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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the all new Toyota Corolla. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey,

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

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Speaker 1: Jerry's over there, and we all want to warn you

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Speaker 1: that if you were squeamish, you should skip this one.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a man, you may just sit there

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Speaker 1: with your legs crossed the entire episode. Yeah, don't be confused.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking about circumcision. We already did that one.

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Speaker 1: This one's castration, and it is nothing like circumcision. Really.

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Speaker 1: Uh And as a matter of fact, I'm pretty proud

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Speaker 1: of our circumcision episode. That one was really good at

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Speaker 1: head at All had history, anatomy um scalpels, controversy, controversy.

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Speaker 1: That was a good one. This one's a little different.

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Speaker 1: This is castration. It better not be anything like circumcision,

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Speaker 1: because that means something has gone very wrong or you

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Speaker 1: just haven't finished. Yeah, all right, yeah, castration. I don't

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Speaker 1: remember how this came up, but this is from a

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Speaker 1: bog post. I wrote, Hey, yeah, you did a great job. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to find out everything there is to

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Speaker 1: know about castration. I did pretty much. I've got a

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Speaker 1: couple of historical bullet points for you. Okay, Um, Apparently

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Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy eight, Thomas Jefferson introduced a bill reducing

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Speaker 1: punishment for rape, polygamy, and sodomy from death to castration. Okay,

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Speaker 1: t J. And you know, we should also point out

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of letters from people about the

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Speaker 1: revisionist history with Thomas Jefferson that said, you know, Sally

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Speaker 1: Hemmings was more than likely forced into that relationship. And

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Speaker 1: some people go so far as to call Thomas Jefferson

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Speaker 1: a rapist himself for that relationship. And um, so I

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Speaker 1: had never seen that, but then I did some reading,

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Speaker 1: and that is a theory that we can't really base

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, they were in love. Yeah, so are

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Speaker 1: in love because they made love. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go out and say that he was

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Speaker 1: a rapist, but um, it's it's definitely some hinky history.

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Speaker 1: Well that's a really excellent point. Like with revisionist history again,

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Speaker 1: like a lot of its interpretation. But I mean, if

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Speaker 1: consentual right at the very least, it's it's tarnished with

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Speaker 1: the concept that she was a slave, and there's a

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Speaker 1: chance that he forced her into it. So thanks for

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Speaker 1: everyone who wrote in. Yeah. Um. And also the other

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Speaker 1: quick thing is that Genghis Khan supposedly like says that

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Speaker 1: Jingis might have been castrated himself by princess seeking revenge.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, Jingis, No, no Hang See

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Speaker 1: admiral of the Chinese navy when they were undertaking basically

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Speaker 1: their own age of exploration. That again named Gavin Menzies

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Speaker 1: was castrated as well. There's actually been a lot of

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Speaker 1: seem weaker or something. Sure, but you know we should

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Speaker 1: it sounds, there is like a certain, um, certain group

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Speaker 1: not like a widespread thing today, but if you look

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Speaker 1: idea that if you're castrated mail, you may live longer

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Speaker 1: He was a case of auto castration, and there aren't

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Speaker 1: the ideas that UM suggests Corbett was crazy when he

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Speaker 1: reflected all these years later on this guy, because people

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Speaker 1: thought he was castrated, and because he was really working

424
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Speaker 1: people with his public image as well. Yeah, I think

425
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: the state would carry out that punishment for you know life, right,

426
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: you would think so. But I guess, hey, Joe Frank,

427
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: you've really you've really knocked us off our feet. You

428
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,679
Speaker 1: just handle this. We'll give you some needles. You do

429
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: it at home. Or maybe he suggested, maybe he's like, Doc,

430
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: I've seen yeah, right, I can do this. Yeah. But

431
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: however it happened, whoever was in charge of him getting

432
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: that that chemical castration injections really dropped the ball in

433
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: Possibly as many as eighty people were victimized as a result.

434
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Speaker 1: So you did mention earlier that something we should clear up.

435
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Speaker 1: You said that even if the testes are removed, there's

436
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: still that five percent chance. Um, that's because some of

437
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: your testosterone is made in the pituitary gland. About five percent. Yeah,

438
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: not all of it comes from the old testicles, which

439
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,919
Speaker 1: is why your vocal cords grows some when you're castrado.

440
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: So that explains that. Right. The thing is, now we've

441
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: come to the German sex offenders study called study right. Yeah,

442
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: so back in nineteen s somebody carried out a study

443
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: of German sex offenders who had had um are ectomys. Yeah,

444
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: that's the testicle removal. Right. So even these guys orchaeect

445
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: to me, sorry, um, even among these guys, we're still

446
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: able to have sex twenty years after the procedures. Germans are,

447
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: they have a stick to it. They're they're very efficient.

448
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: But they that's because their pituitary gland it's still generating

449
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: enough testosterone that they could get interaction. Well, you know

450
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: what Germans say, my pituitary gland produces more testosterone by

451
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: ten am than years does all day the field saying right, um,

452
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: if they got a penick to me, which is cutting

453
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Speaker 1: off your testicles and your penis complete removal of all

454
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Speaker 1: of your junk, followed by drug therapy to reduce the hormones,

455
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: then you're basically that's only the only way to get

456
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Speaker 1: a chance of like no following no crimes. That's the

457
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: only way to reduce libia. Well, that was my two cents,

458
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: based on my research. It would take the removal of

459
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: the penis, the removal of the testing, and drug therapy

460
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: to to drop the libido down enough. But yeah, that

461
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: was just my research. Uh So you go on to

462
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: point out I think that's very fair to call out

463
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: some of the positives that people feel um for sex offenders.

464
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: A lot of them say that, you know what this is.

465
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: I feel freed, I feel serenity. I don't have these

466
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: urges anymore. I did not feel normal and well before,

467
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: and now I do, and I can go out and

468
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: live my life as a normal person because no one

469
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: else knows about what's going on downstairs. But there is

470
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: criticism of the use of castration in any form by

471
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Speaker 1: the state as punishment for um for a sex crime,

472
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: though mainly if it is in the United States at least,

473
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: if it is punishment for a crime, then groups like

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Speaker 1: you know, Amnesty International and a c L you say, well,

475
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: then that's a cruel and unusual punishment. Sure. Uh. Secondly,

476
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: if you're using it to prevent future crimes, I can't

477
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: think of anything more unconstitutional than that. Unless it's voluntary.

478
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,239
Speaker 1: But if it's the state saying we're gonna give you

479
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: this to keep you from possibly committing a crime that

480
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: you may or may not commit in the future, you're

481
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: not supposed to be able to do that. But society

482
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: kind of looks the other way on that one. And

483
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: then thirdly, it doesn't always work. It is the case

484
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: of Joe Frank Smith shows us. But you're right, there

485
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: are some people who who have had umbrating experience exactly,

486
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: but they're not necessarily criminals. We should probably divide that

487
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: right about here. Anyone who's been castrated doesn't mean they're

488
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: a criminal. Um. There's a lot of there's a lot

489
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: of parallels between people who voluntarily seek castration and um

490
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: A sexuals, the third sexual orientation who We've did a

491
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: podcast on BEA that was a good one too. Yeah. Uh,

492
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: And I guess that brings us to the final piece

493
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: of the pie, is uh, castration seeking sexual gratification. Right,

494
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: it's a very small niche group of people. I would

495
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 1: hope these are like the people who are the opposite

496
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: of the people who want to be castrated, to be

497
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: free from sexual urges and desires so they can just

498
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: live their lives in a freer way. These people want

499
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: to be castrated for sexual gratification. Yeah, like masochists get

500
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: into this. You know, not all of them, but there

501
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, you know they'ld saying whatever floats your boat.

502
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: For some people, this floats their boat. And it may

503
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: seem really weird to us. But in um, North Carolina

504
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: and Waynesville, which is right outside of Asheville, in two

505
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: thousand six, these uh, well actually three men, um many,

506
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: Yeah you did. You could have just seen them without

507
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: the story men like I know what those guys are into. Yeah.

508
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: Um they had a quote unquote dungeon fashion from an

509
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: enclosed car poard and they carried out uh, surgical castration

510
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: for people voluntarily. At least six dudes voluntarily did this

511
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: for sexual gratification in their little dungeon. They were like underground,

512
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: unlicensed surgeons who did it in their own home. And um,

513
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: the reason that people went to this guy, these guys

514
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: was because there are supposedly surgeons around the world who will,

515
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: for enough money carry out surgical castration. But if you're

516
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: into like S and M and that's why you're being castrated,

517
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: they don't allow that you're going to, Well, they're not

518
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: gonna like torture you sexually before, after, or during the operation,

519
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: which is what you're after. And with the castration for

520
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: um massochistic purposes for sexual gratification. Uh, the you're never

521
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: going to have a pen ectomy because you still want

522
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: to be able to have sex afterwards. But you may

523
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,719
Speaker 1: have you may have your scrotum removed, you may have

524
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: one testicle removed, you may have both removed, and you

525
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: will probably do this under more than one operation over time.

526
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: But you're being sexually tortured while you're Wow, you're being

527
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: operated on. That's like you said, another piece of the pie.

528
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: That's right. And uh, Richard Master Rick Ciarra, he was

529
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: the lead um physician. I guess you could say he

530
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: actually worked for twenty three years as a physician's assistant,

531
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: so he had a little background. Yeah, from what I

532
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: understand that none of the surgeries were like, nobody died

533
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: or got an infection or anything like that. They seemed

534
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: to know what they were doing. So it was him,

535
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: it was his partner of twenty years, Michael Mendez, and

536
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: then a man they called their slave, Danny Carroll Reeves,

537
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: who all pleaded. Originally, they were charging them with um

538
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: operating medical establishment and practice practicing medicine without a license. Right,

539
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: And we should also point out like every single one

540
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: of their patients was there voluntarily. One guy flew from

541
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: South America for his surgery. Yeah, Like where do you go, Waynesville,

542
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Yeah, right, it's the it's the home of

543
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: S and M operations. In the end, they did not

544
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: get convicted of those crimes. There were misdemeanors. They ended

545
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: up leading guilty to felony castration and maiming and uh

546
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: Master Rick served a year in prison. Um Michael Mendez

547
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: for four months and the slave man served eight months

548
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: and at the time of his life may have So

549
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: I think it's neat that those guys found each other,

550
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: like three people who are in another thing about this

551
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: small town. Yeah, I mean, I can understand the guy

552
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: from South America finding these guys from the internet. But

553
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: if like these guys were partners for twenty years, and

554
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: this is in two thousand and six, that definitely predates

555
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: the internet. So like, these guys who were into some

556
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: very unique stuff found one another. Yeah, and it may

557
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: have been thanks to uh An S and M website

558
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: because I looked. I was like, I gotta see what

559
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: this Master Rick looks like. And there was pictures of

560
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: him from his uh profile at kolar me dot com

561
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, collar me dot com what's that?

562
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, well, what do you think

563
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: it is? Put it coller on like a dog collar.

564
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, I'm hip, Yeah you're you're in the now.

565
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, there was a picture of the dude with

566
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: his uh buttless chaps on and Mr Rick served a year. Yeah.

567
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: I feel like if there's anything about castration, it's that

568
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: it has it encompasses a lot of different people with

569
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: a lot of for a lot of different reasons, over

570
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: a lot of period of time. Yeah, that's just another

571
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: one of those weird human things that we have to

572
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: let you know about. Yeah, now we never have to

573
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: talk about it again. You got anything else, I got

574
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: nothing else. I've got something else. We'd probably be remiss

575
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: to not mention the Heaven's Gate cult. Remember them, Yeah,

576
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: they were castrated and weird. Well yeah, they were led

577
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: by Marshall apple White and all of them, all the

578
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: male members of Heaven's Gate except for him, was castrated. No,

579
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: that's not true. He was castrated as well, so all

580
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: of his followers had to be as well. So yeah,

581
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: we should probably. I don't think you could do a

582
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 1: castration episode without mentioning Heaven's Kate. I'm glad we did,

583
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Speaker 1: so thank you for joining us. This was castration. If

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Speaker 1: you want to learn more about castration, you can type

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Speaker 1: com because this came from one of our articles. And uh,

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Speaker 1: since I said stuff you should know dot com, that

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Speaker 1: means it's time for all right. This is the time

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Speaker 1: in the show where we say thank you to you

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593
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Speaker 1: thanks also to Baby in the Nobody's Band that sent

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Speaker 1: Uh and thanks to Jane jen Av we thanked her

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Speaker 1: benefit Animal Rescue. Goes to Animal Rescue. So go to

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Speaker 1: bye bye little nit cap for someone for Christmas, and

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Speaker 1: percent of that will go to Animal Risk. We want

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Speaker 1: to give a huge thank you to Anna Krukowska. Yeah, Kukowska.

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Speaker 1: She's got one of those last names. It's difficult to

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Speaker 1: So you and I curated a sale in Sound. We

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Speaker 1: just picked our favorite albums and they put them on sale,

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Speaker 1: gift cards, that's right, and thank you very much because

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Speaker 1: very big thank you to Charlotte Alfred for sending me

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Speaker 1: her copy of Dark Dungeons the Jack Chick Publications tracks.

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Speaker 1: Remember we talked about the Duncis and dragons things. I

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Speaker 1: Sasquatch Field guides for tracking. Yes, thank you to you. Brandon.

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Speaker 1: and the asthma books. Yeah, they're pretty awesome. He's like, please,

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Speaker 1: from Kristen Curran. Yeah. Uh, and we got a hundred

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Speaker 1: That was from Dave Stevenson. We appreciate you. Dave got

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