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Welcome to the Blind by podcast.

We're well into the middle of February.

February.

Fucking February.

I love February.

Well, I don't love it.

I don't love February.

I don't mind February.

You know, things get a little bit brighter. I hate having to pronounce

February. I hate that R, the R that's in there. I could really do without the R in February.

It's just a bollocks to pronounce. But I, I did a podcast last year. I did a podcast last year

where I'm like, I need to know why there's an R in February.

I wasn't prepared for the answer.

The reason there's an R in February is because in pagan times at this time a year,

there was a pagan festival called Lupercalia.

It was a pagan fertility festival, so it was all about the fertility of the land and the fertility of people

and animals. So during Lupercalia, so there was a god called Lupercus and Luperchus was a wolf.

So during Lupercalia people would sacrifice a wolf but catching wolves was really difficult because wolves are wild

and they're tough so what people would do is they'd find a poor dog they used to kill dogs

then they'd skin the dog and they'd make it like a whip like a whip out of the dog's skin

and they'd use this dog skin whip as like a foreplay

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