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Speaker 1: Hey there everyone, it's me Josh, and for this week's

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Speaker 1: s Y S Case select, I've chosen our episode on

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Speaker 1: fainting Goats from two thousand eleven. It's about the funniest,

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Speaker 1: saddest breed of goats around, plus sad kittens too, but

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Speaker 1: it's also really cute in a weird way. At any rate,

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Speaker 1: this one I will advise you to listen to, accompanyed

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Speaker 1: by your laptop or phone. Ready to go on YouTube

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Speaker 1: because there's gonna be a lot of stuff for you

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Speaker 1: to check out, enjoy it. Welcome to Stuff you should

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Speaker 1: know from house stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Brant. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right, that's me fall over. But yes, not yet, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: We're getting there, okay, okay, Um, how are you doing.

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Speaker 1: You're feeling a little sick after Los Angeles? Yes, Josh,

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Speaker 1: heavy workload and stress usually means Chuck crashes and gets

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Speaker 1: sick afterward. Yeah. I came very close. That's what happened.

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Speaker 1: As I was telling you, I'm a walking ad for

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Speaker 1: emergency It works really well. It's good stuff, Um, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: I hope you feel better. Soon, thank you. Um. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, let's talk about the Satanic symbol that is

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Speaker 1: the goat. Yeah, the the inverted star is supposed to

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Speaker 1: be a goat head, is that right? Yes? That is

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Speaker 1: actually the bah fomat. It's a I think a seventeenth

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Speaker 1: century French illustration. Um No, nineteenth century French magician uh

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Speaker 1: eliphas Levi drew the bah fomat of Mendy's right. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and Mendy's is like the key term here. This is

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Speaker 1: where the idea that the goat was Satanic came from. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so back in the day, back when the Greeks were

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Speaker 1: One of them, Herodotus wrote of the Mendees, people who

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Speaker 1: specifically male goats as symbols of fertility, and the Greeks,

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Speaker 1: doing what they did, eventually ripped this idea off and

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Speaker 1: labeled their god Pan the the King of the Satyrs,

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Speaker 1: half god, half man god who like to woo the

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Speaker 1: ladies and basically press his male goat sexuality onto them. Right. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we have the idea that a male goat a

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Speaker 1: k a ram in a lot of cases, I'm pretty sure,

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Speaker 1: became the symbol for powerful male sexuality. Right as the

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Speaker 1: Christian Church came about sexuality kind of diverged from um reality.

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Speaker 1: Uh that that I that concept became more and more taboo,

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Speaker 1: increasingly taboo, until finally you get to the point where, um,

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Speaker 1: we arrive at the Knights Templar who supposedly venerated Bafometse

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Speaker 1: guys pop up a lot with us. They do, um

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Speaker 1: that that that image of Bafo met not the nineteenth

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Speaker 1: them as Satanists and kill them. And from that point forward,

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Speaker 1: now where you can look at a goat and you

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Speaker 1: get a touch of evil from it, don't you know.

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Speaker 1: I was just about to counter and say, that's funny,

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Speaker 1: because goats are the sweetest, most adorable little creatures on

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Speaker 1: how readily you can see those satanic eyes of theirs.

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Speaker 1: It's satan walking their chuck. Let's just come out and

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Speaker 1: for the goat lobby. I am. Yeah, what about fainting goats?

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Speaker 1: Though I have to agree these are not satanic? They

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Speaker 1: it's a hilarious chuck. It's so sad looking though, I know,

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Speaker 1: they're fine. I I urge anyone who hasn't seen, first

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Speaker 1: That's why oh, you tube dot com. It's a kind

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Speaker 1: we're all set. No need for emails, everybody my autonic goats. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's other names for these things. Now that

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Speaker 1: and you don't know we're about to be talking about,

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Speaker 1: my autonic goats. What else, Chuck where is some other

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Speaker 1: awesome names for these things? The Tennessee stiff legs just

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Speaker 1: good name for a band, as is my atonic Goats,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee wooden legs, nervous goats, and fall down goats. Imagine

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Speaker 1: fall down goats was pretty early in the game. So

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Speaker 1: that's what Bam Bam from Flintstem calls exactly. Uh, they

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Speaker 1: go by several different names, Josh, but they are not

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Speaker 1: fading at all. Actually, no, no, And we should say

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Speaker 1: all what's going on instead, chuck, it's like an altered

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Speaker 1: And mayotonia is basically this, Uh, it's a nervous it's

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Speaker 1: like you said, chuck, Um, that's characterized by stiff muscles

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Speaker 1: In dings Joan, stop in dings, jo. We know that

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Speaker 1: but it would just seem weird if you saw Dexter

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Speaker 1: on an ensemble. Will you? Thank you? Ed from Chico.

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