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are mad haunted ground.

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The three spooked

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girls. Hey

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there spooksters and welcome back to another

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episode here on three spooked girls. My

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name is Jessica and as always I

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am joined by my favorite girlfriend, Tara.

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Hey spooksters. Today we, since it is

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February, we're going to be talking about Cupid

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as our cryptid of the month. I don't

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know if he's technically a cryptid, but we're

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gonna go down that path because it's our

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show and I can do what I

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want. I mean he's like a mythological

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type of creature thing. It's fine. We're

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classifying it that way. If you don't

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like that, keep that to yourself.

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This is setting it up so that I can later on

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be like we're gonna do other mythological creatures

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like Greek gods because you know I'm

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obsessed. So fun times. But before we

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do that, if you are new here,

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welcome. If you are watching

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us on YouTube, hi. Hello. Oh also

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I have to interrupt you for a second.

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Oh, so I put a poll up

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like probably last week asking if they

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wanted like our audio only episodes here

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on YouTube And it was like

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a hundred percent. Yes. Oh, wow So

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I am gonna look into that

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but thus moving the bloody disgusting We also

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are on a new hosting site. Mm-hmm So

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I just kind of have to see cuz

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I know with YouTube you can like integrate

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it somehow if it's just the audio version

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Which I'm not obviously gonna do for every

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episode because some of these will be video

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But the ones that are not yeah,

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I can upload them out of mind. But anyways, I'm

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I love going in and seeing the interactions

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gonna be like oh the perfect for the Facebook group and

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really fun things over there lately. So you should just stop

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and go check it out and then come back Oh, thanks.

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Yes, I got some book recs going up soon.

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Ooh I'm a huge

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mood reader for those that don't know but I

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try to do like a these are my hopefuls

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for the rest Like usually towards the end of

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the month. I'll have a couple. Mm-hmm So I

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have three that I'm putting on my list one

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I'm like partially reading I told you about is

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the one I got from Target Oh, yeah, and

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then the other two I have not read yet

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One is our book club book and

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then the other one is a surprise book

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that I just randomly found on Amazon elevated

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Whoo, I love that. It's a spooky themed

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one. So if you want a non

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love wreck type the book that one

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will be it. Yeah, I'm gonna a little

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bit talk about a book like series that

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I'm obsessed with because it kind of like

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goes into this topic. Yeah, but yeah, we'll

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get there in a second. But so like I

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said, today, we're gonna be talking about Cupid. I'm

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excited, right? I actually don't really know anything

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besides like what he does. Like I've never

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looked into him. So I love this. Mm

4:20

hmm. So he is the Roman God

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of desire, erotic love, attraction

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and affection. Makes sense. His

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name literally translates to passionate

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desire. I love that. That's

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adorable. Right? Which

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every when I was doing this, I kept thinking of the song

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Stupid Cupid and I was like, Ah, stupid

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passionate desire. I'm like, we've all been there.

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Yeah, we've literally all been there. You

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know what I think of when you talk

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about that song, though? What? I think a

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princess diaries when Mandy Moore sings Stupid Cupid

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at the beach party. I think that's who

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I hear singing it. Literally,

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I like as soon as you said that I was like, Oh my

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god. And I now I have to watch this movie

4:59

after we're done. Oh my god. So you

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know how we okay, just fun fact for you

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guys. You know how like a couple episodes ago

5:05

we were talking about the Mandela effect. Tara

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literally sent me screenshots of my that she's looking for

5:09

things to watch. She saw the first kid and then

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cuz am and I was like, we need to

5:14

do a movie marathon. Because I was

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like, this is amazing. We're both great

5:18

movies. But when I say great movies,

5:20

they're like great 90s kids movies,

5:22

which you know are like basically be movie. I

5:25

love them. We love that

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here. We love that here. You know,

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I love be horror. So I mean,

5:31

true family movie sign really

5:34

like when on Patreon, like back on Patreon,

5:36

we used to do this thing, it was

5:38

called Jessica Slaughters, maybe reviews and plotlines. It

5:40

was that Beaver movie. zombie verse guys zombie

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verse. If you have never watched that you

5:45

need to. You're welcome. Okay, there's one with

5:47

another vibe, but I was not into it.

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It's the sloth or house one. It's like

5:52

a killer sloth at a sorority house type

5:54

of situation. And I don't know if you

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guys have seen it and I need to

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give it another chance. Let me know

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but I was not into it. I was

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so sad too because I love zombie birds

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and other dumbass movies But zombie birds is

6:07

such a good movie, but not this one No,

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not for me So Cupid is

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the son of Mercury who is a winged

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messenger god and also Venus Which is

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the goddess of love if you track

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the concept that Roman gods are mere

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images to Greek mythology Cupid

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would be Eros who is the

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son of Hermes and Aphrodite is okay.

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Okay. Yes And I don't know what

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you think of when you think of Cupid

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But I literally think of you know, the

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little boy with the diaper or a well-placed

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arrow He's winged which makes sense if

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his father is Mercury who is, you know,

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the winged God He would got to get his

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wings and then obviously like love comes from Venus

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So he's kind of a combination

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of them generally He's like because

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in American culture at least we have

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a puritanical view of things He's typically covered

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like I said with a diaper or a

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sash or a well-placed arrow But

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generally actual depictions of Cupid are

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Nicky. He's just he's a Nicky

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boy. I'm a little chair Mm-hmm.

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Little chair, baby He is said

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to be winged because lovers are

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flighty and change their minds often

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So he has to like chase

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them down and also he is

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depicted as the boy or boy ish

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because love is considered irrational Oh,

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okay. This is a love hater who

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made Cupid interesting Oh my god I

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love this so much that they're like

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he has wings because lovers just don't

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get it and they run away from each other and

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then They're he's a baby because lovers

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are dumb and their child. I was

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like, oh, it's so great Roman mythology

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also great Wow, yeah, they're

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so nice Yeah, Roman mythology

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because in like Greek mythology Eros

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is described as a young man He's

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like probably like 20 something and

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he's winged and he's naked and

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he's very like toned if you get

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my dress Wink-wink like all Greek

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men Yeah Here's

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the thing, like, you know how today in today's world,

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like we have like magazines and women are like

8:04

super airbrushed and like, you know, don't look like

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themselves. I often wonder if like in Greek mythology,

8:08

if this was like the same way, like they

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would just like sculpt these gods to look like

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that. And then just like the average Joe was

8:14

just like, they look like normal. That's dude. They

8:17

had dad bonds, right? They had dad bonds.

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They're like fuck arrows and his chiseled abs.

8:23

Okay, so his symbols are either

8:25

an arrow or a torch because

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love wounds and inflames the heart. I

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told you love hater can't

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convince me otherwise. I don't

8:35

know if he's a love hater. No, no, no,

8:37

no, no, no, the person like making up these

8:39

guidelines. Oh, who wrote this? Yeah, I also just

8:41

want to know like who was in a room.

8:43

I need to research this part. Maybe I'll

8:46

do an episode on like the history of

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like Greek mythology and Roman mythology. Yeah, basically,

8:50

Greek mythology came first and then Roman mythology

8:52

was like, ha ha, huh? We'll just do

8:54

it better or we'll give them different names.

8:56

Gotcha. I gotcha. But I just

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want to know who's like sitting in a room

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one day and was like, you know, we should

9:02

have this one all powerful God named Zeus, who's

9:04

very spiteful and a little bit like he commits

9:06

a lot of essay. Yeah, but we should also

9:08

have all these other gods like Dionysus,

9:10

who's the God of wine. I

9:13

mean, I'm here for that. Who fun fact

9:15

can't get drunk. That sucks.

9:17

Don't fucking piss off Zeus. He gets role

9:19

mad. Yeah, right. Sometimes Cupid is

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depicted with a blindfold or described

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as blind. And this

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has kind of been depicted in

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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's

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a passage that says love looks

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not with eyes, but with the

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mind and therefore winged Cupid painted

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blind nor hath love's mind of

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any judgment's taste wings and no

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eyes figures on he be haste.

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And therefore is love said to

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be a child because in choice,

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he is oft beguiled. I

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don't know what that meant, but okay.

9:52

It basically means that love is blind. It's

9:54

like where that comes from. Like you love the

9:57

show. Love is blind. I do. It

9:59

comes from this. Oh my god, you

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know, I'm sorry. I'm interrupting so much

10:03

today. I don't care. I love it.

10:05

I was like thinking earlier I was

10:07

like man. I want to do like

10:09

a pop culture or Reality

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TV show or like a segment on

10:14

this channel and I'm just like but

10:16

bitch when are you gonna have time?

10:18

I'm not see you guys true. I

10:20

have all these ideas We don't even

10:22

add it in we could just do like a freebie episode

10:24

every once in a while We're just like we're gonna talk

10:26

about things that don't make any sense to the body Maybe

10:29

maybe we could do it on patreon. I like it

10:31

I don't know. We'll figure it out if that's even

10:33

a need or a want Please please

10:36

encourage my the Lulu ass and I'll do

10:38

it Also,

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here's a really that you to Lulu it just kind

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of goes perfectly into the next thing is that

10:44

he doesn't call them like the people

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that he shoots with his arrows

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there are called his victims and Basically,

10:51

he carries his bow and

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his cliver of arrows and he uses them

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to wound Which is to

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inspire love or passion to his said victims

10:59

He has two kinds of arrows or darts

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or whatever you want to call them one

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has a sharp golden Full point and the

11:06

other one has a blunt tip made of

11:08

lead if the person who is wounded

11:10

with a golden arrow falls desperately and Uncontrollably

11:13

in love with somebody but if you are hit

11:15

and I are struck by I don't know if

11:17

you're like actually like Penetrated because

11:19

one definitely says wounded and the other

11:21

one definitely so struck you want to get

11:23

the fuck away from them Which I think this

11:25

is like how the Greek and Romans were like

11:28

Oh This is how they

11:30

dealt with unrequited love is that cupid

11:32

must have shot One person

11:34

with the golden arrow and the other person

11:36

with the lead arrow and that's why they

11:38

don't love them back There is a Latin

11:41

poet who basically I think the

11:43

book is called metamorphosis It's

11:46

the story of Apollo who is like cupid

11:48

You're not as good as an archer as

11:50

I am and cupid was like fucking bat shoots

11:52

him with a golden arrow And then the girl

11:55

that Apollo is crushing on he shoots her

11:57

with a lead arrow So it's like don't

11:59

fucking piss off Cupid because Cupid

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will fuck with your love life.

12:04

Just a little bit. Sometimes Cupid

12:06

is depicted wearing armor like Mars,

12:08

who is the God of War,

12:10

because it is supposed to suggest

12:12

that there is parallel between like

12:14

warfare and romance. Sometimes he

12:17

is portrayed as a callous, careless being

12:19

who doesn't really give a fuck what

12:21

he does. And I kind of like

12:23

vibe with this. Like if your whole

12:25

life was to like make people fall

12:27

in love. Probably be a little traded.

12:30

I'd fuck with people. Yeah, probably be

12:32

a little jiggy. Be like, this sex.

12:34

So he sometimes he makes mischievous matchmaking.

12:36

It makes people mad. So it's like,

12:38

in today's world,

12:40

it's like when we're like, why are they together? Cupid.

12:43

Cupid was just like, this will be funny. We

12:45

fucking watch. Yup. I

12:47

love this vibe. I love this vibe. In

12:49

a lot of the stories, Cupid, his mother

12:51

Venus, is the goddess of love. So she

12:54

actually will be like, go match

12:56

make people. But there is a story.

12:58

I'm gonna tell the Greek version of

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it. There is a Roman, but I

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couldn't find the girl's name in the

13:04

Roman and it might just be the

13:06

same one. But basically Aphrodite, who would

13:09

be Eros' mom, was super jealous of

13:11

a beautiful woman by the name of

13:13

Psych. And she basically told her son,

13:15

I want you to go shoot her

13:17

with a golden arrow and match her

13:19

with a monster. So that bad things

13:22

would happen to her. Oh. I'm

13:24

presuming death would happen to her.

13:26

But instead, Cupid or Eros becomes

13:29

so enamored with her that he

13:31

actually marries her to save her

13:33

life from his mother. And

13:35

I'm like, ooh. All right, all right. He would

13:38

marry her and save her life, but there was

13:40

one condition to this, which was that she could

13:42

never look at his face. Oh, okay. And

13:44

over time, she was like, all

13:46

stories. In Greek and

13:49

Roman mythology, Psych got really curious and

13:51

stole a glance and Cupid ran away

13:53

angry. She would search

13:55

high and low for him. And

13:57

eventually he got over it and they...

13:59

got together and he made her an immortal.

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Aww. Right? If

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you like reading smut books and

14:06

you like Katie Robert, I would suggest reading

14:09

The Electric Idol. This is their story, this

14:11

is their story to be told. And

14:14

it's basically, Psych becomes the daughter

14:16

of Demeter, who is the goddess

14:19

of harvest. And Aphrodite is jealous

14:21

of her because Psych is a

14:24

like an influencer and people like

14:26

her more than Aphrodite. And

14:29

also the fact that Demeter is trying to

14:31

literally marry off all of her daughters to

14:33

Zeus and Aphrodite is the god or

14:35

in the book is the, they

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call the 13 who arranges matchmakings

14:39

and because Demeter went outside of

14:41

that, she tries to kill her.

14:44

And Eros is like, I actually really like

14:46

her, she's really nice. And then he sees

14:48

her and they fall in love and they

14:50

get married and then I'm not going to

14:52

spoil the rest of the book. Okay,

14:55

question. Do I have to

14:57

read the other ones before that to read

14:59

that one? Technically, no. So like, okay, not

15:01

this one. This one you could read because

15:03

there's only one book before this, which is Neon

15:05

God. Oh, okay. Nevermind. I

15:08

don't mind one book ahead. I was like, Oh God, is there

15:10

like four? No. Okay. So

15:13

this is the second in her series. So it's Neon

15:15

God is ahead of this one, which is the Hades

15:17

and Persephone story. And then this is

15:19

the second one. And then in

15:21

the third one, it's, I think

15:23

the Aries story. I really love her

15:26

books and I especially love the Dark

15:28

Olympus ones. I actually follow her Patreon

15:30

so I can get other stories as

15:33

well that have to do this. But

15:35

if you are looking for, if you like Greek

15:37

mythology and you love smut books, check

15:39

out her Dark Olympic series. Yeah,

15:42

I keep looking at it at the store

15:44

and then I'm just like, I should just

15:46

literally Amazon you the book and

15:48

be like, read this. Be like, you're reading this.

15:52

I fucking love her this series, but

15:54

it always takes like terranosis because I'll complain

15:56

about it. It takes me like a week to get into the

15:59

book and then I like read it and The more you get

16:01

into the series like later on the more you

16:03

actually like need to have read the other

16:05

books because they start To like overlap. Yeah,

16:07

I would definitely read neon gods first then

16:09

yes and then get that one cuz I'm

16:11

like, oh my gosh I love this I need

16:14

that the only real big reference is that

16:16

like in neon gods Hades is like this

16:18

like mythological figure until he comes out of

16:20

the woodworks and he and Persephone are together

16:22

and in this one Hades is just there

16:25

So it's really the only like kind of

16:27

like overlay. Oh, yeah, Cupid has been

16:29

around he's been an art He became

16:31

part of Valentine's Day because of his

16:33

cherub like look and the love connection

16:35

And I just I think that like

16:38

we don't know like I didn't know the

16:40

story of Cupid like the starting of it

16:42

That's I didn't even know he was part

16:44

of Greek or like Roman mythology whatsoever. Yeah,

16:46

and I just thought he was something that

16:49

Been in a long way Yeah

16:52

Look at his little angel, baby Like

16:55

look at the little angel baby so cute

16:58

but I Was

17:00

interested in if you just so that you guys know if

17:02

you want us to do because we've kind of done a

17:04

lot of cryptids But if you want us to go into

17:06

mythology because we do talk about like cults and

17:09

stuff on here Which has a religious element to

17:11

it and a Greek and

17:13

Roman mythology is connected to a religion

17:15

If you would like us to talk about it, let

17:17

us know. Yeah, that'd be fun to sprinkle in I'm

17:20

obsessed with Greek mythology and Tara's daughter

17:22

bug is also obsessed with Greek mythology

17:24

She reads that Percy Jackson series, which

17:27

I started watching on Disney Plus Oh

17:29

the show's so good, right? But I'm super pissed

17:31

that I have to wait like we got to

17:34

wait like two years Two years

17:36

and crazy. I was like why I wonder if

17:38

they were like kind of hesitant to go ahead

17:40

and be like, okay cool we're gonna just green

17:42

light the second season because or is planning that

17:44

out because The movies in

17:46

the previous series kind of like underperformed

17:49

I believe but I fully believe it's

17:51

only because it had nothing to do

17:53

with like the cast or anything It's

17:55

fully because of like the time frame

17:57

it came out. Mm-hmm. And if I remember

17:59

correctly I think they waited too long to

18:01

have a second movie. Yeah,

18:03

I think it was a few years. I feel

18:06

like they did the first one and everyone was

18:08

like, hell yeah. And then the second one, the

18:10

kids had grown up in the

18:13

Percy Jackson series. They're really young,

18:15

which is like, according to Bug, I

18:17

was incorrect. They're not actually grown up

18:19

teenagers or mid 16-year-olds. She

18:22

definitely was like, no, they're like kids. They're in

18:24

seventh grade. And I was like, even though

18:26

you read all of the books multiple times.

18:28

So I defer to you as she's

18:31

a plast. It's her favorite. Yeah. So

18:33

yeah, if you've got something you guys want us

18:35

to do or if you want me to talk more

18:37

about the Percy Jackson series on the show, I'll do that

18:39

too. Because you know, I've been actually meeting like

18:41

since we own them and have them on Kindle.

18:43

I thought about reading them just like for fun

18:46

because I've never read them. I have any of

18:48

it. I think they came out like after we

18:50

were like adults, which is not to say that

18:52

I didn't read Twilight as an adult. But yeah,

18:54

I get what you're saying. Yeah, because like the

18:56

timeline with that, like we were the right demographic

18:58

for Twilight and all that. So anyway,

19:02

well, that's going to go ahead and wrap up

19:04

this week's Monday episode. If you enjoy it, please

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