1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: Josh Clark, There's Charles Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry. It's a 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: brand new day, it is. It's a it's a Wednesday. Yeah, 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: we're welcome back, buddy from my vacation. Yes, you mean 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: I went to New Zealand and then to Okinawa. It 7 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: was pretty awesome. You want to say anything about it 8 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: or New Zealand is wonderful. Yeah, I always love Japan. 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: I've heard New Zealand is like America in the nineteen 10 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: fifties that it's like I've heard it described that way. 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: It's very pure still and like oh yes, friendly and 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: just sort of uncorrupted. So um, Apparently New Zealand ranks 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: fourth on the Global Peace Index, which is you know, 14 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: it takes into account like, yeah, you don't get the 15 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: impression that there's this nie a day or innocence necessarily. 16 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: It's more just like they are a thoroughly content, peaceful 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: people and it's not like, you know, it's not like 18 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: that manufactured like labored kind of like friendly contentedness that 19 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: you kind of run into sometimes this is the real 20 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: deal and it rubs off on you while you're there. 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: Like New Zealanders are a okay in my book. Everyone 22 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: we met, everyone was friendly, except for one truck driver 23 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: who I had an incident with, But in retrospect, I 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: look back and I'm wondering if he thought he was 25 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: trying to protect me by not letting me go around him. 26 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: But everybody else was just like totally friendly, neat, cool people. 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: And we were everywhere, Like we were in a little 28 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: spot town of Rhoda Rura, we were in Auckland, we 29 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: were in Wellington, we were in a little Napier, which 30 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: is like the Art Deco capital of the world. They 31 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: had an earthquake in and it just leveled the town 32 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: all the a or afterward leveled town. So they're like, 33 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: we need to rebuild. What kind of architectural movement is 34 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: hip right now? Art Deco? So they rebuilt the town 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: in Art Deco. It's really pretty that you would love Napier. Cool. Yeah, 36 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: So New Zealand awesome, great stuff. Lots of sheep, like, 37 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: no joke, they are probably more sheep than sheep than people. Yeah, um, 38 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful place. And then of course Okinawa 39 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: we Once we got there, we're like, okay, let's start eating. Yeah, 40 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: you're like a japan expert at this point, right, Uh, 41 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: except I can't speak Japanese, but yeah, everything, I'm an expert. 42 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: I'm learning. We hung out with with Humi's family, nice 43 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: and her little I guess second cousin or first cousin 44 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: once removed a little kid. Awesome, little precocious dude at 45 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: one point was trying to talk to me and he 46 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: liked just put his face in his hands and said 47 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: in Japanese, this communication in Japanese is not going very well, 48 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: that's adorable. Yeah it was, and you ate like a king. Yes, 49 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: I bet man, that sounds that sounds great. Thanks man, 50 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: Thanks for welcoming me back. You're still a little jet legs, 51 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: so in case I get a little weird, that's why. Uh. Well, 52 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: maybe one day we can hit up New Zealand on 53 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: a tour. I would love that. Yeah, and Australia too, 54 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: I know they love us over there. Well, we can't 55 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: go to one without the other. I just did well 56 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: first stuff you should know show Oh that would be 57 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: rude awesome. Well, welcome back, thanks um and now Stonehenge, 58 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: have you ever been No, I've been to London and 59 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: that's it as far as the UK goes. Yeah, same here. Um, 60 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: I would love to go to Stonehenge too. It sounds 61 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: like a very very cool place and I wanted to 62 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: go before I researched this, but now that I have them, like, 63 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: definitely want to go because it's not just Stonehenge. You 64 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: think it's just Stonehenge and you go and there's like 65 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: the rock formation, and sure, when you get in your 66 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: car and go home, you could do that, but you'd 67 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: be missing out on like a whole huge, rich tapestry 68 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: of weirdo earthen works that are totally mysterious to us 69 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: still to this day, in that whole area. Yeah, I 70 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: had no idea either. It's a hotbed of hinges. Yeah, 71 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: you know which technically a hinge, by the way, we 72 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: should say, is an earthworks that I didn't know that 73 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: dentil I studied this, I didn't either, But so it's 74 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 1: an earthwork that consists of a bank and a ditch, 75 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: and in most cases the high bank encloses a ditch 76 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: within it. But Stonehenge, which is which gives the name 77 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: hinge to other hinges, is the opposite it's a reverse hinge. 78 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: It has the ditch on the outside of the bank. Yeah. 79 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: And and you know it sort of looks when you 80 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: look at these images of hinges from above, um, sort 81 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: of like a crop circle with nothing in the middle, right, 82 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: just grass, just grass. Uh. And remember that's where the 83 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: home of crop circles started, was in that area, the 84 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: Salisbury Plain and outer space already Stonehenge. So, like we said, Chuckers, 85 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: the the whole reason for any of this stuff, for 86 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: building these things still defies understanding. But exploration has gone 87 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: back many, many, many centuries. You know, you don't just 88 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: walk past Stonehenge and say that's natural. It's clearly man made. 89 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: But the idea behind it has been lost. But study 90 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: of the whole thing has kind of has yielded some 91 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: pretty good stuff. Like, for example, we have a pretty 92 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: good idea of when Stonehenge was constructed and apparently, uh, 93 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: it was constructive of a period of less than two 94 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: hundred years. Yeah. We also have a pretty good idea 95 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: about where it is because it is where it is, 96 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:03,119 Speaker 1: which is eight miles north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Crop 97 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: Circles home of crop circles and where the Banshees live 98 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: and they do live well, the Banshees. Yeah, you're not 99 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: a spinal tap band. No, I've been having that song 100 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: Stonehenge in my head all day on a loop. They 101 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: talk about the Benshees. That's one of the lines where 102 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: the Banshees live and they do live well. I thought 103 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: they were from Ireland, the Banshees. Yeah, I don't know. 104 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: I mean they're talking about Druids and the song as well. Yeah, 105 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: it's spinal tap, which is a common, uh, a common 106 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: misconception that the Druids built Stonehenge, right, Yeah, they have 107 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: dated it and they were not there at the same time, correct. Yeah. 108 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 1: So back in the nineteenth century, some antiquarians which was 109 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: what they used to call historians and archaeologists and stuff 110 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: before there were such things, um, figured that Stonehenge was 111 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: some sort of Druidic temple, which made a lot of 112 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 1: sense because the Druids were a weird mystery cult that 113 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: um we're big on, like human sacrifice and all sorts 114 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: of like really interesting stuff. They were the priestly class 115 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: of the Celts, right. Um. The problem is is the 116 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: Druids were around from about till the first century c 117 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: E when the Romans suppressed them. H and Stone Inch 118 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: is way older than that, at least the whole earthworks 119 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: thing goes back at least five thousand years. Yeah, and 120 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: that's the earthworks, the actual large stones that it's most 121 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: famous for. UM. They date that between b c. E, 122 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: which is about the same time as the Great Pyramids 123 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: in Egypt. So UM, if you're wondering how they managed 124 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: to get these large stones, that's still a mystery. But um, 125 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: they were not as advanced as the Middle East at 126 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: the time. Right. So in the Middle East they know 127 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: they were well into I guess the Bronze Age UM, 128 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: while the I guess so well at the time Europe, 129 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: Western Europe at least was still in the Neolithic, the 130 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: New Stone Age UM. So yeah, the idea that there 131 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: was this massive public works UM is a huge mystery, 132 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: like why that happened, how it happened, how they got 133 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: the stones there. There's another um long held theory that 134 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: was recently discarded that the stones were moved there through 135 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: glacial activity, uh thousands, hundreds of thousands of years before UM. 136 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: And they've they've checked it out and they said, no, 137 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: these stones actually did come from quarries at a minimum, 138 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: I think of forty miles away. Yeah, they said that 139 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: even if um there was glacial evidence, then it would 140 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: not have been able to carry it that far. There's 141 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: just no way. Yea, So humans did again no idea 142 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: how because this is before the wheel was around in 143 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: Western Europe, which makes the whole thing that much more impressive. Yeah, 144 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: they've got some theories like um, basically things that sort 145 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: of acted as wheels before they were technical wheels, like 146 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: small rocks or stone ball bearings or the old log 147 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: roller trick, which makes sense because the largest of these 148 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: things can weigh up to fifty pounds. Yeah, and the 149 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: smallest ones are you know, about five thousand pounds two 150 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: to five tons, So the smallest ones get like the 151 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: strongest men to lift these things that you've got a 152 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: hundred strong men because they're you know, only so big. 153 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: You can't crowd that many dudes around and lift this 154 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: thing anyway. Exactly. There's just no way. It's a mystery. 155 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 1: It's a mystery. So let's talk about the stones themselves. 156 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: I mean, this is what people think of when they 157 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: when they talk about Stonehenge. But there's more too, and 158 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: we'll get into it. But the stones, um, they're the 159 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: upright stones are called um Sarsen's right, that's right, And 160 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: sarson it's a it's a kind of sandstone that's particularly 161 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: peculiar to the region. Uh. Yeah. And the closest um 162 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: they found this is the Marlborough Downs about twenty miles away. So, um, basically, 163 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: if you haven't picked up on it by now, what 164 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: we're saying is these stones weren't just laying around and 165 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: they decided to prop them up right. At the very least, 166 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: they were brought from twenty miles away and likely much 167 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: much further. Oh I thought it was forty miles away. 168 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: Twenty miles away. Well, they said the closest source of 169 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: this sandstone is twenty miles away. But there were there's 170 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: all different kinds of rocks, which we'll see. Yeah. Um, 171 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 1: so the Sarson's it's a type of stone. But when 172 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: you're talking about Stonehenge, if somebody points to a stone 173 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: and say, is that sarson there, they're talking about the 174 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: upright column, that's right. The Sarson's are topped in the 175 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 1: outer circle and in the inner circle of stones by 176 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: what are called lentils, that's right, which are also starsin stone, 177 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: I believe. But um, because they're horizontal on top of 178 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: the upright ones, they're called lintels, and the upright ones 179 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: are called Sarsen's right, Yes, pretty cool. And again these 180 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: are really heavy stones. And again we have no idea 181 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: how they got them there, how they erected him, and 182 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: how they got the heavy ones on top of the 183 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: upright ones. That's crazy because again we're talking about many 184 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: many tons stones right each. But as if just to 185 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: show off for the the people that followed, um, the 186 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: people who erected Stonehenge carved the Sarson's with a knob 187 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: knobs on top, and carved the lentils with grooves so 188 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: that they fitted and they were replicating a type of woodworking. Yeah, 189 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,199 Speaker 1: mortis and tinnin um and I'll put together. These are 190 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: called the trilothon in the inner circle, the big ones. Yeah, 191 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: when you have the Sarson's and the lentils, it's called 192 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: the trilathon. And uh yeah, they they don't know why 193 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: they carved those because apparently when I heard that, I 194 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: was like, well, probably to make them fit together better, 195 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: But they said that it really has nothing to do 196 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: with it. Well, they said, it's totally unnecessary. Yeah, so 197 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: they think it may be symbolic. Um, which we'll get 198 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: too later. Um. So so you've got inside the inner 199 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: circle and I found, um this kind of thing. It's 200 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: like describing a yo yo e motion or something like that, 201 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: like a yo yo trick. It's just easier to go 202 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: see it yourself. There's a thousand, a million and a 203 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: thousand great pictures of stone Hings, yes, one million, one 204 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: thousand pures. You just gotta look at one of them. 205 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: So yeah, it'll help if you if you're checking this 206 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: out or we're describing it. But there's the inner circle 207 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: of Stonehenge, and those are made of trilothons, which are 208 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: two upright Sarsen's and a lintel, right, yeah, there's five 209 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: of those. And then and those are the big boys. 210 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: Those things are like thirty ft tall. I think it's 211 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: the tallest pine. Yeah, which is I didn't realize it 212 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 1: was that big. That's like ten Yeah, you have to 213 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: I would say, you probably have to go there and say, oh, 214 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: this is bigger than I thought. Right, unless you thought 215 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: it was bigger than you might say it was smaller 216 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: than you thought, you know, uh yeah, unless the opposite 217 00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: is true Um. And then in the outer uh circle 218 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: it was apparently it was intended or it was at 219 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: one point to be a complete circle. And this is 220 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: made of lentils and sarson's, but they're not trial athons 221 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: because it's just basically, if you took a bunch of 222 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: um sarsen's, a bunch of upright columns and put them 223 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: a circle and then topped it with as few lentils 224 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: as it would make a complete circle, that's what you have. 225 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: So it made a ring. Yeah, And I think my 226 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: impression is that it was not ever completed because there 227 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: would probably be some evidence of the you know, falling 228 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: down sarsens or something. Um. Well, there's unless they were 229 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: taken away. That is the theory that when the Romans 230 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: came along, or then later on when the Church came 231 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: to power after the fall of the Roman Empire, that 232 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: um locals were like, well, that's some pagan weirdness. We 233 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: don't want to encourage paganism. Let's just take it and 234 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: build a church that'll show them. So it's possible that 235 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: some of those rocks are found in medieval churches in 236 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: the area. Interesting and that crazy, that is crazy. That's 237 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: gray uh and there are four more of the stars 238 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: and stones um that actually have names. The slaughter stone, 239 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,439 Speaker 1: the heel stone, which is huge, uh, and then to 240 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: station stones and they're out of the outer Sarson circle 241 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: inside the circle, and then also outside the circle or 242 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: what are called blue stones. These are the smaller stones 243 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: that are between two and five tons. Still little guys, 244 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: but that's that's what they're calling. There's a bunch of 245 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: those guys too. Yeah, and they're called bluestones because when 246 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: they're cut or when they're wet, they look blue. Yes, 247 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: pretty neat. So that's the stones and um, but that's 248 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: just the bluestones. It's there's they're all different kinds of rock, 249 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: which proves that they came from different sources. It is 250 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: the key. It also might um, it might get to 251 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: the bottom of why Stonehenge was built, but we always 252 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: we just touched the tip of the iceberg here by 253 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: just talking about the rocks. We're gonna talk about the 254 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: larger hinge part and what was originally there right after 255 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: the Yeah, alright, chuckers, we're back. Yeah. I mentioned quickly 256 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: before we broke about the blue stones being uh coming 257 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: from different places. Um. One of the places they think 258 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: that eleven of these bad boys came from was in 259 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: western Wales and forty miles away Nuts, so that that's 260 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: probably the maximum some of these stones traveled, which it 261 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: kind of um gives a little bit of credence weirdly 262 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: to one of the old legends of where Stonehenge came from, 263 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: which was Merlin. Merlin and some of his boys stole 264 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: it from Ireland and the stones proved too heavy for 265 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: the uh, I guess Merlin's men to lift even fifteen 266 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: thousand of them, so he just uses magic to load 267 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: them onto the boats, which he should have done to 268 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: begin with. Yeah, they were like, why don't you try 269 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: this before, Like Jimmy broke his back, right, Jimmy the 270 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: U the night Um. That was from the Historia Regum Britagnier. Yeah, 271 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: the History of the Kings of Britain from Jeffrey of 272 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: Monmouth's name, and that was the one of the original 273 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: um Jeffrey of Monmouth. Yeah, with the g Geoffrey Geoffrey Um. 274 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: That was one of the original theories was that giants 275 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: built this and that to commemorate the death in the 276 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: battle against the Saxons. Was when Merlin was like, let's 277 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: steal this stuff. The giants dance, let's steal it. The 278 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: giants built it in Ireland, and Merlin was like, let's 279 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: go steal that because four Britons died. Al right, So 280 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: that was one of the theories. We'll get to a 281 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: few more of those in a bit. But jumping back 282 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: to the Salisbury Plain, what they do think it's true 283 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: is that they not giants. Not giants not Merlin was 284 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: that this was a good place for hunting. It was 285 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: a good hunting ground because there's a causeway from glacial 286 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: heaving and thawing. It formed what they call like an 287 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: avenue um which made of chalk apparently, so this avenue 288 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: coincides with the rising of the summer solstice and then 289 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: the setting eventually with the winter solstice um. And for 290 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: many years they thought this was like this meant something, 291 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: but now we think that it's just coincidence. Right. But 292 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: I mean, like if you're if you're you know, hunting 293 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: wooly mammoths and eating psychedelic mushrooms and that's your existence. 294 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: You see the sun come up and then go down, 295 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: and this crazy like the on the longest and the 296 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: shortest day of the year, and it's like a white 297 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: chalk line connecting the two. You gotta put a little 298 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: significance on this um. So they did. That's why they 299 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: think that they chose the site for um for Stonehenge, 300 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: like it was sacred and divinely inspired. Exactly. Again, you 301 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: were on a ton of mushrooms at the time, so 302 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: it made sense. Then, Okay, that's right. Don't judge. So 303 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: we mentioned the hinge earlier. That was these hinges, I 304 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,880 Speaker 1: don't think we pointed out they're not natural formations. They 305 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 1: are designed and built by people. And so something like 306 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: three thousand years BC, so about five thousand years ago 307 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: on the nose almost some Neolithic uh Western Europeans in 308 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: the area of what is now the Salisbury Plain um 309 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: grab some deer antlers, turn them into pick axes and 310 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: started digging the circles that ended up becoming the ditches 311 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: that ended up becoming U. Stonehenge built the earthworks, they 312 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,239 Speaker 1: dug the ditch, they made the bank, and then you 313 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: had this raised ground long four the stones ever showed up, Yeah, 314 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: about three d and thirty feet across. And like you 315 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 1: said earlier at the beginning, it is um a reverse 316 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: hinge because the high bank is on the inside and 317 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: not the outside. Right, Usually the ditches inside the bank, 318 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: that's right, rather than outside. I don't know why stone 319 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: Hinge is different. Who knows. Maybe they started to make him. 320 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: We're like, oh man, we made it backwards. Yeah, but 321 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: we've already done like a hundred feet. I'm not digging 322 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: another one. Uh. So they left a wider entrance on 323 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: one side, on the northeast end um, which is that's 324 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: like where the avenue runs into stone Hinge. Yeah, the 325 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: main entrance almost like a road to a roundabout or 326 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: cul the stack. Yeah, that's maybe that's what it was, 327 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: was sun temple called the stack um. And then there's 328 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: a narrow entrance on the south side. And um, that's 329 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: not all. That's not all that's there. They found all 330 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: these holes, the Aubrey holes, fifty six of them. Um, 331 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: basically where they think that they're or wooden post that 332 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: there were either totems or some kind of a structure 333 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: there previously. Yeah, that structure that's very significant. Something like 334 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: uh ten thousand years ago, I think about eight thousand BC, 335 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: somebody put up three pine posts. They think it was 336 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: probably pine Yeah, those are not the Aubrey holes. Those 337 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: are those are different? Right? They discovered those. They were 338 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: going to make a parking lot for Stonehenge in the sixties, 339 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: and while they were while they were excavating. Yeah, I 340 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: guess they should qualify that there would be a parking 341 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: lot in the sixties. Well, actually, I guess we do 342 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,959 Speaker 1: know now there wouldn't be one. So in the nineteen 343 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: sixties they were going to put a parking lot, and um, 344 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: they discovered these three post holes and they were like, 345 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 1: these probably held totems of some sort. This is huge 346 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: because there's no other site like it. There's no evidence 347 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 1: of any other kind of monument building this far back 348 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: ten thousand years ago in Europe. It was a very 349 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 1: that's crazy. So at least as far back as that, 350 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: this site was considered somehow significant, if not sacred, by 351 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: the locals years ago. Yes, all right, but then again 352 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 1: we're fast forwarding to five thousand years ago, three thousand 353 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: b C. And that's when the earthworks have have been constructed, 354 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: the Henge is built. Now we're under the Aubrey holes 355 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: because I think they were deposited at the same time, right, yeah, 356 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: fifty six of them, and um, like I said, they 357 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: could have had Um, they could have held blue stones. 358 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: Maybe that was a structure. Maybe it was some sort 359 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: of a astrological or astronomal astronomy astronomical design or layout 360 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 1: or something. Uh. They didn't leave a book behind saying 361 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: what they were doing, so we don't know. It's all 362 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 1: the speculations. All we know is there is a circle 363 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: of holes that probably held something at some point. We 364 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: don't know what. But that was the original hence the 365 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: original stone henge. Yeah. Uh. And then um, that was 366 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: the first stage, right uh yeah. Basically at between is 367 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: when these starson the stars in Horseshoe came about. Yeah, 368 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: about three hundred or so years after the first construction 369 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: of the earthworks, the stones come in, that's right. Yeah. Um, 370 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: so they bring the stones in again, like you said, 371 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: from as far away as Whales. The nearest is twenty 372 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: miles away. There's definitely a quarry. Some stones came from 373 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: like forty miles away. Um. So they're coming from all 374 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: these different places and they're being brought in and erected. Um. 375 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: And then the that's the second phase. So the stonehenges 376 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: we know and love it today was built about then 377 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: about um b C. The last phase of construction as 378 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: far as anybody can tell as undertaken, and it's basically 379 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: like sprucing up the place. That's right. That's when they 380 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 1: dug their ditches and banks. Um, that's when the avenue 381 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: was cleared out, which is one point seven miles long 382 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: by the way. Yeah, that's significant. Using deer antler axe 383 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: picks they dug. They they made ditches on either side 384 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: of this avenue to to um clarify it, I guess 385 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: for two miles. Basically, it's pretty amazing. And they it 386 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: followed a route um to the river avon Um and 387 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: then over the next few hundred years, basically they would 388 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: reposition some of these stones, these blue stones um to. 389 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: I don't know why, to fit their whims maybe or 390 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: should they had reasons. That's another mystery too. Some of 391 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: this stuff would be moved around from one place to another. Yea, uh, 392 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: you said that it goes to the river Avon and 393 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: I think about two thousand there was a big archaeological 394 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: survey undertaken that uncovered another hinge called blue Stone hinge 395 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: that was at where the avenue hits the River Avon 396 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: and so at the far end of stonehenge Um that 397 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: they think that's where the bluestones came from. So apparently 398 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,959 Speaker 1: originally they may have had another type of hinge closer 399 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: to the river and decided let's move it into Stonehenge proper. Yeah, 400 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: no idea. Why you know. I used to go camping 401 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: at a place called Sunfish Pond at the Delaware Water 402 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: Gap when I lived in New Jersey, and there was 403 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: at Sunfish Pond there was this there's this one big 404 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: rock bank basically with just tons of these huge, awesome rocks, 405 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: and people would build just things out of them. Yeah, 406 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: it looks a little like uh little totems or a 407 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: little little uh structures, and uh. I think everyone that 408 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 1: went there it was part of the ritual of camping 409 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: there was to like spend a day moving these rocks 410 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: around and doing stuff. And I think like this could 411 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: very well be what happened here. People would show up 412 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: hundreds of years later and be like, I kind of 413 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: like the look at that, but maybe this was better 414 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: over there. Yeah, like maybe it was. There wasn't some 415 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,959 Speaker 1: grand reason other than artistic. I get that. You know. 416 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: My question is this, if you're talking about the smallest 417 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: stone weighing two tons, that's not like you know, some 418 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: hippie just going like, I've kind to move the stone, 419 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 1: Like you gotta get a bunch of hippies together to 420 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: move one of those, you know. So it's a community effort. 421 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: Every every stage of Stonehenge is a communal effort, which 422 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: is it's it's that's important. You know, they probably had 423 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: more significance than just artistic But what is that urge 424 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: that drove people out in the woods, you know, to 425 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: where it's sun fish gap, sunfish pond, some fish pond um, 426 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 1: that that drove them to move the rocks around? Like 427 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: what made you do it? Seeing other people doing it 428 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: and thinking I want to build my own? Yeah? Yeah, 429 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: Well like rock stacking is a thing too, right, Yeah, 430 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: I mean that's basically what we were doing, Okay, stack 431 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: in rock. Yeah. So it's an ancient prime orige um. 432 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: So we'll talk a little more about some of the 433 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:24,719 Speaker 1: surrounding landscape in Um and Stonehenge right after this. So 434 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: Chuck Stonehenge isn't the only place the only Neolithic weirdness 435 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 1: in the area. Man that places there's a lot of 436 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: wicker man stuff going on. Yeah, there was, you know, Uh, 437 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: there's something like a thousand barrows which are um like tombs, 438 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: mound tombs. Um. There's uh some other hinges that don't 439 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 1: have stones necessarily. There's one called Woodhenge, but probably the 440 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: most important other site around there is called Durrington Walls. Yes, 441 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: it is also a hinge and it's on the other 442 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: side of the River Avon. And one of the very 443 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: significant things about during Tom Walls is that it is 444 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: it has an avenue as well that's aligned with the 445 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 1: sun on certain days and they just happen to be 446 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: the opposite days of the Stonehenge avenue or the same day, 447 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,199 Speaker 1: but the opposite position, that's right. Uh. It had a 448 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: couple of timber circles. Um. It's about the same size 449 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,199 Speaker 1: as Stonehenge roughly. And they think that this could have 450 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: been like a staging area for what Stonehenge would become, 451 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 1: which doesn't make sense to me. Like they're saying like 452 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: this is possibly the builders camp for Stonehenge two miles away. 453 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: That's not a convenient camp, No, No, it's good point plus. Also, 454 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: so you've got Stonehenge, right, and then you have the 455 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: River Avon, and then a little further up the River 456 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: Avon you have but across the other side you have 457 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: during ton Walls and on the summer solstice, Stonehenge hosts 458 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: the sun the summer sunrise, right, But on that same 459 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: day during ton Walls, that avenue features the summer sunset. 460 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: So they're aligned. It's clearly they have something to do 461 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: with one another, at least in the Neolithic mind. That's right. 462 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: So it's not just this, it's not just Stoneheng's. This 463 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,360 Speaker 1: whole site allows you with him. But why, Yeah, I mean, 464 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: I guess that's we should look at some of the 465 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: older theories first that have sort of been debunked. We 466 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 1: already talked about the um the Giants dance and Merlin 467 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: the Wizard, which we don't believe anymore because we're modern 468 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: thinking guys. Uh. King James the First in the seventeenth 469 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: century did an uh excavation of the site and they 470 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: found a bunch of animal bones and burnt coals, um, 471 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: which I was just learning about him. He was a 472 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,479 Speaker 1: scholar king. Yeah, he was pretty interesting. Well, he had 473 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: like the King James Bible, sure he had that translated, um. 474 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: But he also was like an early essayist, which is 475 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: a new thing at the time. He was just a 476 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: smart dude as far as kings went. He wasn't just 477 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: like the fat, drunk, turkey leg eating kind, you know 478 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like he actually was. Well, if he 479 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: commissioned an excavation, that means he probably had a little 480 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: bit of interest in things like this. And this is 481 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: before archaeology even. Yeah, he could have just said people 482 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: beheaded and you know it is turkey. It's good for him. 483 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: We're done with King James. Is that what you're saying? 484 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: All right? Um? So I don't think we mentioned either 485 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: yet that there have been a lot of um, body 486 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: well not body parts, but bones found. Yeah, human cremines, 487 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: cremated remains. I think why was that defensive? Yeah? I 488 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: remember funeral directors don't like to call him cremaines. They 489 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: they said that that's just too shorthand r. It sounds 490 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: like a McDonald's I got in my burger. Um, But 491 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: there have been a lot of they think it. One 492 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: possibility was that it was a burial ground um for 493 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: maybe royalty. They've mostly been men, so maybe important people. Yeah, 494 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: which is another reason why what was it called Mortis 495 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: and tennin um? That woodworking, and we didn't mention that 496 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: with the outer circle where everything fits together. Um. They 497 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: used a woodworking technique called dovetailing, so that the lentils 498 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: fit together to form like a well tongue in group. Yes, um, exactly. 499 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: So there's all this kind of woodworking simulation that's totally unnecessary. 500 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: So they're thinking maybe that they were replicating a monument 501 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: to a human dwelling, which could suggest that basically a 502 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: mausoleum of sorts. Yeah, and that that ties in with 503 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: the theory that Durrington Walls was, um a place of 504 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: the living. Stonehenge was a place of the dead, and 505 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: that's how they are connected. Yeah, and Durrington Walls they 506 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: call it a place of living because there's evidence of settlement, 507 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: like human habitation, lots of um animal bones like from food, 508 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: food waste. Um. So yeah, it's clear that people lived 509 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: in in during exactly. Um. There's another theory that, uh, 510 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: it's possible Stonehenge was a place of healing. There's something 511 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: called the Amesbury Archer who was discovered and he was 512 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: contemporaneous to Stonehenge. He had a knee injury and they thought, well, 513 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: maybe he was on his way to Stonehenge or something. Uh. 514 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: They did a survey of the injuries and illness. Evidence 515 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,239 Speaker 1: of illness of the remains at Stonehengen found that it 516 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: was about the same as other contemporary sites. UM, so 517 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: they don't think that it was a place of healing, 518 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: not like a spa. Well, it's probably a place of 519 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: the dead probably, So in a lot of this new 520 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: way of thinking has come about since the two thousand's 521 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: started with UM. A guy named Mike Parker Pearson UM 522 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: lead the Stonehenge river Side Project, and they've kind of 523 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: brought like debunked a lot of these older theories that 524 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: it was maybe a a monument for astronomy or you know, 525 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: some of the other things we talked about. Yeah, apparently, 526 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: like if you're a Stonehenge expert, you say, yes, stoneheng 527 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 1: was clearly constructed and in some way related to the 528 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: summer solstice and the winter solstice the sun. Yeah, but 529 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: they kind of draw the line at they used it 530 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: to predict solar eclipses and stuff like that. They're saying 531 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: there's no evidence of that, although it could be true, 532 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: but they just don't know. I just haven't figured it 533 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: out yet. Another theory that I like, UM, that's one 534 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: of the more modern theories is that it was a 535 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: monument to unification just kind of neat which makes sense, 536 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: Um that the Britons at the time, we're from all 537 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: sorts of tribes and that they blended together there and 538 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: they that's why they might have brought stones from all 539 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: over the place as a symbol of our unification, like 540 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: here's some stones from whales, here, some from here, here's 541 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: some from there, and here's a big monument to us 542 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: all coming together to one day rule the world. And well, significantly, 543 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: the Stonehenge site is at the area where three different 544 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: chiefdoms territories came together. Um, so it is possible that 545 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: is a if not a monument to a monument from 546 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: cooperation from these groups. Remember we talked about the Upper 547 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: Paleolithic warlessness. Um, it's supposedly these these chiefdoms were they 548 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: peacefully coexisted, which also could explain, um, that why Stonehenge 549 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 1: came about. You know, one of the things you do 550 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: to keep your populations occupied and busy is creating massive 551 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: public um structures projects or like pyramids or something like that. 552 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: You know, and uh, Stonehenge could have been the result 553 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: of that of clever chiefs saying I need to do 554 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: something to keep everybody busy. Let's make Stonehenge my money. 555 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's so many people buried there in 556 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: and around Stonehenge. They say like maybe thousands of people 557 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 1: have been buried there, so I think it was probably 558 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 1: just some sort of final resting place that looked nice 559 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 1: and uh they dressed it up. Yeah, and it's probable 560 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: that the people there were part of the elite ruling class. 561 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: There's like they found incense burner, polished mace head, some 562 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: other evidence that the people there had some sort of 563 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: political religious power that kind of stuff. And like we said, 564 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 1: they're mostly men, which at the time, of course that 565 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 1: that would have been the people in power. Yeah, you 566 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: know yeah at the time, that's right, not like these 567 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: days when women could do anything they want. We need 568 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,440 Speaker 1: to do an episode on the Equal Rights Amendment. Man, 569 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 1: is just mind blowing to me. Yeah, let's do it, Okay. 570 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: I would inspire that Petri Shark at the facetiousness about 571 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: um men being in power, yeah or not being in power. Yeah, 572 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: let's do that one. Okay. Patricia are cat inspired me. 573 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: I'm like Meryl Streep here, Yeah, she was digging it. Um, 574 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: you got anything else? I'm sure we could go on 575 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,919 Speaker 1: about this for a while, but why you know? Um? Oh, 576 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:21,720 Speaker 1: there was one theory that they erected Stonehenge to create 577 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: this piper's illusion. Did you hear about that? Oh yeah, 578 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 1: like two pipers in a field or playing in certain 579 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: places that they will cancel each other out. Yeah, which 580 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: is weird. It's a weird acoustic phenomenon, and apparently in 581 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: Stonehenge the phenomenon is replicated. And there is also an 582 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,240 Speaker 1: old legend that Stonehenge was the result of pipers leading 583 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: maidens into a field and then turning them to stone. 584 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:51,360 Speaker 1: Well there's this um acoustic archaeologist who believes that like 585 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: a lot more archaeological sites than we realized were dedicated 586 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: to sound um and he has this theory about Stonehenge 587 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,280 Speaker 1: may or may not be right. I get the imperson. 588 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: And it was also postulating it to get attention to theories. Yeah, 589 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: well there's definitely some weird acoustic features at Stonehenge. Um, 590 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 1: so you can't discount that. Yeah. Was it a byproduct 591 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,319 Speaker 1: or was it international? Yeah? Who knows. We don't even 592 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: know why they built it in the first place. Well, 593 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to visit it if we ever go 594 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: to England for a live show for sure. Maybe we'll 595 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: do a live show at Stonehenge. Pink Floyd they did 596 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: something at them, yeah, which I've been there and it's amazing, 597 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: not just because Pompei, because Pink Floyd played there. You know, 598 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 1: we'll do our live thing at Stonehenge. I think, if 599 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, Pink Floyd Live at POMPEII was a 600 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,920 Speaker 1: concert in front of nobody. Yeah, well on the on 601 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,959 Speaker 1: the Echoes video, they're not playing in front of anybody else. 602 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: The deal so cool. I've got one more thing. There 603 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: was a horrible police brutality incident at Stonehenge. Yeah. There 604 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,799 Speaker 1: was this hippie movement called the New Age Travelers from 605 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,960 Speaker 1: the sixties, seventies into the eighties and then they were 606 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: gonna have they were going to celebrate the summer Solstice 607 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 1: at Stonehenge and they had the year before, but a 608 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,600 Speaker 1: hundred thousand people showed up and like just trashed the place, 609 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,719 Speaker 1: like dug into the ground to build bread ovens and 610 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,759 Speaker 1: like toilets and like just just totally laid waste to 611 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: the place. Um, And so the the locals were like, 612 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 1: you can't go to Stonehenge again. So the cops tried 613 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,839 Speaker 1: to barricade it. The hippies tried to break through. The 614 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,360 Speaker 1: cops club the hippies including pregnant women and women holding children. 615 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: There were eyewitnesses. It was a horrible scene. Um. And 616 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: it was later called the Battle of the bean Field. Uh. 617 00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,480 Speaker 1: And after that, for like the next fifteen years, there 618 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: was no You weren't allowed to go celebrate the Summer Solstice, 619 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 1: which is a big thing for neo druids and stuff 620 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,960 Speaker 1: at Stonehenge. And then finally in two thousand, the English 621 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: Heritage Group I can't remember what the full name is, 622 00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 1: English Heritage, Um, they're in charge of Stonehenge. They opened 623 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,840 Speaker 1: it back up. So now I think the most recent 624 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: summer Solstice solstice had like thirty thousand or so people 625 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: peacefully celebrating it. I think if you dig there, though 626 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,319 Speaker 1: you're in big trouble, still appropriate. Imagine it's pretty Uh 627 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 1: that's a secure location. You can't just back into it 628 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:23,840 Speaker 1: like Clark Roswald. Okay, now I really don't have anything else. Okay, Okay, 629 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,920 Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about Stonehenge, you can 630 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,800 Speaker 1: type that word into the search bar at house to 631 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: works dot com. And since I said search bar, its 632 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:35,560 Speaker 1: time for listener mail. I'm gonna call this ice cream email. 633 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: And speaking of ice cream, we should thank uh a 634 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 1: local ice creamery here, High Road Creamery. Yeah, high Road 635 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,800 Speaker 1: here in UH in Atlanta, well just outside of Atlanta. 636 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: They got in touch with us. Two people did and 637 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 1: one person said, hey, I don't know if you've heard 638 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: of us, but you should um try your ice cream. 639 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,759 Speaker 1: And another person emailed from high Road. It was like, yeah, 640 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,600 Speaker 1: you should. I said, we'll send you ice cream. I 641 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,440 Speaker 1: was like, I like you better. Yeah. So they sent 642 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: us some ice cream and it's delicious, and we just 643 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,239 Speaker 1: want to say things and nutritious. I don't know about 644 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:11,040 Speaker 1: that because rhymes and rhymes, but this is about ice 645 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,440 Speaker 1: cream from Nathan. Hey, guys and Jerry, just listen to 646 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 1: your How ice Cream Works episode and thought your tuna 647 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,360 Speaker 1: gelato story reminded me of my own terrible gelato story. 648 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: I want to refresh people about tuna gelato. Yeah, if 649 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 1: you go to Plaza Fiesta, the Latin American mall in 650 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: Atlanta on Buford Highway, there's a gelato place there that, 651 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: at least a year or two ago sold raw tuna 652 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,279 Speaker 1: flavored gelato. Is dead on the taste. Uh. So we 653 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,399 Speaker 1: lived in Naples, Italy for two years, guys, and fell 654 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,239 Speaker 1: in love with real Italian gelato. Uh and it's safe 655 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 1: to say my wife and daughter would get it at 656 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,680 Speaker 1: least three times a week all year round. We took 657 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,839 Speaker 1: our summer holiday one year to a city called Tropea 658 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 1: in the Calabria region. The city is famous for red onions, 659 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,480 Speaker 1: so much so that red onions in Italy are all 660 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:04,200 Speaker 1: called h chipola. As we were walking through the city, 661 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: we saw a place that had onion gelato. Though decided 662 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,319 Speaker 1: to try it. I don't know, I know. Luckily, my 663 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,360 Speaker 1: wife is smart and suggested I try it before I 664 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 1: ordered a whole cone of the stuff. Let me tell you, 665 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,280 Speaker 1: it was awful. It tasted like a spoonful of onion 666 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 1: powder and had the consistency of snot oh gone and 667 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: was cold. Uh if. It was all I could do 668 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,920 Speaker 1: to choke it down without throwing up. Even after eating 669 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: tasty strawberry and lemon gelato, the taste still lingered to 670 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,279 Speaker 1: make it worse. Every time I burnt. The rest of 671 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,120 Speaker 1: the night, I got to relive the taste. Man. So 672 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,880 Speaker 1: that's my story, guys, will still I will steer clear 673 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 1: of the tuna gelato if you stay away from the 674 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,880 Speaker 1: onion gelato. I will stay away from the onion gelato, 675 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,000 Speaker 1: but I think you should try the tuna gelato. That's 676 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:53,279 Speaker 1: the deal. Nathan Chow, he says, Chow Bella and all that. 677 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,399 Speaker 1: I would taste any of those, the small spoonful. Yeah, 678 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: like he's the very tip of my tongue. You're like 679 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,800 Speaker 1: the onion on the tuna was I mean, it was weird. 680 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,799 Speaker 1: It wasn't bad, it was just it was really surprising 681 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,520 Speaker 1: that like you could get that taste. Yeah, it's probably 682 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:18,759 Speaker 1: just ground up, tuned yogurt, Like it's not hard, dummy. Uh. 683 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with us for 684 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 1: any reason whatsoever, you can tweet to us at s 685 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,080 Speaker 1: Y s K podcast. You can join us on Facebook 686 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,319 Speaker 1: dot com, slash stuff you Should Know. 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