S7 E2: 100 Seconds to Midnight: Demons and Disease

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an audio drama. I wonder who
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Courtney from Nefarious Nightmare. Now we're
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it. She's new to podcasting,
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Oh and Chris, he's got a
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All right, now we can bring
some old superstitions into twenty twenty three.

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Oh, this is going to be
so much fun. Hello, and welcome

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to Cause of Death one hundred seconds
to midnight. I'm your host, Jackie

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Moranti. For hundreds of years before
germ theory was discovered, people were trying

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to find an explanation for plagues and
pestilence that followed them. As millions succumbed

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to the Black Plague, leprosy,
rabies, and tuberculosis, there was no

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rhyme or reason for the death and
destruction. They didn't understand bacteria, viruses,

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or parasites. Even through the eighteen
hundreds, people thought that disease was

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caused by the wrath of some vengeful
god or a curse from some evil foe.

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Not only that, but they believed
that the people who contracted these diseases

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were possessed of some evil demon.
Those people turned into vampires or were wolves.

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Of course, in twenty twenty three, we don't believe these things anymore.

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Right, It's ninety seconds to midnight, and all over the world,

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demons, vampires, and were wolves
are taking over, and vengeful gods are

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showering us with disease and death.
Homer wrote of the plague of Athens in

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the Iliad. He described an angry
Apollo throwing down invisible arrows from the heavens.

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Apollo first only killed animals, but
as his anger grew, he began

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to throw the arrows at people as
well. This plague killed roughly one hundred

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thousand people, and to this day
we don't know what it was. Hi,

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mom, how are you? You're
not sick right? No, honey,

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I'm fine. I'm just tired.
I've been trying to help the sick

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in the village all day. You
should stay home and stay away from people.

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This will be over soon. You
sound depressed. What happened? I

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know what caused the plague, mom, My husband caused the plague. Homer

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is journaling about it for his book. My husband is going to be known

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as the guy who caused the plague
of Athens. Agamemnon, how did he

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cause a plague that's killing everyone?
I mean, he's allous, and he

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certainly doesn't deserve you. But how
could he cause a plague? Well remember

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that raid he went on with the
Greeks, the one where they plundered all

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those villages outside of Troy. Yeah
that one. Well, in that raid,

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they kidnapped Chris's daughter. Oh no, So Crisis goes to Agamemnon and

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asks him to send her back home. He begged for her to be sent

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home. Do you know what my
no good husband said. I can just

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imagine he told Crises that he should
get out of his sight before he lost

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his temper. Just so I know
who we're talking about. Crisis Apollo's priest,

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the one who built the temple and
preaches every Sunday, Oh, the

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very same. Well, Chrisis goes
to Apollo, and you know how tight

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those two are. He tells Apollo
to rain down hell on the Greeks.

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So now we have a plague.
Achilles and Kelchis are trying to negotiate crises

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daughter's return, but Agamemnon has so
far told them to go pound sand.

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Well, I think you should just
leave them. Come back home. Your

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old room is waiting just the way
you left it. Pack your things and

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get over here. I think it's
time Achilles and Kelchis will get the girl

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back to her father, but Hades
only knows what Agamemnon will do to piss

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the gods off next. In the
eighteen hundreds, Louisiana was experiencing a rabies

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epidemic. Rabies has an extraordinarily long
incubation period. It can lie dormant in

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the body for up to twelve weeks
before the patient shows symptoms. It begins

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with agitation and restlessness, then the
patient can't sleep. People were being struck

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down with fevers. Then they would
complain of headaches. Then they would start

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frothing at the mouth. As the
disease progressed, the animals and the people

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who had contracted it would roam the
towns, growling, saliva dripping from their

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mouths. If some poor soul got
close enough, they would bite them and

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then give them rabies. They would
die soon after exhibiting the worst of the

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neurologic symptoms, but often not before
they bid a new victim. This is

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how the werewolf came into being.
Claire's so good to see you. How

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have you been? Oh, I've
been fantastic. Hey, do you want

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to sit on a cafe patio?
Oh? Yes, it's a beautiful evening.

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So I hear you're moving again,
but I feel like you just got

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here. Yeah, we've only been
here a year, but the rabid werewolves

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are really bad for my anxiety.
Summers here are just miserable because I think

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they're going to come after me.
I can't walk my dog at night because

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I'm so afraid. Oh yeah,
this summer has been especially bad for them.

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They seem to be everywhere. I
had to get some anti werewolf repellent

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at the store and I soaked the
outside of my house. At least they

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only come out at night. Can't
your dog just hold it until morning?

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Most of the time she has to. They're all over my neighborhood, frothing

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at the mouth and howling at the
moon. I feel bad for them since

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they die so quickly, but there's
nothing you can do. Oh, I

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know. It's just terrible. And
there doesn't seem to be a cure for

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it either, No, none that
I know of. It's a shame.

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I knew some of those people before
they turned into were wolves, and they

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were really nice. Wait you knew
them, Yeah, two of them were

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my neighbors. They let their dog
out in the yard one night and it

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got bit by something that it got
sick, and it bit them. Now

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they're wear wolves. I believe that
the man is going to die soon,

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but the woman is just as grally
as ever. So where are you going

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to move to? Oh, we're
moving to Juwett City, Massachusetts. I've

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heard that Massachusetts is nice. It's
cold there, but the autumn is pretty.

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My Facebook friends say that the area
we're moving to is free of tuberculosis

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vampires, so I think it's safe. Tuberculosis vampires those sound worse than rabid

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wear wolves. Are you sure the
area is okay? Yeah, that's what

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my friends tell me. Well,
we might want to go inside. It

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sounds like the were wolves are coming
out early today. The sun barely went

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down. Yeah, let's go.
Hopefully we can get home before they get

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really thick. We're going to take
a quick break to hear from our sponsors.

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Then we'll be back with more demons
and disease. Jewett City, Massachusetts,

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was decimated by tuberculosis in the seventeen
hundreds. More than half of the

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population of the town died of the
disease. The townspeople, in desperation,

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it began to associate tuberculosis with vampirism. Since the disease causes the body to

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waste away and people spit up blood
in the very end stages, the people

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of Jewett City came to believe that
the dead weren't dead at all, They

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were vampires and they were feeding on
those who remained healthy. They chose to

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fight the vampires with the only weapon
they had, superstition. A committee would

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go to the graves of those who
had died of the disease and dig them

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up. Then they would inspect the
bodies. If the body hadn't decomposed and

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there were organs left, they would
take the heart and the liver and burn

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it so that the person couldn't rise
from the dead. If only skeletal remains

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were left, they would inspect the
body for signs of vampirism. If the

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person was voted clean by the committee, they would bury them again, but

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this time they would bury them face
down, just in case. If the

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person were deemed to be one of
the undead, the committee would decapitate the

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skeleton and remove the legs so that
they couldn't rise from the grave. Often,

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they would arrange the bones in a
skull and crossbones pattern to confuse the

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vampires and make sure that they wouldn't
put themselves back together again. Oh honey,

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honey, the vampires are on the
porch again. Damn it. Stuff

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butt Low's was supposed to make them
stay away. I sprayed the crap all

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over the yard, I know,
but they're back. Maybe we need something

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stronger. Well, I can't do
anything about that tonight. We have to

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wait until morning. Then I can
call that pest control guy. Do they

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deal with tuberculos as vampires? And
damn well better? Massachusetts is full of

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them. Why did we move here
from nor New Orleans? Anyway? Well,

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we moved here because they didn't have
rabid were wolves. My Facebook friends

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told me that this part of Massachusetts
was vampire free. Your Facebook friends are

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all probably tuberculosis vampires. You may
be right. I asked Mandy to go

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to lunch with me one day,
and she said she doesn't go out when

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the sun's up. She says it's
bad for her skin. Are we moving

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again? Yes? And this time
I pick where. So far you've gotten

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us rabid were wolves and tuberculosis vampires. Okay, you should probably do it.

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Anyway, I haven't been making very
good choices. Trepanning was practiced in

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the UK, Europe, and Peru. It was based on the belief that

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when someone became ill, it didn't
matter what they had, they were possessed

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by a demon. The doctor would
drill a whole in the patient's skull roughly

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two centimeters in diameter to let the
evil spirit out. Then they would try

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to coax the patient's spirit back in. This was a last resort for treatment.

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First, the doctor would try counterspells
and incantations and ritual prayers to drive

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the demon out, but if that
didn't work, trippanning was on the schedule.

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Several schools with evidence of tripanning have
been found in various grave sites.

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Many of the injuries were healed over, giving rise to the thought that the

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patients lived many years after the procedure
was done. Who knows what their quality

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of life was, but they did
live. Hello, miss Mariante, this

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is doctor Kellman's office. I wanted
to update you on the findings from your

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last visit. Oh, I'm feeling
much better. I think it was just

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a head could well. Doctor Kelman
ran some tests and checked your numerology chart

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and he believes that you're possessed by
a demon? Wait, what do you

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mean that I'm possessed by a demon? I just have a snotty nose and

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a low grade fever. Your test
results are coming back with possession. You

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are a Capricorn? Correct? Yeah, some I'm a Capricorn. But what

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does this stuff to do with anything? What do you mean you're scheduling a

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procedure? What kind of procedure we'd
like to schedule you for Tripanning next Tuesday?

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Trip? What Trip Panning? Trippanning? What the woe of it is

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that? Did he do some kind
of expensive sort of spell or incantation or

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something? My insurance didn't even cover
that. Why do I need this trip?

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Thing? We drill a small hole
in the top of your skull to

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let the demons out, then we
entice your soul to come back in through

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the hole. And yes, he
did a counter spell and performed the normal

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prayers and incantations, but he doesn't
believe that they were effective enough to expel

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the demon. How does he know
the spells didn't work? I feel much

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better. I just have a little
runny nose. You may feel better,

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but demons do work like that.
They trick you into thinking that everything's fine,

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and then you fall into full blown
possession. So explain this again.

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You're going to drill a hole in
the top of my head to let the

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evil spirit out. Then you're going
to try and get my spirit back in.

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Can I get a second opinion before
we schedule this? Of course,

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every patient is entitled to his second
opinion, but your insurance won't cover it.

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You'll have to go out of network. I will gladly go out of

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network and pay extra to get a
second opinion on this. In thirteen forty

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eight, King Philip the fourth of
France was desperate to find the cause of

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the black plague. It had spread
across France, causing the deaths of more

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than twenty million people. He brought
together forty nine of the greatest medical minds

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that he could find at the University
of Paris, and they got together to

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write the Paris Concilium. The document
stated that man may never know the cause

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of the plague, since it was
beyond his comprehension. The king didn't leave

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that lying for a minute, so
they got together and offered a few more

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suggestions. They of course, blamed
the wrath of God first. Then they

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moved on to a celestial cause,
the conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and

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Mars, with a little lunar eclipse
thrown in for good measure. Add this

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to torrential winds and earthquakes, and
you have a noxious mass of gases in

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the air that killed people across Europe. The Concilium was one of the greatest

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medical works of the time and quoted
several other scholars, Aristotle, Hippocrates,

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Albertus Magnus, But in the end
they didn't know what caused the plague.

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It came and it went so CJ. The king once the report on the

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Black Death, and I have no
idea what's causing it? Do you?

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Nope? I got nothing. Well, we have to come up with something

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and have a report typed up before
the end of the week. The crystal

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ball thing isn't going to work for
this one. He knows that's bs.

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I tried to tell him that people
weren't smart enough to understand the nature of

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the illness, but he wasn't buying
that either. Wait, I have an

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idea astrology. The King doesn't know
anything about that. Yeah, but we

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know enough to be dangerous. This
just might work, Okay, So let's

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start with a conjunction of three planets. That's always bad. Yeah, yeah,

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let's use Saturn, Mars, and
Jupiter. They're scary good. Good.

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Then let's add into lunar eclipse that
happened last week too. Perfect.

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How about something like this When we
look at the works of Albertus, Magnus

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and Aristotle, they claim that Jupiter
is wet and hot, and this phenomenon

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draws up evil vapors from the Earth. Since Mars is known to be hot

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and dry, it ignites the vapors
and that causes lightning, sparks, with

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noxious vapors and sparks flying all around. That's what caused the lunar eclipse too.

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Saturn caused the wind to blow and
that spread the vapors even farther,

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so everyone got sick and dyed.
I think you need to work on that

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phrasing a little, but I'll bet
the King will buy it. Yeah,

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I'll make it sound like an annual
report. I'll add some stats, show

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him some graphs. This should work. We are only now beginning to recover

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from the COVID nineteen pandemic, and
still, even as medical science has been

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able to create vaccines and cures and
germ theory is well known. People are

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still talking about some unknown demon who
plagues the earth. I live in Missouri.

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Now there are no tuberculosis, vampires
or rabid werewolves here. It seems

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so safe. I was out walking
my dog this morning before the sun came

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up. She always has to go
before the sun comes up. We were

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walking through the field behind my house
when a man approached. He was dressed

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all in black, and he was
riding a huge white horse. He rode

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very close to me. I could
feel the hot breath of the horse on

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my face. It looked almost skeletal, and it had glowing red eyes.

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I backed up, trying to create
some distance between us. Sweepy started to

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bark, and I quieted her as
quickly as I could. I stood looking

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at the man, not quite knowing
what to do, but prepared to fight

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if I had to. He stared
back at me, and then he spoke.

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The voice came more from his soul
than his mouth. Oh, and

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the first of the horseman, the
pale rider, You might call me pestilence,

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and the first of four. The
others are war, famine, and

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death. It's ninety seconds to midnight, and there is nowhere that you can

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go to escape us. We will
cover the land and follow mankind wherever he

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goes. Then he just disappeared.
He kind of vaporized. I went back

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home and when I got there,
I gave the peace some food. Then

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we sat on the couch a minute. As I was hugging my dog,

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I whispered, Pee, I think
we have a problem. Wait did that

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guy use my line? He used
my line, my ninety seconds to midnight

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line. Is there something I can
do about that? Is that my intellectual

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property? I need to call a
lawyer. I want to thank DJ of

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Mythical True Crime, Courtney of Nefarious
Nightmare, CJ of Beyond the Rainbow,

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Crimes of the LGBTQ, Jessica,
my daughter and co host of Diving Into

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Unsolved History, Chris Chacone of the
Voice of Choice, and my amazing friend

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Claire for lending me their voices so
I could do this show. I hope

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you all enjoyed it. I can
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the best way to contact me is
through my website at www dot cause of

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Death one hundred, sex dot net, or at my email at Jackie at

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cause of Death one hundred sex dot
net. The links for Mythical True Crime,

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Nefarious Nightmare, and Beyond the Rainbow
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I encourage you to support those shows
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links to those are in the show
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for further reading on how disease has
been demonized throughout history. And remember that

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unless you stay home and become a
total hermit, you'll never get away from

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the pale writer. Happy Halloween.