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