Burned Fingers & Mystical Powers
What's Shakin with Shaner
English - July 11, 2021 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLeisure superhero cartoons books geeky nerdy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Join Shakin Shaner as he discusses the gate control theory of pain and how we instinctively sucked a burned finger. He then heads on a rabbit hole to discuss two mythical heroes and how they gain their power from sucking a burned finger...does this open a mystical gateway? Discover the absurdity of this episode.
Finn McCool (Fionn MacCumhaill) was a 3rd Century AD warrior chieftain in medieval Ireland. He led a clan of warriors called the Fianna, and his adventures are documented in the Fenian Cycle.
Sigurðr, Siegfried (Middle High German: Sîvrit) or Sigurd is a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Vǫlsunga saga. The earliest extant representations for his legend come in pictorial form from seven runestones in Sweden and most notably the Ramsund carving (c. 1000) and the Gök Runestone (11th century).