Episode Transcript
[00:00:06] Speaker A: Hello, hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Mallory's Weird World Adventures, the podcast. I'm your host, Mallory.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: And I'm your host, Michael.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: And we're here to show you just how weird this world of ours really is. Now, I'm going to preface this episode with the fact that we are traveling once again in the Great Smoky Mountains. So with that comes very little service and strange occurrences with our recording equipment. Equipment. So I'm very sorry if it doesn't sound great.
Please give us a little leniency there, because we are on the road having an adventure.
Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Plus smoky this time.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: It is. It's, like, pretty hot. Warm, nice weather.
But before we tell you guys about the Great Smoky Mountains, I want to tell you about my visit to Trendelberg Castle and rub it in. My.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: And my lack of a visit.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Yeah, he didn't get to go.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Somebody has to pay the bills. Stay home and pay the bills, and.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: Somebody gets to have fun and also pay the bills.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: All right.
But you have fun doing it, and I do not.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: That's true. We're gonna change that. Gonna change that. But first, for those tuning in for the first time, if you don't know Weird World Adventures, the podcast highlights the strange, bizarre, and wonderful places around the world. And we have our companion television show on Amazon prime called Weird World Adv. So be sure to watch season one now on prime and tune into season two, which will be releasing in the fall of this year, which is 2025.
You can visit our website at MallorySadventures.com and now let's talk about Germany.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'll let you lead. I wasn't there.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: I am very sorry you didn't get to go to Germany. So this was actually a Michael Discovery.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: That's the best part of the best part. It was a Michael Discovery. I didn't even get to.
I'll be watching it on season two along with everybody else.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: You will. And it was so wonderful.
So there is. I was following the fairy tale rabbit we talked about in Germany and the Brothers Grimm and, you know, kind of where they lived and what inspired them. And there is a real Rapunzel tower that is in Germany, that is in Trendelberg. Trendelberg Castle specifically has this tower, and they think that it might have been the tower that inspired the Brothers Grimm when they were translating their story of Rapunzel. Now, it's important to note that they did not actually write those stories.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't know that. I just assumed they were. I mean, I guess that makes Sense. Most stories.
Yeah, it's all passed down folklore.
[00:02:50] Speaker A: They took folkloric stories from different regions and put them all together into one tale. And the story of Rapunzel specifically is actually Italian.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: I didn't know that either.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Comes from Italy. And they think that this tower, though, is what inspired that tower from their story, from their version of Rapunzel.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: You know where in Italy.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: I don't. I'll have to look that up later.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: But it's interesting. Yeah. Because they didn't write any of them. They were just stories that were told and they were the ones that put them to written word because they were wordsmiths and studied words, studied literature and writing, and were the first people to bring that to literature, that literature field to study in university in Gottingen.
But, yeah, Tringleberg Castle, it was a dream. I mean, it. They. They get it. They get that people come here because they want to, you know, they want to live in the Rapunzel story. They like the fairy tales, they like the knights. So they kind of got that PR side of things. And they. They knew how to, like, really have.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: Fully lean into it.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: Yes. And offer just a magical experience. I mean, really, it was.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: The guy who, like, met you is in a full, like, Teutonic night, you know, dramatic night outfit.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: It was. It was so great. So I get there and I felt bad because I was a little late because again, I have. I have to go out and think about my electric car. I don't think I've done that yet. And I wanted to get your opinion on it. So I guess before we get into the magic of Trendelberg Castle, I'm gonna. I want to talk about the reality, I will say, of having an electric car.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: You've been focused on getting me on for electric car. I'm not sure I don't have any special insight. I drive a complete POS beater that's obviously not electric because it's. There weren't even electric cars there.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: Right.
Well, I will say when they first said, you know, when I work with the German tourism board a lot, and they're very big on sustainability and, you know, being good for the environment. I appreciate that. That's why most of the stuff we do in Germany, they require journalists and people. They have to, you know, coming out to do the train system, the Deutsche Bahn. So Deutsche Bahn's one of their big partners. But because this was kind of going to so many tiny little fairytale village y kind of places, my journey, they were like, well, it just is not realistic to have you on a train. So we're gonna let you have a car, except it's gonna have to be an electric car because sustainability. Is that okay with you? And I'm just like, sure, we have our electric car. That sounds great.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: I'm pro electric car, but I can already kind of see the issue.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: They're not road trip cars. They're great for. I live in a village. I maybe drive at most an hour, maybe two hours a day. And I have a charging port at home. Great car for that, right?
[00:05:50] Speaker B: For sure.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: Not a good car for a road trip.
[00:05:54] Speaker B: Well, because the infrastructure isn't the infrastructure for the world's driving. You know, transportation system has been gasoline based. Don't quote me on this. But I believe, I believe electric cars are not like a new idea. I think when the first round of cars, you know, turn of the century were coming out, there were both gasoline and electric versions. I think early car models, there were electric car competitors.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: Right.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: They fizzled compared with gasoline. Because I won't pretend to know the fuel and maybe I could be wrong with this whole thing, but I'm pretty sure that there was an alternative model early on that was electric. And gasoline won out for whatever reason. And then once it wins out, all of the infrastructure, all the transportation infrastructure for the country gets built around gasoline.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: I mean, the world is built around gas stations.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: What does that mean? There's gas stations everywhere, Right. What about charging ports for your car?
[00:06:59] Speaker A: And I will say they're very good about having a lot of charging ports. I was surprised. But you have to know where they are. It's like you have to have experience in. I need to know where a charging port is, where I'm going. I need to know if it's a quick charge because they have quick charging ports and they have long term charging ports. And you have to know which one you're going to, what it is. And it's not fully planable because if they have a charging port somewhere, they're only going to have one or two and someone else could be using it.
So it's very unpredictable. It's just not enough space for it yet.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Well, that. And you're also the thing that is kind of like the rate limiting step, which I think has made a lot of progress and I foresee it being fine in the future. But it's the battery techno.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Because like, okay, I get on the road in my electric car and I think I'm at 98%. Everything's great.
I'm at the Frankfurt airport and I only have to drive about 40 minutes to get to Hanau. And at that 40 minutes point I think I'm at like 60% charge when I get there. And I'm like that's going to be a problem. How did I just get rid of that much battery power in 40 minutes? I mean there is about the way at least I was driving and there's. I was trying to turn the settings in the car to make sure I drive as efficiently as possible. With electricity you can switch on modes as efficient as possible.
And I probably could drive for two and a half hours before the car would be dead. So it's not a road trip car an hour like I pretty much went from city to city. They were all about an hour from each other. So I would zap through maybe like 40, 35, 40% battery life driving just like an hour or something. So the car was not ready to be driven.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: It's a great type of car for most use. Like you're what most people are going to use a car for most of the time is commute to and from work and local go to a restaurant you're never more than an hour out of kind of your home. But it's specifically not great deck for long distance car ride travel. Especially if you're visiting a foreign country, have no idea kind of where you're going and no idea where the charge station is are. And you were specifically in some remotey type areas because you're following stuff that is specifically fairytale trail. So it's places I would suspect would be the last type of places to have that infrastructure built up in an accessible way.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: So stressful. It made my trip anxiety inducing. And you know, I got lucky because I was in Steinhau the first night which is this like tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny town. It's like literally a fairy tale village. And I was staying in the Burgermeister house. That's how small it was.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: I heard the Burgermeister House usually a great electric car chase car station and oh, I think by the way, sorry.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: The Burgermeister Meister Burger.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Yes, yes.
Yeah. Which one is it?
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Santa Claus is coming to town. The Burger. Meister Meister Burger.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I think.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: Toys are hereby illegal.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: But he did have a nice charge station.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Definitely nice charge.
So luckily my guide, I asked her like is there a place to charge my car tonight? Because I'm. I don't think I'm gonna have a place I need to charge this car. I'm gonna be screwed tomorrow. And she, she's like, you know what? There is one and there is a single parking lot lot in the town. And it had three charge ports. I mean it was actually pretty good.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: But there was a long form one so it had to like sit there overnight. And people were using it when I saw it at night and I was like, oh no.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: So I wound up getting up at like 6 in the morning to move the car because. So I'm in the Burgermeister house. So I'm in the town square. And they had like, you could drive in during the day, but they put up this like this like fency thing at night time that you couldn't. So I was like stuck in. So I couldn't like go charge the car and bring it back. So I got up at like 6 in the morning and lowered it and then like drove it over and charged it until I had to leave at like 10 or something. So I got it, got some charge in.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: This is another, I guess point unlike. And again, I'm not trying to be pro gasoline.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: I'm not.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: I think we, you know, should move towards the sustainable stuff. But the infrastructure needs to be there. You can't transition before, before they're ready.
It takes time to recharge your battery. It takes no time to put gasoline in your car. You know, you can pull and you have to plan around it and just people aren't gonna do that for this type of thing.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: Right.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Like, I mean it's like I can't do a road trip and every two hours have to go to a charge station and sit there for 45 minutes to charge my car back. It needs to be, you need like a turbo. I mean there are again, that's, that's battery tech.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: It just needs to get there.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: It's getting there, but yeah, it's just.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: Not quite there because you know, the over. A lot of them are overnight charging. It takes eight to 10 hours to slow charge the car. Right. I mean, not sustainable.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: That's fine for again if it's like at your house and you're just using it for local commuting. But yeah, if you're trying to like crossing.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: Cross journey. Right, right. You're on a schedule to be. Yeah, that's not gonna work.
[00:12:45] Speaker A: And I will say, I mean, I will say I, you know, I, I like I am on time. I'm aggressively on time when we're filming or doing things like of importance or I'm on time and I was regularly not on time because of the electric car and it was stressing me out so much because I'm like, that's like an anxiety thing for me. Like, I have to be on time. Right. I can't be professional. And I was. I was just late everywhere I was going because of that car because it's a charging issue. And finding a charging card and not like not knowing where to go. And the. I found out near the end that there are quick charges. So when I was in Gottingen, they have quick charge stations at like the train stations. Right. So I did. I found a quick charge and that will charge you in an hour.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: But still, it's not enough.
No, that's my point. Like, for what you're kind of. I mean, again, it. It worked. But you have to plan around.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Yeah. It adds an hour to your day. I got lucky because all I had to do that last day was drive from Gottingen to Frankfurt. And then I had a hotel that night. And then we were meeting to go on the boat the next day. So I. It was a two and a half hour ride from Gottingen to Frankfurt and I actually couldn't make it. I. And I had a charge in gotten. Right. Like. And I couldn't make it from fully charged from gotten into Frankfurt. Two and a half hours.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Right.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: I couldn't make it. It would have been. It would have been like, maybe I'd make it to the airport and the car would shut down. So I had to stop and do a quick charge, which I did, like, you know, halfway through. So it adds an hour to your trip. So then I. There was a Burger King. So I pulled over, I ate Burger King. I quick charge of the car, and I sat there for an hour. I know I got really bad Burger King. It just makes me ill as an adult.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: It makes you ill as a child also.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: It didn't when I was a kid. It does. Wow. And I always go for the onion rings, which is the worst, because then it definitely makes you ill. There's no way around it. Wow.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: So many mistakes were made.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: But anyway, that was the unmagical part. It was so wonderful. That was my adventure. I like to call it the adventure moment because it was like the unplanned chaos. I always remember that electric car experience.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Mostly what traveling with you is like.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: Oh, no, really? I'm planned chaos. I'm pretty, but I'm an aggressive player.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: Well, you are, but then also there's just always chaos.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: I know, I don't.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: You do have like a really detailed itinerary when you plan these things out.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I try really hard And I try to stick to it.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: You like, I don't know, you create problems. You cause trouble.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: How do I cause so much trouble?
Oh, no.
So anyway, the magical part, I show up day three, four to Trendelweather Castle.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: So far. I'm glad I missed the trip.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: It's just this beautiful, domineering castle just over like the city. It's like traditional fairy tale German village with this castle in the center. It's beautiful. And I pull up, you know, there's a little parking area. I bring my bags out, I walk in and there is just a night, like a full on night waiting for me, all dressed up, like. Well, I was told that, you know, there was a lady coming, but it looks like it's a queen, like, and just the full, you know, experience.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: Bro, stay away from my wife.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: And you go in, they give me a tour of the facility. They show me all the cool stuff with the castle and then they like take me to my room. They give me the nice, like castle suite. I have a nice.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Oh, I know. You made sure, you made sure to FaceTime me from that rather than my face. I was working night shift that day.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: It had like the beautiful, like drapery with like the sitting area at each, you know, window and the canopy bed and soaking tub, like the full castle suite experience. I had a desk, like a working area and like an eating area. Full shebang. It was lovely. And. And then they're like, well, you should, you should get lunch. Are you hungry? We'll do your tour after lunch. And they have this whole thing planned out. I'm like, oh, sure, thanks. And so it's very cool because the way it's structured, there's four towers, like one on each side of the castle. And they turned. So the big one is the Rapunzel tower. It would have probably been the guard tower, you know, back when it was actually. Because it was more of a fortress, I think, when it was a functioning castle.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: So it would have been like, you know, a tower where the knights and the lookouts people would be. So it's very tall. That's like the tall tower, right?
And then there's a smaller one in front of it. Well, that they turned into a spa. It's a sauna. So you can go get a massage and have a sauna experience in the other tower, which is really nice because they want it to be like a wellness retreat.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: We use this to murder people running our city. But now you get a really nice massage.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: Exactly. It's a full massage experience.
And then from there there's another tower which is like the fairy tale tower. It's a separate, like, building a separate entity, like a little cottage with the tower that looks like something out of a fairy tale that you can stay in. Which honestly, I would have loved staying in there too, because it's like this full, like fairy tale looking room, which is very pretty. And then the back behind it there's another tower which was used for like, banquets and stuff. It's like a small, little tower. It's like a little tiny room that they like, you could have like a small, like wedding reception or something.
That was very pretty. And the restaurant, you know, it's kind of like around through the back and you can sit out. They have this room that's very long and open, that's all windows where you can like, look out and see the patio, the beautiful countryside and one of the towers just right in the distance. It's so pretty. And they're like, we have a special lunch and it's a flaming night spear to eat meat. I'm like, I do. So they bring out this like, what's it called? Like, you know, the spear stick with the meat on it. It has a kebab, basically. And with like.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Is the skewer. The stick. And is it a kebab when there's meat on it?
[00:18:49] Speaker A: I think so. I think the skewer yours.
Yes. And so they put it on the. On the plate and then they light it on fire with some kind of liquor. Right.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: So like.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: So I had this flaming meat dish in front of me and I'm like.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Well, this is just a flaming stick of meat.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: And then they were bringing me like the like, lattes and like, it was just lovely. So I had a very nice fine dining experience there before.
Before heading into.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: I think I was eating a PB&J sandwich.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: No, you probably.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: I think I was P.B.
[00:19:21] Speaker A: And J's. An apples license.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: Yep, yep, yep, yep. Me and our daughter eating the same thing.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
And then I got picked up by the knight and he wanted to. So it was a very. It was an interesting tour because it was less about. I thought it might be about the castle, but it was less about the castle and more about the folklore of the area. So he tells this story about the giants that used to live in the area. And he wants it to be like, articulately well in German. So he's telling it in German and the girl with me is like translating it. And he speaks like perfect English, but he's like, it's the experience for him that it has to be told appropriately in German. So he tells it and then she translates the story and then we go through. And the cool thing about this area around Trendelberg is they work with local artists for each of the lamp posts in the town to have a different, like, fairy tale story on them. And so you go through and talk about the tales from the Brothers Grimm. And each, like, lamp post has an artistic, like, shade put in it that shows the Brothers Grimm in one of their stories. And so he's, like, walking around and we're like, you know, showing the different ones and we're talking about it. They're all different. And something that's interesting, too.
You know, they wrote over 200 stories, right? So there's going to be stories that we haven't heard of. Sorry.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: Yes. Put derived.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: Transcribe.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah, transcribe. There you go.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: That's the right word. Transcribe. 200 plus stories. So we're not going to know all of them. Right.
Different countries value different stories and focus on different stories.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: It's interesting. So there were some that are big in Germany that we've never heard of.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: You may go to different. Like Homsel and Gretel.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: What are you talking about?
[00:21:04] Speaker A: Yes. Really? There. There were two or three.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: Like, I wonder why some stories, like, resonate with, you know, a certain country and others with a different country.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: There has to be a cultural reason for it.
Okay, I need this to stop.
I need to make sure it's still recording. Hold on.
There it is.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: Yeah, we're good. Hello?
There has to be, like, a cultural reason for it.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Well, sure. Yeah.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: And it would be interesting to see why they.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: I'd like to see, like, a list of, like, these are big in this country, and these are big in this area. And just see if you could, like, retcon, like, figure out, like, why. Why, you know, like, why does France like this one?
[00:21:48] Speaker A: Right. You know, we should look into that because I would be curious to know.
[00:21:52] Speaker B: That'd be fun.
Fun if you could, like, try to figure out why, you know, what is it about this story that makes this group of people care about it and why this?
[00:22:03] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, definitely. And there was. There was specifically a story that. I'm gonna be honest, I don't even remember the name of it. That it was, like. It was like a story about a woman that's really big in Germany. They're all like, I can't believe you don't know this. Like, like, disappointed in me. But I don't know what they're talking about. And like, I thought you were here because you love fairy tales. And it's like, I haven't even heard of them.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: Well, I like the good ones, right? They didn't have it or we're making America great again.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Oh, no.
Fairy tales. Only the best fairy tales.
When I was in Marburg, they had, like, highlighted different stories throughout, right? And there was one that's a statue. And she's like, obviously, you know what this one is? And it's a wolf and, like, seven little goats.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: The wolf and seven goats.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: And it's like, called the wolf and the goatees. She called it goaties.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: I'm like, I don't know that one.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: No. She's like, you don't know this? And I'm like, no. And then she told me the story and I'm like, I have never heard that before.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Still don't know it.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Like, he, like, the wolf shows up and the mom says, don't let strangers in. And the wolf, like, disguises himself as their mom and, like, they let him in and he eats them. Baby goats.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: The goats. It's a goat family.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: And he eats them.
Oh, that's a happy ending. One of them hides and, like, doesn't get eaten. But I've never heard this before.
[00:23:31] Speaker B: I haven't heard that one either.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: And they were like, my guy was shocked, but I'd never heard it. I'm like, I've never heard that. So the ones that we hear and seven goat murders.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: Goatie murderers, yes.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: So there's ones like Hansel and Gretel and I think Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella are just notorious across most places.
And the ones that Disney touch, I feel like most people just know because Disney touched it, right? And made it a new story.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: Well, then Disney needs to do the goat murder.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: I know.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: For goat murders in the next Disney movie.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: But then there's just so many in Germany that they are like, oh, yeah, this one that I had no idea.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: What they were talking about.
[00:24:15] Speaker A: There were quite a few that was interesting. So there were some that I just knew and some that I just didn't. And when we were doing the Lamp tour near Trendelberg, the. The woman that was with us with the castle was even like, most Americans have never heard of this. She's like, I've been around enough now to be like, will we try to tell the story to, like, international travelers? And they're like, I have no idea what you're talking about.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: Your dumb American tastes. Don't Allow for fairy tales to percolate through your culture.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Right.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: We know you don't know these ones, but.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah, so that was, that was interesting. And then, you know, so we did a nice, like, fairy tale tour of the Trendelberg area. And then I climbed the pencil tower.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I was kind of hoping you would climb up some hair, though.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: On the outside they did have a rope hanging out that was supposed to look like her hair. Actually, you know what? This came up the other day and I think it was when we were at the Titanic museum and I forgot where I said it was one of the dumb questions where people sometimes just ask really dumb questions. And I couldn't remember as a. This came up recently where someone asked something outrageous. I remember what it is now. It was at Trindelberg Castle. They apparently are regularly asked by both, I want to say Japanese and American.
Okay.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: Specifically, it's an interesting mix of specific.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: But I think it's the groups that really like Disney stuff.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: Right.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: Where was Rapunzel buried? When did she die?
[00:25:42] Speaker B: Which they think it's real.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: They think it's real.
They think she was a real person. She lived in this tower.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: But wouldn't. If you had that mindset, wouldn't that apply to like, you know, werewolf? Then were where Hansel and Gretel.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm just saying. A woman told me that they regularly get asked where Rapunzel has been buried.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: Well, these are, these are make believe.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: So anyway, there's just that there are.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: In fact dumb questions.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: There are dumb questions.
We got back and I had this special. We have a special puppet show dinner experience. Experience for you. And it's a special four course dinner that, you know, in this like, dining hall. And there's this like the special artist from the area that's coming in to do a puppet show for everyone. And we have a. You know, they gave me like a front row seat for it. It was great. I'm like, oh, this is just great. And I'm thinking I'm in a medieval castle. It's gonna be this like, medieval puppet show.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: How many people are at this puppet show?
[00:26:45] Speaker A: Maybe like 30.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Okay. I, I guess I've never had like a dinner.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: It was, it was one. It was a small.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: Like you're just watching some dude in a box, like, with two other people next to you watch puppets.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: It was like, it was a dining room full of people. Like the dining room, it was a smaller dining room. They have like two dining rooms and One, like, stretches out towards the back where I had lunch in. That's very open, where you can look outside.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: And then there's, like, one that's, like, in the castle a bit more. We were in that one. And, yeah, they put me right in the front. And then I even got a menu that said for Princess Mallory.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
You're the last person that needs any more of this kind of thing being delivered.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: I'm never gonna hamper. Yeah.
And, you know, they're coming over with, like, would you like beer? Would you like wine? Would you like coffee? Would you like this? And then, you know, the four course meals. Amazing. And, you know, they told me, you know, the puppet show is going to be in German. And the guy even gave a special announcement for me in the beginning. Like, I'm sorry, it's in German, but if you have questions, I'm happy to talk to you about it afterwards.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: What was the story about?
[00:27:53] Speaker A: Well, I assumed that you can usually follow stories with inflections and, you know, and the puppets. And the puppets.
But this was like a space piece.
It was. It was space puppets.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: What a choice.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: It was not what I expected.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Well, yeah, you're at all. You're in a. You're in a fairy tale castle. We're just gonna pivot fully out of fantasy and do sci fi.
[00:28:24] Speaker A: Space puppets.
So, yeah, sure. Space puppets. So all of a sudden, it's all about space.
And I mean, the puppets were amazing. And he, like, had these backdrops. He changed out.
[00:28:38] Speaker B: Is this, like, also, like, a fairy tale, or is this, like, just a totally new story that they like to tell in this place?
[00:28:46] Speaker A: Well, the artist, I guess they work with this local artist. He's the same guy that made the shades for the lampshades.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: And he also does puppetry, and he came up with his, like, the story and all the pieces and the puppets all on his own. And I guess it's just a new story that they're telling, like, for the guests of the castle. I don't know. It's a special event.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Okay. But it's a contemporary story.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: It's a contemporary story. It was about space, and there was alien puppets, and they even played Star wars music at one point.
I'm like, wow, what is happening right now?
He very much.
It was cool because they had it structured where, you know, we would bring out a chorus and we'd eat and then he'd do the puppet. The next puppet show, and then we'd eat and bring out a chorus and do the next Part of the Muppin show. It was interesting.
It was very cool. And then I think the coolest part, which I.
I have no idea. There was a baby alien and a mom alien, and we. Weird alien.
Weird floaty, like, wormy alien.
I don't think there was a villain. And then there was, like, an astronaut. And that was as much as I got.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: That was the villain.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure the astronaut was the villain. Very interesting experience.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: And then.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: So you should have asked him questions.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: I should have asked him. But you know what? He actually left before I got a question. So the joke was on me. He didn't really want to do that.
It was great. And at the end of the night, you got. You got the special Mallory experience at the end of the night where they just gave me the keys to the front of the castle.
I had the keys to my room and then the keys to the front of the castle because they locked up at 10 or whatever it was. And I wanted to go out of the castle to check out the lamps, like the street lights with the cool fairy tale things on them. So I'm late at night, just heading out of my room and opening. Unlocking the front door of the castle to head out and check out the town and then come back in. And it was quite an experience, like, to go through, unlock the front doors of the castle, head out, go to the gate, get through the gate, come back in. So, I mean, I had the front door keys.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: You don't have to give the princess the keys to the castle. I was supposed to lock them in. And so it's like a pretty bird to look at. Right? Isn't that the moral of a lot of these old stories?
Isn't that literally the Rapunzel story?
[00:31:14] Speaker A: Well, yeah, because the evil witch locked her away. Yeah.
[00:31:16] Speaker B: So why are we not giving you the keys? Give me your tower.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Well, I think we all watched Looney Tan and saw how that worked out.
[00:31:23] Speaker B: So pretty well. Pretty well.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: So she has a whole song about being a pretty bird in tower. Yep, yep. Joanna.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: I'm sure that resonates with somebody.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: Oh, no, I'm sure it resonates with me.
Can I have my keys yet, Michael?
[00:31:38] Speaker B: Uh, no.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: You'll have to wait for your knight in shining armor to come.
[00:31:43] Speaker A: I thought that was you. Aren't you my queen's guard?
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Uh, I guess. Look at this guy.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: There's some great drivers in the Great Smoky Mountains. You guys, you need to guess. You're my queen's guard.
[00:31:57] Speaker B: All right, fine.
[00:31:58] Speaker A: Yeah, damn straight.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: It sounds like you found a new replacement knight.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: He was just like the. He was like the Sir Barrister, right? Like, just the old. The old, like, survival knight, you know, guy.
[00:32:15] Speaker B: The most badass fighter in the entire kingdom.
[00:32:17] Speaker A: Sir Bears Tinsami is the secret badass and best character in A Song of Ice.
[00:32:23] Speaker B: Well, you're not making me feel better. I mean, what was the character you had? Me.
You were telling me how little fingering I was.
[00:32:33] Speaker A: Little fingery. But then we landed on something else, though, didn't we?
[00:32:37] Speaker B: I don't know. You had, like, an amalgamation.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: There was a great amalgamation.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: You're just Marjorie Tyrell.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it. One of the just like, very quick sidebar about the Tyrells are the greatest. Because I think one of the greatest moments in the books, at least I don't think they did it in the show. If they did, it wasn't like it was in the books, was when Oleanna Tyrell, the Queen of Thorns.
[00:33:01] Speaker B: We've transitioned to talk about Game of Thrones.
Yes, we are.
[00:33:05] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. She. She is trying to get information on Joffrey from Sansa, right? But she realizes that she can't talk about it in front of people because it's, you know, problem on Coop and there's people listening everywhere. So she has, like, her jester, her, like, singer, performer that follows them around to entertain them, her and her, like, flock of girls. And she makes him sing louder. And she keeps saying, sing louder. I can't hear. I'm old. And is using him being just aggressively loud to, like, as a cover, to have a private conversation with Sansa. And it's done so well because it's not just, you know, plainly stated, it's a subtlety of, you see what she's doing and she's like, you know, one of the biggest players in the game. She just does it so well.
Anyway, we have now digressed to Game of Thrones, which means I think we're done with this episode. Right? Yes. That's the fine lead to get off stage.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: Music.
[00:34:03] Speaker A: Our road lead to Game of Thrones. Speaking of the direwolf that just happened.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: Right, I'll have to look into that.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Yeah, we need to talk about that.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: I haven't read enough about it to have an intelligent, like, conversation about it.
[00:34:18] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I'll just say that George R.R. martin got a photo the Iron Throne with the direwolf Romulus and Remus.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: Is that what they named him?
[00:34:29] Speaker A: So there was two generations of it. They were talking about this on Sky. And the first generation was just one. And they named her Khaleesi, which infuriates me to no end because no one has realized it's not a name yet.
It's a title. It's not a name. And everyone in the world treats it like it's a name. And, like, that's her name.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: Dog. I mean, it's a wolf. Like, I mean, people name their.
[00:34:50] Speaker A: Like, people have named their children. Do you know how many children?
[00:34:53] Speaker B: Okay, well, I mean, that's dumb, but, you know, like, people name their dog, like, Princess. Okay, but, yes, I agree. If you're having, like, yes, people name the equivalent of naming your kid Princess.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: Right. It's just not a great move.
Anyway, from there.
I digress. And Romulus and Remus. Romulus and Remus were the second round of them. They're. Yeah, that was good. That's a really good one. That's a great quote. But we will leave you guys with that today. Thank you so much for tuning in. Be sure to check out Weird World Adventures on Amazon prime and follow along on our blog at mallorysadventures.com M A L O R I E S adventures.com until next time, I'm your host, Mallory.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: And I'm your host, Michael.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: And until next time, everybody stay weird. Yeah.
