Let's Find Out - my 4 HOUR unboxing video | soft-spoken ASMR

Episode Date: September 4, 2020

This has to be the longest unboxing video ever made... Thank you, everyone, who made this possible. All my supporters on patreon, paypal, my gift givers, my viewers, and all of you who show love in the comments. Tonight we unwrap everything from letters, Lord of the Rings, ancient mythology, and history, to Carl Jung, astronomy posters, an ASMRCTICA t-shirt, electronics, incense, candles, and... another REALLY OLD astronomy textbook (1846)! #ASMR #unboxing #books "I never let schooling interfere with my education" -Mark Twain

She wants to unbox these cookies. Oh, and others do. First order the day. Unbox the cookies. Me a high five? Give me that high five. Yeah, I know Ernie, I know you give a high five. Pretty chaotic intro to this video.

It's good enough to give you guys an idea that today, tonight, we got a lot of things to unbox. See, I wanna make it far enough out so you guys. Right, so this. video has been on my to-do list for quite a while. I've been saving up a lot of packages, some that I've just bought, but there's also quite a few in here from you guys. And so what we've done is made a big ass pile of unopened boxes, and I've really had to subdue my urge to open a lot of them. Some of them I've taken a peek at. I'll let you guys decide figure it out which ones may be based on my reactions.

Yeah let's see we got the dogs. Yeah, it's through. Let's throw some candles up on the shelf real quick. You know a staple of the channel but you guys seem to like it. I know I do. And I get all of Molly's leftover candles with all these random smells. Yeah, after Molly, she gets these little kicks where she buys the most obscure candles. I think you guys probably already seen this one, but we got tomato leaf. Spice. Happens when you don't trim the wicks. My shirt doesn't.

And if a fire does get started back there, I guess you guys will be the first to know. Alright, let's get started. This package right here, first and foremost, has been, um, I think, I think I've had this for about two weeks. I have a couple more that I've kind of already showed on Instagram, but I wanted to make it more of a formal unboxing. So let's see. I dropped a little Xacto knife.

It's got a nifty little slide. Today's the day. It finally comes in handy. It looks like that was just level one. It's probably looking like an onion. So bad at doing it. I never get the angle right. I always forget to show you guys what I'm doing over here. Inside, inside of this envelope, we got a whole, a whole other little care package.

See if the label's right, this one's from Courtney. So, thank you Courtney. This is quite a hefty package. What you sent me, but I'm going to try my best not to slice it open. Things in absolute onion. We've got a third, but more promising looking bag. So this looks like a, almost like a burlap sack. Got a hemp seed or something along those lines. I thought, I thought I recognized the drawing of the Hobbit. Look at that. Man, okay, okay.

Alright, you know what we're gonna do? I want you guys to be able to see this. So, we're gonna angle the camera down. Alright, now that, sure. should be better. So look at this what we have here. This looks like a calendar, the Morgan, the Morgan calendar of events, winter 2019. That's kind of old. This year 225 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, the Morgan.org, library and museum. Very cool. So it looks like some sort of program. Some sort of program. Some sort of

program I'm assuming it's based on Tolkien or the or Tolkien's works so it's set then aside for a minute see what else we got in a bag of goodies look at this the Tolkien special emblem which is always I've always loved how we he made a I don't even know what you call them some special symbol out of the his initials the jazz two R's facing opposite each other and then the T for Tolkien says Tolkien maker of middle earth a guide to accompany the facsimile items in the collector's edition catalog published from the exhibition at the Bodleian Library University of

Oxford 2018 and at the at the Morgan library and museum in New York in 2019 and I'm pretty sure I want to say he studied or I mean taught at Oxford because I know he was a professor here we go we got um it looks like we have some drawings and they have little excerpts a little bit of information about the drawings we have a letter from father from father Christmas 1936 I'm guessing that's that then we have a drawing we have a an envelope so it looks like those are out of order that's the envelope and that's the drawing what is that you know if you guys could make that out but uh 36 Merry Christmas I have a picture of the the dust jacket that he designed which is where this is from this is

one half of the dust jacket that Tolkien himself I believe he was actually a really good artist to be able to draw this design it and for years I don't I don't even know why they took it out of print but this was the official cover art for the book the Hobbit the original book that he wrote before writing the Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings. Although I have to look that up. I actually do want to do a history of of the Lord of the Rings and you know I want it I would like maybe do some sort of biography on Tolkien himself himself but himself but I also want to do a video a separate video about the lore the mythology that Tolkien devised he he created for the the entire world the universe of Lord of the Rings in the

Hobbit and his life is really interesting so if you don't want to wait for me to get around to it might be a year from now who knows I'd suggest looking it up there's a lot of really good videos on it but he he had a really tragic childhood and then he went to war ran into, was exposed to much more tragedy in war, lost most of his friends, from what I know. And then after that, even in battle, while he was assigned on, he was part of a military unit on the battlefield. during his downtime he was working on these the first ideas behind Lord of the Rings and the actual mythology behind it so to me it's a it's a mark of a great person who's able to distill and crystallize his tragic experience into an artistic a grand grand artistic work that

especially one like this that really really lasts and especially with the revivification of of his universe by Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies and to a lesser extent the Hobbit because I don't think those were as well told at least Tolkien produced an enduring work it's very he seemed to be a really great guy and he seemed to be a really great guy and he seemed to really genius academic let alone his artistic creativity in his writing and the fact that he was also not too shabby as a visual artist I don't know what you call like a painter I guess someone who draws and paints so he's an interesting guy and he created his own mythology for England because of

apparently most of the pre-medieval or pre-Christian at least mythology of the native Anglo-Saxons in England had been burned and destroyed and some other manners after the last invasion of England and last physical time a foreign enemy crossed the English Strait and invaded the island of England in 1066 so apparently after that apparently the Normans destroyed most of English literature English mythology in lore and Tolkien wanted to and I would say successfully did play an integral role in creating his own myth creating but also adopting what's the word like assimilating the spoken traditions that still survived which you know are infused with the morals and the spirituality of a pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon world and he thought that you know there

were many great nations like the Germans and the Norse that had mythologies that England lacked and he wanted to play an integral part in creating a native mythology for his native country England so anyway this is cool let me let me make sure it's uh Courtney is the one who opened who sent this so looks like we have a piece of notebook paper and it is a letter so let's read this he says rich congrats on your marriage thanks so happy for you both have been a long time a lurker on your channel you probably won't remember but I left a comment on one of your videos about Tolkien being a philologist which is what Nietzsche was a

studier of language more often ancient languages the origin the etymologies of words and I'm actually a collector of Tolkien books and memorabilia myself while I couldn't bring myself to part with my books. No worries, believe me. I know how hard that is to do. I thought you might enjoy some extra literature I picked up. Oh, no way. At the Morgan Library exhibit last year.

The exhibit is long gone now, but if you ever find yourself in Midtown Manhattan, stop in the Morgan Library Museum, you would love it. and its short excursion. J.P. Morgan's personal library is unlike anything I've ever experienced.

Words don't do it justice. You can only understand it by sound and smell. I also packed a copy of an antique sci-fi compilation. What? What? What? I picked up. at the antique bookstore on the avenue.

Quote, the avenue in Baltimore. I hope you also enjoy this one. All the best, Courtney W. Oh, Courtney. How much for that? So much. That's love. That is so kind of you.

I really appreciate you. Okay, guys, let's find out what we've got here. Anything else in the bag? Let's literally turn it inside out. Got everything. It's actually a nice little bag too. So thanks for parting with the bag Courtney. Well little doodads. All right, so What do you have here? Okay, this is exciting. Set this aside. The best of science fiction. I love the cloth covers the cloth hardbacks It just always has a such a good tactile feel. It seems so quality, so so durable. It's like cloth with a little waxy covering on it. And then we got embossed lettering Science fiction, the best of science fiction. I mean it doesn't look new, which is even better in my book. You guys know me, we're gonna have to find out the date, the copyright date. So we're

So here we go. We have copyright 1946 by Crown Publishers. 46. One year after the end of World War II. A short introduction, or shouldn't say short. Yeah, I guess it is titled Concerning Science Fiction. It's actually really interesting. I just noticed they talked about the atomic bomb. And

you know this is you know this is like talking about 9-11 in 2003 so this you know very relevant to science fiction is very very relevant to what science is actually doing it not only informs the direction of science uh scientists scientists in science in the future but um you know it i should i should say in a uh conscious way but in a very unconscious way great science fiction like 2001 war the worlds um even the the you know the time machine hg wells arthur clarks arthur c clark's uh 2001 and rendezvous with rama great science fiction informs the unconscious mind too just like great fiction really is in a lot of ways sometimes the expression of the unconscious but yeah it was it was cool to see that they looks you know I can't read this right now but but yeah I just wanted to take a look at

it real quick see what they had to say about the atomic bomb Buck Rogers, Star Trek, you know, whether you realize it or not, the flip phone, touch screen panels, you know, we're for sure going to be trying to do the transporter for the next few hundred years. Transporting matter across space. Talking, a talking interface with a computer, phasers, lasers, I'm pretty sure that was a pre-pre. scientific invention of Gene Rodbury's but maybe they have a nice summary the atomic age has opened and to date we have an answer to it secrecy best described as an unsatisfactory solution practically none of our representatives on whom not only we but the world must depend have taken the trouble to study

the Smith report on atomic energy. And this has your representative, by the way, part of your job, part of your job, part of your job as a citizen is to know or accept your representative's ignorance. Still relevant. So I've actually never heard of. the Smith report on atomic energy. Unless our form and policy becomes less muddled,

we are rather apt to present such, just such, a philosophical problem in the end as Jackdaw. Jackdaw. A lot of the subject matter in a lot of these compiled books, stories are atomic in their nature. Jack doll by Ross Rocklin. See, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, I know about Julian, I know Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock, the inventor of Sherlock, we got another Robert Heinlein. Courtney, seriously, thank you so much. This is such a treasure. We got a little look at this.

Happy birthday to Steven, just a little insert from maybe the original. owner. Happy birthday to Steven. From daddy. Happy birthday to Steven. I wonder if Stephen grew up to be engineer. I often wonder that because my dad has influenced my life path. He definitely always taught me to think for myself. I can't really ask for much more than that, so I'm pretty happy about that. Charlotte Elliott. That must be where she got it. Very cool. So I was gonna tuck this letter in here. And then let's look at the program. Let's look at the program. See what you guys are seeing. So a message from our director has played many overlapping roles in the history of visual communication. So true. Transformative

mass market technology has an unparalleled means of documentation. We're presenting a once-in-a-generation exhibit devoted to the illustrations Writing handwritten materials of the beloved author J.R.R. Tolkien An exploration of contemporary drawings from the Morgan's collection and much more. More, all right. Me, I, um, and this actually, it's interesting how similar Tolkien's drawing's look to Carl Young's in his red book. If you guys have never seen that, you should go look it up.

He's European, I guess. It's like simple, it reminds me of something that would have been carved in wood to tell a story. It's very Germanic, I guess. There lived a hobbit. The Oxford professor J.R. Tolkien invited. No, ignited. A fervid spark.

Fervid spark. Generations of readers. From the children's classic The Hobbit to the epic the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's adventurous tales of hobbits and elves and dwarves and wizards have introduced millions to the rich history of middle earth.

And by the way, there's an interview on YouTube. I think it's a BBC interview in which he actually it's the first time I had ever heard it he actually elucidates that he meant for the middle earth to be Europe maybe 10,000 years in the past so he actually meant for it to be not read literally as a literal history but as having much more of a connection to the reality of the reality of the European prehistoric past than simply a entirely fictional fantastic world you know

so let's see going me on literature as its own languages and histories that's here to hear conversation with smog so I guess Tolkien actually drew and illustrated his own Hobbit book. And for what I heard, he also wrote The Hobbit as a story for his children, for his own children.

And then because they liked it, or at least, he vetted it, he vetted it, he allowed them to vet it and influence, whether he went on to actually, you know, publish it for the masses. So he tested it

out on his own children. You know what? It's a, I always have to turn the AC off when I film, so... Just went out some ice water and maybe it sounds good. I don't know. So, let's finally get around to reading this. And it says, The Conversation with Small. 1937, April of 1937, with pencil and black ink.

And watercolor. color and gauche. I don't know what gauche is. Yeah, I want you guys be able to appreciate the detail on this. It's so, uh, it's so great. He drew so many little coins in there. What is that even say? He's got little details of elvish, or maybe it's dwarfish, because that is, in the Mount Erebor, I think. It looks like it might be dwarf-dwarfish writing. in that pot of gold right there and maybe that's supposed to be Bilbo yeah that looks like it looks like Bilbo right there in the corner taking something not really sure what it is maybe it's the I think he took like a like some sort of

goblet or something down here dust jacket designed also in April 1937 same materials medical school in the 1700s maybe so yeah it looks like there was multiple seminars or lectures maybe viewings Tolkien in the visual image and Hammond and Christina Schull his paintings are often important insights into the matter of middle earth these guys look at now Tolkien's writings and art influenced each other other and how the artists have interpreted Tolkien's works especially his favorite illustrator Pauline Baines and over here in his study in 1937 believe he started working on the ideas at the end of World War I and between his

lecturing and academic grading duties he was writing writing the hot Hobbit, among other, you know, among research and his more professional work. He was doing it just as a hobby. He was writing these giant works, these monumental, pivotal works in fantasy and just fiction, fiction writing in general. There he is in a study, 1937. Tolkien and Inspiration. Explore multi multiple facets of Tolkien's inspirations in his writing as well as how his work impacts readers in personal and unexpected ways today The Morgan invites Tolkien fans to a Shire themed a Shire themed evening celebration of Tolkien, maker of Middle Earth.

Enjoy drinks along with live music and after hours access to Morgan's exhibitions in the historic library complimentary wine and beer with tickets that sounds like a good time by the stables we reached the center of the book the the beautiful illustration right out of the scene of the hobbit billbow comes and lives from 1892 to 1970s Bilbo comes to the huts of the rapt elves July 1937 watercolor pencil white body color riding down the river in vacant empty wine bottles wine casks I love the simple lines it's a lot it's complex but it's very simple you know very simple very simple

simple. I enjoy the kind of again simple earthly color schemes. Very earth earth Tony. Lots of deep greens and browns, simple shapes. Beautiful. Pulitzer. So Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant from Hungary, recounts the life in times of modern journalism's founding father. As he evolves into both a crusader for the common man and an influential political active New Yorker, politically active New Yorker. I didn't know where that. I didn't know who Pulitzer was. J.R.R. Tolkien, Part 1, Inc. and 2 existence. Says, Tolkien, once said, I wisely started a map and made the story to fit. and made the story fit.

Maps have always played an essential role in our understanding of both the known and the unknown world. Take a page from Tolkien and with artist Simon Levinson. Map out your very own fantasy realm using ink and paper. We have some music at the Morgan, at the Morgan, or music at the Morgan. This was an amazing surprise. Very, very cool, very nice. Thanks again Courtney. I really appreciate it. So you know what we'll put this back in our burlap sack that I literally turned inside out. What's it say? Stitch fix? Cool. Isn't that that company that you can buy like custom fit outfits from? Always seen those ads and they look like really shnazzy outfits.

Always enjoy these types of bags that you can just cinch them tight. Very, just something satisfying about cinching a bag. Tight. Let's take another sip of the cool ice water. Let's dive in the package. Number two, both of these on deck. All ones I ordered. That's why they got the tape over my address.

This one, I believe, I believe their gift to the channel. The guys these guys up on deck. These two are up. And then these will open these are our books. Well, not all books. I'll let you guys find out if you uh if you watch that well. But we got those third and a lot of the rest is uh pretty cool but they're mostly like gadgets and a small little probably unnecessary impulse bias so yeah we'll tackle all that stuff last this next one let's get our little

sensor here yeah I don't know why I didn't start with this view from the beginning I wanted to show you guys the box but now that you've seen it let's show you the unboxing this one In all transparency, I actually forgot that I reboxed it or, you know, re-bagged it a while ago because I knew I wasn't going to get a chance to read it in between then and now. I bagged it back up for this, this day, this exact moment. But this, let's get it in.

This, along with the other book, I'm about to inbox, was from Melody. so melody again I posted I think on my Instagram but you you gave me this a few months ago I believe because I hadn't had enough stuff to actually unbox make a whole video like this so at that time I just posted it on my Instagram but yet again thank you thank you thank you melody it really means a lot it really does Amazon wish list that I have I've had going for a while now and I think I think you I had like five books on there I really wanted to get and read over the next couple years they're pretty esoteric books but for me in my kind of non let's find out journey I'm really

trying to learn in like an objective historical way but also from a psychological perspective I'm trying to learn about history the history of religion psychology myth just because it's such an I think integral part in understanding the human mind and how we work you know really we know nothing about consciousness and what its nature is and I think understanding the deepest systems of thought that most deeply guide us and guide our actions or at least have for the last you know who knows how many tens of thousands of years I think that will elucidate I think that will shed light illuminate give me understanding

about where our values come from and what we value, why we valued them in the past. And I really think that so much of our lives, whether it's aspects of your personal beliefs, which are informed by your household, who brought you up, where you were brought up, what culture you were brought up in, and not only the community, but, you know, the nation and even region of the world, general region of the world,

that informed you as a person because it seems that, seems that most of our beliefs aren't things that we have individually, autonomously, um, you know, singularly without any, any influence, any outside influence arrived at ourselves. Most of our beliefs, most of our ideas, even the ones that we really, really think we, uh, you know, originally. originated in our minds, in our completely unique to our perspective of the world, have already either been thought by someone else, either thousands of years ago or

even just in the last couple hundred years by some great philosopher, great thinker in general, and if so, then most likely that person has probably come up with a better way of articulating that idea and and that's why we're reading books and learning about the great people in history really comes into play because it helps you accelerate your growth your your personal journey you know it allows you to at least if not jump ahead and skip steps it allows you to avoid the trivial and most you know dead end trajectories through life i think so um if you really do i have an original idea i think it's important still almost even more important to know what other ideas have been invented and try

to be able to put your perspective in the context of you know human civilization so here we go the religion of the patriarchs spiritual edifice of the neolithic this guy Murcha Iliad ian quoted by Carl well definitely Jordan Peterson definitely multiple times quoted by by Terence McKenna Terence McKenna, interestingly, has a huge overlap of influence as Jordan Peterson. Both of those guys, Jordan Peterson and Terence McKenna, were both highly influenced by Carl Young and this guy, Murcha Ilya Ilean. And those aren't maybe not even their primary influences, but they're definitely up there in their top 10, top 20. thinkers that have influenced them.

So, this, and this is volume one of three. I, you know, if I get through volume one, it even goes into, yeah, so many religions. India before Buddha, Zerathra, the Zoroastrian Iranian religion, the original Iranian religion. And of course the Jewish Christian Muslim tradition. Hellenism, Hellenistic Greek religion.

If I get through this book, I feel like I'll have a good grasp at least of where to look next. And maybe I'll move on to volumes two and three, which are more, I think, focused on the more modern Christianity. but but I I really want to know you know the origins of things I like I like knowing the roots of more modern ideas so that I can you know put things in proper contexts I enjoy you know I enjoy looking at an idea and being able to see its roots and the overlap what what other ideas are similar to it so yeah I'm looking forward to reading this one so again melody thank you so much this this was not a cheap book either I know that this was like 30 bucks 40 bucks I don't know so it really means a lot that you got this

for me originally published in 1978 it says it's here that he's not he hasn't died yet but know that's a lie because that would make them 113 years old um the next book so anyways yeah from the stone age yeah for for those of you listening i guess this isn't really about uh the best episode to listen to but uh the subtitle or the title i guess i didn't even read that is a history of religious ideas subtitle uh Volume 1, From the Stone Age to the Illusinian Mysteries, by Murcha I think he's French, I believe. No one has done one of the, what do you call, reviews, I guess, says, no one has done so much as Mr. Iliad, Micea Iliatti, Eliatti to inform students in the West about primitive, and oriental religions. Two whole generations have satisfied their curiosity about these religions

under the tourage of Mr. Iliad, whose later career unfolded at the Sorbonne in the University of Chicago. To neglect the possibilities of his work as a reference or classroom tool or simple classroom tool would be unfortunate. It would be even more unfortunate to relegate it to such uses alone, because everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision here. From Martin E. Marty. It's kind of an interesting name. From the New York Times book review. So, and I love, I just, I just, you know as a side note I love the matte texture of this I don't know if you guys can tell but it's got a really non-glossy very flat texture to the book is on my to-do list

that's a big one that's a big one cross-off but I guess the the font's pretty big so I think it's just the material is going to be really dense to uh you know spiritual material is always way more dense than very technical scientific material where's the other one I think I think it's this one is it it's this one I know it's this one because I I repackaged it I've been reusing this this packaging I forget what even originally came in this bag but this bag is the absolute my absolute favorite sound it's got this it's like thin brown paper with a layer of insulation in it so it's really nice it's a it's got that nice soft crinkle real nice

as opposed to like that it's like the it's like the opposite of hard plastic enough teasing you guys right this is Jacob Burkart judgments on history and historians. And this book was on my wish list because we can never concentrate on anything and I always go in tangents especially when I or yeah especially and specifically when I have other things to do. And I always end up going on Wikipedia

and clicking every link I find and I arrived at this guy because I was reading about the history of Ireland in its role in re-igniting Christianity and spreading it and kind of being carrying the torch after the downfall of the Roman Empire in the sack of Roman 476 AD anyways I was reading that

I was reading about in the history, early medieval late antiquity. And this guy, Jacob Burkart, this book's one of his books, it's a book about judgments on history and historians. He was one of the first historians. He was one of the first modern historians. He might be considered the first. Actually, you could tell this is kind of a kind of. of a third-party printed book. It's one of those really old books that I'm pretty sure it doesn't, I can't possibly have a copyright because this guy lived in the early 1800s. But he was one of the

first academic professors, scholars of history, that really want to rely upon firsthand sources. And so, you know, make the study of history more. credible, more, more rationally, more scientific in its nature, because that way you could, even if the firsthand accounts of, uh, you know, let's say, uh, you know, Caesar, there's a lot of accounts about Caesar, generations, or even centuries after he existed, and those accounts were going to be less valid, less, probably less accurate than letters you know to and from Caesar or letters about Caesar written by people who were his contemporaries who lived in the time of

Caesar so let's open this you know reading about history and again melody thank you for getting me this book you you meet two big purchases I don't know much this cost. I know it can't be as much as my Iliatti book, but Ritchie Elliott. Um, she's like saying that name. But uh, thank you. You bought this. These came on the same day, I believe. Free focus. But um, anyways, it, I was really interested in, you know, one of the original historians. It would be like Isaac Newton writing about physics. It's like one of the original originators of a discipline writing about

the other the other handful of people in his discipline. You know, what better, what better commentator history than someone who's made a career and made it their life's profession to know about It only did it on the back, but it's got some pretty cool cuneiform, looks like. Cuneiform, the wedge-shaped lettering on the inside. This is Judgments title page.

I guess this is an early picture of him. Maybe he lived to the late 1800s. And I know Nietzsche actually references Jacob Burkart quite a bit. He was a German scholar what the dogs are growling at. Sorry. Says it right here. The Cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motive for our end paper is the earliest known written appearance of the word freedom or liberty. It's taken from a clay document written about 2300 BC.

That's almost 45. 500 years ago 4,300 years ago in the Sumerian city state of Lagash Lagash Lagash You have a table of contents Wow So this book there's so many this book must be just full of a bunch of short articles

About all these different subjects Henry the ape Calvin Protestants in France Ancient History and its scope. That's something I really want to know about. The limits of civilization. Why today's educated man, quote, quote, educated man, end quote, can no longer understand antiquity. The historical significance of Egypt, and then Athens, Rome, its mission and world history on the Roman Empire in its first two centuries.

And then it goes into the Middle Ages. Yeah, see that right there, that... This, the title of that essay right there, on the intellectual indispensability of studying ancient history. And, yeah, number four. And why today's educated man can no longer understand antiquity. are are great for me are our our writings that are hopefully going to put history in in its proper context and what i mean by that is that regardless it's kind of a

a part of the postmodern idea uh philosophy i guess or a criticism of knowledge in general is that outside of very technical very objective disciplines like physics in chemistry we all look at look at the world through a lens that we cannot step outside of and especially in modern times we we have this sense we have this sense that we are kind of entitled to it um that we're the pinnacle of civilization, that we, that we kind of, we're at the top of a hill looking down. And in a way we don't respect what it took to allow us to be in the position that we're in. And that could mean anything, you know, I mean, it could mean race, but I'm not talking about that specifically. I'm really talking about civilization in general.

and you know something like how deeply rooted the West is in Christianity is a great example for a thousand years churches were the only really in reality the only source of written documentation of history and of traditions in a lot of villages throughout Europe before, you know, before we, you know, established universities and secular, non-religious institutions and private areas of study.

Morals are values, what we look at as good and evil are fundamentally Christian in the West. and those values were originated from Christ living his life in a radically individual way but also fundamentally rooted in his own Jewish Hebrew tradition which itself is thousands of years older than Christ is then Christ is and And so, in other words, these ideas themselves have a history. And all these ideas that join and superimpose upon one another

to make what we call a society and culture with our government, you know, our legal systems and our, and just our general common values. you know tacit values that we all maybe don't even explicitly realize that we carry such as the almost unanimous denunciation of pedophilia for instance you know there's civilizations plenty of them in history where that actually wasn't uniformly ostracized or you know made taboo. So we have all these values and I'm just really interested in not only learning about history,

but learning about my place, in our place in history, not only as a, very specifically as a male, you know, as a male of European descent, as an American, as a person rooted in the Christian tradition. And, you know, as a human being, rooted in everything that Europeans prehistoricly were rooted in. And who knows how far back before written texts, you know, four, five, six thousand years ago, the first written texts. how far back beyond that the ideas that those written texts were about originated and we don't know if it was 200,000 years. We don't know if it was maybe 20,000 years in some instances, but, you know, based on cave art, that is up to 60,000 years old in Europe, not to be. mention anywhere else in the world East Asia Africa you know Native America America America it's you know Egypt who knows how old how old people were how many

thousands of years old civilization was in Egypt before even the pyramids 3 3,500 years ago was and so I just I find the more I read the more I want to know about my perspective and how it might be distorted as I'm trying to understand history in general so anyways it's I think to understand history in certain aspects of history especially the further back you go in the past the more relevant and significant important it is to who understand that people in those times didn't see the world from a Christian lens like we do in the West today. And whether you're an atheist or not,

if you were brought up in the West in Western Europe, in America, Canada, Mexico, really any of North and South America, you more most probably uh harness hold Christian values whether you realize it or not

and these all have a history you know and part of that is say why we can't understand antiquity what makes it generally impossible for the present day average educated quote educated you know university man

to find anything appealing in the ancient world is total egoism of today's private person, who wants to exist as an individual and asks of the community only the greatest possible security for himself and his property, for which he pays his taxes amid size. And who also likes to attach himself to the community in a specific sense as, an official. On the other hand, the peoples of the ancient Orient, who lived tribally, impress us as races, races of which each individual is only a type, with the king as the highest type.

And even where the individual develops, especially since the Greeks, we still deal for a long time essentially with types, the heroes, the lawgivers. They are, to be sure, depicted as great individuals, and this is borne out by a feeling of tradition. At the same time, they are all the more fully types and condensations of the characteristics and the general.

In the last, the complete individual in antiquity is above all in Greek part of the state, to a degree of which we now, in the present mode of connection, between individual and state have no idea. Whenever one breaks with the polis or community state and when it is lost, it is a tragedy every time. Finally, today's educated men are firmly resolved

to make a bargain with whatever power for their existence at any given time. There's an enormous veneration of life and property. There is a mass abdication, and not on the part of the rulers, not just on the part of the rulers, and there are numerous bargaining positions

and concessions against the worst. And all this with greatest touchiness in the matters of recognition and so-called honor, with the ancients on the contrary, with the ancients on the contrary, it was all or nothing, with no fear of disaster, the fall of states cities and kings was considered glorious and that is something utterly alien to us

it looks to me like he's saying we we've been so privileged to be so secure from you know external molestation and essentially murder at the hands of foreign individuals. Those with securely within the borders of a especially first world nation nowadays were so reliant on the state for our safety and well-being. Yet we prioritize ourselves. our own lives, so much in advance and above the state that is always implicitly protecting us and surrounding us, that we're kind of blind to just how much complex social organization is involved with protecting millions and millions of people.

And, and, I mean, this guy was writing in the 1800s, so it was hundreds of thousands of people, probably in Germany. But even back then, he was recognizing that the smaller, more smaller group size made social interactions much more tribal. and made the reality of our dependence upon the social state, the state we belong to, the city or region or, you know, city state. Back then, so much more apparent and so much more obvious that it was at any time able to be state, cities, or kings, were able to be overthrown and conquered. That was so much more real and so much more revered.

You know, the state was something to be revered. And anyways, with the greatest touchingness in matters of recognition and so-called honor, we abdicate our responsibility to the state. Interesting. So I used to really before I started reading a lot about history I used to really think it would be amazing to live And you know take a time machine and see what it was like to be

You know watch the pyramids being built 5,000 years ago or You know be see what Rome was like or Greece in pericle in Athens in 600 BC 500 maybe 500 BC The more ever realize the more I realize the the absolute insanity of wanting to go back probably any more than like a hundred years ago because the lack of technology and medical gadgetry you know medical advancements in general just just alone would make it an absolute nightmare if you ever had you know a toothache is the most

common example but I don't know just any sort of injury just imagine how terrible it would be to get a tooth pulled without anesthesia the essentially we just don't know how good we have it in the modern age I was trying to be a lot more articulate and sound more smart more smarter but you know it really makes me appreciate what we have but it also allows me to reduce my anxiety about every single day's news cycle and even you know every year or two through the election cycle and all that of um thinking about chaos you know maybe maybe AI maybe Lerolink is uh kind of impervious to that. But it makes

reality of social and governmental international relations, interpersonal relations much more predictable when you learn about history. So it's positive. It makes you think you really have it very well in the modern age, but it also puts things into perspective and makes you realize there has been many collapses of civilizations you know many wars many tyrannical the human being still goes on so history is I think Napoleon said according to Will Durant at least history I think this was in the

lessons of history or maybe the greatest minds and ideas of all all time history is the only true form of psychology and Napoleon meant that the only real information we can ever know about human beings and how they act is how they act and maybe we could relate and find a cause and effect throughout history but the only true study of the human being and the human mind is what motivated a human being to actually physically move and operate in plan and decide what what they chose to do with their lives you know there could be many ideas but what you physically do with your body what you say, the relationships you form, the habits you make, good and bad, are the most

accurate way of understanding yourself and others throughout history. So, anyways, it's the long way of saying, thanks. Thanks for the books, Melody. I really appreciate it. All right, So, next we have, actually I don't remember what this one is. It looks like this episode is going to be pretty long, so hopefully, if you guys are anything like me, you enjoy a very long unboxing. I always love Chichos' comic book hall unboxing. Because he's knowledgeable about the comics. but he usually goes for a long time

he usually goes for like at least an hour or two in his comic book calls that are closer to two hours are always the most most attractive videos for me to watch at bedtime I know they're gonna to my sleep I still don't know what this is

speaking of Carl Young speaking of to my friend Chris at meme analysis the channel I've pointed you guys to a couple times we have a little interview or a little conversation that we had

at the beginning of the year it's been a while actually man I gotta reach back out to him he always has an open invitation to me to have another conversation with him but

but but before I do I want to read this book and this is on his recommended he has a list of general philosophy philosophy psychology and then more spiritual more occult books he kind of has a spectrum that he really nicely in a nice infographic he outlines like a dozen or so books that he recommends so this was his one book on uh Carl Young his one book by Carl Young that he recommended so I respect his opinion he's very intelligent very thoughtful very he's very sharp but also very humble very observative he's a he's just an interesting guy in general I

I'm interested in what in what he's read to inform his view of reality. So the best way I can think of, you know, being to being able to relate more and have a more interesting conversation is to have read some of the things that he has. And this book in general, I haven't even, I just got this. I've had this for a little while, actually, I mean, but I, um, this is the most recent, young Carl Young book of I've gotten and I'm still working on his seminars of Nietzsche's Zarathustra but this appears to be a pretty good synopsis of Carl Jung's idea of the mind

and you know what we consider the masculine and feminine. RFC whole was one of his most prolific translators and is a trusted translator. So anyways, just like history, or really I'm interested in history because I'm interested in human beings. You know, it's like, just a simple conversation. Usually is pretty innocuous with a stranger if you're talking about the weather

and all these accepted topics. But the moment you astray into, you know personal territory especially with someone you don't know um someone you're not comfortable with it becomes a game of chess whether you realize it or not and uh so many things are implied by certain questions you know we rarely say what we really mean you know we always don't want to you know we don't want people to get the wrong idea we don't want to offend people we don't want to people we don't want to expose our motives entirely, you know, with certain questions we ask. You know, you would never come out and just say, what was your upbringing like?

Do you have parents? You can just, you know, maybe kind of childhood did you have an example? But it's, of all the things human beings do, interacting with other human beings has got to be the most complex thing and you know society were raised in culture that tell us how to have conversations and we play by these by these mutually agreed upon rules

a lot of times we don't even realize the you know consciously realize what they are even but we learn more about ourselves interact with other people and Carl Jung more than most people ever in history knew about what drives us what motivates us what kind of what kind of drives what what instincts do we like we have instincts these very biological instincts to eat and sleep and have sex what kind of psychological instincts control us just the way you're gripped by curiosity or you know you fall into love meaning

falling as though you kind of don't have control over it you just fall into it what deep what other deep drives really motivate us and think whether you're male or female I think understanding aspects of the feminine and the masculine are crucial to navigate the social world and even the interior world interior world of our own minds so Chris I think I ordered this for myself but Chris thanks for your recommendation hopefully this year that's my goal is to get to this. This next one, this next one I bought as well. I wanted to show you guys this. I actually wanted to wear it for this video but I also wanted to unbox it so it's kind of kind

of a catch. Are you guys ready for this? I'm actually I'm excited about all this but this one I particularly excited for this is yet. So this is a Asmarkica shirt. My long time friend fellow collaborator and fellow ASMR artist ASMarktica and I got this this map this shirt that has a map of Europe on the back of it a S.m. Kats see if we can do this. A.S. I always like this drawing and I yeah I assume it's it's his I assume it's his drawing. I was considering using some of my planet drawings, and I will be continuing the series of the inner planets with Venus.

Venus is next, Earth and then Mars. We'll have completed all the planets, talking about them at least. And I wanted to know how Aesmartica. I wanted to know how he made. made these shirts and got them and I guess he went through T-spring which is pretty much the has a monopoly on being partnered with YouTube I believe so to sell a shirt most economically on YouTube I think you usually go through T-spring but I killed two burns with one stone and I was able to test out what

kind of what kind of shirt they they sell and it's actually a pretty nice shirt it's Haynes 100% cotton so that's really nice that's a it's a very nice warm feel I like the printing on it last but not least I get to support my friend Asimarkica so if you guys never heard of them if you happen to be new to my channel and have somehow not heard of him I highly highly recommend you go check him out he's a matched there unparalleled his style of ASMR he's got a really really deep nice deep slow draw he's he mostly does drawings and he has a very soft he gets very very close to the microphone he's

actually I undersold him there he's he's actually like a really really talented draw artist I would say in general his videos are gold if you just want something to if you just want to watch a really talented artist draw and very artfully very skillfully produce ASMR triggers and draw very very engaging very visually interesting maps and other other things that he's interested in anyways I'll be sporting this shirt in my next video I'm sure but man nice nice stuff I like it I got an Excel because especially it's 100% cotton so I know it will shrink if I let it

if I set the heat a little high in the dryer but hopefully it's not too too big but either way it seems really comfy okay this one I'm actually I'm actually kind of nervous to show you guys this is my next sponsor I've been very vigilant I guess very well very particular about my sponsor I've only had one ever in my five years since 2014 and for being real. It's only been about two years that I've been somewhat marketable as, you know, a source of views, I guess, for a potential sponsor. I just always don't like the idea of hawking products and shilling for a shilling. If I'm gonna get into a sponsorship, yes, it's paid and of course that's useful to me to get money, to get some extra income.

But I wanted a product that actually would use personally and not feel, you know, gimmicky and awkward selling if I didn't really believe in it. So we will be finding out what this is. and I actually haven't tried it out and so this is they sent me a free you know sample of their product to test

to really make sure I want to advertise their product and they were I just have to say the representative I talked to she was extremely nice and just made me feel very comfortable

with interacting with this company So this video right here is not any is not paid. I'm not compensated whatsoever So I'm not biased But if I enjoy the product Which I've already opened the bag, but I haven't opened the actual product. I'll go ahead and Make them my second ever and probably at least for the time being my my only my only I'm gonna be my only and I'm gonna make them my second ever and probably and probably at least for the time being my my only sponsor and the tea was really good even though I'm not in any sort of a connoisseur I was pretty ignorant about teas but um

I thought teas they seem he also seemed like a really nice guy and it was farm relief I still I still like their products but uh he sent me a bunch of tea and I still haven't even made it because I you know if I'm being able to honestly I'm still way too addicted to is a sleep mask and really the reason um you know for for like the last six months or so I want to say since I hit 100,000 subscribers I've been inundated with with in reality mostly just cheap brands and you know East Asian you know cheap electronics companies and stuff kind of fly by night not really very large which is okay you know companies need to start but a lot of times there you could tell the email isn't very tailored to me and it's just a kind of a very wide cast net that they're just trying to get smaller channels like mine to to push the product for and i i just really

really until the sleep mask this Manta, it's called, the company is called Manta Sleep. And until the sleep mask, I hadn't really seen a product. Maybe, maybe one other product. And they were kind of selling like summaries of books. I think there are audiobooks too. And maybe in the future, I'll give them a second look. But I really didn't want to push any products that again I wouldn't use but you can ask Molly and you know next time you see her ask her I use a sleep mask very often not always but very often and for some reason I don't know I just like the pressure I'll like throw a shirt or even a pillow on my head I just like when I'm laying on my back sleeping especially the feel of pressure

and like a, you know, light pressure on my face. And I like having my room completely dark. And Molly, unfortunately, can't stand sleeping without a filter that has this LED light ring around it. It's an air filter. She likes the white noise, but she also has allergies, so she likes the actual physical filtration of it.

But this hopefully is going to see. solve all of my problem does I really enjoy it and by the way just as a an aside I think the aesthetic aesthetics of a product are pretty important obviously not as important as the utility of the product but everything down to the packaging I think I have my my laptop box here but Apple does a really really good job of making the even the packaging let alone the actual product itself very appealing and just tactfully tactilely I guess attractive I got to say this this packaging is is pretty attractive and so I guess without making this feel like a super long

commercial that I'm not being paid for let's see if this product is any good but honestly I I liked I am a sucker for good packaging and I love the matte finish this is really just similar to Mercia Elliott's book actually it's like the same type of finish well his is more even even more mad it like has almost zero reflection but but this this packaging is nice just feels like there's like a little friction I don't like it when it's too too glossy you know So it says the weighted head strap. And yeah, there were multiple models.

They allowed me to choose, look at their website and choose one model that I wanted to, you know, test out. And I chose the weighted one. So they have lighter ones that probably aren't as, you know, to someone not looking for a weighted, a slight bit of pressure. They, I think they have really light ones that, you know, are very low. what's what am I trying to say they don't bother you they don't get in the way but compatible with eye cups available separately so I think the eye cups are to attach onto it if you want a separation so that your eyelids like don't you know flutter against the material

but I don't really mind that gentle snag-free fasteners let's check that out even the cardboard's pretty nice so so far I'm happy with the appearance and feel of the product and all the little things it comes with so you can have cool eye cups warm eye cups aromatherapy which I am not interested in at all I guess you can like make it just smell nice a slim head strap with Manta this has a nice weightiness to it exactly what I'm looking for company logo is pretty cool I like that. So let's see what we got here. We got traditional Velcro and it's adjustable. It's got a little sticky pad there. It's adjustable. Let's see if it fits. So if

you're on your back that's like ideal for me. In the back is like a really nice thin low profile strap. Back to the show. The mask is has like three seams so I guess the just like how gas trucks big tankers 18 wheelers are partitioned so that all the liquid doesn't bounce back and forth so the beads stay evenly distributed they're in three sewed compartments individually so it's a nice it's soft but But it's also, how do I explain that? It almost feels like, let me show you guys. It's like a flat, almost subtle fibrousness almost.

But it's not coarse. It feels soft. It's not as soft as the outside material. This stuff is like insanely soft. So all around your ears, your ears and like all the way around your head. And this even has a nice little padding for the back of your head. Gonna be like just heavenly soft. And I'm pretty sure I got eye cups here too.

So check those out. This packaging even has some cool texture to it. Look at those. Not only are you getting the pressure, the pressure of the weighted, the weighted feeling to make it feel like, I don't know. Maybe it's like inner child. wanting to be so you get the pressure of the weightedness but this takes the pressure

off of your actual eyeball and your eyelashes if they flutter won't be rubbing up against the inside so you have hollow eye cups essentially makes it like you're in a hundred percent blackout I like that breathable fabric we will have to test that one out infinitely adjust This is a Manta module, I guess. One set of eye cups. It's a cool product. I mean, cool packaging.

And so far the product looks pretty desirable. Let's find out the... ...so they don't... Self-explanatory. Or if they have their own person just to design the... ...usability, the user-friendliness of these. Who knows? So it goes like that.

like that on my face. This on I'm gonna go straight to outer space. Look I have a small head. I guess not that small. Oh yeah, that makes sense with the eye cups. The eye cups make it make you have to loosen the diameter a little bit because my biggest fear is looking like a cringy show for some product that I'm never gonna use. But I have a feeling that I want to use. these like almost every night so 100% of the time I'm gonna use these when I take a nap during the day and I need to black out the room I gotta say I haven't slept in them yet so I'll give you guys the verdict later but you'll know I liked them if you see me advertising them at the beginning of the next video I guess it's a nice like it's like a perfect weight It's like it's pretty much they literally must have taken a shirt and measured and like weighted because It's like the weight of a thick a thick shirt

I'm like man I'm just happy that it's it's a good product and I don't have to tell them no because the product sucks It's actually nice. So anyway, we'll have been spending a while on this but now last thing I wanted to to say is just now that I know I'm probably gonna go forward with advertising them, taking them on as a sponsor, I'm pretty sure they'll be giving me a discount code. So if you are thinking about getting one and you're somehow still up or still watching this, wait until my next video or I guess find someone else on YouTube advertising it because I'm sure they'll have a discount code as well. And I'll, I think I'll have like, you know, 15 or 20% off or something like that.

So, cool product. Test that out later tonight. To wait it. Cool product, bro. Okay. So, yeah, why not make this a three hour video? Why stop now, right? All right, my, I'm going to save the best for last.

I have a couple little gadgets and give them. and then we will open these next three kind of literary items that I'm actually really excited to show you guys I've said that I'm diluting the meaning of that phrase so I'm gonna shut up about that but I was excited to show you all the other shit not showed you but this these are gonna be featured in their own videos in the next month or so. So today I'm sure I'll have some time stamps on this video so click probably right there open those up in a minute. This one is from a while back so we'll go through it very quickly. I just want to briefly very briefly show you guys this was a guy who did a he just he just reached reached out to me and so I gave him a little shout out in one of my what was it? I think it

was my nine billion names of God video but I hope I helped him out because he just seemed like a good guy and he was an aspiring author I mean he was an author he wrote books he wrote a book and was shooting his shot at the world and I think to write a whole book It takes a lot of discipline And I'll admit I haven't read it yet Because I have so many on my to read list But he sent me three copies I honestly wish I knew

Somebody who was interested in this I don't my parents my Molly's mom I really can't think of anybody I know That I'm close to That really reads honestly that much so kind of the black sheep in the family I but I it just seems like a really cool book so it's a novel set in a historical period so it's historical fiction by

Benjamin with and it's actually really well you know I'm a sucker for that that matte finish flat a frictiony texture it's really nice nice in your hand. I knew a girl from my high school that went to Tufts. Ben is married to Mariana and they have no cats together. So yeah, shout out to Ben Man. I wish you the best. Okay, so we got about five random items that I just haven't unboxed for some reason,

probably because I wanted to do this video. Speaking of tea, I drink mostly coffee 90% of the time. but occasionally occasionally I'll drink tea this is actually Molly's friend user shatter-proof put the tea in you let it steep and then it's like a it's like a reverse French press actually by the way because I just realized the next few for yeah products disclaimer I'm not advertised I'm not sponsored in not advertising any of these It's bigger. I mean, I guess it's the size of the box, but you know, we're so scarred by potato chip companies that I'm not used to actually having the product completely fill the box. It is definitely plastic, but it's PPA-free, so that's good. It's a very curvy that curves like Liz. There's an interesting handle. Super wide. How does that even work? Matt

that matte finish again. Swear his company with a heart. With heart. We started it in our laundry room in 2006 with visions of a social enterprise that could change the world. Gross. You read that and you always hope it's true.

Oh, it was just kind of stuck in there. It was just like firmly, firmly in place. I'm just, this thing is confusing as hell. I do not think I'm gonna be able to figure it out. I'm just gonna put that aside. I'll set that aside for some other time. This, this I bought out impulsively at Walmart like two years ago. I swear to go. It was probably closer to two years ago than one year ago. Let's put it that way. So I'll be wanting to open this. I thought how he always buy these little like five dollar things

that I think are gonna be so cool, so cool for videos. And then I never use them. Or I forget to. Or I just overthink how I'm gonna use it. This is a smoke waterfall, essentially. You just like this cone-shaped incense. It just, I feel like it's gonna look. feel like it's gonna look so corny. It seemed like a good idea at the time. This thing looks like a ball now.

And it just dips down three layers into the pool of smoke. We gotta try it out, don't we? Hey, it's resellable. Pretty nifty. Okay. Alright, it's pretty straightforward. Oh, it looks like the tip of the mountain ice capped. Tip of the mountain. It's pretty nice. You guys know what? I, uh, I just remembered Molly's home and her asthma is pretty bad. So, because her house is kind of tiny, I don't want to be making her breathe in all this smoke. So I really am sorry. I can't like this today. We'll have to like this some other time though. It smells, it smells kind of nice.

Not too bad. Barked us when mom's not home. Sorry guys. Okay, just a charging cable But it's fun to open and unbox things. It's an unboxing video after all We got to unbox things when I ordered it like a long time ago and I forgot that I did So this is just because the iPhone This is the USBc and this is the light. ink jack that plugs in to the iPhone I'm using right now and this is just a six foot cable good company

overall anchor I'm pretty happy with their products I bought at least half a dozen cables for my other phones but their boxing so generic that they don't even have the oh there it is never mind I guess it's it's on a sticker at the bottom 6 foot cable But anyways, I've been looking for that. It's an xLR cable because my stepdad My father-in-law. I don't even know if you call him that. He hooked it up and gave me a new microphone

a pretty decent one, so I'm gonna try out the bineural microphones. New microphone stand and this is the xLR cable the three three prong cable microphones here we are just in very Amazon basic cable but hopefully it doesn't allow any noise in I just bought the cheap one because because I didn't really know whether or not I was gonna enjoy that the dual microphone set up so anyway we will find out in the future whether we like that the binaural side-to-side setup put this over here I actually bought for the hurricane

so we have them plenty of them if the you know the power goes out and I can't get to my generator we can at least have something to not drain our flashlight and phone batteries and plus you know when the power's completely out there's nothing nothing at all better than the ambience of a candle So this is a 50 count. Two layers of 25. I diversize juze chaffou-te. Not perfumé. It's equality since 1840.

Candle light. Now for my four, I only had three earlier, but I forgot about this guy. My four literary. Oh, there's one more box of random things. This is the pack out of which a candle I uselessly put on my shelf earlier came out of. out of and this has that really thin and brittle type plastic that makes really obnoxious crinkles so we're not gonna play with that this so I just bought a Macbook and I know this is an unboxing and I didn't unbox the Macbook but honestly I had too

much else going on and I needed literally needed the Macbook because my other Assuse by the way don't ever buy a soos was a piece of junk so anyways you unfortunately to be compatible with any of these ports you gotta buy this type of adapter at least if you want to be compatible simultaneously with two USBC which is what these plug into and then we have HTML No there you have your SD card readers right there let's get close why not keep two SD ports regular and micro and then here it's be a USB type a ports because sometimes I'll plug a monitor in if I'm playing

universe sandbox which you see HDMI for the monitor then if I have to, Universe Sandbox gets my CPU really loud, even on the MacBook, litter itself away in a drawer so that you can't hear the fan and a somewhat ventilated drawer. But far enough away where it won't pollute, pollute us with, pollute us with noise. Monitor, mouse, keyboard, case, right there. Just in case. You don't use it right away. All those possibilities. Cool that the MacBooks are future you know future proof in that way but yeah look at all the ports you're missing out on a really good picture right there looks pretty simple straightforward

speeds up to five gigabits gigabytes per second that's really fast but the USBC if you're just straight hooking into the USBC port through USBC in other words there's no type a involved I think they do like 40 40 gigabytes per second some of the speeds so that's why MacBook is oh oh that's what it is if it's a thunderbolt protocol on the USBC port it's like 40 gigabytes which is That's like 24K movies in a second, which is kind of unfathomable, unfathomably fast, I should say. Even though it's made in Shenzhen, I've got to admit, it's, they tried to knock off the apple really solid-feeling cardboard, and they succeeded. It's really nice. I'm not even gonna open. It's just a screen protector. I already have one on my phone at the moment, but I'm sure I'll drop it in no time soon. In no time flat. We'll be putting that to use shortly.

Am I necessary investments in fit? I forgot I knew I had. Good stuff. I know you guys are all here for one of my goodwill halls. goodwill book all you deceived by this price tag here it actually was half that so I can't recommend enough either if you're not on eBay or abebooks.com you know one of those thrift book websites go check out your local goodwill if you're in the States and whatever thrift store you have if you're not yeah guys for a buck 25 each so it's like five dollars total I got and we got it going all the way back we got Egypt from 3,000 to 1500 BC we got yeah I guess mostly Greek 1500 to 600 so the pre like pre-homeric Greeks Egypt's golden age the Assyrians

Babylonians, the Awakening, 600 to 400 BC. This is the Hellenic Golden Age, but also the Celts, Persians, Buddha, it's the time of Buddha, dawn of the Romans, that's when they first began as a distinct political entity outside the native Etruscans that were on the Italian Peninsula. and then Confucius, which go into the Chinese history in the future at some point, because China goes back. Who knows how far? I mean, I feel like they are on par with the ancient Mesopotamians in Egypt.

And then after we work our way up from 3,000 to 400 BC, World War I, so Japan, coming of age, in the... global sphere coming out of their oh man what's it called I was researching it for a while but basically they they had to play three 400 years of scientific and technological and diplomatic and governmental catch-up really with the rest of the world in about 50 years and they did it's just crazy America is when we really became significant as a world. So anyways, this is, to me, this era right here,

before World War I and right after, the time preceding World War II was the, was extremely significant, just transformational revolutionary time in the world. in the world, in the entire world. Before it was World War I, remember, it was the Great, the Great War, the, the war to end all wars. Sadly, it didn't.

So anyways, we'll be doing some episodes on that, all that stuff. Next we have a 2006 astronomy book that was all water-stained and pretty, pretty beat up. I mean, I got the book for like four bucks, but I still felt like that was kind of a, a shady move to even try to sell a book that was all water stained. So this book is much more immaculate, way in way better shape. And this one's from, yeah it doesn't say it, but I'm pretty sure this is the 2016 revision.

Seventh edition, yeah. And here we go. 6, 2014. Still find it amazing how. how much they rape students with the costs of textbooks. This book was for me, I think it was like $15. And when it came out in 2014, and for the next couple of years until they came out with the eighth edition,

this sucker probably went for $150, $17,200 if you were really getting price couched. and most likely not that much different than the sixth or even the fifth or fourth addition so I'm really happy that we can get cheap we want to teach myself because I always used to really get bored I just think thought of them as you know I guess I associated them with astrology and that you know Carl Saken was really good at portraying astrology as superstitious, very shallow, very unintelligent beliefs. And in the modern sense of just looking up your horoscopes in the Sunday paper, it is. But not in the deeper context of, you know, alchemy and pre-scientific thought before real science really got

in astronomy, we're able to get crystallized out in their pure form. The constellations is a great way to recognize patterns, which humans are really, really good at. Exceptional. Once we see the, you know, Sagittarius and Capricorn and Aquarius, and once we see the lion in the sky, they're just really good references to be able to recognize the change and not just the stars themselves but once you see patterns in the sky you see how patterns in the sky move with the seasons so in June you're seeing these in six months later roughly you know January you're seeing these which is an entirely different section of the galaxy so that's just pretty cool

Lots of lots of good information in that one. Alright so last last three items on the menu. This one looks like it came from England actually. 10 pounds? Really very interesting. Wembley? Is that what that means? Wembley?

Cosmo Interest Limited. Okay, give you guys a close up. I think I did. co.uk. But yeah, check this website out if you guys are interested. Abooks.com. We have. Is that what I ordered?

That's all that's in there. Integration of certain differential expressions with which problems in physical astronomy are connected by Robert Woodhouse. Just one page. And I don't remember ordering. To this paper, the author states that in if the introduction of the new capital

of the new calculi has been extended to the bounds of science and also greatly increased the difficulties by their number and magnitude differential forms which can be completely integrated only occur currently in a few problems the investigations in physical astronomy that give rise to differential expressions which call forth the resources of the analytic art even for their approximate integration of certain expressions which lead to the determination of logarithms of numbers and lengths of circular arcs. In treating one of these expressions known by the name of Faghanes Fagnani's theorem, the author traces out the importance.

The author traces out the correspondence between the methods of computation and the proportion of geometrical figures, the analytical method by which the integral expressing the arcs, of the circle computed affording when duly translated the theorem for the tangent of the sum vain to attempt without the use of symbols to convey any adequate nay even faint idea of various of the various series converging and diverging according to the value of one of the coefficients of the original expression which lead to the conclusions that illustrate this mode of investigation. To say the other uses, the method may be applied to explain,

expand the formula that occurs in estimating the perturbation of the planets. In this instance, the author points out the series which would be most commodious in which would converge most rapidly if the radii of the orbit, of the two planets whose perturbations are some. I must have because this is from 1804. I really liked it. Yeah, that's right now because I was just looking for something really really old and I might the oldest book I have is from 1836. So now this is a new winner. The oldest piece of paper I have is from the Royal Society addition. At least I hope it's from 18 absolute marathon. It gives this cardboard.

Really nice soft cardboard. It's actually really really nice to... I love the tactile feel of it. It's kind of what those... those boxes try to imitate. The really matte, flat textured boxes, They try to imitate a more, you know, a more natural, fibrous texture, I guess. This one was a little embarrassing because I forgot what it was, but again, I'm pretty sure this thing was only a couple bucks. And that was probably mostly just the shipping. So just keep in mind if you guys want to start a small little collection, you know. Some good stuff out there. We've already gone too far right here.

Ah This is a two for one. This is what I thought That's what I thought this was So what we have here right here is a Just a little kind of animation, but it's to scale of the solar system from some sort of Nat Geo book in the 80s this film the plastic film is actually really soft not none of that hard crinkle stuff acculate shape too look at that all right so now 1981 semi-gloss sheen to it but

it's not super glossy so it's not gonna reflect a ton of light and get in the way this will be really I wanted to maybe hang this up on the wall but it might just be a good reference. Let's open it up just a little bit. It gives you an idea of just half, not just Jupiter and Saturn are because they're really far out too. Those are all four planets inside and then Jupiter outside the asteroid belt and Saturn. But then Uranus is way out there in Neptune and Pluto are even further out there. Insanely before the great, CGI boom of the 90s, late 80s. I just think this would make a really cool poster. Because look, we got the sun down there and the planets to scale. Saturn's shadow falls across the ring's bright bands as Voyager 1.

This is a picture from Voyager 1. Sailing even further from the Sun looks back and 5.3 kilometers four days and 5.3 million kilometers after its closest encounter. It's a very, very tiny font down there. Laboratory. Information was sent digitally back across light hours. It took each bit, two hours. Since that was a two-for-two-for-one, now we got two left. And I'm most excited to show you guys this one for sure.

But this one isn't bad either. Geographic magazine. Shaving stick. Some shaving technology pages are like nice and glossy. This is like solid, solid material. Solid paper product. Very solid paper product. Exploring the glory.

of the firmament that's what I wanted with 21 illustrations we'll make a we'll make a separate video going through this book but I'm just thrilled absolutely thrilled with this I mean this was before this was the year actually that Einstein's relativity was firmly established as a real accurate theorem a theory that was able to make predictions about objects in the cosmos being the I wonder if they even talk about it but we'll talk we'll talk about what we'll look for it later but it was when they saw this in 1919 that's amazing they were able to calculate Mercury's position because it's so close to the Sun it's so I

shouldn't say close it's so close to the Sun but so far inside the Sun's gravitational well in the well oracle well created by it's it's distortion of space time I guess that Newton's theory could not predict it but Einstein's theory of relativity exactly predicted it so 1919 similar items in the collector's edition catalog published from the exhibition at the city of oxford 2018 studied