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On Saturday of May, 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: we will be in Houston, Texas, and on Sunday May 11 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: we are going to Denver. You can find out all 12 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: the information at s y s K live dot com 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: right powered by square Space and tickets go and sail 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: this Friday. Yeah, so go get them be there or 15 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: be square Houston and Denver. Welcome to you Stuff you 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: should know from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey you, 17 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,919 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, and Jerry's over there. So this is stuff 19 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: you should know. Geography. We are in North America, that's right, Chuck. 20 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: According to some yeah, actually according to everybody. No, not everybody. Yeah, 21 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: we'll get to it, Okay, we don't want to spoil 22 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: like basically the fact of the podcast right already. Uh, 23 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: this is as I said about geography, and if this 24 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: kind of thing quotes your boat, I strongly suggest you 25 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: go look at how maps work or read or listen 26 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: to that episode. Yeah, it was a good one. It was. 27 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: Remember we've found that like people, other people see the 28 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: world the map upside down. Sure, you know, yeah, it 29 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: all depends on how you look at it, agreed, And 30 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: that actually kind of comes into play, not just with 31 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: how you look at a map and say, oh, I'm 32 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: on top and you're on bottom, so therefore you must 33 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: be developing. Um Naming continents is a kind of a well, well, 34 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: we humans are kind of big on names, I guess. Yeah, 35 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: we're big on location. We're big on identifying with where 36 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: we're from, with where we live, that kind of stuff. 37 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: It's the whole in group, out group, Yes, you know. Yeah, 38 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: and uh boy, I have to say, for a short 39 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: ish podcast, which this is going to be, it's gonna 40 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: be our longest one, let's take an head break. No, 41 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: not yet. I hazard to say that I learned more 42 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: in this than ten Barbie podcast than the ten Barbie podcast. 43 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: Actually that's not true. I learned a lot in that 44 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: one too, that one, but this is just loaded with 45 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: interesting stuff because I am not the biggest geography buff. 46 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: For someone who is a math or a maps buff. Yeah, 47 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: well you like for the artistry, right, Yeah. And I 48 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: was just ordered a great new map. Um. I wish 49 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: I could remember the guy's name, but it was read 50 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: article on this super detailed, awesome map of the United States, 51 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: and this guy spent years and years, uh drawing Arby's 52 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: all over the country. Not an Army's map. That would 53 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: be great though, although you can just follow your nose, 54 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: you don't really need it always knows. Yeah, just like 55 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: smell the Horsey sauce. I love that stuff, although the 56 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: Arvy sauces by far the superior of the two. Well, 57 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: I think you got to mix them. That's the key. 58 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: Not always. I'm more of a beef and cheddar cheddar 59 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: mix with the Arby's sauce it's delicious, and the horses sauce, 60 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: although I'm okay with horse sauce. Sometimes I haven't had 61 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: Arbies and forever. Yeah, it's delicious. That disgusting roast beech 62 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: sandwich is so good. All right? Uh? Anyway, I ordered 63 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: this amazing map, and um it hasn't arrived. I can't 64 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: wait for it to get here, though. It's gonna Actually 65 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna frame this one, I think. Okay, you don't 66 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: have all your maps framed. No, you need like a huge, 67 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: huge wing of your house and just have every map 68 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: you have right framed on the wall. I should be like, 69 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: I'm starting to see a pattern here. That would mean 70 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: I have a huge room to my house, all to myself, 71 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: and that's not true. Unfortunately. You know how to swing 72 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: a hammer, don't you. Yeah, just build another room, Chuck room, 73 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: I wish my friend so Chuck. We were talking about 74 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: um continents in their names and all that stuff, right, 75 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: It turns out that when you think about the continents names, 76 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: some of them seem kind of whole hum or whatever. 77 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: There's actually some really great stories behind these things, um 78 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: and the We should probably start at the very beginning, 79 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: way back way way back in even further back than 80 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: that million years ago. If you looked at the planet Earth, 81 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: you would have seen that there weren't a bunch of 82 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: different continents, that there was actually one huge continent that 83 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: wore a headman and had enormous like four arms named Pangaea. 84 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: What a stud that continent was. And there was one ocean. 85 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: Uh and the name of that ocean was Panthalassa. Yeah, 86 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't all divided up. It was just one big 87 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: chunk of land and surrounded by one massive ocean. Right. 88 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: And then as we'll see later, this is the prominent 89 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: theory by the way, Right, Okay, we don't like, no 90 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: one was around back then. Two million years are going 91 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: and be like note to two thousand sixteen. This is 92 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: the way things are land wise around here. Um. No. 93 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: And the this this theory actually was we've talked about 94 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: it before. It had to have been in the earthquakes episode. 95 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: This guy was awesome. Alfred Wegener. Yeah, back in I 96 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: think nineteen fifteen he published his theory on continental drift. Yeah, 97 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. Um. The theory, well, there's some reasons 98 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: behind it. But the theory is that you know, the 99 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: Earth that's made up these big plates. If you listen 100 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: to our volcanoes or earthquake episodes, we talk a lot 101 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: about that, and over time these things cracked apart and 102 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: shifted and drifted. Uh. And we now have many continents, right, 103 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: But that's not what people thought for a very long time, 104 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 1: Like they guess they just took for granted that the 105 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: continents were the way they were. But Alfred Wegner Um, 106 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: first of all, he noticed on a map, like, wow, 107 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: it looks like you could really tuck Africa, um, east 108 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: or West Africa into the eastern part of South America 109 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: really nicely. Yeah. And in fact, the more I look 110 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: at it, the whole thing looks like a puzzle that 111 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: kind of fits together. Yeah, if you're if you have 112 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: a brain. So that's where he got his idea first, 113 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: and then he started setting about proving it or supporting 114 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: coming up with evidence. How about that? And um, one 115 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: of the things he looked at was coal steams along 116 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: edges of these puzzle pieces and found that they were 117 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: composed of basically the same stuff. Yeah, like cole in Pennsylvania. 118 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: Deposits in Pennsylvania were similar or the same to those 119 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: in Poland and Germany and Great Britain. Yeah, which shouldn't 120 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: happen because what coal is its basically compressed former organisms 121 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 1: decaying matter, right, And so you would think that these 122 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: different organisms would have evolved differently on different continents. If 123 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: they weren't together, and the fact that they were the 124 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: same and and decomposed in about the same amounts suggests 125 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: that they were all part of the same land mass 126 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: at one point. Pretty neat. And then he also found 127 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: fossils on different continents that really shouldn't have been the same. Yeah, 128 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: he saw plant fossils and said, wait a minute, I'm 129 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: finding this stuff in places that are wildly different from 130 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: one another, these fossils. So maybe again that lends to 131 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: my theory. Or how about this mountain range, the Appalachian Mountains, 132 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: very similar to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Maybe it 133 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: was all one big mountainous mass at one point, And 134 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: it turns out they probably were. What was the name 135 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: of that mountain range were part of the Central Pangaea Mountains, 136 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: which apparently forms through the collision of the supercontinents of 137 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: gond Anna and uh Laurussia. Yeah, because and we're we're 138 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: also um. In addition to this how stuff works article, 139 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: you found a great article by Tia Ghosts, who writes 140 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: for Live Science and write some pretty great stuff. Yeah, 141 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: this is really good, and Ghosts um Is basically just 142 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: broke it all out, like how Pangia formed what Pangia 143 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: broke into. It's a really interesting article. Yeah and concise. 144 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: I like articles. It's not fluff, you know, right, just 145 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: like packed with get to it right at the beginning. Okay, 146 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: I love it and don't let up, don't stop to 147 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: have enough. So uh. In the article they talk about 148 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: the uh the process that spanned a few hundred million 149 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: years with a continent called Laurentia. That's a great continent 150 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: name part of it, which includes part of North America 151 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: and some other micro continents that formed eventually You're America. 152 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: That's not bad. It sounds like a craft work album 153 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: who it does totally. Uh You're America crashes into Gondwana, 154 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: which I mentioned before I liked to. I'm just gonna 155 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: come and say, I like these these pre current continent 156 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: continent names, pre white dude names, right, I guess so, 157 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: but I think they were named by white dudes, probably 158 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: more creative white dudes. Uh and A. Gondwana included Africa, Australia, 159 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: South America, and uh Indian subcontinent. Yeah. So like all 160 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: these it's so hilarious that all of these, um, these 161 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: ideas of nationalism and all this man if you've just 162 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: gone back a few hundred million years ago, you'd be neighbors. 163 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: Let's all just lighten up, exactly. And that's actually a 164 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 1: thing that we we talked about in the Maps episode two, 165 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 1: is like when you draw a map, you're you're making 166 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: a political statement. It's just there's such a sense of 167 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: otherness and togetherness based on geographical distribution, and it's it is, 168 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. It says a lot about the human psyche. Yeah, 169 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: we should do a podcast one day on the human 170 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: family tree. Yeah, we're super interesting. Yeah. Uh So, getting 171 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: back to the super continent, a couple of hundred million 172 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: years ago, Gondwana split off from laur Asia. That's a 173 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,439 Speaker 1: good one. To fifty million years later Gondwana broke up, 174 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: uh and then they had sixty million years ago North 175 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: America split off from Eurasia. And these are all the 176 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: prominent theories again. Yeah, well they follow the continental drift theory. Yeah. 177 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: And I mean it's not like they're just like, let's say, 178 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: let's say the Indian subcontinent broke off from this continent. 179 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: It's like, no, they they have gone through and done 180 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: the geological comparisons and have seen like when this basically 181 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 1: matched up to that, and that's what they've come up with. 182 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: It's pretty astounding that you didn't do that if you 183 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: have that enough patients. Yeah, in brains. Uh. So Interestingly 184 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: they talked to a little bit in the article about 185 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: a climate and what it might have been like back then. 186 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: And maybe the interior of this large supercontinent was completely 187 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: dry because it was surrounded by mountains. Uh. Maybe parts 188 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: of what is now North America used to be like 189 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 1: the Amazon rainforest, like a super lush jungle, right, it 190 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: would be kind of cool. Yeah, But if once you 191 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 1: got into the interior, when you crossed the what was 192 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 1: it the Central Um the Central Pangaea mountains, like you 193 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: were just you apparently there was a ring of mountains 194 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,479 Speaker 1: that that ran around the middle of the whole Pangaea 195 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: in the interior, and um, it just produced rain shadows 196 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: that kept rain out from the interior of the continent. 197 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: So it would have just been just a totally arid desert. 198 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: Pretty cool, It is cool. Uh, And of course this 199 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: isn't over. They point out in the article that things 200 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: are still changing. Um, Australias is creeping up on Asia. Yeah, 201 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: very slowly, of course. Yeah, pretty cool and uh parsh. 202 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: Part of Eastern Africa is just trying to get out 203 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: of the rest of Africa. Yeah, Eastern Africa staying so long. 204 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: I'm I'm going off on my own. I'm gonna seek 205 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: my own fortune and adventure. Of course, this is over 206 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 1: the course of hundreds of millions of years, so you 207 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: will likely not be around unless the Singularity happens soon. Yeah, exactly, 208 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: then you may and you can be like, this is 209 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: pretty cool. The people of Sydney will have a docking 210 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: party with the people of Hong Kong. I love that. 211 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: Uh So you want to take a little break here 212 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: and then we'll talk a little bit about these names. Yes, so, Chuck. 213 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: That is the theory of continental drifting. The whole idea 214 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: is that, um, there's a layer of magma and then 215 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: on top of it are the continental plates and they're 216 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,439 Speaker 1: constantly shifting and moving again, albeit very slowly, and when 217 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: they do, they expose a fissure and you've got volcanic activity, 218 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: or two plates slide up against one another, or one 219 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: subducts below the other one and you have earthquakes. So 220 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: there's a lot of evidence that continental drift is real 221 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: and that things like hollow Earth are probably not correct. 222 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: Probably have you noticed every time we do any kind 223 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: of geography, especially when we mentioned plate tectonics, that the 224 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: hollow Earth people come out of the woodwork and just 225 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: send us emails and leave comments, and yeah, man, they're 226 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: they're they're they're like the high frue tost Corncer people. 227 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: They're like really active in the comments section proto in 228 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: the gang. Oh wait, that's Middle Earth different uh. And Pangia, 229 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: we should mention, is Greek for all lands or all earth. 230 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: So that's a great name for the original super continent, right, 231 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: And Panthalassa is all ocean, the ocean that surrounded it. 232 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: And Pangia was what's considered a true continent. And we 233 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: should say this because they'll come up, But a true 234 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: continent is a landmask surrounded by ocean on all sides. 235 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: I'm looking at you Asia in Europe. I know, you know, 236 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: I know in fact part of actually I think you 237 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: sent this idea, didn't you. Yeah, what the whole idea 238 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: for the show was from you. But not too long ago, 239 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: I was, I think Emily asked me. She was like, 240 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: what is Russia? Is that part of is it Asian? 241 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: Or is it European, and I was like, well, I 242 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: don't know asa. Let's go look, well it depends part 243 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: of it. Well, yeah, part of it. Then same with 244 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: Turkey is is split and uh, you know, some people 245 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: identify with Europe, some people identify with Asia. That's why 246 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: the term eur Asia. Well, no, I got that, and 247 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: I got it from this article. But I didn't know 248 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: that like Russia itself was split, you know, yeah, that's 249 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: what it says. Like I could see like um uh 250 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: Kazakh stand or something being like straddling the sides, but 251 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: I didn't realize like Russia itself was split. Some that's 252 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: pretty interesting, maybe some Russians. All right, in tell us 253 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: how you identify? Are you Eurasian, Asian, European? Which one? Yeah? 254 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: Because obviously a lot of these lines are drawn culturally. 255 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: Um right, because their mountain ranges that that separated. That's 256 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: not I mean, it's a geographical border, but not when 257 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: you're speaking in continents, it's not incontinents. Should we tell 258 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: them Jerry's bad joke? Before we started, Jerry said, I 259 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: guess we're technically all incontinent, And I said, no, technically 260 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: we're all on continent. And then she said, or within continent, 261 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: and none of the three things that we said. We're funny. 262 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: That's that's how things happen before Yeah, that's why we 263 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: don't release this stuff beforehand. It's usually much better than that. 264 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: So let's get down to this, chuck. All right, let's 265 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: talk about naming continents, right, all right. Apparently with continents, 266 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: if you are prominently involved with this discovery, you typically 267 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: get some sort of naming rights. Yeah, and a lot 268 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: of these are very uh just conjecture goes into maybe 269 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: who named these and who didn't? Um. One big exception 270 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: is Antarctica because it's new ish. It's like the Poluto. Yeah, 271 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: as far as when people discovered it. Uh. In fact, 272 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: you can go to the New York Times and read 273 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: in uh nineteen four about the naming of Antarctica if 274 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: you were so inclined to be bored to tears. No. 275 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: I love those old articles. I like a lot of 276 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: them too, Like remember the subway accident where people got 277 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: shot out of the subway tunnel that was being dug. 278 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: That was an interesting article. This one is it's bad? 279 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: Did you read it? No? Just the seno? Okay, Well, 280 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: a man named Sir John Murray was a great exploring oceanographer. Uh. 281 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: He was part of the famous HMS Challenger Expedition, which, 282 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: for my money, is the greatest of all ocean going explorations. 283 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: The Challenger. Yeah, man, sixty nine thousand nautical miles, unbelievable. 284 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: If you look at the map of this thing and 285 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: the route, it was just it's staggering. Do you have 286 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: a map of it? I don't own one, but I 287 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: looked it up today. It's pretty neat. And I never 288 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: knew HMS stood for Did you know that Her Majesty's Ship? Yeah, 289 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: I never knew that. Oh, it's just like HMS. The 290 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: there's another one that I don't like, r MS I 291 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: don't know. And uh, what is the USS just United 292 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: States ship? I don't know. I never thought about that either. 293 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: Probably probably someone from the Navy could maybe point us 294 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 1: in the right direction. So anyway, John Murray, even though 295 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 1: the expedition, the Challenger expedition did not they kind of 296 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: buzzed Antarctica. Uh, they didn't actually see the land, but 297 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: they came close. But he would later go on to 298 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: do like actually go to Antarctica. Okay, I was gonna say, like, then, 299 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: how did he know anything about it. I guess his 300 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 1: interest was Pete. He saw icebergs and stuff. I'm coming back, um, 301 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: because this place is cold. He's come. I'm coming for you, 302 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: Taro and tiro uh So. In nineteen o four, UM 303 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: he actually was able to name it as a combination 304 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: of aunt opposite an Arctic, the North Pole. So it's 305 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: opposite of the North Pole the South Pole, pretty neat, 306 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: and which one has penguins? And so the Antarctica has 307 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: penguins and the North Pole doesn't. Isn't that right? I 308 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: don't remember, but that's like that's the case, right, doesn't 309 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: one have one and the other one doesn't? I know, 310 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: we got a lot of emails. I don't know why 311 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: I'm doing this again. I know I might as well 312 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: just took a car battery up to my nipples or something. 313 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,400 Speaker 1: It'll get the same. I got you on that one. Yeah, 314 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: that was good. UM. So let's talk about America because 315 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: I just realized something to check. This may be played 316 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: in UM geography classes in like middle school and stuff. 317 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: So if that's the case, I want to go ahead 318 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: and apologize to all the middle schoolers. Just had to 319 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: hear me say that that's okay, and don't don't try 320 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: that at home. It doesn't matter of what grade you're 321 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: in or how how long out of school you are agreed. 322 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: Uh So America the name America. If you went to 323 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: took Civics class or geography and elementary school and high school, 324 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,479 Speaker 1: you probably got the story that Amerigo Vespucci was it 325 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: was named after him, European explorer. Yeah, that guy has 326 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: been slandered, maligned, maybe worse than Columbus even apparently he 327 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: had a lot of rivals back in Italy, and um 328 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: they worked very hard to sully his name, and it 329 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: was quite effective over the centuries, to the point where 330 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: there was a big, almost a revival in in hatred 331 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: for Americo Vespucci, and a lot of really um uh 332 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: inaccurate ideas were revived based on propaganda, contemporary propaganda against him. 333 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: So so what's the idea that he ripped off Columbus. Well, 334 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: that's not It depends on your definition of ripped off. 335 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: So I don't have the impression that he ever said 336 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: I discovered America. He said Columbus discovered America. But the 337 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: distinction between Vespucci and Columbus is that Columbus didn't realize 338 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 1: that he hadn't hit already, that he hadn't hit undiscovered 339 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 1: or previously undiscovered by European land. Right, he thought that 340 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: he had just found another route to the West Indies. 341 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: Apparently until he died, Vespucci was the one to say, 342 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: no Europeans ever seen this before? Please, that was great, No, 343 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: it wasn't like it. Um. And so he is the 344 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: one who supposedly this continent was named after because he 345 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: was the one to wreck gnize it as previously uncharted land. Yeah, 346 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: and it's on record. Um. In fifteen o seven, a cartographer, 347 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 1: a German cartographer named Martin Valt semula our two favorite accents. Yeah, 348 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: Italian and German, two of the only two you can 349 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: still do these days and not get taken to desk force. Uh. 350 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: He very famously made a map that was a big 351 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: effort in France. Uh, in the fift hundreds too, really 352 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: bring the modern map into the forefront and like these 353 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: old maps like these were made by a bunch of 354 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: dummies who didn't know anything. So let's really expand our 355 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: geographic knowledge. And well, yeah this has when like mercater 356 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 1: started working. Yeah, so this this woodcut map that um 357 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: Baltzemula made was the first to depict a separate Western hemisphere, 358 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: the first to show the Pacific Ocean as a separate thing. Oh. 359 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: This guy, he was here, He's like, get that sea 360 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,959 Speaker 1: monster off of there. I'd lea but see monster just 361 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: for fun. But he um, it's an easter egg there. Yeah, 362 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: there was one of these maps. There is one of 363 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,239 Speaker 1: these maps still uh existing. And in two thousand three, 364 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: the Library of Congress bought it with donation from Discovery Channel. 365 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Apparently nice for ten million bucks. 366 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: It was in a castle for three d and fifty 367 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: years in southern Germany, and they're like, wow, let's buy 368 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: it and display it. I read about a guy um 369 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: who found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence 370 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: folded up behind a painting that he bought at a 371 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: yard sale four dollars amazing, and I think he sold 372 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: it for like a few million, and then Norman Maylor 373 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: bought it for like eight million. But yeah, it's somebody 374 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: just found the Declaration of It and it's I guess 375 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: in much the same way. That's amazing. I got nothing 376 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,479 Speaker 1: in my attic. I even looked, Oh you did look. 377 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you don't know, but I guess 378 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: you do that some old doors doors can be worth Yeah, 379 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: the door from the early nineteen thirties. Yeah, people love 380 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: those things. They go crazy for him. I think it's neat. 381 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: But you know, I wanted like a stash of gold 382 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: bullion or something like Prohibition era money. What's your house 383 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 1: abelt like nineteen Prohibition? Yeah, I guess so, labe, some 384 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:24,719 Speaker 1: old booze would be delicious. So um. The reason this 385 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: map is significant by is that it says America like 386 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: North South America are designated America by this map. And 387 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: this this map that is in question was from when 388 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: was it fifteen o seven? And um, somebody said, hey, buddy, um, 389 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: why did you call it America? And he said, I 390 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: did it in honor of America Vespucci. So the first 391 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: guy who really uses the word America is on record 392 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: apparently is saying he named it America after Americo Vespucci. 393 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: But a lot of people said that's a lie, it's 394 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,239 Speaker 1: a historical fallacy, it's inaccurate. One guy went so far 395 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: as to say that Amerigo Vespucci actually changed his name 396 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: after America was named, and that his real name was 397 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: um uh the Giovanni Vespucci, no Alberigo Vespucci, and that 398 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: he changed his name to Amerigo from Alberigo to conveniently 399 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: align with the naming of America. Right um. But apparently, 400 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: and this is this again, this is contemporary stuff. People said, 401 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: you changed your name, you big liar um. And then 402 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: in like the nineteen seventies, I think some historian revived 403 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: it and like that was the idea. But somebody else 404 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: went back and apparently found his baptismal certificate that lists 405 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: him as Amerigo Vespucci. The thing is is that still 406 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that America was named after Vespucci. Cho There 407 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: is a long um tradition among cartographers that had already 408 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 1: been established by this time America was discovered to name 409 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 1: new lands. If you're naming it after an explorer, you 410 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: named it after the explorer's last name. If you want 411 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: to name it after royalty, you named it after the 412 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:16,479 Speaker 1: royalty's first name. So think about it. Georgia um uh, 413 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: Virginia um, and then Columbus or Hudson, like the explorer's 414 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: last name. A royalty's first name is how you name thinks. 415 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: So they would have named America Vespucci Land the United 416 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: States of Vespucci exactly, rather than America. That'd be great. 417 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: But if it's not named after Vespucci, then where did 418 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: America come from? Well there are some theories. One is 419 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: that it was named after the americick America americ kim, 420 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: it's a Mayan word. Actually, Yes, mountains in Nicaragua. And um, 421 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: this is where my money goes, you think? So so Um. 422 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 1: People think that Columbus and Vespucci both went to these 423 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: mountains after American natives said, hey, there's gold in them 424 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: dar Hills, which of course is really all they wanted anyway. Well, 425 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: that's not true. They wanted to discover new lands, but 426 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: hopefully new lands with cold and people you could subjugate. Um, 427 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: So that they went there, and that it was named 428 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: after those mountains, yeah, not bad. And did you say 429 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: both Columbus and Vespucci supposedly traveled to these mountains. Yeah, 430 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: because they wanted the gold, right, So that's a pretty 431 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: good reason to call it that. And um, when you 432 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: combine that with the evidence that a cartographer likely would 433 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: have named it Vespucci Land rather than America after America, Um, 434 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: it's entirely possible that America is actually named after a 435 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: indigenous Mayan word for some mountains. I think it means 436 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 1: place of wind in Mayan. Interesting. Uh, another theory and 437 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: this one I don't think it's very I don't think 438 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 1: it holds water. But there was a British Royal rep 439 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,360 Speaker 1: named Richard Emery A M E. R i k E. 440 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: Supposedly explorer John Cabot became the first well this isn't 441 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: supposed in he definitely became the first to sail under 442 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: the British flag to the New World. And apparently when 443 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: he got back he got a big wad of cash 444 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 1: from America and he was like, Hey, I'm gonna name 445 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: the country in continent after you. Then but that there's 446 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: really nothing to substantiate that, right, and then Cabot retired 447 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: to make some pretty decent butter Oh yeah, so that him, 448 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: I think, So okay, surely it's him. Still, maybe I 449 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: need several hundred years. Do you want to take a 450 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: break again, Yeah, let's break, and then we'll talk about 451 00:27:38,000 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 1: our favorite continent, Australia. So he chucked. You were telling 452 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: everybody our favorite continent is Australia. Yeah, that's what Lex 453 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: luthor Gene Hackman is less Lex Luthor wanted in Superman. 454 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: He wanted Australia to his own or Superman too. Um yeah, 455 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: remember Electric the three? Uh the three uh Terrence uh 456 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: Terrence uh stamp in the gang came down and he 457 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: and Lex Luthor was working in cahoots with them, and 458 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: they were like, well, what do you want in return 459 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: for delivering Superman? He said Australia. I don't remember that man. 460 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: Gene Hackman was great. I saw this the beginning of 461 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: a movie with Robin Williams and Walter Matthau. Rob Williams 462 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: was like a baby at the time, but like they 463 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: foil a robbery and like become heroes the thing and 464 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: then they, yeah, they go to like a survivalist camp 465 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: or something. I think it's called Survivors. I think so 466 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: I saw like the first time, I totally but I 467 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: was like, man, there's no oh one, no one on 468 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: the planet like Walter math Ou anymore. Like he was awesome. 469 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: And then I was like, god, I can't imagine Robin 470 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: Williams and Walter math how working together? And then didn't 471 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: they do like Moscow on the Hudson too? Wasn't that one? 472 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: And then I went on I don't think math that 473 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: was in that one. Oh he wasn't. I thought he was. 474 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: Maybe it was. I could be wrong because I never 475 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: saw it. Those early Robin Williams movies were great. Recording 476 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: to Garp. I never saw that one. That was by 477 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: the guy who did sider House Rules, Right, John Irving, 478 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: He's pretty great. Um. But then it made me think 479 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: about Couch Trip. You remember that movie with Dan Nacroyd 480 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: and Walter Math. I didn't see it was good. Yes, 481 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: it was so good. I haven't seen it in decades, 482 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: but I guarantee it still holds up. I mean it's 483 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: math owen Ackroyd. Yeah, one's like a con man pretending 484 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: to be crazy and the other one actually is crazy. 485 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: Who was the only person who consents that this guy's 486 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: a con man? You know, I've never been there. Sorry, 487 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: he's a con man pretending to not be crazy. Okay, 488 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: well that makes more sense. It's great. I've never been 489 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: the hugest danach roy guy. Uh, he definitely is danach 490 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: roy Dana k Royd, and I don't dislike him, but 491 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: Walter Math I was providing a nice slow burning distraction 492 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: over here. If you don't like danach Royd. You'll still 493 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: like couch Chip, Yeah, employ the odd couple math A Lemon. 494 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever saw that original one. 495 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: All right, that's called movie Sidebar with Josh and Chuck, 496 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: and that started with Geane Heckman. We didn't mean talk 497 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: about him. Oh I love Jane hack He needs to unretire, 498 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. Like, go make another movie your 499 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: swan song, That's what I say. Alright, we own Eugene Hackman. Australia, 500 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: which is what Gene Hackman is, like Luthor wanted. Um, 501 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: it is a bit of a mystery to most. People 502 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: will point to Matthew Flinders in two as the namer 503 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: because he was the first to circumnavigate it and create 504 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: that map. And Australias means southern, so it all makes sense, 505 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: right yeah, back in back in the day, Um, the 506 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: cartographers are already aware of Australia before Matthew Flinders circumnavigated it, 507 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: but they called it the Terra Australis, which is the 508 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: southern land. Matthew Flinders is like, I like the sign 509 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: of Australia more. It's more pleasing than the ear apparently, 510 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,479 Speaker 1: is how it was put Um, the thing is is 511 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: and for a very long time, that's how Australia was named, 512 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 1: as far as anyone who was concerned. But then Australia's 513 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: National Library discovered a way older map from before eighteen 514 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 1: or two, from fifty five, Yeah, from a German astronomer 515 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 1: name Siriaco Yako sum Barth. That's a great name, great name, 516 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: not at all German if you ask me, except for 517 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: the yaka thing. Uh, sum Barth is but that's Siriaco. 518 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: Definitely doesn't look German. But yeah, fifty five, that's like 519 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: way way before. Yeah, and apparently there's map that are 520 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: even slightly older than that around and one of them 521 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: might have been produced by Mercator himself. Uh. That also 522 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: refer to the area around Australia as Australia something, so 523 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: not everyone was referring to it exclusively as the Terra Australis. 524 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: But it's probably it's probable that the Syriac go Yaka 525 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: zoom Barth is the one who first labeled it Australia. 526 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: All right, we should do a podcast on the history 527 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: of Australia, Super Interesting, starring Hugh Jackman for the World 528 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: War two part by the way when I mentioned Hugh 529 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: Jackman is P. T. Barnum. Okay, he is in fact 530 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: playing P. T. Barnum in an upcoming musical version of 531 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: the movie. But right right, either didn't know, or I 532 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: subliminally knew, but I didn't overtly know. I thought later 533 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: on after I found that out, that you've just been 534 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: messing with me the whole episode. Well, I I apologize 535 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: for assuming that that's all right. I either didn't know, 536 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: or maybe I had read that and just forgot or something, 537 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: because you said it like three times. Yeah, or maybe 538 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: I should get into cast. If you didn't know, then 539 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: hats off to you because that was prescient. Uh So, 540 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: now let's move on to Oh, did you see some 541 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: of the suggestions we got though? Oh for P. T. Barnum. Yeah, 542 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: I think that my favorite one was John c Riley. 543 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: He'd be an odd John c or he'd be an 544 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: odd P. T. Barnum, but he could totally do it. Yeah. 545 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: I saw one. Someone said Tom Hardy, who like he'd 546 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: be great in anything, but he's in everything right now. 547 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: And then someone sent Cole Meany, who was sort of 548 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: like the the names, like, I know the name, who 549 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: is it that he's like the English John c Riley. 550 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: He sort of looks like he's older though, right or 551 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: he may be Irish. Yeah, he's a little older. Yeah, yeah, 552 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: I know who he is. They kind of look alike 553 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 1: a bit Cole. Mean, he's got a little more dapperness 554 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: to him, a little more suave. Nois maybe, well, there's 555 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: nothing about John c had the swave? Have you seen 556 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: we need to talk about Kevin? Oh, you all love 557 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: it the movie He's a sleeper with John c Riley 558 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: and Till the Swinton about um, they have a kid 559 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: who's a bad kid until the Swinton's having to deal 560 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,879 Speaker 1: with it. Interesting, really great movie. It's on Netflix right now. 561 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 1: I love John c Riley, so he's kind of a 562 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: prop in the background for this. It's mostly Till the 563 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 1: Swinton and I appreciate hearing that he knows Okay, there's 564 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,799 Speaker 1: no way he played that role and doesn't. Now. I 565 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: never knew we could talk so much about movies in 566 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: this one. I didn't see that coming. Um, so let's 567 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: talk about the other continents, um, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Basically, 568 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 1: what it boils down to with the rest of these 569 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: is they were likely named by sailors who had to 570 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: call them something. Yeah, probably um, and they're like, Africa 571 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 1: has a few different contenders that are pretty good. There's 572 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: a a afrak people who are in the northern part 573 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 1: of Africa, their their Berber tribe. Not a bad source, 574 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: makes sense, um. And then apparently at PreK in Greek 575 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: or a prika and Latin means sunny, right, yeah, makes 576 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,959 Speaker 1: sense to uh. And then there's uh so who who knows? 577 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: The point is there's no documentation for when Africa was 578 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 1: first named, and it was most likely Africa. Europe and 579 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: Asia were named by seafaring folks who were like, we're 580 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: going this place, and they needed a name for this 581 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,839 Speaker 1: place so they their families would know where they were 582 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: to go look for him if they didn't come back, 583 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,959 Speaker 1: and so they came up with names like Europe and Asia. Yeah, 584 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: Phoenician sailors. Uh. It's believed they may have used their 585 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 1: proximity to the sun, because Asia might come from a 586 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,800 Speaker 1: c u a q for sunrise or east in Europe, 587 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: which is of course west uh closer to the sunset 588 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: if you're standing in the east. Uh e r e 589 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: b arab which means sunset or west that's a Phoenician word, right, 590 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,280 Speaker 1: So it's possible Phoenisi and sailors named Asia and Europe 591 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: and there's other ones to like Europa as a Greek 592 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: um mythological figure right yeah um, and then uh, Asia 593 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: could have been named after a ruler named um Asios, 594 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: a Trojan ruler. Yeah. I don't think that's it. That's 595 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: the fun thing about things where it's like no one knows. 596 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 1: You can be like that's not right. Yeah, you read 597 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: certain you read theories, and some make sense to you 598 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,439 Speaker 1: and some don't write. I like that. Uh, that's why 599 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 1: I don't. I think math never appealed to me, and 600 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: why it does appeal to math fans because it's rules 601 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: apply and like there is a right and a wrong. 602 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: I'm much more prone to be like to think about 603 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: something and have theories about it. Well know, they say 604 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: you read a lot of fiction, right, They say that 605 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 1: people who read fiction are much more open to um 606 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:13,239 Speaker 1: ambiguous resolutions or non resolutions lacking closure. Um. And because 607 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: you so frequently get that from fiction, it leads to 608 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: the question, though, which is first, are you attracted to 609 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 1: fiction because the usually has resolutions like there? Have you 610 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 1: been trained to accept resolutions like that. From appreciating fiction, well, 611 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,280 Speaker 1: back to movies. One of my favorite things, which really 612 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: bothers a lot of people, are movies with ambiguous endings. 613 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: If it if done right, I think it's one of 614 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,200 Speaker 1: the coolest things you can do in a movie is 615 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 1: to not wrap it up in a little bow and 616 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: kind of leave the end with a decision like what's 617 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: going on here? Suel Well maybe, um, I bet math 618 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,879 Speaker 1: majors hate that though, now that they think about, you know. Uh. 619 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: And then finally, some people, still, depending on where you 620 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: are in the world, don't recognize all the continents. No. 621 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: And this actually makes sense to me because we said earlier, 622 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 1: continent is a body of land surrounded on all sides 623 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: by a body of water, right, So that means that 624 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,080 Speaker 1: a lot of the continents that we recognize over here 625 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 1: in the West as continents ain't continents. They're incontinents. So 626 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,320 Speaker 1: according to some parts of the world, North American, South America, 627 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: it's just America, uh, and then Europe and Asia just Eurasia. Yeah, 628 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,240 Speaker 1: and that's it. I've got a great pavement T shirt 629 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 1: that has North America on it and it says Canada, 630 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,320 Speaker 1: and then Mexico and in the middle it says pavement, 631 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 1: and I get a lot of compliments on it, and 632 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,600 Speaker 1: I think it's from people thinking I'm making a statement 633 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,200 Speaker 1: like the United States is just a bunch of pavement 634 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: and like, you know, Canada Mexico aren't, when in fact 635 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:50,000 Speaker 1: it's just the band or maybe they're all just pavement bands. 636 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 1: You can't tell. You can never tell these days. Then 637 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,320 Speaker 1: I tell you I'm Facebook friends with Bob the Stanovich 638 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,719 Speaker 1: from Pavement. You didn't. I tricked him because we had 639 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,840 Speaker 1: some mutual friends. Your mom said that you have to 640 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,839 Speaker 1: be friends with you on Facebook. Yeah. It's pretty great though. 641 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: I like seeing insight into these like people our Revere. 642 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,040 Speaker 1: He's a big horse racing guy. Oh yeah, yeah, he 643 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: likes the pony. Yeah. I don't like going to the 644 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:20,040 Speaker 1: track necessarily, but I like the Big Three. Um, although 645 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,400 Speaker 1: I would go to the track whereas don't have them 646 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,440 Speaker 1: around here. Yeah we don't. Uh, And bring it on. 647 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: Send the email about how I'm wrong for going to 648 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: the track or wanting to. If you want to know 649 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,840 Speaker 1: more about naming continents or geography or any of that jazz, 650 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 1: head on over to how stuff works dot com and 651 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 1: type in geography in the search bar, and it will 652 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,359 Speaker 1: bring up a massive great articles. Since I said mess, 653 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:48,640 Speaker 1: it's time for listening mail, I'm gonna call this road tripping. 654 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 1: We get a lot of emails from people that listen 655 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: to us while they're road tripping, yes, which is very nice. Hey, guys, 656 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: my husband and I are adventuring on a road trip 657 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,359 Speaker 1: from Texas throughout Florida. I've been addicted to the show 658 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,040 Speaker 1: for a couple of months now, but my husband has 659 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: not listened to a podcast in his life. I started 660 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: the driving in the trip, and he asked if I 661 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:14,839 Speaker 1: could make it all the way to Florida. First of all, Husband, Tom, Yeah, 662 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,359 Speaker 1: that's pretty serious stuff. All right, we're in Texas, hunt, 663 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: can you make it all the way to Florida. I 664 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,840 Speaker 1: gotta kept some z s uh. I said that if 665 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,319 Speaker 1: I could listen to stuff you should know, then I 666 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: wouldn't stop driving. He sighed regrettably, and then let me 667 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: turn an episode on five days into the trip. Every 668 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 1: time we get into the car, he now says, educate 669 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,799 Speaker 1: me on stuff I should know. Our biggest debates are 670 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,760 Speaker 1: deciding on which podcast to listen to next. We literally 671 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: made it to one of our destinations and sat in 672 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,799 Speaker 1: the car for another fifteen minutes after a three hour drive, 673 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 1: just to finish an episode. Thank you so much for 674 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,680 Speaker 1: what you do. And that is from Kim and Tom Kepler. 675 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 1: And since we are not recording too far out these days, 676 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,400 Speaker 1: they're most likely still on the trip. Yeah, enjoy the trip, 677 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 1: be safe, have fun and drive you know, every now 678 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,240 Speaker 1: and then. Tom. Yeah, really, Tom, let's get it together, 679 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,040 Speaker 1: shall we. That's awesome. I hope they've just heard this. Yeah. 680 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,360 Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with us because 681 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,600 Speaker 1: you love us on a road trip or you, um, whatever, 682 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,120 Speaker 1: you can tweet to us at s Y s K podcast. 683 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,320 Speaker 1: You can join us on Facebook dot com, slash stuff 684 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 1: you Should Know. 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