Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always
Speaker 1: so much fortuning in This is part two of our
Speaker 1: not Entirely Safe for the Kids exploration of the theories
Speaker 1: behind witches and broomsticks. Get ye to a nunnery, for
Speaker 1: you have been corrupted by the filth put forth in
Speaker 1: these uh these episodes. No, it's not filth, but it
Speaker 1: gets a little blue. Um, but it's a lot of
Speaker 1: fun and it's really pretty educational and super Halloween. He's
Speaker 1: let's hop right in, let's go. Despite the great work
Speaker 1: that researchers have done in investigating this theory, we have
Speaker 1: to be completely honest. Not everyone agrees with it. There's
Speaker 1: still a lot of debate. No, it's true, man, there's
Speaker 1: some holes in this story. And we've talked about it too,
Speaker 1: Like the timing is a little off in order for
Speaker 1: it to really work quite right. Um, basically, let's just
Speaker 1: boil it down to this. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: social psychologists that think that much more to blame than
Speaker 1: some kind of trip or some kind of you know,
Speaker 1: psychedelic experience. Was the kind of stuff that you see
Speaker 1: play out in the movie The Witch, which is again phenomenal.
Speaker 1: The idea of this isolation, this social and political unrest,
Speaker 1: and this sense of these young women felt powerless and
Speaker 1: then needed to exercise some power of their own and
Speaker 1: and lack shout against this very oppressive, you know, highly
Speaker 1: evangelical religious culture that was sort of keeping them down.
Speaker 1: That's my hot take. I don't think that's a hot
Speaker 1: take at all. I think more people would agree with that.
Speaker 1: You know, urgetism is truthfully considered a fringe theory in
Speaker 1: most circles. You know, most historians don't agree with it. Uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of sociologists, as you said, point to other
Speaker 1: more compelling factors that could lead to the same result,
Speaker 1: which is again the death of all those people accused
Speaker 1: of witchcraft. And a lot of people in the sciences
Speaker 1: have cited, uh, this landmark paper, the first one arguing urgotism.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of people who still say
Speaker 1: that she's not even onto anything, she's just playing wrong.
Speaker 1: And uh, it goes back to what you said earlier.
Speaker 1: A lot of these symptoms, while they may appear to
Speaker 1: match in part the problems of ergotism or St. Anthony's Fire,
Speaker 1: they don't match it close enough for that to be
Speaker 1: a definitive answer. So when we get down to like
Speaker 1: the brass tacks or the brass rye of it, we
Speaker 1: don't have any way to do a forensic examination of
Speaker 1: the bread people were consuming. We don't know one saved
Speaker 1: a three hundred year old piece of bread. It's it's God.
Speaker 1: And that's why we still don't know what's set off
Speaker 1: those witch trials in Salem. But we know ergotism is
Speaker 1: not restricted to the Salem case of witchcraft, or I
Speaker 1: should say the ergotism theory. Uh. This is where we
Speaker 1: get into a little bit of socio cultural examination of
Speaker 1: the infamous which is broomstick right, Uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: It's one of those things. It's weird what we accept
Speaker 1: more children growing up, because if none of us had
Speaker 1: ever heard about which is in brew sticks until we
Speaker 1: were like in our twenties, we would have thought it
Speaker 1: was weird and ridiculous, you know, Like I didn't hear
Speaker 1: about Bobba Yaga until later in life, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's weird to have a house on chicken legs, But
Speaker 1: when you're a kid, it's just which is due, you know,
Speaker 1: And uh, according to again that Atlas Obscure article we
Speaker 1: referenced earlier. According to that article, uh, the broom has
Speaker 1: a lot of sexual symbolism to it, right. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and let's not forget too like in the way that
Speaker 1: history is often kind of bastardized and manipulated. Um, the
Speaker 1: true image of a witch riding a broomstick not the
Speaker 1: one we think of with the which black clad and
Speaker 1: some kind of robe with a peaked hat and riding
Speaker 1: the broomstick with the bristles facing backwards. Uh, and we're
Speaker 1: in some pointy shoes or something. That's not really the
Speaker 1: image that we would have been associating with this at
Speaker 1: the time. It would have been a usually young, kind
Speaker 1: of bucksom nude woman riding the broomstick backwards what we
Speaker 1: would think of the bristols facing forward backwards of what
Speaker 1: we would typically think. And the idea that these hallucinogenic
Speaker 1: compounds were ingested as some sort of flying uh potion
Speaker 1: was a thing, right yeah. Yeah, So the broom was
Speaker 1: sort of seen as a symbol of domesticity, uh, specifically
Speaker 1: what they would call female domesticity. But it was also phallic,
Speaker 1: which means it calls to mind a penis so writing
Speaker 1: on a broom was a symbol of female sexuality. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then it meant, or it implied, in a weird
Speaker 1: symbolic way, that femininity and domesticity, which are fun to
Speaker 1: say quickly, had gone wild. Which has gone wild? Cheapest
Speaker 1: oak we're gonna make today? Uh? And it's weird because
Speaker 1: I didn't know this. Gabe actually hipped me into this.
Speaker 1: The first known reference to which is flying on broomsticks
Speaker 1: at all, was confessed by a suspected warlock mail which
Speaker 1: one gay um Edeline of an area near Paris. He
Speaker 1: was being tortured in fourteen fifty three, and he was like,
Speaker 1: we you know, it's true. I fly in the air.
Speaker 1: And we're like, but how how does the devil help
Speaker 1: you fly in there? And he's like, I don't know
Speaker 1: a broom Stop burning me. That's a paraphrase. Uh, but
Speaker 1: you are right. Uh. People were drawing this idea of
Speaker 1: flying and brooms out of rich historical folkloric soil, because
Speaker 1: there used to be these pagan fertility rituals people would
Speaker 1: celebrate where you would use pitchforks, brooms, anything phallic really,
Speaker 1: any old pole would do, and then you would pilot
Speaker 1: these kind of through the fields, and people would jump
Speaker 1: as high as they could while this was happening, because
Speaker 1: they were trying to get the crops to grow as
Speaker 1: high as they could jump. Right. Uh. And this is
Speaker 1: depicted in a book published in fifteen eighty four by
Speaker 1: a guy named Reginald Scott called The Discovery of Witchcraft
Speaker 1: as these magical assemblies. The witches never failed to dance,
Speaker 1: and in't there dance they sing these words, ha ha, devil, devil,
Speaker 1: dance here, dance here, plale here, plale here, Sabbath, Sabbath,
Speaker 1: and wiles they sing and dance. Everone hath the broom
Speaker 1: in her hand and holdeth it aloft sort of my
Speaker 1: German like scholar voice from four, not that he was
Speaker 1: necessarily German. I did my best. Wait a minute, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: there's a wordy. What is flail played? It's p l A.
Speaker 1: I yes, it is, of course it is. I missed that. Okay,
Speaker 1: well I'm gonna leave it in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, leave
Speaker 1: it in, leave it in. So this, this, uh, this
Speaker 1: gives us a lot in one little quote to unpack. Here, Ben,
Speaker 1: what are some of the themes that we've got represented
Speaker 1: here in this quote? Oh? My gosh, phallic fertility symbols
Speaker 1: first off, then you got the brooms, then you got
Speaker 1: the pagans, right the non Christian religions, and you got
Speaker 1: jumping into the air. Uh no, casey, I would say
Speaker 1: all the pieces are there for a cohesive story about
Speaker 1: a flying which that's the traditional like folklore symbolism kind
Speaker 1: of argument of how symbols agreed to a glamory throughout time.
Speaker 1: But now we now we're getting into the really racy part,
Speaker 1: which I think we've already set up pretty well racier
Speaker 1: than putting drugs up your butt with a room stick.
Speaker 1: Well that's the that's the racy part. That's where we're going.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to revisit that because that's my
Speaker 1: favorite part so far. But yeah, that this idea of
Speaker 1: of of this hallucinogenic a salve being a flying potion,
Speaker 1: right yeah, because you'll see descriptions of which is through
Speaker 1: our cane occult means creating a flying ointsments or which
Speaker 1: is brew and this is as this is like the
Speaker 1: magical part of the ritual or the process, right uh.
Speaker 1: And this this is so weird because we don't think
Speaker 1: about it this way, but the use of hallucinogenic substances
Speaker 1: by people in religious contexts or spiritual context predates written history.
Speaker 1: It's not crazy to say that somewhere across the millennia
Speaker 1: someone figured out how to do this. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you'll see experts point out that there are other readily
Speaker 1: available hallucin genic plants in Europe at this time Henbane nightshade,
Speaker 1: man Drake, and even as far back as fifteen sixty
Speaker 1: three there are authors saying these are all hallucin genic plants.
Speaker 1: They are all part of a witches flying ointment, which
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense if you think about it, because that's
Speaker 1: kind of like saying if someone does one drug, they
Speaker 1: do them all. You know what I mean? Like I
Speaker 1: only snort cocaine heroin. Uh, what are ether all all
Speaker 1: kind of mixed together? What's? What's that really gross? When
Speaker 1: you were obsessed with for a while, fascinated by Jen Jencob,
Speaker 1: you were obsessed with Jencob, I'm obsessed, would like you you.
Speaker 1: I learned about it from you. Crocodiles, crocodile's probably crococodle
Speaker 1: is I was, Okay, maybe obsessed isn't really the right
Speaker 1: the right word, but crocodile is this improvised opioid that
Speaker 1: like street kids in like Russia take and and it's
Speaker 1: so it's made of like really nasty stuff, Like it's
Speaker 1: got an acidic quality to it that eventually, if you
Speaker 1: shoot it up enough, it uh starts to turn you
Speaker 1: into a living zombie type situation. And Jacob's made with
Speaker 1: like poop and stuff. If I'm not mistaken it Casey
Speaker 1: on the Case on the Case. Oh, that's our Law
Speaker 1: and Orders spin off. So please don't dick wolf if
Speaker 1: you're listening, we have way better ideas. Just just hit
Speaker 1: us up online. Well, speaking of dick wolves, though, I
Speaker 1: gotta say, um, there's another interesting book that speaks to
Speaker 1: some of this stuff called uh the Malleus Maleficarum by
Speaker 1: Heinrich Kramer, and it it came out in fourteen six
Speaker 1: and it's actually considered a manual for a hunting witches.
Speaker 1: And it talks about how which just had this like
Speaker 1: need for like just stealing dudes penises, and they could
Speaker 1: uh make them invisible, or they could just straight up
Speaker 1: abscond with them without the dude being any wiser, and
Speaker 1: they would keep them, they would shrink them and keep
Speaker 1: them in tiny in jars as like pets, So they
Speaker 1: would have these familiars that were literally disembodied penises. Um.
Speaker 1: So this whole phallic fertility thing kind of matriarchy vibe
Speaker 1: is very is a through line and a lot of
Speaker 1: this lore. Yeah. Yeah, And we do have accounts from
Speaker 1: this time where you see people under torture most of
Speaker 1: the time uh, confessing to using an ointment. Uh. There
Speaker 1: are multiple iterations of this. Uh. One of the most
Speaker 1: explicit comes from fourteen seventy seven when one Antoine Rose,
Speaker 1: who was called the Witch of Savoy uh, confessed under
Speaker 1: torture that the devil, whose name was Robinette, was a
Speaker 1: dark man who spoke in a hoarse voice, kissing Robinette's
Speaker 1: foot in homage, she would renounce God and the Christian faith,
Speaker 1: and then he the devil, would put his mark on
Speaker 1: her on the little finger of her left hand, and
Speaker 1: then he gave her stick eighteen inches long and a
Speaker 1: pot of ointment. She would smear the ointment on the stick,
Speaker 1: put it between her legs, and say, go, in the
Speaker 1: name of the devil, go. This is like, this is juicy,
Speaker 1: sealacious stuff to read. If you're someone learning about this
Speaker 1: in the late fourteen hundreds. You know what I mean? Oh,
Speaker 1: I sure do. Um. Yeah. And there's a pretty great
Speaker 1: quote from that Malleus Maleficarum book that I was referencing
Speaker 1: that sort of sums up a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: about witchcraft, or at least in the mind of more
Speaker 1: of a puritanical lens quote, all richcraft comes from carnal luss,
Speaker 1: which in women is insatiable God talking about victim blaming.
Speaker 1: H Frerah is wondering. Uh. There's an episode of stuff
Speaker 1: they don't want you to know about Grimoires that talks, uh,
Speaker 1: talks a little more in depth about the malice Malificarum. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's I think the translation is the Hammer of Witches.
Speaker 1: Is that right? It's it's a book for inquisitors, yes,
Speaker 1: and it's written seriously. It's it's meant to be a
Speaker 1: non fiction depiction of what these uh, what these witches
Speaker 1: as they were called, are actually doing, How to find them,
Speaker 1: how to I mean, how to persecute them basically. Uh So,
Speaker 1: one other question you have to have is, uh, why
Speaker 1: a broomstick, why not some other household object? Why not
Speaker 1: a rake? Why aren't which is flying around on rakes
Speaker 1: or on scythes or you know, uh, plows plows have
Speaker 1: handles right that are like broomsticks. Uh. It turns out
Speaker 1: that there are some explanations. One is that the herbs
Speaker 1: used in the preparation of these ointments would have been
Speaker 1: kept in a little broom like bundle, something called a whisk,
Speaker 1: and it might have been boiled in oil that would
Speaker 1: release the active ingredients, almost like a satchet of tea
Speaker 1: or herbs, you know what I mean. Yeah, in a
Speaker 1: little piece of cheese cloth bound with the tiny little
Speaker 1: piece of string and it just filters it through there
Speaker 1: and keeps you from getting big pieces of the stuff
Speaker 1: you might you know, choke on it. But why were
Speaker 1: they naked? There's so many images of the early images
Speaker 1: of witches that were almost exclusively depicted as like I said,
Speaker 1: often quite beautiful naked women writing these boom broomsticks. Um,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting quine. I mean, you know, we also
Speaker 1: there is something in The Witch, the vivivich Um, the
Speaker 1: Egger's film that these women appear naked as well all
Speaker 1: and are often covering their bodies in this salve. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna trip a lot harder if you put it
Speaker 1: all over or you know, bigger dose, so you know,
Speaker 1: and it's certainly got these kind of like empowerment themes
Speaker 1: and pagan kind of ritualistic themes. Uh, and so that
Speaker 1: would account for that. But it's interesting how the image
Speaker 1: of the witch has been kind of sanitized and turned
Speaker 1: into sort of like a spooky Halloween thing. But if
Speaker 1: you want to see what a real witch is like,
Speaker 1: check out the Witch. Well, I would say, if you
Speaker 1: want to see a horror film version of a real witch,
Speaker 1: because real quote unquote, real witches were probably just people
Speaker 1: practicing longstanding, pre existing non Christian traditions, of course, so
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think they were monsters. Of course,
Speaker 1: my ex wife considers herself a witch. She actually just
Speaker 1: joined the coven and uh does uh kind of incantation
Speaker 1: a e crystal type stuff and and chance and things,
Speaker 1: and it's very much a way of life and of
Speaker 1: of community, and it's you know, I don't look down
Speaker 1: upon it at all. I think it's great. There's is
Speaker 1: she wickan or it's that that that angle more and
Speaker 1: more and more, that angle more, the white magic kind
Speaker 1: of side of it. It's about positivity and it's about
Speaker 1: you know, um, they they do some things that would
Speaker 1: allow them to kind of you know, use astrology and such.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is more than it. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: You're not hurting anybody. It's hating to have spiritual beliefs.
Speaker 1: For a lot of people, it's powerful thing. And when
Speaker 1: we look back at these events, uh, through the lens
Speaker 1: of modernity, it can seem kind of weird, you know,
Speaker 1: because we'd be like, well, what is this? Really? Is
Speaker 1: the argument here? That is it? Something like how dare
Speaker 1: these people do drugs for fun and then pleasure themselves?
Speaker 1: I mean, like on the list of terrible things humans do,
Speaker 1: recreational hallucinogen use, uh, self administered and then self pleasured.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I mean, am I a bad person?
Speaker 1: They don't seem like terrible things to me. Uh. Maybe
Speaker 1: they were just seen as to empowering to the patriarchal
Speaker 1: power structure at the time, because it is kind of
Speaker 1: a case of you you could phrase it as an
Speaker 1: oppressed demographic uh, having empowerment over their own bodies to
Speaker 1: do with what, you know, what they wished at a
Speaker 1: time when women were really had very few rights. But
Speaker 1: regardless of how you feel about this, the fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is that many people were tortured and killed
Speaker 1: because they did stuff like this, which is just so
Speaker 1: incredibly unfair. But I do like the pharmacological angle here,
Speaker 1: and we don't know if that can explain everything, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's kind of like saying, what
Speaker 1: is the exact moment that the trident became associated with
Speaker 1: the Christian devil? Uh? In place of like ancient you know,
Speaker 1: Greco Roman gods and stuff. Uh, well, there there may
Speaker 1: be an exact point for that. We need to find
Speaker 1: that in a future episode Dare you have It Man,
Speaker 1: which is brooms, drugs and of course yeah, caveat, caveat,
Speaker 1: cavalcade of asterisks. Not everyone agrees. Experts are still debating this.
Speaker 1: But the seeds of this idea, the morning glory seeds
Speaker 1: of this idea drug joke, Uh, those remain with us
Speaker 1: in fiction and folklore today. And and Casey Off Mike, Uh,
Speaker 1: you you teased and tantalized us just a little bit
Speaker 1: when we pause for something. And then uh you you
Speaker 1: said there's a Harry Potter angle to this. Yes, So,
Speaker 1: around about the year two thousand, Mattel, who manufactures all
Speaker 1: kinds of kids toys of course they had a Harry
Speaker 1: Potter tie end deal for a broomstick toy for kids.
Speaker 1: You know, millions of these toys have probably been manufactured
Speaker 1: over over the years, but the one that made this
Speaker 1: one distinct is that it vibrates when it's between your
Speaker 1: legs to simulate flying. But you can kind of see
Speaker 1: where I'm going with this, right, like tauchy wand kind
Speaker 1: of stitution exa, yes, oh back massager. So the reviews
Speaker 1: on Amazon from the period. They've since taken the page down,
Speaker 1: but you can find it archived on various blogs are
Speaker 1: really funny, like some some are from legit parents and
Speaker 1: some are clearly people just having fun. But the one
Speaker 1: I see here is like in all bold keep the
Speaker 1: batteries out and then and then also you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's ones that are like obviously someone trying to be
Speaker 1: pretend to be like an a loof parent that's like,
Speaker 1: my daughter loves this toy. She just plays within her
Speaker 1: room like hours and hours and hours and until the
Speaker 1: batteries run out and all this stuff. Um so I
Speaker 1: think I think I don't know what ended up happening
Speaker 1: with the toy, if they recalled it or what happened.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just it's interesting to me because I
Speaker 1: remember that story when it happened, and I just thought
Speaker 1: it was kind of a funny accident, like the vibrating broomstick.
Speaker 1: They didn't really think it through. But if you think
Speaker 1: about like the history of witchcraft and how it was
Speaker 1: perceived and how it always had this kind of sexual
Speaker 1: angle to it, it's fascinating that that tension kind of
Speaker 1: played out in like a contemporary way someone new. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that that's this. That's the very reason that
Speaker 1: Tickled Miama is so damn popular too, just put maybe not,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's great, Casey. I love the Amazon
Speaker 1: reviews especially, And so you had you had one more
Speaker 1: more ingredient to throw into the cauldron of this episode
Speaker 1: before we call it an all hallows eve. Right, Oh,
Speaker 1: I just you know, you just you just kind of
Speaker 1: rattled off lines and tigers and bear a style with
Speaker 1: the episode was about. And I was just gonna add
Speaker 1: butts and penises and jars. Yes, yes, they're the real
Speaker 1: v I p s. I think we can agree. In
Speaker 1: today's episode, I feel like we learned a lot like
Speaker 1: this touches on so many strange, strange things like a
Speaker 1: social oppression, belief in witchcraft, magic, neurochemistry. Weirdly enough, like
Speaker 1: this is this is kind of a I was gonna
Speaker 1: say Whitman's sampler, But what about this is a Halloween
Speaker 1: trigger treat bag of weird knowledge nuggets. That sounds terrible?
Speaker 1: Help me out here? Well, how about that? About this
Speaker 1: the real quick let's go around the room, favorite and
Speaker 1: least favorite Halloween candy ben oh um. Well, as you
Speaker 1: guys know, I don't really practice favorites. I do. I
Speaker 1: do think there are some insulting Halloween candies, like the
Speaker 1: wax or in and black taffy stuff or the u
Speaker 1: wax lips. It's like you're going out of your way
Speaker 1: to be rude. Just turn off your lights, watch go
Speaker 1: watch the Witch, and don't give me this insulting candy.
Speaker 1: Giving people that candy is like giving someone a partially
Speaker 1: used gift certificate for their birthday. Here's the twenty five
Speaker 1: dollar gift certificate for bed, Bath and Beyond. I think
Speaker 1: it's got seven bucks maybe eight on their happy birthday. Bro. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: I will accept that. That's great absolutely well. I I
Speaker 1: am the arbiter of this this Q and A your patriarchal,
Speaker 1: your pa. If not like that, I'm gonna go something
Speaker 1: real basic. I'm just gonna say Tutsi rolls, like, Oh
Speaker 1: I like a Tutsie roll. They're plentiful and uh I
Speaker 1: used to just gorge myself on them and be very
Speaker 1: very sick afterwards. You don't find they get stuck up
Speaker 1: in all kinds of nether regions of your teeth. Nah,
Speaker 1: I mean not not back when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: What's your casey? What's your stance on the the alternative
Speaker 1: flavor twitsi rolls? Which is very interested? They're okay, but
Speaker 1: you know there's no substitute for the original. Prefer just
Speaker 1: the normal chocolate and as far as least favorite, just
Speaker 1: anything healthy, like people given out apples or whatever without
Speaker 1: even having razor blades in them. Just like what holiday
Speaker 1: do you think? This is? Apple Day? Anyway? No? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Wait what are yours? Man? Oh my gosh. My my
Speaker 1: favorite is sort of a controversial pick. It is almond
Speaker 1: Joy and I know for a lot of people that
Speaker 1: is on people's trash candy list, but I just love it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. How do you feel you made
Speaker 1: a face Casey, sometimes you feel like a nut that's
Speaker 1: the almond mounds is the one with no nut. I
Speaker 1: like the nutted one. I got really into I can't
Speaker 1: remember why, but I got really into reading about the
Speaker 1: history of candy bars a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: I think we should do an episode on it, especially
Speaker 1: if you really call it, if you feel like really
Speaker 1: called to the almond joy. I think we could have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with that one. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: can agree with that. My least favorite is easily anything
Speaker 1: candy corn related or those horrible little waxy pumpkin things. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you know again? I feel like there's this
Speaker 1: entire industry of candy that's made specifically for whatever the
Speaker 1: Halloween version of the Grinches that people want to become,
Speaker 1: and they're out ruining, Like these kids work hard on
Speaker 1: these costumes, their parents are walking around. Everybody's trying to
Speaker 1: have a good time. Man, don't that wax that that
Speaker 1: you guys know what I'm talking about? That's happy actively
Speaker 1: unpleasant taffy? You mean, like a laffy taffy situation or
Speaker 1: something even inferior to that. It's like peanut butter or
Speaker 1: some kind of it's it's abomination flavored. I guess. I
Speaker 1: mean it just tastes like weird chemicals or something. It's very,
Speaker 1: very just unpleasant. Got it, got it? All right? All right?
Speaker 1: I think we've all learned a little bit about about
Speaker 1: each other today that we didn't know before. And uh,
Speaker 1: this concludes our our two part exploration on the the
Speaker 1: theoretical science behind the idea of which is on brooms.
Speaker 1: Uh and and a million of other things. Alm enjoys,
Speaker 1: twitsy rolls, Abomination flavored candy, Abomination flavor can imperialistic, pedantic quisitry.
Speaker 1: I didn't say pedantic an imperialistic. I mean I added,
Speaker 1: you know, I can add my own flavor here, totally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all have free wheels here, despite what the witches
Speaker 1: might want or despite what the witch hunters might wantch So,
Speaker 1: uh with that, I think I don't know about you, guys,
Speaker 1: but I'm really vibing on this Halloween related historical trend.
Speaker 1: Do you guys want to keep doing this for a
Speaker 1: few more episodes? I'm really vibing on this Harry Potter broomstick,
Speaker 1: but absolutely do I want to do that thing? In
Speaker 1: the meantime, huge thanks to super producer Casey Pegro as
Speaker 1: always for his uh ones and twosman ship. Um. Big
Speaker 1: thanks to Alex Williams who composed our theme. Christopher Haston
Speaker 1: is here in spirit. Jonathan Strickland, notorious Quister Halloween every
Speaker 1: day when he's around. Big big thanks of course do
Speaker 1: gave our research north Star and uh Fellow Halloween or
Speaker 1: which is a weird word. Uh, thanks as well to
Speaker 1: Eve's Jeff Coat. Thanks to all those great folks of
Speaker 1: Halloween's past for giving out candy to two kids and
Speaker 1: complimenting them on their costumes. Halloween's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit different uh this year, but let's let's keep the
Speaker 1: spirit the same. Spooky and fun and wonderful. We got
Speaker 1: this folks. We'll see you next time. M For more
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