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Hi, This is Christina and Carmen, and this is another
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episode of a Spooky Tales podcast for all things spooky, paranormal,
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O other places, myths, legends, true crime in Latin America.
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And today today's about Bruchas Brochas. Yeah, not your normal
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like Brucha legend. This is Bruchas during the Spanish Inquisition
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in Mexico. Spanish Inquisition. Mm hmm. But before we get
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to that, we do have a listener's story and if
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you have a story that you want to send to us,
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You can also call the a spooky hotline, which is
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what this listener did. Yay. We love getting voicemails. There's
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just something to heard about someone telling their own speaky story. Truly. Yes,
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but really we love all forms of your stories, so
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send them in also. Yes, yes, yes, Okay, are you ready?
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I'm ready? All right, I'm gonna do one two three
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and then we'll press play. Okay, one two three Hi guys.
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I'm Nati Viva from Texas. So I have a couple
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of things. It's mostly my parents' house, which was my
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popole's old house. So one day my little brother was
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their at their house and he saw what looked like
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my cousin like run to the kitchen, and so he
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like went over there and he started calling his name,
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and he would he would nowhere to be found. So
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he called my cousin and he's like, hey, uh, where'd
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you go? And he's like, I already left your house.
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It's like, what do you mean you were just in
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the kitchen. I just saw you like run by, and
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he was like, no, I left, I left a while ago.
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And my brother was so scared. He called my mom
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and my dad home and everyone was looking everybody to
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make sure there wasn't like a burglar or anything. And
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from then on, we you know, we kind of just
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tucked it up because we met my purple and he
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should come and visit us and everything. And then like
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a couple of nights later, my mom was like woken
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up to the smell of my grandpa's cigarette smoke and
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it was like right by her window, and she didn't
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get scared or anything. She was like, oh, well, there
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it is. There's there's our sign saying that. Yeah, what's purple?
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That was here? But I thought it was pretty cool.
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Thank y'all for listening. Uh, I love listening to y'all's podcast,
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and I have a great day.
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Bye wow, thank you for setting that in. Okay, So
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first I thought, no, that's not your your grandpa. I'm sorry,
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that's something sinister, because anytime anyone like pretending to be
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someone else, Yes, yes, and maybe it was. But then
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what do they call him? Popo? Is that what she said? Yeah?
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Then Popo came and got rid of the thing, and
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that's why they smelled h city. That's what I think too,
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because I don't know why Popo would need to represent
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himself as somebody else, And the dida makes sense that whatever,
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like evil sys or thing, it was only a couple
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of days later they smelled popo scent because he was
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there to protect them. Yes, yes, and that that that
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turns this very horrifying thing into something beautiful truly, Yes, yes, yes, Okay,
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should we talk about Brucas during the Spanish inquisition in Mexico.
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Let's do it, Okay, and maybe maybe you're wondering why.
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And that's because the other day I don't know why.
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What the hell of me and you Carman, we're talking
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about that. We were talking about the granddaughters of the Witch,
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were yapping. We were yapping over at our other podcasts,
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we talked about Latin American history, but on Patreon we
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yap about not yep a lot. Yeah, And I don't
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know why either. I don't know how this came up. Well,
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we were talking about witches, so how that quote came up?
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And I remember saying, like, no, y'all are the daughters
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of the Confederacy because I remember laughing it's a joke
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from the internet. I didn't make it up. Yeah, the
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daughters of the people doing the burning. Actually, yes, you're
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the daughters of the burners of the inquisitors. Yeah. So yeah,
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that's why brucas are on our mind, exactly. And I know,
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obviously that's like tied with the Sale Witch trials, which
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famously did not happen in Latin America, right, they happened
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in Salem exactly, fucking dumb, okay, And but you know
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what Latin America did have was the Spanish Inquisition. And
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while there was not big, huge witch trial hunts. There
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was some. There were some more so outside of Mexico
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than in Mexico, but they still happened in Mexico. And
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that's what led me to these notes today. I have
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a couple of witch trials during the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico,
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and we have talked a bit about the Spanish Inquisition
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in previous episodes. I don't know why it came up.
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I think the Madia Pisatro. Yeah, yeah, we talked about it,
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but that was in that was in Mexico, right, yes, no, no, yeah,
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just the Spanish Inquisition in general we talked about. So
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I thought you said Mexico in Mexico. For some reason,
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the episode is in Mexico, but right now it's talking
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about the Spanish Acquisition as a whole. Also, sorry, you
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might hear my children more today, okay, but a quick refresher. So,
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the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in
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New Spain, that's the long way to say the Spanish Inquisition.
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So in New Mexico what they called Mexico to the
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colonized it. It was established in fifteen seventy one and
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then disbanded in eighteen twenty and the main place where they,
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you know, took all these accusations and reports and stuff
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like that. It was an office located in what is
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today the Museum of Medicine of UNAM, the University of
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in Mexico City. That's where they did this. I went there.
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Oh you did. Well, that's where they did it and
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it's still there. Interesting, which is wild to me. And
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the official number of those prosecuted under the inquisition is unknown,
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but it's estimated that fifty people were executed, and twenty
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nine of those fifty are Judaizurs, a faction of Jewish Christians.
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And I guess if people don't know, there was a
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persecution of Jewish people that started in Spain because of
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queen fuck was the Queen Isabella, I forget their names.
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One of the queens was like, we need to they
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need to convert, and so then there was like this
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whole movement of Jewish people pretending to convert. Oh I
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did not know that, No, not at all. Oh wow, okay, yeah,
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that's why there's a lot of Jewish people all over
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Latin America. Oh, that was like the start of Jewish
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migration into Latin America. But there's obviously a lot of reasons.
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That's one of the many, and the original intention of
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the Inquisition was to maintain Roman Catholic orthodoxy. But also
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part of it, once they started colonizing the global South,
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part of it was the conversion of the colonized indigenous
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people into Catholicism. And then once that happened, there was
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less punishing of the indigenous people. Like the Inquisition didn't
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really have a say in what the indigenous people did
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after the initial round of colonizing, so like in the
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late like I don't know, seventeen hundreds or whatever, like,
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they weren't punishing indigenous people under the Inquisition. It was
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all mestisos, negros mulatos and that's their words, right, I'm
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just reading my source. Because they had a cast system,
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they had a whole wildcast system, and so the people
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that were not just straight Indigenous, they were the people
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that were punished by the Inquisition. And this they also
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includes Jewish populations, but out of everyone that was persecuted
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by an Inquisition, women usually were the targets, like were
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the majority of people that were actually punished. And so
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this leads to our first story from seventeen oh nine.
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Lorenzo Martinez Montano was a fifty year old Spanish horse
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shoer living in Mexico City, and he went to the
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Holy Tribunal, the office of the Spanish Inquisition, to report
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a bruja, a woman named Bonificia Miranda. Do leave her alone,
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man let her be? And Bonificia was a single mestiza
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who dared to dress like a Spanish woman and also
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happened to be his mistress. Oh my God, of course,
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of course. Uh what is Spanish women dressed like compared
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to Mestisa's. You know, I really am not too sure,
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but I could imagine kind of like fancy dress or
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some shit. Yeah, I imagine that there was an official
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or maybe official dress code that people had to follow,
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because I know the Mariachi chadro suit was originally designated
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for indigenous people because they could not ride horses and
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they had to like be singled out in this uniform.
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lived in my short lived podcast called a Little Bit, Yes, yeah, yeah,
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and I want to bring that back. But I did
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have an episode about the history of the chattel suit,
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and just based on knowing that they did this with
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the chattel suit. I imagine that there was some sort
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of either official or an official dress code, but I
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didn't look it up for this, but that makes sense. Yeah,
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and I mean they had more money. So when the
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inquisitor asked him why he was reporting her, he said,
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Bonifisia had tied him, and now I had to tie.
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What tying is, yeah, m hm, cursedly, cursedly, yeah, crist fully. So.
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Tying or ligatura was a remedy done by Brucas. This
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involved taking an egg, piercing it with a straw, placing
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the hairs of your target slash victim in that hole,
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and then burying the egg where the victim urinated, and
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following these steps tied the target, making it so they
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cannot have intercourse with any women. That's so wild that
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this is from the seventeen hundred. I guess it's not
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that wild. But in Rakan she mentions this practice because
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you know, she teaches the woman or whatever these are
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the old ways. But I'm like, of course she would
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know that, like, yeah, you know these that goes into
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a book, but yeah, passed down and that Yeah, I
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mean that just shows how accurate research is done for
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like horror. Yes, also, yeah, if you haven't read a
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Hurricane of Seasons again, it destroyed us, but it was
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do I recommend it? No, we're not going to do
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this again. We already did this, right, yeah, I did
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it as a speaker recommendation. I'll save my attentionent for later, right, Yeah,
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let's still say it for but yes, so that's what
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Tayan is and following oh, I already said that. It
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makes it so they campen of course. Yeah, but it's
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also something that can be undone. It's not permanent. So
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the inquisitor then asked what made Lorden to believe that's like,
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why would she tie you? Why do you think she
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tied you? And he's like, well, when I first met
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Bonnie Facia, Oh did I say Boni Facia earlier? What
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did you say, Bonnie? It should be Bonnie Fsia. Sorry,
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I may say it wrong, but it's Bonnie Fisia. But
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I accidentally typed it different in a bunch of different places.
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So sorry. When he first met Bonnie Ficia, she used
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to give him Coco and we did talk about it
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somewhere else a long time ago. In another episode, I
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remember this about many women who made Coco being persecuted
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under the Spanish inquisition in Guatemala. It was one of
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our Blue Kaye episodes from before. But yeah, this was
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a thing. And so she used to give him cocoa
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and other things to eat, and that's how she probably
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cursed him because he accepted these things from her. And
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he said that during one of their meetups, he felt
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a hair cross into his viral member yea, and ever
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since that day he cannot get it up with his wife.
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For his wife, sir, did you think that maybe this
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could be because there's something else? But no, everything during
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this time was woman's fault exactly. But he had been
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able to perform the deed with Boni Fisia. Obviously this
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was a curse, like it can't be anything else. Wow,
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And to prove his case, Lorenzo brought in a letter
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signed by five witnesses. And I don't know how you
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have witnesses for that? How do you get five witnesses
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for this? And they had to be president while he
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was trying to get along with his wife, right like,
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I can't imagine another way to prove this and then
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right like questionable yeah, yeah. In that same letter, he
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mentions a two year affair with Winifia, during which they
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had a daughter. Oh my god, and he got tired
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of the affair and wanted to end it, and he
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offered to Oneificia to be her compadre and baptized their daughter.
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And back then, I don't know about now, but back then,
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compadres were considered spiritual kin, and that meant real kin.
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So they were That meant they were going to be
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a real family. And under the rule of the church,
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compadrees couldn't be freaking together. They weren't allowed. Well that
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makes sense, right, because that's like your sibling now, right right,
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your spiritual sibling. Yeah, yeah, you can't do it with them. Interesting,
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And this was like a sneaky way to try and
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end their relationship without saying the words let's let's break
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this up. I don't want to do this anymore. He's like,
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why don't I be her compadre? Wow? Yeah, this is
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like the original way of like, it's not me, it's you. Yes, yes,
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And Bonnie Ficiah, obviously it was not cool. Wait, I
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didn't even say that, right, it's not you, it's me.
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It's wait to say I said it's not me. It's you. Oh,
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and of course I would be like yes, yeah, oh
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my god, what's wrong with us? I know, because it's
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never our fault. No, exactly, And yeah, obviously when if
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I was not cool with this, and so when he
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said that to her, she was like, if you dare
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do this, you will remember me for the rest of
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your life, and also said she wished his wife would die. Oh,
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Sachary catching strays this poor wife. Right first he teats
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on her. He first, he cheats on her for two years,