Adam Has a Podcast Episode 20; Salem Witch Trials

*intro*  It's October. And to me, October means Halloween. I love Halloween ever since I was a little kid. Soon as August would roll around, I would start asking my parents, "Can we go to the Halloween store? And being from Massachusetts, soon as October 1st rolled around, that question turned to, can we go to Salem now? So I think naturally, for my first Halloween themed episode, I would like to do the Salem Wish trials. Um, On a side note, very early and to have a side note, but it's actually crazy to me coming from Massachusetts to California. I know I say this all the time. It's super mind blowing, but I'm coming from an area where every town, every place that you go to, it's always like established in 1632, established in 1736 or established in 1683. And then I moved to California and I was in the town hall the other day and it was like established 1924. I was like, what? No, no way. It just didn't compute to me because I come from an area where everything is usually so much older. And I when I was younger, I would like, look at how old everything was here and I was like, man, but it doesn't go as far back in history as like, you know, areas where the Vikings were. Little did I know I didn't actually live. Like the Vikings were all over New England. So I did live in an area where Vikings were. It's just it wasn't in history. Anyways, I'm getting sidetracked from this week's topic, which is witches. I love Salem. Every single year, I always wanted to go to Salem, just see it, just to be in the atmosphere. It's like soon as October 1st hits, the atmosphere just changes. If you're in Massachusetts or if you're planning to visit Massachusetts, I have a couple places that you should probably stop by. We'll just get this out of the way first, do my litt lists and things, so I can just bullshit. If you do go to Salem 2, I recommend bringing like, like spending money, like actual cash, too, because it makes it so much easier when you go into these little shops and things to just just be like, I don't want to advocate bartering with these small shop owners, but it makes it easier to be like, I have five bucks, you know? Can I get this rock for five dollars? But also, it's not to have some spending money to actually support these shops and to, you see some really cool, fun little magical things that you want to buy. And there's lots of cool incense and things. So if you want to do stuff like that, I recommend the Salem Witch Museum, which is like a big building and it looks like this old, like Gothic church and it's got these big giant red windows. And if you're driving in through the town center, I believe it's going to be like one of the first things that you kind of see. But I recommend getting there kind of early because the lines are always super long. And then you have the Salem Wax Museum. And the whole area around the Salem Wax Museum is kind of cool and it's a fun. There's lots of fun little walk around areas. Salem's definitely like a walkable kind of place because there's all these little crazy shops and places. And when you're driving, you start looking at all these places that you're like, I don't want to drive by all these places and you go back and you end up walking down that same street. You just drove down. But both the Salem Witch Museum and the Salem Wax Museum have wax figures and like wax representations of the trials. And when you go through, you actually learn a lot about the trials. And that's where when I was younger, I first learned about Giles Corey because he's the one that stands out the most because he was the only person that died during the witch trials that wasn't actually convicted of witchcraft. And I'll talk more on that later. But if you want to go just see like the historical aspects of Salem, I would recommend the House of the Seven Gables because it's like a historically accurate museum sort of that shows you what housees looked like back then. And whenever we drove in there, it's just funny to set, you know, the House of Seven Gables and, you know, try and make up some rhymes with it as you're driving into the city. There's many fables you could make of the House of Seven Gables. See, that was easy. Also, one of my favorite things, it's not really witch related. It's just kind of cool about Salem. There's Army Navy stores everywhere, dude. If you want to buy like a cool backpack or like they have cool shirts there, lots of cool patches and pins, definitely like wander into an Army Navy surplus store. They're like littered all about the city, but it's like, you can't miss them. They have big, big signs that say Army Navy surplus and they have all their little displays and whatnot. They're They're very fun to kind of just poke around. Maybe you'll get like a new bag or a new knife or something like that for those people that, you know, collect pocket knives. They definitely have some unique things like that. But I haven't been in there in a while, so I can't really. tell you what their current inventory is. And then if you want to eat, my favorite place to go and eat is the engine house pizza. They got like the best pizza hands down I've ever eaten. Every time I go into Salem, first stop is Engine house. But my last little note here is to go to a cemetery. There's a fun little story attached. So the cemeteries are kind of cool because you get to see all of the, they put recently they had, well, not recently, but in like 2010 and in the 90s, they had acquitted or like dropped the charges and and expunged the records of the now victims of the Salem Witch trials, and they put little memorial plaques and statues all around Salem, but there's some inside some of the cemeteries, so I would recommend the Charter Street Center.metery. And I can't so this is where it's kind of fun because this is where I get to rift a little. I always would like venture into Salem and stuff. And by the time I was an adult, I found finally got to go with like friends and stuff. So I remember this one time one of this, we went late and like everything was kind of already shutting down because it was kind of like a sort of rainy night and it was kind of cold and we didn't know where to go. So I was like, well, let's go to a cemetery. But one of these cemeteries was shut down for renovations. I can't remember if it was the Charter Street Cemetery or the Broad Street Cemetery, but like I was just like, dude, it's just caution tape. And I just stepped right over and I walked right in and they were all scared, but then we went and I had my girlfriend with me at the time and we ended up making out in a cemetery, and it's honestly unironically, one of the sweetest memories I have. It's so, like, fucking, like, those damn goths making out in the cemetery, you know, something so cheesy and lame, but it's like, oh, they may not want in a cemetery on Halloween. I don't recommend breaking into cemeteries to make out, but it's a nice memory for me, is it not. But there's a bunch to pick from if you want to go on your own little thing. And I went on the Salem Witch Museum tours and the Salem Wax Museum tours, and I would say those are worth it, but I've never gone on the ghost tours. But the ghost tours seem kind of fun as you see them walking around and stuff like that. But I do definitely recommend taking some kind of tour of some kind because that's when you really start to learn more about the historical aspects of it because I was trying to do a little bit of research for this right here. And I was like, well, there any TV shows or documentaries? Because I was being lazy and I didn't want to read. And I tried watching the Salem TV show.. Dude. It is not historically accurate, at all. I figured that out pretty quickly. I was like, oh, shit, there's like real demons. But not all the tours are totally historically accurate. Like, the ghost tours is a ghost tour for fun. Like, some of the tours are just for fun. but some of the tours are historical, and you learn cool facts. And going back to it, one of those cool facts that I learned was one of the people that died during the witch trials was Giles Corey, and he was the only person that died without being being convicted of witch witchcraft, without standing trial either, because he wouldn't acknowledge the accusation. And what is really interesting about his story is he actually fell prey to the hysteria at first and was actually an accuser of his wife. He accused his own wife of witchcraft. But then he himself got accused, and he realized, well, we can only speculate what he realized, because we weren't in his own head, but some historians say that he realized that he was going to be found guilty no matter what. Like he realized the true fallacy of it and that it was, you know, as we call it today, a witch hunt, that there's no way he's going to come out of it, not guilty because they're going to find him guilty no matter what. But then some historians speculate that it was so that if he didn't enter a plea, the courts couldn't seize his property if he died. Because if he entered a plea, irregardless if he was found guilty or not guilty, if he died, they could take his or I think if he entered a plea and died before he was found guilty or not guilty, they could still take his property. I don't know. I was reading about some of the laws back then, and it is just a clusterfight. Like, it definitely is giving off the air of like people were just calling people witches because they wanted, you know, their land and stuff like that. They wanted to, they had disputes with neighbors, so they wanted to like get their neighbor out of there. That was actually one of the first few people accused was her name was Abigail Faulkner. And she was accused because she was just a grumpy lady. She just didn't get along with her neighbors. And she even admitted to that in her trial. She was like, yeah, I just, I don't get along with people. But the problem with the Puritan community back then was being disagreeable, being like a negative person was literally like you're being controlled by the devil or you gave the devil your body to do with whatever it will. And like you consented to the devil by being a bitch. It's basically what their logic was. And there was this one dude, I'll see if I can find it in my notes real quick. He, years and years and years earlier released a, because witch hunts aren't unique to the United States of America. They happened all over Europe for like hundreds of years. And by the time they were waning out in like 1692, which is when the in February 1692 is when the witch trials first kind of began in Salem, Massachusetts. They were already kind of waning out over in Europe. But this one dude wrote, yeah, in 1668, Joseph Glanville wrote, like a pamphlet or like a book titled Against Modern Satacultism. I think that's how you pronounce that word. And he claimed in it that he could prove the existence of witches and ghosts in the supernatural realm. Basically, by just saying that if you don't believe in it, you don't believe in God, and therefore you are controlled by the devil. Like, you're a heretic. So basically anybody that spoke against him in his reasoning would be considered a heretic. And it's really kind of difficult to prove something that which you can't see based upon. It's all like metaphysical thought shit. And he said, if you deny apparitions, then you are an agent of evil. And people used this document later on in 1692 as a way of saying, well, anybody that speaks against us and are accusations of these apparitions that people are these witches are causing, is therefore a witch themselves. They kind of got so empowered by it, I guess, or like disillusioned. Or they got so Hmm. Crazy. The word is crazy because if you definitely look at the historical context, people call them, like, they call the Salem Village a quarrelsome village. They're like that quarrelsome village Salem. And they did. some kind of scientific testing, years and years and years later, and found that the people of Salem might have been suffering from ergotism, and ergotism is caused by. Claisps perpira. It's caused by a fungus that infects rye plants. And when the fungus is dead and it leaves a structure behind that resembles LSD found in nature. And when people would eat it, they would start hallucinating. So people would literally be crazy, and then you would say, well, this document says that because these people are crazy, they're being afflicted by the devil and then whoever they accuse is whoever they're seeing and there was another thing that suggested, there was another document. I'm not going into my records to find it because, like, fuck that. And it's just a crazy offhand but there was another record that suggested that, um, if the devil used your form, you gave the devil consent to use your form. So therefore, you were guilty of making a pack with the devil, which is the same as witchcraft, which still got you hung. And that's how over 200 people were accused of witchcraft, which is people were getting pissy with their neighbors, they were tripping off of natural LSD, like found in all of their bread supply. And it was just not like, it was like a historic powder keg ready to blow and witch fueled by this dude's document against modern sad to occultism, they just totally fell apart as a society. They were like, well, because it is a logical kind of conundrum. Like, if you can't disprove ghosts, you can't prove ghosts, and if you disprove the devil exists and you're technically disproving that God exists and you just kind of yell at your detractors and call them heretics until they shut up and cry and run away. He bullied everybody into being like, hey, the devil's controlling you, and it lasted like hundreds of years. It's kind of not something you can giggle your way through. I tend to struggle with heavier topics, Halloween is going to be like, well, I like Halloween more because it's like you're fighting against the ghosts, which is one of. I'll go into it later, but like when you dress up on Halloween, you're dressing up to scare away ghosts. And I always love the shit out of that because I fucking hate ghosts. I've bet you people living in Salem fucking in the middle of the woods in 1692 were damn terrified of ghosts. And I imagine going into, you know, your local church, and suddenly, your pastor is screaming about his niece and nephew, or his nieces, I think it was just his nieces, being afflicted by their, like, there was this one lady, she was a slave, her name was Tabitua, and he accused her, or the whole town accused her of witchcraft and tempting these little girls with stories of demons and stuff like that.. And I always thought that was fucked up because that's one of the first signs you kind of start to realize that they were just targeting outsiders in their community. And they go back, I'm just reading the Wikipedia article. That's like where I'm getting most of my shit from. Wikipedia? Awesome, sweet, great. It's the good enough equivalent of information. But I'm paraphrasing, too. That's why I'm like, you know, I always fucked around with this shit, though. It was fun. It was like fun to kind of have this source of like spookiness so close to me growing up that I always would go there and you end up picking up all this different kinds of information as just like a consequence of your interest. I always thought that was really like.. I ended up being like, into witches and shit, but I wasn't like. you know, trying to cast spells and stuff. I was just really into it because of the pure interest of like, wow, that is just, like, really interesting. And when you go back and you and you really, uh, like do the scientific research, like how they did, and you analyze what was the foods they were eating and, like, kind of gross, but you analyzed their excrement too. You can find a lot of things out, like, what was was going on with these people's biology. And it was one of the first, like. before they found ergatatism in their food supply, it has always been one of the first examples of mass hysteria. And I always thought that was fun. It being the first example of mass hysteria in America, because I thought being from Massachusetts, the acronym for Massachusetts is mass. I always thought it was named after Massachusetts. But it's mass for a whole lot of people hysteria, experiencing the hysteria at once. That's a hysteria in and of itself, learning about Massachusetts with your own perspective and then learning about something else or it's called mass hits something. You're like, whoa, is that have to do it with Massachusetts? No, doesn't at all. What a silly question. No, not a silly question. It totally makes sense. But it was one of the first examples of mass hysteria. You can really kind of see how the, because of the political structure at the time and how it was all confused. There was like a one charter was coming out of place and another was being put in place and all of this stuff kind of happened right in the middle of the change of the charters. And since they didn't have instant data, you know, communications, it took time to get the charter from Massachusetts to England back to Massachusetts, back to England. You know, maybe they had to revise it and the people in Massachusetts have to read it over again. That shit took time. So during this entire time where they were revising their charter for laws and governmental procedures chaos overtook because they didn't know what to do. They were constantly waiting, and their jails started getting filled up, and there was lots of Indian attacks on the outskirts of large cities and stuff like that. So a lot of the people from the outskirts ended up moving into Essex County. There was a huge population migration into the county from everybody in these outlying communities that were tired of being attacked. So their jails were starting to get too full. Their towns were starting to get too full. Everybody was starting to get packed together for the first time. And you really start to see like, oh no, this is how everything dissolved. And everything dissolved because there was too much of a mixture of church and state. The church was allowed to try, convict and kill people because of an accusation. And that's that shouldn't be allowed. And you can see how that kind of scar was left on the Constitution of the United States only just 100 years later, less than 100 years later. 1736. That's off the top of my head, maybe 1786. I don't remember. 1763. Maybe. There's three guesses to what it could be. Is it one of them? Let me know in the comments down below. But only 100 years later, they, they wrote in the Constitution that the church in the state should be separated and people in the church shouldn't have as much power as people who are running the government and dictating the punishments, you know, in the judicial system. And that's even, even they themselves saw the problem with having one layer of government, so it was separated into judicial, executive executive., judicial executive, the executive branch. There's three, there's three branches of the government. And all of that, uh, I'm not that's another thing you can comment down below. Even that is reminiscent of the clusterfuck that was Salem. Salem was like the first Stanford experiment in America, sort of, because all these people were packed together and they had religious extrematism because Salem was kind of like an outskirts community, insulated from the Massachusetts Bay colony a little bit, but was still a large enough settlement that it could be considered bigish, but nothing is big by today's standards. We're talking in, like terms of hundreds of people, like to thousands. Today we live in cities that have, you know, millions sometimes. So anything in today's standards isn't big in yesterday's standards, but irregardless, starting from zero to 100, it's, you could call that big-ish I digress. They had all these different kind of views starting to conflate for the first time. You had your religious extremism along with people that wanted to one of the ladies that was accused, I'm sorry, I'm calling him one of the ladies. I have a whole list. But, Bridget Bishop, I believe, she was accused and put to trial on the same day, and she was accused just because she didn't like going to church. She didn't like going to church. That's where it goes back into they started selecting outsiders and accusing them of witchcraft, merely on the fact that they were outsiders. And it' it's crazy, too, that they tried her, accused her and tried her on the same day. And then eight days later, she was hung. She was one of the first people to be hanged and killed on June 10th, 1692. And then there were, I think, four more execut dates. I'm trying to give you, you know, some kind of, I'm not just filling time. I'm trying to give you some kind of, you know, substance of what it is, but, you know, put my own little spin on it because you can just go take a tour. You know what? I found out, though it kind of sucks. You can't just go watch a documentary. There's not many documentaries about it. That's got to change. So if you're listening to this and you want to use it as a documentary outline for yourself, I recommend you go to the Wikipedia article first. And then maybe while you're reading the Wikipedia article, you can listen to this as like background noise. to help you along. Maybe. But the execution dates were June 10, 1692, which was Bridget Bishop. And then five more were executed on July 19th, 1692, which was Sarah Goode, Rebecca Nurse, Susanna Martin, Elizabeth Howe and Sarah Wildes, and then another five were executed on August 19, 1692. Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr, and John Proctor, and eight more on September 22nd, 1692, Mary Eastie, Martha Corey, Anne Pator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmont Red, and and Margaret Scott.. Those were all the people that were executed. And I'm gonna go back. Martha Corey obviously, Giles Corey, got G Corey's wife, so she was executed after him. before him. Sometime around the same time, because it was September 22, 1692. So So they were executed around the same time. Both died. You can see how that was a land grab. Kill both people that have a right to the land, and then take it over by the government and use it for something else. But another one I wanted to go back was George Burroughs. So George Burroughs was the former preacher for Salem. And he left because they didn't pay up on their agreed payment to have him as a preacher there. So he stepped down from being a preacher and left and was accused of witchcraft and killed. You can definitely see how somebody was just like, maybe spiteful towards him, because it's like you didn't get your money and now you're not gonna be a man of God. You can see how religious extrematism, plus a little bit of LSD can fuel somebody to be like, yeah, I hate that guy. He's a witch. Hang on. It's kind of fucked up when you really look at it, because it was so easy to accuse somebody of witchcraft that anybody was anybody was accusing people that were in their way so they could do whatever they wanted. If they were the real witches. Whenever you watch any of these movies or dramatizations to, it's always the person who's accusing everybody else who ends up being the real witch. And I think that historically rings true. That's the one thing that always historically rings truth is that the real evil is the person telling you to go commit evil and kill an innocent person, or maybe not an innocent person. But if you're like an evil person is somebody that tells you to go kill and then tells you it's because of something else that you can't really prove either. They give you a whole bunch of, well, because the devil told them to kill you. So now, you know, you start getting caught up in the semantics of it. As soon as they start using the semantics, they's like, ah, should I trust this guy? And then you add the ergotismism on top of it and it's like, man, these people didn't know who to trust. Of course, they're just going to trust the loudest guy yelling about the scariest stuff, you know, in the meeting house place where they always have to go every single week. And if it was just that one preacher, you know, suffering from a really bad case of like schizophrenia induced by ergotism, he was able to use his own fear in such a way that he riled up the entire town to the point where I said, like, before it was just a powder keg ready to blow. It's kind of funny now, because the ergotism fact is just so interesting to me. Especially now that we're like in the future and we know about all of these drugs and things, and we know of their effects, it's it's just wild. It's, especially, these people had no idea that they were being drugged. So of course, you're seeing demons and things like that, and you start to freak out, and you're wondering where are these demons coming from, and there's no other logical explanation. And then the preacher who read this, you know, pamphlet that's 40 years old about occultism and stuff like that jumps to conclusions and figures that it's demons and the religious fervor fueled the paranoid delusions to the point where it was just, whe, it was like, bound to happen almost. Kind of like a time traveler went back in time and like seeded a bunch of fungus into their rye, but it's just to see what would happen, you know, maybe not even a time traveler. Maybe it was just like some alchemist witch fucking warlock dude who lived in the woods knew a bunch of stuff about stuff and knew that this one fungus would make you trip and maybe he was like scured by the town or she was scurned by the town and dosed the whole town's wheat supply or riceye supply with the fungus so everybody would trip. You don't know if it was like a sabote, you know? A sabotage. But the whole entire thing is just, it's fun. So, not fun, but fun and interesting. It is kind of like fun because even when you read the Wikipedia article, you read a little excerpt that you realize in 2022 a group of school children found an inaccuracy in the records of exoneration, and they found one person that was still guilty of witchcraft, and they went about the work of exonerating them. And that stuff is kind of fun. It's like even like, you know, little kids find this shit interesting as shit because it is part of our history and it's one of those part of our histories where magic and reality kind of blend together and you kind of want to figure out the facts because people did die. People went crazy. People really said that there were demons and stuff, and you want to figure out what was going on here. So it doesn't happen again. That's one thing. But you also want to figure out what was going on here, just because it's like, what was it witches? You know, it's one of those natural interests, I think, especiallyecially around Halloween time. dude. Like, and me, like I said a minute ago growing up so close to it, I was like, I need to figure it all out. I think hocus pocus definitely played a number on me, watching Hocus Pocus growing up. I was like, dude, that is right down the fucking street, guys. We gotta go. But growing up, you realized that, like, you find out that not all of the locations are based in Massachusetts when you grow up. And that's a little disappointing, but still cool. There are still some filming locations. You get to go see them and you're like, wow, cool. Nice. But yeah, that movie Hocus Pocus definitely fueled my interest in Salem, Massachusetts and my close proximity as well, because I was like, let's go. It's right there. Definitely a dark time in our history and one that definitely left a scar across our entire way of governing people. And even to this day, you can see it right in our Constitution, the church and state shouldn't be mixed, and you've got to think about it that maybe the founding fathers wrote that in there because they were thinking about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, and how much of a stain it was going to be on our history. One of the cooler things that you learn about, too, this is for like all you people that live in Massachusetts is that I guess other people can find it cool, too. But Salem wasn't always the size of Salem than it is now. Salem included a way larger area that covered most of Danvers and Lawrence and stuff like that. But they've done a lot to try and clean up that stain. I think it was in 2016, they performed a survey to determine the real location of the hanging tree and the executions, and they put up a plaque, commemorating and memorializing the victims of the wish trial. And like I said, a moment ago, school children learn about it all the time, and even that one group of school children went through the effort of exonerating one of the still guilty witches and getting her found, not guilty, and not a witch, because she was never a witch. And she was the last of this effort to exonerate all of these women and men who were found unlawfully guilty of witchcraft. And I think that some of the survivors and the family members of victims, I think they got some kind of compensation or they're in the process of coming up with the compensation for it. I hope they get, or they got, you know, a good amount because that is a heavy weight to try and carry around with you. They said even like the witches weren't allowed to be buried like normal people and most of them were excommunicated from their churches. So they were like thrown in ditches and stuff. They never got proper burials or the respect they deserve. Even if they were just, you know, societal outcasts on the fringes of society, they didn't deserve to be abused and taken advantage of in the ways that they were. Especially the people that had, you know, things taken away from them, like land or perspective, partners, or even. Because one of the ladies, too, she was accused of being a witch because she married a previously indentured slave. Or they call them indentured servants, but the same thing.. And that's just crazy. Like, they're like, well, she must be controlled by the devil. She's marrying that guy. And it's... So then they killed her. And she never got to live her entire life because somebody else got jealous of the person that they thought was below them. That was really the biggest problem was people got full of themselves in their positions because like I said a moment ago, this was in the middle of two charters changing place. And the dudes that were the previous governors and other top head, I can't remember right now. They, instead of stepping down from their spot and putting in new elected officials from the town, step back into their spot in the stead of waiting for the charter. Sl that was kind of their opportunity to because this was also during a religious revolution in England, so there was already turmoil. So that was probably like one of their first opportunities to start establishing an American way of governing in America, but they were, you know, couldn't think for themselves because of all the LSD they were eating in their rye bread and they, you know, couldn't see. Or maybe they didn't want to start the revolution that early, but only like 80 to 100, when 1736, 1692. Yeah, only like 50 years later, America started the revolution itself. So it was it could even be seen as the spurring of the Revolution, too, because it was that time delay between getting stuff done in England and getting it back to America and then getting its, you know, sat in place in America that really opened up for opportunities of whatever may have you in America. 1776, nearly 100 years later.. I think that was one of those three numbers. But that could have been one of those seeds of dissolution in America that was sown, because it was like, man, it was not handled well at all. And I think that's kind of where I want to leave it today. It was kind of choppy, but this month, we're gonna take Adam's tackle towards Halloween. I always liked Halloween because I felt like it took like a like a more digestible, sillier approach to scary things that was a little bit more handable, like I said a moment ago, you're the entire point of Halloween is you're scaring away ghosts and stuff like that. So I'll try and make some Halloween themed episodes to scare those bad spirits away. And this episode was, you know, mostly covering the witch trials and a little bit of their history. and my interest in it, and that's pretty much going to be the next couple of few episodes going forward. Mainly,. I should also talk about how it's importance. I think I did state that a few times. It was an important event in our history. It definitely deserves to be talked about in research a little bit more. So if you got some interesting research, send it my way, maybe I'll link it in the description so more people can do their own reading. I'm going to link my own research that I did, which is just a Wikipedia article in the description. But I'm not really doing it justice because I feel like doing the research itself was more fun than any kind of media that I was able to find about it. So unless I'm going to do a full blown documentary that's real serious style, I think I'm going to do Adam's style on Adam Has a Podcast. I kind of throw some facts at you, have some fun, shoot the shit., give you some things to talk about later on. Like, Giles Corey, that's insane. Dude was just Some people say that it was a protest, you know, he was protesting against the witch trials, and he gave that protest his entire life. And I kind of always used that as motivation sometimes, because the only thing that he would say, they would tell him, tellell the truth, and the only truth thing he could say was more weight. So he would just say, more weight. And eventually he... got crushed to death. And it took two two days of being pressed for him to die. So he stayed under those stones for two days. This is after seeing his wife be tried and executed as a witch, knowing that she's not a witch. He was not, he didn't want to live in that world. He didn't want dignified them with a response. He gave his life for that. That's some fucking. That's some tough shit right there. I always use that as inspiration. Whenever I'm going through hard times, I'm like, dude, this isn't like as hard as it could be, like more weight. I can make it through this, like more weight. And sometimes that's not good. Sometimes you get crushed and sometimes you spend your two days under the boulder and you finally give out. But if you're really determined and you really want to get something or you really want to make a point, it doesn't matter. Just more weight, more of that, more of that thing that I am heading towards. So instead of being all like sad about the witches and all the people that died, instead of being wrapped up in the mystery of the ghosts and stuff and stuff like that, be inspired by more weight, the more weight of crazy that you add, the better things can be at the end. More weight that you can carry, the better you can get through. Because all of that craziness that happens in Salem laid the foundation for a really good Constitution of America that is, you know, those first ten are still in place to this day. So I leave you with that. Do your research on the witch trials. If you found it fine, let me see any other kind of fun stuff. Keep going, keep moving, keep persevering more weight more weight more weight, but also keep it easy out there until the next time. Peace!