00:00:19:43 - 00:00:40:10 Unknown Hey. Welcome back to Toke It Out. My name is Maddy Tokes. Welcome to the best time of the year. Welcome to spooky season. It is October 1st. Not on the day that you're listening to this, but today when I'm recording it, it is October 1st, so I am thriving. What did I just hear? I was like, oh, this. 00:00:40:17 - 00:00:56:24 Unknown Can you believe I forgot? I pressed the dab like, this is toke it out. I cannot believe this. Okay, you guys like my new piece? Don't look at it too. Don't look at it. Actually, don't look at it. You're not looking at it because it's so dirty. Okay, so now that I have toked I hope you have toked. 00:00:56:29 - 00:01:17:31 Unknown Let's get into it. Like I said, the best time of the year. It is spooky season. I'm all. I'm all bricked up for spooky season. I'm all bricked up for spooky season. If you're not bricked up for spooky season, you don't get it. You don't get it, and that's fine. Whatever. We're in my The Exorcist shirt. I've actually never listen to me. 00:01:17:40 - 00:01:41:09 Unknown I've actually never seen The Exorcist. I'm watching it tonight. Hey, I know I say a lot of things, but I'm actually watching it tonight. You know why? Because. And I've uploaded it already on YouTube. Because YouTube sees everything first. That's sadly not true, but I did uploaded to YouTube first. It is my horror movie schedule for October. It is what we are going to be watching every day in October. 00:01:41:09 - 00:02:02:04 Unknown And at no surprise to absolutely anybody, I decided I was going to watch a horror movie every day. Like, I don't train to try to do that anyways, but we're revisiting and then we're going to do letter box reviews. So let me tell you guys what day would be when you listen to this. You poor, poor people. Seventh. 00:02:02:09 - 00:02:27:47 Unknown Today is October 7th. I'm speaking like it's. I'm speaking like I'm speaking into the future. That's stupid. I'm days, actually, October 7th. If you're listening to this on the day it comes out. So I'm going to give you guys the seven movies I will have watched by the time you guys listen to this. So the first we're watching The Exorcist, that's 1973. 00:02:27:52 - 00:02:58:21 Unknown No remakes here. I'm no remakes of that. Okay. I do like some remakes. Okay. Not Nightmare on Elm Street. Okay. Loud and clear. Not Nightmare on Elm Street. Okay, so the second we're watching 2012. Sinister. The third, 1970 four's Texas Chainsaw Massacre 19. The fourth. We're doing 1977 and Suspiria, 2015. The witch, not which the witch, the Vive it! 00:02:58:26 - 00:03:22:30 Unknown The witch. David Witch, yesterday the sixth, 1980 one's The Evil Dead, and today, the seventh. I will be engaging in 1987. Hellraiser. Okay, I know it's a lot for you guys to catch up on, but you've already seen it and you're very, very, very familiar with it and feel like you can letterbox movie it. Letterbox movie it. I don't freak it. 00:03:22:42 - 00:03:40:19 Unknown You can read it on letterbox. Go ahead and do it and let me know what you think of each one of those. Because genuinely, I am very curious. I should tell you guys at any more show, you tell you guys till the next one so that we can catch up together. Okay. Let's. Okay. And then I should have done this last week. 00:03:40:26 - 00:04:07:06 Unknown Okay I'm sorry everybody I'm sorry I batch recorded. This is why we don't batch record more bits. Right. To see it. Why you don't batch record okay. So tomorrow the eighth we're doing 1976 is The omen. The ninth, 2014. It follows which was filmed in Detroit. I think it was filmed not completely, but some in Detroit and I'm sure some not, of course, but at least it was supposed to take place in Detroit. 00:04:07:08 - 00:04:25:57 Unknown Let's find out. Was it actually because we're not even going to get to it? Where was it, fellows filmed? Where was it? Oh yeah, it was filmed partly in Michigan. Duh. It was. You can see the Redford Theater in the back. So shout outs everybody in Redford, Michigan, you can see that. But we're doing it follows. Then we're doing okay. 00:04:25:57 - 00:04:48:55 Unknown So we figured that out. It was obviously not entirely in Michigan, but the 10th 1010 we're doing Candyman. I know you, everybody thought it was going to be Halloween. It's not. It's going to be Candyman 1992. Why? Because we're doing Halloween and Halloween two back to back later. The 11th House of a Thousand Corpses 12th saw 2004 13th Friday the 13th on brand 1980. 00:04:49:10 - 00:05:13:16 Unknown And then by the time you guys watch, the next one will be on The Shining. Okay, so I even give you a little. Little oh one comes out on my birthday the 14th. Everybody say Happy birthday Tok's yours. So I will everybody say that exactly like it as you're typing the comment. Thank you, thank you. That's horrible. So anyways, that's what we're doing. 00:05:13:21 - 00:05:35:28 Unknown That's what we're doing together as a as the family Tok's. Get with it. Jump on this train because it is already left the station. So guys what am I doing? I it's like 5 p.m. and I gotta tell you, I've eaten a protein shake and three Coke zeros. So we're rocking and rolling into the Wednesday October 1st into this Wednesday. 00:05:35:33 - 00:05:52:48 Unknown Let's go. Okay, some of you maybe I need to not eat before took it out as we get into it. Today I want to talk about clearly we're not only are we going to be watching scary movies all through October, but just like we have been for months, at this point, we're going to be talking about spooky, scary things all October. 00:05:52:51 - 00:06:16:55 Unknown Okay, so we're definitely going to be doing that. What are we going to get into first? Have you ever thought of a book that might be too dangerous to read, and is it all fake, or is some of it kind of real? Well, the Necronomicon, I guess, written by H.P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft created crafted this Necronomicon as part of his lore in other stories. 00:06:17:04 - 00:06:43:13 Unknown Now, who is H.P. Lovecraft? Well, obviously I said other stories. So he is an American writer. Where is he from? Actually? Providence, Rhode Island, because it's always spooky in the northeast, let me tell you. Yeah. There's like a little hair that keeps moving, and I keep thinking there's like a spider. Oh, my God. I'm like, so listen, I just brought in my feral cat and I took her to the vet, and she doesn't have fleas or mites or anything, but I'm still convinced that I'm going to, like, get something from her until I give her a bath. 00:06:43:13 - 00:07:05:22 Unknown She's a baby. And we called her baby cat, but she's probably seven years old. Anyways, I'm tangent I gotta I should eat before this. So H.P. Lovecraft was a fucking weirdo, right? Okay. And in the best way, because I love a weirdo. But he wrote a bunch of, like, fantasy, horror, science fiction type stories. Some of his most famous is The Call of Cthulhu. 00:07:05:27 - 00:07:36:23 Unknown Cthulhu Cthulu naka Tulu cthulu. Cthulhu is the that like. How do they describe him? Simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature. So like all together, an octopus dragon human is what Cthulu is. H.P. Lovecraft wrote this story called The Call of Cthulhu. Cthulhu? Oh my God, I'm not Cthulhu. Sorry, guys. Maybe. Is it like Bloody Mary? 00:07:36:23 - 00:08:04:28 Unknown I think say his name like three times. He comes on, like, rips the roof off my house. I've been saying it wrong, so who cares? Cthulhu. Okay, it was written in February 1928. This is a story about. It's basically notes and articles and this guy's last remaining notes, a deceased narrator. His name is Francis Whalen Thurston. He recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his great uncle, or, excuse me, his grand uncle, as well as his discard. 00:08:04:28 - 00:08:27:58 Unknown Like as he goes on, he's finding out about Cthulhu. He's finding out that his grand uncle knew about him and his grand uncle was killed. And then these other people were killed. And there's all the connection of Cthulhu between them. And it turns out. Spoiler this is 100 years old. Almost. It's Cthulhu followers and worshipers that are going around and killing people who are like finding out too much. 00:08:28:03 - 00:08:46:52 Unknown So and the end of the book is like, I'm leaving these notes in hopes that I survive and that these will not, you know, this will not happen to somebody else or whatever, and obviously to no avail, that he was able to survive. He did not. So I'm not trying to laugh at that. It's a fake story. It's a fake story. 00:08:46:52 - 00:09:13:40 Unknown You guys can laugh at a fake story. Okay, so back to the Necronomicon. So that appeared in the book The Call of Cthulhu, The Hound and the Dunwich Horror. Okay, I don't know really much about the other two, but I do know about the Call of Cthulhu. Lovecraft described the Necronomicon as and this is like a fake book, so he described it as written by the quote unquote, mad Arab Abdul Al-Azhar. 00:09:13:47 - 00:09:42:19 Unknown Al-Azhar in the original title ls Al Azif an Arabic word for the sound of night, insects thought to be demons, whispering, oh my God, you guys, let's bring it all back. If you are a listener of Toke It Out, which you may not be, this may be your first episode, and we know if you first listeners are wonderful, but if you are a listener, do you remember two, three, four, nine episodes ago? 00:09:42:19 - 00:10:02:06 Unknown I don't know when I did this, but we were talking about we were reading stories like scary stories about people, and somebody was saying that they. Yeah, we looked at these insects that sound like they're whispering, oh my God. So this might be like, there's a whole word for it. So these are like a specific thing. And it's obviously a it must be like a middle eastern thing. 00:10:02:06 - 00:10:28:27 Unknown You know, if it's if there's an Arab word for it to describe it, it's obviously so prevalent, translated into Greek as Necronomicon, it means the Book of Dead names. So it contains rituals, descriptions of ancient gods and the ways to summon them. Now, this was not real. He obviously Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft was super into creating like he would have fucking blue JK Rowling. 00:10:28:31 - 00:11:04:39 Unknown He would have blue Harry Potter shit out of the water, because the lore and the lore behind the characters in these books and the actual text of the books and things that H.P. Lovecraft crafted into these horror fantasy stories is like, I mean, it's 100 year old book, and we're talking about it now. H.P. Lovecraft was after Edgar Allan Poe, but if you are asking me if you're talking about like a who's the real gothic American hero, I understand that like, major depressive disorder is very Poe's thing, but. 00:11:04:44 - 00:11:42:41 Unknown H.P. Lovecraft, he was he was badass with it. He was he was spooky with it. He was a spooky motherfucker. So anyways. But he also not only spooky, he was a prankster. So he let people believe that the Necronomicon was real. Not sure why you're doing that. Don't. Hey, if you write a fake book, tell people it's fake because you're going to be a hundred years later and there's going to be some naive somebody who's going to go out there and is going to pick up some text or some passage and be like, well, this is ancient, blah, blah, blah text about magic. 00:11:42:50 - 00:12:09:19 Unknown Like, I mean, he gave it fake bibliographic details to the Necronomicon. Like, I mean, he is really went all the way with it. He put his both feet into his writing clearly and so clearly that the Necronomicon shows up in multiple books. And not only does it show up in multiple books, the Necronomicon is so infamous. I mean, it's showing up in places like Evil Dead in Supernatural, which makes sense. 00:12:09:19 - 00:12:34:24 Unknown But in places like it venture Time, I think we all forget that adventure Time has featured the Necronomicon. Okay, can I pronounce anything? No, but Necronomicon I can. How? I'm not really sure. Not really sure about this, guys. People say there's left brain and right brain. I think I'm like, middle brained. I think I'm like riding that line like a skier. 00:12:34:24 - 00:13:02:13 Unknown Just like going back and forth between. Anyways, isn't that about me? So after Lovecraft died, people said, oh, this was a famous book and you're getting famous off of it. My turn. So in the 1970s, a book written called Simon's Necronomicon, a notorious hoax of Sumerian mythology, Crowley style occultism, and Lovecraft's ideas are still in print today and used by some modern practitioners. 00:13:02:13 - 00:13:28:08 Unknown I'm not saying you're wrong for doing that, but like, this is a you know, this is really a fantasy book. Cthulu isn't real. Hey, hey, spoiler. This guy from Providence, Rhode Island in 1920 something didn't know, didn't didn't actually know about a cuckoo Lou Ca2 cthulu cuckoo cuckoo. Okay, so other fake ones are the hey Wilson necromantic Necronomicon. 00:13:28:08 - 00:13:56:37 Unknown Maybe I can't pronounce it. It's satirical, but sometimes mistaken. This real. Let's not be mistaken. Necronomicon is real. They are not real. Okay, at least these Necronomicon are not real, but I will. Don't worry. We're getting to the, What inspired it is. Then we have Donald Tyson's Necronomicon. That is the wanderings of Alice Read that was published in 2004, which kind of makes sense to me of when Necronomicon is, I feel like we're more in the zeitgeist than they are now. 00:13:56:42 - 00:14:17:38 Unknown This isn't a cult fantasy retelling. Many of these books sold well because people obviously wanted to believe that Necronomicon were real. Which I don't blame them. People are always looking for answers in the, you know. Oh, somebody found the answer finally. Or somebody published it, you know, or deciphered it or whatever. So I totally understand why people would want it to be real. 00:14:17:49 - 00:14:55:01 Unknown Okay, so let's talk about some real grimories that inspired Lovecraft to write the Necronomicon. But first, what is a grimmer a grimmer is we were to find this like last week, but a memory is a book of magic spells and invocations. Why Necronomicon, but invocations I couldn't pronounce. Grimories are old as time, it seems. It seems like people as soon as they were kind of, you know, discovering alchemy and in ways of science and other things, they were all also trying to find out magic. 00:14:55:06 - 00:15:18:40 Unknown And I'm into it. That's awesome. One of the most famous ones is the Key of Solomon. Now, the Key of Solomon is a medieval grammar, attributed to King Solomon. But it's a pseudo pi graphical text, but it's a pseudo pi graphical text, meaning it's falsely attributed to him and most likely dates to the 14th or 15th century Renaissance. 00:15:18:45 - 00:15:50:02 Unknown The book details rituals and spells for controlling spirits by invoking God's power, and includes instructions for creating talismans, magical tools, and special symbols used in ceremonial magic. The text outlines a hierarchy of spirits and angels with various just operations designed to achieve goals that acquire wealth, finding love, or even causing harm. Though it cautions against misuse, no, we're talking about anything kind of into this one. 00:15:50:16 - 00:16:17:45 Unknown Why now, the 14th and 15th century? I'm not saying that was the time of magic, because we will get to it. But there is an Arabic text, I believe that dates back even more to the 11th century. This is the one I most interested in. Is it because it's Italian and I have Italian heritage? No, it's because if we're talking about a time of like alchemy, of science, of discovery, that would be, in my mind, the Renaissance. 00:16:17:45 - 00:16:43:15 Unknown You're taking a lot of medieval ask, you know, ideas and finally putting logic to them. And obviously, I mean, they didn't figure everything out, you know? I mean, people thought till the 18th century, people thought there was ghosts in your blood. So, like, I bring that up a lot, but that's so wild to me. But this, you know, for the symbols, the talismans, the tools, I don't know, kind of into it, kind of kind of into it. 00:16:43:26 - 00:17:12:30 Unknown Let me know what you think. So in the next one is the Picatrix. The Picatrix is an Arabic astrological and talismanic text full of bizarre imagery, translated into Latin in 1256. That is so cool. That is so cool. The Picatrix okay, it's a composite work that synthesizes older works on magic and astrology. One of the most influential interpretations is a 400 page Arabic book of magic and astrology. 00:17:12:30 - 00:17:34:19 Unknown Again, I said that which most scholars assume was originally written in the middle of the 11th century, though arguments for composition in the first half of the 10th century has been made, there is a whole two years ago. Thoughts on the Picatrix. I definitely say it's worth a read. It's one of those books you can read and reread and take something new or different each time you do. 00:17:34:20 - 00:18:01:46 Unknown Okay, okay, I'm interested. 400 pages. That is nothing. That's a that's a couple of day read for real. That's a that's an airplane read. So next time you read, maybe you want to read an ancient text. Next time you're on an airplane, the pictures maybe might help. Who knows? The Book of Abra merlin in the 15th century. It's a text about contacting your holy guardian angel through months of rituals and controlling demons. 00:18:01:51 - 00:18:21:23 Unknown Hey, I'm going to tell you right off, rip, if demons are real, you're not controlling them. I don't think so. I don't think you're going to control them. I just think that that's not the point of demons. And same with angels. Like, I mean, you might be able to contact an angel. I don't know, maybe you can, but I don't think you're going to control evil. 00:18:21:23 - 00:18:47:02 Unknown Because if people work out here controlling evil, I take it all back. People might be controlling demons. People might be controlling demons. If you look at the world, who knows what might be happening? Obviously with Lovecraft, using the word Al Azif A L second word A Z I F is real Arabic. So he's obviously pulling stuff from the Necronomicon. He's pulling that from Middle Eastern stuff. 00:18:47:02 - 00:19:10:13 Unknown So I can only imagine that the Picatrix and just Middle Eastern traditions and stuff, he's kind of, you know, gleaning from to create his world. So why do people still believe? Why wouldn't they? Because people will believe anything. People won't believe anything. And I mean, that is the long and short answer, I guess of it. But obviously I think it's people trying to find answers. 00:19:10:13 - 00:19:36:24 Unknown It's people trying to like, make explanations of life, are trying to, you know, alchemy, some kind of power, you know, transmute some kind of energy into something else. It's a lot easier to follow instructions to do that than having to search within and find your own power, which is a years long process, as is. If anybody is offended by anything I might say about your religion or anything like that, I. 00:19:36:27 - 00:20:03:52 Unknown I'm sorry that you feel that way. Sorry, I don't know. I can't be said everybody's feelings about everything. So this is my blanket, like, sorry. You don't like it. Don't listen kind of thing. And man, I am, like, talking about stuff on the internet. Please, if there is something that can get misconstrued, misinformed, miss, whatever. It's probably shit on this podcast, so feel free to be that logical, educational voice in the comments. 00:20:03:52 - 00:20:22:51 Unknown Although it's not your job to educate anybody. Especially not my dumb ass. But I mean the Necronomicon is so infamous that like South Park and the Simpsons have put it on there again, Adventure Time it is. So it's one of the most famous fictional memories ever written. And is that a very niche thing to be the most famous of? 00:20:22:51 - 00:20:28:27 Unknown Yada. But it is. 00:20:28:31 - 00:20:50:40 Unknown The Necronomicon kind of proves that a fictional book can really start a cultural obsession. Honestly, can start this. It can be, you know, misrepresented and whatever. Okay, guys, what I think that is going to do it for me. Sorry if this is a little bit short. Spooky season calls. I think we might keep the theme of like spooky texts, at least for next week, or at least part of it. 00:20:50:40 - 00:21:08:06 Unknown But don't worry, or we're going to get into a lot more spooky things this October. Oh my gosh, I need to go eat food, you guys. This was not a good idea to film prior to food. Whoa, I will never do that to you guys again. That's probably a lie. Sorry, but I did want to tell you guys what my recommendation of the week is. 00:21:08:06 - 00:21:25:55 Unknown I finally got and we have not had a snack in a long time. So let me tell you this I finally I'm like salivating thinking about it. I have not gotten my hands on the cannoli dip from Aldi yet. It's been out for like a couple of years and it you know, like Aldi, like Trader Joe's because they're owned by the same people. 00:21:26:04 - 00:21:44:29 Unknown They come out with like limited stock of things. But I finally got the can only do it because I rushed out as soon as I saw somebody post about it. Oh, if you like Connolly's even if you don't like Connolly's, if you like a Connolly esque flavor, if you're a Cassata cake person, if you're whatever, ten out of ten recommend getting it. 00:21:44:36 - 00:22:05:42 Unknown I've not tried the salted caramel one, but the chocolate chip is fantastic. So how should you eat it? Straight on the spoon, baby, don't worry about don't worry about it. Don't worry about sweetheart. Don't worry about it. So again, everybody wished me a happy birthday month. Oh my gosh I will see you guys next week to talk more about spooky things are go listen my episode from last week about demons from La Llorona. 00:22:05:42 - 00:22:21:06 Unknown No, from Lucifer to La Llorona should have done it the other way around, because La Llorona does come in fucking before in the alphabet. My stupid case. Okay, love you all. Have a great rest of your week. I will see you soon and bye.