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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's do this. Welcome everybody. It is fr

(00:03):
October twenty twenty five, Best each facts of music. I
am all. I'm here with my bestie Hannah. Hannah, say bye,
so bear in my people. This is a live stream.
There is a wicked delay for some reason. Now there
wasn't really before. I don't know what's going on, but

(00:28):
it's the curse. I don't like the curse, but you know,
we gotta do what we gotta do. All right, let
me let me get that off there. I think that's
like that. I think they're okay. Can you hear me? Now? Good? Everybody? Good? Okay, wow, sorry,
all right, everybody. Look, it wouldn't be our show if

(00:50):
there wasn't a curse or a hiccup or two or
three or seven. So we are. We are here celebrating
the spooky time of year. Me my best ye friend
Hannah here. And you know, in past years we've talked
about how different, you know, the Halloween season is between
you know here in the US of A and Finland,

(01:14):
and and this year, you know, I mean, we really Halloween.
To me this year, it hasn't really felt like Halloween,
you know what I mean. I don't know how it
is over there, but this year has kind of been like,
you know, if we if stuff happens this year, it happens.

(01:35):
If not, you know, no, baby, I don't know if
I'm just feeling that because my kids are all you know,
upper teens now, like sixteen, seventeen, you know what I
mean stuff like that. So yeah, they are very no,
definitely not and they are like my youngest is uh

(01:58):
sixteen this year and she's going out again and uh
for like the last time I believe this year, like
they're going out and it's uh, it's kind of like weird,
Like you know, I kind of missed that stuff with
the little ones. We get all dressed up and go out,
you know, like you you have that still, like so
like what is it? What are they? What were the
kids like this year? What what do they do this year?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Kind of.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, that's there's a huge delay, But let's try to
get along.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, I don't understand why there's a huge delay.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Oh yeah, well well let's try anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, let's just let's just work around it.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, Halloween stuff isn't brilliant mhm, yeah, yeah, Halloween stuff
isn't brilliant, a big thing in here Stills. They do
have some Halloween discos at school. They get to addressed
up for that, right right, my mama.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh that's awesome. Yeah, that's you know what though, like
I don't know if you're really missing out on anything
quite frankly, like you guys have the parties and that's
really what counts, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Like like, uh, because I got around here, Like it's
really just like the kids get to go out, uh,
but you know, they get cold, they get wet if
it rains.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Uh, then they come home. They gotta wait for us
to sort through their candy because I'm gonna let my
kids eat candy that they don't you know, trust you know, no,
I don't know these people, so uh. You know, I
come from the generation of back in the day where
they're like, no, you gotta have your parents inspect your
candy because you know, somebody could be putting drugs and
razor blades in their stuff. And I'm like, now as

(03:51):
an older adult, I'm like, ain't nobody putting no drugs
and no candy? That's sounds expensive? They put they give
them their drugs. Ain't no kids as bad? Management. That's what
that is. You know, Like nobody's doing that. Sorry. People
Like the big thing now is ventanyl. Oh they're they're
lace and stuff with ventyl. Yeah, it's ridiculous. But anyway,

(04:17):
this this spooky season is about those people. This is
the last day of it. Honestly, it's Halloween. Uh, you know,
and if you've got to take your kids out to
go trick or treating and stuff, by all means, have fun,
do it. Be safe though. There's a lot of weirdos
and a lot of bad drivers out there. So if
you're gonna, you know, have your kids walk up and
down the street, have them walk with a buddy, you know,

(04:37):
if they're you know, all that stuff, be careful. Just
be careful, uh you know. And uh so, uh, there's
some things that we're gonna do different this year. People.
Uh we're not playing any music abby. Uh you can
you know, not hear anything right now. So there was
no intro, no nothing. We're just doing this off the cup.
We're gonna read it. We we can do that with

(04:58):
a delay, haha, see cause that's that there's uh you know,
that's that's the one thing we can do with the
delay is we can read a story to you. I'm
gonna read the legend of Sleepy Hollow today because it
is literally from right around the corner from my house. Literally,
like I want to say, no more than forty five
minutes to an hour away from my house, maybe maybe

(05:19):
two hours max. Uh, depending on which part of my
area you live in, you know what I mean, because
it's a big area. But uh, it's from and originally
in a place, a place called Terrytown, New York, which,
like I said, is not too far away from my house. Uh,
And Sleepy Hollow is literally just a little hollow hamlet
right in the outside of the place. Like it's a
real place. Uh. People you know assume that maybe this

(05:42):
story was just made up. No, it's it's it is
made up story obviously, but the place is uh real,
and some of the characters are actually based on real
life people, you know what I mean. So uh of
people that Washington Nerving had met, you know, throughout his life.
And uh, it's kind of like when he went there,

(06:03):
because he visited Terry Town when he was younger, and uh,
you know he went there for peace and quiet and
all this other stuff, and you know, just to get
away from people. Uh well, he he and what he
found when he got there was stories of ghosts and
you know, uh, you know, just weird stuff. And and
he uh found like a almost a chill ran up

(06:27):
his spine when he first heard the story of what
would become the headless Horseman of was actually a Hessian
soldier was beheaded on the battlefield. Uh, you know right there,
and and you know, that story kind of morphed. You know,
tales brought down three people, you know, from the war.
And then you know, there would always and then and

(06:47):
it would come that you know, well, there's a headless
horseman now running around looking for his head. And so
he took that and he ran with that thing, and
he came up to the story I'm gonna read with
you guys today, and Handa is gonna read a story too,
And it just slipped off the top of my head.
Which one of you're gonna read today? Ah Anna, I
was gonna tell you which one you were gonna read today.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm gonna have.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
The judge's house, yes, yes, not not not the Dracula guy. Yes,
but she is not reading Dracula. We will be here
all day.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
If she was reading bram Stoker's Dracula. We we ain't
got that kind of hours right now. Oh, but uh,
I figured we would pick the shortest, uh, you know,
the shortest stories we could today, you know, and I
believe we should fill up a good hour and change
with the stories. And we got some facts. Hannah's got facts,

(07:52):
uh today too. Uh she has got some uh some
good spooky facts. And uh, Hannah, what would you rather
do to start? Would you rather jump into a story
or do you want to do a couple of facts?
Do the story, take a couple of second break, take
some more facts in and then get into the other story.
What do you what do you think we should do?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
The last one sounded there? So I'll read some Okay, sure.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
We are very professional and prepared here on this show. Folks.
You know how words you've listened to us before? Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I was supposed to do so much more. I was
gonna put on costume on I'm getting away a horrible.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Day and I, oh, no, you know it's not a
horrible day if you can get a nap in honestly,
to be fair.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yeah, oh oh, before you get into that, but before
you get into that real quick.

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Speaker 3 (10:44):
Okay, first, creepy fat your phone knows your heartbeat rhythm,
and in theory, it could identify you see them without
your face.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh I don't like that. Uh it's a little too personal.
Uh it's a little creepy. Uh it makes me hey,
I is gonna take over, man, telling you they're gonna
capture everything, and they're gonna start using your face.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Not fun heart.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah yeah, well they can have my irregular ass fast heartbeat,
go for it. They can take that ship. But they're gonna.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Okay, old but with the air beasts, Uh, butterflies taste
with their fists.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yes, we knew that already.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Bus. That means they have these stating on corpses in them.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Like.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Oh yummy, that's that's that's Oh I love nature. Yeah, creepy.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Okay, this one, this one is one of my favorite
things is to look at facts and then faccheck. Always
I find like five that are wrong. So here's one
of those. Your sense of smell is the last sense

(12:21):
to die, so you might smell your surrounding long after
everything else fades. But no, I knew this one to be,
and this smell isn't the last sense.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
It just linked to a long term more selty and
the final moments of life. Hearing and touch seemed to
be the last senses to go, which is why people
hold hands and talk to loved ones at the end. Okay,
I knew the first and last senses on a human

(12:59):
are is touched, the first thing a baby can recognize, recognize,
and the last things.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
That makes sense though it does, it makes a lot
of sense to you. Truth. M hmmm, So what we got?
We got? We got any more? You want to get that? Yeah,
let's get this?

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah? Sure, sure, another one I did boot somebody is
very buried in seaed coffins built enough gas pressure to
explode that This one is true, but in general directors

(13:45):
call its coffin BT and worse this is not true.

Speaker 7 (13:50):
Well it's partially. It's fortunately true. Coffin birt only happens
with fregrant women. The body builds up gases and people
should the baby.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
Talk about going out with the vand y okay, one
more sure. Your eyes float forward slightly when you sleep.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
This is why.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Sometimes it feels like someone is leaning over your ear sleep.
So when we fall into rem sleep, the muscles holding
our eyebobs in place relaxed, and their eyes drift aside
slightly forward. And if you wake up in that moment,
your brain tries to make sense of a sensation and

(14:57):
you can feel like someone is leaning over you.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh okay, that's that's actually that makes sense then, because
you know I feel that I felt that a lot.
Good to know that is just my eyeballs, uh, and
not some paralysis demon or some ship that's looking over
me and that it wants to strangle me in my sleep.

(15:22):
And on that. No, I say we start, I say,
we get into these stories. So let's see, Hannah, you
would you like to do the judges first? Would you
like to get yours over? You do yours first? You
want me to do mine first?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Let's do your first?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh, that's true. You're very true. Give you a break
on that you did. Fine, don't worry about it. All right, Okay, folks,
it's story time with weird ocle Boll. All right, here
we go. The legend is Sleepy Holl written by Washington Irving,
all right, found among the papers of the late dear

(16:05):
Drich Knickerbocker. Yes, that's right. Don't ask me who found
them or you know why they were lost in his
papers to begin with. But he found him, and I'm
glad he did because the story is great, little long
winded for such a short story, But Washington Irving was

(16:25):
that way, as such were many writers of his time.
So ah, here we go, in the bosom of one
of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of
the Hudson, at the broad expansion of the river, denominated
by the ancient Dutch navigators the tappan Zee, and where

(16:49):
they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of
Saint Nicholas when they crossed. Let me take my glasses
off and get this up here so I can actually
read it properly. Sorry, Ah, here we go. There's light
this way. Ah, all right, there lies a small market

(17:09):
town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburg,
but which is more generally and properly known by the
name of Terrytown. This name was given, we are told,
in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country,
from the interveet in propa from the interven and propensity
of their husbands to linger about the village, tavern and
market days. Be that as it may. I do not

(17:31):
vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it for
the sake of being precise and authentic. Not far from
this village, perhaps about two miles, there's a little valley,
or rather lap of land among high hills, which is
one of the quietest places in the whole world. A
small brook glides through it with just a murmur enough
to lull one to repose, and the occasional whisper of

(17:51):
a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the
only sound that ever breaks in upon uniform tranquility. Talked
about low winded, right, I told you about this ah.
I recollect that when as stripling, my first exploit in
squirrel shooting was in a grove of tall walnut trees
that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered

(18:12):
into it at noontime, when all nature and particularly quiet,
and was startled by the roar of my own gun
as it broke the sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged
and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should
wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the
world in its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant
of a troubled life. I know of none more promising

(18:32):
than this little valley. From the listless purpose of the
place and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are
descendants from the original Dutch settlers, This sequestered glen has
long been known by the name of Sleepy Hollow, and
its rustic lads has long been known by the name
of the Sleepy Hollow Boys. Throughout all the neighboring country,

(18:53):
a drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land
and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the
place was bewitched by a high German doctor, how high
was he sorry During the early days of the settlement,
others had an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard

(19:14):
of his tribe held his pow wows there before the
country was discovered by Master Hendrikutsen. Certain it is the
place still continues under the sway of some bewitching power
that old dispel over the minds of the good people,
causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are
given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs, are subject to
trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear

(19:36):
music and voices in the air. The whole neighborhood abounds
with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions. Star shoot
meteor's glare oftener across the valley than in any other
part of the country, and the Nightmare, with their whole ninefold,
seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambles.

(19:57):
I do not know what half of that meant. The
dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region and seems
to be common commander in chief of all the powers
of the air, is the apparition of a figure on
horseback without a head. It is said by some to
be the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had
been carried away by a cannon ball. In some nameless

(20:19):
battle during the Revolutionary war, and who is ever and
anon seen by the country folk. Country folk dear, hurrying
along in the gloom of night, as if on the
wings of the wind. His haunts are not confined to
the valley. Feel free to laugh, people, my reading is horrible,
but extended at times to their adjacent roads, and especially

(20:39):
to the vicinity of a church at no great distance. Indeed,
certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who
have been careful in collecting and collating and floating facts
concerning the specter, allege that the body of the trooper,
having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth
to the scene of battle in knightly quest of his head,
And that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes

(21:01):
along the hollow like a midnight blast, is owing to
his being belated and in a hurry to get back
to the churchyard before daybreak. Such is the general purport
of this legendary superstition, which is furnished materials for many
A wild story in our region of shadows, and a
specter is known at all the country firesides by the
name of the headless horsemen of sleepy hollow Woo. It

(21:25):
is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is
not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but
is unconsciously impbed by everyone who resides there for a time,
however wide awake they may have been before they entered
the sleepy region, There are sure, in a little time
to inhale the witching influence of the air and begin
to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and to see apparitions.

(21:48):
I mentioned this peaceful spot with all possible lawd for
it is in such, for it is in such little
retired Dutch valleys found here and there embosomed in the
great state of New York, that population, manners, and customs
remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration improvement, which
is making such incessant changes in other parts of this

(22:08):
restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those
little brooks of still water which border a rapid stream,
where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly
an anchor or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed
by the rush of the passing current. Though many years
have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow.
Yet I question whether I should not still find the

(22:30):
same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom. Again,
long winded Holy balls, Jesus Washington, irving in this biplace
of nature their abode. In a remote period of American history,
that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy
white of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or

(22:54):
as he expressed it, tarried in Sleepy Hollow for the
purpose of instructing the children of the Vicinity, was a
native of Connecticut, a state which supplies the Union with
pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest,
and since forth yearly it's legions of frontier woodsmen and
country schoolmasters. The kanyamen of Crane was not inapplicable inapplicable

(23:16):
to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly light, with
narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a
mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served
his shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
His head was small and flat at the top, with
huge ears, large green, glassy eyes and a long snipe

(23:37):
nose so that it looked like a weather cock perched
upon its spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
So I know I put a face in between that
I wasn't too, but I was trying not to laugh. Sir.
I just see this guy, sorry, I just see him
looking like one of the Halfs birds, Like you know

(23:58):
who the Habs birds are? People? Right? Is it that
inbred British royalty family? Sorry, guys, listen, that Habsburg jaw
was a thing. Look it up? Uh? Okay, sorry, we
know that was it, Okay, sir, I'm gonna get a
lot of play, all right, Okay. To see him striding

(24:19):
along the profile of a hell in a windy day,
with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might
have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon
the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. A yeah,
I love his description, all right, long winded, you're you're
you're good with this though, I'm cool with this, all right.
His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room,

(24:40):
rudely constructed of logs, the windows partly glazed and partly
patched with leaves of old copy books. It was most
ingeniously secured at vacant hours by a white twisted in
the handle of dortile a wife. Wife w I t
h E lily, what's a wife? Never mind? All right,

(25:03):
it's a branch of sart twisted in the window or
the handle of the door. There we go, an steak,
said against the window shutters, so that though a thief
might get in with perfect bees, he would find some
embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by
the architect yost Vent Houghton from the Mystery of an
eel pot Van Houghton. Houghton.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Huh, my mom's last name was Houghton, and we are
from the area and Dutch, I wonder hm so ah.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation,
just at the foot of a woody hill, where they
brooke running close by, and a formidable birch tree growing
at one end of it. From Hans, the low murmur
of his people's voices founding over their lessons might be
heard on a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of
a beehive, interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice

(25:53):
of the master in the tone of menace or command
or paradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as
he urged some tardy loiter along the flowery path of knowledge.
Truth to say, he was a conscientious man and borne
mind the golden maxim spare the rod and spoil the child.

(26:13):
Kabad Crane scholars certainly were not spoiled, so guess what
he did. I would not have imagined, however, that he
was one of those cruel prependants of you know, the
school who joined the smart of their subjects. On the contrary,
he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity, taking the

(26:33):
burden off the backs of the week and laying it
on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling that
winced at the least flourish of the rod was passed
by with the indulgence, but the claims of justice were
satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough,
wrong headed, broad skirted Dutch urchin hey, who soaked and

(26:56):
swelled and grew dogged and sullen underneath the birch. I'm
feeling attacked personally, Uh I don't. I'm not liking this guy.
Uh so? Uh fuck?

Speaker 3 (27:08):
I hurt you really?

Speaker 1 (27:09):
All all this he called doing his duty. Yeah, I
know some other people that were just following or because
ship by their parents. And he never inflicted the chastisement
without following it up by the assurance so consolidatory to
the smarting urchin that he would remember and thank him
for the longest day he had to live. Wow, he's

(27:29):
a cool bit, this guy. All right, Look this illustration
I'm looking at all right in this book does not
do the description that they gave him in the beginning
of the story. Does this look like it about crand
you can you see this? Like? Does that look like
to you?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Like?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
What about you handed that? Like? Can you see that better? Okay?

Speaker 9 (27:49):
Like yeah, sorry, sorry, yeah, sorry, he's right.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
They made this guy out to be a total sorry,
this guy, they made him out to be a total chud.
And this guy looks like he's a kardash eat him
some sort. So they got this all wrong. So whoever
was doing the illustrations, bad on you. Okay, he did
a bad job. So let's see. When school hours were over,

(28:24):
he was even the companion and play made of the
larger boys, and on holiday afternoons with convoy, some of
the smaller ones home who happened to have pretty sisters
or good housewives for mothers noted for the comforts of
the cupboard, so he wanted to get out with the sisters, saying,
go eat all the food for free because he was
a teacher. Did they used to do that though back

(28:46):
in the day, right, that was like a common thing.
He wasn't just being a dick, right, I think. I
don't know, I could be wrong, So I think that was.
I think that was a common thing. I could just
be getting on the guy for no reason. I don't know.
This is pretty pretty skeeey to mes, you know, yeah, right,
I might have to look that up, but I definitely
think it's I think that's true. Uh so ah, let's see. Uh. Indeed,

(29:11):
it behooved him to keep on good terms with his pupils.
The revenue a rising from the school was small and
would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread,
for he was a huge feeder, and though Lank had
the dilating powers of an anaconda. Okay, but to help
out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in
those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the

(29:33):
farmers whose children are instructed. Okay, that that explains it. Okay,
With these he lived successfully a week at a time,
thus going the rounds of the neighborhood with all his
worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief, that all
his might not be too onerous on the purpose ah
b blah blah blah, that all this might not be

(29:55):
too onerous on the purses of his rusty atron, who
are apt to consider the cost of schooling a grievous burden,
and schoolmasters as mere drones. He had various ways of
rendering himself both useful and agreeable. He assisted the farmers
occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms. Helped to
make hay men of the fences, took the horses to water,

(30:17):
drove the cash from pasture, and cut wood for the
winter fire. God, he's really stretching the story out. It
could have been done in like three pages. He laid
aside to all the damnant indignity and absolute sway with
which he lorded it into his little empire, the school,
and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in
the eyes of the mothers by petting the children petting

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cher particularly the youngest mm and like the lion bowl
which will im so magnanimously the lamb did hold. He
would sit with a child on one knee and rock
a cradle with his foot for whole hours together. In
addition to his other vocation, he was the singing master

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of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by
instructing the young folks in psalmody So many people is
religious singing uh and getting kids in a chorus like deal.
If you did not know, it's basically just acquired. Okay.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
It was a matter of no little yes uh. Church
bad bad, bad memories bad. Uh. So let's see, it
was a matter of no little vanity to him on
Sundays to take his station in front of the church

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gallery with a band of chosen singers, where in his
own voice, in his voice resounded far above all the
rest of the congregation. And there are peculiar quavers still
to be heard in that church, and which may even
be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite
side of the mill pond on a still Sunday morning,
which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose

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of it goodby crane, thus by divers little dibbers, Thus
by dibbers little makeshifts in that ingenious way which is
commonly denominated by hook and by crook. The worthy pedagogue
got intolerable enough and was past this illustration, though by

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all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork to
have a wonderfully easy life of it. The schoolmaster is
generally a man of some importance in the female circle
of a rural neighborhood, being considered a kind of idle
gentlemanlike person personage of vastly superior tastes and accomplishments to
the rough country swains, and indeed imperium learning only to
one only to the partison. Jesus, I had to stop

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looking so fast. I told you, my reading is like horrible, horrible.
His appearance therefore is apt to occasion. Oh God, I
put myself through so much stress trying to do this stuff.
Oh God, I'm like, but I can read people, I can,
I can do it. His appearance therefore is aptucages of

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little third the tea table at the farmhouse, and the
addition of a supernumerary dish of cakes or sweet meats,
or peradventure, the parade of a silver teapot. Our man
of letters, therefore was peculiarly I always had a problem
with that word. Peculiarly, peculiarly, peculiarly happy in the smiles

(33:31):
of all the country damsels. How he would figure among
them in the churchyard between services on Sundays, gathering grapes
for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees,
reciting for their amusement all of the epitaphs on the tombstones,
or sauntering with a whole bevy of them along the
banks of the adjacent mill pond, while the more bashful

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country Bumpkins hung sleek, cheapestly back and being a superior
elegance in a dress Pumpkins, you know, wasn't it irving? Uh?
He does use a lot of colorful descriptive words for people.
Granted these people weren't the smartest, uh okay, but Bumpkin

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like does he know them person like? I mean he did,
Granted he spent some time there, but did he really
meet Pumpkin's a strong word, all right, It's just a
strong word. I mean redneck. Sure, But they didn't have
that back then, uh so, and the and they're not like,
I don't know, all right, bumpkin works.

Speaker 10 (34:35):
I'll take it, all right, So all right, let's see
gosh bunkin' punkin' punkin' pumpkin there it is, okay, a
punkin you know what. From his half itinerant life, also,
he was a kind of traveling gazette, carrying a whole

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budget of local gossip from house to house, so that
his appearance was always greed with satisfaction. He was moreover
esteemed by the women as a man of great erudition,
for he had read several books quite thorough and was
a perfect master of Cotton Mather's history of New England witchcraft,
in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently
believed he was in fact an odd mixture of small

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shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous and
his powers of digesting it were equally extraordinary, and both
had been increased by his residence in this spell bound region.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
No tail was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.
It was often his delight. After his school was dismissed
in the afternoon to stretch himself on the rich bed
of clover, bouldering the little brook that whimpered by his schoolhouse,
and there conover Old Mather's direful tales until the gathering
dusk of the evening made the printed page a mere
mist before his eyes. Then, as he wended his way

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by swamp and stream and awful woodland to the farmhouse
where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature
at that witching hour fluttered his excited imagination. The moan
of the whippowill from the hillside, the boating cry of
the tree toad, the harbingered of storms, the dreary hooting
of the screech owl, or the sudden rustling in the
thicket of birds frightened from the roost. The fireflies, too,

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which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places now and
then startled him as one of uncommon brightness would stream
across his path, And if by chance a huge blockhead
of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him,
the poor verret was ready to give up the ghost,
with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
His only resource on such occasions, either to drowned thought

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or drive away evil spirits was the same psalm tunes
eh and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they
sat by their doors doors of an evening were often
filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody in linked sweetness,
long drawn out, floating from the distant hill or along
the dusty road. Another of his sources of fearful pleasure

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was to pass along winter evenings with the old Dutch
wives as they sat spinning by the fire with a
row of apples roasting and spluttering along our hearth, and
listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins and
haunted fields and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges and haunted houses,
and particularly of the headless horsemen, or galloping Hessian of

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the Hollow, as they called him. He would delight them
equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft and the direful omens
and pretentious sights and sounds in the air which prevailed
in the earlier times of Connecticut, and would frighten them
woefully with speculations and bond comets and shooting stars, and
with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round,

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and that they were half the time topsy turvy? Did
you hear that? Turns round? But if there was a
pleasure in all this while snugly cuddling in the chimney
corner of the chamber, that was all of a ruddy glow,
they knew that back then, ah oh, crackling wood fire,

(38:03):
And where, of course no specter dared to show his face.
It was dearly purchased by the airs of his I'm sorry,
they're gonna know this, and they're gonna watch these They're
gonna know what we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
This is.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Okay, I'm definitely gonna get it. It was dearly purchased
by the terrors of his walk homewards What fearful shames
and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly
glare of a snowy night? With what wish will look?
Did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across
the wastefields from some distant window. How often was he

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appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like he sheet, which,
like a sheeted specter, beset his very path? How often
did he shrink with curling awe at the sound of
his own steps on a frosty crust beneath his feet,
and tried to look over his shoulder lest he should
behold some uncouth being trampling tramping close behind him. God,
damn it, and making fun of people. And I'm stuttering again, okay.

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And how often was he thrown into complete dismay by
some rushing blast howling among the trees, and the idea
that it was the galloping Hessian on one of his
nightly scorings.

Speaker 11 (39:10):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms
of the mind that walk in darkness. And though he
had seen many specters in this time, and been more
once more than once beset by Satan in diver's shapes
in his lonely Oh, God, perambula, perambulations, ha, I did
it crambulations all right? Yet daylight put an end to

(39:33):
all these evils, and he would have passed a pleasant
life of it in despite of the devil, and all
his works, and his path had not been crossed by
a being that causes more perplexity the mortal man than ghosts,
goblins and the whole race of witches put together. And
that was a woman, Ah, ah, yeah, you are that
woman was. That was Washington Irving, though the scariest of

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all the musical disciples. It assembled one evening and each
week to receive its instructions. In Solomoni was Katrina van Tasseled.
We finally got there, folks in the movie. It was
like three minutes in five minutes, tops, right, that's how
you do it, pacing, not this long winded stuff. Holy shit.

(40:19):
The daughter and only child of substantial Dutch farmer, she
was a blooming glass of fresh eighteen plump is a partridge,
ripe and melting, and Rosy cheeked is one of her
father's peaches and universally famed. Right right, all right, I

(40:40):
crazed a little bit like I I like, oh okay,
like all right dude, wow, alright, so sh ha whoo.
Let's see. Rosie cheek is one of her father's peaches
and universally famed. Not merely per reviewed eve, but her
vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette,

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as might be perceived even in her dress. Coquette. All right,
if you guys know what that is, leave it in
the comments, which was a mixture of ancient and modern
fashions as most suited to set off her charms. She
wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great
great grandmother had brought over from Sardom s A. R.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
D A M.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Sardom, the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and with
all a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot
and ankle in the country. Round prettiest foot and ankle.
Sh dude got kinks on cakes. God damn Ichabod Crane

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had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex. And
it is not to be wondered at that so tempting
a morse will soon found favor in his eyes, ah more,
especially after he had visit her, visited her in her
parential mansion, per eternal mansion, pranzil, same thing, all the
same letters. Old Baltus van Tassel was a perfect picture

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of a thriving, contented, liberal hearted farmer. He seldom, it
is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond
the boundaries of his own farm. But with those everything
was snug, happy and well conditioned. He was satisfied with
his wealth, but not proud of it, and peaked himself
upon the hearty abundance, rather than the style of which

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he lived. His stronghold was SITUATIOND, situated on the banks
of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile
nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of messling.
A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it.
At the foot of the witch bubbled up her spring
of the softest and sweetest water in a little well
formed of a barrel, and then stole, sparkling away through

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the willows, oh, through the grass to a neighboring brook,
skipped through a neighboring brook that bubble along. Not dang
all right, sorry people, allergies, all right. Hard By the
farmhouse was a vast barn that might have served for
a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting

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forth with the treasures of the farm. The flail was
busily resounding with it from morning till night. Swallows and
Martin's skim twittering about the eaves and rows of pigeons,
some with one eye turned up as if watching the weather,
some with their heads under their wings or buried in
their bosoms, and others swelling and cooing and bowing about
their dames. We're enjoying the sunshine on the roof sleek

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on wildly. Porkers were grudging in the repose and abundance
of their pens. Went sallied forth now and then troops
of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. A
stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond,
convoying whole. Fleets of ducks, regiments of turkeys were gobbling
through the farmyard, and guinea fowl fretting about it like
ill tempered housewives with their peace discontented cry. He's got

(44:02):
something against women other than their feet, though, like he
seems to like their feet alive. Before the barn door started,
the gallant cock, I know what it is, that pattern
of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping
his bird his wings and crowing in the pride and
gladness of his heart, sometimes tearing up the earth with

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his feet, and then generously calling his ever hungry family
of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which
he had discovered. The pedagogue's mouth watered as he looked
upon the sumptuous promise of luxurious winter fare. In his
devouring mind's eye, he pictured to himself every roasting pig
running about with a putting in his belly and an
apple in his mouth. The pigeons were snugly put to

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bed in a comfortable pie and tucked in with a
couplet of crust. The geese were swimming in their own gravy,
and ducks parrying cozily in dishes like snug married couples
with a decent competency of onion sauce. Oh, it's a
long discrip in the porkers, he saw carved out the
future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishes and relishing

(45:10):
him not a turkey, but he'd beheld daintily trussed up
with its gizzard under its wing, and peradventure and necklace
of savory sausages and even bright shed to clear himself
lace prod Okay, Look, this is making me hungry, and
he's using words that I don't know, and it's confusing
me at the same time. Like it's confusing me and
making me hungry at the same time. Like everything he's saying,

(45:33):
all right, So as he enraptured dicobod fancied all this,
and as he rolled his great green eyes over the
fat metal lands, the rich fields of wheat of rye
at buckweat an Indian corn, and the orchard burden with
ruddy fruit which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel,
his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit
these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea how

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they might be readily turned into cash, and the money
invested into a man tracks of wild land and shingle
palaces in the wilderness. Yo, all right, I take back
the copianist scumbag thing. He is thirty something going after
an eighteen year old for all her land and property.

(46:17):
That's it, That's all he wants money, land, property recognition,
and yeah and feet feet like I'm not can't shaven,
but come on now, fucking feet like at ankles like oof, oof,
like what is so sexy about? All right, look, let's
get back to the story people.

Speaker 12 (46:36):
I'm sorry, Okay, letna do this again, all right, Okay, okay,
let's see uh okay, nay.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
His busy fancy already realizes hopes and presented to him
the bloom and Katrina with a whole family of children
mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery,
with pots and kettles dangling beneath, and he beheld himself
bestriding a pacing mare with a colt ector heels, setting
out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. When
he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete.

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It was one of those spacious farmhouses with high ridge
but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down
from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming
a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up
in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harnessed, various
utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
Benches were built along the sides for summer use, and

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a great spinning wheel at one end, and a church
at the churn at the other. It's for making butter
not Jesus showed the various uses to which this important
porch might be devoted. From this piazza, the wandering Ichabod
entered the hall, which formed the center of the mansion
and the place of usual residence. Here rose of replacedant

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resplendent pewter managed on a long dresser dazzled his eyes.
In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready
to be spun, and another a quaint aquaintity of Lindsey
woolsey just from the loom. Ears of Indian corn and
strings of dried apples and peaches hung in gay festoons.
Along the walls, mingled with the god, God of red peppers,

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and a door left Ajar, give him a peep into
the best parlor with the claw footed chairs and dark
Mohodi tables shone like mirrors and irons with their accompanying
shovel and songs glisten from there, like mirrors and irons
with their no glisten from their covert of asparagus stuffs,
mocked oranges and cock shells decorated the mantlepiece. Strings of
various colored birds eggs were suspended above it. A great

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ostrich egg was hung from the center of the room,
and a corner cupboard normally left open, displayed immense treasures
of old silver and whelming and china. Okay, there's there's
a few pages left. People. I'm gonna go as fast
as I can. I might paraphrase some things, So let's

(49:01):
see how this goes. Ah. From the moment Ichobad laid
his eyes upon these regions of delight, the peace of
his mind was at an end, and his only study
was how to gain the affections of the peerless daughter
of van Tassel. In his enterprise, however, he had more
real difficulties, and generally fell to the lot of the
knight errant of York, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters,

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fiery dragons and such like, easily conquered adversaries to contend with,
and had to make his way merely through gates of
iron and brass and walls abandonment to the castle keep,
where the lady of his heart was confined, all which
he achieved as easily as a man would carve his
way to the center of a Christmas pod, and then
the lady gave him her hand. As a matter of course, Ncobad,

(49:43):
on the contrary, had to win his way to the
heart oh the country Coquette beset with a labyrinth of
whims and caprices which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments,
and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries
of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers who

(50:03):
beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and
angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out
in a common cause against any new competitor. Among these,
the most formidable was a burly, roaring, roistering blade of
the name of Abraham, or, according to the Dutch abbreviation

(50:23):
brom van Brunt, the hero of the country round which
ran with his feasts of strength and hardihood. He was
broad shouldered, double joined, with short, curly black hair and
a bluff the not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled hair
of fun and arrogance. From his herculean frame and great
powers of limb, he had received the nickname of brom

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Bones me brom Bones, by which she was universally known.
It was famed for great knowledge and skill in horsemanship,
all right, so he knew his way around horses, okay, good,
being as dexterous on horseback as a tartar not a

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sauce for fish, he was foremost at all races and cockfights,
and with the ascendency which botally strength acchoires in rustic life,
all right, so he was big and he was good
at ship people. So blah blah blah, blah blah blah.
Let's get to the good part. He didn't like Ichabod
Crane for reasons because he had this thing with Van Tassel.

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So this god. The story is way long. So such
was the formidable rival with whom Ichabod Crane had to contend,
And considering all things, a stouter man than he would
have shrunk from the competition, and a wiser man would
have despaired. He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability
and perseverance in his nature. He was in four man spirit,

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like a supple jack, yielding but tough. Though he bent,
he never broke, and though he bad beneath the slightest pressure,
yet there it was away jerk, he would Okay, wait
the moment it was away line jerk. He was as
he wrecked and carried his head as high as ever.

(52:18):
Oh that's a good line, out of context. Okay. Uh
so uh. To have taken the field openly against his
rival would have been madness, for he was not a
man to be forwarded. And his amours and he loves
any more than that stormy lover Achilles Hikabat therefore made
his advances in a quiet and gently insinuating manner. Very sick.

(52:38):
I like got up in there all you know, Yeah,
I kind of like you. You know, I'm kind of dope.
You know, we should get together and stuff, you know,
all that good shit whistled in the air and all that.
You know, it's like you don't want that big muscle
band dude. You know, I am well, I can't even
touch his own shoulder. Look, I can't look just like this,
I got it. You know, he's so so you know,

(53:04):
he prefers uh so uh you know, he was just like,
you know, let me, let me talk to you for
a minute, girl, and you know, after a while they
start talking, you know, and uh good old Baltus van Tassel.
You know, you know the man, the father, you know,
he he he was an indulgent soul. He loved his daughter,

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you know, better than anybody. You know, better than his
pipe even you know so, which is hard to do
because you know the old man liked his pipe back
in the day. Uh like, like a reasonable man and
an excellent father. Let her have her way in everything, right.
He spoiled her is what he's saying, so it is
his notable little wife too had enough to do to

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attender housekeeping and manager poultry, for, as she sagely observed,
ducks and geese are foolish things and must be looked after.
But girls can take care of themselves, all right. Thus,
while the is he Dame bustled about the house or
plied her spinning wheel at one end of the piazza,
on his bolt, would sit smoking his eating pipe at
the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who,

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armed with a sword in each hand, was most fainently
fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn. In
the meantime, Ichabod would carry on his suit with the
daughter by the side of the spring under the great elm,
or sauntering along end It's twilight that hour so favorably
to the lover's eloquence. Okay, let's see he uh, he's
basically saying that he doesn't know, you know, what really

(54:33):
would woo a woman. Basically, you know, he's saying, you know,
you know, I basically like to you know, I'll just
whisper again. You know, He's like, I get up here.
You know, he took her by the water. You know,
I made sweet time a little bit. He's like, yeah,
you know, here's some flowers and stuff like you know,
you know you like that stuff. Ladies love flowers, right,
that's what you taught. Ladies love flowers. And give him

(54:54):
the flowers. Uh so, and basically he's just trying to
get her, trying to get her to ye see, and
uh so you know, now he was just trying to
basically keep her away from Bram. Now Brom who had
a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, right, like
he was He's like, yeah, I'm i'm I'm I'm a
i'm a I'm a dude. You know. He'd he would

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fain have carried matters to open warfare, and have settled
their pretensions to the lady according to the mode of
those most concise and simple reasoners. The Knight's Errant of
York by single combat. Right, he just went, he'd fight.
That's a heat fighter. But Ichabod was too conscious of
the superior might of his adversary to enter the list
against him. Get overheard a boast of bones that he

(55:37):
would double the schoolmaster up and lay him on a
shelf of his own schoolhouse. Oh, he's talking shit, he
is laying stuff down, he's getting up. Oh, he's getting
up on him. Now he's like throwing fist. Now. He
was too wary to give him an opportunity. There was
something extremely provoking in this obstinately pacific system. It left

(55:59):
Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of
rustic waggery and his disposition and the playoff bourist practical
jokes upon his rival. Ikuba became the object of whimsical,
whimsical persecution to Bones and his gang of rough riders Rodas. Oh,
I gotta listen to that song about of shit. All right? Cool? Sorry, Uh,
I lost myself again? Shit all right? Fuck all right,

(56:25):
they harried his Jimmy broke into the schoolhouse at night
in spite of his formidable fastenings of why the windows
snakes and turned everything topsy turvy. They destroyed his schoolhouse,
all right. They fucking they broke in. They knocked all
his ship off. Uh there's just been real dickheads to him,
right fucking and and uh oh so poor guy it

(56:47):
couba all right. I kind of feel bad for the
guy a little bit, but not really. You know, you
get yourself involved. Oh god, I'm sorry, people, I'm fucking
allergies are killing me here. So, like he's just trying
to get the girl right, and the property and the
money right, you know, and you got brom Bones's basically
after the same thing, right, So who do you hate

(57:09):
in this situation? Like, they're both scheedy, they're both going
after a fucking eighteen year old girl. They're both in
their thirties obviously, like, and it's just creepy. I don't know, man,
So in this way it matters went on for some time,
they just fought all the time, right, without producing any
material effect in the relative situation of the connecting powers
on a finance on all afternoon, Ichabod, in a pensive mood,

(57:32):
sat and throwned down a lofty stool which he usually watched.
All the concerns of his little literary realm. In his hand,
he swayed a feral and scepter of despotic power, the
perch of justice proposed on three nails behind the throne,
a constant terror to evildoers, while on the desk beside
him might be seeing sundry contraband articles improveated weapons detected
upon the persons of idle urchins such as half bunched apples,

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pop guns, whirlygigs, fly cages, and whole legions of rampant
little paper game. Cause apparently there have been some appalling
active justice recently inflicted. For his scholars were all busily
intent upon their books or slyly whispering behind them, with
some high kept upon the master, and a kind of
buzzing stillness reigned throughout the school. Okay, we're getting there.

(58:18):
I feel the page is dwindling, feel it? What are
we at? What are we at? Time wise? Here? Hannah,
I know we're at time wise here? What are we?
What are we at?

Speaker 3 (58:31):
We are? We've been going for an hourhere?

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Okay, so I am going to let's see get to
the good parts. Okay. Blah blah blah blah. Fucking Dutchman
blah blah blah blah. Nikobad was a suitable figure for
such a Steve blah blah blah blah. Is Zikobad jog
slowly on his way as I ever opened to every symptom. Okay,
blah blah. Sweenie's minded many where are we promos? Okay, alright,

(59:01):
this is where I can start all right, cool, all right,
so all right, we catch up with our hero. Ikabad
a Zikobad jogged slowly on his way through the darkness,
his eye ever opened, every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged
with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn. On all
sides he beheld vast door of apples, some hanging in
oppressive opulence on the trees, some gathered into baskets and

(59:22):
barrels on the market, others heaped up in rich piles
for the cider press. Farther on he beheld great fields
of any and corn, and all that good stuff buck wheat,
uh well buttered and garnished honey, and tree cycles by
the delicate, little dimpled hand of Katrina van Tassel. Oh,
she happened to show up. Okay, Katrina van Tassel is there,

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thus feeding his mind with many sweet thoughts and sugar suppusions.
But she wasn't there before, though, That's why I didn't
say okay. So this all happened real fast. He journeyed
along the sides of a range of hills which looked
out upon some of the goodly scenes of the mighty Hudson.
The sun gradually wheeled has brought this down into the west.
Some of the tap and see lay motionless and glossy,
accepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and

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prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few
amber clouds floated in the sky. Okay, listen, all right,
I can't listen all right, Washington Irving, I'm telling you
one more time. I know you can't like hear me
or see me, or you're dead, but god, you were
long winded, long, long, long winded. Let me cut to

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the chase, all right, Hiccobad the first time was walking
through at night, right, and you know, since him and
Brom were feuding, right, Brom like decided he wanted to
play a little trick on Nikkobah, right, so he would
dress up as you know, the horseman on his horse, right,
and he started creeping up on him in the middle
of the night, right while he was walking one night,
Icobah got scared and ran ah like you would. You know,

(01:00:49):
it's a headless guy running it. So like he finally
gets to where he's going and then it's cool, so
he you know, he doesn't know it was Brom. Brom
jumps out a cool you know, I got that little
mother blah blah blah blah cool, you know. All right,
So the next day, Fantassels are having a party, right,
They're having a real big party. Everybody in the in
in sleepy hollows invited, right, so they go. Everybody's partying up.

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Ichabod's there, he's having fun trying to get with the
underage girl. Bron Boems is there having fun trying to
get with the underage girl. Uh. Either one of them
are making headway, right, except for you know, she's got
a little eye for the muscles on prom you can
see it, right, She like the you like the twenty
four inch pythons that dude got going for him, right,
So she and there, you know, they're their party in

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Ikabad's like feet and he's getting stuck, right, So he's like, ah,
you know what, I think, I'm just gonna go home.
It's dark though, right, he ain't got no horse. He's
gonna start walking. So he's like, all right. The only
way to go though, is the Holly's gotta go, you know,
gotta go across that covered bridge, right, you know the
covered bridge in the middle of town. The old scary one.
You know that said that the horseman can't cross. Well,
guess what he's gonna find out tonight, right, So Ichabod

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starts walking, right, So he goes and it's dark. He's
here and like creepy stuff, right, the owls and stuff oo.
Who who? He's like, I don't know who. They're like who?
He's like, I don't know. Stop asking, I don't know
who it is. And then you know, he's hearing crickets
and chirp, chirp. He's seeing fireflies and he's hearing like
baby crying noises. That's just foxes, right, because they creepy
like that. They uh so they you know, he's making

(01:02:17):
all these scary noises. He's getting all freaked out, right,
and then and then all of a sudden he hears
clip clop, clip clop, clip clop. He's like, oh oh,
so he starts He's like, all right, so he's looking around,
you know here nothing. All of a sudden, clip clop,
clip clop starts coming faster. He's like, I don't like this,
So he starts walking a little faster. Right, So he's like,
clip clop, clip clop, clip clop starts coming real fast.

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He turns his head. All of a sudden, he sees
a headless horseman up on the horse with a flame
and pumpkin in his hand. Right, and Nikabod shits his pants,
turns around, runs like a little girl. Mommy. Right.

Speaker 13 (01:02:54):
He's like, I help me, help me. This is a
flaming guy with the head pumpkin coming after me. I
don't like it. So he starts running ah right, and
then he starts going He's getting awfully close to that bridge.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Right. He's like, yo, if I could just make it
to this bridge, you know that that headless horseman can't
can't get me right, Oh, all of a sudden, boom,
he starts getting flaming pumpkins head's thrown at him. Boo
boo boom. This one lands on next him. He's like,
oh shit, like land minds and shit. He's like ducking him,
jumping around. He's like, huh, oh god, I can't take
any more than he's running running around.

Speaker 14 (01:03:24):
He's like, I'm almost to the bridge. I'm almost to
the bridge. And he gets to the bridge. Next thing, woom,
you see a pumpkin fly. Everything goes dark. We don't
know if it Abob Crane had made it that night.
We don't know what happened to the man.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
We don't know if it was just brom Bones fucking
with him again, uh honestly, and give him a heart
attack or some shit like. It's never explained. It's the
biggest downer ending of a fucking story I've ever heard
that is supposed to be scary. It's a cliffhanger with
no sequel. I don't like it, Washington, irving your long
winded fuck that was a legend of sleepy hollow more

(01:04:07):
or less.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
I actually do, I like it when the the is
not clear.

Speaker 15 (01:04:18):
Right, I mean, I mean I do too, But it's like,
but but the way he he was just so long winded,
like you just talked him like dude, like this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
All right, people, look, I ain't up front. Okay, there
was there is literally let me, let me, let me,
I'll show you the page. I stop. Okay, there was
literally eight more pages, not including illustrations, full pages of nothing,

(01:04:54):
of nothing you know, of him just saying words, just words.
Half of them didn't make sense. I don't know if
they did then, but they sure as fucked don't now.
So that we learned, folks, A valuable lesson from this,
and I'm gonna tell you what it is right now.

(01:05:16):
Some stories are better off as visuals. Okay, so the
cartoon if you want to. Don't be a snob like
I think. I was trying to read this story. Okay,
go watch the movie, any version of it, any version
of it is better than reading the story. Okay. And
if anybody tells you otherwise, they're fucking liing. Okay, because

(01:05:40):
look what I just attempted to do. Tell me you
were interested in that, you weren't. I kept reading though,
So you know what, Hannah, can we have some facts please?
I'm gonna drink some coffee. Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Time another one that was alive? Uh? They say doors
with glass eyes were once made from children's real eyes
when they died.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
What No, Okay, I was about to say. That can't
be real.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
The throat is nearly as creepy. Well, they didn't use
real eyes. They didn't make life like morning doors sometimes
with the child's real hair in their clothes and least
in their food.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
What oh, oh that's crazy. Oh that's good. Why did
we used to do that stuff? Why did we do
that stuff? That is super creepy? That is like taking
like the ashes of your baby that died and putting
them inside of a fucking uh one of those dolls
that creepy fucking uh you know porcelain dolls. Fuck that. No,

(01:07:04):
that's just the people are weird. Like I've seen some
ship I wonder why we got haunted toys.

Speaker 11 (01:07:09):
Okay, crazy m the doors with ashes in them, ye,
keeping the less stood ones.

Speaker 16 (01:07:27):
I have so many, I just got pick the best ones. Oh,
here's one. Some forests store the dead in three roots.
Scientists found free cells feedings on buried human dream names.

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But there's also echo burial services where you can have
you can pay to have your ashes or soon oh sorry,
your whole buddy planted a tree or in a forest,
your final resting. It comes a live in three.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
That's pretty pretty fun. Actually, that is pretty fun. I
kind of kind of want that. I'm not gonna lie.
That would be that would be kind of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Okay, you are never alone, No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Oh man, is that like the Midichlorians from Star Wars
Friends the Lord? Oh no, I got special force powers
because the bugs that crawl on me. I knew it.
It's great another.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
That he appears more. You have tiny holes in your face.
Spiders love crawling into but also you know it's.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
On me, thank god? Okay, good cut me?

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
Who says spiders crawl into your facials?

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Hot?

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
That's not literally true, but because they are just more.
But you do have microscopic ace leged mics living in
there too.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
They crawl out at night to mate on your face.
The craw oh man, spiders, face face goblins. Oh that's cred.
Oh that's bad, that's weird. Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
I don't go to bed all day face goblins and stuff.
A great great a man.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
M oh, yes, one, you have fingerprints, but you also
have tongue drinks. Police could identify you by leaking things.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
Don't don't test it. Cut my fingerprints.

Speaker 17 (01:10:36):
Yeah, octave octaves have three hearts, and they can detach
their limbs on purpose more.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Leaves arm.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Yeah, that'd be great. Oh it'd be like you know,
that would be that that would be just that'd be
fu awesome. Ah. Oh so is that that that was?

(01:11:16):
You think that was all of them? All right? So
do you I want to still test this book or
do you want to give it. I'm giving you the choice.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
I let's see, it's eighteenth it is.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
It is quite a bit. That's how I That's why
I started.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
I was like, yeah, yeah, I was thinking maybe I
should record.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
Yeah, how about we do that. Let's let's record that
separate time. That sounds good and then what and that
give us something else to put Oh you're trying to Hey,
there is a lot of tough older words in those
that's it rural. You said it rural that that's basically

(01:12:15):
what you said it. I have a hard time saying
those words too. Yeah. I have a hard time saying
a lot of those words too. So don't feel bad.
You heard me. I mean yeah, I was reading that.
Half of those words probably weren't even how I was
supposed to say it. So, uh, I probably have English
majors listening. God, oh my fucking god, and you have
a stroke or something. What is wrong with him?

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Is?

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
See? Like what's going on? I'm scared somebody calling the doctor?
So yeah, how about we do you do that? Recorded it?
I'll give us some extra content to put up. Uh
that'll also uh give us a you know, a nice
little ending here for the the fr Oktober holiday special. I.

(01:12:56):
I you know, it was, it was it was fun,
It was it is. I'm glad we actually got to
do it because it's been quite a long time and
uh I I the hard part was getting back into it. Yeah,
the hard part was getting back into it. You know
what I'm saying, Like everything that either something with me
would happen or something you would happen, or something would

(01:13:17):
have you know, it's just like or we were sick
or we don't. It's things happen people, all right, So, uh,
life gets in the way, but we make things happen
because we're besties and that's what that's what bist he's do.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Plus, I hear a lot of work going on still
in the back of hand, is uh is? Or is
there still stuff going on in the background of your house?
Because I've been hearing some some slapping. I don't know
if it's from my end or.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
From here, but it's the work.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Okay. Oh emma, Oh that's what that was. Okay. I
was just like every now and then I hear like
a every now and then It's just like, I'm like,
what is that is that my end? I don't like,
I'm like looking around like that I do something? Hold
on all right? Cool, So I'm gonna let you go
and hang out with your daughter. Uh oh no, it

(01:14:10):
was just every now and then. It wasn't even like
a full it was like that's why I was like,
my under is like as I couldn't really tell. Usually
it's on May end. So it's like, so all right,
so we're gonna call this guys. Thank you if you
did join us live on the twitch stream, I know,
uh you know, you're definitely gonna be joining us on
the the the audio version and the uh the YouTube

(01:14:31):
when it goes up. So uh yeah, thanks, We'll be
coming back as soon as we can. I can't make
any promises on the dates, uh so, because you know, again,
life happens, so but we will guaranteed trying to get
this relatively soon. I mean the holidays, you know, the
holiday seasons coming around. We are definitely gonna do the
holiday stuff around Christmas time, so uh that that's a

(01:14:54):
definite because you know, I like that time of year two.
So we got we got all the all the fun
music and we're gonna get back into the music part
of it. So again, hand up, do you have anything
you need to plug uh your your your you know,
one hand on tech and uh you know, Uh, your
your your your projects at all period. Like you, I

(01:15:16):
know you're deep into the production work. Do you have
any thing that you have produced that you want people
to listen to or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
M there is well, of course there's uh the one
hand on tet you to go check that out. And
we made a little bit of condensed chaos. But it
has been a while too. I'm not sure if the

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English submit titles are working.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
On those on the one the one I watched did
so I'm not sure about the other one. I will
check the other ones out. I'll check the other one
out just to make sure. But I definitely think they
were working last night. Checked so yeah, so yeah, uh
checking out everything she does for link will be in
the the you know bio as always, Uh you check

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the website out. Tonight is the last night go on
www dot digitozo ent dot com. Hit up the public
domain theater watch all the Halloween specials. I spent so
much time cultivating and putting up for you guys to
watch for free, mind you, because I'm such a nice guy.
Uh So, after tonight, though, all the Halloween movies magically disappeared,

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and slowly but surely throughout the month of November and December,
the other holiday movies will start showing up, and then
they'll be going after December. But but all the other movies,
all the public domain goodness, are still on there. Everything
like everything do you like some silent movies to cartoons,
so you know, newer movies. Anything really that was made

(01:17:04):
before nineteen thirty six is considered public domain generally, with
some exceptions afterwards, and those exceptions are up there as well.
So there is also some not so public domain theater
stuff under there. If you'd want to check some stuff
out too, just keep scrolling to the bottom of the room,
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