Endless Thread Presents: Cautionary Tales

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode brings together three of our favorite things: mysteries, cultural deep-dives, and Dungeons & Dragons. It's an episode of Cautionary Tales, a podcast from Pushkin that tells stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos of the past -- pointing out valuable lessons for us from all the dithering, death and destruction.

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0:00.0	Ben, what was the thing that your parents wouldn't let you do or wouldn't let you consume
0:07.0	because they thought that it would lead you down a dark path?
0:10.7	Hmm, probably like most of the Indiana Jones movies.
0:14.2	Indiana Jones?
0:17.2	I was like encouraged to watch the Indiana Jones movies.
0:20.8	Oh no, my parents were like glorification of violence.
0:24.3	No, not down.
0:26.4	What about you?
0:27.6	It was the Simpsons.
0:29.8	My dad thought that Bart Simpson was a little smart Alec and didn't want us turning into
0:37.0	children who talked back to their parents.
0:39.8	So that was a big note.
0:41.7	But today we are going to share an episode about these kinds of things, these kinds of off
0:48.1	limits, activities according to parents.
0:51.4	And Ben, this particular one is something that you've still partaken.
0:55.4	Oh yeah, man.
0:56.7	I got two dungeons and dragons games going.
1:01.3	I'm a dragon born named Drick Thoris.
1:05.7	And wait, let me guess.
1:07.2	You're a half orc named Kethar.
1:09.5	Yeah, you know, you know this.
1:11.2	I've heard this.
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