Timesuck with Dan Cummins - 247 - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Colossus of Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Temple of Artemis. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. These are just SOME of the wonders we go over today. Get ready to want to explore the world. We are so surrounded by so many impressive man-made monuments. And also so much natural beauty - we also look at the seven natural wonders of the world today. And we look at the new seven wonders of the world. And at even more wonders. We also examine a lot of strange theories some questionable folk on the internet have postulated about many of these wonders in numerous Idiots of the Internet segments. Enjoy all this wonder! June charity TBD as of this recording date. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X42vSfTEGbUMerch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions/problems: [e-mail] (copy and paste) Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 10,000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

Time sucks, spacers chose another unique suck topic this time around. They're curious about the seven wonders of the ancient world I am too. I remember hearing about the seven wonders of the ancient world as a kid, my imagination immediately racing, picturing massive sculptures, gigantic opulent ancient dwellings, ancient people living in preposterous luxury, and palaces constructed in advanced ways that seem too advanced. Ways my mind couldn't comprehend as being possible thousands of years ago. So what are the seven ancient wonders?

Why were they built by whom? Why are so many of these ancient wonders Greek? Well, the answer to that last question, the tourism guides of the second century BCE in Greece, where the people who came up with the seven wonders of the world and their knowledge of the world limited the Dmitryneian and its outskirts. That's why places like Stonehenge in England,

from roughly 3000 BCE, the 3rd century BCE, Terracotta Army of Qin-Sher Wang, 1st Emperor of China, not included on the list of 7 ancient wonders. Those old Greeks just didn't know about them. In addition to the 7 ancient wonders today, we'll also check out some other amazing wonders of our world. What are the new 7 wonders of the world? What are the most impressive natural wonders that Mother Nature has engineered? Look at all of this in more today on this What's That? Who did it? Why?

How? Why isn't it there anymore? Who broke it? Uber, Inquisitive, and Wonder's Edition of Time Suck. This is Michael McDonald and you're listening to Time Suck. You're listening to Time's Sun, you're listening to Time's Sun. You're listening to Time's Sun. You're listening to Time's Sun. You're listening to Time's Sun.

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Sometimes people that's funny. Sometimes people get worried when they hear somebody say like, I really, you know, get anxious over what you guys are going to think. Like, no, man, just be you. No, I'm being me, but I want it to be the best me. So you guys keep enjoying the show. I give a fuck, I want to do a good job. I'm just thinking about maybe just being a little reflective lately.

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Now let's get to wonder it. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Did you know that tourism has been around a long, long time? I did not. For some reason, I just never pictured the people of antiquity taking vacations far from home. I don't really think about them taking vacations at all, ever. I thought of vacations as like a modern thing for some reason.

Travel was obviously a lot more time consuming and tedious a few thousand years ago than it is now. You know, you couldn't buy plane tickets online. You couldn't always find Starbucks or McDonald's. The world was way more dangerous. Laws were crazier. People got hacked to death, crucified, burned to the stake, you know, all kinds of shit, not always for doing anything wrong. You know, rulers were crazier. You couldn't get vaccinations to protect you against foreign diseases. There was literally no hotels anywhere with hot tubs and continental breakfasts or Netflix and Hulu and Abel TVs. No head cameras or cell phones and selfie sticks to document their travels, no slideshows or photo albums. So why even go? What would be the point?

Picture didn't happen. Seriously though, I just never thought of it. But it did happen, not often on all the time, not in every country or culture, but it did happen. And the ancient Greeks may have been the first to do it. At least the first that we know of. And the ancient seven wonders of the world may have been the world's very first true tourist destinations. Some wealthy Greek merchants, rulers, nobility, they wanted to see more of the world than what existed in their respective city states.

They wanted to travel to foreign lands, not just to try and open up new trade markets and make money or to wage war, but sometimes just to see some cool shit. See some new sites, meet some new people, and go back home, you know, rub how cool it was and everybody's faces. And the historians of their day acted as tour guides of a sort for those folks.

The Hellenistic era of Greece from 323 BCE to 31 BCE, that was when some ancient dudes wrote up to first kind of sort of Rick Steve's type travel guides. They didn't write like travel books per se, but they did speak of wonders in their books that inspired some of their contemporaries or those who read their tales after they died, sometimes long after they died, to go seek out these wonders and see them with their own eyes if they were still around. You know, Herodotus, Kalimicus of Serini and Tipeter of Siden, Filo of Byzantium, it's the mother ancient writers, compiled lists of what they thought were the most monumental

must-seize ancient world, and their writings morph into the original list of the seven wonders of the world. I'm slow down to say a lot of these words. Oh, today was a pronunciation nightmare, but I did prep more than ever before. But I couldn't prep on just Greece, or just, you know, what was some other place that we're gonna go to, just in the middle east. Like, I had to kind of rebalance all over the place. So I was like, damn it.

I'd get some words down, get the flow down, and then I'm like, oh, shit, now I'm in Central America. So just know that prep went in, probably gonna fuck some some up for sure, but I think I think knock on whatever this is going to do better than normal. A file of Byzantium specifically actually wrote a short account entitled the Seven Sights of the World and then Sights, a translation of the Greek word, Theamata, was re-translated into wonder because wonder sounds cooler than Sights. None of these men had traveled further than the Middle East

and parts of northern Africa, so the world they knew wasn't nearly as big as it is today. And that's why none of their wonders existed very far from the Mediterranean coast. And the original seven wonders are, the great pyramid at Giza, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the temple of Zeus at Olympia, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus,

the Mausoleum at Hallecranasus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Montertruck Rally Dirt Pit RC car and truck race track, exotic pet store and five story flea market of Majenkyville. Woo! Small community of cousin fuckers. They live just outside of Sparta. Archaeologists recently found some knockoff parts, Simpson T-shirts, a few genuine leather bullwips and Some black light tiger and wolf posters thought to be over 2,500 years old JK obvious JK gosh dang The lighthouse of Alexandria is a seventh wonder. I

Wish there was like ancient Monsters roughly marketplace of the seven entries five or a celebration of Greek accomplishments in the arts and architecture, the other two being the pyramids of Giza and the hanging gardens of Babylon. And these ancient wonders, slash monuments were so impressive in size, scope, and artistic achievement that visitors from all over the known world, anyone with enough money, would make the trek to Egypt or Turkey or Greece specifically to see them with their own eyes. Many of the seven wonders were dedicated to a god or gods, while others were dedicated to humans and still others created by humans who thought they were gods. Amazingly, despite the age of some of these wonders, the Seven Wonders only all existed at the same time for a period of less than 60 years.

Also as you can imagine, not everyone agreed then or now about what the Seven Ancient Wonders were. Some lists had only six others had more. It's time marched on. People have wanted to add many other monuments, including Sullivan's Temple, the Roman Colosseum, even Noah's Ark, if the Ark even existed. Jerry's still out on that one. Jerry's still out on the hanging gardens of Babylon as well. Some don't think that ancient wonder ever truly existed. Some don't think several of the other wonders ever existed or at least

didn't exist as we think of them today. We'll look at that. And after we're done going over the most greed upon list of the traditional seven wonders of the ancient world, we'll look at some of the wonders of the Middle Ages. Also, what people in 2000 believe the new wonders of the world should be. And then we'll look at the seven wonders of the natural world, so much fucking wonder. We're going to stuff so much wonder in your earholes today. We're going to shove it down your throat hole. You know, it kicks them wonder up your butthole. Today, finally, all your holes get filled with wonder. Hell no, Ron.

And even look a bit more at wonder in the fifth takeaway today. A pretty straightforward episode today as far as structure goes. Wonder, followed by wonder, followed by more wonder. Also sneaking into a bunch of quick hit edits of the internet segments today. Haven't done that old segment in a while of quick hit edits of the internet segments today. Haven't done that old segment in a while. Not since we launched the Is We Done podcast with that segment, really kind of, you know, that segment inspired.

Today I thought it'd be fun to check in and see some wacky drills, see what they think about the seven ancient wonders. So many unusual and outside the box and no one knows what you're talking about theories out there. So grab a shovel and a sun hat. Let's dig in. Yeah, yeah! No timeline for today's suck, no need. Let's start with the only wonder you can still visit that's relatively still intact, despite being over 46 hundred years old. The one will spend the most time on because we've been able to study the most. The great pyramid of Giza. We've talked about pyramids a few times on sucks about the Egyptian gods, 198,

lost technologies episode 151, Cleopatra 122 and others. And we can't have a seven wonders suck without sucking one of them a bit more. The Great Pyramid of Giza is actually part of a complex appearance of Giza. Several impressive man-made mountains can be located or are located at what's referred to as the,

as the, I got Giza Pyramid Complex, also called the Giza Necropolis on the Giza Plateau in greater Cairo, Egypt. It's outside of Cairo. This site includes great Pyramid Giza, the Pyramid of Coffrey, and the Pyramid of Mankare, along with their associated Pyramid complexes and the great sphinx of Giza.

And these pyramids were royal tombs built for three different pharaohs, at least that's a general consensus. Humility, apparently not a virtue of the pharaohs, not a real humble dude, when instead of a headstone, you'd like the biggest structure on earth to be built, to commemorate your passing or your existence.

And of course, there's a lot more to it than that. We went over Egyptian spiritual beliefs and the Egyptian God's suck. The pyramids housed the tombs of ph Pharaohs and were constructed in part to help them transition from this world to the next. And I know I know a tomb of a Pharaoh hasn't been located in Giza. It's all kinds of conspiracies about that. We'll dress it in a second. Also they were built to show their power, right? These pyramids, you know, look at me. Look at when you get when you rule all of Egypt, fuck ya bro.

This is what it's like when you're living that sandy boy life. Sandy boy life forever. Pretty sure the Pharaohs never refer to themselves as sandy boys, but I wish they did. Looking good, sandy boy. I don't know where that came from. But seriously though, the sheer size of these structures tell you a little bit about the role

that the Pharaoh king played in Egyptian society, also how these Pharaohs thought of themselves. Somewhere in between human and divine, they were believed to have been chosen by the gods themselves to serve as their mediators here on earth. They were possessed by the gods, and actually sometimes they were seen as gods and or thought of themselves as actual gods. The Egyptians were around a long, long time, and their beliefs shifted around over the years as you would expect.

I wonder how many of their people believed they were actual gods or godlike. I bet a lot of villagers did not believe that, but they were expected to publicly profess, you know, faith in that belief. But I bet in the privacy of their homes, a lot of Egyptian peasants were like, for chosen by the gods, my ass, these people are always hungry. You know, and just last week, he announced that we were fighting the wrong goddamn army. I once watched him talk about the now,

while pointing in the wrong direction. He wants to thank the gods for a bountiful apple harvest. We grow grapes, motherfucker. No one's even seen an apple in Egypt. My god, the Pharaoh wasn't chosen by the gods, unless they were joking around, the fucking moron. People always talk shit about rulers. Because the expected belief was that Pharaohs't chosen by the gods unless they were joking around. Fucking moron. Uh, you know, people always talk shit about rulers. Because the expected belief was that Pharaohs were chosen by the gods, were connected to

the gods, were gods, etc. Who's in everyone's interest to keep the king's majesty intact even after his death. When he was believed to become Osiris, God of the dead. The new Pharaoh in turn became Horace, the Falcon God who served as protector of the sun God raw. And these beliefs again, they shipped it over the years. This, you know, this this applied to some ancient Egyptians believed that when the king died part of his spirit known as Ka remained with his body It's probably care for his spirit the corpse was mummified his organs placed in separate jars and everything the king would need and the afterlife

Was buried with him including gold vessels food furniture and other offerings Some pharaohs were buried with mummified cats, giant boats, board games, boomerangs, even servants. Okay, maybe not boomerangs. Maybe not servants either. There are no pharaoh terms with actual servants buried alongside them, but they did have these little figurines called Ushabti. It was thought that the Ushabti would come alive

to serve the kings in the afterlife. It's some real complex and intricate death rituals and religious beliefs. In 1922, Tutton Commons tomb was open. Also known as King Tut. For short, I can say King Tut, a lot better than what I said earlier. It was the first tomb to be found almost intact. Inside it were 5,398 artifacts, including two throes, six chariots, a solid gold burial mask, makeup bag, wig, perfume box, coffin, which contained his mummified body. Egyptians also believed that good king Tut would be hungry and his journey through the afterlife.

Is there also over a hundred baskets of barley, figs, grapes, melons, more tasty treats, no apples? Can't not have tasty treats when you're dead. No, no, no, what's a hungry zombie? No, what's a hungry zombie? No, what's a hungry zombie sandy boy running around? I also apparently loved a glass of wine as evidence by the many jars of it in his tomb. Need something to take the edge off

when you're getting used to being dead, I guess. The pyramids became the focus of what was basically a cult of the dead king that was supposed to continue well after his death. Their riches were provide not only for him, but also for his relatives, officials, and priests who were buried near him. Northernmost and oldest pyramid of the Giza group was built for Kufu, which is Kiyopsin Greek, the second king of the fourth dynasty, called the Great Pyramids the largest of the

three in the real ancient wonder. There's some controversy about if it was actually built to be a tomb as there have been no remains remainder burial chambers uncovered in the Great Pyramid. Most Egyptologists agree that all three pyramids are tombs and that the burial chambers of the Great Pyramid have either been robbed, destroyed, or as yet undiscovered. It's piercing theorists disagree strongly. Standing over 450 feet, the Great Pyramid was the largest man-made structure on earth for 3,800 years, roughly, until January 28th, 1887, when the Eiffel Tower was completed in Paris, France.

That's an insane run. And not only was it tall, it was fucking massive. The length of each side of the pyramid at the base, over 750 feet, and it just pops off to flat sand. Imagine being some poor villager. You've never seen a man-made structure over maybe two or three stories tall ever in your life. Maybe not even, you know, more than one story.

If you lived like a nomad or in a particularly small village, you've never seen anything bigger than like a tent. And then suddenly you see a building roughly as tall as a 45 story downtown skyscraper and much bigger around. That would blow your fucking mind. And I imagine it would, you know, help you fear and respect the power of the Pharaoh, which I'm guessing was a big part of the reason for their construction. I would think if I'm some foreign army, you

know, some foreign army general, seeing that, I'm going to assume that the Egyptian army pretty legit odds are not going to have the ability to build the biggest structure on earth. The biggest structure of the world has ever seen and then have an army composed of like three elderly men with rickety slingshots and paper hats. When it was first built, the great pyramid of Giza was actually a bit taller than it is now. Arojian and theft of the outer covers of the pyramid, it was once covered with a highly polished white limestone, have since diminished its stature a bit.

The pyramid complex of Giza was built during an extremely prosperous time when Egypt was among the richest civilizations on earth. From the beginning of the Dynastic era, 2950 BCE, Royal tombs were carved into rock and covered with flat roofed rectangular structures known as mastibus, which were precursors to the pyramids. The oldest known pyramid in Egypt was built around 2630 BCE at Sakura for the third dynasty's

King Joser. Known as the step pyramid, it began as a traditional mastaba, but grew into something much more ambitious. As the story goes, the pyramid's architect was Imhotep, a priest and healer who some 1400 years later would be deified as the patron saint of scribes and physicians. Over the course of Joser's nearly 20-year-rain pyramid builders assembled six stepped layers of stone, which contrasted to the mud brick like most earlier tombs that eventually reached a height of 204 feet.

It was the tallest building of its time. The step pyramid was surrounded by a complex of courtyards, temples and shrines where Joe Sair could enjoy his afterlife. No word as if he was able to do that or not, kind of hard to quantify. That was the hope. I pro Joe Sarah, the stepped pyramid became the norm for royal burials, although none of those planned by his dynastic successors were completed, mostly because many of them had relatively short reigns. So that's that's how the pyramids began being built as opposed to aliens, you know,

suddenly giving Egyptians magical powers to just, you know, construct massive pyramids out of fucking nowhere. Now, they learned how to build them massive pyramids out of fucking nowhere. Now they learned how to build them by applying a lot of time and energy and getting a little bigger and a little bigger and a little bigger over many centuries. The earliest tomb constructed as a true smooth side, it not set pyramid was the red pyramid at Dasha, one of the three burial structures built for the first king of the fourth dynasty, a snaffru who lived from 2613 to 2589 BZ, named for the color of the limestone blocks used to construct the pyramids core.

Back to the great pyramid, though, Kufu, the king, it was built for a reign for 23 years, a little is known about his reign beyond that pyramid. The sides of the pyramids base average, 755 feet, its original height, supposed to be 481 feet, largest pyramid in the world. Three small pyramids are built for Kufu's queens. Excuse me, are lined up next to the great pyramid. And a tomb was found nearby containing the empty sarcophagus of his mother, queen, head to Paris. Like other pyramids, Kufu's is surrounded by a row of mastibas, where relatives or officials of the king were buried to accompany and support him in

the afterlife. The middle pyramid of Giza was built for Kufu's son, Pharaoh Coffrey, who lived from 2558 to 2532 BCE. Period, mid of Coffrey's second tallest pyramid of Giza does indeed contain Pharaoh Coffrey's tomb. A unique feature built inside Coffrey's pyramid complex was the Great Sphinx, a Guardian statue carved in limestone with the head of a man in the body of a lion. Guess and you've heard of it. Largest statue in the ancient world, measuring 240 feet long and 66 feet high. That's a big cat-like thing. In the 18th Dynasty, around 1500 BCE,

the Great Sphinx would come to be worshiped itself as the image of a local form of the God Horace. The southernmost pyramid of Giza was built for cofferays, son, Mencare, who lived from 2532 to 2503 BC. He ran for about 20 years. And apparently, maybe he didn't do a good job as running shit as his dad. Because he got the shortest of the three pyramids, you know, 218 feet, less than half as big

as Kufu's pyramids. Or pyramid. You know, his pyramid was a precursor to the smaller pyramids that would be constructed during the fifth and sixth dynasties. Why'd they get smaller? Nobody knows for sure. Maybe the Pharaoh's got shit here, right?

Maybe, maybe, ancient aliens got lazy. Maybe one Egyptian noble is like, we must construct the greatest pyramid the world has ever seen for our freshly departed and beloved Minkaree, the largest pyramid for the greatest Pharaoh. And then some other Egyptian was like, whoa, whoa, slow down their house. Easy tiger. Minkery wasn't half the Pharaoh that Kufu was.

Kufu drove all the snakes out of Egypt for like 20 years. He rode crocodiles up and down the Nile, like some kind of majestic swamp horse. He used to kill hippopotamuses, you know, by sliding under them and uppercutting them in the nuts. When his camel got thirsty, he'd put the fucking camel on his back and run it to the nearest water hole. At least that's what the higher glyphics say. That's how I read it. You know, he was living God.

What did Manko Ray do? Well, he swatted more mosquitoes than the average guy, maybe. He has some decent pecs based on statues. Cool looking Falcon for a pet. That's it. Yeah, I mean, he still gets a pyramid. He's a Pharaoh, of course, but he gets a little one. He gets a baby pyramid. Skeletons excavated from the area show that workers who built

the pyramids were probably native Egyptian agricultural labors, not necessarily slaves, who worked on the pyramids during the time of year when the Nile River flooded much of the land nearby. Approximately 2.3 million blocks of stone averaging about two and a half tons each had to be cut, transported and assembled to build Kufu's great pyramid, or did they? I was excited to find this. Or were they poured? Check this shit out.

I love it when new info like this comes to light and potentially changes, you know, all of the existing thoughts about some of these things. A recent Franco American study discussed in the University of Memphis publication earlier this year in 2021 gives more evidence to a growing belief that the ancient Egyptians built their great pyramids partially largely by pouring concrete into blocks high on the site rather than hauling up giant stones. People have been speculating about this for decades. Now the idea started to pick up some momentum in the scientific community. What if we've been wondering all these years, how the hell did they lift those big, heavy-ass

blocks, you know, up to make those pyramids? And then we find out they didn't. They built the blocks where they lift those big heavy ass blocks? You know, up to make those pyramids, and then we find out they didn't. They built the blocks where they now sit. They weren't all carved rocks. They were big ass bricks essentially. Big ass limestone concrete fucking driveways. In brick form. According to Professor Giles Hugg

of the French National Aerospace Research Agency, and Professor Michael Bar somm of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the covering of the great pyramids Giza Agency, and Professor Michael Bar somm of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the covering of the great pyramids Giza consists of two types of stones, one from quarries and one man-made. They and other believers believed that the lower stones were carried over and then the upper stones were poured. There's no way around it.

The chemistry is well and truly different, says Professor Hugg, when he was interviewed by Science at V magazine. The pair used X-rays, a plasma torch, and electron microscopes to compare small fragments from pyramids with stone from nearby quarries. They found traces of a rapid chemical reaction, which did not allow natural crystallization. The reaction would be inexplicable if the stones were quarried, but perfectly comprehensible if one accepts that they were cast like concrete. The professors think that soft limestone was queried on the damp south side of the

Giza Plateau. This was then dissolved in large nile fed pools until it became a watery slurry, limed from fireplace ash and salt were mixed in with it. The water evaporated leaving a moist clay-like mixture. This wet quote unquote concrete would have been carried to the site packed into wooden molds where it would set hard after a few days. Mr. David of it's and his team at the Geopolimer Institute at St. Quentin tested this method recently, producing a large block of concrete limestone in just 10 days.

Guy D'Amordier, a material scientist at Numerar University in Belgium, is one of the many who supports this claim, originally a skeptic. He told the French magazine that a decade of study had made him a convert. The three majestic pyramids of key ops, Coffrey and Mika Reinas are well and truly made from concrete stones. This last study came, yeah, came in just this year. Surprise, it hasn't got more media attention. Maybe it's too boring, not sexy enough. I did look into other publications.

I do see it being talked about primarily in academic journals elsewhere. Maybe just bombs out too many people who really wanted to be alien tech. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that it took 20 years to build and re these pyramids, like the Great Pyramid Gees, that required the labor of 100,000 men, but later archeological evidence suggests that the workforce might actually have been around 20,000. Some estimates have the time it took to build somewhere around 10 years, and maybe it only took around 10 years, because they're poor and concrete. Not lifting those blocks up, and carving them. Pyramids continue to be built throughout the fifth and sixth dynasties, but the general quality and scale of their construction declined over this period, along with the

power and wealth of the kings themselves. Today millions of meat sacks continue to visit the pyramids each year, maybe not this past year, but you know, you get it. Drowned by the sheer size and mystery of Egypt's rich and glorious past. Before we leave our talk of pyramids, there are a vast number of pyramid conspiracies out there. Of course there are. Regarding how they were made, what they are. We've talked about some of them before.

You know, there's one about secret societies, illuminati shit holding the cult rituals there on certain unholy dates. There's the hypothesis that the pyramids are star maps lining up with the Ryan's belt, which leads you down to path. It eventually is the idea that ancient aliens benevolently benevolently came down from space, gifted humanity a bunch of things like math, fire and war machines, all the ancient alien stuff. A pyramid is also found as way into the center of the whole illuminati new world order conspiracy

just look at the back of the dollar bill. In the lost technology suck, we talked about the idea of pyramids being power stations that fueled an ancient electricity grid. Literally, no events of that, like at all. Zero. There are other theories such as those laid out in the comment section underneath a recent history channel video. Time for today's first idiots of the internet.

Time suck resident cryptozoologists and ancient astronaut theorist David Hatcher Childress shared some thoughts about the pyramids recently on an episode from season five of the history channels Ancient Aliens. Both the Mayans and the Egyptians have legends that the gods came down and gave them instructions to build pyramids. For instance, with the Egyptians, the famous god, Thoth, is known as the architect of the universe. And it was he who allegedly designed the entire pyramid complex at Giza.

Okay, there you go. Boom! The gods, aka aliens, told Egyptians how to build pyramids. Next mystery, this one solved. Children snuck out of the park. Uh, they're old stories. Now they can't just be made up folklore. No, sir, anyone who knows anything about history knows that ancient people only wrote literal truth. Literal gods fought in the Trojan war. We all know that people fought actual dragons for sure. The ocean was definitely full of sea serpents. A guy put two of every single animal

species in a big wooden boat and floated around for a while. For sure, not parables. Uh-uh, all taking it face value truths. The comment section beneath this history channel video has a lot of other theories. Let's check in with three geniuses. Obvious road scholar, Tom Rhodes. Not the great stand of comic, also named Rhodes.

Tom Rhodes writes, the great pyramid was comic, also named Rhodes, Tom Rhodes, writes, The Great Pyramid was built over 12,000 years ago. It was designed by Thoth, some nice pronounced both, which was the same soul that eventually came as Yeshua, one with Christ, Jesus Christ. The stones were levitated, and yet it still took a hundred years to build. It's amazing that things you could know when you desire truth without prejudice, a teacher and Prophet of God is spoken. Boom! Forget what I said earlier about aliens. Prophet of God is spoken. Thoth Jesus did it, sheeple.

Come on. The stones were levitated for 100 years exactly for some reason. Next question. Actually, before we get to the next comment here, I love when they put these like, just perfectly like round numbers, like why would it take exactly a hundred years? If you could levitate these fucking, if you could do magic, just knock that thing out in a fucking day. What are you doing?

What are you doing with your magic? But still taking you a hundred years, if you can levitate shit, get out of here. Genetic detective Kelly Fritz reminds us in this next comment that there is scientific proof that Pharaoh's were aliens. So aliens definitely did build the pyramids. Kelly writes, as well as far as building them and who did that, all the Pharaoh's, all of them have unknown DNA, meaning alien DNA. They're not from this world, okay? That's how they were built. Every mummy that they've excavated found has had regular people DNA. Every Pharaoh

they have found any every king, excluding the woman nephriti had alien DNA. So that also ties in their somewhere too. Fucking boom, another mic drop. Forget what I said about thought, Jesus, sheeple. I stand corrected, it was aliens. All pharaohs have alien DNA, ovy. Everyone knows that except any scientist. I looked into it. Like Google did pharaohs have alien DNA? And I feel like when the results came back,

I could almost hear my laptop, be like, fuck, come on dude. What are you doing? Why are you asking these questions? Kelly's insane. King Tutz for Mainz have an exam in regular old DNA and not actually very good DNA. What are you doing? Why are you asking these questions? Kelly's insane King touch remains have been examined Regular old DNA and not actually very good DNA regular old in cyst heavy DNA a lot of problems a lot of inbreeding Finally Charles R. Presented new theory. I've never heard

He respectfully points out that the pyramids were not built by aliens. They were built instead by demons pyramids were not built by aliens, they were built instead by demons. The posts I respectfully say that you guys don't have a clue. I'm gonna tell you the truth. You have one thing right. They are ancient, but they're not aliens. There's no such thing as aliens. They are the fallen.

There's your truth. Boom. Forget what I said about aliens again, sheeple. The pyramids were built by the fallen as in fallen angels, as in demons. Highly doubt he's referencing the game Destiny, when he's talking about the fallen. Uh, and why would Satan and his minions want to build pyramids? Well, because... Okay, they're... they're evil. You... right? Just look at them. They're all pointy, kind of a nipple or dick or something, you know, and they're pretty fucking cool Who likes cool shit? The devil does, you know, like like got it like like like got latex body suits in Marilyn Manson's first couple albums

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Built to last. They really don't make some things like they used to. And it also featured a massive furnace at its top that was among the first of its kind. We'll get into that. Holy shit. This thing was around 100 feet taller than the statue of Libertyus. And it had a big ass fire pit at the top. What a cool thing to see over 2000 years. It's gonna be a cool thing to see now.

It was the third longest surviving nature wonder after the mausoleum at Halicronassus and the still standing great pyramid that lasted until 1480. When the last of its remnant stones were used to build the Citadel of Quaibai, really cool looking castle actually that you can visit now in Alexandria that's on the site of the old lighthouse. The city of Alexandria, Egypt was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE. We learned that when we sucked Alexander the Great back in September 2020. Because of its two natural harbors on the Nile Delta, the city prospered as a trading port under the Tullamaic dynasty from 305 to 30 BCE

and throughout antiquity. A cosmopolitan city with citizens from all over the Greek world, the city had its own assembly and coinage became well known as the center of ancient learning. Around 300 BCE, Tullama first sold her commission, the building of this massive lighthouse, to guide ships into Alexandria, and to provide a permanent reminder of his power and greatness.

The project was completed some 20 years later, around 280 BCE by his son and successor, TOLEMY II. A structure only added to the already impressive list of things to see in the Great City, which included the Tomb of Alexander, the museum, and the institution for scholars, plus the beautiful Seraphium temple and the magnificent library of Alexandria. According to several ancient sources, the lighthouse was the work of the architect, saw Stratus of Nidus, other sources state, he was the financial backer and designer.

Structural is located on the very tip of the limestone islet of pharaohs facing the harbors of Alexandria. These two natural harbors with a great harbor and the harbor of fortune at return. And there are at least 40 ancient shipwrecks that have been found in that harbor. Maybe the lighthouse didn't work out so great. Or I can only wonder how many ships sailed past it for over 1600 years. Maybe that lighthouse was awesome. Maybe it saved a ton of sailors from a watery grave. The mainland was linked to the island of Pharaohs by a causeway, a giant man-made daik that measured around three quarters of a mile, itself an ancient wonder of a sort, which something

would have, you know, with someone, would have done like a cool painting or something. This lighthouse would love to know exactly what it looked like. The lighthouse is written by a contemporary writer named, no pronunciation guide for this crazy ass name, Poseidipos. Poseidipos. Poseidipos. Oh boy, it's like Poseidon and Dipos. Smushed together. It was intended to guide and protect sailors, and to that end was dedicated to two gods.

Zeus Soder, the deliver who's dedicated, you know, dedication inscription on the tower was made with half meter high letters. And protesius, or protesius, there we go,. The Greek sea god also knows the old man of the sea. Protius. There we go. The lighthouse of Alexandria was probably not the first such aid to, you know, to ancient sea travelers to be built, but it seems to have been the first massive lighthouse to be built. Thosists, the north of G and island, for example, was known to have had a tower lighthouse in the archaic period around the fifth century BCEc and beacons and landmarks were widely used by cities to help sailors across the Mediterranean ancient lighthouses were built primarily as navigational aids for where a harbor was

located rather than as a warning of hazardous shadows or submerged rocks could be confusing although because the dangerous waters of Alexandria harbor the ferros performed both functions interesting is is that one of the harbor is over here, Beacons? Or is that don't come near here because there are jagged ropes that will sink your ship Beacons? The Greek Geographer and traveler Strabo who lived between 64 BCE and 24 CE made the following observations about this lighthouse. He said, this extremity itself of the island is a rock washed by the sea on all sides.

With a tower upon it of the same name as the island, Admiral B. Constructed of White Marble with several stories. So Stratus of Nidus, a friend of the kings, erected it for the safety of Mariners as the inscription in ports. For as the coast on each side is low and without harbor, with reefs and shallows, an elevated and conspicuous mark was required to enable navigators coming in from the open sea to direct their course exactly to the entrance of the harbor. The exact design of the lighthouse isn't explicitly written about by ancient historians, with descriptions often being vague, confusing, conflicting.

Most sources do agree though that the tower was white, which would have made it more visible, and then it had three floors, the lowest being rectangular, the middle one, octagonal, and the top one round. Most agreed that there was a statue of Zeus Soder on the top. Later, airbriters describe a ramp rising up

to the outside of the lower part of the tower and internal staircase to reach the upper levels. A fire likely burning oil since wood was scarce was kept at the top of the tower to make it visible at night, but whether this was so from the outset is debated by historians, largely because the earliest references to the pharaohs in the works of ancient writers make no mention at all of the light. Later sources do describe the pharaohs as lighthouse and do and not merely is a landmark tower used only during daylight. The flame in several other points regarding the lighthouse are mentioned in the following

description by the first century CE Roman writer Pliny the Elder. Pliny writes. The cost of its erection was 800 talents, they say, fought laughing in erection, and not to admit the magnanimity, Magn... Magnanimity. That was shown by King Talameus on this occasion. He gave permission to the architect. So stratus of Nidus, to inscribe his name upon the edifice itself. The object of it is, by the light of its fires at night,

to give warning to ships of the neighboring shoals, and to point out to them the entrance of the harbor. According to later Arab sources, there was even a mirror made of what was thought to be polished bronze to reflect the flame over a greater distance out to sea. And that mirror may have also function as a reflector of the sun during the day. It's pretty badass, like an ancient Batman bat signal throwing that light up into the sky. How crazy that when this thing existed, there was nothing like it in the rest of the world. Alexander was a city unlike any other. Some conspiracy theorists have speculated

that the mirror on top of that lighthouse acted as some sort of a laser death star type super weapon. They could be used to set ships on fire, you know, that it would just be pointed at. That does not seem to be true, but it would be pretty cool if they had some kind of fucking death you know, death star weapon back then. Alexander would prosper when it became part of the Roman Empire and 80 BCE being the second

most important city in the Roman world. Excuse me, next to Rome itself and the most important port in the Eastern Mediterranean. The lighthouse appears on Roman imperial coinage from 81 to 192 CE, which clearly shows a large narrow winded, narrow winded, narrow winded, what that even mean. Check out that narrow winded tower. Oh, what? It's a narrow winded tower.

It's a short of breath. No, it's a large narrow winded tower, topped with a monumental statue and two smaller figures of Triton blowing a conch shell. These coins show the entrance to the tower, being at the very base while later Arab descriptions have it higher up. The pharaohs also appeared in mosaics and sarcophagi throughout antiquity, confirming its wide fame. The term pharaohs will be used in many languages around the ancient world to describe lighthouses. Actually, when spelled lowercase, pharaohs is now in English synonym for lighthouse. That's how famous the lighthouse is. You know, the name of this lighthouse became just the name for lighthouse.

This amazing monument wouldn't last forever. Earthquakes in 796 CE and again in 950 CE with a partial collapse six years later. And then yet again in 1303 CE and 1323 CE, badly damaged at landmark. There are records of regular repairs and extensions. They try to save it. Dumed mosque was added to the top part around 1000 CE, a major reconstruction occurred around 1161 CE under the Fatimids. And then the lighthouse disappears from the historical record after the 14th century, most

likely brought down by another earthquake sometime in the 1330 CE. Again, the last of the towers, granite foundations were reused in the Kwai Bay fort that Citadel built in the 15th century CE. At Citadel Fortress can still be visited today. I watched a couple YouTube tour videos of it. It looks pretty badass. Now let's hear a few more thoughts about the ancient Alexandria Lighthouse from people way less educated, but somehow also much smarter than all of the world's traditional

historians. It is the intro that gets you back. Under YouTube video titled the Ancient Skiescraper, Pharaoh, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, part one, uploaded by the Lost History Channel, user Mitchell Krauth has a fucking news flash for you. And for all of us knowledge hounds, writing news flash. These ancient cities we speak of like Alexandria and many others are ancient going back hundreds of thousands of years of advanced civilizations with highly sophisticated cities and infrastructure within the head and develop science and had extreme addition for truth, honesty, perfection,

discipline, mathematics and knowledge of all cultures in all languages to be kind and helpful. Give food and shelter and spread kindness around the planet, smiley face. I'm just saying. Okay, thanks for that newsflash, Mitchell. And on behalf of your family and everyone who knows you, please take your meds. We're all worried about you. I love that you ended that gibberish with, I'm just saying.

What a fun way to end a nonsensical rant. Hey, you want truth? Look at the Mayans. They ate lettuce and road zebra tigers and made monkeys fight with laser swords. It's the aluminum. It vibrates at a 4D frequency and resonates with the ley lines. They connect LaMiria to Atlantis. And that is how ham and cheese high pockets are made. I'm just saying. The sails? What the shit? Rockets are made. I'm just saying. To say it in some shit, a YouTube user Kevin Seraphim Day wants to let us know something

that's been hidden from us by mainstream historians. The lighthouse was built by giants. He writes, the alleged earthquake, quote unquote, that destroyed it was actually Noah's flood, but you won't find that being taught anywhere, like all the megalus, it was built by pre-flood giants. Ah, the old pre-flood giant theory. That's why all the ancient big shit was built by giants and no one can find fossils for at all. Got it.

Thank you, Kiff. That is the only giant comment on clue today. But explaining the ancient seven wonders is having been built by now extinct race of giants. It's a comment that comes up a lot. A lot of videos. I was surprised by the volume of giant comments. Sometimes I wish I could just believe shit like that, right?

What a fun world to live in. Just thinking about giants and stuff. Brandon Blount thinks the real mystery of how the lighthouse came to be is being hidden from us by the Vatican, I think. I think that's what he's saying. He's also saying that the real history of the lighthouse and so much more was stored in the Library of Vatican, I think. I think that's what he's saying. He's also saying that the real history of the lighthouse and so much more was stored in the library of Alexandria.

I think, here's what he writes. Illusion and denial. The Vatican secret library has books and writings from before the flood. Nephilim writings, old maps of the entire planet before the flood. That's how they knew where all the land was and they tell sailors like Columbus where to go

as long as he never reveals where he gets the hints from. I sure would like to be able to access that secret library. If I didn't know the language I teach myself until I could read everything in there. Our entire history is in there. Everyone has to know that. You know, before all the bookburnings and city destruction, they took the most revealing and important information back to the Vatican as proof of the past for the fish hat wearing demons to celebrate over as they worship their master lucifer uh... fuck is wrong with people

uh... it was a Vatican is a Vatican you'll you'll fish out wearing demons uh... uh... i had no that i've heard about the demons before say for a demon i don't know that where the fish hats probably some like a pejorative term for Catholics or something like a Pope hat. That's supposed to be more scary.

Also, I did lie about not mentioning giants again. I thought I was gonna mention giants again, but I already did. I don't think I will go in forward in these comments. Nephilim are mysterious beings or people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. They are a large and strong race of people, mythical race of people, um, thought to be by

some as a race of actual giants. Uh, one more. This comment wasn't left, uh, about the lighthouse of Alexandria. It was left about the library of Alexandria, but the reply to it was so good that I just wanted to share it. Karen Reeves, right? So much hidden history. Russia is really doing a wonderful job exposing real history, interesting twist.

I'm hearing the Vatican has the library of Alexandria in the vaults. Okay, here we go again. It has all been archived now, along with all banking. Rothschild no longer owns the Vatican bank or the Bank of London. Amazing time to be alive. Karen able to shoehorn in some classic conspiracy theorist Rothschild, the Jews have all the money and die, Semitic nonsense in the comments. Ellen turbocharged then replies with, and I just found out the SpongeBob was just fire

from the crusty crab. Or the crust. I mean, life, am I right? Nice. He saw Karen's nonsense, raised her with some awesome sarcastic absurdity that I'm not sure she's capable of understanding. Okay, we'll be back. Let's get out of here now. It is the intro that gets back.

Next on our tour of the ancient seven wonders, the massive temple of Zeus in Greece. We need a whole suck on the Greek gods. Suck number 162, we learned a lot about the very rapied ventures of Zeus. I pronounced, as I recall, 100% of the word accurately, if I'm remembering the feedback correctly about that episode. The Temple of Zeus was known as the most important building

the sacred grove of Zeus or the sacred precinct in Olympia. It was in a regular quadrangular area of more than 200 yards on each side walled except the north where it was bounded by the hill of Cronus. Temple of Zeus started the center. It was the largest temple in the Peloponese and was considered by many to be the perfect example of Doric architecture, which basically is the Greek architecture and those big-ass columns and cool sculptures.

It was built by the Aliens, a group of Western Greeks from the spoils of the Traffilian War and dedicated to Zeus. Instruction began around 470 BCE, was completed before 456 BCE. When an inscribed block was led into the East Gable to support a gold shield dedicated by the Spartans in commemoration of their victory at Tanarga. Tanarga, the architecture, the architecture,

do my god, the architect, ha ha, words, was liban, maybe couldn't find a pronunciation guide of Ellis, the sculptor of the pediments is unknown. Pediments are the cool sculptures of generally half naked people in the triangle space above the columns of the agenda, also known as the Gabelins. Libin's work on the temple of Zeus would go on to inspire the Parthenon of the Athenian Acropolis. The temple, a peripheral hexastyle with 13 columns at the sides has a east-west orientation

required by Illuminonite decree. The columns 34 feet slash 10 and a half roughly meters high, seven feet slash two and a quarter meters diameter, the base where of local shell limestone covered with white stucco. Only the pedimental sculptures, roof tiles, and lines, head, water spouts, were of marble. On the floor of the open passages, which are called pruneus, or the remains of a Hellenistic mosaic with representations of tritons. In front of the pruneus is a small rectangular space paved with hexagonal marble slabs where the victors were recognized. The cello was divided into three names by double rows of seven columns. At the far ends stood the oh crystal lefatin

statue of Zeus, which is the main reason this space is recognized in one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. By the way, Chris Elephanton, Chris Elephanton. Chris Elephanton. It's a super fancy word for a statue made of ivory and gold. That's easier to say. Statue made of ivory and gold.

Imagine how much a giant statue made of ivory and gold would be worth today. $10 million dollars, hundreds of millions. Creat by fides around 430 BCE, the statue believed to be almost 40 feet high. I described by Greek geographer and traveler, uh, Passenias and depicted on ancient coins. If portrayed Zeus sitting on his throne, probably reflected on his most recent sexual assault committed while in the form of a swan or something. He's holding a step down his left hand, winged victory in his right, winged victory, a big ass

bird or sometimes a half naked one with wings. That's, that's, I prefer that one. The undrate parts of the zoo statue were of some seriously pronounced eight pack abs made of ivory while the robe and throne, the ladder decorated with relief of mythological scenes were made out of gold, when he said all the statues made out of wood. So the statue wasn't entirely golden ivory. Still, I bet probably hundreds, not thousands of pounds of gold alone on it. After the abolition of the Olympic Games, the statue was carried off to Constantinople where it perished in a fire around 475 CE. On each side of the temple, there were opulent cultural decorations, part of an overall artistic movement at the time known as the severe style.

On the east side of the temple were sculptures depicting the chariot race between palops and Anameis, which was overseen by Zeus himself, according to legend. The West pediment depicted the battle of the Lapaths and Centaurus, arranged around the central figure of Apollo. There were 12 metapies, rectangular spaces with statues or paintings between architectural designs called tri-glis that depicted the labor of Zeus' most famous son, Hercules. I think I think I'd even have figured something. The temple was ultimately burned by order of Roman Emperor Theodosius, the second and four-twenty-six CE. Why? Well, Emperor Constantine the Great had made

Christianity the official religion of Rome over a century earlier in 313 C.E. And Emperor Theodosius, the second was sick of all the amazing historical structures. Now considered filthy, heathen, pagan relics, bummer. So he's like, fucking tear down. Badly damaged by the fire of the statue, finally toppled down after earthquakes or the structure toppled down in 551, 552 CE. Excavations of the temple were initiated by the French in 1829. We're later completed by some Germans. Pieces of the sculptural decoration of the temple have been restored and are now on display in the Olympia, Archaeological Museum located in Olympia, Greece, while the Mitopees,

oh boy, removed by the French expedition of 1829 and now in the Louvre. Okay, now let's take everything we just learned. Let's take most of those words I got right and some of those words I got wrong about the Temple of Zeus and just flush it all down the toilet. It is an adventure that is an adventure that is an adventure. Under a video titled The Temple of Zeus in Olympia, 7-1ers of the Ancient World, uplaid it, uploaded by CU and History slash mythology, Landy A2C gives us all hope

that just because this place was destroyed 500 years ago, that doesn't mean we can't still see it for ourselves, we can still see it, how it looks in this heyday, you just have to remember, right? Just remember it, I'll let Landy explain. Landy writes, memories can be saved in lightning condition.

Expert can be expert because of memory RAM. You can remember all your experiences and knowledge that you have learned in past life. And hence, you learned faster than others. So you know, that's fucking, that's pretty cool. Just remember, you guys, remember faster than others. Just focus on your past life memories. Marvel, at the beauty of the statue of Zeus

I think that's what they were writing about if you're not able to do that You're just you're not trying hard enough landy landy can do it. I think I mean I I hard to understand what they were writing Joseph hand-to-body believes that the temple was built to honor an alien he writes sorry All gods are just aliens If supernatural spiritual beings why would there be records of fighting and death of the gods? Huh, another meat sack? It was a hard time understanding ancient folklore. Maybe this person reads about the Trojan Wars

if it was a fucking documentary. Why are the gods dying? I mean, it's written right there in the gods dying. So they could have been gods. God's can't be gods anymore, I guess. I don't know. This last comment has nothing to do with Zeus. But it was left in the same comment section.

And it's two, what the fuck is going on here crazy for me not to share? Alexander ascend you rights? majority of humanity was created on earth meaning not incarnated from the spiritual realms meaning not created with real eternal and indestructible souls LOL majority of humanity was created after the demonic invasion majority Majority of humanity was created by solace, cloning, gene splicing, technology. Majority of humanity is not written in the book of life. Majority of humanity are not eternal beings

that can't enter the spiritual realms. Majority of humanity goes to the lake of fire because Majority of humanity is not incarnated. This guy needs a fucking source. From the spiritual realms not created with eternal indestructible, complete souls and created by demonic soul This cloning technology billions of people are asius because they sense subconsciously they are not eternal beings and cannot enter spiritual Realms billions of people don't believe in reincarnation because majority of humanity lacks the ability to incarnate because they are not created with internal

Indestructible complete souls lol love LOL. I love the LOLs. All Satanic Society members can't repent and we'll go to the lake of fire for eternity, all caps. Eternally deprived! Oh, everything except pain, suffering, torment, tortures, LOL. Good riddance. Holy shit. I wonder how many bodies are in Alexander's basement.

The majority of humanity, LOL. I bet he many bodies are in Alexander's basement. The majority of humanity. LOL. I bet he's super fun to be around. I've found the gatherings. LOL. I bet he's never held up a bunch of weird signs. He yelled his strangers to a megaphone about the end times in a public space. LOL.

He's got here. It is. I'll be into that. Now let's move out of Greece and into Turkey for our next two ancient wonders. Right after today's sponsor break, thank you for listening. Now a return to wonder. First the Temple of Artemis. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is located at the western coast of Asia Minor near the town

of Seljuk of modern day Turkey. It was built a 6th BCE over 2500 years ago. So massive, roughly twice the size of the Greek temples, including the Parthenon, it was a must-stop on Greek tourists list to kick ass shit to see. It was destroyed and rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt many times over to existence. So they owned the foundations and a single cobble together column, stand as a reminder of the site where one stood the greatest temple in the ancient Mediterranean, which is saying a lot, say a lot of cool temples. Ephesus was a Greek colony on the eastern coast of Asia Minor, founded in the 8th century BCE,

although there had been Greek settlers in the area from around, or beginning around 1200 BCE. The Greek goddess Artemis, known as Diana to the Romans, was particularly important to the Ephesians. Artemis was the goddess of Chastity, Hunting, wild animals, forest, childbirth, and fertility. The goddesses cult at Ephesus, including Eastern Elements, which were basically lifted from goddesses such as ISIS, Sybilis, and the mistress of the animals. Interesting. Lucifina used to know Artemis.

She thought she was a bit of a bummer, actually. Not a lot of fun. But if a goody two shoes, she preferred the company of effort that he hello to fena according to plenty of the elder in its in his natural history the temple has its most massive measured uh... the temple excuse me at its most massive

measured four hundred twenty five feet length and was two hundred and twenty five feet wide that is huge almost double the size of the fifth century bc parthenon and athens almost uh... a third longer than a football field and about 30% wider as well It had 127 columns which were 60 feet fucking high and four feet around Six story tall columns If you're near a six story building look at it for reference when I was working on this initial part of the research I looked out and there was a four story building across the coffee shop and I was like, oh my God, that's pretty big. And then I was picturing two more stories in this ancient giant temple.

It was gigantic, right? Man, those giants, those poor labor giants. Let's have to work their giant asses off, build that temple, throwing those big columns over their big ass giant shoulders. You know, I'm probably not getting 15 minute breaks every four hours or something. The columns were arranged in a double row on all four sides, eight or nine on the short sides, 20 or 21 on the long sides. Those columns on the sods were decorated with relief figures from Greek pathology.

The decorative freeze, the temple carried scenes involving Amazon's who were in Greek mythology. Supposed to have sought shelter at Ephesus from Hercules. The temples, the temples, um, architrave blocks, the beams above the columns of doorways are estimated to have weighed 24 tons each, strong ass giants carrying those other. And the feet of engineering that put them in place led to the Ephesians believing it was the work of Artemis herself did it. According to Vitruvius, a Roman author, architect and military engineer in his writing on architecture, the cult statue of Artemis, which stood within

the temple was made of cedar wood. What a pain in the ass it must have been to make statues back then. A wood, marble, just whatever, was such rudimentary tools compared to now. What a pain in the ass to have made anything back then compared to now. The foundations of the temple have received some attention first by plenty of the elder who praised the engineer and sculptor the adoris of Samos for preparing them on marshy ground, thus mitigating the effects of earthquakes. Pliny also notes the alternate layers of sheepskins and packed charcoal were used to provide the necessary stability to support the massive

way to the structures about to be built on top. Exhibition to the site in 1870 did indeed reveal that the foundations of the temple were composed of layers of a soft mortar substance and charcoal. Layers of marble chips and charcoal have also been discovered in 20th century excavations, but neither explanations have found evidence of sheep skins. Crazy how the thing was destroyed in the 4th century BC, the temple was partially destroyed by a fire deliberately started by some asshole named Hero Stratus, who became one of history's most infamous arsonists. His whole goal was to be famous for committing this crime.

His act prompted the creation of a law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. They were still pissed at this guy. According to the Greek writer Plutarch and his biography of Alexander the Great, the great Macedonian leader was born on the very same day that the Temple of Artemis burnt down around July 21st, 356 BC, remembering that Artemis was the goddess of childbirth, Plutarch noted. It was coincidence which inspired Pegasius of Magnesia to utter a joke which was flat enough to have put the fire out. He said it was no wonder that the temple of Artemis was destroyed since the goddess was busy attending to the birth of Alexander. But those of the mejai, oh boy, ha, mejai.

Those of the mejai, who were then at Ephesus, interpreted the destruction of the temple as a sign, a far greater disaster, and they ran to the city, beating their faces, and crying out to the day, had brought forth the great scourge and calamity for Asia. How were to think about that I doubt he was just being colorful with his language, right? People were probably like running around screaming,

you know, like, smack in your face. Ah, it's like panicking, complete and utter panic. When the temple fell down, like, they were all gonna be just crushed by the gods. So afraid for so long, and then eventually they're like, oh, all right, I guess, you know, guess that temple fell down, didn and have shit to do with shit. You know, sometimes things just fall down.

I feel a little silly right now for running around screaming and slapping myself in my face. New temple would be rebuilt in the same spot following the same design as the original, even better according to historian Strabo. Excavations that were revealed, the Hellenistic temple was slightly smaller than its predecessor measuring some 344 by 180 feet with columns 58 feet high. In addition, the new version was placed on a higher base to make the temple more imposing. Strubble also notes that Alexander visiting Ephesus and 334 BC offered to pay the expenses of the ongoing construction. If his name appeared on an inscription on the finished temple, and then the Ephesians refused his offer, not because they were being cocky, but because

one unnamed man declared that it was not correct for one God to present gifts to another God as in Alexander's a God. And instead the Ephesians paid it for themselves by having a collection of the citizens' personal jury gathered up. I wonder what that guy was hoping to get from kissing Alexander's ass that hard, like just putting Alexander's dick like that fucking deep down into his throat. We can't have a god as you obviously are and gift to another god. You're the same thing as the gods are.

Plenty of the elders describe the temple as the most wonderful monument of Grecian magnificence in his work, Natural History. Pesanius, the second century CE Greek travel writer and his description of Greece described the size of the temple as surpassing all buildings among men. Ephesus continued to be an important city, well into Roman times was made capital of the Roman province of Asia after 129 BCE. The prosperity brought unwelcome attention though and the temple of Artemis was destroyed yet again or at least plundered by a Germanic tribe known as the Goths, the ferdivum, during their invasion of the Aegean area, around 267 CE.

Damn it, Goths, pagan plunders, finally after being rebuilt or restored a final time, a Christian mob, inspired by the decree of Roman Emperor Theodosius, Theodosius, again against pagan practices in 393 CE, definitively destroyed the temple in 401 CE. Well, if it's not the Pagan, it's the Christians. That's why we can't have anything nice, all right?

The following century is the area gradually became covered by silt from regular floods, even as Ephesus itself continued as an important Byzantine city until it was captured by the Turks in 1304 CE. A blocks on the temple were reused and many buildings at Ephesus, a common practice in antiquity. A lot of these ancient wonders did end up just getting recycled, which, you know, kind of a bummer, kind of cool, I guess. Temple of Artemis was so well known and interesting to humanity that it was the very first ancient

site that 19th century CE, Western archeologist deliberately went digging for. It was found in 1869 by John Turtlewood. Excavations began under the auspices of the British Museum in London. They discovered several important artifacts, such as fine marble figures of Artemis, dating to the first and second century CE. They remained to the Great Temple. We're also found and during another series of excavations, beginning in 1904, more details were revealed.

The oldest artifacts, typically offerings made of precious metals, date back to the seventhth century B.C. Long a time ago, several capital and column pieces discovered from the 6th century CE version of the temple, while one of the best finds was a magnificently carved column drum from the Hellenistic version. The drum which has several figures carved in relief including Hades, Persephone, and Hermes is now in the British Museum. Today all the remains of the temple are its foundations and a single column that has been erected from composite remains, which rather than giving the impression of lost grandeur, kind

of just gives a sad vibe to the site, which was once the most impressive site arguably in the ancient Mediterranean. Incredibly the internet don't have a lot to say when it comes to the temple of Artemis. When it comes to the ancient seven wonders, the pyramids get about 99% of all of their wack, or the pyramids get about 99% of all of their wacky little attention. But if you're not, I did find a fun, a fun couple of comments. The following comments appeared under a history channel video called Lost World's The Seven Wonders, full episode, season two episode one, history. So many conspiracy channels have gotten banned from YouTube.

It's gotten way harder than it was a year or two ago to find Wackadoodle comments. Thank God for the history channel. That's what they all seem to conglomerate now. YouTube viewer Rob Below apparently missed the part in this video where it stated that the Greeks wrote the list of ancient seven wonders and that is why all the wonders are around the Mediterranean. Rob writes the temple of Artemis is not all that great compared to Anger Wat typical Western centricism typical not paying attention to the video before leaving a comment

Rob. Typical typing more than you listen, which maybe you should flip that around. Anger, what was built in the 12th century CE? So not nearly as ancient, the Greeks didn't include it on their list because they didn't know about it, and even if they could have traveled everywhere around the world, they still wouldn't know about it because it wouldn't be built for another 1400 fucking years. William Crister thinks I'm guessing that AI is behind the ancient Seven Wonders because William Wright's artificial intelligence brings the end. Okay.

Not disagreeing actually, but there are a lot of other comment threats. You could have found to leave this comment in that would have made way more sense, maybe like under a video about artificial intelligence or under, you know, like a, like a trailer vid from one of the terminator movies. Uh, finally, um, I don't know what the fuck. Rasputin' disclaimer 101 is talking about. When they left the following comment in the thread, other than he or she does not buy the official narrative being sold by mainstream historians regarding any of the seven wonders,

I think. They write, this is a work of fiction, and solely the property of the original creator or creators, any names or characters, businesses or places, events or incidents are factualized to the best of the author's knowledge at the time of the recording, any resemblance or resemblances to actual person or person living or dead or actual event is purely coincidental. We did not take responsibility for the decisions taken by the viewer based solely on the information provided in this video, nor do we take responsibility for decision taken by the viewer based solely on the information provided by this virtual application, any dimension visited, or any dark energy absorbed,

or manifested. I feel like Razz Putin' Disclaimer 101 is an especially smug idiot, like one of those people who feel like they have all the answers, but actually have none. People just toss out some word salad gibberish and then smiled knowingly. Okay. Is if they have said something profound. Oh, and we're done with it again. [♪ Music playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, playing in the background, wonder, the Mausoleum at Halikernassus. The Mausoleum at Halikernassus was a large and fanciest fuck Mausoleum built both to honor and hold the remains of Mausolas of... Oh, Karya, here we go. Mausolas of Karya. And if you're thinking, who the fuck is

Mausolas? Well, you're not alone. That's exactly what I thought when I first read this. I'll explain in a second. When Mausolas died in 353 BCE, his wife Artemis ordered the construction of this vast structure in their capital city, Halakrenasus, which is now called Bodrum in modern Turkey. Ultimately, both Mausoleus and Artemis would be buried inside. This Mausoleum large above ground tomb ended up being actually Mausoleums in general ended up being named after this dude, which are just large above ground tombs uh, and his lasted for nearly 1800 years. That's a long time to have a tomb stand Eventually nearly all of the stone will be taken and hauled off to be used in nearby building projects

most being used to build a crusader castle more of that ancient recycling So who in the hell was this mausoleist guy? upon the death of his father in 377 bc mausoleus became the satrap, a regional governor, in the Persian Empire for Korea. Although only a satrap, Mausoleus was so revered, was, excuse me, was revered like a king and ruled for 24 years.

Mausoleus was descended from the indigenous herdsmen of the area called Koreans, but appreciated Greek society and culture. He encouraged his fellow Koreans to leave their lives as herdsman and embrace the Greek way of life. Mosulis was all about expansion and progress. He moved his capital city from Malassa to the coastal city of Halakronasus and then worked on a number of projects to beautify the city, including building a large palace for himself. Mosulis was also politically savvy and thus able to add several nearby cities to his realm. Again, he was more like a king than a governor. When mausoleus died in 353

BCE, his wife Artemis, who also happened to be his sister, was really sad. Surprise, it took so long for incest to work its way directly into one of these ancient wonders. We've encountered it so many times the ancient world. I still can't get used to it. Sister and his wife. What did those two talk about when they were laying in bed after sex? Hey, you remember when we were kids and we didn't used to fuck each other?

His wife's sister wanted the most beautiful tomb built for her departed husband, bro. Sparing no expense, she hired the very best sculptors and architects that money could buy. It's unfortunate that it's unfortunate that Artemis died just two years after her husband, bro, in 351 BC because she would not get to see the crazy thing she had been built completed. Built from about 353 to 350 BCE, there were five famous sculptors of that time that worked on the exquisite tomb. Each sculptor had a portion that they were responsible for. There was

a briaxis, the north side, scopus, east side, tamasius, the South Side, Leo Charis, maybe the West Side and the cherry on top was created by Pithius. And all of it of course was assembled by giants. It was the architects, work with giants, or aliens, or both. Probably giants using alien text and human architects. If I had to cast, if I had to pick one thing. The structure of the modeling was made up of three parts, a square base on the bottom, 36 columns, 90s side in the middle, and then top by a stepped pyramid

that had 24 steps. Very intricate. All of this was covered in ornate carvings with life size, larger than life statues all over the place. Very decadent. All at the very top was the piece that was the sense, the chariot, this 25 foot high marble sculpture. That is a fucking big sculpture, of standing statues, or consisted of standing statues of both mausless and Artemis, riding in a chariot pulled by four horses. Much of the mausoleum was made out of marble and the entire structure reached 140 feet high.

14 stories high, 14 story high tomb. Not the great pyramid of Giza, but still holy shit. Imagine seeing a 14 story tomb down at the cemetery. That is preposterous, that is gigantic. Although large, the mausoleum was known more for its ornate sculptures and carvings and for its size. Most of these were painted in vibrant colors. They were also freezes that wrapped around the entire building.

These were extremely detailed and included scenes of battle and hunting as well as scenes from Greek mythology that included such mythic animals as centaurous. Fuck yeah. After 1800 years, the long lasting mausoleum was destroyed by earthquakes that occurred during the 15th century CE in the region. During and after that time, much of the marble was carried away in order to build other buildings. Most especially, a crusader fortress held by the knights of St. John. Some of the elaborate sculptures were moved in the fortress as decoration. In 1522, the crypt that for so long had safely held the remains of Mosulis and Artemis was finally raided.

After that, and after more of the ruins were raided, people ended up forgetting exactly where the Mosulim of Halikannas stood. Houses were built on top. In 1850, British archaeologist Charles Newton recognized that some of the decorations at Baudrum Castle, the crusader fortress, as it was now called, could have been from the famous Mausoleum. After studying the area and excavating, Newton found the site of the Mausoleum, and today

the British Museum in London contains statues and relief slabs from the Mausoleum of Hallecarnassus. It was a fun time to be an archaeologist, right? Find these things after they've been lost for so long. And we will actually skip the internet for the mausoleum of Halikarnasus. They used up all their dumb comments on the other six wonders. We'll hear from them again with the last two agent wonders. We head back to Greece for our sixth ancient wonder, the Colossus of Rhodes. The history of the Colossus of Rhodes begins with the siege of the Greek island of Rhodes. When Demetrius, Pallio Keteis, maybe, King of Macedon and 305 BCE attacked the city to try and subjugate the people of Rhodes. When

Demetrius was defeated, he abandoned his siege machinery at Rhodes, a considerable amount of it. The Rhodians decided to celebrate their victory by either melting down or selling all of the siege machinery and using the material and money to build a massive statue of their favorite god Helios. The task was assigned to the sculptor Chares of Lindos and it took him 12 years from 304 to 92 BCED completed. From his construction to its destruction, a space of just 56 years, the classes of Rhodes did not last long, just long enough to earn a place in the famous list of ancient wonders. Pliny, the elder said, even lying on the ground, it is a marvel.

To build the classes of roads, the workers cast the outer bronze skin parts, chosen to help resist the ravages of the sea. The base was made of white marble and the feet and ankle of the statue were first fixed. The structure was gradually erected by giants, maybe. As the bronze form was fortified with iron and stone framework to reach the higher parts and earth ramp was built

around the statue and was later removed. Or giants, you know, wrote on top of each other's shoulders or that. When the classes was finished, it stood about 110 feet high. Effort fell to give you taste of its size. Plenty wrote, few people can make their arms meet around the thumb. Think about that. Putting their arms around it like hugging it, they couldn't have their hands touch. Most people on the thumb of this gin-ass statue.

Why did it fall? Fucking earthquake again. Strong earthquake hit roads around 226 BCE. The city was devastated. The classes was broken at its weakest point, the knee. The people of roads actually received an immediate offer from Tallah me, the third of Egypt, to cover all restoration costs for the toppled monuments. However, an auricle was consulted and forbade the re-erection.

Said the gods didn't want to rebuild it. The tolamies offer was declined. Fuckin' oracles. If it's not the pagans or the Christians, it's a fuckin' oracles. For almost a thousand years, it's actually broken and enruined. Then in 654 CE, the Arabs invaded Rhodes. They disassembled the remains of the broken classes and supposedly sold them to a Jewish man from Syria. It said that the fragments had to be transported to Syria on the backs of 900 camels. And that all comes from one ancient source that wasn't written until the 13th century.

So I'm gonna say bullshit. That just seems that'll buy that. I'm gonna file this one dude came over with 900 camels, take all the pieces back to Syria. I'm going to file that in the fucking doubt it, folder. It has long been believed that the class is stood in front of the Mandraki Harbor, one of the many in the city of Rhodes, straddling its entrance, possibly free ballin, letting those giant stone balls feel some of that ocean breeze that never happened. Sorry, that for sure never happened

Given the height of the statue in the width of the harbor mouth. This would be impossible the harbor mouth is just too wide It's around 150 feet from edge to edge But I did that kind of with some Google map You know looking at how how how many feet this this inch on the map equals kind of applying that so that's a rough estimate But it's at least at least that wide and then to have the feet planted from the ground, you know, you're probably gonna need like, I don't know, 200 feet of width total.

Unless the statue is made of a dude like doing the splits, he'd have to be a lot taller than the 200 feet because the average shoulder width for a guy is 16 inches. The average height, 69 inches. So let's say the statue is standing with their feet spread out twice as wide as shoulder width. Anything wider than that,

it's just gonna look super fucking weird. That would mean it would need to be three times as tall as it was wide to look symmetrical. And it wasn't said to be 600 feet tall, it was said to be 110 feet tall. Still huge, but not just straddling the harbor, you know, huge. Plus the fallen colossus would have blocked the harbor entrance when it fell. It did not know his story, you know, references that.

A recent study suggested it was erected either on the eastern side of the Mandraki harbor or even further inland. Although we don't know exactly what the, or we don't know exactly what the colossus of roads look like, modern reconstructions with the statue standing upright are thought to be much more accurate than older drawings. So who was colossus again? Some version of Helios. And who was Helios? The God of the Sun. While it was not specifically the subject of a widespread cult across Greece, many people

including Socrates would greet the Sun and offer prayers to the Sun each day. Helios was particularly worshiped in roads. Here he was the most important deity.D. A patron God honored by the Hallya festival, which was the highlight of the island's religious calendar and pan-hellenic games like the ancient Olympic games. In the Hellenic period from 4th to 1st century BCE, Helios and the god Apollo would become basically the same god. So Colossus and Amalgam of Apollo and Helios. And there was a relation between Colossus and the Statue of Liberty, the Statue of Liberty in New York. The ancient world wondered, inspired modern artists such as the French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, who is best known by his sort of famous work, the Statue of Liberty. Both monuments, symbols of freedom. Statue of Liberty has been referred to as a modern Colossus,

its 305 feet tall. American poet Emma Lazarus wrote a sonnet named the new colossus in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestals lower level. So an ancient wonder, you know, that influenced me a modern wonder. So that's the mainstream story on the colossus of Rhodes. Now let's check in for some alternative thoughts. It is the intro that, intro that, intro that. Returning to that history channel video comment section for a

couple more interesting theories, Heather Smith knows what really happened to the Colossus statue writing. I know what happened to the statue of Colossus, the French took it and gave it to New York as the statue of liberty. Interesting, Heather. The French were even better at hiding big shit than they were making big shit. That is interesting that they could hide a massive ancient sculpture for so long and magically make it bigger, the longer

they held it. Man, you would think that someone would have noticed the French hiding a giant fucking statue for centuries if you think that is. Kevin Carter doesn't know much, but he knows that the classes of Rhodes and the other seven wonders were not built by some bullshit fifth human race. Open your eyes, sheeple, or maybe they were built by the fifth human race, but but probably the seventh. I have no I have no fucking idea what he's talking about He wrote they say This is one of those all-capped comments every every word every letter capitalized

They say it was built by the fifth human race all appearance and everything to look technical or technical and we are actually the seventh human race Thank you, Kevin. Oh, man, that all of that gibberish was important enough to be capitalized. Uh, finally, Nicholas Long doesn't want us to forget about volcano kilns. The classes of roads was clearly forged in a volcano, I think. It might be what he's saying. He writes, the kilns you are looking for are the volcanoes. That is a good source of energy with a very interesting composition of off-gases. That are impregnated, the tempered material very finally. What? That impregnated the tempered material very finally. Think about metallurgy, heat, carbon, ammonia, chlorine, all the elements to heat, treat, and temper various metals, such as materials, such as all alloys and ceramic

slash glasses. If we got real good, we could power nations with this. Oh, that's crazy Nicholas. That's crazy. That scientists aren't looking primarily volcanoes. The power of nations of the world. It's almost like they know something you don't. I like how you think that people can somehow get close enough to a fucking volcano, like an active volcano to put some metal in there.

I have to have like some kind of blacksmith situation like in the volcano crater. Oh man, that's my head starting to hurt. Let's get out of here again. It is the intro that is coming up. One more comment section coming up. And I think that's all I can take. So I start getting confused.

I'm like, what? The final of the seven wonders of the ancient world is the one that there is little to no evidence that there is little to no evidence left of its existence, the hanging gardens of Babylon. This is the one where there is the most debate as to whether it exists or not. Greek and Roman texts paint gorgeously detailed pictures of the luxurious hanging gardens of Babylon. If the legend is true, I'm in the hot, arid landscape of ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia,

lush vegetation cascaded like waterfalls down this huge 75-foot high beautifully terraced intricately decorated garden. Exotic plants, herbs, flowers of various colors, dazzled the eyes, fragrances emanated through the towering green thumbs, wet dream, also had plenty of impressive statues, you know, tall stone columns, Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar II was said to have constructed luxurious hanging gardens in the sixth century BCE as a gift to his wife,

Amitus, who is homesick for the beautiful vegetation of mountains of her native media, the northwestern part of modern day Iran. Part of what makes this an ancient wonder, excuse me, is the idea of making the desert bloom with life. It would have taken an unprecedented feat of engineering and horticulture to pull this off. Scientists think that a pretty complicated system of pumps, water wheels, and cisterns would have been employed to raise and deliver the water from the nearby Euphrates River to the top of the gardens.

And they would have had them in the right shading for various types of plants. Would anyone have had the agricultural knowledge to keep all those plants alive? Sadly, there are no firsthand accounts of the desert oasis. The multiple Greek and Roman accounts of the hanging gardens were second-hand and really more like 20th-hand. They were written centuries after the Wonders alleged destruction. Finding first ten evidence of the hanging garden is one of the holy grails of archaeology. A group of German archaeologists spent two decades in the turn of the 20th century trying

to unearth signs of this ancient wonder without any luck. The lack of any relics has caused skeptics to question whether the supposed desert wonder was just a historical mirage. However, Dr. Stephanie Dalley, a retired fellow, a research fellow, and part of the Oriental Institute at England's Oxford University believes she has found evidence of the existence of this legendary nightmare for people with allergies. In her book, The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon in elusive World Wonder Trace, published by Oxford University Press, Daly asserts that the reason why no traces

of the hanging gardens have ever been found in Babylon is because they were never built there in the first place. But you think they were built, right idea wrong place. Dali who has spent the better part of two decades researching the hanging gardens and studying ancient, uniformed texts believes they were constructed 300 miles to the north of Babylon in Nineveh,

the capital of the rival Assyrian empire. She asserts the Assyrian king. Oh boy. So Nakarib, built a marvel, not Nebuchadnezzar the second, and he built it in the early seven century BCE, a century earlier than scholars had previously thought. So even more wondrous, according to Oxford University, Dali, who is a scholar in ancient Mesopotamian languages, found evidence in new translations of the ancient text of King, Sennacherib, that describe his own unrivaled palace and wonder for all peoples. He also mentioned a bronze water raising screw, similar to Archimedes, screw developed four centuries later. They could have been used to irrigate the gardens. Recent excavations around Nibia, or boy, recent excavations around Ninevah. There we go, I think.

Near the modern day, a rocky city of Mizzul have uncovered evidence of an extensive aqueduct system that delivered water from the mountains with the inscription. Sonakarib, king of the world, over a great distance, I had a water course directed to the environs of Ninevah. All right? Crazy that it may have been built in the seven centuryons of Nineveh. All right?

Crazy that it may have been built in the 7th century BC over 26 centuries ago. Bass reliefs from the Royal Palace in Nineveh depicted a lush garden watered by an aqueduct and unlike the flat surroundings of Babylon, the more rugged topography around the Assyrian capital would have made the logistical challenges in elevating water to the gardens far easier for an ancient civilization to overcome. Dalek explains the reason for the confusion of the location of the gardens could be due to the Assyrian conquering of Babylon in 689 BC. Following the takeover, Nineveh was referred to as the new Babylon and Sannakarib even

renamed the city gates after those of Babylon's entrance. Entrances. Dalek's assertions could debunk thoughts that the elusive ancient wonder was a historical mirage, but they could also prove that the hanging gardens of Babylon are mislabeled and should truly be the hanging gardens of Nineveh. And that is all the info we put together for the ancient seven wonders of the world, almost. Of a few more theories to go over, the last one is my favorite for today. This one is my favorite for today. Pulling these once again from that damn history channel video feels like they cater almost exclusively to the ancient aliens crowd and they get some interesting comments.

First up, Juanito Paliz has found the hanging gardens of Babylon and you can find them too. You just have to look inward. One need to explain the hanging gardens of Babylon is real. You can find it in our hearts. That's adorable. I mean, it's fucking stupid, but that's adorable. Next, the hanging gardens of Babylon sparked a random thought for Dean Miles that he apparently just had to type out and hit enter. He ponders, what if we took Earth's atmosphere and put it straight onto Mars? If magic was possible, how would Mars react? Okay, Dean. Yeah, what if we did that? I mean, you know, if magic was possible, I guess Mars would just react. How was the fuck we wanted

Mars to react? Because, you know, magic. I mean, if you're open up the door to magic, powerful enough to move one atmosphere from one planet to another planet, why are you asking how that planet would react? You fucking tell it! How to react! Dean? It reacts how the fuck you want it to react based on the magic! What kind of wizard are you? Last one. I love this.

Orange, Koala Bear. Think the hanging gardens of Babylon may still be around. They just got moved. They just got, you know, they just, they got lost. In a very weird place, orange, Koala Bear writes, what if the garden still exists? Like, you know, they're, they got lost. In a very weird place, Orange Qualivare writes, what does the carton still exist? Like, you know, they're moved to Brazil or something. And then you can hear the sarcasm hitting the keys

when Pierce D done types of following a reply, yeah, they just picked it up, put it on a boat, and put it in Brazil. Gotta hope Orange Qualivare is being serious. Yeah, just over a thousand years ago, you know, some ancient mariners just crossed the fog in Atlantic, I'm just a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a is possibly hostile, based on all kind of predators, and the fucking Amazon, and then after rebuilding this garden, I guess they just love it so much that it's hang around and just multiple generations just tend to this fucking garden, hidden out in the jungle.

No one cares that much about a garden. The only way someone would care that much about a garden is if you could grow gold. If you figured out how to grow gold, or maybe pussy, if a few horny ancient dudes figured out a grow pussy, they might try to do something like that. And for sure they would if it was gold or precious stones. But even if that was possible, why would you go that to Brazil? Oh man, I hope you're high when you typed all that orange-coil-ed-bear. Or I hope you're like no older than like 10 or 11.

If you're older than 11, stay in school. You little weirdo. It is. I'll be into that. It's for that. That was fun to revisit that segment, at least for me. I haven't done it so long. And I don't think we've ever broken it up like that. Man, all those YouTube common ideas.

I do get the appeal of Wacadoodle to claim to have all the answers. Right? The long-out research has passed almost five years. The less sure I am, in many ways, as to what the real story is about so much because I've just come across so many contradictory accounts of so many stories. I've realized that historians, theologians, they're all just as flawed as you or I. Even when I try my best to be objective, I'm never 100% objective. I'm human, just like every journalist and archaeologist, everyone's looking to present some sort of narrative.

And you know, when you're doing that, sometimes the narrative will bump up against truth, and then sometimes the truth will bend a little bit to fit the narrative. Even when lies aren't told, sometimes certain truths are omitted to fit the narrative. And because of all the biases out there, interjecting to the seed of information on the web, it gets really hard to figure out what's truly going on in a lot of cases. It's infuriating. And because of that, I can see how it's tempting to just make this mental decision to say, you know what, fuck it.

The group of people in this weird chat room or this weird cold leader, or the people who wrote, you know, the guy wrote this weird book, they're right. I just need them to be right. I'm tired of trying to figure shit out. Right? So often they seem so very certain about what's really going on in these wacky details. I'm sure the emotional appeal of giving up on trying to figure shit out yourself and

listening to them is, you know, it's strong. But then eventually, I feel like if you're paying attention at all, you know, if you choose to let any of your brain cells still get a little bit of exercise, you eventually realize that they don't know any more than you, don't you? I mean, if you retain any sense of independent thought, don't you eventually come back to wondering what's really going on in this strange rock floating through space? Why am I here? Are the pyramids here?

What is the purpose of all of this? Or maybe not. Maybe some people can just really check out and just accept that the answers that they're echo chamber or throwing back at them no matter how ludicrous are just truth. Must be nice. If ignorance is bliss, the ittids of the internet, they have to be some of the happiest motherfuckers on earth. A fun world they get to live in. Okay, let's move on to more wonder right now. Really quick. Right after I am so sorry

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Stay with me, new listener. I'll stay on track for a while now. So now we've sucked these seven ancient wonders of the world, but there are tons of other amazing sites that exist, whether created by middle-aged humans, modern humans, nature itself. They won't go on the modern humans today, but we're gonna look at them middle-aged humans and nature. There's a go on the modern humans today, but we're going to look at the

middle age humans and nature. There's a highly debated list of the seven wonders of the middle ages that is worth noting. Also called the seven wonders of the medieval period. Now the names of this list, misnomer, the middle ages, aka the medieval period, supposed to have lasted from approximately the fifth and the late, the late 15th century, many of the place on this list don't even come close to these dates. This list is more like seven old ass wonders, not on the original list of seven old ass wonders. The Great Wall of China,

which contrary to popular belief, cannot be seen from space is on everyone's list. Construction of the truly great part of this wall lasts from the 14th to 17th century CE. So it fits the time period, just barely. The visible wall theory was shaken after China's own astronaut Yang Liwei said he could not see the historic structure from his space capsule in 2003. Since a great wall is a massive point of cultural pride in Chinese school children have been

taught for years that the great wall was so great you could see it from space. This was a bit awkward. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who spent five months aboard the International Space Station in 2012, 2013, reiterated the fact about the Great Wall's invisibility from space. I always wondered about this claim, right? Because I remember hearing that as a kid. You could see it from space, and it didn't make a lot of sense to me.

Because the wall isn't ever that big in one place. It's just really long. Being really long, I wouldn't think would help you see it from space. Like, if it was super big around in one place, that would help. You know what, ancient wonder, you can't see from space, the pyramids of Giza, the shape and size pop out enough from the desert landscape around them that on a clear day, you can absolutely see them. Very cool, I think. Back to other wonders in the Middle Ages, the Colosseum and Rome is another one that shows up on this list, not from the middle ages, built in the first century CE,

Stonehenge and England on this list, not even fucking close to the middle ages, built around 3000 BCE, so just a bit outside. The Holy Mosque, Highest of Fia and Turkey, another popular entry built in the early six century CE, so that tracks. Other than the list include the leaning tower of Pisa and Italy built in the 12th and 13th centuries. Perfect. The porcelain tower of non-Jing China early 15th century that plays the catacombs of calm L. Shokafa in Alexandria. Also, you know, of course, Alexandria Egypt, a second century CE. So not, not in the Middle Ages. There are other sites that are certainly in contention to be part of the very arbitrary

number of seven wonders in the Middle Ages, like the Clooney Abbey in France, 10th century CE or the Eli Cathedral in England, 7th century CE, the Cairo, Citadel, and other 12th century CE, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Egypt, Taj Mahal, a majestic and romantic monument, one of the most symbolic structures in India, 17thal, a majestic and romantic monument, one of the most symbolic structures in India, 17th century, too late for the Middle Ages. We didn't feel like this list was defined enough to really spend a lot of time on it, as cool as these places are. Instead, we chose to focus on another list of the places that came up in this list of

Middle Ages. Well, three of the places that we just went over actually also appear in the seven wonders of the world, an updated version, almost 21 years ago in 2000, a Swiss foundation launched a campaign to determine the new seven wonders of the world. More than 100 million votes were cast on the internet or by text message. And the final results announced in 2007 were met with, you know, some people being super happy and other people being outraged. A number of prominent contenders like Athens, Ac, failed to make the cuts, but a lot of cool places did. So let's check them out.

Once again, Great Wall of China on this list, of course it is. It's a crazy construction feat. Or you can be the world's largest ever construction project. The Great Wall of China widely believed to be about 5,500 miles or 8,850 kilometers long. A disputed Chinese study claims length is 13,770 miles or 21,200 kilometers, 21,200 kilometers long. Easy China.

You don't need to keep kicking out that much propaganda, right? You're huge and powerful. Calm down. Don't have to lie better. Maybe don't almost triple the actual length in your claim. We do have satellite photos. You're gonna get called out. Only 8.2% of the original

wall remains intact with the rest in poor condition, according to a 2007 archaeological report done by China approved by the Chinese government. It feels like they were just counting everything, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, that 1000 miles straight to Barbar fence that runs on the, you know, the scrawny, rickety fence posts, hammered into the ground with 50 yards. That's a great wall of China. That's part of it. That repelled the Mongols several times. Go ahead, push on one of those posts. They're way more solid, you might think. Anyway, work began in the seven century BCE,

continue for two millennia, the early centuries of the wall, not what you think of when you look up picks on the web today. The Ming dynasty built a massive stone in brick fortress like wall, complete with roughly 25,000 watchtowers beginning in the late 14th century. Barracks positioned all over the structure, typically every 11 miles of beacon tower was

built into the wall. This allowed fire or smoke signals to pass information such as news of an impending attack quickly down the wall from one fortifications to the next. That in turn would allow commanders to move troops quickly to where they might be needed. The size of the wall on average stands between 16 and 26 feet in height, 20 feet wide at the base, 16 feet wide at the top, on the top is smooth stone. The crown of the wall would act like a road for fairy and troops. It's so impressive. Amazing to look at pictures of this wall. One of my favorite wonders. And the Ming Dynasty built 3700 miles of the wall in this fashion. That's a long fucking massive wall. If you drove clear across the continental United States,

if you drove from the very tip of Maine, the north eastern tip of Maine from near like the town of Caribou, all the way across North America to Seattle, Washington, you would still have 600 miles of wall left to go if the wall was alongside you that entire trip. You could drive for several days on the freeway. It have a massive

centuries old wall off to the side the entire time. That's crazy. Prior to the modern section of the wall, the old wall was made at amounts of dirt, more hastily thrown together, kind of stone and wood. Few remnants of that, you know, early wall still exist. The wall was built to prevent invasions and raids. It actually largely failed to provide actual security. It was just too long to properly defend, acquired too much manpower, instead scholars have noted that the wall served more as political propaganda. It provided the illusion of power and security of power more than actual power and security. Next on the list of wonders is Chichen Itza.

It says Chichen Itza. I forgot to pronounce both ways. It is a Mayan city on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. At Flores the ninth and tenth century CE. This is the one, the first one that we've talked about today that I've actually been to and seen. The first one we've talked about in depth so far. Lindsey Kyler and Roni visited Chichen Itza a couple of summers ago.

Big stepped pyramid, popping out of the jungle. And the other, you know, temples just incredible to get close to. A thunderstorm rolled in while we were there. It felt, you know, mystical. Got to see some lightning strike not far out in the distance behind the old pyramid and then got caught in this crazy thunderstorm. I had to run our asses off back to the rental car. Absolutely getting dumped on.

Dodge and shit fall out of trees. The wind was blowing, running through mud, laughing our asses off. One of my favorite vacation memories. Under the Mayan tribe, Itza, who were strongly influenced by the toll text, a number of important monuments and temples were built here. Among the most notable structure here is the pyramid,

El Castillo, the castle. The one I just talked about seeing, which rises 79 feet above the main plaza, a testament to the Mayan's astronomical abilities, a structure features a total of 365 steps, the number of days in a solar year, built between the 8th and 12th centuries CE. So unfortunately, probably not by giants, maybe aliens on this one. During the spring and autumn equinoxes, the setting suncasts, shadows on the pyramid

to give the appearance of a serpent slithering down the north stairway at the base as a stone snakehead. The temple was built. This is not coincidence. The temple was built to honor the Mayan God, Cuculcan, the feathered serpent. Chichenessi was also home to the largest ancient sports field of its kind in the Americas. I remember looking at this one. I was there this and reading about this on the field of minds played a ritual ball game.

It's not to be called pocket talk popular throughout pre-Colombian Mesoamerica. Losers of a match of pocket talk were often killed as it was a major way to settle disputes and prevent, you know, war reliefs on the walls of the old sports complex show victors holding up their loser's heads like they would be head the losing team. Holy shit. And this game was crazy. You just ended up itself as a combination of basketball and soccer, but super hard to play. Part of the difficulty of playing that I imagine came from

knowing that you know, you get your fucking head cut off, if you lost. The object of the game was for two opposing sides to try and hit this hard rubber ball into a stone hoop placed up at both ends of the plane field and what made it really hard is you could only pass and shoot the ball using your thighs and hips. You heard me right. Only your thighs and hips.

I was like, how could you even play this? And I found a video on YouTube with people playing this game recently in Mexico. Some traditionalists trying to bring it back. It is crazy, as you would imagine. They got this rubber ball like somewhere between the size of I would say like a soft ball in a volleyball and They're just hitting the thing with their hips and when like rolls on the ground They will slide down into the ground and pop it kind of back up with their hips and you know pass it off their upper thighs I was not surprised in the video when they talked about the nasty bruises. They constantly get I do not think I'll ever try playing this game

It looks terrible and can ever try playing this game. It looks terrible And can you imagine playing that game when if you lose you get executed My god, can you imagine playing any game where the stakes are that high? Kind of it suck be great for the fans out would be great for the fans. Holy shit with a game talk about fucking hustle Right with those stakes everyone's diving for loose balls everyone's fighting for rebounds. No one's coasting. Can you imagine how intense the Super Bowl would be if on live television, they executed, they beheaded the losing team. Like, guys cry now when they lose Super Bowl. Imagine the tears when the bus goes off and the executioner squad rolls in, right? Fast ass wide receivers, cornerbacks, trying to sprint away from getting fucking chase down

and beheaded. Guys cry now when they win. How much would they cry? If they had made a comeback victory, just barely missed being beheaded. You know, where there were one drop pass away from death. This magic is no reporter, sideline reporter talking to Tom Brady

after another super bowl of victory. What are your plans now, Tom? I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. Tom Brady after another super bowl victory. What are your plans now Tom? We're gonna do this. Where are we? I'm so fucking happy to be alive. I went to my kids after that last plague going. I just thought that was last time I was ever gonna see him. I think I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not there. I'm not there. they were gonna see their dad is fucking head cut off and I just want to also add rest in peace Patrick my homes God damn it. I hate that he had to get his fucking head shot. No, he's really he played a hell of a game

All right, you're still thinking about coming back next season. Oh, no hell yeah, no hell yeah I just lived a play another day maybe Next up, I'll know this new wonders god that is I can't stop thinking about that. Ever since I read about that, about the end of the Super Bowl, one entire team gets fucking decapitated on the field, and then they go to the victors. So what are you doing? And they still have to say,

I'm gonna do this in the world. Right. Next up on the list new wonders, that are mostly super old places. the ancient city of Petra Jordan. This place looks so fucking cool. I've wanted to visit this place ever since I've seen pictures. It's located in a remote valley nestled among sandstone mountains and cliffs.

I purported to be one of the places where Moses struck a rock and water got fourth. Access to be a narrow canyon called Alseek. I think could not find a pronunciation guide for that canyon name. That's a save my life. Watch a lot of people's vacation videos though. Contains tombs and temples carved directly into pink sandstone cliffs, earning this nickname the rose city.

Later, the Nabateans and Arab tribe made it their capital and during this time, it flourished becoming an important trade center, especially for spices. Noted carvers, Nabateans chiseled dwellings, temples, tombs into the sandstone, like elaborate temples, dwellings, you know, it would change color with the shifting sun, the sandstone looks so pretty. In addition, they constructed a water system that allowed for lush gardens and farming at an amphitheater at its height, petro reported that a population of 30,000 people. The city began to decline. However, as trade route shifted, a major earthquake in 360, 360, 360, 360 caused more difficulty. And after another tremor hit in 551, Petra was gradually abandoned. Stupid

earthquakes. Most formidable enemy to Angie Wonders. Although rediscovered 1912, it was largely ignored by archaeologists until the late 20th century, many questions still remain about the city. In 1989, it was introduced to the world via Hollywood and the Indiana Jones franchise. That year, the city's carved rose red sandstone facades were featured in the blockbuster Indiana Jones in the last crusade. And the film Petra stood in for where Indiana Jones finds the Holy Grail. It looks like the kind of place. If you were to find the Holy Grail, where you would find it. Highly recommend you check out pictures of Petra's treasure eats. It's incredible. Next is one of the most amazing and popular sites in South America.

Machu Picchu Peru. I have been to this one as well. On a bucket list trip a couple years ago, it was the wonder I wanted to see the most. This Incense site near Kusko Peru was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, who believed it was Villa Cambambas, secret Incense stronghold,

using the 16th century rebellion against Spanish rule, although that claim was later disproved, the purpose of Machu Picchu has confounded scholars. Being unbelievable, it was home to the virgins of the sun, women who lived in convents under a vouchacity, bummer. Other sink that I was likely a pilgrimage site where, oh, I'll some believe it was a royal enclave. What is known is that Machu Picchu

is one of the few major pre-Columbia ruins found nearly entirely intact. Despite his relative isolation, high in the Andes Mountains it features agricultural terraces, plazas, residential areas, temples. It was super cool to walk around this ancient mountain city and think about what life might have been like there once. Also, if you ever get a chance to go, it is the best people watching. Holy shit. It's beautiful there,, it is the best people watching. Holy shit.

It's beautiful there, but it's not really that peaceful. At least pre-COVID, because it was super fucking crowded all the time. They have a capacity limit, and they let in the max capacity every day, you have to book it way in advance. Pre-COVID, at least, unless you are part of some special scientific expedition, or you're, I don't know, sucking someone's dick who works there, you were never going to wander around Machu Picchu when it was quiet and empty. But I watched so many people just wait like they would go because you know, it's a big

area and they would find some corner, they would get the angles just right to make it look like. And there's areas of Machu Picchu where not everyone can go to. So you can frame your picture and make it look like you're there all by yourself. If you wait, you know, long enough. And there's, I watch people who would like five, ten minutes, and then they would do some IG model pose or some like serene yoga pose. Yeah, just to get this picture that look like they had to place all of themselves and they were just living in this state of

zen. I would look, kind of, and I would look up captions, you know, that people made them of these photos later and just laugh. I looked up some recent captions from IG posts, from Machu Picchu for this research. And it's just stuff like believe you can and you're halfway there, pure energy, hard to open. If you don't chase what you want, you'll never have it. And I know those are very sweet messages, but it's just, I've never seen more people

take more contrived photos than when I was there. That being said, it did feel cool there. It did feel nice to be around the ruins, and I didn't wanna leave. Next on the list, compiled in 2000 is Christ the Redeemer, a colossal statue of Jesus that stands atop a mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, overlooking the city, it origins date to just after World War I

when some Brazilians feared a tide of godlessness. So they proposed a statue to save the souls of Rio de Janeiro. Construction began in 1926, was completed five years later. The resulting monument stands 98 feet tall, not included in its base, which is about 26 feet high. It's outstretched arms span 92 feet. So no colossus of roads, but pretty damn impressive. Largest art deco sculptor in the world.

Price to Redeemer is made of reinforced concrete covered by approximately six million tiles, the statue also gets struck by lightning a bunch. That's kind of weird. That's your damage. Lindsey's seen it. She worked as a stylist on one of Rihanna's tours years ago, and she got to go all over Europe and North and South America. So cool. She said it was super awe inspiring. High on the list of middle-aged wonders. The classum Colosseum in Rome made this list as well. I also visited this place years ago. I mostly remember how massive it was, how strange it must have been to have been led in there to fight the death of the gladiator. I also remember getting yelled at by some tour guide. I wasn't on this tour. I was just kind of following them. Now, so I could hear what they were saying because he was

speaking English. And he caught me and he wasn't happy because I wasn't paying fair. I've visited this place in college. I saved up for a year to be able to do this crazy backpack and train hop and week and I somehow pulled it off, started in London with the Paris, down to Nice France, then to Rome, then to Florence, hung out with friends, went to the Isle of Capri, balanced up to Switzerland, back to London. All train rides, nothing but a backpack. I don't think I ate in a restaurant once on that trip.

I would just go to these little cafe or like little, not like a 7-Eleven, but these little shops and get like a loaf of bread and a big block of cheese. Good old pre-lactose intolerance days and a lot of slices of pizza. So much bread. Never stayed at a hotel or a hostel, slept at friends places or slept in the economy sleeper in the train. It is amazing how many places you can see for super cheap if you have no real responsibilities in life and don't care at all about comfort or safety. Built in the first century by order of the Emperor Emperor Vespasian, it's a true feat of engineering. My name is Debus name. This Ampitheater measures 620 by 513 feet, 189 by 156 meters features a complex system of vaults.

And it was capable of holding as many as 50,000 spectators. That's a lot of people for a place built so long ago. Mostly remembered for hosting gladiator-fired stage battles, men fighting animals. Sometimes water would be pumped into the Coliseum for mock naval engagement, which is incredible. They could put on that kind of show. Very, very dark shows there, according to some estimates, some were between 400,000 and 500,000 people were killed in the Coliseum during roughly four centuries of active use.

That's over 100,000 dead of century, over 1,000 dead a year. Holy shit. Additionally, so many animals were captured and then killed there that certain species reportedly became extinct during the inauguration of the Coliseum. 9,000 animals were killed. Some estimate roughly a million animals were killed there. Jesus Christ, that's a lot. Then all that death fell out of fashion, and then there was earthquakes. Again, with earthquakes, and that put the Old Arena out of commission.

Okay, last on the list, surprising to me at least. Last on the list of the new wonders of the world, the new Seven Wonders of the World, the Sapphire Gentleman's Club, and Winchester, Nevada. It's 71,000 square feet, 10 VIP sky boxes, three lounges, the world's largest strip club. In 2013, Sapphire Las Vegas opened the Sapphire Pool and Day Club located south end of the

club. Sapphire Pool and Day Club has seven cabanas and four bungalows. The seven cabanas are located on the main deck. There are two pools there, which are nothing shady ever happens. There are no cork, coke is ever snorted off of any tits, no dicks, nothing. You know, you can take a limo from the airport to South fires. It was voted the best trip club in the Las Vegas area by the Las Vegas Review Journal in 2014.

According to their fact page, they are not a totally nude club. Just topless, but I'm guessing sometimes bottoms do accidentally come off on accident, probably mostly in the bungalows. No one seems to know when this place first opened, maybe around 20 years ago. Also, can't wear sweatpants, they have a dress code. Can have a boner, that's encouraged. And of course, that is not a seventh wonder. But now I wonder, after spending way too much time

on their website for a joke that probably isn't even funny. I wonder how some dude named Brian Fyfe forgot hired to work with them. I got into the weirdest wormhole. I spent probably like a fucking hour learning. I don't even care about this place. I just can't, I couldn't leave the Sapphire Vegas strip club alone because I found this guy Brian Fyfer.

He got hired to work with them do some marketing. He calls himself the marketing meet head and he has big VIP parties like what I guess like bottle service at Sapphire other strip clubs in the Vegas area. And you can link to his YouTube channel, which I did, and the video that plays automatically there is Brian talking about how he's one of the world's best marketers. But he has, he has less than 12,000, yes, I was all over socials then, I got into this,

I couldn't fucking get out. He has less than 12,000 followers on Instagram, less than 5,000 YouTube subscribers. The actual strip club, Sapphire's Instagram has less than 12,000 followers on Instagram, less than 5,000 YouTube subscribers. The actual Strip Club Sapphire's Instagram has less than 11,000 followers, and look for the average person those numbers are fine. But not for one of the world's best marketers. Come on, Brian!

I have over 70,000 followers on Instagram. I'm a fucking idiot with social media marketing. And I don't have a hot dancers body to draw people in to see my picks. I'm not as attractive as literally anyone on any of the Sapphire Club lost Vegas Instagram account posts, not a single person. What's going on over there, Brian? I feel like I can do your job better than you. What's going on with me? Why am I still talking about the Sapphire Club in Vegas? Why am I talking about Brian?

Why can I stop looking at his videos? Why does his delusion hypnotize me? You know what? Maybe he is a good marketer. I don't even like this guy. And I've given him a lot of free marketing. Fuck he fucking got me! I just got fucking Bryant. Be gone, Luciferina. I went too deep on that joke. Got lost in some bullshit.

Okay, back now. The real seventh new wonder of the world. Another one from the medievalist, Taj Mahal. This mausoleum complex in Agra, India, regarded as one of the world's most iconic monuments, and perhaps the finest example of Mughal architecture, built by Mughal Emperor Shah Juhah, who reigned from 1628 to 1658, to honor his wife, Muammat Mahal, known as the Chosen One of the Palace.

She died in 1631, giving birth to their 14th child, Yikes! Took about 22 years and 20,000 workers to construct the complex, which includes an immense garden and a reflecting pool. The Moselem has made a white marble that features semi-precious stones, geometric and floral patterns. It has a majestic central dome surrounded by four smaller domes. According to some reports, Shah Jaha wished to have his own Moselem also made after his death at a black marble

however he was deposed by one of his sons before work began on uh... on another crazy expensive monument uh... apparently the monument is very fragile despite holding up for hundreds of years it is wasting away so check it out soon and now one more group of wonders the seven natural wonders of the world will go a little faster to these uh... thank god these pronunciations are easier for the most part. And also, this list changes all the time. A lot of websites report, the list we're going over as a list picked via some mysterious global

poll. It's never mentioned specifically. Some polls have been taken and they end up listing different wonders every time. The following seven seem to show up on the most websites. This certainly is not some kind of official list because there's not one. These do show up on the most websites. This certainly is not some kind of official list because there's not one. These do show up on the Wikipedia entry for seven natural wonders. They come from seven natural wonders.org, and they include the Northern Lights, the Grand Canyon. Oh man, this one, I try to pronounce,

I practice it so many times. Perikutin, Mount Everest, Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Victoria Falls, and the Great Barrier Reef. Many of these naturally formed displays require an aerial view to capture the vastness of each phenomenon. First is the Northern Lights. Northern Lights are auroras, or naturally occurring phenomena that consist of out of this world displays of light in the sky.

The Northern Horizon will glow as these lights swim across the sky. The intensity of Northern Lights increases as you head north towards the magnetic pole in the Arctic. They do appear at random, basically, so good luck planning to trip around them. There are more often experienced by locals who live in these northern regions, some of the most popular places to see northern lights are Canada's far north, Alaska, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The probability of seeing northern lights increases during the winter months. They also increased dramatically no matter where you are in the world if even up shrooms You take enough shrooms you can actually see the Northern Lights from anywhere

You do enough you can even see them inside you don't have to go outside to see you don't have to look in the sky. You can see Northern Lights all around you You get it some of you they occur throughout the year, but the dark skies and winter make them easier to see Next on the list the grand canyons the one that most Americans likely, you know, probably have seen based on travel stats. It's an Arizona, not too far from Las Vegas and Phoenix, and neat fact, it's larger than the state of Rhode Island. It's so big it actually influences the weather, takes five hours to drive from one side to the other.

The Grand Canyon's massive and colorful landscape provides breathtaking views. They can't be found anywhere else in the world. It is amazing. It took six million years for the Colorado River to a road away the massive canyon. Most visitors headed the south of the rim of the Grand Canyon. Spend a full day checking out the views from rope-dough tourist areas along the ridges. There's hiking tours where one might encounter the area's most ferocious apex predator, the rock squirrel.

If you'd like to play it safe and take it in from a bird's eye view that you give helicopter tours as well, Grand Canyon located in Arizona, closest major cities in Las Vegas and Phoenix. I went when I was about 11, 12 years old as a kid with my dad. And I gotta say, ever since, sometimes I wonder if you know, like when my dad was walking off,

to use the bathroom or, you know, just wherever, did he push any tourists off the edge when no one else was watching, you know just to kill him. Just to feel that stick rush. I don't know, it bothers me. And if you know of anyone who got pushed into the Grand Canyon in the late 1980s and whoever pushed him, never got caught, please float my dad's name over to investigators.

His name is also Dan Cummins, if nothing comes back fine. Then I guess you know, my dad got away with murder again. But maybe it lucky, maybe you find the nail him. He's a slippery son of a bitch. And a lot of people try to take him down and they've, you know, they've disappeared. So good luck to you. You're the one who can do it.

So, JK, old joke, if you're not, if you're a new listener and you're wondering if I've just had some kind of psychotic break. Third on the list, perhaps the least well-known definitely was for me. I'd never heard of this before this week. Pair of Cootin. known. Definitely was for me. I'd never heard of this before this week. Piracuten. Piracuten is a cinder cone volcano located in the Mexican state of Micha, a con near the city of Urwapan and about 200 miles west of Mexico city. The volcano was named one of the seven wonders of the natural world over more famous volcanoes for most people like Yellowstone. Why? Well, volcano nerds love it. Actually, it's very cool. Once you

get into the story, I understand why they chose it It's a volcano that did not exist a century ago February 20th 1943 at 4 p.m. Local time a crack in the ground shows up kind of out of nowhere and The middle of this cornfield this farming family had been working on that same day the family other villagers around them Had heard the ground rumble for a few weeks beforehand sound like thunder they said and all of a sudden the dead work in this farm dn uh... dnesio polito he watches a six foot long crack open up in the ground and then he hopped on his horse and get the fuck out of there uh... the fissure a hissed smoke came out in real soon flames started pouring out ash and lava within the hour fire would be shooting up over two thousand feet into the air within a few hours.

The vision would develop into a small crater within 24 hours. A cone 150 feet tall had formed within a week. The cone was about 400 feet in height within four months 600 feet within eight months. The cone was over 1000 feet high with the fucking volcano. They just got to watch it form in a in a less than a year. Curiously, no people died from the eruption, but if you were killed after being struck by lightning generated by the eruption somehow, so weird. Can you imagine if that's your land, your yard?

I mean, this is what happened to this guy. It was his land he was farming. Imagine if it was like where your house sits. What if the mouths of a fucking volcano just suddenly opened up in your family room? God, how pissed for you for the rest of your life when you don't get any money because your house didn't have volcano insurance. Right, you're just angry forever. How's it going, Dan?

Still homeless, fuck you for asking. Still lost my house to a goddamn volcano. How do you think I'm doing? By 1952, when it finally stopped erupting, it was 1400 feet high. The eruption of Baracudin from 1943 to 1952 marks the first time scientists were able to observe the complete lifestyle of a volcano, lifestyle.

Lifestyle, from birth to extinction. I like lifestyle. You know, they really able to observe this volcano's lifestyle. You know, this volcano that's cheated on their spouse for a while. You know, if I can got heavy into drugs, kind of came back. I know it's just not the lifestyle I expect from this volcano. Just, you know, kind of a dick. Geologists from many parts of the world came to study this extraordinary volcano event. The knowledge

gained by these scientists greatly expanded our understanding of volcanoes in general. And now onto the next natural wonder, Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls located in Africa, along the borders of Zambia, Zimbabwe, the spectacular waterfall runs off from these ambisi river. The falls are 5,603 feet wide, more than a mile and 354 feet high. Well, known as the world's largest waterfall, Victoria Falls is neither the highest nor the widest.

However, Victoria Falls has the largest curtain of falling water going down to the planet. One and a half times wider than Niagara Falls and twice as high. That's insane. So I've been to Niagara Falls, and that is gigantic. This thing's twice as high and one and a half times wider. Also host a rare and beautiful site called the moonbow, a rainbow at night, as light from the moonbeams form off the spray of the water.

Sounds mystical. How many wacky doodles? Have seen that moon bow and started talking directly to God in their minds, right? When they hold their crystals real tight and they stare at that moon bow, that's when they talk to God. Visitors can access the falls from Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and Livingston in Zambia. Next on the list, Mount Everest with an approximate elevation of 29,000 29 feet tallest mountain on Earth, over 20,000 feet too high for my taste.

It did chilly up there for me. It hits negative 40 degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit often. No thank you. But it's still in the list. Everest lies within the Himalayan mountain range on the border of Nepal to bet. If you don't want to climb Mount Everest, you can still schedule a flight around the mountain for an awe-inspiring aerial view. Over 300 people have died trying to climb to the top of the world's sort of, excuse me, not sort of the world's tallest

mountain. So think long and hard about making somebody an Everest part of your bucket list. Another impressive natural megastructure is the Great Barrier Reef. The reef is located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland, Australia. As the world's largest coral reef, it takes up to, it takes up about 133,000 square miles, extends over 14 degrees of latitude. It's about, it's about half the size of Texas. The Great Barrier Reef includes over 900 islands, roughly 3000 separate reefs and sustains a diverse ecosystem. Makes up about 10% of the world's coral reef ecosystems, one of the best known most complex natural systems on earth. It's allowed humans to flourish because of its abundance, contributing more than 6.4 billion

each year to the Australian economy and around 64,000 full-time jobs, I guess, between fish and just everything that surrounds a reef. Who knows? Who knew so many jobs could be tied to a reef somehow. Often called the largest living thing on earth, but that's not exactly true. It's made up of thousands and thousands of different coral polyps building on top of one another. Final entry, this one has a really interesting piece of information.

Final entry on this list of natural wonders, you may want to visit in your life, is the harbor of Rio de Janeiro, down in Brazil, also known as the Wana Barra Bay. It's surrounded by granamounts and pinnacles, created by erosion caused by the Atlantic Ocean, the world's largest natural deep water bay in the world, based on the volume of water in it. There are more than 130 islands within the harbor of Rio de Janeiro, including governors

and snakes island. And snakes island is a fucking nightmare. I can't believe I'd never heard of this place. Why have I never heard of this place? It's a 106 acres big. It's been estimated to have as many as, and this is not one of my lies. I know sometimes I get, I probably say that

and then it is one of my lies. I may be having it in the yet, but I will at some point. But today, you can trust me. Estimated to have as many as 400,000 snakes on it. 400,000 snakes, 106 acres. That's a lot of snakes per acre. Around 4,000 of these snakes are golden lands-head pit viper's. Their venom is said to basically quote,

melt human flesh. You get bits and I saw this on a few little mini documentaries. People just say that there's a real good chance. Almost certainly you are going to die very painful death. Fuck that island. 16 minutes Australia did an episode on this island called the Deadliest Place on Earth. And yeah, the footage is as horrific as you might imagine. To be fair to that, that one snake that I mentioned that, oh man, what is it called? The Golden Landshead Pit Viper, researchers were able to create a type of blood pressure

medication from the Revenom, some ACE inhibitors that now around 40 million people worldwide use, so some good came out of this nightmare of an island. medication from the Revenom, some ACE inhibitors that now around 40 million people worldwide use. So some good came out of this nightmare of an island. When Charles Darwin visited this Bay in 1832, he said it seemed almost unreal. It's not just a snake pit. There are plenty of areas with not too many snakes. Also famous for beaches, very famous beaches like the Copacabana and Epinima beaches. Also home to that Christ the Redeemer statue we already talked about.

So it makes quite the sight. You can knock off two wonders in one place. So much wonder! The world is an amazing place, right? The today's suck make you want to travel. It did for me. So many incredible relics and natural wonders to explore around the world. Now the things are opening up more and more. I can't wait to start trying to travel again. I actually love being home. It's beautiful here, but so much beauty elsewhere around the world as well. So many mysteries to explore, so much to admire. And we didn't even dig into modern marvels. What new wonders are being built right now. What will be the next pyramid of Giza or colossus of roads? You know, now we do have giants to help us build really, you know, giant machines.

I'll give a space station by the end of the century odds are we're going to have a small city on Mars. What else are we going to have? We got 3D printing, getting more and more advanced all the time. What new never before seen structures and wonders lie ahead. Fun to wonder about wonders. Now let's wrap up. Number one, humans love to build big shit. Whether it's an unprecedented stack of rocks and a desert to commemorate a god king or

carving elaborate dwellings in the sandstone as city's worth, our superpower as humans is to change our environment to work for us. Number two, of the seven wonders of the ancient world, only the great pyramid remains intact. Amazingly, these seven monuments only exist at the same time for about 60 years thanks to all the fucking earthquakes. Number three, while nature took down many of the wonders, others were destroyed by people for various reasons ranging from war to the changing of religions. Ruins of a few of these can still be seen today. In many cases, rubble from one monument was used to build other now historical structures. Bummer that we can't see the original ruins today, but

very cool that ancient people recycled. Number four, next time you lose a game, any game, be glad you didn't lose a game of pocket talk at Chichen Itzaa a thousand years ago and have your fucking head cut off. Number five, new info we've talked about the most impressive monuments in human history, but what about the weirdest? What are the seven weirdest wonders of the world? Of course, there's a list for that, there's several lists. Here's the one we found. If you're in Texas, first one, around Emoryo,

there's a monument to Cadillac. It's called Cadillac Ranch, and basically it's just a row of Cadillacs. Stuck hood first, vertically into the dirt. They're highly graffedied. You're encouraged to add your own art. No one really knows what the fuck's going on out there. The creators of a group called Ant Farm Art Group made this 1974 and hoped it would, quote, symbolize the dreams

and hopes of the American people. Huh, it does look pretty cool. Those are pretty negative view of the American dream now. Are all dreams destined to crash into the dirt? The second one of the lists known simply as the fork. It is what it sounds like. It's a 26 foot fork, six out of the waters of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Sounds like a voting disaster. The pointy ends are pointing to the water, thank God. Fork was originally supposed to be a temporary exhibition of the company Nestle, which is located in the same village, but the city decided to keep it because it became very popular. Weird thing is, while this fork is the most famous fork, it's not the only fork out there or the largest as far as like giant forks.

In Springfield, Missouri, there's a 36 foot fork and in Creed Colorado, there's a 39 foot fork. A lot of forks out there. A lot of people spend time making forks. And Chile, there's another interesting monument that makes almost no sense. It's called Hand of the Desert. I mean, it is cool looking.

It's just a giant fucking hand statue. It's like it's coming out of the ground of the Atacama Desert, the driest desert on Earth. The artist that made it says he was seeking to express emotions such as loneliness, vulnerability, and pain through this sculpture. Also seeking to express, you know, creating people to fuck out maybe.

I like it, but it's very creepy looking. The headington shark in Oxford, England, another odd wonder. Bill Hine asked his sculptor friend John Buckley to create this work to protest against the use of nuclear power after the attacks in Japan and the Chernobyl accident. The local authorities gave Hine a hard time at first as he did not have a permit for this installment, but in the end, the 26-foot-long 440-pound shark managed to stay in place. And the place it is is so weird.

I've been pissed if I was this guy's neighbor. It looks like a giant shark fell out of the sky and crashed headfirst through the sun of a bitch's roof. It's so, it makes the whole neighborhood look so fucking weird. Another weird monument, the fifth can be seen in Prague in the Czech Republic. This one's even weird in the last one. It's called Man Hanging Out.

Literally just a bronze statue of a dude hanging with one hand on a pole standing out over the street. Like a life-sized dude. The monument was created for the father of psychoanalysis, segment Freud. It's super creepy because from most angles it looks like a dude who's hanged himself high above the street. It looks like someone who has died. The point of the piece was to demonstrate just how uncertain the future of intellectualism is in the West. Okay, looks like a dude hanging himself. Then we quickly moved to France to check out

Le Pousse des César, a massive statue of a thumb. Maybe Pousse, I hesitated to say it that way, but it might be that way. You couldn't find the right pronunciation. It's created a sculptor, Cesar Baldassini conceptualized it in 1965 for an exhibition on the hand, and this structure was so successful, the city of Paris decided to keep it,

and I don't think they should have. I hate it. I'm not gonna lie. Art is subjective. And this is one of the ones that I'm like, the other ones I'm like, okay, maybe creepy weird, but I'm like, okay, it still looks pretty cool. This one I just, I hate.

It's a giant thumb over 40 feet tall. It's the big ass thumb. Stick out of the ground. It gives me the feeling that like, it looks like there's a hand attachment and it's about to rise up out of the ground and start smashing people. And then last on the list of seven weird wonders

the world, very strange roller coaster, roller coaster for your feet. It's oddly named the Tiger and Turtle Magic Mountain. It doesn't resemble either a tiger or a turtle. It's meant to represent the speed of a tiger, the roller coaster part. It looks like a roller coaster. The visitors themselves represent the turtle. Um, and then instead of like, uh, a car on this roller, what looks like a roller coaster

track, it's just a bunch of steps. It resides in the German city of Deesburg, or the creators creators of this Strolla coaster, I see what you did there. I wanted to create an element that paid homage or homage to the city's steel industry and introduced a decorative element into the landscape. The thing is built like a hot-wills track and comes complete with the big loop to loop, where you will once and for sure learn how difficult it is to walk on stairs when you were upside down Once and for all I don't know what I just said earlier. No word as to how many people have fallen to their deaths yet They actually do have the upside down part dated off. I feel like it's a matter of time

No before someone makes it over that gate and Darwin awards themselves off the planet and those are the seven weird wonders of the world the weird wonders of the world. Time, suck, tough, right, take away. The seven wonders of the ancient world and so much more have been sucked, so much wonder sucked. I'm glad I know now that there are really no real lists. I mean, the ancient wonders of the world, that list is remained pretty stable, but there's the arbitrary.

People write lists, one person writes one list, one person writes another, it's not like. You know, people write lists, one person writes one list, one person writes another. It's like the whole world ever voted on this shit. So if you're gonna disagree with somebody over some official wonder, just know that there's a lot of official wonders and that really none of them are official wonders. Hail, Memorad.

Thank you to the Bad Magic Productions team for all the help making time suck. Queen of Bad Magic, Lindsey Cummins, Reverend Dr. Jill Paisley, Scripps Keeper, Zach Flannery. Took a lead on this one. Thanks to Bitelixer, working on a very cool web redesign with Logan,

the art warlock, working on an eventual re-skidding of the time, so it's like, happened to the Bad Magic app, always a lot going on here behind the scenes. My mother-in-law was out this week, and she kept, you know, out staying with us,

she kept saying over and over how amazed she was that it took so much work from a small group of people to create these podcasts. Right? I think a lot of people just think, oh, you just show up on record. Not exactly. A lot of work, but very fun work. Thanks to Liz Hernandez and our all-seeing eyes for all her work on social media engagement.

Thanks to all those in either our current incarnation of the cult, the Curious Private Facebook group or in one of the many fun subgroups out there or in many of the groups. Thanks to BeefStake and the mod squad, keeping discord fun. Next week on Time Suck, we go back to, I'm very excited for this one. We go back in time to 19th century New York and meet a man who will change the entertainment industry

forever, Albert Fish. Showbiz! That's how to do it in Hollywood! Pinabla bottom! No, we already met him. We meet a real showbiz legend PT Barnum That's right. We're gonna go full circus next week Born Finnish Taylor Barnum Barnum was a legendary entrepreneur long before he became the showman that history would note him as

Born on July 5th 1810 in Bethel Connecticut PT Barnum was just a young boy when he began his first business venture selling candy to local kids. And that would lead to Clirkin First Store, which would lead to running the store, which would lead to opening the lottery, which would lead to opening a network of lottery's in a newspaper, more stores, and his American Museum in New York City. Barnum had a mind for entrepreneurship, he had a mind for how people thought how their emotions could be manipulated through the things they read and heard.

He knew that if he delivered something they were pleased with, they wouldn't be too bothered about the techniques he used to sell it to them. His first exhibition as a showman was an elderly slave woman named Joyce Heth, who bottom claim was the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington. I should say elderly former slave woman. When controversy over her real age flared up, Barnum didn't fret or apologize, he joined in, often he would create his own controversies by writing in tutorials to newspapers that claimed his exhibitions were fake. All this, of course, was send more people to buy tickets to see for themselves as if

was fake or not. Genius. He really leaned into that whole no publicity is bad publicity sentiment. Barnum was a master manipulator, also a great showman. He lied to get people in the door, but once they got in the door, Shomis! His museum later, his circus, truly something wonderful, something that gave hundreds of thousands of people entertainment.

So who exactly was this master manipulator? How did he get the press to work for him? Who were some of the strange people that he exhibited his human curiosities? How cruel is that? At his core was Barnum an unethical shoman sociopath or a benevolent entrepreneur. All this and more next week on Time Suck, and now let's head on over to this week's

Time Sucker updates. First update. Knowledgeable Long Time Sucker Tony L has an update to some World War I related info I conveyed in last week's Carl Denky suck, or excuse me, that would be in two weeks ago, two weeks ago, Carl Denky suck, Tony writes, master suck, I hope this little note finds you in the Queen doing well. Listen to the new suck, I caught a pretty significant factual error. You state that a large number of German civilians also died during the war because of all the fighting that took place in Germany.

This is tragically wrong. In fact, not a single shot was ever fired in anger on German soil during that war. This is significant because it was a major factor in the stab in the back myth that contributed mightily to Hitler's rise. I.E., how can you lose a war that your army spent fighting entirely on conquer territory unless, of course, your country was betrayed from within by a fifth column? Thank you so much for all the great information and entertainment. Craze US laws may be laugh longer and harder than I have in weeks.

If not months, I really needed that right now. Keep on stocking. Hell no more. Be well. Tony L. Tony L. You made me worry on this one that I really fucked up, which I for sure do for some from time to time.

Clearly, I'm pronunciation always. On this one though, I think I should have just clarified the numbers better. Unless I went rogue off of my notes, I don't think. On this one though, I think I should have just clarified the numbers better. Unless I went rogue off of my notes, which I don't think I did for that info, I said that a large number of German civilians, roughly half a million, in fact, died in World War I, but not because of fighting directly. After I just said they died, after the war, the German government argued that approximately 760,000 German civilians died during the war actually because of the Allied blockade.

The Allied blockade lasted from 1914 to 1919 aimed to prevent war supplies from reaching Germany, also targeted, you know, inadvertently the German or the, yeah, the civilian population. They cut imports down to 20% of their pre-war volume and between 478,800,000 German civilians died from diseases related to hunger and malnutrition. So you're right. They weren't shot and killed on German soil, but they did die because of the war. Also, glad you liked crazy U.S. laws. That was a fun one.

Keep on sucking Tony. Keep an eye on me. I definitely could have conveyed that info better, and I will make plenty of mistakes going forward. Funny sucker Alex Gears sending something that made me laugh, and I wanted to share it. See if you'd laugh too. Alex writes, this killed me. Hey fellow meat sacks and bad magic family. I was just listening to Triumph over unbelievably trekk.

I was just listening to Triumph over unbelievable tragedy that time sick episode. And Dan went on a tangent about having a golf ball size blister on his balls that he squeezed from time to time and almost passed out last time he tried to pop it. So gross. He went on to say that he squeezed from time to time and almost passed out last time he tried to pop it. So gross. He went on to say that he was joking. And then if you have balls on your balls, you need to get them checked out. Well, at this point, I was laughing out loud, but not because of that joke, because my best friend has a ball on his balls.

He has not gotten a look at by a doctor. It did take longer than it probably should have. When one testee is about double the other, it's called a hydroseli, and it's a fluid-filled sack on the testicles. We called it his death star. As we all love Star Wars, by the way, the Empire did nothing wrong. It's not dangerous.

Typically goes away by itself. Anyway, just wanted to share my laugh. Hope you have a sucky day with peace and love, Alex. Thank you, Alex. Oh my God. I love that you guys nicknamed his ball on his ball the death star. And I'm glad your friend got his extra ball taken care of. Yeah, always get your extra balls checked out. A ball on his ball, the Death Star. And I'm glad your friend got his extra ball taken care of.

Yeah, always get your extra balls checked out. A ball on your ball can also be cancer. So, you know, don't fuck around with those bonus balls. Now for a comment's lobby, Tim, I always enjoy these embarrassed meat sack, Brandon James writes, Greetings Master Sucker. I've been a fan of your comedy for years as well as an avid listener of all your podcasts.

As for the purpose of my email, I work quite long hours. All your podcasts give me through some lengthy nights. I decided to start with the new times like episode crazy us laws recently. Proved to be the wrong choice. At work, we got a new supervisor in our building, about an hour to my shift. He came around and introduced himself.

To be respectful, I quickly took out my headphone, degrading without pause in the episode. Somehow my headphones became disconnected from my phone. The episodes started playing through the speakers. As luck would have it, I was at the part in the episode about the Maryland law against profanity. As I was shaking my new supervisor's hand and asking him how he was doing,

the answer he voiced came blaring from my phone, saying words such as, ball tickler, ball tickler, but, but fucker, but hole. Just that long stream of confidence of all those who are with zero context. I quickly grabbed my phone and paused the episode, turned back to my supervisor, immediately apologized to him, tried to explain what I was listening to. He just shook his head and said, have a good rest of your night with a weak smile.

I never thought I would fall victim to the Cummins law, but you got me, you sweet son of a gun. Love the work you and the rest of the bad-tempered, love the work you and the rest of the bad-magic team do. Hell no, not. Brandon., thank you Brandon, holy shit. He happened to hear the most ridiculous part of that episode. Terrible timing for you, good timing for the rest of us. Hope you're new supervisor. I've had better meetings since.

If not, hope you don't have to see Noven. Also, if it's been a little while and he still can't see the humor and that interaction, yeah, fuck him, I hope he gets fired. Before we get to our last longer update, I need to share some kindness coming from a place I've definitely mocked in the past, the DMV, the Department of Motor Vehicles. There are great people to DMV and this meat sack who needs to remain anonymous so she doesn't get fired from the DMV seems to truly be one of them.

She writes, Good morning, King Meat sack. I don't know why it just occurred to me that I've been lucky so far, not to be a victim of Cummins law. Try not to die of jealousy, but I'm an accountant at the DMV. And I have to take phone calls for an hour each day to help cover so my coworkers can have a lunch break.

Most of the time I keep time, sucker is we dumb running and only pause when a call comes in. Actually, most of the calls I get sound like the call I would be pretty cool in real life, but some of those sweet little old ladies that call might just die if they heard you. I will toot my own horn a little. I'd like to think the inevitable has been extended by the karma I spread at work.

People need to know empathy can be found in the darkest corners of the world, even in the collections unit of the DMV. It's shockingly easy to tell the difference most of the time between colors who are just being assholes and colors who could really use a break by waving a fee or extending a deadline. And I grant them almost any time they ask. In fact, most of the time I will offer before they ask if they are close to a due date and not being an asshole. I honestly love hearing a colors pleasant surprise. It just makes it on the show. Please leave it my name because there aren't that many accounts in DMVs. Let alone those with my name. Fair. Now I'll tube bad magic. It's horned a little

bit. I just want to say again, I love what the team does. I'll admit that even though I know you all work so hard to share good info and make it very clear what is fact and what is your opinion. I still get a small pit in my stomach when I see you're covering something political, but I've realized that's actually a really good thing because it confirms I'm not just sitting in an echo chamber, which you're recently pointed out just how dangerous the wrong echo chamber can be. I completely agree with that. Thanks for the tip.

Keep on sucking. Anonymous. Anonymous. I love that you are spread and joy from the DMV. You'll never fully know what the butterfly effect of your kindness is, right? You give somebody a break, it brightens their day, maybe they go do something to brighten somebody else's day, maybe it shifts their attitude around to the right spot, right before like a job interview and now they get the job because of that small, active kindness.

I mean, you really never know. And yes, we should all remain vigilant about echo chambers. If you saw who I follow on Instagram, it's all over the map. For our right, for our left, all over the middle. I like to know what's going on. You know, I check in with Fox News, I check him with CNN, much of the hate to spin, both throw down. I do like to balance it out, like to have a feel

for what's on both sides. Okay, now ending on a very special tribute on some remembrance, might wanna take some Clared and some Zurtex and Flo Nays right now. I heard from a friend this message, Fox with People's Alleges. Fantastic meat sack, Caitlin Foppoli writes, hello my siblings and I wanted to reach out

and write you almost a year ago now, but it was too painful the time. My brother is Marty McCormick. I believe he was Marty, mother fucking McCormick to you, which he thought was pretty badass. Our Marty sadly lost his battle with alcohol addiction and passed on June 17th, 2020 at only 30 years old. He passed away peacefully in my'm a dad's birthday with

our mom and dad by his side. Oh my gosh. All eight of his siblings were able to say goodbye to him, which was a huge blessing since COVID was such an issue. I find comfort that he is now at peace with our little sister, Diedra, who passed tragically at the age of 10. Just wanted to share a little tip about or share a little about Marty. Marty was one out of 10 kids. Number six in the lineup. There were seven boys and three girls. He came from a very close, large Irish Catholic family. He kept the same friends he made since preschool, loved them like his brothers. Marty touched many lives. He was a beautiful old soul, a gentle giant who gave the best bear hugs.

He was tall and so handsome. He was very funny and was the life of the party. Marty was always the first one on the dance floor. He would often take joy in finding the most quiet or awkward person in the room and including them with some funny icebreaker or teasing gesture to bring them out of their show. He loved people and cared for many. He felt special when you were with him.

He was very close to his family, especially his mother. He was extremely proud to be an uncle and a godfather. He was very involved in all of his nieces and nephews lives. He had great taste in music and loved oldies rock. The Beatles were his favorite jamolamps. You would often find him singing with his eyes closed with such passion with his brothers and moms kitchen. He always had little dance moves to go with it.

Marty knew a little something about everything. He enjoyed sharing his knowledge with others. He was also very blunt and loved to make shocking statements to get a rise out of people. He could be a shit-disturbing the most loving way. He was truly one of a kind. He was complicated and very simple at the same time. Marty needed her wanted for nothing.

He was humble and just happy being with his family close friends in his music. He wrote to you between three baseball caps that he would wear, his button down plaid shirts, and he loved his t-shirts that meant something to him. Usually, music or movie related. There's two favorite actors where Bill Murray and Tom Hanks.

Our Marty was generous and had a huge heart. He was deeply loved and cherished by all. We miss him horribly. It is so painful to live in this world without him. On behalf of my family and I, we wanted to say thank you. Marty was such a big fan of yours. He absolutely loved time, suck, listened it on the regular. I've come to realize that it was you and your show

that gave him great comfort and time to darkness which he sheltered from his family and friends as to not to burden or hurt us, was just hurts. I'm happy that he found joy in peace when he tuned to you, you know, tuned into you guys with a big smile and excitement. He would often tell us about your show and got several of us to listen. We are hooked. He had us listen to the time when he went on air and did his Michael McDonald impression to Katie Perry's fireworks song. Pretty epic. You named him Marty motherfucking McCormick, Triple M. He

was pretty proud of that and love that it made his family and friends laugh and smile. Can I ask a huge favor from you? Marty's one year is coming up and we are doing things the McCormick way and throwing a huge bash in his honor with about 300 people coming. Is there any possible way we could have that recording of Marty doing another one of his epic impressions which he was known for? It would truly be something if we could hear that again. Once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

There are no words to describe how I feel knowing that Marty love your show and found such comfort and join it. Thank you. Keep doing your thing. People need you guys, especially in these times. You bring entertainment and enjoyment and happiness all. God bless you guys. Thanks for taking the time to read sincerely. Caitlin holy shit. Caitlin, I hope you got my email. I sent in a message. Marty had sent a text in the email that I'm going to play here in a moment in a time code link to another message in the secret suck. You know, I tracked down a few of the voice messages he sent into the secret suck over the past years, couldn't find the Katie Perry one, sorry, but did you know that Marty is

the guy who kicked off the challenges in the secret suck? That's become a huge part of the show, my favorite part of the show. We've been doing some kind of challenge almost every week now for about 170 weeks and Marty threw down the very first one in episode two He was one of the very first space listeners on patreon. We've laughed at other people challenges for over three years now We've done around 170 different challenges new one every week. We bonded over other challenges and Marty started all of that It was his idea and his alone. He's touched a hundred lives in that way thousands Thousands actually, he brought thousands and thousands of people to joy through all that silliness. He still does week after week. He will keep bringing all those laughs and community. We will keep

the challenges that he started. We'll be thinking about him in that way every week. Listen, listen to him now, tossing out another entry of Michael, Motherfuck, McDonald, the challenge that Marty, Motherfuck, and McCormick started. This uh... michael mcdonald and uh... doin a uh... i'm sorry this is marty mccormick doing a michael mccdonald and knickleback mash up and it's glorious what up you marty mcdonald the fact that mccormick michael mccdonald

knickleback here we go. I never met it as a wise man. I couldn't cook it like a poor man stealing. I'd never live like a brown man. I'm sick of sabre that sins of feeling. And this is how you remind me I love that laugh at the end wherever Marty is now, and I think he's somewhere I hope he's laughing like that all the time Caitlin Hail Marty motherfucking McCormick, Reston Pee's brother. And if anyone listen to struggling with addiction,

don't keep it to yourself. Don't keep it away from your family. But if you don't feel comfortable sharing with your family, your friends, at the very least, you know, call someone. Call 1-800-662-4357 in the US, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Drug Abuse Hotline.

It's free, it's confidential. They're not gonna turn you in. They're not gonna tell anyone you know, they just want to help you. For people struggling in other countries, get on the Google and get some help and that is all for today. Thanks for listening to another Bad Magic Productions podcast Meet Sacks. Thanks for listening to another Bad Magic Productions podcast meet-sacks. Laugh it up this week, motherfuckers. Life is short. There's a lot of assholes out there, but don't let them get you down.

Smile as much as you can. They hate that, and it makes you feel good. Let us know if you find any giant skeletons. Happy to admit I was wrong about those big bastards, building ancient shit. Uh, again, thank you, Marty, and keep on sucking.