1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome 2 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you so much for 3 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: tuning in. My name is Ben, my name is Noel uh. 4 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: I wanted to work in a Fred Durst reference in here, 5 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: some kind of limp biscuit nod because of what was 6 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: happening off my good I thought was delightful. Yes, super 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: producer Casey Pegram actually does most of our intros. They're 8 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: just off air and Casey you you you cued us 9 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: up when we asked if we were rolling with a 10 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: specific reference? Is that correct? That is true? And I 11 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: leave it to the list there to deduce what what 12 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: the connection there would have been with the concept of rolling. 13 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: But I will say that Fred Durst um back behind 14 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: the camera in the director's chair. She had a new 15 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: movie coming out. What is it? I don't know what 16 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: it's called. It's called The Obsesso. Yeah, and it's got 17 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: John Travolta in some very interesting He's making some interesting choices, 18 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: both hair wise, accessory wise, and um let's say what's that. 19 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to say it on the show, 20 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: but you might remember in the movie Tropic Thunder, Tom 21 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: Cruise plays a character makes a certain choice, and it 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: makes a certain choice, and it's recommended that you don't 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: go full that thing. Um In this film, John Travolta 24 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: seems to be making that choice. I agree. I agree. 25 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: So maybe something to catch like on video or something 26 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: curiosity that's not actually what it's called. It's it's just 27 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: it's called like the nut job kind of It sort 28 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: of looks like a rip off a big fan right, 29 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: that Patton Oswald movie. I think it might be called 30 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: the finn attic. Are you whoa? Whoa? Whoa? Are you Casey? 31 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: Are you accusing fred Durst of being unoriginal? Well, I 32 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: would never say that. I hope not having you know, 33 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: invented the irresistible blend of rap and rock music. I 34 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: saw a great meme where it said fred Durst explaining 35 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: rap metal to executives and it was that like always 36 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: sunny like conspiracy peg board, but with fred Durst's face 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: with the backwards red ball cap super imposed on it. Well, 38 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: just just back to the reference. This is something that 39 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: fred Durst would do in perpetuity. He rolls. It is true. 40 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: That's the philosophy of Durst. And while we are talking 41 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: about the philosophy of Durst. While we're talking about this film, 42 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: which none of us have seen to be fair, we 43 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: also find that Fred Durst has something in common with 44 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: the subject of today's story, which is the historically he, 45 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: like many other people in positions of power, has He's 46 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: done some dumb things, were ill advice things because there 47 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: was no one around to be anything less than a 48 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: syncophant or a yes man. Today's story takes place, uh, 49 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: not in the wild frontiers of rap Rock, but back 50 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: in the thirteen hundreds on August six, and English and 51 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: Welsh army met a French force. In case you can 52 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: help me out with this, when it's spelled c r 53 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: E c y, I'm gonna say clessy something like that 54 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: sounds so good when he says it, casey on the case, 55 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: on the absolute case. Yeah, Clessie, he's got it, he 56 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: got it. Yeah. No, I mean, it's definitely not on 57 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: the wilds of of rap Rock, that that undiscovered country, 58 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: but it is in something of of a of a 59 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: of a wild West kind of frontier because we had 60 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: the King of Bohemia, King John, who joined this conflict 61 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: when the English and the Welsh at the French forces 62 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: at Clacy. But here's the thing. Back in thirteen forty 63 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: John had been on a mission, a crusade where he 64 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: had lost his sight completely. Yeah, the conflict here in 65 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: thirteen forty six had some twists that no one saw coming, 66 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: especially not John. He had been a warrior for most 67 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: of his life and he did not let being blinded 68 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: slow his role. You see, John of Bohemia was born 69 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: in twelve ninety six, member of the Luxembourg dynasty, and 70 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: he became the Count of Luxembourg in thirteen ten, and 71 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: he married a woman named Elisa of the ruling dynasty 72 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: of Bohemia. Her father died without a male heir, and 73 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: so John inherited the kingdom and was crowned in thirteen eleven. 74 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: But he he had really close bonds with France, such 75 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: that he had sent his son to be raised in 76 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: the Parisian court rather than in Prague. And you know 77 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: Nol As you mentioned, he was on a crusade when 78 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: he lost his sight completely, but he wasn't blinded by 79 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: enemy forces. It turns out that he had a genetic condition. 80 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: This caused him to go blind on crusade in Lithuania. 81 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: But his reputation seemed to bear the hit just fine. 82 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: There were no challenges to his rule. He was still king, 83 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: he was still considered a night, he was still considered 84 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: a warrior. And so when the battle there At occurred, 85 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: John was dead set on going to the conflict. But 86 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: how how exactly did he wind up there? What? What 87 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: led to him joining the fray? Okay, so here's the thing, 88 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: Edward the Third's what team? Crew? Band and crew? Yeah, band, 89 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: band of Brethren, Knighted Brethren, uh, swordid gilded Knighted Brethren. 90 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: Had absolutely obliterated one of the most well equipped UM 91 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: armies in all of Europe, which belonged to King Philip 92 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: the sixth of France. Um and he did this remarkably effectively, 93 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: um without losing too many men. But the ones that 94 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: died on the French side of things were pretty well 95 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: regarded UM and and they kind of bore the brunt 96 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,559 Speaker 1: of this, which is unfortunate. Yeah, there were the French 97 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: for the French, there were a lot of casualties on 98 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: that side, and the subject of today's story is probably 99 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: the most well known, most famous of those fatalities, that 100 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: is blind King John of Bohemia. And it's weird because 101 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: he's the King of Bohemia, so how has he involved 102 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: in this conflict between the French King Philip and between 103 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: Edward of England. Here's how it went down. So Philip 104 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: reaches out to blind John from Luxembourg and says, uh, 105 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: join me in this fight against this guy Edward in England. 106 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: And John at the time was hanging out with his 107 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: son Charles, who had just been uh just been crowned 108 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: as the king of Germany. So John goes to meet 109 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: Philip in Paris on the August, and you know, they 110 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: crew up their forces and they go after Edward and 111 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: they ride towards the coast. So he really is pulled 112 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: into the battle because of his friendship with the French 113 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: King Philip, who, as he said earlier, knowl his forces 114 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: are just getting waxed left and right. So he needs 115 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: all the help he can get. But historians only no 116 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: one popular tale about any of Bohemian involvement in this battle. 117 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: And that is what John of Bohemian did when he 118 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: finally got to the battlefield, because look, he's he's got experience, 119 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: he's a smart guy, he's got moxie more than a little. 120 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: He's got he's got what we would call hutzpah. But 121 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: he also literally cannot see, which is a you know, 122 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: for many people that would mean that they absolutely couldn't 123 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: participate in riding a horse, much less riding one into 124 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: a fight. But he would have none of that. He 125 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: would not be cow towed. Two, he would not be 126 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: treated with any kind of special consideration. Um, he wielded 127 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: his sword with a plum, often swinging wide and and 128 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: having his his men kind of have to duck and 129 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: cover u and again at the risk, not at the risk, 130 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: just just very very quickly and importantly, not to sound 131 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: ablest in any way. I mean, having no site is 132 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: is obviously a very serious condition that requires a lot 133 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: of life changes. The thing that's interesting about this is 134 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: that John refused to make those changes and operated in 135 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: the manner of sort of a megalomaniacal monarch, existing in 136 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: a bubble and refusing to do anything outside of what 137 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: he believes he should be doing. Right. And at this 138 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: point he's used to not having sight. He was, you know, 139 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: he was blinded years ago. By the time rolls around. 140 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is he's expecting others to make concessions 141 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: to him, rather than you know, maybe thinking it wise 142 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: not to participate in certain activities that might be best, 143 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 1: you know, afforded to the sighted. Very I mean very 144 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: much so. And it leads to what is romanticized as 145 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: this um as this heroic battle field moment. The story 146 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: goes like this. Here's the story that we know from 147 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: a couple of different sources. Apparently King John had his 148 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: nights tie their horses, physically tie their horses to his 149 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: and ride forward toward the English altogether, so these guys 150 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: could kind of help him steer. And he said that 151 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,839 Speaker 1: no Bohemian, even one who was blind, could be said 152 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: to have ever run from a fight. We have a 153 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: couple of medieval sources. One, the Chronicle of Prague, specifically 154 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: quotes John as saying, far be it that the king 155 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: of Bohemia should run away. Instead, take me to the 156 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: place where the noise of the battle is the loudest. 157 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: The Lord will be with us, nothing to fear. Just 158 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: take good care of my son. Beautiful oscar moment. So yeah, 159 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we've we've got this image of 160 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: of these uh, these nights riding alongside John kind of 161 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: helping steer his his his his steed. A bit We 162 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: have several different accounts. We have check sources that say 163 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: that there were only two that were tethered to to 164 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: this horse, and then we have English folks, uh, citing 165 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: many many more. What we can say for certain, and 166 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: this comes from a fantastic article on historical Honey. Does 167 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: really say articles are fantastic? Does it mean some of 168 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 1: them aren't fantastic? I don't know why. I always say that, 169 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: you know, the ones that aren't fantastic shouldn't make it 170 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: to the air. That's probably a good point. Then that's 171 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: a very good point. This one is in fact fantastic, 172 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: coming from historical honey dot com and saying that what 173 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: we do know, despite the differences and accounts, is that 174 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: he did head directly into the fray. Yeah. You'll hear 175 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 1: some differences in an English source versus check source. Uh. 176 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: Those differences are primarily going to be about how many 177 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 1: nights were tethered to King John, Was it a bunch 178 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: or was it only two? And you will also hear 179 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: about when this famous charge occurred. The English sources say 180 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: that the charge came in the climactic moments of the fighting, 181 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: but the check chronicle says that he charged pretty much 182 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: after the French had run away. The thing here is 183 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: the English source for Starr got his information directly from 184 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,119 Speaker 1: the English court, and the Czech chronicler got their information 185 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: directly from the check court, maybe even John's son Charles directly. 186 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: And so the big questionnaire is which side can we believe? 187 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: Does either source have kind of an ulterior motive? Did 188 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: the English writer want John O Bohemia's death to seem 189 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: like it was justified so that nobody on the English 190 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: side was charged with the unethical act of killing a 191 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: blind man? You know what I mean? I do know 192 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: what you mean. And it's not clear from the record 193 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: which which one of those is more accurate? And yeah, 194 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: and would would John have deliberately written to certain death? 195 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: It's weird because here's what we here's what we learned 196 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: that there were already a bunch of dead and dying 197 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: horses on the ground because they had practiced, you know, 198 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: early forms of trench ward. Here, there were pits dug 199 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: in the ground, there were people shooting arrows well beforehand. Still, 200 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: even with that kind of littering the battlefield, they probably 201 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: could have made the charge. So we know it actually 202 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: happened for sure, for sure. We do have a lot 203 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: of other fun historical accounts of this. Uh, this deed, 204 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: this charge. One of my personal favorites is by the 205 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: medieval chronicler. That's that's a great job title. It seems 206 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: much more important than the historian. Uh, Ben, you you 207 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: branced this earlier. I believe it's frost Are. Yeah, that's 208 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: what we were like. Yeah, that's right. And he wrote 209 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: around thirteen seventy um in great detail about this event, 210 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: and I don't know, it sounds pretty poetic and larger 211 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:39,679 Speaker 1: than life. But I want to read another one. Ben, 212 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: you didn't want earlier and did a great job. So 213 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: here's my attempt. When he understood the order of the battle, 214 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: he said to them about him, where is the Lord 215 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: Charles my son? His men said, sir, we cannot tell. 216 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: We think he'd be fighting. Then he said, sirs, you 217 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: are my men companion, and said, friends, in this journey, 218 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: I require you to bring me so far forward that 219 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: I may strike one stroke with my sword. They said 220 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: they would do his commandment, and to the intent that 221 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: they should not lose him in the press. They tied 222 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: all their reins of their bridles around to other and 223 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: set the king before to accomplish his desire boom. And so, 224 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: as we can tell, both of these accounts are written, 225 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: you know, just a couple of decades after the actual charge, 226 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: so there still would have been living people around with 227 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: firsthand knowledge of this. And this is one of the 228 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: crowning achievements of this guy's life. This is the kind 229 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: of death at least the way it's depicted that many 230 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: warriors would envy absolutely and the way it's the scene 231 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: is set by Frostar. It sounds to me like the 232 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: men are acting in like pure solidarity and they respect 233 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: this kid. You know, I don't know. I hope I 234 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: didn't make him a sound buffoonish earlier. I mean, this 235 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: is absolutely not just the work of a of a 236 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: megalomaniacal madman who's totally out of touch. I think he 237 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: very much wants to go into battle with his with 238 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: his men, right. He didn't have to do that. He 239 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: could have stayed in like his in his tent, you know, 240 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: be carried around in a litter or something like that, 241 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: but instead he wanted to you know, dive in. Also, 242 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: we have to ask ourselves, could they have refused him, 243 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: because he is, after all, the king you know. It 244 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: reminds me of that scene in Lord of the Rings 245 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: in the film adaptation when Eric Gordon is giving that 246 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: speech at the Black Gate and he's like, a day 247 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: may come when the courage of men fails. Cedra etceed 248 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: tastes not this day, No, it is not. Makes me 249 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: think of the Brave Heart speech exactly exactly. It's like 250 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: its own genre of speech is and this this is 251 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: a real version of one. Uh. The weird thing about 252 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: John though, is that his story doesn't stop when he 253 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: physically passes away. His remains get moved around a lot. 254 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: He was first interred in the old Abbey in Luxembourg City, 255 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: and then the monastery where he was interred was destroyed 256 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: in fifty three, and so they moved his body to 257 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: what they called the new Abbey, then dug up again 258 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: during the hellish time that was the French Revolution, and 259 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: given to the Book family, who I believe we're partners 260 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: in a in a in a pretty well known company 261 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: at the time called Villa Roy and Bok. What did 262 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: they do, Ben, I'm interested just for the sake of 263 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: our audience here, who wants to know things? They could 264 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: just google it. Um, let's see they sell flatwear. Uh, 265 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: they sell you know, plates, cutlery, dining collections, ceramics. Oh, 266 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: it's very much still around though. Yeah. Yeah, it's like 267 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: very fine, well maybe not fine, but it's it's certainly 268 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: you can buy it at Macy's. It's not like you know, 269 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: fine shina. But it ain't cheap. Let's see a set 270 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: of Villeroy and Bok French garden plates. Is it was 271 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty bucks. That's you know, the middle, 272 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: middle of the road. But I bet back in the 273 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: day it was it was more pricey. But they hid 274 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: these remains in their attic, the Bok family family did, 275 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: and uh there they stayed in the attic or in 276 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: the area until eighteen thirty three, when the Prussian King 277 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: Frederick William the third visited the Rhineland and a member 278 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 1: of the Bouk family, Jean Francois, gave him the relics. 279 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: And this this wasn't just like a weird gift. There 280 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: was a reason that Frederick William would be interested in these, 281 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: and that's because he claimed that he was descended from 282 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: John of Bohemia, so this felt personal to him and 283 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: he took them. Uh, he took them back to Germany. 284 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: Was he cremated or like, I'm sorry I pronounced that 285 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: like a like a real jerk. Fine, I'm fine with 286 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: it though, lean into it. Um so if if you 287 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: you know, presumably he was cremated, because they would have 288 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 1: had to store his his remains and some easy, easily 289 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: transportable form. I guess it could have been his decomposed bones, 290 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: but that doesn't that would have taken time. I think 291 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: maybe they put his bones in a container, you know, 292 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: because so much time has past eighteen thirty three, there's 293 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: not gonna be any flesh left. That's true. They must 294 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: have just dug him up. You're right, he was buried properly, 295 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: and then they dug him up and then just try, 296 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: you know, put his bones in a pile and and 297 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: and just carter to them around side. Note, I have 298 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: to say, uh, we've been we've been doing this show 299 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, and uh, actually it's 300 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: our anniversary. Is it today? I don't know if it's today, 301 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: but we're very close. Christopher Hasciotis pointed it out to 302 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: us earlier, so off air, we we just looked it 303 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,719 Speaker 1: up because Christopher is uh way more on top of 304 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: it than the three of us. And it is actually 305 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: the two year anniversary of this show sometime this week, 306 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: so you believe it. Happy anniversary, man, Happy anniversary too. 307 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: Would you give me? I you know, I got you 308 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: a hat the last time I always travel the last 309 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: two times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm making it a thing. 310 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: I love it. I love I love hats. H Speaking 311 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: of which, just the hat that I'm wearing right now 312 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: from Fort mount Hood the uh timber Line Lodge. That's 313 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: where the Overlook Hotel. That's where she saw that that 314 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: shining shirt. I was right the other day, case he 315 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: got that there too, at the timber Line Lodge gift 316 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: shop at the Portland Airport, which is one of the 317 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: best airports for gift shopping I've ever been to in 318 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: my life. Thanks. Man. That's the one that used for 319 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: the exterior shot in the movie, I think so. Yeah. Yeah, 320 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: it does not have the hedgemads. That's right. The interior 321 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: is different the Stanley Hotel. Also, Happy anniversary to you, Casey. Yes, 322 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: I'm just spread spreading the cheers for the show. For 323 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: the show, he was like, I have no personal anniversaries 324 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 1: of which to speak, No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't call 325 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 1: you out on the air like that. It's a show versary. 326 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: Uh So, Also thanks to every one who has been 327 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: lending us an ear these past two years. Here's what happened. 328 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: They took John's bones, his remains, and they built a 329 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: chapel just the house those bones, and everything seemed fine 330 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: and seem to have found his final resting place. Until 331 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: that is nineteen five. The Nazi party in Germany is 332 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: just about to lose the war. Uh The government of Luxembourg. 333 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: The way history Naked dot Com, in a fantastic article 334 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: describes it, is that Luxembourg quietly liberated John of Bohemia. 335 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: I love quiet liberation the best kind. They robbed his grave, 336 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: that's what they did. They they they took his remains, 337 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: and they brought him back to Luxembourg cities, Notre Dame Cathedral, 338 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 1: and that's where they are now. But how did he 339 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: actually die? I have a question for you. Do you 340 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: think it were choirs religious belief to be at all 341 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: concerned with how people's remains are treated? No, not at all. 342 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: You don't think so? No? So you so so you 343 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: think you would be concerned for how someone else's remains 344 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: are treated based on respect for their religious beliefs. Is 345 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: that kind of what you're getting out, That's part of it. 346 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: But also if they have any living relatives, I would 347 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: I would want to avoid that. Oh and that's the 348 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: that's the threat I almost lost. Thanks for bringing that 349 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: horse got lost. Got sidetracked a little in the in 350 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: the anniversary thing. Uh. Over the course of this show, 351 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: we've run into several cases where people just keep playing 352 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: with or attempting to possess the physical remains of famous folks, 353 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 1: like that one guy whose head disappeared, What was it, 354 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: Lord Nelson, Lord Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Yeah, forgetting He was 355 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: a sea captain and what happened? His head disappeared? You know, man, 356 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: I just remember he was pickled in brandy. That's right. 357 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: They transported his body. He died in a in a 358 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 1: very very similar fashion to uh, to our our hero today. 359 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: Only he he could see and he um was shot 360 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: on the deck of his shop. But he was their 361 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 1: neck and neck with his men in the fray of battle, 362 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: knowing full well that he he might well take a bullet, 363 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: and he did and he died, and then they pickled 364 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,639 Speaker 1: his body in a keg of It was rum. Actually 365 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: it wasn't very rum, but then there were all these 366 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: spooky tails about maybe they drank the rum. Yeah, yeah, 367 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: I leave a drink is named after a rum based 368 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: drink is named after him or something like that. But 369 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's is it really that different from 370 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: drinking the tequila with the worm and it, I mean, 371 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: other than it's a human body. This is getting dark, 372 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,199 Speaker 1: never mind of getting the Halloween effect. As we can 373 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: rightly assume, back in the thirteen hundreds, there wasn't too 374 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: much in the way of what we would call forensic science, 375 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: So it wasn't until nineteen that someone examined the skeleton 376 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: of the Blind King of Bohemia and they were able 377 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 1: to discern more details about how he died on that 378 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: day in August. And the details, they gotta tell you, 379 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: they're they're pretty graphic. If you are a person who 380 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: is averse two descriptions of violence or blood and gore 381 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: and so on, you may want to skip the next 382 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: couple of seconds. Okay, here's what happened. The examination found 383 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: that someone had stabbed him in one of his eyes, 384 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: someone had pushed some kind of weapon directly into his skull. 385 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: They could see a kind of a triangular cross section. 386 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: So there was this void, this triangle shape void in 387 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 1: his skull. Jesus, and that wasn't he he had other 388 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: stabs as well, right, Yeah, no, he very much did 389 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: get get dog piled on. Um. He had one to 390 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 1: his left shoulder blade that went into his chest. Probably 391 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: had some sear his uh important guts in their uh 392 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 1: of vital organs. Um. But that might have been the 393 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: killed shot. Right. It wouldn't have been a super protracted death, 394 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,199 Speaker 1: but probably wouldn't have been instant either. Um. And then 395 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: we've got uh the final insult to injury kind of wound, 396 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: don't we Yeah. It turns out his right hand had 397 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: been severed and they could see three different blows from 398 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: a blade. Somebody completely cut off his right hand, most 399 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: likely to make it more convenient to steal his rings, 400 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 1: so instead of working them off the finger, they just 401 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: cut off his hands. He kept going, and this could 402 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: probably be this sort of practice could probably be an 403 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: episode all its own, because wartime scavenging, up to and 404 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: including the looting of cadavers was very common at this time. 405 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean it continues to be continue to 406 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: be common, and like you know, world War One and 407 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: World War Two, bodies were often looted. We even did 408 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: a story about dental work that was done exclusively with 409 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: looted teeth and fillings and things like that from from 410 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: falling soldiers during the Civil War. During the Civil War 411 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 1: and from other countries during that time. It's where we 412 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: originated that world famous, ridiculous historian phrase straight sea horse teeth. Yeah, 413 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: that's true. That episode was absolutely straight seahorse teeth. And 414 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: I love seeing that one catch on, if even in 415 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: a small way on the internet. Um so, yeah, I'm 416 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: picturing this scene, Ben, I'd like to see this dramatize, uh, 417 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: full guts and glory and all. I mean it's you know, 418 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: because there's that moment where he topples off his horse 419 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: and then the horde swarms him. You know, I mean 420 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: it would a melee, you know, that would be an 421 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: absolute uh horror show. Slow motion as the music swells 422 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: and then maybe we hear this so common in action films, 423 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: historical action films. Maybe we're here in the distance, uh 424 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: the song like his wife softly singing a love song. 425 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of the slow motion scream that 426 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: has the audios almost in the slow motion too. It's 427 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: like and in the background, there's something right exactly back 428 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: to Lord of the Rings. It reminds me of that 429 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: one where Pipping the singing that delightful song and are 430 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: being slaughtered and the weird kings eating his gross chicken 431 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: and grapes or yeah, god, and as the missophonia that 432 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: I have just drives me insane watching him suck on 433 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: those tiny tomatoes. So they were grapes, they were grape tomatoes, 434 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: oh man. And then do you remember, also in Game 435 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: of Thrones when Padrick starts singing that weird song about 436 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 1: Jenny dancing with her ghosts. Yeah, see, it's kind of 437 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: It's got that vibe very right. There's this could be 438 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: uh and this could be excellent fodder for an historical drama. 439 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,479 Speaker 1: And you know what, if there already is one, go ahead, 440 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: feel free to hit us to it. And so pending 441 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: messages from studio producers the world over. This concludes our 442 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: episode on the Strange, heroic, larger than life and of 443 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: Blind John, the King of Bohemia, But it does not 444 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: mean the end of the show. We will be back 445 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: very soon with more you guessed it, ridiculous people, places, 446 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: and events from the span of human history. In the meantime, 447 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: we'd like to hear your stories about these larger than 448 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: life deaths. You know, you know what I've been really into. 449 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: I think maybe we talked about it earlier. I have 450 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: always been fascinated with the stories of someone's famous last words. 451 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: Often I feel like they're made up, you know, Like 452 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: there's with Oscar Wilde where this one I always thought 453 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: it was true where he says either the wallpaper goes 454 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: or I do, because he hated the wall paper when 455 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: he was expiring and then he died. Chega Vena said, uh, 456 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 1: shoot full your only killing a man. My personal favorite 457 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: is Ronald Reagan's deathbed uh final words, which is when 458 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: one for the kipper. Remember when Reagan said that when 459 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 1: he died. I'm sure you know. I feel like most 460 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: people's famous last words are probably so I feel like 461 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: we should just count the thing before they had that 462 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: death rattle. Uh. There was another one. I can't remember 463 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: who said it, but someone said I should have never 464 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: switched from Scotch to Martini's. That sounds like something someone 465 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: would say in a voice like this, It does. Whoever 466 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: has got that voice? It was him ripped torn. Yeah. 467 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: Probably so if you want to let us know some 468 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: of your favorite noble death, some of you were favorite 469 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: famous last words, reach out. We're all over the internet. 470 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,719 Speaker 1: You can find us on Facebook, you can find us 471 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: on Twitter. You can find us on Instagram. Not just 472 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: as a show, but as a as people are ourselves. Yeah, 473 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: we're actually human people that do things outside of this 474 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: podcast shipping container that we find ourselves in so often. 475 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: You can find me on Instagram exclusively. I occupy no 476 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: other social media real estate on the Internet. Accept occasional 477 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: Facebook feed trolling for for fake news. Um. You can 478 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: find me on Instagram at how Now Noel Brown, and 479 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: you can find me on Various Adventures and Misadventures here 480 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: and abroad on Instagram at ben Bowland. You can also 481 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,479 Speaker 1: find me on Twitter where I am at ben Bowling, 482 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: hs W. My office hours are weird. They're pretty much seven. 483 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: Always feel free to drop by and say hello. I 484 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: can't wait to hear what people said. They can't wait 485 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: to hear what kind of famous last words people said? 486 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 1: And you know what, you guys, casey, No, we should 487 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: have a party at some point, you know, like a 488 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: little little sare kind of thing. I'm gonna go grab 489 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: a beer after work today if you guys want to 490 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: come and we can pour one out for the gipperh 491 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: I have to have to catch a flight. Boo next time, 492 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: Next time. Big Thanks to super producer Casey Pegroom, Christopher 493 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: Haciots here in Spirit Out. It's Williams who composed our theme. 494 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: Also thanks of course to Gabe Lozier. Thanks to Eve's 495 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: Jeff Coat. Thanks to Jonathan Strickland, the quister who isn't 496 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: here for the anniversary. I know, and he's he's been 497 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: hot taken on Facebook, though, I feel like he's still here. 498 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: Have you seen ridiculous historians? He says some things, some 499 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: very choice things about you and your vocal warm up 500 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: regiment and you as well. Yeah, yeah, he's uh, he 501 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: went off. He feels ways about things he does feel 502 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: ways about. I think he's getting a little punchy. Since 503 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: we haven't been including him, he might be feeling a 504 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: little left out. So I think we should bring him 505 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: back into the fold. Absolutely, We'll see you next time, 506 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: folx H. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit 507 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 508 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: listen to your favorite shows.