Chilluminati Podcast - Episode 88 - Minisode Compilation 10

Episode Date: February 8, 2021

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But those who are patronQueers, don't ever want to leave. Oh, hey there. It's, you know, look, it's an affectionate, it's an affectionate grumble. Welcome, everybody, to the chill, chill mini for the weekend of like November 9th or somewhere around there. Yeah. It's just in that area. People have requested for minisodes that we put. We at least bring the date up in the beginning.

So those who are listening later know what like what time this is falling. And this is like early November, everybody. Welcome to it. It's an optimistic time ish. Yeah, it is. It is somewhat more optimistic week of video games. Oh, it's true. We have Assassin's Creed Valhalla coming out and that's all I know. And the PlayStation. I don't I'm not getting either one of those right now.

Right. I heard Astros playroom is going to be the shit. I heard that, too. I heard I already have an Xbox Series X if I have an Xbox One X. So I'm good on that for now, but I'm going to hold on. I'm going to get them psyched for the PS5. Well, I don't have a for the stories. It's not a huge story. I don't think I don't think I ever said I don't know what you guys have.

I don't have a mind story has huge heart. Yeah, I have an update from a from a previous thing that we've talked about. Mines are I'll start this week there. This one's really quick, but as always, it's space related. This one's this is interesting and simply it's a new discovery. A mysterious this comes from the independent mysterious radio signal is coming from inside our galaxy. Scientists announce mysterious intense blasts of radio energy

have been detected within our own galaxy. Astronomers are said in fast radio bursts or FRBs last only a fraction of a second, but can be 100 million times more powerful than the sun. Despite their intensity, their origin remains largely unknown. Now astronomers have been able to observe a fast radio burst in our own Milky Way for the first ever time, as well as being closer than any FRB ever detected before. They could finally help solve the mystery of where they come from.

Scientists have had trouble tracking down the origin of such blasts because they are so short, unpredictable and originate far away. But it is clear they must be formed in some of the most extreme conditions possible in the universe with suggested explanations, including everything from dying stars, of course, to alien technology. Later on for this, the detection began on the 27th of April when researchers using two space telescopes picked up multiple X-ray and gamma ray emissions coming from a magnetar at the other end of our galaxy.

The next day, researchers used up used two North American telescopes to observe the patch of sky and picked up the blast that came to be known as FRB 200,428, as well as being the first FRB from our own Milky Way. Yeah, and that's pretty much the story. There's another FRB that was just from this. It's come from from the Milky Way Galaxy is the first one we've ever discovered within our own galaxy. And any explanation of what?

Again, there's no real way. That's the unfair part of this is it's like, well, it could either be an alien or a sun. Like, that seems like BS to me. Well, that's what I mean. Like, is there is it? Does it represent something that we know about? Is there things that we know about that emit this type of radiation?

Or is it just like a complete mystery? No, we know what it does. It's either a radio signal or it's literally a sun. Yeah, and that's so dumb. If the FRB can be proven to come from a from a magnar, a magnetar, many mysteries still remain. Astronomers will need to look for the mechanism that allows the magnetar to power an FRB, looking for an instance to understand how it could send out

such bright, unusual burst of energy and X-ray missions at the same time. So they don't know if it's coming from where it seems like it's coming from. They still don't know how it's happening. So who knows? But it's close. So that's interesting. You know, the size of our it's crazy that we're detecting things from outside the galaxy before we're detecting things in our own galaxy,

which maybe that's because our galaxy is younger than other galaxies. And so they've had longer time to send that radio wave out. And I mean, who know? Who FN knows? All I know is judged by the size of the universe. If we got a radio wave frequency hit from another galaxy, those people probably already dead. Oh, yeah, that's probably already gone.

Or they like float now. You never know. Yeah. Or they don't exist. They've transcended to light beings. You know, whatever. What is it called? It's the great filter, right? Like the thing where like a column, a civilization within space, that intelligence civilization within space will eventually hit this point

where they'll wipe themselves out or they'll push past it and they will go to colonize civilization. Yeah, you know, like we're a zero. Shout out zeros. What's up, bottom zeros? And there's one. Yeah. And there are ones which are like can travel around their own solar system. And then there's twos, which are like you can go between solar systems.

And there's threes and then fours. And I think there's a hypothetical five, which is like you are a light being. That's like, yeah, like interdimensional. Yeah, potentially what's literally sitting on top of our planet right now. But the idea is also like a four wouldn't wouldn't even recognize a zero. We'd be like ants, so there'd be no reason to even interact with us. Well, that's all I got, boys. That's my fascinating little

little in the tidbit of discovery in the in the world of the stars. OK, so I got a little update for you. OK. OK. So if you guys remember in September, I brought up a story about a man in a jet pack that that was seen at like around LAX at like 3,000 feet. I saw a photo of him recently. Yeah, I'm cruising, dude. People were like only in LA, right?

So I don't know how I missed this. But back halfway through October, a couple weeks ago, there was more. Yeah, they found they saw another guy in the air a couple of miles away from LAX. But this time and it's one forty five p.m. So we're talking about in the middle of a little photos of it. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I remember reading this and I think I think the the raid the guy, the pilot called it into the radio tower and the radio tower's

return question was, is it a man? Is it a man in a jet pack or is it a UFO? Yeah, he just very calmly was like, man in a jet pack. And she's like, all right, carry on. Yeah, no, it's a man in a jet pack. Difference is that this time the dude was 6,000 feet up instead of 3,000 feet up. That is damn. So if we're trying to you need a mask at that, do you know? I'm sure you need something because you shouldn't be up that high period.

I mean, like 6,000 feet just to give you an idea. This is I got my New York Times subscription because I actually like reading news that is credentialed and true. But the the Wilshire Grand Tower, the biggest building in L.A. This is six times higher than that. I am. Damn. Damn. So just think about how high up that is, first of all. That's so crazy. So close to having our own fucking Iron Man flying.

I am not. Can you couldn't convince me? You know what? Actually, I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure this is just Elon Musk, right? Like the man like I am Iron Man. Yeah, you know, last time we talked about this, you think Musk could keep it to himself? It was him. No, which is why I think he's testing it. And then when he perfects it, he'll be like, I am Iron Man.

Yeah, and then we become then we go into cyberpunk territory and we don't become the utopia we want. I mean, do you know what cyberpunk is? It is not utopia in my front. I mean, what I'm saying is not utopia. We don't go to the Marvel superhero route. Oh, no. Yeah, I'm there. I'm there. I get jacked arms and I'm OK with it.

That's true. We could just modify ourselves completely. Well, so six thousand feet up, right? You got to look at the numbers and you got to look at the realm of possibility. Right. So the first option is Jetman Dubai, which we talked about last time, which is the one where it's like looks like kind of like an Iron Man situation, except he has like a plastic hang glider on basically. Yeah, like he's got like hard, triangular wings.

This isn't that guy. Yeah. No, that's in Dubai. That's that's somewhere else. But there is an S F V like San Fernando Valley company in L.A. ish that's called Jetpack Aviation. They have, quote, the world's only jetpack. Apparently it can operate for 10 minutes. It can go 15000 feet.

And apparently they don't they don't sell them, but they have one. And they have like like you can you can pay. Apparently it's good. OK, so normally it costs forty nine fifty five thousand dollars to do this for a day, right? But right now, if you want to fly on the jetpack, it's only four. It's it's still the same price, but now it's two days.

I don't know if that's a covid deal or what, but it's a limited time offer. You pay. What does that mean day wise? Like how if it only lasts for so many minutes, I'll give you exactly. It's two days. So the first first of all, you get a photo in the jetpack with the JPA team. You get a photo alone in the jetpack off the tether. So that's cool. You get a polo.

You get a T shirt. You get a hat, a certificate, patches and you get a removed before flight keychain. OK, that's what you do. But what you do, it starts at 8 a.m. each day. There's a safety briefing. You get an explanation, presentation of the controls, flight lesson, safety apparel. You get to wear a flight suit, which you might also get to keep. There's a tether system that they teach you about.

They teach you how to fuel the jetpack, safety controls, how to start the jetpack, maneuvers, demonstration flight, throttle exercises, hover exercises, yaw exercises, climbing exercises, forward and backward exercises, sideways exercises, debriefing, flights of the day, photos. And you do that twice in a row. But wouldn't. Oh, boy, I imagine you have to sign a waiver. There's no way that is not just dangerous. It says the insurance is included in the cost.

There's a there's a there's a brochure and on the website, it says it is really safe. So please don't worry about that. We have spent years refining the operation. You will always be on a safety cable and have an instructor that can take control at any time. Will I be required to sign a connection to wear? Will I be around? I guess, you know, or maybe maybe you don't go that high up. You know what I mean? Maybe you know, maybe you're right.

Yeah. Yeah. But still, no matter what, down is bad when you are anywhere up. You would like to sign a safety way down as bad. You do have to you do have to fly a safety waiver, a file safety waiver. It says it would take longer than two days to get you to the point of being able to safely fly off tether. Right. I don't say. But you get to do it in the in the photo session or they photoshop it out. Being attached at all times to a tether system, a horizontal cable reduces the chance of you hitting the ground.

Gotcha. So no matter what, you're there's a horizontal. Gotcha. Oh, I see. Right. OK. I was like, why? Where were they attached to? Dude, imagine if somebody was like, OK, it's time for your photo. Without the tether. And as soon as I take it off, you're just like take off with the things or they're going to stop you. Exactly. What are you going to do? You got to refuel it like, I don't know, wait, wait, 10 minutes.

I mean, I feel like that a whirlwind quest where the guy fucking lands. No, it'll be like Episode Two of Mandalorian Season Two. Yeah, where you activate the jetpack. Yeah, she just takes that dude out. Yeah. Great. Lunch is provided. That's good. Great. And she's the most ominous thing of all. You will wear special apparel designed for jetpack operations.

This reduces the chance of burns. That's not a lemonade. OK, I wasn't even thinking about your ass burning or your back burning. But now now I am. Yeah, that would scare me, actually. Places are very limited, but you can book now at jetpackaviation.com. So if you want to only for five grand though, apparently, it's not that jetpack. Apparently, it's not that jetpack.

Nobody knows of a jetpack that can do this, like where somebody just like goes off into the fucking sky and flies around on a jetpack like unsanctioned. That's got to be a rich fucker. That's all it's got to be. Also, jetpack aviation is showing off a. A military application and a. And a civilian application for a hover motorcycle called the speeder. Oh, interesting.

Go to jetpack aviation.com. It's on the front page. It's mission to save lives. That's what it says. OK, but yeah, that's that's my little tidbit of news is that now there's been a double jetpack guy and he's out there somewhere. There's somebody out there with a jetpack in L.A. Somewhere near us, who's just jealous of flying it around really nearly.

There's somebody with a jetpack. That's crazy, right? And he's the super spreader. Dude, maybe it's like a Johnny Apple seed of covid. Right, he's just going around spreading covid. That's probably what it is. We've solved it. I don't I don't think that I don't think that's what that is. Somebody tell the death.

We've solved it early. A new conspiracy was born today. All right. As we all know, the elections happened this past week, but that wasn't the most important was this week. Whoa, that wasn't the most important one. From Reuters in Seoul, Korea, South Korea. He's being hailed as a major win for democracy in South Korea.

After 16 years in exile. An election winner is returning this week triumphantly to claim his rightful place on the front of a green cereal box. The limited edition of Czech cereal. Oh, shit, out within two days when it hit online stores following years of almost ceaseless campaigning by enthusiasts. The long road to the cereal aisle began in 2004

when Kellogg's Korea launched a lighthearted marketing campaign for Czechs, a five grain cereal asking South Koreans to vote on a new flavor. The TV commercial featured two cartoon candidates. They were, oh, they were vying for the Czech's Chaco Empire. And the two candidates were the chocolate favorite, Czechy and the green onion flavored Chaka. Green onion checks, dude. What listen in the world of 2020 where memes are king.

You do not play with shit like that. Well, this was 2004. Oh, what? Yeah. What the PR stunt was meant to end with an easy victory for the chocolate Czechy, but the people did not agree. Oh, my God. Votes for Chaka surged past Czechy. Catching Kellogg's completely unaware, citing multiple votes by individuals. The company halted online voting throughout duplicate votes

and declared Czechy the winner. Chaka fans and fried foul and decried Czechy's subsequent 16 year rule as an illegitimate tyrant. Chaka remained in the public consciousness via regular hashtag like pray for Czechs depicting the onion character as a freedom fighter. God, oh, to live in fucking Korea where the big election was about green onion checks versus fucking chocolate. We never expected customers would be this interested

in the product after 16 years. Kim Heon, a spokeswoman for the Kellogg's Korea company, spoke or said every time we launched new cereals or had promotional events, online communities would repeatedly ask us for the flavor. Chaka's success was so monumentous that on the day it was announced earlier this month, it surged past North Korea's bombing of an inter Korean liaison office to become the top trending topic on South Korean social media.

That's just fucking depressing. Oh, that's just so sad. Good God, the fact that that overtook like an attack. Here's one of the tweets. The cheating forces of Czechy were ousted and Mr. Chaka's 16 years struggle has finally come to an end. A TV advertisement apologizing for the lay features a small child whose dreams of onion cereal were crushed. Promotional materials included a faux political poster with the image

of Chaka over former President Barack Obama's Yes, We Can slogan. And if you see that, if you see the commercial, it literally spoofs. You know, they're like the dudes dancing with the coffin. Yeah. That means yes. It literally spoofs memes in this trailer. Oh, my God. Where do I get to see the green onion checks trailer? You can I will send you the it's got to be on YouTube. It is on for sure.

It might be on YouTube, but it's for sure this Reuters article. Limited edition cereals are usually on sale for about three months, but that could be extended if sales are strong. Kim said the company has been working on developing the cereal for 15 years, but couldn't figure out the right onion flavor. When it called for 50 early testers, they received 14,000 applications. Traditional breakfast cereals are often savory and even spicy. And many people seem to envision the onion flavor as a potential

bar snack with beer rather than with milk. Yeah, I had adult like taste in food since I was young. So I love local food with garlic, green onion or kimchi. Said food blogger Lee Soo Jung, 24, who voted for Chaka as a child and was an early taster. Her verdict, the green flavor is just excuse me, the green onion flavor is just too mild. And she was disappointed.

It's like freaking Duke Nukem 3D coming out. Yep. Everybody was just disappointed. If you watch the trailer, it's really funny. My favorite is there's a clip of a guy on YouTube trying it. And he seems to have the opposite opinion. I'm watching it with the subtitles on. He says it has a strong smell and tastes like green onion. And he's eating it out of a cereal bowl with milk and it looks so gross.

And I want to try it. I want to try it. I'm trying to have to know what it tastes like. The closest thing my brain does is like, what if you put onions in milk? Like, that's where my brain goes. But that's like garlicky, right? Like onions, onions, onion flavor, but like it has like a. Yeah, but like, yeah, like I was trying to figure like, what kind of flavor would you give a certain like you're going to put it in milk?

Green onion. I mean, I don't want. I would eat it out of a cup. I would eat it all day, like as a snack. Like a snack. It's like a dry snack. But I get it as when you think about it as check checks mix, I think it actually works with checks mix. Yeah. I think it's solid addition. Yeah, come on. Yeah, it's not with milk.

It's just a weird. I do think it's hilarious that they tried in 2004 to troll the checks company. And the checks company was like chocolate wends. And then for 16 years, they kept doing this and it took until 2020. The year of years, the year where we finally see everything clearly took until this time. They saw that you can have it.

And like I said, at the beginning of the article, I need it sold out in two days. That's nuts. I need to try these. If you see that my fair part is if you look at the let's see if I can send you the direct. Slow. Even on the God, how do I even show you this?

How do I show you this image? Even on the image of the checks, there is this giant green onion checks in the background. He's pushing the chocolate checks out of the way. That's so funny. Hold on. I'm just going to save this image as somebody. Give me a bag of these, please. Yeah. If you can send.

Oh, well, while we're getting out of here, this is a mini sewed. So a little behind the scenes. Jesse, you're going to be getting a painting soon, sir. Yeah, cool. So so thanks for that. I saw that. I'm so excited. You sent me a haunted doll, dude. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. One of us sent you a haunted doll.

It had both of your names. Why are you having a choice for this? We both decided. Don't try and go back. On history. Don't worry, Alex. Somebody else is another haunted item that they've been trying to hawk to me.

I'm going to get that sent to you. Welcome. So don't cool. I'm so excited. Don't worry about it. What if what if it ends up on fire for some reason? Then we know that the picture was filled with hate, like he said. Yeah. What if I said it on fire? The picture is filled with hate.

That's the problem. Every time they go into the room, they said they like gets cold in the picture. It's a picture of flowers that was in the house when they moved in. They just they said it's been there since they left. They moved in and just the room feels wrong. The chandeliers, flowers. There you go. It was shit. I don't even get that reference, but you will.

All right, sweet. When we watch movies one day. All right, I'm excited. All right. Thank you for never watch any movies. I know references just go whizzing by, dude. Next week will be no Minnesota. We'll be back to the week after with the Minnesota.

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Still not cool. Is that dude? We've been doing this for so long. Yeah, I'm going to call you out on it. The day I don't is the day I get in trouble with the internet. I'm not going to. I don't want to be part of your creep show. I can't believe you just didn't this express your disproval. Oh, you don't need to. You don't need to say that. I always will.

That's why I'm changing my review on iTunes from five out of five to four out of five. You know what? Still good. Still all right. Anyway, I don't know what you guys brought today, but I got something a little true crimey this time around. I have a post stuff. So I have the official sequel to the Poe episode. Do you want to save it for the end? Or do you want to do it first?

I've got like a Poe follow up thing, too. So let me get mine out of the way, because mine's not remotely Poe related. OK, I just want to ask to all of our German listeners. Oh, boy, what's happening is everything OK? And why is the third cannibal in like five years that has been arrested in Germany remains in German murder case show signs of cannibalism. Berlin prosecutors say suspect in death. The forty four year old man had interest in the subject.

German prosecutors say there's evidence of cannibalism, the killing of a forty four year old man whose remains are found in Berlin. A forty one year old man was arrested at his home this Thursday on suspicion of murder with sexual motives close to the site where the victims' bones were found. Well, the suspect had an interest in cannibalism. He searched online for the topic. Yeah, he searched online for the topic quite often.

OK. On November 8th, a walker had chanced upon the skeletal remains of a human leg on a field on the northern outskirts of Berlin near the border of Brandenburg Gate. On the bones, investigators discovered bite marks, though they said it was still unclear if they were human or from an animal. The remains were those of a forty four year old high voltage technician who had gone missing from the shared apartment in Berlin's Lichtenberg district on the fifth of September.

And it goes on to say that the the I think the looks at the biting marks there they potentially are from human. And I just want to say this is like the third cannibal like a few years. Let me just stick up for Berlin for a hot moment. Berlin, you are a great ass town. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Every time I've been there, amazing. The people are great. I like it was beautiful.

It was kind of like sadly beautiful in a way. A lot of people in 2006, the Rottenberg cannibal happened in 2015. The German police officer was convicted for murdering, killing a man he met on the Internet and then ate him. Berlin has has a streak of very, you know, like a liberal streak to it, a sort of like eff the man streak. And frankly, nothing says more eff the man than eating a person. So I feel like they're saying eat the man in that case.

You know, I mean, you know what the rich I'm just saying. You know, so you got to work your way up. What if the secret is that like 45 percent of people in Germany are delicious cannibals? Are you just one of those? Just a whole like a whole culture of cannibalism. And it's interesting that there's like 45 percent of the Germans are secretly delicious. No, it's like late, you know, like,

what if it's just just below the surface, like some kind of fucked up Harry Potter? Maybe do situation. It's just weird. It's just weird because I feel like cannibalism isn't something we see in America all too often. Look, I don't want to I don't want to start saying something like that because then somebody's going to hit me with the Google links to like 45 cases of cannibalism in my hometown. And don't send me your personal pictures of your own cannibalistic tendencies either.

I don't need them in the inbox. I will delete them. Well, just we're tired of it. OK, cannibals. Yeah, I'm tired of your weird shit. Just be aware, cannibals, that you don't have to eat your friends because this week on November 20th, a lot of articles came out about how there's a thing called human steak, which is something that you can grow. Looking good. It is do yourself meal kit for growing steaks made from human cells recently nominated for design of the year in the London based Design Museum.

So that's a thing that could happen in the future. Super good, like a thousand percent. I would rather eat a thick liquid made of bugs than than a human steak. Oh, that's so weird. It's so would you eat it? Would I? Yeah. You know what? Here's the thing. If it if it was like, all right, I'll be real. If it was on a dare, I'd have to buy law.

I've got to be in my law by dare. I'd have to. I'd have to do it. If someone was like, I don't know if you put in front of you as an option. Like you have one. You have an opportunity here. No, if it was like my option was a delicious steak or genetically grown man meat. I'd be like, no, I'm good. That's another awful part of it. OK, like I'm an adventurous eater. You know what I mean? I've had whale.

I've eaten balut. I've eaten all kinds of bugs, all manner of bugs and worms. Human flesh, real or not, is like. Oh, man, I don't know. That's the forbidden fruit. And I just thought of a joke, but I'm going to, you know, it's a human flesh joke and eaten, but I'm going to just keep it to myself. The chillies are all about chillies, chill. Maybe hot, but here's the deal. Cannibals say that human meat tastes the most like pork,

like the most this most similar tasting meat to human is pork. So you know that, you know, that steak is going to be good. It's going to be like a pork, big, big man, man sized pork. I'd still rather have, I don't know, like a nice chicken breast or something. Then then a pork. I gotta be healthy. I gotta be healthy. What if you could just make your own food out of your own cells? Here's the thing, if you could, we would have been doing that for all of history

and we'd be totally fine with it. It's it's so mentally repugnant to me to like walk myself through the process of doing it that I don't know that I could. I don't know that I could eat fake human flesh like that. I don't know that I could do it. I'm not cool with eating fake anything. Right. It seems weird to be like, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, I don't know.

I don't mind beyond. I don't mind beyond because it's not trying to be anything. Yeah, no, exactly. It's not trying to be like it's a vegetable thing rather than a it's meat that we made meat. Oh, yeah. No, no, thank you. That is a whole another level. I'm like, no, I don't trust that meat. Yeah, it's fucking scary, dude.

That's like how you're going to like grow five arms later or something. Well, here's the thing. Maybe I'm wrong because I do kind of think I'd love to have extra body parts. I would like to have a storeroom somewhere of like, look, I need a kidney. OK, here's your own. Right. I mean, in that kind of thing, a lot more I'm a lot more willing to to to negotiate, you know. But in the context of like, I grew this, eat it, it's a human.

It's human property, but it's not alive. But it's meat from a human. I would be like, this is like a this is like a game that I like. This could be like in a video game where they make you eat this and it would be like the scariest part of the game. But again, on a dare, if money was involved, I'd eat that. I'd be like, all right. I did and I do it to be like, this is for this is for you, America.

Oh, for America. Oh, my God. Look, I'm just saying when we go overseas, Alex knows every time we're in the UK, some bread or some like, you know, Scottish dude is just like, we're better drinkers than you. It's like, all right, let's fucking do this for America. We're going to have a spoiler. I have a spoiler for you about who's the best drinker. It's me. You can't beat me.

I've never lost. I mean, I'm the last one awake every time. Every night I watch you all. I see you off the bed every night at Coxconn. Although every once in a while, Davis is the guy who just like, it's six days and you're like, are you still up? Davis is wild because he'll be like gone at midnight.

And then at like six, 15 a.m. He'll be like, hey, guys, you know, this is a boy. And it's like, where did you come from? He's like, I've been around. And it's like, why do you smell like cigarettes? He's like, I don't know. Shut up. Where are you?

So funny. I can't wait to travel again. Man, I miss the world. Me too. The apartment sucks. I need to get out. It's going to be so good to see people again. Yes, I agree. All right.

You know, that was a tangent about cannibals. Anyway, you want to you want the sequel to Poe? I will give you the sequel to Poe. Well, before you sequel us. Yes. Can I hit everyone with a little factoids about Poe really quick? Hell yeah. Please. So everyone associates absinthe with Poe, right?

It was his big drink. It was something that everyone just figures was part of who he was. And a lot for a lot of history people assumed that the hallucinogenic properties of absinthe were what gave him these crazy ideas for stories. Well, absinthe, for those of you who don't know, is a sort of green liquid that has a black licorice flavor to it.

And what they would do at the time is they would add sugar to it. And the you've probably seen it happen at a bar, like where they take the sugar in the spoon and pour the absence over it. You've seen it, I'm sure. Yeah. Well, the absence we have now is a little bit different than the absence that existed in the eighteen hundreds because it was banned, especially in the United States and in most of the world, because it had a thing called Thujone.

And it has to do with wormwood. Yeah, it's essentially wormwood. And it just give you an example. Absinthe became so popular in Europe that five o'clock was called the Green Hour, which is when people would like sit down and just get shawasted. And so in absinthe addiction, because it was sweet. And it had one.

I can do like one, maybe with what it is. It is a it is an intense beverage. Absinthe never tried. Absinthe has anywhere. I mean, most absence is like one hundred twenty something, but it goes up to like one hundred fifty proof. I like I like love licorice and it rips me up like it is. It is a borderline moonshine style type stuff. And so this Thujone, what it would do is it would apparently

cause anyone to drink excessive amounts. They would have hallucinations, but there have been tests and there's been things in the past where they're like, look, we looked into this and it really you'd have to have crazy amount for it to actually do that. There's no real evidence that it did that. And so that probably is just, you know, it seems. Yeah. Yeah.

What is more likely is that anyone who was drinking absinthe because of the sweet factor, because it had this this taste at the time at me at the time. Black licorice was a popular flavor. Like that is a taste profile that people loved. Which I like to. Um, and so fashion tasting. Yes, absolutely.

And one of the crazy things about it is because of the flavor. It reminded me every article I've looked up about this. It reminds me of one time I was in college when I worked at a radio station and I went to my boss's house for a party and he had a bartender and the bartender was like, my man, I make a thing called the El Presidente and I was like, awesome. It tasted like cherries, like a cherry Kool-Aid. I must have had 13 of those damn things.

And the other thing I puked on my boss's car, got fired the next day. Don't do that. So this is not yours. OK. This is what I'm saying. This is a drink that during this time period, you didn't just have one. Most drinkers of absinthe were known to have double digits worth of absence over the course of a day. That's what I'm saying.

That's a lot of 150, 120, 150, 98, I think is the lowest proof. Like the insane amount of alcohol in your system. And I can understand that's why John Legazano is checked up in that Mulan Rouge movie. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. The the way people would react when they drank this alcohol is it would mess them up and it wasn't because of the wormwater. That was like such a minuscule amount, but it like gave it that

like Alex had a romance to it. Really, it's because it's high proof. And he was just jacked up on and so that's a little thing to consider. Next time someone's like egg growling, Poe was hallucinating gravens in his bedroom. I was like, no, he was just wasted. He was fucked up like Stephen King, right? A kujo, bro. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Sequel me, Alex. OK. So this is the promised sequel. It's a lot more lighthearted, like I said, and it all starts back in the first half of the 20th century, according to some eyewitness accounts, it was happening all the way back to the 1930s. But the first time that everyone can agree on was some time between midnight and six a.m. on the morning of January 19th, 1949, the 100th anniversary of Poe's birth.

OK, so it's 100 years after his death. I'm sorry. It was it was his 100th. Death anniversary, if it be 49, because he died in 49, it would be one hundred nine. It was the 100th anniversary of his death on his birthday. If you know what I'm saying, it was his birth, his his birthday, the year 100 years after he died, gotcha. He was he was born in 1809. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah.

Well, he was born in, is that right? Says he was born 1809. Yeah. You're saying the dates this birthday, 100 years after his after he died. I got because he died in October 7th, 1849. Yeah. He's only 40. Damn. Yeah. Yes. I mean, that's kind of is that old for the 1850s? Not. Not really. No.

He was not. He definitely died early. So this happened 100 years after he died quietly. In in an all black suit with a white scarf and a big top hat, a masked man visited the grave of Edgar Allen Poe and left three red roses and a bottle of cognac every year from 1949 until 2009. Right. So at first, just a few people would show up and watch it go down

because somebody saw it happen that first time and they were like, is it going to happen again? So they showed up and they watched and it slowly drew a crowd. I feel this is already a very weird thing to do for something that was obviously meant to be like private and intimate. But by the end, it was almost like a ceremony, almost like waiting for Santa Claus or something with like cost players from characters from Poe's books

and all kinds of other weird stuff that you would not expect to have at someone's grave on their birthday that seems a little disrespectful, but, you know, whatever, like they're just there to be enthusiastic about Poe. So whatever. Nobody knows for sure what the significance is of the cognac because Poe didn't, like, drink this drink. And it's never mentioned in any of his books, you know, like maybe you'd want, like, on a Monty Otto,

if you were going to do something from Poe's, like, writing. But the popular thinking on the roses is that they represent everyone buried at the gravesite, which is Poe, his wife, Virginia Clem, and his mother-in-law, Maria Clem, who he lived with up until his death. Also, the Poe toaster, as he is called, sometimes also left notes along with the traditionally expected rose and cognac. And an example people people often give

as the contents of most of these notes and how they went were things like this one note that said, Edgar, I haven't forgotten you. Right. So it's like a bunch of notes like that, for the most part, just sort of schmaltzy, sort of slightly nostalgic notes about Poe. But in 1998, the note said the torch will be passed, which implied seemingly that maybe the tradition of leaving this stuff was going to pass maybe from a parent to a child or something like that. And indeed, after 1998, the toaster was reported to be a younger man.

So a lot of people assumed that it was this guy's son that took over for him as the toaster. And the only way we know that the second toaster was even legitimate was that the curator of the Poe house has a secret signal worked out with the real toaster that this guy also knew and continued. If that makes sense. So he actually had a sort of secret way of being like, I'm the real one. I know what's up, which is crazy.

But like I said, things ended for good in 2009, and it didn't go out on a high note either. It just sort of like got slowly weirder and weirder as it petered out. So like I said, the first time that there was any sort of like change was in 1999, when this younger person came. And in 2001, days before the Super Bowl, between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Ravens, here is the the quote was

the New York Giants, darkness and decay and the big blue whole dominion overall. The Baltimore Ravens, a thousand injuries they were, they will suffer. Edgar Allan Poe evermore. Very weird, because not only was that the first time that the toaster had ever mentioned anything like going on in in current day. It also seemed like he was supporting the New York Giants over the team from Baltimore that's named after fucking Edgar Allan Poe.

So I don't know, it was pretty weird. And then in 2004, during the Iraq War, when everybody in America was mad at France and we invented the stupid ass freedom fries thing that we were doing for a while. Apparently, the toaster was now one of those people and left a note that said the sacred memory of Poe and his final resting place is no place for French cognac with great reluctance, but with respect for family tradition.

The cognac is placed. The memory of Poe shall live evermore. So yeah, people were kind of turned off by the weird new toaster who absolutely did not fit with the like sort of like barns and noble gothic romantic version. Yeah, of the toaster that they were sort of imagining. And apparently sometime between 2005 and 2008, the last couple of years, the curator found a note that was so upsetting

that he actually lied and said there wasn't a note. And he still hasn't told anyone what that note said, except that he said that in hindsight, he should have known that it meant it was all over. And finally, after 2009, he never appeared again. And though many pretenders have attempted to replace the original, that never officially happened until 2015, when the Maryland Historical Society actually held a competition

to find a replacement who now does it in the name of city tradition. And I think still anonymously, like this guy showed up when they announced that he like showed up at the grave and like played on a fiddle in his mask and like went away. Well, like set a set a little like quote and disappeared at a little jig. And yeah, so now he's like a sell out sort of like character. Yeah, that's kind of a bummer way to end it.

Yeah, but there is one picture of the real original toaster that exists. And I have it right here for you. I will post it in the subreddit a little bit after this goes live. But this is the only picture that exists at the Poe toaster. And it's a very poor quality image. Yeah, it is absolute shit. But at least we know he exists and see, you know, he can see his hat. You can see his scarf.

You can see he's got some sort of bouquet or something in his hands, maybe. Yeah, he's like kneeling. And maybe he put his cane up against the grave there. Hmm. Yeah. But that's this weird guy that came in toasted Poe for 50 years at his grave every year on his birthday that nobody knew who it was. Pretty wild that exists, huh?

Yeah, what a magical tale of a strange man who enjoyed cognac. Yeah, thanks for the money, guys. The man who hated and ended with the man who hated the New York Giants or like the New York Giants. Yeah, thank you for your money, everybody. We appreciate it. We will we'll be back next week with another mini soda for you. Germany, get your shit together.

Whoa. And if you are, if you are that guy who leaves cognac or does a little fiddle dance now, send us an email. Let us know what it's like to have that job. Yeah, I'd love to know what that job is like. Put it on Dirty Jobs with what's his name? Mike Rowe. Mike. Yeah, Mike Rowe. Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. I want to know. I want to see the Poe Toaster episode.

Thank you for listening, everybody. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Hello, my little chaluminots. No, no. Welcome back. Yeah, the Chilmini. Welcome back to it, Jesse. You know, you enjoy the intro.

That vanilla, that white chocolate voice. You've heard yourself as white chocolate in private. I do now. That makes it worse. You know what's one of the best pieces of trivia about white chocolate? It's bad. It's not chocolate. Yeah. Yeah.

It's bad. It's gross. You teased us, Alex. So I'm going to hand the reins directly to you for this little mini-soad here. You've got to follow up a sequel to the episode of Oh, yes. The trio of mysteries you gave us. Oh, yes. So this goes back to what I was saying in the Voynich manuscript

section of the episode. I was talking about there's a mystery figure that sold this book. Right. To Emperor Rudolph, the second of the Holy Roman Holy Roman Empire. And that person is a man called John D. Who is super like, you know, just notorious.

He's sort of like a Rasputin-esque figure, like just like a like a historical occultist and sorcerer person. I said, like I said, he worked with Edward Kelly. I think the guy's name is the like philosopher stone, like transmuting metal into gold guy. And, you know, there's some controversy over whether this guy ever actually owned the Voynich manuscript itself. But we know for sure that he owned another book

called The Book of Soyga, which is not, which is also known as Alderaea. And it's a treatise on demonology written in Latin from the 1500s. Nobody knows who wrote it. Some say the devil. I don't I don't know. One can only hope.

I don't know. Why would the devil do? Dude, do you know about the codex on demonology? Do you know about the codex? Gagas or whatever it's called? The the giant Bible that was written by the devil. What? I want that. What? Dude, have you not seen the Ninth Gate?

That's not sick as hell. All right. Don't worry about it. Well, is there a chapter on Power Ranger Powers? I don't. I haven't gotten what? I haven't gotten to that part. So it's just the Bible. It's just the Bible, but it's written by the devil. It's a holy Bible difference, then.

I don't know. But that's not this book. This is the Alderaea. And this guy was an adviser to Elizabeth the first. He got this book in the 1580s. And most of the book is written in Latin. Dee could read it. No problem. There's all sorts of conjurations,

spells, protection, spells, formulas, hierarchies of angels and demons. But the final 36 pages of the book were just tables of Latin. And he realized that it was a code of some kind, but he never was able to solve it, even though he did call on Edward Kelly, his scryer, his crystal gazer, who he said he summoned the angel, the archangel Uriel to come down and ask him about the meaning of the 36 pages.

And the angel spoke directly out of Kelly's mouth. Said the book came into existence when Adam entered paradise and that only Michael could read it. And obviously, Uriel's not Michael. And the angel also said that the book was cursed and that anybody who decipheres the meaning of the tables would die two and a half years later. Very specific, very, very weird, specific curse.

That's enough time to let everybody in the world know what they transcribe to. Yeah, but John Dee died in the late 1610, some time before 1620. The book of Soga disappeared after his death. Nobody knows what happened to it for a long time. But it popped up like the name of the book popped up all over the place. But people were worried that it was lost forever until 1994, 400 years after John Dee died when a copy of the book was found just in a pile of books in the British Library in London,

to the biggest library that exists. And this person, Deborah Harkness, found it. She's an American historian and professor. And she wrote a thesis on John Dee, which is like amazing that she found that. And what's even more amazing is that a few months later, she found another copy in Oxford in the in the Bodleian Bodleian Library at Oxford. Sure. And as soon as it was announced that somebody had found it,

a bunch of cryptographers were like, let me try and solve it. And people worked on it for about 12 years until 2006, when a man called Jim Reeds, who was a lifer, Voynich guy, found out that this Voynich lifer is out there. Dude, there it's real. It's a real thing. It also makes all of this very kind of like, you know, I'm the person who studies this.

So I found two copies or I'm the one who does this thing. So it always makes it a little bit like, did you just bring a book with you to the library and print it like that? At the same time, who would? Who would find it but an expert on it, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's the Indiana Jones problem. Yep.

But this guy, the Voynich guy, he he he found an algorithm for solving the tables and proved that they contain a list of astrological terms, magical incantations and more angels and demons. The like the more forbidden knowledge. Gotcha. But Jim Reeds is still alive 12 years later, 13, 14 years later now. Being that curse. Appreciate it, Jim. Even though he was able to figure out the code.

But he read them, but he didn't use them. So maybe that's maybe that's, you know, the curse not fully taking effect. That's the man. That's how you make deals with the devil, though, right there. But yeah, like, I mean, you got to remember the reason it's pretty punk rock why these books were encrypted in the first place, right? Which is that, like. The knowledge like literally it was forbidden knowledge.

It's hard to imagine now, you know, in a rule 34 world that there's anything that's too inflammatory or wrong to be seen. Yeah, the desensitization has happened so hard to our generation. Yeah. But I mean, it's just a different world, right? But, you know, back then to not get in trouble, they'd fucking in cipher that shit. So, you know, if you were cool, you could figure out the scary demons and spells.

But if not, you know, you just had to have the base level. Or maybe, you know, they kept kept it back and then have like money. And they're like, yo, yo, yo. Like, here you go. He made a money sign. You could he rubbed his fingers together. You guys couldn't see it. Don't worry. Yeah, like pay me and I'll give you the the code to the to the last bit, right?

It's a it's like a classic like exclusive club kind of thing, right? Like if you like, you can easily see somebody using that to extort money out of people. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But yeah, that's the soya. That's the book of soya. Sweet. Fascinating. What I bring to the table, something that we should we absolutely have to talk about. Is it what I think we're going to talk about?

It could be my thing, too. It's probably both our things. That's part two of an unfolding saga. Do we even cover one of the unfolding saga? I think this saga has unfolded during the course of this week between the last episode and this episode. Oh, yeah, we didn't have you're right. OK. Well, let's talk about amazing monolith that appeared randomly

in the Utah deserts, was it? Or was the Arizona deserts in Utah? It was a large rectangular thing that just some of the what is the public, the public, whatever, the people, these people who go helicoptering on looking for missing people. They thought, yeah, Utah Highway Patrol. They found this monolith as they were helicoptering around in the middle of nowhere. And they examined it.

There's video of them checking it out. Later on, somebody went to go check it out from on Instagram after he figured out where the coordinates were. And it's like a thin metal that's like a maybe aluminum that's riveted together. However, in between the time that it's been found and now, it's also now gone missing. And so we're kind of just left curiously wondering what the hell it was. It has to be like the real live version of Jean Guy from The Mandalorian, right?

Like it was probably because what the theory that I heard was that it was Westworld that left it there and that they they were saying something. Well, they said they were filming in the area and that like maybe somebody on the crew left it. And I think that maybe they like saw it on the internet. They were like, oh, shit. And they like went back and got it so they wouldn't get shit canned. But I don't know.

It's interesting. Because it was just a very remote area. Like it wasn't a place people would find or see it normally. No, right. They were like looking for sheep or something. They were like counting sheep when they found it or something. Yeah, they're doing something really, really bizarre in a helicopter. And they're like, what the hell is that? Yeah, it's very bizarre.

It looks like what is it from? Was it a 2001 Space Odyssey? The monkeys who find the monolith. The monolith. The monolith. If we can just start that as a thing where someone just goes, the monolith and everyone's repeating the monolith. That would be great.

From now on, just. Yeah, it doesn't look like it was made of anything special. Like somebody tried to put a magnet against it and it didn't stick. Like there was no magnetic pole to the to it. Nobody knows. I almost feel like it might have just been an art piece. Like somebody just being weird and waiting for somebody to find it. And just as somebody finds it and removing it.

A lot of crazy things. It could be mostly because in the desert, there's a lot of crazy stuff. And not like it's the desert. There's great. But like the US government. Yeah, everything from the Air Force to cable companies will stick to found the desert and use satellites to like you'll see weird like boxes with multicolored stuff like in the middle of the desert. And people will be like, what is this?

What? But really, it's in space. A satellite is looking down recalibrating based on that off that box. Yeah, it's like some. Yeah, exactly. It's just something that's like a geotag, but real. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. There's a lot of things and they stick in the desert because no one's there and no one's going to mess with it. Exactly. So this clearly could be something like that as well.

Like some things somewhere use this as a marker. And there could be other markers like that out there that, you know, if you have a satellite or some sort of, you know, looking device that you're like, OK, yeah, pinpointed and, you know, firing whatever or changing whatever or I wonder why they removed it. If that's what it was, like, why, why the sudden removal because it was discovered because everyone, yeah, probably everyone saw it and they were just going to go out there and mess with it.

Yeah, I think I think it could be that there was something in it. Like the guy who actually went out there and took a picture of it, like the other guy who was like, here's how you get there. Yeah, that dude, like, I think he said it, like, felt like a cardboard box. Like it was hollow. Like maybe, you know, maybe it was like a personal. I don't know. Somebody's grave or something, you know, in the movie. Or just like the memory of somebody.

Yeah, I mean, we'll never know. It could be one of a thousand different things. It's just fascinating because just, you know, it sparked the curiosity of everybody for a couple of days there. And they said it went into the ground a ways. Like it wasn't just standing there. Yeah, I want to know now that it's gone, how deep it went. Well, the images that they show online

is this kind of like a little pyramid bit left over. Oh, really? Hmm. Yeah. Like it's people. I think people have put rocks next to it, but it looks like at least from the stuff that's on Twitter, it looks like there is sort of like I'll just send you guys this image. Looks like there's kind of a

I don't know, like a little pyramid sticking out of the ground and someone has put rocks next to whatever remains. There you go. I saw that little picture earlier. I didn't realize that was of the of the same site. Is that real? It's the exact same site. Yeah, that tweet is from Brian Schnee. And I guess the photo is Kelsey Dockham.

Canyon State Overland. And he's like, yep, it's gone. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. I mean, have you heard of John McCracken? No. So there's another theory going around about this that it has to do with John McCracken, who is a sculptor.

He's like an artist. And if you just look at his work and you compare it to the monolith, like they look very similar. But if he did do it, he did it in complete secrecy. But at the same time, it's not like it's a unique shape. No, but it's it's it's news because it's almost identical to this one piece fair by John McCracken, which you can see there other than that.

This one is like riveted on the side. Yeah, but I don't I haven't seen the McCracken sculptures up close to no. But according to his dealer, yes, he made it, obviously. According to his son, maybe he made it. But all his buddies are like, no way. Huh. But he died in 2011. He died in 2011.

Oh, gosh, so it would have been out there. I mean, it was in a very remote, non traversed area. So it's very possible. It's not necessarily that he put it there. It's just that he made it, maybe. But who knows? It's been confirmed that it was removed on the evening of the 27th.

That's the last some guy. Ricardo Marino went out there on the night of the 27th to take a look. And it was gone. Crazy. Yeah, nuts. Oh, the mystery, dude. The mystery turned home. Weird, very, very bizarre.

Well, that's that's fascinating. We still have no updates either on into the jet pack men in LA yet, by the way. There hasn't been another one. So a few people sent us emails saying, hey, have you seen this this jet pack hoax? But it's not the same thing. It's a totally different story and a totally different part of the country.

The jet pack man is real. It is not a hoax. Like that has been picked up by airport radars multiple times. The question of like who it is, I don't think has been answered. Nobody's found any evidence, though. It's weird. Yeah, I don't know. We're all just full of mysteries, dude.

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I'll be back next week with some more Patreon minis. Goodbye, everybody. Peace. The monolith. Anyway, me and my wife were sitting outside indulging on our porch one night, enjoying ourselves. I needed to go to the bathroom, so I stepped back inside. And after a few moments, I hear my wife go,

Holy shit, get out here. So I quickly dash back outside. She's looking up at the sky and fall. I look up too. And there's a perfect line of dozen lights traveling across the sky. It's going to be just me that you want that for me. I was dream of the goblet.

One of my favorite toys. I go to sleep in a toy and wake up with it missing. And I remember this trophy scene because I was like, there is no way a dream goblet is killing my toys. It's not good. I'm just going to go back to sleep and maybe be fine.