Peep Show: Danced to Death

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Dave & Chuck the Freak were talking about businesses in Sweden needing permits in order to allow dancing in their establishments when Andy drops a fact about the Dancing Plague of 1518 that shocks everyone.

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00:00off next to sweden where the government has moved to get rid of permits needed for dancing

00:17if you wanted to dance in sweden you needed a permit yeah i wish there was more stuff like this

00:24sweden's center-right coalition government wants to cut red tape when it comes to dancing

00:31by abolishing decades-old requirement for restaurants nightclubs and other venues to

00:37obtain permits before anyone was able to dance there oh that sucks though now they'll be just

00:42dancing in all restaurants do you think this is by employees they'll make them do a little

00:47scandinavian dance i always wonder what caused it in the first place like there must have been

00:53a dance disaster yeah a dancing disaster in sweden there must have been like made them crack down

00:59they were like we can no longer be having this dancing one woman showed up to a town and uh

01:07she started dancing and then everybody danced nobody did their jobs for three weeks they tried

01:11to do this back in 2007 2016 but they would not let it go yeah they still must be dance permits i said

01:18there was some kind of dancing disaster there must have has to be that still resonates with yep

01:24a whole place burned down dancing or something they've never forgotten about it no and they can't

01:30let it go i know that like in medieval times there was well there was something that happened where

01:35people inexplicably started dancing and they danced until they died

01:38what happened they couldn't stop the dance yep in medieval times there was like dancing that

01:47happened that now are you talking about like when the play dancing plague of 1518 there you go

01:54a dancing mania that occurred in strassburg yep it was the dancing plague

01:59somewhere 400 people danced for weeks until they died yep they danced to death and they caught on

02:11and everybody was dancing everybody danced to death did they get the curse put on there from the

02:15sanderson sisters and hocus pocus i don't know what happened but no one knows i don't know what

02:20music would they understand why people need paperwork now after something like that yeah for sure you do

02:25yeah but i mean it was a long time ago yeah this music is not gonna match up with uh you need like

02:32some flutes and there's worse ways to die what's 1500s music you know like uh yeah you like to dance

02:40and you dance till you died this was music from the 1500s yeah they were just killing it to this couldn't

02:46stop grinding you're dancing how did you have that nugget in your head what did you watch

02:54once you read that that one stays with you i guess so you're like well why did that happen

03:00danced uncontrollably and it was like hundreds of people died they danced till they died and they

03:04were unwilling they didn't want to they couldn't stop they couldn't for days on end i know

03:12the mania lasted for two months two months of that two months of dancing yes

03:19all they did was dance it was crazy times back then and they were in

03:24we just can't stop our clothes are very hot i cannot stop dancing

03:30thank god they that plague they figured out we don't want the dancing plague

03:35yeah no we don't we haven't had one since but since then we have figured out how to start dancing

03:43and then stop dancing but they they only figured out how to start these people were like i don't want to

03:50be dancing right now and they're dancing that was like a symptom of covid i was just like oh i can't

03:56oh dave's got it yeah dave's got it i can't stop stop dancing oh my god it's driving me nuts

04:04it's got a dance madness i wish you would just go home the dancing plague's upon him

04:11has a dancing plague ever happened again ever i don't think ever again has anyone else died of

04:20dancing not from falling how do you catch it is it contagious like do you get it from kissing well

04:25i think that like some people would start dancing and then it would make other people start dancing and

04:28then that's what happens it's a plague wow jesus do you think that it could be from food poisoning

04:35yeah something happened to their brain psychoactive psycho yeah got into chemical but like for two

04:42months like how many people are it's like everyone was on lsd in the 1500s and couldn't stop dancing

04:48yeah i know but but like even lsd doesn't last two months they just kept taking it 1500s yeah they

04:55they got into something yeah yeah i can't believe you guys didn't know about that no no

05:00how would we know about that well because if we ever came across it like you said you never forget

05:06yeah look at these people that just couldn't stop yeah they made like look at him like somebody painted

05:10that they were like that was how treacherous it was look and she can't stop her legs right she's like

05:18imagine this though too like this is what you're dancing to it sucks so bad like it's like

05:23and that to them and i saw a knight's tail i've seen the dances they would do it was like line

05:29dancing in slow motion mind this i could get down to it i think oh man no no no it's not her dancing

05:39style not her dancing style um hey andy you want to come out and dance to this

05:45you have to say no because of the 1500s dancing play

05:52no of course not because of the plague of 1518 you know that lisa we're all just sitting there

05:59hey lisa try to stop no she can't she can't stop she can't she can't stop with prince on

06:05learn something new every day you really do yeah that one's been with me for a while yep

06:09i'm amazed it's never come out before but this is the first time we've talked about a dancing band

06:13i guess and there's not been a lot of opportunity but yeah you're right that's true i'm gonna bring

06:18it up in conversation oh no it's worth it yeah it's worth it now i've got something to talk about

06:24any suggestion of dance whoa whoa like no matter where i am if people are like hey let's go dance i'm

06:31like whoa hold on you know in the 1500s that people danced till their brains fried and they

06:36died do we want to risk it are you crazy water yeah let's go risk it we're living on the edge

06:43it might not be allowed too it might be against the law who knew that excuse me garçon

06:49are we allowed to dance in your fine establishment dancing it's illegal here

06:53thank you garçon that seems like how he would speak yeah yep

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