SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Welcome to the Kooks, Cranks, and Iconoclasts 222nd Episode Extravaganza! WITH EXTRA VAGANZA! AAAAAANNNNNNND! A SPECIAL GUEST! It's my little brother, Matt a.k.a. Jonas a.k.a. "MR. NASTY!" And this episode is potentially the first in a possible intermittent new side series covering WEIRD WORLD WAR 2! This one covers the mystery of Hitler's missing testicle (and a whole host of other Nazi related weird sex stuff...shudder inducing stuff!) That and Foo Fighters, "Wunderwaffen", and all kinds of other historically accurate stuff! PRODUCTION NOTE! We only have one mic and had to share it so some of the audio is a bit shite. I tried to clean it up as best I could and had to cut quite a bit of material, but there's still some dips and dives and a lotta hard P's a' poppin'! A thousand pardons and apologies! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES: the internet

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SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOO! This episode puts a nice little bow on top of the Occult History of Money episodes. It's all about old timey occult treasure hunting, the rituals, the spooky spirit guardians, the corpses of saints, and the goddamn GOLD! GOOOOLD GODDAMNIT! GOSHDARN GOLD GODDAMNIT! HOOOO! I'm having fun! Also, we take a quick side step in order to cover the concept of "treasure weapons", ya know, magic swords from legend & real life, it's pretty berzerkowitz y'all! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

Johannes Dillinger, Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America (2012)

Beowulf, esp. the Hrunting, Nægling and giant-sword episodes and the Last Survivor's speech, ll. 2231–70

The Song of Roland, laisses 173–74 (Durendal, Joyeuse, the reliquary hilts, Roland's attempt to break the sword)

Cantar de Mio Cid (Tizona, Colada)

Völsunga saga, chs. 3–8, 21 (the sword in the oak; Gram; the reforging; Fafnir; Gram on the pyre)

Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Tyrfing; Hervör at the mound)

Hrólfs saga kraka (Skofnung; Ganga-Hrólf in Hrólf's mound); Kormáks saga (Skofnung's terms and the pommel stone)

Grettis saga, ch. 18 (Kárr's mound, Kársnautr)

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (Caliburn); Robert de Boron, Merlin (sword in the anvil); Queste del Saint Graal (the Sword with the Strange Belt); Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur

Cath Maige Tuired (the Sword of Nuada; the Four Treasures); Culhwch and Olwen and the Triad Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain, in R. Bromwich (ed.), Trioedd Ynys Prydein (3rd edn, 2006)

Gerald of Wales and the Welsh/Latin Vita Galgani for the Montesiepi sword; Bromwich for Dyrnwyn

Herodotus, Histories 4.5–7 and 4.62 (the Scythian sacred gold; the sword set up as Ares)

Jordanes, Getica 35, citing Priscus (the Sword of Mars found by a herdsman)

Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (Kusanagi from the serpent's tail; the regalia; the sword at Dan-no-ura)

The Will of Æthelstan Ætheling (1015), in D. Whitelock (ed.), English Historical Documents c. 500–1042

Joan of Arc's trial record on the Fierbois sword — trans. in R. Pernoud, Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

Kevin Leahy & Roger Bland, The Staffordshire Hoard (2014); Chris Fern et al., The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure (2019)

Rupert Bruce-Mitford, The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, vol. 2 (1978)

Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England (1962)

Jan Petersen, De Norske Vikingesverd (1919)

Alan Williams, "A Metallurgical Study of Some Viking Swords," Gladius 29 (2009)

Richard Bradley, The Passage of Arms (1990)

"Haugbrot," Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, vol. 14

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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! MY BRAIN IS OFFICIALLY DEEP... FEKKIN'...FRIED! This one's heavy on the history of gold, heavy on history in general! Then, at the end, we examine money as an egregore, goetic demon "dark loops", algorithmic occult economics, and the quack new age feel goodery of watered down chaos magick paperback "get rich quick!" schemery meets the blasphemous scourge that is called..."prosperity gospel"! Blab it & grab it! PLEASE TO ENJOY! (Also...NOW GIMME SOME CANDYYYY!...I mean MONEYYYY!)

P.S. You can't really tell because it's in B&W, but the corpse in the thumbnail is covered in gold. YOU WIN MOTHERFUCKER!

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SOURCES:

- Heiliges Geld ("Sacred Money") by Bernhard Laum (1924)

- Financial Vipers of Venice (2010) and Babylon's Banksters (2009) by Joseph P. Farrell

- Solomon's Treasure (2011) and Money Grows on The Tree of Knowledge (2010) by Tracy Twyman

- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein (2011)

- The Lost Science of Money by Stephen Zarlenga (2002)

- The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein (2000)

- The Gift by Marcel Mauss (1925)

- The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker (2016–2018)

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