The strangest aspects of the human experience

File 0051: One Exceptional Year

11/10/2021

November 11 2021

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In this special episode our hosts review all the topics from the last year, discussing these stories and providing updates. 

Please review the list below for all episodes and stories with links and any updates we found!

  • File 0001/0002: Rushing to Brittany with a Shake
  • The secret room behind Mount Rushmore
  • Brittany Murphy: HBO max, What Happened to Brittany Murphy? came out at the end of October 2021 and had a lot of new insights:
  • Interview with Ed winter, was friends with the driver who drove them to the Larry King show, the driver told Ed that soon as the interview was over everything changed
  • Simon and Sharon hired a publicist, after Simon died the publicist went to the house and saw a bunch of mold, as did Ed winter.
  • Cyril wecht has since said that he doesn't think it's poison, but more of an issue of neglect
  • Simon hired a personal trainer, he met her and she seemed high. The trainer said he'd work with her team but when he called them they had all been fired and Simon was doing everything
  • Simon changed all her numbers one day without telling all her friends
  • Simon would keep her up until 2am every night, depriving her of sleep killing her immune system
  • The film in Puerto Rico, rumor is that Simon hit one on the crew
  • Simon did have a 2nd child, a son with a woman in France with Elizabeth Ragsdale. They had been engaged. One night when she turned down his sexual advances, he told her he had spinal cancer and needed to go Monaco and get these shark cartilage treatments. She consented to sex then
  • He started to pressure her into having a child saying that the treatments would make him infertile
  • Elizabeth said he fetishised anorexia
  • Elijah is 18 now
  • When he married Brittany he reached out to Elizabeth and offered to buy her house, basically to pay her to keep her mouth shut
  • He sent her to new York to have the baby while he was in Monaco. She called him when she landed and he answered then hung up immediately. She couldn't get a hold of him no matter how she tried so she reached out to his mother who told him he didn't have cancer and that he was seeing someone else. She wanted to commit suicide but couldn't because of the child. He disappeared off the face of the earth
  • After Simon died, Sharon asked her publicist to sell some jewelry that Simon purchased and had claimed to be very valuable, the publicist checked with two jewellers and found it it was all fake when he told Sharon she was confounded, Simon had lied about everything, burning 3 million dollars. Leaving her with the house and whatever was left in the bank
  • Was Shakespeare a woman?
  • File 0003-0004: Bastet Reeves and the Holy Bible
  • My Immortal, Keanu Reeves: In 2019 Keanu filmed a netflix series in Sao Paulo, that is supposed to be released this year.
  • In march of this year the comic series BRZRKR launched, written by Reeves and Matt Kindt. Get this: The comic follows an immortal warrior, known as Berzerker, as he fights his way through the agesa half-god child is born to a tribe of prehistoric people only to grow into a murderous, unkillable savior, and 80,000 years later in the present, where "B" exists as a contract killer for the U.S. government
  • Keanu Reeves: Yeah, so about three, four years ago I met with BOOM! Studios for a general meeting. They were taking some of their comic book IP and trying to do live action. So I went to meet with them and they were like, "What's going on?" I said I had this idea of a character, Berserker, that kind of punches through chests, rips arms off, etc. And they were like, "Cool, we like that. Do you want to make a comic? Have you ever thought of doing a comic?" And I said, "No." And they said, "Would you like to?" And I said, "Yes, that would be neato." So then they started trying to put a team together to create it. And here we are.
  • Writer Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT) and artist Ron Garney (Ghost Rider) suggest their Hollywood collaborator threaded B's story with his own personal history
  • Netflix is also developing a live-action film adaptation and a follow-up anime series based on the comics with Reeves cast as the lead
  • Cats in Ancient Egypt: The Met in New York has a really cool article featuring different pieces of art from ancient Egypt with cats, including statues, paintings, etc.
  • From the article: "As of the mid-third millennium BCE, cats in collars were depicted in tombs. These paintings suggested pharaohs kept wildcats as pets. Pharaohs and nobles would long continue to be associated with these noble beasts. By the 20th century BCE, a breed of domestic cat was found depicted in tombs. Around 1350 BCE, Prince Thutmose of the royal house mummified his beloved pet cat and buried it in an engraved stone coffin. While this luxurious burial is an early example of cat mummification, the tradition would continue until late Roman Egypt."
  • The Word Homosexual in the Bible
  • File 0005-0006: Tunguska Detectives of Moonville
  • The Moonville Tunnel: "The trail is also in consideration to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. Ohio History Connection has already unanimously approved the application and the official decision is made by the National Parks Service."
  • The tunnel and bridge are being re-engineered to meet modern standards and reduce risks of accidents, as Moonville is now a popular tourist destination.
  • The Origins of Private Detective
  • The Tunguska Event: In September there was a fascinating find in the Jordan Valley, northeast of the dead sea. 3600 years prior it had been the site of the city of Tall El-Hammam
  • the settlement in its time had become the largest continuously occupied Bronze Age city in the southern Levant, having hosted early civilization for a few thousand years. At that time, it was 10 times larger than Jerusalem and 5 times larger than Jericho.
  • A favorite site for archaeologists and biblical scholars, the mound hosts evidence of culture all the way from the Chalcolithic, or Copper Age, all compacted into layers as the highly strategic settlement was built, destroyed and rebuilt over millennia.
  • But there is a 1.5-meter interval in the Middle Bronze Age II stratum that caught the interest of some researchers for its "highly unusual" materials. In addition to the debris one would expect from destruction via warfare and earthquakes, they found pottery shards with outer surfaces melted into glass, "bubbled" mudbrick and partially melted building material, all indications of an anomalously high-temperature event, much hotter than anything the technology of the time could produce.
  • Scientists now think that it was a tunguska sized cosmic event that was the downfall of the once magnificent city
  • The shock of the explosion over Tall el-Hammam was enough to level the city, flattening the palace and surrounding walls and mudbrick structures, according to the paper. The distribution of bones indicated "extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans."
  • the same scientists are have also been investigating the possibility of another similar 12,800 years ago.Fire and Brimstone
  • Tall el-Hamman has been the focus of an ongoing debate as to whether it could be the biblical city of Sodom, one of the two cities in the Old Testament Book of Genesis that were destroyed by God for how wicked they and their inhabitants had become. One denizen, Lot, is saved by two angels who instruct him not to look behind as they flee. Lot's wife, however, lingers and is turned into a pillar of salt. Meanwhile, fire and brimstone fell from the sky; multiple cities were destroyed; thick smoke rose from the fires; city inhabitants were killed and area crops were destroyed in what sounds like an eyewitness account of a cosmic impact event. It's a satisfying connection to make.
  • "All the observations stated in Genesis are consistent with a cosmic airburst," Kennett said, "but there's no scientific proof that this destroyed city is indeed the Sodom of the Old Testament." However, the researchers said, the disaster could have generated an oral tradition that may have served as the inspiration for the written account in the book of Genesis, as well as the biblical account of the burning of Jericho in the Old Testament Book of Joshua.
  • File 0007-0008: The Teal Emu of Alcatraz
  • The Great Emu War: In March this year it was announced John Cleese and Rob Schneider would be making a new film "The Great Emu War" i Aussie comedians Monty Franklin and Jim Jefferies and New Zealand funnyman Rhys Darby (What We Do in the Shadows, Flight of the Conchords) are also attached to the film. Musician and animal rights activist Moby will contribute original music for The Great Emu WarThe original idea for the film came from one of Franklin's stand-up comedy routines. The movie will be shot in the Campion district of Western Australia, on the lands of the Noongar people, and mainly employ local Australian crew.
  • "It is audacious and fitting that the first big Hollywood film on Noongar land is a comedy celebrating how Country itself can turn the tables on imperialism," said Bracknell, who is Noongar. "Amidst the calamity, a very special female character will emerge and do things we haven't yet seen in any feature film.
  • The emus will be created from a combination of in-camera effects, CGI and puppetry. The Great Emu War is set to begin principal photography in Australia in May 2022. 
  • The Birdman of Alcatraz:
  • Teal Swan: Teal's "group" still operates but in the wake of investigative articles and podcasts, she's faded from the spotlight a little. She still makes videos on her YouTube channel, including a video that deals with "truth" and has a photo thumbnail of a red and blue pill. Great.
  • She's also launched two apps, "Frequency Guidance Cards" and "The Blind Spot" (which are oracle cards from her).
  • She's also still giving lectures/talks and doing events, including her Completion Process Training (for a $2900 course fee).
  • Her Facebook group is still shuttered, but now there is one for this Completion Process training. Supposedly once you take the training, you can teach this Completion Process to others.
  • What the hell is the Completion Process?
  • From the site: The Completion Proces is a comprehensive approach to healing core traumas that recur as emotional triggers that prevent us from living empowered lives free of fear. The Completion Process is an 18 step visualization that walks you through an emotional trigger following the emotion to the earliest memory, then resolving the child's needs through both the mental visualization of resolution and providing awareness through the adult perspective of the events that occurred.
  • It's still recovered memory therapy, which is not legit and has caused harm to people. So different name, same grift, new harm, new victims.
  • This training page redirects to a site specifically for the training and has a MASSIVE disclaimer on it. The application process for this training is long and the site notes: "Helpful Hint: Applications that are complete and contain thoughtfully created sentences are always weighed with priority"
  • The application also asks about living situation/support structure, if the applicant feels "emotionally safe" in their current living situation, what relevant credentials they hold (MA, social worker, PhD, MD, Member of clergy, etc). This is interesting to me because if they get educated applicants, they can tout the training as being supported and accepted by academics, medical doctors, etc. It's so gross.
  • They also ask for a HEADSHOT of the applicant. A photo with no hats or sunglasses.
  • There is also a large footer on the website with links to crisis hotlines, some of which are legit.
  • I also want to note that their page of resources for people in crisis states: "Although we are in the process of clinical trials this process is not yet peer reviewed. If you are interested in assisting with getting this process peer review please reach out to cpcpinformation@gmail.com
  • File 0009-0010: A Very Pagan Christmas
  • The Winter Solstice:
  • Mari Lwyd: in Jan 2021, the Mari Lwyd across great britain got together for a virtual show, celebrating their beloved mare. What the plans for this year are? I am not certain
  • Gryla the Christmas Witch:
  • File 0011-0012: Baba Yaga's Dutchman House
  • Baba Yaga:
  • The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine:
  • The Final Fantasy 7 House: what to update about this one! I'm conversations with 3 other survivors at the moment, 2 of which lived in the house around the same time that AJ did and the 3rd having known Jack and attended college with him before he'd met Jen
  • File 0013: Robyn the Heathen Viking with Robyn
  • File 0014-0015: Cackling Megaloparrot
  • Hyenas: In August this year, seems like some other folks began to get the message that hyenas are pretty dope
  • Calcium and phospherous are important minerals in our environments, enriching soil, growing stronger and more diverse plants and much moreNow naturally, calcium and phospherous can be found in deposits in the earth and can distribute itself around an area through wind eroding rocks on the surface
  • But turns out there's a much more efficient way that we've all but ignored. It's estimated that hyena dung is 1000-20,000 times more efficient at spreading these minerals than natural erosions. Hyenas or infamous for devouring every part of an animal, and most importantly in this case, is the bones and marrow
  • This high concentration of minerals is what makes hyena dung dry and white
  • And it's not just the bones they eat that help the ecosystem, it's the tiny shards and splinters that get left behind after a feeding, that are vital to the diets of many birds. Birds that don't have access to these splinters tend to have a much higher rate of metabolic diseases or calcium/phosphorous deficiencies
  • So not only are hyenas cleaning up the plains, their fertilizing it and providing additional nutrients for other animals!
  • The Kakapo: Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the New Zealand Department of Conservation's Kākāpō Recovery Team have found that the high rate of hatching failure in the critically endangered kākāpō is not primarily driven by male infertility, as previously assumed, but by a high rate of early embryo death across the population
  • The Kākāpō Recovery Team has also trialed artificial insemination and successfully produced chicks, demonstrating its potential as a conservation intervention for the species.
  • Kākāpō females who have mated multiple times hatch more eggs than those that only mate once, so the recovery team has used artificial insemination to replicate a second mating and boost hatching rates. The present research confirms that artificial insemination increases the number of sperm that reach the egg.
  • "Even though the kākāpō is one of the most inbred and endangered bird species in the world, it has many fewer harmful mutations than expected," said Dr. Nicolas Dussex, a researcher at the Center for Palaeogenetics and Stockholm University.
  • "Our data show that the surviving population on Stewart Island has been isolated for approximately 10,000 years and that during this time, harmful mutations have been removed by natural selection in a process called 'purging' and that inbreeding may have facilitated it."
  • "In small populations, this type of harmful mutation can lead to genetic diseases," said Professor Love Dalén, a researcher at the Center for Palaeogenetics and Swedish Museum of Natural History.
  • "Our finding of a reduced number of harmful mutations is therefore important, since it means that inbreeding in the present-day population is likely to have less severe impact than we had initially thought."
  • The Megalodon
  • File 0016: Icarus the Ex-SOLDIER with Icarus
  • File 0017: Let's Get Mythical
  • The Fernie Curse:
  • Yuki Onna: from Oct 6-15th The University of Montana's School of Theatre and Dance program put on a unique exhibition in place of a traditional stage performance Creating a haunted-house like experience, or as they call it "a haunted experience" 
  • "When COVID hit, design students didn't have as many opportunities, so we wanted to give them an experience similar to what they were missing out on because of COVID," Monsos said. 
  • "Haunted" features work from 40 different students with four main scene designers who created a variety of things like costumes, props, sets, projections and more to help demonstrate the stories represented. featuring four rooms: Dracula, Yuki-Onna, The Haunting of Hill House and Baba Yaga 
  • Fake snow fell onto audience members' heads as each made their way through a maze filled with fake trees covered in fake frost to mimic a cold, winter night with the ghost of Yuki-Onna.
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