Blurry Creatures - EP: 75 The Cyclops with Derek Olson

Episode Date: December 14, 2021

Derek Olson from Megalithic Marvels returns to the show to shed light on the mythical Cyclops. Stories and legends of a one-eyed beast haunt the pages of history. Ancient megaliths are rumored to have been built by these giants that were renowned to be master stonemasons and builders. Did these creatures build the ancient wonders of the world? How is the cyclops connected to the enigmas of the polygonal walls in Europe and South America? What evidence supports their existence and are there any historical archives? We cover all of this and more in an eye-opening discussion of one of the enduring mysteries of the ancient world.  guest: https://megalithicmarvels.com contact: [e-mail] Socials instagram.com/blurrycreatures facebook.com/blurrycreatures twitter.com/blurrycreatures Music Kyle Monroe: tinytaperoom.com Aaron Green: https://www.instagram.com/aaronkgreen/ Mastering: ironwingstudios.com Outro Song: timecop1983.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Cyclops have no ships. These creatures are even isolated from each other. Up on the mountain peaks they live in the arching caverns. Each a law unto himself. Each a law unto himself. The history of our earth is so different from what we can imagine. Joy to journey. The Smithsonian that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere was to go get it.

I'm going to assume at least one person is right, because if one person's right to bust the paradigm, it all goes back to the fallen chair. And the problem with the modern day church, they have a very truncated view of the supernatural. This backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount Herman event. And this guy did. effects from the kingdom. That's a big deal. All right, Luke. All right, Nate. Welcome back to the one and only blurry creatures. We're out there in your ears, wherever you are, whether that you are a dentist, a stay-at-home mom, an esthetician, a massage therapist, whatever you're doing out there. Or you're

a demon hunter. You're getting blurry. And we appreciate you being on this journey with us. Luke, you're looking good, man. I can't see the lettuce, but. Thanks. It's covered up right now. It's winter time, Nate. It's Beanieweather. Or Tuk or Toboggin or Sock. Depends what you call it. My wife calls it a sockat. She's in Indiana. So that's a little weird. That's all right. I think you got to call it a Tuck if you listen to this show. Or if you're a Canadian, you call it a too for sure. Very Lord of the Rings. Heck yeah. Well, welcome back guys. Thanks for listening to this show and sharing it with friends. We have Derek Olson, the megastar from Megalithic Marvels coming on talking about Cyclops. We've been teasing at this show a long time. We posted a few things on our channels about

some newspaper clippings and some rumors and history of the cyclops but luke i've been i'm excited because i know derrick does his research i know he really he really dives in so he's a research guy cyclops is the original all c and i right the original all cn i you know the cyclops they probably focused on making things because they just couldn't see the ladies very well they worked in two d right i guess the women probably didn't pay attention to them very much well they could you know they could always go well i've got my eye on you oh there's always luke Ready for that zinger, that zinger. Oh, man.

Well, yeah. Keeping an eye on you, Nathan. Keeping an eye on you. I like you. That's all they got, man. I have COVID brain right now. What if you're a colorblind in one eye? Colorblind in your one eye.

Or if you get old and your eye starts to get bad and things get pretty blurry. I see what I did there, Luke. Anyways, everyone out there who enjoys this show, if you want to become a member, and support the show and keep this show ad free and fun. Every episode takes, you know, multiple hours, seven plus hours between recording, booking, editing, music, all the good stuff. We put a lot of time in this show. If you want to become a member, blurrycreatures.com slash members. You get access to unreleased episodes, long episodes, members chats, and Facebook group, lots of fun stuff. So, and you get your private RSS feed. So head over to blurrycreatures.com slash members. Our buddy and pal from

Megalithic Marvel's Derek Olson is up next. Oh, I'm half dead there. Derek, but the show must go on. Man, you guys are, I mean, you are dedicated. You've got COVID and you're still recording shows. Got to go, man, got to go. Dude, we've got to hear about the Cyclops. I mean, there's no virus is going to hold Nate down.

Yeah. I just figure, what else is coming? They got one eye, Nate has one lung. It's just, it's really the theme right now. You start podcasting about the, demons. You never know what's coming at you. That's correct.

Well, you look good, man. Thanks, dude. I saw, you know, your previous Instagram video kind of sharing with the audience what was going on. And, man, it looked like you had it pretty bad maybe, huh? Yeah, this is two weeks and I still feel like I'm hacking up along. You sure you're up for this still? Yeah, man.

Let's talk about the Cyclops Builders, bro. Yeah. I mean, dude, I mean, without blanche. Lurrie, just a lot of worry. Oh, look, he's got rhymes, baby. Let's get out of that. Let's get out of that headspace. No, man, this has been awesome.

It's what I want to do. I feel like since my band ended in 2009, man, I've been looking for something that I can pour my heart into, and I'm more thankful for this show and the friends we've met. I mean, we come on members' chats, and people start praying for us, and, you know, I got people calling me. Jed was calling me, asking me how I'm doing.

He had a similar thing happened in his life. And so it's been, you know, this podcast has been way more than just, let's interview people and get on to the next one and try to build our channel. You know, it's just people are connecting to it. And we've, and I find, like, I feel a sense of purpose with it. And I feel like, I get to use my creative gifts and make people laugh and make people think. And it's fun. Even though I don't feel like, I feel dumb. I just feel like, it's hard, man.

We have that imposter syndrome of who are we? Like, we don't know. We're not ancient historians. We don't know. We haven't read all the books. we're just two dummies. Come on. That makes three of us.

Big old dummies. Yeah, I feel the same way. But that's what I think God blesses because we know it's not all about us. Sure. But welcome back to the show, the one and only, the Mega Man. The Mega Man. Derek Olson, the one and only, often imitated, but never replicated. Yeah.

Great to be back with you, fellas. Thank you so much for having me super excited. about our topic for this show. Are you guys ready? We are going in search of Cyclops. One-eyed Willie, you know, it goes all the way back to the Goonies. Just back to the 80s, not too far back.

It's a big deal. That's as far back as we go. Luke's 83. I was 80. I'm 82, bro. Come on now. 82. Hey, what month were you, Nate?

November, 1980. Got you beat. I am like February 2nd, 1980. Dang. You guys just snuff it in. You would have made the hockey team. I would have got cut. Groundhog Day, also a fabulous movie.

Oh, man. I read that book, Outliers, and he said hockey players are born in the first three months of the year. And you are an outlier, my friend, Derek from Megalithic Marvels, because you pursue and talk about things that nobody else will. You are considered an alternate historian and researcher because you don't fit the narrative. You don't fit the mainstream. And people laugh about it. this Cyclops topic, but it has been coming up nonstop on our show. And we even early on, we even posted some news articles about people who are digging up these things. And we've

been talking about the masonry surrounding these. And Luke, I'm excited because I know this guy, this man likes to do his research and dig in. So I know. I'm excited. Teased us for a while. That's been like, what, eight weeks or so we've been talking about it. He's been holding that carrot out there. Just can't quite get there. Yeah. I just, I needed more and more time to research So I think I've done the research and I hope that I don't disappoint because it sounds like, man, this has been an exciting topic on your show. And yes, I am proud to wear the badge of an alternative researcher. I proudly wear that badge. Yeah, so we're talking about in search of Cyclops and kind of a map of where we're going.

I first want to talk about the origins of Cyclopean architecture. then we're going to move to some of the Greek mythology and legends of the Cyclops, plural Cyclopees. And then we're going to go to, we're going to hit on some other oral traditions of Cyclopees from around the world. Then we're going to talk about possible modern day reports of discoveries of Cyclopees. And then we're going to get to the really crazy stuff that I've found. Let's go. Sometimes it feels like when you get that phone bill, it's like the crash site document.

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He's so good. You don't want to read the last chapter. We're going to start at the beginning. Yeah. Let's just say I've laughed at this topic most of my life. But after this research, let's just say I'm becoming a believer. Yeah. The metaphorical Bigfoot has come out of the woods and shown himself to you and you believe.

You saw his eye and now you're a believer. So let's talk about the origins of cyclopean architecture. And I know you've had other great guests on like Albarino. I'm going to pull some stuff from his book, actually, which is really good. But so the ancients believe that the megalithic architecture that they beheld back in the day was constructed by hybrid demigods. And this myth was preserved to this very day in terms used by archaeologists to describe these megalists, which is called cyclopian. And obviously cyclopean coming from the word cyclops. And so cyclopean architecture, if you see it, it consists of massive, what I like to say, megaton, polygonal block.

set interlock together without using mortar. And so they were designed essentially to be earthquake proof. When earthquakes hit, seismic activity, they would flex, they would sway during these cataclysms. When we look at megaliths from around the world, you know, there's locations like Soxia Oman in Peru or Giza and Abidos in Egypt. These sets get most of the attention for like incredible megalists. but there is megalithic constructions in ruins scattered across Greece that I think are equally impressive in their own right.

And the ancients attributed the cyclopees to building these cyclopean walls. And there are several sites, especially in Greece, Misena, Terns, Karamikos, and even Athens that feature incredible cyclopean architecture. And listeners can go to Meglithic Marvels on Facebook. We got a page, a group, or Instagram, and you can see most of these sites in Greece. And they're incredible. They're polygonal.

They're precision. You can't fit a toothpick through them. Now, if you were a tourist and you were visiting these sites, you know, at first glance, you might not notice. the megalithic components and foundations that are still left today because again like we've talked about in previous shows in Peru, these sites have been repurposed, right? Later civilizations came along, especially the Greeks and they built columns, they built amphitheaters, and they built other inferior constructions around and on top of them. But as you look closer, you can begin to differentiate

between the man-made mortar construction and the megalis built that are precision, that are massive. And so something important to note is the megalis that are built out of softer stone like limestone like we see in Greece, these deteriorate a lot quicker than megalis like per se in Peru that were made of granite. Stone and grease is a lot softer. And so what we're seeing when we talk about Cyclopean ruin, it's just a real dim glimpse of what it once was.

So that's important to note. And that's why the megalis in Greece don't get as much airplay as those in Peru and Egypt. But they're still incredible. So Greek mythology, in Greek mythology, the Cyclops or the Cyclopees, plural, they're the giant one-eyed sons of the gods. They were master masons, blacksmiths, metalworkers. they were the craftsmen essentially of the golden age. And Europe's tradition of the Cyclops is that they were these artisans who lived under the earth.

And kind of it lends to they live subterranean lives. And they were metallurgists who retained the knowledge of the gods, right? And so, again, they're thought to be the builders of the cycloping structures we see, especially in Greece and Italy, but also around the world. And I like what Al Barino says in his new book, Birth Right. He talks about how the elites of the prehistoric world, it possessed obviously a shared knowledge that enabled them to construct these megalis. And the megalis alone, he says,

bear witness to the knowledge that was lost in the great cataclysm. I love how he terms that the megaliths alone that we see today, bear witness to the knowledge that was lost in the great cataclysm. And so megalithic ruins displaying the trademark technique of cyclopean masons, the reality is they've been discovered on all four hemispheres. And so the simplest explanation for the universality of the megalithic phenomenon is to assume that an advanced global civilization once populated the earth until it was utterly destroyed in a worldwide cataclysm.

We see this in Mesoamerica, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greco-Roman. So it's illogical to conclude that these stories originate from the same source. So that's kind of a backdrop of the origins of Cyclopean architecture. Is this good so far, guys? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we've talked about how many tribes of giants there were. And I think when people say giants, they probably don't realize there was a, there was probably physical anomalies to different tribes.

You know what I mean? There was probably a whole host of different types of giants. Like that's just a very generic term in some sense. I mean, you know, the first time you hear the topic, you think, oh, yeah, well, there was large beasts. But then you kind of, when you dig into the, like, you go to, like, newspaper articles and you read about some of the stuff they dug up. And there's ones with horns. There's all kinds of crazy stuff that they dug up. and the one eye cyclops just do you think that they're the best that they were like you know

they were the berry bonds of of laying stone or what yeah without the cream and the clear yeah yeah like pre-growing head very bonds yeah yeah they were the uh giants that were definitely on roids and um they must have been when the cataclysm happened and got sent the flood and wiped out everyone but no one is family. All these giants who had these mysteries of heaven, this technology imparted and they were using it, you know, to build and also for evil,

they were wiped out. And so with them went this secret knowledge, as maybe the Masons would call it, this secret knowledge of, you know, of masonry. And, dude, I think it's just,

I think it's such a good foundation, no pun intended Nate, or maybe intended there, for, you know, for starting this discussion is that we can go and look and touch. And your videos, and if you look at megalithalian marvels, you can go and see, you can touch these things that are accredited via mythology

and oral tradition to these one-eyed giants. Yeah. Yeah, the megaliths alone bear witness to the knowledge that was lost in the great cataclysm. I think that is brilliant thought. And so we've got even guys like, you've probably heard of the historian, first century historian, Josephus. Yeah. So this guy was a first century Roman Jewish scholar, historian.

And in his writings, he references ancient giants in several places. And here's a quote from his greatest work called The Antiquities of the Jews. And again, I think this is important because of the subject we're talking about. This is not the Bible. This is an extracurricular ancient text. And he says, quote, there were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large and countenances so entirely different from other men that they were surprising to the sight and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men, end quote. amazing quote from a first century historian and to think that in his day they basically still

had these giant bones on display. How crazy is that? Yeah, it's the Smithsonian wasn't around yet. Well, no, I mean, it's always been this fascination of humanity that there are these giants around and stories of them and got to think about the old ancient museums, right? Like, everyone needs something weird, the creep show, right? You got to get someone to come in the door and pay their little fee to get in. I mean, I think that's been going on for a long time. Right. And what's so intriguing to me in Josephus has all kinds of quotes about giants.

But in this one, I want to point to the part where he said, they had bodies so large and, quote, countenances so entirely different from other men that they were surprising to the site. Is he alluding to? possibly cyclopees right there, right? I think he may be. Now, here's what's important. Notice that Josephus remarks about the countenances. Josephus also notes that fallen angels and women produce children of superhuman strength. And he links these creatures to Greek mythology. So Josephus goes on to say, quote, for the tradition is that these men did what resembled the acts of of those men the Grecians called the giants.

So Josephus himself dovetails ancient giants with Greek mythology. And so we know the Greeks worshipped Zeus and the Pantheon. And this was a superhuman group that reflected basically the situation we see in Genesis 6, right, where the giant hybrids are ruling the earth because they have superhuman abilities that can't be matched by mere human beings. And another clue is that the Greek gods are often said to be regularly mating with human women to produce offspring. All the giants in the pantheon, including Cyclops, were usually the offspring from the union of a god like Uranus, who represented the sky and Gaia who represented the earth. So we see that clue that we can pull from, right?

And so the Greek myths, the Roman myths that were based on them are based greatly, on greatly. modified events that most likely occurred in Genesis 6, right, with the watchers breeding with human women to create the Nephilim giants to rule over them. And so where it gets cool with Greek mythology is that many classical writers, historians like Homer and Hesiod, in their writings, they mention the idea that the cyclopean ruins of Italy and Europe, Greece, in general, were erected by this now extinct cyclopean race. And a lot of people have heard of the Odyssey written accredited Homer. I think he wrote the Odyssey in about 800 BC.

It's like one of the oldest narratives kind of that have withstood the ages. And this text, you know, it really preserves the memory of the age of heroes. And so in the Odyssey, there is the most famous site. Cyclops ever written about. His name is Polyphemus. And he is, again, in Homer's Odyssey. And he's a one-eyed beast. And again, arguably the most famous in the world. And he is presented in the Odyssey as this man-eating monster. And he's an obstacle to Odysseus, the hero in the story as he's trying to get home. And so that's kind of the most famous mention of a cyclops. And then there's works of earlier Greek writers, i.e. Hesiod and Homer. So there's two types of cyclopies that we start to

find. There's the man-eating monster type I just mentioned. And then there's the other type that's kind of this highly skilled architect that lives underground. And so we've kind of got two classes of cyclopies. And then in Hesiod's writing, Theogany, he mentions three cyclops. These guys are said to have forged thunderbolts for Zeus and they created the trident for Poseidon. So again, we see them making stuff, right? And in later tradition, the Cyclopees are said to be the smith of the gods and that they worked in the gods forges under Mount Etna, which was an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily. So a couple questions. Do you think that the Cyclops, they kind of stay together, kind of like a breed of animal. They would kind of stay together. And there is a lot of talk of UFOs associated

with volcanoes too. And we've talked to Tim Alberino extensively about what he thinks those are. So it's interesting, right? There's always these mountains. They're making things and they're living underground. I mean, it's the consistent themes on our show. Those are always coming up over and over and over again. Yeah, it's interesting. I kind of picture these, the class that's the medal are just working underground almost like the, is it the dwarfed? Yeah. Yeah, mining the mountain, right? Yeah, where do you get that from, you know?

Right. The Cyclopees that Homer talks about, they're different than Hesiod's cyclopees. Hesiod presents him as the brutish and civilized creatures. And they appear in the Odyssey. And they're described as also creatures who practice agriculture. And one of the quotes about them is this. And again, this is coming from the Odyssey. It says they never plant with their own hands or plow the soil.

They have no meeting place for counsel, no laws either. The Cyclops have no ships. These creatures are even isolated from each other. Up on the mountain peaks they live in the arching caverns, each allah unto himself. So that's kind of an interesting little glimpse into maybe the everyday life of a cyclops. Sounds like a Yeti. Sounds just like a like a like a rogue just angry Sasquatch just doing their own thing. But in some places though they're like in tribes, right?

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So you can really keep an eye out. Watch my back Derek I got to ask So one of the things I know about Cyclops is that there's a lot of association with the island of Sicily I know that Mount Etna is there but is there is there Is there construction there are there walls there? When we talk about Italy, we talked about Peru and Greece we talk about Italy Are there certain things that people point to that are there say they're cyclopean you know structures or

walls and because there's a we talk about like we talked about giants before and the giants are really associated with sardinia right like in this whole idea that this is the island of giants and then sicily kind of has this other it's like just some of the giants went to sardinia and some of the and then the cyclops were like hey cicely is ours we're doing what we do here what is it just the volcano or is there more that connects them to to that and then and then some of the things they built around italy no absolutely there's definitely megalis in italy I'm looking through my Instagram right now, Megalithic Marvels,

to get some of the exact names for you. But yeah, let me find, as I'm talking here, let me find some of the names. But there's definitely Megalus in Italy. While I'm looking for those, listeners need to go Google,

Google Athens, and specifically Google the hill of, I think it's pronounced Pyynx, P-Y-N-X. and again, if you'd visited this site, you'd just think, oh, this is great Greek architecture, but you look at this cyclopean wall that's left at the base, and it is monstrous, definitely what we would call cyclopean architecture. So that's definitely one.

And then there's several in Italy. I'm just struggling to find the names, but. We can return to that. I mean, we can edit and return to that. is there anything that anything with the all seen eye in relationship to to cyclops or is that completely different imagery because i think it was on your page maybe there was there was a motorless wall and one of the top bricks there was this all seen eye and it's kind of like man is that like a i mean is it a masonry homage does that an homage to some cyclopean builder with one

eye i mean i i maybe it's a bad question we don't have to keep it in the show if it's a bad question no no that's a great question i and i definitely think there's a parallel to the all seeing eye. Yeah, the one you're talking about, I thought that was such a fascinating image because it's almost like a possible signature of the cyclopean builder, right? And so again, whether or not a one-eyed giant cyclops existed,

the bigger thing that we need to understand is that at a bare minimum, the legends and the evidence we have of, Cyclops in the one eye, it represents knowledge. It represents the forbidden, the hidden knowledge of the watchers, the knowledge they had to create megalithic earthworks. And so I think that's, it's very interesting, isn't it, that, you know, on the back of our dollar bill, we see that symbolism of this day, the secret knowledge of the elite. And so they had it back in and we know it still exists today. I mean, it's almost in our face today, right?

It's funny. I think about our own blurry creatures logo. It's got that one eye. It's a creature eye, right? It's a UFO as well. It's kind of like a UFO. It's an eye. It's definitely a creature's eye. I mean, we've got a little bit of flack people going, oh, it's satanning symbol. But anyway, it's a creature eye, and it's just a one eye. So it's interesting that here we are talking about the Cyclops and we've had some people a lot of people ask us about our logo I don't know it's come up several times and it's just like it's a creature eye you know but when you created it was it created with Cyclops in mind or was it totally separate no I don't it was it was separate but I'm now that I'm looking at it I'm like dang it looks kind of like a cyclops creature but it but it has that

kind of nod back to the what the show's been about that watch your tech I love it. I love this topic. And it's so, so ironic that we're talking about Cyclops and the blurry creature, blurry creature symbol is basically a Cyclops eye. This is awesome. So real quick, one more thing about Greek mythology. Again, I said the most famous Cyclops that we have information on is the one in Homer's Odyssey. So let me recount the tale real quick of this. So the Cyclops in Homer's Odyssey is called Polyphemus. and he's described as this godlike giant. And he leads the clans of the Cyclops. And so according to Homer, Polyphemus was the son of Poseidon, again, a god, and his mother was a woman.

So again, making him a demigodon, right? So the hero of the Odyssey, Odysseus, reaches this island of the Cyclops. And so I'm kind of picturing something like Sardinia, right? And during his journey, he goes and explores this island and he finds this cave and this giant cyclops is inside Polyphemus. And in the layer of the cyclops, Odysseus and his man encounter him. And he basically kills some of his man and eats them. The rest of him escape. And Odysseus later returns.

And while the giant sleeping, he plunges a stake into its eye, thus blending it before escaping. the island. So that's kind of the most famous story of a cyclops that we've got. And then there's some other oral traditions of cyclops from around the world. In Albanian mythology, there's the Catalan who's a man-eating giant who lives in a cave and has one eye. There is one called Aramassapi. They're the legendary people of Sivia. And they're always at war with their neighbors, stealing gold. And they were said to be Cyclopees who had a single eye. in the center of their forehead. This one was interesting. Balor was Balor of the Evil Eye was his name. And he was supposedly a king of a race of giants in Irish mythology. And Balor ruled over a class of people.

And he is said to have a giant one eye. And then one more, I can't even pronounce this, Bungas Singis, is a one-eyed giant that is fast. in Filipino folklore. And he supposedly had a great sense of hearing and displays unusual strength. And legend says that the giant was able to lift animals and the throne with such force that he would end knee deep in the ground. And he had a humanoid shape, large teeth, and long tusks. And it was apparently 10 feet.

So again, just beyond Greek. and Roman myths. We've got some other oral traditions. And then you guys referenced that you've talked about some possible reports of discoveries of Cyclops schools. I found two that seemed to be somewhat credible. Published February 27, 1931 in a Greek newspaper, and I couldn't pronounce a newspaper, but it was titled the Cyclops Skeleton discovered in Kozani in 1931. And it talks about there's this region in northern Greece called Kozani. And between a couple villages after torrential rains, there were several landslides. And crews were clearing out ground and soil.

And they're shocked when under the earth is an ancient marble tomb. And it said it was colossal. And after many hours of trying to open this thing, they open it up and inside is a giant human skeleton, but what's the craziest part about it is it's got one eye socket, right in the middle of the forehead, right? And so that's kind of one of the somewhat possible recent sightings or discoveries. And there's another one I found. Much newer, February 24th, 2002. And this was, I believe, in the Philippines, it's an article titled Cyclops skull baffles tribal folk. And it says ancient skulls bearing a single eyeball socket were found in a limestone cave

and have been baffling tribal folk in the hinterlands of Bohol, the report said. And it talks about these skulls resemble those of the Cyclops. And it even talks about the archaeologist Ray Santiago who excavated them. I looked this guy up. He really exists. And this was in an actual online newspaper, one of the appears to be one of the main Filipino newspapers. So kind of crazy to see that, hey, we might even have some modern day discoveries of cyclops skulls.

What do you think of that? Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I think it's great, especially the one in Greece, right? Because whenever you bring up skeletons, the common narrative is that it's a, they're confusing for a mastodon or it's a something else, right? And when you find that a skeleton inside of a tomb, a marble tomb, it's not a mastodon, sorry.

There's no misidentification to be had there. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people say that. Yeah. You know, there's always an explanation for, oh, you just misidentifying X, Y, Z is as, you know, it's a dinosaur or mastodon or it's kind of hard to do to play that game when you're pulling it out of a marble tomb um yeah and then yeah and the philippine stuff is fascinating because you have

an archaeologist on record you can actually google and look up and it's not a you know and they're and they're saying yeah this is weird this is this isn't the first time i've heard those stories though derrick of people pulling giants out of these marble tombs deep down there was one and there was a couple of them. We posted on our channels of some guys finding them in Italy way deep down. They find these marble coffins and they've got giants inside of them. And so it makes you wonder the timeline, the history, but this is like in the 1800s, they dug a lot of these things up. And they make the news back then, but. And the giants are suspended in Stacey's. I don't know if I pronounced that right, but have you

guys seen some of those YouTube videos where people apparently find these giants? that are like suspended in this preserved state. Mm-mm. Pretty far out there, but... Really? Interesting to say nonetheless. Yeah, I mean, that's more up with your alley in terms of gets into the megaliths

and it gets into some of this ancient construction in these tomb, but we don't really... You've got to look that up, though, man. They're in Stasis. It's like... Well, yeah, it makes you wonder, why are they putting them in these boxes? What's the point?

Right. And are those black boxes in the pyramids, Derek? I think so. Now we know what they were for. They were for Cyclops. Okay, so here's to me where it gets crazy again, because I'm like a lot of people, eh, Cyclops, that's just Greek craziness, mythology. You know, but then you kind of, again, you talk about the Cyclopean megaliths.

You look at the Greek mythology. You see there's some other oral traditions from around the world. There's possible modern day reports of discoveries of skulls. And then what if I told you there has been people born with one eye in their forehead? What? Would you believe me? I would because at this point, anything goes. And so in searching for the show, again, this is what really made me take a step back and go, okay.

Okay, maybe there's a whole lot more about. about this than I thought. So, I mean, I was basically horrified at what I saw photographs. There's YouTube videos. Really? That, again, you don't want to probably watch it before you go to bed, but babies born alive with to basically look like a cyclops. Again, science always has something to explain it away. But guess what they this disorder, cyclopia. It's a, they call it a birth defect characterized by the failure of the embryonic something to properly divide the orbits of the eye into two cavities. So, here's my question. If this can happen now, why couldn't it happen in prehistory?

Yeah. I mean, and we hear about this all the time about the giants that have these anomalies, right? Like, um, paradoxically. Yeah. And then they have have like double rows of teeth they've got elongated skulls they can have one eye they have six fingers six toes you know some people are come on our show and say it's as easy as when you in you mix these dnais you could have pigment in the skin problems you could have pituitary disorders these things could just keep growing i mean there's just a bunch of genetic problems when you put the two angelic DNA human DNA together so it falls in line with everything else you've heard it's just the one eye for whatever reason sounds crazier than maybe an extra finger, you know.

Yeah, to anybody, again, that doubts this, again, it's on YouTube. And weird. It was basically shocking and very hard to see, very graphic, but it was very real, as far as I can tell. And again, we also know, like you said, Nate, the giants, the Nephleam always had these genetic anomalies. And then I also point, I've done a lot of research on the elongated skulls of Peru. Obviously, they're very anomalous. And those things even have missing sutures in the skull. The sutures are the fibrous joints that connect the bones of the skull. And so these things have missing sutures. And so again, we see all these genetic anomalies. And even today in the 2000s,

There's people being born with one eye in the middle of their forehead. So pretty crazy to think, how does this connect to the Genesis 6 narrative and the breeding of the watchers with humans and what we call giants and the possibility of Cyclops? Well, I mean, maybe this is where the monocle came from. You just need, you know, you just need one on a chain, just like the Monopoly guy. You know, I got you, Nate. Yeah, you're trying to get us to laugh a little bit. That's what we try to do. See, two dummies.

All we can do is make jokes. We were talking about that before you came on, Derek, that maybe that's why they were busy working with Stone because they had single vision. They weren't looking at the ladies like the other giants. You know, they just couldn't see him. Right. Like, where did she go?

I don't know. Back to work. It's like the cyclops is telling his wife, I only have an eye for you. It gets bad. It doesn't get bad. It gets real bad. Derek, because you're a megalithic guy.

In your mind, what are the three best, if we're talking about the three best examples of... Call him Mega Man. Please just call him Mega Man. There you go. What are the three best examples of Cyclopean architecture, cyclopean builds that you think you've come across or that you believe to be the best examples of it? Oh, man.

I would say you got to check out this hill of pikes in Athens. Yeah, maybe we can put this in the show notes, P-Y-N-X. This thing is so massive, yet mortarless. You can see that they built the whole city of Athens on top of this. It's one of the remaining wall remnants. And then there's another style of megalith that is just much finer. There's a place called Karamikos, and I'll send these to you guys so you can put them in the show notes again, know we can link to them, but this thing looks like you would see at the Cori Concha in Peru.

It is just such finely fitted mortarless stones that are like super sharp cuts that it's just beyond anything we could replicate today. So that would be another one. And then we mentioned Mycenae, big site. And this is where a lot of these Greek, the Greek mythos points to this site is kind of one of the origination spots of cyclopean architecture. Again, if you see the site, see pictures of it, videos of it, we got a lot on megalithic marvels, but again, at first glance, you might just see what looks like the Greek influence, but you start looking at the foundations of these

walls. And these are monster megalithic stones that are just multi-ton. So that would be another example. And then again, Italy's got some. I just got to find the names of those. But, yeah, I would say the megalis in Italy and Greece are some of the most under-heralded, underappreciated megalis that you can still see, but fascinating to behold. Do you see, is there any, you know, we talk about Sardinia, we've talked about this in the past, as the island of giants, is there cyclopean evidence there? Like, do you, like, maybe there's collabs between, you know, collaboration between the giants and the cyclops in this space that's, that's renowned or known for,

you know, for giants. Absolutely. Yeah, there's, there's the Naraji or Narajic towers that literally dot the landscape of this island. Again, all the legend and Sardinia point to this was all built by the giant. So you've got these these Narajic towers, which go straight up.

And again, a lot of the tops of them have kind of been rebuilt. But again, you look at the foundations, and these are massive stones. And so you've got those towers. And then you've got what's known as the tombs of the giants. To me, these are even more incredible than the towers in that these look like almost a bull's head. And it's, you know, it's imagery of reproduction. And this is legend, according to legend, this is where the giants were buried inside these things.

But they were multi-layered. They went deep under the ground as well in the shape of a bull's. head, but these are ancient. And a lot of those, they're not just rocks pushed together. I mean, they're shaped stone. And then you've got one of my favorite sites of all, and that is the Sardinian wells, or again, some people call them the neurologic wells, but there's one called the well of Santa Christina. And it's just called that because there was a Catholic church built there in like the 1600s. But this thing is one of the most incredible megalithic structures you'll ever lay your eyes on.

It goes straight into the ground, kind of like a vortex. It's really weird looking. And it's just precision cut. And to me, that thing is the most incredible megalith on the whole island. Probably predates all the towers and everything else. And so when you see that, you're just going to go, what in the world was going on in Europe? And again, I think it points back to this lost knowledge of these giants that once existed. You think that the Cyclops specifically had a gift for this stonework that maybe other giants didn't have?

And that's a great question. Yeah, I think so. I definitely think, I mean, I even think of, you know, just some scriptures in the Bible that talk about, you know, some of the people that God anointed to build. build, you know, the tabernacle, right? Or the Ark of the covenant, God gives gifts. And so, why couldn't it be that some of these hybrids had gifts? Because we know the watchers had different abilities and gifts that they were teaching to the ancients, right? So I believe a lot of that probably transferred. And these Cyclopees were most likely the builders. Yeah, I mean, because it seems with the amount of deformities and the amount of different tribes, you'd think everyone would have their skill, their way. And humans are the same way, right? We have our human beings that are phenomenal at one thing. And what do we do? We put them on a football field, basketball court.

It's crazy, too, Derek, I think that like when you look at them the cyclopean stuff, it's not just walls and structures. It's also monuments and almost like sculpting. It's kind of wild what, you know, in myth and tradition is attributed to and associated with cyclops. There's a stonehead of Medusa. There's giant monuments of the ancient world that were supposedly built by the cyclops and altars and these things that, it just, I think when you plug this in to, you know, where we're at, Nate in the show with our journey into ancient giants and biblical, biblical giants, biblical narrative.

And what we know happened, we talk about Genesis 6 and Enoch and all these things that, it just, it fits in. It fits in with the diversity of, of tribes of giants. We talked with Gary Wayne. It fits in with the idea that there was all this manipulation, of genetic manipulation from

giants to chimeras, to the Bible says all flesh was corrupted, to birds, to all the, all flesh. And it doesn't seem like a, like, much of a stretch, especially when you look back at the extra biblical stuff, like you talk about Homer and these ancient, some of the most ancient of ancient narratives and stories deal with with Cyclops and giants. And, you know, I think it's, I think it's fascinating too that even now there's a terminology for these megalists you're talking about and it's cyclopean. I mean,

it's, that to me is great is, is great evidence, right? Like, I mean, sure, you could say it's just tradition, but you could also say, but it's tradition that's been, that's timeless, that, that, that we can trace back to cataclysm. It's, it's, it's wild. I mean, I think kicking this off with Albarino's quote is, is phenomenal because it does.

It does, it's like the rocks cry out, right? Well, I was going to ask you something, Derek. So, I mean, basically when you're, you're compiling all the stuff on your channels, I mean, we're dealing with like maybe 5% of what's left over, right? Of what was here at some point. I mean, when I like, what I peruse your channel, I'm like, man, there's stuff all over the world. I mean, there's stuff everywhere.

I mean, you're pulling up places I've never even heard of. And they're most remote, right? Like, we did a whole show on Easter Island, which is like, how in the world did they ever find this place? And then we have long-eared giants supposedly built this stuff, right? I mean, see it in North America, too, right? At some point, we turned the tables on this, you know, after the cataclysm and the Raphaim were around. We as humanity turned the tables on the giants and they no longer ran stuff.

It was like we, you know, they were hunted. We talked about Lovelock caves and we talked about, Nate, we talked about yellow hair. And that's just here in North America. These things were, the hunters became the hunted. Well, I wonder if like, if you think about it, Derek and we go to the next level, I mean, if we are image bears, even non-Christians are image bears because we were remain in the image of God, and they aren't. Our spirit wouldn't be able to coalesce.

You know what I mean? We would be, we would feel like we need to get rid of these things. They just feel evil. They're dark, right? I mean, if you just look at it from that perspective, I mean, we're created in the image of God and they're not. That would be enough to probably feel like we need to get rid of them. I don't know.

That's my thought. Yeah, I think humanity became exhausted, enraged by these hybrids. because they were they were loud, they were obnoxious. Back to the Josephus quote, they were scary. They consumed everything, devoured everything.

Again, I mean, the book of giants, book of Jashir, book of Enoch, they all point to they were corrupting the animal kingdom as well. They were creating monsters.

And so, yeah, I think the ancients recognized we've got to do something to keep them in check or they're going to literally take over the entire planet. And again, that's why we see originally, you know, the Israelites taking them on.

When you start studying David and his mighty men, I mean, they were all hunting giants, essentially. And so I think that started to happen all over the world, you know? I never even thought about that until you just said that now. I mean, if they could take stone and do crazy things with it, why couldn't they take an animal and do crazy things, make a monster out of it? right? I never thought about it like that. You know, yeah, I'm speaking of the book of giants, you know, so when the, when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, the book of giants, I believe, was discovered among them. And it's this ancient, extra-biblical text. And it basically seems to confirm what Enoch hints at in the

book of Jashir. And there's this one, it's really fragmented, but there's a scripture in it that says that basically the Nephilim took 200 or the watchers, 200 donkeys, 200 asses, rams, goats, beasts of the field, and selected them for miscegenation in that they defiled and begot giants and monsters and behold the earth was corrupt. And so again, if we believe that this was a dark world, it wasn't really the golden age that they would like us to believe. it was a pretty dark, depressing era to live in.

And that's why here comes the flood. Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the ancient alien crowd wanted to be this crazy golden age of greatness, right? And it's easy to kind of look at the structures and say, well, the people making these things weren't that bad. But I mean, from what you're saying and what we dig up, nobody wanted these things to exist for very long. people were hunting them and taking them down. So they weren't, they weren't our friends. And the flood was an act of mercy. And you grew up in the church and you don't understand that.

You think, oh, the flood was just, just like, how could God do such a thing? And now it's like, wow, I mean, we wouldn't be here without it. So total act of mercy. Yeah, no, it's interesting to note, too. I was thinking about, you know, like in Ezekiel and Revelation, we get these glimpses of these crazy living creatures, you know, that obviously God made. You know, Ezekiel talks about these living creatures that look human, except they have, you know, four faces and four wings.

And it says they have they have hooves like that of a calf. And it's just nuts. And then Revelation talks about the four living creatures. They've got eyes all over them. again if God's doing this if you take that literally and he's created creatures like this we we know the if that's possible anything's possible with that I rest my case I mean if if if humans can birth humans that have a genetic disorder that causes them to have one eye just like that of a cyclops

couldn't that happen in the ancient times on a larger scale yeah i mean do you just think that this is all genetic formities it's not that humans and angels produce giants it's that humans and angels completely destroy the genetic code and it just in nature you can crossbreed and you can get a tomato with no seeds or whatever right or you can get an apple that's

doesn't bruise or whatever. Sounds like when angels and human DNA get together, it just creates all kinds of genetic deformities. Yeah, and I don't think the watchers necessarily knew what they were even getting into. I think they were surprised. And there's hints we get in history about this that they may not have known that their offspring were going to grow to become these ravenous giants. But it happened. And I think maybe as a generations went on, they started to figure it out. And that's possibly why stuff started to get smaller and smaller.

And if anything, it's such an incredible topic to think about. And it definitely, man, just boosts my faith in. the biblical narrative and encourages me to keep studying and digging into ancient history. Well, I think the reason I brought that up, Luke, and Derek is because sometimes there's this, I have this thought in my mind of like, how could God allow these giants? You know what I mean? How could God allow this, this, these things to kind of take over the world? But if you think about it from like a genetic perspective of like,

it's throwing stuff in a test tube that shouldn't be together and it's just going to kind of turn into whatever it turns into it wasn't god allowed the giants to be born it's that they were just genetic freaks and they just kept growing and they had all these other weird problems and other weird deformities and i think that that's an easier way for me to understand that like god didn't allow the giants to just take over the world and destroy basically just destroy humanity. It was that they were, they were, when they, when you put these things together, it just creates this problem. And I, I don't know. That's that, to me, there, there was just some thoughts that I had that like, how does that, you know, how does that? Well, I think, and I think one

things about that is it was to remember the darkness can't create, right? Is that the God is the created, created man from dust and breed life into him. He created something from nothing. He created light from nothing. He created, he is the creator and all the enemy can do is corrupt. So they took with what was in creation. And they played within the lines of creation, but in the corruption of it from from the corruption came these monstrosities. It's not that God is the only one who creates. And so this is just, it really is a defilement, right? It's right in the playbook of the darkness to to defile an attempt to mar and destroy those things which God has created and called good. And I think you kind of nailed it here.

Like I don't think they knew what they were doing or what they were getting. They knew they could. They operated within the laws of nature that God had set aside and set into motion, right? And left into motion. Yeah. And still in motion today. But if you think about it from like a moral perspective, you see what I'm saying? You could get to this quandary of like, why would, how could God allow the giants?

but if you think about it, all these genetic deformities were unknown. It was an unknown thing that just kind of, they didn't, I don't think they realized what they were doing is what I'm saying.

I don't think they set out to create giants. No, I think so either. Yeah. You know, it says, it's interesting

because the book of it says that they loved their offspring and so their punishment was to watch their offspring destroy each other and they had to watch it before they were imprisoned, right?

And it's like, it's interesting that these fallen beings that have rebelled against God still had, you know, compassion and empathy and love for the things that they had for their children. No, that's a great point you make. Look, I've thought of that before myself. It's so easy to just think of it in such dark, evil, big terms.

But like you point out, we get hints that they were, they were heartbroken to know that their children, their offspring were going to be destroyed. and I believe they went, you know, to Enoch to plead their case before God, right? I did. When they should have been going to God on behalf of Enoch, Enoch's going, they're sending Enoch to go plead their case to God. And God's like, nope, you had your chance. Sorry. Yeah, I mean, it gets blurry, right?

You don't know. I mean, and that's the thing that's hard about human beings is we all love. our children, right? I mean, there's, I mean, and we all look as child abuse as something terrible, whether you're a Christian or non-Christian or whatever. I mean, we see life, I mean, you know, a child getting abused, everyone's going to stop on the street and, you know, it's just not okay. You don't do that sort of thing. And I think that it's, it makes you wonder these creatures. I just think more of the long lines of like, because the giants were so destructive on planet earth there's just these thoughts that i always have like man how can if if god knew it was going to get to the

point where we literally were have to like start over humanity wipe out the entire world i mean you like how does why does god allow those things to happen or get that bad or but i don't think these these dnas were ever meant to commingle yeah like alberino says you know we have dominion here so there's only so much god will do to get involved once we start opening the test tubes you know so it's just weird man it's just it the show just gets more complicated, more confusing, but we appreciate you coming on, man. Yeah, Derek. We know what they built, though.

One night, Willie. You can go touch that. Right. And let's do it on a future blurry creatures tour. That would be phenomenal. Come on, Dan. Let's go. Let's go.

Yeah. It's got Sardania. Let's get Nate in that well. Down the well, yeah. With the Cyclops, were they red-haired, redheads too? Derek, you think? Actually, I believe they were bald. They were bald.

I don't know. Look at that Peyton Manning forehead. They had to be, man. I mean, just think of that big old bald, one-eyed giant walking down the hill, scratching his cheeks. Sounds like a dirty joke. That's right. Yeah.

I'm half dead. Well, Derek, man, I think he made the case for one-eyed Willie. I think they were out there. I think they were building stuff. I think they were, sounds like they were living in caves by themselves. was kind of introverted, weird beings. There's a bunch of solitary dudes playing with Lego sets just in real life, right? Yeah.

Hey, we went on the search for Cyclops, and we'll leave it up to the listeners now to decide if they are believers. Oh, man. Thanks as always for coming and dropping knowledge. I mean, it's always, it's always, if I like we step in the classroom, and we get to learn history as it should be, and as it really was. So thanks again for that. There might have been a one-eyed, one-harm, one-horn people-eater out there. Right. Right. Luke?

Playing drums for deaf-deff. Is that how it goes? Is that the saying? One-eyed, one-arm. Oh, I don't know. But another drum from deaf leopard's only got one arm. Yeah, I do know that. I do know that.

And that's very 80s, Luke. So way to go. Way to roll it. Way to roll that time cop, right? That's right. As long as we're talking about one appendage, that's where we're at here. It just makes you wonder, man. All those nursery rhymes and.

And in terminology and words and Greek history, I mean, it all comes from somewhere, right? When you're playing Zelda next time and you shoot an arrow into that Cyclops, just think they were around at one point, right? All going back to the golden age. Well, Derek, go to megalithic marvels.com. Follow you on Instagram.

Tell them what, tell them about your Instagram one more time. Yeah, if you're on Instagram, give us a checkout, follow us, Megalithic Marvels. We have a lot of fun, you know, post a lot of just, pictures of megaliths from all around the world. And I kind of have fun trying to find the weird ones, right, that maybe a lot of people haven't seen. And so we're posting some reels too and get you some,

not everybody can just travel around the world these days. So we try to get you up close to see them, at least through a screen. And then it's been fun posting longer videos. Sometimes we'll take these podcasts like I'm doing with you guys and we'll post the video version. So if you want to see how good looking Nate and Luke are, come to Megalithic Marvels and watch the video version. Yeah, close one eye and think good things.

How many Megalithic sites are there in the world you think right now that we know about? Oh, man. What's the number? Is there even a... I've no one's ever asked me that. There's, I mean, there's hundreds. I want to say thousands, but then I start thinking too much. about the different types of megaliths and some people wouldn't classify some as megaliths,

but they're still amazing, like the stuff at Chechenica, like I post some of those pictures, but they might not be true megaliths, but they had some of that knowledge, you know, that just makes it cool enough. But yeah, there's hundreds. But again, true megalis all have that signature of mortarless. They're either mortarless, precision, and or, their multi-time. So man, if you have any kind of imagination at all,

you could think back to these days if there could been thousands of dynasties, of giants and beings and all kinds of weird things, walking around, making stuff, advanced knowledge. I mean, the ancient world, we have no idea. But we're getting closer to figuring out some of the stuff that goes on. And in the middle of it all is this crazy Bigfoot.

just staying in the woods, staying away. On mountain tops, just like the cyclops. Just doing his own thing. Just a remnant. Derek, I wanted to ask one more thing for you. What else are you working on? What's coming? Because I know that you have a trip to Egypt

and I want to give a chance to talk about that and then any other kind of projects. I always like to look to give our listeners a chance to kind of anticipate what to look forward to coming out of your the Megalithic Marvel's Lab. I appreciate that. Yeah, we got our tour coming up February 8th through the 21st. It's our first ever Megalithic Marvels tour. And it's to Egypt with renan Egyptologist, Mohammed Ibrahim, super excited about it. And if anybody's interested and possibly coming with us, we've got some spots left and go to megalithic marvels.com forward slash tours. But what's so getting me jacked about this trip is we're going to get to go to the. obviously most ancient sites of Egypt, but not just the sites that all the tourists see.

We're going to see the true megalithic sites. And with Muhammad as our host, he's known for getting you into the areas, the corners that most tourists don't see, the real megalithic stuff that we're saying predated the dynastic Egyptians. So like we're going to get a private tour of the Osirion at Abidos, one of the most incredible on megalithic structures on earth. It's a subterranean, like, temple that is some of the biggest stones you've ever seen in your life.

And, but again, it's underground. And he believes that this was kind of a center for healing. And so it's really interesting to learn about the energies, the healing properties. The place I'm looking, the part of the tour I'm looking for, the part of the tour I'm looking for, forward to most is going to be our private tour inside the Great Pyramid. Wow. We get a two hour after hours private trip inside there to see all of the king, queen, and subterranean chambers.

And I just cannot wait. I can't even believe this is, I'm going to get to go inside. So it's going to be a lot of fun. And of course, we're going to have a lot of laughs and a lot of fun together. So I might have to pull a couple of strings. and see if I can't get you guys to come. Man, we're going to do that. Does I put my head wrap on and get on that camel?

Come on now. So we got our tour coming up. And then, yeah, in 2022, we're really excited about where Megalithic Marvels is going. Working on some short films. I did one or two this year. You can see kind of our first, my first big short film was about a unknown, really kind of relatively unknown megalithic site

in the Black Sea area. And, but I want to do more of those. But again, it just, as you guys know, it takes a lot of time, a lot of editing. And it's just finding the time to grind. And be creative enough to create those. But that's what I have the most pleasure in is being able to create a short film and see people enjoy it.

I love it, man. Oh, we're looking forward for that. Yeah, we got to do the Megamara one. We got to. Where there's, like, hidden Megalitz in America, baby. I was just reading about one and, like, they think is in Montana. I think because I follow you, like, every once in a while on Instagram, we'll throw other things in there. there's some about there's some archaeologists just looking at Joe Taylor was talking about that a little

megalithic they think there's this there's this megalithic site in in Montana it's like 72,000 years old and I don't know how they rate them you would know this but there's like so many points of that they give each thing based on on its probability of being you know man-made and megalithic and I was like I got to ask Derek about that you know and it doesn't pertain to the cyclops but I think it's super interesting yeah No, that's a fascinating site. We've done a little bit on that. There's a gal named Julie Ryder who really kind of first brought that site to awareness.

And it's so interesting because I'm still torn between. Is this just crazy natural rock formations? Or is it super, super ancient megaliths that have been so weathered, they might look slightly natural, kind of like some of the Russia megaliths that you see those massive walls of. And so if anything, it's fascinating. What makes me think maybe they are super ancient megaliths is there's a couple pieces there that look like massive dolmens. One is literally like 20 feet high or 30 feet high. So, but, yeah, if you search for Montana megaliths on megalithic marbles.com, you'll see an article we did on that with a lot.

I'm going to look for that because I was kind of, I was reading this thing and I'm like, I don't know if some of these things are. Yeah. But it looks really cool and it's here. So maybe we, maybe we do a summer fly fishing trip to my old spot in Cascade, Montana, and then we just kind of take a little detour and go see, you go see these perverial. Yeah, we can do a, we'll do a mega blur tour to Montana. And then like I told you, there's that site in Tennessee we could hit. Oh, come on. We could go up to a certain mound.

Get Nate's kayak out so we can cross the river this time. Let's do it. Let's go. We got stuck on one side of a river trying to get to the mounds, and we didn't have a boat. Yeah. We needed a boat, too. It's case Dogman came out. We got to get out of there.

We were like, Jaws. I was going to need a bigger boat. We didn't even have a boat. Yeah. Well, next time, man, we'll figure it out. Derek appreciate it man well thanks brother good man

thanks guys it's awesome