The Demon Core

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06/30/22 • 28 min

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another Thursday episode of nightmare now! Where we laugh about lurid lore and learn about lost languishing laments in layman’s terms and lay on the levity talking about loss, life, love and in today’s show, liberty. I thought it might be fitting to do our first foray into ghost and war stories on the week of memorial day. And what better american veteran to cover than the man, the myth, the legend, MC dolla bill ya boi george washington himself. Memorial day was first celebrated as a holiday in 1868, known then as decoration day to honor union soldiers in the civil war. Now as far as George Washington and the civil war goes you’ve got a couple of takes on it. The joke take is that sure, Washington was there in the flesh. The broke take is that Washington wasn’t there at all, after all my man died in december of 1799 and the civil war wasn’t for another sixty years or so. From April of 1861 to May of 65. The Woke take is that Washington’s ideals and legacy inspired people on both sides to fight for the America that they believed he founded. But then we get up to the straight bespoke take that George Washington’s ghost literally showed up at gettysburg in july of 1863 with a f**king lightsaber to turn the tide of battle like he’s obi wan kenobi. This episode of Nightmare Now brought to you by disney plus.

Glad to have you all here and I’m very excited and pleased to announce, thanks to you yes you with the headphones, that we hit 500 overall downloads, that’s a fun milestone and I’m super pumped about it and the future, watching that number grow, but more importantly what that number represents, and that’s you the listener deciding to listen to this greasy little show when there’s millions of others out there competing for your time. It truly means a lot to me so thank you all so much!

Now back to our regular scheduled programming about jedi george washington. Some of you history nerds may have heard this story before, I know I have, but I never actually looked too far into it until this week. And especially all the non americans listening might not have heard this either but lets just jump right into it.

As far as the civil war goes we’re zooming in on major part of it, the battle of gettysburg, but we’re gonna keep zooming in further to one of the more famous parts of that most famous battle. Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th maine infantry holding the strategic little round top. Gettysburg and even this particular skirmish within the three or four day battle of gettysburg are kind of outside the scope of this episode. I defineitely want to do a deep dive on the civil war, and probably gettysburg specifically, but the short version is like 6000 people died and like thirty thousand f**king people were injured, and most of them probably died later because medicine in the civil war was bascially just amputation and hoping for the best. Lotta blood lotta screaming, bullets blew apart in you and you died of infection most of the time. Not really a good time for anyone I reckon. Gettysburg ended up being one of the turning points, if not THE turning point of the American Civil war. The defense of the little round top, was part of the reason that the union won gettysburg because like the obi wan kenobi analogy from before, it was the high ground.

Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine fought off two waves of a larger force of confederate troops to defend the hill but eventually ran very low on ammo. With another wave incoming chamberlain and his famously quivering mustache yelled to fix bayooonnnneeettteeesss! And led his boys to charge down the hill in a last ditch defensive offensive bluff. Nobody is gonna fault the confederates for scattering after this lunatic gambit, because seeing your buddies shot is one thing, but seeing them skewered on a bayonet by a whole company of charging berserk sold...

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The Number 13 and Triskaidekaphobia

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With all that out of the way, why are we here today? That’s a little unintentionally existential. I just mean what are we talking about today. I’ll get existential on the hologram earth episode but that’ll be at another time. If any of this is real at all. Today however we’re talking a fun little word: Triskaidekaphobia! The fear and aversion of the number 13. It’s bad luck we’ve all heard that right? I know I have but I never really gave it more thought than that, it’s a weird superstition and nothing more. But most superstitions have at least a little bit of folklore, historical precedent or other ghoulish tale surrounding them. So what better day to take a look at this ubiquitous superstition surrounding the number 13 than the thirteenth episode? Maybe a Friday the thirteenth, but that doesn’t really work for releasing on thursdays. But we’ll see if we can get one out on time won’t we.

Why thirteen though? Nobody really knows for sure, although we do know it’s mostly a western tradition. Middle easterners don’t trust the number 39, which happens to be thirteen thrice. And many easern countries and cultures do what they can to avoid the number 4 apparently because the word for number four in chinese, vietnamese, japanese and korean is close to their word for death.

So mostly the thirteen thing is a western thing. And there’s really no consensus on why that is so I’ll throw a couple of theories at ya and you can decide for yourself which explanation is most likely to impress the emo chick you’re trying to take home at the party. Don’t act like you don’t subtly think you’re intellectually superior because you listen to obscure occult history podcasts, you can’t bulls**t me I know why you’re really here. And I’m happy about it. I’m thrilled to be your wingman when you bring up this stupid stuff later.

Anyway here’s a few theories as to why the number 13 is considered unlucky in the west, the first and most likely historically seems to come from norse mythology. And I’m proud to announce this show is brought to you by thor love and thunder, in theaters this saturday, nah I’m just f**king with you, one day we might have a sponsor though, won’t that be nice?

So thirteen, Norse mythology, where are we? We have a lovely supper with a bunch of the gods hanging out having a grand old time especially my man baldur. The god of jo and gladness, he was just having himself uite a rumpus getting wasted with 11 other gods.

Flashback to when baldur was having prophetic dreams of his death, his mother frigga, wife of odin, yeah he was thor’s brother. His mother went to every entity in the universe collecting an oath from every single one of them that they would not hurt her son. Loki shows up, that f**king rapscallion and asks casually, hey is there anything that didn’t agree not to hurt baldur? She’s like no, but come to think of it I never asked mistletoe. It’s probably fine right? And boom loki poofs away.

*Back to the dinner, everyone goes back to one of their favorite hobbies, trying to kill baldur. Loki is the 13th guest and is not invited but shows up anyway. Might have something to do with him having sex with horses, I don’t know.

*Loki gets hodr, baldur and thor’s brother, even more wasted, who is blind to boot and he’s like throw this at him here I’ll help you throw it. He gives hodr a mistletoe spear and helps him aim and wouldn’t you know it, it kills baldur instantly.

*In short it births the tradition that if thirteen people are at a dinner table one of them will be dead by the end of the year. In baldurs case it was the end of the night. We’ll revisit that theme in just a minute. Can you think of anyone else that had an ill fated supper with 12 others? HMMMMM

*Baldur didn’t go unavenged though, wait you think someone blamed and killed loki? Nope, they made sure there was justice so odin f**ked a giant named rindr to give birth to a son Vali, who reaches maturity the day he’s born. And I thought a year of puberty or whatever was bad, jesus, hey there’s a spoiler. So Vali rockets from inf...