Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter - Entertaining Clients with Billy Football

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, macrodosing listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Welcome to entertaining clients, the only three-hour solo podcast. So if you haven't heard, I accidentally corrupted the video file for a macrodosing episode. And because of that, I now have to podcast for three hours straight solo. What happened was, basically, after a heated podcasting exchange between PFT and I, we basically were competing in some of the greatest feats of strength, that being holding our breath. Because of that, he won two to one. Subsequently, we were now tied two-two in breath-holding competitions.
Starting point is 00:00:54 But I was walking out the door. and when I was trying to admit defeat, I hit a switch, which I thought turned on the microphone, but instead it turned off the cameras, which corrupted the wide and close-in angles of the video cameras corrupting the video file. This was a very large consequence to a very small action of hitting a button, probably just exposed a weakness in our recording capabilities, but because of that, I now am recording a three-hour podcast that would have replaced the podcast if all of it had been deleted. So understandable, three-hour podcast, this is being recorded through OBS. There's a lot of visuals. If you're listening on Spotify, I actually would recommend that you go to YouTube because we are going to be looking into some pretty crazy stuff.
Starting point is 00:02:01 A couple of topics off the top of my head that we're going to be discussing is the Tartarian Empire, which is a pretty interesting one. It's a conspiracy theory. We're actually, I'm going to take advantage of this time to really dig deep into some of these conspiracy theories that we don't really talk about on the podcast because, PFT and Aryans sometimes get too, you know, buttoned up and tighten it for us to get into it. So the Tartarian Empire, erased history, Antarctic Nazis, that's something that we never talked about, the Vegas shooting, how I wanted to do it, maybe some of the history behind certain interesting topics, weird Bible passages, Moby Dick. and then we have a bunch of requested topics but first i want to thank the guys who helped uncorrupt
Starting point is 00:02:57 the files um and helped get the macrodosing youtube back online uh shout out tech guy andrew chico tecico this is him on twitter if you can't see we are going to zoom um But his Twitter, if you can see, tech guy Andrew on Twitter, shout him out. Huge asset, honestly, such an unsung hero in the production of Barstool Sports. Steve Kulzo, Steve underscore K-U-L-T-Z-O-W on Twitter. Stanko, J. Stanko, 99, Absolute Beast, who is helping getting everything back online. And lastly, Stefan Juran on Twitter, Stefan Juran, who is just at Stefan Juran, also helped get it back. He actually put in a lot of the leg robe, a lot of the legwork trying to get the two hours and 51 minutes of video relined with audio.
Starting point is 00:04:08 So with that, we're also joined by the Billy's List, chats, and you're going to ask them how the audio is, and we're going to get going. So we are five minutes in to a three-hour podcast. This episode of entertaining clients is brought to you by PFT Commenter, PFT Commenter, the boss who wants the best for you and uses your shortcomings and difficulties and tries to make you better in every way and tries to make you learn valuable lessons out of your punishments. And this is one of those. Honestly, Bill Burr, he's a guy who does solo podcasts and this is honestly great way to work in your podcasting to break it in. If you can
Starting point is 00:05:03 podcast by yourself for three hours, you can podcast with anyone forever. This might turn into a experiment that causes me to go insane by talking to myself for three hours, but hopefully we can sort it out. Moving on. So let's see. First off, let's get into the Tartarian Empire. What is it? We're all going to be learning together, and that's the beauty of this. I've heard about this, Tartaria, not sure what it is. Let's, you know, get a little video. Is history's forgotten Tartarian Empire real or just a hoax? What is the truth about Tartaria? Let's check it out. So that is an ad that we are not giving free ads to and skip the video. Okay, things I learned last night. That was a clickbait. So this is getting off to a swell start. I'm
Starting point is 00:06:07 But we're just going to check out Tartarian theory on Wikipedia. Tartary. Huh. Tartary is a blanket term used in Western Europe, literature and cartography for vast parts of Asia bounded by the Caspian Sea, Ural Mountains, the Pacific Oceans, and the northern borders of China, India, and Persia at this time when this region was largely unknown to European geographers.
Starting point is 00:06:35 Hmm. So the theory of Borenton, Great Tartaria is a suppressed lost land or civilization originated in Russia with aspects first appearing in Anatoly Famiko's new chronology, and then popularized by the racial occult history by Nikolai Lavosho. Okay, let's hope this isn't something racist. A Russia's pseudoscience known for its nationalism. Tartaria is presented as the real name for Russia, which was maliciously ignored by the West. So this started in Russia.
Starting point is 00:07:10 The Russian Geographical Society's debunked the conspiracy's theory is an extremist fantasy, and far from denying the existence of the term has used the opportunity to share numerous maps of tartary in its collection. So who knows what exactly is happening? I think I just realized. Huh. Okay. So the theory states is that a lot of the older structures that were built in the 18th and 19th century are actually not built then, but by an ancient advanced civilization. So they claim that a lot of these photos like this wasn't actually built. at the times they were. Hong Kong, everywhere across history, was not technically built when it was said to be. So this is kind of one of those things I think evolved from
Starting point is 00:08:11 biases, confirmation bias, especially because they never saw built. They can't confirm it was built then. Huh. A lot of this also has to do with this idea that there's a hidden history of magical humans that were that history was erased and that's something else that's pretty popular within this theory so interesting now guys thank you for being here once again we are going on a solo mission So here we have the Reddit post where we have tons of topics we can explore on the whole idea. But now we're going to head to YouTube to check out some of this Tartarian conspiracy. Tartari explained it in three minutes.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Let's see what this is. And I'm going to stop the video so that we can all sort of discuss what's going on. Okay. We got Russian women singing. Okay, we got Russian sing. Let's see what's going on. We're looking at a large construct up a mountain while Russian women sing. So let's see how this goes.
Starting point is 00:09:54 This looks like, okay, this is the Great Wall of China. We're looking at the Great Wall of China over a large wall. expanse. I think they're trying to say that this was actually remnants of the Tartarian Empire. So a very magnificent structure is something that would even be hard to build today. I think they're trying to say that this is an example of this ancient civilization that ruled most of the earth. So let's get into it. Is that baby crying in my headphones or outside of my apartment? There's been a lot of hype about Tartary lately.
Starting point is 00:10:42 And what some are claiming is an effort to hide a significant chapter of human history. Up until the late 18th century, the great empire of Tartaria was a vast country located in northern and central Asia, stretching eastward from the Caspian Sea, and from the Euro Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. It appears on ancient maps, had worldwide influence, and once was ruled by an Aryan nobility. That's starting to sound racist. I think what we read before about Tartaria being Western literature's application to a large expanse of land they knew little about,
Starting point is 00:11:25 I think may account for why this large swath of land, was just called Tartaria, probably like how parts of the ocean were say, here's where monsters lie, that sort of stuff. Let's hope that this stays sort of even keel and doesn't get too radical. It's on YouTube, so hopefully it's not too nuts. Here we see a modern interpretation of Genghis Khan. Yet, in reality, Genghis Khan had red hair and either green or blue eyes. The same way that the tall, slender, blue-eyed, blonde-haired Aryan Buddha...
Starting point is 00:12:07 This is starting to get racist. This is starting to get very racist. Hmm. I thought this was more about buildings. ...has been transformed in modern times into a fat or sometimes rather obese East Asian man. Painted on the walls of ancient Buddhist caves, we can see the true origins of the ancient Buddhist caves,
Starting point is 00:12:29 of the ancient cultures of China, Iran, India, where blonde and red-headed monks where Chinese silk with Persian patterns complete with a dot on their forehead. I see the red beard and red hair. Okay, let me check out this guy whose video we're watching, Robert Sapir, and let's see if he's problematic. All right.
Starting point is 00:12:59 Robert Sapir is an author, species with amnesia, occult secrets of V-roll. Hmm. This guy is an anthropologist. Robert Sefer, Robert Sefer, Rothschild. Okay, let's see what this guy. I'm just trying to make sure this isn't some messed up, because there are parts of the Tartarian. Let's just keep going with it. It's a shame that these figures have all been defaced by people of other faiths at some time in the past.
Starting point is 00:13:36 But it's still, it's very easy to see what they look like and we can tell who they were. He's got the red beard. So basically describing depictions of people with red beards. Red hair parted in the middle. These Silk Road Aryans left... Okay, okay, this. I think this guy's hijacking the conspiracy. Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:03 This may have gone. Okay. Okay, this might explain it better. That guy, I think, was a racist who was trying to basically say that the Tartarian Empire was part of... Three minutes. Okay, let's see what this guy has to say. So, obviously I'm still learning a subject, but it's a massive subject. What I do know so far is that it was an empire that grew massive from the Russian region
Starting point is 00:14:38 and all modern maps have had it removed, taken away from there. And I believe it was the largest empire to exist, hence white got white. Now, because these guys seem like they were doing stuff right. They were doing things for humanity. I have free energy. Okay, so for those in the Discord chat, I'm now discovering that you cannot hear the video. But basically, yeah, so a lot of this,
Starting point is 00:15:14 what I heard about the Great Tartarian theory was that a lot of the buildings that we think are built in the 1900s, were built by an ancient empire that used some of the stuff that Tesla discovered. And these are some of the buildings that they talked about. Like Gowdy's Natural Wonder, like they think a lot of these weren't actually built back then. And that's just because they didn't think we had that. technology to do it but really these were made using that technology so hmm yeah this this doesn't
Starting point is 00:16:09 look like uh this looks like tartar removal oh i think that is teeth tartarian history yeah i saw this on okay let's see if this guy isn't trying to make it racist It is an area which we call the Stolenhistory.net forums. Oh, this looks weird. One of the central beliefs of the mud flood theory is that the flood buried a highly advanced global civilization, one that we are only now partially catching up with in terms of technological prowess. The name that has been consistently brought up as the prime contender for this great nation is Tartaria, also known as Great or Grand Tartaria or the Tartarian Empire.
Starting point is 00:16:57 It's claimed that Tartaria originated the famous architectural style that we attribute to the Romans and the Greeks, had sources of free energy, and existed until only 100 or 200 years ago. But what is the truth? Let's take a look. For thousands of years, the Eurasian steppe has continually turned out some of the most feared peoples in history. Stretching over 5,000 miles east to west, this strip of land has cultivated a tradition of horsemanship, tribalism, raiding in war since known memory. This culture crosses ethnic boundaries and includes peoples like the Skithians, the Saka, Xiongnu, the Got Turks, the Avars, the Huns,
Starting point is 00:17:35 and of most interest to our story here, the Tatar. A Turkic Proto-Mongolian people, the Tatar were originally synonymous with the Rurans, descendants of the Xiong Nu Confederation that tame China in the 3rd century. The Rurin Confederacy collapsed from infighting, and some portion of the group fled to the Greater Kingan Mountain Range, where they renamed themselves Teton after their leader, Yuzilu Datan. This was recorded in the Book of Song. A Chinese book of history completed the following year in 493 AD.
Starting point is 00:18:02 The name stuck, and for centuries the group would grow and expand until it was one of the most prominent plans of the steppe. Over the centuries, the name spread west along the Silk Road, and it was heard and misheard until it finally reached the Persians as Tatar. As its use spread to the rest of Europe, it first crossed through primarily Latin and Greek-speaking areas, and thus an extra R or found its way into the name for the comfort of the native tongues, and that is how the Tartars got their name in the West. It is not a coincidence that this extra letter evokes comparisons with the mythological Greek hell Tartarus. Quote, this play upon the words Tartarus, the infernal regions, and Carter, which is here attributed to St. Louis, is found in almost all the documents of the period, and it is just possible that it affords the true explanation of the change made
Starting point is 00:18:47 in the word Tatar's by all the nations of the West. These tribes are called Tatar. in the Russian Chronicles, Tatari by Christophorus Manlius, and Tatari, in a letter written by Ives of Narbonne to Giraud, Archbishop of Bordeaux. But as a rule, we find that they were called Tartars from the very first, and Tartari imotatatari. Tartars from the depths of Tartarus, as the Emperor Frederick called them, became a favorite expression. There was certainly a very general impression that these Mongols were either demons sent to chastise mankind, or men who had dealings with demons. The Tartars, indeed, were on a halacious warpath.
Starting point is 00:19:28 The infamous Genghis Khan had assimilated all step peoples into his great Mongol horde by 1206, and the Tartars were one of the largest groups pressed into service. For generations later, both Mongol and Tartar would be interchangeable when it came to naming the scourge of raiding horsemen that plagued Europe. As Genghis' Khanate grew in both size and reputation, those far away Jordan had the thought of this invading Tartarian Empire thundering down upon them. It's an odd thing to think about now
Starting point is 00:19:57 in our world of globes, GPS. So that, I think, all sounded pretty legit when it comes to the history of that region. Now we're against the theory of whether there was an ancient civilization that actually ruled the whole Earth and did all these things that I think we're about to get into.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Google Earth. But from the dawn of time until only around 500 years ago, Europeans and Asians did not know what the other's continent looked like. They were quite good at mapping out their own regions, to be sure, but the greater world was shrouded in mystery. In 1154, Arab geographer Mohamed al-Adrisi created the first map to include both Europe and China on behalf of the Sicilians. However, India is missing, and there are other inaccuracies. It would take 400 more years before a truly accurate representation of the United States.
Starting point is 00:20:49 continents was given in the form of Ortellius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, one of the first world atlases. Cartography, field of making and using maps, only hit its stride in the 15th century. Some factors for this include advancement in naval capabilities, the discovery of the new world, the beginnings of colonization, the advent of the printing press, and a general need for kingdoms to know their holdings in order to properly govern them. Maps from this aptly named Age of Discovery are stunningly accurate by modern standards. By comparison, maps from the medieval era are far more abstract. So I think this kind of disproves the whole theory the guy before we were talking about,
Starting point is 00:21:29 that there was some magical race to people that built buildings that we now think were built while we had machinery in the 1800s, and hopefully he's disproving this idea, this whole civilization was wiped out by a gigantic mud flood. and more on the representative side, rather than practical. Which brings us back to the topic at hand, Tartaria. The Mongol's wrath in Europe had raged in the 13th century, 200 years before the golden era of mapmaking described. European leaders at the time were commissioning maps depicting areas and empires
Starting point is 00:22:04 that they had very limited knowledge of and used their own local terms without regard to foreign countries' true names. After all, how would they know them? So, we get maps titling the Mongol Empire as the Tartarian Empire or even more generically as Tartaria, because that's what they were commonly called throughout Europe. Tartaria was not a separate entity, just another name for the Mongol-controlled lands.
Starting point is 00:22:27 These maps were unfortunately the best resource European leaders had at the time, and they were preserved, passed down, and used as references for future maps. So that kind of settles it. It wasn't some huge conspiracy of some empire that was being erased from history, but rather a whole
Starting point is 00:22:48 yeah it was just the name for the Mongol Empire that we probably didn't have much contact with because they were warring with us and ransacking Eastern Europe so as a result as late as 1754 you can find maps with the blanket label
Starting point is 00:23:05 of Tartaria being used to cover a vast swath of the Eurasian step however the Mongol Empire had already broken into numerous smaller hordes by 1260 and only continue to fracture more as the centuries went on. So why is the label of Tartaria still here over 500 years later? Basically, laziness.
Starting point is 00:23:24 This area of the steppe was mostly inhabited by nomadic peoples, after all, and there's really not many cities or towns. Plus, at this time, they were not an organized threat like the Mongol Horde of old. So, who cares what local leader rules what tiny portion of this enormous area? They're all tartar savages anyways. Just label it Tartaria and call it a day. Just ask the British. They'll tell you all about ignoring.
Starting point is 00:23:44 nuanced tribal relationships in favor of just labeling them all primitive. With the names and the maps out of the way, there's only one more thing to debunk, the decline of the use of tartar. One of the mud flood believers' claims is that the use of tartar tapered off as a result of some shadowy group of elites seeking to erase them from history. While this is not something that can ultimately be proven or disproven, it is a fact that certain racial descriptions simply lose popularity over time. For example, it's no longer in vogue to refer to black Americans as Negroes or to call Germans crowds or to call Asians oriental and yet all those terms were popular and widespread at one point as ignorance declines ignorant names will decline too once it
Starting point is 00:24:26 became clear and well known so this guy pretty much spelt it out that whole basically a lot of what the conspiracy theories were saying was that buildings weren't building the modern times they were built in the past by this crazy advanced civilization that some shady group of elites was trying to trying to erase because they wanted to suppress their powers and the ability to spontaneously create energy, keep civilization addicted on petroleum products, and in turn, just, you know, oppressed humanity. But this guy kind of laid it out. It was just a group of hurting peoples who were once part of the Mongol Empire that they just labeled as Tartars because it was easier than trying to figure out who they actually were.
Starting point is 00:25:14 That the charters were simply a part of the Mongols, and not in charge nor the bulk of the Mongols, the name and popular discourse began to switch. Ultimately, there's nothing to this theory other than completely wild speculation. From the jump, this whole theory is based on simple ignorance to the facts in naming conventions of the past, and any further investigation into this area of the mud flood is folly. The believers in one breath will tell you that history is a lie in covering up this Grant-Arterian Empire, but in the next breath they'll tell you to believe maps from the 1700s are accurate about this grand empire existed. It's picking and choosing evidence that fits their theory, and it is not intellectually honest, nor is it credible. In my last video, I tackled geological and chronological issues that played the mud flood theory,
Starting point is 00:25:56 and now we've debunked the alternative history aspect to it. There's only one thing left to investigate now, the origins of the mud flood theory itself. Stay tuned. I spent 15 years of my career trying to create the digital network. So that was that. Huh. So I guess we pretty much got a good explanation for what the Tartarian conspiracy was and how it was just a cartography mistake. Just a guy put a gigantic swath of land.
Starting point is 00:26:31 They didn't know what was there and created a whole conspiracy why they couldn't figure it out. Huh. So moving on, we are almost 30 minutes. send to a three-hour podcast, which means we're a sixth of the way in. We're going to pick up now. We're getting our footings. And now we're going to check out
Starting point is 00:26:54 another conspiracy theory. What the fuck happened in Las Vegas shooting? But it's suspicious. Now, you know what? We're going to move on to some of the questions in the reddit and take a gander into what those could be all right number one
Starting point is 00:27:30 upvoted comment talk about how the franco-pression war set the stage for world wars Let's check it out Frank Depression Wars Role in World War 1 Let's watch a video Origins of World War 1 the Franco-Prussian War.
Starting point is 00:28:09 When I want to understand the cause or the impact of a war of history, it can be very tempting for me to read a basic synopsis of the conflict and believe that I understand the general idea. But oftentimes, these summaries are limited, or at worst, misleading. This is especially true of the Franco-Prussian War, which was produced by years of contention and complex diplomatic intrigue. So to understand it, we first need to illustrate the geopolitical situation in Europe at the time. It's 1852 in France, and in an attempt to reanimate the French Empire, President Napoleon III names himself the new emperor of France.
Starting point is 00:28:45 This act blatantly signals the French reentry into active power projection. Fast forward a year later in 1853, and France's new emperor is already provoking Russia in the Crimean War. And even though France would claim victory, the war still proved rather inconclusive, but it did help bring France back onto the international stage. Regardless of this, Napoleon III was still eager for a more prestigious, and powerful France. Switch over to Prussia in 1866 under King Wilhelm I first as he finishes the seven weeks
Starting point is 00:29:12 war against Austria. This war concluded with the formation of the North German Confederation and the end of Austin's influence in the German region. With half of Germany now unified under Prussia's banner and southern Germany without Austria's protection. What's weird is Prussia sounds a lot like Russia, but it's Germany. Just a comment. Like Germany wasn't even a country back then.
Starting point is 00:29:34 Russia sees a clear opportunity to expand her borders south, but there's one looming threat standing in her way. As can be inferred, the prospect of a unified German state to oppose France was not taken well by the French people and government. We can see the growing tension by the late 1960 between the competitors. Both sides knew that war was inevitably. France needed to stop Russia expanding. Russia sought to unite Germany, but neither side wanted to start the war against each other out of fear of intervention by powers such as Britain and Russia. So for now, both sides would remain quiet. As tensions did increase, one event would prompt the two nations to take action against one another. In June of 1870, revolutionaries
Starting point is 00:30:13 in Spain ousted their Queen Isabella II. The country was then without a legitimate ruler, and the letter was sent by the Spanish military junta to the Prussian Prince Leopold. Wait a saying, how is this outdated? What makes this so outdated? you, but some can stop you in your tracks, like the tens of thousands of... Or actual soldiers, with another 100,000 being part of the Guard Mobile, which consisted of men who had paid their way out of conscription into the regular army. When the Germans reached Paris on the 17th... Thanks to Chase, Angie's not sweating this text.
Starting point is 00:30:55 So, if you can't tell, I've been told to organize a three-hour podcast in less than basically three hours. And we're all in this together, trying to get it going. Why is it making me watch two ads? Well, I'm up. That's the thing about YouTube. And I think my camera throws. Because we tried to have a goat, but your dad ate it.
Starting point is 00:31:22 Listen, the armchair historian. In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte delivered a coup de Gras to the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Austerlitz, where the combined forces of Russia and Austria were decisively defeated by his smaller army. This victory established the French Empire as the dominant military power of the continent, pioneering new innovations in infantry tactics and artillery that left the rest of Europe in the dust. Napoleon swiftly reorganized the shattered remnants of the Holy Roman Empire into a French vassal and turned his attention to larger matters. In the end, it took the nations of Europe,
Starting point is 00:32:06 23 years and seven coalitions, to bring revolutionary France down in 1815. However, within a generation, a second French empire was founded by Napoleon's nephew. But in contrast to his uncle's military success, Napoleon III's empire was dismantled in a little over six weeks against a revitalized confederation of German states who proceeded to bombard their way to the gates of Paris.
Starting point is 00:32:37 It can be argued that the Prussian leadership carried the legacy of French military innovation seen in the Napoleonic Wars better than the French themselves in the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, as the battle that would bring the Second Empire down was won primarily by skillful maneuvering and massed artillery, something Napoleon I was known for,
Starting point is 00:32:59 for. This incompetence surely left Napoleon I's tail-coated corpse spinning in his grave, who once quoted, God fights on the side with the best artillery. In this video, we'll see... That's kind of funny that Napoleon's just like, God fights on the side of the best artillery. Like, you're only going to... Like, God decides their allegiance just because who has better equipment. Exactly how this conflict played out. And how the German... Germans were able to reverse their French rival's fortunes so decisively. I'd now like to take a minute to talk about our sponsor, Surfshark's VPN. We need to use AFSurfshark VPN.
Starting point is 00:33:42 Surfshark VPNation of the North German Confederation in 1867. Europe had a new power to contend with. The Austro-Prussian War. Okay, so I still haven't figured out how the Franco-Prussian... What is the Franco-Prussian War? Okay, so the war of 1870, there was the second French Empire. Okay, so Napoleon's involved. So Napoleon in the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.
Starting point is 00:34:18 So it was a one-year war. France wanted to restart its dominant position in continental Europe, which appeared to follow the decisive Prussian victory. over Austria in 1866. Okay. So how did this cause World War I? Aftermath. So let's say, they fought, Napoleon fought Prussia. How did this affect? Quick German victory over the French stunned neutral observers, many of whom expected a French victory and most of whom had expected a long war. So the strategic advantages which the Germans were not appreciated outside of Germany until after hostilities had ceased. Other countries quickly discerned the advantages
Starting point is 00:34:59 given to the Germans by their military system and adopts many of their innovations, particularly the general staff, universal conscription, and highly detailed mobilization systems. Huh. General staff. Okay, so a group of officers enlisted you serve. So these are new concepts. Universal conscription, meaning that everyone had to serve. huh so it affected military thought how so i guess this unifying germany this one's a hard one how did well we know world war one started like how did that cause it okay
Starting point is 00:35:59 This is just stupid. Okay, we didn't figure that out. We didn't figure that out. What's the next question? How big is your horn? Hmm. All right, well, cryptids. Let's look at some cryptids.
Starting point is 00:36:17 This is a doozy, guys, and we're 45 minutes in. Hmm. A lot of dead air to fill. 45 minutes in. A higher saw a David and Goliath struggle between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Empire of Austria for control over the German-speaking states, which resulted in a clear victory for Prussia
Starting point is 00:36:54 and the formation of the North German Confederation. Legendary Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck was chiefly responsible for this conflict, having carefully manipulated events to ensure that his modern, prosperous state took the lead in German affairs instead of the ethnically divided and militarily outmoded Austria. But Prussia's sudden return to international prominence did not go unnoticed by its perennial adversary, France. Emperor Charles Louis Napoleon III was constantly trying to emulate. the deeds of his more famous uncle and had even timed his coup
Starting point is 00:37:32 against the former Republican government to coincide with the storied video. Okay, this is too complicated. This looks better. Three minutes, explain the Franco-Russian war. Nice. But everyone should get it. Everyone can get it. Every new customer. Every existing customer.
Starting point is 00:37:48 Every iPhone. Every iPhone. Okay. My work here is done. 1868 in Spain has just had a revolution. This saw Queen Isabella II, overthrown and replaced with no one, for now. Instead, the Spanish looked abroad for a new monarch and the best candidate was a man to Leopoldo invented pension. Hoenzollon is here, by the way. Leopold didn't really want the throne, but was coerced into formally considering the claim in 1870 by a certain Otto von Bismarck,
Starting point is 00:38:17 the Chancellor of the North German Confederation, which was mostly just Prussia, whose king was William I of the House of Hoenzollon. There was one issue with Leopold except in the Spanish throne. France, under Emperor Napoleon III, who wasn't okay with a Hoenzollon controlling Spain. For France, being encircled by a friendly German-Spanish alliance was not something they wanted to deal with, again, that is. And so Napoleon wouldn't tolerate Leopold pushing his claim. Napoleon sent his ambassador to meet the Prussian king at Bad Ems.
Starting point is 00:38:43 William's summer retreat to demand that he would, one, no longer back Leopold's claim which William could accept, and two, he would never back any Hohenzollon claim to the Spanish throne ever again, which of course William could never do, and so he said no. Bismarck then leaked a slightly edited telegram of William's refusal known as the M's telegram to the press, which made it sound like the king had simply told the French to mind their own business. To the French, this insult was too much, and Napoleon decided to preempt public outrage and ordered the mobilisation of the French army.
Starting point is 00:39:09 Soon after this, the French Parliament voted to declare war in the North German Confederation. The Franco-Prussian War had begun. For the southern independent German states, Bavaria Wurtenberg and Baden, the way that William had appeared to have been treated by the French was too much. Along with the fact that the French declaration of war over an insult made it seemed like there wasn't much stopping the French from invading if they felt like it. As such, curbing French aggression required the southern German states to ally with the North German Confederation. So France had a large, well-equipped army based around a core of professionals. That's not to say the Prussians were necessarily at a disadvantage. Their army
Starting point is 00:39:41 was of a similar size, was also well-equipped and contained many veterans. It was the generally superior Prussian generalship, like that of Helmut von Moltke, which saw France on the back foot. That... Okay, well, that sounds like World War II, that name. Combined with Prussia's greater use of railways to move troops and supplies to the front lines, but the Prussia could bring its full force to bear much quicker. The German allies won their first victory at the Battle of Wisenberg on August 4th, which opened the way to further advances into France. Over the next month, the French would suffer a series of defeats until Emperor Napoleon met the Prussians at the Battle of Saddam. This battle... You know what's the only thing I know about Prussians? So remember how
Starting point is 00:40:16 like the Nazis had like a lot of generals with scars on their face. So yeah, dueling scars. So what the Prussians used to do, what the Prussians used to do is, and I'm going to pull it up, is they used to give themselves scars that they claimed they got from duels because it made them look tough. And that is like pretty ridiculous. So these guys would purposely scar themselves and like, yeah, like that, like they would look evil as fuck just so they could.
Starting point is 00:41:04 So dueling scars were popular marks upper class Austrians and Germans involved in academic fencing. So these guys were just in college giving each other's scars. It was a mark of their class and honor due to the status of dueling societies at German and Austrian universities at time. An early example of scarification in European society. The practice of dueling and the associated scars was also present to some extent in the German military. Foreign tourists visiting Germany in the late 19th century were shocked to see such students generally at their major universities with facial scars, some older, some more recent, and some still wrapped in bandages. So these guys were just like, that's pretty metal. academic fencing was very different from modern fencing because they used developed swords
Starting point is 00:41:48 so these guys were just knifing each other in the face to look cool and that's that's pretty insane that's the only thing i really knew about prussia is that they they would do that shit see they still do today what the fuck secretive fraternities of Germany and Austria does this guy was that guy's got the scar dueling scars he's still got scars
Starting point is 00:42:21 but those are like you can get away with those but that's just weird but did not go too well for the French and Napoleon along with over 100,000 men were defeated and forced to surrender once news of his surrender reached the capital
Starting point is 00:42:37 there were riots and a revolution which saw the proclamation of a republic, because it was 19th century Paris, and that was what Paris did then. After this, the French army basically disintegrated, and the German allies then took the fortresses of Strasbourg and Metz, and soon after laid siege to Paris. The people of Paris refused to allow the Allies in, and so dug in to resist. The siege was absolutely brutal on the population, and starvation and disease took a tremendous... That's wild. The Germans in this war were called the Allies. Toll. The new leader of the French Republic, Adolf Thier, was tasked with negotiating a peace with the Prussians, who weren't the Prussians anymore. since in January 1871, the German allies had proclaimed the new German Empire.
Starting point is 00:43:13 A ceasefire was agreed in February, and after a small revolution in Paris had to be crushed, the Paris Commune, both nations signed the Treaty of Frankfurt in May of 1871. The treaty saw the Germans continue to occupy parts of France until a large war indemnity was paid. The French also agreed to recognise the new German Empire, and of course, Germany would annex the territory of Alsace-Lorraine. Or should I say, El Sass Ludringen. The Franco-Prussian War was now over, and it had absolutely colossal implications for history. the unification of the German Empire, which fundamentally shifted the balance of power in Europe. Okay, that's what caused World War I.
Starting point is 00:43:46 The unified Germany because of France then started acting up. And that's probably how the Austro-Hungarian Empire got going. The annexation of Alsacelle-Lorraine would dominate French politics for the next four decades and guarantee French hostility to Germany. I hope you enjoyed this episode and thank you for watching. A special thanks to James Bisonnet, Azarka. So Hmm
Starting point is 00:44:15 Why are so many European Royal Family is German Actually, that looks interesting So I guess the unified Germany Is what kind of caused So like how did World War I start So, yeah, they assassinated Franz Ferdinand.
Starting point is 00:44:48 So Kaiser... Whatever, why are so many royal families German? Europe were ruled by monarchs. were ruled by monarchs of a German royal family. Quite a lot. And given that some of these rulers could trace their houses back a thousand years and others mere decades, why were so many of them German? So a lot of this can be explained by one thing, the late unification of Germany. At the turn of the 18th century, the German-speaking parts of Europe weren't unified like the French, English or Spanish-speaking parts. It was divided into numerous smaller states, many of which
Starting point is 00:45:26 had their own monarchies, and these monarchs would marry off their kids to whoever would have them. So German monarchs were just like for sale? Princess married the Prince of Orange, a Brunswick a Duchess married the King of Denmark, a Baden a Duchess married the King of Sweden, and one from Mecklenburg married the King of the United Kingdom. Given that all of these monarchies only really paid lip service to their overlords, the Holy Roman emperors, there wasn't much risk in marrying them. Whereas marrying someone in the French royal family could cause issues with inheritance, which France, unlike the small German states, could press. And, over time, childless or female heirs would mean a near relative would succeed the throne,
Starting point is 00:46:02 and they would be a member of their father's often German house. But what about countries individually? Well, the United Kingdom's monarchy had previously been Anglo-Saxon, French, Welsh, and Scottish. After a flirt with Catholicism, English nobles called upon William of Orange to seize the throne from James II. He did, and Catholics were then banned from becoming ruler. William also didn't have a... All right, this boy, we are now approaching one hour. of podcasting.
Starting point is 00:46:31 Thank you for sitting through this. We're trying here. Let's start talking about my favorite. Let's talk about Moby Dick. Moby Dick's a pretty awesome book. It was actually one of the favorite books I read in school. Because of that. Here, wait, the hammer and the wing.
Starting point is 00:46:57 And because of that, one second. Yeah, so, Moby Dick is one of my favorite books. I think it's actually pretty cool, some of the quotes of it. Nature points out the folly of it. man that's blue oyster cult i thought that was actually lyrics from moby dick um but here let's look at a moby dick summary and then we're going to talk about some key themes plot summary Melville's epic novel Moby Dick takes place in the 19th century and follows the journey of the Pequod, a whaling ship captained by the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. In the introduction, Ishmael, the narrator,
Starting point is 00:48:11 decides to sign on to a whaling ship. He travels from Manhattan to New Bedford, where he makes an unlikely friend, Quigwegg, a cannibal from a South Sea island who works as a harpooner. They decide to ship out together and are able to secure positions on the Pequod, owned by Captain Pelham. and Captain Bill Dad. A mysterious stranger named Elijah warns them about the captain of the Pequod. In the rising action, on Christmas Day, the Pequod sets out from Nantucket,
Starting point is 00:48:38 loaded with supplies for a three-year voyage of whale hunting. While Ahab remains locked away in his cabin, Starbuck, stub, and Flask, the first, second and third mates, respectively, keep things running smoothly. Eventually, Ahab emerges, and Ishmael gets his first glimpse of the mysterious captain, a brooding man with one whale bone peg leg.
Starting point is 00:48:57 Soon, Ahab reveals his true mission, not to hunt sperm whales, but to hunt one in particular. And not for profit, but for revenge. Ahab is obsessed with his quest for vengeance against the white whale Moby Dick, a sperm whale responsible for the loss of Ahab's leg. Captain Ahab nails a gold coin to the mast of the ship and tells the men that whoever finds Moby Dick will earn it as a reward. All of the men, except Starbuck, enthusiastically agreed to this quest for vengeance. there are officially three mates on board, each of whom will be in charge of one of the smaller whale boats,
Starting point is 00:49:32 and each of these mates has an assigned harpooner. Kweig, Tashhtago, and Dachan. However, when a whale is actually sighted, Ahab's own boat crew, led by a devilish, mysterious man named Fadala, is revealed. Ahab has prepared his own whale boat with accommodations for his peglet. The Pequod sails on from time to time encountering
Starting point is 00:49:54 sperm whales and killing them, and occasionally seeing other whaling shapes. Each time another ship is met, Ahab asks for news of the white whale, and if the ship hasn't seen it, he sails on immediately. But if there is news, he listens intently. Along the way, Quigwegg becomes ill and has a coffin made for himself. He recovers, and the coffin is converted into a lifeboat. The tension between Ahab and Starbuck,
Starting point is 00:50:16 who believes that Ahab's quest is blasphemous and foolish, intensifies, leading to a confrontation between the two. Eventually, they meet a ship that recently had a run-in with Moby Dick, And shortly thereafter, Ahab himself cites the white whale. The hunting boats are lowered and a dramatic chase ensues. For three days, the crew of the Piquot tries to kill Moby Dick, who smashes the whale boats and proves to be nearly impoverished. Yeah, I'm interrupting this video to bring you a Red Wolf,
Starting point is 00:50:50 which I think is one of the coolest canines. that I've ever seen. Look at that. It's not a fox nor wolf nor raccoon. It's just a long-legged South American beast. It's like, its long legs are honestly super creepy. I don't know what it is about it. Like, look at those long-ass legs.
Starting point is 00:51:26 creepy as hell anyway back back to moby dick possible to kill in the climax of the novel on the third and final day of fighting moby dick sinks the piqued and kills ahad in the following action ishmael survives by floating on quick quake's coffin in the resolution the narrator is rescued and he alone lives to tell the tale So, Moby-Dix is one of my favorite books because it's about a bunch of dudes hopping in a boat and just going to ham. It's like, think about it. And we are officially one hour in, if you can see. All right, so I can't believe they gave me zero prep time and made me put together a. gigantic three-hour
Starting point is 00:52:29 solo podcast I'm actually going to take a break from China I'm just going to get loose with it let's go on Twitter and fuck around pull up the huddle yeah you know what watch my highlight tape
Starting point is 00:52:51 I'm going to shed docs myself Do Collins? I can't do Collins. Go to a random celebrity generator. I do impressions. Are you the host? Yes, I am. After I finished his task, just repeat the first hour for the final two hours. No, listen long enough to call you out. That is a good, good move. Roast everyone at Barstle Sports. Hey, Billy, mind giving me a shout-out since you. you have time to kill cronon o'brien shout out cron underscore o'brien um hmm that's a funny video don't shoot oh i can't believe this is a podcast fullroom read a newspaper out loud list the top 10 NFL players in order of how many first graders it would take to take each of them down okay let's do that number one on
Starting point is 00:54:10 the list Aaron Donald or you know let's just go to YouTube this found book raises doubts about the origin of human kind let's check this out closet factory we turn the most cluttered parts of your home into the most organized which saves you time are you a book lover certainly a lot of people in the world enjoy reading books and some of them became classics that almost everyone in the world knows books in form entertain and even provoke thought But several authors throughout history have made it their mission to puzzle anyone that reads their work. From the Red Book to a 1,500-year-old Bible, here are the 15 most mysterious books written in history. Number 15. The Red Book by Carl Jung.
Starting point is 00:55:14 If you're into psychology, then you're probably already familiar with Carl Gustav Young. Carl Jung, together with Sigmund Freud, are two of the most prominent psychoanalysts that we still recognize to this. day. He's actually the one that developed the concept in theory of extroversion and introversion, and his theories have become the basis of many psychological concepts we know. So what's so special about the red book he's written? Does it contain secrets about the human mind? Not really. What made the red book so mysterious is that Carl Jung's family hid it for 80 years, and it contained some of the most personal thoughts of the Swiss psychiatrist. This red leatherbound book contained Young's exploration of himself. It has some psychedelic drawings.
Starting point is 00:55:54 that only he could interpret. Unlike most of his work, the Red Book contained hypnagogic, chaotic, and compulsively written texts. As one of the most prominent psychiatrists at the time, Jung knew that if anyone read the contents of the Red Book, his reputation and career could be ruined, and so it was never published, even after his death. His family then kept the book in a bank vault in Switzerland before it was finally revealed to the public. The book was displayed in the Ruben Museum of Art in New York. And today you can grab a copy of the book, although you have to shell out a couple hundred dollars. Before we go on, like this video, smash the subscribe button and click the notable other world. Wait, so what is this red book? Universe. Depending on the
Starting point is 00:56:37 genre, you might be able to know of a world where there are wizards, a dystopian place, or even, I don't know, a talking lion. But while world building is extremely important, that doesn't mean you can just write anything. Many people see. seem to think that the author of Codex Seraphanionist drew the most random things in the book. Some even theorized that the Codex is a guide about things on an extraterrestrial planet. I mean, just take a look at these photos and see if you can make sense of them. Here, you can see a weird-looking establishment that looks straight out of a video game. Here you have a weird red circle where ladybugs are coming out.
Starting point is 00:57:13 And on this page, you have the photo of a hideous animal tied to a stove that's cooked. This looks like something that was created on acid. some sunny side-up eggs. Let's not forget about the weird plants and the weird-looking people with some pretty creative outfits that we've never seen before. This book was first published in 1981, and ever since it has caught the attention of people around the world. From these images alone, it isn't really surprising, but its strangeness doesn't end with the illustrations inside. Even the alphabet used in this book is quite indescribable, and it's also indecipherable. Needless to say, this book has many artists, philosophers, and linguists scratching their heads
Starting point is 00:57:52 while trying to unravel the meetings of the illustrations and texts. Number 13. This 448-page manuscript that has been baffling scholars and historians ever since its discovery is known as the Rohans Codex. This book was named after a city in Hungary, where the book was kept until it was donated to the Academy in 1838. Despite being an illustrated manuscript, no one could decide. decipher what the text say, and the author of this book is also unknown. Around 800 symbols are
Starting point is 00:58:23 written in this book, which is immensely greater than the normal number you'd find in any known alphabet today. Another strange detail is that there's barely any repetition in the symbols used in this book. It has led many to think that perhaps the symbols used here aren't in alphabet, but instead a syllabary or logographic in nature. Looking at the illustrations alone also won't give you any clue as to what exactly the book is about. crack this code? I'm trying to figure that out. A few illustrations seem to portray religious and military scenes,
Starting point is 00:58:53 and many believe that this book depicts a world where Christians, pagans, and Muslims coexist. However, this claim was never confirmed, and neither were any of the other theories about this book's contents. Throughout the years, many scholars tried to crack the confusing and cryptic messages in this book.
Starting point is 00:59:09 Those that claimed to have cracked the code all had inconsistencies in their methods. With a lack of answers, many became inclined to believe that perhaps Perhaps the Rohan's Codex is just a hoax created sometime in the 16th to 17th centuries. Number 12. Voynich Manuscript The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most well-known books in history, but it's not because of the usual reason.
Starting point is 00:59:32 This book has captured the curiosity of scholars and cryptologists for centuries, and it continues to baffle Internet sleuths to this day. The Voynich Manuscript is a book written in a language that we haven't decoded yet. This 600-year-old book has about 240 pages, and it contains loopy text with illustrations of women, astrological symbols, and strange plants. Some of these vellum pages even contain dragons, castles, and floating heads. The book was believed to have been stored in Prague for a while, and in 1639. Yeah, this stuff's way too far out there.
Starting point is 01:00:08 Way too far out there. And we are almost halfway. we're 20 minutes from halfway unit 731 what is unit 731 what is unit 731 what is unit 731 short for the manchu attachment camo attachment was a covert biological and chemical warfare research development unit oh lethal oh that doesn't look good. That's where the Japanese developed lethal human experimentation biological weapons.
Starting point is 01:00:50 Why is every topic related to World War II that people were proposing? Operation Paperclip. Wait. Soviet forces were tried in 1949 Koborosk war crime trials. Those captured by the United States were secretly given immunity. So what did they do?
Starting point is 01:01:07 It was officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kuantong Army. set up by the Ken Pitai military police of the Empire of Japan. Unit 731 was taken over and commanded until the end of the war. What did they do? Frostbite testing? Okay, ooh, that's bad stuff. Basically, they were doing frostbite testing syphilis, weapons testing on people. Japanese government wasn't good at that time. What else they want?
Starting point is 01:01:48 Huh. Unsolved murders. Aurora, Texas incident. Aurora Texas UFO incident. Let's try to check out a video. For more than half a century, Seiko has... That may just contain the most important grade in the world. This guy looks weird. That guy looks weird.
Starting point is 01:02:35 The Aurora, Texas Spaceman. If you're going to break down, you're going to break down in the middle of nowhere. You know, I'm not the only stranger this ever happened to. One day long ago, another stranger broke down here. It was April 19th, 1890s. The only difference is he never lived to tell about it. A local news reporter gave the story to the Dallas Morning News, and it's been in and out of print ever since.
Starting point is 01:03:03 Jim Mars of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. The newspaper clipping simply said that a cigar-shaped object brightly illuminated floated over ahead in the early morning hours and crashed on the hillside. And then in the story, it said, the pilot of the craft, comma, which was not of this earth, comma, was given a Christian burial in Aurora Cemetery. But one resident of Aurora since 1920, Ms. Etta Pegas, considered an expert on the town's history, disagrees. I never heard of the spaceman.
Starting point is 01:03:37 I moved to Aurora in 1920. And not one word did anybody ever mention about it. However, an eyewitness, 86-year-old Charlie Stevens, claims when he was seven in 1897, he saw the crash. We don't want to trouble you too much about this because we know you're not feeling too well. Because of the years of harassment, he refused to appear on camera,
Starting point is 01:03:59 but he did agree to talk to us. You can tell me what you remember about the night that the light went over the house. There's been more pay, more told. about that, but I see with my own eyes. It fell. Because we went up there and seen the spot where it burnt. Some people think it's a hoax. But it's fair.
Starting point is 01:04:27 It fell. It wouldn't be until the late 60s that the International UFO Bureau would uncover the story. Hayden Hughes, director of IUFOB. This is one of the controversial of the incident. Were the news accounts at the time genuine? Tell me the truth. What do you think?
Starting point is 01:04:47 Is there anything here? In 1973, when I came here first, there was at least a partial headstone here. I'll show you what I saw. There was only half of a tombstone, which went something like this, and on this was a very curious mark that went something like this. This was just a rock that had been hand,
Starting point is 01:05:08 cued and and this had been chipped out of it with some kind of chisel or something. But as you can see, it's just a curious little object, but I think we could see if there was the other half was on here, we'd have what appeared to be a tombstone. And if you brought this mark to this side, you would have something like this, which gives you a definite saucer shape. What do you think this is... I think it's just a piece of fiction. It keeps Wise County on the map, that's all I can say.
Starting point is 01:05:38 Keeping Wise County on the map is the reason Ms. Etta and many others believe the Spaceman's story was written. From what she told me, the gay 90s had not been kind to the little town of Aurora. They'd lost cotton to the bowl weevil, half the business district and a fire, and hundreds of citizens to spotted fever. People left the town in droves. In those days, even a Martian wouldn't be caught dead in Aurora. The general consensus of opinion is that he note this story to bring people back into the community. See, that body fever caused a veritable stampede out of the town. Well, we were not dealing just with one case.
Starting point is 01:06:22 All over people were reporting something, and one of these somethings appears to have crashed. The crash site today is owned by Mrs. Brawley Oates, who gets calls in the middle of the and thousands of visitors at her door. They sure have been a lot of them here. So basically, these people think that whatever this spaceman was wasn't real, and it was just to keep their small-town Texas on the map. The thing about it said is press me for what's happened here. And if there's anything happened here, I don't know about it's seen.
Starting point is 01:06:58 My grandkids went out there with a screen off one of the screen doors, They sifted sand down there and they found little particles of metal. Lead looking metal, but it wasn't lead. Another clue, leading to still more questions. I know one thing, you don't never die down. Just all and on, it's just like a mushroom. It just gets bigger and bigger and it just goes further and further all over the world. One man who has tried to keep the story from spreading any further
Starting point is 01:07:28 is the sheriff of Aurora. Armed with a shotgun, he spent 24 hours a day. guarding the graves in the cemetery from treasure hunters and curiosity seekers. And in return, all he got was an ulcer. While I gassed up, we had a few words. Yet you were up here with a shotgun? Very few. A lot of the town people here believe that there's...
Starting point is 01:07:52 So this guy guarded the alien grave with a shotgun? The only stranger just lost the fucking scum. They saved them and they just get bigger. curiosity seekers, and in return, all he got was an ulcer. While I guessed up, we had a few words. You were up here with a shotgun? Very few. A lot of the town people here believe that there's a UFO up here?
Starting point is 01:08:18 A lot of them here, it's fair. And when they tell you, it didn't throw, they're telling me a lie. What do you think? You think they should get down here and dig it up and settle it once or all? No. If we can find the exact grave and get the permission from the Aurora Cemetery Association to actually... The style back then, like this...
Starting point is 01:08:47 This is how I imagine Jersey Jerry would wear his hair if he was back then. That we could have the evidence of extraterrestrial visitation. Mr. Noble, you represent the Aurora Cemetery Association. What's their position in this matter? They have a very definite objection to anybody going down there with picking shovels and wanting to dig a home. Why? Well, they're afraid somebody to dig up grandma.
Starting point is 01:09:12 They are afraid, and I would be too, that there'd be a germ lurking there if they dug up somebody that died with that spotted fever and get the thing started again. Well, that's the story of the Aurora Spaceman. Part of the story lies buried here in the Aurora Cemetery. And the rest of the story is inside that house, locked up in the mind of 86-year-old Charlie Stevens.
Starting point is 01:09:50 And when they said it didn't What the hell? What did they find me alive? What the hell? What did they find? That's weird. Very weird stuff. We are an hour and 42 minutes left in this podcast. This is actually so fucking annoyed.
Starting point is 01:10:25 This is like one of those, I get set up for fucking failures so fucking much. And it makes great content, but it's just fucking hard, man. It takes stand-up comedians months to fucking do this shit. Now my whole fucking weekend's ruined because PFT you want to get his fucking rocks off. pfd made me do this we have been recording for an hour and 17 minutes let's just take a half-time break
Starting point is 01:11:14 half-time break Lord talking about Moby Dick Gain Shaw Chill out We're here Sorry for the dead air The first 45 minutes were decent Right?
Starting point is 01:11:49 I mean Holding dead air with no to bounce off of is pretty hard. Everyone keeps talking about Operation Paper, Operation High Jump. What the hell is Operation High Jump? Good to see you, Chris. Thanks, Mara. So Operation High Jump has been described as something, UFO. What is this?
Starting point is 01:12:48 What is this? What is this? Task Force 68. Okay. This is an old-fashioned black and white film. Commander Task Force 68 presents this picture in hopes that it will be of educational value to those having little or no knowledge of the Antarctic and the problems involved in the forthcoming operations. The scenes you were about to see were taken by the U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition of 1939 to 41, a combined Army, Navy Coast Guard, civilian expedition, they do not present all the problems you may encounter.
Starting point is 01:13:46 However, pay particular attention to those that are presented afterwards. Be curious. Ask questions. The information gained regarding this region will make your tests easier and less. hazardous. So this is what they were giving to people going on Operation High Jump, which was an expedition after World War II. The South polar continent lies almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle and has an area of about 6 million square miles, nearly equal to the combined areas of the United States and Europe. Most of the continent and some of the coastline is unexplored. It is the world's
Starting point is 01:14:17 highest continent, averaging 6,000 feet in elevation. The polar plateau, a vast expanse of ice and snow, is 10,000 feet high. There are extensive mountain ranges with peaks in excess of 13,000 feet. There are few good harbors or safe anchorages. In most places, ships have to moor to the ice by use of ice anchors and keep steam up in readiness to move in the event of bad weather or ice conditions. have been observed as low as 76.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and nearly 110 degrees below freeze. However, during the period of operations of the task force, the ground forces
Starting point is 01:15:04 probably will not encounter colder temperatures than 10 degrees below zero. Blizzards of 100 miles per hour force have been recorded. It is easy to freeze or get lost in a blizzard if one is careless. En route to the Antarctic in November, 1939 from Boston the bear puts in at the Navy Yard at Norfolk Virginia to pick up the pontoon equipped Berkeley grow airplane and to take on ballast the pontoons are specially built Edo floats for landing on either ice or water after the ship departs after the ship departs
Starting point is 01:16:15 what the fuck is this shit what the hell's operation high jump What are they... Hostel planes, they were trying to make sure that people couldn't be attacked by planes in Antarctica? If we just live chat, you had Thursday night football's on, soon I'll turn it on. That's an hour and a half in. I saw.
Starting point is 01:17:11 I might just call PFT and fucking let them have it. So podcast fucking sucks This fucking sucks If I had time to prep A three hour podcast But I have like stuff to do this weekend And
Starting point is 01:17:34 And Yeah I mean I can't have anyone else on this podcast It has to be me This is what's going on And to clean the deck Radney swears at
Starting point is 01:17:51 steel kit grabs that nearby hammer which he shakes in the man's face steel kit stays calm he he walks slowly backward away from the mate refusing to get into a fight as radney keeps threatening him with the hammer eventually steel kit thinks he's in dirt enough and stops retreating and tells radney that he's not going to obey the orders and the mage put the hammer down or else this is pft and the hot sauce pft radney swings a hammer that moment it touches steel kid's cheek Stilky knocks Radney's jaw back into his head. Rodney falls down, being profusely. Basically, this isn't going to see the light of day.
Starting point is 01:18:25 This podcast can't see the light of day. This is fucking stupid. This is so fucking stupid. I'm not doing the rest of this. I'm going to stay on for three hours to prove that I can do it, but this just is a bad, basically the aspects I've been given for this podcast do not, the criteria I was given do not make a good product. So I've been set up in a position to fail and I will do the crime, but I'm not producing a product to make other people listen to that isn't good. I'm tweeting. Halfway through a three-hour podcast, I'm going to finish it, but the criteria I was given to the criteria and conditions,
Starting point is 01:19:43 We're now going to help me try to get out of ever having to send this out. But the criteria and conditions I was given to make it do not allow it by any means. But the criteria, conditions, conditions, and deadline. it's given to make it do not allow it by any means to be a good product i i hope this will never i hope the full podcast never never sees the light of day but several clips will be funny. So, yeah, anyway, I don't know why this townhouse story, there's certain quotes about this townhouse story. Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours,
Starting point is 01:21:59 watery or otherwise, that when a person placed in command over his fellow men, finds one of them to be significantly his superior and general pride of manhood straightway against the man he conceives an unconqueral dislike and bitterness. So that's what's going on right now. He is jealous of my manliness and is torturing me for it. Moby Day. So, yeah, so that's what's happening. It's a funny quote.
Starting point is 01:22:42 It's a very funny quote. That's always last me because sometimes you have bosses. I mean, honestly, I'm exaggerating right now of PFT and I'm pissed off. I'm actually in Texas to see to him and see what happens. I'm going to send it. We're going to start answering questions. Let's just see what kind of questions they got. Rank Crimes, Seven Wonders of Wood, World.
Starting point is 01:24:05 Correlation of someone's weight and gambling ability. you can't do this with one person explore the modern american diet all this requires preparation that just could not be done the path to russian victory in ukraine a week in the life of billy football everything from what you do work workouts how you'll wine, food, and anything else interesting.
Starting point is 01:24:40 All right. Sunday, let's just start Sunday morning, wake up, hungover, go for a run. Try to sweat out the poison. Try to sneak into the gym to get into the sauna after the run and sweat out more poison. If get caught by the person that, oh, your gym membership is expired, then be like, hey can I get a one day pass then get into the sauna sauna out go back home get ready for the day i've also ran with my dog dogs exercise ready to start the rest of the sunday try to get in during football season at one o'clock depending on if the jets play at one o'clock that means that they
Starting point is 01:25:26 usually weren't playing them on the big screen but now they are so then you can get away with going later. Go in on Sunday. Start a football guy of the week, startling for stories, any little blog topics you can do, watch the Jets game, blog something from the Jets game, blog anything. Then towards the end of the day, once you get that all set, you can kind of start to enjoy the football and start prepping for the show, who's back the week, anything else you need a fact. Statistics, stuff from the Jets game. Any other stats you want to talk about, Sam Allenger stuff, just keep taking notes, notes, notes, notes, all during football. Then we get ready to record, start, you know, a lot of that.
Starting point is 01:26:12 That gets tough when you're sitting in the podcast room, it gets hot, you start sweating, and you got to stay alert because it's late night, and then, you know, do your segments, make your comments where you can, get out of the studio anywhere from two to four. get home try to fall asleep it's kind of difficult because you're probably been consuming a lot of caffeine nicotine throughout the Sunday so then it's Monday Monday morning get up try to get up before 9 it's tough after getting being up till God knows what hour workout if you can start prepping for macrodosing we have a lot of macrodosing interviews on Monday um so prep prep prep try to get a blog off uh might get into work late while you're prepping for everything and then go into the office try to get a workout now that workout's usually monday morning is usually a run with the dog two miles and then just do squats like a quick you know
Starting point is 01:27:19 three work sets, very heavy. I try not to go too heavy on squats anymore, but like 3.15, 3 by 5. And then start off with like a warm-up set of 225 by 20, finish with 225 by 20. So that's a quick workout on a Monday morning that you can just bang out. You get your legs done, running cardio, then squatting. get into the office, do nanodosing, and the interview. The interview usually is then put on the backer dosing on Thursday. Then with that, you can continue throughout the day.
Starting point is 01:28:01 So Monday, you get done. Monday night football is coming up. So try to get home, do a little relaxing, eat a good dinner, Chipotle, something easy. And then Monday night football comes around Monday. football you're watching you're live tweeting uh that's another thing on sunday you're live tweeting the whole time live tweet football on monday try to get something off uh try to blog anything that you can that night tuesday tuesday wake up we've been recording early on tuesdays during football season uh wake up try to get a workout if it's like a you know a very early like a 10 a m recording
Starting point is 01:28:38 which isn't that early but because we're watching monday night football the night before you're really like getting done after like 11.30 and you're trying to figure out like fall asleep. So again, at 10 probably don't work out Tuesday morning because you're getting in early. Work Tuesday, try to, you know, by the way, you're trying to get a TikTok, one or two TikTok's done every day, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, going in. Then Tuesday, you're kind of done early. there's also other stuff you're filming ads you're filming other people in the company want you to do stuff so then Tuesday you get home early that's a good night to you know if you have get like maybe dinner with a friend are my Tuesday nights like that's an open night for me
Starting point is 01:29:29 and then just like if there's anything cool to blog get it off Tuesday's good blogging day because there's no football so you can find an obscure story and blog hit. Oh, also Tuesday nights, start prepping for Wednesday macrodosing, whichever topic it is. And then, you know, try to get to bed early because that's a night. It's not a Thursday night. Tuesday night and Wednesday night are the nights to get a good night's sleep during the week because Sunday nights always bad night sleep.
Starting point is 01:30:05 Monday night after Monday night football, bad night sleep. And then Thursday night, Thursday night football. all is decent, but you're up late. So then from there, Wednesday, macadocing usually starts at one. If you're prepping all morning for macadocing on Wednesday, try to get a blog off before you go in, see whatever stories cutting, hitting early, and then also work out. yeah that workout is probably Tuesday afternoon is usually a workout too that's probably a heavier workout that's probably like um upper body just you know bench pull back uh and then finish up with
Starting point is 01:30:59 some boxing just after just like limber up the joints after the weight training and just like get the loosen them up after going so hard on them. It's fun. And then boxing is 15, one-minute rounds. I only train one-minute rounds because rough around. He's only one-minute. It's got to stay ready. Wednesday morning, you get a workout in.
Starting point is 01:31:23 That's probably legs again, a combination of boxing and legs. Try to get your arms, athletic. Oh, but also Wednesday nights. Sometimes I have basketball games. I'm in a league right now. So I won't work out on a day of a basketball game. Thursday, we usually record early. part of my take
Starting point is 01:31:43 that's a lot of prep during football season all your picks all everything who's back Fire Fest and then you know
Starting point is 01:31:56 fancy fuck boys it's a lot of stuff to write down on the notepad so then we record Thursday morning and then we usually have Thursday afternoon off but you're also probably trying to get a blog in as much as you can doing whatever projects
Starting point is 01:32:11 sales needs you to do sale needs you do an ad for this a small video TikTok try to get all that done Thursday night football we stay late record a little bit at the end and then our week is
Starting point is 01:32:25 kind of over but then we kind of work six days a week then Friday if you didn't get many blogs off that week Friday you're trying to get blogs off trying to get TikToks off I try to get
Starting point is 01:32:39 three TikToks, as many blogs as I can, and then, like, try to be done by 12, and then just start my weekend. On the weekends, I'm just, I've gotten to the age where, like, my weekends become super scheduled. Everyone's, like, doing shit, but if I can get a Saturday off just to sit on the couch, watch college football, drink some beers, take my dog out to this bar that has TVs outside, drink beers. That's a week in the life.
Starting point is 01:33:09 Thursday and Friday you lift upper body that's just like you're going for the beach muscles that's a that's a week in the life food I'm eating in the office is always ordering in um yeah huh three thousand year old canoe found the Wisconsin well I could talk about European and but the people who've lived in North American, huh. Conspiracy theory, iceberg. Oh, Batgirl, so Big Cat Hank or PFT versus Billy Beckerl and Jake,
Starting point is 01:33:52 Billy Backer and Jake would absolutely wreck them. Wreck them. I think Jake could take Hank. Yeah. So. Huh. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:35:03 Panama Pacific. Okay. Well, the rationale on Jake beating Hank Hank would get out of breath and Jake has a stronger jaw COVID-5G I actually
Starting point is 01:35:25 okay so there's a this guy brought up was a nuclear space attack on how I actually believe this so remember when Hawaii oh it was my birthday I remember this January 13th residence of the Hawaiian Islands received a emergency alert that warned of a ballistic missile instructed everyone to take cover. Residents near Honolulu, the expected ground zero of any nuclear attack, fled for their lives
Starting point is 01:35:50 to more remote areas of OHA, expecting the worst. This is what appeared on people's cell phones at 8.07 a.m. Local Hawaii time. Emergency alert, ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. Then after 38 minutes of sheer terror for many all over Hawaiian islands, residents were notified by the emergency alert system, that this was all a false alarm. Someone had pressed the wrong button, according to local state authorities. Residents were supposed to be reassured that the responsible individual would be reassigned. An inquiry has been launched by the Hawaii Governor David Iggy.
Starting point is 01:36:22 Mainstream media coverage is exclusively focused on the Hawaii State authorities, complaining the problem was one person pressing the wrong button. According to an official timeline in the events, U.S. Pacific Command notified Hawaii State authorities that there was no missile launch at 8.10 a.m. Local authorities subsequently attempted to inform the public via a number of means that the ballistic missile alert was a false alarm, but it was only at 8.45 a.m. 38 minutes after the initial alert
Starting point is 01:36:44 that a second emergency alert was sent over the public alert and warning system announcing a mistake. Was the long delay between the warning and the warning retraction received by Hawaii residents simply the unprecedented foul up at an emergency alert sent by state authorities or something else happening?
Starting point is 01:36:59 My wife and I lived on the big island of Hawaii since 2004 and during our time here, there's been a study number of emergency alerts issued for hurricane, tsunamis, flash floods, and law flows. Sirens regularly wailed the start of the month to test the emergency alert system for these kind of attacks, and more recently for a possible nuclear attack from North Korea. The regular occurrence of destructive events and their consequences in the regions have led an emergency alert system that is second to none when it comes to providing timely and accurate information to Hawaii residents
Starting point is 01:37:26 in potentially life-threatening circumstances. We regularly receive emergency alert updates after the initial event described in an emergency alert. So the explanation that it took 38 minutes to issue an update to the initial false alarm is very hard to believe. The chances that the ballistic missile alert was a simple mistake by one person, even further strange credulity. One writer points out how the system designs prevent this precise mistake. There's no button that could be accidentally hit. There are five fail-safe procedures in the Hawaiian Emergency Alert management system, the last being two key systems such as are present in the United States missile silos and U.S. nuclear missile submarines.
Starting point is 01:38:03 Huh. Two different individuals to simultaneously positively trigger the alert. This is why alternative media reports of an intercepted nuclear missile attack may be considered. I actually believe this, yeah. Yeah. A missile launches are detected in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii. The launches originated from the same anomaly detected yesterday, January 12th. The missiles were immediately intercepted and destroyed.
Starting point is 01:38:27 The anomaly was revealed to be a nuclear stealth submarine. The nuclear stealth submarine was located and swiftly destroyed after the attempted attack. On January 16th, another author came out saying the Hawaii event was an intercepted missile. attack. There was a, so state authority. What, what, who is this person? There was a missile fired by Israel, China, or the U.S. government is lying. What? What the fuck? How much time do we got left? Two hours in. This is the biggest missile launch is protecting the Pacific Ocean. So basically, they think that someone fired a missile. Hawaii in that whoa so they intercepted the missile using so I actually think UFOs a lot of the
Starting point is 01:39:22 UFOs they're seeing by Air Force pilots are actually the US is nuclear defense system and that's how they defend the US from nuclear weapons is that nuclear weapons are launched in these objects that fly at ways we can't even understand are actually the best way to destroy nukes because because they move at a way we can't understand it's like super top level technology that we like think about it drones all technology that's on the commercial market is 20 years what you know the government had 20 years ago
Starting point is 01:40:03 so the drones we have now that fly like almost look like crazy ways they fly, the government has 20 years ahead of that. So if that's what these UFOs that move in ways we can't even explain, like, hopefully they're not extraterrestrial and they're just protecting us from nuclear attacks. And maybe this Hawaiian, this Hawaiian missile launched warning was these drones intercepting a missile that was launching. said us. And, you know, Element 115, that whole Bob Lazar stuff. Um, yeah, wait. Uh-huh. So this one thinks extraterrestrial intervention is possible. It's more likely than the highly advanced state of the USAF run secret space program was all those need to intervene to
Starting point is 01:40:57 thwart and the intended false flight attack. In either cases, the photos may explain how the incoming ballistic missile is shot down. Yeah. So I could totally see that. that that was a real notification. And they're just hiding it. Like, the fact that you, there was 36 minutes between a ballistic missile threat inbound. This is not a drill. Seek immediate shelter. 36 minutes, it took for that to be, like, if you would hit it, you just immediately respond.
Starting point is 01:41:30 But if they got rid of it, it said, oh, there's no missile threat. Repeat false alarm. Jesus. What a fuck up. But yeah, 100% totally think that Hawaii notification was real. And they're just covering up. Totally agree that. Lex Friedman? Do you?
Starting point is 01:42:03 Deep down on how PMT went. and Big Cat and PFT died. PMT will die as well. I can't take on collars, which sucks. C.I. Charles Manson. Chronicles Clinton hit list. That's... Yeah.
Starting point is 01:42:26 To be frank, I can't fucking stand the fact that PFT's making you do this, Billy. Just know most of the listeners of Maconos are listing for you, Billy Football. We all make mistakes and it was clear the footage was never really gone. But if I know one thing about Barclos is that Billy football never says no to a challenge, I know you jumped at the solo pod opportunity. Question, stop being screen, just embrace the fact that you said, Ellen Jury is better than Zach Z. Willie. Okay.
Starting point is 01:42:49 Huh. Psychological effects you think COVID had on college students? Sure as hell. Yeah. I mean, well, it's crazy is that I'm actually one of the only people in my college class that have a job that you have to show up for every day. that being they basically
Starting point is 01:43:11 go hung over to their computers every day and like fuck around and answer whatever emails and don't actually give a fuck about their job so I don't know how that's going to happen with this recession coming they're probably all going to get fired Yeah, Billy wanted to know if the Oz interview footage was separate and could have been put out on its own, yes, instead of making us all listen to what was repeatedly referred to as a must watch by the other members of the podcast. They want us to hate you for not watching that specific portion, but we want the truth. Everything is up to them, did not need to be watched.
Starting point is 01:43:50 Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Unabomber, yep. The Unabomber is coming back in the form of liver king, low-key. I'm getting hungry. Haymarket riot riots. Deep dive into the black Hebrew Israelites, that is almost an hour left. Spain pretending to have a disabled
Starting point is 01:44:31 Spain pretended to have a disabled basketball team and pretend to be disabled when did this happen intellectually disabled readers revealed after the Spanish sports magazine published their picture and readers revealed that some of them didn't have any disabilities. Why would they do
Starting point is 01:44:59 this? Why would they do this? They had no type of physical or mental handicap. They didn't even pass medical or psychological examinations. He said that the only test he had been asked to complete in his first training session was six press-ups after which his blood pressure was taken, nor did he face an intelligence test when he was in Australia. The final team did compromise two players with IQ below 70 as required, with the other 10 poses mentally to say, Jesus. They're giving fake certificates? Whoa. Whoa. That's wild. Vienna. Sorry about that.
Starting point is 01:46:03 So we are now an hour and 56 minutes in. And I have an hour left. I'm surprised you guys all here listening to this live. Thank you for being here. Let's read about 1688.
Starting point is 01:46:36 The Siege of Vienna. The Siege of Vienna. The leader of the Hungarian Calvinist So, expositioned by the Ottomans against the Habsburg Holy Empire, Leopold, the first that resulted in their defeat by a combined force led by John, the 3rd of Sobieski, Poland. The lifting of the siege marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman domination Eastern Europe. Huh. The leader of the Hungarian Calvinists appealed to the Ottoman Grand Advisor Cara Mustafa to attack the Habsburg capital, with the tacit support Vienna to see in capturing the outerifications and to time.
Starting point is 01:47:21 the inner walls. The Ottomans then appealed to Poland with a large substeel. These, although Sobieski, yo. By this point, Ottoman forces, oh, man. Is the football on? It's the football on?
Starting point is 01:47:48 Fucks football. I'm watching I'm watching football I'm sorry guys this Thursday at football so I have to go on Prime alright one second we're going on Prime Amazon dot com live now
Starting point is 01:48:14 let me watch this football oh can I not up and make a tack one fuck I can what, can't watch it? Wait, I'm going to turn off the. Okay, watch the football we're doing this. Bill, are you good?
Starting point is 01:48:36 No, I'm not good. This is, ah. 80,000 troops of this relieving army formed along the top of the Vienna Hills, and on the morning of September 12th, Lorain, so Bieski's forces attack the Ottomans. By this point, Ottoman forces made serious inroads
Starting point is 01:48:57 into the city defenses. Oh, yeah, I just put on the Thursday Night Football audio randomly. All right. One hour left of podcasting. Oh, and my camera froze hours ago. Wonder why that happened. Why did it?
Starting point is 01:49:20 keep freezing what the fuck how are we doing there when did my video freeze oh my god this can never see the light a day and we're back video wise... Oh, man. This can never see the light of there. Hmm. So, huh. That's a cool crusader. okay oh oh oh how do you drop that how do you drop that how do you drop that how do you drop that pick what the fuck else is happening
Starting point is 01:51:20 Let's, who wants to watch some YouTube videos? Let's, let's watch some more YouTube videos. Operation. What was that? What was that operation? There's a let's go back to Reddit. Operation High Jump Let's see the conspiracy Ancient aliens.
Starting point is 01:52:52 We make sit down chicken. This will be fun. This will be fun with an hour to go. This will be fun to watch. Hamburg, Germany. December. Oh, sick. I know.
Starting point is 01:53:20 This podcast has been way too Nazi heavy. But, wait, is that, is this true? Is this true? So they began relocating a massive amount of equipment and personnel to Antarctica but is this true this is this thing you can't just say that's true on the history channel
Starting point is 01:53:58 one year after the end of World War II the U.S. government launched its own large-scale mission to Antarctica Operation Hydro deployed 4,700 troops 13 ships, an aircraft carrier and a number of seaplanes
Starting point is 01:54:16 to Antarctica Although the government denied it at the time, it would later become known that one of the operation's primary objectives was, quote, extending the United States sovereignty over the largest practicable area of the Antarctic continent. But wait, wait, what? Base 211? Is this real? I don't think it's real. That's not real. And we have 50 minutes to go.
Starting point is 01:55:12 And the Panthers are up by three. I'm gonna need a beer off of this. I'm gonna need a beer after this. 50 more minutes left. This is one of the most pointless exercises I've ever done my life. I can't imagine. Okay, close your eyes. Close your eyes.
Starting point is 01:55:58 Everybody, please, everyone take a peek at this. Keep your eyes closed. Keep your eyes closed. Open your eyes. Could have been a man or woman. I didn't tell you to you to. I think it's a guy. Am I right?
Starting point is 01:56:09 Yes. It was a woman. This guy would be more excited. He would have touched that healthy beard, you know what I'm saying? You guys all saw what I wrote down. Yeah, yeah. The guy you just thought of. What month is he born in?
Starting point is 01:56:18 This guy's still. Oh my God. Get the fuck out of here. Got the fuck out of here. Is that Walt been there the whole time? It was been there the whole time. All right. Getting middle end.
Starting point is 01:56:30 Getting middle end. January 1st to 31st. There we go. Think of the name. Think of the name for a second. And I want you to do this. I want you to think of the letters. Like just like Billy, D-I-L-L-L-Y.
Starting point is 01:56:44 Just think of the letter. And I want to mix them up and just grab one of the letters somewhere in the middle. just an interesting letter just like imagine that letter glow it me you got a letter in your head yep why do you think of a why bro i swear there's no way hold up hold up hold up look this way i think i got it they got the date what the fuck's that have to do with the date can everyone see i'm sorry i made this kind of crooked uh close your eyes please close your eyes yeah let me see i sorry if i want to get in tight is that very clear what i wrote yeah i see it um i think it's an unusual name oh you guys have no sounds
Starting point is 01:57:17 Uh, what's his birthday? July what? 23rd. Oh my God. Wait, sorry about that. Says no sound. Here we are. 49 minutes left.
Starting point is 01:57:39 I just hope no one's listening by now. I'm just fucking around on Twitter. So who's this guy, he thought this was funny, he thought this was funny. Yeah, that's funny. Good one. This isn't going out. No one will want to see any of this. What else is going on?
Starting point is 01:59:26 47 fucking minutes left. Oh, God. What else? Let's just go look at some YouTube videos. I started to watch some YouTube videos. In 2011, when I was a teenager, I was going through a lot of... In the fall of 1930, legendary British explorer Bertram Thomas set out on his most historic journey. He would attempt to be the first European to cross the daunting Rubal Khali.
Starting point is 02:00:05 That inhospitable Arabian desert known intimidatingly to English speakers at the end-de-corder. Covering an area of some 250,000 square miles, stretching. through Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, in the south of the Arab Peninsula, the empty quarter is larger than the country of France, the largest sand desert in the world, in terms of volume, with 800-foot-tall dunes blocking the path of would-be travelers. But if any European was going to be able to cross it, it was probably Bertram Thomas. Born in Somerset, England, in 1892, Thomas had been. set to Mesopotamia during World War I, where he quickly took to the area and its people,
Starting point is 02:00:53 and they to him, fighting alongside local forces and even becoming a high-ranking political advisor to the Sultan of Oman. He knew the area and what he was in for. He knew how to survive. So, on October 6, 1930, he set off from Salala on the coast of Oman. What the fuck's going on? 25 Bedouin guides to begin his historic attempt. As he later described, they struck northwards over the Kara Mountains, some 3,000 feet high, through frankincense groves, and thence into the great unknown step. For the next 59 days, Thomas was neither seen nor heard from. In fact, his own government was unaware of where he was, what he was doing, and would likely have expressed the forbidden. him for making the attempt if they had known about it, leaving Thomas to conduct the mission
Starting point is 02:01:50 in secret. If things took a turn for the worse, there would be no rescue party. Finally, on February 5th of 1931, Thomas appeared in Doha, Qatar. Is this real history? And with an incredible bounty taken from the desert in tow. What? On his way across, he had collected over 400 natural history specimens, including 21 species new to Western science. Yet natural history specimens were not all Thomas had brought back from the desert. What did you bring back? His journey had seen him obtain something even more incredible. A story.
Starting point is 02:02:33 Is this real? I was told to him by his Bedouin guides, which had been passed down through generations. The story of an ancient lost city in the desert. Is this real? I don't know if this is real or not. It was a great city. Our fathers have told us that existed of old. A city rich in treasure, with date gardens and a port of red silver.
Starting point is 02:02:59 It now lies buried beneath the sands. The thing is, is this real? With no time to spare in his grueling attempt to cross the desert, Thomas had been unable to pursue the lost city. and though he intended to return to pick up the chase, he was never able. He did, however, record the story as it was presented to him in his seminal book, Arabia Felix, where it quickly caused a stir among European audiences. One man who became particularly enamored with the Lost Desert City was none other than T.E. Lawrence, more famously known as Lawrence of Arabia.
Starting point is 02:03:41 To his friends, Lawrence wrote, I am convinced that the remains of an ancient Arab civilization are to be found in that desert. I have been told by the Arabs that the ruined castles of the great King Ad, son of Kinad, have been seen by wandering tribes in the region. There is always some substance in these Arab tales. Lawrence even made plans to go to the desert and search for the lost city, but never got the chance after he took. tragically died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. However, before he died, Lawrence gave the
Starting point is 02:04:19 mysterious city a nickname which stuck. He dubbed it Atlantis of the Sands. Could this lost city really exist? An Atlantis of the Sands? Just waiting to be discovered. Before we continue, we'd like to thank ExpressVPN for sponsoring this video. ExpressVPN is the number fuck this what the fuck you're giving us fake oftentimes when we do the research Solomon Moses and the Egyptian Pharaoh Noah and the flood and so on all in the holy books of all three traditions but not the odd most famously the tribe appears in the Quran when Muhammad warns unbelievers have you not considered how your Lord dealt with odd the tribe of Is this?
Starting point is 02:05:12 ...who have lofty pillars, the likes of which were not produced in all the land? Many scholars have asked, why the Aad of Iram would not have been mentioned elsewhere, if they really did construct things, the likes of which were not produced in all the land? Did the Aad really exist? And if they did, then what happened to them? To this second question, the Quran provides an extraordinary answer. According to the Quran, the Aad of Iram were a tribe which existed on the Arabian Peninsula after the flood of Noah. There, they constructed a powerful kingdom, using their vast wealth and expertise to build monuments on every high place and build palaces as if they will live forever.
Starting point is 02:06:02 They were not afraid to assert their power over their neighbors, viciously conquering many on the peninsula. As the Quran states about the ad, and when you seize, you seize as tyrants. But this immense power led to arrogance, the people of Iran becoming idolatrous and wicked. That was odd. They denied the signs of their lord, disobeyed his messengers, and followed the command of every stubborn tyrant. What is this? Because of this, Allah sent the prophet Hutt to warn the people of Iran to reign. renounced their wicked ways.
Starting point is 02:06:40 Yet, the people of Iram were unmoved. In an attempt to convince the odd that Hood was speaking the truth, Allah then sent a terrible drought which afflicted Iram. At its height, Hood pleaded with the
Starting point is 02:06:56 odd. But still, they would not listen. Finally, the ad saw a cloud formation approaching Iram and believed the rains had come at last. that they were saved. How wrong they were.
Starting point is 02:07:13 Then when they saw the torment as a dense cloud approaching their valleys, they said happily, this is a cloud bringing us rain. But, Bud replied. No, it is what you thought to person. A fierce wind. All right, we have 39 minutes left. That, I don't even know what
Starting point is 02:07:38 that was. I once heard, I thought that was going to be about, like, giants in the desert, but I actually heard a story of Minnesota Giants. Went to, yeah. I didn't think I had time for a bachelor's. But with WGU, I can move through an accredited business degree. I don't know. There's two things laying down there.
Starting point is 02:08:46 Is that the whole brave site? Yeah. Right there's sand. They make them nine feet. Could be a giant. The history that we were all taught growing up. What? My name is Scott Wolter and I'm a forensic geologist.
Starting point is 02:09:10 There's a hidden history in this country that nobody knows about. There are pyramids here, chambers, tombs, inscriptions. They're all over this country. We're going to investigate these artifacts and sites and we're going to get to the truth. Sometimes history isn't what we've been told. Conventional history holds that the Vikings explored North America as far as Newfoundland in 1000 AD. For decades, people in my home state are Newfoundland further west. West, coming here to Minnesota.
Starting point is 02:10:12 And not just anybody. Giants. So this dude thinks he found giants. Hey, Roger. How you doing? Hey, Scott. Glad to meet you. Nice to finally meet you. Thanks for inviting me out here.
Starting point is 02:10:32 Well, thanks for coming. Tell me about the situation. Well, I actually. I was looking for gravel back to my basement wall. Couldn't get to the gravel pick, you know, the game field here. So I decided to find a place myself and dig for it. And I ran into bones, human bones.
Starting point is 02:10:50 They called in the Doherty's. They came in and determined they were in bones and they were very old. Probably Native American. Two were native, but there's something else interesting in this equation. We found one thigh in there up that. Bones were huge, and they even commented that it was unusually large male individual.
Starting point is 02:11:10 Did the state archaeologists come out then? The state archaeologists got involved, the dynamic was totally different. They wanted to get this thing buried as fast as possible. So are these real? Big bones and a big, what you think is a big male, this is reminiscent of giants. I have something I want to show you to it. It's an article that talks about giant. That was published in the St. Paul paper in 1888, and it says a prehistoric race, seven gigantic bodies exhumed while digging a well near Clearwater, Minnesota.
Starting point is 02:11:48 A race of giants, and they talk about them being seven to eight feet tall. Could your guy be that big? Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's. Yeah, he is. Okay. Yeah, we're in the same category. heritage and the idea that the north were here oh there's no doubt i've been studying in north for years and uh what they do and the burial mound system all this is north technology and i told them that okay roger so where is this mountain the mounds are just on
Starting point is 02:12:20 ever center to cornfield right on the edge of the coon creek okay well i'm anxious to go take a look let's do it need your help and here we are where the big guy is very right here okay right there what is going on approximately right down here
Starting point is 02:12:48 in this area his head is located way up here digging him up why aren't they digging him up take that? Okay well he's about eight
Starting point is 02:13:03 to nine feet long Why don't they dig him up? Digging here, you find bones, the state representative for the Native Americans comes out, and anthropologist for the state comes out, and then what happened? They started doing the archa-analogical dig. Their eyes got big because this guy's, this guy's bones, I tore his feet off, and I tore the shoulders and ribcage of two of these native girls that were shoved up against his feet. against his feet.
Starting point is 02:13:35 The anthropologist said these are females, right? They were native, female, they're little petite, fetal position, you know, their hands over their face. Okay. Did they say that this was a giant or they thought it could be, or what exactly did they say? Very, very large male. Well out of the ordinary.
Starting point is 02:13:55 There was a lot of these guys. They kept going on in a lot. But this guy has covered up as fast as they couldn't do. So it seemed bizarre to you. There's something not right about it. Very bizarre, yes. Well, based on everything that I've heard so far, what it sounds like to me,
Starting point is 02:14:10 you're suggesting there's a cover. Wait, but why don't they just dig up the bones? I mean, why, or reason why there is not a cover up. I mean, it's so obvious. You got eight-foot guy sitting there. Roger, you mentioned that the, the big guy was eight feet long.
Starting point is 02:14:27 Yep. How do you know that? Well, after we covered everything up quite a while later, curiosity got to me calling a friend who works to coppers the coppers well it's copper
Starting point is 02:14:38 he's talented with copper when you run over bodies water or whatever they'll cross okay so this is witching right
Starting point is 02:14:46 divine rods what you call witching is also this is bullshit if there's actually bones down there if they ever dig up the bones?
Starting point is 02:15:04 But even Einstein believe we're in their corner and they don't take up bones that's bullshit. That's bullshit. well football game sucks what else on youtube let's do a Q&A Okay, so just as Twitter.
Starting point is 02:16:31 Hopefully we get this done. Let's see what some questions are. Is Zach Wilson the guy? Are birds real? What's your favorite animal? light beer over vodka sodas who would want to bear two lions oh fuck I think a bear
Starting point is 02:17:07 no two lions two lions they're an animal's a ball a bear oh man could an offensive QB's work on the field at once yes
Starting point is 02:17:26 check out the Princeton Tigers 2 Corvac System What's the main difference between blacking out from alcohol versus Blacking out will dominate Jose can say go in the ring? The main difference between blacking out from alcohol worse motor skills verse superior motor skills okay pull bear Codiac grizzly Siberian tiger giraffe wait If you had one redo button, that wouldn't mess up the futures we know.
Starting point is 02:18:32 Biggest regret in life if you had one redo button. Walking to the barstool offices when I was 18. Just kidding. If you could replace all the grass in the world with something else, what would it be and why? Moss. Would the world be a better for you, Byerment? Would the world be a better place if everyone was prescribed to Agarol?
Starting point is 02:19:13 No, C, not to Germany. 30 minutes of Jets talk. Why didn't Backgirl have to do soggy sock? girl had to do soggy sorrows. Great question. Thoughts on Elyline? Thoughts on Eline? or fake real at one point why box lax is better than field yeah box lacrosse is way better case really if you be any animal polar bear how long could use fire of the wild I can think forever, build. If I, I need some tools, though.
Starting point is 02:20:51 Clue Haywood, shout Clue Haywood. Polar Bear Phineplex what is Phineplex? Oh, it's just straight up tremblown acetate. Jesus Christ. You can straight up buy this. Jesus Christ. This is Phineplex.
Starting point is 02:21:54 This is what. bodybuilders injecting themselves and it's supposed to be for heifers fed and confinement for slaughter it's supposed to make them gain weight unless you're not using feel calves yeah I get some big that's probably so bad for you for these guys who do it Phineplex for humans. Oh my god. Tremlone dosage for cattle versus humans. More plates, more dates.
Starting point is 02:22:33 We are not, we aren't cows. The drug, oh my god, it's a staple. Jesus Christ. It is ridiculous that these guys are using... Does trend blown cause Alzheimer's? Probably. Huh. Jesus Christ, guys are doing trend, giving themselves, freaking.
Starting point is 02:23:30 If you can give any supplement to any end without ethical consequences, it would be. I thought it was good. 22 minutes left. This is... Whoa. This is the worst thing ever. I don't know. talking for two hours and 40 minutes straight this is literally oh wait no this is this is good this is good
Starting point is 02:25:30 this is good dude some these are ridiculous in the last two minutes of this three hour podcast I am now declaring that in one week I will do an amazing three-hour podcast made up of all these things. it. They're talking. Guests. Call is. Yeah, no, this is going to be sick. This is, the podcast I'm going to plan for next week.
Starting point is 02:26:41 guest callins videos tons time for prep it's coming out next saturday and will be recorded on Friday. It will be epic. Yeah, yeah. No, this is because I have, Yeah, that's what we're doing. Yeah, that's what we're doing, 16 seconds left. Oh, we're done. We're done. We're done. Yeah. We're done.

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