140 - The Legend of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and More

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Do you enjoy knights, wizards, and dragons? How about medieval history? Folklore, maybe? Want to learn how England became England? We learned a lot about the beginning of the mythology that has led to our cultural fascination with knights, jousting, sword fighting, dragons, and everything medieval in this Suck. There would be no Game of Thrones without Arthurian legend. No Lord of the Rings as we know it. No Dungeons and Dragons. Also, the biggest Timesucker Updates ever with a lot of poignant personal accounts from those who have known those who fought in the Vietnam War. Hail Nimrod! Donating $2200 this month The LEO Support Foundation. The LEO Support Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that raises money to purchase protective & life saving equipment for police officers. Based in Plymouth, Massachusetts and run by Space Lizard and officer Michael Best. To donate, click here: https://www.paypal.me/saveleos Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: May 30th-June 1st Jacksonville, FL The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! June 7-8th Omaha, NE The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! June 13-15th Raleigh, NC Charlie Goodnight's CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: The Science Rules! podcast hosted by Bill Nye the science guy. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts! MVMT watches! Get 15% off with FREE SHIPPING & FREE RETURNS—by going to MVMT.com/TIMESUCK Leesa! Get 15% off your entire order at leesa.com/TIMESUCK and use promo code TIMESUCK at checkout! Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/LEYj4oA_mj0 Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're almost 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Who hasn't heard the following names? King Arthur, Camelot, Excalibur, the sword and the stone,
0:06.8	the wizard Merlin, Lady Gwynnevere, Solancelot, and the Knights of the Roundtable.
0:12.3	Actors from Richard Gear to Clive Owen to Charlie Hunham, played the various characters of the
0:17.6	Arthurian world. Disney's had a field day with Arthurian themed rides and it's classic animated
0:22.8	film The Sword and the Stone. J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy Lord of the Rings heavily influenced
0:29.4	by Arthurian legend. Tolkien even wrote an unfinished poem The Fall of Arthur, published after his
0:34.7	death. Basically, almost every movie or comic book or graphic novel or animated series or
0:40.0	television shows that deals with armored knights, joustine matches, English castles, powerful kings,
0:46.1	medieval dragons and witches and wizards, etc. have been heavily influenced by the legends
0:50.5	of King Arthur, including Game of Thrones. Ever been to medieval times? King Arthur,
0:55.7	Phantom Money Python, tons of sketches based on our theory and legend. Even the name of Roundtable
1:01.2	Pizza comes from King Arthur's Tales. I used to date him about being a badass medieval knight
1:06.6	as a kid. So much imaginary fun, saving the damsel and distress, riding a powerful steed,
1:12.5	holding a more powerful magical sword. Maybe I was the one destined to pull it from the stone.
1:17.3	I love medieval themed film, TV and literature to this day. But what did I actually know about the
1:23.2	basis of all of this before this week, approximately, Nada? We're going to do some digging today.
1:29.2	I'm going to find an answer to the question, did any of these people actually exist? King Arthur
1:32.4	real? The historical accuracy of all these characters has been debated for centuries if they
1:36.5	didn't exist, who made them up and why? We're going to go on a journey that will take us to the
1:40.9	origin of Jolly old England and lead us through centuries of powerful myth-building. We'll travel
1:45.9	through tales of sorcery, magic stones, dragons, sex triangles, badass knights, and much more.
1:51.6	On this fine Monday, it feels like we here in the cult of the Curious could use a little break
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