WEBVTT - How Bullfighting Works 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:16.479 from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.880 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me. It's always Charles W. 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:26.560 Chuck Bryant, hol A, Chuck Hola, Hola right back catching Um. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.840 How are you doing? I'm great? How are you? I'm 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.960 doing pretty good? Yeah. Yeah, I've been learning a lot 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.120 about bull foling lately. I don't know if you know. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.839 You mean bull killing. Bull fighting is what it's culture. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.240 It's not what I call it. Or you could also 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:47.159 call it a cardido cordida. Boy, here we go corrida. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.840 Have you ever been to Spain? No? Have you? Yeah? 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:58.320 Where I've been to? Uh? And then um Tosa de 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.480 Mar which is little coastal town near Barcelona there on 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:08.240 the coastal Brava, very nice. Have you been to Okay? Yeah? 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.679 Very Have you seen a bullfight? No? I would not, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:13.760 I would not do that, sir, I have seen a 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.360 bull fight. And um, to offend you even further, not 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.160 only was it a bullfight, it started off with a 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.880 cock fight. It was in Cancoon. I saw it with 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.000 my sister and my dad, and UM, it was crazy 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.800 because we were we were there and it was a 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.520 bullfight like. It wasn't like you could have accidentally walked 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:38.280 into this thing like it was a bullfight. Um. And 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:43.880 I would say of the people there were um, white, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:50.120 probably American tourists, who booed and yelled and shouted things 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.360 the whole time. And I remember thinking of that one 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.360 Simpsons where um, Lisa was having a nightmare about being 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.240 second chairs for sacks phone in the school band, and um, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.760 at the concert, everybody was booing and she wakes up 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.799 and thinks, like, why would everybody come just to boo? 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.359 It was exactly like that. People came just to boom 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:17.040 to bullfight. Well, that is one people who who say 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.480 bullfighting is not good, of which I'm one of them, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.560 say that that's one of the only reasons bull fights 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.480 are still even going on is because of tourists. That 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.920 they're the ones buying the tickets. And many times those 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.040 tourists get there and they're horrified and they leave early 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:39.640 and think, wow, no refunds making no exactly he just 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.280 funded bullfighting. Yeah exactly, sucker. Um. A couple of quick 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.200 stats roughly to between two hundred and two hundred and 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.120 fifty thousand bulls are killed each year from bull fights, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.640 from bull fights, and um, I'm not sure if this 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.520 is accurate, but the number I got was it fifty 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:04.560 two matadors have been killed since. I'm surprised it's that few. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:12.120 Have you heard of Julio Aparichio? If you have a 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:18.320 very strong constitution, Uncle Josh warns you against this one. Yeah, 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:23.120 holy cow. It was almost like, how is that not photoshops? 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:29.280 It was perfect? The horns so Julio Apariccio was he 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.400 fell down and bull got the best of him, gored 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.080 him with his with its horns, with his horns because 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:41.920 bull um and what a boy? Huh, and gordon under 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.960 his chin and it threw his through his neck and 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.920 then the horn came out of his mouth perfectly. And 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.280 m a guy from getting Images got a close up 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:59.000 of it, like like fifty of them. It's it's amazing. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.440 I haven't seen the video. It's on the YouTube and 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.520 it's one of those that's so awful that you have 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.120 to like sign in and verify your age before you 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.960 watch it. And I do not advise people to watch this. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.080 I don't even advise you to see the too. Look 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.560 at the Daily Mail article that has it. But it's 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.280 pretty crazy. But yes it happens. And I'm surprised that 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.480 only how many fifties seven? The stat I got was 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:24.480 fifty two in the last you know, three hundred plus years. Um, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.600 so there's not much of a fight going on. And 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:32.039 matador is actually Spanish for killer, so is it really Um, yes, 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.520 they're killer bulls for sure. It's the whole point, Like 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.359 there's really no gray area here, like bull fighting is 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.800 the the purpose of it is to kill the bull. Yeah, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.720 under certain conditions or um, within a certain framework. But 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.640 that's the point of bullfighting. It's not anything but that. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.680 And if the matador fails to kill the bull, that's 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.320 on him and it is a huge disgrace, like that's 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:00.000 a that's a loss, and it's it's not very good right. Um, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.360 what I start, I'm starting to suspect that you are 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.800 a post bull fighting Um. There are a lot of 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:11.680 people and apparently Spain's um. I mean in Spain, it's 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:16.240 like a natural cultural thing. It's been around for a while, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.600 and even people who feel the same way you do 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.599 still say I still don't think it should be illegal. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.440 It's just too much a part of our tradition. Not 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.040 everyone feels that way, though, No, definitely not. They did 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.040 a gallop pole in two thousand ten and seventy of 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.520 Spaniards said that they were ready to do away with it. Yeah, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.440 that's a lot of Spaniards. And that's up from like 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.640 fifteen years earlier. So in this modern day, people are 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.080 starting to think twice about it. Well, let's let's talk 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.039 about this, Chuck, Let's talk about how how long people 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.479 have been fighting bulls on the Iberian Peninsula. We don't know, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:57.080 Fox Show, but um, there is evidence of bull rituals 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.960 dating back all the way to BC. Yeah. The Mycenaeans 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.599 apparently used to leap over bulls that were charging. It 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.160 was like a thing, and they were always revered, you know, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.400 as like these godlike creatures, which is why I guess 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.400 they want to kill him. What. Yeah, what's the taurus? One? Taurus? 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.719 Is that the Is that an astrological sign? Yeah? Okay, yeah, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.839 of course pretty ancient. Uh. The article points out that 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:28.000 the Visigoth rule Um of the Iberian Peninsula from fourteen 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:34.159 fifteen to seven eleven um No. Four fifteen four fifteen 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.960 to seven eleven, UM had men on horseback fighting bulls um, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.480 which evolved into mounted bullfighting which uh rijneo, which still 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.520 exists in Portugal horseback bullfighting where they kill the bull 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.800 outside the ring. Later on, right, they weaken it to 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.919 a certain point, which is the equivalent of killing the 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.359 bull is far. I guess there's some point of no 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.320 return that the Portuguese understand and they're like, okay, well 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.840 we're done, come outside, and then that's that. But as 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.240 anybody who's opposed bullfighting will tell you, that's not any 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.680 more humane. Of course, it's just out of sight of 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:16.560 the spectators. Um. So yeah, you've got what is it? 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:22.840 Ray hoo rayjono joo um. And then uh. Bull fighting 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.720 itself as we understand it today was firmly established in 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.880 Spain by the eleventh century UM, and it came about 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.280 during festivals, specifically one festival called the Fiesta descind Ferminton 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.320 and anybody has been to Pampalonna will recognize that because 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.200 that's where the running of the bulls takes place. And 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.960 when in July now so I seven when it used 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.680 to be September. And then in the sixteenth century they 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.840 moved it to July, and ever since then the running 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.560 of the bulls has been held. But it's been going 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.280 on since long before that. And it actually started with 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.360 a bunch of um ranchers their kids moving the bulls 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.320 from like their pens to about a half a mile 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.160 to the arena. Um. And then people started running alongside 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.440 him and evolved into the running of the bulls. Now 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:18.840 interesting els said the Spanish military leader uh midd eleventh century. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.240 He was one of the first to actually bring it 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.840 into the arena and make it the sanctioned corrida, which 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.760 was government sanctioned is today at least, but what's back then, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:35.679 I'm financially supported by governments to fifteenth century. It was 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.199 a big part of the aristocracy until Queen Isabella came 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.520 along and said this is not cool. I don't know 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.600 why she was against it, probably because she was an 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.439 animal lover. I would say that's probably a good idea, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:55.840 and Pope Pious UM five almost said the uh he 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.760 banned it. But that didn't last very long, um only 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.720 about eight years, because people were into it pretty pretty 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.800 big time, right um. And then in about the I 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.800 guess in the six d is when that that whole 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.839 divergence between horseback and foot bull foot bull fighting took place, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.640 and it remained um the sport of the aristocracy until 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.200 Philip the came along and he said, you know what, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.440 this is barbaric. You would have to be a low 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.200 class barbarian to engage in bullfighting. So if you remember 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.199 my court and you get caught doing this, I'll shoot 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.600 you in the knee. And the aristocracy said, well, we 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.080 want our knees in tack, so we're gonna stop doing this. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.480 And at this point bullfighting transferred from a kind of 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:49.480 high flutant, snooty pastime to the them the pastime of 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.080 the people, the national sport of the Spanish people, and 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.680 from that point on it's it's stayed that way. Yeah, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.239 but they they The author does point there are arenas 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.080 in Spain that still have the royal boxes for the 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.280 royal family right to attend these things, so it hasn't 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.400 gone away completely as far as that goes. So Spain 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:16.000 is the heart and life center of um bullfighting, but 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.920 there's other places that it's held. Obviously, I saw him 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.120 in cancun Um. And if you're a bullfighter, you can 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.679 follow the season pretty much year round and get work 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:28.960 if you're good the heaven France. Did you know that? 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.200 I didn't, but I saw that it's been It was 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.280 banned in the UK. Had no idea anybody was fighting 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.640 bulls and going on in Germany. It was going on 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.079 all over the place. It's crazy. But that doesn't make 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.720 sense that it would happen in Germany if the Visigoths 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.000 are the ones who introduced it to the Iberian Peninsula 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:50.040 because they were Germanic people from south of the south. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:56.240 Norway will call you south Way. I don't think the Goths. Uh. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.480 So we'll walk you through what happens in a in 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:04.560 a corrida um in this whitewashed article version. But um, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.840 before this ever happens, we'll walk you through the couple 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:12.560 of days before the bull even gets to the ring. Oh, 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.240 this is a special treat for me. It is the bull. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.600 Um is not an aggressive animal at all. Bull likes 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:23.080 to hang around in chew grass and uh smell flowers. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:27.280 That sounds like bullfighting propaganda to me. No, Ferdinand, the 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.360 bull it's like a sweet creature. But they actually are 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.040 not aggressive. They're only um gonna charge somebody if they're 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.640 threatened and angry, which is what bullfighting is all about. Um. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.839 So in the two days prior to the bull showing 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.959 up at the arena, they are abused. Um they are 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:51.480 uh basically mentally destroyed versions of what a bull should be. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.040 You're fat bull. While they do fatten them up to 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.120 make them slow. Well, that's a big problem, and you 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:03.680 can call somebody out for that, Okay. Um. They have 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.600 wet newspaper stuffed in their ears so they can't hear anything. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.360 They have vasoline rubbed on their eyes so their visions blurred. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.440 They have their eyes taped open so they can't sleep. Uh. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.160 They stuffed cotton up their nostrils so they can't breathe 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.880 very well, and they stick and needle through their genitals. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.360 That'll that'll take anybody off. They rubbed this caustic solution 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.559 on their legs, which makes the bull not be able 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:31.000 to balance and uh keeps the bull from lying down. Ever. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.720 They strap their horns to the ceiling of their transport 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:40.360 truck uh to take them on their long hot journey's 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.480 wherever they're going. And for the two days before they 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.240 keep them in a in a box. Oh wait, I'm sorry, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.760 that's not all they give them drugs to either pep 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.240 them up or slow them down, just to keep them 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.480 in whatever state they want them in, and give them 0:12:53.679 --> 0:13:00.760 laxatives uh, to just obviously make things even more uncomfortable. Um. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.680 Then they put the bull in the in this dark 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:07.120 box for two days uh to disorient the bull. Finally, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.319 when they open the box, there's a light at the 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.559 end of the tunnel that the bull thinks, my god, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.120 I'm finally getting out of here. Runs to the light 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.079 and all of a sudden they're in a bull ring, right, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:21.120 And there's trumpets and fanfare and people cheering, um, and 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.320 the bulls like, oh cool, how's how's that? Hey, how 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:29.000 are y'all doing? I've been through some rough times lately. Um. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.320 Some of that stuff, I think if you were found out, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.920 you would be disqualified immediately, especially doing stuff that slowed 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.440 the bull down or made it less dangerous. Yes, the 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.080 bull ring is a ring for a reason. Um. Bulls 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.840 would want to go try and hide in a corner, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.560 but the ring, the circular ring, will confuse in a 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.880 bull to where it can't hide anywhere. Have you ever 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.880 seen that footage of that bowl that like makes it 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.320 up into the stands, Like jumps up and then is 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.560 in the stands like on top of people. It was crazy. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.839 Was that bull run our test? No? Do you get 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.560 that joke? Okay? So the different acts I believe are 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.720 called ter CEOs. Yes, I believe so. And there's three 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.600 of them, right, Yes, there's three of them. And the 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.760 that's three acts in a fight in a cardido, yes, 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.400 in a bull fight. Yeah, and um there's no suspense 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.520 going on either by the way they all go down 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.800 the same way. I bet it's suspenseful for the bull. Um. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:38.680 So the bull comes out the first act or what? Uh? Yeah? 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:43.640 Act one? Okay. In act one there are um guys 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.600 called peka doors and they're mounted on horseback and they 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:53.880 are basically, um, I guess, low level torreros or bullfighters 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.480 because both. A matador is not the only kind of bullfighter. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.600 He is the cream of the crop, pinnacle of bullfighters, 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.880 the well paid rock star. Yes, um, but he works 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.040 with the crew of pika doors who show up in 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.520 the first act, and bandilli airos who show up in 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.560 the second act. But the pika doors what they do 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.440 is they lance the bowl between his shoulder blades, around 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.520 his neck muscles and the whole point of this chuck. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.520 You'll love this one is to weaken the neck muscles 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.640 so that the bull's head hangs so that the matador 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.400 can get to its heart more easily. Yeah. It also 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.120 hits a gland in the neck that releases adrenaline. Apparently. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.640 Um so they lanced the bull three times and twist 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.880 the blade around to ensure maximum blood loss. Um. Three 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:47.400 matadors will now come in. They will fight individually later on, 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:48.960 but they all come in at first in the first 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.240 act with their capes. And this is and for the 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.680 for the bull fight, it's an afternoon of them. There's 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.920 six bowls and three matadors, and each matador fights two 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.960 bowls and each bull fight takes about fifty in twenty minutes. Yes. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.720 Um so they come in with their little capes and 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.120 uh do their little maneuvers to draw attention away from 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.840 the pika doors. And the Pika doors go and hide 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.360 behind their little walls. They have these interior walls that 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.960 they can hide behind. Whenever the bull starts to get 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.120 too dangerous, they run and hide behind these walls. Yes, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.480 or if this America, the Pika doors would be dressed 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.400 as clowns and would hide in barrels. Look at rodeo. Yeah, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.640 it will do a rodeo podcast at some point. Do 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.920 we have to sure they don't. I don't think they 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:40.080 kill the cals and rodeos. Okay, Um, So the pika 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:44.280 doors leave the ring, the matadors leave the ring at 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.560 two begins, and the vandel Garros, I know that's a 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:53.640 tough one. They're they're basically bullfighters, assistant bullfighters. Put they're 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.800 on foot, yes, and if you've ever seen a bullfighter 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.480 a picture of bull fight, bulls seem to have some 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:06.639 um crepe barbed sticking out of him. That's the bandelierros work. Yes, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:12.160 and that is called a bandias and it's a barbed dart. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.760 It's adorned colorfully. The bulls aren't the only things dying 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.720 in this episode, and so was the Spanish language, because 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.240 we are butchering it. I'm trying uh this of course, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.560 further weekends the bull um so the mighty Matador doesn't 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.840 have much work to do, so the bull is still dangerous. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.000 Um are They run in circles at this point to 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.200 to get it nice and dizzy and confused. The manador 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.000 comes out for the final act and he has ten 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.000 ten official minutes to kill the bull, well, to do 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.000 a little showing off first and then kill the bull. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.480 Um after the ten minute warning. After the ten minutes 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.119 he gets in a viso, which is a warning first warning. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.200 After three minutes he gets another one, and then he 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.480 gets a third one, so he has a total of 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.560 in actuality fifteen minutes to kill the bull or else 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.800 the bull is let out alive and the matadors disgraced. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.600 But for the most part, the matador is going to 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.760 dispatch the bull, and um, he does it. He first 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.800 starts using the cape. And the cape is always held 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.240 in the left hand. Is it? That's all right handed? Dudes? 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.960 I did not. I was looking, and I could even 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.680 tell that they were. Um there, the cape was kind 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.920 of clumsy held in the left hand. They were still 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.040 holding it in the left hand. Well, the guys I 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.399 saw were practicing, So maybe I don't know, but I 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.160 don't see why they would practice with their right hand. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.080 I don't either. Okay, but you have a cape in 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.560 one hand, you have a sword in the other. Yes, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.399 and the point of the cape, by the way, we 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.960 should probably get to this now. Um cape is always 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.439 red because red Anger's bulls right not true. Balls are 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.080 color blind, so they're not angered by red or any 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.960 other color. What does get them going is the movement 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:56.400 of the cape and sticking swords in their neck. That's 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.040 another thing that gets them going. Um. And actually that's 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.480 not necessarily true. By the time the manador comes out, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:07.000 sometimes the um the bowl is really tired from blood 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.520 loss and being tortured for a couple of days apparently, um. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.680 And so the manador really kind of has to work 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.480 to get it riled up again. And even though the 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.520 bulls just like, just kill me, manador is like, not yet, 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.439 we have a crowd to please first, So um the 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.240 the manador. Eventually after the cape work is done. Um. 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:30.200 Oh the cape is read by the way to high bloodstains. Um. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.160 Once the cape work is done, the manador will um 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.359 as the bull runs past him, will plunge the sword 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:42.600 in between his shoulder blades and what's called a estoccata, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.400 which is the death blow. And uh. It properly delivered 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.320 estocata will sever the bulls a order and that will 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.680 be that almost immediately for the bull. If it's not 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:56.040 done correctly, then the bull can be in even more 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.399 tremendous pain as it bleeds out. But to protecting into this, 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:07.000 a bandeliero will come out and immediately deliver any any 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.960 another thrust of a blade to make sure the bull 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.359 is dead with a plantilla a smaller knife. Ideally they 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.400 killed him with one blow. That rarely happens because apparently 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.600 matadors aren't so great at doing that anymore. I don't 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.199 know if they ever were. And uh, a lot of 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.320 times the bull lives even through the smaller knife plunge 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.040 and is still alive when the ears and tail or 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.680 hoof or cut off and presented to the matador. We 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:40.399 usually there's a there's another fail safe um where they 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.560 just bring out a tractor and run the bull over 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.400 a bunch of times to make sure that it's that's 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.680 so nice. If that doesn't work, then the people come 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.840 down from the stands and just start shooting it. That's 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.320 not true, and it's not funny. It's not funny because 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:59.600 it's not true, and they oftentimes do survive hanging on 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.960 by read. Their lungs are punctured, so they're bleeding, like 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:08.080 drowning in their own blood and like vomiting up blood 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:12.440 through their nose and mouth like a whale. Dying and flurry. Uh. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.760 And sometimes they will take it outside and skin it 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.199 while it's even still alive. Yeah, that's a kind of 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.680 a tradition. Um. I saw the bull after the bullfight. 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:24.239 It was pretty sad. Um. They take the bull right 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:28.119 outside and um, they'll dress it and then sell the 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.920 meat at the stadium. Um, which is customary and very strange, 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.000 but that's one of the aspects of bullfighting. If you've 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.040 ever wanted a bull burger and you wanted to eat 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.119 it right after you saw it die, go to a 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:46.360 bullfight in Spain. Uh. They will drag the bull out 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:51.160 with some mules attached to chains. And UM, I don't 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.119 know if the booing booing you heard, because apparently the 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:56.320 people will boo and throw beer cans at the bull 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.440 at the end. I don't know if that's what you were. 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.359 It depends, so depends Um. No, no, no, no, that's 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:08.520 this was. They were booing the matador, the bliros, the doors, everybody. 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:12.320 They were booing a whole country of Mexico for this. Um. 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.080 Yeah they're booing everybody. No. Um, it depends on the bull. 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.160 If the bull was um a woss, then I could 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.679 see the fans throwing beer cans at it. There's also 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.360 um that an aspect of this that cannot be denied 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:31.200 that a bull that shows great bravery, anger, um spirit, spunk, 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:35.440 really tries to kill the matador or the bandili arrows 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.000 will be very much revered by the people in the 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.480 stands and gruesomely UM. They'll bring it out for a 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.399 victory lap, being dragged by the mules in a circle 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:47.360 around the arena. After it's dead, or apparently while it's 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.800 still dying, people will cheer it through roses for it UM. 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:56.119 And there's a there's a a UM. There's a rule 0:22:56.800 --> 0:23:00.639 where the crowd or the matador can ask for in 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:05.440 uh indolito, which is a reprieve for a particularly courageous bull, 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:10.080 and the president of the of the bullfight the referee 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.320 can say, yes, I give this bullet reprieve because it's 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.800 such an awesome bowl. We're gonna let it live. And 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:19.800 the manador proceeds to um with an empty hand simulate 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:22.000 the death blow, saying I could have killed the bull, 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.840 but I like the bull so much I lobbied to 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:28.640 get it released. That bull is taken away and UM 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:30.480 put out the stud for the rest of its life. 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:35.919 And there was one it's very rare to get an indulto. Um, 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:41.359 And there was one one bull called Manzanito in he 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:45.840 got an indulto because he gored all three manadors in 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:49.960 the plaza that day. Wow. That that that will get 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.000 you off right there. You get to go stud for 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:55.480 the rest of your life. Mr. Bull. Horses are also abused. 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:59.080 The ones that participate, their ears are stuffed with newspaper, 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:02.760 wet newspaper, the blindfolded, and they sever their vocal cords 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.080 so they can't scream out in pain because people don't 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:08.960 want to hear that. Yeah, people don't like that, So 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:12.200 they sever the vocal cords. So the horses that are, 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:16.320 you know, trembling in fear inside this ring at this bowl, 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:20.160 don't bark out and let people know that. And if 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:22.200 the horses are hurt, they take them out of the 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:23.879 ring and patch them up and send them right back 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:27.720 in there. Where are you getting this activist info all 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:32.159 over the place? Yeah, yeah, okay, I mean it's not 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:34.680 activist info, it's how it goes down. No, it all 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:37.040 just kind of has a certain ring to it. I'm 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.880