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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know?

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Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: We're about to do this stuff you should know saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: did you like that? I did? Are you doing? Man? Great?

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Speaker 1: Now that I've switched out my foul smelling microphone cover? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is actually take two things. I'm not getting near it,

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Speaker 1: but I can you really imagine? Yeah, something's future facted

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Speaker 1: You know, in real studios they change you out every

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Speaker 1: least a year. Fifty cents? All right, what's your chuck

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Speaker 1: your sterling intro? Speaking of fifty cents, do you remember

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Speaker 1: when we were talking about fossils. Oh, yeah, and we

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Speaker 1: the skin is dried out. That's a mummy. Yeah, who knew?

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Speaker 1: I knew. Actually when we talked about that, I was

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Speaker 1: like we have to do how mummies work. And here

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Speaker 1: we are. I'm kind of surprised this one had slipped

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Speaker 1: I went and looked. I'm like, surely we do have it,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, it's it's like stuff you should know died

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Speaker 1: in the wool. Yeah yeah, um. And you're about to

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Speaker 1: hear why dear listeners, because we're about to talk about

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Speaker 1: all the things that happened to a corpse after death,

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Speaker 1: which we've done before, but we need to go over again.

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Speaker 1: Mummies are cool, though, they are very cool. So Chuck,

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Speaker 1: let's say that you were stabbed in the stomach enough

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Speaker 1: and the one person you're with, the very person who

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Speaker 1: You're dead. Things start happening to your body, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly. Up first is autolysis. Yes, that is uh,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of gruesome. That's when your organs that have

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Speaker 1: like my stomach is eating itself because I'm hungry, Like,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's being reduced to nothing. Um while

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Speaker 1: that's going on. And then actually, I think if I

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Speaker 1: remember correctly, that kind of helps kickstart the process of

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Speaker 1: puture faction. Right, yeah, autolysis starts within a few hours

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Speaker 1: after you're dead. The body, the body knows. And if

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Speaker 1: or in depth look at what happens to the body

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Speaker 1: immediately after death, you should listen to a Rigor Mortis

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Speaker 1: podcast if you haven't already body farms. I talked about

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Speaker 1: it in there too, So yes, intra faction, you're right,

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Speaker 1: is followed by or follows autolysis. And that is when

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Speaker 1: bacteria does its a little job and reduces everything to

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Speaker 1: a skeleton. And you know, depending where you are, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen in a few months, right, depending on where

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Speaker 1: you are. Now, We as human beings are a subtropical species, right, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: You know that, sure? So we are designed, if you

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Speaker 1: If you have cold, dry, things change a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Like a refrigerator exactly. Um, which is a good place

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Speaker 1: point to your body if you want to eat it.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth flick at that, you might want

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Speaker 1: to listen to our cannibalism podcast though. That's right, Um,

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Speaker 1: tomb is sealed up, and it's probably inscribed with something

424
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Speaker 1: along the lines of as for anybody who shall enter

425
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: this tomb in his impurity, I shall wring his neck

426
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 1: as a bird's there's a standard um mummy curse. Yeah,

427
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: a mummy curse on the tomb. Yeah. People became in

428
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties Howard Carter dug up King Tut's tomb

429
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: and people were just crazy for mummies at the time.

430
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 1: Westerners are like, oh my gosh, this is so interesting.

431
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: This cursed thing is so neat. Uh. Laurel and Hardy

432
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: are doing mummy curse movies and uh. A microbiologist from

433
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Speaker 1: Germany name Guitard Cramer or Cramer Uh. He said there

434
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: may be something to this cursed thing because they bury

435
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 1: people of food produce his mold spores. So when they

436
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: unearthed this tomb, all these mold sports are released into

437
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: the air and it might kill you. So it's not

438
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: that there's something to the curse, but it could lead

439
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: people to tie the two together. Unearthed tomb, then you die. Certainly,

440
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: there's something weird about the Carter expedition who Um unearthed

441
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: King Tut's tomb in two because eleven of the people

442
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 1: who were involved, not necessarily present, but involved, UM died

443
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 1: within seven years. I think eleven people in a canary

444
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: his canary died like UM right right when they entered

445
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 1: the tomb and Copra ate it. That's bad luck, it is,

446
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: and then it just went downhill from there. Um. So

447
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of explanations, but it's also um oddly

448
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: intriguing and like you said, egypt Mania gripped the West.

449
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they loved it all right, um. And there

450
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: was actually unraveling parties where people would get their hands

451
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: on mummies and then like unbandage them, see what's in there,

452
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: which is like, that's not what you do with a

453
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: dead body. Yeah, it's bad luck too. So that pretty

454
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: much is the Egyptian mummy, and that's what we mainly

455
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: think of. But they weren't the first people to do

456
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 1: this kind of thing in the in the interesting yeah,

457
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 1: they the first. The oldest mummies actually on the planet

458
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: are from northern Chile, the Chinchorro people Cinchero, let's go

459
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,959
Speaker 1: to Cinchorro. Uh this they started doing this about two

460
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: thousand years before the Egyptians. But they were not very

461
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,719
Speaker 1: much like uh, the Egyptians. They basically dismembered and disemboweled

462
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: the body, put it back together again, sewed it up,

463
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: and then covered it with black mud. Well they put

464
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Speaker 1: it back together with like straw and sticks, and that's

465
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: what they had. It was like they made qupy dolls

466
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: out of like these bodies, basically covered it with black

467
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: mud and shaped it into a human form. Uh. But

468
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: they believe that this wasn't necessarily done to preserve the

469
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: body for the afterlife. Maybe it was more for the

470
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Speaker 1: people left on the planet Earth to mourn the death

471
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: of their loved one keep them around a little longer,

472
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: which is very sweet because they saw evidence of like

473
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: retouching of the paint, signs of wear and tear, so

474
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: that you know, basically they were kept in the households

475
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: for a little while. They think basically as statutes, freaky

476
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: freaky statues. And that was five thousand BC, which is

477
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: two thousand years before the Egyptians came onto the scene

478
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Speaker 1: at all. It's right, um, And the would you say

479
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: the Chinchorro people. I think I went with Chinchorro, but

480
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: someone will point that out if I'm wrong. Um, They're

481
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 1: not the only ones in South America who got into

482
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: modification either. The Incas very famously did as well. They

483
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: had a little habit of sacrificing children to the gods. Um,

484
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: and they cultural relativism chucked. They would um through this

485
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: process like the child and the child's family were just

486
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: treated like like royalty before this, like it was a

487
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: high honor to be chosen to be sacrificed to the gods. Um.

488
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: And they would get the child really wasted on this

489
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: fermented corn concoction, take the child up to the cave.

490
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think they would whack the kid over the head,

491
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: or other times they would get the child so wasted

492
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: that um, they just would leave them there in the

493
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: cold temperatures, exposed to the freezing temperatures, and the child

494
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: would die of exposure. I can't see jerks about this,

495
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: you can, um. But the there's a very famous mummy

496
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: called the Maiden, who is a fifteen year old girl

497
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: and she was sacrificed as thanks to the gods for

498
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: a really good corn harvest by the Incas in Peru

499
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: five dred years ago. Did you see that picture I

500
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: sent you. It's like looking at a girl who's sleeping,

501
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: but she's been dead for five hundred years, like you

502
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: you if you've been to South America as I know

503
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: you have, or Central America, like she looks just like

504
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: one of those girls you might see down there like

505
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: Central American indigenous person. She's probably short. Then she looks

506
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: kind of shorty. That'd be funny. She's like six too.

507
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: But then moving on up, there's also one and it

508
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: didn't make it into this article, but chuck, I've been

509
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: there myself. Wanna want to. Mexico has a mummy museum

510
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: and they have the world's smallest mummy. I think it

511
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: might have been a fetus, but they were all naturally

512
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: mummified um to the great surprise of the nineteenth century

513
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: townspeople who had to move a graveyard and found like, okay,

514
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mummies. How big it was very

515
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: small object uh coffee cup, coffee cup, standard coffee cups.

516
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: But then there's like people. They were still wearing their

517
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: suits and it's it's really amazing. You walk into this

518
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: little Mexican building and there's just dead people everywhere, just

519
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: behind this glass. It's very neat. If you ever go

520
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: to Wanna want to Mexico, you have to go to

521
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: the mummy museum. I think I should. Yeah. Lady Chang China,

522
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: Chinese were they were lousy with mummies. Yeah, they loved

523
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: the mummify people. She was an aristocrat from about two

524
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: thousand years ago, and she is believed to be about

525
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: the best preserved ancient mummy so far. Did you see

526
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: her picture? Yeah, so their tongue sticking up pretty well

527
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: mummified and her hair still. Yeah, she was. They haven't

528
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: studied her a whole lot, the Chinese haven't, so they

529
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: don't know exactly how she was prepared, but they do

530
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,719
Speaker 1: think that mercury and the embalming fluid might have something

531
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: to do with it. Yeah, then I would imagine that

532
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: will do mercury, Yeah sure. And um also in China,

533
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: mummies have kind of rewritten history a little bit. UM,

534
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: some very very ancient mummies from UM one thousand BC

535
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: before one thousand BC, UM, they found some people of

536
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: Indo Iranian descent. You know, they linked them to Um

537
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: like basically Mesopotamia through tattoos and like other implements that

538
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: they had in the shape of their face, the way

539
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: they looked, and they figured out like, wait a minute,

540
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: these people were like Indo European traders, what are they

541
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: doing here? And they just made their way to settle

542
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: right in in the deserts of China before the Han

543
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: dynasty ever showed up. So that kind of changed things

544
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm sure. Uh, if we talk about mummies,

545
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: we got to talk about the more modern day mummies

546
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: because of the big interest in mummification thanks to tut

547
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: being found was the big one. That's right around the

548
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: time Lenin died in Russia and they said, you know what,

549
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: let's preserve Lenin and disclaiming the Kremlin. So that's exactly

550
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: what they did. And we do not know exactly how

551
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: because it's an ancient Russian secret. I don't know about ancient,

552
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: but it's a Russian secret, and they it's ongoing because

553
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: they continue to him in a preservative bath every now

554
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: and then, and he's wears a waterproof suit. That's right.

555
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: And if you've ever seen pictures of Linen or av parone,

556
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: did they look pretty lifelike. But hers was hers is

557
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: way cool. They basically replaced all the fluids in her

558
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: body with wax, right, which would be a very modern

559
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: take on the ancient practice. There's also um incorruptible corpses

560
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: of the Catholic faith. It's basically a person who is

561
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: so pure on earth that they their body just didn't

562
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: didn't rot. And there's example those there's one. He's like

563
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: a prince. He's like a child prince. I think he

564
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: died in like he died more than a thousand years

565
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: ago or about a thousand years ago, um, and his

566
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: his body is totally preserved and there's no evidence that

567
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: he was embalmed or anything like that. They don't understand

568
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: that there are some bodies out there that just the

569
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: five logic that I wrote an article and you should

570
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: read it. It's a miracle. How can a courts be incorruptible?

571
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: We need to keep in track of these awesome ideas.

572
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: Where where's our person? Where's our boy Charlie or no,

573
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: our boy Friday Charlie uh and then Josh, finally we

574
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: have In the nineteen seventies, some scientists discovered something called plasticization,

575
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: and that is when all of the water and lipids

576
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: in the body cells replaced with polymers and you basically

577
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: become like plastic, very flexible and durable. You don't decompose,

578
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: and you don't stink too bad. And that is used

579
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: to preserve bodies, mainly for anatomical research at this point,

580
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: or for bodies world or bodies the exhibit I have have

581
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: you've been no, I've never been but that's how they

582
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: do it. It It is really something. I mean, you're right

583
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: there up on this corpse missing its skin and like

584
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: it is a dead person, um and it's really interesting.

585
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: There's one the one that I went to in Atlanta.

586
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: It's two eyeballs and they're connected to the spinal cord

587
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: which is going down and then the coming off the

588
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: spinal cord are the major nerves of the central nervous system.

589
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: And that's it. And it's just laid out perfectly, really

590
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: kind of surprising. I'm shocked that I haven't been to

591
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: that yet. It's pretty cool. It's definitely worth going to.

592
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: I did the dialogue in the Dark thing. I have

593
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: not been there. That's next door. That was that kid.

594
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: You know. I was a little disappointed. Yeah, not in

595
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: the exhibit itself, but the way the way they do it. Uh.

596
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: I think it could have been like really awesome, but

597
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: the way they do it, it wasn't as awesome as

598
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: it could have been. Just gonna take you. Me and

599
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: her sister went and she said they would have liked it.

600
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 1: Put there was this very loud, drunk woman who kept

601
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: like falling into people. What they wanted to know? You

602
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: can do about that near the dark weather, you could

603
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: just like kick her in the shin and run away.

604
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,919
Speaker 1: We should mention Bob a Dr Bob Bryer real quick though.

605
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: He is a Egyptologist who or said, you know what,

606
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: I want to try and replicate the Egyptian technique. And

607
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: he did it, Yeah, with the chicken, and he did

608
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,959
Speaker 1: it was pretty successful at the University of Maryland School

609
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: of Medicine. And one of the things he learned from

610
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: doing this that the uh, the way the body ends

611
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: up looking as a result of the mummification process, not

612
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: the fact that it's been in the ground for thousands

613
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: and thousands, like the shriveled, wrinkled look. Yeah. Yeah, so

614
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: that's one thing I learned. That's a big thing to learn, though,

615
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. That's Egyptology hasn't really advanced

616
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: much in the last fifty years. And it not that

617
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: I know is I never Aldo didn't find squat, No,

618
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 1: he didn't know that wasn't he Aldo her Aldo looked

619
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: for um components. I watched that one. That was fun.

620
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: I was a youngster and I was so excited and yeah,

621
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: but it's so disappointed when it was just a total disaster. Yeah,

622
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: well it's it for mummies, right, chucky anymore? I'm I'm

623
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: are you mummied out? All right? Um? If you want

624
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: to learn more about mummies, check out m you m

625
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: M I E s in the handy search bar, How

626
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. You can learn how to mummify

627
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: a chicken on wiki how and um what else? I

628
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: think there might be a website for the mummies of

629
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: wanna want to? That's I think g U A n

630
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Speaker 1: A j u A t oh. Maybe sounds good at me,

631
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Speaker 1: does it? You know? I think Matt and Rachel from

632
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Speaker 1: Cool Stuff in the Planet did a thing on the

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Speaker 1: Egyptian Mummy or not Egyptian Mummy Museum? Want to want

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Speaker 1: to Mummy Museum? Yes, Cool Stuff on the Planet check

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Speaker 1: Chuck and Josh and Jerry. My name is Maddie. I'm

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Speaker 1: twelve years old. I love your podcast. I wait all

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Speaker 1: day at school to get home so I can check

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Speaker 1: for new podcasts. They always help me fall asleep, but

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Speaker 1: not because you're boring, but because it gets my brain

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Speaker 1: thinking and the brain gets tired, that's cool. Uh was

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Speaker 1: wondering if you give a shout out to my best bud, Casey.

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Speaker 1: Casey has a tumor in his leg and is in

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Speaker 1: at least he gets to listen to me talk about

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Speaker 1: you guys. And fun fact, he also has a pet

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Speaker 1: rooster named Louis, and Lewis is house strained, so he

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Speaker 1: So please give Louis, I'm sorry Casey a shout and Lewis.

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Speaker 1: While it make him feel better, it would make his

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Speaker 1: day or even his year. And tell me which podcast

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Speaker 1: you're gonna put it on, because I am just twelve

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Speaker 1: and some of them are inappropriate. Oh was this inappropriate?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably not this shaking the brain part out.

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Speaker 1: We'll figure it out, Okay, I'll tell him to just

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Speaker 1: these days. All right, potato in a mushroom? Everybody, you said, Maggie,

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Speaker 1: it's Maddie, right, Maddie. Okay, Maddie, thanks for the email. Maddie.

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Speaker 1: Did we give a shout out to Lewis and Casey

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Speaker 1: Well o, Casey, We hope you're feeling better, but I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry to hear about that, and hope you're up and

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Speaker 1: you're an egyptologist and you have some good mummy stories,

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Speaker 1: we want to hear it. You know what, if you

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Speaker 1: have any good mummy story, we want to hear it.

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Speaker 1: Wrap it up in an email and send that email

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