A Day We Will Forget

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[00:00:23] Hi and welcome to Fall Asleep with Henrik. I'm Henrik and you're sleepy and it is what it is. What happens, happens. And right now there is nothing we can do about it. So let's begin.

[00:00:45] Hi Sleepy. So it's that time again when I am here to talk you into sleep. As usual, you don't have to listen to what I actually say, although it's not prohibited. It's totally fine if you want to spend some time with me.

[00:01:13] I'm not going to try to be hypnotically boring or, for that matter, enthusiastically interesting and, yeah, good with words. As you can imagine, I am not from your average English-speaking country. I'm from Sweden. I'm right now in my apartment in Stockholm.

[00:01:41] I'm sitting in this quite comfortable sofa, although I believe that as far as sofa goes, if there's a scale that you can put sofas on, like the Richter scale.

[00:02:01] But for sofas, this sofa is, well, it's a 5, I guess, on a scale from 1 to 10. And, yeah, that's pretty much it.

[00:02:20] I am right now of great health. Well, great, I don't know. This time of year, I feel so tired. How about you? In Sweden, these months are the darkest. Well, it's getting brighter, everyone tells me.

[00:02:44] Don't give me that sour face. The days are getting longer. Sun is setting later and later. Well, it still, it doesn't suffice.

[00:02:55] For me, I'm only really, truly biologically happy whenever there's, like, a bearable temperature outside and daylight for at least eight hours a day. And the darkness and the cold really makes me tired and miserable most of the time.

[00:03:26] I'm going down from my apartment down to the street and in the elevator, there's this huge mirror. And whenever I enter that, I tell myself not to look in the mirror. Please, Henrik, my inner voice urges me, please, Henrik, don't look in the mirror. Don't look at your own face. You know what will happen. You know what you will start to feel.

[00:03:56] You know that it will just ruin your, the start of your day. Nevertheless, there's nothing else to look at in the elevator. I could always look at my phone, but, you know, I'm trying not to always look at my phone also. And so it's like I'm getting stuck between the rock. Like, the rock.

[00:04:26] Not, not a rock, but the rock. The actor, fighter, bodybuilder. I don't really know what his current title is. Dwayne Johnson. Being stuck between Dwayne Johnson and a hard place. A hard place being like the mirror. With the mirror's unstoppable, undisputable facts about me and what I look like.

[00:04:56] And this time of year, my face looks like... Well, I don't want to be mean to myself, but... It looks like... A mix between Winston Churchill and Winston Churchill's... Bum. You know? It looks like a mix between Winston Churchill's face and his ass.

[00:05:24] And I'm not saying that to bash on Winston Churchill, because I'm sure he had a beautiful, beautiful ass. But it's... You know, it's the mix, you know? So nothing good can come of the mix between an ass and a face. It doesn't matter how beautiful either the face or the ass.

[00:05:51] And in Winston Churchill's case, that is most certainly the truth in an objective sense. So this is a day that we will forget. A day in January 2025. I was about to say 1925. But that's a year that is currently 100 years away from us.

[00:06:21] And it's still... Well, I don't know. I don't know about you, Sleepy, but I have never been to the year 1925. So I don't really know that it exists. Of course, you and I, we have to agree. I mean, we have to agree that in many instances, the year 1925 almost certainly have existed. We can tell because there is a now.

[00:06:53] And if we backtrack our now, we will automatically reach 1925. So mathematically, it is impossible for the year 1925 not to have existed. Although one can argue about the past if it's really a thing.

[00:07:18] Is the past really something worth taking serious other than as a guide, you know, for future endeavors? Isn't the past really as soon as something becomes past?

[00:07:40] Isn't it of great value to us to, at least in many senses, just let it go, you know? I'm sitting right here right now and I'm feeling this emerging urge to just let go of so much of the past. Oh God, I'm sorry.

[00:08:07] I just, I became a little emotional. It took me by surprise. I'm sorry. Yeah, as some of you know, I'm going through a very intense phase in my life. I told you about this last week and I'm not going to indulge myself in that anymore, but it's very intense.

[00:08:35] And today was a specifically intense day, especially intense day. But regardless of that, this will be a day that I will forget. This will be just another day of my days. I'm serious.

[00:09:03] The probability of me remembering this particular day, even though I'm recording at the moment, is very low.

[00:09:16] So the probability of my forgetfulness about this, these events, this particular day, what I wore, what I ate, what I said, what I did. So just for the sake of it, I'm going to tell you what I did so far today.

[00:09:43] Now, today the time is 12.42 in the afternoon. So I just had lunch and I ate crepes with shrimps and some cottage cheese and some tomatoes. And I drank water. And after I'm done with this, I'm going to have coffee.

[00:10:10] And I'm going to pour milk in the coffee because that's how I like it. And before I had lunch, I got away with some, did away with some company work, like receipts and tax things. And also I paid some bills and I went shopping.

[00:10:39] And I bought chicken and noodles and like fast noodles because my daughter really loves them. And she also loves chicken, chicken fast noodles. That's sort of her favorite food.

[00:11:00] If you, if you don't count the Swedish, very boring version of tacos, because I just hate Swedish tacos. I don't have anything against like real Mexican food or even for that matter, restaurant based tacos.

[00:11:19] But when you go into the supermarket and you buy these weirdly specific sounding taco things, which are, it's not tacos. I'm not Mexican, but I know that that's not tacos in any common sense, in any common area. Anyway, so that's what I did.

[00:11:50] And now I'm sitting here recording and I'm talking about a day that I will forget. Although I've mentioned all of these things. Isn't it cool, sleepy to think about the past? Because whenever we think about the past, we think of it in terms of what's being written into the history books.

[00:12:11] And every time we're trying to paint some historic passage of time, whether it be on like a specific topic or subject, like the Battle of Hastings or something. Or if it's just the scenery, the font that is the, this is a human story, but it happens to take place in the 17th century.

[00:12:41] But every time you try to paint a picture of another century, another decade, especially far back in time, we tend to be very dramatic and serious. And what do you call it? Chivalry? We talk like in a very chivalry manner.

[00:13:03] Like we, we think that everybody was like, yeah, we portray the historical images, which of course has been written and shaped by people who had certain interests in telling these types of stories.

[00:13:22] I mean, it's almost impossible to wrap my head around the fact that if I were to travel back in time into like the 14th century, I would meet people just like me. I mean, they would use different words, but they wouldn't talk like something out of the Lord of the Rings, you know?

[00:13:50] They wouldn't talk like they do in historical cinema, like movies portraying the past. They wouldn't talk like in this very, you know, stoic manner, this polite, high schooled language.

[00:14:11] And have you ever noticed that at least English speaking films and TV shows about the past, whenever you meet a poor person, they speak like this old English slang, like some sort of a cockney. Well, maybe not cockney dialect, but I don't know the words for it, but it's a, it's a, it's a sloppy sort of made up dialect.

[00:14:40] I don't know. Maybe it's real. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't want to offend you. I don't know anything, but it's, it's weird that we, I mean, we couldn't, we could, we can never know how they spoke in the past, how they pronounced words or exactly how they behaved in normal life.

[00:15:05] And I, I sometimes enjoy myself with thinking about ordinary, boring, random stuff that happened to historic people in the past.

[00:15:17] Like Napoleon, at one point, Napoleon, he mismatched, well, he happened to go out in like an exercise with his regiment wearing mismatched socks.

[00:15:42] It was a brisk winter morning and Napoleon Bonaparte, he ruffled through his trunks and various devices for storing socks.

[00:16:02] Nobody really knows this, but Napoleon Bonaparte had like these vast library of different devices for storing his socks. But because some of them were embroidered with lilies and flowers and images of himself doing all sorts of acrobatics. And some of his socks were just plain black.

[00:16:25] And in this particular moment, he couldn't find a matching black sock or a matching embroidered sock. So he, he just, yeah, he wore one black and one embroidered. And then he just, because he was in a hurry. So he just put on his boots. And of course, since he was wearing boots, nobody noticed anyway.

[00:16:54] Or rather, didn't Napoleon have like knee socks? Or is it too late in history for knee socks? I'm trying to visualize him. I can only see him with like these yellow pants and a blue coat. Is that true, a true image? Or is it just something I made up?

[00:17:25] So this was fun. Okay, so this is, I'm going to, today in this episode, I'm going to talk about ordinary, random, boring things that happened to prominent people in the past. Okay? And you don't have to listen. You can just, as usual, just tune out, fade away. Or you can listen and be very engaged in what I tell you. It doesn't matter really.

[00:17:56] Look, think of me as your companion for the time being. No strings attached. So, okay, so now I have to come up with prominent people in the past. Okay, so some of these people I don't know anything about. Let me just put it out there in advance.

[00:18:22] I'm not a professor in history. But I'm going to just say different names and let's see what comes out of it. So, Cleopatra, the Egyptian, well, she was, is it fair to say that she was a queen?

[00:18:47] And while preparing for a meeting with some minor ambassadors, she had this very precious bone pin in her braided hair. And she lost it. She had it. And then the next time she checked it, it was gone. And she was in a hurry.

[00:19:14] But she spent several minutes, like, patting her head. Like, you would if you had lost your hair pin. And if you had, like, a lot of hair, you would pat your hair, wouldn't you? Just to find it. Because it could be anywhere in these waves, in this ocean of hair on Cleopatra's head. Her head turning in front of the mirror.

[00:19:45] And she became, like, truly annoyed. And at the time, she was alone in her chamber. Otherwise, she would have, like, some servants there. But at that time, she was alone.

[00:19:59] And she, well, she managed to call upon different evil-spirited deities before she turned around and discovered that the needle was pinned to her, well, in lack of a better word, bottom underneath her dress. She had been sitting on it. And then she, yeah, she went to her meeting with the ambassadors.

[00:20:31] And that's just it. There's no moral to these stories. There's no, well, maybe finding her. No, but this happens to people, you know? So there's no sense moral. Maybe there's a little funny thing about her sitting on it. Maybe that's somewhat of a twist. Maybe that's a twist. But most of these stories don't have, like, a twist. Most of these stories aren't even stories. They're just events taking place.

[00:21:01] And the only person in history that knew that this specific event had occurred was Cleopatra herself. And she never told anyone, because why would she? Walking out into the meeting, I'm sorry I'm late. I had an issue finding my pin needle. And I patted my head for about 15 minutes. And then I discovered that I've been sitting on it. Isn't that funny?

[00:21:30] Now let's talk about peace between our two nations. Maybe that's not. No, she never mentioned it. So she took that event with her to the grave. It gives me, like, goosebumps to think about Cleopatra having totally private moments in her lifetime. As I am right now.

[00:21:58] Although by the time you will listen to this, it won't be private anymore. It will be your experience as well. And that's kind of nice also. But you and I and everyone who is alive or who has been alive or who will be born and be alive in the future will have these experiences in life that we never share with anyone. And nor should we. I mean, why?

[00:22:26] Why would you share that you hit your toe on your way out and it wasn't that big of a deal? The pain wasn't excruciating. It was just, ah, goddammit. You know? Or that you for one second you forgot which floor your apartment was on.

[00:22:50] Since I'm new in this building where I live now, I've been, like, going up and down several times moving furniture. And I keep forgetting the floor. And there's also, like, different houses. And I have this storage in another house. So I need to change building and then go up that elevator. And then sometimes I just forget in which house I am in, in which house I am.

[00:23:20] So Leonardo da Vinci, you know, the inventor slash artist slash whatever else. He was a renaissance man.

[00:23:38] When I was younger, I was carrying the name renaissance man very proudly. Someone said that to me when I was younger. You're such a renaissance man, they said. And I were so proud. I don't really know why because nobody else seemed to take that word very seriously.

[00:24:08] But I did. And Leonardo da Vinci, like, he was from this little town called Vinci in Italy. That's why his name is Leonardo da Vinci, in case you didn't know. So Leonardo da Vinci, he had this small jar of diluted paint.

[00:24:37] And it was at the corner of this great wooden table that he had in his house. And one morning, he was deep in thought. And he leans, he leaned on the table. And then he soaked his sleeve in the bucket of diluted paint.

[00:25:02] And the rest of the afternoon, he was, well, he was mildly, mildly irritated by the clammy fabric of his sleeve clinging to his skin. And that's just it, you know. So it's like when you have bitten yourself on the inside of your lip. I tend to do that every night.

[00:25:30] Well, not that serious. But every night, I get this little spasm in my jaw. I think it's when I'm about to fall asleep. And then it happens sometimes that I bite myself. And then the next morning, I have this little itch, you know. This little, I'm a little tender on the inside of my lip. And it's not a big annoyance. It's just, it's an annoyance, you know.

[00:26:00] That type of annoyance Leonardo had that particular day in Vinci in Italy. Midway through a particularly mundane strategy meeting. Joan of Arc.

[00:26:29] I always have a problem with Joan of Arc because it's, I know that's how you pronounce it, how you say it. But in Sweden, we say it in French. Joan of Arc. We wouldn't say Joan of Arc, even in Swedish. Which in Swedish, it would be like Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc.

[00:26:58] Or Arcens Joan. Which is, well, not very fairly translated. But anyway. We say Jean d'Arc. So I always get this brain freeze every time I am going to speak about Joan of Arc, which I constantly do. I mean, who wouldn't?

[00:27:22] Do you remember this thing about every man in the world thinking about the Roman Empire several times a day? Well, I never do. I never think about the Roman Empire. I haven't really thought about the Roman Empire in any real way, I think, ever. Maybe when I was in Rome, maybe I thought about the Roman Empire.

[00:27:51] And also, yeah, I actually have been thinking about the Roman Empire because I'm a bit interested in like the passage of time that we call the Viking Age here in Scandinavia. And I'm a bit interested in like, yeah, as this, you know, everyday life, random stuff that

[00:28:16] could have happened to someone random, not important in any historical sense, living like at that time. And of course, the Roman Empire was a big influence in these early Scandinavians' lives. So maybe that is the thing, the joke, the pun here was that there is no pun, but I was going

[00:28:41] to say, I was going to lie to you, Sleepy, and say that I think about Joan of Arc several times a day. But it's true in that sense that I actually think about Joan of Arc more than I think about the Roman Empire, which is, I mean, it's a, that's a big thing to say because the Roman Empire spans hundreds of years.

[00:29:06] And, and Joan of Arc was young when she was burned. And, um, yeah, it's a fascinating life. The thing that I, the things, the little things that I know about her, but this is about this particular little thing.

[00:29:29] She was in this strategy meeting and in the middle of this meeting, she discreetly tried to scratch an itchy spot on her shoulder beneath that because she had a chain mail, chain mail on.

[00:29:51] And as many of you know, having been, having been avid chain mail wearers yourself, you know that whenever there's a scratch beneath, beneath a particular part of the chain mail, you can't really scratch it.

[00:30:14] And that's a very interesting, irritating thing because as so common, the, the itch in this particular case refused to abate.

[00:30:26] So she did this little shuffle, adjusting her armor, but the itch, the itch remained relentless and rode her into the night. And now I'm going to talk about Genghis Khan.

[00:30:56] Is it correct pronunciation? Genghis, or do you say Genghis? Genghis Khan, after his men assembled a new wooden platform for him to stand on during urination? I don't know why. They, he wanted a platform to urinate from.

[00:31:24] And I mean, his men were there for one reason and one reason only, and that is to just fulfill the needs of their, their commander. You know, so Genghis said, build me a new peeing platform. And they did. And he, they were done. And Genghis Khan leaned on a freshly cut railing. And then he got a splinter in the palm of his right hand.

[00:31:53] And then he went to this servant that, whose sore soul, whose sole responsibility was to remove splinters from Genghis Khan's right hand. He had one for the left hand as well, but he was on vacation, which was a good thing because now the splinter was in his right hand.

[00:32:21] So that happened, you know, there was this moment back at Mount Vernon one early morning

[00:32:46] when the cook or whomever was in charge of breakfast that day, he, he over toasted Washington's bread. I'm talking about George Washington.

[00:33:14] So his breakfast bread was slightly burned, but instead of complaining, George silently scraped the burned edges off with a knife, leaving crumbs scattered across the table, leaving it for the staff.

[00:33:43] And he went along with the rest of his day. Now this happened and no one remembers it. This is a, an erased event. Is it true sleepy that you can't erase information?

[00:34:07] So that is probably true, but at the same time, you can't, if you can't erase information, you can at least change information. Like you can change energy, you know? So for instance, if I, you can't see me right now, but I'm holding my hand, my right hand in front of me, palm facing my face.

[00:34:36] And if I, I have all my five fingers spread out, but if I just clinch my fist, then now, okay. So my open hand is what is information. It's information about an open hand among other things. And if I clinch my hand, then there's information about a closed hand and the information about

[00:35:01] the open hand is not, you know, it's not relevant anymore. So in one sense, that information is gone. Although it's not gone because I'm talking about it, but the energy and the information about my hand has changed from an open fist to a closed one. Okay. Questions?

[00:35:28] Please discuss in small groups and report back to me by the end of the day.

[00:35:37] One day in his, in her, in her bashing chamber at the French court, Marie Antoinette fumbled and dropped her silver spoon, spoon, and dropped her silver spoon on the floor.

[00:36:08] And she, of course, were too dignified to bend down picking it up. So she waited awkwardly for one of her lady in waiting to retrieve it.

[00:36:38] And none, no one reacted to that. I mean, of course, Marie Antoinette wouldn't be able to pick something up herself. Or, well, if, if she were able, she wouldn't do it anyway, because my God, you know, she's, she's a blue blood.

[00:37:09] What's, what's the earliest historical person I can think about that has actually existed? Like I could go there with Adam and Eve, but they, I mean, let's just face it. They weren't real people in that sense. They were, I mean, I could say that, right? I mean, I won't get into any trouble for saying that.

[00:37:36] I mean, it's not historical facts. And even as, even if you were a religious, even if you are a religious person, you must admit that these stories about Adam and Eve, I mean, they are images and stories.

[00:37:59] And I don't, I'm not saying that they don't contain the word of God or anything. It's up to everyone to believe whatever they believe. And I come from a Christian background myself, so I, I'm not going to bash on that, but we, don't we really all, at least every, almost every one of us agree that they were, there were

[00:38:24] never two people that were actually called Adam and Eve living in paradise, you know? I mean, of course you could look at them as symbols of sorts, but okay. So I'm, I digress. I was going to think about early historic Aristotle, Aristotle. Aristotle.

[00:38:50] So he was deep in thought and because he was with his students and he was explaining to them the essence of being, imagine sitting there listening to Aristotle, explaining the essence of being to you.

[00:39:16] I mean, you're, you're, you're chosen, you're chosen to, to, to be the one sitting there among your peers. And I mean, at that time, you don't care that this is a deeply unfair system that calls itself democracy, but it's really a system of highborn men. But anyway, I, I digress yet again.

[00:39:45] Sorry, sleepy, you don't deserve this. You deserve something better. You deserve like a real sleep guru that tells you that everything will be fine. Not this self-proclaimed fool. Better to be a self-proclaimed fool than a self-proclaimed savior, if you ask me.

[00:40:11] Anyway, as Aristotle stood there in the Lyceum, he, he held this scroll and I, I believe that the scroll in some small way was dust covered and it wasn't noticeable, but he, he inhaled

[00:40:37] some of the dust and then he felt this sudden urge to sneeze and that urge overtook him and he dropped the scroll and his words failed. And for a moment in that particular room, the unstoppable sneeze was everything. The unstoppable sneeze was the only reality in the room.

[00:41:06] Like the reality of Aristotle's unstoppable sneeze overtook all other realities. Have you ever experienced that, sleepy?

[00:41:21] That whenever, when, like often the realities are like coexisting, you think something, you do something, someone else says something, then something happens, you know? So there are a multitude of realities coinciding at the same time.

[00:41:50] Have you ever experienced an event where all realities, you know, just melted together or rather being taken over by one particular reality? Like in this case, Aristotle's sneeze. It was so powerful that it overtook because he already had focus, you know, he was already

[00:42:16] in the center of attention and he said like marvelous words, you know, people were hanging on to him. Like he said, he's every word watching his every breath. The whole room was at his will, whim. And then he sneezed and it was almost like this crescendo of his theses. It was a lovely moment and nobody remembers it.

[00:42:44] Nobody alive or dead today remembers it. Rushing to attend. Consul, Queen Elizabeth I felt her stocking twisting around her ankle inside her shoe.

[00:43:13] Has that ever happened to you, sleepy? It happens to me a lot. When I was a kid, it happened like every day. You're out in the snow and you have like snow boots on. Well, not snow boots. That sounds very particular. Well, winter shoes. And you play in the snow and your stocking, what do you call it?

[00:43:40] Your sock just twists in your own shoe. So when you come home, the stocking is at the end of your toes, twisted out of proportion. So Elizabeth I, she tried to adjust it without having to take it all off, you know, disrobing.

[00:44:05] But she ended up just accepting that this was twisted out of proportion and that she needed to deal with it at a later time.

[00:44:18] At one particular hour in the middle of the night, Galileo Galileo, the famous astronomer who were imprisoned for his rude thesis about the world being around.

[00:44:48] I think he, he had just been making some truly crucial telescopes or telescopes, telescope observations. And he was ready to jot down his own observations and he couldn't find his, what do you call it?

[00:45:17] The thing that you write with in these times, is it a quill, a feather? And he couldn't find it. So he had to memorize it and he couldn't. So he forgot about it and he had to retake the observation and the following notes the day, the night after.

[00:45:46] Okay, so think about this. Okay, so now we will go back. We will do it like in present tense.

[00:45:53] So on a breezy, kind of dark Illinois afternoon, Abraham Lincoln, younger Abraham Lincoln, struggles to open a window jammed by humidity.

[00:46:25] The humidity of the, of Illinois. Well, he pushed and he tries to prop it up with a small wedge of sorts. But after like two minutes, he gives up. And then he says a swear word.

[00:46:51] And we don't know what that swear word was because he was by himself. One time, well, it was actually before that other thing happened, but not before that thing happened. That was before.

[00:47:21] So Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, he, he, well, he was adjusting like some mechanism in his workshop. And he loosed one of the tiny screws from the device and it fell onto the cluttered floor beneath.

[00:47:43] And he got on his hands and knees and he was raving around down there for like five minutes before he found it again. And he was very relieved because without that screw, the device itself wouldn't have worked. Do you want to know about Queen Victoria?

[00:48:12] She's so fascinating to me, by the way. I mean, her whole life, like dressed in the colors of sorrow. She lost her husband, like very young, the king. And then she just lived in sorrow for the rest of her remaining years as a queen, as the queen of England.

[00:48:32] And I mean, there's, isn't she the reason they call it the Victorian age? And I mean, so many fictional works come from that, with inspiration from that type of environment. London in the 1800s.

[00:48:54] I think she's such a, I mean, she's a symbol of like a time period where, you know, the industrialists, yeah, factories and stuff, they had started to rule the world.

[00:49:17] You know, people worked like, the common man worked from like 24-7, seven days a week. And they died of pneumonia or being hit with a chimney, a falling metal beam in their head at 35. And by that time, they had like 16 children or something.

[00:49:46] And yeah, the women gave birth many times. And same as the factory guys, they died at like 20, 35 or something. And people still had stuff like cholera because they didn't know about bacterium. And they had arsenic and phosphor and sulfate and stuff in everything. And lead, they poisoned themselves with lead.

[00:50:15] And they didn't know anything, but still they had like steam engines and stuff. And blimps. And it's a fascinating era. And Queen Victoria is sort of a symbol. She was also the queen for a long time. And. Because she became old. And there was this drizzly London day.

[00:50:43] And Queen Victoria's umbrella, the latch, refused to lock open. She stared at it with hatred. Until the footman carefully fixed it by giving her another umbrella. Punishing the old, dysfunctional umbrella by throwing it at. And a nearby factory worker.

[00:51:11] Who was just doing his job. Picking up umbrellas. Taking a quick break from painting. Painting. Not panting. But he was panting also. This was Michelangelo.

[00:51:38] He was taking a break from painting the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo. And Michelangelo sat down on a, well, as it turned out, a very wobbly stool. It squeaked and creaked with every shift of his weight. Prompting him to place a folded rag under one leg.

[00:52:07] And, as it turned out, futile attempt to balance it. The only thing that really happened was that he got, well, he sort of stretched his back while doing so. Because he had been laying on his back under the roof all day. Can you imagine doing that type of roof paintings like for years at end? Lying on your back.

[00:52:35] On like construction stuff. Looking at the thing that you're painting. Like this small portion of it. Like this, the thing that's going to be a huge painting. Like the angel Gabriel's or Michael's eye.

[00:53:01] Or part of his finger for six hours. And then going down having to fix the broken chair. Yeah, he was annoyed. He was annoyed to say the least. As a matter of fact, he punished this stray cat when he went down and went home that night. He punished the cat because the cat got in his way. And he just threw out his foot trying to kick the cat.

[00:53:30] Punishing it for his own sore back. But the cat, of course, were so much faster than him. So he missed. And that added even more bitterness and resentment into his broken black heart. Sorry. I'm sorry. That was like an attack on Michelangelo. I, I, I, it wasn't my attempt to do that.

[00:53:57] Although I find it, find it kind of funny to. Unprovoked, just attack. You know, fictional. Well, they're not fictional, but they're historic. And I don't think he mind. I don't think he'd mind. Well, he would if we were alive, of course, but he's not. So, you know, you've got to give me the benefit of a doubt, Sleepy. I don't really know what I'm talking about.

[00:54:38] Traveling the Silk Road, Marco Polo, or fighting with his restless camel, that keep, keep, he, it was keep, it keep on adjusting its own footing on uneven sand and swayed awkwardly.

[00:55:05] And that was, of course, a very bumpy ride for Marco Polo. And he, at one time, he hit the camel in the back of the head with his palm, open palm. And the camel, of course, being a camel, didn't take that very well. And so that was the end of that particular relationship. And Marco Polo had to walk for at least 16 miles before he got another camel.

[00:55:34] At one particular hour, just before he were to inspect his own backside, because some future podcaster would resemble his own Asian face, to a mix between Winston Churchill's face and his bottom.

[00:56:02] Winston Churchill himself went into a private room for his afternoon tea. And he accidentally tipped his cup, sending just a few drops slashing into his saucer.

[00:56:23] And he gave up a resigned sigh and dabbed at the puddle of tea using his embroidered handkerchief. Handkerchief, sorry, handkerchief. I don't know what that is. But that didn't do anything. The only thing that happened was that he needed to get another handkerchief. Handkerchief, that's a very hard word.

[00:56:56] That was, regardless, one of the first words I learned in English when I was nine. And we started learning English in school. I learned the word handkerchief. But I remember it in some portions of my mind. I remember the word being handkerchief. Like with a lisp at the end.

[00:57:23] But it's, I know that's probably not the case. I remember it in this sentence. A big black dog and a little black dog and a big brown bag and a little brown bag. And a big black cat and a little black cat and a little white mouse on a hanky. That's my, I wonder what. This is 1984.

[00:57:52] And I can't really understand why the teachers at my school or the people writing that English book thought that that particular rhyme were to be important for me in the future. Okay, so maybe I will earn some money from this episode. And then you could say that that knowledge gave me money.

[00:58:22] Well, you never know when you're learning stuff, do you? What you're going to need in the future. So Harriet Tubman, she once missed a step late at night.

[00:58:41] But he, he, she was quietly descending the stairs in one of her safe houses thinking about the next route north. She always thought about routes. Harriet Tubman. And her foot slipped on the edge of one of the steps. And for a moment she clutched the railing, heart pounding.

[00:59:08] The story about Harriet Tubman and her humanitarian efforts could have stopped there early in her career. Because she could have hurt herself real bad in that stair, stairwell. But she didn't. And so many slaves got their freedom because of her.

[00:59:40] Preparing for a small concert in Heckelbrücken Orsenfiffer, Mozart, as a very young man, realized that he had left his wick in another room. And he sprinted down a corridor, frantically searching. And he found it.

[01:00:07] And just put it on. And then he went up and performed. So that was, that happened, you know. And one other thing that also happened is that I recorded this episode to you, dear Sleepy. And, yeah, let me just put it this way.

[01:00:36] You mean the world to me. So please keep up the being, you know. Please keep living. And stay with me on this planet. You mean the world to me, Sleepy. You said, look at me. We've got me. I mean, you don't know. So let's be with you.