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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm open to the short stuff. I'm Josh, there's Chuck,

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Speaker 1: Dave's not here, Jared's here, and I'll tell you who

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Speaker 1: else it's here. It's Philip Schlatter, his ghost. He's a

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Speaker 1: nineteenth century British zoologist, and he's come across the plane

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Speaker 1: of existence to be here with us today.

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Speaker 2: I think you added an h in there, my friend Sclater.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he always wished his name was Schlatter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about Philip Sklater. I guess that's even

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Speaker 2: that's a weird name. I like schlaughter better too, sure,

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Speaker 2: because he took part in something that was going on

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Speaker 2: figure out where stuff came from that didn't seem like

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Speaker 2: it belonged there, like in their country, Like why is

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Speaker 2: this animal here when they were from another continent for

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Speaker 2: this plant? That doesn't make a lot of sense. We've

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Speaker 2: talked about this stuff before in terms of like land

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Speaker 2: bridges and things like that. But he wrote a book

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Speaker 2: in eighteen sixty four called The Mammals of Madagascar No Colon,

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Speaker 2: just clean and simple.

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Speaker 1: Good for you, Schleeter, where he.

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Speaker 2: Wondered, like madagascars off the east coast of Africa, and

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Speaker 2: they have dozens of species of lemurs, but all of

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Speaker 2: Africa and India have only a few species of lemur.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it was worse than that, they don't have

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Speaker 2: any species of leamer. He was just mistaken and thought

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Speaker 2: some other big eyed primates were lemurs. But he was

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Speaker 2: on the right track as far as saying, like what

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Speaker 2: happened here? And he said, I know what it was.

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Speaker 2: There used to be a great continent that connected these

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Speaker 2: things and that's how they got there, and that thing

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Speaker 2: is now underwater, and I'm even going to name it Lemeria.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, after his lemur friends. Yeah, yeah, And this was

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Speaker 1: the reason that he was coming up with the idea

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Speaker 1: bridges were very much in vogue at the time because

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Speaker 1: And we hadn't figured out continental drift yet. That didn't

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Speaker 1: an attempt to explain that before the theory of continental

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Speaker 1: drift came along or drifted along, and this continent of

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Speaker 1: Lemiria supposedly was on the bottom of the Indian Ocean

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Speaker 1: now but basically spanned from India all the way to

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Speaker 1: Africa and Slater Slater. Yeah, he basically said, this is

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Speaker 1: where lemurs originated and then they spread out from their

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Speaker 1: case closed and we should say, like, it seems off

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Speaker 1: to us now, but this was a legitimate man of

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Speaker 1: it wasn't meant to be crackpot. It was the crackpots

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It kind of gained traction in other circles,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about a few of those.

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Speaker 2: There was one guy, a German biologist named Ernst Heckel,

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Speaker 2: and he wrote a book called History of Creation. No colon,

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Speaker 2: they didn't have colon's back then.

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Speaker 1: No, they invented the colon with the continental drift theory.

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Speaker 2: He had a theory about evolution that kind of flew

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Speaker 2: in the face of Darwin where he said, you know what,

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Speaker 2: this Lemuria place, that's my comrade. Sklater came up with

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Speaker 2: I think not only was that a place, but that

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Speaker 2: was where it all started. That's the cradle of mankind.

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Speaker 2: In humanity, there were twelve varieties of men, and the

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Speaker 2: first humans evolved from ancient primates and spread from there,

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Speaker 2: and they did so from Limyria, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is problematic through and through. But it's

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Speaker 1: also worth saying that Hackel himself was a respected man

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Speaker 1: those guys who's like, I'm a biologist, now I'm a geologist,

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Speaker 2: Right, especially when there weren't even really lemurs at all

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Speaker 1: be right back. Uh. You mentioned Darwin. I can't remember

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Speaker 1: No, he would shoot his TV when it was mentioned

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Speaker 2: He wrote a letter to a guy named Charles Lyle

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Speaker 2: if there this is such a nerd burn, if there

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Speaker 2: be a lower region for the punishment of geologists, I believe,

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Speaker 1: You will there And Charles lyell, we're saying respective man

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Speaker 2: Too, that's right, you knew who was not?

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Speaker 2: Named Helena Blavatsky who was a nineteenth century Russian occultists,

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Speaker 2: and she founded something called the Theosophical Society that believed

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Speaker 2: of the origins of Earth, which I'm like, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: people like herself could access that loss wisdom, and that's

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Speaker 1: And there's actually few people that fully embody everything I

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Speaker 1: scorn like Helena Blovotsky does. Yeah, she wrote a book

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Speaker 1: and by this time, Lamiria is not It's no longer

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Speaker 1: like it's out of the realm of science. It's now

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Speaker 1: into the new age movement, the Theosophists. It was the

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Speaker 1: I call them root races. And Lemuria in particular was

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Speaker 2: Moving on, Yeah, uh yeah, do we even need to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even find it hysterical, like you just yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, I'm with you. But this is the nineteenth century,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but have you been on YouTube lately? This is

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Speaker 1: so like of the moment still too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Lemuria, if you if you look it

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Speaker 2: ethnologists from Britain who were at the time. They were

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Speaker 2: Here they have they're so diverse racially and ethnically, like

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Speaker 2: And one theory was, oh, those people were the first

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Speaker 1: Yes, so the Tamil people really love that. They actually

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Speaker 1: Hindu legend about Kumari kandom and it's a lost civilization

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Speaker 1: That makes us the oldest civilization, which makes us the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and thus have the oldest language.

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Speaker 2: And apparently today, even if you are I want to

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Speaker 2: And now we're just like, yeah, Madam Blavaria, Blavaria, Blevotski, Lameria,

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