1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to you stuff you should 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: know from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant. 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: And since the two of us are together, if I 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: have a couple of microphones, you got stuff you should know? 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: It's right them. Is it an award that we won 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: on iTunes? At the very least we want to vote 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: yet the vote winning podcasts? Yeah? Popular podcast that's what 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: we can call ourselves. Ye Have we won an award? 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: Are we award winning now? Nope? Okay, maybe someone at 12 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: home will make us an award and send it in. 13 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: We've been awarded a podcast, so we are award winning? Yes? Um, yes, 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: so that's this what we're about to do. And I 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: think it's becoming painfully obvious why we haven't won any 16 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: awards the more we talk about this. Yeah, I think 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: you're right. Um. Are you doing good? Uh? I'm great. 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: Are you getting sucked for Comic Con? It's like two 19 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: days dude. Well, and by the time this is out 20 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: will be like long since I've pooped our pants on 21 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: stage and laughed at Yeah, yeah, but the horror. Yeah, 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: I'm excited though, Sure, San Diego, let's do it. Yeah, 23 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: let's go right now. Yes, just wait a day. Um. 24 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: In the meantime, Chuck, I have a proposal that we 25 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: speak about the Musketeers. Uh, let's hear it. Yeah, it's 26 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: like I'm not handling this one by myself. Just take 27 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: it away. Uh. Can you imagine how long that episode 28 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: would be if I just discoursed on the Musketeers alone? 29 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: About you just keep going and an infinite loop. Hey 30 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: have you ever heard of a little candy company named Mars? Yeah? 31 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: Nowadays I think it's Eminem's Mars, but back then it 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: was just Mars, My Stars, My stars. How does Mars 33 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: make such wonderful candy bars? How old are you? I'm 34 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: forty one. And my grandfather used to say that it 35 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: brings back like great memories. That was like one of 36 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: the things Granddaddy Mills did. I'm sorry to tarnish it 37 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: with that's all right? Um, okay, Well, this company Mars 38 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: that your grandfather liked, and rightly so, Mars bar is 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: one of the greatest all time candy bars. Ever, you're 40 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: crazy if you say what's in the Mars bar? New 41 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: Get caramel almonds. It's just this great milane of flavors. 42 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 1: The almonds are what really do it? It's like it's 43 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: like the thinking man Snickers, there's some peanut butter in there, 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 1: and I'm on board. Hey, I'm with you too. Well, 45 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: this is long before anybody ever thought to put peanut 46 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: butter in anything besides maybe a sandwich. Um, it's the 47 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: Mars company released a candy that they called, very appropriately, 48 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: in my my opinion, the Three Musketeers. Today, you pick 49 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: up a three Musketeers bar, you're like, what the hell 50 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: does this mean? Um? Back then, you could very easily 51 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: figure out what it meant because it was three pieces 52 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: of milk chocolate covered nougat in three different flavors, vanilla, chocolate, 53 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: and strawberry. Hence three Musketeers, three different pieces, three different flavors. 54 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: So it's three different flavors all in one single rapper. Yes, 55 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: that's like you pulled the rapper back. You're like, oh, 56 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: there's three, Like, which one do I want? Value? Which 57 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 1: do I want to give to my little brother? It 58 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: was you give your little brother, probably the strawberry, one strawberry, vanilla, chocolate. 59 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: It's like neopolcher. I didn't realize that. I had no 60 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: idea that there were three. It makes sense now because 61 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: now when you open it up, you're like, I don't 62 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: get it. It's one candy bar. That's what I'm saying. 63 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: It's named after a novel, a classic novel. Yes it is. 64 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for that segue, because I didn't know how 65 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: I was going to get out of this one. I'd 66 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: whipped myself into a quagmire. Today, today we've got three 67 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: Musketeers that are just the chocolate nougat. We have a 68 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: classic novel written by Alexandra Duma. I checked pronunciation. Don't 69 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: even try me on that. I listened to a Frenchman. 70 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: That's you listen to a Frenchman say it. There's this 71 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: website called farvo dot com. People's names names. It's awesome. 72 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: Yeah it is. And one thing I realized reading this 73 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: is I don't think we have We don't get a 74 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: lot of mail from uh, the French. Have you ever 75 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: notice that? Yeah? I wonder why do you think that? 76 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: There's probably not a French, not a lot of French listeners. No, 77 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: I don't think so, Okay, we're beneath him, Yeah, I 78 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: don't think we're hitting their wheelhouse much like podcast not 79 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: just podcast. I think podcasts like Mark Marin's huge in France. 80 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: And again so Jerry Lewis. So, I guess if I 81 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: was sitting around at cafe like by the river, drinking wine, 82 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have an iPod anywhere near me. I would 83 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: throw it in the river and just like live my life. 84 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: You know where we are huge, do you true? Which 85 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: is awesome to me? Agreed? Hey, India, Uh, let's talk 86 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: about the Three Musketeers, right. You said it was a 87 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: novel by Alexander Juma. Yeah, I mean the really quick 88 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: one sentence summation is is uh hick Adventurer d'Artagnan moves 89 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: out of the sticks and because he wants to join 90 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: the famed Musketeers the Guard, the Musketeers of the Guard, 91 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: the King's basically secret service right hand men, wants to 92 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: join them. He goes there. He meets the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos, 93 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: and Aramis, and he eventually works his way into I 94 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: guess to be the fourth Musketeer. Well, he presents himself 95 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: with the opportunity to prove his valor and his courage 96 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 1: and his skill by basically hanging around them. Yeah. And 97 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: along the way there are duels and there's some love making. Yeah. 98 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: I think this is the only article on how stuff 99 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: works dot com that has the word love making, fighting, convention, 100 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: and lovemaking. And it's hyperlink too. Is it really to 101 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: what I would imagine sex to an article on sex? Yeah? Okay, Um, 102 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: that was a great summation. There's no need to read 103 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: The Three Musketeers or any of the other works by 104 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: Dumont that feature the Three Musketeers, including the man in 105 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,239 Speaker 1: the Iron Mask. Oh was that him? Yeah? I didn't 106 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: know that, but I kind of figured, you know, like 107 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: who else was writing that stuff? Yeah? I don't know. 108 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: He was kind of the market cornered. He was the 109 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: John Grisham of his day. He was the John Grisham, 110 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 1: the Danielle Steele and the Sue Grafton of his day. Okay, 111 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: we'll put thanks um so well. The weird thing, I 112 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: guess it's not too weird, is that he wrote this 113 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: novel a couple of hundred years after the real action 114 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: takes place, and it came out at a time when, 115 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: you know, how you know, later on people have a 116 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: real fascination with things that came before them, came out 117 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: during the romantic era in the forties, where people are 118 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: like Dud's swashbuckling and these outfits and the love making 119 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: give me more. It was really really popular, right, And 120 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: it was also popular because it was based on actual 121 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: events featuring historical characters. Yeah, all those dudes were real. Yeah, 122 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: d'Artagnan um or d'Artagnan, he was a real person. And 123 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: actually the Three Musketeers um that duma wrote was based 124 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: on a semi fictional memoir written about that guy who 125 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: was a real musketeer of the Guard, who was who 126 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: went on to to great glory. Actually he became the 127 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: He traveled from the hinterlands, I think gascony Um join up, 128 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: the sticks joined up, eventually became commander of the Musketeers 129 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: of the Guard. Did they cover that in the Well? 130 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: The Well? There was more than one book though, right, Yeah, 131 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: there were several, and the original book was serialized too. 132 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: We'll talk about Dumaan in a minute, right. The point 133 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: is that his work was based on real people, but 134 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: it was super fictionalized and super romantic. Um and all 135 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: of it was based on the idea that in the 136 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: seventeenth century, there was this new invention that gave rise 137 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: to all of this, the musket. Thank you China. Yes, 138 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: like everything else almost on the planet that we have, 139 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: thank you China. They were the leaders in pretty much 140 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: everything back in the day. And around one thousand they 141 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: invented a little something called gunpowder, and um, you pack 142 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: this stuff in a tube that's a metal tube only 143 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: open on one end. You light it like a sort 144 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: of like a mini cannon. They called it a hand cannon, 145 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: a hand cannon. And there was a lot of mistakes 146 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: early on. Man, can you imagine that going wrong so easily? 147 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: An um, and it would They would light it through 148 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: something called a touch hole, and then there would be 149 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: an explosion, create this hot gas that would send whatever 150 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: they stuck inside there, which was a little round ball 151 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: at the time. Um, it would send it out decent 152 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: speeds at first, fairly decent. Yeah, I mean for back 153 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: then that was right like whoa, look at that hurling projectile, right, 154 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: it was probably more like magic run yea. You know 155 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: there's some that man has a hand dragon. They didn't 156 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: think they call it hand can and yet they probably 157 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: a hand dragon. Um. And it was mostly it produced 158 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: the psychological effect because it wasn't very accurate and like 159 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 1: you said that, it didn't really shoot it out at 160 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: fast speeds. Yeah, it would like the Knight's armor. It 161 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: would like hit it and go plunk and then fall 162 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: on the ground and the night would then down and 163 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: pick it up and put it in his little satchel 164 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: and they would catch you in half of the sword. 165 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: So at first, not super effective, no, but it inspired 166 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: people to make this better, Like we can do better 167 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: with it hollow tube and a stick and a touch hole. 168 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: So let's figure this out. Yeah, if I may segue 169 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: to the side here for a moment. This got got 170 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: me thinking today about battle and just warfare and weaponry 171 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: and how it's still so basic. I mean, it's like 172 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: super advanced now with how they do it. But Took 173 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 1: took starts out by hitting another caveman in the face, 174 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: like it's warfare started out with your fists, and then 175 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: it transforms into like eventually someone uses a club and 176 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: they're like, hey, this implement is like way better than 177 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: hitting with my fist because it's harder and I can 178 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: do more damage and I can get a little further 179 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: away from you. Then to come like swords and things 180 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: and lances, and they could get even further away. And 181 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: the whole, the whole history of weaponry is about hurling 182 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: bigger fists from longer distances. Whether it was the arrow, 183 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: then later the bullet, and now you have like enter 184 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: I c b ms that are just like really really 185 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: really big fists that you can fire from really really 186 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: far away. I think the point you're making is that war, 187 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: no matter how advanced we get, is it really primitive. 188 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,599 Speaker 1: It is. It's a primitive idea. I didn't know that 189 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: was my point, but this I think it's spot on. 190 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: Um all right back to it. Thank you for that. Sure, 191 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: I just even asked if you could do it first. 192 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 1: That's really formal. Well, and each each method was like 193 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: a little bit further away, like arrows, like hey, we 194 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: can get him further away. And then pretty soon it 195 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: was bullets, and then it was like sniper rifles, and 196 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: then it was missiles and now it's some guy sitting 197 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: in Nevada shooting people in Afghanistan with on his computer. 198 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: It's pretty sad um. Okay, so back to the musket. Um. 199 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: We've gone from gunpowder to hand cannon and now we're 200 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: at the arquebus, that's right, not arquebus early fifty hundreds 201 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: to be specific. And this actually had a shoulder stock, 202 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: which was like a huge deal because it wasn't just 203 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: a stick attached to this metal tube, like you could 204 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: actually aim this sucker. Now you could look down the 205 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: barrel and pointed at something and you could shoot it 206 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 1: and it would shoot a projectile. But again still the 207 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: ultimate goal, the ultimate the pinnacle of the battlefield was 208 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: the horse mounted night in armor. And if that guy 209 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: was wearing plate, the arcbus wasn't gonna do it. Still 210 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: still still still a matchlock weapon, which meant you had 211 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: to light a little thing. So you needed a touch 212 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: hole of some sort, and you needed a some something 213 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: like a smoldering piece of yarn. Maybe you needed something dry, right, 214 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: which is a key that we will find out right, 215 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: And it's a big problem. Like when it's raining, your 216 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: is not going to help, but you know it works 217 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: well in the rain. What a sword it does, like 218 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: the one that the horse mounted knight in armor is 219 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: using to cut you in half. Yet again a hundred 220 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 1: years later, right, so um, people are like this, we 221 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: can make this work. This has got to work. We 222 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: have to figure this out. And the Spaniards were the 223 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: ones that came up with this new thing called the musqueto, 224 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 1: the sparrowhawk, or the boom stick, so I like to 225 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: call it. Uh, it was even longer barreled. Um, it 226 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 1: was really heavy. I looked at pictures of this thing. 227 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 1: They actually mounted it on a little forked stick like, Um, 228 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: it's sort of like Rambo. Actually Rambo carried his his fifty. Yeah, 229 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: but that's supposed to be on a tripod. Yeah, you understand, 230 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: but ran so Mustley. You could carry it Rambo and 231 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: Charlie Sheenion and hot shots. Oh did he use that too, Yeah, 232 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: because he was imitating Rambo, right, Okay, So they used 233 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: the forked stick to like hold it steady and to 234 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: help them out. The French called it a mosquite. The 235 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: English called it a musket. A musket. I think you 236 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: see where we're going here. Um, it was also matchlock, 237 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: but it was actually could fire something that would go 238 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: through armor. Finally, and then all of a sudden, the 239 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: Nights are like, oh man, shoot, we're done. And they 240 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: actually did fade from the battlefield after that with the 241 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: with the mosqueto, the mosquite or the musket and we 242 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: cover that in the Night's podcast, right, we totally did. Um. 243 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: So then they're like, okay, we figured it out. We 244 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: got the night down. The problem is is like this 245 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: thing requires a forked stick to aim. It's like pounds. Yeah, 246 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: and you need a pikeman another soldier, um who has 247 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: an eighteen foot spear to protect you while you're reloading. 248 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: I would want two pikemen. Yeah. Well I think you 249 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: probably had your own little formation because you were so 250 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: important you could just stand back and shoot a night. 251 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: So yeah, they're going to give as many pikeman as 252 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: you asked for. If you knew how to shoot one 253 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: of those things with your hand dragon exactly. So um, 254 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: they're like, okay, we've got it. Now, all we have 255 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: to do is refine it. And one of the first 256 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: refinements they made was to make it a flintlock. Huge. Yeah, 257 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: so now you didn't have to carry a smoldering piece 258 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: of yarn any longer. That's right. Flintlock worked in the 259 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: rain because it would strike a piece of flint against steel, 260 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: producing the spark. Instead of needing that open flame or 261 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: the smoldering yarn. They really use yarn. Um, they would 262 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: use like something akindy yarn They probably was yarned, but 263 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: they spelled it with an E on the end, yarnie. Um. 264 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, you could, uh, you could 265 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: shoot it in wet weather, which was awesome. And because 266 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: the nights have sort of gone the way of the Dodo, 267 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: it didn't have to be a you know, a two 268 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: inch iron ball, but you're shooting. So that means that 269 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: the gun itself can be smaller. Everything can be smaller 270 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: and lighter. Very big deal. So now we're starting to 271 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: see like the kind of thing that the minimen used 272 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: in colonial America. That's right. For those of you into 273 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: the era, you'll know what I'm talking about. Um. And 274 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: then they also got rid of the pikeman by attaching 275 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: a bayonet to it. Yeah, I don't know about that. 276 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: They said that that rendered pikeman uh like unnecessary. But 277 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: I would still rather have an another dude with an 278 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 1: eighteen foot lance than me with my bandet on the 279 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: end of my rifle. But you might like to have that, 280 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: but your field commander would rather have another guy with 281 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: a musket in a bayonet. Yeah, true, you know what 282 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Get rid of the pike, give him a 283 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: musket in a bayonet instead, and all of a sudden, 284 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: you've got two people shooting fire. Yeah, good point. So 285 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: they still called it a musket. Yeah, and technically anybody 286 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: who had a musket and used a musket in battle 287 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: was a musketeer. I bet a lot of guys like 288 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: to throw that word around back in the day too. Yeah, 289 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: like you know, I'm a musketeer, and then the other 290 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: guys would say, you're not a real musketeer, a real musketeer, josh. 291 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier, personal household guards of King Louis 292 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: the what is that? Yeah, and apparently he it was, 293 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: was he the one who founded it? Yeah? He formed 294 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: uh the guard officially in SiO, the musketeers of the Guard. 295 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: Like they had to add the extra couple of words. 296 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: So you just think there were some shmos with the 297 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 1: musket exactly, because everyone with a musket at that point is, 298 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: like we said, bragging about being a musket because this 299 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: is like high technology at the time, and it stayed 300 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: that way for a century. Like from the musket the 301 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: flintlock must get that any infantryman could carry with the 302 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: bayonet was started was introduced at the beginning of the 303 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: eighteenth century and like all the way up to the 304 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: nineteenth century, like that is what people used. Yeah, and 305 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: then that just like a rifle. I mean it's not sure. 306 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 1: I mean it changed somewhat, but like as soon as 307 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: China invented dunpowder, it was all over. People would be 308 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: dying left and right, sadly. Um, alright, so these are, 309 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: like we said, these were sort of like special forces, 310 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: secret service, the private guardians of the king and his family. Yeah, 311 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: very important because in France during the seventeenth century, the 312 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: early seventeenth century, it wasn't like a party going on 313 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: back there. No, and actually a lot of a lot 314 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: of troubles. Louis, his father um On Read the fourth 315 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 1: I believe, was assassinated. Um and Louis the thirteenth became 316 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: he ascended to the throne. He became king at age nine. 317 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: I was like the boy kings that cracks me up. 318 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: And he had like a child bride, uh and of 319 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: Austria I believe her name was, And I guess overseeing 320 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 1: this whole thing was a guy named Cardinal Richelieu. Yeah. 321 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: So at this time and this was I think fairly correct. Um, 322 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: there were there were there was a lot of internal 323 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: civil strife in France, religious based. Yes, the French were 324 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: also battling the Habsburgs of Austria, and within his own house, 325 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: Louist was having to worry about Machiavellian which was new 326 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: at the time, machinations of Cardinal Richlieu his um basically 327 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: Dick Cheney. Yeah, but a Dick Cheney with like an 328 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: I on the throne. Yes, so his Karl Rove. Yeah, 329 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: it's very it's very Games of Throney. Yeah. I don't 330 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: know if you watched that or reddit, but no, I've 331 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: heard of it though. Yeah, I see there's like a 332 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: throne made of swords done. It's really good stuff, all right. 333 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: So the musketeers were there, their guarding the king. A 334 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: lot of religious upheaval, yeah, yeah, French Protestants saying we 335 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: don't like you Catholics. Catholics are saying we don't like 336 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: you Huguenots, which were the French Protestants, and so there 337 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,640 Speaker 1: was a lot of warring going on. So the king 338 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: needed these like super specialized and these dudes were you know, 339 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: they were bad. Yeah, they were like the tough guys 340 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: at the time, even though they were dressed up in 341 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: really really clothing that apparently struck fear into the hearts 342 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: of their enemies. They're like, look at the deep blue 343 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: that gold embroidery. But they were highly trained in their 344 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: their morale or their esprie decor was legendary. Yeah, evidently. 345 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: Well they were also um expert swordsmen. They were called musketeers, 346 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: and they knew what they were doing with them with 347 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: a musket. But day to day they had a sword 348 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: by their side and they could take your head clean 349 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: off with it. Yeah. I mean, in the in the book, 350 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot more sword fight and in 351 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: the movies that they've adapted than any kind of musket play. Yes, supposedly. 352 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: In in the book, muskets are just they show up 353 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: a few times, they're only fired a few times, but 354 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: the rest is all swords and swashbuckling. But they were 355 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: still musketeers, right. So, And the reason again they were 356 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: musketeers because this cutting edge technology at the time, and 357 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: if you were somebody who was really proficient with the musket, 358 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,719 Speaker 1: you were somebody special. Yeah, you also had to be um. 359 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: You didn't have to be, but it helped out if 360 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: you were an aristocrat, a noble men. You didn't have 361 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,719 Speaker 1: to be loaded, but you had to kind of run 362 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 1: in those circles or you're never gonna get picked up 363 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: to be one of the what was it dfty hundreds, 364 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: that's the most, the most in the least they ever 365 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: had operationally, and they were actually like, this is again, 366 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,239 Speaker 1: this is real life we're talking about. Um. They were 367 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: formed in sixteen twenty two, I believe, and they ran 368 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: all the way into the until eighteen sixteen when they 369 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: were disbanded due to a lack of funding. I know, 370 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: and I saw they rebanded a couple of times after 371 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: in subsequent years, and then disbanded again, and eventually they 372 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 1: all went onto solo success as artists, entertaining recording artists 373 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: the r MS. He had a nice line of deodorance 374 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: and personal fragrance. Um. So now can we talk a 375 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: little bit about the book and Alexander what do you 376 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: call him? Do? Very nice Paris eighteen twenties, very popular 377 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 1: John Grisham like in his output right the swinging Paris 378 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: scene of the eighteen twenties. So he was turning out 379 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: books like he had people writing stuff for him. He 380 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: was like the Andy Warhol of his time, like he 381 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: he had. He would have people say, like, here's the 382 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: structure of the book you're about to write, and he 383 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: would sit down and write it, research tone, chapter, ideas. 384 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: He had assistance for everything, and he would just crank 385 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: this out like it was an assembly line. Well, they 386 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: were hugely popular. Yeah, but historians they don't knock him 387 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: because he also had the goods as a writer, right exactly. 388 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: And that's that's really like, that's just this prolific nous 389 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: alone is pretty awesome. But then if you combine the 390 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: idea that he was actually good at what he did, 391 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: that's staggering. Like his collected works, his unabridged collected works 392 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: fills up three hundred volumes, and like some of it's 393 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: really great, Like if you read the Three Musketeers, you're like, wow, 394 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 1: this is pretty cool. This is it's it's neat, it's interesting, 395 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: it's engrossing. Um and the lovemaking right, it's hyper linked 396 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 1: all over the place. Uh So do we get specific 397 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 1: about the real d'artagnan's uh musketeer life a little bit? 398 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: We said that he came from Gascony, Yeah, a little 399 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: bit before or was it after now he was after 400 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 1: he came Yeah, He came out in sixteen thirty two, 401 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: which was a little later than the fictional version, and 402 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: served under Louis the fourteen, the Son King. He was 403 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: the Sun King. You know a lot about French history. Well, 404 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 1: I went to very Ci once, did you really? Yeah? Um, 405 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: I never made it there. I didn't make it inside, 406 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 1: but I went to verst Si. So you tried, though, right, 407 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: that's an um and he actually the real d'Artagnan became 408 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: the commander of the Musketeers and was build in sixteen 409 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: seventy three. And apparently the three dudes were also based 410 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: on real guys right right there. I don't know if 411 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: their names were dead on, but they're pretty close approximations 412 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: in the book. Um. And so, like you said, like 413 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: this book was hugely popular. It was first serialized in 414 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: the French magazine Las Cieco lasco very nice. I don't 415 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: know about that, but UM in eighteen forty four, and 416 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: like he said, he was really hitting the romantic period 417 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: and everybody loved this. So they took this, They took 418 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 1: the serial and UM put it into a book. That's 419 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: why a lot of the chapters have like cliffhangers, because 420 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,959 Speaker 1: it was published it was serialized in the magazine. When 421 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,959 Speaker 1: I think he started out, didn't he start out as 422 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 1: a playwright? Yeah, okay, which makes sense with the whole 423 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: Cliffhanger thing. So he uh, he writes, never really gets 424 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: the respect that some of his contemporaries like Victor Hugo 425 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: um got or a Meal Zola um. And it wasn't 426 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: until two doz. And this possibly was because he had 427 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: mixed race heritage. His Yeah, his grandfather was a French nobleman. 428 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: His his grandmother, I believe, was a Creole woman from Haiti, 429 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: so he had um African in his blood. Um. Now, 430 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: in France, it's not anything like it is in the 431 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: United States, where it's like that that idiotic one drop rule. Um. 432 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: But apparently it was enough, there was enough racism in 433 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: France that like, it wasn't until two two, when Jacques 434 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 1: Sharrock was president that he was moved. Um. His remains 435 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: were moved to the pantheon alongside like Zola. So uh. 436 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: A lot of people said, well, no, he was he 437 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: was a hack. He was he was just a hack, 438 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: you know, like he was good, but he was still 439 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: a hack, and that's why people didn't take him seriously. 440 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: But it's also possible it is because of his his 441 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 1: racial background as well. I think that in this budde 442 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: Well for us, I think hundreds of years on, even 443 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: prolific hacks can be looked upon as you know, genius. Right. 444 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: So that's pretty much what I've been betting on since 445 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: we first sat down pretty started doing. Yeah, it's just 446 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: somebody out there somehow society is gonna just devolved and 447 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: they'll be like these guys are It'll be like idiocracy. 448 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,919 Speaker 1: Yeah that's our meal ticket, right, but more entertaining. Are 449 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: you got anything else? No? I mean the rest is history, great, 450 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: great book. Uh, And I love the story behind the 451 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: musket and the Musketeers, the real life thing. That was 452 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: pretty cool, you know, I like my history. If you 453 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 1: want to learn more about Alexander Duma and the Musketeers 454 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: and Muskets, you can type Musketeers m U s K 455 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,120 Speaker 1: E T E E R S into the handy search 456 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: part how stuff works dot Com, which means it's time 457 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: for a listener mail. Josh. I'm gonna call this, uh 458 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: clarification on that I've actually copied that about um. Josh 459 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: and Chuck just started listening to stuff you should know 460 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: when I love the podcast, but I was recently listening 461 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: to your Samurai podcast and I couldn't help but notice 462 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: that you gave credit to George Lucas when talking about 463 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: a Darth Vader mask uh and its relative similarity to 464 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: the Samurai Cabudo mask. That yes, um, I thought I 465 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: would point out that Mr Lucas, although responsible for Star Wars, 466 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: was not responsible for the design for the conception of 467 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: Vader's mask. Credit for that should go to the great 468 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: concept artist Ralph mcquarie, who's used future aesthetic as in 469 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: like full time you're looking. Yeah, no, I love that aesthetics. 470 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, me too. It's one of the reasons for 471 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: the iconic status of Star Wars and really informed like 472 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: every great space movie sense, don't you think, Yeah, like 473 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: think about it, like the um like a spaceport or 474 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,959 Speaker 1: something like that, Like all the jet engines are kind 475 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: of battered and beaten and everything, and every once a 476 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: while go to an airport and look in Stephen plains 477 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: are just like that, and I'll just see exactly what 478 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: the guy was doing and how well they nailed. They agreed. 479 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: So mcquarie, hats off to you, and Geiger is awesome. 480 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take my hand off to YouTube as well, 481 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: sir um, and then continue with the email. Lucas's original 482 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: script did not put Vader in a mask at all, evidently, 483 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: and it was Ralph's idea to put a frightening helmet 484 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: on the Sith Lord. Macquarie recently passed away, and it 485 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: would be a shame if his contributions to popular culture 486 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: were not recognized. And Joe from San Francisco could not 487 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: agree more. And I'm glad you pointed this out because movies, 488 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: although it is a director's medium, are made up of many, many, 489 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: many people's talents contributing to the end result of the film, 490 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,719 Speaker 1: and people like mcquarie are often overlooked with something as 491 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: iconic is Darth Vader's mask. That's awesome, So thank you 492 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: for that joke from San Francisco. Well done, Joe. Um. 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