1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: the Super Weird Podcast. This is a weird podcast, not 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: necessarily for you guys, but it is for Chuck and I. Yes, 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. That's Chuck Bryant. Let's get back to 7 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: what this is a weird podcast. Yes, to explain, our 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,639 Speaker 1: studio is being renovated drum roll, which is awesome. It's 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: gonna be super fancy and like a real studio. But 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: right now we are actually recording in some odd office 11 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: that has windows. Yeah, this is really weird. This's the 12 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: first time we've recorded a show outside the regular studio, 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,599 Speaker 1: and um, it might sound a little different. Jerry has 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: explained that there's something called room tone, and it's different 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: from room to room. Jerry just made that up. I 16 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: bought it. Plus, it looks like the walls are closing 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: in on us. We're actually a lot closer than a 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: little cramped. This is just odd. So if if we 19 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: seem a little angrier than usual, it's because of the 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: stupid room So uh, I think we're gonna call this, 21 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: what do we determine? I voted for the Reconstruction Tapes 22 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: of the Reconstruction Era, and I made the joke saying 23 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: that we should call it the Eponymous Era because that 24 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: was a much better album. But that was just the 25 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: greatest hits collection by Orim. No it wasn't. It was, 26 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: well it was, That's why it was so good. All right, 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: So what's your witty intro? Or is this all just 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: out the door? It's way off the door, buddy, Okay, 29 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: you see it, yes, leaving Chuck, Josh. Have you ever 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: met a Viking? Uh? No, I haven't. Well, you know 31 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: the football team, right, Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, I've seen them. 32 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: You can tell their helmet a mile away because they 33 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: have those horns on the side, which are very Viking. 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,559 Speaker 1: Se No, not true, Yes it is. Uh. It turns 35 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: out a bunch of archaeologists were um digging around, uh, 36 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: the north, the Nordic area Scandinavia, which includes what Sweden, Denmark, 37 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: the Netherlands and yeah I think Finland, sure, Norway too, 38 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:25,959 Speaker 1: can you forget the Norwegians? Um And they found an 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: ancient helmet with some horns on it, and this was 40 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: before we had um reliable carbon dating technology and they said, well, 41 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: it's a Viking, but it turns out that it was 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:43,119 Speaker 1: probably from the pre Viking era, right, Well that's when 43 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: it was popularized in the in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 44 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: You know, the the enormous woman would come out with 45 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: her bosom very prominent and uh, you know, a helmet 46 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: with with horns or wings. And it turns out they 47 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't have worn this because these guys were or dedicated 48 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 1: to battling as efficiently and as brutally as any group 49 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: that's ever sprung up on the global map. Yes, they 50 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: were very good at what they do. And I just 51 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: want to point out this is a listener request, a 52 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: very recent one actually that piqued our interest, and this 53 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: is from David d from Waterloo. He said, can you 54 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: do something on vikings since you've covered Ninja and um, 55 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: what else did we cover? Pirates? He said, I hear vikings. 56 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: You stuff warriors called berserkers who would eat magic mushrooms 57 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: before sending them into battle. And uh, we're going to 58 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: talk about that, so stay tuned. It's a teaser. So 59 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: chuck there there does seem to be a lot of 60 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: um misconception around vikings. But one of the things I 61 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: took from this article by the Grabs their a Grabanowski 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: he writes good stuff he does, um, was that there's 63 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: also a lot of accuracy in the history associated with 64 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: with Vikings, Like they were extremely brutal, they would indiscriminately 65 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: kill men, women, children. Um. So let's let's peel this apart. 66 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: Let's separate fact from fiction as it were. Right, Yes, 67 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: when were they around? H josh? The Vikings were prominent 68 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: in uh Europe in the ninth through the eleven centuries, 69 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: commonly known as the Age of the Viking. Right, and Um, 70 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: you tend to think of Vikings as Nordic. They were 71 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: sure they were from Scandinavia, which are the countries we 72 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: listed off earlier. But this These weren't communities of Vikings. 73 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: Vikings were like a job. Yeah, it was a profession, basically, 74 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: a you were a professional conqueror. Yeah, because Scandinavians are 75 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: also farmers and um did many other things weavers, and uh, 76 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: they weren't just Vikings. It's not interchangeable. Viking and Scandinavians 77 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: not interchangeable. Weaving has never really been a lucrative job. 78 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: You know, it's not not even back then. But yeah, 79 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 1: so there was a group that that were dedicated to 80 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: moving out of the North Lamb downward into Europe. Yeah, 81 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: because Scandinavia it wasn't a very hospitable place. I imagine 82 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: it still isn't, you know. Lots of ice, lots of 83 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: winter snow, not that much land, and the land that 84 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: is available isn't all arable. So yeah, they went and 85 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: took it, you know, like broadwater. Uh. There was also 86 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: evidence that population pressure led to Viking plundering, yeah, because 87 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: they started to grow and then obviously as they grew, 88 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: they needed more things. And this is before they started 89 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: spreading out, because eventually they would do that, but at 90 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: first they would just go plunder and then return home 91 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: to Viking land Scandinavia. You said that they were around 92 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: from the ninth of the eleventh centuries, right, So there 93 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: were Scandinavian cultures before the ninth century. There were Scandinavian 94 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: cultures after the ninth century, so two years basically, um, 95 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: this population explosion forced this group out to go get 96 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: more resources, to more conquering, to conquer more land, and 97 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: then the end point at the eleventh century actually generally 98 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: represents the adoption of Christianity. The Vikings did readily. Yeah 99 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: once you once you converts, like, you can't plunder any longer, 100 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: at least not you know, only plundering in the name 101 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: of God. And Vikings were were pagans pre pre Christianity, right, 102 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: and which also means that they worshiped the pantheon of gods. 103 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: There Um, their religion was actually highly personalized. There was 104 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: no central church in any of the Scandinavian cultures and 105 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: their their religion was actually highly personal Uh. It evolved 106 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: in relative isolation without a central church and any of 107 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: these Scandinavian cultures. Um, but there was a a pantheon 108 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: of gods that were recognizable across these cultures generally, right, 109 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: two groups should we talk about them real quick? Yeah, Uh, 110 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: the s and the Veneer were the two groups of gods, 111 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: and the scre were very warlike. That's Odin and Thor, 112 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: and then the Assir were kind of like hippies like 113 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: fertility goddesses and gods. Uh. They lived. The gods lived 114 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: in Asgard and it was a kingdom connected to mortal 115 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: Earth by a rainbow bridge, which I didn't know which 116 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: is you think Okay, so um, Scandinavian pre Christian pagan 117 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: religion is pretty sweet. They've got hippies, they have rainbow bridges. 118 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: They had evil giants and dark elves. Yeah, here's where 119 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: it gets dark dwarves. And apparently the gods were destined 120 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: to fight against these giants and evil forces in a 121 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: battle known as Ragnarok. Right, and they were also predicted 122 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: to lose, which would plunge uh Mortal Earth and uh 123 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: Asgard into chaos, darkness, disorder, which I mean to think 124 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: about that, chuck. All of our religions today are pretty hopeful, Like, 125 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: even if there isn't into the world, if you adhere 126 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: to that religion, you're gonna be saved. You won't be 127 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: around for like the torment. Right, this this religion as 128 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: loose as it was predicted, Like, no, our gods are 129 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: gonna lose and we're all gonna be in really big trouble. Right. 130 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: But if you were a noble, awesome warrior and you 131 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: died in battle, you would go to Valhalla, which was 132 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: warrior heaven, and you would be transported there by the Vulkyrie, 133 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: which were little warrior angels at the command of Robert 134 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: Duval right, and uh, what happened was in heaven you 135 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: would fight alongside Odin and feast and die in battle 136 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: every day, and you would get up alive the next 137 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: day and do it all over again. Right, that's their 138 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: idea of heaven. It was who was pretty funny. Yeah, 139 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: so them that that battle part is really significant because, um, 140 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: in Scandinavia and many of the Scandinavian cultures, a young 141 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: man proved himself by going, I Viking. Yeah that I'm 142 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 1: gonna get a T shirt made it says I Viking. 143 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: And just see how many people know what that means. 144 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:07,719 Speaker 1: That's like the verb of what Vikings did, leaving your homeland, 145 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: going down, butchering, raping, pillaging, studying, churches on fire. Churches 146 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: are actually a big target of their's because the churches 147 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: are where most of the gold was stored, livestock, spices, jewels, whatever, um. 148 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: So they would target churches and and kill everybody or 149 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: else they would take them as thralls slaves, which I 150 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: looked up the etymology of enthrall. Then that's where it 151 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: comes from. So when you're telling somebody you're enthralled by them, 152 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: you're saying that you're enslaved by their by how interesting 153 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: they are interesting. And you know that Actually all the 154 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: church thing is kind of key too, because that's how 155 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: the that's like, the only written history about the Vikings 156 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: where it was was written by the hand of the 157 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: church that was plundered. So that's one reason. Because the 158 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: Vikings only told oral orald stories folklore, right, but scrawls, 159 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: scrawls which told saga's it's where all these words come from. 160 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: And uh, but the church was the ones who actually 161 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: wrote down stuff. So that's why a lot of the 162 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: written history of the Vikings is so brutal, because they 163 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: were the people that were just you know, had someone 164 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: went I Viking on them, right, chuck. And they also 165 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: attribute the word Viking to um Europeans who were conquered. Yeah, 166 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot of different uh theories 167 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: there on the word. There are most of them. Do um. 168 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: Either the Norse adopted a word that was that they 169 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: were called by the Europeans like um uh, an old 170 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: English word vic w i c means port port of 171 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: trade um, which is where the Vikings like to attack. 172 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: Another theory is that it came from the Norse word 173 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: vic big different, but this one's v I k meaning 174 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: bay or body of water. Or there's another word that 175 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: sounds similar that means to turn away or to leave 176 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: on a journey, which is as we said, what going. 177 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: I Viking began with um. And then there's the last one, 178 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense, is called um. It's 179 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: an old Norse word called viking or which means pirate. 180 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: That's that's my guess, right, But they think that they 181 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: picked that up from the Europeans they conquered. So either way, 182 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: these people were written about by Europeans, they were named 183 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: by Europeans. They were just going to get some food 184 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 1: and gold cheap. Yes, how they do this though? Should 185 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: we talk about that? Yeah, I Viking. Yeah, they were 186 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: famous for being experienced seamen. They were built awesome boats 187 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: and built boats that traveled really fast through the water. 188 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: So when the when the Christian uh you know, let's 189 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: say a monastery would see the Viking ships approaching and 190 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: dragon ships, yeah, dragon boats, they didn't have much time 191 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: because they would get there really really fast because they 192 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: were very experienced fishermen. And uh, I guess since we're 193 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: on the boats, we we should talk about that for 194 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: a second. Yeah, they had pretty particular boats as Um, 195 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: you know, I think anybody could pick one out. They 196 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: had a double sided hole, which I thought was pretty 197 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: cool because you can go forward or backward without having 198 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: to turn around. You just pick up your butt and 199 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: turn around and start rowing the other way right, or 200 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: just switch the sail around. Um. They had a keel, 201 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: They had riveted wood construction. Um. And then they had 202 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: a single mask, and this mask could be as much 203 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: as um or the the sail that that was attached 204 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: to the mass could be like three thirty square feet 205 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: of double sided wool, all hands sewn, usually painted red 206 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: to symbolize the blood that was about to be spilled 207 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: by the people who saw it approaching. UM. And then 208 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: you see pictures of Viking ships with like the little 209 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: circles along the side. Yeah, that's actually accurate. Um. Most 210 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: Viking ships had mounts where somebody could put their shield 211 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: up as extra protection to to protect the guys who 212 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: were rowing. Of course makes good sense. Took about a 213 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: seventy ft Viking long ship. Josh would have required about 214 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: eleven trees to make it about three ft in diameter each, 215 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: and then one really tall tree to make the keel. 216 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: So I guess it was all one piece. Yeah, and 217 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: these things could haul but through the water apparently because 218 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:20,599 Speaker 1: they're real narrow and they used wind power and manpower. 219 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: Viking manpower was that was something. So what happened when 220 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: you saw a dragon boat chuck? You saw a dragon 221 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: boat docks and all of a sudden, this horde of 222 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: Vikings just comes streaming off at you. You poop your 223 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: pants the first thing you do. I would have rolled 224 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: around the ground crying like a baby and offering up 225 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: my cattle to be spared. But you might not be spared. 226 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: They generally would not leave much. Anything woulden was burned. 227 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 1: They would just burn the town to the ground. Kill people, 228 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: take women if they wanted, or kill them, take children 229 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: if they wanted, or kill them. Take the cattle. Probably 230 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: wouldn't kill the cattle now they wanted the cattle. They 231 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: were more useful in humans generally. Um. And you would 232 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: also see these guys coming at you with the acts, which, 233 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: as everybody knows, is my weapon of choice for a 234 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: zombie apocalypse. Right, you would go I Viking on zombies, sure, 235 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 1: and Josh. As far as their battle gear, like you said, 236 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: the sword was huge. The swords are about as long 237 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: as the uh as a man's arm, right. They also 238 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: had bows and lances and javelins. Uh, And they wore 239 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: like you would think, they wore big heavy iron helmets 240 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: with a little nosepiece that came down a lot of 241 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: times they wore iron on their breastplate unless they had 242 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: some dough and they could afford chain mail. But this 243 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: kind of indicates how strong these dudes were. Do you 244 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: know what, Like an iron Viking helmet would weigh a 245 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: lot a lot and actually Vikings, well not Vikings, but 246 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: skin Navians, I should say. Skin Navian cultures were really 247 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: really adept at doing whatever they wanted to do with 248 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: iron because they've been pulling it from bogs um very 249 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: easily without any need for mining for many, many centuries. 250 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: So they were kind of ahead of the curve as 251 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: far as the iron age goes. And chuck. When these 252 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: guys died, let's say you were a Viking, had had 253 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: some successful raids, garnered some powers, some money. The concept 254 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: of a Viking funeral, you know, being put on a 255 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: ship instead of fire a fire and pushed out to see, 256 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: that's actually accurate. Yeah, that's one way they did it. 257 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: They also, Yeah, the other way would be that they 258 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: entombed you in uh an earthen barrow, which is like 259 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: a mound. It was called mounting. Right. The thing is, 260 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: if you were a thrall, let's say you have been 261 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: captured in battle and taken back to Scandinavia, and you 262 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: were a servant to this guy, especially particularly useful servant, 263 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: you would probably be murdered and entombed in the thrall 264 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: or the barrow. Yeah. The deal there was they believed 265 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: in a life after death. Um. Whether it was like 266 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: an eternal life, didn't really know, or just like a 267 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: temporary life until you get to your old life. But 268 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: they definitely believed that you did not just die. So 269 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: that's why they would send you along with maybe your 270 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: favorite slave or your possessions. They would your cat, they 271 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: would bury you with your clothes on, and maybe with 272 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: your your acts, and they would send you along with 273 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: these things that they think you would need in the 274 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: following life to go I Viking. Uh. You know there 275 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: was another a stratified class almost um in Viking warrior culture. UM. 276 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: And there was this little subgroup that the guy who 277 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: called for this podcast mentioned berserkers. So these guys I 278 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: want to talk about berserkers yeah, if you've seen the 279 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: movie Clerks. Did you see Clerks? Yeah? Remember uh Silent 280 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: Bob's cousin Olaf from my Russia. He sang a medal. 281 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: He was in a Russian metal band he had. It's 282 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: long called Bezerka. I don't remember that. That was the 283 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: first time I heard Berserker And wait, we can't say 284 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: the lyrics because they're really filthy, but it was funny. Well, 285 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: what he was talking about where this this group of 286 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: warriors that were they think that they grew out of 287 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: a bear cult, like these people worship bears. They were nuts. 288 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: They during battle especially, they would go nuts. They would um. 289 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: It was told in the Sagas that they would take 290 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: on they would either become a bear or a bowl 291 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: for something like that. They would shape ship or else 292 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: they would take on the qualities of a bear like. 293 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: They would go into battle naked or shirtless, or at 294 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: the very least armorless. They would cut five people's heads 295 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: off at once with one swing of an axe. They 296 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: couldn't feel pain. Supposedly, they would scream a lot. Their 297 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: eyes were kind of glazed over. Part of the problem 298 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: was is they would get into such a um war frenzy, 299 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: a battle frenzy that if you were near them, even 300 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: if you were on their side, they'd kill you just 301 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 1: as soon as they would kill somebody else. And as 302 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: the guy said, they do think that, um, this bear 303 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: colt that went berserk, the berserkers um were on mushrooms 304 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: during battle. That may be the case. Can you that? 305 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: So you would take this regular already super badass warrior 306 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: viking then jack him up on magic mushrooms and give 307 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: him an ax, give him an ax and tell him 308 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: to like take his clothes off and wear like a 309 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: bear skin. And uh, it was That was it. It 310 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: was all over. I've read a little bit more about them, 311 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: and what's weird is the same guys. They also think 312 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: it's possible that this cult was largely made up with 313 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: them mentally ill, right or else maybe a little slow? Yeah, Um, 314 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: these same guys would also go berserk during like physical 315 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 1: labor sometimes too. You just didn't want to hang out 316 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: with the berserkers, basically you wanted to be in battle 317 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: with them. But like fifty meters to the left or 318 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: the right, nowhere near him, I would go in way 319 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: behind there. I would drag up the rear behind the 320 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 1: berserk also saw another theory that um, they weren't in 321 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 1: fact on magic mushrooms, but they uh drank heavily and 322 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: got wasted basically on mead before battle too. Huh. Wouldn't 323 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: that slow you down? Though? Um, I would think so, 324 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: but it would also kind of make you somewhat impervious 325 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: to pain and not care as much. And yeah, I've 326 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: gone berserka on a Friday night. Yeah, yeah, I subscribed 327 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: to the mushroom theory for two reasons. One, it's awesome 328 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:24,959 Speaker 1: to uh. Ritual use of mushrooms in certain Scandinavian cults 329 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: is known for a fact, so it's entirely possible. These guys, 330 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: all right, we're Truman, So David d from Waterloo. That's 331 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: what initially piqued my interest, and that's why we did 332 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: this podcast. So Josh says, yes, okay, uh, chuck, these 333 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: guys weren't all berserk, right, No, the the Vikings and 334 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: the Scandinavian cultures they came from actually were pretty good 335 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: at democracy. Yeah. Supposedly, the the the common farmer would 336 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 1: have just as much say in matters Viking as as 337 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: the higher ups. Right, they had um assemblies. I don't 338 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: know if they were annual or more frequent, but they 339 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: had scheduled assemblies where everybody got together talked about matters 340 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: of the day, divided land. Um. And they called them 341 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: things because I think they just couldn't think of the 342 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: word at the time, right, Maybe they were a little slow. 343 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: And there was a guy. I love this part. There 344 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: was a guy who was in charge of running the meetings. 345 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,719 Speaker 1: He was an impartial judge and they called him the lawmaker, 346 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: So he was the lawmaker of the thing. Pretty generic stuff, 347 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: primitive democracy, you could call it. Um. And they actually 348 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: extended this downward to the lands that they conquered. Um. 349 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: These guys made it a lot further south than I realized. 350 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: Did you know all this? And now I didn't as 351 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: far as going through Europe? Yeah, Um, they the Vikings 352 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: um conquered a town called Ulster. A Danish Viking did 353 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: an eight thirty nine and crowned himself king, and um 354 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: founded what is now the town of Dublin. Did you 355 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: know that? I did not know that until I read this. Uh. 356 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: They said they actually laid siege to Paris at some point. 357 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: They controlled part of England half of England from the 358 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: late nineteenth century to the eleventh century Danish Vikings, and 359 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: they struck a deal with France with Frederick the Simple Charles, Charles, 360 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: Charles is simple. You don't want your king to be 361 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: called the simple, No, especially when the Viking leader was 362 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: named Rolo. So they were causing a lot of problems 363 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: with the Franks. And so Charles the Simple, poor thing 364 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: sat down with Raloh and struck a deal and said, hey, um, 365 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: why don't you guys leave us alone and convert to 366 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: Christianity and I'll give you Normandy And they said okay, 367 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: said and uh, Frederick the Simple went that was easy. 368 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: Charles is simple. Yeah, he's a simple guy. Yeah. Um. 369 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: And like we said, the Vikings were they readily converted 370 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: to Christianity. These lands that they conquered and held um 371 00:21:53,400 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: for centuries, and they especially in Ireland and England. The 372 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 1: the Celts and the Anglo Saxons would defeat the Vikings, 373 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,959 Speaker 1: and then more Vikings would come in and defeat whoever. 374 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: So it changed hands pretty much constantly. But through this interaction, 375 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: even though it was fighting, Vikings eventually became absorbed into 376 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: these local areas. They brought their customs, but took on 377 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 1: new customs, and the the whole milange or the whole 378 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,360 Speaker 1: area of Ireland, England, France. Um is a milange actually 379 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: of Nordic culture and Southern European culture. I learned a 380 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: lot with this one. And they actually had trading routes 381 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: all the way down in North Africa. They did. And Chuck, 382 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. You know that they settled 383 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: North America. Of Eric the Red. He was exiled for murder. 384 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: This is another thing that they probably did it the 385 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: things they tried people. Uh, Eric the Red was accused 386 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: of murder. He was convicted, so they exiled him. He 387 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: took a bunch of guys with them and went from 388 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: Sland over to Greenland. His son was born there, Leif Ericson, 389 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: son of Eric, Right, and he said, you know, I'm 390 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: going to travel even further west and he ended up 391 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: in Newfoundland. This is just part of the oral tradition 392 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: until the nineteen sixties when an archaeologist discovered the traces 393 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: of this um of Leif Ericson's Viking settlement in Newfoundland. 394 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: He found a horned helmet, right, He's like, oh, it's 395 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: a Viking of course. So yeah, they were all over 396 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: the place. Yes, And if they sound like all they 397 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: did was rape and pillage and plunder. They did a 398 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: lot of that, but not so much anymore than anyone 399 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: else at the time. That was just kind of the 400 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: action of the time. But they were just so much 401 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: better at it than anyone else. They got this rep. 402 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: But they also, Josh had entertainment. Did you know that? 403 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: I did not check layd on me. They did. They socialized, 404 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: and when they socialized, they it was generally competitions because 405 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: they were clearly big on competing. There was cutting, so 406 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,120 Speaker 1: they would compete in friendly games like running and wrestling 407 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: and horseback riding. Uh. They had acrobats and entertainers, poem 408 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: tellers and tall tale tellers. And they actually ice skated. 409 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: What they did they made ice skates out of animal 410 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: bones and played a game on the ice skates, similar 411 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: to hurling, which I looked at hurling hurling. Hurling is 412 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: sort of like the best I can say is, uh, 413 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: it looks sort of like a cross between rugby and 414 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: field hockey. I think it was on ice because you 415 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: had a stick and you're hitting a ball toward a net, 416 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: So maybe it was the first ice hockey. No, nothing 417 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: to do with hote. Uh. Yeah, so they were. They 418 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: were into all sorts of games. Actually had a game 419 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: called Kinky Bat, which was like ping pong, except they 420 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 1: used shields. I wanted. So they would use a shield 421 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: to hit like a ball back and forth over. I 422 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: don't know if it was a net or just back 423 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: and forth on some surface, but they potentially invented ice 424 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: hockey and ping pong. Wow, how about that? That is something. 425 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: Speaking of Viking culture, Chuck um Vikings made it into 426 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: our culture popular culture big time, quite a bit. Obviously 427 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: The You Got Thor, the Marvel superhero, one of my 428 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: favorites of all time, soon to be a movie next year. Yeah, 429 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,959 Speaker 1: made at least one appearance in um Adventures in Babysitting. 430 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: Oh I didn't see that movie. He played the mechanic. 431 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: Oh really very interesting. Uh yeah, Kenneth Brandon was making 432 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: that movie. Um, Anthony Hopkins plays Odin and some Australian 433 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: guy plays Stor. He didn't look very thory though. When 434 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: I looked at the pictures, I'm sure they're going to 435 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: deck him out and give him long blonde hair. Oh. Actually, 436 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: I meant to mention that apparently some of them used 437 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 1: to um bleach their hair. Blond because I guess it 438 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: was more intimidating, so that that is not a myth. 439 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: So where else popular culture led Zeppelin? Can we we 440 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: can't not talk about led Zeppelin? Go ahead, Well, anyone's 441 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 1: ever seen song remains the same obviously, or listened to 442 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: some Zeppelin songs knows that they were big on aside 443 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: from Lord of the Rings, Valhalla, Vulkyrie, that kind of thing, 444 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: Hammer the Gods was the name of their biography. Uh 445 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: did you ever read that on crazy? Uh? And the 446 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: Immigrant Song is the most clear example after the famous Whale. 447 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,360 Speaker 1: At the beginning, Um, you'll hear lyrics like we come 448 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: from the land of the ice and snow, from the 449 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: midnight sun, where the hot springs blow Hammer of the 450 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 1: Gods will drive our ships to land to fight the Horde, 451 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: singing cry Valhalla, I am coming. So I always thought 452 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: that song was about apple Chians. No, that is Vikings. Huh. Yeah, 453 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: Robert Plant was big into that and uh, Spike TV. 454 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: Have you heard of the show Deadliest Warriors? I have. Actually, 455 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. They picked like warriors against each other, 456 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: and the Vikings actually in their scenario lost to the Samurai. 457 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: I could see that barely though, these uh shallon monks samurais. 458 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: But I know they said the samurai UH wanted a 459 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,479 Speaker 1: squeaker because they were a little bit more disciplined than 460 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: the the Crazy Eye Viking. I wonder if they took 461 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 1: mushrooms for that show. I don't know, and I think 462 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: that's it. Oh, actually I got one a couple of 463 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 1: more myths if you want to hear him. Vikings were 464 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: not dirty. They have the reputation of being dirty, filthy people. 465 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: They actually bathed once a week, which was a lot 466 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: for back then. Yeah, definitely, and they washed their face 467 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: every day apparently. So you were just saying before the podcast, 468 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: so you're the cleanest person that we know you were 469 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: the Vikings, I'm cleaner than a Vikings. Sure well sure. 470 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: And they did not drink from the skulls of the conquered. 471 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: That was a mistranslation apparently into Latin. And they they 472 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 1: apparently would drink mead from a horn occasionally as as 473 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: like a ritual, but ordinarily they would just drink from 474 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: a mug. That's it for the Vikings. Chuck for real, 475 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: nice additional research. Appreciate that, um and Uh. If you 476 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: want to learn a little more see some cool picks, 477 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: including some actual swords, which I thought was pretty cool. 478 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: What about you, Chuck loved it. You could type vikings 479 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: into the handy search bar how stuff works dot com, 480 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: which leads us to listener mail. Not quite yet, Josh, 481 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: you always do that. I'm teasing. Uh, actually, I'm not teasing. 482 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: We just want to plug. We did a little interview 483 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: with the dude named Wayne and Omaha, Nebraska. Yes, Worlds 484 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: of Wayne. Worlds of Wayne podcasts which he interviews artists 485 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: and musicians and cool people. So I don't know why 486 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: he called us, but he did. And uh, it's actually 487 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: already up. So if you want to hear a pretty 488 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: fun interview with us and go to Worlds of Wayne 489 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: dot l I B s y N dot com or 490 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: Josh said, you can just google Worlds of Wayne and 491 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: that's the first thing that comes up. It is, I've 492 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: done it. So apparently there's no store called Worlds of Wayne, 493 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: which is good, and it's episode one thirteen and you'll 494 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: see our big logo there and click on it. It's 495 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: kind of a cool, fun little interview. No listener mail, right, yes, 496 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: Okay to Josh, I'm gonna call this another list of 497 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: first from Patrick Okay is our our our super fan, 498 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: Patrick compolsies list of first in our show, which I 499 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: think we're kind of cool because I wouldn't take he is. So. 500 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: The first podcast, of course was how grassoline works? And 501 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: was that you and Poulette? Yeah? And is that accurate? 502 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: I don't remember. Okay, that was like two episodes ago. 503 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: I know, well, uh what what we're close to that? Actually? Um? 504 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: The first podcast with Candice Gibson was now Candice Keener 505 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: was how altruism works? First podcast with me remember doesn't 506 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: does come stay in your stomach? I thought it was 507 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: the introduced toothpaste? That was it. It was one of 508 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: those two Patrick, que might have to take issue with 509 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: your steps, buddy. Uh. First mentioned the fight or flight 510 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: response was how hysterical strength works. That was a great one. 511 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: First podcast with three people, How contagious yawning works. First 512 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: time Josh mentions being born in Ohio. Oh, how the 513 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: eye of the Tornado works? No, that's what he says. 514 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: First bleeped out swear word, first of many, how swearing 515 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: works obviously. First mention of Josh and Chuck's pets are 516 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: dogs of Shark's favorite meal. First podcast over ten minutes. 517 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: How can a cat scuba dive? Remember scuba cat Sure? 518 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: First over twenty is Quitting Smoking Contagious? First over thirty, 519 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: How lobotomies work, and recently the first over forty, How 520 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: witchcraft Works? And then just a couple of more. First 521 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: listener mail was issued in How Einstein's Brain Works, and 522 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: the first podcast that Patrick listened to is is the 523 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: World Going To End? In twelve? Awesome? I love the 524 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: first there's some great stats. This is the first one 525 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: in the new the new room. Yeah, make a note, Patrick, 526 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: and then we'll have the first in the awesome studio. 527 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: I don't like this room at all. Yeah, Like my 528 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: neck feels weird. I'm on the opposite side. Everything's wrong, 529 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: and I'm bury out of sorts. Well, if you have 530 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: a story about going berserk, we would love to hear it. 531 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: You can wrap it up in an email and send 532 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: it to stuff Podcast at how stuff works dot com. 533 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: For more on this and thousands of other topics, visit 534 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. Want more how stuff works, 535 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: check out our blogs on the house stuff works dot 536 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: com home page. Brought to you by the reinvented two 537 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: thousand twelve camera it's ready. Are you