Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation.

Once upon a time in a faraway land, there lived a very powerful king. His palace was the most glorious there

had ever been. This was a king who loved beautiful things, painting, sculpture, and music, and ballet.

The king loved his people, too, and under his reign, theirs was the most powerful nation of all.

He was quite good at being a king and ruled longer than any other monarch

in the history of the whole world. But even a king chosen by God is still just a human being,

beset by all the troubles and mischief a human body can get up to.

Yet his heart was glad, because his people called him the sun king, and not the other nickname

he'd so richly earned, the Enema King.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

One, one, weird, stuff.

Let's cut to the chase.

The ancient Egyptians invented the enema.

Of course they did.

You're not even a little bit surprised to hear it.

The inspiration for the enema came, according to legend, from the ibis.

The ibis is a long-legged waiting bird with a distinctive long-curving bill.

The ancient Egyptians associated the ibis with their god, Thoth.

Both was the god of magic and justice and the judgment of the dead.

Both also served as the divine mediator among the band of prickly and argumentative gods worshiped by the Egyptians.

You do have to pity the poor Ibis, though.

Just being their very best bird selves was enough to get them murdered and mummified and packed into tombs. The mummified

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