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In This Week’s Show, episode 277 I get my soul sucked out through a hole in a Japanese bathroom… by a scary old woman… who made Steve watch… Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while the Yokai haven’t struck us down yet, we are trying their patience! Shea’s Life Lesson This week I learned that ancient Greeks did not know what french fries are, which may account for their physical fitness… And my lack of it. Jenn’s Actual Lesson Jenn sent us a recipe for her homemade Sizzurp which has been helping her with the milk lung, and with enough reviews she might be back next week!! But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!This Week’s Beer
River Falls Red Ale - Thomas Creek Brewery - Greenville, South Carolina Mr. Bible Pants- BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2454/7594/
- BA Rating: 82
- Style: Irish red ale
- ABV: 6.2
- Aaron: 6
- Shea: 4
- Steve: 4
This Week’s Show
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Many thanks to Steve E for providing yet another round of fabulous beers for us to review. BGJ has received them and we’ll get them into the lineup asap. We have a sad update to a story we’ve followed for a while now. Our favorite crazy, daredevil, flat earther Mad Mike Huges, died crash landing his steam powered rocket over California while attempting to get to 5000ft. His parachute deployed only seconds after launch and was torn away giving him no way to land safely. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51602655 Thanks to listener and tweeter Cody for telling us, Sunday February 29th is Rare Disease day. Rare Disease Day is an observance held on the last day of February to raise awareness for rare diseases and improve access to treatment and medical representation for individuals with rare diseases and their families. NORD, National Organization for Rare Disorders has been raising awareness since 2008. https://web.cvent.com/event/28255629-6178-43b3-8a2a-880dde92fe44/summary?i=E958C9A2-A054-4C5C-8E2E-65C3692EAB01&tm=SGiz71wNP_8xJ9z22dVgK8G-vJ29-ggf3zluChYdDywPatreon Story
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59737/10-horrifying-demons-and-spirits-japanese-folklore Scary Stories of Japan’s Scorned Ladies Rocky and Bullwinkle "or" Terrifying Tales of the Typical Treatment of Women. Ahh Japan. A beautiful land filled with natural wonders and ancient traditions. Home to some of the world’s most amazing food, innovations, and bigotries — they’re absolutely killing it in the fields of misogyny and transphobia! We covered the latter some time ago, so today, let’s look at the former… Because Shea trolled us into telling tall tales of terrifying trickery I present to the patrons a plethora of preposterous parables — all with the same lesson: don’t be a woman, and especially, don’t be an old, unwed, woman! Seriously, it’s bad for everyone else’s health. For example, the monk Anchin. Our story begins with Kiyohime, a young woman who, apparently, was far more into Anchin than he was into her. Realizing that her lover was losing interest she did what any woman not yet properly diagnosed with hysteria would do: she started stalking him. Until one day while he was doing yee-oldie Japanese boat stuff, she followed him out into the river and since swimming + vagina = cursed, she turned into a fuck’n river serpent ya’ll. Because fuck it why not. Terrified by the horney swamp monster trying to mud-snew him Anchin ran to a nearby temple where the other monks hid him under a bell. Unfortunately, to a scorned serpent-woman a giant monastic bell is basically just a dutch oven. Curling herself around the bell to prevent his escape she breathed fire into the bell, roasting him through… not unlike the choshu pork I made us for dinner. So there ya go, don’t be a crazy stalker-harlot in a river or you’ll turn into a dragon… I said they’d be similar lessons, not good ones. Doing away with green scales let’s move to white kimonos and the tale of Yuki-onna. She’s usually described as having white skin, a white kimono, and long black hair. Think, a clean version of the creepy asian girl in the Grudge… or Ring… or… umm, the one where she crawls out of the TV because you resurrected a VCR. She appears in winter storms — and most anime and manga — gliding about like an Irish nun. Being a hollow, soulless kinda bitch, she devours human essence. Her favorite method of killing people is to blow on them… so… Yeah, enjoy that softball… Once her victims are frozen she stops blowing and starts sucking… their souls out. If you’ve seen any sword and sorcery or demon hunting anime, especially Demon Hunter, you’ve seen a Yuki-onna. So there ya go, don’t be a frigid ice-harlot in a snowstorm or you’ll turn into an anime trope. Unless being an anime trope is your thing, in which case you could do a lot worse than hot-magical-pale woman. You might, for example, get stuck being a magical-old-woman. Which is decidedly less great. If you can, you’ll want to be the cool and wise, tiny but ferocious, grandma type—not the marginalized by society and forced to live on human flesh in the mountains type, like the Yamauba. And no, the Yamauba isn’t the Japanese version of a fine chocolate-adjacent drink. It’s an old mountain spinster who offers shelter to young, soon-to-be mothers wondering about the forests looking for a log to birth under. I guess. The point here is that Japan doesn’t seem to have period hovvels or birthing yurts so… into the forest with your bothersome self! Anyway the Yamauba’s plan is a standard Hansel and Gretel-Witch setup but without all the extra steps waiting for the kids to grow up or baking them. The Yamauba will eat the baby, mother, and if it’s been a while, anyone else who walks by. So there ya go, don’t be an old, unwed, spinster or you’ll turn into a marginalized member of society… oh. Umm. Don’t be an old, unwed, spinster or you’ll be socially ostracised and forced to live vicariously through younger, more fertile, women until you die in the mountains of exposure… to hamfisted metaphors… Hmm. Nope. This one’s hard. So there ya go, don’t… Don’t be a woman I guess? Nothing wrong with it of course, but if you can avoid it—and the yee-oldie times—definitely do. Especially together. Like, always go “privileged” and “future”. Because being a yee-oldie woman was not an awesome life-state, but being Lord McMedicalcare of Mars’ first free omi-hospital is probably great. The doctors will take your pain seriously and they won’t blame it all your baby-box. No one will accuse you of turning into a crazed, man-hungry, river-lizard. And you won’t have to spend your old age eating babies. It’s a good hand to be dealt.Kappa Kappa Gotcha
Many of you know I love comic books, recently I found a limited run series, only 4 issues, called “Hungry Ghost,” from Dark Horse. I initially picked it up because I am a huge fan of horror comics and the cover was done in Japanese traditional style and looked wicked cool. The comic was awesome and had some great stories, I would highly recommend it. Also, I didn’t realize until I was almost through reading it one of the writers is Anthony Bordain, one of my favorite tv chefs. This comic sparked my interest about traditional Japanese folklore and monsters, called Yokai, and formed today’s show for you all. -SO- Tonight we play an ancient Edo parlor game called Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai where participants light candles and take turns telling scary stories, after they finish they blow out a candle. As the room darkens the yokai are encouraged to make an appearance and the last person to leave the room wins… or gets torn apart by demons, I guess. Draw your curtains closed and light a candle, join us as we invoke the spirits and tempt the purity of our souls. Killer Kappa- https://www.brainbubblegum.net/home/2017/7/25/shirikodama-n-small-anus-ball
- https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Kappa
Finally, Some Toilet Humor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanako-san
- https://www.scaryforkids.com/hanako/.
- http://anitasnotebook.com/2014/10/legend-of-hanako-san-spooky-japanese-ghost-of-the-school-bathroom.html
Next Week's Beer
Happy Friendsgiving - Citybuilt Brewing Company From Steve E.- UT Link: https://untappd.com/b/city-built-brewing-company-happyfriendsgiving/2927901
- UT Rating: 3.85
- Style: Sour - Berliner Weisse
- ABV: 3.8%
Happy Ending
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