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How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Works, Part II · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Like every single one of those are good. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: say that in something else might not have come along.
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  Speaker 1: But it was Scream that like revitalized the genre. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's kind of a watershed movie.
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  Speaker 1: Did we talk about that in the horror movies that
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  Speaker 1: changed the the genre episode? I'm pretty sure we had
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  Speaker 1: to have Boy, if we didn't, we missed out. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if we didn't, we probably just said And obviously Scream,
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  Speaker 1: the Scream franchise, It launched the scary movie franchise in
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  Speaker 1: a way, and relaunched the genre. Yes, so scary movies
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing hot shots is worth seeing naked guns we're seeing,
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  Speaker 1: of course, although I would put either one of the
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  Speaker 1: hot shots up against the third naked gun any day
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  Speaker 1: of the week. That that's that's my bookie over the
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  Speaker 1: third naked gun. Yeah, okay, that's fair. Yeah. And then
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  Speaker 1: good start to this episode. As you think you're welcome,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Uh so, Chuck, We're moving on. We've already
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  Speaker 1: talked about the Great Pyramids at Kufu, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Temple of Artemis
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  Speaker 1: at a thesis, right, all three of them top top notch. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't know what we're talking about now,
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  Speaker 1: and this is your first episode of stuff you should know. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: this is the second of a two part episode. There
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  Speaker 1: you go on the Seven Ancient Seven Wonders the Ancient World,
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  Speaker 1: and here's part two. Right then, we're gonna start with
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  Speaker 1: the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. To say it like that,
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  Speaker 1: there's no other way to say it. That's how well,
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  Speaker 1: who's the guy's name, the the boxing guy, that guy
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  Speaker 1: I don't know his name. Yeah, he used to stand
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  Speaker 1: at the statue of Zeus and say that on an
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  Speaker 1: hourly basis. It's pretty pretty amazing stuff. So this one
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  Speaker 1: is one of my favorites, but not my favorite. I
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  Speaker 1: promise that my favorite was in here. But this is
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  Speaker 1: not quite it, although it's close, because you know that
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  Speaker 1: this is this is the main deal here, Olympia Zeus.
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  Speaker 1: This is no run of the mill god and some
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  Speaker 1: cast off city. No, it was the site of the
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  Speaker 1: first Olympics. So it was pretty important city, very important.
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  Speaker 1: Um it was. It was nowhere near Mount Olympus though, curiously,
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  Speaker 1: but it was pretty pretty important, right, yes, Um, this one,
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  Speaker 1: to me is the most humble of them all. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not quite sure why, but I am just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like whatever about it? All right? Well, the temple. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the temple at first, Okay, And also I
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  Speaker 1: should warn you that this article has the um proportions
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  Speaker 1: wildly incorrect. Oh the how tall it was? All right?
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  Speaker 1: What is it? For real? This thing? This article says
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  Speaker 1: it was two ft tall. That's a twenty story building.
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  Speaker 1: The temple was not as tall as the twenty story building.
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  Speaker 1: It was sixty ft tall. How did they get it
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  Speaker 1: that wrong? I don't know. I just don't know. It's staggering.
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  Speaker 1: It's as staggering as this temple would have been had
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  Speaker 1: it been two hundred feet tall. And it doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: say it was somewhere between sixty eight and two D
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  Speaker 1: ten feet right, it's weird, that's annoying. Everything else is
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  Speaker 1: right about it though. So it was sixty eight feet tall,
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  Speaker 1: still pretty impressive for the time. Yeah, but I would
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  Speaker 1: have to say if somebody, if you were driving through
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  Speaker 1: Dunwoodie he saw a sixty eight foot tall temple, you
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  Speaker 1: would probably still be impressed even though somebody just built it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's still impressive even today. Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: the temple's fail impressive, but inside we're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: statue mainly the Greek artists. Uh Phideous was commissioned. And
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  Speaker 1: imagine these artists were paid pretty handsomely for these jobs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you know there's only a few of them who
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  Speaker 1: were capable of doing this at the time. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean there are only a few people in the world
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  Speaker 1: could do this now on something of this scale. So
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  Speaker 1: they said, hey, Zeus is the man. We want a
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  Speaker 1: statue of Zeus And he said, yeah, I can knock
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  Speaker 1: that out. It's for b C. Shouldn't take me too long.
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  Speaker 1: Eight years later he was finished, right, um, and he
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  Speaker 1: used some really weird materials like so, so the temple itself,
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  Speaker 1: it was like a standard temp pool six feet tall,
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  Speaker 1: like all of them were a bunch of columns that
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. But the statue inside is apparently what
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  Speaker 1: was the big draw. And one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 1: it was something to see was because um Phidious used
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  Speaker 1: ivory and gold, um, rather than marble, which is it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty much what you used to make a statue
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  Speaker 1: back at that time. And they think one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why he used or not ebony, but ivory and
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  Speaker 1: gold was right. But the reason why they thought that
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  Speaker 1: was because, um, he he was building a statue to Zeus, right,
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  Speaker 1: so you needed it needed to be special. This is
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  Speaker 1: like the King of the Gods. Yeah, and ivory was
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  Speaker 1: definitely something that people would travel to see a statue
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  Speaker 1: made of ivory of Zeus. Yeah. Uh. So basically this
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  Speaker 1: is sitting down in this uh statue and he's sitting
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  Speaker 1: just straight up. He's not like, uh like you know
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  Speaker 1: how the Lincoln Lincoln and his memorials kind of chilling
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  Speaker 1: in his seat. Zeus is not chilling. He's setting up
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  Speaker 1: ready for actions like would you say, what'd you say?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of Uh. The statue itself was about high, which
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  Speaker 1: is super impressive. Like when you see a a rendering
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  Speaker 1: of what someone look like standing at the base of
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  Speaker 1: this thing. It's really pretty striking. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: things they said about it was that, um, if he
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  Speaker 1: stood up, he would have his head would have burst
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  Speaker 1: through the roof of the um of the temple, which
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  Speaker 1: was probably pretty cool to see too. He was sitting down,
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  Speaker 1: totally would have right, he would have just been like
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  Speaker 1: Zus smash. So he's holding in one hand a statue
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  Speaker 1: of Nike, So it's a statue holding a statue, and
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  Speaker 1: Nike was a winged goddess of victory, right, so it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like his version of Tinkerbell hanging out in
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  Speaker 1: his hand. And then the other hand he's holding a scepter,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty appropriate for the king of the gods.
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  Speaker 1: And again he seated on this throne. And yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: you if you look at artists rendering of them, we
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  Speaker 1: should say here, most of this stuff by the time
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  Speaker 1: these lists were written, um, we're already aged. And then
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  Speaker 1: they they've crumbled over time, so we actually don't know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they looked like. Some people saw him firsthand,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of this this information comes from secondhand
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  Speaker 1: sources or even further down the chain than that, so
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  Speaker 1: we're not exactly certain of what they looked like. But
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  Speaker 1: for most of these, because they were so widely regarded
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  Speaker 1: as seven Wonders of the Ancient worldly, you have to
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  Speaker 1: see that enough people wrote about him talked about him
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  Speaker 1: that if you really spent some time, you could put
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  Speaker 1: these sources together and come with probably an accurate description
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  Speaker 1: of of what it looked like. Yeah, for sure. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And the and the remarkable thing about this one is,
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  Speaker 1: apparently was the expression on Zeus's face. Not only is
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  Speaker 1: he sitting straight up ready for action, he uh, he
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  Speaker 1: just said this look on his face. It was kind intimidating.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say you've disappointed me and your mother.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it said. And uh, the legend has it.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't buy this at all, But Phitti has
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  Speaker 1: said that once I'm finished with this saying he asked
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  Speaker 1: for zeus blessing on the sculpture, and a bolt of
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  Speaker 1: lightning struck the temple at that very moment. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. No. No, as a matter of fact, if
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  Speaker 1: you do believe that, right in so we can tell
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  Speaker 1: you that you're wrong. So um. There were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of issues with this this um statute number one. It
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  Speaker 1: was built a couple of hundred years, a few hundred
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  Speaker 1: years before Christianity began and then started to spread in
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  Speaker 1: the area. Once that happened, um, the the worshippers of
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  Speaker 1: Zeus who still remained, said, we need to get this
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  Speaker 1: out of here. These Christians, they don't play around. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get rid of this thing, right and um. They
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  Speaker 1: moved the statue to Constantinople and it stayed there safe
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  Speaker 1: for a while, actually apparently housed in a palace us.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things about the statue was it
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  Speaker 1: was made of gold and ivory, but those things were
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  Speaker 1: overlaid on top of a wooden sculpture, which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, it's pretty slack pitious. Maybe you should have
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  Speaker 1: stuck with the marble. Maybe, but the palace and Constantinople
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  Speaker 1: caught fire. Yeah, that's a problem because marble doesn't burn,
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  Speaker 1: does No, it doesn't. Yeah, so it would have survived. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but he cheaped out, let's be honest, he phoned this
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  Speaker 1: one in. Yeah, and they were right to have moved
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  Speaker 1: that thing, because the Christians did come in and take
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  Speaker 1: care of business, shut down that temple in But by
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  Speaker 1: that time the statue was gone at least, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: burned in a fire. So earthquakes and fires are taking
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  Speaker 1: out all of the wonders. Earthquakes, fires and Christians the
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  Speaker 1: great level as pretty much so um back in I
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  Speaker 1: think in ninety this guy and again like this stuff
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  Speaker 1: just sat in in the realm of legend for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Although I think the um, I think the
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  Speaker 1: ruins of the temple itself are still around, aren't they that?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think they might be. I like,
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  Speaker 1: over the last two days, I've seen so many pictures
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  Speaker 1: of ancient temple ruins that I'm like, which, wait, which
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  Speaker 1: one is that so much? Right? I think this one
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  Speaker 1: may still be around in Olympia, the ruins of the temple,
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  Speaker 1: like you can still make out a couple of steps
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  Speaker 1: leading up to it, that kind of thing, and there's
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  Speaker 1: like the posts of a couple of pillars or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But um, they found in nineteen fifty um the workshop
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  Speaker 1: that Phidi has used beside the temple, and apparently we're
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  Speaker 1: able to recreate using the molds that they found, probably
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  Speaker 1: what the statue looked like, which is pretty impressive, just
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  Speaker 1: working from old molds. Yeah, not only that, but these
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  Speaker 1: were on coins right. Oh, yeah, that's right, that's the
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  Speaker 1: other one. Yeah, they were on Greek coins, So this
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  Speaker 1: isn't one where you really had to guess so much
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like because on those coins there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of detail about what it looked like. And um,
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  Speaker 1: because coins, you know, they were originated there, just where
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  Speaker 1: they ended up eventually would give a little indication on
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  Speaker 1: how far people had traveled to come see the saying
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  Speaker 1: when they carried those coins back. Yeah, it made me wonder,
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  Speaker 1: like where those coins currency or where they like souvenirs,
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  Speaker 1: like if you go to Dollywood or Kennedy Space Center
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  Speaker 1: or something like that and get a coin made. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. I wonder because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this was an age where they were are tourists and
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  Speaker 1: they were already selling the replicas of the Temple of
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  Speaker 1: Artemis as tourists mementos. I wonder if these coins were
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  Speaker 1: that too, pretty pretty neat to think about ancient tourists.
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  Speaker 1: Should we take a break? Yeah, all right, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to contemplate that and we'll be back right after this. Okay, Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: here's here's my second favorite. Let's hear it, this isn't
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  Speaker 1: your favorite huh. Are you sure you have a favorite?
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  Speaker 1: I do, We're not there yet. Okay, all right, well
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  Speaker 1: this is my second favorite, the mausoleum at Halicarnassis. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you don't like this one? Was all right? Mausoleums, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know you've seen one, you see them all. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is the original one. Like the word mausoleum came
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  Speaker 1: from the structure. Yeah, that only goes so far with me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I love that, the original thing. Yeah, I thought I
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  Speaker 1: thought you were like an etymology kind of guy. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can be, but just not with mausolium. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. There's something about mausoleums that bucked me because
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  Speaker 1: there's dead people interred inside. Just a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hubbub for a dead body. Oh I see,
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  Speaker 1: I see, Yeah, it makes sense, you know. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to knock it though. Well, okay, we'll just
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  Speaker 1: stop right here. Then if you're if you're King Mozolus,
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  Speaker 1: you deserve to to have this named after you. I
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  Speaker 1: would say that, especially if you're married to your sister
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  Speaker 1: and she's madly in love with you and you've just died. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was a little weird. He was the Persian king
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  Speaker 1: of Kia, and he was indeed married to his sister
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  Speaker 1: art Artemisia. Yeah, and she really really was in love
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  Speaker 1: with her brother. Yeah and husband, and he was from
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  Speaker 1: what I understand, he seems like a pretty successful ruler. Um.
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  Speaker 1: They had the mausoleum under construction while he was still alive,
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  Speaker 1: and he died UM while before it was finished, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but his sister Artemisia, sister wife Artemisia UM was so
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  Speaker 1: broken up by it. She said, all right, stop, stop
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing. This is not good enough. This has
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  Speaker 1: to be the most amazing memorial anyone's ever made to
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  Speaker 1: their husband. Brother. Um, I've got to I've got to
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with all of the greatest sculptors of
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  Speaker 1: the realm. And she did. She got in touch with
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  Speaker 1: um at least five of the greatest sculptors alive at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and they were headed by a guy named
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  Speaker 1: Pitheous who not only Um was one of the sculptures,
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  Speaker 1: he was the over overseeing architect of the entire project. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So like he architected the whole thing. And then she
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  Speaker 1: got a one sculptor per side to embellish the outside
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  Speaker 1: scopus brexas Baxas Leo, Charis oh A, and Timotheus. That
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  Speaker 1: one's easy, that one is easy, and this one has
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  Speaker 1: often been called UM because she had all these all
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  Speaker 1: these different people working on it. Uh. And not only that,
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  Speaker 1: but I think for years afterward it became a place
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  Speaker 1: where artists could exhibit and showcase their work. So in
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  Speaker 1: the end, this thing ended up being UM. I think,
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  Speaker 1: not as coherent is what you would think something might
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  Speaker 1: be when you just hire one person to work on it. UM.
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  Speaker 1: For this episode and the last one, I went to
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  Speaker 1: the site on museum. Have you ever heard of it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think so. They were very helpful in researching this.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things the way they put it
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  Speaker 1: was that UM so during construction, Artemisia died before it
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  Speaker 1: was completed, and the five sculptors who were running the
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  Speaker 1: show looked at each other and they're like, let's keep going.
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  Speaker 1: We could stop here and leave it unfinished. But it
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  Speaker 1: became well, no, no, not true. Ones. It became a temple,
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  Speaker 1: a monument not just to Mausoleus and Artemisia who were
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  Speaker 1: entombed inside, but it became a monument to art as well,
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  Speaker 1: that we can do whatever you want, right and they
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  Speaker 1: did so, and so they went ahead and they completed it,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a pretty impressive um structure. Yeah. The
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  Speaker 1: structure yourself, was about a hundred and forty ft tall.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? Yes, I believe that that's a relief.
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  Speaker 1: The base was about a hundred feet um twenty four
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  Speaker 1: steps tall. Yeah, and then on either side of the steps,
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  Speaker 1: flanking the steps were crouched lions, which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's always cool around the outside of the second the
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  Speaker 1: second tier where you would walk into on all four
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  Speaker 1: corners there were um soldiers bounted on horseback, sculptures of
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  Speaker 1: them protecting the place. Yeah. Yeah, what else? Uh? Pliny
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  Speaker 1: the Elder said, this thing is four hundred forty ft
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and the perimeter was thing is four so it was large,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: thirty six columns. Uh, it's a It was a big structure,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: very impressive. I didn't get from the pictures that I
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: saw of renderings. It didn't look too busy to me. No,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. The only place I saw that kind
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of shady and thrown at it was in this how
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Stuff Works article. Yeah. I mean I know that there
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: were different people working on it, but it didn't look
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: like I expected. When I saw it to look like
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: a big mess, and it did not look like a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: big mess. No, it looked pretty neat and tidy. Right. Yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: So one of the things that I love about this thing.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: So again, Artemisia and Mausolus are entombed inside this thing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: But it's also like just a place you would go,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you know, take a date or something on a Sunday
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: afternoon in the city of Hellican Issus, Hellican Hellicarnassis. Right. Um.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: One of the one of the cool things about this
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: is that um, this structure stood for hundreds and hundreds
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of years after the city of Hellicarnassis all to ruin
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: around it. That is so cool, just the imagining this abandoned,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: ruined town and in the middle of it is this
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty foot tall mausoleum, the world's first mausoleum,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: with all these ornate sculptures around it. This is almost
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: completely out of context with the surroundings now that the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: town is falling to ruin. Yeah, that's pretty cool for sure.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But like all these other ones, earthquakes would eventually take
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: care of business, uh in the fourteen hundreds and shake
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: this thing down and um and again, like a lot
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of these other stories. In four they used the knights
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: of St. John of Malta said hey, let's let's take
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: all this uh scrap and use it for our own castle. Yeah,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the a city as um Hellicarnassus fell to ruin. Another
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: city nearby grew up called Boudroum, and the ruins at hellercanasses.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: You would go to Boudroum today to view the ruins
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: of Helicarnassis. The mausoleum, I should say, um, but the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: big draw apparently is the knights of St. John's castle
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and to build that castle. Some of the scraps that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: they used were from the mausoleum, so you can still
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: see original parts of the mausoleum, but they've been incorporated
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: into the structure of them the castle that you would view,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: which is cool. So it's still around in some way,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: shape or form. But that um earthquake that got it
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in the fourteen hundreds, it actually had a weird way
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of preserving some of it. Right, So there are three
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: three big things that keep coming up. Right. There is
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: um earthquakes that keep happening, There's people using scraps to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: build other cities nearby, and then there's the British Museum.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Those three things figure into the Seven Wonders of the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Ancient World big time, because if there's a piece of it,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World somewhere
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: in the world outside of its original location, it's probably
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: in the British muse Zoum. And that's the case with
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Um some a few things from the the mausoleum at Helicarnassis.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: They think that what happened was the earthquake toppled the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: sculpture of Mausolus and Artemisia riding a chariot pulled by
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: four horses. It was very famous um that was on
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the top of the mausoleum, that it fell and was
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: covered by rubble so that it was protected until it
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was finally excavated in the nineteenth century when they found
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: um huge old chariot wheel. And then they think the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the two sculptures of Artemisia and Mausolus and now they're
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: all in the British Museum. But they think that earthquake
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: had a weird way of protecting it from being looted
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and re used by the Knights of St. John later on. Amazing,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's why it's my second favorite. Well,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: we're coming upon my favorite. I wondered if this was it,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the Colossus of Rhodes. It's a good way to say it. Yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I like this one. This was ancient Greece, and this
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: one was the granddaddy of them all statue wise, this
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: one was even bigger than the statue of Zeus at
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Olympia UM. Third century. And Rhodes was an island, uh,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: still as an island, and Macedonians came knocking on the door,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and they were angry, and they wanted the help of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the people of Rhodes because told me, was told me
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: one that is was was was conquering, and they said,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: we need your help here. And the people of Rhad said, hey,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: we're not really, we don't want to get involved in
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: all that. We kind of like it here on the island,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: living our peaceful lifestyle here. Well. Plus, if there was
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: anybody they were allied with, it was Ptolemy. Yeah. Yeah,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: they but they wanted to stay out of any wars.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: They just weren't into it. So they rebuffed the Macedonians
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: uh and they left, but they left behind a bunch
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of supplies and equipment UM I'm not sure why they
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: did that actually, So the this article is so bizarre. Man, Um,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the the Macedonians besieged roads for over a year. Um
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and they they had these huge war machines that were
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: made of like um, bronze and wood and metal, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: they would pull these huge machines up to the city
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: walls and like they had catapults on top, and they
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: were trying to crush the city for a year. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: when the road the Roodians finally overcame the Macedonians, they
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: were like, well, we're just leaving the stuff behind. It's
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: too big to move. It didn't work anyway, so we'll
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: leave it. Yeah, that's why they left it. This This
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: this article puts it in a really weird way. Yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I agree. Uh so they ended up using like selling
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: away that stuff right to make the money to build
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in part the statue. Yeah, and they reused some of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: it directly for the statue. Like like that huge thing
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that they used to besiege the city they pulled up
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to the walls, they actually used that as scaffolding to
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: build the statue. Heck, yeah, yeah, it's making plowshares out
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of I don't know guns. So they used the sculptor
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Charras of Lindos, and he said, I got this one
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: under control, and he is um all these different materials, iron, bronze, stone, Uh,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and this one I'll have wrapped up, oh in about
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: twelve years when they said that's about right. Yeah, that's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: not bad for what they did here. Yeah, I mean
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: this one was a tin feet tall. Yeah, it had
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a skeleton of iron um, and inside the skeleton for structure,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: it had huge stone columns running through it. And yeah,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it was like the actual statue itself was about as
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: big as the Statue of Liberty as today and followed
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: like a pretty similar structure, um, but like a thousand
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: or so years before, a couple of thousand years before. Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: people think from written accounts that it was holding a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: torch like Lady Liberty does, and that the face was
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: modeled after Alexander the Great. Some say, and here's where
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it gets interesting to me is if you look up
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: pictures of this thing, you will likely see it standing
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a straddle um the entrance to the harbor, So literally
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: standing there like kind of with his legs spread, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you would have to sail a ship between his legs
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to get into the harbor. You shouldn't look up, don't
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: look on. The detail was really amazing, very amazing, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a hundred ten feet I like, you know what you're
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: going to be staring at. So, uh, there are accounts
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and there are plenty of illustrations and other things that
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: support this, and it looks trust me, if you look
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: it up, it looks very cool. Like you know, they
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: were into, uh, they were into making things this tall,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: just because it was so mind blowing. But also they
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: were saying they were thanking their patron god Helios for
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: spending them from having to go to war. Um, which
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Like that's one of the reasons I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: like this one is they were saying, like, you know what,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: we stayed out of war, we managed to remain at peace.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: We're gonna build a monument to our god, who we
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: assume helped this out. Yeah. But when they did these things,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: like with most of these, I loved it. They were
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: just like, well, you know, twenty ft high statue would
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: be great. That's impressive. Like they would try and build
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: things as large as humanly literally possible engineering wise at
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the time. I see your point. Yeah, that is pretty neat.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: So when you look at pictures of this straddling the harbor,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: it's just like it's enormous, it's huge. Unfortunately, that's probably
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: not what he how he stood, right, That's that's the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: downer here, is that they didn't really have the the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: materials or the knowledge or the skill, uh to do
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: something like that. Like the reason that statues back then
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: we're basically straight up and down is because that you
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: needed that those legs to support the rest of the statue. Yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and they were a top of pet stoles that could
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: hold the weight of the statue above it. Um. They
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: would also if the if the if each foot was
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: on either side of the harbor, that's usually not the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: strongest solid ground you can find, So they wouldn't have
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: had any means of reinforcing the ground beneath it, so
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it would have just sunk or fallen right over. Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And Plus the other thing to chuck was that it
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: would have closed the harbor down. And they relied on
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the harbor for their economy, so it's probably unlikely that
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: it looked as cool as it looks in pictures. Uh.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And what happened to this one three years later? Yes,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: earthquake fifty three years that is so quick that didn't
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: last long at all. No, So this the thing fell
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and they think that it probably was located closer to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the center of town somewhere inland Um, but that when
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: it fell, it crushed a bunch of people's houses and businesses,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and some of it probably fell into the harbor itself.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: That's right. And this one was notable because I think
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: because it was so young when it fell. It's still
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it's not like they were like, oh, let's get rid
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of this thing. They let it lay there as a
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: tourist attraction in its prone state for many, many years,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and people would come far and wide to go visit
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the fallen statue. Yeah, for almost a thousand years. It's easy. Yeah,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: it's still stayed a tourist attraction. Like apparently the cool
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: thing to do was to try to put your arms
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: around the thumb. Yeah. The thumb was bigger than most statues, right,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Like like people couldn't get their arms, they couldn't touch
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: their hands around the thumb. Amazing. And apparently also the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: arms fell off pretty pretty They may have even fallen
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: off first during the earthquake. But did you say it
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: broke off at about the knees just below the knees. Um,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: so those probably stayed for a while. But the they
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: like from the knee down, Yeah, yeah, I'm sure, which
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: looks a little weird, like that picture of the person
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: who suffered spontaneous combustion all that was left with their
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: one leg. I'll bet it look kind of like that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But the stuff that was on the ground, like you
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: could see into, like the armholes, and apparently even that
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: was just his breathtaking cavern. It was just such a
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: massive structure. They're like, have you seen in those armholes? Yes?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I have. I've seen all the armholes all over the world.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And the best tourist ever have he tried to hug
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that thumb? I have a subscription to Monocle magazine. I'm
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: just as cool as they come. And so the final
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: nugget on this one that I thought was pretty fun
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: was in six fifty three, Um, these invading Arabs sold,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: like all the rest of these stories, sold the scrap metal. Uh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: they sold it to a Jewish merchant who apparently used
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: nine hundred camels to take this stuff away. Good lord,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: So how about that? So nine hundred camels or like
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: just a few camels who had to make nine hundred
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: trips total. I don't know, nine hundred camels. This is plus.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, if this is a Jewish merchant buying the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: scrap metal Colossus of Rhodes, he probab like camels, you know.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: And think of all the poop that generated around there. Man,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it's a lot of camel poop. All right, Well, let's
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: take one more break. We'll come back and we'll finish
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: up with the final wonder of the Ancient worlds right
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: after this. M all right, chuck, we're at the last one.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: This one's pretty neat too. I don't think we ever
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: said when the Classes of Rose was built, did we? Oh? Jeez,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: did we not? So it would have been in the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: fourth now the third century, now, the fourth century BC
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: is when it was built. So this this is my
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: but we've been going chronologically through all of these, and um,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: this is then the youngest of the ancient wonders. Yeah,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the little baby of the of the group, the Lighthouse
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: of Alexandria. And you know I've got a lighthouse thing, sure, uh.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And this one is a pretty great one. This was, um,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: this was notable as one of the angers wonders in
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the ancient world because it was the only one that
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: actually had a practical use and it wasn't just some
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: monument or temple, you know, right, it served a purpose.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Who was it that said nothing useless can ever truly
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: be beautiful? It was that just a movie line that
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I remember? I think that was John Cusack. Okay, what
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: nothing useless can never be beautiful? Yeah? Man, I wish
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I could remember what that's from, because I'm sure we're
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: going to get a lot of email about it. But
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: they said in the movie, they say somebody said nothing
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: useless can ever truly be beautiful. I don't buy that. Yeah,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I miss an opinion. There's a well an opinion. It's
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: just how it ends up in a movie, you know
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So this one, this one did have utility,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: and it was kind of beautiful too from the artists
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: renderings I've seen. I liked it. Yeah, pretty pretty sweet lighthouse.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: So the Lighthouse at Alexander is supposedly it's got a
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: pretty cool backstory to it. Allegedly, Alexander himself had a
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: dream and in the dream, they said, Alexander, you need
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: to go find the island of Pharaohs, And he said, why.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: They said, it doesn't matter, just do what we say.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: And he woke up in a cold sweat and he
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: like trembling, lit a cigarette and he said, I gotta
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: find Pharaohs. And that's how it started. Yeah, pretty much.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Uh located off the coast of ancient Egypt. He said, um,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you know what told me. Since we're told me it's
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: such a cool name, I'm gonna choose you as one
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: of my generals to go inhabit and settle this place.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Take care of it for me, and told them he said,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I'm all over it. But yeah, I I you know
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: what Pharaohs needs though, It needs like an identify er,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: something that you can see from a long way, something symbolic,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: something that literally helps you identify it because it's you know,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: tough navigating around the shores. And Alexander said, well, I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: don't know if it was Ausanader. In my mind it was.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: He said, how about a lighthouse, Well, supposedly it was
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: either Ptolemy or the um Um mause In, which is
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the predecessor to the museum, which is basically like a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: brain trust to think tank and the early prototype of
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the university where the library exact Alexandria was housed. Um
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: either Ptolemy came up with it or the Mausean came
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: up with it. That's right, And it's a great idea.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Put a lighthouse because it serves a function, and it
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: can be tall and grand, and the island will then
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: be known for this, and it most certainly was. I
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: have say one of the things that I love about
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: these is how some of them are tied together. Like
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: this is the same Tolomy that the Macedonians were fighting
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and tried to bring roads into Rhodes, had been conquered
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: by King um muzzles Uh and then was later reconquered
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: by Artemisia. Like all of these things kind of fit together,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and when you start to learn about one, you learn
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: about the story of the people who built them, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: how they relate to the stories of people who build
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: other amazing wonders of the ancient world. It's just such
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: a cool history. Lesson. Have you seen the new Noah
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Bombach movie on Netflix. No, it's called The Meerwit Stories. No,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. It's on Netflix. It's funny. It's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Adam Sandler, his Adams the guy's not in the movie,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: but Adam Sandler's neighbor. He references a lot. His name
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: is Toleomy. Yeah, so he just keeps saying, well, you know,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: told him. He says this and that thought about the movie.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: It's pretty funny and a reminder that Adam Sandler should
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: only play these roles. Yeah, he definitely. Well that or
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the original Billy Madison Happy Gilmore role. He was pretty
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: good that too. Man, he's so good in these kinds
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: of movies. I know, Punchdrunk so good. And this character
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: is sort of like a grown up version of that
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: punch drunk love character. A little bit to me. Good movie.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Check it out. Yeah, thanks, so uh it told me
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: which has got a silent p by the way, Yeah,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: it's a cool name, which is why it's such a
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: great name. It's Potolemy. Um So, Potolemy is on the island.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: They get this thing built around b C they begin construction. Uh,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: there's a dude name so stratise of Nidos And they
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: don't know what part he played other than the fact
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: that it was important. He could have been the architect,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: could have been the financier, could have been both. Yeah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: absolutely could have been both. But he was he was
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: definitely important into that project. So supposedly this project they
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: actually have a monetary value for how much it costs.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: They said it costs um eight hundred talents, which are
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: is a word for bars of silver. And apparently that's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: about three million dollars today, which is not bad for
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: this lighthouse. Three million, not bad at all. You couldn't
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: build half a lighthouse today for that, No, no, not
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: one like this. So so apparently it was um about
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty ft tall. And one of the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: reasons they built this too is not just to to
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: put Pharaohs on the map um or Alexandria on the map.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Alexandria was already like a pretty important city or it
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: was becoming an important city, um ports city, but having
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a lighthouse there just helped navigation, which only helped the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: economy boom. And actually after the lighthouse came into operation,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the economy did boom as a result of that. Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is really really tall. Yeah, they said that you could
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: see this thing's light from a hundred miles away. Yeah,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I saw the ones that said it was more like
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: thirty or forty still, but yeah, that's it's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty high functioning lighthouse a hundred miles away is
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: more believable than the Temple of Zeus being struck by
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a bolt of lightning after it was completed. Agreed, So
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  Speaker 1: you could see this thing thirty miles away, We'll even
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: go with twenty miles away. Okay, I'm i'm, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even going above that. And the reason why you could
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  Speaker 1: see that is because atop this four hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: foot structure there was a polished disc of some sort
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  Speaker 1: they think it was probably bronze, and during the day
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: they moved it so it would reflect the light of
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  Speaker 1: the sun so you could see it then, uh, and
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: then at night they had a fire going all the time. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And there were structures within this amazingly tall structure that
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: we're basically what you would call dumb waiters or that
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  Speaker 1: type of elevator on pulleys where you could raise and
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  Speaker 1: lower um to to get to bring like firewood, animal
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  Speaker 1: dried animal dung up to it. Yeah, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we said that. One of the things that makes
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  Speaker 1: this so cool to me is it's not not just
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  Speaker 1: a big cylindrical lighthouse like most of them you see. Uh,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: it is three different levels of three different shapes. So
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: you've got your huge rectangular base, then you have the
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  Speaker 1: second level, which is octagonal, and then that third is cylindrical.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just really cool looking. And um apparently you
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: could even up to that first level, which I mean
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: it had to be over a hundred feet high in itself.
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  Speaker 1: You could bring carts and work horses and stuff all
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the way up to that level because they had a
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: bunch of storage up there. This is pretty cool. And
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: then dumb waiters to take stuff to the highest hours, right,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: and they had like those ramps and like kind of
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: circular or spiral staircases going around it to help to
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: to maximize the space that you use to get things up. Yeah,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: it was very clever structure, for sure. It's very you
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  Speaker 1: can there are some cool renderings of this online as well.
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  Speaker 1: So this thing was a solid piece of work. Apparently
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: it's it's survived a tsunami in three sixtie but what
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: got it Chuck earthquake earthquake in thirteen oh three, so
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: it's after dozens of earthquakes. Yeah, so it was. It
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: was built around two eighty b c E. It stood
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  Speaker 1: until thirteen hundred UM and Finally some earthquakes took it down,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and the other thing that happened they reused some of
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: it as a fort which is still around today. But um,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the cool thing about it is there was an underwater
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: expedition around Pharos and they found what they're almost positive
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: are original blocks from the from the lighthouse itself, original blocks,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and I think statues too. Yeah, sculptures, I should say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: did I did look at some of the underwater pictures?
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  Speaker 1: Is pretty cool. Oh yeah, it's just as cool as
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: it gets. Man, anything that's underwater now that used to
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: be and was meant to be above water, it's so cool,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: so creepy. I was reading this really interesting article about
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the Andrea Doria, you know, the luxury liner family that
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: that Um, I think it's sunk in the fifties or
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: early sixties, but it's like this incredible wreck site that
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: people dive and they call it like the underwater Everest
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: because if you're an underwater wreck diver, that's like, it
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't get any better than that. Um. But you know,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: it's it's also extremely dangerous. And I've read this really
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: well written article about I can't remember who wrote it,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: but to start reading Andrea Doria articles everybody, and you'll
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: find the one eventually. Well, we'll do a podcast on it,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: how about that. Okay, let's do it. And that's it.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: We did the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World finally. Huh,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: that's the last one. That's That's it, everybody. That's the
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: big one. That's a Chevy Chase quote, is it? Yeah?
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: From Christmas Vacation when he reveals the pool. Right, it's
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: so awkward the way he says it's perfect. That's it.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: That's a big one. Oh. At any rate, Um, Christmas
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: is coming gone, chuck. But this is the last episode
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: that we're going to release this year. So I think
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: we should wish everybody a happy new year. Yeah, happy
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: new Year everybody. Thanks for sticking with us this two
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, and we'll see you two thousand and eighteen.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: On a personal note, happy happy birthday to my sweet wife.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: You me and uh, we'll see you guys next year, right,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I sure hope. So. So in the meantime, it's time
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: for listener mail. That's right, We're gonna finish out this
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: two parter with a single listener mail about bath salts
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: appropriately because why not? Hey, guys, I'm not wanting to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: take hard drugs often, but my friend and I were
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: going to an d M festival and decided to take
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: what we believed was molly. The drugs are crystalline, and
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: we took them orally he yuck. The experience did not
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: go as planned. A few days later, we use a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: drug testing kit on the remaining crystals and find out
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: dant dana bats salts. That's scary, Like, I'll take that.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: That looks like a drug. It's crystaline. Yeah, sure, Unlike
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: any other party drug that might make you feel ready
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: to dance. This stuff gave my friend and I this
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: sensation that our feet were stuck to the ground via
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: magnetic force, and lifting them was almost impossible. Was made
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: dancing very difficult, as all we could do was awkwardly
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: move around with the top half of our bodies. Additionally,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: we felt super paranoid that everyone around us was watching
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: us and judging and laughing at our pitiful attempts to dance. Uh.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: By the way, Anonymous, no one noticed you. I can
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: go ahead and tell you that right now, it was
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: impossible to enjoy the music with my mind raising these
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: unpleasant thoughts and The feeling lasted for the full day.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: After the disappointing day, we headed back to the apartment,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: ready to get some rest. Tackled the next day drug free,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: but no, the bass Salts would not let us sleep,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: try as we might. All night long, we laid there
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: a wide awake, part of the song turned down for
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: what by DJ Snake, laid over and over in my
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: mind for eight hours straight. This sounds really bad, it does.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: My eyes were closed and it felt as though I
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: was watching a show of squiggly neon colored shapes pulsating
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: in rhythm to the incessant music in my mind. Somehow
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: we managed to get to the festival the next day,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: but we felt like zombies and we were not even
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: at the cannibalism stage yet. I'm not sure what that
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: even means. Well, you know the whole face eating bath
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: salts legend. Oh gotcha. She's like, we weren't even there yet.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: It still was terrible. She didn't even get the pleasure
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: of eating someone's face, right, Uh so just from experience.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Alo second, when Josh and Chuck said and urged steer clear,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: that is from Anonymous. Thanks a lot, Anonymous appreciate that.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: As um the bore you know or know. That's one
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: to grow on. That's one to grow on. If you
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: want to send us one to grow on, hit us up.
• 44:56
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• 44:58
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• 45:01
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• 45:04
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• 45:08
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• 45:19
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