BONUS 7 - Vlad "the Impaler" Dracula: Man Behind the Vampire

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

🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

How do you become the real life basis for the most famous monster of our time? By being one of the most sadistic and terrifying figures who ever lived. Vlad impaled, disemboweled, boiled, burned, hacked, tortured, and beheaded his way in world wide notoriety, his name still recognizable over 500 years after his death. Forget medieval - we go full-evil - on the darkest edition of Timesuck yet. Like the new logo? Hire Timesucker Anduin Vaid for all your graphic design needs. Hit him up at [email protected] He's incredible! (And he's a Timesucker) Live in or near Ft. Collins, Colorado? Head over to Maxline Brewing, Tuesday, July 18th, for a FREE Timesuck Trivia night starting at 7PM! Meet other Timesuckers, drink some great beer, and win some cool prizes!

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0:00.0	Vlad Teppis. Vlad Dracula, the original vampire, the impaler prince.
0:05.2	What does someone have to do to inspire a legend that becomes the basis for the most famous
0:08.2	monster of our time? Why do we still know of this fairly minor political player from the
0:12.4	15th century today? How much of today's Dracula monster is based on this very real man.
0:18.2	Impaling, being boiled alive, being burned to death, disemboweled, hacked to pieces, drowned
0:22.9	buried alive, all of this covered, and so much more as we explore the dark, cruel world
0:28.0	of 15th century Eastern Europe, the rise of the modern vampire myth, and the life of
0:32.4	one of history's most notorious sadists. It's time to go medieval. It's time to go full
0:37.7	evil. It's time for today's blood sucking, insanely violent addition of time suck.
0:45.2	Happy Friday everybody. I'm Dan Cummins and thanks for listening to today's 700
0:58.0	iTunes Review Bonus Edition of the Suck. Thanks for all you new listeners for joining
1:03.1	our growing cult of the curious. I am very excited for today's time suck. Thanks for
1:08.8	all the iTunes reviews, new subscriptions, new recommendations for others to listen.
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1:50.1	They're gonna look fucking great. Very excited to have the awesome help on that. I hope
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