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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class, A production

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Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson

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Speaker 1: and I'm Holly Fry. We talked about Unearthed all this week.

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Speaker 1: We sure did.

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Speaker 2: That quote darning tool or maybe not a darning tool

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Speaker 2: that was found?

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Son Bendolin. It's very funny.

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Speaker 2: And also if you see a picture of it, you

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Speaker 2: might wonder why anybody described it as like a darning

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Speaker 2: tool in the first place, because it does have a

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Speaker 2: very suggestive visual appearance. I don't know if it looks

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Speaker 2: that way from every angle, but from the photos that are,

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Speaker 2: you know, accompanying articles about it, it does look very

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Speaker 2: suggestive to me.

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Speaker 1: I was tickled when at the end of the second one,

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Speaker 1: the second episode, Uh huh, you read a listener mail

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Speaker 1: that mentioned Star Trek, because I had a note in

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Speaker 1: my notes that I take as we're talking about what

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Speaker 1: might go behind the scenes about Star Trek, which is

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Speaker 1: that I just was suddenly thinking about doctor Bones being

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Speaker 1: horrified by trepanation. Oh yeah, and how completely like prehistoric

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Speaker 1: the idea was. I forget what his exact line is,

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Speaker 1: but he saves Chekhov from being trepanned when they're yeah

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Speaker 1: back in the twentieth century, and I was.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, nowadays. Trepenation to me brings up two immediate

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Speaker 2: associations from literature slash television, and one of them is Outlander.

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Speaker 2: There's an episode in Outlander where somebody has a head

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Speaker 2: injury and clear wants to save them, and the way

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Speaker 2: to save them is like relieving the pressure on their brain,

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Speaker 2: and she knows what to ask for, which is a triphine,

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Speaker 2: which is what the tool was called that was used

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Speaker 2: to make the whole entrepidation. And the other I think

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Speaker 2: the very first time I ever came across that term

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Speaker 2: was reading the His Dark Materials. There's like a reference

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Speaker 2: to a skull that's found that has has had a

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Speaker 2: hole made in it, or I feel like early on

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Speaker 2: in those books. I don't remember if it made it

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Speaker 2: into the TV show or not, because I think if

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Speaker 2: it had been, it would have been like one of

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Speaker 2: the early seasons of the show, which is a while

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Speaker 2: back now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where the first place I would have been.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I had a either a science or

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Speaker 1: a history teacher who had like a ghoulish moment of

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Speaker 1: enjoying explaining that to us, while I was sure writhed

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Speaker 1: in our desks.

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Speaker 2: It's also possible that I learned about it in like

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Speaker 2: some course that I don't remember now. I increasingly, as

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Speaker 2: I get older, will realize that like I just have

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Speaker 2: no I have no memory at all of some something

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Speaker 2: that I will discover later. Oh No, I definitely was

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Speaker 2: there when that happened. I interacted with that thing once

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Speaker 2: before that. Yes, I'm also gonna pat myself on the

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Speaker 2: back for you know, not breaking into any sort of

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Speaker 2: song or giggle fits when we talked.

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Speaker 1: About Cusco me, oh sure, sure. Emperor's New Groove one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite Disney movies. Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: The thefts from the new Bedford Whaling Museum, whoo are

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Speaker 2: just there's a couple of things that when I was

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Speaker 2: researching that kind of made me go what. And one

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Speaker 2: of them was the thefts from the new Bedford Whaling Museum,

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Speaker 2: which I became aware of because a friend of mine

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Speaker 2: sent me a link about one of the articles. And

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Speaker 2: at that point, like it was some weeks after these

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Speaker 2: thefts were discovered, and I was like, what, this whole

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Speaker 2: story is just wild.

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Speaker 1: It is like wild and just a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of different ways. And the fact that apparently multiple

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Speaker 2: like antique and collectable dealers were like, this piece just

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Speaker 2: seems too nice for somebody to just be selling it

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Speaker 2: to me. So like that, I was very captivated by

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Speaker 2: that whole thing. And also I had seen the headlines

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Speaker 2: about the sword believed to be a replica turning out

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Speaker 2: to be real. Like I had seen those headlines, I

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Speaker 2: had bookmarked them to look at them later, I did

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Speaker 2: not realize that this was not just like a sword

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Speaker 2: that somebody had somewhere. It was a sword in the

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Speaker 2: collection of the Field Museum. And that was what made

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Speaker 2: me get white. Wait this happened that the Field. That

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Speaker 2: adds a whole new layer of me being fascinated by

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Speaker 2: the story. Whoops, yeps.

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Speaker 1: I also got a giggle about the heart shaped pendant

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Speaker 1: that we talked about. Yeah, that was made of high

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Speaker 1: quality materials but not high quality workmanship, and how this

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Speaker 1: has led researchers to be like, oh, it may have

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Speaker 1: been made for like a situation where it wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: seen up close. And I was like, here's what this

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Speaker 1: sounds like to me, Okay, And I'm obviously this is

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Speaker 1: pure speculation. In my own ding Darnery, somebody's like idle child,

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Speaker 1: by which I mean probably an adult child with more

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Speaker 1: money than sense, thought that they were gonna make jewelry,

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Speaker 1: and they bought really nice, expensive crafting supplies. Kind of

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Speaker 1: made a piece of joke, like, yeah, that happens all

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Speaker 1: the time, now, sure.

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Speaker 2: Sure, I'm also like somebody's apprentice took from the wrong cabinet.

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Speaker 1: Right, also very possible. These are my head canons of

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Speaker 1: what really was going on with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the head canons that I often have

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Speaker 2: when I think I've mentioned this before. Sometimes when I'm

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Speaker 2: putting these together, I will find two news releases from

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Speaker 2: two different universities about the same study. And most likely

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Speaker 2: it's just that each university has their own PR department

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Speaker 2: and each university like wants to send out the thing.

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Speaker 2: But in my head, I always imagine that some sort

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Speaker 2: of intense, maybe bitter rivalry toll among the coordinating universities

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Speaker 2: and now they're not speaking to each other. I mean,

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Speaker 2: aways possible, right, that's actually going to come up soon

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Speaker 2: in a non unearthed episode, which you know, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: more about when we get to that. Which is I

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Speaker 2: just I have I've written a whole mental backstory about

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Speaker 2: what I think happened, and why there is a discrepancy

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Speaker 2: involving somebody's birth year. It is not a real thing.

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Speaker 2: It is my own made up fantasy land. I feel

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Speaker 2: like that's a thing that we as humans are prone

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Speaker 2: to doing, is like filling in the gaps. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: and that the important thing to remember is that, like

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Speaker 2: try not to get mad about the gaps that your

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Speaker 2: brain filled in when you don't actually know what happened.

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Speaker 1: Right. I feel like this could be applied to a

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Speaker 1: media literacy course. Yeah, because people think, like especially I mean,

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Speaker 1: as you know, I'm a big star Wars nerd, and

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Speaker 1: there's always so much speculation about what's going on behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes, said Lucasfilm. And it's like usually the for

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Speaker 1: any any situation of like seeming corporate intrigue or whatever,

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Speaker 1: the explanation is usually really boring. Right, Oh no, they're

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Speaker 1: pr people just like lost each other's email, or like

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Speaker 1: they just decided they would each do their own or

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Speaker 1: But I mean, it's fun to speculate, and it's a

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Speaker 1: great way to be creative. But yeah, yeah, as long

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Speaker 1: as you're not married to that as an expectation golden.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, uh, I'm still enjoying putting these episodes together.

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Speaker 2: This Uh, this time was a little bit unusual because

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Speaker 2: I put these together while Holly was on vacation, and

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Speaker 2: so often I will uh. I think there were a

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Speaker 2: couple things that I had run into before you had left,

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Speaker 2: and I think I had told you, Like the field

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Speaker 2: was one of the things that I was.

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Speaker 1: Like, do this thing happen at the field?

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Speaker 2: But a bunch of this I worked on while you

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Speaker 2: were not there, and so you did not get peppered

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Speaker 2: with as many weird things that I stumbled across while

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Speaker 2: working on them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, cheese, yeah, yeah, milk. I had never been a

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Speaker 1: milk drinker. Cheese, We'll eat it by the pound. Yeah, magic. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So Happy Friday, everybody. Whatever is coming up for you

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Speaker 2: this weekend. I hope it's going to be great. We

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Speaker 2: will be back with a Saturday Classic tomorrow. We will

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