Two In The Think Tank - 242 - The Dancing Plague

Episode Date: June 10, 2020

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from our great mites. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Wanuki and as always I'm here with two of the very best. It's Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. The very best of here. Thank you so much. That actually really means a lot coming from you, Dave. Yeah. Especially the fact that you're putting me on the same level as Jess Perkins,

who is one of my personal favorite people in the world. So that merely does mean a lot. Thank you so much, Dave. I know, as I put you both on the same pedestal. Well, I feel that's ridiculous, honestly. And I think Jess will agree with me here. No No I believe in my own top five. You know, if I could be anyone else. Oh my god I'd take almost anything. Wow. Oh my god. Dave Warnocky. Yes. Ringo Star. Of course. A worst drummer in the Beatles. That sounds like a super group to die for. Ringo Dave and Dolly Parton. And introducing our new basic guitarist,

Jesperkins. That's a myth by the way. I was watching a video about that the other day that John Lennon ever said that about Ringo. The rest of the Beatles really respected his drumming. Yeah, I got to say that I whipped that anecdote out of the party recently and was quickly brought down to side by a Big Beatles fan. They're like actually that is a myth. Yeah, I was written by a comedian in England in the 70s I think. Right. It's funny it's one of those things where you can't trust your own memories because I could just warn I'd seen a clip of that. But you know how you just hear things so often that you

Then later they're just inserted into your memories. Yeah, it's like that. Yeah, that happens to me a bit memory is so Fallowable. Yeah, you can't trust your memory. No Hey, before we crack into the show We should tell the good people at home listening to this that if they want to hear us but also see us, we've started releasing a web series on YouTube on the Stupid Old Channel, with the good people at Stupid Old Studios. And it's basically like a slightly shorter version of this with animation, with our faces, a fancy look and set, some lighting, some camera work,

and Matt wearing a different band T-shirt every week. Yeah. You're wearing a different colorful button up shirt every week, and we're gonna do a few different little funny stregs like that. Aren't they funny? Yeah. But it has been a lot of fun.

We've got three episodes out so far, and this Friday our fourth episode will come out. And we have been doing like this little, I didn't know that this existed before we started doing it. Are we the first people to do this YouTube premier? I think so. I think we're the first people to do it. I think we invented it. Yeah, I think so. Thank you to the good people at YouTube for letting us do that. So basically the way the YouTube premier premieres. We pick a time which lately has been Friday at 9am Melbourne time. And the episode goes out and everyone watches it, you know, as it first goes out. And we all comment along and it's been a lot of fun.

Yeah, it's been great. It's been really nice. It's a fun for a lot of community. If I could afford a suggestion, how about we don't do it at 9 in the morning one time? Not for me. I mean, I love waking up to that alarm. but I wonder as well about some of the people in Europe who have to step to the middle of the night. So maybe we'll do some that are more European, time zone friendly. Yeah, that sounds good, Matt.

I mean, yeah, I too, I'm always up well before that. So it doesn't like bother me per se. No, it's not bad. I rise with the sun, but. All right, cards on the table, it's because I watch it, then I run to my car and I speed to work after it finishes. The most recent episode was a little bit longer than the previous two weeks, so I was a little bit late, so sorry about that. But I understand, it's a YouTube premiere. And we can play about having to, well, not even get out of bed, I did not get out of bed for the last time.

I didn't even get out of bed, I didn't even sit up. I put my laptop next to me and my head still on the pillow watching it sideways. Just so I can type in one hand. Yeah, that's why your comments were all quite short. Yes, that is exactly right. So, three episodes to check out at the moment. We talked about the Hollywood sign, Nancy Wake, the white mouse, the World War II bad-ass, and most recent episode, he did a report on the fine cotton scandal, Horsesacian's darkest day. My favorite bit is that we filmed those at the end of last year, so I've forgotten all of it.

So I'm rewatching it and going, ah, isn't that interesting? Because I don't remember anything. That's the interesting tales. And it's also nice to see us sitting right next to each other. Yeah, which is kind of... Which we can't do anymore and maybe ever again The other video thing that came out this week was the hundred episode of primates which Dave featured on The audio version of it will be released tomorrow obviously with Dave's section cut out Obviously it was very very scandalous

out. Obviously it's very, very scandalous. So yeah, so there, but if you want to watch the stream of it, you can still buy tickets at saucepresents.com and it's, it goes for it's about two and a half hour video. So you probably could watch it over a few sittings, but the audio version of that which will be chopped down in half I think will be out tomorrow as well if people are interested where Andy Matthews came on to talk about the classic film from the or to Robert Vince Spiderman, which is sort of like a James Bond type film only with a chimp only I hear that and I hear only better Yeah, exactly For your ape's only Is that anything? Yeah, That feels like it's something.

I'm not sure what, but it's something. Alright, we'll put the link to both of those things, our web series, and the 100th episode of Primates on SOS presents in the description of this episode. But what is this episode all about? Matt, what is this show? Ah, so what this show is. It's basically a pursuit of knowledge. One of the three of us will go away with a topic suggested usually by a listener, and

we'll research the shit out of it. Then what we'll do is we'll write up a report with the new knowledge we've gained, we'll bring it back and tell the other two all we have learned, thus enriching them and the listeners with knowledge. This week the report is being done by Jess Perkins. She's dove, dove and deeply into a subject which we are not aware of yet Dave and I, but we're about to find out when Jess gets on the topic with a question. This week's question, Jess if you please. This week's question is more than 150 years after the

Black Plague came another plague that was a little different. What plague am I talking about? Ooh, Dancing Plague. Yes! Well done, Matty Stu. I don't know why that's even in my head. I've just seen that written somewhere. It's because it's been suggested 13 times in Jack the Hat McViddy. I was also going to say, because you see it and it stands out.

So people suggest topics and you can do that. So by clicking the link in the description of this episode, it goes into Jack the Hat. There are thousands of suggestions, but one way for them to stand out is that people suggest the same thing over and over again. Yeah. Also just the title Dancing Play. Yeah. It's been in there for years.

It's been in the Hat. And I put it up to vote for the Patreons. I put up three very interesting, mysterious, disappearance type stories that the listeners usually love. And then I was like, all right, I need one more. I'll talk Dancing Plague in. Thinking it had no chance. So that was like the filler topic. It was the filler. And I was like, cool, I get to research a fun disappearance story this week. And no, no, no, because the people wanted dancing playing.

I watched the documentary on all of the other ones. Just in capis. And so they're like, no, I want this. And it won by quite a lot, by at least 50 or 60 votes, it won. Right, I can understand that. It sounds fascinating. Early theory. Yes. Someone dropped pills in the water supply of the town. Okay. Okay. What kind of pills, Pinnetoll?

Oh, just grow up. I'm talking about bloody X. That's no one calls it that. E? E. E. Oh, drop of them X pills. Hey, you got to be kidding me. Yeah, I'm part of it. I also don't think I've heard someone call it E for at least 15 years. I don't, and that's why it wasn't, that wasn't front of mine. And I knew it was a letter. Well, normally if you're going to hear letters, it's like M-D-M-A, but that's not even the

same thing. But I mean, this is not our area of expertise. But if you're going to call it anything, you should call it X, right? Yeah. Not an E, it's X to C, just call it X. I call it C. Yeah. I call it Tess.

That's very confusing. That's very confusing. Yeah. Yeah, because people call it different things, when you try to get the trucks, you have to say, you got an E, and by that I mean x. See. Now put them all together. Star.

Anyway. You hear nicknames a lot in like usually in like cop dramas and stuff where they can't say too much and you'll hear I want to get some of that molly and I I'm like, I know this is a drug. I just have no idea which one it is. And then, yeah, and then they all turn out to be kind of the same and you're like, oh, all right. You got any Charlie? Charlie Chaplin, you know what I'm talking about?

Chaplin, you got any Chaplin. You got any Chaplin, you got any Chaplin. You want to drop some Chaplin. I got Chaplin, lips. I got any poor poor ointment. Oh yeah. Because my lips are cracked. If you know what I mean.

Do you have any crack? Then they open up the jacket and there's like seven different types of Vaseline. Which one do you want? You want blisticks? I got blisticks. Hey, you want to have a real wild time? I got some day pay for your lips. Oh, that's party.

Try this lip smacker. Smells fantastic. It smells like Coca-Cola. It's awesome. You really want a party? I got a push pop. Well, the question is, Jess, is Matt on the money? Is there any drugs involved here?

Or go on off top of your leaf? Look, probably not, but also who knows. Second theory, psychedelic mold. Okay. But anyway, let people. Yeah. Mold people. I'm the one who's lately been pushing for us to get quickly into the reports and I've already taken a soft

down a funny path that's because I'm drinking medicinal whiskey. Yeah, I had fun with that drug chat. What was we like to call it? W. Don't make him. He just sput his whiskey. Don't make him s's w. All right, I should mention who this has been suggested by, because as I said, it's been suggested

by many, many people. It's been suggested by Ronnie Tabria, Tristan Thornton, Matthew Loa, Travis Alexander, Blake Wilde, Rachel Bundy, Hannah Weiss, Jessica McGee, Tim Anderson, Megan Castle, and that is it. I ended on Megan Castle in a way that it was like I was gonna continue and then I did not. What a great name, Megan Castle. What a great bunch of names there. Yeah, pretty great. Oh, actually, I missed one and it's an incredible name. Nick Dave, how could...

Oh, okay, let me get a second look at this. So, your name is Spellman, which is fantastic. Okay. First name. It's N-K. N-K-U-L-U-L-A-K-O. Wow. You clue K? Yeah.

You're fantastic. You're cool with car. You're cool with You're cool, look how you're doing. You're cool, look how you're spelling it. I love it. Right name. We've definitely got that one. We've definitely butchered that, but thank you for your suggestion. Appreciate that.

So, in Strasbourg, which is now a modern-day France, but then in the Holy Roman Empire in July of 1518 a Woman whose name was given as Frower Traffier stepped into the street and began dancing She danced to no music for many hours I mean what defines dancing and what defines someone like having a fit good point What defines dancing and what defines someone like having a fit? Good point Maybe the level of rhythm. Yeah, the rhythm People have asked me ask that of me at clubs before. Yeah, are you okay? Yeah, they put the house lights on and stop the music

Call an ambulance for this man. This guy's had too much X I'm sober and I was just breaking it down too much X. I'm sober and I was just breaking it down. Eventually after dancing for many hours she collapsed from exhaustion. After a bit of a rest she got back up and continued to dance. Got to love that perseverance. This went on for several days. Oh you're kidding.

Well it started to sound like maybe an FM breakfast show had a competition on. Yeah, a're kidding. Well, starting to sound like maybe an FM breakfast show, how to competition on? Yeah, a dancer thong. Yeah, because they were sort of big in the early 20th century, weren't they? The last couple dancing wins a car or something. Yeah. But you've got to be touching the car as you dance. Yeah, take your hand off the car.

You know when the car. Yeah. Within a week, more than 30 people had joined her This number continued to grow over the next few weeks and within a month It's believed that around 400 people were dancing in the street There's no music. They're just gathered Dancing is it like a dance? A case of like a silent disco where they're all listening to their own song in their mind. So no one is in time.

Some people are going for it, some people are slow dancing, there's a bit of break dancing on it. That must be what it looked like, because I think silent disco's a fun idea. But when you walk past them, you're like, you all look fucking insane. You know? Especially when they all go, woo! At some point in the song and you're like, I don't know one else can hear this. I never feel like a bigger killjoy than when one of them walks past. I'm like you fucking ourselves. If you're in it, a lot of fun. If you're watching,

isn't that a worse? Like I'm watching them go and look at these people having fun not hurting anyone, I hate them. Look at these morons and a bloody box weekend or something I'll DJ a couple of them at Perth Fringe World They have them set up in in designated areas in in a rotunda in a park and One time was really fun in a park Well, the festivals all around is a park with the festivals in it and One time was really fun the other time it wasn't but the weird thing is you DJ I mean I'm saying DJ very loosely I'm playing songs over Spotify playlist and then there's another

person DJing as well and the people listening can flick between your two channels and if if they're on your channel a lot to green the head just because someone doesn't know what it is yeah it's headphones that people listening to yep and if they're listening to the other track, they'll be listening to the headphones glow blue. So it's very clear if people are enjoying what you're doing or not. It's kind of a brutal way to party. Yeah, I love party.

Unless of course you've dropped some X. Awesome T. It'll go gray, you know what I mean? Right, so now. I've got so now bags of El Grey well double bag So there's a few hundred people dancing in the street no music It's the original lady the frow like she's still going yeah, she's still there. That's amazing. You'd feel pretty cool What you I mean this started with just one person and now you've got hundreds of people joining I started this this started with just one person and now you've got hundreds of people joining. Yeah, you're like, I started this. This was me. Have you guys ever seen the film clip for Mick Jagger and David Bowie dancing in the

street, but they've taken the music out and they've sort of just added, added sounds of what they'd be making dancing, like shoe shuffling and breathing and stuff? It's very funny. This is what I'm picturing. Yeah, that's what I'm picturing too, but in the 1500s. Seldom's stopping for rest or food. Some sources say that 15 people were dying each day. Oh my god.

Whoa, okay. That's what one source said. It was up to 15 people a day. It's generally assumed they suffered strokes or hard attacks from dancing for so long. They were literally dancing themselves to death. Made on the dance floor. So yeah, that song is about.

And a lot of people just think it's a fun pop hit. A lot of historical stuff. It's actually an educational piece. So that's pretty cool. Hey, you guys in Simeon and Prest press that I knew that thing is named very quickly. I knew as well Okay But oh well Dave's been Dave's quietly being begrudging, but I can see respect in your eyes

Yeah, I truly respect would you have got that straight off the bat so feel-spec I'm afraid I would have mad So sorry, I think that one's a fairly well- known one. Yeah, right. I was a good get Sorry, mate You have so much good music knowledge That's the one you choose to hold on there are like obscure albums by artists that I would never have known You there's put out artists with like 60 albums in the back cover log and you've heard every song on them You were trying to claim this is your big music thing. Yeah, why are you big so VLs Bexif ads? We're name it first for albums.

I there's like artists that I adore and I couldn't name an album of. You know, I'm and then. Ah, Dolly Parton, Greatest Hit. Yeah, a classic. Queen's Greatest Hits. Anyway, so they're dancing themselves to death, right? And the nobles of the time were concerned with this sudden outbreak of dancing, so they consulted the experts. Dave, who do you go to in this kind of...

John Lithgow. Okay. He likes to band dancing right in movies. I haven't seen that one. That's what Kevin Bacon was. Footloose. Yeah. Matt, if there was some sort of outbreak like this in your town, what kind of profession are you consulting? Oh, okay. Probably the doctor and doctor. And obviously the astronomers. Oh, yes.

Got to check on that moon. So they go to the doctors and the astronomers. It was concluded that this was a natural disease caused by hot blood. And it's hot blooded. I'm hot blooded. Again. That's what that song's about. Yeah.

No, Sophia was back to here. God, she's good. So they decided to just let the afflicted continue to dance, to dance it out of their system, maybe like sweating out of fever or something. So dance to your blood cools. Yeah, dance to cool down. Keep your body moving a lot to cool down. That's like how our parents' generation

sort of parented a lot of the time. It's like, you know, just get it out of your system. Yeah. I remember like, me or one of my siblings was like having a bad time, and that would be like, hey, just snap out of your system. Yeah. I remember like, you like me or one of my siblings was like having a bad time. And dad would be like, hey, just snap out of it. Oh, okay, that's helpful, thank you. Oh, there you go, I fixed.

I fixed. Just dance it out. I'm full of it. I'll say that a lot as well. Dance it until you've gotten rid of it. Hey, it was the anti-John Lithco, your dad. I've always said that about him Second I met him I thought oh I've got ourselves an anti-John Luthor here

I was right So yeah they thought all right we just got to let him dance it out of their system So they did what anyone would do and they built a stage for the dancers Hoping they were dancing away their mania return to their senses. Do you think that will just hope that it will all get stage fright and be like nah, nah, actually nah, nah, I don't want to perform. Because they're dancing as well but they're sort of like, it's almost like they're in a bit of a trance, you know, like they're, they seem kind of, I don't want to say unconscious

because I mean they, they are but they're not really responsive there. They're in a bit of a state while they're dancing. I'm now picturing the thriller film clip where it's zombies. Yeah, that's probably more like it. Dancing in a sense. Wow. So they built a stage stadium started charging tickets. Yeah. I don't know if you'll ruin.

Well, they are. Some cow was there. They ordered in professional musicians to play for the dancers. What? So they weren't just dancing to nothing, which is creepy. It does now sound like a talent show, Matt, you're right. Yeah. They got in professional dancers to dance with them.

Are you serious? And they pay... So now it's dancing with the stars. Exactly. And they paid strong men to keep the afflicted upright by clutching their bodies as they danced. If someone was looking a bit like, are we going to sort of pass out? Just a strong man had come and hold them up. We have talked about so many different weird things. This is now the weirdest thing we've ever talked about. It's so strange. Stronger the health. The annoying thing about it was because it was in 1518.

There's not heaps of information on it. Like all the resources I could find basically say the same few things and then have some theories. There's not a lot of information on it. And so it's sort of like, yeah, I don't know if that frow that that first lady was still there the whole time or if she died, I don't know. But it's just, it's this weird thing.

It's documented. It definitely happened, but it's just like, I wish we had more information on it because it sounds so weird. And now, this is a little bit before I was born, I think, 50 years or so years before. And I don't think video was invented quite yet, right? Not quite. Like, within a few years it was though so we just missed it no that those two came at the exact same time

what do we have cartoonists yeah yeah oh they were cartoonists of course right okay so someone so someone was drawing these cartoons for the next morning's paper to someone dance till they dropped. Yeah, exactly right. The little pig in the corner with like a witty remark. Yeah, yeah, it was just a three panel cartoon. Yeah. Yeah, two big continued.

Yeah, let's get going. So, a whole month. But no, people are no longer dropping. There's like a strong man holding you up if you look at your about to collapse and they're like, just let me die. People are still dying for sure. I just want to have dance for four weeks. So they're dying but they're still sort of weak and at Bernie's.

Strong men dancing them still? No you're not dying on me. Less foot, right foot, left foot. I got money on you winning this thing. Yeah I wonder if they did do stuff like that. I'm putting bets on her. winning this thing. Yeah, I wonder if they did do stuff like that. I'm putting bets on her. The olden days, and we know we've learned this so many times over that in the olden days, and this is, like this is why olden days, we're talking about recent olden days, people would go and crowd around a house if someone had different colored hair. So if there's a town of dancers,

you can imagine everyone in, you know, within miles around would be there to watch. It's still the most outrageous thing that's ever happened and it's 500 years later. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty wild. Yeah, you're right. Like with the first ever Quintuplets and people just crowded around their house to look at them. Yeah people are like, oh a boat's coming in today. A boat! Oh my god! Everybody get a picnic lunch! Let's go! Let's go, look at the boat! Oh, I've got a wave at it. I'm gonna wave.

Oh, that's awesome! Have you got a hanky to wave? Oh, no, I forgot. So they got pro dancers, they've got some strong men. Pro dancers is the best. A poem in the city archives explains what happened next. It says, in their madness, people kept up their dancing until they fell unconscious and many died.

It's a pretty ship poem. Oh, wow. I mean, they don't write it right. They don't write it right now anymore. That's a poem, apparently. So like a sentence. So poetry was invented before photos. So all we had to go on is poetry and comic strips.

Yeah, the highest forms of art, yes. I'm going to put it on Libby and say that was the worst poem I've ever heard. In their madness, people kept up their dancing until they fell unconscious and many died. That doesn't sound like a pole. I know. It sounds like a poorly written sentence. And that, different time. That's William Shakespeare right there.

So the noble sense that they'd made a mistake and maybe just making people keep dancing wasn't going to help the problem. So they decided that the dancers were suffering from holy wrath rather than just hot blood. That's it. They're cursed. Okay. That makes sense now that you've said it. Yeah. So they banned gambling and prostitution and also blamed, oh sorry, banned music and dancing in public. So they just banned the thing that they were doing. Right. Do they also gamble gambling

in prostitution or is that separate? They did ban that as well. Right. Okay. So now people... So they just banned the thing that they were doing. Right. Do they also gamble gambling in prostitution? Or is that separate? They did ban that as well. Right. Okay. So now people, so they banned all these things that were like sins. But now people have less things to do. So you're more likely to join this dance. Yeah. And also people who were deemed to be immoral were driven out of the city. I suppose in an attempt to sort of cleanse the city of whatever was causing them to be cursed. Not sure, but they were just like, okay, the problem is with us, not with the hot blood. Let's ban some stuff that obviously the saints don't like. This episode is brought to you by Progressive. Most of you aren't just listening right now.

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I think it was basically the story. So a demon comes along and I can't remember the show at all, but he puts a curse on the town so everyone doesn't talk anymore. They sing everything. The town becomes a musical and then they dance until they die. I think this is, I think it might be the same thing. So I think some sort of a like a theater demon went to Strasbourg and cursed the town to make it a dance musical. What, what have they done to deserve that? I think, I think just that town is in a hell mouth and it attracts bad stuff about, about once a week for 20 odd weeks a year. That's crazy. Why would you live there?

Yeah, it's crazy. No! I don't know. And they're surprised every time something weird happens. Like you live in a hell mouth. I don't remember last week. What are you surprised about? That pig man came to town and he Oinked Oinked at you evenly Probably I don't remember all I didn't say them all but I imagine that probably haven't one of them I would assume a pig man oinked evenly at some point

And if it didn't it's like we'll bring back Buffy then And just who that is You're not done You're not done You didn't do pig man Yeah who wrote that show again? Sophia L. Aspects Yeah She's a double threat Yeah she's done it all You didn't do pig man. Yeah, who wrote that show again? So, the Alice Bexter. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's a double threat. She's done it all. Cannot dance for shit. So, there was an article in the Guardians, it said, finally, the dancers were taken to a shrine dedicated to St. Vitus, located in a musty grotto in the hills, where their bloodied feet were placed into red shoes and they were led around a wooden figurine of the saint. So they just have to form a

conger line for that to happen? They must have. That's how they get them to go wherever they want them to go. Yeah, how did you just pick them up, chuck them in a van? I don't know. Yeah, like if you're holding them up off the ground, say you're holding them up at the waist, their feet can still dance and that way they're not, you know, they're not moving, you're holding them up off the ground, say you're holding them up at the waist, their feet can still dance and that way they're not moving, you can move them about as you need to take that foot. Quite hard to pick someone up by the waist though, hey. Oh, yeah, are you saying dirty dancing? Yeah.

I haven't. I think it happens in that film. It does, and it takes a lot of practice on their part. Right, okay. So. And it's Patrick's Wazey. And I. So it's interesting that they Swazie. And I.

So it's interesting that they were able to just move them. And they put their feet into red shoes. Yep, no idea why. Okay. I reckon it's to cover the blood, right? Oh yeah, true. I mean, you're going to put bloody shoes into white. Bloody feet into white shoes, are you?

It was ruined in the white shoes. Maybe they just had a big stock of red shoes. Yeah. Are they happy to admit that it was a mistake to put them into tap shoes? That was not their best call yet. It'd be dancing for hours. It's so loud. In the following weeks after this, though, most of the dancers stopped dancing. The epidemic was over.

Some were dead. stopped dancing. The epidemic was over. Someone did. Mind you by this time it was September and they'd been dancing since July. So it went for quite a long time. Quick side note here too about... I'm gonna make it easier to edit that so. Oh, you don't want to have me squeaking away like a pig man, are you? Quick side note to about St. Vitus, because I decided to look him up and see what his deal was. Vitus is considered the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers, and epileptics. Oh, he's our man. A big four. Where dancers?

He's a weird combo. Wow. They do that a lot with saints. They'll group together a bunch of different, um, often seemingly unrelated things. So just not enough to go around. Well, no, I think there's so many saints that they all have like something so Vitus is also said to protect against lightning strikes animal attacks and over sleeping Don't want to sleep through your alarm pray to send vitus

What's one of the biggest things that wake people up our lightning strikes and animal attacks? And he's keeping them away. Yeah, good point. So this dancing mania, which had happened before on much smaller scales a few times in previous centuries, was often seen to be a curse from a saint. Usually either John the Baptist or Saint Vitis, and victims of dancing mania often ended up, ended their processions at places dedicated to that saint. So that at least explains why they went to this particular shrine because he was, yeah, they figured it was a curse

from him. In fact, that kind of dancing mania used to be called saint, saint Vitus dance, and it wasn't until the 17th century that it was diagnosed as Sidnamnam Coria, which is a... And Viars' feet are gutting her rhythm. Oh, yeah. It's a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements, primarily affecting the face, hands and feet. I think I might be a victim. Does that... Maybe give you a better mental image of...

I'll tell you that. If you send me dance? I am no good. Until I've had half a bottle of alcohol. And then I'm the greatest dancer you've ever seen. What size bottle? What time? Hang on. Half a bottle of alcohol is it?

I didn't mean like, I meant like a liquor bottle, like a vodka bottle. Okay. All right. Because if it's like a bottle of beer, it's like, a bottle of vodka mixed with lemonade and stuff. And some fresh lemon. I don't think it's a funny time in history where people like bad things are

happening. A saint is out to get us. Yeah. A saint. Aren't they famously like good? Well, they were. Okay. That's one of the things that I read. It was like in this time. And I'll probably get to it a little bit later as well. But in this time, they did, okay, that's one of the things that I read. It was like, in this time, and I'll probably get to it a little bit later as well, but in this time, they did quite genuinely believe that saints could cure illnesses and stuff like that,

but they could also inflict them. So they definitely believe in sort of the power of saints. So, because I said this. I won who won the premiership in 90s? Many, many centuries later. Like I mentioned, this had happened many times before. The earliest known outbreak of dancing maynia occurred in the seventh century, and it reappeared many times across Europe until about the 17th century when it stopped abruptly. One of the earliest known incidents has occurred sometime in the 1020s. God, that's weird to say. Where 18 peasants began singing and dancing around a church, disturbing a Christmas Eve service. Just found that funny. People in Christmas

Eve mass, like, what's that bloody rocker's out there? Another incident in 1278, involved about 200 people dancing on a bridge, resulting in its collapse. Ha ha. While many people survived, and they were restored to full health, at a nearby chapel dedicated to St. Vitis. They went to a St. Vitis.

There must have been so many fucking chapels everywhere. Different shrines, chapels for each one and for each ailment you have, you have to go to the relevant... You must be a book to keep track of what all the saints do, because honestly, I'd lose track. I haven't heard of St. Vitis, I don't think. Are you familiar with him at all, Jess? No. Well, I am now. I don't think I've ever heard the name Vitas before. He's the saint of comedians. We should all know his name.

Yeah. In fact, it happened 100 years earlier in Strasbourg, where people fasted for days, and the outbreak was possibly caused by exhaustion. You know, he just really ties. Really hungry. You just go a bit loopy. It was probably just that that time. Right. Yeah. I've been there. I normally go to bed though. Yeah. I normally have something to eat. I start ballroom dancing. Yeah. So it wasn't the first time this dancing mania or mass hysteria had occurred but it certainly was the biggest.

And there are a few theories as to what happened to cause this strange epidemic. One of the most popular theories is food poisoning caused by the toxic and psychoactive chemical product of ergot fungi. Fungi? Oh! Not far off mold. Yeah, which grows commonly on wheat that is used for baking bread. So it is basically that,

yeah. Wow. Suck it on the mold, wow. Mold the wheat that then gets baked into bread. So it's the main psychoactive product, sorry, got a mean. Oh, got a mean. Yeah. Is the main psychoactive product of, got, and structurally related to the drug LSD. Whoopi Goldberg won an Urgot? That's bad is kind of true. That's kind of a pun. Oh no. No he's done it. They would know, being the pun master. This same fungus has also been implicated in other major historical anomalies, including the Salem Witch Trials.

It was one theory in that as well. Which we have covered on a previous episode if you're interested. And what a crazy time history that was. It's insane. However, some people don't agree with this theory, including a man named John Waller, who wrote this in The Lancet, which is a medical journal, and a lot of people sort of think he's the kind of like the expert on this.

I imagine like that's your business card, dancing plague expert. He's written a book on it, I think. And he says, this theory does not seem tenable, since it's unlikely that the poisoned, that those poisoned by Ergot could have danced for days at a time, nor would so many people have reacted to its psychotropic chemicals in the same way. The Ergotism theory also fails to explain why virtually every outbreak occurred somewhere along the Rhine and Mosel rivers. All areas linked by water but with quite different climates and crops, so I guess you're saying that how likely is it that all of those areas had that same sort of mole on it? Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah. If it they have. Ah, but they all have the same water supply,

which has been spiked with F. Yes. John also goes on to speculate that the dancing was stress-induced psychosis on a mass level. Since the region where the people danced was riddled with starvation and disease, and the inhabitants tended to be superstitious. So this theory comes up a bit quite a lot. People were stressed, they feared death or illness. In the years leading up to the incident in 1518, they'd faced repeated famine, harsh taxes, and a rise of syphilis.

So they had a lot on their minds, you know? And their genitals. Yeah, their genitals. Combine this with their preexisting belief that St. Vitus was known to curse people to dance, it's been argued that their psychological stress manifested in the urge to dance. You know, it's like there's two things already sitting at the back of their head that sort of merge and create this This reaction of just dancing. It does seem like a like a flash mob gone too far

Yeah, that sort of you just get sucked in, you know Do you think maybe they were they were an organized dance flash mob. And then as they were doing it, started getting embarrassed, so that to pretend that they hadn't decided, oh no, this is out of our control. Oh, no, I'm on drugs or something. Yeah, it must be. God, this is so embarrassing.

Oh my God. You don't want to be the first person to stop a flash mob, you know? You ruin it. So yeah, this idea is supported by the fact that dancing plagues no longer happened beyond the 17th century when st. Worship began to diminish. So people stopped believing in st. So heavily and then they also stopped having dancing outbreaks. But it happened to fair bit.

I think that means that the st. They have just lost their powers. Oh, well, they have one approach. Yes. Jesus, if the ball bounced differently in 2010, no, Dave, Premorship number two was in the back. So if it had bounced differently, you would have lost by even more. It's all you're saying. No, that is not correct. If it bounced differently, it would have lost by even more is what you're saying no that is not correct if it bounced differently would have sat up what one time or and the year before if it didn't hit bloody um Scarlet's booty like the luck of it hitting his boot in a center of the ground like it did and then falling into ablet's hands

on the Chapman absolutely ridiculous I have no idea what you're talking about. Curse. It's so unlucky two years in a row. Maybe it was the best time in the league. Maybe they should have just danced. Oh, no. That's a good point. Not a lot of dancing that night, hey? Yep. There was not no. Not for you. But for the winners, big time. Yeah, did you cry Matt? I felt numb. Oh, after we after we lost the replay Against calling would I add tickets to see friends of ROM who we did a report on I probably mentioned that episode So I I was just solemnly Stating at the corner hotel watching one of my favorite bands play a great set and you felt nothing I felt nothing.

I remember there were people like crowd surfing a guy. There was a disco ball in the corner hotel band room. And someone got up on the shoulders of that guy and he took the disco ball off the thing. And then the disco ball was sort of crowd surfing. You're seeing like this fun party going on around me. And you just see me standing in the middle of it like just blank face Waiting it out

That's nice. That's the saddest thing I ever did something No, yeah We haven't made since then it's been well, that's 10 years ago. We've been you know very ordinary ever since I'd love to be second best again That would be nice ever since. I'd love to be second best again. That would be nice. So yeah, like that's kind of all that there is that's known about this hysteria, but I do have a few examples of more recent instances of mass hysteria that I kind of wanted to mention as well. Right, okay. Middlemania. Middlemania, obviously.

Obviously that was bread as well. I said more recent, but this isn't. Do you guys know the band Bread? My mom was a big bread fan. She had the best of bread. I can't tell if you're doing a bit. No, I don't know. That's the name of a big band. I couldn't name a bread song doing a bit. No, I don't know a bit. That's a never big band.

I couldn't name a bread song. I could name a bread song. The best of bread. Bread. Yeah, that big hit. There was like the guitar man was one of those songs. He's the guitar man. I've already forgotten how we got on to this.

It sounds like they just said, they just name things that they see. Bread, you're on the guitar, guitar man. What did you say, Dave, to get bread? I don't know how we got to that. But obviously bread mania was another thing. A bit of mania was inspired by Moldy Bread as well. Okay, gotcha, thank you. That wasn't, I definitely wasn't having a dig.

I just realized I'd completely, I was like, oh no, how did we get here? What have I missed? I thought I'd blacked out for a bit. You thought you'd been eating Moldy Bread? I was like, oh no, how did we get here? What have I missed? I thought I'd blacked out for a bit. You thought you'd been eating mold again? I was like, what's happened? Okay, so other instances I said more recent, this one is not more recent. It's in France during the Middle Ages, a nun began inexplicably mowing like a cat. Other nuns soon joined her in the mowing until the entire convent was making cat noises for several hours. It got so out of hand that the village had to call soldiers who threatened to whip them if they didn't stop.

I know why this was, this is because of St. Wiskers. A sneaky cat. Well, actually back then it was commonly thought that some animals, especially cats, had the powers to possess people. So in a way you know They're like no pesky cats infected us the cats would have been freaking out that day. Yeah Honestly the science worked in mysterious ways back then Making people sound like cats What does it all mean? It's crazy This other one that I found as well is

It's crazy. This other one that I found as well is in Tanzania, three girls began laughing at their boarding school and the joy was very infectious. Soon 95 of the 159 pupils joined in. Some only laughing for a few hours. Others as long as 16 days. Only for a few hours. I'm trying to teach a class. I mean, we've all had moments in school where you've cracked up and you can't stop. But not for several hours. I was the time leo-farted. Fantastic.

It becomes painful after little odds. It's kind of a nice feeling because your brain's obviously releasing nice chemicals from the joy or whatever. But after all, it can't get scary when you lose control of it. Yeah, it's a good feeling and you can't force it. When it happens, you just have to enjoy the ride, you know? Like you and we talked about that pack of dogs, chasing a man off a marathon.

But Matt did that for 16 days, he would have died after day one. I would have killed him. I think so. Would have gotten real tedious. You could have just left the room. No, no. I had to smother you. So yeah, some of the laughing as long as over two weeks.

So the school had to be closed. And that didn't stop the laughter from spreading to the next village as well. And then months later, another laughing up break occurred. This time, affecting 217 people. At least laughing is a bit of fun though. Yeah, this one would have been St. Chuckle's. Yes.

Okay, I've already figured out a Patreon game. We're giving them all saints. Yeah. And the last one that I found as well is in Pokemon's first season, there's one episode that never aired in the US due to an outbreak of nausea and seizures that affected 12,000 Japanese children after they watched it in 1997. The episode was called Cyber Soldier Poregon and it featured bright flashing lights that some believe caused the seizures. Others believe this was simply a case of mass hysteria.

I mean, and that's insane. Is it worth noting that the guy, that saint is the saint of comedy and epilepsy? Exactly, yeah, St. Vitis. St. Vitis, he's comedy. He struck again and Pokemon. And epileptics. sent by the company he struck again and pokemon and epileptic's i think i i and on a ninety seven the science uh... made the first grandfather no one in three decades i'll just have to cut you off there you have

become hysterical not again i lied i actually do have one more i thought that was all one but i've got another one here as well in two thousand and six a lot more recent portuguese teen soap opera uh... aired an episode where the characters were afflicted with a terrible disease

Sure enough more than 300 children who watched the episode began to think they themselves were suffering from this illness Several schools had to be closed in order to quell the perceived outbreak Whoa, and it was it made up disease as it made up made up to Z's. It happened in a, you know, teen soap opera. And then a bunch, 300 kids were like, I've got that. Isn't that full on? That's amazing. And there was another one as well about like, on a flight. I don't, I don't remember how many, but a few people were sick, but something like, tens, maybe even a hundred

people all thought they were unwell. Because you know, when, especially if you live in a house with other people and somebody gets sick, then you're like, oh, my throat's a bit sore too. Oh, my God. When I lived in a share house, someone gets sick, like with gastro or something, and I'm like, oh no. I've got it too. I can't eat it on any of these plates, any of these things. Yeah. I'm going, oh no. I've got it too. I can't eat on any of these plates and any of these things.

I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna die. So I guess I kind of get it, but some of those are pretty funny as well. I mean, Pokemon did sweep my primary school with hysteria as well and the Pokemon cards were so obsessive that people did rip each other apart.

It's pretty nuts. Whoa, literally. Yes. Whoa. Lynn from Wim. Back in my day it was Yo-Yo's. Okay. Do you have a Yo-Yo craze? No. There was one because you could... That was sort of cyclical I think. Every seven years there's a Yo-Yo craze. Because you could buy an ice cream at the school canteen and you got a free mini Yo-Yo with the ice cream and then the Yo-Yo's became much more popular than the actual ice cream.

Yeah. Good ice cream was it. I don't, I can't really remember, it was so like no one wants the ice cream. You'd honestly buy it, throw it in the bin, get the yo-yo. That's a smart promotion I guess, although it obviously didn't work that people kept going back for the ice cream's after. Yeah, but who cares, they made a butt ton of money on Yo-Yo's. I think it was there was a brand called Moose or something like that when I was at school.

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But yeah, I mean, I'm sorry that that was a relatively short topic, but as I said, it was in the 1500s and there's not a ton of information on it. And also, I gave so many sec options. And the Patreon shows the Dancing Plague. And I think, I mean, I think they made a very good call because it is wild. That just isn't heaps of info on it. Historically, that is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Yeah.

I thought it was a great report. And you did say it was going to be a bit of a shorter one and that's why we really took it for a walk. In some of the parts there. We walked to the dog, if you will. A yo-yo, a yo-yo joke. Nice. Was that Miss Craboppa says to Bart not another word and he says yo Very good stuff. Yo

And Dave I also just why we're doing Simpson's references I also did get your subtle one somewhere halfway through the episode. Yeah, what it was there I do remember what it was I do remember making one but I can't Clutter and what it is myself on I don't think I'm on it. You didn't reference it but you said it word for word, this little line. So hopefully Jake about Patreon who audits the Simpson references picked it up as well. I hope he did. I think him him every time.

I just try and sneak him in there and I'm glad that you remembered it but I honestly just it slipped my mind now what it was. That's okay. A few minutes ago I couldn't remember how we got onto a topic. Why are we talking about bread? I was like wait, I mean I'm loving the rift but someone helped me because I think I'm broken. But yeah, there we are. So that's my point. Yes, stuff like the bread rift is a good example of me trying to give a little bit of value from

when Jess said this report's not too long. That's why I'm going bread. My mom had an album by bread. Very good stuff. But although that does make me laugh a lot the idea that mom liked a band called bread. And they have the best the best of bread is very funny. But and they were really big. There are soft and American soft rock band from LA. They had 13 songs chart in the Billboard Hot 100 between 1979 and 1977. So they were pretty big. I didn't realize I was so famous. Bread. It's pretty great. Was there a biggest hit? That number one with make it with you?

I see Make it with you What are you about Brad? I guess so This one I don't like this at all that had a number three hit with baby. I'm a want you Matt, can you please acknowledge my make a sandwich joke? Oh? That's fantastic. They've gave it a little pity laugh. I loved it. But yeah, I mean, that's the dancing plague, which of course, brings us to everybody's favorite part of the episode.

Now we've got that historical anomaly out of the way. It's time to launch in to the Patreon section of the podcast. And this begins with the fact quote or question section which has a jingle that goes like this. Fact quote or question. Bing. You always remember the ding. Now, we have been going through a few more than normal recently

because there have been a lot of facts. But this week we've got a few questions. So I'll just do two. And if we get through those with time to spare maybe we do have time to spare because we got through the report pretty quickly maybe we'll do a couple more because I'd love to keep getting these fact-quotal questioners done because people who support us on Patreon at Patreon.com such to go on pod at the Sydney Shardberg Deluxe Memorial Rest in Peace edition level. They deserve to have their voices heard. Downright, as well as the now three bonus episodes that we put out on Patreon every month,

we're about to put out our first one for this month, and we're also going to put out a bonus report. And episode two of Frazing the Bar, our Patreon only podcast, where we go through the films everyone's favorite actor Brendan Fraser I forgot that we get to watch in seno man in seno man coming up so pumped for that yeah but it on the patreon's been going off the facebook groups have been a fun place the world you know for so many reasons it's been pretty rough this year and it's actually been one of the nice places to go is the Facebook Patreon group and I know Facebook in general is a bad place But we've found we've sort of created a little corner of Facebook that is actually quite quite nice

And that's one of the other things you get to be involved in if you jump on the patreon The I just remembered that the the first bonus episode of this month, I couldn't remember what we were doing, but it's very interesting for some people, I guess, and that is we are doing a follow-up to some of our previous topics. We are nearly at 250 reports here, and sometimes we put out an episode, and then we get an update. Something happens. Including this week, a very big one, which I'm sure

we'll be discussing on the episode, is the Forest Fan Treasure, which we spoke about five or six weeks ago, after being hidden for 10 years, has reportedly been found. Yes. So we're going to give an update on that. And I've asked for help from Patreon. So I've got a bunch of things to tell you about. Awesome! Yeah, I don't know how many of it will be able to get through, but we've got updates on more than 20 episodes, and there's probably heaps more. So I think depending on how it goes, we'll probably do more of these episodes in the future as well.

Sweet. And people can get involved with that, I forget which level it is on Jess, you know. Um, yep. The D. The D. The D. The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- The D- We love them. And we reward them in all sorts of different ways, and they reward us all the same just by being involved.

So firstly, the first fact-quotal questioner this week, they also get to give us a fact-quotal question, obviously, but also get to give themselves a title. The first one comes from... Katarina Gutweres from Victoria BC in Canada. I like that because no one else puts where they're from, but Katarina did. And she's given herself the title of Mats Juerz Barba, which is funny because I kept my own hair, but I feel... Mats Juerz is Mats Juerz Barba. She still kept Katarina on on retina. She's on a retina. Hey Katarina, feel free to come by. I haven't found anyone who does it as good as me, but it's definitely willing to give you a try. Didn't you get a haircut recently and hated it, but still told the guy that you liked it?

I mean, everyone does that. I know. That's not on him. That's on me. I could have said, actually, this isn't quite what I needed but I just I don't I don't know. I'm very unconfrontational at the best of times and I also didn't really know I said to him do whatever and he did whatever and then I realized when I got home I'm like that's not what I wanted so I cut a lot more off. Okay in fairness that is on you. That is a hundred of us out on me yeah. I know I blame him for that at all. Anyway, Katarina's question this week, I don't read these so I read them. She writes, apologies, I've got a bit of a sore throat, so this, this is whiskey's, I'm gonna take a couple of sips.

Yeah, have a little sip. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da Katarina writes, Ahoyo, which I love is a greeting. It's right up there with Mr. Burns's Ahoy-Hoy. Ahoyo, I have a, would you rather question for each of you? Oh, interesting, here we go. Dave, you're up first. Okay, would you rather, would you rather never be able to eat pies again? Or be only able to eat pies for every snack or meal for the rest of your life? Oh, interesting. I mean.

It's not a hard question, it was a day. Can we lock in B and when will the pies start being delivered? Love them. I love them. I love them. Sorry, we've killed that with that. Oh, apologies. Honestly, I know, because you're thinking, you get so sick of them, but you can have like a breakfast pie.

You can have a savory sort of meat pie, which I absolutely love, a veggie pie. You can have like a sweet pie. Apple pie, raspberry pie, all this, you can have so many different pies. Lemon meringue pie. Oh, you know, it's not the same as like, but you know. But it's got pie in the name.

It's a bit different. Yeah, is that the rules? Is that the rule? Is that the rule? It's got pie in the name, please. Just look at that. What a bit like a seven-spice pie. I don't know if you mentioned that, but you also got, you know,

you can put anything in a pie these days. A lot of highs. Ten-ten-ten-du-re pies. And, um, there, you remember pie face? There was a little pie chain that took off in Melbourne, even to the point where I got a pie from that chain in the middle of New York City on the block that I went to see David Letterman the late show Did you know yeah, they did it. I went in there. I'm like I was funny to realize that our American channel I thought they were from Australia and he goes they are from Australia Yeah, yeah, Letterman even did a safe failed soon after he did Letterman did a segment on it when they went down and they tried it

I think that the process had to be obviously for promo on there But yes, how they did go bust, basically. Now, because they spent all their money on Letterman, just make good pies, you dickheads. They flew too close to the sun. The pies were fantastic. And then we're 24 or seven. But they used to.

They used to. Yes, they were so good at Comedy Festival time, get them on the way home. But the one that I always loved there, if I felt that way in climb, they did a dessert, custard and apple pie. Love that. It was so good. Anyway, I'm sorry to get distracted.

Yes, yes. Would you rather that's definitely what I'd rather. Alright, so so far Dave got the easy way. I have a pie for you to tell you off here. Oh. Oh. Too saucy for a... It's not too saucy.

It's too graphic. Okay. So I'm shitting your pie. No. No. No. Anyway, yeah, what's mine? The kind of story that's going to make us not 108 per face anymore?

I mean, you can't. So that wouldn't hurt too much. Anyway, yeah, what's mine, would you rather? Would you rather travel all the way to Dolly Parton World only to find it's no longer open? Or meet Dolly, but embarrass yourself so badly that security is called on you. Meet Dolly and embarrass myself.

What a story. Exactly. And I go to meet Dolly. But I mean, like, but forever, her only impression of you is a neighbor. I don't care. She'll never remember me. But what if you the other story is pretty is just a sad sort of no story, but I guess you get to travel. But you've done something so embarrassing that they've had the cool security. What have you done?

Well, I feel like they'll call security for anything these days, you know? And actually sounds like I might be related to your embarrassing parfait story that you're gonna tell Sophia. All right, you've both answered those very easily. Here's my one. I'm not notoriously, I love these kind of Matt notoriously weighs up options for quite a long time.

You're a flipper and a flopper, Matt. Yeah, so... Natoriously. It's... It's notorious. So... Um, here we go. Would you rather never be able to grow facial hair again

or never be allowed longer hair? Oh, you're... Oh, that's a tricky one. Here it goes, way not. That is a tricky one. Hmm, Caterina, you are diabolical. Well done. You've got me right where you want me. So you basically have to go like a crew cut with a bit with facial hair or no facial hair and you can do whatever you want with your hair. Hmm, I don't know. Can I ask the brains trust on this one? What do you think? Because I actually, to be honest, the reason I grow facial hair for the most part is because I don't like shaving. It's just a pain the ass. So if I couldn't grow facial hair, it would

just mean I don't have to shave, right? That's not the end of the world to me. Yeah, that's true. And then I can just do whatever I like with my hair. But you do look good. Yeah, I'm not sure what facial hair really does to you. Yeah, I would have said keep the hair short and be able to grow facial hair. All right, I'll go with that. Because I think it's a real poison chowelist this one.

I'm not using that phrase correctly, but still I'm sticking with it. Thank you so much for those questions, Caterina. You really you really got us in the hot seat there. It really made me feel like a pie. Yeah me too, an apple and custard pie. And I'm pretty sure just they are still around they're just like working out of one of the like fast servos. Yeah I think they're attached to service stations now aren't they? Yeah. Really? Hmm. Oh well, there you go. Next fact quote a question comes from Shockery Francis Raouf who has given himself or they've themselves the title of President of Opera Singing.

Oh, that's cool. Need one of those. Opera Singing, everyone needs a President of Opera Singing. Shockery is offered as a fact and the fact is if you're obgolic on your feet, come with you so far, you can taste it in your mouth about 15 minutes later what what this is because both garlic and skin have watery and oily layers to them so the garlic can be absorbed through the skin and then the blood as the skin on your feet is

particularly thin. Well, I never fact check these. I don't doubt that is true. That's you. I don't doubt it because if you eat a lot of garlic, it can come out in your sweat. You can start sweating like a garlicy smell. If you eat it, yeah, which is not nice.

That's amazing. I love garlic so much. But do people around you love the smell of garlic seeping out of your armpits? I don't know. I see. So I love garlic. Garlic and onion, you know, tomato sauce on pasta. Oh heaven. Very good for you as well. Keeps way colder here. And vampires. There you go. So rub it on your feet. I would like to try that. Very good for you as well. Keeps way colder here and vampires

There you go. So brother only feet. I would like to I'd like to try that. I would Great great fact. Do we have to do you up for another question? You go on mom Alright, this one comes from Mark Swaini. Thank you so much to Shockery This one comes from Mark Swaini who is the lead supervisor to junior president of stroking brackets petting for Americans Dogs, okay lead supervisor to junior president of stroking dogs. I What what's the Australian word for that? We don't say petting do they padding. Yeah, we say pat pat my dog not pet my dog Yeah, I love to pet my dog, but how my dog. And I love to pat my dog.

But how do you feel that stroking your dog? Yeah, I'm glad he had a dog. I thought he was just gonna be in charge of stroking. Yeah, and that felt weird. I have a funny feeling that he may have wanted us to go down that path. Hahaha. Stroke it, great tune.

All right, question is, what is the most expensive purchase you have ever made? Ooh, I think mine... Yeah, super boring, be a car. Yeah, I think mine is also car. My first car cost more than my second car as well. Nice, that's how you do it, that's how you trade up. Yeah, four grand for the first one, two grand for the second one.

Next one's only going to cost you one grand. My best car that I've ever had wasn't my car. It was just a car I got to drive when I was selling air conditioning. You just get to drive a hold on SS V8 Ute. Oh, that's good. The black rat. It was known as A. Did you got it?

Yeah, I got a lot of speed. I lost my license. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, You were the king when we were in the UK the first time when you were driving at the king of oh sorry that's our exit and I'm like we've missed it we'll have to do a D2 and that's like fuck that! We all have different skills you know I could park that very large car. Yes is it the best parker I've ever seen? Yeah it went that where was it the London one because you two took over the driving time I did most of the driving the first time you did all the driving this time Because we didn't even give him my loss and yeah, and that I was like oh Boy this park is pretty much impossible glad. I don't have to do it

And I'm just just like doing that one hand Steering Burr Yeah, I don't think it was just like I'm like this will take a while let wake me up when you're done I don't think it was just like, I'm like, this will take a while. Let wake me up when you're done. Merrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you were going to scrape the hole on the carriage along like a big stone. And I don't think there was, there was no reversing mirror, was there? No. There was a mirror, not a reversing camera. No, no.

Despite the fact that the vehicle was about 600 feet long. It was a little longer than we required. It was massive, did we have... It was about a meter longer than what we probably made. There's three of us and there were nine seats. Yeah, it was too much. We did have a lot of bags, but still... We underdid the first two. So we overdid the second. We went too small and we overdid the second.

Their time will get it just right. Just right, yeah. So Goldilocks though. All right, um, yeah, so it's just the cars. Yeah, or maybe like, I suppose maybe a trip of some kind? Oh yeah, that's a the cars. Yeah, or maybe like I suppose maybe a trip of some kind? Oh yeah, that's a good point. If you can't and a trip and it's entirety. Yeah.

When I travel for six months out of school, out of after I studied, that was the most expensive thing I've ever done. But that was spent over six months. Yeah, and just one big bulk purchase would definitely be my car, which I've had for over 10 years. So I think it's pretty good value. It's pretty good. Oh, that's great. Well, that two grand car that I bought, I think I got that four years ago, that's still driving so well, even though it's missing a headlight basically.

It's not really okay to drive it night, but It's missing a headlight basically. It's not really okay to drive it night, but... You know, I guess you're from A to B. Yeah, that's right. It really does. I've got to get a buck, but I think... Great question. Yeah, that's an interesting one, Mark. I wish we had something more exciting for you. I was half expecting Dave to say,

have you ever heard of the jewel of Peru or something? Oh I mean my car is a Ferrari. Yes. I think it would be an interesting question for someone like Evan because he'd have a weird bit of tech that he'd bought. I think I know what he bought a camera once it was worth like 20 grand or something. He bought it on a with a loan. Yeah wow.

He paid it off for many of the cars. Possibly put together. Oh, yeah. That's easily the more expensive than anything I've ever bought. I might be adding a little mayo on that price as well. I've known it. Maybe it was five grand. I can't remember.

Still, it's a bit. Still, it was an expensive camera. Yeah. All right, great. Should we join one more question? Go on. Yeah. All right. One last question, then we'll move on to the other shout-outs.

This one comes from Brian Fleming, who's given himself the title, love that name, Brian Fleming. Uh, given himself the title, honorary Minnesotan artist for Dugo on. Oh. I guess we have an artist in every state of America. Yes, we do. Yep. Great. It's a Hollywood timber wool competitive field. And yeah, Minnesota obviously making news for some pretty

full-on reasons. Lately, hopefully everything's okay where you are at the moment Brian. Brian's question is where you are at the moment Brian. Brian's question is, one of the things I've been most impressed about is the three of yours friendship. Any tips for keeping friendships alive and well year after year, thank you for all the last. Just a little laugh. No, I wonder if it's like friendships in general or friendships while you're working together. Well, I was going to say if you in general or friendships while you're working together Well, I was gonna say if you want to make sure you see people every single week start a podcast with them and make sure you never miss a week Yeah, don't take breaks Yeah, I've got old friends from school and stuff who I'd still think of myself as close with and I would catch up with them a couple times a year Maybe and we we literally talk in our group chat every day, not a day goes by.

Yeah, so I feel very lucky to have this thing to share with you guys for sure. It is, yeah, it is an interesting thing where you just sort of have to... I think you just have to have a commitment with each other or something without making it a chore, obviously. For sure, well, one of my new used resolutions was the only one was I wanted to spend more time, put more effort in with seeing friends and things like that. And then COVID hit, and never three months, you wouldn't let us see anyone, I was like, God damn.

I reckon that's a really good resolution for next year. You know, start fresh then. All right, I won't see anyone for the next six months. Finally enough, the COVID thing has led to me catching up with some of these older schoolmates on Zoom or online catch up for a beer every few weeks When I would see them, you know two three four times a year So yeah, that's been it's been an interesting thing that it's opened up that idea or even just put it in front of mine that it's important.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a tricky one. It's a hard one. It depends on the scenario you're in and stuff like that as well. But I think making an effort is important, sending a message. If you're friends up, the guy who are reaching out, maybe you just have to get in contact and say, you want to go catch up for a coffee or a beer or a meal or whatever. Yeah, I mean, there's some friends that you see more often than others,

but it doesn't mean that they're necessarily better friends. It can be a whole bunch of things. So, yeah, I think it's just making a bit of effort. You don't always have to wait for people to come to you. I think one cool thing is just having traditions yearly or whatever and a lot of people I see like I go to a music festival every December and the group that we go with It feels like we have it with saying each other, you know, we're Weeks early not a year earlier. You just

You know, it just it just means you're catching up every year and you're sort of saying contact you got this thing to afford to together. Yeah, that is good as well. Yeah. But friendship, friendships are important. Sorry to go out on a limb net, but I really think they are. I'll back you on that. Thank you for being vulnerable to space. Hey, Jess, you've encouraged me to be more vulnerable and I'm doing my bloody bits. I love it.

I felt almost emotionally other day. What? No. I definitely. Because then you didn't tell me? I feel emotions, that was a little joke. I feel all the emotions. I feel too many I've been told, so that's fun.

All right, well thank you for those wonderful questions. They were very nice. Great questions. And then the other thing we'd like to do is thank a few of our other patrons on the shout out level, which Dave, do you remember what, which on that is? So the D-Meet group level is the one with the bonus episodes.

And the one, we're going to shout out, it's called the AskProd aka the Associate Producer of the show. Oh yes, fantastic. So what we do on this one, we shout out and thank a few of our long term supporters. And Jess and I come up with a little game which I think you already mentioned earlier tonight. Yeah, we either give them a Patron, so I I think we say what they're the patron saint of. That's fun.

Fantastic. That's cute. And that can be anything. Yeah, well, it sounds like it really can be. Lightning strikes and over sleeping. But not even lightning strikes, avoiding lightning strikes. Yeah. There'd be another saint who's the saint of lightning strikes.

Yeah, when you want lightning, because you've got a glass blowing business and you want lightning to hit the rods. I've learnt this exclusively from sweet home Alabama. Um, um, uh, the one at Skinnid song. Yes. You can learn a lot from music. I forget that verse where it goes. Put in a blot and rod. Ben on that narrow. Who wants to kick things off? I would if it is at all possible. Please! Well, I'd love to thank from the country of SE. Would that be Sweden?

I think it is. We have a few. I looked it up, but it is Sweden. If you Swedish, listen, which is mind blowing and very cool. Very cool. I love the Swedes. You know, all the things you've done for mankind. They've given us an example.

Beyond Borg. Beyond Borg. I was about to say, I mean, humankind, but you did suggest beyond Borg, who was a man, so that checks out. Thank you. From Sweden, a vetum in particular in Sweden, it's Niklas Olofson. Oh, thank you, Niklas. Fantastic name.

Fantastic. Olofson. So Niklas Olofson, Jess, is of course the patron saint of. Good boys. Oh. Okay, my man, you're my say. Bad boys need not apply. He's a patient say that's good boys.

He's not, doesn't look after you. No, that's right. He's not for me, but I respect what he does, and he does it well. Good boys. You know, you can picture Niklaus Olofsen, he's standing there, daves on one shoulder with his little devil-outs that's at the outfit. I'm on the other shoulder with my saint's jumper, Frankie Packet's number on my back. And I'm like, go on, you could put on a leather jacket with rips in the back, go on. And you're like,

oh no, you should just wear a very plain jumper. Sensible. I like you wear red, white, and black. Number one on the back drink this dare us coffee and Eels he obviously ends up going my way because he is a saint what a necklass you made the right choice Saint Nick old Saint Nick of good boys thank you so much I'd also have to thank from Brighton and Great Britain Nick Caves where he lives his hometown yeah Originally obviously being a Victorian where we are. So, you know, he's our connection from you to us. Tom Cameron.

Tom Cameron. On your tom. Is the patron saint of two first names. Oh, and two left feet. Which again represents me. Two left feet. Oh, hope he doesn't get a dancing plague. But he does, that's the thing.

Oh no. Sorry Tom. So he's a patron saint of two left feet. So people who can't dance pray to him, is that what you mean? Sure. And people with two first names. Yeah. Which there is.

That leaves me split because I can dance. Oh, I know. But I do have two first names Yeah, that's alright. You got three if you had James Oh three first names don't be greedy. That's another same. That's another one Paul was my confirmation name, so really I'm a fourth Oh my god And he was originally named Saul, so really five if you anyway.

Thank you so much Tom and Tom spills his name in the Tom Yorksell with the H. With the H. Maybe it's pronounced Thom, but I believe it is Tom Cameron. Thank you so much Tom. With the beautiful of you, have you guys been to Brighton? It's got the beautiful sort of beat sharey with the long pier and the little carnival thing. I haven't been actually. No, I haven't been, but I would like to. I've been to Brighton. It's meant to be a cool city. Oh yeah. Does that count? Yeah. What did you get us, Braytan? Yes. And the latte.

The rich for a while. Yes, I was rich. Hang out with Shane Warn. Hang out with Shane Warn. Yes. For those who are non-Australians, it's real new money suburb. Yeah. But actually very rich people. It was not too far from where I grew up. It was on the, it was a couple of suburbs and a highway away from me. That makes it sound so far away. But it was quite a while away from it. There's a few suburbs and a freeway and they're picked across the border and then do they feel the highway to keep the poor people in? Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure how to all work But I think where Marabin where I grew up was When my grandparents moved there it was farmland. Oh right, I don't know how and I think it was just based on the fact that Brighton's on the beach that it becomes

You know, it's the more expensive place. You have to say it right too. It's a brat. Braton. Yeah. No, good on, good on, Broton. Good on, good on. Anyway, can I thank some people as well?

Yes, please. I would love to thank from NC in the US. Is that North Carolina? North Carolina. Oh, I would great study. Good love to think before you do I think North Carolina might actually be where Michael Jordan played his college basketball and he War his blue North Carolina basketball shorts under his red Chicago ball shorts through his record-breaking career in the

windy city, Chicago. And he actually changed basketball fashion because these shorts underneath meant that he needed his bullshorts to be bigger or other basketballs ended up wearing bigger shorts as well. And basketball short fashion was changed forever. Can you believe it? They didn't even mention it in the last dance which is ridiculous. So people did send us screenshots of the famous blue shorts hanging up in the locker room. Yes.

And we appreciate that. But anyway, I'm thanking Annabeth Larabee. On your Annabeth who is the patron saint of Flat bicycle tires As in not get you don't want to get them so you pray yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's trying and if you get one you or again pray She's not like cursing people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's who you go to and your time of need Oh, that's great and also educating people about what to do. Oh, oh She'll actually appear with a puncture kit. Yeah, she's

that good. She's so handy. And a little bowl of water so you can put the tyre in there and find the bubbling for where the little hole is. Wow, she's good. So thank you very much Anna Bethler, a be amazing name as well. And I'd also like to thank from just around the corner in Brunswick, Victoria. I would love to thank Dominic Stevenson. Dominic Stevenson, thank you so much for your support. Now Matt, Dominic Stevenson is of course the patron saint of staplers. Oh, when you can't find one in the house and you need a stapler you can pray to Saint Dominic or if you think You've got a staple and you can't get it out of an important document that needs to be filed shortly

This is in a place that is still working with paper No, they still playing a stapler's out there. I don't know how it came to my mind. It was just something that just came into my thoughts somehow. On your Dominic Stevenson. All right, well, from one DOM to another, could I please thank DOM Thompson. Dom Thompson. Dom Thompson. From Harrogate. Dom Grant Britten. Oh, he's a patron saint for haircut savings. Oh, is that people saving up for a haircut? What I meant it was someone recovering a haircut,

but yeah, maybe it's both. I had a haircut a few weeks ago for the first time in, you know, the two, three months, whatever it was. And I, it was an English guy and I said, have you had a lot of, a few people come in that have had bad haircut, you've had to fix up and he goes, Oh, lords! Like, awesome.

Lords! Well, all right. So, I don't know if you sound like that in Harrogate, Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord!

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I love I don't think you meet well. He certainly doesn't mean it in a patronizing way not to speak for 10, but okay I watch the episode where they looked after Father of the bride. Yeah, he looked 20 years younger with just a haircut and a bit of a shave. A new teeth. A new clothes. Yes, and a new house. And a new actor.

And a bit of plastic surgery. And, yeah, that was the kind of show I was perfect down with the sickness kind of TV. Oh, it's perfect TV. But I couldn't, I tried to watch a second episode and became, it was too much, too much positivity or something. Ha ha, it's too wholesome. Yeah.

Anyway, I love it, Ossing. Bring it home. Anyway, on your dom tom, now finally, I'd like to thank, all the way from Lena, Vellian Tasmania. Fantastic, have you on board? Alena or Alena Maurs? Lena Maurs. Thank you so much. Is the patron saint for Schmors?

Oh, Schmors. That's a Schmors, eh? So what are Schmors? They're like the sandwiches with marshmallows? Yeah. Yeah, with a Graham cracker, which I don't really know what that is, but people talk about that. Graham cracker, chocolate and marshmallow, melted. Yeah, over a fire. I actually saw, I learned about those on an episode of Rick and Morty. I've been watching a lot of Netflix in bed this week.

And yeah, the dad, Jerry, he he takes some camping makes a small ray what did you what are they called? Smalls. Smalls. So when did you have it's small something you've grown up with? No just his name's Maurs. No, yeah but it is a separate thing. No, just from TV. Yeah, this is an American research pop culture thing. Let's just talk about like if there's like a, a campfire scene, they're always making schmorg on like, you know, South Park or Simpson's. Yeah. Right. I feel like I'd never heard of it before this week. So I was finding that it came up twice. There it is. I love when that happens. So Elena Moors, the patron saint of schmorg. Is she from America? No, she's from Tazzy. Tazzy,

she'll be equally baffled. But that's what she's a saint of. That's right, she knows what she's got herself into. So thanks everyone that supports the show on Patreon, of course. Now Matt, do we have anyone to be welcoming into the TripDitch Club this week, which while you're looking that up, I will explain is people that have been supporting this show for three consecutive years

So 36 consecutive months not dropping off on the shout out level as a way to say a double. Thank you a big huge Thank you for that tremendous support. Your name is written in indelible ink once you're in you can't go out It's a one-way vowel. I will be getting your names tattooed on my ass In glittery gold. In glittery gold and they will not be coming off even when the podcast is over. But for these people we like to welcome them into the trip ditch club for the three years of support where they will go up into the hall of fame, be welcomed in to our exclusive club where we serve canopies, we have our guest artist drop by, singer, song or two.

And do we have anyone to welcome this week, Matt? We do, we have, oh, we've got a triptych of triptych inductees this week. Love this. Firstly, from Sail in Country Victoria, it is Kieran Donahue. Kieran, welcome. Yes. We need an account in there, so it's good to have him in. You remember Kiran?

Oh, I remember Kiran. Gotta keep track of the numbers. Jess is furious. He's the only accountant dollar lao. That's high price, Kiran. That is high price. He'll actually almost change your mind on accountants when we met him a few years ago, but not quite Also, oh my goodness one of my very very best friends. I don't I don't know if I knew that

I'm obviously probably did know that She is a patron Says from London, but she's since moved back to Australia. It's Edith Gordon. Edith! Hi Edith. And thank you so much for supporting the show. And you didn't know that, man. That's a nice one.

For three years, she supported the show. I must have known it, because we've shouted out to her 100-odd episodes back, so. And we caught up with her in London. Did she come to the show or do we just see her after? No, I think she made it. That was the week she was moving back, I think. I think she moved home before we got to the live shows over there. Yeah, that's right, yeah.

Yeah, wow. Oh, I think so. That's so cool. And another, I've met all these ones. What a great week of inductees. This next guest has given me as a present one of my favorite t-shirts that I wear all the time. The Hamilton Tiger Katz football shirt from now living in a Canadian now living in North Melbourne Australia. It's Tabitha Post. Tabitha! Woo! And I would forgot to ask what are the what canapes are they serving or drinks are you expecting the sweet good? I'm so glad you asked over this week we've got peach bolinis.

Oh fantastic. Wow, what does that mean? It's some peach juice in some bubbles basically. It means flavor sensation. Yeah. I should say, I'm actually people who are into cocktails, I'm doing a cocktail night for this group called JT Management. They're doing... I don't know, JT production, sorry. And maybe I'll get just to put a link in the show notes, but you can watch a live stream where I'm getting taught how to make

three different gin cocktails this Friday night. And it should be a lot of fun. I'll go into a cocktail bar in the city. It's going to be the first bar I've been to in three months. It's going to be exciting. Nice. And you get to obviously taste the drinks, I imagine. Yeah, and I think they go me a discount code. I don't know how much tickets. I don't think they're super expensive, like 10 Australian dollars. And there's a discount code, Matt matte 50 which gets you I'm maybe even 50% off I'm not sure so I think they're pretty cheap tickets, but if people are keen yeah I'll send the link for just to put in the show notes awesome and There's also a great musical guess this week playing at the traditional. Oh

Wow, is it It's Barbara Streisand. Oh I thought it was gonna be Kenny logons from foot loose But it's Barbara's Barbara but she's but she's playing the songs of bread. Yeah, well, and Kenny logons I booked these acts weeks in advance. I can't just change because we talked about bread. No, I fear you We can change up the playlist Okay, so I can request but babs to

babs will be doing the best of bread. Yes, absolutely. So babs direct from Las Vegas. Thank you so much, babs. She's going to say, sing, baby, I'm a want you, which is I'm going to leave the room when she plays that one, to be honest. Oh, I'm going to go straight to the front. Make it.

But is she going to play danger zone and foot loose as well? Absolutely. But is she gonna play Danger Zone and Footloose as well? Absolutely Vamp Bounce I love that That would be really good And obviously she'll be playing some of her hits as well, so that's really exciting Because that pretty much brings us to the end of this episode Don't think it does. We've done it everyone well done. Thanks everyone that just support Sean Petruon you Are the wind beneath my wings. Is that barberspace?

And that's bit midler. Uh, I was confused. I'm always confusing. Hey, is that it more impressive than so fielis bexta? Well, again, one of the biggest artists of all time. I heard one of the most famous songs name it first for albums. I bet they're called Bette. Yeah, Banta B. You can bet on that. She would have had so many good comedy festival shows. Yeah, puns on her name. Bette at all on red. She's ready. Stuck in the mid-layer with you Oh, yeah. That's good stuff. She had one of the great cameos on the Simpsons too. Fantastic. Long with Luke Perry. Such a Luke. She's just fucking great. So good. Yes. Well, I think that really does bring us to the end of this week's episode. Please do check out

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Yeah. It's been a fucking weird year. I gotta say. And it's been a weird one. And this is the one constant run. Yeah. We did this. It's sucks.

Once I weirded best, it's been fucked really. Yeah. But hopefully everyone's doing okay. I don't think we almost like just decided not to really talk too much about how everything's going on the show. I guess because this is like an escape thing, but. Yeah, hopefully this can be a relief. I think everyone knows, obviously we are. are yeah we're right there in it but

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