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Baphomet, the Knights Templar, and Wanting a Real Occult Scholar
from How Did We Lose This Country · #104
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2 minThey look up the definition of Baphomet, joke about Da Vinci Code-style symbology professors, and Tim asks the audience to find a legitimate expert on secret societies and the occult for the show.
- 52:55Bahamut is the Hebrew name for a giant fish that supports the earth's crust.
- 53:32Tim spent years trying to book a real occult scholar or symbologist like Robert Langdon from The Da Vinci Code.
- 54:06The actual occult experts he finds are usually just drug-addled academics at Hunter College rambling about nonsense for hours.
- 54:20Tim appeals to listeners to send him information about legitimate occult scholars or Knights Templar experts with published work.
- 54:44Most scholarly knowledge about secret societies and the Templars turns out to be bullshit, but Tim believes some people have genuinely interesting things to say about it.
Knights TemplarBahamutTom HanksJoseph Campbell