476: Van Helsing in Pop Culture
Geek History Lesson
Jason Inman
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Vann Helsing has been a super, super prominent pop culture figure for over a hundred |
| 0:17.0 | years, incredible staying power. |
| 0:18.7 | He's a centennial. |
| 0:19.7 | He's like a send and a half, send in a 75 tenio, send in through quarter, his name literally |
| 0:27.9 | means from Helsing, but Helsing is not a real place. |
| 0:32.3 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:33.3 | It's not like Helsinki. |
| 0:34.3 | No, it's not a real place. |
| 0:35.4 | From Helsing. |
| 0:36.7 | From because Vann means from. |
| 0:39.2 | What do you think it would be? |
| 0:40.2 | Somewhere in Eastern Europe, right? |
| 0:41.2 | So I want to ask you before we get into that a little bit, that's where we're going to |
| 0:44.5 | do it. |
| 0:45.5 | We're going to do it again. |
| 0:46.5 | We're going to do it a little bit. |
| 0:47.5 | Tracking the birthplace of an Helsing. |
| 0:50.1 | Did Bram Stoker just call him Vann Helsing because it's cool because it's got hell in |
| 0:56.2 | it. |
| 0:57.2 | So it's evocative because he's writing Dracula, who's a demon. |
| 1:01.0 | I, I mean, I, I guess, I mean, there's not, I mean, Helsing's a nothing. |
| 1:06.1 | So I don't know how that, why would Bram, why would Bram Stoker think Helsing is cool? |
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