Sept. 29, 2025

Medieval NDA: John of Nepomuk

Medieval NDA: John of Nepomuk
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A king’s temper, a vicar’s signature, and a midnight plunge off the Charles Bridge—this is the real John of Nepomuk, stripped of centuries of rumor and retold from the sources that watched it happen. We kick off light—birthday confessions, beer swaps, and a reflexology detour—before following a clue from Dan Brown to Bohemia’s most statue‑worthy figure. What we find isn’t a jealous husband demanding secrets from a queen’s confessor. It’s sharper: a fight over church law, abbey wealth, and who gets to appoint power in a land split by the Western Schism.

We chart John’s rise through Prague’s cathedral ranks, his role as vicar general, and the spark that set everything ablaze—the lawful confirmation of a new abbot at Kladruby Abbey. King Wenceslas IV wanted that revenue and control; John’s seal said otherwise. The backlash is brutal: arrests under false pretenses, torture in the castle, and a body thrown from the Charles Bridge into the Vltava. Contemporary reports called it what it was—a martyrdom for ecclesiastical rights—but decades later a cleaner, more romantic story took hold: the “queen’s confession” myth that turned governance into gossip and helped the Counter‑Reformation recast John as a model of sacramental secrecy.

We follow the afterlife of the story: five stars over the river becoming his emblem; Jesuits elevating his cult across bridges and city squares; beatification, canonization, and a curious “miracle” tongue later identified as brain tissue. Then the modern pivot—historians and the Church itself (in 1961) revising the official narrative to match the record. Along the way we keep it lively with sips, side‑quests, and a quick game of baseball idioms that, yes, hits it out of the park.

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The Secret of Secrets: A Novel (Robert Langdon) Hardcover by Dan Brown

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Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/location-of-saint-john-of-nepomuk-s-martyrdom

The Most Famous Person You’ve Never Heard of: St John of Nepomuk- Author: Zachary Mazur

https://culture.pl/en/article/the-most-famous-person-youve-never-heard-of-st-john-of-nepomuk

Executed Today- 1393: John of Nepomuk, Bohemian Rhapsody

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00:00 - Banter, Birthdays & Beers

04:40 - Foot Rubs, Reflexology, and Family

09:17 - Dan Brown Spark: Setting Up the Story

12:10 - John of Nepomuk: Early Life & Rise

18:20 - Schism Politics: King vs. Archbishop

22:05 - The Abbey Power Struggle

26:05 - Arrest, Torture, and the Drowning at Charles Bridge

33:00 - From Martyr to Legend: The Queen’s Confession Myth

39:20 - Sainthood, Miracles, and Counter-Reformation Spin

45:10 - Statues, Symbols, and Modern Revisions

50:15 - Dan Brown Connection & Reading Plans

52:45 - Idiom Game: Hit It Out of the Park

01:00:36 - Wrap-Up & Calls to Action

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Away there.

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You're starting away there.

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I thought I should for a change, because you always get the glory of saying, away.

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It is pretty glorious to go first, isn't it?

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Well, I mean, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Am I right?

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Uh, how are you?

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I'm good.

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How are you?

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I'm good.

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I'm Kate, by the way.

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And I'm Bradley.

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Nice to meet you.

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Pleasures online to meet you.

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Uh, we are the History of Buffons.

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Welcome to uh the History of Buffoons Podcast.

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Yeah.

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Uh episode 61.

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Holy shit.

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We're in the 60s officially.

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That's amazing.

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Not just at 60, we're in the 60s.

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Wow.

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I can't believe that.

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Looks like you're you're now not in my 60s.

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Not in your 60s.

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But I do have a six in my number.

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Yeah, he just had a birthday.

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I'm 46.

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Yeah.

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What'd you do for your birthday?

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Went to work.

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Picked my son up.

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I made dinner for the family.

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Yeah.

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All for a Sarah and I.

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Yeah.

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Kids don't want to eat what I make because they're still like, I just want a peanut butter sandwich.

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Or uh or Vesper's like, cookies.

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Girl after Mother.

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She is.

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I love sweets.

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Oh my God, so does she.

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Yeah.

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Like we get ex Xavier likes these lunchables that have like all it comes with is four nuggets, a little section where ketchup to dip them in, and then two cookies.

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So she only she wants one only for the cookies.

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She doesn't ever eat the nuggets.

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It's like, what a waste.

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That's why we only buy them really when they're on sale.

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Yeah.

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Because I think they go on sale for like a buck or whatever.

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Xavier will eat the whole thing, but the cookies.

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He doesn't eat the cookies.

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Not always.

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Once in a while he does, which is really weird because they're like, they're like, they're not Oreos, but they're like Oreos, basically.

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They're a lunchable Oreo.

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Exactly.

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And he uh he a lot of times won't eat the won't eat the cookies, which is funny.

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But if Vesper wants them, all of a sudden he does.

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He does, yeah.

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So it's like, oh come on, man.

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Supreme Reverie.

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Yeah, you know, but uh what do we got to drink for you today?

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Oh gosh.

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Okay, so I picked out Bradley's beer and and Bradley picked out my beer today.

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So I have the Montauky Cold Snack.

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Yeah.

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Um, it is um golly.

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From Montana.

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The official, unofficial beer of Montana.

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Yep.

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I didn't know that.

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Yeah.

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It also um supports local nonprofits and charities since 2012.

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Yep.

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Very cool.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what kind this is, although it does say at the bottom, don't be a jerk.

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I really like that.

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So do I.

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I really, really like that.

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So it's it's like a lager.

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Okay.

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If I'm not mistaken, if I remember right.

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Um, so when I would go visit uh Al, hi Al, uh in Vegas, there's a particular Thai restaurant we go to, and they serve these.

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I think they're in the 16 ounce too, if I'm not mistaken.

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I could be wrong.

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Al correct me on that if I am.

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But um they're only like it's super cheap there for a restaurant, it's pretty great.

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So we do that.

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Um, I have uh supernova from uh three sheets.

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Three sheeps.

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That's from Sheboygan.

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Shoboygan.

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It's a triple IPA, so I'm excited to try this because I like IPAs.

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Have you ever had a triple before?

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Yeah.

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Oh.

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Oh yeah.

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Maybe this was unique.

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No, I've had a quad before, too.

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It's crazy.

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Whoa, that was a weird burp.

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Do you like chew it?

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Yeah.

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It's that hoppy, you have to chew it.

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When you buy, when you usually buy those, it comes with a knife to cut it up.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay, that makes sense.

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All right, open your beer.

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Jesus Christ.

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Ooh, cheers.

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Oh, that is hobby.

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Ooh.

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You would not like this.

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No.

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Oh.

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What ABV is this stuff?

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I should look at the one that I'm not.

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I'm not gonna lie, this is pretty basic.

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Basic.

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Yeah.

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That's what it is.

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It's good, it's refreshing.

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Holy fuck, this is 9.7.

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Whoa.

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I might be a little loopy.

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I got two of these and they're 16 ounces by the end of this podcast.

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Holy shit.

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Yeah, this is um it's it's basic.

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Yeah.

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That's that's all it is.

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I didn't get you anything fancy.

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No, it's just fine.

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And I think I I don't know what the ABV is on this, but it's probably like 4.7.

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4.2, 4.5, maybe.

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But yeah, it doesn't say that I can see without tipping.

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Also, for a 16-ounce can, you get a we got I got you that six pack for I think it was seven bucks.

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So it's like you know, just over a buck a can for that.

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Isn't really good.

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Good to know for future endeavors.

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Yeah, well, I mean it's it's relatively cheap.

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It is just a basic beer.

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Yeah, it's nothing super fancy, but it's for what it is, it's not bad.

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Yeah, honestly.

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No, it's not bad.

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Easy drinking, you could pound those if you wanted, kind of thing.

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So would they call those a session?

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No.

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Oh, yes.

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Really?

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Maybe.

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Oh I thought I got something.

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No, those are uh pounding beers.

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Well, good to know.

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Well, I only have the one, so that's that is it's good.

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It's borderline tasting a little uh alcohol-y.

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Let's see how I get through this first one and what the second one tastes like.

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The first one is always the roughest.

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Yeah, especially if especially what I didn't realize those were 9.7, so holy fuck.

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But there was only four to the pack.

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So yeah, it was a four-pack 16 ounce, but um, there you go.

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So, do you have a good week?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Nothing too crazy.

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Nothing too crazy.

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Um, some students of mine are graduating soon.

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And and I mean, they're not mine, but like I work with some students and right.

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Um, I recently got a student massage that did some reflexology and that's right.

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You had mentioned that too.

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I was a puddle.

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I was a puddle.

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I was a puddle.

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So it felt good.

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If yeah, I mean, really any foot massage actually does feel really good.

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I just don't like feet, but I like getting my feet rubbed.

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Yeah.

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But I have to like get my head out of that first.

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As a massage therapist, that can't hang you up.

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Right.

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Or an aesthetician, that can't hang you up.

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So because I mean people love it.

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So when I I think I f I think I finally figured out why I hate feet so much.

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When I was younger, my dad always made us three sons of his give him foot rubs.

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And we had he had this specific lotion.

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Don't know what it was.

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Almost I swear he bought it in bulk or something.

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It was weird.

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And we had to rub that on, and we always had to give him foot rubs.

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Interesting.

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I just literally thought of that.

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I'm like, oh yeah, I used to always have to do that for my dad.

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Yeah.

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So thanks, dad, for making me hate feet.

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That's very interesting.

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I I have I would be shocked if that correlation isn't correct.

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Because I remember my sister always asking my mom for a little back rub.

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And my mom would always do it.

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And then there was one point I remember she's like, no, I don't want to do this stuff.

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So it's funny, with with that same lotion, I used to always have to give my dad a back rub too.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah, he was very demanding on stuff like this when we were little.

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That's why he had kids to make make us do stuff for him.

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Wash his car.

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So I obviously I have a big beard, but I am not, I I have chest hair and everything, but I'm not like hairy up and down my back.

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My dad was.

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And it was gross.

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Because trying to rub that lotion into his back with all of his back hair.

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Imagine what it's like for a massage therapist.

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Oh, I don't want to.

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That's part of the reason why I couldn't do it.

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Um, and then I also remember obviously I was a lot smaller back then.

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Um, I used to have to stand on his back.

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Don't step on my spine.

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It's like, no shit, dad.

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Oh, to like try to pop it.

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Yeah, and to like crack it and all that and whatever.

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But thanks, Dad.

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I hate feet.

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Let's move on.

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Well, I mean, you can ask me how my week was.

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How was your week, Brandon?

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Oh, well, I asked you what you did for your birthday.

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How was your week?

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It was good.

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I've been training a new guy at work.

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I like him.

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His name's Brandon.

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Yeah.

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Uh he's doing really good.

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And uh I get to train him again next week.

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So yeah, it's been uh it's been good.

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Kind of a little easier work because I got two extra hands.

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Two extra hands to help out and do what I do.

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So no, it's been good.

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But yeah, I've been enjoying working with him.

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He's a nice guy, so yeah.

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Awesome.

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So yeah, not too bad.

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So so Dan Brown came out with a new book.

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Sure did.

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I do love Dan Brown.

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Dan Brown wrote the Da Vinci Code.

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Angels and Demons.

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Inferno.

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Inferno.

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What's the or origin?

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Origin.

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There's another one.

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Shoot.

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Yeah, which one is that?

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I'm trying to play.

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Oh my gosh.

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Uh The Lost Symbol.

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Yes, that's the one I was thinking of.

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Yes.

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I have read all of them.

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Um, and his new one that came out um last week was Secret of Secrets, I believe.

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Oh, that sounds right.

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Yeah.

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So um, there was actually a line in that book towards the beginning that made me want to research this story.

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Oh, interesting.

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And coincidentally, what Dan Brown wrote in the book is not entirely correct.

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Well, he is writing fiction based off of stuff.

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He so at the very, very beginning of his book, at least The Secret of Secrets, I'm not sure about the other ones because I don't recall, but he says the um the characters are fiction, but all the science that he talks about, all the artwork that he talks about, all the landmarks, those are all real.

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Okay.

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So I So you found something that's not real that he said was?

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Yes, potentially.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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But I'm gonna go into why perhaps he thought it was real.

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Oh, I gotcha.

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Yes.

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Um can I can I ask a quick question?

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Of course.

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Is this story depressing?

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Carry on.

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Maybe a little bit.

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Why?

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Because I thought it was interesting that Dan Brown pretend potentially got something wrong, okay?

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Or hear me out on this.

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You got it wrong?

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No.

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You don't think so?

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No.

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Why is that?

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Because I researched it.

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You're so confident, and you don't think he did his research?

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Come on.

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This uh award-winning uh author, I assume he won war awards because he's fucking great, but I I mean I love Dan Brown books.

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I do too.

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I love the movies based off his books.

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I I like a lot of his stuff, so yeah.

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I love the history and the yeah.

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Well, it's right up our alley because we he writes a lot about historical stuff and kind of combines it with, you know, obviously fiction or whatever.

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But anyways, carry on.

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Okay, so we are gonna talk about John of Nepalk.

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Come again.

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John of Nepamonk.

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John of Nepamonk?

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Or no not Nepa muck.

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Muck, not monk.

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I'm like John of Nepamuck.

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Is that where like Nepo babies come from?

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No.

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John of Nepamon.

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Monk.

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You keep saying monk.

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I know.

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Muck?

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Muck.

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Is it like M-U-C-K muck?

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Or is it like M-U-K.

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Just M-U-K, okay.

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Yeah.

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M Nepa muck.

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Nepa muck.

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So okay, John.

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Are you sure it's muck or is it muck?

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We're gonna call him John.

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All right, anyways.

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He was born We're gonna call him John.

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Jesus Christ.

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All right, anyways.

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He was born around 1345.

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Well, just a couple days ago.

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In a small town of Nepamuk in Bohemia.

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Do you know what Bohemia is today?

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It's a rhapsody.

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It's in the Czech Republic.

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It's the Czech Republic, uh, today's Czech Republic.

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Okay.

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So at one time it was named, it was called Bohemia.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And it was a part of the Holy Roman Empire.

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That's right.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Okay.

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So his father was a local wealthy citizen, and John received an excellent education for the time because of it.

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Do you know what his dad did?

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That he was a wealthy citizen?

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No.

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Okay.

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Not not relevant.

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Not relevant.

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He attended the University of Prague and later went on to study canon law.

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So, like church law?

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Yes.

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Good job.

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All right.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Um, so he had the the legal training and the um theological training.

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Sure.

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So John Rose threw like the church ranks then.

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And by 1378, he was serving as a public notary.

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1378.

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He was born in 1345.

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Yes.

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So he's 33 at this point.

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Um, he was the public notary in the archbishop.

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Bitch up.

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What's up, bitch up?

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That is fantastic.

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Bitch up.

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Sorry.

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Bishop.

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Uh the Archbishop of Prague's chaucery.

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Do you ever just like are watching people and I go, there goes that Archbishop?

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Bishop, no.

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He also earned a doctorate in 1387.

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Okay.

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Did they have doctorates back then?

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Apparently they did.

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That's crazy.

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I would have never guessed that.

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I didn't know they like would have called it that or something.

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Was it called that back then in that time?

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Yes, we're gonna say yes.

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We're gonna say yes.

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So a notary public back then was trained in canon law and civil law.

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Okay.

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They drafted authenticated, preserved important documents.

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Are these the people that kind of also like copied them kind of thing?

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Or no?

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Yeah, they can do that.

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Yeah, they they would like record um meetings and trials and disputes and they're gonna be like check the minutes of the meeting.

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Pretty much, yeah.

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They would be like what is that uh techie person that at the front of the court?

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A court reporter.

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That's right.

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Yeah, that's right, yeah.

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And they have those weird, they're like it's not a full keyboard.

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It's basically shorthand like a keyboard type thing.

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Yeah, right, right.

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Yeah.

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So um his hard work did pay off, and by 1390, he had become a canon of Prague's Cathedral Chapter.

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Okay, and shortly after he was appointed as Vicar General Deputy to Archbishop Jan of Jenstein.

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That's a mouthful.

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Jan of Jenstein.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So can So John was a Jan?

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No, John was the um the vicar general to Archbitch.

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Bitch.

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Wow, you keep saying that.

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You got it in my head now.

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Can we call the episode Arch Bitch Up?

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Yes.

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Arch maybe we won't because I don't want to put a swear in the title.

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I'm sure you'll fuck something else up for the title later.

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Sorry, continue.

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Thanks for the vote of confidence.

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Hey, it's only because I know you as well as I do.

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I am fogging up already.

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So glasses off.

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Excuse me.

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Okay, so essentially he helped govern um and advise the the bishop and ran the cathedral affairs.

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Okay.

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Gotcha.

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Uh, and John effectively um acted as like his right-hand man, okay.

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And it's never left-hand man because that's where the devil sits.

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That's right.

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Uh-huh.

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And we're talking about church folk.

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That's why I brought it up.

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So John's earlier years wasn't flashy.

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He was straight and narrow.

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He was a good guy.

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He's he was always a good guy.

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Like his whole full story, he's a good guy.

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Gotcha.

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Um, there was no like records of him, you know, doing anything nefarious.

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We don't like nefarious terse folk.

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I mean.

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Seems a little nefarious.

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Wow.

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You're welcome.

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Oh my word.

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So John lived in a weird time.

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Okay.

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So the kingdom of Bohemia was ruled by, and I know you're gonna break into song after this one potentially.

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He was ruled by King Wenceslas IV.

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Okay, when I said you sing, I meant me.

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Good King Wenceslas the dough.

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Something, something, something.

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It's a Christmas song.

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That's what um Sheldon sings in in uh uh Big Bang Theory.

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Okay.

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I'm almost positive that's the song he sings.

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Yeah.

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And that's the only reason why I fucking know that.

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I could be wrong, because you know, I'm me.

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But um, so this is King Wenceslas the fourth.

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He was kind of a prickly person.

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He was a prickly pear?

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He was a prickly pear.

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And good King Wenceslos in the in the Christmas carol, it is the he's it's Wenceslos the first, Saint King of Bohemia.

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Oh, okay.

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So then we're talking about the force.

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Yes.

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Gotcha.

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Okay.

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Um, so King Wenceslaus's um reign was between 1378 and 1419, and it coincided with the Great Western Schism.

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Did you know Schism.

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Schism is a really good uh uh song tool song?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Okay.

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Knew that was coming in.

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Well, I mean But the the Great Western Schism is a period when two or three popes claimed authority.

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Oh, really?

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I didn't know that all people were like forced to choose sides.

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Wenceslas the fourth threw his support behind Avignon pa the Avignon Papacy, which is a French-based uh Pope Clement the 5'7.

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5'7 Pope Clement the 5'7.

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Um, he was considered like the anti-pop.

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Did you have a problem with Roman numerals?

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No, I do great with Roman numerals.

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15.

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I don't know if they showed up in the camera, but um, so Archbishop Jan of Genstein remained loyal to the Roman Pope Boniface the Ninth.

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There were nine fucking Boniface?

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That's amazing.

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That's what you're gonna get out of that.

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That's what I took home from that.

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So Bohemia's king and Bohemia's archbishop were backing different popes.

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Oh, yeah, that that seems to be a problem, yeah.

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Yes, okay.

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The kings often fought over the church who controlled wealth and appointments.

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Sure.

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So if a king could hand picked handpick abbots or bishops, he would gain like political allies and steady some more like income um and leverage more against the Pope.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Interesting.

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So King Wences lost the fourth, the prickly pair.

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Um, he wasn't super subtle.

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No.

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He had a habit of irritating the clergy by trying to muscle in appointments.

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He was like, you know, sh I'm gonna get in.

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Strong arming him.

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Yeah, that's one.

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Yeah.

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So at one point we've got this abbey.

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The abbey is called Clad Rubby.

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Rub Rub Rubby.

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Abbey Rubby?

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Clad Rubby.

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Clad Rubby.

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Clad Rubby.

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Clad Rubby.

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Yes, the Abbey of Club Rubby.

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Cladrubby.

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Words are hard.

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Especially words are tough.

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So this abbey was very wealthy.

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Okay.

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Okay, it was probably one of the richest abbeys in Bohemia.

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Wow.

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It owned vast lands, villages, and income from agriculture, mills, tithings.

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And the abbots had both spiritual and economic clout.

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Okay.

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Wenceslas wanted to turn it into a new diocese, a new home base.

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Gotcha.

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And um that would give him position to elect his favorites.

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Pope.

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Um, bishops.

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Oh, bishops.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay.

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So this way the crown could absorb the abbey's income and keep church power under royal control.

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Which I'm sure he was all about because abbeys, especially in the 1300s, early 1400s, they probably brought in a lot of money because, well, everyone went to church and tidings for them, and you give your money to us, God will like you.

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It's like, well, that's a scam.

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So Archbishop Gensteen and Vicar General John of Nepamuck.

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Every time you say Vicar, I just think of the X-Men movie.

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It's like Mauti, Vicar.

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Anyways.

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Maybe that's where they got it from.

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Maybe.

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In the future.

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So days of futures past.

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No, I wasn't from that one.

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The Archbishop and John of Nepamuck were opposed to the king like doing this.

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Yeah, gaining access to the abbey.

00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:35.200
He didn't want to have they didn't want to give him that power per se.

00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:40.640
It also violated canon law and threatened the church's autonomy.

00:22:41.440 --> 00:23:01.039
So abbeys had the right to choose their own abbots, and once elected, the abbot had to be confirmed by proper ecclesiastical authority, which here it would be the Archbishop of Prague, with John acting as the vicar general, who would do the paperwork, kind of a thing, as the notary.

00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:01.839
Gotcha.

00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:11.519
So the king could protect monasteries, but they could not hijack them or dictate um internal elections.

00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:15.839
So they just they had them, but they had no say within the city.

00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:16.640
Yes, yes.

00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:21.519
So only the Pope could create a new diocese.

00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:29.119
And a king had no legal authority to declare, you're gonna be the new bishop, so take a seat.

00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.599
Take your bitch up seat and shut up.

00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:35.920
So sorry, I had to adjust.

00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:37.200
Wenceslos.

00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.960
Yes, he tried to block the monks from electing a new abbot.

00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:42.160
What a name, by the way.

00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:43.359
Wenceslos.

00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:44.960
Anyways, sorry.

00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:51.359
He planned to convert the abbey into an a diocese for his as his ally.

00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:51.920
All right.

00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:55.599
And he wanted to siphon their their revenue, essentially.

00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:58.160
So he broke canon law in two different ways.

00:23:58.319 --> 00:23:58.880
Oh boy.

00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:02.000
Interference in free election of abbots.

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:02.559
Okay.

00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:03.039
Okay.

00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.599
And creating a diocese without papal approval.

00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:09.680
It's an illegal diocese.

00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:10.559
Yes.

00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:13.200
So in maybe that's our title.

00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:23.759
So in 1393, um, incumbent abbot at Cladraby, he died.

00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:24.559
Oh shit.

00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:30.400
And Wenceslas immediately ordered that the that no new abbot be elected.

00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:30.799
Okay.

00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:35.200
Intending to seize the abbey's revenue for the crown.

00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:36.400
Oh boy.

00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:48.480
So the monks of the abbey, supported by Archbishop Jens Jenstein's administration, proceeded to elect a new abbot as normal.

00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:49.279
Sure.

00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:58.880
And John of Nepamuk, in his capacity as Vicar General, officially confirmed this election without consulting the king, because he didn't need to.

00:24:59.119 --> 00:24:59.680
Right.

00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:08.079
In modern terms, John basically stamped a seal of approval on a decision that Wenceslos wanted to veto.

00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:09.039
Sure.

00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:10.720
Yeah, makes sense.

00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:18.640
So this act set John on a collision course with prickly pear.

00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:19.519
Oh boy.

00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:20.079
Okay.

00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:31.839
So when King Wenceslas IV learned that John Nepamuk had um outmaneuvered him by confirming a new abbot, the king flew into a prickly rage.

00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:33.680
Yes.

00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:35.039
Okay.

00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.200
Have you ever had prickly pear?

00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:38.559
I don't know if I have.

00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:40.160
In a drink, it's delicious.

00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:40.960
Is it really?

00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.160
Like a regular drink, cocktail drink?

00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:44.720
How did you have it?

00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:45.680
Yeah, a cocktail.

00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:46.960
I've had it as a cocktail.

00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:50.640
I I don't think I ever have, but I I don't recall.

00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:52.000
So it's derishish.

00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:55.279
What's the difference between a prickly pear and a regular pear?

00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:56.799
The pricklies.

00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.039
So tell me more about Wenceslos.

00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:05.440
He was not exactly known for his emotional restraint.

00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:07.759
Um he what flew off the handle?

00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:09.039
He flew off the handle.

00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:09.519
Okay.

00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:16.559
Um, people described him as cruel and a corrupt tyrant, and he lived up to this episode, okay?

00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:17.279
Oh dear.

00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:18.559
Lived up to the reputation.

00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:19.039
Yeah.

00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:31.759
Um, in early March of 1393, Wenceslaw summoned Archbishop Genstein and two four of his officials, including John, okay, to Prague Castle under false pretenses.

00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.519
Does Prague Castle still stand?

00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:34.160
I don't know.

00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:35.119
I did not look that up.

00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:37.680
I heard Prague is uh wonderful to visit.

00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:38.960
I heard that that as well.

00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:54.720
I I worked with a guy who uh went there uh because we used to sell a beer from Prague, and um he would go there and like apparently the chicks were just like enamored, like you have more than one car, and they say, Yeah, I got a motorcycle, and it they just thought it was insane.

00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:57.519
But I heard it's very beautiful, yeah.

00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.160
Honestly.

00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:59.839
So old.

00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:01.759
Yeah, I mean it's your Europe.

00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:03.440
Old Europe.

00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:10.079
So um this was a trap that they were led under pro false pre pretenses.

00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:10.960
It's a trap.

00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.880
So the moment they arrived, the king had them arrested and thrown into prison.

00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:16.559
What were the charges?

00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:17.519
I will tell you.

00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:22.240
Okay, so Genstein actually did not go.

00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:23.359
John?

00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.400
He no, the archbishop, Jan of Gensin.

00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:27.519
Prickly pear.

00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:27.920
No.

00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:28.480
Fuck.

00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:29.440
What's his name then?

00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:31.680
Wensis lost his prickly pear.

00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:32.079
Yes.

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.559
John and Nepamuk is what our story's about.

00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:35.839
But the archbishop.

00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:36.480
Oh, okay.

00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:37.200
That's okay.

00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:37.920
I'm mixing them up.

00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:38.640
Yeah, that's okay.

00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:39.359
There's a lot of people.

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:40.160
Yeah, there is.

00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:44.319
Um, so Jenstein, the archbishop, he kind of knew that something was gonna happen.

00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:45.119
So he didn't go.

00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.160
So he was almost not tipped off, but he's like, Yeah, yeah.

00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:49.759
I don't think I'm gonna do this.

00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:50.960
Okay, gotcha.

00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:56.240
So um so but John Napomuk, he wasn't so lucky.

00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.000
He was arrested and they landed in the royal prison.

00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:00.559
Okay.

00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:08.240
So Wenceslas personally oversaw the interrogations and torture of John and his colleagues.

00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:09.839
You gotta torture him?

00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:11.039
Come on, man.

00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:15.039
The king was determined to break the man who had defied him.

00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.359
So what was he trying to break him of?

00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:20.480
Like just get information or just literally torture this person?

00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:22.079
I think pretty much just torture himself.

00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:24.319
Because at that point, it's like, what are you actually doing?

00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:27.759
What are you getting from this other than just torturing this person?

00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:34.160
So, what we're talking about right now is what has gone down in the history books.

00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:35.279
Okay, gotcha.

00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:48.799
There is a section of this story that has proven to be a little bit more glamorized and wrong, and that's what ended up in Dan Brown's book.

00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:49.200
Oh.

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:50.960
So I will tell you about that.

00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:53.200
Do you think that was intentional?

00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:56.079
In Dan's Dan Brown's book?

00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:56.559
Yeah.

00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:57.839
I don't think so.

00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:17.200
I don't think it was intentional because the rumor that has started from this story um became really like popularized and romanticized, and it's kind of like a game of telephone where one lore started this way and then it developed into something different, and that's the different lore, is is what was put in the book.

00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:18.079
All right, let's hear it.

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:18.720
Yeah, okay.

00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:21.519
So medieval torture.

00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:25.599
Um he was subject, John was subjected to the rack.

00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.599
Ooh, that could be dead, that could be very painful.

00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:34.799
Um, at one point, King Wenceslos took a torch and burned John's side.

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:35.920
Sides.

00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.759
I was just I thought you were gonna say something else, and I'm glad you went with sides.

00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:40.319
Yeah.

00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:47.200
Um, and despite the excruciating pain, John So Wenceslaus actually did the like torture.

00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:49.839
Wow, that's actually kind of surprising.

00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:55.440
Normally you have your goons do that shit for you, but apparently he was so vengeful, he's like, ah, fuck you.

00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:56.960
Yeah, jab jab.

00:29:57.119 --> 00:29:59.119
So John refused to give in, though.

00:29:59.200 --> 00:29:59.839
Um, good.

00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:06.720
For him, Royal Advisors eventually like talked Wenceslos out of executing all the pr prisoners.

00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:07.279
Wow.

00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:10.480
As like he he didn't need any more political fallout.

00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:12.960
No, because he would have.

00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:18.160
I'm sorry, I just looked at the door and Oliver's paws are under the door.

00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:18.960
Sorry.

00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:26.160
Uh no, I can't imagine that would go over well for him if he had some more political, whatever, fallout kind of shit.

00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.079
Because people are already probably like, what the fuck?

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:31.680
I mean, am I wrong?

00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:32.240
No.

00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.440
What were you just trying to do?

00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:38.319
I was gonna get my phone and take it take a video so we can insert it because it's fucking cute.

00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:39.680
It's super cute.

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.279
Can you reach it or no?

00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:42.960
Hold please.

00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:57.279
You'll have to send me this and I'll I'll insert it into the Oliver, what you doing?

00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:59.119
I want food.

00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:08.240
Oh Oliver, you're so cute.

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:08.880
Okay.

00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:09.759
Sorry.

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:11.279
Anyways, continue.

00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.000
Sorry, we got derailed by a kitty cat there.

00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:23.279
Okay, so the prisoners were gonna be released if they like admitted to like doing no further political fallout type of stuff.

00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:26.799
So that was kind of like it was like a medieval NDA.

00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:27.119
Yeah.

00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:28.720
Like we're not gonna NDA.

00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.720
You you can um we'll release you, but you can't talk about this.

00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:33.359
I don't know.

00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.640
Medieval NDAs because kind of sounds like a good title.

00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:39.680
Of course, John was like, oh no.

00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:51.839
Well, so and that's funny because like back then, especially back then, they would they would strong arm people into confessions and what the this kind of shit.

00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.400
But it's nice that some people said, no, dude, that that fucking ain't right.

00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:04.400
Yeah, and you know, I didn't do that, or I'm not gonna do that, or whatever the scenario is, obviously a little bit different on this one, but good for him.

00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:06.400
Yeah, because fuck that.

00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:13.839
So John would not legitimize the king's actions by remaining quiet, right?

00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:25.519
And that sealed his fate because on March 20th, 1393, okay, the king decided to finish what he couldn't end with the torture.

00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:26.000
Okay.

00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:35.440
John was bound hand in foot, he was gagged with a piece of wood jammed into his mouth, and he was dragged through the streets of Prague as an example.

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:36.240
Oh boy.

00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:46.799
At the Charles Bridge, Prague's stone bridge, over the Voltava, Voltava um river.

00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:47.200
Okay.

00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:57.440
King Wenceslos's hush hunchman tied John's limbs together and in the dark threw him off the bridge into the river below.

00:32:57.759 --> 00:32:58.319
Sure.

00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:00.559
So did he did he drown?

00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:01.759
He did drown.

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.240
That's what the cause of death would be basically.

00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.079
So John Nepamuk died of drowning.

00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:08.880
Gotcha.

00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:19.839
So the legend that has come out of this says that John of Nepamuk was the Queen's personal confessor.

00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:20.480
Oh.

00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:29.599
And that Wenceslos was paranoid and jealous and demanded John divulge the Queen's secrets in confessional.

00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:30.480
Really?

00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:37.359
And especially he one of his main questions was Is the Queen having an affair?

00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:38.079
Oh.

00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:40.720
So something completely different.

00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:42.480
Has nothing to do with anything.

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:43.039
Nothing.

00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:44.480
And that is the lore.

00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:48.400
Is really John remained quiet about the Queen's Confession.

00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:50.319
That's kind of shitty.

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:51.279
I know.

00:33:51.680 --> 00:34:00.559
So during John's lifetime and the immediate aftermath of 1393, nobody mentioned the Queen's Confession at all.

00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:01.440
Sure.

00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:09.360
So even the Archbishop his report to the Pope after John died.

00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:10.000
Yeah.

00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:14.000
Um, did not talk about the marriage, the queen.

00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:19.599
It was all about portraying John as a martyr for the church.

00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.719
Jesus Christ.

00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:21.039
Okay.

00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:21.679
Okay.

00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.679
The queen at the time is Sophia of Bavaria.

00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:27.519
Sophia of Bavaria.

00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.800
She is Wenceslaus's second wife.

00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:32.639
She's about 20 years old at this time.

00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:34.000
What happened to the first wife?

00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:35.039
I didn't look into it.

00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:35.760
Why?

00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:38.559
You knew I was gonna ask that question.

00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:39.440
Did I though?

00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:40.800
I can't really read your mind.

00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:43.760
So no, you can't anticipate any questions I ask.

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.559
You're not wrong.

00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:50.880
Well, Wenceslaus was hot-headed, and he could have probably been the jealous type.

00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:52.000
Sounds that way.

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:53.039
Holy fuck.

00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:59.119
There is no evidence in 1393 that he interrogated John about Queen Sophia.

00:34:59.360 --> 00:34:59.679
Okay.

00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:04.480
The Queen's confession story didn't surface until decades later.

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:05.440
Oh, really?

00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:06.559
How so?

00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:15.199
It first appeared in for in the 1450s by a chronicle chronicler named Thomas Ebendorfer.

00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:16.639
Ebendorfer.

00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:25.599
He wrote in 1459 that Wenceslos had John drowned for refusing to violate the secrecy of the Queen's Confession.

00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:28.800
Like, I don't know if he just pulled that story out of thin air.

00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:30.719
So this happened in 59.

00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:33.679
John was killed in 1393.

00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:34.559
Mm-hmm.

00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:41.360
Wenceslos and probably, I mean, maybe the the Queen was still alive, but they had to be dead by then, right?

00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:44.079
His reign wasn't until 1419.

00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:45.039
Is that what I said?

00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:46.000
That sounds right.

00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:47.599
And this is 1459.

00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:49.519
This is the 1450s, yeah.

00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.800
So I mean, he was dead probably for a while after this.

00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:53.599
Decades.

00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:54.000
Okay.

00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:54.400
Yeah.

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:55.280
Wow.

00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:12.079
And yeah, and then and then in 1471, another writer embellished even further saying that Wenceslaus suspected his wife of being unfaithful and demanded that Magister John reveal the name of her lover.

00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:13.840
John kept quiet.

00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:16.880
Furious king ordered him to drown.

00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:23.440
So this all happened well after the fact after the actual events happened.

00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:29.280
It was romanticized into a love story well after the facts.

00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:29.679
Yes.

00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:30.480
Is what it is.

00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:30.960
Okay.

00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:33.199
So love story isn't the right word.

00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:34.320
You know what I mean, though.

00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:43.440
So John and Neppamuk's execution was intended to be like a swift and silent affair, an out of sight, out of mind kind of a thing.

00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:50.400
Um after John was tossed from the Charles Bridge that night, his body washed down the Voltava.

00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:51.760
Voltava.

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:52.639
Is that the river?

00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:53.519
Okay.

00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:58.719
Three days later, John's body was found downstream and recovered by locals.

00:36:58.960 --> 00:36:59.920
Oh dear.

00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.920
Here, maybe another embellishment.

00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:07.760
Um, but you take it as you will.

00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:08.320
Sure.

00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:16.320
Um, some fishermen or some river folk or whoever saw a strange sign on the river.

00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:21.840
They saw five bright stars dancing and hovering above the water.

00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:23.679
I think that's called reflection.

00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:24.639
We don't know.

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:30.079
I mean, but it marked the spot where John supposedly was found.

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:30.800
Sure.

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:33.280
So they fished his body out.

00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:40.000
Um, and now the five stars have become part of John's symbol from there on out.

00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:41.039
Oh, okay.

00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:42.800
I mean, I guess it makes sense.

00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:48.800
In art, John is always depicted with five stars as like a halo around him.

00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:51.760
Oh, so his halo is even like five stars?

00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:52.800
Interesting.

00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:53.280
Okay.

00:37:53.599 --> 00:38:01.119
So while Wenceslos was away at one point, John's remains were carried into Prague's St.

00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:08.480
Vitus Cat Cathedral, which is the very heart of the kingdom's like religious life, and he was interred there with honor.

00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:09.199
Oh, wow.

00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:09.440
Okay.

00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:11.039
Kind of a slap in the king's face.

00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:11.599
Yeah.

00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.559
Well, he was gone.

00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:13.119
He was gone.

00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:17.280
Dude, we gotta get this shit done now before he gets back from his whatever.

00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:18.000
Whatever.

00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:18.400
Yeah.

00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:24.159
So normally criminal clergy executed by the state would not be laid to rest on such hollowed ground.

00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:24.800
Correct.

00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:25.039
Yeah.

00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:31.280
But Archbishop Genstein's supporters clearly viewed John as more of a martyr than a criminal.

00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:31.760
Right.

00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:34.239
No, that's understandable how he would have viewed it, but yeah.

00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:34.400
Okay.

00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:39.920
With within weeks of his death, John was being hailed as a martyr by the church.

00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:42.159
Did they did they saint him?

00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:42.960
They did.

00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:43.840
Did they really?

00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:44.480
They did.

00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:45.760
Let me go.

00:38:46.239 --> 00:39:01.679
Archbishop Genstein um presented Pope Boniface IX with an official report of Wenceslaus's crimes against the church, highlighting John's sacrifice and describing him as a glorious martyr of Christ, sparkling with miracles.

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:02.480
That's crazy.

00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:06.639
Wenceslos IV suffered some fallout.

00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:08.320
You don't say.

00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:10.960
His reputation was tarnished by the incident.

00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:15.519
News of the murder of the holy man spread um far and wide.

00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:15.840
Okay.

00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:24.079
And Wenceslaus was summoned before the Imperial Diet, which is the kind of the general assembly of the Holy Roman Empire.

00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:24.480
Okay.

00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:30.159
And in 1400, John Napamuk's killing was listed among the charges of misrule against him.

00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:30.960
Wow.

00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:31.519
Okay.

00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:39.039
So in the years immediately following 1393, everyone knew why John had been executed.

00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:40.159
It was not a mystery.

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:41.199
Wasn't a secret.

00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:41.760
No.

00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:52.480
Um, they wrote a power struggle between King Wenceslas IV and the church, highlighting John as uh defending ecclesiastical rights.

00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:53.039
Okay.

00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:53.599
Okay.

00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:58.000
However, as decades passed, the tale began changing.

00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:04.639
It began, like you said, telephone game began to flourish with different fluff parts of it, if you will.

00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:08.320
So and then by the mid-15th century, 1450.

00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:16.960
Yeah, 50, 60 years later later, John's story was reinvented into the story of the Queen's Confession.

00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:18.000
So strange.

00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:18.480
Oh.

00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:19.760
So strange.

00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:22.480
In 1721.

00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.639
Many years later.

00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:25.119
Yeah.

00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:27.440
Pope Innocent the Thirteenth.

00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:29.119
Was he really innocent though?

00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:30.000
Anyways.

00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:33.519
He beatified John of Nebamuk.

00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:35.920
What does beatifying mean?

00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:39.440
I will absolutely say, I will absolutely tell you because I also didn't know when that was.

00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:40.559
Oh, I have no idea.

00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:51.199
Um, and then so Pope Pope Innocent the Thirteenth beatified John, and Pope Benedict the Thirteenth canonized him as a saint in 1729.

00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:53.760
And canonizing is becoming a saint.

00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:54.239
Yes.

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.719
So beatification is step one.

00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:00.079
Oh, so you have to have that before you're canonized.

00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:01.199
I did not know that.

00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:01.519
Okay.

00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:08.639
The church recognizes someone as blessed after proving they lived a holy life and confirming a miracle.

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:09.280
Gotcha.

00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:12.800
They can be honored, but usually only in certain regions.

00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:13.280
Okay.

00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:15.920
Canonization is step two.

00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:21.440
The Pope officially declares them a saint after a second miracle is confirmed.

00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:25.519
This means they're believed to be in heaven and can be venerated elsewhere.

00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:27.440
So what are the two miracles?

00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:29.599
I didn't look at them.

00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:36.800
Hold, please.

00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:39.199
What is fucking wrong with you?

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:43.840
You couldn't have guessed me asking that question.

00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:48.000
I hear vigorous typing.

00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:49.760
I don't even know if she's actually typing.

00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:51.840
I think she's just hitting fucking keys.

00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:53.679
Oh, I actually wrote this one down.

00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:55.679
I didn't know it was considered a miracle.

00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:57.679
Okay, I actually wrote this one down.

00:41:58.159 --> 00:41:59.039
She's lying.

00:41:59.360 --> 00:41:59.679
Okay.

00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:16.800
So um John of Nebamuk's rise from local martyr to international saint was not just a spontaneous devotion.

00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:24.000
Um, it also propelled was propelled by political and religious forces of the counter-repriformation.

00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:24.559
Okay.

00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:38.480
So after 1620, Bohemia, which was a little bit Protestant, um, was forcibly brought back under Catholicism dominion by the Habsburgs.

00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:39.039
Okay.

00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:39.599
Okay.

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:47.920
So the Catholic Church, um, led by Jesuit missionaries, sought to re-catholicize.

00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:49.519
Is that is that really a word?

00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:50.639
It sure is.

00:42:50.960 --> 00:43:01.280
Um, and what better way to win the hearts and minds than promoting John of Napamon's Catholic Europe?

00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:01.920
Okay.

00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:02.559
Okay.

00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:07.599
Jesuit missionaries and Catholic officials promoted his veneration.

00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:10.239
Churches were dedicated to him.

00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:16.400
He had a feast day, which is May 16th, which celebrated um his fanfare.

00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:18.480
Is that still something they do today?

00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:18.880
Yeah.

00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:20.400
May 16th is still a thing.

00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:21.119
Oh wow.

00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:21.840
I didn't know that.

00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:29.679
Um, statues of John Neva Monk began to pop up on bridges, riverbanks, city squares all over Europe.

00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:30.320
Huh.

00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:37.119
In 1683, on the supposed 300th anniversary of his death.

00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:38.559
1693?

00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:39.920
1683.

00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:42.400
But that's how he died on 1393.

00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:43.119
Yeah.

00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:44.000
Was I wrong?

00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.159
I might have written that wrong down wrong.

00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:46.880
I'm sorry.

00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:47.920
I've Oh, that's okay.

00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:48.639
It's whatever.

00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:52.639
I mean, it's within 10 years, whatever.

00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:55.280
I I get a little bit of leeway.

00:43:55.760 --> 00:44:00.719
Um, a grand statue of John was erected on the Charles Bridge in Prague.

00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:03.760
That is that the bridge that he was tossed off of?

00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:04.159
Yes.

00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:04.559
Okay.

00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:11.039
And that is the moment in that is the spot that Dan Brown mentions in his book.

00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:19.360
He was on the his his lead character, um, Robert Langdon was on the Charles Bridge where John of Neppamunk was tossed in.

00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:21.280
And that's what I was like, what is that about?

00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:22.079
Interesting.

00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:22.480
Okay.

00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:23.039
Yes.

00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:23.920
Gotcha.

00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:32.639
So to this day, Jeff of John of Nepamunk is probably the most statued Czech person in history.

00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:33.519
Really?

00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:38.480
There are an estimated tens of thousands of Nepamuk statues worldwide.

00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:39.599
That's fucking wild.

00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:42.639
And around 6,000 in the Czech lands alone.

00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:47.760
Well, yeah, I mean, it would make sense why there's more there than anywhere else, but holy shit, really?

00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:49.039
That's impressive.

00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:56.800
So these statues often stand on bridges because John is revered as the patron saint of bridges, boatment, and protection of drowning.

00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.440
Because he was thrown off a bridge and he drowned.

00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:00.960
So no, okay, that makes sense.

00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:02.400
Wow, I did not know that.

00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:05.920
So in 1719, John's tomb at St.

00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.400
Vitus Cathedral was opened.

00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:09.199
Why?

00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:12.800
They wanted to gather evidence for canonization.

00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:14.400
Err.

00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:16.559
First miracle.

00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:20.719
His tongue was miraculously intact.

00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:24.400
It was not almost 300 years later?

00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.280
200.

00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:28.000
I'm sorry you said 1790.

00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:28.639
19.

00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:31.679
And he died in 1393.

00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:36.719
That's 300 and fucking three centuries.

00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.280
We're just gonna say there's three centuries in the grave.

00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:41.920
26 years difference.

00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:44.559
Wow, how is his tongue still intact?

00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:46.320
So they consider that a miracle?

00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:47.679
They consider that a miracle.

00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:50.480
God, people in the 1700s were fucking simple.

00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:59.760
They hailed it as a supernatural sign, given that his tongue never betrayed the confessional secret of the queen.

00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:03.679
So he didn't have a silver tongue, he had just a righteous tongue.

00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:13.679
Now, modern analysis suggests the tongue was actually a piece of well-preserved brain tissue.

00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:15.280
How so?

00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:18.159
Well, they they did test on it.

00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.159
Why would they put his brain tissue on his tongue?

00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:23.440
It fell?

00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:24.639
Yeah, yeah.

00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:31.039
As you're decomposing, the muscles deteriorate and I'm sorry, I've never decomposed before.

00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:31.760
I know.

00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:34.719
Well, I don't know either, but apparently you do.

00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:36.800
That seems weird though.

00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:39.360
It just fell into his mouth.

00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:41.679
I don't know.

00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:48.480
I mean, basically all of your visceral being is being melted, essentially.

00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:49.920
So yeah, I mean.

00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:51.599
I'm melted every day.

00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:54.239
You are fucking guitar licks and shit.

00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:56.320
Melt my face, bitch.

00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:57.760
So bitch up.

00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:07.199
After his beatification in 1721, there were reports of miraculous healings attributed to prayers through John's intercession.

00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:08.320
Jesus Christ.

00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:10.880
So that was his like second miracle or whatever.

00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:11.519
It wasn't his.

00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:12.719
We don't know that.

00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:13.679
No, we do.

00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:15.679
Anyways.

00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:24.800
So by the mid-18th century, Saint John of Nepamuk was firmly entrenched as a major Catholic saint.

00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:31.039
The Jesuits adopted him as one of their patron saints in 1732.

00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:34.400
What are Jesuits to Catholics?

00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:37.039
Let's find out, shall we?

00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.639
I I never knew what exactly Jesuits were.

00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:44.559
Because and I always do you want to know the reason why I know them?

00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:46.159
Man in the Iron Mask.

00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:48.480
I don't know Jesuits beyond that.

00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:48.960
Okay.

00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:53.519
Because uh Jeremy Iron's character was the main Jesuit priest or whatever.

00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:54.000
Okay.

00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.079
So how is it related to Catholics?

00:47:56.320 --> 00:48:01.039
So members, so Catholics member are members of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church under the Pope.

00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:01.920
Yes.

00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:06.559
Jesuits are a specific Catholic religious order.

00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:08.079
So they are Catholic.

00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:09.440
They are Catholic.

00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:11.760
They're within the Catholic Church.

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:12.079
Yeah.

00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:18.880
Not separated from it, but it's like um they're part of a team inside the Catholic Church.

00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:23.360
So they're just a little separate entity within the Catholic Church.

00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:23.840
Right.

00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:28.159
That so do they have different beliefs than I don't think so.

00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:28.719
Okay.

00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:29.360
Interesting.

00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:30.480
I just I never knew.

00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:33.039
I I've always heard the word Jesuit, and again, the movie.

00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:39.199
They do more missionary work and training over Catholics.

00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:46.480
So the consensus of modern historians is that John of Nempambuck was the vicar general executed in 1393.

00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:46.639
Okay.

00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:54.079
And that the Queen's Confession motive is a later, uh later a romanticized uh fabrication.

00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:54.960
Right.

00:48:56.159 --> 00:48:57.119
There you go.

00:48:57.360 --> 00:48:57.679
Okay.

00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:06.320
So the Catholic Church itself has revised John of Nempambuck's official story in light of historical understanding.

00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:07.280
Excuse me.

00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:13.519
The narrative did did present him as the priest who died protecting the confessional seal.

00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:14.079
Okay.

00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:20.000
But in 1961, the church quietly corrected this.

00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.320
Not until 1961.

00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:23.199
That's crazy.

00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:27.039
So I mean that's literally almost 600 years later.

00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:27.679
Yes.

00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:41.440
The updated entry for John's feast day, which was May 16th, describes him more generally as a priest who defending the church received many punishments from King Wenceslas and was finally thrown into the river.

00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:42.159
Wow.

00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:43.039
That's crazy.

00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:53.280
So that is the story of John Nebomak, his history, and the legend that came from him, and the correlation with Dan Brown's book, Secret of Secrets.

00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:55.679
Yeah, I've been I've been slacking.

00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:58.639
I've been training somebody, so I've been meaning to start the book.

00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.960
Because you and I like to read books or well, listen to books at from at the same time.

00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:06.239
So we can kind of discuss them.

00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:09.920
And I I've been meaning to, I it came out what earlier this month, right?

00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:12.000
The ninth, September 9th.

00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:15.199
And this reference is within like the first couple chapters.

00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:16.079
That's great.

00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:16.480
Yeah.

00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:18.400
I have not had a chance to start it yet.

00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:26.480
And I I feel bad because I know you have, you're pretty far in, but um I really want to start it because I love Dan Brown books, they're great.

00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:28.239
So I'm I'm really excited to start it.

00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:34.960
I just haven't had an opportunity to, but well, he portrayed this little story as something that immediately caught my attention.

00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:36.239
So I wanted to look into it.

00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:36.960
Yeah, for sure.

00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:42.960
Yeah, and I was like, oh, this is actually the lore that he's talking about, not the actual like historical facts or whatever.

00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:44.159
Yeah, interesting.

00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:44.800
Yeah.

00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:47.440
Um, yeah, I'll I'll get there.

00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:48.719
I'll I'll get there hopefully soon.

00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:49.519
No worries.

00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.239
Um I I have a question for you though.

00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:52.960
Yeah.

00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:56.159
I am in need of an idiom.

00:50:56.239 --> 00:50:57.440
We haven't done one in a while.

00:50:57.679 --> 00:50:58.239
We really have.

00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:00.639
And I I really want an idiom this time.

00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:01.199
All right.

00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:04.800
Let me uh move some shit so I can get my computer.

00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:09.760
Don't recatch me, copper.

00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.679
All right, so uh this this idiom is from you.

00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:16.400
Oh.

00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:18.480
Let's see if I remember.

00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:19.679
You won't.

00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:20.159
I know.

00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:21.119
You're Kate.

00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:27.679
Alright, so um we're you and I are Bruce fans.

00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:28.320
Yes.

00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:29.760
We're getting to the end of the season.

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:31.920
Oh my gosh, we only have one more wind to go.

00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:33.599
With two games left, right?

00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:42.880
When this airs, I believe is the first day of the the playoffs, which is we come out on Tuesdays.

00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:46.800
So we're we're currently recording this on Saturday.

00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:48.639
Um the Saturday before.

00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:49.920
The 27th.

00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:52.880
So the Brewers have two games left.

00:51:53.280 --> 00:52:03.119
They need they need to win one of these two, or we need Philadelphia to just lose once of their last two games.

00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:04.320
No pressure.

00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:09.360
And what that means is they get the top um spot through the playoffs.

00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:13.440
That doesn't mean you go to the World Series, you still gotta win in the playoffs.

00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:13.679
Yeah.

00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:15.599
You just get home field advantage.

00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:17.760
Okay, let's move on.

00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:21.760
That was not good for stuff and things.

00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:23.360
I'll fix it later.

00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:25.199
Yeah, just not ejected properly.

00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:26.480
Thanks, computer.

00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:27.920
Fuck.

00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:29.360
Anyways, all right.

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:36.000
So with that being said, it's a little more of a of a modern uh idiom.

00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.000
Is it hit the ball out of the park?

00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:40.719
The idiom is hit it out of the park.

00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.519
So what does that come from?

00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:44.400
Baseball.

00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:45.440
Exactly.

00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:53.519
So in a literal, oh in a literal sense, it's literally talking when a batter literally hits a home run.

00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:54.000
Yeah.

00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:55.199
Out of the park.

00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:59.760
Um because they consider the park the field, obviously.

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:05.199
Uh so it's a home run, and it's one of everybody loves home runs.

00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:06.639
There's this guy, what's his name?

00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:09.199
Cal Cal Raleigh, if I'm not mistaken.

00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:14.400
I believe he plays for the Mariners, just hit his 60th fucking home run for the year.

00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:15.599
For the year?

00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:16.400
For the year.

00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:19.679
Yeah, he's fucking killing it.

00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:23.519
We haven't had a player like that on the like Christian Yelts is great.

00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:25.280
He's, I think, still at 29.

00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:27.119
Yeah, Christian Yelich is great.

00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:28.559
I love Christian Yellich.

00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:36.000
We just we don't have, we've never had that like powerhouse except for Prince Fielder.

00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:42.320
He was the only one, and I want to say he hit 50 something one year, if I'm not mistaken.

00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:43.039
I could be wrong.

00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:43.440
Wow.

00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:48.079
I don't think he ever hit 60, but I want to say he hit 50 home runs in a year.

00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:52.000
But this Cal I want to say his name's Cal Raleigh, if I'm not mistaken.

00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:53.679
Fucking 60 home runs a year.

00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:55.280
That's that's insane.

00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:56.400
Anyways, all right.

00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:03.199
So in the literal sense, it's it's you know, it's talking about when a batter hits hits it out of the park, right?

00:54:03.519 --> 00:54:04.639
Flies over the wall.

00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:08.960
It's a home run, and it really is an exciting play.

00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:13.119
You love seeing fucking balls being launched over the wall.

00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:30.159
So back in the late 1800s when baseball was really kind of gaining its popularity, because it was it was around for a bit, um, they were already describing big hit big hits being knocked out of the lot because ballparks weren't a thing yet.

00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:30.960
Sand lot.

00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:32.079
Pretty much.

00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:41.119
Um, but eventually, but eventually, of course, it was um morphed into hit it out of the park kind of thing.

00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:49.760
So in the mid-1900s, it is um it had escaped baseball entirely and slipped into every language, everyday language, excuse me.

00:54:49.920 --> 00:55:01.280
Um so now if you even if you're not holding a bat, if you do something amazingly well, whether it's crushing a presentation at work, snailing a recipe, or I don't know, telling your partner the perfect dad joke.

00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:02.559
I do that a lot.

00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:04.480
Uh people say you hit it out of the park.

00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:08.800
So it's basically the verbal version of saying total success.

00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:11.199
You you fucking crushed this kind of thing.

00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:18.880
So um it's very much an American saying because you know, we created baseball kind of thing.

00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:26.800
So if you go to a country where baseball, you know, like there's there's um uh Japan leagues, Korean leagues, a lot of stuff.

00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:35.119
But if you went to some random country that didn't have the a baseball system, if you will, instead that to be like what?

00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:42.320
But you know, it's very it's very American, is what I'm saying.

00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:43.760
So hit it out of the park.

00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:47.599
So with that being said, we're gonna do a quick game.

00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:48.480
Oh, okay.

00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:48.960
Okay.

00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:49.519
Yeah.

00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:54.800
And you have to tell me if it came from baseball or if it didn't.

00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:55.760
Oh, okay.

00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:56.239
Alright.

00:55:56.400 --> 00:56:04.800
So it's basically a lot of just for just for the record, I've only been watching baseball faithfully for two years.

00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:07.280
And you're welcome.

00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:09.840
Alright.

00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:12.719
So I'm gonna say a saying.

00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:15.760
You have to tell me if it's from baseball or not.

00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:17.440
Throw a curveball.

00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:19.039
Baseball.

00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:19.760
Yes.

00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:22.559
So literally the pitchers throw curveballs.

00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:23.280
Curveballs, yeah.

00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:25.679
Out of left field.

00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:28.880
I would say baseball.

00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.519
So weird plays or odd surprises come from that side of the field, basically.

00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:36.800
Step up to the plate.

00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:41.840
I would still say baseball.

00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:42.800
You are correct.

00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:44.880
I'm getting nervous now.

00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:47.599
It literally comes from stepping up to home.

00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:49.440
Correct.

00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:51.119
All right, uh, touch base.

00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:53.679
I'm gonna say no.

00:56:54.639 --> 00:56:55.199
Wrong.

00:56:55.519 --> 00:56:56.400
That is baseball.

00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:57.199
It is baseball.

00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.559
Runners had to touch each base, and if you don't touch the base.

00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:04.079
I figured I had a I had a non-baseball one coming up.

00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:05.360
I had four in a row, right?

00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:06.480
Wait for it.

00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:09.039
Keep your eye on the ball.

00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:14.559
I would say that's baseball, but that could also be other sports.

00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:16.159
So yes or no?

00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:19.199
Yes, baseball, no baseball.

00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:23.599
I'm gonna say no.

00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:24.239
Yes.

00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:25.119
Damn it.

00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:27.840
It means basically what it's saying is focus.

00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:30.559
You're focusing on the ball coming at you.

00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:36.480
Because I was gonna say no, because oh, you really have to watch the ball with golf because those disappear in the air.

00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:41.280
Not not in this day and age, they got that fucking tracker thing that falls it or whatever.

00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:42.800
Damn it.

00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:44.400
Paint the corners.

00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:48.159
Oh gosh, I don't even know what that means.

00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:49.280
Okay.

00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:52.639
With that being said, what would you guess it means?

00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:56.239
Creating the boundaries of the field with paint.

00:57:56.559 --> 00:57:56.880
No.

00:57:58.159 --> 00:57:58.639
Nope.

00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:00.719
I'm gonna say not baseball.

00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:01.840
It is baseball.

00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:04.480
Damn it! Do you have any that's not?

00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:05.679
Wait.

00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:08.480
Okay, what does paint the corners mean?

00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:10.639
I mean pitchers aim for the edges of home plate.

00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:12.639
So they're literally painting.

00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.599
So you got you you've watched baseball with me.

00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:17.360
They have the strike box, right?

00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:17.760
Yeah.

00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:24.400
They're painting the corners to try and get the pi the the excuse me, the batter to swing or not swing.

00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:30.400
Well, yeah, swing at something that they think is gonna be in the middle, but they're like at the corner.

00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:33.440
Or even if they don't swing, it's still a strike kind of thing.

00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:34.159
Yeah.

00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:36.320
Swing for the fences.

00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:37.920
Baseball.

00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:38.880
Yes.

00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:42.480
Literally means going for a home run, is what you're doing.

00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:45.440
And then run the bases backwards.

00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:50.480
Ooh, I don't even know that one is baseball or not?

00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:53.119
Run the bases backwards.

00:58:53.679 --> 00:58:55.360
I'm gonna say baseball.

00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:56.559
You got it wrong.

00:58:56.719 --> 00:58:57.199
Damn it.

00:58:57.440 --> 00:58:59.199
That is the one that's not about baseball.

00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.000
Every other single one was about baseball.

00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:03.360
So how rude.

00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:06.320
I feel like I would set it for for failure.

00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:08.559
Well, that's why I did it this way.

00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:10.639
But um what's that one?

00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:11.519
What's that?

00:59:11.679 --> 00:59:12.239
What's that one?

00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:13.840
Running the bases backwards.

00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:14.800
It's literally fake.

00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:15.760
Fuck you.

00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:17.840
It does not exist.

00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:20.320
Um that's so rude.

00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:21.920
It's not even a real one.

00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:28.800
So uh basically, baseball has given us a lot of idioms over the course of its life.

00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:32.719
Um, obviously, more than just hit it out of the park.

00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:36.960
It's really honestly, and it's funny I looked this up.

00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:41.199
It's responsible for half the motivational posters in every office building.

00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:43.119
That's awesome.

00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:44.960
I don't know if that's a true stat.

00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:48.320
Yeah, but I'm like, fuck yeah, that's fantastic.

00:59:48.559 --> 00:59:59.840
Because I mean, really, you you if I go into a lot of businesses because of my job, you see like the the motivational posters with random fucking.

01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:02.480
Planes flying or whatever, blah blah.

01:00:02.559 --> 01:00:04.960
It's like do there is no try or whatever.

01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:06.559
Do or do not, there is no try.

01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:07.199
Right, right, right.

01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:08.159
Thank you, Yoda.

01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:11.199
What movie did that come from?

01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:12.880
Uh, Star Wars.

01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:13.920
Which one?

01:00:14.239 --> 01:00:14.880
All of them.

01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:16.960
No, he said it in one.

01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:19.519
Empire Strikes Back.

01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:20.559
Well.

01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:22.719
Oh god, I have to pee.

01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:23.599
I suppose.

01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:24.800
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