, but rather to summer and winter. And it looks like a what?

Cristina: A pyramid?

Jack: Like a pyramid.

Cristina: Oh, I thought you were talking about the other one. Oh, that. What does that look like?

Jack: Yes, the one we're talking about right now. The giant circle surrounding Stonehenge is very different than the sort of pyramid requirements to reach the Shadow Realm. Pyramids seem to reach the Shadow Realm. We see mountains, we see pyramids. The Shadow Realm. But circles seem to be associated with what?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: You were just talking about it. What the h*** do you mean fairies?

Cristina: Fairies. Okay.

Jack: Circles and fairies. I don't know why, but the geometry says circles and fairies and pyramids.

Cristina: In the shadow realm, pyramids and the.

Jack: Shadow pyramids always either connect to the shadow room or teleportation. Okay, we don't have pyramids leading us to the fairies. Okay, but circles always have the portals that take us to the fairies.

Cristina: Mm. But it doesn't take us to the fairies.

Jack: It takes the fairies to us. Yes, but it's a way. It's a doorway.

Cristina: Yes, but only for them.

Jack: Point is that we see fairies connected with circles and we see djinn connected with pyramids and diamonds and triangles and those kinds of shapes. Okay, so it's just a random pattern. I've been noticing, tossing that in there.

Cristina: Okay, but what about the circles we were seeing. Seeing in that farm?

Jack: Which farm?

Cristina: The farm with the circles that were moving around.

Jack: Yes, that's then when the question comes into play. Right.

Cristina: Because that had nothing to do with berries.

Jack: Well, we don't know that. Think about the fact that we saw both a square in the ground.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Which, when you funnel it becomes a pyramid and a circle. Both of them were at that ranch.

Cristina: That's very strange.

Jack: Yes. It wasn't one. It was both. A circle in a triangle.

Cristina: You think, together.

Jack: The same kind of sort of indentation in the ground.

Cristina: But it's different time periods. So it wasn't like they were hanging out at the same time together or anything.

Jack: It's just.

Cristina: It's the random.

Jack: It's the best spot to do it because of the activity there.

Cristina: Yeah, but this is. This is probably 100 fairy release.

Jack: This is 100 fairy.

Cristina: Okay, now or not 100.

Jack: I wouldn't say 100 fairy.

Cristina: Because other things pop up.

Jack: Everything pops up.

Cristina: Everything.

Jack: It's.

Cristina: It's a hot spot. Like the other things. The other locations.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: We've been talking about.

Jack: Yes, but what you gotta question is then why are there so many similarities? Right. We have the lineup with the solstices, but the opposite too. Instead of autumn and spring, it's winter and summer. So the deviation, immediately something changes. Yeah, because now we're not sharing the same solstices, but we're also not sharing where we're going. Something about that alignment connects directly to either the shadow realm or the fairy Elfame. Fascinating. Just a bit of information we've uncovered.

Cristina: Interesting.

Jack: Some sort of something means that spring and autumn, Shadow, summer and winter. Elfame. I don't know how. No, I don't know what. How this connects. But that seems to be the case.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: For whatever reason, very random observation. But throwing it out there, something we know now, maybe it'll connect in the future.

Cristina: Yeah, in the future.

Jack: You know, just saying it out loud. Maybe somebody tells us something. The message like, hey, what about the. What the.

Cristina: And then it's like, oh, how did we not notice?

Jack: How do we not notice? So something about lining up does matter.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And you have to line up with the sun, the way the sun is tossing energy in your way. And how you're using the energy creates some sort of a riff.

Cristina: Yes, but the sun is just very powerful thing that everyone's figured out how to use. Besides us.

Jack: Besides us.

Cristina: I mean, we're figuring it out, but, like, we're not. Like, compared to the Egyptians in the ancient time with their pyramids, like, come on.

Jack: Yeah. No, we're definitely kind of whack. But maybe they took this long.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We don't know. Like, it's. We don't know at what point they were at what. And, like, also, all of them got cheated. They got extra. Not cheated. But they got to cheat.

Cristina: They got to cheat.

Jack: Yeah, we can't compete with that. They got.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They themselves are like, oh, yeah, they. Something helped us. Yeah, like, come on, bro. What's helping us? But then again, everybody feel like, oh, we're taking technology from the aliens.

Cristina: Yes, we are cheating too.

Jack: Then we suck.

Cristina: Then we thought, yeah, if everyone cheated.

Jack: Guys, look, let's say we're not cheating and we're doing it all on our own. Let's just. Let's take that credit. Because we have to say we're cheating. Yeah, if we gotta say we're cheating, we're bad about cheating. Come on, man. Come on, man. If we're just bad, then we're not bad. We're amazing. We're doing it on our own.

Cristina: We are really good. Because it's not us. It's these people who are good at hiding it. Like, we know there's the technology that people have that are teleportation. We know that's there. We have. We don't have it. But there's humans that do have it.

Jack: That we came up with.

Cristina: Those humans came, like, in the farm. They figured it out in the farm. Yeah, Scientists. They're humans who can do it.

Jack: Yeah. Without the question is without alien help.

Cristina: Well, with alien help by, like, they were investigating the weirdness, and that helped them.

Jack: Yeah, fair enough. That's usually how it goes. Right? It's science.

Cristina: And now they can live in space and we have no idea about it because we're not one of them.

Jack: That's f****** nuts. Right? The fact that they. Oh man. It's so nut. But this is kind of the same s***. Right? This is just way up there.

Cristina: Tech. Yes.

Jack: And then here's the thing. Here's the f****** thing. That's craziest. We've heard a thousand times that technology sufficiently enough advanced just seems like magic.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: God. Could that not be more true the more you dig deep. This just looks like lines in the freaking. But think about everything. This is a transmutation circle of sorts. That's all it is. It's channeling energy.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And that energy is lined up with the solstices. We've seen this before. El Castillo has the stairs completely lined up with the doorway in a slightly variation. Open so that it's tighter towards the door, more open towards the base. And then the walkway itself continues that expansion. Then has a little bubble and then spreads out. So it is self is in the form of a transmutation. The field that they designed around it. Transmutation.

Cristina: And the steps are weird too, aren't they? Like they're really big or something.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: All of it for humans.

Jack: Yeah. The steps are abnormally large and in odd patterns. It's like everything is designed with these sort of geometric shapes in mind. All of it.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But when it's a gate or you go somewhere that already has a shape. Someplace tall enough that already has a very triangular shape.

Cristina: Talk about a mountain.

Jack: A mountain. How would you compensate for the mountain if you wanted to make a fairy gate? Because now we can differentiate. We know what a shadow gate looks like. It's some sort of a Shinto fairy gate.

Cristina: I guess so. But like the one in the house. What did that one look like? If we can picture what the inside of the house looked like.

Jack: It was. There's. That's the most f***** problem. We have no idea which side she was inviting in. We assumed Shadow Realm.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: But it could have been either or and both. Because there was no description to anything. It was an empty room. There was just a little shrine area in the corner. And the hooks. That's it. Nothing more. No description. I have no idea what she could have been doing. But the house itself was a giant shape.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: In this same case. It's the same idea. It's a bunch of structure surrounding some kind of more important center. Like the seance room. This pattern representing itself again. And it looks too obviously like a gate here though.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But now 15 doorways. I don't think they were doorways. Maybe something else, some help channeling.

Cristina: But five doorways?

Jack: At least five doors. That brings up a problem. Why five doorways?

Cristina: So, okay, you think it should just be one doorway?

Jack: It should be three. Well, it should be two, depending on where you are. Unless it's multiple doorways, the same realms. It's not like a realm doorway as much as it is like, well, that one goes to the Shadow Realm here. That one goes to Shadow over there. That one goes to Elfame. Those two go to other parts of Earth Realm, you know, because there's five and you're already in earthrealm. Do you see? Okay, so there's five destinations. You'd only have two other realms to go to. So they aren't realm portals directly. Unless they are they, you know, more than one repetition. It could just be like Mount Kaf goes here, and this is Mount Olympus and this is Athos.

Cristina: That's if it's ferry related. It has more to do with what's on the other side. Like, they're not all coming here through the same place.

Jack: What do you mean?

Cristina: Well, the people that are living in the ferry place, if the humans there, I guess. Humans?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: They're not in. Why are they going through one gate into here? Wouldn't they go like a bunch of different places? Like, I don't know, like if you and a friend from Korea want to take a gate to, I don't know, gta. You just. You, you do it where you're at, but you still meet in the same spot.

Jack: I understand what you mean. I understand what you mean. So she's Korea, I'm here. We both go in through our gates and we're going to like, Las Vegas.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And we both just pop up in Las Vegas. But there's two different doorways. So there's the Korea doorway and there's my doorway.

Cristina: Yeah. Because I don't know what the Parry world works like, but, like, if it's.

Jack: Like that, if it's another layer, then yes. And what this is showing us is that that argument holds more water. Because why can't they just pop up? Why do you need a door? We need a door to get to you. Why do you have a you made door? You wouldn't need to make a door.

Cristina: Well, they've always needed a way in.

Jack: Which also explains the seeing of the. Because we already know that there are the fairy forts that are made by fairies, which have the grass, the trees, circles.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then one tree in the center, it's a wall. Of trees. Perfectly. Then an empty grove in the middle with one tree in the center. And all of them look identical. And then the Mad Maid fairy forts that we just craft around an empty field. And then boom, a tree shows up in the middle following the same idea.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. I don't think they need something to get.

Jack: They've always needed some sort of a path. Which means they can't just hit a button and show up.

Cristina: But whatever they. When they do make a path here, there's no way for us to use that path. Which besides the necromancers, who's figured out. But they really can't go in it either. They just.

Jack: They have another way.

Cristina: They have another way.

Jack: Yeah, but here is the thing. Think about what you just described and tell me how is that any different than a Shinto gate?

Cristina: What do you mean?

Jack: From over there, you can come over here. What happens if you walk in through a Shinto gate on this side?

Cristina: Go to Shadow?

Jack: Since when?

Cristina: Oh, not us.

Jack: No, Nobody. Nobody goes in through a Shinto gate and goes to the Shadow Room. It's a one way gate.

Cristina: It's a one way gate too. Yes, that's true. Okay.

Jack: They're both just one way gate. So you can only come from that side, this way. You can't go from this way, that side.

Cristina: Well, they may. They maybe can.

Jack: As far as we know, we can't go through it.

Cristina: Yes, but they could probably use those gates back.

Jack: Yeah, but I was only kind of answering to the fact that you said it looks like a one way gate.

Cristina: Oh, okay. So.

Jack: Yeah, I could totally. Yeah. I don't know if you want to argue your own point. Sure. Yeah. My point was.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If it is a one way gate, how is that any less one way than a Shadow Realm gate where they can only come in?

Cristina: Okay. Yeah.

Jack: You know. Yeah. It's exactly the same idea. So there's too many similarities here to ignore. Now let's break apart some of these details. Other than the size and the fact that we got five doorways, which brings up a thousand questions. I hope it's more than one destination in the same realm. Because then I'm confused about. Then what the h*** are the other three doorways? Because, okay. Elfame and Shadow. And then what were the Norse people closer to it? And it was closer to seven. They had five or seven or nine.

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: If there are two doorways that are purely different destinations and the other three are supposed to be different destinations, then. Holy. But again, it could most likely just be like Earthrealm Destination 1, Earthrealm Destination 2, and Shadow Realm Destination 1, Shadow Realm Destination 2, and Alfame. Or all elfame destinations. You know, it could just be whatever. Who knows?

Cristina: Yeah. And be impossible to know.

Jack: Yeah. The lines coming from the structure, the ones lined up with the solstice, are called the avenue.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Just giving that information if you feel it's relevant. It consists of groves and connecting lines, and they connect to the nearby river near Stonehenge. Now, where I landed here initially was looking for disturbances and things. I did find weird disturbances and things. And you dive into these reported oddities. You would find reported oddities very quickly. This is when temperatures drop suddenly in climate. You just go ahead and go into the Weather Channel, find a location just like, okay, where. Where have there been abnormal spikes that you guys have been like, huh? And then there'll be weird registrations, and you can like, oh, what year was this? Or whatever. Now, when you do that, you can find consistent spots of weird kind of activity like that. And then if you go and find. Sometimes it's nothing. 99% of the time, it's nothing. It's like, well, you're in a weird hole that you can't really tell in the map. And so wind always works this way here. And so there's an updraft that always sends all the hot air up, and then this causes all the cold air down. So it's abnormally cold here always.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And it's like, okay, yeah, that makes sense. But sometimes you're in a place where that shouldn't be happening. Like a giant empty field in the middle of nowhere. There should be no cold air just suddenly collecting different than the surrounding areas.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So when that does happen, maybe you.

Cristina: Look into it and also what's happening.

Jack: Yeah. And so you look into the fact that, like, holy. So this place is just a giant cold spot place, and it's already Stonehenge.

Cristina: That's pretty strange.

Jack: I got here through the cold, and then I'm like, holy. Really?

Cristina: No, we got there through the cold.

Jack: I got there through the cold. I wasn't like, oh, Stonehenge. How weird is this place? It's like, it's Stonehenge, and we're just weird people who. It was probably really easy to build, and we're just like, What a mystery. Except, d***. Okay. Like, everything was justified the deeper you dig. Yeah, fair enough. Everybody was right. It's weird. Weird. It's strange.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: I was hypocrite. I'm like, everybody's an idiot and easily Impressed. And we could have probably built this easily. It was like definitely. It's not about that. We could have definitely 1000% have built it. That's not the point. It's what it looks like, where it is and why. That's where it's like, oh f***. Yeah, we could have built it. But why did we build it? Why, why did we built it? So the legends that got me here initially there was a story about the devil that bought these stones from a woman.

Cristina: The devil somewhere.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That bought these stones from a woman and he bought the stones in Ireland and he brought these stones from Ireland and he took these stones and he placed them here and he was to humiliate the woman. Salisbury Plains, by the way, is the part in England where it is Salisbury Plains in England. So he puts them there, positions him and he's like, hahaha, nobody's ever gonna know why these are here. Yeah, she's never gonna, she's gonna tell everybody. Oh, he tricks me and he put them there and nobody's ever gonna believe her. And the people who do find these are never gonna know why they're here and it's gonna be ridiculous. And hahaha. That's like a real folklore story. I don't understand sort of the premise of it, but yeah, like, the devil tricked her. It's probably some sort of like money moral story. Don't give your money to the devil because going to humiliate you.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Or some like that.

Cristina: That works. Sure.

Jack: Now, dancing stones, there were some ballerinas or something. Giants. Because of the area where. And keep in mind the area we're talking about is England. So we're right next to Ireland, right next to like the northern part of Europe where we're getting like weird fringe and like we got the, the Vikings up there and crap like that. So giants. Giants.

Cristina: Do they mean giants as in giant giants?

Jack: They mean tall giants. Not as the right. Nephilim. Giants.

Cristina: Okay, just checking.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: But also Nephilim were huge too. That they could be both sizes according to some. So whatever the case might be. But giants the words.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And so that these stones were actually giant ballerinas dancing that had been petrified suddenly. And so that's what it looks like. They were in the middle of choreography.

Cristina: And then something just scared them.

Jack: Something not scared them, petrified. Turn them to stone.

Cristina: Turn them to stone. Oh, okay. Was it Medusa? Okay.

Jack: Don't know.

Cristina: What a weird story.

Jack: Another story is that they were placed there by deities or something and had Healing properties, you know, basically.

Cristina: I'm sure. Sure.

Jack: That's the obvious one, right? Yeah, I see. I like. I don't like the duh. But then I came across a sentence where I was like, okay, because. Because that. To that point, I'm like, okay, maybe there's cold spots and stone change, but.

Cristina: Like, there's nothing there.

Jack: This is stupid. Yeah. Like, it's getting pretty dumb. There's nothing. And you look at these stories deeper, you dive into any of them, and it's like, you guys are crazy. There's no basis here for anything. It doesn't connect anything. It doesn't make sense. It's nonsense. It's nonsense. It's legit folklore.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Until the title of one story, I didn't even have to jump into story yet. It said the fairy Stone, which just justified so many things I already had in my mind.

Cristina: The Fairy Stone.

Jack: Yeah. I already looked at these and I'm like, I see what this is. And I'm already like, yeah, exactly. And I'm like, this circle. Huh? I see what this is. I see a gate. I see fairies, you know?

Cristina: Yeah, I see.

Jack: Yeah, exactly. It's all there. I see weird things. And then this person's like, the Fairy Stone.

Cristina: I'm like, oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Okay, but say more interesting.

Jack: So this local legend was basically that fairies built this place, and it literally. Literally. The legend is not me adding any sauce to this, that it serves as a portal to the fairy realm and other realms.

Cristina: And other realms.

Jack: Yeah. But okay, it's. It could just be multiple destinations in one room. It doesn't say each story is a different realm.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: So.

Cristina: Yeah, I'm thinking that's exactly what we thought, though.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah, that's crazy.

Jack: Now this 100% serves the fact that people have seen the weirdest s*** here too.

Cristina: Bigfoot, I don't know. Like what?

Jack: No, like werewolves.

Cristina: Oh, yeah.

Jack: But when you see a werewolf in the middle of nowhere, you're not really seeing a werewolf. You're seeing something that kind of looks like a werewolf. You're seeing, like, a wet shudder and dingo, you know, it's the spot where you would see that, which the theory is, then something must have happened here longer ago from this point that made this the viable spot for this.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It must be so long ago that it predates any of our ability to track recorded records and that we have to find, like, tracking down the Aliasians and, like, finding out about Loi Shreds. A little tiny sliver of a mention somewhere Must exist. About that, about this spot. Something must have happened here.

Cristina: It was what it is. Before the stones.

Jack: Yes, before the stones. And we're talking that you guys have a area that seems to connect to multiple points from one place. The amount of entered. There must be something. There must be a lot of some things in shred. Just a tiny sliver. But a thousand times, because enough people would have known about however much death took place to make that work. I believe that's trackable. I believe that must be incredibly trackable. We just don't have this, the context of philosophy, the sort of thought tools to be like, if I see it here, then I can apply that logic over there. But you have five portals in one location that go to different destiny. It doesn't matter how many. They could all be on Earth. You have five portals in one destination. Bare minimum. If every doorway is a portal, how many people died to make it work?

Cristina: How many people died?

Jack: Do you see why it couldn't be? I don't think it could be. I don't think they could all be doorways. And also like, what?

Cristina: No, it couldn't be.

Jack: There must be some channeling nature to them.

Cristina: Yeah. I don't know how, but like.

Jack: Because they're also connected. There's something weird there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I don't understand the design for that.

Cristina: But it makes sense in the way that the house makes sense. Like she did so much crazy things that look like nonsense. But it made it work. We don't need to know what it is, but obviously it takes a lot of whatever.

Jack: Yes, it's random things we know about this place. It only works twice a year.

Cristina: What do you mean works?

Jack: It only works. These gates only work twice a year.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah.

Jack: During autumn, during summer solstice and during winter solstice. Yeah, so that's an interesting point. It's null and void, easy to keep track of if you have enemies on the other side. Only once a year do you post anybody to watch, you know, trade happens only once a year. Is this a hotspot? Which brings up an interesting point. It is suggested that it is also a trade center. It has resemblances to other trade centers from other cultures. So that it is a trade center of sorts. Now, if we had people from the Shadow Realm trading with people from Earth Realm. Oh, were we also trading with people from Elfame? Because if we're finding that they need gates and we are finding evidence here and there scarcely that maybe they are just another layer. They might be higher up than us, but they are still equal.

Cristina: I don't know. That doesn't make sense to me. I don't know. I always imagine that there's so much above.

Jack: Well, they wouldn't trade with us per se as much as like, volition. The Alicians do you see?

Cristina: I don't know. I don't know.

Jack: And then military action makes a lot of sense, which then takes into account that what we are interpreting as Firewalls. Yes, firewalls. But even within our own discussion, the firewalls are soldiers of sorts.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah.

Jack: And like. Well, the Alicians are a problem and they have other military. Just like in current day, for us, we have enemies and we position ourselves tactically around them.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And we're like, you move weird, we move weirder. So don't move weird. Look at where we are. Maybe that's really the move here when we. Because think about. We know the story very vividly. There starts to be a move, a push towards the Jesus project. And suddenly the people of Elfhame show up and the elves are like, okay, our job has begun. You know, as soon as Alexander begins his role. And we start seeing the motions from Jehovah and we start to see the parts in motion to kind of create Jesus, which is about 150 to 200 years. Alexander starts about 300 years back. That's the same time the way Hermes is starting to kick up his whatever, most important project.

Cristina: When do we see the fairies?

Jack: The fairies start about 300 years, which is the same point we get to Alexander. That's coinciding. That was the most important point of that episode. But it just so all happens to line up there.

Jack: Maybe it was. Oh, f***. They started to move weird. Mobilize the soldiers.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: You know, the people of Elfame started to do whatever, you know, their nuclear project has begun. Okay. Let's make sure they know where we're. That we're here. So, you know, put some elves here, put some elves there, put some elves over here and they'll know. Make sure all their people are in check so that they remember who we are.

Cristina: Yes, but not us.

Jack: Not us. The people from Elfhame. Specifically, Mab. Giving directions.

Cristina: No, I'm saying, like, they're not watching over us. The humans here, we're watching over.

Jack: They're watching the people of Elfame. Yeah, the elves are watching the people of Elfhame.

Cristina: The elves are watching the people from Elfhame.

Jack: Yeah. Trying to keep them in check. Or that was a point.

Cristina: Alfame is where they go.

Jack: I mean, my bad. The Alicians.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: My Bad. The elves are watching the Alicians.

Cristina: Yeah. Yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jack: The elves were watching the Elysians. That's what I meant to say.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. Okay, that makes sense.

Jack: So their whole purpose was that they.

Cristina: Come and watch, they sing the weird.

Jack: Stuff, and then Jesus, they see that the Elysians start the ball rolling for the Jesus Christ project. That really got out of hand to begin with for everybody.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Which, like, fair. Okay, let's give Mab some credit if the image that's building is accurate. The same way that we give Jehovah credit for telling Lucifer, like, calm the f*** down. You're gonna kill them all.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That same logic is ultimately what Mabsaw. And we're gonna say that Jehovah was so cocky, he thought he was equal the same way Lucifer did.

Cristina: Oh, right. Yeah.

Jack: Jehovah's sin is the same sin that he judged Lucifer for. I know. Just as much. But, like, d***, dude. Ma' am saw it coming, bro.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: She was trying to stop it, and now here we are. Jesus is out there. You did it. Yeah, she tried.

Cristina: And the days are coming, and he's gonna come back, and. Yeah, whatever.

Jack: She knew you'd start the apocalypse, homie. Yeah, she knew. And you're like, nah, Lucifer's gonna do it. And it's like, nah. She's like, nah, you're gonna do it.

Cristina: And he did it.

Jack: Funny enough, all the evidence tells us that she somehow ended up in the creation of everything beneath her by creating Yalda, who then created everything beneath him. So, like, that's her fault. Whatever is gonna end her universe, too, is her fault.

Cristina: And.

Jack: And somebody up there was like, don't do this. This is stupid. You're gonna kill us all. And then she did anyways, and now she's trying to control it in her.

Cristina: Creature, her creations created something. Who created something.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: That's gonna destroy it all.

Jack: Yeah. It's nobody's fault, but everybody's fault.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Right. This is ultimately what's happening.

Cristina: Turtles all the way down.

Jack: It turtles all the way down. It always turtles all the f****** way down. It's absurd. It's so absurd that we. It doesn't matter where we look, if you have the context to look. So I'm gonna give you the details that don't matter because the puzzle was too obvious. Seeing the shape from the outside.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We're too informed. We looked at it. We're like, I know what this is.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: We both saw the same f****** thing. You didn't need s*** else.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You just saw the circle in the field. You're like fairies and you're like, the gate. That's a gate. That's only a gate. And then I tell you it's 3,000 years earlier and you're like, oh, it's just a primitive version of the same thing. That one's made of stone and this one is made of poles. It's the same f****** thing. Time changed how it looked. Yeah, that's it. That means Jesus didn't invent the gate. Point number one.

Cristina: No, he was taught about the gate, I think.

Jack: By who? Because he taught a bunch of people a bunch of random s***. You're totally right.

Cristina: That's how I know about the stones in the shadow realm, man.

Jack: He has a rat in there.

Cristina: I don't. I has to be. It has. It was too, too easy. I understand he's probably like Santa Claus that he can sense things, but d***. But like day and a half easy.

Jack: A day and a half in a jumbled mess. Get the out of here now. Dude, it's too easy. He showed up on the other side and somebody's like, follow me, I'll show you. Yes, I would love to see the movie on that. That must be the most epic movie. Jesus, right? Just pops up. He just experienced the movie begins at the most horrible moment of the crucifixion. Great scene, right? Super dark, super horrible. Maybe like five minutes of it happening. Super horror. And then he dies. And then darkness. We hear crying in the background. Whatever, you know, old Israeli music or whatever is gonna kick in. And then a heartbeat. And then. And then he just like, he starts to panic. And then he opens his eyes and. Okay, now he's. He's looking around. He's looking around. Then he just sees something. A. Something's there. He doesn't know what the f*** it is. Kind of looks like a person. Kind of looks like a silhouette. He can't make out what it is. Shadowy looking, like, what. What is this ambiguous thing? And that person Sundays, we have two days. Follow me. Best intro ever.

Cristina: I don't know if the time works the same over there either.

Jack: Exactly. Oh, my God. Maybe it's less. Maybe it's more. No, it's probably more. Who knows? You're totally right. He could have been over there for a super long time.

Cristina: Yeah, we don't know.

Jack: Crazy a** adventure.

Cristina: It's just here. It was two days.

Jack: Yeah. Oh, I never thought about that. Interesting. I like that. Yeah, because it is weird over there.

Cristina: It's weird. So we don't know. And also he Got those stones. Too easy.

Jack: Too easy. Could have been forever. Had to be.

Cristina: Right now he's working with the shadow realm creatures. Like, there has to be a leader that decided this was a good idea.

Jack: Did it Safer to work with Jesus. Yeah, I don't even know. Anyways. Anyways. Going through a bunch of crap. Weirdly enough, I do find a direct mention to this in text. Weird. So in 1136 AD, a man named Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed be very ready for the following sentence. Because this is the trippiest part. This confuses the entire plot that we've devised here because what he says is too on the nose. And then it's like, oh, s***. He specifically and literally puts into writing what? Merlin did this. He did this thousands of years ago. He constructed Stonehenge. Literally, it goes. He constructs the stonehead hundreds of years prior by transporting stones collected near and in Ireland to where they rest now. Now, there's too much accurate information going on there. There's too much accurate information with the devil story.

Cristina: And because I could have been like, fairy, like, talking crap about him.

Jack: Yes. You see the painting that they immediately made, the devil now suddenly made sense because of how they like the twist stories.

Cristina: Yeah. He could have stolen those. He stole those stones from fairies.

Jack: Now, locations tells you everything you need to know. Where did the stones come from? Ireland. And where?

Cristina: I already missed it. What did you say?

Jack: The sentence specifically said shocking. Ireland and places near Ireland.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That tells us one important, important location, which is the Isle of Man.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Yeah. Where this fairy garden is, I guess. I don't know what to call it.

Jack: Necromancer built a portal. The power of a fairy portal. That's what we're seeing?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: He built a monstrously colossal, incredibly intricate, complicated portal that works to access fairy locations. I don't know. And I don't think it could access shadow realm locations because of the rule that seems to happen naturally that we're observing where all of the shadow realm connections. But our one and only fairy realm connection doesn't have a pyramid in f****** sight.

Cristina: I don't think he has the ability to travel the fairy world because as far as we know, necromancers can travel easily. Easily. But like, they're not in the ferry. They're using it somehow to travel here. Easily.

Jack: Yes. The point, there's a way that they're moving through that space.

Cristina: Yes. So then those would be his portals to probably go into other places here.

Jack: Unless those are his portals to literally go into there while he has other ways to move through again. If this turns out to be just another layer.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Then what we're thinking is a satellite could literally be him literally being there.

Cristina: In the fairy world.

Jack: In the fairy world, like necromancers are actually getting there.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: Because they're another layers or not some inaccessible other location. If they are just another physical layer to us at. And they know how to do that. And the story is a necromancer called Merlin, hundreds of years prior to the writing of the moment, according to the writing, built Stonehenge with stones stolen from fairies.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: This is kind of heavily on the nose. I could have guessed half of the story had you asked me, you know, like, that's how on point this is.

Cristina: Yeah. That's kind of crazy.

Jack: If you told me where I'd go find some fairy stones, I would instantaneously say somewhere near Ireland.

Cristina: Mmm.

Jack: It would have to be the Isle of Man or some kind of place along the coast. The end.

Cristina: Ridiculous. That's great. This is a crazy story.

Jack: This s*** is so on the nose.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So I was kind of blown away by that. And. Yeah. So look, this is another one of those scenarios where there isn't any one thing literally saying that, but all the.

Cristina: Individual parts are like, definitely that.

Jack: Like, what the f*** else could it be?

Cristina: What else could it be? I think that's it.

Jack: Yeah. It's just very old and withered and not used. Or maybe it works at this point, but people go there at the point nothing happens.

Cristina: Well, they wouldn't be able to do anything. Like it would take one of him to. To use it. Like it probably does work.

Jack: How do we know people have been there during the solstice and it does nothing.

Cristina: Why would it do something for them?

Jack: Well, it's possible this is more than just a one way gate. I don't know if it is. Maybe it is that somehow there's just. But there must be a gate that must be one way from here out to somewhere. And if you put two of those next to each other.

Cristina: But you still need to have the knowledge of necromancers.

Jack: Yeah, but so you built it and then what? You don't. You need the knowledge of a necromancer to activate it too?

Cristina: Maybe.

Jack: Fair enough. That could totally be the case. But if you look at this image, you'll notice that there's a bunch of little details that are no longer present. On top of the fact that most of the structure, the outer circle, is broken at Stonehenge.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay.

Jack: Do you see? I believe that if this is in fact the transmutation circle. We're looking at a broken transmutation circle. The reason it doesn't work is because it can't channel the energy. It's broken.

Cristina: Okay. And they're never going to fix it because they can't.

Jack: They can't fix it. If they do, then they're ruining this relic. They would have to try to replicate the design elsewhere and see if they can get its function going, which includes all of these small little details made of something called bluestone.

Cristina: What is blue stone?

Jack: It's a kind of stone.

Cristina: Where is that from? Is that from Ireland or something nearby, like those other.

Jack: All the stones are from nearby? Yeah, they're all from like Ireland and like local areas. The whole structure was made like that. But then there's a bunch of different things. Look at north barrel, look at the south barrow. There's a station stone. Station stone. It looked like it was a multi purpose device. There are many theories on what this in fact was. It's not just a calendar. As much as some people are like, oh yeah, it's some sort of energy channeling device or it's some sort of starscope or it's some sort of astrological measurement device or something like there's many. That's the point. It looks like it is all of it. Now let's end this on a very important note. All the stones that are horizontal and all the stones that are little circular ones on the outside are lined up with stars. All of them.

Cristina: You think teleportation to space then?

Jack: Teleportation. Not just the different realms. I think there's five gates. And if one would go to like Mount Ka, and if one would go to somewhere in the shadow realm that El Castillo connected to, then you have three destinations left, Right? That's one in Earth realm, one in Shadow realm. So then you say one wherever the Egyptians went to that somehow people are still connecting to space. Yeah, that's somewhere else. And one wherever the Mayans went to underground and one wherever the Alicians went to.

Cristina: No way. Maybe, I guess. I mean, it's. It's a necromancer. They can do whatever.

Jack: Do whatever. All these, these are just random suggestions, right? They could be any. You could assign any random 5. If a necromancer built this, which is.

Cristina: The accusation, which makes a little sense. I don't know.

Jack: I think that makes the most sense.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And like, then you got these five doorways. What five evened out things could we assign to those? They must go to five sort of equal places. And if it's realms, then we'd only have two, because you're already in one.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Unless there's repetition doesn't matter. And if repetition doesn't matter, we can have that many doorways, we can have every single one of those doorways could actually be one. Maybe they make total sense. You know, maybe it's like three next to each other. Like, this one goes to that part, or if that one goes to this part Earth, this one goes to that part Earth. And those four over there in a row are all the Shadow Realm. Those seven are this place. And this goes. You know.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Could easily be something like that. And in the case like that, if, let's say a person from Nordic background walked really, really far, landed in this place, and was explained that. Well, this one goes to some people who live underwater. And this one goes to some people who are really good working underground. And this one goes to some people who are really good at working in the skies. Oh, and also the people from the skies work with really good energy, and the people over here work with really great genetics and the people over there. And so you start to explain this system. And slowly but surely, this Nordic person is like, those three are up, but they're different kinds of up. That's down.

Cristina: Saying that's what made their legends.

Jack: It kind of starts to paint an interesting picture. Right.

Cristina: But how many do they have? Don't they have 7?

Jack: 5? 7 or 9?

Cristina: 5, 7 or 9. Oh.

Jack: Depending on which branch of their tradition. You pull from five, seven or nine.

Cristina: But it's impossible to tell what's the original.

Jack: Yeah. And here we have five, which is one of those.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They're just throwing, you know, spitballing the way we do. Love just so happens to fit many suits.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And I think it's 90% at least. Definitely. It's 100% a gate territory. That's not a question.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Where it goes very related is like 90% the question or the answer. Most likely.

Cristina: Most likely. I would say most likely.

Jack: That's about it. It doesn't seem that there's no. Is the first instance of gates and no associations. Like it's Auto Mountain or some s***.

Cristina: But related to Merlin, man.

Jack: That's a weird one.

Cristina: That's a weird one.

Jack: But also he seems kind of op.

Cristina: Interesting.

Jack: And this is way before whatever mess.

Cristina: He was in with author.

Jack: Yeah. This dude said, thousands of years ago, this guy made this s***. It's like, whoa, whoa, wait. How do you know Merlin that well, bro? How do you know thousands of years ago.

Cristina: Are there more Moreland stories? Because I thought author was the Merlin story.

Jack: You know what's weird? I have seen, like two or three that are allegedly taking place before. I'm like, okay, so he must be some older legend that got tangled up and turned into Merlin, right?

Cristina: Yeah, like Santa Claus.

Jack: Yeah. So if we follow that, I bet that guy's named Hermes somewhere.

Cristina: No. What if they all go back to.

Jack: Hermes where he's a student, you know?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or I could trace the line back and he's like, at the Aristotle school.

Cristina: We'll find out that they're all Hermes except for the one student, which is Jesus.

Jack: Yes, that be. That would. That would make so much sense.

Cristina: I would.

Jack: That's the most possible story. It's either a bunch of necromancers that we're slowly gonna uncover. Or two.

Cristina: Or two.

Jack: Or two. The guy who made it and guy who perfected it.

Cristina: Yeah. Oh, I don't know.

Jack: Anyways.

Cristina: So crazy.

Jack: This has been Stonehenge, people. This is what I found. All the shapes and weird. Interesting. I didn't focus on those stories as much. Again, there were stories. There were many ghost stories. The basic stories. If you guys want a quick brush up. There's a lot of stories about, you know, phantasms, cold spots. There are again, many werewolves. There are vampire stories that take place there. People visiting it and, like, passing out and having blank marks and blah, blah, blah. From, like, many years ago. Yeah, thousands of years. Not thousands, hundreds of years ago. Medieval times, specifically.

Cristina: Many years ago is fine.

Jack: Yeah, long ago. There is recurring voices. There are moving shadows. But all of this just fits the suit of a place with high disturbances.

Cristina: Yes. Any time disturbances, though? You never mentioned that.

Jack: No. So interesting enough, there doesn't seem to be any other than echoes of people. There doesn't seem people slipping in and out of time. People being there for a couple of minutes and it seeming longer or being there really long and assuming a couple of minutes. Or seeing things that should be out of time moving around them. Other than what we would classify as a ghost echo.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Which are a plethora, every variation of every version of ghosts. And then what we would call phantasms and what we would call spirits, which are most likely just gin and creatures from the chaperone. All of those. Yes.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: Time distortions. No. But based on paranormal activity in general, we have our suspected space time anomaly or disturbance, which then literally brought us to the right conclusion of something weird is going on here.

Cristina: Interesting. And then this place might relate to Merlin.

Jack: To Merlin. Of all people. It's interesting how we keep coming back to the same kind of.

Cristina: It's either him or Hermes. And if they're the same, that'd be funny.

Jack: That'd be funny. More names for the same guy. He just keeps doing it. Which would explain why Jesus did the same thing. And then it brings up an interesting point. That was loi training to be the same because there seems to be many people who took that name. Or is it just last name?

Cristina: I don't know. No, I think it's. No, I don't know. I don't know anymore. It might all be one person. I don't know. That's complicated.

Jack: Only one person has ever existed.

Cristina: It's three people. No, it's one person. I don't know.

Jack: I don't know. Anyways, if you guys have any information, hit us up on our socials and tell us what you discover on your searches to better information and understanding. And you can do that on all our socials at just convopod, on TikTok, on X, on Facebook, not on YouTube, but Instagram.

Cristina: And. Yeah. Whoa. That's crazy. I mean, they were, like, doing it slowly.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: They just got tired of it.

Jack: Yeah. They slowly were like, let's not take one at a time.

Cristina: Take the whole thing. That's so wild. I took that so long. But. Okay, well, remember to subscribe, rate, and review the show.

Jack: Yes. And Word of God mouth, it's very important to tell people that we're getting to the bottom and grounding the world's most absurd and baffling ideals.

Cristina: Very baffling.

Jack: Very.

Cristina: This has been the Rambling podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.

Jack: By. Okay, Random thing we just saw and noticed and thought about right as we ended.

Cristina: How we didn't notice. We were talking about it. We were so close to it. The. What is it? The Merlin gates and Jesus's Shinto gates. We're wondering who taught Jesus all of.

Jack: Everything, especially how he gets these gates.

Cristina: How he got these gates, how did Jesus do it?

Jack: And then we see that the Shinto gates are an identical design to Merlin's gates used at Stonehenge. Just a more primitive version at stonehenge, but about 3,000 years older.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Shock. I wonder who taught Jesus.

Cristina: Huh? Huh?

Jack: Just tossing that at the end. Anyways, thanks for listening.

Cristina: Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. The podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by great dots.info art by Zero Lupo, and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 228: The Wheel of Fame 2

The duo continues ranking celebrities from all walks of life in an attempt to better understand who are the most famous people on Earth and why.

Topics Discussed:

  • Describing Fame
  • Global Fame
  • Local Fame
  • Tier List
  • Wheel of Fame
  • Random Survey Fact
  • Top Ranking

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+Transcript

Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And this is a show where we discuss humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas and spin. Specifically, the idea we're discussing today is a continuation of an idea we were discussing last week, which was a continuation of a conversation that happened the previous week, which is we're discussing not celebrities based on how successful they are or what they've done or if, like, they're good people or anything, just purely ranking them on a tier list based on.

Cristina: How well they're known.

Jack: How well they are known?

Cristina: I think so, yes.

Jack: And do we have the previous. So we can just run down where we were last week and where we are? I guess we would proceed from there to expand with everybody we couldn't get to because there was a lot of people from both of our individual lists. So we're gonna go first, I guess scroll down and we're gonna start down here. And the D tier celebrities, these are usually local celebrities or celebrities known only through a niche group. So people know them because of a specific thing they do or a region they live in or something along those lines. Britney Spears was directed at very teenage girls. Jay Z is very black culture. Beyonce is very women empowerment. These very specific ideas, these are broad people who are known sometimes even globally, but they're still known by specific. Like, you find somebody who. Who has no idea who Beyonce is. That's easy. You find somebody who doesn't know who Beyonce is. There's a bunch of really, really young people and really, really elder people who have no clue who she is. Mel Gibson is the same idea with the younger crowd. Alex Gray is not very specific. You have to, like, psychedelic art at the end. Tiger woods by people who love news scandals. Or golf. Golf. And Machine Gun Kelly by anybody who listens to Eminem, which isn't even. Like, they don't even really know him beyond the battle, a lot of these people. And by people in his, like, hometown or where he lives locally or whatever. And that's all just D tier.

Cristina: And there's the C. Yeah.

Jack: So far in C tier, we have Oprah Winfrey, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp, and Michael Jordan. This tier, on average, seems to be people who are known within a country very, very, very well.

Cristina: But outside of it.

Jack: Outside of it, very little. Yeah, maybe pockets here and there, but not too much. But then in B tier, we have people who are known by many different people around the world. Yes, but niche in the way that the D tier was for regions or for the craft that the individual does. So that's the same idea, but at a bigger scale. Globally instead of within just a small area is a person who's known globally in mass, but only by people specifically into this thing. But all those people. Like there's a lot of people specifically into that thing. And that includes Hideo Kojima, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen king, Steve Jobs, J.K. rowling, J.R.R. tolkien, Stephen Hawking, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Jackie Chan, Will Smith, Greta Thunberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Snoop Dogg, Dave Chappelle, Banksy, Bill Gates, Alan Watts.

Cristina: Why is Jackie Chan so low, though? Remind me of the. Of A and B.

Jack: So I guess the real beginning is at S. When you started S. You're known almost by everybody on planet Earth, regardless of what position you land on. Also got statistics. Iran surveys across people I know to add information.

Cristina: Yes. What.

Jack: But we'll get to it.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But the.

Cristina: A tier, B tier, C tier.

Jack: The S tier is global recognition almost by everyone. Then A tier is global recognition, but by majority. So just like over most people on Earth know who you are.

Cristina: And you don't think Jackie Chan fits that?

Jack: I don't think Jackie Chan fits that. I think Jackie Chan is probably really, really huge in the United States and really, really huge in China. I don't. He's huge in like India, maybe, or huge in like Russia.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: You know, but like Russians still know who the queen is.

Cristina: That would be impossible.

Jack: You know, like this. That's the. The types of leaps and bounds that are happening because at this high end is crazy. Because then B is known really well in certain locations and then around the world, some. But more than one location. Like several countries. Like Jackie Chan. Two, three, four countries. Yeah, exactly. Huge in certain locations and then unknown entirely in other places. Unlike S tier, where people just kind of know you anywhere. Your job is to be known, essentially, if you're S tier. So moving up to A tier, we have bts, the band, which is astounding because they're so mega huge across the world. There's still a bunch of people who don't know who they are, but we're talking like maybe upwards of 51% of the Earth's population.

Cristina: Like, you've probably heard of them. Even if you never heard them, You've.

Jack: Probably heard of them and know what they do without any other information. Yeah, like for a fact. You know, and. Right. This is one of the rules of what we're discussing. It's about how much. How well known you are at all. So we're talking the magnitude of everyone knows exactly who you are to that same person. Having some trickled people who barely know but still have heard the name or know what you look like. Roughly.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's all still part of the theme. That's you still having reached.

Cristina: Then we have what?

Jack: Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Jackson. Huge colossal entities known globally.

Cristina: How do we know Michael Jackson was known globally?

Jack: Michael Jackson was imitated in every country.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And then finally the names that cannot be avoided. It seems that everyone on earth knows who these people are. Hitler, Barack Obama, Pope Francis, Albert Einstein, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin.

Cristina: Interest. Mostly politicians.

Jack: There's a lot of leaders in there.

Cristina: And just one scientist and one religious dude. The rest are politicians.

Jack: Yes. One scientist and one religious dude. Yeah, I guess so. Everybody else is a politician, including Hitler.

Cristina: Yeah. He's just made to seem like some kind of other thing. Other thing? Like some weird super villain.

Jack: Yeah. I mean, let's be real. I know, but he was literally a super villain.

Cristina: Yes, but what he really, really was was a human. Was a politician. Yeah. His job.

Jack: Oh yeah. His job was just how you do politics.

Cristina: Yeah. Like Vladimir Putin.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: They're into politics, man.

Jack: Politics.

Cristina: They're just controlling.

Jack: Politics leads to war. That's what we've learned. Politics lead to war. Anyways, we have compose this big list that we have so far out of both mine and your list that we made separately. And we're just running down the names on both of our lists and this is as far as we've gotten. So we're gonna actually continue ranking the remaining names that we have and.

Cristina: Are you ready?

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Is it gonna be Eminem?

Jack: Eminem. I think Eminem is like a B.

Cristina: Like a B. Like a B.

Jack: Right. I think he's really well known the United States and maybe some select countries here and there, but also not by everybody in those places. There's a s*** ton of people who don't listen to Eminem. There's a crazy. He has. He has the largest fan base, but it doesn't mean anything in the world of music where, you know, like elder people may not know who the h*** you are. Really young kids have no idea who you are.

Cristina: We don't think he belongs in the sea. What's. Because they're both very similar.

Jack: No, because sea is just one country.

Cristina: But with some like a little bit everywhere though.

Jack: Yeah. Very small amounts. I think Eminem is huge in select Countries, but in a niche kind of way. Not by everybody in those countries. So all of the people from this age to that age who were into this kind of culture in mainly Western countries like that checks out.

Cristina: I wish I knew.

Jack: Right, that makes sense.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That would be my argument. And I would say that he is B because of that he is B. It's probably huge in Australia.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know.

Cristina: Yeah. I wish he was an A or C just to move people there. But whatever. He is B.

Jack: There's a lot of B going on because they're B in different ways.

Cristina: Very different ways.

Jack: Yeah. That's the biggest problem they're all about is famous.

Cristina: Next up is Shigeru. He was on my list. I'm not sure.

Jack: Okay. This is complicated because people kind of just know what he does. We know who he is and gamers on average will at least have heard of him. But he isn't the most known human. Weirdly enough. I actually think Hideo Kojima is more well known than Miyamoto Moto's kind of only known among gamers.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Think about it. Kojima is a mega celebrity to your favorite. To Earth's favorite directors.

Cristina: But I feel like the average person has. Is more likely to play. Have played one of his games over.

Jack: Yes. But they don't know who Kojima is. He has no fame.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's the argument.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Yeah, he has no fame. It doesn't matter.

Cristina: Crap. He's a C. He's pretty low.

Jack: Yeah. He's known very huge in his country.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: No, he's like a B.

Cristina: Like a B.

Jack: He's known really big in his country. Really big in gaming.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And really big in. I guess the United States is pretty huge. But no, not in any kind of. No. No, I guess not. So I guess really it is just one country and a little elsewhere. You are right. He is a C because he's a super mega hero.

Cristina: In Japan he is a hero.

Jack: A hero. And in gaming.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: He's a huge influential figure. The creator of Nintendo.

Cristina: But he's been downgraded.

Jack: No, he's still the creator of Nintendo. Time doesn't go backwards.

Cristina: No, I mean in letters.

Jack: Oh.

Cristina: We play from Beats.

Jack: Oh yeah. Next up is the Queen or Queen Elizabeth ii. Well, that's an obvious one, I think. Yeah. I think if we were to like really focus on this list afterwards and I want to focus on this S tier later.

Cristina: I'll put them in order.

Jack: Not just order. Yes. Oh, God. I didn't think about that. We're definitely gonna do that we're. Put them in order. And also I want to see if it's possible that there's an S for people who are kind of too well known. And I do believe that the Queen and the Pope fall in there and probably Hitler and then the rest of these people might have some more leeway, but they don't. I don't think they fall in S. So if anything, these are the people on top of S. Yeah.

Cristina: The Pope, Queen, and Hitler. I guess so.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: So Queen Elizabeth in S tier, we agree.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah. Of course.

Jack: Actually have some facts about specifically that. What the Queen and some other interesting figures.

Cristina: Okay. Next up is.

Jack: Leonardo DiCaprio. I think probably just the United States.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: And like, probably not even around the world like that.

Cristina: So you're thinking D or.

Jack: Yeah, I'm thinking C. C, yes.

Cristina: It feels right.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: I think C. That makes sense. Yeah.

Jack: C works for me.

Cristina: Taylor Swift.

Jack: Taylor Swift. Do you have Taylor Swift on your list?

Cristina: Probably, because she's well known.

Jack: But is she? That's my question. Is she, like, global?

Cristina: I'm not sure if she's. I know people because of country over her.

Jack: Yeah, it's real American.

Cristina: But. But all her ticket sales are out, I think, like, globally they're out. Like, people can't buy her tickets. They can't see her because everyone's fighting to see her.

Jack: Yeah, but it's that effect of you're known probably within our country and your niche thing.

Cristina: Anything. Other countries are just doing it because.

Jack: No, I think other countries are doing it. Not the. She's not known in those countries. Like, if you went to China and entered a random five households and you just asked any random adult in the household who Taylor Swift is, do they know?

Cristina: They.

Jack: Probably not. That's an easy test on how well known she is. Like, she's not known around the world. She's known amongst teenage girls who like her music a lot.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And in the United States because we toss her name around a lot.

Cristina: Okay, that's very D. Okay, she's D.

Jack: Unless you got a better argument. I'm not trying to. No, I don't think she's steamroll you. Plato.

Cristina: How do you spell Plato?

Jack: Plato. You spell Plato the same way you spell Plato. Okay, so his name is plate.

Cristina: So then he's very famous. His name is super Recog him. Huh? Okay, his name doesn't count.

Jack: They don't think of him when they say his name. You know.

Cristina: That would be. So. Okay, that doesn't count.

Jack: But Plato. That's an interesting One, I don't know if this European philosophic development era of the period, whatever the era of enlightenment is it called, that that influenced too much of Eastern culture. I think it was a very Western thing that was happening there. So my question is then, even if this is a huge number of people, it's taught in many schools. Is A. Primarily.

Cristina: I was gonna say he's taught in.

Jack: School or Western countries and so it's known among there. So it's probably an A, right? Like, I definitely think he's more of an A, I think well known in many countries, but not every country. In fact, there's some countries who've never heard of this guy. And it's a huge number of them, but like really, really, really well known in Western society.

Cristina: So B, I think A, A, So A. Yeah, I think A, I don't.

Jack: Think he's like, he's known globally, but there's also huge pockets of places where he's not known.

Cristina: Interesting. Yeah. If he's known by like half the world.

Jack: Yeah, exactly. You know, like, it gets exaggerated.

Cristina: Yeah. It's not the whole world, but it's close enough. Closer than a lot of people in this list is going to get to.

Jack: Yeah, exactly, exactly. It should be thinned out towards the top. Definitely. William Shakespeare. Here's an interesting one because then our question should be how do we perceive William Shakespeare? Do we perceive him to be a global figure or we. Do we perceive him to be another Western culture idol? Right?

Cristina: Yes, I think so. I think Western culture item you said.

Jack: I think that would make him an A. But then my question is, does the east teach about William Shakespeare?

Cristina: Right.

Jack: That's interesting.

Cristina: Not this, like, even if they know, they probably. It's probably not the same. They probably don't have classes of just his books.

Jack: Yeah, fair enough.

Cristina: Crazy.

Jack: They have their own history that they're teaching in the same way.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So fair enough. We're talking that this man is another global. But not everyone.

Cristina: Yes. Abe, baby.

Jack: Yes. That's not everyone. Everyone. Which is definitely where S lands. Nice. Making some progress in here. I can't wait to disclose the dope information.

Cristina: You can cut this list short.

Jack: If he wants to talk about Muhammad Ali.

Cristina: Yeah, he's pretty famous.

Jack: Was he global? I think it was.

Cristina: I think at the time he was.

Jack: It could have been because every country has like their big prized boxer guy or at least at that time they would go at it.

Cristina: So I think. But if we're talking about currently, does that matter?

Jack: Doesn't necessarily have to be. Yeah. We know his name and at his time. Where did he land? Because that's where the history will continue to roll forward from.

Cristina: From.

Jack: And I believe that perhaps he was in a situation where he was in fact known globally as a household name. Even if people did not know. You heard of Muhammad Ali? Everybody's heard of Muhammad Ali.

Cristina: So you think he's a. I think he's a. I like that. I think so.

Jack: I think. Yeah. I think he's. His name is ginormous. It's absolutely bonkers. Start using that. Bonkers. Salvador Dali. I think that's like Alex Gray. It's down there.

Cristina: Yeah. I was going to say yes. I wish more people knew his name.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, I do too. But it's. It's not. It's not one of those situations.

Cristina: So he is. Oh, he is D tier then.

Jack: Yeah. Because he's kind of real specifically known.

Cristina: In the art world.

Jack: Like a lot. Yeah. A lot of people have no idea who Sarbal. That Italy is.

Cristina: They do not know we're in the art history world. You would know him, I guess.

Jack: Pablo Picasso, another painter. Yes. Probably the second most famous painter. Well, the most famous painter that doesn't have the most famous painting because da Vinci made DaVinci. Leonardo da Vinci. Yeah. He's up here because he made the Mona Lisa.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Yeah. What did Pablo do?

Jack: He just made weird abstract figure art.

Cristina: I feel like he goes with Salvador Dali.

Jack: Yeah, he's. I know. I think he's way more known than Salvador Dali. He. This is a force in art.

Cristina: Of course. He changed the art world.

Jack: He changed the art world and perception of it. He's definitely like a C. A C? I think a C. He might even be. I think he's. Yeah, I think he's a B.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I think he's well known around the world in pockets, but I think it's global.

Cristina: Pockets, but it's global. I'm thinking about it. Does he send Salvador Dali?

Jack: Salvador Dali is way less known than Picasso. Way less known.

Cristina: Okay. I'm gonna put him in B.

Jack: You don't agree? You think C?

Cristina: No, I just. He does feel like he should be higher than some.

Jack: Yeah. Because it's fame, not quality. Quality would put Dali over Picasso for me. Darren Brown. I think this is almost an unheard of human.

Cristina: Yes. Who is he? Is he a magician?

Jack: No, he's a hypnotist.

Cristina: Yes, close enough. I know his name, but. No, I don't know him. I know him. I've seen stuff. But he's D. Like, for sure.

Jack: Yeah. Darren Brown in D class. Darren Brown in D. In the D.

Cristina: Almost done here.

Jack: Mark Zuckerberg.

Cristina: He is well known in America.

Jack: I think he's well known in America. I don't know how well known he is everywhere else.

Cristina: The world knows about his product, though.

Jack: Yeah. They don't know about him.

Cristina: No. Is he a C?

Jack: I think that would make him a C. Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. Because he's very well known here.

Jack: Yes. But I think kind of only here.

Cristina: Right. Is it very similar.

Jack: Elon Musk. I think globally. I think Elon Musk is globally well known. I do not think S class. I think A.

Cristina: A class. A class. B class.

Jack: Yeah. Because there's people who might not know his name or who he is, but I think it's like, like every other person knows who Elon Musk is, at least by name. Yeah.

Cristina: And might not be sure what he does because he does so many things. They might have heard at least one of the things.

Jack: One of the things. Everybody might know him for a different reason.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But everybody has no knows of him, basically. And I think that makes him an.

Cristina: A. I think that makes him an A too. Tony, the most famous skateboarder.

Jack: Yeah. A D class.

Cristina: A D class.

Jack: Yeah. I think he's known in. Throughout the entire country. Maybe even a C class. I think he might be. Because skaters around the world, skating is huge.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And the skaters definitely know about him.

Cristina: So people who don't know about anything about skating or skaters know his name, at least in America. I don't know the world, but.

Jack: Yeah. So people who are unrelated still know his name.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then skaters outside. So he's definitely, at bare minimum a C class. D.C.

Cristina: I think he's.

Jack: No, he's a B. Known in the country and throughout the world in small pockets.

Cristina: In small pockets. Okay. Yeah. I don't think.

Jack: Yeah. Wow.

Cristina: Do you love him? Is he your favorite?

Jack: I don't mind. Tony Hawk, he's fine. But now we're running out of names here. Fascinating. And then we will, you know, throw our own out there. Serena Williams. I don't think a lot of people know who she is. She's kind of. Okay. Known in this country and by people who watch tennis and by people who watch Senna's.

Cristina: That is A.

Jack: And I suppose in the countries where people love tennis, she might be well known throughout those countries, even if they don't like tennis.

Cristina: How high is tennis from other sports also like low.

Jack: Low, low.

Cristina: Okay. Because like, if she was a soccer player, I guess if she was a Male soccer player.

Jack: Global wouldn't be small pockets. Global would be.

Cristina: Man. Okay, that's some. After the list, I guess we'll come up with a soccer player that needs to be on this list, though, because obviously.

Jack: Obviously messy.

Cristina: Okay. Messy. Do you want to put him on the list? No, let's first do her.

Jack: Got you. Before she goes, Serena Williams, I think C class. She's known with in the country very well.

Cristina: She's a celebrity. William.

Jack: Sister.

Cristina: Famous. But now we brought up someone that's not on the chart. He deserves to be here somewhere. Messi.

Jack: I think Messi is an A class celebrity.

Cristina: A class.

Jack: I think his fame is a. What do you think?

Cristina: I think. Because I know soccer is a huge deal.

Jack: Yeah. And he is huge in soccer, and.

Cristina: He'S a huge deal in soccer. Huge.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: I think Kim Kardashian. So just put her in the D's.

Jack: Well, I don't know. I don't know how famous she is.

Cristina: You know her name?

Jack: I know her name.

Cristina: How many people you think don't know her name?

Jack: I think everybody in the United States knows her name. C. And maybe some people in other countries of the western culture.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. I think so, too. Yes.

Jack: Which I guess would move her up to ab. There's a lot of bees.

Cristina: There is a lot of bees. Shocking.

Jack: Yeah. Because it's the. The. There has to be an area that's gonna have most people in it. And then there's lower levels and higher levels that are thinner in people representing that. Todd Howard. Definitely, definitely a D. He is only specifically known by gamers and only specific.

Cristina: Gamers and hated by spec gamers. I mean, even gamers who don't know what happened know he's hated a bit.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: I think they know that stuff. Oh, my gosh. This wheel.

Jack: Lewis Hamilton.

Cristina: Pig minds. He is, I feel like, globally or maybe just people who are into the sport.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: And the sport goes around the world, so.

Jack: Well, this is an interesting point. I know a lot of people who know Lewis Hamilton's name and have no idea what he's ever done. It happens all the time. I say I like F1 and I hear Lewis Hamilton. Right. It's the only name they know.

Cristina: Exactly. And like, in certain countries, they're huge fans of his.

Jack: Yeah, no, he's an eight. He's eight here, dude. He's just casually known.

Cristina: He is. I bet he is. That's why I picked him. Like, come on. Yeah.

Jack: He's the Messi of F1.

Cristina: F1. Yeah. And I guess we don't have to spin the wheel for the last one, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

Jack: No.

Cristina: Why? How dare you spoil it again?

Jack: So many niche people. Yes, he's very niche. Only by gamers. Specific gamers.

Cristina: I know. I picked that up. Wait, did I pick a lot of game guys? Did you pick some? I have no idea.

Jack: No, I don't think I picked a single one.

Cristina: Oh, and he belongs then. Indeed.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: You think his show didn't help at all?

Jack: Still have no idea who that man is.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And I. I'm pretty sure they'll continue to not know who that man is.

Cristina: That is that list.

Jack: Yes. So additional names, famous people. So I'll give you my facts, and if you think of people throughout the process, we'll add them to our tier list.

Cristina: Your facts bring up other people or something.

Jack: There's two things I want to do. I want to. First. I guess not. First we're going to choose which one of these things to do. I can talk about the data I mined, or we can rank S tier numerically.

Cristina: The S tier has to be saved.

Jack: For last to rank it numerically.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Fair enough. Okay.

Cristina: People might pop up for it.

Jack: Oh, I see. I somehow doubt that, but yes, I see what you mean. Okay. So interesting facts that I was discovering while talking about some of these people. I've asked about 13, 14 different countries, individuals, people I know from different countries about some of the people on this list.

Cristina: Awesome.

Jack: And a pattern emerged immediately. So, first of all, everyone knows if you say Queen Elizabeth.

Cristina: Okay. So she deserves to be an S. Yes.

Jack: They just know who that is. Yeah. You didn't have to say Elizabeth. As you say Elizabeth ii, specifically. That way, if you say Elizabeth ii, I did not say Queen Elizabeth. If you say Elizabeth ii, they know who that is.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They know that is a Queen of England. And if you ask who is the Queen of England, Most people for. Actually, no. The question is, who leads England? Almost everybody responds with the Queen. They know of the Queen, even if they don't even know her f****** name, though she's not leading England when she was leading. They know that this is how much she's known. This is they. Even after death, she's no longer being discussed.

Cristina: She's still.

Jack: They still know. Don't. Don't always know about the Queen.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: There's one country that did not land in this. And I focus on this country continuing to ask this and other questions every time this pattern arose. And the. This is the United States. They have no idea. They have no idea. If you say Elizabeth ii. So many people have no idea. And if you say, if you ask who's the queen? Some people have an idea who's the leader. So many people have no idea. In fact, they actually think. Americans think there, there's always been a king. What a lot of them do.

Cristina: Do we have to draw for then?

Jack: No, no, no. It's just in the United States, that's okay. Only in this country, only the people who I asked, who are born and raised here, clue of the existence of the Queen. But somehow even seeing her in the news whooshes right over their head.

Cristina: But she's not as known as I thought.

Jack: No, she is.

Cristina: She is to everyone except in the United States.

Jack: It's just specifically under educated people in the United States. That's all it really is. But even undereducated people in other countries are so like, yeah, we know. That's all it is. It's not that she's not crazy. Known as the United States seems to be quite handicapped.

Cristina: Did you ask them about random other people just to see if they knew?

Jack: Yes. And most things stayed very consistent. That seemed to be the biggest discrepancy that like they. There's just this lady never existed in their reality. Americans don't believe in the Queen. It never happened in their universe. They've never heard of this. This is an afterthought. Well, but for Barack Obama and Donald Trump, kind of known globally. Anybody asked knows exactly who they are. Vladimir Putin, everybody knew exactly who that was. Albert Einstein, everybody knew exactly who that was.

Cristina: I wasn't sure about him, but yeah.

Jack: Pope Francis, everybody knew who that was. Actually, most of them, most of my personal contacts don't even believe in religion. And when asked, who is the Pope, most of them can name Francis. Okay, that's interesting. I did not. I don't know how they just like his name is more famous than the queens.

Cristina: That's crazy.

Jack: Yes, at least in. Well, again, this is just in the United States.

Cristina: Yes, but people from another country that happen to be in the United States. Are you asking people?

Jack: No, I'm asking people I know from around the world.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: And everybody seems to know who the Queen is. Everybody seems to know who poop is. Just the Americans don't believe in the Queen and only a few of them.

Cristina: Okay, but those Americans know the Pope.

Jack: Yeah, for sure. Then I, unrelated to any of this, got sucked into a rabbit hole of asking more questions to a lot of these same friends of mine, some of which were very basic questions that I was curious about because I've seen YouTube videos about this.

Cristina: What?

Jack: And so I asked all of these questions. Please don't Google. Just answer with what you know.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And first one is how many states there are in your country. And a lot of the time, it looks like those videos are bullshit and, like, you know, they're specifically plucking random dumb people. It's kind of shocking how many people within the United States have no idea how many states there are.

Cristina: Stop lying.

Jack: I swear, it is weird how. I don't know how this. Like, you must have really not been paying attention to the most basic lessons in school.

Cristina: Were they kidding, dude?

Jack: No. I asked straight questions, and we were like, give me honest answers. Like, this is a real moment. And, like, consistently, I got 48. But it's like, how do you. Like, you had to subtract from 50 to get there, bro. I don't understand. You had to because you were never taught 48.

Cristina: That are connected. Yeah, but that.

Jack: That doesn't change the fact that they must have heard 51st in order to subtract 2.

Cristina: I know. I don't know. It's so weird. It's weird.

Jack: Yeah, it's very strange.

Cristina: No one said 51.

Jack: Yes, I heard 51 as well. I heard 51. People believe Puerto Rico is already a state. Of course, Anyone who said 51, I asked that question too, and they said Puerto Rico. Every single one of them.

Cristina: But do you know anyone that went higher or lower than those two numbers?

Jack: It was exactly 51 and 48 that I heard. And out of about 13 or 14 people, I'm not really sure the exact number, about half of them were giving these answers, and the other half knew.

Cristina: And it's like, whoa, which half were the Americans?

Jack: I focus entirely on the Americans for these people.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Because I thought for the queen, though, you were asking.

Jack: I was asking a bunch of different people from different countries. There were about 13 or 14 different countries, but many people from all these countries.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: I just happen to know people within different groups.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And then I asked, okay, I know six or seven Koreans. Let me ask all these Koreans in question. And I know two Japanese people. Let me ask them the same question. And I know people from England. Let me ask them the same question.

Cristina: You ask them about how many states are in America?

Jack: No, only the Americans got asked these questions.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And the Americans, on average, half of them did not know.

Cristina: What other questions did you ask?

Jack: It was mainly just plucking at that. I thought that was interesting that they did not know who the queen was. And I Thought it was very interesting that they had no clue about how.

Cristina: Much states there are.

Jack: How many states they have.

Cristina: That is so weird. Yeah, I gotta ask people that. I would just assume that they would know, though. That's so weird.

Jack: Oh, crap. Yes. And they cannot name back more than about four presidents.

Cristina: Okay. I probably can't do that either. I don't know. I know president's names, but I can't tell you. Yeah, yeah, it would be random.

Jack: Yeah. Like you don't even. Could you at least identify their numbers without knowing.

Cristina: What do you mean their number?

Jack: Like what number of president they were? No, the obvious one is Lincoln. You don't know what number Lincoln was. Everybody knows he was 13.

Cristina: I don't know that. I don't know. I know Lincoln. I know he had a tall hat and something about fake teeth and a fat wife.

Jack: I bet his hat was super real. How famous is Lincoln?

Cristina: Abraham Lincoln In America or the world?

Jack: In the tier list.

Cristina: Oh, in our tier list. I don't think we put him there. Unless you want to put him there.

Jack: That's why I'm saying, oh, he has.

Cristina: To be a C. You think he's.

Jack: Only famous within our country? Probably, right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, at most he would be very famous in African countries because of being a guy who freed the slaves in America.

Cristina: Why would they care?

Jack: I'm saying that that would be the. At most, that would be the closest connection. Oh, to say he's more famous. Trying to make a case for, like, is this possible?

Cristina: Yeah, that feels very random.

Jack: Well, no, I'm saying if they felt connected. I know that a lot of African countries do not like American black people. That's very common sentiment. Or black on black racism.

Cristina: Is it just. Is it racism?

Jack: Yeah, it kind of is. They don't like American. Black people in a lot of African.

Cristina: Countries don't just like Americans. How can you tell?

Jack: It's discussed by them.

Cristina: They say specifically.

Jack: Oh, not specifically, but like, if you were to ask a black person from the United States who's visited those countries and they told you the way that they are kind of treated and look, that then you would be like, okay, I'm not accepted here. You guys don't think I'm one of you. I am just some s*** from over there.

Cristina: But wouldn't they do that to anyone who showed up? I don't know.

Jack: No, not necessarily. Why? There's partnered with so many people from around the world in so many of the countries in Africa, including South Africa, which is notorious for connecting with the Western world. So Heftily. So why would they do that to everybody at random? It's really a thing about African blacks not liking American blacks. But that's totally outside the point. Who else can we think about who is reasonably famous? Either somebody in crazy height of fame and then mainly like. I think musicians seem to break out pretty heftily. Like Prince is probably really well known. I think mainly more known in the United States.

Cristina: Yes, that's the problem with a lot of it is that you just know the famous people in your local area.

Jack: Yeah, we're mainly gonna think about people from the United States.

Cristina: How do we think of S class tier?

Jack: Well, S class T, that's really what we should be doing. We should be trying to fill that out. But who is not Jesus? There you go. Oh, those are easy figures. If Jesus is real.

Cristina: If Jesus. So we are putting him there because I did say in the last episode that I was thinking of Jesus, but then I wasn't sure.

Jack: Well, the idea is we don't know. So we'll put him there because we don't actually know. Who else is there? The Dalai Lama. Global famous people. Leaders of countries, politicians, inventors. Is Edison famous everywhere?

Cristina: No.

Jack: Isn't Thomas Edison, the guy who made the light bulb is famous everywhere?

Cristina: I don't know. A class famous?

Jack: I think. Yeah, he's not as class. I think he's a class Thomas Edison. D***, man. His classes are hard. umm. Countries. No, but I'm tired of putting presidents.

Cristina: No leaders.

Jack: No more leaders. That's obvious. Yes, they're known by the world.

Cristina: Yeah, man. I had someone and I lost it. I lost it.

Jack: How big is Amazon globally? Do people just know Steve Jobs?

Cristina: Steve Jobs, Amazon?

Jack: Yeah. I actually don't think that Amazon is this mega thing in the whole global sphere.

Cristina: Amazon is not Steve Jobs.

Jack: I am not Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos.

Cristina: I don't think he's known worldwide.

Jack: Yeah, I don't think he's all he's known too well. I would argue he's like a B or a C. I'm gonna put him in C. That checks out. None. Primarily in the United States.

Cristina: Did we put Steve Jobs?

Jack: He's somewhere in there, but. Okay, screw all of this. Let's try to put these people in order now.

Cristina: Just the S class.

Jack: Just the S class. No, just the S class. We're gonna put this S class in order. And I think probably the most famous person on this entire list, weirdly enough, is either Jesus. Jesus or Hitler or the Pope.

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: I think it's Between Jesus or Hitler. I think that's where, like, the most. Like, everybody's heard of.

Cristina: People were forced to learn Jesus more than Hitler. Like, we teach about, like. I don't know, we teach.

Jack: We kind of. In a lot of the world, we force both.

Cristina: It's a little different with Jesus.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: I don't, like.

Jack: Like, it's even taught in the household. Yeah, it's in many households.

Cristina: So I'm gonna put Jesus on.

Jack: Yeah, I think Jesus is probably the most famous.

Cristina: Then Hitler can be second place. Unless you think the Queen is.

Jack: No, I think Hitler comes next. And then I think there's an interesting problem between Pope Francis and Queen Elizabeth ii. I think they're about as famous. I actually think more people know about.

Cristina: The Pope than the Queen.

Jack: Yeah, I think it's. It's the Pope than the Queen. And I don't think anybody knows the Dalai Lama's name.

Cristina: Then why is he an S. Clear tier?

Jack: No, because they still know who he is.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: You know, usually people have seen the most frequent Dalai Lama in some iteration.

Cristina: Nevertheless, is he a real person?

Jack: The Dalai Lama? Yes.

Cristina: Is he a Jesus figure?

Jack: He's some sort of spiritual figure.

Cristina: Okay, so I'm putting him under Hitler. Unless you think the Queen goes after him. Oh, no, you said Pope.

Jack: Yeah, the Pope goes way after. Yeah, yeah, it's after Hitler. Before the Dalai Lama, then the Queen. Yeah, then Queen Elizabeth.

Cristina: After the Dalai Lama.

Jack: No, before.

Cristina: Before.

Jack: I think the Queen is probably more known than the Dalai Lama.

Cristina: Then there's the scientists and the three rulers. The three rulers are going to be in the bottom. They don't need to be in order. I feel like. Unless you want to put them in order, but I feel like it's not really important. But where does the scientist go?

Jack: What do you think?

Cristina: Before? After. Before. I'm gonna say before.

Jack: You think Einstein's more famous than Obama?

Cristina: I think he's taught more in schools.

Jack: Fair enough. I think most people would be familiar with Einstein.

Cristina: I think something about history does help some of these people. Like, if we were going to put the presidents in order, I wouldn't know who to choose between Obama and Trump.

Jack: Yeah, that's a close tie.

Cristina: I would put Vladimir above them.

Jack: No, you know what? Fair enough. I think Trump is more globally known then I think Vladimir, and I think Trump are probably even more known than Einstein.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Trump is huge.

Cristina: You're going to put Einstein beneath Trump?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: They could put Trump over Obama.

Jack: Yeah. I think Putin and Trump are pretty close together.

Cristina: But who goes first?

Jack: I think Trump is more famous than Putin. I think Trump is so exaggeratedly well known because everybody has something to say about him.

Cristina: Okay. But you're not gonna put him above the Llama and Elizabeth or the Pope.

Jack: This is hard one. I do think Donald Trump is about as famous as the Lama.

Cristina: I'm just gonna leave him underneath him.

Jack: Yeah. Because towards the top, it's getting fuzzy. I know Hitler and Jesus are on a whole category of their own.

Cristina: S plus tier.

Jack: That's S plus. And then we got, like, the top of S with Pope Francis and the Queen, and then the mid tier with Dalai Lama. And Donald Trump still feels wrong there, but I think he feels he's probably higher. Vladimir Putin. And then the bottom with Barack Obama and Albert Einstein.

Cristina: Yes. They're all S class.

Jack: They're all S class. They're known by almost everybody. Galileo.

Cristina: Galileo.

Jack: Is that an S class person? I think yes. I think a lot of people have at least heard the name. Or not an S class. I think that's more of an A.

Cristina: I think that's an A.

Jack: Yes. Because a lot of people won't know who he is, but they will know his name.

Cristina: Yeah. Do you need to know what he's done?

Jack: Like, they don't even know he's a person when they hear Galileo. That's really the thing, because there's so many things named Galileo after him, obviously, but they don't know that.

Cristina: What about Julius Caesar? That doesn't count, does it?

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Because there's things named after him.

Jack: Yeah. But that doesn't make him more famous.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay.

Jack: So I guess. I guess this is our ultimate list. I guess it is. Jesus, Hitler, Pope Francis, Queen Elizabeth ii, the Dalai Lama, President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, President Barack Obama, and Albert Einstein as a top of our. As our S tier. The most famous humans to have existed.

Cristina: Mm. I like it that you like it. Yep.

Jack: There's nothing that feels off here.

Cristina: No.

Jack: All right, so the most famous individual probably in all of time is. It is. I mean, is. Is Jesus. I mean, Hitler's pretty up there, though.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: For being around way less time.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Hitler's arguably way more effective.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Long term.

Cristina: But if you asked all those people that you asked random questions to about these two people, they would know both these names.

Jack: Yeah, they did.

Cristina: They did.

Jack: Well, not Jesus. Anything about Jesus, but I did for Hitler. And everybody knew who he was and what he did.

Cristina: He's more famous than the Queen.

Jack: He's more famous than.

Cristina: At least in America.

Jack: Yes. In the United States, for whatever reason, there was a Weird gap about Queen Elizabeth.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They just no awareness.

Cristina: But now I want to know. Yeah, I think that's complete.

Jack: I think that's complete. I think Jesus, then Hitler. Yeah, fair enough.

Cristina: Famous famous people.

Jack: Yeah. Those are who we believe are the most famous. I guess those are the most famous. We're trying to understand really the S class by putting everybody else in the other classes. That really helped us understand who are the top famous people. Because any random person is the bottom famous person. Yes, it's only mattering for the top, but we needed to understand what the top was anyways. If you guys have names that you think actually would go S class, that would be a great help. If you think of people that you think are known by the world, send us those names of these celebrities at all our socials, @justconvo pod, on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and Tick tock and wherever.

Cristina: Wherever. And remember to subscribe, rate and review the show.

Jack: Yes. And use word of mouth to share it. Tell people about the program. It is awesome. And they will be like, whoa. Or they'll be like, nah.

Cristina: This has been the rambling podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening. Bye.

Jack: Sab.

Cristina: Good morning. The podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by greatthoughts.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McCallister with social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 201: Google's Animals

Which animals are the largest? What are their predators? Are any animals born intelligent enough to find food and evade predators instantly without the guidance from their parents? The duo decide to find the answers to this question in a Google search filled frenzy. The king of the mammals is both obvious and unexpected when they finally discover what is the most dangerous of all creatures!

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  • Animal Intelligence
  • Pack Animals
  • Hippos
  • Snakes
  • Sharks
  • Animal Instincts
  • Parenting

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+Transcript

Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm Christina.

Jack: And this is the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas.

Cristina: Do you have any baffling ideas?

Jack: well, ideas in general are baffling. Thinking is a complicated process that comes through the evolutionary process of, I don't know, I guess neurons. No, I would. That's a really interesting question. Right, like, because thinking itself is kind of a mind f***. It's a psychedelic experience or something. Like, do creatures think? I know they have processing, but it's a lot of autopilot s*** going on too.

Cristina: Are you talking about animals?

Jack: Creatures in general?

Cristina: Even humans? Well, okay. I mean most of them we know fact.

Jack: I mean, I guess at least I know I can think.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: When I say creatures, I definitely do mean other than I.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because I'm under the impression I can think.

Cristina: But you're also in autopilot.

Jack: Sometimes I think everything has a little bit of autopilot, but I think animals in general, other creatures in general have autopilot. Like I don't think an insect is really giving it surrounding many thoughts. No, I mean there's a lot of autopilot going on.

Cristina: Yeah. I Wonder how much percent of it is autopilot. How much percent of what it's thinking is autopilot?

Jack: Probably 100% of it.

Cristina: 100%?

Jack: Yeah, there's lit like think of an ant. It's literally hive mentality. It has no sense of identity. It's just part of a bigger thing and its entire being is to support this bigger thing. No sense of self preservation or anything, it's just the Borg.

Cristina: Does the queen at least have mind of its own or is she also an autopilot like them? Like she's doing what her role tells her what to do or whatever.

Jack: Well, my experience as an ant keeper has taught me that the queen is a very overpowered, high thinking individual. She has all the thoughts.

Cristina: So a lot like the queen of Or.

Jack: Yeah, she has all the thinking going on and all the. All the insignificant ants don't think at all. She sends her messages and they're like yes or not even. Yes. They just do it. She waves her hand and they then.

Cristina: Are they better than the Porg because the Borg, they want to get away from the queen?

Jack: No, it's when you get that bug thrown into the system and they then get like identity and individuality.

Cristina: Okay. So they're not. There's not individuality unless something bad happens. A bug. Okay, yeah.

Jack: It was like a virus or something that attacked the board. Right, Because Picard is a savage.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: He was like, send this kid back with a sense of self. Let's destroy this from the inside out.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Yeah. Because once the board gets choose, they don't want to be with the queen anymore. That would suck.

Jack: That makes sense. Right?

Cristina: That makes sense.

Jack: A bit overpowered.

Cristina: Are there any other animals that work like that? Like they just have one. Oh, yeah. Queen bee. Okay. So is the queen. There's gotta be other examples though.

Jack: I mean, herds have a very similar thing going on. Like giant pack animals.

Cristina: But they don't have a leader, do they? I mean, I guess whoever's in the front of the herd.

Jack: No, I'm pretty sure just enough of them start running and there's a survival thing that kicks in that they're like. That's probably what the rest of us should be doing.

Cristina: Ah, okay.

Jack: Like, are they running from something? Let's all run from whatever thing they're running from. Or are they running towards something? Let's all run. Whatever they run, they know something we don't. Yeah, I guess that's the ultimate thought. They know something we don't.

Cristina: Yeah. And birds, are they like that? Because there's always a bunch.

Jack: Fascinating. This is a really interesting visual. Right. So birds in the sky because wings and whatnot. But they move in a weird sync. Like they all tune into this thing and they instantly know. They all instantly know how to move.

Cristina: But is it because the wind or is it they're actually working together?

Jack: No, when they're doing like weird patterns in the sky, how do they all suddenly turn at the same time? Yeah, that's weird. Unless there is a leader and it's happening so fraction of a second that it looks instantaneous to us, but it's like a domino effect that's happening too quick for us to notice. And there is one doing it first, but they're in the sky. It has to all be like split second decision making.

Cristina: Yeah. Maybe more like herds who are worried. Like they're just going because they see everyone else going.

Jack: Well, I don't think it would be worried though. There has to be some other motivation because they're just hanging out in the sky doing tricks or whatever crap is happening.

Cristina: What is happening? Like, what benefit is that? Is that exercise?

Jack: I don't know. Because your school of fish do the same thing a lot of times. Yes. They'll move Away from danger, but also when there's no danger, they're still kind of doing things.

Cristina: Are they eating, though? Is that them eating?

Jack: I guess fish are. Then what's the excuse for bird?

Cristina: No idea. They're battling some creature that we don't know about in the sky.

Jack: All of them?

Cristina: Yeah. Or the wind. They're playing with the wind.

Jack: They're playing with the wind?

Cristina: Yeah. We don't know how that works.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: The wind is petting them.

Jack: Could be.

Cristina: That's interesting. Yeah. It's a lot like the fish. The birds in the sky are a lot like the fish in the water moving that weird way.

Jack: Yeah. There is definitely a thing happening where they're kind of like all in sync. I don't know why. It is weird that they do it. And I guess a lot of animals do that. But then what about the solitary animals? What the f***? Like, if there was no. They would just fight each other. Like, wild cats aren't gonna move all in sync, and lions don't move all in sync. No, but like, a. A bunch of horses are already kind of doing their thing. You spook them, boom, they're all one suddenly.

Cristina: Yeah, horses like zebras.

Jack: I guess that's kind of a horse too.

Cristina: Deers. Are they, like.

Jack: No, actually. That's an interesting one. Deer don't pack, run in the same direction under the same logic. They'll just scatter in random directions if they have to.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: They're breaking the pattern of other animals.

Jack: Yeah, but so is, like, the wild cats, like I just said.

Cristina: Well, that's different. Being the hunter and being the hunty are two different things.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Because the hunter likes to be those cats, I guess. Like to be alone. A lot of cats.

Jack: All right, so there's a pack of bison. Who's f****** with, like, a herd of bison? Nobody. Nobody's f****** with a herd with bison. But they're still gonna run together, I guess. You mean more carnivore versus herbivore?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, herbivores will do, like, their own thing. Then why are deer doing their own thing? Doesn't. Doesn't work.

Cristina: Yeah. I don't know what's going on with the deers, but they must. Is that right? I don't know. That's weird.

Jack: Yeah, they just kind of do random s***. Deer weird.

Cristina: Deer weird. But most even big animals that are veggies eaters are. They're in packs, like giraffes and elephants, I think.

Jack: Not in herds, though.

Cristina: Not in herds.

Jack: There isn't like a herd of giraffes.

Cristina: Oh, there's a family of giraffes.

Jack: Yeah, it's probably a family of giraffes. Maybe some cousins, some friends, but not, like a herd. Oh, there aren't thousands of giraffes hanging all together.

Cristina: That's crazy. They couldn't survive like that if they're all eating the same thing.

Jack: What's hunting a giraffe in the first place, you know? Like, is it even a creature of that nature?

Cristina: I imagine a lion.

Jack: You think a lion. You think something is messing with giraffes to begin with?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Because they're probably easy to. They seem like they might be a clumsy and slow enough creature. Are they fast? I don't think they're that fast for a lion.

Jack: I mean, like, would the lion go out of his way to eat a giraffe?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: They would probably try to eat a hippo, and that doesn't make sense.

Jack: A lion?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I don't think a lion tries to eat a hippo.

Cristina: An alligator would try to eat a hippo. I think there's some animals that will try, even if it's dumb to eat a hippo. I don't think any animal hunts hippo. Not that they could eat the hippo, but at least get after that hippo.

Jack: Okay, so lions, hyenas, and leopards all hunt giraffes.

Cristina: Mm. That makes sense. See, hyenas are pet creatures. I don't care.

Jack: Hyenas don't give a s***.

Cristina: Yeah, size does not matter. The hyena probably goes after that hippo, too. Not that it's successful, but it probably does try. You don't think a hyena would try.

Jack: To attack a hippo?

Cristina: Yeah. Tell me. Nothing hunts a hippo. I imagine something does.

Jack: Holy crap. Yeah. Hyenas go after hippos?

Cristina: Yeah, man. Hyenas don't give a s*** what else hunts a hippo. Or is that it? It's the hippo.

Jack: No, what's funny is that hyenas are more capable of hunting these things down because they work in packs, as opposed to lions that are usually alone. This is the logic of the wolves, Right? The wolves are some f****** problem because strategy is a m***********. This is where the dogs have advantage over the cats.

Cristina: Right, But I thought lions are, like, the only cats that do work together.

Jack: No, they're usually alone. Usually there's one out there hunting brings the food back.

Cristina: Oh, what?

Jack: Yeah, I mean, there could be multiple together, but that's not the common.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: Commonly, one goes out, brings the food back. In.

Cristina: Okay, but when it comes to hyenas, they're just eating anything.

Jack: Well, sure, but the point is that hyenas move in packs.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: This is the whole dog thing. That makes dogs very different at hunting than cats. Now there's less food to go around overall. Yeah. You hunt the Hepple, but there's like seven of you.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So like lion hunts a hippo. If it got the hippo. There's a lion and a hippo. Okay, you win.

Cristina: Yeah. I'm imagining they're eating baby hippos. Like, it's not a. Or an injured hippo.

Jack: I believe in. I believe in all of these cases, it's the baby.

Cristina: It's the baby. Yeah. Like that's the easiest. Like a baby elephant or something.

Jack: Yeah. A pack of hyenas would be hard pressed to take an adult hipple down like that. That's not. Doesn't sound fun or easy.

Cristina: What other animals hunt hippos? There has to be more. Can't imagine the hyena is the only animal. But it's possible. Hippos are a tough, tough animal to take down.

Jack: Hippos, one of the hardest animals to take down. So a hippo will usually be attacked by crocodiles, lions, and spotted hyenas.

Cristina: Okay, I was interested.

Jack: But all the young hippos, only babies.

Cristina: Okay. Just babies. The only thing that messes with adult hippo is probably another adult hippo.

Jack: Adult hippos are not usually preyed upon by other animals due to their aggression and size.

Cristina: Nah, they're the ones eating other animals just for fun.

Jack: Yeah. Cases where large lion prides have successfully preyed on adult hippos have been reported, but that's generally rare.

Cristina: Okay. So a pack of lions can do it.

Jack: Yeah. Now just normally hunting lion can't. A lion has to jump into dog behavior and be like, yo, we need to. We're the most powerful s*** out here. We still need to team up.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay.

Jack: Because f*** adult hippos.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We go after it and it's just gonna eat us. It doesn't even get nutrients from us. It's just gonna eat us.

Cristina: That is so scary.

Jack: Yeah, it's a monster. The real life monster of the human world. Of the human world, of the like, of the mortal world.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Is the hippo hippo. It's a demon, bro.

Cristina: Yes. It's what demons are based off of.

Jack: Yeah, some s***. It's demon. And it's a water pig, essentially. Right. It's like they're related or some s***. We've. I remember, like recently, maybe like. Like 20 episodes ago or some s***, we, like, ran across the fact that a pig is a hippo. It's just a tiny hippo.

Cristina: Pigs can get really big. But I don't know, what's the biggest hippo size? I mean, what's the biggest pig size?

Jack: The largest? It's pretty big.

Cristina: It's pretty big. But it would be nice to know, like, compared to a hippo, to, I guess, imagine. What would one pig standing, one wild pig, I guess, next to a pig hippo look like?

Jack: What would one wild. Oh, crap. I guess it could look like a hippo. Yeah.

Cristina: What?

Jack: That's pretty ginormous.

Cristina: It's pretty ginormous.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: You don't know how big, though.

Jack: It's way bigger than a person.

Cristina: Oh. Oh, my gosh.

Jack: It's the size of a hippo.

Cristina: Oh, that's crazy. Okay, that's scary. And we eat that. Yeah.

Jack: Yeah. Holy s***. What the f*** am I looking at? This is huge.

Cristina: What is it a pig?

Jack: Yeah, it's a huge pig. Okay, that's what I'm looking at. Look at that.

Cristina: That is scary.

Jack: Yeah, that's essentially a giant. Not even giant. That's just a hippo. Okay, I guess. I guess that's the real question because we're looking at the biggest pig. So I guess the real question is how large is the largest hippo? No, I guess that's still more or less the same size.

Cristina: Well, how. How large is it?

Jack: About the size of that pig.

Cristina: Because this pig says length 8 to 7 to 8ft. Height 3 to 4ft, or 3.7 to 4.7 and then 600 to 1,000 pounds. I feel like the hippo still has to be pretty big.

Jack: Like it has way more weight.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: All right, all right, all right. What? Okay, what was this? Were the specs on that pig?

Cristina: It was seven feet. No, sorry. Seven to eight feet.

Jack: Okay, so seven to eight feet long.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Oh, God. So 10ft to 17ft.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh. Height.

Jack: What height do you have?

Cristina: 3.7 to 4.7.

Jack: Okay, 4.3 to 5.4. So just them normal height is like about the size of an average sized female human.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh. And pounds six hundred to a thousand.

Jack: Oh, man. 3,300 to 4,000. Never mind. A hippo will body a pig so effortlessly.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: Holy crap. 17ft. Dude, what are we talking about anymore? That's absurdly large.

Cristina: But as large as a rhino. I feel like rhinos are probably the same size.

Jack: Rhinos and hippos are like in the same ballpark?

Cristina: Yes. I don't know. See, height, 5.6 to 6 point. Let's say 6.3.

Jack: Okay, so they're taller in height than a hippo. What about lengthwise?

Cristina: Length does not say. Give me the length. What's your question again? Length.

Jack: The length of a hippo.

Cristina: You mean rhino?

Jack: Oh, yeah, of rhino.

Cristina: Give me the length of. We have. Has the length of 7ft 10 inches to 10ft 6 inches.

Jack: No, get body. A 17 foot hippo will body that thing.

Cristina: Oh, 2,000 pounds.

Jack: 3,300 to 4,000.

Cristina: Oh, it's 2,200. Oh, okay. The hippo's still in it by miles.

Jack: Well, I'm just confused as to how something could be so freaking large. This info has to be wrong, right?

Cristina: Sure. Elephants bigger still. That'd be crazy.

Jack: I mean, yeah, elephant is the largest land creature.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But I don't think it's longer. I'm just confused about this length. This can't be right. I refuse to believe a hippo could really, truly, honestly be 17 freaking feet long.

Cristina: 17. Oh my God.

Jack: It's such an absurd length.

Cristina: That is 17. They're long boys.

Jack: They're long boys. 17ft is so freaking excessive, man. Makes you really wonder.

Cristina: It's kind of a hot dog.

Jack: It's gonna have a hot dog.

Cristina: It's a hot dog. It is a hot dog. Although elephants are like 18 to 21ft.

Jack: Yeah, but like Jesus Christ. But I. Yeah, this is nowhere near 17ft.

Cristina: No, the one that. That one.

Jack: Oh my God.

Cristina: It's so freaking huge.

Jack: Oh, God. That one.

Cristina: That one might be.

Jack: Is so crazy looking. I guess. They are so long. They're the wiener elephants.

Cristina: They're long.

Jack: They're wiener elephants.

Cristina: Elephants are long, but they look more proportionate.

Jack: Dude, who the h*** just has a pet hippo?

Cristina: I hope no one. I hope no one. Is this a video of someone with pet hippos?

Jack: I don't know, but that guy just like tapped the mouth of that hippo. That is a long f****** hippo though. But if somebody were to lay down next to it, I'm sure that hippo is like in the lower range. It's like nine feet at most. Doesn't look like seven. 17ft is crazy. That can't be right. That cannot be right. That cannot be right. It's so long. 17ft is three humans stacked end to end.

Cristina: That it. Maybe that's just like the most. The largest hippo they found.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the most exaggerated hippo ever recorded. That's totally A possibility. Because that's nuts. I just. I don't know. It's just nuts. Oh, my God. The largest hippo ever was 16 foot.

Cristina: 16 tall or still.

Jack: No, that would be nuts. You know how the problem that a 16 foot tall Pippa would be the length of that would be like five houses. Sixteen foot is like a two story building.

Cristina: Once upon a time.

Jack: Ancient hippos of the past.

Cristina: Yeah. Dinosaur hippo. 16ft long, not 17ft long.

Jack: That's not like much of a difference. No, they probably rounded to 17 because like 16.5 or something, you know?

Cristina: Yeah. So ridiculous.

Jack: But like, I need this. I need to see it there. Hat man. How the h*** are you 16ft? Like, who the h*** is f****** with you, bro? You had that. That's a giant hippo. I had to dive a heart attack, right?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: There's nothing else. He had to dive a heart attack. There's no other option.

Cristina: It's so crazy looking.

Jack: So this is Don, the largest hippo king showing his dominance in the water.

Cristina: It's hard to tell how big he is.

Jack: It is very hard to tell. Let's see if there's some volume to this. Come on. You can't hear him in the water.

Cristina: It's kind of scary. A lot of animals make some horrifying sounds.

Jack: I wonder how they're deciding to measure this though. And here's the problem, dude. How fast a hippo moves in the water is also like a huge issue.

Cristina: How fast it is.

Jack: Yeah. Hippos are crazy fast on land and on in the water. It is such an unnecessary creature. A hippo. 19 miles per hour. No human ever is outrunning that. For contrast.

Cristina: What are we gonna look up? The human? The elephant. I saw an elephant suit being compared to a hippo 13ft in length. This is the seal one for contrast.

Jack: Humans can max out at 8 miles per hour.

Cristina: Running or swimming?

Jack: Running.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And definitely slower swimming. And the Hippo can clear 19. It is twice as. Actually more than twice as fast as any human. As the fastest human probably. It's more than twice as fast as the fastest human.

Cristina: Do you think us swimming is way slower?

Jack: Has to be 5 miles per hour underwater. Oof.

Cristina: Oh, okay. We're not surviving either way.

Jack: There's just no way, man. It couldn't be okay. No. It would be scary. It would be scary. So the fastest human in all of history clears 5 miles per hour. They would be an even match for an average hippo. What average human in the water clears like 2 miles per hour. Still less than half the speed of the average hippo.

Cristina: I think we got a movie there like Jaws, but with a hippo. What?

Jack: Except it'll just follow you out of the water and then suddenly get even faster.

Cristina: That's even scarier. They have alligator horror movies. Why isn't there a hippo one?

Jack: I don't know. I guess the round fatness kind of kills it. It's not like a scary jagged creature.

Cristina: No. Unless it's eating you. It's. It becomes more scary, I guess. Yeah, but you have to be in that situation. I guess watching it isn't as scary. Such a pudgy looking creature.

Jack: Yeah, it is like a. It's just an awkward creature. Really is. But it's so freaking dangerous.

Cristina: But it's so awkward. It's huge. It's heavy looking. It has the biggest looking stomach ever. I don't understand how it's the more.

Jack: To put food away with.

Cristina: How is it so fast with all its weight though?

Jack: That is an interesting question. I don't know, it's just everything is designed to s*** on a human. That's why we have to develop overpowered brains.

Cristina: Okay. Humongous.

Jack: Without a doubt, the human is the smartest creature on earth. At least on land.

Cristina: Mm. Dolphins being the smartest. No. I don't know. Is the dolphins smartest?

Jack: I believe so, yeah.

Cristina: Dolphins, okay.

Jack: Dolphins dominate the oceans, humans dominate the land. And like birds are generally speaking dumb as opposed to these two other comparisons.

Cristina: Oh, even the smartest bird though, it depends.

Jack: What's the smartest bird?

Cristina: Like a raven? No, there's a big bird, isn't there? That's pretty smart.

Jack: Raven. Yeah. Ravens are way up there. Okay, but then that's my point. So like a raven next to like a raven is definitely highly intelligent. But are we saying that it's like dominating its environment? Like non eagle. That's retarded. Will beat the s*** out of a raven effortlessly.

Cristina: Yeah, but they're like smart compared to a child, right? Like you put their intelligence next to a human.

Jack: Oh, yeah, probably. You gotta understand, human babies are dumb, okay? Human babies are the most useless of all like creatures. They're really, really, really down the pole because there's nothing physical that allows this thing to survive. I guess. No, fair enough. Birds are kind of s*****. Like. Like humans.

Cristina: Yeah. When they're babies.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Usually other creature mammals tend to be hardcore. Except the domesticated ones.

Cristina: What about like kangaroo babies? Those can't do anything.

Jack: Well, kangaroo babies aren't even born yet. Really? They're just Literally in a womb.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's external. Yes, that's what's happening there.

Cristina: They're not really born though.

Jack: Yeah, they're not really born yet. But I'm thinking, like, if there are some mammals that are useless, like, but there's a lot of domesticated useless s***. I wonder if, like a wild lion is instinctively great at what it's doing, you know, it's. At least it could run around. Is that a thing or is it like a house cat that when it has its babies, they're just retarded the way humans are probably.

Cristina: They have to learn how to hunt and everything. They don't know how to do any of that.

Jack: They'll follow their mom. But can they move? Can they avoid predators, is my question.

Cristina: Ooh, probably not.

Jack: Like, even turtle babies get born and immediately run towards the water. They don't necessarily have to make it, but they have that. A human baby will lay there.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: A domesticated puppy will lay there.

Cristina: What? A baby lion.

Jack: Meanwhile, a baby deer can dip.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You see, it'll be awkward.

Cristina: It will be awkward.

Jack: But it can move. It can try to avoid danger.

Cristina: Okay, it can.

Jack: It knows to be scared, but it.

Cristina: Can'T hunt on its own. Like, if it lost its mom, it's probably dying of starvation if it's not hunted. At least most baby animals, I think. I think when it comes to eating, it's the hardest thing. Even if they can move around quickly, they can run.

Jack: No, I think when it comes to a deer, it would also find its own food. What? Deer is like going to find food and bringing it to its baby?

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It's not how it works. It just knows.

Cristina: I guess a lot of other animals, though, need the parents bring them things.

Jack: You know what? Funny, I guess. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. There's a. There's a huge trade off happening, Right. Herbivores just kinda. No, carnivores, although way more overpowered as adults. Way underpowered as babies. Yes, babies. So carnivores are more likely to be killed by other carnivores when they're babies.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Than herbivores are when they're babies. Because herbivore babies at least have some motor function to handle their s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because they need to.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: While usually the carnivores are gonna protect their babies, thus making the weaker baby.

Cristina: Yeah. Because they can't hunt on their own. They can't do it. Like, if that baby gets lost, that's it for that baby.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Can't. What's it gonna do?

Jack: But herbivores don't have that issue because.

Cristina: Their food is everywhere.

Jack: Yeah. That's why dogs, even if they're in the house and you feed them crap that they shouldn't naturally eat, that's still technically carnivore. That's why its babies are dumb, because it's a carnivore and carnivores have dumb babies.

Cristina: Dumb babies.

Jack: Yeah. The dumbest babies are all carnivores.

Cristina: Yes. I guess. So. He's even birds. I'm thinking they're carnivores.

Jack: Yeah, they kind of are. And they got dumb babies. If there are herbivore baby birds, maybe they're better.

Cristina: But no, because they also have the disadvantage that their babies can't move. Like, they can move, but they can't fly. Like, if they're in a nest, they're not getting out of that nest until they have the ability to fly.

Jack: Yeah. Also, I don't think there's any herbivore birds.

Jack: Okay. There are a hummingbird.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Does a hummingbird baby know what it's doing?

Cristina: I don't know. Like, it doesn't naturally know.

Jack: How would you figure it out? I feel like a hummingbird would struggle.

Cristina: Yeah. But also, they still have to get to a certain age to be able to fly and everything. Because birds don't just naturally are born and then fly. That's. Hummingbirds are one bird that does. That would be crazy.

Jack: That'd be fascinating. Right? Is it just born and badass?

Cristina: No way.

Jack: It couldn't be. But then that would mean that a hummingbird isn't a hummingbird is probably not really a herbivore. That's an interesting question. Right?

Cristina: Isn't that the one that eats the flowers? What's it called?

Jack: Yeah, the, like, nectar of a flower. Oh, crap. No, they are. They're. They're omnivores. They eat, like, insects and spiders and junk.

Cristina: Ah, okay. They do eat nectar as well. But that's not the only thing they do.

Jack: Yes. The fact that they have any. The fact that they're eating living things immediately makes your baby stupid by default. I don't know why, but if you eat anything that isn't a plant, your babies are dumb. There's a pattern there.

Cristina: No, we don't know if herbivores are. Babies are that smart that they know everything with their food or whatever.

Jack: It would be like, can a. Does a baby deer know? Right.

Cristina: Yeah. They still feel like they have to figure out what's the best plant to eat because they can eat the wrong plant and then die of Food poisoning or something. So they gotta still be taught something. It's not all natural, is it?

Jack: I guess. Yeah. So at about two weeks of age, a fawn will start browsing tender vegetation and learn from its mother what plants it eats.

Cristina: Booyah. Wait, how long? Two weeks. Oh my God.

Jack: S**** on the all. All the other things that eat living things. Crapping on it. Lightning speed.

Cristina: Yeah, but it's not automatic either. There's nothing that just automatically knows what to eat. Maybe fish.

Jack: You think there's. Okay. Screwfish. You don't think there's any mammal that just born knowing?

Cristina: No, no. I think they have to figure it out. There's some learning curve going on. You can't just naturally know. Okay, this is what I eat. Maybe insects, maybe frogs. No, frogs have a whole life cycle thing going on. Yeah, frogs are weird, complicated thing going on.

Jack: Additionally, a frog is not an insect.

Cristina: No, I'm just naming animals.

Jack: But insects are not animals.

Cristina: Whatever.

Jack: And spiders are. Arachnids.

Cristina: Yes. Well, I'm talking about creatures then.

Jack: Living creature just born knowing what to do.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Fish for sure.

Cristina: And spiders for sure. Right.

Jack: Yeah, there's probably. Probably all the insects.

Cristina: All the insects, yeah.

Jack: Yeah. I don't think anybody taught an ant how to go be an ant. I just thought this is kind of. Again, it's automatic behavior.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If you have. If you're entirely automatic behavior, then you're good to go.

Cristina: Yes, but I guess it's not the same with mammals.

Jack: No, Mammals have a whole learning issue going on. So do birds, for whatever reason.

Cristina: Yes. Yes, they do. Except for like one bird I found that it's not. Well, the parent doesn't baby the babies, I guess is.

Jack: What do you mean? Is this born smart?

Cristina: Yes. Well, I don't know if it's born smart, but the parents, like. You know how all birds usually incubate their babies by sitting on them? Yeah, they don't do that. They build a mound that's like a pit for the eggs to stay warm.

Jack: Yeah, I've heard of that. A couple of birds did that.

Cristina: And this one, the. It's called a megapod. Megapod. Megapod. I hope I'm saying that right. Megapods. Megapods. Have you heard this bird?

Jack: No.

Cristina: It looks like a chicken or a rooster. I'm not sure.

Jack: Foul of some sort.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah, they're cute, but yeah, like, they don't take care of their babies like other birds. Like, most birds sit on their babies. These birds don't. And then their babies fly away after 24 hours.

Jack: After they hatch.

Cristina: Well, they don't fly away. They can fly within 24 hours of hatching.

Jack: Hatching, yes.

Cristina: I'm not. I don't know if they can fly away and then just disappear.

Jack: That's pretty hardcore. So that's a super bird.

Cristina: Yeah, and. Yeah, that's why.

Jack: That's pretty impressive. So there's a super bird that within 24 hours. You know what's really haunting me though? I'm just over here thinking about, like, what could really f*** with a hippo. That's all that. I. I'm over all this other s***. Like, I want to take out a hippo. That's it. I just want to kill. I want the one thing that could body a hippo. And the first thing that came to mind was like, what's the largest snake in the world?

Cristina: What? Why would that come to mind?

Jack: Because the snake can eat almost anything. And then in doing that's true, I look this up and it's like, nah, man.

Cristina: Not even the biggest.

Jack: No, the biggest snake could not handle. It's too. It's too. A hippos too big. It'd be like trying to eat an elephant in one shot.

Cristina: Okay, so I'm guessing a snake hasn't eaten an elephant either, right?

Jack: Yeah, for sure. It's too exaggerated. It's really probably the largest snakes ever.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Couldn't eat a hippo, but could they.

Cristina: Eat a alligator or something?

Jack: Easily. Easily the biggest snakes ever. Easily.

Cristina: Like, how big can it get though the animal that eats?

Jack: Pretty big. There's some snakes that have a width of three feet.

Cristina: I can't eat a horse though.

Jack: A width of three feet and then it could expand that.

Cristina: Snakes are stretchy, but not enough to. Has there been a snake that ate a horse? That's what I want to know.

Jack: We're trying to kill a hippo. Why are you trying to kill a horse?

Cristina: I don't know. Because it's smaller. But it's not.

Jack: It's a pretty big animal.

Cristina: It's not compared to a hippo.

Jack: Yeah, fair enough. That's very tiny.

Cristina: Although I don't imagine, like, how the snake would have gotten to the horse. That would be crazy. So what can kill a hippo?

Jack: So first the horse. A python could eat a horse?

Cristina: Oh my gosh.

Jack: Yeah. In fact, Dr. Google says a Burmese.

Cristina: Python can eat a horse.

Jack: Can eat a horse.

Cristina: I wonder if it has eaten a horse. Are they just saying, like, from the size its stomach can get?

Jack: No, here's. Here's what I'll say. Here's what I'll say. A snake can easily eat a horse because a horse is not absorbently fat. You crush the horse.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Its legs fold, it goes into your body. It is about roughly like two humans.

Cristina: But has it done that?

Jack: Don't know. Probably. We wouldn't know. We haven't seen all the horses and all the snakes. We haven't seen all the horse snakes. Interaction interactions, you know. Yeah, but like physical ability alone. H*** no. A snake cannot f*** with a hippo. A hippos as wide as it is tall.

Cristina: So what can do it Eat a.

Jack: Hippo if it wasn't a snake. That's why I thought snake. If it wasn't a snake. It's just not happening. No, it's just not happening.

Cristina: A shark. I don't know how that situation.

Jack: Fair enough. It would have to be that we're not talking mammals anymore, we're not talking predators. We're just at this point like what random animal who couldn't even encounter a hippo would eat a hippo?

Cristina: Yeah. Okay, so then shark works. Okay.

Jack: No, a shark wouldn't like.

Cristina: I'm pretty sure it's too random.

Jack: It's pretty random. Okay, okay, you want to know about shark immediately into. Into forums with some experts and some casuals and the experts immediately jump into saying a great white is the comparison you got to make. That's the top of the line when it comes to sharks. Now, problem being, if any shark or if any creature were to take out a hippo, it would have to be in water where you could find the hippo. And the hippo is not the supreme being. If the hip. If there were to be any animal to survive a great white attack, it would, interestingly enough, be a hippo. So this is the best comparison because it's the water creature that would most likely survive a great white attack and the great white would. And the creature that the great white would struggle the most with simultaneously, these are exactly what it is. So the great white can take out most things. The hippo would be the thing it would struggle most with. And what is most likely to survive the great white attack? It won't be the hippo.

Cristina: So we have no idea what could take them. A hippo still.

Jack: Well, the idea here would be the hippo is faster than a human in the water, but not faster than a fish in the water. So the hippo would have the. The clumsy difficulty happening in the water as compared to a shark. It's very clumsy. And the shark could literally swim circles around it. Yeah, the shark does have the lack of reverse, that's a problem. A lot of sharks can't back up.

Cristina: Another bigger bite.

Jack: The hippo has a bigger bite, Definitely.

Cristina: Has the rougher skin as well.

Jack: Yes. Sharks just happen to be so dangerous. They don't need the sharpest, I mean, the thickest skin, but they do have tougher teeth. While the hippo on the other hand has not the toughest teeth but the biggest mouth. So it could have a lot. Now it has way more pressure in its jaw than a shark. This is pretty like experts hopping popped in here immediately they're just like, this is a fascinating question. So the hippo or the shark, if the shark is hungry enough, it would be desperate enough and just maybe persist and that, that could probably tip the scale. The hippo wouldn't try to eat the shark, it would try to kill the shark, but it has less motivation than the shark has.

Cristina: But they're both doing it to survive.

Jack: What do you mean?

Cristina: The shark needs to eat the hipple to survive and the hippo needs to kill off the shark to survive?

Jack: Yes. Okay, fair enough. Here's the hippo will feel less problems happening, the shark will feel more. The hippo's used to crap trying to with it, but it's always the victor, so it's less worried about things.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: The shark is like, if I don't eat this thing, I'm gonna die. The desperation might be the fuel.

Cristina: Okay, man.

Jack: Interesting. Yes.

Cristina: But is there a better animal or is this the best we can find? Like.

Jack: Well, somebody just. You said shark.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah.

Jack: So I found shark.

Cristina: No. Yeah, but we can think of something better.

Jack: What would be better than a shark? It seems to be the most balanced match. We'd have to find something that's into scale. I suppose the argument would be is there a whale big enough to one shot? A hippo?

Cristina: No way. A blue whale. It's pretty big.

Jack: How big?

Cristina: Bigger than like a bunch of elephants.

Jack: How many elephants equals a blue whale?

Cristina: 14 to 21.

Jack: So it's excessively large.

Cristina: It's humongous. It wouldn't do anything to the hippo, though. I can't imagine that it would. I don't think blue whales eat meat or anything.

Jack: They probably do, just not casually like that.

Cristina: But orcas can do something. Maybe.

Jack: Orcas?

Cristina: Orcas, they can kill whales. The blue whale, I mean.

Jack: Fair enough. Some of them can flat out eat a whale.

Cristina: Eat a whale?

Jack: Yes. Now that they would. I mean, what the h***. I said whale. I mean, I guess they couldn't eat a whale. They would Gang up and just like mess it up. Fight it like a gang. Rape it or something.

Cristina: They would kill it. They would kill a young whale.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: I don't know if they'll eat it.

Jack: Maybe they eat it, but a whale will definitely body a hippo.

Cristina: Yeah, it's huge.

Jack: So will it elephant. Of course.

Cristina: Elephants are hu. Well, I guess compared to hippos, they're pretty big. Yeah, but who's smarter? Cat versus a hippo versus elephant.

Jack: I think it would be an elephant by miles.

Cristina: It's bigger and smarter.

Jack: It's bigger and smarter. It's way more powerful and just one of the most intelligent beings on earth, period.

Cristina: I don't see an elephant fighting a hippo though. Unless a hippo tried to mess with it for fun.

Jack: Yeah, Like a hippo would be like, well, he's an idiot, whatever.

Cristina: And then he will lose.

Jack: It's weird. A hippos think of us as human more than we think of hippos. That's a living thing. Not hippos, elephants. Elephants see humans as humans more than elephants see elephants as a thinking creature.

Cristina: Say that again.

Jack: Elephants see humans as humans. We're thinking. We're critical. They see that more than an elephant will see a person be completely normal and register that they are people or something like that. I don't know. I lost my train of thought.

Cristina: Are you saying the elephant sees a person more than a person?

Jack: Yes. A person feels an elephant isn't conscious and elephant knows a human is.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: But outside the point we know elephant would body a hippo.

Cristina: Yes, that's the main thing. The elephant be the hippo.

Jack: That's the main lesson in life.

Cristina: Yes. We've done it. We figured it out. It's an elephant.

Jack: Yes. Yeah. So I guess that's the solution. An elephant and a blue whale will both body a hippo.

Cristina: Well, doesn't count. Because it wouldn't.

Jack: Fair enough. If it had to, it would.

Cristina: If it had to, it would. Would it?

Jack: I don't know. It wouldn't. But if it had to, it would.

Cristina: What about the hippo versus the orca? Wouldn't it be the same thing?

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Because if a orca. What? No. Or was it a shark? What did you say before? It was a shark. A starving shark versus a hippo. The starving shark will win.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Because it needs to. Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: Essentially it needs. In order to survive.

Cristina: Yeah. So wouldn't it be the same with the. With what was the thing that we were just talking about? The orca?

Jack: No, hippo.

Cristina: The whale.

Jack: Yes. The other One.

Cristina: The whale versus the hippo. I can't remember.

Jack: It doesn't matter. Point is, hippos are pretty hard to be in.

Cristina: Elephants are probably harder and smarter. And smarter.

Jack: So it is what it is.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Anyways, if you guys like how absurd this conversation was, you can feel free to find us on social media. JustConvopod.

Cristina: Remember to subscribe, rate, and review the show.

Jack: Yes. Word of mouth is kind overpowered. It's awesome. It'll bring you riches.

Cristina: Riches. And let someone who might like this.

Jack: Show know about it, because word of mouth matters.

Cristina: Exactly. This has been the Rambling podcast. Take nothing personal, and thanks for listening. Bye.

Jack: Which is weird because it means to some degree, Martin Luther King is also connected to Santa.

Cristina: That is what? Weird. Yeah. But does he know about the penguins? Do you think he knew about the penguins?

Jack: Who?

Cristina: Martha Luther King?

Jack: I don't know if he knew about the penguins. I know that anybody who has to cross the Arctic must interact with the penguins.

Cristina: And if you are, we just recently learned about chimeras. So how long have they been existing?

Jack: Oh, I'm calling them a chimera. I don't really know. Again, there's no. I don't know what they are. Oh, it's an assumption.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I don't know what they are. Yeah, they're not birds, because we know that's bullshit.

Cristina: They're not related to Scooby Doo.

Jack: They're maybe. I don't know. They come from the other side of the wall. I could not tell you anything. I am not allowed to research over there. I can venture over there, but it's not our business. Yeah, it's not our job to go over the wall and do anything lame.

Cristina: But I guess, yeah, we work with.

Jack: Earthly affairs inside the wall and anything supernatural outside the planet.

Cristina: Outside the planet, man. Well, how. But how much supernatural things are happening right outside the wa.

Jack: Don't know. Not allowed to look.

Cristina: Not allowed to look. What if it's helpful, though?

Jack: Doesn't matter. We got to figure it out. What's in here?

Cristina: Wow. That's lame. Do you think we could, though? Because the other Earth has an Arctic. What if we examine their Arctic? Or it would be different.

Jack: I'm guessing it'll probably be different. I don't know. There's parallel nests going on.

Cristina: Yeah. So maybe they have a wand.

Jack: Depends. Is there wall? Is there. Do they have flat Earthers? I don't know.

Cristina: Good morning. Good morning. The podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor, and published by greatthoughts.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McAllister. With social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 193: Words and Stuff

Who decided what words mean? Why do those people have the right? Why is communication so difficult? And how come strangers want to flash us instead of talking to us? The duo unpack language and all its quirky little features relative to today’s society!

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  • Chatroulette
  • The Internet
  • The Rules of English
  • How Language Works
  • Webster’s Dictionary
  • Urban Dictionary
  • Amnesia
  • Multiple Personalities
  • Anime Tropes
  • Soap Operas
  • Perfect Communication

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Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in five, four.

Cristina: What does live mean? Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And this is the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas.

Jack: Yes. All thinky and whatnot.

Cristina: All thinky?

Jack: Yeah. Cuz words.

Cristina: Cuz words? Yes.

Jack: I mean, right. Who. Okay, who's gonna tell me thinky isn't a thing? If I said thinky, you. You'd know exactly what I meant. No, think by thinky. If I were to say, like you could just use. English is so intelligent. Context clues. Gives you all the information you need to know. So I'm like, man, that puzzle's real thinky and I can't solve it. You know what I mean?

Cristina: I sort of.

Jack: Yeah, like you can assume, you can assert, you can figure it out. It's there. That's. That's.

Cristina: It's really all it takes.

Jack: That's really all it takes. So who says thinky isn't a thing? If I can convey a thought with thinky and you can catch that thought, then it. It served its purpose. It worked.

Cristina: It worked. Yeah.

Jack: The purpose of language is just communication. And the purpose of communication is to try to convey to you the thought and feeling that I have for the thought, I guess the same time, as accurately as possible. And that's like trying to calculate something's position and its speed at the same time or some s***, you know?

Cristina: But this is all things inside of you that you're trying to pull out.

Jack: Yes, that's. Well, that's the purpose of communication. Communication is to just convey that thought. And your opinion on the thought, I suppose, to make them feel. But we can't do it. A hundred percent impossible. But that's the purpose of it. And if thinky can do that, then it's a word just as much as any other word because it served to communicate something super exact. So who's to tell me the thinky isn't.

Cristina: I guess, right? Yeah, it works.

Jack: Cuz it just. That's how Cuz words.

Cristina: Cuz the words.

Jack: Definitely words. Tell me. No cuz words. No. You got to come and fight me. You got. You got to convince me. No.

Cristina: No to thinking.

Jack: No to cuz words. Oh, I can make any word work, but in theory, anything could be. That's how slang happens, right?

Cristina: Yes, exactly. How slinky happened.

Jack: Yeah. Like slang is just random s*** that people. It's. Slang is to a cult what language is To a church. Okay, so both slang and a cult are way small. Small groups of people, local, while language and a church. Well, you're only a church, not a cult, because you've been around a while.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: When the word has been around a while and it's so common that the majority has it, it's no longer slang. It's just commonplace. Yeah. It's just a church.

Cristina: Because the dictionary is. I guess the church and little words are just.

Jack: That's crazy. Who decided, dude?

Cristina: Who? Who?

Jack: Okay, first of all, which dictionary is the one that's God?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: Is it Webster? Why do I feel like it's Webster?

Cristina: There's like, a bunch, though, aren't there?

Jack: There's totally a bunch of different dictionaries.

Cristina: That's the one.

Jack: You know, though, which of the dictionaries is the one that all the other ones are just following behind? Is it Webster?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: Is that way. That's like the big kahuna.

Cristina: Is that like, just a person who's in love with words? Like, I mean, the original dictionary? I guess.

Jack: What is. What the f*** is happening there? Because think about this. They're just. They're choosing this. Is it a team of people who. I. Why do they get to choose which word is a word? It's just. That's weird, bro.

Cristina: I use Dictionary.com. they're full of words.

Jack: Yes, but why is Urban Dictionary considered less legitimate than, like, Webster Urban Dictionary, huh? You get my point? This is what my thought is saying, like, why is Webster the thing like, Urban Dictionary is just, like, those are real words that you can communicate. Yes. A bunch of troll s*** is written in there, and just people being a*******. I get it. But a bunch of that s*** is actual real words that people use as well.

Cristina: It's really hard to find, though. Like, you can't just go into Urban Dictionary and find the word, like, randomly. Like, you would just get the troll words. It's hard unless you know of the word you're looking for, I guess.

Jack: Yeah. That's the whole point, Right? Like, you want to find the definition of something you heard.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: That's what a dictionary is for. I mean, I guess some people discover words in a dictionary.

Cristina: Yeah, but what if you want to discover words like, how do you know in at least in that dictionary?

Jack: Well, that's probably not the best dictionary. That's the same like Wikipedia, which is just an encyclopedia of all things.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That, like, because of the amount of incorrect information in it, it's useless like, no, that's incorrect.

Cristina: Mmm.

Jack: You know, it's astoundingly useful. It's a shortcut to general information that's mostly reliable, and it's a good starting point for you to do other research to confirm and get real data.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Fantastic.

Cristina: That is fantastic.

Jack: I feel like Urban Dictionary is that.

Cristina: It's.

Jack: It's that for words.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: It's like, you can. It's not the best place to, like, go find a new word. We can find the new word if you wanted to. And that's like, a good place to at least start and then look for other definitions of the word.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: She can still learn, I guess.

Cristina: Just a lot of it's so dumb. Like, a lot of it's just names. I don't know.

Jack: Yes. People just insulting other people. That's all it is.

Cristina: There's people insulting other people. They know.

Jack: That's.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: Yeah. That's like. It's crazy how that's like chat roulette. It's like the amount of dicks you'll come across here.

Cristina: Do people still use that?

Jack: Probably. There's probably a couple of variants of this. I know there are. I don't know your names, but I know factually, there's a couple of different variants.

Cristina: Like the one that starts with the. Oh, that's similar, right?

Jack: Omegle. Yes. I think that's the more popular one now. Chat Rulet is probably, like, the ancient one.

Cristina: How ancient?

Jack: I don't know.

Cristina: Ten years ago, maybe.

Jack: I guess. I guess. Because you got to think about it this way. We're talking, it exists on the Internet. Like, how f****** long ago could it have really been? Like, the Internet just kind of happened. So, like, anything big like that. Yeah. At best, I'll give it like, 15 years. It existed.

Cristina: Okay. That's a long time.

Jack: You know, Internet, so young. 15 years ago, you hit face. I met MySpace.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: D***, you go back 15 years, you could hit MySpace. No, it might have been a little after MySpace, right?

Cristina: What, the shot? Whatever.

Jack: No, just 15 years ago.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Is 15 years ago still after the death of MySpace?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: But yeah, Chat Roulette and Omegle is a popular one. I think Chat roulette's the other one. Yes.

Cristina: Were you on that?

Jack: I was on Chat roulette, yes. Mad dicks.

Cristina: Are you on Omegle?

Jack: No, I've casually jumped into Omegle. But there's also mad dicks also.

Cristina: I don't know if I'm saying that word right.

Jack: I don't. I Don't ever know if I'm. If I've never heard. I've. Okay. Like, I know I sound redundant to anybody listening because I've said this before, but if I don't. If I've never heard somebody say the word, I don't know if I'm saying it right.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, if I only read it, like, how the f*** do I know?

Cristina: Yeah. I feel like that's how we see it. Like when people put videos on it on YouTube or something, like clips. You're just reading the title that says the word. I don't think the people actually say it while they're in the clips, because that would be weird. They're already, you know, they're doing the video. Do they say, I doubt it.

Jack: I don't know what you're talking about.

Cristina: If you're on. If you're watching a clip From Omegle on YouTube, like someone pranking someone else, they're not gonna say look at me on whatever that is. Omegle. Yeah, they're not gonna introduce the website. I mean, it's on the title. Unless they do. And I just don't remember the word that they're using to describe Omegle. Is it Omegle?

Jack: I think it's Omegle. How else would you say it? Okay, spell it out.

Cristina: Omogo.

Jack: O, M, O. Mugle. E. Omi.

Cristina: Omegle. I have no idea.

Jack: No, I think it would be Omegle.

Cristina: Omegle.

Jack: Omegle. I think it's Omegle.

Cristina: Yeah, maybe. It just sounds so weird. It's a weird word.

Jack: I think in order to change the sound of the E in a lot of circumstances, we need an H. Omegle.

Cristina: Like meh.

Jack: You know, it would be meh.

Cristina: Meh.

Jack: So otherwise it would be me.

Cristina: Okay, so it's probably omi.

Jack: What other sounds E do?

Cristina: Just me and me.

Jack: No, no, just anything followed by E and ending on E. How many sounds.

Cristina: Can we get ending with E?

Jack: Yes, Just things that end in E.

Cristina: It could sound like nothing. Like have ends with E. Oh, f***.

Jack: Name.

Cristina: Name.

Jack: That E is silent.

Cristina: Exactly. Ending with E is silent.

Jack: But that. That's weird because that E changed the M. Right. Instead of Nam, that M became some whole other s*** name. It actually changed. It affected the M and changed the A.

Cristina: Did it change the M? How did it affect the M?

Jack: I guess it didn't affect the M. It changed the A. Only.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah, that's how it works.

Jack: Changed the A from nam to name.

Cristina: Yeah, that's his job.

Jack: The E'S job. Right. So the E doesn't really change. The E is the changer.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: I kind of dies because it ends a lot of words.

Cristina: Yeah. Changes a letter and then dies.

Jack: It becomes useless.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Weird. And I know that's not, like, even a rule in English. This is a weird pattern that exists.

Cristina: That's definitely a rule in English.

Jack: That's a rule in English.

Cristina: Definitely.

Jack: Like, if we took a profound English class, it would teach us that for whatever reason, E affects a vowel before it.

Cristina: I feel like he learned that in, like, first grade or something.

Jack: Really?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Vowels affect each other that way. No f****** way.

Cristina: Yeah. I feel like when they give you spelling bees and stuff like that, when they're trying to teach you how to.

Jack: Spell words, then I don't. What the f***? Then again, I don't remember my f******.

Cristina: You don't remember?

Jack: I don't remember anything.

Cristina: Because you're. You're one of those many characters that people make up online. Yeah.

Jack: Oh, for message board. Like RPGs.

Cristina: Yes. What do they have?

Jack: They all have amnesia.

Cristina: Exactly. Okay, there you go. Amnesia. You have amnesia.

Jack: Yeah. No, no, no. They all have amnesia. That's fascinating to me that that's so common, especially in those. Any kind of role playing scenario. And the anime world.

Cristina: And the anime world. The anime world filled with amnesia.

Jack: So much amnesia.

Cristina: So does dramas, soap operas, Soap operas love amnesia.

Jack: But soap operas don't just love amnesia. Soap operas have, like, super, like a Resident Evil game. There's just like a lot of s*** they're all gonna have.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know, like Resident Evil has the lab. That's always gonna happen as the rocket launcher that gets thrown at the end. It has the boss that always has to mutate into something bigger. You know, it has all these things that are always gonna happen. Two characters and you gotta split up for whatever reason. You know, always the same s***. And like, soap operas have, like, there's like an evil twin.

Cristina: Always.

Jack: Always. And there's always like the guy in the hospital that everybody, like, visits. She's in a coma sometimes. Yeah. I. Is it two people in a hospital because they go and visit the sick. Oh, no, because one is a sick dying person that's not in a hospital. That's like in a room somewhere in the attic or some, like the granny or some crap to old dying person. Yes. In bed. And then there's a person in the coma that's usually because of the evil brother or some s*** like that.

Cristina: Twin brother.

Jack: Yes. And then there's always the gun.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And they show It. And it's in, like a drawer or some s*** like that, you know?

Cristina: Yes. And there's always someone with amnesia.

Jack: There's always one with amnesia.

Cristina: Yeah. Makes sense.

Jack: But why is that in soap operas? And why is that in anime? And why is that such a role playing thing?

Cristina: There's something cool about it. Not cool. I don't know. Because you can.

Jack: It's lazy. It's lazy writing. You don't need an origin story. You're just like that.

Cristina: Or you have an origin story you just don't want to reveal right away.

Jack: Interesting. And you want.

Cristina: You want to build it up. Yeah, yeah.

Jack: Unravel it little by little.

Cristina: Because then it's going to be shocking when we know, oh, the guy with amnesia was, I don't know, a prince the whole time or whatever.

Jack: Yeah. Interesting. Interesting, man. I guess that is a shortcut to cool, but it goes back to lazy. It goes back to lazy because you're taking the shortcut no matter what. It's an easy way to just. Instead of being clever and coming up with a new way to do it.

Cristina: With a new way to reveal things without making a character either have amnesia or just be extremely mysterious.

Jack: Yes. No. The. Oh, my God. Amnesia isn't even the only thing. And it might be the less, the lesser of the two things.

Cristina: What's the.

Jack: Now that I think about it. Oh, no. Oh, no. It's the one with the two personalities.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: That has way more common in all of the things we just talked about.

Cristina: The two personalities are crazy different. Like Jaco and Hyde.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Banner and Hulk.

Cristina: Ah. It's everywhere.

Jack: It's everywhere. It's everywhere. You just think of Harley Quinn's two moods. Oh, man. It's everywhere.

Cristina: It is.

Jack: Yup.

Cristina: So do you have. You have amnesia? Do you also have the true personality thing? Are you also a character?

Jack: Yeah, man. I'm probably. Because you gotta understand. You gotta understand. The. The origin story is really complicated. It has N*** Germany and it has robot technology. There's ghosts involved. It's. It's a mess. There has to be, like, several different lives going on.

Cristina: Okay. Makes sense.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: That is too complicated. It's pretty complicated. We'll figure it out, though.

Jack: Yeah. Using words.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Because that really is how it works. Right? Just fascinated by just being able to say tricky.

Cristina: Tricky.

Jack: Yeah. Because it's not a word, but it kind of is.

Cristina: Tricky is a word.

Jack: Is that what I said before?

Cristina: Tricky, Thingy.

Jack: Thingy.

Cristina: Thinky.

Jack: Thinky, Thinky. Yes.

Cristina: Well, thingy is really a word that people use. That isn't a word.

Jack: Yeah. Actually, that's a better example. People probably use thinky as well. But thingy is definitely not a word. Or by now it probably is.

Cristina: It probably.

Jack: Is it probably in the God of dictionaries or whatever.

Cristina: Thingy.

Jack: Thingy.

Cristina: Mm. It's an awful word.

Jack: Now, who is the, like, OG word N***? Let's. Let's find out who that person is. A person or people or, like, who's choosing? I just want to know who's choosing.

Cristina: They're called lexographers and I'm looking up the word a writer, editor or compiler of a dictionary. And they don't add new words to the dictionary. That's not their job. They're not making up words. They're just seeing what words are being used by a lot of people.

Jack: So they do what's already. I guess they're collecting data. Yeah, yeah, they're collecting data. It's already how language works. So it's like whatever people decide is a. Whatever people are using as a word, they'll just record if it's popular enough.

Cristina: Yeah. It just has to be used by a lot of people. Used by those people largely in the same way. Like, it has to have the same meaning between these people.

Jack: Yeah. It can't be, like, completely radically different from one person to another.

Cristina: It's likely to stick around and it's used and it's useful for a general audience and that's all they need. And that's the word when that is already a word. But, you know, that goes in the dictionary.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cristina: So that makes sense.

Jack: Yeah, it checks out, because I feel like that's the only way to do it. Right. You can never control how language works. But then the problem is, if it's only going to the majority at all times, the words that are used by the majority, then it completely ignores words used by minorities by default, by definition. So if the majority of a country, for example, who predominantly uses language, although I suppose they also might include words from England.

Cristina: What, in the dictionary?

Jack: Yes. Like in. Again, using Webster as the only one I know off the top of my head, which is why it's the one I'm suspicious of, because, like, how are you this overpowered that I know of a dictionary, but does Webster collect British words?

Cristina: I don't know. If they're a dictionary for English words, then I'm assuming no. Unless they're borrowed English words, which would be a lot of the words anyway.

Jack: Wait, British is English.

Cristina: Yeah, but, like. No, I know we use the same words. But I'm saying, like, they have words that we do not use.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Like they. You call the toilets something else. Or wait, they call it whatever they. You call the bathroom something else. Something like that.

Jack: Yeah, whatever.

Cristina: You know.

Jack: Not the point. Yeah. Yeah, but I know what you mean.

Cristina: Those words would not be in our dictionary.

Jack: Yeah. So they would, for a fact, not show up.

Cristina: I would think so.

Jack: Got you. Okay, okay, okay. Because that's.

Cristina: If it's a dictionary specifically for Americans, this is dictionary for English, then English is really complicated. And I don't know how.

Jack: Yeah. Because this is too many.

Cristina: It's too many. Yeah.

Jack: But I guess that would be the different definitions we see. Right. But also. Okay, yes. Here's the thing. We see different definitions for a word in a dictionary.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Which means they're not taking just one meaning for it anyways. They're already sort of giving you several of the meanings for the word.

Cristina: Yes. But those. It's probably because the meaning of the word changed over time. Like, it was very popular for this meaning once upon a time, and now it's this meaning, like. Or sometimes there are words that you would use differently. You use one word differently depending on the sentence. So I don't know.

Jack: Yes. But I still stand by. I think urban dictionary is probably the best tool for communication at the time.

Cristina: For the best communication.

Jack: The best tool for communication because you can understand sort of a more nuanced part of language. I guess you'd have to go through, like, if you were learning English and you wanted to just basic communication and get everything out.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: You go through Webster. That's the kind of dry, you know, sit down at a desk kind of thing. But then, like, the jazz player is the urban dictionary, which is the. The nuanced kind of tasteful other things you could say.

Cristina: You just gotta be careful on what you pick, though.

Jack: Well, obviously. But I'm saying that the sort of. Its position relative to it is sort of that. Sort of. Kind of. Just the more loose kind of not boring.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But like, you couldn't understand a lot of those things without going through Webster first.

Cristina: You need both, I guess.

Jack: Yeah, we definitely need one first. You don't necessarily need the other, but the other one will add.

Cristina: Definitely add. But they're both good to have. Because then you understand things that you probably wouldn't with urban. Like, I don't know who would be using that. Children. The urban dictionary, like, is that words just children are using. I don't know.

Jack: No, I think it's just all the words, all the Words. Words.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Or all the popular words.

Cristina: All the popular words.

Jack: I don't know how popular word has to be in order to get there, though. It's just a. Has to be real popular. What the h*** do you mean by.

Cristina: Popular, then, in urban dictionary? I don't even think it needs to.

Jack: Be popular on Webster. Webster. Oh, like, let's think about this. If a town, a single town uses.

Cristina: The word, is that enough?

Jack: Is that enough? This just one town, small town, let's say 500 people in this town. Is that town qualified? Okay, so if no, then there's number. Right.

Cristina: But does it matter where it's at? Like, does it have to be a word spread out? Like, how do you determine? Like, maybe if the town has its own dictionary for some reason, then, yeah, it would be in there in their dictionary. That's how it works.

Jack: Yeah, I guess. I guess there's a general dictionary. Like, all these words, obviously, to everybody just mean this.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That's the first part. And then all these words are from where you're reading it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or from where it was bought or from where it was originally made.

Cristina: Bought or originally made?

Jack: Yeah. Like, the area where it came from is essentially the region of earthworch came from.

Cristina: Would they have that in the dictionary? I wonder how it works, because we couldn't. We couldn't find how many people actually they need to say it's a word.

Jack: Yeah. I don't know. It's so vague. Right. So I don't. I don't understand. What number is it that they're using? And why do we allow certain things like this to exist where some of the information seems not even real?

Cristina: What do you mean?

Jack: Like, the number they're using to judge this, it's, like, not there. They're not sharing it, or they're intentionally keeping it away. And for whatever reason, nobody's questioning it.

Cristina: Because no one's gonna do that. Work themselves.

Jack: I guess that's work.

Cristina: Or I'm assuming it's a lot of work. Unless they're just making things up. That'd be crazy. If a word. No, because, like, if they try to make something up, someone will notice. There's no way you could just make up your own word, add it to the dictionary, and then no one's gonna question that.

Jack: You could say it's. I mean, if you're saying it's from a random other place, but they could look that up. Now they can.

Cristina: I don't know how they worked before, but now you can make sure that the words in the dictionary are actually words.

Jack: Yeah. No, you're totally right. Because there are things like just the Internet. So freaking overpowered.

Cristina: Mm. So it's. I don't know. Like, do you think people used to sneak in words?

Jack: I bet they have. I bet. I bet a couple of words got in there.

Cristina: Just made up.

Jack: Yes. Like straight made up words, but the people thought were actual words because maybe they were just clever enough to choose something that sounded right.

Cristina: Yeah. And they got a really good definition that made it work. That made people were like, I want to use this word.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: This feels right.

Jack: I think in a situation like that, maybe not like faking a word, but in a situation like that, the common use of the word is the goal. That would be real interesting to choose something that had, like, a real cool sound to make it popular.

Cristina: What do you mean? Like, you're not gonna make up a word.

Jack: When you do make up a word.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: But you get. If you're gonna make up a word, might as well choose a word that's gonna sound so astounding.

Cristina: Choose a word.

Jack: I mean, you're making English. Yeah. To make a word, you're inventing a whole word.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So, like, that's just interesting because we're saying that this is just recording. There's no creating. None of the people working on these dictionaries are making up words. No, but what if. What if, like, let's say there's six of them? What if all six of them are like, we're gonna make up this word, though, and everybody's gonna think it's just from a region that they're not in. How could they prove it wrong? You don't know which region it came from. We're just generally throwing it out there.

Cristina: What if someone just asked, though, like, to say crap. What?

Jack: Why would they have to say, I.

Cristina: Don'T know, because you're trusting them to do that? I don't know.

Jack: To tell you. Yeah, that's in Webster's dictionary.

Cristina: I don't know. I don't know.

Jack: Yeah, I don't think there's like an origin. I'm sure there are origin stories for words. Like, I'm sure in. In like Wikipedia, you can find something like that.

Cristina: The origins of some words.

Jack: Yeah. Probably find the origins of all words.

Cristina: But in Wikipedia.

Jack: Yeah. Wikipedia has all that crap. Actually, that's probably the source we should be going to for things like this.

Cristina: What? Yes.

Jack: Now, if there are things like Wikipedia, there's things like Webster, and their ultimate purpose is to inform and assist with communicating you know, rapidly with casual information, even if they're not the most reliable source of. Reliable enough. Not 100%, but it's like 95 is pretty solid, you know?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Why aren't they the mainstream? What's stopping them? Wikipedia has actually become the mainstream. It has kind of replaced encyclopedias as a whole. But it seems that urban dictionary does struggle. It's kind of not well known and it's been around a long time doing what it does. It's known. It's not such monstrously big that it even slightly competes with the classic dictionaries.

Cristina: Yes. Because most people probably see it as a joke. I don't know. See, so much of the words are.

Jack: Trolley words, I guess. So I guess the problem is that all the words that get submitted get posted no matter what. No matter what.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So that is an issue. That is an issue because it's like a giant thread of definitions and you could write kind of whatever you want on the thread or not. It's not really a thread. It's on top of the other. But it's like a Instagram comment fashion. They're stacked on top like messages.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it'll ever be as good as a regular dictionary unless someone does monitor it. But then that takes away from the. What makes it special. Yeah, Just any word is a word.

Jack: Now. I wonder if anywhere in the world there is no such thing as a dictionary. Like they, they. They've never been told the words. Like maybe they don't understand the concept of language and they can continue to speak. They do speak to each other. They have words and everything, but they don't understand. Like maybe some lost tribe that couldn't comprehend the idea that you made this all up.

Cristina: I don't know what you mean.

Jack: Like, language is made up inherently. Yeah, but these ancient people, do they believe they made it up or do they believe there's just something natural about these words? Even if somebody technically made it up down their bloodline? Yeah, they probably attach some meaning to it. And it's like we've always talked.

Cristina: You don't think they have it written down?

Jack: Depends. Not everybody writes everything down. On the flip side, who the h*** knows? There's that one tribe that used to tie knots and tell stories and count that way. And it's like, what?

Cristina: What?

Jack: Like, how is this.

Cristina: What? Isn't it the same thing with like, the Egyptian, the photos? What are those words? The hieroglyphs, Are they not the same? Maybe.

Jack: Yeah, but we're used to stories told through Pictures, not stories told through how many knots are tied on a string.

Cristina: Yeah. That's crazy.

Jack: Like, how is that a story? How. What? I couldn't. How did you figure? How'd they figure it out? How'd they.

Cristina: That has to be a lie. To make it up together, there has.

Jack: To be fake news, right?

Cristina: Yes. Aren't there people that just whistle at each other to communicate? Yes.

Jack: Oh, that's so weird. I remember that.

Cristina: That feels like. That's more believable, I think.

Jack: Whistling at each other.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Because you can make it different, right? Like, there's different tones to it. No, actually, now nodding does kind of make sense in a kind of Morse code type of way.

Jack: Nodding.

Cristina: Making knots into stories or whatever.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I guess so now that you say Morse code.

Cristina: Yeah. So, yeah, I guess. I guess anything could really.

Jack: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, you broke it down. You broke it down. Because at the end of the day, Morse code is just 1 and 0. So if you can just convey 1 and 0, you have a perfect communication system.

Cristina: That's all you need.

Jack: Because you can make it more complicated than that. Just with 1 and 0.

Cristina: Mm. So with the knots, it's gotta be the same, like, the size of it, how far they are from each other. There's different details that we would not be able to tell. But these people who are reading it.

Jack: And even if we figured it out, there's probably mad nuance. We haven't.

Jack: You know?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But then is their only way of communication through these nods?

Cristina: No, no.

Jack: They just spoke normally. But they didn't have writing. They just did this instead.

Cristina: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they writing now. I mean, that was probably before they had writing.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Right.

Jack: I mean, it had to be. Right.

Cristina: It had to be. That's just a weird thing to be like, I can write, but let's play with string instead.

Jack: I'm gonna make a whole. Not spiderweb so I can teach you something I could just say out loud in, like, a second.

Cristina: Yeah. There's no way.

Jack: Yeah. It's so inefficient. It has to be for artistic reasoning. Right. That's the only way those knots would make sense.

Cristina: Like, even before, if they didn't have anything to write and they just had a bunch of rope for some reason. Like, that's the most common thing for some reason. That's why they communicate with ropes.

Jack: So the goal here, I mean, not the goal, but the idea here is they learned how to knot before people invented rope.

Cristina: Before rope.

Jack: Yeah. They had to learn how to knot before rope.

Cristina: Why?

Jack: Where are they getting the folk?

Cristina: This is civilization before paper.

Jack: No, my bad is the other way around. They learned how to rope before they learned how to talk. That's where I'm getting at. Because they've. If they know how to talk.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Then they already know they have words.

Cristina: But if they don't know how to write it down or like that's not the first thing that they thought of to do was like.

Jack: So like, I can speak to you right now, but I don't think of anything else other than in knots. Other than words coming out of my mouth.

Cristina: Yeah. Like you picture in knots as well. I guess. Like how we can picture these words as words, you know, on the text, your, you know, regular Alphabet letters.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: You know that because that's what everyone uses. Because that's the thing we do. But like, if we just didn't have that, like, why did we choose that? Like, maybe they just evolved differently or whatever. Like.

Jack: Yes, 100%. When we look at a different places, the country, different countries, characters, it looks like just not language. If you're not used to seeing it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Looks like random nothing until you get familiar.

Cristina: Yeah, exactly.

Jack: Exactly. So I'm assuming, I guess that that's what we were facing here.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Sort of removed. It's only strange and not a thing because I'm not used to it, but the more I get it, the like. More. Yeah. Of course it works.

Cristina: Of course.

Jack: Think of it.

Cristina: It's probably the way they sent messages to each other. I don't know.

Jack: Like, I feel that's crazy. I mean, I guess you make a cool, intricate looking, like dreamcatcher appearing thing and then you send that on the trip and then they look at it and they're like, wow, this dreamcatcher informed me on everything I needed to know.

Cristina: Or maybe the person who wants to tell the story is the one that makes the rope and it's to remind themselves of the different parts of the story. It's not to actually give the other person to read the story because maybe they wouldn't be able to understand the story. Like, what if that's how it works? If you make the story yourself, you put points to remember the story and then that's how you tell the story to someone else.

Jack: You use it as a reminder.

Cristina: Yes. As a reminder.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Does that make sense?

Jack: I suppose, because.

Cristina: Because it's so weird to imagine that everyone's understands that story of that rope. Whatever rope you.

Jack: Yeah. Because had. How do they know that you're There has to be room for interpretation and that kind of restricts it. But then again, there doesn't have to be room for interpretation. We just like that.

Cristina: But yes.

Jack: Like maybe everything just means one thing and doesn't need context.

Cristina: It could, but it could also be just a person knows. I don't know. That's so. I wonder if there's anything else. Okay, there's the rope thing and there's the whistling thing, but that's it.

Jack: Role playing.

Cristina: Rope thing.

Jack: Roping. Roping Rope thing. The rope thing.

Cristina: The rope thing.

Jack: Oh, the rope thing. Yeah. Make the nodding.

Cristina: Making knots. Yes, making knots.

Jack: Yeah. This makes me wonder how many of these. Actually, I was gonna say like, you know, old languages or translations from something that isn't even necessarily a spoken language or words, but something like nodding or hieroglyphs or something in the translations, we definitely lose something. Like there's no way. We're a hundred percent spot on with what we're talking about when we're trying to convey. Oh well, this is what this picture might lay up. Maybe.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know, but even today, with really extremely well known languages, let's say some of the most popular languages in the world, Spanish, English and Mandarin. In those three languages, from like English to Mandarin, how much crap is lost simply because like we're estimating and we can get pretty close. Somebody can know both fluidly, but also they still know the estimations. Like it's natural and that's. They don't even think of it as an estimation. But really if you sat down and thought about it, there's probably words that don't even exist in the other language. So you can convey that. You have to say a bunch of other words to try to best get to that, you know.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So you're losing something. You're never really saying exactly the same thing. You're just getting close.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That's weird.

Cristina: That's weird. But that's what communication is sort of communicating what's going on inside.

Jack: You're always trying to communicate as closely as possible, but never 100% because it's impossible.

Cristina: Yeah. That's impossible. To both share the feeling of thinking like all of it all, whatever is up there. There's no way it's so.

Jack: But then it doesn't even matter because they're not. They never lived. Your perspective to have your filters to affect the information and think about it. Your way to then understand the emotions are feeling in the first place or the opinion they've got relative to the thing.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Because you Gave it to them. No, they need to also get your experiences in that con or the experiences relative to that thing, which could be. So.

Cristina: It's complicated.

Jack: It's complicated. It's so impossible to get somebody to understand. But you can agree to a bunch of crap.

Cristina: And you.

Jack: You know, some of the things in, for example, language. Some of the things in language won't convey what you're trying to say. You know, you go in agreeing that some of the things won't put. The majority of. Will psycho use. Very useful. The majority of the things, I think will be able to be conveyed not perfectly.

Cristina: No.

Jack: But better than the zero that if I didn't have this way of communication.

Cristina: That's why we always have new words. That's why the dictionary has to keep growing.

Jack: To do it better.

Cristina: Do it better. Yeah.

Jack: Specific. Yes. We're always trying to get closer. The closest would be. It wouldn't even be cloning because that would just. You break off the second you're cloned, Right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Yeah. It has. It's crazy. No, it's really just in a moment, not through permanence, because impermanence defeats the purpose, but for a moment, to be able to convey a perfect thought with emotion, opinion, and, like, every experience is attached to it that you're just like, whoa, I get it. Literally 100% to the same degree that you do.

Cristina: That doesn't sound possible. Doesn't sounds crazy. Like, how would you be able to do that?

Jack: Yeah. But I mean, I guess. I don't know. We consistently, as humans, think we got s*** in the bag, but we probably. With language particularly, we probably got a lot of crap wrong.

Cristina: Like, what do you mean?

Jack: Just language in general. We probably got a bunch of words from one language to another. Even within our own language, we sit here and debate. England says this word this way, we say it that way. Same thing happens in Spanish. I actually have a better example there. Marica is an insect in Spanish, but also marika could be a gay person. It's a slur for a gay person in Spanish. So they're totally different meanings. The same thing goes for the actual word gay. It means happy, but it also means homosexual.

Cristina: Mm. But you know how the person. What the person means when they say whatever they're saying?

Jack: Because the context surrounding it. Yeah, yeah.

Cristina: Like, it's hard to confuse what they're talking about. Unless, like, that. That's really hard to imagine someone being confused by that.

Jack: Yeah. But I guess. I guess it's too. I guess English is pretty solid. Most elixes are I don't know.

Cristina: A guesstimate is good enough. Just being close to the right answer is good. It's passing. It's fine.

Jack: Yeah, because it achieves the goal of communication. Getting close.

Cristina: So do you want to guess some urban dictionary words?

Jack: Sure.

Cristina: Because it shouldn't be that hard.

Jack: All right.

Cristina: It's English. Yeah, I think.

Jack: Urban dictionary. Okay, so what am I doing? Explain it.

Cristina: Okay, I'm going to tell you a word. You're going to guess the meaning of the word. Then I'll give you a sentence if you need it, with the word. And then do I give you the definition? I was thinking, no, I should give you the word. I don't know. You ask what you want. The definition or a sentence after you guess what the meaning is. Okay, no, the definition will give it away. I'll give you the definition if you get it wrong.

Jack: What I'm trying to do is. The definition.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay, I'll give you a word. You guess the word, I give you example. If you fail, you guess again, and then I'll give you the actual definition if you fail again.

Jack: Okay, that makes sense.

Cristina: Get two tries. Yes, that makes sense. Okay, the first word. Potaint. Potent potaint.

Jack: Something about the a******. Po. I don't know. A pooped. You pooped your taint.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: A poopy taint. S***** a**.

Cristina: Very close, very close. Do you want a sentence?

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: The potato screamed when I kicked it in the potaint.

Jack: Oh, it's just an a******. The b*******.

Cristina: It's very specific.

Jack: It's a taint. Yeah, it's a taint area of a potato.

Cristina: It's the soft and sensitive part of a potato.

Jack: Oh, s***. Okay.

Cristina: It's a pot taint.

Jack: Cat. You.

Cristina: Yes, yes. Very close, I guess.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting.

Cristina: Mourn hub.

Jack: Okay, Mourn Hub. Hub is p***, but mourn. It's necrophiliac p***. Mournhub.

Cristina: Whoa. Okay.

Jack: You said mourn Hub. Yes, mourn Hub. It feels to me like it's. It's like death dot com, you know? It's like necrophiliac p***. A tube is also. Tube would make me think p*** is.

Cristina: A. I'm gonna give you the exact.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: Okay. Person A. Got any plans tomorrow? Person B. No. Well, I'm going to my dad's funeral at the p***. Sorry. Mourn Hub. Person A. Oh, man. I'm sorry about that. If you're feeling mourny, I'll give you a call. I know someone to give you someone you might like. Ignore. Morning. That's the Next word. Or one of the words, but. So do you know what p*** crap mournhub is?

Jack: No.

Cristina: Has nothing to do with p***, okay? It's just a nickname for the funeral home.

Jack: I would never have guessed that.

Cristina: Okay, so ridiculous crap. Why does it sound so much like pornhub?

Jack: Pornhub doesn't make me think p***.

Cristina: Morning. What do you think that is from the last thing it was mentioned? What could it be?

Jack: I don't know. What is it?

Cristina: There's a feeling of extreme horniness during times of great emotional pain.

Jack: Okay, so morning.

Cristina: Yes, Morning. While h****.

Jack: Morning.

Cristina: Wooden onesie.

Jack: An uncircumcised d***.

Cristina: Oh, I have to read this. Okay, this sentence is so horrible. Or because it has an accent, but whatever. Me mom's prettier than you and she's sleeping in a bleeding wooden onesie.

Jack: I don't get it. And she's sleeping in a. This is the sentence.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Say it again.

Cristina: Me mom's prettier than you and she's sleeping in a bleeding wooden onesie.

Jack: I don't know.

Cristina: The term originated from Ireland used to define a coffin.

Jack: So it's also about death.

Cristina: Yes, they're all about death. No, they're not. How about COVID version?

Jack: A person who hasn't caught Covid. Or it's the first time catching COVID.

Cristina: They haven't caught Covid or taken any of the vaccines. That's a Covid version.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: You know some Covid versions.

Jack: Probably.

Cristina: Kakamamie. Kakamami. Kakamami.

Jack: Kakamami.

Cristina: Mamie. That's probably how you say it.

Jack: Mamie.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: No idea. Give me a sentence.

Cristina: This cockamamie washing machine never works properly.

Jack: Say what?

Cristina: This cockamamie washing machine never works properly.

Jack: It's a company. It's a piece. It's an insult. A piece of s***.

Cristina: It's crazy.

Jack: This crazy? It means crazy.

Cristina: I don't know it. A word you use when you cannot. Can't think of the proper terminology. That's so dumb.

Jack: It's like f***.

Cristina: Hot. Af. That should be easy.

Jack: Hot as f***.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. Blip.

Jack: What?

Cristina: Blip.

Jack: Blip, Blip. Spell it.

Cristina: B, L, E, P. Blep. Blip.

Jack: I don't know. Give me a sentence.

Cristina: Tiger is just sitting there with a blank look on his face and an adorable blep.

Jack: Get the f*** out of here. I don't know. What's the definition?

Cristina: A cat sticking his tongue out.

Jack: Oh, my God. Nobody would know that.

Cristina: Do you need an fobby? You know fomo?

Jack: Yes. Fear of missing out.

Cristina: Okay, now guess. Phobia, phobi.

Jack: Fear of.

Cristina: You can do it.

Jack: B*******. Backing phobe. What's it.

Cristina: Okay, try the opposite of fomo.

Jack: Well, no, no, no. What was the word? Oh, phobia, phobia. Fear of. I'm over it.

Cristina: Fear of being invited.

Jack: Oh, that's not the opposite of. Fear of missing out.

Cristina: Well, you don't wanna be in.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: So it's kind of the opposite.

Jack: No, because in the other option, you're not avoiding anything either.

Cristina: Yeah. One is you wishing you were there. One is you fearing being there.

Jack: Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense.

Cristina: Okay. Should I give you one more?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. C*** wobble.

Jack: A c*** wobble? Yes, It's a limp d***.

Cristina: That's. Andrew is such a c*** wobble. That's not even helpful at all.

Jack: That isn't what Isn't a completely useless.

Cristina: Person that spouts constant bullshit.

Jack: Oh, I know those people.

Cristina: You know some cockwobbles.

Jack: I know, I know. I've met many cockwobbles in my life.

Cristina: You gotta use that as part of your dictionary.

Jack: Like my language.

Cristina: Yes. If you're gonna use any of these words, it should be cockwobble or blip.

Jack: Not cockwobble.

Cristina: Not cockwobble.

Jack: No cockwobble.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Because it's gonna make people think.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Wow, this cockwobble thing is serious.

Cristina: Yes. I'll give you a few more. Nikki.

Jack: Nicky.

Cristina: Nakey.

Jack: Nakey is nude.

Cristina: Nude? Yes. Pretty much. It's chilling without any clothes on.

Jack: No, the chilling part is just added. You don't have to be chilling to be nakey.

Cristina: No, because that's naked. I guess it's like being able to live freely without clothes or pressure from others to put some on.

Jack: Interesting. You could be naked at home.

Cristina: I guess that's pretty much the easiest place to be. Nakey.

Jack: Yeah. Or a nudist colony.

Cristina: Yeah, but someone running around outside. Nakey problems. Yeah. Yes, problems. The next one is lawyer's lawyer.

Jack: Lawyer's lawyer. Person likes to argue. No, a debater.

Cristina: A debater. A lawyer's lawyer. When the crimes you commit are so bad that your lawyer needs to get a lawyer.

Jack: So ridiculous lawyer ends up needing a lawyer.

Cristina: And the next one is unfuck withable. I don't know if I'm saying that right. And f***. Wisible.

Jack: Yeah, but that's an easy one. That's just somebody who won't take s***. No wake. F*** it. You're gonna immediately snap back.

Cristina: Mm. How you get some of these? Like two, three of them?

Jack: Yeah, but those Are easy. Is it truly weird, like, intentionally picking, like, crazy, unknown ones that makes it difficult?

Cristina: How about recession dating?

Jack: What the f***? Recession dating. That's picking whatever's out there. Like, settling for less.

Cristina: Pretty close. You go out on a date with someone you're not interested in to get a free meal due to the state of the economy.

Jack: Okay, but that's literally just what the name sounds like.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. Okay, one more. It's don't p*** down my back and tell me it's raining.

Jack: I've heard this saying before.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Don't p*** down my back and tell me it's raining. What is that? Don't lie to me. Don't betray me.

Cristina: Whoa, whoa. Two of the three? Because it's pretty much, yes. Something you say when someone lies to you, cheats on you, or betrays you. So you got that one.

Jack: Yeah, fair enough. See, that's. That's life experience. That's an easy one, too. I've heard that one before many times, so. Yeah, but we're running out of time anyways. It doesn't matter.

Cristina: All right?

Jack: It doesn't matter. The point is that communication sucks, and we all suck at communicating.

Cristina: But words are great.

Jack: But words are great. And language is pretty dope.

Cristina: So use some of these, especially in Blip.

Jack: Blip. Anyways, if you guys want to listen to conversations of this nature, maybe there's more of these. I don't know. But these other episodes in what we talk about, a bunch of other crap. We probably discussed language at some point in the past. Probably not directly, but I'm sure we, like, circled it.

Cristina: I'm pretty sure we have.

Jack: Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, there's like, 200 episodes. You can fish to to find that.

Cristina: Good luck.

Jack: May the force be with you. But you can find us outside of the show at our social medias with clips and stuff, and you can find that. That's all Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, uscometvopod.

Cristina: Remember to subscribe, rate, and review the show.

Jack: Yes. Word of mouth. The most important thing since the creation of toast. Why do people say that this is the best thing invented since sliced bread or whatever? F. I don't know. Sliced bread is badass.

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: But, like, also, it's not loaf bread.

Cristina: It's not that amazing.

Jack: Take a seat. Sliced bread.

Cristina: There's better things than sliced bread. Peanut butter.

Jack: I think it's just convenient. Oh, I think it's convenient and good tasting simultaneously. I think that's what catches people.

Cristina: It's so boring, but okay.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Pretty much better than pizza. No, I let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Word of the mouth, powerful talk, invite talk.

Cristina: Say these words.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: That we've taught you.

Jack: You've learned much.

Cristina: This has been the Rambling podcast. Take nothing personal, and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye. Somehow Penguin Day and Martin Luther King Day are so close to each other, considering how related those two things are.

Cristina: How those things are related. But I have a question, though, because from what we talked about last time, we don't have penguins. I mean, do we have penguins?

Jack: No. Penguins aren't birds, okay? We. We have a creature that is bird like, that has been manufactured, okay, to survive in Arctic conditions.

Cristina: And we call them penguins.

Jack: And we call them penguins, all right, because their flaps are used to push them through the water. But the flaps look like wings. We're like, that's a bird. But, like, we all know birds aren't real.

Cristina: Yeah, that's why I was confused. We gave a whole day to this fictional thing.

Jack: No, no, no, no, no, no. Penguins are the protectors of the Arctic Wall, and it was created by the overlords on the other side of the wall.

Cristina: Good morning. Good morning. The podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by great dots.info art by Zero Lupo, and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black.

JCP 6.04 Billy Meier UFO Contacts & Spiritual Teachings

Guest Michael Horn ( documentary filmmaker, blogger and follower of the teachings of Billy Meier and his Prophecies) join Jack to discuss everything from Billy’s predictions of Covid and the Russia Ukraine Crisis to the teachings of Billy. Listener questions about the Billy Meier UFO Contacts, the Prophecies and some questions for Michael are answered during the show.

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Topics Discussed:

  • Coronavirus prediction since 198
  • How are the aliens getting info
  • Billy is about 160 years of age because of timetravel
  • Final and Seventh prophet
  • The real Jesus
  • Putin reads Meier’s material
  • Billy’s Telepathy- Teaching of spirituality
  • Love, Peace, Freedom, and Harmony
  • People are being tricked by the government
  • We are all going to die from nuclear war
  • Billy comes from a line of reincarnated prophets
  • Nokodemion
  • This is not the first universe
  • The global peace combat troops
  • Future Earth travelers watching the earth
  • Astrology and tarot

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Films: Search - The Silent Revolution of Truth

https://TheyFly.com

https://theflyblog.com

Email: Michael@theyfly.com

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JCP 5.09 3 Questions & Optimistic Perspectives

Guest Corey Kareem, host of ‘3 Questions by Corey Kareem’, joins Jack for a lengthy discussion on failure, perspective and the ups and downs of life. Corey is an optimist wanting to share positive perspectives and outlooks in his life and the life of others. His podcast is a great platform to hear the human struggles and how they are overcome by people from many walks of life.

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Topics Discussed

  • Perspectivism
  • Optimism vs Pessimism
  • Failure and Success
  • Overcoming Difficulties
  • Self Perception
  • Setting Goals and Chasing Dreams
  • Life Changing Circumstances
  • Marketing
  • Sharing Wisdom and Experience

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Rambling 151: Powerful Beings

Was Jehovah a single person or a group of people? Are Jehovah’s angels just Zeus’ children rewritten? Are the soldiers in Jehovah’s army (angels) roughly as powerful as Jehovah, but they merely believe in his philosophy and follow him rather than attempting to replace him? The duo unpack the possibility that Jehovah and his angels were merely a powerful group of humans with adrenochrome on their side at war with other factions of humans achieving the same abilities awarded by adrenochrome but through other rituals and traditions. What they discover about Hitler and Jehovah in the process is something no one could have ever predicted!

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Topics Discussed

  • Hitler
  • Zeus
  • Jehovah
  • Adrenochrome
  • Power
  • Biblical Giants
  • Small Humans
  • Biblical Metaphors
  • Omniscience
  • Nothingness
  • The Garden of Eden

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Jack: This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised. Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Just Conversation Podcast, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button to get notified the second new episodes are released. Released.

Cristina: Also, this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner to share opinions and ideas on topics we discuss.

Jack: Yes. So be sure to pull someone close and scream at them that this is the show. This, the Just Conversation podcast, is the show. You're gonna be like, what do you mean? And you're gonna be like, it's the show. Be like, but what? The show.

Cristina: The what?

Jack: Which of the many? And why is this? And it's like, no, no, no, it's the show. There's one show and it's that show. It's like, no, but what about, like, Supernatural? And it's like, no, no, no, no. That's not real. Only the Just Conversation podcast is real.

Cristina: Is a real show or is real like.

Jack: No, it's a real show.

Cristina: Historically, both. Okay.

Jack: We are the show that's ever existed. Everything else is an illusion created by the Matrix. Anyway, so we were talking about how Jehovah.

Cristina: Right.

Jack: Everybody listening? We're back on this.

Cristina: Yes, whatever. We can't help it.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the angels are based on the Greek gods. We know that exact thing. Even with the Dead Sea Scrolls continuously being uncovered, all we're finding out is that it's basically a copy and paste of a bunch of Greek mythology s***.

Cristina: Yes, that sounds right.

Jack: So the same way that all the angels, all the gods were sort of equal to Zeus, maybe slightly less powerful, but they were equal in that Zeus is a demigod. He's a flesh person who you can kill and will stay dead. And all the other gods are essentially the same thing. My argument is that Jehovah, being based on this, works the same way. Now, he is the loudest, and he claims to be the one and only God, but I think all the angels are.

Cristina: Would it be equal to him?

Jack: Would be equal to him to some degree.

Cristina: Like, all the demigods would be equal.

Jack: To Zeus, all the gods to Zeus the way. All the angels to Jehovah. And the example I have is that Hitler was one man.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And there were millions of soldiers under his control, but they're all men.

Cristina: I mean, they were all equal to him.

Jack: Yeah. They're all Equal to him. But we don't know any of them.

Cristina: They're superhuman.

Jack: Yeah. We don't know a single one of them. And he is not special. Hitler was not special. He was just another person.

Cristina: But he made himself special.

Jack: He made himself special. He was the loudest, he was the scariest, he was the most ruthless. And as a result, he's who we remember. The same applies for Zeus, who was particularly ruthless and violent. And same applied to Jehovah. Jehovah was what, at the beginning? Aggressive, ruthless, monstrous, murderous, destroy, whatever. Until people are like, if we stop f****** with him, he will stop retaliating. Yeah, let's just listen. And then what? He just became a passive, kind guy because, like, everything is in the orders that I wanted it to be.

Cristina: But he had to be that tough guy first.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Weird. Yes, he is. He could be just another angel. Like, angel could just be the word for God or gods or demigods or whatever.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: 100% equal. But in all these. In all these stories about gods, whether it's Christianity or. What was the one that you just mentioned?

Jack: Greek mythology?

Cristina: Greek mythology or Norse mythology? Norse mythology. Thank you. Norse mythology. They all have giants as well in these stories. They're giants. And giants seem to be something other than human and gods, or at least that's why I feel like that's what's going on. If there are giants in the Christian book, what are they? Are they aliens?

Jack: Well, there's an interesting question there, because there are giants in the Christian Bible, especially the one that David fought.

Cristina: But in the Bible, they're human and angel babies. Right. Or something like that.

Jack: Well, Goliath wasn't. Goliath was just a giant that I believe was human.

Cristina: Oh, he was just a. But he's a giant human. He's not a giant giant. You know, like in.

Jack: No, I think he was abnormally huge. I think he was an impossible size.

Cristina: Oh, like an actual giant?

Jack: Like an actual giant.

Cristina: Oh, so then what are these giants?

Jack: Okay, so an easy argument for this would be people were smaller in the past. If you trace us far back enough, we're actually at our tallest proportion moment. Yes. Okay, well, it's complicated because it branches off in two different directions. Right. We began as smaller humans, but we were taller apes. So when we were still in the ape age.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We were pretty big.

Cristina: For apes.

Jack: For apes.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And this is in the period where we started standing up on two legs and, like, looking around in that. Like, we were pretty tall around that time. Neanderthals, that kind of s***. We're talking huge. But then we enter the human ish era. We're humanoid and almost human.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then for whatever reason, there's a crazy dip and we're very small. Through the beginning of humanity, we're still.

Cristina: Big compared to apes, we're still small.

Jack: We're pretty small. We're talking like average height being anywhere between four, five and five feet.

Cristina: Whoa. Okay. What?

Jack: And we know that people can be as tall as 7ft, 9 inches, 9, 8ft. What's tallest human? Like, okay, we got huge f****** people.

Cristina: Yeah. But not many.

Jack: Almost twice the size of the average. If the average was four or five.

Cristina: Yeah. Are those giants?

Jack: So these people are technically giant? I think you're technically giant after you pass like six, six or something.

Cristina: But that's not what they're talking about in these stories.

Jack: Well, we don't know, because the problem with interpreting the Bible literally is that it's a book of metaphors to begin with.

Cristina: What about the other books, are they also metaphors?

Jack: I don't know. Assuming that these are also periods of time when they were. How do I put it? Okay. If you were to say, what is the past of Asia look like? Asians are usually pretty small. So were they smaller? Evolution tells us yes, probably. But then we look at something like Africans that are really tall.

Cristina: I don't.

Jack: If two of these people were to.

Cristina: Cross paths, would one see the other as a giant? Is that what you're saying?

Jack: Chances are in the past we would have seen the other as a giant.

Cristina: If we didn't know that they were people already.

Jack: Their skin already looks different. We've never encountered these people before. All we know is that they're humanoid, but literally twice the size of any of us.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's a giant. And when you write about that, that's a giant. And if they've never encountered you and you've never encountered them, Fear and hostility is human response, survival.

Cristina: Yeah. So they weren't really giants battling gods then. He's in a lot of these stories. It's a power, like fight between giants and gods for whatever.

Jack: I mean, for power, whatever. It's possible. Let's look at, let's compare these two situations. Right. You have Jehovah, all his angels waging war. We have Zeus, all the gods waging war.

Cristina: Yeah. And the Titans that are giants.

Jack: Yes. In these two cases we have the loudest guy who we know of and their army. Like we said, Hitler and his army.

Cristina: Okay, Right.

Jack: If this was taking place so long ago that it was let's say, I don't know the first f****** year, but the same event. So there's a guy who's a Hitler equivalent, super loud, surrounded by people just like him. But he's the loudest, he's the scariest, he's more ruthless. And there's a group of rebels who come from somewhere else. These rebels come from a. Now this Hitler is taking place in Asia. He's a short guy. We are terrorizing. We don't know if there's anything outside of Asia. We're over here terrorizing everything in Asia. Taking over, expanding, trying to explore what there is. And then these people popped out of nowhere. And they're like, that's wrong, what they're doing. But they're African. They're very tall, they're old school African. Like 6, 5, every single one of them. And over here, you're all four or five, every single one of you.

Cristina: So you're saying that these characters are probably based on humans, then it's not gods at all.

Jack: It's not gods at all. It was just some guy whose loudness was godly.

Cristina: Yeah, it's like in, what is it, North Korea, where he convinced everyone that he is pretty much God and he can't. Like, he doesn't need to use the bathroom and stuff like that. Like, there's stories like that about whoever this ruling evil dude is. This ancient Hitler.

Jack: Yes, yes, yes, exactly. Exactly. And I think that it's possible that the giants we've heard about were just an opposing team. The other people.

Cristina: The other people. Okay, I guess.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: What? So it's not really. But then none of these stories matter when it comes to what could exist besides us.

Jack: Yes. Because everything is a story about us. And we just have to keep in mind that we are speaking metaphorically at all times in these books. So when we say giants. Well, what does it mean? Tall guy.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: When we say God, maybe people in power, people with weapons, people can cause damage. People who other people listen to because.

Cristina: They just seem magical because of that. Because they have abilities.

Jack: No, no, no. It's not even magical. Those are also just metaphors.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Yeah.

Jack: Everything is a metaphor.

Cristina: Yes, yes. Everything's a metaphor. Okay, okay. Take the magic out of it.

Jack: Take the magic out of it. Yeah. It's just loud people and war and crap of that nature.

Cristina: What? I guess. And it's just a history book.

Jack: It's a history book of metaphoric stories.

Cristina: Yes, all the books.

Jack: All the books.

Cristina: All the books are telling the same story, which are all metaphors.

Jack: Which is funny when you talk about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Right. And these things are being brought out, discovered, and they're just talking about the stories in the Bible, and the Christians are grabbing this s*** and running like, hey, a different book is talking about the same stories that took place in the Bible. What? And it's like, oh, my God. If you guys look at the text, you'll find out that the Bible was written using these texts, not the other way around. Not the other way around. It's not that two different groups of people saw the same events and wrote about them. It's that the Bible is based on these books who are based on those.

Cristina: Books, who are based on those other books who are based on those other books.

Jack: Like, and so the Christians are like a second. No, it's the same. It's the first version of the book you're reading?

Cristina: Yes, it's the first draft.

Jack: Yeah, it's the first draft. Well, you're like, wow, different. No, it's not different. It's the same book, but in.

Cristina: For the Dead. For the Dead Sea Scrolls. How can they read those? Is it even possible?

Jack: It's in Hebrew.

Cristina: Okay. So they can translate it somehow. Okay.

Jack: I mean, it's.

Cristina: I don't know how old they are. No, I didn't know it was still a common language that those were written in.

Jack: Oh, yeah, yeah, they were in Hebrew.

Cristina: Hasn't that language changed since then?

Jack: Yeah, but the language is still pretty, like, used pretty common. It's kind of widespread. And you can just ask somebody to read it to you. Like, the difference between Old English and now is hearing somebody talk about it. But if you were to read it, you can still pick up on what they're saying.

Cristina: Yeah, but it makes me. It reminds me of that story of that someone went through the Bible and then changed everything for other words to tell a whole new story where the Bible is actually about aliens and their experiment with humans and they were using the Hebrew language and giving different meanings, but it's the same word. But I guess that word has multiple meanings, so you can just change it to whatever you want it to mean, as long as it's the word. Because that word could mean. You know what I mean?

Jack: Okay, I know exactly what you're talking about and who you're talking about. I forget his name, but I know what you mean. And in the case that you're currently talking about the Bible being the story about aliens or whatever, out of the two possibilities that we're faced with, either say the Bible is being Literal? Well, in assuming the Bible is telling real events that were of supernatural proportions, at least us.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah.

Jack: Whether it be powers or science, the latter seems more likely because the words that they have in the time that the words were being used and written actually align more with the guy's argument about it being associated with foreignness and aliens as opposed to gods and perfection. So it's more likely that what they meant was aliens. That is fact.

Cristina: But I'm assuming no one's going to read those scrolls in using that way.

Jack: Of thinking, because they're already going to say that. Well, at least if they're Christian, they're going to look at it. Or Hebrew or anybody who believes in the religions of Jehovah.

Cristina: Yeah, they're going to translate it using those words that they're familiar with.

Jack: Yeah, the translation has to fit. It's the confirmation bias you're going to go in with. This is what it should sound like. So anything I read I gotta fix for being like this.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Versus reading it and knowing how the words were used at the time that it was written. So what they most likely mean which the guy you're talking about wrote a book explaining how the words were used previously.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And how when they were written in the Bible, there's no way they could have meant water when they meant the heavens or something like that.

Cristina: Yeah, he gets really into it.

Jack: Yes, I can remember his name. Name. But yeah, I know who you're talking about. In any case, it's always more likely than that there are aliens, than that there is a divine being who designed anything and everything somehow existing from outside reality.

Cristina: There can't be something outside. I don't be.

Jack: That doesn't make any sense. In fact, the idea that something or.

Cristina: They can be, but it can't be inside too.

Jack: The idea that something even thinks is an idea from within reality.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Oh, that's how complicated it is. Even the concept of perception, awareness. Consciousness is inside is a concept that exists within reality. For anything to have awareness and make everything else, you would have needed awareness to begin with, which is impossible to have it before reality in which that came to be exists.

Cristina: What?

Jack: So there could not be just definitively there could not be a God based on that. At least not an omniscient everywhere, all the time God, No. And the best we have for that is still from within reality. Which is to say, how did our universe come to be? And that's where we have nothingness observed by consciousness. We still don't know where the place where those two Things are is we know it's within. I guess it's reality.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Even if there's no universe, there's no space, time. There is just nothingness and consciousness. Those things still exist within reality.

Cristina: Can we prove that there's nothing? No, we can't.

Jack: No, it would be impossible.

Cristina: This is a question. You have to ask it. I don't know. I know there's no answer to that, but it's just.

Jack: Yes. The answer is there is nothing. There's as much nothing as there is something. They're both infinite.

Cristina: But can you prove it? How do you prove that nothing's there?

Jack: By proving that something is here.

Cristina: And that's enough.

Jack: It's easy. In order for something to be in a place, there must have been nothing there first. Otherwise the something could not go there because there's already something there. You need nothing there first in order to put this new something there. Okay, well, because we are here, there must have been nothing here.

Cristina: Because we are here, there must have been nothing.

Jack: Because if there was something here, we could not be here.

Cristina: Yes. That is so complicated.

Jack: Nothingness has to be just as likely as somethingness. But we can never experience a moment of nothingness, difference.

Cristina: Mmm. We cannot experience nothing that is complicated. But that's more about death than anything. That's complicated. Because then what is after life? Yeah.

Jack: More perception. Definitely.

Cristina: You don't think there could be a nothing?

Jack: We couldn't experience it no matter what we would continue to experience. That's why I don't fear death.

Cristina: Because you have to experience something.

Jack: Because the however long you experience nothing for, you'll be unaware that you experienced nothing. The example is always you die or you're dying and the light is slowly fading. And then the second it goes to black, a split second goes by, and then the light starts expanding again. And then you just pop out of somebody's v*****.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So you never stopped perceiving? Yeah, there was just more of the same. Or you die. You're dying. You're on your deathbed. You're an old man. You're about to leave your soul, you're about to leave your body. Everything is dying. The lights are going out. And then suddenly everything starts to fractalize and starts to break apart.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then there's just a bunch of parts everywhere. And you're still witnessing the part, but the concept of you is gone. But you're still watching the people who were your family slowly decompose into nothing that looks like just parts. You watch your body. You're Surrounded by decompose into nothing. And now you're still here, perceiving this soup of something.

Cristina: Do you? Huh? I guess. If that's true. And then you just. You're just born afterwards. Is it. Are you in the nothing? You wouldn't be born.

Jack: No, the previous scenario. You're born. In this scenario. You've died and crossed to some other plane of existence. Smooth. It was seamless. There was never here's space with nothing in it. Yeah, that never happened. You just went from, hey, you're sitting across from me. Christina, I'm on my deathbed. You come and you visit me next to my deathbed on my last moment. And you're like, hey, it was real fun to do this show with you, but you're dying. And I'm like, yeah. And then I see you. Slowly as the light goes away, you start to get fuzzier and fuzzier. And then you become so fuzzy. You're blending into the wall now because it's also fuzzy. Before long, everything is sort of uniform, but not. This is a mix of colors and stuff. And I also forget in that same progression, slowly start forgetting more and more of who I am until there is no me, There is no you. There's nothing. I don't remember anything. Because remembering is irrelevant here. Yeah, but I'm still perceiving. I've not stopped perceiving. Now I'm just seeing this mesh of colors. And now I start to decipher what this mesh of color means. And thus forming my new reality.

Cristina: That makes sense. Yes, that's probably it. Why wouldn't it be?

Jack: Why wouldn't it be? That's how we were born in the first place. We popped out, everything was a blur of colors. And we started just piecing together what that meant.

Cristina: Yeah, I think that sounds right. Yeah.

Jack: Yeah. And we're like, okay, well, this mixture always means Mom. That mixture is always Mom. That's a chair over there. Some before long. Chair. Table. Mom. Christina. Tv.

Cristina: Red. Blue.

Jack: Red. Blue. Yeah, but then I'll forget all that s*** again.

Cristina: Yes, but there's never nothing.

Jack: Couldn't be. We couldn't perceive nothing. Otherwise it wouldn't be nothing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The moment we can perceive it, it's something.

Cristina: It's so confusing. It's not confusing, but it is complicated. Yeah.

Jack: It's possible to discuss. Impossible to imagine.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. What's less impossible is the. What's that thing we call now The Force? What are we calling it?

Jack: Yeah, the Force.

Cristina: The Force. Guess what? In. I'm not finished with the story, though. But I'm going to talk about what I've read so far.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: In Prince Lestat, the vampires, they're not just vampires. There's a starting point, if you remember from part two. There was the first vampire, but there was something that made the first vampire.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: It was some type of creature. I don't know what it is. When I picture the creature, it looks like the thing from Fullmetal Alchemist. The little black thing with an eye from the gate. From the Gate. Well, I don't know. But he was also in the real world with their dad. He had him in a little thing.

Jack: And pride was also made out of him.

Cristina: Oh, yes, yes. Well, that thing, he's in Prince Lest. That. Well, not. He's not in that story. Or maybe he is. I'm not sure. But whatever, he was in the First Vampire, and that's how the vampires were made. And in the newest book, there is a problem with creating vampires now. And a vampire's theory is that this thing that made the first vampire, it's. It's kind of like in all the vampires. And it's reached its limit of how far it could reach with its powers or whatever. Like it has a limit. It reminds me, though, of the Force and how we say if you use the Force too much. I don't remember what happens if you talk about how it's bad to use the Force too much. The dark side is bad to abuse it. Yes, it's bad to abuse it because.

Jack: Whatever, it'll turn on you.

Cristina: It'll turn. Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: You're weakening it or something.

Cristina: Yeah. So I feel like this story is pretty much following the rules, that all these other things that are like that are following.

Jack: That makes me think of the movie, the one. The one where Jet Li went around killing all the other versions of himself and every one of them he would kill would spread that one's energy amongst all the other versions of him.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then where there were two, they were so inhumanly strong, they're superhuman.

Cristina: Yeah. Because that power has a limit.

Jack: Yes. So if that's what's happening in the story, then it's possible. If they just start killing vampires, the vampires who have those powers will get stronger progressively.

Cristina: Well, they get stronger progressively just by aging, too.

Jack: Yes, but if they murdered all the vampires.

Cristina: Well, there's maybe. I don't know what's happening in this world. But my guess is this creature is so tired of all the vampires that are around, it's trying to convince vampires, the older ones the strong ones to murder other vampires, all the weak ones because there's so many weak vampires. And I guess he's sick and tired of all these vampire. He's sick and tired of sharing this energy because it is him. And so he's getting these older vampires to kill them off because he is the energy. And I guess he's tired or he's being wasted and he's sick of it. So he needs some of them to die.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: Does that make sense? I feel like it makes. I don't know if that's what's happening, but that's what I think is happening.

Jack: It would make sense. Yeah. You did release some of the power and spread yourself less than.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jack: Makes sense.

Cristina: But I wonder if the force works like that too.

Jack: Possible.

Cristina: Like in the flash. It does seem like that.

Jack: Yes. There is the amount of force to go around. And if too many people are using it then other people don't have access to it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It is completely possible. Yes.

Cristina: It's interesting they all work like that.

Jack: Because you have to think that the universal energy that exists everywhere is being used by everybody. There is a sort of amount of individuals that could be tuned in at any one moment.

Cristina: There is an amount that there's.

Jack: Okay. Most people probably use the energy small time.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So if somebody's using a f*** ton of it somewhere in the universe, 99.99% of everything is using fractions of it and doesn't even. Like they can still use it because the chunk free is so big by comparison that that small tiny chunk could still be spread out amongst a whole planet.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know like everybody on earth using it at the smallest percentage. A small fraction of the force can use the force at the same time that somebody else where is using 70% of it in one shot. Because that 25 is still a ton of energy.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But now if two creatures or two civilizations decided to use 75% at the same time. We're not advanced enough to do that.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Or we haven't found things like that. And if we did, we could destroy this plan by acc. If somebody had that kind of power. But if somebody does and there's two of them, who knows how often these people are using it. So those people can't.

Cristina: Yeah. That would start a huge problem.

Jack: That would start a huge problem. Now we don't encounter that because we're primitive in every case. Whether it be magic, whether it be science, whatever the case, we're primitive.

Cristina: But if there's something on Earth right now because it reminds me of adrenochrome and towers falling for the blood. And what if that's also involved in.

Jack: It's not enough.

Cristina: It's not enough.

Jack: Small potatoes.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: We're talking even the gods from within Earth, Zeus, Jehovah, these people. Right.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They could both simultaneously use the energy and it would still not. They could both use as much as they know how. And there would still be energy to go around. And it would still be an insignificant amount because they're still regional. One is from Greek.

Cristina: Yeah. But there was still problems though. But I guess that's because with each other more than. I mean, like in their little groups. There was a bigger problem.

Jack: Yeah, but doesn't. We're talking about the force. It's not causing any force disturbance.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because they can both use it effectively.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And we haven't drained. Now, if everybody on Earth had the same capacity to use it that Zeus and Jehovah did, would then. That created then. Or are we still talking small potatoes because it's still one planet.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There's something out there so powerful it took over the Great Void.

Cristina: And how could that be? If there was a limit.

Jack: If there. There is a limit.

Cristina: If there.

Jack: But they were using. And keep in mind how small the Great Void is as compared to the rest of the universe. It's so small. We look and we got to look really far and we see it really small. We just know that it's huge because we still see it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But it's far and tiny. So that took an immense amount of energy.

Cristina: That definitely did. Yeah.

Jack: If somebody did that with raw power, not just science, but using some sort of power.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Can two beings do that? Now we're talking a different scale.

Cristina: Mm. And you think they can do that?

Jack: I think yes. I don't know. Can two at the same time. But also that's such a small amount. Like, how big is the power distribution we're talking about if it's using the entire universe, if the whole universe is using the same energy source.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: How big are we talking? And like, is our universe old enough to even have beings that can wield such exaggeration? Or has it been.

Cristina: It seems like we can't all share it though. Or if we're looking at like full metal alchemists. They needed to kill people to. To share it between the powerful people that are using or whatever. Or was that not needed for the energy to be used? I feel like it related.

Jack: No, because they are using something different. They use energy to make transmutation. You Mean philosopher stones.

Cristina: Okay, that's.

Jack: No, it's the same exchange. If every one transmutation required a death.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Right. Then the philosopher's stone is cashing in your deaths ahead of time to then use the power later.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Same concept.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It's just. When are you paying?

Cristina: Yeah. That is so complicated. That's. That's. That show is just so dark. But there is a limit. But there's no way to reach that limit.

Jack: There is a way to reach that limit. We just don't know what.

Cristina: We can't reach it.

Jack: Yeah. And we can't fathom what would there should be. Because there is a limit.

Cristina: Has someone reached that limit?

Jack: Probably not. What is the lifetime of God? What. What. What numbers would we give if he can outlive our entire universe? In fact, our entire universe is the fraction of a second to God. But he lives 100 years his time. So if a fraction of a second. Right. We hadron collider. We smash two atoms together. Boom. The conditions of the universe. A whole civilization happens in that small space. A whole universe happens. Bunch of galaxies, bunch of planets, a bunch of civilizations. 50 trillion years go by and then that universe dies. Great. Sweet. Okay, fine. Universe is dead after trillions. That was a fraction of a second. How long in comparison to that fraction of a second will I. Is my time if I'm 100 years old and that's I'm just die at 100 normal a** f****** life. But that I'm the guy who smashed the two atoms together and made that. So in that timescale, we're now in the universe that is going to expire in 50 trillion years. But all of this has been a moment God doesn't even notice is happening because it's happening so quick.

Cristina: Yes, but we're somehow using his energy or.

Jack: Well, my point would be at that scale, what is a minute? What is a day? Could we fathom what a second is?

Cristina: No.

Jack: A second is long as h***. A second could be the entire. Actually this whole universe exists in less than one second of God.

Cristina: Okay. Okay.

Jack: If we convert that to energy.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There's nothing like it's. It could expire.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: In a normal. God is going to die in a.

Cristina: But it took a lot of energy to make us, though.

Jack: It took such insignificant energy to run the hadron colliders that we still have everything else in the planet working simultaneously.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Do you see?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Just to smash two atoms together and create a whole universe. It took so little energy, most people don't even know that Machine exists.

Cristina: All right?

Jack: Nobody noticed anything happened.

Cristina: Everyone feared for the worst.

Jack: Nobody knew. That's all just stories from people who were looking into it.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Nobody knew what was happening. Oh, and it's happened many times.

Cristina: Yeah. Oh, those are all fake stories.

Jack: So in these cases, one fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second to a hundred years. So to a full life amount of energy, what is our universe? Insignificant?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it's easy to waste the energy. Something could use it. Is there anything within here who could use it? I don't. F***.

Cristina: Probably not. Is adrenochrome the closest we get to that, though?

Jack: Adrenochrome? Isn't that. Is adrenochrome connected to the Force?

Cristina: I don't know. That's why I'm wondering. I'm wondering if it is.

Jack: No, I think adrenochrome is a shortcut.

Cristina: To what?

Jack: To not have to use the Force, but acquire all the same things. Okay. Think of what Alan Watt says. You could meditate into an entirely new perspective of viewing the world and understanding reality. Or you could f****** take acid. Like acid is good to show you the window. But learn how to get there on your own.

Cristina: Oh, okay. It's better to learn how to get there.

Jack: It's not better, it's just a different way. He suggests learn together on your own. But who cares if you can get there?

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: The point being that while we have. Actually, I have an idea. I lost my train of thought.

Cristina: We talk about how adrenochrome is a shortcut to blind.

Jack: Oh, yeah. Then adrenochrome would in any case be the asset. It's like the Force is the way there, but not everybody's connected to it. Not everybody has a He man sword or Power Ranger powers or f****** this or that.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Jedi mind tricks or whatever. Sometimes you just take adrenochrome and you get there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And it's instant versus a bunch of Pragues and studying monks can get there. Spend their whole lives, mind you, instantly when you meet them, what the f*** is happening?

Cristina: Or take adrenochrome.

Jack: Take Adrenochrome.

Cristina: No practice.

Jack: But also the same things would happen. People who practice and learn how to use the things, are they out there causing trouble?

Cristina: Trouble? No, never. But they don't have withdrawal, which I guess is a good.

Jack: Yes, that's another good.

Cristina: That's a good thing.

Jack: But also they're not out there causing. Because they learn how to wield it. Yeah, but if you got the power overnight. Do you know how to wield it? No, you just got crazy abilities. It's the same idea of when we were having that episode about the mass shooting maybe two, three seasons ago, and me and Blake were talking about our guns bad and our people bad. And it's like, no, not really. Yes, people die all the time. But if you gave everybody a gun overnight. Well, actually, we're talking about the Internet particularly, which was. Is the Internet evil? It's like, no, the Internet is just a brand new creation. And we don't know what the f*** we're doing.

Cristina: We definitely don't know what we're doing with the Internet or with guns.

Jack: With the Internet or with guns. Well, we know how to use guns. More guns really don't cause that much of a problem.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: If you gave everybody a gun, we kind of get it. But before anybody knew what a gun. This is how I proved my point. Before anybody knew what a gun was. If suddenly I invented guns today and I just happened to make enough of them to give everybody a gun. A lot of people are gonna die.

Cristina: Yes. No one knew about what it was.

Jack: Yeah, a lot of people are gonna die because we don't know what the f*** we're doing. Even after we see a couple of people dying, people can be. Well, I could defend my house with her. I could do this without. People are gonna shoot each other because we don't know what the f*** we're doing. Same goes for the Internet. We don't know what the f*** we're doing. We're just screaming at each other because we don't know what the f*** we're doing.

Cristina: Yes. Because they're complicated. Because people shoot themselves.

Jack: Yeah, but those are accidents. That. That doesn't happen often.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's probably the. In Earth history, every year, maybe 10 people shoot themselves by accident.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: Like, it's not worth the mention.

Cristina: Okay, but it happened.

Jack: Yes, but also some dude fell upstairs. That's also something that happened once. Like, it's fine once in a.

Cristina: Like, I don't know, just once.

Jack: Weird things happen. Never. Look at the anecdotal anomaly that doesn't fall into the act.

Cristina: Like the lady who killed her husband with a squirrel or something.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Like when the only one time in a lifetime.

Jack: Yeah. Like, it's pointless to be like, well, that one thing happened. Like, who gives a s***? It'll never happen again.

Cristina: Yeah. Unless we got to worry about people trying to kill other people with squirrels. That becomes a thing.

Jack: Those circumstances are so highly specific.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They don't matter.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Yeah. With all that comes the equivalent of the Force, and we can't do that. We. With something we don't know how to use, which is how we end up with people just having withdrawal, desperately trying to get as much adrenochrome as possible, doing weird things and abusing their power. Meanwhile, the people who practice to get to the same place don't give a. Yeah, they're just enjoying it.

Cristina: Yeah. Cool.

Jack: Interesting point, now that I think about it, though.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Thinking about Hitler and his army and Jehovah and his army and Zeus and his army, essentially. Maybe the same person, whatever this army was, was definitely tuned into the Force themselves, wasn't it? Not Hitler's army.

Cristina: Well, we don't know for sure.

Jack: But like Jehovah's army, just humans, not even demigods, just humans who tuned into the Force and collectively, quite some power. Not only is the leader, the most powerful, most ruthless, most dangerous one, and the one we all know about and refer to the rest of the movement as, but all the other people also, they learn and they practice and they studied together.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So they could know how to use the Force and with that, use the power to suppress everyone else.

Cristina: Yeah. That's so weird because I was thinking about giants and how, like, what if they're the ones using adrenochrome because they're doing weird things, too, besides that they're giant. They're usually doing the weird same things that the gods are doing. They have a different title and they look different, obviously, but they're doing pretty much the same things. They're kind of equal.

Jack: What do you mean by doing the same things?

Cristina: Like, they can do the same powers or they have the same strength or whatever. You want to describe it, they turn into birds. They turn into birds. Like, there's no difference except for their title.

Jack: So you're saying God is a title to a type of human?

Cristina: Yes, they're calling themselves gods, and we call them gods because they call themselves gods and they call themselves giants. So we do the same.

Jack: Maybe they didn't call themselves any of that and we called them all that.

Cristina: Okay. But they were still both. Like, what's the difference of the two groups?

Jack: There's no difference. It's just two different, like, ethnic groups at most using the Force, Adrenochrome or the Force. Or in any case, maybe one was using one and the other was using the other. It looks like outside of religion, people aim towards other means. Witchcraft. You don't need blood for f****** witchcraft unless you're doing black magic, which is circling right back to the same s***.

Cristina: You just reminded me. God needs blood. So they're the ones doing a dream of Chrome. If anyone's doing adrenochrome, it's the gods.

Jack: Yeah, well, again, like what I'm saying, anybody outside of religion is doing magic. They're doing meditation. They're doing.

Cristina: They're using the forest.

Jack: They're using the forest. Anybody within religion, it's a whole different story. Using adrenochrome, they're cheating. They don't have the natural ability. Although they go around telling everybody. Everyone else is using the bad thing, but everybody else is doing what? Using nature.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So a quick example would be, right, you go to church and they tell you we're going to chant together, and you are going to pretend to drink blood and pretend to eat flesh. Sit down, shut up and listen to me. Good guys, according to themselves. And then they'll point at the other side and be like, those are the bad guys. What are the bad guys doing? Stay in touch with nature.

Cristina: Yes, that's what I was going to say. Instead of listening to what someone else is saying, you're listening to nature and hearing what it tells you.

Jack: Yeah. Be introspective. Ask what's right and what's wrong. Question everything. The. The story of the apple. Why is God so dedicated to not having Adam and Eve eat the apple? It's like, why don't you want them to. You made the perfect things. You don't want them to have knowledge.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Why don't you want them to have not? Of course, chances are he found that f****** garden.

Cristina: I don't think he ate that apple.

Jack: I don't think God was a. God wasn't allowed to eat that.

Cristina: He wasn't allowed to. He was like, you guys can't have it because I can't have it.

Jack: I think that's exactly what happened. I think God was not allowed to eat the apple. And he is an angry and jealous God according to himself.

Cristina: Oh, crap.

Jack: So if he was angry that he couldn't and jealous that they could. No, f*** it. My God doesn't talk to them. I'm not gonna let them eat either.

Cristina: Except that they. Because he's not perfect. Like, whoever made him. Or not as perfect, you know, whatever.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: They could not listen to him, which he has to, I guess, listen to whoever made him.

Jack: Yes. He can't actually eat the apple. There's nothing he could do to eat that apple. Yeah, but they could.

Cristina: But they could. Yes. And they did What? That makes sense.

Jack: God doesn't have all the information. It's possible Adam and Eve had more information. Yep.

Cristina: Whoa. Do you think they shared it with us? Did we bury that information?

Jack: No, I think we actively suppress that information. I think religion does a pretty good effort of trying to suppress the real information that's out there, while Adam and Eve knew the real information that was out there. But we cut their stories short and remove what they're saying a lot of the time.

Cristina: This is because there is no story. They just gave birth to a bunch of children. The end.

Jack: Yeah. We don't talk about the fact that they knew everything.

Cristina: Yeah. Did they teach their children? Yeah. I don't know. That's interesting. What if God couldn't eat the apple?

Jack: It's doubtful that he could. Yeah, he probably never eat the apple. He probably didn't make that garden. That cartoon is just his home. It's his fishbowl.

Cristina: It's his fishbowl.

Jack: It's his fishbowl to where something greater is just watching God.

Cristina: But then when he kicked them out, what did he kick them out into?

Jack: The world.

Cristina: The world? Is that inside his fishbowl?

Jack: No, he kicked them out of the.

Cristina: Fishbowl where he lives.

Jack: He lives. God can't leave the fishbowl. That's why he's obligated to do other things, to communicate. For whatever reason, Lucifer and Jehovah are bound to their respective locations because they have to do other things to communicate. They have to send a physical. Not physical, but like an energy based thing. Talk to you through a bush. Talk to you through your dreams. Send the messenger angel because he cannot leave.

Cristina: Oh, crap. He is trapped wherever he is.

Jack: God is in prison.

Cristina: Yes. He's in prison. No. I don't know.

Jack: He's trapped wherever he is. He has messengers for days and he has tricks for days. I can talk to you through any number of. Why don't you come down?

Cristina: I'll blind you.

Jack: He's got excuses. Oh, like, bro, you've destroyed the earth many times.

Cristina: Doesn't matter.

Jack: You don't care. No, but he's trapped wherever he is. It's a fishbowl.

Cristina: It's a fishbowl. Yes.

Jack: And it's probably the garden.

Cristina: But is that fishbowl near here? In here? In this reality?

Jack: Could be. Maybe. Could be a pocket dimension.

Cristina: A pocket dimension.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: What?

Jack: And it could be that in kicking people out, he sent them out to the earth where they weren't meant to be. Maybe that's why we're destroying Earth. We weren't meant to be here. We were all supposed to be in this garden that would grow proportionately with the number of people that are in there for all of infinity. The garden would always be the right size for the number of people there. Yes, but the planet doesn't grow by itself.

Cristina: No. That's interesting.

Jack: We sent out people who were never meant to die in the first place. Also in the garden. They were immortal.

Cristina: They were immortal. Okay.

Jack: Ate the apple and then were kicked out and given mortality. I don't think that's how that story really goes. I think as long as you're in the garden, you're mortal, you're immortal, and as long as you're outside of the garden, you're mortal. Maybe God is too old to leave the garden. He might die instantaneously. It's like if Dorian Gray looked at his picture 200 years later.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: He would immediately age to the age he should have been.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Maybe God would immediately age to the age it should be and die instantaneously.

Cristina: If he leaves the garden. Whoa.

Jack: If he leaves the garden, the garden is keeping him immortal.

Cristina: Mm. What? I wonder if there's other magical creatures there, though. I mean, not magical, but talkative, I guess. Like the talking snake.

Jack: The talking snake, which is also in the Bible. Not even really Lucifer. I don't know what that's about.

Cristina: It's a snake, and it talks. Were there other animals or the talking birds? Yeah.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting. It is fascinating to think about that. That maybe the source of his mortality, immortality, is the garden.

Cristina: Like the first story, though, of Lilith. Was she kicked out of the garden? Was she still living in the garden? I don't know, because she was still able to rape Adam and stuff, but.

Jack: I don't know, man. Now, the question here would be God trying to make another God. He's managing everything with messengers from within the fishbowl. So he sends messengers, tries to navigate how things happen, tricks people into doing things, causes tragedies, and once in a while, attacks directly.

Cristina: Yes. To attacks Earth.

Jack: Yeah. But he's doing all of this from the fishbowl, which is why we never see him.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The closest thing he got was that clever trick of Jesus. He's like, well, I found the way to convert my energy into this other being that's sort of me, but not me. But he can be outside without me dying in here. And I can see through his eyes and I can move him around, but I'm gonna be limited in information and limited in ability.

Cristina: It feels like he's already really limited in many ways.

Jack: Compared to us, he's not. Yeah, he's way more free than we could ever be. But then Jesus is human, so, like, he's limited if you're comparing him to omniscience.

Cristina: Yeah, but, like, as far as humans.

Jack: Go, he's not limited by anything.

Cristina: Yeah. And.

Jack: And then there's Jesus is way out of the bubble until Jesus dies, until he gets killed. Because he's not infinitely powerful, that version of him is still mortal. It was the only way he could get outside of the bubble without him leaving the bubble.

Cristina: Personally, do you think he's gotten out of the bubble after that, though? Why would he just stop at Jesus?

Jack: Maybe he hasn't. Maybe he hasn't. Maybe he's many different people throughout time. This is the only way to experience anything.

Cristina: Yeah. Think he brought anyone back into that bubble? He kicked people out. And we know about those stories, but who says he hasn't kidnapped people? Unless that's what those stories of people going, there was a guy who just walked into heaven. I don't know who he was, but he walked up the stairs to heaven or something like that. Is he in the garden right now?

Jack: Heaven is not the garden.

Cristina: Heaven's not the garden. Where's God? He's not in heaven. Then.

Jack: God is not in heaven.

Cristina: He's in the garden.

Jack: God is in the garden.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Heaven is some other realm.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Like h*** is probably just a shadow realm.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And we call it some other crap, but ironically, angels come from there.

Cristina: So heaven and h*** could be the same place.

Jack: No, I think the liars that we know as Jehovah and his army, who say we're not only omniscient, but like, we're the good guys. And it's like you're the only guy who's drinking blood, so maybe you're not. Maybe the people who are like, go be one with nature are definitely on the right track. And you calling them the devil and then going and drinking blood, maybe you're wrong. But chances are more reason to go back into the shadow realm that the garden is located inside the shadow realm.

Cristina: The garden's in the shadow realm. But you don't think heaven.

Jack: It's already in a different plane.

Cristina: Do you think heaven's not a place then?

Jack: I don't know.

Cristina: What do you think? That's a lie.

Jack: It's possible that either heaven or h*** is the shadow realm.

Cristina: Okay. Because I feel like it has both creatures. So it's most likely that all those locations are the same location.

Jack: It could be that all the other s*** is the Shadow Realm.

Cristina: Yeah. So. Oh, back to the Shadow Realm.

Jack: And in the Shadow Realm, Somewhere in the Shadow Realm, this weird mazy confusing. Every direction leads to every direction mass there is the garden.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Which God cannot leave.

Cristina: Except wait, I just remembered. He's a beaver here right now.

Jack: You're right. He's a beaver on this side. Well, he's actually a beaver groundhog. And he isn't even over here.

Cristina: Well, we don't know where he is.

Jack: We don't know. He could be a groundhog on this side. Or he's over there and he manifests as a groundhog on this side.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because his actual form is a groundhog. If he's over here, he's pretending, but he's over there. And people fearing for their weather conditions and season report for their crops. And we're going to be broke this year. That fear allows him to manifest and talk to them.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So he could just be a being from the Shadow Realm.

Cristina: He could be okay. Yes. So the best choice is just to wait then. Just gotta be patient for him to pop up. Because we know when and where.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: So we'll get that groundhog.

Jack: Definitely. It's pretty interesting.

Cristina: That is. And if we somehow miss the groundhog wasn't there. I keep saying beaver, but I'm pretty sure in another country it's the talking beaver that gives them the weather. I think it was like different animals in different locations, but they're all around the world. The groundhog is just the closest one to us, so it'd be easiest to get him.

Jack: Fair. And I'm assuming every one of those regions has different gods as well. And different gods pretend to be different things as well as different kinds of ghosts and entities of those natures. Which goes to show that gods are just demigods who happen to inhabit certain regions of the Earth. Yeah, that's fascinating. And as for groundhogs and s***, My voice is almost recovered after he got bitten by that stupid f****** groundhog.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Soon I'll be back at a hundred percent. I can almost do high notes. Almost.

Cristina: So what are you right now, 75?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Awesome.

Jack: I'm getting there. I'm getting there.

Cristina: Everyone's worried about you. There's like hundreds of thank you letters. I don't know why. Thank you.

Jack: Yes. Many, many thank you letters.

Cristina: It's really confusing.

Jack: Yes. They all heard I was hurt and they're all just thanking me.

Cristina: I think they think you're dying. Like this is it for you.

Jack: They think this is it.

Cristina: Yeah. So they're like, thank you for host. You're gonna be soon replaced by you again. But we want to thank you for the time you've been with us.

Jack: Yeah. It won't matter. They won't tell the difference.

Cristina: They won't tell the difference. No. So. But whatever they. They consider it if this is your passing away moment. But you're saying it's not.

Jack: I'm saying it's not. But thank you for all the thank you letters that we've received over the last couple of days following the previous episode where I talked about getting bitten by the groundhog that was just a normal non radioactive groundhog.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So thank you for all the thank you letters that we've gotten. It's great that that happened, I guess. You're welcome.

Cristina: You're welcome.

Jack: Welcome to all of you.

Cristina: Because this is it. I mean, this is the show. That's what you said in the beginning. This is the show.

Jack: This is the show. Yeah, it's the show. Anyways, so. Yeah. Hope you guys have some ideas or thoughts on anything we discussed right now. It'd be interesting to hear what you guys have to say about this. Is it making more sense? Are we reflecting defining what God is that we unmutty the Bible by saying that God is a groundhog from the shadow realm that exists inside of a fishbowl dimension that is known as the Garden of Eden and that humans are.

Cristina: Have the force and have adrenochrome as the shortcut force?

Jack: Yes, yes. We're just clarifying all the things. You guys know, you guys know how we do. We give you information. A little bit of good, a little bit of bad, some of the do's and don'ts. And this is my. Before you buy.

Cristina: What are they buying?

Jack: I don't know. Isn't that what that guy's friends, what is it? Some of the good, some of the bad. You know how we do. Before you buy. Anyways, yeah. I hope you guys enjoyed this conversation. If you guys want more conversations of this nature, there are many. And the most recent episodes we've been sort of circling these topics, refining them. That way we know what our next steps are going to be. And you can find more episodes like that or like this or like any thing. Essentially, we cover everything under the sun. You can find that on Greathoughts.

Cristina: We have hundreds of episodes.

Jack: Yes. You can find that on greatthoughts.info on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or anywhere you get your podcasts.

Cristina: And you can reach us on Facebook. Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. UsConvopod.

Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe, rate, and review the show, because that's always great to hear what you guys are thinking. So please go. If you're listening right now, if you made it this far, go review. Go review. You heard this far and you haven't left a review, go review and tell us what you genuinely thought. Take a moment, do it right now. It'll be awesome.

Cristina: And then we'll have to include an emoji.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: For this episode. What is it gonna be?

Jack: I don't know. Put a smiley of some sort.

Cristina: The one with the hearts.

Jack: No, put a poop emoji.

Cristina: Poop emoji. Okay.

Jack: There you go.

Cristina: Put a poop emoji, a true, honest review of the show, and a poof.

Jack: And a poop emoji at the true, honest review of the show, the right amount of stars that you believe we deserve, and then a poop emoji. Go do that now.

Cristina: Yes. And let someone who might like the show know about it.

Jack: Yes. Word of mouth, incredibly powerful. And we're refining the meaning of science, religion, philosophy and everything. We're making it one. So, you know, tell people. Tell people who are trapped.

Cristina: They have to know.

Jack: Yeah. Tell people who are trapped in one of those systems so they can be trapped in all of them with us.

Cristina: Yes. Wow. This has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal, and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye. It's very complicated.

Cristina: What made you think of that, though?

Jack: I don't know. I was just. It's just an im. I don't know what the f*** I was even doing, but the images popped into my head. I'm like, how weird and fat. I've been thinking about it for, like, a week straight.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Yeah. I'm like, this is so trippy.

Cristina: Is the Blue's Clues thing trippy, too, or not as trippy?

Jack: Holy sh. I didn't even connect those dots. I didn't think about it. But, yeah, it's kind of crazy. Blue skirt, dude, we can, too. Then they hop into a f******. But they live in a jumbled f****** mess.

Cristina: They do.

Jack: Weird to assume the coyote and the Roadrunner exists in, like, a relative reality.

Cristina: Or whatever, but the weird thing about them is that they can't normally jump into pictures. They have to announce that they're using Blue's powers of jumping into pictures.

Jack: What the f*** is Blue? Blue's some, like, mythical creature with powers, right?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Like his.

Cristina: Blue, like the roadrunner. They have special powers.

Jack: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The Roadrunner is like Wile E. Coyote sometimes. Wile E. Coyote can break the laws of physics, too. It could break reality in his own instances. While Blue seems to kind of be like an omniscient God in his world or some s***, where he can however he wants. He's kind of like Deadpool.

Cristina: Good morning. Good morning.

Jack: The Just Conversation podcast is hosted by.

Cristina: Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by greatthoughts.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth.

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JCP 5.08 Polite Disagreements & Inherent Morality

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Guest Greg, host of the Polite Disagreements Podcast, joins Jack to discuss everything from why Game of Thrones is great to which superpowers would be best and the secret to all the questions of the universe.

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  • Game of Thrones
  • Podcasting
  • History of Polite Disagreements
  • Apocalypse Survival
  • Vaccines
  • Thought Experiments
  • Baby Shaking
  • Baby Disposal
  • Parenting License
  • Superhero Power
  • Atom Collider
  • Time Linearity
  • Is there a God
  • Morality
  • 42
  • Consciousness

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JCP 5.07 John Dirté & The American Dream

John Dirté, Podcast, Conversation, Just Conversation, Discussion, Politics, Criminal Justice, Marijuana Stories, Pot, Mary Jane, Drugs, Party, Sex, Rock, Business

Guest John Dirté comes on to discuss his epic marijuana adventures, his sociopolitical views, the criminal justice system, healthy eating, business owning and much much more!

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  • How Mullets are Born
  • The Birth of John Dirte
  • The Death Penalty
  • Rehabilitating Criminals
  • Suicide
  • The Border Wall
  • Nazi Germany
  • Good Cops vs Bad Cops
  • Eating Healthy
  • Cigarettes

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Rambling 122: Leprechauns and Other Fairies

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What creatures remained in Ireland after St. Patrick was done with it? And why did they stick around? Dissecting the concept of fairies on this episode!

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The Duo dive into leprechauns and fairies in general in order to understand the true complex nature of what the aftermath of the St. Patrick Massacre was. A desolate, monster infested wasteland is the least of the problem for the people of Ireland. It gets worse when spirits are introduced!

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  • St. Patrick Demon Hunter
  • Jehovah the Demi-God
  • Sprites
  • Peter Dinklage
  • Navi
  • Tricksters
  • Giant Rat Fairy
  • Banshee
  • Succubus
  • Jeepers Creepers

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Cristina: This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean? Welcome to Just Conversation, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideals in childish ways. I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And I'm Jack.

Cristina: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button to get get notified the second new episodes are released.

Jack: Yes, and also, this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner, so be sure to find somebody to make your listening partner, regardless of who they are, regardless of where they're from, regardless of. Even if you saw them on the street, casually, as they were walking, you point at them and you tell them, hey, you're my listening partner.

Cristina: And what if they walk away?

Jack: Well, then you resort to other means of getting that person who you've chosen and thus must be the one.

Cristina: They must be the one.

Jack: You chose them now. They are the one. They are the one.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Yeah. That's how it goes. So the world works?

Cristina: You just make them the one?

Jack: You make them the one.

Cristina: Is it like love at first sight?

Jack: Yeah. You force them to be the one.

Cristina: The one.

Jack: The one.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's your listening partner.

Cristina: That's not creepy.

Jack: No, no, it's very normal. People do it all the time.

Cristina: Mm. Guess what holidays coming up.

Jack: What holiday?

Cristina: St. Patrick's Day. Our favorite saint.

Jack: Yes, that's the OG saint. The saint that gets. He. Basically, he's God. He's the only guy God is scared of.

Cristina: He's a God. He's a guy God is scared of. What?

Jack: Yeah. God makes God do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants, simply because he wants.

Cristina: Yeah, well, God, I guess, isn't the only person afraid of St. Patrick.

Jack: I mean, he makes God scared. I'm sure just by, you know, process of elimination, everybody else should be scared.

Cristina: Yes. And everyone was scared. That's why I found the story, a different story of that he. Of him getting rid of snakes. But it wasn't just snakes that he got rid of. It was snakes and demons.

Jack: Snakes and demons?

Cristina: Yes. And there was this specific demon that didn't want to run away. When he told all the snakes and demons to leave and then they ran, what happened was he told them to leave, I guess. And so they drowned into the ocean. They listened and drowned and died.

Jack: Sweet, but what the f***?

Cristina: Yes. That's how he got rid of them. By murdering them with his words.

Jack: Sounds legit.

Cristina: Yes. And there's this specific one that can't pronounce her name, but in English, we could call her the fire Spitter.

Jack: The fire spitter?

Cristina: Yes. And she's either the devil's mom or all demons. Mom. Mom. Yes. There's two different ideas of what she was besides the fire spitter. That's what I found. It's unsure, right?

Jack: Kind of like vampire hunter D or something.

Cristina: Yes. So she might be the devil's mom. But anyway, when he was getting rid of all the snakes and demons from the island, she decided to hide.

Jack: So she survived for a little while. And she let all her children die.

Cristina: Definitely because she's too busy trying to stay alive.

Jack: It's like, f*** this. Every. Every man for themselves.

Cristina: Yes. So, like, he went on top of a mountain, and he told them to go into the sea and drown, and they did. And then she somehow. I don't know how she managed to escape, but maybe she, like, closed her ears when she saw him on the mountain. Like something bad is about to happen.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: And it did. But he saw her before she could completely hide herself, and he chased her down with the fastest horse Ireland had at the time.

Jack: Faster than de Demons.

Cristina: Yeah, actually faster than demons because he did outrun her while she was running. She was too busy, though, throwing Spitfire into every water. Well, because she thought, oh, this is gonna take forever, and eventually he'll get thirsty and drink water. But he was smart and was like, I'm not going to drink this poisoned water. So he didn't drink the poisoned water, and he just kept going. And then he passed her, of course.

Jack: You mean caught up.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: It wasn't raised. He wasn't like, well, I passed you. You're behind me.

Cristina: Yes. Okay. And then he waited for her. And then when she came, I mean, and then when he saw her, he jumped. He jumped out of his hiding spot and banished her. And then she also drowned into the ocean.

Jack: Sweet. Okay, so everybody died.

Cristina: Yeah, everyone died, but she was the last to die.

Jack: So he's just killer of demons, forcing creatures to commit suicide left and right and sell God. So he controls gods, angels, demons, everything. He's just some sort of overpowered deity that we don't even label a deity. But he's like. He's beyond the demigod.

Cristina: He's. He is the God.

Jack: Like, we have to assume Jehovah is a demigod based on the traits we understand. Jehovah, he's. He has emotions. Yeah, an omniscient God can't have emotions. That. That wouldn't make sense. Right, And God can get jealous, angry, all these things. God needs you to worship. Him. Because he's not. He tells you specifically, worship me. No. Other gods is like, okay, so there's others like you. You're not omniscient. You're not every God all at the same time. You're one of them. Yes, but it seems like the real omniscient God is Saint Patrick. What he had a horse, is faster than demons. He could just will that to happen.

Cristina: Well, they gave it to him.

Jack: Who?

Cristina: I don't. The Ireland people. Yeah.

Jack: It was just a normal. That means it was just a normal horse. They gave him a normal horse.

Cristina: Was the fastest horse.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Like here.

Jack: But to them, fast is different than to him. And he got a horse and it was probably, you know, normal fast.

Cristina: It was like a winner of normal horse races.

Jack: Yeah, exactly. But then he got on the horse.

Cristina: He powered that horse, became the fastest horse.

Jack: Knight Rider type of s***. He got on the horse, the horse flamed. It burst into flames, and it was just leaving a trail of fire.

Cristina: It died that day.

Jack: As soon as he got off it, it just became normal. And it was on fire. Yeah.

Cristina: Yeah, it died.

Jack: But he doesn't care. He kills everything.

Cristina: He kills everything. Well, if you.

Jack: That's why God is like, I'll do whatever you want. Just don't kill me.

Cristina: Because God is just an angel, a demon deity.

Jack: He's a demigod.

Cristina: Okay. So complicated. But what's even more complicated is I tried to find out what a fairy was, right. Because of St. Patrick's Day in Ireland. And they're known for fairies, right?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: And I'm so confused. I'm so confused. Fairies are so many things, but what they originally were, they were seen as deities. Gods. They were gods.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: But then over time, because Christianity came to the island, they were demoted to stay around so that they wouldn't have to actually get rid of them. Because I guess the Christians actually like these stories, and they're like, wow, they're pretty interesting. But what if they were just creatures, magical creatures instead of gods? Because there can only be one God. So I don't know. Is God stronger than their God if he could turn them into magical creatures?

Jack: It was St. Patrick that did it.

Cristina: It was St. Patrick. Oh, yes. Okay.

Jack: The pioneer. The guy who brought Christianity to Ireland. St Patrick then decided, yeah, I'm a strip you guys of your exaggerated godlike powers. I don't want you to be gods anymore. Now. Now you're just f******. You're gonna be there like the humans. You can be just a different f****** creature.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then he did that, well, these.

Cristina: Guys were, I guess weren't that powerful anyway because they were the original people living on Ireland.

Jack: So you're telling me Ireland is Olympus?

Cristina: Is Olympus. Once upon a time, maybe like they were able to travel from the other world into Ireland and they loved it so much that they lived there. But then other people wanted Ireland for themselves. They've had many wars trying to defend their home, but they finally lost to St. Patrick. To the Irish people or to the ancestors of the Irish people, one led by St Patrick. Yes, he's a time travel as well. Time traveler as well.

Jack: Are we just to say that St. Patrick's is the real Kratos?

Cristina: Yes, the Kratos, Yes.

Jack: Yeah, he was just the mortal once upon a time. But eventually he killed a God, got all God's powers and used that to manipulate the rest of everything. St. Patrick, the real God of war.

Cristina: Well, from what I understand, these gods that were defeated by the Irish people shrunk themselves. They loved Ireland so much that they decided we'll just be small and live underground.

Jack: And thus the invention of midgets.

Cristina: Close, I guess. Leprechauns. Leprechauns and so many other creatures. Okay. There are so many different types of fairy races. You probably didn't think of them as fairies though. Which are dwarves, elves, gnomes, goblins, brownies and pixies.

Jack: The h*** is a brownie? Is that a racist term?

Cristina: No, it's just another short magical, human like creature thing. Yeah, they're all short magical, human like creature things.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: Yes. And what I feel like when somebody.

Jack: Says leprechaun, they mean all of these things. Leprechaun is the blanket term? Almost.

Cristina: No. Leprechaun is a type of fairy.

Jack: I get that.

Cristina: Fairy is the blanket term thing.

Jack: Fairies, the blanket term.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Do Westerners say leprechaun and mean fairies and all the other stuff to Western like they mean fairy and fairies, the blanket term to them. When we say fairy, we think Na' Vi from Ocarina of Time.

Cristina: There's no fairy that's like that fairy. We made that up.

Jack: My point is exact.

Cristina: Okay, that's not a thing.

Jack: Westerners say leprechaun and mean all the different kinds of fairies.

Cristina: I don't know. I think we just see leprechauns as leprechauns.

Jack: Right. But if you showed us a different one of those fairies, what would we call it? We would probably call it a leprechaun.

Cristina: Even an elf. If we saw elf or gnome. We know what gnomes are.

Jack: Oh, S***. Okay, there we go. Now we're getting to places.

Cristina: Dwarfs. You know what a dwarf is?

Jack: A dwarf is just a person.

Cristina: No, they're magical little people. They're magical.

Jack: Whoa. So you're telling me Peter Dinklage is a magical fairy?

Cristina: No.

Jack: And that's why he has all these jobs.

Cristina: He's sprinkling has become two different things. Okay.

Jack: He's sprinkling his fairy dust all over people. You're telling me he's unfairly in justly getting these jobs when Wee man should be getting some of them?

Cristina: Look, fairies are complicated. They're very complicated. He may be a fairy because fairies could be every and many things. There's so many words for fairies. You could say fairy, but you can also call them sprites, you can call them spirits, you can call them supernatural entities. You can even call them angels and demons.

Jack: Right? Okay. We've established this in the Shadow Realm episode. For further information, go back there. Listen to that. Get informed.

Cristina: It is so annoying. It's so annoying.

Jack: It is. When I was figuring that out.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: I came across a lot of these problems in which limbo is purgatory, and that is the Shadow Realm, and that is an alternate version of this reality. And that what's there is here and here is there. And it's the same, but different. It has a different name, but it's the same. It's like. Yeah, it's complicated.

Cristina: There was one thing about the other, the other realm that I don't know if you talked about that I think. If you haven't, I just want to mention, though, is that time works different there.

Jack: Probably. The concept of time in itself might be entirely different.

Cristina: Yeah, but, like, for the rare people that have been able to go there and come back, hundreds of years would pass by.

Jack: It depends.

Cristina: It depends.

Jack: It depends. Let's say you get there through some form of astral projection, and you're there as a spirit. Right. Your spirit might be over there hundreds of years, and over here, hundreds of years don't pass. You might come back after being hundreds of years over there and it was only one night's sleep over here.

Cristina: Oh, I read the opposite of.

Jack: Well, that's my point. It depends on the approach that's happening.

Cristina: Oh, okay. All right. So it's. That's as complicated as the word fairy. Okay.

Jack: It's very, very f*****.

Cristina: Yes. But. Okay, so there's the leprechaun, the most famous fairy. Right. Maybe.

Jack: I'd say that other than Navi, she's not a fairy. What the h*** is she. They call her a fairy.

Cristina: That's an American made up creature. So is Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell is not a fairy.

Jack: Well, she's not a fairy by their terms. But then you have to tell me that a Japanese dragon like Shenron and then a Western dragon, that's like a giant lizard, like an iguana, a ginormous iguana with wings that breathes fire, are not both dragons.

Cristina: Okay, well, we're. Right now we're just talking about Irish creatures. Okay. They're not Irish fairies.

Jack: Got you. They're not Irish fairies.

Cristina: Correct. Because this is an Irish episode to celebrate our favorite saint.

Jack: Got you.

Cristina: So. Yeah. So what was it? Navi.

Jack: Navi.

Cristina: Navi. I guess that's a Japanese fairy.

Jack: Yes, but she's not an Irish. And she's specifically a Shinto Japanese fairy.

Cristina: Okay. And then I guess the Americans made. Not the Americans. The English made Tinkerbell.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Okay. But yes, none of these fairies have wings. I guess is one interesting different thing from all the ones that you could think. The ones you mentioned.

Jack: Yeah, you can actually see that in a lot of cultures where there is a shift in there. If we go back to the dragons, the Japanese dragons don't have wings. They're just like floating snake things.

Cristina: I thought it was the Chinese dragon.

Jack: Oh, it's a Chinese dragon. Well, I guess both of them, right? Yeah, they're pretty similar.

Cristina: Okay. The Asian dragons and then.

Jack: Yeah, Asian dragons. There you go. The Asian dragons don't have wings and then the western dragons do. Yeah, the Asian dragons are kind of like a snake, but the western dragons are like a lizard.

Cristina: But they're both huge, I think. Right?

Jack: Yeah, they're both ginormous. Although I believe the Japanese dragon is much bigger. Do they have. Are there any fairy, like any dragon, like fairies without wings and like floating snake thing or. They're all little people.

Cristina: They're all little people. I will talk about. I do want to talk about some other creatures in Ireland that I don't know if they're under the fairy description.

Jack: Interesting. So then tell me which one are the fairies? What? Break them down and explain these to me.

Cristina: Okay, there's. I'm gonna mention like. Okay, there's the leprechaun, of course.

Jack: What's the get up there?

Cristina: He's the lucky fairy, I guess. He's the one with the gold in the end of the rainbow. And you can get it if you catch him. He'll grant you three wishes, but you have to do it quickly because he'll try to trick You. And that would suck.

Jack: Trick you how?

Cristina: Well. Oh, One of the things about these fairies is they're all tricksters. They're all tricksters. I don't know if there's any fairies that aren't tricksters, but they all seem like tricksters. And they're not seen as evil. Trick tricksters evil either. Yes, but some of them do sound evil. Some of them are evil tricksters. Some of them are just regular trolley guys. But the leprechaun seems like the good kind, I guess, of the tricksters. Anyway, there's a story about a guy who caught a leprechaun and he wished to be taken to the gold. And the. And the leprechaun did show him where the tree was, where the gold was hidden. So the man put a marking on the tree and he let go of the leprechaun to find a shovel. But then when he came back, all the trees were marked the same way he marked the tree that he had.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Yep. Yep.

Jack: So there was no way for him to tell which one it was?

Cristina: Nope. He really messed up on that.

Jack: Yeah, so.

Cristina: So if you get a leprechaun, he shows you the gold, you gotta somehow.

Jack: Get it at that moment.

Cristina: At that moment, yes.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: I wonder if you can waste the wish, though, to have the leprechaun help you get the gold and also to leave you alone.

Jack: I'm sure there's wish rules, otherwise systems would be broken. You could also wish for many wishes if you could do that, you know.

Cristina: Yeah, but could you trust a leprechaun to tell you the rules of the wishes if there are tricksters?

Jack: Well, on the first one, you wish to be told the rules. If you have three wishes. On the second one, if it's not against the rules, then you wish for more wishes. And if it is against the rules, then you didn't waste a wish and instead you asked the leprechaun to help you. Unless that's also against rules.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: In which case you still got two wishes, but I don't know, like, one.

Cristina: Of the other still has to be to show you where the gold is.

Jack: Yes. Okay, fine. So now you know where the gold is. The other one has to be, don't kill me while I take this gold.

Cristina: Don't kill. Well, he might not kill you. He just won't want you to steal his gold. So he's gonna do some other weird thing that probably hurts you, but doesn't murder you. Yeah, he's not evil.

Jack: Don't disrupt me at all.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: While stealing Your gold.

Cristina: Alright. Even though they're not seen as evil, there are some stories where they sound a bit evil. So there's this story about a king who fell asleep on a beach and when he woke up, he found himself being dragged into the sea by three leprechauns.

Jack: To drown.

Cristina: I'm pretty sure to drown him. Maybe he's related to St. Patrick and they're like, we gotta get revenge.

Jack: It could be. Who the h*** knows? Maybe it was St. Patrick, but he.

Cristina: Was able to catch one of them and. And they granted him three wishes in exchange for them to release him.

Jack: And then what was one of the wishes?

Cristina: I don't know. To be released.

Jack: That's it. Guy just got. We got the story of a guy who caught a leprechaun and we don't know what he wished for.

Cristina: He died. It was a lie. They're just trying to cover up that they're evil because there's some. There's stories that differ between whether a leprechaun is harmless or really, really evil. So I guess it depends. I don't know. Some are evil, some aren't. That's what I'm going with.

Jack: There is a literal movie about evil leprechauns, I believe, called Leprechaun.

Cristina: Yeah, it's some weird horror movie series thing.

Jack: Serious. Oh, it's. There's many of them.

Cristina: There's many movies. So many. Like it's like a Freddy versus, you know, a Freddy movie or a Jason movie. It's just like he keeps coming back.

Jack: Oh, is it the same leprechaun?

Cristina: I'm not sure. I think so. It looks the same. Crappy looking version. I've never seen a nice looking leprechaun. Yeah, version, but okay, like Chucky. Who does he ever change his look? It's always the same dude being in a doll, right?

Jack: I think so.

Cristina: That dude is just unlucky. He should just die. His life sucks. I don't know what he's doing. Although everything he's doing in the rest of the movies make no sense because the. In the original movie he was. If he can't get into a child's body in I think a certain amount of time, then he's stuck in the doll's body. So that's it. He's stuck in that body like the rest of the movies don't make any sense of him trying to get into another person's body because he wasted the time. It's over for him.

Jack: Yeah, that's weird.

Cristina: But he still tries. But. And of Course, never does. But even if he managed, it doesn't make sense to the first movie unless they change that in the reboot. But anyway, there are other types of things that are very similar to leprechauns, and one of them is, I guess, he's a lot like a leprechaun. But he loves to drink and he's famous to haunt wine cellars and drink all the wine in there.

Jack: So he's an alcoholic?

Cristina: Basically, yes, he's the alcoholic leprechaun. And he's also described as a trickster and a practical jokester because I guess most leprechauns are. Then there's another leprechaun type fairy which likes to seduce women.

Jack: As a short individual.

Cristina: Yes, he's really good at seducing ladies. He goes to lonely places where I guess they're just like, why? I just want to fall in love. And then he comes and then they're like, whoa, make love to me. I don't know how his magic works. He comes on them and he comes on them. But it's very unlucky to meet him. Very. Because his skin is addictive and put in to it's toxic and addictive and seducing the person, they really. They really just become addicted to him. Like they need him.

Jack: Right, so it's his power.

Cristina: Well, it's his skin's power. I mean, yeah, it's his power, like superpower type thing. And the women end up dying from withdrawal after he leaves.

Jack: So they all die.

Cristina: Yep, yep, they die. But then there's the Farduring, which is the evil leprechaun, because none of those are evil. They're not evil. Except for that one that sounds a little.

Jack: How is this one any more or less evil?

Cristina: Well, this guy. Oh, his name translates to Red man. This guy Redman, he wears a red cape and hat and he does some really gross practical jokes. Like he likes to put people into sacks and kidnap people. And then there was a story where he makes them make him dinner and then when they look at the dinner, it's a witch. I don't know. I don't know how that's evil or whatever. That's just weird.

Jack: Very strange. Yes, yes.

Cristina: This is a very strange thing. But usually he just traps people in rooms.

Jack: That doesn't sound like malicious or evil. It just sounds like a douchebag.

Cristina: And. Yeah, it does. It does. He does terrifying noises. One of them is described as laughing like a dead man, which I'm not really sure what that sounds like, but that sounds like, it would be terrifying if you knew that that's what you're specifically listening to. Maybe it's a person you knew that died and you hear that laughing.

Jack: That would make sense.

Cristina: That's kind of horrifying.

Jack: Yeah, Like a very distinct laugh that you shouldn't be hearing.

Cristina: Mm. And he's also the people. The person stealing the human babies and replacing them with changelings. Remember the changelings we talked about last year?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Yep. He's the one. He's. He's the one doing it.

Jack: Why does he kidnap the children again?

Cristina: To replace them with. I don't know. To replace. As a joke, I guess. To replace them with fairy children. Right.

Jack: And then what does he do with the kid?

Cristina: Don't remember we talked about this last year, and I don't remember. You don't remember?

Jack: No.

Cristina: I'm not sure. Maybe the kids are slaves while they're baby. Like, they don't.

Jack: Underwear gnome logic.

Cristina: Yes, But I guess the purpose, though, of stealing the human babies so that these other babies could be raised and they don't have to actually raise the babies. Fairies are lazy, and they don't want to raise their babies. So they're like, let's get these humans.

Jack: To raise our babies minus a human baby they now have to raise.

Cristina: I'm sure they're not raising those babies. They throw them in the trash.

Jack: And thus the question of where trash babies come from is answered.

Cristina: Yes. That's where trash babies come from. They're also. They also bring nightmares. And they just. They just like to terror. Terrorize people. They just love terrorizing.

Jack: I mean, minus the kidnapping part. Everything else is pretty. Pretty chill.

Cristina: Even the swapping babies thing is chill.

Jack: That's the part I'm talking about.

Cristina: Oh, I thought you meant the other kidnapping of, like, when he made the guy cook and then it somehow became a witch, or trapping the person in a room, and then the scary voices.

Jack: None of that is kidnapping.

Cristina: None of that is kidnapping. But that all sounds pretty bad. No. Okay.

Jack: Sounds scary, not evil.

Cristina: Okay. Well, there's one way to avoid his tricks. You have to say, you will not mock me before he traps you.

Jack: So you could just walk around saying, you will not mock me.

Cristina: Yes, but they. But it's really hard because they set up very good traps. So you have to say before you're trapped, but you might end up being trapped before you say it, so you gotta say it. I guess you have to walk around saying it, just hoping not to get trapped.

Jack: Yeah. Or is it just, like, how. What's the Deadline on this. Can you just say it now and then you're just good forever?

Cristina: Maybe. I don't know. Probably not. You probably have to walk around saying that they're also called rat boys because they're fat.

Jack: The evil ones?

Cristina: Yes, the evil ones. They're fat. They have dark hairy skin. They have a long snout and a skinny tail.

Jack: So they don't look like dwarfs. No, they don't look human.

Cristina: They don't. They look like a giant rat. I guess they look like a. They look like a giant rat. But they're still described as being a type of leprechaun. But an evil leprechaun.

Jack: An evil rat. Leprechaun.

Cristina: Evil rat. Leprechaun. Yes. That cause nightmares and bad luck.

Jack: I feel like this is totally backwards because instead of it being a little person, it's just a giant rat.

Cristina: It's just a giant rat. Oh, it is a giant rat. Yeah. Maybe it's not a leprechaun. Maybe it's just a giant magical rat.

Jack: Sounds like it.

Cristina: Yeah. So then it's just a fairy. Not really a leprechaun. A leprechaun. So who knows. And then there's some other Ireland creatures. There's these things called the Merrow men. And the merrow. The Merrow men are ugly sea creatures. And the females are called marrows. Are beautiful because they're always beautiful, aren't they? All the women are beautiful in these type of stories.

Jack: Yeah. That's how the succubus is so attractive. And the incubus is, I don't know. A monster.

Cristina: Yes. Oh yeah, we talked about that too. Yeah, that's. And the Merrell. The Merrells are not. They're not mermaids. They have human legs instead of a tail. Except that they're. They have large flat feet and webbed fingers to help them swim.

Jack: So they are basically the swamp creature.

Cristina: Yes, they're the swamp creature. And the Merrell's ability to. To swim in water or to travel in water is from her clothes. She has a cape or a cap, depending on the story. And when she takes it off, she loses the ability. And usually a man will find it and hide it so that he could marry her because she's beautiful. And also she has lots of gold from the sea, I guess.

Jack: Okay. Sweet. Fantastic. So like a half fish woman. That's gorgeous.

Cristina: Yes. And rich.

Jack: And rich.

Cristina: Yes. And then. But if she finds her missing cape or cap, she'll end up running away and returning to the sea, leaving her husband and their children and many Families claim to be descendants from these Merrells who were entrapped by fishermen.

Jack: Really? Like, somewhere up the line, their grandma was a fish lady who jumped in the water. And we're sure that it wasn't just a crazy lady who committed suicide?

Cristina: Yeah. It could just be a lady who just abandoned her family. Maybe committed suicide, maybe not. Maybe she just abandoned her family and they were like, no way would she abandon us. She must have been a marrow.

Jack: Chances are the father made that lie up for the children.

Cristina: Yes. And then there's this thing called a banshee, which is a female spirit. I'm not sure. Spirit, fairy, sprite? I don't know.

Jack: I've heard of banshees. They're known for screaming.

Cristina: They're known for screaming? Yes. Well, crying. They're considered a omen of death. Whenever you hear her, you could assume someone's about to die.

Jack: That makes sense. They. They're known. You like, you hear them in the woods and s***. A lot of the time you hear the screams of a banshee. There's a couple of songs about that too.

Cristina: Really? Well, there's some stories where they just find her by their window. She's just next to their window crying.

Jack: That's f****** horrifying.

Cristina: Yes, well, her appearance isn't that. Well, sometimes. It depends, because she has three different appearances. She can look like a young lady, she can look like a regular woman, and she can look like a withering hag. So her age varies.

Jack: F****** banshee.

Cristina: And she can also appear as a crow, weasel or another creature called a stout. That, I think is also a type of weasel.

Jack: I didn't know that. So she could, like, shapeshift.

Cristina: Yeah. And I have three stories of this banshee lady. There was a couple who stayed at a friend's castle, a friend's castle. And on the first night around 1am, the wife heard a cry by the window. And when she looked, she saw some lady there, a lady leaning on the window, crying. And she woke up her husband scared and stuff. And then in the next day, they told. I don't know if they told their friend the story, but anyway, the next day their friend told them that she was all night up because she was with her dying cousin and her very sick cousin. And at the same time, he died. Okay. She told them that even though it's the best room of the house, there's a ghost of a lady that haunts the house. The ghost is of the former owner of the house who killed his wife. His pregnant wife. And that's the banshee that hangs out in the window?

Jack: His former wife? Yeah, but she died inside the house. Why is she hanging outside as a ghost?

Cristina: Why is she hanging outside as a ghost? Because that's what banshees do. I don't know. There's no stories of a banshee hanging out inside a house.

Jack: So she got killed and was like, I'm gonna go outside now.

Cristina: What if she got killed outside?

Jack: I thought she got killed in the house.

Cristina: No, he got. He died in the house. Her cousin died in the house.

Jack: Didn't he kill her?

Cristina: No, The. The owners of the house. The original. The former owners of the house. The husband killed the wife.

Jack: And that's the banshee.

Cristina: And that's the banshee? Yes.

Jack: The wife that died.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Why didn't she haunt the house from inside the house where she died?

Cristina: We don't know that she died inside the house.

Jack: Didn't he kill her in the house?

Cristina: He killed her and they lived in that house.

Jack: Got it.

Cristina: But that doesn't.

Jack: Got it, got it, got it.

Cristina: I understand.

Jack: I understand.

Cristina: Like, yes, maybe he did kill her in the house, but I don't. We don't know that. We don't know where he killed her. It could be anywhere. So. But that's one story. Then there's stories where people from Ireland, they move far away and a banshee still follows them. It finds their way to them.

Jack: That's interesting. Reminds me of that show that's totally full of s*** of the people who moved into the house. Or do you know the people who tell them they're f****** the time I saw a ghost or whatever the f***. And then they got reenactors and s***.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: The ghost story in the room.

Cristina: Oh, yeah, okay.

Jack: That s*** that. This reminds me of that, like, he would. They were like, if we move, we'll be fine. Then they did, and then he stopped seeing her for a while, and then she popped up again.

Cristina: Well, she was hispan. She.

Jack: Except she wasn't screaming. She was just hanging in a closet. Except she was originally from the closet that she was hung in.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And then she was just like, now, Imma go hang in your new closet.

Cristina: Yes. And then I think he also saw.

Jack: Her outside, which makes no f****** sense because presumably she was haunting the place, Meaning now she haunts you. And anybody who lives in that house is fine.

Cristina: Now, I don't. I don't know how ghosts work. What if they can haunt more than one thing at a time?

Jack: That's crazy. Anybody who goes through that house is haunted by the saint. So if everybody in the world stayed at that house and then moved, they would all be haunted by the same ghost at the same time.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And that's what's happening with this banshee. Basically.

Cristina: Except none of his family was haunted and they all lived there. Maybe have to be in that specific room.

Jack: Could be.

Cristina: How are we gonna get all these people into that room?

Jack: That's crazy.

Cristina: That's crazy. But yes, like the banshee and these, these two stories, they moved to. They moved to Canada and Yeah. They heard the cry. And then the next day in one of the stories, the man of the house and his oldest son died in a boating accident. The next day after they heard the strange cry, they also asked people about the strange cry and no one saw anyone by the house, but they all heard the cry.

Jack: That's fascinating. I wonder if that has happened recently, like with banshees, you know? So banshees is an Irish creature.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Interesting, interesting. Because that's prominent in Western culture. That's prominent as h*** over here because.

Cristina: Irish people came over here and brought their banshees.

Jack: Interesting, interesting. Can you imagine? Like, let's say banshees are for facts. Real, right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, I'll probably hunt one down. We'll make that a mission. We'll add them to the collection of f******. What do we have so far? F****** werewolves and reptilian vampires. And vampires. We got a bunch of s***. Imprisoned.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: On Mars.

Cristina: We want to find if banshees can haunt people that aren't related to Irish.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: So that.

Jack: That'll be interesting to see a banshee for now.

Cristina: Alright. Because some first. For now it's only been people from Ireland or. Yeah. That have some blood in Ireland that they hunt.

Jack: That's so weird. I'm curious. A banshee is a really weird creature. It really is. Because it's like a person, but also not.

Cristina: It's not a person.

Jack: Yeah. Because like you're saying in Irish culture a banshee is a leprechaun.

Cristina: Not a leprechaun.

Jack: A fairy.

Cristina: A fairy? Yes.

Jack: Okay. It's a fairy.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: In Irish culture the banshee is a fairy.

Cristina: Yes. The best description is a spirit. But to me it seems like spirit could equal fairy. Could equal whatever.

Jack: Yeah. Because they're used almost interchangeably.

Cristina: Yeah. So that's why I'm not sure what she is.

Jack: So when we get to her, it's kind of vague. Because a woman died and became a banshee.

Cristina: Yes. In this story. Yeah. Or the banshee haunts where the woman died. And it's not the woman.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: Interest. Holy crap. That's kind of fascinating. Wow. So it could either be that people turn into banshees or.

Cristina: I never thought that people could turn into banshees in. With these things. It seems like these creatures in Ireland are separate things. They're not human. Yeah. They're their own species.

Jack: Enter the shadow realm, a place where there is a part of people that naturally exists. And upon crossing the threshold, that was still the person, but it's also not. So is the banshee a tortured soul from the shadow realm that crossed over. So maybe it was that woman's spirit. Yeah, but the shadow realm version, maybe. Intense emotion, fear, and all these things that are required for a creature from the shadow realm to manifest were all present at the death of this person and maybe lingers in there as people know about the story and create the fear that allows the banshee to continue manifesting on this side.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It is her tortured soul from the other side.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Although she died somehow, her soul didn't die. Maybe adrenochrome isn't the only way.

Cristina: Yes, maybe adrenochrome is, but then that would mean like all the emotions and feelings and stuff are somehow part of it.

Jack: Yeah. Because we know that people extract adrenochrome or whatever they're getting that keeps them alive from the fear itself.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Where they don't need the adrenal chrome. So if you get enough of that all in one shot. Is that what a haunting soul is? Like a spirit that's left behind? Right. And you're haunting a place. That's your version. That's your spirit that's from the shadow realm.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That came through. But why? It's usually because you were killed brutally or some. Some horrible thing happened, except your soul couldn't fade away. The crazy amount of emotion, fear, sadness, all those things existed at the moment of your death and tethered your soul to that.

Cristina: But it's still. The Banshee is very different from regular ghosts because it's. It's only here to warn you. Like someone's about to die, which regular ghosts don't really do anything.

Jack: Or Spirit. Yeah, because ghost is an spirit.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Regular spirit or shadow person.

Cristina: Yeah. As far as we can tell, they're not any type of warning sign. They're not going to tell you anything. Thing about the future.

Jack: Yeah. They're not there intentionally. They're just echoing through. Or if they.

Cristina: The banshee is more like the groundhog?

Jack: Yeah, it's more like the groundhog. It's there for information of some sort. But my question is, is it choosing to, or is it a reflex? Is the Banshee incapable, capable of telling.

Cristina: People that it's someone they know is about to die?

Jack: Yes. Do you know?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, do they have to do it even if they didn't want to? They're just somewhere where death is. And they scream at death.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But then again, if we think of the Shadow Realm. Again, not to stay on the Shadow Realm topic. The reapers also call the Shadow Realm.

Cristina: Other realm, because that's what this is in this place now, I guess.

Jack: So the other Realm, the reaper comes from the other realm. And the Reaper handles life. It is a delivery mechanism in the form of a physical being.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And maybe the Banshee is terrified of the Reaper. Of the Reaper. Because it's always maybe coming for the Banshee.

Cristina: She's warning about the Reaper then.

Jack: I don't think she's warning anybody.

Cristina: She's just horrified. Of the Reaper?

Jack: Yes, because that's a lingering tethered soul to the wrong side. And the Reaper delivers souls.

Cristina: I don't know. But I think this third story might change our mind a little bit about that. Because in the third situation of a Banshee haunting a man because his daughter was gonna die, but he didn't know that she was healthy, strong, and beautiful. And then one night, he heard a voice coming from his window, and it said. Which is weird. Like, they usually just cry. And it was crying too, but it also said, in three weeks, death. In three weeks, the grave. Dead, dead, dead. That's what he heard. And then the next day, his daughter got sick or was showing symptoms of a fever. And then three weeks later, dead.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting. So it was a warning.

Cristina: It was a real warning of, like, I know what's gonna happen.

Jack: It's not that they're seeing death actively in the area, even if other people can't, because they themselves are ethereal and seeing other ethereal beings.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's that they're seeing the future.

Cristina: Yes. Like, maybe it does see death coming, but it knows, like, specific.

Jack: Oh, my God. We're missing one thing that you mentioned earlier.

Cristina: What?

Jack: And then I specified earlier, time works differently on the other side. So maybe from this side they're saying, death is coming, but it takes crazy long here. But from that side's point of view, it's immediate. He's approaching quick. But it could be weeks.

Cristina: Yeah. Even though this one is specific. Or maybe he remembers it as it being super specific.

Jack: Maybe they were super specific. Maybe the person the banshee telling the information knew specifically the. The conversion rate of time.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: And was like. Well, it takes them about three hours on this side, so we'll say like three weeks.

Cristina: Yeah. So like banshees may know the time difference equivalent of what's going on. Okay.

Jack: Just a possibility.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. And then there's the Fear Gorda. And Fear Gordas look like zombies. Actually. I think they are zombies, but we're just gonna. Well, they're like zombies from like old fashioned zombie movies. Like they're. They got bones popping out of their body. They're like super thin, they have bluish skin and their flesh is rotting.

Jack: Yeah. So it sounds like a zombie from an old school interpretation of a zombie, but like a freaking God decided to look like this s***. It was like f****** reason for it though.

Cristina: During famines it comes around and it asks for food. It asks people for food who are already dying in a famine. But if you give him the food, he'll reward you with. But if you give him food, he'll reward you with a lifelong wealth and prosperity. And those who don't give him food will have bad luck and poverty.

Jack: Sounds pretty badass. So he's testing the morality of people.

Cristina: Yes. In the worst situation, in the life and death situation, because it's a famine.

Jack: So you're starving. I'm starving. Do you care about others? Can you.

Cristina: That's a true test. That sounds very godly.

Jack: Yeah, that's very noble.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: He's testing a real person. Like, do you remain a good person in the worst of circumstances?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Then you deserve good things.

Cristina: Yes. That's pretty interesting. Yeah. And then there are stories. There's two. There's like. Okay, I'll say. There's like three stories of these creatures that are very vampire. Like the author of Dracula might have based it on these creatures because he's Irish.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: But he also liked folklore, so. And he did travel, so he of course also based on other famous vampires and stories.

Jack: Transylvanian legends and whatnot.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah. So the first one is called the Avatar, the evil Irish magical dwarf king who was like. He was just pretty evil. And he killed. He was killed and buried standing up. And then the next day he came back from the grave and used his magical powers to be even more crueler than he was before. And he loves to drink the blood of his victims, of course. And there's only one way to stop him. You must kill him. And Bury him upside down. Very vampirey.

Jack: Very vampirey. Including all the weird ways to get rid of them and crap.

Cristina: Yes. The second vampire is a lady, and she is called the Red Bloodsucker. She's known as the Red Bloodsucker. She seduces men and then drains their blood. One of the stories about how she became a vampire was that she was in love with some poor peasant dude, and her father didn't like that, so he made her marry some rich dude who treated her terrible. And then eventually she committed suicide. But then she came back to get revenge on her father and her husband, and she sucked their blood until they were dead. And then now she does that once.

Jack: A year to random people.

Cristina: To random people.

Jack: She's Jeeper Scrapers.

Cristina: Well, to men, specifically. She wants men.

Jack: Oh, so she's a succubus.

Cristina: She's a Succubus. Well, yeah, but she's a vampire. And there is only one way to, quote, unquote, defeat her, because it's not really to defeat her. Like, what, did you compare her to a succubus? No, before that. Jeepers Creepers.

Jack: Jeepers Creepers.

Cristina: To stop her is like, Jeepers Creepers. You don't really defeat her. You put rocks on her grave and then she can't get up.

Jack: Yeah. You just enable her.

Cristina: Yeah. For only a year, and then she'll try to get out, and then you got to put some more rocks.

Jack: She sounds very Jeepers Creepers.

Cristina: Yeah. So maybe Jeepers Creepers was inspired by some Dracula stories or.

Jack: No, it was actually inspired by a song.

Cristina: By a song. Oh, yeah.

Jack: But that song could have used not only the song, but it could have been like a mesh of this story, a song, and a bunch of other crap to make. Because Jeepers Creeper is a scary m***********.

Cristina: Yeah. But that whole coming back every 23 years, or whatever it was isn't from the song, though.

Jack: No.

Cristina: No. So like, maybe that was inspired by this type of story. Yeah. And then the third vampire, like, person or demon? This one's more. This is a fairy vampire, and her name is Lennon Sid. I think that's how her name is said. And she's a demon that likes to inspire poets and musicians. But once they. Once they make the thing that they're gonna make, I guess she drinks their blood, she shares with them her intelligence, creativity, and magic. But when she leaves, the men go into a deep depression and they die. Then she will take her dead lovers back to her lair. And then, rather sucking their blood, she puts their blood into a Giant red cauldron, which is the source of her beauty and artistic inspiration.

Jack: Fantastic.

Cristina: Yep. So to prevent her from rising, you have to also put stones on her resting place.

Jack: Interesting, Interesting. So definitely a vampire, too.

Cristina: Yeah, she's a fairy vampire, which I guess the dwarf guy is a fairy vampire because dwarves are fairies. But then the second lady, she's just a vampire. She was human, and then she became a vampire.

Jack: So we're back to the same problem of the difference between a spirit and a fairy.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. That's why it's all so complicated. And I'm not really sure what is. What if they're all the same or if they're not the same or whatever. Where's the lines?

Jack: Yeah. Cause it seems like they do blur.

Cristina: Yes. And then the last creature, because there's so many creatures. But I'm just gonna stop at this one. It's called the Questing Beast. It is a cool creature. It's also an evil creature who has the head of a snake, the body of a leopard, the backside of a lion, and the hooves of a deer. And its cries. Its sound. The sound it makes sounds like the cry it makes sounds like the bark.

Jack: Of 30 dogs all at once simultaneously.

Cristina: Yes. And I think it's called the Questing Beast because many knights have tried to defeat this beast. I don't know if any has succeeded.

Jack: But so they go out of their way. It's an accomplishment. They're trying to do status thing. If I defeat it, I am a legend.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Okay, so it's a western dragon again. You go defeat the dragon for the status now. It will be the best knight ever. Everybody will know. And so the Questing Beast is the same idea.

Cristina: That's the same thing.

Jack: Very interesting. It sounds like a Pokemon.

Cristina: It sounds like they'll turn this into a Pokemon someday.

Jack: Yeah, fair enough. Then again, they don't make Pokemon out of animals anymore. It's sooner that you'll have, like, microphone. The Pokemon. There probably is a microphone Pokemon. I'm pretty sure that's a thing already.

Cristina: No, not yet.

Jack: I think that's. There's a microphone Pokemon.

Cristina: That's the next evolution. I mean, the next season or whatever.

Jack: There's a Pokemon. It's called, like, Mikey or something.

Cristina: No, it's not Mikey.

Jack: Yeah, man. There's totally a microphone Pokemon. Oh, my God. What is it? What the h*** is that thing? Is that a real Pokemon?

Cristina: I think that's fan. A fan art. Because there is a Pokemon that has different forms that looks like that, and that's what they're making fun of, I think.

Jack: Okay, fair enough.

Cristina: But we could double check. Look, his name is Rotom, the voice form. Okay, let's see what Rotom's different forms are, though. Okay, so he's Rotom.

Jack: Could be a frigerator, f****** lawnmower. Modem, a laundry. He could be a washing machine. He could be a grill. He could be a fridge, a freaking fan. And what the h*** is that other one?

Cristina: This one? This one. The original, I guess, is just, like, normal electricity. Yeah. And then he. Yeah, he turns into things that need electricity.

Jack: Bro, what the h*** is going on with Pokemon?

Cristina: Close enough. You're right. There's a microphone.

Jack: There totally isn't, but there should totally be a microphone.

Cristina: Look at him. He's a Pokedex.

Jack: Oh, my God.

Cristina: So there's fan art of, like, the many different things he could probably turn into. If you can be these things, there's probably a limited, unlimited possibility of what he could actually turn into.

Jack: Freaking Rotom.

Cristina: As long as they're electric. I mean, electronical, right? Yeah, like a computer.

Jack: That makes perfect sense. But it's like, why is this a freaking Pokemon? A blender. A toaster.

Cristina: I'm not sure what this one's supposed to be.

Jack: Where's the other one? Next to it.

Cristina: That one?

Jack: No, the one that's a toaster. What the h*** is that?

Cristina: No idea. Okay, so people are getting really creative of what this should look like. What?

Jack: Freaking Rotom, bro.

Cristina: Yes, I would like to see Quest Beast as a Pokemon.

Jack: That'd be cool. Questy. Questy Equestrian.

Cristina: Oh, that's a cool name.

Jack: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is a cool name.

Cristina: Well, that was awesome. And there's a lot of creatures in Ireland. Ridiculous. That place is popular.

Jack: Yes, but what has made me interested about everything you've talked about is really digging into a banshee. Yeah, like, at this point, we've become the new Sam and Dean. They're off air. They're. They're. They're living their lives. We still hunting? S***, they stopped. We're still going. We're still hunting.

Cristina: Yeah, they're the ones that taught us.

Jack: Yeah, except we have a freaking army of subhumans provided by the Chinese cloning program. Yeah, which is totally fine. Look, it's totally fine. Actually, it's not the cloning program. We're the clones. It's all the aborted babies.

Cristina: The aborted babies make the.

Jack: The subhumans.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Aborted babies equal an army of subhumans that are superior because they're genetically engineered and then turn into Superhumans that then we use to hunt these creat like the ones in Ireland. And now I am fascinated by a banshee.

Cristina: Except that these creatures have. Are really secretive and they can hide and stuff. And like, I don't know. Finding a banshee really hard.

Jack: I'll figure it out, okay? I will figure out finding a banshee.

Cristina: Well, that's gonna be fun.

Jack: It's gonna be astounding. I will find the banshee by any means necessary.

Cristina: All right?

Jack: I promise. That much.

Cristina: I can't wait.

Jack: Yes. It's gonna be exciting.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Anyways, if you guys enjoyed this conversation and many conversations of this nature already exist on this show, that you can go find those locations would be to find them on the official website, greathoughts.info Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Cristina: And you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. UsConvopod.

Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe, rate, and review.

Cristina: The show and let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Yes. Word of mouth. It's totally amazing. Scream at people as if you were a banshee and tell them, hey, you're gonna love that. And they're gonna be like, yeah, I will. And you're like, yeah, cool. Scream with me. And then they'll scream with you. You should do that to random people on the street. Because they love it.

Cristina: They love it.

Jack: They love it.

Cristina: This has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal. And thanks for listening. Bye.

Jack: Kekken Apheos. Go on. Hang in hand.

Cristina: And that's what KEK is all about.

Jack: Chaos. Yeah. Embracing chaos. It's a natural part of everything. But so is order. And having order and reason and logic. In no moment does Kek's chaos interfere with Pastafarianism. Logic. The goal is be reasonable. Same thing with Kek. You control, but you don't hurt people.

Cristina: Because it's just a joke.

Jack: It's just a joke. If you're crossing the line, you're f****** up.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You're doing it wrong.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's not about hurting other people. It's about that balance of you can have fun. Some people are gonna get annoyed.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But they should know that they're getting annoyed at a joke.

Cristina: It's so weird how anything could have a religion. Thinking of Shaggy. Shaggy. The church of Shaggy.

Jack: Yeah. What happens with Shaggy is the idea that destruction is equal to creation. So not only do we maintain balance, but we need to understand that sometimes things. A good example is, as writers, we often have to get rid of something and destroy something because it's just not working out. It's the weak link in what we're trying to do. And sometimes you're attached to the idea, but the story isn't attached to the idea.

Cristina: I usually just remove them. I don't delete them or anything.

Jack: Well, you can remove them, put them somewhere else, but you're destroying the concept you were working with to change it for something else.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And that just goes hand in hand with. To maintain balance, you must destroy sometimes.

Cristina: That's an interesting way to see it. Yeah.

Jack: Shaggy is important.

Cristina: He is.

Jack: He's important in everything. You must destroy in order to create their hand in hand.

Cristina: Good morning. Good morning. The Just Conversation podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by great dots.info art by 0lupo and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 121: Moon Folklore

What did our ancestors believe about the moon? And how did they come to these conclusions? Unpacking cultural stories about the moon.

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The duo decide to begin investigations into the moon. Starting their search for knowledge on cultural tales told through the ages, the duo begins to understand how similar these stories are to one another. In questioning these similarities, the duo comes to an unexpected conclusion! Find out what on this episode of Just Conversation!!

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  • The Names of Full Moons
  • Cultural Beliefs
  • Moon Gods
  • Native American Moon Folklore
  • Cheese Moon Theories
  • Egyptian Gods
  • Aztec Gods
  • The Moon Rabbit

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Cristina: Do y' all like weird stuff? How about mysterious stuff? Are you a skeptic or a believer? Wanna hear the legend and the facts and the lore and the science and the myth and the theories? Come on down to none of this is Real, the podcast for all things mysterious and weird with us, Doomsday Demeni and Sarah Sinkhole, lifelong friends who have spent years poking their fingers through the veil, all while making each other laugh till it hurts. Find us on all the major podcast platforms and social media. That's none of this is Real, the podcast. You don't have to believe any, but you do have to believe on yourself. Believe all over yourself. Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean? Welcome to Just Conversation, the show where we ground humanity most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I'm host Christina.

Jack: And I'm Jack.

Cristina: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button to get notified the second new episodes are released.

Jack: Yes, and also this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner, so be sure to find somebody to pull nice and close and get ready to listen to some exciting woke teachings from the spirit realm.

Cristina: From the spirit realm? We're in the spirit realm now?

Jack: Sure.

Cristina: When did that happen?

Jack: In our excavation. We've been looking, researching, doing things, and now we're reporting from the spirit realm because I've decided.

Cristina: So what, did you send us here?

Jack: Yes, with my mind.

Cristina: With your mind.

Jack: With the power of imagination.

Cristina: Amazing. Amazing. So you remember that time a few months ago where we talked about the moon on the Halloween episode?

Jack: Right. What about it?

Cristina: That the full moons had names and I mentioned two of them. The harvest moon and the. What was the other one? The harvest moon and the hunter's moon. Well, I want to talk about the other names because they all have names.

Jack: Right? What are the names?

Cristina: This month, the moon will be called the worm moon. The full moon will be called the worm moon for this month because worms begin to appear.

Jack: Worms begin to appear?

Cristina: Yes, because they've been hibernating, I guess. Worms hibernate, I'm assuming. Yes. They hide from the cold the whole time. And now it's time for them to come out and do wormy stuff out here. I don't know why they would pop out. Why would they pop out?

Jack: I don't know. I don't think they get anything from over the dirt.

Cristina: They want to be eaten by birds. They're making a sacrifice to their bird gods.

Jack: Could be. Can you Imagine, probably.

Cristina: That's crazy. Like, what reason do they have? But, yes, they come out. And next month is the pink moon because there's flowers. Pink flowers on the ground. Not just. I mean, there's other flowers, but they pop up in May. That's why May is the flower moon.

Jack: But I'm definitely positive that other flowers come out in the pink moon.

Cristina: Yeah, but I bet pink flowers are more often. I don't know how they came up with that. Maybe the pink flowers probably disappear by the time the flower moon appears. There's no pink flowers in May.

Jack: No, there's definitely pink flowers throughout the whole year.

Cristina: Throughout the whole year? Yeah. There's pink flowers everywhere in winter.

Jack: Well, when there's flowers, there's pink flowers.

Cristina: Yes. And then in June is the strawberry moon because the strawberries are ready to be picked. And Ian. And in July is the buck moon, because the bucks are growing new antlers. And then on August is the sturgeon moon, which is a large fish found in the Great Lakes. And they're easily caught this time of year because I guess they're coming out of hibernation. I don't know what's happening in August. Or they're mating. Maybe that's their mating season. So they're all together and so they're easier to catch.

Jack: That's probably what happens. I'm sure that they're in mating seasons. Animals are easiest to catch because they are in larger numbers together trying to find one another.

Cristina: Yeah. Then the harvest moon, of course, is September or October. And then the corn moon is on September, which is the time to harvest corn. Delicious.

Jack: So corn doesn't grow year round.

Cristina: This is when they stop. Well, I guess this is the last time you can get corn before they don't grow anymore. And then the October is the hunter's moon because you're preparing to go hunting for the last time, also to prepare for winter. And then in November is beaver moon, because they're more active building their dams, their winter homes.

Jack: The dams are for winter?

Cristina: I think so. That's what I like to believe, that the dams are where they live for the winter. I don't know if they live in the dams, but angry beaver makes me believe that they live in those dams. They become more active in building their winter dams in preparation for the cold season. But why do they need their winter dams?

Jack: Oh, I guess it is to go vibernant.

Cristina: They're just obsessed with the dams. And then December is code moon, because winter is beginning. January is wolf moon, because the wolves are howling. Because they're hungry maybe. Or they're calling for each other. Like it's time to go out and hunt or to get together and what's the other thing? And mate.

Jack: Mate. Could be. It seems like mating would probably be reasonable around when animals are contacting one another.

Cristina: Yeah. And then February is the snow moon because a lot of snow. The heaviest snowfalls happen in the middle of winter, which is usually February. Around February Sounds legit. Yep, yep. And those are the incredible names of the HFU moons. And the moon is interesting because of how people all over the world see the moon as being something special.

Jack: Like religions. Like religions and Islam and old school Christians and Native Americans and pretty much every culture underdeveloped at some point. Indigenous people.

Cristina: Yeah. There's a bunch of themes and beliefs they have for the moon that they have in common, even if they're not all like the exact same story told over and over. There's like themes that match around what the moon represents. The easiest one is like the phases of the moon symbolizing birth and death. Because the changing of the phases of the moon is like a cycle. So it's just the moon represents many different types of cycles like birth and death and creation and destruction and things like that. It also symbolizes immortality and eternity because gods are immortal. And so the moon is. There's a few stories that have to do with the moon being a place where the elixir of life is at. For some reason, or at least in two stories there seems to be. So I don't know why the moon has it, but it has something to do with the phases of the moon. Like it's water, because they can control the water on Earth, they see the moon as water as well. So it's the elixir of life itself. Like it's the actual bottle that the gods are drinking. And people also see as comparing it to the stages of humans life. Like the new moon is the infant and the waning moon is the decline of life. Like it's dying, then it's coming back to life, like, you know, rebirth and that stuff. And that stuff appears in many of their stories.

Jack: Many whose stories?

Cristina: Many different stories that I will talk about. But first I want to talk about Khonsu, the Egyptian God of the moon. His name means traveler. And he's also thought of the as a pathfinder and defender. He guides and protects those who travel at night against wild animals and thieves and whatever the dangerous things that are out there.

Jack: Right. Why do they believe that?

Cristina: Why do they believe he protects them yes, because he guides them well, the moon itself is guiding them. They're using the moon's light to help them. So they believe whatever is in control of the moon, which I guess is that God. It's him that's helping them through the moon.

Jack: Got it.

Cristina: That's helping them.

Jack: You know symbolism.

Cristina: Yes, yes. That's why I think a lot of people see with the moon is like it's symbolizing something else. It's not the actual God, but it's like the God has some control over the moon as an object.

Jack: Yeah. Like it's a celestial object.

Cristina: Mm. This God has. Is sometimes a young man, but sometimes he's a hawk headed man. Because a lot of their gods have, you know, animal heads. But I wonder because he is also a lot of.

Jack: Whose gods?

Cristina: Egyptian gods.

Jack: Oh, okay.

Cristina: Have animal heads, but they also show him as a young man. So I don't know about other gods, but I wonder if they also have human forms and animal headed forms. Forms. I don't know how, because I know there's also.

Jack: There are animal headed forms.

Cristina: No, I mean, like, do they have both? Like this guy, he has both a human form and then the hawk head form. Do all the gods behave like that? Because there's also gods that have three different body animal parts. Do they also have a human part or a complete human form? But I'm not sure about that. I'm just curious about that. Okay. And he is also the God of time. He's also seen as a God of healing. He's healed the pharaoh, or they say he healed the pharaoh. He also, before they saw him as this kind God that heals and protects. He was a bloodthirsty God who helped the dying king catch and eat other gods.

Jack: Other gods?

Cristina: Yes, other gods.

Jack: A God who would catch gods to feed to a king?

Cristina: Yes, a dying king.

Jack: Why do they believe that?

Cristina: That was the story written super long ago. I don't know if they have the explanation for that, but that was like written on Egyptian coffin thing. That's where they get a lot of these ancient stories, man.

Jack: I wonder if we truly understand what these hieroglyphs say.

Cristina: Yeah, like that's. That's probably a problem. Like, are we reading them right?

Jack: Are we reading them at all? Are we making up what we're saying?

Cristina: Are we making? Exactly, yes. Are we making. Because it's just pictures.

Jack: Yep.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: We're applying meaning to pictures. We find we have people who believe they're experts at piecing together other people's pictures. Yet to this day, we consider art up to interpretation. So how the f*** do we consider that not just to be up to interpretation? We just sell s*** like it's fact?

Cristina: Huh? So I guess this story could totally be untrue. I mean, if people nowadays see him as a good guy, maybe he was always a good guy. And this one guy who read this story was like, nah.

Jack: Or maybe he was always a bad guy.

Cristina: Where he was always a bad guy and people just changed their opinion on him over time.

Jack: Not necessarily their opinion, just whoever's reading the thing at any given moment. Because we don't know what it says.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or even if it says anything. Or even if it could just be drawings.

Cristina: It could just be drawings, huh? Maybe. And then there's Artemis, the Greek God. And also Diana, I think, is the other one that's. She's not Greek, she's the Roman God. But they're almost equal in a lot of ways. They pretty much symbolize the exact same things, even though they're from different cultures, they're from different locations. Greek, Roman. Yeah. So Artemis is a Greek God. She's the goddess of hunt, wilderness, wild animals, chastity, and the moon. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. She's known to have the ability to give diseases to young women who disobey her instructions. But she also has the ability to heal young girls that were ill.

Jack: So the God of women.

Cristina: Yeah, the God of women also. Yeah. I don't know why she's the God of moon. I think somehow moon and women somehow relate. I just don't know how the two relate.

Jack: They're probably attaching menstrual cycles to it.

Cristina: Yes, that's probably it. That's a very important thing. In a lot of these religions and things. They connect the menstrual cycle with the moon. And according to a Greek legend, there was the queen of Thebes. Her name was Niobe, who I guess made fun of their mom. Artemis and her brother Niobe had more children than Leto, so she was making fun of her, I guess. And then the two kids decided, well, this isn't right, and then they murdered her children. I like that story. She made fun of their mom because their mom only had two kids, which is the twins. And Niobe, who made fun of Leto, had 14 children. So they murdered all 14 children. So now Leto has more children than Niobe, who was making fun of her.

Jack: This is a good thing or a bad thing? Where does it stand with people?

Cristina: I don't know. I just think it's an interesting story.

Jack: Like gods killing other gods.

Cristina: Yeah. Well, no. Naobi was a regular lady. She was the queen of thieves. She was a queen.

Jack: Niobe is not a God.

Cristina: No, she's a queen. She's human. And she made fun of a God. I guess that's the big thing, is, like, you don't make fun of gods or their children will get revenge.

Jack: Naomi's children got killed.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Got it.

Cristina: She had 14 children. They're all dead now. Or they're dead. Yep. So that's cool. I mean, Artemis has done a bunch of other violent things, but that was the most interesting one, I thought. Not very moon related. But there's Har. It's like, for that one at least for her, I couldn't really find anything about the moon relating to her. But a lot of other gods definitely have stories relating why they are the representation of the moon, or whatever you want to call it, the God of the moon. There's Mani, the Norse personification of the moon. He is the God of the moon and he's the brother of the goddess of the sun, who. Her name is Sol. Both Sol and Mani are being chased endlessly by a pair of wolves. I think you know the story. They're destined to be caught and devoured by the wolves at Ragnarok. Because the wolves, I think, are the children of Loki.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: If I'm getting that. That's right. Okay. Yes. I thought that was interesting. Yep. They're just constantly. They're moving around in the sky, running from the wolves.

Jack: Okay, that makes sense. That's why they're moving in the sky at all.

Cristina: Yeah. And the lunar eclipse is thought of when one of the wolves was very close to Mani, the moon God, like he was about to eat him.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: But of course he doesn't. So that's why he comes back. But that's a really interesting way to explain that. So he's not the moon. But it's interesting because he's not the only one who does this. But he's steering a chariot in the sky, which I guess is part of the moon. I'm not sure. But he's not the only moon God that's steering a chariot. And I forgot where that other guy was from. I think he is the Hindu God, but I might be wrong. But I think he is also steering a chariot, which I don't know where they got these two ideas. They're very far from each other, aren't they? Hindu? And I don't know.

Jack: Where did Norse mythology happen?

Cristina: Where did it happen in Norse. That's not a location. No, in Scotland. And the phases of the moon were said to represent his endless running from the wolf, you know, trying to avoid him. And that's why the moon changes, because it's like. I don't. He's guiding the moon. The moon is with him and is changing its side depending on how he's moving. Right? That sounds right.

Jack: Got it. So they're running together.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay. So there's many moon folklore around the world. Many. And we're going to start in Native American folklore. Native Americans see the sun and the moon as a leader and his wife and the stars are their children. The sun loves to catch and eat his children, which are the stars, and they flee from the sky. When, you know the morning is coming. The stars are disappearing because they're running from the sun. And then at night, the moon comes, and he's. It's playing with the. Or I guess she's playing with the stars, the children, while the sun is asleep. But once a month, she turns her face because she's mourning for the children that were caught from the sun. And when she's mourning is when it's a new moon. The new moon would be her turning her back, I guess, from the world because she's crying.

Jack: No, that's crazy. So they think the sun is a murderer.

Cristina: A lot of these stories, the son is a murderer, and one of them, the son is a rapist to his.

Jack: Sister, which is the moon.

Cristina: Yes. In Nigeria, there are people that believe the sun and the moon are husband and wife. Long ago, they lived on earth, and then their best friend, the flood, came over to visit their house.

Jack: And then the flood?

Cristina: Yes, the flood. A flood. I don't know why they were friends with the flood, but it came over their house, and they couldn't stay in their house because they would drown. So they ended up having to go into the sky, and now they live there.

Jack: So the flood isn't like their enemy?

Cristina: I would think it would be, but they considered it their best friend. I guess they don't think of him as their best friend anymore.

Jack: And what Nigerian culture believes this?

Cristina: The epic Ebiboio people of Nigeria, is.

Jack: That like a tribe? Is it a religion?

Cristina: A tribe? A tribe of people in Nigeria believe this. A lot of these are from tribes. Another one in Kenya, the Luiya. The Luiya people believe the sun and moon are brothers. The moon was older, bigger, and brighter, and the sun got jealous and picked a fight with him. Then during the fight, the moon fell into Mud. And that's why it's dimmer now. And I guess that also explains the dark of it. You know, the spots that I have that people see things on the moon sometimes. The craters. Yeah, yeah. So that's explaining why the moon isn't as bright as the sun.

Jack: Moon is just dirty.

Cristina: Yeah. Oh, and also God told them to stop fighting and kept them apart by ordering the sun to only be around here during the day and the moon at night.

Jack: Which doesn't happen.

Cristina: Which doesn't happen. Well, they try, I guess. I don't.

Jack: The moon and sun are regularly together.

Cristina: Well, they're trying to fight each other again, but no one. I wonder if that eclipse for them then when they're about to fight each other again.

Jack: Well, no, because there's many, many times that the moon is out during the.

Cristina: Daylight, but that's when it's going back home or going back is leaving while the sun is coming.

Jack: That doesn't work that way.

Cristina: No. Well, that's how they're seeing it happening.

Jack: Right, but how do they interpret when it's broad the middle daylight.

Cristina: Oh, and they see the shadow of the moon.

Jack: No, they literally see the moon in the middle of daylight as well.

Cristina: I don't know. Maybe they don't see it as the moon.

Jack: They think that's a different rock.

Cristina: Yes, it's a different rock. And then in. In the Indonesia island of Hava, there are a tribe there that think there's a moon goddess who came to Earth to bathe in a lake. And while she was bathing, a man stole her swan feathers because she does the thing that werewolves do and she's just wearing a swan. I guess she was a swan when she landed. She took it off, she became human. The guy stole the swan feathers so she couldn't leave back to the sky. So she married the man.

Jack: So no more moon.

Cristina: Well, no, that's not the end of the story. And then she did end up finding her swan feathers and now she can return to the sky. But she has children here. So she'll go back to the sky at night and then come spend the daytime hours on Earth with her husband and their daughter.

Jack: Interesting. And does anybody believe they knew who this woman was?

Cristina: They probably know her right now. Like she probably doesn't die. Unless there's a story explaining why she's not there. No, no more. Maybe they suspect someone to be her.

Jack: Yeah, like basically the difference between God and like Jesus, except it's continuous. So like God is up there, but randomly he's not. So sometimes people Just. Well, I don't feel the spirit of God. Oh, he must be on earth today.

Cristina: Really? That's the thing.

Jack: No, I'm using an example.

Cristina: Okay. Okay. Well, that would be really interesting if there was stories like that though. But I thought it was interesting that she had a swan outfit. Like, I wonder how many different creatures they saw as just people in disguise.

Jack: Or I guess not in disguise, but rather they have like a magic get up.

Cristina: Yeah. Or are they magical creatures that have human skin under their fur or something? I don't. I don't really understand how it works because she. She's a moon, but she dresses into a swan and then she looks like a human. So when she's back, like what turns her from one to the other?

Jack: Taking it off.

Cristina: She takes off her human skin and turns into the moon?

Jack: No, putting. I guess she's just human with powers. Putting on the swan outfit makes her the moon.

Cristina: maybe. I don't know. It's weird, but. Yes, but that's interesting that a bunch of stories used to be like that. I don't think there's anything like that anymore. Like the werewolves came from stories like that of men with for belts or whatever. And then they turned into werewolves.

Jack: Yeah, I remember that.

Cristina: Yeah. So. But. And now they're just werewolves. They don't need anything. They just. Full moon. Hey, full moon. But alright. In Siberia, the story of why the moon is scarred, they believe that it's fang marks left from this thing called. I think that's how you say it. And he's a monster with huge black wings. He's the personification of the darkness of the sky. And he feeds on the moon every night. He's just slowly devouring it for the whole month. But the problem is that he can't actually eat the moon. Like eating the moon upsets his stomach. So by the end he ends up vomiting the moon. And then piece by piece the moon comes back because he vomited out. And that explains also why the moon.

Jack: Has phases and then he eats it again. So he's eating his vomit?

Cristina: Essentially, yes.

Jack: It's a sort of God creature that's consistently eating his vomit for all of eternity.

Cristina: Because it's delicious, it's addicting. It's the most addicting vomit he's ever had.

Jack: It's the only vomit he's ever had. Yeah, it's been happening for eternity.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: It's the perpetual cycle of vomiting.

Cristina: Yeah, that's disgusting. But who knows? Maybe it's delicious, I don't know. But he keeps doing it so it must be delicious, right? And then in. In Serbia, they probably. What's the oldest explanation for why we say the moon is made of cheese? Which is there was a wolf chasing a fox. The fox convinced the wolf that there was a block of cheese in the bottom of a pond. And the wolf didn't realize that it was just the reflection of the moon. So he went to drink the pond and eventually he blew up.

Jack: But he explains, he blew up because there were explosives in the pond.

Cristina: He was just so filled with water. He just kept drinking. He just never stopped because he needed that cheese. I don't know why he thought that cheese would be better than that fox, though. Like fox or cheese for wolf.

Jack: Maybe wolves love cheese.

Cristina: Maybe wolves loves cheese.

Jack: Maybe that's their s***.

Cristina: He exploded for that. He drank all that water for some cheese. What?

Jack: Maybe cheese is rare for fox, for wolves. Maybe cheese is rare for wolves.

Cristina: Don't they have good smells? Can he smell that? There's no cheese.

Jack: Not under the water.

Cristina: Mmm. Well, yes, he blew up. And it's amazing. And that's probably one of the oldest stories of why the moon is made out of cheese. Although I think people also see the moon as cheese somehow. Like they see it as different things. They see different things on the moon, I guess, like the craters look like cheese hose. But also a lot of people say the man on the moon, they see a face of a man on the.

Jack: Moon, this super epic. One time when the lunar rover landed and it sent back that weird message and they were like, what? And then they aimed the telescope that zoomed in like crazy. And they found a castle made of cheese. And the rover was like, I do not compute. And they were like, sir, Captain of NASA, there's a cheese castle up there. And we discovered the cheese people that day.

Cristina: I thought that we made that cheese castle. No, that had nothing to do with us.

Jack: That had nothing to do with us.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: That cheese castle.

Cristina: We just have cheese people living on the moon.

Jack: Cheese people living on the moon? Well, they're not people made of cheese, but we call them cheese people because they're people who make things of cheese.

Cristina: That's disgusting.

Jack: They go out of their way to breed farm cows.

Cristina: So there's cows on the moon?

Jack: Yes, on the dark side of the moon.

Cristina: That's why they keep the cows.

Jack: That's where they keep the cows. See, what people don't understand is that the moon isn't real.

Cristina: What? But then how about everything we just said?

Jack: Well, that's not the moon. The moon Wasn't like a natural creation. The moon was put there by them. By them. It's a spaceship.

Cristina: It's a spaceship. And they. That's why they kidnap our cows?

Jack: Yes. The cows get taken to the moon to make infrastructure with their milk.

Cristina: Why?

Jack: Facts. You could go to the library of the Freemasons and find this.

Cristina: Nah. If they're stealing our cows, it's cuz they love cheese. They love eating cheese. There's no way that they need cheese to build things with.

Jack: They eat their buildings.

Cristina: No, that's crazy. That's crazy. How did they get this far if they're living in cheesy buildings?

Jack: They also. They're aliens. They figured out the formula to preserve cheese forever.

Cristina: They love cheese that much. They're just obsessed with cheese. That's amazing.

Jack: To be fair, if we travel far enough in an infinite universe, eventually, like, every possibility should happen. So there should be a region of space where there's a planet of people who build things of cheese. That should be a real thing, like just based on science.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Mathematically speaking, the numbers tell us there should be somewhere in the universe where there are cheese structures. So that wolf wasn't far off?

Cristina: That wolf wasn't far off, I guess. I wish. Where are these aliens? Where are they? Where's the whale alien that's just swimming through space? If you can describe it that way, that'd be awesome. Yes. Yes, it would.

Jack: Maybe it's out there and we just. We suck at looking at space. We pretend we're awesome, but, like, maybe it's floating out there. We don't even see it.

Cristina: I know. It's so crazy. There could be mad stuff.

Jack: There's probably a bunch of s*** living inside the meteor belt.

Cristina: Mmm.

Jack: Although the meteor bell is also not as close together as movies would pretend they are.

Cristina: Yeah, but they could be living in there. I mean, how do we examine that? Do we even look at that?

Jack: We can't really see anything in there.

Cristina: Oh, okay. So there could be things in there.

Jack: What, they think there's a planet in there.

Cristina: They think they don't even know.

Jack: Nope. There's no way to tell.

Cristina: Oh, okay. It's one of those things that, like, there's gravity doing something weird there.

Jack: Yeah. And then we were like, well, what could explain it? Boom. Planet.

Cristina: Oh, okay. So. Man, we suck. Especially looking at things around us. Like, we do a better job looking at other star systems.

Jack: We do a really s***** job of looking at other star systems. We're worse than that.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: Yes. We just happen to have picked Something we could already aim at. But how much s*** are we not aiming at? The further out, the less we could see.

Cristina: Oh man. So is there a specific spot before, like that is a perfect space that we could see of, or is that not a thing. Everything's just crap.

Jack: Yeah, we just have certain spots that we favor. Okay, but we miss 99.99% of everything in space. Of course, even in our observable distance, we see almost none of it.

Cristina: Then why do we cry about there not being any aliens? We can hardly see anything.

Jack: I don't know.

Cristina: Because we figured.

Jack: We figured they would come to us.

Cristina: I can't. Ah. Like we just got blind and we're looking around the room and they're like, why isn't there anyone here? And there's probably someone right there trying to help us guide. Like trying to walk us to the right direction. And we're not paying attention to them.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: In Greenland, the Inuits believe that their moon God raped his sister, the sun goddess, and that every night he chases her to possess her again. And he also, the whole time he's starving as he runs, getting smaller and smaller every night until he disappears. And then he slowly comes back to his full self in like, I think they say, like three days. That whole time he's taking a break to eat and he's full again. Which is another explanation of the moon phases.

Jack: Interesting. But it takes way more than three days.

Cristina: Oh, it's not. Okay, how many days does it take?

Jack: From 15 in either direction.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Yeah.

Jack: On average it takes about 15 days for a moon to fully dissipate and another 15 to come back. That's why there's only one full moon a month.

Cristina: Okay, well then he takes a 15 day break to eat and then he chases his sister, I guess to rape her again. What a beautiful story. I wonder where they get that story from. How random. It could be anything. Chasing anyone. Chasing anyone for any reason.

Jack: Does it take 15 days?

Cristina: So he eats for 15 days, but he takes a three day break to eat to be full, and then he continues on running after her. That makes sense because you see the full moon three for about three days.

Jack: Before it's visibly shrinking.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. So. And during that time is when he's feeding to chase her again. Yay. And then in Africa, there's several indigenous peoples around the continent that call the moon God MAU MAU. And Mawu's companion is the sun goddess, Lisa. And. Oh, and when they meet and make love, they make an eclipse. And also they created the World. Their son Gu is the smith God. They used him to shape the universe. And also there's a serpent, his name is Da, who helped them during the creation, which I thought was interesting because you mentioned there's serpents everywhere in different stories.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: So here's the serpent. And so Muwu was the goddess of night, joy and motherhood. And Lisa was the God of day, heat and strength. And in Aztec, there was a moon goddess. Her name is very complicated, but it means the Golden Bells. She was the daughter of the earth goddess and the sister of the sun God. And golden bells encouraged her 400 sisters and brothers to kill their mother. I don't know why, but she wanted her mom dead. But when she was planning, when she was about to do that, her mom gave birth to her brother, the sun God. When he was born, he was an adult already and he saved her life. And then he cut off his sister's head and threw it into the sky and it formed into the moon. How cool is that?

Jack: So he turned out to be the killer.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And also, are the brother and sisters the stars?

Cristina: Maybe. I feel like it. 400 sisters and brothers. I don't know what they were, but they must be. Right. But what's the mom? Because usually the mom is. Everyone is something in the story. And in this one, except the sister.

Jack: Was not the moon yet.

Cristina: She was just the moon goddess. Or maybe she became the moon goddess after this. Whatever. Now she's the moon. That's the important thing. She is the moon for trying to kill her mommy. And in Hindu, Soma represents the God of the moon. And he rides through the sky in a chariot drawn by white horses, which is similar to the Egyptian God Mari from the Norse mythology also had a chariot. So I thought that was interesting that two different places had the moon on chariot, or the moon God on chariot. Soma was also named the elixir of immortality. That was the name of it. And only the gods can drink it. And it was stored in the moon in. Yes.

Jack: The moon is just an alcohol container.

Cristina: Yes. And when the gods drink the moon, that's when the moon wanes because the gods are drinking away some of its properties. Because it's the actual liquid in the moon that's being poured out into the gods. In New Zealand, there are people called the Mari people who see a girl in a bucket on the moon. And their explanation for that is that there was a lady who was carrying a bucket of water to her children in a cloudy night. And in a moment the clouds covered the moon and she tripped and fell. So then she cursed at the moon for her falling. And then the moon heard that and got angry. So he cursed it, cursed the Mari people. And then it grabbed the girl. The grabbed the lady and the bucket and threw her to the moon. Or I guess he kidnapped her.

Jack: The moon kidnapped the lady?

Cristina: Yes. So that's why they see the lady with the bucket on the moon. Because she was still holding the bucket when he took her.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: Yes. It's strange the different things people see on the moon.

Jack: Yes, it's really weird.

Cristina: Also, when the girl's upset, she. When she drops her bucket on the moon, it rains. That explains, because they were explaining the rain and stuff on the Earth. It comes from the moon, I guess, to them.

Jack: And it's what happens when it rains on a moonless day.

Cristina: What happens when it rains on a moonless day? They're like, the moon is out there no matter what. We're scientists like that. We know it's there.

Jack: It's just hiding.

Cristina: It's just hiding. The Japanese people believe that the moon is a fortune telling God. So the priests that want to fortune tell would study the moon's reflection on Amera because they believed if they looked into the moon that it would drive them crazy. So it's like a superstition about the moon.

Jack: So they would just not look at the moon.

Cristina: Yeah, but just the reflection on the mirror because they thought it would drive them crazy.

Jack: Because meanwhile looking at the sun. A. Okay.

Cristina: Yes, it's perfectly fine. But it's interesting because a lot of people think the moon drives people crazy. So it's a different story, a different version of.

Jack: That's how werewolves happen.

Cristina: Just like werewolves, it's just people going mad. And Shinto, the moon God Tsukiyumi, was born out of the right eye of a ancient being. And he used to live in the heavens with his sister, the sun God, Amaterasu. But she asked him to represent her to the goddess of food, whose name is Yukimashi. To celebrate, the goddess of food offered him a meal, and she created the meal from her mouth and nose. He thought that was disgusting, so he killed her. But then when his sister learned about what he did, she was so angry that she didn't want to see him anymore. And since then, the brother and sister live apart, and they take turns being in the sky.

Jack: So broken up family.

Cristina: Yeah. Yep. Such a strange. Like he was born out of an eyeball and he was disgusted by this lady who made food out of her mouth and nose. But I'm Sure. Her nose and mouth would grow back. Like, she's the God of food. I'm sure the food is fine, right? I don't know, but. Or maybe it's not. I don't know. I don't know anything about gods. Okay.

Jack: Perfection. The food should be amazing.

Cristina: It should be like, she's the God of food. This is her thing. She's known for this. Why would you be disgusted? Like, why not at least give it a try? I would think you could trust it, but I don't know. Then there's the Mayan people. They have a old goddess. I mean, their moon goddess is an old lady. Her name is Ixchel. I think it means the lady rainbow. She was depicted as an old lady wearing a skirt with cross bones. And she had a serpent in her hand. Look at that, a serpent showing up. Anyway, she had the assistant sky serpent, whom they believe carried the waters of heavens in its belly, because the moon and water, the serpent is carrying the water. Okay. And she also carries a jug filled with water as well, which she uses to send floods and powerful rainstorms to the earth. So, yeah, they're all related, you see, in some little ways, but. Okay.

Jack: And then, I mean, most stories share an origin to begin with. There's probably like, you could trace all of this back to a single point that then kept branching off into many different stories.

Cristina: You think there was one story? One story.

Jack: Not literally one story, but like many of these stories have a similar origin. So each area might have a bunch of stories that came from one point, from one observation. Then the story got told and altered tiny bits every time it was told until different cultures around the same region had different explanations for the same thing.

Cristina: Yes. Yes, I think so. And in China in the ancient times, there were. They believed that there was 12 different moons for the different 12 different months of the year and 10 suns that were the 10 days in the Chinese week. The mother of the 12 moons was the same as the mother of the 10 sons. And at the beginning of each month, the mother washed her children in the lake in the. At the extreme western side of the world. Then each moon, one after the other, would travel to in a chariot. In a chariot for a month's journey to reach the opposite side of the world. And that's where the suns will begin their journey. And I thought that was interesting. Chariots and all interesting.

Jack: It looks like they're all Asian cultures that believe that, though, because the other one was Hindu, right?

Cristina: Yeah, it was Hindu. And what was the third? The first one was Norse. Whatever that is.

Jack: Oh, crap. Norse. Thus far.

Cristina: Yeah. And then there's this one thing that a lot of places have is the moon rabbit, which is people see a rabbit on the moon, and there's a bunch of explanations for this moon rabbit. In China, it's very popular. So the folklore began in China and then spread to the other Asian cultures. Story goes that the rabbit is seen as the companion of the moon goddess Shang O. And it's on the moon pounding the elixir of life for her. Hey, similar to some other story, right? Okay.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: The elixir of life, which seems to.

Jack: Be on the moon.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: In a castle made of cheese.

Cristina: A castle made of cheese? Yes. So this woman once used to be immortal, but was turned immortal for bad behavior. And now she's just trying to get back into the good side of the other gods by making this elixir and living forever. But, like, the first time, she drank the too much of it, and she ended up floating onto the moon, and then she made that her home. So now she lives there with a rabbit who's trying to come up with the perfect formula for this elixir to keep her alive forever.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Which. It seems like it's still working. I mean, I guess it's like adrenochrome, where you got to drink it forever. Consistently? Yes, consistently. Or you will die.

Jack: It could be like the limitless pill where you take it and the effects are slowly going to wear off and make you go crazy.

Cristina: Oh, yeah.

Jack: And so they're looking for the perfect one where you take it once and you're just good forever.

Cristina: Yes. Man. We got to get that. I mean, we're on the moon. No, we're not. What did you say we were? Dream. No, I don't remember.

Jack: The spirit realm.

Cristina: The spirit realm. What are we doing here? Whatever. In the Japanese and Korean versions, the rabbit is pounding either ingredients for mashi or for some kind of rice cake.

Jack: Pounding. What do we mean? It's f******, like, the stuff. It's just f****** ingredients. It takes a pounding.

Cristina: Like jumping on it, like with its pouncing. Pounding. The word is pounding, but. Or hitting. Maybe they see it hitting something like that. I don't know.

Jack: It's very strange.

Cristina: Pound. Excuse the word pound, but I think they mean hit or jump. It's hitting something, and that's what they believe it is.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: It's hitting a ball, which I guess, you know, there's a ball in the moon. One of the. You know, there's so many blobs on the moon. They see one as a rabbit, one as whatever they think it is, whether it's the medicine or rice ball or. What was the first one? The elixir.

Jack: Yeah. So the rabbits up their f****** balls.

Cristina: Yes. And also in China they instead of using the word the moon, they call it either the jade hair or the gold hair. These are pretty cool names. Pretty cool. Well, the rabbit is not just seen it from the Asian folklores, but also in indigenous American folklore there's a bunch of stories and they're also similar about like the rabbit is sacrificing its life usually and it ends up on the moon somehow. And also further in North America to Canada, they also have a rabbit story. Who with a rabbit that wished to ride the moon. And that's how the rabbit ended up on the moon. So there's a bunch of places.

Jack: How'd it get to the moon to ride the moon?

Cristina: That bird, the crane flew it there. That's how it got its super long legs.

Jack: Got it.

Cristina: Yep, yep.

Jack: Yeah, that makes sense.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So flying to the moon and all.

Cristina: So China, I mean, the Asian cultures aren't the only ones that see the rabbit. A bunch of other places see the rabbit.

Jack: There's a lot of consistency. Chances are it did begin these very similar stories began as one and then sort of evolved depending on the culture.

Cristina: Okay, so that's it for now. I think that's enough moon stuff. And I know there's a lot, but I tried my best to give as much as I can.

Jack: Yes, very fascinating. It's crazy how many different cultures have. But I guess all cultures had to explain the universe one way or another. And before science was like a sure thing because there were science minded people, the science wasn't really a thing. Thing.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And I think before science became a thing, people just had explanations. They were always mystical.

Cristina: They're always mystical. Yeah. And I think the moon is just really interesting because of its whole face thing. It makes it much more interesting than anything else up in the sky that just looks static. Yeah, everything looks static, even the shiny or whatever. Like. Yeah, it's just really big. But the moon is got that interesting.

Jack: Phase thing and way more visible.

Cristina: Mmm. Mm.

Jack: The moon is clearer than the sun because the sun is too bright and the stars are some too dim and too small. Whether dim or not.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And there both of these instances, the sun and the stars are very static. While the moon has phases, it moves around the sky in visible ways and.

Cristina: We can see a bunch of crap on it that's not even there.

Jack: Even with like wack telescopes, you can see pretty well.

Cristina: That's pretty awesome. But anyway, it's time to close the show. It's time to close the bag. Was it that they say in Comedy.

Jack: Central, time to close? No, it's a plug bag.

Cristina: It's a plug bag. It's time to close the plug bag. Oh, no. It's time to open the plug bag. No, I did the opposite that they do. Okay. It's time to open the plug bag. No. Okay. Anyway, you can find more things like this, I think. Have we done anything like this? Well, we've gone all over the place. So you can find other things.

Jack: Yeah. I'm pretty sure we've mentioned the moon before. Probably not in great detail, but it's come up before for different reasons. And because of aliens and space travel and werewolves. And werewolves and probably demons and, you know, we handle things in outer space because it's part of our job.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: What we do is deal with space creatures and interdimensional beings and things of that nature.

Cristina: Yeah. That's all we do.

Jack: And we got Mars and some stuff on the moon and apparently the moon castle with cheese Castle. To cheese Castle where there's aliens. Anyways, you can find all that stuff on the official website, greythoughts.info or Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcast.

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Cristina: Let someone who might like the show know about it.

Jack: Yes. Cause word of mouth is extremely powerful and very important.

Cristina: And this has been the JustConversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye. That's an interesting question. I've never considered creator. I always just considered when thinking of atheists, I only considered God. Like what would somebody knowing all knowing creature be? And how would they react to what we consider reality as humans? And the only thing that makes sense is Atheos.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If there is something that made us, whether or not they made everything they are or not that made us is there's. If there's something that's everywhere all the time and knows everything, it can't give a s***. And that's how atheos came to be. Because good and bad doesn't make a concept of something that is all of the above.

Cristina: Yeah. So then he is. He did create everything.

Jack: I don't know if he did create everything. I know he knows everything.

Cristina: So he just. He popped up the same time as we popped up, though. Because he was there to measure everything.

Jack: I'm very Judaistic. Judaistic. I'm very much of a Jew when it comes to the belief that what happened before, we don't know what happened after. What happens after, we don't know. That's irrelevant. What's happening now? I know he's.

Cristina: That he's.

Jack: He's watching like Santa Claus or some s***. And he's not judging your good or bad, but whether for whatever reason you're not being you and he's not judging. There's just rules that are set in place universally that when you don't please you, you're miserable.

Cristina: It's kind of like you're judging yourself.

Jack: Yes. Giant mirrors being held up.

Cristina: Yeah. That's interesting.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cristina: Because you are God.

Jack: So it's very interesting. You can picture Atheos essentially being a scale. That's where the chains came in. It was just balance. You bring it down anytime you do something counter to you.

Cristina: He's a scale.

Jack: He's a scale. Are you maintaining the balance of who you are?

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Or are you. Because you can't fully indulge in anything either. Because then it becomes meaningless. Anything you do fully in one direction just becomes a normal. You don't want that. You need the balance. But who are you as a balanced person?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because everybody's balanced differently.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And that's the whole point. If you're not keeping your balance. So Atheos is the scale by which you balance yourself.

Cristina: So he looks like a scale ball. Like we could picture him as a scale. Like picture the spaghetti monster as a spaghetti.

Jack: Well, I wouldn't picture this. I find the irony of that religion funny, but I don't really. I rather use the word Pastafarianism because the flying spaghetti monster is. Although funny, the reasoning behind the belief system is pretty solid.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: It's actually really rational, minus the whole jokes on God part. Same with Atheos. Giving him a visual is weird thing. He's a concept, not a being of any sort.

Cristina: Well, people like putting cons.

Jack: I know. I rather use a symbol to represent.

Cristina: Him, which is the scale.

Jack: The scale would be the symbol.

Cristina: Exactly.

Jack: Not who he is, not who is.

Cristina: But if you like to picture him, it would probably be a person. Because it's easiest to imagine.

Jack: It's easiest. Yes. It's easiest to imagine the cliche old guy in the sky looking.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Atheist is nothing but a concept, a thought, an idea.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: A philosophy. There you go. It's a philosophy. A philosophic way of thinking of a God the same way that the flying spaghetti monster is a philosophic way of thinking of a God. Shaggy. Well, actually, all things considered. Because if you think of the idea of kek, what makes sense about Kek is that we all have a crazy psychotic kind of side. Yeah, we suppress it for social norms or whatever. And some of us feel comfortable doing that, others don't. I like chaos. I enjoy chaos. I normality bores the s*** out of me and I die a little on the inside if I have to be normal.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: I'm not a fan of that. But chaos is amazing. And testing people and pushing them to their limits and seeing where they stand on something. I love that. The concept that if that brings you pleasure, you should do it. I like that.

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Rambling 120: The Life Checklist

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How do we know when something is alive? What of things that meet all the same requirements but we consider not alive? Understanding and designing a new checklist to measure life on this episode.

 Story:
The duo unpacks what constitutes being alive in order to best explain to the listeners who or what to force to listen to the show. But on their journey to understand the concept of life they discover several interesting facts and create an entire checklist with different tiers of life to assist scientists in measuring the possibilities.

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Topics Discussed

  • Are all living things conscious?
  • Which things aren’t alive?
  • The problem of aging
  • Is fire alive?
  • Carbon based life
  • Is God Alive?
  • Is sperm alive?
  • Organic Matter
  • Cells
  • Alive vs Galvan

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+Transcript

Cristina: This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Just Conversation Podcast, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button to get notified the second new episodes are released.

Cristina: Also, this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner to share opinions and ideas on topics we discuss.

Jack: Yes. So go find a person and an inanimate object and make them both listen.

Cristina: What?

Jack: You never know what's alive.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: You never know. We don't know what is life. You force anything to listen, make your walls listen, blast it as loud as possible. You don't know if your house is alive. There's no way to tell.

Cristina: There's no way to tell.

Jack: Like weird a** rubric we have for f****** life.

Cristina: I guess if it has a heart. It doesn't have a heart.

Jack: It doesn't need a heart to be alive.

Cristina: What? What?

Jack: Yeah, let's think about it. Let's think about it. Right? Let's think about it. What do we call in life? If you're conscious, are you alive?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Is that life? So conscious beings are by default alive?

Cristina: I think so.

Jack: How do we gauge consciousness? In order to say anything's alive, then.

Cristina: You have to say it. You have to announce, I am conscious.

Jack: So animals aren't conscious then?

Cristina: Ooh, they're definitely conscious. They say it in their own ways.

Jack: How?

Cristina: With whatever sound that they make.

Jack: That's not saying I'm conscious. Are plants conscious?

Cristina: No.

Jack: So animals? Yes. But plants know?

Cristina: Well, I think. Yes, but if it's just by the sound that they're making that. No.

Jack: Yeah, it doesn't even make sense. Do they have to make a sound in order to be conscious? What about things that make sounds but aren't animals?

Cristina: Like what?

Jack: I don't know. Like a plant that makes a sound or some s***.

Cristina: It's a plant that makes a sound.

Jack: I mean, there's probably a plant that makes a sound. That's interesting.

Cristina: I would say that has consciousness.

Jack: Then by default, all plants have consciousness.

Cristina: Okay, all plants have consciousness.

Jack: But then where do we draw the line? Where do we stop our cells? Conscious?

Cristina: Yes. I don't know how. Yes, they're conscious. Everything's conscious. Okay. Everything. Even the walls?

Jack: Yeah. It seems like everything is conscious, right?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because if we just assume that consciousness is like a collection of matter, then everything is relatively, like different degrees of conscious, but all conscious, no matter what.

Cristina: How could you prove any of that?

Jack: How could you prove I'm conscious?

Cristina: Because you can say it and I believe you.

Jack: Right, but why does me saying it make it true?

Cristina: Hmm?

Jack: What can you do to prove my statement?

Cristina: Brain scans does that how to prove consciousness. Maybe there's somewhere in the brain that says, is the conscious spot like everything else. Like there's.

Jack: We have no idea. We have no idea. There's nothing. There's nothing.

Cristina: There's nothing.

Jack: Nothing. We don't have a guide or anything.

Cristina: Well, there's no test.

Jack: Nope.

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: There's zero things tell us whether something conscious is alive. We don't even know what alive is. Regardless of consciousness, whether or not it's conscious. We can't tell something is alive. Like, if we. Because obviously we don't even know what consciousness is to say that that's alive. I don't know why that was where you went with that. But, like, we can't gauge any consciousness in anything. We're just assuming consciousness because we perceive thus, you know? I guess the same s*** applies of.

Cristina: The if something's alive that it's also conscious.

Jack: I guess a cell is alive according to our rubric.

Cristina: Oh, is it? What's the rubric?

Jack: Well, it needs to reproduce, it needs to grow, it needs to eat. It needs to respond to its environment. Like a cell fulfills all those things.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: Is it conscious? Huh?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: I guess consciousness is not the point.

Cristina: No. Okay, what's the point?

Jack: That we don't know what the f*** is alive. You can't just say something is alive because it's conscious. That doesn't make sense. Okay, that means that God isn't alive, but it's conscious. Oh, giant hole in the logic. That means that any other version of you in any other dimension is. Is by extension dead.

Cristina: They're dead?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Why?

Jack: Because you're not alive, like, biologically, but you're still conscious. You're just dead. But, like, it doesn't make any sense. Okay, you got to satisfy the rubric. That's the measurement of life. Allegedly.

Cristina: Okay, but God's not alive.

Jack: God doesn't satisfy the rubric. No, he doesn't like age. He doesn't like die. He doesn't like. So what the f***? He's conscious. But does he. That doesn't make any sense. But I don't even know why we're talking about consciousness. Because we needed some inanimate object.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because it might be alive.

Cristina: Yeah. Well, how do you prove an in object is alive?

Jack: I don't know. I guess it depends on the object itself. Right?

Cristina: Like. Like what?

Jack: Here's the problem. Here's the problem. Here's the problem. You can't just grab an inanimate object. It would have to be something that already seems to behave on its own.

Cristina: But it has to be. Okay, so this is an inanimate object that believes.

Jack: I guess it's complicated. Would you say fire is inanimate? Because I feel fire is very animated.

Cristina: Yes, it's an animated thing.

Jack: Interesting. Right? So an inanimate object might not be alive because it's inanimate, but an animated object that doesn't satisfy the rubric might be alive.

Cristina: Huh? But how do we prove that that inanimate object is not alive just because it's not?

Jack: If we. If we go by the assumption that all matter has some consciousness, and the more complicated something is, the more consciousness it has. Everything is conscious. It's just different levels that we can gauge to some degree.

Cristina: But we're talking about life, though, now.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: And anything that moves is alive. Like fire. You call that as light?

Jack: I guess. Here's what's weird. Here's what's weird. Okay. Okay, let's. Let's take some steps back. Right.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: There are literally animals that don't. Just things that satisfy the living rubric that don't move.

Cristina: What animal doesn't move?

Jack: Barnacles are this sort of sea creature that does not move or respond to its environment at all. But it reproduces.

Cristina: But that's like a plant.

Jack: No, it's sort of like a sea plant.

Cristina: Like a sea plant?

Jack: Something like that.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Coral doesn't move either.

Cristina: Coral doesn't. Okay, so just all these things are in the water. Is there anything outside the water?

Jack: There's a germ. Staphylococcus.

Cristina: That doesn't move.

Jack: It doesn't move. It's weird. Other things have to eat it up and then they get sick. But it multiplies.

Cristina: But it multiplies.

Jack: Multiplies how?

Cristina: It's like. But it's not moving.

Jack: It's like. It's not a virus. It's a germ. It's a living thing. It's like a cell.

Cristina: It fits, but other germs move. This is the only one that's not moving.

Jack: Yes. It's really weird. It's very strange.

Cristina: But we can say that it's alive because it reproduces.

Jack: It reproduces, huh?

Cristina: That's the only way we know. Like. Yeah, that's a. That's the Thing that's not exactly.

Jack: Exactly. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. So let's really think about this, right? There is a literal rubric for something requiring to be alive, right? So there is. There's a chart, and I think it's seven things. So we got. You need to consume nutrition, you need to breathe air, you need to poop, you need to grow, you need to reproduce, you need to age, you need to move. Just things like that, you know?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Basic s***.

Cristina: But how important are all those things?

Jack: Well, here's where it gets really weird, because not all things fit the category like what we just mentioned. Three things that don't move that we still consider to be alive.

Cristina: Is there anything that doesn't age? That's alive? What?

Jack: Turtles don't age. There's never been a turtle to die of age. They always die because they either get killed by some circumstance, get starved, or are sick. There's no turtle to have known to die of age.

Cristina: Of age.

Jack: Of age. No turtle dies of age. Turtles are the known immortal animal. Yes.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But they age. They age, but they don't grow old, if that makes sense. They get older, but they never become seniors.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And that is just a weird thing about turtles.

Cristina: That is so weird.

Jack: But also, jellyfish don't age.

Cristina: How do they? What?

Jack: Yep.

Cristina: Like, they don't die the same thing, or is it just like.

Jack: No, they don't age. They don't age at all.

Cristina: They don't.

Jack: They do not age at all. Neither do lobsters.

Cristina: What? Neither do lobsters.

Jack: Neither do lobsters.

Cristina: But they have to. They have at least the age of, like, baby to adult.

Jack: Well, no, you're missing. You're missing. You're missing. They. I guess I got a word. It. They grow up.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But they don't grow old.

Cristina: They don't grow old.

Jack: In every one of these instances. They grow up, but they don't grow old.

Cristina: Okay. But they do die. Except for the turtle.

Jack: Not available.

Cristina: Oh, all of them are the same.

Jack: Yeah. They don't die of age.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Because they don't age.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: They don't grow old.

Cristina: Or the jellyfish, the turtle, and what was the lobster?

Jack: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Interesting, right?

Cristina: Yes. And for all these different things, what was it? The different points of life or whatever.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rubric, the checkboxes.

Cristina: The checkbox. Is there an exception for each of those things?

Jack: Not necessarily an exception for all of them, but there's an exception for a lot of them. For example, last year on an episode you were talking about, we found A creature that doesn't require oxygen. Loriciferans, which are a type of. What the f*** are they called? The type of film, the loriciferins, which are a type of film that was discovered to not require oxygen but be related to the other film that are things that.

Cristina: That's a fish. I don't know. I feel like it was something water.

Jack: Related, but I don't know. Microscopic creature.

Cristina: Oh, it's okay.

Jack: And it's the cor. Not the cordyceps. What the h*** are they? The water bears are related to them.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: And so this is a type of.

Cristina: Water bear that tiny.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Except it doesn't need air.

Cristina: What?

Jack: And sticking to the fact that not everything fills out every. Nothing completes the checklist. Not all things complete the checklist. The water bears themselves, what do they.

Cristina: They need.

Jack: They don't need food.

Cristina: They don't need food, but they can eat food.

Jack: They can eat food, but they don't need food. They have starved somehow for up to 30 years without seeing a single response.

Cristina: Well, but. And, and they just live.

Jack: They just fine.

Cristina: They're just fine.

Jack: Just fine.

Cristina: Wow.

Jack: Starve them out for 30 years. F****** nothing.

Cristina: But you would. If you still say these things are.

Jack: Alive, you still call, yes, they are alive. They, in any case, they respond, they do all the other things and then you have to say like, f***. So it doesn't fill out this one, which is crucial.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But then it does all the others. So if like something reproduces, is it alive? If something responds to its environment, is it alive? Because a plant responds to its environment. A plant breathes air, plant drinks water.

Cristina: Are there any, then that. Which of these don't have any? Example of something that doesn't have it.

Jack: Something that doesn't have it. That's a hard one.

Cristina: I don't know, because you said most of them, they're the turtle and whatever. Well, is there any that all of us have related? I mean, is there one thing that everyone has, no matter what, to be alive?

Jack: No, no, no, because. Okay, okay, okay. There would have to be things. But for a fact, if. If one of the things doesn't make. If any creature can fail making one part of the list, there must be situations in which they all happen. Things that we would consider to be alive. In the case of something like sperm, for example, we trace it back. We're like a fetus is alive. Well, a human is alive. A baby is alive. A baby in the womb is alive, which means a fetus is alive. And we keep tracing it and we're like, it's all alive. The ups of sperm before it's even a sperm, when it's just a collection of cells. But that's actually wrong because a sperm neither eats nor poops.

Cristina: So that's two of the things. Okay, so if they're missing more than two or two or more, then you wouldn't call them alive.

Jack: I don't know, it's complicated because some.

Cristina: Of these things were missing one thing, but you'd still say they're alive.

Jack: Yes. So the sperm is missing two and we still call the sperm alive.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay, so but should we. Or should two be the mark of like. Okay, now you're not alive.

Jack: I don't know. See, here's the thing. Here's the thing. I think our definition of life is.

Cristina: Flawed for like this checklist or.

Jack: Yeah, the checklist is f*****. The checklist is f*****. Because there's exceptions to the rule. Yeah, should be. The reason we can't find life is because we have a very strict thing and we're measuring everything by this loose, always changing thing. If we just pick some f****** things and say these things are alive, then we can basically. We need a word for something else. Now let's look at it like this, right? Carbon based life. One type of life. We theorize that there is the possibility for life not based on carbon.

Cristina: Yeah. There's like two other elements that you were talking about in some other episode. They were.

Jack: So there is the possibility that there could be creatures based on other elements that are sticky as well. We just don't have any proof for it. But we're also looking based on a rubric that's always changing. So we can't even find ourselves.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we need alive and we'll say that's carbon based life. If you're carbon based, you're alive. But let's use a different word that also means alive and say that some other s***. Is that anything that isn't carbon based but seems to have more or less the same things.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: We can say is Galvan.

Cristina: Galvan.

Jack: Galvan. Which also means essentially animated.

Cristina: Yes. That's when they electrify dead bodies. I think that's alive, but it's not.

Jack: Really alive exactly, it's galvanized.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: So alive in Galvan. So carbon based life that is alive.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And then things that aren't carbon but fill out the rubric are then Galvan. And then we need a rubric for Galvan hard. There's no way to really do that yet. We just have to figure out what life is. Not before we can say what Galvan is. And that's where we're f****** up. Because we have a weird list that's always shifting.

Cristina: Yes, but do you have a list yourself for what life should be then?

Jack: Well, I think we should take out several things. Because nobody's gonna say a turtle isn't alive. Nobody's gonna say that a jellyfish isn't alive. Nobody's gonna say that a lobster isn't alive.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Aging is not a requirement of life. In fact, if we ever find the cure to aging and thus solve the problem of death. Death. We even know what. What things in our body specifically cause aging.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We might solve that problem.

Cristina: We might still be alive even if we solve the problem of death.

Jack: Exactly. In which case we can already foresee a future in which aging isn't a thing. But that doesn't stop us from being alive.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: So we can remove aging from the equation.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: The other thing we can definitely remove from is movement.

Cristina: Yeah. That seems really wrong.

Jack: Movement is an issue.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Responding to your environment. Completely unnecessary. And there's one perfect example of that case.

Cristina: What's that?

Jack: You can have a brain dead individual.

Cristina: Okay. That's exactly what I was thinking. Like.

Jack: And they're still alive.

Cristina: They're still alive. That's why. That's why I was thinking. Like that's so wrong. Because that's exactly what I pictured.

Jack: Yeah. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make any sense. There's still alive even if they're not moving.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: They have no motion. But you've not said they're dead yet.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And those two things are a problem. The other things that obviously don't need to make it are like consciousness. You can't judge that. You can't judge that. Exactly. There's no way to do it. Which would mean the only things that are a requirement for life would be nutrition. You have to consume things.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Respiration, you have to inhale oxygen. Excretion, you have to have waste for what you consume. Growth. You need to grow in some degree even if you don't age. Two different things. And reproduction. You need to be able to make more of you.

Cristina: Awesome.

Jack: Now, something that is Galvan doesn't require any of the things I've just mentioned. But it does not at any moment mean that it's not conscious.

Cristina: Because we're not counting anything about conscious though. Because we can't tell.

Jack: Yes. We're saying that any conscious being could be alive. Or Galvan and Galvin is the thing that isn't life, but is not. But it's similar. It's the. It's life that isn't carbon.

Cristina: Okay?

Jack: That's Galvin.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And because it's not carbon, it doesn't behave the way that things that are carbon are. But what do we mean? We mean is that it is conscious. It's perceiving the universe.

Cristina: There's no examples of Galvin.

Jack: Not that we can think of. Exactly. Yet.

Cristina: Yes, yet.

Jack: With enough time. But with this list, a couple of weird things will happen. Because most of the things in the world we can easily chalk off to alive and dead. Some of them are hypocritically so.

Cristina: Like what?

Jack: We just don't like some things?

Cristina: We just don't like some.

Jack: Yeah, we just don't like some things. And we done call it not alive because we can't.

Cristina: We.

Jack: We can't talk to it or something, you know. Yes, But a good example of something that fills the rubric out, all right, is fire.

Cristina: Fire.

Jack: Fire needs matter. Yes, yes, the checklist. Fire needs matter. Fire breathes air, Fire leaves waste. Fire grows and it reproduces fire. And the craziest part is it is carbon based.

Cristina: Yes. It fits all this and even fits some of the other things we took off the list, like movement.

Jack: Movement. Yep, yep, yep.

Cristina: What?

Jack: So fire is by any other measure alive. It's a living thing. It responds to its environment.

Cristina: Yeah. What?

Jack: It is a living thing. Fire is a living thing, alright.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Not only that, but fire. So unbelievably similar to humans in so many ways. Let's break down what a human is. Right. So human consists of a cycle of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus, while fire consists of a cycle of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. All this f****** missing is phosphorus and calcium.

Cristina: Wow.

Jack: Okay, so then we go on and say humans breathe oxygen. Well, so does fire.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Fire cannot exist without oxygen. It would disappear. It's composed of a combination, particularly the running forces. The big giant chunks of everything that creates a person is carbon and nitrogen. Those are the two big ones out of all the major elements that they're composed of. Well, so is fire. Humans, after they inhale oxygen, they exhale carbon dioxide, which just so happens to be what fire leaves behind after it takes in the air.

Cristina: We're twinning. Oh my gosh, we're twinning.

Jack: F*** yeah. And the obvious one, that humans respond to their environment as does fire. Now, interesting enough. Fire fuses to procreate like a very specific species of angler fish.

Cristina: What do you Mean like angler fish.

Jack: There's an. There's an angler fish that it fuses with the female to reproduce. Their bodies fuse and fire.

Cristina: That's what's happening with fire.

Jack: Fire can fuse to reproduce. Fire doesn't need that to reproduce, but it can do that to reproduce, which is something that we already see in nature by something we already call alive. So it reproduces like something fully biological.

Cristina: What?

Jack: The only difference between fire and humans is that fire isn't, isn't composed of cells. That's an interesting thing that's going on there.

Cristina: We do we. Is that part of the definition? That's not part of the definition.

Jack: No, that's not part of the definition of life.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It is not made of cells, although I think people think of it that way. I think that's the general consensus. We're just looking for things that are either cells or made of cells and calling that alive and then trying to nail down the checklist for anything and everything that contains cells. But the problem is not everything falls in.

Cristina: Yes, like this. Like fire.

Jack: Yes, but in this case, by choosing very specific things, we can call something alive without needing the requirement of it being composed of cells. Although it's still carbon based life.

Cristina: It is what? It's a whole different type of life.

Jack: It's a whole different type of life and we can compare it and it makes perfect sense. It is carbon based life that behaves in every, every possible way like a human. It's just not made of cells. The problem is, in science we have a very particular problem where we think we already figured it out and moved forward as such. So cells that's alive. Now anything that has cells is alive by default.

Cristina: But.

Jack: Okay, then make a rule set that tells us. Well, no, if their argument was it's made of cells, thus alive. Fine, but why do we have a checklist then? The checklist would just be it's made out of cells.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Thus alive.

Cristina: The end. But then what about plants? No, they have cells too, right? Yeah, it's just different.

Jack: Different cells.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay.

Jack: That's why I think their argument is that even if they're trying to make a checklist, but the problem is it makes it difficult to discover what is life that isn't made of cells. Yes, that's where it f**** up. Maybe it's a useful measure that we say all things made of cells are alive, but there are things that aren't made of cells that are alive too. Like fire.

Cristina: Yeah, like fire. What's anything else like fire?

Jack: Well, something Very similar to fire is lightning, which is a form of fire, essentially. It's also constructed of nitrogen and oxygen as a response to its environment. And it does not age, which is interesting. Neither does fire. Neither does fire.

Cristina: It's just fire in a different form, though not necessarily. Okay.

Jack: Because its function is completely different and it's sort of composed of a chain reaction in a different way. I guess fire is also. Everything is a chain reaction. Think about it.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Yeah. But what's interesting enough, after we have a rubric like this designed, we start getting into the weeds, which it gets weird. It gets really, really, really, really odd as you continue to move forward. Because if we use this rubric and apply it to a fetus, okay. Then we can definitely say even if a fetus is made of cells, this is assuming. We're not saying that all things with cells are alive.

Cristina: No, we're just going based on the checklist.

Jack: Yes, Just this checklist.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So based on this checklist, like a fetus breathes through its mother, a fetus consumes nutrition through its mother. It receives food and it poops outward through the umbilical cord. And it receives its oxygen through the umbilical cord and it grows with those things. But it doesn't reproduce, which is problematic because you're a living thing that doesn't reproduce.

Jack: And a fetus isn't a baby yet a fetus is just a fetus. Unless you're also saying the sperm is also a baby. But those doesn't work that way. So fetus does not reproduce. Thus by extension it is not alive. Alive.

Cristina: What, so you're saying only once it's born, it's alive?

Jack: Only once it's born, it's once. Well, it doesn't need to be born, but once it has functional sexual organs.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: That's when it crosses the threshold and can complete the checklist.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Now I think the best approach is a combination of both systems. Right? So we say all things made of cells are factually alive.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And anything that completes this checklist.

Cristina: And.

Jack: And yes.

Cristina: All right. So this thing is alive even if it doesn't complete the checklist because it's made out of cells.

Jack: Exactly. So you're made of cells. Check. You're in. Yes, you've made it. That means you don't need anything else on the list.

Cristina: All right, but if you don't have cells, then we check the checklist.

Jack: Yes, check the checklist. You compared to the checklist and you function good. You are a living thing.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: That does not mean conscious. There's no way to tell.

Cristina: Nope.

Jack: Fire could totally not be conscious.

Cristina: Totally could be.

Jack: And it totally could be. It totally could be. There's no way to know.

Cristina: There's no way to know.

Jack: All of it could be intentional. Yeah, there's no way to know. We can't predict fire. Just the same way we can't predict a person. Yeah, it's random. It's chaotic. It moves in ways we can't assume. We can be. Like it's headed that way, but you know, we can never. Like we're gonna go that way and stop preemptively. It's like. But it turned that f*** away instead. There's no way to know. But following the checklist, now let's. Let's use that same checklist and compete with spur compared to sperm.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: So sperm doesn't breathe, doesn't need oxygen. Sperm doesn't eat. Sperm does not excrete. Sperm doesn't grow. Sperm doesn't reproduce. All it does is respond to its environment. That's it.

Cristina: So it's not alive. Except for that. It's made out of.

Jack: Except for that it's made out of cells.

Cristina: Yeah. So it checks and it has. It's alive even though it doesn't have anything.

Jack: Unless we're saying the checklist is the only way.

Cristina: Yes, but I like using both.

Jack: I think made of cells equals alive or complete the checklist.

Cristina: Yes, I think that's right. How about a tornado? Since you talked about fire and lightning. Is tornado way off.

Jack: A tornado doesn't reproduce.

Cristina: No. Too little tornadoes.

Jack: Hurricane can make tornadoes.

Cristina: Does that count? Does that even though it's one giant thing. I don't know.

Jack: Why does size matter?

Cristina: Does size matter? I don't know. No, it doesn't.

Jack: Okay, well, let's look at the checklist. Needs to consume.

Cristina: Yes. Does it?

Jack: Yes. Water.

Cristina: Water.

Jack: Needs water.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And needs air.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Doesn't leave waste relative to air or water, though. It doesn't consume those things and then get rid of something. It doesn't leave carbon behind.

Cristina: It leaves water behind.

Jack: That's not waste. It's using it, but it's not getting rid of anything. That's what its body is made out of. Decomposing. If anything it grows, does grow, it can produce reproduction. We can assume the tornado itself. Yes, but then the tornado would in any case be like a sperm. It can't reproduce itself.

Cristina: Yeah, but then it won't be alive because it doesn't.

Jack: Doesn't complete a checklist. And it's not Made of cells.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: Pretty simple checklist. It's easy to check things off suddenly and we can measure anything. That is the usefulness of something like this. We can immediately just say whether something is alive or not by putting it to this checklist. Easy, simple, easy peasy, lemon squeezy. One thing I do find interesting is the idea of a God that isn't made of cells and also doesn't breathe oxygen and. And also doesn't eat food, and also doesn't excrete and also doesn't grow and also doesn't reproduce. It does reproduce. That's why we're here.

Cristina: That's why everything's here. That's why everything's here.

Jack: So it can produce, reproduce, but it's not made of cells. And he can respond to its environment. That's how he knows good or bad and gets angry or whatever and rearranges things accordingly.

Cristina: I learned so many things from the checklist.

Jack: Yes. God's not alive.

Cristina: He's not alive.

Jack: He's Galvan.

Cristina: He's a Galvan.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Oh, wait, I forgot about Galvan.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. Do we have a definition for Galvan?

Jack: Well, for Galvan, we don't know what things are Galvan. We have no checklist for Galvan because we needed to create a checklist for life that did not change first. Again, the one thing we know in Galvan is things there could be consciousness, things there could move, and things there could.

Cristina: So they. They may check off one or two.

Jack: Things off the list, but movement is. I don't know if it's a requirement. No, neither is aging. Something that is Galvan could potentially age, but it's also not in the checklist for life.

Cristina: No.

Jack: So they have things that could exist in both. We know things that could exist in both. And with those leftover things, we can then begin to look. So things that age. Some things that are alive age. Most things that are alive age, but not all things that are alive. So maybe there are Galvan things that age but aren't alive.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And maybe there are Galvan things that move aren't alive. Maybe there's Galvan things that respond to their environment but aren't alive.

Cristina: Are you putting sperm and God and Galvan?

Jack: Yes, both for Galvin.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Except sperm is made of cells. Oh, yeah.

Cristina: Already? Yeah.

Jack: Sperm is live because.

Cristina: But God and that. Tornado. Not tornado.

Jack: Hurricane.

Cristina: Hurricane. That. Yes. God and that hurricane.

Jack: Hurricane are Calvin. They are animated, but not alive.

Cristina: Okay. We cannot prove that they're cautious or not cautious, because we can't prove Any of it to anything. So.

Jack: So then assuming that we have things that are filling these rubrics, we can say that sperm and fetuses and just plants and whatever. Anything made of cells alive. But then we have fire that's not made of cells, but does check off the entire list. Thus alive.

Cristina: Thus alive.

Jack: Yes, yes. And if it wasn't for the fact that a fetus is made of cells, it would be Galvin. But it's made of cells. Yes, so it's alive. If it wasn't for a fact that sperm doesn't check s*** off the list other than responding to its environment. Yeah, it would be Galvan. But it's made of cells, so it's alive. Meanwhile, God Galvin. Any helium based life would then be Galvan. You could come, you could touch things on the scale and not check off all of them, but still not be made of cells.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And be Galvan.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: God Galvan. Like a previous episode, we were talking about shadow people. They're probably conscious. They move, they respond to their environment. But their physics are different. They don't necessarily breathe air.

Cristina: We don't.

Jack: They might reproduce.

Cristina: They might.

Jack: We don't know.

Cristina: We don't know much about them.

Jack: Yeah, they would seem to behave alive. Yes, except they're not made of cells. They don't check off the whole list. No, they're Galvan because they are animate and functional and responding to their environment. Maybe aging, maybe could even die.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But aren't made of cells and don't check off the life checklist. Yes, but we know they're not like a rock.

Cristina: No rock. Okay. A rock isn't alive.

Jack: A rock, as far as we know, is obviously. Well, we know it's definitely not alive. But the potential that it's not even Galvin is there.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because there could be a third thing we don't even have a name for because we just made up a f****** name right now.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Add a third name and it doesn't fit Galvin checklist or Alive checklist. But there is consciousness somehow. And that could be a third thing of its own. If it's nothing that we would say is behaving as an animate object that doesn't seem to do anything except perceive, which is weird, but possible because that's what a vegetable is.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And it could totally be haunted.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we don't know where that lands now, to give Galvin a definition. Right. I guess it would be a being that's not carbon based but still has capacity to be conscious. It doesn't need to be conscious, but it could be conscious. And it needs to. There should be a checklist that in the future we can make that should contain maybe something Galvan does move. Maybe it needs to move.

Cristina: But what about Frankenstein? That was what was based on. But because of this checklist and because of what we just came up with, is it alive?

Jack: Then he's made out of cells.

Cristina: Exactly. That's exactly what I was thinking.

Jack: Like, yeah, he's made out of cells. Frankenstein is.

Cristina: He's not a gallon. Even though he might be inspired by that idea. But our new checklist makes him alive.

Jack: Yes, because we're including being made of cells. And all the separate limbs he's made out of only function, because Cells.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So he's definitely alive. Alive.

Cristina: What?

Jack: But now, what's interesting about this is I would argue that something Galvin has to move. We'll put that in that checklist. It has to move. Now, something alive doesn't have to move, but something Galvin does.

Cristina: What about God?

Jack: Well, God can move.

Cristina: How do we know?

Jack: Well, he can do things. He's allegedly been places and he can create. That's all part of emotion.

Cristina: Okay. I guess creating would be part of motion. Just the idea of he has shown.

Jack: People his shoulder, unquote.

Cristina: Oh, yeah.

Jack: And he had to move to do that or something. So based on that, he's Galvin.

Cristina: There's movement.

Jack: There's movement. So he's Galvin because there's movement. I don't know about aging. I feel like that one could be wrong.

Cristina: Aging needs to be there.

Jack: No, like it shouldn't be there because aging feels like a weird one.

Cristina: Aging. I don't know.

Jack: We can't prove shadow people age.

Cristina: No, you can't prove. I don't think aging needs to be there.

Jack: That's what I'm saying. I don't think aging should be. Be there at all.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And now, so. So I guess Galvin is pretty much anything that's not in the life list. So then our Luciferins, the films called Luciferins, are they alive or are they Galvan? They're made of cells.

Cristina: They're made of cells. They're alive.

Jack: Yeah. They're almost cells themselves.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Which means. Yeah, they're alive.

Cristina: They're alive.

Jack: Even if they don't eat.

Cristina: Nope.

Jack: Because they bypass the checklist. If you're missing something from the checklist. Are you made of cells?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Okay, you're in.

Cristina: Yeah. That's it.

Jack: Simple. No question, no doubt in anybody's mind.

Cristina: All those vampires, werewolves, zombies, they're alive.

Jack: All alive. All alive.

Cristina: All of it.

Jack: Even like a fully. If zombies weren't barely alive. If they were, like, if you truly murder somebody to the point that heart stops beating and everything. That at least was a living creature.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: It was never a Galvan creature.

Cristina: No.

Jack: And if it reanimates, it's again, a living creature.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because it's still made of cells.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah, I think we figured it out. Yeah.

Jack: And that means that turtles, for a fact, are alive. Are alive.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because we'll never say turtles aren't. But they don't age. And age is a weird one to have there at all.

Cristina: And jellyfish that don't even look like jellyfish. Yeah.

Jack: They look like some whole other s***. They look like a trash bag in the water.

Cristina: They look like aliens.

Jack: Yeah. It's really weird.

Cristina: But do you know any more Galvan creatures? I guess we'd have to. I don't know. That's. That's a tough one.

Jack: No, not necessarily, but that's the problem. We need to then make a checklist of things that we can call Galvan. And I think the only thing that makes sense for now is movement.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because we don't know how. Something like. I'm assuming that Galvan things will behave similar to living things in that most of them can move. And that's a good start.

Cristina: Yes. Okay, let me think. Something that can move.

Jack: Lightning.

Cristina: Lightning is alive.

Jack: It checks off some of the things on the checklist, but it's not made of cells and it doesn't check off all of the things on the checklist.

Cristina: Yeah. So lightning and fire go in there?

Jack: Well, no, because G. Gal. A. Fire completes the checklist.

Cristina: Oh, yeah.

Jack: Fire is alive while lightning is Galvan.

Cristina: Yep. How many things make the checklist that aren't made out of cells? Is fire the only one?

Jack: Fire seems to be the only one, though. Fire is the only one at the moment.

Cristina: Awesome.

Jack: But fire fits everything. A human fits. Consumes matter. Humans consume organic matter. Respiration. Both. Fire inhales oxygen. Humans inhale oxygen. A screecher. Fire exhales carbon dioxide. Humans exhale carbon dioxide. Growth. Fire grows as it consumes. So do people. They grow as they consume. Reproduction. Fires can break off into smaller fires that keep moving and then grow on their own. By consuming, humans can reproduce, have babies that go on consuming and growing, and they can then do the same thing.

Cristina: So is the sun a living planet with, like, fire creatures on it or something?

Jack: Yes. You know, the difference is that the sun does age. The sun is a Different kind of fire.

Cristina: The south.

Jack: Yeah. It has a timer that's internal and ticking, and it's slowly aging, getting older and will die of old age. Something. Yeah. So it not only fits the entire rubric in which fire will definitely. Here's the thing. It doesn't actually. Because it doesn't need oxygen.

Cristina: Doesn't need oxygen.

Jack: It doesn't need oxygen. And it's not made of cells. So it's missing one thing in the checklist, and it's not made of cells. The sun is Galvan.

Cristina: What? How is a fire alive? The sun is Galvan.

Jack: How is lightning? Galvan? Okay, the sun and lightning are closer related than the fire. The fire in the sun.

Cristina: Okay. What? How about lava?

Jack: Lava. It leaves waste. But it doesn't grow. It does age.

Cristina: Does age. It does grow. When it turns into. What's the.

Jack: No, it's not multiplying. It's not getting bigger. It's rolling over things that might be higher up. And it just looks bigger. Yeah, but it's not growing. There's not more of it.

Cristina: So it's not alive.

Jack: No, it's not even Galvan.

Cristina: Or Galvan. All right.

Jack: Like it has movement. It has movement. It definitely has movement, but it doesn't reproduce.

Cristina: I'm thinking something Galvin reproduce.

Jack: I'm thinking something Galvin might need to.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: I think lightning reproduces.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: We can see a bigger lightning bolt shred into a million smaller ones, and they break up into a billion smaller ones until they all celestial.

Cristina: You said like angels. Well, we have no idea what they do, so we can't say.

Jack: Well, based on what we know of angels, the lore of angels, they aren't made of cells. They don't breathe oxygen, but they fit the perception of life. They seem conscious, they move of their own accord. They respond to their environment. They can theoretically die.

Cristina: They seem a lot like us.

Jack: Yes, except they're not made of cells. They don't breathe, they don't poo.

Cristina: So put them in the Galvan.

Jack: They're Galvan. Like God.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Like God and lightning.

Cristina: Yes, and the sun and the sun.

Jack: God, lightning.

Cristina: But does the God reproduce angels?

Jack: God can reproduce.

Cristina: The sun, though.

Jack: The sun doesn't reproduce. No.

Cristina: So is that still Galvan? Interesting, because now we're having for sure movement and reproduction has to be there.

Jack: S***. Do angels reproduce? Because I don't. Fair enough. Fair enough.

Cristina: We don't really know if angels reproduce or not. Maybe they do.

Jack: And if they don't, then they're not Galvin.

Cristina: Then they're not Gavin. I guess.

Jack: But they seem to be the closest thing to life, I would say. I would argue that angels and shadow people are the same s***, even if they're not. I mean, technically they are, but outside that point, if we went like biblical angels. Yes, and shadow people, then they behave the way humans do and seem to think and can talk and can respond to their environment.

Cristina: They're for sure conscious.

Jack: Sure, for sure. Conscious. But they don't reproduce. So that means reproduction cannot be in that checklist either.

Cristina: Okay, then. So then movement is the only thing.

Jack: We have so far.

Cristina: All right? It's just that you can't. You don't have the. The requirements for living. But you can move. So you're. You're a Galvan.

Jack: No, because lava can move and we can. And we know for a fact it's not reproducing. We know for a fact it's not behaving of any accord. It's just like water rolling. But lightning can reproduce.

Cristina: So then what's the requirement for Galvin?

Jack: I don't know.

Cristina: Judging.

Jack: Okay, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. What if something galvanized checks off many things off of the life list.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But not all of them.

Cristina: All right?

Jack: So you are either alive, in which you're either made of cells, or check off the whole list. Galvin not made of cells. And check off some of the things on the list or some third other s***.

Cristina: Okay, so then what was the one that we were saying? It only has movement, so it doesn't count. Yes, Lava only has movement.

Jack: But then we. We have four. Four tiers. Alive.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Galvan.

Cristina: Galvan.

Jack: Whatever movement by itself is. And then something that doesn't even have that.

Cristina: There's nothing that doesn't have movement.

Jack: A rock. It moves a rock. A rock doesn't move by itself.

Cristina: Mountains move.

Jack: Mountains also don't move by themselves.

Cristina: They grow. They don't move.

Jack: They shrink.

Cristina: They shrink. That's something.

Jack: No, no. So that's four tiers. Alive. Galvan motion and no motion. All right, so alive you have. You're either made of cells or check off the whole list.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Galvin not made of cells. Check off most of the list. Motion. Not alive. Not. Galvin, you don't check off. You're not made of cells and you only check off motion, which isn't even part of the list.

Cristina: Nope. That's just its own thing.

Jack: That's its own thing. If you can move, lava can move.

Cristina: Planets can move.

Jack: Planets could move. See, we have similarities. Now, water is in perpetual motion in the ocean, yes.

Cristina: So what's Atlas called?

Jack: That's just motion, I guess. We don't have a name for that.

Cristina: It's just things that move. All right. And things that don't move.

Jack: So biological life form and fire.

Cristina: Alive for fact, yes.

Jack: Shadow people, celestials, God, lightning, the sun. Galvin. All Galvin?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: They don't necessarily check off many things. Well, they check off many things, but not all of them. The sun doesn't reproduce and doesn't breathe.

Cristina: That sounds right.

Jack: It does leave residue. It radiates parts of it, little by little. Excretion of sorts, of it can also get bigger. It ages. That's not even part of the f****** checklist.

Cristina: That's not. But it's so.

Jack: But it takes nutrition. Anything that lands into it, it consumes. It can't reproduce, but it grows. It has excretion. Some of the things on there make it.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: God is weird because he doesn't satisfy a lot of this.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But he reproduces. D***. He only checks off one of the things on the list. So then checking off anything on the list.

Cristina: Okay, okay.

Jack: Without all of the list.

Cristina: Yes. Is galvanized.

Jack: Just one thing on this list. If you reproduce, Galvin, if you grow Galvin, if you excrete, Galvan, if you breathe Galvan, if you eat Galvin, you don't need all of them, you just need one of them. If you do all of them, you're alive.

Cristina: A virus.

Jack: Virus is alive. No virus is Galvan not alive. A virus is Galvin. Because a virus, it's creep. It excretes. And a virus can reproduce.

Cristina: It's not made out of cells.

Jack: It's not.

Cristina: Okay, then it's Galvin.

Jack: It's Galvin.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: In fact, it kills cells.

Cristina: That's true.

Jack: Or infects them. Or makes them sick.

Cristina: Or it makes them sick.

Jack: Yep. Yeah, but it is Galvan.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And we were struggling. Science has struggled for very long to say whether a virus is alive or not. Well, you know what? It's close, but it's not alive.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: It's next best thing. It's Galvin.

Cristina: It's God. No.

Jack: God and a virus are more or less the same.

Cristina: It's more or less the same. Who knew?

Jack: So then, what else can we put on that list? We got the sun, we got God, we got angels, we got shadow people, we got lightning. That's an interesting one.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Lightning reproduces. Lightning breathes.

Cristina: What else? What else is there?

Jack: And then there's the motionless.

Cristina: The motionless water. Yes. Lava.

Jack: Lava.

Cristina: Wind.

Jack: Wind. Wind is in Motion.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And not one of those things we would say is conscious. We also don't know. There's no way to know.

Cristina: There's no way to know.

Jack: There's no way to know. But they do have motion.

Cristina: Yeah. But no matter where you're on this list, we don't know if you have conscious. Like, you'd be a non moving object, and we still have no idea.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could be conscious in any case. But I guess the ultimate idea would be to try to pin consciousness down, because we. If we can prove that the. In the entire time when we're thinking God, when we're thinking angels, when we're thinking shadow people, we are thinking of things that we can at least say are similar to us in some manner, shape, or form.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And we know we're biological, so we'll just chalk off anything biological and throw it into that same thing. Because it's probably, if any. If biology is the root, then for a fact. But if not, here are things that are similar.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And the less similar you are, the further down this scale you are. But the closer to us you are, the more likely you are as conscious as me perceiving at this moment and thinking about it.

Cristina: Mm. So the only important thing is looking for, when we're looking for life is the living list.

Jack: Yeah. So we're comparing everything to the living checklist. Yes.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And then from the living checklist, we then attach rules to the checklist, rather than say, if you make the checklist, you are one, and if you don't, well, you're not. And instead of that, we'll say the degree of checklist completion. Number one, are you made of cells? Yes. Alive. Okay. Not made of cells. Let's move on to number two. There's a checklist. If you can meet all the requirements on the checklist, you are alive.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Great.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Now, fair enough. We can say organic in place of alive, because organic inherently means alive. A hundred percent of anything that is made of cells is by default alive. So then we have a tier system. You're either organic, alive, Galvan, movement, moving. Good moving. Or some other s***. Or inanimate. Then. Then we finally hit inanimate.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: There you go. Five steps. Are you organic? Sweet. That means you accomplish everything else under you except inanimate. Inanimate is the absence of all the others.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So you are moving. You do complete the checklist. Some of the things, you complete the whole thing. And you're made of cells. Organic. Organic is, for a fact, the goal. Okay, so you're not organic, are you? Galvin, do you? Or well, are you alive?

Cristina: Are you alive? Yes.

Jack: So then. Interesting, because that puts fire by saying organic over alive.

Cristina: It's not organic, but it's alive.

Jack: Fire is not organic, but it's alive. Yeah.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we are organic and we are identical to fire in everything, with the exception that fire isn't organic, but it is alive.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: We're organic, therefore alive, therefore Galvan, therefore moving. But fire isn't organic, but it is alive, therefore Galvan, therefore moving.

Cristina: Yes. Does that work with everything?

Jack: Well, God, celestials, shadow people, lightning, they are all. They're not alive, but they're all Galvan and they're all moving. And lava, air, water, are not organic, not alive, not galvanized, but they're all moving.

Cristina: Yes. Okay. And then inanimate is just.

Jack: Then inanimate. Okay, so water is an animate object.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: As is lava, as is air. All animate. They're not inanimate.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Interesting. Have we designed. I think that's the proper checklist.

Cristina: Yes. We did it.

Jack: Interesting, interesting, interesting.

Cristina: And the checklist is called the Life checklist. No. Maybe.

Jack: D***. I don't know what the name of the checklist would be because ultimately the purpose of the checklist, of anything like looking for life or whatever the f*** we're trying to do.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Is to. Even if we're trying to find something in any of these categories, we're also ultimately only doing it to try to find consciousness. That is the ultimate goal of any of this. But because the idea is we find a cell, a different planet. Well, that means that life can happen, therefore there could be more complicated life out there. That's really what we're looking for.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Where life could happen again.

Cristina: Okay. So it's really the most important is just organic, really.

Jack: No. Because you could get through all these others that. I mean, if we found organic matters elsewhere. That's way more astounding.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because if life happened in some other way. Well, duh. Well, duh. What are the odds that it just. Exactly the same. Unless there's only one way it could happen.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That would be one way. There's only one way it could happen and that's it. Or we have a common ancestor somehow. That'd be the other problem. So it's either life can only happen one way, we'll have way more questions if we do find organic life. Way more questions than answers. Yeah, but if we just find like helium based life or some s***, we'd be like, yep, that makes sense.

Cristina: We just call that a living thing.

Jack: No, that would be Galvin.

Cristina: Galvin.

Jack: Yeah. Because it doesn't necessarily have to fill out the check. It could fill out the checklist and thus be alive.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It could also not.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay.

Jack: So the argument to be made is fire might be the only living thing that we can as of now, for a fact, pin down. And isn't organic.

Cristina: That's pretty amazing because then that really does show that there's other.

Jack: Oh, s***.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Oh, no. But it's organic. Okay. I was gonna say the Luciferians, but they're all made of. I was like, what the f***? They don't eat. But no, anything that is organic makes it by default.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So then fire. If we can find anything else.

Cristina: So we have a second example of life.

Jack: Yes. Isn't organic. We have one example of life that isn't organic.

Cristina: So it's possible to find others.

Jack: Yes. We have simplified it.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: For the scientists.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So that they can use. Right there we have proof. It is possible to fill out the checklist.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And not be organic.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: The problem is we're looking for organic, which is stupid because what are the odds now if it did happen? Holy s***. But we didn't answer. S***. We just opened a million doors.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Which is. F***. Do we have a common ancestor? Or is f****** biology the only way to do it? Or like, what the f***?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So way more questions. But as of now, we have non biological life. If we follow this checklist.

Cristina: And that makes it. That it's possible.

Jack: That makes it possible. Because fire because. Is alive.

Cristina: We're not alone on this earth.

Jack: And it's possible there's other things that we're just not thinking about.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Because at least things that are galvan are a whole other kind of thing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That is what we were basically trying to say was life before. But our checklist was too shaky.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So anything Calvin. It lit. That word is a synonym for alive, by the way. Anybody confused it means animated object. It's a lot. It's alive. The point of that is that it's another word for live. But we're not using alive because you're not completing the life checklist that we made up. Yeah.

Cristina: So.

Jack: Well, actually, the checklist was already made up by scientists. We just removed two things as obligations and said that anything else you have to meet, you can't not not meet it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Unless you're organic. Then doesn't matter. You've bypassed the checklist. You start at organic, move on to the life checklist. Move on to the Galvan checklist. And then finally. Can you move?

Cristina: Can you.

Jack: Most of the things. All the way through Galvan. So organic, alive. Galvan and moving can move most of the things if you don't fill out anything else. But you can move. You're at least not inanimate.

Cristina: Yeah, we're not interested in inanimate. Inanimate.

Jack: Yes. Because that would be the hardest thing to prove. Conscious.

Cristina: Yes. And we're not really interested in moving either.

Jack: We're less interested than all the other stuff, but we're more interested than we.

Cristina: Are Galvin, I think is when it's like.

Jack: Because Galvin gets really interesting.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Reproduce. Wow.

Cristina: Well, I don't know. I think we're more. It's. It's gotta be over, Gavin.

Jack: It's gotta be Galvin or higher.

Cristina: I think it has to be over Galvin.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: I don't think we're interested in Galvin. What are the things in Galvin again?

Jack: Celestials. Shadow people.

Cristina: Yeah, that's why. That's why. Like, how do you prove any of that?

Jack: Lightning is Galvan.

Cristina: Yeah, that's why we're not interested in lightning. Although we're not interested in fire. And we already proved that that's alive, so never mind.

Jack: Sun is Galvan and it's super related to fire. Like lightning.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Wouldn't be. We be.

Cristina: The scientists don't care.

Jack: It would be like. Look at it like this, right? We have us at organic, thus alive.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And we complete the whole checklist. Yeah, but also sperm doesn't complete s*** on the checklist. But it's alive. That's the same as saying there is fire. That completes the checklist. So it's alive. But lightning and the sun don't complete the checklist. So they're Galvin. Sperm is to us what lightning and the sun are to fire. It's one step under. Yeah, except it's the same. But not.

Cristina: Yeah, it's the same.

Jack: The difference is that sperm is in fact organic. Thus it bypasses everything and comes to the top.

Cristina: Unfair.

Jack: But it works. Anyways. That's fascinating as f***. I guess we have a rubric now to determine whether something is alive or not. So like I said, go find. I guess no longer look for an inanimate object. Look for any variant of animate object. Go scoop up some lava with your hand and make it listen to the podcast.

Cristina: I thought you were just talking to your walls. Why you gotta scoop lava now?

Jack: Because walls are inanimate and we're no longer interested in. I began this episode. Wrong.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: So they have to scoop up, bare minimum, something moving.

Cristina: Like lava.

Jack: Like lava. Just scoop up.

Cristina: Scoop up some wind.

Jack: Scoop up some wind and you can listen to the show.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If it responds, then.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting.

Cristina: I think we got it.

Jack: I think. I think we nailed something down.

Cristina: We're scientists. Right here.

Jack: At least we simplified it for scientists. Anyways, if you guys got. If you guys like weird discussions like this. There are many discussions of this nature. We haven't done one this detailed in a while, but there's a bunch of weird s*** out there. You can go find out what it would be like if we, like, powered society with a potato, if you want to know.

Cristina: Oh, yeah, Remember that? Yeah, The. The machine. We had a time machine for a short.

Jack: Time machine. We. For a short time. We literally still have that time machine.

Cristina: We never used it. You used it to stop us from.

Jack: Killing cat people or something.

Cristina: You wanted to kill a cat people? I don't know.

Jack: Whatever. The point is. Point is we got. We got episodes where things happen.

Cristina: Things happen. Yeah.

Jack: Yeah. And we look for life in a different episode. We actively search for life. So, yeah, go listen to those episodes. Listen to other things. I think we just had a questions episode or some s***. Anyways, if you want to find that stuff, you can find it at the official website@greatthoughts.info or on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts.

Cristina: And you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTokod.

Jack: Yes. And you can subscribe and rate the show. And if you feel so inclined, you can always review the show.

Cristina: Give us your rating. We eat that. We eat that for dinner.

Jack: Yes. Yes, we do. You don't rate us, we starve.

Cristina: Yes. If you don't rate us, we starve. Help. And let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Word of mouth. Tell people that we've solved the problem of life and then show them what we've come up with.

Cristina: And then show them your missing arm because you scooped up Blobber. Again, this has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening. Bye.

Jack: And balance.

Cristina: Balance. Yeah.

Jack: Creation and Atheos. Destruction and shaggy reason in the flying Spaghetti Monster. And chaos and Kek.

Cristina: What about Chuck Norris?

Jack: He's not a God.

Cristina: He's not? No.

Jack: I guess he's like a trickster.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. I guess he's more like.

Jack: He exists in sort of the pockets of f****** reality.

Cristina: If anything, he's a reality breaker.

Jack: Yeah. He's like Deadpool.

Cristina: Yeah. Yep.

Jack: Deadpool could be Shaggy that's so overpowered because he has this thing that makes no sense and cannot be explained in any f****** way, which is the ability to leave a panel. It's too overpowered. It seems so simple, but in any comic book page, he's basically invincible.

Cristina: Good morning. Good morning. The Just Conversation podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by greatthoughts.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McCallister, with social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 117: Groundhog Day Shadow People

Just Conversation, Grounhog Day, Comedy, Holiday, Tradition, Shadow People

Exactly what happens on Groundhog day? Where did the tradition originate? And what are the deeper implications? A deep dive into Groundhog day and more.

Story:
Diving even deeper into the case of the shapeshifters, the duo realize that even national traditions have always been part of this great conspiracy of monster and politics. Unpacking the true implications of Groundhog Day takes the duo into previously uncharted territories and brings a new creature into play! What is it and how will they deal with the new found foe? All that and more on this episode of Just Conversation.

+Episode Details

Topics Discussed

  • Winter Solstice
  • Spring Equinox
  • Phil the Groundhog
  • Adrenochrome
  • Shadow People
  • Feral Shadow Figures
  • Media Manipulation
  • Ghosts
  • Fear
  • Jinn
  • Thought Forms
  • The Hat Man
  • E.T.
  • Aliens
  • Catholic Church

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+Transcript

Cristina: This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Cristina: Welcome to Just Conversation, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And I'm Jack.

Cristina: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button button to get notified the second new episodes are released.

Jack: Yes. And also, this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner, so be sure to go find somebody kind and loving who doesn't like podcasts and introduce them to this show, because they will love podcast. Because that's how it works.

Cristina: That's how it works. They're just magically gonna love this podcast.

Jack: They're gonna love all podcasts after they listen to our podcast. If you've been trying to get somebody to listen to podcasts this entire time, you play them doing it this podcast, they'll be educated. They're gonna argue with each other. You get into good, like, healthy dialogue, and then you end up the End Up Loving podcast because they're like, wow, that was a real deep conversation. I don't normally have lengthy conversations with anybody. I know. All conversations I have are small talk.

Cristina: Or arguments.

Jack: Or arguments. Not really. Here's the. Here's the thing. People think they're arguing, but they're not.

Cristina: They're not. What are they doing?

Jack: Well, in order to have an argument.

Cristina: I guess they're not.

Jack: Need information to argue with.

Cristina: They get angry and then they walk away.

Jack: Yes. People get angry repeating their same unthought out, unfactually supported information over and over and over until they fail at convincing the other person, which should never be the goal.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And then they leave.

Cristina: And then they leave. Yeah.

Jack: So you repeat your information, get angry. They don't believe your information because they already have their own information, and then you leave.

Cristina: That's.

Jack: That's what happens. It's not an argument. That's not a debate. That's just a person talking to themselves, getting angry and walking away.

Cristina: That's conversations today.

Jack: Yep. America.

Cristina: Yes. So anyways, remember that episode where we talked about weather, folklore, and weird stuff like that?

Jack: Yeah. Back in the year 2020.

Cristina: It was a long, long time ago.

Jack: Yeah. Back in those days when. When chaos reigned in the streets, cities were on fire and all that good stuff. Yes, I remember vaguely. It was so long ago.

Cristina: Yes. Well, in that episode, we talked a little bit about groundhogs.

Jack: Yeah, I remember that. People are out of their f****** minds.

Cristina: Yes. And I want to talk more about Groundhogs? Because they're magical beings that need to be talked about. Not magical like the wombat who poops out square. Poops. But they're still pretty magical.

Jack: Magical, yes.

Cristina: Groundhog's Day is always on February 2nd.

Jack: Now, okay, okay, before we move any further, why?

Cristina: Why is it always on February 2nd?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Because in the north, that day is the midpoint of the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

Jack: The f*** are those?

Cristina: The winter solstice is when it's the most dark the world is the darkest.

Jack: Like that's the day.

Cristina: Yes. That's the day that has the longest hours of night versus daylight versus the whole year. Yes.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: And then the spring equinox is when it's equal. Day and night is equal.

Jack: Okay, so this creates a problem because how are those both on the same day unless it's a different part of the world in which it's equal?

Cristina: What? Okay, what do you mean?

Jack: It can't both be the darkest day and the day with the most equal amount of light?

Cristina: No, that's. The spring equinox is the equal.

Jack: Oh, s***. And that's not on February 2nd?

Cristina: No, that's March. February 2nd is the middle point between when we have the darkest day and the equal of day and night. Because It's.

Jack: Oh. So February 2nd isn't the darkest day?

Cristina: No.

Jack: When is the darkest day?

Cristina: In December, in wherever the winter equinox is, it's like December 21st.

Jack: Oh, the first day of winter.

Cristina: Yeah, around that time.

Jack: Really?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Holy f***. The first day of winter is the darkest day of the year?

Cristina: Yes. For sure? I think so. I'm pretty sure.

Jack: And then that means the first day of spring is the most equal day of the year.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So the first day of summer would then, by extension, be the brightest day of the year.

Cristina: Yes. Well, then around the day, it's not perfectly on the day, but, you know.

Jack: They just kind of summarize. Not summarize it, but, like, round it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Which means that February has an equinox. Not February, Autumn.

Cristina: Yes. Yes.

Jack: There are two equinoxes.

Cristina: Yes. There's two equinoxes, and then there's one.

Jack: Brightest day and one darkest day.

Cristina: Yeah. The winter solstice and the summer solstice, I guess.

Jack: F***. Maybe it's called the same thing, but it might have its own name.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: Interesting. Fascinating. Two equinoxes, a solstice, maybe a second solstice and. Or something else.

Cristina: And this day, though, is in between the solstice and the equinox. Which is just pretty much the middle of winter, I guess, would be.

Jack: No, this would be the end of winter, wouldn't it?

Cristina: Well, I guess it depends on the groundhog, if you think about it, because the groundhog is telling us whether winter is ending early or it's going to last.

Jack: That's weird because that doesn't. See, here's the. Here's the problem with that logic.

Cristina: Right.

Jack: We have this creature that's deciding whether the weather itself is going to be extended or the season is going to be extended. Because I think it's choosing whether it's going to stay cold and not weather. Winter, because winter is just a period.

Cristina: No, it's a measurement. It's the weather, I guess. Yeah, it's the weather.

Jack: Yeah. Because we're using a measurement system essentially, with the seasons. Like, the season doesn't stretch out.

Cristina: No, no.

Jack: Like it could be colder beyond the season.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So interesting. It might actually. I don't know, depends. It might be towards the middle, though, because the idea here would be. Right. That the middle of winter would be about. So winter starts December 21st.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or 23rd, something like that. A whole month later is January 23rd.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: The middle of winter should be half a month beyond that point, which would be the beginning of February.

Cristina: Okay, so then that's the middle of winter. Yeah.

Jack: Because every season is three months.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So it's exactly the middle of winter, which means it's half a winter away from spring.

Cristina: Mm. And people want to know, is the spring weather coming or not? Or I guess, is the winter weather going to continue until spring?

Jack: Yeah, like it's going to touch in through spring. That happens often. Spring is a weak a** season.

Cristina: It is.

Jack: Spring doesn't last.

Cristina: So sad. It's such a great season, but it's weak.

Jack: Yeah. Summer and winter are the. The powerhouses when it comes to seasons, at least in our region.

Cristina: So the big question on February 2 is, will Phil see his shadow?

Jack: We call a random. That's the name of the f****** thing, isn't it?

Cristina: Yes, it's always Phil.

Jack: Is Phil immortal? Are we, like, thinking it's the same f****** groundhog?

Cristina: Oh, yes.

Jack: Really?

Cristina: There's a whole backstory. Okay. His name is Pangsatani. Phil Panxutani. That's the place he comes from. That's the name of the city in Pennsylvania where Phil lives. So he's named after that city, but we'll call him Phil because that's easier to say. And, you know, if Phil sees his shadow, there's more weeks of winter the lore, though, is that there is only one Phil, and all the other groundhogs are imposters.

Jack: Okay. Is Phil immortal?

Cristina: Yes. There has been one groundhog that's been making these predictions since 1886, and he is kept alive by drinking the elixir of life that is given to him at the groundhog picnic every fall.

Jack: Oh, my. Everything comes back to it.

Cristina: What goes back to what?

Jack: To adrenochrome.

Cristina: To adrenochrome. You think they're giving him the adrenochrome?

Jack: They're giving him adrenochrome. And that's how the f*** this groundhog is staying alive.

Cristina: Ah, that's so crazy. Although him being the only groundhog is also crazy.

Jack: Immortality. We already know that the Holy Grail was an ancient method of creating adrenochrome. It was a chalice filled with blood, which, by the way, we definitely have to talk about at some point.

Cristina: And we'll call that the elixir of life.

Jack: The elixir of life is adrenochrome.

Cristina: Oh, okay. What?

Jack: You'd need a virgin's blood.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Inside a chalice. The chalice really didn't matter. It was what was in the chalice that mattered.

Cristina: Which is the child's blood. Feeding that to a badger.

Jack: It's a badger.

Cristina: I mean, to groundhog. We're giving that to a groundhog?

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: What? Why are we wasting it on a groundhog? That's weird. Unless we really believe his powers.

Jack: That's where it goes. Here's the thing. We've already established Adrenochrome gives at least some weird other dimensional creature powers to some degree and allows them to keep their shape on this side of the realm. So it reacts differently depending on who we give it to. It's kind of like, like the X gene or some, you know, like it presents itself different. It's coronavirus. It's different in everybody.

Cristina: It's different. Everyone.

Jack: And so you give it to the groundhog, to the groundhog, and it has weather prediction powers. You give it to humans, they become immortal. And some of them react particularly weird and get really fast, really strong, really quick.

Cristina: This groundhog gets a really weak power, though. I mean, besides living forever, that's pretty good.

Jack: That's pretty good. I don't think that groundhog is arguing. It's like, they'll bring this to me. I don't have to do s*** else but tell them about the weather.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: My question is, is the groundhog self aware? Like it has to be at this point, right? Like it comes out knowing.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: I just gotta tell them about the.

Cristina: Weather because there's more to the story.

Jack: Oh, please, do tell.

Cristina: Okay, so according to the Groundhog Club, Phil, after he makes his prediction, speaks to the president of the club in the language of groundhoggies, which only the club president can understand, and then he can translate what Phil said to him. So.

Jack: Okay, okay, so to be perfectly clear, yes. That groundhog is part of the elites, and that's how he has access to the Adrenochrome. There is a weird, like, blood pact happening here in which he is definitely part of a club.

Cristina: Yes, he's a part of a club. He has the secret language.

Jack: Yeah. Whatever club this is has access to adrenochrome.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So that groundhog and the Queen have connections that they both know of.

Cristina: Mm. He might be named after Prince Philip.

Jack: Holy s***.

Cristina: His name is Phil?

Jack: No, man. And so this groundhog is a fully. Like other groundhogs are just groundhogs. This is a groundhog that thinks to the capacity of a human. He just doesn't speak English.

Cristina: Yeah, he speaks this other language, so.

Jack: It looks like he has a s***** power, but immortality and the IQ of an average human are kind of nice perks for a groundhog. Basically, he can outsmart every groundhog. Always. Forever.

Cristina: Yes. That's why he's spreading this lie that all the other groundhogs are imposters. I don't know why he lie.

Jack: That's the truth. They don't have the Adrenochrome.

Cristina: Oh, they're not him.

Jack: They're not him. Yeah, it's not that they're. It's not like the birdhogs. Yeah, it's not like the birds.

Cristina: Like the birds. Oh, being imposters.

Jack: Yeah, it's not like that.

Cristina: So Groundhog Day comes from Celtic and Germanic traditions that say if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on that date, winter will last longer. Just like the groundhog. In Germany they watch the badger, and in France and England they use a.

Jack: Bear, which is epic in so many.

Cristina: Different ways and sounds really dangerous.

Jack: It does. It definitely does. But assuming that the same circumstance that takes place with the groundhog, where it gets its dose of adrenochrome, its intellect rises to that of a human and it only needs a single dose a year. It is no longer just a violent, savage animal. Now it's the apex elite, intellectually superior one of its kind. Not only that, but this is us assuming that there are a fuckton of different animals who are part of this Club of elites. There is one of however many different animals inside of a club where the elites are. Meaning it's completely possible that they have connections that are similar to one another. So, like, there could be a intellectual bear that is sharing connections with somebody like the queen, who also requires adrenochrome for her immortality.

Cristina: Yes, she definitely. She's. How is she? What?

Jack: Yes, that's particularly interesting. Now, the question is. So this groundhog takes adrenochrome, its intellect rises, it's immortal, it gets this power to predict the weather.

Cristina: Maybe it has powers to predict other things, but only on this specific day, though, because why in this weird. In between spring and winter, it needs to predict. Because maybe it needs to predict a lot more than just the weather.

Jack: And what the people get told is only about the weather. Yes, which is interesting. Proof of this possibly being the case is similar to when people take psilocybin mushrooms. You can have two completely different people who've never met the same guy who gave them the drugs, don't know anything other than they're gonna have a great trip. You give it to them, they go trip on their own things. They've never done any research. They're both gonna come back and they're both gonna say one thing that's commonly discussed within the groups of people who do psilocybin. And it's pink elephants.

Cristina: Pink elephants.

Jack: You have pink elephants? Pink elephants. A creature who seem. That seems to not exist. Sometimes they're very tiny, tiny pink elephants. And it's like, okay, what the h*** are you talking about? But how do you both have this story? You don't know each other. You didn't come here together. I saw you one at a time. You didn't do any research. Why do you both know about pink elephants? They must be real. There must be pink elephants. And taking psilocybin mushrooms removes a filter that blocks them out. There must be a realm that we can't see without them.

Cristina: You think adrenochrome also helps you see this realm?

Jack: Adrenochrome could either help you see this realm or something equal to it, or something, maybe not necessarily a different realm. Who knows what it's doing? Because like any other chemical, it's affecting your body. And we know for a fact it's affecting their mind to the point that this groundhog can engage in dialogue with a member of the club.

Cristina: And maybe they chose the shadow for a specific reason, because it's communicating or it's getting information from the shadow, like it's a creature itself.

Jack: That is fascinating. So the possibility that maybe the groundhog doesn't get the ability to predict the.

Cristina: Future, the ability to communicate with a different creature.

Jack: Yes. Maybe it's not seeing the future of the weather. Maybe all it does is become immortal and become intelligent enough to communicate with a person at the degree of a person, but in their own language.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Really, what you need this creature to have those things for, that's the reward the creature gets for being a Kinect, a connect.

Cristina: Why wouldn't they need a human to connect?

Jack: Because whatever the case is, the groundhog has whatever it is to see whatever this shadow thing is that's giving it information.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh. That reminds me of shadow people, which is like, we can't see them. So maybe the groundhog can see them because in the stories we only see them through the edge of our eye or something. It's always that kind of thing of you sort of see the creature, but you never really see it.

Jack: Like, you can never look straight at it.

Cristina: You can never look straight at it. Maybe he can look straight at this thing.

Jack: Interesting, interesting. So the possibility that a groundhog gets rewarded with immortality and high intellect, thus allowing it to survive amongst its kind as the superior, maybe even the leader of the groundhogs, that's its reward for conveying information from these shadow creatures to the club leader. It's kind of like aliens. We basically have somebody who can communicate with aliens, except it's like a demon or something.

Cristina: What is a demon?

Jack: The shadow. What the f*** is the shadow people?

Cristina: The shadow people. Oh, that is complicated. So complicated. There are people who think that shadow people have been around forever and that every story about shadows is relating to shadow people, because many religions, legends and folklore and stuff like that mention shadow people or like shadow entities. They might not call them people, but there's no real. You can't really see them. You know, no one could really see them.

Jack: And because we can't see them, we can't really interact with them in any kind of way that we know they're as intelligent as people.

Cristina: We assume that they're all the same thing, too.

Jack: Like they're one race of things.

Cristina: Yeah. So we call them the shadow people and the shadow people that we know that people think of. Now, though, this new idea of it, the idea that shadow people have always been around comes from a radio show that talked to a Native American elder named Thunderstrikes. And she made the shadow people popular pretty much because she talked about it. And then a bunch of people brought in images and Drawings of what shadow people look like. And it became a popular thing. Maybe it's mass hysteria.

Jack: Total possibility. But the problem is we have a groundhog that's communicating with something.

Cristina: Yeah, well, there's a bunch of people who claim to have recordings and images of these shadow people on video. And I tried watching these videos and I'm not sure what they are. They could be, I don't know, they're shadow looking people. They look like your shadow. They look like your shadow, the ones in the videos. So I don't know if this is really video of shadow people or just a shadow or a ghost. That's another option. But the mentioning of shadow, like people throughout history. There's like in the Quran they mention a pitch black sapient being that isn't entirely spiritual or physical.

Jack: Interesting. So it's not spiritual, but it's not a solid physical being. Is it evil?

Cristina: People think it's evil. There's a lot of people that think it's evil. There's the only positive thing that it could be is a guardian angel. But I don't see that as one of the explanations.

Jack: Fascinating, because you have to associate dark with evil inherently.

Cristina: Yes, that's. I think that's why. Yeah.

Jack: So it's more likely we'd assume it's some sort of a demon.

Cristina: And the people in ancient Europe, you're not going to believe this, but they thought of the shadow beings as beings that wanted blood and without it couldn't be reborn.

Jack: And without it couldn't be reborn.

Cristina: Yes. What? What? Blood is always involved somehow.

Jack: Blood is always involved somehow. Adrenochroma is overpowered. The question is, what do they want blood from? Right. If they want blood from humans, why don't they just wait until you're sleeping?

Cristina: They do.

Jack: They wait until you're sleeping?

Cristina: Some of them do.

Jack: They're not trying to get adrenochrome by scaring you first? Maybe lingering in the corner or something that has energy.

Cristina: All those answers? Yes.

Jack: Then how the. So it's not adrenochrome if they just want blood?

Cristina: Well, they thought they just wanted blood. The people in ancient Europe believed that they wanted blood. But it could be more than just blood.

Jack: It could be adrenochrome.

Cristina: It could be adrenochrome.

Jack: This is interesting. So we have these people who basically have the chalice, Holy grail, the f****** elixir of life, fountain of youth, which is kill some kids after you've scared them.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And now you have adrenochrome, then go feed that Adrenochrome to animals. Take it yourself, too. You'll be immortal. It's assuring immortality to every creature of physical, biological presence. But it gives you abilities aside from immortality. So the queen might be seeing the future. This groundhog is immortal and is given the intellect of a human. Maybe anything that takes it has the intellect of a human. Which is why these older people who are on adrenochrome are incredibly sharp. It's not just they're immortal. Even if they're still aging, their mind stays sharp as f***.

Cristina: Whoa. What if they're. Okay, the ghost thing, Right? What if when these people die, their ghosts live on and they still need adrenochrome to continue living?

Jack: Holy s***. So you're telling me that the. The Shadow People are the original people who haven't, like, left this plane? They've just become this.

Cristina: Sort of Just get addicted to being here and. Or maybe they just fear dying. Yeah.

Jack: They've become an ethereal version of themselves.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Interesting. So once your physical existence ceases, that does not mean you are dead. You still need.

Cristina: You still need it.

Jack: So then what we're saying is that humans taking adrenochrome can't see or communicate with the Shadow People. But we know the Shadow People are still members of the club that gave them the adrenal chrome that made them immortal in the first place.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So the people in the Shadow Realm, then, have access to information that we don't on this side. They're kind of like ghosts that exist, maybe in different times. Maybe they have access to information that is not inherent to us.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So us with the. Because they can't even come in contact with us. Right.

Cristina: Well, when they attack us.

Jack: So they don't need the club members. So are they just helping us tell the future?

Cristina: Yeah. Well, those people, it's not like they're.

Jack: Doing it for Adrenochrome because they can just go get Adrenochrome.

Cristina: I guess if they're, like, feeding for Adrenochrome, they're gonna attack people? And some of them wait patiently for Adrenochrome to be given to them. Yeah. While others are like, no, I need this Adrenochrome now. Because they're still pretty human. I'm guessing. If they come from human, there's still a lot human about them.

Jack: Yeah. Because they're still sentient, thinking beings.

Cristina: Yes. What?

Jack: But they communicate through this groundhog and. Or other animals.

Cristina: And a lot of these stories, for some reason, they see red eyes. I don't know. Why? But not all of them have red eyes. But some of them do. So maybe the ones that are attacking when you're sleeping are the ones with red eyes.

Jack: Interesting. So they don't always see red eyes.

Cristina: Those are probably the ones that need it the most.

Jack: Well, this reminds me a lot of, like, Fallout 4, right. Where you have ghouls, but you also have feral ghouls.

Cristina: Feral ghouls. These are feral shadow people.

Jack: Yes. So you have the people who can remain sane in this condition.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And they're just like, it is what it is. But then you have the people who this is too much for.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And they go crazy, and they become these. So there could be millions of these things out there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But the only ones we're aware of are the ones doing crazy, creepy s***, because those are the ones interfering with normal life.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's kind of like the difference between a good cop and a bad cop. There's way more good cops. There's way more good cops.

Cristina: We're talking about the best single percent.

Jack: Of a single percent of a single percent is the bad cop. But that's the only one we aim a camera at.

Cristina: Yes. And people are beginning to see them more. These things. They're seeing them. They're actually seeing them for longer periods of time. Something's changed once it became popular. Something. Something of the behavior of these shadow.

Jack: People have changed once it became popular. Well, assuming the elites. Right. The way they usually work is through media. They normalize something, and then it's more acceptable because it's popular.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Usually they have to force it into media. You want gay to be normal? Okay. We need to put it on tv, we need to put it in movies, we need to put in video games. Now, gay is normal. You want transgender normal? You put in movies, you put in video games. Okay. You want autism normal, Put in video games, whatever. Shadow people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You want it normalized? Somebody has to mention it. This Native American mentioned it. Now it became popular. It's more so now people are more open to it. Eventually, we're gonna have horror movies showing the bad side, but then eventually there's gonna be, like, that zombie Warm Bodies, where there's. Somebody's gonna fall in love with a shadow person.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: To normalize.

Cristina: Shadow what?

Jack: Shadow people are.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I'm sure there were good shadow people in, like, Harry Potter or something.

Cristina: Oh, probably. But at the moment, it seems like the shadow people are very negative. There might be some that are good, because how do people think. They might be guardian angels.

Jack: Exactly.

Cristina: So there might Be some good ones, but most of them are negative. And most of the encounters accompany some feeling of dread with it, which is kind of adrenochrome. Y. Because they're. They're after that feeling.

Jack: Yes. They're trying to.

Cristina: They're making this feeling. They don't. They want you to feel that way. That's the purpose.

Jack: Yeah. Fear and misery is necessary, but some people have been.

Cristina: Have claimed to have actually been physically attacked with scratches and burns and being choked while they are sleeping during. What is that called? During sleep paralysis.

Jack: Now, the question is, is sleep paralysis even sleep paralysis, or is it you being restrained by shadow people?

Cristina: It could be you being restrained by shadow people because you always see that thing in the corner or whatever during that attack. So it could be the same thing. It could be waiting for something like that to happen too. So it's. We don't know which of the two came first.

Jack: I guess maybe they're not actively holding you down, but the reason you always see that thing isn't because they're waiting there. Rather, being this sort of ethereal being gives them this ability to hold you down, hold you down with their ethereal mind.

Cristina: They got abilities like the groundhog having abilities.

Jack: Because adrenochrome gives you abilities, except as a human, it gives you certain abilities. As a groundhog, it gives you certain abilities. But as an ethereal shadow person, the abilities it gives you are completely. You're no longer human. You have a whole other set of responses other than immortality.

Cristina: Mm. What? And because now that we're seeing them more, though, there are so many different types of how they could look like, like, ranging from a small child or a figure, a tall figure wearing a hat. I saw a video of the child. To me, it looks like a ghost. I don't think it's. It should be counted as shadow people, but it's. There's a line, I think, between ghost and shadow people.

Jack: My question is what we.

Cristina: Oh, well, I guess in this story, what we're talking about, they are ghosts. They're just ghosts with adrenochrome.

Jack: Well, here, let me point this out. The possibility that what people have been calling ghosts this whole time versus what we believe ghosts are, we've landed on what other people were talking about. Because when we talk about ghosts, we've landed on a ghost is more likely just some sort of echo. We're either seeing a different point in time, sort of phasing through our time briefly.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Or we're seeing a loop, some behavior that is echoing, repeating over and over. Which is why we see the same people walk through walls. And it's because there was a door there at some point or something.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we're either seeing events from a different time happen in our current time and we can't interact with it. We're just seeing a faded out, phased version of it. Or we're seeing an echo repeat itself. It's not a conscious being doing anything. Or it is, but it's conscious in its own time. We wouldn't be able to change what's happening there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: While the dead, lingering, quote, spirit unquote.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Thing that is making active choices. Although people call that a ghost. Oh, it's following me. It's trying to. All these horrible things of. It's haunting me. It shows up in the middle of the night. It scares me. It does this. It tells me it's gonna kill me or leave this place or any of this bullshit.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's. That ghost is a shadow person.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And what we've been calling a ghost, just an echo or a phased sight of a different time. So ghosts should no longer be ghosts. Unless you're gonna make a distinction between a ghost and a phantom and say a phantom is a shadow person and a ghost is an echo.

Cristina: Well, people, if they don't call it a ghost, they think of it as a spirit. Like it's in a. I guess the spirit is a broader category that ghost is involved. But it's not a ghost. But it's still in that type of realm. So if that word is good enough. I don't know. Spirit, ghost.

Jack: I don't know. Ghost is really a spirit is really broad. It really is. I feel like spirits more of just an energy, while a phantom seems to have some consciousness to it.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Unless we're gonna say the phantom is.

Cristina: The echo, the phantom is the echo and the ghost is the shadow. No, I like ghost. No. I don't know.

Jack: Whatever. Point is, one of them is an echo or a phase time loop. And the other one.

Cristina: These are two different things that live in the spirit world.

Jack: Exactly. Okay, well, one of them lives in the spirit. No, they don't live in the spirit world. The shadow people live in here.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There's no spirit world.

Cristina: There's this argument. Okay.

Jack: It's both here. Except one of them is a different time or an echo.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And both of those cases are kind of like faded out and hard to see because it's not really here.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: While the other is the possibility that it's just a shadow person and that Seems likely. Because why would a ghost need you to be scared? And they're not just gonna have fun with it now it's like. Well, it's exciting to scare people. No, this should be a goal.

Cristina: Casper. It's just fun to scare people.

Jack: Well, no, you kind of just. There should always be a goal. Otherwise, you're gonna maximize your experience.

Cristina: Y.

Jack: So there's a goal. You need to do this for some reason. Why do so many ghosts want to scare people? Because fear.

Cristina: They're getting adrenaline. Yes.

Jack: And then you drain the person or. Fair enough. Think about it like this, right? We see the Holy Spirit and God. God needs adrenochrome. Thus mass genocides and murders and the Twin Towers falling and shooting fire out of the sky to kill many people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or creating panics in the world that last long times. And scare people. And he feeds off of the fear. When the fear doesn't work, he needs to kill for the blood.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But the fear gives him what he needs.

Cristina: The fear is a much easier way.

Jack: Yes. So maybe as these shadow people, these phantoms, they are.

Cristina: They're doing the same thing.

Jack: The same thing. They're scaring people again.

Cristina: If they can't scare them, they're attacking people. They're being physical with you.

Jack: Yes. They will get more aggressive if they're.

Cristina: Not getting what they need.

Jack: What they need. If you're scared, they'll never hurt you.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because you're consistently scared. You're always checking under your bed. You're always panicking in the middle of the night. They're getting what they need from you.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But the harder you are, the harder they are. And this comes back to the same story we were talking about with Jehovah. Maybe his ultimate goal is to get somebody to transcend and be the next God. Because maybe he was just a person in a system that was trying to breed one next God so that his God could go do whatever it's doing or die. So he takes place.

Cristina: So do you think these shadow people are competing for that job?

Jack: They don't know they're competing for that job. They're just trying to stay alive. But they've already crossed to the next threshold.

Cristina: Yeah. They're closer to him than we are. Than we are. Yeah.

Jack: Yes. Because they're already learning how to use not. They don't have to go kill somebody. They can just scare somebody to get it. Killing somebody's last resort now. Because they could just cause fear and get what they need when they can't. We got to go and off Some. Somebody.

Cristina: I think we figured it out.

Jack: Very interesting.

Cristina: Here are some other things that the shadow person could be. We talked about this creature, and in the sleep paralysis episode, it's called a jinn. And the jinns are creatures that are invisible, but when they do appear, they have a misty appearance that's almost human like. And we talked about how people who have sleep paralysis think it's this creature, the jinn, in a certain location where sleep paralysis is very common.

Jack: So a jinn and a shadow person are the same thing?

Cristina: Yes. It also could be thought forms. Have you ever heard of that? Thought form? Yes, Thought.

Jack: Thinking.

Cristina: Thought. Yes, Thinking, thought form.

Jack: Like you're projecting what you're seeing.

Cristina: Yes. Whether intentional or not, all these negative thoughts and energies, you're manifesting it. Yes. And all of us like a bunch of people together now. After someone made it on the radio talking about it, it became more real than it was before.

Jack: Interesting. Similar to a jinn that does show itself in Shinto. Occasionally a thought form is also, I don't know, had a name. But there are these sort of phantasm spiritual beings. Shinto is packed with spirits. And one of them is these things that negative energies do manifest. Beings that are corrupt and like, twisted and malicious. Because your good doesn't form a being, your good stays in you. Your body tries to expel the evil.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And that has to go somewhere. And it collects and it forms these beings.

Cristina: Yes. That's a pretty good explanation. Then what? It could. They could also be interdimensional beings, which we talked about.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: But a while ago, I read a psychic medium talk about shadow people and that they're intelligent beings from a different dimension that can take different forms. That's probably why we see these beings as shadows, because we're not really looking at them, because we can't really see them because they're from a different dimension. So we're looking at a glimpse of them, maybe. Is that how interdimension works?

Jack: Well, here's the weirdest part about. Because it's problematic when somebody claims interdimensional. They don't understand dimensions because we exist on every dimension all at once.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: This becomes a bit of an issue when we're talking. We're basically talking about alternate universe. Oh, beings from a different universe, beings from a different type of reality.

Cristina: So now something from the fifth dimension that we're having a glimpse of.

Jack: Well, it wouldn't work that way because they would also exist in the third dimension.

Cristina: Oh, okay. So there's this shadow person. There's a specific type of shadow person that is called the hats man. He wears a top hat and a suit, and he's seen as being demonic or evil. I'm not sure. What's the difference between demonic or evil? They're the same, right?

Jack: No. You could be a demon. That's not evil.

Cristina: You're demonic, though.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: Demonic means being demon.

Jack: Yeah, Demonic is the act of being a demon.

Cristina: Okay. So he's either. He's one or the other, I guess.

Jack: The state of being a demon.

Cristina: Yes. And there's this author who investigates all these things, these shadow people. Her name is Heidi Hollis, and she says these beings and others like it are trying to build an army for the dark side.

Jack: What the f*** does that mean for h***?

Cristina: Aliens.

Jack: For aliens.

Cristina: Aliens. We get to aliens. So some people claim that the shadow people might be aliens that abducted people. Some people say that they're the victims of the great aliens. And then that these aliens can pass through walls and close windows and have advanced technology to make them appear and disappear. And it sounds a lot like shadow people, I guess. Yeah. So there's a paranormal expert named Rosemary Ellen Gully who says she discovered that many people who have shadow people experience also had ET Experiences as adductees. So aliens and shadow people might be connected somehow.

Jack: That's fascinating. Aliens and shadow. So the possibility that shadow people are just a product of not really being shadow people, but aliens using advanced technology that thus makes them appear as shadow people because they're, like, phasing out of existence or not really, but they would appear as such stealth technology and whatnot?

Cristina: Yes. Is that amazing?

Jack: So that you're. You're having, quote, sleep paralysis, unquote. You're laying there, you see this shadow being, but that's you sort of kind of seeing a phased alien.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And they're just studying you. Maybe that's why you're experiencing paralysis in the first place or something.

Cristina: Yeah. Maybe the gray being is being seen as a black shadow. Yeah. So this other lady that I mentioned before, Hade Hollis, she published the book called the Secret War, where she goes into the information she's collected about shadow people, and she says the shadow people are related to grays and reptilian people.

Jack: Grays and reptilian people?

Cristina: Yes. Yes. The shadow people are. Those are related somehow to them. And she says that the shadow people don't want to be spotted. Of course. And in her book, she provides a bunch of ways to decrease the encounters if you don't want to be attacked.

Jack: By these beings, don't Be a young child.

Cristina: Don't be. No one of them is. Master your fear and don't let it control you.

Jack: Right, monk? S***.

Cristina: Yes. Focus on positive thoughts.

Jack: So meditate.

Cristina: Hold your ground.

Jack: What the f***?

Cristina: Hold your ground. I don't know. You're being pushed down anyways, so I don't. Hold your ground, though. Use the name of Jesus to repel them. That always works.

Jack: And we've made that journey. We've made the circle.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: The possibility that there is no such thing as shadow people is presented the possibility that some a****** inside of a church was sitting around and he's like, what other weird s*** can I tell people about so that they come to church?

Cristina: Shadow people.

Jack: Shadow people.

Cristina: Just like vampires.

Jack: Just like were witches, witches, F****** everything.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: Wet, wet, chud, chudge, f****** demons. Demons, everything, all of it. Church made it all up.

Cristina: You think they made up aliens, man?

Jack: Probably.

Cristina: I mean, these are just gonna find out that we gotta rep. Yes.

Jack: Come on. Yeah, come on. There's no longer aliens. I don't believe in aliens anymore. I don't believe in aliens anymore. Now. Now the church made them up.

Cristina: The church made aliens?

Jack: The church made everything up?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There's nothing but us on this world. The Earth is probably flat. They said aliens. The Earth is flat. I don't care. Now I'm a flat earther.

Cristina: Because they're the ones that say earth is flat.

Jack: No, because they said aliens. They said you can fight them off by saying Jesus.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So.

Cristina: No, but they also think the Earth is flat and the Reptilians live in the center of it. So.

Jack: No, they can't live at the center of something flat.

Cristina: They do. They.

Jack: That's not the Christians.

Cristina: That's not the. They're. They're Christian.

Jack: No, the flat Earthers aren't Christian.

Cristina: Some of them are.

Jack: I mean, there's some cross pollination here and there, but like.

Cristina: Yes, but they have more religious beliefs of like. Like God wants us to know. They don't want us to know about flat earth because Satan.

Jack: Oh, you're right. And because paradise is over the ice wall or some s*** like that.

Cristina: Yes. And the Reptilians, I guess, live there and not the center, Right?

Jack: Yeah, not the center, actually.

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: Allegedly we, man. Because even in this weird version of where there's more out there, we're the center of it for whatever reason. Like we can't just be in the second ring and there's something in the middle that you can't access. No, no, no. We're still super special.

Cristina: Always in the center.

Jack: Yeah, we're super special always.

Cristina: Yes. So there you go. Feels good.

Jack: It always comes back to religion. The church is just a bunch of liars trying to scare people to go to church.

Cristina: That's all it is. That's.

Jack: That's all it is. Because they get money. They get money from you being there. You give them money directly and they get tax cuts and, and donations. Giant, huge donations. But because you get. No, you don't get to have to pay tax. You get to keep every penny from the donation.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's the most profitable business in all of existence.

Cristina: It is. Well, if the shadow people do exist, they thrive on the fear of the.

Jack: Unknown, which is the whole adrenochrome problem.

Cristina: Yeah. So.

Jack: So look, in reality it's really coming down to the fact that they're probably dead elites.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Or not dead, but transcended elites to this different state. Evolved elites.

Cristina: Yeah. They show up, they hang around feeding off the fear and dread that they cause by their appearance. Yes. Like it's already scary.

Jack: They can also maybe take different shapes. Maybe the medium is right. In which they are very self aware. They're like intelligent beings and they can take many shapes, but they're being from a different dimension. Maybe what she means is they're in a different state.

Cristina: And they're the ancient Europeans that thought that they drink blood. This sounds a lot like vampires. And that vampires may not have a true shape and no blood drinker might have a true shape. And these beings don't have a true shape. They can turn into beings.

Jack: We don't see humans doing this. We see shapeshifters look like humans.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And do this. So it's possible that these shadow people, let's just call them gyms from this point forward. That these jinns can manifest in a fully human looking form with flesh and everything at will.

Cristina: Yes, that's just there.

Jack: That's a vampire.

Cristina: Yes. And we call them a vampire. But it's the same thing as the werewolf. As the.

Jack: Interesting enough. There's this scenario. One of the many stories of vampires which I think we discussed on one of the episodes about vampires was that they can become sort of a cloud.

Cristina: Yeah, that's one of the stories.

Jack: And what is closer to a cloud than an anomalous shadow? What is black smoke?

Cristina: Its truest form is the cloud.

Jack: Yes, it's black smoke of some sort. It's shapeless.

Cristina: It's shapeless. What? Wow.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Interesting.

Jack: Connecting those dots.

Cristina: So that's.

Jack: Yeah. It's possible that elites Take it. And that doesn't make them a vampire. Not yet. Unless there's two different kinds of vampires. Because we also know that vampires and zombies are very similar. They. You need to have blood running through your veins as a vampire. So maybe we're thinking about two different things now. We've got into a weird different scenario where there is a different kind of. Where there's a shape shifter.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And one of the things a shapeshifter can pretend to be is a vampire.

Cristina: And these shapeshifters though, are dead people. Dead elites. What if there are some dead elites that can't leave their body and they become a vampire? Zombies.

Jack: Zombies.

Cristina: They can't do anything. They're just.

Jack: Because they'd be.

Cristina: And they can't drink blood or they're not.

Jack: They can't control the body.

Cristina: They can't control the body. So they become feral and they. That's what we think of as the zombies.

Jack: So. Interesting. Interesting.

Cristina: Because they can become feral in their ghost like form. So they could become feral in their zombie form. Not being able to trick us into drinking. Letting them drink our blood. There's no other way.

Jack: Holy crap. You know what I just realized? Holy s***. One, all of it has to do with adrenochrome. Step number one.

Cristina: Okay. Yes.

Jack: Step number two, There are different states. And I can prove it using past information that we didn't f****** consider for whatever reason.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Okay. A wet judge. A Wendigo demon like creatures. Spirit like creatures that look like. What? Like wolves. What do people use to communicate with shadow people? Or what do people use to tell the weather animals?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: What happens when you drink adrenochrome? You become this immortal being. Eventually you die, but you stay alive. Your body, physical form dies and you become this sort of phantasm, this sort of ghost like thing. Some people use bears, some people use badgers. Some people use groundhogs. What stops some people from using a wolf? And the wolf gets the intellect of a person. It gets immortality. At least in conscious form.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then when its physical body dies, it could be a werewolf.

Cristina: Oh crap.

Jack: Or it could be a wetchat.

Cristina: The same rules leading to different creatures dying too.

Jack: Eventually. Eventually their physical form goes, but they don't die. They move to the next thing, which.

Cristina: Is whatever the people are. They pretty much become the same thing as the elites that are dying.

Jack: Yes. This a whole thing of jinns, a ton of different djins. The Wetcha is just a djinn.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And the Wendingo is just a djinn.

Cristina: Okay, so it's not just one thing that's becoming all these different things? In a way, yes. Because they're in the same realm.

Jack: Yes. The same reason is leading to it.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Adrenochrome.

Cristina: It's adrenochrome. Yeah.

Jack: So there's an entire world of shadow beings that we have no access to unless they choose to interact with us.

Cristina: So you think aliens have anything to do with this?

Jack: If aliens are going through the same processes, there would be aliens that are the same, because we assume aliens came naturally as a response of the world. They might look completely different or whatever, but there should be. I mean, I guess you'd have to be biological in the first place in order to consume adrenochrome in the first place and then in your next state, use fear.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But assuming biological aliens evolved throughout the world, in that case, they can use adrenochrome and when they die, they do become shadow people, thus being these types of shadow people. And assuming they're advanced enough to have advanced technologies to be able to change their physical frequencies, maybe they can literally communicate with one of themselves who's transcended the physical form because of technology. Adrenochrome. Oh, you can use technology to communicate somebody who's transcended due to adrenochrome.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So they. It's no different. It's just you're going to the next phase, but they can still communicate with you actively without the use of adrenochrome, because technology, man.

Cristina: So we've connected everything.

Jack: Yes, everything is connected. Not only that, but the shape shifting nature of it. Resolution means we managed to say shape shifters are all these things. And yes, they are one species of thing, but they're also many different things.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: The same way we were saying that these shapeshifters might be like the difference between a big dog and a small dog. The shadow people, the djinns, are the same. They were still biological creatures, but it's a difference between a human and a dog. You've traced them back far enough. They came from the same thing. And that's what's happening with shape shifters. Shapeshifters are just shadow people. Shadow people are just gins.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And they are all a result of adrenochrome.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Being taken when they were alive to retain immortality and to transcend without losing consciousness. It's preserving consciousness. That's the ultimate goal.

Cristina: And some of them just can't. They fail. Become violent.

Jack: Yes, they become violent. Feral.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: The feral version.

Cristina: Yes. Yep.

Jack: How f****** interesting.

Cristina: We got it. And So I thought shadow people is interesting enough, but what about our shadows?

Jack: What about our shadows?

Cristina: What are they?

Jack: A lack of photons.

Cristina: A lack of photons?

Jack: Yes. Let's say light hits you from one direction. Thus photons generated land on the surfaces that you're not blocking. They reflect back and you see them brighter. And the spots where the photons aren't landing remain dark.

Cristina: Well, there's many, many superstitions and beliefs about shadows before, I guess we knew before the science explanation of shadows. And one of them was that the shadow was the soul.

Jack: So you're always stepping on your soul.

Cristina: Well, you're connected to your soul, you're not stepping on it.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: It changes throughout the day because it's like your soul, it's not perfect, your soul's not perfect, your shadow is not perfect.

Jack: That's a cool a** belief to assume that your shadow is your soul and you can just look at it.

Cristina: Mm. And then another one is that the shadow is a double, which is pretty much just a copy of you, which makes sense. It is a copy of you, but it's not a perfect copy of you. It's just a. It's just a copy of yourself.

Jack: The two dimensional cut of yourself. That's what it is. It's a two dimensional slit of you there. It has no third dimension.

Cristina: Yeah. So it is you. It's just a different dimensional of you.

Jack: 100%. That's exactly what it is. It has height and width, but no depth. You have depth. Your next version has all of time included. We can just see the dimensions below us, but we can't see the ones above us. Yeah, but from a fourth dimension, it could see height, width and depth.

Cristina: So the shadow could be. Yeah, and then there's a lot of superstitions that involve death. Like if you inflict harm on a person's shadow, then the person's gonna suffer the effects. I don't know how you harm a shadow, but I guess if you stab. If I stabbed your shadow, you're gonna feel that later.

Jack: That's f****** weird.

Cristina: That's weird. Yeah. And people would try to cast their shadow on a wall on Christmas Eve or New Year's. And whoever had a headless shadow, it would mean that they're gonna die next year or within a year they're gonna die. Stepping on your own shadow was an omen of death, which is weird because you can't mount.

Jack: Step on your shadow.

Cristina: Yeah. So you're gonna die. It's predicting it.

Jack: I guess the only way to not step on Your shadow is to always float.

Cristina: Then you can live forever. That's the key of living forever.

Jack: Learn to fly. And even when you sleep, remain flying.

Cristina: Yes. And then there's St. Peter, who they believed his shadow could cure the sick. So people would try to lay their sick on the street, hoping that his shadow would fall on them.

Jack: Okay, back to that church s***.

Cristina: Yes. Shadows as a protector. The shadow is like a guardian angel of the soul instead of the soul itself. When death comes to get you, it has to ask your shadows permission. It also protects you from demons and vampires.

Jack: So if you're someone without a shadow, like the dark, they can access you.

Cristina: And vampires don't cast the shadow because they don't have a soul.

Jack: I've actually heard about that. Vampires don't cast a shadow or have a reflection.

Cristina: That's interesting stuff about shadows is that sounds a lot similar to shadow people of the Guardian Angel. And if it was a protector, if the shadow people are protectors, they sound a lot like our own shadow.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Theories people have figured out or came up with for shadows themselves. So interesting. Yeah. Anyway, if you want to hear other episodes like this, which I would. Let's see, what would I suggest? I would suggest the weather folklore, if you like, that weird groundhog stuff and other wintery stuff.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: The sleep paralysis episode. I don't know what that one was called.

Jack: There was a whole episode about sleep paralysis.

Cristina: Yeah. It was the first Halloween episode, I think. So. Check out that first Halloween episode.

Jack: Interesting. Yes. So, yeah, Actually, fair enough. A lot of the stuff is because, look, we have episodes on vampires.

Cristina: Oh, yes.

Jack: We also have on shape shifters.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: We have episodes on werewolves, ghosts, all these. A lot of these topics have been discussed before in different ways, and we kind of all led to this episode putting them together. So if you want to see all the pieces that led here.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: Go through our catalog.

Cristina: Brought it all together.

Jack: Yes. That's actually really weird and interesting.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That the groundhog is how we discovered that. That vampires, werewolves, witch huds, Wendigo's shapeshifters are all different but the same.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: They are the creatures, the biological creatures of this plane of existence in the next state of existence that is entirely allowed to exist because of adrenochrome, which is also a consistent topic. And there are many episodes.

Cristina: Don't forget that episode about the gods of adrenochrome.

Jack: Yes. Yes. Which is very important. Which is. Also connects to all of this.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Man, this is starting to paint a pretty severe picture that's working out together in Tandem.

Cristina: It's scary.

Jack: It's weird how much of this fits together. Anyways, if you guys want to find all those episodes, you can definitely find all of that in our catalog, and that exists on the official website, greatthoughts.info or you can get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcast.

Cristina: And you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Uscombopod.

Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe, rate and review.

Cristina: The show and let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Yes. Word of mouth is overpowered. And if you know about any of these creatures, if you didn't know that groundhogs are immortal beings with the intellect of it. Well, specifically this one, maybe there's many different groundhogs. There's one that we do it to, but I'm assuming that there's one bear that fits the same suit and it's just one bear.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And, like, when that bear dies, it gets replaced by another bear who's just the one again.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And so it goes as long as it can. Maybe it lives thousands of years before it's replaced. Interesting, interesting, interesting.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we were, you know, tell people if you like these things, talk about.

Cristina: It, bring people in, tell us about it if you know more info about this stuff. Like, we're just coming up with it. Yeah, we're just finding this now.

Jack: Come tell us what you know. And maybe you have pieces we don't have to this puzzle. We're building a giant puzzle using all the human knowledge we've ever acquired, all the information that people believe to be true. We're grabbing humanity's most. What is it? What's a funny. Yeah, humanity. We're grabbing humanity's most absurd ideas and we're grounding them. We're bringing them into reality. We're finding out what the truth behind all of humanity's most absurdities are and turning it into the reality that they really are and finding out how they work together. Because nothing works on its own. Everything is part of a bigger system, and we're building that system. So if you have any piece that.

Cristina: Belongs here, give it to us.

Jack: Give it to us. Feel free to let us know.

Cristina: This has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye.

Cristina: That is such a weird scene.

Jack: It was. I remember seeing it, but it was all by accident, wasn't it? It was just knocking them out scared.

Cristina: I've only seen the remix.

Jack: It wasn't like legit fear.

Cristina: No. He really got serious.

Jack: Like he beat them up wanting to beat them up.

Cristina: Yeah, but I don't know if in the movie how it was.

Jack: Spoiler. Shaggy kills everyone in Infinity War single handedly. Point being, Shaggy is crazy.

Cristina: What if Shaggy uses 100%? You can't do that. It's impossible.

Jack: Yeah, the universe can't contain it. The universe cannot contain Shaggy at his ultimate power.

Cristina: Can Shaggy be Thanos? Kind of crazy.

Jack: What is Shaggy's power level in his base form?

Cristina: Shockingly weak. He would have to go 45%, 75% to the Thanos. So he would have to be 75% to be Thanos. That's.

Jack: That's problematic considering his power cannot be capped. So what would. So what would 75% look like to.

Cristina: An infinite amount of power?

Jack: He gains 1% of his max power.

Cristina: Every time someone follows his religion.

Jack: So. Oh yeah, I don't know if there's a church of Shaggy actually you can follow right there. The subreddit Church of Shaggy.

Cristina: Good morning. Good morning. The Just Conversation podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by Great Thoughts.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black.

JCP 4.12 Wolf of Thorns & The Last of Us

The Just Conversation Podcast, Daniel McFatter, The Worf of Thorns, Youtube, Video Essey, Discussion, Talk, Conversation, The Last of Us Part 2, Video Games, Gaming, Hitler, Morality, Joel Miller, Tommy Miller, Gaming

Guest Daniel McFatter, the ‘Wolf of Thorns’ on Youtube (video essay writer, director and producer), joins Jack to discuss everything from the profound themes behind ‘The Last of Us Part 2’ to life experiences and how they affect our moral compass.

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Rambling 113: Santa and Friends

Just Conversation, Santa Clause, Christmas, Podcast, Radio, Comedy, Catholicism, Funny, Friends, Holiday,  Holidays, Fun, Joke, Research, Religion, Faith

What’s the truth behind Christmas and Santa Claus? A Christmas Special unpacking Santa Claus and his known associates, in a Christmas Deep Dive filled with criminal syndicates and elaborate heists!

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With Christmas closing in, the clone duo have little time to act in their attempt to slow down the annual child trafficking wave that usually sweeps the Earth. One culprit comes to mind when wanting to investigate a global crime wave on Christmas Day… Saint Nicholas. A well known global traveler. But in digging deep into the history of this man and his corrupt past, the truth about this crime wave and how it’s done is more than either of our heroes could have ever seen coming. The people involved and the atrocious acts committed will be something they’ll never be able to forget. Find out what on this episode of Just Conversation.

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  • Saint Nick’s Kid Pickles
  • How to Become A Saint in 3 Easy Steps
  • Saint Breastfeed
  • Eating Children
  • The Christmas Heist
  • Qanon

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Jack: Who is Santa Claus and are the stories about him true? Is he a magical man? Or is there more going on behind the true story of Santa Claus? Find out all that and more coming up on this episode of Just Conversation.

Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean? Welcome to Just Conversation, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And I'm Jack.

Cristina: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button to get notified the second new episodes are released.

Jack: Yes, and this show is most enjoyable with the listening partner. So be sure to go find somebody and bring them in nice and close and force them. You always force them. That's our theme. We ask you to find somebody and make them listen to this show against their will.

Cristina: No, we don't.

Jack: I do.

Cristina: You do? Yes. The show where you force people to force people.

Jack: No, I force people to force people. Otherwise their children are in danger.

Cristina: Yes. Oh, yes. I forgot that part too.

Jack: Yes. That's how this goes. So make sure you get somebody to listen. It's a family friendly show. No, it's not.

Cristina: No, it's not.

Jack: No, it's not.

Cristina: It doesn't matter because then they'll get amnesia.

Jack: Yeah, they get them. See, all of this work doesn't matter. Yeah, even the people who were kidnapped, they don't know were kidnapped.

Cristina: Yeah, they'll forget.

Jack: Yeah, all of it. It works itself out. It's kind of a solid plan. There's no victim here. Except the people who don't force other.

Cristina: People and the victim who end up at the hospital finding out that they're our enemy because they end up with cancer.

Jack: Fair enough. Fair enough.

Cristina: So that's two people.

Jack: Only if, I guess only the ones that get cancer. But they were already our enemies. I guess it's really a tactical war move, if anything.

Cristina: Yes. One of those kids that get killed sadly by you. Christmas. You know what that day is for? Celebrating Jesus's birthday. No, it's not.

Jack: Nobody does that. No.

Cristina: It's Santa Claus's birthday.

Jack: Is it Saint Old Saint Nicholas, Old.

Cristina: Saint Nick and Santa Claus are two different people.

Jack: Who's Santa Claus?

Cristina: He's a fictional version of St. Nicholas. But St. Nicholas is a man. You met him. He was a man. Yeah, I met him.

Jack: That's cool.

Cristina: Yeah. He was telling me that he hunts demons. Did you know that? He's a demon hunter.

Jack: I mean, he was a saint and weren't they demon hunters. Thus exorcisms, I guess.

Cristina: But he found demons. I didn't know about that.

Jack: Are the elves enslaved demons?

Cristina: Huh? I don't know. I don't. We gotta look up what elves are. Really? Because they're. They're some type of creature.

Jack: Like what's happening up there, man?

Cristina: With the elves and the reindeers and.

Jack: Talking like snowmen and things. There's. There's weird s*** going on. He lives with like monsters.

Cristina: He's a demon hunter, like I was saying. And I learned about few of his stories from him. Do you know any of his demon hunting stories?

Jack: No. This is the first time I ever heard about it. I always suspected there was something weird and off about a bunch of elves and that they serve this guy. But he's not like God. Unless he is some sort of demigod, which was also a theory as well. He might have been some sort of demigod this entire time.

Cristina: Yes. Maybe all the saints are demigods now.

Jack: Interesting. I actually was thinking Santa Claus this whole time. You were talking St. Nick.

Cristina: Yeah, St. Nick. Because he's the real magic man. Santa is just a fictional cartoon.

Jack: Fair enough. Okay, so tell me about his demon hunting.

Cristina: Okay, okay. One time he banished a demon from a tree by threatening it with an axe.

Jack: Man, we stumble on this all the time where it's just like a guy doing normal person killing things. There's nothing. There's nothing demon killy about an axe. It's just like how you'd kill a person.

Cristina: Oh yeah. Yes. Or maybe he was actually planning on chopping that tree, but someone saw it and was like, no, he's not just chopping down that tree.

Jack: There must be a demon in there.

Cristina: Gotta be a demon in there. Yes.

Jack: Or maybe there was a guy inside on the tree. There was a guy on the tree and he's like, I'm gonna knock this tree down. Get down. And then.

Cristina: It was a leprechaun.

Jack: It was a leprechaun in the tree?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Really?

Cristina: I don't know. No. Oh, well, maybe that's how he got the elves. He made a deal with the leprechaun.

Jack: What?

Cristina: He. Our elves and leprechauns from the same place?

Jack: I think you're being. I think that's racism what you just did right there.

Cristina: But they're from the same place.

Jack: Oopsie. Did I just do a racist? Like Peter? Like Peter did. Oopsie. Did I just do a racism.

Cristina: Irish creatures though, for sure. No, maybe not elves.

Jack: Why would an elf be a con?

Cristina: Not Be an.

Jack: You're just. Here's. Here's. Look, here's where it's f****** up the name we give. What's in the north is elf. But that's wrong because elves are usually taller than people.

Cristina: Elves are usually.

Jack: Elvens are way taller than people. On average. They're not shorter.

Cristina: Elvens are something else. I don't know what Elvens are. There are elves.

Jack: No, those are elves.

Cristina: So there's two names for this creature.

Jack: No, you Elven people are elves.

Cristina: Okay?

Jack: And whatever the f*** is up there is closer to a leprechaun than it is to an elf. It's not an elf. It's not associated with an elf. It doesn't have weird pointy ears. It doesn't have white hair. It's not tall. The only thing it shares in common, it's magic.

Cristina: And if that's magical, at least.

Jack: Yes. And if that's the argument here, then that's to say that leprechauns are just. I mean, elves are just midgets. They're not. They're not like a race of tiny people. They're midgets because it's like the difference between a tall human and a short human. Because if they're all just elves. Santa Claus is hoarded all the tiny elves. Yeah, and made a workshop. He enslaved a bunch of tiny elves.

Cristina: Well, they happily serve him.

Jack: What winner of a war said we enslaved people?

Cristina: Ah, yes. Are they demons, though? Because he would enslave demons.

Jack: Owls aren't demons. Elves are magical creatures.

Cristina: Oh, well, maybe he's like a Sam and Dean demon hunting, where they're killing more than just demonstration. And Santa's doing the same thing. He's dealing with magical creatures.

Jack: Why doesn't he commit suicide?

Cristina: Santa?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: I mean, Saint Nick, I guess. Why? Why would he want to do that?

Jack: Isn't the goal kill magical creatures because he's a human?

Cristina: He's a human.

Jack: It says who isn't it?

Cristina: Kill magic powers that were given to him by God.

Jack: Is that the case here?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: All saints are using the power that they're killing.

Cristina: That they're killing.

Jack: They hunt things with powers, not just demons. Yes, things with magical abilities.

Cristina: Because they're not God's creatures.

Jack: Maybe wasn't God. Wasn't. Weren't vampires God's creatures?

Cristina: No. That's what you get if you don't believe in him.

Jack: I thought people got punished and turned into vampires.

Cristina: Yes, that too.

Jack: By God.

Cristina: By God himself. No, I think it's by the church.

Jack: So you Tell me. The church has power independent of God?

Cristina: Yes. Well, they were given to, I guess. Yes. Okay. They were given to the powers by God to turn people into demons and then have the power to kill those demons that they turned them into.

Jack: Sounds right.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Seems legit.

Cristina: It's a very confusing story, but it's the truth. So I wonder, then that business of exorcism, then.

Jack: It's a setup.

Cristina: Yeah. They have the power.

Jack: It's a setup.

Cristina: Give people demons in them and then they could just take them out because they have that power too. Oh, my gosh.

Jack: Yep. We uncovered it. It was a setup.

Cristina: Did you know that? What?

Jack: I just figured it out right now with you.

Cristina: Yes. That's so crazy. Now we know he also resurrected a boy who was strangled by a demon.

Jack: Which he hired a demon.

Cristina: Exactly.

Jack: And then they. He made the demon, then they hired him to get rid of that demon. I see a pattern here.

Cristina: Yeah, and he also outsmarted a demon in a wager.

Jack: I feel like he told me that before. Didn't St. Nick do something like that?

Cristina: He is St. Nick.

Jack: I mean, not St. Nick.

Cristina: St. Patrick.

Jack: St. Patrick. Didn't he do something like that? That also made him a saint.

Cristina: I don't know who. Probably. He has crazy stories too, so.

Jack: He has the craziest stories. That's the one saint to beat God.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah, but this guy outsmarted a demon through a wager, and then that demon became his servant.

Jack: Maybe also known as an elf or.

Cristina: Yes, elf. Or one of those many other things that follow him around. Like Krampus.

Jack: Krumpus doesn't follow him around, does it?

Cristina: Well, he works with him, sort of.

Jack: But that's like the devil. That's assuming that St. Nick is kind of like Jesus.

Cristina: Yeah, but it looks like a hairy monster, like a demon.

Jack: Okay, fair enough.

Cristina: It's demon. Like, maybe he beat him in a wager and he was like, hey, now you gotta help me take care of children, man.

Jack: It is kind of a thing. It's like, I already make demons to kill people. Now Imma make you. I beat you. Your job. The children specifically.

Cristina: Yep. You gotta beat those children.

Jack: And he kills them, Right? He kills the children. That's what Krampus does.

Cristina: I know. There's another of St. Nick's companions. I guess his name is servant Rupert. And he's a man with a long beard and a furry coat. And sometimes he has. He has a bag of ashes with him for some reason. I guess that's to give the bad kids. But sometimes he kidnaps the kids, the bad kids and takes them home with him to eat them later or he throws them into a river.

Jack: So yeah, we're talking about Jesus here. He's hanging out with a bunch of killers and like thieves and s***.

Cristina: Yeah, this is his other one. He's kind of like, I guess Krumpus. Krumpus does similar things to that. I know we talked about Krampus last year, but I totally forgot much about him.

Jack: I think he murdered children. Yeah.

Cristina: Oh, okay. He murdered children. Well, this guy too, because he has a lot of. There's like equally good and bad servants, I guess, if you want to call them that. Slaves, whatever. And last time you were talking about kids who were turned into pickles or some weird story. I finally figured that out that St.

Jack: Nick in the barrels where he pickled the children and thus he got.

Cristina: Kids were already being pickled to be sold for as meat because there was a famine. So the butcher wanted to sell them as meat. As I guess non children meat, you know. But Nick found out what he was doing somehow. I guess he knew that barrel was not filled with regular meat and he turned those children alive. Those pickled children.

Jack: And then he ate them. He's like, I won't eat them. Pickled eats them alive.

Cristina: No, he saved those children. And that's how he became the patron of children, maybe. Or one of the many stories. Yeah.

Jack: Yeah. So he got his powers by pickling. Got you.

Cristina: He did. I guess he had nothing to do with pickling those children. They were already pickled.

Jack: Well, it's weird because it looked like he was just traveling with kids in barrels or something in the painting that they made. Because the painting was just misguided. It was about a moment and then it got so many iterations that eventually it just became him standing in front of kids inside of barrels.

Cristina: Yeah. Actually that's one of the interesting things I learned about was that. Yeah, people don't really know what he did in his life. So they look at that picture or pictures of him like that and they have no idea what's going on. Some of them think he's a.

Jack: A child pickler.

Cristina: A child pickler. I don't think that's one of them. They. Because they didn't know much about him. He became a patron of so many things. So many random things besides children. He was. He's a patron for coopers, which are barrel makers. Like people who make barrels see him as their saint, I guess.

Jack: The saint of barrels.

Cristina: Yes, barrow makers. The saint of barrel makers. He's Also was a. I think the first one that. Or the most important saint that he was before children was of sailors and fishermen and stuff because of a story that he calmed the storms of. I don't know. On. He calmed the storm in sea for fishermen, for merchants. Yeah. It saved some fishermen. I mean it saved the sailors lives. And they all worshiped him pretty much for that.

Jack: That is weird.

Cristina: Yeah. And they all pray for him and stuff. And on. There's. When they celebrate his life. They celebrate it on December 6, before actual Christmas day, which I think they still had two on that day in December 6th, when they go. They go to church for him and then they go to a festival and buy presents for their children and they give it to their children. And then people end up thinking, oh, he's for children because of that event that just became a thing that people did.

Jack: That makes sense. So basically all the random things surrounding him decided that he's the saint of that thing.

Cristina: Yes, yes. He also saved three soldiers from being executed because I guess they didn't do the crime, but they wanted to kill somebody for the crime and he stopped them.

Jack: Ah, typical politics. Somebody must be punished, sir. But we don't have who did it. Doesn't matter. You see that guy over there? He doesn't look like anybody would care about him. Kill him.

Cristina: What? They were soldiers, though I'm sure they had family.

Jack: Right. Because soldiers today are treated so well. This is back then in barbarian times.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Before the invention of the control remote, the standard for human advancement.

Cristina: Yes, the remote control. The greatest creation. That. In the microwave, I guess.

Jack: And sliced bread as well.

Cristina: Oh. What? Another thing he was known for was after his parents died, he gave away their wealth to the poor. He gave random people, I guess they left their shoes outside and he would throw gold in the shoes. That also became a tradition for kids.

Jack: To throw gold in their shoes.

Cristina: Yeah, Getting like presents in their shoes. Or the stockings thing. Maybe that came from that as well.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Yeah. He was a secret gift giver and he liked putting coins in people's shoes if they left them out. I don't. I don't know how it was back.

Jack: Then, but maybe it's like the oriental cultures where they tend to leave their shoes either at a shoe rack or outside of the door.

Cristina: Okay. The last one is he rescued three girls from prostitution. You've heard of that story? We talked a little bit about that. I'm not sure.

Jack: Rescued them by.

Cristina: He didn't really rescue them, but he gave them money. The money that they need to Marry to get a nice husband.

Jack: I guess they were gonna buy their husbands.

Cristina: I guess that's how it worked. I'm not sure. I'm not sure how dowries work. We don't have that nowadays, but I think so it's either you get married or prostitution were the only options for these women.

Jack: Because working was not allowed.

Cristina: Yes, exactly. Women probably couldn't work. So you either get married or you go into prostitution. And I guess they needed to bribe these men to marry them. But he helped them out, so. And I think that's why he's also the patron of whores, of hookers, unmarried people, of streetwalkers. Of street walkers.

Jack: The saint of streetwalkers.

Cristina: No, of unmarried people. He's. He's got a bunch of weird things. Oh, and of brewers, which I guess has to do with that barrel. And people not sure. What is that barrel about?

Jack: Man Satanic loves his child. Based alcohol.

Cristina: Yes, yes. Because they didn't know about the whole prostitution dowry story. Sometimes they. When they had pictures of him, it would have like three golden balls and it would represent the, I guess, bag of gold. Or coins. Maybe Those are coins. People saw them as oranges. So in the medieval times, they thought he was from Spain and he would visit them to bring them oranges.

Jack: Ah, yes. When merchants are struggling to bring you produce and fruit.

Cristina: And guess what? He's also a patron of merchants.

Jack: Because oranges.

Cristina: I guess so.

Jack: And beer, apparently.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: St. Nick is coming. Children, you guys are gonna get some yummy oranges and dad's gonna get f****** ripped.

Cristina: Yes, that's pretty much. Yeah. The only one that I don't really know is archers and pharmacists. Why?

Jack: Because the barrels could have also had medicine.

Cristina: Oh, and archers.

Jack: I guess archers were also shoved into the barrels. No, I mean, there were kids in the barrels. Why couldn't you chop up and like, pickle the remains of an archer?

Cristina: I guess so they're like just making up what was in that barrel.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: And pawnbrokers.

Jack: They were also in the barrels.

Cristina: They were also in the barrels.

Jack: It's about the barrels.

Cristina: It's all about the barrels.

Jack: He's the saint of barrels in one way or another.

Cristina: Okay. Do you remember how people become saints?

Jack: They do miracles. And then a group of hobos inside of the church decide he is a miracle doer in the name of God or something. And they must be really old or dead.

Cristina: Dead. They have to be dead for sure. Yeah, that's step one, be dead, be dead.

Jack: Okay, Step one, be dead, be dead.

Cristina: You gotta Wait at least five years.

Jack: After death and wait, the guy who cheated the system was Saint Nick?

Cristina: I don't think he cheated the system. I don't know.

Jack: There was one. It was either St Nick or Mr. Rogers who was a saint ahead of time.

Cristina: No, he's not a saint. I don't think he's a saint.

Jack: Are you positive the saint.

Cristina: There was some saints that become saints before, like right after death because they, they got martyred, they call it, which is they. They were killed. Someone killed them. So they get to rush past the five year thing.

Jack: So this is to say if somebody has done a couple of miracles and then I murder him.

Cristina: They don't have to do miracles. The miracles they do in real life are not part of this.

Jack: I thought that was part of the rubric.

Cristina: No, there are miracles involved. They have nothing to do with the ones that you do while alive.

Jack: You specifically said in the previous Christmas episode that miracles were part of becoming a saint.

Cristina: Yes, yes, but not while you're alive.

Jack: How do you do miracles while dead?

Cristina: People have to pray to you.

Jack: Right?

Cristina: And then a miracle happens and then it counts.

Jack: So you have to be worshipped before you're a saint. People just have to hold you as a false God. And then the church is like, I guess he's false God enough. Now let's legitimize his godliness.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So the church makes gods. Gods don't make the church except for.

Cristina: The one main God who gives them the powers.

Jack: Does he though?

Cristina: Yes, he.

Jack: Are we sure they didn't like, then again force this guy and he's like in the basement of the church being in prison and they're sucking his power out to use it?

Cristina: Possibly.

Jack: I don't know, like God is, Is that what's in the freaking the Vatican slot down or whatever the h*** wherever they keep in, like, you know, the holy things that are like, for. They got it closed down like Fort Knox. And what's really down there is both Jesus and God imprisoned.

Cristina: Oh my God.

Jack: While they're being milked for their infinite power.

Cristina: But then how are all these people before their death doing miracles?

Jack: Before whose deaths?

Cristina: Their deaths.

Jack: Oh, they're praying to God. Yeah, but God, his energy is inside of like a bottle in the church and there's some sort of genie guy using that energy. And like I hear prayers for God, but I've got you imprisoned.

Cristina: God, like Saint Nick, he was, he was using something that had the powers from the church.

Jack: Yeah, Church has the power from God. And when you pray to God, you're Really being received by the church antenna of power. And then they're like, send some, distribute some energy to that praying soul.

Cristina: Okay, whoa, that is disturbing. So step one, death. Or way after death.

Jack: Maybe that was actually why it was important to kill Jesus in the first place.

Cristina: For his powers to.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, kill him for his powers. He's more like a man. Other God. Man is other God dead. Did the church kill God to use his powers? To use his powers?

Cristina: No, but he wouldn't have, like. Did he have a physical body? Like, how do you capture.

Jack: Let's look at it like this. Jesus happens. Yes, Jesus killed. We don't have wrathful God anymore. Was that literally God? Did the church literally kill him and just like take his corpse down in a hole somewhere and just. Just milking the energy that's leaking out? Oh yeah, let's put him in a container and melt away that leak. That infinitely leaking energy.

Cristina: Possibly. Because from learning about all these saints, there's a lot of creepy things. Like some of their bodies are perfectly fine way later after their death. Like they don't die. The bodies don't die.

Jack: That's weird.

Cristina: Yes, they're just sleeping bodies. Like nothing is happening to their body.

Jack: Yeah, it's really weird. I've seen some of that before. Like they somehow don't decay or anything.

Cristina: Yeah, there's like one lady, or I think it's a lady saint, I don't know, is in display in a church.

Jack: That's nuts.

Cristina: That's nuts. What's going on here? Is it church related?

Jack: Maybe. Maybe they're just sending Jesus power. Maybe that person is just hibernating until they wake up. A vampire.

Cristina: What if they are vampires? Then do you just gotta pretend to be sleeping?

Jack: No, that person's recovering because they died. Allegedly. So they sleep for centuries at a time.

Cristina: That is so crazy. So you knew about that? That's weird, right?

Jack: Yeah, I've heard about that before.

Cristina: That's crazy. Okay, so step two of becoming a saint is to become a servant of God. Of course, I'm not sure if that's also part of after your death, because I'm pretty sure before you're dead, you're supposed to have converted into Christianity if you weren't already a Christian or born Christian or whatever.

Jack: Do you have to be Catholic?

Cristina: You have to be Catholic. Oh my God.

Jack: Or is it like any form of Christianity floats? Like it could be a Pentecostal, I don't know, Is it the Catholic Church that's doing all this? Yes, because let's look at this Jesus shows up, right? Some people in the Jewish church decide kill Jesus. Then evil God disappears. And we have people who can make miracles happen, chosen by the now Christian church. They change that group of people with the power of God at their hands. Even said 100 years later, we're not even Jews, we're Christian. We're this new thing. We believe and use the power of Christ. And if you want the power of Christ in you, you gotta join the church.

Cristina: Because they actually have the power of Christ.

Jack: They actually have the power of Christ. Maybe Christ is the vessel that directly takes in like we gotta look at it like this, right? Christ was the human form, but he's still God. He's still connected to God. And you killed Christ and you imprisoned Christ. God can't do anything, it's him. Yeah, and you just keep siphoning. God is still alive, but Jesus, God is dead. But his body also won't wither away. It's always going to be trying to come back, slowly draining. Infinite God, but he's infinite. So you just are the other person with God's power, other than God himself. Except God made a one way power direction into Jesus. And because you don't let Jesus come back to life, God can't like reverse the process.

Cristina: How do you stop them from coming back to life? Do they have a stake in his heart?

Jack: Maybe.

Cristina: Maybe they have the same for the saints. Because the saints, even after death do some really strange things like, like there was, there's a blood, a veil of one of the saints blood and it, they say it's dry but every around his birthday or death or something, it turns into liquid.

Jack: Who says that?

Cristina: The church says that. I think.

Jack: Is that like the floating rock somewhere in Israel or whatever?

Cristina: It's a cathedral in Naples.

Jack: So yeah, of course the church would say that.

Cristina: Of course. I wonder if they show it off though. Like look at it today, it's dry. Look at it today now. Oh look, it's liquidy.

Jack: I bet, I bet the church has a bunch of weird tricks like that that it uses to brainwash people.

Cristina: Where are they getting the. I mean, I guess they can get the blood from anything.

Jack: Hard to get blood.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah, they just a rooster outback or something. But yeah, there's weird things like that. There's St. Viviana who, her parents died and her sister tried to force her into prostitution, but she refused to. And then they imprisoned her in a madhouse and then beat her to death. But when she passed away, they built a church on her grave. And in the church, they had a garden, and the garden grows herbs that cures headaches and epilepsy, but it doesn't cure prostitution. Maybe like no one has. Like, maybe none of them had the thought beforehand. Maybe you got to go there thinking like, should I go prostitute? And then you eat the herb and you're like, nah, I'm cured.

Jack: I now have money. I don't need to prostitute. Thank you. Fruit?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Or herb.

Cristina: Thank you. Herb. Yeah. Mm. So there's a lot of strange things. Step 3 Show proofs of a life of heroic virtue, which I guess is like St. Nick donating all his parents money to the poor. That was pretty heroic, I think. Maybe, I don't know.

Jack: Now can I walk into a town that I've never been at before? And then when somebody talks to me, I'm like, oh yeah, man, I got just done dedicating my life to helping other people and doing only but good. Flash back to what my life was really like. I burned entire towns and slaughtered families everywhere, raping and killing everybody I ever saw. But then I made it to this town, I'm like done with it. And then I'm in that town, I'm like, nah, I've always done good things. And there happens to be Catholics. Do they still, like, they're just going on my word at that point?

Cristina: No, they have to investigate.

Jack: How would they find it? How long ago are we talking?

Cristina: I don't know. It just says that they investigate the person's life and the writings for evidence of what they're looking for.

Jack: So if I got no proof, then I can't be a saint.

Cristina: Yeah, like you got to have that horrible life killing people, but then you really did change your life around and help people. You might become a saint, who knows?

Jack: But I didn't become a good person.

Cristina: No, no, no, I know, like you can't, you can't if you didn't. If you're just lying to them. But if a person did kill a bunch of people but then changed their life around and was only good, they could possibly become a saint.

Jack: That makes sense. Seems legit.

Cristina: Yes, that's. And then step four is a miracle that happens after you pray to this person that's wanna be a saint. The Saint Nick, Whatever.

Jack: So dear Saint Nick, bring me presents or children inside barrels.

Cristina: Yes. And then he gives it to you, and then that's proof that that person is already in heaven, man.

Jack: Okay, okay. So people prayed to St. Nick and their prayers came true, but he was considered the saint of children in barrels, essentially.

Cristina: Children. Barrels are a separate thing. It's not children in barrels. It's children and barrels.

Jack: But the combo is the only way he gets his power. No, out children being exclusively put in a barrel. He's powerless.

Cristina: No, it's separate. It's totally separate. And then the final thing to become a saint is just to have another miracle.

Jack: So two miracles?

Cristina: Yes. One is to prove that you're in heaven, and the second is to prove that you're holy.

Jack: The one that proves you're in heaven doesn't prove you're holy. Is this to say you can be.

Cristina: Or I guess that you're already holy. That you're. I don't know. I don't know. Okay, I guess it's both the same, right? I don't know. Okay, whatever. Two miracles after your death. It's not that crazy of steps. Maybe one day you will do this after your death. Who knows? What if someone tries to make you a saint? That'd be crazy.

Jack: That'd be awesome. Super epic. I want a bunch of worshipers.

Cristina: But you have to actually dedicate your life to Christianity eventually in your life.

Jack: No, I'm gonna cheat the system. I'll make it work. I'm gonna get that guy who made Heisenberg the fake paperwork, make him make me a bunch of fake religious paperwork.

Cristina: How is that gonna work out? They're gonna find out they got the money. You have investigators.

Jack: I have the queen on my side.

Cristina: No, you don't. She is one of their investigators.

Jack: What, the queen couldn't investigate.

Cristina: Why not?

Jack: She's busy running the world.

Cristina: And that's part of the world that she runs. She investigates saints.

Jack: No, she doesn't. She appoints them.

Cristina: She appoints them. What does that mean?

Jack: She's like, you're a saint now.

Cristina: She points at them.

Jack: Yeah, she says, you're a saint now. You're a saint now you're the Pope. Now. You're a saint, now you're a priest.

Cristina: I think we talked about this in the werewolf episode, but there's a saint for the fear of werewolves.

Jack: Now you pray to him to get the fear of werewolves away, or you get the werewolves away. He's like, I'm scared of werewolves. I can. I can work with that Here. Now you're not afraid of werewolves. But it's like, do you see anti werewolf. There are werewolves outside my door. What do I do? Well, I can take your fear of dying by werewolves away. If that. Like, I could do that part.

Cristina: I don't know. Yes. St. Herbert, the werewolf protector, can you.

Jack: Get rid of the werewolves. No. I can stop you from being scared of the way you're about to die.

Cristina: Yes. Then there's also St. Patrick. I don't know if he has anything to do with being. Praying for him for werewolves, but I just remember that we talked already about one of these stories. But there's two stories involving werewolves. Which one was St. Patrick's turn a king into a werewolf as some type of punishment.

Jack: Seems legit.

Cristina: And then also he turned a tribe into werewolves. Every seven years, they have to be a werewolf, and then seven years they're normal. And then back to werewolf to normal every seven years.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Oh, no. They had a disagreement.

Jack: Man, he. He really did abuse the power of God. But God wasn't gonna do anything because he would just stand up and be like, God, don't make me.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And God would be like, no, no, I'm good. I'll do it.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. He's. He. He can do whatever. I guess he runs this world.

Jack: Yeah. He has that free ticket. He has to be immortal. God is like, sure, yeah.

Cristina: So crazy. Then there's Saint Gills. He is the saint of the fear of breastfeeding. He was a hermit living in a cave, and he kept himself alive for several years drinking milk from a deer.

Jack: I thought that was going to go a whole other direction. I thought he was in a cave. He was in a cave with a female. And he's like, look, we have to stop you from losing that milk because I'm going to die.

Cristina: Nope, Nope. But if you have. You're in a life or death situation, and your only way to live is to drink some breast milk from an animal. You can pray to him. If you're having trouble doing it, you.

Jack: Can pray to get that. That deer lactating.

Cristina: Okay. Oh, my gosh. Well, yes, there's that.

Jack: Fantastic.

Cristina: Well, there's. He's not the only amazing.

Jack: But like, wait, could a mom who's struggling to breastfeed her baby pray to him?

Cristina: Yeah, probably. It says fear of breastfeeding.

Jack: Oh, wait, it's the fear of breastfeeding.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They're so specific. Why couldn't he just be the saint of breastfeeding? So he deals with every part of breastfeeding?

Cristina: I think he does deal. It's probably breastfeeding. But you don't want to just say breastfeeding. So maybe fear of breastfeeding makes it sound better. I don't know.

Jack: I think it's just for people who are scared of breastfeeding. Now you're less scared about breastfeeding? Yeah, that's it.

Cristina: I don't know. Then there's St. Arnath, who's the saint of beer.

Jack: No, that's wrong.

Cristina: He's the saint of beer.

Jack: He's not.

Cristina: Why not?

Jack: Because St. Nick is the saint of beer.

Cristina: They're both. But this guy, he actually. I don't know, he didn't really do anything. He gave people beer when they had a. They had a long journey and they needed beer, and he gave them beer.

Jack: Nobody's ever needed beer. They wanted beer. They really wanted beer.

Cristina: They have survived without the beer. They're gonna die.

Jack: I feel like a larger number of them died because beer would dehydrate them way sooner.

Cristina: Well, they feel like he saved their life with his beer. Maybe his beer was of magic. Magic beer that kept them alive through the long journey.

Jack: So St. Nick can't be the saint of beer because this one time a different saint killed a bunch of people with beer.

Cristina: They're both the saints of beer. Wait, did we say.

Jack: No, St. Nick is the saint of children in barrels.

Cristina: In barrels and barrels in barrels. And. And he's saying, oh, brewers, not beer. The people who make the beer. It's totally different.

Jack: So that's to say that saints aren't the saint of all things related to the subject.

Cristina: Yes, I guess. I don't know.

Jack: Like, you don't pay pray to St. Nick when you want beer. You only pay to St. Nick when you want the beer harvest to go well.

Cristina: Ah.

Jack: Or the people who make the beer to be fine.

Cristina: Do it right. Oh, yes.

Jack: Or to do it right.

Cristina: Maybe.

Jack: But if you're like, man, if I only had a beer, I pray to this guy.

Cristina: To Saint Arnuff. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Then there's Saint Farce, who's the saint of people with STDs.

Jack: The AIDS pandemic of the 80s when the government was driving around in bed handing people aids. The guy who was driving the truck.

Cristina: He had a magic spade to cut down trees. And then the place that he cut down the trees became his property.

Jack: And then he got AIDS on his property.

Cristina: No. And then he made a hospice, and he cured people by touching them inappropriately, Maybe. Except for women, because women were banned.

Jack: So he would jerk guys off, they would leave. Like, I feel better, I guess.

Cristina: He could heal blindness, leprosy, tumors, all by touch, including venereal diseases.

Jack: So he would jerk people into. He would jerk people healthy.

Cristina: He would jerk people healthy. I don't know. He was just touching them.

Jack: No women. I don't want my fingers up in anything. I want tight grips. And you will feel better.

Cristina: And they did.

Jack: And they did. He wasn't wrong. He was intuitive. Yeah. And they're like, I see the demons.

Cristina: Coming out, but why not women? Like, would his magic not work for women?

Jack: Why would he want to touch a woman? He clearly has a proclivity towards penises.

Cristina: Did God tell him to do that, though? Or he decided he dedicated his life.

Jack: To God and then jerk guys off? What's hard to understand?

Cristina: Okay, okay. Rupert walks with a limp because of a childhood injury. And his clothes is dirty and his face is dirty because he collects soot from the chimney when he comes down it. I guess he comes down in person. Then Santa Claus, I'm not sure. Like, he makes it clean. And then Santa comes down so he can look all pretty and red.

Jack: I think he just uses his chimney to kidnap children and by default cleans it.

Cristina: Not intentionally, but St. Nick is fine. He has to come down there. Like him, right? I don't know.

Jack: Does he magically come through?

Cristina: It depends on the story, I guess. There's two things that they do. Either they ask the children if they know their prayers, and if they do, they get rewarded. If they don't, they get punished. There's also a talent show that they might have to do, which if they perform well at dancing or singing, they get a present. If not, they get tortured.

Jack: That's f*****.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. But, like, that's better than being me and alive.

Jack: But it's like, what if you're an untalented kid but a great person? Too bad you die today.

Cristina: Yes. That's pretty much like either you had you were bad throughout the year, you performed badly in your dance, or you don't know your prayers, you're being punished.

Jack: Sounds about right. Sounds old testimony then.

Cristina: In Germany, St Nicholas has a partner named Bels Nickel. He is a man who wears fur which covers his entire body. But he's not an animal. He's just a person wearing fur. Entirely. I don't know. And sometimes he wears a mask with a long tongue. It sounds like a man dressed like a demon. I don't know. Instead of saying, he's a demon, he's just a man who dresses up like a monster, and he's the one that gives them coal if they're bad. I guess that's all he does. He's not as awesome as the other guy. He just dresses up in a furry coat and a weird mask. Also, there's another of St. Nicholas's companions servants. It's called Black Pete.

Jack: Was Black Pete a black guy?

Cristina: Yes. Yes, he was. How they like to portray him is a person wearing blackface, wearing exaggerating red lipstick and having a nappy wig with colorful clothing and golden earrings.

Jack: Is that how he's portrayed? Or is he actually just a white guy that lives as a black guy and hangs out with St. Nick?

Cristina: I'm not sure. It could be either or I don't think.

Jack: Is Santa just hanging out with a dude in permanent blackface?

Cristina: He might be, yeah. So his servant, Black Pete, what does he do? Oh, he also abuses the bad kids. Or he used to. He used to abuse them, but in recently they garrided the punishments and now he's become a friendly character.

Jack: He's PC now?

Cristina: Yeah, he's PC. And also people can't dress up as him anymore.

Jack: Black people can.

Cristina: I don't know, but that's. And the Christmas elves that we talked a bit about. Do I know anything about the Christmas elves? I can't remember. They come from Norse mythology and they're referred to as hidden folks because. I don't know, they like to hide. They're the guys that steal your socks, maybe. Are those elves?

Jack: I don't know. I think so.

Cristina: Oh, maybe.

Jack: No, I think those are leprechauns, actually. No, something like that.

Cristina: Wasn't it gnomes? People are really concerned about these elves, though.

Jack: So North Pole gnome. North Pole elves, leprechauns and gnomes are all kind of the same.

Cristina: They're all magical, tiny people.

Jack: Yeah, yeah.

Cristina: That Sansa was somehow able to enslave through a gamble with demons. In the medieval times, elves are seen as wicked and often linked with demons.

Jack: How connected with demons?

Cristina: I don't know. They're just often linked with demons. So demons gave Santa those elves? I think that makes sense. Elves are demons or those elves are demons. Yes. Also, there's a Christmas goat that Santa replaced in some country before St. Nicholas in Sweden. The. The Christmas. I guess the gift giver was the. Was given by a yol goat, which. Yol is another word for Christmas, I think.

Jack: Yole goat.

Cristina: The yole goat. Yes, the Christmas goat. So the Christmas goat is a pagan thing. Sometimes it's a man that has been turned into a goat man, but I like to imagine it as just a goat. The Christmas goat. In Finland, people still dress up as goats.

Jack: Fair enough. That makes sense.

Cristina: Yeah. He usually wears a warm red robe and a walking stick and travels in a sleigh pulled by a reindeer. But it doesn't fly. That reindeer doesn't fly. It's a real reindeer.

Jack: The goat isn't an animal like the reindeer, but rather the steerer of the sled that's connected to reindeer. Yes, he's a goat man.

Cristina: He's a goatman. But he's a Christmas. He could be a goat. He's just a really big. He's a were goat. He's a were goat. He's thought to be an ugly creature and he frightens children while some think of him as an invisible creature. What? No, he's a goat. It's just a goat. He's not an ugly creature. He's a goat looking creature. His goats aren't ugly. Goats are not ugly.

Jack: Yeah, they are.

Cristina: They are beautiful creatures. I think they're beautiful. So most people think Santa Claus is a combination of St. Nicholas and this Christmas goat because this Christmas goat was also giving gifts during the same time of year.

Jack: So people are assuming the St. Nicholas and this goat stories got merged and the Santa came to be.

Cristina: Yes, yes. Oh, yeah. Like the sleigh with the reindeer is the same as this. This goat.

Jack: So St. Nick did fusion, but instead of becoming a perfect, singular individual the size of one person, he got fat because he literally became the size of two people.

Cristina: Yes, he became the size of two.

Jack: People the size of a man with a goat.

Cristina: And the Christmas goat receives over 500,000 letters from over 200 countries every year. Most of the letters are from China, Poland and Italy. Wonder how they heard about the Christmas goat.

Jack: The Chinese believe in a Christmas goat.

Cristina: Yes, because reindeers come from Finland. So the Christmas goat must be more real than the Santa Claus if you go by reindeer. Where does Santa Claus live again? The North Pole. Are there deers there? Is that a fictional place?

Jack: The North Pole? There's not life there, I think.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Yeah. So there you go. Oh, yeah. And also, Santa Claus has a bunch of reindeers. I don't know if you know their names. I don't know where they came from. I guess it was from a catchy poem or song or something. And then everyone just fell in love with these reindeers.

Jack: What?

Cristina: The Santa Claus reindeers? I don't remember where they came from. All of their. His deers. There were eight. Now there's nine. I mean, now there's probably more than nine because they had children by now.

Jack: But he only keeps the originals enslaved.

Cristina: Ah, then there's Santa Claus, which is also a figure based on St Nicholas, which is also probably where we get Christmas Santa Claus from as well.

Jack: What does he do what's his deal?

Cristina: He's. For some reason, he's celebrated on the Same Day as St Nicholas. He's depicted as an elderly man with white hair and a full long beard, and he rides a white horse. He carries a big red book which records whether each kid has been naughty or nice in the past year.

Jack: So there might be a group of people that work to create the illusion of Santa Claus.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Like, it's a team effort. It's not one dude. It's planning and Monday.com.

Cristina: Yes. There's like four main dudes, a bunch of different helpers, some horses, some reindeers.

Jack: They got transport. They got like planned out ice so that people could get in and out of houses. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I'm a slide down the chimney. There's gonna be a tree to the left. You gotta disable the laser alarm system.

Cristina: Which one of them does that? The goat.

Jack: The one who cleans the chimney. Which one clean?

Cristina: Oh, servant Rupert.

Jack: So Rupert's gonna clean the chimney on his way down.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And he's gonna cut the wires on the alarm system.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And then Santa Claus is gonna follow behind while Rupert keeps everybody distracted. Well, the other guys are in the microphone and the goat is waiting. He's the getaway driver. He's in the sled on. He's on the sled on top of the house waiting for Santa Claus and Rupert to get back so they can dart.

Cristina: All right, and what is Belsnickel doing?

Jack: Who the f*** is Belsnickel?

Cristina: He's the man in the furry wearing fur.

Jack: Oh, the one who eats the children?

Cristina: No, he's not the one that eats the children. The one that eats the children is servant Rupert.

Jack: Because that's what. That's what's happening here. Dudes going in, kidnapping kids. There. Some of the kids are in the bag. So they leave gifts. They kidnap children. Yes, Kids are in the bag. Off to the next place they keep. They got a cage, I guess, or something so they can take the trade off. Is a bunch of people get some material things. But we kill a couple of kids.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And so our operation functions.

Cristina: Ah, but we keep it a secret by decorating it as a. We're giving good children.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: That's what today's about.

Jack: And then people are outside. Exactly. Because then people are like the. The. The child trafficking market is so booming and dangerous. How dare they?

Cristina: Worse on Christmas.

Jack: It's worse on. Christ knows why. Meanwhile, Santa Claus is everywhere on Christmas, kidnapping kids left and right. Man. Was he who Qanon Is fighting.

Cristina: Qanon is fighting.

Jack: Qanon is trying to beat Santa Claus. That's the truth here.

Cristina: But is QAnon one person?

Jack: The agent that is known as Q is.

Cristina: Oh, okay. And the QAnon is the cult. Oh, okay. Versus Santa and Nick.

Jack: And versus the the Santa. Santa Claus conglomerate. Santa Claus, which include immortal Saint Nick.

Cristina: How do you beat that?

Jack: Because Santa Claus is like Drake. Like Drake, people are like Drake the Rapper, but Drake is a team of people. His name is Andre. Or it's like Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish the person? No, no. Billie Eilish might be her name, but it's a group. It's two people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So Santa Claus is bunch of people. St. Nick is who we're thinking about. Yes, but it's Krampus and this douche and that other douche. And a magical goat and a child eater and some dude beating the people Christmas.

Cristina: But I forgot. I don't remember anything about him. I just know his name is Father Christmas.

Jack: He's who they're bringing the kids home for.

Cristina: No, I guess he's the. He's doing what again?

Jack: He's a ringleader.

Cristina: He's a ringleader. Father Christmas.

Jack: Father Christmas. We have the face. St. Nick. But there's somebody giving orders.

Cristina: I thought Santa Claus was the face.

Jack: I could have sworn you were about to say I thought Sonic was. Sonic is the face of Christmas.

Cristina: Okay, so Sonic is helping Santa Claus. Is he on that sleigh? Is he?

Jack: I mean, how does he hit every house?

Cristina: Exactly. Sonic is involved in this. How is he still alive? His games.

Jack: Immortality. Saint Sonic.

Cristina: Saint Sonic. Oh, my God.

Jack: He was always selfless and he made impressive things happen.

Cristina: Oh, my God.

Jack: I think he qualifies.

Cristina: All right. We're saying that he's Santa.

Jack: We're saying he's a saint.

Cristina: He's a saint.

Jack: Saint Sonic.

Cristina: Saint Sonic. Okay, well, that was beautiful. I feel like we learned a lot today for nothing at all.

Jack: That was fantastic. We're definitely out of time, though. Okay, but that was a very educational moment where we learned that Santa Claus is kind of like Drake. There's a bunch of people working to make it function. There's a couple of psychotic saints that seem to have nothing to do with their ability. St. Nicholas is the saint of children in barrels, which we previously established.

Cristina: You made him that.

Jack: Pickled children.

Cristina: You made him that.

Jack: And so if you guys like this conversation, there are many more of that nature. You can be way more educated by going to last year's Christmas episode as well. So you can have a couple of nice episodes to check out in this holiday season. Grab this episode, grab one more episode from the past, put them together, play them back to back, and understand Saint Nick, the Saint of Barrels and children.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Anyways, to learn more, you can find other episodes discussing holidays and last year's Christmas episode as well at the official website, greatthoughts.info, apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere you get your podcasts.

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Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe and rate the show and review it if you feel so inclined.

Cristina: And let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Word of the mouth, the most powerful tool you will have at your disposal. You just whisper to somebody, hey, you wanna listen to a show? And they'll be like, yeah, I do. And then you sit peacefully together with some food and snacks and everything goes well.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Then you thank them and you're like, thanks, man, I enjoyed this. And they're like, thank you for telling me about it.

Cristina: Now let's subscribe and rate and review. This has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye.

Cristina: Boxing Day. I don't know what that is, but that's a holiday somewhere.

Jack: Boxing Day.

Cristina: Yeah, I think they put the idea is to donate stuff to the homeless people by putting the stuff in a box.

Jack: Oh, you mean like Mike Tyson has nothing to do with this holiday?

Cristina: No, no, I don't think so.

Jack: It's not like Mike Tyson's favorite holiday is Boxing Day.

Cristina: Maybe he loves putting things in boxes and doing it to homeless.

Jack: You sure it's not that he's boxing on this holiday? Like boxers all come out and box.

Cristina: Beat up on the homeless.

Jack: Yeah, maybe.

Cristina: I don't know anything about. Good morning. The Just Conversation podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by greatthoughts.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McCallister with social media managed by Amber Black.