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110. Sir Isaac Newton - Ace of Reason · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: So I thought, you know what, we'll just do what
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Speaker 1: what happened. And oh my goodness, I have news, actually
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Speaker 1: so now the listener's choice is up. I'll put it
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Speaker 1: I think we have the opportunity to do something very
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Speaker 1: very funny to like at least chart on the listener's
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Speaker 1: But that's just me. But I know what you're thinking,
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Speaker 1: quite your gibber drabber in fact me, in fact you,
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Speaker 1: I will, But first we've got to get our source on.
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Speaker 1: Our sources are queer as in History. The Comprehensive Encyclopedia
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Speaker 1: of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders by Keith Stern,
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Speaker 1: Never at Rest, a Biography of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westville,
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Speaker 1: The Forgotten Genius by Steven Inwood. Memoirs of the Life,
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Speaker 1: Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster.
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Speaker 1: And of course we have our old friends Biolgravy dot com,
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Speaker 1: Smithsonian dot com, and History dot Com are used to
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Speaker 1: doing comfortably good. Then let's begin. So it is Pride
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Speaker 1: Month right now, and I thought, why not specifically focus
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Speaker 1: on LGBTQIA. Now. I know I'm always talking about historical bisexuals,
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Speaker 1: mainly because they're very easy to find, but I thought, no,
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Speaker 1: let's try and shift some focus and sort of hit
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Speaker 1: the other parts of the rainbow, and I like really
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Speaker 1: really struggled to find really interesting sort of asexual people
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Speaker 1: from history because I was like, I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about somebody es. I just felt like it was going
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Speaker 1: to be a really, really good idea. And the difficulty
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Speaker 1: is people either wouldn't really notice at the time, depending
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Speaker 1: on sort of religion region, you know, it may or
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Speaker 1: me not have like the flags might not be flying,
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Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. And because certain things
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Speaker 1: are more outward and easier a spot, like if somebody's
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Speaker 1: like gay, lesbian, transgender, like they're easy to see, but
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Speaker 1: asexuality a bit more difficult to spot. But I am convinced,
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Speaker 1: I am absolutely convinced the Isaac Newton was asexual, and
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Speaker 1: that man is an absolute weirdo but also very very interesting. Right.
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Speaker 1: I think the weirdness has nothing to do with asexuality.
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Speaker 1: I think you could be heterosexual and also be really
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Speaker 1: really weird. You know, you can be a romantic and
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Speaker 1: be happy as a clam. You can be fine and
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Speaker 1: fun and wonderful, right, but doesn't matter. This Isaac Newton
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Speaker 1: specifically is just a b is a bit wonky out there.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, and I think that's what makes it
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Speaker 1: so fabulous, because you think, above my tree re born,
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Speaker 1: he's actually really interesting, needed a bunch of weird shit,
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Speaker 1: And I hope you're ready for the coolest asexual I
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Speaker 1: could find in history, because we're gonna get to it.
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Speaker 1: So let's start at the beginning, shall we. Even the
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Speaker 1: start of this is kind of complicated because it depends
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Speaker 1: on the calendar. So depending on much calendar you're using,
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Speaker 1: Isaac Newton was either born on Christmas Day, sixteen forty two,
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Speaker 1: or he was born on January fourth, sixteen forty three.
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Speaker 1: Either of those pick one doesn't really matter because let's
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Speaker 1: just let's just go with Christmas Day because I think
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Speaker 1: it sounds more fun. So Isaac Nton, he's born as
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Speaker 1: many people are, but he's born three months premature, which
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Speaker 1: is shocking that he survived at this point because he's
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Speaker 1: a premie baby, and he was the size of a
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Speaker 1: quart mug, so like you could fit him in a
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Speaker 1: mug to dry, like he was teeny weeney, like a
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Speaker 1: lot of premium babies are. And you think that's a
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Speaker 1: difficult way to enter the world. It gets worse because
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Speaker 1: his father, a Yeoman also named Isaac Newton actually passed
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Speaker 1: away three months before his birth, so like Florence's mum,
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Speaker 1: she would have only been like three months pregnant by
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Speaker 1: the time her husband dies. And then she's got this
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Speaker 1: to deal with. I mean, it's not an easy it's
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Speaker 1: not an easy start. But yeah, he is born in
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Speaker 1: will Thorpe and that's in Lincolnshire, England. Now Isaac spends
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Speaker 1: the first couple of years and I mean that literally
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Speaker 1: with his mother, Florence, until she remarries. So she gets
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Speaker 1: married to the Minister Barnabas Smith and he's a well
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Speaker 1: to do gentleman and you know this is farming area,
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Speaker 1: so she's she's moving up in the world. Now, there
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Speaker 1: is a stipulation that in order for this like marriage
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Speaker 1: to go ahead is that she goes with Barnabas and
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Speaker 1: Isaac stays behind. And this is really really common at
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Speaker 1: the time. So it's a very very like double standard
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Speaker 1: when it comes to widows, widowers and children. So if
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Speaker 1: you're a widower, if you're a man whose wife has died,
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Speaker 1: probably from childbirth, because you know that's usually how they went,
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Speaker 1: you would marry someone else with the purpose of caring
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Speaker 1: for your children like that would be a thing. But
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Speaker 1: if you're a widow and you have children, like you're
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Speaker 1: kind of expected to just leave them behind and go
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Speaker 1: start afresh, especially if you're an I hate to say this,
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Speaker 1: fertile like you know, and it's such it's such a thing.
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Speaker 1: Like there are some blended families which just just quite well,
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Speaker 1: and then you get shit like this, which is just shitty.
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Speaker 1: I don't care what the rules of society says. This
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Speaker 1: is bullshit, right, But it's not too bad because Isaac
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Speaker 1: does grow up in the care of his maternal grandmother,
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Speaker 1: so he stays with her while his mum saunders off
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Speaker 1: to the next village to raise a son and two daughters,
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Speaker 1: and he basically doesn't see his mom for like nine
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Speaker 1: years until Barnabus Smith croaks it. But like, eh, the
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Speaker 1: damage has done at that point. But yeah, he's being
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Speaker 1: raised by his maternal grandmother, so his mom's mom, and
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Speaker 1: you know, his father was a yeoman, so like there
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Speaker 1: was farm and they keep trying to make him become
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Speaker 1: a farmer, and Isaac Newton does not want to be
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Speaker 1: a farmer, and so he goes to like school and
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Speaker 1: they're educating him, and then they keep trying to pull
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Speaker 1: him away from education to make him go work on
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Speaker 1: a farm, and he's like nah, Like at twelve years old,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to convince this fella to run an a state.
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Speaker 1: Florence is like, my husband's dead, you should run our shit,
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Speaker 1: and he's he's so bad at it, like he can't
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Speaker 1: manage shit. He's supposed to be like watching cattle and
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Speaker 1: he's like mmm no, And he ends up just reading
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Speaker 1: books under trees and stuff like I could do that
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Speaker 1: or I could go read. And eventually they're like, okay,
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Speaker 1: this is this is not working, and so he ends
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Speaker 1: up going back to Grammar School, like let's just send
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Speaker 1: him back to school because he is not doing well here,
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Speaker 1: and he goes back to Grantham, after which he goes
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Speaker 1: to university and he attends Trinity College at Cambridge. So
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Speaker 1: like the University of Cambridge and like the University of Oxford,
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Speaker 1: they actually have like different colleges within the university, like
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Speaker 1: they're not just like it's not just Oxford, it's not
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Speaker 1: just Cambridge. You've got these wee ones inside it and
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Speaker 1: that's what makes up sort of these unis and that's
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Speaker 1: why you can go and do so many things there, right,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, oh, I meant to mention, this is my
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Speaker 1: favorite thing about Isaac Newton is he makes a working mill,
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Speaker 1: so like he builds models and stuff, and he does
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Speaker 1: this working like flour mill. It's a tiny and it's
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Speaker 1: got this wheel that he puts a mouse on and
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Speaker 1: the mouse runs on the wheel and he makes it
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Speaker 1: like that. That's what he's doing. Don't leave him with
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Speaker 1: the cows, like Isaac is not for the cows. No, no,
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Speaker 1: no no. So he goes to university and he is
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Speaker 1: a less than stellar student, like he wasn't really taught
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Speaker 1: much arithmetic actually, and he had better Latin than things
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Speaker 1: like that. And when he goes to school UNI for
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Speaker 1: the first time, they're like, hm, he's he's fine, Like
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Speaker 1: he's not a great student by any stretch of the imagination.
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Speaker 1: And he's doing his studies and you know, ploding along,
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Speaker 1: and he starts getting into and I shit you not alchemy,
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Speaker 1: like alchemy like turning like shit into gold. Like he
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Speaker 1: gets really into this like that, he tries to get
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Speaker 1: into the scientific aspect of it, and he's just so
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Speaker 1: involved in it. And he also starts getting into like
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Speaker 1: Descartes and Aristotle and Galileo and Copernicus and Kepler and
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Speaker 1: all that jazz, because the scientific revolution has already begun,
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Speaker 1: and he's really sort of raping the rewards that a
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Speaker 1: wee bit, and he's sort of connecting sort of philosophy
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Speaker 1: and religion with sort of science, because of course you're
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Speaker 1: very religious back then, and all these things are interconnecting,
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Speaker 1: and all the while not looking at one girl or boy,
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Speaker 1: just not a person, not a person. Person liked the stuff,
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Speaker 1: didn't like the people. And the thing is as well,
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Speaker 1: he's older than a lot of the people that are
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Speaker 1: there in his years, cause his education was split because
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Speaker 1: they were trying to get him to do the farmy things,
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Speaker 1: and he was not for doing the farmy things. They
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Speaker 1: just went in this cup of tea, you know. And
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Speaker 1: so he's he's doing okay, and then sixteen sixty five,
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Speaker 1: the plague happens, like the plague, the bubonic plague, and
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Speaker 1: so everything is shut down, skills are shut down, and
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Speaker 1: he has to head back home and quarantine. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't know what that's like. But he actually uses
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Speaker 1: this time and this is where he's actually the most productive,
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Speaker 1: like a lot of the theories and the thought processes
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Speaker 1: and like the concept of calculus and gravity and all
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Speaker 1: that jazz. This happens not when he's at university, but
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Speaker 1: when he's at home, and he just starts looking into
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Speaker 1: more things, probably because he wants to avoid being near
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Speaker 1: the cows. Like I get it. He doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: do the far work. And he has so many other
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Speaker 1: things he's interested in, and like he gets really into eyes.
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Speaker 1: And if you have any squeamishness, I'm gonna tell you that.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward like a minute and a half because I'm
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Speaker 1: about to talk about eyes. So he has this theory
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Speaker 1: of optics and he wants to know how light goes
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Speaker 1: into the eye and how it affects it and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And what he does by doing this is he tests
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Speaker 1: up on himself. And by testing it on himself, I
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Speaker 1: mean he takes a blunt needle and pokes his eye
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Speaker 1: with it to see how it affects his vision. Right,
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Speaker 1: he'll like put it like underneath the eye and wobble
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Speaker 1: it up a little bit and you'll like wiggle around.
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Speaker 1: He'll put it in different positions, like he's sticking things
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Speaker 1: in his eyes. I don't care how blunt it is.
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Speaker 1: That's not good for you. That's on hygienic at best, right,
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Speaker 1: Like that's gonna fuck shut up, But that's what he's
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Speaker 1: doing because he's testing like eyes, like I don't I
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Speaker 1: don't care who you are, do stick things in your eyes?
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Speaker 1: Okay unless their contact lensesn't even then, make sure you've
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Speaker 1: been taught properly. Okay, just and he continues his stuff
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Speaker 1: for two years. So two years he's in lockdown. He
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Speaker 1: can't do anything but work and create, and so he
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Speaker 1: ends up coming up with the concept of gravity. Oh
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Speaker 1: the apple felt Yeah, but no, but not it's not
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Speaker 1: as simple and easy as that did an apple fall.
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Speaker 1: Probably he's in the fucking countryside. I'd be surprised if
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Speaker 1: apples weren't fallen from the trees. But yeah, Like this
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Speaker 1: time away from the university, and I'm saying, like, if
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Speaker 1: you find schooling works for you, and I really wish
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Speaker 1: that it did, and I hope it works for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. Now that we know the different ways
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Speaker 1: in which people can learn information and take it in,
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Speaker 1: and I think if we're utilizing that properly, then I
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Speaker 1: think school becomes more of an option of enlightenment as
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Speaker 1: opposed to just an avenue to the job. Market, because
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Speaker 1: like that's one of those things, isn't it. Like if
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Speaker 1: you're rich, if you have money, then education is about
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Speaker 1: raising consciousness. It's about the joy of learning, right, It's
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Speaker 1: about enrichment. Right. But if you poor or just of
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Speaker 1: a lower class, then your education is the purpose of
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Speaker 1: it is to ensure that you have a viable route
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Speaker 1: to the job market. And that's what that is. Like
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Speaker 1: it's not about any of the social enrichment or stuff
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Speaker 1: you can have otherwise, but like that's society. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: these two years he is studying, he's doing his theories,
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Speaker 1: and so he has the concept of gravity. I see
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Speaker 1: the concept like gravity existed. It's not like gravity didn't
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Speaker 1: invent gravity. He just sort of decoded it. And it's
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Speaker 1: only like this like teny whiny part of what he
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Speaker 1: did and his like contribution to the scientific world, I
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Speaker 1: mean the alchemy stuff weird nonsense, a bit silly, but
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Speaker 1: like he he effectively creates calculus and so's he develops
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Speaker 1: like differentiation and integration techniques sort of the fundamentals to
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Speaker 1: like maths and science. Like he sort of puts us together.
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Speaker 1: And not only that, right, because he was studying like
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Speaker 1: optics and he had this consideration of light, like he
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Speaker 1: he I'm not saying like he invented the rainbow, but
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Speaker 1: he's the reason that we understand prisms so kind of
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Speaker 1: which is also why he's really appropriate to talk about
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Speaker 1: the startup proud like Maman Isaac, he's here for his prisms.
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Speaker 1: So like people didn't understand light, they didn't realize that
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Speaker 1: white light was a combination of all the other colors
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Speaker 1: like together, So there was a misunderstanding of what caused
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Speaker 1: the rainbow. And this meant that the telescopes weren't quite right.
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Speaker 1: So the lenses that they were making, they didn't quite
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Speaker 1: do what they were supposed to do. Enter Isaac Newton,
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Speaker 1: so he ends up designing a telescope that used mirrors
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Speaker 1: instead of like just glass lenses, which allowed effectively the
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Speaker 1: telescope to focus all the colors on a single point,
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Speaker 1: meaning that the images would be clearer, more accurate, and
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Speaker 1: so reflecting telescopes, including by the way, the Hubble Space telescope,
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Speaker 1: they're all based off this original like concept. Now it's
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Speaker 1: not just gravity that Isaac Newton was like super into,
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Speaker 1: but also he develops three laws of motion and I
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Speaker 1: know these because I saw it in an episode of
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Speaker 1: Blaze and the Monster Machines, because I didn't know what
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Speaker 1: inertia was until I watched that children's television show. So
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Speaker 1: these are Newton's laws of inertia, acceleration, and action and reaction.
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Speaker 1: So inertia basically means that an object will be at rest,
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Speaker 1: it will be still, or it will just continue going
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Speaker 1: forward in a straight line unless something else makes it
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Speaker 1: go differently. Right like a football. Right football is sitting
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Speaker 1: on the ground. It's not going anywhere unless you kick it. Inertia,
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Speaker 1: we've got acceleration, which gives us the force equals mass
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Speaker 1: times acceleration equals em formula. Then of course we have
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Speaker 1: the third law, which is every action has an equal
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Speaker 1: and opposite reaction. And Isaac Newton he takes all these formulas. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and he publishes his findings in the Philosophy and Naturalist
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Speaker 1: Principia Mathematica The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which is
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Speaker 1: basically known as Principia. We shorten it, guys, it's fine,
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Speaker 1: And that was published in sixteen eighty seven. And this
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Speaker 1: basically puts his mark on the world, which I think
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Speaker 1: still should be the fact that he invented the cat flap.
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Speaker 1: I shit you not? I shit you not? The cat flap.
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Speaker 1: Isaac Newton listen man was practical. I'm just saying. So
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Speaker 1: because of this he becomes really well known, not the
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Speaker 1: cat flap, but because of the Principia, and it is
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Speaker 1: going very very well for him. Now. Unfortunately his personal
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Speaker 1: life isn't because people don't quite like him. They think
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Speaker 1: he's sort of unpleasant. He do us have some freatens,
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Speaker 1: and he do us have some colleagues, but he does
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Speaker 1: not have a vast social circle. So it was when
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Speaker 1: he was working in Cambridge that he actually published Principium,
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Speaker 1: because he'd gone back after the plague after his two
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Speaker 1: years hiatus and just continued as schooling, and then he
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Speaker 1: did very well and of course invented the catflap. So
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Speaker 1: he ends up staying in the universities up until like
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Speaker 1: sixteen ninety six. He's like a mathematics professor, all this
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff, but he's he's there and he's quite popular,
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Speaker 1: you see. So when Principia was published, like Isaac Newton
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Speaker 1: gets a bit of fame, gets a little bit more influence,
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Speaker 1: and he uses this to stop King James the Second
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Speaker 1: from bringing in Catholic teachings into university, like he tries
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Speaker 1: to focus it, you know, Catholicism, wow, And Isaac Newton's like, no, no,
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Speaker 1: we're not doing that. Like he ends up being elected
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Speaker 1: to like represent Cambridge in this sort of anti Catholois
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Speaker 1: housing situation and like arrange the settlement and like he's
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Speaker 1: he's done. He's not really enjoying being at Cambridge anymore.
23:29
Speaker 1: He doesn't like being in London either. He thinks it's
23:32
Speaker 1: too busy for someone who was always trying to be
23:34
Speaker 1: on top. He really doesn't like that much attention because
23:39
Speaker 1: he's out sabotaging rivals because of course he is, and
23:43
Speaker 1: just like fighting everybody all the time. He's so tempestuous,
23:48
Speaker 1: Like Isaac Newton is pals with like John Locke and
23:51
Speaker 1: Samuel Peeps, and he just starts writing like aggressive letters
23:56
Speaker 1: to them. It's just like accusing them of it's it's
24:00
Speaker 1: it's wild. He's just an angry, angry man, like his pal,
24:06
Speaker 1: one of his pals, because he has some of them,
24:08
Speaker 1: they try and set them up, like with a woman,
24:12
Speaker 1: and he just goes ballistic. He has a total meltdown,
24:17
Speaker 1: like they talk about it, like get a breakdown, but
24:20
Speaker 1: like he just removed himself in the situation and didn't
24:23
Speaker 1: want to deal with that. He's like, I don't want
24:24
Speaker 1: to be in ladies. No no, no, no, no, no no no,
24:27
Speaker 1: leave me with my calculus and other such things. He
24:31
Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. But yeah, yeah, that was
24:34
Speaker 1: an interesting one. But yeah, with the Principia doing so well,
24:39
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of attention he doesn't want and
24:41
Speaker 1: he's in a job he's not really feeling, and so
24:45
Speaker 1: he decides to start a new one, which I will
24:47
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24:58
Speaker 1: So because John Locke had tried to set Isaac getting
25:02
Speaker 1: up with a woman to find him a decent wife,
25:05
Speaker 1: like Isaac just wasn't having it, wrote Maletter, was like,
25:09
Speaker 1: I ain't dealing with you anymore. And he got really
25:11
Speaker 1: mad at Samuel Peeps and he ends up having this
25:15
Speaker 1: sort of breakdown. And Charles Montague, who later becomes Lord
25:21
Speaker 1: Harlow Fax, he's like a rising politician at the time.
25:24
Speaker 1: He's like, maybe you need to go to London to rest,
25:26
Speaker 1: like just sort yourself out, get yourself in a new position.
25:30
Speaker 1: And because he's so well known from Principia. He ends
25:34
Speaker 1: up getting a job that will last him the next
25:38
Speaker 1: thirty years. In that's Warden of the Royal Mint, and
25:45
Speaker 1: it is it is an interesting one. And at this
25:49
Speaker 1: point William and Mary are ruling because the gross Revolution
25:54
Speaker 1: has happened. Jamison is out and William and Mary are in. No,
26:00
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, they're ruling till sixteen ninety four, which means
26:03
Speaker 1: it's sixteen ninety five now, which means it's Queen Anne.
26:07
Speaker 1: Because William and Mary are joint rulers, so as soon
26:11
Speaker 1: as Mary died, will you no longer could hold that title.
26:14
Speaker 1: It was basically a deal they had so they would
26:17
Speaker 1: be rulers, joint rulers as long as Mary was there.
26:21
Speaker 1: Now they didn't have any surviving children, and so the
26:24
Speaker 1: next in line was her sister Anne. So Queen Anne
26:29
Speaker 1: is ruling at this point, and that's your historical context.
26:34
Speaker 1: And he's there working at the Mint. So there's a
26:39
Speaker 1: couple of reasons specifically why he is Warden off the Mint,
26:42
Speaker 1: like that's the position he gets, and it's because it's
26:46
Speaker 1: a patronage really, so it's a job you can do
26:50
Speaker 1: without really having to do it. You're just kind of there.
26:53
Speaker 1: It's more of a symbolic title situation. I mean, you
26:57
Speaker 1: show up, but like you're just kind of doing it,
27:00
Speaker 1: you know. And with his previous health concerns, they're like,
27:04
Speaker 1: it's a nice stress free job for Isaac Newton. Don't
27:07
Speaker 1: worry about it. And the second part is, this is
27:10
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton. He is famous, he's got Principia out, he's
27:15
Speaker 1: well known, he's seen as a great man. And so
27:17
Speaker 1: if you've got a great man in that position, it
27:19
Speaker 1: makes your government, it makes your ruling look good. It's
27:25
Speaker 1: like having your diversity high. It makes you look good,
27:29
Speaker 1: you know. H So that's what that has. And so
27:33
Speaker 1: he ends up getting this job as warden of the Mint,
27:36
Speaker 1: and his job really is to look after the buildings
27:41
Speaker 1: of the Mint, and at the Mint at this point
27:44
Speaker 1: was in the Tower of London, which is not at
27:47
Speaker 1: all ominous in any way whatsoever. But this is Isaac Newton,
27:51
Speaker 1: and if he's going to do a job, he's going
27:53
Speaker 1: to do a job, right. So he sort of noticing
27:57
Speaker 1: bits that are happening, and one of the first things
27:59
Speaker 1: he picks up on is that the carpenters aren't charging
28:02
Speaker 1: the mint the right amount of money, and he's like,
28:05
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this math ain't mathing, and I should
28:08
Speaker 1: know because I'm math, you know. And so this is
28:11
Speaker 1: one of the things he's noticing. And so like he's
28:15
Speaker 1: the only magistrate for the mint. He's the only person
28:17
Speaker 1: that can charge people with doing shit with the money,
28:20
Speaker 1: so counterfeiters, thefts, all that things like that's like he's
28:25
Speaker 1: got that power. And so he starts noticing things and
28:30
Speaker 1: he realizes stuff isn't adding up. And this is before
28:33
Speaker 1: paper money because like literally everything's in coin form and
28:37
Speaker 1: you've got a silver standard. So now we have the
28:40
Speaker 1: gold standard, but back then everything was by the silver
28:45
Speaker 1: standard and was for many many years. And that is
28:50
Speaker 1: why Delicious friends that in the Wizard of Oz books,
28:56
Speaker 1: that's why Dorothy's shoes are originally made of silver. And
29:02
Speaker 1: they're not made of like rubies. They're not ruby slippers
29:05
Speaker 1: that was made by MGM because it looked good on
29:07
Speaker 1: camera in technical but yeah, the shoes in the book
29:13
Speaker 1: are silver, and that is why because it's based on
29:17
Speaker 1: the silver standard. And like there's all these links that
29:20
Speaker 1: Bomb does in the books. But yeah, fun fact, there
29:23
Speaker 1: you go many literally literally literacy, no that's wrong somehow. Wait,
29:33
Speaker 1: I don't know literary literary, literary lesson, it's very hard
29:39
Speaker 1: to do with this throat right now, there's a literary
29:42
Speaker 1: lesson in the middle of this, and it's me going
29:47
Speaker 1: the silver standard as though Wizard of Was and Alice
29:51
Speaker 1: in Wonderland is about math, so yay. But anyway, back
29:58
Speaker 1: to Newton and the coin of the realm, which was
30:01
Speaker 1: you know, coins in the realm, silver coins to be exact,
30:07
Speaker 1: so when you were paying taxes, when you're paying bills,
30:11
Speaker 1: when you were paying with money, money like gold coins existed,
30:15
Speaker 1: but for the most part you were paying with silver
30:18
Speaker 1: silver coins. Now, unfortunately England had buggered this up a
30:22
Speaker 1: wee bit when it came to making currency because they
30:25
Speaker 1: made it wrong because like there's a silver standard for
30:29
Speaker 1: a reason, because you could use silver in sort of
30:33
Speaker 1: Italy or Portugal or England, like you could use it everywhere.
30:37
Speaker 1: That's the point you would just melt it down or
30:42
Speaker 1: change the coinage because it's metal. You know what happened
30:46
Speaker 1: in the Mint is when they were making silver coins,
30:50
Speaker 1: they had weights that were too heavy, so they were
30:53
Speaker 1: making the coins with too much silver. So if you
30:56
Speaker 1: had a shilling or a haypenny or whatever, they would
31:02
Speaker 1: be double the amount of silver like in that coin.
31:06
Speaker 1: So like a haypenny could have a penny worth of
31:10
Speaker 1: silver in it, so you could have, you know, a
31:14
Speaker 1: two pounds worth of silver, and a pound like you
31:16
Speaker 1: would have too much because there was too much silver
31:19
Speaker 1: in it. So counterfeiters who were paying attention, people who
31:23
Speaker 1: were spending a lot of time, like physically handling money,
31:27
Speaker 1: or who dealt with weights, anything like that, it didn't
31:31
Speaker 1: take them too long to realize that, oh, I could
31:35
Speaker 1: take this coin, take it over to Paris or Copenhagen
31:42
Speaker 1: or you know wherever, melt it down and then get
31:48
Speaker 1: double what it's worth. So it meant that a lot
31:52
Speaker 1: of the coins then as well wouldn't be staying in circulation.
31:56
Speaker 1: So the coins that should be going in the country
31:58
Speaker 1: like England was like losing money, not even metaphorically losing money,
32:03
Speaker 1: like money was just leaving the shores because they were
32:05
Speaker 1: smelting it down right and making other coins and making
32:09
Speaker 1: more money from it. So because they'd used too much
32:12
Speaker 1: silver initially, they'd already lost money and now these people
32:16
Speaker 1: are selling it back and so they're just losing more
32:18
Speaker 1: money because they're taking the silver away. But like that's
32:22
Speaker 1: not the only problem with the silver coins. So some
32:25
Speaker 1: of the coins, the older ones, the way they had
32:28
Speaker 1: been made, they were quite soft, so you could just
32:31
Speaker 1: like snip a bit off and then smooth it down
32:35
Speaker 1: and then put that back into circulation. So like some
32:39
Speaker 1: coins would just be getting thinner and thinner and thinner
32:41
Speaker 1: because they would just be taking bits off them because
32:43
Speaker 1: they were so malleable and easy to do. Like that's
32:47
Speaker 1: where the whole thing of like they'd bite a coin
32:49
Speaker 1: comes from to check if it's real, Like it just
32:53
Speaker 1: depends on the quality of what's in it, you know.
32:56
Speaker 1: But like things, things are not going well for the bank. Therefore,
33:02
Speaker 1: by the time you're in the sixteen nineties when Isaac
33:05
Speaker 1: Newton shows up, like things are not great, and you've
33:09
Speaker 1: got half the currency that is double its face value,
33:12
Speaker 1: and then you've got another half which is less than
33:15
Speaker 1: its face value. Like you've already got this physical money
33:18
Speaker 1: situation going on that on top of that, England is
33:22
Speaker 1: also at war and it's in a war that it
33:25
Speaker 1: can't afford to pay. Like there's so much happening. I mean,
33:30
Speaker 1: I know this sounds like history repeating because it fucking
33:32
Speaker 1: is like there's another war going on, it can't afford
33:36
Speaker 1: to do it, and yet keeps doing it. I do,
33:39
Speaker 1: I do. You'd think the ghost of Henry the Eighth
33:42
Speaker 1: came up and was like, let's fight some French, because
33:46
Speaker 1: of course it is. It's always the fucking French, isn't
33:48
Speaker 1: it like just a whole thing, Like Henry the Eights
33:52
Speaker 1: did have like a dick measuring contest with the King
33:54
Speaker 1: of France, like chill out, lads, you need to get
33:57
Speaker 1: over it because it's thing. So, yeah, the coins are
34:02
Speaker 1: ballocked up and they're in a war they can't afford.
34:06
Speaker 1: And so in enters Isaac Newton in the middle of this,
34:09
Speaker 1: and he is like, what the absolute bullshit is this
34:12
Speaker 1: nonsense going on? And so he comes into it. And
34:18
Speaker 1: you've had a few people that have been trying to
34:19
Speaker 1: do like financial like wiggling. They're trying to like massage
34:24
Speaker 1: stuff down to make it easier. They're trying to deal
34:28
Speaker 1: with like government debt. They're trying to organize like different
34:32
Speaker 1: types of borrowing, like they're trying to figure this out. Again,
34:36
Speaker 1: I I've never seen this before, Like what like we
34:41
Speaker 1: need some modern problems, lads, modern problems, not yield seventeenth
34:47
Speaker 1: century problems. I'm just saying. So Newton comes in, and
34:53
Speaker 1: he comes in like right when they're deciding we're gonna
34:55
Speaker 1: take the coins back and we're gonna remelt them, and
34:57
Speaker 1: we're gonna remake some coins like they want to men
35:00
Speaker 1: and re mint them, like just start afresh. Everything's going
35:03
Speaker 1: to be fine and dandy. Luckily they have this guy
35:07
Speaker 1: show up. So because Isaac Newton's a scientist, he is
35:11
Speaker 1: measuring stuff out, He's making sure everything is perfect, and
35:15
Speaker 1: he ensures that the new coins are minted correctly. But
35:20
Speaker 1: not only is he making sure they're minted right like
35:23
Speaker 1: wait wise is he's using chemistry and alchemy, fucking alchemy
35:29
Speaker 1: to sort of figure out like the right like proportion
35:33
Speaker 1: of metals is being used. Like he is bringing in
35:38
Speaker 1: all the science to do this, But then he has
35:42
Speaker 1: to figure out what to do with the counterfeittals. So
35:47
Speaker 1: he is the only person who's allowed to prosecute them.
35:50
Speaker 1: Remember he's the magistrate of the mint. He's the only
35:53
Speaker 1: one who can. And he ends up having to do
35:57
Speaker 1: it because no one else will because like that's his
36:00
Speaker 1: job and he's gonna suck it up basically for the queen.
36:04
Speaker 1: And like Isaac Newton had made a rod off his
36:06
Speaker 1: own back anyway, because no warden before him had spent
36:10
Speaker 1: this much time in the mint, like he'd spent so
36:13
Speaker 1: much time there, and he was like actively involved in
36:16
Speaker 1: it because no warden had like ever paid this much
36:19
Speaker 1: attention to it before. Like that's what you had clerks for,
36:22
Speaker 1: they did all this stuff. But Newton's very hands on.
36:24
Speaker 1: He's like, no, something ain't right. Yeah, And so he's
36:28
Speaker 1: at the very top of the situation, and people are
36:30
Speaker 1: like terrified. They're convinced that the English economy is going
36:33
Speaker 1: to collapse, like there's going to be rioting in the streets,
36:36
Speaker 1: houses are gonna burn down, and it's gonna be looking like
36:38
Speaker 1: everything's going to go to hell. But luckily you've got
36:41
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton, and he shows up. He puts like all
36:47
Speaker 1: of this effort in and he didn't want to deal
36:52
Speaker 1: with the counterfeiters, like he didn't want to have to
36:54
Speaker 1: do that because he thought he would end up getting
37:00
Speaker 1: like slandered. He thought they would like denounce him in
37:02
Speaker 1: his work, and he was so worried about that. But
37:07
Speaker 1: also he thought he was.
37:09
Speaker 2: Too good for that too, so like it's double edge blade,
37:13
Speaker 2: so like he feels like he doesn't want to have
37:15
Speaker 2: to deal with it sort of consequences or the response
37:20
Speaker 2: that he's going to get. But also he feels like
37:24
Speaker 2: that's below my pay grade. But he is the only
37:27
Speaker 2: one who can do it, so it's not like there's
37:31
Speaker 2: there's no one else the treasure. He's like, no, mate,
37:33
Speaker 2: it's up to you go figure it out.
37:38
Speaker 1: And he tries. So he goes out and he tries
37:41
Speaker 1: to investigate Isaac Newton, crime fighter. I'm doing it for
37:48
Speaker 1: the mint, man of the Mint, and so he's trying
37:53
Speaker 1: to figure out like these guys and he he does
37:58
Speaker 1: not do well initially scientific method, you know, retry hypothesis.
38:03
Speaker 1: Off he goes and like he doesn't know where to
38:09
Speaker 1: start because this is the sixteen nineties, you know, it's
38:13
Speaker 1: the seventeenth century. If you don't know like Jeremiah, always Jeremiah.
38:22
Speaker 1: If you don't know Jeremiah Havisham, Like if you don't
38:26
Speaker 1: know who that is, like then you don't know who
38:29
Speaker 1: that is. Like you don't have IDs, you don't have passports,
38:31
Speaker 1: you don't have Facebook, you just kinda have to know them. Like,
38:36
Speaker 1: if you don't know them, then tough fucking luck. That's it.
38:40
Speaker 1: But he's going sort of I don't even want to
38:43
Speaker 1: call it crime scene investigation because like you don't have
38:45
Speaker 1: fingerprints or any of that shit. And so he's he's
38:49
Speaker 1: living in like these tiny towns all his life, Like
38:53
Speaker 1: he was in like Wolsthorpe and then he was in
38:56
Speaker 1: like Cambridge, and they're pretty small because you only got
39:00
Speaker 1: like five thousand people in Cambridge in London has like
39:04
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand people. And so he's taking on the
39:09
Speaker 1: criminal underworld of London. Like I don't want to call
39:14
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton a country bumpkin because that feels a bit mean,
39:19
Speaker 1: but also but also he's just from the countryside and
39:23
Speaker 1: he's gone from a wee village tu wee village to
39:26
Speaker 1: fucking London, and they're like, maybe I shouldn't do this,
39:31
Speaker 1: But then Isaac Newton goes, fuck this for a game
39:33
Speaker 1: of soldiers, I'm gonna sort out the mint. And so
39:40
Speaker 1: he ends up dealing with a bunch of counterfeiters and
39:44
Speaker 1: he's going through the system and you've got some people
39:47
Speaker 1: like William Shlona, who's just like sneaky, snaky, sneaky getting
39:53
Speaker 1: away with a lot of stuff, and he's trying to
39:57
Speaker 1: do this like again, no police force, no investigators, Like
40:03
Speaker 1: there isn't a police force like in London until like
40:06
Speaker 1: the eighteen twenties, like because you know, you've got another
40:11
Speaker 1: century in a bit to wait before this happens. And
40:16
Speaker 1: but you could get like bounty hunters, like there was
40:21
Speaker 1: like a year old bounty hunter situation and that was
40:25
Speaker 1: the law. Like you'd have a sheriff in a town maybe,
40:30
Speaker 1: but there wasn't like a force of any kind. You
40:36
Speaker 1: were just kind of lucky. You basically sent people out
40:41
Speaker 1: to places and checked if anything dodgy was happening, and
40:46
Speaker 1: if anything dodgy was happening, they would come back and
40:49
Speaker 1: report to you. Like that's it like a grapevine, like
40:56
Speaker 1: oh god, like in Game of Thrones with a little
40:58
Speaker 1: buds like that basically what that's like, right, And you
41:02
Speaker 1: would catch sort of criminals and you bring them in,
41:06
Speaker 1: they go get jailed and whatnot. And so Isaac Newton
41:12
Speaker 1: as to learn how to become a criminal investigator, and
41:21
Speaker 1: so he goes after every single counterfeiter he can. He's
41:28
Speaker 1: got a bunch of agents, and they're all in his accounts,
41:31
Speaker 1: and he like pays them five pounds like for one
41:38
Speaker 1: of his men to like chat with the counterfeiters, and
41:42
Speaker 1: like five pounds back then is a lot of money,
41:47
Speaker 1: Like it's a huge amount, like you for getting information.
41:53
Speaker 1: Like anybody else who would have saw that happen and
41:55
Speaker 1: would have thought that was backshit, They would have thought
41:58
Speaker 1: that is absolutely wild. And so he is paying like
42:02
Speaker 1: one month's wages for this one person to have a
42:06
Speaker 1: conversation with some counterfeiters, Like he is he is definitely
42:12
Speaker 1: investing in this investigation. But like he doesn't just have
42:16
Speaker 1: agents go out and do it, Like he goes to
42:19
Speaker 1: bars and taverns himself. But he does so in disguise
42:23
Speaker 1: to like try and find information on counterfeiters, and it works,
42:28
Speaker 1: and he ends up collecting like twenty seven of them
42:31
Speaker 1: and he has them all hanged, like all of them.
42:37
Speaker 1: But like Isaac Newton, he had been saying for years
42:42
Speaker 1: that the concept of money was not the value of it,
42:45
Speaker 1: Like John Locke was like, it's the value of the silver,
42:48
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, it's symbolic, it's a commodity. Now,
42:54
Speaker 1: what happened was is when Isain Neuton had been in
42:56
Speaker 1: the recoinage situation, Newton was making sure these coins were perfect, right,
43:02
Speaker 1: so and the recoin and she's like, these are gonna
43:04
Speaker 1: have the right pH everything's perfect. But over the next
43:08
Speaker 1: ten years those coins are basically gone anyway, So like
43:11
Speaker 1: all that work was for nothing, right, But yeah, they're
43:15
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out ways to sort of work
43:18
Speaker 1: up the money situation, and so they're issuing bonds, but
43:21
Speaker 1: not just like regular bonds. They also have like a
43:24
Speaker 1: lottery system going on, so if you buy like ten
43:27
Speaker 1: pounds of bonds, there was a possibility you'll win a
43:30
Speaker 1: thousand back from the government yay, And so they're doing that,
43:35
Speaker 1: but they're also issuing banknotes and they're also creating the
43:40
Speaker 1: check system. So the government at the time they were
43:42
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, you own what you own and
43:46
Speaker 1: you just like credit was a thing they couldn't grasp.
43:49
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, no, no, but it will work
43:51
Speaker 1: because people have credit and then you'll pay them back
43:53
Speaker 1: and it'll just help boost up the thing. And you know,
43:57
Speaker 1: it worked. So for all his work with the treasure
44:00
Speaker 1: and everything he was doing, like he ends up being
44:02
Speaker 1: knighted in seventeen oh five, and when he gets knighted,
44:07
Speaker 1: he has to have a coat of arms, so it
44:09
Speaker 1: becomes Sir Isaac Newton and he has to get a
44:13
Speaker 1: coat of arms because he's knighted, and he decides pirate.
44:20
Speaker 1: That's what my sigel is going to be. Pirates. It's
44:24
Speaker 1: crossbones on a black background, like of all the things,
44:30
Speaker 1: like he's gonna have heraldry, and he ends up putting
44:33
Speaker 1: his fucking sigil on everything, because of course he does,
44:36
Speaker 1: like he puts it everywhere, and that's his thing. Like, okay, crossbones, crossbones,
44:44
Speaker 1: white bones, black background. It's a fucking pirate flag, right,
44:47
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like that was a choice. Oh. Actually,
44:51
Speaker 1: two years before he's knighted, he becomes the president of
44:55
Speaker 1: the Royal Society. Now, so I once I someone tell
45:01
Speaker 1: me that because I was not a fellow of the
45:03
Speaker 1: Royal Society, that I wasn't a proper historian, even though
45:09
Speaker 1: like very few women are fellows in the Royal Society.
45:12
Speaker 1: Like what a weird elitist take. But anyway, it was
45:18
Speaker 1: such a weird one. So, yeah, he's in the Royal Society,
45:22
Speaker 1: he's being knighted, and his work is coming under question
45:25
Speaker 1: to his previous calculus work, and they're like, did this
45:29
Speaker 1: German guy invent it? Or was it you? And they
45:31
Speaker 1: kind of came up with certain stuff or brandy at
45:34
Speaker 1: the same time, Like there is a term for it.
45:36
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact term for it, but it's
45:40
Speaker 1: the reason we have two Dennis the Menaces, right, there's
45:43
Speaker 1: a Dennis the Menace in the US and a Dennis
45:45
Speaker 1: the Menace in the UK. And they were invented within
45:48
Speaker 1: months of each other. But they're like different. They weren't
45:53
Speaker 1: copies of each other. They just happened to have the
45:55
Speaker 1: same idea like at the same time, which pons because
46:01
Speaker 1: you know, we're not unique individuals. Sometimes someone else has
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Speaker 1: an idea and someone writes it down first. That's all
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Speaker 1: it is, and that's okay. Sometimes we build upon the
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Speaker 1: ideas of others, also okay, but don't steal shit because
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Speaker 1: that's a dick move. So, like Isaac Newton doesn't live
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Speaker 1: alone all of his life, he ends up moving in
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Speaker 1: with his niece, well half niece technically, and her husband,
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Speaker 1: so she ends up being like the stand in the
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Speaker 1: lady who hosts for like all of his society events.
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Speaker 1: Because you're supposed to have a hostess, like you're supposed
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Speaker 1: to have a woman do that, and so she ends
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Speaker 1: up taking that role because she's like the only woman
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Speaker 1: that he knows and the only woman feasibly that can
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Speaker 1: do that because society and shit. So yeah, so he
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Speaker 1: ends up living with them, and he stays with them
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Speaker 1: for the rest of his life, and as he gets older,
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Speaker 1: he ends up like giving away sort of money and
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Speaker 1: titles and deeds and anything. He kind of gives away
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Speaker 1: a lot of it too, relatives while he's still alive.
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Speaker 1: And so when he passes away, he does so without
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Speaker 1: a will, and then stuff just basically goes to his
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Speaker 1: niece Katherine Barton and her husband John Conduit, like, so
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Speaker 1: they basically go to them. And so Isaac Newton passes
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Speaker 1: away on the twentieth of March seventeen twenty seven or
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Speaker 1: the thirty first of March seventeen twenty seven, depending on
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Speaker 1: your calendar in London, at the grand old age of
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Speaker 1: eighty three. Like, he had a good time of it,
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Speaker 1: and he passed away in his sleep, which is probably
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Speaker 1: the nicest death we've had in a long time actually,
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Speaker 1: So they ended up like getting a death mask for
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Speaker 1: him and they took a bit of his hair and
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Speaker 1: they tested it and they're like, there's mercury in this,
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Speaker 1: and you'll let no shit's your lock. He's a seventeenth
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Speaker 1: century scientist who tried to turn base metals into gold.
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Speaker 1: Of course there's gonna be mercury in there somewhere, but
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Speaker 1: it is what it is. So he ends up being
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Speaker 1: buried in Westminster Abbey and he is the first scientist
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Speaker 1: to be buried there, like this is where the kings
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Speaker 1: and queens go, but they're like, no, this man's important,
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Speaker 1: and he goes in there and yeah, a lot of
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Speaker 1: his work shaped what we learned today. And he died
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Speaker 1: also for the record of virgin But yeah, there you go.
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Speaker 1: As far as I know, like, this is me being
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Speaker 1: a little bit sneaky and making assumptions. So I was
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Speaker 1: reading between the lines of like what John Locke did,
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Speaker 1: and I think the plan was to get him to
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Speaker 1: shag someone, like they were trying to set him up
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Speaker 1: with a lady of the night, and he was just
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Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, no, no no no no,
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Speaker 1: because not only was he like not into you know that,
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Speaker 1: but he was also very religious. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: an easy about for a lot of people who are
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Speaker 1: asexual in the past, like they could just go religion
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Speaker 1: and it would be a good excuse for them to
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Speaker 1: be abstinate, you know, Like that's just my theory. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: this ends our story. If you like, feel Freeze to
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Speaker 1: make movie five stars, say nice things, and also vote
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Speaker 1: for me don't forget over me British Podcast Awards because
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Speaker 1: it would be so funny. It'd be so funny. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course you can follow me on the socials now.
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Speaker 1: I did wake up to three hundred messages the other day,
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Speaker 1: so I'm still trying to get through those, and I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be weird to people, but three hundreds
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Speaker 1: a lot, and that was the only ones as much
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Speaker 1: as I could count. After that, I lost track. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: hopefully things be easier now. But it's recommendation time and
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Speaker 1: so I'm you know what, you know what, I'm not
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Speaker 1: recommending it, but I'm going to make an honorable mention
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Speaker 1: for Argyle. So I watched it, right, and it's a fun,
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Speaker 1: silly movie. It has one problem, and that problem is
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Speaker 1: it's too bloody long. Like that's the problem with our guy.
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Speaker 1: If our girl was like thirty minutes shorter. Perfect movie.
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Speaker 1: It'd be funny, it'd be silly, it'd be great anyway.
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Speaker 1: For listening, I am going to recommend Gay Card Revoked.
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Speaker 1: It's a podcast by two gay men and you should
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Speaker 1: listen to it because it's pride and because I said so.
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Speaker 1: Now for watching. For watching, I'm going to recommend Bullet
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Speaker 1: Train for no other reason than it is an actually
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Speaker 1: fun movie, because we all need a little bit of
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Speaker 1: fun and lightness in our lives. And for reading, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to recommend Tipping the Velvet. I just bought my
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Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary copy and I was like, twenty anniversary, No,
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Speaker 1: But it's by Siah Waters. It's fabulous. Go read it.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. And with that I shall put you good night.
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Speaker 1: Adios is em Events Bibby