David: Hello, yo, yo. Welcome to the second recorded show, and
this has been a nice yeah. Fun Fact Friday, where weekly
podcast where discuss fun facts surrounding a different topic
each week. If we mess up, shoot us an email mail Fun Fact
friday.com Or if you have topics or anything I kind of got
through the intro way earlier than this on. Yeah. I'm David
and we have another guest. me last week. No. Last year is me
last. Oh, that's Leila over there. Yeah. I'm Leila. We're in
a we're we have our first in studio guest. So
Leila: we're over on the other side of the shed this time.
Yeah. The studio
David: that. The Shed. It's a shooting studio. We have Elijah
more. Hello. Elijah Moore. Why don't you tell us a little bit
about yourself? Well, I take a sip of my tea.
Leila: Oh, hold on. Hold on. There you go. There's your
weekly, monthly opening.
Elijah: See the funny thing is he said let me take a sip of my
tea and you open not tea. I'm allowed to be more i six foot
tall. I like long walks on the beach. Who this is a dating
show,
David: right? Yes. No. No, I don't like long walks in the
sand. Yeah, actually,
Leila: the second I like
Elijah: being me. Loves Me too. Oh, well.
Leila: This is actually the second edition of Flavor of
Love. Eliza
David: of love. But yeah, I met Elijah at an extra life event,
which is a charity video game. 24 hour marathon where you raise
money for we were raising it for Duke Children's Hospital. This
was yours.
Elijah: This? Yeah, this. I was like 15 or 16 Right when I
started and I'm not that anymore. So it's been like, over
10 years.
David: I'm trying to I'm trying to remember the games that were
coming out at the time to try and put a time on. Oh, plants vs
zombies. The
Elijah: 3d shooter version, right? Yes. Garden Warfare the
first one that had just come out. CT. Yeah, the playable
teaser for what was supposed to be Silent Hills, right. Got kids
ended up getting canceled. I played that. I think that was
the night we met. Yeah. That was Lord here on the night we met.
David: But yeah, that was that was what I remember about you.
Because you were sitting there and you had the headphones on
and you were scared. You're so scared of this game. It was so
funny watching you play Oh, one
Elijah: of one of our friends. I wish I could remember his name.
It's been so long since I've seen most of those guys was
walking me through it. He had the the walkthrough right. And
he would be saying, Okay, go up and look through this door. And
I'm like, I don't want to he's like, Well, that's how you
progressed the game. I'm like, I guess we're done them because
I'm not looking through this.
David: But yes, that is that is a very horrifying game. If you
can ever it's called PT. It was a teaser for a bigger game that
was supposed to come out that never did. And it was a shame
because it was very well made. Yeah, but that's where we met.
Elijah has been on meatus pod wise.
Elijah: Yeah, I think you've
David: only been on once.
Elijah: I think I did two voices on. Right.
David: Right. Right. Again, yeah, years, years and years
ago, but I think he's he's wanting to come back and do
another voice or two. Let me just keep your eyes out for
that. But our episode this week, what are we talking about? We're
talking about vampires were facts about a fictional we think
saying but we're talking about we're talking about the lore,
you know, like, right, where it came from and, and all that. But
as you know, in our typical Fun Fact, Friday fashion we will be
will be going off topic a lot.
Elijah: It was funny trying to look up facts about this, where
I would start out by searching vampire facts, and saw a bunch
of sketchy websites that would say are vampires real? Like
Leila: halloween.com
Elijah: Yeah, I was on that one. There was I can't remember. I
don't know if I'll be able to find it now. But it was it was a
weird website to have vampire effects. What was it? Well,
spirits Good Housekeeping, the Community and Technical College
Library. Why they have a I've
Leila: gotten some really weird facts on like, the Reader's
Digest. And I think it's hilarious.
David: But typically on the show, we will go over like what
do we do a good news story, but we did not have time to look up
a good news segment. Are you looking at one up you're gonna
get one go? I'm
Leila: sure we can't find any because I didn't find it
yesterday.
David: Now. It's okay. And we will not be having a support
segment on this episode because we just did one on the episode
we recorded last night. Yeah. And so if you have support did
the show in the last, let's say week and a half? We will get you
on the next one. So all right, so what do we have for vampire?
Lore facts? You want me to go first? Sure. A group of
vampires. We always love these, like what a group of something
is called. It can be called a clutch, a brood. Love it a
coven, a pack or a clan. So I guess hmm, whichever person's
writing the story can kind of make up their own name. So
Elijah: yeah, I, I was on a TV show that had a lot of vampires
and witches and werewolves, and one fairy. And that was me. And
I'm trying to think what we called a group of vampires.
Because witches had their covens right where we'll set their
packs, but I can't remember what what word we use for a
David: flamboyant vampires. Like Flint, like flamingos is a group
of flamingos is a flame boy
Elijah: and what to say what was the clutch clutch sounds
familiar? Clutch brood brood? Maybe it was brute? I don't
know. I don't know. I really came prepared for this.
David: We've been excited.
Elijah: We picked this topic exclusively because I was on a
spin off of Vampire Diaries. And I'm like, what are they?
David: Yeah, well, Elijah was on CW is legacies. He played a
character who was a fairy. I was and it was awesome. Because like
he had this great scene, I think. Season Three, season two,
season two. And he like he had his big moment where he like got
his wings and everything was awesome.
Elijah: Great. I loved shooting, because it was real wigs. I had
practical, you know, these like 810 foot wide wings that I was
walking around all day and they got to be heavy as heck. But
they, they were gorgeous and a lot of fun to wear. Right?
David: And I remember you posted pictures after the episode aired
because you couldn't live your life like that. Yeah,
Elijah: I told cuz when I got cast, I was working on a food
truck for this guy. Derek. Funnily enough wearing the t
shirt of that food truck right now the Bochy Express don't
exist anymore. And, you know, if you've ever worked in the
service industry, there's a certain level of service
industry humor that especially men that are you know, conform
to heteronormative stances. There's a lot of jokes in the in
the restaurant industry. And I when I got cat or I was cast on
it and working on the food truck, when I got the script
that said, I'm my line was I've been misdiagnosed. I'm not a
witch, I'm a fairy. I went to my boss's house to pick up a check.
And I said, Derek, you can't tell anyone this. This is like
whatever. But I just need to read this. I think I've been
misdiagnosed. I'm not a witch. I'm a fairy. And he just leaned
back close his eyes and when this is the greatest moment. So
shout out there. It was great. I love being a fairy.
David: Right? I bet. Well, I remember another vampire show
called Trueblood had Fae folk, which is very right. And they
had like the whole lore. Like it was really neat. Because after I
saw that I went back and actually looked into the real
lore of it. And there's a lot it's a lot more there a lot more
like an interesting being instead of just like what Disney
made,
Elijah: right? Yeah, it's not all Tinkerbell and I, when I we
call it my coming out episode, right? When I'm revealed to be a
fairy. I would start getting DMS on Instagram and Twitter. of
people one liking fairies, but also there will be some people
that were like really in to like Fe lore right? And I remember
one one particular person DM me and it was like, you know,
hello, I'm not sure if you know this, but as a fairy, you're
actually one of the most powerful supernatural creatures
and sent like, multiple paragraphs of like Fe abilities,
right? Everything. And I'm like, Cool. But since I was the first
and only fairy in our in show universe, the DVD universe. We
could just make stuff up. We could just be like, you know,
can he does he have healing powers? It's like yeah, sure.
Yeah, fair enough.
David: Yeah, sure. We'll do it. Hey, it fits the plot. Exactly.
And that's how we're writing the episodes. So yeah, that's
Lauren. Absolutely, and I loved that. And that's what's like
when you go to look at lore for fictional thing, especially
something that says, pervasive as vampires or werewolves, every
writer who's ever touched it has kind of like, okay, so these are
the rules for vampires, but I really need this one to not
apply. Exactly. And I thought the Vampire Diaries actually at
the beginning did it well, with like having a ring, the daylight
ring that would let them go out. And so for the fun facts part of
it, my understanding of the Vampires powers, until I until
the more recent vampire craze of 15 years ago or so. Was that you
can't go in the sun. Where's your vampire? You can't go on
the sun. Garlic repels you but doesn't actually hurt you? Yeah.
And then you can't cross. You can't go into somebody's home
unless they invite you. Right? You have to sleep over soil from
your homeland. Ah, right. Yep. And then, what was Kent cross
running water? And directly? If you have, like, if you made like
a bridge, you could cross over not a bridge, but you can't be
the bridge can't be made of wood. It has to have dirt on it.
Oh, yeah. So they have some interesting yeah, like over the
years. I don't know. I just learned that one. And again,
different authors different. Sure. There's the whole mirrors
thing mirrors, but what Gil mo Del Toro in the strain. I like
the way that he changed that modern mirrors. Vampires can see
the reflection in not Silverback, right, but the
silver, silver and silver hertz vampires. That was another rule.
And the only way you could really kill it was a stake
through the heart, right? Yeah. Or full exposure in the sun for
an extended period of time. That was the only two ways that I
knew of To Kill a vampire. But again, there's different lore
different you're even going back in time. Even in Mesopotamia,
like the, you know, 1000s and 1000s of 1000s of years ago,
they had lore
Leila: about members, I forget, to me even exists.
David: We think it exists. I wasn't there. So Right. Yeah.
And we don't know anybody that
Elijah: is it? I think They Might Be Giants song or the
Mesopotamian.
David: I'm familiar with it. They Might Be Giants but never
heard. I think
Elijah: it's a myth. So poets Amiens song, well, yeah, They
Might Be Giants. Yeah. Sargon, Hammurabi, Aashirvaad. Palin,
Gilgamesh. That's when I first learned about the Mesopotamians
was through. They might be
Leila: learnt in sixth grade, but I forgot all of it
immediately.
David: Do you know what I learned from They Might Be
Giants? The sun is a massive incandescent gas. No, Istanbul
was Constantinople. It was now it's Istanbul, not
Constantinople,
Elijah: even old New York was one New Amsterdam. Oh, why they
changed it. So
David: I've also found out about them. When they do a concert.
They also earlier in the day, do a kid's concert. No kidding.
That's cool. I always they always do that. And then that
they're doing. They always do a show for the kids. And then do
you want
Elijah: to be jealous? I saw them at the Ritz five months
ago. So great. They did the entire flood album, which I
think is one of their best albums as well as I think they
interspersed a couple of songs that weren't from the album that
were just like, you know, their hands. Right. But gosh, they
David: put on it because you got to play. She got to play a
couple of the hit. Yeah. The Ritz that's that's in Raleigh. I
saw bush there. Oh, yeah. It was their first show of their tour.
That was a couple of years ago, really. And it was it was
amazing. It was really great.
Elijah: Someone I was we were talking about music, DJ, I DJ at
a bar in Chapel Hill. And I was trying to think of some weird
suggestions that I've gotten. Someone just last week requested
glycerine. Right and I'm like, Great song not really are going
not the good vibe to go after like Party in the USA and
REDcard. Hard to hard to ease into glycerite Blitz raid,
David: so who's familiar with the Muppet vampire?
Elijah: Oh, on his Wikipedia page right now.
David: Count von Count von Count is based on an actual vampire
myth. One way to supposedly deter a vampire is to throw
seeds, usually mustard outside of a door or a place fishing or
place a fishing net outside a window. Vampires are compelled
to count the seeds or the holes in the net, delaying them until
the sun comes up. So it's like so
Elijah: yeah, literally, they're just like, well, I have to count
all this rice.
David: I might die if I do it. I kinda have to what what I had
Elijah: read further into that was that apparently it's it's
again, we're talking about fictional creatures here so of
course, but one explanation I heard is like it's their way of
marking time because they're immortal, right like yeah, I can
count this whole bag of mustard I can I'm pears I have all the
time in the world. I
David: can count all the sand on the beach. Yeah. So that
Elijah: way I pulled up his Wikipedia page, because he's
awesome. Because he's awesome. And yeah, Count von Count and
one of the paragraphs in his thing is the count has been
shown with a number of girlfriends who tend to be
vampire contests is a player with his number of girlfriends.
David: One vampire girl
Elijah: I'm ready for a fact. All right, for I've got this
kind of a twofer where, supposedly Another myth is that
only redheads could become vampires. Where
David: does that come from? Doesn't say no. So we
Elijah: rent redheads. Always Always. My sister and my nephew
are both redhead so I No comment. But they always kind of
draw the short end of the straw in history or they're either
possessed by the devil or vampires or whatever. Right
Sharon. Here's Ed Sheeran. Yes, I will. I will stand by Ed
Sheeran.
David: I think
Elijah: a lot of songs are very poppy. I'm a little too much.
Leila: I'm okay with Ed Sheeran. He's just a really funny looking
dude.
Elijah: Yes. He's he's a very Ronald Weasley look and it's
David: the look because like Leila will be surfing. Yeah,
Pinterest or whatever. And then Joe, Ed Sheeran jumpscare.
Elijah: Okay, so here's the part two of only redheads can be
vampires. I don't know how to reveal this information. So I'll
just say it as it was written on this website. It was widely
believed that Judas Iscariot became the first ever vampire on
Earth. Oh, I've heard of that. For those that don't know, Judas
Iscariot was the 12th disciple that betrayed Jesus Christ. Put
put him on the cross
David: for 30 pieces of silver for 30 explains the silver
thing. And then throws the silverware and then he was hung
by a tree. Yeah. And that made would be the only thing that
could go through his heart and pierce it to kill him. Oh my
god. It's a very it's a very I've never
Elijah: heard this. I I grew up in the church. I've been in the
church my whole life. Well,
David: I mean, they don't talk about vampires a lot. But
Elijah: so here's the thing. The other part it says in many
religious paintings and text Judas is described and depicted
as a redhead. Never seen that before.
David: I don't I don't recall.
Elijah: I don't I don't remember any depictions of him that had
another
David: one that's biblically linked, is Cain or other. The
first vampire the the Mark of Cain was supposedly right. And
that was an interesting, interesting little theory. And,
you know, origin story. And as you know, you can we vampires
into so many things. Oh, yeah. You know, like, just the, like,
you can make a virus kind of like they did in the strain,
right? You can make it like it's a virus, you can make it like
it's magical. You know, and you can make up your own backstory
for as much as you want. But there's so much lore from every
every civilization, and every culture has its own. You know,
blood sucking monster. Yeah.
Elijah: lore, and in America, we just have politicians and
I've made myself
Leila: so according to several legends, if someone was bitten
by a suspected vampire, they would have to drink the Ashens
that Ashens Well, of a burned vampire.
David: Wow. In order to kill themselves, I'm
Elijah: assuming sure themselves. Yeah. I know.
It's been a thing I write is depending on like, which
interpretation I guess of vampire where it's like Some
stories are if you get bitten by a vampire, you're gonna turn
into one right, right.
Leila: To prevent an attack, a person should make bread with a
vampire blood. Oh,
David: I've never heard that word before and eat it.
Elijah: That was I think in the original Dracula. That was a
thing it was. I had to drink your blood. You had to drink
mine and then you would become a vampire. Right? Because
Dracula's thing was he would serve his guests wine, and that
wine would be his blood or have his blood in it. Right.
David: Interesting. And I remember Trueblood had similar
type things where human blood would heal vampires and vampire
blood would heal.
Elijah: With the Vampire Diaries, it was if you died with
vampire blood in your system, you would become would become a
vampire. I'm pretty sure that's how we
David: write and yeah, and it's like, The Vampire Diaries that
as it went further and further on the the the rules changed
every single episode and it got so like you had to have one of
those cork boards with the thread on like, what? It was
like the most complicated rock paper scissors game that ever
existed. Okay. There's a there's a YouTuber. Yep. We sat and
watched the entire thing. Nicholson. Yes. Jamie Jenny
Nicholson made a video about the Vampire Diaries. Yeah, if you
have not watched it, even if you don't care about the Vampire
Diaries. It's worth watching Jamie Nicholson's Vampire
Diaries breakdown.
Elijah: She's fantastic. Yeah, it was all her videos. And I
did. Because when I started on the show, I had never seen The
Vampire Diaries or the originals or the first season of legacies
because I started in season two. And so I started watching The
Vampire Diaries to try and like plow through and get all of the
lore and I was like, I hit a wall around season five, when
there were like, three sets of doppelgangers, and they'd all be
in the scene together and I just had no idea what was going on. I
was just like, alright, Jenny, tell me what's up. And she does.
She does. Yeah, I follow the log and she doesn't hold back. So I
appreciate her for that.
David: Yes. is an excellent if you want to get caught up on the
Vampire Diaries or just have something on in the background.
Listen to Jenny Nicholson is awesome on a lot of things. She
also did a video about the Hallmark shopping channel.
Leila: Oh,
David: the horror. Yes, that was one of the greatest fit one of
the greatest videos on the internet. There was a there was
a group of ladies that worked as on screen talent at the Hallmark
shopping channel. And like you can tell very much that there
was some tension between and they did not like each other and
they did not like each other because they would cut looks at
each other. And I'll try to remember to put it in the show
notes.
Leila: Right now.
David: I'm falling it's so good. But it's alright tonight. I love
how we go down done rabbit holes. But that's how you find
videos like that is going down rabbit hole.
Elijah: Extraordinary.
David: Yes, and it's the Hallmark. I think it was I don't
know if it was a shopping channel or if it was just a
What's your name? Genuine
Leila: Nicholson Nicholson. Okay, got it. But
David: they would tell you like party tricks not party tricks,
but like party. Make a candle holder? Yeah, stuff like that
crap. Yeah, stuff. But you could tell that the presenter is
really really good.
Elijah: I love that. So I don't know what it is about that
specifically. That tickles me right. And then the weight exact
funny the way
David: Jenny presents it. It's it's good. Jenny on the show.
Leila: Okay, so you know the Twilight book series, right?
David: I'm familiar with series. Yes. Sandra is a big fan.
Stephanie Meyers.
Leila: Didn't research vampires before writing it. And she's
admitted this. Yeah.
Elijah: Makes sense. And it makes sense. Yeah.
David: If you watch the if you watch the movies, I never read
the books. But if you watch the movies, it's very obvious. Never
researched any of it. spoke
Leila: to the vampire.
Elijah: That's that cracks me up the most about that. Where it's
like, you know, okay, if you start making up powers, like not
it's just not a vampire to get right. Yeah, but to not get the
the big thing about vampires. They burn in daylight. Yeah,
that's why sparkle but it's to make it we stand out a lot.
Yeah, we
David: sparkle our skin sparkles. Diamonds.
Leila: Can you meet me for a second? Yeah, things falling
off.
David: You want to just like
Elijah: you want me to just hold your mic. No, I got
Leila: it. You're gonna keep talking.
David: But we like dead air while you're doing. dead air is
the best for podcasts.
Elijah: Fun fact I've never seen nor read any of the Twilight
things? Oh, yeah, my sisters don't know where they went wrong
with me. I have three older sisters. And they especially the
younger two loved the books and the movies. I was just talking
about them with one of them today. And yeah, never. I was
too my mom wouldn't let me read the book came out because I was
too young and it was a little too spicy, I think. Right? And
then I was also of the age where anything my sisters liked I
didn't. Yeah, like so that I had no desire to see the movies and
movie theaters are dumb. Although, I talked about this
with my sister earlier today, the the idea of like guys that
don't understand the appeal of, you know, why does Bella like
this? You know, vampire guy and this werewolf guy or whatever.
Why? Why does this story take girl so much? And someone said,
well, gender flip it? If you were a shy nerdy guy that moved
to a new town had no friends, and you're walking in the
parking lot and a truck comes barreling towards you. And the
hot goth chick runs up to you stops the car
David: kicks you out of the way with her big golf boots.
Elijah: You would absolutely fall in love. And I like that. I
see it now.
David: We're gonna have to bleep this episode a few times. No
worries. No worries. We have a blooper. We have to edit Reno's
episode also. So we have to put in 26 minutes.
Leila: So, you know. You know, vampires.
David: I know a few actually.
Elijah: I've heard I've heard of them.
Leila: There's this book that I read as a kid named Bunnicula.
David: Oh, Bunnicula. I remember
Leila: but Nicola, it's the little Rabbit. That it's a
vegetarian vampire. And I love that book. I remember reading
it. Are you reading it to me?
David: I read it to you. Don Lake, Natalie. Yeah.
Leila: It had a cool cover on it.
David: Yeah, as a bunny, a bunny vampire. Yeah, it was a bunny
and
Elijah: through the ditches, or the witches, it's
David: not a copyright strike. Hola. Yeah. It's a kids. It's a
kids book. It's probably aimed at like, six or seven year olds
maybe. So there's a fun fun little book. Row cute. Now we
can't get copyright strikes. We get we just get sued.
Elijah: We so yeah, what are the this is totally off topic. But
I'd never understood the like, I get if we played a song, right?
If you play a song or whatever. And it's like, well, yeah,
you're just using, but if you do, like a parody of a song,
okay, so
David: there's parody, which is perfect, which is fair use. Yes,
that's fair use. If it's parity, and you can you can't like just
play a song and then make fun of it. Right? Like, that's not
parody. Like you're doing that and then putting a word but Nick
Dracula, that's fine. But if you were to just do a cover song,
then we would have to, I'd have to go to their some services to
be like, Hey, can we use Hey, we did a cover of the song. And we
would basically pay a flat fee. And then, and then we would, we
would have to report how many downloads we got for X amount of
time. It's a pain. Now, if you're doing it on YouTube, or
one of the services that is tied into the services, they report
all that for, you know, API's talking to each other. But since
we self host, and we do all of our stuff ourselves, you've got
something were to happen, where we did play something
copyrighted and somebody came after us. If we couldn't argue
fair use, then they could come after us legally. So what would
probably happen today would just do a cease and desist. We would
cut it out of the episode and rebrand re upload. That would be
the end of it. Because we're not making any money off of this
Elijah: joke wasn't good enough. So go ahead and cut that part
out.
David: We cut out if somebody swears. Yeah, you've cut me out
what four times already now once or twice if there was a section
earlier, I cut out. I will but I did. Just because we know we've
got some real young listeners. Yeah. And we try and have a good
time that adults can enjoy and and their children right. And,
and I'm pretty good at just we don't normally edit. But I have
said bad words before trying to like drop something or hit my
finger or whatever. And sometimes I'll swear, and I'll
just cut it out and nobody ever knows. But is that it's not a
big deal. If you if you say a word we mark down the time that
it was said and I edited cleverly either Just make it to
where it sound like it never happened or I'll put just put a
long beep over it
Elijah: to you. Did you ever watch The Late Show with Carmen
Ferguson? No,
David: but I'm aware of the unnecessary sensor. Yeah.
Elijah: No, no, that was on I think Kimmel's show I want to
say but whenever Colin Ferguson would swear, and he would do it
fairly often, it would. He would just dub over his own right
voice just go like dude, Steve rootsy.
David: Earlier you said a word and I'm gonna replace it with
this right here. Heck.
Elijah: Because, to me what I said hello.
David: And honestly, that word I wouldn't normally edit edit out.
But it's funny when you edit something out. There's not that
with something that's not that's even
Elijah: more. No, absolutely. Yeah, like we don't we don't
want to say darn tune.
David: Right. But I think now that Leila is getting a little
older. And we know that we do have the we may start doing
episodes on maybe a separate feed where we're not censoring
ourselves as much. Not Fun Fact Friday. Fun
Elijah: Fact Friday after hours now.
David: Silly speculation Saturday is probably the
probably because we're starting
Leila: to do have someone that might come on. Yes, we
David: may have a guest for silly speculation Saturday
coming up. So stay tuned to that. We may have it on a
separate feed. If we do have it a separate feed. Obviously we
will link to it on this feed. So let's see. Lugosi, Bela Lugosi.
Leila: Yeah, Dracula. Played Dracula in the movie Dracula. He
was buried in his full Dracula costume. No kidding, including
the cape.
David: So if somebody like that if they're, if they're moving
that cemetery and they have to like, pull it over, like, oh.
Elijah: I don't want to be buried in waves fairy wings.
putting that out there now.
Leila: I hope you like agreed to it.
David: Oh, well, that was that was his biggest thing. No. So
like, because that's right when you say Bela Lugosi. So I'm sure
Elijah Wood will be buried in a wig.
Leila: He doesn't. He doesn't wear wigs. So never wear wig.
David: Maybe we'll put a link to that in the show notes. The
interview between Elijah Wood and his classmates from Lord of
the Rings
Leila: can't remember if it's 100%. Age appropriate, right?
Elijah: It sensors itself because it was on the DVD right?
For the movie. So
David: here's, here's a fun fact. And a tip. If you can get
a hold of the DVD copies of the extended edition of Lord of the
Rings, every single one of the extras on those DVDs is amazing.
There's three or four full length documentaries. There's
one about the horses. There's one about Ella's is good
content. If you're a fan of Lord of the Rings, which was not
let's let's be honest.
Leila: Yeah. It's been a while since I watched it last. And I
was like a really a kid when I was
David: growing up a little bit. I think you'll enjoy it more
now. To watch it last
Elijah: year, I think I watched the extended trilogy. That's
what we have about four times like wow, like, yeah, really
just every
David: two to three years, we take a Sunday, and we get a
bunch of food that doesn't need to be cooked right? Pop Tarts
and pizza rolls because you can still use a microwave, whatever.
You know, and we'll just have a Lord of the Rings day. We get up
in the morning, we have something for breakfast and hit
play on the first one. And then just go all day. It's a 14 and a
half hour journey, you know. So worth it. Yeah. When my wife
went with me to see the first one. She did not know that it
was a trilogy. So at the end of the first one, which is really
just a third of the way through the story, there's not really an
ending though. She didn't understand when the credit
started rolling.
Leila: I got the hiccups.
Elijah: My dad was the same way where he he actively doesn't
like the first one I think. Because he's like, they didn't
get to the mountain. Like that was the whole thing is get to
them. I'm like, Yeah, this was the star. It's 114
David: our movies. Yeah, is that it's not three separate movies.
It's one movie.
Leila: So I just chugged some sparkling water from my hiccups.
I don't know if that'll work or make it worse here.
Elijah: So I saw if they stick around, let me know because I
saw a trick recently that I want to try once
David: a works on me is taking a drink really big, really big
drink of water. And as I'm swallowing it, I don't breathe
in or out after that. I just hold my breath for as long as I
can after I drink the water and normally,
Leila: I've noticed focusing on something really hard makes them
go away.
Elijah: So what the one I saw was a student and I guess a high
school class had the hiccups. And the teacher was like, come
up here. Oh, I'll get rid of your hiccups. And she stood in
front of the class and he was like, alright, hiccup do it.
Yeah. And she was standing there and he was like, trying Hiccup
and he was.
Leila: I was in like fifth grade. And one of my teachers
were, he's one of my favorite teachers that have ever had, but
he brought me up to the front of the class. And he made me like,
hold my breath for a solid 30 seconds. Well, the whole class
count.
David: It's the Yeah, it's the the anxiety of that whole
situation.
Leila: I think we were in like a free period. At the time,
though. We didn't have much to do except for count to 30
David: schools different than when I was a kid, they were just
Oh, that was my old school. They would just be with a paddle.
Every time you wake up, that's a battle and
Elijah: that's for us. There's a little different vampires from
different cultures. Yeah, or vampire.
David: Vampire. Like.
Elijah: I'll just read what I copied verbatim. Malaysian lore
has many different types of vampires. One of them is called
the pet licit. P e l e s it and it takes the form of a cricket
or a grasshopper. Wow. And it can inhabit someone's body. It
will like go inside their mouth like tail first and inhabit and
drink their blood I think is the thing. My favorite fact why I
picked this one. You'll know someone is possessed by Palisade
if they can't stop talking about cats. In the Malay lore, I
looked at I saw this where it's they are they are defined by
becoming oh my gosh, I love that. They just they just won't
stop talking about them. Which raises a lot of questions about
like, users. And their obsession with cats. Like everyone knows
like the crazy cat lady on the street is like
David: I don't like cats.
Leila: Oh my gosh. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. You just
David: okay. So all that reminds me of is like the whole the cold
cricket, killing you and drinking your blood or whatever.
All that reminds me of is the deadly snail meme. Are you
familiar with?
Elijah: Like a billion dollars?
Leila: So does a snail Yeah.
David: This scenario involves a person receiving $10 million and
being followed by a snail for the rest of their life. If the
snail touches them, they will die.
Leila: I wouldn't be able to do it.
David: So
Elijah: the snail always, always knows where you are. And it's
always like, yeah,
David: it's always coming for you. So basically, what would
you do? And it's like, well, I would, I would just I would just
go somewhere that snails can't.
Elijah: It's invulnerable. You
David: got you can't kill it. You can't go 100% Off. Now
Elijah: it's an immortal. So like, you can't like lay salt
around you and it won't cross over.
David: So here's my plan. The snail is slow. Right? Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Now I've got $10 million. Yeah, on you. In this
scenario, okay. So I'm going to buy a couple of pounds of gold.
And I'm going to melt the gold until it's molten. Right, then
as the snail ways to calm down. As the snail gets really close
to the offer, as the snail gets really close to me, I'm going to
pour the molten gold on it. Yeah, the gold will cool down.
Thereby encasing the snail in gold. I have a question won't be
able to. Okay.
Leila: As I always do with hypotheticals, right? Where is
this nail
David: coming for you? From where? Let's say it starts 10
feet from you.
Elijah: Yeah, right now you have $10 million. The snail is just
in your backyard.
David: Yeah. So what do you do?
Leila: I wouldn't take the money. I just wouldn't I
wouldn't participate. I've always thought it certainly the
South Pole. No,
David: no, no, no, it's, but I'm saying you can get away from it.
Yeah.
Elijah: But it will it will keep coming and you don't know. You
don't know.
Leila: Because I'm too paranoid. One
David: of the problems with it, is that the snail can hitch a
ride on vehicle. So like you can't count on me Exactly. Like
yeah, okay, it can move one foot and enjoy math. And then you're
like, Okay, well, if I go 20 miles, I'm good for a couple of
days, right? Not necessarily because what if you guys know
can talk to birds
Leila: with a snail On the North Pole, on a treadmill facing
towards you, it'll obviously like go towards you. But it
won't turn around because it can't
David: smell smarter.
Elijah: Another aspect of the Hi, Rachel that we forgot about
is you are immortal to like that you are a more I think, oh,
like, Are you both? Like that's that's part of the trade off.
David: Maybe it's like the the train problem. It's like there's
multiple versions of it. That's it. I'm
Elijah: a trolley equation.
David: Yeah, the trolley equation. That's a trolley.
Paradox. But equation trolley problem. Probably problem. Yeah.
It might
Leila: just be the problem.
David: But there's a million variants of that one. I would
hate being why wouldn't want to be a more?
Leila: If I was done with being immortal, there's a magic snail.
Yeah.
David: So you got your whole life? Yeah, so
Elijah: the original hypothetical was given 10s of
millions of dollars and made immortal in exchange for being
hunted down by a snail with a fatal touch. Yeah. And what's
funny is I remember this question when I was young. Young
middle school, maybe? Maybe before middle school says
David: 2014 on site I was looking at but who knows? Yeah,
Elijah: so it might have been that might have been
David: might have been before that. But at any
Elijah: rate, it's just after I graduated high school, okay, but
it it popped up back online like last year,
David: right. And you know, some what happens is something I'll
go for a little while, nobody, but then somebody remembers it?
Oh, I remember that. And they post it. They get
Elijah: gets a whole new audience. Yeah, my favorite
thing to come out of this was someone shared on Reddit with no
context of the snail meme, sometime after it had died down
in popularity, like a fake news article. Because one of the most
upvoted things on the original Reddit post of you know, posing
this hypothetical was someone Excuse me. Less you, thank you.
Someone said, I would hire scientists and get a like solid
ball of cobalt made and in case the snail in cobalt and shoot it
into outer space. Knowing that that will give me at least you
know 100 years until right could possibly get back on it. If
Leila: it just hits you in the head one day and you can't go
Elijah: to Walmart so someone posted on Reddit where it was
like, you know, breaking news cobalt sphere falls in the
middle of completely hollow except for one sale
smells are vampires, right?
Leila: Yeah. They got teeth. They don't have teeth, but they
do have teeth.
Elijah: Do they have red hair?
Leila: Yeah, they can.
David: Do they sparkle in the sun?
Leila: Yes, they do. This laziness
David: so I think we're about to hit 45 minutes here. I think
we'll go ahead and wrap this one up. Definitely if you ever want
to come back on we can talk about whatever and once we get
silly speculation Saturday up and running we can you know talk
about more or less family friendly things. We get that
role in our separate feed. And yeah, yeah, it was great having
you on this was a blast. How can how can folks find you?
Elijah: They come to my house I live at two to four getting down
you can find me on Instagram ledger dot v dot more on Tik Tok
I think also the same name I sometimes post funny things
there.
David: I've never been on Tik Tok
Elijah: or I'm on ticked over way too much it's
David: that's why I never started Yeah, that and the whole
China thing but
Elijah: so yeah, Instagram and then on any movie or TV show
that I might be in
David: right yeah check out this will link his Internet Movie
Database profile I believe you're actually on the meatus
pod the one episode I put on the internet yeah, I've got profiles
for me just pod and Fun Fact Friday on Internet Movie
Database, but I haven't done much with them sir. Because I
don't have pro like it's really hard to enter for me nation
without being annoying too. So as a if any of our producers who
have Internet Movie Database Pro and want to help us out getting
all of our episodes put on there properly, let us know it's a lot
of work and it's practically useless. So that is that you
know, seems like something you want to do. We do want to thank
all of our supporters. We will get with you. We will get your
mentions next week, because this is a canned episode. As you're
listening to this, I am at pod fest Expo. I'm uploading In the
files from there, and I am meeting some podcast, folks go
into some fun events. And I'm in. I'm in Orlando right now, as
you're listening to this. So, if you're in Orlando, you can hit
me up on social media and we'll want maybe we can hang out. Have
a good one, everybody. Any last words? No. No more vampire
stuff. Or snail stuff?
Leila: No. Or redhead, shimmery snails. They all stuff. Yeah.
I'm naming our band.
David: fr s s s. Is it with the podcast? You know?
Elijah: I don't know. The best way I ever heard of was what
I'll shut off after this. pastor of my church told me this. Uncle
daddy in the family secret.
Leila: Grandpa, that
David: network show Oh, yeah. Yeah, like that old song on my
own grandpa. My
Elijah: grandpa. Story of Philip Seymour fry.
David: Yeah. Futurama. Leila was
Leila: told my friends that you named me after a Futurama
character. Like what?
Elijah: If you think about my parents named me after a paint
store. My name is Benjamin Moore.
David: I was like your name is not Sherwin Williams. Almost all
right, everybody. We'll see you next time. Thanks for coming by.
Wow. And I know we sound a little different this episode
because we're on the other side of the studio and all mics are
not in the normal places. Oh, Kyle.
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