1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,279 Speaker 1: M Hey everybody, this is Chuck. Welcome to Saturday Celex. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: I hope you had your pop tarts and your breakfast 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: cereal and you watched your your morning cartoons. Because now 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: it's time to learn a little something. I'm gonna pick 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: was There a Real King Arthur? From January fourteen, two 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen, as my select pick this week. You know, 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: I love my history podcasts and all the episodes we 8 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: do about history, and one of my favorite things is 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: is to take a look at, uh, these these figures 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: from literature and and lore and think, wow, were they 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: real people? Is there a basis in reality? In fact? 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: And that's what we did with King Arthur? So, uh, 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: I hope you dig it. I certainly did, and here 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: we go. Was there a Real King Arthur? Welcome to 15 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: you welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: Charles w Chuck Bryant, Jerry Waved, everybody quiet. Jack. That's 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: stuff you should know. Yeah, that's us. That is us 19 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: still legend. You know, it was impossible for me to 20 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: research this without only thinking of two things. Two movies. 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: Clive Owe, Nope, Uh, I didn't see that one. It 22 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: was it was good? Was that the one called King Arthur? Okay, 23 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: it was a good I thought, So I'll check it 24 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: out because I dig this character. And I've seen a 25 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: lot of the movies that that tackle Camelot. But Excalibur 26 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: and uh Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Of course, 27 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: I I surely I've seen ex Caliber because I had 28 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: showed time when I was a kid. It was a 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: big hot movie when you were twelve in the early eighties. Yeah. Yeah, 30 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: And then of course the Holy Crail. I mean, how 31 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: do you not see that? It's the Holy Grail of comedies. 32 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: Some say, yeah, I can see that. You should check 33 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: out the Cowler. It actually holds up pretty well, does it. Yeah, 34 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: And it's um Has is somewhat notable for having a 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: couple of early appearances by actors that went on to 36 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: be uh much bigger movies like that. Yeah. Gabriel byrne 37 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: is in it and just barely and um Liam Neeson 38 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: and I think both of them it was there first 39 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: roles and they're like hardly in the movie. Who was 40 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: who played King Arthur? Um? Was it anybody like I've 41 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: heard of? Or they had to have been big at 42 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: the time, right, Who was it Richard Burton? You know 43 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: when I was uh like thirteen, I saw Richard Harris 44 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: do Camelot the Fox Seater in Atlanta. So is that, like, 45 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: is that based on the Arthurian legend? What the musical Camelot? Yeah? Sure, okay, 46 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: but I mean you know it's a musical. Yeah, and 47 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: it's from the sixties, so you can never tell like 48 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: it had just been named Camelot. That's what I was asking. 49 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's about the Arthurian legend. 50 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: But out of all of them, I would say, hands down, 51 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the best of 52 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: the Arthurian Legend movie adaptations. Yeah. I haven't seen it 53 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: in years, but it's like one of those that I 54 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: saw so many times I can still quote most of it, 55 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: you know. I mean it has it all. It has 56 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: the killer rabbits, the killer bunnies. Yeah, it has the 57 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,399 Speaker 1: coconut carrying swallows. It has the nice you say knee, 58 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: It has the Black Knight who merely has a flesh wound. Yeah, 59 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: has everything, has singing dancing yeah, um, I mean the 60 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: great Graham Chapman as uh Arthur. Yeah, and um, bring 61 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: out your Dead. Yeah. So many things that are in 62 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: the lexicon from that. Yeah. Uh. Nigel Terry played Arthur 63 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: in the Excalibur movie. I don't I don't know who 64 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: he is. Probably recognize him. Helen Mirren was morgana though, 65 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: oh wow? Um, but yeah, small roles. Oh. Patrick Stewart 66 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: was the other guy, got you he played? Was he bald? 67 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: Has he always like? He always been bald? One of those? 68 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure he had hair at some point. Oh, I'll 69 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: bet he looked weird with hair. I can't imagine him 70 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: with hair. What if he was born with like a 71 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: full head of hair and that was it. He started 72 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: losing it after that, right for two days and then 73 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: it all came out all right. So anyway started to 74 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: disrupt this early on. But those two movies, I just 75 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: every time I saw it with a pen dragon. This 76 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: is a cool name, that's a great name. I couldn't 77 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: help but just kind of say those lines in my head. 78 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: So I mean, you you make a good or you 79 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: raise a good point. Um, there's so many Arthur movies 80 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: out there, Arthur books. Sword in the Stone was pretty 81 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: good too. Um that everybody has a kind of a 82 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: basic idea of um. The King Arthur legend, the Arthurian 83 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: myth or romance it's sometimes called to but UM. What 84 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: I think probably a lot of people don't know is 85 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: that it is a syncretized meaning. The Catholics got their 86 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: myths on it and through a bunch of Christianity on 87 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: top of something that was already extant, and in this 88 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: case Um what was excellent was a group of myths 89 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: that arose from the Celts, the Celtic people, which is 90 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: pretty substantial that we have this because the Celts never 91 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: wrote anything down, mainly on account of the fact that 92 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: they didn't have a written language. Their tradition was entirely oral, 93 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: which is why we have very little of an understanding 94 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: of the Celts. Most of our understanding of the Celts 95 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: comes from outside observers like Pliny the Elder. Thank God 96 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: for Pliny, or else we might not even know the 97 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: Celts ever existed. Um, but the Arthurian legend is very 98 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: clearly based on Celtic mythology. But even more enticing to 99 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: me is the idea that it's possibly, or it's possible 100 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: that that um Celtic legend, that Celtic mythology is rooted 101 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: somewhat in fact, Like Arthur may have been a real person. 102 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: That's sort of the Agel question. Yeah, but I mean 103 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: I find that in astoundingly fascinating. Like there's places that 104 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: are part of the Arthurian legend that do exist in 105 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: real life. But whether or not they actually were a 106 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: part of Arthur's life, if there was a real Arthur. 107 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: I mean, each spot um generates awesome debate, you know. 108 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: So for the anthropologist, the history major in me, I 109 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: just I'm fascinated by the whole thing. Agreed, sir. So 110 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: let's go over the basic legend of of Arthur. Uh 111 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: killer king, legendary hero saved Britain when Britain needed saving, Yeah, 112 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: because the Roman Empire had crumbled, um, and the Saxons 113 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: were all over Britain, the Germanic tribes. Yeah, and he 114 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: defeated them and brought great peace to the land and 115 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: built a castle called it Camelot, gathered up nights together 116 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: around around a round table which we'll get into, and 117 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: to help bring peace to to the land. And and 118 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: he did, and he did so very successfully. In in fact, 119 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: in two thousand two, the BBC voted King Arthur as 120 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: number fifty one and the poll of one greatest Britons, 121 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,119 Speaker 1: even though he might not even be a real dude, 122 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: And the Britons are smart folks and they still voted 123 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: him that they're pretty sharp. Yeah. So, um, those are 124 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: the broad strokes. But depending on which version you're reading, 125 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: it's going to be different. Did he pull a sword 126 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: from a stone? Was it Excalibur? Did he get it 127 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: from the lady in the water? Was his undoing, uh, 128 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: Mordred or was it Guinevere and Lancelot? Yeah, it depends 129 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: on which version you're reading. And we'll go over those versions, right, 130 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: and we can you can kind of trace these back 131 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: to you know, you can see layer after layer being added. 132 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: So when you look at the Arthurian legend as we 133 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: understand it now, you can kind of peel back layer 134 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: by layer and get to the original stuff, um, which 135 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: is pretty old. Indeed, like they think that, Um, we 136 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: we'll get to that. Let's let's talk about the Arthur's story. Um, 137 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,119 Speaker 1: so you've got Arthur. He comes along at a time 138 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: when Britain is in its greatest need. There were some 139 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: great kings, possibly relatives of Arthur, like Uther Pendragon, his 140 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: father supposedly would have been one of the rulers. Right, 141 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: what you're smiling because you like that name. All I 142 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: can think of is I am off a son of Pendragon. Okay, 143 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: so you just say that anytime you want, man um so. 144 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: But he arrives at a time when Britain is being 145 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: overrun by the Saxons. It's being um ruled by the Saxon's. 146 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: Like there's no British king on the throne. And there's 147 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: a legend that comes up that there is a sword 148 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: in a stone and only the rightful king, meaning only 149 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: the line of Luther pen Dragon. I'm not gonna say again. Uh, 150 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: We'll be able to remove the sword from the stone, 151 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: and when that person comes, he will be dubbed the 152 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: King of Kings and will restore um the the rightful 153 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: um lineage to the British throne. Yeah and uh. In 154 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: some stories, like I said, a young man, a young 155 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: Arthur pulls the sword stored it's a sword from the 156 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: Swan and uh, and other legends it does come from 157 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: the lady in the lake. He rides out on a 158 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: barge and the hand stretches up with the sword in it. 159 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: All you sees the arm coming from the water, and 160 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: he gets the sword that a way well, and and 161 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: then I think a third a third way. He pulls 162 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: the sword from the stone, proclaiming himself Arthur. Yeah, and 163 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: everyone goes no, one's like he's the dude, right, Like 164 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 1: we got one of our own back in power now. 165 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 1: And then that sword breaks and that's when he gets 166 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: ex caliber from the Lady of the Lake. It's right, 167 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: the most powerful magic sword and all the land. Uh, 168 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: it's a it's what you call a bitch and swords 169 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: his pitch and sword Merlin and some stories comes around, uh, 170 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: right about this time, and he appears on Arthur's a teen. 171 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: Generally um associated with the Lady of the Lake. There 172 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: and Avalon, they're both from the same neck of the woods. 173 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 1: Avalon is a magical mystery place even outside of the 174 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: Arthurian legend. As far as the Celts go, it was 175 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: a it means apple land, yeah, um, and I guess 176 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: apples were super magical to the Celts. But the Avalon 177 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: itself is um almost in otherworldly afterlife. The kind of area, 178 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: even though it's a physical place you can go to 179 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: in Britain, still interesting. Uh. It's interesting that the apple 180 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: is always been a uh strange fruit. Yeah, like I 181 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: know it was probably wasn't an apple and eating but 182 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: it's all in. I wonder Southern Baptists called it an apple? Yeah, 183 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: And I wonder when what it was originally in like 184 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: air Maic and when it was converted to apple. Where's 185 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: the apple indigenous? I don't know or the or the 186 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: apple and the what was the children's was it not 187 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: snow white? Was snow white? Yeah? Yeah? With the poison apple? 188 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: Poison apple again. I saw a video today that we've 189 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: been eating apples wrong? Did you know that? I've seen that. 190 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: I can't bring myself to eat an apple like that. 191 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: There's a there's a middle spindle, a k A. The 192 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: core that is not to be consumed. That it's not true. 193 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: I won't do it. It's just too weird. But you 194 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: can eat the core. There is no core. There is 195 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: a core. I make it. Every I create the core, 196 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: every I I show it. Just like a sculptor reveals 197 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: the sculpture within a slab of stone, so too, do 198 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: I reveal the core in an apple. Let me ask 199 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: you this. If you cut the apple up into the 200 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: eight pieces and get the seeds out you can just 201 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: eat that's the whole apple. You have to shave off 202 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: like inner part the core. For those of you don't know, 203 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: there's a video of a dude eating an apple from 204 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: the bottom end forward and he just eats the whole 205 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: thing because he's a psychopath. Um. Okay, sorry to get 206 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: sidetracked by the history of the apple. Well, no, I 207 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: think you do raise a really really interesting point, Chuck. 208 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 1: I wonder you know when the apple started getting a 209 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: bad rep, when the apple stood in for other fruit. Yeah. 210 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: I think that's an excellent thing to look up. Okay, 211 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: so let me know what you find. Alright. So Arthur, 212 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: like I said, he builds Camelot, that's his castle once 213 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: he restores peace. Yeah. Well, no, no, no, I think 214 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: that was he went out and got all the nights 215 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: to help him restore peace. Okay, So he built Camelot 216 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: and into patient of restoring exactly and recruited nights. Uh 217 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: for the round table. And we might as well go 218 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 1: ahead and leak that the round table was supposedly round 219 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: because we're all equals and there's no head of a 220 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: round table. Makes sense, yeah, um, And it was either 221 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: fashioned by Merlin yeah, or it was a gift from Guenevere, 222 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: who we haven't gotten to yet, A wedding present from 223 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: Guenevere's father, even though he got it from Arthur's father, 224 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: Luther pen Dragon. Yeah, and her father was King Leo 225 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,839 Speaker 1: de Grants who I think that was. Patrick Stewart, got 226 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: you an excalibur. Um. So the nights go out, they 227 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: defeat all the outsiders there, peace reigns, and that it's 228 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: why Camelot to this day has the connotation of and 229 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:52,719 Speaker 1: especially with the Kennedys, like this, you know, peaceful, idyllic situation. Right, 230 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,599 Speaker 1: that's Camelot. Although it was a place, you know what 231 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: I'm saying, it sort of represents more than a place, right, 232 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 1: represents the piece that he brought with these knights. Um. 233 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: Then he meets Gwenevere, falls in love with this little hottie, 234 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: and then depending on what story you read, there might 235 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: have been an affair with Lancelot or Mordred, who was 236 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: either his nephew or depending on what you read, or 237 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: his son, uh, which technically he could be both because 238 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: supposedly he had Mordred with his half sister. Morgan. Yeah, 239 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: that makes sense, who is translated into Morgan le Fay 240 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: who's like this kind of enchanting temptress, evil woman um 241 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: who helps Mordred Um try to take over Camelot tries 242 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: to take over the throne, and Arthur says, nay to you, 243 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: we will do battle at a place called Camlan, That's right, 244 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: and then dies. That's where Mordred is killed and Arthur 245 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: is um wounded, and depending on the version of the story, 246 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: Arthur's either mortally wounded or just kind of wounded, but 247 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: either way, he gives his his sword ex Caliber to 248 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: Bedevere and says, you need to return this to the 249 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: lady in the lake. After kind of waffling because Bedevere 250 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: is like, I could use ex Caliber. Uh, he finally 251 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: gives he throws ex Caliber to the lake and this 252 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: arm comes up and goes ching and like catches it 253 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: and then goes back down and he's like, there was 254 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: a lady of the lake. Yeah, that's the ex Caliber 255 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: movie version. They followed that version, because I remember distinctly 256 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: him chunking the sword out there in the arm coming up. 257 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: That's cool. I think I have some vague mental memory 258 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: of that as well. Um. And then Arthur's taken to 259 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: Avalon to either die and be buried, which is um 260 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: or he recuperates and hangs out there to come back 261 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: to reign over Britain and it's next time of greatest need, 262 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: which is why Arthur is frequently referred to. And there 263 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: was a book titled the Once and Future King because 264 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: he will return again when Britain needs him, which makes 265 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: him like kind of the British superman. Yeah, before we 266 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: go any further, my friend, I think it's a good 267 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: time for a message break. Hey, now we're back. So 268 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: that's the Uh, that's the basic legend. I mean, like 269 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: we just basically condensed thousands of pages of different books 270 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: and thousands, well not thousands, but hundreds of years of 271 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: um folklore into a few minutes. But you get the 272 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: gist of it. Sure you know the story. And if this, 273 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: if this ignited your fancy and you're like, I want 274 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: to know more, man, you've got a you could dedicate 275 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: the rest of your life to researching and reading Arthurian 276 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: legend because there's tons of it and and it's all 277 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: like we said, um, it's a literary tradition, but it's 278 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: rooted in an oral tradition among the Celts, the pagan 279 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: Celts um but this literary tradition itself is really really 280 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 1: old that they they first mention of Arthur is um 281 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: from I think the fifth century, right, the fifth century 282 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: Welsh poem, six sixth century Welsh poem. When you're off 283 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: hundred years back then, um, especially with a man who 284 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: may or may not have existed, but Arthur pops up 285 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: in one line in this Welsh poem called the Gododin 286 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: god Odin good Odin. Yeah, it's a great word, and 287 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: this poem eulogizes the Welsh warriors, maybe Britain's oldest poem. Yeah, 288 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: because the Celts would have started to have become Christianized 289 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: around this time, hence things would have started to have 290 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: been written down, so this poem would have popped up 291 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: really right around that cusp between the end of purely 292 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: Celtic take culture. Because the British Isles were the last 293 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: stronghold of the Celts, which swept all the way to Asia, 294 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: like they covered Europe, parts of North Africa. The Celts 295 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: were everywhere, but um, it was the um the British 296 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: Isles that were the last holdouts until about like the fifth, six, 297 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: seven eighth centuries UM, when they became Christianized. Alright, so 298 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: they're Christianized at this point. Yeah. By the time this 299 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 1: poem came out, the very fact that there's a written poem, 300 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: it shows you that the me their way in this 301 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: area and the Celts are off just telling stories, looking 302 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: their wounds and telling stories, still not writing stuff down 303 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: there like you have you are you familiar with Missileton? Yeah? 304 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 1: Do you know about knocking on wood? Look at you 305 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: utilizing all your information? Uh so. Uh. Some other references 306 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: in literature, um, the Historia Brittonum History of Britain eight 307 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: hundred and the Analysis Cambria the Animals of Whales a 308 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: few hundred years after that. They were they were basically 309 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: history books, the main history books of Brittain and Wales 310 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: and um. But they themselves were just compilations of of 311 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: other books and can't be like factually verified. Yeah, but 312 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: nevertheless they were used and Arthur was mentioned in both. 313 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: Um the Arthur we know and love today. Uh. You 314 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 1: can trace back to Jeffrey of Monmouth. He was a 315 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: priest who wrote Historia Regum britagn The History of British 316 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: Kings and the eleven hundreds. But he based his stuff 317 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: on the history of Britton. Um, but it just became 318 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: really popular, right, So like he kind of based it 319 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: on the other thing. Well, I mean most some people 320 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: even say you plagiarized, but it became so popular. He 321 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: was kind of golden, right, and I think great. I 322 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: think also he Um, I mean most histories are based 323 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: on previous histories. Um, so that's that in and of itself, 324 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 1: isn't a add thing. But yeah, I don't know what 325 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: this article is implying that like he was that he 326 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: stole work or he fabricated it. Well, he was accused 327 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: of fabricating some of it, so so well either way. 328 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: He gave the world the Arthurian legend. That's right, Like 329 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: Arthur existed before this, like as we've seen. But he 330 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: was the one that said, like, there's a great story here, 331 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bulk this up. Yeah, And so he 332 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: started naming places, he started contemporizing things, like he took 333 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: um this legend and put it into a context that 334 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: the people who lived in his time would understand and 335 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: be fascinated by. Yeah, and he introduced Christianity for the 336 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: first time to the story. Um, the French got ahold 337 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: of it, and then they're all about a good romance novel. 338 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: So they sort of introduced the love elements or not introduced, 339 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: but UH emphasize the love elements a little bit more. Yeah. 340 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: About fifty years after Geoffrey of Monmouth UM made his 341 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: history um Chrestian Detroit UH came up with some stories 342 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: that added that romantic part and a lot like the 343 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: I think the Grail stuff too. Oh yeah, yeah, he 344 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: was the one who who came up with the romance 345 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: between Lancelot and Grenevere and the Grail of search for 346 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,239 Speaker 1: the Grail, which wasn't a part of the story up 347 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: until the twelfth century, and most of the stuff had 348 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: been like history books and poems UM starting with the 349 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: Vulgate cycle or pros lancelot as when you started getting 350 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: these great prose stories and Christianity is woven in even more. 351 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: And this is between twelve ten and twelve thirty, right, 352 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: just to give you an idea of where we are. 353 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: And they don't know if these stories were like maybe 354 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: part of a popular literary trend at the time where 355 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: a bunch of people writing them like chivalry was a 356 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: big thing to write about, or if it was one 357 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: author writing a series of stuff and they were not 358 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: they're not attributed to any single author, but they're they're 359 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: collected to get there was a body of work, the 360 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: Vulgate cycle. Yeah, and those ones focus a little more 361 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: on like Lancelot in the Chivalrous Nights and all that 362 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: we have in the Grail to Um. Yeah with Galahad, Yeah, 363 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: they said that, Um, Joseph of Arimathea, who was in 364 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: the Bible, he was the one who gave Jesus his 365 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: tomb after Jesus was crucified and brought back. And uh 366 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: he said no, well he didn't say that, but they 367 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: they said Joseph Mathea brought the Grail to Britain. Um. 368 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: But then Galahad, Sir Lancelot's illegitimate son, was said in 369 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: the Vulgate cycle that he discovered the Grail because he 370 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: was pure, of course, yes, until he went to the 371 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: castle Anthrax. Remember that scene and the pure and chased 372 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: goes to the castle and there's all the ladies that 373 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: are like tempting him that it's uh, Michael Palin is 374 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: just like wide eyed man. Uh. And then the big 375 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: one um that most of our modern stories are based 376 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: on is Thomas Mallory's Le Morte Darthur The Death of Arthur, 377 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: And I read this in college. Oh yeah, and it 378 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: was tough. It was sort of like a bit of 379 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: a modernized Middle English. Yeah, it wasn't quite Chaucer, wasn't 380 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: that tough, Um. But it was still a tough read. 381 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: And I remember thinking at the time, can I just 382 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: watch Excalibur? And it turns out it could, because that 383 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: was that movie was specifically based on the Death of Arthur. Yeah. 384 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 1: And so as you're you're kind of seeing like each UM, 385 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: each new century, each new um, authors adding their own 386 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: thing to it. Yeah, he didn't actually write it. I 387 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: should say that he compiled the stories together. Okay, surely 388 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: he cleaned them up and well, yeah, but he didn't 389 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: he didn't create a new work, because he's known as 390 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: it's known as a compilation. Well, he did add some 391 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: new stories about some other nights, Sir Gareth and Sir Tris. 392 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: Then UM and he he he also kind of took 393 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: the um the focus off of the Celtic pagan mythology 394 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 1: and really focused it onto the Christian mythology. UM and 395 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: and at this point, the idea that this whole thing 396 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: is based on Celtic ideals and and myths is lost 397 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: largely to history. I mean, at the very least, it 398 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: doesn't become nearly as a parent. Um. Was he the 399 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 1: one that added the Lady in the Lake though? Oh no, 400 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: that was the Vulgate cycle, um, which is supposing to 401 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 1: me because I would think that would be ancient Celtic mythology. 402 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: But that wasn't added until the thirteenth century. Oh yeah, yeah. 403 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: The Lady in the Lake and the idea of Mordred 404 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: as Arthur's son by his sister. You think those two 405 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: would be real old No, no, no, it was a 406 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: part of the preoccupation of the weirdos in the thirteenth century. Well, 407 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: I think Mallory did add the after Guinevere and Lancelot 408 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: are busted, they go their separate ways to become a 409 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 1: nun and a monk, yeah, respectively. Right. Um. So after 410 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 1: Mallory you have Alfred Lord Tennyson, um, who wrote the 411 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 1: Idols of the King. Yeah, that creepy looking dude and 412 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: uh great poet. Oh yeah, but scary looking and I 413 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: love his name too, yeah. Um. And then T. H. 414 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: White wrote the Ones in Future King and that was 415 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: the basis of the Sword in the Stone. Yeah, little 416 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: Disney Action. That was a good movie if I remember correctly, 417 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: And Merlin was kind of like a cookie. I mean, 418 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: it was weird right in that story. Yeah, And in 419 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: the Sword and the Stone. I don't remember that one 420 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 1: that much. Was it was that the animated huh Okay, yeah, 421 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: where he's like a young king Arthur pulls the sword 422 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: from the stone. And I didn't see that. I must 423 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: have seen it, but I was all about the Jungle Book. 424 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: This is what came out about the same time. I know, 425 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: but I was exact animators and everything. Yeah, you're like, 426 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: I can't pay attention to this alright, to lend my 427 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: fascination to all right, so we we should talk a 428 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: little bit about the real um ties to real history 429 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: and whether these people were real or these places are real. 430 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: So let's get to that after this message break. Okay, buddy, 431 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: So what's the deal? Was there a Camelot? Was there 432 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: an Arthur? Were these nights real? Dudes? Um? Probably? Alright? 433 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: So send it so well, So take Marlin for example, Okay, 434 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: he seems probably the least likely to have existed because 435 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 1: he is a magician, sorcerer, a magical wizard. Yeah, yeah, 436 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: a wizard that's that's a great word. Actually, is he 437 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: a wizard or is he just a magician? So well, 438 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, the two are fairly interchangeable. You 439 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: just wait, my friend, there will be some larger emailing. 440 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: It is not nearly the same series. Let me explain 441 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: to you the difference between a cleric and the major 442 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: um so uh. He was apparently based on one or 443 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: two people that really did exist, and both of them 444 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 1: were holy men. They would have been druids, at least 445 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,239 Speaker 1: one of them would have been druids. Um he was. 446 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: One was named Merdin wilt and another one was named 447 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: Emirus Ldig. That's a tough one, w L E d 448 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: I G. There's two vowels and both of those names combined, right, 449 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's just yeah, it's almost like Russian. It's 450 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: tough to read. Um. And both of them lived in 451 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: the late sixth century, and one was the first one, Merdin. 452 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: He was this wild man who went into war and 453 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: saw too much and like went cray easy and fled 454 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: into the jungle. I've seen too much. Yeah, apparently suffered 455 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: from some some sort of PTSD and went and fled 456 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: into the jungle. While not the jungle because this is 457 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: British Isles, but the woods will call them uh and 458 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: lived as a wild man for many years um, and 459 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: he was apparently a famous local like magic wild man. 460 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: The other one, Emriss, was like a full on, straight 461 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 1: up druid. He was like a prophet and advisor and 462 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: he definitely lived. So they think that possibly um, one 463 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: of them was Merlin or uh folklore combined the two 464 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: together and made him Merlin. I think that's what most 465 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: of the stuff is. Yeah, possibly based on real people. 466 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: A dash of this and a dash of that, mix 467 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: it up and you come up with a literary figure. 468 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: That's just my take. Camelot Supposedly, if you read the 469 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: Historia Regum Britannia UM, he wrote that it was Cornwall 470 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: at Tintingel Castle, and they've actually found a stone there 471 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: in the eighties nineteen eighties that an inscription that said 472 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: a descendant of Arthur, father of a descendant of cole 473 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: Um in Monmouth. Actually the writer of that history book 474 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: UH names King cole As in Mary Old Soul. Was 475 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: he that same King cole Um as one of Arthur's ancestors. 476 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: But there's a little bit of a rub because that 477 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: castle was built in the early eleven hundreds, so many 478 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: hundreds of years later after Arthur was supposedly living. Right, 479 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: and the author of this article accuses uh Geoffrey of 480 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: basically using Tinto Jail Castle as a way to please 481 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: his patron who had a cousin that lived there at 482 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: the time. Um. But the some archaeological excavations have found 483 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: that this tinted jail area was settled from at least 484 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: three D and was definitely in full swing, was a 485 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: trading post basically and a fortified castle around the time 486 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: when Arthur would have been conceived. So it actually is 487 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: archeologically possible that this was a place where he was born, 488 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: at the very least, if there was a real Arthur 489 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: and he was born in the time frame that we're 490 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: talking about, Tinnanjiel Castle was settled and in full operation 491 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: in that area. Really, yeah, so it wasn't built hundreds 492 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: of years later there. The castle as it stands now 493 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: was settlement, was settlement upon settlement, And as they've excavated 494 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: down where they found that at that time, Yes, there's 495 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: plenty of so that stone could in fact be real. Wow, 496 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: all right, busted? Uh. Thomas Mallory said Camelot was Winchester Castle. Uh, 497 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: And for many hundreds of years there was a wooden 498 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: round table that hung on the wall with all the 499 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: little names of the knights of the round table there. Um. 500 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: But Winchester Castle was built in the eleventh century, and 501 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: they carbon dated the table tot and said it was 502 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: probably painted during the fift hundreds under King Henry the 503 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: eight because everyone was way into chivalry in medieval history 504 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: at that point. Are you're gonna bust that one? That one, No, 505 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: that one makes sense, but that is busted. Unbust. I 506 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: mean they the Cadbury Castle, the fort that's in Somerset's 507 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: mentioned in here too, that one. If anything was Camelot, 508 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: it would have been that place. Yeah, but it wouldn't 509 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: have been Arthur's. It would have been a one of 510 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: the rulers that basically handed over Britain to the Saxons, 511 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: that Arthur had to come in and whose mess he 512 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: had to unmake. Um. It would have been that rulers. 513 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: And there's a sixteen ft thick um fort fortress made 514 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: of timber and stone um that is apparently unique to 515 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: this castle. That's from the fifth century um that was 516 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: written about from that time frame from that period of time, 517 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 1: was supposedly built around that period of time. So you 518 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,959 Speaker 1: have um documentary evidence in the literature, and then you 519 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: also have the actual physical evidence of this castle that's 520 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: built in the way that's just unique to it. Um 521 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: that supposedly belonged to this guy that Arthur may or 522 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: may not have come in and taken over if he 523 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: if he were ruling in this area at the time, 524 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: that would have been the castle that he would have 525 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: taken over because there was heavily fortified and it was 526 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: just like a prime castle in the area that he 527 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: would have been in. UM. So if there was a 528 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: camelot a castle that he ruled from, that probably would 529 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: have been it. All right. So you're going, Josh Boates 530 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: for Cadbury Castle in Somerset. Yes, okay, um avalon is 531 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: supposedly Glastonbury where they have the music festival. Now, oh yeah, 532 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: I think they have a big music festival there. My 533 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: TV tells me, um, and uh, here's the deal there. 534 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,040 Speaker 1: That was the Glastonbury Tour, which is a sort of 535 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,479 Speaker 1: it I guess for England. For that area is a mountain. 536 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: It's like a hill. It's a little hill like the 537 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: Englishman who went up the hill and came down a mountain. 538 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: Um the Glastonbury Tour was had the ruins of St Michael's, 539 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: which was an abbey built in the twelfth century which 540 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: replaced an earlier abbey that was burned down. And while 541 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: they were building the newer abbey, these monks said, you 542 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: know what, we found graves containing bones. Look at the 543 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: bones man and a woman and this is King Arthur 544 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: because there's a cross there and it's subscribed in Latin 545 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: and it says it's King Arthur and Guinevere. So there's 546 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: your proof. Even though the cross doesn't exist anymore, the 547 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: bones don't exist anymore. They did read the inscription that 548 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: was supposedly copied verbatim from the monks, and they said 549 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: some smart dudes said, no, that's twelveth century Latin, my friend, 550 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: not sixth century Latin. Silly people, So I guess there's 551 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: a difference than they knew. So that was quashed. Are 552 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: you about to deebust that deep busting that sweet So 553 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:09,240 Speaker 1: Glastonbury Tour, This conical hill um used to be an island, 554 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: and at the top of it is Glastonbury Abbey, which 555 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: was built in the twelfth century, but was built on 556 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,720 Speaker 1: the ruins of an early one, so that thing actually 557 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 1: did happen, It did burn down. Apparently in the nineteen 558 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: eighties they excavated and found a pair of sixth century graves, 559 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: stone line graves. The bones are gone, there's no markers 560 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 1: or anything like that, but they would have been the 561 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: kind of graves and they were dated to Arthur's era. Furthermore, yes, furthermore, 562 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: the there was evidence that these graves were disturbed in 563 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,799 Speaker 1: the thirteenth century, in the twelve hundreds or is it 564 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: the twelfth century, sorry that they were disturbed in the 565 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: twelfth century. So there's evidence that these graves are from 566 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: the sixth century and that these twelfth century monks did 567 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: find them and open them up. So whether or not 568 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 1: they were Arthur and Gwenevere, or if this cross ever 569 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: existed and what it said is still remains to be proven. 570 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 1: But I mean, it's very possible that these monks were 571 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 1: just trying to drum up patronage to rebuild their abbey, 572 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,759 Speaker 1: so like, hey, we found Arthur, so they may have 573 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 1: forged the cross, but it's still entirely possible that that 574 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: was Arthur and Guenevere. Just because they beefed up the 575 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 1: story with the story of a cross doesn't mean it 576 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,479 Speaker 1: wasn't truly their final resting place. Yeah, at the very least, 577 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: they were a pair of sixth century graves there with bones. 578 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 1: No bones. Oh well, where the bones go? I don't 579 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: know if they moved him in the twelfth century or 580 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: if they just dissolved. We were talking a while. Yeah, alright, 581 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:53,280 Speaker 1: so is that your vote? Yeah? All right? Or uh 582 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 1: the Glastonbury tour all right? Which I want to go to? 583 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: This all this makes me want to go to the 584 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,439 Speaker 1: English country so and just like find all this stuff. Yeah, 585 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,160 Speaker 1: it's pretty neat. Yeah. I like old things, and it's 586 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,360 Speaker 1: hard to get anything super old in this country, you know. Yeah, hundreds. 587 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,400 Speaker 1: Maybe if you go down to St. Augustine. Let's go 588 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: to Roma, let's see some old stuff to have. Yeah, 589 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: I have to eat. It is neat. It's kind of 590 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: neat to stand there in the Colosseum and think, holy cow, Yeah, 591 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: this is the oldest thing I've ever seen. That was 592 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: the one that got me and Yumi was the Colosseum. Yeah, 593 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: I mean were everywhere else We're like, yeah, this is 594 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,759 Speaker 1: pretty cool for something about the Colosseum. It was that 595 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,959 Speaker 1: was that was yeah, I was. I was pretty blown 596 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: away to Yeah. And boy the people man good looking. 597 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: The Romans they just all over Italy. The dudes, the chicks, 598 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,280 Speaker 1: they were all like models. Yeah, very stylish, very stylish. 599 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 1: And cats everywhere where there. Yeah, street cats in Rome, 600 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,799 Speaker 1: they're known for it. I don't remember seeing too many kids. 601 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: Oh you saw some cats. Oh don't they live in 602 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:03,640 Speaker 1: like all of the ruins and everything. Um, they're they're everywhere. Yeah. 603 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,919 Speaker 1: I like the Trevy Fountain there. That was something else 604 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,479 Speaker 1: that one kind of took my breath away. We should 605 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,799 Speaker 1: start a travel show. I think we just did. Uh 606 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: And finally, um, maybe some of these nights were real dudes. 607 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,280 Speaker 1: Sir bedevere Um he was one of the earliest knights 608 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: to appear in the Arthurian legends and one of his 609 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: right hand dudes Um. He has appeared in other writings, 610 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 1: historical writings that have nothing to do with the Artherian 611 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: legend exactly, and he was known as uh bed were 612 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:41,319 Speaker 1: Bedroo Dant member of the Royal House of Findhu, which 613 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: rose to power in Wales in the sixth century, and 614 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: then Sir Kay was also possibly a real dude. Yeah. 615 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,280 Speaker 1: Both of them appear in a Welsh collection of warrior 616 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:59,879 Speaker 1: poems called the Mabinogion Mabinah John take your pick. Yeah, 617 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,880 Speaker 1: I'm not Welsh, You're not Welsh, so either one we 618 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: get craped for not pronouncing things right. But this this 619 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: stuff is tough. Oh yeah, I mean you've got like 620 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,120 Speaker 1: thirteen letters in one vowel. It's like, what do you 621 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,800 Speaker 1: do with that? You know? And I mean I'm looking 622 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,240 Speaker 1: at the alphabet that I recognize. My brain just won't 623 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:23,680 Speaker 1: put it together. Uh huh agreed, and finally Arthur himself, Um, 624 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: my vote is on a compilation of real people. Like 625 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: I said earlier, Some folks say he might have been 626 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 1: a Roman leader named Lucius Artorius Castus, or maybe a 627 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: Roman name Aurelius Ambrosius. See I saw that Aurelius Ambrotius 628 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: was His uncle was Luther Pendragon's brother, and Uther and 629 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:51,520 Speaker 1: Aurelius had to seize power to start to restore um 630 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: their lineage, and Arthur followed after that. Okay, see, well, 631 00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 1: I guess it depends on who you're reading, you know. Yeah. 632 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 1: Some folks say he was a British historian named Allen 633 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 1: wins Wilson says he was a Welsh king uh arthwist 634 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:13,320 Speaker 1: in the seventh century. I think everyone wants to claim 635 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 1: a piece of it. I think that's what's going on here, 636 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 1: you know. I think there's a no he was this 637 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,920 Speaker 1: Welsh king, or no he was this Roman king, when 638 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,879 Speaker 1: I think he might have been all of them. Well, 639 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: the idea that he was sent by the pope to 640 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,400 Speaker 1: basically restore order or take the British Isles back from 641 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,920 Speaker 1: the Saxons, definitely, um is like credence. By the idea 642 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 1: that he kind of comes out of nowhere and like 643 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,360 Speaker 1: pulls the sword from the stone is like I'm arrived, 644 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: I'm the king of kings now um. So the idea 645 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 1: that he came from somewhere else is I mean that 646 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,479 Speaker 1: that would suggest that he could have possibly been some 647 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: Roman commander. And there were Roman commanders who did come 648 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 1: to Britain and fight the sex and successfully was one 649 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,920 Speaker 1: name Arthur. Yeah, one was named notorious. Well there you 650 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,680 Speaker 1: have it. Uh And then some people say that Arthur 651 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,920 Speaker 1: wasn't a name but a title art and which in 652 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,560 Speaker 1: Latin means bear. And if that's the case, it could 653 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,080 Speaker 1: just be like you know, could be anybody, could be 654 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:20,320 Speaker 1: short for Arthur, could be bear. So why does the 655 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,600 Speaker 1: story persist? Because it's got romance, it's got chivalry, it's 656 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:29,080 Speaker 1: got all the classic elements of drama, uh in literature 657 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,479 Speaker 1: and fiction. So there you have it, and plus Monty 658 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:38,160 Speaker 1: Python's take on it doesn't hurt in perpetuating everything? What 659 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,840 Speaker 1: kind of a man can summon fire without flint or 660 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,759 Speaker 1: tinder man? You know that movie Inside now Atten. I 661 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,600 Speaker 1: watched it a lot at one point in my life. 662 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 1: I think that's my favorite part of the movie. The 663 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 1: um none shall pass when they have to pass the 664 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 1: the guy that spits tells them about the rabbit. I 665 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,799 Speaker 1: remember the nun shall I don't remember the spinning. Yeah, 666 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,719 Speaker 1: when he when he when he's talking, he's got a 667 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,239 Speaker 1: lisp and he's he's spitting all over everybody. You got 668 00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: anything else? I got nothing else? All right? If you 669 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,200 Speaker 1: want to learn more about King Arthur, you can type 670 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,800 Speaker 1: in king Arthur in the search bar. We also recommend 671 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,919 Speaker 1: you go just look up stuff about King Arthur. There's 672 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,680 Speaker 1: plenty of stuff out there. It's fascinating. Um you let's see, 673 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,160 Speaker 1: I said search bar, right, you did, sir? Okay, well, 674 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 1: then that means it's time for listening now. I'm gonna 675 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: call this tribute to my father for Megan, Josh, Chuck, 676 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 1: and Jerry wanted to write to tell you thank you 677 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,239 Speaker 1: mentally for the show. My dad, Howard passed away nearly 678 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,600 Speaker 1: a year ago, and while I don't think he listened 679 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,719 Speaker 1: before he passed, I think he would have really enjoyed it. 680 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,799 Speaker 1: He was a tinkerer and loved learning new things. In fact, 681 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 1: when I was younger and visited him during the summers, 682 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,360 Speaker 1: i'd be alone most days at his apartment while he worked, 683 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,320 Speaker 1: and he would encourage me to search random things on 684 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,439 Speaker 1: the Internet and read about them to learn something new. 685 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,840 Speaker 1: He would even leave me lists like the planet Jupiter, 686 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,799 Speaker 1: the state of Wyoming, or the year eight. I thought 687 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,399 Speaker 1: at the time it was pretty silly and only did 688 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 1: it a few times, But now, as an adult, I've 689 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,480 Speaker 1: since found your podcast a few months ago, and I 690 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,400 Speaker 1: find it really fascinating and it reminds me of my 691 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: dad and has been really helpful to me when I 692 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: get down about him being gone. Makes me happy to 693 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: know that he would probably think it's awesome that I 694 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:27,920 Speaker 1: spend my days learning about things now, so Megan from Plano, Texas, 695 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,800 Speaker 1: thank you for that, and uh, in memory of your father, Howard. 696 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,719 Speaker 1: I think he would like the show too. That's pretty cool. 697 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry he's not around to hear it. No, but 698 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,200 Speaker 1: I mean we're carrying on his legacy exactly. Nice. So 699 00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 1: I guess we need to do a show on the 700 00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:48,920 Speaker 1: year or the state of Wyoming. Um, never not Wyoming. Uh. 701 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,080 Speaker 1: If you thanks a lot for that, Megan, that was 702 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,960 Speaker 1: nice of you to share that. Um. If you want 703 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,680 Speaker 1: to get in touch with me and Chuck to tell 704 00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,799 Speaker 1: us anything you like, you can tweet to us at 705 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,480 Speaker 1: s y SK podcast you can do and us on 706 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,600 Speaker 1: Facebook dot com, slash Stuff you Should Know. 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