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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, who gets to name continents? That's a great question,

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Speaker 1: and we answer that on March sixteen. I think this

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Speaker 1: is a Josh pick really interesting interesting topic because heck

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Speaker 1: I didn't know who gets to name continents? And now

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Speaker 1: I do. And if you haven't listened to this one,

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Speaker 1: give it a listen. Now it's a very very cool

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Speaker 1: episode Who gets to Name Continents? Welcome to Stuff You

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Speaker 1: Should Know, a production of My Heart Radios How Stuff Works.

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Speaker 1: Hey you, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and Jerry's over there. So

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Speaker 1: this is Stuff you should know. Geography. We are in

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Speaker 1: North America. That's right, Chuck. According to some Yeah, actually

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Speaker 1: according to everybody. No, not everybody. Oh yeah, we'll get

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Speaker 1: to it. Okay, we don't want to spoil like basically

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Speaker 1: the fact of the podcast right already. Uh, this is

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Speaker 1: as I said about geography. And if this kind of

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Speaker 1: thing puts your boat, I strongly suggest you go look

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Speaker 1: at how Maps work or read or listen to that episode. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a good one. It was. Remember we've found

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Speaker 1: that like people, other people see the world the map

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Speaker 1: upside down. Sure, you know, Yeah, it all depends on

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Speaker 1: how you look at it, agreed. And that actually kind

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Speaker 1: of comes into play, not just with how you look

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Speaker 1: at a map and say, oh, I'm on top and

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Speaker 1: you're on bottom, so therefore you must be developing. Um.

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Speaker 1: Naming continents is a kind of a what what we

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Speaker 1: humans are kind of big on names, I guess. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're big on location. We're big on identifying with where

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Speaker 1: It's a whole in group out group bs, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and uh boy, I have to say for a short

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Speaker 1: ish podcast, which this is going to be, it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be our longest one. Let's take an eye break, No,

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Speaker 1: not yet. I hazard to say that I learned more

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Speaker 1: in this than ten Barbie podcast than the ten Barbie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Actually that's not true. I learned a lot in that

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Speaker 1: one too, that one, but this is just loaded with

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Speaker 1: interesting stuff because I am not the biggest geography buff.

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Speaker 1: For someone who is a math or a maps buff, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well you like for the artistry, right, Yeah? And I

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Speaker 1: was just ordered a great new map. Um. I wish

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Speaker 1: I could remember the guy's name, but it was read

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Speaker 1: an article on this super detailed, awesome map of the

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Speaker 1: United States, and this guy spent years and years, uh

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Speaker 1: drawing Arby's all over the country. Not an Army's map

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Speaker 1: that would be great, though, although you can just follow

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Speaker 1: your nose. You don't really need it always knows, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just like smell the Horsey sauce. I love that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Although the Arvy sauces by far the superior of the two. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think you got mixed them. That's the key. Not always.

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Speaker 1: I'm more of a beef and cheddar chedd to mix

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Speaker 1: with the Arby's sauce. It's delicious, and the horse sauce,

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Speaker 1: although I'm okay with horse sauce. Sometimes I haven't had

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Speaker 1: Arbies and forever. Oh yeah, it's delicious. That I have

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Speaker 1: a fairly disgusting roast beeep sandwich is so good, right

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Speaker 1: all right? Uh? Anyway, I ordered this amazing map and

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Speaker 1: um it hasn't arrived. I can't wait for it to

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Speaker 1: get here, though. It's gonna Actually I'm gonna frame this one,

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Speaker 1: I think. Okay, you don't have all your maps framed, No,

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Speaker 1: Do you know how to swing a hammer, don't you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just build another room, Chuck room. I wish my friend so, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about um continents in their names and

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Speaker 1: in n even further back than that n million years ago,

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Speaker 1: don't stop till you have enough. So uh. In the

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Speaker 1: these pre current continent continent names, pre white dude names, right,

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Speaker 1: these names. Yes, so, Chuck. That is the theory of

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Speaker 1: continental drifting. The whole idea is that, um, there's a

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Speaker 1: went to these mountains after American natives said, Hey, there's

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Speaker 1: gold in them dar Hills, which of course is really

421
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: all they wanted anyway. Well, that's not true. They wanted

422
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: to discover new lands, but hopefully new lands with gold

423
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: and people you could subjugate. Um, so that they went

424
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: to there, and then it was named after those mountains. Yeah,

425
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: not bad. And did you say both Columbus and Vespucci

426
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: supposedly traveled to these mountains. Yeah, because they wanted the gold, right,

427
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: So that's a pretty good reason to call it that.

428
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 1: And um, when you combine that with the evidence that

429
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: a cartographer likely would have named it Vespucci Land rather

430
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: than America after America, Um, it's entirely possible that America

431
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: is actually named after a indigenous Mayan word for some mountains.

432
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 1: I think it means place of wind in Mayan. Interesting. Uh.

433
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: Another theory, and this one I don't think it's very

434
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: I don't think it holds water. But there was a

435
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: British Royal rep named Richard Americ A. M. E. R.

436
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: I k E and supposedly explorer John Cabot became the

437
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: first well this isn't supposed in four seven, he definitely

438
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: became the first to sail under the British flag to

439
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: the New World. And apparently when he got back he

440
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: got a big wad of cash from America and he

441
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, I'm gonna name the country in continent

442
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: after you. Then, but that there's really nothing to substantiate that, right,

443
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: and then Cabot retired to make some pretty decent butter

444
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so that him, I think, So okay, surely

445
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 1: it's him. Still, maybe I need several hundred years old.

446
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: Do you want to take a break again, Yeah, let's break,

447
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about our favorite continent, Australia. So, Chuck,

448
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: you were telling everybody our favorite continent is Australia. Yeah,

449
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: that's what Lex Luthor Gene Hackman is less. Lex Luthor

450
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: wanted in Superman. He wanted Australia to his own or

451
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: Superman too. Um, yeah, I remember Electric The three uh

452
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: the three uh Terrance uh Terrence uh Stamp in the

453
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: gang came down and he and like Luthor was working

454
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: in cahoots with them and they were like, well, what

455
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: do you want in return for delivering Superman? He said Australia,

456
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: I don't remember that man. Gina Hacker was great. I

457
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 1: saw this the beginning of a movie with Robin Williams

458
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: and Walter math Ou. Robin Williams was like a baby

459
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: at the time, but like they foil a robbery and

460
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 1: like become heroes, I think. And then they yeah, they

461
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: go to like a survivalist camp or something. I think

462
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: it's called Survivors. I think. So I saw like the

463
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: first ten minutes, but I was like, man, there's no one,

464
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: no one on the planet like Walter math Ou anymore.

465
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: Like he was awesome. And then I was like, god,

466
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Robin Williams and Walter math how working together?

467
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: And then didn't they do like Moscow on the Hudson too?

468
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: Wasn't that one? And then I don't went on, I

469
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: don't think math that was in that one. Oh he wasn't.

470
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: I thought he was. Maybe it wasn't. I could be

471
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: wrong because I never saw it. Those early Robin Williams

472
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: movies were great. Recording to Garp, I never saw that

473
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: one that was by the guy who did Sighter House

474
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 1: Rules right, John Irving. He was pretty great. Um, but

475
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: then it made me think about Couch Trip. You remember

476
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: that movie with Dana k Royd and Walter math I

477
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: didn't see it. Was it good? Yes, it was so good.

478
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: I'm I haven't seen it in decades, but I guarantee

479
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: it still holds up. I mean it's math Owen Ackroyd. Yeah,

480
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: one's like a con man pretending to be crazy and

481
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: the other one actually is crazy. Who's the only person

482
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: who can sense that this guy's a con man? You know,

483
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: I've never been this. You know, I'm sorry. He's a

484
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: con man pretending to not be crazy. That makes more sense.

485
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: It's great. I've never been the hugest danac roy guy. Uh.

486
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: He definitely is Danakroyd. Dana Kroyd and I don't dislike him,

487
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: but Walter math I was providing a nice slow burning

488
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: distraction over here. If you don't like Dana Kroyd, you'll

489
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: still like Couch Trip. Yeah, em boy, the odd couple

490
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: math Owen Lemon. I don't know if I ever saw

491
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: that original one. So good? All right, that's called movie

492
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: Sidebar with Josh and Chuck, and that started with Geene

493
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: Heckman We didn't mean to talk about him. Oh I

494
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: love Jeane hack He needs to unretire, is what I'm saying. Like,

495
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: go'll make another movie your swan song. That's what I say. Alright,

496
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: we own you, Gene Hackman. Australia, which is what Gene

497
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: Hackman is, like Luthor wanted. Um, it is a bit

498
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: of a mystery to most. People will point to Matthew

499
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: Flinders in two as the nam er because he was

500
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: the first to circumnavigate it and create that map, and

501
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: Australis means southern, so it all makes sense, right yeah,

502
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: back in back in the day. Um, the cartographers are

503
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: already aware of Australia before Matthew Flinders circumnavigated it, but

504
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: they called it the Terra Australis, which is the southern land.

505
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: Matthew Flinders is like I like the sign of Australia more,

506
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: it's more pleasing to the ear, apparently, is how it

507
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: was put right, Um, the thing is is and for

508
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: a very long time that's how Australia was named as

509
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: far as anyone was concerned. But then Australia's National Library

510
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: discovered a way older map from before eighteen o two

511
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: from fifty five. Yeah, from a German astronomer name Siriaco

512
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: yakub sum Barth. That's a great name, great name, not

513
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: at all German if you ask me, except for the

514
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: yakub thing, uh um Barth is but that's Siriaco. Definitely

515
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: doesn't look German. But yeah, fifty five, that's like way

516
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: way before. Yeah, and apparently there's maps that are even

517
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: slightly older than that around and one of them might

518
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: have been produced by Mercator himself. Uh that also refer

519
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: to the area around Australia as Australia something so not

520
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: everyone was referring to it exclusively as the Terra Australias.

521
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: But it's probably it's probable that the Syriac go yakub

522
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: zoom Barth is the one who first labeled it Australia.

523
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: All right, we should do a podcast on the history

524
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: of Australia. Sure, super interesting, starring Hugh Jackman for the

525
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: World War Two part. By the way, when I mentioned

526
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman is P. T. Barnum, he is in fact

527
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: playing P. T. Barnum in an upcoming musical version of movie.

528
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: But right right, either didn't know or I subliminally knew,

529
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: but I didn't overtly know. I thought later on after

530
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: I found that out, that you've just been messing with

531
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: me the whole episode. Well, I apologize for assuming that

532
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: that's all right. I either didn't know, or maybe I

533
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: had read that and just forgot or something because you

534
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: said it like three times yeah, or maybe I should

535
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: get into cast. If you didn't know, then hats off

536
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: to you because that was prescient. So now let's move

537
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: on to Oh did you see some of the suggestions

538
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: we got though? Oh? For P. T. Barnum, Yeah, I

539
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: think that my favorite one was John c Riley. He'd

540
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: be an odd John c. Or he'd be an odd P. T. Barnum,

541
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: but he could totally do it. Yeah. I saw one.

542
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: Someone said Tom Hardy, who like he'd be great in anything,

543
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: but he's in everything right now, right now. And then

544
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,719
Speaker 1: someone sent cole Meny. It was sort of like the

545
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: the names, like I know the name, who is it?

546
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: That he's like the English John c Riley. He sort

547
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: of looks like him. He's older though, right or he

548
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: may be Irish. Yeah, he's a little older. Yeah, yeah,

549
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: I know who he is. They kind of look alike

550
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: a bit Cole mean, he's got a little more dapperness

551
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: to him, a little more suave. Nois maybe, well, there's

552
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: nothing about John c Riley the Swave. Have you seen

553
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: we need to talk about Kevin. Oh, you'll love it.

554
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: The movie It's a sleeper with John c Riley and

555
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: Till the Swinton about um, they have a kid who's

556
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: a bad kid until the Swinton's having to deal with it. Interesting,

557
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,719
Speaker 1: really great movie. It's on Netflix right now. I love

558
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: John c Riley, so he's kind of a prop in

559
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: the background for this. It's mostly Till the Swinton, and

560
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure they appreciate hearing that he knows Okay, there's

561
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: no way he played that role and doesn't. Now. I

562
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: never knew we could talk so much about movies in

563
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: this one. I didn't see that coming. Um, so let's

564
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: talk about the other continents, um, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Basically,

565
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: what it boils down to with the rest of these

566
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: is they were likely named by sailors who had to

567
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: call them something. Yeah, probably um, and they're like Africa

568
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,760
Speaker 1: has a few different contenders that are pretty good. Um.

569
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: There's a a afrak people who are in the northern

570
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: part of Africa. There there Berber tribe not a bad source. Yeah,

571
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: makes sense. Um. And then apparently at PreK in Greek

572
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: or a preca in Latin means sunny, right, yeah, makes

573
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:55,479
Speaker 1: sense to uh. And then there's uh so who who knows?

574
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: The point is there's no documentation for when Africa was

575
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: for named, and it was most likely Africa, Europe and

576
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: Asia were named by seafaring folks who were like, we're

577
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: going this place, and they needed a name for this

578
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: place so they their families would know where they were

579
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: to go look for them if they didn't come back. Yeah,

580
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,439
Speaker 1: and so they came up with names like Europe and Asia. Yeah.

581
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: Phoenician sailors. Uh. It's believed they may have used their

582
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: proximity to the sun, because Asia might come from a

583
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 1: c u a q for sunrise or east in Europe,

584
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: which is of course west, uh, closer to the sunset

585
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: if you're standing in the east U e r e

586
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: b arab, which means sunset or west. That's a Phoenician word, right,

587
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: So it's possible Phoenician sailors named Asia and Europe. There's

588
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 1: other ones to like Europa as a Greek um mythological figure, right, yeah, um,

589
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 1: and then uh, Asia could have been named after a

590
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 1: ruler named um Osios, a Trojan ruler. Yeah, I don't

591
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: think that's it. That's the fun thing about things where

592
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: it's like no one knows. You can be like that's

593
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: not right. Yeah, you read certain you read theories and

594
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: some make sense to you and some don't. All right,

595
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: I like that. Uh, that's why I don't. I think

596
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,240
Speaker 1: math never appealed to me and why it does appeal

597
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: to math fans just because it's rules apply and like

598
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: there is a right and a wrong. I'm much more

599
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: prone to be like to think about something and have

600
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: theories about it. Well, you know, they say you read

601
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: a lot of fiction, right, They say that people who

602
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: read fiction are much more open to um ambiguous resolutions

603
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: or non resolutions are lacking closure um. And because you

604
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: so frequently get that from fiction, it leads to the question, though,

605
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: which is first, are you attracted to fiction because it

606
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: usually has resolutions like there? Have you been trained to

607
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: accept resolutions like that from appreciating fiction? Well, back to movies.

608
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things which really bothers a lot

609
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: of people, or movies with ambiguous endings. If it if

610
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: done right. I think it's one of the coolest things

611
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: you can do in a movie is to not wrap

612
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: it up in a little bow and kind of leave

613
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: the end with a decision like what's going on here?

614
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: For a sequel? Well maybe, um, I bet math majors

615
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: hate that though, now that I think about, you know. Uh.

616
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: And then finally, some people still, depending on where you

617
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: are in the world, don't recognize all the continents. No.

618
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: And this actually makes sense to me because we said earlier,

619
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 1: continent is a body of land surrounded on all sides

620
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: by a body of water, right, So that means that

621
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: a lot of the continents that we recognize over here

622
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: in the West as continents ain't continents. They're incontinents. So

623
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: according to some parts of the world, North American, South America,

624
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: that's just America, uh, and then Europe and Asia just Eurasia. Yeah,

625
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 1: and that's it. I've got a great pavement T shirt

626
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: that has North and America on it and it says

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Speaker 1: them around here? Yeah we don't. Uh, And bring it on.

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Speaker 1: Send the email about how I'm wrong for going to

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Speaker 1: the track or wanting here. If you want to know

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Speaker 1: bring up a mess of great articles. Since I said mess,

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Speaker 1: road tripping. We get a lot of emails from people

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Speaker 1: that listen to us while they're road tripping, Yes, which

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Speaker 1: is very nice. Hey guys, my husband and I are

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Speaker 1: his life. I started the driving in the trip, and

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Speaker 1: to Florida. First of all, Husband, Tom, Yeah, that's pretty

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Speaker 1: serious stuff. All right, we're in Texas, hunt, can you

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Speaker 1: then let me turn an episode on five days into

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Speaker 1: the trip. Every time we get into the car, he

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Speaker 1: Our biggest debates are deciding on which podcast to listen

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Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Thank you so much for what you do.

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Speaker 1: And that is from Kim and Tom Kepler. And since

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Speaker 1: we are not recording too far out these days, they're

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Speaker 1: most likely still on their trip. Yeah, enjoy the trip,

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Speaker 1: be safe, have fun and drive you know every now

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Speaker 1: and then. Tom. Yeah, really Tom, Let's get it together,

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Speaker 1: shall we. That's awesome. I hope they've just heard this. Yeah.

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