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38: Edward's buried paint

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The History of the Pine Piper

In the 17th century, when people would have babies they didn't want, what they would do is they would throw them below the streets of Vienna to get rid of them. Were there people down there that they were trying to interact with in some way via the P's and musical instruments? Yes, yes-ish. They were ghost hunting. Well known, you can attract ghosts with like P's and Musical Instruments. Do you personally think that what they were doing was good or bad? Listen, I don't, I don'm about to monologue this whole thing, and then you're gonna be like, "That's exactly right"

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