Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fulently Forward. I am joined by my friend here in Denver, Alicia, who you might know of as one of the hosts of the Bazaar A.F, where you guys cover conspiracies, but from a really fun, like historical, mythological sense. Welcome back to the show. How are you doing? Oh, my God. I am so good. And I'm so stoked to be here. Thank you for having me. Well, I love to the show. How you doing? Oh my God. I am so good and I'm so stoked to be here.

Thank you for having me. Well, as a time you were on here, we talked about circumcision. And I don't know

why I bring you on for the most fucked up conspiracy theories. But today we're going to be talking

about menstrual blood, like the history of menstruation, conspiracy theories around menstrual blood, and

kind of just a little bit of that notion of like divine femininity, how women were viewed throughout

history, how we were goddesses and then dirty and then hoars and then we, you know, it goes up

and down all the time. So thank you for indulging me in a very weird episode. Oh my God. This is like

totally my vibe. I think that's why you asked me because I feel like oftentimes we do end up

talking about this kind of stuff that comes up in conversation. I think we've talked about period

cups, just what it is to be a woman. What do you do? Where are you at on your period? I'm actually on day three. Where are you at? Okay, so I'm right before it. I'm like two or three days before. I can feel all the symptoms are happening. Yes. And I have been feeling a little emotional or all over the place. So we're starting to get on the same path.

Starting to sync up.

And that's going to be one of the conspiracies for the second half of the episode.

One is going to be around this notion of tracking your cycle and living in accordance to your cycle.

Is it very womanly and hippie or is it part of the conservative agenda?

And then we're also going to talk, this is one of the maybe, I think, six conspiracy theories that I have about this notion of syncing up with women and getting on the same cycle. And if we can sync our periods together, is there anything else that we could sink or transmute or, you know, subconsciously tell each other about. You know what?

Now is the time that we need to know this information.

Yeah. So that way. Perfect. When the power goes out, we can just text each other through our vagina or something. Oh, my fear is seriously. Morse code through blood clots. Clot, clot, clot, clot, clot. Well, let's first start off with a little bit of the history of menstruation before we get into the conspiracy theories.

And I find that... Clot, clot, clot, clot. Well, let's first start off with a little bit of the history of menstruation before we get into the conspiracy theories.

And I find this really fascinating because in ancient cultures, and I'm talking like ancient, ancient,

menstruation was seen as very sacred and very magical.

So in Norse mythology, there is a river that the god Thor allegedly bathed in

to get wisdom and eternal life. And some people thought that that was a river of menstrual blood

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