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Speaker 1: School of Humans. Hello, welcome to another episode of Cadaver Gals,

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Speaker 1: where we talk about the ways people have died throughout

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Speaker 1: history to cope with our own mortality. Now, I'm your

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Speaker 1: host Nika, along with Gabby Hello Yeah, and Taylor. Hi, cuties.

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Speaker 1: So on today's show, we're going to be covering why

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Speaker 1: mirrors can be dangerous and some hot Viking content which

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Speaker 1: we love. These content warnings include snakes and pillaging and

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Speaker 1: gunshots and robbery and mental illness que alligator musical. Gabby, I,

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Speaker 1: I heard from my goddess friend Freya that you have

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Speaker 1: a Viking story to tell. Wow, that's crazy that you're

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Speaker 1: talking about Freya because we might talk about her later. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what a winkydink. Wow, what a coincident. It's as if

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Speaker 1: we've talked before. Um. Yeah, well I was mostly I

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Speaker 1: got Neil Gaiman wrote a Norse mythology book, and so

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Speaker 1: to distract myself from the pain of existence, I was like,

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Speaker 1: let's learn about Norse mythology. So that's how I got

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Speaker 1: here today with this story. Which, Yeah, sure, the dude

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Speaker 1: real dude, but why not. You know, stories can tell

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Speaker 1: us something fun too. This is not the most fact

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Speaker 1: based podcast, so it's okay, yeah we're not. We don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't dwell on the facts, you know, for producers,

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Speaker 1: we're Hollywood about it, um, So this is about well

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Speaker 1: Also a lot of people know this dude probably his

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Speaker 1: name was. His name was quote unquote Ragnar Lothbrook, and

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Speaker 1: he was the star of the show. Vikings too are

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Speaker 1: the main characters. So I haven't seen the show, but

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Speaker 1: you know, when you google him is the first thing

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Speaker 1: so maybe I'll watch it for some more fun escapism

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Speaker 1: into like horrific violence and Scandinavia. So I think everyone

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Speaker 1: in that show is hot, so good quality content on

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Speaker 1: my end, I reckon Well, I feel like, yeah, since

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Speaker 1: we like have talked about Vikings before, Like, I think

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be hot default because they really cared

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Speaker 1: about their appearance. You know, they like you know, would

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Speaker 1: They had no teeth too. You mentioned the weird teeth,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, weird teeth and cool hair. Yeah, well, they

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Speaker 1: just like grew their hair. They didn't cut their hair

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Speaker 1: right and they had quite the accessories. Accessories. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: knew how to do an accessory to murder. Nope, and

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Speaker 1: well they all so did murders and pillaging and raping

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Speaker 1: and all sorts of good things like that. You know.

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Speaker 1: Great anyway, Okay, so this is we're going back to

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Speaker 1: the eight hundreds a good time. You know, this is

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Speaker 1: King Charlemagne died and he was the king of the

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Speaker 1: the Franks. Anyway, he controlled a lot of continental Europe

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Speaker 1: at the time, but then he died, which then created

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Speaker 1: or whatever the fuck she said recently. So Charlemagne he died,

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Speaker 1: of the mythic figures of this time was Ragnar Lothbrook

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Speaker 1: and as I was saying, yeah, maybe he's not a

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Speaker 1: been inspired by someone even yea, so okay, go ahead, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So there are some people that they're like, there could

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Speaker 1: king of the sea, sometimes you gotta have that like

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Speaker 1: self confidence, you know. Yeah, I've never met Jason Momoa,

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Speaker 1: Addison has us in the comments. Put us on your story, dude. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but with rag narsty one of obviously, you know he

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Speaker 1: his amazing pants. Okay, I thought you were gonna say, like,

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Speaker 1: amazing penis. I was gonna be like, wells, I bet

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Speaker 1: he had a good one. But it's his pants, Taylor,

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Speaker 1: we can say something. No, I want to know about

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Speaker 1: these pants though. Okay, So he had made these pants

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Speaker 1: from some cow hide, and then according to legend not reality,

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Speaker 1: um Piana, where's the album? But like Viking death scenes

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Speaker 1: a lot of bad on her that she was like

418
00:25:07,805 --> 00:25:10,885
Speaker 1: very I don't want to say saucy is not the word,

419
00:25:10,965 --> 00:25:14,165
Speaker 1: but like slutty. They basically called the slushed her. They

420
00:25:14,165 --> 00:25:17,205
Speaker 1: called her a slut oude, yeah, because they were trying

421
00:25:17,205 --> 00:25:20,005
Speaker 1: to get Pagans to convert. But this kind of actually

422
00:25:20,085 --> 00:25:22,485
Speaker 1: ended up working out for her because she was constantly

423
00:25:22,485 --> 00:25:25,565
Speaker 1: condemned by the church and therefore constantly remembered not only

424
00:25:25,565 --> 00:25:29,205
Speaker 1: by the church, by by people like peasants or whatever.

425
00:25:29,605 --> 00:25:32,645
Speaker 1: And she's actually one of the most widely worshiped pagan deities,

426
00:25:32,805 --> 00:25:37,725
Speaker 1: especially in the Scandinavia area. So people who practice witchcraft

427
00:25:37,765 --> 00:25:40,885
Speaker 1: will typically look to Freea for romantic help, for protection

428
00:25:40,925 --> 00:25:45,285
Speaker 1: and situations of domestic abuse, for fertility problems, and just whenever,

429
00:25:46,125 --> 00:25:49,805
Speaker 1: especially female witches need strength or encouragement, that's who they

430
00:25:49,885 --> 00:25:53,565
Speaker 1: usually go to. And it's also said that the two

431
00:25:53,605 --> 00:25:56,765
Speaker 1: cats who pull her chariot became witches after serving her

432
00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:58,925
Speaker 1: for seven years, and then they were able to shape

433
00:25:58,925 --> 00:26:02,005
Speaker 1: shift into black cats to hide their identities, which as

434
00:26:02,005 --> 00:26:04,805
Speaker 1: a black cat owner I found adorable. I was reading

435
00:26:04,845 --> 00:26:06,885
Speaker 1: all of these like p in websites and they were

436
00:26:06,925 --> 00:26:09,925
Speaker 1: saying that the one way of like showing honor to

437
00:26:09,965 --> 00:26:15,805
Speaker 1: Freya is by being nice to cats by beekeeping because

438
00:26:15,805 --> 00:26:19,165
Speaker 1: she loves honey, and then by celebrating Friday the thirteenth

439
00:26:19,165 --> 00:26:22,165
Speaker 1: as Freya's Day, because that is actually where the word

440
00:26:22,205 --> 00:26:26,685
Speaker 1: Friday comes from, which is pretty cool. Yeah, that's fun.

441
00:26:28,245 --> 00:26:32,325
Speaker 1: I love my Catt do. I don't think he's a

442
00:26:32,325 --> 00:26:36,085
Speaker 1: witch though you don't think so it's too lazy. Yeah,

443
00:26:36,085 --> 00:26:40,565
Speaker 1: he's literally right here. Oh oh my gosh, Jimmy is

444
00:26:40,725 --> 00:26:44,845
Speaker 1: passed out on Gabby's lap. That's adorable anyway. So yeah,

445
00:26:44,845 --> 00:26:49,045
Speaker 1: and I know Taylor, you love bees, so that's kind

446
00:26:49,045 --> 00:26:51,165
Speaker 1: of your connection with Freya, and I just think that's

447
00:26:51,165 --> 00:26:53,685
Speaker 1: really sweet. I think we can all find ways to

448
00:26:53,845 --> 00:26:58,885
Speaker 1: tap into that strong energy today. Okay, great, Yeah, that's great. Nika.

449
00:26:59,205 --> 00:27:02,085
Speaker 1: Thanks for grounding us back in reality by the end

450
00:27:02,125 --> 00:27:06,005
Speaker 1: of that, because I obviously didn't start strong and reality.

451
00:27:06,205 --> 00:27:08,925
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Well, I think we're about to get extremely

452
00:27:08,965 --> 00:27:12,845
Speaker 1: grounded in reality because Taylor has a terrifying tale that

453
00:27:12,885 --> 00:27:15,445
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with fantasy and has everything to

454
00:27:15,445 --> 00:27:19,845
Speaker 1: do with people being violent. So yeah, it's probably the

455
00:27:19,845 --> 00:27:23,325
Speaker 1: worst kind of reality. Yeah, it's a really really this

456
00:27:23,405 --> 00:27:27,725
Speaker 1: is a really sad story. So oh goody yep, So

457
00:27:27,845 --> 00:27:30,645
Speaker 1: here you go. So I'm going to tell you about

458
00:27:30,725 --> 00:27:35,245
Speaker 1: Ruthie May McCoy. She lived in the projects of Chicago

459
00:27:35,405 --> 00:27:39,765
Speaker 1: in a building called the Abbott Apartments. This complex was

460
00:27:39,805 --> 00:27:44,485
Speaker 1: like fifteen stories high, had drug dealers, gang members, other

461
00:27:44,565 --> 00:27:47,205
Speaker 1: people who couldn't you know, people who couldn't afford to

462
00:27:47,205 --> 00:27:51,365
Speaker 1: live elsewhere. It was just a bad part of town, etc. Etc.

463
00:27:52,525 --> 00:27:55,285
Speaker 1: So Ruthie May was known to be a bit of

464
00:27:55,285 --> 00:27:59,045
Speaker 1: a grout, which I understand that, but like she would

465
00:27:59,045 --> 00:28:01,005
Speaker 1: you be walking down the street and just yell at people,

466
00:28:01,165 --> 00:28:03,325
Speaker 1: cuss them out. As so passed by, she would like

467
00:28:04,085 --> 00:28:06,125
Speaker 1: have a stick in her hand and like wave it

468
00:28:06,165 --> 00:28:09,605
Speaker 1: at people, etc. She was just, you know, she was grumpy,

469
00:28:10,125 --> 00:28:14,005
Speaker 1: but she was also very paranoid. She also kind of

470
00:28:14,365 --> 00:28:16,685
Speaker 1: you know, in her early twenties, she had developed some

471
00:28:16,765 --> 00:28:21,405
Speaker 1: mental disorders. But by nineteen eighty seven, when she was

472
00:28:21,445 --> 00:28:24,685
Speaker 1: fifty two, she decided enough was enough and she was

473
00:28:24,685 --> 00:28:27,925
Speaker 1: gonna get her life together. So she was getting her ged,

474
00:28:28,285 --> 00:28:30,605
Speaker 1: She got a lot of her mental issues under control.

475
00:28:31,325 --> 00:28:33,565
Speaker 1: She was starting to make a little extra money, so

476
00:28:33,605 --> 00:28:36,565
Speaker 1: she was able to get clothes and so she would

477
00:28:36,725 --> 00:28:39,885
Speaker 1: get a job. But still she was still living in

478
00:28:39,885 --> 00:28:43,085
Speaker 1: the Abbot Apartments. She still didn't make enough money to

479
00:28:43,085 --> 00:28:45,605
Speaker 1: get out of there. So and she did have one

480
00:28:45,645 --> 00:28:47,365
Speaker 1: friend in the building who she would visit on her

481
00:28:47,365 --> 00:28:50,405
Speaker 1: way out every day. But m and everybody was like, Okay,

482
00:28:50,525 --> 00:28:53,485
Speaker 1: she's like getting less grumpy, like she's getting her life together.

483
00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:59,205
Speaker 1: Everybody was really proud of her. So these apartments, they

484
00:28:59,205 --> 00:29:02,885
Speaker 1: were the elevators never worked, super run down, like you

485
00:29:02,965 --> 00:29:04,765
Speaker 1: never really knew who was actually living there and who

486
00:29:04,885 --> 00:29:08,045
Speaker 1: was just like waters and like since it was so big,

487
00:29:08,125 --> 00:29:12,645
Speaker 1: this was like big apartments like that really are good

488
00:29:12,685 --> 00:29:15,405
Speaker 1: for crime and whatnot because you don't know who your

489
00:29:15,445 --> 00:29:17,885
Speaker 1: neighbors are and so you can't really keep track of things.

490
00:29:18,645 --> 00:29:21,445
Speaker 1: So anytime there was like an empty apartment, they would

491
00:29:21,445 --> 00:29:23,845
Speaker 1: just they would literally have to board it up, which

492
00:29:23,885 --> 00:29:26,965
Speaker 1: didn't work, but that was they had to go that far.

493
00:29:28,085 --> 00:29:31,565
Speaker 1: So cops were often being called there. There was all

494
00:29:31,685 --> 00:29:34,725
Speaker 1: kinds of crime and what not going on. Then on

495
00:29:34,765 --> 00:29:38,565
Speaker 1: April twenty second, nineteen eighty seven, Ruthie May called police

496
00:29:38,725 --> 00:29:43,405
Speaker 1: around eight forty five pm and she was frantic and

497
00:29:43,485 --> 00:29:47,005
Speaker 1: she said, quote, they throwed the cabinet down. I'm in

498
00:29:47,045 --> 00:29:50,125
Speaker 1: the projects on the other side. They can reach my bathroom.

499
00:29:50,725 --> 00:29:54,325
Speaker 1: They want to come through the bathroom. What so that's

500
00:29:55,325 --> 00:29:58,245
Speaker 1: so cryptic, and the cops were like, Okay, what's happening, Like,

501
00:29:58,325 --> 00:30:00,845
Speaker 1: what's going on? They were like, we'll send somebody out there.

502
00:30:00,885 --> 00:30:04,045
Speaker 1: But they determined that it was a disturbance with a neighbor,

503
00:30:04,965 --> 00:30:08,645
Speaker 1: and so they were like, not a super big rush.

504
00:30:08,725 --> 00:30:12,125
Speaker 1: They were just like they're having an argument or something,

505
00:30:12,205 --> 00:30:15,005
Speaker 1: but not a big deal, right, But like nobody cops

506
00:30:15,045 --> 00:30:17,285
Speaker 1: don't really show up. So then they get a call

507
00:30:17,325 --> 00:30:21,085
Speaker 1: a little bit later from two separate neighbors claiming that

508
00:30:21,125 --> 00:30:24,605
Speaker 1: they have heard screaming and gunshots. So police are like, okay,

509
00:30:24,645 --> 00:30:28,045
Speaker 1: I guess we'll go. So it takes them, I guess

510
00:30:28,045 --> 00:30:31,685
Speaker 1: we'll go. Okay, all right, Yeah, So they arrive in

511
00:30:31,885 --> 00:30:33,525
Speaker 1: like it takes them like ten minutes to get there,

512
00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:37,965
Speaker 1: knock on Ruthie May's door. There's no answer, and so

513
00:30:38,085 --> 00:30:40,285
Speaker 1: they call her. They hear the phone ring, but again

514
00:30:40,805 --> 00:30:43,925
Speaker 1: no answer. So the police are like, what do we do.

515
00:30:44,525 --> 00:30:46,285
Speaker 1: I guess we'll call the janitor and see if they

516
00:30:46,285 --> 00:30:48,925
Speaker 1: have a key or whatever. Well, the janitor couldn't find

517
00:30:48,925 --> 00:30:51,005
Speaker 1: a key that worked. They were like kind of accusing

518
00:30:51,045 --> 00:30:54,125
Speaker 1: her of being because she was so paranoid. They're like,

519
00:30:54,125 --> 00:30:56,485
Speaker 1: she's just really paranoid. She changed the locks and she's

520
00:30:56,485 --> 00:30:59,205
Speaker 1: not supposed to do that. The cops are like, okay,

521
00:30:59,245 --> 00:31:02,925
Speaker 1: well it's probably fine, so we'll just leave. So the

522
00:31:02,965 --> 00:31:07,005
Speaker 1: next evening, Ruthie May's neighbor, who remember Ruthie would visit

523
00:31:07,085 --> 00:31:10,285
Speaker 1: before leaving, was concerned because she hadn't. She didn't see

524
00:31:10,365 --> 00:31:12,725
Speaker 1: Ruthie May that day and that was odd because she

525
00:31:12,805 --> 00:31:16,125
Speaker 1: came by every day. So she calls the cops and

526
00:31:16,125 --> 00:31:18,405
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, can you do a wellness check? I'm

527
00:31:18,405 --> 00:31:22,445
Speaker 1: worried about her. Cops show up again, knock, knock, knock,

528
00:31:22,925 --> 00:31:25,645
Speaker 1: no answer, and they're like, oh, what will we do?

529
00:31:26,445 --> 00:31:28,205
Speaker 1: They're like, do we have a good enough reason to

530
00:31:28,245 --> 00:31:31,845
Speaker 1: knock the door down? And then they're like, nah, we don't.

531
00:31:32,445 --> 00:31:35,085
Speaker 1: And the building like the building people were like, we

532
00:31:35,085 --> 00:31:36,885
Speaker 1: don't want to have to deal with that anyway. So

533
00:31:37,085 --> 00:31:39,845
Speaker 1: the cops are like, okay, fine, well leave. So the

534
00:31:39,845 --> 00:31:43,645
Speaker 1: cops leave and come back the next day. They come

535
00:31:43,645 --> 00:31:45,725
Speaker 1: with somebody to like drill the lock so that they

536
00:31:45,765 --> 00:31:48,885
Speaker 1: can get in, and that is when they find Ruthie

537
00:31:48,885 --> 00:31:52,845
Speaker 1: May with four gunshot wounds laying on her bed. Oh

538
00:31:52,885 --> 00:31:58,485
Speaker 1: my god. So what They're like, Oh, what happened? We

539
00:31:58,765 --> 00:32:03,725
Speaker 1: whoop sees. So apparently what Ruthie May was trying to

540
00:32:03,765 --> 00:32:06,885
Speaker 1: say was that somebody was climbing through her medicine cabinet

541
00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:10,445
Speaker 1: and her bathroom and that's exactly what that is. Exactly

542
00:32:10,525 --> 00:32:14,565
Speaker 1: what happened. The intruder or intruder's plural climbed in through

543
00:32:14,605 --> 00:32:19,085
Speaker 1: the bathroom mirror what pow. So the way that the

544
00:32:19,125 --> 00:32:22,525
Speaker 1: building was constructed, there are like like the two neighboring

545
00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:26,405
Speaker 1: apartments medicine cabinets were like back to back, but there

546
00:32:26,525 --> 00:32:30,845
Speaker 1: was nothing in between the medicine cabinets besides like plumbing.

547
00:32:31,285 --> 00:32:33,045
Speaker 1: And the reason that they left it there is they're like, oh,

548
00:32:33,045 --> 00:32:35,125
Speaker 1: it'll just be easier to get to the plumbing if

549
00:32:35,165 --> 00:32:38,045
Speaker 1: there's an issue. So there was just basically a hole

550
00:32:38,125 --> 00:32:40,165
Speaker 1: between the two. And so what they would what people

551
00:32:40,205 --> 00:32:44,765
Speaker 1: would do is they would remove the medicine cabinets from

552
00:32:45,445 --> 00:32:48,765
Speaker 1: from the bathroom wall and then they could like climb

553
00:32:48,845 --> 00:32:51,085
Speaker 1: through the plumbing. I mean it was like a small hole,

554
00:32:51,165 --> 00:32:53,205
Speaker 1: but like if you were small enough, like you could

555
00:32:53,205 --> 00:32:57,725
Speaker 1: fit through the mirror. So that's exactly what happened. These

556
00:32:57,765 --> 00:33:00,445
Speaker 1: guys like went through and what they kind of assumed

557
00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:05,885
Speaker 1: happened was they had noticed that she was thriving. Ruthie

558
00:33:05,885 --> 00:33:08,405
Speaker 1: May was thriving and like potentially made a little bit

559
00:33:08,445 --> 00:33:12,045
Speaker 1: more money. Like they specifically they were like like everybody

560
00:33:12,085 --> 00:33:14,485
Speaker 1: was talking about it, like, oh, she's doing really well.

561
00:33:15,125 --> 00:33:18,765
Speaker 1: She must have money now, Like she was even getting

562
00:33:18,965 --> 00:33:23,725
Speaker 1: like conned by preachers air quote preachers and stuff by

563
00:33:23,765 --> 00:33:26,285
Speaker 1: being like, oh, I see that, like you're making money now,

564
00:33:26,405 --> 00:33:29,325
Speaker 1: like in order to be saved and all of this stuff,

565
00:33:29,365 --> 00:33:31,365
Speaker 1: like you just you can just write me a check

566
00:33:31,565 --> 00:33:34,285
Speaker 1: or whatever, and she would do it. She was like

567
00:33:34,485 --> 00:33:36,885
Speaker 1: she had a lot of faith and she like believed

568
00:33:36,885 --> 00:33:41,045
Speaker 1: in people at this point anyway, So they assumed that

569
00:33:41,085 --> 00:33:43,325
Speaker 1: they came in to like assuming that she had money

570
00:33:43,485 --> 00:33:47,245
Speaker 1: or whatever. This is so sad, I know. So so

571
00:33:47,285 --> 00:33:50,485
Speaker 1: obviously they murdered her. And they mentioned that they stole

572
00:33:50,525 --> 00:33:54,685
Speaker 1: at least three items, one of which was a phone.

573
00:33:55,445 --> 00:33:58,965
Speaker 1: Was the phone, so if you remember that first night,

574
00:33:59,005 --> 00:34:01,805
Speaker 1: the cops called and they heard the phone ring, so

575
00:34:01,965 --> 00:34:04,845
Speaker 1: like it's possible that they were still in there or

576
00:34:05,005 --> 00:34:07,765
Speaker 1: like gosh that or they came back to and like

577
00:34:07,845 --> 00:34:10,765
Speaker 1: stole the items later, which is totally possible as well.

578
00:34:11,685 --> 00:34:16,485
Speaker 1: So these two kids, Ted Turner, not Atlanti's Ted, but

579
00:34:17,085 --> 00:34:20,565
Speaker 1: he was eighteen, and John Honduras, who was twenty one,

580
00:34:20,925 --> 00:34:24,885
Speaker 1: were apparently seen taking her TV and rocking chair like

581
00:34:24,925 --> 00:34:28,925
Speaker 1: after she died. But like there was really there was

582
00:34:29,005 --> 00:34:31,965
Speaker 1: just a lack of evidence and so the charges were dropped,

583
00:34:32,565 --> 00:34:36,325
Speaker 1: so we don't really know if it actually was them

584
00:34:36,605 --> 00:34:40,765
Speaker 1: or anything. So so anyway, so that is like the

585
00:34:40,965 --> 00:34:44,605
Speaker 1: super sad story of Ruthie May. Now, so there's a

586
00:34:44,605 --> 00:34:47,445
Speaker 1: couple of things about this case that's like really interesting. Obviously,

587
00:34:47,525 --> 00:34:52,285
Speaker 1: like people climbing in through mirrors is like super sketchy

588
00:34:52,325 --> 00:34:58,085
Speaker 1: and weird and terrifying. But this case was appears to

589
00:34:58,125 --> 00:35:00,765
Speaker 1: be what the movie candy Man was based off of,

590
00:35:01,005 --> 00:35:04,685
Speaker 1: which was filmed a few years later or released a

591
00:35:04,685 --> 00:35:07,565
Speaker 1: few years later. They were both took place in the

592
00:35:07,645 --> 00:35:11,525
Speaker 1: Chicago Projects. Very similar situation came in through the bathroom

593
00:35:11,565 --> 00:35:16,485
Speaker 1: mirror and even the last name McCoy and it was

594
00:35:16,525 --> 00:35:21,845
Speaker 1: like a double name and McCoy, So that's like it's

595
00:35:21,925 --> 00:35:24,045
Speaker 1: it's kind of like I believe that some of the

596
00:35:24,085 --> 00:35:26,685
Speaker 1: producers actually reached out to people who worked in the

597
00:35:26,725 --> 00:35:28,605
Speaker 1: building and were like, hey, like do you want to

598
00:35:28,605 --> 00:35:30,805
Speaker 1: consult on this, and they were like, well, I'll read

599
00:35:30,845 --> 00:35:33,685
Speaker 1: the script, but you know, if I find that it's

600
00:35:33,685 --> 00:35:36,885
Speaker 1: like in poor taste or whatever, then I won't. So yeah,

601
00:35:37,365 --> 00:35:40,565
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, and it is highly likely

602
00:35:40,725 --> 00:35:43,885
Speaker 1: that candy Man was based off of this case. Wow,

603
00:35:44,445 --> 00:35:49,725
Speaker 1: and they never caught the killer essentially, No, I mean

604
00:35:49,765 --> 00:35:52,845
Speaker 1: they arrested those two boys, but then two years later

605
00:35:53,525 --> 00:35:56,805
Speaker 1: the charges were dropped because of a lack of evidence. Now,

606
00:35:57,325 --> 00:35:59,765
Speaker 1: Ruthie May had did have a daughter, and the daughter

607
00:35:59,925 --> 00:36:03,925
Speaker 1: sued the apartment complex for for like not helping in them.

608
00:36:04,125 --> 00:36:05,885
Speaker 1: I don't I can't remember exactly why it was, but

609
00:36:06,005 --> 00:36:09,605
Speaker 1: like they sued the apartment complex for her murder, and

610
00:36:09,645 --> 00:36:13,045
Speaker 1: then they made a scary movie. Oh my gosh. But

611
00:36:13,245 --> 00:36:15,885
Speaker 1: there's also I don't know if you've seen this. I

612
00:36:15,885 --> 00:36:18,445
Speaker 1: came across this one TikTok. There was this girl, I

613
00:36:18,445 --> 00:36:21,765
Speaker 1: think she was in New York who like always felt

614
00:36:21,765 --> 00:36:24,085
Speaker 1: a draft in her bathroom and she couldn't figure out

615
00:36:24,085 --> 00:36:26,165
Speaker 1: what it was coming from. So she like investigates and

616
00:36:26,165 --> 00:36:29,405
Speaker 1: finds that it's coming from her mirror. So she hate that.

617
00:36:29,725 --> 00:36:32,685
Speaker 1: So she's like, I'm gonna figure this out. So if

618
00:36:32,725 --> 00:36:36,925
Speaker 1: she takes the mirror off, same like medicine cabinet type situation,

619
00:36:37,005 --> 00:36:39,245
Speaker 1: takes the mirror off, and there's like a whole other

620
00:36:39,285 --> 00:36:43,365
Speaker 1: apartment back there, so like this is empty, right, yeah,

621
00:36:43,365 --> 00:36:45,885
Speaker 1: this is like abandoned. That makes you want to throw up.

622
00:36:45,965 --> 00:36:49,405
Speaker 1: I can't. And so she's like how sketchy is that?

623
00:36:49,605 --> 00:36:52,005
Speaker 1: And also secondly, she lives in New York. She's like,

624
00:36:52,045 --> 00:36:54,085
Speaker 1: this is a whole this is prime real estate here,

625
00:36:54,245 --> 00:36:57,805
Speaker 1: Like what the heck? But and it's just wait, did

626
00:36:57,885 --> 00:37:00,845
Speaker 1: anyone figure out why that apartment was there? I'm gonna

627
00:37:00,885 --> 00:37:02,525
Speaker 1: do some research if I don't know. I haven't done

628
00:37:02,525 --> 00:37:04,605
Speaker 1: research on that, but like that is That's one of

629
00:37:04,605 --> 00:37:09,685
Speaker 1: my biggest fears, is like you taking their medicine cabinet

630
00:37:09,725 --> 00:37:11,845
Speaker 1: off of your house and then they're being a whole

631
00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:15,605
Speaker 1: nother reality behind it. Well yeah, yeah, because you don't know,

632
00:37:16,005 --> 00:37:18,365
Speaker 1: Like that just freaks me out. Or the idea of

633
00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:21,725
Speaker 1: someone living in your house and you're not even knowing

634
00:37:21,805 --> 00:37:23,805
Speaker 1: that they live in your house, like if because they're

635
00:37:23,845 --> 00:37:26,805
Speaker 1: the attic or something like that, like that terrifies me.

636
00:37:26,925 --> 00:37:29,565
Speaker 1: That terrifies so scary. I think about that all the

637
00:37:29,565 --> 00:37:31,605
Speaker 1: time that somebody's I'm like my crawl spaced on. Oh

638
00:37:31,645 --> 00:37:35,125
Speaker 1: my god, Taylor. I worry about that more than I

639
00:37:35,125 --> 00:37:42,365
Speaker 1: probably should Yeah, it's it's me, got me my new

640
00:37:42,405 --> 00:37:46,445
Speaker 1: apartment that you haven't seen. It's actually Taylor's crawl space.

641
00:37:46,645 --> 00:37:49,125
Speaker 1: This is just a backdrop back here. That's a really

642
00:37:49,125 --> 00:37:52,165
Speaker 1: good backdrop. Thank you. Yeah, it looks really nice. I'm

643
00:37:52,165 --> 00:37:54,285
Speaker 1: glad you at least it's like a nice nice job

644
00:37:54,285 --> 00:37:59,325
Speaker 1: on it. Thank you. Pretty good lighting too. Yeah. Wow, um, well,

645
00:37:59,485 --> 00:38:01,645
Speaker 1: thank you Taylor for reminding me of one of my

646
00:38:02,605 --> 00:38:06,045
Speaker 1: unreasonable fears. That is something I can and think about

647
00:38:06,085 --> 00:38:08,725
Speaker 1: tonight as I try to sleep. All right, Well, when

648
00:38:08,765 --> 00:38:14,405
Speaker 1: we come back, you know, more mirror trouble he he he,

649
00:38:17,325 --> 00:38:23,325
Speaker 1: welcome back. Wow. Well this episode has been a roller coaster,

650
00:38:23,765 --> 00:38:26,765
Speaker 1: it really has. It's been all over the place. Yeah yeah, yeah,

651
00:38:26,765 --> 00:38:30,965
Speaker 1: from very sobering truths to like volvas and you know,

652
00:38:31,125 --> 00:38:34,525
Speaker 1: magical pants and stuff which are not the same thing,

653
00:38:34,965 --> 00:38:38,845
Speaker 1: not the same thing. Okay, So Taylor sent me a

654
00:38:38,845 --> 00:38:42,005
Speaker 1: super fun link that led to hours in a wormhole

655
00:38:42,125 --> 00:38:46,125
Speaker 1: of knowledge and confusion that I feel super happy I

656
00:38:46,125 --> 00:38:48,645
Speaker 1: get to share with you all today. If I don't

657
00:38:48,645 --> 00:38:52,365
Speaker 1: explain it, well, I'm sorry. I'm not a physicist. I

658
00:38:52,485 --> 00:38:56,005
Speaker 1: literally don't have a college degree, so you can imagine

659
00:38:56,005 --> 00:39:00,885
Speaker 1: how researching this went. Okay, maybe you'll get an honorary degree. Now, Nika,

660
00:39:00,925 --> 00:39:02,685
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even have to go to college. You'll just

661
00:39:02,765 --> 00:39:04,925
Speaker 1: get a physics degree. I'll be nice Oa from like

662
00:39:05,005 --> 00:39:10,325
Speaker 1: Harve Hard. So we all know atoms like the small

663
00:39:10,365 --> 00:39:17,485
Speaker 1: little atom, like the like no atoms. Atoms, Yes, I've

664
00:39:17,485 --> 00:39:21,925
Speaker 1: heard of them, quite small, Okay, So it is for

665
00:39:22,005 --> 00:39:25,485
Speaker 1: people who might not be familiar. It is what basically

666
00:39:25,525 --> 00:39:28,605
Speaker 1: everything is made out of. I know they are made of.

667
00:39:28,725 --> 00:39:34,765
Speaker 1: Get ready for this, you guys, Protons, neutrons, and electrons. Okay.

668
00:39:34,805 --> 00:39:38,605
Speaker 1: I love the chaotic energy of an electron. Oh my gosh,

669
00:39:38,685 --> 00:39:41,565
Speaker 1: you are an electron. That's so cute. Oh wait, this

670
00:39:41,605 --> 00:39:44,605
Speaker 1: is a fun game, Gabby. Okay, So Nika is a proton.

671
00:39:45,165 --> 00:39:49,045
Speaker 1: Why the frick am I a proton? Gabby is a neutron? Hello,

672
00:39:49,125 --> 00:39:52,365
Speaker 1: I said, why am? I don't know? Is it because

673
00:39:52,365 --> 00:39:58,085
Speaker 1: I'm aggressivetron? Because I feel like neutrons is like neutral

674
00:39:58,165 --> 00:40:01,205
Speaker 1: and you kind of have like that neutral tone of voice.

675
00:40:01,685 --> 00:40:04,125
Speaker 1: Oh I thought it was always the evil one. And

676
00:40:04,165 --> 00:40:06,725
Speaker 1: then that's so I'd be the elect tron. No, Taylor

677
00:40:06,765 --> 00:40:10,205
Speaker 1: is the electron. I think Gabby's the neutron. Because Gabby

678
00:40:10,245 --> 00:40:12,845
Speaker 1: without anyone fizzles out and dies in fourteen minutes and

679
00:40:12,925 --> 00:40:17,245
Speaker 1: forty eight seconds, as we're about to find out. Okay, anyway,

680
00:40:17,725 --> 00:40:21,765
Speaker 1: that was a rost. Okay, No, I appreciate that. I like,

681
00:40:21,965 --> 00:40:24,725
Speaker 1: I will be thinking about myself for a while after

682
00:40:24,765 --> 00:40:27,445
Speaker 1: that comment. So sorry if I don't do any sweet

683
00:40:27,525 --> 00:40:33,245
Speaker 1: riffs minutes, so sorry. Okay. So yeah, you know we're

684
00:40:33,565 --> 00:40:36,645
Speaker 1: getting very basic. Okay, now that we have the cadaver

685
00:40:36,725 --> 00:40:40,365
Speaker 1: gals categorized. So when neutrons are by themselves, as I

686
00:40:40,445 --> 00:40:44,165
Speaker 1: just mentioned, they're floating around, not attached to protons or electrons,

687
00:40:44,405 --> 00:40:50,765
Speaker 1: they are very unstable and begin to decay a key

688
00:40:50,845 --> 00:40:55,965
Speaker 1: component can confirm. Honestly, me too, though me too. I'm

689
00:40:55,965 --> 00:40:58,165
Speaker 1: the one who's like, I've been in long term relationships

690
00:40:59,245 --> 00:41:03,045
Speaker 1: more than I probably should at just twenty four years

691
00:41:03,045 --> 00:41:05,205
Speaker 1: of age, which, by the way, I'm twenty four. Happy

692
00:41:05,245 --> 00:41:09,525
Speaker 1: birth to me, Happy birthday. I like how we're like

693
00:41:09,685 --> 00:41:15,685
Speaker 1: using atoms to like manifest our external traumas to the listeners.

694
00:41:15,765 --> 00:41:20,885
Speaker 1: I appreciate this. The physicists hate us because I'm sure

695
00:41:21,005 --> 00:41:27,685
Speaker 1: business are listening. If you are a physicist, please stop listening. No,

696
00:41:27,765 --> 00:41:29,725
Speaker 1: I was gonna say comment and just tell us how

697
00:41:29,805 --> 00:41:32,525
Speaker 1: dumb we are. Let's tell my therapist XT week. Yeah.

698
00:41:32,565 --> 00:41:34,845
Speaker 1: I've just been really feeling like a neutron recent They're

699
00:41:34,885 --> 00:41:38,765
Speaker 1: just like, ye honestly, um okay, Well, anyway, A key

700
00:41:38,765 --> 00:41:42,285
Speaker 1: component to atoms and all of this atoms what we

701
00:41:42,325 --> 00:41:46,605
Speaker 1: are made of is that um. All of protons, neutrons,

702
00:41:46,645 --> 00:41:49,605
Speaker 1: and electrons are the same. They react in the same ways.

703
00:41:49,725 --> 00:41:53,085
Speaker 1: This is important. This is like a law of physics. God,

704
00:41:53,085 --> 00:41:55,845
Speaker 1: I hope I don't fuck this off. Scared? Okay, yeah,

705
00:41:56,125 --> 00:41:58,405
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're going with this. I get

706
00:41:58,445 --> 00:42:02,605
Speaker 1: ready strap in. Are we going to Valhalla again? This

707
00:42:02,765 --> 00:42:07,965
Speaker 1: is this related to Norse mythology. We're going somewhere even weirder. Okay, okay,

708
00:42:08,125 --> 00:42:10,605
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. When scientists were doing an experiment to find

709
00:42:10,605 --> 00:42:14,005
Speaker 1: out how long does it take neutrons to decay, they

710
00:42:14,085 --> 00:42:21,085
Speaker 1: found a discrepancy. Oh god, oh sorry, I'm laughing that

711
00:42:21,125 --> 00:42:25,365
Speaker 1: we've we've said the gap is a neutron. God, that's

712
00:42:25,445 --> 00:42:28,885
Speaker 1: gonna fum sorry. Okay. It took a beam of neutrons

713
00:42:29,005 --> 00:42:32,405
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes and forty eight seconds to fully decay in

714
00:42:32,525 --> 00:42:38,965
Speaker 1: beam form, okay, beam not being formed? Okay, then, well

715
00:42:39,005 --> 00:42:46,525
Speaker 1: I'm always in being for guys, I'm trying to teach. Okay, no,

716
00:42:46,645 --> 00:42:49,525
Speaker 1: I know how my side, my middle school science professor,

717
00:42:49,605 --> 00:42:54,365
Speaker 1: doctor Truelove felt okay tbd. Not like her. Okay, oh

718
00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:58,725
Speaker 1: my god roasted not like her. She was really mean

719
00:42:58,765 --> 00:43:02,245
Speaker 1: to me the first time I ever, like my literally

720
00:43:02,365 --> 00:43:04,685
Speaker 1: second day of school in the US. I had never

721
00:43:04,685 --> 00:43:06,605
Speaker 1: seen a scantron before. I know what the fuck those

722
00:43:06,605 --> 00:43:08,605
Speaker 1: things were. And she gave me a scantron test and

723
00:43:08,605 --> 00:43:10,325
Speaker 1: I literally looked at this and I was like, what

724
00:43:10,365 --> 00:43:12,565
Speaker 1: am I supposed to do? And she likes said something

725
00:43:12,565 --> 00:43:15,165
Speaker 1: hellas enophobic, like low key. I don't remember exactly what

726
00:43:15,165 --> 00:43:16,765
Speaker 1: it was, but it was basically something like what you

727
00:43:16,765 --> 00:43:18,565
Speaker 1: don't have these where you come from? And I was like,

728
00:43:19,685 --> 00:43:23,605
Speaker 1: what the heck? Okay, Also, scantron's not something to be

729
00:43:23,685 --> 00:43:28,325
Speaker 1: proud of, you know, yeah, it's really not anyway, America

730
00:43:28,525 --> 00:43:33,565
Speaker 1: home of the scantrons. Okay, so listen, listen. So they

731
00:43:33,565 --> 00:43:36,365
Speaker 1: then put the same amount of neutrons, the same amount

732
00:43:36,605 --> 00:43:39,125
Speaker 1: in a lab bottle, and they did the exact same experiment,

733
00:43:39,365 --> 00:43:42,125
Speaker 1: but this time it took the neutrons fourteen minutes and

734
00:43:42,205 --> 00:43:45,685
Speaker 1: thirty eight seconds to fully decay. That is a ten

735
00:43:45,965 --> 00:43:50,245
Speaker 1: second time difference, which is a very big deal for physicists. Okay,

736
00:43:50,365 --> 00:43:53,765
Speaker 1: physicists are people who like point zero zero one seconds off.

737
00:43:53,805 --> 00:43:55,405
Speaker 1: Oh god, gotta run the test again, you know what

738
00:43:55,445 --> 00:44:00,045
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, yeah, me not okay. So they initially

739
00:44:00,125 --> 00:44:04,165
Speaker 1: blamed user error or faulty machinery understandably, but the experiment

740
00:44:04,205 --> 00:44:06,885
Speaker 1: has been done multiple times throughout the years and still

741
00:44:07,125 --> 00:44:11,205
Speaker 1: ten to nine second delay, which is weird. Now, this

742
00:44:11,325 --> 00:44:15,205
Speaker 1: is where mirrors come in. Anatoli Sarah Brov from the

743
00:44:15,245 --> 00:44:19,285
Speaker 1: Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, which by the way, needs to

744
00:44:19,405 --> 00:44:22,445
Speaker 1: update its website, said that the reason for the delay

745
00:44:22,485 --> 00:44:27,125
Speaker 1: in time is that sometimes ordinary neutrons instead of this,

746
00:44:27,645 --> 00:44:31,605
Speaker 1: cross into a mirror universe, where they become mirror neutrons,

747
00:44:31,725 --> 00:44:33,605
Speaker 1: which is why we don't see them anymore and they

748
00:44:33,605 --> 00:44:39,765
Speaker 1: are impossible to count. Wait, yeah, what Maybe that's why

749
00:44:39,805 --> 00:44:43,765
Speaker 1: their website is an updated because that's in the mirror universe.

750
00:44:44,365 --> 00:44:48,405
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah. They're very busy. What the fuck

751
00:44:48,525 --> 00:44:52,605
Speaker 1: is a mirror? What does that mean? That seems saying no,

752
00:44:52,925 --> 00:44:56,205
Speaker 1: So they're no, no, no, no no, They're trying to figure

753
00:44:56,205 --> 00:44:59,205
Speaker 1: out what is this ten second difference? Where do those

754
00:44:59,245 --> 00:45:02,685
Speaker 1: neutrons go? That take away that ten second difference, and

755
00:45:02,845 --> 00:45:06,445
Speaker 1: this person said, they go into a mirror universe that

756
00:45:06,605 --> 00:45:09,845
Speaker 1: is just like ours, which is not It can be

757
00:45:09,765 --> 00:45:16,085
Speaker 1: a parallel universe. Yes, basically. Yeah, anyway, it's not that

758
00:45:16,205 --> 00:45:19,485
Speaker 1: crazy when you start researching it, but it's still kind

759
00:45:19,525 --> 00:45:21,445
Speaker 1: of a stretch. Like as I was reading this, I

760
00:45:21,485 --> 00:45:26,965
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I'm sorry, so so so the neutrons

761
00:45:27,005 --> 00:45:30,925
Speaker 1: that we cannot see. You immediately theorize that it is

762
00:45:30,965 --> 00:45:33,445
Speaker 1: because I snapped, by the way, listener, it is because

763
00:45:33,765 --> 00:45:37,645
Speaker 1: it goes into a mirror universe. Okay. So scientists have

764
00:45:37,725 --> 00:45:42,205
Speaker 1: actually taken this hypothesis seriously, and it could also explain

765
00:45:42,325 --> 00:45:45,885
Speaker 1: the strange phenomenon that is dark matter, which has been

766
00:45:45,925 --> 00:45:50,245
Speaker 1: observed not visually but rather by like gravitational polls that

767
00:45:50,325 --> 00:45:53,365
Speaker 1: cannot be explained unless we account for dark matter that

768
00:45:53,485 --> 00:45:57,165
Speaker 1: simply doesn't interact with the electromagnetic field, so we cannot

769
00:45:57,205 --> 00:45:59,165
Speaker 1: see it. We know it's there, but we can't see it.

770
00:45:59,845 --> 00:46:02,725
Speaker 1: So some scientists have said that maybe dark matter is

771
00:46:02,765 --> 00:46:07,245
Speaker 1: actually mirror matter living in a mirror universe but affecting

772
00:46:07,245 --> 00:46:12,445
Speaker 1: the gravitational pool of our universe. Mika, you definitely are

773
00:46:12,565 --> 00:46:15,485
Speaker 1: gonna you deserve an honorary degree from thank you. I

774
00:46:15,525 --> 00:46:19,525
Speaker 1: sound like I'm on adderall like I'm like, listen, guys,

775
00:46:19,845 --> 00:46:22,365
Speaker 1: but I so I actually thought that I thought everything

776
00:46:22,525 --> 00:46:27,245
Speaker 1: was a simulation. You said that. I never said a

777
00:46:27,285 --> 00:46:31,325
Speaker 1: simulation thing. Okay, I would love for this to be simulation.

778
00:46:31,605 --> 00:46:33,805
Speaker 1: Do you know how many times I played sims for

779
00:46:33,885 --> 00:46:36,085
Speaker 1: hours when I was younger. The idea of me being

780
00:46:36,125 --> 00:46:41,165
Speaker 1: a sim quite frankly turns me on. I wish. Oh anyway, okay, girl,

781
00:46:41,245 --> 00:46:46,765
Speaker 1: you are a sim Thank you sweating again? Okay, sou

782
00:46:47,565 --> 00:46:51,525
Speaker 1: To further this theory, if that is the case, and

783
00:46:51,605 --> 00:46:55,245
Speaker 1: dark matter is mirror matter living in a mirror universe,

784
00:46:55,645 --> 00:46:58,365
Speaker 1: then the mirror universe is very big because there is

785
00:46:58,405 --> 00:47:01,205
Speaker 1: way more dark matter in the universe than regular matter.

786
00:47:01,445 --> 00:47:03,885
Speaker 1: It has been observed there's like five times more dark

787
00:47:03,885 --> 00:47:06,845
Speaker 1: matter than regular matter, so must be. But if you

788
00:47:06,885 --> 00:47:09,885
Speaker 1: don't see dark matter, then how do you know because

789
00:47:10,165 --> 00:47:14,045
Speaker 1: of gravitational pulse. So like there was a diagram, well

790
00:47:14,085 --> 00:47:18,045
Speaker 1: a picture really of I think stars and planets and stuff,

791
00:47:18,165 --> 00:47:22,805
Speaker 1: and like they pointed with little arabs on the diagram

792
00:47:23,245 --> 00:47:26,645
Speaker 1: where the gravitational pool of dark matter was that kept

793
00:47:26,645 --> 00:47:29,565
Speaker 1: these planets away and stuff like that. That's the best

794
00:47:29,645 --> 00:47:31,045
Speaker 1: way I can describe it, but I can send you

795
00:47:31,045 --> 00:47:33,845
Speaker 1: a link. It made sense as I read it. As

796
00:47:33,885 --> 00:47:36,125
Speaker 1: I say that lauda might not make that much sense.

797
00:47:36,165 --> 00:47:39,005
Speaker 1: But dark matter is something that does exist that not

798
00:47:39,045 --> 00:47:41,165
Speaker 1: a lot of people know about. But that is confirmed.

799
00:47:41,245 --> 00:47:44,925
Speaker 1: Mirror matter not confirmed just yet. So there's people who

800
00:47:44,965 --> 00:47:48,245
Speaker 1: are also still trying to prove this, like doctor Leah Brossard.

801
00:47:48,405 --> 00:47:53,165
Speaker 1: She conducted an actual experiment to open a portal into

802
00:47:53,245 --> 00:47:56,285
Speaker 1: that mirror universe. And basically the experiment this was like

803
00:47:56,325 --> 00:48:03,205
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. She's a witch, yes, so basically she's

804
00:48:03,205 --> 00:48:06,285
Speaker 1: sending a beam of subatomic particles on a fifty foot

805
00:48:06,285 --> 00:48:12,005
Speaker 1: tunnel past a strong magnet and into an impenetrable wall. Impenetrable, Okay.

806
00:48:12,165 --> 00:48:15,245
Speaker 1: Her hypothesis is that, according to the current laws of physics,

807
00:48:15,645 --> 00:48:18,925
Speaker 1: no neutron should get past the barrier. Like it's just

808
00:48:19,005 --> 00:48:24,165
Speaker 1: it can't happen. It's impenetrable. Count exactly penetration. Anyway, if

809
00:48:24,165 --> 00:48:26,845
Speaker 1: the head count is off and some neutrons did pass

810
00:48:27,125 --> 00:48:31,005
Speaker 1: the impenetrable barrier, then they became mirror neutrons. And that's

811
00:48:31,045 --> 00:48:35,525
Speaker 1: evidence for the mirror universe. As best as I could

812
00:48:35,565 --> 00:48:41,525
Speaker 1: have understood its way. So they go through a medicine cabinet. Noah,

813
00:48:41,645 --> 00:48:44,845
Speaker 1: what okay, so I'm just thinking of the last story. No,

814
00:48:44,925 --> 00:48:47,445
Speaker 1: but that is my connection, mirror and mirror. See that's

815
00:48:47,445 --> 00:48:50,685
Speaker 1: my tangent. Oh, they should update Candy Man, and they

816
00:48:50,685 --> 00:48:55,445
Speaker 1: should make it about the missing neutrons. About the missing neutrons.

817
00:48:55,885 --> 00:48:59,685
Speaker 1: M Gabby is the missing neutron anyway. Um, So I

818
00:48:59,765 --> 00:49:01,725
Speaker 1: tried to find the results from this experiment because oh

819
00:49:01,765 --> 00:49:03,685
Speaker 1: my gosh, what if she did open a portal and

820
00:49:03,725 --> 00:49:06,565
Speaker 1: I was conducted in twenty nineteen. But I found nothing.

821
00:49:07,365 --> 00:49:14,005
Speaker 1: So because maybe listen, she's on Twitter and she's like

822
00:49:14,205 --> 00:49:16,285
Speaker 1: there regularly. So if you all want to ask her,

823
00:49:16,725 --> 00:49:19,085
Speaker 1: hit her up, be my guest. Let's figure this out together.

824
00:49:19,485 --> 00:49:22,725
Speaker 1: I love that this is the This took me way

825
00:49:22,725 --> 00:49:24,605
Speaker 1: deeper than I thought we were going to and I

826
00:49:24,645 --> 00:49:28,005
Speaker 1: love it. Oh, well, you're thank you. Yeah, I hope

827
00:49:28,005 --> 00:49:31,125
Speaker 1: it was a little bit understandable. I don't know, you're

828
00:49:31,165 --> 00:49:35,205
Speaker 1: the atomy, not the astrology, the astronomy person. I mean,

829
00:49:35,245 --> 00:49:37,685
Speaker 1: I just like to look at the sky. Yeah, but

830
00:49:37,725 --> 00:49:40,045
Speaker 1: you're also like, ooh, there's Mars. I don't know what

831
00:49:40,085 --> 00:49:44,885
Speaker 1: Mars looks like. Yeah, you do we talked about it. No,

832
00:49:45,245 --> 00:49:47,285
Speaker 1: but I did find out this week that my mars

833
00:49:47,365 --> 00:49:50,165
Speaker 1: is in Scorpio and so is my venus. Oh that's hot.

834
00:49:50,605 --> 00:49:55,685
Speaker 1: Yeah see astrology astronomy, big difference. But whatever, Well, this

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Speaker 1: was our episode. You know, we've got some funtasy, we've

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Speaker 1: got some science, we've got some mirror Universe situations going on.

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Speaker 1: So just a normal davergross episode, I would say, yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this one was pretty normal. Okay, well, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining. Any last remarks, my fellow I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say, fellow communists. Sorry, I know you guys are communists.

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Speaker 1: Fell a fellows fell at my neutron. Hi, guys, I

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Speaker 1: didn't want you to figure find this it out this way,

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Speaker 1: but I am my mirror universe self. We switched. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Um oh my gosh, that reminds me of us. That

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Speaker 1: is a freaking scary movie. Okay, Well, you know, I

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Speaker 1: hope we never have to go through Mirror Universe people

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Speaker 1: again because again ever, because I just think I would

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Speaker 1: freak out and probably have a heart attack. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: this is a great closing remark. Love you all so much,

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Speaker 1: and I kiss you all the forehead. Good night, Dagal.

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Speaker 1: Cadaver Gals is a production of School of Humans and iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: It is edited, produced, researched, et cetera by Taylor Church,

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Speaker 1: Gabby Watts, and Nica Art. You can follow us on

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Speaker 1: Instagram and Twitter at cadaver g a l S. See

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Speaker 1: you next week.