The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 414 - Dr William Price (Live)

Episode Date: January 28, 2020

Recorded live in Cardiff, comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine the life of Welshman Dr William PriceSourcesTour DatesRedbubble Merch...

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Starting point is 00:01:07 people some of the best people we've come into contact with on this tour are Welsh some of my best friends are whales okay thank you thank you guys for respecting the name it is Welsh and I've been for ages and they shut up for a little while here but if I for ages now I've been trying to spread the word of this name and for some reason it keeps getting lost in translation all over the world really and I it took a while and I finally was able to pinpoint can we get Mike one off I was finally able to pinpoint what happened and you see Dave a huge asshole a few years ago just started calling me Gary and it is a
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Starting point is 00:03:38 read a story from Welsh slash American history to my friend Gareth Reynolds who has no idea what the topic is going to be about March 4th 1800 year of our Lord Jesus Christ William Price no one he's here tonight one hey Billy no one we'll see how the names go I I've got a bad feeling by the way if you're worried about the names there were some that I just took out because number one crazy but then number two but none of their none of their vowels make the same sounds as our vowels none of their like W's or O's and fucking D's or just all this fucking
Starting point is 00:04:41 there's a bunch of I wanted to put in it like phonetically like and then a cat hisses yeah I understand the move to remove them then so yeah some I took about because I couldn't even find online because I'm you can find online the pronunciations are everything but it yeah that's just when you're like the translation it's like I'm not going to do that what I'm going to leave wait where are you going well some of them like some of their words are like my CHY DRY and the pronunciation would be like my durr fighter that's wrong I know that's wrong and fuck you and the computer is gonna make an asshole out
Starting point is 00:05:25 of me get one of those like getting rid of this fucking word you need to get one of those big like UN earpieces like where it's just like am I a part of our wall thank you and anyway you know that thing that Trump didn't use when he was nodding remember that like two years ago like nodding as someone was like speaking Chinese he's like exactly what he just said in Mandarin is perfect it's gonna be shame when he dies so really it's gonna be a real big shame when he dies like you mean explodes explodes when he pops I've yeah I have party hats yeah just waiting William Price was born on a farm in a Monmouth
Starting point is 00:06:12 sure he had three alive older sisters so just I'm just the other nine dead siblings that were used to I didn't I didn't count the dead ones the nine who passed there were other ones that didn't obviously yeah his father also William Price was an educated priest of the Church of England okay his mother Mary Edmonds had been a mate servant before marriage and was illiterate okay she couldn't even sign her name okay I mean we don't need to disparage her well she also probably was trying to sign it in Welsh which is no gimme when they got married it was controversial because Mary was of a very much lower class right
Starting point is 00:07:01 then William and we all know how the nerve you people yes whatever you're born until you stick into that's what we've said do not go up out of your class yeah how dare you animal come on William's father had been and had an undiagnosed mental illness and became more erratic with each passing year okay for instance he would bathe fully clothed or naked in local ponds now see you swap those makes total sense if you're going in the pond fully clothed I get that and bathing naked sure but you can't get in the pond nude and bathe in your clothes sometimes he would wear just a hat that I get yep I'm born again
Starting point is 00:07:44 for sure that I get it's cold if he bathed naked then when he was done he would drop his clothes in the water after and then wear them around soaking wet you know I tried to stick with him I really was trying to give him a benefit of the doubt but I'm what I'm hearing is not okay he kept grass snakes in his pockets okay they probably didn't like his bathing habits he carried them around until he could hide them in stones at his ancestors tombs I feel like this has been diagnosed okay so yeah just a guy in wet clothes the snakes in his pockets that he's tossing in tombs he would walk around with a saw and
Starting point is 00:08:27 use it to remove bark from trees mm-hmm often going into other people's yards to do so sure yeah oh god the naked man with the hat and the snakes in his hands here what's he doing he's taking our bark again trust that then he would burn the bark while muttering swear words you know what Dave I'll let you finish about him and then we can sort of recap it and look back and he spit on stones believing it improved their value well that's that's been proven that has been courts his behavior eventually became violent and a threat to locals one time he shot a gun at a woman who said he was taking sticks
Starting point is 00:09:11 from her hedge another time he threw a spear at a man yeah yeah okay sure you definitely say he had some sort of mental illness yeah no yeah no I definitely that feels pretty close in 1814 authorities went to court to prove he was insane and where the was that over pretty quickly your honor I'd like to show you some snakes no need this is yes go with him go with that gentleman to two servants testified that he quote carried his own excrement excrement around in his pockets well the snakes need burnt burned burned it on the fire and rubbed it on his head and the walls saying it was
Starting point is 00:09:59 paint well so he kind of viewed it as a remodel he was often quote running in the field just in his shirt or naked he was declared insane alright finally we did have lucid periods okay his kids were scared of him because he was painting the home and poo yeah well your dad comes home with shit on his head yeah all right I'm gonna go to the bath of my clothes on hold my snakes will you boy hey I got some good bark today too by the way I threw a spear through a man earlier how was your day your kids learned at school you want some poo for your hands all right tell your mom I said hi haven't seen her in a couple
Starting point is 00:10:53 weeks they spoke Welsh at home it was a bit of a mystical area they were near the ruined walls of cost a year a fun a little ways off for the mysterious mounds on a man of maca to be expected as long as they just know slightly what I'm talking about yeah that's fine I think 50% gets us there there were also iron works and mines and in industrialization was very present in the area so young William learned English when he went to school at 10 he only attended for three years and passed his exams exams sure quote William displayed unusual brilliance for one so young that quotes from Dean Powell's biography and when
Starting point is 00:11:53 price which pretty much all quotes will come from unless I say otherwise after school he lived at home for six months sure you know he's 13 13 yeah yes yeah honestly the troubling part of that is the time he was apparently influenced by his father because he started wandering the hills walking 10 or so miles a day sometimes naked if you're the mother you're like it's genetic here we go William was scolded and threatened by locals but he'd do the same thing the next day okay so you'd like to be naked sure just like pop yep he wanted to be a doctor need a lab coat he moved to car fully in eight car Philly as close in
Starting point is 00:12:49 1814 that man not accepting your compliment of yourself I was close no really he moved to car Philly in 1814 he landed an apprentice gig with a very successful surgeon okay Evan Edwards just before he was 14 okay wow so he's a real doogie howser yeah eight wow did people actually get that that that show travel Dave yeah it's people like the underwhelming reaction was not because of location William was able to pay his tuition with money different family members sent him his uncle was also Reverend and he advised William to stop learning to become a doctor because it was putting financial strain on the
Starting point is 00:13:36 family it's a different time yep others in the family wanted to stop also but William refused to quit and sought charity to get through the apprenticeship that helped that his father had been declared a lunatic to get charity it helped him get money because of his father's situation okay right yeah during this time he saw the diseases and sicknesses that were abundant in Wales death rates were high diseases were endemic and the poor lived with terrible sanitation in crowded areas so this is 2019 this is Los Angeles County 2019 LA some people just lived in alleys sure I mean that probably there would be a
Starting point is 00:14:16 time when you would tell me this part and I'm like man so crazy yeah but that's we live in a place where how many what percentage of our population think the homeless should be arrested 67% 67% of people in Los Angeles County believe that the homeless people should be arrested we're excited to go home yeah liberals it's cool when the liberals are fast yeah when the liberals are like come on I mean what is our other option look at them trying to survive how dare they the nerve why can't I burn one so he saw how the poor suffered more than others his apprenticeship ended in 1820 and he moved to London to continue his
Starting point is 00:14:57 medical education and he's what 15 yeah something like that great he saw more suffering immigrants fleeing wars packed in attendance there were open sewers people lived on the edge of starvation diseases everywhere so he learned from the best medical men at the time quote I passed the college and the hall in 12 months after I went to London a thing never done by anyone before okay so he's a smarty pants yeah and he lets you know it yep William became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England at 21 he added their offers but he loved whales and returned to set up a medical practice in Glintaf yeah that shut you
Starting point is 00:15:38 up didn't it yeah curfew Lee yeah he went he met he met William Khrashi Khrashi she of the very well they're still wealthy people I think that guy just wanted to say yeah yeah that's just a name that could be anyway he's like yeah yeah he's a friend of mine they on the artworks at mether and at Travorist met her mirthur mirthur guys this is gonna be a long show okay go feed the meter or whatever you have here in June 1823 he was appointed that you're leaving already yeah that guy's like a fuck this he doesn't know how to say car filling I'm out of here fucking butchering our language yeah see a
Starting point is 00:16:36 Welsh exit a wags it go away in June 1823 he was appointed the new surgeon to the crochets and at the forest divorced he was now set up to live a life of luxury right yeah of course doctor great but after all the suffering he's seen he was interested in helping the working classes now I think someone's inherited their father's insanity quote I regard as entirely the fault of their employers who give them far less attendance and care than they bestow on cattle oh boy so we're meeting a hero tonight he charged the rich way more than the poor and use that money to give the poor medical care so it's he's like
Starting point is 00:17:29 an early early version of he's the early version of universal health care yeah right which by the way I think it's mad well it's I mean because that guy understands that we're just trying to build on Obamacare which really yeah fuck William preached vegetarianism clean living exercise and eating good food wow he thought smoking was bad for you what back then the people like sir haha whoo I need to lay down long awkward sip he he refused to see any patient who smoked he refused to see them yeah only only lying in the sand he believed that medical care should be a basic right for everyone and doctors
Starting point is 00:18:18 should look at symptoms poor lifestyles and the effects of industrialization well he moved to the newly industrialized the Daff Valley where labor's elected him chief surgeon at the Brown Lennox chain works he rented a house and spent quite a bit of time in Tavoris which was quote a revolutionary town a revolutionary town yeah revolutionaries what do you mean is it not now is it like posh is it oh it was considered like like-minded folk like him you mean revolution yeah right and now it's good where the rich live is what we're saying no it's not it's where did you say it has a cinema that's
Starting point is 00:18:58 about it that's pretty regular doesn't every town have a cinema for the most part no okay sorry oh you guys oh okay you guys don't have movies yeah they're like we just got Rain Man it's so it looks really good and our new hit show doogie Hauser has just been tearing ratings up they only show doogie at the cinema here oh the doogie the movie yeah look who comes crawling back people traveled very far to get treatment from William sure and quote with his aristocratic look sparkling eyes and strikingly handsome physique as refined as a lady in fall matters pertaining to his profession he was
Starting point is 00:19:44 idolized by his female patients yeah you lost me a little in the middle there but basically like the female pan patients are like swooning over they weren't fucking right okay right right so he's probably like the female smoking rate has dropped dramatically that's right hello hi is that what a woman sounds like yes all right fine it's me Ted I'm still smoking I needed to get an appointment but I will bang you he did not dress like other people in Wales at the time he refused to wear socks saying quote stockings prevent the proper exhalation of the feet which in consequence are kept damp and the
Starting point is 00:20:28 person who wears them is more liable to catch cold my feet are always dry and warm I like this philosophy I'm on board with that yeah yeah I would I don't know so you think that you your feet are kept dry and warm and not part of the whole thing but I'm definitely I'm down to lose the socks more than okay it just seems like you're walking around and wet all the time though well I mean here that's regular walking if someone gave him coins he would wash them before he put them in his pocket hmm well that's probably because he was used to wearing his dad's pants which had poo in them he was terrible with money it was always in
Starting point is 00:21:05 debt he's too busy washing it in 1831 he was listed in the court for relief of insolvent debtors in Cardiff oh wow at the time workers were fighting against the brutality of industrialization and William started listening to left-wing ideas okay dangerous with the workers there he helped found the first co-op to help workers Lord the Martha rising occurred in 1831 yeah yeah workers are fighting for against sorry against lowering wages and the firings and long terrible if they were fighting for it what do we want shit pay when we want it immediately wait what are we doing
Starting point is 00:21:48 men women and children worked 14-hour days Jesus it's like Hollywood after employers refused their demands the workers stormed the town they burned debt records and attacked an inware an employer meeting took place soldiers open fire many died hundreds are injured the workers to control the city for eight days and family troops came in and put that down mm-hmm this had a profound effect on William he was a proud Welsh nationalist he became more interested in Welsh culture including the neo druidic movement hmm walk me through it daddy druidism was making a comeback okay and it wasn't just Wales but throughout the
Starting point is 00:22:36 British Isles in large cities grand lodges of the ancient order of druids were created to worship and celebrate druids okay so it's yeah it's having a renaissance which is nice yeah yeah William became one of the many in the growing neo druid movement it's a really catchy name to neo druid yeah yeah it sounds it sounds like it's right wing yeah yeah he was invited to give a speech on Welsh history and literature at the Royal I stood foot in 1834 that's literally what it said on the computer that's what the computer said no I stood I mean I gotta be honest it's like if English fuck German and then they
Starting point is 00:23:31 yell at you something you think you said that's the German part that's why it's German I said I stand foot no I said foot what I said foot in 1834 and I said foot is a competition competitive music festival of music and poetry you know competitive poetry yeah yeah love competitive oh my god it's the fucking best that's he did I love a round robin of yeah oh fuck yeah nothing quite like it yeah in Welsh oh yeah in Welsh too yeah so you're like what is happening or in druid right right yeah because in this quarter because of that speech he was invited to be a judge at the I said a foot bar Bartek just let it go Bartek
Starting point is 00:24:31 competition I'm sorry where was it the ice at first Bartek competition Bartek Bartek competition Bartek okay Bartek sure I haven't said anything for 25 minutes the top prize went to tally Eson Williams son of famous Welsh nationalist and druid yellow Morgan who tally Eson won for his translation of the Welsh owed on the British druids boy this is barn burner I mean honestly just the time when yeah honestly imagine if you dropped an iPhone in this era what the fuck William joined the Society of the Rocking Stone a group of neo druids who met at the Stone Circle in
Starting point is 00:25:33 Ponte Prif also a great Rolling Stones cover band yeah that one by the way looks nothing like it sounds as opposed to the others this one fair totally fair we normally ask people to shut the fuck up but that was okay we're and this is the only country I'm gonna allow it because you're because we know you're right for sure he rose up the druid ranks very quickly wow rose up the druid right it feels like Starfleet captain by 1837 he was one of the neo druid leaders so where's so this is sticking he's a neo druid but he was in unique even amongst his fellow druids having his own beliefs which was easy
Starting point is 00:26:31 to do because no one really knew shit about druids yeah neo druids were making it up as they went along right so yeah because he had his own beliefs tension grew between his druid faction and other druid factions that it's just like when like religions argue about this but you're like but you don't know it's like yeah but you can't have pork he said so religious room yep you can have for it just yeah yeah you're in well you're in Wales it's the heart of is is long yeah this is where ice is this right it's pronounced yeah William had been most influenced by druid Edward Williams who went by the bardic name a yellow Morgan
Starting point is 00:27:31 who I already talked about he claimed to have tons of druid documents and pass them off as ancient druidism so I mean he found on this is like Joseph Smith right this is like the golden plates you know I actually found a bunch of notes from the druids I'm the lucky one and they said I'm in charge it took scholars over a hundred years to prove that it was all lies right yeah no time anyone like finds the thing that it's just not that's never no one in Welsh history has more historical forgeries William feared the Welsh language was dying out as English spread which was one reason he latched on to yellows beliefs just think
Starting point is 00:28:13 about how much easier your night would be if that had happened yeah he screwed you bro the Welsh road dispossessed people and we're seeking a respectable place in the British world William became obsessed with druidism he gave lessons in Welsh every Sunday trying to revive Welsh culture in 1838 he called for the Society of the Rockingstone to raise funds for a druid museum okay a drusium he wanted to build a hundred foot tall tower it would cost about a thousand pounds mm-hmm William was backed by Francis crochet of the crochets sure who were also super to druidism okay so they're really rich and
Starting point is 00:28:56 some of the kids are getting into it yeah need a hobby yeah but the druid museum didn't get enough support and William was furious sure he wrote a piece for the local paper scolding people for ignoring quote your immortal progenators to whom you owe your very existence as a civilized people okay so the Welsh aren't on board he's bumming yeah he was trying to establish himself as the all-knowing leader of Druids quite a goal William also became a known figure in the local chartist movement chartism was a national working class populist movement fighting against injustices of the new industrial and
Starting point is 00:29:34 political order in Britain they called for every man to have the right to vote regardless of their social standing right which is yeah or shit not women not women not women ladies let's not get some it's not get crazy yeah let's not my god look man they go down we let one woman for run for president yeah we haven't we haven't healed yet yeah obviously that's what equality was back then we want the for every person should have the same rights as long as they have a penis yes William was outspoken and very soon became a chartist leader his Welsh language classes started getting broken up by police who thought
Starting point is 00:30:14 it was cover for weapons training well they were probably like what I'm I'm looking at what he's reading and that is not what he's saying it's no way that's a word yeah yeah where the guns yeah on Monday the 4th of November 1839 the new port rising took place William did not go to the March nor did his followers even though he had bought seven pieces of artillery for the assault wait wait wait so the cops were right yes cops were totally right okay I have for a minute I was like man cops just don't get there just jerk off he was getting weapons yeah but instead he is actually creating an arsenal yeah okay but he
Starting point is 00:31:03 didn't go that day because he was suspicious of another leader John Frost and thought it would end in disaster and he was right the charters were crushed by soldiers around 22 were killed leaders were convicted of treason and sentenced to be hanged drawn and quartered Jesus well let's the sentence were later commuted to transportation oh well that's that's fine yeah transportation was when they put you on a boat send you off to America or Australia way better yeah I mean not now not now now that now you'd rather be drawn and quartered until you take a test straight and try to pick up a stick and it kills you yeah yes so
Starting point is 00:31:44 now William was in danger the ports were closed as authorities look for him and he fled and made his way onto a boat dressed as a woman yes great he actually asked one of the guys looking for him for directions yes what are you looking for well my lady I was glad to show you in person if that would be all right yes gets lonely constantly searching for people sometimes I'm not only searching for criminals but for a soulmate you've got a serpent's tongue and I like that take my arm I'll show you where you're going I'm looking for a prick right now named William you like that I'm law enforcement I can tell you'll
Starting point is 00:32:49 be cops are fascist well get over here you so he went to Paris and lived in temporary exile it's still as the woman obviously no we don't know he dropped the outfit okay I thought it's gonna be a whole new wrinkle there he became friends with a captain Phelps and then he became close with Phelps daughter she was 16 he was 39 sorry can we get the beers out of the bucket so daddy can barf in it okay quote unfortunately the relationship with Phelps ended when price enjoyed taking the girl to the country undressing her and cresting her nude body it's France wait so that that's when the relationship ended yeah okay now
Starting point is 00:33:39 with the captain oh right that's when the cat right because of that that adds up yep he frowned upon what William was doing to his 16-year-old daughter yeah cresting her nude body right right field right supposed to do that in the house or it at Jeffrey Epstein's guys he killed himself get over it enough enough conspiratorial thinking pretty obvious while he was in France he went to the aloof museum and had what has been described as a quote turning point in his religious life oh dear dear dear dear well he saw a stone there and he became he spit on it to make it I don't think you can raise the value of this
Starting point is 00:34:30 one he became obsessed with the stone it had a Greek inscription he believed was an ancient druid poem addressing the moon so a not maybe the most stable minded gentleman who's in the museum he sees Greek writing on a rock and he's like that's druid to the moon yep again little red flag maybe say yeah okay it was not it was Greek right and and the poem idea was another of yellow morganics now it's in the traditional spelling which terrifies me yellow Morganoogs fantasies W's like sounds like two O's William said the inscription was a prophecy from an ancient Welsh prince named Alan it feels like he missed the mark a little
Starting point is 00:35:27 bit on the name like if you're making it up which he is he's making you can just go big yeah yeah it said a man the prophecy said a man would come in the future to reveal the secrets of the Welsh language and liberate the Welsh people is that you you're the one you're the one from the rock prophecy William believed the prophecy applied to him what and he had to go back to Wales to freeze people from the English now okay if you it's a leap to go into a museum and see a rock and be like this is this is important but for you to be like there is a chosen one
Starting point is 00:36:10 coming and it's me that's like so that's like double crazy that's a well if you're the only one that can read it it's like pulling the stone the sword out of the stone same deal no it's not and let's not get too factual on the sword in the stone historian Ronald Hutton quote nobody else had heard of this person or made anything like the same interpretation of the inscription right because it was totally made up that's right when a when William returned to Wales in 1840 authorities watched him he again worked as a doctor for laborers he founded another druid group sure a group they walked around carrying
Starting point is 00:36:54 staffs engraved with druid symbols so we are now seeing the effect of his upbringing from his father who walk yeah no we are you don't need to deny it the local police constable quote they are all violent and notorious chartists and are called mr. prices scholars that was not true if they were druids okay his time in the chart is was coming to an end instead of becoming their parliamentary candidate he was double crossed by another chart as faction and he left he began addressing more and more like an ancient druid here we go all right and we're off and we're off he wore it yeah that's like he wore a
Starting point is 00:37:37 cloaks Fox fur hat oh it was a little Davey Crockett vibe and emerald green clothing oh he took he so like a Peter Pan Davey Crockett like they did back then sure right and this again is based on the ancient druid text which is completely invented by him right now and the know the other guy more okay right Morgan okay he also grows beard long and stopped cutting his hair he began a relationship with a woman and Morgan and she moved in with him in 1842 they had a daughter she was baptized by William at Rockingstone in Ponta Pratt I tried as when Julian irash is Morgan there's no way any that's right then I think we'd
Starting point is 00:38:30 all love to hear it one more time when Julian irash is Morgan it's not even close now William was also into free love hmm he had an insatiable appetite for young women and had sex as often as possible okay well I don't remember the young women part let's pump the brakes and he could quote women of the parish were somewhat in awe of this figure in their midst many failed to resist his advances that's a weird way of putting it they would succumb to his advances yeah he's a sexy motherfucker it's right yeah what's not to love he's dressed like Robin Hood with a coonskin cap on that's right long beard long hair yep
Starting point is 00:39:18 probably some snakes in his pocket at this point not gonna he condemned marriage quote matrimony is to be mercilessly condemned as an institution which reduces the fair sex to a condition of slavery well and that's how we got laid it's a good angle to work yeah close to what I think yeah his daughter died when she was just seven months old of druid she got an ancient druid disease that's probably what he said druids William started making his own obelisks and stone circles on his property his own what what's what's an obelisks like a he's putting pointed rocks and circles making them and putting them together okay
Starting point is 00:40:07 and then as property you know why because he's lost his mind completely no because he's a druid right okay that's what druids do well again it's really up for interpretation so that's what druids do okay are you a druid no I just respect them it's a weird line normal towns people were freaked out by midnight possessions that he led it to graveyards that's fair that's fair a bunch of druids going to a graveyard at midnight that's alright yeah that's a weird thing do you know hey how do you know motherfucker they might have I mean they might have been singing like the seven dwarfs who knows I don't know he
Starting point is 00:40:54 actually now that's what I'd like to picture keep going he tried to hold druid events and organized an ice to the foot at the pot prep in 1844 and what is a nice the foot it's a it's a music and poetry competitive oh it's another it's another one of those it's competitive poetry music festival right when even if you win you didn't win yeah everybody loses yeah it's kind of like a renaissance for his head talking right okay but no one showed up to his yeah a little too empathetic William began signing his name with hieroglyphics so does that mean you're chiseling into the paper just writing at a higher you know like when
Starting point is 00:41:45 he gives a prescription he's like there you go buddy this is a man about to shoot an arrow so I'm sorry what is this that's my signature look at the back of my card see same thing when when yellow's son Taliesin died a man named Evan Davies who went by Joanne Morgan Oog or Yayon Meyer either works declared himself the arch druid of the Bards of the Isle of Britain I mean this so this is pretend for grown-ups this is like they're Larpers essentially right is that what's happening like just kind of like well I'm actually chief druid in charge of dirt what's the difference between this and a guy going I'm Pope
Starting point is 00:42:35 now well obviously there's no smoke coming out of a chimney which is a huge part of how the Pope decision goes okay yeah your Bible bro so after Evan Davies declared himself archdruid of the Bards of the Isle of Britain William was fucking livid because he thought he should be the archdruid he had found the letters on the rock in France after all but was archdruid like it was it invented yeah neither yellow or a Taliesin ever called themselves the archdruid they were both just kind of making it up but Davis said he had been given the mystical egg found in a druid chamber oh my god he found the mystical
Starting point is 00:43:20 egg my luck is such bullshit worst part is I didn't even know about the mystical egg until just now she found it yep he found the mystical egg in a druid burial chamber 400 years ago he or no he was given the mystical egg that was found 400 years that's better because otherwise you're like oh my god are we Highlanders oh and Davis also started calling himself Mevar Morgan and the scholar of glam Morgan no no no deems this is enabling things to things took an even worse turn how we're making a mystical omelet what do you mystically want in it we've got mystical peppers
Starting point is 00:44:18 some mystical mushrooms you get some mystical build your own well Davis davies managed to have two stone circles installed at the same location where William had tried to build his museum oh the nerve the two men would have drew attention for decades a thing not known before today drew attention now William had gone full druid at this point with his clothing he now had several outfits they were bright red or green he sometimes wore a red tartan shawl he had goats etched onto the gold buttons locals pointed out both he and goats like to fuck a lot not on the local sides so he's a midlife William what
Starting point is 00:45:08 happens at midlife well he started to appear in court a lot why Dave well he was either sued or being or suing people okay he would shamelessly play to the jury some cases were stopped because he wouldn't swear on the Bible sometimes he mocked the proceedings by having his new infant daughter there as a fellow counsel I like a baby lawyer I like that or he'd say his name was something other than it was people started to go to court just to watch him do his thing I would do that yeah from one court case prosecutor pray sir are you a member of the Royal College of Surgeons William they say so prosecutor but really I wish
Starting point is 00:45:57 you know whether you are a member of the college or not William yes I am prosecutor and is this dress in which I now see you the uniform of a surgeon who is a member of the college William it is not it is the dress of the ancient court a glam organ so it went like that yeah no further questions well yeah absolutely yes can we take a recess and a real one she wants to go play she is William went to an international exhibition in Cardiff in a goat drawn carriage and a goat drawn carriage what those goats were like no dude we're not that's not how no not our
Starting point is 00:46:55 department how many goats many goats many goats many many goats so many goats like 30 goats and goats who were like what are we doing like it probably was probably so late because the goats right no no no come on mush mush goat he's mush listen take it so long oh my god well we lost three goats I ended up dragging the goats I put them in the carriage a national ice dead foot was held in 1860 and thousands went the neo druids thought this was a turning point for druidism well and based on how familiar we are with that now they were right Davies was there wearing the mystical egg around his neck you know
Starting point is 00:47:45 what all right I'll be honest look you can find the mystical egg fine good for you you found it don't showboat okay I need to turn into a necklace a William was now 60 years old completely immersed in the druids and their mythology this is a bad age for that he tried to start the museum project again but it failed after coal was discovered on the land okay he was graceful hold on wait for us well they make it easy yeah okay I'm nervous about when he comes back yeah I know so Cole's discovered on the land he fought with this sorry real quick clean coal yeah fine right he thought with the owners in court which led to William
Starting point is 00:48:40 being in a lot of debt the debt caused him to flee to France again okay time to get on the Lady garb from France he wrote you need to help getting on the boat miss I've been working here 40 years never find my soulmate personally you look very familiar you know about you you're a spicy for he don't you get slowly out here 40 years I've been out here looking for you're just making noises aren't you yeah I'm not listening what's the quality I think I need to make I tend to go on and on I think I get that from my father a bit of a rambler he was never forget the first time he took me to a bank and said
Starting point is 00:49:47 he had to make a deposit I thought all right he's got to make a deposit that's fine I know you could also make withdrawals the funny thing about banking is sometimes they don't have the cash on hand that they say they do a lot of it is sort of a fake currency in a way it's invented you can trust them now that's where credit comes into play now credit you want to get good credit good credit's good bad credits not good no credit bad credit technically that was the first time I went to the bank I'm glad he left yeah so when he was in France he started writing to the National Press making exaggerating
Starting point is 00:50:29 exaggerated statements about himself in Welsh history he claimed he was a Lord of the Southern Welsh and that quote all the Greek books are the works of the primitive Bards in our own language wow really reaching here yes some of the letters were signed Lord his Lord of day hey Barth and leader of the 1164 uprising well I think I mean you know I think you've crossed the threshold when you're claiming to be basically immortal he was in France for years in 1870 he was seven years old but he still managed to have a few affairs in Paris after five years he went back to Wales where he discovered his former girlfriend and
Starting point is 00:51:15 Morgan had died what yep okay he settled down in the town of a cantricent contracent clantricent okay and what and what letter does that why don't you tell me what letter that that town starts with he's attacking the language not you it starts with an L fuck off there's no C there's no fucking C is that true friend no now you're hissing like a cat plan which why don't we name our team that was it fucked up interesting wow yeah this is a language you need saliva for there's a
Starting point is 00:52:05 lot of people getting spit on in the face yeah yeah and if you're gonna spit do it on a rock oh make some growers some shit anyway there he opened a new medical practice by the way now at first this could have been a great story about a surgeon about it but now if this guy's opening a medical practice it's scary because surely he's gonna be like we need to put a goat's head in your head he now that would be pretty great he now lived in a much smaller home amongst workers though his practice was successful but he was soon charged with manslaughter that's a jump well a man had been kicked in the knee by a horse two
Starting point is 00:52:48 years before this is not leading to manslaughter so far and it had led to a large tumor on his kneecap okay he's in a lot of pain can barely work the five doctors who saw him all recommended he had the leg removed and here we go Williams like you need a third leg he went to William and William said he could cure him oh boy William said about losing the leg quote it would be just as well he should have his head cut off how much is that I don't have a good co-pay he gave him some powder to take and a pint of beer okay doki and then he passed a needle tied to silk through the tumor he what
Starting point is 00:53:36 he what he what he tied some silk onto a needle and put it through the releasing blood and water and pressure so it was full of you know so he's like releasing fluid from the knee yeah right but he's putting silk into it yeah and he left the silk in the tumor and tied it off so he just put like a ribbon on his knee yep there you are now looks like a present good work you get to keep that leg too it really hurts it should all right we'll see you drink that beer take that Molly we'll see in a bit did I mention I'm from 1846 and you might hear a guy saying he found the mystical egg is no mystical egg it's a worm and I have it so
Starting point is 00:54:25 the guy died in a couple of days any reason any thoughts on what what went wrong no no is he the first guy to die of silk knee no other people have other people have something else sure he arrived in court in a quote fine broom with a pair of horses and two servants he was dressed in a suit of green lined with and trimmed with scarlet and a handsome fur cap okay so like the jury would be like relatable I get this guy after hearing the evidence the judge told the jury William could not have known puncturing the tumor would end like this and instructed them to find him not guilty the judge did is that what that's
Starting point is 00:55:11 not is that wasn't the judge what's happening that's what he did isn't it going the opposite like the word about it okay but it just seems strange well I think we can all agree not guilty why don't you guys going back and come back with that that's how this works and also yeah okay yeah he didn't know that it would end in death yeah still he didn't know that it would cure a tumor I mean he put silk into a guy sometimes you gotta put silk in a guy no you don't unless it's a magician or you're in love fair fair as he left the court a large crowd in the street cheered him and followed him to his hotel okay of course it's just
Starting point is 00:55:56 always always group of people are like you're the best you get it William next suit the repair estate including a Monmouth and Brecken claiming it was always it had always belonged to the Druids and therefore it was in his family I said there was an oblong on the estate that proved this but only he could read it because he was the archdruid he did not win the case was his lawyer like yeah let's we'll try I don't feel great about it what does your daughter think that's a good angle actually I like that angle don't work that at the end of 1870 he attended the I stood foot in the
Starting point is 00:56:45 Mercer mm-hmm mm-hmm where he debuted his new look a wool purple one piece covered in green druid letters so he's like the Riddler now yeah all right perfect these by the way if you hear this guy's debuting a new outfit you're like oh shit this is gonna be what it's like fashion week and they are one piece it's a one piece yeah it's a one-piece wool what if you have to go pee I do it inside they loved him in this outfit at the I stood foot yeah well to be fair they were star for entertainment yeah in 1871 he published his long worked-on philosophy of Druidism mm-hmm there's no pronunciation
Starting point is 00:57:38 for this so Giles the night he thought we go thank you got it we got in one good work Dave it's probably he thought he would make this would make him the leader of the new druids but it was completely unintelligible so he moved to the it's really difficult to not move up the ranks of a completely invented imagined system yeah because you can just always make up shit yeah you could yeah I mean literally you're just like I found a new egg it's better whoa this guy who's the new guy what there's a new egg do you think that guy had to replace that egg a bunch yeah I guarantee you every night that guy went home and
Starting point is 00:58:23 like was dipping toast in it was like I've got the new one mm-hmm I'm having eggs and soldiers so he moved to the ancient town of conscious that mm-hmm yeah gorgeous this time of year to get there if you've never been a high level it really is I apologize you got to go there the mayor is a cat who's being sick it's gorgeous gorgeous name he believed this was a place where early Druids had a settlement and decided this Celtic kingdom is where he lived for the rest of his life this is I mean this is like Welsh Mormonism I mean it's just everything is just like and that this
Starting point is 00:59:09 I mean you see something you're like this was important to the Druids yeah because I did is you can literally just say whatever you want yeah yeah it's like unlike now I'm looking at really have you heard a religion yeah that's pretty clear but the town was not what it used to be one historian called it quote a mean little town mm-hmm another said it was a fill it was filthy with falling apart buildings and the streets were knee-high with dung yeah hasn't changed fugitive's thieves and sex workers populated the town's 27 pups 20 set 27 pubs is like a good amount for now yeah I think that's what with a
Starting point is 00:59:52 whole economy was based on I mean it's just like we find together another pub then we're nice to a pub she's like a pub we're a pub so William took advantage of the state of the town and bought property and then more and more and by 1881 his property was worth 10,000 the locals were quote alarmed by him and his views on marriage mm-hmm even at it means like what like 73 now and just like he's 80 how is he living so long I think it's that egg yeah he's 81 he's 81 and he's still fucking like a barn owl are they known as bangers I mean I mean I thought their thing was mice no and in Wales that's a classic well man if I
Starting point is 01:00:41 saw two owls fucking I would lose my mind as his heads turning around oh yeah yeah that's actually the best way for doggy if your partner could be like hello how are you doing over there it's good yeah it's all right all right go back that way yeah so so even that is advanced even at his advanced important point I know I know someone finally made it it's a visual that it's important yeah even as advanced age he was attractive to ladies some women weren't all so he's like Mick Jagger right right you still might fuck him right and he dresses a little like Mick Jagger too yeah that summer he was taken to court due to complaints about water
Starting point is 01:01:45 closets on his properties oh god forbid yeah what do you want a water closet is I mean I think I do the bathroom yeah okay I'm just making sure for a second I thought you open it and like a flood comes out familiar with water closets I thought he was charged with neglect to quote abate a nuisance caused by an accumulation of filth in the closet of a cottage he owned behind an end okay so his closets don't have much water in them they're sort of like daddy's pocket it's a filth closet right okay William was upset that okay William was upset because the sanitation authority had built toilets for his cottages and charged him
Starting point is 01:02:30 for it and the cottage was now vacant and the bathroom was filthy one reason was because there was a quote gap in the wall that allowed the local people to use it I'm like kind of fathoming it but I don't want to fully grasp I'm just assuming we're talking about a shit pile yeah yeah okay cool William called the order to clean the bathroom from the sanitation authority quote malicious spiteful and unjustifiable prosecution uh-huh he was given seven days to clean the filth by the court he still fought it found the board just gave up and ended the prosecution and William had the water closet torn down anyway rather than
Starting point is 01:03:16 clean it that take more work right tear it down well we could just know tear it down we're done it's over I'm done he then met the next love of his life oh god Gwen she and she well it was you don't know so it sounds right I'm the fuck do you know I'm nervous for an age on this well she understood his druid beliefs Dave that that sounds very childlike to me he was 80 yeah I'm aware of his pervy age how old is she 21 I dare I say we've set the bar so low I'm a little relieved 21 get some of that hot old dick that's like when Manson was getting like girls who were like 20
Starting point is 01:04:08 were like what yeah but Manson's got those eyes yeah yeah there's something attractive about a lover that can't blink they had a druid wedding on his 81st birthday at the Rocking Stone in the Pontipart a druid wedding two weeks later was the equinox and more of the wedding ceremony at Rocking Stone at exactly noon William talked to the son speaking in an older made-up Welsh language people watching were convulsing with laughter yeah I would go to this wedding without question and now I'll communicate with the son in an old Welsh language that nobody's heard I
Starting point is 01:04:52 gibberish Gwen Sheehan and William had a son on August the 8th 1883 he was named you see Yisoo Christ why is that crazy this is the Welsh name Jesus Christ what was he like is that taken has somebody it's a family name it's an old family name wow that's like what Kanye should start calling himself Jesus Christ Kanye's new album Yisoo Yisoo so you so crazy obviously this was a bit provocative because you know Christian religions were the some would call it blasphemous people were not happy really William said he picked Jesus Christ because he was expecting his son to do great things he quote will rain on
Starting point is 01:06:00 earth and that in him the ancient a druidical system will be restored druidical system now we're just gonna weird I think we're making these words up oh I know we are but sadly Jesus Christ died five months later on January no no no three days later though wait for it Papa tis I but he can't he's five months old so he can't say anything yeah Jesus didn't need to say a lot of stuff it just like you know turn dirt into fish and shit dirt into fish shit yeah so he turned dirt into fish and shit dude that's slang come on read the Bible man it's in there revelations revelations fish you get the shit yeah
Starting point is 01:06:58 eat up boys sorry I'm out of fish spells I can only do five a day did Jesus call them spells yeah for sure remember yeah the whole thing with Jesus yeah yeah yeah what's that water that's wine let's party I have some my body eats of my body guys soak it up because I am yeah yeah I turned shit into shit I'm not very good at this it's bigger though Jesus good work you're placating me now William did not believe in bearing corpses because that would pollute the earth so we decided pump the brakes he wasn't gonna bury the kid so he decided to cremate his son's body okay you know what I'm
Starting point is 01:07:50 relieved I could I thought it would be like time to eat him now cremation was not a thing at the time then that is weird though some had begun to talk about it as a way to deal with corpses because there were too many corpses in the UK yeah yeah that'll be coming back yeah that's after that's that's post-Brexit yes I think the idea now is that we just do mass burnings yes yes quote churchyard throughout the country were becoming unsanitary with overcrowded burial plots in densely populated areas city dwellers were all too aware of the attendant horrors of overcrowded Braille grounds drunken grave diggers body snatchers
Starting point is 01:08:35 the ever-present stench of corruption and the sight of bones carelessly thrown up from yawning graves bones thrown up from yawning graves every time we do a medical story there's just there's part of it's always like and then parts were sticking out of the grave yeah just not yeah this is before they knew six feet they're like two feet that's the rule or half just cover them with dirt yeah there you go perfect I like his arm out that's a cool look yeah yeah it's like a haunted graveyard ooh spooky there was even a cremation society of Great Britain as people were pushing for an alternative to bury they were called the
Starting point is 01:09:13 cremates the cremates but still there had not been a cremation yet as far as we knew in well Jesus get off the cross let's do this at sundown on Sunday the 13th of January 1884 William climbed to a hilltop and made a fire he'd already had someone place a cask of paraffin oil at the spot sure some locals saw the fire and went up to see what was going on what are you doing roasting marshmallows my god my god it's middle name was marshmallow we're still eating him just with some graham crackers and chocolate Jesus Marshmallow Christ yeah that's where Christ on a cracker comes from
Starting point is 01:09:59 by the way can you hand me the graham crackers yeah they found William chanting in an unintelligible language in front of the cask of paraffin oil again gibberish total gibberish yeah in which there was a the baby's body wrapped in napkins the local churches emptied out and seeing the fire the people all started walking up the hill huh and then they stood shocked as the flames reached five feet high and someone ran to get the police officers Francis and Hoyle ran up when they got there I like this duo but I'm put on put on put on put on put on put on put on put on put on put on put on put unlike Francis and Doyle yeah when
Starting point is 01:10:44 they got there some of the crowd were threatening to attack William but William said he had a pistol and shoot the first man who did that's good negotiating and you know what happens if you die around William it's fire time quote oil kicked the barrel hard enough for it to fall and the burning corpse rolled out although wrapped in napkins it's gruesome content was clear as the bare chest and exposed arms and legs were all a light well I mean burning napkins napkins yeah yeah you wrap it napkin yeah you do like three napkins it's like there we go that'll do I'll go into the Dunkin Donuts and get a handful of napkins
Starting point is 01:11:21 we'll wrap the kid in those it'll be fine I wasn't expecting that what am I supposed to macha him let's go the mob broke into a frenzy shrieking at the site of the burning baby's corpse now when you put it like that I get it yeah okay women fainted others cried out in terror women always fainted a man hooked a stick into the body and dragged it you finally someone who honors the body of the child a man who put a hook through it still blazing across the grass to the hedge Jesus Christ turf to extinguish the burning flesh and napkins so in other words the choice was made instead of burning the child to half burn it and
Starting point is 01:12:10 then beat it out with like a hook there we go drag it he didn't beat it he dragged it no what do you do he didn't beat it I didn't he dragged it I didn't know he dragged it and then covered it in dirt oh the hell's wrong with you yeah what's wrong with me yeah yeah I'm the creep in the story yep fair dave the crowd of 300 we're now 300 and someone yelled quote let us burn the old devil Constable Francis are they talking about the baby no they're talking William so they're opposed to burning you know what I mean well there's a weird line here now okay that's fair don't burn the baby
Starting point is 01:12:58 burn the sinner so the Constable rushes William and grabs him and and ceases him and they take him to jail they put William in one cell and the baby's corpse in the other we don't want them conferring about what their stories are we'll interview them separately first the mummified youth and you better talk you little son of a bitch hey you gotta take it away here sorry my partner my partner gets a bit hot my partner here gets a bit hot around the collar you have to excuse him now let's go away look look look I'm not that different from you right sure I'm a bit older I'm not ashy I've never been thrown in a fire
Starting point is 01:13:44 with napkins but I like milk wouldn't have nice god fucking kill hi I have to excuse my partner he's had a rough week it's a tough business yes sick baby oil take a minute take a minute oil anyway walk us through the evening I'm taking off my badge the kid's good he won't talk the old man says he's a druid we have a lot of problems here Mac this case is a nightmare so people surrounded Williams house mm-hmm there was concern they would attack Gwenshian but inside were four large well-trained dogs that kept the
Starting point is 01:14:40 crowd at bay she also armed herself with two pistols wow all right I like this stand up finally the police arrived and kept watching guarded the house people also surrounded the jail they thought William had killed the baby Jesus Christ his name I I know it's still working for me an inquest was held two days later crowds gathered both William and Gwenshian refused to say if she was the mother okay I mean it goes on for hours when they're trying to get her to meet she's the mother right okay the corner ruled the baby Jesus Christ had died from natural causes he did not put the baby's name on the death certificate but
Starting point is 01:15:31 instead wrote quote un-christianed child well okay the police asked the corner to bury the baby and the corner said legally he couldn't and then William demanded that he be given his child's body back there's a lot going on right now the corner won't bury it yeah he's like legally I can't bury the baby it's and they were like what law is that he's like the law that's just I don't want to do it so I have a dinner at five and I'm like super late this whole thing I wasn't supposed to be here today that's the baby smells yeah I did spill some soda and use it though because it was the napkins are just yeah I think it's
Starting point is 01:16:16 the quicker thicker picker upper so when the corner left the police station he was pelted with rocks so then he dies in another corner well I don't know it looks like the police said they would allow William to have the baby's body if he signed a document promising to bury the baby and William pretty fair William refused sure because right of course the next day he was hit with two charges for not properly handling a body and eagle illegally disposing of a corpse still William demanded the body there was no legal way to avoid it but the court also didn't want to give it the body unless he promised to bury also
Starting point is 01:16:59 finally he agreed okay he took the body to one of his empty houses and while in the house he and a servant prepared dinner and chopped up three buckets of turnips Dave uh-huh it feels like they haven't done the chore yet and I'm worried that they're doing it right now a crowd gathered outside thought he was cutting up the body oh I thought I seriously thought he's about to make Jesus do I really did I thought he was like Elmer flooding his baby okay that's good okay so he but still very that servant was like should okay just cut the turnips okay great we'll do some side work and then I'll be your sous
Starting point is 01:17:48 chef and then we'll maybe get to okay great the police came and asked to see the body but William refused to show it to them this is really honoring the child's memory yeah well so William was tried in Cardiff for performing cremation rather than a burial he argued that the law did not state whether cremation was legal or illegal which was completely true right the Jerry found him not guilty and applause broke out in the court okay after following the court case for a month people now had a totally different opinion and they were like cremation right yeah which they had been an angry mob one month before but
Starting point is 01:18:27 now people cheered him he was given so typical of the angry mob totally yeah we've changed our minds a hundred percent when he got back to town he was given a standing ovation people were flying flags in support okay a bit much on March 14th William cremated his son Jesus Christ with his own personal druid prayers on the hilltop sure locals respectfully watch from the bottom of the hill different the British Medical Journal celebrated William's victory and boosting the case for quote the hygienic value of cremation William had done more for cremation than doctors and the cremation society had done for over a
Starting point is 01:19:11 couple of decades the cremation society announced it would cremate anyone who requested it we're taking all burners Jesus really did a body come on down I'll burn your grandma a little 800 number flashing at the bottom of the screen ants uncles grandparents we're doing them all Sunday I don't forget our Black Friday special we'll burn two for one two bodies one fire let's do this whales William was now more famous than he'd ever been and he loved it pictures of him were being sold by shopkeepers in London what I mean this really is a turnaround he decided to commemorate the burning of his son's body and made 300
Starting point is 01:20:01 bronze oval shaped metals with a goat and dragon eating its own tail on the front what better way to honor your son than a dragon eating itself in 1885 the first official cremation in Britain took place at a walking crematorium the first person was Jeanette Pickersgill ten were cremated the next year in 1892 a crematorium open in Manchester then in one in Glasgow then Liverpool and Birmingham when gave lectures all over the place and attended events but the lectures didn't go well because people didn't know what in the fuck he was talking about I can sense that they literally couldn't understand his
Starting point is 01:20:41 gibberish they were like this is the guy who we think we're following and of course the egg was not the right egg I'm pretty sure he made it up okay I found the stone I found the stone it's written in Greek but it was to me from the moon all right now I got a pee I can't get out of this thing I really hits one piece I got a no no they also didn't understand the way he dressed purple cloth and embroidered with green letters he would come to sincerely hear him speak and ended up laughing hysterically at him he was now such a celebrity that when one of his cows died it was written up in the newspapers he
Starting point is 01:21:24 burned the cow he burned the cow he burned it that's called cooking in late 1884 Gwen Sheehan had a second child oh well he's 84 now I mean having kids yeah he's still popping live rounds it's a medical term yeah he named his new son Jesu Christ which means Jesus Christ but this time this time it was an homage to his first son who was an homage to Jesus Christ okay so it's just like replacing a cat like you're just like this is my new name okay again he thought his son had a very important future because he was the second coming of Jesus Christ hence the name well the third he's the third coming the third
Starting point is 01:22:11 coming yeah third coming William predicted Jesus Christ would eventually reign over the entire planet yeah well a lot of people in America still pretty confident on the 27th of May 1886 Gwen Sheehan had a daughter they named her Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope yeah yeah okay William then began to fade out of the public eye occasionally he'd make the news like when he refused to send Jesus Christ to school dude doesn't need to go to school Jesus Christ fucking knows everything I mean that's funny though when you get angry at him Jesus Christ come down here I mean I'm never mind and 1892 William
Starting point is 01:23:02 erected a pole that was over 60 yeah he erected a pole for a while it was over 60 feet high had a crescent moon symbol at the top this is where he wanted to be cremated he still made regular trips to Cardiff in his druid clothes and attracted attention Prince William died sorry this is the last time we come here guys thank you oh I mean thank God I can't kill people by mispronouncing shit that's like a black mirror that's a nightmare for you William Price died at home in on the 23rd of January 1893 when he was close to death he said quote bring me a glass of champagne those are his last words on the 31st of January he
Starting point is 01:24:02 was cream cremated on coal as was stated in his will 20,000 people watched the cremation his family oversaw it they were dressed in a mix of traditional Welsh and Druid clothing after his wife remarried a road inspector employed by the local council you know I just want something less druid this time I just I could listen to you talk about your work all day it's so normal well I found a hole to put stuff on it that's amazing and you don't believe the moon talks to you I love you I love us she walked away from being a druid and joined a Christian Church Jesus Christ and the Penelope were baptized Jesus was renamed Nicholas
Starting point is 01:24:47 Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas did not end up raining over the world whoa well yeah he changed his name like a dickhole in 2017 a commemorative green plaque was unveiled at a Rudy Parish Hall to mark the nearby birthplace Brian Davies the former curator of the Ponta Pratt Museum said of price quote he was a remarkable man he supported free education for the poor he funded the first cooperative store he operated an NHS style business model in his doctor surgery for 50 years supported the movement for social reform it is vital that historical figures I remembered and commemorated so we left some stuff out
Starting point is 01:25:30 on the plaque yeah that like that was the first half yeah the second half he's he talked to the moon he dressed like the Joker first half was great had a baby called Jesus tried two babies it called Jesus Christ one he tried to burn a lot of stuff that's the first yeah the first guy with his knee yeah he's the first guy to still command a death he threw a spear at someone yeah I get it I get celebrated the first half well that's fucking nuts yeah pretty normal place you got here yeah congrats and actually it's pretty it's not card if it's pronounced your love yeah it is that first it's the first half the first half is dynamite
Starting point is 01:26:14 yeah the first half is perfect yeah and then it goes off the rail yeah yes yeah but right yes he ended up moving cremation for which cremation for sure yeah needed to happen well yeah the eye I mean obviously like we've let go of it to some extent but I mean the idea of like what happens your body after you died me is always so stupid I mean I'll do it unless you want what I want which as I've said before I want to be stuffed with my catchphrases on my chest oh no and buttons that you can hit to make me keep me around you'll hit a button on I'll be like it's Gareth not Gary and they'll be like he's still here and I
Starting point is 01:26:46 want to be tied to the back of a truck and dragged until there's nothing left yes and I know your wife is pushed back on that which is why I'll carry that through I will carry that through and then when I get when I get pulled over for doing it I'll be like oh my god I forgot I tied him to that I just ran into the gas station so almost all of this information came from the book Whales first radical by Dr. William Price by Dr. Dean Powell sorry Whales first radical Dr. William Price by Dean Powell yeah at least you can say Jesus Christ now and it's not technically blaspheming
Starting point is 01:27:32 because you're like no I'm talking about his third she's second child but at the time at the time I didn't go into this because I'll probably just make an episode about it at some point but they had just body trains or funeral where they would just throw bodies on a train to get them out of London because there are so many fucking dead people there was no way to Australia too there's no where to put them yeah no well you know it's it'll be it it's exciting it'll be exciting to have body trains again which is probably a good time to remind people to follow and support extinction
Starting point is 01:28:09 rebellion yes segue yeah truly even if you don't like I don't know if there's a better movement out there so they're getting shit done yep and guys you can do anything you want that's what we've learned tonight yeah don't listen to people there is no ceiling believe in yourself you can have two kids named Jesus Christ if you want to too just do it do it go for it aim for the stars aim for the moon which incidentally is probably talking to you yeah thank you guys so much for coming out we appreciate it truly thank you very much

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