1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and Jerry. We're 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: just hanging figure we pressed record and see what happens. Yeah, 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: Alry Terracotta Army of three not very imposing or terra Cotta. 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: Did you go to the High Museum and see this 7 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: when it was around? No, I didn't. You know, Umi did, 8 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: and I wish I would have gone, but I did not. Yeah, 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: but she was quite blown away. It was awesome and 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: I didn't even Um, I hadn't heard of it until then. 11 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: And then when I went and saw it, was like, 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: this is pretty amazing, what a great story, And then 13 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: I wanted to podcast about it and then just sort 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 1: of forgot and now here it is a year later 15 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: or however long. Yes, it was a while ago. Yeah, 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: it was, um, but it's still a pretty fascinating story. Yeah. 17 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: In that exhibit. If you live um on planet Earth, 18 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: go to the website and see where it's going to be, 19 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: because it travels around there. Is it like the Body's exhibit? Yeah, 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: I mean there's uh, there's this exhibit. And then I 21 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: think there's permanent um exhibits elsewhere. There's a permanent exhibit 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: at the site itself. That's maybe one in London. I'm 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: not positive. Well London has everything, but they do, they 24 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: really do, know you. The only thing they don't have 25 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: is twelve ounces of bears. That's yeah, because there's sixteen 26 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: ounce that's right. Yeah, you don't need it. Took a 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: trip there. I was like, what's with all these tallboys? 28 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: And they're like, what's that? Oh? I get it now. Yeah, 29 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: And it's not like you when you go to the pub. 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: You don't go in for a twelve ounce or you 31 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: go for a point. Yeah, and it's an imperial point, right? 32 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: Is that more than sixteen ounces? Is that one point? 33 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: Is that sixteen point nine? Is that one point nine ounces? 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: I'll bet it is, Jerry? Hold up fingers. Jerry said 35 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: twenty ounces is an imperial point, so I was wrong. 36 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: Sixteen is a standard point? Are you sure it's not 37 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: twenty five? Jerry? That's called a double deuice. That's called 38 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: the core's double doucee. Double deuce is technically why because 39 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: the twelve is a single? Right, No, but a double 40 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: I thought double juice just meant, we're gonna put two 41 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: beers into one can. That's the double double beer. What 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: what are we talking about today? I don't know. I'm 43 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: thirsty all of a sudden, though. You want a beer. 44 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: It's Friday. I love a beer. Let me just reach 45 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: into my bag. Here, you're your cooler bag, carry around 46 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: like a purse. I wish man, that'll be fun, cooler 47 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: Fannie pack drinking on the job like it's the nineteen fifties. 48 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: All right, let's get serious, buddy, Okay, Chuck. On the 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: morning of March seven, farmers set out to dig a well, 50 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: so begins the article on how Stuff Works dot Com. Yes, 51 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 1: but it also begins this story, A pretty amazing story. Actually, yeah, 52 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: it's it's awesome. This was in the Chinese village of 53 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: Good Look. Uh oh, that was pretty good. That's what 54 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. Um And they were digging for water 55 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: and got down about thirteen feet and hit something hard 56 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: and dug up a terra cotta face and head. And 57 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: we're like, exactly, they're probably whoa yeah or whatever the 58 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:29,959 Speaker 1: Chinese expression for what would be what was kind of universal. Okay, 59 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: I'm curious, we do have we found out we're not 60 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: banned in China, by the way. Yeah, so hello to 61 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: all of our listeners out there in China. Um, and 62 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: will you let us know what woe was in Chinese? Yeah? 63 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: I think we should do a show sometime on Universal Uh. 64 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: Sounds like um, I heard different um or read different 65 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: things about how people laugh in different countries and people 66 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: remark of of of affirmation or decline something like, I 67 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: think it'd be really interesting. Yeah. They're called idioms, right, 68 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: is that what it is? Like? Here we might go huh, 69 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: but somewhere else they might go what else I don't know. 70 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: We got we have focus here, Terracotta army. Yes. Um. 71 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: So they alerted the government like any good um citizens should, 72 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: and said, hey, I think we have something here. You 73 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: should come look at. Yeah, because when they dug down 74 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: a little more and they found shards of the same 75 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: type of pottery and a lot of it in kind 76 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: of vague human form, and that's when they're like, there's 77 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: something weird going on here, So let's contact the authorities, 78 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: And the authorities said archaeologists away and sent them out 79 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: to the site. Because it was nine seventy four, they said, hey, 80 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: let's contact the Chinese government right away. That's right. I 81 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: don't know what that would happen today. Uh the Chinese people, 82 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: you think, I don't know. It depends on who they are. 83 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: I would guess they probably were more likely to in 84 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: seventy four than today. So what they knew the the 85 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: government and experts and archaeologist said, well, hold on a minute, 86 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: you guys are digging near the burial ground of Chen 87 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: sure Handi, and Um he was the first emperor of China, 88 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: and he had a huge mausoleum. And I bet you 89 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: anything that's what you guys have found. And Uh, it 90 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: turns out they were right, the archaeologists right. So Um, 91 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: the legend had it that Um Chen sure Huangdi, China's 92 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: first emperor, Um had himself built a pretty awesome mausoleum. 93 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, you couldn't even call it 94 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: a mausoleum. It was called a funerary complex. It was 95 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: so massive. But as they started to dig and get 96 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: further and further along in this excavation, which they have 97 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: still not even and come close to completing from or something, Yeah, 98 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: it's the size of Manhattan, the size of Manhattan, his 99 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: his mausoleum. Yeah, Um, they started to realize, like it's 100 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: even big or than we ever thought, Like it wasn't lost. 101 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: They knew that he was buried somewhere around this area. 102 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: It was just you don't go digging up emperor's tombs. 103 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: But these these farmers had found something pretty interesting and 104 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: it was enough to get the archaeologists over that, and 105 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: they started to dig. And they still have yet to 106 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: excavate Cheen's tomb, his actual tomb where he's buried, and 107 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: we'll talk about that later. But when they started dig, 108 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: they started to reveal like more and more of these 109 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: terra cotta figures, and they would stumble upon one room. 110 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: And first they stumbled upon a room and they found chuck, 111 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: like six thousand of these things of infantry men, all 112 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: standing at the ready, all larger than life. They were 113 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: about six to six and a half feet tall. Yeah, 114 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: all made of terra cotta. Um, crossbows, finger on the trigger, um, 115 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: dudes on horses. Well, those are in separate rooms. So 116 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: first room was like six thousand infantrymen like a information 117 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: information would be lined up. Then there was another room 118 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 1: that had like specialists like cavalry, got archers with crossbows, 119 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: blow darters yeah, um and then there was a third 120 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: room that had I think eighties six like commanders. It 121 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: was like the command room. So basically what they revealed 122 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: was this terra cotta army information in this guy's grave, Yes, 123 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: with the idea that UM he wanted protection in the 124 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: afterlife because he was one of the great jerks of 125 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: world history. He really Yeah, he was terrible. He was 126 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: a tyrant for sure. He was a he perhaps was 127 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: responsible for the deaths of more than one million of 128 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: his citizens. He also though, got things done. Yeah, let's 129 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: talk about the guy. So he was the first emperor. 130 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: Before him, China had seven kingdoms, and UM in four 131 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: eighty one, all these kingdoms said, you know what, I 132 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: want to be the main kingdom. So it started what's 133 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: called the Warring States, the era of battling for land 134 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: and superiority. And I saw this really neat documentary on 135 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: that geo I think called China's Ghost Army. I think 136 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: it's what's called I posted a link on our on 137 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: our podcast page for this episode. Totally worth watching. It's 138 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: like an hour. But they say that UM before this, 139 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: prior to this Warring States era, when an emperor died 140 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: in Cheen, the Cheen um Kingdom. Uh. They would kill 141 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: the whole court, hundreds of people would be buried alive 142 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: with the emperor. And then this warring States, these battles 143 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 1: and wars were so significant as far as casualties went. 144 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: There like, we can't do that anymore, we need them 145 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: to go fight in the wars. So they stopped that tradition. 146 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: But it was because of this um the Warring States 147 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: era and thing. And that can you imagine like two 148 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: people just being mass buried alive together because the emperor died, 149 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: I can't imagine. So let's get back to this jerk 150 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: chen He Uh he overtook and basically was the first 151 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: emperor Uh forced people to be in the army, built 152 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: up a huge army. Um. He relocated in his first 153 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: year about a hundred and twenty thousand families. And that's 154 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: like Stalin did that same thing. It's like, you can't 155 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: have ethnic unity and then that kind of collective thought 156 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: and then potentially an uprising if you break up that 157 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: kind of ethnic bonds by basically bussing people in and 158 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: out of different areas. Yeah, it makes sense, but this 159 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: guy was doing it like UM a couple like about 160 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: two thousand years before Stalin crazy. He burned all the books, 161 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: he burned all the writings. Uh. Scholars that didn't jibe 162 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: with his line of thought were buried alive or behead. Yeah, 163 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: he was a piece of garbage and he was terrible. Um. 164 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: He assembled a workforce of a million men to build 165 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: about five thousand miles of roads, um. And the Great 166 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: Wall of China. Yeah, the first Great Wall of China. 167 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: So while he said he was a jerk, he made 168 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: a point. He got things done. I mean he he 169 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: got a monetary system that was unified. Yeah, he also 170 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: unified weights and measurements. Um. He unified China from seven 171 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: kingdoms into one country. And it's still that way today, 172 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: two thousand years later. And if you've noticed a similarity 173 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: between Chin and China, that's because the country is named 174 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: after him. So he got things done, vital figure in 175 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: China's history. But he did a brutal, brutal, controlling, murderous dictator. Right. 176 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: He wasn't asking and he also had a really conflated 177 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: view of his the empire that he'd put together, and 178 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: you can see this apparently the money that he meanted, 179 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: Like he there were different regions that he conquered had 180 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: different kinds of money, so he did create like a 181 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: single monetary system. I think you said, um, and that 182 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: that money was square shaped with a hole in the center. 183 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: It's kind of like a square donut. The band Liang 184 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 1: coin and that coin at the time in ancient China. 185 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: UM the square represented the earth and the circle represented 186 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: the sky or the heavens. And so what he was 187 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: saying is that this earth, my empire, is even greater 188 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: than the heavens that surround the earth. That's how how 189 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: good I'm feeling about myself right now? He felt pretty good, 190 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: but he was parah annoyed, and I think that usually 191 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: comes when you're on top and you get there by 192 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: any means necessary, you're gonna be watching your back your 193 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: whole life. Um. Specifically, he came from the west and 194 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: conquered eastward. So when he was buried, he had the 195 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: terracotta army facing east to protect him because of all 196 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: the badness he had done. And this is after he 197 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: had killed hundreds of scientists that he commissioned to try 198 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: and prolong his life. Yeah, so we talked about him 199 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: actually in the Bizarre Medical Treatments episode. I think without 200 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: realizing it that. Um. He at the back in the 201 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: day at the time, they believe mercury had some sort 202 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: of like life enhancing or immortality bestowing properties, and he 203 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: would take mercury pills. I think that that's ironically what 204 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: killed him. Um. But he in addition to mercury, he 205 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: sent out people to like find fountains of youth or 206 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: whatever was the Chinese legend version of that. Um. He 207 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: was obsessed with remaining alive and simultaneously, like you said, 208 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: totally paranoid with dying. So he must have been a 209 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: very tormented person. Yeah, he killed four eighty Um doctors 210 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: and scientists were killed who could not come up with 211 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: a way to make him immortal and again buried alive 212 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: or beheaded. Great. Not a good die. UM. All right, 213 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: you want to take a break here and talk more 214 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: about the Terracott Army. Yes, right, So Chuck Um, when 215 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: we uh we were talking about this guy, I think 216 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: you're painting it a pretty good picture of him. I 217 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: guess he comes to either he comes to grip with 218 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 1: the idea that he's gonna die because at the time, 219 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:50,559 Speaker 1: like he's trying to chase immortality, he's concocting um like 220 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: a huge burial masso lium for himself. I guess, hedging 221 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: his bets in case he does die. But by this time, 222 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: like Confucius and other scholars in China had basically, like 223 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: philosophically debunked the idea of life after death. So this 224 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: man was utterly crazy by his contemporary standards. Um and 225 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: that kind of shows if you step back and really 226 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: think about the attitude and the mentality behind what he 227 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: was doing. But he at some point either came to 228 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: grips with the factor he was gonna die, or he 229 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: was just hedging his bets and thought he was going 230 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: to remain immortal. But just in case, let me have 231 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: this incredible grand funerary complex created, and let's build a 232 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: terra Cotta army to protect me in the afterlife. Yeah, 233 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: it's really neat to look at the Terracotta army now, 234 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: his art, but eight thousand soldiers, Like, this guy was 235 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: clearly cuckoo. He was off his rocker. Yeah, he's a batman. 236 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: He was a bad man. Alright, So shall we start 237 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: with the army. Yes, let's because it's not all that 238 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: is that he had commission, But the armies are very 239 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: it's pretty significant it is significant. Um, Like you said, 240 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: they are information. So the front dudes are Um, they're 241 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: kneeling down their bowmen and they were famous the armies 242 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: they had then, and this is one of the reasons 243 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: he took over. They figured out the crossbow, and they 244 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: figured out how to shoot while riding a horse. And 245 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: that was basically all she wrote. Yeah, everybody else is 246 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: like mother. Yeah, like down here with a sword on 247 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: the ground and you're shooting at me from twenty ft 248 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: away with some weird metallic bolt. I guess not metallic, 249 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: but wouldn't. Yeah, they weren't Fortune steel back then. I 250 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: wonder when they did start. I don't know, something like 251 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: a podcast it does how steel works. Yeah, it'd be 252 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: a good one. I could see that. Um. So you 253 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: have these bowmen they have on their armor, Um, their 254 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: fingers on the trigger there, incredibly detailed down to the 255 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: soles of their feet. Yeah. They have their shoes they're 256 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: wearing have like treadmarks on the bottom. It's all. They 257 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: took great pride, these artists, clearly because they probably didn't 258 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: want to get killed. Because each of them had to 259 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: sign in case there was a flaw. I could be 260 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: traced back to who built this one. Yeah, they were 261 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: killed that they didn't like it. They most decidedly were. 262 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: There were eighty three. They found the stamps, which were 263 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: ultimately the signatures of eighty three different foreman, and each 264 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: foreman had a team of apprentices working under him, and 265 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: the reason that they did assign those stamps so that 266 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: he could have them killed if he didn't like how 267 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: slow work was progressing, if he didn't like what it 268 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: looked like. Um. And at first, chuck, they were like, well, 269 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: this is clearly they just set up an assembly line. 270 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: Molds were known to the Chinese back then, and um, 271 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: that's the only way you could possibly create seven thousand 272 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: figures from a terra cotta army. And they found that yes, 273 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: actually the heads were um created through molds. I think 274 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: the arms were and stuff like that, but the bulk 275 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: of them were created by this thing called coiling. Okay, 276 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: so what is that like? Three D printing? Very much so. 277 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: Actually they take clay and hammer until it's soft impliable, 278 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: and then you wrap it in like a rope around it, 279 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: and then you mold it. And the thing it really 280 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: took these there's people who are recreating it to try 281 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 1: to figure out how they did it, and they've examined 282 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: like broken pieces so they can see the inside and 283 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: they can see the coiling evidence very clearly, and they're like, 284 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense, Like you can't quickly make 285 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: um all these figures in an efficient way by coiling. 286 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: Why would they not just use molds? And finally somebody realized, 287 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: like this emperor was a bloodthirsty tyrant. He didn't care 288 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: about efficiency. He cared about differences distinctions. So while so 289 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: while the heads just the actual shape of the heads 290 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: were made in mold, the bodies were made by hand, 291 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: each one through this coiling method. So where you could 292 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: make like a molded body and maybe a week, it 293 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: would take a month to do one body by coiling. 294 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: And that's what they were doing because he wanted them different. 295 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah, he just didn't want to carbon carbon 296 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: copies soldiers. So each one of these the body was 297 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: made by hand through this incredibly intensive coiling method. So 298 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: they're starting from the ground up obviously with the base, 299 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: and then coiling their way up. The legs then were 300 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: molded and affixed, uh, as well as the arms and torsos. 301 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: No not the um okay, gotcha, but then the heads. 302 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: They said they found eight different head molds. Yes, and 303 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: that's just the big mold, not the faces. Right. The 304 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: faces were done by hand individually as well, right, each face. Yeah, 305 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: the hair and expressions, yeah yeah, and the hair. Uh. 306 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: You know, warriors who had had the most kills had 307 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: longer hair and a bigger up right big and um, 308 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: so they would. You know, they took great care into making, 309 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: you know, the the most revered soldiers have their hair 310 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 1: matched as it should basically as realistic as they could. Yea. 311 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: If you're just an infantry man, you'd be wearing like 312 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: one of one of those beanies beanie hat probably um, 313 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 1: with maybe like your bun just kind of sticking up 314 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: off to the side underneath. If you're a general, you 315 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: might be wearing a huge hat with a pheasant feather 316 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: and a bow tying the whole thing underneath you. Yeah, 317 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: very fancy. So these things were incredibly detailed. They weren't 318 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: like a knockoff Star Wars figure that you would find 319 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 1: in Bulgaria or something like that, you know, or China. Yeah, 320 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: sure that was way more appropriate than Bulgaria. They probably 321 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: make the real thing too. Um. Yeah, these were very detailed. 322 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: Not you know, you wouldn't want to say life like. 323 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: They're still artistic slightly, but they were pretty detailed still. Yeah, 324 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: and they the ones you see now when they see 325 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: him in the museum where you look it up on Google. Um, 326 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: they're not colored, but that is because of humidity and time. 327 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: But um, originally they fired him in the killing and 328 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: they painted and lacquered them as well. That's right. I'd 329 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: love to see those. Look at watch that National Geographic thing. 330 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: They've redone one in the original colors that they think, 331 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: and they're almost garish. They're so different like colorful wise 332 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: and um, lots of surprising lavenders and blues and purples 333 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: and things. Reds colors used to be way more garish, right, Um, 334 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: but so okay. They were doing some assembly line stuff. 335 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 1: Most of the bulk of it, though, was coiled by hand. 336 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: The faces, the hair all done by hand, and then 337 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: each one was painted by hand and then given a 338 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: coat of lacquer. That's insane. It's insane that the sky 339 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: would have had an assembly line of seven thousand of 340 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: these things built and unpainted. But he didn't. He went 341 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: even more detailed and apparently also I learned from that documentary. 342 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: At the time, lacquer was an extremely expensive um product 343 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: and he was using it on his terra cottas soldiers. 344 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: It still ain't cheap, uh, and that they there wasn't 345 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: just the soldiers, there were also um some uh, there 346 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: was a strong man in another room and some what 347 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: do you call him? That circus performers, Yeah, acrobats. And 348 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: I looked up the strong man and he was noted 349 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: for the detail of his biceps. And he had a gut, 350 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: he did, he had a gut and some guns, gutting guns. 351 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: He's missing his head, right, Yeah, I didn't see a head. Yeah, 352 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: but yeah, he's got he's a big boy. He's like um, 353 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: he was built like Andre the Giant. Yeah, kind of 354 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 1: all right, you want to take another little rest here, 355 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: We'll take a quick nap and then I'll I'll let 356 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: you awake very gently. Alright you well, we'll finish up 357 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: what cup buddy? Huh, it's time to finish the terracout army? 358 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: Oh man, Oh, I got crusted in my eyes, look 359 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: at you. Okay, I'm back, Chuck. Okay. So Jean wasn't 360 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: the only ruler to do this, right, No, he wasn't. 361 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: Who else did it well? Do you remember in our 362 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: Pyramids episode, although if it hasn't come out yet, no 363 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: one will know what I'm talking about, but you will eventually. Um, 364 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: we talked about how the Pyramid of Cufu was the 365 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: pinnacle of pyramid building in dynastic Egypt, and then the 366 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: pyramids got smaller because the rulers um cred I guess 367 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: went down as people started to worship the sun instead. 368 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: Great point that I had never considered. Very similar thing 369 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: happened in China as people as the well. The Ching 370 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: dynasty only lasted for another four years after chen or 371 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: huangdi Um died, and then the Han dynasty started, and 372 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: the Hans apparently had much um easier hand with their subjects, 373 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: and so as a result, even though they had terracotta 374 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: armies buried with them, they were like a third to 375 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: a sixth of the size of cheens terracatta army, and 376 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: they take that as a sign that this um might 377 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: empower over people. UM had diminished tremendously. Yeah. I think 378 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: it was symbolic of a kinder um regime UM and 379 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: one that was not also booby trapped with like very 380 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: much like Raiders of the Lost Arc apparently Cheens to 381 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: them or the whole complex booby trapped with like blow 382 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: darts and stuff ready to go. And also we did 383 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: we um. One of the reasons why this thing was 384 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: booby trapped was to prevent looters. Because remember there's a 385 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: historian that was that came along not too long after. 386 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: He's a part of the early Han dynasty. From what 387 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: I understand, the name as Sema kion Um and Seema 388 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: kion is the one who first described cheens mausoleum. And 389 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: one of the things he described is that um on 390 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: the ceiling was a constellation made of pearls and gems, 391 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: mountains had been chiseled out of gold, and that um 392 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: that Cheen's tomb itself was surrounded by a river of 393 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: mercury because remember again they since they said that um 394 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: it bestowed immortality. And from what I understand, a lot 395 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: of what Sima Kian was talking about a writing has 396 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: been proven correct. So UM, and they've also found that 397 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: in the soil around che tomb where they think he's buried, 398 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: there's higher than unusually high mercury levels, like super high. Yeah, 399 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: so they think like, yeah, these crazy people buried him 400 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: around a river of mercury, and who knows if there's 401 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: a constellation of pearls and Gempson's maybe seem Kian is right. Yeah, 402 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 1: and that also makes it super dangerous to excavate still um, 403 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: which is one of the reasons why they haven't done 404 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,479 Speaker 1: more there. Um there are six hundred pits that they 405 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: have unearthed thus far, which is, like I said, I 406 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: think only about one percent. And um, they're sort of 407 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: afraid to look elsewhere because of the booby traps in 408 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: the mercury. I don't blame them. Uh So a few stats. 409 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: Thirty six years to complete this army or the tomb 410 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: I guess, um, seven hundred thousand laborers. They estimate eight 411 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand square feet a hundred feet deep 412 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 1: with I saw eight thousand warriors. This is seven. I've 413 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 1: seen different numbers. Two let's just say between six and 414 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:07,679 Speaker 1: eight um forty weapons. And apparently these weapons are in 415 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: really good shape. Well yeah, I mean they're like bronze 416 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,120 Speaker 1: swords and stuff like that. They weren't made of like, um, 417 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: paper mache, so I guess he did have metal, Yeah, bronze. 418 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: At least that answers that in each one of these 419 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: terracotta soldiers weighs about three thirty pounds, which is crazy 420 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: because they're not even solid. Oh yeah, it wouldn't be right. 421 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: So what is the coil on the inside and then 422 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: they smooth out the outside? Right? Okay, that makes sense. 423 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: So um we did mention that um Emperor han ling D, 424 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: who came fifty three years after Cheen, had his smaller 425 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: terracotta soldiers. There's also the Wei Shan site um which 426 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: they found in two thousand two, another terracotta army. But 427 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,199 Speaker 1: they're all just a football they they they might as 428 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: well not even be there. Symbolic cute. That also symbolic 429 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: again of a kinder. What was the one quote from 430 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: do nothing in order to govern? Yeah, not quite the 431 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: same as Cheen. That was the Emperor han ling D's quote. 432 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 1: He was the motto Cheen was a little more do 433 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 1: whatever you need to do to squatch any disruption. Well yeah, 434 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: and Han ling D came along and said, you know what, 435 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: we're going to not text you guys that much, and 436 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: we're gonna do away with forced labor. So uh, let's party. 437 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: He was like the Rodney danger Field of the han 438 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: dymondsty I think he got respect though. Sure that's true. 439 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 1: So that's he was the Rodney Dangerfield post death because 440 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: Rodney has tons of respect. What was Rodney Dangerfield's epitaph? 441 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: Do you remember? It's like one of the best ever. 442 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: Someone I was on the Mark Maron's interview show w 443 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: t F was interviewed and they were talking about the 444 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: old days hanging out with Rodney and just what a 445 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: beast that guy was. What do you mean just party beast? Oh? Yeah, 446 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: like legendary. Um, you hang out with Rodney and you're 447 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: in for a long night. I can imagine. Yeah, but 448 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: a really good guy. I found it. Chuck. What his 449 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: epitaph on Rodney danger Fields grave stuff? There goes the 450 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: neighborhood so classic awesome? Yeah, but I had like that 451 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: you get a free bowl of soup. Oh that was 452 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: pretty good man. You were like the rich little of 453 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: this podcast. Uh, you got anything else? Nope. If you 454 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: want to know more about the terra Cotta army, go 455 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: see it. And while you're doing that, you can type 456 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: those words into the search bar at how stuff works 457 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: dot com. Terracotta is one word, by the way, one 458 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:54,239 Speaker 1: word Smithsonian Magazine. Oh did they goop it? Uh? And 459 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: since I Shames Smithsonian Magazine. That means it's time for 460 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: listener mail. I'm gonna call this uh animal imprint feedback. 461 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm currently listening to how animal imprinting works 462 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: and could not even finish it because I had to 463 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: write you My godmother's Dorsey. Uh and Susan live on 464 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: own and run an urban farm in Austin, Texas on 465 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: the east side. They have several animals such as chickens, bunnies, geese, 466 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: miniature donkeys, boy and ducks. Um. Recently, a mother duck 467 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: had no interest in her babies uh, and they got 468 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: adopted by a chicken. That chicken got sick of them 469 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: trying to play in all of the rain and we 470 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: have all the rain we've been getting and left them 471 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: on their own. A male goose named Gustavo took the 472 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: baby ducks in and treats them as his own. On 473 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: top of that, the next batch of baby ducks born 474 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: he went and took as his own. Now Gustavo has 475 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: about ten baby ducks that follow him around the nest. 476 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: With them, he has his own private army. That's right, um. 477 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: And they're not terra cotta. They're made of baby feathers 478 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: the softest army. I failed to mention that Gustavo is 479 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: the face of the farm, greets people, follows around my godmothers, 480 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: and gives tours whoever stops by, So she says, she 481 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: finishes with I started listening to y'all about five months 482 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: ago and cannot stop start many of my sentences now 483 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: with this podcast, I was listening to say many random 484 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: facts that I learned from You also teach high school 485 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 1: world history and on the days I need to uh 486 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: the students not to talk um a k A. The 487 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: days that I don't have a lesson plan that I 488 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: talked to all, I play one of your episodes that 489 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: applies to what we're learning and have them do bookwork. 490 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: I find many of them not working and listening to 491 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: your show instead. Nice. So that is from Christina, Maudie 492 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: and Christina, thank you for your work as a teacher, 493 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: and hello to all your students. And hello, Hello are 494 00:30:55,560 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: your godmothers and Gustavo. Hello miss Maudie's class, Thanks for listening. 495 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 1: Miss Maudie. That's so nice. Yeah, I'm sure that's what 496 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: they call her. That'd be great callor Christina, that's way 497 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: too modern of a school for me and big ups 498 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: to Gustavo. That's pretty cool. I want to take a 499 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: Gustavo to her someday. And she sent a picture of 500 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: gustav on the ducks too. Uh well, we should post 501 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: that somewhere alright, unless it's copyrighted. Let us know. If 502 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: you want to get in touch with us, you can 503 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: tweet to us at s y s K podcast. You 504 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: can join us on Facebook dot com, slash stuff you 505 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: Should Know. 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