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A thorough meditation about Sparkling Water

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Irish Relationship With Holy Wells

In New York in 1832, a phallic called John Matthews who I think was a chemist figured out how to do that himself. He mixed pulverized marble dust with sulfuric acid and this created carbonic acid gas which made sparkling water. This is most likely because of the ancient Irish relationship that we have with holy wells, of which there's over 3000 in Ireland. The pagan Irish believed that these wells were interdimensional portals to the other world. People would gather around these holy wells and they'd drink from them to heal illnesses and to be healthy and go back thousands of years.

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