Once upon a time, a man named Hans Christian Andersen fell in love with EVERYONE - and he was rebuffed by almost everyone. Luckily for us, his heartbreak had him do things like write The Little Mermaid and mail it to his friend on his wedding day as a way to say LOOK YOU MADE ME INTO SEA FOAM!!!! It's a bit dramatic, but a win-win for society! Join us as we talk through this chaotic romantic life together!
Once upon a time, a man named Hans Christian Anderson fell in love with EVERYONE - and he was rebuffed by almost everyone. Luckily for us, his heartbreak had him do things like write The Little Mermaid and mail it to his friend on his wedding day as a way to say LOOK YOU MADE ME INTO SEA FOAM!!!! It's a bit dramatic, but a win-win for society!
Join us as we talk through this chaotic romantic life together!
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The Life of Disaster Bisexual Hans Christian Andersen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Qgvtvkvxo
Let's bully Hans Christian Andersen -Dapper History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yP_hN6AHlo
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Taylor says he needs two AirPods because one dies
>> Taylor: In the matter of the people of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson, case number BA097.
>> Farz: And so, my fellow Americans, ask not.
>> Taylor: What your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
>> Farz: Hey, Taylor.
>> Taylor: Hi. How are you?
>> Farz: I'm very awake and lively.
>> Taylor: Precious.
>> Farz: How are you?
>> Taylor: Good. I lost an AirPod. Doesn't that sink?
>> Farz: That means, So can you use the other AirPod, or do they need to be a pair?
>> Taylor: I can use other one.
>> Farz: Okay. You good?
>> Taylor: Yeah. I need two.
>> Farz: I know, I know. I. I've. I have. I use Jabras In Jabras. I actually only put one in. I put the right one in because that's the one that has all the controls on it, and you can't really use the left one unless you have the right one in. And so I've lost the right one on two of them, and they're useless at that point.
>> Taylor: So have you found, Taylor's AirPods? No. Location found. Have you, Can you make the stuff on both of them?
>> Farz: Like, well, no, I just want to, like, hear what's going on around me.
>> Taylor: No, no, no. I know I only. I only wear one, too, but I. But I need them both, because I wear one and then it dies, and I put it on a shelf, and then I walk away, and then I get the other one until it dies, and then I have this problem where I can't find either of them. Ah.
>> Farz: yeah, I don't have that. I only can use the right one. If I just put the left one in, nothing happens.
>> Taylor: I think I can. I actually have. This is so stupid, but. No, but nobody cares. But I have extra ones that I can switch out. I might do that anyway.
Doomed to Fail podcast brings you history's most notorious disasters and epic failures
Hello, welcome to Doomed to Defeo. Taylor, joined by Fars, we're the podcast that brings you history's most notorious disasters and epic failures twice a week, every week. And shoot my backup AirPods. No, I have two left. AirPods.
>> Farz: This is what being doomed to fail means.
>> Taylor: M. God damn it.
>> Farz: Hopefully you'll get over it.
>> Taylor: I might. I might. But I might never get over it. You'll never know.
Taylor: I'm going to talk about Hans Christian Andersen today
>> Farz: So, Taylor, I think you are our first presenter for today.
>> Taylor: I am. I believe I am as well. cool. Are you ready?
>> Farz: I'm ready.
>> Taylor: All right, let's do it. this is a suggestion from our friend Nadine. She saw this on Facebook and she shared it with me, and it actually is something that. Similar to another thing that I wanted to do based on a book that came out this Week. So I'm gonna do a little bit of a series now. because the book that came out this week I just got from Audible and listening to it. And then I'll do that story next week. And then today I'm going to do this story and I'm going to do a little miniseries on fairy tales.
>> Farz: Whoa.
>> Taylor: And so today I'm going to talk about the author of. I'm going to start naming fairy tales. And you tell me when you know who it is.
>> Farz: Sure.
>> Taylor: The Emperor's New Clothes.
>> Farz: No Clue.
>> Taylor: The Little Mermaid. Do you know any fairy tale authors? The Princess and the Bee. Did you ever guess one.
>> Farz: You know better than. You know better than this.
>> Taylor: Dozens of people are yelling across America. Dozens. It's, ah, it's Hans Christian Andersen.
>> Farz: Yeah, those gonna be a guess eventually.
>> Taylor: Cool. Well, that's. He's the one that we're gonna talk about today. I watched some YouTube videos and spent a lot of time on Wikipedia, but One of the YouTube videos is called the Life of Disaster Bisexual Hans Christian Andersen. So he's a lot. He's a lot going on.
>> Farz: I can imagine. Anybody who's, like, really, like an adult and really good at, like, kids stuff, like, has to have some weird stuff going on.
>> Taylor: I think that's fair. Yeah. so his life was a mess of unrequited love and other sort of little oddities. He's the kind of person who, you know, had a crush on everyone and was like, I'm going to marry that person, you know, but, like, never married anyone. Just like a perpetual crush guy.
>> Farz: Yeah, I've known those people.
>> Taylor: he was born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, Denmark. I think Odense is one of those words where the o has a line through it. So I'm definitely pronouncing it wrong. Yeah, no, it's two dots. it's a line through the. Oh, I don't know what that is.
>> Farz: Yeah, yeah.
>> Taylor: But anyway, he was born in Denmark, right away in his family, there's this, like, idea of storytelling to make yourself feel better. His dad was a shoemaker and his mom was a washer. Women. So they were. They were like lower class. And, in his dad's family, they would always talk about how they came from a higher class and that, like, they're really from nobility, even though they're not. But it would make themselves feel better. Like, maybe we are, a little bit higher class than, like, we seem to be. but Hans, he went to school when he was young, basically. Like elementary, education or so. And when his father passed away, he was 11 and his mom remarried and he was in school and they discovered that he had a really nice voice, like a really nice high voice that you have when you are a young man. So they sent him to Copenhagen and he joined the Royal Theater when he was 14. But guess what happened?
>> Farz: He joined his circus.
>> Taylor: No, his voice changed, so they kicked him out.
>> Farz: To this point, it does sound like some sort of a Disney story, you know, like it could. The arc could go one direction or the other.
>> Taylor: Some of us are like, I don't know, is it true? I'm not sure. Yeah, you know, so it sounds like for most of his life he was like, you know, he would sell stories or he would get paid by like benefactors. People would help him so he could travel around and write. He published a bunch of books, a bunch of different stories. he's also published some travel books, like travel guides, different parts of Europe that people really enjoyed. and let's pause and just talk about some of his stories, like some of the more famous ones. And if you think about like the things that he was feeling when he wrote these stories, he was very lonely and hurt by the people around him and they probably didn't mean to hurt him. You know, it's kind of like he had this idea in his head that he was in these like really intense relationships that he wasn't in. So he would be hurt.
>> Farz: Sorry, what year was this again?
>> Taylor: He, was born in 1805. So he starts writing in like around like 1830.
>> Farz: Got it. Okay.
>> Taylor: Yeah.
Pan: He was attracted to both men and women. And, like, now you might say he was bi
like you said, he wrote the Little Mermaid. do you know what happens in the original Little Mermaid? The story? What happens in the movie? Have you seen.
>> Farz: Of course. Yeah, yeah.
>> Taylor: What happens in Little Mermaid?
>> Farz: So she gives up her voice to have legs to be with Prince Eric.
>> Farz: That isn't it. Yeah. and then I don't know how the rest of it goes.
>> Taylor: Yeah, they end up getting. They end up falling in love and they get together. There's like a monster and they get in a fight, right? Yeah, yeah. And so she becomes. She becomes a human and they live happily ever after. and. But in the story, the Little Mermaid trades her voice to become a human, just the same as before. but the prince does marry someone else and so she's doomed to die. It was like, if you don't get him to marry you, you will die. And she has the option to kill the prince to become a mermaid again. But she refuses because she loves him. So she dissolves into sea foam and kind of disappears.
>> Farz: That's a worse story.
>> Taylor: Yeah. So it's. You know, the idea is that, like, someone wants something so badly and then they don't get it, and then they die as a consequence. it's also the same.
>> Farz: Sounds like an Eeyore. He sounds like a sad sack. Eeyore.
>> Taylor: You know, that's very, very, very spot on.
>> Farz: Thank you.
>> Taylor: I think he sounded a little bit too. Yeah. he wrote the Snow Queen, which did, like, Frozen is kind of based on. But, like, really not really. Frozen is kind of its own thing. but, it's about, someone who is on a journey and they meet a snow queen, and then it's like trials and tribulations and they end up melting her heart. and. And saving their friend. So, sort of like a heroic story. There's. He obviously wrote the Ugly Duckling, and, like, we all know what that is about, but, like, he probably saw himself as an ugly duckling. And, like, just, if I find the right place and the right people, I'll fit in. You know, he never really was going to do that. another one is the Emperor's New Clothes, where people. the emperor is getting clothes, but they're not real. Have you read that one? Yeah, we started that recently. Another, one is the Red Shoes, but I know I've seen, like, an old movie of it. it's about a girl who gets red ballet slippers, and she's obsessed with them. And then she has. But they won't stop dancing, so her feet won't stop dancing. At the end, she has to have her feet amputated.
>> Farz: So I remember something in, like, Looney Tunes era. Ah. About that. I mean, no amputations, but about, like.
>> Taylor: Yeah, I feel like I remember that, too. I can, like, picture it.
>> Farz: Yeah.
>> Taylor: Yeah. so he wrote fairy tales that are about, you know, finding redemption. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. Some of them have kind of a. More like a. Kind of a harsher ending than the Disney ones. But, you know, those are some of his most famous ones. But he wrote thousands of things. he also was writing a journal, and letters to his friends that a lot of people saved and have. so it paints a picture of a really chaotic man. and I'm gonna tell you a little bit about other things that happened to him besides the writing. So he was definitely attracted to both men and women. And, like, now you might say he was bi or pan. But, like, he didn't know those labels, so we can't label him. He just, like, was attracted to everyone pretty much.
>> Farz: So he was bi? we can label it. He was bi.
>> Taylor: Well, no, because pan is mean. Something different. There's a lot of.
>> Farz: Wait, what's pan mean?
>> Taylor: Pan is, like, everyone, regardless of what they identify as, because it's not just two genders, you know?
>> Farz: Okay.
>> Taylor: It could get complicated. It doesn't matter. He's attracted to both men and women. He probably was attracted to everyone, you know? some people think that he never had sex with anyone. that he just kind of, like, had these, like, little, like, things.
Hans Christian Andersen had intense love feelings for Edward Cullen
He, like, just, like, had these, like, love. Intense love feelings, but never actually did anything physical. Some people think he did. I don't know. it's. It's like. Do you ever, like, listen to a podcast or something? And, like, the one that it brings up for me is the Leopold and Loeb one, with. In last podcast where they talk about. One of them just had all those, like, fantasies about, like, being a king. Remember that? I don't m. It's just, like, how. Why. Why would anyone know that? You know? I guess he, like, wrote down his sexual fantasies and his journals, and that's how we know. But that's how we know.
>> Farz: I'm confusing the two. What does it have to do with Leopold and Loeb?
>> Taylor: Just, like, why would we know that person's fantasies unless he told someone, you know? So, like, it sounds like, Hans Christian Anderson, like, was telling his fantasies to people as well, you know?
>> Farz: I don't know. Then we all assume Abraham Lincoln was gay. I doubt he wrote any of that down. I think we just make assumptions on people. Or when somebody back in the day had, like, a roommate who was a man, you just.
>> Taylor: Yes.
>> Farz: Nobody's writing that down and nobody's documenting.
>> Taylor: It, like, but he is, what I'm saying.
>> Farz: Oh, okay.
>> Taylor: Yeah. Yeah. But Hans Christian Andersen is writing all this down.
>> Farz: well, I guess he's a writer. That's right.
>> Taylor: Yeah. So that's how we know about it. after he went to school, he lived with a family called the Collins family, and they had a son named Edward Ed. Word with a V instead of a W. And it's. Edward Collins is an almost impossible name to Google because it's so close to Edward Cullen from Twilight.
>> Farz: Oh, yeah.
>> Taylor: I can't even, like, think it in my head. Like, it's like a. Like a tongue twister. I don't. I don't even know. but While he lived with the family, he was obsessed with Edward. He would write him love letters. He would leave roses under his pillows. Edward wrote in his own memoir, quote, I found myself unable to respond to this love. And this caused the author much suffering. So, like, he was obsessed with him while he lived with him. eventually Edward got engaged and Hans was pissed. He wrote to the woman, Henrietta, and asked her to call off the engagement. He was like, because he was in his mind, he was him and ever were in a relationship, you know, And I was like, we're just friends, dude. Like, you got to calm down. then Hans was like, I thought we had something. Like, I thought that you and I had something together. Everyone's like, absolutely not. Like, I'm getting married. So he got married to Henrietta. and while he was getting married, like, during that time, that's when Hans wrote, the Little Mermaid. And it's about him. He is a little mermaid. It's about him trying to fit into this life with Edward and be with him and getting rejected and dying of sadness.
>> Farz: So were they actually in a relationship or he just thought they were okay?
>> Taylor: He just thought that they were. He just like, assumed that, like, you know, if I tell you, I give you all these nice things and write you all these nice letters, like, we're in a relationship, you know, and was like, we're definitely not. I'm marrying a woman, like right now. So he, So like, as like a wedding present, he mailed the Little Mermaid to him and was like, these are my feelings.
>> Farz: Also, if I'm him, like, hey, thanks man, for writing my fiance and making it seem like I'm in a gay relationship with you. Like, thank you. That really helps me a lot.
>> Taylor: Totally. So, I mean.
Scharf: He never got married or had long term relationship
And even during that time, he also thought that he was in love with the sister of a Collins house, Louise. at one point, he proposed to a woman named Jenny Lind, who was a famous singer, and he was like, super nervous to propose to her. So he wrote her a letter and she wrote back and she was like, dude, I think think of you like a brother. Like, why would you propose to me? There's nothing. We haven't had any of this, you know, wasn't.
>> Farz: Isn't this like the entire reason why we started doing this podcast? Because of relationships that were doomed to fail? Because, like, the person was just picking badly and like, This is a really appropriate episode then.
>> Taylor: Thank you. Well, I feel like anyone who got involved with him, like, that was the doomed part. Like, they didn't some of them didn't even mean to, you know. Yeah, it's like, it's him. so. So after Jenny Lind, you know, turned on his proposal, he based the heartless woman and the Snow Queen on her, which is like, come on, that's a lot. They're saying that her heart is frozen, you know. he may or may not have had a really actual relationship with a grand duke from the Weimar Republic named Carl Alexander. they may have just been friends or they may have been more than friends. Some quotes from, Hans Christian Andersen's journals are quote, I quite love the young duke. He is the first of all the princes that I find really attractive. So we definitely liked him. he said, quote, and this one I'm not sure if I believe, but I'll tell you why. He said the hereditary grand duke walked arm in arm with me across the courtyard of the castle to my room, kissed me lovingly, asked me always to love him, though he was just an ordinary person, asked me to stay with him this winter, fell asleep with the melancholy, happy feeling that I was a guest of a strange prince at his castle and loved by him. It's like a fairy tale. So, like, I don't know if that's true because he literally said it was like a fairy tale. And he's a fairy tale writer.
>> Farz: Yeah. Wasn't he like a famous writer?
>> Taylor: Like, yeah.
>> Farz: Why is he. It's like, it's like the Brad Pitt and you're like, it's weird, dude. Everywhere I go. But he's so nice to me.
>> Taylor: Right. People want to be around him. Of course they do, because he's famous and he's like creative and cool, but it doesn't mean they're in love with him.
>> Farz: Yeah. You know, being famous, that's good enough.
>> Taylor: Yeah.
>> Farz: That's what we're trying to do here.
>> Taylor: Yeah. So, I mean, it's hard, it's hard to know if any of his relationships were like, requited because they, you know, a lot of the stuff were just in his head, you know, like he thought that they were. He thought his relationship with Jenny, he thought his relationship with Edward and he wasn't. he never got married or had, a long term relationship. He, you know, kind of lived like a single life. Hang out with friends.
>> Farz: He sounds like a compulsive narcissist who thinks that his importance to others makes them love him. It's like, yeah, like, why would you. I mean, it kind of. He sounds a little like a crazy person. I don't want to besmirch the guy who gave us Little Mermaid, but still, he sounds kind of nuts.
>> Taylor: And I think I feel like.
>> Farz: Narcissism. If you assume things around the world that revolve around you, that. Is that narcissism?
>> Taylor: Maybe. But I think it's also, like. He also, like, had other weird things, like, well, one more relationship that he might have gotten in. He might have dated a dancer named Harold Scharf, and they would, like, go out together, like, in public. And people thought that was, like, too much. And then they. When they broke up, he would, like, try to get him back for a long time, but that might not have been real either. But, yeah, I think that, like, I don't know if it's narcissism because he didn't, like, think he was super great. He just wanted something really romantic, so he kind of made it happen in his head. I don't know. I'm, not a.
>> Farz: Go backwards. My bisexual comment earlier, because it might not have even mattered what gender, age, species. The thing was, as long as it gave him some degree of attention, affirmation. He was like, I'm in.
>> Taylor: Exactly, exactly. That. He just needed. He craved that, crave that attention. Other, things about him. M. He was very superstitious. so he would carry a rope with him while traveling to be able to get out of buildings if there was a fire to put out the window and get out, just in case.
>> Farz: That's not crazy. Yeah, that does not sound crazy to me.
>> Taylor: I'm not mad at that. he was also really afraid of being buried alive, which also agree to agree. Yeah, but he had a, They said that he had a piece of paper that he carried around, that said I only appear to be dead in case anybody thought he was dead. And some people say it was written into 14 different languages.
>> Farz: It's like, listen, listen, dude. Like, this is why you're having dating problems. You're carrying around a fucking piece of paper on a placard around your neck saying, if I stop breathing, I'm so. Like, that's not normal. Yeah, just have people just have a beer and be cool. Like, it's fine.
>> Taylor: Like, I feel like in, not exactly those words, someone at one point must have been like, dude, be cool. Like, cut it out.
>> Farz: Be cool. You're a famous author.
Arthur Andersen came to stay with Charles Dickens in 1847
Like, be like Hemingway. Just go drink constantly and just, like, do whatever the fuck you want. That's the life of a famous Arthur. Arthur.
>> Taylor: Perfect. he also was. He was Also an artist, he would do paper cutouts, which are really cool. I'll show you some of them. I'll put them in our thing. But they kind of look like though the. Like the flags for Dia de los Muertos. Like the. But they're not. Obviously not that. But it's like paper cuttings of things. They would tell stories and cut paper at the same time, then open it up and it'd be like a beautiful scene. Which is cool.
>> Farz: Yeah, it's like a big talent.
>> Taylor: It's like a very complicated snowflake, you know, so that's super cool. so, you know, just kind of like a weird, eccentric guy, you know? the final story that I'll tell you about him, that's fun. Is there is. Do you ever play like those role playing games where it's like a dice game? Like you've ever played Dungeons and Dragons?
>> Farz: No, but I play dice games. I mean. Yeah.
>> Taylor: You know what I mean? But there's. So there's a dice game called Trapped in youn House due to Hans Christian Andersen that you can play. I found it. I will link to it. but it's hilarious. So it comes from. So some dude just like made this on. Oliver Darkshire. Made this. It's on his Patreon. I'll share it with you. But the game is the one page dice game and it says, Hans Christian Andersen is on your lawn. He won't leave and you refuse to let him in. Surely he has to go home eventually. Surely. Why does he have camping supplies with him? And then things like, you get points for certain things. But the reason that that is a game is because in 1847, he met Charles Dickens. He went to England. He, met Charles Dickens and he, like, freaked out. He's like, dude, like, you're such a great author. Like, I'm just really. I'm so excited to meet you. Can we write letters to each other? Like, can we be friends? And Dickens is like, yeah, totally. So for 10 years, Hans Christian Andersen sends him like a ton of letters. Just like tons and tons and tons of letters. And eventually at some point, Dickens is like, hey, if you're ever in London, you know, stop by. So ten years after they meet in, 1857, he goes to, he goes to London to stay with Charles Dickens at his house. And it's a weird time in the Dickens house because something that he had written had just like, sold really poorly. So he was worried about his future. And he was also considering leaving his wife for a teenager. So like that made things a little bit. I see in the Dickens household. Yeah, it was tense. So Anderson comes for a two week stay. He does, he doesn't speak English super well, so he, it's kind of hard to talk to. And he's like super intense. So the kids that live there, they're like, he's a little bit weird. He also wants the kids to shave his face because he's saying that like in, where he comes from, it's a tradition to shave your guest's face. And they're like, no, that's weird. But he just needed tons of attention from everybody in the house. And they were like, dude, we can't do this. At one point, one of his, one of Anderson's work gets a bad review in the London papers and he sobs to Charles Dickens and goes out into the lawn and screams and sobs and rolls around on the grass because he's so upset.
>> Farz: Meanwhile, Charles Dickens is upstairs just rolling dice over and over and over again.
>> Taylor: M. Yeah, totally. Finally he leaves. But he stayed for five weeks. and he should have said he's gonna stay for two, which is still a long time. But he stayed for five weeks. and they said that after he left they put a sign on the door that said, Hans Anderson slept in this room for five weeks. Which seemed to the family ages. Left it on the door because he was annoying.
>> Farz: Yeah. If he wasn't annoying anywhere. And he said he's coming to your house for like a couple of days and he stays for five weeks. You'd be like this guy.
>> Taylor: Yeah, no, totally.
I thought the book was named after the magician David Copperfield
It's a long time. Yeah. I haven't read David Copperfield, the Charles Dickens book, but there's a character named Mariah Heap who's like a mischief maker. And that's probably based on Hans Christian Andersen that he wrote about later. also I looked it up. David Copperfield, the magician's real name is David Seth Kotkin.
>> Farz: Is he named after the book?
>> Taylor: He must be. I don't know. I like didn't I thought about that ever.
>> Farz: I'm so not a reader that I, I thought the book was named after the magician.
>> Taylor: Well, definitely not, because Magicians Still Alive in the book is from the 1800s.
>> Farz: I know, but I didn't know how old the book was at the time.
>> Taylor: this is a biography of David Copperfield. And then finally, when Hans Christian Andersen is 67, he falls out of bed and he never recovers. So I don't know, like what Happened when he fell out of bed. But it was something that, like, it was just downhill from there. He might have gotten cancer, a little bit after that. but he is going die in the next couple years and he kind of says that. That falling out of bed was the, the catalyst to make him, make him eventually, eventually die. he had someone write a song for his funeral. And he said, quote, most of the people who will walk after me will be children. So make the beat. Keep time with little steps. Which is like, kind of weird, but like.
>> Farz: Okay, I mean, you, you dismissed me earlier, but whatever.
>> Taylor: I know, but I don't think. I don't think it was like, sexual towards children. I think he's just a weird guy.
>> Farz: No, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying, like, I think that he's somebody. He strikes me as the type of person who's like anybody who shows me any sort of validation. I'm just going to like, latch onto, like, I don't know.
>> Taylor: Totally. I hear that. Not great.
Anderson wants to be buried with Edward and Henrietta
So then, remember advert from before?
>> Farz: Yes.
>> Taylor: So somehow Anderson, when he dies on August 4, 1875, he gets buried in the Collins's family plot. Even though he was not part of that family, he just lived with them for a little bit. He gets buried in the plot and arranges for Edward and Henrietta to get buried with him. So he wants to be buried with Edward, who he was in love with, and Edward's wife Henrietta, who tried to get him not to marry. And they are, they are buried together. Edward died 10 years later and Henrietta died 20 years after Hans Christian Andersen died. And they're still all three buried together. And the only person's name on the headstone is Hans Christian Andersen.
>> Farz: So hold on. They exhumed, they exhumed his coffin?
>> Taylor: No, he was like, I will be here waiting for you. And then they buried them with him. With him.
>> Farz: I was thinking about the, that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns was talking about how when he dies, he's already had it planned so that his coffin has extra room in it because he wants Smithers to be buried with him alive. That's what I thought you were saying.
>> Taylor: No, they're just buried like, next to each other. But if you went to the cemetery, you wouldn't know that because Edward and Henrietta's names are not on the grave. It's just Hans Christian Anderson.
>> Farz: Maybe, maybe Edward was like, after a, years of being married, was like, yeah, I should have gone with Hans.
>> Taylor: And so maybe. Maybe my life would have been A little bit weirder and kind of fun. Who knows?
>> Farz: Also then weird. That one. At one point, Henrietta was like, a super hot name. Like.
>> Taylor: Yeah, yeah. I don't hate it. You call her Hen. Could be cute. That's so.
>> Farz: That's almost offensive.
>> Taylor: Why?
>> Farz: Calling her a hen?
>> Taylor: Not a hen. Just the name Hen.
>> Farz: No, Henny. Henny would be good.
>> Taylor: I don't like it.
>> Farz: Let's just skip Henrietta's. Let's not do Henrietta names anymore. The season has passed for Henrietta's.
>> Taylor: It has. I don't know any. That's for sure. I don't know any new ones either. So who knows? yeah. And that's it.
>> Farz: Sweet.
Do you have a list of everything he's written that we would know
so do you have a list of everything he's written that we would know?
>> Taylor: well, I did a couple of them in the beginning. Like, have, like, Thumbelina, the Ugly Duckling, the Princess and the Pea. I think those are, like, his really famous ones. Emperor's New Clothes, obviously. I just read that with the kids. the Little Match Girl, the Snow Queen. There's a bunch of them.
>> Farz: It's almost like Walt Disney just, like, sat around waiting, waiting for intellectual property rights to expire and just, like, snatched it all up at once. Not almost. It's probably certainly exactly what he did.
>> Taylor: Yeah. Certain. That's what happened.
>> Farz: That's exactly what happened. I mean, good. Good move. Those are. Those are great. great.
>> Taylor: Totally.
Mickey Mouse is now out of the public domain
Have you. Well, you see, like, John Oliver, like, has, like, a fake Mickey Mouse now. Because Mickey Mouse is now out of the public domain.
>> Farz: Yes.
>> Taylor: you know, and then, like, obviously, I watched, like, the Winnie the Pooh bloody movie.
>> Farz: Yes. And you're right. You're right. That's the story behind it. Was the IP to Winnie the Pooh expired? Exactly. Then. But they couldn't do the Winnie the Pooh representation in Disney because that's a separate IP because they layered their own thing on. Was it Disney or Hanna Barbera?
>> Taylor: Disney.
>> Farz: Is it? Okay, okay.
>> Taylor: either way, I want more stuff in the public domain. Let's do more weird stuff with characters we know.
>> Farz: So that's weird. That's why. So they're gonna do another win of the Pooh because that one just, like, was so popular. It's such a good movie. So. No, it's not a good movie. It's a very dumb movie. But it's very fun. And so we're gonna do another Part two to that.
>> Taylor: I think there's a part two already.
>> Farz: Is it already out?
>> Taylor: I think so, because I tried to go into part two after Part one ended.
>> Farz: That's great. I love when all these movies come out one after the other. I was gonna go see Terrifier 3 and I just never got around to it and so I'm just gonna wait for it to be come out streaming. Did you see 1 and 2?
>> Taylor: I didn't. I don't know why. I know who the chairfire is.
>> Farz: Fun.
>> Taylor: I know. I need to watch it. Our closing movie for Halloween was the Crazies, which was fun.
>> Farz: I never saw that one.
>> Taylor: It's pretty good. And then we had a choice between a scary movie, which was the Crazies, or a fun movie, but we didn't know which one was which. We picked scary. But the fun movie that we would have watched was Erta Scared Stupid. Have you ever seen that?
>> Farz: Probably. I watched all the earnest ones when I was a kid.
>> Taylor: It's great. It's terrible. It's good. It's still good. All the things.
>> Farz: Wait, so this is gonna be a series?
>> Taylor: Yes, because I just wanted. There's a couple things about like fairy tales and fairy tale authors and this is just the first one and I'm gonna m do that one next week.
>> Farz: Who was such creative topics?
>> Taylor: Well, this one was from Nadine.
>> Farz: Well, Nadine does then. Thank you.
>> Taylor: yeah.
>> Farz: thank you. Sweet.
Taylor: Nadine mentioned something about having delayed sleep disorder
do you have anything listed from ill wise?
>> Taylor: I do actually. Speaking of Nadine, she mentioned something about having the the delayed sleep disorder. So she said that she has to have like really good sleep hygiene, minimal caffeine, very dark bedroom, no screens in the bedroom, in a very consist sleep routine. Routine. the key is the light therapy. Like, like you were saying, like if you. The same kind of light that you use for like depression, she shines it in her face in the morning. It'll trick her brain to thinking that she should be awake. You know that really works. Yeah.
>> Farz: That's incredible.
>> Taylor: I know. Well, because you mean you. Yeah. You're supposed to be able to like be awake when the sun's out.
>> Farz: Yeah.
>> Taylor: In general.
>> Farz: And now we're going to do it earlier and earlier by an hour. Didn't we agree as a country to not do daylight savings?
>> Taylor: We did. And then nothing happened.
>> Farz: If anybody knows when that, whatever that was we did in 2022, the national referendum. I have no idea. I can't remember what it was. But I remember hearing that and I was like this, that is brilliant. And we never did it.
>> Taylor: Yeah. Why is it blocked? It's just like, we definitely voted for it. They can't Decide they're just. Now they just. I guess I just want to talk about it for a while, silly, so.
>> Farz: Oh, God, yeah. Please, let's get rid of it. The whole, like, it's when it's like 5:00 and you're like, finally done with, like, work stuff in your laptop, you're like, great, I'm gonna go for a walk. I'm gonna take the dog for a walk. I'm gonna go sit outside for a bit. It's like, already pitch black. Like, this is so.
>> Taylor: I know.
>> Farz: Like, I don't.
>> Taylor: At least you don't. I've been thinking, like, how much I don't want to ever be in an office again. But, like, remember when you would, like, have to leave work and it'd be dark?
>> Farz: Yeah.
>> Taylor: Like, this is horrible.
>> Farz: So, anyways, nobody knows about that. sweet. Anything else to share, Taylor?
>> Taylor: No, that's it. Thank you. please tell your friends about us and find us at Doom to fail Pod on social media and send us an email. Doom to fellowpodmail.com if you have any ideas or if you know where my freaking AirPod is or if you want to. Or if you have. If you have two right AirPods and you want to switch. Because I have two left AirPods.
>> Farz: Wait, there's no way that would work, would it?
>> Taylor: No, totally works. Because, the reason I have two left ones is because my husband had the same style and model and then he got new ones and then I used his and like, just was. Switched them back and forth. So it does work.
>> Farz: Oh, wow. Okay. I didn't. Didn't know that. yeah, all. All fun considerations. Sweet.
>> Taylor: Like a trade. I will go ahead and cut us off.
>> Farz: We'll rejoin you in a few days.