I really needed this. Today I had a really bad mental health day. I know I only have a parasocial relationship with the creators of this podcast, but like... having something to look forward to that makes me smile is so important. It hit me that I almost never got to listen to another Respect the Dead and like...that would suck.

@MainelyMandy

10 ай бұрын

I'm sorry you've had a bad mental healthy day. It honestly means a lot to us that people use this podcast to improve their day. Hopefully the rest of yours is filled with kittens and watching your enemies fall in wells. 💜

Lil' tidbits for the French words: - When placed after a «G» or a «Q», the «U» is silent. - If there is a «E», «I» or «Y» after a «G», the «G» is pronounced like a «J», because the French Academy - sometimes, the «S» before a «T» that is the last letter of a word is also silent, mostly in names. Why? Because why not. - More in an edit if I have the time/want to. Some of the words re-spelled in a way more easy to read for anglophones: Guay ---> Gay (No, really) Génereux Ruest ---> Jenner-uh Ru-ay Side note: Do not call Québec-ers French, both groups will be upset... Actually, please do. Side-side note (if/when you are all short on ideas): You might be interested in checking out Maurice Duplessis, the colonizing, union-busting, christian nationalist ex-prime-minister of Québec who somehow practiced Maccarthyism before Joseph MacCarthy. He is pretty infamous in the province, but history textbooks focus too much on his religious zealotry and gloss over more important aspects of his terribleness and that of his legacy. Have a nice day, evening or night.

@MainelyMandy

10 ай бұрын

I knew it was Gay!!!

@ChristopherSadlowski

4 ай бұрын

I took French in eighth grade because the class took a trip to see Les Miserables on Broadway in New York City. That's the only reason I took that class; I also failed it, LOL! But I remember thinking while learning French, "why are there so many fucking silent letters!? Just, like, don't have them if you don't need them." I've since come around to French. It's really not that difficult of a language. I was having a lot of personal problems at that time of my life and I think that colored my opinion of the French language. It really didn't do anything to deserve my ire.

@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023

Ай бұрын

​@@ChristopherSadlowski The way I heard it: medieval scribes in what today is France were paid per letter whereas scribes on the north side of the channel were paid by word. So scribes writing what would become the English(es) we know had the incentive to keep the words shorter, whereas French scribes had every reason to add letters, silent or otherwise, everywhere they could. Sadly, it's been over a decade, so I really don't remember where I picked that tidbit up, so I'm not sure of its truthfulness.

@disgoop

19 күн бұрын

​@@ChristopherSadlowskiit's probably because the spoken language evolves but they refuse to update the written form of the words

The overplucking struggle is real! You ever seen a film with Marlene Dietrich? Each and every single hair of her brows was painted on by the make-up artist, because Mother Marlene overplucked during her wild bisexual Weimar Berlin youth. Given that Frida Kahlo was on the exact opposite end of the eyebrow spectrum and rocked the sexiest unibrow ever during her entire wild, bisexual life, it is only fair to say that both overplucking and fuck-you-I'm-not-plucking are bisexual culture.

@ChristopherSadlowski

4 ай бұрын

Bisexuals really do like having it all the ways, don't they? 😆😂🤣😭😭😭🫨🤯😵☠️

I was really hoping it was a Caelan episode on reading his name, then they pronounced it as gway and I'm just devastated.

I wish I had discovered this podcast a year from now so I could binge-listen instead of waiting for each new episode.

I’m a Libra

@fiercerodent

10 ай бұрын

Reading the comments before the episode so I have 0 context for this, but also a libra and now wondering if we're getting dragged in this one 😅 probably deserved tho.

@sleepwalk-huh

10 ай бұрын

you are so brave for this confession

@esequindoves3080

10 ай бұрын

@@fiercerodent yup… and also 100 percent accurate

@esequindoves3080

10 ай бұрын

@@sleepwalk-huh I decided to live openly and so there is no hiding from my shadow self

@RamenKitsune

10 ай бұрын

You couldn't catch me admitting that. But then again im a pisces with cute curvy feet so...

I have literally just started the episode and "share my brush PUT IT IN YOUR HAIR" just killed me. OMG ❤❤❤

7:32 Would you rather fight one Caelan-sized duck or 10 duck-sized Caelans?

@MainelyMandy

10 ай бұрын

10 duck sized Caelans because I'm don't think any of them would actually fight me. Duck would go for the jugular

The Plucky Duck Murders: Brow-Beatin' and Flat-Footed - how the thin brow killer was caught by a peculiar pattern of footprints.

moving to the alternate universe where "the groomer panic" was just people freaking out about their over-plucked brows not growing back in

@v-1nce

3 ай бұрын

49:21 "tuberculosussy"

36:44 The way I’m a pisces and my arches are so high I have to buy shoes with special insoles just so I don’t roll my ankles.

That... escalated quickly. Damn. Anyway thanks for another great episode, I'm looking forward to the next worm feast!

Fabulous way to start a new week ^^

Interesting how it got so somber at the end for a half a minute. Gallows humor....check!

Mac the knife.

37:47 My Catholic grandpa was able to get a divorce sometime in the early 50s, but he and my grandma (his second wife) weren’t considered married by the church. Also just realized my grandparents had the exact same age gap as Maria pretended she and Joseph had when they met (30 and 19). 😬 But my grandpa was already divorced when they met, and he and my grandma were together until he died at the age of 82.

So what I learned in todays pod is if ever I like, need a person to fill a chair for tea or something, just start over plucking my eyebrows until Calean reachs through. Nice!

My superstition is fiction but it keeps me and others entertained, how refreshing to hear that admission from Cælen.

Ok! Headphones finally charged! Let's go!

@VinceWhitacre

10 ай бұрын

Also I thinks it's funny the only people whose death we've respected here whom I've never heard of before are either Canadiens (spelling for the hockey team not bc I speak French) or Mainers.

@VinceWhitacre

10 ай бұрын

Ok but here's the thing: my hair is like... calico? I have a few extremely fine platinum blonde hairs, a few more nice red hairs that get much redder in the sun, mostly dun brown... and every now and then these tree trunk black pubes just erupt like popping blackheads from my skin. I mean, they're all dyed L'Oreal Ultra Bold Burgundy now, but whatever. Anyway, if I leave THOSE things in my eyebrows, I'd look like Martin Scorsese. Which, I mean, I'm not gonna look-shame, that's fine if you're Martin Scorsese, but I'm a soft, delicate, pale German-Irish person under who wasn't even born when Scorsese started making movies. So yes, I pluck those (and it hurts, because again, these hairs are like a centimeter thick).

@VinceWhitacre

10 ай бұрын

36:42 sorry Hoots, I'm a Pisces with plantar fasciitis, so there goes your sexyfeets theory

@VinceWhitacre

10 ай бұрын

Goddammit. Vindication I'm sure y'all don't need: I had a shitty little stub-whisker in my eyebrow, but I couldn't get ahold of it... BUT I WASN'T GOING TO GIVE UP. Now I have a bald hole in the middle of my right eyebrow. Literally four days after I was all "lol you aren't the boss of me, I can pluck what I want lol" Fuck my entire life.

First and happy to be here as always!

Can confirm that small, curvy feet are an Aquarius/Pisces cusp thing. It is a defining characteristic. It is what makes us so sensitive to feelings.

This is dumb, he would have been able to divorce her if he'd asmitted to adultery, right? But, you know, that's worse for the reputation than murder, I guess.

@JP_Names

Ай бұрын

He also probably woulda lost big in the divorce, finance-wise. I don't know what divorce laws were like back then, but fault divorces are major no bueno to greedy peeps

52:57 Idk, I’m starting to think this whole episode is just an elaborate cover story to hide the fact that Caelan killed Maria for overplucking her eyebrows. Too bad they incriminated themself at the beginning of the story. 9:26

I have an idea for a cool recipe basically a bed of french fries, then a layer of cheese and on top of those two layers; some gravy...whaddya think?

French listener here your accent isn’t that bad cealan x)

@MainelyMandy

10 ай бұрын

merci 🥺

Was he born in Québec the province or Québec the city? This makes a huge difference

@nullvoid3265

10 ай бұрын

Learning that most of this story takes place in québec city makes the grooming make a lot more sense. Also some important context, québec was mostly still in its theocracy era during this guy's life.

Ka-boom! Ka-ching! or maybe not, what is the sound of the electric chair....zzzzttt

Hoots! Your father is a Libra!😅

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"french Canadians are so bad at being french"... That's because we're not french

@RespecttheDeadPodcast

23 күн бұрын

So true oui