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Rune Soup

Revisiting The Whisky Rant: The Pros and Cons of 'Alternate' History

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Based on some suggestions that came out of the recent solo show on the story of Rune Soup, I'm going to be revisiting the classic blog post series from back in the old timey bloggy days of yore.

The first such series is The Whisky Rant: where the name came from, the benefits and shortcomings of alternate history, which UFOs are actual aliens and which of the various rants stood the test of time.

For new people, this was a series that covered off all the exciting hits like ruins on Mars and the Moon, the location of Atlantis and my own version of the stoned ape hypothesis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Chow Bambini and one of the things that sort of emerged out of doing the story of Roon Soup solo show the other week

0:25.2

was not just that there's more to tell, but it might even be fun to, or at least for me, to tell some of the subsections almost of the Roon soup story and namely I mean

0:38.8

it began as a blog right and back when people actually did blog, there are a couple of sort of

0:46.5

cornerstone or key series that back in the day people definitely associated

0:51.8

room suit with and so I thought I might do people definitely associated ringsuit with.

0:53.0

And so I thought I might do a video, just live stream a video,

1:01.0

kind of going over those series.

1:04.1

And the first one that came to mind,

1:06.7

probably because it sort of was the first main or big series was or is the Whiskey Round.

1:17.0

So I've got my boomer rectangle which is quite correctly what I call the iPad next to me with notes about it because it was really

1:25.8

fun to kind of almost a decade later impossible because I'm still 27 open up those old posts and see what stood up, what hasn't, where I may have changed

1:39.4

my opinion on some of those things.

1:40.9

But first I want to tell you about why it's called the

1:42.9

whiskey round and as a child of the 90s I kind of grew up and was transformed by

1:51.8

you know 90s stuff like Graham Hancock,

1:54.8

fingerprint to the gods and so on.

1:56.7

So the kind of idea that there are,

2:00.0

which is a certain kind of true forbidden versions of history and science and and so on and the

2:08.8

whiskey rant is is and I don't recommend this is a strategy in fact for any young wings watching it,

2:15.1

was kind of how, it was like my mostly unsuccessful go-to move to impress boys was like buy me a couple of whiskeys and I'll tell you where Atlantis is kind of stuff like let's get some old maps it was it was a different time right and so that that's kind of what the rat was like I had and it it worked a couple of times

2:36.9

Which is where that came from and one in particular

2:41.0

There was back in Newcastle this is in college and it's back in Newcastle, visiting college and it was back in Newcastle visiting friends and they had a friend over from Sri Lanka and I started talking about the, and this is real Graham Hancock stuff, after the Boxing Day tsunami in the 90s,

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