WEBVTT - How the Musketeers Worked 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.320 It's ready. Are you welcome to you stuff you should 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:16.280 know from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.920 to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:21.759 And since the two of us are together, if I 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.520 have a couple of microphones, you got stuff you should know? 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.720 It's right them. Is it an award that we won 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.600 on iTunes? At the very least we want to vote 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:37.040 yet the vote winning podcasts? Yeah? Popular podcast that's what 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.680 we can call ourselves. Ye Have we won an award? 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:45.080 Are we award winning now? Nope? Okay, maybe someone at 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.000 home will make us an award and send it in. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:52.440 We've been awarded a podcast, so we are award winning? Yes? Um, yes, 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.560 so that's this what we're about to do. And I 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.080 think it's becoming painfully obvious why we haven't won any 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.400 awards the more we talk about this. Yeah, I think 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.800 you're right. Um. Are you doing good? Uh? I'm great. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.360 Are you getting sucked for Comic Con? It's like two 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.280 days dude. Well, and by the time this is out 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.640 will be like long since I've pooped our pants on 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:17.040 stage and laughed at Yeah, yeah, but the horror. Yeah, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.480 I'm excited though, Sure, San Diego, let's do it. Yeah, 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.720 let's go right now. Yes, just wait a day. Um. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.160 In the meantime, Chuck, I have a proposal that we 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:35.080 speak about the Musketeers. Uh, let's hear it. Yeah, it's 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.320 like I'm not handling this one by myself. Just take 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.440 it away. Uh. Can you imagine how long that episode 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.840 would be if I just discoursed on the Musketeers alone? 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:51.040 About you just keep going and an infinite loop. Hey 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:56.520 have you ever heard of a little candy company named Mars? Yeah? 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.320 Nowadays I think it's Eminem's Mars, but back then it 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.360 was just Mars, My Stars, My stars. How does Mars 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.040 make such wonderful candy bars? How old are you? I'm 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.200 forty one. And my grandfather used to say that it 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.720 brings back like great memories. That was like one of 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.360 the things Granddaddy Mills did. I'm sorry to tarnish it 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.480 with that's all right? Um, okay, Well, this company Mars 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.360 that your grandfather liked, and rightly so, Mars bar is 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.560 one of the greatest all time candy bars. Ever, you're 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.000 crazy if you say what's in the Mars bar? New 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.680 Get caramel almonds. It's just this great milane of flavors. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.959 The almonds are what really do it? It's like it's 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.600 like the thinking man Snickers, there's some peanut butter in there, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.959 and I'm on board. Hey, I'm with you too. Well, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.519 this is long before anybody ever thought to put peanut 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.920 butter in anything besides maybe a sandwich. Um, it's the 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:53.400 Mars company released a candy that they called, very appropriately, 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.160 in my my opinion, the Three Musketeers. Today, you pick 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.160 up a three Musketeers bar, you're like, what the hell 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:04.000 does this mean? Um? Back then, you could very easily 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.880 figure out what it meant because it was three pieces 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:12.160 of milk chocolate covered nougat in three different flavors, vanilla, chocolate, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:17.200 and strawberry. Hence three Musketeers, three different pieces, three different flavors. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.280 So it's three different flavors all in one single rapper. Yes, 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.000 that's like you pulled the rapper back. You're like, oh, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.120 there's three, Like, which one do I want? Value? Which 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.239 do I want to give to my little brother? It 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:34.920 was you give your little brother, probably the strawberry, one strawberry, vanilla, chocolate. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.240 It's like neopolcher. I didn't realize that. I had no 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.200 idea that there were three. It makes sense now because 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.680 now when you open it up, you're like, I don't 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.760 get it. It's one candy bar. That's what I'm saying. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.440 It's named after a novel, a classic novel. Yes it is. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.000 Thank you for that segue, because I didn't know how 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.080 I was going to get out of this one. I'd 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:59.360 whipped myself into a quagmire. Today, today we've got three 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.640 Musketeers that are just the chocolate nougat. We have a 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:06.920 classic novel written by Alexandra Duma. I checked pronunciation. Don't 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.800 even try me on that. I listened to a Frenchman. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.880 That's you listen to a Frenchman say it. There's this 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:19.240 website called farvo dot com. People's names names. It's awesome. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.360 Yeah it is. And one thing I realized reading this 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.160 is I don't think we have We don't get a 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.920 lot of mail from uh, the French. Have you ever 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.320 notice that? Yeah? I wonder why do you think that? 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.960 There's probably not a French, not a lot of French listeners. No, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.960 I don't think so, Okay, we're beneath him, Yeah, I 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.200 don't think we're hitting their wheelhouse much like podcast not 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.280 just podcast. I think podcasts like Mark Marin's huge in France. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.080 And again so Jerry Lewis. So, I guess if I 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:53.120 was sitting around at cafe like by the river, drinking wine, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.600 I wouldn't have an iPod anywhere near me. I would 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.520 throw it in the river and just like live my life. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.720 You know where we are huge, do you true? Which 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.160 is awesome to me? Agreed? Hey, India, Uh, let's talk 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.240 about the Three Musketeers, right. You said it was a 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.680 novel by Alexander Juma. Yeah, I mean the really quick 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:22.719 one sentence summation is is uh hick Adventurer d'Artagnan moves 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.640 out of the sticks and because he wants to join 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:30.520 the famed Musketeers the Guard, the Musketeers of the Guard, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.719 the King's basically secret service right hand men, wants to 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:41.599 join them. He goes there. He meets the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos, 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:46.279 and Aramis, and he eventually works his way into I 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.960 guess to be the fourth Musketeer. Well, he presents himself 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.760 with the opportunity to prove his valor and his courage 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.839 and his skill by basically hanging around them. Yeah. And 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.359 along the way there are duels and there's some love making. Yeah. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.720 I think this is the only article on how stuff 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.760 works dot com that has the word love making, fighting, convention, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.440 and lovemaking. And it's hyperlink too. Is it really to 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:14.680 what I would imagine sex to an article on sex? Yeah? Okay, Um, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.440 that was a great summation. There's no need to read 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.479 The Three Musketeers or any of the other works by 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.040 Dumont that feature the Three Musketeers, including the man in 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.239 the Iron Mask. Oh was that him? Yeah? I didn't 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.240 know that, but I kind of figured, you know, like 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.360 who else was writing that stuff? Yeah? I don't know. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.240 He was kind of the market cornered. He was the 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.640 John Grisham of his day. He was the John Grisham, 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:46.839 the Danielle Steele and the Sue Grafton of his day. Okay, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.400 we'll put thanks um so well. The weird thing, I 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.760 guess it's not too weird, is that he wrote this 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.560 novel a couple of hundred years after the real action 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.600 takes place, and it came out at a time when, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.320 you know, how you know, later on people have a 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.040 real fascination with things that came before them, came out 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.320 during the romantic era in the forties, where people are 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.600 like Dud's swashbuckling and these outfits and the love making 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.440 give me more. It was really really popular, right, And 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.360 it was also popular because it was based on actual 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.680 events featuring historical characters. Yeah, all those dudes were real. Yeah, 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:31.200 d'Artagnan um or d'Artagnan, he was a real person. And 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:36.520 actually the Three Musketeers um that duma wrote was based 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:42.960 on a semi fictional memoir written about that guy who 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.760 was a real musketeer of the Guard, who was who 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.760 went on to to great glory. Actually he became the 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:54.480 He traveled from the hinterlands, I think gascony Um join up, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.800 the sticks joined up, eventually became commander of the Musketeers 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.240 of the Guard. Did they cover that in the Well? 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.320 The Well? There was more than one book though, right, Yeah, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.880 there were several, and the original book was serialized too. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.320 We'll talk about Dumaan in a minute, right. The point 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:13.120 is that his work was based on real people, but 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:18.320 it was super fictionalized and super romantic. Um and all 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.080 of it was based on the idea that in the 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.680 seventeenth century, there was this new invention that gave rise 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.560 to all of this, the musket. Thank you China. Yes, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.240 like everything else almost on the planet that we have, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.760 thank you China. They were the leaders in pretty much 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.520 everything back in the day. And around one thousand they 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.600 invented a little something called gunpowder, and um, you pack 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.000 this stuff in a tube that's a metal tube only 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.000 open on one end. You light it like a sort 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.600 of like a mini cannon. They called it a hand cannon, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.520 a hand cannon. And there was a lot of mistakes 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.600 early on. Man, can you imagine that going wrong so easily? 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.719 An um, and it would They would light it through 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.079 something called a touch hole, and then there would be 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:07.600 an explosion, create this hot gas that would send whatever 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.080 they stuck inside there, which was a little round ball 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:14.200 at the time. Um, it would send it out decent 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.880 speeds at first, fairly decent. Yeah, I mean for back 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.319 then that was right like whoa, look at that hurling projectile, right, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.600 it was probably more like magic run yea. You know 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.080 there's some that man has a hand dragon. They didn't 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.800 think they call it hand can and yet they probably 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.560 a hand dragon. Um. And it was mostly it produced 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.160 the psychological effect because it wasn't very accurate and like 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.199 you said that, it didn't really shoot it out at 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.040 fast speeds. Yeah, it would like the Knight's armor. It 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.920 would like hit it and go plunk and then fall 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.040 on the ground and the night would then down and 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.559 pick it up and put it in his little satchel 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.880 and they would catch you in half of the sword. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.400 So at first, not super effective, no, but it inspired 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.280 people to make this better, Like we can do better 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.560 with it hollow tube and a stick and a touch hole. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:08.400 So let's figure this out. Yeah, if I may segue 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.480 to the side here for a moment. This got got 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:16.040 me thinking today about battle and just warfare and weaponry 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.560 and how it's still so basic. I mean, it's like 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.600 super advanced now with how they do it. But Took 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:27.079 took starts out by hitting another caveman in the face, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.920 like it's warfare started out with your fists, and then 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.679 it transforms into like eventually someone uses a club and 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.200 they're like, hey, this implement is like way better than 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.960 hitting with my fist because it's harder and I can 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.120 do more damage and I can get a little further 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.120 away from you. Then to come like swords and things 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.640 and lances, and they could get even further away. And 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:55.640 the whole, the whole history of weaponry is about hurling 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:01.680 bigger fists from longer distances. Whether it was the arrow, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.840 then later the bullet, and now you have like enter 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.880 I c b ms that are just like really really 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.640 really big fists that you can fire from really really 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.320 far away. I think the point you're making is that war, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.160 no matter how advanced we get, is it really primitive. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.599 It is. It's a primitive idea. I didn't know that 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.839 was my point, but this I think it's spot on. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.200 Um all right back to it. Thank you for that. Sure, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.200 I just even asked if you could do it first. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.559 That's really formal. Well, and each each method was like 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.040 a little bit further away, like arrows, like hey, we 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.520 can get him further away. And then pretty soon it 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.000 was bullets, and then it was like sniper rifles, and 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.079 then it was missiles and now it's some guy sitting 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:46.440 in Nevada shooting people in Afghanistan with on his computer. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:52.920 It's pretty sad um. Okay, so back to the musket. Um. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.679 We've gone from gunpowder to hand cannon and now we're 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:00.520 at the arquebus, that's right, not arquebus early fifty hundreds 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.600 to be specific. And this actually had a shoulder stock, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.040 which was like a huge deal because it wasn't just 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.960 a stick attached to this metal tube, like you could 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.959 actually aim this sucker. Now you could look down the 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.400 barrel and pointed at something and you could shoot it 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.199 and it would shoot a projectile. But again still the 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:24.199 ultimate goal, the ultimate the pinnacle of the battlefield was 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:29.720 the horse mounted night in armor. And if that guy 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.760 was wearing plate, the arcbus wasn't gonna do it. Still 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.880 still still still a matchlock weapon, which meant you had 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.200 to light a little thing. So you needed a touch 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.600 hole of some sort, and you needed a some something 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:45.720 like a smoldering piece of yarn. Maybe you needed something dry, right, 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.720 which is a key that we will find out right, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.560 And it's a big problem. Like when it's raining, your 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.320 is not going to help, but you know it works 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.520 well in the rain. What a sword it does, like 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.240 the one that the horse mounted knight in armor is 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.440 using to cut you in half. Yet again a hundred 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:07.079 years later, right, so um, people are like this, we 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.400 can make this work. This has got to work. We 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.280 have to figure this out. And the Spaniards were the 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.520 ones that came up with this new thing called the musqueto, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.079 the sparrowhawk, or the boom stick, so I like to 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.559 call it. Uh, it was even longer barreled. Um, it 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.679 was really heavy. I looked at pictures of this thing. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.719 They actually mounted it on a little forked stick like, Um, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:36.319 it's sort of like Rambo. Actually Rambo carried his his fifty. Yeah, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.199 but that's supposed to be on a tripod. Yeah, you understand, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.480 but ran so Mustley. You could carry it Rambo and 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.160 Charlie Sheenion and hot shots. Oh did he use that too, Yeah, 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.760 because he was imitating Rambo, right, Okay, So they used 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.800 the forked stick to like hold it steady and to 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.280 help them out. The French called it a mosquite. The 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.520 English called it a musket. A musket. I think you 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.400 see where we're going here. Um, it was also matchlock, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.160 but it was actually could fire something that would go 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.800 through armor. Finally, and then all of a sudden, the 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.320 Nights are like, oh man, shoot, we're done. And they 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.240 actually did fade from the battlefield after that with the 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.240 with the mosqueto, the mosquite or the musket and we 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.320 cover that in the Night's podcast, right, we totally did. Um. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.720 So then they're like, okay, we figured it out. We 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.520 got the night down. The problem is is like this 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.640 thing requires a forked stick to aim. It's like pounds. Yeah, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.640 and you need a pikeman another soldier, um who has 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.360 an eighteen foot spear to protect you while you're reloading. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.000 I would want two pikemen. Yeah. Well I think you 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.280 probably had your own little formation because you were so 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.400 important you could just stand back and shoot a night. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.120 So yeah, they're going to give as many pikeman as 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:52.880 you asked for. If you knew how to shoot one 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.520 of those things with your hand dragon exactly. So um, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.840 they're like, okay, we've got it. Now, all we have 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.360 to do is refine it. And one of the first 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.880 refinements they made was to make it a flintlock. Huge. Yeah, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.240 so now you didn't have to carry a smoldering piece 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.000 of yarn any longer. That's right. Flintlock worked in the 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.040 rain because it would strike a piece of flint against steel, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.440 producing the spark. Instead of needing that open flame or 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.920 the smoldering yarn. They really use yarn. Um, they would 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:24.120 use like something akindy yarn They probably was yarned, but 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.360 they spelled it with an E on the end, yarnie. Um. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.120 So all of a sudden, you could, uh, you could 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.480 shoot it in wet weather, which was awesome. And because 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.560 the nights have sort of gone the way of the Dodo, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.200 it didn't have to be a you know, a two 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.440 inch iron ball, but you're shooting. So that means that 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.240 the gun itself can be smaller. Everything can be smaller 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.760 and lighter. Very big deal. So now we're starting to 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.080 see like the kind of thing that the minimen used 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.640 in colonial America. That's right. For those of you into 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.680 the era, you'll know what I'm talking about. Um. And 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.760 then they also got rid of the pikeman by attaching 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.000 a bayonet to it. Yeah, I don't know about that. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.920 They said that that rendered pikeman uh like unnecessary. But 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.000 I would still rather have an another dude with an 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:15.040 eighteen foot lance than me with my bandet on the 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.120 end of my rifle. But you might like to have that, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.840 but your field commander would rather have another guy with 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.560 a musket in a bayonet. Yeah, true, you know what 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.840 I'm saying, Get rid of the pike, give him a 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.840 musket in a bayonet instead, and all of a sudden, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.720 you've got two people shooting fire. Yeah, good point. So 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.760 they still called it a musket. Yeah, and technically anybody 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.520 who had a musket and used a musket in battle 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.160 was a musketeer. I bet a lot of guys like 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.360 to throw that word around back in the day too. Yeah, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.640 like you know, I'm a musketeer, and then the other 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.960 guys would say, you're not a real musketeer, a real musketeer, josh. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.920 As we mentioned earlier, personal household guards of King Louis 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.480 the what is that? Yeah, and apparently he it was, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.560 was he the one who founded it? Yeah? He formed 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.400 uh the guard officially in SiO, the musketeers of the Guard. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.040 Like they had to add the extra couple of words. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.080 So you just think there were some shmos with the 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.159 musket exactly, because everyone with a musket at that point is, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.200 like we said, bragging about being a musket because this 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.639 is like high technology at the time, and it stayed 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.440 that way for a century. Like from the musket the 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.119 flintlock must get that any infantryman could carry with the 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.800 bayonet was started was introduced at the beginning of the 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.399 eighteenth century and like all the way up to the 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.879 nineteenth century, like that is what people used. Yeah, and 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.960 then that just like a rifle. I mean it's not sure. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.439 I mean it changed somewhat, but like as soon as 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.080 China invented dunpowder, it was all over. People would be 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.840 dying left and right, sadly. Um, alright, so these are, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.320 like we said, these were sort of like special forces, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:59.600 secret service, the private guardians of the king and his family. Yeah, 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.680 very important because in France during the seventeenth century, the 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.760 early seventeenth century, it wasn't like a party going on 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.159 back there. No, and actually a lot of a lot 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:15.680 of troubles. Louis, his father um On Read the fourth 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:21.439 I believe, was assassinated. Um and Louis the thirteenth became 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.480 he ascended to the throne. He became king at age nine. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.000 I was like the boy kings that cracks me up. 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.680 And he had like a child bride, uh and of 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.840 Austria I believe her name was, And I guess overseeing 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.359 this whole thing was a guy named Cardinal Richelieu. Yeah. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:44.240 So at this time and this was I think fairly correct. Um, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.639 there were there were there was a lot of internal 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.040 civil strife in France, religious based. Yes, the French were 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:57.359 also battling the Habsburgs of Austria, and within his own house, 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.119 Louist was having to worry about Machiavellian which was new 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.639 at the time, machinations of Cardinal Richlieu his um basically 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.160 Dick Cheney. Yeah, but a Dick Cheney with like an 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:15.120 I on the throne. Yes, so his Karl Rove. Yeah, 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.840 it's very it's very Games of Throney. Yeah. I don't 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.280 know if you watched that or reddit, but no, I've 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.320 heard of it though. Yeah, I see there's like a 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:30.119 throne made of swords done. It's really good stuff, all right. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.000 So the musketeers were there, their guarding the king. A 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.200 lot of religious upheaval, yeah, yeah, French Protestants saying we 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.840 don't like you Catholics. Catholics are saying we don't like 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.119 you Huguenots, which were the French Protestants, and so there 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.640 was a lot of warring going on. So the king 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.399 needed these like super specialized and these dudes were you know, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.000 they were bad. Yeah, they were like the tough guys 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.159 at the time, even though they were dressed up in 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.760 really really clothing that apparently struck fear into the hearts 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.159 of their enemies. They're like, look at the deep blue 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.840 that gold embroidery. But they were highly trained in their 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:13.760 their morale or their esprie decor was legendary. Yeah, evidently. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.439 Well they were also um expert swordsmen. They were called musketeers, 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.200 and they knew what they were doing with them with 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.840 a musket. But day to day they had a sword 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.760 by their side and they could take your head clean 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.560 off with it. Yeah. I mean, in the in the book, 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.639 you're gonna see a lot more sword fight and in 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.440 the movies that they've adapted than any kind of musket play. Yes, supposedly. 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.800 In in the book, muskets are just they show up 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:40.680 a few times, they're only fired a few times, but 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.280 the rest is all swords and swashbuckling. But they were 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.240 still musketeers, right. So, And the reason again they were 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.080 musketeers because this cutting edge technology at the time, and 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.480 if you were somebody who was really proficient with the musket, 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.719 you were somebody special. Yeah, you also had to be um. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:58.320 You didn't have to be, but it helped out if 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:01.119 you were an aristocrat, a noble men. You didn't have 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.719 to be loaded, but you had to kind of run 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.199 in those circles or you're never gonna get picked up 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.000 to be one of the what was it dfty hundreds, 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.439 that's the most, the most in the least they ever 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:16.160 had operationally, and they were actually like, this is again, 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.239 this is real life we're talking about. Um. They were 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.920 formed in sixteen twenty two, I believe, and they ran 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.560 all the way into the until eighteen sixteen when they 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:29.800 were disbanded due to a lack of funding. I know, 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.960 and I saw they rebanded a couple of times after 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.040 in subsequent years, and then disbanded again, and eventually they 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.679 all went onto solo success as artists, entertaining recording artists 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.480 the r MS. He had a nice line of deodorance 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:50.280 and personal fragrance. Um. So now can we talk a 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.359 little bit about the book and Alexander what do you 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:59.680 call him? Do? Very nice Paris eighteen twenties, very popular 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:04.919 John Grisham like in his output right the swinging Paris 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.280 scene of the eighteen twenties. So he was turning out 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:10.440 books like he had people writing stuff for him. He 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.399 was like the Andy Warhol of his time, like he 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.159 he had. He would have people say, like, here's the 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:19.840 structure of the book you're about to write, and he 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:25.440 would sit down and write it, research tone, chapter, ideas. 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.720 He had assistance for everything, and he would just crank 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.919 this out like it was an assembly line. Well, they 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:37.280 were hugely popular. Yeah, but historians they don't knock him 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.760 because he also had the goods as a writer, right exactly. 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:44.280 And that's that's really like, that's just this prolific nous 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.560 alone is pretty awesome. But then if you combine the 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:48.639 idea that he was actually good at what he did, 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:53.359 that's staggering. Like his collected works, his unabridged collected works 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:58.680 fills up three hundred volumes, and like some of it's 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.120 really great, Like if you read the Three Musketeers, you're like, wow, 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.120 this is pretty cool. This is it's it's neat, it's interesting, 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:11.240 it's engrossing. Um and the lovemaking right, it's hyper linked 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:15.560 all over the place. Uh So do we get specific 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:20.199 about the real d'artagnan's uh musketeer life a little bit? 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.320 We said that he came from Gascony, Yeah, a little 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:26.320 bit before or was it after now he was after 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:30.119 he came Yeah, He came out in sixteen thirty two, 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.159