Rambling 137: The Woodsman vs The Griffin

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Will our human instincts get us in trouble more often than they will help us? And would God’s Zilla beat a Griffin in a fight? The duo make it their duty to unpack and resolve some of the most pressing issues about size and survival when it comes to creatures of all types, including human huntsman and gods.

Rambling 137: The Woodsman vs The Griffin

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Topics Discussed

  • The Woodsman
  • Axe Killer
  • Japan Sinks Spoilers
  • Survival Instincts
  • Mermaids vs Mermen
  • Ireland isn’t Real
  • Talking Birds
  • Link’s Sword
  • The Garden of Eden
  • God’s Zilla
  • Men Over Women
  • Bird vs Griffin
  • Shenron
  • World Serpent
  • Unicorn Magic
  • Cybertron

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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?

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.

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Jack: And also, this show is most enjoyable with listening partners, so be sure to go find somebody while you're traveling in through the woods or wherever you usually casually stroll through with your knife. Right. You're always in the woods with some kind of dangerous tool or something, because that's what our listeners do. They turn. Their ipods are brand new, you know, state of the art ipod or their Zune. A lot of people have their Zune.

Cristina: What is a Zune?

Jack: It's like the failed ripoff MP3 players.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So like, a lot of people, they don't even have ipods. They're just. Everybody's checking out on their Zunes, listening to the Just Conversation podcast on their Zune and they connect it and they're walking through the woods. Some people have a whole boombox. I remember that too. Some people just had a boombox that they were like blasting. But you're finding random teenagers who are camping in the woods with your boombox and. Or your Zune and some headphones and a knife or a machete or an axe that you just happen to also be wandering through. And when you see the kids, you just full fledged, just start dashing in their direction with all the force, all the force you have. You just dash as fast as you can towards them to tell them, hey, you guys can listen to this.

Cristina: What?

Jack: It's great.

Cristina: That is so horrifying.

Jack: It's great. The first thought they're gonna have is, we want to listen to that show.

Cristina: We want to listen to that.

Jack: We want to listen to that show. He seems so convinced we should listen.

Cristina: He looks so excited. Is he running towards them with a smile on his face?

Jack: Yes, with a smile on his face. A Zune or a boombox in one hand and an axe in the other. Just because he's just in case. You never know what's going to attack you in the woods. So you know, he has electronics. If something attacks him, he's there, he has defense. But he's like, hey, a bunch of campers. And I'm assuming you usually roam the woods, which is why, you know, to have an axe in the first place. So you probably like got a scraggly beard and you've got like a bunch of dirty like woods type clothing, but.

Cristina: Type clothing?

Jack: Yeah. Like. Like you've been out there for a while so you're not necessarily city ready but you're kind looking guy. Maybe you hunt yourself. So you use that same axe to hunt. So it's got some blood from an animal on it or whatever.

Cristina: Maybe.

Jack: Yeah. And maybe you got some blood on yourself from having just hunted a deer and you're coming from.

Cristina: Hunts a deer with an ax.

Jack: He hunts a deer with an axe. Because he is a solid deer hunter.

Cristina: What kind of deer hunter? That's a really skilled.

Jack: He's a beast, bro. He's a pro. He runs out there and just flings the axe and catches the deer. First shot in the head.

Cristina: Is he a character from a video game?

Jack: He could be. He's the. The warrior from Gauntlet.

Cristina: He's a war. Okay.

Jack: And he just sees a deer from far. He's far as. But he's such a good axe thrower that he at a distance predicts where that deer's head is gonna be, throws it and then one shots the deer in the head.

Cristina: That is amazing. I wish these kids saw that. But they just see the aftermath.

Jack: They just see him after he just finished taking the deer. He's gonna go home to get the equipment to go skin and you know, prepare the deer. And as he's going home, he sees a bunch of kids who just pulled up, put their tents down and stuff. And he's just wandering and. And he has his boombox and he has his. His axe and he sees the kids and he just starts dashing towards them like people. How exciting. I can show them the show. And he just starts.

Cristina: Because we just said, hey, go tell someone about it.

Jack: Yeah. Just as he saw them.

Cristina: As he saw. Yeah.

Jack: And so he's just. Wow, what a. What are the chances that I would be at this part of the episode.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: When I see a bunch of kids and so just full, full dash. Full dash. Totally as fast as he can in their direction.

Cristina: Wow, that's an incredible story. I hope this is real. I hope this is happening right now, man.

Jack: Do you think it's happening right now? F****** amazing.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: I wonder how often there is a. What was the name of that movie where the kids were just hanging out in the woods and there were the two guys who were just like. Like lumberjacks or whatever?

Cristina: Yeah, I don't remember. They had some plain a** names.

Jack: Yeah, it was like Dale and some s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Evil.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I forget the name of it, but, like, I'm sure that's happened. Not really, man. Maybe somebody died just because they thought it was. Is the problem is people do crazy s*** when they're scared?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And that's a problem. People react f****** nuts, you know?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: People get crazy when they're scared and they do crazy s***. People in panic are completely irrational.

Cristina: Yes. Like those children.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Wait, no. Are those. Who are. Who's the crazy people right now?

Jack: The kids, the teenagers in the. In the movie, I guess. And in the case of our. Our woodsman traveling while listening to the show the Children, I guess he has a Zune, right? Because if they heard. If he has a boombox and they heard him. Yeah, they heard that part because he's close enough to see them and there's nothing else happening in the woods, which means the boombox would echo pretty nicely.

Cristina: So it shouldn't be a boombox.

Jack: It shouldn't be a boombox. This is the guy who is actually traveling with his brand new Zun.

Cristina: All right?

Jack: And the reason he has a Zune is because he's a woodsman and he's not caught up on technology. It all makes sense now.

Cristina: Of course.

Jack: Yes. So he's on his Zune, hears it all. They see it. They don't even see the Zune because it's so small. They just see a dude with an ax that's bloody, covered, like, covered with blood. His outfit is covered with blood.

Cristina: Where's the deer?

Jack: He left the deer.

Cristina: Where he left the deer?

Jack: He left the deer because he. What the f*** is he gonna do? Carry the deer? Yeah, like how big a deer is? He's got to go get the things to chop the deer up. Oh, he killed the deer. Now he's gonna get the things and gonna go clean the deer up.

Cristina: How does he make sure that other animals don't steal the deer?

Jack: He's not gonna be gone forever.

Cristina: Yeah, but I don't know how far he is from where he needs to go.

Jack: I'm assuming he's not just hunting way far away from home. Like, he's a. I'm sure he's prepared for this because otherwise he just hunted way the f*** far away, didn't really think it through, and is gonna lose what he killed.

Cristina: He throws an axe at the deer. That's so crazy.

Jack: That's how trained he is.

Cristina: Carry the deer home.

Jack: It's huge. A deer is f****** huge. A deer is easily 400, £500.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: That sounds crazy. Oh, my gosh okay.

Jack: Yeah. Okay, Fair enough. Let's find out.

Cristina: Okay. It says that usually 130 to 300 pounds, but there have been reports of over 350 pounds.

Jack: That's crazy. Fair enough. 130 pounds. A, like, jacked enough guy could definitely carry that. So I guess in theory, he could carry. He could carry the deer.

Cristina: If it's 300, though.

Jack: Yeah, that's a little harder. And plus, the distance, Even if it's £130, the distance he'll be carrying it, it's more efficient to grab what you need.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Then take the whole f****** deer. Yeah, like, you don't need the head. That's added weight. The legs, added weight. But also, you don't want to just carry, like, a mangled corpse.

Cristina: Yeah, but he shouldn't just leave the deer there. I think he should hang it on a tree, which is cool, because if the kids do run and they run through the forest, they see the deer up in the tree, I mean, he's.

Jack: Not trying to scare the kids.

Cristina: I know, but it's just a horrifying moment for the kids, too.

Jack: Yeah, that would just be highly inconvenient if he was also doing that.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But actually, I think that's how you drain the deer of blood in the first place. You do things like that. Like, you hang it up. So maybe he did.

Cristina: He did.

Jack: He probably hung it up so that it would, like, bleed out so that.

Cristina: How much horrifying is that then? Like, it's just a bloody mess. With a deer hanging on a tree.

Jack: Probably with the deer, usually they cut the deer's neck so that it bleeds out through its neck. Because you hang it from its legs so that the blood comes downward towards its main artery. And so you cut its neck so that it would bleed out the most.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And drain it. And then you come and cut it down and take the meat you want from it. So it's completely possible that there is a deer hanging and as he's dashing towards the children, but they would be running away from him, and he's coming from the deer. So they wouldn't see the deer anyways until they circle back around.

Cristina: Yeah, if they have to do that.

Jack: If they have to. Yeah. So for whatever reason, these kids, they panic.

Cristina: They definitely panic.

Jack: They do. They shouldn't, though, because he's just trying to get them to listen to the show. It ain't that serious. It's just a show. It's a podcast.

Cristina: But if you see this man, do not run from him.

Jack: But also, if you see this man, and you're hearing us tell you not to run from him, you're probably also looking for somebody to listen to the show.

Cristina: Yeah. So then you do walk. You listen to the show with him.

Jack: Well, no, because you're both listening to the show already. You need to get somebody else.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Yeah. Then again, it doesn't say, find somebody who isn't already listening to the show.

Cristina: Are you sure?

Jack: Yeah. Just says, get a listening partner.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: So fair enough. If you're both listening to this and you know that the other interesting. If you're one of the kids in the woods who's already listening to the show.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And the guy in the woods starts.

Cristina: Running towards you, you listen to the show with us. Well, we.

Jack: We've straight up told you about the guy running towards you.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Which is weird because we would predict such a thing. So the guy in the woods is like, wow, this is, like, highly specific. And about me, while the kid who's listening in the woods while his friends are just, like, f****** inside of a tent or whatever they're doing, he's thinking the same thing. He's like, yeah, this is, like, weirdly specific.

Cristina: Yeah. So they run towards each other. What does his friends think when they see him running towards the man with an axe?

Jack: Like the fact that he's not running away. Yeah, they're just like, he. He. He suggested we come here. Whatever's about to happen, he's f****** in on it. Of course he said we should come to the woods. He begged us. We don't even like the woods or city kids. But he told us, hey, man, come on, let's. And now he's just chilling there. We see this maniac with an axe running towards us, man.

Cristina: This is that movie, though, because he's gonna. He's gonna end up, like, tripping in front of the guy, getting killed from the ax or something. And then they're gonna be like, oh, my gosh, he tried to protect us, and then he died.

Jack: Who?

Cristina: The kid.

Jack: The kid who already knows?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I feel like he's the one who's not gonna die.

Cristina: Then again, if he accidentally died in front, like, while he was running to the guy with the axe.

Jack: But why would he. If the guy's holding the axe, they would both have to trip.

Cristina: Oh, then maybe they do trip. I'm just thinking of the movie that it just happened like that.

Jack: But this isn't the movie. This is real life.

Cristina: Oh, this is real life.

Jack: This is real life. This isn't. The events from that Movie.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But if somehow that kid did happen to die, I'm not sure why he would, but if he did, now this guy doesn't have somebody to listen with, which means he has to chase one of these other kids down. And he knows he needs a listening partner. So now he has a pause. He just stops. He's like, f***, I know this kid was listening. I saw his ipod.

Jack: And so he wraps up his. He takes his headphones off, he pauses the show, he does whatever due to a Zune to lock it so it doesn't hit play accidentally. He wraps it up, puts it in his pocket. I have no idea. He puts it in his pocket and then he just starts dashing behind one of his kids because he needs somebody to listen with.

Cristina: Yes, because I forgot the many reasons. I don't know. He dies, someone in his family dies, someone gets cancer. He gets cancer. I don't know.

Jack: What are we talking about?

Cristina: Like if you don't get someone to listen to a show, what happens if.

Jack: You don't get somebody to listen to the show? I'm going to harm your children. Oh, yes, Your children are in danger. Later you'll be in danger too. But I'm gonna make sure to hit you emotionally first.

Cristina: Was part of it somehow.

Jack: Well, no. Everybody who listens gets cancer.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: So yeah, both of these people have cancer anyways.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: Because they heard the show.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's just an inevitability.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Actually, anybody listening to the show, if you're hearing this part of the. Actually, if you heard the show at all, I'm just reminding you right now, you have cancer.

Cristina: You have cancer. Yeah. So you got to continue listening.

Jack: Yeah. At this point you already got cancer. Commitment.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Just commit. You already got cancer for listening to the show. Commit.

Cristina: Do we have cancer?

Jack: No, because we don't listen to the show.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: We're immune.

Cristina: Alright.

Jack: It's something about listening to the show without being here live in the studio with us that gives you cancer. Yeah, it's kind of like 5G towers.

Cristina: I was thinking of 5G and how it related. I had no clue how, though.

Jack: I don't know how either. I just know that it'll give you cancer. Like if it was 5G.

Cristina: Like if it was 5G. I thought somehow our voices gave out 5G or something. I don't know.

Jack: I don't know either. It's very interesting. Maybe it's a combination of our voices and some electronic listening device.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That creates some sort of gene mutation that then causes cancer.

Cristina: Yeah. And somehow relates to the 5G towers. Yes.

Jack: Well, it's similar to whatever the 5G towers are causing. It's not necessarily related to the 5G towers, but it's like whatever frequency they're causing, we're causing.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: The mixture of our voice frequencies and the electronic device that's projecting our voice.

Cristina: That's crazy. So this deer man hunts some children.

Jack: I mean, he's not hunting children.

Cristina: Oh, yeah, he's not hunting children. It just looks like he's hunting children.

Jack: No, it looks like he's trying to get somebody to listen to the show.

Cristina: If they know what he's doing. But he looks like he's hunting children.

Jack: I don't know. I'm not in their head.

Cristina: You're not in the children, or I guess whoever is looking at the children being chased by this man.

Jack: Yeah. Or the children. I don't. I have no idea what any. Like, I know he's chasing the children to get somebody to listen to the show. I'm not sure why I should think about anything else. Oh, I know. His intentions are pure and noble.

Cristina: Yes, but what do you think the children are thinking?

Jack: I don't know. Depends on the kid.

Cristina: You think any of them are like, yeah, he accidentally killed my friend. I should go listen to the show.

Jack: I think the kid who died died at random.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Because the woodsman would be totally distraught if he knew that that kid died. The kid must have died completely out of his sight. Nevertheless.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Because, like, it must have been that the kid was running towards the woodsman and he felt like down a hole and hit his head and died or some s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: While the woodsman was running towards the other kids without seeing that there was somebody else was listening to the show. Because if he knew the other kid died, he's a good guy. He's not a bad guy.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: He would just immediately go to help. He'd probably stop positive, like, he's a good guy. Just pause, stop the show and, like, call the cops or some s***.

Cristina: But he didn't see it happen.

Jack: Didn't see it happen.

Cristina: But did they see it happen?

Jack: They probably saw it happen. They don't think he killed the kid. No, they just know the kid died.

Cristina: That's crazy, though. Those are two crazy events happening one after another.

Jack: What's the other crazy event other than him dying?

Cristina: The guy with an axe running towards them?

Jack: Oh, I guess. But that's not like a guy trying to kill you. That's just a guy running towards you trying to get you to listen to.

Cristina: A show, but they don't know that it's just a guy with an Axe.

Jack: Yeah, 100%. If you saw a guy running towards you with an axe, you wouldn't just think he's trying to get you to listen to a podcast?

Cristina: No.

Jack: What are you gonna think? Why are you gonna think something crazy?

Cristina: Cuz that looks crazy.

Jack: Based on what? When have you experienced a guy running towards you with an axe being something dangerous?

Cristina: Well, he's covered in blood, so that's pretty scary.

Jack: Hunters, butchers, soldiers, all the time covered in blood.

Cristina: They don't go running towards normal people.

Jack: If somebody had a broken. Like there's a horrible accident somewhere.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And somebody survived, first thing they're gonna do is find the first person that can help or anybody who isn't involved and tell them.

Cristina: But this guy's running with a smile on his face.

Jack: Yeah, he's super excited.

Cristina: Exactly. That's even more scary.

Jack: Is it less scary than if somebody has a horrified look on their face running towards you with an axe?

Cristina: Well, if he's covered in blood, maybe that's more normal because, like, oh, some kind of accident did happen and that's why he looks so upset.

Jack: Fair enough.

Cristina: While he's smiling, it's like he did something and he wants to, I don't know, do it again.

Jack: But why do you think. I mean, obviously he did something. But, like, who says it's something bad?

Cristina: The blood is just assumed.

Jack: It's just assumed. It's animal blood. You're in the worst.

Cristina: How do I know?

Jack: How do you know it's not?

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

Jack: Just assuming the worst.

Cristina: Yes. I saw the guy go missing. It could be his fault somehow.

Jack: What, the other kid?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: What?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Why? You just saw the kid randomly fall.

Cristina: That's like. What's that show called? The Japanese Japan is thinking when the girl just fell. Oh, my God, she died.

Jack: That. That s*** scarred the f*** out of me, bro. That was the crate. Out of all the s*** that happened, that was the one that I was like. Because I didn't know what the f*** happened. It's like a moment of what?

Cristina: Yeah, I had to rewind it when I saw that. Yeah, but the dad's death was crazier. I don't know. I know they're equally crazy. I don't. It's hard to raise.

Jack: I don'. Yeah, it was totally unexpected. I truly believed this show was gonna be about the daughter and the father. But he's the first guy to die.

Cristina: Yeah, but I feel like, he was one of the first characters. Although I guess each member of the family was the first one of the first characters to be introduced, so you would think they were the ones to survive the whole thing. But no, just one person. No two people, I guess. Yeah.

Jack: We just spoiled the s*** out of this. For anybody listening. That's old spoilers after the fact. But the girl falling into the hole was a crazy one. Not even a hole. It was like a hill.

Cristina: It was just a hill. She was just running and she didn't even fall.

Jack: She just slid down there.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: And then she's just thrown on the floor, collapsed. It's like, what the f*** happened? And you don't know what happened?

Cristina: No.

Jack: So nuts.

Cristina: But you know not to go there. That's horrifying. Yeah, man. The character, the main character was so close to die at that moment.

Jack: Character's pretty close. Dang.

Cristina: A lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That show was pretty epic.

Jack: Yeah. Anybody and everybody should f****** watch Japan Sinks.

Cristina: Yes. It gets a little weird with the whole psychic s***. Psychic, yes. Yes.

Jack: That got strange.

Cristina: It did get strange, but it's pretty epic otherwise. Otherwise, yes.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty badass show. But that being said about these kids, like, I think that's a problem people have where they do make assumptions all the time. They think that whatever initial thought they had makes sense. We have a problem of doing that in society.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And doesn't really make sense because you don't have, like, a basis for that. Like, what. What the f*** are really the odds?

Cristina: It's instincts. It's protecting us.

Jack: Is it, though? A lot of the time, instincts is why we do s*** that hurts other people. That guy runs towards you and gets close enough, you panic attack him.

Cristina: And he was innocent.

Jack: And he was innocent.

Cristina: That's true.

Jack: So is it protecting you or is it harming other people?

Cristina: Maybe. Once upon a time, though, it was helping.

Jack: Yes. But now we have. We're having trouble of getting rid of these bugs or adjusting them because getting rid of it entirely, then that means we're always introduced to danger and we could easily be killed.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But we're having trouble adjusting them to the new world.

Cristina: Definitely.

Jack: That's also why societies are highly antisocial, because we don't know how to really, truly detect danger. We think everything is dangerous all the time.

Cristina: Yes, man. But there are a lot of dangerous things out there. I don't know.

Jack: The point of society is that everything isn't dangerous. I guess it's the protective bubble.

Cristina: We lost that society thing. That protective bubble, it's too big to be protective. No, no.

Jack: What do you mean?

Cristina: Like the society is like really big.

Jack: Right. That means more safe.

Cristina: More safe. I feel like people are used to small bubbles that can protect them.

Jack: What's the average number of killers inside of a city? There's three million people.

Cristina: Three million people?

Jack: Yeah. Let's say New York City. Three million people?

Jack: Is there a thousand killers in that city?

Cristina: A thousand.

Jack: A thousand?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: Probably not.

Cristina: How much do you think?

Jack: Way the f*** less. I would be blown the f*** away if there was a hundred killers. Like normally killing out in the open where you could see it happen and. Oh, well, it's dangerous.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Killers that you can legitimately say danger and know it's danger.

Jack: There's not really a lot. Why? Because we got cops. Because we have structure. We have cameras. We have too many people walking around. The number of people on average that are good that would just rat somebody doing some crazy s*** out.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The society is protective inherently. So there's way more people that are way more safe. Now let's say you have a village of just 30 people. One of them is a killer.

Cristina: What though, Right?

Jack: How easy is it for that guy to just pick people out?

Cristina: Probably pretty easy.

Jack: Pretty f****** easy. So yeah, you have a smaller group, but you're way the f*** less safe. Yeah, way less safe. Especially if the killer is from within your community. If the killer is within the community in New York, how hard is it for him to take a life on average, based on the number of people. Right. The percentage of life he's taking is insignificant and he's likely to get caught quickly.

Cristina: Has there ever been a serial killer in New York?

Jack: There's been a couple.

Cristina: A couple? Yeah, it's New York.

Jack: But in the case of a small village, every life you take is a huge f****** percentage of the whole thing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And you also got way less chance of getting caught because every person you take is a significant decrease in people to hunt you down.

Cristina: Well, yeah.

Jack: So like a big society, definitely the way to go.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: It's inherently safe.

Cristina: Then what's wrong with people? Why are they so scared?

Jack: Because we haven't worked out the bullshit that's in our system from that time.

Cristina: When it was just 30 people.

Jack: Yeah. We still have instincts that were trying to get us to survive when there were f****** lions hidden in the bushes and s***. And anything we don't understand, we gotta be suspicious of anybody. We don't know.

Cristina: Everyone's become the lion.

Jack: Yeah, everybody's a lion.

Cristina: Well.

Jack: And so we still have that paranoia while traveling in the safest time ever.

Cristina: Mmm. But we can't all feel that way. I mean, maybe I feel that way, but there's gotta be a huge number of people that don't feel that way.

Jack: Yeah. I mean, you still have the thing, but the rational mind should compensate. So if you see a guy running towards you with an axe, although it's like, holy s***, this is weird and crazy.

Cristina: I should just be like, eh.

Jack: The consciousness thinking side of you should take over and be like. Like what are the odds really? It's probably just a huntsman or somebody who is out here doing something. I doubt. And there's more of us than there are of him where we just start running. If something crazy happened, we just all simultaneous attack. He can't beat all of us. But also we have no reason to attack. We'll just wait until he tries something stupid.

Cristina: Okay. And then if he just stops and then swings at us, that's when we do something.

Jack: Yeah. Then you know, but otherwise it's like, it's probably just a guy.

Cristina: Just a guy who.

Jack: Yeah. You don't have any reason to immediately panic.

Cristina: Yes. Okay.

Jack: I guess the rational mind should always.

Cristina: Compensate the rational mind. I don't have that. It's so scary to imagine a man running towards you with a smile, covered in blood and a bleak. Holding an axe.

Jack: It's just about being level headed really. Just learn to be level headed in moments of high tension.

Cristina: How do you practice that?

Jack: By exercising your rational mind. Yeah. It's not that difficult. You just got to think more than you feel.

Cristina: Yeah. Because not everything is dangerous.

Jack: Not everything is dangerous. No.

Cristina: It reminds me of mermaids and mermands. Mermen, Merman and mermaids.

Jack: How does it remind you of mermaids?

Cristina: Because mermaids are seen as. Mermaids are dangerous. But mermands bring you luck actually. Or good luck. But if you think of it as a dangerous thing, you might hurt it.

Jack: A merman.

Cristina: A merman.

Jack: Why are mermaids evil and mermen not?

Cristina: Because I don't know what makes the difference. I don't know. Mermen want to give you mermen. Mermen work like genies.

Jack: I mean, I guess they kind of look like a genie, but instead of being like half ghost, it's like half fish.

Cristina: Yeah. And he grants you wishes if you find him. But mermaids want to drown you. For some reason they love murdering people.

Jack: Because mermaids are basically sirens, right?

Cristina: Yeah. And sirens are like the same as mermaids. Yeah, they like to kill fishermen and stuff. They like to sing, and the song that they sing usually ends up killing fishermen. I don't know why. I don't know if they eat these people or what they do with them, or they enjoy watching the dead bodies, like, float down, like some type of decoration.

Jack: What? There's no, like. I mean, they have to be doing something. It can't just be like we murder for fun. What the f*** are they? Dolphins?

Cristina: Yes. Maybe they are dolphins. Yes.

Jack: They're kind of like dolphins. Fair enough.

Cristina: They're the dolphins of. They're human dolphins.

Jack: I don't know what the f*** is a. Is a mermaid just what you. Because a dolphin is a mammal.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Is a mermaid a f****** chimera?

Cristina: What is chimera?

Jack: Chimera is like a hybrid animal.

Cristina: It doesn't have to be made through science or anything. Right. Or does it? I don't know what a chimera.

Jack: I'm just saying. Basically, some dude jumped into the ocean and f***** a dolphin.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: Or a dolphin who's more prone to raping.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Raped some chick. And the chick gave birth to a mermaid.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And that happened twice. And one of them was a merman. And then the mermaid. And the mermaid created their own species by f****** each other.

Cristina: By f****** each other. Yes. There's also these creatures called fin folk, which I assume are just mermaids with different names. And they like to have sex with people and that somehow keeps their life long.

Jack: They don't reproduce. They just f*** people and then they live longer.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. They just. Sex with humans equals longer life.

Jack: Interesting. I've never heard of fin folk.

Cristina: Yeah, that's in Scotland and Ireland.

Jack: Seems like they have all the things.

Cristina: They have all the things. But they say that if you practice the Bible, it'll stop the Finn folk from stepping on dry land.

Jack: What does practicing the Bible mean?

Cristina: I don't know. Reading the Bible, knowing what God is telling you, being a good Christian person.

Jack: Right. So if you're a good Christian, they won't bother you.

Cristina: Yes. That's the answer to most of these solutions of dealing with anything. Yes.

Jack: It seems like everything in Ireland was designed by the Catholic Church.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: All of it. There's nothing that exists in Ireland. Isn't a real place. The Catholic Church made Ireland up.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's where we're at. They've made. So like every story that exists in this fictional place called Ireland came from f******. It's just another story.

Cristina: Ireland is a fictional location.

Jack: Ireland is like the Bible. It was just made up by the Catholic Church. Yes, that's where we are. That's. That's what I believe.

Cristina: Don't you know people from Ireland.

Jack: I've never been to Ireland. They probably convinced. I don't know if they. I don't know people in Ireland. I know people who think they've been to Ireland. And it's like people who've been to some of these other places. You could just be told the plane landed there, but there's no f****** such place. How do you know? You're not flying the plane and the guy flying the plane is a government shill.

Cristina: And what about the people of Ireland? Are they also.

Jack: There's nobody who's a person of Ireland. It's everybody being lied to that there's a place called Ireland.

Cristina: What?

Jack: But there's no such. There's no such place as Ireland. I refuse.

Cristina: Why?

Jack: Because the Catholic Church made it up.

Cristina: They didn't.

Jack: There's no such thing as Ireland.

Cristina: I don't know. There's an Irish saint, though, that traveled to look for the island of paradise, which. I'm not sure what the island of paradise is. I think that's where the Garden of Eve is hidden or something. Is it called Eve? The Garden of Eden? Of Eden, yes. That's probably where that's hidden. I don't know.

Jack: It's somewhere. It's either on an island or a section of Africa.

Cristina: Oh, okay. On his travel, he found the paradise of birds where there were birds singing and praising God.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: Yeah. And they told him to travel for seven years and then come back, and then he'll be holy enough to find the island of paradise.

Jack: So I'm so confused by that.

Cristina: Sorry, What? That he wanted to look for the island of paradise.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: And he found a bird. Island of paradise for birds. And the birds were singing for God. And then I guess they told him, hey, in seven years, you'll be able to be holy enough to see the island.

Jack: So these were talking birds?

Cristina: Yeah, they were talking.

Jack: They found an island of birds that are kind of like Scooby Doo.

Cristina: Yes. No. Well, I don't know. They were singing and praising God. That's all they were doing.

Jack: Then how. Then who told him?

Cristina: A bird.

Jack: So it's a f****** talking bird?

Cristina: Yeah, I guess. Yes. They're talking birds.

Jack: This is an island of talking birds. Were they all parrots?

Cristina: Possibly.

Jack: But then these parrots who haven't been introduced to society just knew English.

Cristina: Yes. They know the word of the Bible. Someone preached. There was a bird preacher preaching Bible. I mean, church stuff to the birds and they were all doing their church. He just happens to be there on Sunday.

Jack: It was a Sunday? I don't know, it probably was.

Cristina: It was a Sunday and they were just having their Bible lessons and he came and they were like, nah, you gotta wait seven years.

Jack: Kind of like Link.

Cristina: He had only seven years.

Jack: Yeah. He was too young to pull out the master sword or to use the master sword. So when he pulled the master sword, he got encompassed in the chamber of Sages. And then the sages told him, you are going to. It's going to be a blink of an eye to you. But seven years would have passed on the outside for you to be old enough to wield this sword. And when you get out, you're gonna be the right age, as if you aged. But it's gonna be like a. You're gonna be out there in a second, but you're gonna be an adult.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And now you'll be able to wield a sword at that age.

Cristina: Wouldn't he be super weak and stuff like still have the strength of a child?

Jack: No, he's a grown man.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: His body grew to that of a grown man.

Cristina: Yeah, but he wasn't doing anything. But he wasn't doing anything for that seven years. He was just standing there.

Jack: The sword gave him the power necessary to have the body.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: It did everything as if he was in there bench pressing the whole time.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Is over here. He bench pressing.

Cristina: He wasn't starving to death at. When he.

Jack: No, he's wet. He's like ripped. He got out there cocky as anything.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: And he had all the muscles and all the strength to do everything he had to do.

Cristina: And.

Jack: And he just walked out with the master sword and killed everything he had to kill effortlessly. And so sort of the same thing happened.

Cristina: He had a child's brain at least though.

Jack: Yes. That's the f***** up part, right? That's the part that blows my mind because like the date ages brain too. In which case it's not even the same person.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's weird, right?

Cristina: I mean it would be an adult's brain, but no, the memories would all be still child memories. They didn't give him new memories of.

Jack: The experience was his own.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah.

Jack: He didn't implant anything. Which means by default, even in his mind he's still like 12.

Cristina: He's still 12 in a man's body.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just the body cannot wield a sword. But he's still an immature a** child.

Cristina: Yeah, but he was never immature either.

Jack: He was never immature. Interesting. He was particularly mature for his age.

Cristina: Ah, I guess that helps.

Jack: Yes. So maybe he already had a mind. Way ahead and in becoming a man. Right. He's immature, but not by much. If he's like 10 to 12, but his maturity is like 16, then you add seven years and he's like 19, but he's like 17. Maturity wise, he's not like far off. Yeah, so he's like still kind of where he needs to be. Maturity wise, he was centered enough from the two points that at his young age he was mature for his age. And at his grown age he was just slightly immature for his age. Yeah, but it wasn't like that.

Cristina: But all he needed was to be the right age to hold the sword.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Nothing else.

Jack: Nothing else. He needed to have a certain amount of strength and willpower. That was it.

Cristina: But he already had that.

Jack: Yeah, he had the willpower.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Which is why he could pull the sword out in the first place.

Cristina: Yeah. And this guy needed to be holy enough for this island. I wonder what's on the island. It's probably. If it's like the bird island, then there's just saints who are singing and praising to God. So I don't know what's so interesting about finding the island.

Jack: There should be nobody on that island. Why the Garden of Eden?

Cristina: Well, if it's. Yeah, yeah. It was a story from another saint who found the island. First he found the island, he told him about it and then he went on the search.

Jack: But this other saint to found the island.

Cristina: What happened?

Jack: This other saint that found the island, what about him? That's what I'm asking. What about him?

Cristina: He found the island like.

Jack: But he must have stayed on the island if he left the island after he found it.

Cristina: Oh yeah.

Jack: It's still just an empty island.

Cristina: Empty island. Yeah, that's true.

Jack: It's just f******. Hey, there's an island.

Cristina: That's weird. I guess it's just an attraction. You find it and then you leave. Because he. After he found it, he left.

Jack: What do you want to do there alone?

Cristina: I don't know. There's something I don't get. What's the point? Seven years to see this island and then leave.

Jack: Well, in theory. In theory, the fruit of knowledge is there.

Cristina: So he eats the fruit and then you know, everything. And then you know. But the sad part is that once he gets home, he dies. That's how his story ends. But maybe that other guy who ate the fruit continues to live on.

Jack: And the other guy ate the fruit?

Cristina: I don't know. We're assuming that anyone who visits the islands eats the fruit.

Jack: So maybe the saint ate the fruit too. He got there, ate the fruit, left, and then f****** died.

Cristina: Yeah, maybe someone killed him. I think it was murder.

Jack: Could be. It could be that there are people just killing anybody who takes the fruit.

Cristina: That's crazy.

Jack: Hitmen from God.

Cristina: Hitmen from God? What? The Church is doing it.

Jack: The Church is doing it. Did the Church make up the island too?

Cristina: I don't know. But then why would they make up the story of the guy who found the island and then died in the end?

Jack: To find people who are seeking the truth and off them before they get to any other truth.

Cristina: Oh, it's a trap. It's a trap.

Jack: It's a trap by the church. It's like people who try to find Ireland kill them. You kill anybody who tries to find Ireland? It's not a real place. And you can't have anybody reporting that.

Cristina: Why? What about these magical creatures from Ireland?

Jack: Well, you need those stories to exist, so you can't have anybody tell anybody else. There's no island for that to even be true. So the Church needs to off anybody who finds out that these things are a lie. The same way there is no Garden of Eden. So when people go and they find the exact location and they do find this island and find out this is just a normal island.

Cristina: You think that's what he found?

Jack: Yeah, that's why they leave. It's not paradise. It's just a f****** island. And then they leave. And then the church is like, he knows.

Cristina: He knows. Whoa. Maybe he knows, man. But his journey besides that is pretty crazy. He saw a sea monster. There was a sea monster trying to attack the ship. And then God saved them by sending another sea monster to fight off that sea monster. Kills it.

Jack: Story of Godzilla is real.

Cristina: Yes. Godzilla. Okay. What would fight Godzilla? Or is Godzilla the one fighting?

Jack: Well, no, it's a giant. Yeah. Godzilla is like God's Zilla.

Cristina: Okay. Yes. The Kraken was attacking their ship and God's zilla. Godzilla came, fought it, killed it, then they ate the monster.

Jack: So everybody had, like, enough food forever. Yeah, it was like, a lot.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: In any case, Godzilla is a misinterpretation because it is g O D not dash hyphen S. Zilla. His name is Zilla.

Cristina: His name is Zilla.

Jack: He's not a Godzilla. He's Gods. Zilla?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: God sent Zilla.

Cristina: Yes. He sent Zilla to fight off the sea monster. And then they Ate the sea monster because why wouldn't you eat.

Jack: Did they share some of it with Zilla as an offering?

Cristina: Probably. They couldn't eat that whole thing.

Jack: There's no f****** way. Right. And Zilla needs to eat before he goes back to whatever the f*** he was doing.

Cristina: Yes. I wonder what he's doing.

Jack: Just sleeping. He hibernates.

Cristina: He hibernates.

Jack: He waits until God tells him to do stuff.

Cristina: I'm sure he's singing and praising God like the birds.

Jack: Yes. In some underground Atlantis like place.

Cristina: Yes. Where the mermaids are.

Jack: Where the mermaids are. Well, the mermen.

Cristina: The mermen.

Jack: Only mermen. They're all gay for each other. And they hang out with Zilla while the mermaids are committing evil atrocities. Because women. That's what they do.

Cristina: That's what they do.

Jack: Women are just evil inherently.

Cristina: Because of Eve. Yes, because of Eve.

Jack: We're getting to. We're getting to this episode. We're getting to the bottom of things. All the pieces are coming together. Eve invented evil. Adam didn't touch the apple.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then we know that a guy dolphin f*****, raped, raped some chick in the water and she gave birth to a half fish, half woman. And then this happened in two different instances. And then the other one was half man, half fish.

Cristina: In which they could have babies.

Jack: Yes. And then they found each other and, you know, typical relationship things. They f***, they had babies, but they were incompatible. He was like, man, she's kind of cruel and mean and like. We breaking up.

Cristina: Yes. So the other guys stay together. All the girls stay together.

Jack: Yeah. They did the south park thing where it's like these women are just murdering other humans. We love humans. We use our powers for good. They use the powers to lure them in and kill them.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And so they just broke up. Atlantis is just a bunch of gay mermen. And Zilla.

Cristina: And Zilla.

Jack: And they take their word directly from God because God has no beef against the men. God's only beef is women, which the Bible tells us. Yes, The Bible explicitly says, f*** women. You rape women, you kill women. You trade women like property. But men, you all good. All you. You didn't eat the apple. You guys could. You didn't f*** anything else.

Cristina: You're all holy.

Jack: You're all holy. You haven't sinned yet.

Cristina: Nope.

Jack: And we know this. That's why all the priests get the pass.

Cristina: That's why all. Yes.

Jack: That's why all the priests get the pass. You guys didn't f*** up at the beginning, so now you get to pass the f*** up as much as you want. It's been millions of years. You guys can do whatever you want.

Cristina: Only those nuns that help them out get punished.

Jack: Yes, only the nuns. Any nun does anything, you're going straight to h***. All the priests can do whatever they want. And no matter what God's like, you did good for so long.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: You could do whatever you want while.

Cristina: The nuns go crazy and cry like cats.

Jack: Yes. And bite people.

Cristina: And bite people.

Jack: And each other.

Cristina: And each other.

Jack: The nuns are going crazy, nuns are going crazy, priests. Now you get to do whatever you want. God approves.

Cristina: That's so crazy. Another crazy story is that they saw a griffin and a bird fight each other and the griffin died.

Jack: What was the size of this bird?

Cristina: I don't.

Jack: What the f***.

Cristina: It was a parrot from that island.

Jack: Right. Just all the powers of God given to it.

Cristina: Exactly.

Jack: That parrot showed up. I mean, is a griffin a demon at this point?

Cristina: I guess.

Jack: And it's like that bird showed up and because it could say, the power of Christ compels you. That griffin just went down, all its magic gone, boom, Flat into the ground.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That parrot. Power of Christ compels.

Cristina: Yeah, that's exactly how it sounded like.

Jack: Yup.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh. What an epic battle.

Jack: It was so short, too.

Cristina: It was so short.

Jack: It was the shortest, most epic battle. That griffin was doing crazy flight maneuvers and the parrot was fighting all sloppy the way they do.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And the griffin was about to attack.

Cristina: And then all the parrot did was.

Jack: Say, the power of Christ compels you. What the is a griffin? It's like the head of an eagle. The body of, like, a lion and the wings of, like, a bird.

Cristina: I mean, I. I would think. Wait, the head of a what?

Jack: Wait, is it the head of an eagle? There's some creature that's like the head. No, it's the head of a lion. Right. The body of a horse and the.

Cristina: Wings of an eagle and the tail of a snake. I don't know.

Jack: Snake.

Cristina: What? It's mostly an eagle with the body, I guess, the. It's like half eagle, half lion.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Is that the best way to say.

Jack: That we're looking at the head of an eagle with like the. The mane of a lion or around its neck area. The body of a lion and the tail of lion. But the wings of the eagle, it's. It's a chimera between an eagle and a lion.

Cristina: Yeah. That's pretty epic looking.

Jack: It's like a. If you had an eagle Pokemon and it evolved, it Would evolve into a f****** griffin.

Cristina: That would be awesome. And it lost to a parrot. That's crazy, man.

Jack: A griffin looks hardcore. What do you think would win a fight between a griffin and a pegasus?

Cristina: A pegasus.

Jack: Pegasus has magic on his side, bro.

Cristina: And griffins don't.

Jack: I don't know. I think a griffin is just a creature.

Cristina: Oh, and what was the other creature you said?

Jack: Pegasus.

Cristina: Pegasus. Are you sure Pegasus have magic?

Jack: No, I think that's also a creature. I think the only one who has a creature is a unicorn. I think a unicorn will off both of these easily.

Cristina: Because it has magic.

Jack: Because it's magic. Like a unicorn still flies, but also it has no f****** wings. It's just like raw magic.

Cristina: It has to be magic.

Jack: It has to be magic. It's just raw magic. Meanwhile, a griffin and a pegasus are just creatures.

Cristina: Yes. I don't know. Maybe unicorns have invisible wings.

Jack: That'd be interesting. That would be magic.

Cristina: That would be magic.

Jack: Okay, this doesn't matter. It's all just magic.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: No matter how you look at a unicorn, it's magic.

Cristina: It's gotta be magic. Okay, so the unicorn wins, though.

Jack: Yeah, the unicorn wins by default. So the real argument would be a pegasus and a griffin. I would argue the griffin wins. Right. Because the pegasus is still just a f****** horse with wings. While this is like the predator of the sky and the predator of the ground just fuse into the most hardcore s*** that has ever existed.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So it's like, pretty much anything that fights a griffin is f*****.

Cristina: How about a dragon?

Jack: What's. How far off is a griffin from a dragon?

Cristina: I don't think griffin has firepower.

Jack: Fair. Fair. So we would say in the animal, in the, like, mythological creature. Tier.

Cristina: Tier, yeah.

Jack: It goes from dragon to griffin, then Pegasus.

Cristina: Where does Godzilla fit?

Jack: Well, Godzilla, like, is a dragon. Godzilla's a dragon. He's just an oversized dragon.

Cristina: Yeah. With no wings.

Jack: With no wings. So arguably worse than a dragon. Depending on the size of the dragon. If we're looking at, like, medieval dragon, like the western version of a dragon. Right. If we're looking at the western version of a dragon.

Cristina: How big are they?

Jack: We're talking the size of, like, a small building.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Not huge the way, like, God, like, Godzilla could stomp on one of those m************ easily.

Cristina: Like a house, maybe.

Jack: Like. Like a traditional current size house.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like four of those put next to each other.

Cristina: Is a dragon.

Jack: Is a dragon. Including wingspan. Like, its body alone. Like, its body alone is probably the size of a house with its wingspan Being the size of maybe like four houses put in a row.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: While Godzilla could stomp that s*** out. Easy.

Cristina: Okay, so Godzilla's on top of the list.

Jack: Yeah, Godzilla's on top of the list. Unless we're talking like some monstrous f****** ridiculous Godzilla sized dragon. That's crazy. And I don't know why that there's no f****** movie about that.

Cristina: A Godzilla sized dragon. Dude, isn't that Chinese dragon huge? The really long dragon?

Jack: You mean like the one from Dragon Ball Z?

Cristina: Yeah, he's really long and really big.

Jack: Well, Shenron is so f****** big you could see him from space. Yeah, like you could be off of earth and just see Shenron if he summoned. That's how big Shenron is. He doesn't count.

Cristina: He doesn't count.

Jack: Unless we're like going into these detailed dragons, in which case what's bigger? Shenron or the world serpent?

Cristina: I would think they're both the same size.

Jack: Interesting, interesting, interesting.

Cristina: Because they both wrap around the world, right?

Jack: Not Shenron. Shenron comes right out of the the dragon balls and floats over them to grant you the wish before he goes back to sleep.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So I don't know. Okay, so this says that Shenron is not so astronomically large as to wrap around the planet. He's smaller than like a city.

Cristina: That's a. That's the size of the castle they compare him to.

Jack: Yes. Not. Well, even the castle is not the size of a city.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: But he's roughly like castle's huge and Shenron is roughly the size of this huge castle.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: While the world serpent can wrap around the f****** planet.

Cristina: Yes, that's why that's humongous. Right?

Jack: Yes. So size wise, we begin at the world snake. For sure there isn't s*** bigger. He's limit. Just the limit of it. He's as big as any mythological creature gets the world serpent.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Then we go to Shenron and then we get to Godzilla.

Cristina: Okay, but when it comes to fight, can Shenron or the world serpent. Actually the world serpent can fight because he fights. What's his name? He fights Thor in the end, right? Yeah. So he can put up a fight.

Jack: Yes, but against Godzilla, the world serpent would one shot him? Yes, yes, because Thor would one shot Godzilla.

Cristina: Yeah. Shenron, can he fight?

Jack: Shenron is pure magic and he can do whatever the f*** he wants. Okay, so size is not a problem here.

Cristina: He's got magic.

Jack: He's got magic. Shenron could one shot both Thor and the world serpent. Cuz magic. So power wise, Shenron is The limit. Shenron could bring the entire Earth back just because you asked him to.

Cristina: Yeah. And isn't there a bigger snake that I'm. I guess, magical Shenron version of Shenron, you know?

Jack: Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. The one you're talking about is Super Shenron from Dragon Ball. Super who is. Who s****. He s**** on. He s**** on the size of the f****** World Serpent by such a ridiculous margin. The World Serpent would be missed. Like, Super Shenron wouldn't see him from how small it is by comparison.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Super Shenron is 57 billion light years.

Cristina: I don't even understand how we could imagine the size of that.

Jack: We'd see him from most places in the universe.

Cristina: We would just. We would all see him.

Jack: We would all see him. Like, if he's summoned, it doesn't matter where in the universe we are. He's bigger than everything else in the sky.

Cristina: He's so big, though, that. Would we be inside him? Would everything be inside him? Because he's humongous. Like, where is he? Would he be away from us? Or we all just automatically be in him because he's so freaking big.

Jack: That's weird, right? He would. But no, he would coil in such a way that he. Because he's. He would dodge everything. I guess he would just be so.

Cristina: He is magical.

Jack: He's magical. Yeah. But that's another thing. Holy crap. That's another thing. Not only is he so absorbently big that he's 57 billion light years in size, but it's pure magic.

Cristina: But he's pure magic.

Jack: More pure magic than Shenron. So even if Shenron is smaller than the World Serpent and more overpowered, Super Shenron would smack the crap out. Like, Super Shenron can't see. He doesn't know Shenron exists.

Cristina: No.

Jack: That's like some afterthought at best.

Cristina: You think he can see the World Serpent? Or is that too small?

Jack: Too small? Too small. We're talking that this guy is the size of many. It's. What is it, four light years? Four light years. Just four. From here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

Cristina: He's that big. Yeah. He's from here to.

Jack: Wait, is Alpha Centauri the closest star? It is. Right. Is that a galaxy?

Cristina: That is not.

Jack: I think Alpha Centauri is a star. Right. Because Andromeda is the galaxy. Got it. So Alpha Centauri is the closest star, and it's four billion light years. I mean, four light years, not billion. It's just four Light years away. Think about how far away in size this guy is.

Cristina: I don't.

Jack: Even if we. Even if Shenron, Super Shenron was just the distance of Earth to Alpha Centauri, that would be so magnificently large in our sky that it would compensate for everything else. No, Super Shenron is 57 billion light years in size.

Cristina: But what does that even mean, light years in size?

Jack: Yeah. Yeah.

Cristina: What?

Jack: How many light years is our observable universe in size?

Cristina: What if he's bigger than that?

Jack: That's crazy. So the observable universe according to God, which is Google, is 93 billion light years.

Cristina: He's more than half.

Jack: He's more than half of the size of the observable universe. We would see Super Shenron from anywhere in the universe encompassing the majority of the universe.

Cristina: Yeah, that's ridiculous.

Jack: He would be so big in our sky. We couldn't tell that we're looking at him.

Cristina: No, he would just. What would he look like?

Jack: The sky would just turn yellow because he's golden. So the sky would just look gold and we wouldn't know that we're looking at him.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That's how big he is. It would just look like the sky just turned gold. The end. Well, meanwhile, we're looking at Shenron. Super Shenron.

Cristina: That's ridiculous.

Jack: So tier size, he wins him by like, there's nothing bigger.

Cristina: There's nothing big.

Jack: Like, it's questionable. Yeah, it's questionable that God is bigger. Like actual God might be smaller than Mega Shenron. Super Shenron.

Cristina: Well, if God's the size of like the God from Dragon Ball Z, he's very tiny.

Jack: Oh, yeah, it could totally be the case. Like Zeno is way smaller.

Cristina: Or little boy, I guess, is his size.

Jack: Yeah. So it would go the, the, the tier here is Super Shenron, then miles away. Miles away. The world serpent the size of just measly planet.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then we get to Shenron, size of just like a big a** building, actually. Well, it's a huge. It's ridiculously huge building. That's the problem. It's bigger than Godzilla.

Cristina: It's bigger than Godzilla.

Jack: It's bigger than Godzilla. Shenron is bigger than Godzilla. Then Godzilla and whatever monsters Godzilla fights. My question is, is the Norse mythology giants the size of Godzilla or are they smaller than Godzilla And I actually think they're smaller than Godzilla.

Cristina: Are you sure? Please remember that footprint of the horse? That horse has to be huge.

Jack: The horse had to be huge.

Cristina: That's one footprint of an eight legged horse.

Jack: Yeah, but like a Godzilla footprint People could just go inside of it.

Cristina: So can they go inside of his footprint? The magical horse's footprint?

Jack: Are we thinking that the horse is bigger than Godzilla, though?

Cristina: Yes. No. Maybe the same size? No, but longer.

Jack: They're in the ballpark. They're in the ballpark.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They're in the ballpark of size. I think Shenron would beat them in size.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it'd be Shenron, Godzilla, and all these other mythological things from Norse mythology. And then we have all the smaller things.

Cristina: Yes, fair. That's crazy. But then how did the people sailing sea Godzilla fight this creature? Like, that's got to be crazy to see. I mean, how do you not die if you can see it? Unless it's happening from far away. It could be.

Jack: It could be that you're getting attacked by the Kraken, which is also huge as f***. Yeah, but the Kraken, like, compared to size, like, Godzilla could just b**** smack that s***.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So Godzilla just comes, rips it out, like, snaps. It's f******. I guess it has no bones to snap, but it could just, like, crush it to death. And then you guys just eat this giant kraken.

Cristina: Yeah, but the way they. Their bodies are moving in the water, I feel like it just destroy the boat.

Jack: The way just Godzilla coming out of the water would create tidal waves exactly like these.

Cristina: This event has to have happened super far away.

Jack: So Godzilla popped up the crack inside, and it's like, fight time.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But they still got, like, a crazy wave coming. So Godzilla instantaneously won, and they angled their ship in such a way that it just, like, cruised with a wave.

Cristina: Yes, because how else would they survive that?

Jack: I don't know.

Cristina: It's ridiculous. The size of Godzilla and then I guess all the other creatures, like the. The Griff. Way smaller. Those are like babies compared.

Jack: They're so small. A griffin, wingspan included. Maybe a little bit bigger than a room.

Cristina: That's so pretty. I guess compared to us, it's big.

Jack: But compared to humans, it's big. But, like, Godzilla, stomp that s*** out. Yeah, so, like, in the. In the fight between a Griffin and a Pegasus, whatever. Who cares? The griffin is gonna win. But Griffin versus Godzilla, One shot.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Godzilla needs to fight, like, Norse creatures or the Titans.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know, from, like, Greek mythology.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But then all of them will get one shot by Shenron. Actually, even the world serpent, which is way the f*** bigger than Shenron, will get one shot by Shenron. But it's magic. Which then brings up an interesting point. What could a unicorn, one Shot the World Serpent. Because. Also magic. I feel like it's also a tier of magic. Right.

Cristina: There could be a tier of magic.

Jack: Like, the unicorn doesn't have, like, unfathomable magic abilities. It's like, you know, has magic, but it's not, like, impossibly magical.

Cristina: Yeah, it can't be. If we learned anything from our other episode about. I don't really remember what it was about, but that the Force and using the Force to do magic, if you abuse it, you'll die.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: So the unicorns, they wouldn't abuse the magic.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: If they're using the same force.

Jack: So we're saying the Force is equal to magic. Yes, because in the case of all these other people, they have abilities that they're channeling.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But it wasn't like magic. It was like they're really channeling just this energy. Yeah, but Shenron is doing some whole other s***. He can make anything happen.

Cristina: Yeah, but he's getting it from the same place everyone else is getting it from.

Jack: Or is he one of the sources of it?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Like, is he the embodiment of the Force?

Cristina: He could be.

Jack: And Super Shenron is, like, the biggest focus of that energy.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So they aren't abusing it or using it.

Cristina: No, they aren't.

Jack: They are it.

Cristina: Yeah, but a unicorn is using it.

Jack: A unicorn is using it, but in.

Cristina: This kind of the same way that Transformers are using it. Like, it's born in them. Yeah, they're not training for it.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, they're not. They're not. But then again, it could just be channeling it.

Cristina: Or channel.

Jack: But I don't know. It feels like a unicorn isn't thinking about using magic. It's just, like, natural. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, no Transformers. Like, oh, I got a train and trans. No, you just can do it.

Cristina: Yeah. It's supernatural. Unless there is. We don't know what a baby Transformer looks like. What if they're training?

Jack: Well, there's a whole. There's no baby Transformer. There is a planet that is a machine that pumps out Transformers.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: The planet itself is pumping out.

Jack: The planet itself is a robot. What? Okay, so referring to back to our noble God Google, the Transformers are a species of sentient, living robotic beings originating from the distant machine world, Cybertron. The stories of their lives, their histories, and most especially their wars have been chronicled across many different continuities in the vast multiverse. So Cybertron is where they come from. How are they made? It just, like, spits them out.

Cristina: It Says that a computer made them. Their bodies were forged by a plasma energy chamber and given intelligence by the mega computer Vectas Sigma. So their planet has a computer in it. I mean, their planet is a machine already.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: With a computer in it that's pumping out robots.

Jack: Wow, there's just so many doors just opened. So in the area of size of creatures, Cybertron is bigger than Godzilla as well, and actually bigger than Shenron. And technically. Technically, also bigger than the World Serpent.

Cristina: Cybertron.

Jack: Yes, because the World Serpent wraps around the world.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But isn't as thick. So the Cybertron is, in theory, more mass overall.

Cristina: Yeah, I would imagine that it would be bigger than Earth anyway because it holds all these robots. Like, it's got to be a huge.

Jack: Like, the robots are big themselves.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting.

Cristina: I don't even know where to start.

Jack: Okay, okay, for everybody, we just took an intermission to learn everything there was to learn about Transformers. So let's go back real quickly. The Transformers were made by a planet that was a machine. The planet was made by this bigger robot thing in order to pump out robots to fight some other planet that was also pumping out robots, apparently. And so this thing was made by yet another bigger, greater robot. And then that robot that kind of seems to be God was made by something called the one who's just God.

Cristina: Yes. God made two robots. Well, he made one robot, and then he made another robot from that robot.

Jack: Which was his twin.

Cristina: Which was his twin. So one was a good twin, was the evil twins. He began with the Eve.

Jack: Yes, he began with the evil twin, and then he made the good twin. So the argument is God made man, like regular biological life.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And also mechanical life.

Cristina: He only knows how to do it the same way. That's so crazy. Yeah, it's the same exact way he did human mankind.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: That's so lazy.

Jack: I recommend. Oh, crap. We're probably gonna do a whole episode about this history.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Like, we have to. We just ended up talking about it, and we're totally, like, out of time.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh.

Jack: So. So we're probably gonna do an episode on Transformers, breaking down the entire history and how, like, we're gonna. We're gonna explain how God and robots relate. That's gonna happen.

Cristina: It's gonna happen.

Jack: Okay, now, the interesting part about this entire episode is that the guy with the axe could one off everybody. He's the only one who could one shot Super Shenron with his lucky ax.

Cristina: I don't think so. I don't think so.

Jack: You don't think so.

Cristina: He's an average guy. He's a guy can't even carry a deer.

Jack: He's. He totally can't.

Cristina: So I don't know how he's strong enough to do that.

Jack: I guess the argument is, is he better than. Could he want. Could he off the Pegasus or the Griffin? He could probably off the Pegasus, right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Could he off the Griffin. The Griffin's fast. It's dangerous. It's aligned.

Cristina: It got killed by a parrot, so I guess he can.

Jack: D***. D***. Yeah, fair enough. You right. You right. You got that. Anyways, if you guys enjoyed this episode.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: You can find, I guess, other episodes about completely random, unrelated, strung together things.

Cristina: Like the Transformers, which just happened. Yeah.

Jack: So you guys can totally do that. Go find those episodes.

Cristina: And on this episode, listen to the last episode. It was a great episode.

Jack: Yeah. And you can find all that stuff on the official website greatthoughts.info or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcast.

Cristina: And you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. UsConvopod.

Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe rate. And if you feel so inclined, review.

Cristina: The show and let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Yes. This is exactly how it began. A guy sharing with the kindness of his heart, the show and then it turned out to be a show in which we find out a bunch of things, including the fact that women are evil.

Cristina: Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah.

Jack: Mermaids happened because of dolphin raped people.

Cristina: Of course.

Jack: As usual. As expected, you know, as dolphins do.

Cristina: Yeah. So they can live longer.

Jack: They can live longer. It happens. And Griffins vs. Pegasus, equal fight or relatively closer than Parrot vs. Griffin, in which a parrot easily wins thanks to.

Cristina: The power of God.

Jack: Thanks to power of God. Also Godzilla. We've had that wrong this whole time. His name is Zilla. He's gods.

Cristina: He's Godzilla. Yeah.

Jack: Godzilla beat the Kraken that was attacking the sailors who were in the first place on the sea, probably trying to survive. Mermaids.

Cristina: And they're also fictional because they come from Ireland, which is also fictional.

Jack: Yeah, Ireland never happened. And neither did the Garden of Eden. And that's all invented by the church who's killing anybody who finds out. Yes, but we work for the Illuminati, so we're protector.

Cristina: Yeah, that's why we're sharing you with. That's why we're sharing this with you. Yeah.

Jack: So that you know you're all going to be killed.

Cristina: Yeah. By the church or by the cancer.

Jack: That you got by listening to the show.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: This. That nice little summary.

Cristina: This has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye.

Cristina: But is there things like that in other.

Jack: Yes. Politics.

Cristina: They have dress. They dress up.

Jack: Not the dressing thing, but the weird traditions. Like when they did that book thing that they walked the book across the thing in a specific way, and then the news was covering how it got walked down the. Let's just take it. It's a f******. Just walk it down the g****** hallway. What are you talking about, a book?

Cristina: Yeah, the Bible.

Jack: No, it was like a set of rules or something for the President to sign or some s***. And then everybody stood in line in a certain way and they walked this sheet of paper to him. Yeah. In a. In like a order of some sort, like. Like soldiers or some s***. They did it in a weird, specific kind of way.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Very traditional, very ritualistic. And walked it over to the chamber it had to be in with everybody standing where they had to be standing or whatever.

Cristina: Yes. Any tradition looks very strange if you don't know the reason for it.

Jack: Even if you know the reason for it. Why is it still in play?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: Because what purpose does that serve now?

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 0lupo and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 127: Loki and Friends

What is Loki’s role in the apocalyptic Ragnarok? How do his children fit into the equation? What is the ultimate goal? Loki and his children unpacked on this episode.

Digging deeper into Loki and his history the duo uncover a winding roller-coaster of irrational activities and hijinks done by the trickster god Loki. The rabbit whole goes so deep that it reaches the other end at bestiality and cross-dressing. All that and more on this episode of Rambling.

Rambling 127: Loki and Friends

+Episode Details

Topics Discussed

  • Shapeshifters
  • Giants
  • Ragnarok
  • Loki’s Children
  • The 9 Realms
  • Thor vs The World Serpent
  • Eating Contest for Gods
  • Loki’s Stand-Up Comedy
  • Bestiality
  • God Party
  • Greek Mythology
  • Norse Mythology
  • Loki’s Torture
  • Crossdressing Thor

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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? 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 also, this show is way more enjoyable with the listening partner. So be sure to grab somebody by their arm while they're riding the train without them knowing you. And you just grab them, Grab their hand. You touch their hand while they're just distracted holding on in the train or whatever. You know, you just touch your hand.

Cristina: You'Re like, hey, that's so discerning.

Jack: You stare at them. You stare at them like, hey, when they pull their hand back, you're like, I just want to listen to a podcast with you. And they will want to listen to. They're gonna be like, oh, yeah, that's different.

Cristina: Oh, yeah, that's different. Yeah.

Jack: Well, that's different. We can listen to a podcast and then they'll grab your hand.

Cristina: Really? They're gonna grab. They're gonna be holding hands?

Jack: Yes. And they're gonna share the headphones with a complete stranger. Yeah.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: That's horrible. That's so horrible.

Jack: I don't know why it's horrible if the person doesn't want it, but once you explain it to listen to a podcast, I'll be like, okay, that's different. Grab.

Cristina: We live in a zombie apocalypse. That person can be a zombie.

Jack: Yeah, sure. It's totally fine.

Cristina: That's fine. I don't know. He might be carrying the disease. That's virus. Yes.

Jack: Is it a virus? We could call it a virus.

Cristina: It's a super virus. Is he gonna turn people into zombies? Eventually, man.

Jack: A strain is gonna do it. It's just evolving so rapidly.

Cristina: Yeah. So eventually we'll have zombies here.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. So last time you were here talking about nature and how people used to explain it with different myths, and one of them was very interesting, which was Loki's son being able to imprint on the planet with one foot, even though he has eight, but for some reason, one foot touched the ground and left a mark, and we thought that was really hilarious. Well, that wasn't hilarious. How he was born was really hilarious. Remember that story?

Jack: Yes. But it was kind of funny that he would imprint on the ground and then. Or not imprint, but he would leave a print on the ground and then Gods that would, in theory, ride this f****** horse, fit inside the hole that it's.

Cristina: Well, Loki can turn into different things. Why can't the gods? I guess, you know, they turn. They all turn into raccoons or something. I don't know. But Loki does have amazing powers. And yeah, he turned into a horse, a female horse. To have sex with a horse, to have a baby. Which was a giant eight legged horse.

Jack: Right. So because him becoming a horse and then f****** a horse doesn't equal horse baby because he's a God.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Him f******. Or I guess getting f***** by her. Because keep in mind he's not doing the f******. He doesn't like to f*** horses. He likes to get f***** by horses.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Big difference.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Mad.

Cristina: He's half God if you look at his DNA.

Jack: Half God.

Cristina: Yes. Or maybe people are unsure what his mother was. His dad was for sure a giant.

Jack: Right. Which isn't a God.

Cristina: Which isn't a God. And then his mom may or may not be a God. I think she may be a God because of how strange his babies are. And like the three.

Jack: The eight legged freak and his powers.

Cristina: And his powers.

Jack: Like what explains the powers if it ain't a God?

Cristina: Well, there is one story where a giant shape shifts into a falcon, which. And I don't think I've read a story about a God. Shapeshift thing. Yeah. So that might be a giant power. A power for the giants is shapeshifting.

Jack: Right. But that's not his only power.

Cristina: No, well, that's his only like main power. I don't know what his other powers are. He's cunning. They always say he's a cunning trickster. Like I don't know if that's a power, but.

Jack: Okay, that's weird. So he doesn't have like he's. There's no sign of him having other God like powers. I feel like he does like super strength. But that could be a giant thing.

Cristina: That could be a giant thing too. Like, how do you. Which side do you put it towards?

Jack: So what you're telling me is he would in theory just get smacked down by one of the gods of Asgard?

Cristina: Definitely.

Jack: Like way too easily. But he's basically like Batman to the other f****** Justice League members. Like he's too witty to be beat by just their muscles.

Cristina: The only reason I think his mom is probably a God is because he has a special pact with Odin. And I don't think Odin would have made any type of pact with a giant because their hate for giants is ridiculous.

Jack: They're racist.

Cristina: They're very racist. The gods hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate giants. So I don't. I can't imagine that Odin would be like, okay, we'll make this deal together, or whatever happened.

Jack: But Odin likes Loki.

Cristina: I wouldn't say he likes him.

Jack: He likes him more than other giants.

Cristina: He lets him in Asgard because he must be half. That's why I think he's also half giant. I mean, half God. Because only gods hang out in Asgard and he. They have huge problem with giants.

Jack: Except Valkyries hang out in Asgard.

Cristina: Valkyries might be a type of God, so.

Jack: Because I remember specifically on that episode we were debating whether that was the case.

Cristina: Yeah, I don't remember because I know there's also. There's two types of gods, actually. I didn't know there's like two God race.

Jack: There's God and demigods.

Cristina: I don't know where the other gods live, but they live on. They have their own realm because, you know, there's nine realms.

Jack: Yeah, something like that.

Cristina: And, and I think they've been in war and stuff, but I don't really know the backstory to any of that.

Jack: Gods with gods.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So, but kind of like gods with giants.

Cristina: Yeah, Gods and giants which then later.

Jack: Got turned into Greek mythologies.

Cristina: Titans versus the gods which came first, Greek or Norse?

Jack: Norse.

Cristina: Norse for sure.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. I don't know. That's true. But we don't even know all the stories of Norse because it was all written by Christians. So we have the. Whatever came out from that. We don't know what the original stories were, what they truly, truly, truly were believing in. These are just.

Jack: Who, the Norse.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Oh, they stole from Hinduism.

Cristina: Oh, okay. But like the stories that they have now are the Christianized version. Sort of.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Because they went around writing everything for everyone else because they were the writers. They. Well, you know, they had written language, I guess the Christians and whatever.

Jack: Yeah, yeah.

Cristina: So Loki is probably half God anyway. Loki, I think is a God. Half God at least. Because his children are so strange. Like the eight legged horse. I think if he was just a giant, his children would be more normal. Well, maybe not the eight legged horse one. That's a bad example because he was with a horse. But with the other children he has, he had them with a giant or most of them. He did have some kids with a God. His wife is a God and they had, I think one or two sons. People aren't really sure and they seem normal, like normal people. So like, like gods like gods? Yeah, like gods. There was no weird descriptions about those children that he had with his wife.

Jack: The.

Cristina: But with the giant there was very weird children. Very weird. Which is. He has three children with his wife. Not with a wife, with the giant. He has three children with the giant, which are a wolf, a snake and a goddess. Her name is Hel, but she's not a normal goddess. If you look at her like, her description is, she's half alive and half dead. So there's something weird about her too, in appearance.

Jack: But she's not a giant.

Cristina: No, she's a goddess. But she happens to look very odd. And I think it's because. It's because of whatever. Loki is just being a God. Having sex with something that's not a God. Would it make something strange like that?

Jack: Yeah. I didn't think about this before, but I guess his banging of things equals the giant, because he's a giant. So if you banged the normal snake, his giantness made a giant snake as a result. It wasn't his godness, it was his giantness that made a giant snake.

Cristina: Yes, but he was having sex with the giant. So my other thing is that maybe he was also a giant snake while he was having sex with her.

Jack: The snake was giant.

Cristina: No, his child is giant.

Jack: Yes. But the snake he was having sex.

Cristina: With, he wasn't having sex with the snake. He was having sex with a giant.

Jack: And that led to a snake.

Cristina: Yes, which I'm saying.

Jack: He was a snake.

Cristina: He was a snake. Yes, that's what I'm thinking. Oh, s***. He's a shapeshifter.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: He has a wolf baby and a snake baby and they're both giants. But he could turn into animals.

Jack: But the time he be.

Cristina: He had a horse with a giant horse.

Jack: So he actually got f***** by a horse that time.

Cristina: Yes, that was giant. A giant horse. And he was a giant.

Jack: He's just into. He's like giant pansexual.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: He loves whatever. Yeah. Or get f***** by.

Cristina: I mean, he still has babies with his goddess, but he doesn't love her or anything. Like, he's like. He gets bored of her and that's why he finds the giants who have.

Jack: And she's like half dead, isn't she?

Cristina: No, that's his child that's half dead. Oh. His wife is normal. She's completely normal. She's probably a very kind God. There's not much about her, but she's important in the. In Ragnarok.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Or not Ragnarok. In his binding before that happens.

Jack: Right. So Loki shape shifts and then flux. Giants.

Cristina: Yes. Well, one giant. Well, yes, two giants, so yeah, giants. Yes, he loves giants. Okay.

Jack: And he has three giants.

Cristina: Three giants.

Jack: Wolf, horse, snake.

Cristina: Yes. He had three giant babies, a giant wolf, a giant snake and a giant horse. Yes. And these three children though, that he has with the giant, are predicted to be part of the end of the world. Which is Ragnarok.

Jack: Which is prophesied.

Cristina: Yeah, which is prophesied. So then Odin takes them and separates them. I don't know why.

Jack: Because the prophecy is against Odin.

Cristina: Yes, I know that part. Why didn't he just murder them? His plan is very strange because for the wolf he can grow forever. So they keep trying to chain him up. They keep him in Asgard with the other gods to just keep chaining him up. And he keeps breaking out of it because he keeps growing. And eventually they do trick him into getting chained up by a magical chain made from a dwarf. He bites off a God's hand while they do that, though. That's pretty cool. I mean, maybe not cool like that God lives with one hand now. But I'm sure it could grow back.

Jack: Probably.

Cristina: I don't know. It's weird that he wouldn't grow it back, but I guess he doesn't feel like growing it back.

Jack: Maybe he can't. Maybe it's kind of like God standards of like, what is Superman in his home planet if not just another normal dude. Oh, so like to us they're gods.

Cristina: But like around each other they're like.

Jack: They're normal.

Cristina: Normal. That's why Oren only has one eye.

Jack: Like. Yeah. Compared to us they're gods.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But they still have like weaknesses and s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Around each other they're just people. It's comparatively. God.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah, so they're pretty normal. They get hurt and stuff because that guy gets his friggin hand ripped off. But then they do bond.

Jack: What's weird about Ragnarok is the fact that Odin is the reason it happens through his actions. Trying to stop it. That's sort of the loop there.

Cristina: He should have murdered these children.

Jack: No, it wouldn't work.

Cristina: It wouldn't work.

Jack: It wouldn't work. It would somehow feed into the plan.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: I actually think the attempt at killing them is also part of the plan.

Cristina: He doesn't though. I think the only one, he's. I guess you could say he did. I'm not sure. Because when he throwed. Threw out the snake out of the world and it ends up on Earth, like, was he thinking that like throwing him out would kill the snake. Like, was that the only child he actually tried to kill? And it just survived its fall and then just kept growing?

Jack: I don't know.

Cristina: Okay. But that's one of the things he did, was throw him there on the world. What's it's called?

Jack: Midgard.

Cristina: Midgard. Us. Our planet. I think that's a cooler name than Earth. Midgard. Yeah, I like that.

Jack: But an Asgard is cooler than heaven. Yeah, but it's just cuz we're used to hearing it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If we lived in Midgard, like Earth, that's cool.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But yeah. No, I believe that any step Odin takes, kind of fits into the plan one way or another.

Cristina: Yeah. He just doesn't understand how.

Jack: Doesn't understand how at all.

Cristina: That's why he's always fighting it. But it's gonna happen no matter what.

Jack: Oh, okay. Here's the problem. Here's the problem. We as people get told the story of Ragnarok and of Norse mythology. And how all that plays out after we have the full picture.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We have to think about it from before the entire story was written and happened. Which happens in the time that Odin sees into the future. That's why he doesn't have an eye. It was part of a trade or some s***.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And in seeing into the future, he saw the result. And he knew who would be involved, but he didn't know how. And ever since, every step he takes seems to feed into it. So he almost becomes like the perpetuator of his own demise, trying to stop it.

Cristina: Ragnarok hasn't happened yet. Just to let you know. It's not. It hasn't happened yet. We're still living pre Ragnarok. Because once it happens, everything is going to be destroyed. All the nine realms and all that stuff.

Jack: That's weird. I thought Ragnarok already happened.

Cristina: Nope. It's the future. It's. Yeah, it's the future. It's like in the end of Christian.

Jack: No, that makes sense. I thought the idea was that after Ragnarok happened, that's how we ended up with the world the way it is. Without gods interacting with us.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: Yeah, I thought that's. That's what happened. The result of Ragnarok was a bunch of gods were dead. And humans then got to flourish successfully without the oppression of the Asgardians.

Cristina: Oh, no, no. I don't know. No, because they're still collecting souls and stuff for their army.

Jack: We call that heaven now. No, no, that happened already.

Cristina: No, that's weird. That's happening right now. The Valkyries are coming here to collect souls for their army.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: It's still.

Jack: Okay, so.

Cristina: So Ragnarok hasn't happened yet.

Jack: So Ragnarok hasn't happened yet.

Cristina: Which is probably a Christian twist on the who. They love that type of apocalyptic ending. They did it for the Bible.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Has Jesus coming back and whatever.

Jack: So the question is, did Ragnarok originally happen already in Norse mythology? And then we inherited the earth, but Christianity got a hold of the texts, rewrote them, and when it re entered the remainder of Norse mythology as a reframing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It got pushed into the ending the way that the New Testament suggests the apocalypse would happen. Because they are the same thing. Ragnarok is Apocalypsis from the Bible.

Cristina: It's impossible to tell, I think because they didn't have their stories written down beforehand.

Jack: Created by the Christians to begin with.

Cristina: Yeah. So it's hard. So.

Jack: But Loki is the one perpetuating all of Ragnarok to some degree. He plays a million different roles that push this story forward.

Cristina: Ragnarok doesn't begin. I mean, Loki doesn't begin Ragnarok. The beginning of Ragnarok happens when the snake lets go of his tail.

Jack: Why would he do that?

Cristina: Why would he do that?

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: I have no idea. He's ready to destroy the world because for some reason, once that happens, then all the other his siblings and Loki are free from where they're kept. They're somehow also able strong enough to get out of their traps or whatever. That's the beginning of Ragnarok when the snake lets go of his tail. And that's pretty cool. That's not pretty cool. That's whatever. Whatever. Yes.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: And the world serpent, he has a few stories in Norse mythology that they still have, which are always against Thor because they are mortal enemies, his son and himself. Thor is not his.

Jack: Oh, not Thor. Got you. Got you.

Cristina: Thor and the snake.

Jack: Because Thor and the snake.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah. Because he's. They're destined to kill each other.

Jack: Which is part of Ragnarok.

Cristina: That's part of Ragnarok. Yes. Because the snake. Well, in Ragnarok, he's going to poison. Once he lets go of his toe. I guess he's like just hoarding a bunch of venom inside him. And then when he lets go, it all explodes out of him and poisons the sky and the ocean. Maybe that's why Ragnarok begins at that time.

Jack: Could be. Probably.

Cristina: And then the poison is what kills Thor. And after Thor kills him, he gets He. He still dies because of poison.

Jack: Thor.

Cristina: Thor. Yes.

Jack: Got you.

Cristina: Yeah, they. They know like who's gonna die. Like everything's already ran, so it's interesting. Like it's still gonna happen.

Jack: That's how prophecy works, I guess.

Cristina: Yes, yes. It's like time traveling in a weird way.

Jack: It was literally time traveling. He was looking forward in time to see exactly what was gonna happen.

Cristina: Yeah, you know, his. Everything that's happening, like, like whatever. Like if he wanted to know where you were, he could see you. That's kind of like God, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jack: He is the God. God.

Cristina: He is the God because Loki in one of the stories before he gets captured to be trapped forever. He turned into a fish trying to hide that way. But Odin saw him, so they caught him. There's a story where Thor and Loki are traveling through the giants world for some reason. I'm not sure where their aim is, but they end up meeting a giant who has a castle, I guess. And they're. They have a competition with the giant and the giant, I think. I don't know who starts the contest. I think Loki actually starts the contest after the giant makes fun of the gods saying like, oh, you guys aren't as great as you think you are. You're not as strong or you're not as whatever were much better. And so Loki starts off the competition saying he's the fastest eater and he competes with another giant on eating the most food and of course loses. It's such a weird competition. But yeah, they each like. And they have to be in the end of the table and reach the middle with all the food and the other like he was able to eat all of it, but there was still leftovers like bones and you know, things you wouldn't normally. But the giant ate everything off his side.

Jack: That's very weird.

Cristina: That's very weird. But the giant actually was cheating because these weren't really giants. I don't remember what this giant was, but there was a guy that was with him who decided to race a giant to see who's faster. And the giant kept winning. And it turned out he was Thoth itself.

Jack: Who, the giant?

Cristina: Yes, yes. He was running against Thaw, but he couldn't win because it's so.

Jack: It was the embodiment of thinking.

Cristina: Yes. I can't remember what Loki was against, but it was something ridiculous like that, of course. And then Thor had two. I remember only like two things he had to do. One was to drink from one of the giants cups or whatever and he Just. He couldn't drink it all. But the giant said that he was actually drinking their lake water. And he was worried that he was gonna drink it all because he was doing really well, even though he wasn't able to do it. And then the second thing that he had to do was to lift the cat. And the cat was actually the world snake disguised as a cat. So he couldn't do it, but he did a really good job. And the giant was still really impressed by him. But he, like Thor, I think, pretty much destroyed the place while he was doing all these things. So the giant was like, you better not return to here ever again. I'm impressed. But never come here again.

Jack: So the world snake could morph.

Cristina: I think the giants did that to the world snake. I don't think the world snake can magically turn into a cat.

Jack: Interesting. So they. The world snake agreed to this.

Cristina: I don't know. He was probably minding his own business, living his life, and then the giant plucked him out somehow.

Jack: Right. Because you can see the World snake from everywhere at all times.

Cristina: On Earth?

Jack: On Earth, yeah.

Cristina: Yes. But I'm guessing these stories are before he was that big because he kept growing and became that big. But these could be before he was that big.

Jack: Right. Which is an unexplained amount of time. It's long from one point to the other.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: They are gods, and they live forever.

Cristina: Mm. There was another story with Thor and the World snake where Thor went fishing with an ox head and he caught the world snake and he hit him with his hammer, and they thought he killed the snake. But I'm assuming that was also another time where the snake wasn't big enough. Like, he wasn't his full size yet.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: And he obviously didn't die because he's in the Ragnarok story. But he thought he killed him in that story.

Jack: Giants never stop growing, period. All of them.

Cristina: I don't know if all giants are like that, but I know Loki's children that are giants are like that.

Jack: Maybe it's a combination of a God. And Loki would be the combination of.

Cristina: A God and a giant.

Jack: And a giant, yes.

Cristina: That's why I think he has weird children. Besides the one that he has with his. With his wife, who is a God. They had a normal God children, as far as I can tell.

Jack: And that's weird.

Cristina: That's weird. Yes, that is weird. Loki also has a daughter named Hel, which is a pretty normal daughter. Besides that, she looks half dead and half alive, and she collects some of the Some of the dead people, the ones that are the wicked ones and the ones that die from sickness and old age, they're not good enough for the. For Odin, who collects half of them, and I don't. Okay, what do I know about her? Well, I don't know much about her, except that they. One of the gods do visit her later on in the story when Loki ends up killing a God. They come to her to revive that. That God, hoping that she would let him back to Asgard. And she says, like, it's fine as long as you can make all the. Everything cry. As long as everything will cry. For this God, which is Baldur, is the God that he killed with a mistletoe. I don't know if you heard of that story.

Jack: No. Baldur is one of Odin's sons, isn't he?

Cristina: I think so. But Loki kills him, sort of. He was jealous of. He was jealous of Boulder because all the gods would. I don't know. They had fun with him because he's. He's pretty much. He's pretty much immune to everything because his mother. After he had a bad dream about dying or like he was gonna have a really painful death, like he prophesies in his nightmares or whatever. His mom, Freya. Was it Freya or Frigg?

Jack: Freya.

Cristina: It's Frigg. There is a Freya, but in this story, it's Frigg.

Jack: Freya's Odin's wife.

Cristina: Freya is not Odin's wife. Frigg is Odin's wife.

Jack: Freya is Freya.

Cristina: It's another God. Freya is another God.

Jack: Freyja is a whole other God.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: I thought Freya was Odin's wife.

Cristina: A lot of people confuse Freya and Frigg because Freya also has a God husband whose name is something similar to Odin, but it's not Odin. It's like Omud or something. I don't know. It starts with O, too, so they get confused, but they're not the same person. After Frigg finds out about Boulder's nightmares, she has all the living creatures promise to not hurt Boulder, except she forgot about the mistletoe. And Loki finds this out because it's. I don't know why she would be honest to anyone about this. It's like a really big deal. But he turns into an old lady and then asks her, hey, what's this guy's deal? He's immune to everything. And she's like, no, I forgot the mistletoe. It's so, like, so peaceful. It would never do anything it's innocent, Right? And, well, she was wrong. Well, I guess it was innocent. It's really. He got a blind God to throw the mistletoe at Boulder and then he died.

Jack: So it's like in making him immune to everything else, like a mistletoe becomes extra powerful.

Cristina: I guess. So he becomes allergic to the mistletoe. I guess that mistletoe really hated him, actually. Or maybe he turned the mistletoe. I'm thinking of the game is. What was it? It was arrow. Well, I don't know if the game is accurate, but it could have been on an arrow, the mistletoe. And then with the mistletoe in shot at him with the arrow that was poisoned with mistletoe. I guess it killed him. So he becomes allergic to mistletoe. It doesn't matter what the weapon is.

Jack: Because, like, yeah, it's literally kryptonite. It turned the mistletoe into kryptonite.

Cristina: Or maybe the mistletoe. Yeah, like I'm trying to understand. Like, it's very strange. The mistletoe didn't kill him. I would think the arrow killed him. But the mistletoe made. Weakened him. Yes. Weakened that spot. And then. So the arrow could actually hurt him.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: And then he passed away. Yes. And yes. And then the gods were pretty upset by Loki, but for some reason they weren't. That's not when they trapped him. That's not when they punished him. Right after that, he was a little. He just. He just goes out of control after that moment, I guess. But. And oh, back to his daughter Hel. They do ask. She says, okay, so if everyone cries for him, then it'll be fine. So they do. The gods do go around and asking everything, even the rock, even water. Like, everything has to cry for him. And everything does. Except for one giant. One old giant lady. She says no. She's like, I don't love him. I'm not going to cry for him. So he stays dead. And people think that that's probably. That was probably Loki in disguise.

Jack: Interesting. Yeah. Because Loki has this habit of being an old lady.

Cristina: Being an old lady. Oh, yeah. He was an old lady. Yeah. But an old giant lady this time. He turns into weird things, though. He's the most. He has the most fun with shapeshifting. I don't know if the other gods can shapeshift. I feel like they don't because none of them do it. But Loki sure does.

Jack: Maybe it is the power of giants.

Cristina: It could be. Could it be? There's not much said about h*** I think. But I do remember that, well, she doesn't have a key role in Ragnarok. Sort of like, they don't know if she's going to battle with the gods or the giants in the final battle. But she does end up escaping, like her brothers and Loki, out of their traps. She also gets out of her trap, which is their h*** version of whatever she's living in. She.

Jack: And that's a Helheim, right?

Cristina: Helheim, yeah. And it's her. All the dead people, the monsters. There's also monsters trapped in there, too. And the giants all go on a boat made out of dead finger nails. Dead fingers and dead nails. And that's the boat that Loki rides into. What's the place called? Asgard. To fight them, actually. I don't know if they end up there, but whatever. He rides there and then they fight. But that's his battleship. It's made out of fingers and toenails, and it's carrying all the dead and monsters that were in h***. But I don't know if she's on that boat, actually. I just know she left, and all the things that were with her end up on that boat with him.

Jack: So chances are, she was there, too.

Cristina: Yeah, there's chances, yeah. But, like. But there's no. Like, there's no description of her. No stories of her fighting or, like, what happens to her afterwards. Because, you know from these other stories that we know how they die, which I forgot to mention. How the wolf dies. Well, not dies, but his point in Ragnarok. Because Ragnarok is so awesome. Yes. He's the one that kills Odin.

Jack: The wolf.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: The wolf kills Odin.

Cristina: Yes. And then Odin's son cuts off the wolf's paws. So I'm guessing he still lives. He just has no paws now.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting. So, as Odin and Loki are equal but opposite, their children are destined to fight each other.

Cristina: Yes. Well, Odin's fighting Loki's children, child. I don't know who Loki's fighting. He's fighting a God, but I don't know if he's related to Odin, but maybe.

Jack: So they don't fight each other, but their children fight each other, which is Thor and the world snake.

Cristina: Thor and the world serpent.

Jack: Thor and the world serpent fight each other.

Cristina: Yes. And Odin and the wolf.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Vanir, I think, is his name. Vanir?

Jack: That's cool.

Cristina: That's cool.

Jack: Yeah, Vanir.

Cristina: Vanir. Yeah. Vanir. And Hel. Come on. I mean, Hel, I guess, doesn't sound as cool. No, Helheim sounds Cool, though.

Jack: Helheim sounds out. Yeah, it sounds like somebody's name.

Cristina: Yeah. And Helheim is in Niflihem. Niflim. Niflam.

Jack: Niff.

Cristina: Do you know that place? I think that's where the frozen giants are at.

Jack: No idea.

Cristina: Well, the frozen giants, I think is also on board with the giants and all that stuff.

Jack: Yes, Frost giants.

Cristina: Frost giants, yes. Yes. The first story you talked about was pretty funny. And there are other stories that are as funny as that story. And I want to talk about those stories. Which is. The first one is. I'll call it the Tug of War. I don't know if it's actually called that. Maybe it's called that. I don't know. And it starts off as a normal story of Loki just getting in trouble. He somehow a giant catches him and he's like, imma kill you unless you bring me a goddess here to be with or whatever. And so Loki does that. He does that. And then the other gods find out and they're like, you better get her or we're going to kill you. So he turns into a. So he turns into a falcon and carries her back to Asgard. And while he's doing that, the giant turns into a eagle. And when he gets close to him to towards Asgard, they burn it up and he dies in the fire like a firewall or something. And then his daughter comes there to get some type of payment for losing her father. And one of the things that she demands is for the gods to make her laugh. So Loki decides that he's got this. Which I guess he does have this because he.

Jack: He's practiced stand up comedy his whole life. And now his moment to shine has arrived.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Loki's like, take a seat. The lights go down, spotlight on Loki. And he's like, all right. Knock, knock.

Cristina: I wish. No, actually this way. The way what really happened is. Well, you'll see. And you'll tell me if maybe he should have just told the joke. Actually he might for his own sake should have probably just tried to tell a joke. But he's into weird things. We gotta remember he's into weird things. Alright.

Jack: Yeah, he's an eccentric.

Cristina: Yes. Okay, so what he does is he gets a goat with a long beard and he ties his balls to that goat's beard. And then while that goat tries to run away one way, he pulls the other way. And as painful as that is, it makes the giant laugh.

Jack: Fair enough. Look, Jackass was successful.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And who.

Cristina: The original jackass.

Jack: Occam's razor Says everything is normal and that's the most likely outcome. Whatever's most likely likely is probably what's going on. And as above, so below.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we like stupid s***.

Cristina: Why wouldn't giants.

Jack: Why wouldn't giants love stupid s***? God love stupid s*** too.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Thor is well known to be a troll.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like he trolls really hard. Odin trolls all the time. They think of him as serious. But then you look at some stupid f****** Odin stories and he's a troll too. They're all just bored half the time. Doing things for fun.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And so Loki, the most open minded, less rule follow Y1. Of course he's gonna do the craziest s***.

Cristina: So crazy.

Jack: You know he jackasses with it. Yes. But also it hurt Steve O. And he never stopped. I guess he stopped drugs and just turned his self abuse into more comedy.

Cristina: Yes. I wonder if any of them have tried this trick though.

Jack: Maybe.

Cristina: Maybe. Oh my gosh. Go look it up after the show. Yeah. So what do you think? That story funnier, less funny? I feel like it's probably lots of people's favorite, but I think the horse one is my favorite.

Jack: I think whether between doing stand up, a short stand up routine and this one act visually in person, this is more appealing. That wins over stand up. Now to tell the story repeatedly. Stand up would have been better. But he wasn't thinking like how is this story going to be told for the rest of eternity? He was thinking like, how do I get her to laugh? Yeah, he's absurd. So he did something absurd story wise. I also think that's kind of interesting.

Cristina: You think the nuts.

Jack: Yeah, it's also like. I mean the horse one is pretty crazy, but he also f***** a snake.

Cristina: He did not f*** snake. A giant skin a snake while f******.

Jack: That's weird. I guess it is the weirdest that he turned into a horse to get f***** by a horse. Not even to f*** a horse.

Cristina: Exactly. That's weirder.

Jack: But then the question is, is that weirder than turning into a snake so that a giant f**** you? He's a snake. He doesn't have a p****.

Cristina: But it somehow worked. Maybe he was a snake with a p****.

Jack: Do snakes have penises? Whatever. He's. He's either. He's probably just getting f***** by a giant.

Cristina: Yeah, I guess none of that's weird. He's into things and that's normal.

Jack: Apparently for them. I guess we don't have to understand the gods.

Cristina: No, he's just. He cheated on his wife. That's so wrong.

Jack: Did he does she think it's cheating?

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: Or she just like, whatever you f*** stuff?

Cristina: Yeah, maybe. Maybe because she does. She's there in the end, before Ragnarok. She's with him right now as he's trapped.

Jack: Is there. So we don't know when Ragnarok is.

Cristina: When the snake lets go of his h***. That's all we know.

Jack: Right? Do we know when that's gonna happen?

Cristina: No idea. No. Or. I don't know for sure. I do not know.

Jack: I mean, I don't either.

Cristina: Yes. So the boulder thing doesn't get him in trouble, but soon after, the gods are having a party. Well, maybe not a party. Maybe it's to mourn for Baldr. I'm not sure. And they don't invite him to it. But then he gets angry and he's like, odin, what about that oath we have or whatever, that we're like, maybe they're siblings or whatever, or have a blood tie. That's from that story that people got the idea that he. That he and Odin, that there's some kind of special connection between the two. And so they let him in. And then he just starts insulting everyone, every single God. And I think that's really what ruined everything. But the last person he insults is Thor's wife. And he kind of hints that they had an affair. So I thought that was interesting. But she was like. Instead of, like, being angry or anything, she changes the subject. So there might have been an affair.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting. So there is now. Thor's wife is not supposed to bang everything.

Cristina: No. But Thor cheated on her, too. He wasn't very faithful, so.

Jack: Which means fair game.

Cristina: Yeah. So it might have been a revenge thing with Loki.

Jack: D***. But look, the f*** is like uncle or some s***. Whatever the f*** Loki is to him, his dad's archenemy.

Cristina: His dad's.

Jack: I mean, I guess they're not related.

Cristina: His dad, that he has a pact with. Not with Thor, so. But in that party, though, we find out that the thing he really fears Loki is Thor. Thor doesn't fear any of the gods. He fears Thor. Thor gets angry and kicks him out of the party. And he leaves. He's like, I'm. I'm only leaving because Thor.

Jack: Why does he fear Thor?

Cristina: He kills, like, nothing. He has a hammer that just, I don't know, RIP S***. Yeah. And he does. He does all the time.

Jack: Yeah. Thor is in the movies of, like, you know, Marvel Cinematic Universe or whatever. F***. Is conveyed as a good guy. But in his stories, he's really Neutral. Like really neutral. Like he could just do good or bad at any given moment for no reason.

Cristina: He's only, I think, like, seen as.

Jack: A God because, like, the son of Odin. That's it.

Cristina: Yes. But because the Norse see strength as the good, probably. Like, that's what good is.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Bad is being a coward. Good is being strong or whatever.

Jack: You know, the entirety of Norse mythology. Minus. I believe two gods are considered neutral or bad. That's it.

Cristina: That's it.

Jack: That's it. There's two gods. I don't remember. One of them is supposed to be what became a Jesus, and then the other one is what became Samson. And those are the only two beings that even in Greek mythology. Because also the Greek gods are considered neutral. Minus. Two beings that came from Norse mythology, and they are considered to be the only beings in all of the, you know, transcendent universe that are good. Everything else is neutral. All the gods are neutral.

Cristina: All right. But Loki's wife doesn't sound like a bad person.

Jack: Neutral.

Cristina: Oh, I guess she's neutral. Okay.

Jack: Yeah. They're either neutral or bad.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Like, Odin isn't bad, although he does crooked s*** all the time. But so does Thor.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They're not actively doing malicious things, though.

Cristina: Like they didn't murder Loki's children, even though they were predicted to bring the end of days.

Jack: Loki is also, ironically, not considered bad.

Cristina: He's considered neutral. He helped them out quite a few times. Yeah. Sometimes he did start things.

Jack: He swings just like the rest of them.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Between neutral and bad.

Cristina: Yeah. It's whatever he feels like it.

Jack: Exactly. All the gods. Most of the gods are like that.

Cristina: Yeah. Except when he killed that one God. That's pushing the line.

Jack: A couple of gods that are considered bad, though.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: Yes, there's a couple of gods. Not many.

Cristina: Most are neutral in Norse mythology. Yes.

Jack: And Greek mythology. Although in Christianity, they are all good all the time. Everything except for the devil. Lucifer.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Which. Yeah, it's really black and white. There's no neutral. It's either you're the good guys or you the bad guys.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: While all the other things kind of blurred the lines there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But there's a couple of gods, and I believe Boulder was one of them. I believe Boulder's immunity also made him hustle.

Cristina: I don't know. From what I remember checking out. No, from what I know, he was loving and. Or all the gods loved him and all the things loved him. That's why they all promised not to hurt him.

Jack: The gods don't care.

Cristina: But the things. Everything from all nine worlds.

Jack: Oh, really?

Cristina: Yes. They were the ones that cried for him as well when he died. It wasn't just the gods. It was everything. Everything. The rocks.

Jack: Interesting. So he's not the only God who is immortal then. Not in that fashion, where he's like, not human to his own gods. Because there was a God. I don't know where the f*** I heard the story, but there was a God who. His lack of being like the other gods is what made him hostile in the first place.

Cristina: That sounds like Loki, because he is kind of hostile, I guess.

Jack: And he isn't like the other gods.

Cristina: He isn't like the other s***, maybe it could have been exactly like Loki.

Jack: Could be. Could be.

Cristina: And that's why after that party, he runs away. Because he knows, like, he went too far. And they catch him. And now he's is tied up, I think, in somewhere on earth. He's tied up somewhere on Earth? Loki? Yeah. In a cave. In a dark cave somewhere. And his wife is with him. They have him tied up with her children. They took out their intestines and wrapped it around him. I don't know why her children had to die. Understand his being part of Ragnarok. But her children are innocent. They had nothing to do with Ragnarok. But I guess they're the only thing strong enough to hold Loki down because they tied it around him.

Jack: Loki's wife's children?

Cristina: Yes, their children. It's still Loki's children. But those children were not meant for the end of the world. But they. So they killed them and put the intestines around him. So he's tied up with that. And then there's a snake above his head that's dripping poison on him to keep him weak as punishment. It's just a torture. It's just torturing him for all the crap that he's done.

Jack: Like a Japanese water torture.

Cristina: Yeah, I guess.

Jack: Make a little drop of water, hit his forehead for days.

Cristina: Yeah. So his wife is there, though, to hold a bucket over his head to collect as much of that poison away from him. And then every time it fills up, she takes it away to let out the poison. And that's when he does get hit with poison. And then that story explains why there's.

Jack: Earthquakes when he's getting hit by the drops.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Freaks out and the earth shakes.

Cristina: Yep, got it. So that actually fits into the last episode. I didn't know about that story, but now I do. And it's really. There is one more story that I think is Funny. Ish. Or I. I'm assuming it was funny back then. It could be still funny now. I'll tell you anyway and see if you think it's funny. But I don't think it compares to the other two stories I just told you, which is that in this story, he and Thor have to cross dress because there's a giant who has Thor's hammer. Somehow, Thor lost his hammer and a giant got a hold of it and.

Jack: And to get it back, you cross dress.

Cristina: Yes, because the. The giant wants Fria and he'll give them the hammer. So they decide to dress Thor up as Fria. He's not happy about that, but he has to, because it somehow works in the plan that he has to do this.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: And then Loki, for some reason, part of this plan. I think this is his plan.

Jack: Loki's an idiot. He could have just become Freya.

Cristina: He could have, but I think what he wanted to do was dress up as a May lady, so that's what he did. He. He also cross dressed. He could totally use his transforming powers. But no, he was like, I want to dress up like a lady as a man. So they do that. And as Thor is getting married to the giant, the giant calls the hammer, because then the union is made and they're. They're married once the hammer joins, for some reason. I don't know how that's part of the ceremony, but that's part of this ceremony, and it lands on Thor's lap, and then Thor murders the giant, and then he murders all the other giants, and then they go back home. Hilarious story.

Jack: Super funny. Yep. Seems legit. It seems like something Thor would do. He just murders.

Cristina: He just murders. He really does.

Jack: Yeah, he doesn't really need to.

Cristina: But the cross dressing is supposed to be the funny part of the story, so.

Jack: What a solution.

Cristina: Yeah, it is kind of funny because Loki can totally just like, turn into Freya.

Jack: Yeah. It was just a real pointless mission they went on.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Like, he could have legitimately become Freya.

Cristina: Yes. And just had Thor with him. Because he still needs to grab the hammer.

Jack: Yes. It makes total sense that Freya would show up. In fact, it looks like Thor brought Freya.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: In literal exchange for his hammer.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But no, Loki was like, better idea.

Cristina: Better idea.

Jack: We both cross dress.

Cristina: So ridiculous. Like, before the actual wedding, there was, like, a bunch of things that Thor was doing that was obviously something wrong with Fria. Like the giant, like.

Jack: Like sketchy s***.

Cristina: Yeah. Like, he ate too much and he drank too much, and the giant Was like, this is very strange.

Jack: I would love the Norse mythology sitcom where hijinks happen all the time. And then this episode, one of the best episodes. Because he's at the party, he's drinking more than he should, and, you know, they notice. Oh, man, your wife's got, like, a real thick mustache today.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, all those corny, funny hijinks.

Cristina: Yes, it's exactly like that, though. It's like that wolf story of, like, the Little Red Riding Hood with the wolf. And he's like, why did you use your eyes that big? Or why are your hands that big? And.

Jack: Yeah, that should totally.

Cristina: Giant is doing that with Thor is like, hey, why is his eyes so dark and scary? And Loki's like, oh, it's because he. He's so in love with. She's so in love with you. Like, Loki was coming up with the excuses of why Thor was obviously not. Obviously not a lady.

Jack: I guess it's like, this giant has to be a little blind, too, to not be like, that's clearly Thor in a dress or some s***.

Cristina: I know.

Jack: But, like, great. He could, man. Loki genius.

Cristina: Yes, she is a genius.

Jack: Anyways, we are out of time here. That's definitely.

Cristina: So which is your favorite of the three stories?

Jack: I think the horse f******. It's crazy because you have to become a female horse to get laid by a horse and then be pregnant and then ride that pregnancy out.

Cristina: He could have definitely. Well, I guess that's the only option.

Jack: The funniest part is riding the pregnancy out. Yes, that's the funniest part. It's not the banging a horse. He banged a bunch of s***. No, whatever he likes to take, he likes to be the receiving end sometimes.

Cristina: And he actually held a horse in him for however long it takes. A horse. Magic horse.

Jack: Could have been millions of years by our standard. Yeah, we don't know how time works over there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: He could have just been pregnant for infinities, living a life as a wife to a horse.

Cristina: To a horse. Yeah.

Jack: To giant horse for infinities.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: And then had Horace baby.

Cristina: There was some sort of mutant somehow just okay with all this. I don't know. I'm thinking that that whole bucket thing is a little revenge of her own, because she gets to watch him suffer still.

Jack: She gets to be there.

Cristina: Yeah. When she takes out the bucket, like, she could eventually now, like, come up with some other thing to cover his head so he doesn't get hit in the head. But she's like, nah, this is the best moment. She feels so good.

Jack: It's so unbelievable.

Cristina: She just waits for that bucket to get filled and she's like, oh, I can'.

Jack: So easy to just build a little scoop that grabs it and it drips across.

Cristina: Like, it's so easy somewhere else. Yeah, yeah.

Jack: Just divert the flow.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Super simple.

Cristina: But she's like, no, Yeah, I want to see this.

Jack: Well, I mean, they're kinky. They're probably into it. She's all excited about it. He's probably into it, too. You know, they don't give a. Oh, my God. Maybe their bonding time.

Cristina: Oh, yeah.

Jack: Fascinating. Thor's weird. Loki's weird. Odin's weird. Norse mythology in general is weird. Religion is weird.

Cristina: Religion is weird.

Jack: Yeah, it is what it is.

Cristina: That was a great episode, though. Yeah.

Jack: Fascinating. I like. I love knowing about. I like Norse mythology and Greek mythology more than I like Christianity. I guess Christianity is just outplayed.

Cristina: It's just boring to you.

Jack: It is. It's so boring. While Greek and Norse mythology are, like, weird and eccentric, you know, they're really exciting. I think I've heard too much Christianity in my life.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But, like, also, I'm not that interested in Hinduism either. I think there's just something really interesting about Greek and Norse mythology and the.

Cristina: Way those cats behave and all that.

Jack: Yeah, it's really different. Yeah, it's very exotic and different from other religions. It's like a bunch of chaos happening. Just random s*** happening all the time. But, yeah, definitely find that interesting. But if you guys enjoyed this, this episode, this discussion, you can find other things of this nature. You can find the previous part of this when we're talking about when we stumbled upon Loki, talking about, you know, nature and whatnot. Yeah, you can find that last episode, but you can also find in a bunch of other episodes, random crap that we touch about gods and religions, myths.

Cristina: And myths and crap and all that stuff.

Jack: Yeah, all of the above. You can find all that stuff on the official website. Great thoughts.info or on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get podcasts.

Cristina: And you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at just combo podcast.

Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe and Reiter and reveal the show if you feel so inclined.

Cristina: And let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Yes, word of mouth matters. As I always tell you at the beginning and at the end of the show, if you find somebody and you kindly ask them to listen to a podcast, you give them all the space they need. You. You, you know, you don't Want to invade personal space.

Cristina: That's disrespectful. Six feet of space in the zone. Yeah.

Jack: You need a social distance. And when you. Social distance and you tell somebody, hey, I know it's lonely these days, alone all the time. Can't interact too much. Well, I can. I can show you podcasts that you feel like you're in the room with these people hanging out safely and tell them about this podcast and they'll love it. And they'll be like, thank you for respecting my personal space and I appreciate you introducing me to this show.

Cristina: Of course.

Jack: Well, where I'll learn about Norse mythology.

Cristina: Yes, you will, I think at least learn about Loki. Learn about Loki and his children. And his children. Yeah. He learned about a few things, definitely. And this show has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye. But now when you think about the message prior to this.

Cristina: What?

Jack: It kind of makes sense in a political kind of way.

Cristina: In a political type. What?

Jack: Yes. Because he's saying that they're kind of living in a veil of ignorance to some degree. We have hang ups. We're tightly wound and whatever.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And we don't want to let ourselves know more than we do. Where the f*** does he say that?

Cristina: He does not say that.

Jack: Left ear, hard to see the hang ups we have today. The hang ups are somewhere in there. But they don't really realize, though.

Cristina: Oh, no. They don't realize though that he's great. No. The next thing.

Jack: Lift your. Lift your left your lift yourself. Lift your. Lift your. Lift your lift your. Hard to see the hang ups we have today. But they don't realize this next verse. This next verse though, these bars. So the next verse has nothing to do. But they don't realize. They don't really realize. They don't really realize is them sort of. They don't understand. And then he says before that. That. Lift yourself upon your feet. Let's get it on. So, okay, we're beaten down.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And we can get up.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: We don't need anybody to extend the hand to get us up.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: He's. He argues against that, against the whole welfare system, against the whole. This is just very Kanye of him.

Cristina: Okay. Do it yourself.

Jack: He's saying you could pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Cristina: Okay. Yes.

Jack: And then he says the state of mind you're in. I'll sing you some bars about that. And then he jumps into poopa. He's just saying you're full of s***. Everything you've got is excuses.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: Your whole state of mind. Let me summarize it in these woke a** bars.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Poop.

Cristina: Yes, poop.

Jack: Yeah. He's saying you're full of s***. All of you are full of s***. That's a woke a** song. You just did it like a troll.

Cristina: Be any of the s***, no less. It's to your face.

Jack: It's actually poopa de whoop, not poop that you scoop.

Cristina: Okay?

Jack: So, yeah, pretty woke s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I give him points as fire.

Cristina: About poop. About poop. Yeah. 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 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!!

Rambling 121: Moon Folklore

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Topics Discussed:

  • 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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Jack: And remember to subscribe, rate and review the show.

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.

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 McCallister with social media managed by Amber Black.

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JCP 4.09 Genuine Chit-Chat & Universal Scales

The Just Conversation Podcast, Language, Reality, Metaphysics, Mike Burton, Genuine Chit-Chat, Universal Scales, Comedy, Guest, Discussion, Podcasting, Physics, Faith, Religion

Guest Mike Burton, Host of Genuine Chit-Chat podcast, joins Jack to discuss religion and philosophy in intricate detail.

JCP 4.09 Genuine Chit-Chat & Universal Scales

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Topics Discussed

  • Politics- Earth’s Panic Attack
  • The Smart Phone World- What We Know
  • The Love of Learning- Atheism
  • Theism- Agnosticism
  • Hermetic Principles
  • Nature’s Polarity and Balance
  • Shape of Reality
  • Proof of Divinity
  • Understanding God
  • Universal Consciousness
  • Creationism
  • Power of Perspective
  • Human Capacity
  • Subjective Reality
  • Struggle is the Point

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