1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to you Stuff you should 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Uh. And since the two 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: of us are in the same room and there's microphones 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: that are recording, there's the stuff you should know. What 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: are you snuff? Grapefruit essential oil. I don't know why 9 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: it's here, but it's sure is a pleasant smell. That's weird. 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:36,639 Speaker 1: You never know what you're gonna get when you walk 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: in in the booth. Here, let's dusk the place with this. 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: That is lovely um essential oil, which means all natural 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: and that it's necessary. Well, it's not a fragrant soil, right, 14 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: which is not all natural? Oh yeah, you would know 15 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: all about that. Yeah, yeah, Emily's all over that stuff. Sure, 16 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: mamabout the body Love your Mama dot com. And that 17 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: is Emily's soap and toiletries and candle toiletries. Yeah, like 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: brushes and stuff, right, lotion and scrubs and candles are 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: all essential oils, all natural. Boy, this is just really sure. 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: All right, we haven't done that in a long time. Um, hey, Chuck, 21 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: I know I asked you, so I know the answer. 22 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: But have you seen Zeitgeist the movie? I have not. 23 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 1: I have heard about it before you even said anything. Yeah, 24 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: it's definitely out there in the Zeitgeist guest producer Maddie 25 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: it was all over that stuff when it came out. Yeah, 26 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: I finally saw it. Um Like I would have these 27 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: conversations with you. Mean, she's like, you really need to seize, Like, guys, 28 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: how have you not seen? Like guests, Well, we finally 29 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 1: sat down and watched it, and it's it's really really good. 30 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: I mean, like the guy made it for seven grand 31 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: and um, I just did an incredible job with it. 32 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: And there's I'm not going to give it away. I 33 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: would recommend everybody seeing it. I'm sure it will like 34 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: offend a lot of people and it'll take a lot 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: of people off. But then there are some people out 36 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: there who will be like, wow, this is really cool. 37 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: But one of the um one of the things, one 38 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: of the first ones, first segments is talking about how 39 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: there is um like basically all of the religious figures 40 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: are cold can be dated back to or trace back 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: to Horse, the ancient Egyptian god. We I think we've 42 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: mentioned that before too. Well. The Zeitgeist, the movie like 43 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: really goes into detail about this um but the whole 44 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: thing kind of begs a question that's related to um 45 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: Noah's ark, which we're about to talk about, and that 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: how when when you have cultures all over the world 47 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: that share a similar story or have a similar um 48 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: idol or something like that, there's there's just some sort 49 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: of commonality and it's so they resemble one another so much. 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: Is that evidence that it something took place, or is 51 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: the evidence of cultures borrowing from one another and forming 52 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: a cultural tradition that can be traced back to a 53 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: single source. Yeah, I mean it definitely can be both 54 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: to an extent. I mean there is a disparence, the 55 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: disparity between the two. Also, I mean, you know, um 56 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: but the flood definitely falls into that because there are 57 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: stories of the flood of a global, worldwide catastrophic flood 58 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: that just changed everything all over the place and many 59 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: many religions, in many religious texts. Yes, it's usually accompanying 60 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: that flood legend is a man who built a boat 61 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: was commanded by God or warned in some traditions, and 62 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: built a boat. UM, put two of every animal you 63 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,839 Speaker 1: could find on them, or two of every animal, and 64 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: uh basically sat there and waiting for the rains to come. 65 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: Steve Carrell, exactly did you see that? No? Never did you. 66 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: I saw parts of it enough to know that I 67 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: was disappointed in Steve carl I got that in from 68 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: the TV heads. Oh sure, yeah, but they that you know. 69 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: That's kind of the story, though, is that a man 70 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:17,239 Speaker 1: named Noah is chastised by the people in his UH town, 71 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: in his area for being foolish. I know there's not 72 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: gonna be a flood. He's warning ins of this flood. 73 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: You're silly, silly man, building your crazy silly arc. Right, 74 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: And there's that's definitely part of the allegory. The moral 75 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: tale is, you know, you should be able to withstand 76 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: the ridicule of your nonbelieving heathen neighbors when God talks 77 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: to you. That's right, right. Let's talk about the other 78 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: more possibly scientific aspects of the flood, because it's so ubiquitous. UM, 79 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: A lot of people have dedicated scientific inquiry to a 80 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: big time UH. This article says outright, that a literal 81 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: flood that would submerge the Earth to its mountaintops is 82 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: not possible because that would require five times the amount 83 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: of water in the oceans and atmosphere put together. Right, 84 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: Because one of the aspects of this flood legend is 85 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: that the whole earth was flooded up to the mountaintops. Right. 86 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: And here's where we get into that whole balle yarn 87 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: of literal Bible literalists or Biblical fundamentalists. You know, maybe 88 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: the whole world at that time meant that area, you know, 89 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: the Middle East. Well, yeah, I mean, like this is 90 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: a time when there was no communication other than maybe 91 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: a bake clay tablet um and travel was fairly limited 92 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: in regional in nature. So if you have a big 93 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: enough flood by all intensive purposes, like the world is flooded, 94 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: the world as they know it, Yes, yeah, right. I 95 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: just found out the Bible literalists they don't literally believe 96 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: every word of the Bible. Is like, they still believe 97 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: in in metaphor, in horrible and allegory and stuff like that. 98 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: I kind of thought that that those people believe exactly 99 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: what you see in the Bible is exactly what happened. Yeah, 100 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: what did they Why would they call themselves literalists? Well, 101 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: because they're more literal than I guess the other camp. 102 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,239 Speaker 1: But it's yeah, that's a I mean, that's a entirely 103 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: different podcast altogether. Oh yeah, there's a lot of a 104 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: lot of stuff with that, and one will probably never record, 105 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: probably not um. Well, let's talk about some of the 106 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: theories behind all this. You said that it's physically impossible, 107 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: it's bio geochemically impossible for um the earth to have 108 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: flooded up to the mountaintops. That's what they say, that's 109 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: what scientists say. You said that it's probably a little 110 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: more um. It was probably a little more local or regional, 111 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: And there's actually evidence of UM flooding in the right 112 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: place at about the right time, enough to support what's 113 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: called the Noah's flood hypothesis a k a. Black Sea 114 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: deluge theory. I like them both. Yeah, they're both good. 115 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: It don't say the band name thing that Like eight 116 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: people just went like that's how did you think about 117 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: that black seas theory? Well, too long from my taste. 118 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: Uh So you're talking about William B. F Ryan, Walter C. 119 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: Pittman of Columbia in New York Times actually before they 120 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: even published it, and and like journals, the New York 121 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: Times published it. Um. They postulated a theory that the 122 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: Great Flood was resulting from rising waters in the Black Sea, 123 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: just as the last ice age was tapering off, which 124 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Um, they're basically their 125 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: Their whole idea was that the ice caps um overwhelmed 126 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: the Mediterranean, which flowed across the Bosporus Strait and into 127 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: the Black Sea, right right, yeah, um. And apparently this 128 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: would have happened at about two times the force of 129 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: Niagara falls. Those two guys reckon square miles, so they 130 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: think would have been flooded. Man. And there's actually evidence, Um. 131 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: The guy Robert Ballard who discovered the Titanic, who will 132 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: visit with later, um found evidence that there is there was. Indeed, 133 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: the Black Sea was indeed at one time a freshwater lake. 134 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: Now it is a saltwater sea in Inland Sea. And 135 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: so most likely that was the result of the Mediterranean 136 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: infiltrating it. He was that two thousand seven, was at 137 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: his work, No, no, he was. He Um searched for 138 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: evidence of Norzark in the late nineties thousand um. But 139 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: so they did find incontrovertible natural evidence, but they didn't 140 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: find evidence that there were people that would have witnessed it. 141 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: So they don't know if it happened at a time 142 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: when people noticed it, or if it was cataclysmic, if 143 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: it killed a bunch of people. Are watchure to thousand seven, 144 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: they found evidence that ice caps melting from Greenland kicked 145 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: the sea level up about four and a half feet 146 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: between over the course of about what six hundred years 147 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: or so. But there was a five year study from 148 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Services in two 149 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: thousand nine that said if there was a sea rise 150 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: and a flood like that, it was probably over a 151 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: longer period of time and more mild than that. Well, yeah, 152 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: six hundred years, more mild than six hundred years, they 153 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: were saying, yeah, like maybe as much as a thousand years. Right, 154 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: And here's the big problem, um, the Noah's Flood hypothesis 155 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: and all the supporting evidence doesn't There's a really important 156 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: peace left out, which is the rain. Depending on who 157 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: you talked to, it rain for six days up to 158 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: forty days and forty nights well up to a hundred 159 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: and fifty days. Actually, who was that? Well, that's in 160 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: the Bible, Okay, I thought it was forty days and 161 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: forty Well it says forty days and forty nights. But 162 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: then I think, man, I wish I hadn't front of me. 163 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: So something about the waters for a hundred and fifty days. 164 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: So maybe it rained that long, and the flooding rose 165 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: up to a point of a hundred fifty days right 166 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: before it subsided. And he also took seven pairs of 167 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: clean animals. Uh yeah, and then to unclean animals a 168 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: k a. Ferrets. They're they're really unclean. They're good eating. 169 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: Though I just left at that. It's also possible improbable that, um, 170 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: this the whole flood legend, since remember, um, the world 171 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: was a lot smaller even though it's really large at 172 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: the time. Um was a larger than usual flooding of 173 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: the tigers and euphrates, which flood every year and yeah 174 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: and every summer. I think, yeah, it's it's seasonal flooding. 175 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 1: You know, we didn't mention Noah's flood in the How 176 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: Floods Work episode. This is the follow up, Um, but 177 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: the seasonal flooding, if there was one that was really 178 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: really really bad. Right. Um, the the these people, the 179 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: people who started to first record the idea of Noah 180 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 1: and this great flood were in that area at the time, 181 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: the Mesopotamia area, starting with the Sumerians, right, and some 182 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: postulate perhaps Noah was wealthy and could afford a really 183 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: great boat and the Tigris and Euphrates flooded, and that 184 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: became the story that eventually morphed into uh Islamic and 185 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: Judeo Christian versions. Right. But about two thousand years before 186 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,839 Speaker 1: it was recorded in the Old testament Um, the Sumerians 187 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: wrote of a man named Zeo Sudra, right and uh 188 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: he was basically the archetype for Noah and the flood story. 189 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: And then that was followed up by the world's first book, 190 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 1: the world's first known book, one of my personal favorites, 191 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 1: the Epic of Gilgamesh by John Grisham. Right. Yeah, it 192 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: was a good one. Yeah, I can't believe that twist 193 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: at the end the attorney the lady with forty million dollars. 194 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: So you're right. That is the oldest book in recorded history. 195 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: In the Babylonians say there was a man named uh 196 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: utna Una pished him and he warned of a great flood, 197 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: built a boat about the size of an acre, and uh, 198 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: there were six days and nights of rain, and he 199 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: sailed to modern day bah Ran. Right. What what's interesting 200 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: is that the the size of the boat is found 201 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: just about the same in all of these traditions, starting 202 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: with Gilgamesh about an acre in size, up to the Bible, 203 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: which mentions that it's three cubits. And let's just go 204 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: ahead and discuss cubits for a moment. Okay, I think 205 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: it's time in the history of stuff, you should know 206 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: that we finally got the cubits. But a cubit is 207 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: an ancient measurement of length that runs from the tip 208 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: of the middle finger of the inside of the elbow. 209 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: It's usually about fourteen inches or something like um forty 210 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:14,719 Speaker 1: five point seven two centimeters eighteen inches or forty centimeters right, um, 211 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: So three hundred cubits is fifty inches or thirteen thousand, 212 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: seven hundred sixteen centimeters, which means it's four fifty or 213 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: a hundred thirty seven ms right long. Three decks made 214 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: of gopher wood. All that equals would cover about an 215 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: acre in areas it is, But it is strange that 216 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: it does appear with about the same dimensions in all 217 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 1: these traditions. So it makes you wonder if there was 218 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: a wealthy merchant um in the area at that time, 219 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: did he really have an acre sized boat or was 220 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: it just like that's the opposite of an allegory for 221 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: a really big boat. It's like really specific rather than hyperbolic. 222 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: Maybe it would be high bobollic. That's a big boat 223 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: for today with today's technology. Uh So. In the Koran 224 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: and for people out there that are going what no 225 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: one's in the Koran? No in u h He's one 226 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: of the five prophets of Islam, along with Abraham, Jesus, Moses, 227 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: and Adam. Did you just say, Jesus, I did did 228 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: you know this before this article? Uh? Yeah, I took 229 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: religion in college. Okay, I had no idea Jesus is 230 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: um a venerated prophet in the Islamic tradition. I bet 231 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know that. Uh So. The 232 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: Book of Sarah or s u r a h Sarah 233 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: tells of new or noah Um speaking as a prophet 234 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: of God, warning his neighbors turned from your evil ways 235 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: and aside from the name differences and the where the 236 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: arc eventually lands, which in the Bible it's Mount Ara 237 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: Rat and the Koran it's Mount Judy or is it 238 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: Judi I took it as Judy Judy. Um, those are 239 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: really the only differences other than that they're pretty similar 240 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: to each other, right, But those locations are very specific. Yeah, 241 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: it's not like on a mountain somewhere. And there are 242 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: also two very different locations, both known at the time, 243 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: So I mean it's not like they were confused or 244 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: anything like that. Um. There's also another location, um that 245 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: people search to, uh Mount Suleiman in Iran. But those 246 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: are the three big mountains that are being looked at currently. 247 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: That is correct, So let's talk about, um, the search. 248 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: There's there's been uh a lot of There's been a 249 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: number of searches. I think there still are for the arc. 250 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: People want to find evidence of the arc because if 251 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: you find the arc, well then everything really happened, and 252 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: the creationists and literalists are like, hey, I told you. 253 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: And so a lot of people have kind of looked 254 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: into this, and we talked about the geo logical evidence. 255 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: There's a little more. UM, there's some evidence that the 256 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: the tigers and Euphrates river did indeed have a pretty 257 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: big flood around and that it wiped out entire cities 258 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: in Sumer. That's that's pretty good evidence that this flood 259 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: did indeed happen, right, yeah, a flood. But we're still 260 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: lacking one of the main components as far as biblical 261 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: scholars are concerned, which is the arc fingerprints. Oh right, 262 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: so yeah, let's go to aera which is particularly tantalizing 263 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: or was at one point in time. Uh the the 264 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: and I got a little impotent in this special in 265 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: the Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark. CBS aired this uh 266 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: special that they later on said was entertainment and not 267 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: documentary after the fact that had It was hosted by 268 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: what's his name, Darren McGavin from A Christmas Story. He's 269 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: awesome and yeah Billy Madison, and um, did I ever 270 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: tell you? I saw The Christmas Story at a screening 271 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: in l a and they brought him out. No the 272 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: director was there and told stories. He made porkis so 273 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: he could make a Christmas story. Oh yeah, you did 274 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: tell And they wheeled out there McGavin or in wheel 275 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: him out. He was he was in a wheelchair kind 276 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: of back into my right and everyone stood and clapped 277 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: and he was just kind of like, it was kind 278 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: of sad. He was old. He waved like the queen. Yeah, 279 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,479 Speaker 1: and his wife was like, this is for you, Like, 280 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: I don't think he quite got it. Oh wow, he's 281 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: that old. Huh. Yeah. He died not too long after that. 282 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: I think when did you see him? So this was 283 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: definitely post Billy Madison because he was totally sharp and 284 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: mobile and everything. This is like two thousand one ish 285 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: or two thousand somewhere in there. Well he went downhill quick. Yeah, 286 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: it's very sad. He was great and Cold Check too, 287 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: And what Cold Check? The night Stalker? Don't see that? 288 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: Is that a movie? That was a TV show? Really? Yeah? 289 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: It was like kind of like a outer limits kind 290 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: of thing, but it was mainly monsters. He was a 291 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: private detective who would who would like end up on 292 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: a case and there was a monster behind it or 293 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: something like that, or a ghost or something crazy like that. 294 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: It's like a supernatural detective series. Yeah, it's cool. I 295 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: can't believe I've never heard of that. It's crazy. He 296 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,439 Speaker 1: had this tagline, who loves your baby? Not a finger 297 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: all right, boy, we can get distracted so easy. Um. 298 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: He hosted the show, CBS ran the show, and a 299 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: guy named George Jamal Um. Supposedly, his story was that 300 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: he and a companion named Vladimir crawled into a hole 301 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: in the ice at the top of Mount Ara Rat 302 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: into a wooden structure. Um he says. He says, quote, 303 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: we got very excited when we saw this. Part of 304 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: the room was divided into pends, like places where you 305 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: would keep animals. And so this is on TV and 306 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: people are getting like really excited about this that uh, 307 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: he took some wood with them. Then tragedy struck. Vladimir 308 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: was taking pictures and basically backed up and like fell 309 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: out and tumbled down the mountain and died, destroying the 310 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: film evidence. Wink wink. Uh. And as of course, if 311 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: you can't see where this is headed, as it later 312 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: comes out, George Jamal is an actor. He'd been telling 313 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: this story for years. He's never been to Turkey. There 314 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 1: is no Vladimir. The whole thing was completely made up. 315 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,439 Speaker 1: And uh, it gets a little more fun. Though. They 316 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: had experts paraded about throughout the show that claimed certain 317 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: things like Biblical era people developed the batteries and uh, 318 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: with those batteries they ran air conditioners. Wait, I've heard 319 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 1: about batteries. They did have chemical batteries, like back in Egypt. Really, yeah, 320 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: did they run air conditioners? I don't believe that. Um. 321 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: They said that the flood occurred in subterranean chambers, bursting 322 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: up through the Earth's surface with the blosion explosive power 323 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: of ten billion hydrogen bombs. And it's important to note 324 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: that none of this is like substantiated. It was all 325 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: just like made up stuff. And then finally they found 326 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: fossils of animals buried in swimming positions, and fish found 327 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 1: in positions of terror, fins extended and eyes bulging, so 328 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: like these fish were so scared that they were fossilized 329 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: and uh, flash fossilized, flash fossilized with their eyes intact, 330 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: bulging at the water, because I guess a lot of 331 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: water is intimidating to a fish. I would think they 332 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: would have been like, sweet, do you think they really 333 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: need to pile on more lower? It was weird. Can 334 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: we just stick with the existing lore and try to 335 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: figure that out? So anyway, that was the big hoax, 336 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: and it was found out to be a hoax and 337 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: a big disappointment for some people. I'm sure some people. 338 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: Other people are probably like um. So I've mentioned Robert Ballard, 339 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: the guy who found the Titanic, famed explorer UM. He 340 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: led an exposition in two thousand UM and he was 341 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,959 Speaker 1: looking not so much for Noah's Ark itself, although if 342 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: there's any place on Earth that would be a great 343 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: place to preserve a wooden boat for several thousand years. 344 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: The Black Sea, the bottom of it is apparently perfect, 345 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: very very cold, very low in oxygen um. And they 346 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: have found some pretty ancient wood structures, but they haven't 347 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: found any Neolithic structures, although I said they did find 348 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 1: the ancient shoreline. They found seven kinds of muscles, like 349 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: ancient extinct muscles. Five of them are salt water, two 350 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: or freshwater. Just incontrovertible evidence that there is that that 351 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: they found this old ancient freshwater lake shoreline and at 352 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: some point that's what the Black Sea was, and then 353 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: it was inundated somehow so quickly. Uh, not from the 354 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: Neolithic period where it should have where this would have 355 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: taken place. Yet he has found some stuff, but not 356 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: necessarily that, and that would suggest that this flood did happen, 357 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: and it did happen quickly, and there were people around 358 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: to witness it and create a story about it. But 359 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 1: what experts think that there is no wood that would 360 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: survive that long. It's that's likely the case in ice 361 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: and water and whatever. And also, I mean if it 362 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: was trapped in ice, like say on the side of error, right, Um, 363 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: a glacier wouldn't have frozen it in place. It would 364 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: have moved it down the mountain. That's what they say. 365 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: So what about Suleiman? Uh? Well, let's talk about the 366 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: air rat anomaly first, because that's pretty interesting. Okay, I'm sorry, 367 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: I thought we already had, did I guess not. I 368 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: think we're about whom we took a step to the left. 369 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: There are photos that were taken by the c I 370 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: a UM back in the day, and I think it 371 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: was I think it was actually film as well, and 372 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: they've got film frames now that they've released. They were 373 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 1: classified and then released in the Freedom of Information Act. 374 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: And if you look at pictures, there's a dark spot 375 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: and it looks like a big old boat. It looks 376 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: like a big old boat. And um, so they called 377 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: that the error at an only but most like experts claim, 378 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: like you said, that it wouldn't just be stuck frozen 379 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: up there, it would have moved down from the mountain, 380 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 1: not at feet and that's where um uh, George Jamal 381 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: said he what he found it was on err Rat, yeah, 382 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: which he had never been tot Um. And then Mount 383 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: Suleman that's the one in Iran and that's been a 384 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: particular interest to the Bible Archaeology Search and ex Exploration Institute. 385 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: Did you see this one? I have not. Does it 386 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: look like it too? It looks like a I mean 387 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: it's rock. Well they're saying like, yeah, it looks like 388 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: it's rock, but it's actually petrified wood. But it's not 389 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: the big problem is it's missing like obvious cuts and 390 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: joints in evidence that it was a man made wooden 391 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: structure at some point in time. Yeah. There's there's a 392 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 1: Christian apologetics group called Answers in Genesis that you can 393 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: find on the internet, and they even came out and 394 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: were like, I think officially they didn't have an official comment, 395 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: but they said, you know, even Christian creationist geologists say 396 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: that it's a rock formation and this kind of stuff 397 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: if you push it just makes us look bad. I 398 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: got to, but they still said, but you never know, right. 399 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: But it is in the shape of a boat. Ish, 400 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: that's cool. Of roughly the same size. That's very neat. 401 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: So it's still out there. Possibly. I like Ballard's approach. 402 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not looking for the ark, man, I'm 403 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 1: looking for evidence that this flood took place, and there 404 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: are people around to witness it. If I find the 405 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 1: boat awesome, If not, whatever, and everyone else can just 406 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: do get out. Yeah, exactly, I find it interesting. I 407 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: did too. I sit ringside. Oh yeah, that's that's a 408 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: good place to be in this one. Sure, um, you 409 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: got anything else? Uh no, My my nephew's name is Noah. 410 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: I know I met him finally. Sure he is taller 411 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: than you, taller than me. He's he's getting up there. 412 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: Choose bigger voice deeper. That's funny, Like this little kid 413 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 1: with this deep voice. Now I was waiting for it 414 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: to crack it anymoret um. Okay, Well that's it. If 415 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: you want to learn more about Noah's Ark, you can 416 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: read this pretty cool article on the site by typing 417 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: Noah's Ark in the search bar at how stuff works 418 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: dot com. Our beloved site, and I said how stuff 419 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 1: works dot com or search bar or something like that, 420 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: which means it's time for a listener mail. M hold everything, Josh. 421 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: Before listener mail, we need to announce one final time, 422 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 1: which still won't be enough because some people will still say, well, 423 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: I didn't know about it. TS. We're doing all we can, yeah, seriously, 424 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: aside from coming to your house and telling you excuse me. 425 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: March eleven, on Sunday, we are live podcasting at south 426 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: By Southwest three pm to four thirty and at the 427 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: Drisco Hotel Maximilian Room. That's official. You need to be 428 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: a badgeholder, you kidd in. That is correct. The following 429 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: evening Happy Hour Monday March twelve, five to nine Flado 430 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: Irish Pub to fourteen West fourth Street. What's going on? 431 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 1: We're having the stuff you should know, UH live variety show. 432 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: We're gonna have our buddy John Hodgman. There are soon 433 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: to be Buddy Eugene Merman doing some stand up. He's 434 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: very funny. We're gonna have music by Lucy Wainwright, Roach 435 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: Crooks local Austin band and UH are good friends to 436 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: Henry Clay people, your brothers in arms. That's right, And 437 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: all of this is to show off clips from the 438 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 1: public debut of our TV pilot that we made for 439 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: Science Channel. That's right, half hour TV pilot, half hour show. 440 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: If you think you know what it's like, you are mistaken. 441 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: It ain't no MythBusters, not that there's anything wrong with that. Well, 442 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: why would we want to do another thing a myth 443 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 1: we're doing our own? Is that what people think it is? Well, 444 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: I mean that's what I would think. It would be 445 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: sort of like, okay, but this is different. Is definitely fine. 446 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: Channel is rolling the dice here on us. It's neat 447 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: and it's very neat and fun and um, please show 448 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: up to see clips. I mean it's gonna be like 449 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: the party that evening in Austin, at least that's what 450 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: I think. Well, yeah, there's gonna be a lot of 451 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: parties too, So yeah, it's that's really saying something. So 452 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 1: come on down. You don't have to be twenty one 453 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: to bring your kids. That can have some chicken fingers 454 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: and iced tea and uh, it would just be a 455 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: good wholesome night of fun. You're really pimping the chicken 456 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: fingers lately. Fingers all right, let's get back to it. Yes, uh, 457 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: this is from Sarah, the amazing fourteen year old fan. Awesome. 458 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: It's been a while. We even psyched people out with 459 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: the Hodgman thing, but this is real. Hi, their epic people. 460 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: That's the three of us. Wow. I just realized how 461 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: long it's been since I emailed you guys. It has 462 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: been forever. Over the past nine months, I've made some 463 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 1: pretty big transitions. I'm now a freshman in high school, 464 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: and it is in my old grade school. We had 465 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: about thirty kids in the grade. Now I have a 466 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: hundred kids. May not seem like too extreme to you, 467 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: but it's a little bit of a change. I went 468 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: from knowing all my classmates middle names, birthdays, family members, etcetera. 469 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, parentheses, not in a creepy way. If you're 470 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: with someone for eight years, you get to know a 471 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: bit about them, she points out, like we would think 472 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: she's some creepo uh to not knowing everyone. Luckily, I 473 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: knew quite a few people from the other two towns 474 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: that we came together with to make a high school, 475 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: so the transition wasn't that bad. Um. When I was 476 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: in grade school, I was involved in almost every extracurricular possible. 477 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: Not much has changed. I played golf, I'm in fb 478 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: L A, remember that Future Business Leaders of America. UH, 479 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: student council. I was in Scholastic Bowl International Club, band 480 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: and drama club. I'm also taking singing and guitar lessons. 481 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 1: So Sarah is continuing to her plot to overtake the 482 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: world clearly uh. And then she just realized she hasn't 483 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: listened to a podcast in over a month. I literally 484 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: faced palm myself. And then she sent us a YouTube 485 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,959 Speaker 1: video Josh of a macrom Ay lady who was afraid 486 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: of owls on PBS. She thought it was very funny. 487 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: I did too, and it gave her an idea that 488 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: we should do a podcast on Macroomay, or maybe do 489 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: one over phobias of animals. And then I thought, maybe 490 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: do one on public television. So she says, do you 491 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: see my dilemma? I have too many ideas. In normal circumstances, 492 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: this wouldn't be a problem. That's it. That's how she 493 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: ended that way. There was some other stuff I had 494 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: to edit. It was a long one. Well, thanks a lot, Sarah. 495 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: We're glad for yet another dispatch from you, and not 496 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: a phony one this time, that's right, I was a 497 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: real one. I I emailed her back. I was like, hey, 498 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: have you listened? Like we need send you your book 499 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: and she was like, okay, send me my book. I 500 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: was like, okay, have your parents send us your address? 501 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: Did they do that? She goes, I'll have to get 502 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: back to you. So I suspect your parents don't know 503 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: she's an Internet celebrator. Probably so. UM, well, if let's see, 504 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: what do you want to hear about? Oh, I don't 505 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: know if you've been If you how about this, if 506 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: you've visited any uh biblicals famous biblical locations. If you've 507 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: visited any famous biblical locations, and you know of great 508 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: restaurants and watering holes in Austin, we want to hear 509 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 1: about them one or the other. Um, it's almost one 510 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: of the same. Chunk. 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