S02E15: On This Day I Take Thee To Be My Grandma
Kris Kristofferson Edition!
Tonight’s Tarot: King of Swords
Freaks of Hazard:
Foxfur scurried through with a monthly $5
HyperSpaceOut volcano’d us $17.00. Don’t miss Sunday night Jackbox at https://app.kosmi.io/room/@hyperspaceout
SirCrossStich sent his squire to deliver us this monthly $5.33
$5.55 washed ashore today in glass bottle, sent by Captain Oblivious
Tjunta infiltrated the premises and left us $3.33
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With the preponderance of data we can see online, it seems like we are getting worse as a society overall. However, people have always been wildin’ out, and here are a few instances in history that prove that people be peopleing, no matter the time period…sometimes in ways we would never imagine seeing in our present days (or perhaps just like it). I found a lot of these from reddit and verified the claims through other sources.
Tycho Brahe
From Wikipedia: a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations from the naked eye…He was the last major astronomer before the invention of the telescope.
At the age of 20, Tycho lost part of his nose in a sword duel with a fellow Danish nobleman, his third cousin Manderup Parsberg. At a party on 10 December the two had drunkenly quarreled over who was the superior mathematician.[15] Nineteen days later, the cousins resolved their feud with a duel in the dark. Though the two were later reconciled, in the duel Tycho lost the bridge of his nose and gained a broad scar across his forehead.[16] He wore a prosthetic nose for the rest of his life, made of brass and attached with glue.
The support that Tycho received from the Crown was substantial, amounting to 1% of the annual total revenue at one point.[46] Tycho often held large social gatherings in his castle. [It was known that] Tycho had a tame elk and that his mentor the Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel asked [if Tycho would send it to him in order to arrive at the party, in exchange for a horse]. Tycho replied with the sad news that the elk had just died on a visit to entertain a nobleman at Landskrona. Apparently, during dinner, the elk had drunk a lot of beer, fallen down the stairs, and died.[47]
As part of Tycho's duties to the Crown, in exchange for his estate, he fulfilled the functions of a royal astrologer. At the beginning of each year, he had to present an Almanac to the court, predicting the influence of the stars on the political and economic prospects of the year. At the birth of each prince, he prepared their horoscopes, predicting their fates. [So, Tycho was a horoscopes girlie just like the rest of us].
Tycho suddenly contracted a bladder or kidney ailment after attending a banquet in Prague. He died eleven days later, on 24 October 1601, at the age of 54. According to his assistant Johannes Kepler's first-hand account, Tycho had refused to leave the banquet to relieve himself because it would have been a breach of etiquette.[64]...A contemporary physician attributed his death to a kidney stone, but no kidney stones were found during an autopsy performed after his body was exhumed in 1901. Modern medical assessment is that his death was more likely caused by either a burst bladder,[67]…Even further Investigations in the 1990s suggested that Tycho may not have died from urinary problems at all, but instead from mercury poisoning.[70] It was speculated that he had been intentionally poisoned. The two main suspects were his assistant, Johannes Kepler, whose motives would be to gain access to Tycho's laboratory and chemicals,[71] and his cousin, Erik Brahe, at the order of friend-turned-enemy Christian IV, because of rumors that Tycho had had an affair with Christian's mother and got her pregnant.
Napoleon Bonaparte [source]
Napoleon was at the peak of his power in 1807 after signing the Treaties of Tilsit, ending the war between the French Empire and Imperial Russia. He decided to hold a rabbit hunt to celebrate the historic event. The commander’s chief of staff, Alexandre Berthier, oversaw the hunt. He acquired over 3,000 rabbits from local farmers, enabling Napoleon and others in his party to have plenty of bunnies at their disposal for the festivities. Little did Napoleon know that the tables would turn on him and his guests.
Berthier was not particularly knowledgeable about rabbits, and when the cages, set on the edges of a huge field, opened, the animals bombarded Napoleon and the others in the vicinity. These domesticated mammals were not scared of humans and believed it was feeding time, so the throng of rabbits ran towards Napoleon and his men, searching for tasty morsels. According to Historian David Chandler, thousands of bunnies strategically divided themselves into two parts, flanking the French leader and his guests, demonstrating “a finer understanding of Napoleonic strategy than most of his generals.”
At first, the men thought the onslaught was quite comical, and they laughed at the bunnies’ behavior. The joke did not last long. Like a swarm of bees, the bunnies crowded around the men, nibbling and gnawing their buttons and boots. Overwhelmed by the attack, the hungry rabbits forced the screaming men to their knees, who tried to repel them with riding crops, whips, and sticks. Napoleon could not position his weapon to shoot them properly, so he retreated and ran to his imperial coach for safety.
The Sinking of German U-Boat U-1206
From Wikipedia:
U-1206 was one of the late-war boats fitted with new deepwater high-pressure toilets which allowed them to be used while running at depth. Flushing these facilities was an extremely complicated procedure and special technicians were trained to operate them. Incorrectly opening valves in the wrong sequence could result in waste or seawater flowing back into the hull.[6]
On 14 April 1945, 24 days before the end of World War II in Europe, while U-1206 was cruising at a depth of 200 feet, eight nautical miles (9.2 mi) off Peterhead, Scotland, misuse of the new toilet caused large amounts of seawater to flood the boat.[6] According to the Commander's official report, while in the engine room helping to repair one of the diesel engines, he was informed that a malfunction involving the toilet caused a leak in the forward section. The leak flooded the submarine's batteries (located beneath the head) causing them to generate chlorine gas, leaving him with no alternative but to surface.[6] Once surfaced, U-1206 was discovered and bombed by British patrols, forcing Schlitt to scuttle the submarine. One man had died of illness a day before the mishap,[7] three men drowned in the heavy seas after abandoning the vessel[8] and 46 were captured.[9]
🕴️ FIB AGENT 🕴️
Brian J. Kelley, Onetime Spying Suspect, Dies at 68
Witness To History: The Investigation of Robert Hanssen
Robert Hanssen | 60 Minutes Archive - Leslie Stahl
Ex-stripper describes her time with accused spy
Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history".
In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to offer his services, beginning his first espionage cycle, lasting until 1981. He restarted his espionage activities in 1985 and continued until 1991, when he ended communications during the collapse of the Soviet Union, fearing he would be exposed. Hanssen restarted communications the next year and continued until his arrest. Throughout his spying, he remained anonymous to the Russians.
He also loved to show his co-workers videos of his wife.
🕴️FBI 1 - Bobby
Innocent-seeming FBI Agent (sure) actually a narcissist traitor
🕴️FBI 1.5 - Origins
Bob’s strict Lutheran Chicago police officer father drives his son to be a doctor, who then falls to be a dentist, who then becomes an accountant
Father was head of “Red Squad” which would go around terrorizing suspected communists, who allegedly destroyed his own files on Communists
🕴️FBI 2 - Betrayal
His wife of 33(!!) years instilled Christian values into their children while living several lives
He starts using his spy skills to tape himself banging his wife
🕴️FBI 3 - Even More
;)
🕴️FBI 4 - A Life Of Treachery
Does the FBI surf the pornographic net?
🕴️FBI 5 - Feeding the Soviets
🕴️FBI 6 - Tips His Hat
🕴️FBI 7 - A Psychiatrist
🕴️FBI 8 - Spy Money
🕴️FBI 9 - A Psychiatrist 2
🕴️FBI 10 - Mike Rochefort
🕴️FBI 11 - Drunk Lady
🕴️FBI 12 - Patricia Kelley
🕴️FBI 13 - Patricia Kelley 2nd question
🕴️FBI 14 - The Answer
🕴️FBI 15 - Making Copies
On October 1, 1985, Hanssen sent an anonymous letter to the KGB offering his services and asking for $100,000 in cash, equivalent to $280,000 in 2023. In the letter, he gave the names of three KGB agents secretly working for the FBI: Boris Yuzhin, Valery Martynov, and Sergei Motorin. Although Hanssen was unaware of it, CIA mole Aldrich Ames had already exposed all three agents earlier that year. Yuzhin had returned to Moscow in 1982 and had been subject to an intensive investigation by the KGB due to having lost a concealed camera in the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, but he was not arrested until being exposed by Ames and Hanssen. Martynov and Motorin were recalled to Moscow, where they were arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of espionage against the Soviet government. Martynov and Motorin were executed via gunshot to the back of the head; Yuzhin was imprisoned for six years before he was released by a general amnesty to political prisoners and subsequently immigrated to the U.S. Because the FBI blamed Ames for the leak, Hanssen was neither suspected nor investigated.
During his final days with the FBI, Hanssen began to suspect something was wrong. In early February 2001, he asked his friend at a computer technology company for a job. He also believed he heard noises on his car radio that indicated it was bugged, although the FBI was later unable to reproduce the noises Hanssen claimed to have heard. In the last letter he wrote to the Russians, which was found by the FBI when he was arrested, Hanssen said that he had been promoted to a "do-nothing job ... outside of regular access to information," and that, "Something has aroused the sleeping tiger".
Hanssen's suspicions did not stop him from making one more dead drop. After leaving a friend at an airport on February 18, 2001, Hanssen drove to Virginia's Foxstone Park. He placed a white piece of tape on a park sign, which was a signal to his Russian contacts that there was information at the dead drop site. He then followed his usual routine, taking a package consisting of a sealed garbage bag of classified material and taping it to the bottom side of a wooden footbridge over a creek.
When FBI agents observed this incriminating act, they rushed in to arrest Hanssen.
Upon being arrested, Hanssen asked, "What took you so long?"
The FBI waited two more days to see if any of Hanssen's SVR handlers would show up at Foxstone Park. When they failed to appear, the United States Justice Department announced the arrest on February 20, 2001.
Hanssen frequently visited D.C. strip clubs and spent a great deal of time with a Washington stripper named Priscilla Sue Galey. She went with Hanssen on visits to Hong Kong and the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia. Hanssen gave her money, jewels, and a used Mercedes-Benz but ended contact with her before his arrest when she began abusing drugs and engaging in prostitution. Galey claims that although she offered to have sex with him, Hanssen declined, saying he was trying to convert her to Catholicism.
He died in prison last year (2023) from colon cancer, allegedly.
I’m sure the FBI doesn’t have any more weirdos like this dude.
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OPENER
1975: Are ALIENS Abducting ENGLAND'S DOGS? | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
INTERMISSION
Two Weeks In Nashville - Money Maker
Ainsley Costello - Change Your Mind
Black Vulcanite - How To Rap about Africa
CLOSER
Mike Epting - She Doesn’t Know Anything About God
PRESHOW
The Lavish DJ Hour, Jah Bless
TAKE THESE, IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE!
