What are crystal skulls?

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🗓️ 30 January 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Back in the early 20th-century mysterious skulls made from polished crystals began to enter the collections of private enthusiasts of the occult. Discovered by adventurers raiding sacred areas of the ancient world, these skulls were said to possess unusua

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0:30.3	Hey Chuck.
0:31.2	Yo, we're in the present time.
0:33.2	Yes.
0:33.7	Which means that we need to take this opportunity to do a little bit of an intro for the episode
0:39.5	everybody's about to hear because it's a loss.
0:42.8	Yeah, this has never happened before.
0:46.5	But you said, hey, I thought we already recorded one on Crystal Skulls.
0:50.2	I went, yeah, I think you're right.
0:52.4	And Jerry went, oh, it's right here in my desk drawer.
0:55.9	We forgot to publish it.
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1:01.6	a little caveat because it might, I'm sure there's some stuff that sounds dated.
1:04.9	Oh, it's dated right off the bat.
1:06.1	We talk about whether the world's going to end or not 2012.
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