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Part 1 of 2. This week, we get pretty serious. And then we get a little spooky. Then we finish the episode. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Have either of you had any experience with sleep paralysis? –Azuretalon
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I had sleep paralysis once, when I was sick and tanning at home brain chemo. I did sense a presence in my house, but I didn’t see or feel anything. I just knew there was a burglar somewhere. I willed my arm to move very slowly, as it through water, and reached for my shillelagh. I actually missed and grasped the post of the bed at first. Second try, and this felt like hours, I got the shillelagh and boom, snapped right out of the paralysis.
As for visitors while in the hospital? Yes please. Add often as I was in, and for his long, I heartily welcomed anyone’s company. There was even one instance of someone who I was very surprised came by because we weren’t that close and I didn’t like them that much, and even that was super welcome.
Whoa… layers to this stuff!
First off, “tanning at home brain chemo” is not going to be my go-to excuse text when I don’t want to make plans with someone.
Also, I’m assuming the “not close surprised they came by” guest was us. 🙂
But the biggest bit — a fucking shillelagh??? Seriously? Are you secretly an old-timey Irish farmer, attempting to fend off bandits? Or is this a D&D LARP prop, and really just a toilet plunger handle with a post-it attached that says “+1d8 magic damage”?
“Taking at home chemo” that was all autocorrect.
Not even close to you guys, that was awesome. I’m referring to a friend’s then girlfriend.
And no, I have two shillelaghs actually. My old one is the Coldsteel polywhateverthefuck unbreakabke plastic one and the other is a legit Irish blackthorn that was a gift my mom found for me from an Irish novelty store in Dubuque because I’d been wanting a real one for awhile. The one by my bed was the real one
Genuinely, the only reasons I know about Shillelaghs:
1. The D&D druid spell.
2. My father used to sing, “It’s the same old Shillelagh father brought from Ireland.” Just that line. I don’t know what song it is, he never sang the rest. He would just periodically sing that line over and over.
As someone that has experienced it repeatedly throughout my life I can say that sleep paralysis can be fucking terrifying. For me it is very literal and I feel like I’m awake but utterly paralysed and as it gets worse it even feels like I’m unable to breathe and that I’m going to suffocate. Cue panic then at some point I’ll wake with a jolt. Thankfully I don’t experience it that often but as a kid I did used to experience it when I fell asleep during long car journeys and I’ve always wondered if the pressure on my chest from the seatbelt was a factor.
The Geico Gecko’s accent is “cockney” according to the mid-Jeopardy Geico commercial.
Hmm… I was going to say there’s no way that’s a Cockney accent… but I think it maybe is passable.
I know a couple of actual Cockney comics, and… yeah, the accent might be the same.
Weird choice, though. And I’m still sick of him.