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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: you stuff you should know Friendhouse, Stuff Works dot Com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. Uh. And you put the two of us

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Speaker 1: together at our new editor casey. Yeah, uh, and you

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Speaker 1: have stuff you should know. Yeah, guest editor is not

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Speaker 1: Matt this time. And we are in what looks like

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Speaker 1: the room of the serial killer. Yeah, Buffalo bills. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the fourth room. Now we've been shuffled to

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Speaker 1: And it definitely very much looks like there might be

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Speaker 1: All of the windows are blacked out with foam. Um.

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Speaker 1: and that's where're recording from today. Yeah, we wanted to

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Speaker 1: set the set the mental stage, all right, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean the mental environment has a really it's has

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Speaker 1: but no one cares. Remember that. They're always just so good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's um. Yeah, and apparently someone's listening to their

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Speaker 1: this guy is totally different. I thought that was who

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Speaker 1: more familiar with Pope Benedict the second. Yeah. Um, but

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Speaker 1: his birth name was Joseph ratzen Germ And following what um,

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Speaker 1: he changed his name when he became pope. Well, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you know this or not, even though

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Speaker 1: you selected this article, but I'm February eleven, he announced

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Speaker 1: He said, oh, yes you can. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: And that created the Great Schism, which, depending on who

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Speaker 1: Did you see Saturday in Life this week? No, I

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Speaker 1: Peter's the first pope that's that's part of church dogma.

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Speaker 1: called scrutineers. That's gonna be my next band name. And

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Speaker 1: the three scrutineers, just the scrutineers, okay, because there's four us. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say it would be kind of cool

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Speaker 1: if it was the three scrutineers, but there was four.

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Speaker 1: Really really freak out the crowd, man. Um. So you've

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Speaker 1: got the three scrutineers and two of them, uh they

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Speaker 1: they well, okay, so you have one sitting who takes

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Speaker 1: the ballot out of the ballot box, writes down the

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Speaker 1: name of the pope or the person voted for pope,

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Speaker 1: hands us to the next person the first to write

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Speaker 1: it down, and then the third um scrutineer reads the

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Speaker 1: name out loud and the other two they say, yep,

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Speaker 1: that's the one I have here that I wrote down,

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Speaker 1: and then they take it and pierce it through the

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Speaker 1: the eleigo with the needle and move it along a

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Speaker 1: line of thread, and then you have ultimately all the

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Speaker 1: ballots tallied. That's right. And uh, if they don't elect

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Speaker 1: the pope, they burn them, that's right. And very portant

437
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Speaker 1: step before that, they tie the end of it so

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Speaker 1: it's a sealed circle with the ballots hanging from it,

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Speaker 1: because if it's not tied shut, that means the vote

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Speaker 1: is still open, right yeah, Okay, So then they burn them.

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Speaker 1: And if it's if they haven't elected a pope through

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Speaker 1: that ballot, they added some chemical that makes the smoke

443
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Speaker 1: black and they blow it out of the Vatican Palace

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Speaker 1: to let everybody know no pope. Yet when they do

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Speaker 1: elect the pope, they just let it be white smoke, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And it used to be they used to use like

447
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Speaker 1: wet straw and stuff, but there was confusion at times

448
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Speaker 1: when it didn't burn like appropriately. So now they just

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Speaker 1: add a chemical that they know was gonna do the job. Um.

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Speaker 1: And so when the new pope is elected, he the

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Speaker 1: guy comes to the uh, he meets with the Cardinal Deacon,

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Speaker 1: the secretary of the College of Cardinals, the cardinal Dean,

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Speaker 1: the master of papal liturgical celebrations. Right, that's a swinging crowd,

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Speaker 1: it is. And um, he says, oh please, really, really,

455
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Speaker 1: this is great news. Thank you for for doing this,

456
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Speaker 1: and the the Dean, I think, asked him a couple

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Speaker 1: of questions. Yeah. I have a feeling it's way more

458
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Speaker 1: official than what I would say, because they say, do

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Speaker 1: you accept your canonical election? And supreme pontiff? I would say,

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Speaker 1: you want to be pope? Are you sure you want

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Speaker 1: to be pope? And then by what name do you

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Speaker 1: wish to be called? And that you know, that's pretty

463
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Speaker 1: straight up that you'd say that just like that, not

464
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Speaker 1: say you want to be pope? What's your name? Give

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Speaker 1: me the name? Yeah, and they say who's this guy?

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Speaker 1: We need to know what to put on your seal? Yeah, exactly,

467
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Speaker 1: they do. So the pope accepts, well, you know, I

468
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Speaker 1: guess the pope is supposed to accept. I'm not sure

469
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Speaker 1: if that's ever not happened. I can't imagine, because you

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Speaker 1: would think they would withdraw their name earlier than that,

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Speaker 1: you know, or if they had second thoughts, that probably

472
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Speaker 1: pretty bad too, right. They were like, look, I just

473
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Speaker 1: talked about it with my wife, and she's like, I

474
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Speaker 1: don't know if we want to go into this chapter

475
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Speaker 1: of our life. Let's let's just retire, okay. So each

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Speaker 1: cardinal at that point, once the pope has the name

477
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Speaker 1: and has said yes, I definitely want to be pope,

478
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Speaker 1: they approached them pay homage to the new pope, probably

479
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Speaker 1: kiss the ring, yeah, I would say, so. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if they have the ring made up already, because you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to have that thing on, like like that's basically

482
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Speaker 1: like check it out, I'm I'm pope. I bet they do,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine, because the only thing that could happen

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Speaker 1: is the pope says I don't want to be a pope, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then they just make a new ring, you know,

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Speaker 1: and they probably make the guy feel pretty bad too, like, well,

487
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Speaker 1: are you sure because we made the ring and everything already.

488
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Speaker 1: I bet this is all spelled out in some rule book,

489
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Speaker 1: you know, like oft not oft used rules of the

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Speaker 1: Catholic Church, like if they refuse, yeah, you strike them

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Speaker 1: on the head with the silver hammer. Maybe so um so.

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Speaker 1: Then traditionally, the oldest cardinal in the conclave steps that

493
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Speaker 1: they're at St. Peters Square there on the balcony, which

494
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: we've all seen a million times, and says habamus. Papam

495
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Speaker 1: basically says, we have a new pope. And then the

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Speaker 1: Pope comes out and the crowd goes wild like the Beatles,

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Speaker 1: like it's serious stuff. Man, weeping in I know in

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Speaker 1: in America it's not as I guess things have just

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Speaker 1: changed a little bit. I'm sure there are people in

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Speaker 1: United States that are still that moved. But you see

501
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Speaker 1: people from around the world like collapsing and crying, and

502
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Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing to watch pope papalmania paplemania. And so

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Speaker 1: in the pope basically says, okay, let's do this. Here's

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Speaker 1: my papal blessing. Good to meet you all. Let's go

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00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: forth and spread Catholicism. That's right. We should do one

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Speaker 1: on the pope at some point. Just about the duties.

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00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a few in here, appoints, bishops

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Speaker 1: and cardinals, obviously spreading the good word, writing the official

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Speaker 1: documents about issues like what our official stances stuff like that. Yeah,

510
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Speaker 1: and then like getting world leaders to go along with them. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you know, back in the day, the pope had

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Speaker 1: a lot more sway in the h in the non

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Speaker 1: religious sector, like I could. They could, I could listen

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Speaker 1: to me. They could crown new emperors and like had

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00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: military power and stuff like that. Yeah, like, um, one

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Speaker 1: of the pope's crowned Charlemagne and started the Holy Roman Empire. Right,

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Speaker 1: that was something that popes could do. I can't do

518
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Speaker 1: that anymore. Um. And we we mentioned um Benedict changing

519
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Speaker 1: the name, like they asked, what name do you want

520
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: to go by? And there's actually an origin to this.

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Speaker 1: Um Pope John the Second, he was elected in five

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Speaker 1: thirty three and he was the one that started it

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Speaker 1: because he was born his his birth name was Curious,

524
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Speaker 1: named after Mercury, which is a pagan Roman god. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he was like, I don't think I should have

526
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Speaker 1: a pagan name as pope, so he changed his name

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Speaker 1: to John the Second, and uh, there you have. That's

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Speaker 1: where the tradition began. Yeah. And I think generally now

529
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Speaker 1: they choose a name of a previous pope that they

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Speaker 1: admired perhaps or a favorite saint or a favorite saint,

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Speaker 1: and then they get on with the poping. Yep, I

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Speaker 1: wonder what the new one. I'm really interested, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling for the guy from Ghana. Yeah, I want

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Speaker 1: to know what his name is gonna be too? Ah,

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Speaker 1: you got anything else about the pope or the Papacy?

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Speaker 1: It's pretty smart. He stands in and waits. It's a

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