WEBVTT - Thou Shalt Be Generous 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:08.320 Hi. I'm Daniel Scheffler, and this is everywhere I've spent 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.040 the majority of my life circling the globe. I have 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.560 fed stray dogs in Cairo for a day, been tattooed 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.000 in the back of a jewelry store in Istanbul, and 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.439 I've joined a chef to seek out new sources of 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.240 protein in the Amazon. So I want to tell you 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.439 how I travel and how you can travel. I don't 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.800 like lists or must us. I don't care about aspirational 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.279 luxury nonsense. In fact, while we're at it, let's throw 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.680 out that word luxury altogether. You are being conned. It 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.320 doesn't matter if you're wealthy or not alone or with 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.880 your personal people. You can have an amazing adventure anywhere. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.840 All you need is an open mind. Don't think about 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.680 what I'm telling you, just feel it. It's not a 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:59.000 head knowledge, it's all heart knowledge. Come with me and 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:09.680 I'll show you every where. Every week you will hear 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.720 me mention my travel commandments. As much as commandments sound 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.720 religious in this context, they absolutely are not. However, they 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.280 slightly tied to a little bit of ethics and a 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.560 little bit of that thing we could call moral imperative. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.120 If you will, So take these with a pinch of 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.600 salt and throw them over your suitcase or whatever. What 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.360 they really are is just a sort of guideline that 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.520 hopefully will enrich your travel life as it has mine. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.399 You'll also notice that my commandments are not in the negative, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:47.800 but rather in the positive. Thou shalt so go forth 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.800 and shalt away and see what happens this week. Perhaps 0:01:53.800 --> 0:02:01.960 thou shalt be generous? Why do we talk about generosity? 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.960 Isn't being generous something you quietly practice in the world. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.160 But alas humans are more complicated than that, perhaps in 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.639 every performance of generosity there's a little selfish and self 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.720 serving nodule, and we're just too uneasy to admit it. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.000 Don't see me, but see me as I bestow you 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:29.600 with my humble generosity. In our very humanity, we tend 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:35.040 to be ingredients of both self serving and generous. So 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:39.560 stay with me here. My philosophy is that sometimes talking 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:44.160 about benevolence that happens whilst on the road does absolutely 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.919 inspire others to offer up a little extra of whatever 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.160 it may be, kindness or dollars. So it's with the 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.440 sentiment that I share some of the bigheartedness that I've experienced. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:04.200 For instance, in Lao, there's a tradition called arms or 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.320 alms giving, which involves giving to others as an act 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.880 of virtue. It's either material or it's in the sense 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:16.400 of providing capabilities like free education. Law is the unexplored 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:22.880 sister of the tread Cambodia, Vietnam and Lao. She holds 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.359 these deep secrets and traditions that whisper only to her visitors. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.680 When you walk the dusty streets of a sweet town 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.840 like Lung Probang, which is a UNESCO Heritage Site, you 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.360 might hear locals talking quietly about the Lao New Year 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.080 dubbed Songkrun. This yearly festival in April marks the start 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.920 of the monsoon season, and compared to any of the 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:52.360 neighboring countries, maintains this authentic tradition. Subtle festivities rise there 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.600 with the sun, and in Lng Probang, you wake up 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.120 early in the morning with the gentle sound of a 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:04.240 gong five am. The sun hasn't risen, and you sort 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.960 of scatter out onto the side of the street and 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.160 have a seat just on the sidewalk, and they usit 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.720 with a little ball filled with rice, and as the 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.360 sun starts to come up, this incredible thing happens where 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:25.440 hundreds and hundreds of monks start to walk, all dressed 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:31.960 in saffron robes, all over the town. As these monks 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.440 passed me in total silence, I offer each a handful 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.240 of rice. With my other hand, I touched my heart. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.000 Each shaved headed monk with swelled robes, carrying their own 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.040 golden ball, stops for his libation. And in the eyes 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:53.159 of the monk I see myself. We become these mirrors 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:58.360 of each other, showing each other our humanity, our kindness, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.440 and our generosity. I believe you can only see in 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.920 others what you have in yourself. So when you see 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.880 hatred or anger, or maybe even joy, it's because you 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.360 recognize it within yourself. Here, the monk and I mirror 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:19.000 our most special essence, generosity. I offer simple rice, and 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.160 he offers me this wisdom and this moment to see 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:29.360 myself clearly. It's here and now, a country untainted and 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.720 filled with nature, where these quiet commemorations aren't offer to you. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:39.000 Every day, A slow pace of understated life murmurs and 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.600 keeps you in the present time, exactly where you belong. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.840 Let's take a break to hear from our sponsors, and 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:53.560 we'll be right back with more travel from everywhere trade 0:05:53.560 --> 0:06:01.599 tables up, you're returning to everywhere land m and acts 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.839 of generosity aren't always where you expect them. For instance, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.479 in Egypt, the main attraction is probably the Pyramids, but 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.839 I was here for the new Cairo Museum's soft opening 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.320 hard hat tour. I rocked up at the museum, but 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:23.240 my fancy tour was canceled. I didn't worry too much 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.839 because I had seen the Pyramids, and Cairo has over 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.720 twenty million people, so surely there was an adventure to 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.960 be had. I was strolling around and found the city's 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:37.599 famed citadel that looks across this ancient metropolis, and I 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:42.280 saw the speck of stray puppies. I decided to go 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.440 to a vendor. I knew they served chicken, as they 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.560 had these badly photoshopped food items on massive posters outside 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.880 the door. I peeked my head in English. France says 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.480 English would do, and I said to the man who 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.400 works there, good sir, if I give you a hundred dollars, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.600 how much food would that be? The gentleman's eyes enlarged, 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.720 and he chatted to his kitchen crew and came back 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:13.440 to me a lot, he said, I said great. About 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.360 forty five minutes later, I was standing next to this 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.840 towering mosque holding boxes and boxes of food. No, I 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.640 wasn't then hungry. This was for my pack of stray dogs. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.760 It was hard for me to open all these styre 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.520 foam and cardboard boxes fast enough as the puppies descended 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.120 on me. A few dozen of them stormed this feast. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.120 And then there was a group of students that were 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.760 studying under the trees, and they came to assist. And 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.120 the dogs were like playing and mistaking our fingers for 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.160 chicken breasts. And suddenly the students and I had this 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:56.000 thing in common. We had broken through awkwardness and cultural difference, 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.480 and suddenly I had stopped being the other, and so 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.640 had they. We exchanged names, and we played with the puppies, 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:11.560 and eventually we were pup feeders and friends. So all 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.520 these beautiful stories came out of this experience. And I 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.880 was just feeding these crazy dogs. And I have a 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.360 photo of one of the dogs. She had eight puppies. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.160 They had all eaten, and the puppies went out playing, 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.320 and she ran up to me, and she stepped with 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.120 one paul onto my knee and looked at me in 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.920 a moment of absolute gratitude, her eyes letting me in 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:42.920 behind hers, and time stood still, and we stayed in 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.839 this trance for a long time, just being to being 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:52.120 fully connected. And she gone off my knee and went 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.960 on with her day and took her puppies. And this 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.760 is the same look I have with Ella, my dog, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.839 who's in studio with me and having a little snow 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.040 as we speak. She looks at me behind my eyes. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.800 She sees what I wish I could see in myself, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.880 and I look at her beyond into being a matter 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:20.120 and atom. When you asked me what's the best thing 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.559 I did in Egypt, it was feeding the stray dogs, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:29.720 not going to the pyramids. So of course all I 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.400 wanted was to either take all these dogs home with 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.520 me or come and feed them every day. But luckily 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.040 a security guard came over to tell me that the 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.640 taxi drivers shared their sandwiches with these dogs. See kindness 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.960 begets kindness anyway, Soon enough, these new friends of mine 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.120 invited me to that Nanna's house. I heard the word 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:56.319 Nanna and was confused your Italian Egyptians who knew. So 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.000 now we're at dinner with my new friends in their 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.400 home and I discus of it that their grandpa runs 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.920 the original Parker Penn franchise in Cairo, and in his 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.280 spare time still works for Egypt Air as a sort 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:13.240 of happy maker. If only all airlines could employ such 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.360 a person. So I visited him the next day in 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.400 a dusty old storm downtown Cairo, and he showed me 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.560 this incredible collection of Parker pens that he's amassed over decades. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.360 He's taken over this little shop of curiosity from his 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.199 father and now sells stationary. One of the pens had 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.400 Marilyn Monroe's signature on it, and another was actual solid gold. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.679 So of course he and I became fast friends and 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.000 swapped travel stories. He would tell me about London, which 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.520 was his big destination when he worked for Egypt there, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.760 and how he had no money and had to go 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.720 and find a place to stay on almost zero budget. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.080 He would hunt out other Egyptians around Victoria's Station and 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.559 find a bed and home cooked food for five pounds. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.560 This made me think about travel, that it wasn't just 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:11.560 about me well, this is how I felt when I 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.080 noticed the sour couple fighting with everyone at the boarding 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.240 gate in Palm Springs for a six am flight recently. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.880 First off, they were yelling at the gate agent we 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.200 get on the plane. In the overhead space, they took 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.959 out other people's bags and threw them on the floor. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.880 They fought with their seat mates. They fought with everyone, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:38.240 and then they decide, before we'd even taken off, we'd 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.640 like to have drinks. Snap. Never mind that the flight 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:49.320 attendant was doing the security briefing. Just with the top 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.319 of the buck up, we're in the sky. They had 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.120 fought with their seat mates and then someone about overhead space, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:02.040 just being miserable with every one. So when I saw 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.400 them ordering sandwiches and wraps and drinks, I'm not making 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.080 this up. At seven am flying Palm Springs to Florida, 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.520 I called the flight attendant. I gave her my credit 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.800 card and I said, I'm going to pay for that. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.280 She looked at me like, are you crazy? And I decided, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:24.640 no kindness begets kindness. Perhaps tonight, when they get onto 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.320 the cruise ship that they bound to be on from 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:32.360 Fort Lauderdale, maybe, just maybe they'll think about their entitlement 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.160 in their manners and think maybe I don't have to 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.760 get onto the cruise first. Some call me a believer. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.880 When I was a rebellious teenager, I decided to run 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.840 away from home. I knew my parents would go to 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.960 a fancy travel agent office and book their travel, So 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.200 that's exactly where I went one day after school and 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.199 I booked a flight to Cape Town. The travel agent 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.920 had known me my entire life and she was used 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.880 booking travel for me, so she didn't even question this 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:07.640 devious transaction. She handed me a plastic folder with plane 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.800 tickets and hotel bookings whilst smiling, and off I went. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.400 You can imagine what a smart idea this was. Right, 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.920 I was traveling solo, didn't care, and I was going 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:25.440 to find myself some freedom somehow. The world traveling rules 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.880 for a minor weren't that strict at this point, because 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.920 I doubt you could do this today. My parents were 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.160 fast asleep, and I quietly packed a small spots bag 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.280 with my favorite T shirts, some cool sunglasses because I 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.360 was an idiot, and my huge white brick iPod loaded 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:48.280 with Atlantis Morrissett's jagged Little pill platform sneakers, of course, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.160 and this wad of cash that I had amassed. I 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.120 remember kissing the dogs goodbye and walking down the driveway 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:01.160 thinking I was ready for any adventure. I thought that 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.719 I was a grown up. Of course, mother figured it 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.720 out shortly and was on a plane to come and 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.160 fetch me. But before that happened, I did have a 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.160 few days of thrills. What do you do as a 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.040 teenager cruising around Cape Town. Well, you lie on the beach, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.800 you lie about your age, and you order cocktails, and 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.200 then you go party all night at the nightclubs because 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:30.240 luckily you look roughly eighteen. The feeling of being untethered 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.960 stuck with me. I felt like there were no plans, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.920 no rules, and I could just sip on this world 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.320 I now commandeered. But when I think back to this trip, 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.680 the things that I now remember are the small acts 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:51.400 of generosity people showed me. Next to me on the 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.520 escape aeroplane was a woman with eyes that I can 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.040 still recall right now. She looked at me and said, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.000 I'm not sure what you've doing, but whatever it is, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.200 remember to split your cash up and hide it all 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.200 over you, your shoe, the bottom of your bag, and 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.200 just leave a little in your wallet. I was all 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:17.200 kinds of silliness, probably flashing it around accidentally or something. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.520 There was this night I was cruising around Longstreet, which 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.920 is the main drag in Cape Town where all the 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.200 bars and clubs are. It's notorious for fun and a 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.680 little trouble. I was just mulling around when someone pulled 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.120 a knife out, and I was such the fool that 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.640 I didn't quite know what to do. They wanted my bag, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.760 of course, and my giant yellow Nokia cell phone that 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.080 had snakey as its main attraction. And I was probably 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.320 holding this in my hand for everyone to see. The 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.320 situation was harry and I was about to make a 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.440 run for it. And let's face it, I am a 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.760 long distance runner, not a sprinter. Out of a busy 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:02.560 bar fell these three big burly rugby players. They saw 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:07.000 what was happening and chased my assailant away. Chivalry for 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:12.400 a young gay teenager, Oh boy, generosity comes in so 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:22.360 many forms. In another vein, think about a fabulous weekend. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.440 You planned with your closest friends to say New Orleans. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.520 You flew first class on American Airlines, ching you booked 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.360 into the poncha train Ching. You found at James Beard 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.880 Nominee's restaurant to dine at Ching, and you had a 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.440 single malt all over town Ching, Ching. It's a treat. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.600 But as my dearest friends let's just call them little 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.200 parents taught me, when you're spending on yourself, you could 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.520 also spend on others. What a way to travel, sharing 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.680 your freedoms with people who need it more than you 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.880 think of a small act of generosity, something that takes 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.720 very little to execute, so little you can just do 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.679 it yourself. It doesn't have to be money. Share what 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.680 you have with others and just see how that feels. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.639 This is a great moment for us to travel to 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:26.920 advertising Land and we'll be right back with everywhere. Welcome 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:32.280 once again to Everywhere. Let's hop back to it. Every week, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.119 I hang out in studio with my dearest friend Holly Fry, 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.440 co host of the ever popular history podcast Stuff You 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:45.000 Missed in History Class, And speaking of generosity, I have 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.920 my most generous friend Holly Fry with me. I don't 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:53.280 know that that's accurate, but I love that you talked 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.919 a bit in this particular episode about your travels in Egypt, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.640 because Egypt of course, has a fascinating history all its own. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.600 What is most known for is the museum Star Wars museum. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.720 I wish um, I don't really wish. I mean Star 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.200 Wars museums are great, but I don't want to take 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:14.240 away from the majesty of the Egyptian Museum. Sometimes you'll 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.679 see it called the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities or other things, 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.760 and it is one of the most famous museums in 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.040 the world, I would say, But to me, what's really 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.879 interesting about it is it was not founded by a 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:32.400 native Egyptian but by a French person. Uh. And in 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.639 some ways it becomes about the story of kind of 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.720 the scramble for Africa and all of those European nations 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.440 trying to move into Egypt and Egypt and the rest 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.280 of Africa and just grab land and assets and get 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.600 as much as they could and kind of squeeze that 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:50.760 part of the world. And you understand intimately, so it's 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.600 really interesting. This man was named Auguste Marriette, and he 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.359 originally worked for the Louver and on his first trip 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.199 to Egypt, where he was I think supposed to be 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.359 getting scrolls, he ended up doing a four year dig 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.520 basically an archaeological dig, and he found a number of 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.440 really important discoveries and then he promptly shipped them away 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:14.560 to par and then he returned to the Louver and 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.679 became curator of their Egyptian collection. But he really felt 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.960 this tug back to North Africa and to Egypt in particular, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.880 and so in eighteen fifty eight he moved to Egypt 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.600 permanently and actually they created a job for him the 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.760 Egyptian government as conservator of monuments. And at this point 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.240 he shifted his efforts once he lived in Egypt to 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.200 protect the fines of ancient Egypt and keep them there. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.400 So he through his efforts and his work in the government, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.840 he eliminated excavations that were not authorized, Like he really 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.399 started the crackdown of like people can't just come and 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.520 dig wherever they want, Like you have to have permits, 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.040 you have to get the permission of the government, blah 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.040 blah blah. And he also put in motion some legislation 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.520 that made it much more difficult to export antiquities under 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.000 the idea that it would preserve Egyptian culture and their 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.360 heritage there for the nation. I see where you're going 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.640 with this, generosity. I see there's a moment of generosity coming. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.320 It is, but in this case you have to grain 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.760 of salt it a little bit because part of what 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.159 happened is a consequence of this, which I do not 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.280 think was an accident, was that then he kind of 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.760 had the monopoly on all of the digs in Egypt 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.200 because he was the one that was working for the government, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.399 and thus all of his efforts got all of their 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.000 permits lickety split, no problems, and then they could kind 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.880 of keep other people at bay. So he was protecting 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.760 Egyptian heritage, which is inherently a really lovely idea, but 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.359 he also was cementing his place as the guy that 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.960 discovered everything, didn't I tell at the beginning of my 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.480 episode that generosity is exactly like this it is, which 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.919 is why I thought it was an interesting parallel. Speaking 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.520 of generosity, I have a good Egyptian story for you. 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:58.600 Do you know that in the sixties, the Egyptian government 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:03.679 gave as a beautiful gift to the Kennedy administration a 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:08.600 full temple and JFK was sick at the time, which 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:10.119 no one knew, and he was like, oh, I can 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.359 kudu Egypt right now, I'll send Jackie, and Jackie like 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:16.679 arrived in Egypt and they would like, pick any temple 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.240 you would like, and she was like, I'll take that one. 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.199 And so the Smithsonian called her and they were like, 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:25.719 we'll take it, no problem. When are you ready to deliver? 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.000 And she was like, oh, I don't know, I'm not 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.480 quite sure. And then the met called her and said, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.200 we'll make you a deal. If you give it to us, 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.639 this giant temple, we will build a glass box for 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:44.800 it on Fifth Avenue so your apartment looks directly at it, right, 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.720 because originally everybody else wanted it to be stored in 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:51.119 an exterior location, which would have caused us demise. I 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.080 feel like we should also mention that she didn't just 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.520 get to go shopping through the wonders of Egypt. It 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:57.159 was wasn't it in a valley that was going to 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.960 be flooded. So it was like, if someone will press 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.119 or something, you take it great, if you can ship 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.800 it out, you can have it. So it wasn't quite 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.000 like we just went over and went. It seems more 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.160 Jackie Kennedy to just choose one, right. Well, that's why 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.040 they invited her to come and choose one were like, 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.399 choose from this area that is going to be generosity 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:21.520 to the world. Was that she could see from yes, 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.000 And now I mean the good thing is right. Anyone 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.000 can see it. You can go visit it at the 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.280 ment and it is quite spectacular. What else you want 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:31.920 to tell me about Egypt home? So I will touch 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:34.159 on the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is the one that 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.199 you were supposed to go on the tour of. It 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.439 is the biggest museum in the world. It's massive. And 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.600 what's really interesting is that the Egyptian Museum that I 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:46.120 was talking about earlier, while it does keep Egypt's wonders 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:49.440 there in Cairo, is twelve miles away from the Pyramids, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.040 whereas this new museum is right there by the pyramids. 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.240 So a lot of the things that have been discovered 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.280 get to stay a little closer to home, so to speak, 0:22:57.640 --> 0:22:59.600 like they're not at a remove from where they were 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.760 originally put. It's almost like the museum is institute. They 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.240 have more than a hundred thousand artifacts in that space, 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.679 including there's I have not been to see it personally, 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:11.080 but I've seen pictures. There is a thirty two year 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:14.879 old statue of Ramsey's the second that is unique and 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:17.800 amazing and will certainly give someone a sense of history 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.119 if they just stand in awe of it for a moment. 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.120 What's the guy who did Pan's Labyrinth, Germo del Toro? Right, 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.639 so he's house. Have you seen photos of that house? 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.600 Second house? That's just his collection, right, his collection toured. 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:37.120 It was in um Toronto in l A. They did 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:40.439 exhibits of it. That's cool. Last year. We should do that. 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:42.840 Let's do that. Let's go and see his collection. I 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:44.520 think we would have to go to his house at 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:47.399 this point. I don't think it's on display anywhere. We'll 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:50.560 just take a call. We'll just Germo, were coming, Yeah, 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:55.200 we're bringing Ella or coming or bringing a dog, will 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:59.800 be case of diet coke. There'll be no we need 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:03.919 to like Pan Labyrinth groupies. And then they'll be like, Okay, well, 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:08.879 you know I have a tattoo that is based on 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:11.680 a project of his that never came to Fruition, which 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:15.000 is his adaptation of Um. It's a little historically relevant, 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:17.640 not necessarily to this episode at the Mountains of Madness, 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:20.840 which is an HP Lovecraft book that he optioned and 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:23.840 had been working on and there's a m in that 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:29.240 book are these Antarctic penguin monsters. They're underground creatures and 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:32.439 they're blind, and they're very scary to the people that 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:36.520 encounter them initially, but they it turns out there just harmless. 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:38.960 They just look frightening. And I actually have a tattoo 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:41.439 of one of them as a reminder that things that 0:24:41.480 --> 0:24:44.359 seem scary often are not. But it is based on 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:48.000 the designs that he was doing for that movie. What 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.840 appears to be scary and is not often is not. 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:54.280 But what like what like all kinds of things, like 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:56.440 for some people, sitting on a mic and talking about 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:59.280 their life experiences would be terrifying, but once you get 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:02.399 them rolling, it's often very delightful to share and be 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:05.600 reflective about your life. And so things like last night, 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:08.200 I was at the cocktail party with my husband and 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:11.639 I am like in my element. I was like the jokes, 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:14.679 they're making fun and having like a little dance, and 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:19.119 Michael was petrified standing in the corner quietly. I understand. 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:20.560 But if you just get in and mix it up 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:23.159 a little, it's fun and it's not scary anymore. I 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:25.879 introduced him to like business people that he could actually 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:27.959