WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: How Bullfighting Works 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.960 Hey, everybody, chuck here. I'm a little sleepy because it's 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.040 Saturday morning. You know what that means. It's time for 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.559 another classic episode. Stuff you Should Know selects this one. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.080 It's from a third two thousand two, How Bullfighting Works, 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.599 And you know what, Honestly, I picked this one because 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.640 I just wanted to, uh, to go to people further. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.640 I came out. We usually try and keep things fairly neutral, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.680 but I came out hard against bull fighting on this 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.120 because it is barbaric and awful, and uh, I don't 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.000 apologize for that. So I'm gonna puff my chest up 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.000 and republish this one right now. I don't care about 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.720 the tradition. I don't care about any of that. I 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.199 just want people to stop bull fighting. So we get 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.400 into the history of it and all that. And I 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.479 think Josh was a little more neutral than I was, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.360 if I remember correctly, But uh yeah, I'm not into it. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.080 So go ahead and send your hate emails now if 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.040 you want, or emails of support. Here we go How 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:10.240 Bull Fighting Works all over again. Welcome to Stuff you 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:19.040 Should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hi, and 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.880 welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.200 always is Charles W. Chuck Bryant, hol A, Chuck Hola, 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.440 hola right back at you. Um, how are you doing? 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.039 I'm great? How are you? I'm doing pretty good? Yeah. Yeah, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.360 I've been learning a lot about bull volume lately. I 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.360 don't know if you know you mean bull killing. Bull 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.040 fighting is what it's cultured. It's not what I call it. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:48.880 Or you could also call it a cardido corda boy, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.840 Here we go, Corrida. Have you ever been to Spain? No? 0:01:52.640 --> 0:02:00.280 Have you? Yeah? Where I've been to? Uh and in 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.200 um Tulsa de Mar, which is uh little coastal town 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.320 near Barcelona there on the coastal Brava very nice. Have 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.800 you been to Okay? Yeah, very Have you seen a 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.000 bull fight? No, I would not I would not do that, sir, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.920 I have seen a bull fight. And um, to offend 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.160 you even further, not only was it a bullfight, it 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.399 started off with a cock fight. It was in Cancoon. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.399 I saw it with my sister and my dad, and um, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.560 it was crazy because we were we were there and 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.480 it was a bullfight like it wasn't like you could 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:41.000 have accidentally walked into this thing like it was a bullfight. Um, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:46.959 and I would say of the people, there were um, white, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:53.200 probably American tourists, who booed and yelled and shouted things 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.480 the whole time. And I remember thinking of that one 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.480 Simpsons where UM Lisa was having a nightmare about being 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.560 second chairs for saxophone in the school band, and um, 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.880 at the concert, everybody was booing and she wakes up 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.920 and thinks, like, why would everybody come just to boo? 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.600 It was exactly like that. People came just to boo 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.639 to bullfight. Well, that is one h people who who 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.600 say bullfighting is not good, of which I'm one of them, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.680 say that that's one of the only reasons bull fights 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.600 are still even going on is because of tourists. That 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.040 they're the ones buying the tickets. And many times those 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.120 tourists get there and they're horrified and they leave early 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.440 and think, Wow, what to spend? Yeah, no, no refunds, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:46.720 No exactly, So you just funded bullfighting, yeah exactly, sucker. Um. 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.400 A couple of quick stats, oh, roughly to between two 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.560 hundred and two hundred and fifty thousand bulls are killed 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:57.680 each year from bull fights from bull fights, and UM, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.000 I'm not sure if this is accurate, but the number 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.160 I got was it? Fifty two matadors have been killed since. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:11.560 I'm surprised it's that few. Have you heard of Julio Aparchio? 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:17.679 I know if you have a very strong constitution, Uncle 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.800 Josh warns you against this one. Yeah, yeah, I saw it. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:26.159 Holy cow. It was almost like, how is that not photoshop? 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:32.400 It was perfect? The horns so Julio Apariccio was he 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.520 fell down and bull got the best of him, gored 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.160 him with his with its horns, with his horns because 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.599 bulls of boy, um and what a boy huh, and 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.400 gord him under his chin and it threw his through 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.760 his neck and then the horn came out of his 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:55.200 mouth perfectly, and um a guy from getting him. It 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.279 just got a close up of it, like like fifty 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.240 of them. There video of it. It's it's amazing. I 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.800 haven't seen the video. It's on the YouTube and it's 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.800 one of those that's so awful that you have to 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.600 like sign in and verify your age before you watch it. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.039 And I would do not advise people to watch this. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.160 I don't even advise you to see the too. Look 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.640 at the Daily Mail article that has it, but it's 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.400 pretty crazy. But yes, it happens, and I'm surprised that 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.599 only how many fifties seven? The stat I got was 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:27.600 fifty two in the last you know, three hundred plus years. Um. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.720 So there's not much of a fight going on. And 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:35.159 matador is actually Spanish for killer, so is it really um, yes, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.640 they're killer bulls for sure. It's the whole point, Like 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.720 there's really no gray area here, like bullfighting is the 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.880 the purpose of it is to kill the bull. Yeah, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.800 under certain conditions or um, within a certain framework. But 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.760 that's the point of bullfighting. It's not anything but that. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.760 And if the matador fails to kill the bull, that's 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.440 on him and it is a huge disgrace, like that's 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.960 a that's a loss, and it's not very good right. Um, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.280 But I I start I'm starting to suspect that you 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.920 are a post bullfighting. Um. There are a lot of 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.760 people and apparently Spain's um. I mean in Spain, it's 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:19.320 like a natural cultural thing. It's been around for a while, 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.680 and even people who feel the same way you do 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.719 still say I still don't think it should be illegal. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.560 It's just too much a part of our tradition. Not 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.159 everyone feels that way though, No, definitely not. They did 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.120 a gallop pole in two thousand ten, and seventy of 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.480 Spaniards said that they were ready to do away with it. 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.920 Oh yeah, that's a lot of Spaniards. And that's up 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:44.400 from like fifteen years earlier. So in this modern day 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.640 people are starting to think twice about it. Well, let's 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.360 let's talk about this, Chuck, let's talk about how how 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.720 long people have been fighting bulls on the Iberian Peninsula. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.960 We don't know, Fox show, but um, there is evidence 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:03.200 of bull ritual dating back all the way to b C. Yeah. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.400 The Mycenaeans apparently used to leap over bulls that were charging. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.800 It was like a thing, and they were always revered, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.240 you know, as like these godlike creatures, which is why 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.560 I guess they want to kill him. What. Yeah, what's 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.760 the taurus? One? Taurus? Is that the Is that an 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:24.280 astrological sign? Yeah? Okay, yeah, of course, pretty ancient. Yeah. Uh. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.640 The article points out that the Visigoth rule Um of 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:34.040 the Iberian Peninsula from fourteen fifteen to seven eleven UM No. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:39.600 Four fifteen four fifteen to seven eleven UM had men 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:44.000 on horseback fighting bulls um, which evolved into mounted bullfighting, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:50.280 which uh jonnel, which still exists in Portugal horseback bullfighting, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.800 where they kill the bull outside the ring. Later on, right, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.840 they weaken it to a certain point, which is the 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.800 equivalent of killing the bull is far. I guess there's 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.280 some point of no return that the Portuguese understand and 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.600 they're like, okay, well we're done, come outside, and then 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.600 that's that. But as anybody who's opposed bullfighting will tell you, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.000 that's not any more humane. Of course not. It's just 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:18.960 out of sight of the spectators. Um. So yeah, you've 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:24.200 got what is it? Ray hoo ray jono jo um. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.880 And then uh. Bull fighting itself as we understand it today, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.920 was firmly established in Spain by the eleventh century UM, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.560 and it came about during festivals, specifically one festival called 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.400 the Fiesta descind Ferminton and anybody's been to Pampalona will 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.640 recognize that because that's where the running of the bulls 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.480 takes place. And when in July now so I seven 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.800 when it used to be September, and then in the 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.120 sixteenth century they moved it to July, and ever since 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.080 then the running of the bulls has been held. But 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.200 it's been going on since long before that, And it 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.319 actually started with a bunch of um ranchers and their 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.800 kids moving the bulls from like their pens to about 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.679 a half a mile to the arena. UM. And then 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.400 people started running alongside him, and counting evolved into the 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.560 running of the bulls. Now interesting else, said the Spanish 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:23.040 military leader uh midd eleventh century. He was one of 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.480 the first to actually bring it into the arena and 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.880 make it the sanctioned corrida, which was government sanctioned is 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.560 today at least what was back then imagined financially supported 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.400 by governments to fifteenth century. It was a big part 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.720 of the aristocracy until Queen Isabella came along and said 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.400 this is not cool. I don't know why she was 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.800 against it, probably because she was an animal lover. I 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.600 would say that's probably a good idea. And Pope Pious 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:59.800 UM five almost said v uh. He banned it, but 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.000 didn't last very long, um only about eight years, because 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.200 people were into it pretty pretty big time, right um. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.640 And then in about the I guess in the six 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:14.120 hundred is when that that whole divergence between horseback and 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.520 foot bull foot bull fighting took place, and it remained. Um. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:25.240 The sport of the aristocracy until Philip the came along 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.319 and he said, you know what, this is barbaric. You 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.240 would have to be a low class barbarian to engage 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.320 in bullfighting. So if you remember my court and you 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.920 get caught doing this, I'll shoot you in the knee. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.960 And the aristocracy said, well, we want our knees intact, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.800 so we're gonna stop doing this. And at this point 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:49.960 bullfighting transferred from a kind of high flutant, snooty pastime 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.520 to the the um, the pastime of the people, the 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:58.120 national sport of the Spanish people, and from that point 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.120 on it's it's stayed that way. Yeah, but they they 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.480 The author does point out that there are arenas in 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.480 Spain that still have the royal boxes for the royal 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.559 family right to attend these things, so it hasn't gone 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.280 away completely as far as that goes. So Spain is 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:19.120 the heart and life center of um bull fighting, but 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.040 there's other places that it's held. Obviously, I saw him 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.240 in cancun Um, and if you're a bullfighter, you can 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.800 follow the season pretty much year round and get work 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.080 if you're good. They have in France. Did you know that? 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.320 I didn't, But I saw that it's been It was 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.400 banned in the UK. Had no idea anybody was fighting 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.920 bulls and going on in Germany was going on all 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.440 over the place. It's crazy. But that doesn't make sense 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.960 that it would happen in Germany if the Visigoths are 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.360 the ones who introduced it to the Iberian Peninsula because 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.720 they were Germanic people from south of the south Norway 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:59.360 will call you south Way. I don't think the Goths. Uh. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.599 So we'll walk you through what happens in a in 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:07.640 a corrida um in this whitewashed article version. But um, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.960 before this ever happens, we'll walk you through the couple 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.640 of days before the bull even gets to the ring. Oh, 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.960 this is a special treat for me. It is the 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.480 bull Um is not an aggressive animal at all. Bull 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:26.160 likes to hang around and chew grass and uh smell flowers. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.400 That sounds like bullfighting propaganda to me. No, Ferdinand, the 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.480 bull it's like a sweet creature. But they actually are 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.920 not aggressive. They're only um going to charge somebody if 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:41.120 they're threatened and angry, which is what bullfighting is all about. Um. So, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.160 in the two days prior to the bull showing up 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:49.880 at the arena. They are abused. Um, they are uh 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.640 basically mentally destroyed versions of what a bull should be. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.880 But there you're fat bull. While they do fatten him 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.240 up to make them slow. Well, that's problem, and you 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:06.800 can call somebody out for that. Okay. Um. They have 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.720 wet newspaper stuffed in their ears so they can't hear anything. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.480 They have vasoline rubbed on their eyes so their visions blurred. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.560 They have their eyes taped open so they can't sleep. Uh. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.280 They stuff cotton up their nostrils so they can't breathe 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.120 very well, and they stick and needle through their genitals. That'll, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.559 that'll take anybody off. They rubbed this caustic solution on 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.760 their legs, which makes the bull not be able to 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:34.120 balance and uh keeps the bull from lying down. Ever. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.800 They strap their horns to the ceiling of their transport 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.959 truck ah to take them on their long hot journey 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.440 to wherever they're going. And for the two days before 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.839 they keep them in a in a box. Oh wait, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.200 I'm sorry, that's not all. They give them drugs to 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.920 either pep them up or slow them down, just to 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.120 keep them in whatever state they want them in. And 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:01.440 give them laxatives, uh to just sleep make things even 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.920 more uncomfortable. Um. Then they put the bull in the 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.880 in this dark box for two days, uh to disorient 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.040 the bull. Finally, when they opened the box, there's a 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.839 light at the end of the tunnel that the bull thinks, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.840 my god, I'm finally getting out of here. Runs to 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.240 the light and all of a sudden they're in a 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:24.080 bull ring, right, And there's trumpets and fanfare and people cheering, um, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.280 and the bulls like, oh cool, how's how's it? Hey? 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.160 How are you all doing? I've been through some rough 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.760 times lately. Um. Some of that stuff, I think if 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:39.240 you were found out, you would be disqualified immediately, especially 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.920 doing stuff that slowed the bull down or made it 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.520 less dangerous. Yes, the bull ring is a ring for 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.040 a reason. Um. Bulls would want to go try and 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.520 hide in a corner, but the ring, the circular ring, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.360 will confuse in a bull to where it can't hide anywhere. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.360 Have you ever seen that footage of that bull that 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.800 like makes it up into the hands, like jumps up 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.120 and then is into the stands like on top of people. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.320 It was crazy? Was that bull run our test? No? 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.200 Do you get that joke. Okay. So the different acts 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.320 I believe are called tercios, Yes, I believe so. And 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.320 there's three of them, right, Yes, there's three of them, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:24.800 and the that's three acts in a fight in a cardido, yes, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.520 in a bull fight. Yeah, and um there's no suspense 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.600 going on either by the way they all go down 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.880 the same way. I bet it's suspenseful for the bull. Um. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:41.840 So the bull comes out the first act or what? Uh? Yeah? 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:46.720 Act one? Okay. In act one there are um guys 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.720 called peka doors and they're mounted on horseback and they 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:56.640 are basically, um, I guess, low level torreros or bullfighters 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.600 because both. A matador is not the only kind of bullfighter. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.040 He is cream of the crop, pinnacle of bullfighters, the 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.080 well paid rock star. Yes, um, but he works with 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.240 a crew of pika doors who show up in the 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.680 first act and bandilli aros who show up in the 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.920 second act. But the pika doors what they do is 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:20.600 they lance the bowl between his shoulder blades around his 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.840 neck muscles. And the whole point of this chuck You'll 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.800 love this one is to weaken the neck muscles so 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.040 that the bull's head hangs so that the matador can 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.800 get to its heart more easily. Yeah. It also hits 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:38.200 a gland in the neck that releases adrenaline. Apparently. Um 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.840 So they lanced the bull three times and twist the 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.640 blade around to ensure maximum blood loss. Um. Three matadors 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.520 will now come in. They will fight individually later on, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.000 but they all come in at first in the first 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.360 act with their capes. And this is and for the 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.800 for the bull fight, it's an afternoon of them. There's 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.040 six bulls and three matadors in each mattador fights two 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.840 bulls and each bull fight takes about fifteen and twenty minutes, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.480 yes roughly. Um So they come in with their little 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.840 capes and uh do their little maneuvers to draw attention 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.480 away from the pika doors. And the pika doors go 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.400 and hide behind their little walls. They have these interior 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.720 walls that they can hide behind. Whenever the bull starts 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.240 to get too dangerous, they run and high behind these walls. Yes, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.240 or if this or America, the Pika doors would be 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.440 dressed as clowns and would hide in barrels. Look at rodeo. Yeah, 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.760 it will do a rodeo podcast at some point. Do 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.800 we have to not sure, okay, they don't. I don't 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:42.360 think they kill the cows and rodeos. No, okay. Um, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.280 So the pika doors leave the ring. The matadors leave 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.199 the ring at two begins in the bandel yarros. I 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.120 know that's a tough one. Yeah, they come in. They're 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.960 they're basically bullfighters, assistant bullfighters, but they're on foot. Yes, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.439 and if you've ever seen a bullfighter picture of a 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:05.640 bull fight, bulls seem to have some um crepe barbed 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.959 sticking out of him. That's the bandelierros work. Yes, and 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:15.280 that is called a bandias and it's a barbed dart. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.879 It's adorned colorfully. The bulls aren't the only things dying 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.919 in this episode, so was the Spanish language, because we 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.560 are butchering it. I'm trying uh this of course, further 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.800 weekends the bull um so the mighty Matador doesn't have 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.959 much work to do. So the bull is still dangerous. 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.080 Um are They run in circles at this point to 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.320 to get it nice and dizzy and confused. The manador 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.119 comes out for the final act and he has ten 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.080 ten official minutes to kill the bull. Well to do 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.120 a little showing off first and then kill the bull. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.600 Um after the ten minute warring. After the ten minutes, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.240 he gets in a viso, which is a warning first warning. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.320 After three minutes he gets another one, and then he 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.600 gets a third one, so he has a total of 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.680 in actuality fifteen minutes to kill the bull or else 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.919 the bull is let out alive and the metadors disgraced. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.679 But for the most part, the matador is going to 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.560 dispatch the bull, and um, he does it if he 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.680 first starts using the cape and the cape is always 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.359 held in the left hand. Is it? That's all right handed? Dudes? 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.080 I did not. I was looking, and I could even 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.800 tell that they were. Um there, the cape was kind 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.040 of clumsy held in the left hand. They were still 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.159 holding it in the left hand. Well, the guys I 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.520 saw were practicing, so maybe I don't know, but I 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.240 don't see why they would practice with their right hand. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.159 I don't either. Okay, But you have a cape in 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.680 one hand, you have a sword in the other. Yes, 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.480 and the point of the cape. By the way, we 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.080 should probably get to this now. Um, cape is always 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:50.280 red because red Anger's bulls right true balls are color blind, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.800 so they're not angered by red or any other color. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.280 What does get them going is the movement of the 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.800 cape and sticking uh swords in their neck. That's another 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.320 thing that gets them going. Um. And actually that's not 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.160 necessarily true. By the time the manador comes out, sometimes 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:10.399 the um the bowl is really tired from blood loss 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.639 and being tortured for a couple of days apparently, um. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.760 And so the manador really kind of has to work 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.560 to get it riled up again. And even though the 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.600 bulls just like, just kill me, manador is like, not yet, 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:25.560 we have a crowd to please first, So um the 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.360 the manador eventually after the cape work is done. Um. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.320 Oh the cape is read by the way to high bloodstains. Um. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.240 Once the cape work is done, the manador will um 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.479 as the bull runs past him, will plunge the sword 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:45.720 in between his shoulder blades and what's called a estoccata, 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.520 which is the death blow and uh it properly delivered 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.440 estocata will sever the bulls a order and that will 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.800 be that almost immediately for the bull. If it's not 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.160 done correctly, then the bull can be in even more 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.520 tremendous pain as it bleeds out. But to protect against this, 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:09.040 a bandeliero will come out and uh immediately deliver any 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.840 any another thrust of a blade to make sure the 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.600 bull is dead with a puntilla a smaller knife. UM. 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.880 Ideally they killed them with one blow. That rarely happens 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.440 because apparently matadors aren't so great at doing that anymore. 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:28.960 I don't know if they ever were. And uh, a 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.639 lot of times the bull lives even through the smaller 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.560 knife plunge and is still alive when the ears and 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.480 tail or hoof or cut off and presented to the matador. 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:43.520 Usually there's a there's another fail safe um where they 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.680 just bring out a tractor and run the bull over 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.520 a bunch of times to make sure that it's it's 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.040 so nice. And if that doesn't work, then they the 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.679 people come down from the stands and just start shooting it. 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.159 That's not true, and it's not funny. It's not funny 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:02.679 because it's not true. And oftentimes do survive hanging on 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.840 by a thread. Their lungs are punctured, so they're bleeding, 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.840 like drowning in their own blood and like vomiting up 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.520 blood through their nose and mouth like a whale dying 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:17.280 and flurry. Uh. And sometimes they will take it outside 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.760 and skin it while it's even still alive. Yeah, that's 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.879 a kind of a tradition. Um. I saw the bull 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:26.800 after the bullfight. It was pretty sad. Um. They take 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.639 the bull right outside and um they'll dress it and 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.159 then sell the meat at the stadium. Um, which is 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:38.160 customary and very strange, but that's one of the aspects 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.359 of bullfighting. If you've ever wanted a bull burger and 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.040 you wanted to eat it right after you saw a die, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.960 go to a bullfight in Spain. Uh, they will drag 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:53.919 the bull out with some mules attached to chains. And UM. 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.680 I don't know if the booing booing you heard, because 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:59.040 apparently the people will boo and throw beer cans at 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.120 the bull at the end. I don't know if that's 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:04.880 what you were. It depends, So it depends. Um no, no, no, no, 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:09.200 that's this was. They were booing the matador, the banliros, 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:13.200 the doors, everybody. They were booing the whole country of 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:17.160 Mexico for this. Um. Yeah they're booing everybody. No. Um, 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:19.760 it depends on the bull. If the bull was um 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:23.000 a woss, then I could see the fans throwing beer 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:27.199 cans at it. There's also um that an aspect of 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.480 this that cannot be denying that a bull that shows 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:35.600 great bravery, anger, um, spirit, spunk really tries to kill 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.880 the matador or the bandili arros will be very much 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:43.560 revered by the people in the stands and gruesomely UM. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.359 They'll bring it out for a victory lap, being dragged 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:48.720 by the mules in a circle around the arena. After 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:51.960 it's dead, or apparently while it's still dying, people will 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:55.919 cheer it, throw roses for it. Um. And there's a 0:23:56.040 --> 0:24:01.440 there's a a UM. There's a rule where the crowd 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.800 or the manador can ask for an uh indolito, which 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:09.320 is a reprieve for a particularly courageous bull, and the 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:14.520 president of the of the bullfight, the referee can say, yes, 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:16.720 I give this bull of reprieve because it's such an 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.560 awesome bowl. We're gonna let it live. And the manador 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:23.680 proceeds to um with an empty hand simulate the death blow, 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:25.480 saying I could have killed the bull, but I like 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.680