602 - More Sexy Urban Legends! (Urban Legends World Cup)

23 Oct 2025 · 1 h 39 min · 45 chapters

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In short

Urban Legends World Cup—group-stage matchups of “sexy” urban legends. The episode covers Sweden vs Costa Rica, then Australia vs Peru, with hosts joking about who wins based on the legends’ sexualized details.

Guests

Jack (host), Stevie White, Robbie Knox. They banter, “Google” details, and vote on winners. No other named guests appear.

Guest backgrounds

Stevie White and Robbie Knox are presented as Jack’s “best pals” and regular co-hosts/participants; no professional bios are provided in the transcript.

Key claims & notable examples

  • Sweden: Skogsruer (forest spirit/siren) lures men into the forest for sex; can reward or kill, steals infants, and may drive men insane. Protection advice includes wearing clothes inside out and not revealing one’s true name.
  • Costa Rica/Central America: La Segua—targets drunk men and womanizers; transforms into a terrifying horse-faced monster, torments victims, and is escaped by throwing mustard seeds.
  • Australia: Yara-ma-yahu—fig-tree monster that drains blood, leaves victims near death, then regurgitates them alive; repeated attacks shrink victims and redden them.
  • Peru: El Pish-Taco (Nyacac)—grinds skeletons into paralyzing powder; incapacitates travelers and “feeds” on human fat (sometimes described as extracting semen/fat and selling it).

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Chapters

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Turning on Norwich Christmas Lights

0:00 to 0:15

Discussion on the desire to turn on the Christmas lights in Norwich.

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Turning on Norwich Christmas Lights

0:18 to 0:41

Discussion on the desire to turn on the Christmas lights in Norwich.

“The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money.”

Turning on Norwich Christmas Lights

1:16 to 1:30

Discussion on the desire to turn on the Christmas lights in Norwich.

Who Turns on the Lights?

1:30 to 2:35

Debate about who should be chosen to turn on the Christmas lights.

“Because we're getting this in nice and early.”

Previous Years' Light Turners

2:35 to 4:46

Review of past individuals who have turned on the Christmas lights.

“Like, oh, my friend was out in America when Josh Sargent turned on the Christmas lights, and apparently he fucked it up.”

The Panto Opportunity

4:46 to 5:31

The hosts discuss the possibility of participating in a local pantomime.

Introduction to Urban Legends World Cup

5:31 to 6:20

Transition to discussing urban legends as they revisit the previous episode.

Recap of Episode 577

6:20 to 8:07

A recap of urban legends discussed in episode 577 before moving on.

“So yeah, I won't go through them, but before you listen to this now, I'm about to say spoilers from episode one.”

Introducing the Next Match-up

8:07 to 10:01

Introduction of Sweden vs. Costa Rica in the Urban Legends competition.

“Iceland were up against Nigeria, which was Necropants against Madam Koi Koi.”

Exploring the Skogsruhr

10:01 to 11:28

Discussion about the Skogsruhr from Swedish folklore and its characteristics.

“so I know it's Sweden versus Costa Rica.”
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The Tale of the Holdra

11:28 to 14:00

Delving into the story of the Holdra and its implications in Swedish mythology.

“I think either way you're going to stink.”

Swedish Mythology and the Holdra

14:00 to 16:00

Exploration of the Holdra, a spirit from Swedish mythology, and her dual nature.

“that her kids were a bit dirty that she couldn't have gone, sorry God, I'm going to wash them in a second, but you've just turned up whilst they're mid-bath time.”

The Transformation of the Holdra

16:00 to 18:00

Discussion about the Holdra's transformation and her attributes based on legends.

“The only way for her to lose her tail is if she gets married inside a church when her tail will drop off and she'll transform back into a human.”

Skogsra's Dark Side

18:00 to 20:00

Exploration of the Holdra's darker aspects and her effects on men.

“That would really make you put some work in there, wouldn't it?”

How to Avoid the Holdra

20:00 to 22:00

Instructions on how to protect oneself from the Holdra's enchantment.

“loses that element when who touches her a priest or goes into a church so like if she's going to get married.”

Introduction to La Segua in Central American Legend

22:00 to 24:00

Introduction to the legend of La Segua, a feared figure in Central American folklore.

“Now this is how you protect yourself from the Skogsruer.”

The Story of La Segua

24:00 to 28:00

A tale of La Segua, detailing her transformation and curse.

“She was known for being cruel, cold and reckless.”

The Tale of Le Segwa: A Cursed Woman

28:00 to 31:20

Learn about the legend of Le Segwa and her curse on womanizers.

“and at a given moment she raised her hand to slap her mum.”

Consequences of Seduction: The Nicaraguan Idiom

31:20 to 32:50

Explore the idiom related to the consequences of being seduced and losing judgment.

Physical Descriptions and Transformations of Le Segwa

32:50 to 34:20

Hear a detailed description of Le Segwa's appearances and transformations.

“I like how he hasn't said, that's a joke.”

Escaping Le Segwa: The Mustard Seed Trick

34:20 to 37:57

Discover how to escape from Le Segwa using mustard seeds.

“The way to flee or escape from her is to throw down or show her mustard seeds.”

Escaping Le Segwa: The Mustard Seed Trick

38:00 to 39:09

Discover how to escape from Le Segwa using mustard seeds.

“Not technically, but the first week I ever met Alfie, we went away together and we actually stayed in an Airbnb in Liverpool.”

Escaping Le Segwa: The Mustard Seed Trick

39:13 to 39:38

Discover how to escape from Le Segwa using mustard seeds.

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Australian Urban Legend: Yarama Yahoo

41:20 to 42:00

Learn about the Australian urban legend of Yarama Yahoo and its characteristics.

The Yaramayahu Feeding Ritual

42:00 to 44:40

Discover the eerie feeding ritual of the Yaramayahu and its consequences.

“Its prey would be left lying helpless for an indetermined amount of time before the monster returns and promptly swallows them whole.”

Rituals and Mythical Transformations

44:40 to 47:20

Explore transformations and the implications of encounters with the Yaramayahu.

Introduction to the Pish Taco

47:20 to 49:16

Learn about the infamous Pish Taco and its terrifying habits.

“And last year, last time we did this, we did scores, didn't we?”

The Violent Folklore of the Pish Taco

49:16 to 56:05

Uncover the gruesome practices associated with the Pish Taco legend.

“Isn't that the thing that used to shit out a rainbow?”

Urban Legends: The Pish Taco

56:05 to 57:51

Explore the chilling story of the Pish Taco and its gruesome legend.

“At a news conference, police displayed two bottles of fat, which laboratory tests confirmed were human.”

The Investigation and Cover-Up

57:51 to 1:00:42

Discussion on the alleged police cover-up behind the Pish Taco case.

“Time magazine then wrote an article on this.”

Debating the Urban Legends

1:00:42 to 1:02:35

A lively debate on the merits of the Pish Taco versus other urban legends.

“They couldn't find any proof of any of these human remains or anything that the police have...”

Introducing New Urban Legends

1:02:35 to 1:04:44

Transitioning to new urban legends from Japan and Thailand.

“There's not much defence in this, isn't there?”

The Krasu of Thailand

1:04:44 to 1:08:31

Delve into the legend of the Krasu, a demonic witch from Thailand.

“So Krasu are believed to be demonic witches who become cursed to be forever hungry.”

The Krasu of Thailand

1:08:34 to 1:09:01

Delve into the legend of the Krasu, a demonic witch from Thailand.

“The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money.”

Defeating the Krasu

1:09:01 to 1:10:00

Discussion on the ways to protect against the Krasu and its terrifying traits.

“It's got to be fucking good to win this background, if I'm honest.”

Exploring the Krasu Legend

1:10:00 to 1:11:28

Learn about the Krasu, a mythical creature, and how it is believed to be defeated.

“here's a little tutorial if you are a disembodied head.”

CCTV Footage and Krasu Sightings

1:11:28 to 1:14:25

Hear about various sightings of the Krasu, including a chilling CCTV incident.

“I mean, imagine you went on holiday, fell in love with that lady.”

The Jorogumo: Spider Woman of Japan

1:14:25 to 1:18:07

Discover the Jorogumo, a spider spirit that transforms into a beautiful woman.

“As the light moved, the reflection struck patches of wet ground in an open rice field beside the factory, an area without any rice crops at the time, as it was the off-season.”

Legends of the Jorogumo

1:18:07 to 1:24:00

Dive into the myths surrounding the Jorogumo and its deceptive nature.

“The Jorugumo is a result of a spider who achieved this transformation.”

The Jorogumo Legend Explained

1:24:00 to 1:25:48

Learn about the legend of the Jorogumo and the fate of those who encounter her.

“Because at the moment, he's just stuck to a web.”

Escaping the Jorogumo's Spell

1:25:48 to 1:27:33

Discover the ways to escape or defeat the Jorogumo according to legend.

“This way, it's impossible to fall under the spell of this seductive woman and her hypnotic music.”

Whore Spider: The Jorogumo's True Name

1:27:33 to 1:28:05

Uncover the original name of the Jorogumo and its implications.

Debating the Urban Legends

1:28:05 to 1:29:51

Engage in a lively debate about the merits of different urban legends.

“I quite like the name is Whore Spider she sounds hot again now you know Marvel, Black Widow Whore Spider could be like like the new Marvel film.”

Krasu vs. Jorogumo Showdown

1:29:51 to 1:36:45

Discuss the characteristics of the Krasu and Jorogumo in a comparative matchup.

“I'm just saying we need to consider that.”

Wrapping Up the Urban Legends World Cup

1:36:45 to 1:37:47

Conclude with reflections on urban legends and a preview of upcoming episodes.

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0:55Jack makes happy hour. oh baby do you know what that's worth they say heaven is a place on earth i say yes it is and it's right here in highbury at the jack mate happy hour studio i'm here with two of my best pals in the whole wide world mr stevie white and robbie knox both of them looking better than they did last year at this time and uh we are jumping straight into an episode today with a little petition we're then talking about it off and we kind of want this bad don't we yeah we really really really really really want to turn on the norwich christmas lights can we make that happen not gonna happen well we could turn them on but we're not shit on my bum here mate what there is no one who wants to turn on the norwich christmas lights more than me what do i love norwich and christmas yeah that's kind of all it is yeah if they're doing it on a train then that's everything for me so um yeah so but i just think there's a lot of people ahead of us in the pecking well Let's dissect this, right?

1:51Because we're getting this in nice and early. We've got a few months yet to the big day. Well, actually, probably not, because they'll turn them on before Christmas. Yeah, normally. You guys keep talking. I'm going to Google who turned on previous years. Yeah, so who's the front runner, would we say? Any footballer for Norwich. Josh Sargent. Yeah. They're not doing it, though, are they? He's busy. Yeah. Yeah, no, they're not doing it. They're not doing it. Why aren't they? I think they're prime candidates. How about this? We come up with the top, who we think are at the top of the list, and we slander their names.

2:24I remember a few years ago. I think that's how you get into the good books of the light people, by slagging people off. I think we say liable stuff about everyone else that's on the list. I think it's more subtle. Like, oh, my friend was out in America when Josh Sargent turned on the Christmas lights, and apparently he fucked it up. Right. He dropped a can of Diet Coke in it, and it short-circuited everything. Good, and that's true, isn't it? yep okay so I've got a little list here yeah okay 2024 was comedian Owen Evans of the Nimmo twins okay they're quite big in Norwich are they? yeah I've not heard of them personally no but they do they're big in the local area they are big that is a we don't beat them you know the lady who put the cat in the bin that time made the news yeah I heard that she did it on Owen's orders no no jack they did it last year so we don't need to beat them this year they're not going to do it two years in a row no they might do they might do okay so like like he's just so like dictating edible cruelty around the world yeah he that's a million percent he did that right allegedly your view but that's fine no not saying allegedly okay 2023 was west end star millie o 'connell yeah okay yeah great at what she does who is what does she do acting in the west end bruh what's she acted in but um apparently because she's so good at acting when she did the christmas lights she just acted turning them on and everyone's done the countdown and it was like you've just fucking pretended there was no lights on all year 2022 was fairy fuller beans linda john we're shooing we're not do you know why i'll tell you what the link is between these people I guarantee all these people were in that year's Norwich Christmas Panto.

4:13Oh. Not 2020. A group of key workers. Oh. Covid year. That's because there's no Panto. 2017 after that. Helen McDermott, Anglia TV, former Anglia TV presenter. News, yep. Ed Balls, 2016. We have got this locked in. 2015 was Tanya Burr and Jim Chapman. Oh. that's our wheelhouse yeah but I think I think the problem now is the theatre side of things I think we might have to go into Panto first which I'm also open to yeah let's just do the Panto why don't we all get a role in the Panto Norwich Panto yeah at Norwich Panto by the way yeah we want to be in your Panto we'll all have it none of us can act Stevie can shout he's behind you yeah oh that's the neighbour I don't think they'll want that in a Panto no but they might like a joke for the adults they sometimes have a joke for the adults don't they yeah 2013 maybe not quite that Jake Humphrey so a lot of the good people from norwich have been taken taken it already yeah i think we have a solid chance boys i'm joking he's a nice guy he's a nice guy uh yeah so if you are out there and you can pull some strings at the panto put me robbie and stevie in we'll we'll do that and or if not we'll just turn on the christmas lights we are there is a stepping stone the panto yeah yeah we are using that just to benefit our own sort of gain of flicking on the lights is there a big button big red button is that what happens if there is it won't make that noise because that's not the noise a button makes well we've got a big red button there that never worked but so we've got a lot of practice maybe that'd be funny it'd be the one time we go to do it and we press it and nothing turns on they'd be fuming maybe we do it and we purposely fuck it up no we're not gonna get no no I won't do that you fucked it for us no no I'm joking I'll do it out of him if he's gonna fuck it up we'll do it I won't I'll put my heart and soul into it and finger on welcome how are we shall get on with the episode yeah let's do it let's do it boys i'd like you to cast your minds back to the 28th of july this year episode 577 i know exactly what episode that was one of your favorites mate yep urban legends the sexiest urban legends ever ever is what the episode's called i was so fucking horny that day well bring back the horn because my god have i got some more sexy ones is this the there was one that was good that was the world cup one is this another one of those this is the part round oh that's all right then still group table rounds group rounds what are you saying it's still the groups of the world cup of urban legends oh yeah we've only done six so in in episode one we had iceland up against nigeria so this is where you tell an urban legend from iceland and then an urban legend from nigeria robbie and i vote for a winner and that country wins when we eventually get on to the later stages of this uh competition you will pick a new urban legend from that from the same country oh good i hope that was going to happen because there was some debate that that wasn't going to happen before it would have really messed up the the format yeah we'll make it work so i'm not going to run through exactly what the urban legends are if you didn't listen to the first one go back to episode 577 it's a banger we all loved it may i ask a question go on it's a long time since the last one did we just forget that we were doing it no no we just sort of like we we just sort of added a little bit of yeah i liked it i like this is rare for an urban very rare yeah so i need a little break and also soldier's been wanking constantly since then because uh that sounds mental he found the last legends really sexy there were there was a lot for a boy for a boy like me teenage boy that's really like in like growing yeah and has a lot of testosterone that the thought of a young madam koi koi koi yeah drove me insane yep so i'll go i'll do a quick run through of whenever we did message on the group for a while we said jack you don't ever say today you would reply saying no emptying balls.

8:00So yeah, I won't go through them, but before you listen to this now, I'm about to say spoilers from episode one. Go back and listen to episode 577. We all loved it. Iceland were up against Nigeria, which was Necropants against Madam Koi Koi. I love Necropants. Had a little mention recently as well in the Foreskins in a Bed episodes. Did get a mention. Then we had Philippines up against Serbia where the Mananangal beat the Dancing Lady. And then it was Brazil versus Venezuela where Loira do Banheiro from Brazil lost against El Silbon. Yeah. But today I've got the next few countries in the wheel.

8:35Oh. Shall we spin the wheel to see who is up against who? Is it an actual wheel or are we faking it? I've got the wheel on here. Oh, yeah. He's got an actual wheel. He's got an actual wheel. And first country is...

8:51Sweden. Is it? Oh, Sweden. Yeah. What's the first thing you're thinking when you think of Sweden? Fit women. Have I Googled? Tell me where. It's that time, but I'll go fit women. I may or may not have Googled tell me urban countries with sexy urban legends, just for you. Oh, there might be a chance I'll get a semi in this. Okay, well, none of these are through to the semi yet, but Sweden will be going up against... Right. Be another fit country. Oh, it's so nearly... Costa Rica. I don't know much about the Costa Ricans. I've been to Costa Rica. Lots of animals. Okay, what are the women like? There were a lot of sex workers in the capital.

9:38Didn't go, didn't visit. Got my bag.

9:44Also, it was skint.

9:48No, I didn't really see many Costa Rican women. They seem quite pleasant, I was about to. Okay. Yeah. Are you Googling Costa Rican women? No, I'm currently trying to just put it in my list so I know it's Sweden versus Costa Rica. So we're going to start with Sweden. And this is the Skogsruhr. What? Skogsruhr, which is like a type of holdra, which is... I don't know what that is. It's just another word for a blögen.

10:20so in in sweden's one is kind of mixed with norway's so that it's all like the scandinavian countries have a version of this but um this is quite popular on visit sweden.com it has its own section about it so i'll read what that says to you first and the first words are the seductive oh okay there's no might about getting a semi today so visit sweden.com says the seductive holdra could be described as scandinavian folklore's take on the siren in swedish folklore this irresistible being is also known as skogsruer a forest spirit or tulmaha pine tree mary with roots in christianity the origins of the holdra unfold i don't remember this in the bible in the swedish bible swedish bible okay the origins of the holdra unfolds in a tale about a woman who'd only washed half of her children when god appeared at her cottage door i thought you're gonna say half of her body and i was like i still would take the chance we'll get did she wash the top half of the bottom half just i imagine four out of eight kids so she'd only washed half of her children god appeared deeply ashamed about her dirty children she she hid them from sight so just wash them so god commanded to be fair kids you've been out playing football you get muddy they might have been out with Zlatan but if she's washed half of them just put the other half in the bath gods turn up though you've got a god way outside mate sorry mate five minutes just cleaning the kids she should have instead of doing one by one like you suggested just do half of one half of another should have gone half just in case I'll wash all your hair yeah that actually that would have i didn't i mean if you don't know god's turning up that does seem quite inefficient yeah you're just getting in and out of the shower all the time if you can only wash half of your body for the rest of your life the upper half of the bottom half what half great question really good question not what i'm prepared to say until i can think about it yeah right yeah can you can you spread out the 50 over different body parts no yeah it's cut it's waist high do you want a dirty dick or a dirty head that's what you're saying that is what you're saying yeah right now neither's clean why why are you telling us if i pick bottom half am i still allowed to wash brush my teeth no yeah yeah we'll let you have teeth regardless okay can i put on deodorant no not if your top half's dutty still gonna need more thinking time but because hair is a big one hair is a big one i think i'm gonna have to have a clean top half yeah i think i am I'd do clean bottom half.

12:56Why? Just shave your head. You can be bald and you'd look... Smell. Shave your ass. Yeah, but your... William Bunn will smell. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. You're still going to stink. I do like bidets. Yeah. I think either way you're going to stink. I'll just kill myself. Yeah. I don't have to do either. That was option three, so that's good. So she hides her children, and God commanded them to be forever hidden from humanity, and thus they became the holders. Why? That's drastic. Why has he done that? All powerful. But was he... Wait, has he been in conversation? Why aren't your kids here?

13:33This is the information that visitsweden.com gives me, Robbie. It literally just jumps from, you've hidden your kids. Did you do any other research? Yeah, at the moment I'm just reading you visitsweden.com's segment on it. Can't he just wash them though? Can't he wash them if he's at us? Why would God go around someone's house and go, I'll clean your kids for you? Why is he banishing kids anyway? This God sounds a bit much. He is a bit much in this. Get one of your bottles of wine, turn that straight in the water and wash the fucking kids. Why was she so ashamed that her kids were a bit dirty that she couldn't have gone, sorry God, I'm going to wash them in a second, but you've just turned up whilst they're mid-bath time.

14:06My point is, what's the conversation that's God done? Is he going, oh, there's no kids here, they're banished forever? Or is he asked, is he going, why are there no kids? He goes, dirty. Then he goes, banished forever. Either way, banished forever. Yeah, but I want to know what God's problem is. I think it's more the mum's fault for hiding the kids. So kids aren't here, banished forever. Yeah. Have you got any other kids even if they're dead? No. Right, cool, because if you are, they're getting banished. Fine. Lay on. So he commands them to be hidden from humanity. They become the Holders, which is a collective name for the hidden folk.

14:41In Swedish mythology, the Holdra is mostly seen as a benign spirit known to be kind to charcoal burners, allowing them to sleep restfully by keeping an eye on their charcoal kilns. By way of thanking her, the charcoal burners would leave provisions, but her dangerous side has been revealed in some tales, recounting of how she lures men with her charms. Oh, lure me, baby. Charcoal seems quite big in Sweden. Yeah. That's why they're so dirty. Is that where Minecraft's from, Sweden? That explains it, because you do charcoal burning in there. Ah. Yeah. This is nothing to a Minecraft thing. No, I know, but it's got a lot to do with a woman.

15:18So she lures the men with her charms, carefully hiding her cow's tail by tying it in a knot under her skirt. She's got a cow's tail. Sorry, who's got a cow's tail? The lady. Scogsruh. Is this the woman who hit the kids? Yeah. Shit, mum. Shouldn't... She's become... Don't you have to... Oh, right. She's become an entity that God's made her into one of these. Why has God made her into this? Because she was ashamed of her kids. I know he's banished the kids. She weren't ashamed, though. She was halfway through washing them. Yeah, but then she went, who dirty for God to see you? There's a lot of questions.

15:52There's a lot of bits missing here. This is only what it says on VisitSweden.com. I've then got other stuff that I've gone into, so I'll give you some information. Does that answer the questions? No. Right, okay. The only way for her to lose her tail is if she gets married inside a church when her tail will drop off and she'll transform back into a human. So she still looks like a woman, sexy woman, but she's got a tail tail. Or a foxtail in some. What the? Foxtail sexier. Well, I'll give you a little description. Definitely. me from the she's just in her wedding dress i do blop what was that on the floor i just fell off i'll make it under a table so i'd like you both to really picture this i already am from the front she is a stunningly beautiful naked female being oh with long hair from behind don't care she is hollow like an old tree trunk what she's 2d you're picked missionary was that the question

16:58from the front amazing from the back hollow so she's like i don't think you can be hollow and 2d well maybe like a mask you know like one in mask with a tiny little bit of string on like plastic mask that would be that would be 3d the mask you're describing yeah apart from the cut out ones you got from magazines yeah so from behind she's hollow like an old tree trunk and she may have a tail of a cow or a fox her hair is often described as blonde long and flowing which is sometimes portrayed to be used to cover up her backside so that would cover up the the hollow bit as well wouldn't it she sometimes i'm not an ass man really so not at the moment still fine she's sometimes described to have a large large breasts which he which he throws over her shoulders when running right because i was thinking sexy boobs now i'm thinking bad boobs i think still still quite into it yeah yeah yeah go that is some big boobs sorry how the fuck is this on visit sweden's website because the women can throw their tits over their shoulder i said i've finished on there i said let's now give you a description Okay, the Skogsrur lures men into the forest to have sex with her, rewarding those who satisfy her.

18:29I'm fucked. And often killing those that don't. Oh! That would really make you put some work in there, wouldn't it? I'm still going to gamble. I'll take a Viagra with me. Okay, deal. She often steals human infants and replaces them with her own ugly holdobahn, the hold of children. she is associated with hunting and she might blow down the barrel of a huntsman rifle causing it to never miss a shot again some are not so lucky or perhaps are skilled and escape her only after surrendering their sanity so it's been known that man have sex with her loses all sanity and just loses his mind completely that's our good answer fuck I'm rolling the dice on this do you know what Costa Rica are fucked yeah costa rica might be a sexy one as well they aren't all sexy ones but i've made sure i sprinkled a little bit of sexy in there yeah no you don't need to force it i'll find the sexy in anything okay remember that for one of these right sometimes she marries a local farm boy but when this happens the glamour leaves her when the priest lays his hands on her what is it when she enters the church farm oh farm you say fun boy i was imagining the party boy you're a fun boy here for fun some legends tell of husbands who subsequently treat her badly so um there's a she's gorgeous like she's stunningly beautiful but then when she goes into a church or a priest touches her she loses that element when who touches her a priest or goes into a church so like if she's going to get married.

20:08I'm not religious so she ain't got to worry about that. So she gets married, she becomes rank and her tail falls off. No, only no. The glamour leaves if she goes in a church. This is only in some legend. And the tail only falls off if she goes in, gets married in a church. So when she gets married But you could let her keep the tail, couldn't you? I'd let her keep the tail. Yeah, let her keep the tail. I'm wrong with that. Some legends tell of husbands who subsequently treat her badly because she goes rank as Robbie said. She often wins her husband by showing physical strength, often by straightening a horseshoe.

20:41Fuck. You'd be impressed, wouldn't you? Yeah. Yeah, it would be good. You would be very impressed with that. Some fairy tales leave out this feature and let the couple live happily ever after. There you go. Maybe you boys get that lucky version. So the urban legend of Sweden is just some hot blonde that... Big hole in her back. You have to try and make cum while you go mental. Yeah, basically. What a country. What a country. Holdra would also sometimes try to marry human men by keeping their identity a secret until marriage. Only that blessing could rid them of their tales. So Fiona wouldn't even find out.

21:16Brilliant. What? She'll keep myself identity secret, won't she? Yeah, you're fine. I could have been fucking her for years, you wouldn't know. We would, because you'd be dead. Oh, yeah. And you'd have told her. Guess what I've done. if mistreated a holdra would visit terrible would put terrible vengeance upon her husband if betrayed she can punish the man severely in one story she avenged her pride on a young braggart seen she had sworn to marry on the promise that he wouldn't tell anybody on the contrary the boy bragged about his bride for a year and when they met again she beat him around the ears with her cow tail he lost his hearing and his wits for the rest of his life.

22:01That's brutal. Now this is how you protect yourself from the Skogsruer. You wear your clothes inside out. This is a traditional way to ward it off. Don't give her your name. Revealing your true name will break the enchantment and you'll be forever bound to her. Also be prepared to fight. If she has you cornered, you can use a burning log or throw tar in her face to scare her away. Okay, I don't know where I'd get tar from. I don't think you can. I don't think that's alright. Yeah. Just throwing tar in women's faces. Yeah. And you're just going to have to go with her. That's everything on the Skogsra.

22:32Okay. No, it's good. It's a nice length. I like it. Your big, big, big... That's what she said. Yeah. Easy. I want to know what she looks like. Google it for me, please. She's kind of... She looks a bit like an elven, I suppose. Okay. I like an elf. Yeah. I don't know how she gets them over her shoulders, though. Yeah. That's not the... Yeah. I was promised. yeah alright yeah good good start on the Swedish woman yeah it's kind of just like a sexy forest fairy yeah you're not putting me off okay yeah so that's Skodru going up against Costa Rica which is sorry I've got to find Costa Rica on my list I've still got a lot of questions about God's actions in all this yeah because it just seemed like a weird bit where God turns up randomly God works in mysterious ways mate alright that's all it says on visit sweden.com as well that's just because god hated them banished yeah yeah costa rica so this is um this is from a lot of central american countries kind of have this mexico and necroaguera yeah it's a hard word to say yeah and you gotta be quite careful yes that one is la segua okay oh one of those things with the wheel everyone went mental for Christmas 2016.

23:52Known as a dreaded figure, Le Segway is a terrible spectre who torments the lonely paths from Central America. Before she turned into a monster, It's another she. She was known for being cruel, cold and reckless. It was after being cursed that she developed the true monster that was inside her. She now roams the streets at night looking for men who have been drinking too much or who are womanizers. Le Segway... Lisegwa is one of the few spirits of Latino American legend that's known for being feared and respected like a politician some politicians I've got a little short story on this one I don't think so I don't think you respect them if you're afraid of them but that's what's special can anyone be feared and respected Harland if you play against them yeah that's a really great show and Haaland would like Skogsruer Haaland is Skogsruer that's how I'm imagining it, Haaland with tits on the counter I fear balls of respect her imagine his top knot ponytail is just a little cow's tail instead I like it a lot I've got a short story for Lesegwa for you can't you blow your eyes a bit with him yeah you could yeah but with him you'd have to go from behind and then the back's all hollow Excuse me?

25:20Move on. A short story.

25:31What's the fuck Harlem from the back? He can't do it from the front. He can put his legs over your shoulder. Doesn't matter. That'd hurt. What? He's got big strong legs, hasn't he? Pulling me down. Just get out with him. A short story. Over 200 years ago, in a little town of Cartago, there lived a beautiful woman, the most beautiful woman in town. She was as pretty as a rose with pronounced curves and beautiful breasts. Are they all just going to be... Yeah. Because I was not in the mood to be horny today. But you are. I am. No, they're not all. We just happened to... The wheel's just given us two sexy ones.

26:09And you Googled sexy. I did that. But they're not all. Don't you worry. Beautiful breasts. I'm not worried. Stop saying beautiful breasts. I get it. Shapely legs and a face like no other. However, she was a very proud girl and she didn't have the least consideration for her parents, whom she often humiliated and disobeyed, because she said that she was very unhappy with being poor. Legend has it that one day, this beautiful young woman received an invitation from a wealthy and handsome Spaniard to attend a ball, to which her mother opposed, because a young man had a reputation as a womanizer and of having little formality with women.

26:48What does that mean? Not very formal with women. No, yeah, yeah, I got that. But what does that mean in reality? Like, what are we talking? Well, to be formal with a woman, it'd be like, hello, my darling, would you like to go for lunch? He's taken out all of that formality, so he's going... Is my darling's not formal? Hello. Sounds a bit like the kind of thing someone would say to you in a calf. Okay, hello, fair maiden. Madam. Madam, would you, would I like to go for lunch? But he's taking the formal out of it, so he's going, yo, bitch. All right, sweet, come get a sandwich. Exactly. So faced with her mother's refusal, the young woman exploded in anger and blasphemed against her.

27:25She filled their humble house with expletives while her mother watched her and wept silently at the daughter's attitude. What were some of the expletives? It doesn't specifically say. Yeah, but if you had to guess. Fuck you, cunt. you're a shit mum and poor and i want to fuck spaniard man that's exactly what yeah that's i was thinking yeah fuck you man i want to fuck spaniard man

27:52we already mentioned fucking two footballers in this episode we never get a job with the fa or the premier no but the young woman didn't settle for insults and at a given moment she raised her hand to slap her mum. But she didn't have as she fully raised her hand. When a black hand with large nails came out of nowhere and held the ungrateful daughter's hand, then a thunderous voice was heard that said, I curse you, a bad woman, for offending and trying to hit the one who gave you life. From today on and for the rest of the centuries, men will approach you because of your beautiful body. But because of your hideous face, they will run away from you.

28:32Since then, Le Segwa suddenly appears on the roadside Asking horsemen to hitch her a ride Saying that she's going to the nearest town There is not a man who can resist such a beautiful body And sweet pleas But once she gets on the horse Her face transforms into that of a horrible beast Similar to that of a horse's skull With rotting meat, shining eyes, huge misshapen teeth And stinky breath Le Segwa appears specially to womanizers and drunk men Who ride late at night on the street she appears to them and with her sweetness she makes them believe that she has a new conquest for them before she shows her horse face the monster then clings tightly to the rider the horse who seems to realise what it's carrying starts to run at a wild gallop without anyone being able to stop it it is stated that those men who had ill intentions when taking the maiden all die and get found lying on the ground with their eyes open and bulging the fine ill intentions I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know Is that an intention?

29:33In the modern day? Yeah, because she's specifically going after womanizers Yes, but what was that just like wanting to make love to her? Is that an intention? No, it's not But this isn't modern day, is it? This is horse riding Yeah, even more went on back there What? What do you mean more went on back then? Yeah, you see any of those period drama type things Yeah, they would squeeze the bum without permission which we do not agree with. True. Yeah. Well, maybe, I don't know. No. Maybe she's like, no, I'm not into this, but I'll ride your horse. I'll get on your horse. I want to lift. All she's asked for is, can you take me to the nearest town?

30:12And they're looking at her body and going, I'm going to turn that. Yeah. And then she's... But if they're saying, go to the other, I'll take you to the other town, go to the other town, but they're hoping, oh, it'd be good if she... Then that's still intention. But then that's not, it's just like... Correct intention is giving her a lift to her location. Ill intention is only giving her a lift because he wants something out of it. But what if he's giving her a lift to the location, but also would quite like it? But why would you do anything asking for a friend? Where's the cutoff? Where's the cutoff is what I know, because I guess this happens.

30:46Because why would you do anything for a woman if there's no sex at the end?

30:52Nah, keep that in. It's a joke. Yeah, it's not staying in if it's a joke. Yeah. Okay, so that's that When the night owl is not cautious So unconfident being laddy, aren't we? Cut that When the night owl is not cautious Le Segway would ambush him Playing with him Who? The night owl Who? Like someone else Little elephant I hate you so much That's good Le Segway would ambush him Playing with him And then torment him But without killing him immediately The spectre takes over the man And bites his cheek leaving the mark of a hummingbird and an unfaithful man it said that those who see it end up crazy since when they're let go when they're found by someone you can see the terror of having seen it on their faces their eyes popping out also with a strong fever and other symptoms such as diarrhea oh that's just unnecessary isn't it you're mad you've like a mark on your face all that you're just shitting yourself it's too much and if you've met the other woman you can't wash the bottom off your body later the almost crazy victim before dying the only thing that they'll say is i saw her i saw her and this is expressed in the popular nicaraguan saying nicaraguan saying and our so this is like a really popular idiom over there um it means to become foolish or stupid or to suffer the consequences of being carried away by appearances and vices it's used to describe a person who by staying up late getting drunk or allowing themselves to be seduced loses their judgment or becomes useless and disorientated like the victims of the segway and the legend they literally have a whole phrase just for people who lose their minds when they're drunk and just don't care what they have a phrase the phrase is just called in the quagra and are fuego de segway and this is all about the urby legs and it's it's about that it's not it's based from the urban legend but they're just saying it about like oh if you got drunk and you don't really have any morals or anything whilst you're drunk yeah that's a little saying they'll say about you okay he's that guy yeah yeah so many describe that lesegua was a very beautiful woman of spanish descent with white skin and long wavy hair in addition to having a very voluptuous figure they say that she's wearing a fine white dress but others say that she usually appears completely naked in its monstrous form the segway has the face of a horse and as i said earlier it's decomposing with sharp teeth bright red eyes in the sockets in some stories the segway is presented not as a woman but as a child who carries on the road okay i'm out swede wins i am out who cries on the roadside or near a river and when the rider picks him up i already had the erection Okay, I'll get past the kids' lord.

33:40Fucking. That rest the case for the defence. I like how he hasn't said, that's a joke. The one about women, that's a joke. Joke about being erect over kids and you just leave. I know. I've never said that. No. I had the erection and you said, and also sometimes she's a kid. And then he came.

34:03Down from his state. Many say that they've had encounters with Le Segway, and even today it is mentioned on any road, when you drive in your car at night, you have to be careful who you offer a ride, because she'll get into your car with all of her charms, and when you get absorbed by her beauty, she'll become what she is, Le Segway. The way to flee or escape from her is to throw down or show her mustard seeds. Good job for Norwich. Got loads. Le Segway really likes... No, no. Rip Coleman's greatest. Segway really likes mustard seeds. when the smell reaches her, she stops chasing her victim and tries to eat the seeds.

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34:39But since her hands turned into horse hooves, she vomits out her soul when she cannot do this. Vomits out her soul? So the victim is saved. Would you like to see... That's dramatic, isn't she? Would you like to see what the Segwa looks like? I like a high-maintenance woman, though. I reckon I could win a round. Yeah. I see what you're saying, but, like, she got some mustard seeds. Imagine if you're in your kitchen, you drop the mustard seeds, and she's like... and throws off her soul. Yeah, be like when you drop food on the floor around a dog. Helps you clean up. Yeah, but then the dog doesn't vomit up its soul.

35:09That's La Segwa. Oh, Jesus Christ. That's a good painting. Is that before? Is it after she's... Yeah, that's horse head. She's still actually reasonable there. She's got an amazing body, but she's just got like a horse's head. Yeah, but... Yeah. Yeah, so there, look. Yeah, so like... What do you think of that, Robbie? you can look past the head can't you a little bit yeah it's honestly it's like there's a whole comic books about it and everything it's really popular over there but it is is there any way right because i'm somebody that doesn't really judge someone based on their looks and i think all women are beautiful right so if the uh so if there's if is there a way i can be with this lady right she's got a horse's head sure but I'm gonna treat her right she's gonna treat me right and we might make love from time to time but we'll be together forever remember she doesn't always have a horse's head she only turns the horse's head when I find her attractive if the person has ill intention but I have all the best intentions I'll take her off the top to marry her yeah well then maybe she'll maybe she'll just get with you alright so then she goes hang on Jack you said you won't marry me but I've looked at the evidence I'm not even Your proposals mean nothing.

36:31I would like to show her the world. Right, okay. I'll take her to Paris. Oh, the way you said it, a bit of French. Yeah. Yeah, okay, I'll leave you now. Round one, Skogsruhe versus La Segwe. Okay, so obviously the Swedish one's going to win, but we need to go through the motions of discussing it. Really? They've both got a drawback, haven't they? Not the first one. Swedish lady big hollow hollowed out tree trunk bat don't care why would I care and then second one big horse head melty horse head so the first one's got a hollow back the second one will fucking murder you and spit her soul up on your kitchen floor when she's trying to nick your mustard all I really remember was the the tits over the shoulder to be honest from the first one that really that really captured my imagination there is this is gonna take a fucking miracle for titty shoulders to not win the jewels were in May like that that other one very interesting thank you for bringing it to the table and no disrespect for the bit of Costa Rica I love your country quarter of the country a national park doesn't have an army either Costa Rica peaceful country peaceful country however the other Swedish one could throw a tits over his shoulder so we'll win next round please Stevie next round good plus I've seen six in the city so can be hot back to the wheel This episode is brought to you by Airbnb.

37:59I swear you were telling me that you met Alfie in an Airbnb. Not technically, but the first week I ever met Alfie, we went away together and we actually stayed in an Airbnb in Liverpool. So the first time you met Alfie, just you two went and... You just met for the first time and went, let's go share an Airbnb together. No, it wasn't just me and Alfie. There was a few of us. We travelled up to Liverpool and we got an Airbnb because unlike a hotel, we wanted to all sort of stay in the same place together. And it was pretty good, to be fair. Fee had somewhere to do her makeup we had a kitchen we had a massive sofa it was a good weekend but it was a bit strange because I didn't really know Alfie that well but we got close on that week and he got an invite and I didn't must have been lost in the post well then I hope I get an invite to the next one where are we going?

38:44yeah that's already booked me and Alfie and a few other friends are going to Brighton for the weekend again Airbnb can't wait

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39:45Australia. Oh, come on. Come on. Yeah. Here we go. There's some babes in Oz, let me tell you. and doesn't matter. Remember, I haven't made them all sexy. The Giza de Vos. I like it. The next one is Australia are going up against Peru. Oh, you know the old bloody you know women from Peru, don't you? I know the Peru too. Okay, so Australia. This is, I'm going to say now, one of my favourite urban legends I've ever researched. Not any bias on this. Okay. but the name just everything about it i can't believe i've not heard of it before so i'm going to introduce you guys to australia's urban legend of yarama yahoo i like the name great name isn't it yarama yahoo yeah i use yarama google now so

40:42yarama yahoo according to the language you pronounce it completely differently which is the story because i don't know how it's pronounced i've watched multiple videos to try and get the pronunciation and everyone says it differently okay okay so yarameyahoo according to the legend it's three to four foot tall and resembles a frog or monkey-like little man owing much of its height to its massively oversized head its entire body is said to be covered in red skin or hair and the tips of its fingers and toes are described as octopus-like suckers its face is dominated by a wide toothless mouth like a frog with a jaw that can dislocate like a snake to become large enough to engulf a human being i like the sound of this fucker he's got a bit about him yeah wait until you see some of the art of this creature okay it's the best thing ever he sounds cool this creature is said to live almost exclusively in the foliage of fig trees patiently lying in wait for a lone human stopping to rest at the base of its tree once the victim lets their guard down the monster will drop from above and begun begin a multi-step feeding ritual like a drop bear because this is an hour it is yeah it is like a drop bear let me show you keen to hear the steps of the multi-step feeding ritual i'm gonna show you it but i would i actually like the idea of showing you guys what he looks like so you can picture i can picture him pretty well i think at the minute i'm picturing like small little golem creature red yeah that's pretty much what i was picturing yeah yeah oh my word that is the best wait it gets so much better some of the other pictures because everyone draws it kind of differently wow that's my favorite picture oh so it is like a little they're just amazing like all the pictures of it no matter how no matter what they draw it's just amazing that is really good so honestly so this feeding ritual imagine giving a night out who's that it's uh so the feeding ritual is also mental jumps down so first it would latch onto the victim so it jumps down latches onto the victim and rapidly drain its blood in a leech-like manner through its sucker-tipped digits feeding until the victim was on the very brink of death no you're advised to simply lay back and submit to the attack because the monster would leave you alone if you stopped struggling.

43:07Oh. But then you're too weak to escape. Its prey would be left lying helpless for an indetermined amount of time before the monster returns and promptly swallows them whole. I thought he'd leave you alone if you're not doing stuff. No, because you're too weak to move. If you're still there when he comes back, you're getting swallowed. You can't do anything though. You're fucked. You are fucked. Yeah. It gets better. Once he swallows you whole, he washes down its meal at the nearest river, it then takes a long nap. As soon as the creature wakes up, it regurgitates its victim completely alive and unharmed as though the attack never happened at all except that the unfortunate soul who was eaten would be slightly shorter and their skin would have a little bit of a reddish tint for the rest of their days.

43:53Okay. The Yara Miyahu would never miss an opportunity to attack the same person again and again and with every attack, the person gets a little bit smaller and a little bit redder and a little bit hungrier for blood. So it's not certain how many attacks are necessary but anyone foolish enough to keep going under a fig tree will eventually become a yarrow mayo. Wow. That's great. So the early stages of wanting blood, is that just like, oh, I might just have black pudding with my breakfast. Yeah. It's like that. Slowly get to it. Oh, I'll have that steak raw. And then a little bit later like, oh, cut my finger.

44:31yeah it's alright that and then you're fucked and then next thing yeah bang you're a Gary and my Yahoo isn't that the best like feeding process ever you know our friend Jake he's a short man isn't he yeah do you remember what happened in Glastonbury what when he went really red he went really red so he told us he got sunburnt maybe he slept he fell asleep outside as well he might have fell asleep under a fig tree he's a Gary and my Yahoo gotta be careful around him yeah I will not let him suck me again according to legend I didn't suck my face no I yeah it sounded like according to legend the Yaramayahu is only active during the day and only targets living prey so if you play dead until sunset you might be able to avoid an attack additionally the folklore said that the Yaramayahu was not meant to be seen and got rid of anybody who ever even glimpsed upon it I like this guy he's got a lot about him he has and he knows what he fucking wants doesn't he and he gets it oh this guy's he's eating me oh yeah yeah I'm not as good as I was but I'm alright he doesn't kill you he barely rins you imagine yeah imagine Jack just comes in one time and he's 5 '11 instead yeah a little bit redder would you notice though if you were my height yeah yeah I think I'd notice if you shrunk a little bit but I didn't come up to you close enough that you could compare where's it next to you I think we'd see you yeah very hard for you not to I'd be like Jack why have I got more leg room behind you in the car yeah right but if i walked in here now and i was like three inches shorter you wouldn't have a clue yeah i reckon yeah i think it's quite because i think six foot three is you're quite tall aren't you what are you five twelve five eleven five eleven he's so beta he can't even be six foot he's just five twelve i'm five eleven yeah so i think it'd be noticeable if i because at the moment i have to look up at you yeah um but if you suddenly came in and you were pretty much my height i'd be like what's going on here that'd be quite cute though and you'd be yeah suddenly the same way yeah and it's a little bit redder you know there's that guy who did like the surgery to make himself from five foot six to six foot have you seen that it's all over the internet is it really did it work yeah apparently it's been showing clips of him like playing basketball and stuff now and he's all like is that what they break i read an article about yeah they break their legs and then extend them and stuff like yes i can't work long term i don't think it's great for you nah in the interview it said something like oh you can only extend your height by like four inches or something and he went for six like because they were like a safely why don't you do it and become like six eight shall i yeah just for the pod yeah go through really drastic life yeah you do that i will get shorter imagine if alfie just came in he was six foot one day that'd be class i think he's got enough going for him i like that he's short yeah because he's handsome and witty got to pull him back so imagine not having enough going for you the best thing is to break your legs and extend yourself.

47:24That's your only hope, mate. God bless that is awful. I'm taller. Okay, so Australia's Yaramayahu. Good. Very good. Very good. And last year, last time we did this, we did scores, didn't we? Like it was a football game. So Sweden versus Costa Rica. Oh yeah, you did. In the first one. 3-1. Yeah, there is tits over the shoulder though, isn't there? Yeah, but the other one was also quite hot. 4-2. very high scoring but okay high scoring game of 4-2 so australia is the yaramayahu versus did i pick the second country yet i'm not i did peru yeah peru okay so peru's one is unusual in the sense that i could have probably done one full episode just on this one urban legend so i've done a very condensed version thank god yeah i wonder where that was going it's still quite long but it's so interesting to the point that we'll be yeah don't you put words to the point that it has a real life police case around it oh that's it no tits okay all right why did you spoil it as i said the wheel the wheel just happened to give you sexy versus sexy and now this one has given you yaramayahu absolute unit little red beast yeah i love him i love it honestly my favourite creature I've ever seen little unit little unit yeah Peru little Arlo little unit Peru is bringing the pish taco I've had some pish tacos in my time you said how many you could eat in a day yeah I'd say pish you took the pish the pish taco why are you looking away he's imagining it I was trying to okay the pish taco also known as the nyacac but we'll call it the pish taco It's easier to say.

49:16Isn't that the thing that used to shit out a rainbow? No, Yang Cat. Oh, yeah. I thought you said Yang Cat. Yang Cat. Is often described as a pale-skinned man, typically handsome and sporting an impressive beard, dressed in high boots, a leather jacket, and a wide-brimmed hat. High boots? Like knee-length? Like cowboy boots, I picture. Although the Pish Taco can change his clothing to stay modern with the times. That's Robbie out. That's good. You mentioned the clothes are shit. Then I might be back in. He sneaks into graveyards to grind human skeletons into a paralyzing powder that he uses to incapitate hapless travellers on nocturnal mountain roads on the paths of Peru.

49:59Sorry, how did you make the paralyzing powder? He grinds down human skeletons. So they're already dead. He gets graveyards. He gets skeletons and grinds them down. Okay. What are you going to say? Oh, I just gave up on it. Good. I was going to say I've grinded a skeleton in a graveyard before. He carries a huge knife and his eyes flash in the dark. There are stories of him raising a hand to his intended victim, only for the victim to realise that Pish Taco's fingers are wiggling like worms. The victim freezes with terror, giving the creature its opening to attack. The Pish Taco is described as the Peruvian vampire by some, but it doesn't want your blood.

50:35The Pish Taco wants... Pish Taco's such a funny name. It is, isn't it? It is a great name. Your semen? Does it come? Human fat. Man fat. in some version of the legend he eats the fat he extracts but more often than not he seeks to profit from it usually by selling it to other foreigners is this how you've lost the weight? have you been pretending to go to the gym and just go and see a fish taco? fish taco? remember it was called fish taco fish taco is fish taco a zempick? yeah he's the olden day he's the folklore folklore of zempick yeah in the more supernatural versions of the tale the pish taco sucks the fat out through his victim's skin or inserts a tube to tap them like a woodsman tap sap from a tree it's more liposuction then yeah she like stabs it in just does a little thing on it yeah so he's got some sort of medical background then yeah yeah potentially yeah said to be rather violent he occasionally rapes him whilst he's at it what what did you say did you say what I thought you said Yeah, I didn't know where to leave that bit in.

51:45If it's written, it's written, isn't it? It is written. What did you say? I think I might have missed her, Jerry. No, you didn't. I just felt awkward. Say it again, probably. Think of a fruit. Said to be rather violent, he occasionally rapes them whilst he's at it. Sometimes the victim even... Rather violent. It's very violent. Sometimes the victim even survives the procedure, finding strange gaps in their memory and feeling suddenly lightheaded and weak. In the more literal accounts, the pish taker was less forgiving. He dismembers the victim entirely, strings their body parts up to hold over an open flame with bottles lined under to collect the dripping fat.

52:20Fairly violent then. Yeah. The Pish Taco were also known to work in league with the evil Catholic priests who would... Oh my God. Why is this? Why is this legend? They purchased the extracted... I won't call him a legend, Robbie, if I will. Why is this absolutely a ledge? King of Panther? fish taco the catholic priests would purchase the extracted human fat to grease their church bells to improve the acoustics god that i mean morals aside that is dedication to your trade isn't it yeah yeah they don't sound right it's got some human fat make that sound a little bit better yeah human i can get human fat from a fish taco shall we get some well yeah i mean that is that is the professionalism i want for my priests so to beat the pish taco you must avoid isolation because pish tacos prey on lone travelers so staying in a group or close to a village is considered protective you could be in a running for this because you travel a lot on your own yeah you do i do sometimes i did go to mexico which isn't that far away no you're right nothing happened while i was there promise you have lost a bit of weight thank you as with many Andean spirit beings carrying a torch candle or keeping a fire going could warn them off and also they hate noise whistling ringing bells or shouting Oh that's such an easy way to stop yourself getting Yeah because you've got everyone's got a torch on their phone now Yeah and you can just shout Ah Ah quick I've run out of battery Shit So this one has some like genuine origins so there's a renowned No it doesn't It just doesn't Wait there's a renowned peruvian folklorist a frame marote best who wrote about the origins of the pish taco he believed the pish taco tradition is based on actual alleged practices of the conquering spanish in the 16th and 17th centuries in which human body fats were used in treatment of wounds and disease in 1571 it's written that the inca the people of peru refused to bring firewood into the homes of the conquistadors the spanish soldiers who were conquering peru not out of spite but out of fear because word had gotten around that during a battle some 50 years earlier the Spanish lacking proper dressing for their wounds had taken the corpses of the Peruvians and cut strips from their flesh and their backs and used it human fat I'll be honest I did prefer like the ones with the boobies yeah well I've got to give you a bit of everything yeah I think it would it would quickly if they're all just boobies it would it would be the kind of pod we want really do you know what I mean like it'd be a bit too wee I mean they're still going to win I quite like the little red fella oh I forgot about it this one wasn't bad till you know slicing people and letting their fat drip into bottles is not nice well this is now where it gets like really interesting because I went down a rabbit hole with this one I'll give you a really short version but there's an article on the Guardian which is titled gang killed victims to extract their fat.

55:30So this is from 2009. This actually happened? I'll read a bit of the article. A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend. The jailed men have confessed to killing five people, but police suspect the number of victims is far higher, with 60 people reported missing in the Huonuco this year alone. Two of the suspects were arrested at a bus station in the capital Lima carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed were worth up to$60 ,000 a gallon. What? At a news conference, police displayed two bottles of fat, which laboratory tests confirmed were human.

56:13The fat was extracted from the thorax and thighs, said Isubio Felix Merger, chief of police. Police also showed a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim discovered last month in a coca growing valley so this is all in a real genuine police um thing where they're telling everyone about it so have they just heard of the urban legend and they thought they could get away with murder and to pin it on him i don't know are they just want it in in the human fat trade well this is where it goes down a rabbit hole i'll finish this little bit of the article the gang have been nicknamed the pish tacos after the ruthless assassins of the indigenous kakeya legend who ambushed solitary victims and drained their fat as an offering to the gods and make land fertile another version depicts them as cannibal bandits who ate the skin and sold the fat the stories date back to before the european conquest the suspects allegedly would sever victims heads arms and legs remove organs and suspend torsos from hooks above candles which warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below members claimed other gangs were engaging in similar killings.

57:17So that was the Guardian's 2009 article. I wonder if human fat would be good for roast potatoes. Yeah, bang him. Because goose fat and duck fat's really good, isn't it? I don't think there's any fat that wouldn't be good on a potato. Do they ever use pig fat for anything? Cracklin? It's skin, isn't it? Is that fat? Pork bellies. It's quite a fatty meat, yeah. I'm wondering, because you can get, like, goose fat in a jar. I'm surprised you can't get pig's fat. Maybe it's just not nice. You probably can. maybe it's not as nice so two weeks later roughly still 2009 this news is spread all around the world obviously from peru because this is genuine the head of police in peru has come out in a conference and shown bottles of human fat and pish tacos are back and shown a picture of a press conference and showed a picture of an actual human head and said this gang have been doing this on on the news.

58:11Two weeks later. That was mental. Yeah. Oh no, I picked a picture. I thought you'd only pick a picture. Yeah, that's what I thought. No, I picked a picture. Time magazine then wrote an article on this. Okay. Titled Peru's Fat-Stealing Gang Crime or Cover-Up? Much of the world was shocked and titillated by the news of an alleged fat-stealing murderers in the Peruvian jungle. Can we guess what the cover-up is? Yeah. What do you think the cover-up is? Well, that's what I was saying so are the murderers pinning it on the urban legend is that why they're going for the fat are they just hit men do they want to kill these guys for different motives but then they've gone oh let's take the fat and then we can make it look like the old matey done it it feels like if it's a cover up they've done something worse than thinking they're just taking fat to make make up yeah cover up you're only going to cover up something worse so they're trying to make this look better they're like oh oh that's terrible that's the worst he could have done yeah right are they using the fat for like potatoes well it's got to be worse yeah so could the allegation of a homicidal liposuction possibly be a smokescreen to distract attention from other crimes including some local journalists say the existence of a death squad that may be operating within the country's national police so i won't go into all of it but basically it turns out there was another newspaper article that was about to come out from this investigative journalist called ricardo useida or ukeda and he'd found that apparently in 2007 and 2008 46 criminals were shot to death by police officers and they just start murdering the criminals rather than catching them and he was going to drop this article and the whole police were going to basically be under scrutiny so just as it was happening the chief of police the head of the police guy has just gone let's just make up this whole story oh so they knew loads of people were missing so they used the missing people to create this story based on the urban legend but loads of scientists and stuff came forwards going human fat would um just if you take human fat out of a body it decomposes within like 30 minutes there's nothing you could do with human fat really yeah it's shit like loads of scientists came forward and went none of this story makes sense at all what we need to look into it right and eventually the guy who held up the bottles and stuff got suspended from the force so it was all like a blatant lie just to hide the naughty going on wow of a death squad in the police quite naughty i think you're underplaying it a little bit with the words naughty goings on so this is like one of the most real urban legends there ever was because even though the little cretin with the sausage fingers spaghetti fingers or whatever it was it might not be real someone is acting on his behalf or like acting as they're doing what he would have done no they pretended someone did it you missed the entire story yes but they still killed someone right and took the fat no the police pretended that happened to distract from this other story because this story of the pish tacos took over the news for a few days which meant the other guy didn't want his story to get buried in all of that so he held back on releasing it until eventually everyone was questioning it and going, none of this story makes sense.

1:01:29They couldn't find any proof of any of these human remains or anything that the police have... They've just openly come out and gone, oh, they're stringing up their bodies, they're doing all this, and I've got no proof of any of it. And they couldn't show any proof that any of that had happened. They've just come up with a whole story. A reasonable and fair police force of the true urban legend. No, because they... They're trying to find real police here, aren't they? Oh, yeah, yeah, the actual police force. Yeah. according to this was a yeah created a whole death squad right so I think we know who's going to win this yeah little red fella yeah little red fella because it's him or some corrupt police force and that little red no the legend wasn't the corrupt police force that was just news about it no the pish taco oh the pish taco oh we're still doing a pish taco he steals so do you want Yaramayahu who jumps out of trees sucks your blood swallows you whole takes a nap regurgitates you and repeats the process until you become little red dude obviously or would you like Pish Taco who steals your fat to sell it to foreign and also there was I think we were underplaying all the raping as well yeah yeah just one random sentence I went off him then yeah yeah I didn't know whether to just take it out because it didn't seem to add much to the story no no you're right to bring out you've got to tell the story but it is going to count against him okay Yaremi Yahoo versus Pish Taco Yaremi Yahoo 4 Pish Taco 0 0 wow 4 0 No, you're not keen on the body fat stuff at all.

1:02:57There's not much defence in this, isn't there? Yeah, he hit the post. He hit the post. That's the seal and the fat. Yeah. The fat was hitting the post. And then the whole, as we said, the sexual assault. Okay. We're going to do two more Urban Legends, one more game. And the countries we're going to go against are, we've got Thailand. Thailand. Thailand. Okay. Great. Yeah. and they are going up against can I guess yeah but Switzerland can I guess yeah

1:03:37Austria. Japan. Oh, close. Now we've done a whole Urban Legends, two episodes on Japanese Urban Legends. Yeah. There are so many that are so good that I felt like, even though we've done episodes, they still deserve a space in the World Cup. But I will not be talking about one that's been in here before. Can I just say, if say you could put one in that had already been in, if we had to put one forward from England as our representative, to go and represent us in the Olympics here or the World Cup, what would we put forward? I don't really remember them. Black Shug. Yeah, I don't know if we have many.

1:04:15We've got Bloody Mary, haven't we? Is that American? That's what I don't know what ones are American and which ones are English. I know. What about the Headless Horseman? Hollow, Sleepy Hollow stuff. Is that English or is that American? Can't remember. That's what I mean. When I've, I have tried to search English ones. I just don't seem that. it's a lot of castle stuff haunted castle but i'm looking for specific character urban legends yeah weird fuckers i don't want to give you a haunted building yeah okay so we're finishing group b thailand versus japan okay now thailand i've got the krasu both potentially sexy nope not what you're gonna say southeast asian were you gonna say southeast asian both um i was gonna say southeast asian as well um i was gonna say uh both fighting countries right japan karate your bag and um thailand like uh muay thai muay thai yeah it's got a name that one yeah i was gonna say thai karate so the krasu is a little bit similar to one i can't remember if i've spoken about something like this before or whether i've just read through so many that i've known of this before but i wanted to do this one specifically because it's recently became very well known because of a game called dead by daylight which you may have heard of zombies no i just said the name is called dead by daylight yeah zombies in it no are there i don't know dead by daylight is essentially a game where i guess you could describe it as like a horror among us where one of you plays as the the bad guy but the bad guy tends to be a very well-known killer from a film like jason voorhees or something like that and then the other lot of you have to do tasks to escape so it's like a board game it's like a playstation game like it's a really good graphic detail you vote off someone or not no i think you just have to escape you do the tasks that's the way of getting out i've never played it but i've seen people play it so i've got it in because that's now this i've got a little video to show you guys, which hopefully we'll be able to put on the screen as well, to show you what this thing looks like in the game.

1:06:26So Krasu are believed to be demonic witches who become cursed to be forever hungry. Sorry, this is Thailand. This is Thailand. Always active at night, the Krasu goes out hunting to satisfy its gluttony, seeking blood to drink or raw flesh to devour. Blood to drink or raw flesh to devour. It may attack cattle or chickens in the darkness, drinking their blood and eating their internal organs it may also prey on pieces of cattle such as water buffalo that have died of other causes during the night if blood is not available the krasu may eat feces or carry on oh my god or what carry on which is bloody carry on the flesh of dead animals that's in the process of decaying cloves left outside would be found soiled with blood and excrement in the morning allegedly after she had wiped her mouth therefore villagers would not leave clothes hanging to dry outside in the night hours do we know what she looks like yeah i'll describe it though at the minute not hot she's eating shit exactly if a person eats or drinks anything contaminated with cressus saliva or flesh they will become a cressu themselves and they are prone to stalking pregnant mothers to try and feed either on the newly born infant or the placenta using a tongue using a long tongue to either lap at the placenta or even steal the fetus from a mother before it's even born Right, hang on.

1:07:49So pros and cons here. Eat shit, right? And decaying body, right? And decaying flesh. Eats newborn babies. Does have a long tongue.

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1:08:44Shop, pay, manage your account and earn rewards all in one place. And with purchase protection on eligible items, biometric security and pass keys, you're protected at every step. Download the new PayPal app to get started. See paypal.com slash protection terms. It's got to be fucking good to win this background, if I'm honest. During the hours of the day, she will wander among the local population as a young and beautiful woman, but with a tired expression. at night the krasu appears as a disembodied head that floats at night with her internal organs hanging below her the head is accompanied by a will-o'-wisp like luminescent glow she is a vicious creature driven by extreme hunger and thirst active throughout the night until she must return to her body by daylight if she is separated from her body when the sun rises she'd be doomed to a painful death if you crush the still headless body of the krasu it's fatal to the spirit.

1:09:40The flying head will return after hunting but rejoin with the wrong body which will lead to it suffer torment until death. She should become like a makeup influencer. Yeah? It's like, in the day we've made ourselves look nice, like that's class, but then she could do that beforehand. Oh, I'm disembodied head of rank. But then I can make myself look, here's a little tutorial if you are a disembodied head. A little bit of contouring around here, people won't really notice. Maybe we should get this person in for a Halloween app. Yeah. Might kill us and eat our decaying flesh. Be fucking good makeup, though.

1:10:12Yeah, good makeup, yeah. The Krasu will also die if its intestines get cut off or if its body disappears or gets hidden by someone. Some folk believe... Hidden? Yeah, if you find the body and hide it so that she can't return to it. Ah, right. Some folks believe that the creature can be destroyed by burning it. The main foes of the Krasu are mobs of angry villagers carrying torches and machetes. They may have to catch the Krasu and kill it or watch where she goes before dawn to destroy her body. There is a legend that said that the people who are wounded should be aware of the krasou because it can smell the blood and will come and eat the blood at night when people fall asleep.

1:10:48However, there are ways to prevent the krasou from coming inside the house. House owners usually build spiky fences or grow spiky bamboo to protect themselves from the krasou because the krasou is scared of spiky things because it worries that its intestines will get stuck and it won't be able to escape. so if it goes through like it's like we're all worried about that but they also say that shortly after birth they have to bury the placenta far away from village of the village believing that that would stop the krasu from coming into the area right so you can just yeet it yeah yeet it would you like to see what it looks like on dead by daylight no the head mate the bloody head i'll turn the volume down because we don't need the volume you just want to see so this is this is right so this is what she looks like normally at the moment lovely beautiful woman lovely beautiful woman and then right oh head completely rips out floaty organs floaty organs on her head jesus christ not tentacles that's her that's intestines and that's how she gets herself back in quite um quite brutal that it is horrific isn't it It is brutal.

1:11:59I mean, imagine you went on holiday, fell in love with that lady. She thought we're having a blossoming romance, took her back home, went to go make her a cup of tea. Her head's ripped off and you're hit in the face by a spleen. Yeah. Well, you've gone, I'm going to take this slow because I know what happens with other legends. You're like, I don't want to have ill intentions. Yeah. I'll romance her. Do you want to see me in the evening? No, no, let's just meet in the day for a few. a nice public place you don't feel threatened yeah very good come on okay now let's take this up a notch yeah yeah so this one has the longest list of sightings like there's so many documented sightings of stories of people who have seen this thing in in thailand never seen any other urban legends of that many so i'll just give you a couple of them um rather than running for them all but I'll do one from 2008 and then I'll do one from as recently as last year.

1:12:57Okay. Around August 2008, a story emerged about CCTV footage that allegedly captured a krasu in action at a lemon juice factory in Klong Sip Song in Thailand. The factory's owner explained that prior to the incident, she heard strange noises coming from the side wall of the factory during the night. Suspecting a thief, she installed additional security cameras and about 10 days later, one of the front-facing cameras recorded something that clearly resembles a krasu, accompanied by a glowing light. The object first appeared as an indistinct floating shape approaching from the side of the factory and gliding along the outer wall.

1:13:31Can we see this at all anywhere or not? I couldn't find it. I do want to try though. I'll keep looking to see if I can find it by the time this episode goes out. We can try and put it in there, but I'll have a proper look later. As it drew closer to the camera, its form gradually became clearer until it distinctly resembled the face of an elderly woman with long white hair. The footage was timestamped at 11.27pm on July 22nd. The factory owner added that when the footage was viewed on a mobile phone and zoomed in, it appeared as though the creature was using its intestines to snatch birds mid-air for food.

1:14:03Associate Professor Dr Chuan Kupipat, a visual imaging expert, examined the footage and confirmed it was authentic and had not been altered. So someone's actually looked at this and got it. It's not an edited footage. However, he did believe the Crisou-like figure was likely an object reflecting light from an overhead source. As the light moved, the reflection struck patches of wet ground in an open rice field beside the factory, an area without any rice crops at the time, as it was the off-season. Local residents claimed to have encountered a similar Crisou several times over the past year or two.

1:14:44The creature bore a striking resemblance to an elderly woman who had once lived alone nearby. after her passing the sighting stopped hmm so she scrammed an old lady this floating head looked like a woman who was who lived in the area this floating head reminds me of your little uh life on crash bandicoot you know your little shield yeah that guy is that what you're picturing yeah with intestines coming out of it yeah you know the floating head yeah yeah not this is a bit more you just saw a picture of oh is that what you're picturing in the cctv yeah that's what i'm picturing the cctv okay just with a massive um intestine coming out nice then october 12 2024 cool recently just a year ago between 10 and 11 p.m a 37 year old man who was guarding his cattle in a hut in a village in flapper chai district reported witnessing a strange light hovering above a near pied pond at first he thought it was a firefly but as the light grew larger and floated closer he saw what appeared to be a head with trailing intestines he described being so terrified that he couldn't move however he managed to use his phone to record a video clip that lasted around 30 minutes he also claimed that he saw smaller glowing lights around the entity which he believed were its servants bringing it food the man emphasized that he was neither under the influence of drugs nor alcohol at the time i mean that's why i'd say if i was under the influence yeah it's weird that he's mentioned it yeah by the way i'm not i'm not pissed yeah oh mate yeah also i'm terrified i'll try and sneak a video for 30 minutes yeah fuck me that's a long one yeah that's a cool one though that's a cool one that's unique i think this one seems to be like over in in all the sightings whenever there's a big sighting it seems to be like hundreds of people will go there trying to find it yeah which is quite like you just saw what they did my daylight made it look like i would not want to go and find that no but if if if like say in the norwich local Facebook groups everyone started saying fuck me like Slenderman's in Thorpe St.

1:16:45Andrews yeah weird sentence yeah you would go wouldn't you you'd want to go a bit groupier yeah but on the off chance that random like as we say with Bloody Mary and stuff on the off chance do you risk it but if I got killed by Slenderman I'm in the news like I'm it's not good though no but I'd be the first ever person to be killed by a ghost or an entity and that and I'm forever I'm immortalised you would just be one of these urban legends Steve would just be telling a story but oh he was probably pissed yeah imagine you die from Slenderman but everyone just goes oh he must have fallen over yeah I'd be pissed off do you know what I like about this one it seems like you've got decent chances of winning like in a lot of these these things are just going to kill you whatever there's nothing you do here just grow a bit of bamboo have a gang of you you're okay or just get a fucking fence up on your house yeah doable isn't it that's what so yeah that that's that's everything i've got for the krasu for thailand quite attractive before the guts come out yeah yeah i would go out with that i would i would go out with that in the day i get with that but i would sort of just let your daytime hang out yeah yeah yeah versus japan versus japan which is the jorugumo fit let's find out let's find out how much we regret that in ancient japan an adult

1:18:14in ancient japan animals were seen to be capable of human level intelligence and those who reached very old age were believed to gain magical powers and a new form as a yokai or lesser deities what's a yokai yokai are the japanese ghosts and all that kind of thing that Spirits. Okay. It's just another word. Spirits. Okay. Say that then. So needless. I'm in Japan. We don't speak Japan. Okay. I'll say spirits. Okay. The Jorugumo is a result of a spider who achieved this transformation. So Jorugumo lives solitary lives, both as spiders and as spirits. But you know what I mean, though? Like, if you're talking about France, you're not going to go, oh that's uh shi and or as you say dogs should be a knob yeah yeah some words in japanese no because yokai is like the big thing if you it's like a huge thing so if we weren't thick we'd done yeah exactly right yeah if you weren't thick cunt you would have got it right so this is a big spider ghost what no wait when a golden orb weaver reaches 400 years is that what they call spiders in japan is it right a golden orb weaver reaches 400 years of age it develops magical powers and begins to feed on human prey instead of insects they make their nests in caves forests or empty houses and towns they possess a cunning intelligence and a cold heart and see humans as nothing more than insects to feed on they're skillful deceivers and powerful shapeshifters usually spending their lives appearing as young sexy and stunningly beautiful women urban legends has really gone up in it it can shapeshift between three forms giant spider I've got a phobia of spiders a human woman I've got a phobia of women but I still and their true their true form which usually takes the appearance of the golden orb weaver spider by the legs but with the head and torso of a young woman.

1:20:24Oh. Right, so eight legs. So here's the situation. I've got one of these things. What is it called, these things? Golden Orb Weaver. Jorogumo. Jorogumo. I've got a jorogumo coming around later on. Best option, coming around in girl form. Yeah, okay, yeah. Worst option, big spider. Yeah. Middle option, they're both. So it's from what? From the torso? Yeah. Spider with tits. Spider with tits. Where's the car flying for torso? Does that have interest? Yeah, kind of waist. Waist down spider. Oh, that's less hot than I thought it was going to be. That isn't. Isn't it? No. Oh, that's much hotter. I thought that was the whole thing.

1:21:09What's the thing about it? Is that his body? Yeah. So it's kind of just a girl with a spider out the back. It's like a centaur. you know how centaurs are like that looks like it's got girl legs yeah look that looks like she's got all women there right it's just another one where it's gone wrong around the back like the hollow woman so it looks like listeners imagine this right a tall beautiful Japanese woman in a nice oriental dress and then from her hips are like six eight spider legs from her hips which she's got her normal legs as well and then at the back is like the body of the spider, but it looks like she's just got a big bunda.

1:21:48I was thinking that. That's in trend these days. Yeah, what, the big bunda? Yeah. Big bunda. Not for me, but I know a lot of men do like that in a woman. Yeah. There are some more horrific versions. Yeah, but I don't want to see them. Even then? Even then, she's got lovely jawline, lovely cheekbones. So there are, yeah. So that's what you're picturing so far. So there it's three forms. Yeah. Jorogumo leads solitary and secretive lives just like they did as spiders. However, they've also grown bold and learned to utilise their feminine sexuality and seduction to lure unwary human males into their clutches.

1:22:25Did you say bold or bald? Bold. Which was that? Because I still... So bold. I'd say bold if I was saying no hair. So they're brave. They're brave. Okay. They're brave. So they've learned to utilise their feminine sexuality. So sometimes spider, sometimes woman. Yeah. Sometimes half and half. Yeah. They often wrap their male victim in webbing and inject him with slow agonising toxin to enjoy his suffering and inevitable demise. A bit mean. Should anyone become suspicious of her ways that Jorogumo could command other spiders to pursue them or even call on fire-breathing spiders that would burn the homes of those who become too wary of her?

1:23:05Pardon me, I just burped. Nice. I didn't mean to. I actually didn't mean to. I don't think anyone thought you did. I'm not drunk by the way I didn't mean to burp it is said that the Joroguma are exceptionally clever killers and can stay hidden even in crowded cities keeping mortals at bay as hundreds of young men lay dead or dying in her hidden den why can't there just be I thought the little red fellow was he wasn't killing was he well he was and then he was eating you whole and then swallowing you back up but you didn't die No, he's got a little bit more red and smaller. So that was nice that he didn't kill anyone.

1:23:43Yeah. Because these are a bit cliché, don't they? Yeah. So there are several stories involving a mythological creature, and this is the most popular one. A man was resting by a waterfall when he felt his feet were stuck to a powerful spider web. The man acted quickly and managed to escape. Back in his village, he warned them of a creature's presence. How does he know that, though? Because at the moment, he's just stuck to a web. Powerful spider webs. That's not normal for your spiders to be able to... All right. they named the creature the joragumo a woodcutter arrived in the area and lost his axe in the water of a lake a beautiful woman appeared and returned his tool before she disappeared she asked him not to tell anyone what had happened as the village was telling false rumors about her time passed and the stranger got drunk at night and revealed the scary story he fell asleep as usual but he never woke up again and this may only be the beginning of his nightmare as he was taken tortured and killed by the joraguma so that's that's that's the only story they really have that just keeps going around it doesn't say too much about what she does so if he'd kept his mouth shut she doesn't mind as long as no one's wary of her she's she can leave you alone questions for her to be honest for her yeah yeah what do you ask her i don't know i just think like what if sometimes you present as half woman half spider why other times do you feel the need to go full spider or full woman like that doesn't make sense to me like that that should be her only form how does she pick yeah how do you pick i guess it depends how vicious she's wanting i think we get her on here and ask her yeah i think she's woman daytime and like when she's walking about she just needs to be a sexy woman you're just filling in the gap you don't know this no but this is how she's attacking people woman to lure them in yeah then i reckon she goes sexy spider woman to kind of start entrapping them and then full-blown spiders to kill.

1:25:28Oh, you think it's like a metamorphosis thing. She's doing it to kill. Shapeshifting, they said, didn't they? Yeah, should we get her on and ask her? Yeah. Ironically, she's got more chance coming on as the spider.

1:25:43The Japanese legend tells that the only way to escape a Jorogumo is to love a person with all your heart. This way, it's impossible to fall under the spell of this seductive woman and her hypnotic music. So you love her and she doesn't care? No, you love someone else with all your heart. You have to love someone so much that her trying to seduce you, you'd go, sorry, lady, I'm taken. Oh. My heart is with another. I don't think that's... The way you're saying they love someone so much, I think that's like the base level you should be. Well, they're saying like, don't fear womaniser again, aren't they?

1:26:13I wouldn't fear on Fiona and I only love her a bit. Yeah. Didn't you say at the start of this, the Scogs rule, you'd be glad that she wouldn't tell Fi? uh but she was fitter than the spider woman so yeah if your heart if your heart doesn't belong to anyone the only other the other possibility of killing her would be to fry the to throw diatomite at her it's a fossilized powder from an algae called diatomite the magic misspelled dynamite that's what i thought when i first read it the magic powder will totally dehydrate the whole body of the arachnid. The Jorogomi were also afraid of fire, so you could burn them to kill them, and it's said that the samurai of the Edo period tried to kill them with a sword or a stake, and the weapon must pierce the thorax or the abdomen of the beast.

1:27:03What's the most... Edo period? It's a period of... time. Japan back then, yeah. Okay. You're in the Pido period. Did you ask purely so you could say... No, but that's just an unexpected bonus.

1:27:20The most difficult way to kill them is with a sword or a stake, as they're very powerful creatures. And another type of protection against these deadly creatures is to rub a mixture of mint leaf oil with lemon and a little water because they hate the smell. That sounds quite easy. Yeah, do that one. Yeah, it's really hard. I've got a sword or stake. Oh, you've got no chance, mate. However. The last bit I think you guys will like is their name written with kanji, which is the logographic Chinese characters means entangling bride however these characters have been added onto her name much later to cover up the original meaning of the name Whore Spider is that her name?

1:28:04she's called Whore Spider I quite like the name is Whore Spider she sounds hot again now you know Marvel, Black Widow Whore Spider could be like like the new Marvel film. Yeah. Whore spider. I like that she's confident in her sexuality. Yeah. She's like... Call me whore. But they did change it from whore spider to... Was she calling herself whore spider or were people calling her... Is that a slur? Yeah. If people are just going, oh, here comes whore spider, don't like it. If she's owning it, like it. Let's say she owned it. Yeah. Like it. That's our OnlyFans handle, at whore spider. Yeah. So that one is Thailand, the Krasu versus Japan's Jorogomu.

1:28:47So you've got the head with the flying, floating guts underneath it, and then you've got the horse spider. I know who I want. Is it the horse spider? Yes. Is it because it's called a horse spider? Yes. Up until he said horse spider, would you have gone for the other one? It was a 2-2 game for me. Okay. But horse spiders won it an extra time. I like the guts thing. Yeah. Don't remember much else about it, even though it wasn't that long ago he said it. Yeah, it just sort of floats around in it. Oh, I like the fact that there was a fair chance to fighting it off though. Yeah. I think that would be good.

1:29:19But if we're actually rating this based on who's the fucking sickest urban legend, do you want to be able to beat it? I want a bit of drama. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? I'd rather see a boxing match that's quite even than some bloke just beating up an old man. Remember both of these you've got a solid chance. That one you just need to throw like peppermint, mint leaves or whatever. Yeah, a mojito at it. Yeah, but if you haven't got any mojitos. Yeah, true. This is a tough one. This is the toughest one. It's a close game. Yeah, it's a good ender. The Taiwan did eat quite a lot of shit. Oh, yeah.

1:29:54And decaying animals. Now, I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm just saying we need to consider that. Her mouth is covered in shit. Yeah. And if you leave your clothes to dry at night, like in the summer, you're going, oh, I'm not going to waste having it indoors. I'm going to put that on the line. We'll be covered in shit in the morning. Both can be sexy. Both can be sexy. And like my little monkey brain is literally just going off of both photos you've just showed me and she has a full woman's body in one of them which I like they both had a full woman's body just one of them it has a full body, take it home yeah I can call that it, can't I?

1:30:32it's a creature considerate of you to ask that's good, that is very progressive of you and then it rips its head off and slaps you with its spleen I don't like I don't want that where are you leaning Robbie? well I don't want either of them really the spider one is quite hot though so is the girl before she rips her guts out apart from the if she's brushing her teeth after she's eating all the shit do you know what I mean? that's good I don't ever want to see a woman's spleen or intestines alright so again I was making you so that's good unless I become a doctor Okay, but do you want to see a...

1:31:15You're not going to become a doctor. Whatever. No, you're not. What do you mean, whatever? I'm only 32. You're not becoming a doctor, Jack. What about if I... You're scared of all medical things. Yes, but if I wasn't... But you are. But you are, so why is that relevant? But what if I got over it? I had really good therapy. Yeah, I still... I just can't see you retraining as a doctor. I'm not ruling it out by 60. I'm doing... I'm ruling it out. Yeah, I'm ruling it out. What, a million percent. Both ruled out. Look me in the eye. would you put your life on this? Yeah. Yes. I don't think you'd pass exams.

1:31:46I think you'll decide you're doing it because you want to prove it's wrong and you'll just... What's an unofficial doctor? What does that mean? I just get a spatula out and stuff. Spatula? That's a chef. What is that? What? Scalpel. Turning over eggs? All right. Spatula. See, that's what I mean. You think he'll become a doctor. The fact that you're using spatulas, yeah, you're not being a doctor right now. Just turn up. Way to dash a dream from me, guys. Thanks. Krasou versus Jorugumo. I've got a clear winner now. Won it an extra time. What's your winner? Spider Girl. Horse Bowler. I would have got the others, but you feel quite passionate about Horse Spider, whereas I just quite like the other one.

1:32:27So I think you're... I'll allow you to take the victory here on this. Although if I had to watch a film with either of these in, I would pick the floating head. Yeah. Which makes it more interesting. I've got to stop rating it on attractiveness yeah like because I think even if you are rating it on attractiveness this one can be attractive too can be, can be, has the potential to be but then has the potential to eat a lot of shit well this one has the potential to be an entire spider I think if it was a beautiful woman and she changed into a spider in front of me I'd go I remember what she was and I'd be less scared of the spider what about if the beautiful woman then became the other thing you should remember what she was No, because I think a spider, a massive spider in there, I could pet her and go, I know you're not going to hurt me.

1:33:13I know you're just a beautiful woman inside. The other thing with the ripped off head, I think the smell of the shit and the decaying flesh and the intestine waving about, that's going to put me off. It's a bit of an ick eating shit. Yeah, and also if we're really going to lower the tone, that intestine can look a bit phallic. What? What's that relevant? What, are you thinking about being like? It'll look like a big dangly cock. Oh, and you don't want to look at cock. I'm not into that. Right, if you're into fucking a spider. I'm not even sure where we've got to win. You could choose. Spider wins.

1:33:52What's the scoreline? Four spider wins. It's 2-2 and then 3-2 after extra time. Already wrote 3-2 down. There you go. Four spider wins. So. No game has had less than four goals. What a tournament. Yeah. From episode one, group A, Iceland beat Nigeria, Philippines beat Serbia, Venezuela beat Brazil, and Group B has now finished with Sweden beating Costa Rica, Australia beating Peru, and Japan beating Thailand. So the six teams into the next round. How many groups are there? Four. Yeah. So we've already got half of the... Has to be four, if not mathematically. Oh, yeah, yeah. So this is... This is Group B.

1:34:30We're then going to need C and D, which will leave us with... So who's gone through from this group? Three from Week 1, three from Week 2. That's six. Oh, no matter what. Oh, my God, how many teams do I need to make this work? 18. I had in my head that there'd be eight. Three, six. We could do two more groups. Yeah. And then the knockouts in the same ep, or the next round of the name ep, maybe. Two more groups will take up to eight. Or we can do some more co-op chat and then two groups. Well, my thing is, yeah, we need something to make it an even amount, don't we, is the issue. 16 you need. you need 16 to go for it.

1:35:08I need 16 and we're currently on 6. Or 8. We don't need 16, we can do 8. No, 16 because then you do 3, 6, 9, 12. And then do a 4 group. Yeah. Or 8, so there's not as many because I do then have to do new ones for every round. We'll be here for like 3 years being this. It's fine because we don't have that much content these days. No. So so far we've got Iceland, the Philippines, Venezuela, Sweden, Australia and Japan all through to the knockout stages which arguably that was a knockout stage wasn't it because they're not all playing it yeah it's all knockout it's still groups it's all knockout yeah no I enjoyed that yeah I enjoyed it I think what we've learned is that you should have really thought of a format before you started this feature yeah I didn't think the maths was the issue no normally you're good at your maths yeah but you've fucked it a little bit I was just trying to look for sexy urban legends yeah we respect that yeah we do respect so why don't we criticize your maths we have no criticism over the sections of the other legends, which were sexy.

1:36:09I've got to say, my internet history hasn't looked weirder. I don't believe that, but okay. It's one of those again, isn't it? By the way, my internet history's never looked weirder. And I'm not drunk. Or on drugs. There we go. So we had the Swedish woman with the big boobs. Skogsra. She flopped over her shoulders. And then in the second one, we had the little green, little red, the little red goblin dude. Yarram and Yahoo. yeah he's so good like he's my favourite thing ever and now he's gone those first who are class what do you mean he's gone because he's through so I now need to find a new one from Australia oh yeah but he's still gonna like if Australia end up winning the duels he'll be a part he'll get a medal he'll be no no no he'll be there whoever wins in the final that urban legend will be lifting the trophy yeah he might be as I was saying he'll get a medal yeah he might be a player of the tournament in the future rounds I know you haven't really thought through properly so you probably don't know the answer do we consider the previous urban legends or is it purely on the next one oh i think previous may cause it to sway a bit maybe yeah maybe we build it up as like those two together are better than these two together okay yes you bring a new urban legend reach one but we also consider yeah it's too tight like that last game just was yeah we look at their previous players yeah yeah okay then that's kind of like it coming down to to like goal difference yeah that is fair okay good there we go this has been Stevie White's World Cup of Urban Legends on Jackmates Happy Hour Podcast with me Stevie and Robbie we'll see you next week when as we've already announced we've got a whole week of spooky spooky content will you be there?

1:37:46yeah see you there

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From the publisher

Welcome back to the World Cup Of Urban Legends! Stevie has found 6 urby legs from different countries and is using a randomised wheel to decide which are going head to head, but he keeps accidentally searching for sexy ones… 

In today’s matches, a whore spider is competing with a beautiful woman with a thirst for placentas. Fat stealing foreigners are up against a creature that regurgitates its victims. And a lovely Latina lady with a horse’s head is battling a forest fairy with some cracking tits. 

Listen to #577 for Part 1. 
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