1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know how the San Francisco Live Treat 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: Team Dingo. That was pretty good, Chuck, everyone who we 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: just annoyed, We're going to come see you San Francisco. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna be at Sketch Fest on January fourteen. That's right. 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: And hey, we're looking at you Oakland, We're looking at 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: you San Jose, We're looking at you Kupertino, the whole 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: Bay Area. Come out and see us Sunday, January fourteenth. 8 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: The Castro Theater is part of Sketch Fest, Plus Chuck, 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: You're gonna be there even earlier. Huh. That's right. 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Do you ever see 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: hot Shots? Part do the sequel? No? You know, I 30 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: didn't see a lot of those movies at all, except 31 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: for the airplane movies and the naked gun movies. The 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: hot Shots movies were worth seeing. Did not see those. 33 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: Did not see any of the scary movies. Oh, the 34 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: scary movies. You haven't seen those. All of them are good, 35 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: Like every single one of those are good. Yeah. I 36 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: did record a movie crush yesterday with for the movie 37 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: Scream though, Oh yeah, with who uh Nate Bargatsy comedian, 38 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: so we it was interesting that I had to do 39 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: Scream research and like that movie changed, like horror movies 40 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: were on their last legs. Yes, they were. Not to 41 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: say that in something else might not have come along. 42 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: But it was Scream that like revitalized the genre. Yep, 43 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's kind of a watershed movie. 44 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: Did we talk about that in the horror movies that 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: changed the the genre episode? I'm pretty sure we had 46 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: to have Boy, if we didn't, we missed out. Well, 47 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: if we didn't, we probably just said And obviously Scream, 48 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: we don't even need to mention that. Well, it launched 49 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: the Scream franchise, It launched the scary movie franchise in 50 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: a way, and relaunched the genre. Yes, so scary movies 51 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: we're seeing hot shots is worth seeing naked guns we're seeing, 52 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: of course, although I would put either one of the 53 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: hot shots up against the third naked gun any day 54 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: of the week. That that's that's my bookie over the 55 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: third naked gun. Yeah, okay, that's fair. Yeah. And then 56 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: don't get me started on what was it like the 57 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: Gods Son? What the Gods Son? I don't know what 58 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: that is. It was like a Godfather spoof. Leslie Nielsen 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: was in with Dom DeLuise. I haven't even sen five 60 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: minutes of it. I don't even know what that is. 61 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: And you stomped me. Oh good, thank you. That's a 62 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: good start to this episode. As you think you're welcome, 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: thank you. Uh so, Chuck, We're moving on. We've already 64 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: talked about the Great Pyramids at Kufu, we talked about 65 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Temple of Artemis 66 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: at a thesis, right, all three of them top top notch. Yeah, 67 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: And if you don't know what we're talking about now, 68 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: and this is your first episode of stuff you should know. Ever, 69 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: this is the second of a two part episode. There 70 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: you go on the Seven Ancient Seven Wonders the Ancient World, 71 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: and here's part two. Right then, we're gonna start with 72 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. To say it like that, 73 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: there's no other way to say it. That's how well, 74 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: who's the guy's name, the the boxing guy, that guy 75 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: I don't know his name. Yeah, he used to stand 76 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: at the statue of Zeus and say that on an 77 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: hourly basis. It's pretty pretty amazing stuff. So this one 78 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: is one of my favorites, but not my favorite. I 79 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: promise that my favorite was in here. But this is 80 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: not quite it, although it's close, because you know that 81 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: this is this is the main deal here, Olympia Zeus. 82 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: This is no run of the mill god and some 83 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: cast off city. No, it was the site of the 84 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: first Olympics. So it was pretty important city, very important. 85 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: Um it was. It was nowhere near Mount Olympus though, curiously, 86 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 1: but it was pretty pretty important, right, yes, Um, this one, 87 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: to me is the most humble of them all. I'm 88 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: not quite sure why, but I am just kind of 89 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: like whatever about it? All right? Well, the temple. Let's 90 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: talk about the temple at first, Okay, And also I 91 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: should warn you that this article has the um proportions 92 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: wildly incorrect. Oh the how tall it was? All right? 93 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: What is it? For real? This thing? This article says 94 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: it was two ft tall. That's a twenty story building. 95 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: The temple was not as tall as the twenty story building. 96 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: It was sixty ft tall. How did they get it 97 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: that wrong? I don't know. I just don't know. It's staggering. 98 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: It's as staggering as this temple would have been had 99 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: it been two hundred feet tall. And it doesn't even 100 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: say it was somewhere between sixty eight and two D 101 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: ten feet right, it's weird, that's annoying. Everything else is 102 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: right about it though. So it was sixty eight feet tall, 103 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:01,559 Speaker 1: still pretty impressive for the time. Yeah, but I would 104 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: have to say if somebody, if you were driving through 105 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: Dunwoodie he saw a sixty eight foot tall temple, you 106 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: would probably still be impressed even though somebody just built it. 107 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,359 Speaker 1: So I think it's still impressive even today. Yes, so 108 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: the temple's fail impressive, but inside we're talking about the 109 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: statue mainly the Greek artists. Uh Phideous was commissioned. And 110 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: imagine these artists were paid pretty handsomely for these jobs. Yeah, 111 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: because you know there's only a few of them who 112 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: were capable of doing this at the time. Yeah, I 113 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: mean there are only a few people in the world 114 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: could do this now on something of this scale. So 115 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: they said, hey, Zeus is the man. We want a 116 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: statue of Zeus And he said, yeah, I can knock 117 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: that out. It's for b C. Shouldn't take me too long. 118 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: Eight years later he was finished, right, um, and he 119 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: used some really weird materials like so, so the temple itself, 120 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: it was like a standard temp pool six feet tall, 121 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: like all of them were a bunch of columns that 122 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 1: kind of thing. But the statue inside is apparently what 123 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: was the big draw. And one of the reasons why 124 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: it was something to see was because um Phidious used 125 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: ivory and gold, um, rather than marble, which is it 126 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: was pretty much what you used to make a statue 127 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: back at that time. And they think one of the 128 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: reasons why he used or not ebony, but ivory and 129 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: gold was right. But the reason why they thought that 130 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: was because, um, he he was building a statue to Zeus, right, 131 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: so you needed it needed to be special. This is 132 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: like the King of the Gods. Yeah, and ivory was 133 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: definitely something that people would travel to see a statue 134 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: made of ivory of Zeus. Yeah. Uh. So basically this 135 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 1: is sitting down in this uh statue and he's sitting 136 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: just straight up. He's not like, uh like you know 137 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: how the Lincoln Lincoln and his memorials kind of chilling 138 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: in his seat. Zeus is not chilling. He's setting up 139 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: ready for actions like would you say, what'd you say? 140 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: Kind of Uh. The statue itself was about high, which 141 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: is super impressive. Like when you see a a rendering 142 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: of what someone look like standing at the base of 143 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: this thing. It's really pretty striking. And one of the 144 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: things they said about it was that, um, if he 145 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: stood up, he would have his head would have burst 146 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: through the roof of the um of the temple, which 147 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: was probably pretty cool to see too. He was sitting down, 148 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: totally would have right, he would have just been like 149 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: Zus smash. So he's holding in one hand a statue 150 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: of Nike, So it's a statue holding a statue, and 151 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: Nike was a winged goddess of victory, right, so it's 152 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: kind of like his version of Tinkerbell hanging out in 153 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: his hand. And then the other hand he's holding a scepter, 154 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: which is pretty appropriate for the king of the gods. 155 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: And again he seated on this throne. And yeah, if 156 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: you if you look at artists rendering of them, we 157 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: should say here, most of this stuff by the time 158 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: these lists were written, um, we're already aged. And then 159 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 1: they they've crumbled over time, so we actually don't know 160 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: exactly what they looked like. Some people saw him firsthand, 161 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: but a lot of this this information comes from secondhand 162 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: sources or even further down the chain than that, so 163 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: we're not exactly certain of what they looked like. But 164 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: for most of these, because they were so widely regarded 165 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: as seven Wonders of the Ancient worldly, you have to 166 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: see that enough people wrote about him talked about him 167 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: that if you really spent some time, you could put 168 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: these sources together and come with probably an accurate description 169 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: of of what it looked like. Yeah, for sure. Uh. 170 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: And the and the remarkable thing about this one is, 171 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: apparently was the expression on Zeus's face. Not only is 172 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: he sitting straight up ready for action, he uh, he 173 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: just said this look on his face. It was kind intimidating. 174 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: I guess you could say you've disappointed me and your mother. 175 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: That's what it said. And uh, the legend has it. 176 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: And I don't buy this at all, But Phitti has 177 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: said that once I'm finished with this saying he asked 178 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: for zeus blessing on the sculpture, and a bolt of 179 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: lightning struck the temple at that very moment. I don't 180 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: believe it. No. No, as a matter of fact, if 181 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: you do believe that, right in so we can tell 182 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:29,319 Speaker 1: you that you're wrong. So um. There were a couple 183 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: of issues with this this um statute number one. It 184 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: was built a couple of hundred years, a few hundred 185 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: years before Christianity began and then started to spread in 186 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: the area. Once that happened, um, the the worshippers of 187 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: Zeus who still remained, said, we need to get this 188 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: out of here. These Christians, they don't play around. They're 189 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: gonna get rid of this thing, right and um. They 190 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: moved the statue to Constantinople and it stayed there safe 191 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: for a while, actually apparently housed in a palace us. 192 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: But one of the things about the statue was it 193 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: was made of gold and ivory, but those things were 194 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: overlaid on top of a wooden sculpture, which is kind 195 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: of like, it's pretty slack pitious. Maybe you should have 196 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: stuck with the marble. Maybe, but the palace and Constantinople 197 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: caught fire. Yeah, that's a problem because marble doesn't burn, 198 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: does No, it doesn't. Yeah, so it would have survived. Um, 199 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: but he cheaped out, let's be honest, he phoned this 200 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: one in. Yeah, and they were right to have moved 201 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: that thing, because the Christians did come in and take 202 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,959 Speaker 1: care of business, shut down that temple in But by 203 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: that time the statue was gone at least, but yeah, 204 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: burned in a fire. So earthquakes and fires are taking 205 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: out all of the wonders. Earthquakes, fires and Christians the 206 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: great level as pretty much so um back in I 207 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: think in ninety this guy and again like this stuff 208 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: just sat in in the realm of legend for a 209 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: long time. Although I think the um, I think the 210 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 1: ruins of the temple itself are still around, aren't they that? 211 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think they might be. I like, 212 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: over the last two days, I've seen so many pictures 213 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: of ancient temple ruins that I'm like, which, wait, which 214 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: one is that so much? Right? I think this one 215 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: may still be around in Olympia, the ruins of the temple, 216 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: like you can still make out a couple of steps 217 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: leading up to it, that kind of thing, and there's 218 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: like the posts of a couple of pillars or whatever. 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: But um, they found in nineteen fifty um the workshop 220 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: that Phidi has used beside the temple, and apparently we're 221 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,119 Speaker 1: able to recreate using the molds that they found, probably 222 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: what the statue looked like, which is pretty impressive, just 223 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: working from old molds. Yeah, not only that, but these 224 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: were on coins right. Oh, yeah, that's right, that's the 225 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: other one. Yeah, they were on Greek coins, So this 226 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: isn't one where you really had to guess so much 227 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: what it looked like because on those coins there's a 228 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: lot of detail about what it looked like. And um, 229 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: because coins, you know, they were originated there, just where 230 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: they ended up eventually would give a little indication on 231 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: how far people had traveled to come see the saying 232 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 1: when they carried those coins back. Yeah, it made me wonder, 233 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: like where those coins currency or where they like souvenirs, 234 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: like if you go to Dollywood or Kennedy Space Center 235 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: or something like that and get a coin made. Yeah, 236 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. I wonder because I mean, 237 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: this was an age where they were are tourists and 238 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: they were already selling the replicas of the Temple of 239 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: Artemis as tourists mementos. I wonder if these coins were 240 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: that too, pretty pretty neat to think about ancient tourists. 241 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: Should we take a break? Yeah, all right, I'm going 242 00:13:50,640 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: to contemplate that and we'll be back right after this. Okay, Chuck, 243 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: here's here's my second favorite. Let's hear it, this isn't 244 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: your favorite huh. Are you sure you have a favorite? 245 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: I do, We're not there yet. Okay, all right, well 246 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: this is my second favorite, the mausoleum at Halicarnassis. Okay, 247 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: you don't like this one? Was all right? Mausoleums, I 248 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: don't know you've seen one, you see them all. Well, 249 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: this is the original one. Like the word mausoleum came 250 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: from the structure. Yeah, that only goes so far with me. Oh, 251 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: I love that, the original thing. Yeah, I thought I 252 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: thought you were like an etymology kind of guy. Oh, 253 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: I can be, but just not with mausolium. Yeah. I 254 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: don't know. There's something about mausoleums that bucked me because 255 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 1: there's dead people interred inside. Just a lot of a 256 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: lot of hubbub for a dead body. Oh I see, 257 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: I see, Yeah, it makes sense, you know. Yeah, I 258 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: don't want to knock it though. Well, okay, we'll just 259 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: stop right here. Then if you're if you're King Mozolus, 260 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: you deserve to to have this named after you. I 261 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: would say that, especially if you're married to your sister 262 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: and she's madly in love with you and you've just died. Yeah, 263 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: that was a little weird. He was the Persian king 264 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: of Kia, and he was indeed married to his sister 265 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: art Artemisia. Yeah, and she really really was in love 266 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: with her brother. Yeah and husband, and he was from 267 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: what I understand, he seems like a pretty successful ruler. Um. 268 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: They had the mausoleum under construction while he was still alive, 269 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: and he died UM while before it was finished, obviously, 270 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: but his sister Artemisia, sister wife Artemisia UM was so 271 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: broken up by it. She said, all right, stop, stop 272 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: what you're doing. This is not good enough. This has 273 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: to be the most amazing memorial anyone's ever made to 274 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: their husband. Brother. Um, I've got to I've got to 275 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: get in touch with all of the greatest sculptors of 276 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: the realm. And she did. She got in touch with 277 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: um at least five of the greatest sculptors alive at 278 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: the time, and they were headed by a guy named 279 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: Pitheous who not only Um was one of the sculptures, 280 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: he was the over overseeing architect of the entire project. Yeah, 281 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: So like he architected the whole thing. And then she 282 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: got a one sculptor per side to embellish the outside 283 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: scopus brexas Baxas Leo, Charis oh A, and Timotheus. That 284 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: one's easy, that one is easy, and this one has 285 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: often been called UM because she had all these all 286 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: these different people working on it. Uh. And not only that, 287 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 1: but I think for years afterward it became a place 288 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: where artists could exhibit and showcase their work. So in 289 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: the end, this thing ended up being UM. I think, 290 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: not as coherent is what you would think something might 291 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: be when you just hire one person to work on it. UM. 292 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: For this episode and the last one, I went to 293 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: the site on museum. Have you ever heard of it? Yeah? 294 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: I think so. They were very helpful in researching this. 295 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: And one of the things the way they put it 296 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: was that UM so during construction, Artemisia died before it 297 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: was completed, and the five sculptors who were running the 298 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: show looked at each other and they're like, let's keep going. 299 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: We could stop here and leave it unfinished. But it 300 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: became well, no, no, not true. Ones. It became a temple, 301 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: a monument not just to Mausoleus and Artemisia who were 302 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: entombed inside, but it became a monument to art as well, 303 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: that we can do whatever you want, right and they 304 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: did so, and so they went ahead and they completed it, 305 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: and it was a pretty impressive um structure. Yeah. The 306 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: structure yourself, was about a hundred and forty ft tall. 307 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: Is that right? Yes, I believe that that's a relief. 308 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: The base was about a hundred feet um twenty four 309 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 1: steps tall. Yeah, and then on either side of the steps, 310 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: flanking the steps were crouched lions, which is pretty cool. 311 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: It's always cool around the outside of the second the 312 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: second tier where you would walk into on all four 313 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: corners there were um soldiers bounted on horseback, sculptures of 314 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: them protecting the place. Yeah. Yeah, what else? Uh? Pliny 315 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: the Elder said, this thing is four hundred forty ft 316 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 1: and the perimeter was thing is four so it was large, 317 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: thirty six columns. Uh, it's a It was a big structure, 318 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: very impressive. I didn't get from the pictures that I 319 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: saw of renderings. It didn't look too busy to me. No, 320 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. The only place I saw that kind 321 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: of shady and thrown at it was in this how 322 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: Stuff Works article. Yeah. I mean I know that there 323 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 1: were different people working on it, but it didn't look 324 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: like I expected. When I saw it to look like 325 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: a big mess, and it did not look like a 326 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: big mess. No, it looked pretty neat and tidy. Right. Yeah. 327 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: So one of the things that I love about this thing. 328 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: So again, Artemisia and Mausolus are entombed inside this thing. 329 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 1: But it's also like just a place you would go, 330 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: you know, take a date or something on a Sunday 331 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: afternoon in the city of Hellican Issus, Hellican Hellicarnassis. Right. Um. 332 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: One of the one of the cool things about this 333 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: is that um, this structure stood for hundreds and hundreds 334 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: of years after the city of Hellicarnassis all to ruin 335 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: around it. That is so cool, just the imagining this abandoned, 336 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 1: ruined town and in the middle of it is this 337 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: hundred and forty foot tall mausoleum, the world's first mausoleum, 338 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: with all these ornate sculptures around it. This is almost 339 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: completely out of context with the surroundings now that the 340 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: town is falling to ruin. Yeah, that's pretty cool for sure. 341 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 1: But like all these other ones, earthquakes would eventually take 342 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: care of business, uh in the fourteen hundreds and shake 343 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: this thing down and um and again, like a lot 344 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: of these other stories. In four they used the knights 345 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: of St. John of Malta said hey, let's let's take 346 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: all this uh scrap and use it for our own castle. Yeah, 347 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: the a city as um Hellicarnassus fell to ruin. Another 348 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: city nearby grew up called Boudroum, and the ruins at hellercanasses. 349 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: You would go to Boudroum today to view the ruins 350 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: of Helicarnassis. The mausoleum, I should say, um, but the 351 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: big draw apparently is the knights of St. John's castle 352 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: and to build that castle. Some of the scraps that 353 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: they used were from the mausoleum, so you can still 354 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: see original parts of the mausoleum, but they've been incorporated 355 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: into the structure of them the castle that you would view, 356 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: which is cool. So it's still around in some way, 357 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:27,719 Speaker 1: shape or form. But that um earthquake that got it 358 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: in the fourteen hundreds, it actually had a weird way 359 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: of preserving some of it. Right, So there are three 360 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: three big things that keep coming up. Right. There is 361 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: um earthquakes that keep happening, There's people using scraps to 362 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: build other cities nearby, and then there's the British Museum. 363 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: Those three things figure into the Seven Wonders of the 364 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: Ancient World big time, because if there's a piece of it, 365 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 1: one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World somewhere 366 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: in the world outside of its original location, it's probably 367 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: in the British muse Zoum. And that's the case with 368 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: Um some a few things from the the mausoleum at Helicarnassis. 369 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: They think that what happened was the earthquake toppled the 370 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: sculpture of Mausolus and Artemisia riding a chariot pulled by 371 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: four horses. It was very famous um that was on 372 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 1: the top of the mausoleum, that it fell and was 373 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: covered by rubble so that it was protected until it 374 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: was finally excavated in the nineteenth century when they found 375 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: um huge old chariot wheel. And then they think the 376 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: the two sculptures of Artemisia and Mausolus and now they're 377 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: all in the British Museum. But they think that earthquake 378 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: had a weird way of protecting it from being looted 379 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: and re used by the Knights of St. John later on. Amazing, 380 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's why it's my second favorite. Well, 381 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: we're coming upon my favorite. I wondered if this was it, 382 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: the Colossus of Rhodes. It's a good way to say it. Yeah, 383 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: I like this one. This was ancient Greece, and this 384 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 1: one was the granddaddy of them all statue wise, this 385 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: one was even bigger than the statue of Zeus at 386 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: Olympia UM. Third century. And Rhodes was an island, uh, 387 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: still as an island, and Macedonians came knocking on the door, 388 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: and they were angry, and they wanted the help of 389 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: the people of Rhodes because told me, was told me 390 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: one that is was was was conquering, and they said, 391 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: we need your help here. And the people of Rhad said, hey, 392 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: we're not really, we don't want to get involved in 393 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: all that. We kind of like it here on the island, 394 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: living our peaceful lifestyle here. Well. Plus, if there was 395 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: anybody they were allied with, it was Ptolemy. Yeah. Yeah, 396 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: they but they wanted to stay out of any wars. 397 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: They just weren't into it. So they rebuffed the Macedonians 398 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: uh and they left, but they left behind a bunch 399 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,719 Speaker 1: of supplies and equipment UM I'm not sure why they 400 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: did that actually, So the this article is so bizarre. Man, Um, 401 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: the the Macedonians besieged roads for over a year. Um 402 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: and they they had these huge war machines that were 403 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: made of like um, bronze and wood and metal, and 404 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: they would pull these huge machines up to the city 405 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 1: walls and like they had catapults on top, and they 406 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: were trying to crush the city for a year. And 407 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: when the road the Roodians finally overcame the Macedonians, they 408 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: were like, well, we're just leaving the stuff behind. It's 409 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: too big to move. It didn't work anyway, so we'll 410 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: leave it. Yeah, that's why they left it. This This 411 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: this article puts it in a really weird way. Yeah, 412 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 1: I agree. Uh so they ended up using like selling 413 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: away that stuff right to make the money to build 414 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: in part the statue. Yeah, and they reused some of 415 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: it directly for the statue. Like like that huge thing 416 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: that they used to besiege the city they pulled up 417 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: to the walls, they actually used that as scaffolding to 418 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: build the statue. Heck, yeah, yeah, it's making plowshares out 419 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: of I don't know guns. So they used the sculptor 420 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: Charras of Lindos, and he said, I got this one 421 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: under control, and he is um all these different materials, iron, bronze, stone, Uh, 422 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: and this one I'll have wrapped up, oh in about 423 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: twelve years when they said that's about right. Yeah, that's 424 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: not bad for what they did here. Yeah, I mean 425 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: this one was a tin feet tall. Yeah, it had 426 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: a skeleton of iron um, and inside the skeleton for structure, 427 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: it had huge stone columns running through it. And yeah, 428 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: it was like the actual statue itself was about as 429 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: big as the Statue of Liberty as today and followed 430 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: like a pretty similar structure, um, but like a thousand 431 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: or so years before, a couple of thousand years before. Yeah, 432 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: people think from written accounts that it was holding a 433 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 1: torch like Lady Liberty does, and that the face was 434 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 1: modeled after Alexander the Great. Some say, and here's where 435 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 1: it gets interesting to me is if you look up 436 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,640 Speaker 1: pictures of this thing, you will likely see it standing 437 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: a straddle um the entrance to the harbor, So literally 438 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: standing there like kind of with his legs spread, and 439 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: you would have to sail a ship between his legs 440 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: to get into the harbor. You shouldn't look up, don't 441 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: look on. The detail was really amazing, very amazing, and 442 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 1: a hundred ten feet I like, you know what you're 443 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: going to be staring at. So, uh, there are accounts 444 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,719 Speaker 1: and there are plenty of illustrations and other things that 445 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: support this, and it looks trust me, if you look 446 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: it up, it looks very cool. Like you know, they 447 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: were into, uh, they were into making things this tall, 448 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: just because it was so mind blowing. But also they 449 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 1: were saying they were thanking their patron god Helios for 450 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 1: spending them from having to go to war. Um, which 451 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Like that's one of the reasons I 452 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: like this one is they were saying, like, you know what, 453 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: we stayed out of war, we managed to remain at peace. 454 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna build a monument to our god, who we 455 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 1: assume helped this out. Yeah. But when they did these things, 456 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: like with most of these, I loved it. They were 457 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: just like, well, you know, twenty ft high statue would 458 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: be great. That's impressive. Like they would try and build 459 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:24,239 Speaker 1: things as large as humanly literally possible engineering wise at 460 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 1: the time. I see your point. Yeah, that is pretty neat. 461 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: So when you look at pictures of this straddling the harbor, 462 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: it's just like it's enormous, it's huge. Unfortunately, that's probably 463 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: not what he how he stood, right, That's that's the 464 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: downer here, is that they didn't really have the the 465 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: materials or the knowledge or the skill, uh to do 466 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,719 Speaker 1: something like that. Like the reason that statues back then 467 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: we're basically straight up and down is because that you 468 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: needed that those legs to support the rest of the statue. Yeah, 469 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: and they were a top of pet stoles that could 470 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: hold the weight of the statue above it. Um. They 471 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: would also if the if the if each foot was 472 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 1: on either side of the harbor, that's usually not the 473 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: strongest solid ground you can find, So they wouldn't have 474 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: had any means of reinforcing the ground beneath it, so 475 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: it would have just sunk or fallen right over. Yeah. 476 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: And Plus the other thing to chuck was that it 477 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: would have closed the harbor down. And they relied on 478 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: the harbor for their economy, so it's probably unlikely that 479 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: it looked as cool as it looks in pictures. Uh. 480 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: And what happened to this one three years later? Yes, 481 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: earthquake fifty three years that is so quick that didn't 482 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: last long at all. No, So this the thing fell 483 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: and they think that it probably was located closer to 484 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: the center of town somewhere inland Um, but that when 485 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: it fell, it crushed a bunch of people's houses and businesses, 486 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: and some of it probably fell into the harbor itself. 487 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: That's right. And this one was notable because I think 488 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: because it was so young when it fell. It's still 489 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: it's not like they were like, oh, let's get rid 490 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: of this thing. They let it lay there as a 491 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: tourist attraction in its prone state for many, many years, 492 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: and people would come far and wide to go visit 493 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: the fallen statue. Yeah, for almost a thousand years. It's easy. Yeah, 494 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: it's still stayed a tourist attraction. Like apparently the cool 495 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: thing to do was to try to put your arms 496 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: around the thumb. Yeah. The thumb was bigger than most statues, right, 497 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: Like like people couldn't get their arms, they couldn't touch 498 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: their hands around the thumb. Amazing. And apparently also the 499 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: arms fell off pretty pretty They may have even fallen 500 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: off first during the earthquake. But did you say it 501 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: broke off at about the knees just below the knees. Um, 502 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: so those probably stayed for a while. But the they 503 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: like from the knee down, Yeah, yeah, I'm sure, which 504 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: looks a little weird, like that picture of the person 505 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: who suffered spontaneous combustion all that was left with their 506 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: one leg. I'll bet it look kind of like that. 507 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: But the stuff that was on the ground, like you 508 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: could see into, like the armholes, and apparently even that 509 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: was just his breathtaking cavern. It was just such a 510 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: massive structure. They're like, have you seen in those armholes? Yes? 511 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: I have. I've seen all the armholes all over the world. 512 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: And the best tourist ever have he tried to hug 513 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: that thumb? I have a subscription to Monocle magazine. I'm 514 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: just as cool as they come. And so the final 515 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: nugget on this one that I thought was pretty fun 516 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: was in six fifty three, Um, these invading Arabs sold, 517 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: like all the rest of these stories, sold the scrap metal. Uh, 518 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: they sold it to a Jewish merchant who apparently used 519 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: nine hundred camels to take this stuff away. Good lord, 520 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: So how about that? So nine hundred camels or like 521 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: just a few camels who had to make nine hundred 522 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: trips total. I don't know, nine hundred camels. This is plus. 523 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: I mean, if this is a Jewish merchant buying the 524 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: scrap metal Colossus of Rhodes, he probab like camels, you know. 525 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: And think of all the poop that generated around there. Man, 526 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: it's a lot of camel poop. All right, Well, let's 527 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: take one more break. We'll come back and we'll finish 528 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,719 Speaker 1: up with the final wonder of the Ancient worlds right 529 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: after this. M all right, chuck, we're at the last one. 530 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: This one's pretty neat too. I don't think we ever 531 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: said when the Classes of Rose was built, did we? Oh? Jeez, 532 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: did we not? So it would have been in the 533 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: fourth now the third century, now, the fourth century BC 534 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: is when it was built. So this this is my 535 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: but we've been going chronologically through all of these, and um, 536 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: this is then the youngest of the ancient wonders. Yeah, 537 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: the little baby of the of the group, the Lighthouse 538 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: of Alexandria. And you know I've got a lighthouse thing, sure, uh. 539 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: And this one is a pretty great one. This was, um, 540 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: this was notable as one of the angers wonders in 541 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: the ancient world because it was the only one that 542 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: actually had a practical use and it wasn't just some 543 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: monument or temple, you know, right, it served a purpose. 544 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: Who was it that said nothing useless can ever truly 545 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: be beautiful? It was that just a movie line that 546 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: I remember? I think that was John Cusack. Okay, what 547 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: nothing useless can never be beautiful? Yeah? Man, I wish 548 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: I could remember what that's from, because I'm sure we're 549 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: going to get a lot of email about it. But 550 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: they said in the movie, they say somebody said nothing 551 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 1: useless can ever truly be beautiful. I don't buy that. Yeah, 552 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: I miss an opinion. There's a well an opinion. It's 553 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: just how it ends up in a movie, you know 554 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So this one, this one did have utility, 555 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: and it was kind of beautiful too from the artists 556 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 1: renderings I've seen. I liked it. Yeah, pretty pretty sweet lighthouse. 557 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: So the Lighthouse at Alexander is supposedly it's got a 558 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 1: pretty cool backstory to it. Allegedly, Alexander himself had a 559 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: dream and in the dream, they said, Alexander, you need 560 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: to go find the island of Pharaohs, And he said, why. 561 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: They said, it doesn't matter, just do what we say. 562 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: And he woke up in a cold sweat and he 563 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: like trembling, lit a cigarette and he said, I gotta 564 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: find Pharaohs. And that's how it started. Yeah, pretty much. 565 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 1: Uh located off the coast of ancient Egypt. He said, um, 566 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: you know what told me. Since we're told me it's 567 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: such a cool name, I'm gonna choose you as one 568 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,800 Speaker 1: of my generals to go inhabit and settle this place. 569 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: Take care of it for me, and told them he said, 570 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: I'm all over it. But yeah, I I you know 571 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 1: what Pharaohs needs though, It needs like an identify er, 572 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: something that you can see from a long way, something symbolic, 573 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 1: something that literally helps you identify it because it's you know, 574 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 1: tough navigating around the shores. And Alexander said, well, I 575 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: don't know if it was Ausanader. In my mind it was. 576 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,840 Speaker 1: He said, how about a lighthouse, Well, supposedly it was 577 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: either Ptolemy or the um Um mause In, which is 578 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: the predecessor to the museum, which is basically like a 579 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 1: brain trust to think tank and the early prototype of 580 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:44,440 Speaker 1: the university where the library exact Alexandria was housed. Um 581 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 1: either Ptolemy came up with it or the Mausean came 582 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: up with it. That's right, And it's a great idea. 583 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: Put a lighthouse because it serves a function, and it 584 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,879 Speaker 1: can be tall and grand, and the island will then 585 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: be known for this, and it most certainly was. I 586 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,760 Speaker 1: have say one of the things that I love about 587 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: these is how some of them are tied together. Like 588 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,880 Speaker 1: this is the same Tolomy that the Macedonians were fighting 589 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: and tried to bring roads into Rhodes, had been conquered 590 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: by King um muzzles Uh and then was later reconquered 591 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,240 Speaker 1: by Artemisia. Like all of these things kind of fit together, 592 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: and when you start to learn about one, you learn 593 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 1: about the story of the people who built them, and 594 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 1: how they relate to the stories of people who build 595 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: other amazing wonders of the ancient world. It's just such 596 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,240 Speaker 1: a cool history. Lesson. Have you seen the new Noah 597 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: Bombach movie on Netflix. No, it's called The Meerwit Stories. No, 598 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. It's on Netflix. It's funny. It's 599 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler, his Adams the guy's not in the movie, 600 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,399 Speaker 1: but Adam Sandler's neighbor. He references a lot. His name 601 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: is Toleomy. Yeah, so he just keeps saying, well, you know, 602 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,359 Speaker 1: told him. He says this and that thought about the movie. 603 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,800 Speaker 1: It's pretty funny and a reminder that Adam Sandler should 604 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: only play these roles. Yeah, he definitely. Well that or 605 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,440 Speaker 1: the original Billy Madison Happy Gilmore role. He was pretty 606 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: good that too. Man, he's so good in these kinds 607 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: of movies. I know, Punchdrunk so good. And this character 608 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: is sort of like a grown up version of that 609 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: punch drunk love character. A little bit to me. Good movie. 610 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: Check it out. Yeah, thanks, so uh it told me 611 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,359 Speaker 1: which has got a silent p by the way, Yeah, 612 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 1: it's a cool name, which is why it's such a 613 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: great name. It's Potolemy. Um So, Potolemy is on the island. 614 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: They get this thing built around b C they begin construction. Uh, 615 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 1: there's a dude name so stratise of Nidos And they 616 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 1: don't know what part he played other than the fact 617 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: that it was important. He could have been the architect, 618 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 1: could have been the financier, could have been both. Yeah, 619 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: absolutely could have been both. But he was he was 620 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 1: definitely important into that project. So supposedly this project they 621 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 1: actually have a monetary value for how much it costs. 622 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: They said it costs um eight hundred talents, which are 623 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,839 Speaker 1: is a word for bars of silver. And apparently that's 624 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: about three million dollars today, which is not bad for 625 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,760 Speaker 1: this lighthouse. Three million, not bad at all. You couldn't 626 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: build half a lighthouse today for that, No, no, not 627 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 1: one like this. So so apparently it was um about 628 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,880 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty ft tall. And one of the 629 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: reasons they built this too is not just to to 630 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: put Pharaohs on the map um or Alexandria on the map. 631 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: Alexandria was already like a pretty important city or it 632 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:47,160 Speaker 1: was becoming an important city, um ports city, but having 633 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: a lighthouse there just helped navigation, which only helped the 634 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: economy boom. And actually after the lighthouse came into operation, 635 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,399 Speaker 1: the economy did boom as a result of that. Right, Yeah, 636 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 1: is really really tall. Yeah, they said that you could 637 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 1: see this thing's light from a hundred miles away. Yeah, 638 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 1: I saw the ones that said it was more like 639 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: thirty or forty still, but yeah, that's it's a that's 640 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 1: a pretty high functioning lighthouse a hundred miles away is 641 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 1: more believable than the Temple of Zeus being struck by 642 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 1: a bolt of lightning after it was completed. Agreed, So 643 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 1: you could see this thing thirty miles away, We'll even 644 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 1: go with twenty miles away. Okay, I'm i'm, I'm not 645 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 1: even going above that. And the reason why you could 646 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,800 Speaker 1: see that is because atop this four hundred and fifty 647 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 1: foot structure there was a polished disc of some sort 648 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: they think it was probably bronze, and during the day 649 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: they moved it so it would reflect the light of 650 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 1: the sun so you could see it then, uh, and 651 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,759 Speaker 1: then at night they had a fire going all the time. Um. 652 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,440 Speaker 1: And there were structures within this amazingly tall structure that 653 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,480 Speaker 1: we're basically what you would call dumb waiters or that 654 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,279 Speaker 1: type of elevator on pulleys where you could raise and 655 00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:00,640 Speaker 1: lower um to to get to bring like firewood, animal 656 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 1: dried animal dung up to it. Yeah, and I don't 657 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: think we said that. One of the things that makes 658 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 1: this so cool to me is it's not not just 659 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: a big cylindrical lighthouse like most of them you see. Uh, 660 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 1: it is three different levels of three different shapes. So 661 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,840 Speaker 1: you've got your huge rectangular base, then you have the 662 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,440 Speaker 1: second level, which is octagonal, and then that third is cylindrical. 663 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,960 Speaker 1: So it's just really cool looking. And um apparently you 664 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,120 Speaker 1: could even up to that first level, which I mean 665 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: it had to be over a hundred feet high in itself. 666 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 1: You could bring carts and work horses and stuff all 667 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: the way up to that level because they had a 668 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: bunch of storage up there. This is pretty cool. And 669 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,279 Speaker 1: then dumb waiters to take stuff to the highest hours, right, 670 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,120 Speaker 1: and they had like those ramps and like kind of 671 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:53,279 Speaker 1: circular or spiral staircases going around it to help to 672 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,200 Speaker 1: to maximize the space that you use to get things up. Yeah, 673 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,319 Speaker 1: it was very clever structure, for sure. It's very you 674 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: can there are some cool renderings of this online as well. 675 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,799 Speaker 1: So this thing was a solid piece of work. Apparently 676 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:13,560 Speaker 1: it's it's survived a tsunami in three sixtie but what 677 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:20,319 Speaker 1: got it Chuck earthquake earthquake in thirteen oh three, so 678 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 1: it's after dozens of earthquakes. Yeah, so it was. It 679 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,360 Speaker 1: was built around two eighty b c E. It stood 680 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: until thirteen hundred UM and Finally some earthquakes took it down, 681 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,319 Speaker 1: and the other thing that happened they reused some of 682 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,239 Speaker 1: it as a fort which is still around today. But um, 683 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,600 Speaker 1: the cool thing about it is there was an underwater 684 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,600 Speaker 1: expedition around Pharos and they found what they're almost positive 685 00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: are original blocks from the from the lighthouse itself, original blocks, 686 00:40:55,520 --> 00:41:00,000 Speaker 1: and I think statues too. Yeah, sculptures, I should say, yeah, 687 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,880 Speaker 1: did I did look at some of the underwater pictures? 688 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 1: Is pretty cool. Oh yeah, it's just as cool as 689 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,719 Speaker 1: it gets. Man, anything that's underwater now that used to 690 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,920 Speaker 1: be and was meant to be above water, it's so cool, 691 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,880 Speaker 1: so creepy. I was reading this really interesting article about 692 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 1: the Andrea Doria, you know, the luxury liner family that 693 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 1: that Um, I think it's sunk in the fifties or 694 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,480 Speaker 1: early sixties, but it's like this incredible wreck site that 695 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 1: people dive and they call it like the underwater Everest 696 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,160 Speaker 1: because if you're an underwater wreck diver, that's like, it 697 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,520 Speaker 1: doesn't get any better than that. Um. But you know, 698 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,240 Speaker 1: it's it's also extremely dangerous. And I've read this really 699 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,719 Speaker 1: well written article about I can't remember who wrote it, 700 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,319 Speaker 1: but to start reading Andrea Doria articles everybody, and you'll 701 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 1: find the one eventually. Well, we'll do a podcast on it, 702 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,799 Speaker 1: how about that. Okay, let's do it. And that's it. 703 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,360 Speaker 1: We did the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World finally. Huh, 704 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,840 Speaker 1: that's the last one. That's That's it, everybody. That's the 705 00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,799 Speaker 1: big one. That's a Chevy Chase quote, is it? Yeah? 706 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,759 Speaker 1: From Christmas Vacation when he reveals the pool. Right, it's 707 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: so awkward the way he says it's perfect. That's it. 708 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 1: That's a big one. Oh. At any rate, Um, Christmas 709 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,480 Speaker 1: is coming gone, chuck. But this is the last episode 710 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,759 Speaker 1: that we're going to release this year. So I think 711 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,600 Speaker 1: we should wish everybody a happy new year. Yeah, happy 712 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,120 Speaker 1: new Year everybody. Thanks for sticking with us this two 713 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,600 Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, and we'll see you two thousand and eighteen. 714 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,239 Speaker 1: On a personal note, happy happy birthday to my sweet wife. 715 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,560 Speaker 1: You me and uh, we'll see you guys next year, right, 716 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,320 Speaker 1: I sure hope. So. So in the meantime, it's time 717 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:42,840 Speaker 1: for listener mail. That's right, We're gonna finish out this 718 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:48,240 Speaker 1: two parter with a single listener mail about bath salts 719 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,360 Speaker 1: appropriately because why not? Hey, guys, I'm not wanting to 720 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,080 Speaker 1: take hard drugs often, but my friend and I were 721 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,680 Speaker 1: going to an d M festival and decided to take 722 00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,880 Speaker 1: what we believed was molly. The drugs are crystalline, and 723 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,920 Speaker 1: we took them orally he yuck. The experience did not 724 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,200 Speaker 1: go as planned. A few days later, we use a 725 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,959 Speaker 1: drug testing kit on the remaining crystals and find out 726 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:15,879 Speaker 1: dant dana bats salts. That's scary, Like, I'll take that. 727 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 1: That looks like a drug. It's crystaline. Yeah, sure, Unlike 728 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,919 Speaker 1: any other party drug that might make you feel ready 729 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,640 Speaker 1: to dance. This stuff gave my friend and I this 730 00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,560 Speaker 1: sensation that our feet were stuck to the ground via 731 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,560 Speaker 1: magnetic force, and lifting them was almost impossible. Was made 732 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,760 Speaker 1: dancing very difficult, as all we could do was awkwardly 733 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: move around with the top half of our bodies. Additionally, 734 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,440 Speaker 1: we felt super paranoid that everyone around us was watching 735 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,920 Speaker 1: us and judging and laughing at our pitiful attempts to dance. Uh. 736 00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,680 Speaker 1: By the way, Anonymous, no one noticed you. I can 737 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,880 Speaker 1: go ahead and tell you that right now, it was 738 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,759 Speaker 1: impossible to enjoy the music with my mind raising these 739 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: unpleasant thoughts and The feeling lasted for the full day. 740 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,360 Speaker 1: After the disappointing day, we headed back to the apartment, 741 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,480 Speaker 1: ready to get some rest. Tackled the next day drug free, 742 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,520 Speaker 1: but no, the bass Salts would not let us sleep, 743 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,719 Speaker 1: try as we might. All night long, we laid there 744 00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,279 Speaker 1: a wide awake, part of the song turned down for 745 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,279 Speaker 1: what by DJ Snake, laid over and over in my 746 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,520 Speaker 1: mind for eight hours straight. This sounds really bad, it does. 747 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,400 Speaker 1: My eyes were closed and it felt as though I 748 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,680 Speaker 1: was watching a show of squiggly neon colored shapes pulsating 749 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,480 Speaker 1: in rhythm to the incessant music in my mind. Somehow 750 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,160 Speaker 1: we managed to get to the festival the next day, 751 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: but we felt like zombies and we were not even 752 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: at the cannibalism stage yet. I'm not sure what that 753 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: even means. Well, you know the whole face eating bath 754 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,000 Speaker 1: salts legend. Oh gotcha. She's like, we weren't even there yet. 755 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,880 Speaker 1: It still was terrible. She didn't even get the pleasure 756 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,920 Speaker 1: of eating someone's face, right, Uh so just from experience. 757 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,360 Speaker 1: Alo second, when Josh and Chuck said and urged steer clear, 758 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:48,160 Speaker 1: that is from Anonymous. Thanks a lot, Anonymous appreciate that. 759 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,520 Speaker 1: As um the bore you know or know. That's one 760 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,000 Speaker 1: to grow on. That's one to grow on. If you 761 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,520 Speaker 1: want to send us one to grow on, hit us up. 762 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,880 Speaker 1: I'm at josh um Clark on Twitter. I also have 763 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,919 Speaker 1: a website called Are You Serious Clark dot com. There's 764 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: an official Twitter s y s K podcast. There's an 765 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,239 Speaker 1: official s y s K Facebook page. 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