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Minor 7 00:00:11,169 --> 00:00:12,605 volunteers to help write 8 00:00:12,638 --> 00:00:14,576 the Oxford English Dictionary. 9 00:00:14,608 --> 00:00:17,780 This is what I was born to do! 10 00:00:17,815 --> 00:00:19,652 (Laughter) 11 00:00:19,684 --> 00:00:22,108 Space exploration has its roots 12 00:00:22,138 --> 00:00:26,104 in Jack Parsons' mumbling occult rituals 13 00:00:26,134 --> 00:00:30,704 while snorting blow off of his friend's boobs. 14 00:00:30,737 --> 00:00:31,737 ?? 15 00:00:33,914 --> 00:00:41,729 = synced and corrected by Shahrazade = ... www.addic7ed.com ... 16 00:00:44,095 --> 00:00:45,196 - Have you ever - _ 17 00:00:45,229 --> 00:00:46,866 been friends or known someone 18 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:48,469 that you're like, Oh, this is, like, 19 00:00:48,503 --> 00:00:50,240 a real, like, fucking dangerous mind 20 00:00:50,273 --> 00:00:51,675 and I don't want to be around? 21 00:00:51,709 --> 00:00:53,512 Oh, yeah, I've dealt with a Rasputin before. 22 00:00:53,545 --> 00:00:54,948 - You have dealt with a Rasputin? - Yeah. 23 00:00:54,981 --> 00:00:56,149 I know girls like that where I'm like, 24 00:00:56,183 --> 00:00:57,479 I know how you get. 25 00:00:57,509 --> 00:01:00,189 Like, I don't want to accidentally do crystal meth. 26 00:01:00,224 --> 00:01:01,159 - Right. - Like, I just don't want 27 00:01:01,189 --> 00:01:02,126 - to accidentally do that. - Yeah. 28 00:01:02,156 --> 00:01:03,862 To people that you... you think that 29 00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:05,233 you should trust, but you really shouldn't. 30 00:01:05,266 --> 00:01:06,238 To you and me. 31 00:01:06,268 --> 00:01:07,268 Yes. 32 00:01:08,344 --> 00:01:09,344 Hello! 33 00:01:10,308 --> 00:01:12,846 Hello, everybody of the Comedy Central world, 34 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:14,283 my name's Chris Romano. 35 00:01:14,316 --> 00:01:16,286 And today, we're going to be talking about 36 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,756 the dangerous mind of Rasputin. 37 00:01:18,790 --> 00:01:19,759 Nostrovia. 38 00:01:19,793 --> 00:01:20,894 Nostrovia. 39 00:01:20,927 --> 00:01:22,631 The story of Rasputin. 40 00:01:22,664 --> 00:01:25,034 He leave his house at 23 and says, 41 00:01:25,069 --> 00:01:26,993 I got to wander the wilderness 42 00:01:27,023 --> 00:01:29,661 of Siberia in Russia. 43 00:01:29,693 --> 00:01:31,130 And at the time, I believe, 44 00:01:31,163 --> 00:01:32,833 that was called a... a strannik. 45 00:01:32,866 --> 00:01:33,867 A strank? 46 00:01:33,901 --> 00:01:35,604 A strannik was just a... is a... 47 00:01:35,637 --> 00:01:36,872 is a religious wanderer. 48 00:01:36,905 --> 00:01:38,609 So he became, like, a strannik, and became... 49 00:01:38,643 --> 00:01:39,949 A strannik. 50 00:01:40,406 --> 00:01:41,782 Right. 51 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,854 Exactly. He became a strannik. 52 00:01:44,887 --> 00:01:46,122 And so he... 53 00:01:46,157 --> 00:01:47,526 When he is out one night 54 00:01:47,559 --> 00:01:49,429 and he hears girls, 55 00:01:49,461 --> 00:01:50,630 like, playing outside, 56 00:01:50,663 --> 00:01:51,898 like girls laughing, 57 00:01:51,932 --> 00:01:53,035 like, real horny. 58 00:01:53,068 --> 00:01:54,068 (Laughs) 59 00:01:54,098 --> 00:01:55,673 (Falsetto) Oh, fuck. 60 00:01:55,705 --> 00:01:56,774 (Normally) Eh, oh fuck. 61 00:01:56,809 --> 00:01:58,044 So he sees three women 62 00:01:58,077 --> 00:01:59,813 skinny-dipping in the fucking pond 63 00:01:59,848 --> 00:02:01,738 and dives into the pond with them. 64 00:02:01,768 --> 00:02:03,538 Eventually, one thing leads to another, 65 00:02:03,572 --> 00:02:05,609 and he fucks each one of them. 66 00:02:05,642 --> 00:02:07,345 (Ostentatious Romantic music playing) 67 00:02:07,378 --> 00:02:09,247 Has a great time. 68 00:02:09,281 --> 00:02:11,285 (Garbled) So Rasputin decides, he's like, look, 69 00:02:11,318 --> 00:02:12,755 I want to go to fucking St. Petersburg, 70 00:02:12,787 --> 00:02:14,223 'cause that's the capital of Russia. 71 00:02:14,257 --> 00:02:15,225 There's a fucking ton of women there, 72 00:02:15,258 --> 00:02:16,595 and I'm going to fuck 73 00:02:16,627 --> 00:02:17,930 until I get enlightened, 74 00:02:17,964 --> 00:02:20,076 until my fucking head explodes. 75 00:02:20,106 --> 00:02:21,370 He goes to St. Petersburg, 76 00:02:21,404 --> 00:02:23,306 and he's immediately introduced to Tsar Nicholas. 77 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:25,313 Course, he got a beautiful, beautiful wife, 78 00:02:25,343 --> 00:02:26,779 Tsarina Alexandra, 79 00:02:26,813 --> 00:02:28,916 and their son, poor little Alexei. 80 00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:31,287 This little poor little hemophiliac bastard 81 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:32,442 who he can't even bump... 82 00:02:32,472 --> 00:02:33,540 if he bumps into a couch, 83 00:02:33,574 --> 00:02:34,542 he's gushin' blood. 84 00:02:34,576 --> 00:02:36,234 Right? That's embarrassing for the family. 85 00:02:36,264 --> 00:02:37,548 It's kinda gross. 86 00:02:37,582 --> 00:02:39,619 Hey! Rasputin! 87 00:02:39,651 --> 00:02:41,922 Alexei's bleeding? Is there anything you can do? 88 00:02:41,956 --> 00:02:43,192 Rasputin goes, Hey, 89 00:02:43,225 --> 00:02:44,627 relax, relax. 90 00:02:44,661 --> 00:02:46,831 He sits with Alexei for a little bit. 91 00:02:46,866 --> 00:02:48,435 Eventually, he stopped bleeding. 92 00:02:48,467 --> 00:02:49,435 He seems to be getting better. 93 00:02:49,469 --> 00:02:50,302 Then he's like, Holy shit, 94 00:02:50,332 --> 00:02:52,509 did you just cure fucking hemophilia? 95 00:02:52,542 --> 00:02:54,611 So, of course, the goddamn fucking... 96 00:02:54,645 --> 00:02:56,081 the tsar and the tsarina 97 00:02:56,115 --> 00:02:57,484 are super fucking happy. 98 00:02:57,516 --> 00:02:58,455 The czarina is like, Look, 99 00:02:58,485 --> 00:02:59,989 I gotta set you up with... 100 00:03:00,021 --> 00:03:02,025 with a fucking house and shit 101 00:03:02,058 --> 00:03:03,193 to fucking do this out of. 102 00:03:03,228 --> 00:03:04,195 Like, this is amazing. 103 00:03:04,229 --> 00:03:06,533 And it will be away from 104 00:03:06,567 --> 00:03:08,474 the rest of the fucking St. Petersburger 105 00:03:08,504 --> 00:03:10,675 aristocrat... aristocross... 106 00:03:10,708 --> 00:03:11,777 Aristocr... 107 00:03:11,810 --> 00:03:13,883 Aristocrocity. 108 00:03:13,913 --> 00:03:15,682 Aristo... aristocrate? 109 00:03:15,717 --> 00:03:16,987 Aristo... 110 00:03:17,020 --> 00:03:19,056 What's the fucking... 111 00:03:19,088 --> 00:03:20,893 Aristocrat, aristocrat-acy? 112 00:03:20,926 --> 00:03:24,231 Aristo... (Laughs) 113 00:03:24,264 --> 00:03:26,001 I need a fucking word. 114 00:03:26,036 --> 00:03:28,105 Aristo... the fucking rich fucking pieces of shit 115 00:03:28,139 --> 00:03:30,209 that don't want you to do this. 116 00:03:30,242 --> 00:03:32,712 He... he starts having these crazy fucking parties. 117 00:03:32,746 --> 00:03:34,049 He really, truly believes 118 00:03:34,082 --> 00:03:35,585 like, when I pull my dick out of here, 119 00:03:35,619 --> 00:03:36,753 you're going to see something 120 00:03:36,788 --> 00:03:37,989 you've never seen before. 121 00:03:38,022 --> 00:03:39,725 It's going to be enlighten. 122 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:41,829 Um, my dick's full of hope. 123 00:03:41,862 --> 00:03:44,901 I call it the Obama Hope Syndrome. 124 00:03:44,936 --> 00:03:48,075 (Laughs) 125 00:03:48,108 --> 00:03:51,881 Also, FYI, no husbands allowed. 126 00:03:51,914 --> 00:03:55,754 This is a fucking BY-don't-B... bring your fucking husbands. 127 00:03:55,788 --> 00:03:57,925 (Laughter) 128 00:03:57,959 --> 00:03:59,106 Should we get in the hot tub? 129 00:03:59,136 --> 00:04:01,102 - Sure. - Oh, fuck, this hot tub 130 00:04:01,132 --> 00:04:03,770 feels real good on my... on everything. 131 00:04:03,802 --> 00:04:05,605 (Laughs) 132 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:07,076 So, by 1916, 133 00:04:07,109 --> 00:04:09,346 everyone's soon slowly finding out 134 00:04:09,380 --> 00:04:10,392 like, Oh, these fucking parties 135 00:04:10,422 --> 00:04:12,449 aren't just to go fucking drink and have fun. 136 00:04:12,479 --> 00:04:15,189 They're going in to fuck Rasputin. 137 00:04:15,224 --> 00:04:17,194 Finally, this guy, Felix, 138 00:04:17,227 --> 00:04:18,667 he's like, Here's what I'm going to do. 139 00:04:18,697 --> 00:04:21,702 I'm going to invite that fucking prick Rasputin 140 00:04:21,734 --> 00:04:23,004 to fuck my wife. 141 00:04:23,038 --> 00:04:24,507 No way he's not going to fall for that. 142 00:04:24,539 --> 00:04:26,709 This fucking horny bastard loves cake. 143 00:04:26,743 --> 00:04:28,580 I'm going to fucking put some cyanide 144 00:04:28,613 --> 00:04:30,049 in his cake, and fucking let 145 00:04:30,084 --> 00:04:32,361 this fucking idiot eat... eat his death. 146 00:04:32,391 --> 00:04:33,690 I'll watch him fuck my wife 147 00:04:33,724 --> 00:04:34,892 and die at the same time. 148 00:04:34,924 --> 00:04:35,712 It'll be great. 149 00:04:35,742 --> 00:04:37,028 But also, the worst. 150 00:04:37,063 --> 00:04:38,633 So they feed him some cake. 151 00:04:38,663 --> 00:04:39,868 They watch him eat the cake. 152 00:04:39,901 --> 00:04:43,507 They sit back and go, Oh, he's dead. 153 00:04:43,541 --> 00:04:45,844 They look back at him, two minutes later, 154 00:04:45,878 --> 00:04:48,015 he's finished the whole fucking cake, not dead. 155 00:04:48,045 --> 00:04:49,518 They go, What the fuck is going on? 156 00:04:49,551 --> 00:04:51,721 That was a fucking horse-load of fucking cyanide. 157 00:04:51,755 --> 00:04:54,193 - How the fuck is this guy not dead? - Oh, wow. 158 00:04:54,226 --> 00:04:57,198 Besides pussy, this guy loves wine. 159 00:04:57,231 --> 00:04:58,934 We're going to dump some fuck cyanide 160 00:04:58,967 --> 00:05:00,102 in his wine. 161 00:05:00,137 --> 00:05:01,906 And they go, Hey, cheers! 162 00:05:01,940 --> 00:05:02,941 Let's fucking drink 163 00:05:02,976 --> 00:05:04,077 to fucking fucking my wife. 164 00:05:04,111 --> 00:05:05,647 Thanks so much for doing this. 165 00:05:05,681 --> 00:05:06,526 They look back at him, 166 00:05:06,556 --> 00:05:07,912 he's drinking all the fucking wine. 167 00:05:07,942 --> 00:05:10,556 He stands up, having a fucking jovial time, 168 00:05:10,589 --> 00:05:11,314 and everybody's like, 169 00:05:11,344 --> 00:05:13,030 What the fuck is going on here? 170 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:15,395 Why the fuck isn't this piece of shit dying? 171 00:05:15,425 --> 00:05:16,934 And then they go, You know what we need to do? 172 00:05:16,968 --> 00:05:18,905 Felix pulls out a revolver 173 00:05:18,937 --> 00:05:20,940 and fucking raises it, 174 00:05:20,974 --> 00:05:21,942 and shoots him in the back. 175 00:05:21,976 --> 00:05:23,276 (Dramatic music) 176 00:05:24,405 --> 00:05:27,352 Fuckin' Rasputin falls down, and they go, 177 00:05:27,385 --> 00:05:28,587 He's fucking dead. 178 00:05:28,622 --> 00:05:29,891 Stay down here and party 179 00:05:29,923 --> 00:05:31,058 and fuck your own wife for once, 180 00:05:31,093 --> 00:05:32,237 you fucking asshole. 181 00:05:32,267 --> 00:05:34,698 They all go back, celebrating, 182 00:05:34,733 --> 00:05:36,435 Felix turns back around, all of a sudden, 183 00:05:36,469 --> 00:05:37,939 he's fucking grabbed from behind, 184 00:05:37,971 --> 00:05:40,074 turns around and sees that it's fucking Rasputin 185 00:05:40,108 --> 00:05:41,411 with his arms around his neck, 186 00:05:41,444 --> 00:05:42,714 choking him to death, 187 00:05:42,747 --> 00:05:43,949 and immediately starts freaking out, 188 00:05:43,983 --> 00:05:45,118 going I didn't fucking kill him! 189 00:05:45,151 --> 00:05:46,587 I didn't fucking kill him! 190 00:05:46,620 --> 00:05:47,621 And Rasputin's yelling, 191 00:05:47,656 --> 00:05:49,212 I can't fucking die! 192 00:05:49,242 --> 00:05:51,814 I got two fucking dicks! 193 00:05:52,098 --> 00:05:55,566 I got two fucking dicks. 194 00:05:55,596 --> 00:05:58,025 You can't kill a two-dicked man. 195 00:05:58,055 --> 00:05:59,439 You can't kill him. 196 00:05:59,469 --> 00:06:00,328 (Laughs) 197 00:06:00,362 --> 00:06:02,967 His cards come running to his aid, 198 00:06:02,999 --> 00:06:04,403 pull out their revolvers, 199 00:06:04,436 --> 00:06:06,941 and shoot Rasputin, 200 00:06:06,975 --> 00:06:09,082 each one time in the back. 201 00:06:09,112 --> 00:06:11,355 That makes it four shots in the back. 202 00:06:11,385 --> 00:06:13,905 He again rises and... 203 00:06:15,321 --> 00:06:17,326 They're like, This motherfucker is crazy. 204 00:06:17,359 --> 00:06:19,105 They fucking beat him to death. 205 00:06:19,135 --> 00:06:22,502 They fucking punch him, and stab him, 206 00:06:22,535 --> 00:06:24,004 They get a carpet. 207 00:06:24,037 --> 00:06:25,473 They roll him up in the carpet. 208 00:06:25,506 --> 00:06:27,009 They take him to a bridge 209 00:06:27,042 --> 00:06:28,345 and dump him over the side 210 00:06:28,379 --> 00:06:30,018 into the fucking water. 211 00:06:30,048 --> 00:06:30,883 And then, morning, 212 00:06:30,917 --> 00:06:32,052 when his body washes up 213 00:06:32,085 --> 00:06:34,827 along the shore, frozen to death, 214 00:06:35,309 --> 00:06:38,128 they fucking finally realize, 215 00:06:38,390 --> 00:06:39,965 Wow. 216 00:06:40,275 --> 00:06:41,703 This is the first time 217 00:06:41,737 --> 00:06:43,191 I've ever thought that maybe, 218 00:06:43,221 --> 00:06:44,524 just maybe, 219 00:06:44,557 --> 00:06:46,528 that Rasputin is human. 220 00:06:46,562 --> 00:06:48,932 He's not a god that we all thought he was. 221 00:06:48,966 --> 00:06:51,672 He's a human being, just like every one of us. 222 00:06:53,623 --> 00:06:55,047 On the count of three. 223 00:06:55,077 --> 00:06:55,893 - Okay. - Is there a way 224 00:06:55,923 --> 00:06:57,782 for your [bleep] to just... 225 00:06:57,815 --> 00:06:59,618 make its way out of your pants 226 00:06:59,651 --> 00:07:01,384 and we stand up on the count of three 227 00:07:01,414 --> 00:07:03,559 and we see your cock? 228 00:07:03,591 --> 00:07:04,378 I'll do it for you. 229 00:07:04,408 --> 00:07:05,271 Thank you. 230 00:07:05,301 --> 00:07:06,533 - On the count of three. - Ready? One... 231 00:07:06,563 --> 00:07:07,990 - One. Two. - Two. 232 00:07:08,020 --> 00:07:10,046 (Both) Three. 233 00:07:10,771 --> 00:07:12,571 - Cheers, Doug. - Cheers. 234 00:07:13,419 --> 00:07:14,419 (Laughs) 235 00:07:17,078 --> 00:07:18,522 Hello. I'm Doug Jones, 236 00:07:18,552 --> 00:07:20,522 and today we're going to talk about W.C. Minor, 237 00:07:20,555 --> 00:07:23,961 the most important man behind the most important book 238 00:07:23,995 --> 00:07:25,565 in the English language. 239 00:07:25,598 --> 00:07:27,000 That... that's not what you wanted. 240 00:07:27,033 --> 00:07:28,069 No, but I love it. 241 00:07:28,103 --> 00:07:29,199 Okay. 242 00:07:29,229 --> 00:07:30,818 In 1863, 243 00:07:30,848 --> 00:07:34,146 W.C. Minor graduated from Yale Medical School 244 00:07:34,180 --> 00:07:37,426 as a surgeon and joined the US Army. 245 00:07:37,456 --> 00:07:39,589 He had blood in his hands 246 00:07:39,624 --> 00:07:41,527 and he was trying to put... 247 00:07:41,559 --> 00:07:44,531 people's brains back into their heads, 248 00:07:44,566 --> 00:07:47,291 and he was like, Oh, my god, 249 00:07:47,321 --> 00:07:48,575 this is [bleep] up. 250 00:07:48,605 --> 00:07:52,096 This is messing up my head. 251 00:07:52,126 --> 00:07:53,549 They diagnosed him 252 00:07:53,581 --> 00:07:55,618 with delusional paranoia. 253 00:07:55,653 --> 00:07:58,857 I gotta get out of here. I'm going to move to London. 254 00:07:58,891 --> 00:08:02,481 February 17th, 1872, 255 00:08:02,511 --> 00:08:03,734 W.C. Minor 256 00:08:03,766 --> 00:08:05,336 wakes up in the middle of the night 257 00:08:05,369 --> 00:08:06,906 in a paranoid fit. 258 00:08:06,939 --> 00:08:08,742 He grabbed his gun. 259 00:08:08,776 --> 00:08:10,646 He thinks that a man 260 00:08:10,679 --> 00:08:12,282 has broken into his home 261 00:08:12,316 --> 00:08:13,785 and is trying to kill him. 262 00:08:13,817 --> 00:08:15,325 He runs outside. 263 00:08:15,355 --> 00:08:16,622 At that very moment, 264 00:08:16,656 --> 00:08:18,660 George Merrett was on his way to work 265 00:08:18,694 --> 00:08:20,383 at a brewery, like, 266 00:08:20,413 --> 00:08:21,797 do-do-do-do-do, 267 00:08:21,831 --> 00:08:23,802 ? I'm on my way to work ? 268 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:25,972 ? I got six kids ? 269 00:08:26,007 --> 00:08:28,946 ? My wife, Eliza, is pregnant ? 270 00:08:28,979 --> 00:08:31,216 ? Ain't life glorious ? 271 00:08:31,249 --> 00:08:32,686 He turns around, 272 00:08:32,719 --> 00:08:34,388 he sees W.C. Minor 273 00:08:34,421 --> 00:08:35,924 run out of his house with a gun. 274 00:08:35,956 --> 00:08:38,260 Minor shoots George Merrett, 275 00:08:38,294 --> 00:08:42,368 fatally wounding him dead in the neck. 276 00:08:42,403 --> 00:08:45,141 W.C. Minor get entered into the 277 00:08:45,173 --> 00:08:50,250 Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. 278 00:08:50,283 --> 00:08:52,319 So because W.C. Minor 279 00:08:52,352 --> 00:08:55,157 was a prestigious doctor, he get special treatment 280 00:08:55,192 --> 00:08:56,861 in the asylum. 281 00:08:56,891 --> 00:08:58,898 They give him two cells. 282 00:08:58,932 --> 00:09:01,403 They reunite him with all of his possessions. 283 00:09:01,437 --> 00:09:02,972 He has so many books 284 00:09:03,005 --> 00:09:04,808 that he takes his second cell 285 00:09:04,841 --> 00:09:06,700 and turns it into a library. 286 00:09:06,730 --> 00:09:10,787 However, he's still racked with the tremendous guilt 287 00:09:10,820 --> 00:09:12,355 over this murder. 288 00:09:12,389 --> 00:09:15,061 So W.C. Minor contacts 289 00:09:15,094 --> 00:09:17,431 the murder... Um... 290 00:09:17,465 --> 00:09:19,268 He wrote to his, uh, 291 00:09:19,302 --> 00:09:23,475 He want... he wrote to his victim's widow, 292 00:09:23,908 --> 00:09:25,779 Eliza Merrett. 293 00:09:25,813 --> 00:09:28,851 Eliza pays Minor a visit. 294 00:09:28,884 --> 00:09:32,793 He said, Thank you for coming today, Mrs. Merrett. 295 00:09:32,826 --> 00:09:34,709 Um, should I say 296 00:09:34,739 --> 00:09:36,466 Miss Merrett, 297 00:09:36,499 --> 00:09:38,469 now that you're single? 298 00:09:38,503 --> 00:09:40,475 (Laughter) 299 00:09:40,799 --> 00:09:42,022 Too soon. 300 00:09:42,052 --> 00:09:43,445 Too soon. 301 00:09:43,479 --> 00:09:45,882 All of a sudden, she notices behind him 302 00:09:45,916 --> 00:09:47,419 the guy's got a lot of books. 303 00:09:47,451 --> 00:09:49,088 So she says, like, 304 00:09:49,121 --> 00:09:51,091 I notice you have a lot of books. 305 00:09:51,125 --> 00:09:52,616 What kind of books do you got? 306 00:09:52,646 --> 00:09:55,131 Nothing much. Just a bunch of, like, 307 00:09:55,166 --> 00:09:58,939 interesting books by people like Jonathan Swift. 308 00:09:58,972 --> 00:10:01,342 She's like, I love Jonathan Swift. 309 00:10:01,376 --> 00:10:04,824 "Gulliver's Travels"? That's like, my favorite book. 310 00:10:04,854 --> 00:10:08,809 He's like, Me too. Like, OMG. 311 00:10:08,839 --> 00:10:10,326 You... you're just like me. 312 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,129 She starts coming to visit him 313 00:10:12,163 --> 00:10:14,265 at the asylum, like, once a month. 314 00:10:14,299 --> 00:10:18,005 Every time, she brings a bundle of new books for him. 315 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:20,510 He's giving her some books from his library. 316 00:10:20,544 --> 00:10:22,147 This is crazy. 317 00:10:22,181 --> 00:10:24,518 This is the guy that murdered her husband, 318 00:10:24,552 --> 00:10:26,154 and they're, like, 319 00:10:26,188 --> 00:10:28,259 have a book club? 320 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:29,460 What? 321 00:10:29,494 --> 00:10:31,297 In one of these bundles of books 322 00:10:31,331 --> 00:10:32,971 there's a notice from a man named 323 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:34,069 James Murray. 324 00:10:34,103 --> 00:10:35,671 Hear ye, hear ye. 325 00:10:35,704 --> 00:10:39,489 All y'all bibliophiles out there, listen up. 326 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:43,739 I am writing the very first Oxford English Dictionary. 327 00:10:43,769 --> 00:10:46,273 We're looking for volunteers 328 00:10:46,307 --> 00:10:48,690 to submit your words, 329 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,786 along with quotations 330 00:10:50,816 --> 00:10:52,819 from the English literature. 331 00:10:52,852 --> 00:10:55,323 W.C. Minor sees this notification, 332 00:10:55,358 --> 00:10:59,365 he's like, This is what I was born to do! 333 00:10:59,398 --> 00:11:02,539 W.C. Minor writes in to James Murray and says, 334 00:11:02,569 --> 00:11:05,108 Will you please see it in your heart 335 00:11:05,141 --> 00:11:07,849 to allow me to "contribut-ee" 336 00:11:07,879 --> 00:11:10,418 to your great Oxford English Dictionary? 337 00:11:10,451 --> 00:11:12,288 And they kinda look at this letter, 338 00:11:12,321 --> 00:11:14,691 and they're like, Yeah, dude. 339 00:11:14,725 --> 00:11:17,289 Of course. Here's the list of words. 340 00:11:17,319 --> 00:11:19,432 Bonnet. Boner. 341 00:11:19,466 --> 00:11:20,736 Bona fide. 342 00:11:20,769 --> 00:11:22,405 He takes this list of words 343 00:11:22,438 --> 00:11:24,275 and he's like, Okay. 344 00:11:24,310 --> 00:11:26,380 I'm like a search engine 345 00:11:26,413 --> 00:11:27,682 I'm gonna, like, 346 00:11:27,715 --> 00:11:29,685 spend the next year of my life 347 00:11:29,719 --> 00:11:32,123 going through hundreds and hundreds of books, 348 00:11:32,157 --> 00:11:34,795 looking for uses of these words. 349 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:36,264 The years go by. 350 00:11:36,297 --> 00:11:39,069 W.C. Minor is like, doing so much work, 351 00:11:39,101 --> 00:11:41,172 and getting so much joy out of it, 352 00:11:41,206 --> 00:11:43,009 It's giving him so much purpinizes... 353 00:11:43,043 --> 00:11:44,712 purpose in his life. 354 00:11:44,745 --> 00:11:47,350 So finally, after years of correspondence, 355 00:11:47,384 --> 00:11:49,387 they finally meet face-to face. 356 00:11:49,421 --> 00:11:51,124 They sit down and they chat. 357 00:11:51,157 --> 00:11:54,028 And these guys completely hit it off. 358 00:11:54,062 --> 00:11:56,032 They share their love for the rich complexity 359 00:11:56,066 --> 00:11:57,739 of the English language. 360 00:11:57,769 --> 00:11:59,873 They're like BFF overnight. 361 00:11:59,906 --> 00:12:04,050 And James Murray gave him his six completed volumes 362 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:05,852 of the Oxford... 363 00:12:05,882 --> 00:12:07,058 (Laughs) 364 00:12:07,088 --> 00:12:09,337 English Dictionary, 365 00:12:09,367 --> 00:12:10,726 and said, 366 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:11,928 Thank you 367 00:12:11,962 --> 00:12:15,370 for your hard work and dedication. 368 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,305 You dedicated all... uh, 369 00:12:18,339 --> 00:12:20,009 so much of your life 370 00:12:20,043 --> 00:12:23,414 to the Oxford English Dictionary. 371 00:12:23,448 --> 00:12:26,353 And he's like, 372 00:12:26,387 --> 00:12:28,023 You're welcome. 373 00:12:28,057 --> 00:12:29,864 W.C. Minor contributed 374 00:12:29,894 --> 00:12:31,263 somewhere in the neighborhood 375 00:12:31,295 --> 00:12:33,699 of about 200,000 quotations 376 00:12:33,733 --> 00:12:38,007 for the Oxford English Dictionary. 377 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:39,877 The end. 378 00:12:39,911 --> 00:12:41,112 Let's cheers to him. 379 00:12:41,146 --> 00:12:42,748 W.C.! 380 00:12:44,252 --> 00:12:46,222 Stay tuned for more "Drunk History." 381 00:12:46,779 --> 00:12:47,779 Oh! 382 00:12:47,992 --> 00:12:50,162 (Drunken laughter) 383 00:12:50,197 --> 00:12:52,601 (Laughter) 384 00:12:53,234 --> 00:12:55,505 Here, can I tell you something that's really... 385 00:12:55,539 --> 00:12:57,273 honest to god, you won't like this. 386 00:12:57,303 --> 00:12:58,076 So these... 387 00:12:58,111 --> 00:12:59,547 - Oh, God. - Boots. 388 00:12:59,579 --> 00:13:01,215 Have been in my garage. 389 00:13:01,250 --> 00:13:03,554 The last time I went in my garage, 390 00:13:03,587 --> 00:13:05,023 do you know what I found? 391 00:13:05,057 --> 00:13:06,025 No. 392 00:13:06,058 --> 00:13:07,208 Black widows. 393 00:13:09,363 --> 00:13:10,331 Oh, fuck! 394 00:13:10,366 --> 00:13:12,102 (Laughs) 395 00:13:12,484 --> 00:13:14,539 I'm glad you find it funny 396 00:13:14,573 --> 00:13:16,910 that there could be a... oh, what the [bleep] is that? 397 00:13:16,944 --> 00:13:18,145 There's something in that one. 398 00:13:18,179 --> 00:13:21,218 (Laughs) 399 00:13:22,453 --> 00:13:24,457 You have to be so careful! 400 00:13:24,491 --> 00:13:26,361 Yeah, I have to be careful. 401 00:13:26,394 --> 00:13:27,394 (Laughs) 402 00:13:31,264 --> 00:13:32,974 Let's do it, man. 403 00:13:33,006 --> 00:13:34,006 Hello. 404 00:13:35,562 --> 00:13:36,562 Hello. 405 00:13:37,146 --> 00:13:38,482 My name... 406 00:13:38,516 --> 00:13:41,188 (laughs) is Duncan Trussell. 407 00:13:42,208 --> 00:13:44,493 And today, we will talk 408 00:13:44,526 --> 00:13:48,066 about Jack Parsons. 409 00:13:48,101 --> 00:13:49,570 Uh, Jack Parsons 410 00:13:49,602 --> 00:13:51,238 was always interested in 411 00:13:51,271 --> 00:13:54,177 rockets and explosives. 412 00:13:54,211 --> 00:13:57,183 1937, Jack Parsons... 413 00:13:57,217 --> 00:13:58,752 (Sighs) Just say it. 414 00:13:58,785 --> 00:14:00,255 - I got it, I got it. - Just repeat it. 415 00:14:00,288 --> 00:14:02,495 I [bleep] got it! Derek. 416 00:14:02,525 --> 00:14:05,365 In 1937, Jack Parsons, 417 00:14:05,397 --> 00:14:07,600 Ed Forman, and Frank Malina 418 00:14:07,635 --> 00:14:09,376 were doing rocket tests 419 00:14:09,406 --> 00:14:12,144 at Devil's Gate Dam. 420 00:14:12,176 --> 00:14:13,979 So, they ended up 421 00:14:14,013 --> 00:14:16,654 inventing something called the JATO rocket, 422 00:14:16,684 --> 00:14:18,755 and sure enough, the United States military 423 00:14:18,785 --> 00:14:19,890 caught wind of this 424 00:14:19,923 --> 00:14:21,393 and came to them, 425 00:14:21,426 --> 00:14:22,798 and the military was like, 426 00:14:22,828 --> 00:14:24,298 You guys seem to know what you're doing. 427 00:14:24,332 --> 00:14:26,102 Why don't we get together 428 00:14:26,135 --> 00:14:29,076 and work on better explosives 429 00:14:29,106 --> 00:14:31,802 than what you guys are blowing up by the dam? 430 00:14:31,832 --> 00:14:34,150 Jack Parsons got a bunch of money. 431 00:14:34,182 --> 00:14:37,459 He buys a mansion in the heart of Pasadena, 432 00:14:37,489 --> 00:14:39,158 and while this was happening, 433 00:14:39,191 --> 00:14:40,851 he came into contact 434 00:14:40,881 --> 00:14:44,032 with Aleister Crowley. 435 00:14:44,066 --> 00:14:46,938 He was considered one of the great occultists 436 00:14:46,971 --> 00:14:50,510 of our age, who teaches Parsons 437 00:14:50,545 --> 00:14:53,049 about sex magic. Right. 438 00:14:53,083 --> 00:14:54,682 Like, this is... do you know about sex magic? 439 00:14:54,712 --> 00:14:56,114 No, but yes, please. 440 00:14:56,144 --> 00:14:58,225 Okay. Let me tell you. 441 00:14:58,616 --> 00:15:01,264 Now, sex magic is like, the idea is, like, 442 00:15:01,605 --> 00:15:06,273 cumming... orgasm... ejaculation. 443 00:15:06,669 --> 00:15:09,379 This is the essence 444 00:15:09,412 --> 00:15:11,984 of what makes life happen on this planet. 445 00:15:12,017 --> 00:15:13,686 That moment of orgasm 446 00:15:13,719 --> 00:15:15,522 is so powerful, 447 00:15:15,556 --> 00:15:17,661 if you experience an orgasm 448 00:15:17,695 --> 00:15:20,400 while focusing your intention or will, 449 00:15:20,432 --> 00:15:22,068 you can make magic happen. 450 00:15:22,101 --> 00:15:23,303 You can make things happen. 451 00:15:23,338 --> 00:15:26,710 Let's summon spirits and hump. 452 00:15:27,011 --> 00:15:28,546 For a long time. 453 00:15:28,580 --> 00:15:31,686 And that's what was happening. 454 00:15:31,719 --> 00:15:33,690 He's doing these occult rituals 455 00:15:33,723 --> 00:15:37,094 and he is fucking all day long, 456 00:15:37,128 --> 00:15:39,667 cumming and cumming and cumming 457 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:41,469 and casting spells, 458 00:15:41,503 --> 00:15:43,205 and in the end of the day, 459 00:15:43,239 --> 00:15:44,743 he's going to work, 460 00:15:44,776 --> 00:15:46,148 and he's like, Hey, man, 461 00:15:46,178 --> 00:15:49,183 you guys care if I do a fucking magic spell 462 00:15:49,217 --> 00:15:51,120 before we launch this missile? 463 00:15:51,154 --> 00:15:52,890 They're like, all right, 464 00:15:52,924 --> 00:15:54,493 dude, I guess so. 465 00:15:54,526 --> 00:15:57,970 We're trying to fucking make the planet better. 466 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,070 And he's intoning this thing called the Hymn to Pan. 467 00:16:01,105 --> 00:16:03,409 Oh, I, Pan, 468 00:16:03,443 --> 00:16:05,547 I, Pan. 469 00:16:05,581 --> 00:16:07,918 So he is out of his gourd, 470 00:16:07,952 --> 00:16:09,354 but they're doing great, 471 00:16:09,386 --> 00:16:11,423 and his fucking friends are like, 472 00:16:11,457 --> 00:16:13,427 Let's start a company. 473 00:16:13,677 --> 00:16:16,066 We'll call it JPL: 474 00:16:16,098 --> 00:16:19,273 Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 475 00:16:19,303 --> 00:16:20,071 Oh, wow. 476 00:16:20,106 --> 00:16:21,308 One of the founders 477 00:16:21,342 --> 00:16:23,178 of, like, the... 478 00:16:23,212 --> 00:16:25,249 one of the corp... the companies 479 00:16:25,282 --> 00:16:28,921 that is responsible for space exploration today. 480 00:16:28,954 --> 00:16:30,991 If you know what [bleep] Saturn 481 00:16:31,025 --> 00:16:32,328 looks like right now, 482 00:16:32,361 --> 00:16:33,930 the rings of Saturn, 483 00:16:33,963 --> 00:16:36,100 the Cassini fucking probe around it, 484 00:16:36,135 --> 00:16:37,404 the Mars rover, 485 00:16:37,437 --> 00:16:39,407 all of this has its roots 486 00:16:39,439 --> 00:16:42,011 in Jack Parsons 487 00:16:42,045 --> 00:16:44,984 in a mansion in fucking Pasadena, 488 00:16:45,018 --> 00:16:47,904 mumbling occult rituals 489 00:16:47,934 --> 00:16:50,327 while snorting blow 490 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,430 off of his friends' boobs. 491 00:16:52,463 --> 00:16:54,300 And... (Laughs) 492 00:16:54,333 --> 00:16:55,937 It's outstanding. 493 00:16:56,591 --> 00:16:58,307 So, and a fellow shows up 494 00:16:58,341 --> 00:17:00,794 by the name of 495 00:17:00,824 --> 00:17:04,385 L. Ron Hubbard. 496 00:17:04,419 --> 00:17:07,829 He's this sci-fi writer with crazy stories, 497 00:17:07,859 --> 00:17:09,265 he's very charismatic, 498 00:17:09,295 --> 00:17:11,435 and Parsons is like, hey, man, 499 00:17:11,465 --> 00:17:13,168 you're awesome. 500 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,539 Do you have any interest in having sex with my wife? 501 00:17:16,573 --> 00:17:18,311 And Hubbard is like, 502 00:17:18,343 --> 00:17:20,313 Yeah. L. Ron Hubbard 503 00:17:20,348 --> 00:17:25,991 just starts fucking Jack Parsons' wife. 504 00:17:26,024 --> 00:17:27,360 And Jack Parsons is like, 505 00:17:27,392 --> 00:17:29,429 I like you, you're my friend, L. Ron Hubbard. 506 00:17:29,464 --> 00:17:31,467 Let's just have sex and do sex magic 507 00:17:31,501 --> 00:17:33,404 while I, like, blow up rockets! 508 00:17:33,437 --> 00:17:35,741 He's partying so fucking hard. 509 00:17:35,774 --> 00:17:39,046 But then the FBI visit Jack Parsons, 510 00:17:39,081 --> 00:17:41,118 and they're like, Hey, um... 511 00:17:41,150 --> 00:17:44,055 You have military-grade weapons clearance. 512 00:17:44,090 --> 00:17:46,461 You're also into the occult. 513 00:17:46,494 --> 00:17:48,197 You're doing magic spells. 514 00:17:48,230 --> 00:17:50,133 You're going to Communist meetings, 515 00:17:50,167 --> 00:17:51,439 and we've heard that you might want to, like, 516 00:17:51,469 --> 00:17:52,559 sell some of this information 517 00:17:52,589 --> 00:17:54,475 to the Israeli military. 518 00:17:54,509 --> 00:17:56,011 So, uh, 519 00:17:56,045 --> 00:17:58,015 we're going to take away your military clearance, 520 00:17:58,049 --> 00:18:00,319 because you can't fucking do that. 521 00:18:00,681 --> 00:18:01,520 So, 522 00:18:01,553 --> 00:18:03,523 he lost his military clearance. 523 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:05,427 He says to L. Ron Hubbard, 524 00:18:05,462 --> 00:18:06,530 What do we do, man? 525 00:18:06,562 --> 00:18:07,535 We're running out of money. 526 00:18:07,565 --> 00:18:08,760 I don't know what I'm going to do, 527 00:18:08,790 --> 00:18:09,792 and Hubbard is like, 528 00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:11,805 I think I know what you can do. 529 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,341 You... we will start a boat business, 530 00:18:14,371 --> 00:18:16,047 and you will give me 531 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,118 the last of your money, 532 00:18:18,151 --> 00:18:20,421 and I will go to Florida with your wife, 533 00:18:20,455 --> 00:18:21,958 and we will be fine. 534 00:18:21,992 --> 00:18:24,229 And Parsons is... (laughs) is like, okay. 535 00:18:24,263 --> 00:18:26,099 Sure. 536 00:18:26,744 --> 00:18:29,237 I trust you, man. 537 00:18:29,272 --> 00:18:30,875 You're my best friend. 538 00:18:30,907 --> 00:18:33,599 Who couldn't trust someone like you, 539 00:18:33,629 --> 00:18:35,015 L. Ron Hubbard? 540 00:18:35,048 --> 00:18:37,318 (Laughs) 541 00:18:37,351 --> 00:18:40,492 And he gives him $20,000! 542 00:18:43,433 --> 00:18:44,585 I love you so much 543 00:18:44,615 --> 00:18:46,333 I love you too, Derek. 544 00:18:46,615 --> 00:18:48,977 Hubbard goes to Florida with Jack Parsons' wife. 545 00:18:49,007 --> 00:18:50,508 And Parsons is like, 546 00:18:50,542 --> 00:18:52,899 Wait, I haven't heard from L. Ron Hubbard in a few days. 547 00:18:52,929 --> 00:18:55,551 So, he calls L. Ron Hubbard, 548 00:18:55,584 --> 00:18:56,953 What's going on? 549 00:18:56,986 --> 00:18:58,522 Like, what's going on? 550 00:18:58,557 --> 00:19:01,429 Sorry. You fucked up, 551 00:19:01,462 --> 00:19:03,001 and I'm with your wife, 552 00:19:03,031 --> 00:19:04,701 on a boat, going to F... 553 00:19:04,734 --> 00:19:06,705 out of Florida's... wherever Florida is. 554 00:19:06,737 --> 00:19:09,342 And Jack Parsons is like, No. 555 00:19:09,376 --> 00:19:10,444 Fuck that. 556 00:19:10,477 --> 00:19:11,813 I'm a wizard. 557 00:19:11,847 --> 00:19:13,620 I'm a fucking wizard. 558 00:19:14,136 --> 00:19:17,757 And Jack Parsons cast a spell. 559 00:19:17,791 --> 00:19:21,965 Om... 560 00:19:21,999 --> 00:19:26,440 (Mumbles incantation) 561 00:19:26,474 --> 00:19:30,514 (Continues mumbling incantation) 562 00:19:32,925 --> 00:19:34,988 But that's just your interpretation. 563 00:19:35,022 --> 00:19:36,591 Yeah. That's probably the spell 564 00:19:36,625 --> 00:19:38,027 - I would imagine he did. - Yeah. Who knows? 565 00:19:38,057 --> 00:19:39,914 And then it starts... 566 00:19:39,946 --> 00:19:40,946 (Laughter) 567 00:19:46,827 --> 00:19:48,730 Something in that vein. 568 00:19:49,434 --> 00:19:51,667 Oh, check, please. 569 00:19:51,702 --> 00:19:53,142 He called up a storm, 570 00:19:53,172 --> 00:19:56,110 and Hubbard and Betty had to turn around 571 00:19:56,142 --> 00:19:57,377 'cause the storm was too powerful 572 00:19:57,411 --> 00:19:59,248 to proceed. 573 00:19:59,282 --> 00:20:01,797 And L. Ron Hubbard gave him his money back, 574 00:20:01,827 --> 00:20:03,223 but took his wife, 575 00:20:03,255 --> 00:20:06,227 and started a religion called Scientology. 576 00:20:06,613 --> 00:20:08,264 Um... 577 00:20:08,299 --> 00:20:10,135 And then, in a garage, 578 00:20:10,168 --> 00:20:13,441 while experimenting with some explosive chemicals, 579 00:20:13,474 --> 00:20:16,714 he exploded himself in Pasadena, 580 00:20:16,747 --> 00:20:19,418 killing himself. 581 00:20:19,876 --> 00:20:21,326 Is this proof of... 582 00:20:22,857 --> 00:20:25,730 what we love kills us? 583 00:20:26,095 --> 00:20:29,503 No. It's proof that if you're fucking around with 584 00:20:29,536 --> 00:20:31,773 fulminate of mercury, don't drop it. 585 00:20:31,808 --> 00:20:33,644 There's no magical thing here. 586 00:20:33,676 --> 00:20:35,446 Don't do speed and fuck with explosives. 587 00:20:35,481 --> 00:20:37,885 (Laughter) 588 00:20:38,317 --> 00:20:40,889 (Stately music) 589 00:20:40,924 --> 00:20:41,924 ?? 590 00:20:42,467 --> 00:20:48,634 = synced and corrected by Shahrazade = ... www.addic7ed.com ... 591 00:20:50,942 --> 00:20:51,942 ?? 592 00:20:51,992 --> 00:20:56,542 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 42728

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