David: found out more Wow. Hey everybody welcome to
our weekly podcast, a weekly podcast
Leila: where we discuss topic every week. I'm gonna taco ver.
David: Yeah. Yeah, I'm starting. I'm starting to understand why
you don't like you want to interrupt you. Starting to I'm
starting to get it. weekly podcast, we talked about
different stuff. Hit us up mail at FunFactFriday.com. All right,
let's jump into it. What is our topic for this week?
Leila: mythological, mythical creatures,
David: mythical creatures, cryptozoology type stuff.
Leila: Let's talk about that.
David: We already did that gag.
Leila: But it's mythical. Oh, yeah. Fun mythical Friday.
David: Fun with a cool fact. Friday facts. Fun mythical for
right. So I love this topic. It's really fun. I would like to
inform our listeners that I have released a new episode of Mitas
pod. It is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. It's
based on the same story. Or it is the same story that episode
was based on. It's called time enough at last. Definitely had a
good time. turning that into a episode of meters pod. So go
check it out me this pod.com We're in your favorite new
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out. This one is not explicit. So it's kind of kid friendly. Or
yeah, it's kid friendly. Not every episode on my feet is so
be sure and listen first if you have young ones not visible
screen them time and effort last time or the last is a good
story. Not inappropriate at all. All right. So Leila.
Leila: Yeah,
David: anything cool happened this week for you? Maybe
Halloween maybe?
Leila: Oh, yeah. It was really fun. That's been really
interesting happened.
David: It rain.
Leila: Not really.
David: It was it was like just like spitting.
Leila: Not even that.
David: It was enough that I didn't want to be out there.
Leila: You're also balls. I was wearing a wig.
David: I am. Yeah. So we got a really into Halloween
neighborhood. Little most of the houses are given out candy. And
we have one one guy. He goes all out. It's awesome. As the whole
front yard is just covered and Halloween stuff. Really fun.
Really fun every year. Leila I think this is probably last year
you're gonna do the trick or treating. Maybe not knows. Some
time to start having like, Halloween spooky parties and
stuff. Sit around tell ghost stories with a flashlight under
your face for some reason. I never understood why you hold
the flashlight under your face.
Leila: So you can get a really unflattering shot of your chin
right,
David: I guess. But do you have any good news? Oh, maybe?
Leila: I think I do. Want to welcome I got my tabs not in the
right order
David: to collect the news. Great news. All right, your lead
anchor with your lead anchor. Me, David. Oh, yeah, I've even
got it in the show notes. Do you know, Tobin? Ah, all right. So
this story. It's something that happened like 10 years ago, but
it just came came back into the news because it was like, Oh, 10
years ago this happened. A man survived three days. Wow. In a
capsized boat on the ocean floor. He said that he was
praying in his air bubble. A man named Harrison account of Oh
kini had no choice but to listen in the dark as the shouts of his
colleagues fell silent. Kind of a sad story because some folks
didn't make it. But this guy, they were he worked on a tugboat
that was helping study a tanker out in the ocean during a really
bad storm. And very quickly, things went really bad. The ship
capsized, started filling with water. He got knocked out. He
was in. He was in the bathroom. And he got knocked out. And when
he came to the ship was underwater. Like I said it
didn't take long at all. So they were about 100 foot down. And he
was an air bubble in the bathroom. I think it was a
bathroom. Yeah. And he, he survived in the freezing cold
water by stacking just stuff in there and getting trying to get
on top of it. And but he was still mostly in the water. And
he survived on Coca Cola? Well, because the words calories, you
know, which honestly, it was three days he could have lived?
Well, I don't know, because you got to keep your metabolism up,
give your body heat up. So that sugar burning in a system
probably, probably is what kept him alive. But um, but yeah,
that's it's really cool, because now 10 years later, he has a
diver. So there's a really good, really good whole full article
on it in The Guardian, it'd be like, loving. Well, what was
that? It'll be linked in the show notes. So what did you
find?
Leila: I found this little boy that lost his little Lego Man.
David: As as you do as you do.
Leila: But he made a little missing poster for Lego man. And
it says last Has anyone seen. And then here's a little picture
that he drew was like labels pointing to what it is like dark
brown hair, look around here.
David: That's cute. Let's make sure we grab a picture that for
the chapter lion
Leila: shirt, dark green pants, and it says he's very special to
me with a reward of two pounds.
David: Nice.
Leila: It was so cute.
David: Yeah, I've got a I've got a couple of Lego figures that
I've made over the years that are like I had because the Lego
store Neris I'm pretty sure they probably all do this. I don't
know if you've been to a Lego Store. But they have a section
up front, where they just have a bunch of minifigure parts and
you can build your own minifigure. And you can get like
a three pack for 10 bucks or whatever it is. But we always
have a good time going in there. And I think you get a hat or
hair, the head, the body, the feet, or your legs. And then one
accessory is included. So you get to get to build a full pole
guy. And if if you ask for two accessories for somebody that
can they don't care. They'll give you one. Yeah, they give
you free accessory. But yeah, that's cute. So did you get them
back? Or? Yeah, somebody else is somebody found them nice.
Leila: Yeah, there was a school girl that found it in the park
where he plays nice.
David: Lisa got him back in it. That's cute. I like how the guy
the Lego figure from the story. Link will be in the show notes.
Has got like a little Hawaiian shirt on. It's awesome. I
actually haven't seen that shirt with all the Legos I've had.
Cool. Have you seen? What I didn't know was such a big
business was the custom Lego minifigs like at the conventions
and stuff. Like there was characters that Lego has never
made an official piece of and they've you know, they've made
like a Goku and there was never a Goku, which they don't
understand why they don't make a Lego set of Dragon Ball. It
would be awesome. And it was so so many. But, you know,
Leila: copyrights, like polls on like Legos kits, that could be a
kit. And one of them was the gorilla is Plastic Beach album
thing. Oh,
David: that'd be cool. That'd be cool. It'd be tough to get the
rights to that though.
Leila: Oh, yeah.
David: So but Lego has gotten a little expensive lately. Yeah,
prices have gone. Their prices have gone up. And I'm not happy
about it. Some of these sets. They're like $50 are not what
you used to get for $50. And I understand inflation and
everything. But for heaven's sakes, yeah. So where are you
on? Are you on the Legos right now? Maybe. They've got some
really cool sets. I like a lot of the retro stuff they're
doing. And they've got like the VESA and the the what's called
the bus, the VW bus. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah. That's
coming up. What did you find?
Leila: They have an insect collection.
David: Oh, that's neat. How much is that?
Leila: It's $80.
David: So what is it you got a praying mantis?
Leila: A butterfly butterfly and a beetle. Oh, one of those
beetles,
David: the horned beetles where the Yeah, the horn is one horns
longer another. That's neat. That's really got $80 worth of
Lego. I know that is. Anyway,
Leila: your limit is three. You can't order more than three at a
time.
David: Yeah, there's there's Lego speculators now.
Leila: What's that mean?
David: That means that like they'll go in and when a new set
comes out, comes out comes out. What is going on with me today?
I don't know. When they a new set comes out. They speculate as
to whether it's going to go up in price on eBay when they
stopped producing it, kind of like that one Lego set that we
have the hospital one Yeah. has tripled in price since we got
it. Oh, though. Yeah, yeah, the Lego Friends we have a set
Heartlake hospital there was two Heartlake hospitals. One of them
was bigger and one of them was smaller. We got two of the
bigger ones for Christmas one year. Yeah.
Leila: Or I already had one of them. Yeah. For Christmas. Yeah.
David: Do you ended up with ended up with two of them? Well,
we didn't open one or the other. So we've still got it in the box
on on open so we can sell it eventually. But I want to wait
until it gets up to four times the amount. That'd be nice. But
I'm like, Man, I'm ready. We just started speculating.
Because it was like it tripled in price and two years after
they stopped making. So that's pretty good. That's pretty good
investment. opportunity there. Yeah, it's gotta have the room
to store all the Lego. Crieff make sure you don't. They don't
get wet in the box get ruined or anything. $400 for a little
grand piano or $100 for a piano. We're getting off off a topic.
It's
Leila: like not it's like as big as a dinner plate. Look at this.
David: The Harry Potter thing that takes up our entire
entertainment center. It's $400 Was I don't know why is that?
Yeah. Why is that pianoforte curry.
Leila: Is it functional? Maybe? Is it functional?
David: No. Wouldn't couldn't be. Oh,
Leila: is it functional? It's
David: functional.
Leila: I think it's functional.
David: Yeah. All right. All right. So let's dang it. Let's
get back on topic, mythical creatures. And yeah, I like
cryptozoology. You know, you know what that means?
Leila: I have it here somewhere. But I'm not gonna try and look
David: for it. Basically, it's just like, creatures that we
don't really know if they exist or not. So like Bigfoot dragons,
Yeti, which is kind of just Bigfoot up north. Stuff like
that. Yeah. Bigfoot. So I've always loved like, you know,
like, it just stretches the imagination. Unicorns is another
thing. cryptozoology is always it's a fun topic. And there are
so many Bigfoot stories throughout the years. It boggles
the imagination. And it's like, okay, so like, UFOs, right?
There's all these videos back in the day, if all these UFOs
flying around, there were all most of them. The people
eventually came out and said, Oh, yeah, I made that I used a
piece of glass and moved it. Whatever. Yeah. But like,
there's so many stories of Bigfoot that are just so you
know, that the person just saw a big guy. Yeah. It's like a dude
hanging out in the woods. Camping. There's other there
like Bigfoot because he was just walking around, right? He was in
a fur coat. But, uh, so I looked around and I was like, which
which ones should we do? Let's let's talk about like a little
bit of the history of some of these and where the legends came
from things like that. So I picked to do first the Yeti. Or
the Abominable Snowman. Ooh, yeah.
Leila: He's pretty cool. He was in the he was in the monster.
Monsters, Inc.
David: Monsters, Inc. Yes, yeah. Oh, yeah. He was played by
number two, played by the guy who? Who? What's his name?
Ratzenberger. What? Cliff Klavan from cheers.
Leila: Mike was AUSkey No,
David: not Mike Wazowski. Mike was asked us, Monsters Inc. and
Ratzenberger guys and all of the Pixar movies. Maybe not now, but
for the first like eight of them. He was every single one of
them. He plays a character. Yeah,
Leila: do that. So it came out in 2001. I thought
David: you were negative nine. That's true.
Leila: So where's the where's the Yeti? Roz John, John
Ratzenberger.
David: Like Johnny right?
Leila: I'm Leland over looking at her screen. He looks like he
works on Disney movie. So
David: he played a character named Cliff Klavan back in on a
show called cheers. And that's kind of what he was known for.
He was a mailman. Who had a million fun facts about things.
So yeah, he was always he was oh, you know the Yeti was you
know, he always had something. Yeah, for sure. Exactly. But
yeah, he
Leila: was on he's still in stuff.
David: He's Yeah, he's still he's still around. But he was in
a lot of the Pixar films. There's a
Leila: new monsters inc movie.
David: What monsters in
Leila: 2000 2001
David: I believe that was a TV show. Probably because Disney
plus D plus so lame. Yeah. Actually,
Leila: it looks pretty lame to me animations to get on it. Oh,
yeah. Yeah.
David: So okay, so the net the Nepalese government Look, they
have regulated Yeti hunting.
Leila: They can't hunt Yeti Dang.
David: Oh, hold on, hold on. There's three basic ground
rules.
Leila: Okay,
David: okay and this is from 1959 the US Embassy memo states
that United States citizens need a special permission before they
can legally start tracking yetis inside Nepal also, photographs
in live capture are okay but killing a Yeti is a big no no.
Except if it's an emergency arising out of self defense so
if the Yeti attacks you you can you can defend yourself and then
any evidence that turns up including if you capture one it
must be immediately handed over to the Nepalese authorities. I
love it. So there's there's rules about Yeti hunting and
Nepal. If you're a US citizen,
Leila: there's been Yeti sightings, right?
David: Oh, yeah, for for forever,
Leila: or they've been reported.
David: So, fossils show that there's there are prehistoric
giant apes that they did. In fact, Rome, Asia at one point
Giganto Pittacus was the name of it. Found a new Call of Duty.
It's easier. They're found in China, India and Vietnam. Looks
like they died out according to the fossil record 300,000 years
ago. About 1100 pounds is what they figured they weighed based
on like the stuff that they found. Okay, so here we start
getting to the eyewitness stuff. Yeah, getting getting movies
always show him with a shaggy white primates. This contradicts
most accounts provided by alleged eyewitnesses allege ID
offensive, that's offensive. They're eyewitnesses. They
described him as reddish brown more in line with like, you
know, Bigfoot
Leila: pictures really funny, which
David: was just like Bigfoot pictures. Yeah. Take your
computer away while I'm I got him a visual. Yeah. That's see
it's
Leila: just like someone in the Yeti costume running away.
David: Yeah, yeah. Every time I see a video of a Bigfoot it's
always shaky camber far away. Yeah. Super far away shaky cam
and they're going oh my gosh.
Leila: Oh my god. Make sure you like this video. If you think
this is Bigfoot.
David: Don't forget to smash that subscribe button. Because
Leila: I just found Bigfoot in the forest. Boop, boop, boop
boop, Boo Boo Boo Boo.
David: We know how the algo works so good on YouTube. We
would if we had the inclination, we could probably make it. The
word Yeti, the etymology of it is uncertain.
Leila: There's a mythology with entomology.
David: Etymology is the
Leila: origin of a word. Has that etymology was like the
insect thing.
David: No, that's insect to thing. gemology.
Leila: entomology is the study of insects.
David: Yes, entomology. I misspoke. Its etymology. Okay,
is the word one. So there's at an event at tea, a tea a tea
Mala? Anyhoo. The Tibetan Sherpas phrase yet? Yeah. Or
small man like animal. Japanese alpinist Mikado Nambucca
suggests that it stems from metti M E T. I meaning bear in
some dialects spoken Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. Cool. So,
yeah,
Leila: so the name for the Kraken,
David: the Kraken. So we're getting off the heading going to
the Kraken. Yeah,
Leila: because I like talking about Garcons. The word cracking
has several different meanings that could allude to a sea
monster. It could be related to the Norwegian word for crack,
cracking, maybe cracking, cracking, which means pole or
steak or twisted wood, it might refer to the tentacles. You
could also come from the word crack it which means anchor.
anchors can look awful lot like octopuses, apparently. So maybe
this is the origin. Do anchors look like octopuses?
David: anchors? No, they don't. Why are you giggling? are you
giggling? No, I would. Okay, so we're breaking away from the
facts for a minute. We have been Cyber sidetrack. When we went to
Hawaii, we we were scuba diving, not scuba, snorkeling or
snorkeling at this reef, there's a difference. And this one guy
on the boat with us, one of my brother's friends, he got so
excited. Because he saw Stingray in the water. He was flipping
out he was, oh, gorgeous, dude, gray look. Right, and I ran over
look at it and everything and also like, bra. It's not a
staggering look, we're gonna go we're gonna try pet it. And I
was like now and I started pulling on the line on the side
of the boat. And it was the anchor
it was it was because he was so excited and we just completely
rained on it. But that made me think about it. And while we're
sidetracked, and while we're talking about these words, in
their etymology, and whatnot, I remembered that we got some
emails. We got some emails, we got some emails from Team Omaha.
Yeah. So now I'll put this link in the show notes too. Hey,
Leila, the apostrophe is to indicate you oversized syllable.
The rest of the sense the rest of the weird letters are to
indicate which sounds the letters make capital A for
example, can bring that can be pronounced. Ah, like apple? A
snake. Or father? Ah. Oh, so hard. Okay. Or, or the many. So
a mini or a man? Hey, many I use the ah D the American Hit. Hit
it. What is? What are your? I don't know, what are you talking
about? Next sentence? What are you most likely? I used mostly
Leila: mostly the ah D. American Heritage Dictionary notations
here for more information. Okay, so
David: let me put this link. I don't know what's going on with
me today. Oh, my goodness. Okay. It's one of those
Leila: little Oh, they sent us a cryptid.
David: We've got a we've got
Leila: a cryptogram cryptogram. I call it a cryptid. Okay,
David: a cryptid is essentially a monster in the crypto
zoological field. Oh, I have to paste this into our show notes
right now or I won't do it. So there we go. All right. Yeah. So
that pronunciation guide will be in the show notes. And then we
will we will do this cryptogram. Later, while we're not on the
show. And go ahead. Yeah.
Leila: Also speaking of a German, okay. I hate it. I love
it at same time. I like the German language because I'm
learning it right now. For fun, how much do on Duolingo. And the
word A is gendered. There's so many words that don't need to be
gendered that are gendered. And it's so funny to me. So if you
wanted to say like a man, you would say, Iron Man. Or if you
want to say a woman, you'd say I know Frau so there's a little
air as at the end of a word if it's feminine.
David: Interesting. Yeah. I'd say when you started doing the
the German and stuff. I didn't know that I knew that most of
the Latin languages end up with a lot of gendered words, but I
didn't know that German
Leila: was like that. Yeah, and it's really It's confusing.
David: So yeah, and oh, and cool team Omaha also wanted updates
on the rehearsals we will let you know we'll put that towards
the, towards the outro of the show. So let's we'll finish up
with our cryptozoology stuff. And I should have done this
letter at the beginning. But guess what? You forgot I forgot.
I'm a professional podcaster Okay, so I think I'm done with
the Yeti. YOU'RE INTO THE KRAKEN got any more cracking stuff for
Leila: us? Yeah, all of these photos on the website are so
like badly photoshopped, but I think that's their point. Oh,
yeah, hilarious.
David: The beano.com Yeah. They take these pictures and they're
super bad Photoshop. They had like googly eyes on the crack
and
Leila: Oh, do we get knew about the Loch Ness Monster?
David: No.
Leila: Okay, well, anyways, it's Because
David: Okay, so when I was doing this, I wasn't going for a
specific. Like, I didn't put them off man. Because the
Mothman is one singular thing. I was doing things that it's more
like a category of creature. Like, get some dragons and
dragons. Yeah. Okay, I guess that's interesting. So yeah,
that's that's what I was going for when I picked the topic.
Yeah, I actually got to pick the topic. Yeah, but anyway,
cracking Kurakin
Leila: so this is you can't make a crack at what?
David: No, I can't. I can't make anything. I can't make any
living creature.
Leila: So you can't make an octopus as big as a kraken can't
make a giant octopus. You can't really get a giant octopus.
David: You couldn't have twins exist as a Kraken. Yes, giant
squids are crazy big. Yes, but
Leila: there's no species recorded to be as big as a
Kraken. Well,
David: you know what? They've been talking about them a long
time. Ooh,
Leila: there's giant Phil a spell fella. Pause though. I
don't know how to say that.
David: I'm gonna look okay, so the Kraken is a big ol huge
monster squid. Crazy monster guy. Octopus. Yeah, squid
creature right. And it's comes from Scandinavian mythology.
Leila: They're just squid. Speak squid. Well,
David: their monster their monster squid though. They're
like not just like, oh, there's a squid. It's like, super. Yeah,
like evil with teeth. And they're mythological. Yeah, kind
of like it's a dragon. A dragon is not just a dinosaur. You
know? Because it's like, oh, Dragon dinosaur. No. Magic.
Leila: Dinosaurs are so cool.
David: Yeah, the biggest squid they've ever found was over 40
foot long. That's massive. Imagine how much calamari you
could make? Yum, yum. But yeah, the Kraken. I like the Kraken.
The Pirates of the Caribbean. Had a really good cracking
scene. And it was good good stuff. And then the clash of the
titans. I've always liked the the Kraken as a as a villain
because it's just like it's just a big monster. It doesn't have
like, magical or anything like that. It's just this big, huge
monster. You know? It's it's cool. One of the other ones that
I really like is the Phoenix. What do you know about the
Phoenix?
Leila: It's like the fire thing.
David: It is yes, it is a fire bird Firebird. The thing the
main thing about the Phoenix though, is that if it dies, it
can be reborn. Yeah,
Leila: yeah. turns to ash and then it goes. Fire again.
David: So yeah, the Phoenix is a mythological creature that
appears in various cultures and mythologies, not just not just
one which I always find it neat when multiple cultures around
the world have the same archetype
Leila: let's meet think they had the Phoenix and one of the
Sophia the First episodes. Oh, I'm sure they didn't. That's how
I remember
David: the Phoenix Phoenix has been everything has been Harry
Potter. And so it's all over the place. As mentioned in ancient
Greek mythology, as well as Roman, Egyptian and Chinese
mythologies. The wide wide prevalence of the Phoenix and
cultures showcases its enduring appeal and significance. It
symbolizes rebirth and immortality one of the central
themes of the Phoenix is symbolized with rebirth and
immortality which is said
Leila: well, I can't find anything on Sophia the First
Phoenix because apparently some brand name Sophia Turner was in
the Dark Phoenix. So we're gonna find that forever.
David: The Phoenix Saga for the X Men was awesome. I remember
like the cartoon from the 90s looks pretty lame. Yeah, well,
you're
Leila: all all Avengers things look the exact same experience
not the Avengers. All the X Men Oh Marvel stuff. All the DC
Marvel stuff. Look the same poster with just some dudes and
girls look at off into the distance with like, red on one
side and blue on the other and like fire in the background
David: or some gym blue is your your typical. Yeah,
Leila: that's why we always say like, how does it get
interesting but human brain
David: likes orange and blue next to each other? Exactly why
font it's one of the few things I remember from my design class.
Leila: Only thing you remember.
David: One of the few things I remember I remember but a lot of
Page Layout stuff. But that's you know, yeah. So yeah, it's
the Phoenix isn't one that like a lot of people were like, Oh, I
saw a Phoenix but there's lots of lots of stories. About a
Phoenix
Leila: it's called Fang weighing. In Chinese mythology,
Fang Guang thing weighing I think, what was that all? You
David: know, I was gonna talk about the city of Phoenix, which
is located in Arizona.
Leila: That's talking about your little reaction you really?
That's it?
David: Well, I mean, you just told me the name of something.
Yeah. Well, how am I supposed to react? Okay, so City of Phoenix
located in Arizona, derives its name from the phoenix bird. The
city's name was chosen to symbolize its growth and
development from the ruins of the former settlement of
swellings, mill swelling. All these people live in Phoenix. If
things had been a little different, didn't you live in
swellings mill Arizona,
Leila: that wouldn't be
David: as popular just like a phoenix rises from the ashes.
The City of Phoenix represents rebirth, resilience and the
ability to overcome challenges. Is Phoenix, the capital? I think
so. Phoenix or Albuquerque? Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. They're
Leila: always super obscure. Keep talking.
David: The capital of Ohio.
Leila: I don't know the capitals. They didn't teach us
that because it's not. There's a
David: song on the Animaniacs. Yes, all the states. I listened
to
Leila: it before, but I just don't pay attention to Phoenix,
Arizona. Yeah, it's
David: Phoenix, Santa Fe and Columbus is the capital of Oh,
yeah.
Leila: It's like what would you expect the New York capital to
be? New York, you know,
David: no. Alberni.
Leila: Who's heard of Albany instead of New York City.
David: I think we have some listeners in Albany Hey, Albany.
Well, we have listeners that goes either that or they go
through a VPN now but no, we don't. We don't get like
personalized information. We get basically it anonymized basic
location. So
Leila: why is Boise Idaho? Boise? Boise?
David: Yeah, every other everything you lead to feminine?
You make you make the E silent, almost everything else. Not
Boise. Not Boise.
Leila: We took a test at the beginning of the year, like the
like the first day. And it was basically a test that wasn't a
test. It was a directions taking test. Okay. And you had to read
the directions for every question. And it would be like,
say your answer in all capital letters. And it would just be a
random question, like, what's pupils to? Ah, he has to spell
it out. But like, some of them were like, What's the capital of
Idaho? Or not? Like, like Iowa? And a few questions later, it
would be the answer to number six was Des Moines, you know,
right. It's really neat.
David: I had one of those when I was about, I don't know, maybe
like third grade. It was a, you know, follow? How good are you
following instructions. And at the top of the page, it had the
space for the name and the date. And then under that they said,
This is an instruct a test to test how well you follow
instructions.
Leila: They didn't tell us.
David: Oh, yeah. See this? This is the whole kicker on this one.
Yeah, this was separate from all the questions, it was just the
instructions at the top and it said, this is to see how well
you can follow instructions. Please read all questions, and
do not answer any of them until you have read them all. And then
at the very bottom of the page, the last question was do not
answer any of the questions, write your name, the date, and
put the star in the top left corner of this page and turn it
in. They just didn't answer anything. So you're not weren't
supposed to answer any of the questions. You're supposed to
read the entire page, put a star in the corner and put your name
and the date and go turn it in. And I did that because I read
the instructions because it said this is an instruction taking.
And I read through the whole thing I got up put star I walked
out walked over and handed in everybody else's was one other
kid was getting up at the same time. And it was like, wow, what
how did you finish so fast? And they all filled out all the
questions. And then maybe like five minutes. Everybody was
like, oh my god do that last question. Yeah, dragons. Okay,
yeah. Dragons are the coolest. Yes.
Leila: Not really.
David: What? Okay, they're not a fan pretty much impenetrable by
like swords and arrows.
Leila: They're overrated.
David: Hold on, calm down. I'm giving you the case for Dragon's
vacant fly. They can shoot a fire out of their face. Right,
not just like enough to light to light a candle No, they can like
blast fire down onto something. And the fire like pools up and
stays where it is. It's not like it's just like a flame thrower,
where it just kind of shoots a flame out to burn things. And
they just like I said, they have this almost impenetrable armor.
They always have like, one weak spot somewhere because you gotta
be able to kill them, you know? But,
Leila: yeah, not necessarily, but did
David: you know that baby dragons have their own name?
They're not called dragons.
Leila: Are they called?
David: No, they're not called.
Leila: Are they? dragonets like Raisinets
David: No, a dragon. That is what the police do not Mexican.
Dragon. That's when they never run out of toilet. A dragon net
is a word for a small dragon. But not a baby dragon.
Leila: So dragon net?
David: No. Dragon net is a small dragon. Not a baby dragon. Okay,
kind of like a pony is a word for a small horse. But it's a
adult.
Leila: Always wanted to get it right.
David: No. It's called a hatchling. I'm
Leila: sure it's a hatchling because it just came out of an
egg because it's it just hatched.
David: So in different in different cultures. It is in
different cultures. Different dragons mean different things.
So for the Chinese you wouldn't kill the dragon because they
bring good luck. Yeah, and excuse me. But in European lore,
they're often portrayed as the bad guy. Right? Because that's
why like, yeah, oh, we're gonna go slay the dragon, you know.
According to the more Western takes. The best way to kill a
dragon is to throw a lance in its mouth.
Leila: I knew someone named Lance.
David: Don't throw Lance in his mouth throw a lance. So one of
those one of those packs of crackers over there, the peanut
butter ones the lance peanut butter. They, that's all the
dragon actually wants is the lance peanut butter crack or
cheese crack. If you throw one in his mouth, it's defeated.
know a lot of the old stories the dragon would have like a
missing scale or there would be a gap in certain scales that
they would have to go for and hit that specific spot. In Roman
and medieval miniature literature, dragons couldn't
fly. Instead, they hung out in the trees and dropped on
people's heads. got like, I guess like a snake. Or like that
lizard did this guy did it Apple he knows a dragon.
Leila: Discover gravity. Okay, so same as Edison or whatever,
who discovered gravity. Isaac, Isaac Newton, almost the
David: same guy who made the Fig Newtons. st Margaret of Antioch
was swallowed by a dragon. In Christian folklore, St. Margaret
of Antioch, was in prison, imprisoned for her Christian
beliefs, and was swallowed by Satan in the guise of a dragon.
So the headline was wrong. However, his stomach rejected
her and she was laid out unharmed. Interesting. I don't
think I've heard that one. Happy ending. But yeah, dragons. I've
always thought dragons were cool wings are pretty cool. And
there's a there's a book called Eragon was written by a guy I
think he used to live down the road from us about an hour down
the road. And that was called Eragon. And he does the story is
extreme. It's the standard hero's journey. We could do a
whole episode on the hero's journey. But basically, it's the
same story of Star Wars if you really break it down to its core
components. But it's about dragons and wizards as a really
cool story, and I really enjoyed it, but the movie was terrible.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the movie you and saw.
Leila: Wait, yeah, and the last week? I forgot. Okay. I forgot.
I'm gonna be like way more than a week. I want to go see the
fire to Friday's movie, and I don't care what any critic says.
Look, it was it was. It was the best. Now I give it a nine for
the fact that the lore was very messed up. But Like, there was
multiple, like little holes in the lore, so we had to go back
and edit
David: squeezes into two hours. And that's how much lore is
there. Oh, he's right, you know? Exactly so they're not gonna fit
everything and you know, they got a sequel. You know, they're
gonna have a sequel because it's made already made like what six
times its budget. Something like
Leila: this your location movie. I think that'll that'll be good
for me. I could I could be happy. That's my life. Okay, so
David: what was the basic let's do a full let's do a full on
review. What was the basic plot without giving any spoilers?
Leila: So there's this dude named Mike. There's so many mics
in the franchise. Mike was asking. Yeah, Mike Wazowski. He
needs a job. So he gets a job at finance phrase, Freddy Fazbear
is pizza place. And pizza place is important. Because the one in
the game is called pretty fast for pizza. We're not gonna go in
detail that. So. He gets the job and he's like, Oh, no, it's
haunted.
David: And then a bunch of spooky stuff happened. spooky
Leila: stuff happened. And then that's the end. Okay, so.
David: So, the thing the thing that got me is I was expecting
because all I know about that Five Nights at Freddy's is the
things that Leila has tried to tell me over and over and over
and over. She's always talking about the lore of this game, you
understand? And there's like nine people named Mike. So
you're like, okay, so Mike was blah, blah. But then Mike came
in. I'm like, what?
Leila: There's Okay, the books. Well, let's
David: not go into the Lord. Let's go to let me finish row
say real quick. Yeah, I know that this game is jumpscares
that was the whole point of the first game was pretty much
you're doing something boom. Jumpscare game over. Yeah.
Right. So I was expecting this movie. Yeah, to have an hour an
hour and 50 minutes or something. I was expecting to
have at least a jumpscare every 10 minutes. It had like two. And
they were kind of silly. So I'm like, what is happening? It
could have literally been a jumpscare every five minutes and
it would have been on brand. This is like the only movie that
I'll forgive jumpscare because most times jumpscares or just
whatever.
Leila: And mom won't watch it just because of the jumpscares
and they're silly.
David: Anyway, anyway, anyway, Leila really enjoyed it. I
enjoyed I enjoyed the fact that Leila enjoyed it.
Leila: Oh my gosh, I stayed up like another hour after we got
out of the movie theater. Just explaining. Yeah, Dad. Yeah.
David: It was like one of the morning because we got off of
the podcast last week and rushed to the theater. And oh my gosh,
the line was around the building. Yeah. So we were like,
Let's come back later. And we went to the Late Late Show. It
was like the Jimmy Kimmel to 10 o'clock show. Which is you know,
it was Friday though, so it's fine. But anyway, we had a good
time. We
Leila: had a good time. We didn't eat popcorn. We did. Get
Skittles. We
David: brought Skittles in m&ms. So yeah, we're not buying. We're
not we're not paying that. Okay, so back to the monsters.
Leila: The Monster Mash.
David: Wow, we're hitting 43 minutes. The chupacabra?
chupacabra is
Leila: not really
David: it looks like is actually a fairly recent addition to
really the monsters the basically it's a
Leila: proof of it. No,
David: no, it was almost a series so there's no no
photographs of it or any credible footprints or anything
but he's basically the what this article calls him Bigfoots
Hispanic cousin. Basically it there was some coat, some coat
some goats that went missing, AND, and OR had been attacked
badly. And anyway, got a guy named the chupacabra and which
means goat sucker. And it's a type of vampire that feeds on
goats. Yeah. But yeah, it was a fairly fairly recent, basically
around 1995 in Puerto Rico is when it came about, like in my
lifetime, so I'm like, Huh? It's a new it's a new
cryptozoological type dude. But yeah, he's just it's kind of
like sometimes he's lizardy. And sometimes he's more Wolfie,
Wolfie and his this is all over the place. But you know, it's
cool. It's the chupacabra had its heyday about five years ago
whenever this article was written. It was widely reported
in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua, Argentina, and
Florida, among other places, almost almost all of them are
Spanish speaking areas. After about year 2000, a strange thing
happens. Sightings of the weird alien bipedal spiky back to
macabre just kind of faded away. Instead, the Hispanic vampire
took a very different form. A canine animal resembling
hairless dog, or coyote was found in Texas. So now after
about 2000, that turn changed from a alien looking thing with
a spiked back to more of like a dog. Like almost like a werewolf
II type looking thing. So it's a really interesting I wonder how
much and like you look at like, now, when a new creature comes
about the internet, like instantly everybody jumps on it
and turns it in whatever they want with their, their fanfics
or whatever like that, you know, it used to be there was be well,
one source, right? And they would have it on a freak show to
circus. Yeah, and whatever the carnival barker was saying about
the thing was the truth. You know, now it's like, yeah, like
Slenderman that whole situation. Right? It started off as a
creepy pasta. Yeah. And then like, everybody just turned to
Slenderman and to whatever they wanted it to be. So like,
there's no hard and fast rules like there are with like, messy.
You know, Loch Ness Monster. So it's interesting.
Leila: So funny.
David: So silly. So silly.
Leila: It's amusing stuff.
David: But yeah, I think we'll probably have to wrap it up
here. Yeah, we didn't, didn't hit the kid Sunni. But we'll
have some links in the show notes. It's a Japanese
mythological creature. And we'll just leave that for the show
notes. And real quick, the odd auditions. Rehearsals are going
great for Christmas Carol.
Leila: They're doing very good.
David: I, I'm having fun as the narrator Leila now has like nine
roles in the thing now.
Leila: And then, we're okay, we have a scene where we're like in
the room where guests. So me and the other stage crew have to
come out and be guests. But they split up the lines between the
three of us because there's only two people in the script. And
it's just like, jump around, jump around. So now I have to
like highlight different things. And what's funny, I've already
said the highlight.
David: The stage crew is like constantly changing the scenery
and whatnot, but they're also characters. And they're kind of
modeled after the three teams and it's gonna be it's very
funny. It's very funny.
Leila: My other two students are going on a cruise this week, and
I'm not gonna have any of my two stooges
David: it'll be okay. You'll be fine. That'd be okay.
Leila: You could be all three suits I'm all three stooges
actually.
David: There's a t shirt I'm all three stooges. All right,
everybody have a fantastic
Leila: have a fantabulous weekend. Have a have a wonderful
week. Have a wonderful week and a wonderful weekend. And
David: just so folks know we're we're not skipping the support
section. We just haven't had any since the last show but that's
fine.
Leila: And happy holidays.
David: Oh yeah. Don't want to laugh for
Leila: just one thing Annie.
David: Cut it out. I hear she's very litigious.
Oh, Mariah. Oh, Mariah. All right, everybody. Have a great
weekend. We'll see. y'all next time.
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