Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural podcast
Join SPN family newcomers, Berly and LA, as they explore the TV series, Supernatural, episode by episode. Over drinks, they'll discuss lore, gore, and what they adore about the Winchesters and their adventures.
As a way to keep in touch during the 2020 pandemic, Berly and LA started podcasting with their debut, anything-goes talk show, The Tipsy Exchange. During those discussions, Berly and LA realized that they most enjoy talking humorously about TV/Film, mythology, suspense, and hot guys. Supernatural seemed a natural fit. It's a match made in heaven... or hell... you decide!
Now, let's get tipsy! CW/TW for violent and lewd commentary; listeners beware! 🔞
Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural podcast
Everybody Hates Hitler (8x13)
Berly and LA dive into Supernatural Season 8, Episode 13: "Everybody Hates Hitler" - where Nazi necromancers meet their match in the form of a very tall, very frustrated golem!
Sam and Dean finally unlock the Men of Letters bunker using Henry's puzzle box, discovering their new supernatural headquarters complete with amazing water pressure (Dean approves). Meanwhile, they investigate the spontaneous combustion death of Rabbi Bass, which leads them to his grandson Aaron - a Hebrew school dropout who's accidentally inherited a 6'9" clay protector he has no idea how to control.
The case involves the Thule Society, Nazi necromancers who've been reanimating their dead members for decades. After some mistaken gay flirtation at a bar (Dean's mortified reaction was priceless), the boys team up with Aaron and his golem to track down the remaining undead Nazis using a stolen red ledger.
The real star is the Aaron/golem relationship - think supernatural odd couple, with the ancient protector constantly frustrated by his new owner who "dines on swine" and smoked the instruction manual while rolling joints. When Aaron finally steps up and takes proper ownership, even the hosts wanted to write fanfiction about their dynamic.
Berly and LA loved this Ben Edlund-written episode for its perfect blend of humor and heart, the introduction of their bunker home base, and the adorable guest characters they're desperately hoping return in future episodes.
"Yeah, grandparents, mom, dad, truckload of cousins, the whole family was lousy for it. But we never had a golem."
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Berly:Welcome to Denim Wrapped Nightmares, Tipsy Exchange Podcast, where we explore the Supernatural series episode by episode.
LA:Over drinks, we'll discuss the lore, the gore, and what we adore about the Winchesters and their adventures.
Berly:I'm Berly, and I'm a new fan of the series.
LA:I'm L.A., and I'm here along for the ride. Now let's get tipsy.
Berly:Hello, L.A.
LA:Hey, Burleigh. On the last episode, it was titled As Time Goes Sam and Dean are stunned when a man who claims to be Henry Winchester, their grandfather, suddenly appears in their hotel room demanding to know where he can find John Winchester. Henry has time traveled to stop a demon named Abaddon and was looking for John's help. Through Henry, Sam and Dean learn more about their father in the Winchester bloodline.
Berly:I looked at my notes after we recorded and I actually made like a really insightful and sad note And then I didn't bring it up at all when we recorded our last episode because I was too focused on my box joke, you know, real classy. But anyways, there's a scene where Henry starts whistling as time goes by the song from Casablanca. And Dean's like, wait, what is that? Where do I know that? And he explains why Henry said that he got that music box and he would play it for John when he was scared
LA:and
Berly:it would help him go to sleep. Dean said John whispered it all the time. And then he also said, I can't imagine that man ever Never being scared. Hello, if he was whistling that song all the time, he was scared. It was his comfort tool from when he was a child. So that means every time your dad was whistling that and you think he's strong, brave, Mr. Bob, he's actually scared in that moment. And that kind of broke my heart a little bit. Yeah, that's sad. Isn't that sad? But I was like, forget that. Let's talk about boxes. Yeah, don't want to be sad. I broke my own heart. I was like, I read that. I was like, oh my God. He was scared. John was always scared. Oh, all right. Well, today's episode is titled Everybody Hates Hitler. It's the 13th episode of season eight and originally aired on February 6th, 2013. The episode opens up. It's 1944 and we're in, what is it? Belarus? Is that how you say it? I think it's Belarus. Belarus? I always say
LA:Belarus. But I think that's what I was saying
Berly:when we were watching the episode. I was like, Belarus, Belarus. No, that's what I was saying. Belarus, Belarus. But I think it's Belarus.
LA:Yeah.
Berly:Anyway, we see a Nazi soldier going back to camp and he gets off of his bicycle and is going into the camp. And the other Nazi soldiers like, oh, you're late. He was like, oh, I was with the shoemaker's daughter. And the Nazi soldier goes, oh, you you asshole. I hope you get the clap. You can't light a cigarette. And we hear like these heavy footsteps. We don't see it. The shadow. It's like the shadow, yeah. We hear the guy scream and then he gets thrown into like the checkpoint Charlie where the other guy has gone into, the guy with the clap. And the guy with the clap sees him and is like, oh my God, he's dead. And this guy's dead, dead. Like blood coming out of his head, eyes wide open, dead. This figure, we can assume, tears shit up. And we find out later on, he did in fact fuck all these people up.
LA:Yeah.
Berly:Big time. We see this guy inside- And he has this giant bowl. He's pouring a mason jar of blood into the bowl. And I told LA at first, oh, he's making a demon call. He's making a demon conference call. And that's why he needs so much blood and such a big cauldron. You know, Meg, her little cauldron cup was just for one-on-one. This is obviously a big team meeting. And he's pouring this blood in here. That's not what was happening.
LA:No.
Berly:Nuh-uh.
LA:But, I mean, you know, it made
Berly:sense. Yeah. It did.
Unknown:Totally.
Berly:He's doing some fancy spell of some sort. And the commandant, isn't that what they're calling him? He's the commandant.
LA:Oh, was it? I don't remember that.
Berly:So we're seeing this guy on the radio and he's telling everybody what other people are saying about this beast that's coming to get them. And we're hearing all these crazy noises as this figure is smashing its way through the camp, trying to get to the commandant. He finally smashes in the door and we now see him that he's He's like this huge dude and they're shooting him like nothing's happening. He's just like, fuck. He just keeps going. Yeah. What bullets? Like doesn't even swat them away. Just stands there, lets them do their thing before he goes in and smashes through stuff. And then the commandant finishes his spell and like goes up in flames and the whole house, the whole room starts to catch on fire. And we, but we did see there was this suitcase that was apparently a fireproof suitcase that Somebody threw something in the suitcase and shut it. And so we saw the suitcase fall to the floor. And this is where they hid the red ledger that we find out about later in the episode. We flash forward to present day and we're in Lebanon, Kansas. Sam and Dean pull up to, it looks like a plant, like a processing plant or a water plant or electricity plant. I don't know. Plant of some sort. Giant building with like smokestacks coming out the top. What would you call that door? I outside so not a vault yeah that big door
LA:yeah
Berly:and they play with henry's box and it's like a puzzle box and they get the key they go and open the door and they find the men of letters bunker with all the spells and everything it was so cute
LA:it was i loved it
Berly:i thought it was adorable i
LA:kept thinking i wish this was like their headquarters going forward in the seasons but i know it won't be but i wish it was
Berly:i think it's going to be
LA:for the rest for all of the seasons
Berly:i mean i don't know about all of the seasons right but I would think for a little bit just because it seemed like such an elaborate set I
LA:hope so
Berly:and they have all that stuff there
LA:right that's what I was thinking I mean they've got all the information that from the men of letters in there everything they were researching why not stay there and I mean it had great water pressure apparently Dean walking around in his robe after showering there
Berly:yeah I mean we know that good things don't last long for these boys so I imagine something's gonna happen well they'll have to leave for some reason yeah But just, it seemed like such a detailed set with that library and Sam's taking on the job of cataloging stuff. Now I imagine they're going to be here for at least a while.
LA:Let's hope so.
Berly:Yeah, I would think so, but I loved it. Yeah. Me too. Super cute.
LA:Very kind of like art deco too. A little
Berly:bit. Yeah. Yeah. When they first walked in, like before they turned on the lights and everything and I saw the subway tiles on the wall, I thought, Oh, this is, they're reusing the same set from season six when, Crowley was torturing the alphas and the same place where they did the spell to open purgatory or they were trying to where they blew up Raphael and stuff you remember yeah I thought it was that and it was like that circular room too so I totally thought that that was that which maybe it was but that the wrought iron I think it was wrought iron the fence railing that's the word I was going for that seemed much more intricate
LA:yeah that's what made me think Art Deco the design
Berly:on it very cool and all the old the laying
LA:around
Berly:and in the library did you see the Dewey Dewey Decimal little card stacks thing over by the door there's a little cataloging thing I was like oh I remember those I
LA:love it and they've got like a little study table they've got their bar cart they've got the record player going
Berly:the library Sam was so happy and I loved the thing just we're like we don't understand how there's water or how there's electricity and Dean's just like whatever I don't care file it under like if it ain't broken I mean yeah. Let's just enjoy it. What did Dean say? He said they found their bat cave. Yeah. I thought it was really cute. It was really cute. So over in Pennsylvania we see an elderly man. He is walking into a library and he apparently is a regular here because the librarian says oh I didn't think you were going to make it today. It was getting so late. The guy said something about how he had to change the bus line like three times to shake his tail today basically. So he thinks he's being followed. The librarian and she's like okay.
LA:Alright crazy.
Berly:Sure you are. Sure you are. So he tells him this is where I want to start today and he reads off something to him and the guy's like alright. So he goes and gets stuff to him. I'm not sure how long he was at the library but we do hear something be said later in the episode that he was apparently going there every day from open until close. So he was going through cataloging everything from a certain time period I'm guessing until he finds the red ledger. Well he finds the red ledger on this day and he's just like holy shit this is it he goes to the librarian and tries to explain this is really important it has to be protected I can't take it with me because I'm the one who's getting followed and the librarian's like no shit you can't take it with you this is an important reference material like we have to keep this here and like LA said he's just thinking crazy old man and the old man knows it he knows that he's thinking he's crazy so he takes it into his own hands we don't know what he does right away like the way he was walking out of the library with his suitcase I was thinking oh fuck I guess he took it with him after all but no he didn't he did not take it with him we find out later that he swapped it with another reference material that was in the library he runs over to a pub and he makes a collect call we don't know who he's calling but he tells him this is really important when you follow my trail follow me here you're going to need this and he starts to rattle off some code we don't hear all of it while he's on the phone he hangs up turns around and walks toward the window where his tail the guy who's been following him is just standing outside creepily staring through the window watching him just being annoying i don't think this guy had hardly any lines throughout the entire show he had one
LA:before he died
Berly:right so he's just staring through the window and the rabbi starts taunting him being like why don't you come in it's so cold and windy outside come on come in here motherfucker like taunting him telling him come in well then it was like he was heating up from the inside the effect was really cool it was like he burned from like the inside out and you could even see when he started laughing there was you could see the fire in his mouth did you see that it was very cool it was a very horrifying yeah I have to say it was pretty badass that as he was dying he was just laughing he was just laughing like being like fuck you yeah because I think he knew he won he knew that they weren't going to be able to find it by themselves at this point yeah putting a lot of faith in his grandson which which was undeserved but luckily he got help luckily he got help we got back to the bunker and it's been a couple of weeks dean is coming back he has just gone and scooped up kevin they've got him set up in his corner somewhere in this bunker so i'm like how many branches to the like can we get a blueprint
LA:i mean it's a big place from the outside
Berly:it seemed that big that was my whole thing the stairs they came in through that vault door thing right they came down and went into that vault and then they went downstairs so i think they're actually underground i don't think they're in that i think the plant is um what's the word i'm trying to think of like a cover like a facade
LA:decoy
Berly:yeah a decoy i don't think they're in the building i think they're underground
LA:okay so yeah
Berly:right but still i want to see a blueprint because he said well yeah i put kevin away he's in his corner where's his corner what's he doing is there another library is he just in he's in the corner there's a bathroom we know that he's in the corner he's in time out. He was just off to the side. We couldn't see him in his little corner over there. But anyway, I love that they went and scooped him up because it's supposed to be the safest place on the fucking planet, right? Right. Why would they not have him there instead of on Garth's houseboat?
LA:Sounded like you said Earth's houseboat.
Berly:Garth said hi by the way.
LA:Oh, that's true. Yeah, we did hear that anyway.
Berly:So Sam tells Dean that he's been going through everything trying to find who like the affiliates were to the Minna Letters, essentially. The Minna Letters, obviously they got... for whatever reason. Oh, I did forget to say that whenever they came in, like literally cigarettes, half drink coffee. It really does look like they just dropped everything and ran out one day for some reason. So I think that's a mystery that hopefully we'll get to know about before the end of the season. Sam's going through all this stuff and he found, what was it? The Judah Initiative, which was a team of rabbis who essentially were saboteurs. I love that. Fucking love that. This little group of people rabbis and they had somebody who joined who had just joined when he was 17 and had just passed away and guess who it was guys oh my god it was rabbi bass the badass who laughed while the gross nazi necromancer caught him on fire
LA:wait a minute did you say he was dead at 17
Berly:no he joined the judah initiative at 17
LA:right okay i thought you said and then he died
Berly:two weeks previously no he was like what how old did they say he was in the 70s i think they said right I
LA:think he's in his 80s
Berly:maybe older okay not not relevant but he joined the Judah initiative when he was 17 he was he was young when he joined they're just kind of justifying that it's an old old secret society just like men of letters okay
LA:I'm just it just confused me I thought you said he was 17 when he joined and then he died two weeks ago oh I didn't hear
Berly:that
LA:oh I just heard I just heard like you said he died and then like he kept going and I was like wait a minute
Berly:I might not have finished the thought to be honest I don't know what I said but he died two Two weeks ago.
LA:I thought you were thinking of how they reanimated people. And I was like, well, you see, he's not reanimated.
Unknown:Wait a minute.
Berly:Well, that wasn't the Judah initiative. They didn't
LA:do that. I know. I know. I'm just saying I was
Berly:confused. Anyway, back in Pennsylvania, Sam and Dean are on the case. They are investigating the death of Rabbi Bass because spontaneous combustion sounded fucking weird, especially knowing that he came from a secret society. Sam is at the library asking to check out everything that Rabbi Bass had been researching and I love it when that's when we found out that's when the guy was like um that's a lot of shit and Sam said well let's just cut it down to the last day he was here he goes and he looks at what was supposed to be the red ledger and instead it's a book about bird migration Sam's very confused Dean is at the bar interviewing witnesses who saw him spontaneously combust and they're describing it and yeah it was not natural they're like no there was nothing normal about that he like he was kind of crazy, but this was fucking weird. While Dean is talking to them, he sees a man come walking up with a cocktail and just staring at Dean. He just kind of smiles and waves at him. Dean is very confused. He finally goes over and confronts the guy after talking with the witnesses. He's like, hey, you following me? This is like the second or third time I've seen you since I've been here. What's up? And the guy says, oh, I thought we had a thing earlier. I thought we had a moment. Yeah. I thought we were flirting. Maybe after you were done with your meeting, we could, you know, spend some quality time together. I
LA:like as the guy is saying that, Dean's slowly taking back his badge.
Berly:I forgot he had slapped his badge on the counter. And then he's all, like, being timid, being like, no, like, I'm not. It's not a meeting. It's a federal investigation. I'm investigating. The guy was just like, okay, my bad. You really threw him off hitting on him. Right. I mean, Adam Rose is adorable. Like, he's adorable. and he's got a nice little butt on him if he was hitting on me I probably would have been a little flustered too I think he's a cutie patootie I like it Dean calls Sam and tells him that he thought he was being followed but it was just a gay thing not to worry about it Sam on the other hand is being followed so they have very quickly they're very succinct and to the point these boys very efficient with their conversation and I loved the whole oh that would explain why there's something on my shoe or I have something stuck to my shoe I was like oh my god I love that they rendezvous at a certain point where Sam he's like pretending to get in the trunk or something while Dean who's parked there is hiding and looking around and he spots Sam's tail crunched over in the bushes watching him so he goes over to confront the guy and it's the golem we don't know he's a golem yet but he stands up and how tall do you think he was I want to say he was taller than Jared Padalecki
LA:yeah
Berly:seven foot you think
LA:I don't know I was wondering if it like is that he really that large or did they make it look like that? I
Berly:think so because I think that he, I think that's the same actor who played Mr. Hyde in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
LA:Oh, that's why you asked me? Mm-hmm. Oh. Did you bring
Berly:your phone up here?
LA:No.
Berly:One time I needed it. Yeah, computer. You're a computer. I wish. John DeSantis is the actor's name.
LA:But to your point, I was, at one point when the boys are standing there and we see their backs and he's they're facing him. That's what I was thinking that Jared's so tall, but then he's almost a half a head taller than him.
Berly:I think they might've had lifts in his shoes too. He's six foot nine. Oh, okay.
LA:Yeah. So
Berly:I feel like he was a little more than five inches taller than Jared, but maybe not. And I got to see if he was in it. Okay. Well, I actually don't see a league of extraordinary gentlemen on his IMDB, but he's six foot nine.
LA:Okay.
Berly:Dean's face as he like goes from that crouching position to stand She's like, holy sh... The golem throws Dean into the side of the Impala so hard that the window shatters.
LA:I wonder how many times they've had to change, like, get those windows replaced. Get those windows replaced? Yeah.
Berly:Like, do they have a guy, like a regular guy that they take the car to? They must. Sam goes running over to try and check on Dean, and clearly he's out of it. He's dazed. He didn't get knocked unconscious, but he sure as fuck got the sense knocked out of him there for a second. Then the golem comes over and Sam runs to the trunk and gets, I think it was a machete and goes to swing it. And the golem just holds up his arm to block him and it cuts into his arm. It was like Play-Doh, like clay, you know, the way I thought that was a cool effect. The way they had, whenever he hit the arm, it was essentially like a slab of clay.
LA:Yeah.
Berly:Very cool. The golem grabs Sam by the neck, lifts him up off the ground. Aaron comes around the corner. He's like, stop, stop, put him down. And so he does. And they're like, what? The fuck is that? He's like, it's a golem. He's my golem. He's my golem. My buddy. My buddy and me.
LA:But also, the guy who had been following the rabbi was actually following the golem watching Sam, too.
Berly:Yeah, he's following all of them now, too. So their tales had a tale, and they didn't know it. And also, Aaron is the same guy who was in the bar. Dean even tells Sam, like, he's my gay thing. He was my gay thing. He was my gay thing. He takes them back to his place because, of course, good move, Aaron. I would have taken them back to my place, too.
LA:Well, yeah.
Berly:And lets them know that he's Aaron Bass and that the rabbi they're investigating is his grandfather and that the golem was actually left to him by his grandfather. And he does not know how to take care of it. He does not know what to do. He cheated his way through Hebrew school. He's just like, I don't fucking know, man. My grandpa used to tell us all these stories whenever I was younger. And we just thought it was his crazy stories, just his way of coping with the very real atrocities that he witnessed in his youth.
LA:And the Golem also is very frustrated with him. He is not taking charge.
Berly:I loved their relationship. I loved their chemistry. I want to read a rom-com alternate universe about them. I loved them. Whenever we get to our door, oh my God. I love it, I love it, I love it. So cute. Anywho, we find out that... grandpa grandpa bass had been investigating the thule society of nazi necromancers he also tells them that before he died he left him a voicemail message with this like crazy code that he hasn't been able to break he doesn't know what it is he reads it off and of course our smart sammy understands immediately that this is reference numbers from i think he said the library of congress
LA:yeah i think he did yeah
Berly:you know time for a good old b and e let's go back to the library Sam's like, oh, yeah, birds, birds. I bet you that's where it is. Migrating birds. Let's go. They get to the library and Sam runs up the stairs.
LA:He was so excited to get up there. He was taking two steps at a time.
Berly:And the way he was running, I feel like his feet were a little wider apart than they needed to be because it seemed like he was kind
LA:of. It was like, it was oddly dramatic. He's like, be right back. And then he just drops up the stairs. It was so weird. It made me giggle.
Berly:I liked it. I enjoyed it. Even when the golem, we see the golem run up the stairs later. He does it more fluidly, more than Sam did. And he's got five inches on him at least. Okay. Sam goes upstairs and he finds the red ledger. There it is. Where the bird book should be. And as he's looking at it, all of a sudden he gets like this little dink. You hear it come and he's like, ow. Like blow dart. Yeah. It was tiny. Tiny little blow dart. As soon as it hits him, he like goes and reaches to take it out. But his skin was already, it was like going pink.
LA:Purple-ish.
Berly:And then purple. Yeah. It was like bruising. Like very quickly. It was a very cool effect. And when they showed it later, it was like, holy fuck, that Gnarly. I really liked it, though. I liked the special effect. It was done really, really, really well. And it's the dude who set the rabbi on fire, the Nazi necromancer guy. He tells him, yeah, like, thanks. You know, the rabbi led me here, but you took me all the way. Can Sam take you all the way, L.A.? I
LA:would hope so.
Berly:One would hope. I would hope that that would be within his skill set. I mean,
LA:I
Berly:think
LA:it probably
Berly:is. Mm-hmm. I think so, too. Sam kicks. He kicks one of the rolling carts at the guys and he runs and he's got the ledger and he gets to the staircase and he's yelling at the guys as he's coming down. So that's when the golem takes his turn to jog up the stairs.
LA:I was actually impressed that Sam was still able to do all that after getting hit by that dart.
Berly:Right. Especially like it was seeing how quickly it started to affect him. I will say it spread pretty quickly and then it slowed down a little bit. But when they showed him later, he was looking pale. hail all around and it definitely had spread much further the makeup or whatever they did was phenomenal I really enjoyed this effect like it's good there's no more Nazi necromancers don't get me wrong but that was a really cool fact I would have liked to have seen it in later episodes you know
LA:hey you never know
Berly:maybe somebody else gets that blow dart
LA:yeah
Berly:the golem goes upstairs and I really liked it he's looking through the stacks trying to find the guy and then he gets the little shoo too but of course he's a golem so he's just like the fuck and looks through the shelf and just punches through and grabs the guy and slams him up against the thing when they're burying the body later Dean said it felt like a bag of Legos the guy was so fucked up from the golem golem just shattered him so kudos for the guy for being able to get his last words out there before the golem snaps his neck and I loved how the golem just the golem's tall and strong right he totally could have thrown that guy over his shoulder and
LA:Nope, he dragged him.
Berly:No, he leaned over awkwardly so that he could drag that guy and drag him down every step. Like, he literally transported that dude in the most painful, uncomfortable way possible for that man. Good on you, Gollum. Right? Good on you. I would have been thinking about speed and getting him back to the guys more quickly, but he was like, no. Make sure that you just have as much pain as you possibly can. So they get down there, and he just reaches his hand down the guy's whole top of his head fits in the golem's hand and he just snaps his neck what did the guy say before he killed him oh long live the tool luckily because he was who cast the spell that was affecting Sam and Aaron Aaron got hit too by one of the darts
LA:yeah he got hit in the chest
Berly:yeah and he like he was like like he got knocked the fuck out and that's whenever Dean was like hey if you don't go get the guy who's doing these spells we're fucked I love that he dragged him down to be Like, see? See this guy? See it? Got him. And then snapped his neck. And we're done. Yeah. And it's like as soon as the neck snapped, the purple went away. And I was like, oh. I mean, good for y'all. But like, that was cool. We cut to the Impala, parked it, who knows, in the middle of the woods or something. Aaron comes to in the back seat and wakes up. He's like, what the fuck happened? And the golem says, the two guys, like, they helped us. And they're getting rid of the body. They're getting rid of that body. They throw it into a grave that they've dug. They pour gasoline all over it and catch it on fire, which, you know, necromancer, probably a good thing. Probably a good idea to completely destroy that body. And then Sam's like warming his hands over the fire. It's like a campfire. Like this is nothing. They're just sitting there chit chatting and he's warming his hands. And Aaron is like, oh my God, these guys are psychopaths. That was good. I thought it was funny. So they all go back to Aaron's place. obviously Aaron's not that scared of them and he's still like come on guys let's all go back to my place and debrief let's talk more about these fools and everything they're going through the red ledger and the golem explains that it literally documents all of the experiments that the thule were doing to people they were taking Jewish people and trying to figure out how to reanimate somebody once they died they actually did solve how to do it because in the back of the book there was a list of everybody from the Thule Society who had died and been reanimated so the blonde necromancer guy we never really find out who he is but apparently he was somebody who had been reanimated Torvald oh that's right they did say what is it give it to me again Torvald Torvald that's right yeah Torvald yeah so he did have a name yeah oh well fuck that guy and then the the commandeer no what commandant commandant he has been reanimated as well and he finds out where they are because apparently Torvald texted him the address or something. Did he say his ghost
LA:told him or something?
Berly:Oh, he said no. He said that before Torvald's ghost could tell him where the red ledger was. He was like, good on you. Good on you. And I was thinking, whoa, that was like a whole nother level of necromancy that I didn't think about. I was thinking of just like the dead body coming back to life. But no, you could summon his ghost and interrogate his ghost. But yeah, no, they're kicking in the door trying to find that red ledger. Sam's hiding place was under a bag. I mean, he had to think quickly. Would it not have fit under the fridge? I mean, somewhere? I don't know. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First, Gollum explains to Sam and Dean that Aaron has not taken ownership of him. And he's pissed about it. Because Aaron does not know how to do it. He knows nothing. I loved their fight earlier in the episode where he was like, he doesn't take the Sabbath. He dines on swine and Aaron's like everybody eats bacon cut me some slack guy I just loved their dynamic I really did it was like the odd couple so we find out that Aaron's grandfather had actually left him a book that told him everything he needed to do but he was like it was an owner's manual for your own clay man like I didn't think it was real I didn't think it was important and it had perfect papers for rolling joints so yeah I smoked it I smoked it okay guys I thought that was hilarious And also thought, no wonder the golem is so pissed. The commandant shows up at their house and is just like, give me the red ledger. And he's got his lackeys or whatever with him. We're in here for the red ledger. And he says something, I don't know what it was, to the golem that just freezes him in place. I did not like it. I did not like seeing him like that. And then he tells him, give me you or give me your power. Give me power over you. That's what it was. And he opens his mouth and the scroll falls out and the commandant takes it and is like yeah dumbass you write your name on this scroll that's how you take ownership Aaron's like I didn't fucking know that asshole so they beat them up they find the red ledger and honestly it took them way longer than it should have but they do end up finding it and while they're talking about how yeah like we're we've got this now and we've got what we need and fuck you guys Aaron finally gets mad enough that he jumps up and has like a piece of wood from a broken table I think it was from the table the golem broke earlier. Yeah, I think so. Which handy. And smashes it on the back of somebody's head, which gives Sam and Deem enough time to get their guns and take out the lackeys. And then the necromancer is there and is like, you can kill me, but you can't kill the fool. And they're like, fuck you. Headshot. Bang, bang. And there was a cool shot from the back.
LA:Yeah.
Berly:Two holes in the back. And they were like, well, that's cool. Like, okay, maybe we can't kill the fool, but I can fucking start with you, ass. Anyway, they go burn all the dead bodies because they've learned, you know, the headshot isn't enough. We
LA:don't need them coming
Berly:back. Yeah. If you don't get rid of them. But dead bodies, what did they say? 48 hours or something like that? 12 hours. 12 hours. They'll come back. They'll reanimate. Which, what's that spell? No, I don't want to reanimate after. Although, the death becomes her. Yeah.
LA:That's such a good movie. I love it.
Berly:So they come back and Sam and Dean are like, okay, Aaron, what are you wanting to do with the golem? Like, we have somewhere safe that we could store him, they said. That hurt my heart. They were like, we could store him somewhere safe if you want. And Aaron was like, no. This is, like, my birthright. This is my responsibility. I'm going to do what I should have done. And he puts his name on the scroll. That scroll is adorable, by the way. It was so cute. It was so cute. And he kept, like, a handy dandy, like, he's like Cass he keeps a pen in his pocket and so he put it put his name on it and he goes and he puts the scroll back in the golem's mouth and the golem comes back to life and he's like I love you and Aaron says I love you too and they embrace I don't remember that okay fine he said the thing in Hebrew where he was like take ownership or take lead and Aaron goes I thought I did and he goes you did and then they embrace proud
LA:of him I don't think they embraced
Berly:back at the bunker Sam is cataloging everything in their library because they made copies from the Red Ledger. So I guess they let Aaron keep the Red Ledger.
LA:Well, yeah, because he said he was going to finish his grandfather's work for the Judah Institute. Oh, I missed that part.
Berly:No, that's right. That's right. Judah Initiative. So Aaron is the new Judah Initiative. He's taking that on. I hope we get to see him in the Golem again. I think we do because Adam Rose has done the convention sometimes and they usually have one and done guest stars in the convention circuit. So I hope we get to see Aaron in the Golem again. I liked them. And then Dean said what so Aaron's the Judah initiative now and you're the man of letters and Sam doesn't really say anything he just keeps documenting and doing his work and then Dean brings Sam a drink and was like good and I was like aww and Sam seemed very pleased with himself at that point so I liked it and Dean just kind of kicked back and just kind of hung out with his brother while he did his work it was very cute very cute episode okay no surprise here written by Ben Edlund and directed by Mr. Kitchen Meat Cute Phil Segrisha So no surprises there. This was just an adorable episode. Okay, so gore. I think the goriest thing was whenever the commandant got taken out with the headshots.
LA:That and then when the golem first went into the room at the beginning. Whatever he did to the guy, it didn't show his head, but just like blood dripping down.
Berly:Yeah, we saw him like, he lifted him off the ground for sure. But yeah, we just saw rivers of blood running down his body. Yeah, that was cool. That was cool. Not a gore. episode. I adored this episode, though. I know you did.
LA:Did you adore anything about it? I liked all the Jewish tradition and stuff that they brought into it. Agreed. I love stuff like that.
Berly:And the Thule Society was a real thing. A real white supremacy, Nazi related thing. It's real lore. Obviously, we know that golems are real Jewish lore. We know that the and the Holocaust and all these things that happened. Like, I loved that. But mostly I adored Aaron and the golem. I thought they were so fucking cute. I loved their dynamic together. And I thought it was cute that they didn't keep everything exact. Like they were saying, you know, according to lore, the golem shouldn't even talk. I'm so happy they had him talk because I loved his personality. No, it's not my place. Whenever Aaron kept telling him to tell him what to do. I
LA:like the rabbi too.
Berly:Yeah. Oh, at the beginning? Yeah, I liked
LA:him. No, his grandfather.
Berly:Yeah, but I mean, he wasn't throughout the whole episode. We just saw him closer to the banning, not the very, very beginning. The one who combusted into flames. Yeah, he was cool. So what about Lore
LA:Alley? Shocking, but we're going to be talking about golems. Yay! And I would like to say, before I get started, it's a very important point, that I hope that they get the golems some new clothes. Why is he wearing the same outfit as he was in 1944?
Berly:He deserves to be fancy.
LA:He does. Maybe he wants some style for updated style, you know?
Berly:Yeah. Well, I mean, he did just wake up two weeks ago by the time they find him. I would like to see. Okay, so I definitely want an episode in our reboot idea. I definitely want an Aaron and the Golem episode. Specifically, I want to see Aaron get the package from his grandfather. Because do you remember he said, I opened it up and there was this man in there and he just woke up and started freaking out. I would like to see that.
LA:He was probably scared to shit. I would like to see. I
Berly:would like to see. And how did he accidentally awaken the golem? I would like to see all that.
LA:Yeah.
Berly:Okay. Continue. Tell me about
LA:golems. Well, we're going to be talking about the legend of the golem. The profound mystery surrounding the protector of Prague's Jewish ghetto. The year is 1590. And a large, shapeless, silent silhouette moves through the winding lanes of Prague's Jewish ghetto in the dark night. I feel like I'm telling a story. It sounds like the
Berly:opening to the episode
LA:already. Different year, but you know. It is neither man nor machine. The Prague Golem, few in Prague are unfamiliar with the most famous Jewish legend about this artificial creature created play. The Jewish settlement had been an integral part of Prague ever since the Jewish merchant Ibrahim Eben-Yikwab decided it as a city of stone and lime in the 10th century. Over time, it became the largest Jewish ghetto in Europe, and the old Jewish cemetery is now one of the oldest monuments of its kind in the world. During the Renaissance, under the reign of the famous Emperor Rudolf II, the legendary Rabbi Judah Lo Ben-Bazalel also known as Rabbi Lowe or the Maharal, worked in the Prague ghetto. For his time, he was unusually well-versed in philosophy, religion, and the natural sciences, especially mathematics, astronomy, and astrology. He was the rector of the Talmudic school in Prague, appointed chief judge of the Jewish community, and chief rabbi. The legend of the Golem is closely linked to him. As the story is told, one night, the rabbi I heard a mystery voice commanding him to create an effigy of a man out of clay to thwart the evil intentions of the enemies of the Jewish people. Harnessing the power of water, fire, and air, he created the figure of the golem out of clay from the Latva River. He brought it to life by means of a shem placed in its mouth. Rise and walk, Rabbi Lo commanded the creature. Yosella, Yosella. Oh,
Berly:see, he named it. Why didn't, Aaron needs to name his column. Yeah, I kept thinking that. Yeah,
LA:name it. he forgot about the golem. Oh no! Real nice. And it quite literally lost its mind and started destroying everything in its way. Oh
Berly:my god, that's so funny because remember him being like rawr! And I loved how he was just constantly pacing in front of the windows and all.
LA:Doesn't need rest. Oh, I love this. News of the golem's rampage was allegedly brought to the rabbi by several Jews just as Lo was in the synagogue and the worshippers were singing Psalm 92. The rabbi interrupted the service and hurried to remove the shem from the Oh no. Interesting. It's nice they all waited for
Berly:him
LA:to come back. Right? Legend also has it that the golem was never brought to life again and Rabbi Lowe deposited his You want me to Google it? Yeah, that's a toughie. see here
Berly:john desantis height he is six foot nine i want to see him on the show again oh my god there's a cute little picture of him and adam and he's like got his arm around him and they're just smiling at the camera that's so cute oh my god oh my god i love them so much
LA:if you look closely at the synagogue from pariska street you will see a small door leading to the attic and only a few step brackets leading to it at some height another legend says that the golem was stolen from the attic and buried in the old jewish cemetery and this cove the old i like that
Berly:it's called the old new synagogue
LA:the old new synagogue is that's
Berly:what i'm gonna call myself whenever i like on my 50th birthday i'm the old new yeah i'm gonna make some changes y'all but also i'm not at the same time just call me the old news call me old new i like it
LA:okay the whole new synagogue is one of the oldest preserved jewish monuments it dates back to the 13th century and is the oldest surviving synagogue north of the alps according to one legend stones from the original temple of jerusalem were used for its construction it is no wonder that the building which has survived the centuries and countless disasters that occurred around it was considered something extraordinary and miraculous that's what i'm gonna say about me You're all due. I'm extraordinary miraculous.
Berly:You're extraordinary miraculous? Okay.
LA:Okay. It also survived the late 19th century Prague sanitation when the ghetto was demolished and replaced by the wide and spacious boulevards of today's Parishka, Mazalova, and Sroka streets. Rabbi Lowe's house also stood in today's Zoroka Street until 1897. It bore the mark of a lion, which also adorns his tombstone in the old Jewish cemetery in the old town. It can also be identified by the scraps of paper and small stones placed upon it with the belief that the rabbi will grant the inscribed wishes. The Legend of the Golem fascinated and continues to fascinate writers. In particular, Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Gustav Mayrink, and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel have all written about it.
Berly:Add Ben Edlund to that list.
LA:Oh, yes. There you go.
Berly:I wonder if this was intended to be the same Gollum.
LA:I mean, it sounds like it.
Berly:Right? Because remember when he spit out the scroll and Aaron went to add his name to it? The last name on there was his grandfather, but there were names before that.
LA:In his book, The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco chose the Old Jewish Cemetery as the place where 13 of the most prominent rabbis from around the world meet over Rabbi Lowe's grave every hundred years. Let's see who else portrays this legend in the future.
Berly:Guess what, guys? I really liked this episode.
LA:Are you sure? I couldn't tell. I just kept wondering.
Berly:Also, guess what, guys? I really hope we see Aaron and the Golem again. We know. In the future. Quote to close it out was whenever Aaron and the Winchesters were kind of giving each other's backgrounds. Aaron said, so your grandfather was into all this supernatural stuff too? And Dean says,
LA:yeah, grandparents, mom, dad, truckload of cousins, the whole family was lousy for it. But we never had a Gollum. No.
Berly:Cheers.
LA:Thank you for listening to Denim Wrapped Nightmares. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram, leave a review, and let us know how we can get involved in the fandom. This was fun. Jerk. It always is, bitch.
