 Coming to you live from the Everfree Forest. It's radio free equestria So there was an outbreak of the cutie pox. Well, it wasn't an outbreak an outbreak could be all the ponies It was a one pony outbreak, but all the ponies were afraid of the pox They were hiding in their house of course if there's any kind of mysterious disease That's so horrible that you don't you know know how it works and someone's got it What are you gonna do? Oh, no a disease that makes me the best at everything, but you can't stop doing it Maybe it gave you a sex cutie mark. You would want to get rid of it very quickly So the interesting thing is that maybe I mean how much of that flower did she eat we learned that it was caused by that flower the The heart's desire So was that actually the cause of the original cutie pox? They just all ate this flower I think no cuz I don't that's if you notice the cutie pox didn't actually spread It seems that the original cutie pox was much more like our small pox right where it spread and then was eliminated Right, but mysteriously eliminated not by a vaccine or anything Yeah, there was no record of the cure diagrams of you know treatment and analysis looks like that flower also, right? If you gave it to the rooster it would get its crowback. I guess it is one we call heart's desire So it's not that flower just gives you something that you want if you eat enough of it So the thing she wanted happened to be cutie pox is why the cutie pox didn't spread from apple blooms everyone She didn't really want cutie pox. She wanted a cutie mark Well, she wanted the thing is she took too much she OD'd so she'd just taken a little bit what she have gotten just the hoop-dee-hoop-dee Cutie mark possibly. I'll what it would last it forever because apparently the only cure was to tell the truth Right, but at this at that Well, that was because the only cure was to eat that other flower the way to make the flower grow as a truth So how come Applejack didn't just say I planted it Also, I know smart enough to think of that We we know that pinkie pie ate far more corn cakes than she said Yeah, it does seem though that there is some sort of universal magic that prevents you from screwing with cutie marks like any time You try to screw with cutie marks It doesn't work even if you're Celestia or Twilight no matter how much magic you have that the Universal cutie mark magic is like unassailable and we learn something even even discord's magic couldn't assail cutie mark power Because what we learned here is that at least these cutie marks not only did she get the cutie mark But she got the requisite power of the cutie mark and things that she otherwise was not I mean plate spinning was not in her repertoire Ahead of time there was nothing in her heart about that unless maybe she's really hiding something Yeah, so does the cutie mark itself give power? So is it that of pony when they're young they have you know, they're into something they're good at it They have some good ability. They're like a black four black five like exponent in the ability But then the cutie mark pushes into gray shade I think it just it goes both ways right if you get really good at a thing then you know The magic in you you build up enough magic and then put it appears But the same goes the other way right if it appears then the magic in you will align with it Thus you will have the power, you know, even though you didn't build it up It's just it now it's just it there So did the ponies always have cutie marks because the paleo pony period I I wonder what was up with they had cutie marks in the paleo pony period Then I think it's safe to say they always had cutie. We don't know if they had cutie marks I knew they had the cutie pox you can have the cutie pox that cutie mark But maybe maybe I mean look at how much viral DNA is incorporated in human DNA It is possible that they had no cutie marks this disease Which you're saying the cutie pox is the origin of all cutie mark It may well be or maybe it you know It caused some trick of genetics that unlocked the potential for cutie marks But if you look at the way she describes what it says in the book She's like well, you know people suddenly had too many cutie marks and then it Disappeared as mysterious as it came so clearly they had cutie marks before the original time The book was an old book detailing an even older event I mean the paleo pony period when was that because we know that in the paleo pony period they had Unicycles they had skis and skiing technology. They clearly had metal working Unless I think unless maybe I mean we don't know when that looks like it was all You had else they had in the paleo pony period They were had the ability to write and remember the cutie pox unless this was a historian maybe Researching the paleo pony period what evidence did he find of the paleo pony period to know that there were cutie marks cutie poxes Other than writing or pictures that they would have had from the paleo pony period Maybe historical accounts like maybe a pony historian was studying something Yeah, but wrote something about what is they had writing in the paleo pony Something about say some ruins or some pictograms or maybe even like cataloging oral histories from previous pony populations Plus they you need to have enough Seficially advanced society to have more than one talent right if you had a bunch of cave ponies They'd all have the same talent hunting or gathering maybe fire Maybe fire one guy suddenly has the fight the guy who started the first pony to make fire Suddenly gets a fire cutie mark. He's like what the fuck it's just like the first guy to ever dance exactly It's something he's like a big foot on his ass and everyone's like it's not a spear But the fact that the cutie mark seemed to actually give power is very interesting because you'd wonder What is the force that causes the cutie mark to align with the person's beliefs or the person's clearly well Non ponies don't get them as a car has a cutie mark. Yeah, she's pony like so she's pony like so she's a metapony Yeah, she's in the same like class. Yeah, it's like humanoid pony oids because we don't see any cutie marks on any of the chickens Elizabeth definitely didn't have one of all the pets nobody the same mad It's the same reason that the Everfree forest sort of does its thing on its own an equestria doesn't right that same magic is Intertwined with the cutie mark magic. That's why in equestria Anything that can take care of itself ponies that magic that gives them their cutie marks and abilities and talents is the same magic That lets them take care of themselves and everything else And the same reason that you know those animals bunnies can't take care of themselves is they don't have cutie marks It's it all goes together. It's all part of the same thing So could we metaphysics controls both so could something be done to give a nonpony a cutie mark You would need to know that you like a you need to fundamentally change the metaphysics of at least equestria Right, yep, so opposed to maybe ever free force works differently But at least a quest so then the two questions to really discover this with twilight because she's I guess the only Researcher in Ponyville would either have to attempt to infuse some other being with a cutie mark or We would have to go outside of equestria and find out if ponies out there have cutie marks the Korra had one She was not from equestria. I mean, I don't think she's not from the ever free forest She clearly went there. I think it also has something to do with friendship The most powerful magic is friendship So the animals must just not have any fucking friends and only the ponies know how to make friends